I want to talk about the first time I met you in the circumstance and you can tell me if you even remember because I remember

VITO. Do you really? Oh the very first time we met. Oh yeah.

Hey everybody, welcome to literally wow today, Lovar Burton is here.

If you've been listening to my show, you know that you know I've been doing this a long time and have met a lot of people and

but my my meeting of Lovar Burton and how far we go back is kind of extraordinary.

So when I heard he was coming in today, I was pretty psyched because I haven't seen him in forever and I don't want to make forever

go any longer than it has to. So let's get started. Okay so I am probably 13.

Right. I'm at Malibu Park, junior high. Okay. And I want to be an actor. Right. I'm fresh from Ohio. I don't know nothing but nothing.

But I'm in all the school plays. I'm in I'm in every everything talent show. And there is a for sure the most

talented girl in the school was one of my best friends, Holly Robinson. Right. And Holly would sing Desperado. Wow.

And Linda Ronstadt would come. Yeah. And sit in the front row. Yeah. And listen to Holly sing Desperado.

Holly's mother. And why Holly's mother isn't more celebrated than she is is kind of it. I just I just don't understand.

She's like the Zellig of modern show business of modern Robinsons. Yeah. And she knows everybody.

Dolores Robinson. I mean, single African American mom. Yeah. Raising two kids.

And she moved here from Philadelphia. Yeah. From Philly drove her green Volvo station wagon across country.

With a dream. Yeah. So and she is now I'm so unsophisticated at this time that I don't really understand that much about Holly Wood or what Dolores was or does.

But she was a manager. Right. And I was our only client at the time.

Well, she she I would see around and she stopped me in the hallway. I can see it like it was yesterday. The upstairs outdoor hallway in the history building.

And she said, I want you to meet someone because next week he will be the most famous person in the world.

And it was you the week before roots came out. Wow. That's a good story. And I remember.

I just I mean, I just remember and she was right. I mean, think about think about it. I mean, it's like.

Well, those are the time the days when that could happen. Yeah.

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