ARE YOU OK? sweet old foid remembers chad

All

right. What was your name?

>> Johanna.

>> Johanna, welcome to To What? To the

show.

>> Okay.

>> Welcome to the show. Does that help you

give you some information?

>> It sounds like Seinfeld's a show about

nothing, but I think it's going to be

about something, right?

>> Could be something bad.

>> Okay, that's all right, too.

>> Okay. What do you want us to do?

>> Um, lend your ear to what I might offer.

Is this for entertainment or education

or a combo deal? It's a combo deal.

>> All right.

>> It's like you get a sandwich and a soda.

>> All right. Okay. So, where should we

begin? Maybe

>> variety is the spot. You want something

that's hot and cold. You don't want to

be You don't want to sit here and be a a

weak ass cracker. Anybody ever call you

that?

>> We got used to that when daddy had a hot

weenie joint on Eddie Street in

Providence.

>> Oh.

>> So, we got used to a few thugs who

walked out with the cash register one

day.

>> People That's crazy.

>> Yes. Yes. So, I mean, hey, Zelie. That's

right.

Mhm.

>> Mhm.

>> You want to to lend You want us to lend

ears.

>> Mhm.

>> I'm I am a [ __ ] man.

>> That's okay. Welcome.

>> Thank you. We're going to lend you our

ears.

>> Well, I thought my role was

>> Are you touching my leg on purpose?

>> We're just Are you We're tucked in right

now.

>> Save it for later.

>> Okay. This is crazy. Go ahead.

>> My role I thought was to figure out, hm,

can I take off the shelf what I've put

there? What's on the shelf?

>> A dream. And I took it off and said,

"Okay, now put up or shut up. You want

to be a painter?"

>> Oh, you shelved your you sheld your

dream.

>> My dream. Yeah. I started in Vermont

back in the 70s. Um, as a sculptor, and

did a little bit of the painting. I had

a few loose screws,

>> which was the, you know, era.

>> What does that mean?

>> Well, women's lib, Vietnam War. Uh,

>> what's women's lib?

>> Women's liberation. when we would burn

our bras and walk around hairylegged.

>> Did you do that?

>> Yes.

>> You slept with anything that moved.

>> Did you do that?

>> Yes. Those were the times.

>> Was it fun?

>> Yes.

>> It was kind of like uh for lack of

better terms, it's it's okay for women

to be horny.

>> Correct.

>> Is that too cr You want me to reprimand

him?

>> No.

>> Okay.

>> Well, that's what it is. I mean, that's

what it is, right?

>> Accurate right now.

>> Yep.

>> Okay. So, it was being horny

>> is the name of the game.

>> Yeah.

>> And that's okay. writing that one down.

That was the

>> sanctioned.

>> Yes.

>> That it's women.

>> Yes.

>> Okay.

>> So, and that would lead to new

awakenings. What I did was when I went

for a three-day weekend to Vermont,

which uh would end up becoming five

years because I also was a dilotant

about uh sculpting.

>> A dilant. What's a dilant?

>> Um somebody who talks the talk and

doesn't walk the walk. Ah,

>> we're into edm learning new words and

>> etmology

>> retired English teacher too. So that

helps. So I'll proofread what you say.

>> Okay.

>> Okay. But anyway, on my trip third day,

I heard a little voice say, "Put up or

shut up."

>> Yes.

>> Was it the devil?

>> No, it was actually the saint because

half hour later outside of Brattleleboro

was a sign in front of an old farmhouse

for rent. Moved in following week with

300 lb of self-hen clay. Five years

later beca three years later became a

professional sculptor.

>> Is it any good? Is the sculpture any

good?

>> No, it's boring. I started actually I

used

>> Okay. What's the Let's Let's go through

the list. The hit list here.

>> 1975.

>> Yeah. And I've got the little Smurfies

in. Want me to get it out of the bag?

>> What's a Smurfy?

>> I brought this to a Hasbro um executive

to do toys.

>> So you've made a little Smurf.

>> Yes, that's a Smurf. That was a toy.

>> Okay. But I tried to use that as a form

of promotion doing uh toys with the

clay.

>> What made you obsessed with sculpting

and you know love it?

>> You could take a mound of mud and

transform it into something magnificent.

>> If we Google you, will it come up the

images?

>> Uh probably not because the only thing

you most likely are going to see are I

have some YouTube videos um but also

articles that have been that have been

published. Is there a sculpture that you

that you did that would I be like,

"Whoa, we have a picture of that."

>> Um,

probably not. They were smaller sort of

like exploratory ones that I wasn't that

proud of.

>> Okay. Do we have a p We have a painting

slideshow here. This is into the

maelstrom. Yeah.

>> What does that represent? Going to hell.

>> You're going right into getting swept

away in the current of emotion that

doesn't get resolution. I think with the

painting, you're trying to get somebody

to relate. They'll see themselves within

that expression of color or of design

movement.

>> I think if you see yourself within this,

you might have you might be in trouble.

That's

>> make an appointment. Yes.

>> Make an appointment. Exactly.

>> Yeah. Yeah.

>> Yeah.

>> Next painting, please. What else we

have?

>> What's this called? Demons in Hell.

>> Uh, actually, it's a crummy slide. A

crummy picture. No, it's a crummy

picture.

>> This is the cribies.

>> Sorry. This is called Interracial

Nightmare.

>> It was It was called um What was This

one? Was I think uh

>> is this about a personal relationship

you had?

>> There's a black and a white figure

against Yeah, it was I can't remember

what it was even called. Uh and I didn't

really like it. I

>> guess an ocean of bloodshed.

>> Yeah. Well, I guess you know when the

two come together sometimes that's the

name of the game.

>> It's true.

>> We'll find out, you know, with her on

what's going on there, too. Okay. So,