Shaun Squad Society
The Shaun Squad Society Podcast is a podcast written, produced and hosted by three women who want to keep the Magic of a Midnight Sky alive!
Cindy, Dorese and Dame became friends at a Shaun Cassidy concert and immediately decided to form "The Shaun Squad." Soon after, the Shaun Squad Society Podcast was conceived to discuss and reminisce about all-things Shaun Cassidy, from his first years as a teen idol to his current career as a writer and producer.
This podcast brings together a community of Shaun's devoted fans, the ones who played his albums non-stop, and who tuned into The Hardy Boys Mysteries every Sunday evening. And now, 46 years later, Shaun's story-telling tour has delighted fans again. So, join us for the stories, fun-facts, and fascinating interviews as we take you down memory lane with our Teen Dream, Shaun Cassidy.
Shaun Squad Society
The Dark Side of Shaun Cassidy
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Are you ready to embark on a thrilling journey beyond the usual teen idol narrative to the more suspenseful and dramatic facets of Shaun Cassidy's work? Brace yourselves as we pull back the curtains on the heart-stopping shows "Invasion," and "American Gothic," that pulled at our heartstrings with its breathtaking moments of authenticity and struggle. Together, let's relive the captivating stories.
Ever wondered how Cassidy's 1980 album 'Wasp' reshaped his image in the new wave scene of the 80s? We stroll down memory lane to discuss the iconic song covers, the revolutionary version of 'Shake Me, Wake Me' and delve deeper into the production intricacies of the album. More intriguingly, we reflect on Shaun's decision to hang up his musical boots after the release of 'Wasp' - a conversation you surely wouldn't want to miss.
As we wind down this riveting episode, we chat about the entertaining content that keeps fans hooked, and their engaging interactions with admirers. This is your chance to join us as we unravel our experiences and stories that underscore our admiration for the works of Shaun Cassidy. This episode is a treasure trove of insights and revelations, so let's dive in!
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We're all the phones out.
Speaker 3Yeah, not one tower held. It's got no electricity or water. Neither. Everything's gone. The governor has declared most of Dayton County a disaster.
Speaker 4Hello ladies, welcome back. What a cloudy day it is. It is so dark, I don't know. I just get a feeling we have a lot of dark stuff to talk about. What about?
Speaker 5you. I think we're going to go and take a little look on the dark side of Sean today.
Speaker 4There's a dark side of all of us, sean, or do you want to say a serious side? You say dark, serious. You know it is serious and it's dramatic. Welcome to the Sean Squad Society Podcast, the podcast for all of us teeny boppers who were head over heels in love with our teen dream, sean Cassidy. We believe that it's time to tell our stories and our words remembering the first time we discovered Sean. Our podcast will feature stories of concerts, memorabilia and everything, sean.
Speaker 4So come along with us on this journey to share the stories that helped us create the Sean Squad Society Podcast with your host, myself, penny Day, madonna, cindy and Doris. You know, when we first started talking about this dark side of Sean, you know I really had trouble wrapping my brain around how my Sean, our Sean, the Sean Cassidy that makes all of us happy All the time, could be dark. And so when Doris introduced me to invasion and American Gothic and we all know about WASP I was like I don't know. And then I am now officially hooked on invasion and getting hooked on American Gothic. And you know, it's not so much dark as it is, it's drama. It's dramatic and it's sci-fi, sci-fi.
Speaker 5It's a little bit. I use the term dark side because it's not as upbeat peppy sunshine as we're used to. It's more the stuff that you were seeing back in the day on the sci-fi channel and a little more, like you said, drama Right. Sean even says he has a dark side.
Speaker 3Russell. I just strive to find authentic moments in all of these shows, because you want people to be brought in, especially if the world is a little bit upside down. You want to feel a ground and something that you can feel connected to. These are two families that have been undone by divorce. They've been remarried, the kids have been shuttled back and forth. They don't know what their ground is. The community doesn't know what its ground is after a hurricane. A species doesn't know what its ground is in the context of our little world.
Speaker 4Right, but I am really excited to share this episode because there's a lot of fans out there who probably don't know about invasion in American Gothic. It is really, really good. Like I said, I am so glad Thank you, doreese because I was on the edge of my seat for like six hours yesterday and meanwhile, as you guys know, I'm texting you like I'm hooked. It does hold your attention, it does it holds your attention. And then, like, I had to stop and rewind because I'm like okay, I got to go back to see if I saw that right and make sure I was like it gives you a lot of information.
Speaker 6In the beginning it does Like it throws things at you.
Invasion TV Show and Hurricane Katrina
Speaker 5Yeah, it does, they're giving you a lot of stuff. Invasion. Invasion to me had a. It got the short end of the stick because it came out in September 2005.
Speaker 4Yes, it did.
Speaker 5Well, we all know that in August 2005, there was a hurricane Katrina and major one it was devastating. It took out New Orleans, basically. So to come out with a TV show. Sean just had this show all written and ready to go. How was he to know there was going to be a hurricane? Invasion is about a hurricane and the aftermath of this hurricane.
Speaker 6Yeah, and ABC pulled the early air on air promotions because of it.
Speaker 4Well, exactly, but after watching you know, the first six episodes of the 22 episodes of this. I can respect that because you know just the similarities of it and the fears that I could see the families and the people from Katrina could have had because of the show. Right, you know, but also the show I think aired after lost, am I correct? Right so? But we'll get into that a little bit in in the podcast. But, doris, did you have something you wanted to share with us before we move on?
Speaker 5I think we should just go right into talking about invasion.
Speaker 6Yeah, I was going to say the network switched their advertising to the alien invasion instead of focusing on the hurricane. Then Right, so they did a little bit adjusting, right.
Speaker 4And you know me, I always like to talk about the star study cast of everything.
Speaker 6Oh yeah.
Speaker 4One of my favorites, who played in New Amsterdam, tyler. Labine or or Labine whatever he actually plays in this, and he is excellent. I mean, he was the um you mentioned.
Speaker 6You have a cool dude in this one kind of a.
Speaker 4Yeah, he was like unemployed. He used to rebel. Yeah, um, he liked to drink, you know, like needed his beer but did consider it but did construction. He was really cool. He believed in aliens? I believe he did, he did. And you know, during the hurricane, all of a sudden there's these lights that you know fell out of the sky, that everybody saw, and well, there was an airplane crash, like even in the in the sky. There was all these lights in the airplane crash. But then all these lights that were falling out of the sky, it was into the swamp or the. It was a swamp, a swamp, yeah, but then people were falling into it and then they were being washed up or something, or walking out of it.
Speaker 6Yeah, it was just really weird because they looked the same when they came out, yeah, but they were different on the inside, yeah, the story told was told, that of the aftermath of a hurricane in which the water based creatures infiltrate a small Florida town and begin to take over the bodies of the town's inhabitants through a cloning process. Yes, yep, I think William Fickner, yes, played Sheriff Tom Underlay.
Speaker 4You know, with this series of invasion, you know it's just really horrible that it coincided with Katrina, because this episode or this not episode, but this series invasion is so good, it was so good.
Speaker 6I mean the drama.
Speaker 4I just can't stop saying how good it was and I'm so glad Doris brought it to my attention. Moving on with some things about invasion, and I'm going to say one more time if you haven't watched it, you need to watch it. But invasion received critical acclaim, with the performances of the cast, writing and musical score being singled out for praise. The series was officially canceled May 17th 2006.
Speaker 5Now Penny did you just say the writing and the cast and the musical score, all of that was critically acclaimed. Yes, so this show was well received by the critics.
Speaker 4Yes, it was, yes, it was.
Speaker 5Sometimes cult classics, as this is called, is. The people love it, but the critics are like eh.
Speaker 6Yes, everybody liked it. Everybody liked it yeah.
Speaker 4Yes, it says. Since then, the show has appeared in numerous lists of shows that were canceled too soon, including lists by Entertainment Weekly and the Huffington Post. Now, the show was originally conceived for five seasons. Yeah, five seasons, yeah, five.
Speaker 6It's too bad. They can't continue it now. Why can't you?
Speaker 4Well, here's what I was thinking there's only one season With the writer strike and this show was so well written and thought of. You know, same thing with we're going to talk about here in a few minutes American Gothic again, another. Well, they were both together. You know why can't they bring back these shows Exactly we do with other shows, right, right, I mean why not, we should write to the network and tell them you know there's so many streaming services today that put on shows, you don't have to worry about your networks that we grew up with.
Speaker 5You know, you're is anybody can pick it up. Anybody can show American Gothic and invasion.
Speaker 4Can't even see enough about this show that all the actors in it and Tyler we got.
Speaker 5We just talked a little bit that Tyler was in it and he went on later to work with Sean and and new answer to him New Amsterdam. There was another actor in this show and it helped me with his name, but he went on later to be in that TV series, mom, about the alcoholic group of friends. Oh yeah, and they were all alcoholics. I can say it out loud, because that's what they were, they were yes, well, he came in later as the boyfriend in the wheelchair.
Speaker 4Yeah, yeah, oh, my god, I love Timon that show as well, oh, you didn't watch mom. William Fitchner? Yes, yeah, he actually. They were all recovering but he would still drink and it would be like he would be like having his beers and everything.
Speaker 5Yeah, this beer you know he was like don't be turning my bar into a juice bar, oh yeah, coffee bar.
Speaker 4Yeah, but he played the sheriff in this episode. But yeah, he was great he did a great job.
Speaker 6There was an 80% approval rating for this show too. Oh yeah that's high. Yeah, that was really really high, yeah, so everything about it was great. It was the timing it was the timing.
Speaker 4Well and it even said one of the problems was it followed lost Right, and lost was so intense. So I think lost was maybe on from eight to nine, probably, and maybe this was on nine to ten, and this is um central time, yeah, you know. So back to back and the hurricane, and then the hurricane. The hurricane is really right.
Speaker 5It was like how did Sean know to write a show about hurricane?
Speaker 4Maybe he's got a little bit of a predict, you know. I was thinking seriously, cindy, I just like how. How would he know some of these things were happening? Remember, in very coincidental Yep, there's an invasion.
Speaker 5I think there's a whole episode about an epidemic. Yes, that does take over kind of well, we all know.
Speaker 4Well we just came out of one we all know yeah.
Speaker 5Yes, there's dark side of Sean.
Speaker 4But then the sheriff you know when this epidemic was was going on, people were getting sick and they had a quarantine and do all this stuff. But they tracked down where it finally came from and they went to where the guy was in the trailer and he's like don't come in here. And you know, like he knew he was the one that was spreading it, but he's like I never got sick. I never got sick. I don't know why I never got sick. So the sheriff told the two guys he was with to leave, and then he walked in and the guy's like don't come in here, you know. And he goes don't worry, I won't get sick either. Oh, so Spoiler alert, but I. But then it went off and I, that's why I just, you know, I already spent like eight hours watching it yesterday. But but yeah, I mean it. There's so much, so much that from this hurricane, these people and these aliens are in the water, which I never even thought of before.
Speaker 6Oh my god, I know.
Speaker 5concept is that I know, I know you guys know how I always have a confession oh dear.
Speaker 4No, no, no, no, no. We're gonna have to just include this every week, every week Darius's confession. Yeah, hang on, darius. Let me guess what the plot of your confession. Are you an alien? No, can you speak to aliens.
Speaker 5I don't hear aliens, I can't speak to aliens. I'm not an alien whisperer.
Speaker 4Oh, that was my next one. No, are you psychic?
Speaker 5Well, that's a whole difference topic and we don't want to scare our Maybe.
Speaker 4Shawn is. Well, I'm really thinking, shawn has something, something.
Speaker 6Yeah, something's going on.
Speaker 5Yeah, well, 2005 so we all know, and that I love all things Cassidy, as all of us do. Well, in 2005, patrick Cassidy came to Chicago to star in the musical Joseph and his amazing Technicolor Drinco, also known as Joseph. So I went, I thought David in that one. Yeah, that was a good production of it too.
Speaker 4Wait a minute. Shawn and David both played in that. No, patrick and David. Oh, patrick and David.
Speaker 5And this is in 2005, after Donnie Osmond did a long run in Chicago in Joseph. Donnie Osmond put Chicago and Joseph back on the map. But Patrick came in 05 right after the Chicago White Sots hit one of the world series oh right. And my sister and I went downtown and waited outside the theater door because there were two shows. It was a Sunday and they had an early show and a later show and we waited outside the back door for Patrick to come back and go in for the second show. Well, the stage in was like what are you? It's November now and they're like what are you doing? Out here? It's freezing cold and we're like we're waiting for Patrick. Come back, bring the sympathy on. And they said come inside, you're gonna freeze out here. We go inside and we stand around. Patrick comes back.
Speaker 520 minutes before curtain time. Patrick walks in and we're like he's in all makeup and we're like don't you have a show to do? And he stands there and talks to us for a couple of minutes and he asks us to come back after the show. So we go backstage after the show. We meet his son, who was just a little boy at the time. Now he's a big romance, jack albums and everything or cold Jackassity. And I looked right at Jack and I'm like man, you are a Cassidy. He looked just like Patrick. His wife was there. Well, here's the confession. I looked at Patrick and I said Patrick, please tell Sean to pick it up. He goes, what do you mean? I said invasion, it's gonna get canceled. It's going too slow. Please tell him to just pick up the pace a little bit. And then, right after that, pretty much.
Speaker 4Oh, you know, I haven't got to the part where it gets slow, I mean right now to me. Yeah, I'm still on the edge of my sea and still loving it.
Speaker 5It was a great show, but somewhere along the way I was starting to drift away from it. I don't know what happened.
Speaker 6Well, none of the critics said anything about that, nothing. Well, that shows that.
Speaker 5I'm not a critic, I don't know what I'm talking about, but that was my confession of meeting Patrick Cassidy and telling him to tell his brother to pick his show piece up, so maybe Patrick forgot to tell him.
Speaker 4I don't know. That's a great story. That is a great story, but I got something else here. It says the show was nominated on the 32nd Saturn Awards for Best Network TV Series and Best Television Actor for William Fetcher. It has been included in many Gone Too Soon lists and the independent web critic critics at large. The show was reviewed as a lost treasure and 2022 invasion was reviewed as one of the best alien invasion TV show to binge.
Speaker 6There you have interviews I've listened to. They have also the same thing the unanimous are correct.
Speaker 5Yeah, it's unanimous.
Speaker 4The Reese was wrong and the critics know exactly what to say, I mean it goes on and on and on, and seriously, I'm so glad we found Sean Cassidy again.
Speaker 6Oh, those. Go back to see things he made that I missed. Yeah, there are so many. I grew up and did my own thing so I wasn't really following all this Right. I didn't know he was making these shows Right. So to go back is interesting, kind of like we missed 40 years of Sean.
Speaker 4Well, now we're catching up, yep, now we're catching up with the podcast. We want to know everything. Everything.
Speaker 5Well, what are the guest star or other stars? We're an invasion that we didn't know or we forgot maybe.
Speaker 6Oh, I love Eddie Sibrian. He's cute yeah.
Speaker 5Which one? Who did he play Cindy he?
Speaker 6played Russell Varen.
Speaker 4Yes, he was Russell. Oh, my God.
Speaker 6He is so very cute in it.
Speaker 4So cute. Yes, well, you know, carrie Matchett, dr Muriel Utterly, machette, machette, machette, machette, maybe. Yeah, she kind of reminded me of Sean's wife, tracy. Yes, yes, I thought that too when I was watching. Yeah, she looks like Tracy, yeah, with that thin blonde hair, you know, and that little skinny pony tail she had. Another show was Caleb's. So, look, these shows are connected. Yeah, yeah, but not only that. There was a couple of times she'd turn around and do something and I'd be like Katie Cassidy there. Oh, you know, like I would get kind of a mixed feeling of those two and Interesting, yeah, and then then again go ahead, doris.
Speaker 5We talked a little bit. The Tyler Labrion line is in it.
Speaker 4Yeah, I was going to go back to that.
Speaker 5Yes.
Speaker 4I love him, I seriously love him and I love his character here. I mean he was kind of like Spacey a little bit, you know, and the uncle yeah, but he was such a good guy, he was, and you know, willing to help and everybody liked him and the kids really looked up to him. I mean he, his character was so good, so good.
American Gothic and Lucas Black Discussion
Speaker 4And he got attacked by an alien and he believed in it and what did he call him EPEs or extra. I can't even remember extra something, you know, I don't know. It was different because he had the step niece, which was a rose, ariel Gade, as Rose Barron, and she said she saw the lights falling out of the sky and they went into the swamp and so they took the swamp boat out and she's like it was right there and so he goes looking and that's when he sees the skeleton, so he takes her back and then he goes back out later at night and he gets it and his beat up white and I swear it was a Chevy Nova, because I had one, oh God, my mom had a white Chevy Nova. So that's when he then goes back and has Russell look at it, you know, but he was like it's an alien.
Speaker 5He had a great role in it. He did I mean, and that's why Sean asked him to come back. I think for New Amsterdam, such a good actor. Such a good actor, he does a great job, and shouldn't we wish him well. Is he better now, didn't he? He is have seen some postings. Yeah, so happy. Tyler is a lot better yeah.
Speaker 6He was at a show back when he was on Invasion and he said to them that there was quite a huge following by the time we got canceled with Invasion. He says it was just the networks didn't like it at all, but he said he praised Sean Castee's writing, calling him a mad genius.
Speaker 4Seriously, before I even read that I wrote this is genius. I mean, I can't even say enough about it, but anyway.
Speaker 5Genius is the word that I use to describe American God.
Speaker 4Well, I was going to say Doris, I was thinking, could he even be more of a genius? And then American Gothic comes to mind.
Speaker 5Right. American Gothic preceded Invasion. But can I just say, of all of Sean Castee's television work, american Gothic is my all time 100 percent absolute favorite.
Speaker 6I did like that one more than this one.
Speaker 5American Gothic.
Speaker 6Yeah.
Speaker 5So let's talk a little bit about it, shall we?
Speaker 2American Gothic is very scary, very scary too, and it is a bit twisted. I'm proud to say and give us a bit of a plot overview here, it's basically a classic battle between good and evil. You've got this southern sheriff, who's evil incarnate. He's got all kinds of supernatural stuff going on and he's fighting to get hold of this little boy who has powers of his own that we'll find out about as a series progresses. Oh wait, may I say that that little boy is incredible.
Speaker 3Yeah, he's great.
Speaker 2There's Lucas Black. He'd done a little movie called the War with Kevin Costner and as a result of that he got our show and he's sensational.
Speaker 5American Gothic stars Gary Cole and Lucas Black. So we'll start with that. Gary Cole I fell in love with Gary Cole way back in the 90s, maybe late 80s.
Speaker 3I like him too.
Speaker 5He was in a TV show called Midnight Caller, which was about an ex cop who accidentally killed his partner. He went on to become a talk radio show host. That was on late night Late night talk radio. Before podcasting came along, there was a radio. Yeah, people were listening and calling in. So Gary Cole was in that show and I really loved them in it. And then there's Lucas Black that kid. That kid is just when he was in American Gothic I was, I would get chills. I'm like he's such a good in there. And he went on after American Gothic. He was in Sling Blade starring Billy Bob Thornton and John Ritter, and Cindy just showed me an autograph. She has a John Ritter and I'm pretty darn jealous.
Speaker 5I got that in a music park by my house. But Billy Bob John Ritter is about a guy that gets released from a mental hospital and the kid oh my goodness, lucas Black was so good and when I watched the movie I'm like, hey, that's the kid from American Gothic and he was just as good. I was just recently watching American Gothic on DVD and I was listening to one of the extras. You know they put at the end of the extras and Sean was talking to the producer and they were talking about the episode and Sean said Lucas Black is the best child actor. Oh I read that.
Speaker 6Yeah, he did, I agree.
Speaker 5And then he went on to mention Sling Blade, which was coming out and hadn't been released yet. He's like you need to see him in this Sling Blade or it just come out. Yeah, yeah, it had just come out. It was such an amazing cast, but the show itself was so good. It takes place in fictional Trinity, alabama, and there's the sheriff buck. Sheriff fuck was the devil. There's some Now don't start writing in. There's some debate. Was he the devil or was he just kind of a minion of the devil?
Speaker 4I'm going with he was saying he was supposedly reincarnated from the devil. He might have been.
Speaker 6Yeah the devil, who would want him in your town? Oh, he ran that town.
Speaker 5He and everybody who needed any of everything got it from Sheriff buck, but then you owed him.
Speaker 6Oh yeah, Sometimes your life.
Speaker 5Oh my gosh. But you know what Caleb? Caleb Temple had a sister, Merlin Temple, who saw sheriff buck rape her mother, and that's how Caleb was conceived.
Speaker 6And that was Sarah Paulson, right? I think she's.
Speaker 5That was her first role, correct, her first role, yeah yeah. And when she saw Sheriff buck rape her mother and that's how Caleb was conceived she kind of went a little bit crazy. Someone's at the door, someone's at the door, someone's at the door, I'm not going to give away everything. She dies and she becomes Caleb's watcher. She, because bulk, is after Caleb, he wants his son. Caleb's mom is dead too Right, his mom is dead because she jumped out of a window, because she was raped by Sheriff buck.
Speaker 6Yeah, she didn't like that very much.
Speaker 5So she gives birth to Caleb and she decides I'm out. And she takes a little leap out of the window and buck then decides he's taking his son. Well, merlin will not have it. Merlin and his cousin, out of nowhere, comes back from nowhere and the ghost of Merlin and his cousin are watching over Caleb. And then there's a doc. Oh yeah, the doctor is the only other person in the town that decides buck is not going to take over.
Speaker 6Right, he's trying to defend the kid, yep.
Speaker 5Yes, well, that doctor, the guy that plays the doctor, did you know he's British?
Speaker 6Oh, really, yeah, it's always interesting to find that out when they're in a show and they're talking an American accent.
Speaker 5Yes, he does, and it was an episode at one point where Caleb and his little Southern boy, atzit, calls him a Yankee, a Yankee, and he's laughing because the guy is really British. So he's the guy that you guys watch a show with. It was called Medium and it happens.
Speaker 4Yes, yes.
Speaker 5It was such a good TV show, yes, loved that show. Well, he was her husband. So, that's the premise of American Gothic. But Lucas Black was so good and Gary Cole? He has a tie to Chicago, he was from here.
Speaker 6Right, it's Park Ridge. I think I was going to say Park Ridge, really close.
Speaker 5Yep, park Ridge, illinois, shout out. And the whole show I think could have lasted five, six, seven seasons if it was on today. But it has a great cult following. That American Gothic just people go crazy for it, right. And Lucas Buck, that's Buck with a, b, that's right.
Speaker 3That's Sheriff Lucas Buck. That's Buck with a B.
Speaker 5Probably one of my favorite lines ever heard.
Speaker 6Yeah he says say that.
Speaker 5It's just a great show. I say, if you've never seen it, you should watch it. I benched it the other day and I couldn't turn it off. It was three in the morning and I'm not watching Invasion. Wow, I could not stop. Well, I mean American.
Speaker 6Gothic, you mean American.
Speaker 4Gothic? No, they're both. They're both like Sid, like I said, they catch your attention. Yeah, you know, because you want to know, like what is Sheriff Buck is going to do next. But speak of Lucas Black, you know. 1997, young Star Awards nominated best performance by a young actor in a drama series. I mean how awesome, Awesome.
Speaker 5He grew up and he went on NCIS in New Orleans. Yes, he's such a good actor he is. I don't know the rest of the cast because I'm just an awe with Gary Cole and Lucas, but they were to me some of the finest actors of that day, and Sean actually was going to work with Gary Cole again and he teased us with it a little bit but the series didn't get picked up by the network. Hey, what's?
Speaker 4wrong with that? Go ahead.
Speaker 5He wrote about it on some of his Facebook posts and some of his and it was a series and I think it has something to do with rodeo or something.
Speaker 4Oh yeah, yeah, that was last summer, yes, and it was last summer. It really wanted to those looking forward to that. Yeah, and I mean I don't know why, because he wrote it. So we get picked up because New Amsterdam was being canceled. Right, yeah, this was going to start, yeah, and he would like send pictures of his cowboy boots or his hat.
Speaker 6What if he just told the network that his fans would have all followed it? It would have been successful.
Speaker 4I'm sure they would have, but now it could have been one of those things that could be on TV Right, kind of like, you know, sean Cassidy could be on every you know show every night. Yeah, because of all of this. But anyway, guest starring Okay, guest starring John Benny's B-E-N-N-E-S, is that how?
Speaker 3you just say it.
Speaker 4Dennis, dennis, okay, okay, doreese, yes, penny, yeah, reverend that priest, I don't trust him. Oh, oh he is. I think he is like the devil also.
Speaker 6Yes, he's the father of Well. He's a priest Don't wait a bit but he's a father of one of the well.
Speaker 5I think show is he right because but the teacher I only saw that's the teachers, rather than the teacher Sleeps with the devil, literally she's, she's his girlfriend, she's box little. Oh that one yeah.
Speaker 4Yeah that. So tell me you want to be, tell me about that priest. I mean, oh, penny, I'm gonna finish watching it.
Speaker 5I promise you're watching it out of order. I'm watching it in order and I haven't gotten I haven't revisited those episodes yet.
Speaker 4Oh, I just, I just I want to. When he, when he looks into the the camera on TV and he has that little smile and the way he's, he's devious and like in the grocery store when he's getting bucks, wife the doctor, wait now both. But not that book, not book the doctor the doctor doesn't have a wife. The female. The female there's that there's.
Speaker 5There's the teacher, miss Coons. That's, that's Caleb's teacher. Okay, hold on. Then there's a one of cousin who comes back.
Speaker 6She's the brunette? Yes, but who's the one that sat at the table with him when he cut his finger, when Caleb teacher. Yes, but I think that lady is the daughter of the priest.
Speaker 5Maybe that's miss Coons. I haven't gotten it yet, but miss Coons could be the daughter of the priest.
Speaker 4And I think she is maybe that's what I'm thinking of the daughter of the priest because she is Caleb's teacher and she's on the side of bucks.
Speaker 5She runs around, does all this little work for bucks. Yes, she promiscuous, or yes, yeah, she's a buck has a deputy and this company saw buck kill Merlin. Yes, and he's holding that over the deputy. Oh, and the guy sleeps with miss Coons and buck sleeps with miss Coons, but buck is like just really torturing this poor deputy.
Speaker 5Yeah, so I him on a psych psychiatric couch or something, yeah, and I think he doesn't know what to do with it, and every time he tries to like get it off his chest with buck, like that's wrong what you did, but cancel. Let it be known if you mess with me, you're not gonna come out of this, okay.
Speaker 6Yeah, so I wouldn't mind living in town. No.
Speaker 5No buck runs the whole town. If you do something, if you get anything good, believe me, you're a sheriff bucks, that cuz he's the one that got it for you.
Speaker 6Yeah, I wish I would have known how it ended.
Speaker 4Well, I will probably bite the end of tomorrow night.
Speaker 6Well, but that's only episode one, like I'm sure they did planned other.
Speaker 4See other episodes or oh, yeah, yeah, you mean, if it, if it got the five, yeah, if you had to five or whatever.
Speaker 6Yeah, cuz a lot of times this is the first season, so things at the end are left undone, yeah on the DVD collection.
Speaker 5I haven't gotten to it yet. I'm doing it in order, but it says there are two Episodes that never aired. So I'm waiting for those. Yeah, I can't wait to watch those too.
Speaker 6Yeah, it's just too bad. They got canceled right away, I mean, and they're good shows. I feel bad for Sean because this could have been something great. I think it was long put all that work in it, you know, long before streaming came alone. Yeah.
Speaker 5The people are more open to all kinds of TV and stuff now because you can see everything you can anywhere.
Speaker 4Well, maybe yeah, maybe we should campaign for these things that come out.
Shaun Cassidy's "Wasp" album
Speaker 6I know anyway.
Speaker 4Speak of endings, something else that took Sean to an end. Yeah, the stinger, what stinger, the stinger of the album the stinger of his album.
Speaker 6Oh my gosh, wasp, wasp, uh-huh. That was his last album back in 1980.
Speaker 4Was it that long ago?
Speaker 5Yes, so for all our followers out there we love Sean Cassidy, we do so. Don't let that little moan we're.
Speaker 6we're naysayer haters no, we just say our feelings but Cindy, what do you? Think Sean had a had a mutual.
Speaker 4Thought too, so he'd. He mentioned that a few times that he had a mutual yeah, but you know I mean how goes. I at one time told you guys I really liked that album and that I listened to it Several times. But I think after what, for my fourth time or fifth time still couldn't in one day it gave me a headache.
Speaker 4Finally kind of got to where I understood where you guys were coming from. But do you have the album Cindy, or the songs on the album? Um, there was one on there called the book, so I think it's here check this one you look into that.
Speaker 5I'm just gonna say this one was the one produced by Todd.
Speaker 6Oh yes.
Speaker 5Yes, and I think I could have. It was a little bit out of my demographic, I just could not.
Speaker 4New wave. Is that what it was called the new wave?
Speaker 6type of, they said. In an attempt to radically change Sean Cassidy's image, todd Rungren and utopia were recruited to reinvent the t-neighbor for the new waves of the 80s.
Speaker 4Yeah, yeah, which, that's what the new wave feel because I kind of got there, divo that Divo.
Speaker 6You know, with remember.
Speaker 4Divo, what is that called no Divo? I don't think Divo did with that I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 6there was a specific name for that here.
Speaker 4Yeah, but Um, yeah, the book I the book I read. I like that one cuz some of the songs kind of had that it was dramatic, like like a Broadway or Theater, like yeah, I guess I could put it under that.
Speaker 5But if it was a regular song, I you know yeah, well, he took a bunch of songs that we knew right, and he covered them.
Speaker 4And when I heard them on wasp they didn't sound like songs that I knew but, doris, I think you had told me one time that shake me, wake me, you had a.
Speaker 5Shake me, wake me, is a cover of a Holland Dozier Holland song and Holland Dozier Holland wrote all the Motown hits and I think the tops did that one. Yeah and and then you play. I played wasps over and over. I knew all of the tips and the tops growing up in the 70s. I never put together that that was the same song. It didn't sound like it to me.
Speaker 6Yep have no idea about that song.
Speaker 4You know, I think they changed the words around in it or they did something. They arranged it differently. Yeah, that's all they did, yeah it's just a different arrangement.
Speaker 5Yeah, look at one spitting twice shy. Yeah, it does not sound like one spitting twice shy. Even the version, the MTV Version, that I heard all over the radio way back in in the mid 80s when I heard it on Wasp, I'm like, oh, I never put it in my head that that's the same one spitting twice shy.
Speaker 6Oh yeah, I never got into that. The only song I like on the album is called so sad about us, maybe because it was more upbeat. You know I'm used to strong songs the way he, you know, recorded them this one was close.
Speaker 5What's that? The original cuz. There were some covers and there were some original.
Speaker 6No, this says it was a cover. Other covers included the who's. This is so sad about us. Yeah, the who recorded it. Yeah, Ian Hunter's once bitten twice shy talking heads. The book I read. Oh, that was the talking heads. Yeah.
Speaker 4Mm-hmm, then, david, david Bowie. Which one was that? That was an original by David Bowie, was it? It should have been rebel, rebel.
Speaker 5But, I thought he put at least one song on there that wasn't a cover, but he didn't write it. I thought it was a Todd Runger and song that yeah, um, um, was Sean pretending?
Speaker 4Okay, yeah, but speak of MTV. You know, they aired August 1st 1981, so yeah, how many years ago was that 20? What with 30?
Speaker 6I know 40 more than I want to count. I know right, I know.
Speaker 4I know TV used to have music, yeah, back in the day, television, yeah, yeah, when it was all videos, all videos, yes, with the BJs, yes.
Speaker 6There's also. There's some called cool fire, and my job has co-writing credits on it. Yes, now that's the one I like, which had rugrin. Yeah, I like that one too. Yes, I like it, that's a good one.
Speaker 4But that's about it. Okay, cindy. What does it say about Um? Did we talk about selfless love? What does it say about that?
Speaker 6selfless love. I don't have that one on my list.
Speaker 4Yeah, I just saw it on here.
Speaker 6I don't know, fire the book I read, pretending that's a Todd Runger, and shake me, wake me, it's my life. So sad about us was actually so sad about us was Peter Townsend, oh well, how about so sad about us?
Speaker 4We might have to, yeah.
Speaker 5Our discussion about wasp.
Speaker 6Yes.
Speaker 4So, sad about us. We might have to, and what did?
Speaker 6Sean say that we agreed to stop buying him and he agreed to stop making them and that that was that and that was it.
Speaker 5You know Sean dusties on Facebook, these interactions where he writes that little notes to us. And one of his Interactions he mentioned it was vinyl week or vinyl day or record store day or something right, and they were talking about wasp is at the record store. So I I sent in. I said I'm sorry, sean, but my demographic wouldn't allow me to really get into wasp. And he replied he's like something like Mine either. It's funny quirk. So so he knows everyone out there listening. We all love Sean Cassidy, but wasp, just it. We were all in the same boat.
Speaker 6We walked away from our little teenage hearts grew up a little bit, but we weren't that grown up, sean, sean, try, it was trying to grow up to. You know, you can't stay in teeny-bopper land forever, no, so I, I, I respected they tried to Do something new, but it's if it's too drastic, then it's just too much yeah.
Speaker 4I mean he walked away about it 21 think so yeah, and yeah, married, yeah, get married, I mean, and then went away for 42 years. I mean so young, I Really wished. But you know that I still followed him. You know, even the other day my Ex-brother-in-law, you know, said to my husband like I've no penny for like 30 years and I don't think I ever heard her say his name, and now she's doing a Sean Cassidy podcast.
Speaker 4Yeah, you believe that and you know she, he's like, I've heard her say this name and that name and she's done this and she's done that, but where did Sean Cassidy come up? This is chapter two.
Speaker 6It's not over till it's over.
Speaker 4Yeah, and he goes. He started touring again and we're thrilled and here. We are thrilled, so being thrilled, and Now we know a lot more about Sean and his TV series, and I'm so glad we do. I mean Dries. Thank you, thank you, thank you, and I really don't think we're done talking about invasion or American Gothic. I'm sure it'll come up again and I will make sure I get my sheriffs and my episodes Straight.
Speaker 6Shawn Lisa push her. I know, that's for sure. I mean.
Speaker 4But you know, if you think about it, they are so similar and so easily to get them confused. You know, especially when you're trying to talk about them, because I Mean, yeah, I mean they kind of they could almost blend someday.
Speaker 5You know about these. These only because we are doing this dark side of show, but there are so many other, so many other agency comes to mind. He did so many shows he would In the.
Speaker 6Rockets. Talk about that one day.
Speaker 4You know it's a fun show. We have more shows. I think it was one season, boys, I mean yeah, but still we have so many more. So, dries, that was a great episode, but you know we're gonna lighten that up and go right into Dame's closet. Tell us, dame, what's in your closet today.
Speaker 1Well, it's something that should not be in my closet. I found it a little bit ago and it actually needs to be added to the rest of my stuff that I already have. But this one has a very, very sweet face on it and it's something that will brighten your day. Well, it has a neat signature on it too and no, it's not my guitar that Sean sign, but I can say that it's super soft, it's super shiny. Cindy actually has one that's much better. It's in better shape than mine, especially the visual part of it, and she treasures hers like I treasure my own sign guitar.
Speaker 5I know what it is.
Speaker 1I see his cute face and no, it's not the one that Jerry puts over his head to drown out the light at night. Do you guys think you know what it is?
Speaker 5It's your pillowcase, Dame.
Speaker 1Yes, do you think it's satin or do you really think it's silk?
Speaker 4I'm going with cotton.
Dame's Closet
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