KCAA: The Scene with Doreen (Tue, 15 Apr, 2025)

KCAA: The Scene with Doreen on Tue, 15 Apr, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Nineteen thirty two dot org.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Love doing not.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
What's going on America. Welcome to the Scene with Dorin.

Speaker 4 (00:18):
I'm your host, Doorytaelor, setting the scene every week to
help you find out what's happening in music, TV, movie, sports,
the arts, and everything in between. We're proud to be
syndicated on station's coast to coast and originating right here
in the City of Brotherly Love on Philadelphia's number one
talk radio station, Talk eight sixty WWDB. Get inside our
access and go behind the scene on our show's official website,

(00:40):
The Scene with Dorine dot com, and watch us every
single week on the nationally syndicated television show The Daily Flash,
available in every major city in the US. Whoo, that's
always a mouthful. Mattmanark, how are you?

Speaker 5 (00:53):
I'm good, Dorian, how are you?

Speaker 2 (00:54):
I'm doing good?

Speaker 4 (00:55):
Every it's like we should just can that. But I
do it live every show. I don't, I don't skimp.
I actually do it.

Speaker 5 (01:02):
You do?

Speaker 6 (01:03):
You do it live every show. It's you got to
keep the flow. If we recorded that and then you
went into yeah, it wouldn't have the same flow.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
So I think we have a really good guest.

Speaker 6 (01:15):
Yeah, let's just get to it, Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
One man, one hundred voices and a thousand laughs. That's
just the tip of the iceberg when describing my guest
today on the scene with Doreen. Terry Fader has become
a household name when he won the crown on season
two of America's Got Talent with his unique gift that
combined singing, comedy, and unparalleled celebrity impressions.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Check it out.

Speaker 7 (01:38):
America has decided the winner of America's Got Talent, the
winner of the title Best New Act in America, and
the winner of one Dollar is.

Speaker 6 (01:53):
Terryta oh.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
Since that huge win almost twenty years ago on America's
Got Talent, Terry Fader has become one of the most
sought after successful performers in Las Vegas, being named best
Las Vegas Strip Headliner by Las Vegas Weekly three years
in a row and receiving one of the biggest entertainment
deals ever in Sin City's history. He is back in

(02:27):
Vegas with a new show, Terry Fader, One Man, one
hundred voices, a thousand laughs, I think there's more, and
is heading out across the country this summer for the
Terry Fader on the road again tour in select cities nationwide.
I'm excited to see who else may stop by during
our interview today, So let's get to it. It's an
honor to welcome the very talented, multi personality civil.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Terry Fader to the show. Welcome to the sematory, Terry.
What's going on?

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Oh man, it's so good to be with you.

Speaker 8 (02:56):
And I just want to say real quickly, when I
was listening to that, I couldn't see anything, but I
was listening, and you guys, well, I think it's everybody
does this, but you edited do you know?

Speaker 2 (03:06):
It was eighteen seconds when he said.

Speaker 8 (03:09):
And the and the winner of a million dollars in
America's guy talent is and you sit there and count
eighteen seconds that I was on there. My chest, my
heart was beating out of my chest. It felt like
it was never never gonna happen. And now they've all
edited it down like Terry Vader, and I'm like right,
And it was really surreal because I was absolutely convinced

(03:32):
that it was gonna be the other guy. He had
so many more social media hits, so like his YouTube,
he had like one hundred and fifty million views to
my fifty million views of my audition and I'm thinking,
this guy has it in the bag. So I was
absolutely stunned when they said my name. And the reason
it took eighteen seconds they told me later. Actually, Jerry

(03:53):
Springer told me this. The teleprompter broke and so he
didn't know who the winner was. So they had to
tell him in his earpiece who the winner was.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
And they was waiting for them to tell him.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
Oh my god, super secret.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Nobody knew, nobody knew.

Speaker 8 (04:10):
So that's why I took eighteen seconds. But I'm telling you,
pure hell, pure hell. When you're standing up there live
in front of you know, twenty five million people and
you're waiting and it's just like, what is when.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Are they going to say something true? I mean, your
chest is like it's crazy, It is really crazy. But
what a memory? What a memory? And I mean surreal
and I everything. I mean it's a blur.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
Yeah, I would imagine you don't remember probably anything. You
have to watch it or listen like you do now
and it probably brings things back to you, but probably
it was a blur for a while.

Speaker 8 (04:43):
I can imagine it was the one thing I remember
very clearly, my sister was. She's passed away unfortunately since then.
But she had severe room toward arthritis and was really
an excruciating pain since the time she was sixteen years old.
And there was an experimental treatment that was about fifteen
thousand dollars and I told her before that if I
won America's Got talent, I was going to get her

(05:04):
that treatment. And so the one thing I remember as
clear as day, I pulled her on actually Jerry Springer
saw her and pulled her up to me, and I
grabbed her neck and I put my and I put
my mouth next to her ear, and I said, Debbie,
call your doctor and tell him you want that you
want that treatment, and she did, and unfortunately it didn't work.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
But you know, I spent the fifteen thousand.

Speaker 8 (05:25):
Dollars to get her that treatment so that she could
we could try, you know, we could try.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
It was worth every penny.

Speaker 8 (05:30):
I don't regret one one cent of it to try
it to hopefully see if we couldn't get her some relief.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
But unfortunately there was none. But she has relief now.

Speaker 8 (05:38):
I believe she's with the Lord, so so you know,
I miss her terribly, but but but she was in
a lot of pain. But that that's my that's probably
the most stark memory of that, and not even the
million dollars. It was the fact that I was going
to be able to help my sister right away. So
that was or at least try.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
So yeah, no, you did. You helped in a different way.

Speaker 4 (05:59):
I mean, it doesn't always have to work, so to
speak to work or to accomplish something.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Mm hmm, that's true.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:06):
I thought it was because Jerry Springer just probably forgot
where he was or because you're right, I was editing
that down and for me even just sitting here thinking
about you know, because it also airs on radio, to think,
okay one, Mississippi two and Mississippi, I'm like, this is
awful just for radio.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
And I'm thinking how you're feeling while you're.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
Standing oh just there, and you're just like, what is happening?
Why are they?

Speaker 4 (06:34):
And I like to know though that it's really nice
to know that it wasn't like not everyone knew the secret,
not everyone knew who was gonna win or was predetermined
or is it. That's nice to know that it really
was lock and key, and it was kind of like, oh,
you know, it was a real moment for you.

Speaker 8 (06:48):
Well, that whole that whole thing was so interesting, and
I got some inside information from some of the producers,
and I was the dark horse from the my first
It's interesting because I talked to a lot of people
and they'll say, I knew you were going to win
from the moment you saying it last time.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
They all all this, prognosticators always.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Know exactly I didn't. I didn't.

Speaker 8 (07:05):
But here's the thing is that they told some of
the you know, some of the producers gave me some
inside information later and they said, you were never you
were always at first, you.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Were in the bottom of the voted.

Speaker 8 (07:17):
You always made it, but you sometimes you squeak through.
And they said, every single week I would rise up
in the in the voting. So I was higher and
higher and higher in the voting as the weeks went on.
And that last one, Cass had always been ahead. He
was number one from the moment he started to the
to the end. And the producers, these these producers that

(07:40):
kind of secretly told me behind the scenes, they said,
everybody thought Cass was going to win. He said, not
only this, this person told me this. They said, not
only did you win, it and it surprised everybody you beat.
You had sixty percent of the votes and the other
forty percent were shared among the other.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Wow.

Speaker 8 (08:00):
And so I didn't just win, I creamed the God.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
Oh yeah, And.

Speaker 8 (08:07):
I know what happened because I didn't know this, and
this is all God. You know, I'm a very strong
believer in God and the universe. I believe that everything
was meant to be the way it was meant to be,
because if you look at how it happened, it happened
in such a precise way that if it had been
the year before or the year after, it wouldn't have
happened for me. But what it was so interesting because

(08:29):
I cannot tell you how many people told me, have
told me this after seeing me in Vegas or on
a road show, or emailed me. They said, I opened
my office and went in and I used every single
computer in my office to vote for you ten times.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
That's and I don't.

Speaker 8 (08:44):
Know what it was that compelled people to do this
kind of thing, but I got told, I have been
told by that by hundreds of people that they did that,
which is why.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
They didn't know me.

Speaker 8 (08:56):
But for some reason something in them made them want
to make that happen. So you know, every other week
they would just vote normally, and then all of a sudden,
that final week they would open their offices with twenty computers.

Speaker 4 (09:09):
You know, it's the power of entertainment. When you can
be on stage, there's nothing like it, and you can
connect with even that one person, you've made a difference
in their lives. So how many people can say that
about other jobs that they do. I mean, jobs are meaningful.
There are many of wonderful, important jobs, but there's something
about entertainment. Singer, actor, or whatever it is. You reach
into their soul and if you can speak to them

(09:30):
on that level, you've got them for life truth, and
they're like an army. They'll fight for you, and they'll
go and open their office and vote a thousand times
for you.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
And it's just nothing like it. There's nothing.

Speaker 8 (09:41):
They kind of become a part of your life and
you become a part of their life, and it is
very interesting how it works. And again, same thing, it's like, look,
I'm an entertainer. I don't I'm not all full of myself.
I forget that I'm famous until somebody recognize them.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
It's weird.

Speaker 8 (09:57):
I just I'm totally in my own little oblivious world.
And then somebody will be like Terry, and I'm like,
do I know this person?

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Oh, that's right, I'm famous. That's right. It's people don't
be you know. I'm on billboards in Vegas. It's so funny.

Speaker 8 (10:09):
But but I can't tell you how many people have said,
you know, I had cancer and your videos got me through,
or my wife had cancer and or my dad.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Died and I just and and you know your videos
every day.

Speaker 8 (10:21):
So so the impact that we're making is you know,
I don't I don't ever take that for granted, and
I don't ever look at it as yeah, yeah whatever,
you know, I just.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
Need my money.

Speaker 8 (10:30):
That to me is more, is more valuable and means
much more to me than any amount of money that
I could win or earn or anything else. Is the
impact I'm having on people's lives, making their lives better
and helping them through difficult times.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
So amen, And you know, I did hear a rumor,
and I don't know if it's true. I'm as illa
ask you since I've got you here that when you won,
you know, in America's got talent, you come along with
a nice contract, you get money, you get set up
with things.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
But you had other dates.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
You were an active performer, you were performing or and
you had small little dates that you were You honored
all of them. You made sure that you played them
all before and you said, no, I have to do these,
I have to honor my commitment that my friend is
so rare and that's what's so special about you.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 8 (11:15):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
I was very adamant about that.

Speaker 8 (11:17):
I grew up with with high moral standards and and
you know, to make sure that I had a very
you know, because I feel like it just makes your
life better when you have high morals and you have
high standards. And everybody wanted me to charge them more,
and I said, nope, if I have a contract, if
I told them I was going to play for five
hundred dollars, we're playing for five hundred dollars. And boy,

(11:38):
you know, talk about a talk about a gold mine
for them, because I would go in and I would
have just one one thing I did Odessa, Texas, and
I think I was I was paying for like three
hundred I mean, I mean, you know, two thousand dollars
or three thousand dollars or something, and it was. There
was maybe fifty thousand people there, so wow, you know.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
Score, yeah, you know.

Speaker 4 (11:59):
I think I was playing I'm a performer in my
past life and I was playing the trump taj Mahal.
I was playing a little lounge and you were in
the big theater, I remember, and it was just I
believe as you. I was a few years after and
I remember you. The lines were just like crazy. Just
to see you, it was amazing. So I've known about
you for a long long time. I kind of I

(12:21):
kind of performed I opened for you.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
That's pretty cool.

Speaker 4 (12:24):
I can say that.

Speaker 8 (12:26):
At that time when I did that, that was I
think that was some of my very first headlining gigs. Yes,
right after America's Got Talent, yep, and uh, I was
still setting up all my own puppets, doing everything.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
Now I have I have people that you know, you
have handlers, Yes.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yes, I do.

Speaker 8 (12:42):
And but I was still tearing down and I was
doing I was doing meet and greets after every single show,
and I mean it would take me to the meet
and greets were longer than the show and the only
reason I stopped. I would still be doing it, but
I had I was getting sick once a month, I
was catching a colder, getting the flu, and it was miserable,

(13:02):
and so my doctor said, well, tell me your schedule,
and I told him. He says, you have to stop
the meet and greets because what's happening is you're meeting
hundreds of people after every show, and they're bringing things
from all over the world, and you're catching every strain
of every cold and every and I'm like, oh, and
so as soon as I ended that, bam, I stopped
getting sick all the time. So it's unfortunate, and I
hate it because I love meeting my fans and I

(13:25):
and I you know, if you if you see me
out there and I'm at an airport, please don't be
afraid to come and say hi. I love meeting my fans,
and I love engaging, and uh, you know, I'm interested.
I'm so grateful because you know, I spent so much
time I was twenty years, you know, traveling around as
an unknown, and you know, dreaming of the day when

(13:48):
there would be lines of people to come and see
me to perform.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
And now I have it, and I don't take it
for granted.

Speaker 8 (13:53):
It's been almost twenty years, and I don't take it
for granted, I still love every minute of it, and
I appreciate every single fan. And somebody says, I've voted
for you, I helped you it happened, and I say,
you did.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
They were part of it. They were part of it.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
I don't.

Speaker 8 (14:05):
I don't look at that flippantly and go, yeah, yeah,
whatever your voted. Didn't know every vote, it's all of
them accumulated that made it happen. Yes, And I am
so appreciative of every single one of them.

Speaker 4 (14:16):
See, that's why you're doing so well. I do believe
in karma. I believe in things. What you put out
is what you bring in, and I believe that these
are the things. And it's not fake for you. It's
a real genuine thing for you. I mean there are
people I interview and you know it's fake. You just know,
and you're like, Okay, you read this and it's on
you know, a fortune cookie.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
You read this, and no, with you, it's it's true.
It's true.

Speaker 4 (14:36):
And you've been this way your whole time, and you've
always you know, you were always performing, you were doing
the grind, but you almost gave up. You know, we're
almost I was thirty nine, forty years old, and you said,
what am I doing?

Speaker 8 (14:48):
Yeah, well, what I started doing ventriloquism at ten. I
knew by the time I was eleven, I want to
do this. I want to be a ventriloquism. But I
could sing. So I in my early twenties, I started
a and I was the lead singer of a band,
but I did ventriloquism. So we would do about fifteen
minutes of normal songs and I would do my impressions
of guns n' Roses and Garth Brooks and you know,

(15:09):
George Strait and Ozzy Osbourne and all that. But then
I would pull out a puppet and I would have
a puppet sing a song, and then we would get
back to music. And so I was always doing that,
and then and then when I was in my thirties,
I decided, maybe thirty five, I decided, I think I
want to try being a ventriloquist. It's been my dream
since I was ten. I want to be a professional ventriloquist.
So I let the band go and I went as

(15:31):
a ventriloquist. And then because I thought my shot. You know,
when you're thirty five and you're in a band, especially
with long hair, and you're doing the whole thing.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
Look, it's this ship has sailed. You're not going to
give me this year?

Speaker 8 (15:43):
Not And I thought I might have a shot at
making it as a ventriloquist, but I'm not going to
make it as a band, you know. So I did
that for a few years, and then when I turned forty,
I kind of was in evaluating my life and I thought, well, geez,
you know, I guess here I'm a forty ye Who's
ever going to really care about a forty year old entreloquist?
And so I went through a little bit of a depression, thinking, wow,
I guess my dream is over. And then I thought,

(16:05):
wait a second, my dream isn't over. My dream was
to be a professional ventriloquist, and I am. I'm getting
paid to people.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
Forget that that right.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
I may not be famous, but I'm making a living.
You know.

Speaker 8 (16:16):
I don't have to go and flip burgers or something.
You know, I grew up as a janitor, which is
a wonderful job, but it wasn't what I wanted to do.
And so, you know, I don't have to go back
to janitorial work. I get to play with puppets and
so I determined that. I said, well, regardless, you know,
I'm a forty year old ventriloquist, but you know what,
I'm going to be the best avatrilloquistnam that he's ever seen.

(16:38):
And if it's if it's performing for six year olds
at a at an elementary school, you know, when they're fifty,
I want them to tell their grandkids I saw the
best ventriloquist I ever saw when I was six, you know.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
And and I.

Speaker 8 (16:49):
Think it was that attitude that really led to because
when when America's Got Talent came calling, man I was
ready and I had I had the mindset that I
was going to be the best in the world at
what I did, regardless of if I ever got discovered.
And that really when that door opened, man I went
right through it.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
And Lord, yes me you did. What happened was beyond
anything I could have emanaged.

Speaker 4 (17:11):
I'm still going to people don't realize that there are
many rounds with America stout count. You just don't end
up on the main stage and be singing for the celabs.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
You're you actually have to.

Speaker 4 (17:20):
Go through many tedious little rounds. But they didn't believe
it was you at first.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
Did they they didn't.

Speaker 8 (17:27):
And it was so funny because it was interesting because
they called me and they say, they say, you know,
they actually when the way they do this now, it's
easier because almost everybody submits online, which is great.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
You don't have to wait a line the cattle call
right right.

Speaker 8 (17:41):
But when I did it, they had found they tried
to find professionals. They don't want it to all be amateurs,
and they had found my website. And in two thousand
and six, when the first season was going on, people
were emailing from the fairs. I was playing and calling
INBC and saying, we saw this ventrilluculus. It was doing
in Essions of Singers.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
You should have him on the show.

Speaker 8 (18:02):
And they called me and they said, you know, we're
getting a lot of requests.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
Would you audition?

Speaker 8 (18:07):
And I said, yeah, so, you know, so we figured
out my schedule. I was I've been one of the
hardest working ventriloquists in the history of the world. I mean,
the amount of shows I do and touring I've done,
you know, for the last you know, forty years, has
just been insane.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
But so we worked it out.

Speaker 8 (18:22):
I come in and they said, you only have five
minutes don't do more than five minutes.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
They don't like that.

Speaker 8 (18:26):
I did my five minutes and they said do more.
So I ended up doing about fifteen or twenty minutes.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
Wow, of all these different and I had.

Speaker 8 (18:33):
Dozens of impressions I was doing. And so finally I
stopped and I said what did you think? And they said, yeah,
we're not really sure. And I said, what's wrong? And
they said, well, it's obvious you have a tape recorder
in the puppet. And I said no, don't. I said,
I'm really doing this and they said no, and I
said that's not possible. And I said, okay, what do
I have to do? And they said, get right up

(18:53):
to the table. There was maybe six producers at a table.
And I walked right up to the table and I went,
let's come, and they.

Speaker 4 (19:06):
Went, you know, now you have the tapeer corder in
your throat. They probably didn't believe it was just the puppet.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
Now it's in your throat.

Speaker 4 (19:13):
They probably had to do like some kind of exam,
some doctor's exam to figure out that you didn't have
some implant or something in your throat exactly.

Speaker 8 (19:21):
You know this speaking of that, my doctor, I have
my doctor is the Doctor to the Stars. He did,
he was the doctor. He's retired now, but he still
has his license. He just doesn't have his office. And
I still call him if I need something. He's, uh,
he's awesome, but he did he does. Mike Jagger and
and you know, uh, Elvis Presley did all I mean,
Doctor the Stars, and he's like, I, I cannot understand

(19:44):
how you do what you do. It should not be possible.
And I would say it's physically impossible if you didn't
do it. Yeah, And so it's I I don't know
how or why. I honestly, there's no there's no trick.
I don't know. I don't I should not be able
to make the tones that I do through that much.

Speaker 4 (20:01):
Well, humans, I mean we're all different. I mean there's
some people that can sing with a four and a
half octave range or five octave range. Other people can
sing two notes and I mean not even well, so
it's just whatever, whatever God.

Speaker 3 (20:12):
Gave you the right combination exactly.

Speaker 8 (20:15):
And what's what kills me is when I'm doing a
really hard song, like you know, I just posted a
Bohemian rhapsody on a part of you know that high
part so you.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
Think you can stole me a spit in my eye.

Speaker 8 (20:28):
So I'm doing this with this Freddie Mercury puppet and
people are like, his lips are moving, and I'm like, okay,
you try singing blieve me in your.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
Mouth clothes, and you see if your lips don't it.

Speaker 8 (20:39):
Is impossible for my lips not to not to move
at all. If my lips did not move, then I'm
lip syncing, and I'm telling you it is not possible.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
To see. Now I can sing something, you know, I
can be like, blame it all on my roots.

Speaker 8 (20:52):
I showed up in boots and ruined your like, I
can do that and there's no lip movement all, and
that's fine. But if if I'm doing Bohemian Rhapsody, I'm sorry,
but my lips are. And the reason my lips move
is because I have to breathe right and I have
to hit these notes. And it just it is hilarious.
It doesn't even bother me. It's just it's hilarious. People

(21:13):
like his lips are moving. Jeff Dnno is better, and
I'm like, yeah, whatever, you know, it's like you know,
and Jeff Dunham may be better, but I want to
see him sing Bohemian Rhapsody.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
And not move his lip. It's not possible. It's a lot.

Speaker 8 (21:26):
It cracks me up, but you know, it is interesting
because I think it's that people really don't understand what
I'm doing. And I think the best compliment I could
possibly get from anyone is is your lip sinking.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
And I'm like, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 8 (21:43):
For saying that, because if you really don't think I'm
singing that, then that's about as good as I can get,
you know, and well, you trust me. If you're singing
Bohemian Rhapsody and your lips aren't moving, you are lipstick.

Speaker 4 (21:57):
Well my training was an opera, so I can attest
that if you're singing anything along the lines of classical
opera anything you I mean, look at the opera singers.
They can open They have to open their mouths as
widely you drive a semi through it.

Speaker 8 (22:09):
They had to look at my I have I see
ness and dorma freaking mouth closed. And yeah, there's a
little bit of lip movement, but I'm sorry, it ain't
gonna it ain't gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (22:19):
I think you're forgiven, you know, do you.

Speaker 8 (22:22):
Leg It's like, oh, yeah, yeah, okay, I've got to
keep my mouth.

Speaker 3 (22:29):
Oh my god.

Speaker 4 (22:31):
You know, and you did another I mean, talk about
the impossible and people not believing it, but you did
almost something even more impossible.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
You made Simon Cowell like you.

Speaker 4 (22:41):
I mean, that's sort of like unbelievable. I mean he
even said on Oprah that you were one of the
two most talented people on the earth.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
So yes, do you ever find out who the second
one was?

Speaker 8 (22:52):
I'm kind of curious Leona Lewis. He had just discovered
her on X Factor in Britain. But here's the thing
that that is even deeper than you know.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
And I love.

Speaker 8 (23:01):
That's why I love these podcasts because I get to
tell these stories and a lot of people don't know
this stuff and going to depth that means more than
just saying what Simon cal said. You see, I grew
up with a with a hyper critical father. My father
never told me he was proud of me. My father
had me convinced that I was not talented, that I
was a fake. He had and I mean we're talking

(23:23):
up until after America's got talent. I believed that I
was good at fooling people into thinking I was good
at what I did, and I mean, this guy really
messed with my psyche. And he died in twenty fourteen,
never telling me he was proud of me, never telling
me that I was good. And the interesting thing is
that was a demon I had to I had to

(23:45):
wrestle with, and that was mental issues and psychological issues
that I had to wrestle with for decades.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
And when Simon Cowell said that, it was so cathartic, and.

Speaker 8 (23:58):
I cannot tell you it was all almost as if
my my creativity and that part of my psyche was
unshackled and I let it go because it's like, well,
my dad may not be proud of me. But Simon Cowell,
one of the most critical entertainment you know, one of
the one of the biggest entertainment critics and most critical
entertainment critics in the fistory of the world, is said

(24:21):
I'm one of the best in the world. And I'm like, yeah,
it's okay. I don't I don't need that from my father.
And that was huge for me. That was really big
for me. So that that meant more to me than
than any probably anything that's ever happened in my career.

Speaker 4 (24:34):
Wow, And he credited you. I mean I heard him
say that. He even credits you for the success of
his show. I mean, you are the reason America's got talent.
He believes in his You know that you are the
reason that it's so successful.

Speaker 8 (24:46):
It was just like I said, you know, everything falls
in to place. It's you know, the universe, like you said, karma. Uh,
you know the universe. I'm a big believer in God
and and and his plan for us and whatether you
call it?

Speaker 2 (24:59):
The universe, the karma.

Speaker 8 (25:01):
Everything happened exactly at the right time that it needed
to happen.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
And he's right because.

Speaker 8 (25:07):
To see somebody get on that show, win the show
and become one of the top headliners in Vegas and
a Las Vegas legend.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
And I hate saying that if I feel weird.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
Oh I'll say it for you plenty of times.

Speaker 8 (25:19):
Yeah, it's weird for me to say that, but they
tell me that. I mean, I've had the Keidon City twice.
It's been named Terry Fader Day twice.

Speaker 3 (25:26):
I think you have your own theater.

Speaker 4 (25:27):
How many people, how many comedians and people have aspired
to have their own theater and.

Speaker 8 (25:33):
You exactly, yes, exactly, and so so to be able
to accomplish that and to be able to say, yes,
that happened because of this show.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
You know he's right.

Speaker 8 (25:44):
And it's just from a just from a viewpoint of
looking at it and saying, look what you can do
if you get on this show and win it. But
I got to tell you, if you're going to make
that happen, the work starts after you win.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
It's not like, oh, I.

Speaker 8 (25:59):
Want and now it's great. I have never worked so
hard as I have since I won. America's got talent.
It's if you want it, and if you want that
kind of success, it's you got to realize there's never
going to come a time when you can rest on
your laurels and go.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
I'm done, you know.

Speaker 8 (26:14):
I mean, I've been in Vegas eighteen years, a headliner
in Vegas eighteen years. I have probably rewritten my show
thirty five times. And people don't do that now, you know,
people get into Vegas and they have the same show
for fifteen years, yes, and I won't do that. I
have a different show, and I'm constantly updating my road
show and I'm constantly doing new things, and and you.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
Know, you just got to keep at it. But if
you love what you do, it's.

Speaker 3 (26:36):
Fun, right, oh amen?

Speaker 4 (26:38):
And speaking of Las Vegas, I want to take a
little bit of a break, but when we come back,
I'm going to be chatting more with the very talented
Terry Fader about his new gig at the strath Hotel
in Sin City, his US tour, and a little bit
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Speaker 4 (29:18):
Welcome back to the Scene with Dorene, part of the
Beasley Media Group Family. I'm your host, Dory Taylor, coming
out of break. You heard a clip of my guest today,
the incredibly talented ventriloquist and America's Got talent, Terry Fader,
who can be seen nightly at the Stratton, Las Vegas
in his new show Terry Fader, One Man, one hundred voices,
a thousand laughs, and across the country and Terry Fader

(29:39):
on the road again. Terry, for those of my viewers
who have been living under a rock, you aren't just
a ventriloquist. You have focused on impersonating singers, and like
Stevie Wonder, who I think might be uh joining us.
I heard Stevie Wonder might grace us with his presence today.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
I don't know I'm getting him.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
He's a hard man to find, you know, he's he's
got high ste Oh my.

Speaker 8 (30:06):
God, Stevie, thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (30:09):
I've wanted you on my show for years, you know what,
as long as since day one, I've wanted you to
appear with me.

Speaker 3 (30:15):
Oh it's an honor.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (30:18):
So how just go just say I love you, and
you zoomed to tell me that too. Oh it's so good,
you know, I gotta say, Stevie, and of course Harry.
I don't know now, Terry, I don't want to talk
to you anymore. But no, you do more than two
hundred celebrity impressions. And you don't just talk.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
You sing that.

Speaker 4 (30:44):
You know, it's hard enough to talk like you were
talking earlier before the break about talking with your mouth closed,
you got to sing with your mouth closed. How the
heck do you supply the same principles?

Speaker 1 (30:56):
Is there?

Speaker 4 (30:56):
Like a is it the same kind of technique that
user do? You have to shift between speaking and like
you just did, to singing.

Speaker 8 (31:02):
I do, and and I've got another. I've got Winston
here here. I'll make an appearance in a minute. But yeah,
it's you really have to learn. I think that in
order to be a top like if you want to
be anybody can do ventriloquism to a point.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
Some are good, some are some are not so good,
some are better.

Speaker 8 (31:21):
But if you want to be like one of the
top top top ones, there has to be some sort
of a physiological difference in our makeup because we're able.
And I think part of it is is you have
to have a tongue that is flexible enough to be
able to recreate ps bs ms and you know, like,

(31:44):
you know, I've known people that can't curl their tongue
be like I can't, Well you know I can.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
I can do all those little things.

Speaker 8 (31:51):
And so when I was looking at the books, and
there were substitutions that the book tells you you substitute
you know, T.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
For P, D for B. So it'd be like the
doi dotta desket doll.

Speaker 8 (32:03):
And I'm like, I don't like that, doesn't sound like
the boy bought a basketball. Come on, so I even,
I mean, we're talking like ten and eleven years old,
and I'm listening to myself, and I'm and I.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
Had one of those recorders, tape recorders.

Speaker 8 (32:15):
I would take myself and I so I would experiment
of different ways that I could utilize my tongue to
recreate a B or.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
A T or a P or an M or some
of these.

Speaker 8 (32:25):
And so I learned that if I put the tip
of my tongue against the top of my top of
front teeth, the top of the front top teeth, I
could make an and I use that for all of those.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
So I say the lollyd thought.

Speaker 8 (32:40):
Of basketball instead of the doi dock. So if you
put your tongue against the roof of your mouth, it's
a duck, And if you put it against the top
of your front teeth, it's the.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
The luh and huh. Peter Pipler picked up peck of
pickled petlers.

Speaker 8 (32:54):
So if you do it that way, now, trust me,
that took me about ten years to learn.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
How to do I can't and that was overnight.

Speaker 8 (33:01):
Yeah, oh no no, So it's not like you're gonna go,
oh wow, I can put back you know you It
takes work and finesse and you have to really learn
how to do it. But I'm driven, and I mean,
my my brother will tell you that I drove the
family crazy because I literally is walking around the house
for and thousands of times going right either you know
the Lloyd Boudovska. So I was just obsessed with making

(33:23):
sure that I was able and and they're in the
book it would say, you know, if if something is
hard to say as a ventriloquist, try to think of
a way to say it without using the harder letters.
And I'm thinking to myself at eleven years old, I'm thinking, well,
that's kind of dumb, because then if my puppet is
having a conversation, how am I going to make that
substitution in the middle of a conversation with somebody. So

(33:44):
I thought, I'm just going to learn how to say everything.
But yeah, you know, a lot of people don't have
that kind of drive.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
But I always did.

Speaker 8 (33:52):
I always, you know, I always wanted to be the
best at anything. I set my hand to anything I
set my mind to in my hand to and work to.
I want wanted to be the best, and so so
that you know I'm driven that way.

Speaker 3 (34:04):
Do you still walk around like at the you know,
when you're home.

Speaker 4 (34:06):
Do you still do it? Do you still do the exercises.

Speaker 8 (34:09):
If there are if there's something that I find like
if I'm in in the show and I put in
a new joke and I say, well, you know that
didn't sound right, Yes I will, and I wouldn't know.
One of the hardest things I've ever done when I
was on when I was on America's Got Talent All
Stars and I got voted off early, which was fine

(34:29):
with me.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
I didn't care. I only wanted to get on two things.

Speaker 8 (34:32):
I didn't even want to win that thing because I
wanted to give the opportunity to somebody else.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
I've had such a blessed career.

Speaker 8 (34:37):
That I felt like it would have been a crime
for me to win it again and take that opportunity
from somebody else who desperately could have used it for
their career.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
You know. So I was totally happy with not not
going through.

Speaker 8 (34:48):
But I got to perform with Anna Marie Marjon who
is who won Romania's Got Talent, and they said, yeah,
we want you to do a little less conversation by
el and I'm like, okay, And then I started looking
at I'm like.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
Oh my god, how the heck am I gonna?

Speaker 8 (35:04):
You know? Because I mean, you try singing that. That's
hard to sing with your mouth moving, you know, close
your mouth.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
But o mind listen all those laughe that is fine.

Speaker 8 (35:14):
So it's like I'm walking around and all I was
doing all day, every day until that performance was shuttle
now a little little line. I'm trying to learn how
to do this because it means like.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
Shut your mouth and open up your mind and status
just like try saying that that's hard to do with
your loose movie.

Speaker 8 (35:32):
So so, but yes, I do if I if I,
if I get into a situation where I know that
it's difficult, man, you, I will I am obsessive and
I will do it. I will do it countless times
until I get it.

Speaker 4 (35:45):
It's hard enough for a musician to take a request
and they're opening their mouth they're singing, they're strumming the chorus,
whatever it is. They have a hard enough time taking requests.
You've got to take requests from people and say, you
know what, I don't think you do enough impersonations.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
I don't think you do enough.

Speaker 4 (35:59):
So let's to add another like two millions to your routine.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
I mean really love that.

Speaker 8 (36:05):
I love it when somebody says, hey, you should do
so and so, and I.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
Think, oh, man, I've never thought of that. Yes, you know.
So I don't always, but occasionally I'll be like, oh
my god, you're right.

Speaker 8 (36:14):
I don't have I don't have that in my act.
So so I always appreciate when people do it. You know,
most of the time I just say, oh, thank you,
and I don't do it. But but occasionally I'll get
one of those Wow, that sounds like a great idea.

Speaker 10 (36:26):
You know.

Speaker 3 (36:26):
That's good.

Speaker 4 (36:27):
You take what you can from it and throw out
the rest. That's what a good you know, professional person.

Speaker 3 (36:31):
Does you have to Hi, honey, hell you?

Speaker 8 (36:36):
I oh, it's so nice to meet you.

Speaker 4 (36:39):
Vitularly, Oh yes, virtually nice to meet you.

Speaker 3 (36:43):
That has a whole new meeting now.

Speaker 4 (36:44):
Virtually it does. I heard you really are the brains
behind everything I heard. You are the talent really, and
you're you know, maybe going to break away on your own.
I don't know, though you've said that you can carry
all this on your own.

Speaker 8 (36:58):
Yeah, you heard right, Hay livedly nothing without me. It's
so funny because we'll always say, you know, people say,
what are you? What's your advice you know to winning
America's Got Talent?

Speaker 2 (37:07):
Right?

Speaker 8 (37:07):
And I only say, get yourself a turtle that can
sing like roy or listen.

Speaker 3 (37:11):
Right and be on stage with someone with the hand
up your butt.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (37:17):
Yeah, I think there have been a few of those
on America's Got Talent, but they haven't lun yet.

Speaker 6 (37:21):
No.

Speaker 4 (37:22):
You Now, I want to ask a question. Now, you know,
we're getting to the heart and the meat and potatoes
of it all. Is it true that you kind of
came on to a g t because they wouldn't let
Kermit come on? And so?

Speaker 8 (37:35):
Yeah, So what happened was can I tell it? No,
let me tell it and then you can tell them, okay, okay,
So so what happened was I was doing this thing
where I was doing uh what a wonderful world? And
I was singing as Kermit the Frog and I had
a Kermit the Frog puppet, and the Muppets would not
allow me to use that puppet. So I'm thinking, man,
you know, it's such a good bit, and I get
I was getting standing ovations. I was ending all my

(37:57):
shows with that, and so I'm thinking, I have got
to do this, And so I asked them up it's
I said, is it okay if I do like an
impression of Kermit with another puppet, different type of and
they said, yeah, you just can't use Kermit. So I
found this little Turtle my you know, my sister helped
me find it online. She overnighted it to me. My
sister and my friends Daryl and Sissy. They they overnighted
it to me from a toy store in Austin, Texas,

(38:20):
this little turtle puppet.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
And I picked him up. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (38:23):
Yeah, I've had plastic surgery since then, so I don't
look the same.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
No, he's definitely grown and he's had a lot of
us surgery.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
Very good, doctor. I want the name. I need the
name of yours.

Speaker 8 (38:33):
Yes, you look think I look Yeah, I look younger.

Speaker 4 (38:36):
Ye was thirty years younger. You would never even know.
I'd say, you're just a tadpole. I wouldn't even turtle's tadpoles.
You know, eggs, eggs, Yes, you're an egg. You going
back all the way to the embryotic state. But it's
it's amazing now that leaves me do a good you
know point, have you ever been shot down with an
impersonation like you some you did it and they just

(38:57):
wrote you and said, no, you cannot be Diana Ross,
you cannot be whatever.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
No, they can't.

Speaker 8 (39:02):
They really can't do that. There's no you can do
impersonations of anyone. But now I do have to get permission.
If I want to call Stevie Wonder Stevie Wonder, I
have to get permission from them. If I'm going on
a major TV show. I got permission from the Michael
Jackson estate that I was allowed to use the Michael
Jackson name, you know, Otherwise I would just call him,
you know, pop singer or whatever. I call him a
different you know, the jazz singer or whatever.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (39:24):
Yeah, And so I can. I can do the impression,
and I.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
Can do the puppets because it's parody.

Speaker 8 (39:28):
But in order to call them, you know, I got
permission from Bing Crosby's estate. To be able to call
bing Crosby instead of like the Kroner or something. Yeah,
I don't have to get permission to lead Winston the
Turtle though.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
No, you have your own brand.

Speaker 4 (39:40):
Now they have to get, you know, permission from you
if they want to be I heard you're actually available
to purchase though I've seen you can get your own
little like version of you.

Speaker 3 (39:51):
Did you have to improve that before you were?

Speaker 8 (39:54):
Yeah, Winston Jr.

Speaker 9 (39:55):
And I don't mind that folks do that because it
goes to charity.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
When you buy.

Speaker 8 (40:00):
When you buy any of the merchandisea on my store
online store, it's go to Terry Fader dot com. Click,
I'm the store, and one percent of the proceeds of everything,
whether you buy a Winston Junior puppet, or you buy
a little plushy or you t shirts, cards, anything, all
of the proceeds go to the Terry Fader Foundation. We
serve military first responders and other charities and so so
just know that you're you're you're joining with us to

(40:22):
to do wonderful good things for good people who desperately
need it.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
And you're also getting some cool stuff, especially a winst.

Speaker 3 (40:30):
So you know, I have this big question, where do
you sleep? Winston?

Speaker 4 (40:33):
When you're not you're not performing and you need some downtime,
do you where do you where do you actually sleep?
Do you sit in the corner and scare like the
cleaning ladies, or well.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
Are you kidding? I'm a turtle. I have the shell.

Speaker 8 (40:43):
I just go your shell.

Speaker 9 (40:45):
I carry my I carry my home with me everywhere.
It's a mobile home.

Speaker 4 (40:50):
Oh, very nice. And we have to protect you. I'm
sure you can't just be out in the elements or anything.
We have to make sure that you're safe and protected.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (41:00):
Yeah, and he usually the cleaning lady just thinks it's
a combat helmet, you know.

Speaker 4 (41:08):
But your eyes follow everyone everywhere thought they do. Look
at those beautiful eyes. I'm hippotized. I'm just steering right
now and I'm like, yes, look at those eyes.

Speaker 2 (41:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (41:20):
How often do you go in for like, you know, beautification,
Do you have to get primped and like before a show?

Speaker 3 (41:26):
Do you go through a beauty regimen?

Speaker 2 (41:28):
Actually? I do.

Speaker 8 (41:29):
And you know, I'm gonna put you up real quick.
My hand can only take so much money. It gets,
you know, it gets really weird. But anyway, yeah, we
actually have a professional puppet guy that he actually makes
some of the best of my puppets. He made Bing Crosby,
he made the David Bowie puppet, he made Walter t
Air Dough.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (41:47):
He makes a lot of these really cool puppets for me.
And he comes in about every six months and we
do He does a full you know, cleaning, painting, sometimes
restringing if they need it. So yeah, we keep him.
We keep him nice in primt up. And also he
wears protective stuff on his eyeballs because they get scratched up.
So you know, we we tried to take good care
of the puppets.

Speaker 3 (42:07):
Oh of course, you know.

Speaker 4 (42:08):
And just you know, paying honor to the late great
Danny Gans you grew up, you know, that was a
big source of inspiration for you. And now you're filling
his shoes yet again, not even the first time, but
yet again with the residency at the Strat.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
Yeah, yeah, because it kind of full circle.

Speaker 8 (42:25):
That was his first gig at the was the Strat
was when he first started his headlining you know, domination.

Speaker 2 (42:33):
I should say.

Speaker 8 (42:34):
And what an unbelievably talented and dedicated man. And I
was heartbroken when he passed because I had these visions.
You know, without seeing him, I probably wouldn't be where
I am. I seeing him really inspired me to say,
I know, I can be a headliner in Vegas. And
I just had these visions of us becoming friends and
be able to go golfing and and you know, go
to dinner and just becoming friends. And it wasn't three

(42:56):
months after I started two three months that he passed,
and it just, oh god, I was It ripped my
heart out. Yeah, I didn't know him, but I had
met him once, but I had visions of us being friends,
and the fact that it never was going to happen
was was heartbreaking for me.

Speaker 3 (43:10):
Spirit may still be there.

Speaker 4 (43:12):
I mean, you've been in several of the theaters that
he was once in, so maybe.

Speaker 3 (43:16):
His spirit is with you.

Speaker 2 (43:18):
And you have think so I think you've.

Speaker 4 (43:20):
Been doing all those things all along. Maybe he's part
of your show and you just didn't realize.

Speaker 8 (43:24):
I think you're right, And you know, that's the thing
is the beauty of what we do. You know, Edgar
Bergen's been you know, gone since nineteen seventy eight, and
yet I'm here because of Edgar Bergins. So you know,
the next one, I'm gone there will be in generations
of ventriloquists, hopefully that that are carrying on my legacy
by becoming, you know, the next Grace.

Speaker 3 (43:45):
I don't know. You're pretty darn good though.

Speaker 4 (43:48):
I mean it's really there are going to be some
kind of shoes that I don't think it's it's going
to be very hard to fill your shoes because it's not,
like I said in the beginning, it's not that you
just do ventriloquism.

Speaker 3 (43:57):
You do comedy.

Speaker 4 (43:58):
You're very very funny, as you can see for the
last you know, or whatever amount of.

Speaker 3 (44:02):
Time we've been talking.

Speaker 4 (44:03):
But the singing, I mean just the singing to say that,
you do something that I've never seen. Really, I've never
I've seen little bits and you know whatever, but it's
never been to your level and it's funny, amazing.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
Did you say that?

Speaker 8 (44:13):
Because I that's why I do it. People are like,
you're such a good singer.

Speaker 2 (44:16):
Why do you do that? And I'm like, well, because
because I can. I mean, you know, nobody else can.

Speaker 8 (44:22):
But interestingly, we're doing something new and different on the
June twenty first at the Smith Center in Las Vegas.
So if you get a chance and you know it.
I know it's early enough, get your tickets. It is
going to be something. I am going to do my
very first symphony show with a full orchestra, conductor everything wow.
And it's going to be a two a little over
two hour show, and I'm going to be telling funny

(44:44):
stories and I'm going to be telling engaging stories.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
You're going to learn.

Speaker 8 (44:46):
About you know what it was like on America's Got Talent,
what it was like, you know how I got started.
There will be puppets, and I'm gonna, you know, interact
with some of the puppets. But it's really going to
be focusing on me and my singing, and it's not
all impressions. It's going to be me actually singing in
my own voice to a full symphony. So I'm very
much looking forward to it. Oh yeah, people don't realize

(45:07):
that I can actually sing, that I actually.

Speaker 4 (45:09):
Well, how do they not know that you can actually sing?
I mean you are singing. I mean just because you're
singing in different voices. I think that's the greatest talent
of all. I mean that you can adapt.

Speaker 8 (45:20):
If somebody doesn't realize I can sing, that's perfect because
it means I'm doing a damn good job and that
they they think the puppets are real.

Speaker 4 (45:28):
Well, I gotta say I got to give you props
because it's interesting you say that. When I was researching
you and watching all these countless hours on you, I
notice myself. I you know, like a lot of people,
you see a ventrol chusts, you want to catch them
with their mouth moving. You just want to look at them.
And you're not even looking at the puppet. You're looking
at the person doing it. And in your case, I
was so mesmerized by Bruce Springsteen or by you know, whoever.

Speaker 3 (45:49):
It was that you had on you know that you
were doing. I didn't look at you anymore.

Speaker 2 (45:53):
You were there, you were.

Speaker 4 (45:54):
You were just a prop.

Speaker 3 (45:55):
I mean, I hate to say it, You're no.

Speaker 8 (45:57):
That's that's if you're a ventriloqu and you can and
they're engaging with the puppet more than they are you.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
You're doing your job and you got to make it
look easy.

Speaker 8 (46:05):
You can't make it look like you know, it's like wow,
you know, people really do within seconds forget that I'm
that I'm standing.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
They watch.

Speaker 8 (46:15):
It's funny because my wife tells this funny story when
when we first got married.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
We're we've been married almost ten years.

Speaker 8 (46:20):
We met ten years ago, this uh this month, congratulations,
thank you. And so so she would come to the
show every night and I would do these romantic songs
with Julius, my black puppet, and he would be singing
to her, and he would be looking at her, and
you know, I would be I would be looking at her. No,
he would be singing to the audience, and I would
be looking at her, kind of giving her winks and

(46:41):
everything else. And she would always say, oh, I didn't
see you. I was looking at Julius, and I can't.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
I can't look at you for some reason. I'm always
looking at the puppet, you know.

Speaker 8 (46:52):
And so I'm like, oh, babe, you know that's that
means I'm doing my job, because you know, I'm making
him come the wife, and that's what it's all about.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
It's true.

Speaker 4 (46:58):
And this news show, you're not even just doing you
know what you've always been doing so well, You've added
another layer. Now you have had added technology into the mix.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 8 (47:09):
Yeah, this is the most exciting look. I had a
ball and I loved the mirage. I loved playing New
York New York. But I got to tell you when
I walked into the Strat Theater, and you know, if
you haven't been to the Strat in a while, you
need to. They have spent hundreds of millions of dollars.
It is totally remodeled, very modern.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
Even the even the hotel rooms are gorgeous and comfortable.

Speaker 8 (47:29):
But this theater, it's the most spectacular thing you've ever seen.
It is like I walk in to the theater when
they're when they're courting me to see if I wanted
to play this strap, because my first reaction was no way,
I'm not playing the strap.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
I walk in and they have.

Speaker 8 (47:43):
These video walls that are that are that go like
up and down, and they have different puppets on every
single one of video walls. And then on they had
a huge video wall in the back, and then they
had video walls on the side as well, and and
my puppets were everywhere.

Speaker 2 (47:59):
And I walked in went.

Speaker 8 (48:00):
Oh my gosh, you know, and I had looked at
a lot of theaters and none of them were like that.
And I said, okay, I want to play this theater
because we are able to, you know, we have a
beautiful moment where one of us where very fabulous? Who
is I created very fabulous my gay puppet to sing
Broadway songs. That's the only reason he was created. I thought,

(48:21):
I don't do any Broadway. What better than a wonderful
gay puppet?

Speaker 11 (48:25):
You know?

Speaker 2 (48:25):
Yes, hello? And I basically stole the voice from Agador
Spartacus from the bird Cage.

Speaker 12 (48:30):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (48:31):
The incredible Hankas area.

Speaker 9 (48:32):
So it's like, it does like this, and he says,
and you know, so I'm going to come in here
and say some songs.

Speaker 8 (48:37):
For you, you know, and I just you know, I
love that character. So that's very fabulous. And uh, and
we're able to have him fly during during defying gravity.
So he starts singing defying gravity and then he floats,
he starts flying, and.

Speaker 2 (48:53):
It's like, I could never do that at the Mirage.
I could never do that in your deer.

Speaker 8 (48:58):
So to be able to have moments like this with
these incredible visuals and just do things, you know that,
I don't think any other ventriloquist has ever made their
puppet fly a good.

Speaker 3 (49:10):
Show in Vegas. You gotta get someone to fly.

Speaker 4 (49:12):
You always got to get somebody on you know, the
aerial whatever up there and yeah, and you know you
also have undertaken the feet of doing nineteen different impressions
with nineteen different puppets, and that has to be a
world record. That's another thing you underneath It wasn't enough stress.
You added that into your life.

Speaker 8 (49:30):
That was the hardest thing I have ever done in
my entire life. I worked on that for years, five years,
and I was working on the voices and trying because
you have to not only do I have to do
it with my mouth close.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
And that's another thing.

Speaker 8 (49:42):
It's like when somebody criticizes us that it doesn't sound exactly,
it's like, okay, you do.

Speaker 2 (49:45):
It with your mouth closed and see if you can
do it better.

Speaker 5 (49:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
I don't care who you are now. You know, if you.

Speaker 8 (49:49):
Can't see that what I'm doing is insane any difficult,
in fact impossible, and you can't appreciate, then then you're
just too dumb to really understand what the hell's going on.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
So I don't don't care about your opinion at all.

Speaker 3 (50:01):
Yeah, just credited to themselves.

Speaker 8 (50:04):
Oh gosh, I mean, I work so hard on that.
And then I worked with a great Steve Extell again.
And and by the way, if anybody wants good puppets,
go to xtel dot com.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
He's he's incredible.

Speaker 3 (50:17):
I was going to ask you who you recommend?

Speaker 8 (50:19):
Yeah, And he's got amazing, like off the shelf things
so you don't have to you can get custom which
are more expensive, but he's got tons, I mean hundreds
of off the shelf gorgeous puppets that you'll love. So
we worked and he did the art because he's an
amazing artist, and he did all the artwork of the
caricatures of the puppets from that, and we got these
little things called dinkies, and we went through a lot

(50:39):
of different things of how are we going to do this,
how big are they going to be?

Speaker 2 (50:42):
Regular sized? You know how?

Speaker 8 (50:43):
And the dinkies work so great, and they're so funny
and and they I realized when I was doing it,
when I do it live. And we're hoping we can
do it on America's Got Talent for the twentieth anniversary. Wow,
we have to get the rights to the song, so
that we're working on all that.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
It may not happen. I might have to do something different,
but if if I could do it on America's Got Talent,
that's my goal.

Speaker 8 (51:02):
But I was realizing that I had these puppets, and
my my production managers created this kind of organ where
they had little slots for the puppets, and I didn't
have time to switch puppets because you go from one
voice to another to another. Now, when I did that
video that you just played, I had my assistant and
my production manager and they were putting.

Speaker 3 (51:23):
Someone had to help you, Yes, I know, someone had
on my hands.

Speaker 8 (51:26):
So so I found that when I was practicing, I
have to throw the puppets behind me so I can
do it.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
And I tossed them.

Speaker 8 (51:34):
And so I tossed the puppet and put another one
and and that's funny anyway.

Speaker 2 (51:37):
So the audience loves that I'm doing that.

Speaker 3 (51:39):
That's funny.

Speaker 8 (51:40):
But there's no other way to do it because I
don't have time to put the puppet back down and
then put in you know, I have to basically go
to you know, so.

Speaker 4 (51:47):
I think they need to fly, maybe they need to
be brought up, and put it down and brought up.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
Do fly for about ten secs, about two seconds.

Speaker 3 (51:58):
Oh and you know it's a family friendly show.

Speaker 4 (52:00):
Splash of PG thirteen added in so it's for everybody.
The parents will appreciate it. The kids will be just mesmerized.
I think the parents will be mesmerized. But it's a
nice refreshing alternative to some of the shows that you
can see on the strip, which is also really nice
to know. So you're heading on the road now, so
if you don't get to Vegas, you can also check
out your tour dates and see that. I know you're

(52:21):
coming out to the Philly area where we are. I
would love to come meet you, and I would love to,
you know, just meet while. I really want to meet you, know,
your Stevie Wonder and all your others.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
Well, yeah, I know I would probably be there.

Speaker 3 (52:35):
And Freddie and all of them.

Speaker 6 (52:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (52:36):
And by the way, all of the shows are different,
So if you come and see me on the road,
you can still come and see the strat show.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
It's one hundred percent different.

Speaker 8 (52:42):
And the one I'm gonna do on June twenty first,
the Symphony show is I'm writing that from the ground up.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
There's nothing in there, you know that that you'll see
in other shows.

Speaker 8 (52:50):
And so so again this is this commitment that I
have to just doing, making sure that I'm always fresh
and creating new things for people, So you know, come
and see June twenty first show. Start planning because the
tickets are going to sell pretty quickly, and I know that.
I believe it's going to be on like a subscription plan,
so the people, some people are already going to have
their tickets by being a part.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
Of the subscription.

Speaker 8 (53:10):
So if you want tickets, you better start thinking about
that and planning on that now.

Speaker 2 (53:13):
It's going to be a blast.

Speaker 4 (53:14):
So what else I mean, if there's not enough that
you have just said, I mean, is there anything else
in the works, anything you want to tease on the show,
anything else you've got planned?

Speaker 2 (53:23):
Yeah, I'm I'm going international. I'm planning. I'm hoping to go.

Speaker 8 (53:27):
I just did a show in England about a month ago.
I'm hoping to go to Italy and do some stuff
here in July or June and late June, and but
my goal is by twenty twenty six. I want to
do an Australia New Zealand. I want to do a
European so we're it's in the works. I want to
go to Japan too. I think they would go nuts
for mine, for these real puppets. I think I could

(53:47):
pull out. I don't speak Japanese, but I think if
I got up there and I had a Michael Jackson
puppet and he could sing twenty minutes of songs, understand,
they would love it.

Speaker 3 (53:56):
Music transcends all exactly, yes, exactly.

Speaker 8 (53:59):
They could Stevie Wonder, Elton, John, David Bowie, all of these,
you know, legendary iconic, you know, Justin Bieber, all these people,
and they could do all these songs.

Speaker 2 (54:08):
So it'd be.

Speaker 3 (54:08):
Great, amazing.

Speaker 4 (54:09):
Well, everyone check out Terry Fader dot com. You can
check out his tour dates around the country more info
about his ongoing residency at the Strat Hotel.

Speaker 3 (54:18):
In Las Vegas.

Speaker 4 (54:19):
And also, like I said earlier, pick up some very
cool merch like your own Winston impersonating turtle puppet Junior,
And there's a lot of for charity, and there's a
lot of really cool merch. I was on there looking
and I said, there's so many things for gifts and
for yourself. It's you've got it going on, You've got
it all. Everything is firing the right way, and I'm
just it's been so fast to talk to you, but

(54:41):
it's such a pleasure. You're so talented, so funny and
I wish you all the success you've had, all the
success and even more. Thank you, thank you, and good
luck on your tour going on Kuge and European and
forever and maybe outer space.

Speaker 3 (54:55):
I don't know at this point.

Speaker 4 (54:56):
Maybe you'll be up on the Blue Horizon origin something.

Speaker 3 (55:00):
Who knows, but I'm maybe there.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
I don't want to go.

Speaker 6 (55:05):
I think he needs to, you know.

Speaker 3 (55:07):
Yes, I think so.

Speaker 2 (55:10):
Well.

Speaker 4 (55:10):
Thank you so much, Terry, you are a blessing. Thank you,
thank you, and you have a wonderful, wonderful day you too.

Speaker 2 (55:16):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (55:16):
Bye bye.

Speaker 4 (55:18):
Thank you to my guest today, the incredible Terry Fader,
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