Narnia's Usual "Bad Boys" Up to the Usual Same Old, Same Old - We Know the Drill at This Point

 

Okay well, it's Back to School time, kids! 😄  Back to the books, the alarm clock, and the whole routine.  For parents, it's those phone calls while you're at work once the kids get home, and settling sibling arguments.  

And this month, it seems for us at Narnia, back to nonsense!

A few of Narnia's fave pairs have families and have been trying to divert attention away from the fact they've been enjoying summer vacations.  

But mid-August means the end of that, and time to get back into those routines.  

Believe it or not, Jakers and Austin still have at least ONE in school (BabyT Congras), if not several more.  Their offspring are no longer at that preschool/elementary school stage anymore (well, unless SXSW2024 Sushi Lunch 2.0 is an indication of something different! 😱)  

It was predictable therefore to see Jake (or very probably, his image) "canoodling and packing on the PDA" (to borrow Just Jared's telltale wording!) with beard Jeanne Cadieu at the Olivia Dean concert, Madison Square Garden.  Thus, placing Jakers strategically in New York City, far, far, far away from his SO Austin, who had been in Ireland, but posted that he was soon headed "home".

We're not wasting Narnia space on yet another alleged "stepping out" by Jake and Morticia.  If you'd like to see a tweet of the hinky looking video, here you go, brought to everyone by ol' "@Goldenhaall".  The fact that the source is "Goldenhaall" is, right off the bat, Strike One against the count of validity.  ⚾

Narnia extends Happy Birthday greetings to Baby Tile Leadville and perhaps a "Welcome Home" to the Gyllynichols Fam if they have indeed pulled up stateside and piled into their Family Shuttle, headed to wherever it is they're setting up camp.  😂   Whether they're really in the States or still across the pond, summer vacation is over, kids!  😊📘📐🏫🚌 

Seems a shame to talk about Jake and Austin without any kind of photo.  So let's show an oldie but goodie.

 

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And seems like ever since Jared Padalecki's meard Anson Gordon was mentioned in Narnia's post, "Sunday Musings:  It's a Summer of Travis Kelce and Stale Bread" on August 2, those two have knocked themselves out silly promoting a brand new, conjured-up project: a viewing party for "Supernatural" because apparently, Gordon has never seen that show.  LOL!  You can't make this stuff up.   

So it is looking like perhaps the unconditioned, static-y, just-took-the-beanie-off look is the new "beanie".  Gotta have Jared looking like a wild man now.  So he can be without the beanie, but the hair's gotta look Friday the 13th.  Don't worry, we're keeping up with you, TPTB. 😉 

And for those stans, I mean fans who want to go off about being "mean"; no, you look.  This can be Jared:

 

2021, for Walker promo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here he was again with "his boy", Gordon (Jensen was probably super excited over that one! 😏),

Days before, Jared's twitter account was used by his people to make him look clueless with regard to Perez Hilton.  His people have set a long-time precedent of using his twitter account to establish and enforce narratives, incidents that Narnia has documented over the years.  His team loves to make him look clueless, insensitive, an ogre, and/or a victim.

Anyway, we're not going to show the "supportive" tweet which was followed by "I didn't know, I had no idea his history!", followed by the lengthy "tweet correction and apology", along with examples of fandom attacking and apologists.  It's the usual old hat, but mostly due to the sensitive subject matter, there just is no need to give them cyber space.  We've seen this rerun before.

To use Hilton's breakdown episode to 1) manipulate his fandom and 2) enforce the 2015 originated narrative of Jared's own alleged struggles, shows once again how sensitivity is not a visible quality of these pr teams.

Plus, his team has used Perez Hilton before to help sell a narrative or two in the past. 

Oh look, Perez wrote in the past about the "very bad car accident" which involved the meard, Anson Gordon, who had tried to insinuate that he had also been in that same "accident", but just couldn't fully commit. 😒  Narnia wrote all about this "very bad car accident" in May 2022, in our post "Monday Musings Pt 1:  Let's Hear It For the Boys Misha Collins, Jensen Ackles, and Jared Padalecki (By Default)".

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Boy, does that give the flashbacks.  😰

And taking a quick glance at the online written activity regarding Jared's twitter account and the Perez Hilton incident, we see a red flag pattern that's become quite familiar to readers of Narnia:

 

"Poor" Jared.  

• Had to "apologize".  

• Had to "delete".  

• "Backlash"  

• "Explains Why" 

See those negative words in the subject lines?  Signs this was yet another stunt.

For those readers who are unaware, Jared is a former high school debater who once thought of becoming an engineer.  He has those kinds of smarts.  And so these repetitive bouts of "poor Jared" are what?  Month old, stale bread.  

Narnia knows he's fully capable of that Sara Lee fresh-from-the-store quality!   💪 🍞

 

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Last week, Travis Kelce joined the ranks of contract-driven, similar performances.  

First of all, following his training camp post-practice presser, when he sent "Tayvis" fans tweet-squeeing over his use of the word "my wife".  😴

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Narnia would refer to this as Bearding 101.

Back in 2009, Jakers set off the car alarms when he used the phrase "my girlfriend" to refer to Reese Witherspoon at a press conference for his movie, "Brothers".   At that time, it was significant for Jake to do.

Jake Gyllenhaal called Reese his “girlfriend” at a press conference for Brothers. According to People Magazine, Jake said: “I’ve learned so much from the kids in my life, and somehow they just become the center of your life and the way you look at things. Obviously I exist in my girlfriend’s world and my sister’s world in a different way, but it’s opened my heart and I feel much more grown up and want to be grown up as a result of it.” - Grazia Australia via People via hollyscoop via OhNoTheyDidnt, Dec 05, 2009 

Of course, what's kind of amusing is that less than two weeks later would come word that Jakers and Witherspoon had "broken up".  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And who can forget, in March 2017, when an airport stunt was performed, all so that Louis could be documented as saying "my girlfriend". By the way, everyone knows, the phrase is, "me girlfriend". Get it right, tabloids. I mean if you've been tasked with spreading PR narratives at least me accurate in the fabrication.

[American Airlines representative] Robinson said she observed Tomlinson placed himself between Larsen and Calder. Robinson said she observed Tomlinson place his right hand on Larsen's shoulder and stated 'please stop taking pictures of my girlfriend.'' - Daily Mail, March 10, 2017

 

Copy of a copy of a copy, right? 

 

 

And second of all, a wedding ring worn on the field at the Rams pre-season game?  For the cameras?  smh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's a first.  😄

 

 

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Goodness.  Patterns, patterns, patterns. 

Well, let's wrap this one up as it was all full of shenanigans, wasn't it?  

This was very nice to see.  Travis with DeJuan Bonds at the Purple Label Barber Shop (I massively apologize for not knowing the other gentleman! I'm mud. If someone wants to let Narnia know, please do so, in order that he can be credited.).  This Instagram story photo may've been taken on Saturday, August 8 of this year as it was posted that evening.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On the 4th of this month, Austin posted an old photo of the family dog, I mean his dog Otis.  These are great. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We're speechless!

 

And speaking of speechless, here was Louis in St Louis in June, looking and sounding terrific.

 

Louis has the charm, doesn't he?  He was proud of Team UK as he should be.  Team Narnia was pulling for them in the World Cup!

And ending with some Johnny Gage and Roy Desoto,

Caption this: 

LOL!  Look at them.

 

"You know, you're really too much." - Roy DeSoto

 

Okay, well that's all we've got.  This needs to go to press before it's not Monday anymore! What a disaster.   😅

 

Pic sources:  FETV,  tenor, giphy, WorldTomlinson twitter, IHeartJake, People.com,

                     Facebook, spnfangirl15, Alloy, screencaps51, Perez Hilton

our playlist:  Poor, Poor Pitiful Me - Linda Rondstadt

                     Bad Time - Grand Funk Railroad

                     Hurt Me Bad (In a Real Good Way) - Patty Loveless

                     Suddenly Last Summer - The Motels

 

 

A Life Lived to the Fullest - Well done, Randy Mantooth

 

Randy DeRoy Mantooth, September 19, 1945 - July 9, 2026

 

There have been an innumerable amount of tributes, memories and condolences shared on social media since Randy passed away, it truly was heartwarming to see.  

In the very short time that I had "discovered" the television show "Emergency!" in late October of last year, 2025, and begun watching You Tube interviews and reading old interviews, it was so apparent that Randy had touched an enormous amount of lives.  The social media comments dated over a span of several decades, an incredible amount from active or retired first responders or those in the medical field, who had been inspired by the show.  Over and over and over again.  

Randy's sister Tonya spoke soon after his passing at the Pinnacle EMS Conference in San Diego last month, on July 14:

 

She recalled a birthday card he once gave her that read, “The two most important days of your life are the day you are born and the day you discover why.”

“And I truly believe Randy discovered his why the day he stepped foot on the stage of ‘Emergency!’” she said. - source (Facebook)

 

And it truly looks and sounds like Randy walked the walk and talked the talk.  He was so concerned about the future of paramedics and EMT's - about burnout, their funding and pay, and reminding them of the importance of what they do, as well as the reason why they entered the profession which was to help people.  This quote from an interview he did in 2019 is amazing because it so exemplified his character of John Gage, who was always comforting to those he was rescuing.  How many times did Johnny say, "You're going to be alright.  We're here to help you.  We're going to get you out of this."  He would kneel down to the victims, talking to them.  And there have been a few times where this author thought if she needed rescuing, the perfect rescuer would be someone like John Gage, who would be such a comfort.

His quote: 

All that equipment that we use in the field saves lives. It really does. But I still ride out a lot with fire departments and, more and more, I’m seeing the younger generation get so caught up in the technology that the patient gets lost. I see it. The one thing in my course of training was how you make them feel. It’s not about numbers as much. That shouldn’t be the focal point. It’s really – how are you making them feel? They’re not going to remember that you might have used the Jaws of Life to cut them out of the car. They’re not going to remember what kind of medicine you used. But they’ll always remember how you made them feel. I address that pretty strongly in my speeches.

You have a whole wall of technology in front of you and sometimes it gives the care provider a wall of anonymity. They insulate themselves away from the pain that’s there. You leave that patient lost. He’s having the worst day of his life and you’re looking at numbers. Every now and then, you’ve got to look up. You’ve got to look them in the eye and tell them – with all the compassion you have in your heart – that everything’s going to be okay, because I’m here. I’m here to help you. I’m here to save you. –

via Discover Con interviews, October 13, 2019 

 

And Randy spent several decades traveling the U.S. speaking to countless groups - that's how important it was to him.  He also spoke about how he felt he could never repay paramedics because of his first-hand experience as well as one of his sisters being saved by them as well.

The amount of photos taken with Randy by fans that were shared on message boards were countless.  He had traveled so often, visiting conferences and firehouses.  The above quote really summed up how he felt and there isn't anything that could be added unless you were to read the many accounts from fans or first responders who had visited with him.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the too-brief time that I began enjoying learning about Randy, I was able to see how proud he was of his Native American heritage, how politically and socially aware he was, how much he loved dogs (I never would have been able to guess him having chickens, lol), and how much he obviously enjoyed people in general.  When you spend as much time as he apparently did talking to friends as well as strangers with hundreds (probably thousands) of photos to show for it, that's just a people person.  You are a people person, the best kind.

Oh, and how funny he was.  This cracked me up.  I know that he loved to tell stories and he knew that he was known for his sense of humor, but for me, the most endearing part of his sense of humor was when he wasn't trying to be.  In this audio clip, when he mimic'd an imagined 60-some year old John and Roy trying to work on a patient in a reunion project, it really sent me laughing.  

Randy had no filter.  Listen to him: 😅 😂

 

He was so self-deprecating when it came to himself (and sometimes Kevin) and aging.  This was within a fan's Facebook comment about a time when they met Randy:

I had the pleasure of hearing him as a keynote speaker at an event in Atlantic City, NJ about 20 years ago. He was an amazing speaker...warm, entertaining and of course educational. I got to meet him afterwards. He autographed a picture I had of he and Kevin from Emergency. I asked him what came to mind when he looked at the picture, and he laughed and said, "Boy, how young we were.".  - Facebook

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With his sister Tonya and brother Don,

 

 

 

What a silly.  And no, this was not a scene included in The Gymnast ep

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

as John Gage:  "I'm a rescue man."

in the play "Superior Donuts"

Look at this stinker:

 

He aged so gracefully. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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In a matter of 8-ish months, I learned that Randy enjoyed camping.  He appreciated the outdoors and national parks.  He valued his family and friends.  He loved his dogs.  He wasn't afraid of hard work.  He also appreciated easy work.  😂 I mean, he spoke frankly, another terrific quality.  He loved to climb.  He had taken aerobics.  He cared about his hair.  😊  He liked to do the right thing.   He was polite (hey, that's not a given with people, anymore.)

I didn't see him in General Hospital, The Seekers, Operation Petticoat, or other projects - only saw him in Adam-12 and The Love Boat.  He didn't want to be known for his looks, but as a good actor.  Well, he had both, and a wonderful personality to boot.

On Emergency!, it was incredible that he could be goofy or unassuming one minute, and then sharp as a tack, alert and commanding the next.  He covered every expression:  sorrow, empathy, pain, puzzlement, compassion, awkwardness, frustration, jealousy, anger (boy, could he show anger! 😂), sarcasm, enthusiasm, sneakiness, worry, scorn ... you name it.  

Randy, you were a fine, wonderful actor.  And incredibly blessed with an abundance of friends and experiences.  While those closest to him are now missing him and his presence, they can take comfort that he will at least be given a new body, one that is renewed and free of pain.

It's never too late to discover someone's successful screen work and learn a little bit about them as a person and their work for their fellow man.  We at Narnia are grateful to have barely caught onto the tail end of his shooting star in real time.  

And now?  What do you mean?  Just try to keep up with that star.  Fly high, Randy.

 

 

pic sources:  discover con, pinterest, emergency51, Facebook, LA County Fire Dept, EMS1,

                     geturns, instagram, and anyone else possibly missed, You Tube

our playlist:  My Angel - Bertha Tillman

                     Fly Away - John Denver

                     The Light in Your Eyes - LeAnn Rimes 

                     Shining Light - Annie Lennox

                     Lord of the Dance - James B Partridge 

                     Ave Maria - Kenny G