 Well, it's our great pleasure today to welcome again to Davis Community Television, Mr. Bob Hope, and joining me for our visit with Mr. Hope is Bob Dunning from our own Davis Enterprise, and you may remember that Bob introduced Bob in a warm-up act when Bob was last in Davis, and I am very confused with two of Bob's. Can somebody help me out? It's just Bob, Bob, Bob and along. You said earlier he stole your name. What brings you to Davis this time, Bob? Hi, this is Bob Hope, inviting you to join me in the United States Air Force Golden Gate Band for an evening in front of UC Davis on Friday, October the 5th. Support the Lions Club in this benefit for the Ion Tissue Bank at UC Davis Medical Center. Well, I'm doing this show for the Lions Club's eye problem, and that interests me. Not that I wouldn't be here anyway if they, you know, if they invited me, but the eye problem is the thing that I went through quite a bit about ten years ago, and I had a lot of hemorrhages, and I lost little problems. I use it now to blame my, blame my, for my putting. We were talking to Tommy LaPresti out there, and he wasn't sure, he said he hadn't seen your golf game for a while. How is your golf game? It's a, I could start fresh and do better, I think. I really should break my clubs, start all over. Tommy said he had an eye problem. I know he did, and I didn't know that until I talked to him again today. But he's fine, and I wish I had more time, because I would like to go to the tee with him, because he's a damn good teacher, you know, if he would take me. I think the biggest question everybody has is, are you going to go to Saudi Arabia? Well, I've been talking to the USO about it. They called me and asked me about it, and I told them that I've been thinking about doing, you know, and I think if it continues this way I think that I will go around Christmas time. Well, in case you don't go, you know, maybe you should take men over to interview the women. There's a lot of women there now, American service women. So right. In case you don't go, I brought you a little gift. This was brought back by a Davis, a Captain Ramona Savoy of the 301st Airlift Squadron. She brought this over. This is Saudi sand. Real Saudi sand. Just in case you don't go, you've got a souvenir. No, that's not Saudi. That's real Saudi sand. Yes. You're putting me on. Nope. You even got little rocks and everything in it. And one of our own people from Davis picked it up. Right. I got a note from a kid over there the other day from, well, cat ate for me. And he said, you just add a little water to this to remind me the last time I played for you. Well, what would you do in preparation to go to Saudi Arabia? What would be different about this from the old Saudi Arabia? Well, you know, if I went I'd have to get all set up because we do it. We do a television thing, too, you know, because I always have, because I have the people just like anybody wants to see it and hear from people and I'd interview a lot of people and try to get some laughs for them. Yeah. I think they could probably use a few over there. Do you have to do anything special to deal with the heat or? I don't know. It's got to get cooled off, doesn't it, around November? Yeah. I hope so. Just like Palm Springs. I think it's cold at night. I'll take that. Yeah. Yeah. So if you did your show at night. But I read the USA Today and it's three letters from the people and this one girl said it's 112 inside the tent. Oh, some girl talking about it. That's painful. She thought it was miserable. Her letter was pretty bad. Yeah. But Bob has a point. Since there are so many of our service people who are women over there now, then maybe taking some men along to entertain the women this time, have you thought about that? Yeah. Well, they'll adjust that. I'm pretty sure they're Saudi Arabia. They have to. You never know who you're going to take. We don't do it on a Christmas show. We don't do any bumps or anything. I'm not going to take any, you know, burlesque dance or anything. Keep it clean for the reporters. You do a lot of live performances and a lot of TV. Which do you prefer? Well I like the live performances. But you know in TV we use it. We have the audience anyway. We always have an audience at NBC. But it's more fun with the live crowd? I think so. You relax a hell of a lot more. What are you going to add to live on TV? Because you add it now, don't you? Which we do. What about the movies? Got any movie projects coming up? They've got a couple of ideas they're working on. Great. I'd like to do another movie. If I get the right thing, I have to get the right show. There are so many damn good movies, I tell you, that I'd like to join them some way. I saw Postcards on the Edge the other day and walked out cheering. Did you see that? Oh, it was a wonderful movie. Wonderful movie. Who would you like to work with now in Hollywood? Who would you like to work with? What actors, actresses, producers? I wouldn't make any difference. They're all pretty good, you know. Are you impressed with the talent in Hollywood today compared to when you were in the movies? I thought that particular movie was something. And I loved Pretty Woman and all that. I read a notice in the USA today of Avalon. Have you read that notice? The USA today was Four Stars and it's Mike Clark. It was a pretty good critic. It's just great. He figures there'd be eight Oscar nominations for the picture. I think it's a wonderful thing. Think of the special effects that are out there for the potential with the movies to work with. You could do a Star Wars type of movie with Bob Hope traveling through outer space. Now it has to be a certain type of thing. What type would you be interested in? Well, the story has to fit my age a little more. Which is what, 43, 44? 43, 44? Something like that. You're a best-selling author now, too. The NBC suggested that I do the book and it just turned out to be a hell of a thing. I had a lot of wonderful people. It's still on a best-seller list. Oh, yeah. 16 weeks. Wow. So I'm awful happy about that. And I had the guy that helped me write at Mel Shavellson who started with me in 1938. So he knew everything and I let him in my files and he pulled out the better things and we edited everything. We're happy about that book. That's great. I see you really like your sand. I want the container back, though. You know, I use more sand than that just putting. That's nice. What plans do you have next? Do you may go to Saudi Arabia? I've got so many plans. I'm doing so many things. Traveling all over the place. Going back to the Eisenhower Festival back in Gettysburg on the 14th. And I whip around. I'm all over the place. We know you are. We see you everywhere. I enjoy it, too. And we're so pleased that you found time to come to Davis again. And I know your show tonight will be fantastic. I saw it five years ago. You were marvelous. We loved it. And thank you for joining us. Thank you, Bob. Thank you.