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Happy 500 Shows On BPN Roundtable Family! I am so honored and grateful to share my chats with you here! Thank you for all the love and support that has been shown to me! May the best be yet to come!
Speaking of the best, I love that Robbie Rozelle! It is his fault I even have a show! How? Well you will have to watch and find out!
Robbie is back at 54 Below and it is must see cabaret!
Robbie Rozelle has it all… almost. Known internationally as a cabaret icon, a cast album maven, and a devoted husband, the only thing he’s missing is seemingly the most crucial: his own Wikipedia entry. It has become clear that he has to take matters into his own hands. Hailed by BroadwayWorld as “a cabaret train that won’t be stopped”, and “a genius at crafting an evening” by StageBuddy, the celebrated creator of Songs From Inside My Locker will take you on a hilarious all-encompassing romp through everything from “Early Life” to “Career” to “Discography” and beyond with his new show, Citation Needed.
Featuring songs and stories from his nearly 30 years in show business, and his requisite razor-sharp wit, signature medleys, snazzy special guests and his merry band The Two Drink Minimum, led by Drama Desk nominee Yasuhiko Fukuoka. Be there as he hits “publish” on the most important Wikipedia entry of all time.
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[0:14] Robert Bannon: Well, welcome to the Roundtable. You're watching us or listening to us on Broadway World or here on the Broadway Podcast Network, and I have exciting news. This is the 500th episode of the Roundtable on Broadway Podcast Network. That means over 500 people have decided to waste part of their day by talking to me. And do you know the person whose fault this all is? I went to his house. He made me chicken. He has very expensive Le Creuset pots. Very blue, very nice. And he has a room full of all sorts of theater artifacts and books and CDs and albums. He is like a walking encyclopedia of theater, pop culture. He's worldly. And that's none other than international superstar. He has millions of more streams of his albums and his work than mine.
He has a song that has many streams, multiple songs and sold-out shows. I don't even know why Robbie Rozelle is doing this because his show is almost sold out at 54 Below because it is always an event of the season. He's my good friend, and I really miss him, and it's just an excuse to bust his chops. He's coming to 54 Below with my music director, Yasuhiko Fukuoka. He's mine, and Robbie borrows him. And now Robbie's gonna yell at me and say he's his, but he's lying. Robbie Rozelle is back.
[1:33] Robbie Rozelle: Hey! Guess who I have a rehearsal with tonight? My music director, Yasuhiko Fukuoka.
[1:41] Robert Bannon: So when you see Yes, I'm so happy I let Yaz off of my schedule to work on your show because I know because really this interview is supposed to be about Robbie, but we all know that Robbie's favorite albums he's ever worked on is Patti LuPone and Robert Bannon. And yeah, they're hand in hand. Not in that order either. And Robbie, you are our guest for our 500th episode on BPN.
[2:08] Robbie Rozelle: Robert, when you came over, and like there was a spread. And you were like, I need to do something, what can I do? And I said, You love talking to people, you love talking to performers and entertainers of all types, writers, etc. Have them on. Call it the Roundtable. My idea was that you would have like five people of a certain thing on, right? And they would do a round table. But you have made it so much more and so much better than anything I thought of.
[2:43] Robert Bannon: I don't know. Well, firstly, I got stuck on the spread because you don't have to understand. If you go to Robbie and Len's, Len is over Robbie's shoulder, right there. And you go to their house, and Len is a good Italian boy, and Robbie loves to entertain people, and they have a little bar, and they have a really cute charcuterie board, like their charcuterie comes out. And see, I know Robbie and Len enough that they're my favorite people to go out with because I don't have to be polite. Like, if I want to eat prosciutto, I'm gonna just eat the pound of it right there on the table.
[3:13] Robbie Rozelle: Yeah, you love a salty meat.
[3:18] Robert Bannon: That's I heard it. That's Robbie's new cabaret show coming to 54 Below next year. Great. Catch me at "You Love a Salty Meat."
[3:27] Robert Bannon: So Robbie, I joke about the streaming, but like people really, I in all humility, I know you're gonna be humble and make a joke about this, but a lot of people have streamed your music, a lot of people have loved "Songs From Inside My Locker," a lot of people have loved your live shows. You've kind of become like a cabaret folklore story that you were not into cabaret in the beginning to do as many shows and in many venues as you've now performed it.
[3:43] Robbie Rozelle: That's correct. I truly, it was always just gonna be a one-off to like entertain my friends because I kept working with other people and every time 54 would say to me, "Hey, you should do your own thing," I'm like, "Nobody's gonna come see that." Turns out they did, and now we're in year eight. This is my tenth wildly different show across many venues. So I played 54, I played Birdland, I've played Green Room, I've played London's Crazy Coqs, and I've guest at like Chelsea Table and a bunch of others, but it was just supposed to be one time. This was not intended, and suddenly I'm a cabaret icon.
[3:43] Robert Bannon: You are a cabaret icon. You are Robbie Rozelle, cabaret icon, legend, whatever. Sure, legend, icon, whatever word you want to use.
[3:43] Robbie Rozelle: May 23rd is Friday at 9:30. The show is called "Citation Needed," and while I have you here, go to 54below.org. It's not .com anymore.
[3:43] Robert Bannon: Oh wow, well, I mean .com will reverse to .org, I'm sure it will get you there, but it's 54below.org. And if you want to follow Robbie on Instagram, you can go to @DivaRobbie, is that correct?
[5:15] Robbie Rozelle: I thought it was. I did it out of memory, but then as I showed it, I was like, I'm gonna mess this up.
[5:22] Robbie Rozelle: Robert, you know me, of course you know it's Diva Robbie was my AOL screen name when I was 16, and it stuck.
[5:29] Robert Bannon: Oh my god.
[5:29] Robert Bannon: Well, did you used to AOL Messenger chat room?
[5:33] Robbie Rozelle: Yeah, back when Playbill Online was just a part of AOL, like dial-up.
[5:38] Robert Bannon: Yeah.
[5:40] Robbie Rozelle: Which is just a M for M chat room, must be great.
[5:43] Robert Bannon: So you, for real, I know I'm jumping around and I want people to buy tickets in. If you want to see chaos and you want to see singing and you want to see jokes and you want to see all this mess, then May 23rd. So my question to you is I know your story about you growing up in New York State.
[6:01] Robbie Rozelle: Yes.
[6:01] Robert Bannon: And "Songs From Inside My Locker." And I know that you met Len when Len would stalk you at a bookstore.
[6:10] Robbie Rozelle: Yes.
[6:11] Robert Bannon: And you and Len meet and start to date, and you have this idea that you're gonna come to New York, and you guys have to be separate and you had no ends to this business. You were not born with a, you're not a network baby. You were not, you and Len were not born with a trust fund. You did not get delivered at Actors Equity building. You guys came with a dream and a love of music and theater and art. And do you ever take a, but like I came here independently?
[6:43] Robbie Rozelle: We got an apartment together, but he lived at home for nearly two years to buttress like what we were doing here, and so he would drive in on Fridays, leave on Sundays, and then during the week it was just me in New York and him in Pennsylvania until he could find something here as well, and like we could work together.
[7:07] Robert Bannon: So, like dead serious, do you two, if you don't know, Len is the creative guru director extraordinaire over at Playbill?
[7:14] Robbie Rozelle: Yes, he produces all their events and things.
[7:18] Robert Bannon: And Robbie, you know, does A&R for Center Stage Records, and if there's a Broadway cast recording or a favorite Broadway or cabaret artist, Robbie's produced albums. Robbie's on the group of people who make these things happen besides performing. Is there ever a moment where you look at each other and like, are you amazed? Like there's a lot of dreams that have come true.
[7:38] Robbie Rozelle: Every day of my life. We will sit in our living room sometimes and just look and just say, "Can you believe this is us? This is more, truly more than either of us ever thought of or dreamed of." And the fact that we get to live it out every day is a shocking miracle, like a, that's it's a showbiz miracle. It's like something that could only happen in a movie, you know what I mean?
[8:07] Robert Bannon: Yeah. I think about it, like there were many days where you could have decided not to come here and not to take a, do this. You could have been managing a bookstore and he could have been selling used cars. I don't know, whatever. And you guys could have never lit like it's a real lesson in like the fearlessness that you did it.
[8:24] Robbie Rozelle: Yeah, it's it was very much like a just leap and trust that the net will appear sort of approach to life. I'm really happy I did. But I know first and foremost, like without him that wouldn't have happened, and that we making that decision together is the best thing that we ever did. Other than getting married.
[8:52] Robert Bannon: And now you guys are together how long?
[8:56] Robbie Rozelle: Twenty years.
[8:57] Robert Bannon: Twenty years, you little old man. Come on. So when you see a Robbie Rozelle show, everybody, you're going to get a little bit of his personality. You're going to get music, a wide range of songs.
[9:10] Robbie Rozelle: Yep.
[9:11] Robert Bannon: And you get your story.
[9:13] Robbie Rozelle: Your story's, you know, my weird story has so many chapters and parts to it, things that I've done in my life. And I certainly have crazy showbiz stories. And every time 54 gives me a, "Hey, it's time for a new one," you know, I show up and with something brand new. Like it's very rare that I repeat songs or anything. And the idea for this one, the reason it's called "Citation Needed" is because I'm going to write my Wikipedia entry in real time because I don't have one. And that's rude.
[9:49] Robert Bannon: As they say on "Death Becomes Her," that was rude.
[9:56] Robbie Rozelle: You're gonna write it on the stage.
[9:59] Robert Bannon: Yeah. Now, will it be a Fisher Price keyboard? Unclear. And there's, but it is me, six-piece band, my backup singers, the whole.
[10:13] Robbie Rozelle: Yeah, you might know them because they did the Pride show for us last year. Sam and Chris.
[10:19] Robert Bannon: You stole my backup singers?
[10:21] Robbie Rozelle: Yeah, you stole my MD, so I was like, tip for tat.
[10:24] Robert Bannon: Actually, I'm just giving people work.
[10:28] Robbie Rozelle: Well, it's fair because I canceled my Pride show, and now you have no excuse not to be at Robbie's because Robbie is gonna celebrate life on May 3rd.
[10:37] Robert Bannon: I mean, you have an excuse not to be there. I'm gonna get married, and Robbie's gonna be at my wedding, and Robbie's gonna do his whole 54 Below show at the reception of my wedding. He doesn't know.
[10:51] Robbie Rozelle: Oh no, because I will be partaking of what I'm assuming is a large amount of food in an open bar for six hours. So, you know, that's what we're gonna do. So I hope Robbie doesn't even remember being at my wedding when the wedding's over.
[11:07] Robert Bannon: I think you want me there and like no, although I'll have better hair then. I have to hold off to I keep seeing like gray hair, like I look crazy, but it's all because I'm getting a cut for the show.
[11:18] Robbie Rozelle: So yeah, well, 54below.org, people when you get your tickets because Robbie is gonna put on a show and a party that he only that he can. It's like a cocktail party, but like Robbie makes you, Robbie, you make me feel like when I'm there, like it's a conversation we're having right now, set to music with incredible musicians and your voice singing songs. What I love about what you do, and your craft of what you do is you hone a really tight, fun show and story. You come up with a great idea and you don't make it feel cheesy. How much work do you put in to tinker with your show from when you come up with an idea and you get your list of songs and you cut them and move them and shape them?
[11:46] Robbie Rozelle: Oh god, this one started last November, and so I've been thinking about it for months. And, you know, I have two pieces of like specialty material that were written for me that I'm doing. It's all, and I'm very definitive with a set list, and that is I know what I'm doing. Once I decide on the stories I want to tell, then I can fit a song to the story. You know, it's just like because we work together a lot. I build shows with you all the time.
[12:32] Robert Bannon: Except you know, this year.
[12:37] Robbie Rozelle: And there's been years when we should forget the shows we might have built, but that's another story. No, but you should all stream "Rewind" because it's a very good album of Robert Bannon's show that we built together. And we produced it. But I sat with you and I said, all right, tell me some stories that we can go through. And you tossed me like six or seven crazy ones, and we fit music to it, and that it's like writing a play, really, with existing songs.
[13:11] Robbie Rozelle: So I'm literally writing jukebox musicals.
[13:14] Robert Bannon: And I've never thought about it like that before, but it's true.
[13:18] Robbie Rozelle: Wait, so that it's very valid. You could put this on Broadway tomorrow.
[13:22] Robert Bannon: Because that's all Broadway is just jukebox musicals and movies that used to be heard, Robbie.
[13:33] Robbie Rozelle: But when you tell this, like, does your script like do you know exactly what you're gonna say? Is it a rough outline? Some of your liners are really funny. Do you come up with them on the fly?
[13:43] Robbie Rozelle: For real?
[13:46] Robbie Rozelle: Yeah, about the only thing I ever really know I'm going to say is the line of dialogue that will lead into Yaz playing. And everything else. That's why my band never hears me rehearse patter. Partly because I want to make them laugh on stage because that's encouraging laughs in the audience. I'm not stupid. And, you know, and partly because I don't know what I'm gonna do.
[14:13] Robert Bannon: I just know that I can tell a concise story and hit a good end to that story because it's all cocktail stories.
[14:21] Robert Bannon: Again, it's what I say to you all the time and what you just said back to me. I'm throwing a party for my friends, and I'm standing at a piano telling stories. That's it. We're all in a basement with booze, like it's not that deep. Some people go deep, and I'm like, I don't need your emotional Khole. I don't need your trauma. You don't have to bleed out for me. Just singing some Jerry Herman songs.
[14:47] Robbie Rozelle: And that's what you do so well. It's a fun evening. You're not gonna go and you're not gonna... there's sprinkles of seriousness, there's some cheap moments, there's stories that you've told, there's moments throughout your shows. I'm not gonna even bring up past moments because I don't know if you're doing anything from the past in these shows.
[15:03] Robert Bannon: No. Like you've become known for certain songs that you have done and you pulled them out, or there's been very high point moments. You've done covers from Sesame Street, you've done a Harry Chapin cover. They're deep, like they're not just party in a bag songs. Like there's moments of beautiful, deep musicality in Robbie's sets.
[15:22] Robert Bannon: And I have secretly seen, I'm not gonna say anything, but I've seen the set list. And this is a wild, wide range of pop scores.
[15:35] Robbie Rozelle: Yep.
[15:36] Robert Bannon: There's some Ingrid Michaelson in there. It goes all over the place. You keep raising the bar too vocally, like you are like I am not gonna rest on some nice little four four-four three minute ditty. Like you are gonna, ever since you sang "Metalark," you've become a diva.
[15:52] Robbie Rozelle: Well, it was written for me.
[15:55] Robbie Rozelle: So Liz Callaway sends me a text. What song are you stealing? That literally Robbie's show at Birdland, he had Liz Callaway there, and he sang all of her hits in her face. And then she gave me a seasoned assist. Weird, right?
[16:11] Robert Bannon: So you never know who's gonna show up at a Robbie Rozelle show, and you never know what's gonna happen on stage or what he's going to sing or what he's going to say. You know, I know you're behind all the jokes and all of the fun. You are a very serious person about the world, about the things that are crazy out.
[16:29] Robert Bannon: Robbie, the world is on fire. It's burning. So do you feel responsible to address that in the show?
[16:36] Robbie Rozelle: Of course. I don't... how can you not? I started performing right when he was elected the first time around. And I was like, well, I can get over anything because that's the scariest thing that's gonna happen in my lifetime. So that's when I started. And I always feel I think that all art is political in some way, and I also feel a need to lift people for an hour.
[17:08] Robert Bannon: Which is what you do with a round table, right? Every Thursday, every podcast, you're talking to creators and looking for a way through.
[17:20] Robbie Rozelle: Yeah. And we need that more than ever. And I think that's why tickets are flying, people to see Robbie Rozelle at 54 Below. You can get a Caesar salad, you can grab yourself a drink, you'll be no further than 30 feet away from Robbie. His sweat will come whack you in the face. It is always just like Jonathan Groff, just moist.
[17:41] Robbie Rozelle: Moist.
[17:44] Robbie Rozelle: So working with Yaz, who has been the greatest gift in the world.
[17:48] Robert Bannon: Yeah, you're welcome. I will admit it only here that Robbie did send me Yaz, and he told me we created Yaz never says no. So when you come up with your crazy set list and you mash up crazy songs and you come up with that, Yaz and your partnership with Yaz has been, I know, a real blessing to you and your show.
[18:07] Robbie Rozelle: He makes our shows better. Truly, he will take anything that I do, and I have to say, do it. But he will lift it and make it even better. He is, you know, he does sort of tilt the head sometimes, you know, when you get the head tilt, the like Stewie, just a football head, right? Yaz gives me the Stewie a lot.
[18:37] Robbie Rozelle: But then he'll say, oh no, this works, and I say, yeah, I'm smart. But he also is very honest with me. You know, we had a rehearsal last week where at the end of it, he just said parts of that are good. That's the yeah, but good. Like, I want to work with people who make me better and push me to be better, right? Just like you would want to.
[19:09] Robert Bannon: Maybe I want to be better.
[19:12] Robbie Rozelle: No, no, I want to be better and I want to get better. And I think we all both are people who get very frustrated if it's, you know, we don't do shows all the time, like there's not a week in residency. So we're doing two shows, one show a year. Sometimes Robbie's doing one show every couple years. You know, you want to make sure that you put it together and make it special and you put... it's really your blood, sweat into... no one's doing this for money. Robbie will say it's the best time... what hobby? You call it a hobby.
[19:39] Robbie Rozelle: Yeah, it is the world's most expensive on-land hobby. We're not flying into space, Katy Perry, but didn't work for her either.
[19:47] Robert Bannon: Really great. She kissed the ground and a girl. And maybe Robbie and me will have to sing "I Kissed a Girl" and I disliked it at a pride.
[20:00] Robbie Rozelle: I'm so sad that we're not singing... you're not doing the pride show because we were going to do "Loathing" from Wicked, which would be really great. It's a lot of words. I'm not even learning these words, so like why would I learn yours?
[20:16] Robert Bannon: That's not true. Robbie's a real rehearser. Like what people don't know is he listens to these songs to the point where he's so tired of them that the second the show comes up, he's physically ill because he doesn't want to sing the songs in his show. He just been streaming them for a full year.
[20:32] Robbie Rozelle: That's true. I make a playlist and it just keeps rotating. We're going through the medley tonight, and the medley's crazy.
[20:40] Robert Bannon: How long is the... how many songs are in the mystery minute?
[20:43] Robbie Rozelle: Six.
[20:44] Robert Bannon: Six, six, six. Is that true? Hold. I believe it's six. So let me just look at it super fast here.
[20:58] Robbie Rozelle: While he's looking, Diva Robbie on Instagram, 54Below.org, career tickets, May 23rd, six songs plus I don't know, 20 more, 12. How many songs are you doing?
[21:09] Robbie Rozelle: A lot.
[21:11] Robbie Rozelle: Fifteen, 14.
[21:13] Robert Bannon: 15 or 14 songs with the lyrics. Do you have a teleprompter like Patti LaBelle?
[21:18] Robbie Rozelle: No, I... God. I wish I had this trizend teleprompter that even had like my jokes.
[21:23] Robert Bannon: Me too. I love when it says like hold for applause. Welcome to Brooklyn. Hello, Brooklyn. I love... oh my god. Can we do that one? Can we be fancy enough to have a teleprompter?
[21:33] Robbie Rozelle: It's all I want.
[21:34] Robert Bannon: Sure. I wish I was famous enough for one.
[21:37] Robbie Rozelle: That'd be great.
[21:40] Robert Bannon: Me too. All right, we have something to choir for for next year. I think for you, we're just gonna get a full choir. Like a Christmas choir on the stairs.
[21:51] Robbie Rozelle: Oh no, we're doing a 54... a Christmas choir at the bar. Seems appropriate.
[21:57] Robert Bannon: Yes. And I want to be there. You know, I'm really sad because I'll be in New York and I'll be in New Jersey. I'll be in the vicinity. It is the night of my rehearsal dinner. I get married two days later. Otherwise, because the other day Robbie came on the round table pre-show, and Darius had a fit that we were not going to Robbie's show because Darius has never been to a Robbie show.
[22:15] Robbie Rozelle: And Darius is a good time because he has a...
[22:20] Robert Bannon: Well, because he stole me into Detroit, the land of Coney Dogs and Faygo Soda, and took me away from New York City. And I need him to see. So you gotta do more shows, Robbie. I'm just putting it out there. Are you paying for them?
[22:35] Robbie Rozelle: No, I can't even afford to pay for my own show.
[22:38] Robert Bannon: Right. Okay. Well, 54 asked me to come. They've requested a by popular demand return, and I said, let me sell out this one first.
[22:50] Robert Bannon: Well, we're gonna sell it out. Everybody, May 23rd at 9:30. You have nothing else to do. I'm gonna see. You'll laugh. It's Memorial Day weekend. You're not going to Fire Island, you're not going down the shore, you're not going to... um, wherever else people are.
[22:57] Robbie Rozelle: Robert's wedding.
[22:57] Robert Bannon: You're not going to Robert's wedding because you weren't invited. So you can go... Robbie Rozelle's show is the place to be in New York City on May 23rd. New York's hottest club is 54 Below. Citation needed.
[23:17] Robert Bannon: What can we look for that you're working on recording-wise? Because I know you've been in and out of recording studios every day.
[23:23] Robbie Rozelle: That's true. We are mixing "Floyd Collins" right now, the original Broadway cast recording, and it looks like there's another broadcast album from this season that's yet to be announced.
[23:36] Robert Bannon: Okay. So you're busy.
[23:37] Robbie Rozelle: And a couple of other things.
[23:39] Robbie Rozelle: Yeah. Until they're announced, I can't talk about them, but I'm so busy that I... people, I fell asleep at 8 o'clock last night. I sat down, I put on "America's Next Top Model" episode one, season one, and was out five minutes later.
[23:55] Robert Bannon: See, that you're... you're a Sagittarius.
[23:58] Robbie Rozelle: Yeah.
[23:59] Robert Bannon: Yeah, I get you. Because my brother's a Sagittarius, my best friend Mike is a Sagittarius, and Darius is a Sagittarius. So the other day, we had Cinco de Mayo, we had his sister, and we... I'm gonna waste your time with 30 seconds of the story. We had his sister and his cousin, he cooked, he made fajitas, he made tacos, we had margaritas, it was cute. And after it was over, everyone went home at 8 o'clock and he went upstairs to take a shower and get ready for bed. I was like, where is Darius? And at 8:05, he had fallen asleep on the bed watching Bonanza, like he's 186 years old.
[24:27] Robbie Rozelle: Bonanza?
[24:29] Robert Bannon: Bonanza, Robbie. Boy, no, the Judy Garland show was on opposite Bonanza, and so do better.
[24:37] Robbie Rozelle: Well, I'm gonna tell him. Firstly, he gets his gay card revoked, unless he's into cowboys, which then he wouldn't have been marrying me. Secondly, because when you think cowboy, you think you singing the same Texas, you can't hold him. But you watching "America's Next Top Model" season one, episode one, it makes sense to me.
[24:58] Robbie Rozelle: A friend of mine was just like, oh my god, do you remember "America's Next Top Model"? I said, no, that's like a blind spot for me. And she was like, this show is crazy and would never be made now. And they are correct.
[25:12] Robert Bannon: Well, we'll have to all get gay binge watching available right now online. And everybody out here, gays and... and what do you call them? Gays and gay adjacent people, people looking to have a good time, people looking to have a really fun evening out. Please go to 54below.org, get your tickets. He's back in the basement. I like that basement song on that you sang that one time.
[25:33] Robbie Rozelle: It's a good one.
[25:35] Robbie Rozelle: Well, yeah, that's when I reopened 54 with a show called "Back in the Basement."
[25:39] Robert Bannon: That's a good song. All the songs. But it's very great writer. But there's some original songs I've heard that you're singing that are also great, and you need to check them out. Follow Robbie on @DivaRobbie on Instagram to see what's the next one. And we love you so much. We so thank you for being here.
[25:57] Robbie Rozelle: I love you.
[25:58] Robert Bannon: I love everything that you do. You to me, you are perfect, etc. I wouldn't... for dead serious, all jokes aside, I wouldn't have the show. I wouldn't do shows in New York City, I wouldn't record music anymore if it wasn't for you. You have opened so many doors.
[26:14] Robbie Rozelle: That is something I'm doing with you.
[26:18] Robert Bannon: You've opened so many doors. You've pushed me and encouraged me and made me feel like there's a home and community for me. And I'm forever grateful because I wouldn't do any of this without you, and I'm not doing it with anybody else so you have to live forever. Well, ever like 162, come on Rob, so much to do. I'm not ending till we play "Porta Bayarta." Done. I love... why are we not there in Palm Springs like where the gays are?
[26:24] Robbie Rozelle: I don't... I'm gonna work on that now. How do we get on the gay circuit? We don't... we can't. Can I get a gay cruise ship? P-Town? Yeah, you would sell a gangbusters on a cruise ship with all your rewinds. Come... but why can't we both do it like Sonny and Cher but the gays version? That's just Nicholas King and Sussex.
[26:24] Robbie Rozelle: Well, good night. I love them both.
[26:24] Robert Bannon: There's room for more.
[26:24] Robbie Rozelle: Sure, yes.
[26:24] Robert Bannon: No, I don't disagree. All right, we're gonna work on that. Go rehearse.
[26:24] Robbie Rozelle: I guess you would go dance.
[26:24] Robert Bannon: Yeah, I'm gonna go dance. I'm doing a waltz.
[26:24] Robbie Rozelle: It's fast.
[26:24] Robert Bannon: Robbie, I don't dance. I'm gonna... I’m gonna film it so that we can put it in the next show.
[26:24] Robbie Rozelle: Oh please put it up on the screen and it'll play during the Christmas waltz.
[26:24] Robert Bannon: Perfect, in three quarters time. Perfect, there it is. Done. Done. Sold. Everybody go see "Citation Needed." Get your... thank you so much, Robbie, for being here. I love and appreciate you so much.
[26:24] Robbie Rozelle: Thank you.
[28:04] Robbie Rozelle: I love you.
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