Bucket List

        I'm about as far from a Harley rider as you can get but I've always had a bit of a fascination with others who ride down the road with the wind in their hair. We're in Myrtle Beach right now and it's Bike Week. It wasn't planned...in fact I usually try to avoid Bike Week but it slipped my mind when the reservations were made. Well... it's actually interesting seeing...and hearing....all these remarkable machines.
        The first night in town we stopped for dinner at a street café with a lot of men and women my age wearing Harley Davidson gear. The waiter came up and asked if I just came in on my Harley. I said...."Yeah!" My wife corrected me with...."You didn't just ride in on your Harley!" I thought he said..."Are you ready to order?" It was kinda neat being a Harley rider for about five seconds.
         I scratched one item off my bucket list tonight. As a latchkey kid I learned a lot about life from the movies...which means that I learned a lot that was a little bit off kilter, but a lot of my love for my country comes from westerns and frontier films, and World War II and little house on the prairie type movies. I learned about love and romance from that little box with black and white movies also...which probably explains a lot.
         One of those films was A Summer Place with Sandra Dee, Troy Donahue, Dorothy McGuire, Richard Egan and Arthur Kennedy. Fortunately I don't think that I was old enough to know what was really going on, but a beach scene with two young people in love...and that theme....that theme....stuck with me for a half a century. Well tonight as my wife and I walked along a South Carolina beach with a chill in the air I pulled out my iPhone, searched for and played a few times as we walked... keeping each other warm... the theme from A Summer Place. It was special.
         Let's see...what's next on the list....the Alamo....gotta go there some day!

Sean interviews The President

Sean:                       Welcome to the show Mr. President.
President Trump:     Thank you Sean. You may kiss my ring.
Sean:                       Ha Ha. That's Funny! And that's a beautiful ring too.
President Trump:     The wall's already built.
Sean:                       What's that again?
President Trump:     The wall is already built. I like to talk in the future/past tense.
Sean:                       The future/past tense?
President Trump:     That's right. Common Core is gone and my second term is going well...
Sean:                       I get it....I think. Anyway. Let met start, I know that your a busy man, let
                                me start with this question. You said that you would sit down and talk with
                                Kim Jong-un...is that correct?
President Trump:    That's correct. And I wouldn't be surprised to find out that he's a good
                               man...a very good man...probably as good as Duterte or whatever his name is.
Sean:                      Well, I wouldn't put anything past your negotiating abilities.
President Trump:    Someday I hope to sit down with Satan.
Sean:                      Ha ha...ha........ha..............ha....Satan?
President Trump:    That's right.
Sean:                      You're a great kidder Mr. President!
President Trump:     I'm not kidding. I'm going to ask Hillary to conjure him up. She's really a very
                                good women you know.
Sean:                      Mr. President. Satan is the cause of the fall of man!
President Trump:     What man?
Sean:                       Adam.
President Trump:     Adam who?
Sean:                       Mr. President, Satan is the great deceiver!
President Trump:     That's politics Sean.
Sean:                       The good book says that Satan is a deceiver....and a destroyer!
President Trump:      Norman Vincent Peale's The Power Of Positive Thinking says that?
Sean:                       No...the Bible. Have you ever read the Bible sir?
President Trump:     Sean. I read three books in my life...and two of them didn't have any pictures.
                                So I obviously love to read but the Bible has all those thee's and thou's. Too
                                many prepositions!
Sean:                       Those are pronouns sir.
President Trump:     Whatever. I tried to read it once. I read once sentence...something like....In the
                                beginning God created the heavens and the earth. I don't think this patent would
                                hold up in court.
Sean:                       Well, I can see we're out of time. Thank you for coming on the show.....yes I
                                saw that earlier.....it's a very nice ring.