Speaker 1: Every Arroyo Grande show, I ask a list of questions
Speaker 1: and my guests the Arroyo Grande Questionnaire. I decided to
Speaker 1: collect their wise answers for you. Jim Cavizel, Jonathan Rumy,
Speaker 1: Lauren Dagil and Moore sound off, and I solved the
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Speaker 1: our star studded Arroyo Grande Questionnaire wrap up. I saw
Speaker 1: something on Dak Shepherd's podcast the other day that got
Speaker 1: a lot of people talking. It was about a now
Speaker 1: famous or infamous you bit that occurred on Laura Ingram's
Speaker 1: show a few years ago and involved yours truly Watch
Speaker 1: Anything Happened to You?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so you've been gone a couple of days.
Speaker 2: In the meantime, I've watched two full seasons of You,
Speaker 2: the show You, which reminds me I want to play
Speaker 2: the thing.
Speaker 3: About me exactly.
Speaker 2: It's about time that we revisit that because I'm watching it.
Speaker 4: It's such a great exchange.
Speaker 5: Okay's Laura Ingram?
Speaker 6: Yeah, do you want me to put on the tv?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: Some of my favorite of all time.
Speaker 2: And now it has extra meaning because I'm watching the show.
Speaker 1: Is it a great show?
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 2: It has really Veronica Mars vibes all fun, but it's
Speaker 2: it's like Dexter meets Veronica Mars and I've never seen Dexter. Okay, okay,
Speaker 2: let's watch this real quick.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I was watching an episode of You whereas came up?
Speaker 8: When did? I don't know?
Speaker 1: It was on you?
Speaker 8: What was on me?
Speaker 9: What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: I never was on you.
Speaker 10: We never did a measles a vaccine episode.
Speaker 1: Is this a joke?
Speaker 7: I don't know you're talking about?
Speaker 8: It was on you? It was on you?
Speaker 11: I never had Raymond.
Speaker 8: The episode of show Laura, what's it called? You?
Speaker 1: You on Netflix? Going to al I can't explain this
Speaker 1: joke so stupid.
Speaker 5: Real life it really is.
Speaker 1: I still laugh when I watch it. I wish I
Speaker 1: could tell you it was totally organic. But full confession,
Speaker 1: well let me get to that in a moment. When
Speaker 1: it first aired, it got tens of millions of postings.
Speaker 1: Late night shows commented on the thing, and I still
Speaker 1: get stopped at airports and asked, are you the you guy? Well,
Speaker 1: let me solve the mystery. I actually wrote that back
Speaker 1: and forth on a plane as I went to do
Speaker 1: Laura's show live. I remember telling Laura, whatever you do,
Speaker 1: don't break character and stay committed to the argument, which
Speaker 1: we both did and it worked like a charm. Though
Speaker 1: I have to tell you honestly, we did that live
Speaker 1: with no rehearsal, no edits, without a net, and when
Speaker 1: it was over because of the satellite delay we were
Speaker 1: on satellite. I thought it was horrible. I thought it
Speaker 1: had flopped. I was wrong. As Dak Shephard referenced, it
Speaker 1: was based on the old Abbot and Costello, who's on
Speaker 1: first routine Aha, And if you don't know their comic genius,
Speaker 1: I'm going to post a clip at the end of
Speaker 1: the show tonight so you can take a peek at them.
Speaker 1: As I always say, there's nothing new under the sun.
Speaker 1: You just miss the first act. Now to our Arroyo
Speaker 1: Grande questionnaire. Once I started this show, I thought we
Speaker 1: needed a different way to reveal the qualities of our
Speaker 1: guests that the interview might have missed, little tidbits that
Speaker 1: often get glastotted over. This, too, is based on something
Speaker 1: that went before. It's called the Proust questionnaire, and that
Speaker 1: questionnaire was answered in eighteen sixty six by French novelist
Speaker 1: Marcel Proust, for whom it's name. It became a kind
Speaker 1: of parlor game. Though Prus did not write the questions,
Speaker 1: James Lipton and other over the years have used it
Speaker 1: to cap their interviews. So when I started Arroyo Grande,
Speaker 1: I decided to write my own questionnaire, which I add
Speaker 1: and subtract from depending on who we're interviewing. I find
Speaker 1: the answers compelling, insightful, and really like a little confession.
Speaker 1: You learn a lot about the soul of people if
Speaker 1: you listen carefully to their responses. With that, here are
Speaker 1: some of the best answers to our a Royal Grande questionnaire.
Speaker 1: Up first, Jim Cavesl, who's the person you most admire?
Speaker 4: My wife?
Speaker 12: Why this is my life pillar? As though it's not
Speaker 12: even have to think about that? See that was a
Speaker 12: bad question.
Speaker 1: Well I'm starting easy.
Speaker 5: I'm not good at these.
Speaker 1: Who's the person you most despise.
Speaker 4: I've forgiven him.
Speaker 1: Another good answer. What is your best feature?
Speaker 4: Feature? Yeah? Passion, passion, passion?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought feature.
Speaker 1: Not feature film. What's your best feature as a person,
Speaker 1: as a as an actor.
Speaker 4: Isn't that a feature?
Speaker 1: It can be anything. It could be a quality, it
Speaker 1: could be a physical trait. What's your best feature?
Speaker 4: I don't know. I haven't thought about it.
Speaker 1: You know what people would say, your eyes they're older,
Speaker 1: but that's probably what they would say, is your best feature.
Speaker 4: But they're smiling.
Speaker 1: It depends on if you're the guy you just forgave
Speaker 1: or not.
Speaker 4: I guess irish eyes or smiling.
Speaker 5: You know, it goes well, they must be up.
Speaker 1: To something exactly exactly. Okay, what do you fear?
Speaker 12: Well, the first thing is is is resurrection the film?
Speaker 4: The greatest fear? Really? Oh yeah, anything can go on that.
Speaker 12: Well, You've got to remember though, it's I was born
Speaker 12: to do so, but greatest fear. I worry my children,
Speaker 12: my my family. You know, I'm not the I'm a
Speaker 12: good husband, good father. I'm not the best father.
Speaker 4: I want to be.
Speaker 12: I one of the best husband I want to be.
Speaker 12: You know, those are those are other things. But I
Speaker 12: do love them deeply.
Speaker 1: What is the thing you know that no one else knows.
Speaker 4: I've heard other actors say it before. You know you're
Speaker 4: going to fail.
Speaker 12: You know that it might be the great a gift
Speaker 12: that you have, but you're always concerned about that.
Speaker 4: I just outwork everybody.
Speaker 12: I think that's a big thing, is that I have
Speaker 12: to outwork on it and then the gift takes over
Speaker 12: from there. What's your favorite book? The one I'm doing
Speaker 12: right now is screw Tape Letters. It's what I'm into.
Speaker 12: It's a lot of fun. Well, it's book and it's
Speaker 12: very wise. Well it's very wise, but it's getting me
Speaker 12: ready for the Resurrection.
Speaker 1: Really.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm really studying it.
Speaker 12: So I'm breaking it apart and going through it and
Speaker 12: getting into the thoughts of evil, you know, the antithesis
Speaker 12: of what I'm going to be playing. And there's something
Speaker 12: how Jesus works is so simple. There's a reason why
Speaker 12: I'm doing it. And it's during Lent. I'm fasting. Even
Speaker 12: though you and I are going to go to a
Speaker 12: nice restaurant after this, I'm not going to have any wine.
Speaker 12: Oh okay, well maybe we won't be going to dinner.
Speaker 12: What is your biggest regret. I don't really have any
Speaker 12: You don't have a professional regret. No, a role you
Speaker 12: should have taken. No, because there were reasons for it
Speaker 12: at the time. They've worked out, but it wasn't for me,
Speaker 12: you know, no regrets. I would have had a major
Speaker 12: regret if I had not married my wife.
Speaker 4: That would have been and that almost happened. You know,
Speaker 4: I threw it away, and.
Speaker 12: But I my soul was enough pointed in the right
Speaker 12: direction where something from above said, you know, gave me
Speaker 12: a bit of a broken heart and said she was
Speaker 12: in the plan for you.
Speaker 1: Get back there, dummy, And I did. What's the best
Speaker 1: piece of advice you ever got?
Speaker 12: I was talking to this this old priest, and he says, Jim,
Speaker 12: don't start any new addictions.
Speaker 4: And so I never did. Well, that's a good piece
Speaker 4: of advice.
Speaker 5: What about the old addictions?
Speaker 4: They're there, but don't add on to him.
Speaker 5: Don't add on to it.
Speaker 12: Well, because you know, you think about it, like some
Speaker 12: people get into drugs and they go just one time.
Speaker 4: But if I think.
Speaker 12: You measure that, you go, what if I become so
Speaker 12: addicted to it, how's that going to change my life? Well,
Speaker 12: just look at the people that they couldn't get rid
Speaker 12: of it. I was working on a movie called pay
Speaker 12: It Forward, and I went down to the first avenue
Speaker 12: and I was with the people that were heroin addictions
Speaker 12: and they're all going to die. And the man that
Speaker 12: was working with me, he looked like he was in
Speaker 12: a concentration camp. He was just getting bunt and he
Speaker 12: was teaching me how to put the.
Speaker 4: Out looks. And I watched all of them.
Speaker 12: But I hear people talking about all the time when
Speaker 12: they say this is a pay it forward program or
Speaker 12: we're going to pay it forward.
Speaker 4: And then, yeah, I was in that movie.
Speaker 12: I played a heroin addict and I think of that
Speaker 12: guy and so I always pray for him.
Speaker 5: When this is over, what happens.
Speaker 4: Again?
Speaker 12: Now I'm thinking way too far out. I want to
Speaker 12: enjoy the process. I'm so happy that my children get
Speaker 12: to see, you know, their father at work. But it's
Speaker 12: a continual thing. I'm not going to buy Jesus. I
Speaker 12: need him to play me. It's the only white way
Speaker 12: that this thing is going to work. But what happened
Speaker 12: when this is over? When this is over, yeah, who knows?
Speaker 12: If I'm still an actor, you know, if I can't
Speaker 12: get a job. Just be a dad and be a husband.
Speaker 12: Maybe play a little golf. We're going to go out
Speaker 12: to dinner. Yeah, that's what happens when this is over.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Jo, thank you.
Speaker 1: Well, it's a prize winner. David Mammontt had a few
Speaker 1: interesting comments. Watch this. Okay, there's a series of questions.
Speaker 1: I ask everybody who's here. Oh, okay, you're ready. This
Speaker 1: is the Royal Grande questionnaire. Who is the person you
Speaker 1: most admire?
Speaker 4: David?
Speaker 13: The person I most admire today? Yeah, oh, that's a
Speaker 13: very very good questions. Donald Trump, Wow, why? Probably because
Speaker 13: of what we discussed a little earlier. Because he looked
Speaker 13: at something that was impossible, which was the resurrection of
Speaker 13: forgive me, I'm going to say it, the American dream
Speaker 13: and said, okay, what we need to have to happen?
Speaker 13: And he was treated worse than any American citizen in
Speaker 13: history and nothing faced him. And something I heard something
Speaker 13: about Malania said that he came down the in before
Speaker 13: he ran in twenty four. She said, oh, you're going
Speaker 13: to run again? He said yes, and she said I
Speaker 13: hope you don't. And he said why and she said,
Speaker 13: because you'll win.
Speaker 1: Not great who is the person you most despise.
Speaker 13: Well, I despise a lot of people, But when I do,
Speaker 13: I try to remember that I should probably despise myself first,
Speaker 13: because the reason I find their behavior despicable is because
Speaker 13: the potential, if not the actuality, is in myself.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: So yes, it's jushure, but spoken like a playwright. I
Speaker 1: like that you're empathizing with the Apparently he.
Speaker 13: Wrote a book, Chuck Schumer called Anti Semitism in America.
Speaker 13: He did, and I thought, how dare he as somebody
Speaker 13: who's dissed the Israel and just the prime minister and
Speaker 13: withheld Israel? And now he writes a book called anti
Speaker 13: Semitism in America? But I read the subtitle says a
Speaker 13: quick start guide.
Speaker 1: Is that right? It's just a quick start? Well, you
Speaker 1: got to start somewhere, David, that's right. What's the greatest
Speaker 1: feature and best feature in humanity?
Speaker 13: Am I feature film?
Speaker 1: No feature?
Speaker 4: Like feature?
Speaker 1: Like the feature you have the thing you possess. What
Speaker 1: is your best feature or the best in humanity?
Speaker 13: I think I'm very understanding and forgiving to all the
Speaker 13: swindero don't understand my work.
Speaker 1: And you write great books about them. Most importantly, your
Speaker 1: memoirs are worth the worth the trip. What's your favorite Neil.
Speaker 13: Oh, that's a I could question. My wife makes this
Speaker 13: wonderful sardine pasta, sardines and bread crumbs. It was crazy good.
Speaker 1: Ah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've never had that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's the only sardines and bread crumbs.
Speaker 13: Yeah, she's been cooking out of a Sicilian cookbook.
Speaker 1: Your favorite book and the last book you read.
Speaker 13: My favorite book, Gully. I don't know, you know, I
Speaker 13: read the works in English a Vasily Grossman last year.
Speaker 13: She was the greatest writer of the twentieth centuries of
Speaker 13: Russian and he was, among other things, the reporter for
Speaker 13: Red Star, which was their stars and stripes, and he
Speaker 13: was at the front all through Stalingrad. He was at
Speaker 13: the liberation of whichever camp they liberated. I think it
Speaker 13: was burking out.
Speaker 1: And why did you Why didn't you want to dive
Speaker 1: into his complete works?
Speaker 13: Well, because I read one that I read them all.
Speaker 4: Oh, you couldn't stop.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you binge read them?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Was that the last?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 13: No, no, what I've been reading lately? What have been
Speaker 13: reading lately? Oh, I've been reading the works of Ross
Speaker 13: Thomas lately, who was an American crime writer. He wrote
Speaker 13: forty books. They're a lot of fun. And he also
Speaker 13: said something one of the best things I ever heard.
Speaker 13: He was an alcoholic and he was at Dan Tanis
Speaker 13: or something with Ross MacDonald. It was another big drinker,
Speaker 13: the red middle of the day and they sit down
Speaker 13: in the red booth at rust and the water comes
Speaker 13: over and says, what can I get you, gentlemen, and
Speaker 13: Ross Thomas says, a couple of double martinis. And the
Speaker 13: waiter says, Oliver twist, and Ross Thomas says, we'll order later.
Speaker 13: Isn't it great?
Speaker 1: It's great? I love it. Tell me what do you fear?
Speaker 4: David mammontt you know what I think?
Speaker 13: I think. I fear disgrace, I fear doing. And that's
Speaker 13: what a lot of my my especially about the Victorians,
Speaker 13: and a lot of my writing is about guys who
Speaker 13: make one false move. How close we are to That's
Speaker 13: what film wair is most mainly about how close we are,
Speaker 13: just stepping off the sidewalking out.
Speaker 5: Right over there, books right?
Speaker 1: What do you know that no one else knows?
Speaker 13: Preston Sturgis was the great comedic director.
Speaker 4: Movies is just brilliant.
Speaker 13: You don't even want to watch them, you want to
Speaker 13: eat them. And he wrote a wonderful movie called Hail
Speaker 13: the Conquering Hero, where this Eddie Bracken is dismissed from
Speaker 13: the Marine Corps because he has allergies and he still
Speaker 13: wants to be in the Marine Corps and he's going home,
Speaker 13: but he can't tell them he's been dismissed. And so
Speaker 13: these marines show up and they say, come on, we'll
Speaker 13: put you in a marine uniform. You get off the
Speaker 13: thing and everything will be fine. When he goes there,
Speaker 13: there are these two bands. One of them is playing
Speaker 13: Hail the Conquering Hero, and one of them is playing
Speaker 13: the star Spangled Banner American the Beautiful. And then I
Speaker 13: was reading a book by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, who will
Speaker 13: tell you about a second who describes that same scene
Speaker 13: written about eighteen eighty five. The hero gets off and
Speaker 13: these two bands when playing hal So obviously I know
Speaker 13: that Preston Sturgis read that.
Speaker 4: Point and that book.
Speaker 1: I know, But what's the But the question was what
Speaker 1: do you know that no one else knows?
Speaker 13: I know that. Oh, I'll tell you another one.
Speaker 1: Okay, give me another one.
Speaker 4: This gets a.
Speaker 13: Little bit arcane. There was in reading about the First
Speaker 13: World War, but flyers in the First World War, there
Speaker 13: was a ditty they said, he died with his hand
Speaker 13: on the throttle, and this is the reason he died.
Speaker 13: He forgot to recall that iota is the maximum angle
Speaker 13: of glythe right. So the question is what does that mean?
Speaker 13: So I'm trying to think, what does it mean iota?
Speaker 13: What does iota mean? What does it mean by what?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 13: And iota is always written in caps, and think it
Speaker 13: doesn't mean what is the maximum angle of glide? There
Speaker 13: is no such thing, But there's such a thing called
Speaker 13: the angle of maximum glide. So what's the angle of
Speaker 13: maximum glide on an airplane? Right? It's indicated by the
Speaker 13: air speed. Every airplane has a maximum angle. You're going
Speaker 13: to get the maximum glide on this air speed because
Speaker 13: if you if the because the increase the air speed
Speaker 13: by putting a nose down, you're going to increase the
Speaker 13: air speed. But yeah, wow, so and you can and
Speaker 13: you can put the nose up and you'll be up longer,
Speaker 13: but you're going to smash too. So I started looking
Speaker 13: on pictures of old airplanes and I thought, how would
Speaker 13: you find the angle of maximum glide. What would ioda mean?
Speaker 13: What will be indicated on the air speed? So I
Speaker 13: look on the air and there and it.
Speaker 5: Is, it's indicated.
Speaker 13: Yeah, so he forgot the call that indicated on the
Speaker 13: air speed is the maximum gangl So I figured that out.
Speaker 4: I love that.
Speaker 13: I love That's what's it good for? I always thought,
Speaker 13: you know, if it's not good for anything, I'll remember.
Speaker 1: You remember it, and you'll use it in a screenplay
Speaker 1: or play. Well, which I will be staying tuned for.
Speaker 1: What is the greatest virtue?
Speaker 13: I think it's courage, don't you.
Speaker 4: Honestly?
Speaker 14: Uh huh?
Speaker 4: Truthfulness?
Speaker 13: Well, the other thing is but yeah, a lot of
Speaker 13: times you need you know, perhaps it's the preliminary virtue.
Speaker 13: If you don't have courage, what good is honesty?
Speaker 1: Yeah that is, that's very true. But if you could
Speaker 1: live anywhere and you weren't here, where would you be?
Speaker 13: Why would I want to live anywhere but here?
Speaker 1: I don't blame you. I like it here myself.
Speaker 13: As a matter of fact, we live around here. My
Speaker 13: wife likes it here. I always try to get her
Speaker 13: out of southern California. I live here because I want
Speaker 13: to be close to my taxes.
Speaker 1: Well, you can. You can see them being used in
Speaker 1: such fascinating ways all around here.
Speaker 13: I wanted to get it. I wanted to get a
Speaker 13: te should maybe me wear it today? Which said save
Speaker 13: water support Karen Bass, I should have done that.
Speaker 1: Next time, we'll do that. We'll do that the next one.
Speaker 1: What's your biggest regret? Do you have one? Well?
Speaker 13: Most of my regrets? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I did a
Speaker 13: lot of stuff in my life that I regret, And
Speaker 13: at some point you got to say that that God says,
Speaker 13: you know, I know, you know, but they say prayer
Speaker 13: and study and good works moderate the severity of the decree.
Speaker 13: So there's a lot of stuff that I regret, but
Speaker 13: and don't have a lot of real estate regrets. Of course,
Speaker 13: who doesn't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, especially Californians. They always have those those regrets.
Speaker 1: What's the best piece of advice you ever received, either
Speaker 1: professionally or personally?
Speaker 15: Oh?
Speaker 13: You know, I wrote these series of sketches they did
Speaker 13: in Chicago in a little forty seed theater with Billy Macy
Speaker 13: and J. J. Johnston. It was called American Buffalo. It's
Speaker 13: a series, and then we did it in New York
Speaker 13: at the.
Speaker 5: Oh that little thing.
Speaker 13: No it's before it's on Broadway, something called the showcase
Speaker 13: code for a moment, actors Equity forgot that they're insane,
Speaker 13: and so they said, well, anybody can do it in
Speaker 13: one hundred seat theater, ninety nine seed theater. Anybody can
Speaker 13: do twelve performances if everyone's working for nothing. So we
Speaker 13: did this play in this little twelve performance is a
Speaker 13: little one hundred seat theater off Broadway. I thought it
Speaker 13: was pretty good. And Ulu Grossbard was a director, very
Speaker 13: good director, came up to me and said, if you
Speaker 13: figure out the plot, I'll put you on Broadway. And
Speaker 13: so he did.
Speaker 1: That's how it happened. If you can figure out the plot,
Speaker 1: that can apply to.
Speaker 4: A ton of things.
Speaker 1: David, Sure, if you can figure out the plot, I'll
Speaker 1: put your own Broadway. I will remember that. Oh good.
Speaker 1: Why if you weren't doing what you're doing, if you
Speaker 1: weren't writing, if you weren't directing, if you weren't telling stories,
Speaker 1: what would you be doing?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 13: I don't know. I flew airplanes for a number of
Speaker 13: years and I aged out of it, and I loved
Speaker 13: every minute of it. Had I started ten twenty thirty
Speaker 13: years earlier, I would have liked to have been a pilot.
Speaker 13: I'm a pilot. But what would I be doing now? Yeah,
Speaker 13: that's a very good question, and I think I spend
Speaker 13: most of my days thinking about it. I'm in the
Speaker 13: midst of various projects right now. I got a couple
Speaker 13: books coming out, and I'm doing a lot of cartooning
Speaker 13: for Barry Weiss at the Free Press. I do a
Speaker 13: cartoon every week.
Speaker 5: I see them. What happens when this is over?
Speaker 16: David?
Speaker 13: When what is over?
Speaker 1: When it's all over?
Speaker 13: Well, it's never all over when it's over for us
Speaker 13: or you mean we die?
Speaker 5: Yeah, what happens when it's over?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 13: I said to my wife, I just one thing for
Speaker 13: you to you don't marry a lawyer.
Speaker 1: Is that what you think is going to happen?
Speaker 13: I said, if you thinking about it, I want you
Speaker 13: to bury me on a rotisserie so I can roll
Speaker 13: over in the grave.
Speaker 1: All the time. David Mammoth, it's always a pleasure. I
Speaker 1: always love being with you, and I feel full when
Speaker 1: I finished talking to you. And it's like when I
Speaker 1: read one of your plays or watch one of your films,
Speaker 1: you just feel reinvigorated again.
Speaker 5: I think that's the whole purpose.
Speaker 13: Right, Well, I and all of my people love watching
Speaker 13: you and Laura played the dozens.
Speaker 1: We're laughing through the pain, David, We're laughing through the pain.
Speaker 14: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Actor Jonathan Romy also answered our questionnaire, who is the
Speaker 1: person you most admire?
Speaker 4: Jonathan Romy person I must admire?
Speaker 17: There's two, and it would have to be my parents,
Speaker 17: I think, knowing the circumstances that they overcame to make
Speaker 17: it to the United States and to raise a family,
Speaker 17: and to basically just do everything in service to making
Speaker 17: sure their children had a better life.
Speaker 1: Who's the person you most despise?
Speaker 4: Oh the devil? Yeah, okay, so I always trying to
Speaker 4: get my way. I know the feeling.
Speaker 1: I met it once or twice or maybe more than that.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 5: What's your best feature?
Speaker 4: My best feature? I think it would be.
Speaker 17: I trust people pretty quickly, and I opened myself up
Speaker 17: to people.
Speaker 1: What's your worst feature?
Speaker 4: I trust people pretty quickly. I opened myself up to people.
Speaker 1: When I when someone first asked me that question and said,
Speaker 1: what's your best feature? I thought physical? I think, well,
Speaker 1: my lips, I don't know my hands, I don't know
Speaker 1: what I but everybody asked it.
Speaker 5: To they go to something much.
Speaker 17: Deeper, because it sounds prideful to answer it otherwise.
Speaker 1: Oh, think what it is?
Speaker 5: Thank you, John?
Speaker 1: I think Jonathan romy just said I'm prideful. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Well that's the last question. That's how John, That's how
Speaker 1: I feel.
Speaker 17: I can't I couldn't allow myself to answer it any
Speaker 17: other way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you wanted to say your hair, go ahead, but
Speaker 1: your feel would say mine? Oh people people would say
Speaker 1: I would said not the makeup lady. Anyway. Your favorite meal?
Speaker 17: See I just was in Italy. Oh it's a combination
Speaker 17: of steak impasta. Oh okay, well that's a good place
Speaker 17: to be. I'd say pizza. I love pizza anyway. Yes,
Speaker 17: what do you fear? What do you fear?
Speaker 4: Not fulfilling my potential?
Speaker 1: The greatest virtue is what Jonathan?
Speaker 4: Humility?
Speaker 1: M mother of all, mother of all the virtues. Yep,
Speaker 1: the word you could not live without. I won't believe you.
Speaker 1: That was it. Okay, we'll leave that there. Then, Family,
Speaker 1: If you could do anything else, if you couldn't do this,
Speaker 1: what would you do? Visual art?
Speaker 4: Maybe musician?
Speaker 17: Oh yeah, maybe I would be I would have pursued
Speaker 17: being a drummer in a band, A little more stringently.
Speaker 4: I love music.
Speaker 1: Music.
Speaker 17: Music affects me in a way that none of the
Speaker 17: arts do. It's just wow, it's it's uh.
Speaker 1: There's no thoughts.
Speaker 17: It takes offense, yeah almost, it's a feeling. It's a feeling. Yeah,
Speaker 17: you can't. It just doesn't nothing else compared.
Speaker 5: What's the best advice you ever got? And from whom.
Speaker 4: Best advice I ever got?
Speaker 17: Uh, that's a tough one. I think that the best
Speaker 17: advice I got was get a spiritual director?
Speaker 5: Yeah, when did that come?
Speaker 17: The one I have now my preest that spiritual director
Speaker 17: I have now, I've had him the longest.
Speaker 4: But the initial advice I got probably.
Speaker 17: Was twenty years ago, and it was many many years
Speaker 17: before I could find somebody. I was moving around a lot,
Speaker 17: and I just wasn't settled in my faith and I
Speaker 17: didn't look as hard.
Speaker 4: So I think once I was in La my faith.
Speaker 17: Funny enough, you know, people think people think of Hollywood
Speaker 17: in La as a godless place, and there's a lot
Speaker 17: of influence and a lot of dark influences in those
Speaker 17: areas in that city, but there's also a lot of
Speaker 17: light and a lot of people searching for the light
Speaker 17: and a lot of people fighting the darkness and the
Speaker 17: communities that I had, the faith communities that I built
Speaker 17: and I hadn't grew a part of, were communities of light.
Speaker 17: And through those communities I found my spiritual director, who
Speaker 17: has been probably about six seven years now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what's your biggest regret?
Speaker 4: I think my biggest regret would be that I didn't
Speaker 4: find I didn't surrender sooner to God.
Speaker 17: But also, on the other hand, it's hard to it's
Speaker 17: hard to admit that because it's hard to think that
Speaker 17: that is actually true, because you know, I believe.
Speaker 4: This was my path right.
Speaker 17: God allowed me to wander, neander until I got to
Speaker 17: this point in my life where I finally recognized that
Speaker 17: I couldn't do this without him, and that's when I was.
Speaker 4: Ready for this next step. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: That I can really say that I have a regret,
Speaker 1: a deep regret. Yeah, what happens when this is over?
Speaker 4: This interview probably get some neat don't be a smart ass.
Speaker 1: What happens when the life is over? Ah? Would you
Speaker 1: say this?
Speaker 8: Raymond?
Speaker 1: You have to step to interpretations.
Speaker 4: That's why I said dinner need when this is over.
Speaker 17: I hope that when this is over, we we go
Speaker 17: on to the real life, the real phase of our existence,
Speaker 17: the real purpose of our existence, which would.
Speaker 4: Be for me.
Speaker 17: To find to be reunified with our creator, the source
Speaker 17: of all life.
Speaker 1: Singing sensation. Lauren Dagel also took on the Arroyo Grande questionnaire. Okay,
Speaker 1: I ask everybody who sits in that chair these Arroyo
Speaker 1: grande questions. Okay, these are fast questions. You don't have
Speaker 1: to I don't want you to think about them. Just
Speaker 1: jump in.
Speaker 3: We call these rapid fire the Q and A every
Speaker 3: VIP rapid fire and it's Lauren.
Speaker 1: Don't take long on it, Laurn rapid fire. Who is
Speaker 1: the person you most admire?
Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh, I would say collectively my family.
Speaker 15: If that's okay, Well, you surround yourself with them.
Speaker 5: I've seen you with men.
Speaker 1: I love that about it. That's what I think keeps
Speaker 1: your spirit intact. It is because I've seen you in
Speaker 1: public settings and on tour that family.
Speaker 5: Is always pretty close.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, okay.
Speaker 1: Who's the person you most despise?
Speaker 3: Hm, that's a tough question. You told me not to
Speaker 3: dwell on it. I don't have There's like not one
Speaker 3: person that I can say, I despise.
Speaker 1: That's I could think of one, but I'm not going
Speaker 1: to bring her up anyway.
Speaker 3: I would love to have a conversation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we're going to talk about that off camera.
Speaker 1: What what is your best feature?
Speaker 18: Oh?
Speaker 3: Maybe my Oh gosh, that's tough. I would say my
Speaker 3: I don't know what this one word would be, but
Speaker 3: my desire to relate to anybody and everybody. What would that?
Speaker 5: Accessibility?
Speaker 3: Empathy, empathy, empathy?
Speaker 1: What's your worst feature?
Speaker 3: Empathy?
Speaker 1: There's a double edged sword again. Your favorite book and
Speaker 1: the last one you read?
Speaker 3: Okay, last one I read was called Miracle and Voodoo Mountain.
Speaker 3: It's about this woman from or from Lafayette moved to Haiti,
Speaker 3: started this during the earthquake. Incredible story, very simple read,
Speaker 3: really good Miracle and Voodoo Mountain. It's because I when
Speaker 3: we were at that event, I met at one of
Speaker 3: the lawyers for the Human Trafficking Division of the White House,
Speaker 3: and I was like, this is incredible to see the
Speaker 3: work that is done. Her story kind of weaves into
Speaker 3: that tapestry a little bit. It was really beautiful to me.
Speaker 3: So I find myself compelled by those stories. And then
Speaker 3: your book favorite book Okay, this is a favorite book
Speaker 3: for nostalgia's sake, if we can do that where the
Speaker 3: red friend grows red fernd And the reason why is
Speaker 3: because it's the first book I cried to. I remember
Speaker 3: laying in bed. I would read it every single night
Speaker 3: with my mom, like we would read chapter after try.
Speaker 3: I just loved that book as a kid, and I
Speaker 3: remember looking like reading the book and having to pause
Speaker 3: for a moment and us looking at each other tears
Speaker 3: are coming down. Touched you that way friendship and seeing
Speaker 3: loss like real loss for what a how can understand
Speaker 3: even in that moment, you know it was It was
Speaker 3: complex to me.
Speaker 15: But this Lauren Daegel fear, Mmmm, that's a great question.
Speaker 3: I think there's a I talked to someone about this recently,
Speaker 3: the fear of the unknown, and that is my nemesis.
Speaker 3: It's the fear of because there's so many things that
Speaker 3: can fall into that fear, the fear of the unknown.
Speaker 3: Where it once was exhilarating, I think now I look
Speaker 3: with trepidation.
Speaker 1: A little bit age will do that to you and
Speaker 1: responsibilities and your audience, and there's a lot more that
Speaker 1: walks in the door when you're walking out than was before,
Speaker 1: So that always what's your biggest regret? Do you have one?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: Do I have one? Okay, this is not going to
Speaker 3: be poignant at all. Okay, this is going to be
Speaker 3: if you're the unknown little poignant.
Speaker 14: Great.
Speaker 3: This is just real life. Chris Stapleton. We're in Why
Speaker 3: I Chris, if you listen?
Speaker 15: No kidding?
Speaker 3: I remember it was? Was it right before? It might
Speaker 3: have been right before twenty twenty hit? And he was
Speaker 3: playing the Cajun Dome in Louisiana and I went with
Speaker 3: my sister. We were backstage. I said hello to him,
Speaker 3: that whole thing, and he said, hey, you want to
Speaker 3: jump up on stage with me? I said, no, what
Speaker 3: is wrong with me? Why?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 13: Man?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 3: In my hometown people that.
Speaker 1: They would it would have been a tsunami of love?
Speaker 1: And I said, and you said no?
Speaker 3: I said no. And you want to know why this
Speaker 3: is so silly? I thought, what if he asks me
Speaker 3: to sing a song of his that I don't know?
Speaker 3: What if he has a song that I'm like, it's
Speaker 3: a deep deep deepe I don't know it.
Speaker 5: Oh well, that's not that's not a bad reason to
Speaker 5: say no.
Speaker 3: That it's a terrible reason because any artist would know
Speaker 3: I'm not going to put a girl on stage. He
Speaker 3: doesn't know the suthing right.
Speaker 1: You'll probably ask you, do you know Swanny before?
Speaker 15: Exactly?
Speaker 1: That reminds me of something else, So I'll come back
Speaker 1: to it in a second. The best piece of advice
Speaker 1: you ever got.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I was thinking about it today. Someone
Speaker 3: gave me this advice almost ten years ago. Okay, and
Speaker 3: it's still showing up in my life ten years later.
Speaker 3: True freedom is giving people the permission to misunderstand you.
Speaker 3: That is the greatest advice, because, let me tell you,
Speaker 3: when I want to raise my fist, sometimes it's because
Speaker 3: I'm not operating in true freedom, because I'm being misunderstood,
Speaker 3: and I'm frustrated that I'm being misunderstood.
Speaker 1: In this last question in the questionnaire, what happens when
Speaker 1: this is over, when.
Speaker 3: This careers over, when this life is over, and what
Speaker 3: part is over?
Speaker 1: I'll let you define. Oh that's true freedom. Why that
Speaker 1: I'm giving you true freedom? What happens when this is over?
Speaker 1: I think I know what that means, but you may
Speaker 1: have a different take on it.
Speaker 3: Okay, My mind went to two places immediately, so I'll
Speaker 3: just tell you both, and okay, that's okay. First went
Speaker 3: to Okay, if I get a whole career, I am
Speaker 3: going to my gosh, I don't.
Speaker 1: I actually haven't, Ancelona, I know I've been talking to
Speaker 1: people who know you. Well, go ahead, Okay, what happens
Speaker 1: when this is over?
Speaker 3: When this is over? I have thought about going to
Speaker 3: law school, and I'm really I'm really thinking about it,
Speaker 3: like not sort of kind of like I want to
Speaker 3: say I'm going to law school. I want to just
Speaker 3: put that out instead of I think I'm going to
Speaker 3: law school.
Speaker 14: Why.
Speaker 3: I met with some friends of mine, some that are
Speaker 3: in government, some that are in politics, and various people,
Speaker 3: and to understand what your platform can do from an
Speaker 3: actual stature. For point, yes, it is important to me.
Speaker 3: I think I've realized that there's kind of a brick
Speaker 3: wall you can hit even with a platform. And if
Speaker 3: this is a responsibility, like to be able to open
Speaker 3: ways for people who need true justice or who need
Speaker 3: the freedom that we get to walk around with, and
Speaker 3: protecting the freedoms as well, like how do we how
Speaker 3: do I do.
Speaker 1: That with the voice And you're already doing that a
Speaker 1: little bit. The Price Fund named after your granddad, Julian Price.
Speaker 1: Tell me about that.
Speaker 3: Love him. Yeah, people think it's about the money. Now
Speaker 3: it's about It's a family name, my brother and my grandfather.
Speaker 3: And he was someone I tell people this all the time.
Speaker 3: He would talk to the President of the United States.
Speaker 3: It's the same way he talked to the homeless man.
Speaker 3: We would go to Walmart and he'd be talking to
Speaker 3: the clerk, just chat and chatting, telling them mainly about
Speaker 3: the state of the world. He was one of those
Speaker 3: but in a way that people loved him. We had
Speaker 3: people that would come around the table and we called
Speaker 3: it his coffee crew. And every day at nine am,
Speaker 3: the coffee crew would show up and they would just
Speaker 3: talk about current events and what's going on with the world.
Speaker 3: And I lived with my grandparents for a little while
Speaker 3: while I was going to LSU, and they were I mean,
Speaker 3: it was some of the most incredible moments of my life.
Speaker 3: But I say I digress. He was one of the
Speaker 3: figures that taught me the most about legacy, because whenever
Speaker 3: he passed away was when I really found out about
Speaker 3: ways he was given to people behind the scenes and
Speaker 3: for the listener, this is not He was a blue
Speaker 3: collar worker. He worked. He was a conductor on the
Speaker 3: railroad and we would go and throw sack lunches to him,
Speaker 3: you know, and he would do the route from New
Speaker 3: Orleans to Batuge and just an incredible human. But he
Speaker 3: lived a lot of hardship Boston daughter. He overcame addiction,
Speaker 3: just a lot. And the person that he became on
Speaker 3: the other side was the person who I was like, Wow,
Speaker 3: I'm so inspired by him. How do we see this
Speaker 3: version of someone when they're in the worst of times,
Speaker 3: Because sometimes you look at an addict, or you look
Speaker 3: at it and you can only see that. But he
Speaker 3: was actually probably to date, the most influential person in
Speaker 3: my life.
Speaker 1: Now I see him in you. I see incredible And
Speaker 1: the fund help help the elderly children, I mean, yeah.
Speaker 3: Windows and all the yeah. Because I've I've learned just
Speaker 3: as I've gone about. I went into some of the
Speaker 3: prisons here, I went to Angola, I went to San Quentin, Statesville,
Speaker 3: various prisons around the country, and I would ask a
Speaker 3: lot of these guys like, what can we do to
Speaker 3: help the is to break this cycle? But legitimately, yes,
Speaker 3: through legislature, But what is the core need of an
Speaker 3: individual that's coming through this kind of track. You know,
Speaker 3: they call it the public to prison pipeline. I'm sure
Speaker 3: you've very well familiar. And I just asked them what
Speaker 3: can we do and they all said, get involved in
Speaker 3: after school programs, all of them across the board. They
Speaker 3: were like, if you get to these kids in an
Speaker 3: interim period where they're going home from from school to
Speaker 3: their home and their parents aren't there, that's when a
Speaker 3: lot of the vulnerability. Yeah, that's when it happened. And
Speaker 3: so I said, okay, great, game on, we'll do. So
Speaker 3: we've partnered with so many organizations around New Orleans, but
Speaker 3: then we expanded and now every city that we go
Speaker 3: on tour with, we partner with a local organization, whether
Speaker 3: it's instruments, whether it's after school programs, whatever it is
Speaker 3: to keep these kids kind of fortified through their adolescent years.
Speaker 3: That's really important to me. And then we built a
Speaker 3: school in the Congo with Bob Golf, which was really beautiful.
Speaker 3: And then we had another opportunity to partner with some
Speaker 3: senior citizens and the who some have Alzheimer's, but it's
Speaker 3: music with Alzheimer's and kind of getting them financial aid
Speaker 3: and things like that.
Speaker 4: It's beautiful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's what a year you've had. Super Bowl, Andrea
Speaker 1: Buchelli at Madison Square Gardens. I mean this tour, I
Speaker 1: mean it's pretty incredible.
Speaker 3: It's been a wild time.
Speaker 1: You said something. You said, the Lord has shown me
Speaker 1: what it is to have a craft and to serve
Speaker 1: and honor him with it. Do you still feel that way?
Speaker 3: Absolutely? I think that I might feel that way till
Speaker 3: I die. It's the live spring, so well spring of
Speaker 3: it all. If you don't have the life blood, if
Speaker 3: you will if you don't. The craft part is the diligence, Okay.
Speaker 3: I want to honor you with the diligence of working
Speaker 3: hard at something and loving it and actually loving it.
Speaker 3: I think sometimes people think it has to be arduous. No,
Speaker 3: it's like scrubbing toilets just to hear. What is a
Speaker 3: c chord? How do I say this?
Speaker 1: How do I support you?
Speaker 3: Do I support it? What do the harmonies teach me?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: And that honoring God with the craft? It is the
Speaker 3: work that you put in to say I want to
Speaker 3: do this, but I also want to love it, so
Speaker 3: I think that's serving it well the best that you can.
Speaker 3: I think you're gonna say, oh, no, no, I was
Speaker 3: going to say, sometimes when you get frustrated about having
Speaker 3: to work hard at something, it dilutes the potency that
Speaker 3: God can sometimes build in those moments.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 3: So if you just keep the hard work, Yoka's easy
Speaker 3: burden is like, if you keep it light, then there's
Speaker 3: a lot that you can do and there's a lot
Speaker 3: that you can transform well.
Speaker 1: On the new album, you have a song called these
Speaker 1: Are the Days, and I can't help but think these
Speaker 1: are the days for you as I watch this, as
Speaker 1: you listen to it and watch you expand and reach
Speaker 1: more people, it is incredible. And to get Justin Timberlake
Speaker 1: to do backups on twenty one You're a song on
Speaker 1: the album Pretty Good Crazy. Gary Sonise offered some fascinating
Speaker 1: answers to the Arroyo Grande questionnaire, Who's the person you
Speaker 1: most admire.
Speaker 4: Jesus? Who do you most attest? Oh?
Speaker 5: I can't say that, Come on, I can't.
Speaker 1: Everybody tries to dodge on that. You right now? Thank you,
Speaker 1: yeah for asking that question? You awful person? You What
Speaker 1: is your best feature?
Speaker 16: I don't know, maybe hard to say. Persistence? Maybe persistence?
Speaker 1: What's your worst your worst feature? Persistent, the double edged
Speaker 1: sort of persistent. Well, you don't build a foundation and
Speaker 1: call it the Gary Sinisee foundation without a little persistent.
Speaker 1: Your favorite meal, Gary, Oh dear.
Speaker 16: Gosh, maybe one of my favorite meals is chicken pacata.
Speaker 1: Chicken pacata. Yeah, well, I see, I evade. I like
Speaker 1: anything Italian, So my favorite meal is one I get
Speaker 1: to eat with family or friends.
Speaker 5: That's my favorite. Well, like the one I had last
Speaker 5: night with somebody.
Speaker 16: But my dad used to make chicken pecata and that's
Speaker 16: a good man.
Speaker 5: But I like a lot of food.
Speaker 16: What do you fear, Gary, failure? Maybe maybe loss?
Speaker 5: Your greatest virtue is what?
Speaker 1: What do you what do you consider the greatest You're
Speaker 1: not your greatest virtue, but what do you consider the
Speaker 1: greatest virtue?
Speaker 4: Honesty? Maybe honesty? Why?
Speaker 16: Well, if you're if you're not honest, you know, and
Speaker 16: nobody's gonna trust you.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: What's that old line? My great grandmother had a line.
Speaker 1: If you lie, you cheat, if you cheat your steel,
Speaker 1: if you steal, you're no good. I guess that's I
Speaker 1: guess that's true.
Speaker 5: What could you not live without mm.
Speaker 8: Air.
Speaker 1: Well, that's a good answer. I guess that's that's kind
Speaker 1: of universal, Gary Oxygen.
Speaker 5: What is your biggest regret?
Speaker 16: Oh gosh, you know, I've thought about this with regards
Speaker 16: to Mac and just wishing that I had in those
Speaker 16: final days I had asked him if he was afraid
Speaker 16: and and let him talk to me a little bit more.
Speaker 16: But neither of us wanted to go there. You know,
Speaker 16: I don't know if that's my biggest regret, but when
Speaker 16: I think of it, I wished i'd before he was
Speaker 16: unable to speak again, you know, because he lost mad
Speaker 16: capacity with what was going on with his lungs. It
Speaker 16: went so quickly that I wished that I had spent
Speaker 16: more time in those last days having you know, having
Speaker 16: that having some kind of more in depth conversation with
Speaker 16: him about his feelings, what he'd been through and what
Speaker 16: he was going through. But again, like I said, I
Speaker 16: I never wanted to feel like I was given up
Speaker 16: and you.
Speaker 1: Were in the fight. And I would argue, if you'll
Speaker 1: permit me, you helped fill his last year, and that
Speaker 1: those last days with great joy and accomplishment for Mac.
Speaker 1: I mean I saw that from the little piece we
Speaker 1: did after Christmas, just on the cusp of the new year.
Speaker 1: The reaction he had to that, and the pride he
Speaker 1: had in that showing it to other people, and that
Speaker 1: was all you're doing so and it was the culmination
Speaker 1: of his work.
Speaker 16: And yeah, and his mom and his two sisters. He
Speaker 16: loved them so much and they loved him so much.
Speaker 16: And you know, we all pulled together and they were
Speaker 16: a big part of everything, no question. And without their support,
Speaker 16: I couldn't have you know, I couldn't have gone gone
Speaker 16: through everything I was doing. And they were helping Mac
Speaker 16: in so many ways, so many beautiful ways.
Speaker 1: What is the best piece of advice you've ever received?
Speaker 16: The one I always I always give this one to
Speaker 16: like young actors who asked me for advice, and I
Speaker 16: save your money?
Speaker 1: Is that the best piece? Scary? Save your money? That's
Speaker 1: all the broke actors out there. I know the feeling right,
Speaker 1: save saving.
Speaker 16: Things are good today, but they might not be good tomorrow.
Speaker 16: Save your money, Save your money.
Speaker 1: Okay, I guess it's good advice. If you could not
Speaker 1: do what you're doing now, what would you like to do? Hm?
Speaker 16: Hmm. These are these are difficult questions because I I don't.
Speaker 16: I don't ever think about that. You know, I'm I'm
Speaker 16: fairly at you know, I'm at peace with what I'm doing.
Speaker 16: I've done a lot of things in my life with
Speaker 16: a career, and I've got a great family. My family is.
Speaker 4: It's great.
Speaker 16: May maybe spend more and more time with my family,
Speaker 16: you know, I'm still trying to accomplish a lot with
Speaker 16: the foundation work and the band and supporting the troops,
Speaker 16: and that takes me away sometimes. And you know, my
Speaker 16: wife is just the best person I know, and you know,
Speaker 16: and I look at how she has sacrificed for this
Speaker 16: mission that I've been on, because she's spent a lot
Speaker 16: of time without me there because I've been going somewhere
Speaker 16: to do something, and she's she's a real she's a
Speaker 16: real hero and my biggest champion. You know, her brother
Speaker 16: served in Vietnam, and she always wanted me to go
Speaker 16: out there and try to make sure that our service
Speaker 16: members know they're appreciated because her brothers didn't get that
Speaker 16: when they came home. And so she's been backing me
Speaker 16: up every step in the way. So just you spend
Speaker 16: more time with them and that, you know, that's the
Speaker 16: important thing. And the grandkids and all.
Speaker 1: That final question what happens when this is over, not
Speaker 1: the interview.
Speaker 4: This life. Well, I hope I'll be welcomed.
Speaker 16: And Lord will say good job.
Speaker 1: I think you'll not only be welcomed, you'll hear familiar music, music,
Speaker 1: maybe Arctic circles played when you get there, my friend.
Speaker 4: So great to see you. God, bless you, thank you,
Speaker 4: thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: Rayman Tunnel to Towers founder Frank Siller answered the questionnaire
Speaker 1: as well. Who is the person you most admire.
Speaker 19: My mother or father, two of them.
Speaker 1: Who's the person you most despise?
Speaker 19: Ohsa'ma bid Latin.
Speaker 1: What what is the best feature that you have and
Speaker 1: the worst?
Speaker 10: My best feature is my faith and the worst is
Speaker 10: I get very angry when I see bad things happen.
Speaker 1: I share that with you. What do you fear, Frank?
Speaker 19: I fel like I feel better today than I have did.
Speaker 10: But I fear that America is moving away from what
Speaker 10: has made us great, which is sacrificing and our faith
Speaker 10: and that we are, you know, Judeo Christian country and
Speaker 10: born from that, and that we have to we have
Speaker 10: to have that understanding to stay in the greatness that
Speaker 10: we that we have. So that is my biggest concern.
Speaker 10: But I do feel better now. I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 10: I do feel that people are coming back to faith.
Speaker 10: I see it all the time, the people I deal
Speaker 10: with all the time, I'm around it all the time,
Speaker 10: the people that you know, we just did a groundbreak
Speaker 10: in Bayville, New Jersey, where two thousand people came out
Speaker 10: to see us break round on a piece of property
Speaker 10: that we're going to be doing for homeless mens.
Speaker 19: Two thousand people. Yes, so I see that, And if you.
Speaker 10: There, you could feel the amount of energy and love
Speaker 10: and concern and commitment people have. So, you know, I
Speaker 10: do feel good about America. I feel so good about America.
Speaker 10: I feel like we're heading in a really good direction.
Speaker 10: But we got to be careful because we can't forget
Speaker 10: you know, how we got here, and we got to
Speaker 10: have our faith faith as well.
Speaker 1: I love the Tunnel for Towers is Tunnel to Towers
Speaker 1: is really a vehicle for so many people to express
Speaker 1: not only their belief and the reverence, to reverence the
Speaker 1: sacrifice of all these people. It's a beautiful way to
Speaker 1: do that. What's the greatest virtue?
Speaker 13: Love?
Speaker 1: What is your greatest regret.
Speaker 19: Regrets.
Speaker 10: I've had a few, but too few to mention, you know.
Speaker 10: I look, we all make mistakes growing up, you know,
Speaker 10: on things. But I'm married for forty seven years. I
Speaker 10: have three beautiful children, seven grandchildren.
Speaker 20: You know.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 19: I'm sorry my brother's gone. It kills me.
Speaker 10: I think about them every single day, but I can't.
Speaker 10: I can't change that.
Speaker 19: I don't have many.
Speaker 10: We all have small regrets. Yeah, there's no question about it.
Speaker 10: But I'd have nerve to complain.
Speaker 5: I love that.
Speaker 1: What do you know that other people don't know?
Speaker 10: Frank Siller, Well, I don't know about that because I'm
Speaker 10: not that smart.
Speaker 19: You know, I built the first smart home.
Speaker 10: I want to say I built a smart home, not
Speaker 10: because I'm smart, because I got somebody smart to do it.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 10: I think I think I realized I surround myself with
Speaker 10: just good people and talented people, and that's that's how
Speaker 10: we get it.
Speaker 1: I get it done.
Speaker 10: I consider myself like Tom Sorry a little bit. I
Speaker 10: got a lot of people to paint defense for me,
Speaker 10: and they come back and say, look at Frank Sila did.
Speaker 10: Now it's all these people painting offense that are doing it.
Speaker 10: I'm just a spokesperson for them.
Speaker 1: That's so great. The best piece of advice you ever
Speaker 1: received is what, Frank.
Speaker 19: The best piece of advice today.
Speaker 10: I tell you there's something I live by, and when
Speaker 10: I'm angry, I do wait a day or two before
Speaker 10: I confront something. You know, my father, who was not
Speaker 10: a very patient person, I always take, said, take a
Speaker 10: step back, you know, before you open your mouth, because
Speaker 10: when you open your mouth, you know, you know, if
Speaker 10: you've two loaded, you know, you could screw terrible things.
Speaker 10: I mean, I'm not eve gonna say I live that
Speaker 10: way every day, but I try to. I try to,
Speaker 10: and it always seems like if you wait twenty four
Speaker 10: hours on something, it's not as bad as it was
Speaker 10: four hours.
Speaker 1: Beforehand in the moment. Yeah, that's great advice, actually, and
Speaker 1: particularly for hotheads like me, it's on me. What's your
Speaker 1: favorite book, Frank, And the last one you read that
Speaker 1: you really enjoyed? Well?
Speaker 10: Well, So I continuously read a book about Saint Francis
Speaker 10: of ASSISSI. I keep on reading more and more books
Speaker 10: about Sant Francis ASSISI being that my parents, uh you know,
Speaker 10: were you know, live that life. I read daily prayers
Speaker 10: every single day. I I I love reading the Bible.
Speaker 10: I'm not Bible verse that you couldn't. I can't repeat
Speaker 10: the Bible and stuff, but I do like reading uh scripture,
Speaker 10: Uh for sure.
Speaker 19: I put in a lot of the things when I
Speaker 19: when I give a talk, I call the speech a talk.
Speaker 10: I usually put scripture in it because I related to
Speaker 10: how I'm supposed to do things. So I'm a big reader,
Speaker 10: but I read more inspirational books and stories all the time.
Speaker 10: But it all relates around faith.
Speaker 1: What happens when this is over?
Speaker 10: Frank, Well, first of all, this is never going to
Speaker 10: be over the foundation. That's a promise that we're building
Speaker 10: it the last forever. At young Stephen Junior working here. Wow,
Speaker 10: I got other family members involved because this is a
Speaker 10: family foundation. Yet we have you know, hundreds and hundreds
Speaker 10: of employees too, because we do build houses all over.
Speaker 10: We do with the homeless veterans. You know, we have
Speaker 10: case managers that have to work with these great heroes.
Speaker 10: So this foundation will never be will.
Speaker 1: Never be over.
Speaker 10: I'll expire like we all do. Right, I kept it
Speaker 10: all the time. I tell my kids I could be
Speaker 10: gone tomorrow. You know, you just got to be ready,
Speaker 10: you know, because we do not know the day, know
Speaker 10: the right, as it says. So I'm not worried about
Speaker 10: the foundation because the work we're doing is always going
Speaker 10: to be necessary, because there's always going to be heroes.
Speaker 19: Dying for us.
Speaker 1: John Rich took on the Arroyo Grande questionnaire with fascinating answers.
Speaker 1: Who is the person you most admire my dad? Why?
Speaker 18: Because he is unyielding and relentless?
Speaker 4: You took the lesson?
Speaker 1: Well, my friend, who's the person you most despise.
Speaker 18: Right now? Sean Combs and anybody like him?
Speaker 1: What is your best feature?
Speaker 18: Loyalty?
Speaker 1: Ah? And your worst?
Speaker 4: Hm?
Speaker 18: Which one should I pick?
Speaker 1: Pick a card? Any card?
Speaker 18: I would say, rushing to judgment.
Speaker 1: The last great book you read? And your favorite book?
Speaker 1: I think I know the answer to this one.
Speaker 18: Well, I mean discounting the Bible, because I know not
Speaker 18: counting the not counting the Bible. Hill Billy Elogy is
Speaker 18: one of my town favorite books.
Speaker 4: To be honest with the book.
Speaker 18: Yeah, it reminds me of great book where I grew up,
Speaker 18: My people.
Speaker 1: The American people. What do you fear, John.
Speaker 18: Something happening to my kids?
Speaker 1: We all fear that, all of us the greatest virtue
Speaker 1: is what.
Speaker 18: Patience.
Speaker 7: I think we have a shared lack of that. I
Speaker 7: guess nout the word you could not live without, idiot.
Speaker 18: I say that word a lot every day. Look at
Speaker 18: this idiot. Sometimes I'm looking in the mirror and go
Speaker 18: look at this he.
Speaker 1: Oh, No, you shouldn't do that.
Speaker 5: If you could live anywhere, where would you live?
Speaker 18: Probably just outside of Yellowstone?
Speaker 5: Wow?
Speaker 1: Except in the winter.
Speaker 4: No, in the winter too gets a little deep.
Speaker 18: And that's why with me.
Speaker 1: Wow, Yeah, I like it out there. Beautiful country, good air,
Speaker 1: beautiful country. What is your biggest regret?
Speaker 4: John?
Speaker 18: Not jumping that train and getting the hell out of
Speaker 18: this interview?
Speaker 1: We're almost done. Your biggest regret, John, besides jumping the train.
Speaker 18: Biggest regret probably disrespecting my father in my youth.
Speaker 1: Hmm.
Speaker 18: I've apologized since then, but still I regret it.
Speaker 5: The best piece of advice you ever.
Speaker 1: Got was what.
Speaker 18: You're never truly free until you can say no. Who
Speaker 18: gave it to you, Larry Gatlin?
Speaker 1: Wow, you're never truly free until you can say no.
Speaker 4: I love that. That's right.
Speaker 1: If you could not do what you're doing now, you
Speaker 1: weren't a singer and a songwriter. What would you be,
Speaker 1: What would you like to do? What else were you
Speaker 1: called to do? Do you think.
Speaker 18: Something where I can inspire people? Whatever that would be.
Speaker 18: I've always thought if I'd ever gone into the military,
Speaker 18: I would have been a guy that would have really
Speaker 18: probably enjoyed that and excelled at it, being around other
Speaker 18: really competent people, younger ones, especially bringing them up. I
Speaker 18: don't know that it would have been military, but something
Speaker 18: that would have put me in a spot where I
Speaker 18: can communicate.
Speaker 1: Like that final question, what happens when this life is over?
Speaker 18: When this life is over, every single human being that's
Speaker 18: ever lived stands directly in front of the Son of God,
Speaker 18: and he will either say come on in or he'll
Speaker 18: say depart from me. I never knew you one or
Speaker 18: the other. And the only way you get into heaven
Speaker 18: is by submitting your entire life and will to Jesus Christ.
Speaker 18: Going to church will not get you in. Academia about
Speaker 18: the Bible will not get you in. All of your
Speaker 18: philosophy will not get you in. Doing good deeds will
Speaker 18: not get you in. If that was the case, the
Speaker 18: thief on the cross would have never gone into heaven.
Speaker 18: That's what happens when you die.
Speaker 1: Well, you're on your way there, my friend, God bless you.
Speaker 1: Great wat John. Yes, sure see you next time. Hat
Speaker 1: looks good, I'm I've never taken it off. Now here's
Speaker 1: at least in town. Give me one of these.
Speaker 5: There you go, Thank you, John.
Speaker 1: Legendary singer Lee Greenwood also answered our questionnaire, who is
Speaker 1: the person you most admire?
Speaker 14: Maybe Dwright the Eisenhower.
Speaker 1: Why Eisenhower?
Speaker 21: Remember he was a five star. He was a man
Speaker 21: that had to make decisions that no one else would.
Speaker 4: Want to make out in a snap.
Speaker 21: After the first wave in Normandy, he asked his chief
Speaker 21: of staff, what are the losses? And he said ninety
Speaker 21: said send the second wave.
Speaker 14: That takes courage.
Speaker 21: It takes foresight to know that he would end the
Speaker 21: war by stopping the Germans in France. He didn't do that.
Speaker 21: Many would Many more would have died later on. And
Speaker 21: then he became president of the United States. A man
Speaker 21: of great value. He knew faith. Yeah, and if he
Speaker 21: didn't know faith, he would be able to send those
Speaker 21: men to their death.
Speaker 1: No, even Roosevelt called it the Great Crusade. He called
Speaker 1: that that particular invasion the Great Crusade. Interesting, Who is
Speaker 1: the person you most despise.
Speaker 4: This is a tough one.
Speaker 1: Oh that's harder than the firstly, Yeah, go ahead, don't
Speaker 1: look at that camera, Lee, look at me, keep your
Speaker 1: eyes here.
Speaker 6: I'm on.
Speaker 14: I don't think I can. I can. I can say that.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 21: You know the very few people that there's a psalm
Speaker 21: in the Bible.
Speaker 14: It's Psalm thirty two. It's about forgiveness.
Speaker 21: And I've had some people do me wrong and I
Speaker 21: forgive them, and I don't want to mention their names.
Speaker 1: That'd be great answer. No one's ever given me that answer.
Speaker 1: It's my favorite answer to that. Okay, what is your
Speaker 1: best feature?
Speaker 21: I think my distinctive voice. We all have distinctive voices,
Speaker 21: the voice print. And I was telling my tech that
Speaker 21: I was in a story the other day and just
Speaker 21: talking to the clear and somebody yearly agreement.
Speaker 14: Aren't you so my voice? You know? I think that's
Speaker 14: my distinctive feature.
Speaker 1: What's your worst feature?
Speaker 14: Too short?
Speaker 1: That could be cuge. I would get any voice you
Speaker 1: can't replace.
Speaker 21: I would give anything to be five to ten. I
Speaker 21: could have been a basketball player.
Speaker 1: No, yeah, just perfect the way you are. Your favorite meal, oh,
Speaker 1: fried chicken, fried chicken, even after cooking it, you still have.
Speaker 21: A fried chicken and my wife's lasagna. Wow, she makes
Speaker 21: great lasagna and pumpkin pie. What do you fear losing
Speaker 21: my voice?
Speaker 1: Have you ever loss it?
Speaker 14: Yes?
Speaker 21: I have working too hard for four or five years
Speaker 21: doubling gigs in Vegas and actually lost my voice and
Speaker 21: I had to stop for about three months and finally
Speaker 21: came back.
Speaker 1: People don't realize how tender I sing a little bit
Speaker 1: on the side, Lee, And that's why I worship what
Speaker 1: you do. And I don't know how you do it
Speaker 1: because people don't realize you use it every moment and
Speaker 1: it reflects every part of how you're feeling that day,
Speaker 1: your emotional state, it's all there.
Speaker 21: I can normally be ninety percent. A few times I'm
Speaker 21: one hundred percent, but mostly ninety percent. In the early
Speaker 21: days of my recording career, I was probably one hundred
Speaker 21: percent most of the time.
Speaker 1: Wow. The greatest virtue is what in your estimation?
Speaker 14: Honesty?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 14: Because you can't ever live a lie?
Speaker 1: The word you could not live without Lee Greenwood.
Speaker 4: God, it's a good answer too.
Speaker 1: If you could live anywhere but Nashville, where would it be?
Speaker 1: And why?
Speaker 21: I think the West Coast of Florida pretty because it's
Speaker 21: far enough below Tampa where we have a place in Anna,
Speaker 21: Mary Island.
Speaker 4: You're out there already.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 21: And and and it's the beautiful beaches that could be
Speaker 21: anywhere in the world.
Speaker 14: There's nothing more beautiful than the West Coast beautiful beaches.
Speaker 21: And it's as in the golf lead.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 14: We had a couple recently and we were fine.
Speaker 21: Okay, but but it just I need the sunshine on
Speaker 21: my face as I get older. I'm very white. I'm
Speaker 21: a real Caucasian, you know. I'm Irish, English, Scottish and uh,
Speaker 21: I got to have a little bit of a tan.
Speaker 5: What is your biggest regret?
Speaker 21: Lee not writing God bless USA sooner during Vietnam? Wow,
Speaker 21: that's when they needed it.
Speaker 1: The best piece of advice you ever received was what finished?
Speaker 6: Big?
Speaker 5: Who gave it to you?
Speaker 14: My mother?
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 14: I don't care what you do in the beginning or
Speaker 14: in the middle, finished big.
Speaker 1: Wow, great advice, and you're still doing it.
Speaker 5: Finale, finale.
Speaker 1: If you could not do what you're doing, if you
Speaker 1: couldn't sing, what else would you like to have done
Speaker 1: or think you would have been really good at?
Speaker 21: I would like to have been a soldier. I think
Speaker 21: it would have been good in the military. I was
Speaker 21: three a in the draft, so the draft goes back
Speaker 21: to the Vietnam ears and I'm not old.
Speaker 14: But otherwise maybe a builder.
Speaker 21: I mean, my stepfather, Louis d'antonoli, taught me a lot
Speaker 21: about building. My mother married him when I was fourteen,
Speaker 21: and it was a wonderful man.
Speaker 14: I married it.
Speaker 21: I knew him till his death, and we built motels
Speaker 21: around Disneyland. That's when I was living in California at
Speaker 21: the time, and I learned carpentry.
Speaker 14: And there's a certain thing.
Speaker 21: When you finish something, you get it done, you know,
Speaker 21: and it's something there, it's a structure.
Speaker 14: A man has built something like that. Salisfaction of that, yeah,
Speaker 14: the satisfaction when.
Speaker 1: This is over.
Speaker 14: What happens when what is over?
Speaker 5: Life is over? Oh, life is over, not this interview.
Speaker 1: I know what happens after this interview. You can go
Speaker 1: have a drink and eat and be done with these
Speaker 1: bothersome questions. I know what happens after.
Speaker 5: But what happens when this life is over?
Speaker 21: Well, hopefully I will see Jesus Christ. I you know,
Speaker 21: that's a dream of every Christian atheists might not say that,
Speaker 21: but I do believe there's life that I can I
Speaker 21: can face later, I'll have to face my sins, and
Speaker 21: I'm standing before God and opens the book and said,
Speaker 21: this is what you did right and what you did wrong.
Speaker 21: I hope that I've the life that's fair and inequitable
Speaker 21: for the people that have treated me so well.
Speaker 1: Comic legend Tommy Dreesen also grabbed the Arroyo Grande questionnaire
Speaker 1: by both Horns and Jove in I'm going to ask
Speaker 1: you a few questions. I do a little questionnaire, okay,
Speaker 1: and these are rapid fire. Okay. The person you most admire,
Speaker 1: tom is.
Speaker 4: Whom you know.
Speaker 20: My dream would have been that the person I most
Speaker 20: admire was me, but I never lived up to that. Wow,
Speaker 20: that's really really the person I most admire.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 20: I know this is going to sound hokey to a
Speaker 20: lot of people, but even as a little boy, I
Speaker 20: wanted to talk to Jesus.
Speaker 4: I just wanted.
Speaker 20: I can't believe that this guy, at age thirty, he
Speaker 20: only preached three years, he only left, he never left,
Speaker 20: he never went town thirty five miles outside of his
Speaker 20: own town, and what he did this incredible thing. I mean,
Speaker 20: and I mean I wanted to ask him so many questions,
Speaker 20: you know, and I admired the courage that he went
Speaker 20: to the cross, the courage, the beatings, the ridicule that's
Speaker 20: spitting on him, and that life changed the lives of
Speaker 20: so many. So so yeah, I would have to have
Speaker 20: to go there.
Speaker 1: What is your best feature? Keep it clean?
Speaker 20: Tom I think I think it's always that that I
Speaker 20: really do like people, and I really do like making
Speaker 20: them laugh. You know, all the time I had the cancer,
Speaker 20: I never told anybody at my country club. I never
Speaker 20: told anybody there because every time I walk in that, hey,
Speaker 20: here's Tommy, what's the new joke?
Speaker 5: Tell us the new latest show.
Speaker 20: I didn't want people looking at me with puppy eyes
Speaker 20: and how you doing? Is it okay?
Speaker 4: You're going to be fine? It words.
Speaker 20: But so I think it's that that I really do
Speaker 20: enjoy people, and I enjoy.
Speaker 1: Being around them, entertaining them.
Speaker 20: And I'll tell you, Raymond, I could be feeling if
Speaker 20: I was home for a few days. I'm a bachelor,
Speaker 20: you know, I'm divorced, my X ray passed away. But
Speaker 20: if I'm if I'm at home for a couple of
Speaker 20: days and maybe I'm not feeling good for some reason.
Speaker 20: But if I go out and all of a sudden
Speaker 20: with some people, I feel good. I'm a people person.
Speaker 1: What's your worst feature?
Speaker 4: My temper on the golf course.
Speaker 1: Only on the golf course.
Speaker 20: Yeah, well, Irish Italian there's a war going on inside
Speaker 20: of me.
Speaker 1: I know that I recognized that war, but believe me personally.
Speaker 20: The Irish guy says, I don't get mad at I'm
Speaker 20: buy him a drinking. The Italian guy said, buy him
Speaker 20: a drinking and then beat the hell up.
Speaker 1: Your greatest regret, Wow.
Speaker 20: That's a good question. My greatest regret. My greatest regret
Speaker 20: is that when I went to a divorce, I wish
Speaker 20: I would have done it better. I wish I would
Speaker 20: have Frank Sinata told me when I was going to
Speaker 20: my divorce. He said, I went into Vegas. We were
Speaker 20: working at the MGM gran He said, hey, you're bringing
Speaker 20: the wife with you. I said, no, Frank, we're getting
Speaker 20: a divorce. And he said, oh, Tommy, I can't give
Speaker 20: you any advice on marriage, but I can give you
Speaker 20: advice on divorce.
Speaker 1: He said, stay.
Speaker 20: Friends with her, not for you, but for her. But
Speaker 20: for the children stay friends with her and I and
Speaker 20: I didn't.
Speaker 4: We had a bitter divorce.
Speaker 20: We later talked for a little while, and then we did.
Speaker 20: And I carry this to my grave and I say
Speaker 20: a prayer for her every night because I wish I
Speaker 20: without her, I wouldn't have had my children, my grandchildren,
Speaker 20: my great grandchildren. I wish I would have been friendly
Speaker 20: with her. That's my greatest regret, and I feel real.
Speaker 4: Bad about that.
Speaker 1: Wow, what's the greatest piece of advice you ever got?
Speaker 20: The greatest advice I ever got was probably from the books.
Speaker 20: I read literally hundreds of books on the powers of
Speaker 20: the mind. But that this is your universe, and you're
Speaker 20: in charge of this universe. This is your universe. That
Speaker 20: you don't have to you are careful what you put
Speaker 20: in here. So be careful what you put in here.
Speaker 20: Negative thoughts are dirt. You don't have to they'll flow
Speaker 20: into your mind. You don't have to let them flourish,
Speaker 20: you know. So you are in control of this universe
Speaker 20: of what goes in here and what goes in here.
Speaker 20: When I'm giving the motivation talks I talked to, I
Speaker 20: take a glass of water and I pour dirt in
Speaker 20: it and I stir it up and I say, drink this.
Speaker 20: Somebody drink this, and they won't. I said, you won't
Speaker 20: put filth in here. Why would you put filth in here?
Speaker 20: If you won't drink dirt, why would you think dirt.
Speaker 20: You can get negative thoughts out of your mind and
Speaker 20: replace them what positive thoughts. That's that's great advice because
Speaker 20: it shows you that this is the universe you've been
Speaker 20: given and you're in charge of it.
Speaker 4: You really are.
Speaker 20: You have more power. You are far more powerful than
Speaker 20: you realize.
Speaker 1: If you could not do what you're doing now, entertaining people,
Speaker 1: making them laugh, bringing them joy, what would you do.
Speaker 20: Well? If I couldn't do that, I probably, you know,
Speaker 20: I've probably maybe been a writer.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 20: I really liked the military. The military saved my life
Speaker 20: in a lot of ways. I was a raggedy kid.
Speaker 20: I went in the military the first time in my life.
Speaker 20: I had three squares day, first time in my life.
Speaker 20: I was equal to everybody. They shaved all of our
Speaker 20: heads and we all had the same clothes on. I'd
Speaker 20: been a raggedy, poor kid. I really love America. I've
Speaker 20: been around the world. I love this country. It is
Speaker 20: the greatest country and the people that put us into
Speaker 20: this position, those people who founded this country, who wrote
Speaker 20: that constitution, those are brilliant human beings. The men and
Speaker 20: women who died, you know, in World War Two, that
Speaker 20: if we lost that word, you want to argue with
Speaker 20: me about wars, you can argue about every war you want,
Speaker 20: you can argue with about World War Two, that if
Speaker 20: we lost that word, there was no doubt what Hitler
Speaker 20: had in mind for us, no doubt what Tojo had
Speaker 20: in mind for us. Those men and women, the women
Speaker 20: that went to work and went and went to war,
Speaker 20: and the mini that they were heroes to me. You
Speaker 20: know that again, I think I just love this country.
Speaker 20: I wish maybe I would like to have been a
Speaker 20: politician that would in a way that's kind of a
Speaker 20: one who was a really who really believed in the constitution,
Speaker 20: We believed in the Prince of nutrit You know, Harry
Speaker 20: Truman once said, show me a politician who comes out
Speaker 20: of office with more money than he went in with,
Speaker 20: and I'll show you a crook. We got a lot
Speaker 20: of them too, and they're all coming out with more money.
Speaker 1: Here's Tim Conway Junior, answering our Royal Grande questionnaire. Very
Speaker 1: quickly some a royal grande questions. I asked, oh, good, ok,
Speaker 1: you ready, right, who's the person you most admire?
Speaker 22: Uh?
Speaker 6: Probably my daughter?
Speaker 1: Why? Because she's the most perfect.
Speaker 11: Person and and and I don't know how that happened,
Speaker 11: because her mom spent a lot of time with her.
Speaker 11: I spent a lot of time with her, and she
Speaker 11: and she surprises us all the time. And and I
Speaker 11: would say that it would be my daughter. She is
Speaker 11: the most beautiful person inside and out. She treats people properly,
Speaker 11: she's nice to her friends, and the greatest thing in
Speaker 11: the world. You know, I was never gonna have kids
Speaker 11: that we had a daughter in two thousand and five,
Speaker 11: by a billion light years.
Speaker 6: I get goose.
Speaker 11: I was talking about it's a great thing ever did
Speaker 11: in my life?
Speaker 1: Oh? No, it makes you a man?
Speaker 6: And I'm real quickly, I'm somebody.
Speaker 11: She works at a school and they and some kid
Speaker 11: was talking poorly about their mom, and she said, Hey,
Speaker 11: that's not you. You should never do that in life.
Speaker 11: I don't know where she got that from, not from me,
Speaker 11: not from her mom.
Speaker 6: She created that. Well, I would say, my.
Speaker 5: Daughter, Well, she got it from the love of her parents.
Speaker 6: Maybe, maybe, maybe what is.
Speaker 1: The thing that Tim Conway Junior knows that no one
Speaker 1: else knows?
Speaker 11: Oh that's great that I never win at the racetrack.
Speaker 1: After all those years, after all that math, crunching those
Speaker 1: darn numbers, and nothing broke.
Speaker 6: AM a loser at the tracks.
Speaker 1: I lose all the time. Okay, what's the best advice
Speaker 1: you've ever been given?
Speaker 11: The best advice? I would say, don't panic? You know,
Speaker 11: never panic, And I told it to my daughter. Whatever happens,
Speaker 11: never panic. It's not gonna get you anywhere.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite book? And the last great book you read?
Speaker 18: Man?
Speaker 6: First of all, the Racing Form is.
Speaker 1: The wonderful Superman edition for right.
Speaker 6: Somebody asked me to write a book, I go, I
Speaker 6: didn't even read him.
Speaker 1: I would do it right one the old grutch Marks line.
Speaker 1: I just finished the book. I think I'm gonna read
Speaker 1: another one, you know, old final question?
Speaker 5: What happens when this is over?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: You mean radio or life? I let you interpret it.
Speaker 11: Okay, Radio, We've done everything we needed to do. I
Speaker 11: would feel if we walked away tomorrow, I'd be, you know,
Speaker 11: totally happy with it, because you know, we got to
Speaker 11: afternoon drive on the biggest station in the biggest market.
Speaker 5: Incredible.
Speaker 6: And we won number one on.
Speaker 11: Barrett's US two years in a row. And that's like
Speaker 11: the Bible of talk radio. And so we've touched on
Speaker 11: you hit the top, right, But after what after life?
Speaker 11: I can't wait to run into grandparents, parents and run by.
Speaker 11: I think they're all up there.
Speaker 4: Me too, I do.
Speaker 1: And I can't wait to see your dad and Harvey
Speaker 1: Korman again, just to watch Harvey Corman break up and
Speaker 1: not be able to hold it together for a second.
Speaker 11: I quite often have a dream about my dad, maybe
Speaker 11: two three times a month, where I go to the racetrack.
Speaker 11: He's there, we spend the day at the racetrack and
Speaker 11: I'm going back down the escalator through the clouds. He goes,
Speaker 11: won't you just stay? I said, no, I got a daughter,
Speaker 11: I got a wife. I'll see in a couple of years.
Speaker 11: I bet that's like a reoccurring drink. Really yeah, then
Speaker 11: I can take it escalater up the clouds, go to
Speaker 11: the racetrack with my dad, and then take a come back.
Speaker 1: And then come back for a little bit.
Speaker 6: It's weird, it's odd.
Speaker 11: It's a beautiful actual but eventually, you know, I'm going
Speaker 11: to be staying up in the clouds.
Speaker 1: Right, Eventually you'll be able to stay at the track
Speaker 1: with him. That's not a bad way to go, that's right,
Speaker 1: Tim Comway Junior, thank you are the best.
Speaker 6: Thank you very much. It's so cool to have me on.
Speaker 1: And I love you with Laura, I love you back.
Speaker 1: So it's a mutual. It's mutually beneficial.
Speaker 6: Dolong with you.
Speaker 1: Thank you, my friend. Great to see you. And Actor
Speaker 1: Billy Baldwin also took the Arroyo Grande questionnaire. Who's the
Speaker 1: person you most admire?
Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, that's.
Speaker 22: There's five answers, but the first one would be, uh,
Speaker 22: it would be my would be.
Speaker 14: Christ or my wife?
Speaker 5: I was I thought you would say your dad.
Speaker 22: Yeah, he would be on the very short list. It
Speaker 22: would be Christ, my wife, my mother and father, my
Speaker 22: three children.
Speaker 1: What's your best feature? Uh?
Speaker 14: Certainly not giving short answers.
Speaker 22: I noticed that I tell stories and I love this
Speaker 22: hold on it's coming back around.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're coming back out there and there it is. No.
Speaker 22: I think my best features feature is I'm going to
Speaker 22: answer in a way that's probably not true, but it's
Speaker 22: my my It's sort of all the same thing, but
Speaker 22: my desire to grow to learn not being afraid to be,
Speaker 22: not being afraid to ask a question, to show that
Speaker 22: I'm that I don't know the answer, that that's something
Speaker 22: that I that I.
Speaker 14: Like about myself.
Speaker 1: But I also want to get better about what does
Speaker 1: Billy Baldwin know that others don't know? I have a
Speaker 1: really really bad answer for come on, I give it
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 14: I was going to say, I could show you, but
Speaker 14: somebody might lose an eye clip cut. That did not happen.
Speaker 5: What was the question?
Speaker 1: The question was what do you know that other people
Speaker 1: don't know? Not?
Speaker 5: What do you have that other people don't have?
Speaker 1: Clarify?
Speaker 22: What do I show that other people don't know? Yeah,
Speaker 22: I don't know. M that's what I don't know. I
Speaker 22: don't know what I don't.
Speaker 19: What's your biggest regret?
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 14: I don't have any major regrets.
Speaker 22: But having said that, if I could go back and
Speaker 22: do it again, there are things that I would change.
Speaker 22: Some things in my marriage, some things with child rearings,
Speaker 22: a couple of things with my career. One of the
Speaker 22: things that I will tell parents that is beautiful is
Speaker 22: my wife has had one on one time.
Speaker 14: With each of our children.
Speaker 22: She doesn't say Daddy and Billy, Billy and mommy, jump
Speaker 22: in the car with Jamison. She has one on one
Speaker 22: time with Jess Jamison, with jest Vance, with Jess Brooks,
Speaker 22: not all five of us, not three of them. And
Speaker 22: it could be let's go for a beach walk, let's
Speaker 22: take out the trash, let's walk the dog. And you
Speaker 22: could go walk the dog for ten minutes or fifteen
Speaker 22: minutes without uttering a word. You don't have to get
Speaker 22: to solve life's problem. Do you have a crush? Have
Speaker 22: you ever tried drug? It doesn't You could walk in silence.
Speaker 22: Just one on one time with your child individually will
Speaker 22: create a bond.
Speaker 14: She's hijacked my three children for me, not even my
Speaker 14: kids anymore. She owns all three of them. That number one.
Speaker 14: Number two.
Speaker 22: Do not give your kids a smartphone until we should
Speaker 22: have given our kids a clamshell that dialed five or
Speaker 22: ten numbers so you can call her, text, Grandma, Mommy, Daddy,
Speaker 22: three of your friends.
Speaker 1: No pictures, no social media.
Speaker 22: No access to the internet, no social media, no bullying.
Speaker 22: And I would say, because the great thing about it
Speaker 22: is when my daughter would go to Straight State Street
Speaker 22: with her friends when she was twelve. I would text
Speaker 22: her and say yo or sup, and she were right back, yo, sup.
Speaker 22: And that just meant I hear you, I'm here everything.
Speaker 22: If there was a complaint or she was worried or
Speaker 22: she was scared, she would have already called.
Speaker 14: But I'm just checking in.
Speaker 22: And if you don't answer and I say sup again
Speaker 22: and another half hour goes by, you're in trouble.
Speaker 1: Final question.
Speaker 22: So they should have those because they're like a tether
Speaker 22: gives like having it Danny, but no access to the
Speaker 22: internet and no access to social media.
Speaker 5: I just had a child psychologist and tell me the
Speaker 5: same thing.
Speaker 1: Boy, she sees it.
Speaker 14: It's contributing to the mental health.
Speaker 1: Final question.
Speaker 5: What happens when this is over?
Speaker 22: Well, like me, I'd like all of you you to
Speaker 22: go to no addressmovie dot com see the film. Hopefully
Speaker 22: it will inspire you and motivate you and and hit
Speaker 22: that switch of compassion and empathy that will want you
Speaker 22: to that will you know, make you take action in
Speaker 22: any way, shape or form in your community.
Speaker 1: To be engaged no matter where you are engaged. You
Speaker 1: certainly thank you Director John Irwin earnestly engage the arroyo
Speaker 1: grande questionnaire. These are real quick questions because I know
Speaker 1: you got to go and you've done it and you've got.
Speaker 5: Many a great conversation.
Speaker 1: Roy I ask everybody these arroyal It's my arroyo grande questions. Okay, great,
Speaker 1: you ready?
Speaker 23: This is the what was the the what was the
Speaker 23: inner James James is?
Speaker 1: That's right. I won't ask you the person you most admire,
Speaker 1: who is the person I most admire?
Speaker 23: You know, I would say that I admire many many
Speaker 23: people like I love a great biography, and I love
Speaker 23: to learn from the stories of others. So of course,
Speaker 23: you know, I think right now, in the moment that
Speaker 23: I'm in, I would say David. Probably six months from now,
Speaker 23: when I'm directing this movie, I would say George Washington.
Speaker 5: But Washington, yeah, But.
Speaker 23: There's something about about gleaning from other people's stories and
Speaker 23: uh and a lot of that is whatever story I'm
Speaker 23: presently telling, or maybe a book I've read, but but
Speaker 23: I'm fully immersed in the story of David right now.
Speaker 23: What is your best feature? My best feature? You know,
Speaker 23: probably you know, I'll tell you this. This is the
Speaker 23: under celebrated virtue. Okay, curiosity. I think if you can
Speaker 23: combine curiosity with pain tolerance, there is not much that
Speaker 23: you can't achieve if you can just be constantly learning.
Speaker 5: And so I think I live I live my.
Speaker 23: Life curious a level of curiosity and learning all the time.
Speaker 23: And I think when that is met with a level
Speaker 23: of determination, there is there are a few things that
Speaker 23: you can't achieve.
Speaker 5: What's your worst feature?
Speaker 23: Oh, my gosh, my worst feature is probably just the
Speaker 23: uncontrollable personality of the artist. Like if you're like, I'm
Speaker 23: a I'm an ADHD nightmare. But my my biggest battles
Speaker 23: are within not my biggest battles are with myself. Sometimes
Speaker 23: I feel like I'm I'm I'm the greatest villain to
Speaker 23: my own story, you know.
Speaker 5: And uh, And that's I think one of the reasons.
Speaker 23: Why I like telling stories, whether it's David or whether
Speaker 23: it's Jesus Revolution. I like these stories of imperfect people
Speaker 23: that are very flawed that God still uses because I
Speaker 23: feel like.
Speaker 6: I fit right in.
Speaker 5: We all do.
Speaker 23: Yeah, what is the thing you know that authors don't know?
Speaker 23: I know, boy, that's a great question and a loaded question.
Speaker 4: It is I know.
Speaker 1: That it you know what.
Speaker 5: I think the thing that I could.
Speaker 23: Most that would be most helpful to people listening is
Speaker 23: I know that it just takes longer than you think,
Speaker 23: in the sense that I wanted to Ice first. The
Speaker 23: spark of curiosity for David happened when I was sixteen
Speaker 23: years old. The first script I wrote for a movie
Speaker 23: on David was in twenty twelve. And success is long
Speaker 23: obedience in the same direction. If you genuinely feel like
Speaker 23: your call to do something, just keep going. It's going
Speaker 23: to take a lot longer than you think, and then
Speaker 23: you're going to get to this breakthrough moment. And I
Speaker 23: think there's not a lot of failures in terms of stories.
Speaker 23: There's just a lot of incomplete stories. In the sense
Speaker 23: of there's not a lot of bad films, there's just
Speaker 23: unfinished films. Sometimes we say, and I think sometimes people
Speaker 23: give up and you never know when that breakthrough moment
Speaker 23: where the fog clears was right around the corner, and
Speaker 23: you stop too early, and you stop too early. So
Speaker 23: if I can give any advice to anybody is if
Speaker 23: you really feel like you're supposed to do something, as
Speaker 23: long as you're learning, as long as you're curious, don't
Speaker 23: give up. You just never know when that moment is
Speaker 23: right around the corner. Final question, what happens when this
Speaker 23: is over?
Speaker 5: Oh? Man, I take a nap.
Speaker 23: I think is But I'll tell you what I really
Speaker 23: dream of, and this is the dream of the under project.
Speaker 23: Is you think about the most profound outcome that could
Speaker 23: come from all this. Somebody should make a documentary sometime
Speaker 23: of the twenty five year mayhem that has led to
Speaker 23: Fate film and the reemergence of this type of content
Speaker 23: and the yahoos that God has used to do it.
Speaker 23: But my hope the outcome that I would be most
Speaker 23: like this made the journey worth it is If you
Speaker 23: watch The House of David Traylor, the first title card
Speaker 23: that comes up is the MGM logo LEO the lionis
Speaker 23: is one hundred years of entertainment. My hope is that
Speaker 23: a lot of these successes for movies and television can
Speaker 23: coalesce into an institution that can last one hundred years
Speaker 23: and really allow us to tell these stories on a
Speaker 23: global scale long after I'm not able. So I joke
Speaker 23: around that I'd love to see a studio last one
Speaker 23: hundred years. I'd love to get it halfway. If Clint
Speaker 23: Easwood can do it, I can do it, you know.
Speaker 23: But the idea is that that would be a transcendent
Speaker 23: outcome that my hope and prayer and strong belief is
Speaker 23: that there's now this group of creatives and we're willing
Speaker 23: each other on to success. We're competing in the best
Speaker 23: sense of the word, just trying to one up each other.
Speaker 23: Like you know, I remember seeing every version of Dallas
Speaker 23: Jenkins scene of Walking on the Water. I was shooting
Speaker 23: the Jesus Revolution move with the Kesees DP, so we
Speaker 23: were looking at every version on a Keith's phone and
Speaker 23: I was con Dallas. But that was a I feel
Speaker 23: that that's the best version of the Walking on the
Speaker 23: Water that I've ever seen. It was so well done,
Speaker 23: and that just makes me want to like one up
Speaker 23: in which the Dam.
Speaker 1: And Goliath, I'm like, wait till you see Davy Deliath.
Speaker 5: But that's happening.
Speaker 23: And my hope is that the work that we're doing
Speaker 23: as a group of friends and partners and collaborators right
Speaker 23: now will sort of break the dam, as it were.
Speaker 23: It will allow creatives to come behind us and have
Speaker 23: their voices heard, and that would be the most inspiring goal.
Speaker 23: And to have any role in something that's emerging right
Speaker 23: in front of you, like is a privilege. And to
Speaker 23: bleed on the bleeding edge, to be in the arena
Speaker 23: at all is a great privilege.
Speaker 1: Well, John, I was not lost on me. Leo the
Speaker 1: Lion opened the movie and David confronts Leo in the movie.
Speaker 1: But I'm not what happened. Isn't that amazing?
Speaker 23: I just think that was actually one of the things
Speaker 23: that that you know that you know, Samuel says to
Speaker 23: David in the show. Uh, you know, God doesn't look
Speaker 23: on the outward appearance. He looks in the heart. That's
Speaker 23: what's in the Bible. And then we add, and you
Speaker 23: have the heart of a lion, you know. And what
Speaker 23: a lions do? They roar, he tells him.
Speaker 1: And uh.
Speaker 23: And so the fact that the trailer opens with the
Speaker 23: lion energy, it is a good omen. I think it's great,
Speaker 23: great interview. We could have talked for hours.
Speaker 1: I care pioneer Doctor Ming Wang offered beautiful answers to
Speaker 1: the Arroyo Grande questionnaire. Who is the person you most admire?
Speaker 4: I am my Einstein? Why yeah?
Speaker 24: Because he is thinking out of the box. He was
Speaker 24: thinking out the box that before him we recon ad
Speaker 24: space is three dimensional three x y z. He was
Speaker 24: able to think four dimensional, including the time, So thinking
Speaker 24: out the box, overcoming our natural instinct. I think that's
Speaker 24: how human being can progress. In Einstein's best.
Speaker 1: Example is the person you most despise.
Speaker 24: Adolf Hitler, because he's self proclaimed superority, which is human nature.
Speaker 24: By the way, as I said, we are so polarized
Speaker 24: because we think I'm better than the next person, and
Speaker 24: he has taken that to an extreme.
Speaker 1: What is your best feature? My best feature? I'm not
Speaker 1: the smartest.
Speaker 24: I'm like medium high IQ, but I recognize I can
Speaker 24: be the best student.
Speaker 4: So I'm actually learning all the time. I learned.
Speaker 24: I give you my little books, Supan combet how I
Speaker 24: learned from some very successful business people like Today's interestion
Speaker 24: with you, I'm learning from you.
Speaker 5: I'm observing. I'm learning a lot from.
Speaker 24: Yeah, I'm observing. I'm thinking while you're effective in what
Speaker 24: you do. So my best feature is I'm the good student.
Speaker 1: What's your worst feature?
Speaker 5: Worst feature.
Speaker 4: Probably being a vorholic, and it's very different.
Speaker 24: In my autobiography, I talk about some imbalance, beaten work
Speaker 24: and family, and because I'm so driven by work to
Speaker 24: help these kids, and it's a challenge how to achieve
Speaker 24: the balance.
Speaker 1: That balance is always difficult, I think for every for
Speaker 1: every mother or father, it's hard. What is your favorite meal?
Speaker 4: M favorite meal?
Speaker 24: I think it's a sudden Chinese dish with some spice
Speaker 24: and some tofu, lots of vegetables, lots of green, good
Speaker 24: for the eyes, good for the eyes, vitamins C and E,
Speaker 24: A and E.
Speaker 4: That's my favorite dish.
Speaker 5: Wow, tell me your what do you fear?
Speaker 4: Doctor?
Speaker 24: I fear that human nature will d even allow our
Speaker 24: human nature, the polarizing nature, that self proclaim the superiority,
Speaker 24: that take better control better of us, and human being
Speaker 24: just sliding into the dead is spiral polarization and self destruction.
Speaker 5: Into the abyss. Yes, what's the last great book you read?
Speaker 4: Ah? Great question.
Speaker 24: I think one of the last great books I read
Speaker 24: is del Cornnegies How to Win friends.
Speaker 5: And Influence people.
Speaker 4: And what I learned here is this.
Speaker 24: Sometimes I argue with someone saying, hey, Johnny, this is
Speaker 24: this is wrong, this is and I couldn't get anywhere.
Speaker 24: And del Connie said, you know what, if you had
Speaker 24: good things to say, say, if you only have bad
Speaker 24: things to say, don't bother. So if I can change
Speaker 24: Johnny's mind, let him be. He's the only person I
Speaker 24: can change on this planet.
Speaker 4: It's myself.
Speaker 16: Huh.
Speaker 1: That's that's wise, that's wise.
Speaker 5: What is the word you could not live without?
Speaker 4: Mmm? Mmmm?
Speaker 24: I think love for me because it's it's for example,
Speaker 24: I love dancing, ballroom dancing, and oh it's exercise, yes,
Speaker 24: But it is their love for music, love for the moment,
Speaker 24: transcendental moment where we bring the beautiful costumes and music
Speaker 24: together to experience a deep passion amoung human being for
Speaker 24: those beautiful things in our life. So that love for
Speaker 24: music and beauty, love for family, love for my work
Speaker 24: to help us plong off with children is what drives me.
Speaker 24: And love for human kind it self. That to recoon,
Speaker 24: we need to overcome polarization, find the common ground.
Speaker 5: What is the greatest virtue in the world. What's the
Speaker 5: greatest virtue?
Speaker 4: Humbleness? M humbleness.
Speaker 24: It's very difficult because we tend to as human being,
Speaker 24: we learned something myself included. I think I know this,
Speaker 24: I know that, but to recognize what I still don't
Speaker 24: know is.
Speaker 1: The greatest virtue? What's your biggest regret? Do you have one?
Speaker 24: I probably would desire to have been more balanced work
Speaker 24: and family.
Speaker 4: That is probably my biggest regret.
Speaker 1: The best piece of advice you ever received was what.
Speaker 4: In my little book.
Speaker 24: I met a professor and he always got the diagnosis right.
Speaker 24: We are arguing all this eye problem could be this,
Speaker 24: and he walked in, doctor Savino. He comes in, he's
Speaker 24: this one and as doctor Vino, how'd you get it right?
Speaker 4: I want advice? This is what he said.
Speaker 24: He said, I mean, as human being, we tend to swimming,
Speaker 24: swim among uncertainties or could be this, or could be that.
Speaker 24: But I change my nature as such, I delivered to
Speaker 24: something different. I'll go into a situation where you all
Speaker 24: arguing about uncertainties or this next month, to this programming
Speaker 24: or maybe this programming audience like more and a lot
Speaker 24: of our different possibilities. I change my focus from looking
Speaker 24: at the uncertainties to looking for is there anything certain here?
Speaker 24: I will be only one or two certainties, and I
Speaker 24: hand my head on top of that. So overcome a
Speaker 24: human natural tendency of swimming around among uncertainties, but deliberty, rationally,
Speaker 24: logically look for certainties lb.
Speaker 4: It could be few. It's the best advice I've learned,
Speaker 4: great advice.
Speaker 5: If you could not do what you're doing, what do
Speaker 5: you think you would do?
Speaker 1: What would you like to do?
Speaker 4: If think if.
Speaker 24: I, if I'm not an eye doctor today, I probably
Speaker 24: will be our hoole player.
Speaker 4: That chan's volid. I love it.
Speaker 24: I love music, composition. I compose some songs my self. Dancer,
Speaker 24: ballroom dancer. I love volun dance.
Speaker 1: It's amazing to me though these are things you did
Speaker 1: out of survival. You discovered the amount of survival, but
Speaker 1: you found a deep passion as both of them.
Speaker 24: Yes, and sometimes they say, how come right? It's Here's interesting.
Speaker 24: If we like something as human being, we have to
Speaker 24: deeply appreciate it. M we have different ways to appreciate
Speaker 24: it. It could be something grandfather grandfather that they can inherit
Speaker 24: it right imprinted, or it could be something that through
Speaker 24: life experience we learn the importance of it. In my case,
Speaker 24: I learned the dancing and also musing instruments out of
Speaker 24: need to survive, so they are more important to me
Speaker 24: because I literally without being able to without learning, will
Speaker 24: not be able to survive, so they take more importance
Speaker 24: to me than just a music instrument and hobby.
Speaker 4: Wow, beautiful.
Speaker 5: What happens when this is over?
Speaker 4: This meaning the work?
Speaker 5: I'll let you interpret it.
Speaker 1: Could be this life, could be this interview. What happens
Speaker 1: when this is over?
Speaker 24: I would say if I interpret this as my life,
Speaker 24: I wanted to be able to make Sometimes what's the
Speaker 24: purpose and need the study of science and medicine?
Speaker 4: These are tools? What's the purpose to help these kids? Yes?
Speaker 24: But overall all of these what I do, I have
Speaker 24: one single purpose behind all of these medical work is
Speaker 24: to help make this world a little better place to
Speaker 24: live when I.
Speaker 1: Leave one of these days. I'm going to answer the
Speaker 1: whole questionnaire, but for now, I'm going to take a
Speaker 1: bat at this one. What is the best book you've
Speaker 1: read recently? I think it would be Graham Green's A
Speaker 1: Life in Letters. If you don't know who Graham Green is,
Speaker 1: He's really one of the greatest authors in the English tongue.
Speaker 1: I've read all of his books multiple times, three biographies,
Speaker 1: his short stories, even his film reviews. I've gone through.
Speaker 1: But this was a fantastic book because it allowed you
Speaker 1: behind the veil, his bouts with faith, his romantic entanglements.
Speaker 1: The end of the affair was only barely fiction. Boys
Speaker 1: and girls. There is a great line in the letters
Speaker 1: that I found myself highlighting. Writing a novel is a
Speaker 1: little like putting a message in a bottle and flinging
Speaker 1: it into the ocean. Unexpected friends or enemies retrieve it.
Speaker 1: It's food for thought. Okay, to fulfill my promise that you.
Speaker 1: Sketch that we opened the show with was based on
Speaker 1: Abbot and Costello's Who's on First, which they called baseball
Speaker 1: they labeled it. It evolved when the team hit vaudeville,
Speaker 1: and it's based on a lot of those wordplay sketches
Speaker 1: of the day, this particular sketch, and it constantly evolved.
Speaker 1: They never did it the same way twice. It dates
Speaker 1: back from the nineteen thirties.
Speaker 8: Watch well, I see that we have on our team.
Speaker 9: We have who's on first? What's on second? I don't
Speaker 9: know he's on third.
Speaker 8: That's what I want to find out, the guy's name.
Speaker 8: And that's what I want to find out, the guy's name.
Speaker 9: I'm telling me who's on first, what's on second?
Speaker 1: I don't know?
Speaker 13: 's on third?
Speaker 8: Have you got to be a manager in a baseball team.
Speaker 8: Yet you know the guy's names. Why are you tell
Speaker 8: me the guy's names on a baseball Say?
Speaker 9: Who's on first? What's on second? I don't know's on third?
Speaker 9: You ain't saying that to me yet.
Speaker 8: Tell me.
Speaker 9: I'm telling you none yet, Malen temmy, who's on first?
Speaker 9: What's on second? I don't know?
Speaker 8: Is on third? You know a guy's names? Any baseball team?
Speaker 13: Well?
Speaker 8: The heck? Who's on first? Yes? I mean the guy's name?
Speaker 8: Who they got planing fights? Whoh they got planning fights?
Speaker 8: Bess poo? They got a fust base? Who is on first?
Speaker 8: What are you asking me fighting?
Speaker 1: How?
Speaker 6: Wait?
Speaker 8: I'm asking you who's on first? That's to me? Man tummy?
Speaker 8: Who they got on first? That's it? That's his name?
Speaker 6: He said.
Speaker 8: I asked you want a guy's name?
Speaker 13: A push base?
Speaker 4: Coming?
Speaker 8: The guys name a push baby?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 8: You guys playing first? Make who is on first?
Speaker 6: Leap?
Speaker 8: I'll get excited. I'm saying, I'm asking you a simple question.
Speaker 8: Who's on first?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 8: For good coming?
Speaker 12: That's it.
Speaker 8: That's who I'm asking you. What's the guy's name on pushbab?
Speaker 13: No?
Speaker 8: What's on second? I'm not asking you who's on second?
Speaker 8: I'm going for one base.
Speaker 1: They are comic geniuses, you know, and it's rare to
Speaker 1: find comics who go on the road and work material
Speaker 1: for this long. They did it for a decade before
Speaker 1: they bring it to a mass audience. I mean they
Speaker 1: worked it in radio, they worked at in vaudeville, they
Speaker 1: worked it on the road, then they finally brought it
Speaker 1: to TV. I hope you'll come back to a Royal
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Speaker 1: you fill it with good things, it can flow into
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