Townsend Coleman (TMNT, The Tick, Where's Waldo?)

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<v Speaker 3>Absolutely? Today we're sitting down and talking with Townsend Coleman,
<v Speaker 3>who you may know as the voice of.
<v Speaker 2>Oh my Goodness, well twenty five percent of the Ninja Turtles.
<v Speaker 2>I do want you to know that if his voice
<v Speaker 2>sounds slightly familiar and you're an old not Johnny Carson,
<v Speaker 2>but I should say Jay Leno Fan. He was the
<v Speaker 2>voice of NBC Forever in a Day, and he's one
<v Speaker 2>of my favorite old Ohio boys. Yeah, because there's not
<v Speaker 2>many of us out there, and he's one of them.
<v Speaker 2>He's from Cleveland, I'm from Youngstown. Tune in. You're gonna
<v Speaker 2>love it. Everybody loves Townsend.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. He strikes me as such a wholesome guy. I mean,
<v Speaker 3>he's so sweet, such a sweetheart.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but watch it anyway.
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<v Speaker 3>All right, And without further ado, we're gonna jump right
<v Speaker 3>into this week's episode coming up today with Townsend Coleman.
<v Speaker 3>We'll shut up. I'm producer Chris, Jim Cummings The Legend.
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<v Speaker 3>As always, how are you doing today, sir?
<v Speaker 2>It's another dead paradise on accounta because ladies and gentlemen,
<v Speaker 2>talsand golm and the crowd does go wild.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, great to have you pal, Thanks fuddy, great to
<v Speaker 1>have you here.
<v Speaker 2>Great here, dude, you guys waite, guys, thank you. We're
<v Speaker 2>done so yeah so suit, Yes it was yes, it
<v Speaker 2>was delicious.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, thank you for being here today. Obviously everybody knows
<v Speaker 3>you from the tick. Everybody he knows you from Teenage
<v Speaker 3>Mutant Ninja Turtles is Michael Angelo, and we just really
<v Speaker 3>appreciate you taking the time for us today.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, well thanks, you guys appreciate this. We do so
<v Speaker 2>glad you could be here, So glad you could be here,
<v Speaker 2>and we got lots of cool stuff and some of
<v Speaker 2>these things I didn't we have in common other than Ohio.
<v Speaker 1>Ohio, it's it's round the high in the middle we go.
<v Speaker 2>What a sad little thing that was? But Youngstown, Yeah, Youngstown, Cleveland. Well,
<v Speaker 2>I know it's the quote unquote the dirty city, and
<v Speaker 2>I would of course be the dirty yest city. So yeah, well,
<v Speaker 2>you know, all love to Ohio and everything. It's a
<v Speaker 2>great place to be from. But in order to be
<v Speaker 2>from there, you gotta leave.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, well, in order to be from there, you got
<v Speaker 1>to live there first.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, and then realize you you should leave, you should go. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>it's time. And when did you when did you know
<v Speaker 2>that you had this bug or whatever it is we've
<v Speaker 2>got and said, you know, I probably can't only go
<v Speaker 2>only go so far in Cleveland. Yeah, right, you know
<v Speaker 2>once your you know DJ, which you know all about. Right,
<v Speaker 2>you've done that, right, And then what was it like
<v Speaker 2>a natural progression for you? Did you sit there and go, hmm, well,
<v Speaker 2>if I want to do a B, C and D,
<v Speaker 2>I get a new alphabet.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, well, I'd always wanted to either move to New
<v Speaker 1>York and do theater there, order la and you know,
<v Speaker 1>do on camera stuff out here.
<v Speaker 2>And yeah.
<v Speaker 1>So I was on the radio in Cleveland for ten
<v Speaker 1>years at five different stations over that ten years. And yeah,
<v Speaker 1>you know, it didn't take me long to realize that
<v Speaker 1>it is a thankless job.
<v Speaker 2>Radio guys move around a lot, oh my gosh. And
<v Speaker 2>I didn't want to move around a lot. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>In fact, I got from my very first offer, I
<v Speaker 1>got an offer in El Paso, Texas.
<v Speaker 2>And that's what you said, I'll passo, I'll pay hey.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, so I didn't take that, but ended up
<v Speaker 1>breaking in in Cleveland and ended up staying in Cleveland
<v Speaker 1>for the duration. But finally after a decade, I realized, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I'm done here. And uh, I was doing a lot
<v Speaker 1>of theater and TV. And that's where I started doing
<v Speaker 1>Freelance's voice work.
<v Speaker 2>Was that the Kenley Players.
<v Speaker 1>That's where I got my equity card at Kenley Players
<v Speaker 1>in Akron, no kidding, Yeah, understudying for Robert Urich in
<v Speaker 1>Barefoot in the Park.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, no kidding. Yeah, Oh wow, there's a memory for you, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>fare in the Park. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, I know I wanted to do I just
<v Speaker 1>wanted to do so much more and I felt like
<v Speaker 1>I had kind of sucked Cleveland dry, you know, for
<v Speaker 1>all the things that I wanted to do. I was
<v Speaker 1>pulling the Ohio lottery numbers on TV every night, and
<v Speaker 1>you know, it's sort of I got to that point
<v Speaker 1>and I said, it's really time.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Yes, I got to make my own lottery, right right, right,
<v Speaker 2>win my own lottery. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>So when I turned thirty in eighty four, I quit
<v Speaker 1>the radio station I was at and was just planning
<v Speaker 1>on freelancing actually in the Cleveland area and in the Midwest,
<v Speaker 1>and was thinking about moving to the West coast but
<v Speaker 1>kind of just didn't have the guts to do it yet.
<v Speaker 1>But my landlord, we're running all the way away. Yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>a couple of miles.
<v Speaker 2>Hmm, it's the crawl of the miles. Yeah yeah.
<v Speaker 1>And I thought, you know, I'll, I know, it'll be
<v Speaker 1>time when it's time. And then about two weeks later,
<v Speaker 1>got a call from my landlord saying that the house
<v Speaker 1>we were living in was going to be sold in
<v Speaker 1>a couple of months.
<v Speaker 2>And and you weren't part of the furniture. I was not,
<v Speaker 2>so I was not going to stay. Yeah yeah.
<v Speaker 1>So I thought, well, maybe this is maybe this is
<v Speaker 1>the right time to go. And so that was it.
<v Speaker 1>I just up and moved out here.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I noticed in reading and I didn't realize. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>we have a few things in common, clearly, but one
<v Speaker 2>of them that was that we both realized right about
<v Speaker 2>the age of thirty, you know, time to do what
<v Speaker 2>I'm was supposed to do, right, time to do get
<v Speaker 2>you know, I left Youngstown earlier. I moved into Orleans
<v Speaker 2>for a long time, but I parted around doing this
<v Speaker 2>and that, and I was in a hundred different bands,
<v Speaker 2>and I knew I still wanted to sing, but you know,
<v Speaker 2>doing it live and club to club the club wasn't
<v Speaker 2>the way to go. And I said, well, you know,
<v Speaker 2>you got to go to California if you're going to
<v Speaker 2>do stuff that you want to do. Did you get
<v Speaker 2>that vibe? I mean, because you would used up with Cleveland.
<v Speaker 2>It's like, I got to go to California if I'm
<v Speaker 2>going to do this all the way exactly, or it
<v Speaker 2>was either at California or New York, as you said,
<v Speaker 2>and apparently you made the right choice.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, I just you know, I mean, Jimmy, you
<v Speaker 1>know how tough it is to kind of get in
<v Speaker 1>the door and get established out here. I feel like
<v Speaker 1>I came out at the right time. If I were
<v Speaker 1>coming out these days, I mean, if I were still
<v Speaker 1>thirty now, coming out in this environment now, probably wouldn't happen. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>for me, it was such a different time back there. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Year.
<v Speaker 3>Do you guys think you still have to necessarily come
<v Speaker 3>out to LA for an entertainment career these days?
<v Speaker 2>That's a tough one. I don't know, it is a
<v Speaker 2>tough one because.
<v Speaker 3>They shots all over the place now, you know, Atlanta, Vancouver,
<v Speaker 3>I mean they're overseas, Yeah, that's sure, New York even.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, what kind of work you want to do, Obviously,
<v Speaker 1>if you want to do theater, you're going to go
<v Speaker 1>to New York.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, or Chicago, Chicago, that's right. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>But yeah for voiceovers, I mean nowadays, unless you want
<v Speaker 1>to do animation, you can pretty much do it from anywhere,
<v Speaker 1>right commercial promo?
<v Speaker 3>Is that how you do it a lot these days?
<v Speaker 3>From home? Recording in it.
<v Speaker 2>All the time? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You were the
<v Speaker 2>king of NBC and Tonight Show for sixteen years, owns.
<v Speaker 2>That was a sweet that was wow. Yeah. I remember
<v Speaker 2>driving by because NBC sitting there amongst five a half
<v Speaker 2>dozen studios that you and I have been going to
<v Speaker 2>for decades and I was, and I remember driving by
<v Speaker 2>going I know it tells it. Oh yeah, you probably
<v Speaker 2>can't hear me anyway, say a lot of j you know,
<v Speaker 2>I say a lot of here's you know. So what
<v Speaker 2>a sweet gig that was? It was? Yeah, it was?
<v Speaker 2>And what was it? Years ago? There was some not
<v Speaker 2>a conference, it might have been some kind of comic
<v Speaker 2>com but it was a gathering of all the various
<v Speaker 2>announcers and Donal da Fontaine was there. You were there,
<v Speaker 2>people known for their straight announcing, and it was sort
<v Speaker 2>of like a get together of some sort and it
<v Speaker 2>was a gathering and I cannot think I wasn't invited.
<v Speaker 2>So in my defense, that's why I was some fabulous contract.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah yeah, and and I really appreciate that, thanks for
<v Speaker 2>bringing it up. But I don't know, I don't know
<v Speaker 2>what that. Yeah, I can't. I can't think of the
<v Speaker 2>name of it. But I'll be resentful and.
<v Speaker 1>Then I'll get over, you know, talking about like maybe
<v Speaker 1>the vocal benefit Oh you remember those?
<v Speaker 2>Yes, yes, it might have been something like that. Yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I forgot about those.
<v Speaker 3>What's that for? Anybody who doesn't.
<v Speaker 2>Know voic vocal voice over cares about life, and we'd
<v Speaker 2>get together and just make a big squawk every and
<v Speaker 2>then donate money to life, you know, the charity du jour,
<v Speaker 2>I guess. And I think Jeff Danas started that, ye did, really? Yeah?
<v Speaker 3>I think so?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah? Yeah. He was an innovative guy. He was great.
<v Speaker 2>And and would you would you say that the right
<v Speaker 2>agent helps? Oh my gosh, that was huge.
<v Speaker 1>I mean I mean me because without an agent, for
<v Speaker 1>certainly back then.
<v Speaker 2>You were lost and there was no interweb.
<v Speaker 1>I knew one person out here that I had done
<v Speaker 1>children's theater with back in Cleveland, and she was married
<v Speaker 1>to David Jolliffe, remember.
<v Speaker 2>David, Oh my gosh.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, And so she got me an interview with her
<v Speaker 1>agent was which was Special Artists at the time, Doug E.
<v Speaker 2>Lee.
<v Speaker 1>And Jeff was the voice agent there. He'd only been
<v Speaker 1>there about two months at the time. And then David
<v Speaker 1>got me an interview over with Rita.
<v Speaker 2>Venari And so I remember that's where you stayed for
<v Speaker 2>many moons, right or you were.
<v Speaker 1>With je Well no, I was never with SBA.
<v Speaker 2>Oh you weren't, okay, I thought you.
<v Speaker 1>Were for Yeah, reader was real sweet. She said, I
<v Speaker 1>like your stuff, but I've got a couple of guys
<v Speaker 1>who sound a lot like you, and it wouldn't be
<v Speaker 1>fair to them. And it turned out that the couple
<v Speaker 1>of guys were Rob Paulson and Cam Clark.
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, I got see that's hysterical. Yeah, and I
<v Speaker 2>don't think. I don't think. I maybe a little raw,
<v Speaker 2>but not much Cam Anyway, she lied Nina Nina. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>So so I ended up going with Special Artists and
<v Speaker 1>Jeff was amazing, but I was only with him for
<v Speaker 1>just a couple of months because then he left a
<v Speaker 1>couple of months later to start the department at ICM
<v Speaker 1>with Pob Colvin, and I did not go over with
<v Speaker 1>him at that time. I stayed at Special Artists, ended
<v Speaker 1>up staying there for four years, and once he left,
<v Speaker 1>they replaced him with Elaine Craig and Libby Westby were
<v Speaker 1>my two agents and they were fantastic and they're the
<v Speaker 1>ones that got me into animation.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, good link Craig. I haven't thought of her
<v Speaker 2>in a long time. Bless you, my dear, wherever you are.
<v Speaker 2>Really yeah, old times she's still casting, yeah and rightly so.
<v Speaker 2>Down on Sunset, Yes, sir, Wow, that's wonderful. Sunset or
<v Speaker 2>Hollywood Boulevard. Gosh, Now I don't remember. Is that it
<v Speaker 2>across from the Maybe I don't know, Like it's like
<v Speaker 2>it really matters. We'll get back to you on that, folks.
<v Speaker 3>Right, Well, we have here a fun fact about yourself.
<v Speaker 3>You were on a show called super Password back in
<v Speaker 3>the day. Oh my god, do you remember what you won? Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>Two hundred bucks at a bedspread and a couple of
<v Speaker 1>gallons of paint.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, house paint, Yes, house paint was great.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, seriously, the two gallons of house paint, this really
<v Speaker 1>gaudy bedspread set and uh and two hundred bucks in cash.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Well, say I can top that because I was
<v Speaker 2>on a couple two or three uh game shows really yeah,
<v Speaker 2>something with Wink Martindale and I can't. But I do
<v Speaker 2>remember I won a year's supply of rays Aroni come
<v Speaker 2>on San Francisco treat and a thousand dollars shopping spree
<v Speaker 2>on road day O drive. That's a heck of a
<v Speaker 2>lot better than I did.
<v Speaker 3>How many boxes is of race Ani?
<v Speaker 2>Too many? Was that too many? All my neighbors, all
<v Speaker 2>my relative here? Here, here's some lovely parting gifts. Have
<v Speaker 2>some rice? Yes, it is the San Francisco treat and uh, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>you had too much of that. Put it in the
<v Speaker 2>hot time, invite your friends over. Everybody's happy, and everybody
<v Speaker 2>said two birds with one stony Yes, I've got I've
<v Speaker 2>got some other fantastic facts about you, and uh, okay,
<v Speaker 2>we got the superpower. I got a guy that helps
<v Speaker 2>us do these things. And it says that you auditioned
<v Speaker 2>for the voice of Wren Michu. I didn't even know
<v Speaker 2>that he had that last name Ren and Stimpy and
<v Speaker 2>then oh, really, I.
<v Speaker 1>Don't think I ever auditioned for Wren.
<v Speaker 2>No, we're firing this researcher person. And if I did,
<v Speaker 2>I have no recollection of it. Oh so that maybe
<v Speaker 2>that wasn't you, but.
<v Speaker 1>It might might not have been Maybe it was, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>maybe it was John Chris Flucy.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, before the role went to John Chris Falucy, he
<v Speaker 2>was eventually Billy West.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, well eventually Billy West because yeah, John Chris Fluci got.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and yeah he went he went insane. No, just kidding. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I had no recollection ever auditioning for that. Oh really, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>well it might not have been me or you.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I'll tell you who I did audition for is
<v Speaker 1>u is Wacko and Animaniacs? Oh yeah, until I heard
<v Speaker 1>Jess Harnell, you know, yeah, what he came up with
<v Speaker 1>for it? And I thought, why am I even in
<v Speaker 1>this business? Yeah, this is just ridiculous.
<v Speaker 3>You remember your rendition of Wacko.
<v Speaker 1>No no, no, And if I did, I wouldn't be.
<v Speaker 2>Doing it now. Yes, not for you. You know. I
<v Speaker 2>remember doing that auditioning for it, and they said that
<v Speaker 2>they wanted them to have a natural character. And to me,
<v Speaker 2>I always thought that the Beatles, you know, being you know,
<v Speaker 2>the generation that I am, I always thought that the
<v Speaker 2>Beatles had natural character, you know, a Liverpool accent. Sure,
<v Speaker 2>And so I just said I was just thinking of
<v Speaker 2>doing it, maybe perhaps from Liverpool. And I remember a
<v Speaker 2>guy who shall remain nameless goes, ah, hello American, I
<v Speaker 2>don't think so so and that was it. And then
<v Speaker 2>two weeks later I run into Jesse and goes, dude,
<v Speaker 2>guess what, I go, what that's gonna be one of
<v Speaker 2>the animniacs? I go, Whi's one dot and he goes, no, Waco, dude,
<v Speaker 2>guess what I did for? What? A Beatle? No way,
<v Speaker 2>that's great?
<v Speaker 3>God damn it right right.
<v Speaker 2>You know a Liverpudlian, a Liver puddleyan. So yeah, he
<v Speaker 2>knows his way around microphone. I was just asking now
<v Speaker 2>it makes you feel like.
<v Speaker 3>It picks someone.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, there you go. Well cool. The strange things that
<v Speaker 2>we we both left, Ohio, I guess like around what
<v Speaker 2>was it like thirtish or something?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>I was thirty? Yeah you too? Yeah, well I was
<v Speaker 2>a little before that, but I got here. But you
<v Speaker 2>get left and came here, right, and that's kind of
<v Speaker 2>you went to Yeah, I went to New Orleans, but
<v Speaker 2>I got here at the same time.
<v Speaker 1>Right, Well, did you get to LA in eighty four.
<v Speaker 2>Something like that? Yeah? Eighty four? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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<v Speaker 1>I remember meeting you for the very first time. We
<v Speaker 1>were doing a session for I think it was Kingdom chums. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>and you were doing some like lion or something like animal. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>and and you had you had this enormous, enormous voice.
<v Speaker 1>And I was sitting sort of to the side of you,
<v Speaker 1>and I heard that come out of your face the
<v Speaker 1>first son, and I'm telling you, I nearly fell off
<v Speaker 1>my chair.
<v Speaker 2>Okod. I'm like, who is this guy?
<v Speaker 1>Who's a voice like that?
<v Speaker 2>That's what was the Let me see do I have
<v Speaker 2>that character? I can't think of what it was. I
<v Speaker 2>can't think of what he sounded like, because I've got
<v Speaker 2>that written down here. Oh wait, you know what it was? Goliath?
<v Speaker 2>I was Goliath? Oh was that it? Yeah? Yeah, so
<v Speaker 2>he had to just remember.
<v Speaker 3>It was like, do you remember what it sounds like?
<v Speaker 2>The biggest freaking voice and the Israel lights and you
<v Speaker 2>know you have to get up. You have to get up,
<v Speaker 2>you Israel lights, you little weasel. Feel my rap out?
<v Speaker 2>Damn excuse me, give me a minute. Yeah, oh man,
<v Speaker 2>I gotta lay down. But boy I.
<v Speaker 1>Heard that, and I just said this. I don't know
<v Speaker 1>how I ended up in this business.
<v Speaker 2>I'll take it. But yeah, thee the guys who who
<v Speaker 2>own it.
<v Speaker 3>Did you ever do impressions or anything.
<v Speaker 1>That terrible, terrible impressionist. I'm okay, mimic kind of ish.
<v Speaker 1>The only voice match thing I ever had to do
<v Speaker 1>was for Fraggle Rock, And when we did the animated
<v Speaker 1>version of that for NBC.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, that's right, started off as the Puppets.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, And so for whatever reason, the original voices from
<v Speaker 1>the Muppet version of it didn't want to do it
<v Speaker 1>or couldn't do it, didn't at the time, I don't.
<v Speaker 2>Know what it was. I think they were all in
<v Speaker 2>New York anyway, could have been.
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, So there were casting for voice matches, and
<v Speaker 1>I thought, well, yeah, okay, they called me in and
<v Speaker 1>I thought, I think I can get kind of close
<v Speaker 1>to a couple of these, and ended up booking character
<v Speaker 1>on that Gobo and had great fun, great fun doing that.
<v Speaker 2>That's good stuff. Can you give us some gob? Well? Sure, yeah, Gobo.
<v Speaker 1>You know we're going to go exploring an outer space
<v Speaker 1>with my uncle traveling Matt.
<v Speaker 4>You're gonna come along with.
<v Speaker 2>Me, aren't you.
<v Speaker 1>I remember, Well, let's go, and then we're gonna get
<v Speaker 1>back and eat some doozer sticks.
<v Speaker 2>There's sugar in them. Yeah, then we're gonna do whatever
<v Speaker 2>we want. Yeah, Robbie was on that show. He was boober.
<v Speaker 2>Oh Marjorie the trash Heap. Oh okay, and who was
<v Speaker 2>that he was robbed? That was rob Marjorie the trash Heap. Boy,
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna have to give him some crap over that one.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Let's she was like this Russian, this old Russian woman.
<v Speaker 1>Oh she was very funny.
<v Speaker 2>Oh that's funny. Well that's good stuff. Yeah yeah. So
<v Speaker 2>what what is your favorite thing nowadays?
<v Speaker 1>Man?
<v Speaker 2>What you go to? Conventions? Obviously convention that's it. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>that's my job now anymore. Yeah, yeah, not a hell
<v Speaker 2>of a lot. Yeah, same here, not much. Yeah, you know,
<v Speaker 2>doing this hanging out with you, that's right. But that's
<v Speaker 2>not work either, that's right. And you know I always
<v Speaker 2>have joked around that. You know, I made a living
<v Speaker 2>doing the stuff that used to get me kicked out
<v Speaker 2>of class. So it's like, you know, if you do
<v Speaker 2>something you like, you never end up really working. That's right,
<v Speaker 2>working working, that's right, Yeah, you know, because I've done that.
<v Speaker 2>And did you ever have see because I worked in
<v Speaker 2>the steel mill, I bet I bet you can't top
<v Speaker 2>that one.
<v Speaker 1>I never worked in a steel mill. My first job
<v Speaker 1>was basking robins. So that's not quite a close a
<v Speaker 1>steel mills, very close, right, scoop on the Rocky Road. No,
<v Speaker 1>you know, my my one of my early jobs that
<v Speaker 1>I it was hard. It doesn't sound that bad, but
<v Speaker 1>I detested it.
<v Speaker 2>But I needed the dough. Was I was.
<v Speaker 1>I was a truck I was a truck helper for
<v Speaker 1>a carpet company. So basically I went with the carpet
<v Speaker 1>layer every week. We had to haul these big rolls
<v Speaker 1>of car. That's fine up you know, several flights. Those
<v Speaker 1>are really light too.
<v Speaker 2>Telling you it was hard.
<v Speaker 1>And because I was not a carpet layer myself, I
<v Speaker 1>basically was the gopher. So I had to go, you know,
<v Speaker 1>get the guy his tools and get all his scraps
<v Speaker 1>and just.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and that thing that you do with your knee,
<v Speaker 2>that's right, called that a kicker. I did that too.
<v Speaker 2>What I did that too? For like job? Yeah, as
<v Speaker 2>a summer like a summer job. We were I think
<v Speaker 2>we were. It was in New Orleans and we were
<v Speaker 2>between guitar players and you know, your guitar player quits
<v Speaker 2>and gets married or your bass player right now, we
<v Speaker 2>gotta now we got a guy. We got to get
<v Speaker 2>somebody else in here, all right, So you had to
<v Speaker 2>get a job, right because we I only made like
<v Speaker 2>a couple hundred a week ever singing rock and roll
<v Speaker 2>or playing it, you know, and that that was enough
<v Speaker 2>to live on back then, because I thought I was
<v Speaker 2>a king. But once that drives up, like this week,
<v Speaker 2>next week, you're hungry. So you got to do something, right,
<v Speaker 2>So there I was. I couldn't sell my blood every day.
<v Speaker 2>You can only give blood so often. Yeah, yeah, and
<v Speaker 2>I did, and uh yeah, that's a fun facts to
<v Speaker 2>do until probably a little too much information there, but anyway,
<v Speaker 2>but we it paid off, right I think. Yeah, so far,
<v Speaker 2>so good. I'm hanging out with you. That's a plus.
<v Speaker 2>Very cool.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah man, all right, well we have we have to
<v Speaker 3>talk about the Ninja Turtles, of course. I mean we've
<v Speaker 3>we've now completed the saga. We've had all of the
<v Speaker 3>Ninja Turtles on tuned in with Jim Cummings. That's true,
<v Speaker 3>We've done it. Jeff Burying, Yeah, yay, Yeah, all right,
<v Speaker 3>Barry Paul cam Yeah, Rob Paulson, sorry, Paul, Rob Paul Robson. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>is evil twin Yes, that's right, that's right. And of course,
<v Speaker 3>Jim played Shredder among Leatherhead and some other characters. Did
<v Speaker 3>you guys ever work in the in the studio at
<v Speaker 3>the same time? Do you remember on that show?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>I remember, sure, Yeah, yeah, yeah. In fact, I think
<v Speaker 1>I have you on video. Is that during one of
<v Speaker 1>those sessions so much?
<v Speaker 3>The long hair, with the long hair?
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I still have the sticks.
<v Speaker 3>I'm trying to grow my hair, my hair out to
<v Speaker 3>match that.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, there you go.
<v Speaker 3>But that must those must have been some good sessions,
<v Speaker 3>some good times. They were gat you guys tell some
<v Speaker 3>stories about those times.
<v Speaker 2>A lot of fun. Yeah. And and our director Sue
<v Speaker 2>Sue Blue, Sue Blue, the Great Sue Blue, she of
<v Speaker 2>the Where was she little Hawaiian? Now? I think so,
<v Speaker 2>I don't know what's that? Where she? Where is she
<v Speaker 2>these days?
<v Speaker 1>I think she's out in Palm Springs.
<v Speaker 2>Palm Springs, I was close palm trees and palm trees
<v Speaker 2>the other side of l A. Yeah, okay, maybe not,
<v Speaker 2>but yeah, those were good times.
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, of course your voice Mike Michelangelo and the
<v Speaker 3>show in the original series, and how did that, how
<v Speaker 3>did that come to be? Was that that was one
<v Speaker 3>of your earlier roles, Was it not in voiceover?
<v Speaker 1>Kind of yeah, well, it kind of came out of
<v Speaker 1>Fraggle Rock because our dear friend Stu Rosen was was
<v Speaker 1>the voice director on Fragile Rock and came into one
<v Speaker 1>of our recording sessions one morning and pulled out of
<v Speaker 1>his briefcase a Ninja Turtle comic book and he showed
<v Speaker 1>it to us and he said, look at what I'm
<v Speaker 1>going to be casting and directing next. I'll bring you
<v Speaker 1>guys in on it, which he did, and so you know,
<v Speaker 1>it was just a it was just another audition for
<v Speaker 1>another show.
<v Speaker 2>You know.
<v Speaker 1>There was nothing you know, odd or special about it
<v Speaker 1>other than the name. I mean when I first saw that,
<v Speaker 1>because I'd never heard of it, and when I saw
<v Speaker 1>the comic book, I was like, okay, yeah, good, good luck.
<v Speaker 2>With you amant Ninja Turtles.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you know this is back in the days of
<v Speaker 1>Strawberry Shortcake and My Love.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah like that.
<v Speaker 3>So you didn't really have an inkling of how big
<v Speaker 3>of a show.
<v Speaker 1>That was gonna be, no idea, Yeah, and you don't know,
<v Speaker 1>you don't, I mean you don't, yeah, because you're just
<v Speaker 1>going to work.
<v Speaker 2>And I mean some of the shows that I've done that.
<v Speaker 1>I thought we're going to, you know, go for years
<v Speaker 1>and years, didn't, and then some of the shows that
<v Speaker 1>I kind of didn't expect it from did.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you know it, we'll take them. Yeah, we will
<v Speaker 2>take it. Well, back in the day, it used to
<v Speaker 2>be you'd always want to shoot for those sixty five
<v Speaker 2>episode shows. Yeah, because that was like job security. Okay, okay,
<v Speaker 2>got this year in the bag? What year is it? Okay? Good?
<v Speaker 2>You know he was okay good. Yeah. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>What's one of your favorite memories working on that show.
<v Speaker 1>I'm terrible with these questions trying to come up with something.
<v Speaker 2>Did you say memory? Yeah? Memory, Hold on, Chris that
<v Speaker 2>I remember something about a memory.
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, you know, actually, probably some of my best
<v Speaker 1>memories are of just the times in the studio that
<v Speaker 1>we had with the cast, I mean, some great people
<v Speaker 1>like James Avery. You know. I'll tell you one of
<v Speaker 1>my memories, which which is not actually from our session
<v Speaker 1>but sort of kind of tangentially related, was when James
<v Speaker 1>got his audition for the Fresh Prince repel air. I
<v Speaker 1>drove him down to his audition really because we were
<v Speaker 1>we were doing the show, and you know, this guy
<v Speaker 1>never wore shoes. I mean, he wore sandals flip flops
<v Speaker 1>into sessions. But he always kicked him off, you know.
<v Speaker 1>And he had you know, feet the size of a small,
<v Speaker 1>you know, cruiser, and but just a big, joyful, really jolly,
<v Speaker 1>genuinely happy nice guy. I mean, yeah and yeah, yeah.
<v Speaker 1>And so I drove him down to his audition. He said,
<v Speaker 1>I've got this audition, you know, in my car whip
<v Speaker 1>me today. Any chance you give me a ride?
<v Speaker 3>Done?
<v Speaker 2>And I said sure.
<v Speaker 1>So I ran him down and waited for him and
<v Speaker 1>picked him up and brought him back and and the
<v Speaker 1>next thing hers he got, He got this part you know,
<v Speaker 1>you gave him with Will Smith, and he smokes, and
<v Speaker 1>then of course it you know, talk about not knowing
<v Speaker 1>something's going to turn into what it turns into.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and you know, then he's off and running.
<v Speaker 1>Which is actually the reason we lost him on the show.
<v Speaker 1>Is just too busy with the fresh prints.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. I remember running into him a couple of years later,
<v Speaker 2>and I guess there's a magic amount of shows, like
<v Speaker 2>three years or four years in the sitcom, and he goes, well,
<v Speaker 2>one more year this and I've got my fu money
<v Speaker 2>and so once that he goes they're going to rerun it.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, you do it for this three or four
<v Speaker 2>year they're rerunning it, and I'm just going, okay, thank you.
<v Speaker 2>And then you make deposits and I said, oh, okay,
<v Speaker 2>now I know so that so reruns, gotcha residuals? Yeah, gotcha?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>And then mental note, Yes.
<v Speaker 3>When he left the show, did you take over right
<v Speaker 3>after that? Or was there somebody in between?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Shredder, I yes, Dorian, Dorian Harewood was and Bill
<v Speaker 2>Martin remember Bill Martin?
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, for a short while.
<v Speaker 2>Also, that's right, that's right. Yeah. And then I came
<v Speaker 2>in and none of us were Asian, you know, a
<v Speaker 2>couple of black guys, guys whatever, comings is this other
<v Speaker 2>dude over here? Okay, fine, sure, typical right right? Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>Well we weren't on camera, so it was it was
<v Speaker 2>just fine. Yeah. And and is that I was I'm curious,
<v Speaker 2>do you when you go to conventions, is it a
<v Speaker 2>good mix between the Tick and the Turtles or you know.
<v Speaker 1>It's funny, you know, because I go out to these
<v Speaker 1>conventions with the other Turtle guys. Sure, and so we're
<v Speaker 1>there and so ostensibly I think people are coming to
<v Speaker 1>see the turtles, and so when they meet me, they're
<v Speaker 1>expecting to meet Michaelangelo. But then they see my my
<v Speaker 1>banner and some of the other characters that I've done,
<v Speaker 1>and my pictures on the table and they see the
<v Speaker 1>Tick there and they.
<v Speaker 2>Go, oh, my god, the Tick.
<v Speaker 1>Were you on that show?
<v Speaker 2>Oh? Yeah, you were you on that show? Nobody you
<v Speaker 2>should ask. I said, yeah, I was on it. Who
<v Speaker 2>were you? Well? I was the Tick And then the
<v Speaker 2>look on their.
<v Speaker 1>Faces like, you know, yeah what, I had no idea
<v Speaker 1>you were the Tick. So clearly I have not done
<v Speaker 1>a decent job of promoting the fact that yes, I
<v Speaker 1>did this character.
<v Speaker 2>Was your response a single, one, one syllable response as
<v Speaker 2>in spoon yeah, because that would have done it. There
<v Speaker 2>you go, yeah, can you give us a spoon? Spoon yes,
<v Speaker 2>and don't couch. So here. So one of my favorites.
<v Speaker 1>So one of my favorite lines that the Tick said
<v Speaker 1>was in fact one of my favorite episodes. It was
<v Speaker 1>an episode that Jimmy did this great character his name
<v Speaker 1>was Barry, and he thought it was called the Tick
<v Speaker 1>versus the Tick, and Barry thinks he's the Tick, the
<v Speaker 1>real Tick.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. I actually remember this episode.
<v Speaker 1>There's this god it's hilarious. And there's this scene in
<v Speaker 1>the Superhero lounge, yes with a sidecake lounge out the
<v Speaker 1>Superhero Club or whatever, Yes, oh my god. And I'm
<v Speaker 1>in there and and Barry comes busting in the door
<v Speaker 1>and he says, who is this jerk.
<v Speaker 2>Called the tick?
<v Speaker 4>I am that jerk who wants to know?
<v Speaker 1>And then we sort of chop it up and then
<v Speaker 1>and then he leaves in a huff.
<v Speaker 2>And my favorite line.
<v Speaker 1>Is, yeah, well, don't count your weasels before they pop, dink.
<v Speaker 2>That show is just hilarious. It was.
<v Speaker 1>And this man right here, you did so many great
<v Speaker 1>bad guys, a few of them.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>And another one of my favorites of yours was Thracker.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, yes, Trackers, Cold therackersg Yeah, I've got it. I've
<v Speaker 3>been doing this podcast with Jim for almost two years now.
<v Speaker 3>I've never heard of he did. I need to hear that.
<v Speaker 4>He did this great James Mason.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yes, yes. And there was an there was an
<v Speaker 2>innerlude where the where the dick and you keep mispronouncing
<v Speaker 2>my name teasing yes, yes, yes, yes, yeah yeah, and
<v Speaker 2>we're arguing on the room. Yes, yes, that's ridiculous frog, No,
<v Speaker 2>that's not my name, and it escalates.
<v Speaker 1>And finally at the very end, I say, Susan, yes, now.
<v Speaker 2>You're just yeah, and now you're just Now you're just
<v Speaker 2>being obsequious or something or some some ridiculous Oh god,
<v Speaker 2>I remember that. I can't quote it with a gun
<v Speaker 2>in my head, but I remember. I remember the yes, James,
<v Speaker 2>James space. They have not one brain among them. Wait,
<v Speaker 2>that's I'm blending it into or someone else. Never mind. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>let's get out of here, because I'll screw up everything.
<v Speaker 2>I'll hex myself going forward.
<v Speaker 3>Oh man, I was listening to an interview of yours
<v Speaker 3>and it got me thinking, you know, just throwing it
<v Speaker 3>back to when you first moved out to California. You
<v Speaker 3>already had two kids.
<v Speaker 2>I had three.
<v Speaker 3>You have three kids. So was that some added pressure
<v Speaker 3>or you know, as an entertainer, you know how to
<v Speaker 3>support three kids. Can you tell us a bit about that.
<v Speaker 4>I didn't come out with enough money?
<v Speaker 2>You too, huh?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah?
<v Speaker 4>And I thought I had, because in Cleveland it would have.
<v Speaker 2>Been enough money King's ransom. But out here and I had.
<v Speaker 1>My wife was very worried, and she said, so what
<v Speaker 1>if it doesn't happen for you?
<v Speaker 4>I said, if it doesn't happen, I will go get
<v Speaker 4>a job.
<v Speaker 2>I'll sell cars, I'll.
<v Speaker 1>Wait tables, I'll do something, you know. And after I'd
<v Speaker 1>been out here about six months, it was getting a
<v Speaker 1>little tight, and I and she was starting to you know, pepper.
<v Speaker 2>Me with so job now looking at the watch right, yeah, naturally,
<v Speaker 2>and I just.
<v Speaker 4>I just kept, you know, just I know it's gonna happen.
<v Speaker 2>I know it's gonna that's right.
<v Speaker 1>And then before I knew it, about six months after
<v Speaker 1>I moved here, I got my first national network.
<v Speaker 4>On camera TV spot.
<v Speaker 2>What was that? What were craft barbecue sauce? I was.
<v Speaker 1>I was sort of a Jimmy Olsen type of character
<v Speaker 1>reporter with the camera taking pictures.
<v Speaker 2>Oh.
<v Speaker 1>And I went straight from that audition that callback that
<v Speaker 1>I got to.
<v Speaker 2>Meet with Marsha Goodman. Oh, the auditioned for spect her
<v Speaker 2>gadget Aha.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>And that was Deeke right, it wasn't she a d Yeah? Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>And it was a crazy audition, you know. It wasn't
<v Speaker 4>in the studio.
<v Speaker 1>It's just in her office and she had a little
<v Speaker 1>radio shack cassette tech and a microphone and that was it.
<v Speaker 2>You know.
<v Speaker 1>But I've never auditioned for a cartoon before, so I
<v Speaker 1>didn't really know what the situation was.
<v Speaker 4>But I've done characters on the radio.
<v Speaker 2>So I thought it's the same thing, only different. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>So she had me on paper.
<v Speaker 1>I saw the picture and I thought, I think, I
<v Speaker 1>know what this guy sounds like.
<v Speaker 4>And so I did it for her and she.
<v Speaker 1>Liked it, and a couple of days later they called
<v Speaker 1>with a booking for my first cartoon session over B.
<v Speaker 2>And B sound. Oh sure, yes, I do very well,
<v Speaker 2>very well, very well. Yeah, And so that was it.
<v Speaker 1>And so that and then I got my first little
<v Speaker 1>part in a movie with Tommy Lee Jones.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, it's.
<v Speaker 1>Called Black Moon Rising. Yeah, the very small part. I
<v Speaker 1>was just a waiter with like two lines. But my
<v Speaker 1>scene was with him.
<v Speaker 3>So that's cool.
<v Speaker 4>It's kind of a kick.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>So that all this happened within ten days.
<v Speaker 2>Wow, this on camera, National TV, Spot and.
<v Speaker 4>Inspector Gadget and then this session for this movie.
<v Speaker 3>And so that.
<v Speaker 1>Summer of eighty five, I was I was in fat City,
<v Speaker 1>you know, and look at this.
<v Speaker 2>I made it.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, that's right, you know, And that my Christmas I
<v Speaker 4>was broke.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I literally had to sell my car, borrow some money
<v Speaker 1>from my mom to.
<v Speaker 2>Pay my rent. Oh yeah, yeah, well we all had
<v Speaker 2>those days, I think, yeah, yeah, it's I remember the
<v Speaker 2>last job job that I had was singing telegrams, and
<v Speaker 2>it was the worst. It was Easter. It was Easter time,
<v Speaker 2>and so therefore I had to dress up like the
<v Speaker 2>Easter Bunny and I was up Easter happy. I can't
<v Speaker 2>I have couldn't name the song with a gun to
<v Speaker 2>my head, but it was. It was some happy go
<v Speaker 2>lucky generic you know, public domain easter song. And and
<v Speaker 2>I hadn't never done anything like this before. And it
<v Speaker 2>was a full head helmet, Easter helmet inside this head. Yes,
<v Speaker 2>and you know where this is going. Yeah, I was Dregy,
<v Speaker 2>Happy Easter to you. It's really hot in here.
<v Speaker 5>Happy Easter to you.
<v Speaker 2>I hope everybody's having And I pulled it off, you know,
<v Speaker 2>you know, and I traumatized this traveling his head excellent,
<v Speaker 2>and I just though, oh god, and this was free,
<v Speaker 2>this is free.
<v Speaker 3>It's not me, it's not me.
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<v Speaker 1>Oh god, I know that I know what that's like
<v Speaker 1>being in those suits, because my first job really was
<v Speaker 1>when I was seventeen and I was in.
<v Speaker 4>The road show of the Banana Splits.
<v Speaker 2>Flipping like a pancake, popping like a cork, Fleego, bingo,
<v Speaker 2>drooper and snork all around and the Banana Buggies run
<v Speaker 2>flippingana hopping in the bright, warm sun. God, listen to you.
<v Speaker 4>I couldn't have sung.
<v Speaker 2>Wow, I couldn't remembered.
<v Speaker 4>I couldn't remember a couple of words but then out.
<v Speaker 2>Of the tune.
<v Speaker 4>But man, yeah, excellently.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. So I was bingo, yeah, okay, the orange ragging
<v Speaker 2>the drummer, yes, yes, yes, my drum sticks. That's right.
<v Speaker 1>But the deal was, it was a twenty two minute record,
<v Speaker 1>pre recorded show. All we were doing was up on
<v Speaker 1>stage mining it. But we're all doing it in like,
<v Speaker 1>you know, one hundred degrees parking lots oh, you know
<v Speaker 1>grand openings of car dealers, you know, stuff like that.
<v Speaker 1>And boy, I'm telling you I lost about five pounds
<v Speaker 1>of waterweight every show. And it was rough being in
<v Speaker 1>that suit. Yeah, like one hundred degrees and yeah, about god,
<v Speaker 1>it was it was proved what.
<v Speaker 2>Right?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>Well, the things we do for our craft, you know.
<v Speaker 2>But but then you know, it makes for good stories
<v Speaker 2>as long as you don't have to relive them. You
<v Speaker 2>can retell them much better than reliving them. Oh that's great.
<v Speaker 2>Oh man, So we should find out some really cool
<v Speaker 2>stuff about before we go where you're going to be
<v Speaker 2>a peering and things like that, but we don't have
<v Speaker 2>to do it right now. Just reminding you to remind me.
<v Speaker 4>Well, yeah, we got a bunch of cons this year.
<v Speaker 2>Very cool.
<v Speaker 1>I don't remember exactly where they are to be in Chicago,
<v Speaker 1>I know, uh Indian.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and which next weekend? Wa cheetah? Yeah, very good.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, the place can be in San Antonio.
<v Speaker 2>I I love San Antonio. Yeah, I love that place.
<v Speaker 2>That's great. Good for you, man.
<v Speaker 3>When you do conventions, do you like to do it
<v Speaker 3>with the other Ninja Turtles cast as well? Yeah?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I go out occasionally by myself.
<v Speaker 2>I much.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it makes sense, the whole crew.
<v Speaker 2>And I wonder do you remember doing Father Joseph for
<v Speaker 2>and I'll give you a hint. It was in you
<v Speaker 2>you were Father Joseph Crippled.
<v Speaker 1>Lamb or or if it wasn't the Crippled Lamb there
<v Speaker 1>because there there are a couple of shows that I
<v Speaker 1>did that I did a similar character.
<v Speaker 4>Oh so.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, well yes, let's see. Well, uh, Phil Hartman was
<v Speaker 2>half of the title characters in it, and I was
<v Speaker 2>I guess I was the other. Yes, that's it. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>Silent Night, that was it, and you were good old
<v Speaker 2>Father Joseph.
<v Speaker 1>That's right, I think if I'm not miss was Jody
<v Speaker 1>Benson and that also.
<v Speaker 4>Or maybe she was in the Crippled Land. Yes, she
<v Speaker 4>was in one of them.
<v Speaker 2>Well, she was in The Little Mermaid too, I understand.
<v Speaker 2>I'm pretty sure that. Yeah, that's right. And I was
<v Speaker 2>her dad in the last one. So I felt, really
<v Speaker 2>there's nothing to do with anything, but I said it
<v Speaker 2>too late, and there you go, yeah, the last one
<v Speaker 2>there sing, there you go. That's all you have to do,
<v Speaker 2>you know, Kenny Mars, that's right.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, you were a DJ for years in Cleveland. Did.
<v Speaker 3>Were you ever in a band? Were you ever playing
<v Speaker 3>an instrument yourself?
<v Speaker 4>No, I'm not musical like that. I play hand drums.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, but you've done musical theater correct.
<v Speaker 4>Flew of those things.
<v Speaker 2>And I've done a lot of musical theaters.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, So I mean I can. I can sing on stage,
<v Speaker 4>and I can I can cartoon.
<v Speaker 3>Singh What do you mean by that?
<v Speaker 4>I can sing in character, but if I have.
<v Speaker 2>To just sing, it's nice to have a character.
<v Speaker 1>I just I don't know, I because I think of myself.
<v Speaker 2>As not a singer.
<v Speaker 1>Interesting, but then when it comes good, because like the
<v Speaker 1>last show I did in Cleveland in eighty two was
<v Speaker 1>Pirates of Penzance, and.
<v Speaker 2>I sang the role of Frederick no kidding in that.
<v Speaker 4>So I mean I can sing wow yeah and pull
<v Speaker 4>it off.
<v Speaker 2>But I was never in a band. I never.
<v Speaker 1>I never because I don't play an instrument or anything.
<v Speaker 1>And I just never had the confidence to think that
<v Speaker 1>this was something I could do.
<v Speaker 4>That was always something that's interested.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well a lot of us. The reason that's it.
<v Speaker 2>I have a mini theory that people who sing and
<v Speaker 2>they've been in a band or whatever, they gravitate toward
<v Speaker 2>vo because they're used to these for sure, you know.
<v Speaker 2>And but you did it anyway through radio for sure,
<v Speaker 2>so you have the same thing, only different. Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>And I did characters on the radio too, so yeah, yeah, yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, you had your own little slew of characters
<v Speaker 2>that you.
<v Speaker 1>I did, yeah, when I worked at an A on
<v Speaker 1>top forty station in Akron.
<v Speaker 2>An Acron morning drive down there. Yeah. Nice, you have
<v Speaker 2>any of those with you today, any of your old
<v Speaker 2>characters like farmer Kleam or a city slicker Joe. The
<v Speaker 2>only the only.
<v Speaker 1>Name that I remember was was Lieutenant Dink Latrine, Dink Latrine.
<v Speaker 1>But I couldn't tell you what I couldn't tell you
<v Speaker 1>what he sounded like about all these old air checks,
<v Speaker 1>all these old tapes that But I don't have a
<v Speaker 1>real real machine, but don't want to get one so
<v Speaker 1>that I can transfer all that to digital because I
<v Speaker 1>hear some of that stuff, you know, from all those
<v Speaker 1>years ago.
<v Speaker 4>That was nineteen seventy eight.
<v Speaker 6>Ooh there, Yeah you say that they were just wow. Yeah, no,
<v Speaker 6>I mean I remember that I was just barely yeah,
<v Speaker 6>scratching the surface of scratching.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Oh man. Well, but you had a pretty good intro
<v Speaker 2>to it. You didn't have a ton of, you know,
<v Speaker 2>downtime between making a normal living and doing what you're
<v Speaker 2>doing now. You seem to transition rather easily.
<v Speaker 1>I did, and it really was because of the agents
<v Speaker 1>that I had, yeah, you know, and they were pushing
<v Speaker 1>me a lot, and I was starting to get some
<v Speaker 1>great commercial accounts, you know, and then this fluky audition
<v Speaker 1>for NBC in nineteen ninety three. Standing in Jeff's office
<v Speaker 1>and he gets a call from NBC. I'm looking for
<v Speaker 1>this kind of sound and I literally happened to be
<v Speaker 1>standing there talking to him, and he says, well, I've
<v Speaker 1>got your guy right here, and he hands me the
<v Speaker 1>phone and he says, just do your fenski. And so
<v Speaker 1>I talked to the guy and he says, yeah, could
<v Speaker 1>you just say you know? And so I did it
<v Speaker 1>for him. He says, wow, that sounds great. Could you
<v Speaker 1>come over here and try it on a promo?
<v Speaker 3>Wow?
<v Speaker 1>And I said sure when he said this afternoon, yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>And so I beat feet over the NBC over the
<v Speaker 1>purbank and got you know, and the thing is Danny
<v Speaker 1>Dark You remember him.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, it was the voice of NBC. Oh gosh,
<v Speaker 2>I'm a huge fan of his.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and uh, you know he has just such a
<v Speaker 1>great voice and all his all his accounts, you know,
<v Speaker 1>Shugar Aleet.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Only Towny would be a fan of a normal sounding,
<v Speaker 2>perfect announcer, you know, an announcer guy. Everybody else says
<v Speaker 2>I why by I like malt Blanker, you know, like
<v Speaker 2>I really liked Danny Dark when he would a coming
<v Speaker 2>up next and you know where it comes from.
<v Speaker 1>But that's wonderful is because when I was on the
<v Speaker 1>radio and I was a production director, I was the
<v Speaker 1>guy I was responsible for getting all these tapes in
<v Speaker 1>and transferring him to cart So I would always be
<v Speaker 1>hearing these national announcers and I was just starting to
<v Speaker 1>do voiceover work myself, and I thought, you know, I
<v Speaker 1>could learn a thing or.
<v Speaker 2>Two by listening to these things.
<v Speaker 4>But I would get those tapes in from Danny Dark
<v Speaker 4>and Mark.
<v Speaker 2>Elliott, Oh sure, oh my gosh.
<v Speaker 1>And I started to remember these names and go, you know,
<v Speaker 1>I'm going to go out to LA.
<v Speaker 4>One day maybe, and I want to know who these
<v Speaker 4>guys are.
<v Speaker 1>And so I was always already a big fan of Danny's.
<v Speaker 1>By the time I met him for the first time.
<v Speaker 1>I was doing a Keebler Spot. I was at Keeler
<v Speaker 1>Elf Oh wow. And Danny was the vo at the
<v Speaker 1>end of the spots that was on account for years
<v Speaker 1>and years.
<v Speaker 2>And I remember meeting him.
<v Speaker 1>And I'm not easily starstruck, and generally not starstruck genuine stars,
<v Speaker 1>but guys like Danny Dark. Yeah, yeah, I was. And
<v Speaker 1>he came in the door at the end of the
<v Speaker 1>session and I was like, you know, sha, oh that's crazy.
<v Speaker 2>So I got a chance to beat him. Oh that's funny.
<v Speaker 2>But anyway, went.
<v Speaker 1>Over to NBC and sat down at Danny Dark's chair,
<v Speaker 1>at Danny Dark's mic, Danny Dark's.
<v Speaker 2>Headphones, and I was like, here I go. How in
<v Speaker 2>the world did I end up here? Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>And the crazy thing about it, well, they so they
<v Speaker 1>liked what I did. They put it on the air
<v Speaker 1>that night, ended up calling me back like every day
<v Speaker 1>for the next two weeks, and then ended up giving
<v Speaker 1>me their Tuesday night lineup, and then a couple of
<v Speaker 1>months later they gave me the Tonight Show.
<v Speaker 2>And by that time, I ding ding ding ding ding
<v Speaker 2>ding ding ding ding ding ding happening and yeah, you
<v Speaker 2>know what a blessing? I mean, yeah, no kidding, that's fantastic.
<v Speaker 4>And how do you see something like that coming?
<v Speaker 1>It's and it's the the thing where if they had
<v Speaker 1>put out a call, a casting call, and you had
<v Speaker 1>like fifty guys auditions, I never a million years would.
<v Speaker 4>Have gotten there if it hadn't happened the way it happened,
<v Speaker 4>you know.
<v Speaker 2>And that's been the way. Oh so me too, Oh
<v Speaker 2>it really really is. I mean, you know, I had
<v Speaker 2>no business breaking in as you know, as cleanly as
<v Speaker 2>I did. Yeah you did though, Yeah, well yeah, yeah
<v Speaker 2>I did ultimately. But but I mean, you know, you
<v Speaker 2>think of well I've joked about it before while, you know,
<v Speaker 2>because like at conventions people said, well, how did you
<v Speaker 2>break into it? I go, well, first you get a
<v Speaker 2>drop in a steel mill, and then you moved to
<v Speaker 2>New Orleans and you designed Martin Grol floats for a
<v Speaker 2>few years, then singing a couple of strip joints on
<v Speaker 2>Burmont Street. Then you make a demo tape, and then
<v Speaker 2>you go and move to Hollywood. Are you sure that's
<v Speaker 2>how you do it? I go, yeah, I'm telling you
<v Speaker 2>it works. I only know that it worked once. It
<v Speaker 2>might not work twice. But give it a go. Yeah
<v Speaker 2>I can't try. Yeah, oh god.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Well I've been trying ever since. So far, so good, right,
<v Speaker 2>it's still yeah, yeah, I'm not going whatever it is
<v Speaker 2>we're sitting on here.
<v Speaker 3>I'm going to ask you a very cliche question, I'm sorry,
<v Speaker 3>do you have a favorite character to voice? Like, to
<v Speaker 3>actually perform the voice? I know everybody says, you know,
<v Speaker 3>I don't have a fit, how can either all my babies,
<v Speaker 3>but like to actually perform the voice? Do you have
<v Speaker 3>a favorite?
<v Speaker 1>I mean, yeah, that's a really tough question, I know,
<v Speaker 1>because I enjoy every character that but some of the
<v Speaker 1>ones that are right at the top are gob.
<v Speaker 2>But then it would be a toss up between the
<v Speaker 2>Tick and Yeah, they're.
<v Speaker 4>Both just I feel them.
<v Speaker 2>In my bones.
<v Speaker 7>Yeah, I can really tell what the tick too like. Yeah,
<v Speaker 7>the tick for sure.
<v Speaker 3>I was hoping you would say that, because it seems
<v Speaker 3>like you genuinely enjoy that character and just had a
<v Speaker 3>real kick out.
<v Speaker 4>I absolutely did, Chris.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that's awesome, And I was.
<v Speaker 1>When I auditioned for it. You know, they didn't they
<v Speaker 1>didn't cast me really.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>It was Ben Edlund, the creator of the character and
<v Speaker 1>the show.
<v Speaker 3>Wow, you know, the artist comic.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, he actually voiced the first episode.
<v Speaker 2>I didn't know that.
<v Speaker 4>Then they decided that he wasn't quite.
<v Speaker 2>Tikish for what they were looking at. And what was
<v Speaker 2>it like? Was it reminiscent of yours?
<v Speaker 1>I couldn't tell you because I never heard it, but
<v Speaker 1>I will tell you this that I was talking about
<v Speaker 1>and Ben told me this story. He said, he was laughing.
<v Speaker 1>He said, you know the guy who told me that
<v Speaker 1>I wasn't the tick? It was my dad. I love
<v Speaker 1>that character, but you're not the tick.
<v Speaker 3>Wow.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, And so they had to take it to heart.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. So they had some.
<v Speaker 1>Call acts and they called me back in and I
<v Speaker 1>was really hoping i'd get it because I just felt
<v Speaker 1>like I got this guy.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know why, yeah, but I just I just.
<v Speaker 3>I know that feeling. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>And he was so much fun to do. Oh god. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>absolutely everybody loved the tick. What's not to love? He's
<v Speaker 2>just this big, lovable OAF.
<v Speaker 3>I know, I.
<v Speaker 4>Couldn't be more happy.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Well, that's that's one of those. And you know,
<v Speaker 2>one of my favorite things is his antenna. They always
<v Speaker 2>they were always like what did you say? You know,
<v Speaker 2>they were very indicative of his mood. They were they
<v Speaker 2>were like little mood rings, mood antenna from something mood TENA.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, God almighty, that's great. Well, sorry, I was just
<v Speaker 3>gonna if you have anything to say, I was going
<v Speaker 3>to change the topic completely.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>We had such a great cast on that show, as
<v Speaker 1>we did on Ninja Trickles, you know, and when you're
<v Speaker 1>working on a show with a great cast like that,
<v Speaker 1>all you want to.
<v Speaker 4>Do is go to work. All you want to do
<v Speaker 4>is just be either doing that.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, you know, I will.
<v Speaker 1>Tell you I miss I miss working the way I
<v Speaker 1>used to work.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, I'm seventy now, and you know, it's to
<v Speaker 1>be expected that things are going to slow way down,
<v Speaker 1>and so I'm sort of getting used to this kind
<v Speaker 1>of retirement thing. But I did get to do a
<v Speaker 1>session this morning and was reminded all over again how
<v Speaker 1>much I love this business.
<v Speaker 2>When I'm working.
<v Speaker 1>When I'm working, but all I'm doing is auditioning and
<v Speaker 1>not booking, it gets a little old, you know.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, a little long in the tooth. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>so far. Yeah, I mean, well, the only thing that
<v Speaker 2>I do regularly is Mickey Mickey Mouse, Funhouse, Clubhouse, Outhouse.
<v Speaker 6>Oh what are you doing well, Pete, Pete, Yeah, where
<v Speaker 6>do you go?
<v Speaker 2>Buddy Good Palce with Mickey the Mouse and so yeah,
<v Speaker 2>he's still going. He's tied for first place as the
<v Speaker 2>oldest Disney character. He was in Steamboat Willie, Is that right? Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>Me and the Mick.
<v Speaker 1>Well you've been You've been in the in the Disney
<v Speaker 1>fold for yeah, whole career.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, literally, my whole career. The first thing I ever
<v Speaker 2>did was Dumbo Circus. Yeah, yeah, and I was Uh,
<v Speaker 2>I was Lionel the Lion and Dumbo's pal. Katie Lee
<v Speaker 2>was Dumbo and Hal Smith was in at the Great
<v Speaker 2>Otis Campbell. If you guys remember Andy Griffith and Mark
<v Speaker 2>Redminston and.
<v Speaker 1>Both Katie Lee and how Smith Adventures Christian radio drama.
<v Speaker 2>That I've been doing, Yep, yep, I've been.
<v Speaker 4>It's been around for thirty six years.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, wow, wow, I think I did like three or
<v Speaker 2>four you know. Fact. Then will you have them call
<v Speaker 2>me back? I miss them? Right, yes, please do. I'm
<v Speaker 2>still semi wholesome. I promise I won't bring any potty words.
<v Speaker 2>I promise, otherwise that'd be bullshit. We can't, we can't.
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<v Speaker 3>Do it now, Well, we have a we have a
<v Speaker 3>little game that we like to play on this west
<v Speaker 3>because no, no, no, I think very slowly. It's a
<v Speaker 3>it's a little voice swap game. So how it works
<v Speaker 3>is Jim will do a line of one of his characters,
<v Speaker 3>let's say Winnie the Pooh, and then you'll say that
<v Speaker 3>same line in one of your characters and so say
<v Speaker 3>you'll say it as you know, the tick or Michaelangelo,
<v Speaker 3>and then we'll swap back and forth. Sure, yeah, just
<v Speaker 3>like a catchphrase line. And then we'll do it in
<v Speaker 3>both voices. If you're down for that. All right, now,
<v Speaker 3>did you ever play Shredder? Did you ever voice Shredder?
<v Speaker 1>You know? I did, but not intentionally. And what I
<v Speaker 1>mean is so when James couldn't make concession, uh, they
<v Speaker 1>would have me dumbing him in with the idea that
<v Speaker 1>once the animation came back, they would bring him back into.
<v Speaker 3>Show, yeah and loop it gotcha.
<v Speaker 4>They didn't do that.
<v Speaker 1>So that happened to me with Shredder, It happened to
<v Speaker 1>me with Splinter, It happened to me.
<v Speaker 2>With Krang if you could believe Wow prag.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, because I was just sort of their go to
<v Speaker 1>guy to dummy these voices and trying to approximate them.
<v Speaker 4>But again, like I said, I'm not an impressionist.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, craying especially that's.
<v Speaker 2>Pat Fairley folks, in case you were wondering, Yeah, I
<v Speaker 2>mean it sounds like a condition manifesting. Yeah, but yeah.
<v Speaker 1>And so so my voice ended up on the finished cartoon,
<v Speaker 1>you know, some of those characters. And it's embarrassing to
<v Speaker 1>hear people, you know, come up wanting to be signed Shredder.
<v Speaker 2>And I'm like, I wasn't cool you weah yeah, it
<v Speaker 2>says you're okay, Well you know you could be. You
<v Speaker 2>could put Shredder light see because of funny comedy humor
<v Speaker 2>joke see that. Oh boy? Yeah?
<v Speaker 3>All right, Well do we want to start off with
<v Speaker 3>Michael Angelo and Shredder? Sure?
<v Speaker 2>Sure? Yeah, okay, so I think you should go because
<v Speaker 2>Shredder Shure didn't he was wasn't very well. Just I'll
<v Speaker 2>let you start it off and i'll do So what.
<v Speaker 3>Do you want you want me to just like a
<v Speaker 3>Michelangelo cashphrase?
<v Speaker 6>Okay, yeah, well then I have, but and then I
<v Speaker 6>have to do it as Shredder.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and then you'll do it as Shredder.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, stay tuned, folks.
<v Speaker 1>All right, dudes, we're gonna be naching on a little
<v Speaker 1>of my favorite pizza, a chovy and hot fudge.
<v Speaker 2>All right, dudes, we're gonna be gnashing on a little
<v Speaker 2>bit of my favorite pizza and chovy and hot but
<v Speaker 2>hot budge. But what else would I being on? Is
<v Speaker 2>it fudge?
<v Speaker 4>You know what I mean?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah? Yeah, yes, that's right.
<v Speaker 3>All right, Jim. Okay, so now you're a turn to
<v Speaker 3>pick a character. Who haven't who haven't we done in
<v Speaker 3>l How about Bunker's D?
<v Speaker 2>Bobcat?
<v Speaker 3>How about Bunkers?
<v Speaker 2>Good old Bunkers. D stands for by the way, In
<v Speaker 2>case you, oh, everything pops into my head ends up
<v Speaker 2>sounding a little r rated, I have to purge a
<v Speaker 2>little bit here, folks. Let me let me come up
<v Speaker 2>with something here. Oh boy, it just keeps everything everything. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>that's a tough one, and Bunkers never cusses or anything
<v Speaker 2>like that.
<v Speaker 4>He doesn't even But Lucky, how can I do that?
<v Speaker 2>I don't understand. I'm sorry. Were you talking to me?
<v Speaker 3>Do you want all right?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah?
<v Speaker 4>Indeed? But Lucky, how can I do that? I don't
<v Speaker 4>even remember what you said.
<v Speaker 1>There's something like you wait just a minute, are you
<v Speaker 1>talking to me?
<v Speaker 2>There you go, Yes, that's damn fine. That is damn fine.
<v Speaker 3>Did you get told growing up like you should be
<v Speaker 3>an announcer? You have a radio voice? Like to me,
<v Speaker 3>I just hear it, and it's like I don't even
<v Speaker 3>have to know your career to know that you've done
<v Speaker 3>some type of radio work. It's just so natural to me.
<v Speaker 1>You know what I think part that came from is
<v Speaker 1>my dad, because my my parents actually met working at
<v Speaker 1>NBC in New York.
<v Speaker 2>Oh look at that thirty rocket.
<v Speaker 1>And my dad's goal was to be a network announcer,
<v Speaker 1>but his job was he was the head of the
<v Speaker 1>the tour division in guest relations, so he was the
<v Speaker 1>boss of all the pages there and he never he
<v Speaker 1>never made it, and you had to audition for it,
<v Speaker 1>and they wouldn't audition him and so he, in a
<v Speaker 1>fit of uh frustration, moved us from New York. I
<v Speaker 1>was a year old at the time Denver, Yeah, which
<v Speaker 1>is where I grew.
<v Speaker 2>Up as a small child.
<v Speaker 1>But I remember listening to my dad had this big
<v Speaker 1>reel to reel tape machine that he had gotten from
<v Speaker 1>NBC Radio when they were remodeling, and so he had
<v Speaker 1>a lot of these old tapes of radio dramas and yeah,
<v Speaker 1>and he would play these and and we had he
<v Speaker 1>had this big speaker it's a fifteen inch speaker cabinet
<v Speaker 1>that was in our little family room there, and I
<v Speaker 1>would lay on the floor and put my ear up
<v Speaker 1>against the grill of the speakers.
<v Speaker 2>Boys radio dramas as a you know.
<v Speaker 1>Three year old kid, thinking that these people were all
<v Speaker 1>inside this box. Yeah, yeah, And and I think it
<v Speaker 1>was the magic of that. That is what was born
<v Speaker 1>in me to want to do a lot of this.
<v Speaker 4>Because my dad he worked on the radio for a.
<v Speaker 1>While in Denver and then quit and got into a
<v Speaker 1>whole different line of work.
<v Speaker 4>But he used to listen to comedy albums.
<v Speaker 2>All the time and.
<v Speaker 4>These old radio dramas, and.
<v Speaker 1>He was such a radio guy, you know, it amazes
<v Speaker 1>me that he never he never quite made it in
<v Speaker 1>that business because he could have been good, I think,
<v Speaker 1>but I think he didn't have the mental fortitude to.
<v Speaker 2>Just deal with Yeah, well that takes a lot of
<v Speaker 2>you know, knockdown three times exactly in order to you know,
<v Speaker 2>just make it across the room.
<v Speaker 1>So I think that that's where this was born in me.
<v Speaker 1>So and my dad was very much about being an announcer,
<v Speaker 1>a stentorian an announcer.
<v Speaker 2>Mm hmm.
<v Speaker 4>He produced the Bob and Ray remember that.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, yeah for a couple of years, and they
<v Speaker 2>were on Ed Sullivan even I think a couple of times. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>and uh.
<v Speaker 1>And so I think that that's where it came from,
<v Speaker 1>you know, in my blood, certainly in my ear.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, my childhood. Wow.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's good. And when did you know that you
<v Speaker 2>were going to do this? Was it literally when you
<v Speaker 2>were like that young? Yes?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I knew that that's what I wanted to do.
<v Speaker 1>I knew I wanted to be an actor since I
<v Speaker 1>was in fourth grade. And this production of Peter Pan
<v Speaker 1>Oh there you go.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Did you like Peter or Captain Hook? Yeah, me too.
<v Speaker 2>I played Captain Hook once with my daughter, rolling and
<v Speaker 2>thousand oaks. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>and I played him as Don Carnage from Tailspin. Of course,
<v Speaker 2>you know I had to do it. You know, I
<v Speaker 2>am no smoocho. I can tell you this right between
<v Speaker 2>the face. Good stuff.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, we have to get one more voice swap before
<v Speaker 3>we go, Well we do. We have to get poos
<v Speaker 3>inc Alwabunga poos inc Calabunga and then Michael Angelo saying,
<v Speaker 3>oh bother.
<v Speaker 2>There we go. Okay, Well, I can remember uh, my
<v Speaker 2>daughter Rolly being completely enamored of the Ninja Turtles when
<v Speaker 2>she was we little and uh for some reason or another,
<v Speaker 2>and we we rented go karts once and she couldn't
<v Speaker 2>stop saying and and and and and and then a
<v Speaker 2>batman cowabunga dudes, and I said, honey, those they don't
<v Speaker 2>know each other. Batman batman and the turtles have never
<v Speaker 2>met a batman.
<v Speaker 4>Kwam.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, that's good.
<v Speaker 4>That's what was the original mashup.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, that's true. I never thought of it that way.
<v Speaker 2>She was very innovative for a three year old. Oh man, Okay,
<v Speaker 2>so no, wait, am I supposed to come up with
<v Speaker 2>something so away?
<v Speaker 3>Or do you who did pooh Cowabunga. I'm being the
<v Speaker 3>dictator on this one.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, anyway, we go, yeah, why I say it? And
<v Speaker 4>then he says it has poo or does.
<v Speaker 3>He just yeah, yeah, let's do that Cowabunga, calabunga, and
<v Speaker 3>then oh bother, oh bother, okay, as your respective character again.
<v Speaker 2>It's Michaelangelo, right, yeah, okay, cow Cowabunga. Dudes. Yeah, I'm
<v Speaker 2>we're gonna throw that in. Yeah, yeah, okay, so let's
<v Speaker 2>see I owe you one. Uh, maybe jump over to
<v Speaker 2>dark Wing.
<v Speaker 3>Or should we sure we can do? Yeah?
<v Speaker 4>I am the terror the flaps in the night.
<v Speaker 2>I'm the terror that flaps.
<v Speaker 5>In the night, dudes, And that's how you do it.
<v Speaker 3>Certainly you got that.
<v Speaker 2>I hope you were taking notes out there, all right, Well.
<v Speaker 3>Thank you so much for joining us. That was a
<v Speaker 3>lot of fun.
<v Speaker 2>Townsend Putnam Coleman that he didn't think I remembered his
<v Speaker 2>middle name, but I did. And the first time you
<v Speaker 2>told me your name is I've got three last names,
<v Speaker 2>Townsend Putnam Coleman three names the third the third Wow, No,
<v Speaker 2>I don't think I knew that. Yeah on the third show.
<v Speaker 3>That's cool.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I was always little towny growing up.
<v Speaker 2>Oh oh yeah, I want to change.
<v Speaker 4>My name is Scott in college.
<v Speaker 2>That sounds like a good astronaut name, Scott Coleman. Scott Coleman,
<v Speaker 2>you know it sounds like, yeah, I don't know why,
<v Speaker 2>kind of like Scott Glenn. Was that a Glenn anyway?
<v Speaker 2>Never mind, never mind talking amongst yourselves.
<v Speaker 7>But thanks for all right, I'll take us out here,
<v Speaker 7>all right, Thank you guys, Yeah, thank you, thank you you,
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