Two Chairs No Waiting Andy Griffith Show Fan Podcast

Host:  Allan Newsome Running time:  0:49:40 This is a first for me. An "in studio" guest here on the podcast. Kenneth Junkin, who is a tribute artist for Otis and seen in the Mayberry Man movie is here with me to tell some stories. Kenneth has been on the show many times but we've never been here at Two Chairs HQ to record. He'll tell us stories about Don Knotts, Betty Lynn, George Lindsey, Sue An...

Host:  Allan Newsome Running time:  0:37:13 We're in the middle part of summer and that hot weather is taking the energy out of us all. What better way to recharge that to test our skill at Mayberry trivia. Not just any trivia either because these questions will give everyone a shot at getting the answer right because they are multiple choice. So sit back, recharge your batteries, and see how many...

Host:  Allan Newsome Running time:  0:29:49 The Surry Arts Council has been having an auction of items that belonged to  Betty Lynn , Mayberry's own Thelma Lou, in order to raise money for the arts in Mt. Airy, NC. The auction just ended but it brought to mind the impact that Betty had on the city of Mt. Airy during the time she lived in the community. I found this article about Betty moving to "M...

Host:  Allan Newsome Running time:  0:41:23 This past weekend was the Mayberry Meet-up 2023 so I wanted to give y'all a report about what went on and encourage you to join us in the future. So many fun things happen when you're with fellow Mayberry fans and I want you encourage you to join in with us at some event near you. This episode may be best consumed as a video version because I show photos...

Host:  Allan Newsome Running time:  0:34:59 On July 1, 2023, the Mayberry Man movie became FREE to stream on several platforms to include Tubi, EncourageTV (YouTube), Amazon Prime, Vudu, Hoopla, Emirates Airlines, and Qatar Airways. There may be other ways you can watch for free but that's a fairly large selection. Since it's now free for ALL to see, I feel safe moving forward to talk about the mo...

Host:  Allan Newsome Running time:  0:31:09 For the 11th year, Jan and I are heading to Mt. Airy for a weekend of Mayberry fun and the 11th Mayberry Meet-up. I hope you can join us! The reason we started this event was, in part, because  Mayberry Days  (you really should attend that event) has grown large enough that we wanted to have a chance to visit Mt. Airy and do things that there just isn't...

Host:  Allan & Jan Newsome Running time:  0:42:05 I'm joined again by my wife, Jan, as co-host and we go through just some of the things found in Weaver's Newsletter from June 2023. There's great info in the newsletter and we add some additional details to the stories found in the newsletter. If you aren't subscribed to Weaver's Newsletter, you really should consider subscribing so you won't miss...

Host: Jan Newsome Running time:  0:38:13 You are in for a treat this week. I came down with laryngitis, or something like it, so my wife is hosting this weeks show. Jan Newsome, Mrs. Weaver herself, will be doing most all the talking and I'm just running the technical side of the show. She asked me what she should do the show on and I told her it was her choice. She chose to give you some of her f...

Host:  Allan Newsome Running time:  0:35:27 Last week we talked about the first spin-off from The Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., and I thought it fitting to talk about the one that was more of a continuation of the original, Mayberry R.F.D. During the eighth and final season of The Andy Griffith Show, widower farmer Sam Jones (played by Ken Berry) and his young son Mike (played by Buddy...

Host:  Allan Newsome Running time:  0:34:03 Jim Nabors  birthday is this week so I thought this would be a good time time to talk about the show that made him famous.  Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.  originally aired on the CBS television network from September 25, 1964, until May 2, 1969. The series was a spin-off of  The Andy Griffith Show  with the pilot episode airing as the fourth season finale on May...

Host:  Allan Newsome Running time:  0:33:49 In the last few weeks, we heard a flashback from "Floyd" from July 13, 2010 and then the first of our old time radio (OTR) "lost" episode from June 5, 2012 called " Mayberry After Mid-day ." This week we get to hear the second OTR episode released for episode 500 of  Two Chairs  on October 16, 2018. The episode is called " The New Barber " was written by...

Host:  Allan Newsome Running time:  0:27:13 Last week, we heard from "Floyd" who did a flashback to a time he and Bert Miller talked about going into business together. That was originally released on July 13, 2010 and was the first time I had done anything that reminded me of those old time radio (OTR) programs. It got me thinking about doing other episodes with Floyd & Bert that sound like "lost...

Host:  Allan Newsome Running time:  0:27:47 Back on  episode 92 of Two Chairs , I thought it would be nice to have Floyd host the show. To paraphrase Floyd, " Ninety-two, people always talking about podcast but nobody does anything about it. " Floyd shares a flashback with us of a time when Bert Miller dropped by the barber shop with a business idea for Floyd. Enjoy this flashback and we hope you'...

Host:  Allan Newsome Running time:  0:44:05 Almost 12 years ago I did a podcast about the wonderful Don Knotts movie,  The Ghost and Mr. Chicken , and I think it's time to review it again. The movie came on MeTV this past weekend during " Svengoolie " and I watched it along with fans all across the country. Facebook and other social media was buzzing with comments and, while I have the DVD, there'...

Host:  Allan Newsome Running time:  0:33:30 This past week I went out to my mailbox and what a wonderful surprise I found in there. Someone had placed a copy of the Weekend section  The Huntsville Times  from Friday December 17, 2021 in there featuring the coverstory ' "The Andy Griffith Show" inspires new film starring Alabama Man. ' When I asked my wife, Jan, if someone had mentioned they were d...

Host:  Allan Newsome Running time:  0:39:15 It's May and for the past several years the MeTV network has shown extra MAY-berry things throughout the month. This year, they are kicking off the first weekend of MAYberry with the TV reunion movie,  Return to Mayberry , on Sunday May 7, 2023 @4pm ET. Hopefully you aren't getting this episode late and missed it but even if you are, I think you'll find...

Host:  Allan Newsome Running time: 0:33:22 When did  The Andy Griffith Show  first come into being? That's the kind of question answered in the book by Randy Turner called " Mayberry Firsts " and we'll learn the answer to that question on this episode. Randy's book if full of fun and interesting information like what you'll hear on Two Chairs No Waiting . If you want more stuff like this, head ove...

Host:  Allan Newsome Running time:  0:33:50 I get a lot of comments from folks saying how much they enjoy the trivia questions we do here so I figured you might enjoy these questions that show up in The  Mayberry Puzzle Book (Season 1) . The questions aren't really meant to be trivia questions but they certainly do appear to fit the bill. We'll play the first one in the book which covers the first...

Host:  Allan Newsome Running time:  0:28:01 I have been going through the  Two Chairs No Waiting  archives looking at things I have collected over the years. Photos, flyers, clippings and stories about our friends in Mayberry. I've been collecting these things for a while so it's like finding "new" things. They aren't new but I haven't seen them in 20 or 30 years so they seem new when looking at t...

Host:  Allan Newsome Running time:  0:30:33 Beginning back in the early 1980s,  The Andy Griffith Show  Rerun Watchers Club ( TAGS RWC)  began publishing newsletters. Over those years there were hundreds of stories written and published in the official newsletters called  The Bullet, The eBullet, The Pocket, and The Button . The information provided was timeless. Because so many of you have never...

Host:  Allan Newsome Running time:  0:33:51 I know many of you have been missing roving reporter Randy Turner so I thought I'd talk about just some of what he has going one. The focus this week being " The Andy Griffith Show Ambassadors Magazine " published by Randy with stories by not only him but out fellow Mayberry fans. It begain back in 2020 and comes out quarterly in a 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 "fanzin...

Host:  Allan Newsome Running time:  0:34:24 This episode we wrap up  Col. Tim's  from Mayberry Days 2002. The previous parts of this series we saw  Betty Lynn  (Thelma Lou),  Howard Morris  (Ernest T. Bass) and  Maggie Peterson  (Charlene) singing so if you missed that, go back and give those episodes a view or listen. This episode we get to hear  James Best  (Jim Lindsey) sing…well…not really but...

Host:  Allan Newsome Running time:  0:26:41 The videos I've been going through had more singing in Mayberry so I wanted to do a part 2 to share more special memories. Special singers from Mayberry this week will be  Maggie Peterson  (Charlene) and she is joined on stage by  Ernest T. Bass  (Howard Morris). These performances were during the  2002 Col. Tim's at Mayberry Days  as were the performanc...

Host:  Allan Newsome Running time:  0:44:39 I've been going through some old video tapes and finding treasures that I'm pretty sure you'll never have seen unless you were at Mayberry events back in the late 1990's and early 2000's. Because large sections of this podcast episode were taken from video tapes, I would suggest that you may want to watch the video version of this show. It will be fun to...

Host:  Allan Newsome Running time:  0:54:16 We have been gathering News from around Mayberry and wanted to share it here on the podcast. It's already out on the web in the  Weaver's Newsletter  but if you're like me, you like to hear things more than you like to read. ( Yeah, I'm one of those audiobook listening people and I do podcasts more than I write. ) We'll get news from the cast & crew of ...