Episode 1 - Dean Martin, Tiny Tim, and the Death of Santa Claus
Dearly Departed Podcast
Mike Dorsey
4.9 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Covered in this Episode:
IN THE NEWS
Penny Marshall, left, and Cindy Williams as the title characters in the ABC sitcom “Laverne & Shirley.”
Ms. Marshall’s success on the show paved the way for her directing career. Credit ABC
Please Support: LA Conservancy and Hollywood Heritage
Article: Owner who demolished Neutra house ordered to build exact replica (Link)
Article: Neutra House in Palm Springs Destroyed (Link)
MAIN FEATURE
:: Death of Santa Claus ::
Article: Ho Ho Ho! Read bout Leroy Scholtz aka Santa Claus at FindADeath.com!
:: Dean Martin ::
Dean Martin (Getty Images)
Video: Watch the Martin and Lews Reunion from 1976!
Article: FindADeath's writeup on the death of Dean Martin
The old Hamburger Hamlet that Deano used to hang out at
Scott's Dean Martin beer bottle
:: Tiny Tim ::
Video: Watch Tiny Tim perform his hit Tiptoe Through the Tulips
Article: Tiny Tim on FindADeath
WRAP-UP
Article: Kevin Smith survives 'massive' heart attack: 'I would've died tonight' (Link)
Download: Scott's FindADeah Death A Day App!
Special Thanks again to LA's El Coyote Restaurant!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | From Hollywood's famous El Coyote Restaurant, it's the dearly departed podcast, featuring your hosts, historian Scott Michaels and filmmaker Mike Dorsey. |
| 0:25.8 | And welcome to the dearly departed podcast. This is Mike Dorsey and... This is Scott Michaels. |
| 0:26.6 | And this is our very first show ever. Thanks a lot for joining us. We will have a set kind of format for the show that we'll do every week. We will talk about kind of news of the day or news of the week, death of the week, that kind of thing. And then we will get into our main feature story, |
| 0:42.6 | which today, our Christmas episode, we're going to give you two Christmas stories, like an extra |
| 0:47.9 | present under the tree. We're going to do the story of Tiny Tim and the story of Dino, Dean Martin. |
| 0:53.0 | Oh, we don't forget Santa Claus. |
| 0:55.1 | Oh, yeah, sorry. |
| 0:56.2 | And three. |
| 1:00.5 | Wow, Santa bringing us an extra present, the death of Santa Claus. |
| 1:04.9 | Oh, first we do have to say thanks to the El Coyote, man. |
| 1:05.9 | These guys are awesome. |
| 1:06.9 | 100%. We're set up here, and they've been more than accommodating and just so helpful. |
| 1:11.9 | Yes, the El Coyote Mexican restaurant on Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles. |
| 1:16.4 | It's one of my favorite hangouts. |
| 1:19.2 | So let's get into it. |
| 1:20.7 | So let's just start with Death of the Week, News of the Week, that kind of thing. |
| 1:26.3 | News of the week. |
| 1:30.8 | It's pretty wild that Penny Marshall died this week, isn't it? |
| 1:33.9 | I mean, that sort of came out of nowhere, I think. |
| 1:37.1 | Yeah, I think she'd been sick for a long time, but I don't think it was one of those things |
| 1:40.0 | I don't think people realized it maybe or were aware of what she was going through. |
| 1:43.9 | Yeah, she had, I guess, lung cancer a couple of years ago, and they say it metastasized to her brain, but she was in remission. |
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