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In episode three of Podcaster Stories, I sit down with Bob Reed, Communications Strategy Lead at Element-R Partners, LLC, and co-host of The Old Man Podcast.
After shooting the crap with his neighbour Dave, over the years, both men realized they might have something that others may enjoy listening to as well. And so The Old Man Podcast was born, taking a look at life through the lenses of two men as they approach their 60th birthdays.
Bob also talks about why he's so passionately vocal about the political happenings in his country, as well as why he won't discuss religion. He also shares his mean impressions of the characters in the classic TV show, Taxi.
Topics on the menu include:
- When he and Dave first realized their neighbourly meanderings might make for a good show
- How a personal tragedy sidelined the show
- His goals for the relaunch of the show
- Why he isn't apologetic for his political posts on Facebook
- Why religion is something he won't discuss online
- The funniest line he's ever heard, from the TV show Taxi
- His impression of the actor delivering that line
Settle back for a fun and engaging conversation about two friends making a podcast, and how that's been received not just by older men, but women, too.
Connect with Bob:
Contact me: danny@podcasterstories.com
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Hi, and welcome to Podcaster Stories each week we'll have
Speaker:a conversation with podcasts. It was across all mediums and
Speaker:share their stories. What motivates them, why they started to
Speaker:show up as a group show more and more, but
Speaker:also talk about their personal lives and some of the
Speaker:things that have happened that made them, the person they
Speaker:have to do. And now here's your host Danny Brown
Speaker:hi guys. And welcome to another episode of Podcaster. Stories
Speaker:where we meet the people behind the voices of the
Speaker:show is we listen to it this week. I've got
Speaker:a friend of mine that I've known for a few
Speaker:years now, Bob Reed over in the U S who
Speaker:is the core host of The Old Man Podcast, which
Speaker:I fell into Sue set up and set him what's
Speaker:the word set in?
Speaker:But serendipitously. There you go. Okay. Thanks for that. My
Speaker:brand is, I mean, it's the afternoon here now in
Speaker:there where I am in Ontario, Canada, but my brain
Speaker:still hasn't kicked an edgier. So appreciate that. So Bob
Speaker:tell us about the, the, thanks for joining the us.
Speaker:Tell us about the show. Tell us a little bit
Speaker:about yourself and to end the show and will go
Speaker:from there.
Speaker:Okay. Well, you know, as you said that it's, The,
Speaker:Old Man Podcast and the idea came about just by
Speaker:me getting older and looking at demographics and saying, man,
Speaker:Man, there's a lot of Old boomers hanging around. Maybe
Speaker:there might be a market for a lack of a
Speaker:better term, you know, for anybody that may want to
Speaker:listen to their peers, talking about everything and anything that
Speaker:they may be concerned about, or, you know, like worried
Speaker:or just, you know, the, you know, feel like they
Speaker:can have some comradery with a, the same kind of
Speaker:things that they are going through. I mean, that can
Speaker:be anywhere from, you know, from hobbies to a retirement,
Speaker:to health of, of relationships, you know, you name it
Speaker:and we just want to try to cover it.
Speaker:So that's how Lee and the idea came about with
Speaker:this. And I was trying to figure out who I
Speaker:could actually could have a good You know, somewhat comedic
Speaker:foil a for this. And I'm on my phone is
Speaker:ringing that we can get that. And there was a
Speaker:neighbor, there's a neighbor of mine who I've known for
Speaker:gosh, 20 years now. And we were former co Cub
Speaker:scout leaders hear in the U S and it was
Speaker:like the younger version of boy Scouts, but long story
Speaker:short, just when he and I get together, it just
Speaker:seems to click, we start laughing, we've, you know, tell
Speaker:inappropriate jokes.
Speaker:And we both started cracking up. Well, you know, just,
Speaker:it, it just goes, and he says, you know, Bob,
Speaker:you know, every time I don't have any other relationship,
Speaker:quite like the one I have with you when we
Speaker:start talking. So that kind of clued me and I
Speaker:said, this might be good. And he is funny. I,
Speaker:this guy could do stand up or maybe is that,
Speaker:he's that quick. All right, go ahead.
Speaker:Right. And so you are, are you a physical neighbors
Speaker:then? Because I know like we want, but you guys
Speaker:have to say,
Speaker:We were literally, maybe about a third of a mile
Speaker:away from each other.
Speaker:Alright. And so I have, so, I mean, you mentioned
Speaker:that it sent to a set demographic. I know it's
Speaker:called The Old Man Podcast but can anybody else listen
Speaker:to you? Or would you say,
Speaker:Oh, yeah. I mean, if it's like a guess analogous.
Speaker:No, not really, but you know, top gear, you know,
Speaker:top here in the grand tour, you know, the, the,
Speaker:the three idiots, 40% of their audience is female. So
Speaker:it has nothing to do with cars. So it just
Speaker:has to do with how they present it in what
Speaker:they do. All right. So,
Speaker:But I know Ear, but not really. It was, and
Speaker:that's what I used to watch the top gear back
Speaker:in a UK before we moved to Canada. And, and
Speaker:to your point, I think it's the chemistry between the
Speaker:three cohosts and then obviously a steak there, the driver,
Speaker:you know, who doesn't really get all of air time,
Speaker:but he was still a legendary, a part of that
Speaker:show. Right. That was great. And especially when it moved
Speaker:to the Amazon office, so this is a bit of
Speaker:a fall out of it. And the BBC that had
Speaker:to move over to Amazon, et cetera.
Speaker:Yeah. You know, Jeremy decided to slug a producer, you
Speaker:know, because he had a knife.
Speaker:So yeah. But now they're getting over to, and it's
Speaker:interesting.
Speaker:I know, because, you know, they, they, they, they ditched
Speaker:the tent. They did, they ditched the scripted stuff. It's
Speaker:because it takes a lot of time and effort to
Speaker:do it. And now they're doing like two specials a
Speaker:year and, you know, eventually it was just going to
Speaker:trail off just because he has this stuff that they
Speaker:do. And you know, how much physical exertion is for
Speaker:three people who are extremely out of outer shape, you
Speaker:know, except maybe from Richard Hammond. And, but, you know,
Speaker:the, the other two were just like, yeah, we're kinda
Speaker:done and dusted.
Speaker:Yeah, exactly. I know of, so Richard Harmon had a
Speaker:bad accident a few years back. So I think that
Speaker:probably limited to, of this stuff, he could do it
Speaker:as a touch and go for him for a while.
Speaker:Yeah. That's a good show. And I enjoy that. And
Speaker:so you mentioned, you know, I think this is a
Speaker:real launch of the show, is that correct? Like you
Speaker:realized it, but, you know, yeah. We've had some technical,
Speaker:The whole issues just because we're, you know, we're old
Speaker:and we're not that bright. Yeah. The other issue is
Speaker:the pandemic itself, a, the pandemic has really taken any
Speaker:kind of momentum out of recording a is simply because
Speaker:a Scott had it on for a couple a weeks
Speaker:and then a close relative of his had it and
Speaker:subsequently passed away last week. So, so yeah, I mean,
Speaker:there's definitely a personal story in there and, you know,
Speaker:he just says not feeling too funny right now. And
Speaker:I said, yeah, well, you've got every reason not too,
Speaker:you know, I'm sure it's something that we are going
Speaker:to address in the future.
Speaker:I hope, but for right now there's only four episodes.
Speaker:I was actually, you know, pleased as you want to
Speaker:do to reach out, you know, based upon others that
Speaker:have, you know, you know, you, years of content, that
Speaker:reaction we got from people listening to what it was,
Speaker:was quite good. And this is for us just really
Speaker:kind of setting up the microphone and picking a topic.
Speaker:I do a little bit of research for show prep,
Speaker:but then just riffing. I mean, the first show we
Speaker:actually even did, we just decided just to say, Hey,
Speaker:let's just put it on the recorder and see what
Speaker:happens. And we really listen to it and we can
Speaker:actually kind of like that ourselves. So, you know, if
Speaker:it's pleasing to you and you have an, you know,
Speaker:and you know, we're critical about each other, then I
Speaker:think, you know, it may have value and, you know,
Speaker:in relevancy to other people and they may not enjoy
Speaker:it.
Speaker:So, you know, hopefully we can continue.
Speaker:Well, some of my best to Scott, never, obviously I
Speaker:don't know that it is that something you, you know,
Speaker:that people will talk about some of my best to
Speaker:start and it really started his family member. So to
Speaker:your point about the Podcast, I think that's why I
Speaker:fell into it. And I enjoy the, as basic as
Speaker:that, like less than to two guys, is that I've
Speaker:got a beer and a backyard and talking about anything
Speaker:and everything. And it came down to amaze me a
Speaker:little bit of the tube, you know, and I say
Speaker:this with utmost love and respect, and we have the,
Speaker:the two guys from the Muppets show that would happen
Speaker:to the balcony. Do you never quite sure what it
Speaker:is going to go up, but you've got a shadow.
Speaker:You've got the order of the friendship between the two
Speaker:and the don't give a crap, you know, it's like,
Speaker:they're talking about basically what they would talk about.
Speaker:And I think that's the attraction of the show is
Speaker:certainly for me anyway.
Speaker:Appreciate that. Yeah. I think they, you know, there's, there's
Speaker:enough content out there that I think it's, you know,
Speaker:you, you have to find some kind of hook, ah,
Speaker:just to gain interest. And, you know, that was the
Speaker:one that I came up with. It has nothing to
Speaker:do with the work. It has nothing to do with
Speaker:what I do for a living. It, it just sounded
Speaker:fun. And you know, these days is a little bit
Speaker:more fun. It could be had by everybody, you know?
Speaker:Oh, for sure. And I know like, Dan, I'm not
Speaker:sure if was yourself or Scott was talking about, we
Speaker:are in one of your last shorts about the community
Speaker:Jim and the community of gyms. And it was just
Speaker:cracking up. Cause you picked up and that's, what are
Speaker:some of my favorite comedians are the ones that talk
Speaker:about situational humor, you know? And it's the things that
Speaker:you can relate to you have every day of life.
Speaker:And I think we have the The Old, Man, Podcast,
Speaker:that's one of the, the, the cell and features of
Speaker:your life that people relate to it because it can
Speaker:think of, yeah, I can imagine that.
Speaker:Yeah. I guess that's kind of like, you know, that
Speaker:kind of a hole point. I mean, anything in everything
Speaker:these days have to have some kind of, as I
Speaker:said, there has to have some kind of hook, but
Speaker:if it's not relatable then, and if it feels as
Speaker:if it doesn't feel genuine, then it's not really going
Speaker:to gain any traction. I mean, my daughter listens to
Speaker:my brother, my brother and me, and you can definitely
Speaker:tell all of those, those three guys have such amazing
Speaker:chemistry and improvisational comedian, a comedic chops that it just
Speaker:works and you tune in. And just because you want
Speaker:to see what happens next, because it's not scripted. It's
Speaker:pretty darn good stuff.
Speaker:So, I mean, I would love, we don't have that
Speaker:level of talent, but if you do it more, maybe
Speaker:we'll get, and we will get better. She'll go. And
Speaker:my brothers and me, my brother and my brother and
Speaker:me.
Speaker:Okay. So we'll be sure to check that out. Thanks
Speaker:for that. Very good. Now, obviously you had mentioned at
Speaker:the moment the show's taking a hiatus When, but prior
Speaker:to that, obviously you're starting to grow the shore relaunch
Speaker:out with new episodes. What are your goals for the
Speaker:show and what, what do you think that they would
Speaker:be, you know, once you start to get back into
Speaker:it
Speaker:And we'd like to grow the audience, I mean, I'm,
Speaker:I'm not going to lie and say, Oh, you know,
Speaker:could this turned into something that you could have, you
Speaker:know, a nice following, you know, might it have some
Speaker:revenue attached to it? Who knows it, it's kinda hard
Speaker:to predict. I mean, you can't, you know, predict a
Speaker:viral, viral ability because you have not met and having
Speaker:my issues to, and it still morning. But th th
Speaker:I think, you know, because what you and I are
Speaker:both in marketing, we both understand that you have to
Speaker:go out there and promote, you know, one of the
Speaker:things that Scott was a little bit hesitant about when
Speaker:I first approached him about the idea was he said,
Speaker:nah, I don't know about the commitment. I don't know
Speaker:about, you know, how, if I'm going to like this,
Speaker:I don't know how I'm going to have, like, how
Speaker:are we going to sound?
Speaker:And once they got into it and he said, well,
Speaker:that's not too bad. You know, what are your, and
Speaker:he asked, what are your plans for it? And I
Speaker:said, I want to grow it if we can, you
Speaker:know, if we have enough people and we spread it
Speaker:around, but it does take work. The content has to
Speaker:be good first. It was like any other product, if
Speaker:it's not a good product, no one's going to buy
Speaker:it. So we'll see how it will just say, how
Speaker:well will we do?
Speaker:And what's it been that I know I was looking
Speaker:at the show up earlier on Apple iTunes. And I
Speaker:know people were asking for more episodes to be uploaded.
Speaker:What's the reaction been from people who have either connected
Speaker:with your listen to the show and maybe, you know,
Speaker:I sent you a feedback afterwards.
Speaker:It's been pretty positive. You know, just a few people,
Speaker:you know, you know, Scott is giving you some, you
Speaker:know, anecdotal things with relatives and, you know, relatives, or
Speaker:probably the worst critics of what you do cause they
Speaker:know you. And I don't think they're going to hold
Speaker:back any kind of criticism about what they're hearing, but
Speaker:people, you know, I heard it, you know, I've heard,
Speaker:you know, the episodes to date and they said, no,
Speaker:this isn't too bad that you guys are actually pretty
Speaker:funny. And that's gratifying to here. I mean, even my
Speaker:younger brother who is far more comedic in dark humor
Speaker:than I am is that he goes, Oh, you know,
Speaker:that's not bad. So when you get that kind of
Speaker:feedback, it kind of encourages, it encourages you to, to
Speaker:do more.
Speaker:Yeah, no, for sure. And like I said, I know
Speaker:I'm, I try to think, you know, if I let
Speaker:my wife's lesson to the Podcast afterwards, because I'm thinking,
Speaker:okay, she's going to pick because she always picks out
Speaker:little things that I do. In-person a lot of physical,
Speaker:a lot of texts or whatever. And if they get
Speaker:agitated, I do a certain thing. If I get to
Speaker:speak too fast, I do a certain thing. And she's
Speaker:always listened for that. I think. So. I hear you
Speaker:and let the personal feedback side.
Speaker:Yeah. We have a, a family relative, I guess a
Speaker:through marriage. It's a, she's she's has a podcast for
Speaker:years now and she is a professional comedian, a improv
Speaker:actress, voiceover actors, and she listened to it and she
Speaker:said that, you know, it's pretty good. You know, I'd
Speaker:been mined for a long time and you know, you
Speaker:guys sounded like you have something that, that could work
Speaker:her issue is, is that she is filthy as he
Speaker:goes and promote all her stuff. That was funny. And
Speaker:she does it with a former writing partner of hers
Speaker:from a, from, from LA. But she has no idea
Speaker:how to promote it.
Speaker:I think she just does that just to do it
Speaker:that way. I don't think I could actually just sit
Speaker:here and just do it just for the, for the
Speaker:fun of it. I'd want to have a say on
Speaker:some kind of objective. There is the marketer in me.
Speaker:Sorry.
Speaker:No, and I hear you. I know, I, my own
Speaker:personal Podcast that I was kind of sunset in the
Speaker:way it was like the same. I try just to
Speaker:riff off of what I was thinking of at the
Speaker:time, but they tend to, to find that it could
Speaker:be a hit and miss as I was getting more
Speaker:than two, I started to make lots of bullet points.
Speaker:I want it to cover that in the show, but
Speaker:then, you know, we'll see what happens.
Speaker:So I'm, I'm kind of like the I'll do the
Speaker:research and then I will write a fee, you know,
Speaker:jot a few, you know, things down that I want
Speaker:to cover. I'll share it with Scott and then I'll
Speaker:just let him go. And that's when the fun starts
Speaker:happening.
Speaker:And then it gets rid of each other based on,
Speaker:And that's an F and the other thing that we,
Speaker:that we work to do is we keep it to
Speaker:30 minutes. There's a lot of podcasts go on for
Speaker:45, an hour, hour and a half. And to me,
Speaker:you know, if it's, if there's lulls, if I do,
Speaker:I'm not finding that it's not really landing or a
Speaker:connecting, I tune out and I I'll shut it off
Speaker:30 minutes. I think you can maintain some level of
Speaker:attention and a time commitment when people think, okay, I
Speaker:will tell you I'll do a 30 minutes this, or,
Speaker:you know, I can do that. So we're going to
Speaker:try to stick with that format
Speaker:When I think the teams, or, I mean, I know
Speaker:a lot of people listening to podcasts, we want to
Speaker:say, what can I do either at the home Jim
Speaker:or the general or anything. And to think to your
Speaker:point may be 30, 40 minutes as our sweet spot
Speaker:for like a, a, a decent workout, right. Where you
Speaker:can listen to one episode and you're done, you're done
Speaker:your work cut out for the day.
Speaker:Yeah. And you can move on to the, to the
Speaker:rest of your day.
Speaker:Yeah, exactly. Because you, it is still a phase of
Speaker:the new Podcast and some of you mentioned it is
Speaker:that both you and Scott aren't real a technical, what
Speaker:advice would you give a guest to any podcasts as
Speaker:a potential Podcast is looking to start over or have
Speaker:just started from what you've learned in a first, however,
Speaker:many episodes
Speaker:Or a avoid garage band. Do we not go to
Speaker:a garage band? You know, Apple for all of the
Speaker:things that it does is, you know, even if it's,
Speaker:you know, since it, it comes with the, you know,
Speaker:the computer that you buy, it is still a very
Speaker:powerful yet unintuitive piece of software. I had to look
Speaker:at many YouTube videos to figure out how to get
Speaker:to Mike's, you know, you know, pumped into the thing
Speaker:I would look for, you know, something like SquadCast like
Speaker:we're on. Now. In fact, I have to look at
Speaker:this a little bit more closely because with Scott and
Speaker:my start, we are going to do it through this
Speaker:platform or something like that.
Speaker:I would look for something simple, a little bit more
Speaker:intuitive, a little bit more, you know, directed by, by
Speaker:the platform, but go simple, avoid any type of attempts
Speaker:to do something more than what you're capable.
Speaker:I would definitely agree with you on the garbage bag.
Speaker:And I was using a Udacity for the longest time
Speaker:and then Apple, Apple update to the rest that, to
Speaker:Catalina. And it stopped functionally for the Udacity, because the
Speaker:dusty, it is fair to a tuber and Catelynn, and
Speaker:he's 64. And that, yeah. So I think it does
Speaker:is they have got to walk around it's in the
Speaker:forum, but it's not ideal. So hopefully they'll get that
Speaker:because I far prefer audacity to someone, like you said,
Speaker:garbage band wise. I'll always, you see a good SquadCast
Speaker:is very simple. You just plug in and away you
Speaker:go.
Speaker:So yeah, unlike on this, yeah. This could be a
Speaker:need for a way for Scott and me to actually
Speaker:see each other, because part of it is, you know,
Speaker:were, were reacting, you know, to each other's well, yeah.
Speaker:You know, nonsense. So it, it, it, it seems to
Speaker:work.
Speaker:That's a good for the visual queues. I think that
Speaker:that's one of the most difficult things. We've see two
Speaker:people on a podcast that, especially with a note in
Speaker:the same room, try and understand who's finished a point
Speaker:and who's ready start at another point and that kind
Speaker:of thing, for sure.
Speaker:Yeah. And I'll definitely be looking at this in the
Speaker:future.
Speaker:So just to change things up a little bit, I
Speaker:know like you're similar to myself, a, when we were
Speaker:on social media were very vocal about our political beliefs
Speaker:and some of us know that that's a lie down
Speaker:and write like, do you know? I know what I
Speaker:mean. I, I I've had many people paying me and
Speaker:say, do it, aren't you, you know, and you can
Speaker:say that about people taking this in a long way,
Speaker:and that will stop you, you get to work or
Speaker:whatever. Did you ever consider that from that point of
Speaker:view, or do you get your Facebook or the lockdown?
Speaker:What's your take on that?
Speaker:You know, I, I, I do not have a public
Speaker:facing page only, you know, friends can see it, some
Speaker:friends appreciate the things that I post, you know? Yeah.
Speaker:Are they political? You bet for a lot of reasons,
Speaker:you know, and sometimes people on messenger or text me
Speaker:are saying like, you know, Hey, thanks for saying that
Speaker:because, you know, I don't have the guts to actually
Speaker:do it. Sure. Have people, you know, blocked me, unfriended
Speaker:me. Yeah. They have, you know, I've got like, you
Speaker:know, for a hundred different friends on Facebook, you know,
Speaker:the ones that actually react to this stuff that I
Speaker:post are, you know, a lot fewer than that. I
Speaker:know, but I do try to temper what I say
Speaker:and how I say it. So not to be, you
Speaker:know, completely offensive, you know, I don't know how, you
Speaker:know, what you think of if I were succeeding or,
Speaker:or failing in that regard, but there's just things that
Speaker:are, that, you know, around my eyes and, and to
Speaker:kind of in my spleen, umm, you know, there are,
Speaker:there are certain things that I, you know, I do
Speaker:hold back on, you know, anything that has to do
Speaker:with religion, I tend not to criticize or, you know,
Speaker:give my view.
Speaker:I think, you know, where I sit on that whole,
Speaker:you know, spectrum probably similar to you, but I, I,
Speaker:I try not too, you know, make it personal. I,
Speaker:I just tried to use facts. I know we have
Speaker:some people, they may disagree that, that my facts are,
Speaker:you know, not your facts and I disagree with your
Speaker:facts, but you know, I try to be objective,
Speaker:Alternative facts are still one of my favorite times of
Speaker:threes as it was ever uttered by anybody, anywhere alternative
Speaker:facts. So to that point then obviously like you said,
Speaker:you're a temporary to a degree as to what you
Speaker:share, if you could see, and you don't have to
Speaker:say it, you know, public or whatever. But if there
Speaker:was one thing or any one thing that you can
Speaker:say to anyone person at all, what would it be
Speaker:and why? Well, that's,
Speaker:That's a bit rough because I actually want to say
Speaker:something, but I,
Speaker:Yeah, you don't want them to Carol future subscriptions too.
Speaker:And you know, I think it's just, can you, you
Speaker:know, can we please stay in reality? Th there's just
Speaker:so much whether it comes from, you know, day to
Speaker:day living politics, religion, I know we all have our
Speaker:blind spots, but at the same time people don't, you
Speaker:know, there's a, you know, confirmation bias is rampant, you
Speaker:know, depending upon us, no matter which side you're on,
Speaker:you could be, you know, in the most ardent, you
Speaker:know, Trump supporter or you could be the most, you
Speaker:know, Verlyn, Bernie bro, both sides do it. Then I
Speaker:think the issue is, is that the rest of us,
Speaker:you know, the other 80% are kind of in the
Speaker:middle.
Speaker:And if, if you have the ability to understand what
Speaker:you're reading and to seek out sources to verify what
Speaker:you're reading first, before you start posting on anything that,
Speaker:you know, we'll make, you know, the world a little
Speaker:bit of a better place. Yeah, sure. You have to
Speaker:show compassion. You have to show love. You have to
Speaker:show, you know, consideration, empathy, sympathy, all of that. But
Speaker:it does come down to living in reality. And a
Speaker:lot of us, you know, on both sides, just aren't
Speaker:I think we see that a lot, especially online where
Speaker:anybody can pretty much drop a lot of a snippet
Speaker:and, and say, yes, that's the, the, the factual statement
Speaker:right there. So just the way, I guess, finished things
Speaker:off and get people to know what a little bit
Speaker:about you. What's one thing that not a lot of
Speaker:people that are, it would be surprised to learn about
Speaker:you that know you,
Speaker:But I'm a fairly decent mimic. I, yeah, I I've
Speaker:been, you know, I can listen to something, I've got
Speaker:a good Ear and I was in high school in
Speaker:musician. I piano of just, you know, but its all
Speaker:by ear. So from that standpoint I can, you know,
Speaker:listen to something I can try to impersonate it. I
Speaker:won't do anything here cause I'd be embarrassed, but it's
Speaker:got to be, you know, kind of off the cuff
Speaker:top of mine thing that I do, but I just
Speaker:have always loved listening to sounds and voices and then
Speaker:try to see if I can approximate, you know, what
Speaker:I'm listening to, but yeah.
Speaker:More and more of that.
Speaker:Yeah, no, no it was that. So is that musical
Speaker:America or do you do the impressions too? It's more
Speaker:voice and you know what to show you one right
Speaker:now and I know what are we talking to my
Speaker:accent?
Speaker:You know, I, I do, I love, I love it.
Speaker:And I do love accents, you know, you know, the
Speaker:Scottish, it it's just, you know, amazing anything British, but
Speaker:there are so many different dialects.
Speaker:Did you get it wrong? Well, at least they see,
Speaker:or you're not seeing them. Irish are wow. She has
Speaker:some value I get that people are asking, you know,
Speaker:that's what part of your wheels are you from? Is
Speaker:that okay? You know, if you get, yeah,
Speaker:Are you really, you know, down into that deeper guttural,
Speaker:you know, the type of thing North of me, you
Speaker:know, North London, but yeah. Now, I mean there, there
Speaker:was, you know, there's things that I've done that I
Speaker:think one of the, I guess one of the, the,
Speaker:the strangest from television was a, the old program. Taxi
Speaker:I don't know if you're familiar with
Speaker:It,
Speaker:You know, Judd, Hirsch and Christopher Lloyd But Christopher Lloyd
Speaker:was great As as Jim Ignatowski, you know, it just
Speaker:the stand out, you know, drug to addled, you know,
Speaker:a taxi driver. Yeah. But there was a one episode
Speaker:with, with him and the late Andy Kalfen where it,
Speaker:and he was playing Latka Graviss and he got this
Speaker:recipe for Cookie's from his grandmother and he wanted to
Speaker:become the next famous Amos. And all of a sudden
Speaker:people are, are sampling the cookies and their behavior is
Speaker:changing because the cookies had cocaine in them. So so
Speaker:everybody's acting like really weird in a really strange or
Speaker:whatever, you know, Louis, you know, Danny DeVito, his character
Speaker:comes up.
Speaker:He says he had people who really, you know, act
Speaker:in strange eating all of these cookies. So Jenn takes
Speaker:out, you know, and it takes a whiff and he
Speaker:goes, well, I don't know about you boss, but you
Speaker:was something more of a magical in here. I have
Speaker:an oatmeal Danny and he says, so he takes it
Speaker:a nibble of it. He goes, hi, hello, 1972, the
Speaker:fall of the rains. And it just cracks me up
Speaker:every single time that he can, you know, it tastes,
Speaker:you know, this cooky and find out the, you know,
Speaker:the bouquet here is actually a process that just cracks
Speaker:me up every time that that was a great,
Speaker:No, but I at least say it was funny to
Speaker:think how many great actors would actually end up that
Speaker:one sitcom, you know, that went on to do really
Speaker:good things.
Speaker:Oh yeah. I mean, but if he's got, you know,
Speaker:Marilu, Henner, Marilu, Henner, and I'll, I'll loop a loop
Speaker:this back to my brother, my brother and me, there
Speaker:was an episode that she was a guest with these
Speaker:guys and she has an endemic memory. She memorized it.
Speaker:She can recall everything and anything that she's experienced, it's
Speaker:not photographic. She's like a she's. She is just stores
Speaker:away, all her experiences and she can, she can just
Speaker:dredge it up. Wow. Amazing, amazing. Line yeah. I'm going
Speaker:to be a good goal to be good. To be
Speaker:an actor if you're like that.
Speaker:Well, yeah, exactly. I have to tell us along your
Speaker:lines, that much, just a lot of discipline once you
Speaker:have done good to go. Yup. Good to go. So
Speaker:Bob where can people find you online if they are,
Speaker:they want to connect with you or socially of the
Speaker:one that you don't do business with the company is
Speaker:the one who knows.
Speaker:Yeah. Yeah. The, the company is called the Element R
Speaker:Partners a.com. So it's a Element hyphen R dot com
Speaker:or you can also get me on LinkedIn. So I
Speaker:think it's just, Bob Reed I'm on Facebook, you know,
Speaker:if you're so inclined, look me up, send me an
Speaker:invite. My Connect might not know that we do. You
Speaker:might just say like yeah. You know, but up to
Speaker:you or open to anybody in any and everyone.
Speaker:Okay. Oh, so I'm going to be sure to drop
Speaker:these links into the show notes, along with that, the
Speaker:link to the doorman podcast itself. And hopefully, ah, as
Speaker:you mentioned, you may, you guys make, get back into
Speaker:that as soon, you know, everything, depending on, you know,
Speaker:they kind of situation obviously in the world,
Speaker:Take it by a day by day, but hopefully, you
Speaker:know, sooner than later, I hope so.
Speaker:I hear. Yeah. Well, I really appreciate it coming on
Speaker:the show today. Bob I hope that the, the lessors
Speaker:and joy as much as I have enjoy chatting too,
Speaker:in fact,
Speaker:It'll show up
Speaker:And till the next thing you guys take care of,
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