1 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:16,079 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Rosie o'donnelld, co star of Sleepless in Seattle. Now, 2 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:18,960 Speaker 1: come on, that's not nearly as funny as Star the Flintstones? 3 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,800 Speaker 1: Is it Star the Flintstones? It just rose if your 4 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:26,599 Speaker 1: tongue co star of Sleepless n s actol too many syllables, 5 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:30,120 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So, how are you doing 6 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:34,519 Speaker 1: well in the world. I'm doing okay. I'm excited. I'm 7 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:38,519 Speaker 1: listening to a whole bunch of new podcasts which are 8 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:42,640 Speaker 1: very interesting. I have to say. There's such a wide 9 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 1: range to choose from. Write anything you're interested in, any topic. 10 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:51,640 Speaker 1: You can really, you know, google it up. I mean, listen, 11 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:54,240 Speaker 1: go into a you can go into a deep dive 12 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:58,200 Speaker 1: in the podcast world about UFOs, which I started to do, 13 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 1: which really is interesting to me. And I did some 14 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:07,440 Speaker 1: true crime ones, and you know, I'm getting into the 15 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:10,319 Speaker 1: podcast world. People. It's pretty interesting. But then again, you 16 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 1: know that you're listening here and you knew how to 17 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 1: download it, so points to you. My friend points to you. 18 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 1: There's new shows I'm watching on TV too. I don't 19 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 1: know if you guys are caught up or not, but 20 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 1: I was reading about the woman Melanie Lynsky, and she 21 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 1: is on Yellow Jackets, and she also was on the 22 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:33,400 Speaker 1: Last of Us. And I found out from People magazine 23 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 1: that she's married to John Ritter's son. And they were 24 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 1: so adorable on this TV show where I saw him 25 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 1: talking about getting sober and then meeting her and thinking, God, 26 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:51,600 Speaker 1: you know, she deserves the greatest guy in the world, 27 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 1: and then started to realize me, maybe I could be 28 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 1: the great you know. And he as he was working 29 00:01:57,640 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 1: through his sobride it was so beautiful and he started 30 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:03,360 Speaker 1: while he was telling this story, and then she started 31 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 1: crying and it just was like Kisman, and I'm like, 32 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:08,800 Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch our show. Now. I have to admit 33 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:12,519 Speaker 1: that I have been getting the show Yellowjackets, which is 34 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 1: on Showtime, and Swarm, which is not confused. So I 35 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 1: did not watch Yellow Jackets because I thought it was 36 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:26,960 Speaker 1: a horror show. Come to find out, it's about a 37 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 1: plane crash twenty years ago where a team of soccer 38 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 1: playing high school students have to survive for nineteen months 39 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:41,079 Speaker 1: before they get rescued, and it cuts between current time 40 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:45,920 Speaker 1: and then back when they were plane wrecked or shipwrecked. 41 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:49,760 Speaker 1: Do you say plane wrecked when they were, you know, 42 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 1: after the crash and trying to survive. They thought it 43 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 1: would only be a couple days, but it turned out 44 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 1: to be nineteen months. So anyway, I've started watching the 45 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 1: show and it's absolutely brilliant. I hate when a show 46 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 1: comes out and for whatever reason, I miss it and 47 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:07,200 Speaker 1: then it's like season two and all the actors have 48 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 1: won the awards and the writers have won awards, and 49 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:13,399 Speaker 1: you're like, I got to get in this. So Yellowjackets 50 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 1: was what I did this week. And also another show, Barry, 51 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 1: which is on HBO, and that is starring Bill Hayder. 52 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 1: He's from SNL and he's absolutely brilliant in this. What 53 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:32,040 Speaker 1: a wonderful concept for a show, really well done, well written, 54 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 1: great acting, and what a lead character. I mean, I 55 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 1: understand why everybody was saying it was beyond the beyond, 56 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 1: and it kind of is. And so that's my other 57 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 1: suggestion is that you binge and get caught up with 58 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 1: that show Barry. And also somebody somewhere the Bridgid Efforts 59 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:58,360 Speaker 1: series season two is up. Now you can start right 60 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 1: with season two, or if you haven't seen season one yet, 61 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:04,040 Speaker 1: jump in there and get caught up and we can 62 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 1: all watch it together. So those are my three show 63 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 1: recommendations for this week. 64 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 2: People. 65 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 1: That's why I'm here to help you, to help you 66 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:16,159 Speaker 1: take care of all of your television consumer needs. That's me, 67 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 1: Rosie o'donnald. Anyway, we have a wonderful, wonderful interview today 68 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 1: with one of my favorite people in the world, the 69 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:30,919 Speaker 1: one and only Cheeta Rivera. She turned ninety years old 70 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 1: just recently and she is just outstanding. She has won 71 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:39,800 Speaker 1: so many awards. In nineteen eighty three, she won the 72 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 1: Tony for the Rink. She did that show with Liza 73 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: Minelli and I saw it about ten times. And then 74 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty four she also won the Drama Desk 75 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:57,480 Speaker 1: for the Rink for Outstanding Performance, another Tony in ninety 76 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 1: three for Kiss of the Spider Woman, and then the 77 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 1: Kennedy Center Honors in two thousand and two, the first 78 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 1: Latina American to receive a Kennedy Center Honor. How about that? 79 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:13,680 Speaker 1: And in two thousand and nine, President Obama gave her 80 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 1: the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Imagine that. Helen Hayes Award 81 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:21,480 Speaker 1: for Outstanding Lead Actress and the Visit in two thousand 82 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: and nine and Lifetime achievement Tony in twenty eighteen. She 83 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 1: is a star of stage and screen. She has known 84 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:35,839 Speaker 1: everyone and worked with everyone, and fallen in and out 85 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:40,360 Speaker 1: of showbiz, love, romance. It's beautiful. There's a book about 86 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:44,839 Speaker 1: her life, Cheetah, a memoir, and it's out now anywhere. 87 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:47,320 Speaker 1: You get your books by this one. Pick up the 88 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 1: audiobook and get to hear it from her mouth. Cheeta 89 00:05:50,720 --> 00:06:06,600 Speaker 1: Rivera is here. Take a listen. Hi, honey, how are you? 90 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:07,840 Speaker 2: How are you? 91 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:12,159 Speaker 1: My gosh, I'm so good. I'm sitting here in the beach. 92 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:13,960 Speaker 1: Are malible looking at the waves? 93 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:14,799 Speaker 2: Dirty dog? 94 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:17,600 Speaker 1: I know? Can you believe I did that for myself 95 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:21,159 Speaker 1: when I turned sixty, Cheetah, I said, I'm taking a 96 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 1: year and going to the beach and it's about up 97 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 1: and I've had the greatest time. 98 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:28,160 Speaker 3: Well, that's the best thing you could do for yourself, 99 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:30,040 Speaker 3: the best, totally. 100 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 2: Yeah. 101 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:35,159 Speaker 1: Immerse myself in nature, and I've been immersing myself in 102 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 1: your book and I loved it so much. Even though 103 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:42,560 Speaker 1: I know a lot about you, there was a lot 104 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:46,039 Speaker 1: I didn't know. And the way that you talked about 105 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 1: every I mean, first of all, the biggest award that 106 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:53,600 Speaker 1: you can get in the United States, right, the Presidential 107 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:58,479 Speaker 1: Medal of Friend. Yeah, that's what you little cheatah, little 108 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 1: cheetah dancing the kitchen table you got from President Obama? 109 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:05,600 Speaker 1: What did that feel? 110 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:09,880 Speaker 2: It felt like an out of body experience. 111 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 3: I mean it was just not real it it was 112 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 3: it felt like it was somebody else that was getting it. 113 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 2: Not me, And that was not Obama. 114 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:26,200 Speaker 3: That was you know, that was leading over me, putting 115 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:30,040 Speaker 3: this metal on me. I mean, looking like he was 116 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:32,960 Speaker 3: about to say, what time tonight? 117 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 1: Oh boy? You know, well, he is kind of tall 118 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:41,280 Speaker 1: and dreaming is odd? 119 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 2: Is he ever? Is he ever? 120 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 1: And you were never one to sort of walk past 121 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 1: a gorgeous man and not give it a second look. 122 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:51,720 Speaker 2: It's exactly right, It's exactly right. Yeah. But I'm glad 123 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:52,679 Speaker 2: you liked the book. 124 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 1: I love the book. Yeah, I love And I know Patrick. 125 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 1: I felt him for a very long time. And what 126 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:02,400 Speaker 1: a great writer he is, and he's such a huge fan. 127 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 1: I don't know anyone who loves Broadway as much as 128 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 1: you and me besides Patrick Pachenko. 129 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. 130 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 1: Yeah. 131 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 3: He had all the qualities that I could respect and 132 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:19,800 Speaker 3: could relate to, you know, I could relate to his 133 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 3: religion I could relate to his sense of humor. I 134 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:27,400 Speaker 3: could relate to his writing. I mean, for God's sake, 135 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 3: that writing is such a craft. 136 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:30,680 Speaker 2: Yes, you know. 137 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 3: And and it was like a conversation really, you know, 138 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:39,319 Speaker 3: it was like we were conversing with one another, and 139 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 3: we came upon some good subjects, you know, right, you know? 140 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:46,080 Speaker 1: And were you the one who chose them? Did you? 141 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 4: Like? 142 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:49,120 Speaker 1: Did he know about you and Joe Allen? And because 143 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:51,560 Speaker 1: the Joe Allen stories were part of my favorite part 144 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:55,680 Speaker 1: of the AH, I love that crazy old ghook. He 145 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:56,880 Speaker 1: was a great guy, you know. 146 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I mean there was that wall, and whoever 147 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:06,440 Speaker 3: would have dreamt he'd had a wall like that, you know, 148 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 3: a wall round flops. 149 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:12,080 Speaker 2: You know, right, And you better not put me on 150 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:12,720 Speaker 2: that wall. 151 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 1: That's funny. I said the same exact thing to him. 152 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 1: I said, if I see taboo up on there, I'm 153 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 1: going to come in here and get that chicken cutlet 154 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 1: and rub it on your bald head. 155 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:24,560 Speaker 2: That's fine. 156 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:27,880 Speaker 1: I was so worried that when he died that the 157 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:31,040 Speaker 1: restaurant wouldn't stay. You know who was in COVID. 158 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:32,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so was I. 159 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 3: But he has such a reputation and he built an 160 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 3: empire there, oh yes, and it's a place where we 161 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:44,760 Speaker 3: feel comfortable and it's never going to change. 162 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:49,200 Speaker 2: It's always going to be him right, and what he 163 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 2: stood for. 164 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 1: I so agree. He got so mad at me, Cheetah 165 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 1: when I had the show and I kept talking about 166 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,120 Speaker 1: it on the TV show. He first he was happy that, 167 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 1: but they didn't ever need the business. So all of 168 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:03,840 Speaker 1: a sudden, he has all these housewives from Long Island 169 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:07,599 Speaker 1: go and Rosie sent me for the cage of chicken sandwich. 170 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:10,240 Speaker 1: You know, it's like O'Donnell's shut your mouth. 171 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 2: That's funny. 172 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, hous Lisa doing your daughter. I know 173 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 1: that she is your best production and I love her 174 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:21,480 Speaker 1: so much and she's been so great to have as 175 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 1: a friend for me. 176 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:27,640 Speaker 3: Well, Lisa is in California right now. She left yesterday 177 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 3: and she'd be out there for two weeks and I 178 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 3: miss her so much. 179 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:35,080 Speaker 2: I mean no, she went not to see her. 180 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,840 Speaker 3: Friend who is not feeling well, and so I'm missing 181 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:39,559 Speaker 3: her right now. 182 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 2: Yeah. 183 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 1: I love how close your whole family is. I love 184 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 1: that I can identify your siblings without you being in 185 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 1: the room. You know, It's like you know, that's how 186 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:50,440 Speaker 1: you know when people say to me, how do you 187 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 1: know if you're really friends? And I said, can you 188 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:58,079 Speaker 1: identify their family without them being there? More? With Cheeta Rivera. 189 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 1: Right after this, tell everybody your full name. I love 190 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:22,560 Speaker 1: when you say it. It's so doable. 191 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:29,960 Speaker 2: Dolorus Concita Figueroa del Rivero. Then Monteesuco flow nineteen Connie 192 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 2: Maco de Fluente, that is the fault name. But Dolorus 193 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:40,600 Speaker 2: Concita Figueroa del Rivero. And how do you like me 194 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 2: discovering Dolores? 195 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 1: I love it. 196 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we all have these other personalities. We 197 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:58,360 Speaker 3: sometimes recognized them, sometimes don't. And through Patrick I really 198 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:03,400 Speaker 3: recognized her and she can't be quieted down. 199 00:12:04,559 --> 00:12:08,760 Speaker 2: Dolores. Is she She's the one that made me who 200 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:09,200 Speaker 2: I am? 201 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, for sure. She's the one that was dancing 202 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 1: on the kitchen table when you were a little. 203 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 3: Girl, exactly by she's the one that went through the table. 204 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:25,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, she's She's the dag gone it Rosie. You really 205 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:26,679 Speaker 2: get it all. 206 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:30,200 Speaker 1: You do, honey. You know, I mean it's probably hard 207 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 1: for you to hear it because you hear it from 208 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:34,920 Speaker 1: so many people, but you know, you were so formative 209 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 1: in my growing up. Cheetah. I was like, I couldn't 210 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 1: believe that not not only did I see you in 211 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 1: a movie, but I could see you sweaty coming out 212 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:45,160 Speaker 1: of a stage four And it was like, this is 213 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:47,319 Speaker 1: what I want to do, This is what this is it. 214 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:50,800 Speaker 1: It's right in these streets. Yeah, you know, Broadway for 215 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:53,520 Speaker 1: me was always the destination. But you know, I didn't 216 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 1: let that little problem I had of not being a 217 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:57,480 Speaker 1: good singer or dancing. 218 00:12:58,640 --> 00:12:59,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I mean. 219 00:12:59,679 --> 00:13:05,040 Speaker 3: Well, you were a comedian, you were inventive, you were creative, 220 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:10,000 Speaker 3: you were you were super with words, I mean, and 221 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:15,720 Speaker 3: you knew what was funny. Yeah, and uh, god knows, 222 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:18,320 Speaker 3: that's what we need more of today. 223 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:24,120 Speaker 2: We need more, isn't that? My God? We need more humor. 224 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:28,679 Speaker 1: Yes, it's such a tough time. It's such a divided country. 225 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 1: It's have you ever felt anything similar to this in 226 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:34,960 Speaker 1: your lifetime? Is this like another error that you remember now? 227 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:41,000 Speaker 3: No, this is like all by itself and it's kind 228 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:42,560 Speaker 3: of scaring me me too. 229 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:43,800 Speaker 2: Yeah. 230 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:47,800 Speaker 1: It's dark times. Yeah, and but I have to say 231 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:52,920 Speaker 1: that I felt tremendous relief once Donald Trump was held accountable. 232 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:55,600 Speaker 1: And now he'll have a try. Yeah, but at least 233 00:13:55,640 --> 00:14:00,440 Speaker 1: where we're on the road to saying what behavior will 234 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:02,400 Speaker 1: not be tolerated by US as a nation. 235 00:14:02,559 --> 00:14:04,320 Speaker 2: I hope so, you know, I hope so. 236 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:09,479 Speaker 1: I think so, because boy, what's been happening. The overt racism, 237 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 1: the anti trans legislation and the anti gay wow, the 238 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 1: women's right to choose cheetah. Can you believe this happened? 239 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:18,160 Speaker 2: Yeah? 240 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:20,840 Speaker 3: I can't believe it. I can't believe it. 241 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:24,040 Speaker 1: No, I can't believe it either. In my lifetime, I 242 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 1: thought if they ever did that, women would take to 243 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 1: the streets and not leave. Yeah, you know, but you know, 244 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:35,520 Speaker 1: the anti Semitic stuff going holy yeah, god, oh my god. Yeah, 245 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:38,200 Speaker 1: And I feel like it was unleashed by you know, 246 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:42,280 Speaker 1: not just one person. It was unleashed by years of 247 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:48,040 Speaker 1: negativity and hostility and lack of progressive banking. And yeah, 248 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 1: scares me really, and I don't like to think about 249 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 1: it so much. You know. I stopped watching the news. 250 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 3: Yes, so did I. So did Lisa and I. We 251 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:05,080 Speaker 3: have on Channel six under it and we listen to 252 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:09,800 Speaker 3: it and then we gough, no, it's the same thing 253 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:11,200 Speaker 3: every time. 254 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 1: Let's every day be afraid be very afraid things are bad. 255 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 1: You gotta watch what you jist. Yeah, because it could 256 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:22,480 Speaker 1: it could be harmful. You know, it's funny my little 257 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:25,960 Speaker 1: Dakota who's ten years old. Now, it's hard to believe, Cheetah, 258 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,560 Speaker 1: that little baby that you held is ten years old. 259 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 1: My last one. Please God, I'm sixty one. I don't 260 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 1: need another infu. But boy, when I see one, Cheetah, 261 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 1: it's so hard. 262 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 2: Oh. 263 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 1: I see a baby in the street and I have 264 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:43,040 Speaker 1: a moment of I watch the baby on the TikTok 265 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:45,760 Speaker 1: and I go, oh God, just one more man. 266 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 3: You no, no, no, no, no, no, I'm You're done, 267 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:50,480 Speaker 3: You're done. 268 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:51,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm done. 269 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:53,080 Speaker 2: But ten years old. 270 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:56,960 Speaker 1: She's ten years old, and she's so funny with knowing 271 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 1: who she is in a way that was so new 272 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:02,680 Speaker 1: for me, you know. And I'm also an only she's 273 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 1: an only child. I'm like the mother of an only 274 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:07,720 Speaker 1: child because my four ones are so big and off 275 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 1: on their own lives. So now I have this baby 276 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 1: all the time with me, and as she'll tell me, 277 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:16,360 Speaker 1: she's not a baby. But she's made me feel so 278 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 1: young still and vibrant, and I think she's helped me 279 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 1: so much like, look at the world through a different perspective. 280 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:28,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, she's she's your savior right. 281 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:32,480 Speaker 1: Now in many ways, Sheta, she is absolutely. Yes. People 282 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 1: often say, you know, oh, you're such a good person 283 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:38,120 Speaker 1: for adopting you save those kids. Always go no, no, no, 284 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:44,560 Speaker 1: they saved me. I didn't, says it's vice versa. Totally. 285 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:45,400 Speaker 2: Absolutely. 286 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:49,120 Speaker 3: I can't believe just this last time that you are 287 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 3: sitting at the beach. 288 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:55,480 Speaker 1: I'm gonna turn around and show you look, here we go. 289 00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:57,240 Speaker 1: That's my that's my view. 290 00:16:57,360 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 2: Oh my god. 291 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:04,679 Speaker 1: It is literally on the water. You walk out the 292 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:08,560 Speaker 1: back door and you are on the beach. It's how 293 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:11,640 Speaker 1: I dreamed that people could live, but I never thought 294 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:15,120 Speaker 1: it was realistic. And you know, when I turned sixty, 295 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:18,359 Speaker 1: and I know that age is just a number, but 296 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:20,479 Speaker 1: I really thought, how did I get to be sixty? 297 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:23,280 Speaker 1: Because you know, in my mind, who's sixty is Vivian Vance? 298 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:27,639 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, right, Ethel. You know I'm Ethel now I'm Ethel. 299 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:31,600 Speaker 2: Pretty I don't know how I've reached the age I 300 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:34,920 Speaker 2: have reached. I mean, I don't know how that happened. 301 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:37,080 Speaker 2: It just happened. 302 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:43,639 Speaker 3: And I'm covering up the mirrors, but uh, gradually. 303 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:48,439 Speaker 1: Oh no, come on now, you're still studying. God, you 304 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:51,720 Speaker 1: really are. Those pictures of you getting the Presidential Medal 305 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:55,800 Speaker 1: of Freedom in that beautiful dress with the wonderful neckline 306 00:17:55,840 --> 00:17:58,840 Speaker 1: and how the metal laid on there. I thought if 307 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:01,439 Speaker 1: Bobby Pierce made that, he's very happy because it was 308 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:05,480 Speaker 1: a it was a perfectly designed dress. You look stunning. 309 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:07,639 Speaker 2: Bobby Pears where is? 310 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:12,080 Speaker 1: Don't you love him? He's around, he's doing Broadway stuff. 311 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:15,240 Speaker 1: He's good. Yeah, he's doing good. 312 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 2: It's good. That's good. 313 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 1: And he has beautiful flowers and I'm sure you've been 314 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:20,520 Speaker 1: to his apartment. 315 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:21,560 Speaker 2: Ye, no, I haven't. 316 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:25,359 Speaker 1: Okay, Well, there is a shrine to Cheatah Reven. Like 317 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:28,320 Speaker 1: everything that he's ever made for you, he made a 318 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:33,199 Speaker 1: replica copy smaller And yeah, this is my friend, Bobby Pearson, 319 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 1: Cheetah's good friend, Bobby Pierce, who is a Tony nominated 320 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 1: costume designer and he's a wonderfully talented man. And he 321 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:45,280 Speaker 1: was originally my dresser on my first show on Broadway Greece. 322 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 1: That's right, that's how I met him, and he adored you. 323 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:51,760 Speaker 1: I mean, what it must feel like for you to 324 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:54,800 Speaker 1: have like a whole slew of men like that who 325 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:58,640 Speaker 1: are so devoted to you, you know, like just adore you. 326 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:01,080 Speaker 1: I mean, you're Cheata Rivera. I know you don't think 327 00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:03,320 Speaker 1: that because I know you, but you are you cheat 328 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:07,040 Speaker 1: her Vera, you know, and it's somewhat intimidating for all 329 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:07,480 Speaker 1: of us. 330 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:10,399 Speaker 2: More mere, mortal, please please please? 331 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:14,120 Speaker 1: Did your parents live to be very I know my. 332 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:19,879 Speaker 3: Father lived only until I was seven years old. Daddy lived, honey, 333 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:23,760 Speaker 3: I didn't mean until he was forty one. Mother lived 334 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:30,720 Speaker 3: in her seventies, so she, you know, she saw some of. 335 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:36,000 Speaker 2: Her work really operate, you know, she really right. 336 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:38,720 Speaker 3: She got me out of that living room and into 337 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:44,640 Speaker 3: that ballet class, and she you know, made me tow 338 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 3: the line and taught me so much. So mother, thank god. 339 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:56,720 Speaker 3: And she dedicated five kids to her life. I mean 340 00:19:56,920 --> 00:20:03,480 Speaker 3: she she never married again, and she was available to 341 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 3: come up to New York whenever, and available at any 342 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:10,680 Speaker 3: phone call I would make and ask her her advice. 343 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 2: You know, she was she was really something. 344 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:18,640 Speaker 3: I've got her picture up here on the wall, and 345 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:22,000 Speaker 3: she sits on one shoulder. 346 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:25,960 Speaker 1: I understand completely. Yes, how do you think she would 347 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:27,080 Speaker 1: feel about your success? 348 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:33,720 Speaker 2: She would be thrilled beyond belief. She would just see. 349 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:38,040 Speaker 3: She would sit back with her legs crossed. She had long, 350 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:45,199 Speaker 3: gorgeous legs, and she would just quietly chuckle, just chuckle, and. 351 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:49,640 Speaker 2: Be very very pleased, thrilled. 352 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:53,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, over the moon. I love how your siblings show 353 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:57,959 Speaker 1: up when you're anywhere doing anything, at the theater, watching performing, 354 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:00,679 Speaker 1: no matter what. I see your family there, And how 355 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:03,600 Speaker 1: wonderful to have that kind of support. And you know, 356 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:08,880 Speaker 1: you and Lisa are like my dream mother and daughter relationships. 357 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:12,960 Speaker 1: You know, you're so close, you're so entwined in each 358 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:16,679 Speaker 1: other's world in the most beautiful and caring way. It's 359 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:19,280 Speaker 1: you know, from a motherless kid, it's a wonderful thing 360 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:19,680 Speaker 1: to watch. 361 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:27,520 Speaker 3: Well, it's wild being in the house with just her 362 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:34,439 Speaker 3: because she's divorced and she has no interest right now 363 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:42,080 Speaker 3: of pursuing a male partner. But I really think Lisa 364 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:48,600 Speaker 3: first and then myself, you know, as you know, she's 365 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:52,480 Speaker 3: my she's my partner, she's my partner in, my roommate, 366 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:54,639 Speaker 3: and my best friend and. 367 00:21:56,119 --> 00:21:56,639 Speaker 2: My daughter. 368 00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:01,440 Speaker 1: And isn't that beautiful that you get to say? Yeah, 369 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:05,240 Speaker 1: So many people I know have no contact with their parents, 370 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:09,600 Speaker 1: and sometimes it's justified. I understand but you know, sometimes 371 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:11,880 Speaker 1: you have to save yourself first and then go try 372 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 1: to repair what you can, you know. But it's such 373 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:17,399 Speaker 1: a testament to you both. I just want to say that, 374 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:21,920 Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, You're welcome. Hey, tell everybody about 375 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:28,040 Speaker 1: the new Cheetah rivera awards that are coming up. Oh 376 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:31,600 Speaker 1: there in May that there were awards for choreography and 377 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:34,800 Speaker 1: Broadway and dancers and film. And the award is named 378 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:35,240 Speaker 1: after you. 379 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:38,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was named after fred Astaire. 380 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:44,240 Speaker 3: But I can't you know, how dare me even say 381 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:48,399 Speaker 3: that his name in the same sentence as mine? 382 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:50,840 Speaker 1: Come on, come on now. 383 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:55,720 Speaker 2: But it's an honor to wear his award. 384 00:22:56,280 --> 00:23:01,200 Speaker 1: And yeah, and the book Cheetah, the memoir is fantastic. 385 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:04,920 Speaker 1: It's got stories of love and romance and might I say, 386 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:08,640 Speaker 1: Sammy Davis Junior, I love that part too. Come on, 387 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:13,200 Speaker 1: those were stories where our epic the stories in there, 388 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:16,800 Speaker 1: the people you know you've loved, the love affairs, everything, 389 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:21,399 Speaker 1: the dancing, the winning of awards, the it's just a beautiful, 390 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:24,440 Speaker 1: beautiful book. And what a testament to your phenomenal life. 391 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:31,199 Speaker 3: Well, you know what I really am acknowledging is with 392 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:38,840 Speaker 3: every romance, with every experience, I've had with awards, with shows, 393 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:43,560 Speaker 3: They've all ended up. 394 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:48,840 Speaker 2: On the positive side. You know, I've never let a 395 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:56,560 Speaker 2: lover go with a bad feeling, you know, a brand. Yeah, 396 00:23:56,240 --> 00:24:03,480 Speaker 2: I really try to have it as a good relationship. 397 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:09,080 Speaker 2: And so far and oh and that this is as 398 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:10,040 Speaker 2: far as it gets. 399 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:15,800 Speaker 3: So so far, it's it's worked out. I mean, it's 400 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:19,920 Speaker 3: worked out with with Sammy, with Greg with there's only 401 00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:29,560 Speaker 3: one person that that is incomplete and right, and I 402 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 3: just let him go, you know, And and and that's 403 00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:37,960 Speaker 3: that's cool, that's cool, that's okay too. 404 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:41,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, I had a pretty intense relationship before I had 405 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:45,080 Speaker 1: children with the woman and we didn't speak for twenty years, 406 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:48,480 Speaker 1: and then she called and then then we were talking 407 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:51,199 Speaker 1: again and we were friends. And so you can you 408 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:52,960 Speaker 1: can't have a give up hope, you never know, you 409 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,240 Speaker 1: know what I mean. And and we didn't get back 410 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:57,720 Speaker 1: together or in any way as a couple, but we're 411 00:24:57,760 --> 00:24:58,960 Speaker 1: still in each other's world. 412 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:03,000 Speaker 3: We meant the law time, absolutely, and he is the 413 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:11,680 Speaker 3: only one that exists that I don't have any kind 414 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:16,120 Speaker 3: of I mean, it's been twenty years since I've seen him, 415 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:20,520 Speaker 3: and if I saw him, it would be fine, it 416 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:25,000 Speaker 3: would be fine, but not like a trauma. Absolutely, oh, 417 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:28,040 Speaker 3: absolutely absolutely right right. 418 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:32,639 Speaker 1: The Judy Garland story about Liza seeing you, can you 419 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,480 Speaker 1: tell everybody that one, because that really blew my mind. 420 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:38,760 Speaker 1: And what that must have done to you, was that 421 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:39,959 Speaker 1: the first time you met her? 422 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:45,200 Speaker 3: Or no, well, the first time I did her show 423 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:51,639 Speaker 3: Louis and I was on that show. He was so great, 424 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:58,679 Speaker 3: and god, what was his name? The guy that managed 425 00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:03,320 Speaker 3: the Beatles, Brian Epstein. 426 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:04,440 Speaker 2: There you go, that's it. 427 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:09,040 Speaker 3: And we were at his house and we were at 428 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 3: a party and she decided to go into the room 429 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:17,960 Speaker 3: where all the dancers were hanging out, and she sat 430 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:24,359 Speaker 3: on the floor and she became one of us, and 431 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:29,280 Speaker 3: I'll never ever forget that. And then Freddie and John 432 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:33,000 Speaker 3: called me and said they just finished. 433 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:34,640 Speaker 1: The Rink. 434 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:38,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, and they said it was the Rink and they 435 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:41,760 Speaker 3: said would you like to star in it? And I went, yes, 436 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:45,760 Speaker 3: of course, And you have to have a co star, 437 00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:48,679 Speaker 3: and how would you like for your co star to 438 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:50,000 Speaker 3: be Liza Manelli? 439 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:52,920 Speaker 2: And I went yes, of. 440 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:54,840 Speaker 1: Course, yes, of course. 441 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 3: So we have always wanted to be a part of 442 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 3: a showding other, and we've always wanted to play opposite 443 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:07,560 Speaker 3: one another and play girlfriends, And there was this deadly 444 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:14,119 Speaker 3: silence on the other end, and Freddy said, well, it's 445 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:20,000 Speaker 3: not exactly girlfriends, Cheetah, Oh well what is it. 446 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:25,600 Speaker 2: It's mother and daughter. And then I went who plays 447 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:26,080 Speaker 2: the mother? 448 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:33,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, but look at what you did it? And look 449 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:37,600 Speaker 1: what you got didn't get you your first your first wife. 450 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:43,480 Speaker 3: Yes, it did, it did And it was a fabulous experience, 451 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:49,919 Speaker 3: the ups and downs of working with Liza. And because 452 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:54,760 Speaker 3: I've always been a fan of hers and Mitya and 453 00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:56,719 Speaker 3: a great friend. 454 00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,679 Speaker 1: She never really has a mean thing to say about anymore. 455 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:01,479 Speaker 2: She doesn't. 456 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:08,040 Speaker 1: She's one who never never tries to put anyone else down. 457 00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:11,639 Speaker 1: I love that quality about it. And she she saw 458 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:13,200 Speaker 1: you and bye bye bird, that's right. 459 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:17,439 Speaker 3: And she and Liza and when she left the theater 460 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:21,040 Speaker 3: she said to her mother, that's what I want to do. 461 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:23,480 Speaker 1: Wow, you know? 462 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:25,560 Speaker 2: And it's yes. 463 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:27,360 Speaker 1: Not only did she get to do it, she got 464 00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:31,240 Speaker 1: to do it with you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Cheeta Rivera. 465 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:36,200 Speaker 1: Che believable. It's a big do. 466 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:39,200 Speaker 2: But he says my name like you, Cheeta. 467 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:44,840 Speaker 1: Revera, Cheeta Rivera. She's the best in the world. But 468 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 1: I want to thank you for so much that you've 469 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,400 Speaker 1: done for our little theater school that we have there 470 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,680 Speaker 1: in New York, Rosie's Theater Kids, And uh, You've done 471 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:57,320 Speaker 1: so much to help and inspire and encourage these young performers. 472 00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:01,280 Speaker 1: It's it's so amazing. You were really the Broadway celebrity 473 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:03,760 Speaker 1: that stepped up when we opened twenty five years ago 474 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:09,120 Speaker 1: and brought the talent and the love and the encouragement 475 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 1: for these kids who live below the poverty level here 476 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:12,960 Speaker 1: in New York. 477 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:17,320 Speaker 2: You know, you've been doing this for a long long time. 478 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:21,000 Speaker 1: Have you seen any new shows that are out Broadway now? 479 00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:23,840 Speaker 1: Have you seen any? Did you see Shopped or any 480 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:25,560 Speaker 1: or the New Sweeney Time? 481 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 3: And I haven't seen anything. I mean, I'm looking out 482 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:35,800 Speaker 3: at these beautiful blossoms on the trees and the quiet 483 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:40,120 Speaker 3: of the neighborhood. And you know, when I'm not doing 484 00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:43,880 Speaker 3: one of these, then I stay home. 485 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:44,960 Speaker 2: I stay home. 486 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:47,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm a stay at home or two ye 487 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:51,040 Speaker 1: yeah yeah. My kid says to me, She says, Mommy, 488 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:55,640 Speaker 1: you don't even socialize anymore. I'm like, well, honey, I'm 489 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:59,360 Speaker 1: home with you. That's just as much fun, right. Can 490 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:03,320 Speaker 1: I ask you about some of your best girlfriends? Like 491 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,080 Speaker 1: I love the fact that you and be Arthur were 492 00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:06,560 Speaker 1: so close. 493 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:08,000 Speaker 2: Well, Beattie was. 494 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:11,600 Speaker 3: She was like my best friend, you know, she was. 495 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,000 Speaker 3: She was the big of it and I was a 496 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:15,080 Speaker 3: little little of it. 497 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:16,200 Speaker 5: You know. 498 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:23,120 Speaker 3: She she had a protective thing about her with me, 499 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:28,800 Speaker 3: and I wanted to be like her, you know. And 500 00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:34,240 Speaker 3: Elaine Stretch was the same way before she got crazy stretching. 501 00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:39,080 Speaker 3: Of course, yes, you know Nancy do so, I mean, yes, 502 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:43,160 Speaker 3: I haven't seen Nancy in so long, but I missed 503 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:44,720 Speaker 3: Nancy terribly. 504 00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:47,520 Speaker 1: I used to love when she would appear on all 505 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 1: those shows that I used to watch. 506 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,080 Speaker 3: Absolutely nobody could sing like Nancy. 507 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:53,240 Speaker 1: Oh I didn't know she was. 508 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:58,680 Speaker 3: Oh my god, she's a heck of a singer. Karen Morrow, Wow, 509 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:00,239 Speaker 3: you know, I know. 510 00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:03,520 Speaker 1: How about Gwen Verdon, I know you two are very close. 511 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:05,320 Speaker 1: She was your good daddy too. 512 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:11,440 Speaker 3: She was you know, you dream of an idol and 513 00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:16,200 Speaker 3: all of a sudden years later you're standing next to her, 514 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:20,280 Speaker 3: you know, and you're doing a numberical two dancing is one. 515 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:26,280 Speaker 3: Of course, there's a Bob Fosse in there. So, but Gwen, 516 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:33,520 Speaker 3: she was an extraordinary woman and she was really one 517 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:34,640 Speaker 3: of my best friends. 518 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:39,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's a really strange feeling. I know in 519 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:43,200 Speaker 1: my life it's happened too that the people like you 520 00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:45,560 Speaker 1: and are in my world like the people that I 521 00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:48,720 Speaker 1: grew up going oh my god. Yeah, but in some 522 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,320 Speaker 1: way I kind of knew. Isn't that weird? Did you 523 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:53,959 Speaker 1: know too? Like when you were a little kid and 524 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,720 Speaker 1: you were watching Gwen Verdon or you were, you know, 525 00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:59,000 Speaker 1: looking at her art, going I'm going to know her. 526 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:03,400 Speaker 3: Oh No, I know, ever ever got that, never ever 527 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:06,560 Speaker 3: thought that, And I don't know all the time. 528 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:11,920 Speaker 2: All the time you see is that you know, reason 529 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:16,440 Speaker 2: why you're you and I'm me, you know, right? But 530 00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:20,160 Speaker 2: it worked with me. It worked with me, you know. 531 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,040 Speaker 1: You You've credited a lot of your magical thinking to 532 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,680 Speaker 1: surviving hard times. In the book you talk a little 533 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:29,600 Speaker 1: about that. And do you think that that's always who 534 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,200 Speaker 1: you were? Somebody was a little bit of an optimist. Oh, 535 00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:34,360 Speaker 1: even when when times. 536 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:40,200 Speaker 2: Were absolutely absolutely I was a positive an optimist all 537 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:45,200 Speaker 2: the time. I never I never realized that anything could 538 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:50,040 Speaker 2: go bad until it did. And then I made it good, right, 539 00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:50,360 Speaker 2: you know? 540 00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:52,960 Speaker 1: And then you made it yeah? 541 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:55,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, and yes, then I just did. 542 00:32:56,640 --> 00:33:00,000 Speaker 3: I'm so much of an optimist. 543 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:04,320 Speaker 1: No, I love to laugh, and you have a great, 544 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:06,840 Speaker 1: very distinguishable I. 545 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:08,120 Speaker 2: Love it absolutely. 546 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,720 Speaker 3: You have heard me laugh many a time, and I 547 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:16,680 Speaker 3: can turn on the TV and watch comedians all day long. 548 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:22,320 Speaker 3: I kind of hide out behind my comedians. 549 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:26,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're speaking for so many of us now 550 00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:28,719 Speaker 1: when the time where it feels like freedom of speech 551 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:32,280 Speaker 1: is being challenged as well. Absolutely good for the comedians 552 00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:37,200 Speaker 1: right out there shaking things absolutely well. Cheata Rivera. I 553 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:39,200 Speaker 1: want to thank you so much. I love you, Cheetah. 554 00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:42,040 Speaker 1: You're one of the best people I know, and I 555 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:44,520 Speaker 1: am forever in your debt. Just to get to be 556 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:47,440 Speaker 1: in your life and world as made mind so much better. 557 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:50,280 Speaker 2: Oh well, thank you, Rosie, and I adore you. 558 00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:53,920 Speaker 1: I adore you. A memoir is the book Cheetah Rivera 559 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:59,880 Speaker 1: Patrick Pacheco, and you should all buy it and thank you, 560 00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:05,000 Speaker 1: Thank you, Bye bye, love you see Annie, I love you. 561 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:28,839 Speaker 1: Stick around more to come. And now we're back with 562 00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:32,040 Speaker 1: some questions from you. Let's take a listen. 563 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:33,480 Speaker 2: Hi, Rosie. 564 00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:39,439 Speaker 5: Is it Rosie. It's Katie and Bridget from Michigan, and 565 00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:44,799 Speaker 5: our question for you and you only it is do 566 00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:49,239 Speaker 5: you like are you happy with how the L word ended? 567 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:52,360 Speaker 5: As far as your character was concerned. Do you feel 568 00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:55,560 Speaker 5: like there's more story to tell? You really liked you 569 00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:59,200 Speaker 5: on that show. You're definitely the high in the last season, 570 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,080 Speaker 5: and so I just to get your thoughts. Thanks for 571 00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:02,840 Speaker 5: taking your question. 572 00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:09,480 Speaker 1: Nice well, thank you L Word fans. Yes, I you know, 573 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,319 Speaker 1: I was a fan of the original L Word. It 574 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,840 Speaker 1: was the first time you saw lesbians portrayed as whole 575 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:19,520 Speaker 1: people and relationships, and it was a groundbreaking series for 576 00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:24,759 Speaker 1: many reasons. I liked my character. I liked her in 577 00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:29,480 Speaker 1: all the scenes with Finley. I think that, you know, 578 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:34,040 Speaker 1: the mothering thing of a mentoring thing in the gay 579 00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:38,160 Speaker 1: community is a real thing. And you know, older lesbians 580 00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:41,320 Speaker 1: kind of taken younger ones under their wing and his 581 00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:46,040 Speaker 1: sisterly or motherly kind of family feeling, not not in 582 00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:49,359 Speaker 1: any way as lovers or any capacity. And you know, 583 00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:53,120 Speaker 1: friendships in the gay community are are strong and are 584 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:57,640 Speaker 1: often life long, and I wanted to show the reality 585 00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:01,840 Speaker 1: of that part of lesbianism as well. So I was 586 00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:05,360 Speaker 1: sad that the show got canceled, and I wish that 587 00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:09,960 Speaker 1: there would be a show coming on to replace it. 588 00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:14,200 Speaker 1: You know, I wish that queer storytelling and gay storylines 589 00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:18,640 Speaker 1: and lesbian drama which is what the L word was originally. 590 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:23,360 Speaker 1: You know about lesbians, and I think maybe that niche 591 00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:28,160 Speaker 1: like perspective was missing on the on the reboot. Thank 592 00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:30,759 Speaker 1: you for asking and I'm glad you enjoyed my performance. 593 00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:33,200 Speaker 1: Hi Rosie, this is Kimberly. 594 00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:37,839 Speaker 6: I'm calling from outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and I don't 595 00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:41,000 Speaker 6: have a question, but I wanted to explain why I 596 00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:45,360 Speaker 6: always tell people you're part of our family. My grandmother 597 00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:48,360 Speaker 6: passed away two weeks to the day after my sweet 598 00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:52,480 Speaker 6: sixteen and it was pretty devastating for our entire family, 599 00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:55,360 Speaker 6: but of course it was most devastating for my grandfather. 600 00:36:56,320 --> 00:37:00,439 Speaker 6: My Grandpap was a big, strapping Irish mick who worked 601 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:04,479 Speaker 6: most of his life in the Homestead steel mills, and 602 00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:07,360 Speaker 6: as he got older, he was continually getting hard of hearing, 603 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:12,520 Speaker 6: and in the late nineties he developed Alzheimer's. He developed 604 00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:16,080 Speaker 6: dementia and Alzheimer's and it was very frustrating for him. 605 00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:18,040 Speaker 6: He had, as most people do. He had his good 606 00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:23,200 Speaker 6: days and his bad days. But your talk show was 607 00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:26,640 Speaker 6: pretty big at the time, and he found a lot 608 00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:29,280 Speaker 6: of solace in your talk show. You were his friend. 609 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:32,120 Speaker 6: You became his friend that he would see every day, 610 00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:34,920 Speaker 6: and he would always ask is rosion or when is rosion? 611 00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:38,640 Speaker 6: And you anchored him when he was in unfamiliar places. 612 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:42,840 Speaker 6: You made him smile, you made him laugh a lot. 613 00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:46,200 Speaker 6: I think he felt a kinship with you because you 614 00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:51,640 Speaker 6: sort of resemble physically his side of the family. And 615 00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:55,120 Speaker 6: so you know, in some of his darkest, darkest times, 616 00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:58,919 Speaker 6: you provided love and laughter for him, and we all 617 00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:01,200 Speaker 6: just appreciate it so much, And so I just wanted 618 00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:03,799 Speaker 6: to tell you that and tell you that you are 619 00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:06,719 Speaker 6: forever a part of our family, and thank you so 620 00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:09,640 Speaker 6: much for the joy you brought not only to my Grandpap, 621 00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:13,319 Speaker 6: but to millions of other people throughout the world. Thank 622 00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:14,279 Speaker 6: you bye. 623 00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:17,719 Speaker 1: You know that is so touching. I can't even begin 624 00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:19,399 Speaker 1: to tell you what it means to me to hear 625 00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:22,920 Speaker 1: to hear you say that story about your grandfather and 626 00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:26,000 Speaker 1: losing your grandparent was tough. 627 00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:26,319 Speaker 2: Boy. 628 00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:30,319 Speaker 1: You know, I didn't ever meet my grandfathers, but both 629 00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:34,359 Speaker 1: my grandmothers were alive and in our lives pretty prominently 630 00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:38,279 Speaker 1: until you know, I went away, my sister went away 631 00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:40,759 Speaker 1: to college. I was already in college, and then my 632 00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:42,920 Speaker 1: grandmother died. So I was a sophomore. She was a 633 00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:47,200 Speaker 1: freshman in college when my grandmother died, and it was very, 634 00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:50,560 Speaker 1: very tough, it really was. And I'm so glad that 635 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:54,839 Speaker 1: I provided some comfort to your father, your grandfather or other, 636 00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:58,280 Speaker 1: and that I'm considered part of the family. And listen, 637 00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:00,560 Speaker 1: I know that look he's talking about that big headed 638 00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:04,120 Speaker 1: Irish thing, you know where you look like. You know, 639 00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:08,279 Speaker 1: you were probably peeling potatoes in the back kitchen and 640 00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:11,560 Speaker 1: your ancestry. You know, on twenty three in me dot 641 00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:13,720 Speaker 1: com there's a picture of you pulling out a potato 642 00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:17,680 Speaker 1: from a field somewhere. You know, those traditional Irish washer 643 00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:20,839 Speaker 1: woman bodies. That's what you know. That's what I think. 644 00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:23,520 Speaker 1: I know what he's talking about. But thank you so 645 00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:26,880 Speaker 1: much for leaving this sweet, sweet memo. I really do appreciate. 646 00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:31,279 Speaker 4: Hey, Rosie, this is Tim. I have been following you 647 00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:35,080 Speaker 4: and loving you since your days on star Search, and 648 00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:38,160 Speaker 4: I was wondering if you ever think about that and 649 00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:41,160 Speaker 4: whether or not you think star Search helped your career 650 00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:43,480 Speaker 4: or or your career or maybe it had no effect 651 00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:46,240 Speaker 4: at all. But yeah, just talk a little bit about 652 00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:49,480 Speaker 4: star Search days. Okay, love you, Thanks Tim. 653 00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:53,160 Speaker 1: Star Search was really fun. It was nineteen eighty four, 654 00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:57,240 Speaker 1: I was twenty two and I was in a comedy 655 00:39:57,239 --> 00:40:00,560 Speaker 1: club in my hometown of Huntington, Long Island, and a 656 00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:04,480 Speaker 1: woman came over and said, my dad is Ed McMahon, 657 00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:06,799 Speaker 1: and I'm gonna book you on the show. I'm one 658 00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:09,600 Speaker 1: of the talent coordinators. And I didn't think she was 659 00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:11,720 Speaker 1: telling the truth, and so I gave her my number, 660 00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,760 Speaker 1: which was my dad's house because that's where I was living, 661 00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:18,520 Speaker 1: and the next day got a phone call, and two 662 00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:22,000 Speaker 1: weeks later I was in LA and I was on 663 00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:25,120 Speaker 1: the TV show Star Search, which at the time was very, 664 00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:30,240 Speaker 1: very popular. It was, you know, one of the first 665 00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:37,920 Speaker 1: successful competition shows on TV at that time, right, so 666 00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:41,360 Speaker 1: you really didn't have a chance of getting on the 667 00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:43,960 Speaker 1: Tonight show if you were a woman stand up comic, 668 00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:47,440 Speaker 1: you know, and there were very few places where you 669 00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:51,040 Speaker 1: could go to be seen. And this show really opened 670 00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:53,520 Speaker 1: that up for me in a major way, and I 671 00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:57,000 Speaker 1: got national attention, and whereas before I had only been 672 00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:00,360 Speaker 1: an opening act or a MC at local clubs, I 673 00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:03,960 Speaker 1: got booked as a headliner. Afterwards, I won like five episodes, 674 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:07,239 Speaker 1: I think, and like twenty something thousand dollars and I 675 00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:11,200 Speaker 1: bought a car, and I rented one room studio apartment 676 00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:17,640 Speaker 1: furnished in Sherman Oaks, California. And the car that I 677 00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:20,359 Speaker 1: bought was a Mazda six two six stick shift, which 678 00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:22,960 Speaker 1: I didn't know how to drive with no air conditioning 679 00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:26,640 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, California. So that's what happened with my 680 00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:29,640 Speaker 1: Star Search money, and I think it helped my career tremendously. 681 00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:34,640 Speaker 1: I mean, everything that I've done on TV has helped 682 00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:37,040 Speaker 1: my career. I can't think of one thing that I 683 00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:39,520 Speaker 1: would say I shouldn't have done that. You know, I'm 684 00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:42,440 Speaker 1: grateful for all the opportunities, and thank you for the 685 00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:47,920 Speaker 1: question and the last memo we got. Let's hear hi, Rosie. 686 00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:51,040 Speaker 1: This is Cindy from Fullerton, California. To this very day, 687 00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:53,840 Speaker 1: I miss your daytime talk show. I used to record 688 00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:55,520 Speaker 1: it every day and watch it as soon as I 689 00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:57,799 Speaker 1: got home from work and get caught up on all 690 00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:00,960 Speaker 1: the TV and Broadway news. It was on your show 691 00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:02,880 Speaker 1: that I saw the cast of The Lion King for 692 00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:05,600 Speaker 1: the first time, and I remember an episode where the 693 00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:09,920 Speaker 1: entire cast of Titanic came on. They purchased a postcard 694 00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:12,080 Speaker 1: being sold by a young man to raise money for 695 00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:15,319 Speaker 1: his friend's mom going through cancer treatment. I still cry 696 00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:17,920 Speaker 1: every time I tell people that story. One of my 697 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,600 Speaker 1: favorite parts of your show were your interactions with John 698 00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:23,040 Speaker 1: mcdee and I've been thinking about him a lot since 699 00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:26,480 Speaker 1: I've been listening to your fantastic podcast, and tonight I'm 700 00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:29,560 Speaker 1: watching the Carol Burnett ninetieth Birthday special and there is 701 00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:32,600 Speaker 1: John mcdee. Oh, it would be fantastic if you were 702 00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:35,440 Speaker 1: a guest on your podcast. I will look forward to 703 00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,960 Speaker 1: listening to your podcast as much as I enjoyed watching 704 00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:43,600 Speaker 1: your talk show. Thanks again, Rosie, take care, bye bye, well, 705 00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:45,920 Speaker 1: thank you. That is so nice of you to say. 706 00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:49,000 Speaker 1: And John McDaniel and I are still close. We're good 707 00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:51,360 Speaker 1: friends and we always will be. And I was so 708 00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:53,600 Speaker 1: proud of him too, and the Carol Burnett special that 709 00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:57,399 Speaker 1: he did all the musical direction, and you know, he's 710 00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:02,160 Speaker 1: so talented, He's won so many awards and all of 711 00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:06,040 Speaker 1: people who work with him adore him, including me, And yes, 712 00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:08,240 Speaker 1: I will have him on the podcast Lick at his Split. 713 00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:11,200 Speaker 1: Let's put that down on the list, and I'm sure 714 00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:13,160 Speaker 1: he will say. Yes, he's in Florida a lot of 715 00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:15,799 Speaker 1: the time, and he's got a cute little dog and 716 00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:20,000 Speaker 1: a cute little guy, and you know he's happy, and 717 00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:22,759 Speaker 1: I'm happy for him, and let's book that for sure. 718 00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:25,920 Speaker 1: Thank you for that suggestion. Listen, if you want to 719 00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:27,799 Speaker 1: leave me a voice memo, you got a question, you 720 00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:29,800 Speaker 1: got a suggestion, you got just something you got to 721 00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:32,600 Speaker 1: get off your chest. All you gotta do is go 722 00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:36,440 Speaker 1: to Onward Rosie at gmail dot com. How do you 723 00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:39,040 Speaker 1: make a voice memo? People say, well, I can only 724 00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:41,719 Speaker 1: tell you. If you have an iPhone iPhone type in 725 00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:45,720 Speaker 1: voice memo, little microphone comes up, Go press the button, 726 00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:49,640 Speaker 1: record it. Then it says where to say mail Onward 727 00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:54,040 Speaker 1: Rosie at gmail dot com attached file. You're done. That's it. 728 00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:56,560 Speaker 1: And if you have an Android, tough luck. I don't 729 00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:59,440 Speaker 1: have anything to say to help you. Really it just 730 00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:02,719 Speaker 1: sketchit it, maybe just shake it. Join me next week, 731 00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:04,920 Speaker 1: won't you, when our guests will be the one and 732 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:09,640 Speaker 1: only uber talented Cameron Mannheim. So don't miss that one. 733 00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:11,719 Speaker 1: I'll see you then. Take care,