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dad got the birthday boy Thursday. Thank you very much O. Your birthday
on Thursday is okay? So, oh geez, what's the matter. That's
my kid's birthday? Good thing I brought my father to help you remember me,
space, Just send him a card. Yeah, I'll see you by.
I had a feeling he's gonna get a wooden fish and some wine.
Tug's dad fish and wine. Uh yeah, no, he'll be twenty two.
Uh yeah, wow, I just gosh, I can't totally space.
How old are you going to be? Fifty five? Seventy nine? Seventy
nine? Really wow? Okay, so you're older than my dad by a
little bit. I would have put you younger, and I don't know why
because I look young. Yeah, yeah, don't be that. You know
what, maybe it may me that it's the beard. You haven't seen me
with a the santy Claus. Yeah, the same. It's very uh age
defying, it's age. I did it starting at hunting season. I said,
you know, I just I'm sick of shaving right now. I just
want to see I used to have a beard. And uh what does the
wife think of the beard? She likes it? Okay? I think,
yeah, no, she's she likes it, and but I don't know if
I do yet. Oh really yeah. I'm looking in my mirror and I'm
saying, well, it don't look like anybody I used to it doesn't make
me look older. I mean, I know I'm going to be seventy nine.
Do I want to look older? I don't know. But it looks
all right, I guess. Yeah, it does a youthful the word distinguished
come in there, Yes it does. Thank you, professorial. Yeah,
you know what you need to do is walk around, put on a smoking
jacket and walk around one of the college campuses in the area and just see
if you could ask questions before I got a couple of applazas on that,
a couple of plause. Yeah, uh, take me back. You worked
at Kodak, right, I did. Yeah, from nineteen sixty five until
eighty eight, so really the heyday of Kodak. Yes, I mean that
was when they were in big, big, big, big time, yeah,
big time stuff. And I watched to go Downhill. You did watch
it go downhill? And by that because I always think are the greater Rochester
area has really benefited because of Kodak. Kodak brought brilliant minds here. This
is a community where many families stay and then the next generation states as well.
They don't they don't move away, or they do when they come back,
and some of these people who had PhDs and things like I had a
neighbor who had a PhD in flow and he did all the ink stuff for
He would do experiments in his in his flow. I've never heard. I
think it was flow, which sounds ridiculous, and maybe I'm wrong. He
wound up working for a plastics company out in Indiana and then running their production
in Spain after he left Kodak, because it was you know, he was
really in the last kind of heydays of Kodak. But all those brilliant minds
to go. There's so many things that are manufactured and built here, such
small companies, illumination companies and different things that I don't know that get a
lot of attention. But I always think, is that because the brilliant minds
had kids and they stayed and started companies here and we have a lot of
little things like that. I don't know if that's true. It's just a
theory I have, doesn't mean it's right. It always amazed me is that
the higher echelon of Kodak let so much stuff go. Yeah, like the
Beta, Yeah, you know, they let that go to China. They
let the instant camera go to China. They let, well, that went
to Polaroid, but their Kodak camera kept just getting higher and higher and higher.
And then Cannon come along and developed something and they just didn't keep up
up with that technology, but they they founded the technology, and then it
was just like, oh, we don't want There were things like the VCR,
Yeah, yeah, even the digital camera. I thought, yeah,
I mean really really brilliant things that they didn't patent or they sold the patent
to I guess right, you know it was above my pay grade. Sure,
yeah, I mean those are the although we knew where it was going.
The people on the bottom said this is gonna screw us, but they
would they wouldn't listen when it was you know, back in the heyday.
Was it a great company to work for? Did you feel like you had
a you were well supported, decent bosses, nice benefits. I worked in
film and paper processing, processed all the film that you sent in. Were
you in the dark room? Then, I don't go on in the dark
room just a couple of times. I haven't talked to her in a long
We processed all of your film that you sent in. Yeah, from the
East coast to the Mississippi River. Okay, so it all came to Rochester.
It all we were putting out about in seventy two seventy three, about
four and a half million prints a week. Okay, now here's a question,
because I have to go here. I think that at least back a
few years ago, when my guys were you know, I'm something that are
twenty three and twenty two now or be twenty two, it was a big
thing about, you know, taking nude photos or if you get a photo
of a girl, get it off your phone immediately. And people were like,
I can't imagine back in the day, and I'm going, are you
kidding me? Teenagers have been teenagers have been teenagers, and young people have
been young people. All if you had the technology and you didn't have to
have it developed. But I'm gonna ask you, since all that film was
developed, did they find naked photos of people that every role they printed at
the beginning of the role they named it, whyatt was called Seven's we everybody
wondered they were taken away. You had to process because you didn't know what
was on the film. Once it was processed, and you've seen that,
then they took that and they sent it to State Street. You could come
and get it, but it can't go back through the mail. Ah,
was it was it? Was it a federal violation? Yeah? Yeah,
but I have seen the mail, Yes, Doug, I have seen everything
that you can imagine. Honest to God, you can't tell me anything,
right, all right, hang on a second now, since you said it,
I got it. It's almost like a challenge. I can say nothing.
You've seen it all. Did people take pictures of like beast reality and
things? Oh, I just had it out for the horse with a dog
with a cow I'm thinking with a dog. But yes, why you know,
I don't understand why you would then send it out? That's what when
the polars then, yes, it's a horrendous amount. And we we also
did h model pictures where a professional photographers would send stuff in which were they
were gorgeous. Yeah, but yeah, I've seen it all. I've been
all over the world. I've seen numerous movie stars, politicians. I did
a Christmas card program. I did Harry Winkler's mother and father and him did
it. I did General Patton's son, a couple other Oh, so you
designed these or you took the photos they'd send their card in, Yeah,
the picture them, and they wanted Christmas cards, so we printed the Christmas
card. How cool was that? Julius Boros Golfer? No, oh,
no, I don't great Golfer. He had the most gorgeous family. The
picture of them. I looked at it and I says, holy Macro,
this is unbelievable. But it was. It was something to be able to
say that I did these Sure, and there was a connect there that they
knew me. But no, but that is that's cool. You get to
see these things before other people would get them. And yeah, I saw
Jerry Lee Lewis and Cannon great balls, blunted shots. He's sitting on a
couch, there's at least twenty naked women around him, and he's got real
you wouldn't believe. Wow. Yeah, I have a smile. Yes.
Now did that one get sent back or did he have to come to States
Street? I don't know. Being the name that it was, Yeah,
that's funny. Do you miss any of that stuff when you were the best
job I ever had? Missed the job? Yeah? I can think I
really loved my job because when we went there, we were a family and
we had fun and we got all of our work done. Our work wasn't
put in a warehouse, gotcha, and you know said that they could build
it up. We had to get your prints developed, printed and sent back
to you in twenty four hours. If we had a flight coming in and
we got it was late and we were going off for lunch, it said,
get your ass in the dark room. We got work to do,
and we did it. Go to another building and it was totally run,
totally different. Really yes, interesting matter of fact, that forming not a
uniform. Yeah, he says, how do I get these people of the
work. I says, you're the boss. Tell him right? You know,
I have to think too. What a great time? I mean,
Doug, you and I had it a little bit. But it's later on,
like you know, this will sound a little weird, but a white
guy got a job, could disappear and no one find you. You know
what I mean. There was no phone, no cell phone. You were
gone for a little while. No one's looking at you. Side was like
what's he up to? Because you know, I go, Wow, what
a time? Yeah, because they'll never know that, no, because that
now everybody. Yeah, so you're you're seventy nine on Thursday, twenty fifth.
So in that time in your lifetime, let's say, because you're coming
up on almost eight decades. Yea, yeah, what what is the biggest
change that you saw in life? The communications, the communicating, the way
we communicate. Yeah, too much. It's fantastic. Yeah, and it's
a terrible thing. Yeah, I agree, and it's very interesting. It's
almost like it goes back to this. You can't do without it now,
No, you can't breathe without it. I don't know what we do if
the phone was hanging on a wall with a twenty foot cord, Yeah,
you hang yourself, you would, right, I remember the dial rotors,
sure, you know. Yeah, I had a party line. My grandmother
had the one that was on a post with a little hanging on Oh really
yeah, Oh wow, that's going way back. It is. I mean,
that's the it is technology, And you're right, it's a blessing and
a curse because it's almost as though we get too much information. I guess,
Oh, we're not meant to get all this information, whether it be
personal or news or opinion or any of that. Uh. Yeah, I
think that that's pretty interesting. What's the most disturbance. It's disturbing thing.
You have grandkids, yep. Yeah, what's the most disturbing thing you think
that's changed in the world? Again, the communication. Well, after I
left Kodak, I went right down to the Greece Central school bus district.
I'm a school bus driver for twenty seven years. The change of attitude with
the students is disturbing to me. Yeah, middle school is just vicious,
horrible, you know, but it's what they're dealing with, you know.
It's that age group. They're changing and they've got a lot of people pulling
on them, their their their cohorts, everybody. Social media is a tough
thing in that way. But what I didn't like is the respect that they
don't show to one another, let alone themselves. And that's all you got
to do is look at the news. It's an interesting thing that you say
that the respect to one another and themselves there is that. You know.
It's funny when you go back and you look at pictures of a ballgame in
the forties and people are all dressed up and certain times right and you see
now and I think sometimes it is respect for yourself. I mean, my
grandfather born in nineteen eighteen, he wouldn't go to the mailbox without putting on
a suit practically, you know, to get the mail. It was just
the way you were, and it was almost respect for yourself. Fee anybody
who I think the term used to be your Sunday best you felt better about
yourself. Right, Give you an example. Yeah, we go to church
and I never had to wear a tie, shirt and tie. My brother
worked at a bank and that was another thing. But when I went to
something, when I went to church, I had to wear I didn't feel
dressed. I didn't feel respectful. So I said to Kathy, I said,
I'm going to wear a tie. I said, I just can't go
in with jeans and stuff. I just don't feel right. You ever see
your son I work on Friday night when he goes, he's all Doug is
always No, I'm not mocking that. I'm serious Doug like he dresses up
he does and people coming on him. Yeah, I dig that. But
it's a respect for you and the job and that. Yeah, it gives
it a little little classy, does Yeah, I kind of Anybody over seventy
usually says something because way back in the day when they were dressing. Sure,
that's how the bartender's dress. Yeah, I'll tell you if I if
I had the means and I wasn't kind of lazy, I would, Uh,
I would go back to that like Carrie Grant style dressed every day.
I would love it. Well, I remember, but again, I'm a
fifty two year old guy. I'd do you know what I mean? I
really would. When we when we when we first flew, uh, we
got a bunch of people at Kodak and we went to Vegas. Husband's wives
will hold you. We all were suit jacket or you know. Yeah,
so and the tie you get because it was special, yes, yes,
Now, oh my god, you are pajamas. So I okay. So
my youngest son lives with his mom, and his mom lives out of state
and he'll fly here. And he was getting ready to leave and I said,
no, you gotta put on pants. He'say, come on, dad,
everybody I said, I have some respect for yourself. Was exactly the
term. It's funny that you say that. No, he was gonna wear
like pajama bottoms. Oh, and I go have it goes come on dad.
Everybody's and he's not wrong, no, But I I said, have
some respect for yourself right, elevate yourself a little bit. And he kind
of has a little bit of that in him. It must be a genetic
thing because he kind of like, all right, and he's very into style,
more honor, and then it would be. But that's interesting because when
I was a kid, my uncle was a pilot. He had come out
of nomin He was a pilot for Delta and then excuse me, Western Airlines
and then eventually Delta bought them and we we my dad's brother would get a
buddy pass, right, so you would fly for free. So it took
us like seven planes to get to stop a Zat to now Mexico. But
we were told as kids, you have to dress nicely. My sister was
in a dress and I think it was in a college shirt and all this
because you were a guest of the airline. Yeah and yeah, and you
don't see that, and I don't know, it sounds like a bunch of
old guys. There's a bunch of old white guys talking. There is something
about having a little bit of pride, taking a little bit of pride in
your space, taking a little bit of pride in your street. When they
have these clean up the city things. It's almost like everybody starts to behave
better. I noticed when my kids were little, if the house was a
mess, things were chaotic, The kids were chaotic. When things were a
little more organized, everybody felt better. You just feel better, and it's
a respect for yourself. And I think there's a real psychological tie to that.
When I'd have had many jobs. I had many jobs at one time,
but one of the jobs that I had was working for Finger Lakes Casino
Rossino. Excuse me, so, I was a walker. You carry a
thousand dollars on you, you fill the machines with paper and whatever. Nice.
Now, the guys and the girls that walked around. The attitude when
I got there was like, holy shit, what is wrong with you?
People? Well that we're having problems with the union and this and the other,
and I couldn't take it. After a while, I says, I
can't work in this kind of I says to them. I got pissed off.
I said, listen, I says, we're in here. It's a
reflection of this company to show that people respect. They're spending money. Yeah,
well, I don't give me any tips, So I says, doesn't
matter. I says, how much do you making tips? He says,
if I make twenty dollars a week, that's good. Really, I worked
there four months. I made seven hundred bucks. Stick it in your butt.
Yeah, right, you know it's it's it's an attitude. Of course,
it could be me. Attitudes change and I was the old guy.
Well, I mean you're you are correct, and they were great people to
work for. But I think that what doesn't change is what people are attracted
to and what people are attracted to. Somebody who's fun. Yeah, your
son is fun. Yeah, people like having no but you are You're fun.
He's fun, He's funny, and he's good to be around. He's
a good time. I've learned more about him, I have said. He's
been on this podcast with mister Moran. Yeah, my dad has learned a
lot. And was sitting in the living room and cant you look at me?
He says, did you not come? He didn't tell us that.
Did you know your son had a threesome in the bar? Yeah? I
always bring that up with my parents. So like every aspect of my life,
I should be like, hey, dad, guess what I might go
home with this girl? All right, call you tomorrow, Love you too,
Bye Sweat. So what makes you think that we don't want to hear?
Right? I mean we're sick of watching TV. Jesus all right,
here's one for you that those Hallmark movies are not real. I would like
to get your opinion on this. I heard a story and it's one that
is a very modern day but rolls a little reversed. Right. We live
in a time where there's a lot of power. You can accuse somebody of
something. It's a lot of power, and people can disappear in all kinds
of things. So I had heard from a friend of mine whose son is
in his mid to late twenties. They had their work party, their holiday
party after the holidays, like many companies do. And the boss is a
female and she's about fifty five, and there was some small talk going on
and she had a couple of glasses of wine, this fifty five year old
woman, and she's chatting away and I think it was just work people like
it was almost like a happy hour, extended happy hour thing. And they're
talking about skiing and some different things. And she leans over to the kid
and says to him, if this was twenty years ago, you and I
would be banging. That's what she says. So he's like, oh,
okay, and then kind of the conversation goes away, goes home and tells
his girlfriend. Girlfriend says, you have to report her. You have to
report her. You have to say human resources. Yeah, you have to
say something. I have to, she says that. He says, I
don't want to. And I am of the mind of if you're gonna do
anything, you gotta almost And I guess the term isn't very popular more,
but man up if it's bothering, if it bothers you, because because I'm
like, damn, I'm flattered. Yeah, I'm flattered. I'm flat.
I had a gig guy years ago ago. I was in my forties and
working at a radio station, and he said to me, you're my older
man fantasy, and everybody like froze when he says this. He had a
couple of cocktails at a work function, and I went, well, I
am absolutely flattered, all right, because that would be first of all,
I didn't think of myself as an older man at forty three years old,
but I was, and I would find that flattering. And so that was
kind of even his father's opinion on this was like, you just gotta let
it go or go in and say, hey, listen, it made me
a little bit uncomfortable, and I just need to say something to you just
so you're aware, and I'm aware that's it, and call spade to space.
That's about as far as I think it should go, because otherwise it
does. But in today's day, he has a lot of power, and
in companies fear social media recall and all that stuff, and the only he
So I was asked like, what would you say, and I said,
if this weren't my kid, I would say, at the don't do anything,
because I'm sure happen again. I'm sure this woman, who has probably
gone through every bit of training and every other thing, is embarrassed herself.
She may even come to the kid and I don't know at some point and
say, hey, listen, I'm sorry for my inappropriate behavior. That would
actually be a pretty solid boss. But at the other end, I said,
the people who start doing this kind of stuff, dig on those people
a little bit, and you'll find they have a pattern of that, and
what happens is they wind up hurting themselves in the long run. There are
companies in this town that are shadows of themselves because they have people that are
like that that work there, and they are all afraid, and they're afraid
to communicate with those people, and they're afraid to put anything in writing to
them. And there's a lot of dancing, and those companies are I mean,
they're losing. They're losing because we're letting those people have the power.
You don't want to be one of those people. You just don't. I'm
not saying that this kind of stuff shouldn't go unchecked. If you feel like
it should be checked and check it, but check it in the right way.
When you're talking about a party, yeah, I mean I would think
it in the day. Worse things to go to. Somebody gets a drink
in them. Andy're not going to tell you what they think of you.
I've seen it happen. Really, Like, what give me a Kodac story
from back in the day, an idiot Thanksgiving this year? That's how the
start out. How did you say that? You know? So it's but
this is I feel the difference that you know you could go back to the
boss and say, listen, I'm really uncomfortable with it. Do you realize
what you said. If apology occurs, that's it, that's it, okay.
But but if you're working and the boss comes over and makes an advance,
whole different story. I agree, I agree, And that happened a
lot. I'm sure did with an attractive woman at work. Mostly it was
guys in power, and we've seen I've seen it. I've seen it happened
in the other you know. Yeah, sure, and then what then what
happens is this is where you have the problem at work. In my opinion,
all of a sudden, now someone feels like that person's getting preferential treatment
because they're banging the boss behind the back. They're getting whatever, if it's
an account or a day off or whatever it is, you earned it.
Yeah, come on, I'm taking I'm taking one for the team. You
got the extra fifteen minutes smoke. But I mean that's where you had the
problems. And that's why I think these companies now some of them have no
dating policies. Was there any of that at Kodak back in the day.
Uh wasn't. I wasn't dating. But you couldn't have a husband and wife
in the same division. Yeah, same. It gave the husbands a break.
Yeah, they her. Eventually, they they cleared the way for that
to happen. They did, yea, yeah, and there was no problem.
Right, there's no problem. Now they have maternity for guys. Yeah.
They call it family leave, so you can be home with the child
sometimes. I don't know. I don't necessarily have a problem with that.
I don't know if I would have done it. I was My wife went
back to work when I after the first get pretty quickly, and so I
was home with him in the mornings because I was doing afternoons, and then
I would drop him off at daycare. It was a cool time that was.
I locked myself out. He was in a high chair once and we
had the high security system on the sliding glass door. Where of a stick,
So I went out on the deck. I built this big deck off
of the townhouse. I'm on a phone, and all of a sudden,
I go back in and the stick has fallen and the door wasn't exactly closed,
so now I can't open enough to get in. The garage door is
shut, and the front door is locked, and the kid's sitting there eating
cheerios. My god, damn. I had a call. So now I
don't know anybody in this Townhoun complex. It was Victoria Woods and Victor.
So I go around. I find this young couple. I'm like disheveled.
I'm in shorts, shirts, got standing just up here. I'm like,
look at this, bummy. It doesn't e wor. I'm like, hey,
hey, can I use your phone? So I call my one one
and I stay to them, listen, I just need one person to come
and help get me back in. I don't know if there's a way to
jimmy a lock, if you've got some tools or something. I said,
but please, not a big production. Oh. They all came. It
was everybody, and then they're about to start busting doors. I go,
hang on a second. So some guys lifted up the garage door enough because
it was h you know, the opener, so you can only and I
crawled underneath and I got in. But they were ready to start busting doors,
were clapping graduations over the front door. I was like so embarrassed,
and Jackson just sits ot there eating the whole time, never even I'm like,
but if his mother ever knew? Oh yeah, this is why I
don't know if I could have stayed at home. My wife say, I
learned more about you and your podcast than I ever did when I married you.
Probably, Yeah, what are you looking at? All right, we'll
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It started when I was eight years old. I saw on the Ed Sullivan
Show. But to know that you could sing, you knew you could do
it. You went out, you were hired for parties and things. Correct.
Oh yeah, yeah, do you still Uh? Actually, I've got
a gig next week at at It used to be called the Atrium. I
can't remember what it is. I didn't know this. I more about you
on the Marine show that I know in my own life. Why didn't you
call me and tell me anyway? You were going out and doing the show?
And now will you dress up? As Elvis and that costume is a
little bit Did you ever role playing this? I was at one point did
Yeah? I had a better tailor. Wait, so did you ever at
any point like, let's say, there was a couple of glasses of wine
one night and you put that on and start singing to your missus and I
don't want to hear. Come on, Doug, your father heard about stuff
about you and the good stuff. I don't want to know. I didn't
have to put the suit on it. I did sing to her, of
course, of course, were there to do that. By the time he
got a suit on, he was so ot her breath. Nothing would happen.
You have to take it off again and take it there. He's mine.
I have to clean. Yes, you do. Did you ever no
band or anything? Never in a band? I had a full uh band
behind you? Did we did forty years down at the Golden Pards Ponds right
party house? Yeah? So no, but I mean by yourself, like
no band? Where you did other music other than Elvis? Did you ever
sing anything else? Yeah? We had. I had a group of guys
that we played that where the Pelican's Nest is now, It was called Pelican's
Bay. We were there two summers, Friday and Saturday nights. Wow,
and we did fifties and sixties. I thoset of the singing. Yeah,
but there was one set that I'd changed into the Elvis costume and come out
and do a whole Elvis routine. Wow. And it was like the first
time they ever saw me for two years. I looked at my bass player
and he'd just shake and said, he's just just sing Damn, don't worry
about it. It was. It was crazy how fun it was. I
loved him. Yeah, they were great people. That was packed down there
too. It was we had small about about this size, and it was
eighty people in there then. Yeah. Well still it is a little bigger
now, but it's not as it's not a lot of space down there,
and they do pack them in all right. So your son is a forty
nine Ers fan. Did that happen because Doug because of Montana back in the
day. Yeah, I love Montana, Jerry Rice, I mean Montana and
most everybody like Cowboys are Steelers, and I want to be different, so
one of them. I don't think you ever had another team though, when
you had a team, No, you like the forty nine ers, and
that was it. Do you do you believe they'll be in the Super Bowl?
Yes? Okay, do you buy into the whole rigged theory? Now,
there is this theory that's been around where the colors have come out for
the past Super Bowls, and Aaron Rodgers endorses this and I think some other
former players as well. But if you go back to the colors for Super
Bowl fifty one, they released the logo, it had the orange and the
yellow, and then it's it becomes the uh, the Bengals and the and
the Rams. Then last year it was a light blue, which people I
don't think these look like Eagles colors to me, but it's Eagles in Kansas
City was blue and red. Now this year it's purple and red. And
people have been saying since mid season when it came out the logo that it'll
be the Ravens and the forty nine ers. And here we are the last
four teams and the Ravens and the forty nine ers, But the Niners will
win because there's less of their color. That's another part of it. The
lesser of the color are the ones that have won the past three years.
Ah, I just saw this last time. Oh yeah, Kansas City Rams.
Yeah, that's very interesting. So okay, now I don't know.
I don't believe that. Okay, Okay, there, if you give somebody
enough time and if you have enough people, they can find a conspiracy theory
about anything. They can make something. I didn't realize how deep this theory
is going these days. Like I didn't realize there's this whole thing people on
Twitter or what is now called x this is the Bill's fake punt. Listen
to this audio of a guy talking about it. Look at this fake and
scripted play by the clone Namar Hamblin, the clone, Damar Hamlin, by
the way, because he's dead. Look at this fake and scripted play by
the clone Toamar Hamblin, he epically fells at this fake punt, and of
course he falls down on the uh thirty three yard line. You really could
not have scripted it any better than before when he was I don't know what
I'm like. I'm not sure. Somebody said they loved the thirty three.
I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. I know, I really
don't. You gotta wake up, you gotta see what's right in front of
your face. They are literally mocking you. This is absolutely comical stuff.
The only thing I've heard this year, well one of them to do was
was the Rams were playing I think the Niners, and the spread was seven
and a half and they they kicked a field goal at the end of the
game, which made no sense because they were down there, but it covered
the spread, and they asked the coach afterwards, why would you do that?
And he had the reason because in playoffs, to make it into uh
it goes by, that's one of the point difference, one of the tie
breakers. Yeah, so it made sense. So that makes sense. I
present these because they're gaining some tracks and they're getting some people with names behind
them. I don't believe this. I personally think something would come out or
something would come out someone called rig Sports Media, and I want to find
this person and try to get them on the podcast. So plays in the
forty nine Ers Green Bay game and they stop the tape and they put up
cryon I'll call it or look almost like close caption, no voice, just
that person. They pause it and he's breaking down the plays where green Bay
is leading twenty one to fourteen. It looks like they're about to go in
for another touchdown. They're about to score. There seems to be a screenplay
open Green Bay player and he throws it right over the guy's head. He
has no chance of getting it even if he jumped and right into the arms
of a forty nine er. Now do we know what Jordan Love was?
I'm not watching where right, this guy's showing that he's showing some other plays.
This is clearly and he's calling them actors, and it's almost it's almost
funny. But if you watched it, you could go, yeah, makes
sense, all right, I could see it. I mean you can really
kind of nowadays almost make anything seem plausible, I suppose. But well,
the downpour. Did you watch the game? I mean it was coming down
in buckets? Uh, yes, I fell asleep during the again party came
out with a rubber glove. Then he wasn't throwing it right, so he
took it off, and people like, okay, this is Krypton, I
can't throw in the rain. Well it wasn't just raining. I mean it
was coming down hard right. Well they were in San Francisco, San Francisco
and it gets cold this time of year. Yeah, so I mean the
ball might have slipped a little bit out of his hand. Of course,
you know they're trying to drive the balls off part in the expression, but
I mean sometimes you know, dry them off all right? Here, here's
ah, here's another one. If this isn't proof enough over the logos,
listen to this theory that this happened allegedly on the TV station in Memphis.
Oh man, the NFL just got caught slipping. The NFL is all right?
Music behind that. He just sent this to me. He lives in
the Memphis area. This is a local news station. Okay, Raba MacIntyre
usher Post Malonner slated to perform at the super Bowl. But look what it
says at San Francisco forty nine Ers and Baltimore Ravens super Bowl matchup on February
eleventh. Do we look dumb to you? I mean, honestly, that
was my question is well, first of all, why would anybody type that
at your local newscasts? I don't know, to have the inside scoop at
that place you're not going to someone may do it to try to First of
all, it could be some board kid going, let's let's like some fly
out of this right. The other thing could be who knows if it's even
real. You can photoshop these things nowadays. I didn't see it. Who
saw it in Memphis? I didn't see it, right, I'm only seeing
what this other person saw. So who knows. But again, if you
want to buy into it, you go, well, all right, there's
some truth. There's a lot of people, a lot of evidence. A
lot of people think that it's rigged. Yes, well, we'll have to
wait till like Sunday to find out. I am I'm unfortunately, Doug.
I have to jump on the bad wagon of who the Lions? You do?
Why? Because I mean that was where you know, Ralph Wilson was
one of the owners of the team back in the day with the Lions is
now the Buffalo Bills. It just seems like I have to step over there.
I have to step aug he doesn't like this. You go drinking.
I don't see him here every Tuesday? Is he making you laugh? I
don't know about that. Oh, it takes a little more than that dog.
All right, Yes you are, we heard rumors, did you?
That's all right? Where are you watching? What's on the menu? I
am a shrimp Jenny Light, dirty MARTINIZ some other appetizers. I will have
my jerseys out. I changed my jerseys three times Sunday, changed my hat
three times, and you watch them all yourself. Yeah, I screamed my
yell. I swear terribly. I can't be at a bar anymore. Oh
yeah, you cocksucker. So that by the end of changing everything, I
can't sock sweatpants and a kittle jersey. And that was how I ended.
You need to do like a video that you can do pictures that would be
really funny. A picture every time I change and Facebook get uh huh,
No, I don't do that anymore. Last time I did it, I
was wearing Steve Young number eight, and I think they lost the Super Bowl
the Ravens. I have to tread very lightly. Why when we're talking about
the Niners, Well, I said, you know, I hope it's going
to be the Bills in the lights. The Bills are gonna win. They're
not even gonna get I said, anybody right, So I said, on
the way out here today, I says, I think the Lions are going
to be a tough game for him, and then I shut up. It
will be a tough game. They're a young, hungry team. Yeah,
they are, you know they are? Uh yeah, so the Chiefs Ravens
are at three and CBS Lions forty nine Ers six thirty, six thirty kickoff
on Fox. Yes, dougle Bee sitting in his chair. Yep, well
you put on a helmet. You have a forty nine your helmet? I
do, I don't. It's it's signed by Joe Montana. You won't put
it on? No, why don't be crazy? What do you mean to
be crazy? You do? What? The other stuff isn't crazy enough?
Gonna? Oh please put it all on. I'm not gonna put my helmet
at Why don't you drink Guinness? Huh? Joe Montana's endorsing Guinness these days.
Remember the kid comes up and goes, oh, what did you do
play tennis? Yeah? Yeah, No, you gotta have home home field
advantage, Jenny Light. Okay, yeah, all right, yeah, you
need to. You should be drinking at San Francisco beer or something from the
Bay. I don't know what Olympia. I think that's big in Washington.
Yeah it is beer. I'm sure there's something from the sanf You go to
Bears World from still with my Jenny Light. They still have cores out there
right. I'm sure they yeah, co oh, yeah, they got stuff.
The Uh well, if you are into the into the conspiracy theory with
the NFL, I would say, go back to hating h Taylor Swift.
You know, she's the most popular person in the World's got nothing to do
with her. People are sick of her. I'm like, you know what,
who cares? You know? You know what I am about it?
Though? Did you see the story? There was a twelve year old girl
and she had the sign and it was right outside her box, and Kelsey's
brother picked her up and took her to the and waved and she said,
and Taylor Swift with waved back. Now, Taylor Swift was from you to
me, I mean, give me a pen sign. This girl's sharpie.
Couldn't you do that for I'm so close? Well, here's the thing that
I will say, because she was in according to Greg Connor, she was
in a suite that had its own entrance, separate building, and like,
why was she paraded through everybody? Why did all that go on? I
do want if there is some people who go, look, it's a huge
thing that she's even here. Everybody wants to see her. It gets a
lot of attention. Let's go. If you believe in the conspiracy theory,
some people say she's in cahoots with the NFL. Why she doesn't need any
more. I think she has is worth one point one billion dollars. Yeah
right, I think she's worth that. Yeah, but she I think for
branding. Look, I have an eleven year old niece who called me up
to say, I'm rooting for the Chiefs because of because of you know,
this is a it's a big deal. Maybe they're trying to bring women into
the NFL, make it more money that way. I don't know. I
mean women have been I think they're now over forty percent of the fan base.
I thought was women, I thought these days, which is more and
more and more because back in the day, they used to have like they
would have some radio shows, would do classes for women on the NFL.
I go, like, try doing that today. Women are when they first
let women into the locker rooms, and that is a huge thing because they're
like the guys are just walking around naked with the reporters and sooner or later
and sure enough have been some woman was offended. Offended. Yeah, what
oh, the guy wouldn't go home with her. She's looking at all these
fucking swinging dicks in the locker room, and you know, so you were
on fourth down at all. I don't know if that was the NFL,
NBA right the uh so here, I have no idea in terms of whether
or not she had her own entrance. She could have gone through Taylor Swift
to go to the Bills game. And I hear you with why couldn't she
have done that for the young girl? I thought the same thing, why
didn't she at least walk over to the window sign? Then the other part
of me goes, that woman is so popular that who the fuck knows what
could happen? She steps near the window, and now everybody's pissed off.
You're trying to steal it from that little girl. True, I mean,
there's all these things that could happen. I will play you this piece of
audio Channel seven in Buffalo. There was a security guard who was there when
Taylor was leaving and this. Listen to what she says. So tell me
how that picture happened. It looks like it was quite a moment. Yes
it was. She's a sweety pie, very down to earth. So I
was in the process of leaving. I work at the stadium, and they
were getting ready for her to exit as well, so I just, you
know, waited for a little bit for her to come out, and I
just wanted to just see her. And she, you know, she stopped.
She actually if I if I worked at the stadium. I said yes,
and she asked, could she give me a tip? Could she give
her a tip? Do you work in the stadium? Can I give you
a tip? What do you think? Taylor Swift gave us a tip?
Do you know? Me said, don't wear open toe shoes. O Bill's
game January? You mean money? What? No? Yeah? Well,
uh, I gave a tip. I'll say five hundred dollars. Five hundred
okay, yeah, And she gave me one hundred dollars, and then I
was gonna say, one hundred bucks. Seems like generous, does it not?
When you got a billion? How much? How much? I'm just
supposed to carry around? Most people folded money. They don't carry that I
wanted. When Tom Gallisano came on a radio show he was producing at the
time, I proposed the game, let's play What's in Tom's pocket? And
everybody was in for it because I had a theory that most people do not
carry cash, and uh, everybody checked out is he gave in the studio,
I wanted to play what's a touch pocket? And she asked it I
want to take a picture with her? And I said yes. It's usually
the other way around, right, It's usually the fan asking the celebrity for
a picture. You said that you were already at Taylor Swift fan, but
even more so now. Yes, definitely, she's all for like girl empowerment.
So what do you make I know a lot of people are like,
oh, it's it's football and there they keep showing Taylor Swift and I'm tired
of it. What do you What do you make of that debate? I'm
yeah, same. It's like she was a sweet girl before she started dating
Kelsey, and then now since she's dating Kelsey, it's like she's just like
because your day, Taylor, you can't go to about a girl before that,
Like, she doesn't. This doesn't define who she is, you know
what I mean? So tell me a little bit about because you worked,
you know, right there in the thick of it, some of the behind
the scenes, I mean, it sounds like it was quite the production to
get her in the stadium and then to get her out. It was it
was like like a whole swat team situation going on. It was like a
lot of sheriffs, Like I also think this. Maybe I'm wrong, but
I think some guys insert themselves into that situation. What do you mean.
I think some guys go, yeah, yeah, Taylor's coming up. I'll
be part of that of course. And that way I could tell my wife
and my daughter she was great. She was great. I walked by her
for three feet, you know what I mean, I really do. I
think some of the chaos is created by us and not this person. I
am saying, she's extremely popular. Again, somebody has tried to break into
her home and trybeca down to New York City, but I mean regular security,
like you know, to escort them. It was in as well as
out. So yes, it was a whole it was a whole setup just
to ensure I'm assuming that you know her transition safely, well her as well
as you know Brittany and the rest of the family, you know, in
and out. So yeah, well, thrilled that you had a good interaction
with her. A lot of your coworkers also got the snap a click picture.
Did you see other people? No, I'm not. I'm the only
one. And she asked you for the picture. That is something to tell
the grand kids one day she did. She did. Taylor's really all she
needs is one. All she needs is one person to kind of be a
raving fan. Tell this story, right, get this person that everybody's gonna
seek this woman out. She winds up on the local news. She tells
the story. She's nice, and I'm sure Taylor is I would think very
nice. She seems to be kind of I don't know, a homespun,
let's put it that way, right down to earth. And now she goes,
she's got this great story. All the others are adults. Maybe their
feelings are hurt, but they're gonna go oh, I didn't want a picture
with her. Anyway, you do it out in the stands with the kid,
you could create too much chaos, you know, push and shoving,
somebody stealing something from the kid, and so that's it. Well, if
you do it for one, maybe you'd have to do a friend there.
But he's very good at marketing. Yeah, and I'm telling I think this
was a brilliant move. And I think it was a strategic movement kind of
question. They asked though, when they showed Kelsey coming out into the crowd,
didn't they open the window and he crawled right out? I don't know.
Yeah, I think he did. Yeah, yeah, Like you were
saying, couldn't she have signed? What happened in how do you get back
in there? Well, that's what I'm saying. They could have opened the
window and had I know, but that that's what I'm saying. And then,
like somebody else said, I think in a video and I don't know
if it was a hype video for the Chiefs or a fan video that was
out, she's in it and she got it. The person got a cease
and desist, Yeah they did. They didn't get her permission for a thing.
Go through a lawyer. Okay. I don't know that that's necessarily her.
I think that's her lawyers. I think when we hear these things,
like you know how bands get sued. The Verve many years ago had a
song and the Rolling Stones got sue them. I don't think Mick Jagger,
he may have been aware of the song. I don't even think Mick or
Keith would have known that it was taken. But somehow it was proven that
they became writers on the song, and at one point, after so many
years, Keith and Mick both said, forget it. And I don't know
that they gave money back, but they go take our names off the credits
for this song from the firm. I think a lot of excuse me,
a lot of this is lawyers and lawyers metal and you know, and at
the other side, you got to protect your client. Right, She's a
one point one billion dollar if all of a sudden, now this video gets
somebody makes money off of it. Yeah, that's where people go a little
crazy. I mean, like Taylor's gone above and beyond to re record all
her music because somebody else owns it, so that way you owe them own
the masters. Now right, Well, look, they have a choice.
They can go to I forget the guy who was justin Bieber's manager, Scooter
Braun. Scooter Braun, you can get it from him to use a commercial
or movie, or you can go to Taylor and get it from a commercial
or movie because she re recorded it. And that's I think, kin,
She's making a lot of her money. She's going, fuck you, guys,
I'm I wrote it, I made it. How is it that he
owns it? Right? Well, obviously concerts are concerts in the movie theaters
too. Yeah you go see that. So yeah, it's amazing. Yeah,
the woman's done. I mean it would have been the same security if
Tiger Woods would have went to the bills. They don't have it for OJ.
We could have sacrificed him and threw him the She didn't want to sit
next to OJ. It was killing her. I mean, uh, somebody
sent me something today and I was gonna play it tomorrow. But it's a
it's an old interview with OJ post like after he gets he's like, uh,
found not guilty. I was gonna say it gets off but found not
guilty. And the so some woman walks up to the person. I don't
know where my phone is. I would play for it because I had it
on my phone. A woman they're filming OJ. He's out. Maybe it's
let's say it's the peer. No, but it's some it's like an outdoor
peer. I'm thinking it's the uh, the peer, there's a peer.
What's the peer in La Santa Yeah, Santa Monica pier. It looks that's
what I sort of looks like. And this woman walks up to him and
shakes said I always wanted to shake the hand of a murderer. And I
go, why what what what you narcissistic bitch? Like what what? Just
trying to get out what is that? And that's why Taylor didn't sign that
picture. Yes, people like that run so so this woman says, and
now that we're going back this is like late nineties. Yeah, and the
report of that's with OJ says, uh, how does that make you feeling?
It's like I don't I don't really care. He's like I want,
I want to because he was nice. Oh yeah, good, And then
she said, then o j his idea of a joke, and they cut
to her knocking on his door and he opens the door of where he's at
and he's got a knife. He's going like this it's Oja yeah, like
psycho and I went, oh my god, like, oh my, it
was shocking. And she said, and I, I don't know how I
didn't see that before. Wow, yeah, but it's a reported She goes,
and o Jy's idea of a joke. Now that I get perform,
it really really funny though if he had done it to the woman. He
goes I always trying to shake the hand of a murder. All right,
we'll take a moment. When we come back. It's Doug versus Dad.
Okay, all right, songs from the fifties. Doug has to recognize song
from from the eighties, mister Phelps has to sure fun. I think you
might know some of these, I hope, so I think you will a
couple. Yeah, Well, there's only about a minute of each one,
and I will play little and then pause, play little and then pause.
Now, was there a lot of music in the house growing up? What
did you play? Elvis? I just primarily when I was learning Elvis and
Jenny Lewis Jerry. Well, there you go, about thirty years behind the
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here he is your favorite of mine. That's so fine, the evident mine
six foot two and has of loo, mister bear. Now, did you
ever have Dougie for you on stage? No? No, but one of
the nicest My best memories is when he used to come up on stage and
sing Johnny be good with me. I it was. People loved it.
Guitar. We did a great We did a great job. You'd take one
verse, I'd take another, and then we'd finished together. Now did you
ever any have uh ever have old co workers who would uh crowd go to
the strip club and uh kills it. My wife and I used to go
out, did you yeah? On my birthday? Oh look at this all?
I tell you? That was that uncomfortable? Oh yeah? Did I
care? Of course? Not? Of course not. That's pretty. That's
pretty funny. That's funny, It's pretty funny. A lot of it was
fun It was fun Yeah, the girls like me. Oh yeah, Dougie's
dad. Yeah, tipmy, tipmy, you know that was uh yeah,
Doug was. I think Doug does a fantastic Oh. I should get back
into it. Strip club DJ No, No, actually I was in the
barrel a couple of weeks ago. I dropped off a customer. Oh really
went yeah, I went in, used the bathroom, checked it out.
Still no DJ. Yeah or yeah, just a jukebox. They every model,
it's nicer. I don't know how busy gets a night, but uh,
for the two or three girls they had there, they're a nice talent.
They look good when we used to have picnics or parties or something,
just guest over. And then Doug had stopped by and say hi, and
of course inevidently, well what do you do? First thing out of his
mouth he says, I'm a bingo caller. Yeah, I called him balls
of the bingol. Yeah, And they just looked like what really didn't even
know that was a job. And I just stood there and said, all
right, let's uh, we'll start with your dad, Okay, all right,
So this is this is a song from nineteen eighty one. From nineteen
eighty one, eleven years old. This was number one in nineteen eighty one.
At some point in nineteen eighty one, can you tell us what this
song is? Musical Generation gap here, Doug s already got it. I
haven't got a clue, all right, hang on, give you a lift,
sweets prat. I have never called you got Bettie daves us. I
don't know who sings it, all right, you don't know who sings it.
I can't think of it. Okay, give you half a point for
Doug. That is half a point. It is Kim Carnes David's eyes,
all right, Doug, Yes, this song number one in nineteen fifty one.
I wouldn't give it a wain my father's pants, any idea, mister
Phelps. No, they tried to tell us we're too young, alright,
too young one to one and a half. And what's the song? What's
the song? Too young to fall in love? Too young one? He
crushed you? No, I wouldn't know that one. Okay, back to
mister philps oh boy number one in nineteen eighty five. Generation, Yeah,
this is an air supply, is no? Doug Caroless whispers my whim oh
so close write song? Right group? But there wasn't the group this swords
Michaels that time up as Yes, they gona have to give him half a
point again. There you go. Yeah, so now all right, now
we're tied. Okay, all right, back to Doug. Doug, this
is number one from nineteen fifty five, number one in nineteen fifty five.
Here we go, hot name Stone Away not a bad gas the Pointer sisters
that were Andrew and your sisters. Yeah, no it's not. Do you
know this one? Love can't be before you're tame? I can't And this
sounds older than nineteen fifty five, but it came up. It's the Fontaine
sisters Hearts of Stone. He said it was number one at some point in
nineteen fifty five. I don't even remember the one. Yeah, all right,
well maybe it's a bad, bad guess, but either way, you
still I think we're tied up, all right? From nineteen eighty seven,
nineteen eighty seventy seven, number one at some point in nineteen eighty seven.
My mister Phelps, you got this one? Okay, We're gonna do one
more. You might actually get this one. The name may be in the
title or walk like an Egyptian. Yes, do you know who sings it,
Steve Martin. That was King time. I feel like actually give him
a point that it wasn't the Bengals, was it? It was? It
was all right, So you know, I'm gonna give you a half point
again, Doug. That'll give us. Now we're tied at one and a
half. One and a half. Allright, here we go, Doug from
nineteen fifty seven. Do you know this on a day like sometime? Lobby
Darren not Bobby Darren letter in the big rival of Elvis. It was a
big rival of Elvis. He's still alive. He is still okay because and
he did a bunch of stuff back a few years ago where he covered Metallica
songs and he did some other different things. He still got a radio program.
He does Cambs Glenn Campbell's dad. I believe too, think he died,
is gonna be in a movie he's got coming out. He's on all
the commercials. I didn't know that. Oh, he's got commercials up to
Pat Boon. Oh watched the name of the song love Letters in the same
Yes, I can picture Pat Boone because he started getting tattoos and doing the
uh they used to talk the stuff of the covers. Alsos used to play
football on saturdays out in out in California, and he had a team and
he used to play against Ricky Nelson's had a team. And Pat Boone come
in there and he was playing football, and his wife showed up and she
said, get in the car. He went in the car and took off,
and Alvi just said, I don't believe that they were good friends.
They were all good friends, but she would not let him play football.
Whatever number one in nineteen eighty nine, you might actually get this one.
Oh boy, there isn't all you might get this one there, you know
it? What are you calling me up this morning? Tell me about the
new love and found seem happening your baby. I'm really happy found someone else.
I guess I won't be coming around. I guess it's old the day.
It's really over the baby. And what you're saying, I know you've
gotten me. Think of a band named after a city, Chicago, Yeah,
the words out of my mouth. I was trying to give your dad
ahead, right, I own album in there. I thought they were great.
Chicago. Yeah, that's it almost felt like the next evolution of the
Elvis big band. Kind of. Yeah, they were a rock and roll
Hall of Fame three years ago. I see I got it, so look
away Chicago, Okay, all right, got Chicago. Last one, last
one, Doug. Do you know this song? Number one? At some
point in nineteen fifty nine, I think Dad's gonna get us as someone really
loves you, guess who, someone really needs you? Guesses another Nay,
Johnny miss it's Johnny Mathis that descrirect? I don't know the song, Yes,
you knew, it's Ratfer Somebody loves You, Someone w wants to love
Now. I had to play the original hits of the forties, fifties and
sixties. I remember playing this Hungover. That's like nineteen or twenty years old.
There you go, music generation gap. Funny how much music changes just
that thirty year span. I mean, we go from this to something like
this, you know, you know what I mean to walk like an Egyptian.
It's a very different sound almost well not almost eighties and then boom we
had nineties. Yeah, that went grunge. Every ten years something new,
yeah, something new, some new. But it just seems like I don't
know when I look back in the thirty years, let's say forty years from
the eighties to now doesn't seem like that big a swing. But when you
watch movies like Back to the Future, it was the same thing. It
was the fifties to the eighties. We're talking even a shorter time span,
and there seemed to be an even bigger change in everything in style and music
and communication and technology. It's wait for AI to come along. I mean,
it's here and it's going to be changing. Well, there was a
big change when Elvis went in the army and then he came back. The
music style itself. You had, you know, three guys behind him and
he had a guitar. There was a sound there that you could not duplicate,
and he couldn't duplicate it when he came out because then they put the
big band, they put the singers, more of it, you know,
it was more orchestrated and technology and stuff, and it was a difference.
And some people still like the first Elvis Elvis well that that seemed to be
almost rockabilly, rock and roll Elvis, where the others seemed almost crooner Elvis.
Yeah, yeah, a lot of ballads. What happened with the like
when the Beatles came I thought the Beatles. I was a Beatles fan.
Yeah, but I mean they got this what is it strawberry Strawberry Fields too?
Yeah, heavy road strawberry field. You then it just it just changed.
I never really liked this the Stones. I said, what are you
crazy? But again I was working all kinds of well different early on.
But then the Beatles were very Elvis. They they listened to a lot of
Elvis. Heavily influenced John Lennon, his hair, his style. They were
a black leather band in Germany for years, the Beatles before they do.
You know why they call themselves the Beatles. I just found this out.
I don't because the most popular band when they were coming up was Buddy Holly
and the Crickets. They call themselves the Beatles. Isn't that interesting? Yeah?
I thought it was. I think it's really interesting that. How how
it we're all influenced by something? Right? Here comes a band that is
still to this day. You've got Paul McCartney. I was gonna say he's
the only one left but Ringo star. But as a billionaire because of that
band and beyond right, that really launched him into the Strake got his percentage
too, oh yeah, I'm not when his music too, and he did
the Ringo Star All Star Band. Yeah, and when you tell people or
people don't realize it was only ten years. Yes, it's a short time.
It is same thing with Zeppelin, right there were sixty nine to eighty
one something. Yeah, like going once, John Bonham, that was it.
They didn't go back. There's conspiracy theories that that people were helping the
Beatles write all their songs because they had so many hits. I mean every
song was a hit back then, and they thought it was a whole Yeah,
I know people behind him doing it. I don't know, because that
could be I know what. I don't believe that. But the Stones and
the Beatles, like John Lennon singing some early Stone stuff. One of the
stones first hits was written by John Lennon. They just gave it to him.
I think it was John, maybe John and Paul, but I think
it was more than John that wrote it. I didn't get to like the
Beatles or the Stones, and I loved it. Maybe I'm seventy nine,
Yeah, I'm going back twenty years now. Sure. Yeah, I'm listening
on the radio in the car and Brown Sugar Yep, it came on.
I'm saying I like that song. Yeah, I got to listen to more
than stuff. And I loved the whole Exile on Main Street album from nineteen
seventy one. I would say, I just love to me. I like
that gritty rock and roll Stone, Yes, several. I saw them in
nineteen eighty nine at Chase Stadium October nineteen eighty nine, and when they played
honky Tonk Women, two giant inflatable hookers blew up on each side and mixed
swinging on the ropes and pulling them in there, rocking back and forth,
and it was a blast. I saw them in Syracuse and I saw them
up in Buffalo twice. Yeah, yeah, I want a couple of times.
I was hoping the year that COVID hit they were coming, and my
parents from my high school graduation had gotten me the tickets for the October show
in nineteen eighty nine, and my son was graduating high school and they were
going to be up. I think that weekend like it was graduation weekend.
He would graduate on Sunday and the Stone show was scheduled to be at high
Mark Stadium on Saturday, and my brother and I were going to take him
to go yeah, and uh, COVID hit and everything went to ship everything
everything. Yeah, all right, well take a moment. I I I
enjoyed that little game. I don't yeah, I kind of. I kind
of enjoyed it. I liked I would have done better with sixties? Sixties?
Yeah, okay? Would you have done better with sixties? Probably okay?
Because I was thinking, I don't know why, I thought Elvis,
and so I was looking for that decade, and I thought Elvis he was
in the fifties. I thought it was my sixties. I see every song
for him. I was going to say a c DC because he know,
yeah, he loves ac DC. But I thought, no, you're probably
right. I think of Elvis sometimes as the early rock and roll fifties.
What you're the original before the army stuff was what I was thinking. And
then I knew Pat Boom was like a big rival of Elvis. Yeah,
in terms of Ricky Nelson and yeah, you know Ricky Nelson. I remember
when his two sons had that band. Yeah, I think they were called
Gunner was the band? Do you remember this vaguely? It was or maybe
it was the Nelson brothers Gunner Nelson. Yeah, yeah, Gunner Nelson.
Did one of them die? They remember they had I remember on MTV long
straight blonde hair down until the middle of their back and was Ricky Nelson.
Well, Ricky died in a plane crash. You know, all right,
we'll take a moment and uh, we'll wrap it up. We'll find out
what mister Phelps has learned about his son from listening to the podcast. I
can't wait to hear. Yeah, me too, all that coming up.
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We'll give it that for that's bad. Sullivan, got what you're doing?
Do you know I love you lovely? What is a band? Then you
say, I'm glad I saw them in my lifetime. I saw them live.
I saw them live. Did you ever see did you ever see Elvis
live Rochester? The second time he came through? Where did he play Cornex?
No? He was at the War Memorial I was at the time.
Yeah, and he was pretty big at the time. He came out in
his blue suit, but he stood more behind the band. He didn't stand
out and do his stick. But his voice was unbelievable. He never lost
his voice, even when he was sick at the end. But I got
to see him and I made sure even though I was working trick work,
I says, I've got to go see him. So we went and the
ticket cost me twelve dollars and fifty cents. Wow, man, now you'd
be lucky you get it for twenty dollars. I had the tick. Yeah,
yeah, the stub, Yeah, yeah, that would have been I
got the stub. But that's another story. Anybody for you that like I
always think with the Stones, I'm glad I saw them live. I've been
seeing more casters in the past twenty years, three times. Bob Seger,
I'm really glad. Yeah, I wish I saw Bob. He was an
awesome show. Bob Seager is one that I again was. I felt like
I didn't appreciate enough when I hear some of his music, and I absolutely,
yeah he does. There's a song I love by Bob Seger, Someday
You'll Accompany Me. Yes, I absolutely love that song You'll Come. Yeah,
I really love that song. But seen Neil Diamond, I've seen him
three times, A wife and my daughter seen him six Velvet elvis. I'll
tell you right, or the Jewish Elvis, the Jewish Elvis. Yeah,
I think he's called the Jewish Elvis. Far we've been traveled. He was
in Syracuse and I saw him drop his pants on stage. What yep?
Why? They lost all of the sound the second song into his thing and
end of the show, and he sat there trying to get the other he
was losing the audience, so he dropped his pants. Well, the drummer
started boom boom, boom boom. He went to the to his Uh,
that's cute. And I leaned over my way, I says, kath.
I says, he's going to drop his pants. No, no, boom
right on stage and he got the audience back just like that. Wow.
It was unbelievable. And it was in the paper. It was It was
in the Syracuse plaper. This is one of my favorite secrets. This is
one of my favorite songs. He's got He's got a bunch of a four
fourteen piece band when he was here in the one more well, when he
was torn Gypsy wind is blowing. Walm Tonight paints such a great picture with
his orders started in the times, right. I always liked that. That's
why I liked about John Hyde just painted pictures with their words and oh you
leave this something you should know. Kid Rack is a good show Detroit.
I believe Bob Seger was on the field after the Lions win. Yeah,
and no one was complaining that he's getting all the attention, Like Kaylor,
I don't nobody wants a bang Bob singer. I don't think anybody recognized traffic
two hours and Rubbing went off to him. Yeah, you could be a
stunt double. I could be. You could walk around them on Facebook.
I said, he looks familiar. Yeah, I think I saw. I
gotta I gotta say something before you go any further. I feel cheated when
you talked about Kodek because it took all of this away from me. I
worked in the dark, I work at night. Yeah whatever, I didn't.
I wasn't exposed to all of the music. Hey, I hear the
Beeselos every once in a while, but all of this, it wasn't it
wasn't part of my life. I knew Elvis from a kid and that was
something that stuck with me and whatever. But these artists and and they're great.
There was the guy was just that I just listened to. Yeah,
Bobs here. Yeah. It was like you say, he painted the music.
Yeah, he did the painted I I like lyrics and I like,
you know, just some of the I Tom Petty is another one that I
feel like I didn't appreciate enough when Tom Petty was here. It's funny because
even though you work well, the trick shift and you had a family,
I don't know where you had the time because you're living well, you're living
You're living in reverse. You know you're living in reverse because that you know,
we're built as a society that nothing's open while you're working, and nothing's
open. Everything's opening up or not open yet when you're opening. I I
remember my parents crazy because I worked mid to six for a summer, and
then there was a meeting of the minds and my father decided I needed to
take a year off from college. So I wound up working for the year.
I paid rent and I lived at home and I worked midnight to six,
and I found a place, I think in New York State at the
time, this was the early nineties, you couldn't buy beer until after noon,
OK, So I found a deli that would sell it to me at
six point thirty eight. O'clock in the morning. I would go home with
a six back and I just sit on the couch and drink until I passed
out. My mother was freaking out. I started did it just to be
a prick, but it also helped me sleep during the day, like I
couldn't sleep. Yeah, there's a lot of place. Romeg's is always open.
Well, welkers I didn't have. I mean in Poughkeepsie. I don't
think the IBM or anything really had c shift workers. My problem was I
had a refrigerator with a quarter keg in it. Ah, I says,
you popped the keg, you get to buy the next one. It was
a deal. Guess who get the pop the keg? But that had to
be tough because, right, you had kids, You're working midnight. I
don't know what was the shift? Was it to begin at ten pm?
Eleven to seven? Eleven seven seven? Okay, so eleven to seven was
primarily the one you did. Yeah midnight? Yeah? So then so you
would leave for work at ten, What time would you sleep? I'd sleep
all during the day. I hated midnights. I couldn't get enough sleep,
right, so you would like, what time would you take me back,
like at seven o'clock you leave, you go home. Yeah, all right,
everybody's out of the house by the time you got home, because sometimes
you stop off because there were bars and things that were open. Right then
I got to work, well yeah, and then i'd go to sleep.
I'd have something to eat and whatever, and then i'd sleep until maybe four
or five o'clock in the afternoon, then get up and have a little time
and then get ready to go all over again. But then I got on
afternoons, which I that was the one I liked because I got to watch
him during the day when his mother was working. So I had probably the
best experience of my life. I treasured the moments. Wow, look at
this. I know I'm writing him down as he's saying, how old was
Doug at the time? Oh? Baby, oh baby baby? Oh nice?
Yeah, that is nice, that's nice. I enjoyed that. Like
with myself, I would be home cherish. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting the
look at that, Doug, Do you didn't even know that you learned something?
You learned something on the podcast about your dad? What what have you
learned about Doug from the podcast? Because Doug has said to me at times
he was I don't want to bring something up. No, no, no,
I can't name him specifically, but you can't specifically, you can.
I try to get him out of my head. There's stuff that you tell
your buddies that you don't tell your parents. He forgets his little even at
fifty four, his experiences and things that he did and people he knows,
and the subject can subjects he can talk on. And I feel I feel
proud of him. Yeah you should, I truly am. And then what
he's his adventure now into stand up. I just sit in the audience and
I'm saying, that's that's my son, and I'm glad that maybe I'm a
little bit responsible for it, wearing off that he can stand in front of
people. I know, what's the biggest fear of many people say, oh
yeah, the biggest fear is is public speaking. Love as far as singing,
I could, we had, but again, it's a lot of attention
on you, right, It's eyes on you if you mess up? Yeah
right, yeah, but it was it was a thrill. I missed that.
But to watch him and have knowing that he's having that experience is just
wonderful for me. Yeah, it is a cool thing. When you're on
stage. There's something very empowering about it, right, And there's something when
you can make a room full of strangers laugh, there's something about that that
is like second to none. That's a high that's unmatched to me for me.
You know, I just did the guy who runs the comedy club,
market Plito. I think he just had his birthday. I know his wife
had a surprise party for him, and I cut a video, a little
roast video. Fifty yeah, yeah, and yeah. I mean, I
think they do a great job in this town with that, with the comedy
I actually bring in. They've done the next job. I'm proud of Rochester
for that. And I mean that sincerely because until he got doing this,
yeah, you know, to me, Rochester ever since I've been young,
I mean real young, I've never known Lake Avenue, State Street and Exchange
Street not be torn up. Oh it's all. Yeah. What I'm saying
is they don't like chain, right, They'll go someplace else and spend big
money for entertainment or whatever. But for some reason, they had the country
town and country yep out here. It was a great venue and that the
dust. But people went there, but they'd have to go someplace else.
But they have these comedy clubs now and every time we go in there,
there's a little bit more audience, and I'm looking at them, say this
is wonderful. Yeah, I love it. I think that live stuff,
and I think maybe we appreciate it more after the pandemic a little bit.
Maybe not. There's something about the live you know, even rbt L and
all the changes that they're doing at the Auditorium theater, and uh, it's
just a community. They had a lot of arts and a lot of that
has to do with George Eastman, you know, bring in a lot of
that stuff here. But the I love that sort of thing, and I
think that it's often it's like it's the first thing we cut from a lot
of things. But I think it you can tell a lot about a culture
of a place by the art, right. It reflects the time, It
reflects the things that the pattern of speech. I think now, you know,
when we see a lot of the closest things to censorship we've ever seen
right in a lot of places, you know, and now people are speaking
with their dollars. So it's not so much a free speech issue as much
as it's I'm a scared issue. And I think when it comes to comedy
and things, I believe most people get into comedy because they want to say
whatever they want to say without anybody telling them they can't. And I think
that that's almost the last bastion of a place that you can because you know,
sure some guys have made it pretty high up, and we don't see
them as much anymore. Right, Louis c. K comes to mind with
somebody, Right, but these guys are are coming back and going out there
and fighting, I would say fighting the fight in a way. I mean,
when you look at it, comedy's really one you go back to.
Uh. I think there were two comics that I can think of that really
pushed the boundaries of free speech. One was, well, Lenny Bruce would
be the Lenny Bruce was the one that I was. I was thinking of
it, and I'm forgetting the other guy who was a black guy and he
did a lot of political stuff, George forgetting his name, and I always
think he's sort of this forgotten figure in comedy, but he really funny,
always came out dressed, real dapper guy and but really, I mean made
people uncomfortable and pushed boundaries and pushed boundaries, and I really feel like when
it comes to speech and stuff, we automatically Lenny Bruce will become the guy
because Lenny got arrested, right, Lenny got arrested. You know, if
you would you there to know if you watched The Marvelous Missus Masel, you
know, Lenny Bruce is in there as a character and he winds up,
you know, arrested, and she bails him out a few times and all
that stuff. But I'm trying to think the other guy. It'll come to
me at some point. But I feel like that's where we are because now
you know, I don't even know that we can communicate. Well you mentioned
communication before, and now it's become one of these things where we find our
tribe. Right. But I'm saying, like online, if you have an
opinion about something, there's no discussion. It's I'm right, and here's four
hundred people behind me that say I'm right, so therefore I am. And
you know that that's not the way it is. And what I always love
about him is, I know he and I don't agree on a lot of
some political things, for sure, but there is a why would I like
this guy, agree to disagree or maybe we don't. We don't disagree so
much. Well, you can still be civil. Well, that's civility is
something I think it's been lost. Don't you lost a friend over Oh it's
too bad. Yeah, yeah, that really is about it. Yeah,
yeah, that is too bad over civility, just in terms of not being
able to have Like Trump and he called me a dumb son of a bitch.
I said, really that's what you think of me? Wow, you
don't give me any credibility of having another opinion that we can talk about.
Well, by the way, there's that would tell him a douchebag. Many
people, Uh to agree? I mean here comes, here he comes again,
Here he comes again, And there's things about I don't like. Yes,
me too, And I have to like the person to see what he
did. Yeah, yeah, you know that's one aspect. I don't know.
I don't know. That's another subject. But I'm just saying civilities it's
lost. It is it's it's lost, and we don't have the discussions and
you can go back to Uh. The last time that I feel like there
was that sort of thing that was well represented in politics was the tip on
New O'ronald Reagan Year's where they two guys from different thought patterns, or at
least outsides of the aisle, and they came together. I don't know,
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Speaker of the
house at the time, yep, I don't know. What's going to happen?
Is we go forward again? Because it's crazy, it can be crazy.
Cherel kill yoursel. This is yeah, I'm seventy nine. Why because
you're gonna say I'm not going to be here long accounts you could be here
another twenty years, so I hope. So yeah, I'll be a pain
in the you know, I mean, nursing home is going to have fun?
Do you speak about do you ever contemplate? I mean, look at
we all should I'll listen to. I mentioned somebody on the podcast the other
day that often says, how many more summers do I have? Right?
The guys in his fifties, how many more summers if I live? The
average person lives seventy eight, right, so that gives me how many more
summers if I'm fifty whatever? And we don't think that way, And I
don't know that I want to necessarily but you should because if there's things you
want to do, pack it in, pack it in. I had a
buddy in here who we went to Saint John Fisher together. He had our
senior year got diagnosed with Hodskins lymphoma. Waded had the treatment after we had
graduated because, as he said, he didn't want to look bad for the
pictures. And then he was told at the time, you know the radiation
things, you may have heart issues in thirty years or so. Twenty thirty
years. He kept himself in good shape, was a coach, does all
this stuff, run around with his kids, eats well. Heart attack just
recently, yeap recently, but said he's feeling great because they got the stints
in there. But knew he was having a heart attack. I just thank
God every morning when I get up for a day. Right, he'll take
me when he wants to me. Do you ever think though, I better
do this now while I can or is there anything that you use? And
that's what I told Kathy last night. It's another I don't see the things
you learned on the podcast. Right. Yeah, Oh, she's going to
listen to this and she's listening now a concert iding to Levi stadium, see
the Niners there. That's on a bucket list, that is, you've never
been, never been out never been out there when I lived out there either
time and not the money or the money and at the time. Yeah,
but how far what is it like? Seven hours? Four hours, six
hour drive drive? Yeah, I've seen him in Buffalo the past three times
they were here over twenty years. Are they coming again next year? Yeah?
Yeah, I'll be going to that for sure. Will not be wearing
any of my uh one of thee people are a little more a little more
tame these days, a little more tame. Maybe I don't want to even
chance it. Even I get the chance. They were crazy. The last
game we went to was it was the Green Bay Packers. Packers, Yeah,
and I'd never go again, really never go again. Were you in
Green Bay gear? No? No, no. There was fires up and
down the parker as there always was, the people breaking bottles, people just
doing while. He just wasn't used to it. And then they went to
scalp tickets, they got tickets. And then I go back to the car
after the game and they're walking him and his friend Mike. I God,
you get in, you get tickets? Oh, yeah, we got tickets.
I'm like, okay, what's the story. They were they bought tickets
they had already been scanned, so they lost their seventy dollars whatever they paid
and walking around trying to find the guy and going to Will call, giving
the person all these stories. They wouldn't let him in. Was at the
end of the third quarter. They let you in just to walk around.
So they did get so we got to see everything that happened in the game
right there at that time. But nothing happened up until when he got in.
We're sitting there having a beer and we had a little fire. Some
kid had been drinking for a year come over and he says, can I
sit with you? I said, yeah, he takes some lunch here.
He put that's it right over the fire and he sits down, and I
looked at Mike, my friend, and I just pointed to him and he
looks. He says, oh, Jesus, do you feel it on your
ass? Finally he jumped up, but I wasn't going to tell him,
but then he started throwing beer bottles at cars and shit. I said,
I got to get out of here. Yeah, that's a crazy place.
Well, they were walking with a twenty foot ladder out of there when you
yelled at him. Weren't they? I just know I didn't yell at him.
No. We were leaving the stadium and two guys picked up a double
decker ladder started walking. Security guys like, where are you going? Put
it back? I don't know where they're gonna go with the with the with
the ladder. But and that's not even the crazies stuff. It's on the
other side that I don't go to. The guy that gets covered in mustard.
Yeah, I went and saw that last year. I was dame.
I go now where I go and who I go with? It is the
mildest, Okay, it is very mild. We were in like we zip
right into this parking, we get out, we tailgate, but everybody's really
calm. No one's out of control. We respect themselves to go up into
like these heated seats and something nothing. You look down at the scumbags the
world catch up and muster losers, making us all look bad. Bills see
me with Taylor Swift up there right there. Maybe the guy cooks on his
car there, Yeah, but the manifold Now for years when uh one of
the big things in radio was when the rights to the game they left WHAM
and they went to CMF And this was like early nineties, so we had
to do They wanted a dog and pony show to really try to impress the
Bills brass and the president of the Bills at the time it was a Fisher
grad. So he knew some guys who were in charge of radio, and
uh we I had to go up there. We had a we but like
you couldn't at the time. You use something called a morants. It was
like a microwave shot back, so you could be out live like we would
be at training camp at Saint John Fisher and it would beam it back to
the tower and then to the radio station and then somebody would operate it from
inside there. You couldn't do that from Buffalo. You could only you know,
it's radio right right, But he only had to be within a certain
distance. You had to have the thing up. So we had to go
up there and pretend like we were on the air. We had to pretend.
We had to put together a tape of music and stuff and pretend like
we were on the air. And then they used to send me up This
is I was, you know, I had a boss would always be threatening
my job, always like threatening me. Hey, you're in the barrel,
dude, you're in the barrel. I was doing afternoons, and so they
would send me to Buffalo to do parking lot reports. So I would talk
to all the guys, the guy who shaved a number seven in his body
hair for Doug Flutie and all, and they would take my reports and cover
up the traffic reports from the network back. So I would have to shoot
them down a phone line or we'd have to record them live. They'd record
them back at the studio over the phone, and then they'd play that back
over the traffic like they would give the traffic update as you got near the
stadium. Well, if you're in Rochester, you don't want to hear that.
So they would they would run my dumb reports from the parking lot and
I wouldn't get a ticket to the game. The game would start and I
go home and that was it. Yeah. I had two little kids at
the time, and I was afraid of losing the gig. Yeah, you
know, it's one of these things. I think it's things that we think
we have to do. I think it's things we think we have to do,
but you know, it's it's it's bullshit. I don't know. I
just actually just got a request from I should be careful and this for the
last few guys you had gone to the bathroom. I checked my phone phones
over there. Yeah, I checked my phone. I had I had text
me messages and I thought you had a video of it. No, no,
no, no. I I instruct boxing. I've done it for years
at a gym, and uh, lately I've gone in there and I always
look at the girl at the dead and you're God, damn, it's smell
like a longer room in here. And I can't tell if it's because people
are wearing their winter boots and sometimes they get a little funky smelling or whatever.
But there's this one guy that kind of just really stinks. And so
there's hey, can you do this this? And by the way, why
don't you feel comfortable talking to this person about the body odor? And I
right back, yes, yes, And really they're asking you to say something
yeah, yeah, because the guy is all women, right, it's primarily
all women, and then this guy it does it. Yeah, And so
they're like, can you talk to him, and I go, what am
I going to say? Hey? Maybe or don't? Maybe I which sid
has ruined your your smelling? You get a squeeze bottle of break your net
fore y sens it? I think I may say I'm not aware of this.
Yeah, I'll just go, hey, man, listen, you're getting
some we're getting some people or noticing or what I do it you smell it?
Yeah, there's something. I mean sometimes dude, it can really it
can you catch it? Like if the fan hits right, it'll not get
your ass. It's a fucking left hook as nice as you can. But
yeah, well I almost I'm thinking like, hey, you may want to
appreciate it too. I think you want to bring an extra set of clothes
because he sometimes there's multiple classes. Somebody's gonna know who I'm talking about,
and that's terrible. But what's a way in? Yeah, maybe he's listening
and be like, but do you realize, like I go, so years
ago we had a Now you worked with people in the dark room, and
I had heard stories of the dark room. I heard people having sex in
there, hooking up all this stuff. Floors were sticky at times. Yeah,
that's another thing. But I had. We had a boss who had
really, really bad breath, and nobody had the balls to tell him.
I always tell people that you tell him when they have bad breath. Oh
yeah, yeah, this guy has bad breath. It was so bad,
Like once he leaned into a microphone I was talking. I was on a
on weedser show and while he's talking, I slid out of my chair and
laid on the floor. And no one in the room could breathe because they
all knew why I did it, but we would and then poor guy stand
there and he didn't know why. And I used to love to watch people
talk to him because he was really a handsome guy, like a strikingly handsome
guy. And he would start talking to me and see someone's head snap back,
like the guy hit in the face with a poker man, like he
took a pool cute to the body, and no one had the balls to
say anything because he was the boss and he was a nice guy. He
didn't so U a former employee comes to visit. We talked him into telling
him, and he did. He goes hey, by the way, And
so then that guy came in and called us all pussies. Oh wow,
So what did the boss do The boss called us all pussy start chewing gumny,
he brushed his teeth. Did it get better? Yeah, he started
chewing gum, and then we used to make jokes about how, hey,
we think we saw the gum on the floor and even said, fucking jumps.
It's terrible. It's terrible. All right, we will Uh, it's
been a pleasure having you in here. It's been a pleasure for me to
be here. I really enjoyed it. I enjoyed what is tell Doug that
I looked forward to this? Well? Good, Well, we should have
you back whatever you you know, whenever you feel like tell me, uh,
birthday next week, this week, this week, Thursday. I see,
now that's my kid's going to be next week. I totally blanked on
that Theday Tuesday, right, yeah, a week from today. So tell
me, uh what what are the big plans? What would you like at
turning seventy nine? Is there anything that you want? Well, we're going
to De Lago tomorrow hopefully when Yeah. Yeah, Now I'm just saying like,
I think it's more of an experience and dinner with your wife. Quiet,
yeah, it's my family. Yeah, I think it's it's that's it.
It's I just love my family, whether they believe it or not.
Sometimes it gets a little you know, I'm the old man and stick in
the mud. Sometimes I don't want to say stick in the mud, but
we're gonna stick you in the mud. That's who we say. No sticky
in the mud and sticking the home. It's lovely. It isn't that they
have tappy ocle pudding. They have Elvis twenty four to seven. Get your
podcasting. Oh, you could start the Elvis House, Elvis Network. Get
a bunch of older guys, the old hound dogs. Yeah, the old
hound dogs called the old hound Dogs. You get your own gang, you
got it. You get a who's singing, singing, you're singing, a
bunch of golf carts riding around, right, the old hounddogging, Yeah,
right, playing jokes where they're hanging hot dogs out of their pants. Hey
ladies, Hey girls, have you hedge your weenie weenie? It could be
funny. I think that'd be very good. But family is really the big
thing. It is. It's just yeah, I don't know for doing anything.
I don't know. I don't know. Kathy and I might go out
to dinner be nice if you actually put a little offert he's here, I
got two days earlier. Oh I know they love me. That's the thing.
That's it right to know that you're loved and appreciate it. That's that's
the big thing. All right. We will wrap it up nice seeing you,
and happy birthday. Happy birthday for Doug Phelps, Dougie Fresh for mister
Phelps who's celebrating his seventy ninth on Thursday. That's right, ten more than
sixty nine. Oh yeah, hey, go backwards today. I'm Bill Brands.
See tomorrow, husband. Yeah,