Scheananigans with Scheana Shay - The Best of the 50’s with Mike & Bob

Episode Date: December 30, 2022

This week, Scheana and Brock sit down with their San Diego neighbors, Mike Rogers and Bob Skiles. Mike and Bob talk about being best friends since 7th grade and what it was like growing up in... the 50s. They reminisce on their favorite memories such as seeing Elvis in concert and meeting three United States Presidents. What advice would they give their younger selves? What was business like in the 50s and 60s? What were their first impressions of Scheana and Brock when they first moved to San Diego? All this and more! Follow us: @scheana @scheananigans   Please note that this episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to in this episode.     Produced by Dear Media  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 The following podcast is a Dear Media production. From Vanderpump Rules to motherhood and everywhere in between, it's time to catch up with Sheena Shea. This is Shenanigans. And now here's your host, Sheena Shea. Well, well, well, 2022 is officially over this weekend. It's a wrap. I'll tell you what, it's been definitely a year to remember. And God, just remembering about this year, it's definitely been a solid one. So yeah, I'm glad it's done.
Starting point is 00:01:04 I feel like a lot of us looking forward to setting new goals and moving forward and you know 2023 land of opportunities you know you get to capture those moments i think you know as much as it is reflected on 2022 2022 2022 i think 2023 i'm welcoming it with a warm embrace do you have any new year's resolutions i do i want to become accountable that's my new year's goal throughout it obviously that's not a very smart goal which is specific measurable measurable, achievable. But yeah, so I want to become more accountable and how I build accountability is I want to be accountable to myself first. So I have got some other goals outside of that. One of them is work related with homebody and personally related. I want
Starting point is 00:01:59 to drop some pounds, drop some weight, maybe. And then I've also got socializing goals as well i want to make sure i put myself out there and be there for my friends you know 2022 taught me anything it was that i could be a better friend oh yeah and then i've got my relationship goals you know and we've we've definitely wrapped up this year pretty quick so i look forward to new goals. I don't know what they are yet. I actually haven't written those ones down, but I've got dreams. Okay. But they're just dreams until I write them down. And me and you should do a new year's resolution day where we take a couple of, like an hour
Starting point is 00:02:35 together to sit down and do some goals, goal setting. Well, I want to do that, but also I want to be better at our checklist that we have at home. Yeah. Well, here's the thing, honey. The goal setting is the reason why we hit that checklist. And that will help us double down because we just have a checklist. We use it at that, which is great. It's a habit builder, but we need to tie that with an anchor point of emotion to what, which will be our goal settings. And when we set our goals, we'll go through and we'll make sure
Starting point is 00:03:05 we can emotionally tie something to every single one of them so that when our day starts and when we create our schedule, we can rock up and we can win the day. And I'm so here for it because 2022,
Starting point is 00:03:16 you know what? Hate to see you leave. Love to see you go. Bye. On to next year. What about you, honey? Do you have any New Year's resolutions or egos yet or just kind of like dreams no what would be your dreams for if you could i what would be ideally
Starting point is 00:03:34 scenario for you in 23 i think i really just want to continue working on myself but be more proactive with my therapy i want to find a good psychiatrist i want to work on my confidence as a mom and just you know business woman and work with building my podcast and my youtube and my lashes and just expanding my brand and doing something that my daughter is going to be proud of me for i like that season 11 would be amazing but you know let's get season 10 on air first and everyone can just see how awesome it is i mean listen that i'd feel like it was definitely 10 times number nine that was just because of the pandemic and welcome me whatever. But I'm excited for that,
Starting point is 00:04:26 honey. And I like that. I like that. I think it's good. You're doing really good. And I think you're giving yourself the most advantage going into 23 with those goals you want to achieve. You're already doing some of those steps and then now you're already kind of, so it's good. You're doing great there. Congratulations on that, honey. Thanks, honey. But we do need to sit down and put one together. We need to sit down and put our goals together. We should, I mean, just put it out there. We could podcast it and talk about our goals and all that.
Starting point is 00:04:52 Yeah, we can do that. Put it together. Not tonight, but. No, but we can do it another time. We can actually talk about it. We'll do a YouTube one on that actually. Boom. Okay.
Starting point is 00:05:00 We'll put our 2023 New Year's resolutions goal setting up on YouTube. And we'll just like on Patreon. There you go. Get to Patreon listeners, exclusive content. Yes. All right. But for tonight's or today's whatever time you're listening, we are recording this at night, but you might be listening in the morning for the episode this week, Brock and I, a few weeks ago, sat down in San Diego with our neighbor, Mike Rogers, who this man is just a legend. And his best friend, Bob, actually from junior high.
Starting point is 00:05:37 I thought they met in high school, but they have known each other since like the seventh grade. They have so many stories about growing up in san diego the 50s seeing elvis for the first time and we just thought it would be fun to do a drinking and podcasting episode with two legends born in the 30s living in 2022 so please enjoy any chance you have a music stand? Do you have any feather type? Do you need like a mic stand for it?
Starting point is 00:06:13 Yeah. A mic stand. We can just lean in. We're good at leaning. Which way, Mike? This way, that way. We're just born leaners. So, everyone, we are getting into some drinking and podcasting shenanigans live from San Diego.
Starting point is 00:06:37 And we are sitting here, it's Brock and I, with our neighbors and our neighbor's best friend from high school. And these guys have so many stories. I was like, we got to get you on the podcast. We've been talking about this for, I think, over a year now. And I've finally got them a little liquored up and ready to talk. So we have already finished one and a half bottles of wine we've now opened up a mystery bottle of wine how's it taste gentlemen it tastes i mean listen i'm into it and this is this is the young one speaking here the young buck on the new stuff i like it though okay we have no idea what it is but um there's no label on it for whatever reason so it's a lot different to the one we were just drinking this one's very fruity yeah i like yeah so yeah so we're down in san
Starting point is 00:07:32 diego we are actually sadly moving out of this house it is our last month down here i know it's such a bummer we'll be back we will be back but for now we will be in LA. Yes, please. Probably in this chair. Let's roll out the red carpet here. Alright, so. On the purple mic. On the purple mic. We have Mr.
Starting point is 00:08:01 Mike Rogers in the house. Mike Rogers! And Bob, I just realized Mr. Mike Rogers in the house. Mike Rogers! Hey! And Bob, I just realized I don't even know your last name. I just know you're a legend. My last name is Skiles. S-K-I-L-E-S.
Starting point is 00:08:14 Bob Skiles. And over here, you've got Brock Davies. Yeah. D-A-V-I-S. I know. I hate when people say Davis. It drives me nuts. You know what?
Starting point is 00:08:26 Okay. Speaking of last names, I have professionally gone by Sheena Marie for so long that it's like I forget that now it's been Shea and Davies and Honey and whatever. But I forget that Janken was my maiden name that everyone in high school knew me as. And so I just went to my 20-year reunion last weekend.
Starting point is 00:08:49 It was the best time ever. So on the she thrived. Oh, it was a top five, like one of the best nights of my life. I had an absolute blast. What name did you put on your name tag? I just did Sheena. I just went with the first name. But then they were like, oh, Sheena Jenkins,
Starting point is 00:09:05 because they always called me Jenkins. And I was like, no, it's Jankin, J-A-N-C-A-N. But it was so funny because so many people who had me in their phone or got my phone number this past weekend put me in their phone as Sheena Jankin. And I was like, oh, that was such a throwback. It was literally such a good time. And that was another reason I really wanted to get you men here on the podcast because you have been friends since high school, right? No, no. I met him in seventh grade. Oh, my gosh.
Starting point is 00:09:35 Guys, we're going back to like the sandbox of San Diego. I'm going to need you to set the scene. It's seventh grade. What year is it? 1953. Oh, my gosh no no i think about that there's probably nobody watching this that was alive yeah so sad i mean that's that's exactly why you're right we want to think about like how do we think about 1955 set the scene for us
Starting point is 00:10:02 the fifth we were just lucky to be born when we were born. We had a lunch today with a bunch of old high school friends, maybe a group of 25. And every time we get together with any old group, they always say the same thing. We were just lucky to be born when we were. It was an age of innocence. The 50s was an awesome time. have been shows done about it but to live the 50s to go to go back uh in san diego where we are now oh my god i can't even imagine oh we had fun that had fun yeah we had fun that had fun come on 2023 my body's a shit this is the mofa do you know where the eight freeway is yeah of course you've driven on the eight many times that's where i go to get acupuncture we take the eight i had a i had a paper route out of my car and there was 70 customers i went up one side of
Starting point is 00:11:01 eight and down the other it It was one lane each way. Mike would go with me, and then we'd end up our paper route at a dairy, which he had just long enough arms to reach in and pick out a half-gallon ice cream. They had a fence around the freezer, but the hole in the fence was bigger than my head. It was bigger than a half-gallon of ice cream, I'll tell you that. So we'd have a half gallon of ice cream after the route i mean we had worked hard you did the job for 69 papers and never never missed a customer yeah thanks to that go-go milk juice and we paid 25 cents a gallon for gas i don't know what it is oh my god wait how you guys were over $6. You were driving a car. Yes. It's yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:45 Yeah. He had a, he had a, we both had a bicycle paper routes. Yeah. But Bob, when he left his high school paper route, they said, look, he was really good at it. He was a hard worker. You were the man. He was supporting himself.
Starting point is 00:12:00 Paper route with the car. I had told Sheena this story before. I had told Sheena this story before. Bob is the one that's known to have broken in Highway 8, and there should be a plaque on Highway 8 with his name on it, but there's not. He paved half of that. Well, no.
Starting point is 00:12:20 When they moved Highway 8 from a two-lane road to, what, four lanes each way now? There's this giant... Well, it went two lanes each way then way man no i think it was wider but when we were going to college yeah when i had too many martinis exactly the night we always made you guys have made memories because you know that night specifically you know what i mean no it's so crazy like we don't remember last week and they're telling us stories from the 50s we didn't live these guys so different how would you not remember if you went we used to go onto the marine base we'd just
Starting point is 00:12:58 go to the gate and say captain johnson's party and they'd let us in can you imagine doing that today Captain Johnson's party and they'd let us in. Can you imagine doing that today? You'd be in the brig and we'd go into MCRD because the drinks were 35 cents. How could a college kid turn down a 35 cent martini? He has about four or five martinis and the bartender said, no, I had 13 more. Yes.
Starting point is 00:13:24 But the bartender said to you, and I know you too well, he said, hey, what are you trying to do, sir? Because we're on a military base. Sir, what are you trying to do? Set a new record? Kind of in jest and you don't challenge this one. He goes, what's the record? What's the record?
Starting point is 00:13:39 And he said, well, we had a second lieutenant drink 10 martinis once. Bob said, well, we had a second lieutenant drink 10 martinis once. Bob said, oh, that's no problem. And the guy looked at him like, are you kidding me? He drank 13 martinis. So the bartender, what did the bartender do for you? Give me a Singapore sling.
Starting point is 00:13:56 What is a Singapore sling? Also, why didn't you stop at 11? What is a 1950s or 60s Singapore sling? Because I'm like, what is that? But at 11, you beat the record or 60s singapore sling because i'm like what is that but at 11 you beat the record i think everything but the map terrible and so when we get ready to leave he had a 1957 mga it's a pretty slick car it was brand new we start back going heading home and of course he insisted he could drive i can drive so off we go down eight we get four or five miles down the road and all of a sudden i'm he said mike you follow me okay and he's doing 50 45 40 30 20, 30, 20, 10, dead stop,
Starting point is 00:14:48 11 o'clock at the night in the middle of a freeway. But there's no other cars on the freeway because it's brand new and nobody knows how to use it yet. So there's no cars on the freeways. None. The passenger door, the driver door opens up and my pal rolls out onto the street. My job, my job always was to say, can you help me with Bob?
Starting point is 00:15:14 So I had to get him in the other side of the little MG, put him in the MG. She runs around and gets in the driver's side. Meanwhile, not one car went by. And then off we go. We take him home. Wow. He had a hangover the next day for one of the first times in his life. Okay.
Starting point is 00:15:35 I want to ask some questions about like decades and music and stuff like that. Because I know that Mike has been to some dope concerts down here in san diego and literally all over the world so what was your guys's favorite genre of music and who was your favorite person you ever saw perform who's now dead because if we could still see him i wonder if you guys saw alvis i was like yeah i was gonna let mike tell the story a person but yeah i saw he was my came a favor right away don't you remember all the girls went down to glacier gardens and alvis was here in san diego yeah i went because all the girls went what the hell and i look up on the stage and this guy's gonna ain't nothing but a
Starting point is 00:16:25 hound dog i didn't know who he was and i in fact i didn't even have a seat i think i stood behind the bleachers and all remember all the girls we went to high school they all were screaming and yelling and so if what era of elvis's career was this Is this like when he was really young? This is when he first, very first started. Wow. Before he was really known. All of a sudden, when he would wiggle his leg, they just thought that that was obscene. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:58 I saw the Elvis movie. Did you see it? Not yet. And it was very, very good. Was it accurate? Oh, I loved it. Yeah, it was very accurate. I thought of, i loved it yeah it's very accurate i thought of of i mean the guy did a great job of him but i'm looking forward to seeing it i haven't seen yet
Starting point is 00:17:12 but when he first started out there was he only had a dozen songs and some of them you never heard him sing again he just had to come up with enough to put on a concert. But I don't think he'd done a dozen concerts. Wow. You saw Baby Elvis? Maybe not that much. You saw Baby Elvis? Baby, definitely. Oh, my gosh.
Starting point is 00:17:34 I didn't go to see Elvis. I went because the girls were going. If I could see anyone in the world who has now passed on, I would love to be at an Elvis concert. I was obsessed with him growing up. Him, Marilyn Monroe, and James Dean. And obviously they were all dead. Liked them all.
Starting point is 00:17:52 Liked them all. Ugh, amazing. 50s were just an absolute time of pure innocence. It was just- Yeah, fun. Fun. Nothing but fun. It was.
Starting point is 00:18:03 It was everything you see in the movies, the poodle skirts, the music. Yeah. The biggest thing for us in music was to have a car radio that was good enough to get the LA station. If your car radio got LA, you were very cool. Yeah. You got the good stuff. When was your first trip that you took up to LA? You mean alone?
Starting point is 00:18:25 No, like with friends. What was your first trip that you took up to LA? You mean alone? Or just, no, like with friends. Like what was your first LA experience? Well, my girlfriend from high school went up there and she was staying with her girlfriend in high school. And so myself and another guy that liked her. Wait a minute, you had a girlfriend in high school? Yeah. And so we drove up there to make sure
Starting point is 00:18:43 they weren't messing around with other guys we went we went up text you know we went up and we went up and found them i mean you couldn't watch her story you didn't have cell phones you didn't you didn't have instagram i mean we had an address i some way we found out where they were. Did you use like a Thomas guide or were those out yet? I don't know. A Thomas guide? Yeah, I think they might have been out. They were trying to get radio stations from San Diego. They didn't have a Tom Tom
Starting point is 00:19:14 or a Navman take them around the place. No, a Thomas guide is a map. Thomas guide. I know what she means. Isn't that what it was called? Thomas guide. Yeah. I take that back. Yeah, we had like a map. We just called it a- The map.
Starting point is 00:19:27 Oh, yeah, like Map Quest, honey. Yeah, that's a little different. I don't know how we called it. No, my mother's family was from Santa Ana. Okay. So it took, we'd take PCH, which was then the only way to get just up Highway 101 and drive to Santa.
Starting point is 00:19:49 And it took about three hours to get from San Diego to Santa. What about the train? Was that not a thing yet? No, no. When did that come around? And going through all that through Irvine. Yeah. That was nothing there but orange trees.
Starting point is 00:20:03 Orange trees. What? And the entire Irving. That's why that orange thing is where I train. Oh. It's named Orange County. Yes. Well, I know it's named Orange County.
Starting point is 00:20:11 But I mean miles of orange trees, not just a few orange trees. But you remember before it was like City and Spectrum and all of that. That's so crazy. We would drive from San Diego to Del Mar, and there was nothing between no houses. I mean, it was just a road to get to Del Mar. Wow. Disneyland opened in 55.
Starting point is 00:20:33 Yeah. And in 56, I went to college up in Santa Ana for a year, and I had a job in a gas station across the street from Disneyland, and there would be only businesses on the corner. Orange Grove, business on the corner. Orange Grove, business on the corner. There's nothing in the middle. Even across from Disneyland was just Orange Groves.
Starting point is 00:20:58 That's why Disneyland is where it is, because in those days, it was either bean fields or orange groves. That was all agricultural through that area. There was very few houses in that area. You know how dense it is now. It's so crazy. Yeah. Yeah. So nuts.
Starting point is 00:21:17 I just made that up about Orange County. I didn't think it was because of the orange trees. It was there. I mean. They were everywhere. Probably. It makes sense. Yeah. You've got orange trees. It was there. I mean. They were everywhere. Probably. It makes sense. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:27 You've got good stories to tell from there. Honey, we went from the 60s, and obviously you guys got married in the 60s, and then you guys went into your professional careers. You didn't have a side hustle. No. What was doing business like back in the 60s, 70s like? We were all taught in college to go to work for
Starting point is 00:21:45 somebody and stay with it yeah forever we weren't taught that you could own your own business that you could be an entrepreneur that wasn't taught was it no not for bethlehem steel or you know a big company of of stature and if you work there for 50 years you got a plaque and you know and a gold watch and a gold watch that's and so it didn't really sit well with a lot of us, but we had no other ideas. And then slowly as we went through the 70s and into the 80s, people started being very successful at things and doing them on their own. And then others would say, hey, I could do that. You know, the amazing thing I've heard about you guys from Mike and Cheryl
Starting point is 00:22:43 and how neat these neighbors were. I said, how old are they? They said, they're 30. I said, what the hell you got in common with people 30 years old? Hey, I'm 37, okay? I was born in the 80s. Oh, okay. Okay.
Starting point is 00:22:58 You know what we have in common? We don't know how old we are, do we? Yeah. And that's great. How old you are doesn't matter to me. No? No. know how old we are do we yeah and that's great how old you are doesn't matter to me yeah no no i mean i think it's neat that you can live next door and so it's such different ages and in be great great pals yeah that's important i know drinking and podcasting turned into tears i'm gonna go pour myself another drink.
Starting point is 00:23:27 Wait, before we get going, did you try the wine? Yeah, it's good. We talked about it in the beginning. The mystery wine. The mystery wine. What's the mystery wine, do you think? It's good. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:23:35 I'm going to try it, though. We're going to do a little cheers. Cheers, guys. Cheers, guys. Salud. Cheryl, thank you, guys. Mike, I remember you telling us a story when we moved out here in San Diego about what this bay used to look like and the palm trees and all that. Tell everybody a little story about San Diego.
Starting point is 00:23:53 San Diego went through, like today you'd say is a facelift. It was sagebrush. We talked about the jackrabbits and that kind of thing. We talked about the jackrabbits and that kind of thing. Mission Bay was kind of just tidal flats and sand dunes. Where we live today, where you and I live, you couldn't swim in it because it would be mud or sandbars and then maybe a channel where the water came in and another sandbar. It was just stingrays and,
Starting point is 00:24:29 and, uh, and then it wasn't flat and beautiful beach. Like it is. This is all rebuilt. This is all redone. When they built mission Bay, they dredged all of this back here and created Mission Bay and created all the property.
Starting point is 00:24:46 It was more of a slough and kind of a stinky area. It was the swampland of San Diego. Yes, it was. And now it's my dream. And nobody really. Now it's our dream to live here. I'm going to cry. I love this place so much.
Starting point is 00:25:02 No. God. Someone messaged me today they were like congratulating me on moving from san diego back to la full-time because i think people think we like bought our condo in la and they're like oh my god congratulations you're finally moving and i'm like no like i'm really sad to move and someone messaged me today and she goes wow it must be bittersweet right and i was like no no, just bitter. I love this place so much.
Starting point is 00:25:28 It's just bitter. I'm happy you enjoy it. Yeah. Well, you know, wherever you live, part of it's who you live with and who you live around. And that's the thing. We have the best neighbors we live next to. Like, we want to buy this house when it comes up for sale because we're joined at a wall and build a rooftop deck and have this whole
Starting point is 00:25:47 place here. Look at the neighbors on the other side. They're awesome too. Yes, they're wonderful people. I love this whole strip. I have made friends with so many people who live here. You're something like one of those down there. What? You're not
Starting point is 00:26:04 as invisible as you think you are down here yeah well i don't know the lady who's that lady with the baby oh she's the one on vanderpump oh i gotta lie honey you're a bit of a little local celebrity when i walk past yeah oh yeah what place when we walk past beachcombers and No. Our locals love you. No one says anything. Oh yeah, no, they know who you are. You're the husband of Sheena, right? Yep, that's my name. You're the husband of Sheena? Oh my
Starting point is 00:26:36 God, claim to fame. The husband of Sheena. I've known around the local area, it was like, oh, you're married to Sheena. I'm like, yep, that's me, the hubby. That's true. My forever Sheena. I'm like, yeah, that's me, the hubby. I love a doll. It's true. My forever plus one.
Starting point is 00:26:48 I am your forever plus one. But no, I think if I was around in the 50s, I don't know what it would be like because the world we live in today is a little bit different. Honey, hit me with a question. What would you guys, what advice would you give to your younger self? Now having lived through all of these decades,
Starting point is 00:27:11 technology, I mean, having apps on your freaking television when you probably only had a turn dial and like a couple of stations. What advice with all of the knowledge that you have now, would you give to yourself in the 50s oh you've got
Starting point is 00:27:27 with your grandkids what did you what do you tell them to listen to me occasionally uh yeah you know i mean and they do i mean i think they really respect what we've gone through. And I think they really respect right now. I'm writing a, a book for them, which they gave me for Christmas. And every, I think it's every two weeks I write a question out about something that happened to me back then. Yeah. And so at the end of this year, Yeah. And so at the end of this year, they'll have a they'll all have a book about me that what my feelings are about whether it and what my favorite vacation is, and on and on and on. So they're going to know a lot about me that maybe they didn't have a chance to ask me. Wow, I'm going to cry again. I love that. I think it's really good. That is such a great gift to give to your grandkids.
Starting point is 00:28:42 They gave, but they gave me the gift to write. I used to do ads for them on my podcast. It's called Story Worth. So literally when I first heard about this, I did this for my mom and I did this for my dad because you get so many cool stories. But God, I wish my grandparents were still alive to do
Starting point is 00:29:00 that too because I feel like I can still get all those stories from my mom and dad. But it gives you questions and you fill out all the things yeah yeah and there's a way for you to tell both for you to tell them and they could read about that's such a great way to transfer the story the meaning of the message mike and cheryl's name appears in my i've done a lot of things with them. Mike, how many presidents of the United States have you met?
Starting point is 00:29:30 We've had dinner with what? Three? Three? Yeah, three. Wait, you didn't know? No, I knew two. I didn't know three. That's what I'm asking.
Starting point is 00:29:42 Two Bushes and no, I guess it's only two. But don't you have a photo with JFK? No. Yes. You know, when I left, I was a lifeguard when my first child was born. And long story short, I ended up back at San Diego State working there. And I had a faculty job.
Starting point is 00:30:04 And JFK came to speak. Yeah. And my boss was in charge. I had a faculty job and my boss was in charge of the seating. When we got 5,000, we got all the seniors down on the floor. There was no seats for us. Yeah. He just walked over, picked up four folding chairs that were against the wall, put them
Starting point is 00:30:24 down and started a brand new row. And so we were in the front row while Kennedy was speaking. And I, the only picture of it I'd ever seen was what me standing up from the back. You could tell I was taller than the people next to him, but you couldn't tell it was me. I bought him a book. The history of san diego a book really it was a gift for a friend and i'm looking through it page by page and one of the faculty
Starting point is 00:30:52 members had taken a picture of kennedy from behind him towards the audience and i looked and there that's me i said wait a minute that's me there's me there's kennedy and there's me i now i remember so i put that on my phone just i feel like you guys have seen so many famous interesting legend iconic people back in the day who would you say in person is the most iconic human you've ever encountered even if you didn't interact with them just like saw in person well i used to go to a lot of laker games uh magic johnson you know i was in the bar with him after the game yeah okay preic johnson like back in the day someone who is no longer with us who is the coolest person you ever were in the same room as
Starting point is 00:31:54 if i was dead mike would say me and vice all right mike same question because i know you've seen elvis you've seen presidents you've seen Elvis. You've seen presidents. You've seen JFK. You've been in the presence of some very legendary, iconic people in this country and I'm sure out of this country. So who is the coolest person you've ever encountered? You don't have to say me, Mike, because I don't want to hurt Bob's feeling. OK, we're going to try and stick around with him a little bit longer. Other than Bob.
Starting point is 00:32:27 I think, you know, I guess I'm stumbling around. My wife and I had the privilege of sitting, having dinner one night. Oh, yeah, I remember this. With General Norman Schwarzkopf and President H.W. Bush. General Norman Schwarzkopf and President H.W. Bush. And the seating went Cheryl, President Bush, me, General Schwarzkopf. And there were others at the table. Wow. I happened to be president of the group, so I was in the middle of it all
Starting point is 00:33:01 and stayed the whole night. And people kept saying, what is your wife talking to the President of it all, and stayed the whole night. And people kept saying, what is your wife talking to the President of the United States about? What? What were you talking to Mr. Bush about, huh? What were you chatting with Mr. Bush? We were actually talking about inaugural gowns. The inauguration was coming up for his son.
Starting point is 00:33:30 Yes, and the grandkids jenna bush and you knew their names and he wanted to talk about his kids whoever asked the president united states about his kids you know they asked him about sheryl rogers does she knew all their names and he was fascinated oh my god i love that and and he said to her who's gonna talk to mr bush back in the day and just be like hi i don't think what's your wife wearing to the bowl i i don't know what they were talking about but the next year he i i ran into him again and i said president bush you must meet a half a million people a year you shake hands with. And he said, yeah, probably so. I said, so you're very kind and you're saying hi, Mike, but you don't really remember me.
Starting point is 00:34:20 And he said, Mike, your wife had abdominal surgery and I had hip surgery. Yeah. He said, I told her I'd show her my scarf. You'd show me, she'd show me hers. hers and i said he did say that to her oh my gosh look at that show you made an impact on the big man wow that's crazy that's that's that's cheryl's just listening to these boys talk about their cool stories knowing he's brought up with Jay Bush. After one dinner, he remembered her priceless. Wow.
Starting point is 00:34:48 She was going to show him her scar. Well, Mike, do we have any final thoughts you'd like to leave the listeners with? Yeah, there's something I've always kind of wanted to say. I've, when I met you, I didn't know you were on a show, didn't care.
Starting point is 00:35:10 Yeah. Loved Brock the minute I saw him at Big Hunk. We just, he and I hit it off immediately. You and I slowly got to know each other better and better and better to the point where I didn't want to see you leave. And I'd gone through a surgery. You guys were there with my wife, helped her every bit of the way. And then I started realizing that people commented on these things. As I told you, I don't want to do a podcast. And Bob, and I ducked out of this a lot of times, but with Bob here, I couldn't get out of it.
Starting point is 00:35:48 but with Bob here, I couldn't get out of it. No, but I take just the opportunity to say to the people that get negative about this. These are two wonderful people that get judged for everything they say in a negative way. A lot of positive people. Thank you. But the negative people, you don't really know the people you're talking to. These are two really wonderful people who are trying their very best to live their best life. I read some of the comments about Brock and his kids. I know the whole story. This is a fine man that's doing everything he can do to make a new life, has a new wife, a new child, trying to take care of any wreckage of the past without making more. Not easy. Anybody that's been through a divorce will understand immediately. Those that you haven't, I hope you never do. It's awful.
Starting point is 00:36:42 But he's a good man and with a good heart and he loves his wife and kid. And Sheena, you are absolutely a sweetheart and people that want to judge you, um, says somewhere in the Bible, judge not lest you be judged. Yeah. Yeah. I'd kind of like to put that verse out because, uh, I'm going to miss you like mad. I know. You're making me cry again. It has been literally the best, and we'll still be back. We're just going to be in your guest room instead of our house.
Starting point is 00:37:13 Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. No, no, no. You're always welcome until I'm not here anymore. Yeah. Then you're probably more welcome because there'll be some extra room. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:21 Well, your mom lived to be how old? 105. Yeah. So we've got at least lived to be how old? 105. Yeah. So we've got at least another 20 years. Okay. But thank you. I didn't want to do this, as you know. I know.
Starting point is 00:37:32 But it was more fun than I thought. Because once you start me talking, you can't shut me up. Yeah. No. I had the best time having you guys on, hearing all your stories from the 50s. This was something I've been wanting to do for so long. So thank you so much for getting into some shenanigans with me. I love you too. Thank you guys so much for listening. Okay. Bye.
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