Actors Patrick Duffy and Linda Purl Join The Show

We continue with you here on News Radio, WRVA. So walking around the building, I found out that there was a legend going to be here on the program. And then I found out a different legend was going to be here as well. So I'm a little overwhelmed. And if I fanboy, don't get mad at me. But there in my favorite grocery store where I go to Kroger over in Short Pump. They have this bread, and everybody knows I'm from the West Coast, and I only eat sourdough bread. Duffy's Doe, now available at my grocery store. And look who's here. Patrick Duffy is joining me right now on News Radio, WRVA. Sir, I'm just honored to have you on here. I mean, it's like I know you since watching you on TV since forever. Oh, I thought it was just from my picture on your loaf of bread every day. I was kind of excited about that as well. And then you brought someone with you that just surprised the heck out of me. I can't believe. She actually brought me with her. Is that it? Linda Pearl's joining us right now, better known as, I make sure I get it right, because I'm doing this off the top of my head. Ashley Fister. Yeah, Ashley Fister. I'm impressed that was Fonzie's fiancé on Happy Days a long time ago. Yeah. Listen, you dated the fonts and you bring Patrick Duffy in here and you bring me sourdough bread. I just don't know what to say. I'm a little overwhelmed. Just say goodbye and we'll be on our way. No. I want to talk to you guys about everything. Well, this is, as you said, it's a line of sourdough bread. This is five varieties of take and bake sourdough bread that all came start from a starter that Patrick's mother was gifted in Alaska. In 1952 years. I can't make a math. I love sourdough bread. I mean, I'm on, Linda, that's the only bread that I eat at the house. Well, it's good for you, right? They say it's, yeah, gut healthy. It's gut healthy. So whatever that means, it's good for you. You can eat it without much. Unless, you know, while you're at Kroger's, if you go into Murray's and you get some of their cheeses and their spreads and then you slather it on there, it's really good. But it's a take-and-bake. So you take it home, you just rip open the bags, stick it in the oven for six, seven minutes. And you get the aroma and the warm bread and the crispy outside and just soak it and butter and eat it. I'm ready to go right now. We wanted to, we started this project in our garage in Colorado a little over five years ago. And always with the idea of, you know, at this point of your life, you want to do something that has additional meaning or that's fulfilling to do. So all of our profits go. to charity. And as we started to discover the profundity of starvation levels in America across the nation, we thought, well, it's a food-based product. We have to give it to food scarcity. So this afternoon, I think we go right from here over to Food More. Feed more. Feed more. Yeah. Well, not for. We're going to be at the store. We're going to be at Midlothian today. From 1230 to 2, I think. Hopefully folks will come by, but we'll also meet with the people at Feedmore and see the good works that they do. And those are efforts that Kroger supports. We just did a fundraiser for them for kids that don't have summer lunches because lunch programs. We just did that and we raised 100,000 lunches. It's amazing. Crucial. Well, you know, in this country, one in eight people go to bed hungry. One in five children go to bed hungry every day.

This is a passion project for you because it's your mom's sourdough recipe. So this is personal to you. And then I hear the passion from Linda about making sure that, you know, we're Americans. That we do. We take care of each other. You guys don't have to do this. I mean, you can just put your name on it. You don't have to be here with me. You don't have to be going out meeting feed more. I mean, this is real to you, right? Oh, it's fun. It's really fun. That's been the privilege of this. This is, I think, our 17th state. We've basically been on the road for 14 months. putting Duffy's Doe out regionally. And so we get to meet a lot of people. And it's been it's been such a privilege, such a blessing to go around the country and to also to meet this. And a heartache, an education, a heartache. Oh, huge. Yeah. To see, you know. How many people are doing without and making do with what little they have? And then you see the efforts that Kroger and these food banks and the meals on wheels and all those places. Incredible efforts. It's an army of angels. My dad used to tell me, just make a difference, me ho. Just make a difference. That's what you're doing. Oh, nice. Yes. Well, we hope so. Kroger makes a big difference, and we're so thrilled to be. you know, under their banner. Because in our garage in Colorado, over four years of effort, we were able to give away $250. That's just not going to do it. So Proger made us get over the hump. What inspires you, though, just to, I mean, you have lots of things you could do. I mean, you can walk around and have people just fawn all over you, Linda. Like, oh, my God, that's Ashley Fister. Oh, geez. There may have been some wine involved. Okay, good. Want to make sure. But Patrick's a master baker using the family sourdough starter. Is he really? And we would. Take it to dinner parties and people, the reviews were always good. And so one night, this is where the wine comes in. We'd come home from dinner. And Patrick said, we should start a business. And I went to sleep and woke up the next morning and she started Duffy's too. Is that the way it works? You come up with the idea. Then she goes, okay, fine, this is what we're doing. I am a hood ornament and she's the business. He's the architect. I'm the contractor. I don't know who I'm more excited to talk to. Ashley Fister, who. I had a little bit of a crush on when you're dating Fons. I think you can stop right there. And then, so Patrick, when you see somebody, like I used to work in Los Angeles. And one day I was in the hallways and Michael McDonald was there. He walks around the corner, right? And I go, oh, my God, you already goes, shut up. And I'm like, what? And he goes, I'm not Kenny Rogers. He's like, no, you're Michael McDonald's. Doobie Brothers. I kind of just go fanboy on him. He goes, oh, when people see you, Patrick, what do they scream out? There's. He's still alive. From? Well, it's Dallas is usually the one. Okay. Depending on the age range, step by step as a younger generation. The really old people remember a man from Atlantis. Right. You know, but it is Dallas. People, you know, if I hear Bobby as I'm walking down the street, I'll turn around. Or if we're in Europe, we'll hear booby. Booby. Oh. Yeah, it's booby in Europe. What if I yelled, hey, there's the guy with the Enturito.

Oh, my God. That's Taco Bell. Right. That's your first screen credit. You were the Taco Bell. I was a Taco Bell guy. But I wasn't the spokesperson forever. I did one commercial. Linda? Yeah. If you would have met him and he says, hey, Linda, I'm Patrick Duffy. You might have seen me in a Taco Bell commercial. How do you think it would have went? Oh, sure. No, every, it was predetermined. We've actually known each other as vague acquaintances for many, many years. And then we were reconnected seven years ago, I guess. And then we started to Zoom a little bit. I was living in New York, Patrick and Oregon. Right. And then COVID hit. And so we really started to Zoom because there was nothing else to do. No what that's like. We zoomed, you know, every night for two to three hours. And at some point a few months in, it kind of occurred to us that there might be something more than a really lovely friendship. Patrick got in his car. You guys look like Lumpbert sitting here with me. You know what? Okay, I promise I will cease to have my crush on Ashley Fist her because she's with the Incherido guy from Taco Bell. There you know. Listen, a man's got to know. Hard to fight history. Exactly. But you know what, though? Maybe I'm crazy. You know, my favorite role for you was Frank Lambert. I love the show. I love the show with you and Suzanne Summers. That's like one of my favorite shows. I think I've seen every episode. I loved you in that show. No, it was wonderful to do. You know, I went from Dallas, Mr. Serious. Right. And doing with the most wonderful woman that I could possibly think to work with up until six years ago. Okay, that was a close call. I know. Razor thin, but I made it. And then to be able to do seven years with Suzanne and that group of kids who were all wonderful and do comedy. And also. What I've learned, again, we went to work, we just had a good time, and we went home. People are now going, you made me hopeful that I could have a dad like you or that, you know, I came from a blended family and you guys made it work and it's so important to me. And you don't realize what you're doing, how the effect ripples through people who watch that show. Linda, did you watch him on that show? No, I didn't. You've never seen it? No, I hadn't seen it. Like he's on the Mount Rushmore of TV dads. Yes, yeah, I, I... Because he never got upset at the kids. No. You were frustrated, but you... You were like a role model for a bunch of people like me. They grew up watching that. Fair to say, too, that Patrick never watched the office. I think maybe it's Colston, Newcastle, you know, when you're working in the industry. You don't necessarily watch. You don't watch TV. Nothing bad about it. It just you don't think to. You sure want to get away. Everybody else that works. Well, I'm jealous of people that make a difference. Duffy's Doe. You find it at Kroger's. It's going to be the one of mine in the short pump. You guys are going to be over Midlothian. It's like, I can't wait to try it. It's like drop it like it's hot. You take it home. You bake it yourself. I love sourdough bread. You guys are amazing. And just the fact that you're giving back to the community and you're here and our community doing this is something to leave with this. Okay. You've never been a trivia question on one of my radio shows, but Patrick has. Okay. Right? I gave away baseball tickets.

Oh, okay. So when I was with the Oakland A's, I had some tickets to give away. The Oakland A is? Yeah, I was a broadcaster when. Do you know that my nephew? Yeah. Okay. So I hope that was. No, no, that's it. That's it right there. So I would ask the question, Barry Zito, was a pitcher for the Oakland A's. He was one of the big three. So one day I had to give away tickets. I go. Okay, who's Barry Zito's uncle? And that was our post-game giveaway. That's so cool. Patrick Duffy. So I knew, yeah, no, I knew the whole family, and I knew Joe and everything. He was the composer for Nat King Cole and Barry. One of the, uh, he went to the same high school as my son in San Diego, Cathedral Catholic, and USC, and he's one of the best young men that I ever met when he came up through the big league. So you were a trivia question on the East Postgame show. Nice. He continues to be a remarkable young man. Well, he's, he's in Nashville now. Yeah, yeah, he is. He's got a big family. That's hard. And he's writing music and singing songs. Yeah, he's an amazing, he's an amazing, amazing person. Enough of him. Enough of him. Let's talk about me again. Exactly. Duffy's dough. It's available with Kroger's right now. I'm just honored to have royalty. I'm going to call you royalty. Okay. It's nice. He's saying that instead of really, really old. So thank you. That's very nice. I've still watch the show. You, come on. When I was... Heartthrob. Yeah, exactly. Thank you. No, thank you. That's nice. Good for my ego. I'm coming back here. All right. We'll continue with you. It's News Radio, WRVA.