1 00:00:00,266 --> 00:00:02,002 Well, hello, hello, I'm John 2 00:00:02,002 --> 00:00:05,739 Cadillac Seville from iHeart radio with my co-host Joyce Logan. 3 00:00:05,739 --> 00:00:09,342 Welcome to another edition of What's Good with John. 4 00:00:09,342 --> 00:00:10,744 And Joyce. Yeah. 5 00:00:10,744 --> 00:00:12,512 And we do talk about what's good. 6 00:00:12,512 --> 00:00:16,416 So please, if you need a respite from the world. 7 00:00:16,416 --> 00:00:18,351 I love that word respect. 8 00:00:18,351 --> 00:00:19,652 Just listen to us. 9 00:00:19,652 --> 00:00:23,556 Leave us on in the background because nothing we say will bother you. 10 00:00:23,556 --> 00:00:26,493 You may learn some. Some what? 11 00:00:26,493 --> 00:00:27,394 You might learn something. 12 00:00:27,394 --> 00:00:29,195 Some tricks to relax. 13 00:00:29,195 --> 00:00:31,297 Interesting guests that we have. 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What? 55 00:02:24,277 --> 00:02:25,745 What are we talking about today, Joyce? 56 00:02:25,745 --> 00:02:29,582 I know we are just rhetorical toys you're talking about. 57 00:02:30,016 --> 00:02:32,218 We're talking about fall in New England. 58 00:02:32,218 --> 00:02:32,919 My favorite time of year. 59 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:37,090 But I think you could talk about some of the places I know you visited, like, 60 00:02:37,090 --> 00:02:39,292 any time of the year. Right? Really? Yeah. 61 00:02:39,292 --> 00:02:41,761 But it's really like falling in love with New England 62 00:02:41,761 --> 00:02:43,663 because we're New England folks. 63 00:02:43,663 --> 00:02:46,799 And that's why so many hallmark movies are film. 64 00:02:46,799 --> 00:02:51,871 Do you know that over 20 of them have been filmed in Connecticut alone? 65 00:02:51,871 --> 00:02:54,941 I haven't even checked the other states. 66 00:02:55,108 --> 00:02:57,744 And Joyce, a dear friend of mine who is a former police officer, 67 00:02:57,744 --> 00:02:59,879 might be doing some part time police work. 68 00:02:59,879 --> 00:03:01,814 Greg Newchurch or not? Sure. 69 00:03:01,814 --> 00:03:03,183 You know, tomato. Tomato. 70 00:03:03,183 --> 00:03:06,452 I know that name, but Greg is an amazing actor, a great guy. 71 00:03:06,486 --> 00:03:10,123 We're going to try to get him as a guest at one point, but he's been on several 72 00:03:10,456 --> 00:03:13,026 hot in several hallmark movies, including some of the ones 73 00:03:13,026 --> 00:03:14,928 filmed at Branford and Guilford, my hometown. 74 00:03:14,928 --> 00:03:16,930 Yes. Yeah, exactly. 75 00:03:16,930 --> 00:03:22,535 One of my favorite ones is, where I wrote that down. 76 00:03:23,770 --> 00:03:24,604 I wrote that down. 77 00:03:24,604 --> 00:03:25,838 It was in Branford. 78 00:03:25,838 --> 00:03:28,942 It's so much fun when you drive by and you see them shooting a movie. 79 00:03:28,975 --> 00:03:31,611 Yeah, we were in Newport, Patty and I, because we love Newport. 80 00:03:31,611 --> 00:03:34,280 They just were filming one in Newport about a week ago. 81 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:38,051 But I think about a year, year and a half ago, we were there around Christmas time 82 00:03:38,551 --> 00:03:41,988 and the hallmark folks were there, and it was a hallmark. 83 00:03:42,021 --> 00:03:42,655 Yeah. 84 00:03:42,655 --> 00:03:46,626 It was just so cool to see because all the mansions were decorated up there. 85 00:03:46,626 --> 00:03:50,230 And Newport's one of our one of our favorite destinations. 86 00:03:51,497 --> 00:03:54,000 Well, one of my favorites, and I really love 87 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,604 the actors too, was Romance at Reindeer Lodge. 88 00:03:57,604 --> 00:04:00,673 And the alliteration. 89 00:04:00,907 --> 00:04:05,044 Yeah, I know the house scenes were filmed, at a home in North Haven. 90 00:04:05,044 --> 00:04:06,813 I do remember that. 91 00:04:06,813 --> 00:04:10,450 And, Hamden and Branford. 92 00:04:10,650 --> 00:04:13,686 So it's Nicky Whalen and she's from Australia, 93 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:17,123 and I, I've seen her in a few theft things, and I really like her. 94 00:04:17,490 --> 00:04:21,427 And also Josh Kelley, who has done a lot on hallmark. 95 00:04:21,894 --> 00:04:24,497 But what I love the most watching it, 96 00:04:24,497 --> 00:04:27,500 I mean, they're like, I could walk to where they were 97 00:04:27,767 --> 00:04:31,771 and they had a horse and carriage going down the street in Branford. Yes. 98 00:04:32,038 --> 00:04:34,874 And they went into one of my favorite stores, 99 00:04:34,874 --> 00:04:36,175 but it wasn't the same name. 100 00:04:36,175 --> 00:04:38,111 Like they changed the name of the store. 101 00:04:38,111 --> 00:04:41,114 And then one of the places I shop at Karen's Corner, 102 00:04:41,347 --> 00:04:45,518 but you could see the name Karen's Corner, like if you're really looking for it, 103 00:04:45,752 --> 00:04:47,020 and they're, they're shopping 104 00:04:47,020 --> 00:04:51,457 for groceries and everything and it it's just a different feeling. 105 00:04:51,457 --> 00:04:56,996 But the feeling of, you know really of Connecticut or Branford 106 00:04:57,297 --> 00:05:00,400 where we are, it was like, 107 00:05:00,700 --> 00:05:03,703 yeah, this is what it is like I love it. 108 00:05:03,703 --> 00:05:05,972 And the thing is, hallmark movies, some people say, 109 00:05:05,972 --> 00:05:07,907 oh, you know, they're all the same, basically. 110 00:05:07,907 --> 00:05:10,176 But I get lured in all the time. 111 00:05:10,176 --> 00:05:13,179 If a hallmark movie is on and my bride is watching it. 112 00:05:13,813 --> 00:05:14,847 I'm tuning in. 113 00:05:14,847 --> 00:05:15,181 Yeah. 114 00:05:15,181 --> 00:05:18,384 And I'm just, you know, I'm just totally honed in on. 115 00:05:18,418 --> 00:05:21,921 I'm watching the whole movie and I'm enjoying the movie, 116 00:05:22,255 --> 00:05:23,156 even though they're all the same. 117 00:05:23,156 --> 00:05:25,091 I just love the scenery. 118 00:05:25,091 --> 00:05:28,094 I know sometimes my son will say, isn't it? 119 00:05:28,094 --> 00:05:29,862 Isn't it always the same movie as well? 120 00:05:29,862 --> 00:05:31,764 In this way it is. 121 00:05:31,764 --> 00:05:33,733 It has a happy ending, right? 122 00:05:33,733 --> 00:05:36,002 So I know it's going to end well. 123 00:05:36,002 --> 00:05:37,970 Nothing's going to upset me. 124 00:05:37,970 --> 00:05:42,175 And at night time, you know, I have a friend that he's a painter. 125 00:05:42,175 --> 00:05:44,177 He does. He he's a handyman. 126 00:05:44,177 --> 00:05:48,848 And he told me that he keeps that Hallmark Channel on every night. 127 00:05:48,915 --> 00:05:51,684 And it's for the same reason it's relaxing. 128 00:05:51,684 --> 00:05:53,886 Yeah, it's a good story, you know? 129 00:05:53,886 --> 00:05:54,787 So why not? 130 00:05:54,787 --> 00:05:57,790 It's kind of like, you know, tuning in to what's good with John and Joyce. 131 00:05:57,990 --> 00:05:59,459 Exactly. 132 00:05:59,459 --> 00:06:01,861 Oh, God. Oh, my goodness, you're listening right now. 133 00:06:01,861 --> 00:06:03,596 Oh self plug here. 134 00:06:03,596 --> 00:06:08,434 But but but it is in a way I think that's how I live in my head. 135 00:06:08,768 --> 00:06:10,203 Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. 136 00:06:10,203 --> 00:06:11,437 Well, what about what about you, Joyce? 137 00:06:11,437 --> 00:06:12,872 I mean, you've, you've done some traveling. 138 00:06:12,872 --> 00:06:13,306 I mean, 139 00:06:13,306 --> 00:06:15,575 where are some of you as much as you, but what are 140 00:06:15,575 --> 00:06:18,244 what are some of your favorite destinations that you've been to? 141 00:06:18,244 --> 00:06:21,247 Some things that are created, some great memories for you in during your lifetime? 142 00:06:21,347 --> 00:06:24,417 Oh, first, any beach, any beach at all. 143 00:06:24,550 --> 00:06:28,388 I mean, from Hammond Acid in Madison 144 00:06:29,589 --> 00:06:32,392 to my little, you know what? 145 00:06:32,392 --> 00:06:33,926 I love the Stoney Creek area. 146 00:06:33,926 --> 00:06:35,595 Yes, Stony Creek area. 147 00:06:35,595 --> 00:06:38,931 Branford is a real cool artsy. 148 00:06:38,931 --> 00:06:41,067 I've got a great vibe to visit. 149 00:06:41,067 --> 00:06:42,068 It really is. 150 00:06:42,068 --> 00:06:44,337 And now they have the theater there? 151 00:06:44,337 --> 00:06:45,938 Yeah, the legacy theater? 152 00:06:45,938 --> 00:06:48,107 Yes. Legacy theater used to be the old puppet house 153 00:06:48,107 --> 00:06:51,210 for those who were local, watching and listening to this podcast right now, 154 00:06:51,377 --> 00:06:53,212 and some of the greatest beaches. You talking about beaches? 155 00:06:53,212 --> 00:06:54,347 Because I love them. 156 00:06:54,347 --> 00:06:58,718 Rhode Island has some of the best beaches on the planet, right? 157 00:06:58,718 --> 00:06:59,652 Right. 158 00:06:59,652 --> 00:07:03,022 Lot of songs were written about then Barry Manilow, right? 159 00:07:03,022 --> 00:07:05,191 That song Weekend in New England, New England. 160 00:07:05,191 --> 00:07:06,359 Oh my God, yeah. 161 00:07:06,359 --> 00:07:09,028 Reba mcEntire had a song called Whoever's in New England, 162 00:07:09,028 --> 00:07:11,864 but it was a breakup song, so that's the same thing. But. 163 00:07:11,864 --> 00:07:14,467 But the other Barry Manilow song is is a great song. Wait a minute. 164 00:07:14,467 --> 00:07:16,569 I think Barry's is a little bit. 165 00:07:16,569 --> 00:07:18,871 Well, that's sad song too, isn't it? Yeah. 166 00:07:18,871 --> 00:07:23,943 But then halfway through, he says, I feel the air like changing. 167 00:07:24,210 --> 00:07:25,945 I feel it and there's. 168 00:07:25,945 --> 00:07:28,147 And you know, they're going to get back together again. 169 00:07:28,147 --> 00:07:30,883 Okay. So there is a yeah, yeah, it's hopefully okay. 170 00:07:30,883 --> 00:07:33,052 Not like whoever's in New England by Reba, which is no, 171 00:07:34,253 --> 00:07:34,821 totally different. 172 00:07:34,821 --> 00:07:36,789 They. Have you ever been to Gillette Castle? 173 00:07:36,789 --> 00:07:37,924 I have several times. 174 00:07:37,924 --> 00:07:41,194 William Gillette, who wrote was all about Shakespeare. 175 00:07:41,194 --> 00:07:43,696 Shakespeare? No, no, no. 176 00:07:43,696 --> 00:07:45,331 What was that, Sherlock Holmes? 177 00:07:45,331 --> 00:07:46,833 He played Sherlock Holmes. 178 00:07:46,833 --> 00:07:49,168 Oh, William Gillette, he was famous. 179 00:07:49,168 --> 00:07:51,204 He played Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes. 180 00:07:51,204 --> 00:07:52,038 And he had all these, 181 00:07:52,038 --> 00:07:55,842 like, little nooks and crannies and, like, little tunnels underneath. 182 00:07:55,842 --> 00:07:58,077 So, believe a minute this is his house? 183 00:07:58,077 --> 00:08:01,380 Yeah, it's a mansion over there, a new stadium. 184 00:08:01,948 --> 00:08:04,884 I knew that, and I've been there, but I love it. 185 00:08:04,884 --> 00:08:07,053 I love that place. So I need to go back again. 186 00:08:07,053 --> 00:08:08,721 Baby, we need to go back to Gillette Castle. 187 00:08:08,721 --> 00:08:11,724 Yes, Patty. Yeah. 188 00:08:11,724 --> 00:08:13,359 And of course, the Mystic Aquarium. 189 00:08:13,359 --> 00:08:14,460 Mystic aquarium. 190 00:08:14,460 --> 00:08:18,130 I actually just do charter wedding there, but I like shopping. 191 00:08:18,130 --> 00:08:20,967 Oh, yeah, the village stores, they're just so beautiful, Joyce. 192 00:08:20,967 --> 00:08:21,868 But, you know, just. 193 00:08:21,868 --> 00:08:22,168 Yeah. 194 00:08:22,168 --> 00:08:24,003 And, Essex, Connecticut. 195 00:08:24,003 --> 00:08:26,606 Just beautiful with the steam train. 196 00:08:26,606 --> 00:08:29,976 They have the breakfast, they have the murder mystery breakfast 197 00:08:30,009 --> 00:08:34,547 is or dinner there when they were little and my one of my sons was crying. 198 00:08:34,747 --> 00:08:36,682 He was a I don't know why he was afraid. 199 00:08:36,682 --> 00:08:39,585 He did not want to get I think maybe the steam. 200 00:08:39,585 --> 00:08:40,052 Yeah. 201 00:08:40,052 --> 00:08:44,457 Under the train, but Oh I know at Christmas time. 202 00:08:44,490 --> 00:08:46,125 Yeah. They do all Christmas they do. 203 00:08:46,125 --> 00:08:49,962 We were on that before, but when we went it was like 80 degrees. 204 00:08:50,329 --> 00:08:51,931 So everybody was wearing shorts. 205 00:08:51,931 --> 00:08:54,800 Like when we went on it was the December. Yeah. 206 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:57,603 And it was 80 degrees because when I go on, like I was hoping 207 00:08:57,603 --> 00:09:00,273 it was gonna be a nice crisp night all bundled up on a sweater. 208 00:09:00,273 --> 00:09:02,041 Yeah, I was wearing shorts and t shirts. 209 00:09:02,041 --> 00:09:06,112 I, you know, I said to you, this morning because this is the first day 210 00:09:06,112 --> 00:09:09,782 where it feels a little crisp in the air and you're all happy about it. 211 00:09:09,782 --> 00:09:15,721 And I said, give me 80 degrees in steam that I'm walking out to, a happy man. 212 00:09:17,223 --> 00:09:18,224 Things we're talking about this 213 00:09:18,224 --> 00:09:20,793 we know the podcast goes global, and a lot of people 214 00:09:20,793 --> 00:09:23,162 from all over the country in the world listen and watch us. 215 00:09:23,162 --> 00:09:24,263 We're grateful for that. 216 00:09:24,263 --> 00:09:27,066 But we're talking about New England because doing that is a destination 217 00:09:27,066 --> 00:09:30,102 for people, destination all over the USA and globally. 218 00:09:30,136 --> 00:09:31,370 We talk to people all the time. 219 00:09:31,370 --> 00:09:33,573 They say, oh, we'd love to go to New England, 220 00:09:33,573 --> 00:09:35,341 where I know people that are in Florida now. 221 00:09:35,341 --> 00:09:38,578 They say, I miss being in New England, especially this time of year 222 00:09:38,778 --> 00:09:40,680 when this podcast is running. 223 00:09:40,680 --> 00:09:44,450 But just yes, the sound of the leaves when you're walking, rustling 224 00:09:44,450 --> 00:09:45,751 under your under your feet. 225 00:09:45,751 --> 00:09:50,323 I love that at night and a school night and just having the apple cider 226 00:09:50,523 --> 00:09:54,393 and going to a farm, like locally, Bishop's Orchards. 227 00:09:54,560 --> 00:09:59,365 Yes. In Guilford or, you know, of rose orchards 228 00:09:59,632 --> 00:10:02,702 in North Branford, some of these places or Lyman orchards 229 00:10:02,702 --> 00:10:05,671 in Middlefield, Connecticut, just some of those local to us. 230 00:10:05,805 --> 00:10:06,505 You know what? 231 00:10:06,505 --> 00:10:10,543 Even though I'm not a I'm not a winter lover, 232 00:10:10,543 --> 00:10:15,448 I think for physical reasons, because I've always been asthmatic, 233 00:10:15,448 --> 00:10:19,819 especially as a child, and everyone be out playing in the snow 234 00:10:20,219 --> 00:10:21,821 and my lungs would start to hurt 235 00:10:21,821 --> 00:10:25,992 because my asthma is brought on by a cold air right? 236 00:10:26,058 --> 00:10:26,626 Hitting my lungs. 237 00:10:26,626 --> 00:10:29,295 And what do you like, the sunny 80 degree and and. 238 00:10:29,295 --> 00:10:29,829 Yeah. 239 00:10:29,829 --> 00:10:32,832 So any time I spent time in Florida. 240 00:10:32,865 --> 00:10:36,035 Oh, I was a happy, happy, happy because I could breathe. 241 00:10:36,469 --> 00:10:39,572 Because actually the moisture is good. 242 00:10:39,572 --> 00:10:42,575 I know for my lungs it is so humidity, 243 00:10:42,975 --> 00:10:45,645 you know, there is well with my body. 244 00:10:45,645 --> 00:10:49,749 But I do love a snowy night. 245 00:10:50,282 --> 00:10:55,021 I do love to take a little walk outside, and now I wrap a scarf around my mouth. 246 00:10:55,788 --> 00:10:57,957 It's so quiet. 247 00:10:57,957 --> 00:10:59,692 You're talking about the crunch of the leaves. 248 00:10:59,692 --> 00:11:02,962 Oh there's that crunch of the snow also. 249 00:11:03,362 --> 00:11:07,266 You know when you hit that soft snow and it's glistening, 250 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:10,903 you know, whether it's early morning and or at nighttime 251 00:11:11,671 --> 00:11:14,240 there is nothing like that. 252 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:17,977 So I think we are fortunate that we have the four seasons here. 253 00:11:18,577 --> 00:11:20,846 And by the way. Oh, okay. 254 00:11:20,846 --> 00:11:22,415 The other the four pieces, 255 00:11:22,415 --> 00:11:26,052 I know it took me a split second because I you're so fast with the music. 256 00:11:26,385 --> 00:11:27,987 It's like, why is Sherry 257 00:11:29,588 --> 00:11:30,189 and I thought 258 00:11:30,189 --> 00:11:34,160 of, Steve from journey singing, you know, I'll see you Perry 259 00:11:34,193 --> 00:11:35,728 Singing is Sherry raised? 260 00:11:35,728 --> 00:11:36,495 Oh, Sherry. 261 00:11:36,495 --> 00:11:39,932 Yeah, I was that from his debut solo album. So. 262 00:11:39,932 --> 00:11:45,337 But for those who don't know, the New England states are Connecticut, 263 00:11:45,871 --> 00:11:51,010 Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. 264 00:11:51,210 --> 00:11:53,112 And do them all. Have you? Yes. 265 00:11:53,112 --> 00:11:54,914 Why have you been all? 266 00:11:54,914 --> 00:11:59,018 I have never been to New Hampshire. 267 00:11:59,051 --> 00:12:01,620 New Hampshire? Really? Yes. Let me. 268 00:12:01,620 --> 00:12:05,224 Lake Winnipesaukee done a lot of weddings up there. 269 00:12:05,491 --> 00:12:10,296 And they and during the winter they have like all these ice fairs. 270 00:12:10,529 --> 00:12:12,431 The lake is just all ice. 271 00:12:12,431 --> 00:12:15,935 And everybody's just partying out there, you know, on the ice. 272 00:12:15,935 --> 00:12:17,103 But I've been there many times. 273 00:12:17,103 --> 00:12:22,141 The DJ weddings up there, it's just picturesque summer, fall, winter, spring. 274 00:12:22,141 --> 00:12:22,641 Right. 275 00:12:22,641 --> 00:12:25,911 So that's where my, my, my brother and my husband 276 00:12:25,911 --> 00:12:29,048 went to to was it. 277 00:12:29,048 --> 00:12:30,683 It's a camp. I'm trying to think. 278 00:12:30,683 --> 00:12:32,852 Was it a Boy Scout camp? 279 00:12:32,852 --> 00:12:34,353 But Liquid Lake, 280 00:12:34,353 --> 00:12:37,590 it's a big giant lake, but it has a it's a big tourist destination. 281 00:12:37,857 --> 00:12:39,525 So that might be it might be part of it. 282 00:12:39,525 --> 00:12:41,560 The part where they were near that could be. 283 00:12:41,560 --> 00:12:44,497 So maybe I was in New Hampshire because I have a picture of me 284 00:12:44,497 --> 00:12:49,535 as a little tyke, you know, just standing there, but no real memory. 285 00:12:49,568 --> 00:12:53,572 And of course, on my on my shirt here I have Boothbay, Maine. 286 00:12:54,173 --> 00:12:55,374 Oh, that's nice. 287 00:12:55,374 --> 00:12:58,677 And Maine, I love, love, love name my wife and I go up there 288 00:12:58,677 --> 00:12:59,545 pretty much every year. 289 00:12:59,545 --> 00:13:02,448 When I was a kid, dad had a cottage up there. 290 00:13:02,448 --> 00:13:03,883 We go up to Bangor, Maine. 291 00:13:03,883 --> 00:13:06,886 You had Bar Harbor. These are Ogunquit. 292 00:13:07,186 --> 00:13:08,988 It would have a beautiful theater up there. 293 00:13:08,988 --> 00:13:12,024 A lot of folks, I'm sure, watching and listening right now go to Maine. 294 00:13:12,024 --> 00:13:13,826 It's a destination. 295 00:13:13,826 --> 00:13:14,760 It's heaven on earth. 296 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:20,266 But Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, 297 00:13:20,266 --> 00:13:23,435 some people say, oh, Connecticut, this and that tax I love Connecticut. 298 00:13:23,736 --> 00:13:26,438 Yeah, I love it here because we're right between Boston and New York. 299 00:13:26,438 --> 00:13:26,972 Yeah. 300 00:13:26,972 --> 00:13:30,042 We have so many places to go, so many cultural places 301 00:13:30,042 --> 00:13:31,577 I think are very spoiled here. 302 00:13:31,577 --> 00:13:35,581 I love it, I love I live short time and, you know, really nice place. 303 00:13:35,881 --> 00:13:40,619 I really liked, Palm Coast, which is near Saint Augustine. 304 00:13:40,619 --> 00:13:41,654 Yeah. Florida. 305 00:13:41,654 --> 00:13:43,622 Yes. And I really did like that. 306 00:13:43,622 --> 00:13:46,892 And I liked Winston-Salem, North Carolina. 307 00:13:47,393 --> 00:13:49,495 But there's no place like home. 308 00:13:49,495 --> 00:13:51,297 No, there's no place like home. 309 00:13:51,297 --> 00:13:54,300 And I think it is that between new York and Boston, 310 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:58,938 you know, it's just like a hop, skip and a jump to see a Broadway play. 311 00:13:58,938 --> 00:14:03,242 I love Carnegie Hall to see the Rockettes, Madison Square Garden saw Draper 312 00:14:03,242 --> 00:14:04,310 Charlie there recently. 313 00:14:04,310 --> 00:14:05,377 It was just so good. 314 00:14:05,377 --> 00:14:07,780 And and then in Boston you go see the Red Sox. 315 00:14:07,780 --> 00:14:09,381 So you got Quincy Market up there 316 00:14:09,381 --> 00:14:12,384 and you have in New York, you get to see the Yankees. 317 00:14:12,418 --> 00:14:14,253 Yeah. And Boston, you could see the Red Sox 318 00:14:14,253 --> 00:14:15,988 because we don't want to leave the Mets out. 319 00:14:15,988 --> 00:14:17,556 The Mets are always like an afterthought. 320 00:14:17,556 --> 00:14:20,059 You know, the poor Mets or the Jets. Right. 321 00:14:20,059 --> 00:14:22,995 You talk about that, but you get to go to those beautiful stadiums and see. 322 00:14:22,995 --> 00:14:26,799 So when you say the Jets, I think West Side Story, I don't think I'm 323 00:14:26,799 --> 00:14:30,002 not a sports person, but oh those poor jets. 324 00:14:30,236 --> 00:14:33,072 It's like like yeah Yankees. 325 00:14:33,072 --> 00:14:35,007 And you know Red Sox. 326 00:14:35,007 --> 00:14:36,308 It's always the big divide. 327 00:14:36,308 --> 00:14:38,344 But I'm happy for anyone. 328 00:14:38,344 --> 00:14:42,648 My husband was a big Yankees fan, but his father was a huge Red Sox fan. 329 00:14:42,648 --> 00:14:43,282 Yeah. 330 00:14:43,282 --> 00:14:45,417 So like my family to my mom like the Red Sox. 331 00:14:45,417 --> 00:14:46,385 My dad like the Yankees. 332 00:14:46,385 --> 00:14:50,890 And I grew up liking really no local teams for my favorites. 333 00:14:50,923 --> 00:14:52,725 I always like teams from other markets. 334 00:14:52,725 --> 00:14:55,828 Don't know why that was like from other like Saint Louis Cardinals. 335 00:14:56,028 --> 00:14:57,363 Always my favorite baseball team. 336 00:14:57,363 --> 00:14:58,998 You know why I love them too? 337 00:14:58,998 --> 00:15:01,400 Because I love the picture of the Cardinals. That's right. 338 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:04,403 I think that was me too, because cardinals are my favorite birds, you know? 339 00:15:04,436 --> 00:15:06,572 But then I fell in love with the team. Yeah. 340 00:15:06,572 --> 00:15:10,209 And the Dallas Cowboys, you know, my favorite football team. 341 00:15:10,209 --> 00:15:12,011 And I love Dallas Cowboys. 342 00:15:12,011 --> 00:15:18,150 Yeah I think because I thought, actually I think I like their uniforms. 343 00:15:18,150 --> 00:15:19,652 Yeah. The logo with the star athlete. 344 00:15:19,652 --> 00:15:23,489 But no I don't, but I think I bet on them once. 345 00:15:23,522 --> 00:15:25,925 Oh yes. I didn't know you were better. 346 00:15:25,925 --> 00:15:29,161 Well, I worked, you know, as a waitress I was in 347 00:15:29,762 --> 00:15:34,066 and people had pools and I think I did pretty well with the Cowboys. 348 00:15:34,066 --> 00:15:35,000 Game three. Oh, yeah. 349 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,670 Well okay. All right. All right in green Bay Packers. Yep. 350 00:15:37,670 --> 00:15:40,773 Yeah. Legendary Lambeau Field okay. Yes. 351 00:15:40,806 --> 00:15:42,474 So that's a great destination. 352 00:15:42,474 --> 00:15:45,544 That's great thing about the green Bay Packers is they're owned by the town. 353 00:15:46,111 --> 00:15:47,813 They're owned by their fans. 354 00:15:47,813 --> 00:15:52,351 Most people have an owner but the fans own the green Bay Packers did too. 355 00:15:52,351 --> 00:15:53,953 Yeah I mean everyone put money. 356 00:15:53,953 --> 00:15:56,121 They all put money in and they own the green Bay Packers. 357 00:15:56,121 --> 00:16:00,592 Isn't that cool like a long time ago or goes back to the beginning. 358 00:16:00,592 --> 00:16:02,661 Wait, can people still put money in and say, 359 00:16:02,661 --> 00:16:06,031 I don't know about that, but I always thought that was kind of cool. 360 00:16:06,632 --> 00:16:07,900 I mean, the Packers, I mean, legit. 361 00:16:07,900 --> 00:16:11,170 Well, see, we're talking about fall and fall is baseball. 362 00:16:11,170 --> 00:16:15,474 I mean, football's for baseball to be able to do for the Fall Classic, the World 363 00:16:15,507 --> 00:16:18,777 Series, basketball hockey starts later on. 364 00:16:18,811 --> 00:16:22,715 And you know, but I have to mention this about, hallmark movies. 365 00:16:22,715 --> 00:16:27,419 I want to get back to this for a minute, because one of my favorite 366 00:16:27,419 --> 00:16:30,723 Broadway people is, Michael Brady. 367 00:16:31,156 --> 00:16:33,192 I hope I'm saying that right. 368 00:16:33,192 --> 00:16:35,094 It's already why? 369 00:16:35,094 --> 00:16:36,862 But I even watch him on YouTube. 370 00:16:36,862 --> 00:16:38,731 He has a beautiful voice. 371 00:16:38,731 --> 00:16:42,668 So, 372 00:16:42,668 --> 00:16:46,672 and that's l r into v also I have ever heard of. Yes. 373 00:16:47,072 --> 00:16:49,041 Michael Rady, he's a, he's a great actor. 374 00:16:49,041 --> 00:16:52,211 He's been in some I probably movies if I saw him I know who it is. 375 00:16:52,211 --> 00:16:54,146 But he was in two hallmark movies. 376 00:16:54,146 --> 00:17:00,052 One is where are you Christmas, which was Faith Hill sang the title track of that. 377 00:17:00,052 --> 00:17:01,820 Yes, yes, yes. 378 00:17:01,820 --> 00:17:04,056 And that's, that's part that's in the movie. 379 00:17:04,056 --> 00:17:08,227 And that was in, mystic, Connecticut, Waterford, Old Saybrook. 380 00:17:08,761 --> 00:17:12,231 And then he also was Christmas at Pemberley Manor. 381 00:17:12,798 --> 00:17:15,801 And that was in Essex in Old Lyme. 382 00:17:15,801 --> 00:17:18,804 But here's the cool thing about Michael Brady. 383 00:17:18,804 --> 00:17:21,640 He fell in love with Connecticut and moved here, bought a house here. 384 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:26,111 That's how much he loved, finding things when he was here. 385 00:17:26,111 --> 00:17:28,280 I want to raise my kids here now. 386 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:30,349 I want to live in Connecticut. 387 00:17:30,349 --> 00:17:33,018 All those towns you mentioned, Joyce, are just so charming. 388 00:17:33,018 --> 00:17:34,853 I mean, you think Norman Rockwell. 389 00:17:34,853 --> 00:17:37,322 I mean, you think they're perfect for hallmark. 390 00:17:37,322 --> 00:17:40,092 And, like, the Iverson Playhouse is one of my favorite places to go. 391 00:17:40,092 --> 00:17:43,062 Was it Chester, Connecticut? Goodspeed. Yes. 392 00:17:43,062 --> 00:17:44,463 No. And we have the Shubert. 393 00:17:44,463 --> 00:17:47,633 You know, we just really have so many great places to see theater. 394 00:17:47,633 --> 00:17:51,970 They said back in the day, if a show made it in New Haven, right, 395 00:17:52,304 --> 00:17:53,405 they can make it 396 00:17:53,405 --> 00:17:56,875 anywhere because New Haven audiences, a lot of shows were tested here. 397 00:17:56,909 --> 00:17:58,043 Theater. Right. 398 00:17:58,043 --> 00:18:01,113 Because they figured the audience is really kind of, if you made it here, 399 00:18:01,647 --> 00:18:02,815 you can be anywhere. 400 00:18:02,815 --> 00:18:05,684 That line is even in some old movies. 401 00:18:05,684 --> 00:18:10,155 Well, they'll say, well, you know, if we can make it in, make it in New Haven. 402 00:18:10,622 --> 00:18:11,957 And I knew what they were talking about. 403 00:18:11,957 --> 00:18:13,559 They're talking about the Shubert, right. 404 00:18:13,559 --> 00:18:15,761 Shubert was a place where they used it. 405 00:18:15,761 --> 00:18:18,063 That was the place to start the show. 406 00:18:18,063 --> 00:18:18,464 Yeah. 407 00:18:18,464 --> 00:18:21,166 And then if the crowds liked it, they took it to Broadway. 408 00:18:21,166 --> 00:18:23,869 All right. Amazing. We have just so much great history here. 409 00:18:23,869 --> 00:18:27,506 And you go down by Yale and, I love the Peabody Museum. 410 00:18:27,506 --> 00:18:31,243 Oh yeah I know, yes I do a museum and I'm getting to be an age 411 00:18:31,243 --> 00:18:34,313 where my next class reunion is going to be at the Peabody Museum. 412 00:18:39,284 --> 00:18:40,586 Is it really going to be there? 413 00:18:40,586 --> 00:18:43,455 So, because we just had a reunion. 414 00:18:43,455 --> 00:18:47,259 No, I just I took that the next one are probably be there. Oh. 415 00:18:47,292 --> 00:18:50,262 Were you just. 416 00:18:52,297 --> 00:18:54,266 Guy. Oh, you got a laugh. 417 00:18:54,266 --> 00:18:56,101 You got a lot of folks. Yeah. So you got to laugh. 418 00:18:56,101 --> 00:18:58,003 You cry sometimes, right? 419 00:18:58,003 --> 00:19:01,039 Then there's Wally Lamb's wishin and Hopin. 420 00:19:01,507 --> 00:19:03,575 That was a lifetime movie. 421 00:19:03,575 --> 00:19:06,578 That took place in Norwich. Willimantic. 422 00:19:06,678 --> 00:19:08,447 It was, Molly Ringwald. 423 00:19:08,447 --> 00:19:09,648 Oh, sure. 424 00:19:09,648 --> 00:19:11,950 Well, she was a breakfast club. 425 00:19:11,950 --> 00:19:14,419 Yes. Okay. That's 600. 426 00:19:14,419 --> 00:19:15,521 Oh, yeah. Great movie too. 427 00:19:15,521 --> 00:19:17,489 But this movie. I have to watch this. 428 00:19:17,489 --> 00:19:21,393 I know I saw it, it's narrated by Chevy Chase. 429 00:19:21,393 --> 00:19:23,695 Oh, yeah. I love those vacation movies. 430 00:19:23,695 --> 00:19:26,665 National Lampoon's vacation, so much fun. Great. 431 00:19:26,665 --> 00:19:28,066 I love fun movies. 432 00:19:28,066 --> 00:19:31,770 But then again, I like the dark side, but not the scary dark side. 433 00:19:31,770 --> 00:19:32,638 Right? 434 00:19:32,638 --> 00:19:35,641 A very merry Christmas toy store, New Britain 435 00:19:36,108 --> 00:19:39,111 Melissa Joan Hart was in that Mario Lopez. 436 00:19:39,478 --> 00:19:41,980 And that wasn't too long ago in that. 437 00:19:41,980 --> 00:19:45,584 What is the most successful hallmark movie of all time. 438 00:19:45,617 --> 00:19:47,119 Do you know the answer? I do 439 00:19:48,187 --> 00:19:49,621 too, okay. 440 00:19:49,621 --> 00:19:53,492 I had the most views and I think the sequel came in number two all time. 441 00:19:53,825 --> 00:19:56,161 It had a sequel. Yep. 442 00:19:56,161 --> 00:19:57,729 Yep. 443 00:19:57,729 --> 00:19:58,530 Oh, Virginia. 444 00:19:58,530 --> 00:20:00,832 Two plays and Connecticut's not on my list. 445 00:20:00,832 --> 00:20:05,704 It was filmed at the second most visited private home in the USA. 446 00:20:06,338 --> 00:20:07,806 Really? Yeah. 447 00:20:07,806 --> 00:20:10,075 Was the Christmas at Graceland? Yes. 448 00:20:10,075 --> 00:20:12,044 What Christmas or Graceland? 449 00:20:12,044 --> 00:20:15,080 What is the most watched hallmark movie of all time? 450 00:20:15,347 --> 00:20:18,150 And the sequel? I, I saw both of them. 451 00:20:18,150 --> 00:20:21,720 I know it's my frank least favorite movie because I, 452 00:20:21,787 --> 00:20:24,756 I can't remember the name of the actress, but I think 453 00:20:24,756 --> 00:20:27,759 the actress is also a singer. 454 00:20:27,993 --> 00:20:31,096 I think I, I don't even think I saw it though, believe it or not. 455 00:20:31,530 --> 00:20:34,533 But like the, the cast of General Hospital, right. 456 00:20:34,533 --> 00:20:37,369 General hospital, they have their holiday parties every year. 457 00:20:37,369 --> 00:20:39,404 I'd like to go there too. 458 00:20:39,404 --> 00:20:40,572 You've been to Graceland. 459 00:20:40,572 --> 00:20:41,607 I have twice 460 00:20:41,607 --> 00:20:45,043 and but you've said something that other people have said about Graceland. 461 00:20:45,410 --> 00:20:45,844 I don't know. 462 00:20:45,844 --> 00:20:48,747 In our minds, maybe we make things bigger. Yes. 463 00:20:48,747 --> 00:20:50,816 And everything. And it was it smaller? 464 00:20:50,816 --> 00:20:51,516 It was smaller. 465 00:20:51,516 --> 00:20:55,721 It was very, very well dated because didn't they keep everything? 466 00:20:55,854 --> 00:20:56,421 Yeah. 467 00:20:56,421 --> 00:21:00,025 And Elvis's taste was kind of weird when it came to decorating. 468 00:21:00,025 --> 00:21:01,426 Like the Jungle Room. Yeah. 469 00:21:01,426 --> 00:21:05,297 It was kind of like weird in a way, but it was just so, you know, 470 00:21:05,330 --> 00:21:06,932 all this new money came. 471 00:21:06,932 --> 00:21:07,499 He came. 472 00:21:07,499 --> 00:21:11,303 He was so poor, I know, and I think maybe he got bad 473 00:21:11,670 --> 00:21:13,672 decorators in there, right, right. 474 00:21:13,672 --> 00:21:15,507 But what blew me away was when I went there 475 00:21:15,507 --> 00:21:17,876 and went across the street to the trophy room, 476 00:21:17,876 --> 00:21:21,847 and on all the street trash was like a big, giant complex. 477 00:21:22,114 --> 00:21:25,117 And then they had the radio station there, the Sirius XM station, 478 00:21:25,350 --> 00:21:28,186 and then, they had this big giant warehouse 479 00:21:28,186 --> 00:21:32,658 with all this gold and platinum records, and they were all in at Graceland. 480 00:21:32,658 --> 00:21:36,528 No, I mean, they've gotten so many more since they keep adding more every year 481 00:21:36,862 --> 00:21:39,765 globally that they had to put them in a warehouse. 482 00:21:39,765 --> 00:21:43,468 And like from every country in the world and keys to the city and all these, you 483 00:21:43,468 --> 00:21:47,706 know, jumpsuits and, you know, movie stuff and everything, it was just really cool. 484 00:21:48,540 --> 00:21:49,574 Really cool. 485 00:21:49,574 --> 00:21:51,810 I and I just learned a great song in itself. 486 00:21:51,810 --> 00:21:53,845 I wasn't really all that impressed with, you know. 487 00:21:53,845 --> 00:21:56,081 Yeah. Although I'd like to go to that. 488 00:21:56,081 --> 00:21:57,883 Oh yeah. I mean yeah, yeah. 489 00:21:57,883 --> 00:21:59,084 That's, you know, 490 00:21:59,084 --> 00:22:02,321 and for General Hospital, I'm a big fan of General Hospital. 491 00:22:02,321 --> 00:22:04,222 Yeah. My mom used to watch that all the time. 492 00:22:04,222 --> 00:22:06,425 And of course I got sucked into it again too. 493 00:22:06,425 --> 00:22:09,328 Like the soap operas. Right. I'll make fun of it. 494 00:22:09,328 --> 00:22:12,331 And then if it's on, I'll watch it and I get into it. 495 00:22:12,497 --> 00:22:15,600 So even when I'm watching it now and because, 496 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:18,804 you know, I, my sons are always there. 497 00:22:19,004 --> 00:22:21,440 One son lives with me, my grandson lives with me. 498 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:24,509 My other son, is always helping us. 499 00:22:24,509 --> 00:22:30,248 And he's so my house is like a revolving door and I swear he'll come in. 500 00:22:30,282 --> 00:22:33,952 I will say, isn't this the same story from, like, ten years? 501 00:22:33,952 --> 00:22:34,920 Yeah, yeah. 502 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:37,489 I say, yeah, kind of, but it's slow. 503 00:22:37,489 --> 00:22:38,924 It's like molasses, right? 504 00:22:38,924 --> 00:22:40,859 It's like molasses. Oh, boy. 505 00:22:40,859 --> 00:22:44,363 And then my grandson will walk in and he will say the same thing is 506 00:22:44,363 --> 00:22:46,064 the name of this is General Hospital. 507 00:22:46,064 --> 00:22:48,033 How come they're never in a hospital? 508 00:22:48,033 --> 00:22:50,268 And I said, no, no, you just missed the part. 509 00:22:50,268 --> 00:22:53,271 I think they were early. Right, right. 510 00:22:53,305 --> 00:22:53,939 Oh, yeah. 511 00:22:53,939 --> 00:22:57,376 And and why is Sonny like a mobster at General Hospital? 512 00:22:57,409 --> 00:22:59,911 Yeah. It's like, you got to watch it. Yeah. 513 00:22:59,911 --> 00:23:01,279 It's like. Yeah, I can't explain. 514 00:23:01,279 --> 00:23:02,981 It takes too long in years. 515 00:23:02,981 --> 00:23:05,150 Well, we were talking about some destinations too, though. 516 00:23:05,150 --> 00:23:10,355 I want to Athens, Greece, because, my, Patty and I were engaged. 517 00:23:10,756 --> 00:23:13,792 Her daughter was over there on an exchange trip for Yukon, 518 00:23:14,126 --> 00:23:16,695 and she was going to go visit her daughter anyway. 519 00:23:16,695 --> 00:23:18,930 So I said, well, we're going to go over there anyway. 520 00:23:18,930 --> 00:23:19,731 Why don't we? 521 00:23:19,731 --> 00:23:22,534 We, you know, already decided we were going to get married 522 00:23:22,534 --> 00:23:24,936 and we got unofficially married in that. 523 00:23:24,936 --> 00:23:27,439 I'm just going to ask I never heard the story. 524 00:23:27,439 --> 00:23:29,508 How do you get married in Greece? 525 00:23:29,508 --> 00:23:32,477 But we got married on a rooftop of the Acropolis or the. 526 00:23:32,477 --> 00:23:34,546 I saw some kind of tourists. It was just gorgeous. 527 00:23:34,546 --> 00:23:35,814 Stunning. At sunset. 528 00:23:35,814 --> 00:23:39,351 And we had her daughter there, Lindsay, and it was just phenomenal. 529 00:23:39,351 --> 00:23:41,653 We spent week to ten days there. 530 00:23:41,653 --> 00:23:42,354 I was exposed, 531 00:23:42,354 --> 00:23:46,591 I tasted gelato for the first time over there, and the streets are so narrow 532 00:23:47,192 --> 00:23:51,062 and these taxi drivers drive so fast, it's like crazy. 533 00:23:51,163 --> 00:23:53,899 And nobody ever worked there on siesta all the time. 534 00:23:53,899 --> 00:23:55,600 Yeah, that's why they live longer. 535 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:59,671 And yeah, but the food was incredible because they don't have the preservatives 536 00:23:59,671 --> 00:24:01,606 that they have here and loved it. 537 00:24:01,606 --> 00:24:06,211 And I don't drink, but the wine I had over there was actually really good. 538 00:24:06,278 --> 00:24:09,281 I had even olive oil tasting olive oil was tremendous. 539 00:24:09,347 --> 00:24:12,284 And the and the vegetables and the fruits every morning. 540 00:24:12,284 --> 00:24:13,051 Incredible. 541 00:24:13,051 --> 00:24:14,986 But I would go back to Athens again. 542 00:24:14,986 --> 00:24:17,122 I mean, I know that there's some sad things 543 00:24:17,122 --> 00:24:19,257 going on there from time to time, but it's just beautiful. 544 00:24:19,257 --> 00:24:20,559 The people were amazing. 545 00:24:20,559 --> 00:24:24,396 I love them that we went to Switzerland around the Alps area. 546 00:24:24,830 --> 00:24:25,330 Didn't get it. 547 00:24:25,330 --> 00:24:27,365 We we saw the Alps, but we didn't have a chance 548 00:24:27,365 --> 00:24:29,601 to actually experience them because we stopped in 549 00:24:29,601 --> 00:24:33,605 the airport, had the best coffee I ever had in my life in Switzerland. Wow. 550 00:24:33,605 --> 00:24:37,542 And then on the way home and went to Paris and we spent a night in Paris. 551 00:24:37,576 --> 00:24:40,579 Did you can you can see so many countries when you go to Europe. 552 00:24:40,579 --> 00:24:41,413 Right. So. 553 00:24:41,413 --> 00:24:42,214 And from the sky. 554 00:24:42,214 --> 00:24:45,550 So technically you say you were here or here or there, but I love Paris. 555 00:24:45,550 --> 00:24:46,685 I want to go back to Paris. 556 00:24:46,685 --> 00:24:49,421 Oh you will. And people say, oh, the Paris people are this and that. 557 00:24:49,421 --> 00:24:51,389 And there were to the Paris people were nice. 558 00:24:51,389 --> 00:24:53,825 It you got it goes by the way you treat other people. 559 00:24:53,825 --> 00:24:56,161 Yeah. If you expect them to be. I don't expect them. 560 00:24:56,161 --> 00:24:58,430 I whenever I go I'm going to smile and say hello to everybody. 561 00:24:58,430 --> 00:25:01,800 I wonder if in in Paris 562 00:25:02,234 --> 00:25:05,070 if some shop owners, 563 00:25:05,070 --> 00:25:07,606 are almost expected to be that way. 564 00:25:07,606 --> 00:25:09,241 So they are that way. Yeah. 565 00:25:09,241 --> 00:25:09,641 Like that. 566 00:25:09,641 --> 00:25:12,344 Like the Seinfeld episode with the Soup Nazi. 567 00:25:12,344 --> 00:25:12,978 Yes, yes. 568 00:25:12,978 --> 00:25:16,915 Like you want to go there because it's just part of the ambiance of it. 569 00:25:17,282 --> 00:25:21,119 But let me go back to this again because, first of all, 570 00:25:21,152 --> 00:25:24,022 let me ask you, this is Switzerland. Best coffee. Coffee you ever. 571 00:25:24,022 --> 00:25:27,492 Oh, could you ask them, like, what's the brand? 572 00:25:27,492 --> 00:25:28,460 What are you using? 573 00:25:28,460 --> 00:25:31,263 I know what the brand is because it's available in certain restaurants around, 574 00:25:31,263 --> 00:25:33,365 but it doesn't taste like I can't remember. 575 00:25:33,365 --> 00:25:35,700 It's still you. No, it's still very good. Oh, it is, but. 576 00:25:35,700 --> 00:25:38,770 But the coffee over in Switzerland, it was in an airport that I had it, 577 00:25:39,538 --> 00:25:41,239 and it was phenomenal. 578 00:25:41,239 --> 00:25:45,243 You are the coffee connoisseur, so I'm taking this seriously. 579 00:25:45,243 --> 00:25:46,578 Yeah, I admit it. 580 00:25:46,578 --> 00:25:47,178 I'm a coffee. Yes. 581 00:25:47,178 --> 00:25:49,781 So I, I'm going to have to research this. 582 00:25:49,781 --> 00:25:49,915 Yeah. 583 00:25:49,915 --> 00:25:51,983 We have we have some great coffee places around here 584 00:25:51,983 --> 00:25:54,286 locally if you're ever in the Bramford, Connecticut area. 585 00:25:54,286 --> 00:25:54,553 Yeah. 586 00:25:54,553 --> 00:25:57,522 Do you have a couple of free plugs called Common Ground and Grounds? 587 00:25:57,522 --> 00:26:00,325 Common ground coffee, locally owned and moonshots? 588 00:26:00,325 --> 00:26:01,493 Yeah. Locally owned. 589 00:26:01,493 --> 00:26:03,862 Guilford's soon to expand that. Bramford. Kathy. 590 00:26:03,862 --> 00:26:04,229 All right. 591 00:26:04,229 --> 00:26:06,998 Yes, I'll be here. I'll be there with you tomorrow. 592 00:26:06,998 --> 00:26:09,935 But I know we're talking about fall in New England and all that, 593 00:26:09,935 --> 00:26:11,803 but I got to get back to Greece for a minute. 594 00:26:11,803 --> 00:26:14,706 When you got married, did you get it? 595 00:26:14,706 --> 00:26:18,343 Did you get, like, permission there to get married? How? 596 00:26:18,376 --> 00:26:21,613 This thing is always said to the folks at the hotel, we want to go up. 597 00:26:21,613 --> 00:26:22,981 We're just going to go up there. 598 00:26:22,981 --> 00:26:24,049 Patti had her gown on. 599 00:26:24,049 --> 00:26:26,117 I had my but sure sucker suit. 600 00:26:26,117 --> 00:26:28,186 But is your marriage license from Greece? 601 00:26:28,186 --> 00:26:30,622 No, we weren't officially married there at all. 602 00:26:30,622 --> 00:26:33,158 I thought it was just for optics, I see. 603 00:26:33,158 --> 00:26:35,293 And then we had a ceremony here in the States. 604 00:26:35,293 --> 00:26:36,795 And you did it all here? 605 00:26:36,795 --> 00:26:37,829 Yeah, we got it. 606 00:26:37,829 --> 00:26:41,433 We're March 27th, 2008 over there. 607 00:26:41,433 --> 00:26:44,836 And then may I always forget our real date? 608 00:26:44,836 --> 00:26:48,273 Because I always count the one in Greece is our romantic wedding. 609 00:26:48,273 --> 00:26:52,644 Yeah, but then in April, we got married here at a beautiful, state over. 610 00:26:52,978 --> 00:26:57,983 And, Frank and Jane von Holzhausen left their place. 611 00:26:58,016 --> 00:26:59,351 I don't you love that name and say Jim's 612 00:26:59,351 --> 00:27:03,221 head in the gopher, Connecticut area, which I love the name Von Horse housing. 613 00:27:03,288 --> 00:27:05,090 Yeah. To the nicest people ever. 614 00:27:05,090 --> 00:27:08,493 Wells. And say, Jim said, is it's beautiful. 615 00:27:08,493 --> 00:27:10,261 It's a beautiful place. Right. 616 00:27:10,261 --> 00:27:13,231 So do you have two anniversaries then? 617 00:27:13,298 --> 00:27:16,635 We pretty much focus on the first 1st March 27th. 618 00:27:16,635 --> 00:27:18,403 So remember that folks. March 27th. 619 00:27:18,403 --> 00:27:19,771 That's when you could send all you know. 620 00:27:19,771 --> 00:27:22,273 Yeah. And you'll remind John that that's the date. 621 00:27:22,273 --> 00:27:23,742 That's right. Exactly. 622 00:27:23,742 --> 00:27:25,143 I never remembered my date. 623 00:27:25,143 --> 00:27:27,345 I have a thing with dates and I don't. 624 00:27:27,345 --> 00:27:29,848 Did Wayne remember? Yes, of course he did. 625 00:27:29,848 --> 00:27:31,716 Wayne remembered our anniversary. 626 00:27:31,716 --> 00:27:35,920 Wayne remembered, like, Valentine's Day, things like that. 627 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:37,856 And that's why he was a keeper. 628 00:27:37,856 --> 00:27:38,523 I didn't. 629 00:27:38,523 --> 00:27:41,793 Sometimes I think when people put too much on it, 630 00:27:41,793 --> 00:27:46,197 maybe because that's the only day you get attention. 631 00:27:46,498 --> 00:27:48,533 But Wayne gave me attention, like, every day. 632 00:27:48,533 --> 00:27:50,702 That's awesome. You know? So it really didn't. 633 00:27:50,702 --> 00:27:51,870 It didn't matter to me. 634 00:27:51,870 --> 00:27:55,240 But he always made a big deal because I was his sweetheart, you know? 635 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:56,074 So that's great. 636 00:27:56,074 --> 00:27:56,508 That's all. 637 00:27:56,508 --> 00:27:57,709 Be right there. 638 00:27:57,709 --> 00:28:00,712 We were like a hallmark movie. It was. 639 00:28:00,912 --> 00:28:03,915 Yeah, we had a rough beginning, but it's almost like 640 00:28:04,015 --> 00:28:08,253 people were rooting for us and we made it in the end. 641 00:28:08,253 --> 00:28:09,921 You know, like some of the Barry Manilow song. 642 00:28:09,921 --> 00:28:11,389 Looks like we made it. 643 00:28:11,389 --> 00:28:14,592 Every time I hear Barry Manilow songs and live, 644 00:28:14,592 --> 00:28:17,595 I'm exercising sometimes to keep them on in the background. 645 00:28:18,196 --> 00:28:20,865 And I could deal with it, and it makes me happy. 646 00:28:20,865 --> 00:28:24,035 And other times it's like, it's my story with Wayne. 647 00:28:24,169 --> 00:28:24,602 Yeah. 648 00:28:24,602 --> 00:28:29,074 You know, it's like every song it reminds me of of him. 649 00:28:29,074 --> 00:28:32,877 And sometimes it it just brings up too much emotion 650 00:28:32,877 --> 00:28:35,880 where I just have to not exercise and sit with it. 651 00:28:36,081 --> 00:28:37,115 You make a really good point there 652 00:28:37,115 --> 00:28:38,883 because sometimes, you know, you could be by the water, 653 00:28:38,883 --> 00:28:41,119 it could be the happiest place in your life. 654 00:28:41,119 --> 00:28:44,789 But if you're in a sad place, it's just, it just it could be devastating. Yes. 655 00:28:44,823 --> 00:28:48,660 Depending on where you are, the virtually everything is a snapshot. 656 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:49,894 Yes of life. 657 00:28:49,894 --> 00:28:55,433 And so whatever your snapshot is and that's why, some of my saddest times, 658 00:28:55,433 --> 00:28:58,970 I would go sit down Stony Creek Beach and just sit there. 659 00:28:59,137 --> 00:29:00,772 And my happiest times, 660 00:29:00,772 --> 00:29:03,641 I went to Stoney Creek Beach, and you'll be there at Stony Creek 661 00:29:03,641 --> 00:29:05,276 and you'll see, you know, kids playing around. 662 00:29:05,276 --> 00:29:07,846 You'll see these happy young couples or some older people 663 00:29:07,846 --> 00:29:10,215 holding hands. And then you'll see over in a corner 664 00:29:10,215 --> 00:29:12,484 somewhere, somebody's looking very, very sad. 665 00:29:12,484 --> 00:29:13,284 And you'll you're right. 666 00:29:13,284 --> 00:29:15,653 You'll see both. Now, you know what I did one night? 667 00:29:15,653 --> 00:29:18,456 I went there at nighttime and I climbed up to the, 668 00:29:19,491 --> 00:29:21,760 lifeguard, you know, perch. 669 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,429 Oh, you sit up there, too, I said, yeah, we do that, too. 670 00:29:24,429 --> 00:29:26,931 And I brought, 671 00:29:26,931 --> 00:29:31,569 I was I brought a flask of brandy with you, and I sat up there. 672 00:29:31,569 --> 00:29:34,572 I was not in a good state of mind, but 673 00:29:34,973 --> 00:29:39,377 it helped because I felt like a speck on this earth, 674 00:29:39,844 --> 00:29:43,548 and I could feel the presence of the universe of God. 675 00:29:43,681 --> 00:29:44,182 Yeah. 676 00:29:44,182 --> 00:29:48,052 And was overwhelmingly beautiful to me. Wow. 677 00:29:48,219 --> 00:29:49,554 You know, a little bit of brandy. 678 00:29:49,554 --> 00:29:51,456 It was a cold night, too. 679 00:29:51,456 --> 00:29:53,658 Brandy? You're a fine girl, right? 680 00:29:53,658 --> 00:29:55,927 Looking glass, 1972. 681 00:29:55,927 --> 00:30:01,199 See, I knew the song I would never remember looking was 1972, 1972. 682 00:30:01,399 --> 00:30:02,801 Wow. Because if they're still playing. 683 00:30:02,801 --> 00:30:05,470 Oh, neither one of us was born then, but I remember I remember this song. 684 00:30:05,470 --> 00:30:07,772 In retrospect. I don't think I've been born yet. No. 685 00:30:09,574 --> 00:30:11,643 Yeah, but just so many great locations. 686 00:30:11,643 --> 00:30:14,913 And if you're not in this area in New England and you're 687 00:30:15,013 --> 00:30:16,848 and you're watching or listening to this podcast 688 00:30:16,848 --> 00:30:19,350 or both, make a trip up here, it is so worth it. 689 00:30:19,350 --> 00:30:22,320 This is just the place to be, especially in the fall. 690 00:30:22,620 --> 00:30:26,057 And if you come here especially because you heard our show, 691 00:30:26,391 --> 00:30:28,293 let us know and come on our show. 692 00:30:28,293 --> 00:30:31,262 We want to talk to you, want to talk to you about your experience here. 693 00:30:31,362 --> 00:30:32,430 I I'm absolutely. 694 00:30:32,430 --> 00:30:36,201 So if you have any ideas for shows by the way, please let us know. 695 00:30:36,801 --> 00:30:39,571 Just, you know, how do they get in contact with us? 696 00:30:39,571 --> 00:30:41,072 Joyce 697 00:30:41,072 --> 00:30:42,040 I don't know. 698 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:45,276 Yeah, we I see this is this is live. 699 00:30:45,310 --> 00:30:46,244 This is live stuff, right? 700 00:30:46,244 --> 00:30:46,444 You know what? 701 00:30:46,444 --> 00:30:48,213 The best way to get in contact with us is? 702 00:30:48,213 --> 00:30:50,682 Messages. 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Right. 720 00:31:26,451 --> 00:31:29,754 And if you're up here in fall or whatever you are, you know, seek us out. 721 00:31:29,754 --> 00:31:32,190 And, you can always gain a new friend. 722 00:31:32,190 --> 00:31:33,224 Absolutely. 723 00:31:33,224 --> 00:31:35,960 Thank you for watching and listening. We love you. 724 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:38,863 I'm John Cadillac Seville, Joyce Hogan, best to you and your family. 725 00:31:38,863 --> 00:31:39,597 Bye for now.