Hero or Dick
Hero or Dick - S2., Ep. 15 - Sesame Street
Join Kate & KJ as they explore the timeless magic of Sesame Street! They reflect on its commitment to inclusivity and social issues and fondly recall iconic characters and celebrities that graced the show.
Don't miss this delightfully nostalgic episode of Hero or Dick!
Thanks for listening!
Join Kate & KJ as they explore the timeless magic of Sesame Street! They reflect on its commitment to inclusivity and social issues and fondly recall iconic characters and celebrities that graced the show.
Don't miss this delightfully nostalgic episode of Hero or Dick!
Thanks for listening!
All right, Hello everybody.
Speaker 2:Hi everyone.
Speaker 1:Welcome to.
Speaker 2:Hero or Dick.
Speaker 1:Ah, shoot, I just looked and I forgot, but it's the episode after Serial Killers. I know that it's been a while.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's been a while. Hope everyone's having a good summer.
Speaker 1:It has been. I don't care if people have a good summer, but I'm just kidding. Oh no, Kate's been traveling the world here, so we couldn't.
Speaker 2:I went to Gaylord.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was it, and I haven't eaten venison, so oh, I'm sorry. No, it's pretty good actually.
Speaker 2:So it's season two, episode 15.
Speaker 1:That's what it is. I know we chatted before this, but is there anything else we want to talk about?
Speaker 2:Before we start Lighthearted banter. Know we chatted before this, but was there anything else we want to talk about?
Speaker 1:um, you know, light-hearted banter that people keep emailing us about um I got nothing nothing.
Speaker 2:I mean. Well, let's see what happened. We've been gone for a month it has been, hasn't it has been a while, but it was a month of july, so nobody people are are busy People are busy.
Speaker 1:I mean, I don't think they're waiting for us.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:It's okay though.
Speaker 2:No, you know, what I will mention right now, because I ran across this when I was going through some old paperwork is this is for Conan O'Brien, when you're listening. So we've loved Conan for a long time. Sure, we meaning myself and my daughter Jenna.
Speaker 1:And.
Speaker 2:I found a haiku that she wrote for Conan. She was probably in high school when she wrote this. Maybe, early college it says my do haiku. So right there, conan O'Brien, as your red hair grows taller, my love grows stronger. Ah, wow, that's the do haiku.
Speaker 1:That's good.
Speaker 2:I got that while I kept it. Look, it's in her original handwriting. I see that I wish I would have dated it. I did not. Oh, maybe there's a date on here, nope. No, but it must have been in high school because it says banquet begins in the commons on the other side.
Speaker 1:The commons, the commons of high school, oh, you remember the commons, don't you the high school?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I do.
Speaker 1:That was kind of weird. You got all the different people hanging out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you got the guys standing on the wall staring Uh-huh.
Speaker 1:Uh-huh, I think if guys do that stuff now that they used to do, they'd probably get smacked by girls.
Speaker 2:Oh, my gosh, which deservedly so. I hope so.
Speaker 1:The shit that used to happen.
Speaker 2:Well, we used to. We could smoke at school, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, with your teachers.
Speaker 2:Well sure if they were out in the smoking pens. But, yeah, there was a smoking pens here. Kids in between classes go have a smoke, relax here. Kids in between classes go have a smoke, relax a little, come back reek them like cigarettes we'll get on with school America. Well, that was the 70s, late 70s, Right?
Speaker 1:Well, I remember when I was yeah, I guess, because I was in Maple Ridge out there in the boonies.
Speaker 2:You weren't smoking at Maple Ridge.
Speaker 1:I wasn't, but the teachers smoked.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah there's a teacher lounge. You can go and smoke at Smoking in the hospitals.
Speaker 1:Isn't that crazy. Your doctor will come see you having a smoke.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it just seems like you can't even believe it now. We went to a concert a couple years ago. It was George Thorogood.
Speaker 1:It's a great concert.
Speaker 2:Is he alive? He is and he does it. I'm telling you, he does a fabulous show, he's bad to the bone you know all the songs without even trying. So, uh, we went and jenna was with us and she was probably about 20 at the time, maybe a little bit older, because I feel like she was drinking, so she might have been 21 up at the zoo and we went to the concert. We went back down to the um, to the casino.
Speaker 2:Everybody had their black t-shirts on yeah, I saw george thoroughgood a lot of mullets oh because yeah, george thoroughgood, and of course we're in a casino, everybody's smoking. So when we came downstairs and walked into that casino, I'm like jenna, this is what it was like in the 80s yeah, yeah this was the 80s, hasn't changed um you know how was your concert? Which one you went to like 182 yeah, it was good.
Speaker 1:Um, you can tell, though, that particular show even brooke commented on it. It's like they're like we're together for the show, you know, it's like oh we need some money, yeah I mean I, I don't know, they just didn't seem travis barker looked like he would much rather be somewhere else and then kardashian one yeah, and then of course, my wife and daughter, everyone talking about how hot he is.
Speaker 2:You know he's so gorgeous.
Speaker 1:He's ripped well yeah, he's a Kardashian one. Yeah, and then, of course, my wife and daughter, everyone talking about how hot he is. You know he's so gorgeous, he's ripped. Well, yeah, he's a fucking drummer. Yeah, you don't see many fat drummers.
Speaker 2:He's a tall skinny drummer. And then With every inch of his body.
Speaker 1:The other guy, tom, who's like the guy the alien guys. He got his own alien research society. You didn't know about this, I did not, I think his name's Tom, but anyway he was sick. He was having a hard time coughing, sneezing snot coming out. He was having a hard time singing. He even said so. But I mean it was nice to see Blink-182. And it was neat to see the range of people there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I bet there was parents with kids. Oh yeah, it was pretty cool the range of people there. Yeah, I bet there was parents with kids.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, it was pretty cool. And the opening who the hell opened? Hot Milf? No, hot Milk. Brooke and I had an argument about that.
Speaker 2:Were they women.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Because then they would be milk.
Speaker 1:It was milk.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:And it was, the lead singer was a female because I couldn't tell from where we were at, and she corrected me. And then there was Another band that was pretty popular Right now and I can't remember the names, but the kids really seemed to enjoy it. And then we went to the Childish Gambino concert.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that's fun, or was it fun?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was fun, and what bugs me is my wife and daughter think I'm not having fun because I'm just kind of standing there, you know, relaxed.
Speaker 2:I don't jump around.
Speaker 1:But I do enjoy it and I thought he was very entertaining because it's Donald Glover from Community, yes, and he's got. He's like gray now he's in pretty good shape, but I mean he's a performer and to performer and to me you got some songs where some people might be playing the drum and the guitar, but it's all piped in, you know. But he was very entertaining and that crowd was amazing, I mean people was that interlock?
Speaker 1:I don't know where I was, little caesars actually both times oh, that was big so we, that's a big stadium, we get there thinking seven o'clock the opening person was willow. You know willow smith, but we're thinking you know most concerts. What do you think it hurt? 7 o'clock the opening person was Willow. You know Willow Smith, but we're thinking you know most concerts.
Speaker 2:What did you think of her?
Speaker 1:She when you Dead silence. Well, when you look at her and you listen to her, it was like I was watching a 70s lounge singer. That's what she should be. She looked really cool the way she was dressed and she wasn't bad. But Lil' Caesarars Arena is not a real good.
Speaker 2:Not her.
Speaker 1:She should be like a cozy little setting. But she was very positive about Beat. The people really enjoyed her. But my thing was we got there at 7. Suspecting we would get into the show. The fucking line, I'm not shitting you. We had to wait forever to get in and I was like what is going on? But anyway, so we get in and the guy scans my tickets. He's like, oh, I'm like what's going on Because I bought nosebleeds, because I needed six tickets. And he's like, hey, you need to go over there where that question mark is on that area over there. He's like you've been upgraded. Ooh, mm-hmm, ooh, mm-hmm, ooh. But all we did is we got a better section. It was a lot better actually. We were like in section 125, off to the left of the stage, and my daughter was happy and Brooke loves it.
Speaker 2:That's scary, though Go stand by the question mark.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was like, what did we do? But it turned out well Good. So, anyway, you'd think that Donald Glover was ever on Sesame Street.
Speaker 2:Ooh, that's a good question. That I do not know the answer to.
Speaker 1:I bet you Joel McHale was. He was in that show. He probably was, because our topic today, chevy Chase wasn't. Yeah, what's our topic today? You know what I bet you Chevy Chase was. Oh, look, look that up. Yeah, our topic today is Sesame Street, and we've all grown up with that show?
Speaker 2:Well, not everybody.
Speaker 1:No, not everybody. We did. I did Characters such as Big Bird, who represented child's curiosity, elmo, who represented the emotional center, and then that's what Elmo, I think he represents. Annoyance.
Speaker 2:Yes. And then I know people like Elmo and I think he might be the most recognizable because of Takumi Elmo and all of that.
Speaker 1:He came late to the party right.
Speaker 2:He did, he wasn't even. It's like he wasn't even. You know the. No kidding, donald Glover, donald Glover was on Sesame Street jamming it out. Good job, Larry. Where is?
Speaker 1:Quentin, our production assistant, is never here. He should have brought that up. His name is Larry, I know. Did you know that? Oscar the Grouch? I just thought he was a dick.
Speaker 2:Well, why? Because he lives in a garbage. Can?
Speaker 1:He was a grumpy son of a gun, but he was there to teach people tolerance.
Speaker 2:Because he had it or because other people would have it with them, or both.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all of it.
Speaker 2:Because really he was not happy or like sunshiny, you know, like sunshiny day smiling.
Speaker 1:But he would wait it out for Big Bird to say whatever he's saying, but didn't he remind you of like your dad? You know what I mean. Like that's just like that's dad, or whoever Ah what do you want?
Speaker 2:Ah, what do you want God? Shut up, shut up, leave me alone. He never said shut up.
Speaker 1:No, you couldn't say that no. But anyway, I was just trying to kill time and actually talk, because I usually don't while you were doing your research.
Speaker 2:Elmo, let's see.
Speaker 1:When did they start?
Speaker 2:November of 1969.
Speaker 1:All right.
Speaker 2:That was a long time ago.
Speaker 1:It was.
Speaker 2:One of the longest running shows still in production in the world Joan Cooney and Lloyd Morissette. Are they the people who said we need some different children's TV? This other children's TV is just idiotic.
Speaker 1:And they got funding from the Carnegie Corporation and the United States Office of Education.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 1:And the Ford Foundation.
Speaker 2:Yeah, wasn't there. I think there was a push to. You know it was the 70s, so it was kind of progressive in that you know, quit having these howdy-doody shows and get some education pushed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think the thing was try to appeal to kids of a lower income class. I think they were trying to help everybody, not just people who had cable. Yep, pbs man, pbs Free TV I love PBS.
Speaker 2:I do too, so PBS, I don't even think Sesame Street's on PBS anymore. They had it on HBO or something.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, yeah, they sold it back to PBS. I guess those pledge drives stopped working.
Speaker 2:But 2025 is its 56th season 150 countries Really In 56 seasons. I wonder if they dub it. You know, the language they must.
Speaker 1:I don't see those public ears, maybe not. Do they have multiple? This is a Maybe not. Do they have multiple? This is a dumb question. Do they have multiple Ernie's and Bert's? I mean, I'm sure they do for certain things, but for production.
Speaker 2:But there has to be originals too, because people will be looking Is that the original, ernie? But there must be more than one too.
Speaker 1:What are?
Speaker 2:your thoughts on those guys, bert and Ernie. I love them. I think that the roommates and whatever personal stuff they have going on is between them. I did write down their address because it's 123 Sesame Street oh nice, easy to remember. I like the way they bounce off each other and you know Bert's kind of grumpy and Ernie's like yeah, let's you know Okay, pretty know Okay. Pretty Bert. Yeah, they're very agreeable roommates.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:And I love the Christmas special where Bert sells his I think it's paperclip collection to buy Ernie something. And what's that classic Christmas tale? I can't think of what it is. And then Ernie sells something that's close to him and then he buys paper for his paper clips.
Speaker 1:Oh jeez, okay, I don't remember that.
Speaker 2:I can't remember.
Speaker 1:It really had an impact on you, though.
Speaker 2:It did I remember.
Speaker 1:That's why you're so generous.
Speaker 2:It's actually not even a video. It was a cassette tape that my kids had no kidding I still have it somewhere wait cassidy probably like something you listen to a cassette. Yeah, you know what that?
Speaker 2:I didn't know if it was a video cassette, but it's so no, it wasn't, it was a story audio only cool wasn't an album, though, and I do think that um sesame street changes and adapts to society as it is now. You know they had people who have AIDS or you know they dealt with death. They dealt with natural disasters like Katrina when it was happening. Autism.
Speaker 1:They're keeping it real.
Speaker 2:There is a character that was introduced in 2015 that has autism Julia. Homelessness, divorce, adoption, everything. I thought this one was pretty good too. Parental incarceration you know, not everyone's parents are going to work 9 to 5. And then they had COVID, and they even have a gender role. They deal with that. So I think they deal with everything.
Speaker 1:And they get flack from it.
Speaker 2:Oh, of course, Of course, because they're probably grooming children to be deal with everything and they get flack from it. Oh, of course, of course, because they're. They're probably grooming children, sure to be just like birds, like those nasty books. Yeah, don't groom my kid to be a big bird I would be happy if my kid grew up to be a big bird um, a lot of research driven, uh folks on staff.
Speaker 1:They're doing a lot of digging into issues and current events and then that's how they're developing those things. That's what I found out anyway, trying to match up current events to young development so that kids understand it.
Speaker 2:So there's some thought behind it. It's not just hey, this is what we're going to do.
Speaker 1:You know who we forgot to talk about, though so far he's kind of important Jim Henson.
Speaker 2:Oh, Jim Henson.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:What a genius that guy is. There's a new documentary out about him. Watch it. It was so good. Oh yeah, it was very, very good, what's it on? It's just about Jim Henson.
Speaker 1:I know, but where Netflix?
Speaker 2:Oh what.
Speaker 1:Apple TV.
Speaker 2:Maybe Disney.
Speaker 1:Disney. Maybe, Paramount, I don't know, peacock Network.
Speaker 2:Just Google it, you'll find it.
Speaker 1:No but.
Speaker 2:He is a genius, I think Kermit the Frog Kermit.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, Kermit the Frog here.
Speaker 2:Oh, good job.
Speaker 1:Miss Piggy.
Speaker 2:Kermit and Piggy and that clan job.
Speaker 1:Miss Piggy, kermit and Piggy and that clan.
Speaker 2:Miss Piggy.
Speaker 1:Grover.
Speaker 2:Who is your favorite? Kind of like Snuffleupagus that's what I was going to say, he's like mysterious.
Speaker 1:Yeah, is he real or is he not real?
Speaker 2:As an imaginary friend of Big Bird. No adults ever saw him.
Speaker 1:Nope, he made his appearance in 1985 and it was to encourage young viewers to speak out if they had secrets.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow.
Speaker 1:Maybe that's why I like him.
Speaker 2:Some people compared him to Eeyore too, because he's kind of, you know over.
Speaker 1:He seems pretty upbeat compared to Eeyore, though Seems pretty upbeat compared to Eeyore. Though Did you know another weird, strange thing because I thought the Snuffleupagus thing was pretty weird about the secrets you know the FBI used?
Speaker 2:episodes of Sesame Street and psychological operations training how.
Speaker 1:To acclimate agents to disturbing content in a controlled manner.
Speaker 2:So did they play that Elmo over and over again.
Speaker 1:I bet that would do it.
Speaker 2:That would break me man.
Speaker 1:Miss Piggy and Elmo in an argument over and over and over and over, over and over, screaming at each other. That's what did it. It was like waterboarding, but worse.
Speaker 2:I mean Elmo's cute and all but a little bit.
Speaker 1:I don't like Elmo A little teeny bit, but ugh. He's cute. Two words.
Speaker 2:Yeah, first of all, you've been around for a while, elmo, talking full sentences now, yeah, you know, and I think it's the third person thing, elmo this, elmo that. Yeah, say I, you would think you would. What are you teaching kids? Elmo that?
Speaker 1:Say hi, you would think you would. What are you teaching kids, elmo, elmo? Was Elmo the one that danced with that slut, katy Perry?
Speaker 2:Oh, with her boobs bouncing around Sesame Street.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think it was Elmo, the episode that got yanked in 2010? Speaking of Anyway.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh, I wish I would have saw that episode. You can probably still see it on YouTube.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she was wearing like this green dress that showed her cleavage and was kind of transparent.
Speaker 2:She was running with. Here's the thing, though she was running.
Speaker 1:It's Sesame Street man. What's wrong with the little?
Speaker 2:TNA.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean help the kids out.
Speaker 2:Gotta pay the bills somehow.
Speaker 1:Yep, there's some kids sitting there alone as dad's in jail.
Speaker 2:Incarcerated, that's right.
Speaker 1:That's the only channel he gets. No, that's all I have. All right, thanks everybody.
Speaker 2:Kate, it's up to you now. I'm down the high note of Katy Perry, let's see. So the real people on there Bob Mcgrath hey, bob, yeah, yeah, he was on from 69 to 2016, I think he's since passed away. And then there's gordon and susan, uh, luis, and everyone knows mr hooper mr hooper and he wasn't even. I mean, he's been dead for 20 years. I I'm going to say A long time.
Speaker 1:They should make a movie on Sesame Street, Not the documentary thing on Jim Hansen or whatever. But don't you think? Or has there been?
Speaker 2:one, maybe there has been.
Speaker 1:Quentin, they sell a lot of merchandise.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh their swag. They must make millions and millions.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we've all bought.
Speaker 2:Sesame Street swag.
Speaker 1:Well, elmo stuff mostly.
Speaker 2:And that tickled me, Elmo. I remember that was when Jenna was young and I'm like should I buy one? Get a grip. No, you should not buy one.
Speaker 1:Well, I have people beating each other up at Christmas to get that thing.
Speaker 2:We're not. No, yeah, so I asked some people what their favorites are episodes or anything, anything so, um, my 40 year old people said smiley the worm, oh man, yes, yeah, and also, uh, she'll like snuffle up a guess, because who doesn't? She said she sometimes gets this stuck in her head 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Very cool, and the other one she mentioned, which I forgot about him. But he's so cool and you have to Google it and get it on YouTube or whatever. Teeny little super guy.
Speaker 1:he's a guy whose picture is on a glass.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, he's on like like a solo cup right, I don't know. He's some kind of superhero saving the world.
Speaker 1:Teeny little super guy greatness starts on the solo I think a movie is.
Speaker 2:It needs to be in place for Teeny Little Superguy. Yeah, yeah, definitely Next summer's blockbuster.
Speaker 1:It is. Teeny Little Superguy, Get on it oh remind me about blockbuster movies when we're done with this and we'll still talk about it here. Okay, because you were part of this whole thing.
Speaker 2:Oh, a blockbuster.
Speaker 1:What else do you have Favorites?
Speaker 2:Well, and then that was. Cassidy said all that, jenna said she liked Maria. Oh, I did too the woman because she came to Grand Valley and spoke to them and she was very poignant, yeah. And I asked Harley and Laney and they said you know what? We never really watched PBS or we never really watched Sesame Street. They just, you know, I think it came to a point where people have more choices than PBS. They had cable, yeah, or videos. They'd pop in that video for the hundredth time. I don't need Sesame Street.
Speaker 1:You can watch South Park.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then Jay, my nephew Jay, said I'm more of a Blue's Clues kid.
Speaker 1:Oh, the Blue's Clues. Okay, pbs we should have done something on the Electric Company, Damn.
Speaker 2:I used to like that show. I love that show. Easy Reader Wait.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's on Electric Company, isn't he? Oh, fuck, no, he's on Sesame Street, morgan Freeman.
Speaker 2:Morgan Freeman's on Electric Company. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Easy Reader, that's my name. You go around reading signs, anyway, sorry, what else you got?
Speaker 2:That's really all I have. So I'm going to say I think Sesame Street was a hero for its day and I'm glad that it's still around, even if in a different capacity. I think it'll always be a hero to me. But I can see where things have changed and even though they have changed with the times, they're not as needed as they were.
Speaker 1:Right, because people are more aware.
Speaker 2:Well, no.
Speaker 1:Or do you think they're too soft? People are not aware it's too soft, no aware.
Speaker 2:Well, no, no. Do you think they're too soft aware people are too soft, I know I think that people have too many choices, okay, in their tv watching, and they don't watch tv anymore. You watch it on a tablet and you watch you know one thing 18 times, which kids always do that anyway, but so it's not you know I hope kids are watching Sesame Street, but I don't know that they are.
Speaker 1:But keep eye on the swag. I think we'd be surprised. I bet you our email's blown up right now, probably Because that email address is heroordick2023 at gmailcom. It is Real quick.
Speaker 2:What do you say, Hero or Dick?
Speaker 1:Hero, and they hold the record for the most Emmy Awards won by a television series, the record for the most Emmy.
Speaker 2:Awards won by a television series. Oh well, right there.
Speaker 1:Bam. Freaking hero I'm trying to think who else was on there? Fozzie the Bear.
Speaker 2:Well he was more of a Muppet but was he on there?
Speaker 1:He probably made some appearances. That was Gonzo right.
Speaker 2:Oh, that was with the chickens. Yeah, Gonzo.
Speaker 1:What is he? No, the bird, yeah, alfonso.
Speaker 2:What is he? No, the bird, yeah. And what about that chef?
Speaker 1:Was he a Muppet or a Sesame Street guy? I'm getting confused now. I don't know, or is he working?
Speaker 2:for yeah, what about Beaker?
Speaker 1:Beaker.
Speaker 2:See, I think those are all related.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're Jim Henson guys.
Speaker 2:Yeah they're Jim Henson. But I don't and they were like big muppets. They were on cisco. Yeah, they had like big mouths on what about the telly and whatever? Yep, yep, yep, yep yeah yeah, that's what I'm talking about, but I didn't describe it very well.
Speaker 1:Yeah they're, they were joined. I think they were joined twins, weren't there something?
Speaker 2:like that. No, there was, there was a bunch of them, but they were all just singular, and then they had wide open mouths like garbage games oh yeah, yeah, I remember those guys.
Speaker 1:Yep, oh, all right. Well, no, I think it's, it's here. It's definitely heroic definitely hero and now I want to watch it okay before we get to blockbuster topic.
Speaker 2:I just have some fast fives, so you'll give them to me very fast, You're trying to force me through this. Yes, hero or Dick Barney.
Speaker 1:Dick.
Speaker 2:How about Captain Kangaroo?
Speaker 1:Hero and a weirdo.
Speaker 2:Hero and a weirdo. I got it. I like it. Paw Patrol.
Speaker 1:Hero.
Speaker 2:Okay, I've never really watched that one, kermit and Piggy Together.
Speaker 1:Hero.
Speaker 2:Okay, and Last Hero, or Dick Fast Five Blue's Clues.
Speaker 1:I'll give it a Hero.
Speaker 2:I like Blue's Clues All that stuff's good. And what about Blockbuster? What are we saying about Blockbuster? It's not really.
Speaker 1:Blockbuster, but that movie Harsin's Revenge, yes, harsin's Island Revenge.
Speaker 2:Harsin's Island Revenge.
Speaker 1:They could have just did Harsin's Revenge, but I get it.
Speaker 2:No, it's an island. It's a real island in Michigan.
Speaker 1:That family and I, brooke Joby.
Speaker 2:Damn, joby, damn it.
Speaker 1:I don't know if Julian went or not, okay, he did not.
Speaker 2:Julian just moves away, and I already forgot about you, julian, so we go and we stop.
Speaker 1:I don't know where we were going, but we stopped in Frankenmuth In the River Place shops. You're familiar with those and there's a bookstore that I like going to Wait, not River Place shops, the ones that are outside the one.
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah, Is that River Place Shops? I don't know.
Speaker 1:Anyway, there's a bookstore I like going to I think it's called Charlotte's or some shit like that and there's an author out front having a book signing. I'm like I avoid those people, even though I do it. Especially this guy was fine. He was just all dressed in a suit. It's 100 degrees outside.
Speaker 1:he's really like more like a car salesman, yeah so, anyway, we avoided him at first, and then I'm like I really want to go in the store. So he stopped, brooke went inside and I was looked. I was going to ignore him too, but I looked and he had the harson's island revenge book and it was the author of that book. Did you buy it? And I said, yeah, I bought it for you. I forgot it. Yeah, I bought it for you, I forgot it. I had him sign it for you.
Speaker 2:I've been looking for that book. It was hard to find for a while, so it must be now back in being published.
Speaker 1:Well, anyway, I don't know what I do with it now.
Speaker 2:Well, you'll find it.
Speaker 1:I thought of you anyway.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, that's good.
Speaker 1:So, he uh you know, I was like and then I saw like wait a minute, I'll talk to you. I said I you know he's talking about all this stuff. I'm like I just I'll tell you the reason I stopped is because of this book and the movie was an alpina. And he's like, oh yeah, alpina, blah, blah. And he showed me the movie trailer. Have you seen it? I have it's really good well, I mean for a lower budget movie, or whatever right, it's not a blockbuster, no, it intriguing.
Speaker 1:And you could see your building in there and you could see some of the folks from Alpena.
Speaker 2:Oh, there's a whole bunch of.
Speaker 1:They filmed.
Speaker 2:So much in Alpena, All over Alpena and surrounding areas too Very cool.
Speaker 1:So that was my brush with fame that was related to you.
Speaker 2:It's a super interesting story that is based on the truth. These guys came back from World.
Speaker 2:War I and they couldn't drink because it was Prohibition, so they started making their own. Well, the Purple Gang didn't like that. We're already making Moonshine here and so they were on that Harsin's Island and in fact, the people from the movie which I can't think of the name of their CDI. They said they originally wanted to film on Harsin's Island, but it's an island and they're like it's not really practical. If you need some tape or you know electrical cord or whatever, you can't just run to Home Depot and get it. It's an actual island that still has cottages and homes on it. So yeah, I think it's.
Speaker 1:November, november. They're doing a screening here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, the opening will be here in Alpena. It will be posted.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Well, that's it, I guess.
Speaker 2:Yeah, one more thing on movies. I will tell you more about it next time, but there is somebody filming another movie at our building, at Centennial Building in Alpena, michigan.
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 2:It's a short. Well, I'm just going to leave it at that, and next time I'll know more.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Because they just have a one-day shoot time and that's happening this week, so I want to make sure it happens first.
Speaker 1:We should maybe move this podcast there.
Speaker 2:We could except it's hot and cold. It is very hot and cold. It is also under construction and then not under construction.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:It's still being repaired from the storm. Yeah, All right everyone. Well, thanks for listening. Thank you, tune in next time for the update.
Speaker 1:Right on Enjoy.
Speaker 2:Okay, bye.