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Jaye P. Morgan From The Gong Show Has Passed Away · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Cubby, Christine, producer Kristen, we're back together on this Thursday morning.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm flying back. It's Tuesday. I'm on the plane.
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  Speaker 1: The only thing I have is messaging. I can get
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  Speaker 1: text messages, but I couldn't post on the Internet or anything.
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  Speaker 1: And the news came out about Dolly Parton. I heard
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  Speaker 1: about it on the flight from Japan to Newark.
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  Speaker 2: I know. We were reaching out to you, producer Kristen
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  Speaker 2: and I. We always do a group chat. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't know we could reach you, but we did.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, with sad news, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And the sad news kept coming yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Tim Curry.
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  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: Which it really hit, I mean, look, it hit a
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  Speaker 1: lot of us.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But producer Kristen- might have been his number one fan.
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  Speaker 2: For so many people. I mean, you know, starting with
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  Speaker 2: the Rocky Horror Picture Show, of course.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Which is just iconic.
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  Speaker 1: And I heard Kristen even told me he was a
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  Speaker 1: super nice guy. I mean, just a really cool guy. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she's met him several times. We'll speak for Kristen,
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  Speaker 2: who's right here. And said that even though, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's been through a lot with his health. He had
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  Speaker 2: a stroke in 2012. He was in a wheelchair. She
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  Speaker 2: said he's still so gracious and kind. And he was working.
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  Speaker 2: He's doing voiceover work. He's in a film that Kristen
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  Speaker 2: knows about that we'll share with you when we can,
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  Speaker 2: when we have more details. But Cubby, also another person
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  Speaker 2: has passed. And we have to go back a little
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  Speaker 2: bit further, I think, for some of us. Do you
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  Speaker 2: remember The Gong Show?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 2: You do?
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Beres was your host.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a big show in the 70s and
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  Speaker 2: into the 80s, I think.
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  Speaker 1: It was kind of like America's Got Talent for the 70s.
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  Speaker 2: You're right.
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  Speaker 1: Because they had to perform.
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  Speaker 2: Come out, do your thing.
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  Speaker 1: If you got the gong, you're done.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. So there's three celebrities sitting there that you have
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  Speaker 2: to impress. And if one of them gongs you, then bye-bye. Well, J.P. Morgan,
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  Speaker 2: who was one of the celebs on the gong show,
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  Speaker 2: I think maybe middle chair. I'm trying to remember. She
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  Speaker 2: has passed away at the age of 94. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I totally remember her. I'm looking at her right now. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Because I used to think her name was J.P., But
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  Speaker 1: it's J-A-Y-E-P. So if you say it, you think the
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  Speaker 1: letter J-P and that's it. Yeah, like J-P. But it
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  Speaker 1: was J-A-Y-E-P Morgan. And you're right. If you Google her
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  Speaker 1: right now, she was on a bulk of the time
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  Speaker 1: that the gong show was on the air.
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  Speaker 2: She was a big part of it. Reading her career
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  Speaker 2: began in 1953 with the hit song, Life is Just
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  Speaker 2: a Bowl of Cherries.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. If you remember the Gong Show, hit us up
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  Speaker 1: at 44363. That was definitely a great show. Yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 1: so sorry.
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  Speaker 2: Like, entertainment world, you know, these are beloved celebrities that
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  Speaker 2: we've lost.
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  Speaker 1: Artists and good people. Yeah, Frank Beard from ZZ Top
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  Speaker 1: recently passed away. Yes, the drummer. So, again, not trying
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  Speaker 1: to be a downer here, but it is news.
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  Speaker 2: There's just been a lot. It feels like there's been
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  Speaker 2: a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. All right. And by the way, again, I want
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  Speaker 1: to mention the text because we haven't really talked to
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  Speaker 1: anybody in a while. Or maybe you have when I
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  Speaker 1: was on vacation. But I want to know what's going
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  Speaker 1: on in the world. Are our teachers back? What's the deal?
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  Speaker 2: 44363.
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  Speaker 1: Hit us up on text. Would love to know if
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  Speaker 1: you're back in your routine.