Half Century Hangout
We are Half Century Hangout where different perspectives make for better discussions.! John, Luke and Chuck are three guys who grew up differently but became good friends with a lot to talk about. On this show three unique perspectives are brought to the table where we dive into everything from current events to life's big questions. We might not always see eye to eye... But that's exactly why we're here. So grab a seat and join us for honest conversation, unexpected insights, and a few friendly arguments.
Half Century Hangout
Sporting Icons, Comedy Legends, and What We Value
What makes someone truly great at what they do? Is it natural talent, relentless work ethic, or something deeper? Chuck, Luke, and John explore this question through their personal top five entertainment sources—a journey that reveals as much about them as it does about their selections.
The conversation kicks off with Ernest Hemingway's profound observation: "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your former self." This philosophy of continuous self-improvement echoes throughout their choices, from legendary athletes to groundbreaking comedians.
Comedy features prominently with nods to The Three Stooges for their pioneering work during challenging times for Jewish performers, Robin Williams for his unmatched improvisational brilliance, and Dave Chappelle for his unapologetic authenticity. From the world of athletics, Michael Jordan, Walter Payton, Barry Sanders, Tom Brady, and Muhammad Ali earn recognition not just for their athletic dominance, but for how they elevated teammates and stood for their beliefs.
The arts receive equal attention with Morgan Freeman and Denzel Washington praised for their acting range and personal values. Musical selections highlight harmony and instrumental complexity, with bands like Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and multi-instrumentalists like Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones making the cut. Even literature finds its place with "Where the Red Fern Grows" celebrated for its emotional impact across generations.
What emerges is a fascinating portrait of what these hosts truly value: authenticity, continuous improvement, versatility, and the ability to elevate others. Their selections transcend entertainment categories to reveal universal human qualities that inspire across mediums and generations.
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All right, we're going. Welcome back to Half Century Hangout. We're here hanging out with Chuck and Luke. What's up, guys Tigers?
Speaker 2:first to 40,. That's all I know.
Speaker 1:Tigers first to 40.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they beat the.
Speaker 1:Royals the other night.
Speaker 2:First team in the MLB with 40 wins.
Speaker 3:Oh, gotcha, is that a thing? Yeah, tells you how little I know about baseball.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm not a big baseball fan.
Speaker 2:I'm not gigantic, but it's a big accomplishment for them. They're coming through and playing some good ball they used to be pretty bad.
Speaker 1:Some summer plans. We're looking at going down through Kansas City and going to Table Rock. We're going to be going to that one too. Coming back, the Royals are playing the Pirates. Might have to stop. Pirates are what I call my favorite team, just because they're out of Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3:But you know what's your connection with Pittsburgh, having grown up in Stanton.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I just like the Steelers and then the Pirates were pretty good when I was growing up and I like the Pirates Willie Stargell Are you a Penguins fan.
Speaker 2:I am a Penguins fan too. It's just Pirates.
Speaker 1:It's Pittsburgh. That was their song we Are Family. It was it was.
Speaker 2:Still one of the best throws ever. Dave Parker gunning down. I don't remember who was running from the warning track. Perfect throw from the warning track.
Speaker 1:All Running from the warning track. Perfect throw From the warning track.
Speaker 2:All the way to home. Oh yeah, Just.
Speaker 1:But you know, my favorite throw was Bo Jackson. Yeah, Climbed up the wall. Oh yeah, Caught it. He walked the wall Through the guy that tagged out at third out at home and it was a dart to home.
Speaker 3:Did you guys see that highlight of um? It was college the guy falling out of the stands.
Speaker 1:No, that's all that too.
Speaker 3:That might've been a low light, I'm not sure it was. Um a girl. She's pitching softball and she. She pitched the ball and her cleat clicked um. Kicked up some a clot of dirt that got in front of the ball before it was pitched. Kicked up a clod of dirt that got in front of the ball before it was pitched. As the ball was passing through, it hit that clod of dirt and caused the dirt to hit the catcher in the eye and messed up her catch. Wow, isn't that crazy Interesting.
Speaker 1:Just a weird sequence of events. I saw one pitcher that hit her leg and the pitch went off.
Speaker 2:Probably still the best pitch is Rainey Johnson exploding the bird. Oh, that was a good one, yeah, absolutely. Well freaking hilarious. I mean amazing, but not if you're not much.
Speaker 3:I've never seen that happen before.
Speaker 1:So you know, we're talking about these great plays, great things and gosh, let's talk about top five entertainment sources, entertainers, whatever, and we'll kind of go through top five. We did movies last time, why not entertainers? I?
Speaker 2:think I'm going to break. I think I'm going to break tradition here.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:I'm going to start with a quote.
Speaker 1:Oh, that sounds good. Go ahead, Are we? Are you allowed to do that? Let's hear, let's hear you quote.
Speaker 2:We can do anything. It's our podcast. I can go the door's right there, chuck.
Speaker 1:I can go If we were in my garage.
Speaker 2:I'd be like what If we were in your garage? I'd be like what?
Speaker 3:No, that's true. If we were in your garage, I wouldn't even Go ahead.
Speaker 2:Let's hear it there is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your former self.
Speaker 1:That's good, that's good Ernest Hemingway.
Speaker 2:Hmm, as we're going to talk about, things that we see are superior to others.
Speaker 1:When I look at that, it's getting better every day. Okay, putting in that work, bettering yourself in whatever you do.
Speaker 3:Where did that come from? Like you just.
Speaker 2:Ernest Hemingway Taking a little nip, gotcha A little nip and tuck and came up with it.
Speaker 1:That's how we did it A little philosophizer.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1:You bet Top five entertainers, tuk, and came up with it. That's how we did it philosophize. Yeah, absolutely. You bet top five entertainers and luke. You kind of came up with this what, what did you mean? What?
Speaker 2:I what I think. What I think is cool is like when we talked about the movies before you know it tells you some things. But I think that it also, if we just pick top, we kind of left it wide open, like initially it was like entertainers, but then, like john said, it could be sources of entertainment, it could be anything. But I think it just kind of paints a picture and lets people understand that we come from all different walks of life and whatever, and sometimes our focuses could be on different things, but we can still be like wow, you know, that's a pretty good answer. That's pretty cool. I never thought of that or, you know, whatever it is so um.
Speaker 1:Are we going to? How are we going to do this? We're going to go one by one. Yeah, we'll do it like we did before.
Speaker 2:But each time we go around you just name the genre and whatever it is. Did you?
Speaker 3:guys have a like a rubric that you ran your things through, Like how did you figure out what was your top?
Speaker 2:I kind of did the same thing. I just I just kind of started naming things and then put them into genres and I took the number one, one out of each genre got you. Yeah, it was hard because, even though one of my genres is labeled other because I don't really know exactly, because this thing could actually fit into a few different ones, but they were definitely going to be on my list somewhere you know there's, there's a lot of top performers.
Speaker 2:I guess is what we're or top things that, um, like stuff you really enjoy, you know, stuff that brings you happiness or thought or focus or whatever, you know, yeah, so who wants to start? Won't you start? Oh, okay, you know. In that vein, I think I will start with my other category.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay, and it's not one person, it's three people, but they're in a group together, the three stooges all right okay, I like that and one of the reasons that I picked them as one of my favorites obviously, as a kid, um watched a lot, watched a ton of them, and my mom wasn't always happy about that because I always would try to do some of the things that they did, which probably weren't the great things to do. But as I got older and really did read about them like I've got a bunch of books on them and read about their history and they're all jewish and coming through the times when they did in the 30s and the 40s, with all the things that were going on with the war and everything else, they were really going into mainstream more than anybody really thought that they would. And if you watch a bunch of their shorts, they were talking about topics that most Jews wouldn't touch and they made a lot of parody jokes about the Nazis and a lot of things they were very, very much working toward through comedy obviously through slapstick comedy, as we would probably call it. But they started on Broadway and they were there. They were performers for years and they were musicians and I think that they did a great job of performing.
Speaker 2:You've got a picture of Mo impersonating Hitler, you know, which was hilarious, but they did it in a way that was still, if you want to say, had some class to it. You know what I mean. So I just always I looked at them as cutting edge, like they were doing things that no other performers at the time in that realm were doing For the longest time. They were the largest Columbia contract ever of how much money they got. Wow At the time. For years and years into the 70s, I think, almost into the 80s, I believe.
Speaker 2:How many of them were actually brothers. Moe, Curly and Shemp, and Larry was a family friend, Larry was a Feinstein yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, feinstein so it was Larry, they were all. Howard was their name.
Speaker 2:That was their last name, Curly's real name. Do you know what it was? Charles?
Speaker 1:I have no idea.
Speaker 2:Jerome, jerome. Yeah, but when they came to, larry had that curly hair and Mo had the straight cut and Curly had this curly blocks of hair, this curly all over the place. Well, larry already had that, so they never called him Curly before that. But he left the set and went and got his head shaved, came back with tears in his eyes and said I'm in because they needed one other haircut.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:So they called him Curly. From that from then on, to let him remember his hair Wow.
Speaker 3:Yeah, interesting.
Speaker 2:That's my first one. That's what I'm leading off with. I like that. I like it. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1:I'm a victim of circumstance, go ahead Every Sunday. Yep Used to watch those. My turn, your turn, you know. I went with people and there's a lot of great people out there and I stuck with the entertainment and sports world. And I'm going to start off with a comedian, robin Williams. Okay, he's one of my favorites, just uh, he was just fun to watch and his mind works so incredibly interesting uh, with what he would come up with. And if you watch interviews of him, he just is, it's just fun. I like Mork and Mindy and um him and Jonathan fun. I like mork and mindy and um him and jonathan winners. On mork and mindy, I don't know if you ever remember that that was just and jonathan winners was great too, but uh, robin williams was, and and then he branched off of comedy and did some other things as an actor and I just thought he really epitomizes somebody who is one of the top in his profession.
Speaker 3:You mentioned Jonathan Winters. You know where he's from.
Speaker 1:Dayton Ohio. Yeah, Wow.
Speaker 3:Got his start at WING Radio and worked with my dad.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 3:My dad spun records at WINING way back in the day.
Speaker 1:Wow, no, not scratching records, not scratching records, he spun them. But anyways, yeah, a little Cool Claim to fame Robin Williams.
Speaker 3:All right, so my fifth one here. You guys might be a little bit surprised at, but it's also a comedian, but it's probably one of the most unlikely comedians that you guys think I would appreciate. Hit us, dave Chappelle. Oh, dave Chappelle.
Speaker 2:Hilarious.
Speaker 3:Yeah Well, a lot of people are probably going to be surprised at that, seeing how, you know, I've been a pastor and you know those types of things. And when you look at David Chappelle's type of humor, it's pretty crass, you know, Just a little, Cusses a lot. But the thing that really draws me in about him is the way he treats his comedy as a conversation and he kind of draws you in and hits on some pretty important subjects as he's going through his bit. But he is hilarious and if you can get past some of the crassness of his bit.
Speaker 2:You know he crosses controversial stuff too. Yeah, he does, which is okay. I don't mind it. But what I do like is, it cracks me up when he does it is that he'll come back the next show or whatever it is, and he'll say you know, I said something last show about this and you think he's going to apologize for it. No, he doubles down and he goes down. It cracks me up because everybody's like, oh, he's going to apologize. No, he's not. He might say maybe I shouldn't have said that, but in its place I'll say this. You know, and it's hilarious.
Speaker 1:Oh, he cracks me up.
Speaker 2:That's a good one.
Speaker 1:I like that one.
Speaker 2:It is good. All right, you're up next. All right, let's see, I'm going to go with movie actor, okay, all right, as you know, this would be very difficult for me, all right. So what I kind of started doing in my head was taking these actors and actresses that I liked a lot and listing movies, and kind of the one that had the most movies was kind of the winner. And you know some of the movies I'm sure I don't know from every actor.
Speaker 2:I mean, I know a lot of them, but Morgan Freeman, is way up high on my list of actors and just going through, like some of them, obviously, in shawshank, which we had in our list last week, um, but the whole has fallen series, it was, uh, olympia angel in london has fallen. Great, those, um, we had uh, he was in dark knight, which he was really good in that bucket list. Along came a spider under suspicion maiden heist so good, there's just so many good movies, but probably one of the favorites that I have is a quote that we use all the time, but it's the number seven is the movie seven and brad pitt's in it and, oh my, kevin spacey's in it. Such a dark movie. It's about the seven deadly sins oh, my gosh, my gosh.
Speaker 3:Oh, you know, I think I remember that's whenever we say what's in the box that's him saying that's not him, that's Brad Pitt saying it. Sure.
Speaker 2:Oh great, so I put him right up there, and he's probably one of my favorite actors, for sure.
Speaker 1:He's great.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I think when I a super serious, you can do a funny, you can do a extrovert or an introvert, you can do anything. And I think that his range is all over the place. So that's what really struck me about him. So there's mine, nice Cool.
Speaker 1:Did you ever watch Electric Company?
Speaker 2:The PBS show.
Speaker 1:So that was Morgan Freeman.
Speaker 2:Oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I didn't know that I didn't know that, but yeah, I didn't watch it very much. Is that the pbs show?
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah yeah all right, my turn right. I am going to go with a football player okay, and not necessarily a favorite team of mine, but he, he, he grew on me and became a a favorite of mine. But he, he, he grew on me and became a a favorite of mine and I think he, he is one of the one of the best. Tom Brady, okay, and I'll say he's one of the best because he just made everybody around him better. He would go through receivers and line and any played forever, which which is, you know, longevity is a part of it too but he would go through different people and just have, you know, a great team, year after year after year. And I am not a Patriots fan, but I became a Tom Brady fan, especially after he left the Patriots. But, uh yeah, he, just, he just made people better and I I think that's what made him one of my top five.
Speaker 3:I am not a Patriots fan at all and I'm kind of in the same boat as you are. I extremely disliked them when Bledsoe was there, and then, when Tom Brady took over, I liked them even less. Yep, because he's a Michigan guy. Well, yeah, but over the years the dude was Blake Bloomer we call that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, kind of like your guys. In the draft you had all those ones toward the end.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that in the draft.
Speaker 2:You had all those ones toward the end. Yeah, yeah, he was. He was low, but you know what? 97 when they won the national championship. He was second string quarterback in michigan behind greasy yeah, I know brian greasy who's that was a quarterback factory for a while.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was but no, it, it's, uh, it's one of those things that I'm he kind of. I kind of warmed up to him after a bit and I was actually rooting for him when he was at Tampa Bay to win his last one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I don't do that very often, but I did for him.
Speaker 3:Yeah, All right number four.
Speaker 1:I'm also in the. I'm not going by numbers.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm not either, but go ahead, okay.
Speaker 3:You can do whatever you want. But my next one would be Michael Jordan. I went to the athletics world as well, and the reason I chose him, obviously he was pretty influential when I was growing up and those shoes actually, whenever they first came out back in the 80s, I kind of thought they were ugly. I didn't think they were the greatest looking shoes I still think they are. But a lot of people like him now, you know, and he's the one who made them famous, obviously. So he did a lot of people like him now, you know, and he's the one who made him famous, obviously. So he did a lot of amazing things. He was an incredible competitor Still is, you know, just has to compete in different ways. But he made my top five list.
Speaker 1:Owns a race car team now? Yep, he sure does, yep. So, oh, that reminds me of another one.
Speaker 2:Spilling over into mine now. Um, I have uh, I wouldn't say athletes too. I have. I have a couple picks there, but I have one that I put these three together again. Okay, I know, I'm cheating a little bit but you are.
Speaker 1:But I'm gonna tell you why, though.
Speaker 2:But I'm gonna tell you why. And the reason three stooges. I could see, because the one that I'm looking at at with some of these things is that it's not the three amigos, is it? No, Okay good.
Speaker 1:They weren't athletes.
Speaker 2:I would say that I like groups that work in the same way, that they're about hard work and commitment and putting it together for your team, whatever you have to do. Okay, so I have Michael Jordan in there. I have Walter Payton in there, okay, and I have Barry Sanders in there, oh yeah, okay. So you've got these three guys that just epitomize the work ethic. They're going to put the time in, they're going to do the work, they're going to do what they need to for their team. Now, out of those three, you kind of look at them and Barry Sanders, it's like man, he was there, he was there, he was there, but he played for the Lions when it was one of the worst teams around and they didn't give him a whole lot to back up until they started to realize what they had. By then it was kind of a little too late. Looked at those guys like they didn't just want the spotlight.
Speaker 2:I mean they got it whether they wanted it or not?
Speaker 2:but that wasn't what they were there for. You know most of them. You know, for the most part, michael Jordan. You know, when he spoke and when I was in Chicago for those glory years, he really the most of the time talked about his teammates. You know he didn't talk about just himself, he talks about his teammates in the work. Walter Payton was the same way, barry Sanders was the same way, although he didn't have a lot of teammates to talk about, but it wasn't about him, you know, it was more about what he was doing with the team or what was happening.
Speaker 2:But he was very soft-spoken and so when I look at athletes, like for the best athletes for me to think of, those are the kind of players that I think of. So, think of, those are the kind of players that I think of. So it's not just that they're my favorite athletes, it's the fact that they stand for what my favorite thing is about the game, yeah, and it's not just football. I mean, michael jordan obviously was in basketball, but you know there's been a lot of people always talked about him playing football. It's kind of like lebron, like well, he he made a little ways in baseball right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 1:You know, especially Walter Payton and Barry Sanders. They did it their own way too. I mean, they really On their own terms. They did it and they left on their own terms.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean they really One of the things I think, as we were talking about a rubric, that we put these things through as I'm sitting here and you mentioned it, Luke is reflect maybe a little bit of what we value.
Speaker 2:Sure.
Speaker 3:And, as I'm thinking, how does Dave Chappelle reflect what I value? It's authenticity. Dave Chappelle is who he is.
Speaker 2:And he doesn't make any apologies for it?
Speaker 3:And so, as I was, trying to tie.
Speaker 1:He'll double down as a matter of fact, exactly right.
Speaker 3:So I am who I am, yeah, yeah, no, I like those. Those three are super solid guys.
Speaker 2:That's good. So it was a little bit of a cheat, but that's what it was, it's more about that you know we like that.
Speaker 1:You're up, John All right, I'll stick in the sports world, although this person I really appreciate the spokesmanship that he had Muhammad Ali, just a great work ethic, first of all, and a person that stood up for what he believed in. Yeah, If you ever look at his story incredible story. Definitely had a personality and had a lot of personality. Yeah, he kind of Believed in himself and believed what he believed too. Talk about authenticity. I think you get a lot of authenticity.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he kind of was waning as I was growing up. I mean, I really don't remember him much from the 80s. He was kind of over in the 70s for the most part. But you know, I've seen the replays and some of the fights and some of the speeches he's given, those types of things.
Speaker 3:But yeah that's a good choice, good one. He's a GOAT, that's for sure. All right, I'm going to veer from the athletics world and I'm going into the literary world. Nice, one of my top books of all time, charlotte's Web. No, oh, okay. Where the Red Fern Grows oh, okay, yeah, I love that book.
Speaker 3:It was, I remember, the first time I read. I think I was 16 years old and I was up in my bedroom and I got to the part which is the same part I got to where when I read it to my kids, but I started crying like crazy. I mean, I was so sad. I was so into this book because I don't even know who wrote it, but the author did such a good job of creating a scene. But I'm reading that same scene to my kids when they're like I don't know, eight, nine, 10 years old, something like that. And it's the scene where old Dan has died. He got attacked by the lion to save his buddy, his boy that owned him, and so he has died. He's buried up on the hill and little Ann she's just beside herself Can't get away from the grief that she's experiencing, and so she goes up on the hill where old Dan is buried, lays down and dies. Sad book.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:But it's one of my all time favorites so awesome. Lots of good memories reading that to my kids. They laugh at me to this day because of it.
Speaker 2:I am also going to step away from the athletic venue. I'm going to go to music. Okay, I got one for music, and when I'm saying this one, I'm going to call it vocal music, okay, and one of the things that, well, john probably knows a little bit about this, but the one thing about music to me kind of goes along the same way with what I was talking about with athletics. Kind of like the three students together, you know, working together, doing something, the ability for Morgan Freeman to do all these different things, to have multiple talents all over the place. So, once again, sorry, there's two bands that, uh, that I think totally encompass this. Okay, their music to me is great, I love the music, but I love the harmony that they do I'm a big harmony guy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love, and if you can put as many as many instruments into a song as you possibly can, it's better for me like I like brass in there, I like guitars, I like everything. If they put an orchestra in the back, I'm good, you know, I love it. Crosby, stills, nash Young and Steely Dan.
Speaker 3:Yeah, those are two of the same type of bands, so when?
Speaker 2:you, um, when you listen to it. I think one of the things for me with music is that music kind of it's like what is that old commercial calgon, take me away, right, the bath stuff? This kind of takes me back, you know, it takes me away and that harmony puts me away. You think you're crying when you're doing how, where the red fern grows, yeah, I start going, it'll get me too. Yeah, you know, because it's just one of those things that it's just well. What does harmony mean?
Speaker 1:right is everything working together, yeah, right. So it's kind of the whole you know.
Speaker 2:So that's what I got there yeah, I am going in the same direction.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I love those two choices Crosby Stills, nash and Young. I like them even better when they were Crosby Stills and Nash, but when Neil Young came into that group I think he added a lot to it. But you're right, the harmonies and the way those tunes fit together, it's good music.
Speaker 2:It's really good music it who's up?
Speaker 1:john john's up, all right. Well, um, I'll go to just overall entertainment okay and longevity too. Carol burnett I liked show. I would not have expected that. I liked her singing ability. I mean she had a voice, she could sing and her show was just funny.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And growing up in the late 70s, early 80s, you know, on Saturday nights and we'd watch it. I love that they could laugh at themselves oh yeah 100.
Speaker 3:Just so much fun, they're watch the fun one to watch, and I think those are recorded live, weren't they were?
Speaker 2:yes, yeah, they were in front of a, because that's always one of the things that I love when you watch a movie and then at the end in the trailer they're playing the, or when the credits they're playing bloopers, bloopers yeah and when, a when an actor or somebody can't stop laughing at what they're gonna say yeah, because that's what they would do, like they would try, you can see sometimes you know you get to laughing and going saturday live saturday live does that a lot too where the guys are doing it and they're like they're trying not to laugh, like to try to keep their you know, but they can't sometimes it's just too much but, they did that on that show a lot, but they did it live, so it was always in there.
Speaker 3:You saw it was fun. Tim conway, caribou net. And what's the other guy's name? Harvey corman yeah those three did a bit that they just it was hilarious.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they were they were, tim conway could keep his straight face. The other two could not. Yeah, they couldn't, but he could yeah.
Speaker 3:Anyways, good stuff, All right. Going back to the music, Michael Jackson.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:All right, all right, you got no qualms with me, yeah.
Speaker 3:I mean he's not on my list, but you know, incredible he had the Thriller album Again, I was in junior high, high school, when Thriller album came out and MTV had just kind of started and those videos, a lot of those videos were on Beat it, and then he just continued to put. Of course he had all that stuff when he was with the Jackson 5 too, but then he just continued to put project after project after project together well into, uh, well into the nineties and, um, I just think he sustained a good work. Yeah, yeah, he was weird.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, I mean, we probably all are on some level.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but uh, he was a good. I mean John's not.
Speaker 1:But not John's probably are. Yeah, I don't know about that.
Speaker 2:He's a great entertainer. He, he was a great entertainer. He was. Yeah, I don't disagree. I tend to actually move toward a little bit of his early stuff before the Thriller album came out. Like Thriller was good at the time, it was huge, obviously, but even the ones right before that I thought he was really there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Like it was good. What were the ones like?
Speaker 2:what was one before? Like what was that one song PYT, Wasn't that before?
Speaker 3:Thriller.
Speaker 2:That was before Thriller. I'm pretty sure there was a couple songs that were pretty big before that, but that was the one that put him across the world. I mean, he was all over then, you know. But I think are we on? Am I the last one? Last one, you're on your last one.
Speaker 1:Oh wow, Already.
Speaker 2:So as, like I said before, I had two music things, so vocal music was one, my other was instrumentalist. Okay, so, as I look at it, there was a few that you know. I was looking at guitar players. I was looking at some of these other people that weren't necessarily, you know, an entire band, but just somebody that was in there. And again, I look at range, or their ability to do multiple things in the works they put in.
Speaker 2:And you might be a little surprised at this one John Paul Jones. You know who that is.
Speaker 3:Is he an actor?
Speaker 2:No, he's in a band. He's a musician, but he's in a band.
Speaker 3:Oh no, I don't. He's the bassist for Led Zeppelin. Okay, oh, okay, okay.
Speaker 2:And you know, he played the bass, obviously in the band which is one of my, probably in my top five bands, I would say, of all time. But he also played lead guitar, he played the mandolin.
Speaker 2:He played the upright bass and the cello, Played the lap guitar. He was multi-talented across the way, but the music that he created and some of the best songs that they've recorded over the years during their big stint in the 70s, 60s and 70s Just incredible stuff that he put out and just the range that he had the ability to play that music on many different instruments to do it just was crazy. I loved it. He played the organ too. Really so played some keyboards.
Speaker 3:On Paul Jones. Yeah, man, you know, I wouldn't know that name.
Speaker 2:Well, again, and I think it's one of those deals where Behind the scenes guys as an idea. Some of the other guys that I had on there were like Joe Satriani, who was a great guitarist, Eddie Van Halen, who's one of the best in the world. All these people that are musicians on their instruments they're not necessarily known for their vocal, for their singing. Joe Bonamassa, what's that, Joe?
Speaker 3:Bonamassa yeah, yeah, what's that? Joe Bonamassa?
Speaker 2:yeah, and even Bonham, the guy who was the drums for the Led Zeppelin. Same way. I mean he passed away too early too. Stevie Ray Vaughan a lot of guys like that but yeah, I think that again, I think it's all stuff, that I think it's important that when we talked about this, because it's important to not just say you know obviously what your favorite things are, but to hear what everybody else is like oh, maybe I'll go read that book. Yeah, you know, I'll let you know if I cry, cry a little bit.
Speaker 2:I cry a lot anyway, so I probably will, but I think I've read that book and I know the book, but I don't remember the last time I read it. I don't read a whole lot of books. Yeah, that's a great book. The last book I read was I Heard you Paint Houses. That's the last one I read. No, no, no, we'll tell you about that some other day.
Speaker 1:That's another episode. I think you didn't tell us about that. I think we did once, but we'll talk about that some other time. Sounds good, all right. Last one for me. This is a person that just it's kind of the other category all around. Okay, she's an entertainer, she's an entrepreneur, she started out as a newscaster Oprah Winfrey oh wow, just done a lot of different things and just respect the things that she's done and come a long way to get to where she is Did she get started in Chicago? I don't know if she started there.
Speaker 1:I think it was North Carolina where she started.
Speaker 2:I think, it was North or South Carolina where she started, and then she went to Chicago and then she was in Chicago, but I'm pretty sure it was down south.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but she's just done a lot and been an actress, been a writer, has a podcast, been a great interviewer over time and had her show yeah, just uh. And and a great entrepreneur, as a lot of has made a lot of money because of some of the things that she's done.
Speaker 2:So I.
Speaker 1:I I respect that too. Gives cars out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So anyway, that was. That's a good one, that was one of mine.
Speaker 3:Well, my last one is Denzel Washington. He made the list, obviously, and you know, remember the Titans, equalizer, just a ton of good movies that he's made. And again I kind of think I mean, obviously I don't know him, but I've read some stuff about him and I think, from a values perspective, the things he says at interviews and at graduation ceremonies, uh, he reflects some of the values I think I have and, um, so yeah, he's one of the. It's a good one.
Speaker 2:One of the top he. One of the top. He was in my list. I liked it. It was a good one, do you? Guys have any honorable mentions? Oh, you know, I already threw mine in cause.
Speaker 1:I, I, you know one of them that I thought of when, when we were talking about racing and someone who went from, uh, football to racing, joe Gibbs, joe Gibbs, the coach, and the coach, I mean just a great coach, really, yeah, and talk about making people better. That's kind of what he, what his mantra is.
Speaker 3:Let's make people better. You might be surprised at this. You might actually hate this one, because, anyways, lou Holtz.
Speaker 2:Oh no, I don't. I mean. The fact that he was at Notre Dame is repulsive, but you know he was a great coach.
Speaker 3:Yeah, in spite of what he said about the Buckeyes. A couple years ago. Yeah, kind of got our motor going a little bit. But Lou Holtz he was, you know, he stood the test of time. Another comedy bit Abbott and Costello.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, abbott and Costello.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah To to.
Speaker 2:I think you know I didn't put any movies into this one, since we did movies last week, obviously as a favorite, but when you mentioned Jonathan Winters, one of my all-time favorite movies is it's a Mad, mad, mad, mad World. Did you watch that? Oh, we used to watch it every year at like Christmas time or Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3:Never seen it. Oh, at like Christmas time or Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2:Never seen it. It probably has, if you like, went into movies, like into movie history. It probably has more stars in it, like the entire. It's an epic. It's like three and a half hours long, I think. Oh man, but it's every scene that comes up. Another big star at the time. It was made in like the 50s, 50s, early 60s, somewhere in there. And there's another star there's, and jonathan winters has a part in it actually a pretty good, sizable parties. There's part of a group of people that are traveling around california trying to find a treasure. But it's just a comedic thing. Of all the stuff that don knots is, the three stooges make a cameo like everybody's in it hilarious but the same kind of thing where it's just like you think of some of these things.
Speaker 2:I'm like man, that was a great movie. Now again, I probably wouldn't have put it in my top of all time, like top 10, but we used to watch it so much we used to want my dad loved it and the the reason that he did it's hilarious. I won't give away the whole movie, but because I'm sure you want to watch it now. Yes, is uh, um, and I can't remember the guy's name that did it.
Speaker 2:The old man at the beginning drives his car off of this cliff, okay, and it goes down and he crashes and it makes all the noise.
Speaker 2:So they run down the hill and they're staying there, and Jonathan Winters is one of the group that's there, and so he's there and the guy's telling him in his dying breath no, it's buried under a big W, it's under a big W. And then he puts his head back and they all think he's dead. So they all just kind of stand up like what do we do? And he jumps up again, scares them all like they thought he was dead, and he says something else I don't even remember what the other word is but then finally, he goes dead. He goes limp, he goes dead. He goes limp and there just happens to be a bucket sitting right there and his leg shoots out and he kicks the bucket and the bucket rolls down the hill and my dad always told the story that they saw it in the theater and him and my uncle, who was the pastor from Branson, were just laying in the aisle laughing so hard.
Speaker 1:We used to have to play that one back a lot.
Speaker 3:It's funny.
Speaker 2:It's a great movie. It's a great hilarious movie, very wholesome, very wholesome movie. Might have to check it out. Yeah, it's pretty funny. It's pretty funny.
Speaker 3:If I have a spare three and a half hours, oh yeah, Just you know, he's got that laying around.
Speaker 2:That's like pocket change For sure.
Speaker 1:All right, well, hey, we got through our five entertainment sources. Entertainers, athletes, whatever.
Speaker 2:Hey to all of our followers, especially the ones that are local to the Omaha area. We're going to be doing an episode down at the College World Series, so watch our Facebook page so we can tell you when it's going to happen. If you wanted to stop by and say hi, maybe we'll have some merch with us. You never know. Yeah, we should. We're going to do something down there and we'll put it on the Facebook page just so that we can let you know and where it's actually gonna be. Got a couple venues that we're looking at, so coming up in a couple weeks there it is so watch out for that well.
Speaker 1:Hey, thanks for thanks for hanging out with us we appreciate you and listen to us on your favorite podcasts. Like us and listen to us on your favorite podcasts. Like us and look for us on all kinds of social media. What are they getting?
Speaker 3:Oh, facebook, tiktok, Instagram, twitter, so we're on all of them. X, x, dang it, x. I can't get all that happening. You tweet on X. That's weird yeah.
Speaker 2:That doesn't sound right. Tweet on X. It sounds like you're on a trip.
Speaker 1:Anyway, we already did our quote at the beginning. Yeah, what was that quote again Any other?
Speaker 2:quotes there is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your former self. Ah, that's good stuff.
Speaker 3:Put that work in Yep. Get better every day, absolutely. Get better every day, absolutely. You know, I think I learned something new about you guys through all of this stuff. Yeah, it's been good. It's been good. I didn't see you. I'm going to bring you a fern tomorrow.
Speaker 2:Fun hanging out. Yeah, we're bringing a fern tomorrow. A red fern, a red fern, no matter.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right. Well, hey, peace out.
