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Episode 6-Actor/Musician John Schneider · Johnny's World

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SPEAKER_01: All right, we are live here on the Johnny's World Podcast.
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SPEAKER_01: We are back again today.
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SPEAKER_01: We have a special guest with us.
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SPEAKER_01: We've got Johnny as always, but we have another John with us.
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SPEAKER_01: We have John Schneider, may know him as Bo Duke, one of Johnny's really good friends here.
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SPEAKER_01: And so we'd like to welcome you to the show, John.
0:49
SPEAKER_01: Thanks for joining us.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
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SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
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SPEAKER_02: Now you may know me as Jonathan Kent also.
0:54
SPEAKER_01: Very true.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you may know me as prior.
0:57
SPEAKER_02: Also, also I'm gonna get I'm gonna get after you right off the bat.
1:02
SPEAKER_02: You know, there's a lot of people who weren't born yet, including probably you, when the Dukes of Hazard first started.
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SPEAKER_02: Okay.
1:10
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we're 80 81 is when I was born.
1:12
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, me and Brandon.
1:14
SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah, you were you were barely, you were a puppy.
1:18
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
1:19
SPEAKER_02: You were a puppy.
1:21
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but you know, it really depends on the uh depends on the age, the demographic of the people, because for 10 years it was all about uh Smallville, which was a great show, great, great fun show.
1:34
SPEAKER_02: Uh and then uh lately it's been the haves and have nots.
1:38
SPEAKER_02: But what's so great about it is the Duke still is there, and now people are saying you're the guy from Stand On It.
1:45
SPEAKER_01: That's right, yeah, exactly.
1:48
SPEAKER_02: And soon, John Clark, we're doing a new movie called Poker Run, which is the sequel to Stand On It.
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SPEAKER_02: So that's gonna be uh that's gonna be a lot of fun.
1:56
SPEAKER_02: We're gonna shoot that right here during Bose Extravaganza 2021.
2:01
SPEAKER_02: Awesome.
2:02
SPEAKER_02: That wasn't official, that wasn't real sign language, by the way, because I don't know it, but you know, 2021.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, tell tell Brandon what Bose Extravaganza is.
2:11
SPEAKER_00: I'll I've told him a little bit about it, but tell it from the from you yourself.
2:15
SPEAKER_02: From me, much well, it's my birthday.
2:17
SPEAKER_02: So what we do every year, this is the fourth time we've done it, even though I'm I'm older than four.
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SPEAKER_02: Um, we do a big uh we do a big music and food and autograph and stunt uh festival here.
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SPEAKER_02: So I invite folks that I've worked with over the years to come as as celebrity guests, uh, musicians I've worked with over the year, as years as musician guests.
2:43
SPEAKER_02: And last year we started doing something uh which really took off great.
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SPEAKER_02: It's where we filmed uh Stand on It, a portion of Stand On It.
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SPEAKER_02: So the people who were here got to be in the movie.
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SPEAKER_02: Um, so that's a big draw for this year.
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SPEAKER_02: This year we'll be filming Poker Run, and all of this happens on April 11th or 10th and 11th, 2021, right here at John Schneider Studios.
3:08
SPEAKER_02: So there'll be, I don't know how many people are gonna be here.
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SPEAKER_02: You know, first year we did it, we had uh I think 7,000 people, second year we had 10,000 people.
3:18
SPEAKER_02: Wow.
3:18
SPEAKER_02: Third year was last year, which was a COVID year, so we had 4,000 people, and I don't even know what to call this year, other than I'm over it.
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SPEAKER_02: Uh so there'll be anywhere from 4,000 to 100,000 people here.
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SPEAKER_02: I have no idea.
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SPEAKER_02: No idea how many.
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SPEAKER_02: But I know we're gonna shoot a movie, I know we're gonna eat a lot of food uh food, and I know there's gonna be a lot of music.
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SPEAKER_00: Yep.
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SPEAKER_00: I've told Brandon about how much fun it is.
3:43
SPEAKER_00: And uh he's big in it, he likes uh watching stunts and stuff.
3:45
SPEAKER_00: So tell them about the stunts y'all have down there.
3:47
SPEAKER_00: It's it's amazing.
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SPEAKER_02: Well, uh two years ago I jumped a car for a movie we did called Christmas Cars.
3:54
SPEAKER_02: So actually, we started filming movies during uh Stand On It before um during Bose Extravaganza before Stand On It.
4:01
SPEAKER_02: Thanks for reminding me of that, John.
4:03
SPEAKER_02: Um so I jumped a car and uh James Smith did a uh a turnover with fire and explosions in a cop car.
4:12
SPEAKER_02: And I used that in the beginning of Stand On It.
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SPEAKER_02: It looks like I did it.
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unknown: I didn't do it.
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SPEAKER_02: Um and then um first year he jumped a General Lee about 170 feet.
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SPEAKER_02: It was great.
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SPEAKER_02: Uh it was cold though, but it was great, a lot of fun.
4:28
SPEAKER_02: And then this last year we did um two cop cars at the same time over a ramp and into a lake.
4:37
SPEAKER_02: Then we did uh one car backwards about 50 miles an hour up a ramp through a mobile home into a lake, landing in front of a guy who was fishing in a bass boat.
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SPEAKER_02: And then we did uh James Smith came right by where I'm sitting right now and jumped a Hellcat Challenger, which is the car star of the show, uh triple black, kind of like the uh Transam in Smoking the Bandit.
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SPEAKER_02: Uh he jumped it over the Tikfaw River again, probably 170, 175 feet.
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SPEAKER_02: So uh that's what we've been doing.
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SPEAKER_02: This next year we've got even more stuff.
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SPEAKER_02: We've got more cars in the water.
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SPEAKER_02: We've got a uh jump over a lake here that I think I'm gonna do.
5:17
SPEAKER_02: I think I haven't run that by Alicia yet.
5:21
SPEAKER_01: I haven't run that by my wife yet, who's also the producer.
5:25
SPEAKER_01: What's that?
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SPEAKER_01: Does somebody have to teach you this?
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SPEAKER_01: Or you just figure out?
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SPEAKER_02: No, you just trust your coordinator and go and go for it.
5:33
SPEAKER_02: There's full roll cages in the cars, there's um uh safety devices in the cars.
5:40
SPEAKER_02: Um our guys who plan how far, you know, they they somehow they know if you if you need to go 104 feet that you need to go certain uh mile per hour when you hit the ramp.
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SPEAKER_02: So they're all they're very smart.
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SPEAKER_02: I trust them, just do what they say, and everything is fine.
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SPEAKER_02: Unless something goes wrong.
6:01
SPEAKER_01: I've seen some bootleg video from it before, but I I definitely uh you may need to get a handle on this guy over here recording these things, not releasing it like properly.
6:11
SPEAKER_01: But uh, I definitely want to come see it live and in person.
6:13
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, come on.
6:14
SPEAKER_02: Wow, that's right.
6:15
SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna move a little bit, guys.
6:17
SPEAKER_02: The sun just came out over the yard arm here.
6:20
SPEAKER_01: But uh now, where in where in Louisiana exactly are you located there?
6:26
SPEAKER_02: We're uh about 30 miles outside of Baton Rouge.
6:30
SPEAKER_02: Okay, pardon me, I'm gonna blow my nose.
6:31
SPEAKER_02: I'm perfectly healthy, but I raked a lot of leaves today.
6:34
SPEAKER_02: Oh, I have to explain that.
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SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna go off camera.
6:40
SPEAKER_02: And we have a we have a puppy in the house, you know, and puppies like to get like you know, right there.
6:46
SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
6:47
SPEAKER_02: They make me sneeze.
6:48
SPEAKER_02: But um, we're about 30 miles outside of Baton Rouge, um, in between Baton Rouge and a little town called uh Hammond.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so it's a great place, have a lot of fun here.
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SPEAKER_02: We do a lot of uh uh Stand on It was Alicia and I's 11th movie here, and John Clark's been in a couple of them, he's worked on a lot of them.
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SPEAKER_02: Uh so it's great.
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SPEAKER_02: It's great.
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SPEAKER_02: I said to him, hey, if you ever want to come work on a movie, we'd love to have you.
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SPEAKER_02: And there he showed up and he worked hard.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, worked hard.
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SPEAKER_02: It was a blast.
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SPEAKER_02: Hope you come back next time.
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SPEAKER_02: I'd love to.
7:25
SPEAKER_02: I'd love to.
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SPEAKER_02: You're gonna hear a train in the background, and there's nothing that any of us can do about that.
7:33
SPEAKER_02: Don't worry, it's not it's not coming through the it's not coming through the uh I'm just shaking the computer.
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SPEAKER_02: It's not coming through the uh the shot, I promise.
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SPEAKER_02: Unless something goes wrong there.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
7:46
SPEAKER_00: Speaking of trains, uh tell tell Brandon about the uh the caboose.
7:50
SPEAKER_00: I've been seeing pictures of it.
7:50
SPEAKER_00: I can't wait to get down there and see it.
7:52
SPEAKER_02: Well, gosh, I wish you could see it.
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SPEAKER_02: It's right down there.
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SPEAKER_02: But um we are we uh rescued a caboose from a town called Ponchatoula in Louisiana.
8:02
SPEAKER_02: Strawberry.
8:03
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, the Strawberry Festival, yeah.
8:05
SPEAKER_02: So it's been there.
8:06
SPEAKER_02: Hello.
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SPEAKER_02: It's uh it's been there for I think 30 years, something like that.
8:12
SPEAKER_02: And they um we read an article where they were going to have to get rid of the caboose.
8:17
SPEAKER_02: So uh I've always wanted a caboose.
8:20
SPEAKER_02: I was a big fan of a television show called The Wild Wild West, and they uh their offices were in a caboose.
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SPEAKER_02: So I got a hold of it, or Alicia got a hold of it, and then we had to move it here.
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SPEAKER_02: If the thing weighs between the caboose itself and the the uh the wheels are called trucks, uh 62,000 pounds.
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unknown: Wow.
8:39
SPEAKER_02: So it was uh it was a chore, but it is uh in the movie poker run.
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SPEAKER_02: In poker run, the the uh we play one hand of poker.
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SPEAKER_02: Dick see, go away.
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SPEAKER_02: We play that's my little dog.
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SPEAKER_02: We play one hand of poker that starts in the uh caboose, and then we go from there to several different uh locations.
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SPEAKER_02: We have to race to several different locations, then we wind up back in the caboose again at the end of the movie.
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SPEAKER_02: So as we uh are wont to do here, we collect interesting and unusual things, and I write them into the movies we make, and then we film them.
9:20
SPEAKER_02: So it's uh it's pretty cool.
9:23
SPEAKER_01: Great idea.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: A lot of people do it the other way around.
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SPEAKER_02: But I like it, I like it better this way.
9:35
SPEAKER_02: Uh I look around and think, hmm, what cars can we wreck?
9:40
SPEAKER_02: Oh, okay, we'll wreck that one.
9:41
SPEAKER_02: Then I'll write, I'll write there about you know the untimely demise of said vehicle.
9:47
SPEAKER_02: So it's uh it's fun.
9:50
SPEAKER_01: Y'all tell us a little bit about how uh how you met in the first place and how how y'all got connected and everything.
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SPEAKER_01: That's you, John.
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SPEAKER_01: Go for it.
9:58
SPEAKER_00: All right.
9:59
SPEAKER_00: Uh well, uh, if you're listening to this, you've already kind of already known my story about being born with actic fibrosis.
10:05
SPEAKER_00: So um, anyway, long story short, I spent eight months of my life in the children's hospital in Mississippi.
10:11
SPEAKER_00: And uh and ever since I was uh little, uh my mom would always bring me to telethons to uh to come and kind of speak and share my story of how the hospital saved my life and uh and all that sort of stuff.
10:23
SPEAKER_00: So growing up, I've been this is new being in front of the camera and everything, it's not been anything new to me.
10:28
SPEAKER_00: I've been speaking, telling my story pretty much my whole life, and so I got actually involved through uh Children's Miracle Network, which is uh the hospital in uh Blarry Batson and Jackson is part one of the uh CMN hospitals in North America.
10:41
SPEAKER_00: So um I I met John through uh CMN events since I was a through throughout when out me uh being a kid, and uh and after college, I was able to go off to college and um which is huge for someone with CF.
10:55
SPEAKER_00: They're not even when I was born, the life expense was like 15 years old.
10:59
SPEAKER_00: So I've I've like just turned 40 uh two weeks ago, so I've shattered that.
11:04
SPEAKER_00: And uh I mean it's gray and he has a little belly, yeah.
11:07
SPEAKER_00: I got a belly, got some gray hair.
11:09
SPEAKER_00: I'm proud of these gray hairs.
11:11
SPEAKER_00: Um so anyway, I graduated high school, I was able to go off to college, I graduated from college, which is amazing, and uh and after college, I um they asked me uh at the hospital in Jackson to come on board and work and be a uh spokesperson for the children's hospital there and kind of share my story with what I've been doing my whole life and in the meantime helping uh raise money through uh through the hospital for Children's Miracle Network.
11:35
SPEAKER_00: So uh so I did that.
11:37
SPEAKER_00: And uh I still, even though I've moved away to be closer to my doctors in Alabama for CF, I still do volunteer work at the hospital.
11:44
SPEAKER_00: It's a special part of my life, always will be.
11:46
SPEAKER_00: But uh, so I met John through that, and uh and we we've known each other for a long time through that.
11:51
SPEAKER_00: But uh um it wasn't until he opened up the uh studios.
11:55
SPEAKER_00: Uh John, you might remember this, the Christmas concert you and Tom had in 2015 in the barn there.
12:01
SPEAKER_00: I took my mom and grandmother.
12:03
SPEAKER_00: We went down there.
12:03
SPEAKER_00: That was my first time ever to go to JSS, and uh I went there.
12:07
SPEAKER_00: Then afterwards, uh, y'all you and Tom had uh y'all were signing, signing stuff.
12:12
SPEAKER_00: There's a line signed.
12:13
SPEAKER_00: So I stood in line and to get something signed.
12:15
SPEAKER_00: And I was like, uh John, you remember me?
12:18
SPEAKER_00: I'm John Clark.
12:19
SPEAKER_00: I've met you many times.
12:19
SPEAKER_00: Uh Cystic Five Rosency.
12:21
SPEAKER_00: You were like, sure, I remember you.
12:22
SPEAKER_00: And I was like, Really?
12:24
SPEAKER_00: And so we started talking, and then he gave me, he goes, Wait a second.
12:27
SPEAKER_00: Matter of fact, I still have that CD, uh, the Christmas CD you and Tom had on the back of it has your phone number on it.
12:32
SPEAKER_00: You wrote your you said, here's my phone number.
12:35
SPEAKER_00: Uh, if you're ever in this area, uh call me.
12:37
SPEAKER_00: So uh about a year or so later, I was uh I was flying out of uh New Orleans to visit some friends out in LA and I came back uh on my way back to Mississippi.
12:46
SPEAKER_00: I knew I was gonna pass the uh Hammond exit right there.
12:49
SPEAKER_00: And I remember texting you, I was like, Hey, I'm I'm in town.
12:51
SPEAKER_00: Where do you uh are you happening to be by?
12:53
SPEAKER_00: And you were like, sure, come on by.
12:55
SPEAKER_00: And I was like, This is surreal.
12:58
SPEAKER_00: So I was like, All right, so I went by and uh you were uh you were getting set up for uh for Trey Slechase that day.
13:03
SPEAKER_00: I remember you were uh you were uh hard at work, and I was like, What are you doing?
13:06
SPEAKER_00: You're like, we're about to start shooting a movie.
13:09
SPEAKER_00: And I remember me telling you, I was like, Man, I've always wanted to be in movies and work in movies, and my goal, I always wanted to, I've just been fascinated for movies my whole life.
13:17
SPEAKER_00: And I always my dream was always to to move out to to LA and Hollywood and work in movies of some sort, but obviously with CF, that was kind of hard to do.
13:25
SPEAKER_00: So I remember telling you that, and you were like, You want to be in my movie?
13:27
SPEAKER_00: I was like, Oh my gosh, of course I do.
13:30
SPEAKER_00: Come on back Sunday.
13:31
SPEAKER_00: So I went back home and I came back down there uh Sunday and uh got to be in your movie, Trey Sletchase, got to work with great.
13:40
SPEAKER_00: We have a summer this summer, awesome, yeah.
13:43
SPEAKER_00: And and Chester meet uh everyone yeah, Chester.
13:48
SPEAKER_00: I can't wait for everybody to see Chester.
13:49
SPEAKER_00: People I told people about it.
13:51
SPEAKER_00: I was like, You're gonna really enjoy this character I played called Chester, and it's a long round.
13:56
SPEAKER_00: People people cried this one.
13:58
SPEAKER_00: I don't believe it.
13:59
SPEAKER_00: They're gonna get to see him eventually.
14:02
SPEAKER_00: And uh, so anyway, I got to meet uh I got to hang out with John and everyone down there, and they all treated me like family, and it was so much fun.
14:09
SPEAKER_00: And then the next time I saw you uh at our uh Children's Miracle Network conference in Orlando the next year, and you were like, Hey, we're about to shoot four to go.
14:17
SPEAKER_00: Come on down, so come on out.
14:19
SPEAKER_00: I'd love to.
14:19
SPEAKER_00: So I went down there and I think I stayed over a week down there for that one.
14:23
SPEAKER_00: I got to help out and run, do slate, and I learned a lot of stuff.
14:26
SPEAKER_00: Uh and got to wait.
14:29
SPEAKER_02: It was the middle of summer, and John uh plays an inmate in the uh out in the yard, you know, where they play basketball and lift weights and do all that kind of stuff.
14:38
SPEAKER_02: So middle of summer, Louisiana, uh CF.
14:43
SPEAKER_02: And I said, What do you want to do?
14:44
SPEAKER_02: You want to just watch these guys?
14:45
SPEAKER_02: He said, No, I want to do something, I want to do something physical.
14:48
SPEAKER_02: And I said, Okay, all right.
14:50
SPEAKER_02: So he picked a jump rope.
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SPEAKER_02: So one of the first shots in in uh four to go is John jumping a jump rope in uh I don't know how hot it was, but Louisiana has a special kind of hot.
15:01
SPEAKER_02: And uh it was it was great.
15:03
SPEAKER_02: He trooper just kept doing it, jumping, jumping, jumping.
15:08
SPEAKER_02: John, I don't want to make you do it again.
15:10
SPEAKER_02: He said, No, I'll do it.
15:12
SPEAKER_02: I'll do it.
15:13
SPEAKER_02: Hang on, okay.
15:15
SPEAKER_02: He did, it was just great.
15:16
SPEAKER_02: It was so great.
15:17
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I try to think I said I don't want to kill you here, I don't want to kill you out here in this prison yard.
15:23
SPEAKER_00: But I've always tried not to let anything get in my way, and that's the reason why I'm 40 years old today.
15:29
SPEAKER_02: That's the reason why you're 40 years old today.
15:31
SPEAKER_02: Absolutely, absolutely.
15:33
SPEAKER_00: I tell people that all the time, I brag on you all the time.
15:36
SPEAKER_00: Well, I thank you, thank you.
15:37
SPEAKER_00: But yeah, the the cool thing about John is I mean, I growing up, you know, I was a huge Dukes fan.
15:42
SPEAKER_00: Like, if you come look in my room, there's Duke stuff everywhere.
15:46
SPEAKER_00: And when I was little, I was stuck in the house a lot when I was young because obviously with CF, I couldn't be around people for the first few years of my life until I went off to kindergarten because of germs and everything.
15:57
SPEAKER_00: So uh this was long before I even met John.
16:00
SPEAKER_00: I I would uh watch Dukes and Hazard.
16:02
SPEAKER_00: My mom would uh would tape them and I'd stay, I'd I'd uh start watching the next day, and I would dress up in front of the TV, stand and pretend like I was like John, like Bo.
16:11
SPEAKER_00: He was like my one, my he was my favorite character on the show.
16:14
SPEAKER_00: And then all these years later, me and you're best friends.
16:17
SPEAKER_00: It's just uh it's surreal.
16:18
SPEAKER_00: I uh I remember that night when I went down there for the first time when we were at Trace Leche, so I spent the night in the river house on the couch, and I woke up in the middle of the night just like this is just surreal.
16:28
SPEAKER_00: This is like he was my hero, my idol as a kid.
16:31
SPEAKER_00: Now we're like best friends.
16:32
SPEAKER_00: It's just I still can't believe it.
16:34
SPEAKER_00: It's a it's a friendship that I treasure deeply, John.
16:37
SPEAKER_00: Me too, John Clark.
16:39
SPEAKER_01: Well, I remember in high school, we used to ride around and uh and listen to your the the soundtrack.
16:45
SPEAKER_01: Um back in the explorer.
16:48
SPEAKER_02: That was great.
16:49
SPEAKER_02: Sorrel book did such a great job.
16:51
SPEAKER_02: Boss Hog did such a great job.
16:54
SPEAKER_02: Big boss hog.
16:57
SPEAKER_02: That was oh gosh, it was so great.
16:59
SPEAKER_02: He all he did was laughing all the way to the bank.
17:02
SPEAKER_02: He was laughing.
17:05
SPEAKER_02: He did such a great, wonderful job.
17:07
SPEAKER_02: He was a terrific man, and then Johnny Cash had that great song, uh, The General Lee.
17:13
SPEAKER_02: General The General Lee by another friend, the General Lee, written by Tom Bresh.
17:18
SPEAKER_02: Uh Jimmy had My Dog Flash.
17:22
SPEAKER_02: I think I sang in the driver's seat, and and uh Tom sang up on Cripple Creek.
17:27
SPEAKER_02: It was a great, it's a great album, great soundtrack album.
17:30
SPEAKER_02: One of the things that inspired uh Alicia and I to do the Christmas car soundtrack album and the stand on it soundtrack.
17:37
SPEAKER_02: Have you heard the stand on it soundtrack album, John Clark?
17:40
SPEAKER_02: I haven't right.
17:41
SPEAKER_00: I own it, I love it.
17:43
SPEAKER_00: It's cool to watch the movie and then watch it listen to the soundtrack because you'll know what you're talking about when you're yeah, it's like you can bring the movie with you while you're going down the road.
17:50
SPEAKER_02: It's uh it's it's a lot of fun.
17:52
SPEAKER_02: And the Duke soundtrack had a lot to do with that.
17:56
SPEAKER_00: I loved it, I loved it.
17:58
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, tell tell uh tell Brandon a little bit about your music career.
18:01
SPEAKER_00: I know we've talked about your acting career.
18:02
SPEAKER_00: Talk a little bit about that.
18:04
SPEAKER_02: Well, well, well, um did music before Dukes of Hazard, did a lot of played guitar since I was like eight years old, uh, and used to be one of those guys that played uh played guitar in a bar, even though I was too young to be there, um, with a tip jar.
18:21
SPEAKER_02: So I did Kat Stevens and Jim Crocey and uh on and on, a bunch of a bunch of songs from that from that era.
18:29
SPEAKER_02: And then when Dukes happened, um, and I also did theater.
18:34
SPEAKER_02: So I was I was doing theater and music and and uh in the on a stage anyway.
18:41
SPEAKER_02: I guess you're still in the public eye when you're on the stage, but from eight years old on.
18:45
SPEAKER_02: So when Dukes happened, um one of the first talk shows I did was the Dinosaur show, and they had heard that I sang.
18:54
SPEAKER_02: So I sang on the Dinosaur show, I sang on the Merv Griffin show and the uh Academy Awards, the Mike Douglas show, and on and on, and wound up with a uh uh record deal really early on.
19:08
SPEAKER_02: Uh, I think I was 20, might have been 19, uh, with Scotty Brothers and did an album and then did another one and another one.
19:17
SPEAKER_02: So I've been doing music for a long, long time.
19:19
SPEAKER_02: Um, got kind of uh uh disenfranchised or or uh was not crazy about the business end of music back in the 80s, and uh I just had my fourth, fourth number one song and decided to pack it up, take my toys, and leave the sandbox.
19:42
SPEAKER_02: And I did that until about three years ago, maybe four years ago well, 2016, five years ago.
19:49
SPEAKER_02: Wow, when uh Alicia and I got devastated here, where where I'm sitting right now, my head would be underwater.
19:57
SPEAKER_02: We had terrible flooding in 2016, but um out of it came an album called Ruffled Skirts, and since then we've done maybe 130, 130 uh new songs, eight, nine, ten, ten new albums.
20:21
SPEAKER_02: Um the latest is Truck On, which which has a lot of the music from Stand on It in it.
20:26
SPEAKER_02: Uh the uh soundtrack album John Clark and I were talking about has a lot of the music from Stand on It in it.
20:33
SPEAKER_02: So um we now are living truly living a dream where not only can I say, oh, let's wreck that car and write it into the script, but the music that we record is now recorded at least at least partially specifically for the movie we're about to make.
20:54
SPEAKER_02: So we provide the music for the movies that we make, um which then turns into a soundtrack, uh motion picture soundtrack album, which has dialogue like John Clark was talking about.
21:07
SPEAKER_02: You can listen, you listen to the dialogue, you hear the story and the music, and then we also it's kind of a triple threat movie, soundtrack, dialogue, and a new album.
21:16
SPEAKER_02: Those all come out of uh each project.
21:20
SPEAKER_02: So we we you know a lot of people say, Oh, live in the dream, and they don't mean it.
21:25
SPEAKER_02: Uh I truly am living the dream.
21:27
SPEAKER_02: Um Alicia and I make the music and the movies um that we want, uh, with whom we want, how we want to make them, and we release them ourselves.
21:42
SPEAKER_02: So we're not playing the Netflix game, we're not playing the ABC NBC game, CBS game, we're not even playing the cable game, we're not playing the Amazon game or the or any of it.
21:55
SPEAKER_02: We release our stuff, our DVDs are released through our store, which is up there where the kaboom is.
22:01
SPEAKER_02: Um which is an online store, or you can show up.
22:04
SPEAKER_02: It's John Schneider Studios.com.
22:08
SPEAKER_02: Or if you want to stream any of the movies that we've done, you can go to Cineflix D-O-D.
22:14
SPEAKER_02: That's C-I-N-E-F-L-I-X D-O-D.com.
22:20
SPEAKER_02: And this way, when uh you know, it might be if we were on Netflix that a million people would see stand on it.
22:31
SPEAKER_02: But we'd make less money because we'd get nothing really from them because you know Netflix has every movie and television show ever made except the Dukes of Hazard.
22:43
SPEAKER_02: Every movie.
22:45
SPEAKER_02: See, Bo agrees with me.
22:47
SPEAKER_02: Available.
22:49
SPEAKER_02: So there's really no way to see how many, how many people are watching your movie, or if there is, it's as of yet undisclosed.
22:57
SPEAKER_02: So when someone just when someone buys a movie, it pops up on my phone.
23:01
SPEAKER_02: There's one right there.
23:02
SPEAKER_02: $25.37.
23:06
SPEAKER_02: So$25.37 minus shipping, handling, and whatever it costs us to make the DVD is what we will make off of that sale.
23:17
SPEAKER_02: I know it I know it the second it comes in.
23:21
SPEAKER_02: So I would rather sell$20,000 or$100,000.
23:27
SPEAKER_02: Our goal is to sell$100,000.
23:29
SPEAKER_02: Well, hell, our goal is to sell a million, but currently, uh, and I see no reason why we can't reach that goal, but our our current goal is to uh sell a hundred thousand of whatever it is we put out.
23:42
SPEAKER_02: Um we will we know every day what we've made that day toward that goal, how many we've sold toward that goal.
23:53
SPEAKER_02: Um, you don't know that in the other world.
23:55
SPEAKER_02: The other world is it's always a mystery.
23:57
SPEAKER_02: Uh it's always like pulling teeth.
24:00
SPEAKER_02: Um, in several instances, I've had to hire legal counsel, hire lawyers just to try to get an accounting.
24:08
SPEAKER_02: Um, and you know how that'll work.
24:10
SPEAKER_02: You'll you'll spend$10,000 on a lawyer, find out that they owe you$9,000, and then you'll lose$1,000.
24:17
SPEAKER_02: You do that too many times, eventually you will go broke.
24:23
SPEAKER_01: Well, that's what's nice too for us.
24:26
SPEAKER_01: You know, we're we're kind of getting into the eyewear business.
24:28
SPEAKER_01: I'm an I'm an optometrist, and you know, 10 years ago, you couldn't you could never design your own line of glasses.
24:36
SPEAKER_01: It's it's all a big monopoly.
24:38
SPEAKER_01: And right had to be Calvin Klein or or uh you have to pay the royalties and all that stuff.
24:43
SPEAKER_01: So now they're you know, all these these factories are making them, and I was able to find a middleman to kind of help us get get it everything designed and and make it.
24:52
SPEAKER_01: It's the same thing.
24:53
SPEAKER_01: We have our own little store, and um we get the purchase, it goes goes right to us, and then you're not wearing glasses right now, Brandon.
25:01
SPEAKER_02: You're not wearing glasses.
25:03
SPEAKER_02: Well, I'm wearing contacts.
25:05
SPEAKER_02: I would have said, Wow, those are great looking glasses.
25:08
SPEAKER_02: Where can I get some of those?
25:10
SPEAKER_02: And you would have said, I'm so glad you asked.
25:13
SPEAKER_01: I guess I should be sporting these more, man.
25:15
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
25:16
SPEAKER_00: Well, tell tell John a little bit about Brandon, tell John a little bit about how it got started.
25:22
SPEAKER_01: Well, so um, yeah, we've got some that look way better than that.
25:26
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you got we'll get you some, John.
25:32
SPEAKER_02: So how do you get it?
25:34
SPEAKER_01: Well, I I had this idea a while back because you can see John Clark has the glasses there, and um, he's always you know looking for these, these, these Hollywood-looking glasses, and he's always saying, Well, we need to get something that's uh, you know, can you get me these?
25:47
SPEAKER_01: Can you get me these?
25:48
SPEAKER_01: And I'd always say, No, um, you know, you gotta go to LA to get these.
25:52
SPEAKER_01: And so finally, I said, Why don't we just make some glasses that look like what you're looking for and name them after you, and then we'll have a charity component, we'll donate to the CF Foundation.
26:04
SPEAKER_01: And um subscribe for years ago, and it took us this long to actually find somebody that could make them for us and get them produced and everything like that.
26:14
SPEAKER_01: And so I've had them in my office for the past six months or so, and I've sold out there.
26:20
SPEAKER_01: Um, I've almost sold out twice completely, and then we have them on our website too.
26:25
SPEAKER_01: And so it's been been really fun, and I'm excited about where it's gonna take us.
26:28
SPEAKER_01: And that's kind of what led us to this little podcast that we're doing right now.
26:31
SPEAKER_00: So that's fantastic.
26:33
SPEAKER_00: We we just started with the uh sunglasses now, so it's about to get spring and warm weather.
26:38
SPEAKER_00: Uh, so he's he's uh he started those putting those out.
26:41
SPEAKER_00: So that hopefully those will be a big seller.
26:43
SPEAKER_00: Yep, good.
26:44
SPEAKER_02: So love it.
26:45
SPEAKER_00: Well, I'll get it.
26:46
SPEAKER_00: And the cool thing, we're we're naming them after uh we're naming them after uh small towns in Mississippi.
26:51
SPEAKER_00: So we're gonna try to get some some folks from these towns come on here and kind of share a little bit about that particular town, places to eat, what they're known for and stuff.
27:00
SPEAKER_00: So try to get people involved that way.
27:02
SPEAKER_02: So that's a great idea.
27:03
SPEAKER_02: Name name me one, name me a small town in Mississippi.
27:07
SPEAKER_02: Name one brand bogachitta.
27:12
SPEAKER_02: I'm wearing my bogachitta.
27:13
SPEAKER_00: Bogachitta.
27:15
SPEAKER_00: Floating down the bogachitta.
27:17
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's it's pretty cool on the website.
27:19
SPEAKER_00: If you go look at it under each uh glass sunglasses with a town name, there's a little description under each one.
27:25
SPEAKER_00: And Brandon uh came up with that and wrote it on there.
27:28
SPEAKER_00: So I think on that one, it's like, where are these great Johnny Packer sunglasses?
27:31
SPEAKER_00: Well, floating down the Bogachitta.
27:33
SPEAKER_00: Because there's a I think that's great.
27:35
SPEAKER_00: Supposedly that's what you do in Bogachetta, you float down the river.
27:37
SPEAKER_02: You do, you really float down the river.
27:39
SPEAKER_02: You know, a great uh catalog to get to get uh an idea of uh kind of an exciting way to to uh talk about your product is called the J.
27:49
SPEAKER_02: Peterman catalog.
27:50
SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, yeah.
27:53
SPEAKER_02: No, no, they got it from the catalog, it's not the other one.
27:57
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, no, Larry David stole it.
28:00
SPEAKER_02: Okay, or borrowed it.
28:01
SPEAKER_02: Pardon me, he borrowed it.
28:03
SPEAKER_02: He borrowed it, but he did not come up with Jay Peterman, it's a company out of Oklahoma.
28:08
SPEAKER_02: But there uh, you know, there'll be a picture of a of a a hat or a coat or something, and he said, you know, while uh while visiting Casablanca and drinking a hundred-year-old scotch, I noticed a gentleman sitting across the tavern from me.
28:25
SPEAKER_02: He was wearing a tweed, you know, it's just it's it's really cool.
28:30
SPEAKER_01: So just we'll have to expand on that some more then.
28:33
SPEAKER_01: That's a good idea.
28:34
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
28:35
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
28:37
SPEAKER_02: So any old how, I hope you guys do great with that.
28:40
SPEAKER_02: Um, yeah, it's uh it's a work in progress, but uh, I think it's taking all a work in progress, John.
28:46
SPEAKER_00: Absolutely, absolutely.
28:47
SPEAKER_00: Gotta start from the ground up, right?
28:49
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, well, you know, one thing's for sure if you don't do anything, nothing will happen.
28:54
SPEAKER_00: That's right.
28:56
SPEAKER_02: Or it's gonna fail if you don't start.
29:01
SPEAKER_01: Well, our Zoom call is telling us that we're running out of time here.
29:05
SPEAKER_02: So Zoom is telling us we're running out of time.
29:07
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, well, um, John, I can't thank you not, man.
29:12
SPEAKER_02: Oh, you're welcome.
29:13
SPEAKER_02: Folks, keep listening to this, keep watching this.
29:15
SPEAKER_02: I think you're gonna enjoy uh as as this podcast unfolds.
29:19
SPEAKER_02: You're helping people with every pair of glasses you buy.
29:22
SPEAKER_02: I'm assuming people can make a donation to the CF uh group there anyway.
29:27
SPEAKER_02: Um I understand, John.
29:30
SPEAKER_02: If you don't want to if you don't want to venture out, I mean you have uh you have an ailment that is uh based in the lungs, so you of all folks need to be careful.
29:39
SPEAKER_02: I'm not careful at all.
29:41
SPEAKER_02: Um I just did a post today on my uh my YouTube about masks and why I don't wear them.
29:48
SPEAKER_02: Uh but that's me.
29:50
SPEAKER_02: John knows me well enough to know I'm a I'm a uh I'm a bit of a contrarian when it comes to all that crazy stuff.
29:58
SPEAKER_02: But if I wasn't, Children's Miracle Network wouldn't exist.
30:01
SPEAKER_02: Absolutely, and I probably wouldn't be here.
30:03
SPEAKER_02: So that you know, maybe not.
30:06
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
30:08
SPEAKER_00: Well we'll send you a pair of these uh sunglasses, John, so you can you can sport them.
30:13
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, well, sure, I'll buy them though.
30:15
SPEAKER_02: I want to buy them because uh, you know, you support support each other.
30:19
SPEAKER_02: So um, so if you're friends of either of these gentlemen right now, folks, don't go to them and ask them for free stuff.
30:26
SPEAKER_02: Go buy the sunglasses, okay?
30:28
SPEAKER_02: That's right.
30:29
SPEAKER_02: They're not making sunglasses so they can give them away to their friends.
30:32
SPEAKER_02: Okay, that's not how it works.
30:34
SPEAKER_02: Friends don't let friends give away their product.
30:39
SPEAKER_02: Okay, that's right.
30:40
SPEAKER_02: So having said that, Brandon, how many stand on it would you like?
30:43
SPEAKER_01: Let's see.
30:44
SPEAKER_01: We probably need I bought a couple of them, so we probably need like 10 more though.
30:49
unknown: Yay!
30:51
SPEAKER_02: Yay, yay, yay.
30:53
SPEAKER_02: Oh gosh.
30:54
SPEAKER_02: Well, gentlemen, I thank you for the time.
30:57
SPEAKER_02: We appreciate it, John.
30:58
SPEAKER_00: Thanks for coming on.
31:00
SPEAKER_02: You got it.
31:01
SPEAKER_02: Folks, watch Stand Onit.
31:02
SPEAKER_02: I think you'll love it.
31:03
SPEAKER_02: It's a lot of fun.
31:04
SPEAKER_02: It's our tribute to Smokey and the Bandit, and uh, we'll get John in the next one.
31:09
SPEAKER_02: All right, perfect.
31:10
SPEAKER_02: Brandon, you can come out too.
31:12
SPEAKER_02: I'll be there.
31:13
SPEAKER_02: We'll see you, my friends.
31:14
SPEAKER_01: See y'all later.
31:15
SPEAKER_01: So have a good one.