WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.440 --> 00:00:07.879 Hey, Street Walkers. This is a throwback episode with seven 2 00:00:07.960 --> 00:00:11.599 time Emmy Award winning actor Ed Asner. Ed appeared on 3 00:00:11.640 --> 00:00:14.279 the show twice, but his first appearance on the show 4 00:00:14.640 --> 00:00:17.559 was July twenty fifth, twenty eighteen, and it was such 5 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:20.160 a compelling and fun episode I decided that it needed 6 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:23.800 to be revisited. So enjoy this throwback episode. Tell a 7 00:00:23.879 --> 00:00:25.480 friend and thanks for listening. 8 00:00:35.359 --> 00:00:39.759 I believe that everybody has a story and I'm fascinated 9 00:00:39.799 --> 00:00:43.520 to hear them, So come with me as we take 10 00:00:43.560 --> 00:00:46.960 a walk down Fascination Street. 11 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:54.399 Welcome back, guys. This episode is my chat with Hollywood 12 00:00:54.520 --> 00:00:58.479 legend Ed Asner. Depending on your age, you know Ed 13 00:00:58.520 --> 00:01:02.039 Asner from the Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant, even 14 00:01:02.039 --> 00:01:05.480 the Pixar movie Up. In this episode, we talk about 15 00:01:05.599 --> 00:01:08.400 Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant, and Up, of course, 16 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:11.840 but we also talk about his new book, The Groucy Historian, 17 00:01:12.120 --> 00:01:15.439 an old time lefty defends our constitution against right wing 18 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:19.519 hypocrites and nutjobs. We talk about his touring one Man show, 19 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:22.519 A Man and his Prostate, and he even tells us 20 00:01:22.519 --> 00:01:26.239 a really cool story about him. Gavin McLeod and Ted 21 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:44.799 Knight enjoy guys, this is Ed Asner. And then Hi, 22 00:01:44.920 --> 00:01:45.640 mister Asner. 23 00:01:46.599 --> 00:01:46.799 Good. 24 00:01:47.879 --> 00:01:51.400 Hi, this is Steve Owens with Fascination Street Podcast. How 25 00:01:51.400 --> 00:01:57.760 you doing? I am doing well? Well, mister Asner. First, 26 00:01:57.760 --> 00:01:59.599 I just want to thank you so much for taking 27 00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:01.920 this time. I'm I'm a huge fan, have been for 28 00:02:02.079 --> 00:02:05.000 my entire life, so this means a lot to me. 29 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:08.800 Thank you very much, sir, Thank you, Thank you. Now, 30 00:02:08.840 --> 00:02:10.520 first of all, can I call you Ed? 31 00:02:11.759 --> 00:02:12.680 Oh? Absolutely? 32 00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:18.639 Or would you prefer I call you yit Zach? Well, 33 00:02:18.680 --> 00:02:22.400 since I'm not Hebrew, I won't call you that. How's that? Well, 34 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:28.599 mister Asner? You have been Oh see I already messed up? 35 00:02:28.639 --> 00:02:29.360 See how I am? 36 00:02:29.919 --> 00:02:31.719 You are? You mess up? 37 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:33.800 Well? 38 00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:34.039 Ed? 39 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:38.400 Everybody knows who you are. Mostly it depends on the generation, 40 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:41.520 but either from Mary Tyler Moore Show or Lou Grant 41 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:45.400 even roots, the younger generations know you as the the 42 00:02:45.479 --> 00:02:48.719 gratsy old man from that Pixar movie. Up. What do 43 00:02:48.879 --> 00:02:51.840 you get the most recognition from? 44 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:56.919 Well, some think what I've received more? 45 00:02:57.560 --> 00:02:59.080 Really Well, that's all. 46 00:02:59.159 --> 00:03:03.479 That's a number of man, Yeah it was. 47 00:03:03.639 --> 00:03:05.800 I wanted to talk to you about that. So Mary 48 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:09.599 Tyler Moore was a half hour sit Tom based on 49 00:03:09.919 --> 00:03:14.680 a television news room, and then your character spun off 50 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:17.639 to your own show, which was converted to a one 51 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:21.800 hour comedy in a newspaper office. How does that work? 52 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:22.960 Comedy? 53 00:03:23.199 --> 00:03:25.400 I'm sorry, I'm in a one hour drama, So how 54 00:03:25.439 --> 00:03:26.240 did that work out? 55 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:27.080 Worked on? 56 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:30.520 What made everybody decide to spend lou grantoff into a 57 00:03:30.520 --> 00:03:31.400 one hour drama? 58 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:35.840 Nothing like that? Had it really existed before? The market 59 00:03:35.879 --> 00:03:38.919 team good for it. They didn't seem to think that 60 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:45.840 they could continue creating comedy with network TV. So the 61 00:03:45.879 --> 00:03:51.439 two producers had been identified with newspapers before. They found 62 00:03:51.439 --> 00:03:56.680 it an intriguing hole to dive into, and as they 63 00:03:56.759 --> 00:03:59.080 died and all the people they've got along with them, 64 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:05.520 nobody ever done newspapers before or shot about them. 65 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:08.319 Well, I think it worked out really well. Why did 66 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:08.800 it end? 67 00:04:09.319 --> 00:04:13.479 I was outspoken on El Salvador Nicaragua. At the time, 68 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:19.439 I was deemed a loud mouth and branded by others 69 00:04:19.480 --> 00:04:21.480 as a commie a commy. 70 00:04:21.920 --> 00:04:22.920 Yeah, all right. 71 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:25.360 Do you think that that's the only time that you 72 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:28.199 being outspoken off camera has impacted your career? 73 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:29.600 Yes? 74 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:33.560 Yeah, gotcha. I'm probably gonna jump around a little bit. 75 00:04:33.800 --> 00:04:37.319 You were in the service like before before you started acting? Right? 76 00:04:37.639 --> 00:04:38.319 Yeah? 77 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:39.800 Which branch Army? 78 00:04:40.360 --> 00:04:40.560 Core? 79 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:46.240 And did you go anywhere overseas France? Who? Nice? Was 80 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:48.000 there any good memories of that time? 81 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:51.360 It was a wonderful experience. I will be grateful to 82 00:04:51.399 --> 00:04:55.360 Uncle Sam all my life for taking me across the ocean. 83 00:04:55.879 --> 00:04:58.600 Have you been back since I've been back to France? 84 00:04:58.720 --> 00:04:59.279 Yeah? 85 00:04:59.399 --> 00:05:01.879 Oh cool? When did you decide that you wanted to 86 00:05:01.879 --> 00:05:02.720 get into acting? 87 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:07.120 Oh, I've been touring with the idea in the back 88 00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:11.040 of my mind. Not consciously so, but I think he was. 89 00:05:11.720 --> 00:05:14.680 You just didn't think of those terms in those days. 90 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:17.759 You didn't think that's how you made a living in life. 91 00:05:18.079 --> 00:05:23.240 I didn't think I naturally, I wasn't handsome, so I 92 00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:27.680 couldn't think of becoming a leading man. So I tried 93 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:31.319 out for a play in college. I ended up doing 94 00:05:31.399 --> 00:05:37.160 the lead, and I came to realize that theater acting 95 00:05:37.639 --> 00:05:43.480 was more than being handsome and being a leading man. 96 00:05:44.079 --> 00:05:44.600 What more? 97 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:45.680 What more? 98 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:48.079 Yeah, you said, it's more than just being handsome. What 99 00:05:49.000 --> 00:05:49.240 is it? 100 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:53.519 The examiner of a human condition under many different circumstances? 101 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:57.120 Nice? What do you get personally out of it? Each time? 102 00:05:57.439 --> 00:06:00.439 I think it became therapy. For me, it became a 103 00:06:00.519 --> 00:06:05.399 means of transporting myself into somebody else, alleviating the load 104 00:06:05.439 --> 00:06:07.920 of not liking who I was. 105 00:06:07.920 --> 00:06:08.839 Was that an issue? 106 00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:09.600 I think? 107 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:11.279 So are you over it? 108 00:06:11.800 --> 00:06:14.600 I'm not entirely in love with myself, but I guess 109 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:15.279 I'm over it. 110 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:21.600 All right. So when did you decide that you wanted 111 00:06:21.639 --> 00:06:25.360 to run for the Screen Actors Still President. 112 00:06:25.319 --> 00:06:29.480 When many of the friends I was surrounded by felt 113 00:06:29.560 --> 00:06:33.000 that I had to do it to save the union. 114 00:06:33.399 --> 00:06:35.439 That's what I was going to ask. So did you 115 00:06:35.519 --> 00:06:38.439 do it for because you wanted to make specific changes? 116 00:06:39.160 --> 00:06:42.560 Yeah, we had just been involved in a big strike 117 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:46.600 at that time. I had been allied with the liberal 118 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:49.720 wing of the union at that Prior to that time, 119 00:06:50.199 --> 00:06:52.800 I felt that we should not have settled a strike 120 00:06:53.079 --> 00:06:59.120 that quickly or that cheaply. So my friends felt that 121 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:03.079 I should run and present to the membership of the 122 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:06.680 union a more aggressive presidency. 123 00:07:07.399 --> 00:07:09.519 And were you able to make the changes that you wanted, 124 00:07:09.839 --> 00:07:11.319 or at least send it in that direction. 125 00:07:11.839 --> 00:07:15.040 You're never to make the changes you want. There's always 126 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:17.920 something that gets in the way, or you find that 127 00:07:18.519 --> 00:07:23.319 by making change in one sense, you're increasing the burden 128 00:07:23.879 --> 00:07:27.959 in another sense. So it's time wasted. 129 00:07:28.600 --> 00:07:32.240 But it took you two terms to figure that out though, right, yeah, 130 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:34.800 more than that, more than two terms. 131 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:37.279 Yeah, I was on the board after that. I was 132 00:07:37.639 --> 00:07:41.639 ha been on the opposition, so to speak, up until 133 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:46.240 recently when I finally retired from the board, so that 134 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:48.720 the battle's still go gone. 135 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:53.680 Do you think that SAG protected the actors more then 136 00:07:54.120 --> 00:07:54.600 or now? 137 00:07:55.360 --> 00:07:57.839 I don't think they do it now, really, not at all. 138 00:07:57.920 --> 00:08:02.079 Huh No, they've got big. One of my main reasons 139 00:08:02.120 --> 00:08:04.560 I did not want to see the merger take place 140 00:08:05.079 --> 00:08:10.040 because they hadn't solved the problems of portability, portability of pension, 141 00:08:10.120 --> 00:08:13.480 portability of healthcare, and they still haven't done. 142 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:15.519 Do you think they will in your lifetime? 143 00:08:15.959 --> 00:08:16.680 Probably not. 144 00:08:17.800 --> 00:08:20.360 Well, well, that's a little disheartening. Let's move on to 145 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:24.360 something else. So you've been nominated for I think it's 146 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:29.279 over twenty Emmys, right, and you won a couple? 147 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:31.639 What do you mean a couple? You don't know how 148 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:32.159 to count? 149 00:08:32.480 --> 00:08:36.440 Oh, how well that is? I heard it was eight. 150 00:08:36.519 --> 00:08:39.279 That's why I because I heard once somebody said it 151 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:40.919 was seven, and then somebody else said it was eight. 152 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:44.919 Now, well, I won a Canadian Emmy as well. So 153 00:08:45.080 --> 00:08:45.879 that makes it eight. 154 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:47.320 Wow, where do you keep. 155 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:49.159 Them all strewn about the house? 156 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:52.399 Nice? Does any one of them stand out as more 157 00:08:52.440 --> 00:08:53.879 important or special to you? 158 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:58.279 Not? Really, not really. The first one was a treasure, 159 00:08:58.399 --> 00:09:03.600 a surprise, though, I'm just surprised. The second became the 160 00:09:03.639 --> 00:09:07.559 confirmation of the first, and it goes on like that. No, 161 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:11.759 I haven't received any in a long time, so I 162 00:09:11.799 --> 00:09:16.080 was I got one now that would signify it. You 163 00:09:16.279 --> 00:09:17.960 folks haven't forgotten me. 164 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:24.679 I don't think anybody is likely to forget you anytime. 165 00:09:24.039 --> 00:09:24.960 In the new future. 166 00:09:25.600 --> 00:09:30.759 Okay, So you were born in Kansas City. Yeah, and 167 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:33.240 when is the last time you went back to Kansas City? 168 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:36.919 Well, my brother funeral a year before last. 169 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:39.519 Well that is super sad, and I apologize. 170 00:09:39.919 --> 00:09:43.039 I'm sorry, No, Internet have to apologize. 171 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:47.480 So I was in Kansas City, probably about two years ago. 172 00:09:47.720 --> 00:09:50.279 And there's this thing. I don't know if if it 173 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:52.360 was there when you were younger, or if you've been 174 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:55.159 back since it's been up, but I guess some farmers 175 00:09:55.200 --> 00:09:57.919 found in a field like a sunken riverboat. It was 176 00:09:57.960 --> 00:10:00.080 full of it was like a walmart. It was full 177 00:10:00.120 --> 00:10:02.200 of everything that they would drop off to the local 178 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:05.000 general stores up and down the river, but it sank full, 179 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:07.200 and so they dug it up and turned it into 180 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:10.039 like this museum. And it's called the Arabia and it's 181 00:10:10.159 --> 00:10:12.919 right it's right there in Kansas City on the border 182 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:17.519 between Missouri and Kansas, and if you haven't been, you 183 00:10:17.519 --> 00:10:22.000 should really check it out because it is historical and amazing. 184 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:26.000 It's my favorite thing about Kansas City. What year was it, David, 185 00:10:26.519 --> 00:10:30.279 the actual boat, Like, when did it go down? Yeah, 186 00:10:30.559 --> 00:10:33.799 somewhere like in the eighteen forties, I think, And then 187 00:10:34.080 --> 00:10:36.679 the river moved and it ended up being like in 188 00:10:36.720 --> 00:10:39.279 the middle of a farmer's cornfield or something, and they 189 00:10:39.360 --> 00:10:39.919 dug it up. 190 00:10:40.279 --> 00:10:42.000 No kidding, Yeah, no kidding. 191 00:10:42.639 --> 00:10:43.960 I haven't heard a thing about it. 192 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:44.879 Wow. 193 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:47.000 When I was there, I spent about three and a 194 00:10:47.039 --> 00:10:50.399 half hours just oohing and eyeing over every single thing. 195 00:10:50.679 --> 00:10:53.440 It was so amazing. It's like a Walmart sank. 196 00:10:53.480 --> 00:10:55.159 But a Walmart. 197 00:10:56.000 --> 00:11:01.600 Yeah yeah. And there's there's everything from tools to you know, 198 00:11:01.720 --> 00:11:06.159 door knobs and keys and knives and uh, there's beads 199 00:11:06.320 --> 00:11:09.440 and dishes and jewelry, just everything that you would find 200 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:11.840 at the general stores. You know, one hundred and fifty 201 00:11:11.879 --> 00:11:16.440 years ago. It's amazing. It really is cool. 202 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:19.919 Where it is it on the Missouri side or on 203 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:21.360 the Kansas side. 204 00:11:21.480 --> 00:11:24.679 I think it's on the Missouri side. But like, I 205 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:26.360 had never heard of it. But when I was there, 206 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:28.360 I was asking some people what I should go do 207 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:31.159 while my wife was at work that day, and and 208 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:34.039 that suggestion came up. And I'm sure glad it did. 209 00:11:34.200 --> 00:11:36.519 I've told everybody I could about it. It's amazing. 210 00:11:36.919 --> 00:11:38.279 What was your wife working on? 211 00:11:38.639 --> 00:11:42.240 My wife builds psychiatric hospitals around the country, and she 212 00:11:42.360 --> 00:11:46.720 was building. She was building one there and while she was, 213 00:11:46.840 --> 00:11:49.399 you know, I had went. I had she was there 214 00:11:49.480 --> 00:11:52.200 to finalize some things, and while she was doing that, 215 00:11:52.279 --> 00:11:53.320 I went to the Arabia. 216 00:11:53.600 --> 00:11:56.559 Well. 217 00:11:56.720 --> 00:11:59.279 She's really sweet and she's been doing it for about 218 00:11:59.320 --> 00:12:02.600 twenty five year years, so she's really good at it well. 219 00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:05.919 And it's a good thing that you have somebody who 220 00:12:06.039 --> 00:12:07.720 is first. 221 00:12:06.879 --> 00:12:13.399 It's a good thing sometimes. But when she gets all 222 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:15.840 psychiatry on me, I want to get all mad and 223 00:12:15.879 --> 00:12:16.879 say to knock it off. 224 00:12:17.399 --> 00:12:19.840 Well, that's yeah, it is. 225 00:12:19.919 --> 00:12:21.600 It's hard to say. It's hard to win a fight 226 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:22.720 around here. 227 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:28.360 I know that there are controls in your life, that 228 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:30.200 there are limits. 229 00:12:30.519 --> 00:12:31.960 Well, how dare you? 230 00:12:32.039 --> 00:12:35.840 Yeah, I'm not married right now, I'm I sure could 231 00:12:35.919 --> 00:12:37.360 use some limits. 232 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:40.480 No, really no, So if. 233 00:12:40.279 --> 00:12:51.519 Your wife wants to change affiliations. 234 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:52.679 I'll ask him. I will let her know. She did 235 00:12:52.720 --> 00:12:54.120 want me to let you know that she had a 236 00:12:54.159 --> 00:12:56.960 crush on you when back in the in the Mary 237 00:12:56.960 --> 00:12:57.799 Tyler More days. 238 00:12:58.080 --> 00:12:59.559 Well, tell her she has good peace. 239 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:04.399 Oh, I will tell her that. So I think that 240 00:13:04.600 --> 00:13:08.080 you have an ed Asner foundation? Is that right? 241 00:13:08.519 --> 00:13:11.799 Well, we're starting one. Yes. My son and his wife 242 00:13:12.159 --> 00:13:15.480 are creating the ed Asner I don't know what the 243 00:13:15.960 --> 00:13:20.840 exact name of it is. It's trying to create counseling 244 00:13:21.039 --> 00:13:27.080 and coaching and tutorship. I'm ready for children, but it's 245 00:13:27.120 --> 00:13:30.080 the center for achieving flowering. 246 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:33.879 Is it for a particular autism? 247 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:37.600 It's certainly one of the things to be considered. But 248 00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:42.679 I mean any social burdens would hopefully be handled there, 249 00:13:42.840 --> 00:13:46.840 be it a d D or be it downs whatever. 250 00:13:47.120 --> 00:13:49.799 What inspired this my son and his daughter. 251 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:54.320 My son has been vice president with Autism Speaks and 252 00:13:55.080 --> 00:13:59.720 just recently left the Autism Society, so he's been planning 253 00:13:59.759 --> 00:14:01.600 it for a couple of years. 254 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:04.600 Now, gotcha, Well, I will make before I put this up. 255 00:14:04.639 --> 00:14:07.600 I'll make sure and get that website where people can 256 00:14:07.639 --> 00:14:09.799 go to donate and to see what they can do 257 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:10.200 to help. 258 00:14:10.559 --> 00:14:14.120 Yeah, that would be a big help and would be 259 00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:15.320 certainly most welcome. 260 00:14:16.039 --> 00:14:18.840 So you were in a couple of movies with Elvis Presley, 261 00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:20.720 if I'm not mistaken, is that right? 262 00:14:21.240 --> 00:14:21.480 Yeah? 263 00:14:22.399 --> 00:14:23.960 Did you have any scenes with him? 264 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:29.000 Well, sure, not in Kid Gallahad to speak of, but 265 00:14:29.200 --> 00:14:31.399 in Change of Habit I did. 266 00:14:31.720 --> 00:14:34.039 And what was your impression of him, because by then 267 00:14:34.120 --> 00:14:37.799 you were you had been acting probably for longer than him, 268 00:14:38.080 --> 00:14:41.879 I would assume. Oh yeah, So what did you think 269 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:43.320 about how his acting chops? 270 00:14:44.840 --> 00:14:49.080 Well, the Kid Galahad, right at the beginning of his success, 271 00:14:49.879 --> 00:14:53.000 he had a bunch of good old boys as an entourage, 272 00:14:53.559 --> 00:14:57.360 and he was in the midst of practicing karate. I 273 00:14:57.399 --> 00:15:00.240 think his hand one hand was broken at the time. 274 00:15:00.679 --> 00:15:04.600 But he was a good old boy and he was 275 00:15:04.600 --> 00:15:06.759 the bell of the ball and a good guy. 276 00:15:07.240 --> 00:15:07.519 Really. 277 00:15:08.080 --> 00:15:13.559 Oh yeah, And the same applied when when he did 278 00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:17.759 Change of Habit. He was a good guy there too. 279 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:21.200 He never stopped being a good guy. Yeah, let's have 280 00:15:21.320 --> 00:15:25.879 an entourage at that point, but he was much more alluring. 281 00:15:27.000 --> 00:15:28.639 He was quite the chick magnet? 282 00:15:28.919 --> 00:15:29.879 Weren't you? Also? 283 00:15:30.440 --> 00:15:31.360 What makes you think? So? 284 00:15:32.799 --> 00:15:34.759 I feel like there's some stories. 285 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:36.919 But what do you mean there was stories? 286 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:37.159 No? 287 00:15:37.399 --> 00:15:41.120 I just feel like, let's let me hear the skinny. 288 00:15:42.799 --> 00:15:47.200 Hey, street walkers, here's a word from our sponsors. Let's 289 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:51.480 get back into it. I just feel like I've heard 290 00:15:51.600 --> 00:15:53.759 tale of you being a man about town. 291 00:15:55.279 --> 00:15:56.039 I used uber. 292 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:04.559 I don't know. 293 00:16:04.559 --> 00:16:05.720 I just got you a lift. 294 00:16:05.840 --> 00:16:08.879 Man, No, I am, I am not well. When I'm 295 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:11.360 in l A, I us uber. It's way easier than 296 00:16:11.399 --> 00:16:12.559 trying to drive in that town. 297 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:14.840 Good lord, God, it's horrible. 298 00:16:15.279 --> 00:16:16.679 Yes, really become horrible. 299 00:16:16.840 --> 00:16:17.720 It is terrible. 300 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:19.879 Yes, yes, yes, yes. 301 00:16:20.480 --> 00:16:23.320 Tell me about Ted. Night you guys worked on screen? 302 00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:25.480 Did all did y'all have a relationship off screen? Were 303 00:16:25.519 --> 00:16:26.240 your friends? 304 00:16:26.519 --> 00:16:28.919 Oh? We used to go out every every Friday night 305 00:16:28.960 --> 00:16:33.559 after the show with our wives and have dinner drinks. 306 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:35.879 We were the cats meow. 307 00:16:36.120 --> 00:16:38.320 The cats me ow. Did you guys? 308 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:38.519 Ever? 309 00:16:39.279 --> 00:16:41.759 I don't know. Did you guys learn anything from each 310 00:16:41.799 --> 00:16:43.480 other as far as acting? Ever? 311 00:16:44.120 --> 00:16:47.879 Well, I saw what it what it was like. Could 312 00:16:47.879 --> 00:16:51.440 be the funniest man I ever knew, and that was Ted. 313 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:55.799 He was I'm a teenage, so it was easy to 314 00:16:55.840 --> 00:16:59.720 pick up hints watching him. The best story I can 315 00:16:59.799 --> 00:17:03.559 tell yeah about that one time Gavin and I were 316 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:07.079 walking along. Ted was in the midst of a rehearsing 317 00:17:07.119 --> 00:17:10.880 a scene because the guys watch this and tell me 318 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:13.880 what you think. Joy watching It was a very funny scene. 319 00:17:13.960 --> 00:17:16.680 He was very funny. He said, now we're gonna do 320 00:17:16.720 --> 00:17:18.799 it again. I'm going to do it a different way, 321 00:17:19.200 --> 00:17:21.799 and I want you to tell me how they compare 322 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:24.039 for you. So he did a different way. It was 323 00:17:24.079 --> 00:17:27.720 still funny, almost as funny as the first. Thank you. 324 00:17:28.559 --> 00:17:31.599 I'm going to do it a third way, and you 325 00:17:32.319 --> 00:17:34.839 let me know what's the third way. It was funny 326 00:17:34.839 --> 00:17:39.200 too and different. Finally, he ended up settling on the 327 00:17:39.240 --> 00:17:43.480 first method with some modification, and Kevin and I looked 328 00:17:43.519 --> 00:17:47.960 and sell of a bit. We struggled to get it 329 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:51.480 right the first time and hopefully it's the best that 330 00:17:51.559 --> 00:17:56.200 we get, and he Kevin liarly waltzes through and comes 331 00:17:56.279 --> 00:18:01.680 up with three different interpretations, all of which are enormously salable. 332 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:05.599 So that shows you these comic capacities. 333 00:18:05.920 --> 00:18:09.039 What a great story. Thank you for that. So you 334 00:18:09.759 --> 00:18:15.000 have been on TV, movies, Broadway and you do voiceovers, 335 00:18:15.559 --> 00:18:18.839 Is there any one of those that you prefer now 336 00:18:18.920 --> 00:18:20.960 that you're a little bit older. 337 00:18:21.400 --> 00:18:25.640 Well, Broadway's not a top Broadway never never did enough 338 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:30.559 to satisfy me. Working and working and reworking and working 339 00:18:30.599 --> 00:18:35.559 and reworking with TV, you're going to approach to a 340 00:18:35.599 --> 00:18:41.160 great job in refining the results film. I had the 341 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:45.759 pleasure of doing helf with John Favreau. That was a delight. 342 00:18:46.200 --> 00:18:48.839 As much as I hate to say it, I prefer 343 00:18:49.400 --> 00:18:52.759 film to stage. Stage is the way you is, where 344 00:18:52.799 --> 00:18:55.960 you start, where you learn, So you got to do it. 345 00:18:56.359 --> 00:19:00.119 That makes sense. What about voice acting? Voiceovers? 346 00:19:00.359 --> 00:19:01.720 I love it, I love it. 347 00:19:02.039 --> 00:19:03.680 Yeah, I've done a lot of it. 348 00:19:04.079 --> 00:19:05.640 I did radio in high school. 349 00:19:05.880 --> 00:19:06.440 Oh cool. 350 00:19:06.920 --> 00:19:13.200 Yeah, I was busy being the devoiced continental lover most 351 00:19:13.240 --> 00:19:18.319 of the time. What are you laughing at. 352 00:19:19.839 --> 00:19:19.880 Me? 353 00:19:20.240 --> 00:19:23.640 No, sir, you better than not laugh at me. 354 00:19:24.559 --> 00:19:26.960 I have a question about the movie Up. I was 355 00:19:27.000 --> 00:19:29.880 looking at the Wikipedia page for that movie, and it 356 00:19:30.039 --> 00:19:33.160 says that that movie's budget was one hundred and seventy 357 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:36.160 five million dollars. That can't be true, can it? 358 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:38.200 They didn't spend it on me? 359 00:19:42.519 --> 00:19:44.319 Do you think it was mostly advertising? 360 00:19:44.759 --> 00:19:47.200 I don't know where that money went. Oh maybe it was. 361 00:19:47.279 --> 00:19:51.160 I don't know. I have no idea. According we didn't 362 00:19:51.200 --> 00:19:51.640 see it. Dar. 363 00:19:51.880 --> 00:19:55.359 According to that same article, it made seven hundred and 364 00:19:55.480 --> 00:19:58.559 thirty five million dollars worldwide. Did you see any of 365 00:19:58.559 --> 00:19:59.559 that money? 366 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:02.160 Oh? Not enough of it. 367 00:20:05.319 --> 00:20:07.799 So you are well, I guess right now you're taking 368 00:20:07.799 --> 00:20:11.279 a break, but back when August comes, you're gonna continue 369 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:14.480 your one man show, A Man in his Prostate? Is 370 00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:14.839 that right? 371 00:20:15.119 --> 00:20:16.359 Yeah, tell me. 372 00:20:16.279 --> 00:20:18.759 A little bit about that show. What's it well, besides 373 00:20:18.799 --> 00:20:20.200 your prostate, what's it about? 374 00:20:20.559 --> 00:20:24.640 Well? My It was written by Ed Weinberger, who was 375 00:20:24.720 --> 00:20:29.279 a producer writer on The marytoll Moore Show and has 376 00:20:29.279 --> 00:20:34.559 been very successful since. It's a wonderful show. The wonderful 377 00:20:34.599 --> 00:20:39.480 show which talks about the fact that every sixteen minutes 378 00:20:40.079 --> 00:20:43.400 a man dies of cancer, prostate cancer in this country 379 00:20:44.079 --> 00:20:48.519 and at the same time giving you that information, alerting 380 00:20:48.559 --> 00:20:53.599 you to that information. I perform It's Attack of Prostate 381 00:20:53.720 --> 00:20:58.119 Titus on a cruise shiped Italy to gales of laughter. 382 00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:01.079 It sounds awesome. 383 00:21:01.680 --> 00:21:04.359 Yeah, it is so wonderful package. 384 00:21:04.680 --> 00:21:07.119 I would encourage everybody listening to go to a Man 385 00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:10.680 at Hisprostate dot com and see where it's showing where 386 00:21:10.680 --> 00:21:13.640 it's touring. I will be picking back up in August 387 00:21:14.440 --> 00:21:17.359 in New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. I'm sure it 388 00:21:17.440 --> 00:21:19.960 might be other places, So check that website to find out. 389 00:21:20.440 --> 00:21:23.039 And if you don't like the show, Steve will refund 390 00:21:23.079 --> 00:21:23.559 your money. 391 00:21:23.680 --> 00:21:26.440 See that's what I will do. Wait a minute, hold on, now, 392 00:21:27.279 --> 00:21:29.720 what is it. I don't want to do that. I 393 00:21:29.720 --> 00:21:32.119 don't want to replace anybody's money. Why don't you just 394 00:21:32.240 --> 00:21:34.079 tell them that it's going to be a good show 395 00:21:34.160 --> 00:21:35.200 and they will enjoy it. 396 00:21:35.680 --> 00:21:38.920 That's it. If you're not happy with the show, Steve 397 00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:40.160 will refund your money. 398 00:21:41.400 --> 00:21:41.680 Thanks. 399 00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:41.960 Ed. 400 00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:46.200 All right, So same thing I. 401 00:21:46.160 --> 00:21:50.519