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BuzzWorthy Radio: Michael Fairman!

On Air On Soaps' Michael Fairman comes back to BuzzWorthy Radio!

Hear him speak about what is right and what is wrong in daytime. We will take the time out to talk with callers about how they feel about their shows, as well as promote Michael's Soap Break, which can be heard on XM Satellite Radio's The Pink Channel!

Visit http://www.michaelfairmansoaps.com for more information on everything Michael Fairman and soaps.

Duration:: 2h 0m
Broadcast on:: 13 Mar 2009
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We're going to be talking to him about his soap break, which airs on the paint channel, on the X-Men's Federalite Radio, also getting into a few other things, everything, so especially about the recent advocate article that was done with him and Crystal Shabell and Jessica Lucia. If you want to get in on the phone conversation tonight, you can dial in to the show at 646-595-4228, or you can hit us up in our chat room, which is up and running right now. For those of you who already are starting to listen to the show before the chat room became available, what you're going to need to do is refresh your screen so you can get into the chat room that is up right now. I believe our guest of honor is with us at the moment. Let's bring him on, Jolene, Mr. Fairman, how are you? I love being a guest of honor. You should be... I love honor. How are you? You are the guest of honor. What's going on today? How are you doing? I am doing fantastic. How about yourself? I'm good. It's been so much going on with the advocate interview and the new Michelle Stafford interviews that I just did, and I got some really wonderful feedback from the fans. They're very passionate about a lot of the subjects that are going on in the soaps right now, which is great, and looking forward to hoping they'll call in and we'll take some of their calls and talk to you. Yeah, my switchboard actually, just like I said, it was lighting up before I even started the show, so like where are all these callers coming from, not to mention. Now my switchboard looked completely and utterly different than before, so this is going to be fun for me. What do you mean it doesn't look like it did before? Well, now it gives me options to screen people and call her information, and I'm just like oh wow, so I think I'm going to have to do my homework, so this is pretty cool, but it's great to have you back on here for the second time, and the first time you were here, you do not have the pleasure of being with my co-host who is actually on the phone with us right now, so let me introduce you to my co-host Matthew Preston. Matthew. Matthew Preston, this is Michael Fehrman. Hey, what's good on Michael? How are you? How are you? You're awesome. I'm actually really excited because it has been a while since we have talked soap, so hopefully I'm thinking we're going to do that tonight. Yeah, and I'm glad to talk to you. I knew you were part of the buzzworthy team, but I know I think last time I was, you weren't around last night when I was... I must have been busy, I don't know what was going on. You were taking a walk. Don't put about that. Probably worth taking that little walk there, but anyway, let's get right down to it. I first got to mention I read the Advocate article with Crystal and Jessica, and I didn't pretty much speak for everybody, but that was freaking amazing. I love that article. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. It was such a great opportunity because everybody's been talking about it, Talia and Crystal and Jessica, and with the advocate.com, because they're the source for news for the LGBT community and the angles that they want to know is how it affects the portrayal of same-sex couples and all of that, and I thought it was really wonderful that they opened up and they talked about it. I think you and I talked about this in the bell that Crystal is such a phenomenal interview because she is so honest and funny and forthcoming, and I think Jessica is a doll, and I think there was a lot set in there, and I'm really pleased that the fans are happy about the interview and that I think that we are, I mean, I'm knocking on wood for the soap over it. I'll thank God, I mean, they're getting a lot of press in the mainstream as well, so it's good. They really got a good following for that show as we were both, as all of us were experienced two a couple of weeks ago. The quote I actually do like in the article that stood out the most to me was when Crystal, you had asked her about if there were any challenges playing this part then playing a part of a heterosexual relationship on the show and she says she doesn't see it as labels. There's no labels on a relationship. If you're a lesbian and you're not gay, it's just a person falling in love with another person. I love it. That's how she said that. I do too, and I mean, you know, this was a thing, you know, you don't want to feel when you're interviewing anybody that you have to dance around certain subjects, and a lot of times as a journalist and with publicists in the room or the stars, you feel like times you have to be a little trepidatious with asking some things, but she really said what it's about. So looking at it as a piece of acting, she's, you know, this is, she's taking it as she would any other relationship with having a heterosexual coupling she's had on the show or anybody who's a potential of interest, the journey it's taking to get to that point. And so she loves it. I mean, I got nothing but positive and I didn't feel it was somebody making her say things for the press. I really believe from talking to her in New York when I did the video interview with her and the advocate interview that she, that's how she feels, you know? Wow. There's something I want to know is that way back in November, we were hearing rumors that the two were actually going to get paired and of course, guiding lights, the spokespeople there are sort of, I guess they sort of shoot it away and they were kind of saying, oh, no, no, they're just going to be really good friends. So all of a sudden, as 2009 progressed, it was as if a storyline had changed and also the words of the spokesperson had changed. So what do you think changed the mind of the powers to be guiding lights? Well, when you say how, what they've said that's changed, you know, it's very interesting. They don't want to label the couple. I mean, I have spoken to the powers of B, they don't want to label the couple. I do think they've been very, very careful as, you know, I'm going back to the nuke coupling to, I mean, everything has to be from, you can't alienate your audience, you have to get them on the journey, you have to get them through it for the characters, and you can't shove sometimes the same sex couple down a middle America mainstream mentality sometimes. What's interesting is that with both of these couples that gay romances, if we say that term for them, you know, this is the most popular couple, if you look at like polls and articles and websites are Luke and Noah and Natalia. Yeah, well, you know, it's not always like, oh, and I'm not saying people don't love Carly and Jack's, I'm just picking that out of my head right now, you know, it's always not like Carly and Jack's, it's more like, you know, Ocalia, you know, it's all yours. You know, like, no, I want to see, you know, that's the favorite couple, Reese and Bianca, Reese and Bianca, which I think that was a debacle a little bit there. I think that was good in the beginning, but it got messed up along the way. Yeah, and when I, yeah, it's a very good point. It did get messed up, I think it got messed up along the way, but I did, I don't know if you read my Julie Cannon Crothers interview for The Advocates dot com, called Here Comes the Brides right before the wedding of Reese and Bianca, and you know, that interview took a lot of heat from the fans because they felt like she was saying that, you know, the presentation of what was playing on air and what she was saying they were trying to portray, it didn't resonate to the fans. They felt, what do you mean this is, they're going to end up together and what do you mean this is a journey and this wouldn't go on, but you know, there is a happy ending coming. There is a happy ending coming for Reese and Bianca, so I can tell you. And another thing too with the Ocalia relationship, besides the fact that it was, I have to say, if an entertainment weekly folks, this couple made entertainment weekly, come on. Another thing about this relationship is that they took the time to build this, they're taking the time to build this up, they're not jumping into this right off the bat and just showcasing it and sensationalizing it, they're taking the steps to build this relationship and that's why I think, yeah, I think that's why it's really good. I mean, you almost agonize that these two women, they have these feelings, they don't know how to quite express it, there's something going on and you're kind of watching the performances and watching all the nuances of it, which I really like. I like it. I mean, it's not like, I don't care if they kiss tomorrow, you know what I mean, it's not what my head's at with it, you know, but they will kiss. I did tell me they will be kissing, they will be kissing down the road. It really does seem like every, I don't want to say every year or if the writers are trying to maybe do stunts with gay romances, but what other shows do you think could possibly have a popular gay couple, if not, if they haven't already like started to hint at things? Or you're asking me which show could handle having a gay couple? Yes, exactly. What show do you think could handle it? Oh, man, that's a tough one. We hit the heart, we totally tried. That is a tough one. You know, I guess I would say one life because they have done it in other ways. I mean, they've had gay characters, they haven't had a gay romance that's kind of taken us by storm, but they've had gay characters. And I would think that, you know, of the ABC shows, I think that would be one that would do it. I don't see it happening on young on the rest of us and I don't see it happening on Bolden and Beautiful. Really? I kind of think Bolden and Beautiful can handle it more. I think Bolden and Beautiful would handle it as long as it's not as sensationalized. You know, I just didn't want to be like, oh, the weird, you know, the throw in short-term character because they do change course very often. If you're not, I mean, like if they could find a gay force, throw out a summer, that would be great. You know what I mean? Who's locked? You know, that would work. Like a family member who's locked into the core families. It's always police, sir. I don't know. Maybe police, or that would be just, you see, like, the rebel of the family where, you know, Eric and Stephanie couldn't. I don't think so. I don't think the forester matrix could probably handle that and she's such a rebel. So that would be my bet on being the younger. Yeah, that's not bad. That's not bad. But I'm saying, like, with anything, the trick to these things always is you've got to me. It's always difficult as Julie Hanning-Korovitz did mention in this interview with The Advocate dot com, is that, you know, if you just throw in a character out of nowhere with no ties to anybody, it's difficult. I mean, that was part of the issue with grief, you know, so you just, you know, I almost like you want someone in the family that you know to go, "You know what? I'm gay." You know, so there's some locking with extended families and people you care about instead of just somebody who walks in and out of nowhere. Right. Or who's this long lost sibling who happens to be that way. I don't know. I'm not writing the shows. We all wish that the fans were writing the shows because, I know, I do. At some people, they always, we always have the callers and they come in with the greatest ideas. So, I don't know. They have wonderful ideas. I mean, on the message boards on michaelfermansoaps.com, it's been such interesting. I mean, we've had the six fans and the shick fans and everyone's got a valid point. I mean, these people have valid points and they defend their characters and they have all points. They'll have, you know, you hope that the fans can somehow change the course of storylines. Sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't. You know, sometimes they're mapped out and they're not going to change them. And sometimes I believe this is, but I do still believe this is the only medium that they really can dictate a change, somehow a change. If they really don't like something and it's really bad and it's really not working, someone at some point is going to get a clue. It may take a long time, a longer time than everybody wants, but they may get a clue. Right. Exactly. There are a lot, there are a lot of people in the chat room that are waiting to talk to you. Well, one of the topics they want to talk about is, and this is going to scar me for life, but I have a feeling that I know what they're going to talk about and when we talk about it, it's about general hospital. Okay. And I am sure that you are aware that there is what we call a general hospital bloodbath going on behind the scenes. A presumed bloodbath, we're saying, right? Well, bloodbath is in now they're trying to diminish their cast on the scenes, you know. As far as Greg Vaughn, the Rebecca Herbs and Megan Ward goes, "Yeah, it's not looking pretty from what I'm hearing." Well, I also think part of the issue with general hospital is, you know, they've gotten into, for me, it's hard to watch an episode of general hospital a lot of the times because I feel we're seeing the same people retread, you know, it's the same thing. It's the same thing. Like, there's part of me I want to see new life, part of me I need to see new characters and new configurations because it's going to make up predictable. I don't want to be able to see Rebecca Herbs go, I like her. Can I do too? You know? And I hate the fact that the quote came out saying that Brian Franz doesn't think she's pretty enough. She's gorgeous. She's beautiful. And, listen, I've been with Rebecca Herbs on many red carpet. I hung out with Rebecca. I mean, this girl is gorgeous. I mean, she's really a natural beauty. She's beautiful. So I don't, I don't even understand where that, how that comments. Can we have anybody remember Rebecca Herbs on the Nickelodeon show, Space Cases? Come on. Right there. She real me in from right there. What was it called? It was called Space Cases. It was sort of like Nickelodeon's version of Star Trek. You guys remember that? I did. I did watch her on that. I did watch her on that and what she wanted her to have to YouTube. She did give credit to that show and it's about entertainment so, yes, I do know what you're talking about, absolutely. Let's start bringing on these callers because, you know, they're anxious. They're perfect. I love that. So let's bring on our first one, 804 area code. I know you're nervous to talk to Michael, don't be. Hi. Hi. Hi. How are you? Good. How are you guys? Good. How are you? Good. I had a question, okay, I'm missing Kate on General Hospital and I'm wondering if there's any suggestions that you can give us to like write or call in. But every time we do that, it doesn't make a difference. So do you feel, let me ask you this, do you feel that the fans and you, so you've been doing that and you feel they're not responsive. Is that correct? You've been doing that? Yeah. Yeah. Been doing it for months. For months. So you're writing letters or you're emailing or what do you? Everything. Everything. Foting, calling. And when you're making these letters and stuff, are you basically saying them and kind of like, I'm not, but you're writing it in a nice way, right? Like you really. Nice. It's way possible. You know, here's the problem. And I think you knew. I think I speak with you last time or on another show, maybe. You know, I had lunch with Megan Ward and we talked and there was an interview on my website with Megan and we both looked at each other like, you know, we were very, I mean, she's very aware. It's like, why, why are they not using her? And she's caught in such a situation because you've got Laura Wright and you've got Sarah Brown. And it just seems that if there wasn't, if Sarah Brown perhaps wasn't back and Laura wasn't so popular to in their minds and that maybe she'd have a shot, I don't know. I don't feel really good. I love Megan. I think she's terrific. I loved Sonny and Kate. But I don't know where this is going to go. I just don't feel like you can see that they're not using her properly, right? You know, but I would still continue. I mean, I wouldn't give up. I mean, I wouldn't give up, but she's getting less and less airtime. And then they slipper some good shows here and there, but obviously the secret that the secret with Carly is major, right, that she's got the, you know, that she's got the proof on Carly. I'm in Claudia. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But do you think that she's getting less airtime? Do you think there's a rumor that she might be picked to leave? I think it's possible. Yeah. Because, I mean, I would hate to see it happen, but I think that, you know, you, what is her story on that show, right? Like, they're not utilizing her. It's like nothing except for Kate getting revenge. Right. And again, when I spoke with her, with Megan, we were concerned that she was being made out to be the villain. Kate was never brought on to be a villain, you know. We don't want her to be vilified. And that was the thing. It's like, now that, you know, that makes Kate look like she's the bad one. It's not the bad one, you know. So I think it's going to be tough. I think you got to hang in there and see, I would still write. But they do have to make some calf cuts over there. Let's just hope, you know, I don't want to give you false hope, but I, it's not over until it's over, right? Yeah. Okay. I'll keep on calling, writing, and everything. I would do it. I would do it till you see on my website or on the internet or somewhere that it's over. No. I'm going to make you cry. No, it'll be hard. Hopefully, no, we don't want to make you seriously. The jokes weren't going to be cried, but only whenever you watch it for this hard felt scene, not because of the bad behind the scenes stuff. Right. That's right. It doesn't mean it's over. I'm just saying keep writing. Do, like, do the writers actually read the letters or? Well, they've got somebody in their offices. Let me tell you this. It's keeping an eye on the pulse on what the fans are saying, okay? There is somebody. There are writers' assistants. There are people in production offices. Someone is monitoring it. And I know they do, for instance, because when I, let's say I put something up on my website, you know, I know that certain offices know that it's there, I mean, they're checking out what's on there about their shows. Like, do you think if making it more of the letters that show actually get a storyline or are the best in possible? It is possible. It is possible. I just don't know if it will happen. Only because of the way they're boxing it in right now with that there's Sarah Brown and Laura Wright. All right. All right. Thank you. If you were calling you to afford, I'm also talking to you. All right. Bye. Bye. That would be optimistic. Always positive thoughts. No, I wasn't. I want to clarify. I'm not saying this is bad news. I'm saying, I'm just saying we all know that she hasn't been on air that much. Yeah. But that doesn't mean it's maybe we're all, hey, maybe we're all, maybe she's got something big coming up. Exactly. You never know. You know, the writers will go in what direction they want to go in. I'm not trying to go in a car. You never know. That's all I'll say. You never know. Let's keep on going. Let's keep on going with the area code 573. Hello. How are you? Hi. Hi. My name is Cindy and you're probably going to get tired of hearing the same things. Yes. The GH bloodbath and making more. I just don't understand what is the big hoopla with Sarah J. Brown and Claudia because everywhere I go, people hate that, but they love Sonny and Kate and they love the Kate Howard character. So I don't understand why the audience does not get listened to when they have people send in, you know, the phone calls, you can't get the phone packets. I think it's more or less the fact that, you know, they want to try to rebuild the Sonny and Carly version one under the hospital. Exactly. But nobody wants that. Nobody wants that. Right. And that's a really good point that Neville makes that is true. I think they're like, well, we've got Sarah Brown, three-time Emmy winner. There was this magic with Maurice before. When she first came back on the show with Claudia, they teased her that at the beginning when they slept together, then they became enemies. And you know, if you all remember, there was a good time there that Sarah didn't really have much of a story either. She was on every day, but she really didn't have anything to play. She didn't have anything to play. She didn't even play. So, hear me out. So here's the deal. So she gets, there was this whole conversation, remember, going on that we all know that she was in contract negotiations and she signed on for another year. Well, she signed on for another year because there was going to be major story. I don't think she was signing on just to be floating in the background. I kind of gathered. She made it of the man that she worked only with Maurice and who cares. I don't think she needed him once. I don't know. I don't think she made it a man to work with Maurice. I think the thing was to have an umbrella story that was pivotal that she was involved in because, I mean, in that respect, it was kind of odd that you had three-time Emmy winner Sarah Brown. You went to the extent of bringing her back as another character when the original, you know, she's not playing Carly, so you got her there. She's not being used, so they had to give her a story. Unfortunately, and this is the problem with a big cast, it makes it look to all of the viewers that Kate is a casualty of that, and that's what people are seeing. Is she a casualty of the fact that they're pushing, you know, sunny? Oh, she definitely is. Why? No, no, no, no. I'm thinking. I'm looking at her as Kate being expendable. Well, you know what? Maybe we're all wrong. Okay. Maybe we're all wrong, and Kate's going to save the day, and he'll go back with Kate, you know? I have some land to sell you, too, because Molly just doesn't look that way. What doesn't work that way? Well, just everything looks like making this on the way out. I know. I know it's perfect. I know it's terrible, and I think it's so great and such a tribute to Meghan that she has so many fans. I mean, I've talked to many of them. I've written, talked emails with them. Their voices are heard by all of us. I mean, all of us that are reporting on the subs, we know, you know? But nobody else listens, evidently. They chart story. You know, a lot of these shows chart story well, way ahead of time. And then a lot of times along the way, they're like, "Oh, you know what, this isn't working like I did this. That is that." You know, things change some course. I mean, this doesn't have come up all the time, I mean, it's always been like this for months for Meghan. I know. Well, that sort of seems like the last six months, the ratings keep going further down. They weren't the greatest, but every time I looked at it and there was a popular skate story, something going on, the ratings were much higher. But since they shot Kate and we did this wonderful marriage with convenience, the ratings just go lower and lower. Well, let's just add Beyonce's four eight gets shot, two have been shot twice, right? Right. Right. So Cindy, Cindy, I deal to ask you something if you're saying, hopefully this doesn't happen, but if Megan was to leave General Hospital and per se, go to, I don't know, a CBS soap opera, do you think that a lot of the fans would follow her? I think every Megan fan definitely would follow her because she's the type of actress that I think would excel on a CBS soap, especially if it's character written because of the type of actor she is. She's not an over the top type actor that's just, you know, really good performances. She just really makes you get into her character with what her emotions and her expressions and just how she is. It was funny that, you know, you know, I have to say, and I've told this on many chats and things also that when Connie Felt canary from Bentonhurst first came on, I kept laughing at that. I was like, "What the hell is this?" A Connie Felt canary from Bentonhurst, they would always say, "She's Connie Felt," and I thought, "This is, I didn't like her." And then I watched and I went, "I really like her." So she grew on me and won me over, you know what I mean? And so many times when a new actor comes on a show, I'm sure, I remember somebody once told me when Crystal Chappelle was on Days of Our Lives, they were like, "Who is this woman playing garlic?" And then what? A year later, we were all in love with her, you know, so it's really amazing what time can do, you know, if given the opportunity, you know. I'm going a year later, she had her sneezing, she left the show, so what the heck? There you go. Thank you so much for your call. Thank you. Bye, Cindy. Take care. Bye-bye. Alright, next up is, hopefully I've got the name right, Shakira, you're on the line. Hello. How are you? Fine, how are you? I heard your interview with Megan and it was awesome, I just want to say, funny and fabulous and everything an interview should be. Thank you so much. She's a great interview. And I love your kind words about her too, I really, really appreciate it. Of course. And yes, we'd all go to CBS, we'd go anywhere, people really underestimate those big and nice. Really good. Well, let's, let's just, you know, look, Megan's going to land on her feet no matter what happens, okay? Like, she's very good and she, and she had a, she did some great work as Kate. We haven't seen her get to do much recently, but you know, she'll be alright, she'll be alright. So, I wanted to talk a little bit about Bob Dooza. Now that not just a few, but it seems like all fan bases are in an uproar about storyline direction. There's lack of continuity, there's been a problem for a long time. How long have you been watching general hospital beer to realize this? And, and there's no romance, I don't know of any couples on right now. And the ratings and back burner settings of popular characters, what do you think is the future direction with him at the realm? I don't know, you know, that's a very good question. I keep hope, it's a really a question. You know, we've got the new, you all, of course, many of you heard today, that they've re-cast Michael Corrindos, and he will be coming in for Mae Sweeps a little bit earlier in April, and we'll probably see him in Mae Sweeps, we still have the Dante thing going on, obviously. I think there's some repositioning and putting in some new blood, there's the Ethan character. I think they've got to, got to shake the show up. I really do, because as I said earlier in the show, I have a hard time watching some of it. I mean, there are some, I mean, look, they've got Maurice, they've got Laura, right? They've got, they've got some great actors on there. Where's Nancy Lee Grown, by the way? I don't know. But now they're going to age Christina to be a really, a little nasty girl, so maybe they'll give her story. It's just like it, it lost its, it's lost its path. I think if anything's going to shake up, maybe, maybe at some point, would they get rid of Guza? You know? I hope so. It might depend on it as far as how the ratings look, how much more can it go? Well, look at it. Okay, let's, let's take this in effect here. All my children were going to be canceled a year ago if they did not shake off the show. And that's when they got rid of Barbara, Essendon, and James Harman Brown off of that show. And here comes Chuck Pratt coming in and it's day to day, it's still on the air, obviously. So the ratings aren't, the thing is, the ratings aren't that, I mean, all in all. It's not any better, but. No, but it's not like General Hospital's ratings have gone to the bottom either. You know, that's the thing, it's, it's equating numbers and audience. But look, if you guys are upset, which I, justifiably understand, I, I still would keep voicing your opinion, I really would. The only other thing you can all do is tune out, I mean, then, you know, then you won't know what's going on, you know, okay, thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. I think that it's the ratings, General Hospital's ratings slip further down to guiding light, then you might have something to worry about. Well, that's the thing. I don't, they're not going to, I mean, they're just not going to go that way. They're just not. They're the flagship show on ABC. But you know, I just wrote a blog yesterday. I mean, I have to tell you and I, I do not think there's a finer show on television than one like to live. I'm sorry. That's the show. That show is riveting, riveting, moving, I've sit there with my mouth open half the times I, I, I, I think it's brilliant. I just, I can, I can't tell you any show on television that I can sit and watch all the way through every day. That's it. They're doing a phenomenal job and I never hear people, other than people in the industry, the journalists, the passionate one life to live fans because they've got to be there, you know? I agree. Well, I like to live that definitely. I think if we were doing an award show right now and there was a category for most improved show ago, one like to live, I think that's the only show that has shown huge, huge improvement. I'm not saying that, I'm not saying that it's better than, all right, here's the thing. I love one life to live but I also love young and the rest of us too. Now they did come a long way too once Maria Bell came at the helm. No, no, no. I have to say, no, no, no. This, let me say this. Well, I agree. I mean, my, the shows that I think like if you're up, that are doing a, I have one life line on guiding light, I think all have been good and I'm putting guiding light in there because of the italia and I'm telling you the Justin D's performance when Coop died that whole week was great, that whole week, like that one week, I love. I think she emailed his six Emmy or set of demi, however, how many does he have? Six, you know, I think that's it right there, you know, I think he just got his four musketeers and I thought that was, even though it's a little quirky way, like I know it does, that whole, okay, maybe we'll talk about a plot but then we won't go, we won't dive in history for six months for a story plot, I still thought it was a nice way to go back into the history. I do, I really like that, I really like that. Okay, let's take this next caller from 9-1-4, I believe this is Jen? No, my name's, my name's Ida, hi how are you, we spoke last time Michael, well the last month, we need to get an interview, oh great, I just, my thoughts really are all over the place about General Hospital right now, so I just, I don't want to ramble anything, but I just, I agree with you on so many aspects, but as a fan for over 20 years, the gen, the kind of it is getting wiggly out of control, it's a landslide just with no breaks, it's sound control. So what, let me ask you, when you're watching the show, I mean let me ask you, I want to know from your heart, when you're watching the show, right, are you able to, are you watching it every day, are you just not even, do you not watch it, or are you, I'll be honest with you, I, when I, I was born here, but I was raised in Italy and I came back when I was about seven years old, and when we came back, it was the first program my mother and father were ever watched, my mother literally learned English, watching General Hospital, and really deeply tied to the show, and of course, so I remember the times when you had the nurses ball, you had, you know, the children's stories at Christmas, I remember when women were actual heroes, when they ran deception, I mean, there were so many positive things going for the show. Now I don't mind the mob, and I told you this before, but it has to be balanced. But the violence towards women, especially Meghan Ward, who I absolutely adore, is insane. I mean the woman's been shot twice, she's been in a car accident, snake bites, she was shot at her own damn wedding, and you know, from them, from them, and then they push her back. So Meghan's story was Kate's story, and you know, then you had Sonny saying, "I'm doing it for you," and then we understood it was for power, and I love Maurice, I followed him from all my children, if you will, but I just think that Sonny finally, after all these years, you know, he had Brenda, but now he had Kate, who gave him back, that wonderful light in his eyes, gave him a story, showed and helped him with his internal struggles, and now you're part, you know, the party him with a woman who is everything that is not positive for a role model for younger generations and younger women watching the show. You know, you have Claudia who's walked over a woman that was shot to death, like shot and left her beating to death. You have her going into the same hospital, tormenting the woman who was a victim of a gunshot wound. I mean, I watch, I'm trying to get my God daughter to watch the show now, and I just can't think of a positive for her to see. I mean, if you're a Lexus, if you live, Diane, intelligent, classy, independent women, you just don't seem to have a place under a hospital anymore. Yeah, I mean, those are really valid points, they're very valid points. It's like, you know, it is valid, and for me, like I said, I, like, you know, if I watch One Life to Live, and then I know I'm a hospital gone after it, like I was just saying, I can watch One Life to Live and sit here and just, you know, either cry in my, it's Kleenex. Watch the show and be riveted, or moved, or just really get in, and then general hospital, people coming out and I'm like, all right, I, why am I watching this? Yeah, how much can I tell you? No, no, no. I don't know. I don't know. I watch this as I get to the point of like, all right, so what's going to happen today? Yeah. And then I'm trying to like, seeing if like, kind of the same thing. It is a shame. The actors are really good. There's some great actors on there, and you know what? They have enormous talent, that's what I don't understand. Yeah. I'm following Meghan, but just even watching like Meghan, Meghan seems on Monday with Maurice. Spoke volumes. It was a heart health conversation. Then yesterday you have a legacy character. You have Lucky, you know, the prodigy child of Luke and Laura, who's being trashed and told if you are a better son, then I would have been a better father. I mean, I'm just. Let me ask you something, and I'll throw this up to all of you. What do you think of Natalia Livingston's Rebecca? What do you think about that? Oh, gosh. I'm sorry. You can tell me that I'm overstepping my balance. Natalia's first time around was great, because she was a student going to be a doctor. She was going to make something out of her life. Positive thing. Now you're bringing back Natalia as a dark character who's shady and stuff like that. I like her. I think she's a great actress. Right. I just don't understand of having a great character, like Emily, Georgie, die. And then JH saying, oh, wait, we made a mistake. Let's get them back because fans really like them. And then turning the whole personality into making it a stupid, not stupid. I have to give Rebecca still a chance, but still, I don't see the point of it. I just, it's mine. I totally. I told her to do this. I think that that goes for any soap that's true, just whenever, if you guys know, whenever Y&R killed off John, you know what happened, brought her back as Alistair. It was like, that was a, oh, what the hell a moment are you doing? And I think it's funny. Right. And it's the same thing. But if you want to compare, though, Frankie, when they killed off Frankie and Frankie with the popular character, then they brought her back as Maggie, just because they love... Right. But, you know, I did talk to Tyler Christopher, I'm sorry, I did talk to Tyler Christopher in an interview from Michael Fairland, so we did talk. And you know, he was great. And I love Tyler. He's another one. I love seeing Tyler have great emotional stuff to do. You know, he did say that, you know, it's hard for anybody. And I actually was talking with Karen Harris, one of the writers of the show too, over lunch, talking about that, you know, he was such a dark character, and then they tried to light them up with a thing with Nadine. And that kind of, like, to me, I couldn't buy it. So it was hard to watch, so then they're trying to reignite this thing that they're saying that nobody can't talk, but Emily and Tyler, that Nicholas were such a couple, a star-cross couple that everyone rooted for, that they had to bring her back to somehow get back back. I can't understand that, but like, bring her back in a positive role model, bring me back Emily as maybe another doctor, another, you know, a tech... I hear she's a tech now, so maybe there's a possibility of redemption. But to bring me back, or J Brown, okay, and because one time, many years ago, there was some supposed magic, and there was lightning, and they wanted a struck at place. She's been on for the past year and a half. To me, I haven't seen one performance that she has given that has merited her to get a pre-emmomination. Laura Wright, definitely, for the Michael shooting, absolutely hand-down needed to be nominated. I think other quality workers should have been Meghan Ward. Supporting Sunny when she got shot, I think there was just so many categories that Meghan could have fallen as a second pre-emmomination for General Hospital. Well, I think you and I will have to be continued on the next one. I'm sorry, but like I said, after 20 years in coming to this country and growing up with this show and having a special bond, I'm just really ticked at the direction that's going on, and then what's going on to people that are very hard-working, dedicated actors like Rick Hurst and Greg Vaughn and Meghan Ward. It's a offensive slap of slap in the face to viewers who've watched General Hospital for many years. I think that is well said, and again, when I go into meetings and I talk to people and I talk about the genre and I'm talking to marketing people and programming people and different levels that you're trying to explain to them, what is the core of the soap opera audience? I try to explain that a lot of people have such a strong, it's their extended family. It's part of their lives. It's very important to them. This is something that if you're not watching daytime soap operas, they don't necessarily understand. These passionate viewers, it's very important to be passionate about your soap, and it's really important. I can understand the frustration for anybody. I've watched them since I was nine years old, some of these. I'm like, I can't take it. I'm showing things at the TV, but I like you. I understand it's a fictional character, and it's great to self-ability and stuff. My thing is this, and like I said, General Hospital is my core, and I watch the other ABC soaps, and I actually watch them and the rest of them and both are the beautiful. My thing is this, when you have a history of a show that's been on for God knows how long and that you're rewriting history two weeks ago, from two weeks ago, you're destroying characters. You're making a way for new characters and taking away from a rich and healthy past. I'm holding back now at this point, but I think it's great that men watch the show, and I think the core of soap opera viewers are women, and I don't, I know, the women that I have been doing go to work with in the hospital, I work in a medical profession. I can't see them saying, you know what, my favorite heroine is a skanky, loud-mouthed erudinate woman that torturises and torments and victimizes people. I would like to say, my God daughter was eight years old watching now saying, you know what, I want to see her because she's the head of the fashion industry, or I want to watch her because she became a powerful lawyer, or, you know, she made up, she became a great nurse and she gave to the community in the hospital. These are things that I think are positive and inspire kids and younger women who watch the show are saying, you know what, you know, it's fictional, but you know, it encourages them saying, hey, let me go to school, let me, let me do this with my life. Look at the possibilities that are there, you know, when you're having somebody walk over a woman who's bleeding to death on, on a boardwalk or whatever, thing, and bleeding out. So remember, remember, remember this. When I do nurse with executive producers, I talk to them, remember it is still a soap. They're, they're about tantalizing, soap's tantalized. So when people want stories that they're like, I can't believe she's with it, they're looking at soapy, tantalizing stories. And a lot of times there's got to be these vixens and the bad people in the disc. I agree. I love Helena. I think Helena Cass said I was the greatest. Bring her back. She had a point. She was a villain. That's it. She came in. She was to do this, victimize poor Nick and Em and everybody else in the world. That was great. Bring in Jerry. Jerry did the same thing. He was a terrorist. He was great. I love them. He was just so mean that you had to hate them, you know, but you love them at the same time. But don't sell me a character that's come on as a vixen. And then all of a sudden everybody in the blue moon has to be whitewashed to sell me and redeem this character. I think when you, you know, that you're getting rid of Rick, to Rick to promote Claudia and you're getting rid of Lucky to promote seed biscuit Ethan, you know, it's just -- [laughter] Okay. You mean, Ralph? Okay. Thank you. I don't want to cut you off, baby. But, you know -- No, no. But I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you guys for listening. Sorry. No problems. Thank you. I do this before you go real quick. I do agree. Yes. You got the target audience being women, but I used to talk to you and not every day, but one time I found them a whole team full of, you know, masculine guys who totally watched soap operas. So, there are tons of guys who watch the show. So, I think that's really cool. No, I think that's cool. I'm just saying. I know that there's some of you guys watching it. I appreciate the male perspective point of view, but I just, like, in general aspect of what I'm talking about. But thank you guys for taking the time out to hear me and hear my point. Sure. Thank you. Thank you for calling. Let's segue off the general hospital boat here. Let me tell you that right now. Let's get off the boat. Spear away from general hospital. Let's move on into something that may not be as passionate as general hospital. Let's move on into this. I need a Xanax right now to get through this to go through this. Yeah, I work in the morning, so I think I'm going to do that. Okay. And let's steer into, let's get into the CDS, you know. Bull and beautiful, I've been making some news. Now I'm done being months coming on, the show as Bill Spencer, Jr. and we're actually going to get a nice little two-day appearance of Joanna Johnson playing Karen Spencer. Right. I wish that her part was longer. That, but I was really exactly, I mean, my thought was, oh, my excitement was actually Joanna Johnson coming. I mean, like, I thought, oh, this is really good, right? And then it was just a set up Don's entrance to the show. And you know, Don was under a gag order. He knew for a while that this was going to happen and he wasn't over the bread said, don't talk about it. So it has been in the work for a while. They had, I mean, I know Windsor and Leslie had mentioned it, what I went on the cruise back in January. I did say they were trying to get him into Bull and beautiful on the show. I mean, that was like our first hint there, but you know, you didn't hear anything since then. So, you know, you don't know what's going on under wraps there, but you know, they did mention it, they did hit it out there that they were trying to get done being months onto B&B. So it's nice that he actually is on the show and I hopefully they get him in the brook realm all of you guys, I'm not a brook ridge trans, I'm Taylor Ridge all the way. You know what? You know what? Yeah. You know, I would like to, well, maybe it'll be Taylor Bill. There you go. Okay. But you're the last thing, if they bring Don on B&B, are we going to see left line our crossovers? Because it can come on. You have like what Ashley comes back and says, "Doodle, you look like my ex-husband when he's dead." How are they going to play that one off? Right. But you know, my hope, my hope's and fears on this. My hope is, you know, again, we bring somebody in and, you know, it's very hard on Bolden Beautiful because it's a half hour show, it's a small cast, and I write, I cover for Australia, which Bolden Beautiful is the number one show there. What? Neighbors? Are you kidding me? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the cover of the magazines, when I write a feature for Bolden Beautiful, it's always on the cover because you could have Eric Braden of Young and the Restless, but they don't want to know about that. They want to know about Rich and Brooke, you know? So again, he has to come in and do this core group of people, he'll be another male love interest for these women. And I hope it's something that sticks and not just how, you know, how they've thrown somebody in there. Like Jack Wagner worked, he's in there, now he was brought in, he was part of the family, and he had some ties, and he, and it worked. So I mentioned it to see how they write this and if it's got some longevity to duck for Don. Yeah. Because Bolden Beautiful definitely lacks in that apartment as far as continuity goes and everything. But, I don't know, we'll see, we'll see, hopefully they get in. Here's the suggestion. I totally thought of it too. If you would, and not to fair, back to General Hospital, but Megan Moore, and I don't know if it's like a hot topic at the night, I could totally see her, I could totally see her being a Macey recast, just even though Macey's in a coma, or a positive... You know what? That is really a good idea. I could see that. I could see that. And if she's going to go to any show, I mean if we're talking fashion, she can certainly go to Bolden Beautiful to continue, you know, if she's going to do something in fashion, again. There's so much you can do with Macey's character, coming out of a coma, dealing with, you know, Wolf Sally, like if anyone says how he's dead, but, you know, dealing with possibly a new bill, and also, because Macey, if you guys do remember Macey, and Karen, the long time ago, is going to need to have a nice little catfight over porn. Yep. It might give Dan an exit or some more airtime, because he's definitely underused on that show. That too. They could take him out of the back burner. So that could work. That's it. Never known. I'm set. I like that idea. You never know that one. It could definitely happen, seriously, if it does, some of you better be saying something. One of the things that I definitely, I love to talk about is the fact that soaks don't appreciate its core audience, and basically the main thing of that is they don't cater a lot to the veteran actors or actresses on the show anymore, and how we mentioned with the young wrestlers, and when I live, now I'm doing that especially, why is it that no other soaps do that? Why don't they showcase veteran actors or actresses anymore? Why do they build a need to showcase younger, younger actors to feel the need to? I mean, I understand that they want to build up a younger audience. They want to get a younger viewership into the show, but why alienate your older audience as well? It's a really, really subject that I'm having such a hard time when I was reading all the rumors about the Erika Flayback. She's my favorite, all-time favorite actress on soap operas, and I couldn't imagine them getting rid of Vicky because they can't come up with a story. If I kept waiting for the romance with Charlie and Vicky going to eat up again, but the show is so, so great, it's like there's not even room for it. I think advertising has a lot to do with it. I think we live in an age where we cater to younger people in the audiences that watch the show. I think that's what people assume, but the joke is that if you go and interview people like I do when I do, if I'm at an event, if I talk to fans when I'm hanging around, if I'm at the set, if they want to see these core characters that they love, even if they're a veteran character, if they want to see the older characters, that's who they tune in to watch. They're not out tuning in to watch the 20-year-old characters, so there's a misinformation that's not, I don't think communicated properly to the powers that be on that. It's just something that I, look, I'm 23 years old, and that's why I want to see is veteran actors. Right, and that's what, that's what most people who love soap operas want to see. I would say they want to see that the core veteran actors who, there's so much history and- They make the show. They make the show. They do. I believe, I know this one, all right, Jamie, you're on the line. How are you? Ah, cool. Thanks. I'm good. Hi, Michael. It's good to talk to you again. Thank you. Yeah, I got to talk to you last time as well. On this topic, I was just talking to somebody about this the other day, because I know for a lot of us, you know, who has been watching soap since we were like, five years old, with our grandmothers and our moms and everything like that, what gets us this story? It's not necessarily just the character of just the person. I mean, you know, I'm 33 or, well, now I just made myself older, I'm 31 and, you know, I love Bob and Tim on, you know, on actual terms and I, Jamie Cooper is one of my all time favorite people. Well, you know what? Jamie Cooper rocks and everybody's mind, you know, she's that, she's that actress and character that if you're 10 or 80, you love, you mean, right? Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And, you know, and I love the, every actor who's played Edward Quarterman, you know, I love all the older people, I've always loved them. I think, I believe that is there are stories that are crafted where you've got the, you know, the veterans interacting with the younger ones, especially if you make it a generational thing. Everyone would watch, it doesn't matter that you've got, you know, the teeny vopters on and, you know, and the grandmas or whatever, people will watch it because the story is what draws them in. Right. It's all about the good story and I also think when somebody is a veteran character that you root for, you're invested in, you love and something happened to them like they're given a life-threatening illness. There's an emergency situation, something, the marriage of 40 years is going to break up. It's hard, you feel something for them, you know, you care because it's like, oh my God, not K-Chamfer, oh my God, not Vicki or, you know, it's like that resonates with the audience. It's harder, I think, when it's a younger person, like, right, like, if it's, you know, and I love, I'm just pulling out of my, you know, like, it's Billy on Young on the Ref, so I love, I'm thinking, like, he's, you know, I love him, I love him, I think he's great. But again, would I be so, would I be so gut-wrenched if Billy, like, something happened? No, I think I'd be more interested in veteran characters, you know. Right. And, like, somebody, like, Tom in the chat room was just saying, today was a really good example and after all turns, we got to see this really awesome scene between Lucinda and Luke. I mean, you've got- Well, those two, I love, I mean, Luke has covered- Yeah. Are you a man-hances? Yeah. Yeah. You can't go wrong there. And, you know, it's just that scene. It just resonates with you, you know, it's like, see, this is what I like to see. I like to see the older, you know, more mature wisdom person getting it to the younger, you know, give it to that next generation. And then, Luke went and proved that, boom, I'm Lucinda Walsh's grandson. Which is great. Let me show you what I can do. I mean, you know, that's what I watch for. Are you looking- I watch the scenes like that. Are you looking- Do you watch- I gotta say, did you watch yesterday, whenever- Oh, my God. Who got- who got slapped across the face? Yes, I did. I saw that. That was awesome. I really- I think they- I think they would have written something more, maybe more- pushing, they'll show you. I don't know. I'm not like a violent person, but I'm a big fan of the property. Wait, wait, wait, I can hear you. Who got slapped? What did you say? I'm sorry. They got slapped by Alison yesterday. Oh, right. Oh, I heard- I thought you said Jake got slapped by Alison with what? What was your- what was your question, Michael? I'm sorry. I was just going back to the Lucinda thing for a minute because one of the wonderful, wonderful, wonderful moments was, you know, when she found out about Brian and she was, oh, you know, and then she was trying to pull it together and then, you know, Brian admitted he was gay and then she was- just everything she did. And then they asked about- Yeah. With Van Hances. I could watch that for two hours, you know, with him, and I think that, you know. And speaking of Elizabeth Hubbard, they don't use her and it's a shame. I mean, like you said, those beautiful moments, like the whole- her and Larry, which, you know, Larry's best day to me was that last couple of weeks there when I thought I'd love the Larry Law in those last few days. But Elizabeth's work was just, and you're just like, why don't they use the factor? Are you looking forward to Paula Suganti coming back? Oh, yes. Yeah. I talked to Paula last week. Yes. We have an interview coming for you guys. Oh, really? Yeah. And I- Oh! So you must go to the website towards the end of next week, microferementsoaps.com and he'll be on Silk Break on XM. I did a 20-minute interview with him and we talked about a lot of stuff, but I don't want to give it away. Oh, that's good. But he doesn't have anything about now working with the new villainy at all? Yeah, did you say anything about working in the world? Okay. Oh, wait. Come on. I'm going to tell you- Come on. I'll tell you one thing. Okay. One thing. I'm not afraid of the rest, okay? He did. He did say, you know, this, that he adored working with Martha Byrne and he learned so much from Martha Byrne and Martha Byrne really fought in the rope. But he has really, in the short time, you know, he just started back a month ago, he loves working with Noel. He said nothing but great things to say. And I do not think it was somebody holding a gun who said making him say it. I really do because Paolo doesn't- he, when he speaks- he speaks broken English sometimes because he's Italian and it's- Right, right. Right. Right. But what I got out of it was he- Mrs. Martha, he loves Martha, but Noel, he thinks he's doing a great job and he's really enjoying seeing it and I couldn't get enough out of them. They're not going to tell me everything but they're stuck to stay tuned for. So. Oh, okay. So that's cool. No. So, but make sure it'll be on the website towards the end of next week so make sure you check it out because there'll be lots of good stuff in there that will kind of tip off what's going on. Okay. All right. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Thank you so much. Bye bye. Bye bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. All right. Let's keep going on here. Yeah. Exactly. Let's keep going here with Area 617. You're on the line. How are you? Hey, guys. It's Tom. How you doing? Hi. Hey. How are you? Okay. Well, I'm sorry. Jamie stole one of my lines there, but it's that when you're talking about the younger and older characters and that great Luke and Lucinda scene today, I've been watching Vanda's Luke since for about a year and a half, two years now. And some of his scenes with Elizabeth Hubbard are absolutely the best work that he's ever done and that it's such a great relationship. If you can remember back to the scene where Luke went to Lucinda after, just after she found out he was gay and he's talking about Lily, who's at that point before she went in the coma. And he's like, "Is there something wrong with me?" And Lucinda is just telling him, "No, there's nothing wrong with you." And she's being like the grandmother that every gay guy in the world ever wished that he had when he came out. And it's just such a rich character history that I just can't see why soaps don't play up relationships like that more than they do. You know, I think those are the little nugget moments that come and go that they're like, you know, they find an opportunity to work it and then they do. But I think what happens is they get so, and again I'm speaking from my vantage point, they get so, they've got to tell the story of their writing and the story of their writing may be about two characters who are 35 years old, 30 years old, that may be a romance. It may be what, you know, because romance is really at the center of self-oprods. And maybe, you know, when you've got something like a dynamic relationship between a grandmother and a grandson and she understands, you know, because he's gay and she's being understanding about it. I mean there's a little nugget that is stuck in that we go, "Oh, a great moment." But they're never necessarily written about a story for them, you know what I mean? Absolutely true. But there's something that they, a real mistake, I think, as the world turns made in the last year, and that is in dealing with the Luke and Holden relationship, is that we all know how special that they are the father and son and we know that Damian is the biological father but there's no connection there. And then Luke felt totally betrayed when he found out about Holden and Carly. Then he sort of foolishly just accepts it all and forgets all his bitterness about two weeks later. And then Holden has disappeared from Luke's life ever since. There was really, there was none of the support that Holden gave Luke through the paralysis storyline. None of that was there during the election storyline. The guys, the characters barely spoke to each other. So if they knew they would go in that way, why not have Luke continually turned against Holden and bitter by the betrayal so that if they're going to take John Hensley out of the storyline involving Luke, now there's sort of a reason for it. Instead of us just standing there screaming saying Luke is drinking, he's drunk off his ass in the middle of Thanksgiving and Holden doesn't even notice the guy's swill in beer every time he turns his head. It was interesting, you're making it very interesting, like where was Holden, right? Like where was Holden? And then when Luke came back, when he came back in recently, Holden just sort of made some comment about Luke as if sort of like if he was saying yeah, I've been paying attention all along, I just never really cared enough to speak up. It was such a lousy message to send. It is a lot of the message to send. I think it's going to be very interesting with Paula Suganti coming back as the biological father and I think that obviously with with Lily and Holden, it's going to reignite a lot of things. Now we'll see, is Luke going to be caught in the middle of what's going to happen and is holding in a step up? I mean maybe, I can't speak for why the writers had him back burnered in all of Luke's trials and tribulations, but I kept waiting for more Luke and listen to like you are. But if that's what's frustrating is that the show seems to have lost its long term planning because if they had thought their story lines out, they could have realized that the conflict between Luke and Holden now would completely play into the reintroduction of Damien later. And they've lost and just in the same sense that with this Luke being so upset about the Redge character who they had on for three episodes over the year where if they had played that relationship and friendship up, it would have made the subsequent story line more powerful. You have such valid, those are great points, they're great points. Now, but if you like my points, can I mention to you something that you'd mentioned earlier when you talked about gay relationships on which soaps could carry them off? Yeah. And as somebody who watched Days of Our Lives for about 35 years is the relationship I would have loved to have seen would have been the gay relationship between Philip and Sean. But only if played by Jay Kenneth Johnson and Jason Cook is the bad thing. I kind of thought that too. Oh, people, that one would have sent me off. I thought that's where you were going with that, yes. And people may complain about Luke and Noah sometimes in terms of the way the story line and just think would Days of Our Lives ever have considered tackling the story line like that? Would they? Oh gosh, that's a good question. I don't know. I don't know. The reason I say that is, if you look at Days of Our Lives, a lot of the things they do are, I don't know if it's Christianity, what do I want to say, a very, it's a show that I don't know if it's Christianity, but it's very, I don't know if Ken Corday would do that is what I'm saying. Yeah. I think that they absolutely do that. You get the feeling that the characters and Days of Our Lives sort of just automatically assume that every person in the world is a Christian and they don't even know the other types of people exist. That's the one show that I get the feeling like there's not diversity in the culture in Salem. You know what I mean? I don't see that as much. Yeah. They create one black family with Abe and Lexi and sort of separate the month with separate story lines, but. Which is a whole other subject, a whole other subject, about how the islands are. Yeah. But both of those actors, the terrific, but the fact that the characters of black seem to me to be almost incidental. You could recast both of them with white actors tomorrow and there's no change at all in terms of who the character is as a person. That's some really good points there. Yeah. Thank you so much for calling. Okay. Let's make one quick comment on General Hospital after watching that for 30 years. I gave up on it within the last year because the story lines just spun in circles. I mean, I'm a great Meghan Ward fan. I thought they should have put Kate with Jacks. They teased it that they never went there and I gave up on the show and watched a random episode about two weeks ago and nothing new of any consequence is happening. They're just spinning in circles and losing long term fans. So I think that they're in serious trouble over there. And I just find myself that I don't really care anymore. Nope. That's probably what a lot of fans are saying, that you're echoing what a lot of people feel. Thank you. Have a wonderful evening. And thank you for calling. Cheers. Thank you. Wonderful for your voice. Thank you. And Michael, I loved your interview with Van Hansus. It was spectacular. You totally get the character and the actor and it was, you were very talented interviewer for that interview. Thank you so much. And I love Van. I adore Van. Thank you. Have a good night, guys. Take care. Take care. Hey, are we on the air still? Yes. Well, no, I was wondering because is the chat room, is it done or are we on? Yeah. Yeah. There's still here. Why? I was confused because I was just confused. Okay. Good. All right. I'm here. We're still on the air. Yes. Let's keep going. If you want to know what is so funny about what I just said, you have died to go on his website. Go to Michael Fairman's website and look at the Crystal Chappelle video. All I'm going to say. And you, I just have to tell you, it was the best interview I've ever done. I mean that. She's the best interview and we had so much fun and she's so funny. So I love her. Okay. That was, that was comical. Erico, four, one four. Four, one four, you're on the line right now. How are you? I'm fine. How are you? We're having a little party over here and you haven't done that. Oh, I was, I was dosing off for a minute because I'm talking so long. But anyway, I do want to talk about young in the rest of us. And that I think the writers have been brilliant in starting this Kevin, being kidnapped and regressing back to his childhood, and I think the actors are doing a great job. And the only question I had was, we're going to watch that play out because it's just a little enticing. But they have so many stories, and I watch young in the rest of us all the time, I love it. And the, but the story is, they never really play out, they have to overlap. Is that intentional or some of these things intentional when they get a storyline and even like Kevin's, like, do they write this with a purpose besides someone's brilliant idea that it would be award winning, do they think about that, the writers when they're writing? You mean, why they plotted that particular storyline? Well, no, I mean, I see how that follows, but I think, but do they, do they just take any of the other stories, Catherine's stories or whatever, which is going on forever, of course. But that's my only regret to a lot of these things, they just go on forever, let's pull the blood, you know. And I'm just wondering if the writers intentionally say, let's write this story, it can be award winning for the show, you know, writing award, directing award. So do they write shows to get awards? Yes. Okay. I will say this. Yes. In many ways. Yes. For some particular episodes and stories and performances, yes. When you're talking about, for instance, we can look at, I hate to bring up General Hof for Ken, but the Metro Court bombing a disaster of a couple years ago, those two episodes that they knew were high production values and they wrote those shows to those that would be the show that they would submit for the Emmys. When you look at Christian LeBlanc's performance in What a Wonderful Life, the Christmas episode that was so beautifully done that I'm sure he'll be nominated for in the end that he would submit, that show was written to showcase Christian and give him the opportunity. With Greg Reicard, point Kevin, this storyline is such a great idea and it's going to be so tough to watch and Greg said that it's going to play out over, it's not going to just end, it's going to play its beats and play out over time, obviously the intent of that is they didn't have a storyline for, you know, Janet and Kevin were languishing on the back burner there for a while. They didn't have their own story. I spoke with Emily O'Brien's publicist at one point when I did myself from the City Benefit at the launch party and I said it's Emily coming and she says, well she's not really, you know, in town right now, she's not being on air much, she doesn't have much to do. Like Emily's great and Greg is amazing and they've had no story other than being part of that group looking for Catherine or, you know, the coffee shop group or whatever you say, what do you want to call it? But yes, I believe that this story was not written for Emily, like we're writing a story for Emily, I think Greg will have a nomination from it and he's got material from it, but this story is going to be such, you know, she's going to be robbing banks and she did today. Right. I'm sorry. Did he put the thing on his head? Yeah. He did. Okay. I didn't see today yet. I'm sorry. But you know, but you know, he's so good that it's almost excruciating to watch because he's so good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I have to say when I heard, when I heard that going to be doing this, giving him Stockholm syndrome and what they're going to be doing with him, I mean, and I, and knowing how good Greg is and what a tremendous actor, it's like, Oh my God, am I going to be able to watch this? But I've got to watch it because it's like, you can't, how can you not? Well, the thing he is too, that how is it all going to play out in the end? I mean, he's going to absolutely be, you know, not himself and regressing back. And so he obviously will have to have treatment. I would assume he can't just snap your fingers and say, no, he said in an interview that I was reading and I've been talking to people at the show, he, it's not going to end. It's going to take a while. It's going to have to go through a whole process. Wow. He's regressed back to his childhood. Right. Right. He is regressed back. Yeah. It's very clever because they've made that the other actor with the same Clint, they've made him, now he's pretending to be his father because he learned all the information about Kevin's background. So he's playing into that and, and now with Gloria, Kevin's reminiscing about when his father beat his mother, which was Gloria. Well, he's getting, he's going to, it's going to be such a confused, he's going to be all confused. Well, he is. So his mind is going already. No, do you, do you know about, I don't know how many people do you know, but your next week, Clint has a heart attack. Oh, really? Really? Yeah. Spoiler alert. Spoiler alert. Spoiler alert. I know about this, but go on. At least Kevin hanging in the wind. Right. I'm not going to say another word. Yeah. Are you to say, why you are? Right. So I won't say anything either. I told you to say for wine, or I thought that it was so smart, if you guys watched, I think it was on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, that they replayed a rerun from, I don't know what year, I want to guess, like maybe 1989, yes, I've seen that episode of Clint and Marge. Yeah. And I think it was so smart because it never really brought Clint Black, but when they brought Clint back, I said, oh, I remember him now. And plus, how funny is it that the actor used to play Mitch Cooper on Kelly? Wow. It's hilarious. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I have to say the young director does such a tremendous job of big, really, there is a lot, a lot of thought. They're really, if you can see by the stories they launch, I really believe there's a lot of thought over at that show with Marina Bell and the team, a lot of thought to be stories and the arc of these stories and how it plays into history. I loved why in our this past year, I think it's just been great. And I love the whole thing also, I love what they're doing with Victor Jr. going blind. Yeah. Yeah. I thought that was really brilliant. I thought, huh? Because hope was one. Yeah. Yeah. Because he, you know, I thought that was really a good way, like we need to, what story can we come up for him? And then that, to me, that was like really good. But let me ask you one other thing before I jump. Sure. Has Victor ever married anyone at his age? No, Victor has to marry a 13. Yes, he's taking a lot of my age, right? I just love the fact that, you know, that he had a vasectomy and then all of a sudden it got reversed. Oh, please. He's pregnant. Yeah. What about that? I don't care. I mean, I don't care. I don't care for Ashley. I mean, he's just like so bland. How do you really? This is the first time I've heard someone say I don't like Ashley. I don't like Ashley. I don't care for Ashley, but Victor, you're a Victor Nikki fan, right? Ben? No. No, it's not even Matt. It's not even Matt. I just think, you know, it's just the same story, you know, with Victor. I mean, please. If we want to go back to the 90s, this is what I want to say. Like, you know, the fans from the early 90s, let's have Paul go back with Warren, let's have Ashley and Tracy, and we're glad again, bring them back alive, let's have, you know, Nikki-- I'm sorry, I want to bring that to the 80s and everyone's big hair. No. Let's bring back Brenda Dixon as Jill, okay? No. Okay. I'll let you go, guys, but thank you. Thank you. Have a good night. Thank you for calling, Jill. I love lying there, Colin. That's awesome. Big hair. No, I don't want to relive that again forever. No, I don't. I just remember when they were doing flashbacks, and I don't know what it was with, um, Beth Maitland and Tracy Brightman and her hair. I just like, oh, my God. And even Don Deemonte here in those flashbacks. Oh, my God, isn't that awesome? It's very light. It was very high hair. Yeah. Well, the only thing I would love to bring back, Bob, in the 80s in that show is definitely the opening. No, it's not the opening. The really good, cheesy opening, though, it's just so good that you spit for the show. Yeah. Uh-huh. They kind of tried it in 2000, but, you know, it's just-- There you go. Here you go. 405. Hello. Hi. How are you? How are you? Okay. Um, the answer to this thing, um, I used to watch, like, days whenever I was young. And then, just since I went pretty much downhill to me, but, um, and pretty much, there's certain storylines that were on, like, as the world turns, that I don't see the point. The ratings, whenever they started the Liberty and Parker storyline, they were already totally kind of sunk with them. I'm sorry. I, you know, unfortunately, I voted Liberty and Parker my worst couple of 2008. I never even understood. I just-- it was like, why are we-- What do you feel of this couple anyway? I mean, you know, they got the nickname "Pukity," obviously. Yeah. They do? Yeah, they do. I mean, I see it all the time on board that they're called "Pukity," and obviously, no one likes them. So what's the appeal of this couple? I mean-- I feel the same way about, um, about Brad and, I don't know, sort of, Brad, and, you know, it's the same way, I feel the same way about Paul and Meg, and it's just, like, they-- Oh, my God. Oh, and Meg. Oh, and Meg. So we glad you brought that up. It's so bad. There's so many other great characters that you use, that they sort of go for the characters that nobody likes. I don't-- that's mind-boggling. That is-- Who do you-- Let me ask you a question. Who do you like? Who would you like to see Marlon as? Well, it turns like, who do you like, that you're not seeing? Well, I would like to-- well, with me, I would like to see, like, a Tom and Marco storyline or something like someone from Tom's past that wants to get him disbarred or something like that. Right. And-- Remember when Ellen Dolan hadn't, like, lots to do? You see, well, I have to do that because I actually love Ellen Dolan and I remember the rapes. There are so many great things and, again, there's another veteran actress who's languishing and, you know, they give her something for a little bit and you go, "Oh, I think they're going to give Margot something." And then it's like, "No, they're not." Oh, they're just going to have Margot say that Paul-- Oh, the fact of-- Yeah. How can Paul judge you? Yeah. I was surprised they even mentioned the fact back in 2002 that, you know, she had to go back into the hospital and her and Katie had to-- you know, they were in the hospital and they revisited the rape that was from 10 years earlier than that. I was surprised they even did that, even had flashbacks for it. I could not believe they were even able to delve that far back into the history on that show. Even then, that was scary and, you know, I agree with the caller. I think Tom and Margot should have something. I think that the Hughes family as a whole should have something. Yeah. It started with the Hughes when the show first came on the air. It was the Hughes. Why is it the Hughes family on the forefront? They should have something, if anything. Because it's all about Allison. Is Maddie even still on the show? I don't even-- they brought her back, but I don't know. Is she still in Oakland? Oh, I don't know. I don't know. Oh, what? I don't know. Oakland. Oakland. Okay. No, I should Oakland, which they actually did come to in 2002 when they visited the pit campus. But, you know, that's another team story I'm going to do. Are you in pit first? I am in pit first. Yes. Oh, how is Pitzburg? Pitzburg is awesome. I don't think so. What? How much are you doing? Maybe if you go to Big Apple soon, but, yeah, totally love it here. Thank you so much for your call. Um. Okay. Thank you. I love the energy tonight. There's so much energy that is so cool. I love that we get to do, you know, stuff shows like this and just have the passionate, so expansive. That's what we've been hearing, just, um, the fans are passionate and that's what, remember, you can look at the ratings and say, "Oh, it looks like Digimon, oh, it shows you're doing so bad." Then you can listen to shows like this and you're up listing and how either with positive comments or negative comments or why they love the show or why they hate it. The show is still out there. That's right. So many years. Here's a question I want to put, I mean, anybody can answer it, it's not to just one direct person, but for you who are listening and of course Michael and Matt on the phone, for you guys, your favorite show that you didn't watch, what is it that you would like them to do on your show that obviously is not being done in order for it to be improved better. You know, I mean, one life to live and why aren't they're doing the steps already, but it's like, don't they need more of something in order for it to be, well, of course, it's not going to be the way it used to be not even 10 years ago, you know, but at least have some sort of something in its story or something. Let me just ask, let me just chime in and ask you this, do you think that 10 years ago, do you think every soap opera was good 10 years ago, do you think every show was that good 10 years ago? Well, as you think about it now, 10 years ago was sort of whatever things started like turning. I think it's the 2000s because everybody, I remember I saw it might have been a soap opera or digesters, you know, one of those magazines, it had teams, how the focus was on team storylines, and that's whenever the vet started to get pushed aside, it was never the 1999, 2000s even hit. So maybe 10 years ago, maybe it started to happen. Don't know. Well, I have to say, like, I remember when I was executive producer at Soap City for Sony and my... Go away. I used to love that one. Yeah. I created Soap City.com. That's awesome. Thank you. Yeah. So I created Soap City.com and it was the first online brand for Soap, right? And young and the residents and days of our lives were owned by Sony and I created their original website and navigation. And I remember, remember "Globe" by Jibo? Yes. Okay. So we decided, well, they wanted to do a special "Globe" by Jibo website. Well, wasn't "Globe" by Jibo all the young people, right? It was, yeah. Well, so even, that was back in '97, '98, like I was there from '97 to 2001 creating the whole Soap City brand and being the editorial director and doing all that stuff. And it was noticing, that was ten years ago, right, right, 12 years ago. So we're noticing, it was a push to young, young, young men, you know, it was a definite push, you know. But I'm saying we had more shows back then, you know, we've lost. We've had a lot of soap upper casualties. That's right. Another world. So of course, for me though, there's all the answer to your question for me. Two words can fix myself. There's not even fix it, but just make it better. Lauren, send more. Love that character. And I love it. I love that whenever we have to see the glimpse of Lauren, the eviction, you know, that Michael didn't marry. Bring her back. Maybe she gets hit on the head and all of a sudden she's back to making people alive and living hell and fighting for what she believes in like she used to be. That's what I think. Bring back Sheila. Bring back Lauren. I don't know. I'm sorry. But no. Sheila is done with. What? That's like that's a commodity that needs to be. I don't know. Sheila is like, being born with his dad in eight faces by now. I mean, no. Seriously. Sheila is like Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th franchise. You will not go away. If I were petting it, I would not bring her back at all. There is no way. Not enough money in the world. No. Sorry. That's my, that's where I put my foot down. Area code 312, you're on the line. How are you? Hey, Nobel. And Matthew, what's going on guys? Don't even go anywhere. Oh my goodness. It's our long lost Chicagoian. I don't. I don't know. Did I just get that word? What's going on, Tony? It's the Chicagoian. I'm doing all right, buddy. Listen, listen, you know, the last I know we've been showing them and you just mentioned one like 12 and I've been watching the show of like a few weeks and it's been kind of, you know, up and down, blessing, this and running. But this week, especially with all the stuff going down with the, with the, with the accidents that, uh, that's now Matthew paralyzed. And then now we're flying after that she and got Latina, uh, and Cole, and Cole eventually Cole again, you know, revealed that, uh, he was in the car stone, you know, revealed that he had drug problem and usually he'll be Smith the other day. Oh my goodness. He was incredible. And what he found out that Cole was in the car, that Cole was a drug problem and Matthew was in the car when he went off on him, nor was I, I want to tell you tomorrow, go to michaelthermanfield.com. I have a brand new interview with Hillary Smith, oh, you need to go tomorrow and check on my website. I did talk to her in depth about the storyline and everything else. So, uh, I think she's amazing and I think the scenes are amazing and I'm loving the show and I love that every minute of every scene yesterday and today it's like, oh my God. Oh my God. And oh my God. And oh my God. And oh my God. And oh my God. And I can't stand Stacy and oh my God, you know, I'm looking at, I'm like, Oh my God. Exactly. It was that really, yes, I said Stacy, but I was good, but crystal on his done. I got to take Christmas doing right knowing that, you know, who could be a character who would be so good appointed character, so evil. I mean, I wrote in my blog, go to the father role. I love her in this role. I mean, thank the Lord, she is almost like, I mean, I'm not getting lying. I mean, I love Marcy. I love her Lizzie, but oh my God, Crystal, good job getting that role, honey. I love you in this part. I'm just watching this because there are so many things that she's going to do coming up that are so bad. So bad. Oh, that's so bad. Oh, that's going to be so bad. Hey, Michael, I got one quick question. I read on somebody's size and other sites that I hear that possibly Jamie will be heading to all my children. Are you going to hear about that? Wait. I didn't hear what she said. Can you repeat that? I'm so sorry. Is Pope Superpul, our pal Superpulcer posted something on this blog saying that as an insider and all my children said, Jamie and Louie might be heading to that show. You're anything about that? But I can't hear the name he's saying. I'm sorry. Jamie and Louie. Jamie and Louie. Jamie and Louie. Jamie and Louie. Jamie and Louie. Jamie and Louie. Jamie and Louie. Jamie and Louie. Jamie and Louie. They used to be on Mela's place. Oh my God. That's the 10 of us. 10 of us. 10 of us. 10 of us. Yeah. Well, that's where I remember hers from just the 10 of us. Yeah. It's some rumors that she may be coming to play Sky or Leslie Colson, that's what I'm hearing. Do you hear anything about that? There are rumors about it. I don't know if that's actually going to happen. So I basically didn't think that he was going to solve basically. That's what you're saying, right? I'm saying, wait a minute on that. The rumors. Yeah. I don't think we. I don't think Sky knows that only because she looked like Robin Christopher, some aspect. I can definitely see her playing that. Yeah. If she does come, that will probably be probably she'll probably do that, you know, but like you said, but I'm like a saying, but I'm going to say what you just said. Yeah. Just take a little huge rate of song. Just wait. I would. It's true enough. I would. Thank you so much for your call. It's great to talk to you. Hey, no problem guys. Take care. Bye bye. All right. Awesome. Awesome guy. Let's take this. Let's take this next one. Five. I can't believe there's five of them when you're on the air, but I can't believe they're still calling. They're still calling. It's awesome. Hello five seven one. You're on the air. Hi. How are you? Good. How are you? Good. Michael's actually wondering what are your thoughts on Rachel Melvin leaving days. I first of all, I want to just tell you that I love Rachel Melvin personally, and I think she's a great actress, and I think she did a tremendous job in days of her life, and I think that she actually really, I think it was time for her to move on. I think she wanted to do other things, and I think you can kind of see the course of how the show was going, and I think maybe she felt a little unsteady about what was going on at the time, but I think it was really her time to go. I think she wanted to leave. Are you intimating that possibly she was pushed out? Oh no. No, no, no, no, I believe she wanted to go. I believe she wanted to leave. I think she's a talented actress. She's a young girl. I mean, she's a young woman. She's got a whole career ahead of her, and I really think she wanted to do go try other things. You know, I've hung out with her. I've done many interviews with her. I've talked to her. She's so funny and vibrant, and I think she could be very successful. So I say good for her. It's our loss, though. It's our loss, you know? It really is. Yeah. I'm a big fan, too. I'm a very big fan of her. Well, since we got you on the line right now, as far as the day's conversation goes, let's segue into that for just a second. You know, we dealt with the whole backstage drama that's been on days for, like, a year and a half now, starting from last year, all the way up until now. You know, now with the recent ones in regards to being Drake, being gone, until Pangliss, Leanne Hunley, Mary Beth Evans is these nickels, and now, of course, Rachel Melvin leaving the show on her own accord. I am very, very, very surprised that the ratings are still high up there. I mean, it was number three last week, if I'm not mistaken. Everybody made this big, huge hoopla of the fact that they're not going to watch now because Dean Drake are now gone, KO's now gone. They're going to stop watching the show, but they haven't stopped watching. Does that absolutely mean that the show can actually move on without Dean Drake on the show? I mean, do you really think that it can survive without those two being on the show? In your own impromptu opinion. This is for anybody, by the way. Are you asking me? Oh, okay, I don't hear anything. Yes, I think the show can survive without Dean Drake, and yes, I think the show is being tailored around, you know, EJ and Nicole and Sammy and Ray, and this age, you know, this group and Bo and Hope will be there. And I think they had to do what they had to do for, obviously, to stay on the air. It was a difficult, I mean, I remember talking to many of the actors through that whole, that whole tenuous time when nobody knew whether the show was being renewed. It was awful because nobody knew what the hell was going on. And I think, as I, I think I've said this in other interviews, you know, there's certain markers they have to meet through 2010 to be able to renew even again. And even before all of this came down, you have to remember, if you go to MichaelFirmensoaps.com, you go into the media gallery and you look at interviews, I did with Stephen Nichols and Mary Beth Evans and Teo and Leanne, you know, they had no story. I mean, they didn't even, I mean, it's one thing. First of all, I think it's horrible if they're all gone. Don't get me wrong. I think it's terrible. I mean, it's not, you know, that's our days of our lives. It's not there. But they weren't using these people. There was no story for them. It's not like I was going, "Oh, my God. There's a great story for Patch and Kayla and I can't wait every day to see it." They weren't even, my point is they weren't even being written for. Where were the stories for these couples? Where were the stories? I mean, I didn't even like, I did not like the last story of Deidra. I mean, after a while, it was getting ridiculous. I mean, where were the stories for these great couples? Those storylines just didn't click for me. And then they were languishing on the back burner. And then you've got to realize your face with tough decisions. How do I keep my show on the air? I've got to cut my licensing fees. I've got to bring down the budget. And it just got messed up. You know, there was a lot of contributing factors to it. I'm not saying, I'm, I mean, I missed my name. You did that. They should not have made the mistake of bringing back the character of John and Drake when they killed him off last year. They should have just left him. I have a problem. Okay. I really am, you know, I'm very friendly with Drake Holgustin. And Drake Holgustin, you know, had neck surgery. I had neck surgery. He helped me when I had my surgery talk to me about it going, you know, we're, we're, we talk. We've been friendly over the years. And I hated to see them bringing him on, killing him off, then making go through it all over again. It was painful. I agree. I mean, I don't, I don't even think about acting ability, not acting ability. It was just painful to have the emotional rollercoats of a human being being killed off and think you're done. Then you bring him back and then you're done again. And, and Drake's a very passionate guy. He invests a lot into what he does. And, you know, personally, I think the character should have stayed dead when they killed him because I think that was the end of that story. You know, then to bring him back again was like, I don't like a lot of him. It was not ventical. What? It was ventical to me. Yeah. No, and also like when I invest in a character and I see them to kill off, let me have my, my morning for them. Let them be killed off. Don't bring them back in another way. I, I, I'd rather grieve the loss of character and not have this feeling. Are they going to come back again to all the emotional investment I'm having watching them and getting upset that they're dying? They're really going to show up in two weeks. I mean, I don't love, that's one part of the storytelling and soaps in general. I don't love, you know. It's true. Or did you, did you have any opinions you want to share? Oh, sorry, what? No, I said that the caller have any opinions you want to share. I thought, I, I thought maybe they hung up. I don't know. Are they still there? I don't know. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to hear you. We can hear you. I don't know. I agree. It's a, it's hard to view the expand right now. I mean, I go to that thing. Yeah. Is there anything you can ask? Is it, let me ask you this. Is there anybody on, is there any character or actor on the show that you like to watch or no? Um, yeah, I'm a big elephant. It's just lucky for them right now. That's really good to know. That's really good to know because, I mean, it's going to be interesting how this plays out. It's going to be the jammy fans against the, you know, the race, whatever we're going to call race and Sammy. What is that? But caller, thanks so much for calling into the show. Nice to meet you. Thank you. You're welcome. Care. All right. Two, five, three. Erico, two, five, three. You're on the line. How are you? Two, five, three. Two, five, three. Yeah. We'll, uh, get back to them. I don't know what's going on with them, but, uh, let's take, uh, this one from. This one from 801, uh, is this Tinnika? Um, Tannika. Tannika. Yeah. Hi. Um, I kind of have a comment on what you said about recasting Sky. Um, I watched all my children and one life to live just for her. And I think it would kind of be, like, retarded to recast her because then they would just fail just like the girl that they recast it greenly with. So it would just fail and they would have to cancel the character anyway unless Robin Christopher was coming back. Well, see, that's really good to know. I mean, see, that took real, see to me. I agree with you. Like, if I'm not going to see Robin Christopher, this guy really don't want to see somebody. You know, that's kind of why. Oh, yeah, exactly. Because Robin Christopher is like the only reason I watched General Hospital in the first place. So... Oh, you watched her in another world? Get in there. Yeah. Lorna. Lorna there. Yeah. Oh, she saw what? I loved her. Oh my gosh, she was great. She was great. I mean, everything she's done, she's a great actress. She did. And, you know, but you know what, it's like so much so that what they pimped Sky out all the different shows. It really did. Well, and that's the reason they can't recast her is because she's been on everything. And so everybody has come to identify her as Sky. So to recast her would be a nightmare. It would be horrible. Well, they would be able to recast her once. Well, they would get Carrie Gonzalez. She only lasted like a year. And then she had to save their butt. Oh, Robin, that's right. And then Robin wasn't the original Sky in the first place. It was the first, like, I don't know what her name was, but she was the first one. And then Robin came and then Robin left all my children. And then they went and took Sky to one life to live. And then Carrie took her place and completely bombed it. And then came Robin. Yeah, I would have a hard time with it. Well, yeah, I'm a big fan of Robin Christopher. So that's some really good technical. You're just making that up. I had always watched an all-hospital in the first place because it's like a family thing. But then when she came on in 2001, I was like, oh, yes, I'm a character I like. And then, like, she started going away. I was like, crap, now I can't watch an all-hospital anymore because the show is adorable. And then they got rid of Sky and then Megan Ward came on. And now she's the only reason I watch. But I think she's, you know, Robin, again, Robin is another one. You know, her and Matt and her children. I think she's really raising her kids right now, you know? Yeah. You know? And she had two little kids here in where I live. I would always bump into her and Matt and her two children at, like, this coffee shop and we'd sit and talk. And I remember talking to her and then all of a sudden one day she was gone as she moved. So, you know, I do think she's trying to deal with a deal. I mean, I think she's being mothers, she's being mothers right now. She's playing mother to her children in real life. Yeah. And it's like, it's not impossible that she can return to the show. I mean, if it's from the author, there is no way that she may not. I know. But, you know... Well, I'm totally fine with Sky not returning. I mean, I get it. But, um... You think... You don't... You don't... You don't even want... You want Sky to return if it's not her? No. No, I'm saying I don't want Sky to return. It's not Robin. Got it. Yeah, thank you so much. Yeah. I got it. Thank you. Definitely. I actually agree with a lot of the points that you said though, especially. I mean, I did like the being as Greenlee. It took a little bit. But I did. I did. But it also had to deal with the writing for me because of how they wrote for her. Um... I really did not see the writing that they did for her as Greenlee's. Mine. I think they wrote it as... For me personally, when they wrote Greenlee, when the being took the role, they wrote her as this character who was at fault all the time. I mean, the cause of Spike's accident. I mean, really. And then when Rebecca comes back, I guess right before being left, then they decide to not have it be Greenlee's fault that this is what happens to Spike. And it made me feel like they did this because now that Rebecca was returning, they can't have any fault with Greenlee anymore. I think that this is how I felt about it. They trashed Greenlee whilst the being was in the part. Rebecca came back into the part, then they made her sort of a heroin-esque kind of thing. Oh, he got relieved. I'm sorry. I was going to say that I had a real problem with that whole thing. As I've said before, I didn't like the commercials with the real Greenlee coming back. That was, yeah, I really bad, I odd. And I worked for ABC on Air Promos and I've cut and written, produced one. But they just didn't like what that was saying. I didn't like the message or that. You know, again, I felt even with that that, you know, people know the soap star's name. It's Rebecca Buddick. Say Rebecca Buddick returns. Yeah. I don't say the real Greenlee. The being saying at the end of her run, I thought, Dave Marva was performances. At first, I thought, "What is this moment playing Greenlee?" And then by the end, when they gave her a major story and she was more the victim in the whole situation and you felt bad for her, you know, that was her last. It was, again, you see with a lot of times, you know, the writing's on a wall for a character and actor that you haven't seen for a while when they're in almost every episode, giving great performances and they get killed off or they're leaving the show. So that's kind of what happened with that. And unfortunately, Rebecca's last time out on the show, I thought they weren't writing well for her either. Yeah. And it also didn't help either that, you know, she did say she was only going to do it for like a year as well. Right, but is that really true? Never know though. There's some, there's some, there's some things going on here. That's true. I totally agree to you about the whole, um, the real Greenlee premise I think that as, you know, as any actor, that's a huge slap in the face. It's, it's really mean. I think it's really new spirit. But to me, it wasn't even the me, it was the thing that, that I guess maybe because I'm such an insider and know it. But again, I talk to all of you who are so passionate and you know, you're, all of you know your stuff too, which is wonderful, is that when they, I know that that's Rebecca Butick, I know that that is Inga Rademacher. I also just say Rebecca Butick, Rebecca Butick, return, that's out of that, out of that, returns as Greenlee. I just think, I think that's dumbing down the fans a bit. That's what I didn't like about it. Yeah. It sort of sounds like, you know, I guess whoever. They preferred Rebecca Butick, the being on the show. It sort of, if whoever was writing the promo was kind of like, oh, hey, we're going to be smart for once and pretend that we're listening to the viewers and say like, oh, let's see what the viewer thinks. This is what the viewer would say. And yeah, maybe all the Rebecca fans were saying that, but then, like, whoever it comes out. Were you not thinking? Oh, no, there was a lot of backlash. Exactly. Were you not thinking like, what about all the Sabine fans who are kind of like, this is a slap in the face? All right. You got to think about it. I don't know. Right. I agree. Time to turn it. All right. Three, one, nine. You're on the line. How are you? I'm good. I don't want to -- I wanted to call -- I know you've heard a lot of people calling in about this tonight, but I was just wanting to call this to be when you might have Megan Ward on next on your show. Or interview her again. Are you talking about Michael Fairman or Buzzworthy? Either one of you. Either one of us. That's where I may watch the show. I don't know who you show. Yeah, that is. I think it was a general question. A general question. Since you haven't heard enough from us tonight, you know. Since we haven't heard enough from you tonight. Keep it going. Keep it going. That's all we should say. I will say this. The way that I kind of have a schedule of interviews that I do, and I have things booked and things kind of have dates and they have been up here on the website, but obviously it's something that, of course, I would consider it in the very near future. You know? Okay, great. Thank you. And this show goes. I know we had a lot of people emailing to have her back again for the second time. And I did not ignore all of you guys. I have been working on getting her back on the show within the next couple of months. Since we are kind of a little bit tight on our end over here, but we are working on it in April. So I'll keep you posted on that with a date. Sounds great. Thank you. You're welcome. All right. Bye. We never know. We never know what happens. We don't have time for much enough. You know? That's hysterical. Hey, all promotion, good promotion, I think. 804, I believe this is our last caller. 804, you're on the line. How are you? Hi. I was actually the first caller. Yeah, you did want to call back. I remember you did you have something else you wanted to say? Yeah. I had two questions. I was wondering if Michael was going to be at GH Tank Club weekend this year. Yes. And are you going to go to Megan's event? Yes. If there is a Megan event, yes. Is Megan having an event? Yeah. Nice. Of course I'll be there. Of course. Since you asked that, my dear, I'm not going to ask this question because I've been testing him about this all week. Are you going next Friday? Oh, I'm not answering that question on a live broadcast. Look, I got asked this by someone else too. Now I'm asking you on air. I am making my decision within the next 24 hours based on certain things. So it's a to be continued cliffhanger Friday ending is what it says. Everything happens on Fridays, right? So you will be telling me tomorrow. I will be letting you know tomorrow. Yes. Wait, what's next Friday? Rockless Soap Cruise takes place next Friday. It's part of the Soap Nation tour that Soap Net is doing. This event hosted by Bob Guinea. I believe if you get in late, you can still get there. If people want to check it out, it's rocklesssoap.com. I will be there as well as Joanne from Stardish Radio and a bunch of others so press checking out this event. I've looked over the itinerary. It's going to be a jam pack. That's all I'll say. This man is going to be on there? No. No. That's why I didn't know. There you go. It is. Brandon. Before we go, before we go, I do want to tell everybody because I just wanted to clarify. I've been getting a lot of emails, a couple of things if you wouldn't mind about. One is the soap break on XM24, the pink channel. So if you have satellite radio, make sure to check out XM24. Every day in rotation, there is a couple new soap breaks and there are interview features with the actors and they're wrapped around like a really cute wrap and so you get to hear them, what they have to say about different things that are going on with their characters, with the actors or in major storylines and what's coming up on the shows. And that runs every day of the week. If you don't have satellite radio, we post them on microferementilbs.com a week after they run on air. They run first run on the air on the radio network and then I place them on the website. The other thing I didn't know people knew is that the TV soap Australia feature articles that I write in the global section on my website where the interviews are for the stars. There's an area there that says TV soap articles. You can actually click on those articles and see the actual printed articles that run in Australia. They did Lauren Coslow, Daniel Goddard, Elizabeth Hendrickson. So I think because I just want to let people know kind of where things are on the site because they email me and they don't know where to find them. So I just want to let them know that there are places on the site that you may be missing where there's other articles and interviews with your favorite stars. Very cool. And it's all I got to mention. And it's time for what you did mention earlier in the show what you do have coming up. What else can you tell us that you have coming up on the site that you can give away? Well, as I said, look for Tomorrow for Hillary B. Smith, the new interview and audio with that. Then next week, there is a new interview with Paula Sugante and someone else that from a show called General Hospital that we've talked about tonight of that I think people will like to hear. It's not Meghan Ward. Oh. It's not Meghan Ward. You got the hopes out. I'm better. It's not Meghan Ward. I just did an interview with Meghan Ward. You know that. That was like two months ago. You can have her back again. I can. But right now, like I said, I've got all these other ones booked that I've got to do first. Is it Caroline? No. No. Is it Murley? I think it's Murley. It is. Is it? Just kidding. You're getting closer. I like to say Steve Burton. No, it's not a man. It's a woman. It's a woman. Is it Laura Wright? Laura Wright. Yes. Awesome. Awesome. Steve, you just narrowed it down. That's what you got to do. So I will tell you that Laura Wright and Paula Sugante will be, you'll have stuff on the website next to you. Pretty cool. Michael, I have to say, and this is, this is really, it was really an honor to talk to you and have you on the show and finally to meet. You know, I think it's so cool to meet other people within the soap industry. You have to go and check out S.O. and Insider. I don't know if you have already, but it's like the first web show. They actually, you know, focuses on soap news. She's one of those. Go check out YouTube. It's all over YouTube. You have the soap comes out soon, but yeah. I will be honored to have you watch it. Absolutely. Ask the one Insider. Is that your show? Yes. Within association with another website that covers soap, I guess. I'll totally say that. I'm their spokesperson in a way. So, but yeah. Totally. So, caller, thank you so much for calling back. Hopefully, you got all your answers. Hopefully, you listened to the whole show. So, thank you for calling in again. All right. Thank you. Bye. Bye. And, Navell, what else do you want to say? Is there anything else you need to plug? I just want to say, Michael, thank you so much for coming back on the show. Again, it was great having you on here. Thank you. Always. You know, it's great keeping in touch with you and everything about what's going on with everything. Well, we'll see. You didn't know about it. What? The what? Especially about something you didn't even know about. What? What did I know about? Well, until I told you, I don't think I could say it on the air, though. No, don't say it on the air. Don't say it. I don't think I can say this part on the air. No, don't say it. I know what it is, but I'm not going to say it. That's not okay. It has nothing to do with the show. I know. Okay. I get it. It has to do so. I'll just say it has to deal with a days interview that you had done. Okay. I'll do it at that. So, I'll tell you what, I thank you for having me on the show. Everybody, I love to hear everybody's, you know, what they have to say. And I think it's great that you guys, you know, follow this and have a lot of opinions. And I'm really passionate about it. I think it's great to be able to touch base with people like that because it's really hard because a lot of people, you know, when you watch, so it's like, I don't want to have these people watch so, you know, it's hard to find necessarily people that, you know, you know, that you can just kind of talk with, talk with, talk with. So, it's fun. Absolutely. And speaking of plug-in, plug your website again. I'm going to go to microfearmentsoaps.com. So, it's microfearmentsoaps.com. And the real title of it is "Michael Fearment on Air on Soaps." But we didn't put "On Air on Soaps" in the URL because it's way too long. So, it's just microfearmentsoaps.com. And then make sure you go to XM24, the pink channel on your XM radio, XM24. They've actually, the good news, you know, XM24 is a music channel. And it is, the benefactors are the city of hope. So, everything, we help cancer, female health issues, breast cancer awareness, a lot of things that are important to women are on that channel. So, make sure you check it out and go to the website every couple of weeks and you can hear the news still breaks if you don't have XM satellite radio in your car. Okay. Definitely. And that's the way. Jamie, it'll stream this online that I can check it out. Right. So, that's the next step. I mean, I think they're working on that aspect of it. But, you know, it was really important to me to really be the first to get on the satellite radio for the Soaps. It needed to be done. Yeah, I agree. You know, it's got to be done. And we have a second phase of it going on. There's a second phase of the website relaunch coming up. There's a lot of things coming up to tell everybody to look forward to. And, you know, I just want to keep new and innovative ways to promote the genre and to celebrate it. So, we'll see. Well, we'll see. All right. Thanks so much. I look forward to seeing you next week. Yes, and I like it. Bye-bye. Think Matthew. Bye-bye. All right. All right. Well, what are we on next? Well, we're not going to be all for a while. Let's just say this. I'm going to be on the VELB going on vacation next week. You deserve a good vacation. I will be away in California next week. So, I won't be doing any shows, but if Matthew has stuff planned, we'll hand away. He will do that. I do. Can I talk more? Who I've been working on? Yes. Well, I've been working on two guests. Hopefully they come on. Maybe next week. I don't know. So, maybe you can first send me an album. And the other one is Holly Madison from Girls Next Door. And Dancing With The Stars. So, working on both of them. And I do want to let you know, I am working on getting -- we are going to have a lot of Nancy O'Dell from Access Hollywood and also on Dancing With The Stars this season. No, she's not anymore. What's that? She's not on the show anymore. Hmm, I don't keep up with Dancing With The Stars as much as I used to. But we are going to have on Nancy O'Dell, and we're also going to have on the cast of Fringe on the show starting in April. I want to start back up again on April. Oh, my gosh. I lost the gate. April 7th, new episodes of Fringe come on Fox. So, we're going to start promoting Fringe actors and actresses on our show in conjunction with that. So, make sure you guys tune into that as well. But for now, I am going to bid you for a well. When I get back, we'll have some updates on Rock The Soap on this show. And make sure you check out Star Dish because they're going to have some updates on that show as well. By the way, did you check out that Star Dish interview? Because I click on my Myspace. I got my Myspace homepage and it was promoting Star Dish Radio. And I was like, "Wow." I was amazed at how much publicity that show got. I don't know what you're talking about. With the kiss and toilet. I'm going to put his name in the description. I did catch this. That was fantastic. I loved that show. If you haven't checked that out, please check out Star Dish Radio. Joanne and the other host, the other lady, the name escapes me at the moment. I'm so sorry. But they did an interview on Monday with Taylor Lautner from Twilight. So, make sure you check it out on Star Dish Radio on blog.radio.com. We're going to bid you farewell. Take care. better guys.