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September 10, 2024 • 14 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the after show decompression session doing what they do best,
clapping their gums.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Okay, we're back. I hope you didn't miss us too
much because we were only going for about thirty five seconds.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
That's way too long.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Well, well, well, this is our after show decompression session,
and we were talking about James Earl Jones, who passed
away at the age of ninety three.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Ninety three, and he was born in the state of Mississippi.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
He was born saved by the light of an oil
lamp in a shack in a kabuta, a kabulta, I
don't know, someplace in Mississippi. Anyway, his father abandoned the
wife and kid. He wanted to go in and become
a boxer and later an actor. Well I never heard

(00:52):
of his dad, Robert Earl Jones.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
No, no, but his son, Sir shined, didn't he.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
James Earl Jones, who famously voiced Star Wars villain Darth Vader.
That's where most of you know him from.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Or from CNN.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yeah, this is CNN. One of those voices. That man,
that's James Earl. People thought that was him doing Arby's
We have the meats, we have the No, that is
not him, that's Ving Raims, that's from from pulp fiction. Yeah,
it was Marcellous Wallace. Wallace, and we have the meats. Yes,

(01:30):
we have the meats. Just one meat would have been
too suggestive. We meet, come get it.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
This is so fascinating to hear about the scene of
when he was born. And now I want to hear
in his voice, him telling that story. I want to
hear James Earl Jones saying oil lamb and what was
the name of the city.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
It was, let's see ar Kabula, Mississippi.

Speaker 5 (01:55):
See.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
It would be kick ass to hear him say that, right.
I can't even say it right. This is a clip
of James Earl Jones talking about when he got to
do the voice of Darth Vader in Star.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Wars movies so called handicaps. I looked out to get
a job that paid me seven thousand dollars and I
thought that was good money. And I got to be
a voice on a movie. It was great fun to
be a part of that.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Seven thousand dollars was what he was paid for two
hours of work.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Two hours of work. And the thing is is that
there was another actor in the Darth Vader y outfit.
But he's the voice of Darth Vader. Apparently George Lucas
did not like the voice of the actor David Prowesse.
God wanted him to have a deeper voice and something
that was more villainy.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
The guy that did the original voice and was in
the costume, he didn't know his voice was overdubbed until
he saw the movie.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Was sad.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
What a bomb to have dropped on you. David Prowse
also had an English accent. I think that's not exactly
what they were going for.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
No, they wanted it to be, you know, billing.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
And we played this earlier today. But James Earl Jones
very first time he was on screen in a movie
was this check bomb.

Speaker 6 (03:14):
Door circuits warm through four.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
H bomb doors circuits negative function, light red twitching, Roger.

Speaker 5 (03:29):
Backup circus switched in, still making it function.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Engage emergency power.

Speaker 5 (03:34):
Roger.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Emergency power on, still making it.

Speaker 6 (03:38):
Function, operate, Manuel override.

Speaker 5 (03:44):
Still negative function.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
The teleflex drive cable was he shied away the operating
circs a debt, Sir.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Oh Man.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
I didn't get that one until I heard texts texts, Uh,
what's Texas name?

Speaker 5 (04:01):
The other guy in there.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Talks like this, oh slim picks flip pickens. Later on
he has to go down there and get the bombay
doors open, and you hear that scene where you're going
right the nuclear bomb down to the ground.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
That's the most famous scene from Doctor Strangel.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
That's one of my favorite movies. It really is a
good movie. Here is James Earl Jones on coming to America.
This is a scene from that one.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
We've gone to a great deal of trouble to select
for you a very fine wife. Since the day she
was born, she was taught to walk and speak and
think as a queen. But father, what if I do
not love her? It is normal to feel anxiety about
meeting your queen.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
It'll be you marry her?

Speaker 5 (04:45):
Are we execute them? Both of them?

Speaker 3 (04:46):
How about the Field of Dreams? He had such a
soothing voice and his character dreams.

Speaker 5 (04:51):
John, they will yes, yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yeah, just a wonderful career. But ninety three, that's a
full life that he Yeah, it's just sad.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
I was going to use a scene for the contest
from The Hunt for Red October, but I figured that
would be too easy.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
I would I would have guessed that one or if
you had played something from Clear and Present Danger.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yeah, yeah, it was awesome in that he was what
he was, the white house power guy that was dying
of cancer, right. Yeah, he was like laying up in bed,
but he was still acting as an advisor to Harrison
Ford's character. He's cough, cough and sniff sniff, and and
all that seven thousand dollars to do Star Wars star.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Two hours worth of work. So it was a piece
of cake for him.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
But I mean, look at what he'd become, What an
iconic sound that became. If he would have gotten point.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
If he'd have done that voice in a movie that
was that popular now as it was, then he would
have gotten paid a lot more.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
Oh yeah. And then we heard from a Raskol who
called in earlier and it was part of like the
comic con, especially with the Star Wars characters. They provide
the costumes for nonprofits for Star Wars characters, and she
was saying that he was just the nicest guy, would
always stop and talk to people, and I like hearing

(06:10):
that that he wasn't a jerk.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
Well, I always remember The Great White Hope. That was
a movie that came out in nineteen seventy where he
was Jack Johnson, the Galvelson Giant, and it was a
big controversy because he was fighting a white man and
he beat his ass. That's in real life. And he
took a white girlfriend and took her across state lines

(06:34):
to go to New Orleans or something. I think that's
where they was. He was arrested, and he was arrested.

Speaker 5 (06:40):
Yes, yes, stir them right up.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
So, of course, whenever somebody like James Earld Jones, someone
that famous passes away, you always say, okay, who's going
to be next? As they always come in three?

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah, the pipe, Sergio Mendez, we just talked, okay, so.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
One, two, I don't know the other shoe going to drop? No, no, no, no,
no no, we're wrapping you in bubble wrap bow roppers.

Speaker 4 (07:04):
I hate to even think about it because one of
the first names that comes to mind is one that's
very dear to us in Texas and Willie.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah, yeah, WILLI or Dick van Dyck van.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
High nineties, William shotting her way up there ninety something now, yes,
he was ninety something when he went into space.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah he was God.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
He will talk your ear off. William Shaw, Yeah, he
will talk your ear off.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
Really, if he's calling to promote something, he goes right
into the promotion. He doesn't say, how y'all doing, let
me tell you about my latest project.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
I guess he learned the hard way, because I guess
if he didn't do that, the interview is just gonna
grill him on the early days, you know, forever, and.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Then he wouldn't have a chance to promote what the
studio hired him to promote.

Speaker 5 (07:53):
Yeah right.

Speaker 4 (07:54):
I just wish they would have given him percentage points
when he did Darth Vader's voice, because an example of
it going the other way would be like when Tom
When Tom Hanks did Forrest Gump, he was a moderately
successful actor, made you know this and that here and there,
and he did Forrest Gump and they had such a

(08:14):
crappy budget for making that movie. They said, what if
we give you points on the movie? If we give
a percentage instead of a big paycheck to be the
lead actor? And he said, okay, fine, just this once,
I'll do it, And look what happened. He is stinking
rich because he's still making so much money off of
Forrest Gump.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
See I kind of think, oh no, man, I want
the money up front. I don't know if this movie
is gonna suck or not. Let's see who's on the
phone here? Hello, bowing them show.

Speaker 6 (08:43):
Hey, I want to ask some stuff, add some stuff.

Speaker 5 (08:46):
Go ahead, this is.

Speaker 6 (08:49):
I'm gonna put it in the form of an ask
you stuff, but it could be a did you know?
But I know the answer, but I'm gonna form it
to you and see if you want to go with it.

Speaker 5 (08:55):
All right?

Speaker 6 (08:56):
When is what day? When was the last time that
the human race alive, was all on the face of
this earth at the same time?

Speaker 2 (09:08):
What are You're not in a garden? I hear birds chirping?

Speaker 6 (09:14):
I'm priming by roses if you don't, so.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
The question was, when was the last time the human
race was all on the same planet before before anybody died?

Speaker 6 (09:26):
No, I'm saying live. They've got to be alive and
the human race was complete? Was a date back? And
I'll tell you if you want me to tell you,
but you can. You can look it up. And I
think the listeners because I found it consumingly interesting.

Speaker 5 (09:41):
What was the date?

Speaker 6 (09:41):
Go ahead and tell me October thirty one, two thousand.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Okay, I'm not really sure where you're going right.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
Now, because somebody died on that day.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Yeah, somebody's always dying everything every day.

Speaker 6 (09:55):
No, and I'm not talking about dying. I'm talking about
the human race. Nobody was on that with the lift
off of the space station.

Speaker 4 (10:03):
Oh, everybody's feet were on the ground. Nobody else up
in the air, up in space.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
Oh okay, okay.

Speaker 6 (10:11):
I didn't mean to be that that way. I'm just
saying that the last time all of us were on
the face of the Earth was two thousand and October first,
the Halloween night, when the space station went somebody alive
has been in the orbit continuously off of the face
of the Earth. And I thought that was pretty much true.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Yes, interesting, I don't know if i'd want to go
to the Space Shuttle. Man, you'll stay right here.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
Especially after what happened to that pair up stopped until
February twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Look up there until next February.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
And how upset must they have been because the dark.

Speaker 5 (10:50):
The Boeing vehicle just came back the.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
Starback empty, came back empty.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
But they were afraid to have them on it because
they didn't think it would work. But it landed perfect.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
I can imagine people say, look, I am so sick
of this frigging place. I'll take my chances, put me
in the rocket and send me to Earth if I
blow up.

Speaker 4 (11:09):
Period, Aren't they under a considerable risk just being up
there anyway?

Speaker 3 (11:14):
And I thought that they had packed for three days.
It turns out they were like, you don't don't need
to pack anything.

Speaker 5 (11:19):
You can just go up overnight back.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
They didn't even need They didn't even let them take
it overnight back.

Speaker 6 (11:27):
Water burger, you know nothing, you know, no water burger.

Speaker 5 (11:31):
Well that was interesting. Br thank you brother.

Speaker 6 (11:34):
I've been up north and and and I would kill
pay one hundred dollars for water burger, you know. And
then there's no water burgers up there.

Speaker 5 (11:42):
Not yet.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
No, not yet.

Speaker 5 (11:43):
There'll be one on the moon sooner or later.

Speaker 6 (11:46):
Had its content go for it, but I wanted to.
I don't want to uh dominate the the decompression, that's
all right. What was the guy the bass player that
died a couple of days ago that did the double
bass on Bowie's I mean Herbie Flowers.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Yeah, Herbie Flowers was eighty four. He's the guy you
hear at the beginning of Walk on the wild Side
by lou Ree.

Speaker 5 (12:11):
What a session.

Speaker 6 (12:13):
I knew it was a double bass, but I had
no idea there was a stand up and a fretless
involved there.

Speaker 5 (12:18):
You go learn something every day.

Speaker 4 (12:21):
I like Tony Levin from King Crimson, like he plays
all the weird ship the stick, you know, fretless.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
But just as soon as you hear that on Walk
on the wild Side, you know exactly what song it is.

Speaker 6 (12:33):
Yeah, going back on the al said, as far as
Tony eleven, I loved this Peter Gabriel stuff. And my
brother is a staunch scatty lee. I'm a bass player,
but he's a staunch scatty lee. And every time I
pull up Toby Levin, he just gets pissed off.

Speaker 5 (12:51):
It's pretty hard to be.

Speaker 4 (12:52):
Yeah, in a big time by Peter Gabriel, right big time,
and he got that funky pucket up bass all the
way through it.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
He's using those things on his fingers.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
Yeah, she's got ship attached to his fingers and he's
tapping on the.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
Big little silver things that We actually had an interview
with him one time.

Speaker 4 (13:10):
They look more like finger traps. Yeah, man, that would
be a cool interview.

Speaker 6 (13:14):
Yeah, those fingers look like you know, uh, you know baby,
that that's behind the counter at the seven eleven when
you're getting getting cigarette. She's got them fingernails. It's all
the way down to your ankle.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
Man, I can't stand that. I always go, how do
they wipe?

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Yeah? And how do you eat without poking yourself?

Speaker 3 (13:35):
And and just think of all the nastiness underneath her nail?

Speaker 5 (13:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (13:40):
Gross, But it's a bathroom.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah both. All right, Merle, we gotta let you go
because we got to get out of here. Back take care, Marle.

Speaker 5 (13:51):
Yeah, you guys got a recording session in a few minutes.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
Yeah, she'll take too long.

Speaker 5 (13:55):
All right? You heading from a pillow. I'm gonna get
right back in bed.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
We'll be back tomorrow for Aska stuff today alright, alrighty
see you by slice yesterday
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