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00:00:06.453Hello, friends and neighbors, I'm Chris Keaton and this is Random Acts.
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00:00:16.827So ho, ho, ho, welcome, welcome, welcome.
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00:00:21.815Here we are taping this in July, but I got that holiday spirit.
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00:00:22.501You know what I'm saying.
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00:00:25.949I mean, to me, every day is a holiday, every meal is a banquet.
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00:00:38.031So today on the show I've got my friend, john Mason, who is an incredible entertainment attorney who has led a marvelous life.
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00:00:40.686He's got a lot more cool things that he's going to do.
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00:00:42.904But he just wrote a book called Crazy Lucky and he's going to do.
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00:00:46.493But he just wrote a book called Crazy Lucky and he's going to tell us a few stories from that and talk about the book.
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00:00:52.506But, trust me, you've got to stick around for that, because it's going to be a whole lot better than the bullshit that I'm going to share right now.
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00:00:57.426But even though this bullshit that I'm going to share right now is pretty cool actually.
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00:01:01.972So, at any rate, I want to say welcome, welcome, welcome.
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00:01:09.079Thank you for tuning in.
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00:01:11.441I say that like.
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00:01:13.201I know what I'm talking about, but I don't have a clue what it means.
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00:01:17.403But I do know what I do have a clue about, and that is books.
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00:01:24.085I like to read, yes, and I mean like my previous guest.
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00:01:28.548Tommy Lee James recently said to everybody on here that I read too much.
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00:01:35.549Well, he may be right, but I have to tell you a funny story about my relationship with reading and books.
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00:01:57.778When I was growing up and I went to elementary school in Venton, virginia, I went to East Venton Elementary and the principal there was a gentleman named Richard Stone, very nice man, very tall and like when I was, you know, in the first grade, he looked like he was nine feet tall, I mean, really Striking man, very smart, everything.
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00:02:11.031Well, when Gina and I decided in 1993 that we were going to move to Nashville, we had this big yard sale and we had it on a Saturday morning and, as you know, yard sales start at like 4.30 in the morning or something wacky.
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00:02:13.073I had been out really late the night.
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00:02:34.064Before we're putting stuff out, there are already people swarming in the yard and I'm bringing things out and I'm bringing all these books out that I'm selling, and I walked past this gentleman and he says you got a lot of books here and me being cynical, chris I said, yep, not a single one's ever been read, they're like brand new.
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00:02:42.247And I turned around and it was Mr Stone, the principal from my elementary school.
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00:02:46.319Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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00:02:57.069Well, to try to make up for that, I'm going to share five books, five of many, but five books that really have made a difference in my life.
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00:03:00.039Number one anything by Malcolm Gladwell.
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00:03:09.967Listen, if you know me, you know that I am the connector, and I got the connector from Malcolm Gladwell's book, the Tipping Point, but I've read tons of his books.
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00:03:11.727I love his writing style.
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00:03:15.150He researches the bejesus out of everything.
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00:03:16.907He's really something else, so check him out.
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00:03:30.292I love Rick Rubin, the record producer, and he has a book that I highly recommend called the Creative Act, and it's all about being a creator and the fact that all of us are creators and storytellers.
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00:03:35.324I love the book Frank about Frank Sinatra by James Kaplan.
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00:03:38.871It's big I mean it's like 750 pages.
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00:03:45.247Not many pictures either, so don't get your hopes up for that but it's a great book, one that's really changing my life right now.
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00:03:47.391Who, not how?
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00:03:51.498By Ben Hardy, dr Benjamin Hardy and Dan Sullivan.
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00:04:02.531But the book that really did it for me was the autobiography by Jerry Weintraub, who was Mr Show Business, and the name of the book is when I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead.
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00:04:05.570Now, I know you're thinking that's probably the same thing with me, that when I stop talking you'll know I'm dead.
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00:04:08.848Now, I know you're thinking that's probably the same thing with me, that when I stop talking you'll know I'm gone.
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00:04:12.030Well, at any rate, those are the five books.
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00:04:13.687Now, all of us are storytellers.
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00:04:19.333We all have a story to tell or we all have a part to play in someone else's story.
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00:04:25.492And today my guest is author, entertainment attorney and storyteller, john Mason.
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00:04:29.591This guy's lived a life that most of us can only dream of.
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00:04:35.413I'm telling you, it's star-studded, funny things, heartfelt moments.
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00:04:36.964It's a really great book.
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00:04:43.300Crazy Lucky that's his new book, crazy Lucky, and it shares some of his wonderful, funny and touching stories.
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00:05:17.637Thank you, thank you All right, friends and neighbors, I told you this was going to be good.
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00:05:28.276Today I've got my friend John Mason, who is a music and entertainment attorney, a bon vivant.
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00:05:33.526I'm telling you, this guy really loves life, he grabs every second of it and he's got a new book out.
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00:05:35.581It's called Crazy Lucky John.
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00:05:37.204Welcome to Random Acts.
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00:05:37.766How are you?
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00:05:39.110I'm great.
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00:05:39.831Chris, thank you.
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00:05:41.244Great introduction then.
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00:05:42.307Well, thank you.
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00:05:46.168When you talked about the book, I had to hold it up so people can see it.
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00:05:46.810Is that okay?
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00:05:48.192Absolutely, please do.
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00:05:50.185Just see one on my desk.
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00:05:52.848You know how does that happen.
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00:05:55.139How could you just happen to have one?
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00:06:01.610So it's called Crazy Lucky and it's remarkable stories from inside.
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00:06:04.095What is it?
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00:06:05.766Remarkable stories from inside.
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00:06:09.048Inside the world of celebrity icons.
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00:06:17.473Okay, Now I'm going to tell the audience too that in my book, john, you are also a celebrity icon.
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00:06:19.165And I have to tell you why.
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00:06:26.891Because when I first moved to Nashville in the early 90s I would always hear about John Mason, but I never saw this guy.
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00:06:29.228It's like this ethereal thing.
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00:06:46.451And then in the book it kind of tells me because you made a really good effort to be available, but not like over the top, I mean, people could find you if they needed to, but it wasn't like you were always there.
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00:06:48.865Yeah, that's funny.
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00:06:51.425I did write about it long ago.
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00:07:00.079When I was a much younger lawyer, I figured out that if nobody could find me, I would become the guy they wanted to find.
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00:07:07.189So I had an unlisted phone number nothing like today, when all you see is lawyer advertising on television.
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00:07:13.211Right, right, yeah, even in Nashville I have kept a very, very low profile.
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00:07:23.062It has allowed me to do what I do for the people that I do it for and keep the number of people that I work with small, and that's the way I practice today too.
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00:07:33.096Well, it seems like with that kind of motivation to do business, you really can focus on your clients.
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00:07:41.353And what I read in the book your relationship with your clients is a lot more than an attorney-client relationship.
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00:07:50.642Yes, I am a confidant but I am In the role, with artists, of the conciliary.
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00:08:03.257If you read the mafia stuff, I have a lawyer who coordinates all business, coordinates all other lawyers that we use for estate planning and tax planning and litigation.
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00:08:16.406I do contract negotiations in film, television and music and don't get out of my lane, and it allows me to focus on what's best for my clients, not what's best for me.
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00:08:18.250Well, I love it.
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00:08:24.250Well, and some of your clients, I mean, along the way, there's some really, really big stars.
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00:08:29.925I mean household names Livvy, newton-john, roy and Barbara Orbison, who I dearly loved.
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00:08:37.316I mean you were friends from early childhood with Brian Wilson.
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00:08:39.187Tell us a little bit about that, please.
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00:08:55.971Well, I started my career that's now in law as a musician and touring and we did some shows my band with the Beach Boys and I got to meet all the original Beach Boys at concerts.
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00:09:14.347Talk to them More Carl than Brian, because Brian was, I would say, more introverted than Carl, although Carl was an extrovert of that group, of course, of Mike Love, who's still out there doing that great job of singing the beach songs and being the Beach Boys.
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00:09:17.787Well, it's really great.
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00:09:32.789It's really great to read, you know, you talking about their dad and the whole showing up in the station wagon and the whole nine which again brought back memories for me, because when I first started playing in bands, my dad, who was a doctor, would drive us to the gigs in a station.
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00:09:35.904The gear would be in the back of two station wagons.
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00:09:41.702You know, we'd roll up these 13 and 14 year old kids thinking we were rock stars.
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00:09:48.774It was good stuff yeah, my dad drove us too until I in california.
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00:10:06.546Back in those days you could get your license at 15, well, learner's permit, and as long as it was somebody 18 or over in the car and I don't even think they had to be sober you were allowed to drive Because we were doing well.
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00:10:08.652I got a car when I was 15.
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00:10:11.188And I tell some stories about the cars in there too.
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00:10:12.585Remember, I'm from LA.
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00:10:23.028Oh yeah, lots of Corvettes Chevy, impala, convertible that my friends would unzip the back window and climb in while it was parked at high school Fun times.
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00:10:24.860That's fantastic stuff.
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00:10:38.375So what was it like growing up at that time period in California when none of us knew anything about how the music business was going to go?
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00:10:39.662It was just purely.
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00:10:45.874To me it seems like it was purely sending joy out to the audience and getting it back.
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00:10:47.285Is that the way it was?
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00:10:51.746Well, for sure, I think it's still that way.
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00:10:55.120It's just that the business behind it is so different.
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00:11:07.047But every show I see and of course we see a lot of shows in nashville, all of us I'm speaking for you guys too it's it's any day you want you can go out and pick from 15, 20 shows.
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00:11:14.375Um, the joy of music then was just part of let's say, the fifties, the sixties.
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00:11:18.360We had top 20 radio, we had great stations.
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00:11:20.488You could actually get your record played.
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00:11:25.152When I listened to some of the oldies, I'm surprised we had instrumental hits.
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00:11:32.073I mean, I'm playing on Stomp El Boa Blue Out of Limits, um, which is fun.
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00:11:33.903So, yeah, that part, yeah, um, it was just fun.
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00:11:35.788So, yeah, that part, yeah, it was fun, people liked it.
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00:11:38.787And um, playing with the beach boys was really fun.
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00:11:40.833They were fun, wasn't so much fun?
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00:11:57.216You ask about brian in the 80s, when I was brian's lawyer and dealing with eugene landy and I'd say, the aftershock of their music being sold by Murray, their dad.
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00:12:04.820Yeah, they signed the contract, but we did have Brother Records meetings in my office at least twice a month.
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00:12:11.322All the Beach Boys came, including Al Jardine, coincidentally, and I mentioned in the book.
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00:12:20.096Al isn't, and never was a shareholder in Brother Records, their company, because of the time that he left to go to dental school.
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00:12:26.525When they formed the corporation he wasn't there and when he came back in, nobody.
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00:12:32.592Nobody did a thing about giving him stock wow well yeah, in the book.
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00:13:01.830Yeah, and in the book when you talk about it, you know in your office that you set the chairs in sort of a circular or half circle, half circle, just the visual of that and thinking that the beach boys are sitting there, and then later, I guess with landy, and just all the madness that was going on, it was almost like you were a circus master at some times right, yeah, landy never was allowed to come to Beach Boy meetings.
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00:13:07.907He wasn't a favorite of anybody except Brian, and I don't know that he was a favorite of Brian.
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00:13:13.226He was keeping Brian alive in a sense, but Brian lived after Landy left.
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00:13:18.208I did the same, as you know, because it's in the Michael Jackson chapter with the Jacksons.
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00:13:24.009Oh yeah yeah, he's had many circles in Jackson's meetings because of all the family.
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00:13:32.753I mean come on, latoya and Janet came, and Rebby and Catherine and Joe and all the hangers-on and accountants Great.
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00:13:52.669Well, and I encourage people to read the book because, especially in the Jackson's part, there are a few little nuggets that I'm not going to talk about here because I don't want to spoil it, but there's some really cool stuff that went on, or that actually kind of didn't go on, but it was going on while the meetings were happening.
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00:14:03.095So let me just skip ahead, though, too, to your really long-time relationship with Olivia Newton-John.
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00:14:10.153I mean, that, to me, is like such a beautiful relationship that y'all had.
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00:14:16.711Can you tell us just a little more about it, because in the book it explains a whole lot about it, but I'd really love to hear it from you.
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00:14:24.440Pausing, just because I get a little emotional always about Olivia.
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00:14:42.731Yeah, yesterday my wife found in stuff we go through stuff a note that Livia wrote us thanking us for sending her a gift on her 50th birthday and that was 92, I think and I sent a copy.
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00:14:49.610I photocopied it and sent it to her daughter just so she could see back that long ago.
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00:14:56.562And I also found my notes from the 1978 court appearance that I write about in the book that Olivia and I did.
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00:15:08.669But Olivia was always one of the kindest, wonderful, thoughtful people that I ever met, ever had the opportunity to work with.
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00:15:33.351I didn't show until with my book, but also, by the way, you guys can probably see the original soundtrack album from reese there's olivia, yeah 1977 and john travolta and I have the the greatest memories of olivia and I can say her passing was really sad.
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00:15:41.649We knew for a few years that the cancer was going to take her away but she went with grace.
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00:16:02.929Bianca and I went to her house to say hello about three months before she passed and she didn't know we were coming and she managed to, with her husband John's help, get in her walker and come out and sit with us in the garden and of course she had the drip bag and all of that.
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00:16:04.827And she was still laughing and joking.
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00:16:07.027And that's when I get choked up.
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00:16:12.989Yes, wonderful person Underestimated all the way through.
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00:16:16.529When I started with her in 73, you know we were having.
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00:16:18.686I honestly love you, let me be there.
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00:16:20.291If you love me, let me know.
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00:16:29.630And then she won the Country Music Award a bunch of them, yeah, I think it was 74, and Nashville went crazy.
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00:16:41.235How could this girl from Australia even though she's actually from England, she grew up in Australia win all these awards and it was an attack.
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00:16:48.731And then we come back with Grease and with physical and amazing TV specials.
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00:16:55.361I was able to help her have ABBA on her TV special and Kenny Rogers and I was able to help her have ABBA on her TV special, and Kenny Rogers and I was talking to Donna.
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00:17:05.596There's a beautiful chapter about Donna Summer oh yeah yeah, her manager from that time talking about how I got Donna to be on the Eddie Rabbit TV special.
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00:17:07.740There is an Eddie Rabbit chapter in there.
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00:17:14.258Yes, interesting, underestimated guy Absolutely At the at the stories.
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00:17:25.656Well, it's pretty no, it is funny, and I have to tell you that, that kent blazey, the songwriter in nashville, is the one who originally told me about even stevens and eddie rabbit's monkey.
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00:17:33.932I mean that apparently that story has been around for years, but I I heard it from Kent probably five years ago and it's hysterical.
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00:17:38.967Well, it's true, I did talk about the monkey.
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00:17:39.990What was it Show?
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00:17:44.130Hee-haw, yeah, the monkey go crazy and fly all over the cage.
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00:17:46.970It's just unbelievable stuff, man.
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00:17:56.289I called the book Crazy Lucky because I am crazy lucky to have been there through all of that, and they're fun, crazy lucky stories.
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00:17:58.467How did Randy Travis get started?
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00:17:59.905How did Kenny Rogers get started?
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00:18:02.450How did Shakira yeah?
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00:18:16.450Yeah, most people think I spent eight hours a day with Shakira going through things, but she is a dynamic, incredibly talented person and if you want to know what it's like to be with Shakira every day, read the book.
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00:18:29.884And I did, and I mean, it looked like it was intense because she, in a very nice way, a very graceful way, questioned everything as everyone in business should Well.
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00:18:41.657So the book is available not only at Amazon, but Pretty much anywhere where people can buy books, and I don't.
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00:18:43.501Is it okay if I talk about that?
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00:18:45.145You are going to do an audio book.
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00:18:46.107You're doing that right.
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00:18:47.917Oh sure, I'm starting the audio book.
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00:18:54.884As I just said to you before we came on, in another hour I'll be leaving to head down to Music Row to start recording.
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00:19:04.825And Priscilla Presley, it's okay to say that, but Priscilla, who wrote the forward, is actually going to record the forward over the weekend and send it to me.
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00:19:08.567So she will be reading the forward and me the book.
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00:19:11.431That is sensational, wow.
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00:19:15.597Well, john, thank you so much.
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00:19:24.929Thank you for sharing with all of us who have read the book, and all the people who are going to read the book, your inside stories, because it's a joyful book.
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00:19:34.800It doesn't throw shade anywhere, it's just like being able to hold your hand and walk through part of your life, and it's really sensational.
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00:19:36.221Thank you for the joy it brought me.
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00:19:38.140You're welcome, chris.
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00:19:43.907I have as much fun reading it as you did and I will be reading it again today.
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00:19:47.984I'm just going to hold it up again because it is in bookstores.
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00:19:56.098People can find it and I love people just getting in touch with me, like you did, and saying, hey, this is really fun, that's what I did it for.
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00:19:57.785Well, I'll tell you what.
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00:20:04.108Again, it's a wonderful read and some of the pictures in there are amazing.
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00:20:06.442I mean just absolutely amazing.
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00:20:10.945And again, thank you for letting us walk alongside you through that life.
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00:20:13.103What a crazy lucky life, john.
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00:20:14.619Thank you, chris.
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00:20:19.257Well, listen, you take care and we'll talk again soon, got it?
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00:20:21.124Have a good day, thank you.
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00:20:23.821Okay, wasn't that a great interview with John?
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00:20:25.900Wow, I'm telling you what.
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00:20:29.586And he's got more gold and platinum albums than I do.
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00:20:32.103It's like I had envy during the whole thing.
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00:20:36.104It was amazing, but I want to thank John again for being here today.
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00:20:40.659Okay, so a couple of things I want to talk about here.
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00:20:53.051One is whenever people ask me how old I am and I tell them, they say no way.
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00:20:56.984So I've started lying about my age.
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00:21:06.393Now, I'm not the only person in the world Kind of like people when you ask them, if not the only person in the world kind of like people who, when you ask them if you've peed in the pool, everybody will say no, I would never do such a thing.
00:21:06.393 -->
00:21:07.536Well, you know they're lying.
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00:21:18.461Well, I do lie about my age because when people ask and this is like a perfect day for me to talk about it because tomorrow I will turn 70.
00:21:18.461 -->
00:21:21.767Yes, 7-0.
00:21:21.767 -->
00:21:25.502I can't believe it either, but nobody believes me, so I lie about it.
00:21:25.502 -->
00:21:28.384Here's the reason that I lie about it.
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00:21:44.949Number one when I first was interviewing with agents for my modeling acting career, I met with a guy named Mark Block and I went in to see him and I sat down and the first thing he did was he looked me in the eye and said how old are you really?
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00:21:49.424And I said what do you mean?
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00:21:51.082He said well, look, you can tell me the truth.
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00:21:57.346He said I'm not going to tell anybody else because you could play roles from anywhere from 45 to 75.
00:21:57.346 -->
00:21:58.048How old are you?
00:21:58.048 -->
00:22:00.502And at that point I was 60.
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00:22:05.702So anyway, I've gotten a lot of business from him and it was very helpful.
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00:22:25.119But the one that really helped me with lying was a songwriter named Paul Craft who I met when I first moved to Nashville and we got to talking one day and he wrote like Midnight Flyer for the Eagles Drop, kick Me Jesus through the Gold Posts of Life and all these great songs.
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00:22:26.903Well, I asked him one time.
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00:22:28.887I said you know?
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00:22:30.898So when you explain, what do you do?
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00:22:33.424When you talk to people.
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00:22:34.247What do you tell them?
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00:22:36.037He said well, I never tell them, I'm a songwriter.
00:22:36.037 -->
00:22:37.500Like what do you mean?
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00:22:39.222Why do you not tell them you're a songwriter?
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00:22:41.487He said let me tell you Anytime.
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00:22:42.769Here's how it goes.
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00:22:46.141People go hey, paul, so what do you do?
00:22:46.141 -->
00:22:47.885Well, I'm a songwriter?
00:22:47.885 -->
00:22:48.827No way.
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00:22:51.182So he said they're already saying no.
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00:22:54.825And then they ask so what did you write?
00:22:54.825 -->
00:22:59.641And he'll say well, I wrote Midnight Flyer for the Eagles, and they'll go no way.
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00:23:01.583He says so why should I tell them the truth?
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00:23:03.746They're going to think I'm lying anyway.
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00:23:06.869So, paul Kraft, rest in peace.
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00:23:07.871Thank you for that lesson.
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00:23:13.915I appreciate it.
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00:23:18.010The other one is you know, when I talk about myself in third person, or people talk about themselves in third person, you know Chris doesn't like this.
00:23:18.010 -->
00:23:19.455You know Chris would not do it this way.
00:23:19.455 -->
00:23:20.800Chris thinks this.
00:23:20.800 -->
00:23:25.383Well, chris thinks all that is bullshit to talk about yourself in the third person.
00:23:25.383 -->
00:23:28.537So if I ever start doing it, please call me out.
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00:23:36.152The third one Just recently I got both of my ears pierced.
00:23:36.973 -->
00:23:38.817Long story, I'll tell you that another time.
00:23:38.817 -->
00:23:42.606But the problem is I had one of them pierced before.
00:23:42.606 -->
00:23:48.667The problem is now that, being almost 70 years old, I've got all this ear hair.
00:23:48.667 -->
00:23:51.883Yeah, hair growing out of my ears.
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00:23:53.019It pisses me off.
00:23:53.019 -->
00:23:55.721It's like awful, because now I've got.
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00:23:57.086So here's the new dilemma.
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00:24:05.365I've got ears pierced, wanting people to pay attention to my ears, but when they do, I've got all these hairs sticking out.
00:24:05.365 -->
00:24:16.403I guess it's true You've got to wish for big problems in areas that you don't even have, areas because now I've got ear hair.
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00:24:20.105Okay, here's another random little thing.
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00:24:23.605One time I was at the Grammys for Grammy week.
00:24:23.605 -->
00:24:29.845I was staying at a really nice hotel and on the roof of the hotel they had a hot tub.
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00:24:40.463And one day, two days before the Grammys, I was on the roof standing near the hot tub and I looked in there and it's Tony Bennett and George Benson.
00:24:40.463 -->
00:24:47.239Tony Bennett and George Benson in a hot tub.
00:24:47.239 -->
00:24:51.067Now, of course I had to go over there and sit there and talk to them.
00:24:51.067 -->
00:25:08.650Of course I had to, but when I walked away I happened to think if one of them farted, who would take credit?
00:25:08.650 -->
00:25:09.752I don't know, I'll just leave it there.
00:25:10.875 -->
00:25:17.595Okay, the last thing I want to talk about is I want to say thank you to the guys here at Blue Ridge Public Television and the podcast studio here where we record Random Acts.
00:25:17.595 -->
00:25:25.460And I want to brag a little bit, because these guys just won a bunch of Emmys recently and I think it's absolutely fabulous.
00:25:25.460 -->
00:25:35.125In fact, the gentleman who did my graphics for my podcast, random Acts, jay Prater, won an Emmy.
00:25:35.125 -->
00:25:37.890Well, we'll call it an Eddie, but it's an Emmy.
00:25:37.890 -->
00:25:40.499Sorry about that, but, jay Prater, congratulations.
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00:25:45.608Okay, before I go, don't forget Chris Keaton.
00:25:45.608 -->
00:25:48.784Chris, at chriskeatoncom, get in touch with me.
00:25:48.784 -->
00:25:52.105Follow me on Instagram at Chris J Keaton.
00:25:52.105 -->
00:25:56.105Follow me on Facebook, chris Keaton Music.
00:25:56.105 -->
00:25:58.643Buy my book Dapper.
00:25:58.643 -->
00:26:02.486Buy my book Confidence on the Fly.
00:26:02.486 -->
00:26:05.304They're both on Amazon, both on Book Baby.
00:26:05.304 -->
00:26:07.359Also, don't forget the Song Inside.
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00:26:08.825You Call me about that.
00:26:08.825 -->
00:26:17.221I'll tell you all about it, but please, please, please, follow me and come back next time we have the next episode of Random Acts.
00:26:17.221 -->
00:26:22.938Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
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00:26:33.002Yes, god damn it, that's right.
