What's Good with John & Joyce: Ep 34 - Fall in Love with New England
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What's Good with John & Joyce: Ep 34 - Fall in Love with New England

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Welcome to
What's Good with John and Joyce.

Yes! Yay, yay. What's good? What?

What are we talking about today, Joyce?

I know we are just rhetorical toys
you're talking about.

We're talking about fall in New England.

My favorite time of year.

But I think you could talk about some of
the places I know you visited, like,

any time of the year. Right? Really? Yeah.

But it's really like falling in love
with New England

because we're New England folks.

And that's why
so many hallmark movies are film.

Do you know that over 20 of them
have been filmed in Connecticut alone?

I haven't even checked the other states.

And Joyce, a dear friend of mine
who is a former police officer,

might be doing some part time police work.

Greg Newchurch or not? Sure.

You know, tomato. Tomato.

I know that name,
but Greg is an amazing actor, a great guy.

We're going to try to get him as a guest
at one point, but he's been on several

hot in several hallmark movies,
including some of the ones

filmed at Branford
and Guilford, my hometown.

Yes. Yeah, exactly.

One of my favorite ones
is, where I wrote that down.

I wrote that down.

It was in Branford.

It's so much fun when you drive by
and you see them shooting a movie.

Yeah, we were in Newport, Patty and I,
because we love Newport.

They just were filming one in Newport
about a week ago.

But I think about a year, year and a half
ago, we were there around Christmas time

and the hallmark folks were there,
and it was a hallmark.

Yeah.

It was just so cool to see because
all the mansions were decorated up there.

And Newport's one of our one
of our favorite destinations.

Well, one of my favorites,
and I really love

the actors
too, was Romance at Reindeer Lodge.

And the alliteration.

Yeah, I know the house scenes were filmed,
at a home in North Haven.

I do remember that.

And, Hamden and Branford.

So it's Nicky Whalen
and she's from Australia,

and I, I've seen her in a few theft
things, and I really like her.

And also Josh Kelley,
who has done a lot on hallmark.

But what I love the most watching it,

I mean, they're like,
I could walk to where they were

and they had a horse and carriage
going down the street in Branford. Yes.

And they went
into one of my favorite stores,

but it wasn't the same name.

Like they changed the name of the store.

And then one of the places
I shop at Karen's Corner,

but you could see the name Karen's Corner,
like if you're really looking for it,

and they're, they're shopping

for groceries and everything
and it it's just a different feeling.

But the feeling of,
you know really of Connecticut or Branford

where we are, it was like,

yeah, this is what it is like I love it.

And the thing is, hallmark movies,
some people say,

oh, you know,
they're all the same, basically.

But I get lured in all the time.

If a hallmark movie is on
and my bride is watching it.

I'm tuning in.

Yeah.

And I'm just,
you know, I'm just totally honed in on.

I'm watching the whole movie
and I'm enjoying the movie,

even though they're all the same.

I just love the scenery.

I know
sometimes my son will say, isn't it?

Isn't it always the same movie as well?

In this way it is.

It has a happy ending, right?

So I know it's going to end well.

Nothing's going to upset me.

And at night time, you know,
I have a friend that he's a painter.

He does. He he's a handyman.

And he told me that he keeps
that Hallmark Channel on every night.

And it's for the same reason
it's relaxing.

Yeah, it's a good story, you know?

So why not?

It's kind of like, you know, tuning in to
what's good with John and Joyce.

Exactly.

Oh, God. Oh, my goodness,
you're listening right now.

Oh self plug here.

But but but it is in a way
I think that's how I live in my head.

Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.

Well, what about what about you, Joyce?

I mean, you've,
you've done some traveling.

I mean,

where are some of you as much as you,
but what are

what are some of your favorite
destinations that you've been to?

Some things that are created, some great
memories for you in during your lifetime?

Oh, first, any beach, any beach at all.

I mean, from Hammond Acid in Madison

to my little, you know what?

I love the Stoney Creek area.

Yes, Stony Creek area.

Branford is a real cool artsy.

I've got a great vibe to visit.

It really is.

And now they have the theater there?

Yeah, the legacy theater?

Yes. Legacy
theater used to be the old puppet house

for those who were local, watching
and listening to this podcast right now,

and some of the greatest beaches.
You talking about beaches?

Because I love them.

Rhode Island has some of the best beaches
on the planet, right?

Right.

Lot of songs were written about then
Barry Manilow, right?

That song Weekend in New England,
New England.

Oh my God, yeah.

Reba mcEntire had a song called
Whoever's in New England,

but it was a breakup song,
so that's the same thing. But.

But the other Barry Manilow
song is is a great song. Wait a minute.

I think Barry's is a little bit.

Well,
that's sad song too, isn't it? Yeah.

But then halfway through,
he says, I feel the air like changing.

I feel it and there's.

And you know,
they're going to get back together again.

Okay. So there is a
yeah, yeah, it's hopefully okay.

Not like whoever's in New
England by Reba, which is no,

totally different.

They.
Have you ever been to Gillette Castle?

I have several times.

William Gillette,
who wrote was all about Shakespeare.

Shakespeare? No, no, no.

What was that, Sherlock Holmes?

He played Sherlock Holmes.

Oh, William Gillette, he was famous.

He played Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes.

And he had all these,

like, little nooks and crannies and, like,
little tunnels underneath.

So, believe a minute this is his house?

Yeah, it's a mansion over there,
a new stadium.

I knew that, and I've been there,
but I love it.

I love that place.
So I need to go back again.

Baby,
we need to go back to Gillette Castle.

Yes, Patty. Yeah.

And of course, the Mystic Aquarium.

Mystic aquarium.

I actually just do charter wedding there,
but I like shopping.

Oh, yeah, the village stores,
they're just so beautiful, Joyce.

But, you know, just.

Yeah.

And, Essex, Connecticut.

Just beautiful with the steam train.

They have the breakfast,
they have the murder mystery breakfast

is or dinner there when they were little
and my one of my sons was crying.

He was a I don't know why he was afraid.

He did not want to get
I think maybe the steam.

Yeah.

Under the train, but
Oh I know at Christmas time.

Yeah. They do all Christmas they do.

We were on that before,
but when we went it was like 80 degrees.

So everybody was wearing shorts.

Like when we went on
it was the December. Yeah.

And it was 80 degrees
because when I go on, like I was hoping

it was gonna be a nice crisp night
all bundled up on a sweater.

Yeah, I was wearing shorts and t shirts.

I, you know, I said to you, this morning
because this is the first day

where it feels a little crisp in the air
and you're all happy about it.

And I said, give me 80 degrees in steam
that I'm walking out to, a happy man.

Things we're talking about this

we know the podcast goes global,
and a lot of people

from all over the country in the world
listen and watch us.

We're grateful for that.

But we're talking about New England
because doing that is a destination

for people, destination
all over the USA and globally.

We talk to people all the time.

They say,
oh, we'd love to go to New England,

where I know
people that are in Florida now.

They say, I miss being in New England,
especially this time of year

when this podcast is running.

But just yes, the sound of the leaves
when you're walking, rustling

under your under your feet.

I love that at night and a school night
and just having the apple cider

and going to a farm, like locally,
Bishop's Orchards.

Yes. In Guilford or,
you know, of rose orchards

in North Branford,
some of these places or Lyman orchards

in Middlefield, Connecticut,
just some of those local to us.

You know what?

Even though I'm not a I'm
not a winter lover,

I think for physical reasons,
because I've always been asthmatic,

especially as a child,
and everyone be out playing in the snow

and my lungs would start to hurt

because my asthma is brought on
by a cold air right?

Hitting my lungs.

And what do you like,
the sunny 80 degree and and.

Yeah.

So any time I spent time in Florida.

Oh, I was a happy, happy, happy
because I could breathe.

Because actually the moisture is good.

I know for my lungs it is so humidity,

you know, there is well with my body.

But I do love a snowy night.

I do love to take a little walk outside,
and now I wrap a scarf around my mouth.

It's so quiet.

You're talking
about the crunch of the leaves.

Oh there's that crunch of the snow also.

You know when you hit that
soft snow and it's glistening,

you know, whether it's early morning
and or at nighttime

there is nothing like that.

So I think we are fortunate
that we have the four seasons here.

And by the way. Oh, okay.

The other the four pieces,

I know it took me a split second
because I you're so fast with the music.

It's like, why is Sherry

and I thought

of, Steve from journey singing,
you know, I'll see you Perry

Singing is Sherry raised?

Oh, Sherry.

Yeah,
I was that from his debut solo album. So.

But for those who don't know,
the New England states are Connecticut,

Maine, Massachusetts,
New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

And do them all. Have you? Yes.

Why have you been all?

I have never been to New Hampshire.

New Hampshire? Really? Yes. Let me.

Lake Winnipesaukee done
a lot of weddings up there.

And they and during the winter
they have like all these ice fairs.

The lake is just all ice.

And everybody's just partying out there,
you know, on the ice.

But I've been there many times.

The DJ weddings up there, it's just
picturesque summer, fall, winter, spring.

Right.

So that's where my, my, my brother
and my husband

went to to was it.

It's a camp. I'm trying to think.

Was it a Boy Scout camp?

But Liquid Lake,

it's a big giant lake, but it has a it's
a big tourist destination.

So that might be it might be part of it.

The part where they were near
that could be.

So maybe I was in New Hampshire
because I have a picture of me

as a little tyke, you know,
just standing there, but no real memory.

And of course, on my on my shirt here
I have Boothbay, Maine.

Oh, that's nice.

And Maine, I love, love, love name
my wife and I go up there

pretty much every year.

When I was a kid,
dad had a cottage up there.

We go up to Bangor, Maine.

You had Bar Harbor. These are Ogunquit.

It would have a beautiful theater up
there.

A lot of folks, I'm sure, watching
and listening right now go to Maine.

It's a destination.

It's heaven on earth.

But Vermont, New Hampshire,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut,

some people say, oh, Connecticut, this
and that tax I love Connecticut.

Yeah, I love it here because we're right
between Boston and New York.

Yeah.

We have so many places to go,
so many cultural places

I think are very spoiled here.

I love it, I love I live short time and,
you know, really nice place.

I really liked, Palm Coast,
which is near Saint Augustine.

Yeah. Florida.

Yes. And I really did like that.

And I liked Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

But there's no place like home.

No, there's no place like home.

And I think it
is that between new York and Boston,

you know, it's just like a hop, skip
and a jump to see a Broadway play.

I love Carnegie Hall to see the Rockettes,
Madison Square Garden saw Draper

Charlie there recently.

It was just so good.

And and then in Boston
you go see the Red Sox.

So you got Quincy Market up there

and you have in New York,
you get to see the Yankees.

Yeah. And Boston,
you could see the Red Sox

because we don't want to leave
the Mets out.

The Mets are always like an afterthought.

You know, the poor Mets
or the Jets. Right.

You talk about that, but you get to go
to those beautiful stadiums and see.

So when you say the Jets,
I think West Side Story, I don't think I'm

not a sports person, but
oh those poor jets.

It's like like yeah Yankees.

And you know Red Sox.

It's always the big divide.

But I'm happy for anyone.

My husband was a big Yankees fan,
but his father was a huge Red Sox fan.

Yeah.

So like my family to my mom
like the Red Sox.

My dad like the Yankees.

And I grew up liking really no local teams
for my favorites.

I always like teams from other markets.

Don't know why that was like from other
like Saint Louis Cardinals.

Always my favorite baseball team.

You know why I love them too?

Because I love the picture
of the Cardinals. That's right.

I think that was me too, because cardinals
are my favorite birds, you know?

But then I fell in love with the team.
Yeah.

And the Dallas Cowboys,
you know, my favorite football team.

And I love Dallas Cowboys.

Yeah I think because I thought,
actually I think I like their uniforms.

Yeah. The logo with the star athlete.

But no I don't,
but I think I bet on them once.

Oh yes. I didn't know you were better.

Well, I worked,
you know, as a waitress I was in

and people had pools and I think I did
pretty well with the Cowboys.

Game three. Oh, yeah.

Well okay. All right.
All right in green Bay Packers. Yep.

Yeah. Legendary Lambeau Field okay. Yes.

So that's a great destination.

That's great thing about the green Bay
Packers is they're owned by the town.

They're owned by their fans.

Most people have an owner but the fans own
the green Bay Packers did too.

Yeah I mean everyone put money.

They all put money in
and they own the green Bay Packers.

Isn't that cool like a long time ago
or goes back to the beginning.

Wait, can people still put money in
and say,

I don't know about that, but
I always thought that was kind of cool.

I mean, the Packers, I mean, legit.

Well, see, we're talking about fall
and fall is baseball.

I mean, football's for baseball to be able
to do for the Fall Classic, the World

Series, basketball hockey starts later on.

And you know, but I have to mention
this about, hallmark movies.

I want to get back to this for a minute,
because one of my favorite

Broadway people is, Michael Brady.

I hope I'm saying that right.

It's already why?

But I even watch him on YouTube.

He has a beautiful voice.

So,

and that's l r into v
also I have ever heard of. Yes.

Michael Rady, he's a, he's a great actor.

He's been in some I probably movies
if I saw him I know who it is.

But he was in two hallmark movies.

One is where are you Christmas, which was
Faith Hill sang the title track of that.

Yes, yes, yes.

And that's, that's part
that's in the movie.

And that was in, mystic, Connecticut,
Waterford, Old Saybrook.

And then he also was Christmas
at Pemberley Manor.

And that was in Essex in Old Lyme.

But here's the cool thing
about Michael Brady.

He fell in love with Connecticut and moved
here, bought a house here.

That's how much he loved,
finding things when he was here.

I want to raise my kids here now.

I want to live in Connecticut.

All those towns you mentioned,
Joyce, are just so charming.

I mean, you think Norman Rockwell.

I mean,
you think they're perfect for hallmark.

And, like, the Iverson Playhouse
is one of my favorite places to go.

Was it Chester, Connecticut?
Goodspeed. Yes.

No. And we have the Shubert.

You know, we just really have
so many great places to see theater.

They said back in the day,
if a show made it in New Haven, right,

they can make it

anywhere because New Haven audiences,
a lot of shows were tested here.

Theater. Right.

Because they figured the audience
is really kind of, if you made it here,

you can be anywhere.

That line is even in some old movies.

Well, they'll say, well, you know, if
we can make it in, make it in New Haven.

And I knew what they were talking about.

They're talking about the Shubert, right.

Shubert was a place where they used it.

That was the place to start the show.

Yeah.

And then if the crowds liked it,
they took it to Broadway.

All right. Amazing.
We have just so much great history here.

And you go down by Yale and,
I love the Peabody Museum.

Oh yeah I know, yes
I do a museum and I'm getting to be an age

where my next class reunion
is going to be at the Peabody Museum.

Is it really going to be there?

So, because we just had a reunion.

No, I just I took that
the next one are probably be there. Oh.

Were you just.

Guy. Oh, you got a laugh.

You got a lot of folks. Yeah.
So you got to laugh.

You cry sometimes, right?

Then there's Wally Lamb's
wishin and Hopin.

That was a lifetime movie.

That took place in Norwich. Willimantic.

It was, Molly Ringwald.

Oh, sure.

Well, she was a breakfast club.

Yes. Okay. That's 600.

Oh, yeah. Great movie too.

But this movie. I have to watch this.

I know I saw it, it's
narrated by Chevy Chase.

Oh, yeah. I love those vacation movies.

National Lampoon's vacation,
so much fun. Great.

I love fun movies.

But then again, I like the dark side,
but not the scary dark side.

Right?

A very merry Christmas
toy store, New Britain

Melissa Joan Hart was in that Mario Lopez.

And that wasn't too long ago in that.

What is the most successful
hallmark movie of all time.

Do you know the answer? I do

too, okay.

I had the most views and I think
the sequel came in number two all time.

It had a sequel. Yep.

Yep.

Oh, Virginia.

Two plays and Connecticut's
not on my list.

It was filmed at the second
most visited private home in the USA.

Really? Yeah.

Was the Christmas at Graceland? Yes.

What Christmas or Graceland?

What is the most watched hallmark movie
of all time?

And the sequel? I, I saw both of them.

I know it's my frank least favorite movie
because I,

I can't remember the name of the actress,
but I think

the actress is also a singer.

I think I, I don't even think I saw it
though, believe it or not.

But like the,
the cast of General Hospital, right.

General hospital, they have their holiday
parties every year.

I'd like to go there too.

You've been to Graceland.

I have twice

and but you've said something that
other people have said about Graceland.

I don't know.

In our minds,
maybe we make things bigger. Yes.

And everything. And it was it smaller?

It was smaller.

It was very, very well dated
because didn't they keep everything?

Yeah.

And Elvis's taste was kind of weird
when it came to decorating.

Like the Jungle Room. Yeah.

It was kind of like weird in a way,
but it was just so, you know,

all this new money came.

He came.

He was so poor,
I know, and I think maybe he got bad

decorators in there, right, right.

But what blew me away
was when I went there

and went across the street
to the trophy room,

and on all the street
trash was like a big, giant complex.

And then they had the radio station
there, the Sirius XM station,

and then,
they had this big giant warehouse

with all this gold and platinum records,
and they were all in at Graceland.

No, I mean, they've gotten so many more
since they keep adding more every year

globally
that they had to put them in a warehouse.

And like from every country in the world
and keys to the city and all these, you

know, jumpsuits and, you know, movie stuff
and everything, it was just really cool.

Really cool.

I and I just learned
a great song in itself.

I wasn't really all that impressed with,
you know.

Yeah. Although I'd like to go to that.

Oh yeah. I mean yeah, yeah.

That's, you know,

and for General Hospital,
I'm a big fan of General Hospital.

Yeah.
My mom used to watch that all the time.

And of course
I got sucked into it again too.

Like the soap
operas. Right. I'll make fun of it.

And then if it's on, I'll watch it
and I get into it.

So even when I'm watching it now
and because,

you know, I, my sons are always there.

One son lives with me,
my grandson lives with me.

My other son, is always helping us.

And he's so my house is like a
revolving door and I swear he'll come in.

I will say, isn't this the same story
from, like, ten years?

Yeah, yeah.

I say, yeah, kind of, but it's slow.

It's like molasses, right?

It's like molasses. Oh, boy.

And then my grandson will walk in
and he will say the same thing is

the name of this is General Hospital.

How come they're never in a hospital?

And I said, no, no,
you just missed the part.

I think they were early. Right, right.

Oh, yeah.

And and why is Sonny like a mobster
at General Hospital?

Yeah. It's like,
you got to watch it. Yeah.

It's like. Yeah, I can't explain.

It takes too long in years.

Well, we were talking about
some destinations too, though.

I want to Athens, Greece, because, my,
Patty and I were engaged.

Her daughter was over there
on an exchange trip for Yukon,

and she was going to go visit her daughter
anyway.

So I said,
well, we're going to go over there anyway.

Why don't we?

We, you know, already decided
we were going to get married

and we got unofficially married in that.

I'm just going to ask
I never heard the story.

How do you get married in Greece?

But we got married
on a rooftop of the Acropolis or the.

I saw some kind of tourists.
It was just gorgeous.

Stunning. At sunset.

And we had her daughter there, Lindsay,
and it was just phenomenal.

We spent week to ten days there.

I was exposed,

I tasted gelato for the first time
over there, and the streets are so narrow

and these taxi drivers drive so fast,
it's like crazy.

And nobody ever worked there on siesta
all the time.

Yeah, that's why they live longer.

And yeah, but the food was incredible
because they don't have the preservatives

that they have here and loved it.

And I don't drink, but the wine I had over
there was actually really good.

I had even olive oil tasting
olive oil was tremendous.

And the and the vegetables
and the fruits every morning.

Incredible.

But I would go back to Athens again.

I mean,
I know that there's some sad things

going on there from time to time,
but it's just beautiful.

The people were amazing.

I love them that we went to Switzerland
around the Alps area.

Didn't get it.

We we saw the Alps,
but we didn't have a chance

to actually experience them
because we stopped in

the airport, had the best coffee
I ever had in my life in Switzerland. Wow.

And then on the way home and went to Paris
and we spent a night in Paris.

Did you can you can see so many countries
when you go to Europe.

Right. So.

And from the sky.

So technically you say you were here
or here or there, but I love Paris.

I want to go back to Paris.

Oh you will. And people say,
oh, the Paris people are this and that.

And there were to the Paris
people were nice.

It you got it goes
by the way you treat other people.

Yeah. If you expect them to be.
I don't expect them.

I whenever I go I'm going to smile
and say hello to everybody.

I wonder if in in Paris

if some shop owners,

are almost expected to be that way.

So they are that way. Yeah.

Like that.

Like the Seinfeld episode with the Soup
Nazi.

Yes, yes.

Like you want to go there because it's
just part of the ambiance of it.

But let me go back to this again
because, first of all,

let me ask you, this is Switzerland.
Best coffee. Coffee you ever.

Oh, could you ask them, like,
what's the brand?

What are you using?

I know what the brand is because it's
available in certain restaurants around,

but it doesn't taste
like I can't remember.

It's still you.
No, it's still very good. Oh, it is, but.

But the coffee over in Switzerland,
it was in an airport that I had it,

and it was phenomenal.

You are the coffee connoisseur,
so I'm taking this seriously.

Yeah, I admit it.

I'm a coffee. Yes.

So I, I'm going to have to research this.

Yeah.

We have we have some great coffee
places around here

locally if you're ever in the Bramford,
Connecticut area.

Yeah.

Do you have a couple of free
plugs called Common Ground and Grounds?

Common ground coffee,
locally owned and moonshots?

Yeah. Locally owned.

Guilford's
soon to expand that. Bramford. Kathy.

All right.

Yes, I'll be here.
I'll be there with you tomorrow.

But I know we're talking about fall
in New England and all that,

but I got to get back to Greece
for a minute.

When you got married, did you get it?

Did you get, like, permission
there to get married? How?

This thing is always said to
the folks at the hotel, we want to go up.

We're just going to go up there.

Patti had her gown on.

I had my but sure sucker suit.

But is your marriage license from Greece?

No, we weren't officially married
there at all.

I thought it was just for optics, I see.

And then we had a ceremony
here in the States.

And you did it all here?

Yeah, we got it.

We're March 27th, 2008 over there.

And then may
I always forget our real date?

Because I always count
the one in Greece is our romantic wedding.

Yeah, but then in April, we got married
here at a beautiful, state over.

And, Frank and Jane
von Holzhausen left their place.

I don't you love that name and say Jim's

head in the gopher, Connecticut area,
which I love the name Von Horse housing.

Yeah. To the nicest people ever.

Wells. And say,
Jim said, is it's beautiful.

It's a beautiful place. Right.

So do you have two anniversaries then?

We pretty much focus on the first 1st
March 27th.

So remember that folks. March 27th.

That's when you could send all you know.

Yeah. And you'll remind
John that that's the date.

That's right. Exactly.

I never remembered my date.

I have a thing with dates and I don't.

Did Wayne remember? Yes, of course he did.

Wayne remembered our anniversary.

Wayne remembered, like, Valentine's Day,
things like that.

And that's why he was a keeper.

I didn't.

Sometimes I think
when people put too much on it,

maybe because that's the only day
you get attention.

But Wayne gave me attention,
like, every day.

That's awesome. You know?
So it really didn't.

It didn't matter to me.

But he always made a big deal
because I was his sweetheart, you know?

So that's great.

That's all.

Be right there.

We were like a hallmark movie. It was.

Yeah, we had a rough beginning,
but it's almost like

people were rooting for us
and we made it in the end.

You know,
like some of the Barry Manilow song.

Looks like we made it.

Every time I hear
Barry Manilow songs and live,

I'm exercising sometimes
to keep them on in the background.

And I could deal with it,
and it makes me happy.

And other times
it's like, it's my story with Wayne.

Yeah.

You know, it's like every song
it reminds me of of him.

And sometimes it
it just brings up too much emotion

where I just have to not exercise
and sit with it.

You make a really good point there

because sometimes, you know,
you could be by the water,

it could be the happiest place
in your life.

But if you're in a sad place, it's just,
it just it could be devastating. Yes.

Depending on where you are,
the virtually everything is a snapshot.

Yes of life.

And so whatever your snapshot is
and that's why, some of my saddest times,

I would go sit down
Stony Creek Beach and just sit there.

And my happiest times,

I went to Stoney Creek Beach,
and you'll be there at Stony Creek

and you'll see, you know, kids
playing around.

You'll see these happy young couples
or some older people

holding hands.
And then you'll see over in a corner

somewhere,
somebody's looking very, very sad.

And you'll you're right.

You'll see both. Now,
you know what I did one night?

I went there at nighttime
and I climbed up to the,

lifeguard, you know, perch.

Oh, you sit up there, too,
I said, yeah, we do that, too.

And I brought,

I was I brought a flask of brandy
with you, and I sat up there.

I was not in a good state of mind, but

it helped
because I felt like a speck on this earth,

and I could feel the presence
of the universe of God.

Yeah.

And was overwhelmingly beautiful
to me. Wow.

You know, a little bit of brandy.

It was a cold night, too.

Brandy? You're a fine girl, right?

Looking glass, 1972.

See, I knew the song I would never
remember looking was 1972, 1972.

Wow. Because if they're still playing.

Oh, neither one of us was born then,
but I remember I remember this song.

In retrospect.
I don't think I've been born yet. No.

Yeah, but just so many great locations.

And if you're not in this area
in New England and you're

and you're watching
or listening to this podcast

or both, make a trip up here,
it is so worth it.

This is just the place to be,
especially in the fall.

And if you come here
especially because you heard our show,

let us know and come on our show.

We want to talk to you, want
to talk to you about your experience here.

I I'm absolutely.

So if you have any ideas for shows
by the way, please let us know.

Just, you know,
how do they get in contact with us?

Joyce

I don't know.

Yeah, we I see this is this is live.

This is live stuff, right?

You know what?

The best way to get in contact with us is?

Messages. Message us on Facebook.

Yeah. Message on Facebook. Yeah.

And everything is under the
I know the YouTube one.

Yeah.

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you know, find us.

Just Google it.

So thank you so much.

And, you know, many blessings to you

and your family over this holiday
season is coming our way. Yep.

We're in the beginning stages. Yes. Right.

And if you're up here in fall or whatever
you are, you know, seek us out.

And, you can always gain a new friend.

Absolutely.

Thank you for watching and listening.
We love you.

I'm John Cadillac Seville, Joyce Hogan,
best to you and your family.

Bye for now.