Open Forum in The Villages, Florida

A Conversation with a TV & Movie Extra - Open Forum in The Villages S3, #18

June 23, 2023 Mike Roth & George Von Thaden Season 3 Episode 18
A Conversation with a TV & Movie Extra - Open Forum in The Villages S3, #18
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A Conversation with a TV & Movie Extra - Open Forum in The Villages S3, #18
Jun 23, 2023 Season 3 Episode 18
Mike Roth & George Von Thaden

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Welcome to the Open Forum in The Villages, Florida! In today's episode, we have a special guest, George Von Thaden, who has led quite an extraordinary life before settling down in The Villages. George is not only known for his unusual careers but also for his hilarious personality. As one of the top performers in The Villages Improv Club, his wit and sense of humor shine through.

During the podcast, you'll have the pleasure of hearing George's entertaining stories and anecdotes. He regales us with tales of his encounters with various TV and movie stars, including the likes of Alec Baldwin, Jackie Gleason, and many others. Find out how George found himself on popular shows like "30 Rock" and "Sex and the City" and the fascinating experiences he had along the way.

In addition to his showbiz adventures, George opens up about his intriguing hobby: collecting western memorabilia and superhero materials. He shares his passion for these iconic genres and offers insights into the fascinating world of collecting. Prepare to be amazed by the stories behind his prized possessions and the thrill of tracking down rare and valuable items.

Join us for an engaging conversation filled with laughter, celebrity encounters, and a deep dive into George Von Thaden's fascinating journey through different careers. Get ready to be entertained, inspired, and maybe even discover a newfound appreciation for the world of comedy, entertainment, and collecting. Tune in to this episode of the Open Forum in The Villages and enjoy the humorous tales and unique perspectives of George Von Thaden!



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Welcome to the Open Forum in The Villages, Florida! In today's episode, we have a special guest, George Von Thaden, who has led quite an extraordinary life before settling down in The Villages. George is not only known for his unusual careers but also for his hilarious personality. As one of the top performers in The Villages Improv Club, his wit and sense of humor shine through.

During the podcast, you'll have the pleasure of hearing George's entertaining stories and anecdotes. He regales us with tales of his encounters with various TV and movie stars, including the likes of Alec Baldwin, Jackie Gleason, and many others. Find out how George found himself on popular shows like "30 Rock" and "Sex and the City" and the fascinating experiences he had along the way.

In addition to his showbiz adventures, George opens up about his intriguing hobby: collecting western memorabilia and superhero materials. He shares his passion for these iconic genres and offers insights into the fascinating world of collecting. Prepare to be amazed by the stories behind his prized possessions and the thrill of tracking down rare and valuable items.

Join us for an engaging conversation filled with laughter, celebrity encounters, and a deep dive into George Von Thaden's fascinating journey through different careers. Get ready to be entertained, inspired, and maybe even discover a newfound appreciation for the world of comedy, entertainment, and collecting. Tune in to this episode of the Open Forum in The Villages and enjoy the humorous tales and unique perspectives of George Von Thaden!



show description was enhanced by Chat GPT



Support the Show.

Open Forum in The Villages, Florida is Produced & Directed by Mike Roth
A new episode will be released most Fridays at 9 AM
Direct all questions and comments to mike@rothvoice.com

If you know a Villager who should appear on the show, please contact us at: mike@rothvoice.com

Speaker 1:

Welcome to the Open Forum in the Villages, florida podcast. In this show we are going to talk to leaders in the community, leaders of clubs and interesting folks who live here in the villages to give perspectives of what is happening here in the villages. We hope to add a new episode most Fridays at 9am. We have converted all of our shows to Buzzsprout. Of course, you can still listen to Apple Podcast, amazon Music and about 20 other podcast platforms. Your favorite podcast player will still work. We are now a listener-supported podcast. You can become a supporter for only $3 or you can choose to pay more per month. Go to OpenFormintheVillagescom and click on Support in the black box. There will be a shout out for supporters in episodes. This is a shout out to supporters. Tweet Coleman, dan Capellan, ed Williams, alvin Stenzel and Major Supporter, doctor Craig Curtis at K2 in the Villages. We will be hearing more from Dr Curtis with short Alzheimer's tips each week.

Speaker 2:

This is Mike Roth. I'm here today with George Monthaeten. George is a resident of the villages and we're going to tell his story today. Thanks for joining me, George.

Speaker 4:

Thanks, Mike.

Speaker 2:

Nice to be here. Why don't you tell our listeners what you did before you came to the villages?

Speaker 4:

I was mostly a jeweler in the jewelry business in New York and selling fine jewelry and diamonds and that's about it.

Speaker 2:

Did you own a franchise?

Speaker 4:

Yes, I did. Before that I did own a hamburger franchise called Cindy's in Fort Myers, Florida. We did that for a few years and came back here to New York and basically went into jewelry business.

Speaker 2:

Okay, george, how many years have you been living here in the villages?

Speaker 4:

Approximately nine years in.

Speaker 2:

Amelia, in Amelia, great George, why don't you tell our listeners a little bit about the clubs and activities that you participated in?

Speaker 4:

Well, quite frankly, the only club and thing that I participate in is the Village Improv, which we meet every Monday at Rohan at about 6.15, and I encourage anyone who's interested to give it a try. It's a lot of fun, good.

Speaker 2:

George, you came to the Let's Explore Comedy Club as well.

Speaker 4:

Yes, i did. Recently we had we also some of the people Let's Explore Comedy, which we do on Fridays twice a month at Bacall Bacall Rec Center.

Speaker 2:

Right, okay. So, george, what I like to do in every show is put a little joke in for my grandson, evan George. Why did the teddy bear eat no dessert?

Speaker 4:

Why did the teddy bear eat no?

Speaker 2:

dessert. That is the question or the joke. I'll give Because he was stuffed.

Speaker 4:

Sorry about that, ladies and gentlemen. I also met. I bumped into a girl the other day, went to high school with No kidding, oh yeah, you were in the villages. Yeah, I really thought back then. we had chemistry, We did third period.

Speaker 2:

Okay, george, before you came here to the villages you had a. well, let's do something that you talk about your hobby here in the villages of collecting things.

Speaker 4:

Yes, my late wife used to bug me about it, but I like to collect all the old Western cap guns and holsters and things like that. Hop along, and Roy and Jean, and all those Davey Crockett, a lot of Davey Crockett stuff.

Speaker 2:

You have your Coonskin hat.

Speaker 4:

I've got a Coonskin hat, the rifle, the whole nine yards, and when my son was down not too long ago, i have a very big picture painted of Roy Rogers. Now he's 49 years old.

Speaker 1:

You know who that?

Speaker 4:

is George? Yeah, it's a cowboy. Couldn't care less. Oh, that was your son, he was 48. Yeah, couldn't care less.

Speaker 2:

I lived in California for 15 years and we did road rallies out in the Apple Valley, California. That's kind of the desert outside of LA And we went to the Roy Rogers Museums more times than I could imagine. Oh, I wish. Yeah, You know and you remember what his real name was Leroy Leonard Sly.

Speaker 4:

Leonard Sly, that's right.

Speaker 2:

Okay, and you know where he was born.

Speaker 4:

No I don't.

Speaker 2:

I was born in the state in Cincinnati where they built the stadium, huh Yeah, and they had the stuff trigger there and the One of my best stories about Roy Rogers.

Speaker 4:

I read this in a kind of obscure book about Las Vegas. He was leading a parade down Las Vegas Boulevard back in 48 or so. He was a big star. then He spotted a young lady in the crowd going dark hair waving at him.

Speaker 4:

The story goes he rode over with trigger, picked the young lady up and rode off and it said, and I quote they had dinner that night. The young lady's name was Barbara Jean Baker, marilyn Monroe, really, when she was 19. Wow, so I'm sorry. You know, he's one of my heroes because if he was with a 19-year-old Marilyn Monroe, he was King of the Cowboys, okay.

Speaker 2:

Got a good sense of humor there. George, I understand you have a story about your Western collection coming out in the Villagers magazine.

Speaker 4:

Yes, I don't know when it's coming out, but they came and they interviewed me and came, took some pictures, So I hope it turns out all right. I've got a whole room. I can tell you something that won't be in there, that my late wife used to bug me about. I used to have an exercise bike in that room And she said you know, you're real cool, tough friends from New York airborne. They'd see you on your exercise bike in your underwear, wearing your cowboy hat, shooting at the Lone Ranger on TV. It kind of breaks the image.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and you're also collecting some other memorabilia.

Speaker 4:

I like, I always liked Superman, Always liked Superman. I've got I even got a little piece of original George Reeves cape. It's a little piece and pictures. I've even got an autographed picture of which I got of Kirk Allen, who was the original Superman in the serials before I was born. And other collectibles, collectibles and pictures, and.

Speaker 2:

I just kind of like to sit there and enjoy it, and so you've dedicated a room in your home to collections.

Speaker 4:

Exactly, it's not an inch left.

Speaker 2:

Not an inch left. Well then, you have to put in more shelves. After your franchise, you moved back to New York. I understand. That's right And you went into the jewelry business.

Speaker 4:

Yes, i had started before I was in the franchise business. I worked in a jewelry store And so I went back to New York, i went back to jewelry and I pretty much stayed there until I moved here.

Speaker 2:

When you were in New York. I understand that you did quite a lot in the movie and film and the TV industry.

Speaker 4:

Yes, i did. I'd probably done 50 or 16 movies and TV shows. I had no stars in my eyes, i just enjoyed doing it. I can know at work. I remember someone saying to me I spent my whole day off at Sex and the Cities did a few of those and said how could you spend your whole day off for a lousy $150, $200, you know.

Speaker 2:

To be an extra.

Speaker 4:

To be an extra. Let me put this way I don't know what you do for fun. You go and play golf, you go fishing, you go bowling. I don't know what it cost you, but here's what I do on my day off. I go and they feed me all day long, especially when we're in the union. We're not talking sandwiches here, we're talking three big meals a day and everything in between. But then they'd make you work with beautiful women all day long. Eck, but I had to do it And then they paid me money.

Speaker 2:

They paid you money to work with beautiful women all day long.

Speaker 4:

You got to do what you got to do.

Speaker 2:

You got to do what you got to do. So how many times were you on Sex and the City?

Speaker 4:

Oh, probably about 11, maybe a little bit 11, 12.

Speaker 2:

Uh-huh, and did you have any speaking lines in Sex and the City.

Speaker 4:

No, I did not. No, I did not.

Speaker 2:

Okay, And in the movies. you showed me quite a few pictures in your portfolio of you in the movies. You did a movie with Alex Baldwin.

Speaker 4:

Yes, I did.

Speaker 2:

Tell our listeners a little bit about that.

Speaker 4:

We were doing a movie called The Remake of the Devil and Daniel Webster And we were doing it out on Long Island in a men's shop. That's where the scene was. I was just an extra in a men's shop And I was downstairs. I went to get a cup of coffee and he was standing there And I just said Mr Baldwin, you know, oh, so where are you from? I'm from Amityville. Oh, i'm from Massa Piqua. I said yes, i do know that.

Speaker 4:

My wife's cousin Scott and your brother Bill grew up together, know each other very well. So where did you live? in Amityville? I went to the four houses from the Amityville horror house Everyone seems to know that by the boatyard He said you know, when I was a kid, me and my brothers used to cut the lawns there. I probably cut you a lawn. So we had a big laugh and he took me upstairs and introduced me to Anthony Hopkins and Jennifer Love-You-It And from then on we had a small friendship. I did quite a few 30 rocks And I know Mr Baldwin has a kind of dubious reputation, but anytime he saw me he always made sure he came over. How are you doing? blah, blah, blah. And he was very nice to me, so I can't really say anything negative about him.

Speaker 2:

That's a good thing. He didn't ask you to be in his western.

Speaker 4:

Right, right Can.

Speaker 2:

I see your gun Right, right, okay, and Baldwin did a lot of bits on Saturday Night Live. I understand that you worked with Saturday Night Live as well.

Speaker 4:

I did, actually did too. I worked with Halle Berry, britney Spears and Jack Black who were different ones. I remember one time my wife called me. we were in a little rehearsal room about the size of this And I had to say to my wife excuse me, but I'm here with Halle Berry and Britney Spears. And she hung up.

Speaker 2:

So your wife had to short it out on that. Huh Yeah. Well, that happens In Sex on the City. I understand you had a good friendship with Gim Kutrell. Gim Kutrell, gim Kutrell.

Speaker 4:

A very, very nice lady, entirely different lady that she played on the show Very nice. She was the only one who come over and talked to us Pia, on extras And we tell jokes and stuff like that, and got to know each other a little bit. My only thing to claim I think I said that right after the show ended.

Speaker 2:

I was Were you on the finale episode.

Speaker 4:

I was in her finale episode.

Speaker 2:

Okay.

Speaker 4:

But she took over Wig and supposed to have cancer. I didn't see myself. Okay, but. I was there, my wife calls up and said Gim Kutrell's on the phone with you. Really, all right. So hello, gim, how are you? I was so excited to go with her to a barbecue out in Hamptons. I said oh. And then she said who was that on the phone? I said well, that was my wife. She said you never told me you were married And that was the end of my relationship with Gim Kutrell.

Speaker 2:

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Speaker 5:

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Speaker 4:

I have a very good story about sex in the city. If you want to know how I actually got into that show.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, how did you get into the sex in the city show?

Speaker 4:

Well, it was like this my daughter had just graduated Master's degrees from NYU, got a job in the city. She got an apartment or Steinway Street in Astoria, queens, mm-hmm which was right across the street from Silver Cup studio. All right, so from the trade paper.

Speaker 2:

I. They turn the old silver cup bakery into a studio base.

Speaker 4:

That's right, you still smell a brick. I said to listen, i'm not gonna go and stand on that line. That's gonna be massive sex. This city at that time was the big deal. Mm-hmm.

Speaker 4:

I said but you know, i miss my daughter. I'll go there, maybe I can throw my resume headshot in the pile. I'll take her in after dinner or lunch. You know, now is my whole idea. Well, i've watched into silver cup studios. There's no one there. I'm in my nice blue suit and briefcase. The guard just says oh yes, sir, go to third floor. I go to the third floor and I'm walking through sets very nice But there's no one there. So finally there was. I'm standing there and Some men in the office said can we help you?

Speaker 4:

I said, yeah, i thought I was supposed to look for some more day. No, we don't have anything here. I said, oh, now I look at the paper called backstage. I just saw Steinway, silver cup studios, my daughter's address. Yeah, all these auditions were down in second Avenue with the city. So I stood there like a jump man says to me Can you hang out here? I'll get somebody to talk to you. Sure, a woman came up and did my picture. She's the other tuxedo. Yeah, yes, man, i have a tuxedo. Well, thank you for coming in. Well now, i was very excited because I was in the studio, walking around the studio, right, right, i ran outside to the first and get this children payphone. I could find mm-hmm.

Speaker 4:

I called my wife, picked it up. She said listen, somebody from Sexness City just called you. They like you there tomorrow, really so. And how we called, made the arrangements was in Roosevelt Hotel. I took the day off, okay.

Speaker 4:

But that Monday I called that woman because I had her card, mm-hmm, and I just said thank you very much for calling me. I really appreciate it. I had a very nice time. Everyone was very nice to me and I just want to say thank you. And she said you know, george, i've been in this business a long time and you were the very first person Background extra ever called me up and said thank you for the job. Well, thank you, yeah, where I was brought up, i guess, mm-hmm, anytime you want to be on this show, you call me the Friday before. I can almost guarantee We can always use your type someplace. So I got to do 11 or 12 of those. But the casting director there also used to cast other shows and they started calling me. So I was doing 30 Rock, i was doing all my children, i was doing a lot of different shows, the cop shows. Mm-hmm.

Speaker 4:

I would do things like they dressed me up as a lieutenant commander and oh, i look good. I had the white uniform with the medals and the scrambled eggs on the crown and I broke for. We broke for something or other. I'm walking down the street. I look up, there's three real young sailors standing there. They took one, look at me, they jumped to attention. I gave us a loop.

Speaker 2:

So, george, that that show, i understand, was filmed on the Enterprise in New York Harbor. No, no the.

Speaker 4:

I did a film on the intrepid and the intrepid. New York Harbor was called aftershock. It was a TV movie. Mm-hmm and that was a lot of fun because we had to run of the ship.

Speaker 4:

Mm-hmm and what little boy wants his own aircraft carry? I mean afterwards. I know I had a very long drive back to Amityville in traffic. I just went, got myself a cup of coffee, sat on the deck in the rear, the stern of the boat, like it was my own boat. Watch the Sun go down off over New Jersey, yeah that was a good day. That was a good day for me.

Speaker 2:

So you were a member of the screen actors Guild.

Speaker 4:

Yes, i am after and sad both.

Speaker 2:

Yes, when did you join those that, those unions?

Speaker 4:

actually they made you they made you after you got seen a couple of times. Mm-hmm. I think it I don't know was Saturday night live the first time, or all my children the first time, or something called a Jamie Kedde experience. Anybody remembers that show, every funny show. They basically make you join.

Speaker 2:

So I saw I'm doing all right, so I joined right, and did you ever have an agent when you were doing all these? No, not really.

Speaker 4:

I guess I got on some lists or something like that and I would occasionally meet an agent from Grant Wiley or something like that. Mm-hmm but not really. I didn't have an agent agent.

Speaker 2:

Okay, and for how many years did you Perform on TV and movies?

Speaker 4:

Oh, let's see, i'd say I was like in my early 50s, mm-hmm. So until I had an accident when I was 63 that kind of ended my working in acting career. So about that long.

Speaker 2:

Okay, give it take good. So, george, let me, let me ask you about How you develop some of the accents that you've used. An improv, you use it. You do a very good Ed Sullivan. Would you show that, let that our listeners hear that?

Speaker 4:

Well, thank you, buddy. I think you hear I'm here on your podcast doing a really, really big shoe Outside the audience. There we have Topo GGO, little bloody damn house. You want to cue the dancing bear. Somebody want to clean up the bears? It's alright.

Speaker 2:

Okay, and you also do a pretty good, jackie Gleason.

Speaker 4:

Oh sweet, it is the reason that I'm I met Jackie Gleason.

Speaker 2:

I wish I really.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, my Actually called him Uncle Jackie for a little. My dad I was born on Chauncey Street where Jackie Gleason grew up. The honeymooners That's a real address and my father did too. Now, they weren't buddy buddies, but they were bar buddies, drinking buddies. This is before he was really famous. I wouldn't say they were best friends, but they know each other. You know how's it going, george. Yeah, and when I lived down here He was still alive at one point and my father introduced me, called him, went to his house and When did Jackie Gleason live?

Speaker 4:

in very, it was Fort Lauderdale.

Speaker 2:

It was called in in very mm-hmm.

Speaker 4:

He had a. He had a sunken bar. That's very nice man. He was just very nice and polite because he my father, just talking about the old country in Brooklyn.

Speaker 2:

Mm-hmm, that's about it. Okay, george, why don't you share with our listeners a little bit of the Stand-up routine you've done for your life here in the villages as a single guy?

Speaker 4:

Well, a lot of times I am a single guy here in the villages. It's hard to date in the villages. It really is. You know, the women here treat me like a sex object. Every time I want sex They all seem to object. But you know, i went on a blind date one time. A friend of mine fixed me up. Mm-hmm said you'd like this girl. She's out of this world. There's out of this world with a nice personality, nice personality. And so I went knocked on the door. Oh yeah, she was out of this world. Yeah, i agree. Let's say, if Chewbacca and Ming the merciless had a baby Pretty much that's what she looked like. She was so ugly when she stood on the beach the tide wouldn't come in. We walked across the grass. She was heavy, we hit oil.

Speaker 2:

I thought you say we almost got swallowed by a sinkhole.

Speaker 4:

Well, you know I always liked the beach, always like the water. I grew up on the water, lord Island. Mm-hmm went to SeaWorld the other day, had a date. We went to SeaWorld. With the way the world is changing now She wanted to see the whale, but instead of a Moby dick. Now they call it Maby dick.

Speaker 2:

Okay, and here in the villages, how long have you been looking for a new girlfriend?

Speaker 4:

Oh, it's a good five or ten minutes down. I can't really say I'm looking. I've met a few very, very nice people. Mm-hmm you know, after you're married 50 years It's a little hard to kind of get back. But we'll see if there's anybody who would like a very used man. You know around 74 years old. Here I am, you can you can contact Mike Roth and he'll put you in contact.

Speaker 2:

Or be. You could show up at the improv most Monday first four Monday nights of the month. Yeah, that's my Monday nights, and you know from 6 30 to 8 30 and we do a few routines. Yes, we do and people can come and be our audience or be, and there's no charge for that or be.

Speaker 4:

You can decide that you want to Try out and learn some improv and just come and meet some nice people and hopefully you'll get a laugh or two And we'd love you to join. Everybody's welcome, mm-hmm, and please come check us out, it's fun right.

Speaker 2:

No skill level required.

Speaker 4:

Obviously yeah, since you're listening to me.

Speaker 2:

Georgia, all the stage credit you had in all the movies and TV shows. Mm-hmm which one did you enjoy the most?

Speaker 4:

Well, let's see, that's hard to say because it's not like I was excited. you know, yes, i got to be on the sopranos and you met these people and sex in city and with those people and all my children and Being on the intrepid. I just like being there, not looking to be a star, i just like the whole process, watching him how they do it and do it again and again and again, mm-hmm and I just really enjoyed it How many times?

Speaker 2:

what was the most number of times you saw a scene shot?

Speaker 4:

Oh my goodness 10, 11, at least I couldn't even tell you mm-hmm. We would. There's a scene in for the love of the game okay. Where Kelly Preston late Kelly Preston, john Favolta's wife were going up an escalator in an airport And I'm standing behind her. If you don't blink or sneeze you might see me, but that took about three or four hours lighting and stuff and I always remember she went to the side and she was like thinking. Thinking so hard.

Speaker 4:

I wanted to say listen, huh, you get about three million dollars for this. This is your. What you should be thinking about. You're going up an escalator. That's about it.

Speaker 2:

We're not doing Hamlet here, right, that's. That's another story. All together. No lines on the escalator. No just just a shot of you and her going up.

Speaker 4:

That's about it three hours three hours.

Speaker 2:

That's Hollywood.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, so you know, i could have done this for about 15 bucks, if you let me yeah.

Speaker 2:

You could have done it on your iPhone. It would have come out.

Speaker 4:

Yeah just fine but it was fun, it was a. It was a nice couple of days. We did some at the airport. Mm-hmm and we did some at the old Yankee Stadium. Tell us about that.

Speaker 4:

Well, it was kind of funny. They had about a hundred of us and we kept changing our shirts and moving around different parts of the gallery so they could shoot us. So it looked like we were full. But the fun part during there's a lot of downtime. I got it from the stands that I walked out into the field. No one bothered me. I remember I'm standing at home plate Now. I'm not the biggest baseball fan, but I'm standing at home plate at Yankee Stadium And going through my mind I'm saying you know this is the old Yankee Stadium, the old Yankee Stadium.

Speaker 4:

I'm saying you know, anybody who was anybody in baseball stood on that plate and me, babe Ruth.

Speaker 2:

And me Joe DiMaggio Me George Vontate.

Speaker 4:

And I thought I went home, I thought they should have put me a monument in that monument valley they had over there, But they didn't.

Speaker 2:

Hey, george, i want to thank you for being part of Open Forum in the Villages and remind everyone that if you want to meet George in person, you're the sign autographs. Oh geez At our improv's Monday nights 6.30 to 8.20 at Rohan.

Speaker 4:

Can I mention one thing that we forgot to talk about?

Speaker 2:

Sure George, Go ahead.

Speaker 4:

Sure, People ask me where I live. I, for a long time we were living in Amityville and I was living four houses from the Amityville Horror House And everybody seems to know that It's not that funny, but it's amusing.

Speaker 2:

Did you have any experiences with the Amityville Horror House that suggests to you that there were ghosts there.

Speaker 4:

Well, I've been in the house many times because it was the neighbor of mine.

Speaker 2:

Right, the people just moving in and move out.

Speaker 4:

Well, my friend Brian, he was there for quite a while. He put a lot of money into that house. I can tell you one story All the homes there were built in the 1860s, 1880s under water, very nice old homes. And I'm taking out the garbage and two young children 12. Excuse me, sir, is this the horror house? Why, well, the man down there said this house was the horror house. I said oh, he did, i caught on pretty fast. I said no, you misunderstood. I own the house, which? I don't.

Speaker 4:

I rent it out. Why would you like to go in, could we? Yeah, sure You knock on the door. His name is Brian Knock on the door. Say George says. A few minutes later the phone rang in the kitchen. I picked it up and we'd have to end this podcast because I really can't tell you what he told me over the phone.

Speaker 2:

But you get my drift. Oh, he said something.

Speaker 4:

Derogatory. Oh, a lot of exclamation Come here.

Speaker 2:

Why did you send over these kids?

Speaker 4:

Of course he said my house was the horror house. Okay, and when my daughter, when my daughter, when she was younger, she had a little bit of a speech impediment, the teacher told me, says I asked Corinne where she lived and she says, oh, in Amniville, four houses from the Amniville horror house. you know her mouth to God's ear but it wasn't true.

Speaker 2:

Okay, George, thanks for being with us.

Speaker 4:

Well, thank you. Thank you very much, Mike.

Speaker 2:

Great.

Speaker 1:

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