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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Creating salutations, watching my friends to end the end of
the Power Hour Tuesday edition, Cheuck Douglas in six ten WTV,
and coming together to get at least one hour of
time with you, which means I talk really fast. You
have to listen even faster my number eight two one
nine eight eighty six eight two one WTV in or
eight hundred six' TEN. Wtv AND i came in here
ready to rail against the, machine And I'm i'm in
(00:27):
a good mood now and, say See blazer missed it
all up for me because we Had Bill farmer jumped
on the. Phone if you were not here in the last,
hour he is, uh he's he's the voice Of goofy
prominently also does other all the voice over. Work and
just talking to, him, honestly it's like if if somebody,
(00:48):
said OH i Met jon Bon, JOVI i Met Mariah.
Carey that just talking to him on the phone just
got me. GIDDY i, KNOW i became a.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Kid he's super, nice like off air, too BECAUSE i
was talking to REMEMBER i had to call and call
back or whatever and all, that so he's super. Friendly
AND i was, like my son Loves. SCOOFY i listened
to you SINCE i was a. Kid he thought it was.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Great so he, REALLY i, mean he really. IS i.
WASN'T i wasn't just you, know making a. Conversation he
really is living my dream and being able TO i
wanted so. Badly and that's, why you, KNOW i hold
up in such high, regard uh people Like harry shear
and And seth MacFarlane and uh even Which trey what's his?
Name they keep saying they're bringing Back king of The,
(01:32):
hill Which i'm still. Waiting but all those people who
uh who get to be, ANIMATED i just think that's
one of the coolest things on the. Planet and animation
has changed a, lot a great deal we along with.
(01:53):
Technology Mike, Judge Mike, judge thank. You ALL i remembered
was Propane, boy.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
The butt heead, guy, right, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
The uh there's stupid. Balles the the animation quality is
so much less today than it was fifty years. Ago disney,
had you, know they took animation to up just a ridiculous,
level and today the rougher it, is the more popular
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it seems to. Be what was that ONE mtv ran
and he was a psychologist and it was like he
was jittery and. Everything that was so. Weird, yeah it
Was John John.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
LOVETZ i think that.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Though that was so, weird but it was a big.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Hit South park was like. That it had really bad
animation at, first and it got super duper.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Popular. YEAH i, know, WELL i mean, that you know
what one, phrase, seriously oh my, god you Killed, kenney you.
Bastards that that was once that caught. On South park
was unstoppable and then respect my thought that it took
over AND i WAS i was. HOOKED i was hooked
To South.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Park it's still.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
GOING i, KNOW i know that. MONSTER i mean facing
what's The simpsons now forty years?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Old thirty? Six, yeah who would have?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Thunk who would? Have and that you talk about rough.
Animation When The simpsons was first presented on The Tracy
Omens show during the early days of The Fox, network
it was it looked like, somebody a kindergartener with an
etch a sketch had done the animation For The. SIMPSONS
i was.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
A, kid AND i remember them saying that you shouldn't
watch it as a. Kid, Yeah simpson was just out of.
Control it would be a bad. Influence AND i look
back On i'm, like what.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
How many how Many eat My shorts posters DID i
own over the?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Years, oh everybody had. One everyone had.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
One but, anyway just just just talking to Mister farmer it,
UH i don't, know it just it got me. Happy
SO i thank. Him even THOUGH i probably never seen
you ever talk to him. Again it. Was it was
wonderful to have those few minutes on the phone and
just be in his. Aura if you, will.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
We can start on an animated.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
SHOW i would love. TO i would love. TO i.
WAS i got to be animated for a couple of
commercials years and years, ago back when we still had
the payday, lenders and, UH i. WAS i was a
little animated cartoon guy for Check. SMART i think they're gone,
now but that's as close AS i ever.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Came that's a cartoon. Idea two people who were on
a check cashing. Place oh, no and a bad part of.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Town that would be. Terrible, well they're never in good
parts of. TOWN i mean you never pull up in
your roles to go cash a payroll.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
ADVANCE i mean you never, know never know who will show.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Up it's, uh they tried. That what was At Beverly
Hills Pawn do you remember that Wh basically they took
the pawn Shop Pawn, stars but they put it In.
Beverly's people would come in with their you, know their
nine hundred thousand dollars diamond bracelets and so forth to
paw and it was so it was so out of
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the out of the concept of most people that it
didn't last very.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Long, yeah that's not that's not in your. Realm, no that's.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
No now you could identify with finding something in the
attic that maybe you, Know elvis signed for your. Granddad
that's that's kind of, Cool but you, know this is
my catier. Dolling nobody's gonna watch. That and then what
was that other one they used to watch After Pawn?
Stars you Remember billy The. Exterminator did you ever watch?
That he was kind of a cartoon you, mean the.
(05:38):
Turtleman he was he like black leather cowboy hat and
he go. Out you could have being like crocodiles didn't
matter man And billy would go. OUT i don't know what.
Happened it seemed like that show was really popular and
then it just disappeared and nobody ever talked about him.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Again it was like From kentucky or.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Something, yeah somewhere.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Down, yeah, yeah, yeah That's. Turtleman that that was his.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Nickname we, okay i'd never. Heard.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah he was as boud as a cartoon as you
could be.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Animated at that same, Time Cartoon network Had. Duckman And
i'm Watching duckman And i'm, laughing AND i might there's something,
familiar something familiar About. DUCKMAN i couldn't figure out what it.
WAS i was probably two years into it BEFORE i
figured Out Jason Alexander George costanza From seinfeld Was. Duckman
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that's why he seemed so. FAMILIAR i never bothered to
watch the. CREDITS i just listened to the voice THAT i,
like he seems. Familiar it Was George constanzo And duckman was,
another you, know vile little. Character BUT i got hooked on.
It so anything anything, animated just REALLY i think it's.
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Cool Casey casem doing all the stuff he, did you,
know most Notably shaggy And Scooby doo all those. Years
he was a big.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
IDOL i don't know how we would do animated show
about radio because it would just be two people talking. Animated.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Well. Kay it worked FOR wkrp the first time. Around
which was you, know it's still a. Legendary it's still
in reruns and, uh you, KNOW i thought turkeys could.
Fly it's it's every year we hear. That the the
thing of it is IS wkrp from a true radio, perspective
is one of the most inaccurate television shows ever and uh,
uh it just but it was. Fun it was fun to.
(07:27):
Watch AND i Think i'm not, positive BUT i think
W carip actually might have been inspired by the MOVIE.
Fm did you ever see? That? NO I Leen, Brettan
martin Mull the station was Q sky In Los, angeles
And martin he Played Leonards. SWAN i think it Was Leonard,
swan The swan on the air and he had a
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breakdown on the air and talked about you, know and
nobody loves The. Swan i'm all by. MYSELF i come.
IN i put on this show for you elvery day
and the station was just overrun with women who came
to comfort The. Swan it was soundtracked by the Band Steely.
Dan why DO i know all?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
This Martin maull was on what show is he?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
On he's been on many, shows was.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
One of my, Favorite, yes Fight.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Yeah and he was in The what's Her? Face he
was the pharmacist in h oh was it Wasn't? Roseanne was?
It And?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Roseanne he played a small diner.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Owner he was the pharmacist in brook What's brook's? Name? Blonde,
no she's, hilarious but she got on drugs and and
kind of messed. Up but she had she had A
roseanne type show as. Well and he was a, PHARMACIST i.
Believe on, There martin maul was one of those people
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was always around doing not The.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Grace was It?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
GRACE i can't Remember Grace grace Under? Fire is? That?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
YES i remember her voice was very. Distinct, yeah, Yeah
so why are we talking about this because IT'S i,
mean what else was we started talking?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
About forgot and all of a sudden we're on. This but,
anyway and how.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Many shows where you get content talking About grace Under?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Fire that's, true that's AND i would love her real
name is? What? Brett Brett?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Summers, NO i.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Forget, No Brett summers was the woman On Match game
THAT i never knew why she was? Famous why Was
Brett summers? Famous why Was Brett? Butler thank? You why
WAS i? Mean Richard dawson had a little something going.
On Charles Nelson riley had a little something going, on
But Fanny flagg never understood why she was, famous but
they were both mainstays on the old Match. Game we
(09:46):
got to get Doctor Bob, Thompson professor Of Pop culture
At Syracuse, university on the phone one. Afternoon you know,
WHAT i throw stuff at him sometime When i'm hosting
the morning show For mike And i'll have him on
And i'll throw something at, it and it Will he'll
come to a, stop LIKE i have not heard that
(10:07):
name in decades this. Morning i'm not. JOKING i don't
know WHY i woke up this this goes. Back she
used to do. COMMERCIALS i believe she was A broadway
performer and, dancer If i'm not. Mistaken BUT i woke
up and the first WORDS i spoke this morning Were Rula.
Lenska Rula. LENSKA i don't know. WHY i guess it
(10:34):
was a. Dream MAYBE i was dreaming about my, childhood
But Rula lenska was in my. MIND i Threw Joey
heatherton at the professor one. Day he's, like, REALLY i.
Haven't joey And dad was a TERRIBLE tv show