I love. Stuart. You're dreaming to start you on your way. Through your 30 or even I need to. The song or story this just for you. Tonight continue the story folk tale or end with glory I'm really in my glory knowing stories here to you. Thank you for tuning in to k p f k this is wrong so often and today I'm talking with Uncle Ruthie and this is a special tribute looking back on 61 years with Uncle Ruthie and her show k.p.s. . Well it's half way down the stairs but today I would want to come up with all the way down the stairs and back again and we're very fortunate that we're both here and able to carry on a conversation with each other so with that I would like to know how you got started in show business really seems like I was born that I was morning show this I started at the age of 11 I heard about a group in Chicago I lived in Chicago and Wisconsin on a farm in Chicago they had a group called the Jack and Jill players run by Mary Agnes Foley near north side and it was a bunch of kids and they were actors and they were talented and they got out of school so they could do plays all over Chicago and other people schools and they Toby Tyler circus. All kinds of wonderful stories for kids and that was us the Jack and Jill players we acted in plays and we made films the kind of films that you saw in high school like are you popular shy guy Dick York was was the shy guy by Bela ban he probably doesn't remember me that was that was the middle group that acted in these movies Scheidegger York bellmen Ruthie Buell in a few others we acted him out these movies were made on the estate of of David Smart who only Esquire magazine were paid $15.00 a day we thought it was a lot of money they were very instructional and corny movies that you were forced to sit through when you were in school when I was in radio I did the Bubi b.m. And Dick Your had a program he was very silly he was a skinflint until then and nobody knew what it meant would be attracted. I listen to radio remember back in those days I was born 130 and there was no t.v. There wasn't t.v. Radio was what we had sometimes the less you have the more you have radio didn't have tickets years so you could go outside and play an act out something you saw and you heard on radio and your acting out would be different than your neighbor next door would give you some freedom now it's totally structured you just act out whatever episode you saw last night anyway everybody acted out what they saw Roy Rogers and everything that was part of our entertainment so I was very busy acting because I was an abused child and it was always nice to sort of leave my little world and be in a world where people were nicer my mom could go for 5 months without saying one word to me. Not even one word so when when I was a little girl I used to pretend I was going to school I was going to school I was walking to school and the director across the street would be saying in this scene Ruthie you play the part of a girl 11 years old going to school and you're walking to school I also was saved of I like teachers who recognized certain amount of talent but that's what saved me and teachers and nice people that was. It was it was much different there were no there was no tape there was no cd you know there was ice a train up to make noise with the paper you read your line and drop your paper on the floor. So that you wouldn't make noise if you. Change the scene. This is a later when we started doing t.v. You had to actually run physically from one place to another place it was live and it was it was probably more fun the title was from one of my favorite writers at that time everybody a mill we wrote Winnie the Pooh and. Halfway down the stairs if you listen to the poem what it really means it's a place where I see it already we know it's nowhere because it's in the middle and there's nothing like it that's also true of my show and not the bottom not at the top and so this is where I always this is the step where I always so halfway up the stairs that I judge from down to up it's not up it's not down it isn't in the nursery someone from a place for near it isn't in town it's just you and your head and all sorts of funny thoughts run around my head and here's the the tip off it isn't really anywhere it's somewhere else and stabs Yes and he was such a wonderful writer. He not only wrote about me he had gotten my mother down pat my mother was in or the donkey. My mother was more eager than yours. Yes it's my birthday yes to see the cake. Candles Oh yes I'm having a wonderful person. Now I was basically in a sad little abused child and I would take all my downtime and all my little cards and put them on a chair which is the stage and have a little show in my bedroom so you were doing this show for yourself right there myself you were on the radio you know the little cat and she was killing me out and now we bring you Kitty meow singing a song yeah I guess I was in show business before I was in real life you know there's not that much difference how did you get to be uncle Ruthie president it's a good question Ross in those days they were men little goober voices look it up who read stories to children on the radio and they had the dubious patronize in voices you know high boys and girls here's a story about a little tree that was lost in the forest. And they were always avuncular there always Uncle Bill Uncle Bob Uncle Dan They always had this title uncle. The most famous of all was Uncle Don. Don has left the world an important message if there's a microphone in a box in the room with you be careful what you say even if it's in a box be aware of all microphones plugged in or not one day Uncle Don thought his program was over the his mike was not turned on and he heaved a big sigh of relief and he said well I guess I'll hold the little bastards and Uncle Don was never on the radio again. And who started with Cynthia Sears and Douglas Dick and myself reading it my favorite writer Edward Gorey a very gothic funny writer and we did a Edward Gorey spectacular one of the stories is called The Ugly romp and I did it in my Glynis Johns voice and I did a story called The what Lee and I would say for this particular story and this is how we got born I was going to be like the guys on the radio and I seem to ask did you think young hunk of Ruthie with a story by Edward Corey and then I would go and do the whole story in that voice that is John's. And Rosler meant to be the next studio at the time that I 1st did it and began saying things like and good night Uncle Ruthie wherever you are Mrs Keller that and Jimmy Durante So there was that and the next studio and then everybody started calling me Uncle Ruthie and didn't let go and before you knew it that was my name. And I love it it was interesting. That's interesting so it was a good name to have. Yes And this show just sort of morphed into a show one of how we I was a witch named Uncle Ruthie. And I have to ignore more uncle Ruthie and before you know it Jerry said how about doing something every week and so I started doing something every week then I did a thing called Lunch fair it was every day for 15 minutes it just sort of turned into. This is lost so you're listening to a special tribute to Uncle Ruthie on k t f k and this was 19 still in the meeting which is yeah I had 3 kids and that's when they said you want to be in a play called check of the Seagull I said only if I could be the lead because I have 3 children I'm not going to do a lot of work to say Dinner is served so that's my 1st thing that I ever did and he'd be of k. You know to go out with people realize I already was an actor and I liked it I had a difficult marriage and my husband made fun of me oh we are interacting period oh we are in our poetry period because I wrote poems and stuff like that I did not have an easy life when I was being uncle. I had a difficult life and. The kids were wonderful course when did your show appear when did you when did your shows when it's the station when on the air and 59 that's when I started doing and public affairs programs we had a program about Carol just when the red light bandit and I went out was my microphone and I interviewed the people of Los Angeles and I picked places since I had studied statistics I picked places that were good places to have. A representative sample as they say people from Hollywood Boulevard is a good place people are visiting and they're from everywhere you see l.a. Is an academic place you could always get professors and it was one of my shows and one was when was was found it's a disaster with public affairs not with stuff at all there was 961 and they said what the punishment should he have everyone was asking how do you punish somebody for killing that many Jewish people there is no punishment so people would Where ask each other and I did a program called something about humanity I realized one day I was interviewing somebody on Hollywood that they actually did not know who. Else life man was they didn't know anything about it but they wanted to be on the radio if I could was not see a big shot Nazi who like to sit on the roof of buildings and look at the Jews as they took their final breaths watch them die he was the only one that the state of Israel convicted with carefully punishment he's the only one who was killed as a result of his conviction you know now this is interesting because you're going to kill somebody they're gone I went out on Fairfax 7 it was my 3rd placed Hollywood u.c.l.a. And I got a lot of professors when I was in Fairfax. And there was a lot of passion from people on Fairfax outside of Cantors an old man said How do I think he should be punished. This should be punished they should have a cot a cot and it should be a big God put in the trout and on the sides of the car he should say I am Adolf Eichmann the killer from the Jews and they take this all over the world this car is a man in the cart show them who is I when the killer of the Jews and a whole life his whole life that's what we do that's that's how many they thought we should punish him and they might be right. Then I did other documentaries about ecology and whether everything I and then somebody discovered I had 3 children. Like you have a children's program my children were a 1st you know they would resent my being taken away from them until I said you wanted to say Miami want to do it Green Eggs and Ham and they. Needed Green Eggs and Ham and they did all kinds of stuff on my show rainy really my daughter was in which I rushed sang her song. Relation hand by it was wonderful Danny and Tony and they both very good actors one is now a lawyer and the other is the director of probation for. Puerile county but they were good little actors really was a witch and she's saying if that there is too thin. Something in they won't teach you this in books but weak is fine is good we don't need brains we don't need looks which is our the finest goods or they read the finest books they've after realizing it had to share me. Joined the group. I'm not so sure they would approve of that now. It was written by Dr Seuss Of course my best program for Dr Seuss. You know I've done hundreds of programs the sleep book was about everybody getting ready for bed and that's when I took everything in my house and made it into a sound effect they were birds quarrelling I had 2 birds they were quarrelling the sound of a waterfall my most toothbrushes and water I made sound effects. I was pretty creative about that it was a lot of fun. Yeah and the sleep book turned out to be a lovely. Program and little toy machine I called the Audio tell yo tell yo count and when we finished it and had already to go we wrote to Dr Seuss. World has come in from the town of l.a. The very fine station Ok p f k is going to broadcast your sleep book today this may not seem very important to you but it is because you're probably the wanting to sue and we did that and this is Dr says wife love that it was very nice and nobody has ever objected to my doing their husbands wives or their own work because it gave them publicist if you're doing good publicity for somebody they're not going to criticize you for the only person gave me a hard time was it was actually my friend Ray Bradbury who didn't know who I was at the time and you can't just use myself as oh really I want to do the story and so beautiful and finally let me do it let me did his the Halloween tree and it is about the history of how we made into a drama and it's beautiful writing on race part it's a Ray Michael Dell. Of precious memory and I got into this room and did that book how entry I played the part of all the children children's voices Ray was the narrator it's still available we make money off of it and it's a very good program later on when Ray realized that I was only good for him he became friends and I treasure my copy of how wintry was his sentiment you know. Met him at the studio in studio b. Mike got ahold of him and did a lot of programs with Michael Dell He was one of our most famous and wonderful broadcasters over the years. Our 25 science fiction program he had that he also did anything dramatic and. What didn't he do. He and I were extremely close friends. Mike the night before he died all by himself in the hospital room at Cedars he was asleep couldn't we couldn't communicate but that's it he was he was a precious precious jewel in the crown of k p s k This is raw So you're listening to a special tribute to. Katie if. He ever read 14050. I never did and he and I don't really record it or not really was a special person really he could be prickly he had his own rules the thing that I loved best and that most people love best about Ray Bradbury is his writing. And this is true not of Ray Bradbury alone but everyone who writes everyone who has a talent it's probably true of me. I'm just a nice little Jewish lady with 3 kids in a family I made forced which I will give you at the end of the session however would you know me as a talented story reader which is true also I guess but not all the time I want me Uncle Ruthie one hour a week this is a story from grasshopper on the road. It's his 1st journey and he goes out on the road leads these beetles these beetles are carrying signs and one says make mine morning and I went as just me it's morning the other one says I love morning we love. Morning is the best grasshopper comes upon this enclave of beetles and says Good morning. Which is what you say and they say yes every morning is a good morning we are the members of the we love morning club. Do you love morning is oh yes I do I do her a they all say grasshopper is one of us he loves morning and they give him a crown kiss me it's morning they give him a sign make my morning and they run around and they sing a song and a song that they sing sounds a lot like the Hari Krishna song m o r in I in g. Spells mornings bells morning and are in the bill and grasshopper ventures a sentence is as I like afternoon 2. And a bit of the what did you say and grasshoppers as and evening is very nice and one dummy Another one says stupid and they take away his crown and they take away his sign and grasshopper says it's all right I am exploring the world and he goes on down the road and the whole book is grasshopper. Meeting on these wonderful people and bureaucracy is my favorite chapter he meets a boat from an I man with a little boat who insists that the only way to cross the stream is to be right in this boat of his grass have a who is much bigger than the boat or the boatman says I don't fit into your boat I don't at all fit into your boat and the little animals as rules are rules you must ride in this out those other rules grass or we can't think how to solve this problem and he just picks up the boat in the boat's been and crosses that way and thanks him the whole book is grasshopper encountering the real world and trying to figure out a way to make it fit into his own picture of it he meets a compulsive house flight she cleans the whole world he meets. Butterflies they're all sitting on mushrooms each one has his own mice her own room and here comes the grasshopper and they say Prez. We have to. Get freaky we come here and we sit in these mushrooms can we tell our dreams can't and then and he says Oh it's very we like you grasshopper we would like you just a wee little here to join us happy gave a come here he will sit and measurement as I was as no no no no no I I must be on my way I'm exploring I am part of a huge jury and I must be going oh Chris but we want you to stay and so it's about the league conflict of you know you be secure and stay where you are or shall you explore the world and grasshopper it is indeed pilgrim in Pilgrim's Progress and just utterly charming if I name meets a. Dragon flies they are so fast they're in such a big hurry they don't see anything of the world they're too busy and as a whistle I have it was up and down to show their speed our love bill is for all ages of mankind in person kind arrow a bell is again a gym in the world of literature next children's literature just in the world of literature a good children's book is that just for children where did the ducks go in Central Park where we're now that's a question that gets asked a lot in a particular novel what novel. This kid in the novel wants always is concerned he's worried it's cold in the winter in Central Park where do the ducks go. The young boy in Catcher In The Rye is always asking everybody where ducks go in Central Park in the winter he is concerned my daughter was entering the front door once and the Fuller Brush man was at the door and he gave her a sample and talked to her and he said Do you have any other questions for your 4 Brush man Renia said yes where do the ducks go in the winter in Central Park it was a man he says I don't know honey and really don't know but she was requests and for him being funny no one affected your show here the listeners like to think it had a tremendous effect they met stories they would never have met otherwise they've met the word generalization which is these stories that are not just for kids these are stories about the way we live our lives and a good children's I think there's no such thing as a just a children's story a good children's story is for all ages and so on many many many levels I won't read a story that isn't interesting you know it's got to be interesting everything I've ever read on the air is for all ages your favorite story as with my listeners has always been come again in the spring about the old man that cheats death tolls are . And I've introduced so many stories to l.a. People here and my listeners that makes me very happy I get letters Dear Uncle Ruthie my father was dying last month and I heard a old heart and heard you read that story and it really comforted me and the thought of something I do could be of comfort to people was very very gratifying. And introduce literature to people. English teacher Ross knows what how wonderful it is open the world up a little bit for people people sort of surprised that they liked it so much. And then then there course is the John Birch Society. Not everybody here from the day we read but there was a time when the John Birch Society had a thing called the Robert well just blue book and we decided to read the entire Blue Book on k p f k and we took turns and we took turns reading it sections and I read a section and I got a phone call from the John Birch Society saying how beautifully I read that part and would I like to join the John Birch Society and I said I think you need to remember that I'm an actor and I was reading a story no I would not specially like to join the John Birch Society this is Ross I hope you're listening to a special tribute to a. Kid. In the fifty's. We decide if you wish to hear what they were hearing about no one's ever read it so we read that you know we used to read every Christmas we would read a novel she. Was in charge of that one day he decided that we were going to read on a career in it he was our new film club person and he did a very nice job and every year we read a story at Christmas time everyone at the station took part movie stars took part and you said My name is so and so and I'm reading from on a Korean and I'm reading pages for 50 says to 472 and that's how you did it that was the format. I don't leave anything alone and Jay gave me my section and I looked at it and it started it was a dinner party and the name of everybody at the dinner party and I was. Really impossible to pronounce so I had a little fun with him and I said this is Uncle Ruthie reading pages so in-service so and so and I Kareena I should I begin my reading and I turned the door opened a gentleman with an unresponsive all Russian name was entering the room followed by several other gentlemen with unpronounceable Russian names she said his heart just melted he thought I was going to leave it like that which I didn't hers and I people like Jane Fonda it's nice that they all wanted to participate it's nice that we could have done at least or done more that's a long book it must've taken Oh it took a week it took a long time it was our Christmas present to the world look what we can do look what we could do every year if we wanted to we could read a book as a gift to Los Angeles I've done something like that myself there's a couple called the gumps the gumps were Catholic workers they belonged to this society and they decided they were defaced 'd a missile that they decided to be part of this group it was a political group political group that anti-war group and they decided to deface a missile in a missile silo they climbed over the fence and g.m. Dumped in her seventy's and sixty's was a Rest of course and they it was just paint and they said to her if you will apologize for what you've done we will let you go she said I will never apologize for defacing a missile and she never did and she served 7 years in federal prison. For the face I don't think I would have the strength to do that but she did she did and her husband not to be outdone also defaced the missile silo and he also went to jail and it was a beautiful gesture with his eye and I got to meet them I sent them that I made a recording of these 3 half hour recordings Barry Bearak from the l.a. Times wrote these articles I read I had barely else's music and I had. This beautiful article I divided in 3 and I read them on the air and then they got out of jail and I did a concert in Chicago and they came and anybody that remembers Joe Joe and Gene Gump who were Catholics principle when served 6 she's 7 and he did about 6 or 5. This is how they felt and as I say I'm not sure I could do that with your fondest memory. Oh doing the little prince face and exemplary my engineer was Malinche swab their rewards or acting we'd said you received the 1st award you ever see that was from the year my husband died Bruce boom. My 2nd as a national booster died and we were dog remember Father Gregory Boyle. He and I the same day got an award from Rotary Club Rotary Club gave me the peacemakers award. Got that one too and that was a big ceremony and I got that award then I got an award from Sunset hall some rabbi sands award I had and I got an award. Pennyworth of children's music network. Gave me an award for my radio show then I got a big award from. A parent's choice award which is a national contest and my album The Jacaranda Tree jacaranda tree. Has a little sticker on it came in 2nd in the national contest and it's funny I didn't want to enter I said they charge you $25.00 to enter the contest I'm not paying that kind of money and so the people on the album all pitched in and entered and didn't tell me and they came and the winners were announced and I says See See you guys we aren't even in the honorable mentions and somebody said Derek Rose is best because you're not looking in the right place when she looked under 1st I looked and there was a 2nd place then I got a. Magic penny award a grand a tree if I got in others I don't remember them. There are 2 kinds of awards there's an intrinsic reward or a for doing I get every time I do a radio show and I'm being rewarded intrinsically for it and then the extrinsic is when you get a trophy or you get a painting or you get something that says you won 2nd place that's nice but that has nothing to do with. The greatest reward. And then oh yes for the magic penny award. The week before that award I went to my school for Ikechi which was I teach blind children and I walked in and there was a little boy who had never said one word in his whole life Stephen and all the mommies were in a big circle around Steve and they were saying see it see it again said against even see it and Little Steven looked up and said. Cook it was my name the name for rules in Spanish is no refuge and the nickname is Kuta and I for 1904 I have been cool. And he said. When I got my award I got up and I said you know you think you're giving me this award I really got it the other day when a little boy said my name I guess I'm lucky to be. A special ed teacher and performer at the same time they got it together so will all my songs and then i kids wrote my songs. Course form them and everything but. Young children they will help you write songs one day a teacher came up to me and said we only have 5 minutes and that became a song called We only have 5 minutes before we say goodbye so the kids are always been part of my songwriting and since I have stopped teaching I have written another song for a long time I had 3 kids already and my best friend who was becoming a special ed teacher. Was at my house and she said you were going to be a special ed teacher I am yes you are that's that's what you're going to love my kids were already out of nursery school at the time you were about 5 and 6 So anyway I went to school one day. I had 2 years of age in college. With little recourse and then I came out here the paper is reading my major was anthropology Actually I went to school and I got my teaching credential and I think that was the smartest thing anyone ever told me was you're going to be a special ed teacher I can't imagine being anything else. Beverly presser was a resource teacher at Whitney high school she was my best friend and in l.a. She was my best friend we've been best friends since our kids with the nursery school together. Beverly and I taught special ed together for many many many years I love helping people to lead a better life. One thing you know about social if you teach somebody to Read They Learn to read handicapped and other programs related to being blind I have always done programmes about holidays and being and and handicaps and whatever is out there in the world happening to us I do a show I have never shied away from every anything it was a cartoon chemistry a call for better or for worse by then Johnston and she wrote for better or for worse and one day in it for ever worse the young man in it says to his friend his friend says I'm never going to have kids is a very interesting thing now because it seems so dated and so antiquated and he said What do you mean you won't have kids because I'm gay you know what and there was a thing I read the whole thing like like the mayor used to read cartoons over the air I read that series part of and then Johnson's cartoon about Lawrence who came out as being gay and when he told his friend yeah I went home when this father . Kicked him out of the house step father kicked him out of the house and then there was a whole big episode where they had the stepfather felt bad about doing this and then put him in his arms and hugged him and said you view it every you have to be it was beautiful. And I see no separation between. The way I do a radio show and the way I live my life it was all fodder for my radio gris real. World impression do you hope to leave with your fans. I'd like them to realize that there's nothing we can't talk about I think you realize that everybody's story is a beautiful story. And I think you realize where did it comes from doesn't come from how you look. Learn how to say no you have a tremendous power children if today I say this to my neighbor and I was said to them you say oh I'm just a kid Presley in a time. And they punish it. You have the power of no no one but you decides that you are not or are not going to do your homework you decide you really are in charge more than you think of your own life if you have this power of screwing up or doing it. I think that kids have to realize that they are the junior partners and Democratic firm. And. I say this all the time to get a say in. You have more power than you think treading is. In the end maybe your parents or even though they're your parents they might even be right about refusing you don't let that get in the way of evaluating what your parents say and what your flexions do you have with your entertainment journey and think it's very much like my life's journey I am I don't separate the 2 things during much. And I find where I do as a profession in acting in reading all of this and very much where I live my life you know we're going to listen to a few of the old Ruthie's favorite c s. I am sitting in my cabin and talking at myself and in much of our hard that has no cards at all any putting you on hold because someone else is trying to reach me and There's anything in the world I hate it's my cell phone yours mine anybody's they take people away from each other we're already reduced to rectangles that we hold in our hands as though they were our family but now we have cell phones also people I saw for ladies in a restaurant see each one talking us. Different people cell phones are things that take you away from the people you're with and that's one of the verses here is about so we're telling you their troubles in the crying in all this and your cell phone rings and so I wrote down song out of pure hatred of cell phones the cell phone song. Did you ever notice that really authentic folk songs have choruses a go whack founding raw and my song is very authentic and has everything in it that a folk song ought to have. My love once Ruta folks on the fine snappy chorus of wack the wildly round folding riled the No my friend stead want to sing your song for us with a wet little rowdy Ralph only round a. Little rounding right now the Ralph only Ralph like a little round the well Ali Well the pounding round whacked on your frontin your back with the work you're out of the rough all the while day. And i cood in my folks and and all the things people put there like magic and murder of in the spring druggies and flowers and virgins in bowers and I urge folks to join in Morrisons. All night. All the rope will be round and round the right. All the well where can you affronted your back with the work follow the road the rough all the good. There praise turn to curses is too many verses that everyone has as much free time as me and we all hate a chorus it's starting to bore us and this is the barely last time that will. Work fairly well again while all the rope Oh there was but followed it well the wealth out of the rubble the only real whack on your fucked in your back with the whacked out around the mouth all the while they I. I. New authentic folks as opposed to the old authentic books on I took a class elder hostel thing that was the guy name Holby cutter and he was very big on authentication he'd go on what year it was in the south it's very funny song and this is the new earth and it folks on the Internet is just that sound makes fun of folk songs and their choruses This is raw so I hope you're listening to a special tribute to one called Ruthie k p f k. Pump the role of so frayed up to a tiny little ball if you spank a fly she never will know why and to leave a little spot on the wall if you go worm you really make him squirm in a bug. If you spank a hand even now and then she may never lay another egg spank a porcupine you will bristle up and whine if you spank a snake just right spank it can move some elephants rope you will learn what they don't like to spank go grab it is a very bad habit if you say you'll pout if you dare to spank a lion will be roaring instead of cry and in will very likely shoot out if you spank a bird who has jerk do dirty word she may never sing another song so there ought to be another way for Dad in mother bird to let her know that some things wrong displaying a bear get away from their. Goat you'll get it. And he will still like anything if you spank a skunk you'll regret it if you spank a horse you'll run away of course spank a cow when the milk turns sour make a turtle and I tell you you'll go into a shell and he might not move for an hour if you spank a juror half you will not make her laugh you know they don't ever make a sound and if they spank you'll hurt he many a little when the flows from his dream to the Ground 0 the are goes out of the hand goodness don't in its heart do seeing a song so that could be another way for Dead End mother to let us know that something's wrong has just got to be another way for Dad and Mother to let us know that something wrong. This is the anti spanking song because I am more than anti anything else I am against it in another human being he teaches nothing and leaves people hurt and angry it's how war starts Do you have any thank you's. To mentor teachers I am a teacher. And Teacher thank you to the teachers who said I was a good little poet who said that I was a good writer who said that I had potential because it didn't happen at home teachers saved my life made me feel like I was worthwhile. It was a joy to go to school because they were at least talking to me and loving me so I want to thank teachers the good ones and even the bad ones that after all they were people too and it's very good to have a bad bad teacher once in a while because you learn how to handle that sort of thing you know you don't want it all the. Time like me. Wanting to sound like them be yourself you know even if it's different Be yourself but yes I'm glad that I live here I have enough to eat and that I have a home. We are very rich and we don't even know it in this society so used to. Having house like this for guitars and things like that. 61 years. He. Might be. With your father. Would wish if people. Did I talk about things no one else would talk about. Talked about death shocked about being touched and maybe For talked about how you don't put your hands on a kid to hurt them before other people were doing this that I was in the vanguard of start behaving yourself with your kids or treating your children with respect you don't talk to your children any differently than you talk to your best friend and I watched people in the market see them in the market with the kids but they're damned. Sound in their voice and then they turn around talk really nice to their fellow shoppers you know your children are important and precious and leave your same good manners with your own kids that's how they learn and this is as good a place is any to tell you there is no way on God's earth that we could talk about my 61 years at k p f k in one session like this no it's a big long period of time when we've done our best but it's only a tiny little bit of what the whole big thing was it was my life for 61 years I worked all week on my show I really was devoted to it I was careful about editing I always practiced my stories people said oh you sounded so natural because I practice. And so I we've done our best but there is no way you could have all of it because. It so much and thank God there was. That's when. I want to thank you for having been on the air all these years. Giving you so much to think about I got it. Because. I just want to thank you for starting to do something to think of. Something beautiful to. Remember thank you for to me and to Katie have to say this is where I saw it today have come up in Vancouver and this is very special to have you here looking back at 61 years over the theory being on the k.p. . I would like to thank this very wonderful woman Marlene bond and the great wonderful gentleman Terry guy who have come into my home and maybe think for a whole morning and who are very talented creative people and may be at k p f k for many many years to come about the bush now. Good Burma when. The bottom line written I'm going to. Love my friends we would rather say hello then good bye my friends think $10.00 might seem like a small amount but when you sign up as a keep e.f.t. Sustainer circle member that $10.00 helps to pay for daily broadcasts of democracy now Sojourner Truth with market press card and a lot of the news and information you cheer on keep e.f.t. 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Ok and quite you did join Maggie peak on Sunday December 1st from 5 to 6 pm for the latest edition of Rock Profiles Maggie will open up and explore the new Jimi Hendrix box set songs were groovy children this phenomenal set completely documents for the 1st time to debut performances at the famed Fillmore East of Hendrix his band of gypsies and Maggie's each special guest for the hour will be Hendrix archivist and producer John McDermott and Jimmy's celebrated sound engineer Eddie Kramer that's Rock Profiles with Maggie will peak Sunday December 1st from 5 to 6 pm right here on Cape York a 90.7 f.m. Los Angeles and online at k.b. Of k o r g. Afro Cuban jazz pianists their America list and his quartet have. Will be in Los Angeles on the band's a December 4th at 8 pm at Herb Alpert As for the Glasgow grill jazz he has recently returned from performing in Rome and New York his current album the brand the Concours this one the top 40 albums of. 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