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Hi, this is Frank Radice and we're here at Red Touch media and i'm with the famous Dickie
Smothers. This is just a wonderful thing for me, let me ask you a question Dickie. What
is it you're doing here? I understand you have a new program that you're pitching. Yeah,
well, i'm really pleased to be here, but i'm having more senior moments and I got in this
hotel and I said, now why am I in this room? What did I come here for? I think I have to
go back to LA and start all over again, but it's not that bad. No, i'm here launching
a solo career and it is a new career. It's not like, Tommy and I worked together for
50 years and the metaphor is, that was 50 years of college and they were great years.
50 years of a marriage and we fed off each other, we loved each other, we argued. We
had every profile of a married couple, without the sex. We're glad about the no sex by the
way. He's tired, he's done, he wants to just relax and I have so much energy. I'm taking
care of myself and i've always wanted to know, can I go out by myself without relying on
being a terrific straight man through Tommy and him carrying me? You know, you wonder.
So i'm coming out with A Minute With Dickie Smothers. It's a little, say human interest
lifestyle, whatever, on my take on life after 20 years of sobriety, after 4 marriages, after
ups and downs of our television career and just life in general. And making a lot of
mistakes, a lot of learning and when I look at life I have a little smile about everything.
Like the Dalai Lama, now i'm getting the Dalai Lama. It all doesn't matter. Just treat everyone
with consideration and love and look at things! I'm looking at things so much different today
and with a minute and a half with Dickie I just say for instance, "Hey, if you're happy
tell your face!" Do you ever walk in a room and see sour pusses? Yeah, and happy people?
You're going to go to the happy person, right? Now, watch out for the fake smilers. Fake
smilers, you can't trust them, but a genuine sour ***. You know what you're dealing with.
So there's a little discernment in life and with a little smile, a little whimsy and we're
going to throw it out there, see what happens and today we start our new website. I am so
tickled to death. What's the URL of the website? it's dickiesmothers.com. As well it should
be. Yeah, and it's better than my expectations ever thought. I've greeted people in there
and I had great photographers and they, somehow I photograph better now more than ever. You
look fantastic. Well thank you, but my brain is getting mush. There's somewhere there should
be a crossing where we can perceive and enjoy and appreciate life and still be smart enough
to do something about it. That little tiny moment in time. Yeah, oh one of my minutes
is, don't dwell on the senior moments. Like, I started with a senior moment. It's not funny,
but we do forget things. Even as kids. My mother put my mittens together with a string
so I wouldn't lose them. So we forgot from the start, but I say to people okay, forget
these senior moments. The birthdays that lost their luster, lets focus on junior moments.
Remember when you go in a room and you pick up the things you're looking for, you know
where you're going. Those are wonderful. Look at the things you can still do with life,
with perspective, with wisdom, you've made mistakes. man, I love hanging out with older
people. Phyllis Diller used to say, we worked with her very early in our career, she said
"I hate young women with their student bodies" and that's funny. That's funny, but experience
gives you something else, as we get older we don't have student bodies, but hopefully
we've learned things, to appreciate things and to make wiser decisions. The only people
that don't have a problem are in Force Slum, they're dead and I intend to have a long life.
Okay, I enjoy my celebrity. I didn't ask for it, everywhere I walk I get the cache and
the smiles of people who want to share their life experience that they had with the Smothers
Brothers when they were younger. Maybe with their father who's passed on, it was his favorite
show. When I think of you I think of dad. When I was a little kid and mom and dad would
say you can't watch those guys! and we used to sneak downstairs and look through the balcony.
They're sharing moments and those things come when you don't ask for them, they're gifts
back. Life gave us some wonderful experiences. Saturday Night Live, you know we were offered
that after we were fired and it's a good thing we didn't accept it. It would not even be
close to the great show it became. Now I thought you hosted Saturday Night Live. A few times,
but it needed fresh blood. Fresh blood. tommy would've come in with his political agenda
and he didn't quite get it. Tom has a great heart, but some comics put that in. That's
their meep Bill Riley, not Bill Riley but Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, George Carlin they
can say those absurd things and that's their nature. When Tommy, his heart was on his sleeve
and he wasn't funny. He was funny being Tom, the guy that, Seldom Right But Never in Doubt,
like a child and anyway so today i'm walking around NATPE. I didn't know that people were
going to ignore me, not know or not care and they could say I love you, good memories,
but do they want to buy me today? Do I have anything that the people that remember the
Smothers Brothers? Well I have something to say when they catch me on a news program,
or they catch me on a streaming thing. They'll smile at the memory. I just hope they like
what my take is on life. The world is a better place with you in it, I'll tell you that Dickie.
This is Frank Radice for Red Touch Media, our continuing series on The Future of Content,
see you next time!