In January 2014 I received an e-mail that changed things for me. It was from this weeks guest, Cody Ray DesBiens. At the time he sent the e-mail, he was 19 years old and he said he was a “HUGE Andy Griffith Show fan” who watched episodes every night with his mom. That wasn’t the part that impacted me, though I was glad to hear a fairly young man was a Mayberry fan. What got me was that Cody had been diagnosed with a chronic type of Leukemia in October 2011.
He went through chemo and eventually needed a bone marrow and stem cell transplant. He was in the hospital for a long time and needed something to keep his mind off the pain and sickness. It was then that he came across the YouTube version of this podcast.
The thing that hit me was him saying that Two Chairs No Waiting helped him keep his mind off things. Wow…I was, and am, humbled by that and I’ve been wanting to have him as a quest ever since and FINALLY had a chance just last week.
I know you’re going to enjoy hearing Cody’s story directly from him LIVE from the IHOP.
We’ll hear this weeks installment of “Returning to Mayberry” by SpiritWalker that he’s calling “Chunkin’ Rocks.”
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This past weekend on May 1, 2022, the MeTV series Collectors Call featured the collection owned by Mike Haviland so I thought it fitting to talk about Mike and how well he represented Mayberry during the show. As such, Mike also worked with MeTV to develop several Mayberry related trivia quizzes with Round One being: “How well do you know Sheriff Andy?“
We’re going to play that trivia. It’s twenty-five questions related to Sheriff Taylor and I know you’ll enjoy playing along.
This episode we have a new installment of This Week in Mayberry History by Randy Turner featuring “Hal Smith” part 1 that I know you’ll enjoy so go ahead and press play so we can get the show on the road.
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I’ve gotten several voice messages from you and I’m so thankful. This episode we’ll hear several messages and I’ll try to answer the questions that are asked. I’m not too sure I know the answers so if you have better answers than I provide, please call in and help me out by correcting my answers.
After we hear from you, we’ll have a little trivia fun.
Finally, we’ll checkout this weeks installment of “Returning to Mayberry” by SpiritWalker called “Andy Dazzler to Bobby Dazzler.”
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Granville, TN has an annual Mayberry/I Love Lucy Day and this years was held on April 9th. The special guest for the event was Keith Thibodeaux, the man who played Opie’s friend “Johnny Paul” as well as “Little Ricky” on I Love Lucy. What a wonderful bridge between the two great television classics.
Episode #295 of Two Chairs that featured Keith and I encourage you to give it a listen because while he does go into a bit of his time on The Andy Griffith Show in the presentation he did in Granville, he talked more about it back in episode 295.
In Granville, Keith shared with us all his experience growing up in the entertainment industry. He talks about how he got his job on I Love Lucy and what that was like. His hits on the fun he had working on The Andy Griffith Show and then moves on to how his life after Mayberry played out. His struggles, reaching out to God, redemption, and joy. You will not want to miss a minute.
Finally, we’ll checkout this weeks installment of “Returning to Mayberry” by SpiritWalker called “Car Men to Guitar Men.”
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I received a question from a listener that I thought was interesting. It was basically, has knowing more about The Andy Griffith Show changed the way your watch episodes? Do you look for blooper/mistakes in the production? Seams in the walls? Wrinkles in the carpet? Folks appearing/disappearing from the background of scenes?
Does knowing more about how the show was made add to your experience when watching or does it take away from the fun? That’s what we’ll try and find out.
We’ll have a few trivia questions to see if you’re keeping your Mayberry skills sharp.
Finally, we’ll checkout this weeks installment of “Returning to Mayberry” by SpiritWalker that he’s calling “SpiritWatcher Connections 1.”
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Please leave comments or ask questions on the TwoChairsNoWaiting.com website or using the contact information given in the podcast. I would love to have you be a part of our next feedback episode. Call the Two Chairs No Waiting Hot-line at (888) 684-8415 and leave a voice mail to be part of the show.
There are so many things going on in the Mayberry world, even after more than 60 years, so I want to take a while to make sure you aren’t missing out on being “in the know.” Thanks to Jim Clark at The Andy Griffith Show Rerun Watchers Club (TAGSRWC) headquarters in Nashville, we fans can always stay informed. The eBullet, the official newsletter of TAGSRWC, has been keeping fans up-to-date for years thanks to Jim.
We’ll have a few trivia questions to see if your Mayberry skills are sharp and then we’ll hear this weeks installment of “Returning to Mayberry” by SpiritWalker where he’ll look into “Main Star to Hotdog Bar.”
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Please leave comments or ask questions on the TwoChairsNoWaiting.com website or using the contact information given in the podcast. I would love to have you be a part of our next feedback episode. Call the Two Chairs No Waiting Hot-line at (888) 684-8415 and leave a voice mail to be part of the show.
We have some fun and thought provoking voice mails to go through on this episode from listeners and viewers of Two Chairs No Waiting. I’m calling this episode community feedback because I really believe we have developed a community of people at are involved with one another with the podcast and, of course, the love of The Andy Griffith Show being what drew them together.
It’s really amazing that a show more than sixty years old is still drawing people together to have fun and become a community. Enjoy these questions and observations from fellow fans and consider taking a minute to call in and add your own voice to our community of Mayberry fans. We’d love to hear from you.
We’ll ask a few Mayberry trivia questions for you to have fun with.
And we’ll hear from SpiritWalker with this week’s installment of “Returning to Mayberry” called, “Doomsayer to Fat Mayor.” Say….that rhymes.
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