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[0:18] Robert W Schneider: Happy New Year, everybody.

[0:20] Kevin David Thomas: Happy New Year.

[0:21] Robert W Schneider: Happy New Year, Rob.

[0:22] Kevin David Thomas: Kevin, how did you celebrate your new year?

[0:25] Robert W Schneider: Happy new decade, by the way, too, I should say.

[0:27] Kevin David Thomas: Oh my goodness, I can't believe it.

[0:28] Robert W Schneider: 2020.

[0:29] Kevin David Thomas: Uh, that was a very quiet evening. Uh, my wife's mother is in town. She's staying with us. And uh, by uh, we were ready to call it in by about 10 p.m. Uh, Carpenter fell asleep, woke up, uh, and then we we couldn't wait for it to get to be midnight so we could all go to sleep, to be honest. I I can't believe how pathetic that not pathetic, I shouldn't say that, but how uh incredibly adult and quiet it seems.

[0:52] Robert W Schneider: The older you get, it's not so fun, is it?

[0:55] Kevin David Thomas: Well, and and and in that it is fun. It's just just have a relaxing, quiet night. That was that was everything, Rob. I just I literally just wore sweats all day. I wore sweats.

[1:09] Robert W Schneider: Now, did you have any traditions? Did you do anything? Did you have it with your family? Count it down.

[1:15] Kevin David Thomas: Yes, we we watched uh because I'm in California still. We w we watched the ball drop East Coast time, which is so when it dropped, which would be nine o'clock California time, my family was like, Happy New Year, and then everyone went to bed. So except my brother now, my brother and my love that rule. I was like, this is actually a really smart idea. My brother and I, though, we stayed up to watch impractical jokers um on YouTube, which is one of my favorite TV shows of all time, a practical jokers, yeah.

[1:43] Robert W Schneider: It I I if I can get past the awkwardness of it, uh will you explain to our listeners what what the premise of impractical jokers is?

[1:50] Kevin David Thomas: It's four lifelong friends who compete in battles. Um, and what the idea is is like, okay, so Kevin, you have to go up to a stranger and take food off their plate. And um you have to how many items of food can you take off their plate before they try to stop you?

[2:04] Robert W Schneider: Oh my god.

[2:05] Kevin David Thomas: Then I'll then I'll then I'll try it. And you know, whoever's the loser has to get a punishment. Um so it's it's one of my favorite things of all time. It's it's very broy, and I like that. No shame. Okay. There's Murr, Sal, Q, and Brian.

[2:19] Robert W Schneider: Okay, so it is it always is those four people always having to make fools of themselves.

[2:25] Kevin David Thomas: Yeah, Myrrh, Sal, Q, and no, not Brian. Sorry. Murray. Oh, it's gonna drive me crazy because I love this show. I know. There's the guy who lo never mind. Sorry. I like it. That's okay. I'll be honest with you, Murr is my favorite. And so I and everyone else, I'm sure they're all lovely, but Murray's Murray is my absolute favorite. Sal. Did I say Sal? I think I said Sal. Yes. I don't know. I don't know. Now it's gonna drive me crazy. So anyway, so yeah, that's what that's what we did. And I think we should do an impractical joker. Um we should do that. It should be you, me, Robbie Rosal, and Leroy Reims.

[2:59] Robert W Schneider: And what do we do?

[3:00] Kevin David Thomas: We run around New York City and uh um Yes. Like who who can go up to Yes, yes. I had to sing like the cast recording of like chess in front of somebody to see how long it takes them before they want to call cops?

[3:13] Robert W Schneider: Yeah, before they how long, how long how many songs from chess can we sing before somebody calls the cops on us? All right. Do you I I kind of think this is a genius idea. So hey, nobody steal it. You hear me? Nobody steal this idea because.

[3:27] Kevin David Thomas: You heard it here first. This is absolutely brilliant. Wait, oh no, Joe. It's Q, Brian, James, Joe, and Sal. Those are the four. Sorry, Joe Gotto. I forgot your name, but I think you're wonderful. Uh, but yeah, I think we could do that. Don't you think that'd be a fun idea?

[3:42] Robert W Schneider: Uh yeah, it's an idea. Go to the go to go to a box office and see like uh how long it'll take before they throw us off the line.

[3:50] Kevin David Thomas: Oh, TKTS line. That'd be a great place for it.

[3:53] Robert W Schneider: Oh, they did a TKTS line, which was whoever could cut in front of everybody and get tickets before the re everyone else in line.

[4:02] Kevin David Thomas: What and only one of them was able to do it. And he got tickets to the Lion King. So it's that kind of uh humor I see. So you had a nice evening watching that.

[4:12] Robert W Schneider: Yes. Now I I I feel like I've asked you this last year. I'm gonna ask you again. Do you set any new year's resolutions for yourself?

[4:18] Kevin David Thomas: I have a have had a couple, you know. I like it. I'm a person who likes a starting point. So you know, it being a new year, new decade, all that. Uh yeah, I I I I definitely have made a couple, and it including trying to be more creative, trying to write a little bit more, trying to do more things like that.

[4:34] Robert W Schneider: Pulling out that artist's way again, are we?

[4:38] Kevin David Thomas: Dusting off the old artist's way. Remember exactly creating yourself is a creation. Just breathe first. And this ten things you would rather be doing right now. Yeah. I've never I've never read the book. I shouldn't be making fun. I'm sure it's wonderful. I just know in college, everyone had a little copy of it.

[4:58] Robert W Schneider: Oh, I someone just recently would told me how uh uh you know effective it was in their life. So hey, that's great. Nine things you eat for breakfast to make yourself a better artist. Sorry, my mic went out. It's it's the author of the artist way getting angry at me. Um yeah, okay, cool, cool, cool. So that sounds like fun. So you you have some resolutions. That's wonderful.

[5:21] Kevin David Thomas: Yeah, what about you? I I I just, you know what? Every day I try to remind myself to be a better person. And if I can get through that, and and and to be more honest, to be more honest. So I've never really liked you. Um and that's that's the first thing.

[5:37] Robert W Schneider: Oh, there it is. Wow. Okay. Wow. Okay. Can you imagine that? Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Can you imagine? Like that's a I'm just gonna be honest with people. No, I don't think that dress looks good on you. I don't think you look pretty today. Can you imagine?

[5:56] Kevin David Thomas: No. But there are people like that. You've met people that are like dreadfully honest, and you're like, you know, a white lie every once in a while will not will not hurt you.

[6:05] Robert W Schneider: Well, just try to dress it. Find a way, find a way of flipping it. Find a way of flipping it. Find something to compliment. Uh, but no, so no, that's no. I just I try to be a good person. That's that's my resolution to be a good person. And I think also to like listen to more musicals that were written after 1990 would be great.

[6:23] Kevin David Thomas: Yes. Yes, no shortage of those on the I'm behind, man.

[6:28] Robert W Schneider: Me too. I'm a little behind. I make a playlist and I try to get to stuff, but it's just like sometimes I just want the old comfort food, you know.

[6:36] Kevin David Thomas: Yes, uh, it's but it's it's so oh you know, it's so funny. You know what came up today while I was driving? Um I had my my thing on shuffle and uh uh a weekend in the country, but not the OBC, my friend, the RC, my friend, the revival cast. So I got I got to hear you. Oh it was so fun. I was like, ah, I I can hear Kevin.

[6:57] Robert W Schneider: Twice as upset as him, twice as upset as well. There he goes. There he goes. I just I just got that for free, folks. That was that was good. If you could play any other role in a little night music besides the role you played, who would it be?

[7:07] Kevin David Thomas: Oh god at this current age. Although you you you you could still play Henrik. Uh I think you look young enough. Um boy. Oh god. I already I already broke my lying rule. See, you could play. I think you look young enough to still play Henrik. No. I think at the Muni. At the Munich. The beauty folks is like. No, Kevin, I really think you could get still get away with it. Okay, but I'm sorry. I I but you wanted to play Petra?

[7:41] Robert W Schneider: Uh sure, yeah. That you uh you have to sing one song, you you get to like be sexy and like you know, stir everything up in the show, and then like you know, have a couple solo lines in a weekend in the country, but a bing bada bang, do your crossword puzzle. It's great.

[7:54] Kevin David Thomas: That's actually I think that's actually the breakdown. That was literally verbatim the breakdown. Exactly. Just you know. Um stack them up, do your puzzle. I I would want to okay, I would want to be, I don't look like him, but I want to be Count Carl Magnus.

[8:11] Robert W Schneider: Oh, I'd love to see your Carl Magnus. He'd be a little stuffy, it'd be a little bit more.

[8:15] Kevin David Thomas: Oh, I hope so. I hope he's a little bit more. But but if they won't let me play Carl Magnus, I just want to do that scene with Frederick and Desiree at the end where he where she thinks he's gonna say, I'm gonna stay with you, and then he's like, but when I'm not with you, because I think that's one of the best written scenes in musical theater. I really do. I think that scene is brilliant, and I want to say something very quickly.

[8:35] Robert W Schneider: Okay, I think Catherine Zeta Jones got a really bum rap because everyone said her Tony Awards performance wasn't good, and everyone's like, Oh, she's not a good she wasn't good in the she wasn't good in the show because they just saw the Tony Awards performance. I saw her in it. She was fantastic. She was absolutely fantastic. She was. She that Tony Awards performance was not her best, but she but when all the voters, when all the voters were coming, she was a dynamic performance. It was unreal. She was she was really special. I thought she was fantastic. I really do. I so I th I so folks, don't judge her off that Tony Awards performance because I I actually didn't think the Tony Awards performance was that bad at all.

I thought she was marvelous. I thought she was an absolutely marvelous marvelous Desire. So let the record let the record show. I'm so angry. I'm pointing my finger at Kevin. Let the record show that I thought she was an absolutely marvelous Desireite.

[9:31] Kevin David Thomas: I love that the cast recording is basically the whole show. So you get a lot of scenes and you get you really get a sense of the entire piece. Um I wish that we had something like that for the original cast recording, you know, because there's just so much more music that I never even knew existed until I did it. So now you now I think you had said that uh they were trying to bring Lauren Bacall and was it Deborah M Deborah Messing in?

[9:53] Robert W Schneider: Yeah, there was all these rumors because there we had our closing notice up before Bernadette and Stritch were announced. So we we had a closing notice. We had the meeting, you know, and that said we're not gonna, you know, they couldn't find anyone. But until then, Brooke uh Brooke Shields was mentioned, uh, Deborah Messing was mentioned, but she had a new TV show or something, so that was it. And Lauren Bacall, and then what ended up happening was that because uh she couldn't do stairs, and that was part of the deal because there was no crossover uh in the for certain parts of the set. Uh so but she couldn't do stairs, so I think that was a deal breaker. But she came to see the show twice. Give her some high point coffee. She can move around. Oh my god. Yeah, it was awesome. I it was really cool to interact. I mean, just to witness her for like even 10 seconds.

[10:35] Kevin David Thomas: Oh, that's give her some give her some high point coffee. Thank you. Well, that's what she said. Hunter, uh Hunter said to her, he was like, Oh, you you know, you came back to the theater, and she looked at him and she was like, My darling, I never let I never leave. Or something like that. Oh my god. Oh my god. And I thought, okay, that's exactly what I expect you to say. I never even left. Please say that she got it, put on her make and got in the Rolls Royce with the coffee waiting for her, like in the commercial. Well, Leroy popped his little head around the corner. He's like, Are we going by Betty? Betty, we have reservations authorities. Stop talking to this Ryan Hunt or whatever his name is. Let's just get on the caller. You're a star, Betty. You are a star.

[11:20] Robert W Schneider: Hey, you have a favorite thing.

[11:22] Kevin David Thomas: You know what? I do. Mine's uh this one's wacky and it's been on my list for a while. It's a it's a nostalgic one for me, as it came out in the year 1990. Um, it is uh it was a TV musical, Rob. And I think we've mentioned it once or twice. But the cat I'm gonna I hopefully you guys will figure it out if you ever saw it. If you don't know this era, it it is musicals were not huge then, right? Because like you Beauty and the Beast hadn't come out yet, Little Mermaid. So, like, this wasn't a musical per se. There were songs in it. It is an all-star cast made for TV. Um it uh uh it was uh aired on the Disney channel, and it is the people in this cast are as such. Uh Shelley Duvall is the star, Art, uh Garfunkel, and Paul Simon in it, but not together. Woody Harrelson, Cindy Lopper, Little Richard, Howie Mandel, Cheech Marin, uh Katie Segal, Gary uh Shandling, Paul uh Gene Stapleton.

[12:22] Robert W Schneider: What is this?

[12:23] Kevin David Thomas: Ben Verine. Oh, and not to forget the Del Rubio triplets, who I everyone who knows the PB Herman Halloween special uh Christmas special knows the Del Rubio triplets make a moment, and of course, Golden Girls. Golden Girls. Um, so my favorite thing is uh the TV movie Mother Goose Rock and Rhyme.

[12:43] Robert W Schneider: Never heard of this.

[12:43] Kevin David Thomas: Never heard for real.

[12:45] Robert W Schneider: Never.

[12:46] Kevin David Thomas: Oh my goodness. I it's so this came out in 1990. I remember when it came out, it it it was a very it left a very indelible impression on me and my sister. Uh it is a sort of musical film. I mean, there's lots of musical sequences in it, as I as evidenced from the cast that I mentioned earlier. Uh that everyone sort of sang a bits and pieces. There was an opening number called Hop to It, which is sort of why I made it today, because it's January 1st.

[13:08] Kevin David Thomas: And it was like, hop to it, don't delay, hop to it, we're gonna make a great day. Um, and it was Shelly Duvall was the star of it, and she's Little Bo Peep, and it's literally in Mother Goose's like land. And Jean Stapleton is um the Mother Goose who's been kidnapped. And so her son, I'm serious. So Jean Stapleton, Mother Goose, all in like furs and all of like this like Mother Goose-ish outfit, but sounds like Edith from All in the Family. Um, and she gets kidnapped in the beginning. So her son wakes up and he's not, he's kind of a total square. All of the colors of the of this film are very much of the like 19, what exactly what you'd think 89 would look like in 90. Um it's like shapes and hot pink and hot blue.

Give me pastels, give me neon. Seriously, and all these sharp angles and very oversized clothing, and it's so funny. But it's just a weird, shippy thing, and it's it's but it's actually it's catchy and it's fun and weird because there's so many guest characters in this. Basically, so they gotta go on a quest, you know, uh, and through Rhyme Land and all the characters that they meet. So it's like it's like the Willy Wonka the sequence when they're like in that you know, the first part with the you know, the the chocolate, you know, river. It's like that kind of world. You get the Del Rubio triplets, as I said, you know, that we love from Golden Girls. You and the Del Rubio triplets. I'm a little bit.

I'm telling you that it's like three times a year I get to see them. It's very exciting. Um but anyway, so it's just a fun, silly little wacky film. I think that the guest people in it, like Ben Vereen, uh and Z Z Top, uh, and just so many it's just a weird, it's just a very funky, weird film. Uh, and you can watch it on YouTube for free. Uh just go to YouTube and look at look up um Mother Goose Rockin' like R O C K I N rhyme. Uh, and and you just uh you know, have a have a cocktail and watch it. It's pretty fun, and it's some great, you know, it's just silly. And uh, yeah, so I would say check that out. That's my favorite thing this week.

[15:06] Robert W Schneider: That is fantastic. That's fantastic. I've never I have I swear to you, I have never seen this. I have never heard of this. I don't know what you're talking about. Like all that, like Howie Mandel is Humpty Dumpty, and Cheech Marin is the carnival barker. And it's I I think you're lying. I think three men in a tub. What? Oh, this is genius. This is genius. No, I've never seen this. Tell me again what it's called.

[15:32] Kevin David Thomas: It's called Mother Goose Rock and Rhyme.

[15:34] Robert W Schneider: Mother Goose Rock and Rhyme.

[15:37] Kevin David Thomas: Rock and Rhyme.

[15:38] Robert W Schneider: I did it wrong. Rock and then N and then Rhyme. It doesn't have to go.

[15:42] Kevin David Thomas: Oh, oh, because it's like it's like hip. It's like 1990.

[15:49] Robert W Schneider: That's exactly right.

[15:50] Kevin David Thomas: That's hey, are they still popular?

[15:53] Robert W Schneider: Uh they were just on one of the New Year's shows last night, actually. They were on uh I forget which one. I think the ABC one maybe. I was slipping between that and uh a CNN with the clown show that was Anderson and um uh Andrew. Did you see the new the one of the anchor people who kept coming out as a different character in musicals? It was so weird.

[16:14] Kevin David Thomas: Like every 20 minutes, yes, and they had like no schedule. I would flip it because there'd be an interview, and I'm like, I don't need to go watch this interview. Ten minutes would go by and come back.

[16:22] Robert W Schneider: They're still in the interview. It's crazy. I think he showed up as Hamilton. He showed up as uh Rum Tum Tugger. Um and uh wait, and have you have you seen Cats Yet?

[16:35] Kevin David Thomas: What's that?

[16:36] Robert W Schneider: I'm sorry. I said, Have you seen Cats yet?

[16:38] Kevin David Thomas: Uh no, I need to see that in the theater. I need the theatrical I need I I gotta hurry up. I I just haven't had a chance to get away.

[16:46] Robert W Schneider: Did you see it?

[16:47] Kevin David Thomas: I gotta see it for no, I have not. All I know is it's like at every movie theater that plays it is like empty. They lost like a hundred million dollars in the picture I saw people like you know sending out pictures of their like theater and it yeah.

[17:01] Robert W Schneider: Can I ask okay, I this is my biggest pet peeve, but I'm gonna actually do it. My biggest pet peeve is when people judge something they have not seen. So let me so I've not seen this, but let me ask how did it get this far? Like out because as soon as they posted a trailer, everyone just turned against it. So my question is is didn't anybody in the studio like see this and go, This guys, this is gonna be a problem. Like I think this this might not go over so well, folks.

[17:28] Kevin David Thomas: Uh yeah, shrug.

[17:29] Robert W Schneider: I uh I don't know, because you might say that the musical itself is a a bit of an anomaly.

[17:35] Kevin David Thomas: Um yes.

[17:36] Robert W Schneider: Yes. One might one might say uh just the idea of it all and how it actually worked and that it actually made all that money and I kinda like I like this stage version of cats.

[17:48] Kevin David Thomas: Oh yeah, yeah, no, it's an experience for sure.

[17:51] Robert W Schneider: The first time I ever saw cats was the day after the 2016 presidential election.

[17:56] Kevin David Thomas: Oh wow.

[17:57] Robert W Schneider: It was the most bizarre thing of my life because at the end, the woman who played Grizabella like stepped forward and made this like impassioned speech about you know, we have to unite as a country and we need to do better, and you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And everyone was like behind her crying because they were it was like their first performance after Trump had won. And I was like, this is all very nice, except for the fact you're all dressed as cats.

[18:23] Kevin David Thomas: You're Alice is cats.

[18:25] Robert W Schneider: Like, come on.

[18:26] Kevin David Thomas: Yep's your makeup's running.

[18:28] Robert W Schneider: Your makeup is running, and like Rum Tum Tugger is comforting Scumble Sheser or whatever their names are, and it was it was something. So anyway, so I'm I'm curious to see, you know, cats in its purest form, which will be the same.

[18:40] Kevin David Thomas: I enjoy that memory though. Thank you for that.

[18:42] Robert W Schneider: Oh, thank you. Uh hey, did you hear what you said?

[18:45] Kevin David Thomas: What I enjoyed that memory.

[18:47] Robert W Schneider: Yeah.

[18:48] Kevin David Thomas: Oh my gosh.

[18:50] Robert W Schneider: You see, he's uh he's so brilliant, folks, he didn't even know. It's the dad braid and this is your dad joke.

[18:56] Kevin David Thomas: I love it.

[18:57] Robert W Schneider: I I'm so happy you're gonna do dad jokes.

[18:58] Kevin David Thomas: Yep, thank you.

[18:59] Robert W Schneider: Thank you. So so uh what's your favorite thing?

[19:02] Kevin David Thomas: Oh man, okay. So my favorite thing, folks, is I want to start this year off right. Um this is uh you know I love public access. I I do, I do. I do oh when the kids get married, we're gonna bumper. Um so I I I love public access, folks, almost as much as I love the American musical theater. Not the British musical theater. Who needs to see Charlie Girl?

[19:17] Robert W Schneider: The American musical theater.

[19:27] Kevin David Thomas: Great songs in Charlie Girl.

[19:28] Robert W Schneider: I know.

[19:29] Kevin David Thomas: Same one songs.

[19:29] Robert W Schneider: Sing one.

[19:30] Kevin David Thomas: I just someone just had the sheet music for a really uh dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dungeon.

[19:35] Robert W Schneider: Oh, it's that like the Lavender Girls Hotel or something.

[19:39] Kevin David Thomas: That's that's what it is.

[19:40] Robert W Schneider: That's what love is.

[19:41] Kevin David Thomas: Yeah, it's a lot of things.

[19:42] Robert W Schneider: Oh, that was beautiful, Precious.

[19:44] Kevin David Thomas: So no, I I liked it. I told you I think I think it sounded great.

[19:47] Robert W Schneider: Okay, so folks, mine is there was a television show um in the in New York in the 1980s, and the show was called Beyond Vaudeville. Once again, the show was called Beyond Vaudeville, and it was hosted by this NYU student named Rich Brown, um who created a persona named Frank Hope.

[20:09] Kevin David Thomas: And Frank Hope was this very nervous television show host who was always interviewing people like 70 and above.

[20:17] Robert W Schneider: Um, and he had a co-host named uh um uh David Green, who never spoke and just would throw things and yell. And it was so obviously like avant garde. It was supposed to be like absurdist, but everyone they brought on there was not aware of that.

[20:34] Kevin David Thomas: So everyone that was brought on always thought, like, oh, this is a legitimate talk show.

[20:38] Robert W Schneider: And they had like Kay Ballard on there and Austin Pendleton on there, and I encourage you all to go back and take a look. It's all posted online Beyond Vaudeville. Now, Beyond Vaudeville was so successful that MTV picked it up in the 1990s and renamed it Audeville.

[20:51] Kevin David Thomas: Do you remember Audeville?

[20:53] Robert W Schneider: Uh no, I don't, but I did not watch a lot of MTV.

[20:56] Kevin David Thomas: The idea was like in Vaudeville, like strange bizarre acts.

[21:00] Robert W Schneider: That's that was exactly the point of this.

[21:02] Kevin David Thomas: So, anyway, one like the host had a fascination with someone.

[21:07] Robert W Schneider: Well, I've never heard of this.

[21:09] Kevin David Thomas: This is you're gonna love it. There's some really good episodes. The hosting at the YouTube Frank Hope had a fascination with somebody, and it was a singer.

[21:16] Robert W Schneider: And that singer is Mr. Robert Goulet.

[21:18] Kevin David Thomas: And so, while Robert Goulet was never a guest, one episode was a Beyond Vaudeville tribute to Robert Goulet, where they brought out all of these different panelists and they talked about all of his records and all of the songs that make Robert Goulet Robert Goulet.

[21:36] Robert W Schneider: Um, and they just posted it a couple of days ago, so Christmas came a little bit late for me. So I would love for all of you to go to YouTube and type in Beyond Vaudeville, Robert Goulet.

[21:48] Kevin David Thomas: One more time.

[21:49] Robert W Schneider: That's Beyond Vaudeville, Robert Goulet. Um, and it's a celebration of Robert Goulet's wonderful work in the world of popul in the world of popular recordings.

[21:59] Kevin David Thomas: And at the end, Frank Hope uh reveals a painting that he made of Robert Goulet that's it's kind of genius.

[22:06] Robert W Schneider: Um, and if you like this, make sure you go ahead and take a look at the other stuff that Beyond Vaudeville offers. Just type in Beyond Vaudeville. Um, and you'll see like Kay Ballard's on there, you'll see Austin Pendleton is on there. Um it's uh Al Lewis.

[22:20] Kevin David Thomas: Um, it's really fun.

[22:21] Robert W Schneider: It's really, really fun because it's a lot of like older people from the vaudeville era coming on and like redoing their old routines. Um, and it's fun, it's just really avant garde and bizarre, and it'll put a smile on your face. But the one I would love for you all to start with once again is Beyond Vaudeville tribute to Robert Goulet.

[22:39] Kevin David Thomas: Most especially, even if you don't want to watch the whole thing, just watch the beginning because they do a slideshow of all of his album covers.

[22:47] Robert W Schneider: And I think next year, Kevin, I'm gonna find my 12 favorite poses and reenact them for you, and I'm gonna give you a calendar.

[22:54] Kevin David Thomas: Oh, thank you, Rob.

[22:56] Robert W Schneider: Make it sing.

[22:57] Kevin David Thomas: I want to hear I want a different song on each as you flip it so I can hear your February is for lovers.

[23:04] Robert W Schneider: It's also President's Day.

[23:08] Kevin David Thomas: That's his new song.

[23:09] Robert W Schneider: Yeah, no, I got it.

[23:10] Kevin David Thomas: That's his new song.

[23:11] Robert W Schneider: Yeah.

[23:12] Kevin David Thomas: Oh yeah, that's it's lovely.

[23:13] Robert W Schneider: March, merch, march.

[23:14] Kevin David Thomas: Watch all the drunk Irish March March March for St. Paddy's Day.

[23:21] Robert W Schneider: Yep.

[23:22] Kevin David Thomas: I gotta go to dinner.

[23:23] Robert W Schneider: Oh my Oh, you know what though? Hey, one last one uh sorry, not to cut off Mr. Goulet, but I thought I just thought of something. I you I got you a present, and I we I wonder if we can post it.

[23:33] Kevin David Thomas: No, the video of Pam Goldberg.

[23:35] Robert W Schneider: I I got a personalized Oh friends. I sent I I sent friends, you know, just as a little postscript of this episode. I I sent Rob a holiday present, uh Hanukkah slash Christmas present.

[23:47] Kevin David Thomas: Uh and you know there's this thing called cameo where you can, you know, for a little fee, have have a a a celebrity of sorts uh send a video of your choosing.

[23:58] Robert W Schneider: Uh and I did that for Rob.

[24:00] Kevin David Thomas: Oh man, it was Pam Goldberg who we talked about last week.

[24:03] Robert W Schneider: First of all, Pam, I think was a little offended that I said, you know, she she looks like Pat Carroll. I got I mean there was a moment where her voice caught her voice caught, she was very upset.

[24:14] Kevin David Thomas: Yeah, I mean we're gonna have you know, we're gonna have you know Pam on the show at some point.

[24:19] Robert W Schneider: I'm gonna ask her.

[24:19] Kevin David Thomas: I kind of have a feel that she and Pat were up for a lot of the same roles, and that I get the sense of that, yes.

[24:24] Robert W Schneider: That does.

[24:25] Kevin David Thomas: Maybe she just was so sick and tired of being compared to her, which I understand.

[24:29] Robert W Schneider: I get it.

[24:29] Kevin David Thomas: I mean, yeah, Ethel Merman and Mary Martin. They had like a little friendly rivalry, you know.

[24:34] Robert W Schneider: I mean, it makes sense.

[24:35] Kevin David Thomas: Me, me and me and Andy Carl. Same same name.

[24:38] Robert W Schneider: That's me and Orfe, yeah.

[24:41] Kevin David Thomas: I know.

[24:41] Robert W Schneider: Yeah, and then they're like you and Orfee.

[24:43] Kevin David Thomas: Yeah, you could you you and I could have been uh Paulette and the UPS man, but I mean it's just fate.

[24:49] Robert W Schneider: Look at it.

[24:49] Kevin David Thomas: They just went, they went to a different direction.

[24:51] Robert W Schneider: Two obvious.

[24:51] Kevin David Thomas: Yeah, two obvious.

[24:52] Robert W Schneider: Two on the nose, two on the nose.

[24:54] Kevin David Thomas: Um but yeah, so Pam Goldberg, uh, thank you, Kevin. That was one of the best guests I ever got. She was very she was very she wished me happy holidays, but was very angry that I compared her to you know Pat Carroll.

[25:06] Robert W Schneider: Um when we get her when we get her on the show, we'll have a long talk about you know if their careers have ever crossed each other and if they've ever done like Agnes a God somewhere together.

[25:14] Kevin David Thomas: Oh, yeah, we'll get the dish.

[25:15] Robert W Schneider: We'll get the dish.

[25:16] Kevin David Thomas: Yeah, we'll get the dish.

[25:17] Robert W Schneider: I I look forward to interviewing her.

[25:18] Kevin David Thomas: We'll interview her soon.

[25:19] Robert W Schneider: Um and then pretty soon, don't forget our In Memorium is coming up.

[25:22] Kevin David Thomas: Yep with uh with the wonderful Leroy Reams.

[25:25] Robert W Schneider: He'll be joining us again.

[25:26] Kevin David Thomas: Um and I'm sure he has lots of wonderful stories to tell.

[25:29] Robert W Schneider: Um he's always sassy and celebratory.

[25:31] Kevin David Thomas: Yeah, which is which is such a great thing.

[25:35] Robert W Schneider: Um all right, everybody. So have a good good week and happy new year, happy new decade.

[25:36] Kevin David Thomas: Happy New Year.

[25:41] Robert W Schneider: Till next time.

[25:42] Kevin David Thomas: Bye.

[25:43] ♪ Musical number: "My Favorite Things" — performed by Various Artists ♪

[25:56] These are a few of my favorite things.

[26:06] These are a few of my favorite things.