Speaker 1: We're playing lots of zz Top as Dusty hild, the
Speaker 1: bass player from zz Top died. Yes, Dave was in
Speaker 1: his seventies, so it's not, you know, crazy unexpected, but
Speaker 1: um yeah, so playing a lot of easy talk. Marshall
Speaker 1: Phillips joins us it used to be our music guy.
Speaker 1: Before we get into even who you are? Jever meeting
Speaker 1: me the zz Toppers, I did, indeed, surprise, Yeah, Billy,
Speaker 1: I think I met him. You know you gotta Reverend
Speaker 1: Billy F. Gibbons, the lead guitar player. Yes, yes, you
Speaker 1: gotta fear of the beard. Hear the beards. Marshall Phillips
Speaker 1: did our news for how many years did you do?
Speaker 1: It was grand total of fourteen years? Really, yes, I know, wow,
Speaker 1: I know. God time goes by and I thought about that.
Speaker 1: You know the other thing too, because I have been
Speaker 1: retired now for a while and it has certainly not
Speaker 1: been boring. But one thing I keep wondering when I
Speaker 1: wake up is what day is? It? Is that something
Speaker 1: that happens to every time My kids are that way
Speaker 1: you beat out of school, and they have never they
Speaker 1: have have no idea if it's a Monday or a Saturday. Exactly.
Speaker 1: You know, so I have to I have to mendally
Speaker 1: make a cue. Okay, what date, let's look at the
Speaker 1: all right, we know what day it is. So you
Speaker 1: did you retired December nineteen? Yeah, so so had the news?
Speaker 1: Had you done the news about a virus in China
Speaker 1: at that point show? Yeah, we did, We did mention it,
Speaker 1: and I was I think I had mentioned that I
Speaker 1: heard in the BBC. I was following it because I,
Speaker 1: you know, would wake up early, early in the morning
Speaker 1: and I would be, you know, here in the BBC
Speaker 1: they were talking about, oh, there's nineteen cases of this
Speaker 1: mysterious and then the next day it was there's twenty
Speaker 1: nine cases. The next day it was there's four cases.
Speaker 1: So you retired, and then three months later the whole
Speaker 1: world shuts down. Yes, yes, yes, to put a damper
Speaker 1: on some of your plans for your first year retirement.
Speaker 1: My first year of retirement was pretty much spent at home.
Speaker 1: I think I I think I called one time and
Speaker 1: was telling you how I was building this whole uh
Speaker 1: tribute to Chardonnay bottle. I had a pyramid. I had
Speaker 1: a Chardonnay bottle pyramid out in front of my house here,
Speaker 1: you're you're in the age group that you know where
Speaker 1: it's pretty deadly for and there was no vaccine at
Speaker 1: the time, so heck, yeah, yeah, no, I mean, and
Speaker 1: the good I think good thing was I did use
Speaker 1: the time. I have moved twice in the last year
Speaker 1: and a half, no, three twice, now twice. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was trying to figure out because I've been bouncing around
Speaker 1: from a lot of places. But I used the time
Speaker 1: to actually clear out the rest of the the stuff
Speaker 1: from my mom's home. She had passed away a few
Speaker 1: years before, So I got all of that out of
Speaker 1: the house and then got the got it rehabbed and
Speaker 1: everything else, and then put it up for sale. While wow,
Speaker 1: all this was still going on, no vaccine, COVID restrictions
Speaker 1: mass everywhere, and it was pretty challenging. But it did
Speaker 1: give me something to do. I wasn't just sitting at
Speaker 1: home going okay, now what yeah, And you know, luckily
Speaker 1: it's the age of the internet and everything like that,
Speaker 1: so you can be in contact with people or fallow
Speaker 1: the news or whatever like it would have been thirty
Speaker 1: years ago or whatever. Um, so just what's your overall
Speaker 1: taking this? I mean, in terms of in terms of
Speaker 1: interesting things that have happened on planet Earth, even for
Speaker 1: a guy of your worldly nature, it has to stand out.
Speaker 1: Is is A is a pretty big one. I was
Speaker 1: not around for the Spanish flu, so this is the
Speaker 1: first pandemic I have ever. You know, lived through things,
Speaker 1: knock on wood, lived through and I I gotta tell you,
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you you're vaccinated. At this point five times,
Speaker 1: you know, I ben't. I used another name and got
Speaker 1: more No, but I do have to tell you. I
Speaker 1: know everybody wants to get back to normal, and I
Speaker 1: really appreciate that. But when all of a sudden, you know,
Speaker 1: they said, I take your mass off and have a
Speaker 1: good time, I'm kind of going, okay, but let's be careful.
Speaker 1: And now we've we've got this what do they call it,
Speaker 1: the uh delta? The delta you know variety. I can
Speaker 1: imagine it does look differently if you're a susceptible age group,
Speaker 1: where you know this could really make you sick. Um,
Speaker 1: And you know, if you're under if you're under sixty,
Speaker 1: really it's not that deadly. And if certainly if you're
Speaker 1: under forty, it's very unlikely you would kill you. But um,
Speaker 1: you know you probably feel the same way my parents.
Speaker 1: And my parents took it very seriously. Oh yeah, no,
Speaker 1: there's no doubt about it. And as soon as I
Speaker 1: could get vaccinated, I did. You know, I'm really glad
Speaker 1: I did, because you know, that's one less thing you
Speaker 1: have to worry about yourself, to be cautious. But you're
Speaker 1: not like, oh my god, now because now when you're
Speaker 1: in retirement, when when I don't have a job to
Speaker 1: come to every day, every little thing becomes a huge
Speaker 1: epic with me. I've noticed that with retired people. I
Speaker 1: am on the phone daily to my friends scattered about
Speaker 1: the country, you know, got going ranting and raving about
Speaker 1: any number of things. Now they're kind of expecting it.
Speaker 1: You know, if I don't call at least every couple
Speaker 1: of days, and they called me, you know, just afraid
Speaker 1: I may have exploded. So I was gonna ask you
Speaker 1: about you and your friends in your set. So you're
Speaker 1: an old hippie who hung around with hippies back in
Speaker 1: the day, and um, a lot of your older liberals
Speaker 1: that that I follow are kind of looking at some
Speaker 1: of their fellow younger liberals and saying, what is going
Speaker 1: on with you? People, And uh, I wonder if you've
Speaker 1: noticed in you that among your crowd, amongst my crowd,
Speaker 1: I will I will tell you something. A lot of
Speaker 1: my crowd, people that I've known since I was thirteen
Speaker 1: and we all went through many things together, are much
Speaker 1: more liberal and I am so they're so they're joining
Speaker 1: in with more of the younger wolf crown. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: very much so, very much so. And you know, we
Speaker 1: have spirited discussions about you know, we don't get too
Speaker 1: heavy into politics, but mostly policy. I just think it's
Speaker 1: interesting that the crowd that was always so suspicious of
Speaker 1: the FBI and the CIA in general, a lot of
Speaker 1: those people now that they're they're all hail the FBI
Speaker 1: and c I A. Are are our masters who will
Speaker 1: keep us safe. And I'm like, where did that come from.
Speaker 1: I do have a couple of friends that have surprised
Speaker 1: me over the years, and you know, I will look
Speaker 1: at them and pictures of them and announced that you're
Speaker 1: looking very prosperous because I've noticed that their waist size
Speaker 1: has expanded amazingly. Oh yeah, yes, and they're looking very
Speaker 1: prosperous these days. In general, what, um, what has surprised
Speaker 1: you about retirement, because I remember asking my dad. I
Speaker 1: like to ask retired people this question because I hope
Speaker 1: to be retired someday years from now. But what's what
Speaker 1: surprised you? What didn't surprise you about retirement? Well? What has? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: what's to surprise me? Or what I've had to have
Speaker 1: a realization about is make sure when you retire you
Speaker 1: got some kind of hobby, something else to do, because, uh,
Speaker 1: after my second move, now, there have been a few
Speaker 1: days where I'm going, okay, now what But fortunately things
Speaker 1: keep coming up and I have to deal with. So
Speaker 1: I haven't, like I said, I haven't been born, but
Speaker 1: I can see a time down the line if I
Speaker 1: don't get bitty and start to you know, salsa dancing
Speaker 1: or something again, you know it, you really are sort
Speaker 1: of faced with Okay, now, I know my my dad's
Speaker 1: younger brother. I remember him asking, he said, what are
Speaker 1: you gonna do when you retire? You don't golf? You
Speaker 1: don't fish, right, I mean, you know, because like Joeseph Golfer,
Speaker 1: that's that's how he pictures retirement is playing golf. I
Speaker 1: get it. All. I know fishermen who can't can't wait
Speaker 1: to the idea that they're gonna be able to fish
Speaker 1: every single day. But if you don't have one of
Speaker 1: those things, I don't um, you do have to do
Speaker 1: something um and And you know, most people, their whole
Speaker 1: lives of working, can't wait till the day when they
Speaker 1: don't have to work anymore. But there's a lot of
Speaker 1: time in a day, day after day after day. You
Speaker 1: got to do something. Oh yeah, oh yeah. The other
Speaker 1: thing too is a lot of my really close friends
Speaker 1: do not live anywhere near me. So again it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: how you doing on the phone. How about the sense
Speaker 1: of who you are? If you had any problem with that?
Speaker 1: Because so many people, I think particularly men, defined themselves
Speaker 1: by their job, by their job, And when you don't
Speaker 1: have that, have you had any problem with? Who? Who
Speaker 1: am I? What am I? No that I that I
Speaker 1: haven't had any problem with? Well, now I gotta I
Speaker 1: got a bullet for you. I have given up the grape.
Speaker 1: All booze are just wine. I have given up the grape.
Speaker 1: I'll put it that way. No, just just because how
Speaker 1: do I put it? After I built the temple to
Speaker 1: Chardonnay for that year and a half, I just thought,
Speaker 1: you know, dude, let's try something else. Yeah, yes, So
Speaker 1: did you feel that it was starting to play too
Speaker 1: much of a role in your life? Yeah? The thing, Oh,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, the one thing you got to
Speaker 1: be careful of when you're when you are a retired gentleman.
Speaker 1: If you don't have immediate family around you, you know,
Speaker 1: occupy you. Boredom is your worst enemy, you know. Just okay,
Speaker 1: Like we were saying, all right, it's two in the afternoon. Again,
Speaker 1: it's the now what do I do? Question? So you
Speaker 1: gotta try and figure out some other ways, new ways
Speaker 1: to occupy yourself. You're for people who don't know Marshall
Speaker 1: Phillips who did the news for us for many, many
Speaker 1: years and retired a couple of years ago and never married,
Speaker 1: no children, right, so still a couple of lady friends around. Yes,
Speaker 1: Michael's got a question. Yeah, you're still playing the lottery, Marshall. Yes,
Speaker 1: I am scratchers. You still have that hobby? Oh? Yes,
Speaker 1: oh yes, And I will tell you this without try
Speaker 1: bragging too much. I don't know if I mentioned on
Speaker 1: a day if your wedding, Michael, Yeah, I had purchased
Speaker 1: a scratcher and after your wedding I came home and
Speaker 1: I scratched it. I won six hundred and seventy lucky day.
Speaker 1: That was Michael's wedding. Well, I told you I waited
Speaker 1: till after the ceremony to do that. I got another
Speaker 1: question from Marshall Phillips, a legendary newsperson. I mean we
Speaker 1: haven't even mentioned that legendary a broadcaster at some of
Speaker 1: the biggest stations in the history of radio over the years.
Speaker 1: So it was a week ago tonight that Joe Biden
Speaker 1: said at that CNN town hall, if you get vaccinated,
Speaker 1: you will not have to wear a mask. I repeat,
Speaker 1: if you get vaccinated, you will not have to wear
Speaker 1: a mask. He said it twice, and within a couple
Speaker 1: of days the White House changed directions. You gotta remember
Speaker 1: there following the science or following the science. So they
Speaker 1: claim Marshall Phillips joins us he was our news guy
Speaker 1: for I didn't realize it was fourteen years that you
Speaker 1: did that. Was that the longest radio gig you had
Speaker 1: in your tire luster's career, Yes, yes it was. I
Speaker 1: had a couple of eleven year runs, a couple of
Speaker 1: eight year runs, and a whole lot of six month
Speaker 1: runs and two year runs and you know how it has,
Speaker 1: how it is um so without getting it we were
Speaker 1: Marshall was just telling me a little story up there.
Speaker 1: Did you run the red light? Do you think you
Speaker 1: ran the red light? No, I I admitted, I have admitted, yes,
Speaker 1: I I ran the red light. I wasn't aware i'd
Speaker 1: run the red light, but they had a picture of me,
Speaker 1: you know, And so and again I just moved into
Speaker 1: this area and every intersection has cameras. And how big
Speaker 1: is the ticket for that five and sixty chunk of money? Man? Yes?
Speaker 1: So no, I paid it up. That's the first moving
Speaker 1: elation I've had, probably in thirty five forty years. Well,
Speaker 1: the only reason I bring it up is you once
Speaker 1: went to jail, Yes, for driving tickets parking, which are
Speaker 1: not a moving viol No. No, And you didn't pay
Speaker 1: your parking tickets in l A County. It was in Fullerton,
Speaker 1: Orange County. And you know the bottom line was no,
Speaker 1: I paid parking tickets like crazy. But I was working nights,
Speaker 1: sleeping in the daytime, and where I lived, you had
Speaker 1: two hour parking in front of your house two hours,
Speaker 1: so every two hours you gotta move your car. Yes,
Speaker 1: I had to wake up, move my car, go back
Speaker 1: to sleep, wake up, moved my car. That's unrealistic way
Speaker 1: to live. And I went when I moved in, when
Speaker 1: we rented this house, I moved, I went to the
Speaker 1: police department, said, hey, listen, I've I've just moved in.
Speaker 1: Here's my lease agreement and everything. Can I get a
Speaker 1: you know, residents sticker, so you know, to deal with
Speaker 1: the park They said, nope, no, we don't. We don't
Speaker 1: offer those but that but that's that's crazy because you
Speaker 1: have to be parked somewhere. So you're just gonna what
Speaker 1: difference does it make whether you take up this spot
Speaker 1: for four straight hours, where you take up two different
Speaker 1: spots two hours each, It doesn't make any difference in
Speaker 1: terms of the number of spots available. And so I
Speaker 1: would still even though I was getting moving the car around,
Speaker 1: I was still getting You would you would actually set
Speaker 1: your alarm. So this is when you so you working nights,
Speaker 1: This is actually like your your this is when you're
Speaker 1: supposed to get your eight to ten hours. So you
Speaker 1: would set your alarm and wake up every two hours
Speaker 1: and go move your car. That's craziest night after night.
Speaker 1: How often did you successfully do that? I would get
Speaker 1: three tickets a week, maybe four. But so that means
Speaker 1: that many, many times you woke yourself up out of
Speaker 1: a deep sleep, like did you sleep in your clothes
Speaker 1: or would you put on some clothes and go out
Speaker 1: and move your car? I had my satin robot and
Speaker 1: so and so you have to go all the way
Speaker 1: out to your car. How far away? It wasn't very far? Oh,
Speaker 1: you know there was a front yard, you know, a sidewalk,
Speaker 1: a lawn now, and then you just moved like the
Speaker 1: next closest spot. Yeah, pretty much, just back and forth
Speaker 1: and back and forth. My god, I can't imagine waking
Speaker 1: like the third time, not, you know, not the thirtieth time,
Speaker 1: Like the third time, I'd say the screw it. And
Speaker 1: there was an alley behind this house, but you couldn't
Speaker 1: really park in the alley because it was one of
Speaker 1: those like single lane, one way, a little strips. So
Speaker 1: moving towards you ended up in the whosco. How many
Speaker 1: parking tickets had you gotten before you ended up in corners?
Speaker 1: I paid hundreds and hundreds of dollars and I even
Speaker 1: went to the police Department's Fulton Police Department, and I
Speaker 1: think I talked to the chief, but I said, here's
Speaker 1: the deal. I mean, I live here, and I got
Speaker 1: I've been paying tickets like mad. Could you double check
Speaker 1: to see if I have any more outstanding tickets? And
Speaker 1: they ran a computer check. Yes, you do. This seems
Speaker 1: like a real spirit of the law letter the law
Speaker 1: to thing to me too, the spirit of the law
Speaker 1: law it is not to make people who live around
Speaker 1: their move their cars every two hours. But they stuck
Speaker 1: you with the letter of the law. They stuck me
Speaker 1: with the letter of the law. And in the bottom
Speaker 1: line is so I paid off those and I kept
Speaker 1: trying to pay the tickets, you know, trying not to
Speaker 1: get tickets and pay the tickets. And then one evening
Speaker 1: around six o'clock, oh only till five, though after five
Speaker 1: I didn't have to move. So it's just unfortunately had
Speaker 1: to sleep during the day. Yes, yes, uh so one
Speaker 1: night around six o'clock, I hear knocking him the door,
Speaker 1: and I peek out through the window and I see
Speaker 1: two long here guys, and I thought, maybe they're murdering
Speaker 1: my roommates friends. You know, they look hippie. As I
Speaker 1: opened the door and the two guys literally burst in
Speaker 1: and demand, are you Marshall Phillips. Yes, down down down
Speaker 1: to the ground, on the ground. Oh yeah, on the rug.
Speaker 1: Because the confused by this is this? Did they to
Speaker 1: something else? The whole deal was the tickets. Some of
Speaker 1: the tickets have gone to warrant and I hadn't. Apparently
Speaker 1: you gotta get down on the ground. Yeah. Yeah. It
Speaker 1: was unbelievable and we're out of time. But you spent
Speaker 1: a month in jail. I did. I did for contempt
Speaker 1: at court. A month a love in jail. Absolutely unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Our show, we really want to mate with you. Classic class, next,
Speaker 1: a classic callback. I'm the host of final thoughts at
Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong. Let's get a final thought from Michael Angelo.
Speaker 1: My final thought is directed at Marshall. Thank you for
Speaker 1: coming to my wedding. Even though you were had a
Speaker 1: health condition, you snuck in there. We really appreciated you
Speaker 1: showing up. Loved it. I did too. That was great times.
Speaker 1: Let's get a final thought for guest newsman today and
Speaker 1: my Marshall Fillips. Sorry, Marshall, you know it was amazed.
Speaker 1: I drove right here without getting lost, and yeah, walked
Speaker 1: through the back door and saw familiar faces. Now retirement
Speaker 1: is okay, but make sure you've got something else to do,
Speaker 1: so you don't just sit there and go, okay, now
Speaker 1: what excellent point and probably not a good idea, and
Speaker 1: wait and and to not wait until you get to
Speaker 1: retirement to decide when you want to do. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't have a thing. I don't fish, I don't golf.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it would be. Start working on
Speaker 1: it that I'm gonna come up with something, building a model,
Speaker 1: ships in a bottle or something s