Well , hey there , what is going on , guys ? I wanted to share something with you today , something that's been happening , something that somebody has been doing to me . His name is John Schneider . He's been making me cry . Now , listen , if you don't know who John Schneider is , I don't really know how you don't know who he is .
But that's okay , I will help you out . He is just a good old boy . Never mean to no harm . Wait , hold on . Yes , john Schneider , bow Duke from the Dukes of Hazard . Now , if you still don't know who that is , I can't help you .
You're not going to care about any of this , and maybe , even if you do know who I'm talking about , maybe you won't even care . So you just want to scroll on by ? Just keep on moving , it's okay , but listen . Dukes of Hazard . So Dukes of Hazard came out in like 1979 .
I was eight years old it ran until 1985 , I believe and so he was like one of my very first crushes , and if you don't understand why , I mean this is him . Look at this man . He was beautiful and , quite frankly , he's still beautiful today , if you ask me . I mean that very innocently , very platonically , happily married , all of the things .
This is just , you know childhood crush stuff , so you got to let me have it , let me have that moment , but anyhow . So he went on . By the way , after Dukes of Hazard , if you don't already know . After Dukes of Hazard he went on , or probably even during Dukes of Hazard . He went on to have a great career , acting lots of things .
He's got lots of credits to his name . Go check him out . He was singing , songwriter , singing the whole works . He's well known for his music . As a matter of fact , I just interviewed a natural recording artist by the name of Mason Douglas and coincidentally genuinely coincidentally we were talking about him . I'll show you that quickly .
John was a . John Schneider was a huge . You talk about Full Circle . He was my first concert in the Bush Gardens at Williamsburg , virginia , and I was kind of I don't know how old I was , must have been four or five , but we'd go out there . I knew all the words to all his songs and again , cause he was Bo Dukes , so that was the big deal .
All these years later , my publisher at the time said Judy Harris , legend in the industry . She says , hey , john Schneider is looking for material and he wants to cut a couple of your songs . Is that okay ? And I'm like , oh my God , the John Schneider and got to go in the studio , got to hang out .
Several weeks ago I heard I learned that he had lost his wife to cancer , his beautiful wife Alicia , and that , of course , was obviously tremendously sad . Well , I went on his Facebook page . He has written a long series of gut wrenchingly I'm already tearing up such a loser gut wrenchingly beautiful tributes . They're really love letters to his wife .
Here's just a picture and a very small piece of one . You probably can't even read it because it came up too small in here . So I'm sorry , but you're going to have to go . Just go to his Facebook page . If you feel like crying , like me , go do it , because they're not bad tears , they're just wow . It's just very wow and it's so beautiful .
If you are in a place in your life right now where you are feeling like you know , love is dead , romance is dead , dedicated partners and all of those things , it's like just not real . Boy , oh boy .
Well , if you go read his tributes , his letters really to his wife , you will feel very differently , unless you're just a diehard cynic and you just want to be miserable . He's been very , very vocal and expressive about his grief .
Journey really is what it is and it's just so moving and so powerful and really so , absolutely beautiful in a gut-wrenching way to see a man loving his wife so deeply , so profoundly , and experience such a , you know , devastating level of grief and yet still like what he's doing is so beautiful .
Despite his grief , or maybe even because of it , he has been reaching out to people experiencing the same type of grief and loss that he is and just offering encouragement , and that's a lot of what his posts are also about helping others navigate one of the most , you know , devastating experiences you can have in life .
And it's just so beautiful and profound to watch somebody putting such grace and goodness out in the world in such a dark time . I'm like such a big crybaby . I'm so teary over this , but it really is that beautiful and that touching . So , you know , go check it out . That was the whole point of this . I'm sorry if I kind of misled you with the .
John Schneider made me cry . I don't know him , he doesn't know me , didn't do a darn thing to me other than you know share his journey with everyone the world . So I encourage you to go and check out what he has to say over there , because it's very powerful . So that's it . That's all I got for you .
Title track just a little piece . I love you baby .