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This is Mike Roth on Open Forum in the villages

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, florida . I'm here today with

2:11

Wayne Richard . Thanks for joining me , wayne , thank

2:13

you . Wayne is a musical phenom

2:15

. I'm a what An unusually

2:18

gifted , talented music

2:20

guy .

2:21

Unusual . I understand If

2:23

did .

2:24

Wayne has been recently

2:26

been accompanying us in the improv shows

2:28

on his keyboard and I'll never forget

2:30

the first thing he said to me when we

2:32

were practicing . He said Mike , what

2:35

key are your players going to sing

2:37

in ? I

2:40

found out very quickly . We sing in the key

2:42

of I for improvised

2:44

.

2:44

Yeah , I can't find the right key . That's what

2:46

it means .

2:47

Most of them don't know what it means .

2:49

No , I tried thinking of different ways

2:51

of doing it . Maybe have everybody sing

2:53

their songs at the same key , but that didn't

2:55

work either , because they all have different

2:58

reference point in their ears , so

3:00

I pretty much gave up on that idea .

3:02

Yeah , everyone sings in the key of I .

3:04

Yeah , just let them go for it , right , I'll

3:07

find them , I'll follow them .

3:08

Yeah , and they'll change in

3:11

middle of the song . Yes , they do

3:13

. It's part of the humor of improv , it's

3:15

part of the whole deal . Right , Ray , why

3:17

don't you tell us listen ? There's a little bit about your background

3:20

before you got here to the villages .

3:22

Well , I grew up in Chicago , sort

3:24

of in the shadow of Wrigley Field , a 20-minute

3:27

train ride . So I grew up very

3:29

passionate about baseball , being

3:31

a Cub fan . It was great to come here to

3:33

the villages . Eventually I'll tell you about that in

3:35

a second . I grew up the first 10 years

3:37

in Rogers Park and by the time I

3:39

was 10 years old I started to

3:41

gravitate towards music . I

3:44

didn't know what I wanted to do really . I was thinking

3:46

well , maybe I can sing , I can

3:48

play piano , I can write .

3:50

Yeah , we don't have a piano in this room .

3:52

No , but I also thought about other things

3:54

. I thought about radio and I actually went

3:56

through the whole McGill of talking to some of the big

3:58

names in Chicago

4:00

radio , visiting with them and getting

4:02

the low down of what the career involves

4:05

. And that immediately sent me

4:07

back to music , because at least with music

4:09

I was always making some

4:11

kind of money . Then I studied theater

4:13

. I was a theater major for

4:15

two years over at what

4:17

it's not Columbia College , but

4:19

it's sort of a division of it . It's

4:21

called Loop College . It's in Chicago

4:24

, and I went there because they had a

4:26

very specific coach that I wanted

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to work with . And if you get into his

4:31

personal class , he will help you find

4:33

work and he'll personally train

4:36

you . And I was just about on the cusp

4:38

of getting into that situation when the

4:40

Navy came along . So I wound up in the Navy

4:42

for six years and after that I

4:44

had a seesaw relationship between the city

4:47

and the suburbs and I worked in full-time

4:49

music . And then , lo and behold

4:52

, the opportunity came along to start

4:54

scoring some films .

4:55

Wow , how'd you get that A squad to a film ?

4:58

I had a single that I released

5:01

called Mackinaw Dreams . It's about

5:03

Mackinaw Island , which is a beautiful

5:06

, wonderful travel destination

5:09

, tourist spot . No cars

5:11

, no motor-driven vehicles , just very

5:13

, very peaceful setting . I've been there a couple

5:16

of times , yeah . Horse-drawn carriages

5:18

and everything . I worked there for an entire season

5:20

. Did you , what did you do there ? I performed

5:22

. Oh , you know I can't

5:24

ride a horse Actually I can , but

5:27

that was a long time ago . I had a wonderful time

5:29

at the beginning of the year because

5:31

it was new . It was fresh , new

5:33

sensations , new people

5:36

, new experiences . And then

5:38

by the time I was there at the end

5:40

of the season , it was like Shawshank

5:42

Redemption . I needed to get off of that

5:44

island , but after I left I

5:46

wrote the song a tribute to it , and

5:48

it became the island song

5:50

. Really , it became , yeah , sort

5:52

of an unofficial anthem , if

5:54

you will . Actually , I had always

5:57

dreamed that the song would become a part of Mackinaw

5:59

history and it actually did . And I'll tell

6:01

you how . Not too long ago , maybe about

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three , four years ago , I

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was just scoping through my computer

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and surfing around and I said I'm

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going to see what happens , I'm going to punch

6:13

in and Google Mackinaw

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Dreams . It took me

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right to a Girl Scout site

6:19

. So it turns out they have

6:22

a yearly meeting on Mackinaw

6:24

Island . They all sit around

6:26

there and their theme song that

6:29

they sit around with guitars and they all sing

6:31

is Mackinaw Dreams . Wow , and

6:33

I heard it coming off out of my

6:35

computer and I could not believe it . Can you

6:37

sing ? a few bars of it for our audience . Yes , many

6:40

years ago I came to the

6:42

silent . I came on a whirlwind

6:45

tour . I knew that I

6:47

had found something special . And

6:50

I'll tell you one thing's for sure

6:52

I have Mackinaw Dreams

6:55

in the middle of nowhere

6:57

. Mackinaw Dreams in

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the middle of the night , mackinaw

7:02

Dreams in the middle of the

7:04

morning . They come without

7:06

warning , these Mackinaw

7:08

Dreams .

7:10

That's basically it , a cool little song

7:12

.

7:12

It's a cool little song . They had another song on

7:14

there too , called Michigan Calls , and I had

7:16

. It was recorded in Chicago

7:19

, just like they recorded we Are the World . I

7:21

had other musicians come in and built

7:24

up and took huge crescendo

7:26

, so big voices and everything

7:28

, and we were hoping it might become

7:30

the song for

7:32

Michigan . But it didn't . That's

7:34

okay . I did okay with Mackinaw . That's

7:37

probably the closest thing to a hit

7:39

that I've ever had . Well

7:41

, getting back to the scoring , a man

7:43

by the name of Ran Shackleton came along

7:46

and he heard the song Mackinaw Dreams

7:48

. He was filming a documentary about

7:50

the island Got in touch with me he said

7:52

could I use that song in

7:54

?

7:54

the film Sure .

7:55

I said , only if you allow me to score

7:57

the entire film . Oh , so this is one of those

8:00

things where you got to stick your foot in the door a little

8:02

bit and he said , sure , and I

8:04

wound up doing about 16

8:06

or 17 films with him .

8:08

Wow , so that was , and that was a

8:10

paid gig . That was a paid gig , right

8:12

, yeah , 16 , 17 films

8:14

, that's a lot of film .

8:15

It's a lot of films . You don't

8:17

make a fortune . You set things up

8:19

where you might get a percentage , or

8:22

what they call a kill fee . Okay

8:24

, I'll do this one . You had success

8:26

with the last one . Now we're going to get , maybe

8:29

earn , a little bit more money . Didn't

8:31

work all the time because some projects

8:33

were very small . And then I go to

8:35

the mailbox one day , I look and there's

8:37

a big certificate that somebody

8:40

had sent and basically it was announcing

8:42

that I had won the best score

8:44

2008 Summit

8:46

Media Award . Now , summit Media

8:48

, they're an organization . They're like

8:50

either the Grammys or the Oscars

8:52

, but it's for small productions , so

8:55

I won the best score . Now , the funny

8:57

thing is , out of all the films that I

8:59

did , it was my least favorite . It

9:03

was okay , it had good

9:05

music in it and it worked and

9:07

it embellished the scenes and all that

9:09

Just didn't work for me .

9:11

Other people liked it .

9:12

Other people liked it , but I got an

9:14

award for it and so that's

9:16

really nice . And then , of course , the stage

9:19

was hitting at me and I wanted

9:21

to do something . So I spent about 23

9:24

years working on a musical

9:26

called A Summer Storm , and

9:28

the reason it took so long is that

9:30

it is a historical drama

9:33

. It's about the Scopes Trial of 1925

9:36

. And what you find out

9:38

in there's a beautiful play called

9:40

Inherit the Wind , and what you find out

9:42

there is sort of a I

9:45

don't want to say made up version of the

9:47

trial , but it's sort of spruced

9:49

up and they're making things

9:51

a little bit more dramatic than they were

9:53

, and for the wrong reasons . The whole reason

9:55

that they did that trial in the first place

9:57

was to make money . It was Hollywood

9:59

, come on . Yeah Well , not

10:01

so much Hollywood , but I mean the town where

10:04

the trial took place . They saw it as

10:06

an opportunity to bring in some

10:08

heavy attorneys and make a big deal

10:10

about it , and they didn't realize how big

10:12

of a deal they made . And

10:14

it turned out to be a wonderful , interesting

10:17

, funny time in their history

10:19

, and people argue about

10:21

this whole thing to this day . So I

10:23

thought that that would make a very , very

10:25

good musical and it

10:28

took a while to do it , but the theater company

10:30

in Chicago picked it up . We had a full

10:32

production , we had three full houses and

10:35

I've always wanted to take the play a little

10:37

bit further . But sometimes it

10:39

just doesn't happen . You get to the point where

10:41

you're discussing money and finances

10:44

. The whole thing sometimes falls apart

10:46

. And then back

10:48

here in the villages , I moved here

10:50

with my wife , annie , about five

10:52

and a half years ago and since I've been

10:55

here I and I'm retired I've

10:57

done some plays done , picked

10:59

up on the things that I wanted to do that I couldn't

11:01

do before , and during COVID

11:03

I wrote a musical called the

11:05

Dream Road and that is just beginning

11:08

to move a little bit . Some people

11:10

are interested in it and we're trying to develop

11:12

it . What was the Dream Road about ? The

11:14

Dream Road is about four

11:16

people that meet on current

11:19

day Route 66 , and their

11:21

lives intersect in interesting

11:23

ways and as they try to figure

11:25

out their lives , they're also learning

11:28

about the road . The entire story

11:30

revolves around one man

11:32

who is an actual living human

11:34

being by the name of Angel Del

11:36

Godillo . Hello , my name , yes , it

11:38

took me a while to learn how to pronounce it as it

11:40

turns out , he has a barber

11:42

shop and a gift store in Seligman

11:45

, arizona . Nothing you'd really notice

11:47

driving by , I probably

11:49

drove right by his store then . You probably

11:51

have . I know I have twice

11:53

and I didn't even know who

11:55

was there . The reason that he is such an

11:58

influential individual is that

12:00

when Route 66 died

12:02

, when they were laying down the roads across

12:05

the country , the big interstates towns

12:07

died along Route 66 , including

12:09

Seligman , arizona . What he did is

12:11

that he set a movement going to

12:13

get historical status

12:16

for the Arizona portion

12:18

of the road . That started other

12:20

people to do it . So he actually brought

12:22

back to life the interest in Route

12:24

66 . And so he's

12:27

considered the

12:29

father of Route 66 to so many titles

12:31

and he turns out to be a great guy . So

12:33

you actually met the man . I have not met

12:35

him . I have written to him and we have

12:37

corresponded . I told him

12:40

about Dream Road and

12:42

he got and he's in his 90s . Now

12:44

this is a man in 90s . He's still just like

12:46

you're in the villages . You see these guys

12:49

riding around their bikes and everything

12:51

. It's incredible he is , he's

12:53

still like that and he'll still go in

12:55

once in a while and do a full day's work

12:57

if he feels like it . Well , he

13:00

has probably , I'd

13:02

say , the sweetest heart that

13:04

I have noticed in a long time

13:06

in a human being . He truly cares about

13:08

people and he was truly

13:10

interested in the music him and his

13:12

family so I sent him the script

13:14

and I sent him the music , okay

13:17

, and he loved it . Now he was saying

13:19

you got to tell me when and where it's going

13:21

to be produced . Blah , blah , blah , blah blah . I

13:23

was sending it to him thinking that he'd

13:25

be able to give me a suggestion as to who to

13:27

contact , and there are

13:29

some people I have them on

13:32

a list and the reason this is so important

13:34

and we're sort of in a race to get this

13:36

thing going is that 2026

13:38

will be the 100th year anniversary

13:41

of Route 66 .

13:43

Okay , so you forwarded the script and the music

13:45

to several notable Broadway

13:48

producers .

13:48

Well , I haven't , but I know some individuals

13:51

that can do that , okay .

13:52

Okay .

13:52

And you do meet people as

13:55

you go along in the career . Some

13:57

of them take an interest in your career , most

13:59

of them don't . Right . Right you know

14:01

they're , but I have met some of

14:03

these people and who have a very sincere

14:06

desire to help , and

14:08

that , to me , is important because it

14:10

proves that you've created something that

14:12

moves people .

14:14

Sure , it moves people to do something , yeah .

14:16

Right , but I mean moving them from the standpoint

14:19

of the story and the music . People , I

14:21

think , will remember this experience . It's

14:23

an experience , good , and it's

14:25

one because it raises the point . Route

14:28

66 is important not because

14:30

of what you see along the road . It's

14:32

important because of what you don't see and

14:34

what don't you see . You don't see a lot

14:36

of things that are thriving . You

14:38

see old gas stations that are

14:40

falling apart , crumbling .

14:42

Oh yeah , wigwam motels .

14:44

Yeah , old barns , restaurants

14:46

that no longer . They actually have one restaurant

14:48

where they have rebuilt it and refurbished

14:51

it , but you can't get food there . There's no

14:53

wait staff , there's no nothing . It's a museum

14:55

.

14:55

They just rebuilt it .

14:56

It's not even a museum , it's just an empty

14:58

place where people come in and rest , like

15:01

a little rest area . They may have

15:03

a little vending machine and that's it . You

15:05

sit there and you realize , wow , this

15:07

is the booth where Elvis used to come

15:09

and he sat there . That

15:12

kind of thing you will find . It's an adventure

15:14

. If you research and you let the road

15:17

get into you , you'll never

15:19

lose it , and that happened to me on two

15:21

trips .

15:22

Yeah , I was on route 66

15:24

after a rotary convention

15:26

. It starts in Chicago and we

15:28

started at mile zero and drove

15:30

for a while because we had come from Cincinnati

15:32

and much earlier I had

15:35

moved to California , and we

15:37

for some reason zigzagged our route

15:39

and wound up on route 66 for

15:42

a couple hundred miles between LA

15:44

and Arizona .

15:45

I see there's some things you do have to plan

15:47

. I mean it's about exploration

15:49

and discovery . You have to

15:52

go to certain places . You have to go

15:54

to Ted Drew's just outside of

15:56

St Louis . They serve what's

15:58

known as a concrete and what that is it's

16:01

a very thick

16:03

vanilla shake that they make with

16:05

their custard ice cream , and I swear

16:08

to you , even in winter there are lines waiting

16:11

to get one of these shakes , or they serve other

16:13

things too . You have to go to oh

16:16

, I can't think of the name of the place , but they have

16:18

a sign there they serve dead chicken .

16:20

Well , you know , most of us would not want

16:22

to eat a live chicken .

16:25

Well , if you were desperate , you might .

16:26

but yeah , well , I

16:28

preferred mine , you know .

16:30

There's the blue whale Fried the blue

16:32

whale , which is great . The caverns

16:34

they have to .

16:35

It's hard to get that whale meat , though , these days .

16:37

What's that ? Whale meat , whale meat . Have

16:40

you ever had whale ?

16:41

Not knowingly no .

16:42

No , no . What's the strangest food you've ?

16:43

ever had . Strangest food , yeah

16:46

, I don't know . Most exotic Some sushi

16:48

probably exotic , and squid

16:50

probably .

16:51

Was it moving on the plate when you ate it ?

16:53

No .

16:53

No , no , that's an experience you get when

16:56

you're in Japan , folks .

16:57

Right , right when you're . When I was

16:59

at a local restaurant here in the villages and

17:01

I mistakenly ordered some tuna

17:04

they served at Tartar , you know

17:06

where . It was just like lightly

17:08

braised on the outside and

17:10

then totally raw on the inside . I sat

17:12

it back . I ordered the wrong one .

17:14

You're listening to cooking with Mike Roth

17:16

?

17:16

Yes , Okay , cooking my way

17:18

is not exactly the way

17:20

everyone would have it . I like everything well done , so

17:23

, wayne .

17:24

Yes , I am .

17:24

I did ask you to come in and talk a little bit

17:26

about this show that you're having at Morgan

17:29

.

17:29

Junction . Yes , yes , yes

17:31

.

17:31

When is that show ?

17:32

That's going to be March 2nd , saturday

17:34

, march 2nd , at 2 pm . One

17:36

performance only . One performance only . It's

17:39

with the full band . When I say full

17:41

band , I am suggesting to

17:43

you that it is the Morgan Music Junction Band

17:45

. What people don't realize is

17:47

the background that these musicians

17:49

have and why they're going to help make

17:51

this show so special .

17:53

So tell us about each instrument

17:55

in the band .

17:56

Well , we have , of course , the drums . That's

17:58

played by Doug Florence . He is

18:00

. He used to work with the Pointer Sisters

18:02

.

18:03

Really .

18:03

Yeah To it with the Pointer Sisters . And

18:05

then , of course , we have Sean Booth on bass

18:08

, and he has worked with

18:10

the likes of Neil Diamond and some

18:12

other people I don't know about , because we're

18:14

still learning about each other . You know

18:16

, the more we get to know each other , the more

18:19

fun it is to play with

18:21

each other on stage . And then , of course , the

18:23

rest of the show is brought to you by Morgan and Morgan

18:26

, which is Darrell Morgan and Suzanne

18:28

Moore . They are sort of the battery of

18:30

the whole thing . Darrell is an incredible

18:32

guitarist and Suzanne

18:35

is a wonderful vocalist , and we're going to be doing

18:37

a lot of duets . We're

18:39

not sure we may have an additional

18:41

rhythm guitar or pedal steel

18:43

. We're

18:45

still playing with some ideas , but the

18:47

basic show is set and it's called

18:50

Living in .

18:50

Dreams , living in Dreams . Are you going to do songs

18:52

from the Route 66 musical ?

18:55

Yeah , Okay , there will be a couple of songs

18:57

from that , but I got the idea for the show

18:59

. I was in Chicago a few

19:01

months back and just driving around

19:03

and there was a sign that just popped up

19:05

out of nowhere . It wasn't connected to a

19:07

restaurant or to anything , just a standalone

19:10

sign that said be sure

19:12

to dream Really .

19:14

Yeah , let's take a break here , and listen

19:16

to a Alzheimer's tip from

19:18

Dr Craig Curtis . Dr Curtis , what

19:21

is one thing that people can do to

19:23

help their brain .

19:24

One of the best things they can do comes

19:26

down to the choices every day Getting lots

19:29

of sleep , for example . Getting the proper

19:31

amount of sleep , for example . And what does

19:33

that mean ?

19:33

Approximately hours .

19:34

Seven to nine hours of sleep per day is

19:37

what's currently recommended . Good , thank

19:39

you .

19:39

Wayne , we were talking about the show on

19:42

March 2nd at . Morgan Junction

19:44

. A lot of folks that are listening probably

19:46

don't know how to get tickets to Morgan Junction

19:48

.

19:49

Well , there are several ways . Number

19:51

one you can just walk in on any

19:53

beautiful afternoon at Morgan's Music

19:56

Junction .

19:57

Which is where .

19:57

Well , it's in Summerfield .

19:59

Summerfield , Florida .

20:01

Summerfield , Florida , and if you're familiar

20:03

with 301

20:05

, it's off of 301 and the

20:07

other street it's like White

20:09

Boulevard . You know , the furniture mogul

20:12

, Mr White , owns that whole plot

20:14

of area . It's

20:17

in the old post office . For those of you

20:20

who are the old timers who are familiar

20:22

with the area , it's in the old but it's all refurbished

20:25

inside , made into a beautiful little theater

20:27

.

20:28

How many seats are you going to have ?

20:30

We probably are going to have about

20:32

120 . Because it's small

20:35

. It's very nice , but it's small venue . But

20:37

that's pretty much all you can

20:39

fit in there .

20:40

Comfortably . Yeah , yeah , what

20:42

time does the show start ?

20:43

It's 2 pm 2 pm sharp and

20:45

it's going to be how long ? Well , the show

20:47

probably will wind up being about two hours

20:50

. They sort of tied this up

20:52

because until my birthday . That's

20:54

why they give me the show . It's your birthday on March 4th

20:56

. On March 4th is usually the birthday , but

20:59

we're going to do the show on the 2nd .

21:00

They're going to have a big birthday cake

21:03

for you . Sometimes they use .

21:05

Sometimes they don't . I'll

21:07

tell them if I'm not really interested

21:09

in that kind of things because I

21:11

don't need to make a . I'm not trying

21:13

to make it an annual birthday show , it's

21:15

just turned out to be that way . Okay , you

21:18

know , it's nice when they acknowledge it , and

21:20

Suzanne has a very unique

21:22

way of singing happy

21:25

birthday , and she does it every year to me

21:27

and to other people too , and

21:29

so I will be subject to that

21:32

.

21:32

So the audience . There are seats still

21:34

available .

21:35

Yes , there are , but they're going pretty fast .

21:37

Is there a telephone number they can call to make a

21:39

reservation ? Yes , do you know it .

21:41

No , not offhand yeah

21:43

.

21:44

Morgan's Music Junction , morgan's Music

21:46

Junction in Summerfield , florida , summerfield

21:49

, florida . And they have a website .

21:50

Yes , of course they do . That's pretty

21:52

easy . It's morgansmusicjunctioncom

21:55

.

21:55

Oh boy we don't have to be a genius to figure that

21:57

one out .

21:59

No , it's very , very . You get

22:01

, I think , the if you order online it's

22:03

. I think it's $15

22:05

. As the door is 20 .

22:07

Yeah , I know , I have tickets for it .

22:10

I appreciate that I have to go and get some myself

22:12

.

22:12

You're performing and you need a ticket .

22:14

No , no , not really , but I

22:16

do buy some .

22:17

You do buy some For other people . Yeah , okay , the

22:19

paper of the house .

22:21

Well , no , no , just to have

22:24

some friends come out there that don't normally

22:26

have an opportunity to go out and

22:29

see the show , but they would come

22:31

to see , is it ?

22:31

going to be recorded .

22:33

I think it is . I believe it is . Sometimes

22:36

we used to video it

22:38

and use it for reference

22:40

, but now I think they're using it to put

22:42

together promos , little snippets

22:44

of the shows , but you have the

22:46

entire show there , so I think

22:49

the whole thing will be recorded . We used

22:51

to send that out live , but we don't do that

22:53

anymore .

22:53

Stream it ? You mean stream it ? Yeah , not much

22:55

less than a shipper , no , no , that's

22:57

why we don't do it .

22:58

They actually do have . They have a show

23:01

called Jibber Jabber , which is it

23:03

is a live streaming show . They do every

23:05

Wednesday and sometimes

23:07

I'll come in there and join them on that

23:10

. Sometimes I'll just call them or sometimes I'll

23:12

just text them and write while

23:14

they're on the show . So it's

23:16

an interesting venue because it's

23:19

basically a country venue . I'm not

23:21

a country artist , but when I was

23:23

asked to join the band about which

23:25

I was in for about two and a half years , I

23:27

had to learn about country music and

23:30

I discovered it's not easy you only

23:32

need to know four chords . It's not

23:34

a four-chord deal . There are all

23:36

kinds of different interesting

23:39

, complicated things that you wouldn't

23:41

think are there , but they're there , and

23:44

I can't do a lot of different kinds

23:46

of music . I don't do rap , I

23:48

wouldn't want to do rap , but

23:53

country . I think that

23:55

a lot of the material that I've written , and

23:57

there are quite a few originals

23:59

in my show they sort of border

24:01

between rock and folk

24:03

anyway , and so there is a

24:05

country aspect to it .

24:07

So in the show everyone

24:09

in the audience will understand the words . Oh

24:11

, absolutely Not like rap

24:14

.

24:14

No , no , no , no , no no .

24:15

Okay , so this is a real show that folks can

24:17

enjoy this is a show that can enjoy

24:20

.

24:20

It's from the heart right to their ears

24:22

. These are personal

24:24

stories and the stories are very

24:26

relatable to people because they've gone

24:28

through it . For instance , interesting

24:30

fact about dreams Did you know

24:32

that the average person dreams

24:34

between five and 10 times

24:36

a ?

24:37

night . That's a little bit higher than

24:39

I would have guessed . I would have guessed two or three .

24:41

Now , do you remember any of your dreams ? Just

24:43

the last one , the last one . Did

24:46

you ever write down the dreams ?

24:47

No , I don't think I would want anyone to

24:50

see how this co discombobulated

24:52

what my dreams were .

24:54

See , I like facts like that , Little

24:56

facts like , for instance did

24:58

you know that a woman gives birth to

25:00

a child in this country every

25:02

38 seconds ?

25:04

Takes that long , huh .

25:05

Yeah , I would know I was just going to suggest we

25:07

got to find this woman and stop her , but

25:10

it's . Those kinds of things are

25:12

interjected into the show , along

25:14

with some personal stories and actually

25:17

personal stories that I've told before

25:19

that people actually love hearing and

25:21

they actually call out the punchline

25:23

back to me . Okay , you know

25:26

a comical stories air comical

25:28

stories here and there , and they're true . I'll

25:30

give you one if you'd like well , the Sun is , I

25:32

guess .

25:32

Would love to hear one .

25:33

Okay , this is true because my

25:35

parents used to travel . We traveled

25:38

as a family . Of course , they didn't just take off without

25:40

me , but we , we would travel all

25:42

over the country by car , train

25:44

, bus and everything . But particularly in the

25:46

car there was a system . The system was

25:49

my mother did the driving , my father

25:51

was the Navigator

25:54

yes , you had those trip tick a a

25:56

maps at the big , so gas station

25:58

maps , you know . And so we were actually

26:00

on a trip coming down here to Florida . And

26:03

so she said , okay , look on that

26:05

map , tell them , tell me where we are . He says , oh

26:07

well , we're in Kissimmee . She

26:09

said no , I think it's pronounced Kissimmee

26:12

. He said no , it's just the kiss in this

26:14

thing . It says kiss me . And they actually

26:16

argued about this thing back and they're

26:18

gonna about argued about everything but this in particular

26:21

, and so it just got so heated . He

26:23

said alright , pull this thing over , I'm

26:26

gonna find out what's going on . Gets out of

26:28

the car , real huffy and puppy . He

26:30

goes in there , says excuse

26:32

me , could you tell me where I am

26:34

? The woman took a breath . She said burger

26:37

king , there

26:39

you go . So the those are , and

26:41

everybody calls , calls out burger

26:44

king . It's so funny . I just you know you

26:46

, sometimes you touch a nerve , you don't you're gonna say

26:48

gas station no . That

26:52

would work too .

26:53

I suppose it would work yeah yeah , everyone

26:55

used to stop at gas stations to find out where they

26:57

were .

26:58

Oh , I used to love gas stations . You go , drive

27:00

in your little bell ring , yeah , they come

27:02

out . Take care of your windows , clean

27:04

your windows , check your tires , check

27:06

be oil To everything

27:08

. See you a lullaby and then send you on your way right

27:11

, that's the old world .

27:12

That's the old world today you pump it yourself

27:14

and if your window is dirty , you

27:16

know it gets cleaned if you do it yourself .

27:18

That's true even in a car wash right . You take

27:20

it to the car wash and pull it out . You still got

27:22

to take it home and clean it right , air used to

27:24

be free at the gas station . No , it's

27:27

not for anymore .

27:27

Oh , no , no , now it's gonna cost your buck , unless

27:29

you want nitrogen in

27:31

your tires , which case it's five bucks .

27:33

I think it'd be helium good . I get

27:35

to a place a lot faster .

27:37

You wouldn't want to put helium in your tires because

27:39

it's smaller atom and the pressure would

27:41

go down faster .

27:42

Wow , yeah , mr Science .

27:44

See , that's why that's why they're using nitrogen

27:46

. Yeah , although the air we breathe is 80%

27:49

nitrogen , they say if

27:51

you fill your tire with all nitrogen

27:53

, those larger Modicul molecules

27:56

will stay inside your tire longer

27:58

. You know , I have a suggestion for you .

27:59

Yes , I think you should do a podcast . Oh

28:02

, yeah , you have this real deep . You

28:04

know rumbly Voice , that

28:06

just these . It just comes at you

28:08

. Yeah , it's perfect for for radio .

28:10

I've been accused of that since I've been in college .

28:12

Yeah , did you always have that deep voice ?

28:14

Oh yeah , yeah , they wouldn't let me go on the air when

28:16

I was in college .

28:17

Every place you go has a different kind of language

28:20

. I remember I was in in the Navy

28:22

. I was . We were staying at a family

28:24

family's house during a Liberty

28:26

weekend . They were having a big dinner

28:28

and so used to be a big football

28:31

game .

28:31

What's ?

28:31

that .

28:31

Liberty Bowl .

28:32

Liberty Bowl . Yeah , yeah , I know that the Chicago

28:35

Bears are always playing in the toilet bowl , but that's

28:37

beside the point . So , anyway , we were in this

28:39

house and we're having dinner , conversation

28:41

goes on and everything , and if you were having

28:43

a conversation with somebody and you're from

28:45

where we are , you're from the the East , from

28:48

from the Midwest we would ask a question

28:50

why would you do that ? I know that's pretty

28:52

much what we would say . Why would you do that

28:54

? When you're down in a place like Millington

28:57

, tennessee , they'll say the same thing , but

28:59

they say it like this what you want to go ahead

29:01

and do that there for mm-hmm , you

29:03

know that that was one of the most interesting things that

29:05

happened to me in 1992

29:08

when I moved to Cincinnati .

29:10

Mm-hmm , you know , if you

29:12

wanted something , someone to repeat what

29:14

they just said , because you didn't quite understand it

29:16

, coming from Chicago , you'd say I

29:19

wouldn't say much on anything . Well , you wanted them to

29:21

repeat themselves . What would you say ?

29:22

Oh , repeat themselves . Okay , I would say would

29:25

you say that again ?

29:26

Mm-hmm , you know , in New York it was huh .

29:28

Oh really .

29:28

Okay , in LA it might have been

29:30

K-PASA , but when I got to Cincinnati

29:32

I was taught to say please , to

29:35

make someone repeat themselves . Okay , it

29:37

turns out Cincinnati was a very German city and

29:39

please was a kind of a literal

29:42

translation of the German word bitter

29:44

. It worked in Cincinnati .

29:45

Well , let me , let me not lovable

29:48

. Let me tell you this , Dr Roth I

29:50

had discovered something a couple

29:52

of weeks ago that maybe the

29:54

real transference of me becoming an

29:56

actual southerner , because just automatically

29:59

in a conversation I said , y'all

30:01

.

30:01

Sure , y'all

30:04

like this show , become a supporter . Hit that black

30:06

button up at the top . Now if you listen to me in

30:08

China or Russia , the black button

30:10

is still there . It might even be in your language

30:12

, but this is a listener

30:15

supported podcast . We're having fun doing

30:17

it . Wayne , do you have any last remarks before

30:19

we sign out ?

30:20

Well , first of all , I'm very impressed with

30:22

your podcast setup . It's a little bit more

30:24

elaborate than the one that I had back in Chicago

30:27

. Right over here he has . He has two

30:29

computer screens that either

30:31

are representing our vocal

30:34

astuity or we're having an earthquake

30:36

.

30:37

I haven't quite figured out what it is . It

30:39

does look like an earthquake sign and if there's some inexplicable

30:41

reason .

30:42

On the big screen there is a picture of

30:44

what looks like Holland .

30:46

It is Holland . That is the best single

30:48

photograph I have ever taken in my life

30:50

. You have taken that . That's beautiful . We're

30:53

on a river cruise and the last

30:55

stop was Amsterdam and

30:57

before we got into the actual city we went

30:59

into the windmill park . It was a cloudy

31:02

day , overcast , but I took my

31:04

camera off the bus and went out . There

31:07

was this bridge across that body of water and

31:09

I shot the windmill , thinking it was going to look

31:11

terrible . So later that night , when I got back

31:13

to the ship to look at the

31:16

pictures that I took , I saw that one . I said , oh

31:18

my God , that's the best shot that I've ever

31:20

taken the reflection of the windmill in

31:22

the river , the reflection of the clouds in

31:24

the river . It just came out beautiful , so I

31:26

preserved it .

31:27

I had a picture that I took on my phone

31:30

of the backyard in my

31:32

house but it somehow captured a light

31:34

that was in one of the windows and

31:36

it was reflected on the picture and it looks

31:38

like a giant moon over this

31:40

backyard , which was really a golf course

31:42

, and the lighting and everything . It

31:45

just amazed me . I had it made into a

31:48

large picture which I have in my office

31:50

.

31:50

Good , let's tell our listeners what the

31:52

phone number is over at Morgan Junction

31:55

. Okay , morgan Junction .

31:57

It just amazingly popped back into

31:59

my head .

31:59

Amazing , isn't that ?

32:00

Isn't that something that happens , you know , as the medication is

32:02

kicking in ? It is 352-693-4233

32:09

.

32:09

And you call over there and say you want the Wayne Richards

32:11

show . You want the Wayne Richards Living in

32:13

Dreams show On March 2nd

32:16

.

32:16

Right , you

32:18

want 50 tickets for the short guy . I don't know exactly

32:21

what they talk 50 tickets . Yeah okay

32:23

, 120 seat house there

32:25

you go for what you can , you know .

32:26

Great hey Wayne . Thanks for being on the show with us

32:28

today .

32:29

Thanks for having me . It's nice to be here .

32:31

Good If people want to get a hold of you because

32:34

they want to produce your unproduced

32:36

show how do they do that , waynerichards . org

32:39

. That's a website and you

32:41

have an email address .

32:42

It's called the Wayne Richards Museum and on

32:44

it you'll see everything that most of the

32:46

things that I've done in my career with

32:49

audio files , sound files

32:51

, stories , blah , blah , blah . Also

32:53

all the current things that are happening . So it's

32:55

WayneRichards . org Good .

32:57

And there's a place that they can contact you via

32:59

email .

33:00

There's a contact page .

33:00

Hold that website .

33:01

Great Thanks again , Wayne .

33:03

Thank you . Remember

33:05

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