January 4, 2024 • 21 mins
BONUS EPISODE! The first ever "Ask Kevin Anything" features Kevin fielding questions from his biggest fans and those that have called in or sent a message with their very own questions. Nothing is off the table as Kevin shares stories about his past films, his personal life, and organizations that we weren't able to feature in this season of Six Degrees with Kevin Bacon. Tune in for laughs and lots of fun as Kevin chats with Stacy Huston, Executive Director of SixDegrees.org
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Wow, this season has been so great and I'm very
proud to say we have been number one in nonprofit
podcasts all season. I'm telling you that means so much
to me and everybody here at six degrees dot org
that so many of you are tuning in to listen
to us talk to change makers and doing great work
(00:27):
and some really meaningful stuff. I just want to thank
you all for your warm reception. And also, you know,
people have reached out to me or have stopped me
on the street or you know, and talked about something
that they've learned or experienced or been touched by with
a podcast, and that means the world to us. So
this is the first time now that we're going to
(00:49):
try doing something a little different. We put out a
request on our socials a few weeks ago and asked
you all to leave me a voicemail with your comment
events and questions about uh, you know, about well almost anything.
I mean, it's been really fun. It's really fun here
in your messages on my voicemail and reading them in
(01:11):
my inbox. So keep them coming, folks, please, and let's
stay connected. I'm glad you're here. All right, Here we
go Stacey Houston, who runs six degrees dot Org, has
joined us once before in our Giving Tuesday episode. Hi Stace,
(01:35):
welcome back.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Good to be here.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
keV yep, good to see you. So here we are
with the ask anything feature. Should I be scared?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I mean, we definitely did some filtering, but no.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
For the most part, these these questions were pretty pretty tame,
just a couple wanting you to marry them, but most
very interested in the work and your music and your career.
So it's yeah, it's been so much fun.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Oh cool, cool, Okay, well, what do we do far away?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Give me a question?
Speaker 4 (02:13):
So our first question is from Amelia Heapner. I love
this question, and part of it is because my husband
Danny this is his favorite film of yours.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
So we haven't.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, yeah, it's like exactly exactly.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
I'm like, hold it together. It does say a lot
about him though, for this film. I'm like, oh, this
is your favorite. Okay, that's great. It's a lot of
people's favorites. And her question is has your opinion on
the movie Tremor's changed over time and how do you
feel about the popularity that has gained over the years.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Because it's definitely like a cult following, right.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, it is, it's and it's Yeah. Has my opinion
about it changed well, I think in a way, yeah,
it kind of has, because honestly, when I took the movie,
I was in a very low point in my career
and a low point in terms of there was a
(03:19):
lot of stuff just kind of going on personally that
I was feeling a lot of sort of pressure around.
My wife had just gotten pregnant with our first child
with Travis, and my mother had been diagnosed with cancer,
and I was felt like we were running out of
(03:40):
money and had all this kind of responsibility and all
this stuff going on. And I remember, while I really
liked the script, I thought to myself, this is a
pretty risky thing because this is a movie about underground worms,
and it's just kind of scary and sort of funny
and silly, and I don't know, this just seems like
(04:00):
this could be a disaster, you know. And but I
so I had a lot of doubts about it and
a lot of kind of fear about making the movie.
I loved making it. We were up in Lone Pine, California.
Have you ever driven through Long Pine stace you probably have.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
I haven't really unless is it kind of like the
is it the same as a trail all one hundred
giants like the big trees or no.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
It's like.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
It's about three and a half hours of three hours
north of LA but sort of inland, not on the coast,
and it's a really cool little town. It's been beautiful
rock formations and stuff that they used for old Westerns
and shot stuff up there in Hollywood. It was a
(04:51):
tiny little town. They built that town the you know,
the perfection, the tremors town out in the middle of
the desert. My wife was at that point nine months
pregnant and driving down to Los Angeles for her you know,
doctor's appointments because there was no hospital up there, so
(05:13):
we were really terrified that she was going to go
into labor while we were While we were doing it,
they had a uh I think about an hour away
or something. There was a midwife, but that was the
closest that we could we could get. So that was
everything was just kind of like intensified in my life
and the whole thing. Uh I had a great time
(05:34):
making the movie. Unfortunately, when the movie came out, it
just didn't people just didn't go. I don't think that
they did a great job of marketing it, as you know.
What I've learned over the years is that scary funny
is oftentimes a tough thing for people to get their
(05:54):
heads around. It's getting better, like now, there's been you know,
a bunch of movies that have kind of been able
to you know, work.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
That both both of those ideas together.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
But although it was huge on video, and this is
back in the days of Blockbuster, so nobody went to
the theater to watch it, but a lot of people
rented it, and to the point where they made part
two and three, and four, and five and six, seven,
eight nine, They just kept making them.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I remember walking to Blockbuster and picking out a movie
every Friday. Really yeah, it's like surreal that my kids
will never have that, you know kind of memory.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yeah, it was to pick their own video, you know.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah, yeah, in the kids section, you know, And yeah,
I remember doing that with my kids. It really was.
It was a it was interesting. I mean, listen, that's great,
you know whatever, streaming, you know, it's everything these days
is at our fingertips. But and I never would have
(07:04):
thought at the time, this is an experience that we'll
ever never well we will someday, not have I just
wouldn't have thought that. The idea of going and getting
this tape and bringing it home, Oh my gosh. And
you remember trying to like record things on tape on TV,
like so tis nightmare, total nightmare.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Well that would be your parents trying to do that.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Right.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Here's a funny story.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
I'm digitalizing all my family home videos now, and there'll
be like a birthday party when I'm six, and then
all of a sudden, we'll cut to some like crappy
opening of an HBO Sunday Night movie like the do
you remember like the the be through the drone going
over the town that looked like beetlejuice used to be
the opening credits, And I'm like, did you just cut
(07:53):
off my birthday song?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
At six?
Speaker 4 (07:56):
So for like teen Witch, which also I appreciate because
that's why I love the movie, because I watched it
even though the lines digged across the street and every
time we put it in the VCR.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
But well, my kids will never know or appreciate.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Yeah, it's true, It's true. It's so funny.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, Blockbuster was definitely was definitely a thing. Well, we
were up in the Sticks when we first got married,
and there was no Blockbuster. There was a tiny, little
small town video store and their selection was not great,
(08:37):
to say the least. And there was a woman who
was a pretty tough cookie who ran the video store,
and she would would make decisions about what we were
renting and whether or not it was appropriate and tell us,
I don't think so, dear, I don't think you'll want
that one. Dear No, No, I hope you're not showing
(09:00):
that to the kids, Dear No, this was just for us. Okay, okay,
good luck with that one. I mean really, like literally
she was constantly doing her own you know, reviews of
of of what was appropriate for us to not only
for us to watch, but but you know for the
kids too. So ah, yes, those are the days. But yeah, yeah,
(09:22):
that was a big That was a big Blockbuster hit,
and now it's a hit with Danny.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Yeah, and that's right, full circle. So it was kind
of beneath perfection, but to some people it is perfection, right, right,
that's the riff that most people don't know about if
they haven't gone to one of your shows.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, yeah, that's true. The movie was called Beneath Perfection originally,
and one of my prize possessions is my.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Crew jacket.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
It's an old, you know, nineties Levi's jacket worn in
and on the back of it it says Beneath Perfection.
You know, for those of you that don't know, sometimes
when you're making films or television shows, you know, they
create a piece of what we call swag hat or
(10:17):
jackets or shirts or whatever that you can keep after
the movie is over that has the name of the
movie on it. And so I have the jacket and
I wrote a song while we were doing the movie
called Beneath Perfection because I thought it was a good
title for a song. And my brother and I have
(10:38):
always written songs to try to put them into movies,
which never happens.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
We're just.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Never successful with that, and this was no exception. But
we still play the song and we.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Like the song. It's fun to play. Yeah, it's called
Beneath Perfection.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
And then people like me try to get those jackets
later on and auction them for charity and that's really funky.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Watch out even you just let me in on a secret.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah, Actually, we've never talked about that. I do have
some stuff that we definitely could you know, we definitely
could try to a definitely. Yeah, well, I got boxes,
I got boxes of you know, I don't keep. You know,
there's people that keep a lot of things from movies.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I've heard that Robert de Niro keeps like a prop
or all of his props or something, and as a
giant warehouse of props, which you know, I've always thought
was kind of interesting.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
But it's funny.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I have this thing where when I finished something, like
I'm done with it, Like I don't want to hold
on to like the character or the memory or any
of it. I just I'm ready to like kiss that
character goodbye and move on to the next thing. So
I really have I don't have that much, but I
do have have the one thing I sometimes keep, or
(12:03):
the crew jackets or the crew T shirts or whatever.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
So yeah, that's reasonable.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
You've done some dark characters too, so probably probably good
to walk away from them.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
No, Yeah, you're totally right about that.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
This next question is actually a sound bait, so that's
really fun. People can rate in, or they can go
to our website and they can record a voicemail and
this is from Angeline.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
She thus all the way from down Under.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Hi Kevin. My name is Angelaine and I've been a
huge fan of you pretty much since Footloose. You've got
such a huge fan base in Australia and I'm just
wondering why you've never really come to Australia to films
or even toured with the Bacon Brothers. I actually had
to come all the way to New York to see
you and the Baker Brothers play back in two thousand
(12:50):
and six at the bb.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
King Blues Club.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Highlight of my life. I have to say. My husband
has also told me that I've never he's never seen
me smile so much when I was seeing you and
your brother play. So just hoping you can come to
Australia one day, and just wondering when are you going
to bring here and the kids? Thanks Kevin Finn.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Well, thank you, thank you. Actually, first off, let me
just say thank you to you and to Australia. I
actually love I'll start with just I love hearing the
way you speak. It's just so good. I wish I
could do an Australian accent. I really can. I've never
been asked to do one, so I've never really had
to work on it. But it's it's just it's it's
(13:35):
it's just music to my ears. And wow, you came
all the way to New York to see us play.
That is a long trip. Thank you. Thank you for
being such a fan of the Bacon Brothers and of
you know, the work that I've done. You know, I
have been to Australia a couple of times, but it's
(13:57):
been many, many years, and I loved it when I
was there.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I didn't get a.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Chance really to travel all across the country. It's not
that I have anything against going to that country. I'm
really I would really love to do it. And we've
often spoken as a family about that as a place
to visit, and it would be really fun to go
and do a little tour with the band. So that
is definitely something that is on the list of things
(14:25):
to do, often known as the bucket list.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
I would love to I would love to be there.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I have some very close Australian friends and it would
be really fun to come down and see them as
well and just have a little hang.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
How long is that flight?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Oh my gosh, is it eighteen hours?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Maybe.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I don't know, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Have you ever been.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I haven't.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
It's also on the bucket list in New Zealand. But yeah,
that's a commitment. You know, I have little kids, so
we're gonna have to wait until they're a little bit,
a little bit older for that trip.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Well, I did a movie in New Zealand called Whitewater Summer.
We did some shooting down there, and the reason that
we so we had to stop, we stopped in Australia,
and that's why I ended up up, you know, hanging
out in Sydney for like a I don't know, four
or five days.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
But both both spots are.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Absolutely just beautiful and interesting, and you know, you kind
of we kind of have this kind of mistakenly, you know,
think of them as right next to each other, and they're.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Pretty far apart.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Yeah right, yeah, yeah, I mean they're really very far apart.
But but yeah, I've you know, and there's a lot
of stuff that gets shot down in Australia, you know,
filming wise, but it's just never it's just never come
my way. So I definitely want to I definitely want
to go.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Got to work on that accent, Yeah, exactly, we call
the one thing that Kevin Bacon can't do.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
No, there's plenty of things Kevin Bacon can't do, but
that that is a that's a hard one for sure.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
All Right, so we have time for one more, Okay,
and this is actually a really great one as well.
We got a letter from Dealina Cain and she said,
I'm a big supporter of Sidewalk Angels created by Rob
and Mayor Saul Thomas from their charity I found Tabby's Place.
(16:43):
I would love for you to feature each of these
organizations on your podcast. And thanks for all you do. Well,
thank you, Delina. That's very sweet.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Have you met Rob?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Wow? If I met Rob Thomas Rob Thomas Matchbox twenty,
I don't think so. I don't think so. I don't
have a memory of meeting him. Of course I know
the music very well, and you know he's a great,
great singer. But that's cool that they have this, that
(17:18):
they have this, this foundation, Sidewalk Agents, this is a
this is an animal thing, right yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:25):
They so they really support other no kill animal shelters
and like animal rescues. I think I was reading that
they support over twenty no kill animal shelters and rescue
across the whole country, so kind of much amazing.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
It is.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
It is, and he actually leans into his celebrity and
his talent of seeing. And it looks like they do
kind of like an annual concert benefit every year to
help fundraise, and then that money goes directly to the
shelters to kind of help, you know, rehome animals and
(18:06):
Spade and Newter and helping to teach children kindness and
compassion through the animals. All kinds of really really cool things.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Well, that's great. We actually just we have I didn't
think I even told you this. We have three new
goats at the farm who were you know, they were
in a you know, not a great situation and probably
on their way to auction. Uh and uh so they're
(18:37):
they're with us now.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Another couple of goats uh.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
More got poop. Uh.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
We haven't named them yet, but I'm thinking I'm thinking
about many Moe and Jack. But a lot of people
don't know what that is Manny Mow and Jack with
the pet.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Oh no, I was gonna say that, Yeah, the.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
P that's that's Moe and shep and Curly, which is
my second my second choice. Actually, I don't even know
if I'm going to be naming these goats. But anyway,
that's cool that Rob Thomas is doing that. And you know,
we had Amanda Seyford who was you know, was also
on the show right on the podcast who it was
(19:23):
best Friends, which is another no kill shelter. But this
is really amazing twenty twenty. All of I wonder where
they are?
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Are they are? They just kind of spread out, they are.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
They're spread out all across the country. And Delina who
wrote in, she said she had found Tabby's Place through them,
and Tabby's Place is actually local to New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Oh okay, So Tabby's Place is one of the ones
that's associated Sidewalk Angels exactly exactly.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
That Helpston benefits from the funding that they raise every
and so if anybody is interested in learning more about
this awesome organization, they can head over to Sidewalkangelsfoundation dot org.
There's lots of information about how they raise really critical
(20:16):
funds to support.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
These animals, and.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
You really that they rely on the generosity of you
all and our listeners.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
So we hope you check them out.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yeah, check them out. I'm going to check them out
right now now. If you want to ask me a question,
or you can ask Stacy a question too, by the way,
because Stacy, you're all in with me on this, right, Yeah,
you're willing to feel the questions, thank you.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
No, Rod, If you want to ask either one of
us a question about almost anything, you can head to
our show notes for the link, leave me a voicemail,
or you can send a DM to us at six
degrees of KB on Instagram and links for that will
be in our show notes as well. I'd love to
hear from you. You know, we're I mean, aside from
(21:06):
proposals for marriage, you know, we're open to discussing anything
for sure. All Right, Thanks everybody, Thanks Daisy, see you
next week.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
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Hey, everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Wow, this season has been so great and I'm very
proud to say we have been number one in nonprofit
podcasts all season. I'm telling you that means so much
to me and everybody here at six degrees dot org
that so many of you are tuning in to listen
to us talk to change makers and doing great work
(00:27):
and some really meaningful stuff. I just want to thank
you all for your warm reception. And also, you know,
people have reached out to me or have stopped me
on the street or you know, and talked about something
that they've learned or experienced or been touched by with
a podcast, and that means the world to us. So
this is the first time now that we're going to
(00:49):
try doing something a little different. We put out a
request on our socials a few weeks ago and asked
you all to leave me a voicemail with your comment
events and questions about uh, you know, about well almost anything.
I mean, it's been really fun. It's really fun here
in your messages on my voicemail and reading them in
(01:11):
my inbox. So keep them coming, folks, please, and let's
stay connected. I'm glad you're here. All right, Here we
go Stacey Houston, who runs six degrees dot Org, has
joined us once before in our Giving Tuesday episode. Hi Stace,
(01:35):
welcome back.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Good to be here.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
keV yep, good to see you. So here we are
with the ask anything feature. Should I be scared?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I mean, we definitely did some filtering, but no.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
For the most part, these these questions were pretty pretty tame,
just a couple wanting you to marry them, but most
very interested in the work and your music and your career.
So it's yeah, it's been so much fun.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Oh cool, cool, Okay, well, what do we do far away?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Give me a question?
Speaker 4 (02:13):
So our first question is from Amelia Heapner. I love
this question, and part of it is because my husband
Danny this is his favorite film of yours.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
So we haven't.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, yeah, it's like exactly exactly.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
I'm like, hold it together. It does say a lot
about him though, for this film. I'm like, oh, this
is your favorite. Okay, that's great. It's a lot of
people's favorites. And her question is has your opinion on
the movie Tremor's changed over time and how do you
feel about the popularity that has gained over the years.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Because it's definitely like a cult following, right.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, it is, it's and it's Yeah. Has my opinion
about it changed well, I think in a way, yeah,
it kind of has, because honestly, when I took the movie,
I was in a very low point in my career
and a low point in terms of there was a
(03:19):
lot of stuff just kind of going on personally that
I was feeling a lot of sort of pressure around.
My wife had just gotten pregnant with our first child
with Travis, and my mother had been diagnosed with cancer,
and I was felt like we were running out of
(03:40):
money and had all this kind of responsibility and all
this stuff going on. And I remember, while I really
liked the script, I thought to myself, this is a
pretty risky thing because this is a movie about underground worms,
and it's just kind of scary and sort of funny
and silly, and I don't know, this just seems like
(04:00):
this could be a disaster, you know. And but I
so I had a lot of doubts about it and
a lot of kind of fear about making the movie.
I loved making it. We were up in Lone Pine, California.
Have you ever driven through Long Pine stace you probably have.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
I haven't really unless is it kind of like the
is it the same as a trail all one hundred
giants like the big trees or no.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
It's like.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
It's about three and a half hours of three hours
north of LA but sort of inland, not on the coast,
and it's a really cool little town. It's been beautiful
rock formations and stuff that they used for old Westerns
and shot stuff up there in Hollywood. It was a
(04:51):
tiny little town. They built that town the you know,
the perfection, the tremors town out in the middle of
the desert. My wife was at that point nine months
pregnant and driving down to Los Angeles for her you know,
doctor's appointments because there was no hospital up there, so
(05:13):
we were really terrified that she was going to go
into labor while we were While we were doing it,
they had a uh I think about an hour away
or something. There was a midwife, but that was the
closest that we could we could get. So that was
everything was just kind of like intensified in my life
and the whole thing. Uh I had a great time
(05:34):
making the movie. Unfortunately, when the movie came out, it
just didn't people just didn't go. I don't think that
they did a great job of marketing it, as you know.
What I've learned over the years is that scary funny
is oftentimes a tough thing for people to get their
(05:54):
heads around. It's getting better, like now, there's been you know,
a bunch of movies that have kind of been able
to you know, work.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
That both both of those ideas together.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
But although it was huge on video, and this is
back in the days of Blockbuster, so nobody went to
the theater to watch it, but a lot of people
rented it, and to the point where they made part
two and three, and four, and five and six, seven,
eight nine, They just kept making them.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I remember walking to Blockbuster and picking out a movie
every Friday. Really yeah, it's like surreal that my kids
will never have that, you know kind of memory.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yeah, it was to pick their own video, you know.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah, yeah, in the kids section, you know, And yeah,
I remember doing that with my kids. It really was.
It was a it was interesting. I mean, listen, that's great,
you know whatever, streaming, you know, it's everything these days
is at our fingertips. But and I never would have
(07:04):
thought at the time, this is an experience that we'll
ever never well we will someday, not have I just
wouldn't have thought that. The idea of going and getting
this tape and bringing it home, Oh my gosh. And
you remember trying to like record things on tape on TV,
like so tis nightmare, total nightmare.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Well that would be your parents trying to do that.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Right.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Here's a funny story.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
I'm digitalizing all my family home videos now, and there'll
be like a birthday party when I'm six, and then
all of a sudden, we'll cut to some like crappy
opening of an HBO Sunday Night movie like the do
you remember like the the be through the drone going
over the town that looked like beetlejuice used to be
the opening credits, And I'm like, did you just cut
(07:53):
off my birthday song?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
At six?
Speaker 4 (07:56):
So for like teen Witch, which also I appreciate because
that's why I love the movie, because I watched it
even though the lines digged across the street and every
time we put it in the VCR.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
But well, my kids will never know or appreciate.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Yeah, it's true, It's true. It's so funny.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, Blockbuster was definitely was definitely a thing. Well, we
were up in the Sticks when we first got married,
and there was no Blockbuster. There was a tiny, little
small town video store and their selection was not great,
(08:37):
to say the least. And there was a woman who
was a pretty tough cookie who ran the video store,
and she would would make decisions about what we were
renting and whether or not it was appropriate and tell us,
I don't think so, dear, I don't think you'll want
that one. Dear No, No, I hope you're not showing
(09:00):
that to the kids, Dear No, this was just for us. Okay, okay,
good luck with that one. I mean really, like literally
she was constantly doing her own you know, reviews of
of of what was appropriate for us to not only
for us to watch, but but you know for the
kids too. So ah, yes, those are the days. But yeah, yeah,
(09:22):
that was a big That was a big Blockbuster hit,
and now it's a hit with Danny.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Yeah, and that's right, full circle. So it was kind
of beneath perfection, but to some people it is perfection, right, right,
that's the riff that most people don't know about if
they haven't gone to one of your shows.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, yeah, that's true. The movie was called Beneath Perfection originally,
and one of my prize possessions is my.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Crew jacket.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
It's an old, you know, nineties Levi's jacket worn in
and on the back of it it says Beneath Perfection.
You know, for those of you that don't know, sometimes
when you're making films or television shows, you know, they
create a piece of what we call swag hat or
(10:17):
jackets or shirts or whatever that you can keep after
the movie is over that has the name of the
movie on it. And so I have the jacket and
I wrote a song while we were doing the movie
called Beneath Perfection because I thought it was a good
title for a song. And my brother and I have
(10:38):
always written songs to try to put them into movies,
which never happens.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
We're just.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Never successful with that, and this was no exception. But
we still play the song and we.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Like the song. It's fun to play. Yeah, it's called
Beneath Perfection.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
And then people like me try to get those jackets
later on and auction them for charity and that's really funky.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Watch out even you just let me in on a secret.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah, Actually, we've never talked about that. I do have
some stuff that we definitely could you know, we definitely
could try to a definitely. Yeah, well, I got boxes,
I got boxes of you know, I don't keep. You know,
there's people that keep a lot of things from movies.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I've heard that Robert de Niro keeps like a prop
or all of his props or something, and as a
giant warehouse of props, which you know, I've always thought
was kind of interesting.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
But it's funny.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I have this thing where when I finished something, like
I'm done with it, Like I don't want to hold
on to like the character or the memory or any
of it. I just I'm ready to like kiss that
character goodbye and move on to the next thing. So
I really have I don't have that much, but I
do have have the one thing I sometimes keep, or
(12:03):
the crew jackets or the crew T shirts or whatever.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
So yeah, that's reasonable.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
You've done some dark characters too, so probably probably good
to walk away from them.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
No, Yeah, you're totally right about that.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
This next question is actually a sound bait, so that's
really fun. People can rate in, or they can go
to our website and they can record a voicemail and
this is from Angeline.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
She thus all the way from down Under.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Hi Kevin. My name is Angelaine and I've been a
huge fan of you pretty much since Footloose. You've got
such a huge fan base in Australia and I'm just
wondering why you've never really come to Australia to films
or even toured with the Bacon Brothers. I actually had
to come all the way to New York to see
you and the Baker Brothers play back in two thousand
(12:50):
and six at the bb.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
King Blues Club.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Highlight of my life. I have to say. My husband
has also told me that I've never he's never seen
me smile so much when I was seeing you and
your brother play. So just hoping you can come to
Australia one day, and just wondering when are you going
to bring here and the kids? Thanks Kevin Finn.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Well, thank you, thank you. Actually, first off, let me
just say thank you to you and to Australia. I
actually love I'll start with just I love hearing the
way you speak. It's just so good. I wish I
could do an Australian accent. I really can. I've never
been asked to do one, so I've never really had
to work on it. But it's it's just it's it's
(13:35):
it's just music to my ears. And wow, you came
all the way to New York to see us play.
That is a long trip. Thank you. Thank you for
being such a fan of the Bacon Brothers and of
you know, the work that I've done. You know, I
have been to Australia a couple of times, but it's
(13:57):
been many, many years, and I loved it when I
was there.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I didn't get a.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Chance really to travel all across the country. It's not
that I have anything against going to that country. I'm
really I would really love to do it. And we've
often spoken as a family about that as a place
to visit, and it would be really fun to go
and do a little tour with the band. So that
is definitely something that is on the list of things
(14:25):
to do, often known as the bucket list.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
I would love to I would love to be there.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I have some very close Australian friends and it would
be really fun to come down and see them as
well and just have a little hang.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
How long is that flight?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Oh my gosh, is it eighteen hours?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Maybe.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I don't know, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Have you ever been.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I haven't.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
It's also on the bucket list in New Zealand. But yeah,
that's a commitment. You know, I have little kids, so
we're gonna have to wait until they're a little bit,
a little bit older for that trip.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Well, I did a movie in New Zealand called Whitewater Summer.
We did some shooting down there, and the reason that
we so we had to stop, we stopped in Australia,
and that's why I ended up up, you know, hanging
out in Sydney for like a I don't know, four
or five days.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
But both both spots are.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Absolutely just beautiful and interesting, and you know, you kind
of we kind of have this kind of mistakenly, you know,
think of them as right next to each other, and they're.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Pretty far apart.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Yeah right, yeah, yeah, I mean they're really very far apart.
But but yeah, I've you know, and there's a lot
of stuff that gets shot down in Australia, you know,
filming wise, but it's just never it's just never come
my way. So I definitely want to I definitely want
to go.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Got to work on that accent, Yeah, exactly, we call
the one thing that Kevin Bacon can't do.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
No, there's plenty of things Kevin Bacon can't do, but
that that is a that's a hard one for sure.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
All Right, so we have time for one more, Okay,
and this is actually a really great one as well.
We got a letter from Dealina Cain and she said,
I'm a big supporter of Sidewalk Angels created by Rob
and Mayor Saul Thomas from their charity I found Tabby's Place.
(16:43):
I would love for you to feature each of these
organizations on your podcast. And thanks for all you do. Well,
thank you, Delina. That's very sweet.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Have you met Rob?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Wow? If I met Rob Thomas Rob Thomas Matchbox twenty,
I don't think so. I don't think so. I don't
have a memory of meeting him. Of course I know
the music very well, and you know he's a great,
great singer. But that's cool that they have this, that
(17:18):
they have this, this foundation, Sidewalk Agents, this is a
this is an animal thing, right yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:25):
They so they really support other no kill animal shelters
and like animal rescues. I think I was reading that
they support over twenty no kill animal shelters and rescue
across the whole country, so kind of much amazing.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
It is.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
It is, and he actually leans into his celebrity and
his talent of seeing. And it looks like they do
kind of like an annual concert benefit every year to
help fundraise, and then that money goes directly to the
shelters to kind of help, you know, rehome animals and
(18:06):
Spade and Newter and helping to teach children kindness and
compassion through the animals. All kinds of really really cool things.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Well, that's great. We actually just we have I didn't
think I even told you this. We have three new
goats at the farm who were you know, they were
in a you know, not a great situation and probably
on their way to auction. Uh and uh so they're
(18:37):
they're with us now.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Another couple of goats uh.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
More got poop. Uh.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
We haven't named them yet, but I'm thinking I'm thinking
about many Moe and Jack. But a lot of people
don't know what that is Manny Mow and Jack with
the pet.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Oh no, I was gonna say that, Yeah, the.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
P that's that's Moe and shep and Curly, which is
my second my second choice. Actually, I don't even know
if I'm going to be naming these goats. But anyway,
that's cool that Rob Thomas is doing that. And you know,
we had Amanda Seyford who was you know, was also
on the show right on the podcast who it was
(19:23):
best Friends, which is another no kill shelter. But this
is really amazing twenty twenty. All of I wonder where
they are?
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Are they are? They just kind of spread out, they are.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
They're spread out all across the country. And Delina who
wrote in, she said she had found Tabby's Place through them,
and Tabby's Place is actually local to New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Oh okay, So Tabby's Place is one of the ones
that's associated Sidewalk Angels exactly exactly.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
That Helpston benefits from the funding that they raise every
and so if anybody is interested in learning more about
this awesome organization, they can head over to Sidewalkangelsfoundation dot org.
There's lots of information about how they raise really critical
(20:16):
funds to support.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
These animals, and.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
You really that they rely on the generosity of you
all and our listeners.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
So we hope you check them out.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yeah, check them out. I'm going to check them out
right now now. If you want to ask me a question,
or you can ask Stacy a question too, by the way,
because Stacy, you're all in with me on this, right, Yeah,
you're willing to feel the questions, thank you.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
No, Rod, If you want to ask either one of
us a question about almost anything, you can head to
our show notes for the link, leave me a voicemail,
or you can send a DM to us at six
degrees of KB on Instagram and links for that will
be in our show notes as well. I'd love to
hear from you. You know, we're I mean, aside from
(21:06):
proposals for marriage, you know, we're open to discussing anything
for sure. All Right, Thanks everybody, Thanks Daisy, see you
next week.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
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