Tom Barnard

I don't know, my phone.

Yes, Tom and Catherine are not here.

They are driving to Florida.

They are, currently.

Yeah.

I don't know.

Where's Tommy? He's driving to Florida.

Well, he's being a passenger princess to Florida.

I'll shoot you.

You're like, what? You didn't get the Tom Barnard pass? No, I didn't.

Why

not? I even would get the Tom Barnard pass.

I'd get stopped on the highway and they'd be like, hey, you know Tom.

Is he really an asshole? Yeah, he is.

Yeah, he is.

And there were so many comments.

Hmm.

Tom Barnard actually reached out to me on X to give me love and support at the lowest time in my life and really built up my spirits.

I've loved Tom Barnard since I was a senior at a high school.

At a high school.

I don't want to give

it's on a rock right there.

So Tom and I kind of grew up in similar ways, similar type neighborhoods.

So the only way I could be an Olympic caliber fencer, and all you have to do is say to me, what are you looking at? And then I just go to town.

That's the trigger right there.

And in a city like New York, it's not good to have an attitude where you want to go, what are you looking at? Trouble starts.

Trouble starts every time.

So before we get going with the movie stuff, I'm wondering if Tommy, Catherine, you're going to introduce me properly to your guest? Oh, Tim.

Paul.

funny.

Tom doesn't look at anybody three years younger than him.

He's like, I don't mind.

Well, that's true.

And I don't know where the interview was, but they were talking about his career because he's had a very long career on television and the radio and all that.

He sure has.

And the person asked him, well, how did it all build for you? How did it happen? And Rosie said, if it weren't for Tom Barnard and the KQ Morning Show, this would have never happened.

That was very sweet.

I don't have all day.

I got Tom Barnard to call.

I can't.

Oh, well, yes.

Yeah, there it is.

You could book a guy named Tom Barnard.

I heard he's trying to bring both sides together.

Well, thank you.

I have Democrats on the left, and I've got Republicans on the right.

They're all really dear friends of mine.

So could we start there with Tommy's friends? What do you say? I

agree.

...

so, and, and thanks too, Tom, for all the years of putting people on, because it's really, it was really a part of the thing that dr- u- I, I have so many people that say, "Oh, I remember you going on KQ," and, and Mary has a lot of people that say, you know, uh, "When are you gonna be on KQ next?" And, and all those years of just doing that really-

Yep, it was amazing.

Yeah.

I was i- it was my first time on radio, and at, they're talk-

Mm

... they're going around the room talking, and they were talking about Pamela, Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee had just had a tape that came out that was-

Mm-hmm

My friends always describe me this way.

"Here's Tom hanging out with us, and we're going in a restaurant.

'Hey, this ought to be good.

The food looks really good, so, yeah, let's sit down.' Here's Tom after two drinks.

'Yeah, this place is pretty good.

I, you know, it's not the worst place I ever been.' After three drinks, 'What the hell are you looking at?'" [laughs]

Oh, yeah.

I suppose, 'cause yeah, he used to be on the show every day, like quite a while ago.

Let's celebrate innovators.

And what I'm amazed, I'm gonna leave this with you, Tom, the, um, number-

Mm-hmm

... of things we make in Minnesota that, A, you don't even know they're made here, or, um, you didn't know that they even existed-

Like, well, guess what? They have it here.

Yeah.

So another reason to make your pilgrimage to Austin, Minnesota, Tom.

Oh, it's a great town anyway.