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Speaker 1: Our Way with yours truly Paul Anka and my buddy

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Speaker 1: Skip Bronson, is a production of iHeartRadio. Hi, folks, this

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Speaker 1: is Paul Anka.

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Speaker 2: And my name is Skip Bronson.

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Speaker 3: We've been friends for decades and we've decided to let

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Speaker 3: you in on our late night phone calls by starting

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Speaker 3: a new podcast and.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Our Way. We'd like you to meet some

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Speaker 1: real good friends of ours.

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Speaker 2: Your leaders in entertainment and.

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Speaker 1: Sports, innovators in business and technology, and even a sitting

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Speaker 1: president or two.

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Speaker 3: Join us as we ask the questions they've not been

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Speaker 3: asked before, tell it like it is, and even sing

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Speaker 3: a song or two.

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Speaker 1: This is our podcast, and we'll be doing it our way.

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Speaker 4: I've really been pretty passionate about telling this story. It

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Speaker 4: has been a big part of my life the last

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Speaker 4: ten years, and I have found that, you know, sharing

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Speaker 4: stories and my experience through show business. You know, right, Paul,

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Speaker 4: you get you're around long enough, but eventually you're kind

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Speaker 4: of interesting because you've seen a lot go on and

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Speaker 4: you've been in the middle of a lot of things.

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Speaker 1: You know, what is hank experience?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: Well, hello, well look at that, Hank.

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Speaker 1: How you doing, buddy?

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Speaker 6: Okay?

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Speaker 1: Hello? Hello, look at you. Were you at the game

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Speaker 1: the other night?

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Speaker 6: Rice, I was sitting back there, I was at the

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Speaker 6: met came yeah, and.

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Speaker 1: You had a nice young man with you. Who were you?

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Speaker 6: My son?

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Speaker 1: How how old is he?

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Speaker 6: He's fifteen and.

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Speaker 1: I got a nineteen? You got a fifteen. Isn't it

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Speaker 1: a beautiful world? Well? We gotta gear him up for it.

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Speaker 6: Right, Well, so far it is a beautiful world for him.

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Speaker 6: I hope it remains.

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Speaker 1: So that's good man, Hey, been a big fan. You know,

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Speaker 1: I was on The Simpsons. I don't know if you remember.

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Speaker 1: I don't know were you on there when I was

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Speaker 1: on that one?

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Speaker 6: I've been on since it was a show. So yeah,

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Speaker 6: off everything. Did you record by yourself or were you

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Speaker 6: with us?

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Speaker 1: I was with you. I think I went in the

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Speaker 1: studio did the whole thing. But I guess between that

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Speaker 1: and the Gilmore Girls, right, everybody talks everybody.

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Speaker 4: Lauren Graham was a very good friend of mine. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: I loved her. I saw that you were on a

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Speaker 4: Gilmore Girls a couple of times.

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Speaker 1: Well, I so admire what you do, man, because you

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Speaker 1: know Sammy Davis who inspired me. He was my buddy

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Speaker 1: and the first thing he did along with singing. He

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Speaker 1: was doing all those impressions and I'd sit there, you know,

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Speaker 1: they'd sneak me into the club because I was too

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Speaker 1: young in Vegas, but sit backstage. And this sucker, besides

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Speaker 1: being a great singer, great performer and Frank Olives, we

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Speaker 1: loved him. When he did those impressions, people were floored

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Speaker 1: because they weren't. The environment wasn't that, you know, little

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Speaker 1: and all those dudes came later, But Sammy and I

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Speaker 1: was Fu's real doing. Louis Armstrong was doing Von Munaul.

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Speaker 1: He was teaching me how to do it.

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Speaker 6: Well.

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Speaker 1: Of course I got into my own thing and that

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Speaker 1: you skip. Yeah, look at that guy.

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Speaker 6: Hello, mister Bronson.

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Speaker 2: Hello there, mister Area.

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Speaker 6: So do you live mostly in New York or mostly

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Speaker 6: in La Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I moved back here eleven years ago. I grew up

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Speaker 6: Years ago because I was going to ask what the

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Speaker 6: world series trying to figure out if you're going to

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Speaker 4: I'm rooting somehow for both teams to lose. That that's

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Speaker 4: what I hope happened.

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Speaker 1: We hope not. It's going to you know, it's going

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Speaker 1: to be historic, There's no question about it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't think we've ever in a long time seen

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Speaker 6: Not since those Reggie Jackson, Billy.

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Speaker 4: Martin Yankee said the Dodgers and Yankees based off in

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Speaker 6: I don't think the big difference is this time the

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Speaker 1: Stories everything else right, skip the numbers? Were the roots?

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Speaker 1: Should they be able to place?

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Speaker 4: I learned that the cheapest ticket at Yankee Stadium, I mean,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fourteen here is there?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: Somebody about a ticket for fifty nine thousand behind the plate.

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Speaker 1: I think somebody had one up for fifty nine grand.

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Speaker 1: So it's all stupid money. Whoever they are, I want

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Speaker 1: to know who they are. I want to know what

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Speaker 6: Think it's only other ball club owners. Really at this point.

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Speaker 1: You know, the guy's watching the game. I think for

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Speaker 1: the first time watching it all you know to me,

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Speaker 1: baseball is not sexy. A lot of these other sports

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Speaker 4: Like many of the kids today. Paul, do you find

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Speaker 4: baseball a little bit boring? Too slow paced for you?

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Speaker 1: Of course? You know I watched it for years and

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Speaker 1: only I used to sit in with sort of America's

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Speaker 1: coming up for a night or two. Can you give

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Speaker 1: me a room? Two fucking weeks later, he was still

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Speaker 6: Is that right?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Yes, I mean I got all my baseball ship

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Speaker 1: from him. I go way back with it. Yeah, the

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Speaker 1: kids find it boring. Me and my nineteen year old

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Speaker 1: they're not really in to all of that. But it's

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Speaker 1: just not a sexy sport. You know. That's kind of

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Speaker 6: I was just gonna say, I don't watch it until

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Speaker 6: the playoffs. I'm a sported span you know. They love

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Speaker 6: to watch the NBA, they love to watch hockey football. Obviously,

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Speaker 6: baseball only playoffs some World Series. I get interested now.

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Speaker 6: I'm totally intrigued.

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Speaker 2: Of course.

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Speaker 6: I grew up in Connecticut, Hank so I was in

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Speaker 6: New York Yankees fan. My old world was Mickey Mantle.

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Speaker 6: I mean that was that was the whole thing. And

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Speaker 6: So I don't root for either to win, and I

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Speaker 6: see that the dynamic of the superstars that are you know,

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Speaker 6: both teams have and so Tani is He's just a

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Speaker 6: He's a one of one. That's the only way to

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Speaker 4: I mean, you know you're watching that series, you know

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Speaker 4: on and you know you watch that series ago, Well,

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Speaker 4: if we had a Tony we would have won.

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Speaker 2: We didn't.

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Speaker 6: They did, so they won. It was pretty much that simple.

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Speaker 1: Well, I got a big series bed on. That's who

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Speaker 1: I like, and then I'm gonna hedge out. So anyway

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Speaker 1: I can watch it. Bet all those games, I said,

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Speaker 1: better than I hedge. I'm putting a big, big.

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Speaker 6: Bed on one.

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Speaker 1: Then I'm gonna hedge out. I'll be sitting in the

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Speaker 6: So this is the one time of year when you've

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Speaker 6: got the NBA, you've got the NHL, you've got the NFL,

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Speaker 6: and you've got Major League Baseball all at one time.

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Speaker 6: It's true. My wife hates every minute of it. It's like, well,

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Speaker 6: my god, tonight again, what are you watching?

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Speaker 1: Fight for the remote?

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Speaker 6: Exactly, yeah, I got hockey.

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Speaker 1: The hockey is starting to kick in.

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Speaker 6: Well, you're a canadiot right from Ottaway.

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Speaker 1: Is true blue from Ottawa love hockey and it's it'll

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Speaker 1: kick in another three weeks.

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Speaker 6: So you a Senators guy.

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Speaker 1: No, I helped bring him to I had a piece

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Speaker 1: It's an ego sport, you know, these guys that own

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Speaker 7: Who do you?

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Speaker 6: I mean, do you have a who do you root for?

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Speaker 6: What team?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Well, I like Boston. I like the Golden Knights because

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Speaker 1: I've spent some time in Vagas. Sure you know, I

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Speaker 4: I was a big Rangers stand back then, Eddie chock Man,

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Speaker 1: Those guys, Derek said, all those guys, they were all

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Speaker 1: I got the pictures behind me. See Wayne Gretzky up there,

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Speaker 1: All the guys were in my dressing room where my

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Speaker 1: finger is all signed. You much money I've been offered

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Speaker 1: for those silly little pictures. Look at this anyway. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about you, man.

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Speaker 6: We don't have to.

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Speaker 4: I feel like more like I could get interviewing you guys,

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Speaker 4: but that's all right, we can.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 6: I'm all jazz guy. You guys are both fascinating.

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Speaker 1: Tell me about the Springsteen thing, man, I mean, all

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Speaker 1: the voices and everything that you've done, and now you

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Speaker 1: got this Springsteen thing going, which I think is how

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Speaker 1: did you get into that? How did you harness it?

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Speaker 1: That's not an easy voice.

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Speaker 6: Well, Paul, as you said, I'm a mimic, and that

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Speaker 6: started by imitating the guys I idolized growing up. Springsteen

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Speaker 6: being the top of that list, and I've always imitated

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Speaker 6: the way he talking is. If you're familiar on his

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Speaker 6: live shows, he does a lot of monologues and talks.

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Speaker 4: I'm been singing like Bruce all day, so they could

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Speaker 4: take it out of me. So I turned sixty last April.

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Speaker 4: I had some mixed feelings about that, and I felt like, well, it.

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Speaker 6: Might be fun.

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Speaker 4: I'm not really usually a party guy, but I find

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Speaker 4: a reverse surprise thing where I put together a band

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Speaker 4: and sing a few Springsteen songs. And that's what I did,

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Speaker 4: and I got totally obsessed. As you said, I am

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Speaker 6: And so I got so.

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Speaker 4: Obsessed with trying to get the singing impression of Bruce's right,

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Speaker 4: I'm finally getting around to reading his autobiography Born New

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Speaker 4: I don't think it's a bigger deal of meeting then

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Speaker 6: In nineteen eighty eight, I just moved to La I

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Speaker 2: Now if you asked.

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Speaker 6: On the rerun, said I just I just slipped down

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, he's not saying anything to me. I just

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's how I feel too.

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Speaker 6: I mean, I'm standing there listening, I want to hear

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Speaker 4: And I was like, I can't help it. I love

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that effect we've all used, you know the opera.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it subliminally works on you because they're so quiet.

442
00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:33,800
Speaker 1: You lean forward, you know, metaphorically you and you live.

443
00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:34,120
Speaker 2: Wow.

444
00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:35,040
Speaker 6: Listen to that.

445
00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:37,119
Speaker 1: It's very cool. But you don't want to listen to

446
00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:38,320
Speaker 1: two hours of that ship No.

447
00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:41,520
Speaker 4: I mean I would have missed it if it didn't

448
00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:42,240
Speaker 4: go back to the mic.

449
00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:44,520
Speaker 2: But it was really.

450
00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:45,560
Speaker 6: Wonderful to hear.

451
00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:46,320
Speaker 1: It's a cool trick.

452
00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:48,760
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's like seeing me sty around a campfire, you know.

453
00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:01,879
Speaker 1: Going back to you, Nick Callahan. Right, everybody wrapped their

454
00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:04,159
Speaker 1: arms around that when you brought him back. What was

455
00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:06,680
Speaker 1: it like because there was a little hiatus in the

456
00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:10,880
Speaker 1: middle of all that, wasn't there. I am sorry, Nick Callahan, Yeah,

457
00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:17,120
Speaker 1: the salesman. The salesman, didn't you Nick Callahan? Oh wait,

458
00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:21,560
Speaker 1: Sometimes I forget the name of my Simpsons characters. Yeah,

459
00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:25,160
Speaker 1: and I think it was Nick, you know, I mean back,

460
00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:29,639
Speaker 1: you came back what season thirty six to premier it

461
00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:33,560
Speaker 1: again or something, you know, I'm the White Lotus luxury resort,

462
00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:35,600
Speaker 1: and then you brought Nick back vocally.

463
00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:35,840
Speaker 4: You know.

464
00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:38,360
Speaker 6: It's funny about this, Paul. It's thirty six years.

465
00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:42,240
Speaker 4: It's not only that, but it's thirty six years. Yeah,

466
00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:44,760
Speaker 4: I'm doing the show, so nearly eight hundred episodes.

467
00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:47,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, well he returned in season thirty six.

468
00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:49,760
Speaker 6: I didn't even know that. I know that episode was

469
00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:51,080
Speaker 6: about to come out.

470
00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:55,520
Speaker 4: And because we don't memorize it because it's what he's recording,

471
00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:58,440
Speaker 4: it often doesn't stay in my brain like what we did.

472
00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:01,840
Speaker 6: And there's so many it's this happens to me all

473
00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:02,200
Speaker 6: the time.

474
00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:05,359
Speaker 4: They're going to say, oh, this, this character, this line,

475
00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:06,720
Speaker 4: or the show I'm like, I don't.

476
00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:08,720
Speaker 6: I really don't recall it.

477
00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:09,119
Speaker 2: Wasn't it.

478
00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:11,920
Speaker 6: I'll give you a clue, wasn't it Nick the realtor. Yes,

479
00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:15,040
Speaker 6: it rings a bell. You're right. But it's over a

480
00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:17,440
Speaker 6: hundred characters I've done on the show, and I think

481
00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:21,639
Speaker 6: because it was so long that I haven't reprised it.

482
00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:29,320
Speaker 4: I actually told all the great shift.

483
00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:33,080
Speaker 1: That you've done. Do one now, that is your favorite.

484
00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:35,760
Speaker 1: Anybody could be singing it. Give me one.

485
00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:41,040
Speaker 6: What people talk to me them mouth is the bird cage.

486
00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:46,800
Speaker 6: A character called Spartacus. He was a Guatemala man.

487
00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:49,560
Speaker 4: He was the houseboy in the movie and it was

488
00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:52,359
Speaker 4: and I grew up at the I'm at the fartic jew.

489
00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:55,360
Speaker 6: My family is from Salonika and.

490
00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:58,720
Speaker 4: My grandmother, my grandma asked she I worked on a

491
00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:01,680
Speaker 4: Guatemala accent, and it turned out to be an imitation

492
00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:04,360
Speaker 4: of her moth like I couldn't just save a lot

493
00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:06,480
Speaker 4: of the time, don't be like her.

494
00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:11,200
Speaker 6: Dad and motive more but tender. I do remember from

495
00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:14,880
Speaker 6: this mote my all time favorite I love mote.

496
00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:17,520
Speaker 4: That is an interesting fun fat Boy used to add.

497
00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:20,680
Speaker 4: One of my other heroes growing up was al Pacino.

498
00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,800
Speaker 4: I love that Young Al was a little higher pitched,

499
00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:25,080
Speaker 4: very swift spoken.

500
00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:27,760
Speaker 6: Godfather ouled all day afternoon.

501
00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:31,399
Speaker 4: You know, I'm dying here. Everybody's coming down on me.

502
00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:36,480
Speaker 4: So I auditioned for The Simpsons are using that voice, and.

503
00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:37,960
Speaker 6: They said they wanted it gravelly.

504
00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:41,480
Speaker 4: So if you'll make out Pacino gravelly, you get motor

505
00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:45,800
Speaker 4: bought tender. And it also I think it lives somewhere

506
00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:47,880
Speaker 4: between Bruce and young Al.

507
00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:50,080
Speaker 6: Pacino, you get Mo right in the middle of there.

508
00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:52,760
Speaker 6: So I love that and I pooh.

509
00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:55,880
Speaker 4: Partially why I stopped doing the voice skip because it

510
00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:59,200
Speaker 4: was created in nineteen eighty eight and it was very

511
00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:01,480
Speaker 4: funny and lovely. We want to watch the show is

512
00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:04,560
Speaker 4: what it is, not just because of APO, but for

513
00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:06,879
Speaker 4: a lot of reasons. But it also came to like

514
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,760
Speaker 4: that it was really marginalizing for a lot of folks

515
00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:12,960
Speaker 4: Indian Americans, and so in the fact that it was

516
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,080
Speaker 4: a white guy from Queen's doing the voice in a

517
00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:18,679
Speaker 4: really stereotypical way, I made the decision to stop, to

518
00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:21,639
Speaker 4: stop doing it. And in animation in general, not just

519
00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:26,320
Speaker 4: at the Simpsons, we've really we've allowed people to voice themselves,

520
00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:28,760
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. It's a black character, it's

521
00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:31,800
Speaker 4: a black vocal artist. If it's Indian, it's an Indian

522
00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:32,600
Speaker 4: vocal artist.

523
00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:34,080
Speaker 6: Latin, same thing.

524
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:35,919
Speaker 4: So it's been a big change, and it was an

525
00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:38,920
Speaker 4: interesting thing because it was, you know, not many shows

526
00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:41,040
Speaker 4: are on for thirty six years, so it was sort

527
00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,160
Speaker 4: of a it remained to kind of hold over from

528
00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,040
Speaker 4: the past. You couldn't say, oh, well, that was the

529
00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:47,439
Speaker 4: way it was fifteen years ago, because we sort of

530
00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:50,560
Speaker 4: are a living relic in some ways from nineteen eighty eight.

531
00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:53,920
Speaker 4: But I love that character too, and I missed doing

532
00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:54,679
Speaker 4: it sometimes.

533
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:55,680
Speaker 6: It was awesome.

534
00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:58,520
Speaker 1: Hey, Hank, who you know you're old enough to see

535
00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:03,399
Speaker 1: these genre of people who impressed you from Rich Little

536
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,320
Speaker 1: and there's a whole gang of them that really did

537
00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:08,840
Speaker 1: a great job on a lot of voices, who impressed

538
00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:09,880
Speaker 1: you the most of any of them.

539
00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:12,720
Speaker 4: I watched all those guys growing up Little and Gorshan

540
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:15,879
Speaker 4: and you know that show Copycats was a big favorite

541
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:17,600
Speaker 4: of mine back in the day. But you know who

542
00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:21,320
Speaker 4: really might ear two guys, Mel Blank, who did all

543
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:26,640
Speaker 4: the Warner Brothers cartoon voices, Buds, Bunny, whatnot. I idolized him,

544
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:31,159
Speaker 4: and really Peter Sellers, I know he wasn't an impressionist,

545
00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:36,280
Speaker 4: but he was so vocally gifted and his acting was

546
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:40,720
Speaker 4: so amazing that that's I think. Really those two guys,

547
00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:44,760
Speaker 4: Sellers and mel Blank were my north stars.

548
00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:48,040
Speaker 1: I think, dynamically so different. Yeah, and he was he

549
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:50,520
Speaker 1: was a troubled guy Sellers, you know, I knew him

550
00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:52,439
Speaker 1: a little bit and you had the same agent. But

551
00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:53,480
Speaker 1: a brilliant actor.

552
00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:58,280
Speaker 6: Oh, he was a genius Cluseo and strange love and

553
00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:01,800
Speaker 6: all the vocal work he did. Just was completely enamored of.

554
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,679
Speaker 1: So, Hank, who did you want to do? And tried

555
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:07,200
Speaker 1: and you just weren't satisfied up to your level? Who

556
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:07,960
Speaker 1: did you bail on.

557
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,920
Speaker 4: A lot of people? I loved cartoons as a kid.

558
00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 4: I could never get Yogi Bear. Try as I might,

559
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:14,480
Speaker 4: I couldn't.

560
00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:15,239
Speaker 6: Just couldn't do it.

561
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:17,600
Speaker 4: There's a couple I tried on The Simpsons that I

562
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:22,960
Speaker 4: just could not get. Jeff Goldblum. I love him and

563
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 4: I love his voice, and I tried to I can

564
00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:30,040
Speaker 4: sort of approximate it, but I can't. I sort of

565
00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:33,320
Speaker 4: sound like Adam West when I try to do Jeff Goblam.

566
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:36,119
Speaker 4: There have been many, never had some that I stayed

567
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:38,600
Speaker 4: with that I wouldn't. I'm a little horse from singing

568
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:42,360
Speaker 4: all day. But your friend Johnny Carstele is someone who

569
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:45,440
Speaker 4: it meant a lot to me to try to get

570
00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:47,240
Speaker 4: a decent impression close.

571
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:48,080
Speaker 1: Yeah.

572
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:50,800
Speaker 6: Yeah, So there's guys. I mean, Bruce, I worked on

573
00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:53,679
Speaker 6: the hardest I think that singing impression. You know, it

574
00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:56,320
Speaker 6: was really hard for me. I played the movie called Alone.

575
00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,920
Speaker 4: I played a French guy, a French scuba and struck

576
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:03,560
Speaker 4: with Ben Stiller in a long kaing poly Jennifer anistone

577
00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:05,679
Speaker 4: yes erstand.

578
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:07,600
Speaker 6: And it was out for me to get this funch.

579
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:10,320
Speaker 6: Accent took me too much. Accent is so easy to

580
00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:12,600
Speaker 6: do for you're from Canada and.

581
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:16,200
Speaker 1: From Canada the Palace for many years with those people.

582
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 1: I used to do the records and I'd go on

583
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 1: the record studio and the guy, after singing for one hour,

584
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,680
Speaker 1: he said, Paul, would you like a cock? I'm going

585
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 1: what he said, would you like to have a cock?

586
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:30,520
Speaker 1: He of course?

587
00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:31,760
Speaker 2: Yeah?

588
00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:33,560
Speaker 1: So what about today?

589
00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 2: Man?

590
00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:36,679
Speaker 1: Like throw it out at your Trump? I mean the

591
00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:40,879
Speaker 1: current crop Clinton. I don't do a great Trump. It's

592
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 1: it's an approximation approximately, definitely approximately Clin everybody does Clint.

593
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:52,399
Speaker 6: That's not that hard to do. Clin it's kind of easy,

594
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 6: but I don't. A lot of my impressions are not current.

595
00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:58,960
Speaker 4: I was really you know, I like to do a

596
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:02,440
Speaker 4: really good Eric Robert's circa you know, nineteen eight, like

597
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,920
Speaker 4: from Pulpik Reditch Belich, remember that book remained. I love

598
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 4: doing Eric Roberts from that movie. You know Mickey Roared

599
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 4: Mickey ro Micky Rorke from back then. Yeah, young Mickey.

600
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,120
Speaker 4: You know, young Mickey Rort. I used to love him.

601
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 4: Although so I don't. I'm not like on top of

602
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 4: it anymore.

603
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 1: So when you stay on top of it when you're

604
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:24,640
Speaker 1: with your wife, who does she want to hear when

605
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 1: you're in bed together throw a curve at you?

606
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:27,000
Speaker 6: She?

607
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 1: Ye know, that's a terrible question, but hey, who knows?

608
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:35,680
Speaker 4: With us people, see, I know I've had a couple

609
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:39,920
Speaker 4: of those in my life. Maybe full requests. I'm like, okay,

610
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:41,280
Speaker 4: let's try that one.

611
00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:42,960
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm not doing too well.

612
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 6: My wife doesn't have a vocal preference that way.

613
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,280
Speaker 1: Right, Okay. But I usually been married, Hank.

614
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 4: We've been together like twenty one years. You've been married

615
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:58,600
Speaker 4: for almost twelve years. Like, so you're married for twenty

616
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:02,120
Speaker 4: one years pretty much. Yes, where Sun is fifteen, so

617
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:04,960
Speaker 4: he kind of married us once he came along.

618
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:07,440
Speaker 1: That's good. If you've got a good friend and you

619
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:09,400
Speaker 1: got your boy, you're blessed, right.

620
00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,840
Speaker 6: Oh no, yes, I'm very grateful for those two. If

621
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 6: I could just pivot back to The Simpsons just for

622
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:18,360
Speaker 6: a second. Yeah, So you when you record that, are

623
00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:23,399
Speaker 6: you in a studio with the other voiceover actors, or

624
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 6: are you working by yourself in your own place it's

625
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:29,120
Speaker 6: remote on zoom or everybody's together in a room.

626
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:30,399
Speaker 2: How does that work?

627
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 4: For the first several years we were all together, and

628
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 4: then we would record remotely more and more, and then

629
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 4: in the pandemic they sent us all nice equipment with

630
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 4: a laptop dedicated to a good sound mix, and since

631
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 4: then we record from home.

632
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 6: It's really delightful.

633
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 2: That's so much easier.

634
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 6: Have you noticed up.

635
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:55,239
Speaker 4: All that, Like this sound is so incredible now and

636
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:57,200
Speaker 4: what they can do to fix it. There have been

637
00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 4: times I've even record, even for a movie, recorded dialogue

638
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 4: or whatever right into an iPhone, just as a temporary

639
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 4: so they could just plug something in and then they

640
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 4: forget that it was just recorded in an iPhone. They

641
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:13,240
Speaker 4: clean it up and post and they can digitally remaster

642
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 4: it so that it's as good as anything else.

643
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 1: They're making records in bedrooms with computers. Yeah, it's changed

644
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,840
Speaker 1: the whole landscape, absolutely correct. You can do so much

645
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 1: now technically years ago. You know, I meet with a

646
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 1: lot of the young people today and I kind of

647
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 1: was part of Michael Bublaz's life, started them, and you know,

648
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 1: i'd explain to them. I'd say, you know, Michael, we

649
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:34,840
Speaker 1: have to go in a studio. Back in the fifties,

650
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 1: you had to be rehearsed. You know, I would teach

651
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 1: us all to do this. The band is there. There's

652
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:42,640
Speaker 1: no technology. It's a piece of tape half an inch thick,

653
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 1: and you stayed in there till you got it.

654
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:45,760
Speaker 2: That was it.

655
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:48,400
Speaker 1: And if you had to splice or do anything, you

656
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:50,520
Speaker 1: take a razor blade. You'd cut the tape what you

657
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:52,640
Speaker 1: didn't like and you'd glut with scotch tape and that

658
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 1: was it. Today you could do anything. You can record

659
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 1: anyone and make most people sound great. Yeah, it's just

660
00:29:59,240 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 1: that simple.

661
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it is amazing.

662
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 4: It's something that as a vocal at cartoon Voices too,

663
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 4: it's kind of the same thing.

664
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 6: It's gonna be very interesting to see.

665
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:10,719
Speaker 4: I just wrote an op ed for The New York

666
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 4: Times that'll be out soon about AI replacing us essentially vocally,

667
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 4: and my perspective on it. I hate to say, right

668
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 4: now they cannot there's nuances they can't quite get. You

669
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:25,720
Speaker 4: still need the human element. But I'm not so sure

670
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 4: how much longer that's gonna be the case.

671
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 6: It'll be gone.

672
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,040
Speaker 1: I mean, it was first introduced to me. I hate

673
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 1: dropping names, but Buffett's a friend and he was with

674
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:36,240
Speaker 1: Gates three years ago and he called me up and, hey, Polly,

675
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 1: you're not gonna believe that's boy because I recorded him.

676
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 1: We did My Way together, and he's gonna play this funeral.

677
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 1: But he loves his music. But the point of was,

678
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 1: he's got this machine here. Look it's what is it, Gates?

679
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:50,880
Speaker 1: What is it? It's just GPT.

680
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 6: Is that the chat GBT?

681
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he says. I asked the machine to give

682
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 1: me four versions of My Way, and it spit it

683
00:30:58,800 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 1: out in two minutes.

684
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 6: That's the thing.

685
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 1: I said, what, well, look where it's going, man, in

686
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 1: our business film all business. It's just incredible. You know,

687
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 1: everybody's like this about it. I say, hey, you're still

688
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: going to need a human over it, and it's going

689
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 1: to be content.

690
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 6: Let it come.

691
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:16,960
Speaker 1: It's like a freight train, step aside, let it through.

692
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 1: It's going to be amazing. Why not?

693
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 6: Yeah, I agree, I mean, or don't let it come.

694
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 6: It's coming, so you can stop it.

695
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,160
Speaker 4: The fem engine essentially, so it's going to be really

696
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 4: interesting to see how they use it. And I agree,

697
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 4: you know, I can you know, as a vocal artist

698
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,520
Speaker 4: or on camera. I came to see what we do

699
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 4: as offering choices and editing. Right, you try it this way,

700
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 4: you try it that way, you rehearse, if you do

701
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 4: it live, then you do the editing in rehearsal, and

702
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:44,760
Speaker 4: you try to figure out what's the best way to

703
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 4: deliver this. But the computer can give you unlimited choices

704
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 4: in a nanosecond for free. You still need a human

705
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:57,160
Speaker 4: work in the dial as it were. Somebody told me that,

706
00:31:57,600 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 4: for example, we wanted to you know, dub An art

707
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 4: into Korean. Right, so they have the artist singing a singer,

708
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 4: and what they had to do was find someone in

709
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 4: Korean who could sing similar to their tone and then

710
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 4: as long as they're singing was close enough, it was

711
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 4: very easy to auto tune those dials and make it

712
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 4: sound exactly as if bad artists were singing in very

713
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 4: fluent Korean.

714
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 6: So that's an amazing application of it.

715
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 1: Well, saying South Korea, because I've been going to Asia

716
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:33,239
Speaker 1: for fifty years, they are amazing because for years when

717
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 1: I go to Japan and in those countries, oh, you know,

718
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 1: we can do this and do but we can't do

719
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 1: your music or your film. And the Koreans are very

720
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 1: very involved in music today. They're buying, they're successful. And

721
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:48,719
Speaker 1: when you look at the top countries of the world

722
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 1: in terms of the level of intelligence, south Korea is

723
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 1: number one. Is that right behind them? Oh yeah absolutely.

724
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 1: In other countries they are number one. But they're amazing creative.

725
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 1: We'll look at some of this stuff that Netflix has

726
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 1: and oh.

727
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:05,760
Speaker 4: Their film their film industry is tremendous and k pop

728
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 4: is huge.

729
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, amazing. So there, you're absolutely correct. I mean, it's

730
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 1: just and it's going to even get better. It's going

731
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 1: to be so broad.

732
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:17,960
Speaker 4: You know, you still need a human controlling nuances, and

733
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 4: you need a base voice for certain things.

734
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 6: I really think though, that soon you may not need that.

735
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 6: That's going to be pretty fascinating.

736
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:27,160
Speaker 1: Well, we'll be ready for it if we ling long enough. Right,

737
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:29,320
Speaker 1: it's gonna it's happening.

738
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 4: Own some small piece of my own voices, that's all

739
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 4: I hope.

740
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 6: So not voice sober, but where you've acted and so many,

741
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 6: so many different you know, television shows, and you have

742
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 6: been in films. I loved you on Raid Down, have

743
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 6: been by the way as the head of the La FBI.

744
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 2: I thought that was awesome.

745
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 6: I enjoyed that. But I know that and I'm going

746
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 6: to go to a totally different direction here, So I

747
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 6: know that you were unfriends, yeah, who sort of had

748
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 6: a romantic interest, if you will, with Lisa Kudro, who

749
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,759
Speaker 6: in real life, her husband Michelle Stern and I played

750
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 6: golf together to rep Well, I didn't know that. Oh

751
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 6: that's cool. That's a nice man. It's a wonderful guy.

752
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 6: And you obviously met Matthew Perry. And I read that

753
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:21,839
Speaker 6: somewhere along the line that Matthew Perry helped you with

754
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 6: your sobriety. And I wanted to ask you two things.

755
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 6: One how did that come about? And the secondly, were

756
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 6: you still friendly with him right up until the end?

757
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 6: If you will?

758
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 4: This is the first off that I ever wrote was

759
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:36,239
Speaker 4: when Matthew passed. He was the first friend I made

760
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 4: in LA He was seventeen, I was twenty two. We

761
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 4: did a TV pilot together that never went anywhere, but

762
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:44,760
Speaker 4: we became very very close friends, really more like brothers.

763
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:46,239
Speaker 6: We were kind of inseparable.

764
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,600
Speaker 4: Over the years, you know, became obvious that Matthew had

765
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 4: a problem with drugs and alcohol, and he would go in.

766
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:53,880
Speaker 6: And out and in and out.

767
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 4: And then many years later I discovered that my own

768
00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 4: problem with drinking. That was eighteen years ago. Matthew was

769
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,759
Speaker 4: in a very good, sober period of his life and

770
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 4: he was able to help me. And that whole first

771
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:11,320
Speaker 4: year that I stopped drinking, I leaned on him pretty heavily.

772
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 4: And one of the things that make me saddest about

773
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:17,840
Speaker 4: his leaving us, besides just how funny he was and

774
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,719
Speaker 4: how much I miss him, was how much good he

775
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 4: did other folks.

776
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 6: You know, he was just so.

777
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 4: He was very dedicated that publicly and privately just helping

778
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:30,560
Speaker 4: folks who struggled with addiction, and he was very good

779
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 4: at it, and he really helped me a lot. The

780
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 4: message of the end of his life, he wanted to

781
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 4: be known as much as he was a famous friend.

782
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:39,799
Speaker 4: He wanted to be known as someone who helped in

783
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:43,600
Speaker 4: this way, and I wanted to come forward publicly because

784
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 4: he helped me so much. And his message was there's

785
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:48,720
Speaker 4: no shame in needing help. There's no shame in asking

786
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 4: for help, There's no shame in feeling bad enough that

787
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:54,359
Speaker 4: you need that, and there's no shame in getting that help.

788
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 4: So I really thank God for him in my life.

789
00:35:57,960 --> 00:35:58,719
Speaker 1: In life better.

790
00:35:58,880 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 4: Huh.

791
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 1: He's in life better through a few of those, not personally,

792
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 1: but people around me that I've loved, and it's a

793
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 1: better life.

794
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:09,760
Speaker 6: It's the accidental deaths, right, Michael Jackson. That was obviously

795
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 6: an accident, you know, Matthew Perry, these people were providing

796
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:16,919
Speaker 6: you with Kenymine. I mean, he wasn't trying to kill himself. Yeah,

797
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 6: it was just it's it's really sad, you know, when

798
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 6: you see something like that, it's just, yeah, we've had

799
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:23,919
Speaker 6: too many of those.

800
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:25,920
Speaker 4: You're not a lot of examples of bringing people who

801
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 4: didn't mean to check out, right.

802
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:30,400
Speaker 6: I mean, some people jump off a building. That's a

803
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 6: decision that they made, right, there's so terribly depressed or

804
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:36,359
Speaker 6: whatever they were on the top of building and jump off.

805
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:40,720
Speaker 6: But in the case of like Michael or with Matthew Perry,

806
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:42,840
Speaker 6: you know, that wasn't a decision. They didn't make a

807
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:45,480
Speaker 6: decision to die. Totally different here.

808
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:49,200
Speaker 4: Now, but it was you know, Russian roulette, because messing

809
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:50,719
Speaker 4: around with that stuff is.

810
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:54,360
Speaker 6: Dangerous, you know. And yeah, we've lost a lot of

811
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 6: folks that way.

812
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:58,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, this ventanyl issue is a big one that's

813
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 1: really insidious. Mexico. Well it's you know, China, Mexico and

814
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 1: then here, and you know, people have spoken to because

815
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:09,719
Speaker 1: I'm close to the whole Mexican thing with friends, and

816
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 1: you know, these guys that are mixing it, they're not pharmacists,

817
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 1: they're just normal dude. How much you want to put

818
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:17,839
Speaker 1: on this one? And they mix this shit and it's

819
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 1: just too much. And look at all the young people

820
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:23,360
Speaker 1: everyone that's using. It's just terrible. I don't know how

821
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 1: they're ever going to stop it. I don't think they'll

822
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:28,359
Speaker 1: ever stop the whole issue with the cartel. I think

823
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:30,359
Speaker 1: that'll go on forever. But that's a whole other thing.

824
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 1: But the fentanyl is a serious issue in this country.

825
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:35,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know several folks who we lost the fentanyl.

826
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,760
Speaker 4: It's really it's really potent that stuff.

827
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 1: Well, we need a potent evening of Hank Personal in

828
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:45,279
Speaker 1: some theater and do all those voices.

829
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:47,839
Speaker 4: I'm actually working on one man's show. It's funny you

830
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 4: mentioned that, Paul Whoa.

831
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 1: Whoa, go go tell me because I think you're ready.

832
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:56,479
Speaker 6: I did a show called Brockmeyer. Yeah, a love letter

833
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 6: to Baseball.

834
00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,720
Speaker 4: I've kind of sickle a love letter to baseball about

835
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 4: a base on anouser to add horrible drug and alcohol problems,

836
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:05,319
Speaker 4: isn't a matter of fact. So the guy who I

837
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 4: collaborate on that with, guy named Joel George Cooper, I

838
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 4: sort of ended up telling him my whole life story

839
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 4: and you mentioned the oput thing. A lot of people

840
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 4: ask me why I stopped doing the boys, and it's

841
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:18,800
Speaker 4: a long story. So I thought it'd be an interesting

842
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 4: evening to first share, you know, why I do all

843
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 4: these voices, and how I started as a kid and

844
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 4: what that meant to me, and how there was a

845
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 4: kind of a darker side to it where I really

846
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:32,880
Speaker 4: wanted to be anybody but myself. I was so driven

847
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 4: to try to beat somebody else that I took my

848
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:40,439
Speaker 4: vocal mimicry talent and really got obsessively driven to try

849
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 4: to be other people, which made me a good character actor,

850
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:46,359
Speaker 4: but sometimes a very troubled person, which is what led

851
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:49,439
Speaker 4: to sobriety. Eventually I was fortunate enough to get help

852
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:54,360
Speaker 4: and then it was out of that sobriety model where

853
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 4: you kind of look at your own part in things.

854
00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 4: And the show's called what's my part? Double ontendru, meaning

855
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 4: who do I get to play today? What character are

856
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,439
Speaker 4: going to be today? And then also how am I responsible?

857
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:09,359
Speaker 4: How am I accountable for stuff I might have been

858
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:13,360
Speaker 4: involved in? So it's a fun, funny, interesting evening and

859
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:16,280
Speaker 4: I'm excited. They'll be off Broadway next year. I'm excited

860
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:16,719
Speaker 4: to do it.

861
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:18,279
Speaker 1: So how far into it are you?

862
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:20,320
Speaker 6: We really are just at script stage?

863
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:22,800
Speaker 1: Oh script? Okay, so revising and revising.

864
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 4: We have a script and my partner is off he's

865
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 4: doing a TV show at Tennis Leary right now. Otherwise

866
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 4: readA got it up earlier, but he's busy. So come

867
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 4: February we're going to pick it back up and hopefully

868
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:34,839
Speaker 4: put it out next year.

869
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:37,400
Speaker 1: That's cool. Yeah, Well, if you need some music, you

870
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:38,960
Speaker 1: give me a call, because I'm a fan. You know,

871
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:40,840
Speaker 1: you might need a little underscoring or something.

872
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:43,359
Speaker 6: Well, I get doing the music that would be pretty good.

873
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 1: Well take a look at No. I think you should

874
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 1: absolutely do it. You know, we know that whole process

875
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:51,319
Speaker 1: takes time, and Broadways not in the best condition. They're

876
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 1: about thirty three percent off. But you get some good

877
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 1: quality stuff in there, and I think that's exciting.

878
00:39:57,239 --> 00:39:57,439
Speaker 2: Man.

879
00:39:57,760 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I know you things will slip through

880
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 1: the c here and there, but do it. You got

881
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 1: to do it because you can take it elsewhere.

882
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:06,240
Speaker 4: Oh No, I'm definitely going to do it. I've really

883
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 4: been pretty passionate about telling this story. It has been

884
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:10,760
Speaker 4: a big part of my life the last ten years.

885
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:13,880
Speaker 4: I'm also working on a book based on similar thing,

886
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:16,319
Speaker 4: not just about that, but really all of it.

887
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:18,359
Speaker 6: And I have found that, you know.

888
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:23,239
Speaker 4: Sharing stories and my experience through show business. You know, right, Paul,

889
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 4: you're around long enough, but eventually you're kind of interesting

890
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:28,759
Speaker 4: because you've seen a lot go on and you've been

891
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:29,960
Speaker 4: in the middle of a lot of things.

892
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 1: You know, what is hank experience. Yeah, people respect the

893
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:37,399
Speaker 1: experience of the longevity. Yeah, and the legs you put

894
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:39,040
Speaker 1: under it. But I think that's exciting.

895
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:39,239
Speaker 5: Man.

896
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 4: I think that's what I'm most proud of actually, is

897
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 4: the fact that I've managed to stay involved and feel

898
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 4: a real joyous connection to it all. And it has

899
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:50,960
Speaker 4: to evolve, you know, and you have to really as

900
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,439
Speaker 4: you know, right like it'll Hollywood and show business will

901
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:57,440
Speaker 4: build you up like nothing else and then smack you

902
00:40:57,480 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 4: down like nothing.

903
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:00,920
Speaker 6: Else, over and over and over again.

904
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:06,279
Speaker 1: Eat, they're dead treacherous, you know. And you gotta keep believing, man,

905
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:08,719
Speaker 1: You have to keep believing in you, because at the

906
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:11,399
Speaker 1: end of the day, hang a lot of people don't care.

907
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 1: They know, they look at you in the face and

908
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 1: it's all bullshit. You got to keep you number one

909
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:21,080
Speaker 1: and keep believing in it. And that's how you separate

910
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:22,799
Speaker 1: the men from the boys. The guys that say they're

911
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:25,439
Speaker 1: gonna do and do and the guy that say they're

912
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:28,879
Speaker 1: gonna do and don't. That's a differential. All my life,

913
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 1: I've seen that.

914
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:32,279
Speaker 6: But just so I've seen some of that too.

915
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:34,640
Speaker 4: And what I've ended up is if I have a

916
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 4: day's work that I feel joy and connection to, that's

917
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 4: about the best I'm gonna do. And then who knows

918
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 4: what the results are going to be, you know, Paul.

919
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:46,080
Speaker 6: Is a great prankster. By the way Paul can disguise

920
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:48,479
Speaker 6: his voice. I talked to him every single day, Hank,

921
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:51,919
Speaker 6: and he can still get me because he's that good.

922
00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 6: But like, who have you pranked? I'm sure you've pranked

923
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 6: friends and others with your ability to change your voice

924
00:41:58,360 --> 00:41:59,320
Speaker 6: and pretty much everyone.

925
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:01,800
Speaker 4: I used to and we used to have call waiting.

926
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:04,280
Speaker 4: We don't have that anymore. But you get that cleg

927
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 4: and like hold on, somebody's on the other phone, and

928
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 4: then every once in a while they'd click over, but

929
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:09,440
Speaker 4: it would still be you.

930
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 6: I used to love that moment, you know, like hello, Ed,

931
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 6: I'm trying to reach Martin.

932
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:17,960
Speaker 4: And I, you know, play a game how long I

933
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 4: could keep somebody going without them realizing. Was me in

934
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:24,839
Speaker 4: the early days of in Hollywood to try to get

935
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:28,879
Speaker 4: a table at restaurants. I would call as certain celebrity, like.

936
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 7: I did a pretty good you know slow Yeah, it's

937
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 7: slash saloon, now you doing it? Can I get a

938
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:38,360
Speaker 7: table you know for eight o'clock tonight? Four people?

939
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:40,040
Speaker 2: Sure?

940
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:40,920
Speaker 6: Sure, missus schluck.

941
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:44,279
Speaker 7: Yeah, I might be late. My friend heyka Zerio be

942
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:47,279
Speaker 7: there early. Just let him sit down, you know, if

943
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 7: it's zero.

944
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:49,920
Speaker 6: Thanks a lot, so I would get tables.

945
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:51,960
Speaker 1: It's not coming.

946
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:56,680
Speaker 6: They all sly called, you can't make it, so sorry.

947
00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 1: The best time I have, like Steve Wins a buddy

948
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 1: of skipping on, but we do trips together. We're sitting

949
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,320
Speaker 1: over a hotel, the cop in Front, which was the

950
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:07,439
Speaker 1: hang place, you know, and Ed McMahon may Rest in peace.

951
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:09,440
Speaker 1: I knew him with Johnny. And he shows up and

952
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:11,759
Speaker 1: he just divorced the wife and he was marrying the

953
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 1: tennis bro. You know, one of those, right, So he

954
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:16,800
Speaker 1: comes over and he's sitting with Steve and he says, hey, Paul,

955
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 1: you know I know you've lived in Paris. You know

956
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 1: everybody over there. He says, can I go to your tailor?

957
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:24,319
Speaker 1: And can you get me into regimes? That was a

958
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 1: hot discotheque by right, and we're staying at the Creole.

959
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:31,520
Speaker 1: Can you straighten me out? Because I want to impress Victoria.

960
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 1: So Steve and I are listening to him. I said, yeah,

961
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 1: don't worry, I'll take care of it.

962
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:34,680
Speaker 6: That.

963
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 1: So Steve and I go to Venice at the Cipriani

964
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:41,760
Speaker 1: and then obviously McMahon goes up to the Creole in Paris.

965
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:44,800
Speaker 1: So I'm sitting there with Steve, were doing our cigars

966
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 1: and their billini's, and he says, can you believe that

967
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:50,279
Speaker 1: McMahon with that chick he's up there? I said, yeah,

968
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:53,520
Speaker 1: that's cool. He said, can we do a ballini on him?

969
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:56,600
Speaker 1: That means me doing a prank? So I said yes, okay,

970
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 1: so okay, we'll do it. So I call up the

971
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:01,279
Speaker 1: creole I knew them over there, and he said, could

972
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:05,240
Speaker 1: you put me through the mister McMahon's room. Boase, Sure

973
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 1: the phone rings, it picks up, he says, mister McMahon,

974
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 1: He says, Peter Swetzer down the front desk here, the manager.

975
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:15,759
Speaker 1: We are so excited to have such a such an

976
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:19,160
Speaker 1: important person here with you. We have a problem here.

977
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 1: You know, the summertime we do the renovations in the hotel,

978
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:26,239
Speaker 1: and we'd appreciate if you have some understanding. We're going

979
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:29,479
Speaker 1: to do some sand blasting in the hotel. He says,

980
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 1: you know, okay, okay, I said, there, but the problem

981
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:34,440
Speaker 1: we're going to do outside of your suite there. We're

982
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:36,640
Speaker 1: going to do the floor and the walls and the

983
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 1: ceilings from nine to five o'clock in the afternoon. I said,

984
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:42,960
Speaker 1: but we can move you down to the second floor

985
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 1: overlooking the side street there, or you can stay up

986
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:48,880
Speaker 1: in your room and we'll give you the soundproof earmuffs.

987
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 6: He says.

988
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 1: What he says, we can give you soundproof iar maas,

989
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:55,719
Speaker 1: So you have the ear maps with the have to price. Victoria,

990
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 1: they're doing some sand blasting and we can have sound blues.

991
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:01,520
Speaker 1: You want to move the she says, take this, take

992
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 1: them her muffs. He says, we'll take the ear muffs.

993
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:08,720
Speaker 1: I said, I said, that's wonderful. Good decision. Now, I says,

994
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:12,960
Speaker 1: now regarding the tailor is no problem. But Regime, you

995
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 1: know there's some all the alps that come here and

996
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:17,800
Speaker 1: all over the place, is very tough to get people.

997
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:21,279
Speaker 1: And we got you. We got you a slot, he says.

998
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 1: What he says, We got you your own private slot

999
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:28,279
Speaker 1: at the club. He says, the slot. Victoria, we can

1000
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:32,160
Speaker 1: get a slot at Regime's No, she's smarter than he is.

1001
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:35,360
Speaker 1: What do you mean a slot? He says, can you

1002
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 1: explain that? I said, fellow, we got you a slot

1003
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:40,640
Speaker 1: from five in the morning till seven o'clock. You can

1004
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:43,799
Speaker 1: be in there with a few people. Now, Steve is

1005
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 1: going ballistic tell him he's sick of hearing it. I said,

1006
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:50,360
Speaker 1: we'll get all the arrangements who put it down and

1007
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:52,439
Speaker 1: hiding and set it up to the room. He says,

1008
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:55,040
Speaker 1: thank you very much. We left them alone.

1009
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 6: Is there with ear muffs on? Thinking he's going to

1010
00:45:57,560 --> 00:45:58,960
Speaker 6: be the club at five am? Uh?

1011
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we didn't though he's never been there before.

1012
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 2: Were there?

1013
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 4: You know?

1014
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:03,320
Speaker 1: He took the slot in the your.

1015
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:07,520
Speaker 4: Most Wow, you've put a lot of thought into that one, Paul,

1016
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 4: A lot of thought went into that.

1017
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:08,839
Speaker 3: Well.

1018
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 1: It's kind of impromptu quick once they got a role

1019
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:14,000
Speaker 1: where it's Chinese or German or French. You know, we've

1020
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:17,200
Speaker 1: I've done a couple on my buddy here, skip. But

1021
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:21,640
Speaker 1: it's you know, any humor. If I meet someone that

1022
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:24,400
Speaker 1: doesn't have humor, I'm sure you guys know that, I'm out.

1023
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:28,040
Speaker 1: It's the final refuge of sanity. Most of the time.

1024
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:30,759
Speaker 1: You got to have humor in life, you really do,

1025
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:32,839
Speaker 1: because it's such a circus, right.

1026
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:33,919
Speaker 6: Oh yeah.

1027
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:37,359
Speaker 1: People that are uptight and no humor frightening. What are

1028
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:38,319
Speaker 1: they carrying with them?

1029
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 2: You know?

1030
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:39,319
Speaker 6: Yeah?

1031
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:43,160
Speaker 4: No, I mean it's a huge part of alcohol recovery too.

1032
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:47,840
Speaker 4: Is you gotta kind of find what's funny again, you know,

1033
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 4: because it's so hard and it's a big deal. That's

1034
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:52,960
Speaker 4: why Matthew Perry was such a godsend for me, because

1035
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:56,120
Speaker 4: it's hard to find a funnier person. And one of

1036
00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:58,799
Speaker 4: the things I wrote was that you know, to me

1037
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:01,120
Speaker 4: that want to be one match of Perry, but everyone

1038
00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 4: finds in those rooms of recovery, there person that can

1039
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:08,880
Speaker 4: make them laugh when you're sure over the stuff you

1040
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:11,879
Speaker 4: were sure was the most shameful, most horrible stuff. You'd

1041
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 4: never even share it, let alone laugh over it. It's

1042
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 4: a huge part of actually becoming healthy.

1043
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:21,120
Speaker 1: Again, you know. Dean Martin was a funny dude and

1044
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:23,640
Speaker 1: very special out of that whole group of guy's skip

1045
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 1: that I hung with. And there's some people off stage

1046
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:31,120
Speaker 1: that are funnier in person than even on and Dean

1047
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:34,239
Speaker 1: was even when we were in that steam room and

1048
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 1: the shit that he used to do, he had that

1049
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:41,799
Speaker 1: instant kind of humor. That was what a special guy

1050
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:44,319
Speaker 1: he was. And I'm sure you know if you Hank,

1051
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 1: they're funnier off stage and you never get to know it.

1052
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:50,960
Speaker 1: It's just it's a special gift. It really is a

1053
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:52,280
Speaker 1: special gift. Go ahead, skivvy.

1054
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:54,160
Speaker 6: No, I was going to ask because you're talking about

1055
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:56,759
Speaker 6: humor and how important it is. So when you were

1056
00:47:56,760 --> 00:48:00,560
Speaker 6: on Friends, I imagine you came in contact with Jimmy Burrows.

1057
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:03,399
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, of course. Jimmy's another friend who I play

1058
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 6: golf with. Dry humor, dry humor, one of the funniest

1059
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:10,680
Speaker 6: people I've ever known. And he could just take you

1060
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:13,480
Speaker 6: down without your even knowing it. I mean, he was really.

1061
00:48:13,239 --> 00:48:18,840
Speaker 4: Something hilarious and brilliant and man his you know, his suggestions,

1062
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:21,200
Speaker 4: his comedic suggestions that he would deliver in such a

1063
00:48:21,239 --> 00:48:23,480
Speaker 4: matter of fact way. We're like, you were always so

1064
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 4: bumped you didn't think of it. Like, that's great, Jimmy,

1065
00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:29,239
Speaker 4: that's amazing. There's the reason why he's responsible for all

1066
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 4: that great television.

1067
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:33,960
Speaker 6: But look at Norman Lear. Yeah, my friend Chuck Lourie,

1068
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:36,080
Speaker 6: who is a very good friend. I don't Chuck, but

1069
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:39,799
Speaker 6: Chuck's a great pala mine. Yeah, and he's terrific. I

1070
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:42,560
Speaker 6: was the back in the day. I was the MC

1071
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:46,440
Speaker 6: and his sixtieth birthday party that we had. Chuck's just

1072
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:49,879
Speaker 6: great too, but also very dry. You know, it's not outrageous,

1073
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:54,360
Speaker 6: you know, slapstick humor it's just the dry, you know,

1074
00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:56,200
Speaker 6: a little bit under the radar kind of.

1075
00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:56,880
Speaker 2: Things like you.

1076
00:48:57,040 --> 00:48:59,440
Speaker 6: Sometimes it takes me a minute that they wait a minute,

1077
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:04,359
Speaker 6: he just got me right. He's a lot of fun.

1078
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 6: And Jimmy Burrows, I mean, what a track record?

1079
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:08,200
Speaker 2: Oh my god?

1080
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:10,880
Speaker 6: Look was his dad A Burrows?

1081
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:11,799
Speaker 2: Who's his father? Yeah?

1082
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:14,759
Speaker 6: Oh that's I forgot about that A Burrows.

1083
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:19,960
Speaker 1: He was Broadway stuff he was. He directed me on Broadway.

1084
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:22,840
Speaker 1: And what a brilliant man he was. Burrows.

1085
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:25,080
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I think he did Guys and Dollars,

1086
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:25,759
Speaker 6: didn't you, Paul?

1087
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 1: I think so that's right, that's right, yeah, me and

1088
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 1: what makes Sammy run?

1089
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:32,040
Speaker 6: Oh wow?

1090
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:33,480
Speaker 1: But he was brilliant.

1091
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:36,440
Speaker 6: What stand up comedians do you like? We've had, by

1092
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Speaker 6: the way, we've had Paul's friend Bill burro On, We've

1093
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:43,440
Speaker 6: had my friends. We've had my friend Sebastia manaskalakal On

1094
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:46,719
Speaker 6: love him Greg. And I'm just curious, who do you

1095
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:47,960
Speaker 6: think is funny?

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00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:52,879
Speaker 4: What is you look for hilarious? There's a kid named

1097
00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:53,720
Speaker 4: Matthew friend.

1098
00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:56,359
Speaker 6: Oh, he's very fresh. I know him.

1099
00:49:56,360 --> 00:50:00,440
Speaker 4: He's amazing, Yes, very good political comedian, he's it up.

1100
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:05,239
Speaker 4: He is my college roommate's son what I've noticed as

1101
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:08,400
Speaker 4: he was born, you know. And it's a crazy story, guys,

1102
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:12,480
Speaker 4: because you know, as an impressionist, every once in a

1103
00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:14,520
Speaker 4: while someone will say, oh, I do voices.

1104
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:15,200
Speaker 6: Or or listen to my kid.

1105
00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:18,240
Speaker 4: Lady, well, I'm sure you run into it, Paul, listen

1106
00:50:18,239 --> 00:50:21,160
Speaker 4: to my kids saying or whatever it is, and usually

1107
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:23,120
Speaker 4: you not and smile and go that's great.

1108
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:23,440
Speaker 2: You know.

1109
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:27,959
Speaker 4: When Matthew was about fifteen years old, his dad, Bill,

1110
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:30,000
Speaker 4: my good friend, said listen, listen to my boy.

1111
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:32,759
Speaker 6: He does he does voices. And I was, you know,

1112
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:34,239
Speaker 6: with sort of a resigned like.

1113
00:50:34,239 --> 00:50:37,560
Speaker 4: Sure, let's hear what the kids gotten here, And out

1114
00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:41,520
Speaker 4: came these voices from that are perfect open at that age,

1115
00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:45,279
Speaker 4: and I felt like Salieri with Mozart. I felt like

1116
00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:48,319
Speaker 4: I was like, do you understand how gifted this young

1117
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:48,680
Speaker 4: man is.

1118
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:49,440
Speaker 6: I don't think you do.

1119
00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:54,960
Speaker 4: He's I hear this all. He's absolutely got beyond the goods.

1120
00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:58,200
Speaker 4: And I was able to mentor him some in the

1121
00:50:58,239 --> 00:51:00,120
Speaker 4: last few years. Now he doesn't need any help, but

1122
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:03,080
Speaker 4: all he's taking off. But it was really a joy

1123
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:06,560
Speaker 4: to be on the inside of that. Through my college

1124
00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:09,279
Speaker 4: roommate's son. It was the craziest thing ever.

1125
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Speaker 1: I love that.

1126
00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:12,960
Speaker 6: One of my favorite things he does on social media,

1127
00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:16,319
Speaker 6: of course, is when he's doing the person he's talking to.

1128
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:19,839
Speaker 6: I mean, he does Howard. He does Howard Stern better

1129
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 6: than Howard Stern does Howard Howard Stern. In fact, on

1130
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:26,359
Speaker 6: The Simpsons, they wanted me to do Jeff Goldblum and

1131
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:28,359
Speaker 6: I was like, that's how I knew I'm mediocre at it.

1132
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:30,799
Speaker 6: And I said, yeah, I'm all right, but you know,

1133
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:33,760
Speaker 6: I know a kid because this f gold woman is perfect.

1134
00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:35,440
Speaker 6: And he ended up doing it on the show. He's

1135
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:37,279
Speaker 6: done a few voices for us since then.

1136
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:38,200
Speaker 2: No, I didn't know that.

1137
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:39,160
Speaker 1: How old is he?

1138
00:51:39,239 --> 00:51:42,480
Speaker 6: It's like thirty five, baby, No, twenty four years lat

1139
00:51:42,719 --> 00:51:45,799
Speaker 6: are really? Oh yeah, wow, yeah, twenty fourth. I just

1140
00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:48,680
Speaker 6: remember he was very tall. I met him and had

1141
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:49,439
Speaker 6: a good yeah.

1142
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:49,640
Speaker 2: Well.

1143
00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:52,000
Speaker 4: The funny thing is Bill, his dad was captain of

1144
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:54,400
Speaker 4: the tennis team Tops where we went, and he's a

1145
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:58,960
Speaker 4: very terrific tennis player. My son is a tremendous tennis player.

1146
00:51:58,960 --> 00:52:03,359
Speaker 4: He's fifteen place tournaments. And we were there hanging out

1147
00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:05,359
Speaker 4: with our boys one day and I look it at him.

1148
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:07,239
Speaker 4: I said, Bill, somehow you got my son and I

1149
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:09,520
Speaker 4: got your son. I don't know how this worked out.

1150
00:52:09,640 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 4: I know we kept everything in bounds with the wives,

1151
00:52:12,239 --> 00:52:13,800
Speaker 4: but it's amazing.

1152
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:14,000
Speaker 7: Man.

1153
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:16,040
Speaker 4: I've got this tennis playing kid, and he's got this

1154
00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:18,399
Speaker 4: vocally gifted kid.

1155
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:18,919
Speaker 6: That's great.

1156
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:21,600
Speaker 1: So well point, what's the attitude to pickleball, Paul.

1157
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:22,720
Speaker 6: I'm a huge tennis player.

1158
00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:25,719
Speaker 4: I'm not as good as my son or Bill, but

1159
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 4: I'm one of the last holdouts. I don't get the

1160
00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:30,359
Speaker 4: if I'm gonna, you know, if I have an hour free,

1161
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:32,080
Speaker 4: I want to hit balls on a tennis court.

1162
00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:33,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was you.

1163
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:35,600
Speaker 1: I love the tests, but I but my my fiance

1164
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:38,359
Speaker 1: loves a pickleball, so I devate and jump over with her.

1165
00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:39,120
Speaker 1: But it's gonna.

1166
00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:41,680
Speaker 6: I haven't done it yet, so heck.

1167
00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:43,240
Speaker 1: Let me ask you. Have you ever done any singers

1168
00:52:43,239 --> 00:52:44,799
Speaker 1: other than Bruce No?

1169
00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:49,600
Speaker 6: I mean no. I singing character on The Simpsons all

1170
00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:50,000
Speaker 6: the time.

1171
00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:52,919
Speaker 4: Chief has the best boys you can kind of belt

1172
00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:56,120
Speaker 4: like Merman, there's no business.

1173
00:52:56,200 --> 00:52:59,399
Speaker 1: I shine open the window and everybody can hear.

1174
00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:02,520
Speaker 4: Her exactly play big voice, and I've sang on Broadway.

1175
00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:05,400
Speaker 4: I was nominated for a Tony I still insist that

1176
00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:08,759
Speaker 4: I'm the person with the least musical ability ever in

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00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:11,600
Speaker 4: the history of Broadway to be nominated, but because I

1178
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:14,800
Speaker 4: was there to imitate all the speaking characters from Ronty

1179
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:18,359
Speaker 4: Python to the Holy Grail until I sang some you.

1180
00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:20,560
Speaker 1: Could do Tony Bennett. You could do Tony Bennett.

1181
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:23,560
Speaker 4: I don't think I could, really. I mean, I can

1182
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:26,960
Speaker 4: do a silly you know, approximation.

1183
00:53:26,719 --> 00:53:27,560
Speaker 1: Right right right?

1184
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:31,400
Speaker 6: I left my hung you know I can.

1185
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:36,920
Speaker 1: With the lists I left my lost in that Francisco. No,

1186
00:53:37,040 --> 00:53:40,320
Speaker 1: he doesn't list quite the well a little bit. You know.

1187
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:44,680
Speaker 6: I used to have Alec Baldwin's speaking impression of him

1188
00:53:44,719 --> 00:53:46,200
Speaker 6: on Saturday Night Lives.

1189
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:46,960
Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 4: It used to make me lamd this It's kind of

1191
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:52,200
Speaker 4: similar to Bruce at least when I do it. But no,

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00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:54,840
Speaker 4: I've never really taken on a singing impression.

1193
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:58,160
Speaker 6: That's another reason why I've been enjoying this Bruce.

1194
00:53:57,840 --> 00:53:59,160
Speaker 1: Thing so much.

1195
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:02,080
Speaker 6: So when will we be able to see this? When

1196
00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 6: will this actually well? November eighth, Brooklyn Bowl, if you're

1197
00:54:06,560 --> 00:54:07,560
Speaker 6: in New York.

1198
00:54:07,719 --> 00:54:10,240
Speaker 1: I'll be touring. I'll be around you. I'm doing Atlantic

1199
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:14,080
Speaker 1: City in New York and November fifteenth, you're doing your gig,

1200
00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:15,919
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna be in Atlantic City. I'll be there

1201
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:16,560
Speaker 1: that whole week.

1202
00:54:16,719 --> 00:54:19,760
Speaker 4: We're in Jersey at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park

1203
00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:21,600
Speaker 4: where Bruce got his start.

1204
00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:24,440
Speaker 6: So those are two. We got a bunch of dates

1205
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:27,759
Speaker 6: for next year. We'll be announced. How many venues would

1206
00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:29,200
Speaker 6: you attempt to do this?

1207
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:29,400
Speaker 2: Then?

1208
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:32,279
Speaker 4: I'd love to do like two a month. You know,

1209
00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:35,720
Speaker 4: we raised a nice amount for the foundation each time,

1210
00:54:36,400 --> 00:54:39,080
Speaker 4: so I'm trying to do, you know, about twenty dates

1211
00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:42,920
Speaker 4: a year in different cities and combine it with some

1212
00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:45,319
Speaker 4: public appearances. You know, I just started doing this thing

1213
00:54:45,360 --> 00:54:48,640
Speaker 4: where if I signed Simpson's Member of Billy. I don't

1214
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:50,600
Speaker 4: know if you've ever done these kind of signings, Paul,

1215
00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:55,880
Speaker 4: but you get like a really nice amount for a

1216
00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 4: day's signing there and I do it. I give it

1217
00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:01,120
Speaker 4: directly to the found So if.

1218
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:03,759
Speaker 6: I go in and play with debayon and then during

1219
00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:05,000
Speaker 6: the day I sign.

1220
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:07,440
Speaker 4: Can raise a lot of money for the kids. So

1221
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:09,640
Speaker 4: that's something going to do next year along with this

1222
00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:12,520
Speaker 4: one man actually also just signed on to do this

1223
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:16,359
Speaker 4: wonderful TV show with Mandy Patinkin be out next year.

1224
00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:17,000
Speaker 2: What's that?

1225
00:55:17,160 --> 00:55:20,839
Speaker 4: What's that's called The Artist's with Janet McTeer as well.

1226
00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:24,440
Speaker 4: It's a really interesting show about the Gilded Age in

1227
00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:28,759
Speaker 4: New York. And I played Thomas Edison, which is very oodcasting.

1228
00:55:29,239 --> 00:55:31,880
Speaker 4: But I'm looking forward to that. There's really wonderful scripts

1229
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:34,760
Speaker 4: and I love Mandy Patinkin and Janet McTeer.

1230
00:55:34,800 --> 00:55:37,239
Speaker 6: I'm looking forward to that. You work a lot, man,

1231
00:55:37,520 --> 00:55:40,640
Speaker 6: I mean, you've got so many things going on, it's unbelievable.

1232
00:55:40,680 --> 00:55:42,960
Speaker 1: Hey, they throw dirt on you if you stand.

1233
00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:44,040
Speaker 6: Still, skippy exactly.

1234
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:46,239
Speaker 1: Well, keep doing it, man, keep doing it.

1235
00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:48,360
Speaker 6: My day job is the greatest in the world. The

1236
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:49,480
Speaker 6: Simpsons are always doing that.

1237
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:52,799
Speaker 4: And actually I really turned down a lot because you know,

1238
00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:55,719
Speaker 4: I'm fortunate enough to not have to because of the Simpsons,

1239
00:55:56,040 --> 00:55:59,040
Speaker 4: and I love this band thing, so I'm committed to

1240
00:55:59,080 --> 00:56:00,880
Speaker 4: that right now more than anything.

1241
00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:01,800
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's awesome.

1242
00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:06,000
Speaker 1: Eat one meal a day. You know Bruce's stick skip. Yeah, besides,

1243
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:08,080
Speaker 1: got a great guy that cuts his hair, guy Chris

1244
00:56:08,080 --> 00:56:09,759
Speaker 1: out here. He eats one meal a day.

1245
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:11,040
Speaker 6: I didn't know that, and that's it.

1246
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:14,440
Speaker 1: He stays lean and mean, yeah, one meal. It was like,

1247
00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:16,600
Speaker 1: that's what I do. I mean, I pick pick and.

1248
00:56:16,520 --> 00:56:18,400
Speaker 6: Then I have my big meal. I'm a big runner,

1249
00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:21,480
Speaker 6: so I can partly so I can eat a lot.

1250
00:56:21,680 --> 00:56:24,640
Speaker 6: I love to eat. So we took an hour of

1251
00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:27,239
Speaker 6: your time, which has been really generous for your time.

1252
00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:28,840
Speaker 6: We really appreciate your coming on.

1253
00:56:29,160 --> 00:56:30,640
Speaker 1: That's been great, man, I've loved it.

1254
00:56:30,719 --> 00:56:32,880
Speaker 6: We had a circle around your name for the longest

1255
00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:35,240
Speaker 6: time that we wanted to get you. We've had thirty

1256
00:56:35,280 --> 00:56:39,400
Speaker 6: plus podcasts and the names that keep coming up, you know,

1257
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:41,880
Speaker 6: like you mentioned Alec Baldwin. We've had Alec Baldwin on.

1258
00:56:41,960 --> 00:56:44,400
Speaker 6: You know, We've had so many people, but this is

1259
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:47,479
Speaker 6: such a treat for us, especially me being a huge

1260
00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:50,799
Speaker 6: Simpsons fan, to have you on. That's I'm like a fanboy.

1261
00:56:51,040 --> 00:56:53,919
Speaker 6: I think it's just terrific and I appreciate you. Brother.

1262
00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:55,560
Speaker 6: If I knew down Skip, I would have done more

1263
00:56:55,560 --> 00:56:57,480
Speaker 6: advice gave.

1264
00:56:58,719 --> 00:57:03,319
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a sneak of course, so and of course

1265
00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:06,840
Speaker 4: you Professor franklich is based Not many kids know this,

1266
00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:09,840
Speaker 4: of course only dre lewis not a professor that we

1267
00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:11,960
Speaker 4: all remember, but most of the children.

1268
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:12,320
Speaker 2: Do not go.

1269
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:18,160
Speaker 4: He played h Frank's father on a Halloween episode of

1270
00:57:18,200 --> 00:57:21,040
Speaker 4: The Simpsons many years ago, which I beg him, look,

1271
00:57:21,040 --> 00:57:22,760
Speaker 4: we have to get Jerry Lewis please and we flew

1272
00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:24,480
Speaker 4: to Vegas and recorded with Jerry.

1273
00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:28,560
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, was he cranky? Was he cranky? A little bit?

1274
00:57:28,840 --> 00:57:31,680
Speaker 6: A little bit? But that was part of the whole thing,

1275
00:57:31,880 --> 00:57:33,800
Speaker 6: you know, Well, Paul talks about that.

1276
00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:34,760
Speaker 2: That's why I was asking.

1277
00:57:35,040 --> 00:57:38,400
Speaker 4: Yes, Jerry was a little bit edgy at times, but

1278
00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:39,600
Speaker 4: we still got through it.

1279
00:57:39,680 --> 00:57:41,760
Speaker 1: Somebody you know it was an enemy for life? Was

1280
00:57:41,760 --> 00:57:42,480
Speaker 1: Bing Crosby?

1281
00:57:43,120 --> 00:57:43,520
Speaker 2: Is that right?

1282
00:57:43,560 --> 00:57:44,959
Speaker 6: And I did not know, well they did.

1283
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:48,160
Speaker 1: They did a gig Hope and Crosby. Of course we're

1284
00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:51,000
Speaker 1: very close, and they had this show and they're doing

1285
00:57:51,040 --> 00:57:54,520
Speaker 1: something and they get Dean and Jerry. Well, Jerry, who's

1286
00:57:54,720 --> 00:57:58,600
Speaker 1: very physical, you know those guys that are just physical humor. Sure, yes,

1287
00:57:58,640 --> 00:58:01,840
Speaker 1: and he came out. So he starts grabs Hope by

1288
00:58:01,840 --> 00:58:06,000
Speaker 1: the hair and fucking jumping all over him, missing and

1289
00:58:06,120 --> 00:58:10,320
Speaker 1: Bing like left the goddamn stage on television, never came

1290
00:58:10,400 --> 00:58:13,800
Speaker 1: back on because he didn't want Jerry, and Jerry kept

1291
00:58:13,800 --> 00:58:16,720
Speaker 1: hounding him from the stage. Where are you we are? Bing?

1292
00:58:16,840 --> 00:58:18,960
Speaker 1: Get out here. He does a whole bunch of stick

1293
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:21,240
Speaker 1: on him, and Bing wouldn't show up because he was

1294
00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:24,160
Speaker 1: afraid that Jerry put a hand through his two pey

1295
00:58:24,800 --> 00:58:26,160
Speaker 1: because being had a two picks.

1296
00:58:27,880 --> 00:58:29,560
Speaker 6: Well, probably was a reasonable fear.

1297
00:58:29,640 --> 00:58:32,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, absolutely, so they never spoke for years.

1298
00:58:32,920 --> 00:58:34,960
Speaker 4: I did some Bing crawling by on The Simpsons a

1299
00:58:34,960 --> 00:58:38,800
Speaker 4: couple of times, but my bang sounds somewhere between BEng

1300
00:58:38,880 --> 00:58:39,560
Speaker 4: and Dean Mark.

1301
00:58:39,680 --> 00:58:42,880
Speaker 6: I think maybe a little Elvis.

1302
00:58:42,960 --> 00:58:50,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody loves somebody. He was underraty know. He was

1303
00:58:50,680 --> 00:58:51,320
Speaker 1: a great singer.

1304
00:58:51,560 --> 00:58:52,160
Speaker 6: Oh he was.

1305
00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:55,440
Speaker 1: He was a great singer and never got acclaim for

1306
00:58:55,680 --> 00:58:56,720
Speaker 1: how well he sung.

1307
00:58:56,800 --> 00:58:58,200
Speaker 6: But he was cool. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, Bing was the guy, you know, Frank and all

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Speaker 1: those guys admired. There was a part in there, that's

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Speaker 1: all Frank talked about. He went to the pipe, he

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Speaker 1: went to the vest. They admired Bing Crosby. Well, of

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Speaker 1: course the cool cat was Frank, you know, and he

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Speaker 1: didn't do himself, but they all idolized being.

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Speaker 4: Well, all those guys were tremendous. I mean, what a

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Speaker 4: time yourself included. I know you you idolized Frank. You

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Speaker 4: mentioned that earlier. But that style of singing and those songs,

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Speaker 4: you know, those it was more of my parents' generation.

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Speaker 4: I grew up more, you know, with Bruce and that

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Speaker 4: whole rock and roll era. But I love dearly that

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Speaker 4: music too. I grew up with it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well it influenced me.

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Speaker 7: You know.

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Speaker 1: It was humbled to be around it. You know, it

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Speaker 1: was a fluke for me to be a kid to

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Speaker 1: be singing with those guys and I just because I

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Speaker 1: didn't even have my voice then I had a squeaky

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Speaker 1: little kid voice and I was writing.

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Speaker 6: That's all that saved. Now you did, all right? Yeah

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Speaker 6: you had at a young age and you're a teenager.

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Speaker 1: Hey man, this has been really cool, really really cool.

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Speaker 6: Thanks for me, Thanks for growing pleasure.

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Speaker 1: We've enjoyed it. You're so talented man. And just I'm

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Speaker 1: waiting for that show yours to finish with everything else

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Speaker 1: you're doing. You know, I just I love people that

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Speaker 1: are creative and have the integrity and that are you know,

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Speaker 1: one of a kind, and that's you.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 1: You've really had a great career.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much. Right back at your Paul. It's

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Speaker 4: a real honored to chat with you both.

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Speaker 6: Thanks Jack, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Our Way with Paul, Anka and Skip Bronson is a

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Speaker 1: production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 3: The show's executive producer is Jordan Runtog, with supervising producer

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Speaker 3: and editor Marcy Depina.

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Speaker 1: It was engineered by Todd Carlin and Graham Gibson, mixed

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Speaker 1: and mastered by the wonderful Mary Do.

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