Speaker 1: Hey, everybody.
Speaker 2: Wow, this season has been so great and I'm very
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Speaker 2: you all for your warm reception. And also, you know,
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Speaker 2: this is the first time now that we're going to
Speaker 2: try doing something a little different. We put out a
Speaker 2: request on our socials a few weeks ago and asked
Speaker 2: you all to leave me a voicemail with your comment
Speaker 2: events and questions about uh, you know, about well almost anything.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's been really fun. It's really fun here
Speaker 2: in your messages on my voicemail and reading them in
Speaker 2: my inbox. So keep them coming, folks, please, and let's
Speaker 2: stay connected. I'm glad you're here. All right, Here we
Speaker 2: go Stacey Houston, who runs six degrees dot Org, has
Speaker 2: joined us once before in our Giving Tuesday episode. Hi Stace,
Speaker 2: welcome back.
Speaker 3: Good to be here.
Speaker 2: keV yep, good to see you. So here we are
Speaker 2: with the ask anything feature. Should I be scared?
Speaker 3: I mean, we definitely did some filtering, but no.
Speaker 4: For the most part, these these questions were pretty pretty tame,
Speaker 4: just a couple wanting you to marry them, but most
Speaker 4: very interested in the work and your music and your career.
Speaker 4: So it's yeah, it's been so much fun.
Speaker 2: Oh cool, cool, Okay, well, what do we do far away?
Speaker 1: Give me a question?
Speaker 4: So our first question is from Amelia Heapner. I love
Speaker 4: this question, and part of it is because my husband
Speaker 4: Danny this is his favorite film of yours.
Speaker 3: So we haven't.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's like exactly exactly.
Speaker 4: I'm like, hold it together. It does say a lot
Speaker 4: about him though, for this film. I'm like, oh, this
Speaker 4: is your favorite. Okay, that's great. It's a lot of
Speaker 4: people's favorites. And her question is has your opinion on
Speaker 4: the movie Tremor's changed over time and how do you
Speaker 4: feel about the popularity that has gained over the years.
Speaker 3: Because it's definitely like a cult following, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is, it's and it's Yeah. Has my opinion
Speaker 2: about it changed well, I think in a way, yeah,
Speaker 2: it kind of has, because honestly, when I took the movie,
Speaker 2: I was in a very low point in my career
Speaker 2: and a low point in terms of there was a
Speaker 2: lot of stuff just kind of going on personally that
Speaker 2: I was feeling a lot of sort of pressure around.
Speaker 2: My wife had just gotten pregnant with our first child
Speaker 2: with Travis, and my mother had been diagnosed with cancer,
Speaker 2: and I was felt like we were running out of
Speaker 2: money and had all this kind of responsibility and all
Speaker 2: this stuff going on. And I remember, while I really
Speaker 2: liked the script, I thought to myself, this is a
Speaker 2: pretty risky thing because this is a movie about underground worms,
Speaker 2: and it's just kind of scary and sort of funny
Speaker 2: and silly, and I don't know, this just seems like
Speaker 2: this could be a disaster, you know. And but I
Speaker 2: so I had a lot of doubts about it and
Speaker 2: a lot of kind of fear about making the movie.
Speaker 2: I loved making it. We were up in Lone Pine, California.
Speaker 2: Have you ever driven through Long Pine stace you probably have.
Speaker 4: I haven't really unless is it kind of like the
Speaker 4: is it the same as a trail all one hundred
Speaker 4: giants like the big trees or no.
Speaker 1: It's like.
Speaker 2: It's about three and a half hours of three hours
Speaker 2: north of LA but sort of inland, not on the coast,
Speaker 2: and it's a really cool little town. It's been beautiful
Speaker 2: rock formations and stuff that they used for old Westerns
Speaker 2: and shot stuff up there in Hollywood. It was a
Speaker 2: tiny little town. They built that town the you know,
Speaker 2: the perfection, the tremors town out in the middle of
Speaker 2: the desert. My wife was at that point nine months
Speaker 2: pregnant and driving down to Los Angeles for her you know,
Speaker 2: doctor's appointments because there was no hospital up there, so
Speaker 2: we were really terrified that she was going to go
Speaker 2: into labor while we were While we were doing it,
Speaker 2: they had a uh I think about an hour away
Speaker 2: or something. There was a midwife, but that was the
Speaker 2: closest that we could we could get. So that was
Speaker 2: everything was just kind of like intensified in my life
Speaker 2: and the whole thing. Uh I had a great time
Speaker 2: making the movie. Unfortunately, when the movie came out, it
Speaker 2: just didn't people just didn't go. I don't think that
Speaker 2: they did a great job of marketing it, as you know.
Speaker 2: What I've learned over the years is that scary funny
Speaker 2: is oftentimes a tough thing for people to get their
Speaker 2: heads around. It's getting better, like now, there's been you know,
Speaker 2: a bunch of movies that have kind of been able
Speaker 2: to you know, work.
Speaker 1: That both both of those ideas together.
Speaker 2: But although it was huge on video, and this is
Speaker 2: back in the days of Blockbuster, so nobody went to
Speaker 2: the theater to watch it, but a lot of people
Speaker 2: rented it, and to the point where they made part
Speaker 2: two and three, and four, and five and six, seven,
Speaker 2: eight nine, They just kept making them.
Speaker 4: I remember walking to Blockbuster and picking out a movie
Speaker 4: every Friday. Really yeah, it's like surreal that my kids
Speaker 4: will never have that, you know kind of memory.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was to pick their own video, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, in the kids section, you know, And yeah,
Speaker 2: I remember doing that with my kids. It really was.
Speaker 2: It was a it was interesting. I mean, listen, that's great,
Speaker 2: you know whatever, streaming, you know, it's everything these days
Speaker 2: is at our fingertips. But and I never would have
Speaker 2: thought at the time, this is an experience that we'll
Speaker 2: ever never well we will someday, not have I just
Speaker 2: wouldn't have thought that. The idea of going and getting
Speaker 2: this tape and bringing it home, Oh my gosh. And
Speaker 2: you remember trying to like record things on tape on TV,
Speaker 2: like so tis nightmare, total nightmare.
Speaker 1: Well that would be your parents trying to do that.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 3: Here's a funny story.
Speaker 4: I'm digitalizing all my family home videos now, and there'll
Speaker 4: be like a birthday party when I'm six, and then
Speaker 4: all of a sudden, we'll cut to some like crappy
Speaker 4: opening of an HBO Sunday Night movie like the do
Speaker 4: you remember like the the be through the drone going
Speaker 4: over the town that looked like beetlejuice used to be
Speaker 4: the opening credits, And I'm like, did you just cut
Speaker 4: off my birthday song?
Speaker 3: At six?
Speaker 4: So for like teen Witch, which also I appreciate because
Speaker 4: that's why I love the movie, because I watched it
Speaker 4: even though the lines digged across the street and every
Speaker 4: time we put it in the VCR.
Speaker 3: But well, my kids will never know or appreciate.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's true, It's true. It's so funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Blockbuster was definitely was definitely a thing. Well, we
Speaker 2: were up in the Sticks when we first got married,
Speaker 2: and there was no Blockbuster. There was a tiny, little
Speaker 2: small town video store and their selection was not great,
Speaker 2: to say the least. And there was a woman who
Speaker 2: was a pretty tough cookie who ran the video store,
Speaker 2: and she would would make decisions about what we were
Speaker 2: renting and whether or not it was appropriate and tell us,
Speaker 2: I don't think so, dear, I don't think you'll want
Speaker 2: that one. Dear No, No, I hope you're not showing
Speaker 2: that to the kids, Dear No, this was just for us. Okay, okay,
Speaker 2: good luck with that one. I mean really, like literally
Speaker 2: she was constantly doing her own you know, reviews of
Speaker 2: of of what was appropriate for us to not only
Speaker 2: for us to watch, but but you know for the
Speaker 2: kids too. So ah, yes, those are the days. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: that was a big That was a big Blockbuster hit,
Speaker 2: and now it's a hit with Danny.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's right, full circle. So it was kind
Speaker 4: of beneath perfection, but to some people it is perfection, right, right,
Speaker 4: that's the riff that most people don't know about if
Speaker 4: they haven't gone to one of your shows.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's true. The movie was called Beneath Perfection originally,
Speaker 2: and one of my prize possessions is my.
Speaker 1: Crew jacket.
Speaker 2: It's an old, you know, nineties Levi's jacket worn in
Speaker 2: and on the back of it it says Beneath Perfection.
Speaker 2: You know, for those of you that don't know, sometimes
Speaker 2: when you're making films or television shows, you know, they
Speaker 2: create a piece of what we call swag hat or
Speaker 2: jackets or shirts or whatever that you can keep after
Speaker 2: the movie is over that has the name of the
Speaker 2: movie on it. And so I have the jacket and
Speaker 2: I wrote a song while we were doing the movie
Speaker 2: called Beneath Perfection because I thought it was a good
Speaker 2: title for a song. And my brother and I have
Speaker 2: always written songs to try to put them into movies,
Speaker 2: which never happens.
Speaker 1: We're just.
Speaker 2: Never successful with that, and this was no exception. But
Speaker 2: we still play the song and we.
Speaker 1: Like the song. It's fun to play. Yeah, it's called
Speaker 1: Beneath Perfection.
Speaker 4: And then people like me try to get those jackets
Speaker 4: later on and auction them for charity and that's really funky.
Speaker 3: Watch out even you just let me in on a secret.
Speaker 1: Oh wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Actually, we've never talked about that. I do have
Speaker 2: some stuff that we definitely could you know, we definitely
Speaker 2: could try to a definitely. Yeah, well, I got boxes,
Speaker 2: I got boxes of you know, I don't keep. You know,
Speaker 2: there's people that keep a lot of things from movies.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I've heard that Robert de Niro keeps like a prop
Speaker 2: or all of his props or something, and as a
Speaker 2: giant warehouse of props, which you know, I've always thought
Speaker 2: was kind of interesting.
Speaker 1: But it's funny.
Speaker 2: I have this thing where when I finished something, like
Speaker 2: I'm done with it, Like I don't want to hold
Speaker 2: on to like the character or the memory or any
Speaker 2: of it. I just I'm ready to like kiss that
Speaker 2: character goodbye and move on to the next thing. So
Speaker 2: I really have I don't have that much, but I
Speaker 2: do have have the one thing I sometimes keep, or
Speaker 2: the crew jackets or the crew T shirts or whatever.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's reasonable.
Speaker 4: You've done some dark characters too, so probably probably good
Speaker 4: to walk away from them.
Speaker 1: No, Yeah, you're totally right about that.
Speaker 4: This next question is actually a sound bait, so that's
Speaker 4: really fun. People can rate in, or they can go
Speaker 4: to our website and they can record a voicemail and
Speaker 4: this is from Angeline.
Speaker 3: She thus all the way from down Under.
Speaker 5: Hi Kevin. My name is Angelaine and I've been a
Speaker 5: huge fan of you pretty much since Footloose. You've got
Speaker 5: such a huge fan base in Australia and I'm just
Speaker 5: wondering why you've never really come to Australia to films
Speaker 5: or even toured with the Bacon Brothers. I actually had
Speaker 5: to come all the way to New York to see
Speaker 5: you and the Baker Brothers play back in two thousand
Speaker 5: and six at the bb.
Speaker 1: King Blues Club.
Speaker 5: Highlight of my life. I have to say. My husband
Speaker 5: has also told me that I've never he's never seen
Speaker 5: me smile so much when I was seeing you and
Speaker 5: your brother play. So just hoping you can come to
Speaker 5: Australia one day, and just wondering when are you going
Speaker 5: to bring here and the kids? Thanks Kevin Finn.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you, thank you. Actually, first off, let me
Speaker 2: just say thank you to you and to Australia. I
Speaker 2: actually love I'll start with just I love hearing the
Speaker 2: way you speak. It's just so good. I wish I
Speaker 2: could do an Australian accent. I really can. I've never
Speaker 2: been asked to do one, so I've never really had
Speaker 2: to work on it. But it's it's just it's it's
Speaker 2: it's just music to my ears. And wow, you came
Speaker 2: all the way to New York to see us play.
Speaker 2: That is a long trip. Thank you. Thank you for
Speaker 2: being such a fan of the Bacon Brothers and of
Speaker 2: you know, the work that I've done. You know, I
Speaker 2: have been to Australia a couple of times, but it's
Speaker 2: been many, many years, and I loved it when I
Speaker 2: was there.
Speaker 1: I didn't get a.
Speaker 2: Chance really to travel all across the country. It's not
Speaker 2: that I have anything against going to that country. I'm
Speaker 2: really I would really love to do it. And we've
Speaker 2: often spoken as a family about that as a place
Speaker 2: to visit, and it would be really fun to go
Speaker 2: and do a little tour with the band. So that
Speaker 2: is definitely something that is on the list of things
Speaker 2: to do, often known as the bucket list.
Speaker 1: I would love to I would love to be there.
Speaker 2: I have some very close Australian friends and it would
Speaker 2: be really fun to come down and see them as
Speaker 2: well and just have a little hang.
Speaker 3: How long is that flight?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, is it eighteen hours?
Speaker 1: Maybe.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been.
Speaker 3: I haven't.
Speaker 4: It's also on the bucket list in New Zealand. But yeah,
Speaker 4: that's a commitment. You know, I have little kids, so
Speaker 4: we're gonna have to wait until they're a little bit,
Speaker 4: a little bit older for that trip.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, I did a movie in New Zealand called Whitewater Summer.
Speaker 2: We did some shooting down there, and the reason that
Speaker 2: we so we had to stop, we stopped in Australia,
Speaker 2: and that's why I ended up up, you know, hanging
Speaker 2: out in Sydney for like a I don't know, four
Speaker 2: or five days.
Speaker 1: But both both spots are.
Speaker 2: Absolutely just beautiful and interesting, and you know, you kind
Speaker 2: of we kind of have this kind of mistakenly, you know,
Speaker 2: think of them as right next to each other, and they're.
Speaker 1: Pretty far apart.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, yeah, yeah, I mean they're really very far apart.
Speaker 2: But but yeah, I've you know, and there's a lot
Speaker 2: of stuff that gets shot down in Australia, you know,
Speaker 2: filming wise, but it's just never it's just never come
Speaker 2: my way. So I definitely want to I definitely want
Speaker 2: to go.
Speaker 4: Got to work on that accent, Yeah, exactly, we call
Speaker 4: the one thing that Kevin Bacon can't do.
Speaker 2: No, there's plenty of things Kevin Bacon can't do, but
Speaker 2: that that is a that's a hard one for sure.
Speaker 4: All Right, so we have time for one more, Okay,
Speaker 4: and this is actually a really great one as well.
Speaker 4: We got a letter from Dealina Cain and she said,
Speaker 4: I'm a big supporter of Sidewalk Angels created by Rob
Speaker 4: and Mayor Saul Thomas from their charity I found Tabby's Place.
Speaker 4: I would love for you to feature each of these
Speaker 4: organizations on your podcast. And thanks for all you do. Well,
Speaker 4: thank you, Delina. That's very sweet.
Speaker 3: Have you met Rob?
Speaker 2: Wow? If I met Rob Thomas Rob Thomas Matchbox twenty,
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I don't think so. I don't
Speaker 2: have a memory of meeting him. Of course I know
Speaker 2: the music very well, and you know he's a great,
Speaker 2: great singer. But that's cool that they have this, that
Speaker 2: they have this, this foundation, Sidewalk Agents, this is a
Speaker 2: this is an animal thing, right yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: They so they really support other no kill animal shelters
Speaker 4: and like animal rescues. I think I was reading that
Speaker 4: they support over twenty no kill animal shelters and rescue
Speaker 4: across the whole country, so kind of much amazing.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 4: It is, and he actually leans into his celebrity and
Speaker 4: his talent of seeing. And it looks like they do
Speaker 4: kind of like an annual concert benefit every year to
Speaker 4: help fundraise, and then that money goes directly to the
Speaker 4: shelters to kind of help, you know, rehome animals and
Speaker 4: Spade and Newter and helping to teach children kindness and
Speaker 4: compassion through the animals. All kinds of really really cool things.
Speaker 2: Well, that's great. We actually just we have I didn't
Speaker 2: think I even told you this. We have three new
Speaker 2: goats at the farm who were you know, they were
Speaker 2: in a you know, not a great situation and probably
Speaker 2: on their way to auction. Uh and uh so they're
Speaker 2: they're with us now.
Speaker 3: Another couple of goats uh.
Speaker 1: More got poop. Uh.
Speaker 2: We haven't named them yet, but I'm thinking I'm thinking
Speaker 2: about many Moe and Jack. But a lot of people
Speaker 2: don't know what that is Manny Mow and Jack with
Speaker 2: the pet.
Speaker 3: Oh no, I was gonna say that, Yeah, the.
Speaker 2: P that's that's Moe and shep and Curly, which is
Speaker 2: my second my second choice. Actually, I don't even know
Speaker 2: if I'm going to be naming these goats. But anyway,
Speaker 2: that's cool that Rob Thomas is doing that. And you know,
Speaker 2: we had Amanda Seyford who was you know, was also
Speaker 2: on the show right on the podcast who it was
Speaker 2: best Friends, which is another no kill shelter. But this
Speaker 2: is really amazing twenty twenty. All of I wonder where
Speaker 2: they are?
Speaker 1: Are they are? They just kind of spread out, they are.
Speaker 4: They're spread out all across the country. And Delina who
Speaker 4: wrote in, she said she had found Tabby's Place through them,
Speaker 4: and Tabby's Place is actually local to New Jersey.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, So Tabby's Place is one of the ones
Speaker 2: that's associated Sidewalk Angels exactly exactly.
Speaker 4: That Helpston benefits from the funding that they raise every
Speaker 4: and so if anybody is interested in learning more about
Speaker 4: this awesome organization, they can head over to Sidewalkangelsfoundation dot org.
Speaker 4: There's lots of information about how they raise really critical
Speaker 4: funds to support.
Speaker 3: These animals, and.
Speaker 4: You really that they rely on the generosity of you
Speaker 4: all and our listeners.
Speaker 3: So we hope you check them out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, check them out. I'm going to check them out
Speaker 2: right now now. If you want to ask me a question,
Speaker 2: or you can ask Stacy a question too, by the way,
Speaker 2: because Stacy, you're all in with me on this, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're willing to feel the questions, thank you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, Rod, If you want to ask either one of
Speaker 2: us a question about almost anything, you can head to
Speaker 2: our show notes for the link, leave me a voicemail,
Speaker 2: or you can send a DM to us at six
Speaker 2: degrees of KB on Instagram and links for that will
Speaker 2: be in our show notes as well. I'd love to
Speaker 2: hear from you. You know, we're I mean, aside from
Speaker 2: proposals for marriage, you know, we're open to discussing anything
Speaker 2: for sure. All Right, Thanks everybody, Thanks Daisy, see you
Speaker 2: next week.
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