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
Shaun and Friends Holiday Party at Vega Vineyard!
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What if a trip to a Christmas soiree could not only fill your heart with joy but also make a significant impact on a community in need? Join us as we recount our festive journey to Santa Barbara, where Shaun Cassidy’s charming holiday gathering at the Vega Vineyard proved the spirit of giving is still alive and well. Feel the nostalgia as we relive the highlights of mingling with locals, all coming together to embrace the true spirit of the season. We will also recount a visit to Old Mission in Santa Ines, who supports families with gifts and food baskets all made possible by community sponsors of their Christmas giving tree.
Step into the cozy ambiance of a holiday event in a beautifully decorated outdoor setting with a medley of carols, laughter, and community spirit. Shaun’s heartfelt rendition of "Jingle Bells" set the tone for an unforgettable night. Gather round as we share stories from this unique blend of festive cheer, camaraderie, and impactful charity work, making lasting memories with every note and every smile.
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Screams of streetlights. Even stoplights Blink a bright red and green as the shoppers rush home With their treasures. Hear the snow crunch, see the kids bunch. This is Santa's big scene. And above all this bustle. You hear, this is Santa's big scene.
Speaker 3Welcome to the Sean Squad Society podcast with your host myself, Cindy Doris Day Madonna, when we invite you to share in our enthusiasm and reminisce about all things Sean Cassidy, from his teen idol days to his recent adventures back on the road again.
Speaker 4Please join us for the stories and memories that connected us to those happy days that helped create the Sean's Squad Society podcast. Hey, cindy, guess what Drees and I did? What'd you do? Well, we flew to Santa Barbara, to the cutest little airport. It was so much fun. It was so small. It looked like either a big church or what did you think? It looked like Drees, just like a small little, one-man operated airport.
Speaker 3It was tiny, cozy Cozy compared to what I'm used to.
Speaker 4Yes, it looked like we were coming to like some big fancy house. Well, for me, being a child of 14 years living in California and now being in Oklahoma, I knew that I would almost cry. Just putting my foot down there in California, oh my, I saw the palm trees and I wanted to. I wanted to cry almost. It was so neat. And then I knew the ocean was nearby. I was so excited. And then I saw Dries and she came walking towards me in her little Santa outfit with her cute hat.
Speaker 3But dang, you haven't told anybody why did we go to California?
Speaker 2Yeah, what is this trip all about?
Speaker 3Why did we pack up our little suitcases and take this whirlwind trip to?
Speaker 4California. Oh well, for two reasons mainly. One is this mission that we got to be a part of, and then the other is because we knew we would get a chance to mingle with Sean.
Speaker 3Mingle with Sean Are you trying to say that we went to the Sean Cassidy Christmas Soiree that he hosted this year.
Speaker 4Yes, I just knew that we were going somewhere that I'd just be drawn to and, of course, I knew it was going to be our favorite celebrity's favorite place to be, and he was so happy he hosted it this year at the Vega Vineyard, Nice yeah and it was open to the public and everybody got to come and it was meant to be a little mix and mingle, if you will.
Speaker 3How?
Speaker 2nice.
Speaker 3He said you'll go, you'll have fun, you'll sing Christmas carols and it will be like you were visiting Sean in his house. But guess what? Cindy, like Dame, said this is almost take a check to a mission. It's a little mission in Santa Inez, california, and it's called the Old Mission of Santa Inez and this mission. They do Christmas baskets every year for children and families underprivileged. They were very nice and the Sean Cassidy Fan Convention started the tradition of donating to this cause.
Speaker 3And because they started the tradition, I've been also tagging in with them, kind of piggybacking on their contribution, with my own contribution from Charitable Foundation. So we went as a surprise to everyone in California actually all of the people who run the program to bring them personally our contribution. And, if I may, I'll tell you a little bit about this.
Speaker 2It's such a great cause it really is.
Speaker 3It's a mission that runs this giving tree. I'm sure everyone's seen giving trees or Christmas wish, where you pick a number for a family, yes, and you buy what you can from their list.
Speaker 2Sometimes there's suggestions on there Correct Sizes, what their wishes are for, toys, things like that. Yes.
Speaker 3As part of the wish list. Sean's church takes a family or as many families as the congregation pick, and they donate for that many families. So the Sean Cassidy Fan Convention raised, I think, $800. And I put on top of that another thousand, so that contribution from that church to the mission was about eighteen hundred dollars. Wow, that's wonderful.
Speaker 4It was. That's great. Well, I saw the big tubs of food and they had flour, cheerios beans, pinto beans, oil, oatmeal syrup jelly peanut butter two chickens, almost 100 tubs full of all the food that I just told you guys about. It was really neat.
Speaker 3So you know, you got the gifts, and the gifts are what the contribution buys, and it is it's tubs and tubs and tubs of wrapped gifts, tops and tops and tops of wrapped gifts, bikes they had bikes and they had presents. So it's a giving tree. You put giving trees in churches.
Speaker 5Right, it's the Catholic Church. Old.
Speaker 5Mission and then the Presbyterian Church here and the Episcopal Church, the charter school takes some, the hospital takes some, and then you know all the people in the community and then you have all these families come in. So then the families will drive up. They are, it's all anonymous, and so they will give their name, and their name has a number, and then we take the number, we put the number on their windshield and then they drive around to that door, they get the bin of food with the chickens and then they drive around to that door and they get the basket of food, I mean the basket of gifts that was filled by the people who took their number off the gift tree.
Speaker 3Correct, it is so cool. And how many do you expect? Well, we have 96 families 96 families, Wow, and the ages how it's for families.
Speaker 5It's for young children mostly. If they're 18 and out of high school, then they're not eligible. Okay, but it's supposed to be for, you know, little kids, children of the community? Yeah, and everybody. We have an interview process. Everybody has to prove that they live in the San Ynez Valley. We get money from the Chumash, from the bank, montesino Bank, from the Rotaries, so different organizations donate money.
Speaker 3Yes, yes.
Speaker 4They were so excited about it and you know this trip was personal since you know I was one of those children that was helped in California for these type of missions, like just to keep kids fed and their families taken care of, and the kids from this community. Well, it was really neat to see how they had these boxes fixed up. They weren't just boxes, they had the children in the area decorate these boxes.
Speaker 2Oh nice.
Speaker 4They had their own artwork on them, and so of course, that resonated with me, because you know, I love seeing children's art.
Speaker 2Have the kids decorate them.
Speaker 4Yes, they would do like snowmen and they would do you know, just wrapping and then their own pictures. They were very creative, and so there was so much heart and thought that had gone into these boxes, mary and Barbara really were just the nicest ladies.
Speaker 3The whole everyone there were so nice and it was a great day because this is such an important project for that community that their local news station showed up and interviewed Mary. Wow, yeah, While we were there they talked about the whole project and how they were going to pass out the gifts that day and it was a really, really great day.
Speaker 4After we left the mission we actually took time to go to the ocean, which I was dying to put my feet into the sand and to the tide, and then afterwards we had an appetite so we were able to eat these burgers that were actually number one burger in all of California. They're called the. Are they called the llama? It starts with a J beach. It was at that beach but it was those burgers, and so they have their own little like food shack and upstairs is a museum and it has all the pictures and stuff. And then you go downstairs and the burgers are world famous and definitely California famous because it's the number one burger.
Speaker 3Yeah, we went to Llama Beach that's how you say it, california famous because it's the number one burr in all of California. Yeah, we went to Yolama Beach.
Speaker 4That's how you say it, okay.
Speaker 3Yes, and it was such a good. It was probably the best burger I ever had. I just want to thank again all of the ladies who welcomed us and made us feel very special.
Speaker 2Yes, yeah, what a nice part of the trip. So what was the next part of the trip? What was the big party you went to? Oh, the Sean, tell me about the party. You went to, the main event the main event.
Speaker 3The Sean Cassidy Christmas Sorrel, the Christmas party and what was served there? My first crush wine. It was at the Vega Vineyards where my First Crush Wine is produced.
Speaker 2Yeah, and you know I looked that up too because I was curious about this vineyard. I'd never been there, but this is your guys' first time there. So yeah, it seems like this vineyard's been around for a long time and it goes back to 1853 when a couple got married and acquired this land and then in 1976, another couple turned it into a wine grape farm where they harvested the grapes to make wine. So it just kind of evolved over time and in 1980, they changed the name from Vega Vineyards to Mosby Winery and then it went back to Vega Vineyards again and it's kind of like a farm vineyard area.
Speaker 3Yeah, and it's run by Steve Clifton.
Speaker 2Yeah, steve Clifton is a winemaker and funny history I found out about him is he began his winemaking career in 1991, but he left his previous career. He was a musician and a nightclub entrepreneur. Do you believe that?
Speaker 3Yeah, so he had a nightclub and he was a musician and he went into being a winemaker, go figure, in the early 90s he said.
Speaker 2So I wonder what made him want to go into winemaking.
Speaker 3Didn't you tell me earlier that he was in a tasting? He got himself into a tasting room.
Speaker 2Yeah, he got himself into a tasting room at some place called Rancho I don't know how to say this S-I-S-Q-U-O-E, okay Winery, and he just kind of forced his way into it into the cellar, and in time he had worked his way up to assistant winemaker under Stephen Bedford. Oh, and now he's a winemaker.
Holiday Wine Event at Vega Vineyard
Speaker 3So obviously he loved tasting wines and he decided, hey, I want to be a winemaker Apparently, and now he works with Sean.
Speaker 2Yeah, with his my First Crush, wine line Sean's label.
Speaker 3Hey, what's the little fun thing about my First Crush Wine and Sean A portion of every bottle sold A portion Mm-hmm and Sean a portion of every bottle sold.
Speaker 4Yeah, to go towards hungry children. That's really what a percentage of his buying goes towards.
Speaker 3That is a great, great way to give back. If you don't have a way to give back this holiday season, simply buy a bottle of my First Crush wine and you will be supporting.
Speaker 4No Kid Hungry. Yes, and that part's beautiful about it. But the part that I thought was going to be really neat was just the mingling. You know, a lot of times we just miss having that and I didn't realize it would be this wonderful.
Speaker 3We get there and Dame and I we're early. Okay, everybody's early. It's not really time to get there yet and they hadn't opened yet for the party. They weren't ready for us and we see Sean over there setting up Already. He's actually doing his own setup. So when we were at the bar, the lady explained that she wasn't ready for us yet. So Dame and I went to set outside. It was a little chilly. So she found us a spot by an outdoor heater area and I ordered a glass of wine and we talked and it was just beautiful because it was, I say, 10 or 11 women from the fan convention and they were all there. We were all there together and we just sat outside and talked for a while, but were you able to see the land Like?
Speaker 2was it a farm? Like? What did it look like?
Speaker 4Yeah, it was neat. There is on your way there you could see like the, even the animals, and so there's like a petting zoo there, and then the vineyard is just right there. So even if you're sitting outside, you feel like you're in Sean's place, you know, because everything is just around there, so creative, and Sean thought of everything, makes this, you know, special memory for us, and so he was serving us, which I didn't expect.
Speaker 3All of that I gotta tell you it's dark. We get there at night so you can't see the ground. Yeah, so we didn't get to really see the beauty of the grounds, the beauty of the grounds. Walking to the house where the event was taking place, you can walk past cages where some of the animals were kept, and you could see a couple of sheep. Okay, but you couldn't see the animals or the vineyard.
Speaker 2Oh, that's too bad you couldn't get the full scope of it.
Speaker 4I could still kind of see the vineyard, you know, in the dark and see the animals and definitely smell some of them. But it was in a good way, because I'm a country girl, you know. But it was very beautiful. You could go there and then you could sit inside, or when Sean was ready, there were a couple people already in there. We sat outside. There was about 11 of us, like Doreen said, and we loved those heaters and it felt good just sitting out there. So that was fine.
Speaker 3But it was a really nice thing that happened while we were outside Dane, because we were outside.
Speaker 4Yes, and he walked over to us. He came outside, he walked over to us.
Speaker 4Oh how nice. And he said okay, girls, tracy and I have talked about this and we don't really want everybody taking pictures and videos, because we want this to feel like you're just coming to our house and we would like to, just you know. He said if you guys want a picture with me, let me just get this over with. So not only did he take a picture with each one of us, but he also took a picture with the whole group.
Speaker 3That was nice, that's nice, so Sean wanted the event to feel like a Christmas party at his house, not a fan convention.
Speaker 2That sounds great. I would love that.
Speaker 3Yes, he didn't want to walk around and see cameras in front of people's faces.
Speaker 4He wanted to see faces, yes, but after he did the singing he said okay, back to picture taking. So I was like okay. But then after he mentioned that he and Tracy wanted to just make a wonderful memory with us of all of us mingling together, it just was neat because it did feel like we were a bunch of friends visiting them in their home. That's nice though it was very nice.
Speaker 2It sounds like a nice relaxing atmosphere.
Speaker 4Yes, yes.
Speaker 3Two or three minutes later, Sean and Steve said a couple of words and the party began.
Speaker 2So Sean was there, his wife was there, the winemaker.
Speaker 4Steve was there. Sean came outside. Who else was there?
Speaker 2Who else?
Speaker 4was there outside? Yeah, just to be nice. Who else was there? Kathleen and cole, they actually sang with sean. And for those who don't know kathleen is.
Speaker 3She was the keyboardist and sean's magic of the midnight sky right.
Speaker 2I remember her and his nephew, cole was and cole's nephew it was neat.
Speaker 4Yeah, sean thought of I'm, I believe, as a creative soul that he is to make this special, you know, this memory, almost special. Yeah, uh, I knew that Sean would be comfortable, but I didn't know that he would be this kind and giving. He actually walked around and he tried to talk to everyone. Um, like Doreen said, the venue was so pretty and he knew that probably I didn't drink, so he came out there and told me I could go up to the bar and get something that didn't have alcohol in it. We felt like we were out in the country, but yet it was so glorious because everybody looked so beautiful, dressed up in their Christmas outfits and their sequined pants and everything it was really neat.
Speaker 4Everybody was jingling, had their jingle bells on yes, yes, yeah, it was just all of it was thought of. And did you eat? What food was there? Yeah, well, while we're sitting down, they walk around with these little mushrooms like bite food.
Speaker 2Oh and hors d'oeuvres.
Speaker 3There were people serving hors d'oeuvres throughout the night. Hors d'oeuvres throughout the night, hors d'oeuvres platter. And there was a how do you say that word? It's kind of a French word for cheese crackers different meats. I forget that fancy word, but that platter was on the bar.
Speaker 2Oh, okay, nice.
Speaker 4Yes, and one time I was near Darice and I had a little cup, tiny little looks like a little shot glass, but it wasn't alcohol, it was like squash soup, and so we toasted that with each other and that picture that's interesting. Why?
Speaker 2would they have squash soup there?
Speaker 3Well, butternut squash soup was one of the little appetizers. You know what else was an appetizer that I thought was funny for California Fried chicken and biscuits. Now, that's a Southern drink. Yeah, I saw that I thought it was waffles Waffles, I'm sorry, fried chicken and waffles, little waffles, with little pieces of fries. It was actually cute and good, but I thought what an interesting choice. Yeah right, yeah it I thought what an interesting choice.
Speaker 4Yeah, right, yeah, it was so. It was so not only interesting, just everything was so creative. And then Sean, actually when he came outside again, he asked me where Jerry was, and then he said Dame, thank you for coming. And he said my name. I mean, he's so nice to remember things like that.
Speaker 2Yeah, just such a nice man you know what I'm thinking too with the food and everything. I think Tracy had a little bit to do with that, don't you think?
Speaker 4I bet she did yes. Yes, because it took her a little while to come out and I know she was busy doing some of the preparation.
Speaker 2So I think her and Sean are kind of connected with this.
Speaker 3My Fresh Crest Wine and everything they do at the vineyard.
Speaker 2it sounds like yeah.
Speaker 3Yes, so, tracy, I think there were different wines, so of course they were pouring my First Crush, but there was a Glühwein, which is a German warm heated wine.
Speaker 2Oh, really Okay. So it was more than just my First Crushed wine.
Speaker 3And there was a nice sangria. Oh, I think tracy made the sangria and the glue vine and they were definitely one of the best really glue vines and sangrias I've had, and nice and um.
Speaker 2You could taste different wines when you were there.
Speaker 3You could taste every wine that they had. Pretty much Nice. That's nice that they did that and they were pouring them all night for the whole two hours or two and a half hours that we were there. And, like I said, the appetizer platter was just amazing and the servers were walking around all night with different appetizers.
Speaker 2Nice.
Speaker 4Yeah, and I couldn't believe how well the Cassidy couple accommodated us with all this, just having us there, just so giving, and then I became like the cinema photographer in a way, like my father that took videos of happiness. You know, in my hand I would just have those out a little bit more. Once he said, okay, now you can take pictures. Okay.
Speaker 2You have a good photo memory of the event.
Speaker 4Yes, I do, once he gave us a little bit of permission, right.
Speaker 3That's the night progressed. Everyone was mingling, I got to tell you there was a lot of mingling, a lot of talking. Sean made sure to talk to every one of his guests, but the guests had the opportunity to talk to other guests. It was a great opportunity. That's true To meet people you never met.
Speaker 2Right, I was going to say did you meet new people when you were there? I did yes, made some new friends. Yeah, she did, we'll talk about your friends.
Speaker 4Yeah, I walked by and I saw Darius talking to these guys.
Speaker 3Well, I was talking to three men, three different. Oh, the three wise men.
Speaker 3I just started out. Good analogy. They really were fun and they were sitting by themselves just talking. So I kind of invited myself into their conversation and we had a nice talk and I found out one is from here, from Chicago, oh nice, that was a great connection. The other one, his daughter went to school here, oh really. And the other one is just straight out of California, wow. But the funny thing is I said, well, who are you? Why are you here? You obviously are not women from the Sean Costner Fan Convention, fan club or anything else. So the guys told me that they're Sean's neighbor.
Speaker 3Oh, nice oh how nice is that? He said well, here's how we met Sean. One day we had this tortoise on our property, oh, and we put out in a local Facebook thing like if you lost your tortoise, you might want to come up here because we have it. Oh my. So Sean and Tracy go reach out to them and that's how they meet them.
Speaker 2They found Sean's tortoise wandering around up the driveway and doesn't he have a big tortoise? It's like a big one, right? I mean, this thing is huge. Yeah, I thought it was a large tortoise.
Speaker 3And they don't move fast, so it must have taken. I don't know how far they are from each other.
Speaker 2The property Sean's on a farm, basically Like he has a bunch of animals.
Speaker 3Well, this guy, the guy that found the turtle, the tortoise they're on a farm too.
Speaker 4Oh, okay.
Speaker 3They have 35 generations horses.
Speaker 4Well, that whole area must be like farmland, yeah One of the guys said that he's a photographer for Tracy for like her social media.
Speaker 3Oh yes, the one guy and his partner were there, and the partner is the photographer and the guy that found the tortoise. I don't remember his career, but they were a bunch of fun. They had me in stitches and we were just laughing and so I enjoyed talking to those guys. I did mingle, I did spend some time speaking with Kathleen, okay, and I talked to Cole, and then I talked to some of the other ladies who I hadn't seen for years and you know they remembered me and it was fun catching up for a minute or two with them.
Speaker 2Nice, yeah, it was a nice party. It sounds like they remembered me and it was fun catching up for a minute or two with them. Nice, yeah, it was a nice party.
Speaker 3It sounds like I wish I could have went, but I'm glad you guys got to go. Yeah, yeah, the Christmas caroling was fun.
Speaker 4We did the Christmas caroling with Sean and he was just very comfortable Because I think I've told you, girls before, I'd always wanted to be a part of his happy memory when he tells us that one of his best memories was when he would sit around the piano with his family on the holidays while singing Christmas carols.
Speaker 2Yes, I remember him singing that.
Speaker 4Yeah, he did and to think that we would actually have an opportunity to join in his best memory with his family in a way. You know, even his daughters were there later. I don't know if she was there, they were there at that time but I do remember he tried to get Tracy to come sing and she's like she started and then she walked away, and then Kathleen and Cole came over and he said, well, they brought their guitars, but then they didn't use them and then the piano player started playing and so we sang along with Sean and he had so much fun. And there were a couple of times where he goes la-di-da-da-da, you know, just make the tune, where he didn't know the words, but he knew most of the words, but it didn't matter, we were having fun and we were having a good time.
Speaker 2Just a good get together with wine and friends. Yeah, it was so comfortable.
Speaker 4Yeah, that's nice. Yeah, just, but I was in the very back at the time, that's fine. You know, we still have the memory, and later he's like okay, now you can go, go continue mingling where you're at.
Live Music at Event
Speaker 2Well, it sounds like a really nice time. It was so much fun.
Speaker 3And the caroling, he did four. I think he did four songs, four songs, yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, he did some last year when he was on his tour, right? So kind of similar songs, yes.
Speaker 3And the last song. He said what do you want to hear? And someone yelled out Jingle Bells, jingle Bell Rock. You mean, no, I wanted Jingle Bell Rock, but it was just plain Jingle Bells. Oh, okay, and Kathleen brought out the tambourine with the bells.
Speaker 2Oh nice.
Speaker 3Okay, there was a keyboardist at the event and he was playing music pretty much all night, so he's the one who accompanied Sean.
Speaker 4You loved his music. Darius loved it, I think we all did. Man, he was good. It was live music. It wasn't just something from a radio or something. You know, it was live music. It wasn't just something from a radio or something.
Speaker 2It was live music. It was kind of nice because at this event Sean didn't have to worry about being the main music man that night and we can say that. He could mingle and he had just a nice environment and welcoming environment for you guys and was able to speak with people and have a good time and just hang out with his guests and not be the entertainment. Have to be obligated to do like the concert, the show. He wasn't the main showman here.
Speaker 3Right, he was not the entertainment.
Speaker 2I never knew he could be so hospitable you know you could see him in a different light, you know, in a different scenario.
Speaker 4Yeah, Cozy atmosphere. It was a nice size group where we could mingle and hang out to celebrate the holiday and we could also help with Sean's charity. You know, just knowing that this was going to these. No Kids Hungry.
Speaker 2Exactly Like the Christmas season is a time of giving and I'm glad it's still happening. You know, every year we like to talk about this. So in the meantime you guys got to go to a nice get-together and enjoy everybody's company, but at the same time you got to see a mission for giving back.
Speaker 3Yeah, see an opportunity to give back At the end of the night. We got swag, we did. They had nice bottles of my First.
Speaker 1Crush wine for every
Speaker 2guest to take home.
Speaker 3Nice? Yes, they did, and we all got to take one home. It was definitely like a Christmas party. You're very thankful to your gracious host and, if I may, I'm going to just something that kind of touched me was I was thanking Sean for being a gracious host. You were.
Speaker 3Most people do. And I said thank you, sean, for being a very gracious host. I had a wonderful time. And he said oh, doris, thanks for coming. I said, oh my God. And he was like what's wrong. I said nothing's wrong, you know my name. He said I've known your name for the past eight years.
Speaker 2Oh, he's very into it, lord me.
Speaker 3Yes, I just want to say for those who do follow him on social media, and he has his Q&As and even if he posts something and you reply and you think he's not paying attention, he doesn't know, Always know that he does know you may not get a response or a thumbs up or a heart or whatever you're looking for, but he keeps all of his followers in mind.
Speaker 2Yeah, this trip is done. You come back home. What is your favorite memory of the whole trip? Do you have one? Yep, which part's that? When he kissed me on the cheek. Oh okay, all right, that's always nice.
Speaker 4Yeah, tracy was so stunning and elegant and feminine and gave her a little pin and she put it on her blouse and I know she really probably didn't want to put it there, but she did and that just shows you how big her heart is, so I'm so grateful to her as well.
Speaker 2And I think you're reminding her of her first crush, if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 4Yes, yes, and it was little, and I knew it was something she would think was special, because she shares our first crush with us. So I thought I would share a little piece of hers. Sure, why not?
Speaker 3This is going to sound weird, but I just loved cracking up talking and laughing with Sean's neighbors. Yeah.
Speaker 5Those guys were hilarious.
Speaker 3They made me feel like I was just part of their little community, nice. It was such a fun time with them.
Speaker 2Right and thank you to Tracy yeah, and what about the other night? He gave you a little hint on what's to come.
Speaker 3Well, at the party he did say that if we stay tuned and watch the social, we will see an announcement.
Speaker 2And lo and behold, guess what he did.
Speaker 3yes, Sean Cassidy announced that he's going to do another little Christmas tour thanks to his friends at City Winery. Yay, we love City Winery, we love City Winery. And I guess City Winery reached out to him the East, more East Coast people. We reached out and asked him if he wanted to do a little Christmas show.
Speaker 2Yeah, because he wasn't going to tour this year. It was not in the plan.
Speaker 3And he booked and signed and announced concerts.
Speaker 2Yep. All right, so the dates that he has listed is 12-28, december 28th in New York, also 12-29 in New York, and also he's going to Boston on December 31st and Philadelphia on January 2nd.
Speaker 3You know how cool it would be to spend New Year's Eve at a Sean show.
Speaker 2Wouldn't that be cool. He hasn't done that on New Year's Eve yet.
Speaker 3No, I'm thinking that's going to be kind of exciting.
Speaker 2I think last year it was all Christmas, not New Year's.
Speaker 3Right and most of his shows are early shows, so hopefully for the New Year's Eve show he'd make it a little later so that at midnight everyone's together.
Speaker 2That would be fun. Who knows, who knows? But that was a nice surprise, wasn't it? Yeah, who knows?
Speaker 3That was a nice surprise, wasn't it? Yeah Well, ladies, you know what month, it's December, right? And this? Is also a time for celebrating, giving back, spending time with family and friends. But something else happened in December almost 50 years ago.
Speaker 4December 11, 1976. I remember that Jack Cassidy he 11, 1976.
Speaker 3I remember that Jack Cassidy. He was only 49.
Speaker 2Jack Cassidy perished in a fire Sean, patrick and Ryan and David's father. Yes, at such a young age. I remember when it came out on the news and I felt very sad for David. Back then I didn't know Sean yet, but I really felt bad for David and Shirley. You know that's where my heart went to when I heard that. I didn't know the details, but it was just a sad event.
Speaker 3And I was so sad when I heard it because I had watched Jack on his TV. You know, like Lumbo, yeah, and like I said once or twice before, he hosted this TV special called Soak, a Set of Stars.
Speaker 1And he was the ringleader.
Speaker 4It was crazy, yes, but you know he won an Emmy.
Speaker 2He won so many different things, but the best that he gave this world was four beautiful boys Right, and his boys did say he had the most talent of anybody in the family.
Speaker 3Right, and his boys did say he had the most talent of anybody in the family. Why don't we dedicate this Christmas?
Speaker 2episode of Loving.
Speaker 3Memory to Jack.
Speaker 2Cassidy, good idea.
Speaker 3Everybody misses Jack Cassidy. Well, we had a great time, dame and I. It was such a beautiful once-in-a-lifetime event and I'm so happy I got to spend it with my co-host, dame. Yes, thank you, and me with you. So I hope everyone enjoyed our little recap and I just want to wish everybody a very happy and safe holiday season.
Speaker 2Yes, merry Christmas, happy holidays, however you celebrate it.
Speaker 1However you celebrate it. I've thought of you in far off places Gilda, gilda, tilda, billy, lily, faye.
Speaker 2Without you, dear old pals, I Thank you from the bottom of our teen dream hearts. Keep on crushing. Always believe in magic.
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