Speaker 1: Welcome back to news radio eight forty w a JS,
Speaker 1: the Tildy and Dwight Child Bride you by the Kentucky
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Speaker 1: to continue with that theme.
Speaker 2: That's right as we bring in the legendary Frank Caliendo. Hey, Frank,
Speaker 2: how you doing man? Franky?
Speaker 3: Right? Hey?
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 3: Guys?
Speaker 4: Everything all right? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Good, everything's going good? Man. Listen. What a career you have.
Speaker 2: And and in the past, I gotta tell you you
Speaker 2: were my favorite thing on the Fox NFL pregame show.
Speaker 2: Was that as much fun as it seems like it
Speaker 2: would be, No, not at all.
Speaker 5: Okay, So here's the I mean I'm being. Being around
Speaker 5: the guys was great, and I was taped separately all
Speaker 5: the time for the stuff, so I had to be as.
Speaker 4: The internet was burseoning. Is that the right word? Going
Speaker 4: to flourish? Yeah, I'll get it.
Speaker 5: As that was happening. We had to tape on like
Speaker 5: Wednesdays or Thursdays each week, and a lot changes between
Speaker 5: Thursday and Sunday morning. I imagine that you couldn't even
Speaker 5: tape that you You couldn't do that bit that same
Speaker 5: way now because podcasts, radio, the Internet. Everything everybody's doing
Speaker 5: all that towards towards sorts of stuff nationally. Now there
Speaker 5: were local outlets doing their own types of jokes and bits,
Speaker 5: but that didn't get out to enough people at that time.
Speaker 5: Now anything can go viral from anywhere, and there are
Speaker 5: you know, national podcast types of things that are just
Speaker 5: devoted to sports, comedy and so I think it was
Speaker 5: very different as far as the guys. Always fun to
Speaker 5: be around them, but it was very It was always
Speaker 5: I always felt like and I kind of made it
Speaker 5: this way because they were Hall of Famers for the
Speaker 5: most part, the Hall of Famers and me, so I
Speaker 5: always felt like they were the royalty and I was
Speaker 5: kind of the court jester. So it's me just hanging around.
Speaker 5: But Terry Bradshaw would just say so many stupid things.
Speaker 1: Right, I was about to go there and that that's
Speaker 1: the obvious go to is Terry Bradshaw. He's always been
Speaker 1: kind of that off the wall goof.
Speaker 4: He plays it up, but not that much.
Speaker 5: Uh he I mean, it's he adds to it, but
Speaker 5: it's I remember, I tell the story.
Speaker 4: In my act.
Speaker 5: We were having our pictures, we're having promos, doing promos,
Speaker 5: and I think there's pictures and stuff like that, and
Speaker 5: Terry Terry, Terry J.
Speaker 4: Frank, this is taken forever.
Speaker 5: This is taking longer than it took Picasso to paint
Speaker 5: the Sistine chap Like.
Speaker 4: I don't think that was Picasso. I'm sorry, Frank, I
Speaker 4: met Lynn.
Speaker 5: No, DiCaprio is an actor, That's what I said, Frank,
Speaker 5: the guy from the Wolf of Walgreens.
Speaker 4: That's not right either. That's a three in a row.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, But did he am? I remembering you
Speaker 1: doing him and in a boat at the and then
Speaker 1: he not he kind of grabbing your shoulders.
Speaker 2: But did he? Was that all an actor?
Speaker 1: And he didn't didn't like you doing him?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 5: He he was fine, Okay, it was all It was
Speaker 5: all an act with him, not fun It not funny
Speaker 5: and fun of stuff, Frank, that's some fun of stuff.
Speaker 4: That's some good and and a fun of good stuff
Speaker 4: right there.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 5: So it was always that if you did hit him
Speaker 5: too hard and didn't hit anybody else, Yeah, and maybe
Speaker 5: two weeks in a row, he might get a little annoyed,
Speaker 5: especially if it wasn't a great joke. And that happened
Speaker 5: fairly often. So Uh, being around the guys always great,
Speaker 5: hanging out with him in Super Bowls or you know,
Speaker 5: any of that type of stuff. But the job itself
Speaker 5: is tough because it's sports. The sports environment is also
Speaker 5: what have you done for me lately?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: Comedy World and TV World they give you a little
Speaker 5: leeway there. It's like, not a good enough bit last week.
Speaker 5: I'm like, I know, They're like, no, we mean it
Speaker 5: wasn't good enough.
Speaker 4: I'm like, all right, what is this? What you're gonna
Speaker 4: You're gonna put me in the trunk? What's going on here?
Speaker 4: Come on? I have it tall you to what is
Speaker 4: your total?
Speaker 2: Boss?
Speaker 4: What are we doing?
Speaker 6: Come on? What do we go to?
Speaker 1: Do?
Speaker 3: You know? Right?
Speaker 2: Kelly Endo joins the show. Hey, it's out man, the
Speaker 2: Lasting Impressions many tour that actually never stops. You come
Speaker 2: in to Louisville too, By the way, Uh, what's the date?
Speaker 2: April eighth? Little comedy club. He's been. I guess you've
Speaker 2: been to Louisville before.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I've never been there.
Speaker 2: Really, you're just up from Illinois where you live. But Illinois, Illinois,
Speaker 2: people drop the ass down here for some reason.
Speaker 4: Frank, Well, you are in Louisville. That right, it's good?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: Is that?
Speaker 4: Is that right? It's like marbles in your mouth? Sounds
Speaker 4: like John c Riley doing it. Did you touch my Louisville?
Speaker 2: Louisville, it's Louisville.
Speaker 4: Come on, man, that's not right. You didn't do it
Speaker 4: right at all.
Speaker 5: By the way, For people who don't know my show,
Speaker 5: the show that I'm doing there, it's at the at
Speaker 5: the Louisville Comedy Louisville Comedy Club.
Speaker 4: It's clean.
Speaker 5: It's a clean show. Yes, I'm very clean. Yes, there's
Speaker 5: no it's pg at worst. Sometimes they have to my openers,
Speaker 5: the guys that bring with me, I have to make
Speaker 5: sure they understand it. But it's most of the guys.
Speaker 5: The guys I'm bringing with me are the guys I
Speaker 5: travel with a lot of the time. One guy I
Speaker 5: have I'm gonna have to give a big speech for
Speaker 5: it wouldn't be anything terrible. It might be I don't know,
Speaker 5: it might be t and T after dark, but it's good.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna make sure it's clean. I go, yeah, I
Speaker 5: and I think you know, people come out the scene.
Speaker 5: I've had openers do that and be dirty and then
Speaker 5: the club gets the emails, or I get emails.
Speaker 4: So I don't like.
Speaker 5: I like people to come out and have fun, and
Speaker 5: I like it to be about that and not.
Speaker 4: It's not a political show either.
Speaker 5: I do make fun of I do make fun of
Speaker 5: Donald Trump, but I also make fun of Joe Biden,
Speaker 5: h and all the way back.
Speaker 6: So if we're doing if we're doing Donald Trump and
Speaker 6: I do Library Trump, it's the quiet one, very quiet.
Speaker 6: It's a quiet one way. We could you imagine him
Speaker 6: in a library. We're looking for the books we're looking for,
Speaker 6: and we're gonna start selling them. The library is gonna
Speaker 6: start selling the books.
Speaker 4: Elon is opening.
Speaker 5: But I balance it out with just wandering around stage
Speaker 5: as Joe Biden.
Speaker 4: Folks, come on, what are you doing it with the
Speaker 4: guy at the thing? I don't have to tell you.
Speaker 5: As as young I growing up a scribed Pennsylvania thirty
Speaker 5: four and six, to follow the Roman Empire, the Romans,
Speaker 5: Mario and Luigi. But it's not like you know, it's
Speaker 5: not like you get I get on stage and have
Speaker 5: a you know, political diet tribe.
Speaker 4: I just make fun of everybody.
Speaker 3: I like.
Speaker 5: I liked eighties comedy where you just make fun of everybody. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it wasn't. You didn't feel like you were trying to.
Speaker 5: I've tried to do things where I try to have
Speaker 5: some sort of teaching in my show. It's more about
Speaker 5: just being nice to people to jerk about other people, apparently,
Speaker 5: But I try to take everything that I do, all
Speaker 5: the impressions, and come from something I like about the person,
Speaker 5: even if I don't love the person, if you can
Speaker 5: find something you like about the person and then multiply
Speaker 5: that exactly. So, for example, when I saw Alec Baldwin
Speaker 5: do Trump on Saturday Live years and I'm like, that's
Speaker 5: coming from an angry, angry place. You can feel it.
Speaker 5: So my Trump has always been silly, like we're going
Speaker 5: to make him.
Speaker 4: Make a great again? Then what are we gonna do?
Speaker 4: We can they make the galaxy great again? And that's
Speaker 4: just this galaxy. We're gonna make every galaxy great again.
Speaker 4: The Milkyway Snickers, they're.
Speaker 2: All good, the tremendous candy buys.
Speaker 4: Send me the best, very very very good.
Speaker 5: Have you noticed that, Like Trump's got this thing too
Speaker 5: where he like he's super relaxed even.
Speaker 4: When people are coming to He's leaning on the.
Speaker 1: Pody different dude. This time around, he is a different dude.
Speaker 1: It is a different four years from the last one
Speaker 1: for sure. Now, I wonder if you get I was
Speaker 1: talking to Dwight in to break and I was like,
Speaker 1: I wonder if he gets text messages because we went
Speaker 1: through that five or six year period where people were
Speaker 1: just getting canceled, And I said, I wonder if his
Speaker 1: buddy texts. Franken says, well, there goes your Kevin's facey
Speaker 1: h so right, and then or if something breaks in
Speaker 1: the news and goes whether it goes you're Gruden.
Speaker 4: Uh, you know.
Speaker 5: I don't know if that's happened or whether they make
Speaker 5: especially with Gruden and the last go round. But he's
Speaker 5: everywhere now I know. And I had texted him wait
Speaker 5: because I'm pretty good friends with him and it was
Speaker 5: all going down and He's like, man, I talk to
Speaker 5: these players.
Speaker 4: You know who I am. These guys know who I am.
Speaker 5: Man, these just you know, I'm kind of a goof sometimes.
Speaker 5: What people don't understand about Gruden is he he does
Speaker 5: a lot of ribbing and he's a you know, I
Speaker 5: call him the rooster because he walks around like he's
Speaker 5: you know, night tough guy man, little cocka doodle do
Speaker 5: right here?
Speaker 4: Many trying to wake up. That's what it's all about.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 4: So so with him being back, it's great. It's funny.
Speaker 5: A year and during that time, I was in Italy
Speaker 5: after Gruden the stuff went down to John Gruden and
Speaker 5: I was in Italy with my family. I'd never been
Speaker 5: overseas before. I'm going back this summer after this. That's
Speaker 5: actually why I'm on tour. To pay for it.
Speaker 4: Uh, We're gonna stay at that hotel? How much? Okay? Okay?
Speaker 4: Can I do some social media here so I can
Speaker 4: write it off?
Speaker 5: So I go to Uh, I go to the the Colisseum.
Speaker 5: I'm standing in front of the coliseum and I just
Speaker 5: take a picture and I put it on Instagram. I
Speaker 5: got a text from Jeff Leonardo, who is Grooon's right
Speaker 5: hand man. Did you know John is in Rome right now?
Speaker 5: I'm like, no, I don't have grudar.
Speaker 4: Like.
Speaker 5: It's like I can feel the force, like it's Darth
Speaker 5: Vader and Luke Skywalker.
Speaker 4: The force is strong with this one man, there is
Speaker 4: another so so we uh. So I text John uh
Speaker 4: and I'm like, are you in Rome?
Speaker 5: He's like, yeah, Man, where are you at I'm like,
Speaker 5: I'm in room. He's like, let's do as the Romans. Dude, Man,
Speaker 5: you want to go down to the coliseum and have
Speaker 5: to fight.
Speaker 2: You want to be a gladiator.
Speaker 4: So we end up having dinner.
Speaker 5: He sets up the place, he goes to the wrong
Speaker 5: place even though he set it up, but then he
Speaker 5: ends up in. We end up having dinner, families together
Speaker 5: and stuff like that, and the best part of it
Speaker 5: was just John Gruden. You're gonna finish that, man, that's
Speaker 5: pretty good. You're gonna finish that. That the Calamari is
Speaker 5: that the last name Frank Klamari?
Speaker 1: You know what it is?
Speaker 4: That's squid? You know that is you ever had octopush?
Speaker 4: What's the plural of octopus? That octopie? Really that would
Speaker 4: taste bad?
Speaker 5: And octopi that's a that's a that's an octopush made dessert.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I'd ever go for something like that.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: Uh, the world is better with Gruden in and the
Speaker 1: NFL needs Gruden. That's my opinion, and okay, I'll stick
Speaker 1: to it. He is one of those great all time
Speaker 1: characters and in the NFL needs him. I'm sorry he
Speaker 1: I'm glad he's back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's great.
Speaker 5: He's everywhere and uh, I mean the best thing he's
Speaker 5: been doing is with all sorts of players and stuff.
Speaker 5: He's doing those quarterback classes now. I actually almost went
Speaker 5: there this week down to Tampa to tape a quarterback
Speaker 5: class with him.
Speaker 2: Oh please do that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, well they have to, it's too busy. They had
Speaker 5: Jackson Dart there and they had uh clint Ewer clint
Speaker 5: Ewers and a couple other guys. And but I was,
Speaker 5: I John want me to come down, and I was.
Speaker 5: I talked to the producer and I'm like, well, how
Speaker 5: how much time would it be? Would it be just
Speaker 5: throwing a line or two in there? Like yeah, I'm like,
Speaker 5: let's just do something bigger lady.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's yeah, Well sit his butt down and you
Speaker 1: do him right?
Speaker 4: So you.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, but.
Speaker 5: It would be a new one, it would you know,
Speaker 5: you didn't know it, so there's a lot of people
Speaker 5: who didn't see it. So it's it was actually Derek Carr.
Speaker 5: We did it with Derek Carr. Cool and it was
Speaker 5: his birthday. You got birthday cake?
Speaker 4: Man, how many candles you're putting on that birthday? Can
Speaker 4: tell you what man my birthday cake. You can start
Speaker 4: a fire with that.
Speaker 2: Frank Callando is our guess. He's out on tour. It's
Speaker 2: the lasting impressions many tour that actually never stops. We
Speaker 2: get around fifteen states. We reach around fifteen states. So
Speaker 2: if you're listening, you're not in Kentucky. Google Frank Callando
Speaker 2: will go to Frank calliando dot com and look for
Speaker 2: give you.
Speaker 4: Something in the middle of this plug.
Speaker 5: Sorry to break, no go ahead, but Frank on stage
Speaker 5: dot com.
Speaker 4: You don't even have to spell calliander stage dot com.
Speaker 5: Well that happened because I was getting called the first
Speaker 5: time I went to Minneapolis and there they heard me
Speaker 5: on the radio.
Speaker 4: They were actually going, is that Frank Klamari there? Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm dreaded seafood appetizer.
Speaker 2: That's Frank.
Speaker 4: I got it.
Speaker 2: I gotta put you on the spot. And if you
Speaker 2: don't want to, don't do it. But I gotta get
Speaker 2: a Hey, this is a Frank Caliendo and Al Pacino
Speaker 2: and you're listening to Tony and Dwight. Could you do
Speaker 2: that for us?
Speaker 4: I have no interest. Can you guys be quiet?
Speaker 5: I'm gonna do it. Can you be gliet? I'm a
Speaker 5: professional here. Hey, this is Frank Caliendo along with Al Pacino,
Speaker 5: and you're listening to Tony and Dwight on News Radio
Speaker 5: eight forty W h A S.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we love you.
Speaker 4: Frank.
Speaker 2: On April eighth, one Show Only Louisville Comedy Club. Hey, Frank,
Speaker 2: thank you for.
Speaker 4: The time of me.
Speaker 5: I'll finish it with a Morgan Freeman And that's when
Speaker 5: they realized this was the end of the segment.
Speaker 2: We'll see in a couple of days. Frank, We'll see
Speaker 2: you buddy. All right, all right, that was great, Yeah,
Speaker 2: good stuff.
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Speaker 2: It's one voices for Tanza Zina as I bring in
Speaker 2: the legendary and called Pat Boone, Pat, how you doing? Man?
Speaker 3: I am doing great? How about you?
Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, Pat Boone, you look and you
Speaker 2: sound absolutely terrific. Fifty million records.
Speaker 3: Huh how do you know how I look we're on
Speaker 3: the phone.
Speaker 2: Because I saw the video. Yeah, I saw the sing
Speaker 2: I saw you singing with those glorious pipes. My friend.
Speaker 2: I want to talk about Pat Boon. I want to
Speaker 2: talk about this to fifty million records sold, thirty eight
Speaker 2: top ten hits, Gospel, Hall of Fame and Pat. There's
Speaker 2: a verse in the Bible. I'm a Christian. I'm a
Speaker 2: Christian in training, but I'm a Christian. Nonetheless, we all are,
Speaker 2: we all are, Thank God for grace. There's a verse
Speaker 2: in Matthew Matthew twenty five, and it talks about where
Speaker 2: Jesus says, Hey, when you were hungry, you gave me food.
Speaker 2: When I was thirsty, you gave me water. When I
Speaker 2: was in prison, you visited me. And he says, Lord,
Speaker 2: when I do this?
Speaker 3: Did I?
Speaker 2: When did I do any of this? He says, Well,
Speaker 2: what you do for the least of mine, you do
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Speaker 2: talking about you all bringing awareness to Tanza Zina and
Speaker 2: needing the drinking water. How did this get on your radar?
Speaker 2: And what are we doing?
Speaker 3: Well? Thank you for that. And I was going to
Speaker 3: quote another quote from Matthew. If anyone gives even a
Speaker 3: cup of cold water to one of these little ones,
Speaker 3: who is my disciple? Truly, I tell you that person
Speaker 3: will certainly not lose their reward. That's God's promise, and
Speaker 3: that's I'm attaching that, of course, to this project, which
Speaker 3: is water wells in the forty nations of Africa. In fact,
Speaker 3: these statistics I've been made aware of three hundred and
Speaker 3: nineteen million people in Sub Saharan Africa don't have access
Speaker 3: to reliable drinking water. And I got involved through a
Speaker 3: group called World Serve. They are now they've taken this
Speaker 3: on as their reason for living in their project, and
Speaker 3: they are bringing in fresh water wells and also trying
Speaker 3: to improve the education economic life of these people who
Speaker 3: are living like they did three thousand years ago. Literally
Speaker 3: I went back in time. I went there in an
Speaker 3: awful bumpy geep ride out into the middle of the
Speaker 3: Tanzanian desert where Shirley and I, my wife and I
Speaker 3: had brought in a five hundred foot fresh water well
Speaker 3: operating now with windmill and motor operation. But then we
Speaker 3: put a little wood frame school around it to raise
Speaker 3: the literacy level for those kids. Who don't go to
Speaker 3: any school. They don't have a school to go to.
Speaker 3: I mean, people are living by the millions, and as
Speaker 3: they did three thousand years ago. And I went there
Speaker 3: and to break ground for the wood frame school, they
Speaker 3: had to take a pickaxe to break the soil open.
Speaker 3: It was like concrete. And then I could get the shovel,
Speaker 3: the tip of the shovel into the ground to break ground.
Speaker 3: Suppose although they'd already broken the ground for the fresh
Speaker 3: water well that we had brought in. Now we were
Speaker 3: just one and one well. And that's after that, God
Speaker 3: gave me the song one four uses of the numeral
Speaker 3: of the number one one. I am one like no
Speaker 3: other on this planet. I'm unique. God has a purpose
Speaker 3: for me individually. And then we are one when good
Speaker 3: people come together in unity. One. We're supposed to be
Speaker 3: one nation under God. We're not. Now we are divided, countries,
Speaker 3: terribly divided. Yeah, and that's that same Bible says that
Speaker 3: the nation divided against itself cannot stand. We've got to
Speaker 3: come together. And then finally, our God is one. So
Speaker 3: he gave me the song. And then the people with
Speaker 3: the World Serve organization already addressing the problem and the
Speaker 3: need for fresh water wells have They've adopted the song
Speaker 3: now as the anthem, and it's so were the world
Speaker 3: type thing, and of course you know the all the
Speaker 3: people who have come aboard.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, let's talk about that for a second, because
Speaker 2: it's it's impressive. Just this is just a few of
Speaker 2: the voices that you hear on this song. It's Alabama,
Speaker 2: Larry Gatlin, Vince gil Lee Greenwood, Pam Tillis, Billy Dean.
Speaker 2: It goes on and on and on. It's a great song.
Speaker 2: And Pad, I'm gonna email you an organization I work
Speaker 2: with called water Step and that's exactly what they do,
Speaker 2: is a Waterstep goes in. They've been to Tangas in
Speaker 2: the two and they'll show them exactly how they can
Speaker 2: clean their water efficiently and effectively and economically. I want
Speaker 2: to take a turn for a second and talk about
Speaker 2: something that happened with you years and years ago. We're
Speaker 2: in Louisville, Kentucky, but this was in Lexington Get to Kentucky,
Speaker 2: And the story that I get on this is that
Speaker 2: you're filming a movie in Lexing to Kentucky and there's
Speaker 2: a scene where you're supposed to kiss Shirley Jones on
Speaker 2: a ferris wheel. But then you say, you know what,
Speaker 2: I haven't cleared this with my wife yet, and so
Speaker 2: you don't do the scene and it kind of explodes
Speaker 2: from there. Can you tell that story?
Speaker 3: Well? Yeah, And as naive as that sounds, and it was,
Speaker 3: I admit I was very naive. I was making my
Speaker 3: second movie one. The first was Bernardine. We went right
Speaker 3: from that into April Love with Shirley Jones, and the
Speaker 3: as we were filming a scene on the ferris wheel.
Speaker 3: I was playing a young guy farm kid who had
Speaker 3: fallen for this this sweetheart played by Shirley Jones, and
Speaker 3: the director Henry Levin says, now, when the ferris wheel
Speaker 3: that you're on, there's a song going, and when he
Speaker 3: gets to the end of that song, lean in and
Speaker 3: kiss Shirley Jones. I said on the mouth. He said yeah.
Speaker 3: I said, well, I said, you know, I was only
Speaker 3: twenty I think I was twenty two then, but I
Speaker 3: had three kids and the fourth was on the way.
Speaker 3: And I said that was not in the script. And
Speaker 3: he said, well, you got to kiss the leading lady.
Speaker 3: And I said, but I haven't talked to my own wife.
Speaker 3: Shirley about it. Can I can we do this later
Speaker 3: in the film, And that was what I asked for,
Speaker 3: not to kiss her, but can we do it later
Speaker 3: because I want to prepare. I want my wife surely
Speaker 3: to know if it's I want to know it's okay,
Speaker 3: if it's not going to trouble our marriage. Well, I
Speaker 3: as I say, that was naive, and it was because
Speaker 3: when I talked to my wife Shirley that night that
Speaker 3: we didn't do that scene. We didn't end it with
Speaker 3: a kiss. We just ended it and it didn't have
Speaker 3: that in it. So she said, look, I'm way ahead
Speaker 3: of you. You've got a seven year movie deal. I
Speaker 3: know you're going to be asked to kiss somebody. And
Speaker 3: so just promised me one thing. I said, whatever she said,
Speaker 3: you won't enjoy it, I said, I promise I won't.
Speaker 3: And I came back to the studio puckered up, ready
Speaker 3: to go to kiss Shirley Jones. But you know what,
Speaker 3: that thing had hit the news in the various papers,
Speaker 3: the trade papers, Variety, Hollywood reporter Boone refuses to kiss
Speaker 3: leading lady, and they said they guessed it was for
Speaker 3: religious reasons. It wasn't it wasn't for religious reasons. I
Speaker 3: just wanted to stay married, and so I say it
Speaker 3: was naive, but it blew up and I did not
Speaker 3: Shirley Jones in the movie because telegrams, letters were flocking.
Speaker 3: It's blowing into the studio saying stick to your guns, boy,
Speaker 3: alas at somebody in the movies with morls, and if
Speaker 3: you don't want to kiss the leading lady, don't do it.
Speaker 3: And then others will saying, hey, if you want to
Speaker 3: do it, I'll do it. Let me come in. I'll
Speaker 3: kiss her for it. And I mean, it was funny,
Speaker 3: but for for months and months after that, I'd say,
Speaker 3: a couple of years after that, when I'd go overseas
Speaker 3: and I'd be flocked by the press and they say,
Speaker 3: is it true you wouldn't kiss the leading lady in
Speaker 3: the movie April Even, I'd have to go through this
Speaker 3: whole thing and tell the story again. And so, but
Speaker 3: I didn't kiss her in that film because the of
Speaker 3: the misunderstanding that that was out there, that I had
Speaker 3: some religious scruples and I wouldn't and people were encouraging
Speaker 3: me to stick to them. Well, I saw the movie later,
Speaker 3: about twenty years later, and It was a Sunday afternoon
Speaker 3: and I was watching the movie and it comes up
Speaker 3: to the end of that scene and I'm saying, and
Speaker 3: inwardly I'm saying, kiss her, kiss her. Pat, I didn't,
Speaker 3: and I hadn't.
Speaker 2: What a fool Pat Boone is. Our guests, and listen,
Speaker 2: Pat Pat. I've admired you as an entertainer on several
Speaker 2: levels for decades now, but I also outside the entertainer,
Speaker 2: I admire Pat Boone because of the integrity. And here's
Speaker 2: what I want to talk about. This is just one
Speaker 2: of the many stories. Originally want to be a teacher,
Speaker 2: but then you somehow you parlay you get in the
Speaker 2: entertainment industry. As a young man, they're going to give
Speaker 2: you your own show. You say, okay, who's the sponsor?
Speaker 2: They say Slits Beer, and you say, you know what,
Speaker 2: it doesn't fit my image and you walk away from it.
Speaker 2: But then you eventually they keep coming back and coming back,
Speaker 2: and they say, here's Chevrolet is going to sponsor it,
Speaker 2: and they give you your own In your twenties, you have
Speaker 2: your own television show. You bring on Mel tourmat Nat King, cole,
Speaker 2: Ela Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis, Junior, Tony Bennett, all the great.
Speaker 2: But then they say, you know what, we got to
Speaker 2: quit having black entertainers on. And you said, you said, well,
Speaker 2: then it's not the Pat Boone Show. And you attempt
Speaker 2: to walk away from it again, and then they came,
Speaker 2: oh you did walk away really, I.
Speaker 3: Mean it was it was toward the end of that season,
Speaker 3: and I said, look, I cannot continue. It's called the
Speaker 3: Pat Boone Chevy Show. And if I can't have Harry
Speaker 3: Belafonte on the show with me, who called and offered
Speaker 3: to come on, and of course he was involved in
Speaker 3: civil rights. And I understood the problem. Sure, I'm from
Speaker 3: the South. I was born in Jacksonville and raised in Nashville.
Speaker 3: I said, but I'm not going to perpetuate the problem,
Speaker 3: and and and so that I just did not renew
Speaker 3: for the next season. And I went to specials instead
Speaker 3: of instead of that series. So yeah, I I you know,
Speaker 3: I felt like I I wasn't crusading, but I felt
Speaker 3: I had to take a personal stand because I just
Speaker 3: could not be part of the thing continuing the prejudice.
Speaker 3: I knew growing up I didn't share in that prejudice,
Speaker 3: but I certainly couldn't go along with it for the
Speaker 3: sake of my television show. So yeah, you got it.
Speaker 3: I don't know how in the world you knew about.
Speaker 2: That, because I do my homework when I have a
Speaker 2: legend like a Pat boon on. But listen, let's get
Speaker 2: back to the single. The single is one, Yeah, the
Speaker 2: organization is Voices for Tanzanzya. How can people help? I
Speaker 2: know we're going to listen to the song and that
Speaker 2: gives you awareness, but how can people help?
Speaker 3: Pat boon oh man, thank you? This makes you and
Speaker 3: the audience part of this. You're going to get the
Speaker 3: same blessing that I'm getting. You Just go to one
Speaker 3: for Tanzania, One for Tanzania dot org and it's spelled
Speaker 3: just like it sounds, one for Tanzania dot org, and
Speaker 3: you'll see a little app them up and you press
Speaker 3: it and a red button will appear and you can give,
Speaker 3: and you can be part of the answer to the
Speaker 3: plight of millions and millions of kids whose life expectancy
Speaker 3: right now is five. They're not expected to live because
Speaker 3: of the statistics, to live to be older than five,
Speaker 3: because they're drinking poisoned water, and women walk miles and
Speaker 3: miles with pictures on their heads and forehead on their
Speaker 3: shoulders to bring back poisoned water out of a ditch
Speaker 3: that is polluted with the cattle that drink there in animals,
Speaker 3: and it's just poisoned. And they don't realize that that
Speaker 3: that kids cannot live long drinking poisoned water, and they
Speaker 3: lose so many of them. And so these various organizations,
Speaker 3: and you're part of one too, I think you say, yeah,
Speaker 3: watert yeah, And so we've got to all come together
Speaker 3: and we can solve this problem if we'll pitch in.
Speaker 3: But we with three hundred and nineteen million people in
Speaker 3: Sub Saharan Africa drinking without access, without access to reliable
Speaker 3: drinking while there is none available, so they drink what
Speaker 3: they can get, just like the animals do. But the
Speaker 3: big kids they come down with diseases and die. So
Speaker 3: we can help, and I think we should. In fact,
Speaker 3: in Matthew ten twenty four, Jesus the type I mean
Speaker 3: kids are coming and flocking around him and the disciples say, hey,
Speaker 3: leave me a lot of them away, and Jesus shut up. No,
Speaker 3: he didn't.
Speaker 2: Well, he was pretty stern though.
Speaker 3: He rebuked them. So I paraphrase. But then he said,
Speaker 3: if anyone specifically gives even a cup of cold water
Speaker 3: to one of these little ones who are my disciples, truly,
Speaker 3: I tell you that person will certainly not lose their
Speaker 3: reward that comes from God himself. And Jesus promised that
Speaker 3: anybody who responds to you what you and I now
Speaker 3: are talking about, and are responsible for a cup of
Speaker 3: clean water for a child God's watching, he will bless us.
Speaker 3: And we can. We can rest in the knowledge that
Speaker 3: we can answer the question you were asking a while ago,
Speaker 3: that it's our final exam. You know, he tells us
Speaker 3: our final exam. When I was sick, poor, naked and
Speaker 3: in prison, did you care? Did you did you help me?
Speaker 3: I am as much a part of them as I
Speaker 3: am of you, And uh, and where you concerned? And
Speaker 3: many will say, well, we didn't know about that. I
Speaker 3: wrote a song I want to send you, which I
Speaker 3: think maybe I know you'll appreciate. But it's called and
Speaker 3: it's a very emotional song. Wait, did I just hear
Speaker 3: a baby cry? And uh? And I wrote a song
Speaker 3: about that and it's very moving and uh and yes
Speaker 3: we do it. We're hearing it now. Thanks to you
Speaker 3: right now we're hearing there is a need.
Speaker 2: Listen.
Speaker 3: We can't say, well, we didn't know.
Speaker 2: All right, Listen, Pat Boone, fifty million records, so thirty
Speaker 2: eight top ten hits, Gospel Hall of Fame, so many
Speaker 2: accolades to go along with it. I heard the new single.
Speaker 2: I reached out to you. You were gracious enough to
Speaker 2: come on. I am going to send information on Waterstep
Speaker 2: to you via email just so you have it. But
Speaker 2: I want to say thank you for the time, and
Speaker 2: thank you for putting your career on the line for
Speaker 2: others several times. Pat Boone, have a great day, and
Speaker 2: thanks for doing all that you do for so many
Speaker 2: my friend.
Speaker 3: And thank you for being part of this and receive the.
Speaker 2: Blessing absolutely, Pat Boon. There you go, Pat Boone man,
Speaker 2: how about that? Listen back to wrap it up? Maybe
Speaker 2: I don't know. In just a minute, news Radioway forty
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