KCAA: The Scene with Doreen (Tue, 22 Apr, 2025)

KCAA: The Scene with Doreen on Tue, 22 Apr, 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Org Love doing not.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
What's going on America. Welcome to the Scene with Dorin.
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available in every major city in the US. Whoo, that's
always a mouthful. Mattmanark, how are you?

Speaker 3 (00:53):
I'm good, Dorian, how are you?

Speaker 1 (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 1 (01:02):
You do you do it live every show.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
It's you got to keep the flow.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
If we recorded that and then you went into yeah,
it wouldn't have the same flow.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
Yeah. So I think we have a really good guest. Yeah,
let's just get to it.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Okay, 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 4 (01:37):
Check it out.

Speaker 5 (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 Dollars is.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
Terry Oh.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
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

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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.

Speaker 4 (02:42):
So let's get to it.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
It's an honor to welcome the very talented, multi personality civil.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
Terry Fader to the show. Welcome to the seamatory, Terry.
What's going on?

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Oh man, it's so good to be with you. And
I just want to say real quickly, when I was
listening to that, 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? It was eighteen seconds
when he said, and the and the winner of a
million dollars in America's guy talent is and you sit

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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 down like Terry Vader, and I'm like, right,
And it was really surreal because I was absolutely convinced
that it was gonna be the other guy. He had
so many more social media hits, so like his YouTube

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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
Springer told me this. The teleprompter broke and so he

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didn't know who the winner was. They had to tell
him in his earpiece who the winner was, and they
was waiting for them to tell him.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
Oh my god, super secret.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Nobody knew. Nobody knew. 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 are they going to say something? I mean,
your chest is like it's crazy, it is really crazy.
But what a memory? What a memory? And I mean

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surreal and I everything. I mean, it's a blur.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
Yeah, I would imagine you don't remember it.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Probably anything you have to watch it or listen like
you do now and it probably brings things back to you.

Speaker 4 (04:40):
But probably it was a blur for a while.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
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 rouma 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 her before that if I won
America's got talent, I was going to get her that treatment.

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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. But you know,
I spent the fifteen thousand dollars to get her that

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treatment so that she could we could try, you know,
we could try. It was worth every penny. I don't
regret one one cent of it to try it to
hopefully see if we couldn't get her some relief. But
unfortunately there was none. But she has relief now. 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

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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 So Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:57):
No, you did. You helped in a different way. I mean,
it doesn't always have.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
To did work, so to speak to work or to
accomplish something.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
Mm hmm, that's true.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (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 this also airs on radio, to think, okay.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
One Mississippi, two Mississippi.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
I'm like, this is awful just for radio and thinking
how you're feeling while you're standing.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
Oh there, and you're just like, what is happening? Why
are they not say?

Speaker 2 (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 1 (06:47):
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 gonna win from
the moment you saying it last time.

Speaker 4 (07:00):
They all this, prognosticators always.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Know exactly I didn't. I didn't. 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 were in the bottom of the voted. You always
made it, but you sometimes you squeak through. And they said,
every single week I would rise up in the in

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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 kind of secretly
told me behind the scenes, they said, everybody thought Cass
was going to win. He said, not only this, this

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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 three.

Speaker 6 (08:00):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
And so I didn't just win, I creamed the God.

Speaker 4 (08:05):
Oh yeah, And I.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
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

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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.
That's and I don't know what it was that compelled
people to do this kind of thing, but I got

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told I have been told by that by hundreds of
people that they did that, which is why they didn't
know me. 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.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
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, whatever it is.
You reach into their soul and if you can speak
to them on that level, you've got them for life.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
Oh truth, And they're like an army.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
They'll fight for you, and they'll go and open their
office and vote a thousand times for you, and it's
just nothing like it.

Speaker 4 (09:39):
There's nothing.

Speaker 1 (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 don't I forget that I'm famous until somebody recognize them.
It's weird. I just I'm totally in my own little
oblivious world, and then somebody will be like Terry, and

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I'm like, do I know this person? Oh, that's right,
that's right. It's people don't be you know, I'm on
billboards in Vegas, so it's so funny. 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 died and I
just and and you know your videos every day. So
so the impact that we're making is you know, I

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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 need my money. 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 2 (10:43):
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. But you had other dates. You were an
active performer, you were performing around and you had small
little dates that you were.

Speaker 4 (11:02):
You honored all of them. You made sure that you
played them all before and you said, no, I have
to do these.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
I have to honor my commitment that my friend is
so rare and that's what's so special about you.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yeah, it was. Uh. I was very adamant about that.
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

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hundred dollars, we're playing for five hundred dollars. And boy,
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 two thousand dollars or three
thousand dollars or something. And it was there was maybe
fifty thousand people there so wow.

Speaker 4 (11:56):
You know score, Yeah, you know, I think you.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
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 just amazing. So I've known about you for
a long long time. I kind of I kind of performed.

Speaker 4 (12:21):
I opened for you.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
That's pretty cool.

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

Speaker 1 (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 I was still
setting up all my own puppets doing everything. Now I
have I have people that you know.

Speaker 4 (12:40):
You have handlers, Yes, yes, I do.

Speaker 1 (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 cold or getting the floor, and it
was miserable. And so my doctor said, well, tell me

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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

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I and I you know, 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

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there would be lines of people to come and see
me perform. And now I have it, and I don't
take it for granted. 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 voted you, I helped you it happened,
and I say, you did.

Speaker 4 (14:02):
They were part of it. They were part of it.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
I don't. 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'm so
appreciative of every single one of them.

Speaker 2 (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 4 (14:32):
You read this, and no, with you, it's it's true.
It's true.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
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 It was thirty nine, forty years old and you said,
what am I doing?

Speaker 1 (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 band 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,

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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

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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. Look,
it's this ship has sailed. You're not going to give
me this year 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

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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 ventriloquid. And so
I went through a little bit of a depression, thinking, wow,
I guess my dream is over. And then I thought,
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 4 (16:11):
Forget that that right.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
I may not be famous, but I'm making a living.
You know, I don't have to go and 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

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you know what, I'm going to be the best avatriloquist
anybody's ever seen. And if it's if it's performing for
for six year olds at 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. And I 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

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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. And Lord,
yes me you did. What happened was beyond anything I
could have emaged.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
I'm still gonna a 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.
You're you actually have to go through many tedious little rounds.

Speaker 4 (17:22):
But they didn't believe it was you at first, did.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
They They didn't, 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 4 (17:38):
You don't have to waste a line the cattle call,
right right.

Speaker 1 (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
INNBC and saying, we saw this ventriloquis. It was doing
impressions singers. You should have him on the show. And

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they called me and they said, you know, we're getting
a lot of requests. Would you audition? 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. But
so we worked it out. I come in and they said,

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you only have five minutes. Don't do more than five minutes.
They don't like that. I did my five minutes and
they said do more. So I ended up doing about
fifteen or twenty minutes. Wow, of all these different and
I had 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 don't.

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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 to the table. There was maybe six producers
at a table. And I walked right up to the
table and I went, that's come along and they.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
Went, you know, now you have the tape recorder in
your throat. They probably didn't believe it was just the puppet.
Now it's in your throat. 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 1 (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 Mick Jagger and
and you know, Elvis Presley did all I mean, Doctor
of 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. Well.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
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 gave you the right combination exactly.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
And what 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 think you can stole me a spit in
my eye. 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 with your

(20:36):
mouth clothes, and you see if your lips move, it
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
to see. Now, I can sing some of you know,
I can be like, blame it all on my ride.
I showed up in boots and ruined your like. I

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can do that and there's no lip moving, and that's fine.
But if I'm in 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 like his
lips are moving. Jeff Dounnoh is better, and I'm like, yeah, whatever,
you know. It's like, you know, and Jeff Dunham may

(21:19):
be better, but I want to see him sing Bohemian
Rhapsody and not move his lib it's not possible. It's
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. And

(21:41):
I'm like, thank you, thank you 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 2 (21:56):
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 1 (22:08):
They had to look at my I have I see
ness and dormaking, 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 4 (22:19):
I think you're forgiven, you know, do you leg.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
It's like oh yeah, yeah, okay, I've got to keep
my mouth.

Speaker 4 (22:29):
Oh my god, you know, and you did another.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
I mean, talk about the impossible and people not believing it,
but you did almost something even more impossible.

Speaker 4 (22:37):
You made Simon Cowell like you. I mean, that's sort
of like unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
I mean he even said on Oprah that you were
one of the two most talented people on the earth.

Speaker 4 (22:50):
So yes, do you ever find out who the second
one was?

Speaker 1 (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 deep then, you know, And I
love 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 hyper critical father. My father never

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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 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

(23:38):
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 wrestle with, and that
was mental issues and psychological issues that I had to
wrestle with for decades. And when Simon Cowell said that,
it was so cathartic and I cannot tell you, it

(23:59):
was almost as if 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 history of the world,

(24:20):
is said 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 2 (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 1 (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 whether you
call it the universe or the karma, everything happened exactly
at the right time that it needed to happen. And
he's right because to see somebody get on that show,

(25:09):
win the show and become one of the top headliners
in Vegas and a Las Vegas legend. And I hate
saying that if I feel weird.

Speaker 4 (25:16):
Oh I'll say it for you plenty of times.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
Yeah, it's weird for me to say that, but they
tell me that. I mean, I've had the Keiden City twice.
It's been named Terry Fader Day twice.

Speaker 4 (25:25):
I think you have your own theater.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
How many people, how many comedians and people have aspired
to have their own theater and.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
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. You know, He's right,
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

(25:53):
that happen, the work starts after you win. It's not like, oh,
I want and now it's great. I mean, 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 I'm done, you know.

(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 you know,
you just got to keep at it. But if you

(26:35):
love what you do, it's fun, right.

Speaker 4 (26:36):
Oh amen?

Speaker 2 (26:37):
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 Strat Hotel
in Sin City, his US tour, and a little bit
more than just that.

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Just me. Welcome back to the Scene with Doreen, 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,

(29:34):
One hundred voices, a thousand laughs and across the country
and Terry Fader 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

(29:56):
his presence today.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
He's a hard man. Fine, you know he's he's got high.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
Oh my god, Stevie, thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
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 4 (30:15):
Oh it's an honor.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (30:17):
So how just go just say I love you, and
you zoomed to tell me that too.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
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, you sing that. You know it's hard enough
to talk like you were talking earlier before the break

(30:47):
about talking with your mouth closed. You got to sing
with your mouth closed? How the heck do you supply
the same principles?

Speaker 6 (30:56):
Is there?

Speaker 4 (30:56):
Like a is it the same kind of technique that user?

Speaker 1 (30:59):
Do?

Speaker 4 (30:59):
You have to shift between speaking like you just did
to singing.

Speaker 1 (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. Some are good,
some are some are not so good, some are better.
But if you want to be like one of the

(31:22):
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. I
can do all those little things. And so when I
was looking at the books, and there were substitutions that
the book tells you you substitute you know, T for P,
D for me, so it'd be like the doi dotta
desket doll. And I'm like, I don't like that, doesn't

(32:04):
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 had one of those recorders, tape recorders. I would
take myself and I so I would experiment of different
ways that I could utilize my tongue to recreate a
B or a T or a P or an M
or some of these. And so I learned that if

(32:26):
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. So I say the lolly
thought of the basketball instead of the doid dock. So
if you put your tongue against the roof of your mouth,
it's a duck. And if you put it against the

(32:46):
top of your front teeth, it's the the luh and huh.
Peter Pipler picked up peck of pickled petlers. So if
you do it that way, now, trust me. That took
me about ten years to learn how to do.

Speaker 4 (32:59):
I can't imagine that was overnight.

Speaker 1 (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 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 Botovska. So I was just obsessed with making sure

(33:23):
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

(33:43):
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, but I always did. 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 wanted to
be the best and so so that you know I'm
driven that way.

Speaker 4 (34:04):
Do you still walk around like at the you know,
when you're home. Do you still do it? Do you
still do the exercises.

Speaker 1 (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 with me.

(34:29):
I didn't care. I only wanted to get on two things.
I didn't even want to win that thing because I
wanted to give the opportunity to somebody else. I've had
such a blessed career 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. You know. So I
was totally happy with not not going through. But I
got to perform with Anna Marie Marjon, who is who

(34:53):
won Romania's Got Talent, and they said, yeah, we want
you to do a little less conversation by Elvis. I'm
like okay, and then I started looking at I'm like,
oh my god, how the heck am I gonna? You know?
Because I mean, you try singing that. That's hard to
sing with your mouth moving, you know, close your mouth.
But mind listen all those line that is fine. So

(35:14):
it's like I'm walking around and all I was doing
all day, every day until that performance was cuil now
little little line. I'm trying to learn how to do
this because it means like shut your mouth and open
up your mind and sat just like try saying that.
That's hard to do with your loose movie. So so,
but yes, I do if I if I, if I
get into a situation where I know that it's difficult,

(35:38):
man you, I will. I am obsessive, and I will
do it. I will do it countless times until I
get it.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
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 4 (35:57):
I don't think you do enough.

Speaker 2 (35:59):
So let's just another like two millions to your routine.

Speaker 4 (36:03):
I mean really love that.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
I love it when somebody says, hey, you should do
so and so, and I 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.
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 2 (36:26):
You know.

Speaker 4 (36:26):
That's good.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
You take what you can from it and throw out
the rest. That's what a good you know, professional person.
Does you have to.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
Hi, honey?

Speaker 4 (36:34):
Hell you?

Speaker 1 (36:36):
I oh, it's so nice to meet you. Virtularly.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
Oh yes, virtually nice to meet you. That has a
whole new meeting now.

Speaker 4 (36:44):
Virtually it does.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
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 1 (36:57):
Yeah, you heard right. They lived me nothing with that.
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? Right, And I only say, get yourself
a turtle that can sing like roy or listen.

Speaker 4 (37:11):
Right and be on stage with someone with the hand
up your butt.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
Yeah. Yeah, I think there have been a few of
those on America's Got Talent, but they haven't lun yet. No.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
You now, I want to ask a question. Now, you know,
we're getting to the heart, 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?

Speaker 4 (37:34):
And so yeah, so.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
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

(37:56):
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? 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 overnighted it to me from a

(38:18):
toy store in Austin, Texas, this little turtle puppet. And
I picked him up. Yeah. Yeah, I've had plastic surgery
since then, so I don't look the same. No, he's
definitely grown and he's had a lot of surgery.

Speaker 4 (38:29):
Very good doctor. I want the name. I need the
name of yours.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
Yes, you look I look yeah, I look younger.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
YEA 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 leads me do a good You know, boy,
have you ever been shot down with an impersonation like
you something? You did it, and they just wrote you

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

Speaker 1 (39:01):
No, they can't. They really can't do that. There's no
you can do impersonations of anyone. And 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

(39:22):
or whatever. Yeah. Yeah, And so I can. I can
do the impression, and I can do the puppets because
it's parody. 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 4 (39:38):
No, you have your own brand. Now they have to get,
you know, permission from you if they want.

Speaker 1 (39:43):
To be.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
I heard you're actually available to purchase though I've seen
you can get your own little like version of you.

Speaker 4 (39:50):
Did you have to improve that.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
Before you were Yeah, Winston Junior, And I don't mind
that folks do that because it goes to charity. When
you buy, you buy any of the merchandise on my
store online store, it's go to Terryfader dot com. Click
on the store, and one 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

(40:13):
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
to do wonderful good things for good people who desperately
need it. And you're also getting some cool stuff, especially
in Winston.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
So you know, I have this big question, where do
you sleep Winston 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, are.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
You kidding, I'm a turtle. I have a shell.

Speaker 4 (40:43):
I just go just go to your shell.

Speaker 1 (40:45):
I carry my I carry my home with me everywhere.
It's a mobile home.

Speaker 4 (40:50):
Oh, very nice.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
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 1 (40:59):
Yeah. Yeah, and he usually the cleaning lady just thinks
it's a combat helmet, you know.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
But your eyes follow everyone everywhere though 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 1 (41:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (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 4 (41:26):
Do you go through a beauty regimen?

Speaker 1 (41:28):
Actually? I do. 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. Uh. He makes a lot of
these really cool puppets for me, and he comes in

(41:50):
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 and
primped 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 2 (42:06):
Oh of course, you know, 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.

Speaker 4 (42:16):
And now you're filling his shoes.

Speaker 2 (42:18):
Yet again, not even the first time, but yet again
with the residency at the Strat.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
Yeah, yeah, because it kind of full circle. That was
his first gig at the was the Strat was when
he first started his headlining you know, domination, I should say.
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

(42:44):
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
being able to go golfing and and you know, go
to dinner and just becoming friends. And it wasn't three
months after I started two three months that he passed,
and it just, oh god, I was my heart out. Yeah.
I didn't know him, but I had met him once,

(43:04):
but I had visions of us being friends, and the
fact that it never was going to happen was was
heartbreaking for me.

Speaker 4 (43:10):
Spirit may still be there.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
I mean, you've been in several of the theaters that
he was once in, so maybe his spirit is with you.

Speaker 1 (43:18):
And you think so.

Speaker 2 (43:19):
I think you've been doing all those things all along.
Maybe he's part of your show and you just didn't realize.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
I think you're right. And you know, that's the thing
is the beauty of what we do. You know, Edgar
Bergin'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 generations of ventriloquists,
hopefully that that are carrying on my legacy by becoming,

(43:44):
you know, the next Grace.

Speaker 4 (43:45):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (43:46):
You're pretty darn good, though, 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 4 (43:57):
You do comedy.

Speaker 2 (43:58):
You're very very funny, as you can see for the
last you know, or whatever amount of time we've been talking.
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.

Speaker 4 (44:10):
Been to your level and it's funny, amazing.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
Did you say that? Because I that's why I do it.
People are like, you're such a good singer. Why do
you do that? And I'm like, well, because you cause
I can. I mean, you know, nobody else can. 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

(44:33):
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 stories
and I'm going to be telling engaging stories. You're going
to learn 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,

(44:53):
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 that I can actually sing.

Speaker 2 (45:08):
That I actually, well, you know, how do they not
know that you can actually sing?

Speaker 4 (45:12):
I mean you are singing.

Speaker 2 (45:14):
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 1 (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 2 (45:27):
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.

Speaker 4 (45:35):
I you know, like a lot of people, you.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
See a ventrol quists, 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 it was that you.

Speaker 4 (45:49):
Had on you know that you were doing. I didn't
look at you anymore.

Speaker 1 (45:53):
You were there, you were.

Speaker 4 (45:54):
You were just a prop. I mean, I hate to
say it, you're no.

Speaker 1 (45:57):
That's that's if you're a ventriloquist and you can and
they're engaging with the puppet more than they are you.
You're doing your job and you got to make it
look easy. 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 4 (46:12):
They watch it.

Speaker 1 (46:14):
But it's funny because my wife tells this funny story
when when we first got married. We're we've been married
almost ten years. 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

(46:36):
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 everything else. And she would
always say, Oh, I didn't see you. I was looking
at Julius. I can't. I can't look at you for
some reason. I'm always looking at the puppet, you know.
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.

(46:58):
It's true.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
And this news show you're not not even just doing
you know what you've always been doing so well, You've
added another layer now you have had You've added technology
into the mix.

Speaker 1 (47:08):
Oh my gosh. 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. Even
the even the hotel rooms are gorgeous and comfortable. But

(47:29):
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. I walk in and they
have 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

(47:51):
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. And I walked in and went,
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

(48:13):
is I created very fabulous? My gay puppet to sing
Broadway songs. That's the only reason he was created, I thought.
I don't do any Broadway. What better than a wonderful
gay puppet, you know, yes, Hello, And I basically stole
the voice from Agador Spartacus from the Bird Cage. I
love it, the incredible Hankas area. So it's like it
does like this, and he says in you know, so

(48:35):
I'm gonna come in here and say some songs 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
it's like, I could never do that at the Mirage.

(48:56):
I could never do that in your deer. So to
be able to have moments like this, these incredible visuals, yeah,
and just do things, you know that. I don't think
any other ventriloquist has ever made their puppet fly.

Speaker 2 (49:08):
Not every good show in Vegas you gotta get someone
to fly. 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 1 (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. And that's another thing. It's
like when somebody criticizes us that it doesn't sound exactly,
It's like, Okay, you do it with your mouth closed
and see if you can do it better. Yeah. I
don't care who you are now. You know, if you
can't see that what I'm doing is insanely difficult, in

(49:52):
fact impossible, and you can't appreciate, then then you're just
too dumb to really understand what the hell's going on.
So I don't care about your opinion at all. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (50:01):
Man, the just credited to themselves.

Speaker 1 (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 xdel dot com. He's he's incredible.

Speaker 4 (50:16):
I was going to ask you who you recommend.

Speaker 1 (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 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 of different things of how are we going to

(50:40):
do this? How big are they going to be? Regular sized?
You know how? 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.
It may not happen. I might have to do something different,
but if if I could do it on America's Got Talent,

(51:01):
that's my goal. 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 4 (51:23):
Had to help you, Yes, I know, someone had on
my hands.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
So so I found that when I was practicing, I
have to throw the puppets behind me so I can
do it. And I tossed them and so I tossed
the puppet and put another one and and that's funny anyway,
So the audience loves that I'm doing that.

Speaker 4 (51:39):
That's funny.

Speaker 1 (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 I.

Speaker 2 (51:47):
Think they need to fly, Maybe they need to be
brought up and put it down and brought up about
do fly.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
For about ten secs? About two seconds?

Speaker 4 (51:57):
Oh, and you know it's a family friendly show.

Speaker 2 (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

(52:20):
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. Well, yeah, I
know I would probably be there and Freddie and all
of them.

Speaker 4 (52:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (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. It's
one hundred percent different. And the one I'm gonna do
on June twenty first, the Symphony show, is I'm writing
that from the ground up. There's nothing in there, you
know that that you'll see in other shows. And so
so again this is this commitment that I have to
just doing, making sure that I'm always fresh and creating

(52:57):
new things for people. So you know, come and see
the 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 of the subscription. So
if you want tickets, you better start thinking about that
and planning on that.

Speaker 9 (53:13):
Now.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
It's going to be a blast.

Speaker 2 (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 1 (53:23):
Yeah, I'm I'm going international. I'm planning. I'm hoping to go.
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

(53:43):
go to Japan too. I think they would go nuts
for mine, For these real puppets, I think I could
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 2 (53:56):
Music transcends all exactly, yes, exactly.

Speaker 1 (53:59):
They could sing 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, so
it'd be.

Speaker 4 (54:08):
Great, amazing.

Speaker 2 (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 in Las Vegas.
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

(54:30):
and I said, there's so many things for gifts and
for yourself.

Speaker 4 (54:33):
It's you've got it going on. You've got it all.

Speaker 2 (54:36):
Everything is firing the right way, and I'm just it's
been so fast.

Speaker 4 (54:40):
To talk to you, but it's such a pleasure.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
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. Verankuge and European and wherever and maybe outer space.

Speaker 4 (54:55):
I don't know at this point.

Speaker 2 (54:56):
Maybe he'll be up on the blue horizon origin something.

Speaker 4 (55:00):
Who knows, But I'm I'm there.

Speaker 1 (55:03):
I don't want to go.

Speaker 4 (55:05):
I think he needs you, know, yes, I think so.

Speaker 1 (55:09):
Well.

Speaker 2 (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 1 (55:16):
Thank you, Bye bye.

Speaker 2 (55:17):
Thank you to my guest today, the incredible Terry Fader,
And thank you again for tuning into the Scene with Doreen.
I'm here each week across the country bringing you the
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Speaker 10 (55:39):
Bye.

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able to start paying their respects to Paupe Francis tomorrow
at Saint Peter's Basilica. His body is lying in state
in a private chapel at the Vatican. Today, the Vatican
announced that his funeral will be held Saturday. Before he's
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Speaker 12 (57:37):
At the gates to the Vatican this morning, signs of
the ancient rituals following the death of a pope now
in motion, the arrival of cardinals gathering to finalize funeral
details and eventually the conclavet where a successor will be chosen.
The Vatican also releasing images the first side of the
pope in his coffin at a private ceremony for close

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he lived. The Pope's coffin said to be transferred to
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funeral this Saturday.

Speaker 11 (58:13):
The College of Cardinals will soon begin to prepare for
the upcoming papal election. Since Pope Francis appointed the majority
of the cardinals, most don't know each other. Christopher White
with the National Catholic Reporter says, like the rest of us,
Google will be their friend.

Speaker 8 (58:29):
It's really at night when they get to know each other,
when they're breaking bread, having dinner with each other. This
whole period is a sense an audition. The Internet will
play a role in this conclave more than any other
conclave before because they'll be looking and reading about each
other online before they even come face to face.

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Karen Reid's murder trial has begun. She's accused of striking
and killing her Boston cop boyfriend with her SUV in
twenty twenty two. Reed claims she's being framed for the killing,
and her first trial last year ended with a hung
jury and the White House's shooting down to reports saying
it's in the process of looking for new Defense Secretary.
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