[groans]

Oh, scary stuff there, Fogerty.

Coupled with your impressive physique, you got me trembling over here.

He's got a point there.

Yeah, I hear you.

Hey, John, it's 11:15.

Time for another quarter chunky monkey.

Why were they making him eat eggs?

Because, uh, uh, George Kennedy was going around going, "He can do it.

He can eat anything.

I've seen him eat broken bottles," and this and that, and this and that, "and he can eat, he'd even eat your fool head if you cut it off," and, you know, all kind of stuff.

And then Newman goes, "I can eat 50 eggs." And George Kennedy looks at him like, "Nobody can eat 50 eggs." [laughs] He goes, "I can eat 50 eggs." And then, then walks up to Newman, Kennedy does, and he goesLuke, why didn't you say 30 or, but 50? [laughs] And then another guy chimes in and says, "50 eggs will blow a guy up.

It'll pop him."

[laughs]

And people were coming and asking me for my autograph because I was sitting in the audience.

Hmm.

So it, it kind of gave me an in real quick, 'cause I was just gonna drop off a fucking tape, you know, and-... and I thought that'd be it, but she noticed I was from Indiana, so we talked about it, so immediately I had a meeting.

I mean, I walked in cold, and I had a meeting, and next thing I know, they're flying me to New- back to New York, and then I make a demo tape, that I thought was a demo tape, and I walk in, and they had a picture, and they said, "This is the album cover, Johnny Cougar." And I went, "No." [laughing] We're not-

Living is gone." When you, the things you write at 25, when you're then, you know, half a century down the road, I mean, what do you think about with that, when you say, "Where was my head then, and, and how much has that resonated with me now?"

I'm not that smart.

[laughing] I'm just not that smart.

Songs, you know, if...

What I found out is that I don't try to control the songs.

Yeah.

[laughing] This is good.

The guy that ran the band-- I was just a singer, and the guy that ran the band was a guy named Dave.

And Dave [clears throat] talked to the booker, and we had a gig on a riverboat up and down the Ohio River.

Uh, and it was a fraternity show.

And we had an old Plymouth and a U-Haul on the back-... and we get there, and the guys in the fraternity, Joe, are so fucking mad at us.

Dave failed to realize that there was a time change between Seymour and Cincinnati, which is on the Ohio River.

Wow.