Exclusive Interview with Danny Bonaduce!

As we sit down with Danny Bonaduce, find yourself immersed in a tapestry of tales ranging from the uproarious to the uplifting. Our conversation takes us from the glitz of child stardom alongside Elvis Presley to the gritty reality of personal battles, topped with a question about the missing David Cassidy jukebox. With Danny's storied life as our canvas, we sketch out the highs and lows that chart his course from The Partridge Family to his recent retirement, all while weaving in the unique perspective of our Shaun Squad Society's enduring fascination.

Prepare to be whisked back to the colorful days of The Partridge Family, as we recount behind-the-scenes antics and revisit beloved episodes. Ever wondered what really went down on the set with a whale at a marine park? We're sharing that story and more, complete with Danny's personal reflections on the show's most memorable songs and guest stars. Your nostalgia will be in full swing as we hum along to "Sunshine" and rediscover the magic that made those days unforgettable.

Turning the dial to Danny's dynamic radio career, we uncover the unlikely incidents that cemented his place in broadcasting history—from a notorious clash with Donny Osmond to the infamous moment that caught Johnny B's ear. As we trace his path from Chicago's graveyard shift to national fame, it's clear that Danny's resilience and humor have been his co-pilots throughout an ever-evolving entertainment landscape. Wrap up with us as we launch into the third season of our podcast, filled with the promise of stories, laughter, and the unbreakable bond of the Shaun Squad Society.

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Transcript

Interview Intro

Speaker 1 0:00

Hey, this is Danny Bodity and you are listening to Sean Squad at Society Podcast with your host, cindy, doris and Dane.

Speaker 3 0:11

When you couldn't sleep you went back to where the whale was since you were staying there at the Marine, I guess, land Water Park and you started making the whale do some of the same stunts that you watched all day, but then the next day I think you got in trouble, is that?

Speaker 1 0:25

true, I did. I got in a terrible trouble. They were actually going to kick us out of the Marine Land because what happened was Hello everybody, get down, get with it. Hello everybody, get down get with it.

Speaker 4 0:41

Hello, everybody, get down, that's looking cool. Welcome to the Sean Squad Society Podcast with your host, myself, cindy, doris Dane, madonna, where we invite you to share in our enthusiasm and reminisce about all things Sean Cassidy.

Speaker 2 1:00

From his teen idol days to his recent adventures back on the road again, please join us for the stories and memories that connected us to those happy days that helped create the Sean Squad Society Podcast.

Speaker 5 1:14

All right, everybody, welcome back to the Sean Squad Society Podcast. Today we have with us a very special guest. He started his career at about four years old. In the early years he worked in movies with Elvis Presley and by 10 he started his own TV sitcom, the Partridge Family. By the time the Partridge Family ended, he was the poster child for Child Actors Gone Bad. He got into a little trouble due to drugs and alcohol and he started a new career starring on the cover of the National Enquirer. After beating up a male prostitute, a local Chicago radio DJ found him and decided to call and make a radio bit of that incident, and that led to his very long and successful radio career. He recently retired from KZOK and Seattle due to health issues. Everybody here he is my friend, danny Bonaducci. Welcome, danny, welcome.

Speaker 1 2:29

Doreesh. Well, thank you you guys. That was a hell of an intro.

Speaker 5 2:35

Well, I've known you for 30 some odd years and I didn't want to make it too bad, but I wanted to try to cover some of the highs and the lows and the in-between.

Speaker 1 2:46

All right. Well, I'm excited to do this. How many things are Sean Casady's? Well, you're right.

Speaker 5 2:52

If you never went down. Actor, producer, singer Right but and writer, yeah, but you know we're going to stretch that and try to make a bunch of podcasts very interesting stories.

Speaker 4 3:06

And don't forget, there's a lot of fan stories in between there, too, that people don't know about yet, so we're going to bring that to light too.

Speaker 1 3:12

All right. So who does all this research to know all this stuff?

Speaker 3 3:16

Lots of research. We all research. We know a lot about you, Danny.

Speaker 1 3:20

Well, I'm sure there's a lot to know, but I will tell you this that Doreesh and I have been friends for over 30 years. But you know, can I ask you a personal question, Doreesh? Yeah, when you go to a Sean Casady, are you the only black woman in the world that goes to see him?

Speaker 5 3:36

No, actually I found out that there are like three of us.

Speaker 1 3:41

There's three of you. Three of you right on Doreesh. Well, that's very cool.

Speaker 5 3:45

But you know what, danny? We have a tagline and we say we're the six degrees of Sean Casady. So is anything remotely related? So you worked on a partridge family with his mom and his brother, so you're like the six degrees of Sean Casady.

Speaker 1 4:03

That's right, anything remotely related and I am remotely related, I guess.

Speaker 4 4:10

You're remotely related with six degrees.

Speaker 1 4:12

All right, cool All right. Do you guys ever talk to Sean Casady? Yes, all right, if you talk to him again. He one time mentioned to me. He said you know what, david Casady, my brother left you a jukebox that he wanted you to have, and then he died and now I have it. Do you want it? I said yeah, I want it, and that was the last I heard of it. So if you talk to Sean Casady again, ask him.

Speaker 5 4:36

You know what that's going to be my very next question to Sean on his Q&A. He does these Q&As with his fans on social media and that will be my very next question and he'll know. I'm not making it up because it's going to be a legit question.

Speaker 1 4:54

If there's a legit question, I know you can do it. I can't think of anything that you can do.

Speaker 4 4:59

Is it fully loaded with songs already, or what's in it?

Speaker 1 5:03

It's fully loaded with songs already. And I am dying to hear it there's. You know, somebody just got John Lennon's jukebox and it was all loaded and it told you a lot about the guy. So we ever get my hands on the David Casady jukebox. I think that'll tell me a lot about my TV brother that I didn't know. But there's not that much about David Casady that I don't know.

Speaker 5 5:25

Sure, sure, exactly. We know that you know a lot. You were right there with them when he passed away, but all the way up until then you did a TV show with them, you got in concerts. He brought you on a roll with them.

Speaker 1 5:40

For God's sake, I gotta tell you that, david, he called me up I don't know, was it 94 or something like that, and I've been arrested for who knows what. That year I was getting arrested a lot for a while and David said listen, man, I want to go on tour with you. I want to take you on tour with me. We'll get the tour bus, we'll drive around, we'll do shows together. And I said that's great. And he said but here's the thing you got to agree to this no drugs, no alcohol, no cigarettes and no women. And I said well, I'm not going. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. Why would I go? I've been waiting my whole life to go on a concert with you and now there's no women, no drugs and no alcohol. I am not going. But I decided to go and it was like the best decision I ever made.

Speaker 4 6:21

Yeah, Danny, I saw you and David at a show, say around 1990-ish in Chicago. You were with him at that time. He had that long leather fringy jacket. I don't know if you had the crush velvet on at that time or not, but it was around 1990. So you think it started then.

Speaker 1 6:38

Yeah, I guess I was wondering about the years it started that that would be the first year we did.

Speaker 4 6:41

Yeah, so cool, yeah. So I got to see one of those shows.

Speaker 3 6:45

You know, hey, something else about David with you, Danny, is that David said that you're the funniest guy in the world, and he never wanted you to be the joke, though, because he knew who you really were.

Speaker 1 6:58

You know that funny guy, so were you in the room, because, because that is exactly what he said to me, that is exactly what I know I call entry.

Speaker 1 7:08

Yeah, it was super cool, super cool. Well, you're a big thing, he said. He said by the end, if you straighten up and you go into these radio interviews me in the morning, you will have a job before this tour ends. And I said man, I have a bad reputation, david, I don't think anybody's gonna hire me. And sure enough, by the end of the tour I've been. I was given a job at Eagle 106 in Philadelphia doing mornings. Now, I was just part of another show is called John Lander and the nut hut and I was one of his nuts apparently. So I started doing that. And, sure enough, in Chicago, right around 90. I guess it was, or maybe a little later, I got a job full-time tonight in that radio station to be. Was it called? Oh, it's called the loop in Chicago. Yes, I ended up doing morning, midday's, afternoons and nights. That was a cool thing, that was a great gig. Brand Meyer yeah, brand Meyer in the morning, yeah, right.

Speaker 3 8:02

Yeah, but hey, david, he just really loved you. Not only did he love you, he respected you and Sean this is the sixth degree. Sean called you just to say that David thought of you as one of his other brothers.

Speaker 1 8:16

That's essentially correct. That's, that's correct. You know, david and I were really close. There was just a respect there and you know I wanted him to do so well, post-partridge family and you know he had a wild time and I don't know exactly what is up there, but he, you know, he had a wild ride and I thought and I think everybody can agree here, david Cassidy died, but like 20 years too soon.

Speaker 1 8:39

Yes, he could have been doing incredible stuff and most people don't know what a what a musician he was. It's just so good on his guitar and, you know, nobody sang like David Cassidy and I thought I thought he should have had gold records again and unfortunately we'll never get to know if I was right or not.

Speaker 4 8:54

Yeah, he was recording actually in Chicago. Before he passed away he was recording his father's songs here in Chicago, so that was meaningful.

Speaker 3 9:03

That's pretty cool. Hey, what you said, too, was that it all of us may have left the building when he passed away, but he went ahead and he left the door open and let David come in.

Speaker 1 9:13

Did I say that that's genius man?

Speaker 5 9:18

Dane is our resident researcher. So if there's a quote, she knows it. And if you, if she said that, you said it, you said it. You say I don't get enough for me.

Speaker 3 9:31

My part is that you're the cutest little boy with the best expressions in the show of the partridge family, but also I read this in my research in school. You may have been the genius and the gifted child, but you also had the most swat. And I'm a teacher. I have taught school for over 30 years, so when I read about you I crack up and laugh.

Speaker 1 9:54

I remember Dr Arnaz, I think was his name the principal of our school. Yeah, he had this big paddle and that was when you could still battle kids. And you know, I gotta tell you, though I couldn't be mad at but I'm not, I fully deserve it. I only went to school, regular school, to the fifth grade, and by the fifth grade I had gotten no, 68 swats or something like that. Oh, my god.

Speaker 3 10:18

And he kept going. You know are the genius and I thought it was really neat that you know. When they had you take your history test, a teacher had you take a test and you Could just what is it called, when you don't even have to read about it, you just know the answers. You just knew everything and so you could get through that way. But with your English teacher you had to make sure that she knew that you wrote the book yourself and that your sister didn't help you, because earlier your sister had helped you do some of your English work. And so what I thought was really funny when reading your pieces of your book, that you planned on opening your diploma With a blank piece of paper inside of it, and when you saw where you did get the official diploma, you have like the biggest smile. So I thought that was adorable too.

Speaker 1 11:05

Well, thanks, yeah, we. Cal prep is where I went to school and it was. It was literally mayhem. A lot of celebrities, michael Jackson, went to school with me, bunch of people went to school with me and you know, by the time I got to Cal prep, which is where I went to high school I my sister agreed to do all my work. I don't know why I didn't have anything. Honest, nice girl, um, but yeah, she did most my English work in one time. She, she wrote a paper and I should have read it first. Well, I was so confident suicide right.

Speaker 3 11:37

Yeah.

Speaker 1 11:38

Yeah, thanks. Suicide was yeah. She wrote a paper called God doesn't live on Weddington Street and it was full of references to killing yourself, and I Didn't read me. The guy I called into my teacher's office it's Danny. I want you to know. Um, if you're having any kind of problem, you need somebody to talk to. My door is always open. I thought, wow, this is the weirdest thing.

Speaker 2 12:02

So I'll write the paper.

Speaker 1 12:04

Hey man, this thing reached the suicide. I may be bumming, but I'm not killing myself.

Speaker 5 12:13

Good oh.

Speaker 1 12:18

I enjoyed writing. That book was a lot of fun.

Speaker 5 12:20

Hey, dave, didn't you tell me just the other day you were reading the book and you found something very Interesting in the book?

Speaker 3 12:29

Well, there were two things that were interesting. I'll come back to the other one, but this is what I thought was hilarious. I, you know, I was reading big pieces, that bits and pieces of your book, and just laughing to myself, thinking, okay, I could see this as a teacher. He would still like me because, you know, I'm always friendly with my students. But I have these new friends here on the podcast. Well, I'm just reading your book. I'm reading this part and it says Derees, and I'm like Derees, no way. But it described her just Like who she is. It said a tall black girl who also Was a partridge family fan, which I know she's a huge fan and I hear her talk about you all the time. But I was thinking, no, that can't be. Well, he said she was only one of his friends. At that time that really stood out as not being a psychopath or something.

Speaker 1 13:28

Let me just explain that a little bit. The craziest women I know, but that's funny, that's why I love her so much. But yeah, you can't. You can't make her not dangerous. Man, I love Doris, but don't make her mad.

Speaker 3 13:46

But I couldn't believe it was about her. I was like there's no way. Yeah, I called Doris. I could not get a hold of her. So I started thinking, hmm, okay, I can't call Doris, I'm gonna call Cindy. So I call Cindy. And Cindy said yeah, they might think it's about Doris. I said no, there's no way, it can be about three.

Speaker 4 14:04

That was hilarious.

Speaker 5 14:05

Listeners who haven't read the book. I'm gonna give you just the two seconds synopsis of what Danny was talking about. Our friend Brian Forster, who played Little Chris Partridge, was in town in Chicago With Danny for our semi-partridge family reunion. Brian made the mistake of telling Danny he was still a virgin. I show up at a personal appearance. I did have Danny the eye. Danny introduces me to Brian. And well, you went for a ride we went in the limousine and Brian came back, hilarious.

Speaker 4 14:44

So, we had a good laugh.

Speaker 3 14:45

Another part of your book that is so funny and as a teacher I'll tell you which part that is after a little bit, unless I can do it now.

Speaker 1 14:54

Wow, okay, whatever you say.

Speaker 3 14:57

Well, this part of your book I thought was hilarious because the episode when it's called whatever happened to Moby Dick.

Speaker 3 15:05

And in the show I could just picture you doing a retake, retake, retake and you being a genius boy that you are, you Memorize how to get the whale to do certain tricks, though in the middle of the night, when you couldn't sleep, you went back to where the whale was since you were staying there at the marine, I guess land water park and you started making the whale do some of the same stunts that you watched all day. But then the next day I think you got in trouble, is that?

Speaker 1 15:31

trouble. I, I did. I got in terrible trouble.

Speaker 1 15:33

They were actually gonna kick us out of the marine land because what happened was the whale Does these things because he gets food at the end not every food so I just kept doing these tricks with them until he got mad and stopped doing the tricks and then the next day, during a show, he would not respond, he would not do any tricks at all, and the next night I went out to do it again. They caught me and they threatened to kick the Partridge family out of the arena, can you?

Speaker 1 15:57

imagine the reputation we'd have gotten at the Partridge show and got kicked out of a fish show.

Speaker 4 16:02

Oh, my goodness oh my god, danny.

Speaker 5 16:04

Yeah, that would not have gone over well.

Speaker 1 16:08

No, it did not, Dorees.

Speaker 5 16:10

Surely wouldn't have had her solo with that then Can you imagine if Well Sohn never got recorded. That would have been what happened.

Speaker 1 16:20

I could go all day without hearing that whale song.

Speaker 4 16:23

Oh, I just heard it yesterday. I love it.

Speaker 1 16:25

On the last radio show I did. They insisted on any time anything aquatic showed up. They played that song and, believe me, it is not one of my favorites. Along with here's another one. Not my favorites Point me in the direction of Albuquerque. I don't know why we don't know the way to Albuquerque we got GPS, for God's sake and why anybody would want to go to Albuquerque. I've been to Albuquerque. It's not that great.

Speaker 4 16:46

Nothing's there except that girl that got lost or whatever.

Speaker 5 16:51

That was not one of my favorites, I think on that subject, you want to ask Danny what is something sending about his favorite?

Speaker 4 17:01

I don't know, do you have a favorite episode of the Partridge family?

Speaker 1 17:05

Yeah, I do, and I have a favorite line. As a matter of fact, vic K Back was in this episode, the guy who ended up doing Alice.

Speaker 2 17:12

The name of the show. The name of the show Alice. Yes yes.

Speaker 3 17:15

She was male.

Speaker 1 17:17

Yeah, he was male Boy. You know your stuff, dorees. Anyway, in the episode which is about a gangster thinking his oh, 35-year-old, super sexy girlfriend is actually cheating on him with the anti-partridge, he doesn't know that I'm 10 years old.

Speaker 1 17:32

And at one point he grabs me. He and his accomplice pick me up in the air I'm wearing a duck floaty, yes, I'm going to go swimming. And apparently I don't know how to swim. And he picks me up and he says you know what's going to happen if you don't do this, kid? And I said you know what? And he just mushes the head of my duck.

Speaker 3 17:48

You're a duck.

Speaker 1 17:48

And I said I would like yes, you're squeezing my duck, sir, and that's my favorite episode by far.

Speaker 3 17:55

I want to talk with you.

Speaker 2 17:57

I think you, gentlemen, probably want somebody else. Let me get the discreet for you. Hey, hey, hey, we got a message for you, partridge, you're listening? Good, you're squeezing my duck, sir. The message is stay away from the van to burn. But why that part was?

Speaker 5 18:16

cute, you're so cute. Later in the scene, then he goes. He squeezed my duck, oh my God.

Speaker 1 18:23

That was beautiful.

Speaker 2 18:24

Yeah that was great. I do remember that part.

Speaker 5 18:28

That was a great episode, I got to tell you. We all have our favorites. My favorite was when you guys got lost and wound up. I have two favorites. Mine were when you guys got lost and wound up in Detroit and there was Richard Pryor and all those guys. That's just such a good episode because I loved the song and I just thought, you know, seeing all these great comedians before, they were huge. It was a great episode. And then my other favorite was when, when Laurie met up with Anthony Gehry who was a pre-star, a minister or something on that show, and Shirley thought Laurie went off to get married to the minister. I liked that episode because it features the song Sunshine and that is probably my favorite part of the song One of mine too.

Speaker 1 19:19

Right, so which song is Sunshine? How's it go?

Speaker 4 19:23

Got the sun.

Speaker 5 19:24

Shine in my hands. You got the sun. Shine in your hands, we got the sun.

Speaker 2 19:31

I got the sun, they know what.

Speaker 1 19:33

In our hands, in my hands, and that's all I know of this song. I got the sun Shine in our hands. I've got the sun Shine in my hands. You got the sun.

Speaker 5 19:50

Shine in our hands.

Speaker 1 19:52

I'm going to give you guys kind of an exclusive, if anybody cares, of this song going to an 11 o'clock service at the Catholic Church down the road. So I'm going to have to split soon, so fire me some quick questions. Oh, I got Partridge's.

Speaker 4 20:03

Family trivia, then I want to give. I wrote these questions up for trivia, all right, so number one, what was Shirley Part? Oh, this is for Doreen and Danny. Both of you can answer for this. Okay, I'm sure Danny knows these, but we'll see you know on one of my night television shows.

Speaker 1 20:19

we brought up an audience member who said they're a big fan of Partridge's Family and we played a trivia game and that guy totally, totally won. So I will not be surprised if Doreen walks away with this All right Question number one.

Speaker 4 20:31

All right, there's 10 of them. One is what was Shirley Partridge's job before joining the group?

Speaker 5 20:37

She worked at the bank.

Speaker 4 20:39

Yes, she worked at the bank Bank teller.

Speaker 1 20:41

That true? Yes, true, all right.

Speaker 4 20:42

One for Doreen One for. Doreen. All right, the second one is in the episode Soul Club. What was the venue name that the family played at?

Speaker 1 20:52

The firehouse, the playroom.

Speaker 4 20:54

Nope.

Speaker 1 20:55

Not the firehouse.

Speaker 4 20:56

Nope, it's called Soul.

Speaker 5 20:58

Club. It was in the question, okay.

Speaker 4 21:03

It was there, okay, all right.

Speaker 1 21:04

Just come on, give me another one.

Speaker 4 21:05

Number three what was the name of the high school that Keith Partridge attended?

Speaker 5 21:10

San Pueblo High, oh God I don't remember. San Pueblo.

Speaker 4 21:14

High. Well, I think it's San Pueblo High too, but what I looked it up, it said Westridge High. So which one's correct? The one Doreen said? Yeah, that's what I think, because I know San Pueblo. I never heard Westridge mentioned All right?

Speaker 1 21:26

No, I never heard of it before. So that's two to nothing.

Speaker 4 21:28

Doreen Okay, all right, number next one. What did Farrah Fawcett drop out of her bag in her scene in the first season?

Speaker 1 21:36

My heart.

Speaker 4 21:40

Well, danny, you were eye to eye with her chest. I could tell in the episode, so I know what you were looking at.

Speaker 1 21:45

I was. You know, all three of the original Charlie's Angels were on the Partridge family before they were Angels.

Speaker 4 21:50

Yes, that's amazing, amazing, yeah, really.

Speaker 1 21:53

We're gonna get an apple point for doing that.

Speaker 5 21:55

Yeah, you can have a whole point for doing that one, wow so nobody knows I have no idea, you don't know either.

Speaker 4 22:01

It's a soap powder box Like detergent. It's a what Soap?

Speaker 5 22:06

powder box. So we're only going to do one more. We're going to do five, oh, okay.

Speaker 4 22:10

Because I got some good ones here.

Speaker 5 22:12

Okay, okay, well, maybe six.

Speaker 4 22:13

I could go through real quick. Jody Foster made a guest appearance on the Partridge family. As we all know. What was the name of the episode?

Speaker 1 22:21

Oh, I don't know, but she punched me in the eye.

Speaker 4 22:23

I remember that I know, I thought she punched you in the arm, or was that the other love interest you had?

Speaker 5 22:27

Danny can't keep up with Jody Foster.

Speaker 4 22:31

I don't know the 11 year itch.

Speaker 1 22:33

Oh yeah. Oh, that's because I was 11 years old, is that the thing? Yeah, I probably. Here we go. Hang on a second Hang on who played her dad, burr Convy.

Speaker 4 22:44

Burr Convy.

Speaker 1 22:46

Dan and Doris. Why do you know everything? Because I'm we're both fanatics.

Speaker 4 22:52

Yeah, we're both part-time fanatics. He was also in the whale episode too.

Speaker 5 22:55

But I have a line that Cindy loves. I have a lot of useless information living rent-free in my head.

Speaker 4 23:03

Yes, yes, oh, okay, all right.

Speaker 3 23:05

Hey, danny. Yeah, before you go, can you tell me if this is true, are you an ordained online minister?

Speaker 1 23:13

Yep, absolutely, I've married over a couple that's amazing yeah.

Speaker 4 23:19

Okay, I got to do this funny one. This funny one that we have is in the episode we're Shirley and Lori go camping and hiking. Oh, I love that. What was the name of the wilderness site that they went to? What was that site name? Oh, wait, wait, wait, muldoon's Point. No, that's where you make out at. They went camping here. I don't know.

Speaker 5 23:40

The Girl Scouts found Danny and Keith and Ruben all over the ground laying there with bandages and they were like five yards from the Girl Scouts.

Speaker 4 23:50

Yes, there's a follow question to this one. So, yes, you're on the right track, but you don't know where the site is they went to?

Speaker 5 23:54

No, I don't know it was called Pinnacle Peak.

Speaker 1 23:57

Okay, oh, I remember Pinnacle Peak. For God's sake, Two more, and then I got to go to church for God's sake. Okay, literally for God's sake, you killed Danny.

Speaker 4 24:08

The minister needs to go Good line. Yeah, and what did Danny pick in his suitcase when going to Pinnacle Peak to look for Mom and Lori?

Speaker 5 24:14

Well he did. Somebody brought a guitar, Nobody brought the can. Opener Ruben had to beat the can with a rock. I laughed so hard.

Speaker 4 24:24

Didn't have a can opener. But what did Danny have in his suitcase? I don't know Compass, no food. No, a can of beans. You don't know what you packed in your suitcase. No, we don't know. Socks, shorts, rubber, ducky and hankies.

Speaker 1 24:41

Wow, I'm always prepared. They were productive files.

Speaker 4 24:48

What was the name of the lost album design? We had a thing about John E Miller on this one.

Speaker 1 24:56

I have no idea.

Speaker 4 24:57

You don't know the lost album design. It was called.

Speaker 5 25:01

TV dinner. You guys said we're sticking up out of the pork chops and the mashed potatoes and it was weird.

Danny Bonaduce's Radio Career and Life

Speaker 3 25:09

Yes, I'm excited. Speaking of albums, I think it would be really cool to find one of those albums that Danny and Amy saw in the vintage store. He goes in there and he just signs them. We can go look for him.

Speaker 4 25:25

Dave, Danny doesn't secretly. He signs them, and then you have to go look for him.

Speaker 1 25:29

Right, that's the look. No, you don't. I'll be happy to send you one. I'll have to find one. I don't know where I can find it. Anyway, all right, kids and Doris, this is for you, never been done before, All right here we go, doris. I think I love you so much I'm afraid of you. I think I love you. All right, kids.

Speaker 5 25:50

I'm off. The trip that was so much fun, wasn't?

Speaker 4 25:53

it fun.

Speaker 5 25:53

It was so hilarious.

Speaker 4 25:55

So good to talk to him. He's so funny.

Speaker 5 25:56

He's so funny. He just retired from his radio show that he hosted in Seattle with his co-host, sarah. It was called the Danny Bonaducci and Sarah Morning Show and due to his health he felt he wanted to move to Palm Springs and just be with his wife. And that's what he did. You realize, danny worked in Chicago. Danny lived here for a few years. He worked for a major radio station in Chicago called the Loop.

Speaker 4 26:27

They were WLUP, that's right. He was here for a little while with the Loop. I remember that with Johnny B there was an incident that happened and he had Danny on his show. I'm sure everybody remembered that and that's how his radio career started.

Speaker 5 26:41

Yeah, Johnny B called Danny up because of a little trouble he got into with, let's just say, a working person and Danny got in trouble for slapping this person and broke his nose, I think, and wound up in jail. And Johnny B thought the whole thing was funny and for those of you who don't know, Johnny B is Jonathan Bramile Bramile right, and he was huge in Chicago back in the day and he found that whole thing funny as heck and he called Danny and wanted to do a little radio thing on it.

Speaker 4 27:17

Yeah, I think I barely remember that too.

Speaker 5 27:19

Yeah, and it went over so well. I guess it went over so well that Johnny went up to the big people and said, hey, we need to get this guy on the air in Chicago.

Speaker 4 27:31

And that's how it started.

Speaker 5 27:33

Yep, they kind of clicked, you know, kind of just everything fell into place, I guess, yeah he came to Chicago, he talked to everybody and they offered him a job and he really didn't start off at the top. Danny came here working at night, overnight I think. I think he worked himself through every shift on the loop. Yes, His baby was born. Isabella was born In Chicago and I think that's why they bought the house when he lived in the city. I think they needed more room. Yeah, she was born. Fun fact, she was born Thanksgiving week of that year. So you know how Thanksgiving moves. The year she was born it was Thanksgiving week.

Speaker 4 28:18

Oh, okay. She's a turkey baby. Then he moved out of Chicago. Yeah, he moved to the Burms.

Speaker 5 28:24

Yeah, but he stayed here for a while. He worked himself from that graveyard shift to the nighttime. Then he got really big on his afternoon shift. That's where he really started getting a lot of listeners. I followed him all the way from the whole time and it was during his afternoon shift. Something else big happened while he was living here in Chicago. What was that? Has to do with Donnie Osmond, oh, the fight.

Speaker 4 29:00

Even Donnie has been fighting. That's like salt and pepper, cold and hot.

Speaker 5 29:06

It was fun because then you know, donnie has this way of just spitting it out, right, he'll just say it. One day he was on the air and he made some remark about Marie Osmond and. Donnie did not.

Speaker 4 29:22

Oh, I'm sure.

Speaker 5 29:23

Well, donnie and Donnie worked out at the same gym and when Donnie showed up that day, donnie got all in his face and said I will kick your ass. And then he said name the place and the time. And they did.

Speaker 4 29:39

the rest of history, rest is history. And who won that fight? It was really poor Donnie, that's all I can say yeah, poor Donnie. He's not a fighter. Yeah.

Speaker 5 29:55

And I think Donnie, I honestly believe Donnie thought the whole thing was going to be just a exhibition, Right, but Donnie was taking the thing seriously, of course, yes, and he went in there and he plummeted for Donnie and Donnie was like hey, I really didn't think this was going to be for real. For real, I think, found out. Yeah, donnie was here, the only reason Donnie was here in Chicago. He had that really low step playing Joseph Joseph and amazing Technicolor drink code.

Speaker 4 30:30

So they're both in town. And then, after Chicago, danny went to Detroit.

Speaker 5 30:35

Yeah, they offered him a job in Detroit Because his boss moved. They offered his boss a job to move to Detroit to run a radio station there. And Miss Larry Wirt said hey, Danny, you want to move to Detroit with me? And then he said surely, Mr Wirt, and that's where they will end, in Detroit.

Speaker 4 30:57

And that's where they WQQ I.

Speaker 5 31:01

Yeah, and you know what's funny? Danny worked two jobs at that time. He was on the air in Detroit and he did a remote time for his afternoon show. That wasn't going well. People could tell it really wasn't at that time. Technology wasn't as great and people could tell he wasn't there live and everything. So they just ended.

Speaker 4 31:23

He just kind of quit and worked only in Detroit, yeah, but then also to in 98. He was the morning show host for New York City's big 105 WBAX for a brief period.

Speaker 5 31:36

Yeah, he moved all around he did. He left Chicago, went to Detroit, wound up in New York, but I think after New York he he maybe was in Philly or something, but he landed in LA. And I always say I have a little saying. Forgive me, danny, but I'm going to say it. I may find a duchy a verb, like when you work your way up to something right, I said. I always say now you bond the doochie to your way back into the limelight, cause you know Danny have fallen. He was the poster child, oh, yeah.

Speaker 5 32:12

And his whole goal was, I think, to get himself back in LA and be a star. Yeah, and so I have this little saying you bond the doochie to yourself right back to LA.

Speaker 4 32:25

And then from LA went to Seattle. Right, yeah, yeah, I think cohosted the morning show.

Speaker 5 32:32

No, not from LA to Seattle. He did. He was in Philly, that's when he landed in.

Speaker 4 32:38

Okay, so he did his share of moving around. He did all kinds of radio Right.

Speaker 5 32:45

And then then his last stop was Seattle. That was. He stayed there for a long time 11 years, wow, that's a long time, yeah. And then he was on KZ okay, in Seattle, was his co-host on his station in Philly Okay, when they offered him the job in Seattle, he said, hey, sarah, you want to come to Seattle? And she said, sure, danny, I'll go. And they loaded up the truck and moved to Seattle.

Speaker 4 33:12

Oh, and there they stayed, yeah. And now's in Palm Springs.

Speaker 5 33:17

Yeah, he wouldn't have left, he would have stayed, but his health got bad Right and so he was like I'm going to paraphrase but he basically said he wants to be around, live life with his wife, and so he's like that scared him so much that he wants to enjoy the days that he can hold in his wife's hand, take the walks, do anything he can do, and they moved Palm Springs in there Having a ball.

Speaker 4 33:44

Why not retire and enjoy life and move to Palm Springs?

Speaker 5 33:49

Yeah, people don't know. Tell them, tell them the condition, danny suffer hydrocephalus.

Speaker 4 33:57

Hydrocephalus is an accumulation of fluid in the brain. He had some symptoms of he was imbalanced. So they weren't sure what it was and found out that he had this hydrocephalus, some abnormal accumulation of fluid on the brain.

Speaker 4 34:10

So they did put a stent in and he's doing good now. Yep, us common folk call it water on the brain. Water on the brain, water on the brain yeah, it could be caused by many different things, but you know the solution is to get that stent in and get that fluid out of there until they can figure out you know what was causing it. So I'm glad he's doing better now.

Speaker 5 34:31

He's so much.

Speaker 4 34:31

He is as we just heard. He sounded great.

Speaker 5 34:35

Yeah, and you know what else Danny did besides radio Cindy.

Speaker 4 34:41

Well TV. Well, I remember the Partridge family. Yeah, Nobody can forget the Partridge family.

Speaker 5 34:48

Little Danny Partridge. No, we will never forget that, but he actually dabbled in talk shows.

Speaker 4 34:56

Oh yeah, I remember that.

Speaker 5 34:58

Yes, when he lived here in Chicago he had a show called Danny Danny exclamation point Mission, point Excitement Danny.

Speaker 5 35:08

Yes, and it was pretty good. He ran for a couple of years on that show and I was actually in the audience for the episode. They were doing calendars. You know how you sell pin up calendars. At least back in the day, these who, the girls and firemen were posing and they did these calendars and they were selling them for charity. Oh, okay, and this whole thing was on this episode of Danny and I was sitting in the audience. Now, you know how shy I can be, right, oh, yes, I'm shy. Well, I'm sitting in the audience and one of this very hunky firemen was standing there posing and they were taking audience questions. So Danny goes, hey, my friend Darius has a question, and they come to me with the mic and I said, hey, I'd like to ask that fireman on the end if he has a very big hose and if so, can I see it. They went straight to commercial.

Speaker 4 36:17

I guess that was a no.

Speaker 5 36:21

I mean the director went straight to commercial, as they should. That's the most funny thing about, the funniest thing about that, I would say, at work maybe a month or five, six weeks later, cause they recorded them so far in the band. So I worked in downtown Chicago in a high rise building and I was walking around the building doing something that I probably wasn't working. And I was strolling around one of the floors and this guy came up to me and he goes hey, didn't I just see you on Danny Bonaducci show asking the fireman to see his hose? I push the elevator button, jump on his head. No, what's up me?

Speaker 4 37:05

Oh, my goodness, oh my god, I couldn't believe.

Speaker 5 37:11

I'm at my job and somebody saw that and you have a whole story now. Yep.

Speaker 4 37:18

Oh my goodness, no wonder Danny loves you so much so.

Speaker 5 37:23

I just can't help myself. I think I come from the same cloth.

Speaker 4 37:28

We just say stuff yeah just do yes, yeah, but fun, fun stories, as long as you don't hurt anybody.

Speaker 5 37:37

Right, you know what Danny's most notorious thing was Breaking Bonaducci.

Speaker 4 37:45

Yes, I Kind of remember watching that, but it didn't turn out well.

Speaker 5 37:51

No, it didn't. It was a hit. The show itself was a hit, but it really was a train wreck, right? Danny kept doing stuff that really Wasn't that I told you. He just says and does anything, so break them by the duty. He was living in LA. Him and his wife were going through a hard time they were. They were sending a therapist and all kinds of things a marriage counselor, I think and Danny was drinking a lot. Yeah and it just was not a good thing, right he?

Speaker 4 38:28

kept getting in trouble. That seemed to follow him through his life. That was his thing.

Speaker 5 38:35

He was in trouble back then and I remember one of the episodes he was sitting on the ground with a bottle of alcohol, holding it, drinking it out of a bag on a curb in LA. I'm like Danny really. He also in another episode. He had, you know, those little dog collars for electronic fences. Fences, yes, they keep your dog from crossing. The little Shot collar, yeah, shot collar. Danny put that on his two-year-old son and then walk to son over to the fence and Put on it to see what was out.

Speaker 4 39:16

Oh, my goodness.

Speaker 5 39:19

It was. I'm like, I'm like, oh my god. Now I'm gonna tell you, danny has many times said Breaking by the duty was not his finest moment and he's not very proud, right. So so, yeah, that was the shows that I know that he did the kind of most people are most familiar with.

Speaker 4 39:40

Yes, right, otherwise, he had, you know, various spots on other shows. You know, just guess starring on him and things like that. But yeah, but he, yeah, he had a, he had a long career a.

Speaker 5 39:50

Very long career. Like you said, he gets started on a lot of TV shows. He did numerous times on that 70s show. Right, they like him so much. They brought him on. He did the CSI a couple of times Back in the day he was on chips. He just did a lot of different shows. Guest stars yeah yeah.

Speaker 4 40:12

And did you know that he was honored by the Young Artist Foundation, the former child star life achievement award, for his role? No, I didn't know that. Okay, oh, they talk about the Partridge family. The series ran for four seasons, from 1970 to 74, and in 2003, bonaducci was honored by the Young Artist Foundation with its former child star Life achievement award for his role in the series. So that is so cool. Yeah, for the Partridge family. Do you believe that? That's great?

Speaker 5 40:43

He should be proud of that. I don't know if he remembers. The only thing Danny talks about is he wants a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He makes that clear every chance he gets. Yes, that's, that's all he ever talks about.

Speaker 4 40:59

Well, you never know, danny Could happen. Yeah, you never know. Never know could come up, but in the meantime he's enjoying Palm Springs with his wife, with that, I think is great.

Speaker 5 41:08

Yes, he is, and we wish him the best. Yes, always, and I hope that we get him back soon. That's a that's a good time with Danny more time, more.

Speaker 4 41:19

It was so fun having him on the episode today.

Speaker 5 41:21

We're so glad to have him you know, he's always got something funny to say.

Speaker 4 41:25

So glad everybody was able to join us today for our season 3 opener episode.

Speaker 5 41:32

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Speaker 4 41:39

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