Eddie & Jeff Transcript

November 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Dr. Kent Gustavson: Hello and welcome to Sound Authors radio. It’s November 2nd, a couple days after Halloween, but because I’m still in the spirit, this is the Halloween show. We’ve got Jeff Hickey on the line. Jeff, are you there?

Jeffrey Hickey: Yes, you do.

Kent: What did you do for Halloween?

Jeffrey: Actually, carved a few pumpkins, set them out. It was actually kind of a let‑down, because we didn’t get many trick‑or‑treaters this year, but we live in a part of the world where there’s not that many children. We live in a pretty remote area.

So it seems like the trick‑or‑treating mostly went on elsewhere this year. It used to be a huge tradition, though, at our house, where we would carve about 50 jack‑o‑lanterns and I would have spooky music pumping out through speakers outside. People would come from miles around to see the sort of stuff we did.

It used to be something. Also, I used to do lots and lots of reader’s theater shows ‑ like as many as about 25 in 14 or 15 days, around that time ‑ doing spooky readings.

Kent: You carved 50 pumpkins?

Jeffrey: Yes, I’m a master. I’m not shy about it. I’m pretty rudimentary at the carvings, but I am a master at cleaning them and preparing them for carving. I’ve got the proper tools. I could clean a pumpkin in about a minute and have it ready for you to carve.

Kent: Do you use the pumpkin?

Jeffrey: .. For compost, [laughter] eventually. Yeah, you know, we do use the pumpkin seeds, some of them at least, but most of them just go right into the compost and end up in our garden. So in that sense, they do get used.

Kent: So I sat in front of my house with a pumpkin on my lap, carving it, pulling out all the insides. In my family we always cut all the pumpkin out of the inside and we saved that too ‑ cooked it down. But it takes hours to cook that stuff.

Jeffrey: Well, it does.

Kent: And hours.

Jeffrey: And it all depends on how much you can stomach the smell of squash. Personally, I’ve only got a couple of hours in me for a year. I’m not a huge squash man.

Kent: Butch? Are you a squash man?

Eddie Munster: Not much, no.

Kent: We got Butch Patrick on the line now; we had a little technical difficulty. Butch, this is Jeff Hickey.

Jeffrey: Hey, Butch, what’s up man?

Eddie: Oh, not too much. Right now, I’m just kind of relaxing, having had a hectic last few weeks.

Jeffrey: You and me both, buddy.

Eddie: Yeah, I can appreciate that.

Jeffrey: I’m pounding down my morning cup of coffee here.

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John Stanley Transcript

November 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Kent Gustavson: Welcome back to Sound Authors Radio. This is Dr. Kent chatting with you, and on the line I have John Stanley. Are you there, John?

John Stanley: I’m sure here, Doc. Go right ahead.

Kent: And your newest book is called “I Was a Television Horror Host”. Is that right?

John: That’s absolutely correct.

Kent: When did that come out?

John: It’s only been out for a couple of months now. I was a horror host in the San Francisco Bay area for eight years. The program actually ran for a total of 14 years, and it’s still one of the most popularly remembered shows in the entire history of Bay area television. I have to give credit to my predecessor. His name was Bob Wilkins.

Unlike other horror hosts who always dressed up in costumes or played ghoulish kind of characters, Bob was a one‑time advertising executive who wore suits and ties. That’s how he presented himself on television talking about these old horror films and often reading from a copy of TV Guide so watchers would have a choice to turn to another channel. He approached it with a totally tongue in cheek attitude and he was actually the leading program in the ratings. He beat out NBC’s Saturday Night at the Movies back in the 1970’s.

Kent: How did you look on TV?

John: I looked pretty much the way he did, but I didn’t have as good a wardrobe of suits as he had. I didn’t wear the Gucci shoes. I went more for a collegiate look with a lot of sweaters and slacks and so on. My main emphasis was not only talking about the film I was going to show, and I always was knowledgeable about the background of most of these films. I wanted to present the very best guests that I could find, people like Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner, Robert Block, Lucille Ball, people who came from the top echelons of showbiz.

I was able to get them on the show primarily because I had also been a newspaper man at the San Francisco Chronicle, so I had good contacts to blend together my guests and the spirit of keeping these old horror films alive, talking about them and providing background about them.

Kent: Can you give us a few salacious details about the stars that you chatted with?

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Nikki Cobb Transcript

November 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Dr. Kent Gustavson: Welcome back to “Sound Authors Radio”. My next guest is Nikki Cobb.

Is Nikki there?

Nikki Cobb: Yes, I am, Kent.

Kent: How are you doing?

Nikki: Doing pretty good.

Kent: Give me a nutshell of what you do every day.

Nikki: What I do every day, is mostly doing phone sessions with people, where I’m tuning into their energy fields at a soul‑level; into what’s going on in their nervous system, looking for any glitches in their nervous system that may be preventing them from moving forward more gracefully into the fulfillment of their destiny.

Kent: You have a new book that’s come out. What’s that called?

Nikki: It’s called, “Your Divine Heritage ‑ Experience the Power of Sacred Love”.

Kent: If I was on the telephone with you, or if I read your book, what would be the first thing that I would experience?

Nikki: Well, the book actually starts with a prayer, and if you were to read that… that’s probably one of the first things that’s going to happen. If I’m doing a private session with you; same thing. We actually start blessing the energy fields, so you are usually going to start to feel a little bit more expanded in your consciousness.

Within the book; one of the things that the book is relative to, is your spiritual resources. What spiritual resources do we have to actually fulfill our destinies? I think that a lot of people have great intentions. They really know that they have a contribution to make, but they just can’t quite grasp it, so they don’t know how to fulfill it. They don’t feel like they have enough support.

Kent: Today is the day after All Saints’ Day, and, of course, Halloween is All Hallows’ Eve. What is your take on what Halloween means? I know it’s a lot of candy, and kids walking around, and good capitalist greed among our children, but what is Halloween to you?

Nikki: [laughs] Halloween is my least favorite holiday, actually, just because it does always depict all those scary kinds of pictures. But to me, on a more “spirit‑level”, Halloween would really be that transition of the seasons. It’s an opening‑up of a doorway between the worlds that… It’s like a crack in the worlds.

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