Shaun’s Many Characters

Are you ready to discover the star-studded world of Shaun Cassidy's  illustrious TV career?  In this episode, we discuss the many roles that Shaun has played, from his scruffy cowboy look in “Once Upon A Texas Train,” to his role as a young man crazy about bicycle racing and all things Italian in “Breaking Away.”  In our first act, we talk about the impressive star-studded cast that Shaun has collaborated with, including Willie Nelson,  Angie Dickinson,  Andy Griffith,  Angela Lansbury,  Linda Purl, and many more.  Buckle up for an intriguing discussion!

In our second act, we turn our attention to Shaun’s groundbreaking role in the 1979 film “Like Normal People.”  We discuss Shaun’s enthusiasm about portraying a character with special needs and how it highlights the importance of inclusivity and empathy.   We delve into the characters of Roger and Virginia  and the perspective they bring to the subject. We also look back at Shaun’s stint on “General Hospital”  and his unforgettable duet with Terry Brock.  This episode promises an exploration of Shaun’s diverse roles, including guest-starring roles on “Matlock,”  “Murder She Wrote,” and “Alfred Hitchcock.”

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to relive Shaun’s unforgettable characters!!

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Transcript

Shaun Squad Society Podcast

Speaker 1 0:00

That's just my little. Every time you mention someone, I see how I could connect it out to another.

Speaker 2 0:05

You know what Kevin Bacon is out. Sean Cassidy is in. There you go there. Welcome to the Sean's Quad Society podcast, the podcast for all of us teeny boppers who were head over heels in love with our teen dream, sean Cassidy. We believe that it's time to tell our stories and our words remembering the first time we discovered Sean. Our podcast will feature stories of concerts, memorabilia and everything, sean. So come along with us on this journey to share the stories that helped us create the Sean's Quad Society podcast With your host, myself, penny Day, madonna, cindy and Doris. Hello squadsters, how's everybody doing today? Oh, great.

Speaker 2 0:49

Welcome. Yeah good, yeah, welcome back. I tell ya, did everybody hold up with the heat this week? Oh yeah, Very hot out in the Midwest, in the Midwest.

Speaker 1 1:00

Well, I just heard that it's the hottest July in the history of temperatures all over the place, really.

Speaker 2 1:07

Well, I hope it goes away and does not continue in August.

Speaker 3 1:12

Yeah, a temporary visit is fine, but then it needs to go somewhere else. Yes, it does.

Speaker 2 1:17

But hey, I got a question for everybody, yeah, so what does Craig Gentry, Dale Thurston, Craig Singer Cotton, David Dissinger or Dissinger, how do you say that? Anybody help me out, please.

Speaker 3 1:34

No, I don't know.

Speaker 2 1:34

You're close, you're great Did I do good?

Speaker 3 1:38

I think you're close.

Speaker 2 1:39

Edmund Parker Jr, roger Myers and Dusty Walker having common oh wait, I forgot one. And Joe Hardy. What did these little hardy?

Speaker 1 1:52

They were all characters that Sean played.

Speaker 2 1:55

Yay, yes, they were, yes, they were, and the reason I bring that up is this episode is going to be all about characters that Sean has starred in, and not only the characters that he's been, but the star-studded cast that he's played with. So today I want to start with the biggest star-studded cast, which is Once Upon a Texas Train, and I like Western, so I enjoyed that movie. It was good. It was good, it was really good, and my favorite part of it was his scruffy cowboy. Look the scruffy look.

Speaker 1 2:38

Yeah, that is definitely your husband. That's everybody's favorite part, I think yes, when he has that scruffy Western thing going on His cowboy look.

Speaker 3 2:47

Yes, I'm all for that.

Speaker 2 2:50

It reminds me of Penny's husband, because Terry always wears boots and hats.

Speaker 4 2:55

Yeah, yeah, something yeah.

Speaker 2 2:57

But you know what else, even though he played, I thought he was younger when he was in there and I looked it up and he was in his 20s, I want to say like 20 years old or maybe even 30. But he also still wears cowboy boots and a cowboy hat and he's even posted pictures of that lately because his daughter does barrel racing. That's a good one, so it's really cool, yeah, but in the show probably I forget how far into it John Henry, which is played by Willie Nelson, and Cotton run into each other and John Henry asks his name and he says Cotton and he's the leader of the Young Outlaws.

Speaker 3 3:45

Yes, he's the leader. The leader and he's tough yeah, tough yeah.

Speaker 1 3:51

He's got a tough eye in this character that John plays.

Speaker 2 3:54

Absolutely Correct. And so John Henry, aka Willie Nelson, says Cotton, and Cotton says yes, just Cotton. I mean that, right, there is just a classic. He's cool.

Speaker 3 4:09

He's cool, that's cool, that's Cotton.

Speaker 2 4:12

Yes, he's a cool cowboy. Cowboy, yes, but what are some of your favorites part of the show?

Speaker 4 4:18

He got the girl. Oh yeah, don't spoil it yet, willie Nelson. Yeah, willie Nelson actually directed it, so that's cool.

Speaker 2 4:26

Yes, that was really cool. And actually there was a long list of directors and everything in it. But speak of star study cast, I mean Angie Dickinson. Yeah, she was great.

Speaker 1 4:39

Well, you know what I just found out? Angie Dickinson was married to Bert Bakarak.

Speaker 2 4:47

I have no clue who that is, so help me out. Doris Interesting, he was a famous songwriter.

Speaker 1 4:51

Bert Bakarak wrote a lot of songs that oh, her name goes away from me now, but he was a really big songwriter and more.

Speaker 3 5:03

We're going to do some of his songs.

Speaker 1 5:04

Things, a lot of birth.

Speaker 3 5:06

Oh, wow, yes, Wow.

Speaker 1 5:08

Thank you, cindy and all. I just couldn't believe. I just found that out. I went Angie Dickinson, wasn't she police woman?

Speaker 2 5:16

Yes, she was. Oh my God, I forgot about that.

Speaker 1 5:19

Police woman fact was married to Bert Bakarak, who wrote all of these great songs of the 70s. He is one of the biggest songwriters of the 70s.

Speaker 3 5:30

Is he still around? I don't know.

Speaker 1 5:33

I don't think so. But, angie, I just found out it's 91. Oh, wow, yeah, ok.

Speaker 2 5:40

Well, you speak of songwriters. Willie Nelson has probably written more songs than any songwriter ever.

Speaker 3 5:49

But question did he sing a song in that movie? I don't think he did. You know, I don't either sing a song in that train movie.

Speaker 2 5:59

I don't think he did. I don't think he did. He may have composed one, and now I'm really upset with myself that In the beginning it was just music. Yeah, there was no singing. Now I'm gonna have to research that, but I do know. I mean, he wrote a lot of songs for a lot of people, especially Patsy Klein, and he wrote her number one song, crazy, crazy.

Speaker 1 6:20

Crazy, oh he wrote it.

Speaker 2 6:21

Yeah, and again a lot of songs. And actually you know he has a radio station, willis Roadhouse, on Sirius XM, and his daughter is actually one of the DJs.

Speaker 3 6:34

Oh nice.

Speaker 2 6:35

It's like one of my favorite channels.

Speaker 3 6:36

I'd love to listen to that yeah.

Speaker 2 6:37

Yeah, but let's go to Chuck Connors. I mean seriously.

Speaker 3 6:42

He was in all the movies back then, all the TV shows.

Speaker 1 6:46

Whether he's on the top show also. Yup, Chuck Connors one of those.

Speaker 3 6:50

He did a show called the Gunman. I remember Okay, he was black and white, yeah.

Speaker 2 6:55

The birthday all back then Back in the 60s. Yeah, but you know, this show actually had some I mean really good reviews and you can still watch it almost on any streaming channel today.

Speaker 3 7:10

Yeah, it was released back in 1988.

Speaker 1 7:13

And that's funny to me because I was watching TV in 1988. And this, this was a TV movie, or was this in a theater movie? I think it was a TV movie.

Speaker 2 7:25

I think it was a TV movie and not a theater movie.

Speaker 1 7:29

How, how, how did it get?

Speaker 3 7:30

past me. Yeah, me too. I was married, having kids. I was busy, I didn't see it right away, I know.

Speaker 2 7:37

Just started college. It says once upon a Texas train TV movie 1988. And it says you know, then it gives the cast and all they at speak of songs and you guys were wondering if Willie Nelson singing it. I'm wondering if Sean and Willie ever did a song together, because Willie did a lot of songs with a lot of people, a lot of duets, and I do know, like in the last few years or so, that George straight was thinking I've never did a song with Willie and so he wrote a song and he and Willie did it. It would be fun to know if Sean ever did and it's just never been heard.

Speaker 1 8:19

Yeah, I can see that. I wonder if they actually sat around A campfire.

Speaker 4 8:22

That's what I was picturing.

Speaker 1 8:24

Right, right, they were sitting around, like during the breaks, and strumming guitars and singing Right.

Speaker 2 8:32

But you know, I can almost bet you Willie Nelson never did the do run run or maybe he did, maybe he did, I don't know. I mean you know, cause Sean broke into on the road again. Well, I could, I would almost bet he did or could have, because that's a good one. Almost anybody could do that. But you know, here's another thing. How fun would it have been if they, after you know filming they had beer for their horses and whiskey for their men. You know that was Willie Nelson and Toby Keith.

Speaker 1 9:05

That would have been funny. I would have loved to know what else Willie Nelson brought on the set that he had or didn't have.

Speaker 2 9:12

Or did recreational you mean Well, hey, oh no.

Speaker 3 9:16

Recreational activities.

Speaker 2 9:18

And there's another one that Toby Keith brought up Roll one with Willie. Let's leave it there and let's move on to how about murder? She wrote yeah, that was good too.

Speaker 3 9:31

Yeah.

Shaun Cassidy's Murder Mystery TV Shows

Speaker 1 9:32

Well, yeah, that one was. You know, he got into these murder mystery movie TV shows.

Speaker 3 9:37

Yeah, three in a row.

Speaker 1 9:38

he did Murder she wrote, was back in the day, I didn't watch any of those like Matlock murder. She wrote. I watched those old people shows. You know, I couldn't find.

Speaker 3 9:50

I agree with you. I think they were for other people to watch.

Speaker 1 9:52

They were. There was a demographic that CBS was going for, and it wasn't us, it wasn't my genre.

Speaker 2 9:59

I loved murder, she wrote. I mean, I really did and I didn't want to miss it because it was a mystery. I loved mysteries but I do not remember that episode and I could not find it to watch it. So you guys have to talk about this one.

Speaker 3 10:15

I just I just watched it.

Speaker 2 10:18

The thing is it's on reruns, probably once a week at 2 am, so I'm not up there to watch it.

Speaker 1 10:25

You can find it on Peacock's streaming. It's everywhere.

Speaker 4 10:31

Well, it sounds like Sean liked to be the detective back then.

Speaker 3 10:34

Well, what does that tie into the Hardy Boys?

Speaker 4 10:37

right, yes, exactly.

Speaker 3 10:38

They still think he was that boy detective?

Speaker 4 10:41

Yeah, the boy detective, and how would you compare them, you know, to the, each other, the characters?

Speaker 3 10:47

They were serious. Yeah, you know he didn't have any really light roles. I think they're all kind of seriously played. Yeah, and this one in the in the murder she wrote up.

Speaker 1 10:57

So I don't know that he was a detective OK, more so than he was. I thought he was a law student, but then I couldn't really figure out what he was.

Speaker 3 11:07

And he was just the guy's friend.

Speaker 1 11:10

I know he wanted to help his friend get off for that murder that he was kind of panicked for when he that guy stole his song and they thought he killed him.

Speaker 2 11:22

Well, you don't mess with the songwriter, that's for sure.

Speaker 3 11:26

And they deliberately named his character Chad Singer.

Speaker 2 11:29

Oh, because, he's a teen idol, teen Idol. Yeah, that's where the name came from. I was wondering that. Thank you, cindy. Yes, but you know. There again, let's talk about star study cast. I mean Angela Lance.

Speaker 3 11:42

Murray.

Speaker 2 11:42

She had everybody on there. Oh my God, yeah, another one who wouldn't want to be on her show. I would go hey, listen, if I could just be someone walking in the background and just even get a glimpse of her in person. To me that would be like getting a glimpse of Shirley Jones.

Speaker 3 12:02

And I think they were friends too. Yeah, angela Lancebury was friends with Shirley Jones.

Speaker 1 12:06

Probably cause. Angela Lancebury was a stage actress.

Speaker 3 12:10

Shirley was.

Speaker 2 12:11

Yeah, and she came from theater, so Well, are we ready to move on to the next character? Yeah, which one you want to talk about? Well, let's go. Let's go to Matlock. Let's go to Craig Gentry.

Speaker 3 12:23

I liked that one. It's a two episode series for that for Sean. Yes, it was in two episodes.

Speaker 2 12:28

Yes, part one, two. And wasn't his dad, like in?

Speaker 3 12:33

the mob. Yes, his dad was a mobster and he didn't like what his dad was doing in the mob, so he disconnected from him and changed his name. But then he got set up for some murder with a politician, yeah, and his dad came back to defend him and Sean didn't really want him there, but he let him stay till it was resolved.

Speaker 3 12:52

But there was a really nice scene where Sean had to say goodbye to him again and he started crying and I'm like you know what Cause he says. I never got to say goodbye to you before and I reminded me of his dad dying Right. His dad passed away and he never had to say goodbye to him and I saw the emotion in his face. It was very touching. That was the scene I remember from that one Right.

Speaker 1 13:13

And you know, speaking of which, going back for a quick second to the Angela Lancebury, the murder she wrote. So Chad Singer was his name, yes, and he gave a quote. He was talking to his friend and it was some silly quote, and he goes that's my uncle Jack used to say, and I kind of picked up on that right away. I think he purposely said his uncle Jack. You know, a little tribute to his dad.

Speaker 3 13:40

I think so.

Speaker 2 13:42

Oh yeah, there's a lot of little things you can pick up in those shows.

Speaker 2 13:46

And I've said this before, cause Sean said and I forget if it was in the People magazine or where we heard it that he did say that a lot of characters he played had references to things that in his real life and family members, but they're hidden, but he knows where they're at. So that was picking up on it. That's great, darius, that and Cindy, that we picked up on that and hopefully we're right that you guys are right on that, cause I checked in Jack Cassidy.

Speaker 3 14:25

He passed away when was it? In 1976. So he did murder. Uh, no, matlock in 1986. Right, so he must have been referencing his dad.

Speaker 2 14:34

Yeah, he passed away by that that was such a tragic death I can't imagine. I remember when I heard about that.

Speaker 1 14:41

That was awful.

Speaker 2 14:43

Let's talk about the star study cast Andy Griffin. Doris, I know you're dying to talk about this, so you are. You know me, I know.

Speaker 1 14:51

Doris, I have this six degree of separation thing that I do and it's you know, everybody knows the six degree of separation game. Well, I play it with Sean. Well, we got Andy Griff. Well, Andy Griff had Ron Howard as OP. Well, Ronnie Howard was in the music man with none other than Shirley Jones. Yes, he was. Shirley Jones is none other than Sean Cassidy's mom.

Speaker 2 15:19

There we go. Yep, there is our six degrees.

Speaker 1 15:22

So that's just my little. Every time you mention someone, I see how I could connect it all together.

Speaker 2 15:29

You know what. Kevin Bacon is out, sean Cassidy is in there, there it is Kevin.

Speaker 1 15:34

We didn't mean to boot you.

Speaker 2 15:35

but yep, you're replaced Kevin Bacon. You know I'm going to go to one of my favorites, dale Thurston, alfred Hitchcock. Dale Thurston was a med student.

Speaker 3 15:46

Did you guys watch it? Yeah, but I didn't. I wasn't too interested in that one.

Speaker 2 15:49

It didn't catch me, you know I think, because I liked that murder mystery thing again and I when I was younger I was like just the name Alfred Hitchcock or Hitchcock and the way it starts and it's dark and stuff Right, and that black and white like that. That's so your wet. Yeah, that's all your wet. I didn't like it. It kind of scared me and I would dream about it at night. Back in the day I would not watch that.

Speaker 1 16:14

No, you have a low kind of heavy breathing voice or something I'm like no thank you.

Speaker 2 16:20

Yeah, but then I noticed it's one of those movies on all night long, kind of like murder. She wrote you can watch a lot, matlock, you can watch a lot, and I did not see this. You know like that, until we started to you know research this stuff and I watched it and I'm like I don't know why and why I was scared about that entry. You know that the beginning of it. Well, nowadays it doesn't seem like it's scary, but when you're a kid.

Speaker 2 16:48

Yeah, so I do like it. And when I started watching it I thought well, this was a really good episode, because he's a med student, he's very spoiled, he shows. You know he's kind of arrogant in it and he had breeze. You know he was going to inherit all this money if he passed and became a doctor and you know he made a lot of money by selling the, the copy of tests. The professor knew he was the one selling it.

Speaker 2 17:20

Yes, you know, called them out on it and this and that you know, I guess wasn't the professor going to change the test or turn him in or something. And then Dale said you know well, you can't, because then I'm not going to inherit this money, you can't do this to me. So he offered someone who did this in the past. Am I on the right track, you guys?

Speaker 1 17:42

I'm trying to remember all this.

Speaker 2 17:44

You watch it, but yeah, twice, and I'm still. You know, I watched all these pretty close together, so I didn't mix.

Speaker 2 17:50

I know I do too. This guy was going to help take the $100,000 and help them murder the professor and they thought the professor was actually dead. And then I guess the girl that Dale Thurston was dating I guess the professor had called her or she found him and In the end, well, in the end, he was arrested and was trying to still say it wasn't him, but then fingerprints and the conversations. In any way Doesn't it how it ends?

Speaker 3 18:30

do they arrest him and put him in the car?

Speaker 2 18:31

Yeah, yeah, and then you really don't know, that's it. Anyway, there we go. If anybody knows the true ending, let us know. Okay, well, let's move on to another really good character. We are gonna go to one of my favorites. I know it's one of Dame's favorites and probably Dereces and. Cindy's as well, like normal people. Roger Myers and I'm gonna bring up the cast or his co-star, linda Pearl, who played Virginia. I mean, what a sweet loving caring Joe, I mean I, they're good together.

Discussion of a TV Movie

Speaker 2 19:13

Yeah, they're good together and played very, very well. I watched it several times and it just it brought back so much for me and I'll let everybody else talk now.

Speaker 4 19:27

Aw, no, like normal people. It just reminds me of how kids have sensitive feelings and no matter what in this you could just tell no matter how a child is or if they need special needs, they want a normal life too. They want to find somebody to love. They still believe in romance and Sean's a romantic. He'll tell you that and you can tell that he is. He said that time when we did the father's day one, the concert, he said that's why he had so many kids. He's just a romantic.

Speaker 4 20:02

Well, in this show it talks about how at first he didn't even wanna go and be around people like that. Sean did it. He was really hurt, but he was playing. Who was he? What was his first name in there? Roger, yeah, roger. Okay, now I remember. Thank you, cindy. It was just really sweet. Once he saw a girl that he could have a crush on, he took her back and showed her his records and that meant a lot and I thought it was really sweet that they were both willing to play those characters. It just proves that anyone can be somebody and it shows how everyone wants to feel needed, even Roger. Like he said, cindy, roger goes to a special place where he goes and he meets this girl, he falls in love with her, and that's Regina, correct At the bunny rabbit, he said At the bunny.

Speaker 3 20:53

They met at the bunny rabbit.

Speaker 2 20:55

Yeah, you know, you know. Oh, dave, I was just gonna say that wasn't the first girl he met, though he from like what eight, nine years?

Speaker 3 21:05

old. He was always he's a lot of year old girl. He wrote a Valentine's tune. He almost got in trouble.

Speaker 2 21:10

Well, but he was 18 when that happened. But I'm going back when he was at home and I don't know he was interacting with his dad or his brother or something, and he's like, oh, he was gonna go to dance. And there's like, and there'll be girls there. He was always interested in girls.

Speaker 3 21:31

Put a cute smile when you say that.

Speaker 2 21:33

Cute smile, or, you know, when he got the job at the YMCA and that's where a dance was too, and he told his mom, you know he was excited he got this job at the YMCA because there was girls there yes. So he was always like attracted to girls and was gonna get a girlfriend. So it was. It was really cute and he was pretty independent from the beginning.

Speaker 3 21:55

He always had that independence. He was gonna do things. He was always wants to be successful.

Speaker 2 22:01

Strong willed, very strong willed in this show. I really enjoyed that. And you couldn't tell him he, you could not tell Roger he was, could not do anything.

Speaker 4 22:14

Oh, but he was so hurt in that show he said, mom, did you really call me that? You know that just broke his heart and that shows why we should say special needs. You know, that's very important.

Speaker 3 22:26

There's an episode yeah, there's an episode where he got and somebody wrote the girl a letter.

Speaker 2 22:31

That was not nice, it was another 11 year old boy, yeah, and they bled on him Right but you know, I grew up with a brother and I'm gonna say the word retarded, and that's what it was in the 60s, that's how they referred to it In the 70s yes, back then. And yes, it has changed. And my brother didn't see himself any different than Roger, and my brother did want to get married and we told him he couldn't Just like Roger in Virginia.

Speaker 4 23:03

It was beautiful. I mean, in this show I thought it was so cute, cause when he saw Virginia he goes well, you're one of the prettiest girls, or he's called her the prettiest girl there. I just thought that was precious and even she just felt so good about that and it just shows how everyone can be needed and there's somebody for everybody and that's pretty special.

Speaker 3 23:24

And like they had a counselor too that was always there for them and kind of helped them along.

Speaker 4 23:28

Yeah, yes, very understanding.

Speaker 3 23:30

Yeah, and he had this argument with the man who was trying to knock them down and stuff. And he says you know what?

Speaker 2 23:36

Davis. I remember his last name because it's my maiden name, Davis, so remember that.

Speaker 3 23:41

That counselor was so great in this movie.

Speaker 2 23:43

Yes, he was. Is that what you're talking about? No, the counselor's last name wasn't Davis, I'm gonna look it up. But the guy who was real enough, who built the house, the house they lived in and made the house, the guy who kind of made all the rules who said they couldn't get married, they couldn't have babies, they couldn't, they couldn't live together, they couldn't live together. And remember, the counselor was the one who called out the guy, because the guy actually had a severely recorded child who was an institution. That was the reason why he thought that they shouldn't have children, because he thought that they could only produce another retarded child, which is not true, he says they weren't gene related, where that would happen, right, so you?

Speaker 1 24:33

guys, this discussion here we are in 2023. When was the movie made? 19.

Speaker 3 24:38

It was in 1979.

Speaker 1 24:39

And we could still have a big, relevant discussion this many years later about how people with special needs are you know, I think he brought light to that subject when he did this movie.

Speaker 4 24:54

Yeah, by doing this, right, If you're playing this character and thank you.

Speaker 1 24:58

Somewhere along the way the title changed. It was a very special love, or it is now a very special love, but like normal people, if you're out there and you want to find it, it could be under a very special love. Special name of a penny that you found, yeah, a very special love.

Speaker 2 25:20

Yes, and so when I was looking at characters that Sean played, that one popped up and I'm like it's a true story too. It is a true story and I was like so I look up a very special love and it linked back to like normal people and the same movie.

Speaker 1 25:38

I'm not sure when the title changed.

Speaker 2 25:41

Cindy actually looked up Roger and Virginia Myers Just a little walk together. Throw on Facebook? Yeah, and actually you read something about them, cindy? What did you use something about?

Speaker 3 25:54

They follow Sean Cassidy, or something or somebody mentioned that they watched the movie and, because they love Sean Cassidy, they connected with these, this couple.

Speaker 2 26:04

Um, actually, isn't there something about Linda Pearl? Linda, she's married to Patrick Duffy, and who's she really? And who's Patrick Duffy? He was Bobby Jerry, bobby, bobby, you went from from Dallas. Oh my God, that theme song is playing in my head Penny.

Speaker 4 26:22

you know what People used to walk up to Jerry and say are you, patrick Duffy? They did.

Speaker 2 26:29

That is too much, but that is crazy that. Linda Pearl is married to Patrick Duffy. I didn't know that. Yeah and crazy. I was just watching earlier in the week by accident, step by step, where.

Speaker 3 26:41

Oh yeah, he's in.

Speaker 2 26:42

Patrick Duffy yeah, when he's married to Susie in summers.

Speaker 4 26:46

I can't yeah, but and they combine kids and so that was fun.

Speaker 2 26:51

Then on unlike normal people again, such such star study cast and every character, every show he's played in, but every show he's ever played in I mean the star study cast. I just can't imagine the people he's met through these shows. And I do have to bring up another thing in like normal people, remember? She talks about liking Elton John. Yeah, he's like. It wasn't Virginia, it was at the YMCA at a dance. And this young girl comes out with the long blonde hair and I don't know if that's the one he sent the Valentine to, but I think it is. But she looked older than 11.

Speaker 2 27:37

He was giving out change and she said she liked Elton John and he got all excited and said that he made his brother take him to the concert First.

Speaker 3 27:47

she said she liked Danny Osmond. Yeah, yeah, that too, that was funny.

Speaker 1 27:50

That too, that's funny.

Speaker 3 27:52

She was looking at her like oh, you like Danny Osmond? Yeah, you know, I'm like yes, it is Right.

Speaker 2 27:57

And I'm like remember a few years ago, like on Sean's birthday, danny Osmond sang happy birthday to him on Facebook or something that was your name in there and then he sings. You know, they talk about Elton John and I'm like, wow, just I think it was a year ago Elton or Sean was having dinner with like Elton John and Alice Cooper and Bernie Topman and I don't know who all Elton's last concert out. Oh, Sean went. He took his family to see Elton John, but Bernie was in New York at studio 54.

Speaker 3 28:33

I want to tell you about this Facebook post, about the couple that you know, sean, portrayed in the movie, and it says Roger and Virginia Myers have been married for over 41 years.

Speaker 2 28:44

Wow, that, that's amazing. Congratulations, roger.

Speaker 3 28:48

and Virginia says in the movie like normal people, Roger is played by Sean Cassidy, in Virginia by Linda Pearl. This is a true love story. Happy Valentine's Day to the couple.

Speaker 1 29:00

Oh, that's wonderful.

Speaker 3 29:02

Yes, and did they have kids? It doesn't say in this post. I don't know, I don't know it looks like.

Speaker 2 29:07

what's the look into it? Right, I'm seeing they're holding up some stuffed animals.

Speaker 3 29:11

So together, well, that's great. Yeah, what a nice story it is.

Shsun Cassidy's Role in General Hospital

Speaker 2 29:14

It's beautiful. Well, I saved the cheesiest one for last. I can't even say I saved the best for last. Well, I kind of did you know with, with like normal people, but no, I had to save the cheesiest one for last. Yes, dame, you almost ruined it. You almost got, you almost spoiled it, dame, but yes, dusty Walker, oh yeah, and General Hospital, oh God. I mean from being incursionated, Cursorated, oh incarcerated.

Speaker 1 29:48

What did?

Speaker 2 29:48

I say what did I?

Speaker 1 29:50

say we don't know. We made up a word here Cursorated.

Speaker 2 29:57

Hey, I do that all the time, as you know. So, from being released from prison to moving in with Terry Brock, you know, or that one lady in General Hospital, yeah, and then being a singer, I watched it, but I have no words. It was just cheesy. Let me help you there. He's sweet, though he's sweet in it. Well, he really wasn't, dame. He thought so yeah. I don't think so. Yeah, Doris you, Okay, you tell us. You tell us your story. So I watched.

Speaker 1 30:32

General Hospital back then and, fun fact, I still watch it today Me and maybe four other people. But General Hospital was my favorite daytime show back then, and so there was a character named Blackie. It played like John Stamos and John Stamos had left and he had started on full house, so I think they wanted to try to recapture that rock and roll guy that Blackie played, and they brought Sean in and I was so excited until I wasn't.

Speaker 3 31:09

I didn't get to see that because I had to work, so I missed all of that.

Speaker 1 31:12

He didn't. I just thought maybe daytime drama shouldn't be where he landed because he wasn't all that good His character. They tied him all into the. There was this big character about these cast of dines. Luke and Lars Spencer were being chased around Port Charles in the world by the cast of dines and somehow his character was tied into that. But he met up with the singer on the show, terry I think her name was Terry Terry Brough.

Speaker 1 31:50

And Tiffany was Terry's manager and they brought him in and they made a duet out of them, a singing duet, and that was what I liked it. So the lady who played Terry on General Hospital, her name is Robin Bernard. She has a sister named Crystal Bernard, who was on this TV show Wings. And Robin Bernard, I think back in the day, or probably still is a big gospel singer and you know she has a great voice. I love to hear her singing. That was my favorite when they would do the singing episodes with Sean and Terry. Well, Dusty, I think it's Dusty Dusty.

Speaker 3 32:33

Walker, dusty Walker. We said cool names in the show Dusty Walker.

Speaker 2 32:37

I wonder if he chose that name. I don't know, I mean, are they?

Speaker 1 32:43

Walker walked off into the sunset. I got to tell you that because, well, he did, I mean he went on.

Speaker 2 32:51

Did he start in May and ended in September? Yeah, he wasn't on very long. He wasn't on very long and they said he just walked off to set, like it. The interview was said like how did it end? And he walked off set. So I guess he didn't leave town or anything or walked into the sunset and he had to get out of town.

Speaker 1 33:11

There was this agent, wsb agent Robert Scorpio, and Robert might have been after, oh I don't know, it was kind of crazy, but at the end of the day he just kind of walked off into the sunset.

Speaker 3 33:25

Okay, yeah, this is what it says about it. Robert wants Dusty to be thrown in jail for agent rushes murder as a plat to bring out Alina Alina, alina, alina. So Robert discovers who really killed Rush and Alina plans to leave the country and Robert goes to arrest her and then she punches him and is killed while trying to escape. So then Dusty blames Robert for her death and he leaves town and that's it.

Speaker 2 33:52

Now is Alina the lady who was really wealthy and that who's Sean, or who Dusty Walker lived with at the beginning, and then Terry was really jealous of her. I think so.

Speaker 1 34:05

And because, remember, he had that really rich woman. Yes, yes, I remember that.

Speaker 2 34:11

I think that was Alina, because, remember, when she called Dusty one day and Dusty is like, well, I've got, I'm in love and all this, and so she flew the two of them out there, yes, and she's hanging all over Sean and rubbing him and Terry Block was, you know, getting really jealous and what have you. And I guess Alina, you know, was trying to he's mine, not yours. But Dusty was supposedly either stupid or blind to it or something. And then he went to see her once to say you need to stop this, because I love her and I'm going to ask her to marry me. Do you remember that?

Speaker 1 34:52

Darius yes.

Speaker 2 34:53

Yeah, that's what I was trying to come up with earlier, but again, it was cheesy, I had trouble with it.

Speaker 3 35:00

And you know what Sean even mentions too. This was not his best decision. He didn't have a good experience with it. He said in an interview somewhere, so I think he understands it didn't go well Well.

Speaker 2 35:12

I watch Kelly Rippa every day. I mean almost every day. I love Kelly Rippa when he and Ryan Seacrest are now her husband, mark, and you know Kelly and Mark met on the set of General Hospital. Oh right, and so you know.

Speaker 1 35:26

General Hospital. It's been on. They just celebrated their 60th year this year, Wow, so it's been on TV a long time. A lot of people have been on that show.

Speaker 2 35:39

Yeah, 63, then when I was born. Yeah, yeah, but what I was saying about it is you know, they had a good career on it, but they both couldn't wait to just go off into the sunset and get off that show and they really even even on their talk show they don't talk highly of General Hospital. Well, yeah.

Speaker 1 36:00

Can I just say though, going back to the Cassities, it seems to be a place where all Cassidy land, because Sean was on as dusty as we know. You know, shirley Jones did a guest starring role on General Hospital just a one day little appearance and Sean's second wife Susan Dio Dial, dio Dial, I'm not sure how to pronounce it. She was just on a month or so ago. Within the last five or six weeks in a couple of recurring roles as a nurse, I didn't know she was an act.

Speaker 1 36:34

Yeah, she's obviously acting, and she worked on General Hospital as a nurse sometimes.

Speaker 2 36:41

Okay, All you General Hospital people out there and all my children people out there. I stand corrected. Kelly and Mark were not in General Hospital, they were in. All my children.

Speaker 3 36:53

All right, yes.

Speaker 1 36:56

And say that Kelly and Mark was on all my children, but you got there.

Speaker 2 37:00

I got it Like the minute, the minute Cindy or Doree started talking. I'm like you fool, it was all my children, but either way, they're both cheesy.

Speaker 1 37:09

But you know, let's go back for a minute because I think we left to show out.

Speaker 2 37:13

Oh, speak of not cheesy, but boring, boring. I thought this was so boring it was, it was slow, it was slow.

Speaker 1 37:23

Breaking away. Breaking away was after the movie. Everybody remember the movie in 1980 in the early 80s about a bicyclist.

Speaker 2 37:33

He thought he was like from Italy.

Speaker 1 37:35

Italy.

Speaker 2 37:37

He learned to speak Italian. He talked with the accent. He talked with the accent, papa. Yeah, you know, as he was eating French, french foods, he thought French fries were French or something, and he went to the opera too, I know.

Speaker 4 37:51

But Well, I told my husband last night to look it up on the um, I think a Netflix or something that they can look at movies on, because I don't play with that a lot and they couldn't find it, and so I of course got my computer out to watch it and I told my son, I said you need to come out and watch this with me Because it reminds me of you. And I started telling him why he got so upset at me and chef the door and wouldn't even talk to me.

Speaker 1 38:15

Well, why does it remind you of your son?

Breaking Away

Speaker 4 38:18

Well, um, first of all, with Sean Cassidy, took over the role, as far as characters, of somebody that was playing. It named Dave Stoller and he was a young man, crazy, like you guys said, about bicycle racing and all these things Italian. Well, the reason I like the show is because it reminds me of my two boys. They are at that age right now. My youngest just graduated from high school and he has to decide what to do next. Well, in this show, the guys are out of high school and they're trying to find out what they are going to do with their lives. So, at the same age as what my boys are watching, this show put my own um thoughts into my sons by watching the way these boys interacted with each other and then how the parents were frustrated because the boys weren't going to college yet.

Speaker 1 39:11

Didn't they live in a town in Indiana and they? Were stone cutters and they didn't want to be a cutter. That they said, they just did. I didn't watch it, but I'm going from memory from way back when I did watch You're right, they're right Cutters.

Speaker 3 39:26

I think his dad was a cutter.

Speaker 1 39:27

In the court, everybody was a cutter and they just they wanted to end that they didn't want to be cutters, so they just go off, they just go off together, and it seemed like they had little tips with each other too, didn't they?

Speaker 3 39:40

It was a group of friends, yeah. So they did friend things and they had confrontations and things like that, but they stuck together.

Speaker 1 39:45

So it was a nice friend story too but it was a father son story also.

Speaker 2 39:50

You know, I did have to quit watching it. You remember when he was riding his bike when he found out like the race the French cyclist race race or whatever was coming to Indiana and so he was trying to build a speed and he was racing down the interstate or something and or a two lane and a semi truck thought, oh, I'll help them out and, you know, get a speed going and then I have you, and then the semi truck got pulled over. Or do you guys remember this part?

Speaker 3 40:25

No sort of. I remember him on the road pushing some kids on a moped.

Speaker 2 40:29

Hi, I don't know, but I was just wondering cause I had to turn it off right about that time. But I thought the cop went after the bicyclist and not that, not the truck driver at that point, I don't know. I don't remember that part, Um, but I mean it was boring, but I guess it was a cute movie.

Speaker 1 40:48

The movie number one, you know, was one of the top grossing films of that day.

Speaker 3 40:52

The movie had Dennis Quaid in it.

Speaker 1 40:54

Yeah.

Speaker 3 40:54

Sean did the made for TV.

Speaker 2 40:56

Yeah, yeah, so I was going to say it had a pretty good cast. You know, dennis, christopher, christopher.

Speaker 4 41:03

I had read about those characters too in it and I thought that was really neat. Um, and I'm glad that Sean Cassidy took over that one role, because at first, when I was watching it.

Speaker 2 41:12

I was like we're Sean, so I do know he ended up with the girl, but was it um the girl that played Catherine, was it?

Speaker 3 41:18

Catherine, girlfriend in this movie, his friends seem to like I don't think he had a girl in this movie. It was more about his, him and his father.

Speaker 1 41:26

It takes place in Bloomington, indiana, but was actually shot in Athens, georgia, I remember reading something recently about Sean saying, when he was filming Breaking Away in Athens, georgia and I shouldn't bring it up because I can't remember what the reference was, but he was talking about just recently when he was going around the country doing a bunch of stuff and he was in Georgia or wanted to go to Georgia how much he really loved being there.

Speaker 1 41:54

So he must have lived there for a while then, yeah, he lived there for that whole seven episodes, but it was canceled after eight episodes.

Speaker 2 42:02

Well, here's something I just saw. It says is Breaking Away based on a true story and it says the team is based on the 1962 Phi Kappa PSI, little 500 Champions, which featured legendary writer and Italian enthusiast, dave. Was it Blaze, blac Blaze, who provided screenwriter and fellow Phi Kappa, how do you say that? Psi or Pis, or a member, steve Tesh Tish, the inspiration for the main character in the movie? So that's interesting. So that was inspired by some. Yeah, so that was good. Well, it was.

Speaker 1 42:40

It was not his best, I gotta say. I watched it every week. But that fake Italian, he was driving me crazy. I'm like stop with the Italian accent it is.

Speaker 3 42:51

They would yell at him and I'm like yeah, that's getting annoying.

Speaker 4 42:54

I wonder my boys didn't want to see it with me. I'm lonely Dork. They wanted to watch it, I guess. I thought it was good.

Speaker 2 43:00

These are just many, or a few, should I say, of many characters that Sean has played in, so we invite you to go to our social media and tell us who your favorite character is and why. Hey Dame, are you ready for Dame's closet? Oh yeah, let me get in there.

Speaker 4 43:17

Hold on, it's kind of messy in here. Oh, guess what I just found. What is it? It's one of my favorites. I bet a lot of you guys have one of these too. I think I actually offered one to Cindy. There's nothing better than having something cute that you could put your food inside of, and on the outside it has two brothers from a very good mystery show and inside there's a thermostat match. Can you guys guess what it is?

Speaker 2 43:48

Well, I'm going to hope and pray. There is not a really old peanut butter and jelly sandwich in there and there is not a moldy peanut butter and jelly sandwich in there. And no chicken noodle Campbell's soup, chicken noodle soup.

Speaker 1 44:10

None of the leaves. I'm going to guess, Dame, that it is the Hardy Boys lunchbox and thermostat.

Speaker 4 44:17

Yes, and I just love this. I couldn't have just one, so it's in my closet with the rest of my mess.

Speaker 3 44:25

And lucky if the thermos, because a lot of people are missing that thermos. Don't lose that thermos. The value.

Antique Store Find and Closet Discoveries

Speaker 2 44:30

the value is not going to just win up, that's right.

Speaker 4 44:33

This was brought home to me from an antique store. The other one is has been brought to me differently, but this one came from an antique store way before he started doing his shows again, and my family knew how much I liked Sean, so this was a very special gift from them.

Speaker 2 44:48

Did it come together as a set or was it pieced together?

Speaker 1 44:51

Pieced together, okay, but you have the full set, and that's all it counts, and I'm so happy that you were able to find it in your closet and share it with us today.

Speaker 2 45:01

Yes, and I hope next week you don't get hurt getting something out of your closet. You know my closet. Thanks for sharing your closet with us today, dame.

Speaker 4 45:12

Thanks for letting me.

Speaker 2 45:14

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Speaker 1 45:33

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Speaker 2 45:37

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