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May 27, 2023 - Lionel Nation
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Mr. & Mrs. L ↔ Friday Night Livestreaming
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*Mario*
I hope we're ready.
Can you see us?
Can you see us?
Are we 5x5, everybody?
Can you see us?
Are you seeing us?
We had a change of plans this evening.
We were going to go to a movie.
We were going to have date night.
And then, let me tell you that story.
That's always a good one.
But we're glad to be with you.
Yes, concatenation.
Did you look it up, Dick?
Look up the word concatenation.
Be surprised at people who say, what?
Did you look it up?
No.
Why didn't you look it up?
We were going to go see a movie tonight and we looked.
It's kind of one of these new...
Not artsy, but it's a new theater.
And they have a bigger theater and a smaller theater.
And we thought, oh, the bigger one, this looks good.
Well, we didn't realize, but at 7.45, it was going to be in the little one.
And there's no way we're going to be stuck in this tiny room.
No, can't do that.
Well, there's 12 seats.
There's 12 seats.
I don't want to be stuck next to it.
Plus, they have these people who come in and they always...
Hi, everybody.
My name is Julius.
I'm going to be...
If you need any drinks, hit that thing.
I say, would you please...
I can't understand you.
You're talking through this.
They mean well.
They're working.
I give them credit.
I thought I would just come and hang with you, as the kids say, and just after a long week.
Since we didn't go to the movie.
I hate that.
May I start off by just saying we're going to be a little bit light tonight, just to join us?
We must.
Would you please tell me, why is everybody calling me Dude?
Why is it, hey Dude?
Are they calling you that?
Yeah!
Because they're calling me Dude, which I take great offense to.
And I think even if I was 20 years old, I'd take great offense to being called Dude.
I have a friend of mine who is my age.
I've known him since I was 8 years old.
He's a physician.
He says, dude.
I said, no, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
I correct people, too.
No, dude, no.
And may I say, can we just bitch and moan tonight?
Would you please tell me why you'll call somebody and they say the whatever has not set up their phone yet?
Or they set up their voicemail?
You don't?
Or the mailbox is full?
What's the matter with you?
Or they say, well, I don't read emails.
Did you answer my email?
No.
Well, let's switch subjects.
I can't even talk.
I'm not done yet.
Subjects?
You sound like Carol Chan.
I know, but I just finished...
Or Liza Minnelli.
Well, I just finished my two-hour radio program, and I...
It was a great one, too.
And on a Friday, I can't talk anymore, but we must.
Let's talk about all day long, people were saying in the media to me...
And I was hearing, Happy Memorial Day.
And I was busy correcting everybody and saying not to be, you know, so...
But I was saying, well, let's review the true meaning of Memorial Day.
And then I would go into my explanation and nobody was answering me or anything like that.
It was just about, we're going to the beach.
I spoke to somebody from AAA who said more cars are taking onto the road since 2005.
This is the biggest of, I think it was 43 million people, he said, hitting the road, going within 50 miles.
And he was saying, Happy Memorial Day.
I was asking, what do you think the future will be with AI and self-driving cars?
I wasn't getting far.
It was brutal.
I was asking good questions.
I'm listening to this.
I was asking good questions.
First, let me just stop for a second.
Stop for a second.
Eric Thaddeus Walters joined us.
They do women.
She has one who calls her dude.
In business, by the way.
It's not a friend or anything.
It's in a business meeting she's calling women.
What is this business?
I find it offensive.
It's something about that that gets me very upset.
Number one, do you agree with me?
Do you agree with me that sometimes going...
Faster.
Having these 55 mile an hour speed limits are ridiculous.
If you have faster, a la the Autobahn and others, even though you might technically be going faster, it's actually more fuel economical because you get there faster, there's less problems.
Highways are not meant to be driven at 55. Don't get me started with that.
Well, that's here.
And some of them are 65 here.
California, though, you have, what, 80, 85 in other areas.
I know Colorado's higher.
I asked him about that as well.
I didn't seem to get a very clear answer on that.
Oh, don't worry about it.
We'll talk about this show.
That's the one that matters.
No, no, we're talking about the fuel.
A long story short, do you still talk to Curtis and or Ron?
Ron?
I do not talk to Curtis and or Ron.
Curtis, I do not...
I've not spoken to Curtis in years.
Even when he was running for mayor.
I don't know why.
He got kind of just...
I don't know.
He never did...
And then he went to this feral cat thing.
Curtis Lewa, by the way, is...
He's the head of the Guardian Angels.
He has his own radio show.
I think he's still doing it.
You spoke to him, I think, before COVID.
Then COVID happened.
I texted him.
Never calls.
He's not very loquacious.
I think you met him on the street one time.
Maybe.
But then when he was running for mayor, I was all for it compared to this judge rule we have now.
But he all of a sudden married a woman who's into cats.
And he went from This thing about cats.
Oh, here I am, Mr. Peepers.
Now, I'm an islerophile to an extent, but I said, listen, this is the city of New York.
We've got big problems here.
Nobody talks about feral cat kill shelters, so I don't know what the hell that's about.
So the answer is no.
Ron, I guess Ron Cooby.
I have not spoken with Ron in years.
Daniel says, my high school students call me bro, bruh, brah, and dude.
Students?
Student, yeah.
What happened to Mr., Mrs. and Miss?
They don't do that anymore?
No, they don't do that one.
Can we talk about, would you talk about Tina Turner, please?
I feel bad about Tina Turner.
And I don't, I think I feel bad because it brings me back to 1984.
It brings me back to when that CD came out.
It brings me back to the music videos.
It brings me back just to that time period.
I was thinking today, why do I feel so bad?
And I do want to point out...
You don't want to go back to 1984, do you?
No, I don't want to go back.
Oh, okay.
But I'm just saying, you were young, you remember the music.
I remember running around, you know, New York.
It was a whole different mindset.
But I do want to say something about Tina Turner.
She was one of the ultimate survivors of domestic violence.
Oh.
And she really did...
Didn't...
But she really did a lot of good behind the scenes that...
The public probably will never know about.
But she was the ultimate one of them in her final escape and then living with the trauma for the rest of her life.
What was the story with...
Was it Beyoncé?
She made some comment or something?
Did you read this?
Well, they got into some sort of catfight about something because I think Beyoncé at one point, if I recall...
Something about she and the husband, what's his name, ZJ, Jay-Z, mentioned Ike or something on a stage or something about they gave credit to Ike knowing the story was out there about Tina being so violently and viciously abused by him for years.
And, you know, things like throwing out of cars and set on fire.
Here we go.
Tina Turner, Beyonce.
Don't.
Anyway.
Tina Turner fans have turned on Jay-Z and Beyonce over a song lyric that mocks the late singer's abusive history with ex-husband Ike Turner.
Something about that Ike.
In the couple of 2013 hit duets track Drunk in Love, Jay-Z raps Beat the box up like Mike in 97 I Bite.
I'm Ike Turner.
Turn up, baby.
No, I don't play.
Baby, no, I don't play.
Now, eat the cake, Anna Mae.
What are you reading?
Said, eat the cake, Anna Mae.
It's the worst lyrics.
You know, you don't write them.
You know who'd be?
Robert Goulet would be great with this.
This is moronic.
This is just...
I'm sorry.
It's just...
Oh, oh!
You were very upset when Wap Snappy was...
What's his name?
Fetty Wap.
Fetty Wap.
No, but I brought it up the other day.
People didn't know what I was talking about.
Six years.
You're the hippest person.
Nobody seems to ever know what I'm talking about.
You know all...
If you read everybody a few things on the computer, you find these things out.
I don't know what's wrong with everybody.
But also, we know the stupidest people.
We want to do a TV show where we bring people out.
They don't know why they're on.
They think that we're interviewing them.
And then you've got to figure out, why are these stupid?
Like, when do you...
Like, you hit a buzzer or something when you realize that they're really stupid.
You have no idea.
And I don't want to say too much because you might be watching.
But I am just...
I am, I mean, stupid.
Your people are smart, good, happy people.
Our people.
Excuse me, our people.
Okay, our people.
I'm crashing tonight on a Friday night.
Tina Turner, we're not going to do this on that long.
Tina Turner, by the way, I taught Mick Jagger how to dance.
Tina Turner sold more.
Guinness World Book of Record for her concert in Rio.
180,000 packed the stadium.
We don't have those kind of stadiums.
And don't believe this hype about Taylor Swift and people paying $20,000 a ticket or whatever those stories are.
All PR, all spin, all marketing, which makes the world go round.
But we don't have...
That's what I miss.
We don't have $60,000 in a stadium going to see...
You know, Jackson 5 over the...
I still call it Giant Stadium.
I'm not sure what the name is these days.
Did you see Jackson 5?
Several times.
I saw them.
But I saw it in the early 80s.
I would go back and see...
Remember we had like Tina Turner, we had Michael Jackson, we had Cyndi Lauper, we had Madonna, all...
Tell me some of your concerts.
Tell me some of your big concerts you saw.
Me?
I just named them.
Tommy Dorsey?
What are you implying?
I'm old?
No.
Thank you.
No.
No.
Moody Valley.
No, those were the...
And when I was in high school, there was, in the 70s at one point, there was sort of this retrospective, like going back to the 50s, maybe that was getting into those happy days, the TV show, there was all that.
Oh, what was the movie we started watching?
American Graffiti.
American Graffiti.
I guess we fell asleep.
We always follow it.
Okay.
It was the other...
It wasn't that long ago.
It was like two weeks ago.
You know what we should do?
We ought to do...
Movie reviews.
Yes, movie reviews, but we never see the end of it because we fall asleep.
Well, we don't know.
If anybody saw the end of this...
No, we decided to have some late entertainment, so you said...
Oh, I know, I know.
American Graffiti.
I loved it.
I'm trying to get to it.
It was that point, and then I think Happy Days was a spinoff of that, Laverne and Shirley.
But I'm talking...
I remember coming into the city to go to Madison Square Garden.
There was a 50s extravaganza.
It was like a whole bunch of acts.
Let me just stop right there.
Happy Days came from an episode of Love American Style.
That's right.
I forgot about that, but you're right.
Did you watch that show, Love American Style?
Oh, Friday nights.
Love American Style.
No, but I loved it.
Who did the song?
Who did it?
You know?
I know who did it, but I don't want to ruin it for everybody.
First one to get it wins something.
I don't know if we don't win anything.
Who did Love America?
No, we'll send them a mug.
No, we're not going to send them mugs.
No, because then we've got to go to the store.
We're not going to send them mugs.
I'll do it.
No, we've got to go to the post.
No, no, please, please, please.
And then we're going to forget.
And then somebody's going to get upset.
No, no, we'll just send you a love.
Who did it?
Come on, who did it?
Lawrence Welk.
Correct.
Myron Florin and Joe Feeney.
Did you ever watch that with your grandparents?
Did you ever watch...
Did Love American Style?
Lawrence Welk.
Okay, I don't have time.
I used to watch Lawrence Welk Saturday night, right?
I was very little.
Bless you.
Bless you, bless you.
Captain Clockwork, The Cow Sills.
Thank you.
That's it, The Cow Sills.
They were damn good.
We saw them.
Well, we did see them right before...
The Rona.
The Co.
It was right before.
It was my birthday, as a matter of fact.
That's when we saw them.
Let's go back.
Friday night.
The Wild Wild West.
Artemis Gordon.
Remember that?
Jim West.
Remember Miguelito Loveless?
Michael Dunn?
Did you ever watch things like Medical Center?
Yes, Chad Everett.
I might have been in the fourth grade.
And James Daly, who was Tyne Daly's father.
Right, but I might have been in the fourth, fifth grade.
Medical Center.
Those kind of...
Sunday night.
Remember those shows used to rotate?
It would be like Telly Savalas.
Well, it was Kojak.
Who was the one who rode the horse through New York?
He wore like a cowboy Dennis.
Dennis...
I'm losing my mind.
I can't see him.
Dennis...
Not Hooper.
Dennis Weaver.
Dennis Weaver.
There was like a series or a bunch of...
And they would change...
Kojak said one time, he said, I'm going to scatter your brains from here to White Plains.
Oh, that was...
Remember Crocker!
What?
Remember poor Crocker had to do all these...
That was good 50 years ago.
Crocker had to do all these jobs.
Crocker was the Dano.
Book him, Dano.
Dano, what?
He always did these stupid jobs.
Why did you ask Stavros?
Who was his brother, George Savalas.
Yeah, that's his brother.
Dukes of Hazzard.
Oh, Emergency.
Emergency.
Emergency was Bobby Short, who wrote what famous song?
One of the greatest jazz songs ever.
Bobby Short, married to...
Not Jill Ironman.
Kathy?
No, Kathy.
Julie London.
And...
I've got to sneeze here.
Bobby...
You're allergic to me.
Bobby Troop, married...
Julie London, who was married to Jack Webb, and I think adopted his kids, and Jack Webb liked him, or was so appreciative.
Put him on.
He was the worst actor.
Randy Mantooth.
Remember that?
Yeah, I do.
Randy Mantooth.
But he wrote Route 66, Bobby Troop, one of the greats.
Did you know that?
You didn't know that.
Oh, Friday Nights.
We're not done with that.
Wild Wild West.
Love American Style with...
The guy who played...
He was in...
The Rockford Files.
He played his angel.
He played the guy Angel.
He was always in...
Oh, I know who you mean.
I can see his face.
Yes.
Yeah, he had like the dark hair.
Then came Bronson.
Different story.
Then came Bronson.
No, that's not...
You're talking about...
Whatever.
Sunday night was...
Wonderful World at Disney.
Ed Sullivan.
Bananas of Bazaar, Tuesday nights?
Speaking of Disney.
Don't get me started.
Their new version of The Little Mermaid came out.
Great movie.
It's been around for years, The Little Mermaid.
Don't tell me how it ends.
Well known.
But I am hearing that this version that they admit to costing $250 million, if they admit to that, you know it's more.
I don't know exactly, but it's always more than they put out there.
And they said it is beyond redemption.
Horrible.
It is horrific.
Tell us some of the...
I'm just going to leave it at that.
Tell us some of the...
Well, I want to say why it is, because they're trying with their diversity, inclusion, equity to put every character...
What's female is male.
That's good.
They have mermen.
They have...
Ethel mermen.
Adults do what you like.
Gotta dance!
Leave the children alone.
That's what I have to say.
Adults do what...
Speaking of...
Why...
By the way...
Excuse me.
Stuart Margolin was that actor.
That's it.
Wild Kingdom was great with...
Hello!
Myron!
Who is it?
The old...
It was Jim Fowler and Marlon Perkins.
One time, remember, I think Robert Klein goes, and now Jim is going to be tackling the 20-foot python, the particulator, while I watch safely from this tree.
And Jim would go out there and they, Marlon, help me!
Call for help!
And you see this snake, this rabbit, I can't breathe!
As you can see.
Jim is unable to catch his breath.
Marlon, help me!
Those were the days.
Those were the days.
Didn't you say when you were a kid that Ed Sullivan scared you?
Yes, from the time I was a very...
As far back as I can remember, I might have been 2, 3, 4, I thought he looked to me.
I never told anybody.
I thought he looked like a dead person.
That would be funny.
I didn't even know what a dead person really looked like, but I thought he looked like...
Your book would be Ed Sullivan Scared Me.
By the way, Liam Sandow writes, Are you too young to remember Jackie Gleason on Saturday Nights?
Are you kidding me?
Jackie Gleason.
Jackie Gleason?
Of course.
From the 1953?
I'm too young for that.
No, Saturday Nights.
Jackie Gleason and Culler, when they would have...
He was in Miami.
Don't you remember this?
I don't know.
You know, I go back to, like, I Dream of Jeannie.
I think it was a Saturday night, too.
Master!
Remember then when she was pregnant?
They couldn't show her navel?
Those so seem so...
So...
I don't know, though.
If you watch some of those shows, like I Dream of Jeannie now, you pick up a lot of innuendo.
Yes.
Which is not an Italian suppository, by the way.
You know, remember when we got onto this thing, Don't Ask Me Why?
Remember when we watched Peyton Place?
That was saucy.
Oh my God!
I can't believe!
My mother loved that show.
Do yourself a favor.
You cannot believe what they got away with it.
Did you like Dark Shadows?
I loved it.
I would rush home from school.
Jonathan Freed or Frid who played Barnabas Collins?
They did it live because sometimes you'd go to open the door, the doorknob would fall off or the door would shake or things would happen.
Somebody writes Mannix.
I'm still watching that.
You love the TV on.
What's it called?
MeTV?
Mannix is still on at 3 in the morning.
If I say she's asleep and I turn it off, she's like, what is it?
You turn it off?
I'm watching that.
You're not watching it.
You're not watching Barnaby Jones at 3 in the morning.
I'm watching Mannix at 3 in the morning.
Barnaby Jones, I love that one too.
It's light entertainment after the type of work we do.
Who hired Mannix to do Peggy?
He has that secretary.
Gail Fisher was Peggy.
The office and the house for that townhouse.
Remember Barnaby Jones?
He could do anything with that microscope?
Oh, I know.
Susan St. James.
That was the other one.
That was Rock Hudson.
McMillan and Wife.
McMillan and Wife.
Oh, I used to love that one.
Remember when she was...
Was he kissing her?
No, it was Linda Evans.
When he had AIDS and he was kissing her a lot.
Remember that one?
That's a whole other subject.
Ben Casey never got anything.
Never did...
Oh, The Fugitive is on now.
I've been watching that.
Never.
2, 3 in the morning.
David Jansen?
Yeah.
Never got into that.
We have that going on.
Never got into it.
Streets of San Francisco.
You remember Ironside?
I didn't really watch Ironside.
He had chili.
He had these big cans of chili.
I didn't really watch it.
He had this big truck.
But it was good.
He was in a wheelchair.
And he had this big truck.
The Big Valley.
Let me tell you something.
Big Valley.
Anybody who hung out with any of the Barclays died.
Any woman.
Poor Audra.
By the way, how about Peter...
What was his name?
Peter Breck, who played...
It was not Heath, but who played Nick.
He had all that leather.
Remember that?
He had that nice little necktie and the black...
The stories are so traumatizing.
And the leather jacket and the leather this and the leather leather.
And then Heath.
Well, entertainment.
That's entertainment.
Lee Mayerger's one of the greatest...
Remember when Bonanza first started?
By the way, side note here.
Watch the scene from Tin Men when Jackie Gale, they would have this diner scene.
And Jackie Gale, the nightclub comic, who was also very close friends with Lenny Bruce, said, Do you ever watch Bonanza?
He had that lift.
Do you ever watch Bonanza?
He said, He said, they were all 40 years old.
They looked nothing like each other.
He goes, how are they kids?
He had Hoss, Dan Blocker, who's like 6 '5", 400 pounds, Little Joe, you had Adam, who just took off.
It's Hollywood.
No, he just left.
Purnell Roberts.
He just left.
Who was in Trapper John?
But he just left.
Hopsing.
The Cooley with the braid.
Oh, Ben Cartwright.
What did they do on the Ponderosa?
Oh, what else?
Mrs. L's hair looks fantastic.
Oh, thank you.
Doesn't it look great?
Thank you.
Thank you.
F Troop, what's with all the cowboy series in the 60s?
I know, we have no...
No, didn't we hear something about it came out of the government?
The Americana, they were from out of the 40s, up to the 50s, into the 60s.
It was putting forth this...
What's the word?
Help me here.
Look at this.
Liam Sandow said, My sister was a huge Dr. Kildare fan.
She once met Richard Chamberlain after a Broadway show.
He kissed her hand, and she didn't wash it for a week.
You know, I saw him in Warmingdale's one time in the tiniest shorts.
It had to be about 1980.
Remember men used to wear those shorts?
They were like silky.
Uh-huh.
No, silky.
You know.
Which is okay.
Nothing wrong with that.
No, they had those little slits up the sides.
No, I don't wear that.
I think they used to wear them to run back in the day.
Yeah.
Run, all right.
It was unusual to see somebody walk through.
You've got to run if you wear those shorts.
Let me finish the story.
I'm sorry.
You didn't really see men walking in those kinds of shorts in New York in 1981.
It was around 80, 81. And I remember he just strolled down the main aisle of Bloomingdale's here in New York with the tiniest little satin shorts.
Remember the whole disco satin shorts thing?
No!
I don't.
And he had those on.
That's all I want to say about that.
Who were some of the famous people you met when you worked for some of your many jobs and department stores?
Oh, that's boring.
No, no, no.
People that you saw.
Jackie Kennedy you saw all the time.
Yeah.
You don't see people on the streets.
We really don't.
Anymore.
You used to always see what were considered celebrities in the 70s, 80s, 90s, even 2000s.
You don't...
I guess everybody's in there.
Well, who were some of the people that...
Well, I don't even know.
I mean, I worked with a lot of people in the music business.
Everybody in the music business, from Mick Jagger to Madonna.
I don't even know what to say.
All of them.
Weren't there some people they told you?
Well, maybe you can.
Well, you can't look at them in their eyes.
No.
Okay.
No, no, no, you can say it.
No, I'm not saying names.
No, no, what difference does it make?
I'm not saying names.
Don't look at them in the eyes.
Who in the hell do you think you are?
No, but you would just see walking on 5th and Madison, especially up east side.
You would see people used to walk.
It was more normalized.
And they would even say, different celebrities, oh, that's why we love New York.
Nobody really bothers us too much.
John Lennon?
John Lennon was out all the time in Central Park walking.
Those days are open.
I don't see anybody anymore in the streets.
I used to go walking in Central Park with Tim McCarver who was always there.
Oh, certain things for me at the Daggs on 57th across the street right there at the Hudson Hotel.
I think they might have lived there.
Werner Klemper, Colonel Klink, who were at the Daggs.
I'm buying toilet paper.
I looked over and said, ain't this something?
I don't know if I'd brag about that.
Just like this.
I said, ain't this something?
He looks at me.
I said, me and Colonel Klink buying toilet paper.
What do you think, Klink?
I like the Charmin double.
He was very, very nice.
Saw Nipsey Russell.
Georgia Engle was there.
Because they lived in the neighborhood.
Right there.
Mitch Miller was in the neighborhood.
They're all dead now.
Oh, yeah.
It's terrible.
They're all dead.
No, but we used to see them.
Another book of ours.
No.
We used to see them walking around a lot.
No, nothing.
Okay, all right.
How about the disco?
We should get serious a little bit.
Tell them about the disco years.
Studio 54. It was terrific.
I mean, that's what it was.
It was a period in time.
I'm glad I was around to witness it and be a part of certain things that are no longer...
Sex and the City and Fleetwoods.
Sex and the City was a great New York show.
Did a lot for New York.
Okay, so the radio program I do, the studio's in Australia.
Where all the mechanics come from.
I'm in New York City, and my co-host is in Texas.
And so it's fast-moving and headlines, and of course children's issues, family issues, education, medical, in addition to headlines that we can talk about.
And I try to give them the New York flavor.
For instance, yesterday morning, two mornings ago, when the fleet, the ships were parading, coming up the Hudson.
So I try to share that, but I don't get any emotion out of anybody, really, kind of.
I don't know about the listeners.
I try to portray, paint a picture of New York kind of thing.
But I was pointing out that there was an episode or two in Sex and the City.
I remember it was a big deal because Fleet Week officially started early 80s.
82. About 82. And they made it a major event.
If you're a New Yorker, you know...
Restaurants partnered.
Broadway shows we partnered.
All kinds of dancing.
They had things on ships.
I don't even know if that still exists today.
I would have to investigate it.
Probably doesn't.
But New York would pour out for Fleet Week.
And then when Sex and the City did an episode or two about them dancing and going to meet sailors, that was probably...
I think Sex and the City was definitely in the 90s.
It kind of exploded the whole Fleet Week.
And I know people that would...
Go to these events and disappear for three days.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, we know who that is.
I know who that is.
Not me.
No, no, not you.
Definitely no, no, no.
But I'm still looking for some of these people.
But I was trying to paint the picture of how exciting it was and honoring, you know, military.
Nobody could buy a drink.
Nobody could buy a dinner.
Everybody took pictures.
It was exciting.
It was nice.
It was welcoming.
For a lot of these young people who never saw...
Be careful.
Can you imagine coming, you know...
Coming into New York when you're 18, 20 years old and seeing all this for the first time, I can't imagine.
So anyway, I still think Fleet Week is somewhat exciting.
When I saw a boat yesterday pulling in, and I could see them in their beautiful white uniforms.
Yep, all along the periphery, the perimeter.
All along, I believe, saluting as they pulled in.
It's patriotic.
It was a feel-good, a feel-good, and we need to feel good.
I think everybody will agree with me with everything happening.
Once I'm getting through something or working on it, for instance, I was sharing with you yesterday, Wisconsin, they've introduced a law where they want to relax child labor laws.
So this is the new thing now.
I can't write this stuff.
I couldn't even imagine it.
And it's been going on a little bit.
They did it in Ohio lately.
They're introducing these bills.
They want this legislation to pass.
They want 14 and 15-year-olds now in Wisconsin to be able to work in bars, serve alcohol, serve alcohol in restaurants.
And they claim, when I'm like, why?
Labor shortage.
They claim so many people died from COVID.
Labor shortage.
Retirement.
They claim so many people retire during COVID.
Labor shortage.
They claim, now I've got a feeling.
And who are they?
Can I just, I don't even know if I can say this.
I'm going to put a little thread together here.
I keep asking every single day, the current occupant of the White House, his administration, they have admitted losing, it's now 88,000 children who've come over the border.
88,000.
And I keep asking, where are the children?
Where are the teens?
That's why they're missing, because you don't know where they are.
But I keep asking, whether it's New York City officials, New York State, people in Washington, who are supposed to have the answers.
Again, bipartisan, both parties, right?
All of this child issues.
Nobody can give me an answer.
I'm beginning to think a lot of these children, we have something in the United States nobody wants to talk about, nobody wants to face, and it's called forced servitude.
And you think of other countries.
Not only do we have the human trafficking, the sex trafficking, we have a lot of kids right now enslaved, whether they're domestic helpers in people's homes, they're put out on the streets to do the forced begging, they're put in factories to work and on farms.
We have so much of that going on here, and nobody's talking about it.
So I'm thinking, oh, this will have to go for the illegal aliens.
I call them illegal aliens because we want people to come here legally.
These are illegal aliens.
Everybody calls them migrants.
And the media certainly does call them migrants as well.
But I have a feeling they want to just...
Be able to enslave these children and have them working all over the United States?
I don't know.
There's some kind of threat.
Or they want to completely destroy the notion of minority.
Well, that's what I'm getting to, too.
They don't want there to be children.
Eventually, people are going to be marrying children.
They can enter the contract.
That was my next thing.
There will be no such thing as you're a minor.
They want to take that all away.
It's just one big lump.
Children with adults.
No boundaries.
Anything.
I can't imagine.
And now with AI upon us, remember it's here, it just hasn't fully been launched yet, I can't imagine what's going to happen with that.
We can't handle what's called social media now and protection of children.
I can't imagine with the onslaught of this AI that every tech expert says the same thing to me.
And that is, it's a big question mark.
That's all they say.
They don't understand it.
These are the experts that...
And they tell me it's a question.
Let me ask a question.
Ready for this?
Let me ask you a question.
Do you think that one day when artificial intelligence and artificial general intelligence, AGI, when it really gets humming, you're going to see songs, you're going to see...
These idiots who say, no, because you see, because right now, ChatGPT can't do it.
Remember, ChatGPT was just a couple of months ago.
Nobody talked about ChatGPT.
This is brand new.
It's here.
So right now, it's a very kind of, and it's basically predictive language.
It's predicting the next word before you know it.
Once it gets into recursive self-improvement, it can write its own code.
Well, that's why I say I'm afraid.
And it starts to, the power of it goes, you're going to see it come up with its own intuition.
Something that happened recently, a while back, when a Google AI was being able to explain jokes, why things were funny.
That's why I'm scared.
Do you know what that is?
So when you talk to these morons, these gedrools who say, no!
Well, for instance, we have a writer's strike right now.
And we have a threat of an actor's strike to go out in support of the writers, and we also have whispers of a director's strike coming.
Now, I believe, everybody tells me I'm wrong, this is part of the plan to replace a lot of these writers, and that's so...
Yep.
Overbloated anyway, but we'll talk about that in a minute.
You know, writers' rooms.
Remember the writers' rooms where 20 people sitting around with, like, beanies on trying to come up with jokes and all that kind of thing?
But I believe writers' strike.
Now, they deny it.
No, AI will replace the bulk of writers.
They might have a couple of people to add some flavor and nuance and all that stuff, but they're not going to keep all these people around.
Budget's cutting.
That's what they're going to do.
They're going to be using AI.
They'll have AI directors.
They will do that.
Sure, there will still be a few people remaining, but this is a cost-cutting.
This is the future.
It's here.
They will also be able to figure out, they will be able to write, they can, they will be able to look at every script, every movie, every author, every comedy show, everything that's ever been done, put it together, collate it, filter through it, and say, oh, I see, this is called humor.
And lawyers...
A lot of lawyers, look what, you know what really showed me that?
Legal Zoom, if you want to have corporations done, LLCs, all that stuff.
That's going to happen.
And my friend, who is a radiologist, you could forget it.
They'll be able to scan and learn, and that's terrific.
But these morons don't understand that.
Well, I think they're in, you know, when something's bad, for instance, child trafficking, all of the, like, people don't want to face it.
They put their head in the sand, right?
So...
People just don't want to face.
People don't like change.
And that's what I try to teach every day.
But it's here.
As tough as it is, we have to go with the...
Our dear friend May Hemmer writes the following.
I was a young person during the disco years.
I love that music.
Still listen to it as I run on the treadmill.
I was in love with Barry Gibb.
I now love you and your lovely wife.
See you on Twitter.
Thank you, May.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I don't make those noises, but thank you, Mae.
Much appreciated.
I don't want to make those noises.
The disco will never ever...
I love disco.
...will never get...
Barry Gibb...
Barry Gibb is a genius.
Barry Gibb...
Please tell to our younger friends how big Saturday Night Fever was.
What that was.
That was...
And think about...
John Travolta was responsible for that...
That disco really...
And when he did Urban Cowboy, that Mickey Gilley...
Oh my...
This was...
In New York, at least.
No, but we don't have those kind of moments anymore.
You know, the Saturday night fever moment.
We just don't...
Roller skating.
I don't...
But it's not just nostalgia.
These are like moments, iconic moments in time.
I don't think today we...
Have things like that, do you?
Where it's everybody coming together, that kind of maybe feel good, I don't know, we don't have it anymore.
In the 70s, right before, 70s, before, after Vietnam, people were happy, before AIDS, cocaine, really before cocaine, that was a little bit later, but still, to walk into something and see the light, the pounding, The dancing, it was innocent, it was silly, but it was just fun, and people enjoyed it, and people loved dancing.
Stupid question, do young people even dance anymore?
Is there any dancing?
I'm not trying to be dense here.
I've seen it when we've been at weddings, where people put their hands in the air and jump up and down like this.
Well, that's not a wedding, but I mean, for example, is there a disco?
I don't think people go out dancing anymore.
No.
No.
Not that I know about.
It used to be a big thing.
You'd go on a Saturday night dancing.
And when the DJ, when you heard that pounding, I was never...
What?
I still get excited if I hear Saturday Night Fever.
It makes me feel good.
I don't know.
If you've ever been doing some housework, put the music on, what do I always tune into in the background?
70s music.
And magical singing.
Weird.
But 70s music.
How about Casey and the Sunshine Band?
The lyrics weren't great, but I still like it.
Boogie Woogie.
No, no.
Boogie was a big word in a lot of songs.
Boogie Down, Boogie.
The DeFranco family.
Boogie.
No, it's the Silvers.
Boogie, Boogie.
Yeah, but a lot of songs had Boogie in it.
Boogie.
I got a Boogie.
You got a Boogie.
Boogie Down.
Boogie on Down.
Boogie Fever.
Boogie Nights.
I love all that music.
Get on the floor and boogie.
I make no excuses.
I love it all.
Everybody, what is, please, what is a boogie?
I don't even know what the hell it is.
But everybody looked for the boogie in the 70s.
That's it.
Isn't it like move?
Like you boogie?
You tell me.
That's it.
Polyester pants, platform shoes.
I never got into that stuff.
Those were the days.
I can still see it.
70s to me was Zeppelin and rock and great jazz.
I was into the disco.
You were into...
Jazz was really getting...
I mean, that Chick Corea and all that kind of jazz.
But it was very good.
I still think...
The song Boogie Nights is my favorite because it starts off with a harp.
Very West Montgomery.
Love that song.
What about you?
You love jive talking.
No, no, no.
Oh, no, no, no.
You know who she loves?
Abba.
I do.
Dancing Queen.
I love all those songs.
Money, money, money.
I'm sorry.
I love it all.
Donna Summer was the queen of the disco.
Tell us a story about Donna Summer.
It was very, very Pious, very religious.
I don't know if I should reveal things.
She said it!
Okay.
Other people.
Oh, yes, she said it.
I think she wrote it in a book.
But she also had her husband was her manager, and he would force her to do a lot of things she didn't want to do.
She started out in the church, as a lot of artists did.
Whitney Houston, sort of.
No, she did as well.
But Donna always hated disco music.
She wanted to do gospel.
And she had this overbearing husband, and the rest is history.
Look at this.
Don says, do you like Bossa Nova?
Are you kidding me?
Are you kidding me?
We do like that.
Let me tell you who is.
Jobim was, that's what I was, Tom Jobim was what I was raised.
That was my first music.
João Gilberto, and when Astro Gilberto, and Stan Getz, now I love Deline Faraz, Brazilian Love Affair.
What about these new kids that you introduced me to the other day and I thought I was being thrown back into the 70s and it gave me some hope out of young people.
I didn't have time.
That was just the other day to investigate or look some stuff up.
I want you.
I thought it was from the 70s.
I want you.
I found the name the other day.
Jesus Molina.
Jesus Molina?
Jesus.
This guy.
Oh, it's just one person doing all this?
Watch him play.
I don't know what...
I've never seen anything like this.
Is he playing actual instruments, or is it synthesizers?
He plays keyboards.
And this BAM thing, Jesus Molina, and dear God, he is incredible.
How about the Funky Knuckles we were playing the other day?
Yeah, we played that too.
Irel Besson, trumpet player, almost made me cry.
The Brothers Nylon.
Yeah.
Jesus Molina, also...
I mean, it is the greatest, funkiest.
Everybody needs more music, I think.
Power of power.
No, but music makes you feel good.
It's an instant, uplifting, I think, mood lifter.
I think everybody needs a little more music in their lives.
Oh, absolutely.
And I also think children, well, we have the studies that prove any kind of music and art also increases everything else for them.
They do better in life with music and art in their lives.
Creating something.
Critical thinking or performing kind of thing.
So we need to do more of that because kids are being neglected in that area with the art.
A couple of things.
Listening to Aubrey King flat picking.
You can't believe this.
Also, there is a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful channel I love.
It's called Tone Bass Piano.
And there is a woman, I do not know her name.
She's a transgender, doesn't matter, I'm just saying that's beside the point, who is great.
Rachel Levine looking there.
A little bit, but she's fantastic.
You've got to see, how about Lang Lang, or Lang Lang, have you seen Yuzha Wang, this Chinese...
Girl play Flight of the Bumblebees.
You can't believe what we're hearing.
You can't believe the music.
Right, so there is a lot of good.
People have to seek it out.
There are some incredible achievements with these young people with music.
Of course, nobody seems to know about it.
This one, I just got to say this, as far as being transgender.
It's one of those things where it does not matter.
But this is one of the best...
What is her name?
Sarah...
Anyway, anyway.
How do you know she's transgender?
Because she came out.
Yeah, she came out.
Oh, okay.
Whatever.
But she's so...
It's like hearing the greatest music teachers ever.
And to hear them explain, break down Bach...
It's wonderful.
But don't you get amazed, and I truly mean the word amazed, that people are this creative and artistic and can do these things?
I always find that very inspiring.
Here's something great.
Now listen to this.
They have villagers.
I don't know who these villagers are.
I don't know what villagers they are.
It looks like Afghanistan.
I have no idea.
There's six villagers.
You can watch villagers.
I don't know where they are, but this is...
Hilarious.
Watch villagers react to Three Stooges, sing a song of six pants, and they're loving it, describing all the slapstick.
It's brilliant.
Come on.
Brilliant.
To hear them explain this.
You sure that's not going to work?
No.
Well, it could be.
It seems like a bit of a work to me.
Nobody from Afghanistan is watching The Three Stooges.
They're not allowed to.
I don't think those are the villagers from Afghanistan.
Tone-based piano.
Here we go, another one.
This is a guy named Gary...
teaching Yuja and Lang Lang.
I've never heard of these people.
This is the greatest exposition in music I've ever seen in my life.
I cannot believe what I'm seeing.
I start off every day.
I listen to music.
Every day I listen to a Nick Drake song.
Every single day.
It just does something to me.
When we're driving in the Yugo, it's a stretch.
But to hear music and, oh, if we want to be in a great mood, Peggy Lee, Is That All There Is, kills us.
I hope nobody's watching us when we sing along to the lyrics in the car.
It's one of the greatest songs ever.
Yeah, we love it.
Oh, ever seen Mongolian throat music?
Love it.
Just give me the Bee Gees.
I love that.
I also like...
Remember when Bobby McFerrin...
Nobody did that hitting himself kind of thing.
Remember he was the only one as far as I know.
That wore so thin.
I do not want to hear that.
80s is my favorite decade for music.
You know what?
I, at some point, thought the 80s was a waste for music, but now I've gone back.
No, there was some really good music in the 80s.
Remember we had that English wave, maybe like in the beginning of the 80s?
Oh, Pet Shop Boys?
They came over.
No, but we had the Madonnas and the Cyndi Lauper, and we had the Tina Turners, and the Michael Jackson had all the Thriller.
Remember Thriller?
Okay, Genesis, Tracy Chapman, Huey Lewis, Traveling Wilburys.
No, a lot.
A good stuff came out of...
I like the Highwaymen.
When is that from?
Oh, you love that!
When are they from, though?
I don't know.
The 90s.
Robbie Dupree.
But there's a lot of good stuff out of the 80s.
Oh, I love this.
Somewhere down the Lazy River, Robbie Robertson.
Michael Franks.
A lot of good stuff.
This is beautiful stuff.
Remember The Outfield?
I feel like we should put some music on.
Not now.
I said later.
I said put some music on later.
Later.
I said put some music on later.
Michael Franks.
I loved them.
The Bodines.
Keith Whitley.
Let's find out what people are doing this weekend.
Tears for Fears.
Let me tell you something.
I like Tears for Fears.
This Tipping Point.
The latest one.
Watch this.
Karina Round.
The singer who...
You should hear Women in Chains.
Listen to her.
That ELO was very good.
Look at this.
Love, love, love the Bee Gees.
Bee Gees were...
No, the Bee Gees are my favorite.
When they did the song Alone is brilliant.
The Andy Gibbs stuff they did.
It's so sad now because there's only one left.
He's it.
St. Elmo's Fire.
Didn't you love that?
Actually, maybe we should watch that movie tonight.
We're going to watch a Mary Tyler Moore thing.
That whole soundtrack from St. Elmo's Fire.
But see, we had soundtracks that went with the movies.
That was a whole 80s kind of thing, too.
By the way, a soundtrack is different from a soundtrack is an actual...
The soundtrack is music that accompanied the film itself versus...
There's another word for it.
Somebody corrected me.
I bought the CD.
Let me try this again.
The songs were in the movie and then they were on a CD.
The songs that were in a movie is not technically the soundtrack.
The soundtrack, somebody corrected me, is on the film.
It's the music strip that is on the film itself so that when you play it, it plays the music.
That's a little technical.
The actual track.
I'm just filling you in.
But it's always been just soundtrack.
Yes, I know what you mean.
Okay.
St. Elmo's Fire.
Oh, there was another one, too.
Ennio.
Hey, how about this, Tino?
Tino Baldessari.
PFM.
Premiata Funeria Marconi.
Il Banqueto.
One of my favorites from high school.
I was really in this wild, great music.
PFM.
Fantastic.
Was it Zuccaro?
Yes.
Remember Yes with Rick Wakeman?
With Chris Squire, with the original group there.
Remember Flanka Seagulls?
Oh, yeah.
And a girl like you.
Remember their hairstyle?
And I wonder.
No, but it's kind of catchy when you really listen to it now.
Everybody Wearing Chung Tonight is beautiful.
I love that song.
Pet Shop Boys.
I love it all.
Was it London?
Oh, who was that?
How about the motels?
I was listening to her.
Oh, I loved it.
Oh, my God.
I love that.
Martha...
Not Martha Stewart.
Martha Harris or Martha something.
It was good.
Fantastic.
It was good.
There's a song, too, I want to turn you on to, if you like this.
It kind of reminds me a little bit about this.
Very, very New York.
He's a girl called Eddie.
You love that.
And The Long Goodbye is one of the greatest songs ever.
And her name is Erin Moran.
And that's the name of Joni.
That's her name.
Joni died.
Yes, but this is called A Girl Called Eddie, and I love her stuff.
Who else is there?
Oh, West End Girls, yes?
Oh, yeah.
My dad used to talk about Yes vs.
Rush arguments he had in college.
You're right about that.
Geddy Lee, completely different.
Geddy Lee, Neil Peart, not Peart, Peart, the drummer.
Getty Lee was...
By the way, you know what my favorite Getty Lee song was?
Great White North, Take Off, from the Baba Doug McKenzie.
I think it's wonderful.
But Yes was.
How about Goldfinger?
Goldfinger with Shirley Bassey?
Goldfinger!
I think that was the 70s.
Was that the 70s?
Lionel Richie, the best performer I saw in concert.
Now, did you see recently where they were knocking his...
Coronation performance.
I didn't get into it because I've been busy with the children.
But he was put on the performance for the big coronation party and people were disappointed.
I would have to hear and judge for myself that he could not sing the same way, I guess, all night long like he used to sing it.
Neil Peart, best drummer of the Rock Air, hands down.
I think it's harder to find somebody better.
He was just...
I used to like the TomTom Club.
Do you know what I'm talking about?
Kind of those type of things also.
Interesting.
Look at this great program.
Thank you.
You wham my heart and made me smile.
Thank you.
I know this...
Gotta take it down once in a while from...
Oh, Edie Burkell?
Oh, I love you, Edie Burkell.
Now, what I lie to you is the Eurythmics.
That's Annie Lennox.
I like that, too.
But Edie Burkell is I am what I am.
Wasn't she dancing around barefoot, maybe, slapping her thigh?
And married to Paul Simon.
Yeah.
In Excess.
Funny song about this.
We knew a disc jockey who did not know.
He never saw In Excess.
Did not see this.
And he said, Inksus.
I don't know.
One time, Lawrence Welk read the prompt.
He says, Thank you, boys, for the wonderful music from World War I. 99 Luftballons.
Oh, you love that.
Nina is...
Nina's aren't my age!
Nina still sings 99. She still sings it.
Nina's a great dancer.
You're a great dancer.
Belinda Carlisle's a dancer.
We all have that same style.
That style.
Like a barefoot Bohemian style.
Nina does it.
Belinda Carlisle.
Goldie Hawn did it in Private Benjamin.
She had that dancing style.
That was the style.
You know who also is a great dancer?
The girl who played Wednesday in The Addams Family.
Did you ever see that little shuffle she does?
Look it up.
When she dances with Lurch, great.
Also, Travolta's great.
Oh, I know this.
Travolta's great dancer.
Glenn Shurok from Little River Band.
Great style.
Some people just have it.
They just have a style.
Somebody else.
You've got a good dance.
I do.
I can't.
I don't know.
You have one move that's pretty good.
One move that clears the room.
We save it for weddings.
Went to a concert at Tampa Stadium for one of those all-day concerts.
B.B. King was the best.
I was at Tampa Stadium.
My first concert, 1973, Three Dog Night, Humble Pie, I think Buddy Miles.
Three Dog Night, there was a riot, they burned, they tore up the...
Riot?
Yeah, they tore up the...
Who's they?
Some lunatics.
The concert goers had a riot?
Yeah, and years later, I was in my favorite pub, Irish pub, and who walks in but Danny Hutton from Three Dog Night.
I bought him up drink, and I said, you don't remember me, because I was 12 years old.
But it was a riot.
He goes, I remember that.
We had to pay for it.
Mrs. Lionel stepping out, watching movies by himself.
Oh, Mrs. Lionel stepping out, watching movies by himself.
I don't know what that means.
Patrick Swayze was a great dancer.
He was a very good dancer.
Very good dancer.
But Michael Jackson, did you ever see anything like that?
No.
Never.
I saw him.
Was it Destiny?
What was the last one with his brothers?
Five of them?
Even Randy.
Yeah, they forced him.
He was a big hit with Thriller or something and then they forced him into doing the whole family.
The five of them all went out on the road.
Whatever that was called.
I know.
I saw that.
Yeah, I saw that too.
There was nothing like...
What a waste though, right?
Horrible.
There was nothing.
People have this kind of talent.
Nobody danced like that.
Nobody.
What else we got here?
And today we have...
I don't really know what we have to do.
Wait a minute!
Look at this!
Just so you know, I was probably known as Franco Blondie until somebody sent me away.
Franco Blondie!
Yes!
Who sent you?
Who sent Franco away?
White Monkey, is it?
Milli Vanilli was actually very good.
That's a sad story, too.
Very sad.
Milli Vanilli.
You know, plenty of people...
And Gino Vanilli, which sounds like Milli Vanilli.
No, but in Milli's defense, or Vanilli, Milli Vanilli, so many people do lip sync.
I'm sorry.
I'll just leave it at that.
No, we're not going to mention names.
Who am I mentioning names?
We're just saying.
Not only that, you know this.
Not only lip sync...
But can't sing.
And we're auto-toned and don't sing.
Well, I think that was what they were.
There were other people singing, right?
With Millie?
Well, no.
It was them.
Oh, yes.
No, no.
It was a recording.
They were actually not singing.
It might have been another.
No, no.
I think it was other people were actually the voices.
That was the problem.
But who called them out?
Because there were plenty of people who do that, believe it or not.
Wow.
John Lee Hooker.
Nobody lip-sync, if that's a word.
Yeah.
Lou Rawls.
I'm just a natural man.
Gino Vanelli is one of the greatest performers.
And remember, always his drummers.
His drummers are...
Go ahead.
I've got to find this one drummer.
Well, I don't want everybody to laugh at me, but you know what I have to put on every once in a while to feel empowered?
The theme from The Sorrow and the Pity.
No.
I know you know what it is.
Oh, oh, oh!
Oh, no.
I Am Woman.
Helen Reddy.
I have to put Helen Reddy on to empower myself.
To go out into the trenches.
To do the work that we do.
Keep talking.
I have to play I Am Woman.
I love it.
Singing along.
She did a wonderful cover of Bluebird by Leon Russell.
You're right.
She did a wonderful cover.
Where is...
I've got to tell you this one.
I've got to find the name of this one drummer.
Enzo Tedesco.
Enzo Tedesco was the drummer who is a monster for Gino Vanelli.
Gino Vanelli, if ever we got to see him.
What was the last concert we saw?
Steely Dan at the Beacon.
No, we had the failed attempt.
Oh, one time we tried to see Chris Hillman.
No, Westbury Music Fair.
We had the failed attempt.
Oh, yeah.
It was.
Who was it?
It was Hall& Oates.
It was the first.
Remember that?
We had a failed attack.
We couldn't bring in a purse or something.
We bought the tickets years ago.
Went to Jones Beach.
Jones Beach.
Are you sure?
It was only a few years ago.
It was like two years ago.
We bought the tickets a long time ago.
Then the co came.
Everything was cancelled.
The co.
Then they announced at some point, we're going to do this.
And we still, people still hadn't gone out in public and all that.
And the parking lot, what was that, about a year ago?
Maybe a year and a half ago.
We drove.
The parking lot was massive.
Packed.
Remember people were having those tailgate parties?
Let's see, playing Hall& Oates music.
To go see.
Well, they were happy after the co and all that.
They were having tailgates.
We'll get to the point where it...
And we came from somewhere else and we were all dressed up.
I remember you had a suit on.
I had a dress on.
I remember the whole time.
I had high heels on.
Right.
Everybody was in the Hall and Oates outfits.
And we had to walk so far to get to a staircase to bring you up to the venue.
And by the time we got there, you couldn't go in.
No, the purse.
You couldn't have a purse, and you had to wear a mask during the concert.
Yeah.
And I was willing to try to go for it, but you said...
I said, no!
I said, I'll put my purse in the car.
I'll lock it away.
And you just said, no, I've had enough.
I only turned around and walked five miles back to the car.
I have...
And didn't see Hall& Oates.
In West Tampa, it would be called Empingado.
I was empingated.
No, but how do you sing with the mask?
So we never saw Hall& Oates?
That was it.
So that was, I really can't remember anything.
But before that, Steely Dan at the Beacon.
That was it.
And that could have been 15 years ago.
Remember the time I tried to see Chris Hillman at B.B. King's?
Like I said, that's enough of that.
I had to wait or I didn't like it.
Forget this.
I was willing to wait it out.
I was willing to wait it out, but you said I've had enough and stormed off.
I was amping out.
That was it.
I said I had enough of this.
Listen, life's too short.
I'm not going...
I'll tolerate a lot of stuff, but sometimes I say, that's it!
That was about a good ten years ago, too.
That was a while ago.
Remember when we saw some great...
At Feinstein's.
Oh, that was great, Feinstein's.
Jimmy Webb.
Well, that was very intimate.
Who was the one?
Barbara Cook?
What was it?
At that little Manhattan?
Down in the 20s.
That was.
These little jazzy places.
Another one was Andrea Marcovici, who did the centenary of Johnny Mercer at the Algonquin.
Algonquin.
Wow!
That was.
I don't think we have those anymore.
No.
They're not like they used to.
So anyway.
Steely Dan, by the way, and now that Walter's dead, I don't know what...
Now that it's the Dukes of September, and I...
I don't know about that.
Liz Zolak says, I wouldn't go to a concert if I had to wear a mask.
Remember the old country song?
I wouldn't take you to a dog fight, even if you had a chance to win.
But guess what?
I don't think I'm that interested.
Right when I'm finishing the punchline?
Right when I'm...
Weren't you done?
No!
Oh.
Go ahead.
No, I don't have anything to say.
I thought you were done.
I was going to say, I'm not that interested in going into crowds.
Just not.
At the Benton Hurts, Nice of Columbus, Jack Little Basil Fomini.
I don't know who that is.
I don't know about Basil.
B.B. King at the South Street Seaport.
B.B. King did not...
By the way, Daryl Hall has a cool show.
Yeah.
Live at Daryl's Place.
We used to go by in Putnam.
I think it's Putnam.
Going into Dutchess.
No, it's the one.
No, it's called...
No, it's not Putnam.
It's next to...
It's in Putnam County.
It's...
I think it's Putnam.
We used to drive by Daryl's Place.
It's called Daryl's Place.
But what happened to that TV show?
Or I should say streaming show now.
As I'm corrected in the business.
I think it was wonderful.
No, that show.
He had the barn.
Yes.
Do you know what I'm talking about?
It was wonderful.
That was a good show.
Pauling, New York.
Pauling, New York.
Right there on 21 or something?
Yeah, it's right there.
Yep.
Very good place.
Very good venue.
It's like a bar and a grill.
He is excellent.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Remember the time we went to see...
Oh, no.
We went to see the other one.
That was the last one we saw.
I just remembered that.
Mark Cohn.
No, no, no, no.
John Oates.
John Oates was the last one.
At the City Winery.
That was the last one we saw.
John Oates at the City Winery.
First it was the Blind Boys of Memphis or whatever.
Remember that?
That was the opening act?
What if they weren't?
No, but it was nice.
Can you imagine having to name the blind boy?
You're not blind?
No, but that was nice.
Just the name.
Remember, they had nice jackets on.
Yes.
No, it was very nice.
But it was Mark Cohn, who was married to Suzanne Vargas.
No, Elizabeth Vargas.
Elizabeth Vargas.
She's on News Nation.
She's on News Nation now.
Right.
Walking in Memphis with my feet off of Beale.
It's very good.
So he did this anti-Trump joke and nobody...
I was surprised.
No, people actually went, ugh.
They made noise.
Which, in New York City, see, there's a lot of people.
That told me a lot.
In that crowd, in that place, and it was packed, if you recall, and you could hear audible sighs, audible disgust coming in, and that was a good thing.
Alan Parsons, Garth Brooks, great.
Stevie Ray Vaughan on The Pier by The Intrepid.
I have a...
Somebody sent me, maybe you did, I have a, see that little film, that piece there?
Oh, yes.
That's Stevie Ray Vaughan at the Intrepid.
Somebody sent that to me.
Is it this person?
Yes.
Musical use.
Pass the duchy.
Wasn't that right?
Pass the duchy on the left-hand side.
Pass the duchy.
Love this.
Pass the duchy.
I remember Pass the duchy.
Remember also how great, how great, Rapper's Delight was?
Loved it.
That was.
And before Rapper's Delight, the real first un...
I know what you're going to say.
Who?
Blondie.
Debra Harry.
Blondie.
Alright, that's it.
A little levity on a Friday night.
We didn't go to the movie.
Isn't she great?
Am I the luckiest guy in the world?
I'm the luckiest one.
Thank you for having me.
I thought I'd just sit here since we didn't go to the movies.
We'll talk about some music.
You know what?
It's important.
Don't you agree?
It's important sometimes just not to...
You know, we're like Regis and Joy.
Sure.
I prefer Regis and Kathy Lee, frankly.
But isn't it...
But seriously, don't you feel sometimes like enough?
You have to walk away.
Well, it's like I'm always preaching.
Yes.
Put the devices down for five or ten minutes a day.
Yes.
Including the adults so the kids see.
That's right.
Indeed.
We have to have family digital partnerships.
We have to put the devices down.
And if we talk about Pass the Duchy, that's a good thing.
Pass the Duchy.
And we're not on the devices.
It's a good thing.
All right, friends.
Have a great and a glorious night.
You are great.
Isn't she great?
Thanks for having me, everybody.
All right, kiddos.
By the way, please follow her at LinzWarriors on YouTube.
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All right?
I'm there, everybody.
You got that?
I'm there.
Thank you.
I've met Kathy Lee.
Oh.
Can I tell you my quick Regis story?
Just very quick.
It was very sad.
Poor Regis.
He was wonderful.
We used to go to lunch at this place.
Nice man.
Love the guy.
So I'm walking him back.
And towards the end, he wasn't bad, but he was just not throwing his fastball anymore.
And he's kind of feeling kind of, you know.
So as we were walking by, right there on, I guess, Columbus, there's the Channel 7 building.
And they have this little plaque.
This freeze, you know.
It doesn't really look like him, that plot.
Not really, but anyway, it says the Regis Philbin building or whatever.
So these people, I can see looking at it, and you can tell they're from out of town.
So I walked up and said, excuse me, I said, did you like Regis Philbin?
Oh, yes.
Now he's standing, they're not, if they just looked this much over, they would notice this guy standing behind me, it's Regis Philbin.
I said, wasn't he something?
Yes.
I said, did you ever meet him?
No.
I said, Doesn't he seem like a nice person?
Like, you know if you met him, he'd be nice?
Oh, yeah.
I'm serious.
They were just gushing.
I said, would you like to meet him?
He said, of course.
Well, here he is.
And their face.
Gave them heart attacks.
I said, can I take a picture with you?
They couldn't even, they couldn't talk.
So it was wonderful.
Made him feel good, made them feel good.
And I took their camera and I ran.
I always pretend I'm running with the camera.
You always walk up to people and be like, would you like me to take your picture?
Oh, yes.
You do it all the time.
I do it all the time.
I never do that.
Because it's very, very nice to do.
It is very nice.
Because I'm a nice person.
It is very nice.
All right, dear friends.
See you tomorrow, 8 o 'clock in the morning.
Same bad time, same bad channel.
Until then, remember, the monkey's dead.
The show's over.
Sue ya.
Bye-bye.
Da-da.
Good.
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