Kevin Spacey Is My OJ

A ride with a nonprofit professional reveals how rural communities face unique challenges, especially with transportation access. Conversations wander through Kevin Spacey encounters, DC's revitalized Wharf district, and nostalgic pre-9/11 White House memories that bridge personal and national history.

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Intro

Speaker 1 0:11

Welcome to another episode of Rideshare Road Talk Conversations in Motion, a podcast where we create unfiltered talk space that examines the meaningful lives of my passengers while engaging in personal and topical discussions. The meaningful lives of my passengers while engaging in personal and topical discussions. I'm your host and driver, John Foddus, and we're cruising the streets of Washington DC. Buckle up, let's drive. Before we get started on today's podcast, I need to throw a shout out to my Oyster Jamboree people. This is a group I met last week. They couldn't come onto the show, but we had such a great time talking about stuff and laughing. I need to know how your evening wound up. Reach out to me through the pod, let's talk and let's try to get you out. Let's drive.

AZ Rural Community Non-Profit

Speaker 2 1:00

I'm with a nonprofit that we specifically do project type work. We can go in, for example, and work with a rural community college to build out new programming for what employers in that community need in their current workforce of the future. So that's like project stuff. Then we do just ongoing high level stuff like an annual forum for all things rural. So anybody who works in and for rural they might be at a state agency or a non-profit tribal tribes are included of course, yeah you do a big event to bring them all together and just help them share best practices, resources, tips.

Speaker 2 1:43

Arizona has seven million people in it. The vast majority of them are in Phoenix or Tucson, and one million of them are then spread out in the other 13 counties.

Speaker 1 1:53

Okay, you must be in some seriously wide open spaces.

Speaker 2 1:57

Well, they're just little communities. You know that it is too bad, because there are a lot of people who, if they don't have enough money to have like a local little bus system, even or something, they're really, if you don't drive, you're dependent on friends and family. You know, there's just not really any way around. But you have to remember this, because we do big events that we take out to rural and people coming in from Phoenix Tucson think I'll get a lift and we have to tell them no, you won't.

Speaker 2 2:27

It's part of the urban-rural divide.

Speaker 1 2:29

You'll get a horse. You'll get a horse, yeah.

Speaker 2 2:32

So I feel lucky to be a part of it. It's one of those grassroots kind of movements, I guess, so to speak, right Isn't that?

Speaker 1 2:40

fascinating how things germinate and kind of grow from just little seeds like that. Yeah, that's the reward is seeing that right grow and yeah, hopefully that next person when they've expanded and they send the elevator back down and do the same thing, and yeah, I love that.

Kevin Spacey

Speaker 2 2:57

That's a good analogy. I can't claim it?

Speaker 1 2:59

I think Kevin Spacey, remember Kevin Spacey.

Speaker 2 3:03

Yes, I do Remember the guy who was around.

Speaker 1 3:07

Kevin Spacey is my OJ. I don't care what he did, I love him to death.

Speaker 2 3:11

He's a talented actor, talented actor yeah. What is the story with him, by the way? Is he out in the world again?

Speaker 1 3:22

I think he's struggling. I don't think he's recovered from the initial hit of the scandal or allegations and all that stuff.

Speaker 2 3:31

Which was what?

Speaker 1 3:32

I think it was like Eight years.

Speaker 2 3:34

Well, maybe not eight years, five, that'd be a while, isn't it? It has been a while it has been a while.

Speaker 1 3:40

On paper it didn't sound good, but in reality, who knows if it's consensual, the age thing, I don't know. Yeah, I don't pretend to know.

Speaker 2 3:48

He was one of those actors. I never really knew anything about his personal life and I thought he was just one of those deeply personal um private celebrities you know, so that makes it hard. When that kind of thing goes public, you're like I'm working with nothing, I don't know anything about the man. Yeah, as far as you know.

Speaker 1 4:06

I met him once. Oh, you did Pretty cool. In a past life I was a photojournalist here in town so I'd go to the White House Correspondents' Dinner every year and that used to be a really, really fun event yeah, it was a signature big deal. Yeah, event, yeah it was a signature, big deal, yeah, and so you know. It's in the um called the hinkley hilton.

Speaker 1 4:27

We know where reagan was shot back in the 80s every year it would happen, uh, at that, with the washington hilton in the main ballroom, but down in the basement level all the salons were like the after parties were, and the pre-parties okay, and after the event vanity fair would have like a big function and there's some mansion next door or something like that. And so we happened across just to say hello you know, and he was just in the room having a drink and found him very, very engaging, very gregarious.

Speaker 1 4:58

I wouldn't call him private at all. Yeah, interesting and he was a little aggressive with. You know language and you know what he was into and you know whatever interesting.

Speaker 2 5:06

And he was a little aggressive with.

Speaker 1 5:07

You know language and you know what he was into and you know whatever man it's you're into, what you're into, yeah. But you know, as long as it doesn't run astray of the law, I guess you're fine, right?

Speaker 2 5:15

It's interesting. I'm trying to remember if I ever even saw him and, like you know, late night talk show, interview or anything. I don't think I ever did. I really have no idea what his personality would be like, but that is not what.

Speaker 1 5:26

I would have guessed what you're describing, so that's interesting yeah um hell of an actor. Oh my god yeah, he is.

DC Theatre Scene & The Wharf

Speaker 2 5:33

Yeah, no doubt, it's just a shame what happened? I'm about to find out a little bit about the dc theater world, and it's at this folger theater which I've never heard of but, looked up the Shakespeare Library and theater in the same place, so it looks like they might have some really cool stuff going on if it's open now I assume they'd keep it open if the theaters got a show.

Speaker 1 5:58

Arena Stage is also a very popular place as well for shows and theater and things and that's over at the wharf area, which is this revitalized area along the water. It's very cool.

Speaker 2 6:09

Oh.

Speaker 1 6:10

Yeah.

Speaker 2 6:11

Was it all industrial before, Like just a harbor kind of wharf it was.

Speaker 1 6:16

I don't know what it was. It was kind of just like a wasteland of third tier motels and restaurants that no one on earth would go to and there's this really great old school like fish market that they kept, thank God, because aesthetically it's really cool, oh yeah, but they just blew it out with like retail and restaurants and hotels and there's this wonderful live music venue there called Anthem.

Speaker 2 6:42

Oh nice.

Speaker 1 6:44

You should check it out if you have some time at least.

Speaker 2 6:45

Yeah, I always get these tips too late.

Speaker 1 6:48

I've been here all week, oh my gosh. And now I leave tomorrow and I could have done that.

Speaker 2 6:51

Yeah, but I'll file it away for next time.

The White House Christmas Party

Speaker 1 6:54

There'll be a next time, for sure, for sure. Right before I picked you up, I was dropping someone off at Cafe Milano and they had a service detail and they kind of came over to the car, asked me to keep moving and my first instinct was like well, who the hell are you?

Speaker 2 7:11

maybe I will, maybe I won't flash the badge, and I was like oh, right, okay okay, yeah.

Speaker 1 7:16

I used to. I used to have the eagle, and so I know what the deal is. Oh really that was a fun time when they just had a hard pass and you could just come and go from the white house. Uh, just pre-9-11 yeah and you could. Um fourth july you could take guests out to the south lawn to watch the fireworks and heck little summer, uh, spring ice cream socials, and they had the christmas party and all that. It was really fun.

Speaker 1 7:40

That sounds so american I was a disaster high school student, so I mean I mean disaster, oh my disaster, oh my God. I mean I was smart, I just didn't care.

Speaker 2 7:50

Yeah.

Speaker 1 7:51

Yeah, and I tortured my poor mother, but I took her to a White House Christmas party and it's like the universe, the universe came back together.

Speaker 2 8:02

She's like I forgive you, that's amazing.

Speaker 1 8:07

Anyway, just had this great moment standing on the North Portico and just like, when was that, oh gosh? That was when Clinton was there, so 98-ish.

Speaker 2 8:15

Yeah.

Speaker 1 8:16

And it was just this great moment. We're just standing out there at night and she's like what a wonderful memory with your mom. How did this happen?

Speaker 2 8:26

I'm like I don't know, take it all. She's like do they know who you are?

Speaker 1 8:28

they let you in exactly, there was a background check he knew too much your mother.

Show Wrap

Speaker 2 8:35

Yeah, it's good stuff. It is such a beautiful city, though when you visit it you know you're all around all this beautiful architecture but. I wonder what like living here is. Like you know, because I'm like people probably just get sick of it or blind to it, right?

Speaker 1 8:47

it's very pretty at night. Yeah, traffic lays down, it's just.

Speaker 2 8:53

It can be very captivating, for sure you know just the history, things are so old, you know out west. Native American. Everything is, of course, old and ancient, but the settled stuff is like the pioneering newer, and we also just tear things down. It's like, oh, it's 20 years old, let's rip that out. It's crazy.

Speaker 1 9:16

All right, this has got you on the corner, I think.

Speaker 2 9:23

Thank you so very much.

Speaker 1 9:24

It was lovely chatting with you absolutely ride, share, road talk right share road talk you got one more listener.

Speaker 2 9:32

Thanks,