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Old folks. It should people fake
good money to see this movie. When

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they go out to a theater.
They want cold sodas, corn and no

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monsters. In the Projection Booth,
Everyone for ten podcasting isn't boring it off.

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Hey, folks, welcome to a
special episode of The Projection Booth.

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I'm your host, Mike White.
On this episode, I am talking with

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the one and only mister Eddie Dison. He is the star of many films

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that I'm sure you've seen, Greece, Midnight Madness Served to the end of

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the Trilogy, so many great titles. If you don't recognize the name,

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you're definitely going to recognize the voice
and that personality. He is one of

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a kind. Thanks for listening,
and I hope you enjoy the interview.

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I am so curious about the Eddie
Deason origin story. Can you tell me

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a little bit about you growing up
and how you got into show business?

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I would one in nineteen fifty seven. I'm gonna be sixty sixth next week.

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In Zach Mike. I was worn
in a little town called Cumberland,

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Maryland. I grew up in a
little Jewish family. A father and mother,

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had an older brother and I was
in trouble for my earliest date.

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I was always getting into trouble in
school, in kindergarten my earliest days,

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they put me on the step they
stept breaking from the other kids because I

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would always pay in trouble. Finger
Paints had always put it on my faith,

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pretending with Al Jolson or whatever,
do crazy stuff, and it was

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always in trouble, always going to
the Prinzles office, always getting detention.

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I remember that. But I wasn't
really a back and I wasn't mean kid.

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I didn't hurt the other kid.
But I would always get into trouble

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with my earliest in boots. I
love the three studios, curling with my

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hero, Supreme Arrowitch Jerry Lewis.
Course from the early days I loved.

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I saw the first move with Dean
Martin and Jerry Lewis. I thought they

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reachieved partners, I remember, and
I saw him that. I was fascinated.

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Five and a half. My uncle
party that these guys are great.

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Who are they to go thirteen Market
Jerry Lewis and then he goes, he

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goes. They in other words,
committed. They split. He pulled his

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handship and he made this out.
He might be split. Let said fuck

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it too, men split. I
didn't get like they're sadd eat twin.

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You've called me Dean Mark and German
split up. You're trying to describe it

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to me. But Jerry was an
early hero. Daffy Duck Mike was an

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early hero of mine, and I
loved him. I patted my character after

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Daffy Duck. If you look at
it, go listen to you. I'll

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date you, lousy carry you.
I put my finger near like Daffy Duck,

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the angry Daffy Ducks. Why I
patted a lot after him. I

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would away the class clown. I
would day the Classtown Point, would wear

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a water fasted on my head.
I had the water fast I bought it,

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had a struction rubber day, but
I stick it in my head.

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May turn on it would pour water
out to look at water withs on that

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the head, stuff like that.
I know you're a huge Beatles fan.

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When did you first run across them? Boy? Who was your experience hearing

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the Beatles the first time? Typical
American? I remember the friday they came

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to America. It was Friday February
seven, ninety sixty four. I clearly

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remember might fit in the car,
and I remembered I remember one of them,

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Saint George Harrison. I remember saying
that we were talking about this new

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thing, the Beatles. I remember
watching on the Ed Sullivan Show. We

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went to see A Hard Days.
My favorite movie that year was from July

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seventh, of July sixth and premiered. We went seeing it and then we

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flew half the next year. And
I remember this was a little small town

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in comber It was like twenty thousand
or thirty thousand people, like it's a

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little town like Nayberry. And there
were screaming all through it. You couldn't

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hear the dialect. You just it
started from the beginning of the movie to

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the very end, an hour and
a half aloral screaming all the way through,

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and you just sit there and you'd
watch the Beatles move and as they

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see the lipt move, but no
words would come out. It was like

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no movies I've ever seen it from
today from that day on and I just

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workshiped him. I loved their music. We bought the records. I remember

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we had eight days a week we
had. I feel fine, she loved

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you. Of course, I want
to hold your hand and a little did

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I real you know I would be
playing a Beatles but I played myself and

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I want to hold your hand a
box the neck of the first Silvia played

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a Beatles fanatic. I was basically
played myself. So tell me about your

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first foray to show business. I
mean it was stand up, well your

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way in. There are a lot
of different things, and that they got.

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What was your first thing is a
live different thing. The earliest I

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remember why. I was in kindergarten. We danced around the may pole and

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they are graduated ceremony. My brother
Ricky is three years older than me.

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He was in Kindergartie graduated and the
graduation there was the streamer would come down

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this thing that would spin around,
and he was called dancing around the makeball.

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You get around like this he's it
was called beast of the mate boat.

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I thought, that's really who I
wouldn't do that. And then three

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years later I'd like kindergarten graduate,
I'd danced around the mate ball. I'd

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about six years old and we danced
from the may ball. That was my

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first time in front of people.
I remember my big my first thing in

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professional show bit. There was a
comedian out on a note called Frankie Fontaine.

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He used to be on the Jackie
Gleat and show. He played a

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drunk. He goes, you can
google the same Frankie Fontaine. But I

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was in Atlantic City at the Steel
Pier. Frankie Floontag was a period.

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I was blub about fourteen and he
called me up on stage. I was

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like in the second Road. He
called me up in another guy and we

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were his bench. Filoquiff. Stop
me. It's ironic because you know our

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favorite Philoquiff in nineteenth forty one,
Spielberg'sville. But I played at schlun Quick

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to me. That was the first
thing I did in show bit and he

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said, I'm just gonna talk all
you do it. He whispered with you

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go, but I'm gonna patting on
the back when I do move your lips.

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And they said you'd be Charlie,
you will be Irvan. I think

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I was Charlie, the guy with
Irby, and he would go here Charlie.

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And then he pat me on the
back and he did it said the

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audience screamed with laughter. Go hey, Irving Any patted the tech and the

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audience scream with laughter. Now,
after the show, I went out,

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I wonder about I lost my family. I was. I was liking at

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Dave. What's it? The plods
thing, A whole proud plotted me the

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whole room. I went out and
these bands crowded around me, so what

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is the if it? And there
were girls there, so really I loved

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girls that I was sick and there
were these girls Roman this is pretty cool

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man. So that kind of put
the German my head. Joe Pittence is

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pretty cool. That was my first
appearance on an actual stage. We have

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a religion called poor Hum. I
remember early on I played we had a

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poor Him play and Hayman is the
bad guy. Im poor He's like the

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villain guy. He's in the villain
that's the bad guy and poor Him And

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I played Hayman's horse. Hayman was
there and they said you played Hayman furay

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Aft there and I started sucking up
and running around the room crazy. So

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I was crazy from the earliest day. And the kids were all breaking up

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laughing. You know this one.
I was about and years old. I

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played Aymon's worked in temple. That
was another thing I did early in show

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bit stuff like that did you just
say, Okay, I love this applause

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thing. I'm going to do anything
I can to get more of it.

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Yeah. I think that's that your
memory had missed a plot. And also,

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to be honest, I couldn't really
do anything else. But I didn't

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have much talent. Dad had me
worked. Dad ran a jewelry store.

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I come on, called Rage Jeweler, and I'd tell a sleep that it

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display window. I was power one
day and I went in display when when

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I took a nap, I fell
asleep, and Dad went crazy tough,

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priced off like you're dad in there, and my dad had a bad temper

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and he fired me. And now
it's the last time I worked there.

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And then Dad offered to buy me
a dairy queen when he was a round

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plant to graduates that I'll buy you
a dearey with a dairy queen for store.

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I said, you can run it. And I didn't want to run

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a dairy queen. So Dad said, tell you what, go to Hollywood,

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try your luck and show bit.
They'll send you four hundred dollars a

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month. So Dad would send me
four hundred dollars every month. He was

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a very kind, gain rich man
like that, and that's kept me going

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in those days. It would breaking
seventy five seventy six. My ramp up

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like one hundred twenty five a month. Who was cheap out? Thought?

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That kept me going every month.
So what were some of those early gigs

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like for you? How did you
make your start out there? I worked

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at that the Comedy Stort, the
famous Night Cloud, Robin Williams, Ronnie

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Dangerfield, Jimmy Walker, all these
had gait captain. They all work there.

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And I remember the first night we
went in. We went in my

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friend Mike and I. He came
to Hollywood with me because the first couple

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of weeks so he I think state
for two weeks. Then he left me

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alone, but he was there.
We went to the Comedy Store. Always

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saw like Jimmy Walker, and I
was terrified. Jimmy walkerwood be comedian at

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that time, nineteen seventy five years. He would jade from grid times.

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We were in the front row at
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and I would hear to what heck
was. I was scared, but he'd

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left us alone, luckily, and
then little did I know, I made

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my debut at the Comedies for January
twenty six, nineteen seventy six, I

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got really big laughs and the La
Comedy Store, and then I did another

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performs there the next week. I
got getting big laughs. Then mid seat,

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who's the owner, said why don't
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So I did, and I went
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can I did with my first time, I'd roally bumped in show beause I

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told the jokes and they got hardly
any laugh and then I'd realized I didn't

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really like to and stand up.
It was hard for me to memorize through

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a teen even in those dates.
Mike I needed in next cards, I

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read off two card. I would
read my whole routine. Accua, it's

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the end of the read them We'll
bread your gigs like back then. They

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would applaud. Okay, they go, na, here's our next comment the

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master ceremonies, here's the next com
with eddids and then there's the applause and

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they go, sure, but we
were respect me in the morning. Now

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with that was my opening jokes.
That was supposed to be funny, Mike,

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but I do that. This is
how dated the routine wise to go.

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They come up with a new stand
with Richard Nixon's picture on it,

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but it didn't work. Everybody sit
on the raw side. That was with

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my big joke, so you could
see why I tank Mike have to stand

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up with the baby. But there
were jokes like that when I added a

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little routine and we put like my
little three or five minute routine and I

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did that. Then my next thing
was that at the end of nineteen seventy

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six, November thirteen, ninety seventy
six, I did the gong show my

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TV. I was gone that and
it got gone by Paul Williams. I

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did my routine and the crowd like
me. But Paul Williams gonged me.

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Yeah. Now cut to that,
I did the gong sure that. Now

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cut the forty five years later I
go to an audition or a gig.

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Paul Williams, is there always there? Miss the wicket? I I I'm

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indideds And there was on the golubshi
do you remember you gong me? Now,

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Mike Keith, peepy of pologists appropriate
Eddie. I'm so sorry, Please

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forgive me. What do you mean
to forgive me? I'm so try God,

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you please give me your forget.
He was literally pleading with mister Williams

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played you brought me with the Coffey
Show. It's no big deal, I

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say, please don't take it since
here. I didn't mind it. All

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you've got on me with funny he
got, we got to understand, I'm

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an alcoholics anonymous. He said,
we have to apologist to anybody we may

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have burdened our lives. So he
was very sincere. He was in alcoholic

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He's and Alcoholics Love, and I
made sure I really except they go,

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mitter william you are of solved,
You're forgiven. Don't worry. He didn't

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hurt me at all. Please forgive
yourself, and he was forgive me,

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but he was really giving me a
solemn apology. So that was seventy six,

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and by seventy seven, ye're in
grief. Most people start their careers

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in low bucket, being movies turkeys. But I started with a classic.

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I lecked out I did, which
it's got to be the most popular musical

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of all time. I think it's
maybe one of the five or ten most

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popular movies of all time. It
has to be from the people I talked

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to Chris my first I watched it
one hundred times. Every three weapon i've

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talked to broke their paints of grief. That takes pef. They played it

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so many times they broke them people
play. I've watched that every day when

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I was growing up, and it's
just the most popular movie ever made.

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It's got to the out there.
Maybe maybe Star Wars with the up there,

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but I'm not sure the other big
Greens is up there. But yeah,

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I started out at the top.
Now my part was very small,

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and I'm a bit player, but
just to be a part at night,

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I always say, it's like the
guys in Gone with the Wind, Gone

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with the Wind, that's big classic. And there's the battlefield seam, all

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these quirks. They're that big battle
after the war. They daw these Cluikses

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did on the field, every one
of those quarks, and we're after Those

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were guys who were actors, so
they probably bragged the Western lights to go.

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I'm in Gone with the Wind with
Park Gable. I was in Gone

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with the Wind. That was their
big thing. So I'm kind of like

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that in Greece. I played this
little bit part, but it's this hugely

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classic movie. Yeah, I can't
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and it's just amazing. Yeah,
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and it's still so break The songs
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good still and I watched it and
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feel good movie, if you're down
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it'll make you feel a little bit
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a Joyetts movie. So how did
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and I want to hold your hand, um By with some kind of a

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call. I forget that. Steve
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Bob's the Mechts was doing his first
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Gilbert ever produced. But I don't
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the set a lot, but he
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casting director. Zozzy Stokes was there. Bob's The mex was Ritans. They

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assisted Bob Gail, they co wrote
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I auditioned for the most time.
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movie. And they later told the
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said he was actually crying. He
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get along with it hit their buttons, and I was that way with Bob

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the Mack Bobs the Beckets is still
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worked with. He's fantastic, He's
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we just the Joyets Shooter was great
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in New York and they put us
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in the Beetles? Sweet? We
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Get to stay there. Stevin Stilbert
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Stevin took us out the lunch were
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or something, but we were Stephen
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peat of the table and he see
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making the movie. Steven and I
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lot and chat on the seating.
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now, but I think I was
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the joke has been recycling recycling in
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The police the breaks in the room
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goes, now, I got you
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don't you call on little? Now? I said that, Steve, and

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I go, I'm just like that. Stephen broke up lout. He goes,

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look, Eddie's gonna use this joke, and I use that. Now.

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There's been different variations on that joke
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party, Eddie, you little bastard, or you're calling little But I think

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I'm the first one to use that
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like that joke. He laugh.
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sat with us if it. Bob
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kind of like Bob's mentor, and
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a joy to work with. Wendy
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partner I've ever had. He would
like lu Cuttella, he would like Luke

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Cuffello to Mike bud Abbott, he
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That role seems as custom made for
you because you were such a Beatles

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fan from the get go. I
know if it did the light funny,

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it's almost you're right, like they've
written that role for me. Nothing could

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have been more perfect. And I
got that. You know what, Mike,

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I swear to God to did say, that's the best role I ever

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played. That's the best thing I
ever did. That's the clothes they ever

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got to my comedy. What I
wanted to do in a film, Great

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direction, great dialogue and just getting
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And it's such a great movie and
still holds up. You talked about

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the longtivity of Greece, a longevity. If I want to hold your hand,

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I swear it just gets better every
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great story. Mike Paul McCartney with
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Joe did a magazine called Strawberry Fields
Forever with the Beatles magazine and now sadly

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Joe died of ads later on,
but he died years ago. But he

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was interview with Paul McCartney and he
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you ever see a movie called I
Want to Hold Your Hand? And Paul

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mcclart me, he did it.
Im crash and almost earth he goes,

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and the answer come back, and
the answer come back. Paul McCartney,

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Freagan did me. He imitated me. So that's where the greatest compliments in

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the life. But Paul did see
it. George saw it, Gewort said

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it would be good. The story
full bill. Now Ringo I heard two

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storys Ringo I heard didn't like it. He said he I can't believe Steven

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Scoreboard got self involved with it.
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But I also heard the story that
they screened it for Paul and Ringo boat

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and they both liked. So I
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never found it. John could have
seen. He wasn't due, but he

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was retired at those years, so
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But I never heard whether John saw
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of the first Beatles films. Remember
Beatles told the pretty frequent. Now they'd

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be like almost the new one every
year, but that was one of the

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first Beatles still. But I love
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that whole thing with the monitor and
the camera and then having the body doubles

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out of focus in the background.
That was so clever. Yees Bot the

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Beckis was the head of his son
and Mike. When we were doing Polar

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Rest, I was talking pond tangs
and I said, did you ever see

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one of over here? We were
talking about it for something, and he

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said, I love the way he
did those seams with the Beatles. He

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said, I really loved that.
You know, that thing would did the

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biggest whether they faked that they didn't
see their faith. He liked that.

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And just to get back to the
myth of Greece, another thing Tom said,

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He said, I loved being he
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kid. We'll talk about it later
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he goes, I love the end
of Greece. But they fly off in

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their all way would be like a
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team I put in You see Greed. He said, I loved that last

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team where Danny and Sandy go flying
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And he told me what was it
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one? Murray would a wonderful knights
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at that time. I had to
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one of my favorite movies, but
I didn't see it. We would have

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great talks up there, might go, oh he had a suck woakes it

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up. But we were like thirty
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so the huge Ferris wheel and Murray
and I would chat every day. We

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have talks and talk about life and
religion and politics and then everything. But

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I didn't talk about Jaws. I
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and I hadn't seen Jaw. Now
like the movie everybody's seen, but I

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didn't see it at that time.
But he was a wonderful fact. He

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was a chronic smoker, and he
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tank for him and periodical Stephen would
let us down and he would take an

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off because he literally couldn't breathe up
there. He would trop trouble grasping for

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breath up there on that ferris wheel. Yeah, anyone, I'll say the

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great story were on the Ferris will
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to see where the fairyfel rolls off
the pier. And Stephen whipping enough throughout

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really fast with throughout thriftel and it's
fair to get nauset. I got motion

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sickness, and I go down to
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look, tell you what I had
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Lay down. So with secretary took
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said, lay down at Steven's cought. So I crawled over on my hands

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and knees into the clot and I
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I feel really noxious. I crawled
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niece and I threw up, and
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is significance. I get threw up
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say, it's one of the highlights
of my career. I talked about how

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the role of Ring seemed customy for
you. But did I read The Midnight

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Madness that role of Wesley was actually
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If it was. I wasn't sure
that, or I forgot. Maybe it

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was because it was the perfect role
for me. Maybe it was. That

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was the only time I worked with
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were code wrecks. I don't know
if they ever did anything else after that

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movie, but that was my unhappy
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film. I think it's one of
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I won't get any day. But
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people in the crew that weren't so
night they were. They were pretty mean

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people, and I just didn't like
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the coin, it was Michael D. Fox's first film that he was the

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delight. Michael and I would have
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every day, and we go I
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big super Bowl and we go to
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brick wall and we play handball together. We think he was the delight Maggie

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Rosswell from The Simpsons with my girlfriend
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And that was Pee Wee Herman's film
and I always let pee kind of

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pattern of character off me. Pebe
Herman suit. If you look at it's

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my exact suit from Greed, and
they did it first film with me,

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so I always so you do.
I think Pea peaths the Night Sky.

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He gave me credit. I think
he did say Eddie Dash was part of

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the influence of the people hermy character
said. He was a great guy.

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that Did you have to shoot that
whole thing at night? Pretty much?

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than I ever remember that. I remember

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we thought the Bondavn Rotel in La
all over La, different location, but

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yeah, that was like pretty much
Nightshooths all the way. I think they're

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going to have called The Great All
Night or in fact it was like an

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all night shoot, but they changed
at the midnight Mattters. I don't know,

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and I don't think it did that
good at the box office. Maybe

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they should have called it The Great
All Night or maybe would have done better

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I soon to remember that was originally
supposed to be a Disney film and they

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separated from it because I think Ron
Miller actually produced it. That it was.

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kay to be a Disney film,
and it was did raunchy enough to be

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ping. So it didn't catch a
crowd to be They didn't get the Disney

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fans, it didn't get the Animal
House crowd. It was like in the

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middle there. But there a couple
of risk kay line. I have Maggie

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Rothwell on my mopad at the boy
it's like to have one of these mean

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mckeas between your legs and that for
that's a barely rif k line. That's

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a pretty raunchy line. We had
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The thing that gets me about Midnight
Madness is that with every single one of

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those groups of contestants, like you
get to know some of the people that

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are in the groups, especially like
Stephen first group, you get to really

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know them. David Nun's group,
you get to know them. But with

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your group, it's basically you and
three other guys that just look like you

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and do everything that you do.
Yeah, that's the interesting I didn't realize

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that maybe right. Yeah, I
love David not he was great to work

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with, and yeah, I love
Stephen. First he was like he would

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enjoy to work. But I love
Stephen. He left the tooth. Soon

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Steven die. They'll be immortal from
Animal House Always were there ever directors that

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told you, hey, Eddie,
you need to take it back because I

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think the more outrageous you are and
the more like spastic you are, better

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the role is for you. That's
how I feel. That's how I will

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make. But if some will say, you know what I get the most

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that they'll say slow down because I
talk very fast. And I went to

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the store and left, they slow
down again. And then when I tried

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to do that the salary because I
naturally do talk fast. That's just the

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way I talk. But they I
don't remember, particularly all the films I've

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done and all the TV were I
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I think when they hired me they
know much stick. I'm very physical.

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I love doing physical comedy. No
might stick. The direction I get the

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most is slow down, They'll say, And I will price to down.

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Listen you, I'll take care of
you. Enough up, listen you,

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I'll take care of you. And
it doesn't sound like me If I talk

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real slow, I just I don't
know if it's people will question I get

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as they go. Are you from
New York? Because I get New Yorkers

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talk fast. I just avoid talk
fast. I love that back and forth

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between you and Morey Chakin and more
games where he's like trying to put his

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foot on you a little bit and
you're just no regard. I love it.

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He was a great lie, great
guy. I came on the set.

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By the way, More he's another
final way be reminded. This is

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a sad part of this wonderful podcast. It's all these people that have blessed

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that two too. But More he's
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He was a great comedy guy.
But anyway, we were on the set,

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I was a little bit arrogant.
I was working a lot. This

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clown I came on. Morie and
I were talking before he did, saying,

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go, yeah, it's just another
job, and Mori goes, he

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put me in my place. It's
important to me. He said something like

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00:21:07.319 --> 00:21:10.000
that, But he really put me
in my plate, got my ethics there

407
00:21:10.039 --> 00:21:11.240
and I go, you know what, You're right, be professional. And

408
00:21:11.359 --> 00:21:14.799
then Morris came up with a great
line and he goes, look at this

409
00:21:14.920 --> 00:21:17.559
scene. I'm gonna call you mister
potato ahead, and I broke up,

410
00:21:17.599 --> 00:21:19.079
goes, that's great, dude.
He made that. It wasn't up in

411
00:21:19.119 --> 00:21:22.599
the script the script without that,
and that made the scene mister potatahead.

412
00:21:22.680 --> 00:21:25.720
As to this day, Mike,
people will say, hey, listen,

413
00:21:25.759 --> 00:21:26.799
potato, how do they go?
Are you mister potato head? I'll get

414
00:21:26.799 --> 00:21:30.359
rest heads. People will call me
that. That that made the scene.

415
00:21:30.480 --> 00:21:33.599
He was great. And with Matthew
Roberts. First still I drove if I

416
00:21:33.720 --> 00:21:36.720
worked one day on War Game.
Matthew and I were there and we drove

417
00:21:36.799 --> 00:21:37.920
in. I was in, I
got picked up first, I was in

418
00:21:37.960 --> 00:21:41.079
the breath seat. Then we picked
up Matthew when his time, when he

419
00:21:41.119 --> 00:21:42.559
was in the back seat. And
I remember Matthew when I were talking and

420
00:21:42.559 --> 00:21:47.279
he talked about his father, James
Broadret, who had just recently passed away.

421
00:21:47.480 --> 00:21:48.279
I looked back and he had tears
in his life. That was so

422
00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:52.799
sweet. But Mike, he was
like a little kid. Matthew he was

423
00:21:52.279 --> 00:21:55.359
what was he like seventeen or eighteen
when we did it. But he had

424
00:21:55.400 --> 00:21:57.000
tears in his life like a little
kid about his father believing his father.

425
00:21:57.279 --> 00:22:02.720
And I never forget that. And
the cool thing about Workings is Ronald Riggins

426
00:22:02.720 --> 00:22:03.720
screened the film in the White House. I don't know if you know this

427
00:22:03.720 --> 00:22:06.440
story, but he screened the film
in the White House. This is the

428
00:22:06.440 --> 00:22:10.240
one hundred percent true. And he
literally changed the national security system of the

429
00:22:10.400 --> 00:22:12.519
United States because of that movie.
He saw the film and he fucked that.

430
00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:15.200
Somebody I gets Russia at that time
was our big enemy. He thought

431
00:22:15.279 --> 00:22:18.480
maybe Rush could getapped into our security
system and attack us or something. But

432
00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:22.359
he changed our security system because of
the War Game. So it had the

433
00:22:22.400 --> 00:22:26.759
little place in history. My director
with Marty Brass who later Marty Brest,

434
00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:30.119
was fired after Marty Brest directed twelve
different scenes in it. Mine might have

435
00:22:30.119 --> 00:22:33.039
been left, but mine was one
of the twelve, and then they fired

436
00:22:33.079 --> 00:22:34.880
Marty Brett. The figure didn't like
it, Bailey, and they hired John

437
00:22:34.920 --> 00:22:38.000
Baddam. But John Baddam watched the
scenes that mine was the only one he

438
00:22:38.119 --> 00:22:41.279
kept. He liked might see and
he said leave that in the movie.

439
00:22:41.480 --> 00:22:44.359
So mine is the only one in
the War Games that's not directed by John

440
00:22:44.400 --> 00:22:47.680
Baddam, It's strict by Marty Brett. Marty Brass did Reverly Hills cost the

441
00:22:47.720 --> 00:22:48.920
next year took He made a name
for himself, so I'm glad he did

442
00:22:49.000 --> 00:22:52.960
go because he was a really nice
director. His story did so many great

443
00:22:52.000 --> 00:22:56.440
things with the rule of Menlo Schwartz
Are and served to the end of the

444
00:22:56.519 --> 00:23:00.599
trilogy. Would you consider that you're
guest role? Is that the movie that

445
00:23:00.720 --> 00:23:04.279
you have the most screen time?
I had two Mike two. I think

446
00:23:04.279 --> 00:23:07.599
I had Top Building, maybe three, but I was Top Building that one

447
00:23:07.640 --> 00:23:11.039
shirt too, and I Top Building
one called mob Boss. We'll talk about

448
00:23:11.039 --> 00:23:15.319
that later with Morgan Fairchild, and
I think I was Beverlygill's vamp. I

449
00:23:15.400 --> 00:23:18.200
might have been Top Bill, but
maybe it wasn't me. Maybe the other

450
00:23:18.319 --> 00:23:19.599
lady was bold first. But that
was Yeah, for a three time,

451
00:23:19.640 --> 00:23:22.160
that would be right up there.
It would be either Bad or Mob Boss.

452
00:23:22.160 --> 00:23:26.119
I'd say that it got the bag
screen time because I'm usually an unsolvable

453
00:23:26.160 --> 00:23:29.039
player or either a bit player.
I'll do a cameo or an ensemble player.

454
00:23:29.279 --> 00:23:30.640
But yeah, that one I got. I started that one and it

455
00:23:30.759 --> 00:23:33.000
was fun. It was great shoot
we filled all out of the beach.

456
00:23:33.119 --> 00:23:37.079
Mike has randalled but God directed after
that? Did he do stuff after that?

457
00:23:37.519 --> 00:23:40.799
I don't think he did. I
remember he didn't get Ron Polio.

458
00:23:40.920 --> 00:23:44.720
Remember Ron Polio with Quorshack and Welcome
Back catter Gem. They didn't get along

459
00:23:44.759 --> 00:23:47.079
the all. They were like oil
and water and they were get into it

460
00:23:47.200 --> 00:23:48.440
on the stack. For some reason, they didn't hit it off. I

461
00:23:48.519 --> 00:23:52.119
remember. But Linda with a Twitter
workers. I loved Ron. We were

462
00:23:52.200 --> 00:23:56.640
lifelong friends. And again either another
my friends who died. He died way

463
00:23:56.640 --> 00:23:59.079
too young. He was a big
time smoke or I think I had a

464
00:23:59.119 --> 00:24:02.200
cancer. But he's a really good
friend. I loved him so much.

465
00:24:02.599 --> 00:24:06.839
Yeah, great guy. Yeah,
inspect her underwear, inspector underwear. Yeah,

466
00:24:06.839 --> 00:24:08.480
oh yeah, Lawa Agner with wonderful
Bye too. He just was a

467
00:24:08.559 --> 00:24:11.839
great guy. I've done signing shows
with Dams, one of the ninthest guy.

468
00:24:12.039 --> 00:24:15.279
We sat together on a plane.
I remember coming back from a signing

469
00:24:15.319 --> 00:24:18.599
show and he told me Elieford he
was up for Batman. He was against

470
00:24:18.640 --> 00:24:21.880
Adam Weft. They with the last
tup for Batman, and he would quickly

471
00:24:22.279 --> 00:24:26.160
that he dimitted immortality. Adam Weft
got it. I mostly remember him from

472
00:24:26.200 --> 00:24:29.960
the Carol Burnett Show. Yeah,
of course that's his leggat you and Lynda

473
00:24:30.039 --> 00:24:33.359
Carriage. I mean I think she's
in every single scene that you're in that

474
00:24:33.519 --> 00:24:37.480
film. Yeah, he was my
girlfriend and she would just great to work

475
00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:40.200
with. I love work litor.
He would the knockout him. He would

476
00:24:40.279 --> 00:24:44.640
drop day gorgeous. I love again, totally off the rails, you with

477
00:24:44.839 --> 00:24:48.400
that umbrella hat that you're wearing.
Just so many great set pieces in that

478
00:24:48.599 --> 00:24:52.759
movie. I'm so glad that it's
now getting a little bit more recognition than

479
00:24:52.839 --> 00:24:56.039
it was for so many years.
Oh thank you. Yeah, that's one

480
00:24:56.039 --> 00:24:59.720
of my better philadel like it to
you. I would funding out, that's

481
00:24:59.720 --> 00:25:02.559
one of them better be movies.
Carol Wayne was there, I remember.

482
00:25:02.559 --> 00:25:04.039
I think that might have been Carol's
last film. She was a little out

483
00:25:04.079 --> 00:25:07.119
of it at that time. He
kept seat. I think she was on

484
00:25:07.240 --> 00:25:10.319
some kind of medicine or some bad
stuffing BLI had my own experience with psych

485
00:25:10.400 --> 00:25:12.240
drugs. They're horrible, but we
won't go on that tangent. But Carol

486
00:25:12.400 --> 00:25:15.759
was on some kind of mad or
something from mine with a little bit addled.

487
00:25:15.759 --> 00:25:18.640
And he goes eat photons she kept
saying that over and over when we

488
00:25:18.720 --> 00:25:22.319
were on the beach. I remember, but what did devil know? I

489
00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:25.880
realized she would probably on some kind
of that Dragley felt, but she was

490
00:25:25.960 --> 00:25:27.519
really like I love her and I
loved Bruce Buddy. She was great to

491
00:25:27.559 --> 00:25:32.799
work with. Eric told from math. Remember Eric was in there. Eric

492
00:25:32.880 --> 00:25:34.839
and I played poker together. We
get together Eric, Jeffrey, the other

493
00:25:34.839 --> 00:25:38.599
guy, jeff we Stott me m
I don't think Tom Voalard played, but

494
00:25:40.079 --> 00:25:42.160
let's would play Ooper together all the
time. We'd order pizza. Poor Tom

495
00:25:42.240 --> 00:25:45.039
Valard. That's another one that went
way too young as well, Mike.

496
00:25:45.119 --> 00:25:48.519
I was thinking of, but I
didn't want the depasture listeners boat. I've

497
00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:52.440
never done of podcasts where I've been
so reminded of people that have died that

498
00:25:52.480 --> 00:25:55.799
I worked with. I'm so sad. I'm sorry to be a reminder.

499
00:25:56.039 --> 00:26:00.240
I'm glad we didn't go back into
eating. We've been in touch on Greed.

500
00:26:00.279 --> 00:26:03.400
Steve Stevie and I were talking about
Greed and how it had a purse

501
00:26:03.519 --> 00:26:06.319
on it. I didn't know because
that's just mine movie or that just light.

502
00:26:06.799 --> 00:26:10.480
I think that's just life and an
in orderate amount of people passed away,

503
00:26:10.599 --> 00:26:12.319
I don't don't know. These were
like every one of them that passed

504
00:26:12.319 --> 00:26:15.160
away, they were all cool people. I don't it would be a better

505
00:26:15.200 --> 00:26:18.640
worth the people you really didn't like, the mean people would pass away,

506
00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:19.799
then you wouldn't care. But every
one of these people we talked about that

507
00:26:19.960 --> 00:26:22.640
died were cool. They were my
friends. And you have to get a

508
00:26:22.680 --> 00:26:27.319
small part in Greece too as well. Who with this Tom Villard? Oh,

509
00:26:27.359 --> 00:26:30.200
I didn't know that. Yeah,
like to the point where I think

510
00:26:30.240 --> 00:26:36.079
his name was like Grease or boy. So like very small part. Yeah,

511
00:26:36.319 --> 00:26:38.759
like in greed If the tribute,
but all the dancers had named It's

512
00:26:38.799 --> 00:26:42.440
not talked about in the movie,
but they were named Moose and Saw and

513
00:26:44.039 --> 00:26:47.519
Sailor away Ors. But every one
of them were assigned a name, but

514
00:26:47.640 --> 00:26:48.920
they was not needed, but they
did. I get to god am more

515
00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:53.559
in character or something. The scene
with you a Million Dollar Mystery with the

516
00:26:53.960 --> 00:26:59.920
Murphy bed, that is a classic. I love that I did that scene,

517
00:27:00.119 --> 00:27:02.400
Mike. It was twice as long
or three times as well. I

518
00:27:02.519 --> 00:27:04.519
did really some great Charlie Chaplet.
I did a lot of gags on that

519
00:27:04.839 --> 00:27:07.359
where the bed goots up in Bucks
like a broncho, and I said,

520
00:27:07.400 --> 00:27:10.839
on it, Bucks like a broncho, and I flipped over. I did

521
00:27:10.880 --> 00:27:14.000
a lot of time and Fleischer cut
of way down, but apparently it's still

522
00:27:14.000 --> 00:27:17.279
Look I've never seen that film.
Last thing I was too I was Willie

523
00:27:17.599 --> 00:27:19.359
not happy with that movie filming it. I was a little unhappy because the

524
00:27:19.440 --> 00:27:25.119
Richard Fleischer the only director I didn't
like. How was it working with Tim

525
00:27:25.240 --> 00:27:29.000
Conway on the dwarf stuff, Well, God, I loved him. He's

526
00:27:29.039 --> 00:27:30.519
a life on friend of the knightest
guy in the world. I love them

527
00:27:32.079 --> 00:27:34.519
just the pleasure. He broke up
at everything. He's the sweetest guy in

528
00:27:34.599 --> 00:27:37.759
the world. And I worked with
his son, Tim Conway Junior. We

529
00:27:37.839 --> 00:27:40.920
did Teenage Jaxa since I think he's
in that with me, but that Tim

530
00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:42.920
would just the joy. We would
talk. He was a delight. I

531
00:27:44.039 --> 00:27:45.720
told him he was my hero on
the Karrol Bernetcho when I was a kiddie.

532
00:27:45.720 --> 00:27:48.440
I loved Michael's Navy. He was
always one of my hero He was

533
00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:52.039
just so night, so sweet,
and I talked to Tim Junior about He

534
00:27:52.160 --> 00:27:55.720
said it played against me, he
said, Tim with so night father.

535
00:27:56.039 --> 00:27:57.960
He said, my dad is so
nice that people will take advantage of of

536
00:27:59.039 --> 00:28:02.039
him though something, Hey, can
you load me a thousand lords? And

537
00:28:02.160 --> 00:28:03.680
Tim had such a good heart,
he'd give him a thousand bucks or whatever.

538
00:28:03.960 --> 00:28:07.599
But he said, Tim with so
nice, people would take advantaem.

539
00:28:07.640 --> 00:28:11.640
And I could see that he just
would inordinately kind, inordinately sweet. Do

540
00:28:11.759 --> 00:28:14.960
you work with Fred Owen Ray but
a few times? So? Can you

541
00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:18.519
tell me a little bit about your
working relationship with him? I love him,

542
00:28:18.559 --> 00:28:21.039
the best comedy director I've ever worked, but I'd love him. He's

543
00:28:21.039 --> 00:28:23.839
a wonderful, great guy. And
we did mob Boss with Morgan Fairchild,

544
00:28:25.119 --> 00:28:26.400
my great one and now my great
fair of that is I get to make

545
00:28:26.440 --> 00:28:29.920
out with Morgan Fairchild. We have
a scene in the movie Okay, the

546
00:28:29.920 --> 00:28:33.200
classic gag where the nerdy guy makes
out with a beautiful girl and then the

547
00:28:33.279 --> 00:28:34.599
camera had the back with that and
then he turns around in his glasses are

548
00:28:34.599 --> 00:28:38.119
seamed up the fog guy. So
we're gonna do that scene with me and

549
00:28:38.200 --> 00:28:41.599
Morgan, and we're get ready and
Morgan goes, hey, any do you

550
00:28:41.640 --> 00:28:44.359
want to rehearse? So I did
a double take on look, I did

551
00:28:44.440 --> 00:28:47.559
my Oliver paraty look at the camera, I'm thinking Morgan fairchilds asked me if

552
00:28:47.559 --> 00:28:48.359
I want to make out with her? Bass you say, do you want

553
00:28:48.359 --> 00:28:52.480
to rehearse kissing? So get to
make out with Morgan Fear And if so,

554
00:28:52.720 --> 00:28:55.319
we didn't take. He put my
head to the last to the right,

555
00:28:55.440 --> 00:28:56.880
straight on and I get to make
out with Morgan Fairchild and let me

556
00:28:56.920 --> 00:29:00.720
take. He's a great sister.
He is the best kids or Mike,

557
00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:03.319
I've teld you if the other story, she was the sweetest, nightsest girl

558
00:29:03.559 --> 00:29:07.359
all the casts. We'd all have
lunch together every day at lunch time and

559
00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:10.359
we'd all have a catered lunch at
the table. And Morgan she was like

560
00:29:10.440 --> 00:29:12.599
a big star. She would have
lunch alone in her drafting room and she

561
00:29:12.799 --> 00:29:15.319
was so sweet. I think part
of what she would just shy. He's

562
00:29:15.359 --> 00:29:19.200
a very sweet he just I can't
tell you what a beautiful person should was.

563
00:29:19.400 --> 00:29:22.599
But anyway, one day said Eddie, do you want to have lunch

564
00:29:22.680 --> 00:29:25.559
with me? Being a guy,
It's go, oh my god, Morgan

565
00:29:25.599 --> 00:29:26.880
fearschull, let's have an affair with
me? Up to go to bed with

566
00:29:26.920 --> 00:29:30.359
Morgan's fair Child. But I went
in, I knocked out the door.

567
00:29:30.359 --> 00:29:33.240
I'd remember clearly I was nervous,
but like this, it's like summer of

568
00:29:33.319 --> 00:29:36.359
forty two. I'm going out this
older woman. So I'd locked on the

569
00:29:36.400 --> 00:29:37.440
door. She call me it.
She just wanted to have lunch with somebody.

570
00:29:37.759 --> 00:29:41.440
We had our lunch there and we
just flocked. We just had lunch

571
00:29:41.519 --> 00:29:42.799
and we talked eether for an hour, Mike, and she told me all

572
00:29:42.839 --> 00:29:45.319
about her life growing up. At
least you grew up in Texas. But

573
00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:49.480
she said Warren Baiting was coming on
door when she was like fifteen. He

574
00:29:49.559 --> 00:29:52.759
said you could see her at Bonnie
and Psyche. He didn't. He's like

575
00:29:52.799 --> 00:29:55.680
the extras in the back seat.
One of the cards watched Bonnie and Clad

576
00:29:55.720 --> 00:29:56.960
in the cargo said you could see
her head. And he told me all

577
00:29:56.960 --> 00:30:00.960
these little stories about her light.
And it was this lench I ever had

578
00:30:00.039 --> 00:30:03.000
she disted the light. He was
the doll. I love her. I

579
00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:07.079
can't even imagine somebody you're talking about, how you're chanting with Tom Hanks and

580
00:30:07.519 --> 00:30:11.640
Michael J. Fox. Just the
amount of people that you've met over the

581
00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:15.799
years is just wild. The black
life, Mike, I've had such a

582
00:30:15.880 --> 00:30:18.880
blessed life, and you other people
I might have been in clar I write

583
00:30:18.880 --> 00:30:21.279
about him pretty much on my Facebook
page. Every time one of their birthday,

584
00:30:21.640 --> 00:30:23.640
I'll tell a story about him.
Wrote about Morgan on February third,

585
00:30:23.680 --> 00:30:27.000
and I wrote about John Tribalt with
stuff that happen with him on his birthday

586
00:30:27.000 --> 00:30:30.160
February eighteenth. I have a couple
John Tribolt stories, but pretty much,

587
00:30:30.200 --> 00:30:33.720
they're such cool people. They're almost
always the story there. They're not bland

588
00:30:33.799 --> 00:30:37.400
people. You meet somebody at a
Walmart and they give your bag and you

589
00:30:37.559 --> 00:30:40.240
up. It's not like that.
These are like magical people. These are

590
00:30:40.319 --> 00:30:42.240
great artists when they bring magic into
the world, and that's why I have

591
00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:47.599
these great stories about it. Tom
he just created magic. Run John Tribolt,

592
00:30:47.640 --> 00:30:49.200
he just creates magic wherever you go. And that's the way these guys

593
00:30:49.240 --> 00:30:53.160
are. They're beautiful artists. They're
very special people. It's gotta be tough

594
00:30:53.200 --> 00:30:56.319
for you to even choose what are
some of your favorite things that you've done

595
00:30:56.319 --> 00:31:00.000
over the years, just because you've
done so many things and have made all

596
00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:03.759
these memories. Yeah, the best
film might say not in my part in

597
00:31:03.799 --> 00:31:06.759
it, but the best film would
be Grief. I'd say that's to be

598
00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:08.799
my last thing. Film that's in
I remember about it today. In fact,

599
00:31:08.839 --> 00:31:12.039
Mike send it registered in the Library
of Congress. It's preserved in the

600
00:31:12.079 --> 00:31:15.880
Library of Congress. That's why I
was really proud of that. But that's

601
00:31:15.920 --> 00:31:18.440
the best film. Polar Express.
I'm proud of because working with Tom Hanky's

602
00:31:18.440 --> 00:31:22.039
my favorite star in the world.
He's my all time favorite actor, so

603
00:31:22.200 --> 00:31:25.799
working with him with the with the
Dream, and also I'm Jewish, but

604
00:31:25.920 --> 00:31:27.799
Christmas Dydsman my favorite holiday, and
I always want to do a Christmas film,

605
00:31:27.799 --> 00:31:30.680
but always when on my bucket lift
but that's do a Christmas film.

606
00:31:30.799 --> 00:31:33.960
And Bob is my favorite director of
all time, so I got to work

607
00:31:34.039 --> 00:31:37.759
with Bob, so that was special
to me. So that was those two

608
00:31:37.799 --> 00:31:41.240
where my book increases my birth and
Polar Express is like the last movie I

609
00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:42.799
did, even though it was nineteen
years ago. Hopefully Stevie and I are

610
00:31:42.799 --> 00:31:45.960
trying to give me back. Hopefully
when we go back to La maybe I'll

611
00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:48.400
get some more film roles. I
hope we'll see. I'm going to be

612
00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:52.039
sixty six next week. I'm let's
bring chicken anymore. When it came to

613
00:31:52.119 --> 00:31:55.400
Polar Express, did you just do
voice? Did they do any of that

614
00:31:55.559 --> 00:31:59.200
motion capture stuff for you. He
did most he captured with something. Here's

615
00:31:59.200 --> 00:32:00.279
what it did, Mike. We
come in every day, okay, we

616
00:32:00.440 --> 00:32:04.359
put on skin diver suit. It
was the four us with palm tnks me

617
00:32:04.920 --> 00:32:08.440
knowna Gay and she's the beautiful,
the pretty girl, the African American girl.

618
00:32:08.559 --> 00:32:13.039
She's Marta Gay's daughter. And that
was Peter Schiller who with Palm and

619
00:32:13.200 --> 00:32:15.680
with the buddies. We'd all get
his skin diving suit. They would blue

620
00:32:15.680 --> 00:32:19.960
a Robert skin diving past to our
heads. Then like they would get a

621
00:32:20.160 --> 00:32:22.240
marker. Okay, they'd mark one
hundred and fifty two dots on our face.

622
00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:25.720
Then they had these little dots I
don't know if they were electronic thoughts,

623
00:32:25.960 --> 00:32:29.279
and they would put each thought on
each spot on our faith, like

624
00:32:29.400 --> 00:32:30.960
where to God. That's how they
did it. The makeup thing was very

625
00:32:31.039 --> 00:32:35.000
long with a long process, and
that's how we were made up every day.

626
00:32:35.160 --> 00:32:37.519
And we get in there and we
would do our seat. We go,

627
00:32:37.640 --> 00:32:38.759
hey, Sana, I want all
those presents. And Tom would talk

628
00:32:39.000 --> 00:32:42.039
the four of us for pretty much
together. It's kind of like the Wizard

629
00:32:42.079 --> 00:32:44.400
of Odd. Four of us were
together a lot in the movie. And

630
00:32:44.839 --> 00:32:47.480
we did our feet. Then they
had four kids. They a young Tom,

631
00:32:47.640 --> 00:32:51.039
a young Me, a young Peter, young known if they were little

632
00:32:51.160 --> 00:32:53.839
kilt children. One would dress like
Tom blue, and I would Mine was

633
00:32:53.920 --> 00:32:57.759
dressed in blue, palma drifting yell
or whatever. And they did the same

634
00:32:57.839 --> 00:32:59.720
scene. They go, hey,
Sanna, I went older. But and

635
00:32:59.799 --> 00:33:02.319
they somehow would do the same modes
and Bob the mecas. However they did

636
00:33:02.319 --> 00:33:06.119
the technologus. They would morph us
together, so you see the kids in

637
00:33:06.200 --> 00:33:08.319
the movie or making the movie movie, but that would actually us do it,

638
00:33:08.799 --> 00:33:12.000
like if he wouldn't see when I
fall down in the train, I

639
00:33:12.160 --> 00:33:15.240
fell down him like glasses fell off. But somehow that was the kid did

640
00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:17.039
the same scene. It's morphed into
a kid's body. It's some kind of

641
00:33:17.079 --> 00:33:21.640
process like that motion capture. That
was the first film to use motion capture.

642
00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:24.440
Bob was always the head of his
patent. It's interesting to go back

643
00:33:24.519 --> 00:33:29.000
to I Want to Hold Your Hand
and how he's using the beatles. But

644
00:33:29.119 --> 00:33:35.240
then all those years later he's integrating
Tom with all the characters in Forrest Gump,

645
00:33:35.319 --> 00:33:37.680
and then it's like that was right
there on the cutting edge too.

646
00:33:38.200 --> 00:33:40.240
He was pre a lot of these
directors. You're right, he was pre

647
00:33:40.519 --> 00:33:44.319
then the other stuff he got would
use the later pulling. Right, he

648
00:33:44.400 --> 00:33:46.640
thought of this stuff first. Absolutely, he was an innovator. He was

649
00:33:46.680 --> 00:33:49.839
in a ridual. He still is. He's a riginal. I love Bob

650
00:33:50.319 --> 00:33:52.359
everything he does. I still have
to see Pinocchio. I was in the

651
00:33:52.400 --> 00:33:54.400
hospital. I didn't get to see
Pinoka yet. But that's why I do

652
00:33:54.480 --> 00:33:58.079
want to say. Blom is in
it and Bob director, so it's got

653
00:33:58.160 --> 00:34:01.519
to be great. You and Peter
Scolaria had worked together before. I don't

654
00:34:01.559 --> 00:34:04.839
know if he shared any scenes.
It's been a while since I've seen the

655
00:34:04.920 --> 00:34:07.360
Rosebud Beach Hotel. Oh my god. Yeah, that's when I forgot about

656
00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:10.400
Mike. Yeah, Peter is a
delight. He's like, okay, sorry,

657
00:34:10.480 --> 00:34:14.480
last time he died to you.
Pete sadly died a couple of years

658
00:34:14.519 --> 00:34:15.599
ago. You know, God,
what a sweet guy. Who was the

659
00:34:15.639 --> 00:34:19.199
greatest guy. Yeah, it wrote
to beat Health. He was great.

660
00:34:19.320 --> 00:34:22.280
I love worked with Peter. He
was a doll. Just the nicest guy

661
00:34:22.320 --> 00:34:25.159
you could ever imagine. Who was
in that one? Trying to remember Besid

662
00:34:25.280 --> 00:34:30.199
Peter. That was Colin Camp Christopher
Lee, who I think was in a

663
00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:35.000
few movies that you were in.
Christopher Lee that people have parted Flee.

664
00:34:35.079 --> 00:34:37.800
I love him. He's the great
dis guy. I worked with him in

665
00:34:37.880 --> 00:34:40.079
nineteen forty one, that one in
one other. He was the most wonderful

666
00:34:40.159 --> 00:34:44.679
gentleman. All I said. He
was great and he was just the warm,

667
00:34:44.760 --> 00:34:47.000
friendly guy with the great sense of
humor. He belied Vincent Price.

668
00:34:47.079 --> 00:34:50.360
We met me may who has met
Vincent Price. I'll pay about that a

669
00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:52.880
minute. But we rickfully worked with
him. He belied this. We played

670
00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:57.360
the sinister orror character in these horror
movies, a lot of these gothic films.

671
00:34:57.360 --> 00:34:59.800
But he was a regular guy who
had a great sense of humor.

672
00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:02.880
Anyway, I'll digress one minute.
This is I think it was like the

673
00:35:02.960 --> 00:35:06.239
eighties. I was married for two
years in the Eighth City. Yeah,

674
00:35:06.239 --> 00:35:08.679
it had to be somewhere between nineten
eighty four to nineteen eighty six. My

675
00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:12.679
ex wife Linda and I were at
a fancy restaurant Beverly Hill, very just

676
00:35:12.800 --> 00:35:14.880
we went out. That was the
best part of our mirrors. We go

677
00:35:14.960 --> 00:35:16.119
to fancy meals. That was the
best part. Linda and I love to

678
00:35:16.159 --> 00:35:19.519
eat, so we ate a lot
of good meals together. So it was

679
00:35:19.559 --> 00:35:21.679
a happy marriage in that way,
and we had some good time together.

680
00:35:21.800 --> 00:35:23.559
Anyway, we're at this restaurant.
We realized we're the boot. We really

681
00:35:23.559 --> 00:35:28.159
life in the dates and foods.
Vincent Price is there. Oh my god.

682
00:35:28.320 --> 00:35:30.239
So you're trying to keep cool and
eat, but I really miscit.

683
00:35:30.280 --> 00:35:32.199
Prices is right behind me. So
we finished our meal, we turn around.

684
00:35:32.440 --> 00:35:35.960
I have us the Prate. Can
I get your autograph now whatever?

685
00:35:36.039 --> 00:35:38.800
And you go, oh, yeah, that he's been the pike. I

686
00:35:38.880 --> 00:35:42.199
go, miss the Price. You
are so great, and he goes,

687
00:35:42.320 --> 00:35:44.800
you're in the movie. He goes, but he said that's Incent Prate was

688
00:35:44.840 --> 00:35:47.440
goes, now, members exactly good. Oh you're good too, that's what

689
00:35:47.599 --> 00:35:51.039
he said. He goes, oh, you're good too. Have any point

690
00:35:51.079 --> 00:35:53.360
of me. He was the nicest
and he did. So that made our

691
00:35:53.440 --> 00:35:57.239
day. If Lynda and I went
out of there out having met Vincent Price,

692
00:35:57.519 --> 00:36:00.199
it's another great one. Lynda and
I are walking down Hollywood bull Hard

693
00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:01.760
one day. This is again between
eighty four and eighty six. There's this

694
00:36:01.800 --> 00:36:06.159
big limozine part by Frederick's to Hollywood. So he said, you're obviously this

695
00:36:06.280 --> 00:36:08.559
guy's going in to get his wife
or his girlfriend to dress in some kind

696
00:36:08.599 --> 00:36:14.079
of sexy neglige or some sexy lingerie. So we're there. The guy comes

697
00:36:14.159 --> 00:36:15.480
up me, good, do you
know who's in that car? Steve Wonder?

698
00:36:15.880 --> 00:36:19.360
The Steve Wonders. That's a back
that pornos bars. It must I've

699
00:36:19.400 --> 00:36:21.599
never to Steve Wonder. It's gotta
be question. We look in Chris,

700
00:36:21.679 --> 00:36:23.559
Stevie Wonders in there. Now,
First of all, think about it.

701
00:36:23.760 --> 00:36:28.480
Who would be the least celebrity you'd
imagine to go to Frederick's Hollywood steeding wonder?

702
00:36:28.679 --> 00:36:30.840
Because he can't see that. What
would what help with Stevie Wonder?

703
00:36:30.920 --> 00:36:35.000
One? Why would he want his
girder dress up in nylons and girder bell?

704
00:36:35.119 --> 00:36:37.840
But it was Stevie Wonders car.
The door was open. Now obviously

705
00:36:37.960 --> 00:36:42.320
the girl was there in picking her
clothes out for whatever reason. That's a

706
00:36:42.400 --> 00:36:45.599
true story. Now we look in
ying it for wondering you Stevie Wondered.

707
00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:47.360
Yeah, he invites us in Mike, he invited Linda and eyand so Linz

708
00:36:47.400 --> 00:36:51.000
and I are sitting in a limous
in BacT He with Stevie Wonder there.

709
00:36:51.039 --> 00:36:53.440
I swear to God we're talking to
him at all, So I finished.

710
00:36:53.679 --> 00:36:57.920
And what I remember most about him
previous the nineties guys, And what I

711
00:36:58.000 --> 00:37:00.599
remember Mike the most as did shake
shake. We still cands at yet and

712
00:37:00.679 --> 00:37:04.440
it was the best handshake I ever
got. It was that perfect handshake,

713
00:37:04.760 --> 00:37:07.559
the only one I threw kids at
President Clinton, and those were too bad.

714
00:37:07.679 --> 00:37:10.079
I threw kids a lot of the
great but President Clinton and Cedie Wonder

715
00:37:10.159 --> 00:37:14.760
had the too perfect male. They
worked too hard, not too thought,

716
00:37:15.320 --> 00:37:17.840
not John Wayne, too topy,
break fan, not effeminate, but get

717
00:37:17.880 --> 00:37:21.840
the perfect handshake with perfect griff.
And we've been in goodbye and we left,

718
00:37:21.880 --> 00:37:23.880
but we met Thede Wonder. I
love that you're still a fan even

719
00:37:23.920 --> 00:37:27.840
though you've been in all of these
things, that you still aren't like a

720
00:37:27.920 --> 00:37:31.519
fanboy around certain people. I'm very
start fact absolutely yeah. For me,

721
00:37:31.760 --> 00:37:35.960
like I grew up watching your movies
and you would just show up here and

722
00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:37.320
there and it's just oh damn,
it's just Eddie DC, and I'm so

723
00:37:37.400 --> 00:37:39.719
excited, and you know, just
so great to see you. And now

724
00:37:39.760 --> 00:37:45.360
you have like all of these other
generations that just know you mostly as your

725
00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:50.760
voice and just like showing up on
Dexter's Laboratory or SpongeBob and just all of

726
00:37:50.840 --> 00:37:54.280
these different things. You did voice
work for so many years. It's wild.

727
00:37:54.880 --> 00:37:58.840
Yeah, after Polar Excraft and even
before polars with those years were a

728
00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:00.400
little thought. The eight that wor
a lot in the late seventies and the

729
00:38:00.480 --> 00:38:04.159
ages was my heyday where I would
churn in the mouth a lot of be

730
00:38:04.280 --> 00:38:07.760
moves. I was churning mount probably
like twenty films veget Then I got into

731
00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:09.480
which I was war Games. I
had trouble with my line. This is

732
00:38:09.679 --> 00:38:13.159
the genesis of it, Mike Walgreens. I was having a lot of trouble.

733
00:38:13.199 --> 00:38:15.480
I had only the one seed,
but I had to say the word

734
00:38:15.559 --> 00:38:19.159
data encryption algorithm, and it kept
screwing up. I go data eno cream

735
00:38:19.199 --> 00:38:22.159
album, cut data endocrysm Alvamo,
cut data on a Krenogle moved and I

736
00:38:22.440 --> 00:38:25.519
screwed up a screwed up. So
finally day stopped. So Maury takes me

737
00:38:25.599 --> 00:38:29.039
bite and he goes, Eddie,
let's take a little walk. He crooks

738
00:38:29.079 --> 00:38:30.119
his finger at me and beckons me
over. He quit his arm around my

739
00:38:30.119 --> 00:38:32.039
shoulder, goes, let's take a
walk. So we go outside. He

740
00:38:32.119 --> 00:38:36.199
goes, look you're cost of the
studio money. He goes, We're gonna

741
00:38:36.239 --> 00:38:39.199
get you idiot card goes idiot cards, pronouncing idiot like I'm an idiot.

742
00:38:39.639 --> 00:38:42.440
But he would let guy, but
he said, we're gonna get you d

743
00:38:42.559 --> 00:38:44.800
cards. So what did He had
these que cards designed for me, and

744
00:38:44.880 --> 00:38:45.960
I read the scene. I got
in one take, I go. We

745
00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:49.320
got to new dating crypttion algorithm,
the bang, one take, I go.

746
00:38:49.559 --> 00:38:51.920
This is creaty. He gets read
off a card. Anybody can do

747
00:38:52.039 --> 00:38:53.519
that, Alan, So I realized
that I think that would like Jennis.

748
00:38:53.559 --> 00:38:58.159
It's the falling in love with with
weeks over, because weeks over you just

749
00:38:58.280 --> 00:39:00.880
read your part. You don't have
to memorize anything you read. You roll

750
00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:04.119
off a piece of paper with the
ball. But like going back as early

751
00:39:04.199 --> 00:39:06.960
as the Gong Show, I did
need index cards. So even then I

752
00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:08.920
was having trouble with my memory.
I remember I did my full routine off

753
00:39:08.960 --> 00:39:12.679
index card. So even from the
earliest plain in my career, I liked

754
00:39:12.760 --> 00:39:15.000
using que cards. And then Pollard
Spress, I'd used que cards all the

755
00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:19.199
way through it Bomb known in them, didn't use them, but I read

756
00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:21.599
my bull roll they had a que
card role, having these big cards like

757
00:39:21.679 --> 00:39:24.119
Johnny Carson. I had these cards
like Bob que cards, and I read

758
00:39:24.159 --> 00:39:28.159
off them. Let me tell me
a little bit about the short film that

759
00:39:28.239 --> 00:39:30.360
you're in. I love you,
Addizisa. Yeah, that was done by

760
00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:34.639
talented girl Harry. What's her name, Harry, I don't remember the last

761
00:39:34.719 --> 00:39:37.840
name. That she is a very
sweet, talented girl. She's wonderful and

762
00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:39.840
I hope she sees all her gold. That film was good preferre it didn't

763
00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:43.519
necessarily I didn't necessarily get to play
my stuff so much. But it was

764
00:39:43.639 --> 00:39:45.199
a vanny piece of me because there
was my name in a film that was

765
00:39:45.280 --> 00:39:49.000
cool and she was wonderful to work. But then she's a great director,

766
00:39:49.239 --> 00:39:51.519
so I think she has a great
future. She's so much younger than me.

767
00:39:51.880 --> 00:39:53.280
She has a great future. Head. But I think I only worked

768
00:39:53.280 --> 00:39:55.360
a day on that, if I
remember, maybe I worked two or three.

769
00:39:55.679 --> 00:39:59.320
But she was fun to work with, and yeah, she was just

770
00:39:59.440 --> 00:40:01.079
really nice, the really nice person. I think he's gone my Facebook lift.

771
00:40:01.360 --> 00:40:07.760
I love Sherry. You have been
working so much for so many years.

772
00:40:07.400 --> 00:40:13.280
How did the pandemic effect you?
Did you have to stop doing what

773
00:40:13.400 --> 00:40:16.760
you're doing because there's been a period
of time since I think like twenty sixteen.

774
00:40:17.119 --> 00:40:21.679
I know you did one called what
beat You, Mike, but otherwise

775
00:40:22.280 --> 00:40:24.760
you've stopped working for a little while. Yeah, here's what happened. Like

776
00:40:24.760 --> 00:40:27.599
you can leave it in your show
or not. I'll leave it up to

777
00:40:27.639 --> 00:40:30.239
your discretion. You've seem like a
nice guy for you your discretion. I

778
00:40:30.400 --> 00:40:32.800
got very thick. I had of
heart trouble in the late before twenty twenty.

779
00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:36.000
There's a picture on my old Baker
page. In fact, I would

780
00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:37.440
look at I'm hugging the throat.
I remember, even before I had my

781
00:40:37.559 --> 00:40:40.760
operation, I didn't know what I
would get anither vertigo itself. I didn't

782
00:40:40.760 --> 00:40:44.039
know. No, I was born
with the heart murmur and one of the

783
00:40:44.119 --> 00:40:47.000
valves that come loose leaking blood into
my brain. So I would get beat

784
00:40:49.519 --> 00:40:51.599
and I find you know what's going
on? And I literally think, am

785
00:40:51.599 --> 00:40:53.800
I dying? It was horrible with
a horrible period of my life. And

786
00:40:54.159 --> 00:40:57.559
I finally got the outbreak in the
beginning of twenty twenty. I had open

787
00:40:57.639 --> 00:41:00.519
heart surgery. Then the worst thing
happened, like they put me on this

788
00:41:00.639 --> 00:41:04.719
regiment of pills, like about twenty
pills, and I had in my whole

789
00:41:04.719 --> 00:41:07.079
adult life drug free. I'm like
a Christian side. It's no drugs at

790
00:41:07.079 --> 00:41:09.519
all. No miss I didn't even
take asp but it took me on the

791
00:41:09.679 --> 00:41:14.280
twenty men that I started acting really
crazy. That's when I started acting really

792
00:41:14.360 --> 00:41:16.079
weird. And then I had a
stroke after that and I got in trouble

793
00:41:16.119 --> 00:41:21.719
in my hometown. I literally I
would help Funny in retrospect with it's troupe.

794
00:41:21.800 --> 00:41:23.519
I was in a Japanese restaurant and
the police were because they were trying

795
00:41:23.519 --> 00:41:27.800
to throw me out. I'd swearted
and I the police were there. They

796
00:41:27.840 --> 00:41:30.239
told me to leave, and I
threw plates at if. I threw plates

797
00:41:30.280 --> 00:41:31.920
at the cough and they would chasing
me around the restaurant, and I go

798
00:41:32.039 --> 00:41:36.360
felt it kind of kidnapped me.
Literally sounds like a movie. And my

799
00:41:36.400 --> 00:41:38.400
friend in the hospital. You if
they still have that Surreyless film, it's

800
00:41:38.400 --> 00:41:42.079
got to be one of the best
restaurst Surrayless bils of all time. It's

801
00:41:42.079 --> 00:41:44.599
got to be a classic. But
I literally faith Aroount. Now. The

802
00:41:44.679 --> 00:41:47.039
bad part, Mike is I would
that would fault that second degree of fault.

803
00:41:47.400 --> 00:41:51.280
When I was up for tending to
prison, I had a good public

804
00:41:51.320 --> 00:41:52.440
defender. Is he got me off. He got me off the hook.

805
00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:57.199
So now I'm serving eighteen months by
the supervise probation. I'm serving with Stevie

806
00:41:57.239 --> 00:41:59.519
and his way, Steve Jointer.
It's a nice guy in the world.

807
00:41:59.559 --> 00:42:01.880
He's my manager, and he was
so kind. He took me in seeing

808
00:42:01.920 --> 00:42:04.639
he's a great glad. We have
fun every day, we go out to

809
00:42:04.679 --> 00:42:07.280
eat, every day, we talk, We sat. I let him do

810
00:42:07.320 --> 00:42:08.480
this stuff. He's a manager of
a lot of people with as an important

811
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manager, and I let him do
it stuff. But we do a lot

812
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of things together every day. So
he's responsible for me being here. He's

813
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getting eat podcasts, he's booking me
for some the signing shows, and we

814
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ultimately do want to go back to
Hollywood so I can get back in the

815
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movies or at least try, you
know, I don't want to send the

816
00:42:22.719 --> 00:42:24.480
rest of my life us here.
I'm happy to be the South Carolina people

817
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are so nice, they're so wonderful, but I do want to go back

818
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to la as my own. I
just was you're closer to Detroit because I'd

819
00:42:31.119 --> 00:42:35.239
love to have you on one of
my pub trivia teams, because I know

820
00:42:35.360 --> 00:42:37.880
you're a huge trivia guy. As
well, I think Stevie might be a

821
00:42:37.960 --> 00:42:42.039
trivia expert too. We do good
at the team. I guess everybody had

822
00:42:42.079 --> 00:42:45.320
their subject. Mine is like the
Beatles. I'm an come an expert old

823
00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:49.960
time baseball. I know certain things
I'm not around, like I know enough

824
00:42:49.960 --> 00:42:52.119
about geography, nothing like that.
I don't know where the Ukraine is or

825
00:42:52.519 --> 00:42:54.639
some of stuff like that, or
I don't know I know, you know

826
00:42:54.679 --> 00:42:58.800
where Florida is California. I don't
know where all fifty states are. I'm

827
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very ignorant and stuff. Thanks.
You know what Mark Twain says, We

828
00:43:01.880 --> 00:43:06.239
are all ignorant, only in different
areas. It's like a profound quote,

829
00:43:06.280 --> 00:43:08.719
and it's true. Nobody knows everything
where just we all died a doll and

830
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know our field. Everybody's good.
There's an old line. I'm paraphraid every

831
00:43:13.559 --> 00:43:15.960
dog is good in front of their
own ouse, that every dog gets cot

832
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in front of their own health.
When you've got your own stock, you're

833
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a real expert. But when you're
taken out of your field, you can

834
00:43:20.880 --> 00:43:23.079
look like an idiot. I am
so excited for you to get back out

835
00:43:23.119 --> 00:43:25.679
there. I want the world to
have more at a do visa because I

836
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just always enjoy everything that you're in. Thank you, sir, I appreciate

837
00:43:30.360 --> 00:43:32.119
it. Thanks Mike, You're very
kind. Is there a good place for

838
00:43:32.280 --> 00:43:36.360
people to keep up with you in
your work and for you to make any

839
00:43:36.440 --> 00:43:39.360
sort of feature announcements? Okay,
I'm on Facebook every day. You please

840
00:43:39.360 --> 00:43:42.760
look at my Facebook post on would
buy a five pound in front of it?

841
00:43:42.800 --> 00:43:45.239
The limit? But you can always
look at my Facebook. Pay Stevie's

842
00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:47.119
got me on cameo videos. We're
on a thing called cameo. You can

843
00:43:47.239 --> 00:43:52.000
order cameo video to cost thirty dollars
and I will say high or whatever you

844
00:43:52.039 --> 00:43:54.400
want me to say. I'm unlike
a whrror. I'll say whatever they Happy

845
00:43:54.440 --> 00:43:58.239
Birthday, Happy bar Mitts. But
at a great wedding. We've got this

846
00:43:58.360 --> 00:44:00.960
one real long thing that's real wrong. Long dialogue people have me thinking all

847
00:44:01.039 --> 00:44:05.000
kinds of things or whatever, or
tech talks. I love some people.

848
00:44:05.159 --> 00:44:07.559
Will you just give it the test
talk and I'm good at that. Hey,

849
00:44:07.639 --> 00:44:09.400
Gertrude, don't read that, and
I give him teth talks. So

850
00:44:09.559 --> 00:44:13.159
if you want to order a cameo
video, there's an easy app. You

851
00:44:13.199 --> 00:44:15.119
can just google it and find the
apple by doing a lot of those.

852
00:44:15.400 --> 00:44:19.039
See he's getting me booked on different
podcasts. I think just Flate third or

853
00:44:19.039 --> 00:44:22.599
four. And yeah, Steve's working
on signing shows. I think Stevie's got

854
00:44:22.599 --> 00:44:24.280
about two or three signing shows that
up for me. We've got them lined

855
00:44:24.360 --> 00:44:28.519
up, so hopefully we don't have
the dates right now, but yeah,

856
00:44:28.599 --> 00:44:30.599
hopefully soon. Mister Beason, thank
you so much for your time. This

857
00:44:30.679 --> 00:44:35.360
has been such an honor talking with
you, my pleasure, it's mutual.

858
00:44:35.400 --> 00:45:02.840
It's been great talking to YouTube Mike, thank you so much. Who I

859
00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:07.199
gonna who I'm gonna guss you out, Who I'm gonna travel so far,

860
00:45:08.559 --> 00:45:13.760
Who I'm gonna reful you, Who
I'm gonna kiss her, I'm gonna love

861
00:45:13.840 --> 00:45:22.679
you. And then she told about
shewn out, then said, all day

862
00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:29.239
all the reason that I need to
all lie long gone, all life long

863
00:45:29.679 --> 00:45:34.119
love is what I need. Oh
my God, I love you ready reasons,

864
00:45:34.320 --> 00:45:42.000
and then she told them she loved
sol said, I'm gonna hut,

865
00:45:42.440 --> 00:45:49.519
I'm gonna I'm gonna travel so far, impel you. I can't a kiss

866
00:45:49.559 --> 00:46:00.320
your beard. And then she told
them how she loved sold all day long,

867
00:46:00.559 --> 00:46:10.760
the reason that I'm a long aline. Oh my God, you can

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00:46:12.159 --> 00:46:55.239
be told and sold sound then and
I should have ready, baby baby boy,

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dye my he