#114 Happy Days with Marion Ross

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Alright, Howard, thank you so much for that amazing introduction. You got the show going each and every week and as week was no exception. Welcome, everybody, to Episode 114 of live from Detroit, the Jeff Dwoskin show. As always, I am your host, Jeff Dwoskin. Great to have you back for the mother of all episodes. That's right. That's what I said the mother of all episodes. Mrs. C is here Mrs. Cunningham, Marion Ross from Happy days. That's right. We're continuing the happy days. As I promised during the Mort Crim interview. Anson Williams was a couple of weeks ago and we've got more happy days comment. But right now let's focus. We got to focus on Marion Ross, Marion and I talk about her career. Of course, so much happy days, you won't even be able to handle it. And her book my days happy and otherwise, which I highly recommend a delightful book. Anyway, I'm excited to talk to one of the greatest TV monay, the greatest TV mom in all of TV history. My conversation with Mrs. C. That's right, Marion Ross is coming up in just a few minutes. Of course, if you dig happy days don't miss episode 110 With Anson Williams That's right. Potsie was here. That was a great interview. Last week, Mort Crim, Will Ferrell's inspiration for Anchorman Mort Crim an amazing journalist from the time when we trusted journalists, the inspiration for Ron Burgundy, that was a great, great conversation. That was episode 112. I grew up loving happy days. So after you listen to this episode, no, there's another one comment, I got another interview in the bank. And I have a trilogy of Happy Days episodes. I'm excited.

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Alright everyone, I am so excited to introduce you to my next guest actress, author from Albert Lee to Mrs. C. Everyone's favorite TV mom, Marion Ross.

Marion Ross 5:15

Good morning. Good night. Well, I should say good afternoon. I think it's already been noon already. How is everybody

Jeff Dwoskin 5:23

so gray? So wonderful to speak with you? Like so many I grew up watching Happy days. So this is quite a joy. Well,

Marion Ross 5:31

have I ever met you in person?

Jeff Dwoskin 5:33

We've never met we have never met. But maybe one day there's still hope. Oh, you know, I'm, I'm excited to kind of just talk about your book and your career and Okay, so it's I read I read your book, my days happy and otherwise

Marion Ross 5:48

loved it. And tell me where you live right now.

Jeff Dwoskin 5:52

I am just outside of Detroit, Michigan. Oh, no

Marion Ross 5:55

kidding. Ah, good for you. Good for you. You've got lots of snow. I'm sure.

Jeff Dwoskin 6:01

It's starting to come down. Yeah, we're getting a little bit today. Yeah.

Marion Ross 6:05

All right. Yeah. Well, I'm from Albert Lee, Minnesota with this very southern Minnesota. 100 miles south of Minneapolis probably gets pretty cold there too. Growing up, Oh, brother, we would the lake would freeze over. And we would walk across that lake to go to high school. You know, my God.

Jeff Dwoskin 6:26

People who don't live with snow don't understand the lake effect. So it must have been extra cold there. Oh,

Marion Ross 6:33

brother. You can't imagine. So then in the summer, it was very important because we were all Junior lifeguards, we ran the Dwight's ice cream store, you know, sold popsicles to everybody. It was just it was a wonderful. It's a wonderful place to grow up.

Jeff Dwoskin 6:50

I can imagine it. That's where it all started for you. Right? Just dreaming of the having your name and lights. Absolutely. Amazingly, decades later, there's a statue of you maybe even overlooking that same lake, you're just mentioning bronze statue. How amazing is that?

Marion Ross 7:09

It's a beautiful statue. I like her a lot. She's a very nice person, isn't she? Yeah, yeah, I've

Jeff Dwoskin 7:15

seen pictures is a wonderful thing. But how amazing is that? To think like when you were 13 years old, a young girl like just dreaming of being an actress, and then the impact you made and then the town coming together to to do that statue. And your honor outside of the Marion Ross Performing Arts Center.

Marion Ross 7:33

It's really quite unbelievable. It really is. That's why I'm so proud of it. And I'm so proud of the town that they can't do enough. They want to do that. I'm very impressed. Yeah, it's

Jeff Dwoskin 7:45

so amazing. So you're in Albert Lee dreaming of being a star, change the spelling of your name, so look better in the lights love that.

Marion Ross 7:54

Exactly. And, and the war was now War, World War Two was just getting over with. So we sold our house, we got on the train and went all the way from Albert Lee, Minnesota to San Diego. And that was a good thing to do. Because San Diego, I was now going to be a senior at San Diego and in high school. And we it was so wonderful because we had the Globe Theatre in Balboa Park. It was a wonderful, wonderful professional theatre, I was so proud to be connected to that.

Jeff Dwoskin 8:32

That's so great. I love like up until that point to where you talked about you had mentioned like just your drive and to, to just even to be an au pair in another city to take private drama classes and all that kind of stuff. Like the drive that you had, and the vision that you had is so amazing. That's why I love the fact that now that that statue in the performing arts, it's it's such a it's you

Marion Ross 8:53

know, my mother was a Canadian, from the great prairies of Saskatchewan. So she and she was Irish. She had a lot of drive in her. My father was Scottish. And he was a very hard working to the whole thing that you could become whatever it was you wanted to become. It was very important.

Jeff Dwoskin 9:14

That's great that they supported you so much and helping you fulfill your dream.

Marion Ross 9:18

Yeah, great. And then I went to when I went up to Minneapolis, then I found a professor or an instructor at MC sales School of Music and Drama, and I would take lessons there. So I'm always looking for a teacher and a coach in place to go and take more or less fun.

Jeff Dwoskin 9:38

Yeah, it's it's incredible. And then Paramount eventually scoops you up.

Marion Ross 9:44

It's wonderful because when I went to San Diego, I got sort of discovered at the Globe Theatre and the talent scout from up in Hollywood and the Paramount Studios. Wow. So now they put me under contract. at Paramount was a fantastic I think I lasted maybe like about a year and a half. But it was pretty thrilling to go into the commissary and sit at a big table with all these new new this new talent. And here was here was Martin and Lewis Martin. And I tell you, it was a very NCP DeMille was there sitting there in the, in the commissary over this special part of the table. Oh my gosh, it was very, very exciting in itas head was running the makeup and a hair doing and so if you went up into Edith heads salon, and it was just wonderful. Very big time

Jeff Dwoskin 10:45

when you were in contract, it was called The Golden Circle. Oh, that's right is how did that work? Exactly. They just you you were there. And then as roles would pop up, they would just pull from the talent pool?

Marion Ross 10:58

No, they didn't. They really didn't have great schools going on. But they were here with other talented people here. I don't know if you know, Carolyn Jones from the Morticia. Yeah, Carolyn Jones. And Audrey Hepburn was there also at the same time, so you wanted to die because you wanted to be Audrey Hepburn, and you wanted to go over there to the beautiful costume department. And there was he just had running all the beautiful clothes. And it just was a very, just very exciting time. Because that is over now. If you go to Hollywood now that period is over. How do they do it now? Now? It's smaller scales, smaller scale. There's agents everywhere. There's little schools everywhere. There's this and this But Paramount Studios had a big talent department. So did MGM so did 20th Century Fox. You wanted to be connected to all these important people.

Jeff Dwoskin 11:56

That's incredible. The you told a great story in the book about being at Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall his house.

Marion Ross 12:03

It was fantastic. It was yes. Because oh my god here we are we're here's Lauren Bacall Humphrey Bogart was not in the play it this was live spirits with sir no coward, sir, no coward who had been knighted now. And I had read his book early early on. And now I'm meeting him and I am playing the British made and it's wonderful encoded call there was there she was. I was her maid. So it was very exciting time. All inspiring. I'll tell you.

Jeff Dwoskin 12:37

One of the interesting things I read in the book was that the original ratpack wasn't who in my head like Dean, Sammy, Joey Bishop, Frank Sinatra, but it was a much wider group. Oh, the other

Marion Ross 12:51

rat trap was a whole different thing I was I was younger than that. I was not in that at all. So that was interesting. We just have to read these early Hollywood books. You know why 20th Century Fox had a wonderful talent department. MGM also did universal, not so much. They were just beginning to be so big as far as new talent. very thrilling time to be there.

Jeff Dwoskin 13:18

So as a British maid, and then one of your first TV roles in life a father an Irish maid, so dialects were your thing. And before you went on to being king of the moms, you queen, her mom's maids. It seemed to be I'm just I'm just noticed that theme. When did you realize you were so good with like the dialects which you'd later then use in Brooklyn Bridge

Marion Ross 13:40

early on? Isn't that something? Yes. Because I wanted, I was an act young actress. So I would, I would have a Scottish accent. Sometimes I would be in a play, and then an Irish accent. And always a challenge always. And I love the challenge. I love my mother being Irish from Northern northern Saskatchewan, always inspiring me. And she said You can be anything be and they had all come from Ireland. Tough Farming. Farming. My mother was a young teacher up there. And I was raised to believe that I could do it. You can do it.

Jeff Dwoskin 14:18

It's amazing how much support and motivation you got from your family. It's so it's so wonderful, isn't it?

Marion Ross 14:23

And you know, I had a I had a crippled brother when he was like, about two years younger than me. And he had a bad leg. So because I was more healthy. It was easier for me to be so ambitious and so driven. I was so so driven. It was amazing. Either you either are like that or you you just can't get like that. You know, were you driven as a young person.

Jeff Dwoskin 14:51

I was driven. You know, I probably could have been more driven. Maybe reading the book. I don't know if I was as driven as you so it was definitely I aspiring to just as he how well you were Jevon, your brother Gordon, he went on to act as well,

Marion Ross 15:06

good. God bless him. It was a very, very good actor. And he did very well for himself. And he was a very nice guy made lots of friends. I tell you became a very good bartender. So I must say, Yes, he did very, very well, considering how hard it is in this business. You know,

Jeff Dwoskin 15:27

he had your drive to probably drive him as well. I'm assuming you're inspired your whole family. Yeah. So the interesting thing in the evolution of the story is that the role that everyone told you not to take is the role that eventually led to Mrs. Cunningham, Mrs. C. And that was a non speaking role. And airport.

Marion Ross 15:49

Oh, that is so interesting. Yes. Right. Because I made good friends with Sandra cool. Do you know that who the actress Sandra Gould is?

Jeff Dwoskin 15:59

She was in the West Miss Gladys Kravitz,

Marion Ross 16:03

right? Anyway, anyway, she knew everybody in town, and she was smart, and she was ambitious. And so I would go to her house, and then all of a sudden for dinner, she would have a casting woman milega see would be there or somebody. And so it was a wonderful connection with me. And God makes me laugh, just to think about all those all those years, all that trying, you know, it's

Jeff Dwoskin 16:31

interesting that everyone I talked to a lot of times, there's that one moment that one thing that kind of leads to everything else, that it's sometimes like, if that hadn't happened, who knows where the story may have gone, it's so great that you just understood the importance of being in this role and taking it because Sandra was in the similar thing, right? She was also in a non speaking role in the same movie,

Marion Ross 16:54

she wasn't quite as appealing, not not quite as appealing. So I had developed a great deal of charm, you know, my personality was giving, I could really sell myself, you know, by God. No,

Jeff Dwoskin 17:08

I believe that 100% Alright, so you're at dinner, and they're like, Oh, we know of this role. So that role happens to be for Marion Cunningham in the first pilot of what would eventually become happy days. So this is the this is your introduction to Gary Marshall.

Marion Ross 17:24

That's right. Right. And, you know, it was fun because we first were, we got Tom Bosley, I was married to Tom Bosley. And it was very difficult to be married to very difficult because he'd been on Broadway. And he'd been much more successful than I was. So he, he sort of scorned me, but he was very, anyway, all of a sudden, we are doing all these wonderful TV shows and series. And we had our softball team, we traveled all over the United States. And they would say get out there, meet people meet the people. So we would get out and meet all the people. So we were constantly selling ourselves and selling the product.

Jeff Dwoskin 18:08

That was awesome. During the first seasons, even just while it was all ramping up because it was a big head right away. Right. That'd be days,

Marion Ross 18:15

it would have but it caught on right away. First of all, Jerry Paris was directing it, Gary Marshall was producing it and writing it and all the writers. And it was very fun to go to Paramount Studios, really. And then to go in into the commissary. And there were all kinds of movie stars in there. In the old days. It was like that. I don't know if you can now go to the studio and go to lunch. And there's movie stars in there. Is that true?

Jeff Dwoskin 18:43

I don't know. We should go find out.

Marion Ross 18:47

Exactly.

Jeff Dwoskin 18:48

Marion. Let me let me I have a quick question for you. So did they name the character Marion?

Marion Ross 18:54

They didn't care. They didn't care when she was called because I was so unimportant. We'll just call her Marion. Is that okay with you? I said, Oh, sure. Sure. Not important. But my part became very important because Tom had gone to Broadway and won a Tony. Oh, I didn't know that. So he was way ahead of me.

Jeff Dwoskin 19:13

That's one of the things I loved about the book, as you were pretty open about not getting along with Tom Bosley. The very beginning you said they eventually you grew to love each other. But that that he was very difficult at first, but I thought

Marion Ross 19:27

it was I thought it was difficult difficult. As the years went on, I became very fond of him. i But he was difficult. And then right in the middle of all of this. We've got Ron Howard, of course, but now in the middle of this i Oh, who is that? And it's the funds the funds. All right in the Fonz walked out walked off with that show. And so that was a very important change in it.

Jeff Dwoskin 19:54

Yeah. What was it like living through Fonzie mania as another member of the cast? It was hard,

Marion Ross 20:00

because, first of all, you had Ron Howard, he was a star to begin with. Right? Right. And to get the funds to become in and be this heart, hearts spent love of everybody's life. So he walked off with the show. And we just made best, the best we could with it. And that and Garry Marshall was so smart that he, he took really good advantage of it. And then he put us all into a softball team. And we've got done a most who's a very good ball player, we got Anthony Williams, another very good ball player, and so that all of a sudden, softball was very important. And we traveled all over the United States. And we made lots and lots of friends. And we're meanwhile building building this background of people that knew us intimately. What was it

Jeff Dwoskin 20:52

like kind of just the evolution of going cuz you over time, you were probably recognized from the many roles and shows that you're in. But once it hit with happy days, and all of a sudden, your episodic show, it's on every week, and it's huge. And then eventually it grows to number one in the whole United States. What was it like? I mean, even just thinking back like is that little girl dreaming and Albert Lee, and now here you are one of the most iconic TV moms, everyone knows who you are. What was that? What was that? Like?

Marion Ross 21:24

It would be such a such a big thrill accepting that I was so insignificant I was the mother was kind of off to the side. I wasn't made such a fuss over because the Fonz had walked off with the show. And then you've got Ron Howard walking off with the show. So and then you've got Tom Bosley, who won the Tony on Broadway to come out a really heavy weight. So I just was, I was just as busy as I could be, you know, keeping up with these guys. And Gary Marshall. Jerry Paris was our directory. And we just we met 1000s and 1000s of people. And that was very important that we met, personally met all these people and tried to make friends with them

Jeff Dwoskin 22:09

that such a smart strategy that they had just to kind of tour you basically around the United States and just humanize you. And then it worked. Right. I mean, like, he's probably just helped maintain the show, Marion, when I my, where I worked at softball, and they wouldn't let me play. I was the griller. They brought a grill and I made hotdogs and hamburgers while everyone's playing. That was my big role. That was my

Marion Ross 22:36

I tell you, anyway, you've got to get you got to get introduced to show business. And I hired you know, we hired a press agent. You have to conquer this town. This is a big Hollywood is a pretty big town.

Jeff Dwoskin 22:50

It's Fonzie mania was going on. And in your book, you mentioned that one of the things that kind of helped it was it was the character of the Fonz. Not necessary, not specifically Henry Winkler. And then Henry Winkler maintain like, he was just totally cool with that. He didn't let that get to his head. And you know, just that didn't impact his personal relationship with you. Were

Marion Ross 23:11

became awfully awfully close friends. Yeah. And he advised me and it was wonderful. And to even to this day, he's a very good friend. So is Ron Howard. Enough. But Ron's pretty busy guy. And he lives in the East core is Henry is living here, nearer me here in Los Angeles. So if we lucky to have such a hit show, you know that

Jeff Dwoskin 23:35

you are so lucky. I think it's even just as amazing just how close all of you remained over the years, I talked to Anson Williams, and he just raved about you. And it just and I talked about how close you guys are. And it's just it's amazing to me. It's

Marion Ross 23:50

amazing, right? And we've we've had at my house here, I call this happy days farm, you know, and we've had all kinds of gatherings and birthdays and christenings, and still it, this group would hang together, we would stick together.

Jeff Dwoskin 24:06

It's so great that you have that and that you, you sort of grow. But even during the show when your book, everyone seemed to always kind of mentioned that when things would get heated or Gary Marshall needed to kind of corral the group you were always like the main person to kind of help write, maintain sanity throughout because I

Marion Ross 24:25

was the mother. I was a mother, you know. Yeah. And Gary Marshall, and Jerry Paris was our crazy guy. It took us everywhere to we just we love being an end because the public knew knew us so well. So if we went somewhere as as a group, they you know, they would kind of stand back and watch us because we were such a group. You couldn't break into that group.

Jeff Dwoskin 24:53

It's incredible that can I ask you a question just to go back in time for a second when the first pilot was made, which did not picked up and then American Graffiti became popular and and then the whole kind of the whole nostalgia thing was very appealing. And then ABC decided to pick it up and create a new pilot based on on that original show. Was it normal back then? Or like, like for Shoto for a pilot to be passed on and then somehow be reborn?

Marion Ross 25:23

Oh, yes, it's very normal. It's because this is a, this is a tough town. And until you've been here and experienced it, you wouldn't know how tough it is, how it comes and goes and things that look like they're a big hit. And then six months later, or their old history, that's why I hired a press agent. Okay, so I hired a press agent. Her name was Barbara best. And she was very strong in this town. And I thought, Listen, I gotta, I get to take advantage of this opportunity, and somehow build up my name. Because otherwise I'm just the mother.

Jeff Dwoskin 26:03

Yeah, yeah. No, absolutely. That That makes sense. That makes sense. It's a business. You gotta watch out for your brand, because it's a business. Yeah. Being one of the most iconic TV moms. Do you have any other favorite moms? Like if you were to put in the top three? You being one of them? Do you have any other ones?

Marion Ross 26:22

Well, look, I'm thinking about Florence Henderson, who is now gone, who is now gone. But Florence was a wonderful Marge. Talented could say dance, go to Broadway, I mean, all kinds of things. It was pretty hard for the for the mom to walk off with a show. So I was lucky that that the Fonz came along and made took it with he and Ron Howard took the show and made it what it was at the time. And I think I even the expression the happy days. Happy Days is like it's a very stable thing stable. Yeah,

Jeff Dwoskin 26:59

you reprise your role of of Mrs. See a couple of times one of them was on the new Leave It to Beaver, and a dream sequence. So how do you think Barbara felt about you to step in on her turn? Yeah,

Marion Ross 27:13

that was that was not so important to me. So So Barbara Billingsley was a very, very nice person. Yes. Very nice. And that was good. So it was like, we all knew each other. We all work together. And we were very flexible. We were very flexible.

Jeff Dwoskin 27:28

And then you were on the family Family Guy as Mrs. C, which was that's pretty cool. That's a great show.

Marion Ross 27:34

I can't remember family guys so much. Isn't that something?

Jeff Dwoskin 27:37

Yeah. Well, that's probably some voice work. You probably just did. And then dad it right. Do you have like a favorite episode of Happy Days?

Marion Ross 27:44

That's a really tough question. I think, one of the scenes where I got to dance with Howard, you know, we dance together. And it was nice. It just was it was a whole life. And the show was important. But our off camera life was just as important. All our sports that was just as important. And I owe it all to Gary Marshall. He built all these careers. Like for all of

Jeff Dwoskin 28:12

us, Marion, what position did you play on the softball team?

Marion Ross 28:15

Ah, that's a good question. I think I might have been within the fielding on the bike right near the pitcher so that I could get the inside not, not the long long drive. But the inside ones, pick them up off the ground and throw them back to Ron Howard. Because he could throw it in. I couldn't throw it in. So I would stop it and get it to Ron because broke he could really throw Yeah.

Jeff Dwoskin 28:43

What happened to your TV Sun shot

Marion Ross 28:46

effect? If you would ask Henry Iran. Oh, God. So how do we know? He couldn't hack it as much? Isn't that interesting? Because he could have, you know, taken that role and, you know, done something really wonderful with it, but I don't think he really did you know,

Jeff Dwoskin 29:03

that character was actually in the in your original pilot that you did, and then it carried over. He was

Marion Ross 29:08

and his, his father was Gavin. Oh, sir. Larry, a very good Irish actor. Yeah. And so he was O'Hurley. He also, I tell you, showbiz you gotta have you got to really be flexible. You know,

Jeff Dwoskin 29:23

you got to work it. That's yeah, that's the whole theme of I think your book. You gotta like work it. I wanted to ask you about the LeBeau. You married Captain still?

Marion Ross 29:33

I did. I did. Isn't that great? Because we've been friends for years and 10 years. And then he came to me and he said, You and I are going to get married. I said, Oh, great. That's so great. That's so wonderful. We were together and now Gavin is gone. And my dear Gavin is gone. I can't believe it.

Jeff Dwoskin 29:55

Yeah, I can't. I can't believe it either. He is. I've talked to a lot of people from I've talked to headlands and and Fred Grandy and wonderful guy, wonderful guy. Did you love going on The Love Boat? Then you were at like 14 episodes?

Marion Ross 30:08

Oh, we loved it. I loved it. Because first of all, we got to wear beautiful clothes. I'd say, Oh, you want me to? You want me to wear that? Okay, fantastic, you know, and then because of Gavin, he was so kind to me. We were not really romantically involved. But we were very close friends. And we just had such a good time. And you've traveled all over the world traveled to the Mediterranean to Venice, go to Venice. My god. Can you believe it's I've had a pretty pretty wonderful life, you know that?

Jeff Dwoskin 30:41

I would say so. Yeah. Full of many happy days,

Marion Ross 30:44

if any Happy Days. Absolutely. Well, I see that the mailman came. So maybe he brought me a beautiful big check today

Jeff Dwoskin 30:52

that those are sexual, still pouring. And we'll see what it is. I do want to mention Brooklyn Bridge. Sophie. That's my daughter's name. So beautiful. Now, that was great. So again, you get to the dialect I loved in the book where you talked about some of your early prep for the role, which is a Jewish woman Sophie is was to dive into the food.

Marion Ross 31:13

Yeah, I love being Jewish, you know, and I'm not Jewish at all. Oh, yeah.

Jeff Dwoskin 31:18

I know. But, but you you played. You played a great Jew in Brooklyn Bridge.

Marion Ross 31:23

No, it was very important to me. Yeah. I would stop people in the in the market. And I would say, Are you Jewish? Jewish? They would step back. Say, why'd you ask? I said I just listening to the way you talk. And so it was so important to me.

Jeff Dwoskin 31:41

No, it was great. It was great. What do you think about like, where Hollywood is now where everyone has to be what they're playing.

Marion Ross 31:49

The business has changed so much. Do you realize that it's really really gotten smaller and a lot of us just can pick up jobs like everywhere commercials and this and that. Now, here's all my here's all my fan mail. Oh, look at so I get some fan mail, but he comes here. Yeah. Well, listen, my dear, it's been very good talking to you.

Jeff Dwoskin 32:15

I love talking to you, too. Thank you so much. Alright,

Marion Ross 32:18

so when you come to town, you must come and see me.

Jeff Dwoskin 32:20

I would love to do that. I will make I would love to come to Happy Days farm.

Marion Ross 32:26

Oh, I see that. I have 1234 for residuals checks. We'll open up and see what they are. Okay. And I enjoy talking to you very much.

Jeff Dwoskin 32:35

I enjoy talking to you so much as well. Thank you so much. Please call again. All right. All right.

Marion Ross 32:41

Goodbye. All right.

Jeff Dwoskin 32:43

How great was Marion Ross, what a joy to talk to Mrs. C herself. I here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna have our first outing. Jeff Dwoskin show fandom. We're going to go to Albert Lee. And we're going to see the Marion Ross statue. Well, I'll take pictures together. How cool would that be? I know. I know. Also check out Marion's book. It's awesome. My days happy and otherwise, it's a great memoir. You love a lot of stories about happy days, and learning even more about Marion Ross's career, that is the book for you.

All right, with the interview over it can only mean one thing. That's right. It's time for another trending hashtag and the family of hashtags add hashtag around. Download the free hashtag roundup app at the Apple Store or Google Play Store. The app is free always free doesn't cost a penny tweet along with us. And one day one of your tweets may show up on a future episode of live from Detroit the Jeff Dwoskin show fame and fortune awaits you follow hashtag roundup on Twitter at hashtag Roundup, join in every time a game starts. It's so much fun. A great way to grow your Twitter following alright, this week's hashtag is #MomAlwaysToldMe from Wild Bunch tags a weekly Game On hashtag round up little inspiration from our very own favorite TV mom is to see we delve into the archives and found #MomAlwaysToldMe we can always I'll use a little advice from mom now and then can't wait. All right, let's read some tweets from the hashtag game #MomAlwaysToldMe. Mom always told me don't make ugly faces and my freeze that way. That is so true. mom always told me the knock first. That is true. That'll be true your whole life. mom always told me you better shop around. So true. So true. mom always told me not to bother dad while he's trying to nap go by the dad. Mom always told me never go to bed angry. That is a great piece of advice. Mom always dummy wear clean underwear in case you have an accident involving George Clooney. Very specific but still excellent advice. mom always told me never step away. From the stove, so true things can get hot not hand. These are some great hashtag mom always told me tweets. mom always told me Foosball is the devil. That's true. Mom always tell me clean up your room before you go out. Moms always tell you that no one listens. But they always tell us. Mom always told me tell 100% of the truth 100% of the time. Great advice, mom. And finally, our final #MomAlwaysToldMe tweet mom always told me to keep doing my best at what I love. Great advice. Follow your heart. Do what you love. And most importantly, listen to your mom. That's right. That's really the theme here. I believe. So anyway, great tweets all will be retweeted at Jeff Dwoskin show on Twitter. Go find them retweet them like I'm sharing some love. Let them know you heard him on live from Detroit, the Jeff Dwoskin show. I know. They'll love to hear that. They'll feel famous. They'll feel like oh my god, I've made it. I'm I'm somebody so

Alright, well, with the hashtag game over. And the interview over it can only mean one thing. That's right. We're at the end of episode 114. Where does the time go? It just flies. I appreciate you sharing that time with me special thanks, of course to my amazing guest, Marion Ross, and of course special thanks to all of you for coming back week after week. It means the world to me, and I'll see you next time.

Announcer 36:27

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