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The Tonight Show. Wendi Smith. The Tonight Show. It’s a conversation that might be relatable to some. Smith knew the song she had in mind, but had trouble coming up with the artist. That’s when she turned to her daughter for help. “What’s the song like doodads bop maybe by the Jonas Brothers or some boy band,” she texted Schulte. Here’s how the rest of the texts went: Schulte: “Hmm. I’m not sure.” Smith: “Doodads Bop” Smith: “Doodads Bops Bops. Doodads.” Smith: “Yes! Making a playlist for you.” Of course, the reading by Fallon and Janney (about two minutes into the segment) earned laughs and applause, including by the award-winning actress and comedic show host themselves.
night in a hotel and the flights from arizona, colorado, indiana and minnesota. and after dinner, president obama tweeted, this dinner is important because i'm only president, thanks to the work of millions of americans just like the four i just met. all four of these lucky raffle winners join us tonight here on "the ed show." let's bring in minnesota small businessowner, casey helbling, u.s. postal service letter carrier, kenneth knight. retired public schoolteacher, juanita martinez. and retired college professor, wendi smith. great to have all of you with us tonight. i've had lunch with the president once. and it's kind of goofy going in there. you're kind of, you're a little bit nervous, wondering how is this thing going to work out? i imagine that's what all of you felt last night. casey, let me ask you first. what did you want to ask the question in what kind of questions, what kind of conversation did you have with him? >> sure, yeah, we were very
but i did talk to him about education. i'm a retired teacher. but i still have lots of friends that are teachers. and a couple of my sons are in education. and just the need. the need for more funding. we just need to educate our youth. >> did you get a -- >> so he was concerned about that. >> yeah. juanita, did you get a sense -- he was pretty frustrated not being able to help out teachers right now? >> i think a little bit, but he's also so upbeat and i think he wants us to be encouraged and he wants us to go back to our states and encourage other people. i don't think he's the kind of person that dwells too much on being, or at least showing his disappointment. he just wants to keep going and making things better. >> wendi -- >> i got to tell you -- >> go ahead. >> i got to tell you that i just want to reiterate what casey said. we were nervous wrecks after
loans. and he has this sort of approach and i felt real confident that he's got a handle on it. in fact, there was nothing we asked him last night that he didn't have a handle on. he's quite an amazing fellow. >> juanita, was he the same guy you voted for? >> yes. he sure was. >> wendi, what do you think? same guy you voted for? >> absolutely. absolutely. >> casey, what, politically, did you have anything that you really wanted to ask him that maybe you didn't get to? >> not really. we got to spend some time talking about health care and the economy and his big point was that we have to take care of the housing market and what's going on there first. so that actually hit home. i completely agree with that. i was just like, that was awesome that he -- just have these frank conversations with him and tell you straight out, number one thing we have to take
they showed us the table where we were going to sit. he walks in the back door and said, hello, everybody. h he walked over to us like he couldn't wait to meet us. and he shook our hands and called us by our first names and we sat down and just ate dinner and talked. >> wendi -- >> it was amazing. >> what kind of sense did you get from the dinner last night, wendi? >> oh, he was just a gracious really wonderful person. and the person that i worked for in the 2008 campaign that i volunteered for, he was everything. he was all that. >> how much politics was in the conversation in the night? >> we did a little bit. we sort of dissed some people, but he kept it on the up and up. he's such a good guy. we wanted to kind of get down, but he didn't. the thing that i asked him about was higher education and college