He was a good man and a good role model. You picked a good one.

Check out his gospel music.

@@Quint1836 Yes. Absolutely!

Yes ma’am !! I am 28 and still watch. I grew up watching with my mom and grandma. Love it! :)

+TheSmileyblonde me too I have little over ten years on ya but completely agree bro,,,,it's all bull shit "reality" tv now and its sending such bad messages to our young young kids out there. Makes them want to be like someone who isn't worth a damn.. I'm so glad I'm not the only young guy out there that loves Andy and Barney! Good for you my man !

Eileen Collins, thanks for redeeming my hope for the future! Awesome.

@@AndySalinger33 this is a very inspiring sub-thread

You do Andy Griffith and Mayberry is timeless

Lonesome was awsome!!!

Im 61 and agree with you 100%!

He's an outstanding actor!

quicklern818 ...... it’s the first thing he ever did.

His portrait of a power hungry political wanna-be is very scary stuff and can be related in today's terms.

The Morning Exchange had great ratings, but their guests tended to be relatively obscure. Fred rose to the occasion of a celebrity guest as if it were no big deal...100% prepared and at ease. He was really a good one.

Eric Swolgaard, same here, friend. The show stands in stark contrast to the fast pace of the world, and of other shows. There is a very palpable purity to TAGS which shines bright. To me, it's simply soothing. Cheers.

Last night was the bittersweet last b&w episode with Barney Fife- Now I will watch all the color episodes and wait for the good old b&w's again!!

Eric Swolgaard Right! Same mindset here. It's always great when they cycle back around to the good old b & w days!

Eric Swolgaard it helps me relax as well, so simple and calm.

I don't remember Petticoat Junction, but I don't think Andy cared for Beverly Hillbillies as many Southerners didn't.

Wish I could step into a time machine and go back to those days

I watch the Andy Griffith show still every day morning and evening (and i am 66 years old) but its my favoeite comedy!

I know your comment is ten months old but AMEN to everything you said!

No. Wrong. Biden is the manipulator. Everything which does not aggrandize his ego, particularly his cruelty as Americans pay enormously unnecessary prices due to trillions in extra spending, Biden calls “a threat to democracy.” Straight out of Obama’s Axilrod playbook, everything that happens is a “crisis” which can’t be allowed to go to waste. A two hour riot in which the only homicide was committed against an unarmed woman on Jan. 6, 2021 he calls the greatest threat since the Civil War. Any opposition to the chaos at the Southern border he calls “anti-immigration” bigotry. Any pushback against voting 24 hours a day, seven days a week six months before every election with drop boxes at every corner, ballot harvesting, unsigned ballots mailed to and from every address, same day automatic registration of every convict, etc., etc. is called Republican “voter suppression.” He even tried to establish a ministry of “disinformation.” Orwellian. After all, his friends in the mainstream media never raised an eyebrow when Biden cited as the gospel truth the discredited claim by 51 former national security officials that the Hunter Biden laptop “bore all the marks of Russian disinformation.”

Sorry, but that's all that was saved

+d hart ah em hmmm

he might have been sick. Glad he did the interview.

+d hart plus he smoked a little bit in his time as well

I think a little bit of that is a southern vocal tic too.. A speech pattern that allows for a moment or two of thought before speaking.. After years in broadcast radio, I had to learn to edit this sort of thing out when I spoke on air, but it's very effective when you're speaking one-on-one with someone.. If you look back at some of the AGS episodes, you'll see he used this over and over again as part of his character.. even though, it probably came very naturally to him..

+Anthony Hayden Ron would have only been about 15 or 16 in 1972. Unless Ron was working at the time, I doubt he wanted to talk about him since he's just a teen.

He turned 18 in March '72 and was working with a little-known director named George Lucas on a film that was expected to fail, along with Harrison Ford, Cindy Williams, Paul LeMat, Richard Dreyfus, Charles Martin Smith, Mackenzie Phillips, Candy Clark, Bo Hopkins, Suzanne Sommers, Kathleen Quinlan...probably the best cast ever assembled on a small budget. Andy probably thought Ron's career was on the fast track to nowhere, because the evidence was all pointing that way. But it turned out that the evidence had it wrong that time.

That's all that was saved.

Thanks for uploading. Better some than none.

This was from a 1972 episode of "The Morning Exchange" , a two hour talk-interview daily show on WEWS-TV..In that era, much was not saved after airing. Fortunate we got as much as we did..

I was thinking Ronald Reagan...Elvis is a good one too.

LOL and here I was thinking about Crooked Hillary and the lying media.

Donald Trump = Andy Taylor come to life? I'm having a hard time seeing that. Andy was modest...sensible...reasonable...competent...honest...the list goes on.

dmj42 I can't believe someone actually compared Trump to Andy Taylor...hahahaha

you could compare slick willy and tiger barry to OTIS!

Gawd Almighty, some of you people are pretty thick.. The comment is referring to the CHARACTER Andy Griffith played in the movie 'A Face In The Crowd'.. That CHARACTER very much DOES resemble and describe the current, one term president.. I do believe Andy had it right though.. The American people, on both sides of the political spectrum, are WAAAY too smart to be duped forever..

I think someone offstage offered him a glass of water. He said "No, thanks" at one point.

I really enjoyed watching the Andy Griffith shows all of the time & also listening to Andy Griffith shows on my smartphone. It was all nice, but i am sad to hear that Andy already passed away. It was funny when Andy wen't over to goober,s filling station and goober thought he had a talking dog but the thing the boys did was put a walkie talkie around the dogs neck & they did all the talking & opie's dad caught them then.

@@dmj-pt7cm I thought he said "Oh, thanks!"