george lindsey

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Host: Allan Newsome
Running time: 0:32:55

I’ve been going through my archives here at Two Chairs headquarters and finding things I believe you’d like to hear about. The one that stuck out to me this week was an article by David Hamburg that appeared in the March/April 1996 issue of the “Baldwin County Current“. The article is titled “Will the Real George Lindsey Please Stand Up?”

Over the years I think I’ve done more episodes of this podcast about George “Goober” Lindsey than any other cast member. He was featured on the very first episode of Two Chairs and I think the reason he’s been the focus so often it because I was lucky enough to get to know him a bit better than some of the other cast members.

Bonus: This week’s installment of This Week in Mayberry History by Randy Turner featuring George Petrie part 2.

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Host: Allan Newsome
Running time: 0:22:26

December 17, 2018 would have been George Lindsey’s 90th birthday so it is only fitting that we take an episode to say “Happy Birthday” to Goober himself. We start the episode with Randy Turner’s installment of This Week in Mayberry History featuring “George Lindsey” and then I’ll share a few memories of my own.

Bonus: This week’s installment of This Week in Mayberry History by Randy Turner featuring “George Linsey.”

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Host: Allan Newsome
Running time: 0:22:43

May 6, 2017 was the 5th anniversary of the passing of George “Goober” Lindsey. Mayberry fans know George in his persona of Goober Pyle but how many know the “real” George Linsdey.

George always found time to support good causes and the cause closest to his heart was Special Olympics. His annual George Lindsey Celebrity Golf Weekend raised over $1,000,000 for Alabama Special Olympics from 1973 to 1988.

On the 20th of April 1986, the 14th Annual George Lindsey Celebrity Benefit was held at Arrowhead country club and a friend of mine, Rob, was in attendance as a volunteer. As fate would have it, Rob presented me with the program from that event one day after the anniversary of George’s passing.

Who is the “Real” George Lindsey is on page 17 and this episode we’ll learn the answer to the question together.

Bonus:  This week’s installment of This Week in Mayberry History by Randy Turner featuring Jerry Van Dyke.

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Host: Allan Newsome
Running time: 0:26:43

The 20th Annual George Lindsey UNA Film Festival is coming up and I want to take this episode to tell you about this amazing event our Mayberry friend, George, was so instrumental in creating.  For 20 years young film makers have been given an amazing opportunity to learn from and be a part of this wonderful film festival.  Mayberry the next Ron Howard will have directed his first film or drew inspiration from this event that was so near to George’s heart.

Bonus:  This week in Mayberry History.

 

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Host: Allan Newsome
Running time: 0:25:35

The week this episode originally aired, it was Thanksgiving week in America.  I guess that had me focused on things I’m thankful for and one of those was the time I was able to spend with George “Goober” Lindsey from The Andy Griffith Show.

The first four episodes of Two Chairs No Waiting consisted of an interview I did with George in 1998 that was broken into four parts in order to keep the episode length as short as possible.  Over time the podcast has grown in length and I’ve always wanted to take those four parts and make them one seamless interview with George.  What you’re about to hear is just that.

This interview was my very first one ever. It was recorded in 1998 in Jim Clark’s (the Presiding Goober of The Andy Griffith Show Rerun Watchers Club) living room in Nashville, TN.  Present in the room were George Lindsey, Jim Clark, Kenneth Junkin, Jan Newsome, and myself.

As I said, this interview was the first time I’d ever “tried” to interview anyone and it was 10 years before I started this podcast.  I had NO idea what I was doing so you may notice that George is basically asking himself questions. He was wonderful.  I can’t thank him enough for helping me learn about being prepared. You will hear me piping in from time to time and you’ll hear Jim Clark answering questions in the background.

Some of what George discusses:

* His time on TAGS and Mayberry RFD.
* Reflections about fellow cast members.
* Howard McNear, Floyd Lawson, comments.
* Goober mannerisms, where they came from.
* Goober’s hat and where did that idea come from.
* Pen’s and stuff in his pockets.
* No real pranks on the set.
* Other areas of his carrier other than TAGS.
* He taught school in Hazel Green, AL for one year.
* The requirement to know your lines and being on-time were things Andy expected.
* Andy threw “Goober” in the lake.
* George Lindsey Film Festival.

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Host: Allan Newsome
Running time: 0:18:56

Welcome to the conclusion of our visit with George “Goober” Lindsey from  1990 University of North Alabama (UNA) homecoming game. If you haven’t already heard last weeks episode, head over to episode 247 and give it a listen then come on back here.

As I mentioned last week, George “Goober” Lindsey attended UNA back when it was known as Florence State Teachers College.  As a result “Goober” was at UNA for their homecoming game back in 1990 against Tennessee-Martin.  UNA eventually won the game 49-0 so, as you might expect, the play-by-play folks on the radio were struggling to find things to talk about to make the game interesting. In stepped George Lindsey and for the 3rd quarter announcer Jerry Knight was joined by “Goober” for commentary.

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