okay
thank you folks we're going to spend some time this evening visiting with members
of our studio audience it's a little thing we like to call
brush with greatness let's begin who has the first story tonight to kick things off
uh mark berger is that you mark hi nice to see you thanks for standing up when your name was called
that shows resourcefulness you know where are you from mark west niacc new york
west nyack new york is is that a hotbed of arena football uh diet uh tell me what do you do for a
living mark i'm a student at clarkstown south high school clarkstown south high school what
what yuri there i'm a junior so you're really not old enough to be in here are you mark i am
uh oh this is a fair fairly current brush with greatness isn't it yes all right tell us all
about it mark well i was at a concert at a steve wynwood concert and i was waiting backstage with
my brother for just like hanging out cleaning up some stuff and steve winwood came walking
you look like that kind of guy by the way you'd see hanging around a concert cleaning stuff up
so steve linwood came walking out with his bodyguard and i came and walked up to him
and asked the first autograph and he said sure and i was talking for a couple minutes and so he
signed my shirt and as he's walking away he handed me his heineken oh his beer yeah oh that's great
uh but there's there's more to this story mark there's something you haven't told us
yet yes thank you finish it up for us if you will taking a closer look
at the beer i noticed it was almost finished and about 90 percent saliva
i was repulsed but then realized it was the spittle of a rock star and chugged it proudly
nice to meet you bill we have a mark we have a bundle of newspapers for you
thank you very much have a good summer
okay
is uh there a missy lancaster here missy lancaster hi missy how are you nice to see you thank you
very much for being here where are you from austin texas austin texas nice town austin yeah
what's the population um at least eight million i'd say
so so so austin is roughly the size of tokyo and mexico city combined
wow wow
uh all right missy what do you uh what do you do there uh runner for a law firm okay and uh you're
just uh spending a few days here in new york as a vacation oh good nice to have you with us now tell
me about your brush with greatness well when i was about 15 years old at the luncheons of golf in
austin bob hope ran over my foot with a golf cart he was driving the golf cart real fast yeah ran
right over it right over my left did he apologize or anything no he took off didn't even bother to
apologize or anything kept on rolling all right now is there more to this story that we should
know missy that you haven't told us so far all right go right ahead and fill us in on the details
moments later an announcement came over the pa system country club safe have been emptied but
it was too late the angels comedian and friend of nine presidents was already across the state line
so he's slowly broken and stole okay missy we have some
oh some more papers for you
thank you very much nice to meet you one more one minute okay
i just i just didn't i knew austin was a growth city i i had no idea that there was eight million
people there uh uh jim uh muthersball is there a mr mueller's ball with us hi jim nice to have
you here am i pronouncing your name properly close enough all right it is jim then okay uh where you
from jim fairfield connecticut okay tell us about your encounter well i was in westport connecticut
one day about six months ago and i was in the drug store and uh buying a candy bar and then came paul
newman and he was buying himself a pack of gum and uh put the money out but he was about five cents
short so i reached my pocket and i loaned them to make hope for him that was very thoughtful of him
what is what is westport now it's about 2 million isn't it yeah
uh but there's more to the story with you and paul right okay jim tell us the rest of this
later out behind the drugstore i spied mr newman searching through a dumpster for deposit bottles
then i realized the blue actor blue-eyed actor was down to his last cent out of pity i took him back
to my home where he cleaned out the gutters in exchange for a crisp dollar bill that's
very nice to meet you nice meeting you thank you very much here's your bundle of newspaper
uh we'll be right back folks michael keaton is here mickey mantle and uh
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