What's Good with John & Joyce: EP 7 - Our Special Guest – Chaz Esposito
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What's Good with John & Joyce: EP 7 - Our Special Guest – Chaz Esposito

Oh, I see the lights on the camera
here, Joyce.

That must be ready.

To go, Well, welcome, welcome.

Welcome to your show.

Oh, yo.

To our show, joy. This is what's good.

Yeah, definitely subscribe on YouTube.

If you can't, it's free.

And, we've been having a whole bunch
of fun doing this and.

And leading great people.

Really great people.

I mean, every now and then, we

we typically have our, our half hour
broadcast each and every week.

And then we bring in a guest and
a gentleman I've known for a long time.

Joyce, I know you have to.
This guy is so talented.

He can do it all.

And he has a show coming to the Legacy
Theater in Branford, which I love.

Stony Creek is beautiful. Oh, no.

I used to be the. Puppet theater.

Now, but,

he he just going to be doing a show, like,
featuring a lot of the 60s vocalist.

Who is this guy?

What is that?

I think it's over there.

What's his name?

To the sea or. Is back or.

No, it's Chaz Esposito.

Chaz.
Good to have you, man. John. Hi, Joyce.

This is great.

This is great.

It's so great to have you on. Long time
no. See.

I know she. Looks exactly. The same.

Oh, she had a great show.

I love you, okay? And no Botox.

That Joyce talks. That's,

Yeah, sure.

Come and get some Joyce talks.

Yes, Joyce wants it, but. This is great.

This is great. What you have.

What's good with John and Joyce,
I love it. Oh, we're really.

And thanks for inviting me.

We got some great people here.

We got David and Steph in the background.
We're only as good as they are.

Yeah, they do their part to help us.

Great people sound good?

Yeah. He did great makeup.
I have no shine.

So I know she's the first person.

Who's ever done makeup on.

I don't know
if that's positive or negative.

But George has.

Let's get into this.
You know right away about your story.

I mean, you're well known
around these parts and also nationally.

You played Broadway.

And tell us about some of the audition
processes you've gone through.

And crazy.

Not easy.

I mean, you have to develop
a lot of Teflon in the business.

You're in the entertainment business
and go there

and realize
that people could not be so nice.

Sometimes when they reject.
Yeah, business.

There's there's a lot of that,
especially coming up.

Right.

Absolutely.

There's there's more rejection
than, you know, gain.

But you,
you fit the gain into the rejection.

You learn, you learn to live with it.

And part of my business
I went into was as a casting director.

I've been casting for 25, 30 years.

Commercials, and industrials.

Films.

And I think I've learned to give it back
to people

like to be nice to people
because it's tough.

I know what it's like
to be on both sides of the camera

and the both sides of the stage.

So, you know, treat people
like human beings and be nice.

And it comes back
to, you know, more than you give it.

So, you know,
I know what it's like to be there.

So when I audition, people, I'm gracious.

They're there, and I thank them.

And it could be a lot nicer business,
let's put it that way.

May I enjoy some?

She'll tell you her story a little bit,
but she's worked with so many great people

like Michael Bolton and John Mellencamp
and Carly Simon, Mariah Carey,

and you seen them.

And, you know,

sometimes people

can not be so nice to them on the way up
or even when they made it.

Yeah, absolutely.

But there's a way to communicate
with people.

You can say something

and a critical way, but do it, like you
said, in a very nice way.

Treat people, treat people.

With respect, and they'll come back to you
no more than you,

more than you can expect.

So I knew Joyce

back in the Michael Bolton days
while Michael was still with her, but.

Michael Lotan, right.

Is below typical. Peloton bike tracks.

Yeah yeah yeah oh yeah.

She was, his right hand person and Yeah.

Then Oakdale Theater, Oakdale Theater,
when he,

it was 1988 before he really, really hit.

Right. You know, with a Grammy win
and all of that.

And you were down at the palace
for some years.

See Palace Theater. Don't forget memory.

You might need makeup.

My brain is still there. You know.

I have a little shine.

But other than that, that neuroplasticity.

So we're. Still going.
I have to remember. A lot of lyrics.

That surprise you.

Remember that?

Oh, no,
I totally over that. Remember your office?

But she was a good girl. Theater.

We work together.

Back in the days you used to promote.

The original guys Bo and, Ben.

Yeah.

Yeah. Boy, do I love them.

I learned so much from Ben Siegel.

That was the Oakdale.

Great part.

In the round. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah,
you get. Better than that.

Did you ever. Play those shows there?

I did not know. I did not.

Did you introduce
some acts there or anything?

You know, I did, you know, I.

Knew there was an association with you
with the old.

Saint Ray fields used to do, a benefit,
and I did perform there.

What the heck was it called?

It was a it was some sort of benefit,

but I performed there a couple of times
with that, but, lot more here.

Less make up.

You know,

that's funny, Joyce.

But I'll tell you, Chaz, I mean,
you really you really know how to play a

crowd.

I mean, you're Bobby Darin is spot on,
but not just Bobby Darin, right? Yes.

I mean, you channel a lot of great artists
like Frank Sinatra and Frankie Valli

and Elvis, of course.

And, I had a passion for the Darin thing.

And, you know,

I perform
in a couple of touring shows now.

One is Mac Is Back,
which is my story of Bobby Darin.

And the new show

that we're doing at the Legacy
Theater is like, Legends of the 60s.

Is that going to be again?

That's going to be May 1st to May through
May 18th, 15 performances.

Legacy theater is beautiful.

This is my third time, coming in there
performing I can't wait.

It's intimate.

It's it's it's really a place to be.

We're
bringing the whole band in 12 pieces.

So we really, you know, sometimes when I
go to small venues, people who follow me,

they'll say, oh, you shorten the band up,
and now the band is the band.

If it's 100 seat or 1000 seater,
because we recreate that sound, whether,

you know it's Tommy James or the Shondells
or it's Sinatra, Strangers in the night,

and you have to really produce that again
to make it sound well.

So, you know, we don't cut cost for band
it hat the band is the show.

People are there on stage.

You remember the record,
they want. To hear the record.

That's that's that's exactly.

And especially when it's

not the artists doing the record,
but it started off doing it off Broadway

show called Mack the Knife, which, I did
for about 3 or 4 months off Broadway.

And then we toured it
for about 6 or 7 years.

It had the, endorsement of the Bobby Darin
estate, which was very, very difficult.

Yeah, it was very big.

And, Steve Loughner was the, trustee

for the state,
who's Bobby's former manager.

That great career he had.

And a great guy to know.

I mean, he produced Easy
Rider, the monkeys, because he had it.

Screen Gems
Entertainment managed Bobby. So.

So that's how it ends? Yes.

That's right. And Steve ran that.

So just just getting him

to say
yes was a very difficult hill to climb.

But, you know,
I discovered Bobby as a kid.

My mother sang a little bit.

And I remember watching the NBC special
and, you know, the chart at the end.

He would always sing Mack the Knife,
and I didn't know who he was a kid.

And my mother said,
I love Bobby and I. And.

And it just stuck in us.

My mother love Bobby Darin.

I want to ask you about this. Sure.

Because you said you do. The story of him.

But I remember my mom feeling sorry
for him because he had a heart condition.

Very young.

Yeah.

Rheumatic heart
fever from like 13, 12, 13.

He wasn't supposed to make it to 17,
18 years old.

So, you know,
that's a great story to go off of.

So when people listen to downer,

when we did the original show
and even when I did, the Mac is back,

which is my stories of doing his show
and his stories and,

and meeting Wayne Newton and Dick
Clark and Frank Gorshin and so.

Gorshin, the. Riddler, the Riddler.

I have a story for that
telling in the show, but I'll tell you,

you know, so the biggest problem Steve

Blinder would have with Bobby
is his fluctuation of mood music.

You know, from country.

You're the reason I'm living to big band
beyond the sea to Mac to Splish splash.

And, you know, he would finally say,
you know, you have a lifetime.

I don't have time.

So I. Knew that.

Oh, he knew it was coming. Sure.

He knew he he knew he was going to live
to 80 years old.

So when he had the urge to change music,
he did it.

He didn't say, well, my audience went out.

Some of the stories I've heard
when he played the Copa in the late 60s,

he was doing his, you know, protest songs.

He was getting booed.

He four piece band didn't care.

So this is what I'm singing
now. That's it.

Take it or leave it.

I mean, he was that

strong of a willed guy,
and he knew what his life was all about.

And this is what I'm doing now. And sorry.

I remember when he was younger,
he said, he was going to be a millionaire

before he was going to be 25 years
old, legend.

Before 25.

And he became Sinatra.

And he,

he accomplished a lot of me because,
like you said, he started out as a rock

and roller, then became a little bit more
of a lounge singer, like, like Sinatra.

And then he would do
if I Were a Carpenter, which.

Many people don't even know.

That was Bobby Darin. 1966.

It was written by Tim. Hart, Tim Hardin.

And also Johnny Cash and June Carter.

Cash had a number one country
hit with that. Correct.

But but Bobby Darin, when he.

I love that song.
I love his interpretation of that.

Totally great.

And his last top ten hit went to number
eight in like 68, 66, 67.

And when I did it Off-Broadway
or toured it, people say,

I didn't know he sang.

That Was Him was a great.

Song that that he could be a chameleon.

He could just change.

And and he didn't read music,
wrote 180 songs.

He was one of

I think he and George Harrison
were one of the first to had synthesizers.

Yeah. Synthesizer fiddles.

We, actually do, Beatles song in the show,

and it might be a George Harrison
Beatles song.

So, Joyce, you might be. Yeah.

Hopefully my chops will impress with,
my George Harrison.

Just as much as you said
that he didn't write.

He didn't read music,

but neither did, you know,
the Beatles didn't know how to read music.

Elvis didn't know how to read music.

Correct. And Elvis thing.

Right?

No, no, Bobby wrote the Beatles
wrote a lot.

And Phil Collins, it still to this day,
doesn't know how to read music.

Amazing. Yes. His own syncopation system
that came up with him.

I read and, I don't know,

I was just with, rehearsing
with my guitarist the other day.

And I was like, how do you play?

Not him, but like, Darren
and some of the people were talking

and you don't know where you're going
next.

It's like driving blind,
but you're going to get there.

You know, I can't understand
because I read music.

I don't know if it's a positive
or negative, but, you know.

They feel. Like they hear it.

Like here
it is like a Keith Richards is out there.

Does he is he reading music
you think or just feeling.

Yeah. I don't know if he reads. I mean,
at that point it's in their head.

They know where they're going.
You know, Especially at this. Stage.

They're at this stage satisfaction.

They played a few times.

I think, oh.

I don't maybe a thousand. Or two.

Yeah.

Let's let's go back to your roots there.

Jazz. Well, what did you do before.

And then all of a sudden you decide
you not want to sing.

Yeah.

I was singing something
you always wanted to do.

Or was that like a later decision.

You know,

you know as a kid I remember liking it
and I said my mother studied voice.

She was a trained opera singer.

And you were talking about your voice.
But she had polyps.

They did throat surgery, annihilated
her voice, could never sing again,

barely could speak. But,

I guess I heard it.

There was music in the house, and,

I played sports for years.

I got cut from a team,
and I said I needed something to do.

And I remember going home.

I said my, you know, I was like a junior.

Senior in high school.

I said, they're doing a musical.

And I went to an all guys,
prep school, Catholic school.

And she said, oh,
you know, always encouraging. That's good.

You should get involved.
You meet girls and blah, blah, blah, blah.

And I did, and I tried out
and I had no idea what I was doing.

I obviously and I sang,
they said, you got to dance.

And sometimes

sometimes being stupid is good
because I was totally stupid and I did it

and I went home.

I said, man, you know,
I think I got one of the leads.

And my mother said, oh, that's great.

She said, when I went opening night,
I was shaking.

Said, this kid never sang, never dance.

And it was the boyfriend.

The play.

And I played Bobby Van
Use and I had a tango and I had to do

all these dances and singing,
and it just bit me.

And I fell in love with it.

And, I didn't stop from there.

I just said, somehow I'm going to work
in this business casting, producing, on

stage, music,
directing churches, wherever music

is and actors and performing is.

That's where I want to be.

And I had to find a way to do
it, and I did it.

And there's a lot of rejection
and the business, as.

We said, we were talking off camera more,
more than not more, you know, how.

Do you handle that?

Because so many people watching right now

or always curious
to hear the success stories,

but they want to know how you overcame
adversity.

You just, you know,
you have to just take it very lightly.

Some people, as a casting director
and working with actors,

you know, you have to say,
this is a minute in your life

and this isn't any.

Do an audition,
do it as best as you can and move on.

Go to the next one,
go to the it's a numbers game.

You know if you're going to
if you're going to audition

once a month and hoping for a job,
that's tough.

You got to rehearse 100.

You have to audition 100 times a month.

And if you work off a 10% now,
you get ten jobs.

If you audition once a month,
you know, those numbers don't work.

So it's a numbers game.

You just so with me,
I get rejected, go to the next call,

go to the next theater, go to the next.

Because you just you can't

you can't say, oh boy, John hurt
my feelings of Joyce said this to me.

You know, you got to get Khaleesi
and not rude, but move on.

Yeah.

Hey, for some reason, I'm not supposed to
be there in the in this world right now.

That's not supposed. To.

Joyce. That's a great point.

Because if it was meant for you,
I'd be there.

It wasn't meant for you,
was meant for someone else.

So it blessed them.
And that guy, you better come your way.

And that's how I think of it now.

It wasn't meant for me to be at that place
at that time.

So something else will come along.

And you also have the positivity
and the tenacity to keep to keep doing.

Tenacity is the word.

Yeah, I could use another word, but.

Once I got past then I just.

We've got to try to keep it
clean here. A you.

Know that when you see.

Me May 1st, May 18th,
I might use that word.

I can't wait, but yes.

No, you have to have a little bit of that.
You do?

Yes you. Do.

And it just, you know, you have to know
you're doing your best work.

You know, whether you're on stage,

you're you're you're a mechanic, you're
an electrician, you're a truck driver.

Do your best.

And what's going to come back to you
in the world, it'll come back to you,

you know?

And I'm,
you know, my joy is what I do get is,

making people happy.

I mean, when you see, as a performer,
the faces of people,

Pavarotti said, it's oxygen for us.

And it is totally, you know,
when you just see those smiles or someone

meet you backstage or at a restaurant
after, say, you sang or you did

or you told that story.
And I remember my mother.

I got a great story. I'm playing Long
Wharf Theater.

This is the original Off-Broadway show,
and we're playing there for a week. And,

I had advertisements

from when Derek, Bobby, Darren played
the arena,

New Haven Arena, New Haven Arena.

Oh, and the tickets were $3.

But get this, Joyce,
if you didn't have enough money,

you could go to the rehearsal
for a dollar. Really?

I didn't know
they did that. They did that? Yes.

If you give me a dollar,
you can come to my rehearsal next week.

Joyce,

You know what's my first dress?

Just my.

You know, all of that $0.50 each.

And so you won't believe this.

It's after the show.

Two women come backstage

crying, and they said

we couldn't.

My parents couldn't afford to see him.

And we they gave us a dollar
to see the show, to see his rehearsal.

And you just you brought us back to 1960.

And that it was worth.

Oh, yeah, everything you could imagine
to see their eyes and light up.

And you made somebody's day
or night or week or whatever.

And from the performers point of view
there, there is nothing better than that.

I know you could have gone home
at that point,

was that you could have gone home
at that point.

It was the end of the show. I did.

But thanks, Joy, thanks.

But for sure.
But you're out there on the stage

and you're singing
Can't Take My Eyes Off of You.

All of a sudden people are out there
and they're going back to 1967.

Yeah.
What they were doing at that time, who.

You were with, who you were.

With. Yeah.

And you're hearing and plus the music
you're doing, quite frankly.

Now some people might think,
oh, it's older music,

but everything oldies do again
do a whole new generation.

So these 18, 19, 20 year
olds are loving a lot of these classics

as much as their parents and grandparents
did. Right.

It's timeless.

A classic is a classic for a reason,
right?

Can't take my eyes off you now.
Jersey boys coming in and the film.

So a younger generation knows that song.

And, you know,

we do a lot of Neil Diamond stuff.

I was talking to you
a little bit about the monkeys.

He wrote one of the songs.

I'm a believer. I'm.

I'm glad I was trying to keep that
a secret. Just.

No, John. No, no,
they know what I'm saying.

Bobby Darin wrote.

Are you saying Bobby Darin wrote, I'm a.

Diamond, Neil. Diamond,
I'm a. Believer for the. Money.

We actually do
a couple of more of his songs,

but we do some of his writing
because we talk a lot.

In The Legend of the 60s.

We talk a lot about the Brill Building.
Yes, the Brill Building.

Carole King.

Yeah, that's right,

Carole King, Neil Diamond, Neil Sedaka,
Bobby Darin, Sonny Bono.

So we
this is where they went into a cubicle.

They had a small piano.

They maybe had a vocalist come in
and they would say,

we could hear the person
playing a song next door and all what?

You're taking their chords and you're
you're trying to write your own songs.

So we talk a lot about the Brill Building
because we focus a lot

on those artists of the 60s
that wrote there.

So it's it's. Just so interesting.

Building. It's the Burrell Building.

B right.

PLL have the Brill Building building.

Are you a joy to think about that area?

There were more hit songs from that area,
high school

people that went to that high school
like Carole King and Paul Simon.

Right.

They went to the same school
than any other area in the USA.

That I think it started from Tin Pan
Alley.

Yes, but the 60s, it was huge
because in that building

we're not only songwriters
were publishers, record label.

So they said
you never had to leave the building.

You could write a song, find a publisher,
move it to a record.

There's a one stop, right? Do a demo.

And it was it was amazing.

So, I mean, that doesn't exist anymore,
but I love that,

like talking about playing legacy
and playing nightclubs,

which we could talk about

where I started the intimate C
of being this close to people.

And I look right in their eyes.

And I mean, we do old school jokes.

I mean, I bring them.

There you are.

Now, as I said, the band is on stage,
the audience is on stage.

They are part
you have to get dragged into it.

And my beginnings,
which I talk about, started as nightclub.

I was young
and there were still a few left.

So I would go every Saturday night
and sing with the house band.

It was a scene out of Goodfellas.
Yes, yes.

It was a scene because it was. It was.

They'd come at 7:00
and they start with their cocktails

and they go to dinner,
and there was a house band.

And the first,
the first, first time I did it,

I won't mention the club, but,
I was there.

I had my three songs ready, and, the owner
said, well, the band's

over there on break, and I went up
and the three guys are very friendly.

I they said, I still remember
I was singing on a Clear Day.

Oh, you could see forever.

You could see forever.
I was doing Delilah.

Yeah. And, Marla ephemera.

Jimmy speaking at Jimmy Roselli, right?

Yeah. And I and they looked
and I said, great.

What key? And these keys and what it.

And they're eating.

They're very, you know, they're looking
they're very intent.

I said, so when do we rehearse?

He said, I don't know.
We'll just call you on.

I thought Joe
Frazier punched me in the jaws.

Like you're just going to call me on.

I never did that and that.

And then there's 400 people, here's
jazz coming in, and I.

My whole body was convulsed, saying
like, oh, my God, I can't find a way.

To get it done, don't. You?

You know, and so people look at you
now and say, why are so calm out there so,

well, you do that for years and not
knowing what the band's going to play,

what the people are going to react
to, you get very good at it quick

or at least comfortable.
I should say good.

I don't wanna be pompous,
but you get comfortable, you.

Learn to pivot.

You learn.

Great training.

It was my college. I say that on the show.

It was my performing
that I'm singing on a clear day.

Joyce and a woman's.

This close to you?

Probably a few context, because I can't.

Hear you and I like.

I can't hear me, right? Right.

The number of the vocal,
the mic was going down, my couldn't.

Be further down my throat.

I was like, I gotta get out of here.

Wow. And I kept going back.
It was like a drug.

I kept going back.

But I'll do it more.

I'll do it
more until I, you know, just loved it.

Now that's how I started.

And your performances,
especially in the early days.

Did you ever have people
that were heckling?

Oh, they do that.

They just did it.

The last show I did.

Oh no, oh no.

Real love it.

You you feed off that?

Oh I encourage. It.

Oh you response not from U2. No.

Yeah. Something like oh.

That Joyce was so nice.

You know, that's her. Throw her out.

Know you stop and address it. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. We had.

What do you what do you say?

Just, you.
Know, razzing back, you know? Okay, just.

I could go into my Don Rickles routine.

Oh, like, oh, you're doing this
30, 40, you know, 35 years.

You know, you get to learn and they think
you're going to catch you sick.

You're not you're not going to catch me
with a line or whatever.

You know. So it's fun.

And then the audience gets into it.

Especially if I had a woman

that's I. So but go

shows like the title of a song.

I had this.

Woman in the front row and,
last show we did,

and she was people

five people contacted
me, said she she was shill.

Right?

You set her up there, she threw more lines
and we did more back and back.

Audience was hysterical.

I should pay her to be there.

She was that funny and good. Yeah.

And then everybody tells. Everybody said,
well, she's joining in.

Let me say another woman popped in.

I was drinking my little,
Tito's on stage to relax, too.

How about the lemon cello?

So I said, all right, next time. I bring,
let me chill.

So it just.

Yeah, I love it,
I love it, and then. Yeah.

What's that? It's like a big party.

It's got to be, you know,
it's got to be, you know, and they just,

you know,

I, I did, I
did we were talking about my casting work

and I did something for Robin
Leach years ago and

one of his shows, I'm in New York
and I'm 60th.

So Goodfellas had come up.

I walk up,

he's 60, then I'm standing on East and I'm
looking at the buildings and I'm like,

where was the cop?

I know I'm close.
So there's a doorman to the left of me.

I said, excuse me, you know,
you tell me where the cop is.

He goes, you're staring at it.

And I'm like,
this is where Ray Liotta parked his car.

Goodfellas.

I was there, and I'm Stan.

I'm looking at, you know, the Copa.

And I would talk so much about it

with Steve Blount or regarding Bobby Darin
and and everybody who played there.

And it was only 700 seats.

It was two levels, 303, 50 and 350.

And and you know, they had a staging.

But as people kept coming in in Goodfellas

and they brought the table,
the staging went further, less and less.

And when you were working on a four
by eight, there was nothing to work.

You know, it was just
and just the intensity

and how close
and that's that's what I feed off of that.

And that's where legacy is
just just great.

It's just great. It's perf.
It is. Yeah. Perfect.

One of the greatest places to see a show.

Because again, you feel like it's one
big living room. That's correct.

And I love that approach.

Even being in the entertainment business

myself,
you know, with the deejay business, I love

when people are right there with you
and you can interact with them.

Absolutely. I think this you absolutely.

Similar to that would have been a Long
Wharf theater, which I. Yes.

Oh yeah.

And the old Oakdale with the.

With the in. The round. Yeah.

That was the Oakdale was
and that was for 3000 seats.

It was still intimate.

Yeah.

That that was what we were talking about

show I might be doing with in Connecticut
with Roselli, Jimmy Roselli.

And I remember I must have seen him
three, three times there and Sergio

Franchi and Pat Cooper and just
and that such great style.

Yes. Entertainment that, you know,

I talk about this

in legends,
but you look at like a Sinatra,

a Jerry Lewis or a Dean Martin,
and there's celebrities out there today

and they're wonderful.

But they were masters of recording
concerts, TV, film.

When you think back, they were most
people don't do it in those genres today.

They might be a recording artist

or maybe a film artist,
but they're not cutting across.

I mean, Dean Martin had the biggest
ratings show on TV for 12 or 14 years.

Sinatra had Reprise records.

He had consummate concerts,
never stopped for.

Like, a Bing Crosby.

All the stuff he did. Oh, he was good,
you know?

And, was you.

Owned a bunch of baseball.
Teams. Tina. Yeah.

And he owned part.
You didn't know Tropicana?

Yeah, he was an owner in orange juice.

He was extraordinarily.
I really impressed you, Joyce.

Yeah. You know.

You were talking about the Tropicana
choice.

It's quick. Right? Yes.

Isn't there a club cover Tropicana.

For that quarterly?

What did that coffee

Bailey shot, I didn't know.

Yeah, right.

Oh, yeah. That's me.

I get some brandy and, Oh, man.

Yeah. But that's, you know, that's.

You know, I'm probably
too young for my age of the music I love.

They should probably be 110, but.

I think, God, you're
bringing that music back.

Yeah, you know that. Keep it alive.

And I think there are a lot of people
out there that enjoy it to hear this.

Especially.

Legends of the 60s,
where there's a variety of of artists,

as I said,
Neil Diamond, Neil Sedaka, Bobby Darin,

Sinatra, Dean Martin,
I mean, the list is the monkeys on and on.

Oh, we do love and spoonful
for Wayne Newton.

So it's just
there's something for everyone.

And I and I will say,
if I do connect the stories, I bring it

to, to full, you know, a full resolve
of beginning to end.

And I think people like.

This kind of the glue
that keeps it all together. Correct.

I think the artists of today,
the new artists, appreciate that.

Also, I think they're going back.

To do some of that. And checking it out.

Now, I must say,
these chairs are comfortable,

but I feel like I'm on the dating game.
Like I said, number two,

I gotta tell you two,

I think Joyce had given up here. Wow.

I stuck with me.

I don't know,
I got gotta like the gentleman.

I'm just trying.

Bachelor number one. Yeah.

Give me a question. I get to do not.

Like talking too much.
I'm probably telling you too much.

I know, I think I think your audience
is really enjoying it.

Yes, he encompasses
he like I'm talking to third person.

But this is what's good, right?

You do? I mean, thank you.

That's what's good.

You have infectious, beautiful energy.

Thank you.

And hopefully this comes out
during our shows.

So yes.

I just love the whole idea
of the storytelling, like you said,

because I learned a long time ago
that facts tell, stories sell.

You know, people learn by stories, right?

Yes, 100%. And as we wrap up here. Sure.

Tell us about the show again.

And when it's happening.

We, we open up at Legacy
Theater in Branford, Connecticut

on, Thursday, May 1st.

We run to May 18th, 15 performances.

So it's Thursday through Sunday
for three weeks.

12 piece band, two backup singers.

We are so thrilled.

I'm historic.

Just to go back there for my third time
and just knock their socks off.

But audiences are going to.

Enjoy just your energy level alone
has sold this year.

My gosh. You're. Watching it right now
and you love that music.

This is just an added bonus
with, you know, Chaz up on the stage.

Just thank you and to see you guys again.

This is like so great to see you.

Thank you. It's so great.
Thank you for being on our show.

This was totally a pleasure.
I hope you invite me back.

Oh we're going to go.
Come back any time, any time.

But thanks so much for stopping by.

Thank you so much for tuning in to
What's Good You to check us out.

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I think people are thirsting and hungry
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And remember

to find the what's good in your life,
because there's always something good

in each day.

That's right.

And the more you look for that,
the more you're going to see it.

Gratitude. Thanks. Till next time.

Bye for now.

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Creators and Guests

John Saville
Host
John Saville
Shortly after John graduated from Southern Connecticut State University, he landed his first job in radio. The Program Director gave him some of the best advice he has ever received. He said, “the Broadcasting business is very fickle, you can be here today and gone tomorrow; so you should have a Plan B.” John listened and the next day he dipped into his savings and bought his first sound system. Within two weeks, he was DJing his first party. That was over 25 years ago!
Joyce Logan
Host
Joyce Logan
Joyce holds a Doctorate in Metaphysical Philosophy from the American Institute of Holistic Theology and certification as a Hypnotherapist from The National Guild of Hypnotists in NH. She founded “The Wellness Center” in Connecticut, where she dedicated many years to assisting individuals with anxiety disorders and panic attacks, equipping countless others with effective coping mechanisms for everyday stressors.
David Chmielewski
Producer
David Chmielewski
David started his video career in the early 1990s working on video crews as an independent contractor for such companies as Martha Stewart Living, IBM and Xerox. After graduating Southern Connecticut State University with the degree in Corporate Communications, David continued his video production career and accepted a position at WFSB in Hartford, CT. Within a few years the news and production studios became his charge and David designed, installed and maintained the televisions sets for the various programs at the station. At the end of 2013 David founded DirectLine Media, a video production company that specializes in creating memorable and compelling video content for businesses.
Stefania Sassano
Editor
Stefania Sassano
Stefania's acting journey began as early as the fourth grade, where she took on the role of Scarlett O'Hara in a stage production of Gone With the Wind. This early experience sparked a lifelong passion for the arts. With a background in musical theater fueled by her love of music and singing, Stefania stepped into larger roles, such as Fraulein Kost in Cabaret during her sophomore year at the University of New Haven. This performance earned her a nomination for the prestigious Irene Ryan Acting Award at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival—an honor she would receive again in her junior year.