Shaun Squad Society
The Shaun Squad Society Podcast is a podcast written, produced and hosted by three women who want to keep the Magic of a Midnight Sky alive!
Cindy, Dorese and Dame became friends at a Shaun Cassidy concert and immediately decided to form "The Shaun Squad." Soon after, the Shaun Squad Society Podcast was conceived to discuss and reminisce about all-things Shaun Cassidy, from his first years as a teen idol to his current career as a writer and producer.
This podcast brings together a community of Shaun's devoted fans, the ones who played his albums non-stop, and who tuned into The Hardy Boys Mysteries every Sunday evening. And now, 46 years later, Shaun's story-telling tour has delighted fans again. So, join us for the stories, fun-facts, and fascinating interviews as we take you down memory lane with our Teen Dream, Shaun Cassidy.
Shaun Squad Society
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Ryan Cassidy takes us on a fascinating journey through his multi-faceted career in Hollywood. As a current set dresser for NCIS, Ryan pulls back the curtain on the intricate world of television production, explaining how the magic happens when cameras aren't rolling.
With remarkable clarity, Ryan breaks down the complex hierarchy of comparing production designers to architects who create the blueprint, while set decorators and set dressers bring these visions to life. His explanations reveal the extraordinary teamwork required to create the believable environments we take for granted as viewers. The contrast he draws between working on multi-camera sitcoms like King of Queens versus hour-long dramas like NCIS demonstrates how different production styles demand unique approaches to set design.
Beyond his television career, Ryan reveals his surprising passion for law enforcement. As a specialist volunteer with the LAPD and board chair of archives at the Los Angeles Police Museum, he brings nuanced perspectives on public service and the challenges faced by those in uniform. This unexpected dimension of his life provides a refreshing counterpoint to his creative endeavors.
Perhaps most poignant is Ryan's story of finding a "Facts of Life" stencil on a recycled set wall while working as a set dresser – a perfect full-circle moment connecting his early acting career with his current profession. Along with delightful anecdotes about working with Lionel Richie, the technical challenges of Muppets Tonight, and his friendship with Gary Cole, Ryan paints a compelling picture of a life lived both in front of and behind the camera.
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Ryan's Work on NCIS and With Gary Cole
Speaker 1there are warehouses that were turned into sound stages, so it's not a studio, it's more of a industrial area about 30 minutes from where I live, which is where we shoot the show. But it's a very well-oiled machine, as you can imagine, being on for 22 seasons, and I get to work with some great actors Gary Cole, who's a friend of mine- oh, we love Gary Cole.
Speaker 1He's a good actor, he's an amazing and he's just a phenomenal human being. He's just an amazing man on all levels. He's a dear friend of mine and I love going to work every day and seeing him. The rule everybody get down, get with it.
Speaker 2The rule everybody get down, get with it. The rule everybody get down, that's the rule. Welcome to the Shawn Squad Society Podcast with your hosts, myself, cindy, doris and Madonna, where we invite you to share in our enthusiasm and reminisce about all things Sean Cassidy.
Speaker 3From his teen idol days to his recent adventures back on the road again.
Speaker 4Please join us for the stories and memories that connected us to those happy days that helped create the Sean Squad Society podcast.
Speaker 3We're going to talk a little bit, if you don't mind, about your career as a set designer. First of all, I'm confused, Ryan. I don't understand the difference between a set designer a set decorator. Isn't there a distinct difference between the two?
Speaker 1Very, very, very much so. So in the world of television and film, in the department for the art department, if you will, it starts out the top the department. I would compare it to like hiring an architect, right. So the designer designs, the designer works closely with the writer, producers, and the writer writes the story, the script, and they create the setting right, and then the they create the budget and the designer then, uh, will hire a sometimes an art director set designer who actually will build. The production designer will create like a blueprint of the set, right, and on that blueprint they'll kind of give you an idea of where the furniture is going to go, kind of like the blueprint of a house for an architect or a building. The set designer will then be brought in by the production designer or the art director and then they'll work and they will execute all the colors that get the carpets, whatever it may be that's getting put in, and they can even sometimes build a miniature foam core model of that set so you can actually see it, a smaller version of what it's going to look like.
Speaker 1Then the set decorator gets hired. The set decorator is brought in. They create their own budget as to what their budget is and what they have to get for that set. And so, like when you go into a house that you're going to thinking about buying, that's on the market, it's an empty house. You then get to decorate it right. You, as the buyer, pick out what you want or you bring what you want that you have from your other location. So that's what a set is. When we get a set, it's like an empty house and that the designer has already. The designer hires a construction crew, they build the actual set on that stage and we usually look at that blueprint as set dressers.
Speaker 1The set dressers are the guys that actually, after the decorator has picked everything out and tagged everything in a prop house or purchased it, we then go pick it up, we bring it to the set and we dress it in. So we dress it in per what the decorator decides or what the decorator wants, and in some cases we also work with the designer and the set designer and the production designer. So all of us are in the same kind of under the same umbrella and in some cases, the set dresser. If the decorator says, hey, just dress that in the set. This is where I want the large pieces to go. The dressers can then kind of get creative and dress in smaller stuff on their own. And if it's a period piece, you know you want it to make sure it's accurate with the period. So if you're addressing a 1930s department store, you have to make sure that it's all accurate to that period.
Speaker 6I'm sure you love getting on eBay.
Speaker 1And there's also a buyer. And what a buyer will do is they'll go out and they'll work with the decorator, and the decorator will say I'm looking for colonial hutches, or I'm looking for French art deco chairs, or I'm looking for old stoves from the 1930s. They'll go take photos of all that stuff and they'll send photos to the decorator, and the decorator will then pick out what they want.
Speaker 3Oh cool.
Speaker 6Okay, that's like those home improvement shows.
Speaker 2Yeah, do you shop? They go shopping, yeah, in these stores, yeah I'm looking for this.
Speaker 3There was a show years ago called trading spaces. You had like a thousand dollars and you go and shop and fix your friend's house with that thousand dollars. And yeah, they either liked it or didn't.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3But you had your first gig, from what I'm understanding, in this career of set. What are you set dresser, yeah set dresser. Okay, but with Jim Henson Did you do the Jim Henson?
Speaker 1I worked on a show called Muppets Tonight and I had been an employee with the company, with Jim Henson Productions, and I wanted to work in the set decorating department and the art department and they were starting up a new show called Muppets Tonight and they allowed me to leave the company because I couldn't stay as an employee of the company and get on the show Muppets Tonight as a set dresser trainee and from that show I was able to get into the IATSE union, which is the unions for all the crafts, and from there I just got on another show and I just kept working. But that was my first job in the set decorating world and that was kind of a challenging show but it was fun because all the sets were elevated for the puppeteers to walk through yeah, yeah we had to like put this furniture on platforms so the puppeteers could walk through with their arm raised and the puppet on their arm to walk through the set.
Speaker 1So there was a little bit more work involved with that, but it was a lot of fun, because nobody thinks about that.
Speaker 1With the puppet yeah yeah, the sets are, like you know, five, six feet in the air. I'm saying the bottom wow doorway is about five feet in the air. So you're walking. You're literally walking through with your arm in the air, with a puppet on your arm, going through the house or going through the location wow, so they're all standing when they're using the puppet yeah, they're looking down at a monitor with their arm in the air oh, okay, interesting themselves and there's a second puppeteer that's uh doing the or they're.
Speaker 1They've got their arm in the in the air with the, so their arm is inside the head and their other hand is on the sticks that control the arms. Do you understand?
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 1Honored to see themselves.
Speaker 3Well, I don't know if you know it, my friend, because you are now our friend, but you have an anniversary. You just celebrated like three days ago, yeah, three days ago In 1985, on February 27th, you were first episode on Facts of Life.
Speaker 2Look at this, look at that, there it is, there's the. Second Way TV Guide.
Speaker 3I thought I'd bring that up real quick. I want to go back to the sex designer stuff, but it's in my notes so I didn't want to forget that you had an anniversary Plus your birthday.
Speaker 2Let's not forget his birthday, and you did have a birthday.
Speaker 5He just turned 29 for the 30th time.
Speaker 2Oh, us too Us too.
Speaker 3Oh, the 30th anniversary of your 29th birthday.
Speaker 2That means I'm 25. 25.
Speaker 1Okay, yeah no, I feel really good. You know, I turned 59, and I feel great. It's probably going to be. The 60s are going to be some of my better years, I feel.
Speaker 3I just feel it Good attitude, cindy, and I can attest.
Speaker 1We're in the 60s club.
Speaker 3It gets better, it only gets better.
Speaker 2I feel like 49.
Speaker 5I have 53 days until I turn 60. 53 days, oh really.
Speaker 3Happy birthday early to you, John, but we'll be in touch. Yeah.
Speaker 5Definitely.
Speaker 3I wanted to ask you real quick, ryan, going back to the set, so you work right now on NCIS, correct? You also worked on other sets. One of my favorite old shows that I still watch today was the King of Queens. Now, the King of Queens, you have a living room, a kitchen Sometimes they would go upstairs and they have a garage. I can see those places needing set design, decorator, dresser, all of those things. Ncis has a morgue and a big old room where all the agents are.
Speaker 6What exactly?
Speaker 1are you designing? That's called the squad room? Were just I was just in the morgue set on friday actually working?
Speaker 2oh cool, I saw a dead body on the other episode I watched the other night. How'd you do you design the dead body too?
Speaker 1no, no. So that morgue that's been there before. It was there before I I got there. I got there season 19, so I've been there and we're in.
Speaker 1We're going into season 23, we got yeah, wow um, main sets there that are the uh, like the principal sets that we're always in is the squad room, which is the room where they have all their little desks at. Uh, we're in the mtax set, which is where they have these, like they sit and they look at a giant screen, they talk to somebody from another continent or wherever. We're in the interrogation room a lot and we're in the autopsy room and we're in forensics a lot, which is one of the principal sets. So the principal sets are called the permanent sets and then they have wing sets. Wing sets are sets that are built just for that episode and in some cases they could be anything from apartments, hotel rooms to offices, to art galleries, whatever it may be that pertains.
Speaker 1That is in that storyline, that the storyline calls for that specific location. In some cases we're at a location off the facility where we work. There are warehouses that were turned into sound stages. So it's not a studio, it's more of a industrial area about 30 minutes from where I live, which is where we shoot the show, but it's a very well-oiled machine, as you can imagine, being on for 22 seasons, and I get to work with some great actors. Gary Cole, who's a friend of mine, is oh, we love Gary Cole.
Speaker 1He's a good actor. He's an amazing. And he's just a phenomenal human being. He's an amazing and he's just a phenomenal human being. He's just an amazing man on all levels. He's a dear friend of mine and I love going to work every day and seeing him.
Speaker 3That's awesome. I would love to work one day with Gary Cole, so anyway, yeah.
Speaker 2Remember him on the Brady Bunch movie. Mr Brady, that was his out-of-the of the sequence role type thing he did. Yeah, that's not his usual role.
Speaker 1My brother, sean, created a show called American Gothic.
Set Design versus Set Decoration
Speaker 2We know all about that.
Speaker 6Don't get Dory started. Don't get her started.
Speaker 3That's my all timetime favorite.
Speaker 6TV show oh no.
Speaker 3She started. Well, it is.
Speaker 2I think it was underrated. It was a good show, that's funny.
Speaker 3Tell Gary Cole if you ever remember that Darice said that's buck Buck with a B, buck with a B.
Speaker 1Oh, buck with a B, yeah, buck, you got the B. You ever see Gary and Talladega Night.
Speaker 2Yes, with Will Ferrell. Yes, he was hilarious. Oh my gosh Hilarious.
Speaker 3I guess in my head, and maybe Cindy can agree, we were just thinking the show is different to design decorate dress. Ncis has like a very like I don't know, like it's dress or desk you got desk and a big old monitor. And then you got King of Queens, which is whimsical and funny, and I would just. Which one do you decide like better to design?
Speaker 1Okay, so King of Queens is a half hour show. Yes, multicam half hour shows are done in, usually in front of a live audience, and all of the sets are on one soundstage. It's kind of like doing theater. They're all little, all the walls are are Luan and one by three, and they're small sets. Generally speaking they're small sets and so and then you put them all together, you line them all up and then in front of that is the camera aisle so the cameras can go up and down the aisle and shoot each of the sets out. So on a multicam half hour show, the way it's designed is that you go to that one stage it's usually one stage that it's all on and you block and shoot the show Monday, tuesday, wednesday and sometimes pre Thursday. Then they bring in a live audience to get a laugh track and you shoot the whole show on a, a Friday and in front of the live audience. And it's just a different format, different way of shooting and I like both of them. I think they're both great.
Speaker 1I got most of my experience on multi-cam half hour shows like King of Queens. But one hour shows are generally for what I do are a little harder because they're um, you're not. It's not. It's not all in one, you're all over the map. You could be like on one stage doing one scene and you have to go to another stage to do another scene on another set. You're all over the place, unlike multi-chem shows where it's all on the same stage, you understand.
Speaker 2Yeah, interesting, yeah, very interesting how they set it up. Yeah.
Speaker 3And I would think a show like NCIS or any crime kind of show like that being like a drama, more serious stuff, I could get in this an hour long. Yeah, I could probably get into that, especially if you put Gary Cole next to me. Yeah, I'll be okay.
Speaker 1Yeah, you guys remember a show called how to Get Away with Murder with Viola Davis. Yes, yes, I worked on that show for a little while and that was an intense show to work on. First of all, she's a phenomenal actress. Yes, she is. I would be watching her do a scene and I was just mesmerized by her performances. And when you work on these shows, these one-hour dramas, you have to be very quiet and sometimes, if the scene requires some heavy emotion, you really just let you know, let it ride out. But you know, I'm an observer, I'm working there, I'm a worker on the show and I'm watching the scene unfold and it's like wow, you know, this is intense and in some cases it's just really fun, it's really cool and you get to see an artist at work, you know.
Speaker 2Yeah, but you were in front of the camera with the other show, yeah.
Speaker 3With Facts of Life.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, that was your first.
Speaker 1I'll tell you a funny story. So when I worked on Facts of Life, my character was Kevin Metcalf, as you know. When I switched gears and I started working behind the camera in set decorating work, I was working on a show and I was putting up a sconce on a set. It may have been King of Cards, actually, and on some of these walls, these set walls behind the set, they have stencils of what show they were from, because a lot of the set walls get recycled and they're used on another set, on another show. So I was working on a set and I was putting a sconce on the wall and I see a stencil that says Facts of Life on the back of the wall. Oh, really.
Speaker 1Wait a minute, that's full circle. Now, that's really full circle.
Speaker 2Wow, who put that there?
Speaker 3Yeah, that's full circle for sure, that's interesting. Well, speaking of interesting, you worked at the police department, volunteered. Another interest Volunteered at the police department, volunteered. I have another interest you volunteered at the police department.
Speaker 1I do. So. I had a strong desire to be a police officer when I was growing up and was always fascinated with police work. There was something about public administration and public working with the public and sort of creating, being listening to both sides of a story and trying to bring some sort of harmony to chaos. There was something that I was attracted to with that, and so I was.
Speaker 1When I was a teenager, I was a law enforcement explorer and I was with the sheriff's department.
Speaker 1I went to an academy and I graduated and I rode out in cars and I got some experience as a youngster, and so that desire never really left me, except that I didn't become a police officer.
Speaker 1I went into show business and the desire never left me, and many years ago I applied to be what they call a specialist reserve officer with LAPD and I went through the process and I was fingerprinted and they did a little background investigation on me and I was accepted and I am. Now I'm a specialist, I'm what they call a specialist volunteer and I'm assigned to a division specialist. I'm what they call a specialist volunteer and I'm assigned to a division. So whenever I'm free, which is usually when I'm not working and I'm on a hiatus, I do volunteer my time with the department and I help them in whatever way, which way I can. And then I also became a board director at the Los Angeles Police Museum and I'm board chair of archives, so we have some really cool exhibits there and I'm board chair of archives, so we have some really cool exhibits there. And I helped kind of create the Adam 12 exhibit, because Adam 12 was based in Washington.
Speaker 2I love that one.
Speaker 1And I grew up with Kent McCord, who has played Officer Reed in Adam 12.
Speaker 3Yes.
Speaker 1So I you know LAPD and police work has been part of my life and I respect. I don't like all police officers, but the ones that I've come to know and I like, I like a lot and I respect.
Speaker 2I have a story about a policeman my dad retired as a sergeant in the police force. Wow, and he, yeah, he went through a lot and I didn't realize what he went through until made a police book. All these stories that I didn't know about and it was amazing. It's amazing what they go through, that you don't really realize. Yeah, so to read this book was amazing.
Speaker 1What department was your dad with?
Speaker 2He was with the Mount Prospect Police Department in a suburb of Chicago. Yeah, he drove P1, which, okay, fun fact, is the Blues Brothers car.
Speaker 1A lot of my friends growing up were police officers and I just I'd always just was fascinated with the stories that they would share and, again, the ones that I got to know that were really doing it because they wanted to be of service and they wanted to give back and they wanted to help. Those are the people that I really, uh, looked up to and I think was also because it was such a far cry from what I grew up with. You know, there was something, um, I admired about going out there and trying to, you know, uh, be of service and help people and then go home and and obviously you're going to see some of the worst of the worst when you're a police officer, so it's uh.
Ryan's Anniversary on Facts of Life
Speaker 1I got to experience that as a deputy explorer with the LA County Sheriff's Department. I saw some pretty horrific stuff and it made me appreciate my own family and it made me appreciate just everything. Their hands are tied a lot of the time because they have to follow protocol and how they were trained and their instincts may tell them to do something else, but they have to do what they're trained to do and sometimes what they're trained to do is going to be viewed as not right and not okay, you know, and seen as something that's not good. So I think that I just know that from my experience and when I've gone out in radio cars on ride-alongs, I learn a lot and I try to come from a place of compassion with everything, because there's a lot of suffering that goes on out there and there's a lot of health issues. But there's a lot of suffering and you want to be able to find harmony and peace through that and give back in some way to somebody who's not as fortunate.
Speaker 2So yeah, my dad had talked some people off out of suicide and those I those stories I remember the most, that my dad was very compassionate and I had a gun to him his head and my dad had to talk him out of doing the unthinkable.
Speaker 3I mean, I think it didn't work all the time but it's a pretty serious business, I'm glad, brian, that you went to LAPD and not Beverly Hills, just because I think you know, growing up here I'm living in the Midwest, in Chicago. You think Beverly Hills and you think, oh, that's the fluffy, foo-foo cops. And then you got the LAPD. They're the cops, they're the gritty cops. That's just how we perceive it. And then right now police just don't have a good, especially in Chicago, the police department. It's just they don't have a good rap for everything that they go through and do and protect and help and serve and everything else. But then you hear the kind of negative, bad stories on TV and you know they're just not getting the best of them.
Speaker 1It paints them out to be bad guys, and it's unfortunate because you don't hear about the stories A lot of the time, of the ones that really do save somebody or help somebody. You only see what the media paints, and it's unfortunate. And, by the way, chicago is not the only place where they're getting a bad rap. But the pendulum swings both ways and it's starting to swing back the other way, I think, where police will start to gain a little bit more credibility. I think Appreciation.
Speaker 2but there's body camps these days too, so you know I can't get away without doing anything without somebody.
Speaker 1Yeah, their hands are tied because not that they were doing things that were, that were incorrect, but they're too comfortable in their job and to do it the way that you know, and sometimes to just be reasonable and just say this is how we're going to do it, somebody's going to find fault in it and they're going to put a camera on it. So I think it's slowly starting to change.
Speaker 2Yeah, hopefully yeah.
Speaker 3Well, we can get kind of off the subject of the police department. That's great that you I mean I'm sure a lot of people never knew that Ryan Cassidy was that connected to law enforcement. So that's really cool that you are yeah. But let's talk about some silly stuff for a second. Some silly stuff. I mean, it's whimsical, a little bit Early maybe the late 80s, early 90s. Dude, you did a movie, you did an MTV video.
Speaker 6Oh, there you go. Yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 1With Lionel Richie.
Speaker 6Yeah, penny Loveless.
Speaker 1No speaking in that one but, that's pretty face in it I got by the collar and he threw me against this wall. He was so cool.
Speaker 2Yeah, he seemed like a cool guy. I was a big fan.
Speaker 1I was a big fan. Then I went in and I think they put me on tape and they sent the tape to Lionel and Lionel said, yeah, he's the guy we're going to hire. Yeah, I just had to give a certain look kind of thing.
Speaker 6And there you go yeah.
Speaker 1Look at the camera and give this really intense kind of look you know, and then they gave that to Lionel and Lionel went through the ones and he liked mine.
Speaker 6I guess he's like that's the one.
Speaker 2Wow, the cool Cassidy there in line, let's pick him.
Speaker 3I know Richie's like. That's the one I want, right there Did he know who you related to though.
Speaker 2Oh, yeah, Very much so.
Speaker 1Oh, he did know.
Speaker 2Okay, he did.
Speaker 1Yeah, he knew everybody in my family. He was a total gem to work with Total blast.
Speaker 3One of those people that on TV you think he is the guy off camera. Who he is on camera. He just seems so nice and fun and happy.
Speaker 1We stayed in touch, you know, and even had dinner or lunch, I think, one day, and he was just such an amazing, amazing guy business degree. So he's a very smart, savvy businessman and, uh, we, we shared a lot of things in common, you know. Obviously, growing up in a musical family, you know, we talked a lot about music and accomplishments that my family had made, and we talked a little bit about family and he was just a nice man. Every time he'd see me, he'd wrap his arms around me and give me a big hug.
Speaker 6Yeah, he looks very nice.
Speaker 3I got the pleasure to see him in concert four years ago. We have a little outdoor music venue here and you could bring little picnics and everything. It's called Ravinia. And people bring wine and picnics and my friend asked me to go and I'm like, are you serious? I'm not even I walked out of there saying, wow, that was one of the best shows I've seen. Lionel Richie was one of the best concerts I've seen. It was good, it was really good. So I was happy, she asked me to go.
Speaker 1He certainly has had a lot of hits between the Commodores and then when he went solo. Yes, I mean every time in the 80s you turn on the radio. Every other song was a Lionel Richie song.
Speaker 3Yes, it was, yes, it was.
Ryan's Career Shift to Set Dressing
Speaker 1Yeah, mtv was kind of like when I got got that job and it was my first on-camera job, if you will, you know professional on-camera type of a job I did it in one day and I remember when it aired on MTV and it was like, wow, that's really cool. You know, I was kind of like that's kind of a cool thing, you know.
Speaker 2What did your mom say? Did she like it? Mom loved it, yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 2All right, we got another thing to ask you. We know you had a nickname when you were younger. We want to know how you got your nickname.
Speaker 1So my nickname was Charlie and my dad had nicknames for everybody. I don't know really where he got the name Charlie.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's what we were wondering.
Speaker 1Well, there's a few Charlies in my family, so Charlie is something that he I think he just from the time I was a little boy. He saw Charlie in me in some way. I don't know where he created that name Charlie and Chocolate Factory.
Speaker 2Maybe it was really wanted out in those days.
Speaker 1I don't know because I don't know, but that was my name. He addressed all of the letters to Charlie my brother's name, oh that is so funny yeah.
Speaker 2But was he the one that picked out the name Ryan?
Speaker 1I would imagine so, but I would imagine that my dad probably thought of that name Nice Irish name.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'd probably thought of that name Nice Irish name.
Speaker 3Yeah, dane, what did?
Speaker 6you want to ask Brian. He likes old Hollywood and he gets serious about, you know, displaying old Hollywood things. Well, I did my ancestry and I found out that I'm related to and I don't know if you know who she is Helen Lent and she's from the twenties and she was in these movies right here.
Speaker 1I love Al Jolson the singing.
Speaker 6And I found out that she's my cousin and so I thought that was cool and I wrote it down here. She's my first cousin, two times removed, and she was one of the first Hollywood stars for her family to move there. And then Lauren Bacall was wife of my second cousin, jason Robards. And then Jason Robards Sr married my blood relative and Jason Robards' sister with Laurel Robards turned 80, and I gave her a call. So that was really cool, isn't that neat?
Speaker 2So you're a Hollywood history.
Speaker 6I love collections and I love the Hollywood collections, and you were mentioning that you knew something more about this one, about him.
Speaker 1I have an old Victrola record player with 78 records and I have several original Al Jules in 78. Oh, cool, where you crank it up and it you know it plays the song oh wow, it's like a big old needle and it goes.
Speaker 3Yeah, exactly, that's neat.
Speaker 1Al Jolson. His tomb is on the side of the 405 freeway out here in Los Angeles. Wow, I remember any time you'd go to the LAX airport, you'd pass by it. I remember looking at it, always going. There's Al Jolson's tomb. I want to stop there one day, and I did. I stopped there, oh cool.
Speaker 6Well, that's a small world, but I thought that was really neat. And then the lady that I called the other day I said we're blood related and your brother, jason Robards, was married to Lauren Bacall. So I thought that was really cool. So I started collecting Lauren Bacall stuff and that was really cool. So I started collecting Lauren Bacall stuff and then I found out my cousin was married to a man from Gone with the Wind too, one of the main stars, and Carol Nye. Do you know who that is?
Speaker 5No.
Speaker 6Well, lauren Bacall married Jason Robards and Jason Robards' mother stepmother was my cousin, but I'm blood related to Jason Robards' sister and I just thought that was really cool. And then to get to talk to Laurel Robards on the phone on her 80th birthday, I thought that was awesome Very neat, that's very neat.
Speaker 1A little Hollywood lineage there for you, yeah, but this is cool.
Speaker 6I'm talking to you. It's awesome. That's just Ryan. It's just Ryan. Johnny, come on.
Speaker 3He's our buddy. I can't. I can't because I care.
Speaker 1You guys have been a pleasure to talk to.
Speaker 3Thank you, ryan. We had a lot of fun. We can't thank you enough. Thank you guys so much for taking time out of your afternoon to spend with us. Yeah, we had a great time. We did a beautiful tribute to Ms Shirley Jones for her 90th birthday.
Speaker 2Oh, last year.
Speaker 3Last year we did a two-part podcast episode and we are planning to do a tribute to Mr Jack Cassidy this year. Oh, wonderful Birthday's coming up, march 5th March 5th, which is Andy Gibb's birthday too, in case you didn't know, andy Gibb.
Speaker 6These girls know all the fun facts. They're good at that.
Speaker 3Well, on our Facebook page I'm mostly the Facebook page creator designer, but I have to come up with fun facts Friday. So that's how I do a lot of research and that's how I learned Jack and Andy had the same birthday.
Speaker 2Yeah, interesting.
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Speaker 1Well, I really enjoyed this and you guys are just incredible.
Speaker 2Thank you for all the great stuff. Thank you, I hope you like our set decoration. We were going to ask you.
Speaker 1I do.
Speaker 3John, thanks for tagging along. This is Johnny's book.
Speaker 5We didn't see a whole lot, no, this has been fun.
Speaker 1Have a fantastic weekend. We'll see you soon, I hope.
Speaker 3Everybody where they can get. James Cagney, what's my Babysitter? And even John will let you plug your book also when we're Singing.
Speaker 5James Cagney. What's my Babysitter is on Amazon and Barnes Noble. You can also get it through my website, whenwesingingcom, if you want a signed copy. We have signed copies by Ryan through our website.
Speaker 3Oh cool. Say that again whenwesingingcom.
Speaker 5Yeah.
Speaker 3That is so cool.
Speaker 5Thank you, Dory.
Speaker 3Say thanks to all of you.
Speaker 2This was great. Thank you, guys. So much.
Speaker 6That was fun.
Speaker 2Thank you from the bottom of our teen dream hearts.
Speaker 4Keep on crushing Always believe in magic and have a peaceful shuntastic week. And don't forget to follow us on Facebook, instagram Thread and subscribe to our new YouTube page.
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