January Jones sharing The Bob Hopechannel on YouTube with Official Archivist Jim Hardy

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Radio. Who is January Jones.
She is not a young, beautiful,

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talented actress on Madman. She is
not an older, gorgeous exotic dancer from

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The Johnny Carson Show. She is
an author and she wrote Thou Show Not

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Why the Eleventh Commandment that rates number
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a reality TV golf personality with World
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She is a hugemerist and whyologist expert. She is your featured host today on

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January Jones sharing success stories. So
sit back, relax, and get ready

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to laugh and listen to Ms Jones
with her eclectic roster of guests as you

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learn life's lessons. These stories plus
sharing equal success. Welcome and remember beware

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because you are entering the no whining
world of January Jones. Hello, Hello

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everyone. I hope you're having a
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to get. We'll tell you more
about it next week. Now, let

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me ask you a question. Do
you remember the Golden age of television?

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Yes? Yes, that's when we
were growing up. Tell me did you

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have your own special favorite show,
the one you liked the best? We

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all did. We had so many
shows, as you know. Last week

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we talked about I Love Lucy,
and today we're going to talk about one

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of my favorites, the Bob Hope
shows. Do you remember how his USO

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tours would be televised after he'd go
to the military basis during the highlights.

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Yes, at one time he visited
the US S Bennington when my husband was

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on the ship serving in the Vietnam. Now do you know that the Bob

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Hope channel has just launched on YouTube? Isn't that exciting? If you can

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answer yes or maybe to any of
these questions, then you are in the

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right place. And I'd like to
welcome you to January Jones sharing success stories.

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Dow's time. Rest relaxed, Go
get some wine, get some cheese

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and crackers, and sit down and
enter the no wine zone with us.

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Today, I want to tell you
about my guest. My guest represents the

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Bob Hope Legacy, the Bob Hope
and Dolores Hope Foundation, and the Hope

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Family. They are proud to announce
the new Bob Hope Channel on YouTube.

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My guests for years handled the licenses
of these materials, issues pertaining to copyright

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in maintaining the extensive extents of archives. In nineteen eighty six, he just

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filled in for a summer job at
Bob Hope Enterprises as a production assistant.

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He never returned, never returned to
his old job, and thirty eight years

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later he is still there. Our
guest has worked on forty three television shows

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with Bob or About Bob, and
countless personal appearances. It's my pleasure to

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introduce you to Jim Hardy. Hi, Jim, Hi, January. I'll

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oh, it's wonderful to have you. I've been looking forward to this thirty

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eight years. That's a long time, isn't it. Yeah, that's a

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long time. Couldn't ask for a
better stroke of luck, you know,

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right place, at the right time. January. Yeah, that counts in

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everything show business. Before we talk
about the Bob Hope Channel, I'm very

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excited about that. Share with our
listeners a little bit of your success story.

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Where you started out and who your
early influences were, and how you

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got into entertainment. Well, I
knew from a very early age that I

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wanted to be in the entertainment industry, probably from the time I was about

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ten, myself and the neighborhood kids. So one of the neighbors had a

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eight milimeter camera and we used to
shoot little movies and animate things, and

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you know, I knew that this
was the direction that I wanted to go,

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and I pursued that vigorously. Went
to school learned film and television production,

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so I had a degree when the
opportunity came along for that three month

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gig. So for the whole people, it was a plug and play situation.

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They didn't have to teach me anything, and they had a show to

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do that summer, which was not
always the case. And that's really why

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they needed somebody to fill in for
this fellow that had to take the summer

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off. And you know he was
he was my Wally Pip. You know,

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I got his spot on the roster
and I never gave it up.

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Good for you. Where were you
born? What part of the country are

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you from. I was actually born
in Berkeley, just up the coast here,

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but I grew up in Denver and
spent my whole life really in Denver

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until I went to college in Oklahoma, Okay, right from oh U.

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I came straight out here to find
my way into entertainment business. Was this

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your first big job, getting hired
with Bob Hope Enterprises? Yeah. I

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had worked on it, you know, a couple of shows here or there,

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and it was freelance type stuff.
It was nothing permanent, and you'd

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worked you know, a Tuesday here
and a Saturday there. And so forth.

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And when this came along, it
was a steady work for three months

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and I thought, well, you
know, shoot, if nothing else,

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I'll get an opportunity to meet an
awful lot of important people and you know,

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see if it leads to something.
And you know, and the most

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important person that I met during that
three months was Bob and it led to

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a thirty eight year gig. And
I love the part that you're still there.

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That's wonderful. Still there, game's
the locks. What can they do?

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Yeah, I'm sure you're very value
but with all your experience, share

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a little bit before we talk about
the shows and the USO and the entertainment

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and people celebrity after celebrity, share
a little bit about how Bob actually got

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started in show business. Was he
born in the UK or was he born

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in this country? He was born
in the UK. Hey, he was

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born in a little suburb of London
called Helton. I came here when he

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was four years old and grew up
in Cleveland and had an interest in show

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business. He liked to perform,
he liked the attention. His mother could

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see that in him. You know, he had a lot of brothers and

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she could see that, and she
would take him to the local law mill

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house and so forth to see entertainment, and she encouraged him and he was

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very interested in it and took dancing
lessons and so for he was a little

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bit of a delinquent, you know, and the minor spent some time in

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reform school and it was a bit
of a cool hustler and so forth.

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I had never heard about that part, you know. I mean, you

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know, like a lot of kids, you know, nothing serious, but

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you know, I mean, he
could have gone off the rails a little

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bit, but he, you know, he took dancing lessons and then he

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became a dancer out on the road
with various partners in vaudeville, was limited

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success and really found his his niche
when he was asked by one of the

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the inter managers if you could just, you know, when you're done with

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your dancing act, just introduced the
next act, you know, which was

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a Scottish fella. And so Bob
introduced him and did a couple of Scottish

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jokes, which I guess were popular
in those times Scottish people, and got

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a couple of laughs out of it. And so each day, you know,

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he'd add another joke, and he'd
had another joke, and he was

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doing really well, and you know, the manager finally came too and said,

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you know, that's what you should
be doing. You know, I'd

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give up the dancing part and I
would pursue business. What your talent is,

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and so he so he you know, he made an effort then to

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become a comic, and uh still
struggled. You know, he toiled for

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years. Really, it was no
overnight success by any means, and was

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very close to giving it up and
going back to Cleveland and going to work

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for his brother in a butcher shop. He was cold and hungry in Chicago.

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And you talked about being in the
right place at the right time.

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Yeah, we did. Lot of
his from Cleveland. Was walking past and

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said, by, what are you
doing, Bobby? He said, you

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know, it's I can't get steady
work. I'm really struggling. He said,

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then come on upstairs with me going
to see my booking agent. And

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the agent needed I needed somebody to
be an EMC for just three days,

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he said. So he gave the
gate to Bob. He said, it's

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a three day You know, if
it took three days at the Stratford Hotel

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and he stayed there six months.
It just clicked, found his audience and

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they found him. And he never
looked back from there. But you know

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what I mean, if he wasn't
standing on that street corner on that evening,

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we might not be having this conversation
here today. You know, he

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might be the most famous butcher in
Cleveland for all of them. His brother

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had a butcher shop, right,
yeah, a very successful butcher shop.

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And he thought, you know,
he thought, I you know, I

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look, I've given this every chance
and it's not happening. And maybe it's

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just not going to happen. All
the talent in the world, the work

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ethic, you can't. I mean, nobody worked harder than Bob did,

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but sometimes still need that little break. And he got it and he looked

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back after that. And that's interesting
that he started out as an MC because

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I remember so many years where he
would be the host of the oscars and

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some of the times. You know, actually, when I was younger,

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I did get to see him perform. It was just the way he strolled

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out and present himself. Everyone was
laughing in anticipation of what they knew was

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coming, and it was always going
to be wonderful. He was really born

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to what he was so comfortable with
it, and it showed. I mean,

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he just gripped confidence for sure.
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back to the No Wine Song with
my guest Jim Hardy. He is not

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a whiner because he is a winner, and he is here to promote the

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Bob Hope YouTube channel. So if
you're watching this show on my YouTube channel,

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all you need to do is switch
over and check in with Bob's show

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and then and subscribe and be sure
you're subscribed with me too. Let's talk

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about some of the famous people that
he worked with and you got to meet.

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Who would you say was the most
memorable guest or person celebrity? Oh

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boy, I'll tell you one of
the most memorable for me was you know,

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a lot of young fellas like myself
growing up drooled over Barbara Eat Oh

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yeah, yeah. And you know, so eight years later, there she

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is, and she's on the show, and I'm meeting Barbarie and I couldn't

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put two words together to you play
it all out in your head. You're

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going to be so cool and you
know, the reality is that it doesn't

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matter how old we are when you're
around to Barbara eat were all just pimple,

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these little boys, and I could
put tours. It was so memorable

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for me to meet her. She
was so charming and sweet and beautiful,

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very such a nice, nice person
and a great, great talent. But

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I also meant, you know,
I got to meet Lucy, I got

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to meet George Burns, Milton Burrow, and Danny Thomas. I mean,

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just legendary people. I mean,
it was just you know, a lot

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of pinch me moments, if you
want to call them that, because it's

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just you know, you look,
when I look back on it, you

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know, I still am. I
am amazed at the life that I was

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the privilege to share there with Bob
because he knew everybody had him on the

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show. And I mean, they
were just so delightful January, just the

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nicest people, because I think that
that comes from that generation. M hard

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to become a star in those days, you know, going through Vaudevil and

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then trying to get on radio and
so forth. You know, now there

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were so many condos to get attention, and it was hard to become a

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star and to accomplish something in entertainment, and those that did had such an

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appreciation for it, for what they
for the life that they had, for

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the career that they had, and
it showed, and they treated people very

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very well, and they appreciated everybody
of the crew because they knew that that

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was part of what made them successful. They appreciated their fans because without them

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they would not have the career and
the life that they had, and I

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don't know that that exists so much
today. You know. I found that

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that entertainers from that generation were very
kind to everybody and it really worked,

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grateful and that you know, you
get a sense now it today people did.

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It's a sense of entitlement, you
know. I think it's very refreshing,

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and I think that people today could
learn some lessons from that. You

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get a lot more out of your
cast and prove with a kind of I

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think it's so true what you're saying
and commenting on. And the interesting thing

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is that generation had so much respect
for the entertainment industry and consequently they received

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respect back and they were courteous coming
and going to fans, to co workers,

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and it was such an a wonderful
atmosphere to work in, go through

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what a prediction production assistant actually does, because I know you're supposed to get

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the coffee. After you get the
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that they have you do, don't
they. Yeah, there were a lot

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of things that you're helping a the
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fellow named Eliot Cozac. You're helping
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had spent thirty nine years at NBC
doing the Bob Hope shows before went to

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work for Bob directly. Just a
wealth of knowledge. You're you're kind of

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the you're the person that kind of
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part of the job was going over
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because the shows are on tape in
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set up there adjacent to his suite, his bedroom sweet and that's where all

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the machines were, and you would
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had an opportunity to just be the
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him. And you've got to bomb
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talking to you about the show,
he's asking your opinion about things, which

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was interesting. Why would you care
about what my opinion was? But there

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were jokes that he thought were going
to be killer, you know when he

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read him on the page, and
they were flat when he told him,

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and you know, he would ask
you what, you know, what do

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you think happened there? Or why
why does this joke so big? And

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this wouldn't flop? And so,
and he was interested in your opinion.

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And inasmuch as I knew it was
a temporary job, I thought, well,

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I have no reason to not tell
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a permanent job. I probably would
have been guessing, like everybody else,

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what does he want to hear?
I just told him, you know,

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that joke didn't do well because it's
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I didn't think it was funny,
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didn't think. And he appreciated that. You know that he didn't always agree

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with you, but he appreciate you. Get it. If you asked you

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a question, he was going to
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he didn't, but that that counted
for him. But you know, so

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it was my good fortune. I
guess that it was a temporary job,

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and I just, you know,
I just went with it. Oh well,

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and I'm sure he looked at you
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as you said earlier, people who
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out what he wanted to hear.
So it must have really been refreshing to

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have his young kid a brown Yeah. I guess that's you know, part

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of the problem of being celebrity or
being you know, the CEO or whatever

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it is. People are just trying
to trying to tell you what you want

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to hear, and that's not what
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years old. I didn't have anything
to lose, and you know, when

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I was speaking for a generation,
a lot of which you know, we're

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in the audience, and so you
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that maybe he didn't have on his
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since I am a writer, how
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mean, he was just coming up
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there must have been a really good
support system on that show. Yeah,

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he had a lot of writers.
He had, you know, eight to

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ten writers at any one time.
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he got into radio, his first
big break, and you know, the

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show went on the air, and
when the show was over, he realized,

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everybody's hurting. I need a new
show in seven days because involved you

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can do the same show for a
year, because you just track around.

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And he always had young, good,

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smart guys out of college and you
know, and and that served him very

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well. And he loved the writers
and they were very, very valuable to

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him. But he was a great
editor. And every writer wrote a whole

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show, and then he would cobble
the show together, taking different bits and

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pieces from all the different writers and
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very good at it. And I
remember a funny story is that he had

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a new writer's brand new, and
the guy or to drop off, you

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know, his first his first stuff, was just riding out and he handed

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it to Bob through the window of
the car, this envelope. And Bob

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didn't even open it, he just
felt it. It was heavy. He

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said, oh, yeah, this
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that much material from a smart guy. There was going to be some gold

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in there and going to find he
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did did he make the decisions on
which jokes he was going to use?

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part of the equation? She was
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he would do the monologue, especially
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story being that if he shooes the
oldest daughter, that he would do the

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monologue at the dinner table, you
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off then to do the show,
you know, and always get a very

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good reception, and in the middle
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jokes that in the middle of it. Dolores was Kelly sit up. Sit

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up talked about a tough audience,
but she didn't have any Ino input into

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what he would use. He would
go through. He was the last word

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on everything. Uh. He was
absolutely the last word on everything. He

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had his figures in every piece of
the pie and the show that we're on

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the air, right was his show
top to bottom right. Yeah, I

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remember I used to live in California
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very active and very philanthropy, and
they were doing so much for charity

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right from the beginning. You know
we're going to take a break, And

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sixty years later, we're still asking
who killed Kennedy. Let me ask you

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a question, are you still wondering
who killed Kennedy? Over fifty years later?

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The assassination is still a mystery.
It is unfinished business for our country.

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January Jones dot com, Amazon dot
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by mis Jones. Welcome back with
our guest today, Jim Hardy, who

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is an archivist with the Bob Hope
Foundation, and let's talk a little bit.

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I mentioned in the opening that my
husband had been in the Navy on

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the USS Bennington, and then Bob
Hope's troop visited his ship. That was

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way back in nineteen sixty six,
and Joey Heatherton was with him and all

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the sailors they just went nuts.
They were so happy. My husband sent

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me home, you know, the
little eight millimeter film and you could see

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everyone just so excited. Did you
go on all these trips or how did

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that play out for you? Well, those before my time, and I

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did have an opportunity to go to
Persian Gulf, to Beirut, to desert

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storm, Moscow and Berlin after the
Fall of the Wall, and to visit

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troops and state personnel over there.
And so I had an opportunity to go

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on some of these shows. And
it's a very unique experience, you know,

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the travel is arduous because here on
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very cold and loud, and you
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it's a long trip. But you
know, the incredible thing about that

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desert storm in particular, which is
the last troops show that we did.

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He was eighty seven ors old,
Bob, and he was just the most

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spry, energetic person out there,
Okay, so energized by being able to

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interact with the troops and entertainment.
It meant so much to him. It

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was a it was a rapport and
a boy between a soldier and entertainer that

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was like no other, you know, and he'd been doing it at that

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time. You know, he had
been doing it for fifty years. Holiday.

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How many years did he entertain the
troops? And I know most of

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those ships trips were during the holidays
too, weren't they. Yeah, a

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lot of those shows were Christmas shows. Yeah. Certain, we look at

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and how many years did he do
that? Do you recall he started entertaining

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troops in nineteen forty one and the
last trip that he did was nineteen ninety

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Christmas at nineteen ninety. So that's
how that's forty nine hours. That's amazing.

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Yeah, So when you take the
trip the show on the road,

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like, how how many people would
be in your traveling how many people would

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you be traveling with? And cameras
and you have to take all that,

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right, you have to take everything
with you, your cameras, your lights,

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all the personnel. You know,
your cast, your writers, your

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director, you know, it's you
know, depending on how big the cast

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is, you know, you can
have forty people, forty or fifty people

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on this trip and a lot of
equipment. So logistically it's quite a it's

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quite an undertaking. Yeah, And
you know, I was especially very meaningful

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to military wives, children, mothers
that these Christmas shows would be broadcast and

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everyone in the family we all look
up together and you're watching the show and

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hoping you might see your sailor your
soldier. And it was so wonderful because

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those were the days where you couldn't
just pick up a phone and call someone.

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You know, we had we sent
tapes back and forth and it would

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sometimes take two to three weeks to
get a letter or a tape. So

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those shows were just so good for
morale, weren't they. Yeah, you're

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absolutely right. I think people today
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at such distances. It's not an
easy thing to keep it in touch with

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your friends and family when you were
half the world away, not like today.

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So yeah, it was valuable.
And you know, interestingly, a

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lot of the service people would get, you know, they would put a

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matchbook or something in his hand with
a phone number and a name on it.

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So when you get back, what
you call my mom? And would

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you call my wife telling that you
saw that, you saw me and I'm

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okay and stuff like that. And
he would come back and he would spend

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days up in his room on the
phone and he would make these calls.

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So you know, imagine getting a
call like that and the personal but the

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importance of it and value of it. And you know, there's a great

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story from World War Two when it
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letters could take months, you know, from the South, you know,

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back to home. And Bob got
a letter one day from a woman Harriet

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Peterson. I'll never forget her name, and she wrote to him. The

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last letter that she received from her
husband was him talking about having seen Bob's

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show that they came and performed for
them on some island in the South Pacific,

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and between the time that he wrote
that letter and between the time that

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she got that letter months later,
she buried it. He was killed and

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ancient and returned home and she had
buried him, and she gets the letter

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and he was so full of humor
and life in this letter talking about to

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say and she wrote to Bob,
you know, just to tell him how

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important it was what he had done
and for everybody else. And it's a

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very powerful reminder of just how important
it is what he did and how he

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was doing. And I think that
people at today he would say without question

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it was the most important thing that
he did in his life. Yeah,

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yeah, And I know for these
holidays he was away from his family,

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and then I suppose when he came
back they would have to catch up.

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But I do remember watching some of
the shows where his wife and children went

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with him on the trips, and
that was always fun because Dolores had such

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a beautiful singing voice. Yeah,
yeah, that's that's how he met her.

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Club, and uh George Murphy,
who later became a senator. It was

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on Broadway, and he took Bob
over to the boat Club back one night

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after the show U and out she
came and saying paper Moon and some other

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things, and Bob was smitten right
away. She was a Marvel singer,

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a great time, yes, yes, but yeah, she went on a

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couple of shows. But you know, Linda tell us the story, you

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know that you know, when they
were kids, you know, they didn't

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understand how come he and her dad's
never home for Christmas, you know,

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and she told him, you know, why he was gone and what he

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was doing, and you know,
she said, there's an awful lot of

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kids out there that don't have their
dads for Christmas either, and your dad

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is, you know, making the
Christmas is a little better. And you

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know, when they grew up,
you know, they understood it, and

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which she had great appreciation for what
he was doing. And then you know,

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by extent and that the kids learned
how important it was to and they

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would have their Christmas when he got
back. Yeah, well that's what you

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do when you're in the military.
And they were almost just like the military.

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I remember reading somewhere that he actually
got into doing the entertainment for the

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truths that because President Roosevelt personally called
him in and requested that this service be

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done. And apparently just everyone in
Hollywood just they were all in to help

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him put these shows together, were
they. Yeah, Yeah, Hollywood really

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banded together and did a lot of
great entertainment efforts for soldiers. Yeah,

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because it's a war that everybody was
into, you know. Yeah, you

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were not on the fence about that, you know, because it was not

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a controversial war. I mean,
we were all in. And Hollywood really

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did great job of enterta personnel.
And yeah, Bob was gonna, uh,

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you want to do it last and
Rosamond sit down, come on,

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you can do so much more good
entertaining and so yeah, and so he

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did, and boy tirelessly and made
those trips over there. Those were hard

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trips, you know, island hopping
in nineteen forty four on those little planes

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that they was going around and an
awful lot could go wrong. He set

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out all the stuff escaped did and
I know he used to talk about some

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of those lights and with these army
military planes. Definitely it was not luxurious,

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was it. No, it was
not luxurious. Sometimes you're sleeping on

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top of the palace, you know. Yeah, you know they were not.

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They were not. It was not
commercial aircraft, you know, those

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were aircraft or you know, moving
troops and moving cargo and moving equipped and

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they were slow and they had to
stop and refuel and they were cold,

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and that's how you got there.
And you know, there was no other

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way to do it. You know. There were some some mishaps here and

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there an engine failure that ditch on
a lake in Australia. Oh pane that

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had no wheels. It was it
was p B Y which is takes off

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in lands from water. But they
were flying over land and the engine went

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out and they were going down and
fortunately the pilot was he found a body

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of water that was big enough to
accommodate this play and one of the few

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close calls. You know, I
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back with Jim Hardy, who is working

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with the Bob and Dolores Foundation,
and they've established a Bob Hope channel on

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YouTube that I hope you will check
out and subscribe to. Let's talk a

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little bit about the road shows.
Those were so amazing, so entertaining.

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Were you involved in any of that
and how many did he do? Well?

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He did seven road pictures, okay
for my time. The chemistry between

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he and Being in particular was just
magical and really has never been duplicated by

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any other duel. I know they
tried. They actually had met each other

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at the Capitol Theater in nineteen thirty
two, and they were both vaudeville headliners.

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Bob was the MC of the show, Ding was a big time singing

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star already and they just they made
a quick and fast friendship. They were

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doing five shows a day and break
up the monotony, they started to do

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some shit and come up with some
little comedy routines that they would do before

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he would go on in and sing
a song. And they just were just

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real pals, you know, they
just liked each other. So later when

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they're both at Paramount and the idea
for Roga Singapore comes along with was actually

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written for George Burns. You know, some of the producers saw Bob and

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Bing together, and Ming was involved
with the Delmar Racetrack down near San Diego,

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and openly the season a Bob would
go down and they did you know,

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he'd call them up on stage and
the two of them would do some

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of the stuff that they had done, you know, eight earlier. And

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but the producers thought that they were
meeting each other like for the first time,

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and they thought a lot of these
two were just magic. And so

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they went together and that in that
movie, and the rest is history because

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it was just such a huge success
and they were just so great, and

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you know, they add lived an
awful lot of change. There's a lot

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of stuff that is in those movies
that they just dreamed up themselves, you

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know. Yeah, you know that's
the original improv probably when those two got

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together with about so much talent going
back and forth. And I also remembered,

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I seem to recall that they both
were fanatical golfers, right oh yeah,

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big, big time love. And
by the funny story in the Bob

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Tells is that in the beginning,
you know, Bing was the real star.

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You know, look at the credits
on that first one. It's Bing

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Crosby and big letters Dorothy Laarder then
and Bob Boo. When the weather was

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good, you know, and Bob, you know, he would get called

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Bing and say, you know,
Bing had to call it sick. You

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00:42:22.519 --> 00:42:23.840
know, if they wanted the weather
was good and they wanted to go out

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and play golf, Bob didn't have
the credentials to pull that off, and

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Bing would call it a sore throat
or whatever, and then they go out

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and play golf. He needed Bing
for that. Bing was the celebrity.

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He was the Big Star. Yeah. Well, oh gosh, those shows

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were great. And then Bob,
I know, he got involved in having

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his own golf tournament and I know, uh Bing had his thing up at

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Pebble Beach and all the celebrities,
they were just thrilled to be invited to

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get invited to their tournaments. Was
incredible for people, wasn't it. Yeah,

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yeah, both of those, the
Clan Makeup and the AT and T

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00:43:06.559 --> 00:43:10.360
that was the Big Crosby and then
the Desert Classic gun on Bomb Springs that

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00:43:10.519 --> 00:43:14.719
was Bob's tournament and they were both
pro ams. So the first two days

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it's a lot of celebrities or sports
stars and so forth playing golf with the

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00:43:19.480 --> 00:43:23.840
pros for fun and it raised it
raised money for charity, which is really

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why he started to do the tournament
getting and they built the Eisenhower Medical Center

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with the money that they made for
tournaments, and those tournaments for decades and

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uh, just so entertaining and I
you know, and the pros had a

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lot of fun because it's they're just
they're getting to meet, you know,

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people that they admired. You know, they're meeting you know, plays,

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Sammy Davis community, you know,
So it was fun, you know,

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in both ways, you know,
the start of getting to meet the pro

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golfers that they love and admire,
and worked the other way as well.

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Oh yeah, fun doing it.
It still goes on today, but it

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doesn't doesn't wear Bob's maybe. Uh. I remember when we were much much

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younger. We were in California,
as I said, and we got to

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go down to the desert and go
to walk one of the tournaments, and

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there were you couldn't believe there were
celebrities coming and going. And he had

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such a well, both he and
Bing, they both had such a relaxed

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demeanor. I mean they were so
easy to be around. People just love

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them so much. Yeah, they
were very accommodating. Yeah, I never

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unfortunately I didn't get to me even
moment for me to beat it. But

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everything that you see, you're right, he and Bob have that. They're

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just so comfortable with themselves and with
the people that there's no environment that they

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there was foreign to them, and
people gravitate to that because they're accessible.

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They don't push you away. Friendly. Spoke with them and they were signing

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autographs and they were just so delightful. And so I'm looking at the notes

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here for the show. And what
a patriot he had six decads, decades

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where he went to whether we were
at war or at peace, he would

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go on. He did fifty seven
USO tours World War two, Korea,

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Vietnam with my husband's mom and the
Persian golf. And what an amazing American

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I was. I remember George Burns
lived to be a hundred. Did Bob

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Hope also do that? Yeah?
He did, oh bloods. Yeah,

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so that was That's amazing, but
a wonderful goal. And I know when

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he passed the whole everyone the whole
world was in the morning. It was

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00:46:13.440 --> 00:46:20.239
like a light had gone out in
our world. Well, I think you

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know, any senior or anybody really, but seniors in particular, you know,

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00:46:24.519 --> 00:46:29.679
can learn a lot from from Bob
and how he lived his life.

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He took care of himself, He
was careful about what he ate. He

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00:46:32.840 --> 00:46:37.119
walked a lot. Uh uh,
you know, every night, didn't matter

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00:46:37.159 --> 00:46:45.239
where he was after he would take
a walk. He was so positive and

541
00:46:45.239 --> 00:46:52.400
as he talked about no wighting,
Bob Hope's house and the studio or wherever

542
00:46:52.480 --> 00:46:54.519
he was was a no winning zone. He was not a whiner and wasn't

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00:46:54.519 --> 00:47:00.000
tolerate. There's all pickups in life, you know, thinks never things do

544
00:47:00.079 --> 00:47:07.639
not always go as planned. But
he met the challenges with Hubert and with

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00:47:07.719 --> 00:47:12.679
a positive attitude and he rolled up
the sleeves and you know, got got

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00:47:12.679 --> 00:47:16.079
to it and you know, his
you know, his attitude was, you

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00:47:16.119 --> 00:47:20.480
know, we'll figure it out.
And you know the way, you know

548
00:47:20.599 --> 00:47:22.960
to figure it out is to just
get started. Okay, let's get started

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00:47:23.000 --> 00:47:28.360
on it and if if we if
we're wrong, then we'll fix it and

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00:47:28.480 --> 00:47:30.400
we'll go a different direction. But
you know, never just sat down and

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00:47:30.480 --> 00:47:34.039
went, oh, you know,
what are we going to do? Yeah,

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00:47:34.039 --> 00:47:37.119
you know, and he was he
was in attack mode all the time

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00:47:37.280 --> 00:47:42.000
and whistling and coming to himself.
I mean, he was always in a

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00:47:42.039 --> 00:47:45.400
good mood. There was no dark
side that you know a lot of comedians

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00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:51.360
had. He didn't have that.
Oh that's lovely to hear. And you

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00:47:51.440 --> 00:47:57.559
know, he was a big,
big part of the Greatest Generation. And

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00:47:57.679 --> 00:48:01.800
it's just so bad us to go
back and look through history at all of

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00:48:01.840 --> 00:48:07.119
their contributions that whole and you're right, there were you weren't. There was

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00:48:07.159 --> 00:48:15.840
no whining in that group. Well
it's time to end, and I'm so

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happy you created the Bob Hope Channel
and I hope our listeners will check it

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out. I hope our listeners have
enjoyed our time together. My upcoming guests

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will all be eclectic, just like
Jim Witz today. Now, the important

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thing to remember here is that we
do not want any whining. We want

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just smiling. Thank you for entering
the no wine zone. Stop whining,

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start smiling, and if that doesn't
work, then you can just start eating

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chocolate, lots and lots of chocolate
again. Thank you, Jim Hardy,

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and I hope you come back to
visit us again. Thank you January for

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having me on and let me talk
about my favorite mine too that I we

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want to thank you for listening to
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miss Jones' personal mantra, if you
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