September 9, 2024 • 10 mins
Monday's show concludes with the news of the passing of James Earl Jones. Dave Garrett joins the show as they look back on his influence in cinema.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
James Earls Jones has passed away. Found this out just
a little while ago at the age of ninety three.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
And of course.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
He was involved in so many things and you and
saw him in so many, so many movies and television shows.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
For some folks like.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
My grandkids and even my kids, initially they know him
more as Mufasa from The Lion King.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
But of course.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
My generation, our generation when I was a teenager, when
Star Wars first came out and the old thing you
take a Dark Vader. There are some maybe Cameron's one
of those who identifies James Earl Jones as the King
and coming to America.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I didn't even seen that movie, so what missing? Okay?
All right?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
And also you've seen Field of Dreams of course. Yeah,
ninety three years of age passed away. He was with
his family when he died. Distinguished career that spanned more
than sixty years and took him from a small town
theater in northern Michigan to the highest reaches of Hollywood,
where he appeared at dozens of movies and TV scenes.
(01:19):
He said, by his own admission that he said he
lucked out. He lucked into the role of Darth Vader
the voice of it. He said, George thought he wanted
a pardon the expression darker voice I lucked out back then,
(01:41):
what's darker than his voice? No? No, no, no, that's why
he got the opportunity. In other words, there were different
people reading for it, and he wanted somebody with deeper
and darker voice, more sinister. Yeah, you know, come with me.
You know, I'm Onblita. You know things like that. You
are a trader in a rebel spy. You know there
(02:03):
were a lot of those.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
You know, it's given to the dark side there. You know,
it is your destiny. You know. He did it so well.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And back then, do you know much he was paid
for Star Wars for using just his voice? Obviously he
wasn't in the in the costume of Darth Vader. Do
you know how much he was paid.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
For his voice work for that, just for the originals?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Yeah, just just for the first movie, the first most movie,
which was known as Star Wars. Obviously we know it now.
It's episode four, it's a it's a new Hope.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Carrot.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Hey, you guess, I don't know, maybe a couple of thousand,
seven thousand dollars. And he said, and I thought that
was good money, and he and George Lucas did have
disagreements about how he should have voiced Vader. He said,
I wanted to make Darth Vader more interesting, more subtle,
more psychologically oriented. Lucas said, no, no, no, you got
(03:05):
to keep his voice in a very narrow band of
inflection because he ain't human.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I mean, he isn't isn't you know? As as Obi
wan Kenobi, he said, he's more man than machine. He
talked about later.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
That, you know, the one they talk about. Perhaps as
climactic as anything else in his voice throughout the course
of the catalog was one line, one line. It was
in what would now be episode five, The Empire Strikes Back,
which a lot of people, myself included, think is the
best of the entire nine episodes. That dramatic point when
(03:44):
Luke Skywalker He's knocked off his hand and said you
my father, and he went, no, I am mule father.
When he said that, you know, there was like wow.
And then he said when he voiced move Fasa for
the Lion King, it took him a while to get
the right tony. He said, my first mistake was to
try to make him regal and what was really needed
(04:07):
was more like me. They said, what do you like
as a father? And I said, well, I'm a dope dad.
So they began to impose my facial expressions on to
move fasa in a different tone of voice. Yeah, he
was authoritative, but he was just a gentle dad. And
he was so there was It was in so many,
so many things. And then remember, for a long time,
(04:29):
this is CNN. That's that was his voice. This is CNN.
So apparently because he was a University of Michigan graduate
from nineteen fifty five, his voice was used for their
football hyph videos in the stadium.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Did you notice that I did not? I did not.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Still, that would have made sense, just like for many
years in Texas he'd used Walter Cronkite's thing about what
starts here changes the world. You know that that deal
only get thinking between third and fourth quarter. Yes, yep,
they do different things with it now. But yeah, So anyway,
James Earl Jones gone at age ninety three, and there
(05:12):
was an outstanding actor and just his voice was just
as distinctive as you could possibly imagine when you think
of all the lines from Star Wars. All Right, we
need a final break. We'll come back to a couple
of other final thoughts here on Sports Radio AM thirteen
Under the Zone. Basically run through all the Sark sound
and you know, talked about college football, and you know,
(05:35):
probably that's all I have to say about that. We
pretty much run through all of all of that for today.
But since we had a few minutes remaining, I just
mentioned it before in the last segment there that we
have lost James Earl Jones at the age of ninety three,
classic classically trained actor and one of the greatest voice
actors of all time. And you if you were a
(05:58):
Star Wars geek like myself, you had such great appreciation
for his voice. But even if you you know when
Field the Dreams and Mufassen the Lion King, and you know,
so many different things. Uh. And so what I decided
to do was just to call the biggest Star Wars
geek fan nerd and authority that I know, and that's
(06:18):
our good friend David Garrett from up in Oklahoma City
who joins us now. So we lost James Earl Jones today.
So as as as Vader, and he said he wanted
to make Vader more philosophical and Lucas told him, no, no,
he's not really even almost human. You've just got to
make him a sinister. How great was his characterization of
(06:40):
Darth Vader.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Don't act so surprised, Greg.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Well, I mean he made the movies, so did John Williams.
H We don't know him as the actor or any
of that stuff. We knew him as the voice. I
got to see him on Broadway. He was fantastic. It
punches our age and the gut, especially if for of
the nerd quality you say, and uh uh he just is.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
He's helped me broaden and lower my voice and slow
down my cadence when I need to be understood in
very important times.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
That's a very good boy. All right.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
So I'm just gonna I'm gonna rapid fire here.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I'm gonna just.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Give you a movie, uh one, and I just want
you to give me, uh, your your best Darth Vader
or James Earl Jones out of that.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Let me start.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Let me start with uh, I'll start with episode four,
A New Hope, which which lines come to mind for
you in that?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Well, he has such a minor uh speaking, Let's see
I did. Uh You're not on any Mercy mission. Don't
surprise your highness. You're not a part of any Massy mission.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
What does he say?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
You are a treble uh, a trader and a rebel
spy or something like that. Also, he sound a little
angrier in those than he did.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
And he was, and he wasn't coach the same way,
and he was allowed to be James Earl. And that's
why I got to say before our interview ends that
he gave permission for all new Future Star Wars to
use AI reproduction.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
We're good with him for yours.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
And mine's purposes, Greg, But he had so many in
that movie it just explored us.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
But the next one he kicks at all.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Right, So give us some from the Empire strikes back.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Calaries. He didn't take the Princess and the Wookie to
my ship.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
It's good and it's always been. No, I am your father.
It's not Luke, I'm your father. I didn't say that
very well and I added too much British to it.
So I got a flat knet back out to oh.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Ray that most definitely come. They'll come Ray. They won't
even know why I.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Was gonna ask you for some of the king from
coming to America. Oh gosh, oh, I assume you had
sex with your bathers, you know, white person.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
You've got to remind me.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I have a little COVID fault, Craig, and and you.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Know what, I was rehearsing before you called it.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Got emotional on the ray walking into the corn and
I thought, God, I got to put this away right now.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
So my off the cuffs. Now it's not had to paw,
all right.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
So so finally give me, give me some in uh
in uh finally.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
In nationals did not concern me, Captain, I want that ship.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
But was it apology? Except was it?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
The apology accepted Captain Nita.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah, I was doing some justice out of that, all right. Hey,
I appreciate you doing it giving us a smile here, Hey,
I love you too.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Take care of me and we'll see you. That's apology accepted,
Captain Needa. That's when he kills the
James Earls Jones has passed away. Found this out just
a little while ago at the age of ninety three.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
And of course.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
He was involved in so many things and you and
saw him in so many, so many movies and television shows.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
For some folks like.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
My grandkids and even my kids, initially they know him
more as Mufasa from The Lion King.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
But of course.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
My generation, our generation when I was a teenager, when
Star Wars first came out and the old thing you
take a Dark Vader. There are some maybe Cameron's one
of those who identifies James Earl Jones as the King
and coming to America.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I didn't even seen that movie, so what missing? Okay?
All right?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
And also you've seen Field of Dreams of course. Yeah,
ninety three years of age passed away. He was with
his family when he died. Distinguished career that spanned more
than sixty years and took him from a small town
theater in northern Michigan to the highest reaches of Hollywood,
where he appeared at dozens of movies and TV scenes.
(01:19):
He said, by his own admission that he said he
lucked out. He lucked into the role of Darth Vader
the voice of it. He said, George thought he wanted
a pardon the expression darker voice I lucked out back then,
(01:41):
what's darker than his voice? No? No, no, no, that's why
he got the opportunity. In other words, there were different
people reading for it, and he wanted somebody with deeper
and darker voice, more sinister. Yeah, you know, come with me.
You know, I'm Onblita. You know things like that. You
are a trader in a rebel spy. You know there
(02:03):
were a lot of those.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
You know, it's given to the dark side there. You know,
it is your destiny. You know. He did it so well.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And back then, do you know much he was paid
for Star Wars for using just his voice? Obviously he
wasn't in the in the costume of Darth Vader. Do
you know how much he was paid.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
For his voice work for that, just for the originals?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Yeah, just just for the first movie, the first most movie,
which was known as Star Wars. Obviously we know it now.
It's episode four, it's a it's a new Hope.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Carrot.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Hey, you guess, I don't know, maybe a couple of thousand,
seven thousand dollars. And he said, and I thought that
was good money, and he and George Lucas did have
disagreements about how he should have voiced Vader. He said,
I wanted to make Darth Vader more interesting, more subtle,
more psychologically oriented. Lucas said, no, no, no, you got
(03:05):
to keep his voice in a very narrow band of
inflection because he ain't human.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I mean, he isn't isn't you know? As as Obi
wan Kenobi, he said, he's more man than machine. He
talked about later.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
That, you know, the one they talk about. Perhaps as
climactic as anything else in his voice throughout the course
of the catalog was one line, one line. It was
in what would now be episode five, The Empire Strikes Back,
which a lot of people, myself included, think is the
best of the entire nine episodes. That dramatic point when
(03:44):
Luke Skywalker He's knocked off his hand and said you
my father, and he went, no, I am mule father.
When he said that, you know, there was like wow.
And then he said when he voiced move Fasa for
the Lion King, it took him a while to get
the right tony. He said, my first mistake was to
try to make him regal and what was really needed
(04:07):
was more like me. They said, what do you like
as a father? And I said, well, I'm a dope dad.
So they began to impose my facial expressions on to
move fasa in a different tone of voice. Yeah, he
was authoritative, but he was just a gentle dad. And
he was so there was It was in so many,
so many things. And then remember, for a long time,
(04:29):
this is CNN. That's that was his voice. This is CNN.
So apparently because he was a University of Michigan graduate
from nineteen fifty five, his voice was used for their
football hyph videos in the stadium.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Did you notice that I did not? I did not.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Still, that would have made sense, just like for many
years in Texas he'd used Walter Cronkite's thing about what
starts here changes the world. You know that that deal
only get thinking between third and fourth quarter. Yes, yep,
they do different things with it now. But yeah, So anyway,
James Earl Jones gone at age ninety three, and there
(05:12):
was an outstanding actor and just his voice was just
as distinctive as you could possibly imagine when you think
of all the lines from Star Wars. All Right, we
need a final break. We'll come back to a couple
of other final thoughts here on Sports Radio AM thirteen
Under the Zone. Basically run through all the Sark sound
and you know, talked about college football, and you know,
(05:35):
probably that's all I have to say about that. We
pretty much run through all of all of that for today.
But since we had a few minutes remaining, I just
mentioned it before in the last segment there that we
have lost James Earl Jones at the age of ninety three,
classic classically trained actor and one of the greatest voice
actors of all time. And you if you were a
(05:58):
Star Wars geek like myself, you had such great appreciation
for his voice. But even if you you know when
Field the Dreams and Mufassen the Lion King, and you know,
so many different things. Uh. And so what I decided
to do was just to call the biggest Star Wars
geek fan nerd and authority that I know, and that's
(06:18):
our good friend David Garrett from up in Oklahoma City
who joins us now. So we lost James Earl Jones today.
So as as as Vader, and he said he wanted
to make Vader more philosophical and Lucas told him, no, no,
he's not really even almost human. You've just got to
make him a sinister. How great was his characterization of
(06:40):
Darth Vader.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Don't act so surprised, Greg.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Well, I mean he made the movies, so did John Williams.
H We don't know him as the actor or any
of that stuff. We knew him as the voice. I
got to see him on Broadway. He was fantastic. It
punches our age and the gut, especially if for of
the nerd quality you say, and uh uh he just is.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
He's helped me broaden and lower my voice and slow
down my cadence when I need to be understood in
very important times.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
That's a very good boy. All right.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
So I'm just gonna I'm gonna rapid fire here.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I'm gonna just.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Give you a movie, uh one, and I just want
you to give me, uh, your your best Darth Vader
or James Earl Jones out of that.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Let me start.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Let me start with uh, I'll start with episode four,
A New Hope, which which lines come to mind for
you in that?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Well, he has such a minor uh speaking, Let's see
I did. Uh You're not on any Mercy mission. Don't
surprise your highness. You're not a part of any Massy mission.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
What does he say?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
You are a treble uh, a trader and a rebel
spy or something like that. Also, he sound a little
angrier in those than he did.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
And he was, and he wasn't coach the same way,
and he was allowed to be James Earl. And that's
why I got to say before our interview ends that
he gave permission for all new Future Star Wars to
use AI reproduction.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
We're good with him for yours.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
And mine's purposes, Greg, But he had so many in
that movie it just explored us.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
But the next one he kicks at all.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Right, So give us some from the Empire strikes back.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Calaries. He didn't take the Princess and the Wookie to
my ship.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
It's good and it's always been. No, I am your father.
It's not Luke, I'm your father. I didn't say that
very well and I added too much British to it.
So I got a flat knet back out to oh.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Ray that most definitely come. They'll come Ray. They won't
even know why I.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Was gonna ask you for some of the king from
coming to America. Oh gosh, oh, I assume you had
sex with your bathers, you know, white person.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
You've got to remind me.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I have a little COVID fault, Craig, and and you.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Know what, I was rehearsing before you called it.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Got emotional on the ray walking into the corn and
I thought, God, I got to put this away right now.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
So my off the cuffs. Now it's not had to paw,
all right.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
So so finally give me, give me some in uh
in uh finally.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
In nationals did not concern me, Captain, I want that ship.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
But was it apology? Except was it?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
The apology accepted Captain Nita.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah, I was doing some justice out of that, all right. Hey,
I appreciate you doing it giving us a smile here, Hey,
I love you too.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Take care of me and we'll see you. That's apology accepted,
Captain Needa. That's when he kills the
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