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May 1, 2025 • 15 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Gina Gondek and Marty Lenz on Colorado's Morning News playing
a guessing game here if you can guess the voice
of this voice.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Here Beautiful Bestus Park, Colorado at the Stanley Hotel, which
is haunted as.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
You know, maybe you saw our social media post on
our Instagram and you already know who it is. It's
a recognizable voice, but in a number of different roles
including Seinfeld's Putty Buzz Lightyear in Buzz light Year in
Star Command and Emperor's New Groove as Kronk.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
And he's also in a wine commercial as well that
I see all the time on TV. He's now in Colorado,
ready to haunt the Stanley Hotel, red Rum for Rocky
Mountain Madness and Esta's Park. Join us Live to talk
about it here in the Kowa comments Here at Health Studio,
it's Patrick Warburton and his dear friend in opening act
Mike Wilson, gentlemen, thank you for.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Being thank you, Marty, thank you, Tina. Yes, yes, yeah,
he raised voices, hair, makeup, all of that. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
Is it the first time you both have been in Colorado?
Is this more of you've been out here before? Oh?

Speaker 5 (00:56):
I think it's my first time in Colorado except maybe
just flying through yeah, flyover country. Yeah, I haven't really,
you know, it's the first I've really seen it.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
What is really cool. And I got to ride your
train yesterday, so it was oh nice, it was ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
He is sixty years old today. This is really yes.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
To Colorado.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
This is one of the grandest states. I love Colorado.
Kids skiing up here, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
Snow masks.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
H that's this park is going to be even more beautiful,
especially this time of the year. It's an exciting time
for both of you guys to have this taking place
at the Stanley Hotel. Patrick, I think I'm gonna start
with you for a minute because you kind of sounded
like you're sarcastically said it was haunted.

Speaker 6 (01:39):
Do you believe in the paranormal activity at the Stanley?

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Oh well, I no, it's not that I don't believe
or do believe. It's you know, I'm a skeptic, but
I do not not believe.

Speaker 6 (01:52):
No, I do believe, probably the right answer going into it.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah, no, no, no, no, I believe that there are
things that you know, going on that we don't you know,
we we don't have answers for supernatural stuff. You know,
I don't know mirror universus strange things because you know
they've happened to you. When they happened to you, then
you know, And don't ask me for an example right now.

(02:16):
I can't tell you that There's been times in my
life I've been so shocked and just strangely things, yeah, happened,
and you don't know how the world, you know, operates,
But this is you know. I was over at Disney yesterday.
They did a screening of They didn't do a screen
the new group. They actually had everybody who was involved
in the making the picture, and all the Disney animators
came out and they wanted to know if I would

(02:37):
do you know, a panel with them. So I did,
and I told them the story that you know, and
I go, none of you know this, But the Emper's
New Groove wasn't the first time that I worked with
earth a Kit. I worked with earth a Kit ten
years prior. Yeah, previous to that, previous to that in
South Africa with these horrible films with Oliver Reed. And
when I came back, when I came back to California,

(02:59):
I was twenty two years old. Remember I wrote cru
so I was in great shape. I go see Eartha
kitt perform, you know, at the age of twenty two,
and she invites me up to her room. And now
I'm sitting on a couch with Earth. She shoes her
butler out of the room. She tells him to leave.
In that Toads. There's a bed five feet away from us.
She's petting this animal that looks I couldn't tell you

(03:20):
if it was a dog or a cat today because
it had fur going over its eyes, and she goes
dog and how are you? She's just eating me alive.
I knew exactly what was going on with in ten
to fifteen minutes, and I ran out of that room
with my tail between my legs because I was a
pussy and I should have done it, but that's what
I said. But anyways, it's so odd then to watch
the Emperors New Groove ten years Earth fifteen years later,
Kronk and Easema even you know, Cusco's sitting there with

(03:43):
her saying, oh, he seems he seems he goes he
seems nice, and she goes he is, which is probably
the weirdest sexiest thing in a Disney movie. Like, what's
going on with Kronk and Easema And I'm like, you know,
ten fifteen years earlier, that was actually me and Eartha
on a couch. So you know, when life art imitates
life for no reason whatsoever, you ask yourself, how did

(04:05):
this happen? Like the universe needed me in earth a
kit to actually be in that situation in your life,
and now in a cartoon movie for Disney, And that's weird.
It's like, how do you put your finger on that?

Speaker 4 (04:18):
You know, don't you?

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Weirdness?

Speaker 4 (04:19):
You too, Santa Baby, if you know what I mean?
Why both?

Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, Mike Patrick, why the Rocky Mountain madness iNeST Park?

Speaker 4 (04:29):
Is it just something that intrigued you because it was unique?

Speaker 2 (04:31):
It was this is Marsha's idea. Okay, this is her
whole concept, and she threw it out there and she's
put this together and worked really hard at this, and
we think it's a great. It's really a fun idea.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
You know.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
I thought it'd be fun to get to do something
with my buddy Mike here, who I think is the
best impressionist in the world. Mainly does he do great impressions,
but he does he does more than anybody else, and uh,
you know which we have to exploit here a little bit.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
It's your favorite, Mike. I don't just like saying you
want best. I don't know if there's if there's a difference.

Speaker 5 (05:03):
You know, you know a lot of people. I remember
Tommy Chong from Cheech and Chong always loved my don Notts.
He would used to call my house. He called my
house and my mother's I'm originally from Florida, born in Mobile, Alabama,
but my mother is very Southern and so he so
she has a super Southern accent.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
And so one time she opens up the door and
she says.

Speaker 5 (05:23):
Michael, you got a phone call here from some fella
that calls himself Tommy Chung from Cheesy Chung. I said, Mom,
are you saying Tommy Chong from Cheech and Chong? And
I can hear him laughing on the phone, and he
goes to me and he goes pick I pick up
the phone and goes, hey, man, he's your mom like
doing a character. Maga is great And I go, yeah,

(05:45):
my mom's not doing a character. She just sounds like that,
Oh my gosh, nuts for us.

Speaker 4 (05:52):
Well, you know, I could sit there and dun nuts
all morning? Very want me to do you have? People
are too young genus.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yet.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
Well you wouldn't know, mister, would She looks a little
bit like a laugh you know, I mean really suing
to hit it all the thing.

Speaker 4 (06:09):
Things are going to escalate, if you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
Well, I mean if you were down trouble. Would you
have to say about this at You know, there's a.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
Lot of things that are very scary. Not as scary
as Kamala, but very scary, very scary, Mike, Can you
do a Patrick warburn doing tariff tariffs? Sun laughs every
time you laugh at a Patrick Warburton joke. You gotta
pay the terriff, but people are loving the tariffs.

Speaker 5 (06:32):
Do I do a Patrick Warburg I don't know. I've
never tried Hanny, but he'd be deep. He'd be like,
that's right.

Speaker 4 (06:38):
Oh. I remember meeting Eric the cat. She was kind
of scary.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
She had I.

Speaker 4 (06:43):
Couldn't tell if it was a dog or a cat.
That's pretty a lot of hair.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
By the way, he does this every day on the
golf course to get it in the last fifteen twenty years,
so he is practiced.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
When you sit here and listened, you know, raising kids
in California. It's been kind of strange, but we got
the best schools.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
This is something that he does. Now obviously you've just
met him right now, totally unrehearsed. So he'll do like Jerry,
George and Kramer. Now you pick a subject, anything to
argue about, because this up anything like us, anything to
argue with on the show. He'll that was and he
will go back and forth arguing about that subject.

Speaker 6 (07:24):
That is amazing. Go, I'm so bad at this.

Speaker 4 (07:29):
Okay, do tariffs like that and do one of them?
What is up with triffs? What is Trump loves the tariffs.
I'm I don't understand the tarriffs. I ever understood the tariffs.
Tariffs on this, tariffs on that. Who wants a tariff?

Speaker 6 (07:41):
Nobody wants the tariffs?

Speaker 4 (07:43):
Telling you Jerry never could take the tariffs. I gotta
buy something, it's a terriff. Oh, gotta buy coffee.

Speaker 6 (07:50):
Tariff.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
Oh, I'm starting to like the tariffs. I think Trump
is doing a great job. Yeah, I love it. My
friend Joe sacrament it. He'll make tariffs.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
What make to the world go around is the hand
off work with you guys, when you open and then
you're ready.

Speaker 6 (08:05):
Do you give him a sense of like, all right,
crowd's ready to roll.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
If you're like, oh, this is rough one, let me
say Okay, first off, when I start started doing this,
I would never want to follow Mike. I still don't
want to follow Mike. You don't want to follow the
best impressionist in the world. So he's to go on
and for twenty minutes kill and do you know that?
And then I have to follow that? Okay, but you
know this is this is it. One of the things
I learned early on. I did a show, you know

(08:30):
I did. Okay, I did a TV series for a while.
I won't mention names, but you know I would have
the writers come up to me and solicit and go, man,
we'd love to write for you, but so and so
won't let us. Now it was the star of the show,
and because he was very, very insecure. You watch Seinfeld
and I learned this and working with Jerry. You know,
he hired Michael Richards, who's going to steal every scene

(08:51):
that he was in. But Jerry's ego formed enough that
he knew that it was better for the show. It
doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, it's better it's better for
the show. I try to opt right on that same thing.
It's not, it's not. It wouldn't be easy for anybody
in the world to follow Mike. There's been some very famous,
you know, comedians who have been pissed off because they
had to follow Mike.

Speaker 6 (09:10):
Because you're newer to stand up to correct but ye
to do it for.

Speaker 5 (09:13):
Your Yeah, but can I say, can I say I've
been watching him, we've you've done it for a year.
We did a little bit uh pre covid uh, and
we did we did a show. Can I mention the
show or is it we ran out?

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (09:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (09:26):
We did show called Letters from a Nut and it
was a book written by Jerry Seinfeld's partner, Barry, writing
partner and producing partner. Yeah, Barry Maryo. So it was
it was basically best seller books from the nineties that
they pranked Corporate America. So we're doing these things and
Patrick is reading the letters are hysterical because it's the

(09:47):
but the responses are not hysterical. They're just basically the
company trying to go because you know, it's it's.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Well, that's why and that's why I brought Mike in
because see he wanted to do it in comedy clubs,
and I go, well, Berry, we're not if you're in
a comedy club, you got to get comedy club left.
And I go, the corporate responses aren't funny. And the
only way to make that work is if I bring
in the best impressions in the world here to do
a different voice for every corporate response, which is what
we did, and that made it work.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
Yeah, why for you?

Speaker 3 (10:15):
And I mean, you've been doing this for a while, like,
but why You've been on iconic shows, as you had mentioned,
and I think the show is rules of engagement maybe
that you're referencing. But I wonder why why do you
want to do stand up now? Is it because you
find it challenging, unique, It gets you a little out
of your cup.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
So I found that I was getting a little bit complacent,
really enjoying my life.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
You know.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
I feel blessed that I was able to able to
put for kids through college. And we live in Ventura.
I play golf with my buddies, you know, get into
a little tequila, and I got my family around. It's
all good, you know, But I felt like I needed
a challenge now I did stand up for a minute,
you know, when I was like twenty one years old,
literally for about a month and a half, two months,
and that was actually starting to go okay. But that's

(10:56):
what I ended up going to Africa to do, is
you know, movies for four months with all Oliver reading
or the kid. Right when I came back, I never
went back to it. I just go I'm an actor. Also,
I found you know the world, you know, in backstage,
you know, at the comedy store back then, very very
dark comics, very dark, you know, And because stand up
is therapy, and I never went back. I regretted it

(11:17):
my whole life for forty years. I was like, you know,
you could have done this, but I'm a stand up
snob and I and I never wanted to be a
mediocre stand up And in order to be a great
stamp you have to eat, drink, sleep, and breathe it.
Which that's not me and that's not how my mind works.
But then I just said screw it. I started doing it,
and within you know, just like three months of doing
fifteen minutes at the improv maybe once or twice a week,

(11:38):
that was it. I had my first opportunity to headline
and went out and I did it and it was
you know, the Irvine Improv, which was, you know, sold
out five hundred. I was nervous, but I did seventy
minutes my first outing, and so I've been rolling since then.
You know, I've been just touring the country. I've got
to you know, I go from here to Nashville, in Chicago,
then the Orlando, Jacksonville, I'll come home. I have a

(11:58):
big Northeast tour coming up, and I'm shooting my special,
which I wanted to do within the first year because
nobody's done it. Nobody's shot a stand up special within
the first year. So I'm shooting that in two months
the El Portal Theater in North Hollywood, Hollywood, and it's
going to be a full, unproduced stand up special within
my first year going out. But yeah, it's been a blast.

(12:20):
And I've never known this kind of autonomy because for
forty years I've been told what to say. I wanted
to say it, where to say to say.

Speaker 4 (12:25):
You own it.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
I write on my own material, ninety percent of it,
you know every now stories right, your stories.

Speaker 5 (12:33):
He's the thing is his stories are wonderful, like they
really are, and he's been telling these stories for a
long time, so it's you know, he is new at comedy,
He's not. No, He's told these stories wonderfully and he
knows every nuance to it. And he's like Jerry Seinfeld.
You know, everything that he says is very I'll think.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
You your world very clean.

Speaker 4 (12:51):
I'm not Jerry's clean. He's not that clean either.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
It's a bit row but it's anecdotal and it's jokes.
I don't really tell. I tell maybe you know a
handful of industry stories. I don't even talk about Seinfeld.
I don't talk about any of that stuff I talked about.
It's all relatable stuff being married for thirty four years,
four kids, seven dogs, and a mean wife. Stuff that
people can relate to. You know what I'm saying. It's
you know, and all the annoyances. So it's a very relatable,

(13:17):
you know a show in that sense.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
Patrick, real quick, we're out of time here. We have
to get all the details in for Esta's Park. But
one answer, and it's probably challenging to say, what voice
do you think people recognize you or character?

Speaker 6 (13:29):
Do they recognize you the most?

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Four Well, in regards in regards to voice, it would
obviously be a Joe from Family Guy and Kronk from
The Ambersoner Grove, those two most prominent, you know, and
then in the realm of other things obviously you know,
you know Seinfeld, a series of unfortunate events people there
that became you know, a big show on Netflix, and
so that's that's there.

Speaker 6 (13:50):
Yeah, did you enjoy the most.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
Well, for different reasons, you know, Seinfeld because as a
huge fan before I ever did the show, So whenever
you get invited back, you knew that, you know, you're
very fortunate to be there Stage nineteen at CBS. Radford
is hallowed ground, this is you know, and getting to
work with them was really really an amazing opportunity. And
getting to work with Barry Sonenfeld on a Netflix show
that they were spending almost nine million dollars in episode

(14:15):
with all the art, and to work with Barry, and
I love Barry. You know, if it wasn't for Barry Sonenfeld,
I shudder to think what my career would have been.
Because I did the Tick with Barry, did Men in
Black with Barry, I did Big Trouble with Barry, did
a series of unfortunate events with Berry.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
So you know, just different things for different reasons. Yeah,
Rocky Mountain Madness, it's an Estes Park. You have the
details in front of Genie because I don't.

Speaker 4 (14:36):
I should have them.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
Really down to Warburton's Mountain Madness, Stanley Hotel, Esta's Park
Friday and Saturday, both music and comedy.

Speaker 6 (14:44):
We didn't even get to the music park.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
So check out our reel that we posted on our
Instagram so you can see all the information of the
music and stand ups.

Speaker 6 (14:52):
Stand up seven pm, nine pm Saturday. Seven pm. Looks
like it's already sold out, so applause to that.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
If the ballroom is the band, they're awesome. They're friends flying, Yeah,
and they're amazing. They tour, They're awesome.

Speaker 6 (15:02):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
Seven pm on Friday on Saturday, already sold out. VIP
tickets seven nine pm Saturday sold out as well.

Speaker 6 (15:10):
Many other tickets still available.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
You can find information Stanley Live dot com, slash, Patrick.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
Mike Wilson, thank you, thank you for great I love it.
Patrick Warburton, thank you, guys, thank you for gracing us early.

Speaker 4 (15:22):
We appreciate it. Thank you all right, thank you. Colorado's
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