A Princess Cruise for a King!

Belly up to the Captain's Table! In this episode, Mr. B recounts his travels to the Caribbean on a Princess Cruise Line ship, shares his take on the places he visited and introduces a whole new "Travel With Mr. B" theme song we think you'll really enjoy! (Stay all the way to the very end for the full version!) He also discusses the Second Step (part 1) in his recovery journey, reviews all the films he watched at sea as well as his second part of the best films of 2025 and (because he enjoys lists) completes his alphabetical favorites from the Elton John catalog. It's a feast indeed so "Come along, with Mr. B!"

Producer's Note: Because today is April Fool's Day - the lazy producer decided to not cut every film and Elton John song Mr. B reviewed - HA - HA!

Transcript

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It's time for dinner. Ding dong ding dong ding dong. From the creative mind of Scott Bertelson, after four decades of teaching our impressionable youth the dinner belt, you are invited to enjoy conversational morsels for the mind at Mr. B's dinner party.

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Yeah, dinner!

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Who can it be now? Who can it be now? Well take a guess!

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That's right, it's Mr. B. Mr. B's got a table so wide. Pull up a chair, let your worries slide. School days, tales, and a movie or two. He's serving up wisdom with a side of stew. Belly up to the table, my friend. The feast of thought will never end. From travels far to a spiritual climb. Morsels of music served in rhyme.

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Oh my goodness, my happy podcast friends. I hope that you have a hearty appetite because I have a plethora of tidbits that I'd like to share with you today. And I'm so glad that you're taking time out of your schedule to listen to me and hear what I've got to say. And I respect and I love you all. So let's get started, my friends.

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Let's have a seat round the proverbial table. Would you like to say Grace? With a nod to our higher power and Mr. B's spiritual journey.

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My happy spiritual friends, you might remember that we are on our journey through the 12 steps and 12 traditions of this disease. And I've been sharing from you, excuse me, I've been sharing with you. Okay, uh some readings about the steps. And we've talked about step one already. And now we are on step two, and this is part two of step two. So I am going to continue. When we were around other people, we smiled and agreed when we really wanted to say no. Some of us were unable to stand up for ourselves in abusive relationships. We felt we deserved the abuse, or we focused on other faults and thought for hours about what they should do to solve their problems while our own problems went unsolved. Compulsive overeaters are often people of extremes. May I say that would be me. We overreacted to slight provocations while ignoring the real issues in our lives. We were obsessively busy, then we were wiped out and unable to act. We were wildly excited, then deeply depressed. We saw the whole world in black and white. If we couldn't have it all, we didn't want any. If we couldn't be the best, we didn't want to play the game. Little by little, we saw how much pain our way of life was causing us. Gradually, we came to believe we needed change. In all of life, as well as with the food, we were irrational, unbalanced, insane. If our willpower and determination couldn't change our unsuccessful way of living, what could? Clearly, a power greater than ourselves had to be found if we were to be restored to sanity. At this point, most of us had trouble for one reason or another with step two. Some of us did not believe in God. We despaired of finding a solution to our problems if that meant we had to quote find God, unquote. Some of us walked out of our first meeting when we heard that three-letter word mention and didn't return until years more of compulsive eating had made us desperate. Those of us who stuck around made a wonderful discovery. This program does not tell us we have to believe in God. Only a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. We were invited to define that power however we wished and relate to it whatever way worked for us. We only have to remain open to spiritual growth and tolerance for others by neither criticizing nor promoting specific religious doctrines. Ours is a spiritual program, not a religious one. We have no creeds or doctrines, only our own experiences of recovery. Atheists and agnostics are welcome and have found recovery. How have we who were not believers in God, come to believe in a higher power? It usually started as we sat at a meeting and experienced the camaraderie of our fellow compulsive overeaters. Here were people who understood us and cared about us. We could be totally honest about ourselves and they still accepted us unconditionally. This acceptance grew into love, carrying with it a message and power that seemed to stay with us. It was not too great a leap to believe that this shared love was a power greater than ourselves that could lead us to sanity. Before long, we usually asked other people to be our sponsors. Most of us chose someone with whom we felt a kinship or in whom we saw recovery. As we developed personal relationships with our sponsors, the love of the OA group came to us in a deeper way. They answered our questions, listened to our problems, shared our tears and laughter, and guided us in recovery as we helped us apply these principles in our lives. For the first time ever, we felt the relief of not having to face our problems alone. This relationship was a higher power in which we could believe. However, we are human. Sometimes when our group or sponsor fails us in some way, we feel cut off from the support which had come to mean so much to us and our new sanity seems threatened. We now needed a more reliable way of relating to a higher power. At this point we learned we could act as if. Once we identified this power for ourselves, we found we felt at ease with it. Then we began to act as if such a power existed and we found good things happening to us as a result. Little by little, as we experienced changes for the better in our lives, we came to believe in a power greater than ourselves which could restore us to sanity. Many of us had asked God to help us control our weight, and this prayer hadn't worked. Later, we understood why our pleas for help seemed to fall on deaf ears. What we were really asking God to do was remove our fat while allowing us to go on eating whenever we wanted, whenever we wanted. Most of us also needed to learn to ask other people for help and let God speak to us through our fellow friends. For all of us, atheists, agnostics, agnostics, and religious ones alike, coming to believe was something that happened as we began taking actions which others told us had worked for them. Whether or not we believed these actions would work for us didn't seem to matter. Once we took the action and saw it work, we began to believe. Then we tried other suggestions and our lives began to be transformed. This willingness to act on faith, then, was the key to step two. It was the beginning of a healing process that would relieve us of the compulsion to overeat and bring stability to our unbalanced lives. We had begun to develop a new relationship with a power greater than ourselves, and we were ready to move ahead with our program of recovery. So, my happy spiritual friends, as next time we'll start with step three. Keep in mind for step two we came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. It was said very well in the words that I shared with you. But my higher power, as I've shared with you many times, is God, and you can choose whomever or whatever you want as your higher power, but you have to believe that a higher power can relieve you of this disease, this insanity, this terrible illness. But it's on a daily basis. Every day you have to turn it over, you have to give it to a higher power, and that higher power will relieve you of your compulsive eating desires. It's true, my friends. It works, my friends. I'm a living testament to that. Not that it's always easy every day, but it is worth it to be free, free of the compulsion to overeat, as I was addicted to this for so many years, and the impact that it had on my life. Thanks to my higher power on a daily basis, I no longer have to feel glut gluttonous anymore. Instead, I feel joy. Okay, my happy friends. And I do like to leave Iowa occasionally. Do I like coming back? Oh, absolutely. But this winter has really been hard for Mr. B. And I decided that I needed to go to a warmer climate. So I got on a cruise ship. I did. Oh my goodness, was it fun, fun, fun? Now, Mr. B has surely uh cruised before. This time I cruised by myself. Now, I would rather go with a friend or maybe a relative, maybe, but but this time it just didn't work because I booked this at a last moment and I couldn't find anybody to go with me. But I'm okay with myself, and I knew there were other people on the ship, and I needed some uh tranquility in the sense of some uh alone time. So I left on January 28th. I went to Minneapolis and I stayed overnight, left my car there, got up early, early, early the next morning, had to be to the shuttle from the motel to take me to the airport, Minneapolis Airport, at 3:30 in the morning. Uh-huh, that's right. And flew from Minneapolis to Nashville, had a layover of a couple hours, not too bad, and then flew from Nashville into Houston. And then once I got to Houston, I booked all of this through the Princess Cruise lines, was picked up by an Uber and taken to Galveston, which was about an hour's drive. And there I stayed overnight at Galveston, and uh the next morning got on a bus at nine o'clock with all these other happy cruise people, and away we went to get on the cruise ship. And I was on the Regal Princess. I've done many cruises through Princess Cruises. I'm very, very impressed with that cruise line. I feel very satisfied with what uh they have in terms of service on the ship. And of course, the food. And yes, I did eat abstinently. Oh, yes, I did. Mm-hmm. I did. You can do that. There are lots of choices for abstinent eating. So anyway, uh got on the ship Sunday, the first, February 1st, and then on Monday, we were at sea all day, and uh I did a lot of walking, went to some uh shows. They have a beautiful theater there. And throughout the cruise, I saw uh three gals who did Country Western music saluting uh country western female stars, they were very good. I saw two production shows, one was called Bravo, which is um a great ensemble uh cast show where they sing all these uh famous uh Broadway songs, very elegant, and then I saw a show called uh Dancing, where they uh recreated some dance scenes from 14 different musicals, and that was really, really breathtaking. Also saw a magician uh perform some tricks, which is very interesting. I'm not a huge fan of magicians, but I enjoyed the show. Uh, and then um also saw a young man who I can't think of his name right now, old age, uh, who did country western music and he was very, very good. And so they also had a comedian on stage, uh excuse me, in a lounge, and he was very funny. And then they had music throughout the ship. They have various bars and um drinking establishments on the ship, and um I heard some um jazz groups, I heard some blues groups, uh, heard some piano playing. Really great, really, really great. So found that enjoyable, so highly enjoyable. But anyway, I digress. Are you shocked? Anyway so we were on water on Monday. Tuesday, we arrived to Cazamel, and Cazumel is a largely undeveloped Mexican island in the Caribbean Sea, and it's very well known for cruise ships. A lot of scuba diving going on there. Did I scuba dive? Oh no, oh no. I did not. But when I was in Cazamel, I describe it as a perfect day because I could wear shorts and a t-shirt, much different from the below zero temperatures that we experience in January. And went on a tour and went to uh the capital city and heard all of the vendors barking at you from their shops. They sit outside their shops and they uh try to have you come in. They'll try to uh entice you, so to speak, to come in to buy their wares. And uh that's a little nauseating after a while, but that's how they make their living. And uh also saw a lady covered with birds. You might remember the pigeon lady from Home Alone 2. That's what she reminded me of. And she had pigeons all on her everywhere on her body as she fed them, and uh it was quite unique, quite, quite unique. And then we got back on the bus, and we went to a spot where they had uh Mayan statues of Mayan gods, and that was really interesting, and then we got back on the bus, and then we went to a private beach. Oh yes, and Mr. B dipped his toes into the ocean. I didn't go swimming, but I did um feel the warmth of the ocean water, and it was crystal clear, the beaches were white, beautiful, and it was just I just soaked in the sun. Oh, and so then I got back on the cruise ship, and then the next day we went to Belize, B-E-L-I-Z-E. Now you might be asking, where is Belize? Well, it's a country on the eastern coast of Central America, with Caribbean Sea shorelines to the east and jungle to the west, and there's a huge Belize barrier reef offshore, which I didn't do any kind of scuba diving. I just I just can't do that. I just it's not within my makeup. Uh but they do have Mayan ruins, and I did get to go to uh one of the sites of the Mayan ruins, and um it they speak English there, and it is absolutely gorgeous. And I went on another tour, and we went down a river, uh, we were in a boat of uh maybe twenty, twenty-five people, and to look at all of the uh wildlife on the river, and I saw lots and lots of iguanas. Oh, yes, those scaly, gross, disgusting creatures. But maybe I should have a better feeling about a iguana, I'm not sure. Anyway, so saw iguanas, saw cr crocodiles, saw alligators, and it was just gorgeous. The weather was gorgeous, again, t-shirts and uh shorts, very comfortable. And then we stopped for lunch and we had a native meal of chicken and rice, which is a staple for them. Uh they tried to convince us we were eating iguana, but it really was chicken. Anyway, so then we got on a bus and we went to the Mayan ruins, and our tour guide was amazing and told us about the excavation to get this site available for people, and then uh talked about the history of the Mayan people, and this would be my second visit. I've been to uh a Mayan site uh that was close to Cancun when I went there a couple years ago. This one was smaller than the one by Cancun, but it was still very, very exciting. And here we had the opportunity to climb to the top of a Mayan temple. Oh, yes, oh yes. And Mr. B did that. I got my happy little legs on that ladder and up, up, up I went. And it was such a great view from the top. And uh coming down was interesting, but I did get down without killing myself. So that was our day in Belize. And then the next day we went to Rotan. Rotan, which is an island off the country of Honduras. We didn't actually go to Honduras. And in Rotan, you guessed it, I went on another tour. And this tour, uh, we were in a bus, and we um saw the countryside, which had unfortunately a lot of poverty, a lot of garbage, a lot of very um underdeveloped homes, and um unfortunately sometimes very unattractive. And then we went to see some dancers uh dancing to the native music, and we listened to a guy talk about uh uh the agriculture in Rotan. And then they took us to a mini, mini, mini mall where there was a chocolate factory there, and you could go in and buy chocolate, or you could buy a coffee, or whatever that would be. And then after we got off the bus, then there before you could get back onto the cruise ship, there was a beautiful beach there, which once again had uh beautifully uh white waters and uh white sand. And it's a great place to sit and think and meditate and soak up the sun. Yes, and so that's what I did. And then after we were done with Rotan, uh we were on water for two days, and then I came back and arrived in Minneapolis on February 8th, I believe, about 8 30 p.m. at night, and uh called the uh motel where my car was being kept, and they came to the airport and picked me up, didn't have to wait very long at all, and drove back that night and landed back in Forest City, Iowa. So that was my winter excursion. All the flights were great, no delays, everything worked out beautifully, and I'm so glad that I went. Now, these are spots I'll probably never go to again, but it was so enjoyable to enjoy the warmth of these countries and to see a different culture, and to talk to all of these uh knowledgeable tour guides and find out about their uh imports and exports and the type of food they have that they enjoy and their school systems and what the weather patterns are like. Really very culturally invigorating. So there you have it. That's just the highlights of my princess cruise to the Caribbean, and I look forward to more.

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Nothing spoiled here from Comfort Classics to What's Hot Now, film reviews from Mr. B's Rewatchables.

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Now, you know, my happy friends, I couldn't go on a cruise without watching a number of movies. I did the reading, of course, but I also had the pleasure of having a number of different films that I could choose from to watch. And I thought, as I've done before, I would talk about some of my cruise classic movies. Cruise classics. Mm-hmm. What do you think of that? Uh the first one that I saw, it's at this moment of recording, is in theaters here in America, uh, is Dracula, the latest rendition of Dracula, also known as Dracula, a love tale. And of course, we've had many, many film versions of Dracula. This is based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. And it was um released first in France and then had a wide release here uh in the month of February. It received critical, mixed critical reviews and some positive reviews too. Uh of course, I'm not going to go into great detail about it. Uh, it was not my favorite Dracula film. My favorite Dracula film is in 1994, uh Bram Stoker's Dracula, directed by Francis Ford Copla. Sorry, uh Gary Oldman as Dracula. That one I really, really like. And of course, there's been many others, the original Bella Lagozi. There's been Christopher Lee, who portrayed Dracula in films for Hammer films in England, and other movies too. Uh this followed the story of uh Dracula, who um is loses his love and then finds her reincarnated, so to speak, and so then he tries to uh pursue the reincarnation of his love. Uh this one um it had some twists with the story that I didn't necessarily enjoy. Uh instead of having brides of Dracula in the castle, uh, there were um gargoyles who worked for Dracula, and uh they were compute they were poorly computer animated, and so I didn't really care for that. Uh also this story tried to make it more of a love story between Dracula and uh his um love that he wants to have. And um I I just didn't buy it. Uh I just didn't really care for it. Was it beautiful to look at? Yes. Costumes were wonderful, uh, the scenery was wonderful, but I I didn't get the reasoning behind some of the things that were happening in the film. So I don't think I really would recommend it uh unless you're a diehard uh Dracula fan. And if you are, once again, I recommend the Gary Oldman film instead. Then I watched for something completely different, the film Ever After with Drew Barrymore. This is prior to her Drew Barrymore show days, when she was a much younger actress, and uh she played um a Cinderella type person in this story. And I've seen Ever After before a couple times, but I really um suggest that you do see it if you have not, because it does follow the Cinderella story of how she is uh treated very poorly by her stepmother, uh portrayed by Angelica Houston, and um how she comes into uh meeting the prince and then leaving the slipper at the ball. Uh, you don't have a fairy godmother in this film, it's that's different that way. You don't have a magical carriage that takes her to the ball or anything like that, but she does ultimately um end up with the prince, and it's just a really, really feel-good film, and it makes you believe in love, and it makes you believe in magic, and it makes you believe that fairy tales can come true. Uh, another one that I saw, and this is the last one I'm going to mention because the others I have probably already talked about before was The Conjuring Last Rights. This is a fourth conjuring film, and I have seen the other three. Now The Conjuring Last Rights uh is the latest and I supposedly the last film in the conjuring series based on the real life investigations of Ed and Lorraine Warren, who would go into people's homes and exercise a home of demons, uh ghosts, and that's what was covered in the first three films. And this film got mixed reviews, and it certainly wasn't uh a favorite of mine of the conjuring films, but this has become the highest-grossing film in the series. So, anyway, they're thinking about uh making a prequel. So, anyway, so the plot is in 1964, uh Ed and Lorraine are investigating a haunting involving an antique mirror at a curio shop. Uh Lorraine collapses upon seeing a vision of an entity and her unborn child and goes into labor. Ed takes Lorraine to the hospital, but the baby is still born. However, Lorraine's prayers revive the baby, whom she names Judy. We have to make a long story even longer. Twenty-two years later, uh uh they are living in uh Pennsylvania, and this family is living in Pennsylvania, and one of the daughters is given an antique mirror. And then during dinner that night, a kitchen ceiling light suddenly crashes down, and we also learn that Ed Warren uh heart condition is getting worse, so they are told that he probably should not be doing any more of this uh uh supernatural work. Anyway, to make a long story even longer, as I just said, um the Ed and Lorraine go into a home where this mirror seems to possess or a demon inhabits the mirror and is uh making the life of the family there very, very difficult. But as in all happy conjuring stories, uh they do exercise the demon, and the family lives in the house for three more years without further hauntings, and the remains of the mirror are kept within the Warren's Occult Museum, and then their daughter Judy uh gets married, and then the team of Vera and Ed uh retire from that type of work. Now, did it have some scary parts? Yes. Uh was there some jumps? Yes. But it was awfully slow at the beginning. The whole first part of the film was incredibly slow, and it takes until about halfway through before you have any interest in the story whatsoever, and so it didn't really, as they say, grabbed me as I normally have to be grabbed by a film, somewhere near the first 10 or 15 minutes, or otherwise I'm not going to stay with it. But I did stay with this one because I thought maybe there would be a great payoff, and the ending was interesting. But I think the conjuring uh first movie was probably my favorite. So, anyway, saw The Conjuring Last Rights. So those are three of the films that I saw on the ship, and really enjoyed all of them. And I will add that I did again watch 500 Days of Summer, which is always a tradition for me on a cruise ship. And that is that love story uh that came out a number of years ago about this uh summer as a girl, and this guy falls in love with her, and he talks about the 500 days that they shared together before they broke up. And it is again really one of my favorite films, and maybe sometime I'll go into more detail about it. We'll just have to see. So there are my cruise classics.

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My friends, just when you thought it was safe to go to the movies of 2026, I didn't forget that I said that I would do a sequel to my first list of movies for the best of 2025. So here we have the sequel. Part two. All right, I'm going to mention about five or six films. Now there's way more I could mention, but that's what I'm going to do. Some of these I've seen, some I haven't. Some of this is based on what the critics have said, and or just how I feel. Because I have that prerogative. Okay. The first one is Die My Love, which stars Jennifer Lawrence as a new mother battling postpartum depression and psychosis. Now there's a happy subject in one of the most challenging roles. This was filmed while she was actually pregnant with her second child. And it is a very compelling film that I really want to see when it comes to streaming, and uh what it's like to go through an extreme example of postpartum depression. So there's one I would highly recommend. Here's another one called Train Dreams, which you can find on Netflix, which I have seen. And it is a wonderful story about the Earth's resources, the beauty of nature, and what it's like to lead a simple life. I really recommend Train Dreams. And let's see, I would also suggest okay, I'm going to say it, K-pop Demon Hunters. Uh highly, highly, highly popular film with young people. It's on Netflix, it was also theatrically released. Um, but it has a wonderful soundtrack and a really fun plot um where these members of a K-pop girl group face their biggest threat, which is a demon boy band that feeds off people's shame. I'm not making this up. No, this is true. Um it's one of the best animated movies I've ever seen, and I really recommend that you see it for something light and fun that you might just want to take the time to see. Uh then I'm probably going to say that Wicked for Good. I've talked to you about how I feel about both of them. I certainly didn't like Wicked Part 2 for good as much as I liked the first one. But it has some great songs, it has some great scenery, and again, Ariana Grande, Cynthia Arrivo brilliant. So think about that. Zootopia 2. Yes, I did see that. It's very funny. It was a huge, huge, huge, huge moneymaker. I think maybe one of the greatest uh moneymakers of all time for animated films. It broke box office records. Uh it continues the story of Wilde and police officer Judy Hops as they worked to bring reptiles back to Zootopia. It's really funny, and you should see it. Oh, yes, you should. And then probably the last one I'm going to mention for the best of 2025 would be drum roll please. Drum roll please. The wedding banquet. Yes. The wedding banquet is a heartfelt, meaningful film, and it has great uh actors in it, and it centers on a two-couple friend group. And when one needs to get married to appease his grandmother, who does not know yet that he's gay, he has to marry uh somebody else instead of his true love, who isn't quite ready for commitment. And then what happens, of course, is that you have an infectious, what I would call romp through what the ideas of a modern family should look like. And um and Boeing Yang is in it, and he used to be on Saturday Night Live for many years. He just left uh this season and he is also in um Wicked and he is very, very good in this. So let it not be said that I don't follow up. So that's some of the films that you should be thinking about to watch on streaming or to um rent uh or to see on a cable station.

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Speaking of those sequels you might recall that I was uh giving you some of my favorites of one of the greatest performers of all time Elton John but I was doing I was doing it alphabetically. Isn't that ingenious? Mm-hmm so I am going to now share with you my third installment of my favorite Elton John songs and one I'm now on the eyes. Okay? All right so I don't want to go on with you like that. I love that song from the album Red Strikes Back 1988. I don't want to go on with you like that. I won't sing anymore. Okay. Let's see what would be another good I one oh yes oh yes um if the river could bend from the big picture 1997 that's a good one they're all good oh Island Girl Rock of the Westies album 1975 Island Girl oh love that love that I'm just giving these recommendations so you will go to Spotify and find these albums and if you're not familiar with Elton John as an artist you should be you need to be because he is amazing and you need to experience that all right let's go to the J's let's see uh the only one that I would probably mention for that would be just like Noah's Ark that comes from the Captain and the Kid 2026 I like that song uh let's go to the Cavs through the L's yes we have Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds came out in 1974 that's a rendition of the cover of the Beatles song really enjoy that one Little Genie from the album 21 and 33 in 1980 I recommend that one let's go to um M through N's how about the song uh oh The Man Who Never Died which is on the second side the B side of Nikita in 1985 really like that song very much I like all his songs I never tire of his songs Alright let's go to um O through Powbo the song Philadelphia Freedom 1975 oh what a great tribute to talking about our country Pinball Wizard from the Tommy soundtrack 1975 that's really good too you should listen to it let's see and then finally I'm just going to wrap up with um the rest of the alphabet Rocket Man from Honky Chateau 1972 one of the first songs I ever listened to for Elton John oh yeah oh yeah sad song save so much from Breaking Hearts 1984 love that song probably my favorite Saturday Nights Alright for fighting comes from Goodbye Yellowbrick Road in 1973. Oh my gosh a classic many times I'll be driving down the road and if I'm in an Elton John mode or mood or whichever word you want to choose I will go to that one oh my gosh oh let's see oh yes yes yes yes yes oh someone saved my life tonight from Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy 1975 oh then from the big picture something about the way you look tonight I really love that song too sorry seems to be the hardest word comes from the album Blue Moves in 1976 really like that song too he's got quite a few S songs that are really really good so let's say we go to the T's and let's see what we find here. Okay okay Tiny Dancer Mad Men Across the Water 1971 that's a great classic song go with that one you can't go wrong with that one and finally let's look at um the rest of the alphabet and we will probably have to say uh the song Whipping Boy from Too Late for Zero 1983 that's a great album all his albums are great you can't go wrong with Elton John ever. Your song one of his first songs in 1970 that's a great one that's a great one so I guess I've said that a lot for his songs because they're all great every single one he's brilliant he's brilliant he's wonderful he still is recording he doesn't um uh tour anymore but we'll always have him on vinyl we'll always have him on Spotify that we can listen to and there'll be nobody like Reggie So Elton John thank you thank you for the years of enjoyment you have brought to my life through your beautiful beautiful beautiful songs friends that wraps it up for Mr.

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