RideShare RoadTalk: Conversations In Motion
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RideShare RoadTalk: Conversations In Motion
Kevin Spacey Is My OJ
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A ride with a nonprofit professional reveals how rural communities face unique challenges, especially with transportation access. Conversations wander through Kevin Spacey encounters, DC's revitalized Wharf district, and nostalgic pre-9/11 White House memories that bridge personal and national history.
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Intro
Speaker 1Welcome to another episode of Rideshare Road Talk Conversations in Motion , a podcast where we create unfiltered talk space that examines the meaningful lives of my passengers while engaging in personal and topical discussions . The meaningful lives of my passengers while engaging in personal and topical discussions . I'm your host and driver , John Foddus , and we're cruising the streets of Washington DC . Buckle up , let's
Oyster Jamboree Shout Out
Speaker 1drive . Before we get started on today's podcast , I need to throw a shout out to my Oyster Jamboree people . This is a group I met last week . They couldn't come onto the show , but we had such a great time talking about stuff and laughing . I need to know how your evening wound up . Reach out to me through the pod , let's talk and let's try to get you out . Let's drive .
Speaker 2I'm with a
AZ Rural Community Non-Profit
Speaker 2nonprofit that we specifically do project type work . We can go in , for example , and work with a rural community college to build out new programming for what employers in that community need in their current workforce of the future . So that's like project stuff . Then we do just ongoing high level stuff like an annual forum for all things rural . So anybody who works in and for rural they might be at a state agency or a non-profit tribal tribes are included of course , yeah you do a big event to bring them all together and just help them share best practices , resources , tips .
Speaker 2Arizona has seven million people in it . The vast majority of them are in Phoenix or Tucson , and one million of them are then spread out in the other 13 counties .
Speaker 1Okay , you must be in some seriously wide open spaces .
Speaker 2Well , they're just little communities . You know that it is too bad , because there are a lot of people who , if they don't have enough money to have like a local little bus system , even or something , they're really , if you don't drive , you're dependent on friends and family . You know , there's just not really any way around . But you have to remember this , because we do big events that we take out to rural and people coming in from Phoenix Tucson think I'll get a lift and we have to tell them no , you won't .
Speaker 2It's part of the urban-rural divide .
Speaker 1You'll get a horse . You'll get a horse , yeah .
Speaker 2So I feel lucky to be a part of it . It's one of those grassroots kind of movements , I guess , so to speak , right Isn't that ?
Speaker 1fascinating how things germinate and kind of grow from just little seeds like that . Yeah , that's the reward is seeing that right grow and yeah , hopefully that next person when they've expanded and they send the elevator back down and do the same thing , and yeah , I love that .
Speaker 2That's a good analogy . I can't claim
Kevin Spacey
Speaker 2it ?
Speaker 1I think Kevin Spacey , remember Kevin Spacey .
Speaker 2Yes , I do Remember the guy who was around .
Speaker 1Kevin Spacey is my OJ . I don't care what he did , I love him to death .
Speaker 2He's a talented actor , talented actor yeah . What is the story with him , by the way ? Is he out in the world again ?
Speaker 1I think he's struggling . I don't think he's recovered from the initial hit of the scandal or allegations and all that stuff .
Speaker 2Which was what ?
Speaker 1I think it was like Eight years .
Speaker 2Well , maybe not eight years , five , that'd be a while , isn't it ? It has been a while it has been a while .
Speaker 1On paper it didn't sound good , but in reality , who knows if it's consensual , the age thing , I don't know . Yeah , I don't pretend to know .
Speaker 2He was one of those actors . I never really knew anything about his personal life and I thought he was just one of those deeply personal um private celebrities you know , so that makes it hard . When that kind of thing goes public , you're like I'm working with nothing , I don't know anything about the man . Yeah , as far as you know .
Speaker 1I met him once . Oh , you did Pretty cool . In a past life I was a photojournalist here in town so I'd go to the White House Correspondents' Dinner every year and that used to be a really , really fun event yeah , it was a signature big deal . Yeah , event , yeah it was a signature , big deal , yeah , and so you know . It's in the um called the hinkley hilton .
Speaker 1We know where reagan was shot back in the 80s every year it would happen , uh , at that , with the washington hilton in the main ballroom , but down in the basement level all the salons were like the after parties were , and the pre-parties okay , and after the event vanity fair would have like a big function and there's some mansion next door or something like that . And so we happened across just to say hello you know , and he was just in the room having a drink and found him very , very engaging , very gregarious .
Speaker 1I wouldn't call him private at all . Yeah , interesting and he was a little aggressive with . You know language and you know what he was into and you know whatever interesting .
Speaker 2And he was a little aggressive with .
Speaker 1You know language and you know what he was into and you know whatever man it's you're into , what you're into , yeah . But you know , as long as it doesn't run astray of the law , I guess you're fine , right ?
Speaker 2It's interesting . I'm trying to remember if I ever even saw him and , like you know , late night talk show , interview or anything . I don't think I ever did . I really have no idea what his personality would be like , but that is not what .
Speaker 1I would have guessed what you're describing , so that's interesting yeah um hell of an actor . Oh my god yeah , he is .
Speaker 2Yeah , no doubt , it's just a shame what happened ? I'm about to
DC Theatre Scene & The Wharf
Speaker 2find out a little bit about the dc theater world , and it's at this folger theater which I've never heard of but , looked up the Shakespeare Library and theater in the same place , so it looks like they might have some really cool stuff going on if it's open now I assume they'd keep it open if the theaters got a show .
Speaker 1Arena Stage is also a very popular place as well for shows and theater and things and that's over at the wharf area , which is this revitalized area along the water . It's very cool .
Speaker 2Oh .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 2Was it all industrial before , Like just a harbor kind of wharf it was .
Speaker 1I don't know what it was . It was kind of just like a wasteland of third tier motels and restaurants that no one on earth would go to and there's this really great old school like fish market that they kept , thank God , because aesthetically it's really cool , oh yeah , but they just blew it out with like retail and restaurants and hotels and there's this wonderful live music venue there called Anthem .
Speaker 2Oh nice .
Speaker 1You should check it out if you have some time at least .
Speaker 2Yeah , I always get these tips too late .
Speaker 1I've been here all week , oh my gosh . And now I leave tomorrow and I could have done that .
Speaker 2Yeah , but I'll file it away for next time .
Speaker 1There'll be a next time , for sure , for sure .
The White House Christmas Party
Speaker 1Right before I picked you up , I was dropping someone off at Cafe Milano and they had a service detail and they kind of came over to the car , asked me to keep moving and my first instinct was like well , who the hell are you ?
Speaker 2maybe I will , maybe I won't flash the badge , and I was like oh , right , okay okay , yeah .
Speaker 1I used to . I used to have the eagle , and so I know what the deal is . Oh really that was a fun time when they just had a hard pass and you could just come and go from the white house . Uh , just pre-9-11 yeah and you could . Um fourth july you could take guests out to the south lawn to watch the fireworks and heck little summer , uh , spring ice cream socials , and they had the christmas party and all that . It was really fun .
Speaker 1That sounds so american I was a disaster high school student , so I mean I mean disaster , oh my disaster , oh my God . I mean I was smart , I just didn't care .
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 1Yeah , and I tortured my poor mother , but I took her to a White House Christmas party and it's like the universe , the universe came back together .
Speaker 2She's like I forgive you , that's amazing .
Speaker 1Anyway , just had this great moment standing on the North Portico and just like , when was that , oh gosh ? That was when Clinton was there , so 98-ish .
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 1And it was just this great moment . We're just standing out there at night and she's like what a wonderful memory with your mom . How did this happen ?
Speaker 2I'm like I don't know , take it all . She's like do they know who you are ?
Speaker 1they let you in exactly , there was a background check he knew too much your mother .
Speaker 2Yeah , it's good stuff . It is such a
Show Wrap
Speaker 2beautiful city , though when you visit it you know you're all around all this beautiful architecture but . I wonder what like living here is . Like you know , because I'm like people probably just get sick of it or blind to it , right ?
Speaker 1it's very pretty at night . Yeah , traffic lays down , it's just .
Speaker 2It can be very captivating , for sure you know just the history , things are so old , you know out west . Native American . Everything is , of course , old and ancient , but the settled stuff is like the pioneering newer , and we also just tear things down . It's like , oh , it's 20 years old , let's rip that out . It's crazy .
Speaker 1All right , this has got you on the corner , I think .
Speaker 2Thank you so very much .
Speaker 1It was lovely chatting with you absolutely ride , share , road talk right share road talk you got one more listener .
Speaker 2Thanks ,
