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.
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Ever wondered how a teen heartthrob could shape the lives of a generation? Join us as we mark the one-year anniversary of the Shaun Squad Society Podcast with a nostalgic journey back to the 70s. Each of us shares heartfelt stories of discovering Shaun Cassidy, from tuning into the Hardy Boys, watching a favorite music show, or even ordering favorite things from a school catalog. Despite limited exposure to teen idols in some communities, our passion for Shaun connected us and created lifelong friendships. This episode is a testament to the power of fandom and the lasting impact of a shared love for a pop culture icon.
Take a trip with us back to our school days, where our mutual admiration for Shaun Cassidy blossomed into cherished memories. We recount the thrill of catching his performances on American Bandstand, along with the excitement of collecting and swapping magazine pictures. These moments of pure joy and camaraderie are not just memories; they are the foundation of our enduring friendships. You'll hear about the original "Shaun Squad" and how being pen pals kept the spirit of fandom alive, reinforcing the bond among us.
But Shaun Cassidy's influence went beyond entertainment—he became a source of strength and solace during challenging times. Listen as we recount personal stories of how his presence helped Cindy overcome a challenging medical condition and provided focus during tough years. Dame shares a touching narrative of her devotion to Shaun, from sending notes via friends to treasuring posters despite limited resources. Dorese speaks about how she had to travel across town just to buy her favorite magazines that were not available in her community. As we invite our listeners to share their own journeys of discovering Shaun, we celebrate the community we've built and look forward to many more shared memories. Keep believing in magic, and thank you for being part of this incredible year!
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Speaker 1We all have such unique stories. What brought us here? What got us from the 70s or whatever, to today? And here we are still talking about Sean. I have on my Sean shirt today. Oh yeah, I don't know if you can see it, I got the.
Speaker 2Mine's a Sean squad right here I got the baseball shirt from his concert.
Speaker 1And we all have different memorabilia.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3Everybody get down. Let's walk in the room. Welcome to the Shawn Squad Society Podcast with your hosts, myself, Cindy, doris and Madonna, where we invite you to share in our enthusiasm and reminisce about all things Shawn Cassidy.
Speaker 1From his teen idol days to his recent adventures back on the road again.
Speaker 2Please join us for the stories and memories that connected us to those happy days that helped create the Sean's Squad Society podcast.
Speaker 1Can you believe it's already been a year that we started this podcast. It was last summer when we came up with the idea.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's been a year.
Speaker 1A whole year has gone by and I was looking today at some of our stats. We have listeners now in Japan.
Speaker 3Germany.
Speaker 1Australia, England. We have listeners all across the world. Can you believe it?
Speaker 3I can't, but I'm happy.
Speaker 1I am too. We've had so many new followers, so many new listeners. It's just been an amazing year. I can't believe how great things are going and I'm looking so forward to doing a second year now. We've come a long way, baby, as they used to say in the past yeah, we did and more to talk about too.
Speaker 1Yeah, and today I think I'm going to really just talk about me, because you know what? Yeah, what are we going to talk about today? We call this the Sean Squad Society Podcast, yeah, but we really never talk about the Sean Squad Society, which is us and the people out there. So I thought today I don't know about you guys. When it's your turn to talk, you talk about whatever, but I'm going to talk about me today. And how did you get to?
Speaker 3Sean Cassidy. How did that happen? I love.
Speaker 1Teresa's story. I know it's part of it. My story how did I get here? How did you get to him? How did that happen? How did that happen? I love Teresa's story. I know it's part of it.
Speaker 3My story. How did I get here? How did you get to him? How did any of us get to him?
Speaker 1Exactly, and if you look at me, I'm not really the perfect example of a Sean Cassidy fan, but it all started a long, long time ago. I was a little girl in the 70s and we grew up in the 70s and kind of a poor household and it was really like. You remember the TV show Good Times? Yes, I don't know if you guys ever watched that show oh yeah.
Speaker 1But they were really kind of poor and they lived in Chicago and they lived in Chicago in what they called the housing projects and that's where we live, because my mom left my father and that's another whole story. But we left that day. We left with only the clothes we had on our back and our mother took care of six kids and one on the way, and that was the best she could do. So you live in the inner city of Chicago. In 1976, 77. I've got to tell you, there is no Sean Cassidy to be seen.
Speaker 3You're not in the demographic area for sure. No, he's nowhere. Nowhere to be found.
Speaker 1I went to school one day and I'm looking well before I even went to school and saw him in Tiger Beat. I saw him on the Hardy Boys.
Speaker 3Okay, that was your first look at him. That was your first spotting. Sean was Hardy Boys.
Speaker 1Yep, because I remember the commercials promoting this new show that was coming on and I said, oh, I used to watch these Hardy Boys on the reruns of the Mickey Mouse Club. I want to see what this is about. And I took one look at him and I went.
Speaker 2I know what is that.
Speaker 1I was like oh my God, who is this guy? An OMG moment and they said this is Sean Cassidy. And then I go to school and he's all over this magazine that I had no clue what it was.
Speaker 3Did you have magazines back then, Like were you buying teenage magazines?
Speaker 1yet when I grew up, there were no teen magazines. We had what was called Right On and Ebony and Jack. Those were our magazines. And they didn't really promote teen idols. And you've got to understand back in the mid-70s to the late 70s there were no African-American teenagers, except for maybe the Jackson 5.
Speaker 3I was going to say Jackson 5, Michael Jackson. Well, it was all the 5 back then. Right, yeah, it was all 5 of them.
Speaker 1And that's who they were promoting and right on Ebony and Jet. But other than that, we didn't get a lot of different publications. So I go to school and there's this tiger beat and I'm like, wow, what is this? And I'm looking through my friends and there he is.
Speaker 3Again, there he is showing up.
Speaker 1I was like how do I get back?
Speaker 3So I go. He keeps creeping into your life, doesn't he?
Speaker 4where's it coming?
Speaker 1from, so I had to buy the magazine in the neighborhood where I went to school. Now I went out of my community to go to high school. I didn't go to high school in my community because I didn't want to. I went to a little all girls public high school in my community because I didn't want to. I went to a little all girls public high school in the south side of Chicago by what was then known as Comiskey Park. But what?
Speaker 2does that look?
Speaker 1like on 35th Street. I went to high school over there. So in order to get Tiger Beat, I had to buy the magazine over there in the neighborhood called Bridgeport For those not from Chicago, chicago has all these neighborhoods. They segregate them off in these little names and my high school community was called Bridgeport, but I grew up in Bronzeville. Oh, okay, so bought my and then we moved to Woodlawn that's a whole different story Bought my magazines from Bridgeport and I got to tell you it was kind of hard in the summer because you can't go to school in the summer.
Speaker 1So I had to go all the way over to Bridgeport to pick up my magazine. He was worth it, he was well worth it. But guess what? Bridgeport in the 70s was more of a segregated community. So, yeah, african Americans were allowed in to go to school the girls but once school was over, you go home, you don't hang around, you don't linger. It wasn't a good thing and that's just how it was. So to go, it was a little tricky to get in and out of Bridgeport in the summer to pick up my magazines, but I did it. And I got to tell you I plastered every wall with Sean. Well, you guys heard this before. I had little corners with other people. They kind of got little corners.
Speaker 3But Sean got the big wall, big wall. But I'm curious to see what did your mom say about that when she saw that?
Speaker 1Well, cindy, funny, you should ask what was her expression.
Speaker 3I'd love to see what her?
Speaker 1expression was None too thrilled, none too happy was my mother. I bet she was like she's coming in there with the Jackson 5 and the Right Arm magazine and she's like what's wrong with this? And I'm like there's no Sean Cassidy in there anywhere. In fact, in my whole community there was no Sean Cassidy in there anywhere. In fact, in my whole community there was no Sean Cassidy.
Speaker 3I'm just saying yeah, what about Motown?
Speaker 1people. Well, they were older, If you. You know that music, that sound, went to people more in their 20s and that was a different demographic to people more in their 20s and that was a different demographic. You had the Temps and the Tops and the Miracles and all of that, and they were promoted in those magazines, but not to 12, 13, 15-year-old girls.
Speaker 3They were to a lot of demographics. I love Motown. Diana Ross, all that group was in Motown.
Speaker 1Yeah, we all loved to dance to it, but they were not selling Marvin Gaye to the little girls, they were selling them to the older people. So here we were. Mama wasn't happy that Sean was splastered all over the bedroom wall and I bought. I got my Tiger. I'm sorry, I got my Hardy Boys. Fan club membership.
Speaker 3That's the first thing you bought was a Hardy Boys membership.
Speaker 1I scraped and I saved every dime I got and I got the Hardy Boys fan club membership and it came and I was so excited I put the two little, the two little picture wallet size pictures in my wallet which I still have to this day, the wallet with the membership card and the little pictures in it.
Speaker 3I think I have a little pictures. I can't find my card but I will. It's gotta be somewhere be somewhere.
Speaker 1Well, one day I'm at school, I like to say I was 16 and still in school.
Speaker 1My mother didn't know what to do with my hearty boy stuff, so she threw it all away oh yeah, she, oh boy, every bit of it, except what I had in my wallet in my purse at school with me that day. Okay, so all of my membership stuff didn't make it. But I think she knew she might not want to touch my Tiger Beats and my posters on the wall, so they were safe and I still have them to this day. That's nice and that's how I connected with Sean. He brought me through a little bit of a rough time with.
Speaker 1You know, growing up we weren't very rich. We were not rich at all in an area that wasn't known for anybody other than African-American celebrities, for anybody other than African-American celebrities. And overcoming that and fastering him and making sure I got to the record stores and buying his music and I even used to call him Cindy. You'll get a kick out of this. We had a radio station in a city called WLS and WLS played all you know top 40, but more you know popular white music. So I would call into our more.
Speaker 1It was called WVOM, which was the black station, and I would request Sean Cassidy, and they were like don't even know who it is.
Speaker 3I can't believe you did that, you know.
Speaker 1But they played whoever. But you know, I have to admit it just had to do with whatever demographic was selling the music, because they played KC and the Sunshine Band on the Black Stations. They played Daryl Hall and John Notes because they had that blue-eyed soul sound Sean was selling to 12-year-old little white girls and they didn't want to sell.
Speaker 3So WLS took over that part.
Speaker 1Yeah, but that's my story. That's how I got to find and keep this great love for Sean Cassidy, because I feel like I fought a hard battle to keep him in our life back in the day and I want to keep it going to this day.
Speaker 3What about your friends? Did you have any friends that followed him with you?
Speaker 1No no. Well, in high school I did, I did. In school I had two really good friends, but they were a year behind me. Their names were Rose and Dora, and Dora and Rose and me were like the Sean squad back then. They knew who we were. The whole school knew and we walked around anything. Sean Cassidy, we were all over it. You heard me mention my best friend, teresa from high school. She was into Rex Smith and Scott.
Speaker 4Bale.
Speaker 1She would always want to get the Rex Smith and Scott Bale pictures and I got the Sean pictures.
Speaker 2You got the Sean.
Speaker 4You won.
Speaker 1Rose and Dora were my buddies. They were right there with me with Sean, so you had support. We were the original Sean squad, right, so it was a fun time too. You found him on your own. Oh yeah, I saw him on the Honey Boys and couldn't believe what I was seeing that day. Yeah, that makes sense. And then all those girls with all those Tiger Beat magazines. I was like what is that? How do I get me one of those?
Speaker 3I know I found them on my own too. I didn't have anybody, because sometimes the girls in the neighborhood will talk about idols and stuff. Nobody was talking about them yet when I came across them, so I found him unexpectedly.
Speaker 1How did you find him, Cindy? Was he walking down the street and you just found him? I just found him.
Speaker 3He was just hiding around the corner. No, I always watch American Bandstand every Saturday, right? Yeah, so American Bandstand came on. That came on every Saturday, right? So every Saturday. Saturday morning Soul Train was on too, so American Bandstand came on that came on every Saturday, right, so every Saturday, saturday morning. Soul Train was on too, but American Bandstand I think I watched both of them, and American Bandstand would showcase new artists too, right?
Speaker 4Yeah, we talked about that?
Speaker 3Yeah, really neat. We did talk about that in an episode before, so American Bandstand was the thing back then to watch, so okay.
Speaker 1I watched it on a Saturday. Favorite music artist. We were glued to American Bandstand.
Speaker 3Yeah right. So guess what? I was watching it on a Saturday and he came on and that's the first time I saw him. But I have to back up my story because that's not really what led me to him. It was I originally was following the Partridge family.
Speaker 1Oh yeah.
Speaker 3I was seven years old. Right, I like David Cassidy, I like the Partridge family.
Speaker 1I was too little you know. I think I'm seven years old.
Speaker 3Yeah, we weren't that teen in that teen idol stage yet, but we watched it and we loved it. So, yeah, ok, great, weren't that teen in that teen idol stage yet, but we watched it and we loved it. So, yeah, okay, great, enjoy it. I buy their records and stuff and my friends and I would make dances up in the neighborhood with partridge family and all that. Okay, that's great. But then I get older and I I think I was in middle school, yeah, I think I was in seventh grade and I think I was maybe 12, 13. And I watched American Bandstand and I'm like he said Sean Cassidy, and I'm like, well, I know David Cassidy. And then I think Dick Clark said, I think he said it was David Cassidy's brother. I think he said that actually they used to always make sure to introduce him.
Speaker 1They would mention. This is David Cassidy's brother.
Speaker 3Yeah, but we don't have a video of it. We're still looking for a video of that episode, which we can't find Right, so I can't really verify it, but it just stopped me in my tracks. I mean he had on this I think it was the white pants and the light colored shirt and his blonde hair and I'm like, oh my gosh, I stopped in my tracks. I'm like David Cassidy has a brother and he's cute like this. What? I was like what when has he been hiding? I was frozen. I was like wait a minute, wait a minute. I got to look into this. What's going on here? I didn't know he had a brother. So that's what started it all. And, yep, been in love ever since.
Speaker 1But did you go to school and have your Tiger Beat magazine with all your friends, like swapping pictures?
Speaker 3Well, in middle school, not so many people. But by the time I got to high school, freshman year, yeah. So that's when it started with the magazines the girls in the neighborhood started. It started being a buzz around the neighborhood. So we had a mall right by our house and we knew it came out once a month, so we knew the day it would come out. I think it was 75 cents a copy, so we save our money. Oh yeah, okay, tomorrow's the day we're going to go to the mall, we're going to get this tiger beat. But then, all of a sudden, another magazine came out called 16. So I had to keep track of which magazines I had to buy, because all of a sudden, sean's on this one and he's on that one and I couldn't keep track anymore.
Speaker 1I was like whoa, I'm getting overwhelmed. I was like I'm a loyal person, so I found Tiger Beat first, so I wasn't going to buy 16 or Team Beat, Not me yeah.
Speaker 3I did, but not as many as the other ones. I stuck with Tiger Beat. And then you know, if 16 had a picture of my life, then I would get that one for sure. Or my friends would buy 16 and we would swap pictures.
Speaker 1Right. I had a lot of friends who would give me theirs from 16 and Team Beat. They would give me their Sean pictures.
Speaker 3Swap it out. And you know we had pen pals back then. I still have a pen pal letter. She sent me a letter about Sean and she put these little pictures in there and it was so cute and she's like I made you this doorknob, you could put it on your door and give him a kiss.
Speaker 4Oh that's so cool. My favorite part of your story is your shirt and your boyfriend. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, every day.
Speaker 3So I get to high school, yeah, and I get these Sean shirts right. So by high school freshman year, I'm in a new school and all I'm doing is wearing Sean shirts every day. I love that that wasn't making me many friends, I know, but I didn't care. I was so hooked on Sean by then I'm like I don't care. Yep, I, every day. I wore a shirt and I just stayed in my glory with Sean.
Speaker 1You had that many Sean shirts that you could wear five days a week, you had a different shirt.
Speaker 3So yeah, the mall had a shop where it sold teen stuff. Yeah, hey that one. You would get new decals in every so often, right, so I would go back there and get another shirt, so yeah, oh yeah, I had plenty to go around the block and her boyfriend didn't mind.
Speaker 4The other kids were making fun and she found this boyfriend. That was okay with it.
Speaker 3I'm wearing all these shirts every day. And this one guy is like hey, you're having a hard time with these people teasing you. I'm like, yeah, whatever, I don't care. And he's like he's like I think Sean's cool. And I'm like what'd you just say? What? Yeah, you're a guy, what are you saying? He's saying Sean was cool, for so of course, we start talking. And guess what? Then he wants to walk me home from school.
Speaker 1And you know he's getting in my good graces. Maybe he's listening today. Let's give him a shout out, hey.
Speaker 3Bob, hey Bob, yeah, bob was pretty cool with that.
Speaker 4Hey Bob you're cool.
Speaker 3Hey, bob, you're cool. So, yeah, he became my boyfriend because he had to he had to.
Speaker 1Once he said Sean was cool with you that was it.
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Speaker 3He knew how to get to you, cindy Right, I didn't have any friends per se, except for the girls that liked Sean. But you know, bob was there and yeah, I even have a picture of him that I think we'll post, where I knitted Sean a blanket for his birthday and Bob was standing behind me. He was all for it. Aw yeah, and you know, yeah, he was, yeah, he. He supported me the whole way through, sean.
Speaker 3But of course, when I was in high school too, I had bad panic attacks and that was another reason why Sean was important to me. Back then I had a very hard time. I almost didn't make it through seventh grade and Sean showed up and all of a sudden I had just some strength. I don't know how to describe it, but he gave me something to focus on basically. I don't know how to describe it, but he gave me something to focus on basically and kind of got me through this anxiety stage. Back then I didn't know what panic attacks were back in the 80s. So I was. It was hard, but for some reason you know his, his support or whatever, I don't know what, what you call it but because I had him to focus on. I became a stronger person for some reason and through my high school years I just got better every year and you know, by my senior year I was doing pretty darn good, so I was pretty happy about that. But then I think Sean married. By then I think Sean married by then.
Speaker 1Right, he got married. It was in 1980 or 79.
Speaker 3Yes, right when I was graduating high school and I'm like, well, I'm done with high school and he moved on, and then I had to move on.
Speaker 1So that's kind of where it ended at that time, yeah, and plus, I think, once we got to our senior year of high school. He was still embedded in our hearts, right, you know, tiger beat wasn't flashing them as much and we weren't buying tiger beat anyway, yet and he said he wasn't recording any more albums either. So we all came to the agreement yes and then, you know, that's how cindy got today her, her lifelong fandom. But then we have our little Dame and Dame, you know, you're so cute.
Speaker 3And Dame's the youngest of the crowd. Yeah, I was very young when I started.
Speaker 1And how did Sean just manage to land in your little heart?
Speaker 4It was around 1977 or 1978. And I was a very poor little girl living kind of a hippie life and I would walk to my bus stop through the woods. It was like a mile to the bus stop and then a mile to get home after the bus would drop me off. Well, we didn't have TV or electricity, but it was that Sean face that was electricity. I saw that one time when our teacher was passing out the little scholastic things.
Speaker 3Yeah, I remember those.
Speaker 4And I didn't know anything about him. I just knew that I really hadn't had big crashes or anything like that. But they passed it around and one little girl may have bought a poster first. And I saw that and I couldn't stop looking at it and I was like who, who is that? And I just kept looking and I was just like, okay, I have to find out. I have to buy everything that has his face on it.
Speaker 3It kind of stops you in his tracks, right yeah.
Speaker 4Even though he didn't have a lot of money. My father was from Hollywood and he didn't live with me, but he would send me letters and he would send me money inside the letters. And where did that money go? It went to Scholastic. Anytime there was a Sean thing, I had to buy it. There was one time that I didn't even have his dollars and my friends were the ones that bought a poster that I didn't get and they were kind of showing it off on the playground and I will not forget this. We forget probably 90% of our stories in our life, but when it's our Sean stories, we don't forget them.
Speaker 1No, we do not but when it's our Sean stories, we don't forget them. No, we do not.
Speaker 4The kids were putting this poster down flat, one that I didn't get to buy, and they were all looking at it. They're like, damien, come over here, come here, look see what we have. And I was like, oh, and I can't believe I did this, but I remember doing it and I went down and I had to kiss his lips and I think that's the weirdest little story, but to me that meant something. And so the kids were like, because they knew I liked him the most out of everybody. And then another time which you girls have heard this story and I wasn't perfectly neat all the time. It's kind of like me. I had collages everywhere but they told me they were going to see Sean in person. I was like I didn't even know what a concert was and I was like, well, can you send him a note? If I write a note you were going to send a little personal note to Sean from your friend, why not He'll?
Speaker 3get it. He'll get it, he'll call you.
Speaker 4You're exactly right, Grace. I was real gullible.
Speaker 3No, we all did it.
Speaker 1Innocent, innocent. We all had beliefs that that would happen. Why not?
Speaker 4I didn't know what a concert was and I wasn't in the city. I was way out in nowhere in Leggett, california, and where the drive-thru tree is, that's where my school was. Well, anyway, I decided, okay, well, can you send him a note? And my friends were like yeah, we'll give him a note, and you know how kids make fun of each other. Like sure, we will. Okay. So I went to write I love you. And I thought no, that's too deep, he won't like that. He'll think that's weird. And so instead I put your. I thought I wrote sweet, but it was sweat, and so the kids were reading it and they were laughing and showing it to each other. She thinks Sean is sweat. We're going to give this to him.
Speaker 3Well, he does get a little sweaty.
Speaker 4I was so embarrassed. So yeah, then I was the one with the sweat. But anyway, another memory is I have this little tape up here. It's the Sean Cassidy that tape and I took that tape and I have no idea where I got that tape, no idea. That part of the story I don't remember. But the part of the story I remember is having my little tape recorder. You know those ones we had back then that you hold the square box ones, that you held with a handle and the thing popped out.
Speaker 1It was that long thing was that long, skinny rectangular. Oh, you had that one.
Speaker 4Okay, yeah, I remember that was a big deal because my father probably gave it to me. But anyway I had the tape too and I have no idea where I got that tape, but I was listening to that tape and I thought it was so cool. So I took my best friend and even back then I must have been bossy. This is before I knew I'd be an elementary teacher and I told her let's walk around and we're going to dance around and we're going to listen to this tape, and I thought I was so cool and anyway, I don't know if my friend thought so, but I thought it was.
Speaker 1I'm sure you were. Which tape is it? Is it the first?
Speaker 4album John Cassidy. That's the only one I got. That meant so much to me because I didn't have anything. I did have a few things from Scholastic and, like Teresa's story, my mom thought it was a little ridiculous and she's a neat freak. And then I had all this stuff going on and one day I come home my Sean Cassidy stuff's all missing, so you know how I felt A dagger in the heart.
Speaker 3I feel it for you.
Speaker 1There's no pain like that when you see your stuff. Yeah, mom.
Speaker 3And we understand that?
Speaker 1Yeah, there's no pain.
Speaker 4That was so sad, but nowadays I replenished it. But being a poor child but having a personality that didn't even understand all of that, I made friends easy and these girls from LA would come to the Redwoods, northern California, to come home on vacation. Well, I guess that family felt a little sorry for me, so when their kids would grow out of their clothes I would get the hand-me-downs. Well, these girls obviously had amazing clothes, so one day I come to school with this on Nice.
Speaker 3I didn't have that Describe it.
Speaker 1Tell what it is, because our listeners don't know.
Speaker 4Okay, it's a satin jacket with Sean Cassidy on the back. Blue satin jacket.
Speaker 1With his whole face. It's got palm trees too.
Speaker 3What does it say on the back? What does it say it's the Hardy Boys. Oh, the Hardy Boys.
Speaker 4Yes, and I just thought I felt so special.
Speaker 1And I wore that to school.
Speaker 4But the girls that didn't like me most of them liked me, but there's always a couple that are like ew. So I was wearing that and they're like where did you get that jacket? And I said, well, it was just given to me from a box.
Speaker 1Seriously, they asked Somebody's mother took her jacket from her.
Speaker 4Oh you're right, I didn't even think about that. So, some little girl, that's funny, gary, she lost it there it is.
Speaker 1That's fun, that's sad, but this time you were the beneficiary of that little girl's pain.
Speaker 3At least it didn't get thrown away, it got given to somebody Exactly.
Speaker 4So my mom probably thought that was okay. The reason she got rid of some of my other stuff is she thought I was getting too involved with liking his stuff too much, and he was a rock and roll singer, and so my mom was like, no, you don't need that. Now she's one of his biggest fans, oh great.
Speaker 3They come to their senses eventually.
Speaker 4Yeah, she just loves Sean now and she loves that he's, you know, life, and now that I explained it to her, she's very sorry that she ever got rid of any of it.
Speaker 3I think when they look back and they really realize how important it was to you, maybe they wouldn't have done that.
Speaker 1Yeah, and the innocence of it. Right, you know it was so important to us, but it was the most innocent and just for them. I'm thinking I don't know how my mother could have done this to Shirley Partridge. You know her son because my mom watched the Partridge family right along with us. But I don't think she put the connection together that Shirley Jones is Sean Cassidy's mom.
Speaker 4My mom's learning now.
Speaker 1If I would have said you just threw away Shirley Partridge's son's stuff, then she probably would have said yeah, now do it again.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 1No, she wouldn't.
Speaker 4We don't really get over our first crush and as I got older, I never forgot my first crush, but it was very nice of him to come back and say hi guys, I'm still here.
Speaker 3Yeah Well, like you said, you came here to see me, I came here to see you.
Speaker 1And I remember thinking one day we're all going to be here again talking about this stuff.
Speaker 4And here we are. But throughout my life every boy almost every boy I dated had to look a little bit like Sean or have a lot of hair and it should feather. I said either Sean or Michael Landon, I'll marry one or the other that looks like him at least. I mean, you know not one or the other, but someone that kind of resembles him. The hair just was gorgeous. I thought you know what, someday I'm going to have a manly man that looks like Michael Landon, or a pretty boy like Sean Cassidy.
Speaker 1We all have such unique stories. What brought us here? What got us from the 70s or whatever, to today? And here we are still talking about Sean. I have on my Sean shirt today. Oh yeah, I don't know if you can see it, I got the.
Speaker 2Mine's a Sean squad right here I got the baseball shirt from his concert and we all have different memorabilia that we've yeah.
Speaker 1I never got rid of any of my albums. I bought them twice because I knew I would play one until you couldn't play it anymore, so I needed a backup. So, I still have both copies of all the albums and I have all of that memorabilia, like you said, minus the Hardy Boys fan club. That didn't make it.
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Speaker 3I know, you know, my magazines didn't make it. I got stuck in a flood. My albums were in a flood. The only thing that survived were all my posters on the wall. So I have those to this day my posters and some other memorabilia. But I tried to hold on to everything and I was heartbroken when I couldn't hold on to anything. We'd love to hear other stories. How you got to, sean.
Speaker 1We welcome all of our listeners to share your story you've heard ours, now it's your turn, your road to Sean. Send it to us an email at SeanSquadSociety at gmailcom, or you can reach out on our social media on Facebook, instagram and Threads, and we're also on YouTube and make sure to tell us your story. Maybe in our upcoming season we'll have a full episode dedicated to your story.
Speaker 3Thank you from the bottom of our teen dream hearts.
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