MICHAEL DANTE - Actor, writer best known as Maab from TOS "Friday's Child"

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You are head enough for that seeing you make it
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so everybody.
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That go about the series, you.
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Your phone now about the series' coming to about the series.
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Coming the phone now.
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Coming. He didn't tell me.
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Well, good evening, Treki's and Trekkers around the globe. It
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is Thursday night, October third, twenty twenty four. It is
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episode six hundred and seven of Trek Talking. I'm your
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most excellent host, Uncle Jim, and we've got a great
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show planned for you guys tonight. But before we go
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too far, I like to introduce to you my awesome
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trek Spurts and we'll start out in Las Vegas with Charles. Hi.
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How you doing tonight, Charles, I'm doing.
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All right, hanging in there wishing Mother Nature would let
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fall come back.
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Well, we're having some great weather here in Vermont, so
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I'm happy about that, and we also have with us
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on the line out in Portland, we have our very
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own toy guy, Paul. How you doing tonight, Paul?
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Hey, Uncle Jim.
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I'm doing great, man.
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But you know one of the reasons I'm doing great,
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it's October. It is my favorite month of all twelve
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of them, brother, and so all kinds of good stuff
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in the air, Halloween, baseball playoffs, and the great Michael
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Dante is with us here tonight as well, So it's
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a it's gonna be a great night. Super excited.
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Yeah, I'm trying to keep an eye on my mets there.
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They blew it yesterday and hopefully they can pull it
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out today. So I'm trying to keep my eye on
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the podcast in the game Stimoltanous. You got good luck
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with that one. Brother, It's gonna be interesting. My wife
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gonna give me updates as they happen. And also from Portland,
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we have Eric with us tonight. How you doing tonight? Eric?
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I am doing really good.
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I'm excited to be here. It has been it's been
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kind of like a long week. It's just felt like
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a long week, but this was something I was looking
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forward to all week, So I'm very excited about it.
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It's definitely gonna be some fun. Our phone number here
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everybody is six four six six six eight two four
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three three six four six sixty six eight two four
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three three, So you can let your fingers do the
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walking and call Trek Talking and I'll get you on
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the line to talk to the Great Michael Dante. Six
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four six six six eight two four three three is
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that number, And make sure you visit us at Trek
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Talking dot com. You can find all of our old
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shows and this one as well over there, and you
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can also find us on Facebook at Trek Talking Podcast
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except no imitations. So I want to let you know
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that October tenth is going to be our Prodigy super Show.
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We're going to cover the last four episodes of Prodigy,
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and we're going to follow that up on October seventeenth
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with Aaron walk the man behind Star Trek Prodigy. He's
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going to be here with us to take your questions
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about Prodigy and will there be a season three? Well,
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you'll have to call and ask him. And we're gonna
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follow that up on October twenty fourth talk with John Simpson,
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who was young Sarah in the Best Star Trek movie ever,
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Star Trek five, the Final Frontier, and we wrap up
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October with a special Halloween show where we're going to
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be talking about the premiere of Star Trek Lower Decks.
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So we have a pretty busy month plan. Make sure
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you put us in speed dials so you don't miss
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any of the fun. And without any further ado, guys,
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I want to let you know that Michael Dante is
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with us. And he's best known to Star Trek fans
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as playing mob in ts IS episode Friday's Child. But
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he's an award winning actor, he's an award winning author,
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he's a celebrity radio talk show host, and he has
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starred in over thirty films and one hundred and fifty
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television shows. Can you believe that? He was under contract
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to three major studios, MGM, Warner Brothers and twentieth Century Fox.
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And as if that's not enough, he was also a
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professional baseball player and winner of numerous prestigious awards. He
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also has a street named after him in his hometown
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of Stanford, Connecticut, Michael Dante Way, and he has an
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autobiography out called Michael Dante From Hollywood to Michael Dante's Way.
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It was published in twenty fourteen, so go and find it.
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And without any further ado, I want to introduce you
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to the man himself, mister Michael Dante. Welcome to the show.
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Well, thank you, jam In, Paul and Eric's pleasure to
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be choking with I'm very please do that. I'm speaking
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with the three gentlemen. The galle kept the show trick
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wol with so many challenged people and interesting stories. So
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I'm looking forward julib conversation and all of these things
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will exchange in the next couple of miles.
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Absolutely, I was talking with your wife earlier and I
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just wanted to say that I got in touch with
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you through one of my co hosts, Charles was at
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the Las Vegas convention and he met you there and said,
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you know, you got to get this guy on the podcast.
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So Charles got a business card from you, or maybe
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it was from your wife. I think he talked to
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your wife and I reached out and that's how we
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set this all up. So if you don't mind, why
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don't we start with Star Trek Las Vegas.
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What was that convention like for you? Oh it was excellent.
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You know, thousands of the checkings come from all over
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and I just admire and love the attitude. There's so patient,
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so polite. Sometimes they wait. I can recall and I'd
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like to share with him. The first gathering, the venue
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I attended was in Casadena at the Pasadena Convention Center
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and literally the line was from one end of the
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building outside and the street. That's when Bill Uh and
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Leonard Lee Boy were you know, very active, and I
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attended the the venues of the many they have over
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the years, and that was the early days, and that
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was my first appearance. And when the trekies came through
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to get autographs and pictures and what have you from
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uh Shadner and the boy. By the time they got
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to ourt stable, Uh, it was approximately three hours. And
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I asked the these wonderful trekkies, are you upset or
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you know, disturbing anyway? You know how old you know? Really,
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I know it took you quite some time. How were
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you waiting in line? Only said three hours? Said wow,
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and you're not upset about it? No, he said, Well,
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we meet people other Trekkis from all places for all
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the world, and we have a dialogue. We exchanged so
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much about our favorite actors, our shows and episodes, et cetera,
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et cetera, and weird we UH had psycho a friendship
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that as my labor when I HA said another little
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bit they used, and then the long last thing. So
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they look forward to seeing each other. Uh, these wonderful,
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patient and very polite people. And they said, well, God,
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is there anything that anything that it is noble? We understand.
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And I was AGAs to see the the size of
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each one of their portfolios. Their portfolios were at least
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I would say two to three inches thick of all
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photograph pictures of their favorite actors and actresses and so forth.
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And I would say, that's one heck of an event
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each one of them have in their loyal over the
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gallery over them and all these these wonderful UH pictures
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and autograph pictures over the years. It's just incredible. So
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that was a great experience for me because I really
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it was indoctrinated and introduced to these very very nice,
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wonderful people there the greatest checking the greatest fans in
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the world.
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I couldn't agree more. Michael, when you got involved in
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Star Trek, did you have any idea at that time
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that fifty eight years later we would still be talking
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about it and you would still be talking about it yourself.
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Some mean, it's just one of those things that I
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think it's kind of miraculous because mister Roddenberry, uh, you know,
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didn't think the after the first three years, uh, the
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show would not last, they would not go any further
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because the Westerns were getting all the ratings and he
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didn't feel that compliment that the the sub track this
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series would would be so popular after that period in
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which he went up the air. And that was the
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reason why he went up the air, because he thought
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the Western genre just overtook the market and it would
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be the end of the sund Track series. But you're
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a wonderful story. What mister Rodenberry.
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It was.
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The easiest job I ever got in the business. I
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got a phone call in my home in Encino. I
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was living outside in the valley in Los Angeles at
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the time and had a home there in the valley.
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And at oh about ten o'clock in the morning, I
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got a call from his secretary his office, and the
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secretary said, mister dunte Uh, mister Roddenberry would like to
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assume you see a sap in his office and he's
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just uh tell me what time could you be here?
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Just come straight food. There's no h casting people or
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anyone who just comes straight.
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To his office.
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He would like to see you personally. So I had
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know someone in his office and I'd worked with him.
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I had my personal number. So they called me at
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home and besides to track the agent, and of course
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I responded, and I said, okay, I'll be there in
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a couple of hours, and I already left, and two
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to my word, I was there exactly around noontime a
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couple of hours later, and I walked in and the
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second area I should meet right to his desk, busy
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as he was, and he said, Michael, So she shook hands.
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He said, I saw you want to tell me show
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a couple of nights ago, and you were terrific, and
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I have an excellent part for you. And it's a
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player opposite the guest star in a segment called Friday
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child Us, the opposite Julie Newmore. And uh, he said, y'all,
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And he said it's a good script, a good character.
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I know you can kick the butt off of it.
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And you know, I just want to share something with you.
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He said, you know, Michael, all we are doing is
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a Western in the sky. That's a really first act,
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second act, third act, good guy, bad guy. You know
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the story line and you have the conflict and polarity
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and the second acts and then they are the climax.
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Very simple stories, very very very easy. It'll follow and
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the heroes, you know, the heroes and the bad guys. So, uh,
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we're doing We're doing fine. And I really like your
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due to sayment. Take the script, told read it and
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if you like it, codive agent and heav your agent
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called me. The job is yours. It's up to you.
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So I thanked him, left me offers, went home and
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read the script that was serfect called my agent. Everything
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was all set top of the show, guest star billing,
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and we were often running. But that's the kind of
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leadership he possessed. He was a great exentive, creative and
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executive producer who knew his characters, knew the premise of
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the shows, knew his people, and knew the actors he
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wanted to guest star in his shows. So he was
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very personal, very easy to talk to, and highly intelligent.
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And I can't tell you o'dunsel about it. We all
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know how talented talented and creative. He was. It was
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a joy and for meeting and just a joy to
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show there's something very special.
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Now, Michael, we have we have a caller on the line.
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We have Mary from Connecticut him. Welcome to the show.
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Mary, Hi, Hi, Michael, Hi Mary Jane, and just came
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from the convention. Uh that was back in August, and
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I was just so impressed and uh impressed by the
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fans and impressed by you, Michael. A wonderful experience.
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Well, thank you, thank you so much, Chelle. It was
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it always is, you know, each year or in other
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venues that feature Star Trek, they each one is different.
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It has a different or a different personality and a
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different group. But the Trickies they're all the same. They
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are just so nice and polite and the uh there
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are so many of the fans, uh dress up in
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the characters and when they come to the table. I
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was just so impressed with the dialogue they would quote
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for my character. My uh to me, they knew the
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dialogue in the show that I spoke throughout better than
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I did. So they were really knowledgeable and very intelligent
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about what liked and didn't like. And Uh, it did
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such a joy to meet these diverse people. For home,
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there was a uh what a couple that came from
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England and they were waiting quite some time to get
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through to our table. And by the time they get
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there it was another one of the Passadina convention experiences
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that they said, well, I said, how more were you
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do this one here? So I wan a couple of
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hours and so forth, and they had a British accent.
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See they were he said, we didn't lie. We enjoyed
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it there very much. We met some very nice people
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and then said that oh h uh yeah, where are
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you from? Oh, we're from and then send us out
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out of uh London and we come every year and
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we're so delighted to meet you and get your your
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books and your autograph fictions for our portfolio. I said, wow, okay,
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how nice? And uh do you now to travel here?
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They have friends here or relatives here and makes it
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to you, makes it tip every year. It's quite expensively
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and uh the time that you stay, are you to
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have friends and relatives you might be uh spending time with?
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Said oh no, we were empty year. We saved all
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our money to come here. Wow, the moon't coming here?
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Save our money all year. Well, I always fell on
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the side, how well can you be?
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You know, yeah, very committed. They're committed. Wow, it's incredible.
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Oh so I wasn't familiar.
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With just ask one more question.
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You came out and you were.
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Dancing, and what song was that? Because you know, it's
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kind of new to being a fan, so I didn't
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know if that was part of the music from.
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The show or the music music from the show.
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Yeah, well you came out on stage.
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I thought you na stage. Yeah, that was on stage
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the the co stars that are still alive and well,
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I think there was five or six of us that
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spoke on stage with the very large audience, and it
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was the panel panel discussion, and the music played. And
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one of the guests on the show was a dancer
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and an actress, so she she heard the she came
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on the dance and I followed up when I did
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my little it's true.
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and A, the questions and answers were all very nice
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and intelligent. So we had a we had enjoyed it
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and then had a good time as well, because of
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course it's very good.
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Yeah, thank you so much.
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You're welcome. Mary, take care of God bless.
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Yes, thank you.
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All right, and let me see we have a we
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have another caller on the line. Let me see if
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I can get it to connect. Here, here we go. Hello,
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thank you for calling, truck talking. What's your name and
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where are you calling from? Area code six two three?
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Yeah?
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Hey, it's it's Allen and I'm calling from Phoenix.
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Oh my god, Alan, I have I have a question. Yeah,
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I have a.
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Question that's outside of Star Trek.
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And then I have a follow up if I'm permitted. Uh,
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what was it like working on Perry Mason?
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My mom saw you the other night. I wanted the episodes.
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Yes, Perry Mason, I did two of them, and then
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and Jewett working with a canst. They had an excellent
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cast in the next Company. They were very efficient, highly professional,
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and enjoyed the two segments. They were both different for me,
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and I was very pleased after the first show invited
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me back into a second show, different character. And it
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was at that time and Perry Mershon that was a
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huge successful troll show. They had great, great ratings and
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most of the actors that would be very happy to
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guest starting so because they were very popular show with
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a wonderful cast. Raymond Burr was a highly professional to
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work with him and of course the rest of the
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cast as well. Great.
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Now my follow up is that it relays the Star Trek.
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What was it like working with.
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Both William Shatner and Leonard Nimoury if you were able
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to get to see them on the set.
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Well, both of them are highly successful and then behind
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the professional they knew, uh, they had a winner, and
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they their characters were fully developed when I did the show,
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and so they they exuded confidence in their choices. As
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air kids us we relate to one another in the communication,
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and they they were highly professional. I was very, very
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impressed with both their characters. They knew their characters very
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what they could do, what they can't do, what could do.
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So my character was something that was supposedly a superior
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group compellants that were much taller and highly intellect group
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and Julie do Love and of course we were paired of.
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But Julius very tall. She was about sixteen tall and
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she had the best figure in all of Hollywood because
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she was she started out as a singer dancer. She
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was a joy to work with. Yeah, very funny, in
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a very wise sense of humor. If I may elaborate,
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I will tell you a story and then them to
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what happened to us when we were working in in
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Vasquez Rocks. It was one hundred and seventeen degrees and
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that ball, the bad skin Clocks was in the vine
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surrounded by bowlers and the temperature was once seventeen on
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the outside and the deeper you penetrated into the radine,
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it gets so hot it was tough to breathe practically.
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Julie was having a very difficult time. We had to
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put your cold towel to one to day as well
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as Joe Pevy, the director of the episode. And the
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camera flows up because it was overheated, and they had
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to put icebacks, believe it or not, on top of
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the camera to keep the camera functioning during this time
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of duress. Was it was really really difficult. And I
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lost seven pounds that day and I didn't have an
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answer that I lost them. When I went back to
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the locker room and took off my my wardrobe, it
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was soaked and my my my boots were well had
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at least an inch of water and I was pushing
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around like it just came out out of a swimming
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pool walking in the beach somewhere, and uh it was.
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It was really tough. But you know, uh, you do
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a chant to do professiones. UH should know, and I
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do enjoy sharing this audience and with you. By all
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means that, uh we do the job. We have a
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job to do. We do it, uh under all circumstances,
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no matter what. You do the job to get the
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job done and then you can complain and and talk
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about it later. But did you you have to do
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it and we got it done. But it was it
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was when we were hearing scary there for a moment
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because still Pemany was accreating the whole.
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Yeah, min go, I know that you and uh Bill
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and Leonard Nimoy and Rottenberry all came out of the
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Western genre.
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So that was interesting change. No, thank you, Yes, yes,
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because as I said before, he was so matter of
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facts and uh laid it out so simply and said, Michael,
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all we're doing is the worstern in the sky and
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at that state, Yeah, that set a train of thought
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in my mind to relate to the simplistics of the show.
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And that's why it was so successful. You knew me
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and the hero, the antagonists. In our case, we had
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a story that had action, it had humor, and it
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had doramin. So anytime you would get free and one
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Gentlemens and one on the show. You have succeeded in
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writing a very good screenplay, and we had that screenplay
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and we enjoyed all three aspects of the first, second,
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and third active of the piece.
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Well, thank you, Michael, thank you so much, and we
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appreciate it.
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Thank you.
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Bye bye bye bye, good bye, please bye bye bye.
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All right, and uh, we have another caller on the
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line that has a question for you. Michael. Welcome to
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the show, Area CO two O nine. What's your name
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of where you're calling us from tonight?
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My name is Michael Griffin.
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I'm calling out of the San Francisco Bay area. Hi, Michael,
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welcome to the show. You have a question for Michael.
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Hi.
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Thank you, Yes, Hi Michael, Mary Jane. How are you
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do you?
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Guys?
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Sound like you're having fun so far?
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Thank you.
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Awesome?
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Well I have.
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I mean, obviously I'm a big fan and I get to,
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you know, chat with you in your face group group
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from time to time.
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But I wanted to know you.
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You know, you've had an amazing acting career, been in
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a number of of of uh you know, shows and
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movies and genres, crossing everything.
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You're also a writer.
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So as an actor, what do you what.
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Is the thing that you took like the strongest I
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guess that you took as being an actor when you
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take it into your writing.
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Well, Michael, what I did and I discovered it as
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I matured as an accident, Uh in my youth I
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spent in Hollywood. I realized is that my life and work.
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I treated my life and worked as an art form
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and okay, and so it opened up, Yeah, other areas
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of of my talent, talent that I didn't know that
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I could exceed and accomplish in that transition from an
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actor to the host of my own radio show for
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twelve years doing over two hundred radio shows, and I
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finished uh six six books. I've I just finished my
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sixth book and I'm working on my seventh book. So yes,
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I'm I'm amazed at that myself. But what what uh
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to uh digress to the art form and to invent
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and create and stay within the confines of that that
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creative Uh pathway led me to other areas whereby I said, well,
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you know, I think I can. I think I can
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to host the radio show after I learned all the
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technical things about commercials and timing and and so for
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that's a wonderful challenge. I love the challenge as well, Michael.
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And yeah, and the same thing with Friday. I had
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written along the way, and even in my early days
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in Alliwood, the early days of my career, I wrote
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over a synopsis, uh, several synapses along the way, and
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I said, you know, someday, all right, I like to
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write a screenplay or maybe a book or a novella.
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I developed a nice style of writing novellas. My novellas
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read like the screenplay and a book. So yeah, yeah,
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I can. I condensed the in set of You know,
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a filmmaker has to read it, say it of for instance,
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I'll give you a for instance. He reads a book
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at three four on the pages. He likes the book,
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and he wants to adapt a screenplay from a book.
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He has to go through three to four other pages
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to adapt, well, twelve or fifteen or twenty major scenes
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from that book to write a screenplay. Well done? Is
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that I have already adapted well fifteen twenty scenes major
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scenes that I created in my imagination and in my
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story storyline and place storms, let's say, twenty scenes in
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a nobella, and then I carried on.
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Of the scene.
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Yeah, a combination of the narrative and a screenplay in
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an oblla. And my novella is already run from ninety
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to one hundred pages in seat of four hundred pages.
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Mm hmm, fluff out, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay.
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All the major scenes, uh uh will be in that nobella.
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I have already adapted the major scenes in my bed
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by to make up a first act second and conserve
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that to a screenplay.
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Okay, that's awesome, That is awesome. A follow up question
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since you mentioned the radio show, you know, and and
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we're talking about the writing and the acting as an artist,
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you know, it's it is all different and it hits
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in different fields. But is there a particular heart that
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you enjoyed more? Like, were you, you know, did you
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really enjoy the acting more, did you really enjoy the
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radio like where would you feel you were happiest? And
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if you could go back and do any of that again,
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where would you go back to in that point in time, like.
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Michael, that's that's an over good question because they be
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morning the emotional attachment and satisfaction to it, like for example,
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the Rats Show came later and I wish, uh, I
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would I had the opportunity to do a radio show
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earlier in my career. And for this reason that most
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people think a radio show a radio show post is
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about talking, it's not. It's about look me. It's about listening.
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And the greatest, the greatest contribution an actual can have
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as a talent to to to contribute to his acting.
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Career and ability is the ability to listen, to concentrate,
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to listen. So they do you react, not act? You
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react and that act.
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And then like an improv point in there too, right,
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because you're you've got to react to what you're saying.
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You've got to react to what they're saying, and that
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gives a great interview.
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You know.
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Sometimes you get those ones that that that question or
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something they say just triggers the right question and the
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conversation just you know, leads from there. So there is
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a bit of an improv aspect of it.
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Yeah, yeah, and then my general uh there might uh uh,
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you might have a subject matter and and have an anecdote,
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we have another idea, uh, and you can go in
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00:38:49.440 --> 00:38:55.639
another direction, whether an interesting addition to his question or
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00:38:55.679 --> 00:39:02.239
a question and uh then because become uh, you know,
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00:39:02.320 --> 00:39:06.280
a three sixty for you. It's so interesting, so well
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rounded and unrehearsed, So you got a conscious stream of
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consciousness that uh compliments the question with some additional answers
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00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:26.840
on their anecdotes to go along with it, to make
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00:39:26.880 --> 00:39:30.599
it so spontaneous and so natural.
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00:39:32.639 --> 00:39:33.559
Yeah, it absolutely is.
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And you know that the same thing as we're doing
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00:39:35.440 --> 00:39:38.199
right here, right now, same way, you know, just having
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a conversation. And I always love having a conversation you.
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You are amazing trek fam. If you haven't had a
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00:39:46.519 --> 00:39:50.000
chance to catch Michael and Mary Jane at the conventions,
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00:39:50.039 --> 00:39:52.679
you got to go see him. They are so amazing.
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I love these.
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Guys, just love you guys. So I don't want to
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take up too much of your time. I want other
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people to get a chance to to say hi and
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share their love for you. But I did want to
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stop in and ask that question.
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So enjoy the rest of you.
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You're very well, and enjoy the rest of your podcast.
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Godless ks recalling Michael.
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Thank you, Thank you.
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All right, guys, we have we have another caller on
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the line. Uh, we're talking to area code five two zero.
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Thank you forcalling. What's your name of where your calling
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was from?
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00:40:29.960 --> 00:40:33.719
Hi, my name's Lorraine and I'm calling from Maricopa, Arizona,
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00:40:34.840 --> 00:40:41.079
Tyler Rain, Welcome to the Love By I'm Michael. I
526
00:40:41.280 --> 00:40:44.880
was wondering please if you could tell me how fabulous
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it was in the cast of Seven Thieves with Edward g. Robinson,
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00:40:49.840 --> 00:40:54.360
Rod Steiger, John Collins, Eli Wallach. The cast is amazing
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00:40:54.519 --> 00:40:56.960
that you got to work with because I have a
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00:40:57.119 --> 00:41:00.400
feeling that Eli Wallack was a funny guy.
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00:41:01.920 --> 00:41:05.159
Oh wow, And you're talking about truly one of the
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00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:13.440
uh perfect casts in the film that there will ever be.
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00:41:13.920 --> 00:41:17.559
It was a joy who worked of course with the
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00:41:17.639 --> 00:41:22.800
great editing Gieve Robinson now outsider, and most of my
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00:41:22.960 --> 00:41:27.760
seems were with Routziger and we had a wonderful work rapport.
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00:41:28.519 --> 00:41:32.840
And uh, he was he was. He was a guest
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00:41:32.960 --> 00:41:36.519
to work with him. And of course Joe Collins Eli
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00:41:36.639 --> 00:41:43.360
Wallert had a great character actor Alex Kobe uh Barry Koger.
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00:41:44.280 --> 00:41:51.239
These were wonderful character actors and yeah, great, great reach,
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00:41:51.639 --> 00:41:58.920
wonderful story. I'll share one who put him with Eddie J. Robinson.
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Eddie was such a I always loved it, loved his work,
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00:42:05.400 --> 00:42:08.840
and it's truly one of the great character leading men,
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00:42:09.639 --> 00:42:14.360
character actors that ever lived. He was women and very bright,
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00:42:14.880 --> 00:42:19.239
the wonderful man. And he invited me to lunch one
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00:42:19.360 --> 00:42:23.519
day to his home. He lived at Beverly Hill. Sister.
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I brought a block two blocks away from the Beverly
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Hills Hotel. And when we sat there, I sat in
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00:42:31.840 --> 00:42:36.119
the breakfast note. But prior to that, and he had
549
00:42:36.159 --> 00:42:40.599
a butler that uh loved baseball and was a big character,
550
00:42:41.039 --> 00:42:45.639
be a fan of mine, and he wanted to meet me,
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00:42:45.800 --> 00:42:50.280
and of course his lovely wife and uh what prior
552
00:42:50.360 --> 00:42:53.440
to that, I had a crooks too of his home.
553
00:42:54.400 --> 00:42:58.440
He was a reflector. He uh and his French wife
554
00:42:59.039 --> 00:43:02.079
were a big collectors, and of course a man who
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00:43:02.239 --> 00:43:09.159
remarried America. They was still collecting from all the masters
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00:43:09.800 --> 00:43:15.320
he had because you named them. He had a painting
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of them and so forth. As tall I went through
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00:43:18.199 --> 00:43:21.880
the whole house upstairs and downstairs, and we sat through
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00:43:21.920 --> 00:43:27.000
and have lunch. And uh, he was sitting opposite of
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the maiden. And then I got looking over the shoulder
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00:43:32.440 --> 00:43:36.039
and I could stop looking over his shoulder behind us,
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00:43:36.840 --> 00:43:43.320
his shoulder behind them was the most magnificent still life
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00:43:43.400 --> 00:43:47.559
I have ever seen in my life. It was food
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00:43:47.639 --> 00:43:55.280
on the table, watermelon, bananas, plums, cherries, peachas beautifully red
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00:43:55.599 --> 00:44:00.320
rich colors huge, It was at least six seven beat
566
00:44:00.719 --> 00:44:07.920
across them. The background there, and I just couldn't keep
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00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:11.159
my eyes off of it. And it didn't have an
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00:44:11.840 --> 00:44:14.719
uh an artist. There was no water rapple of it.
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There was no signature. I looked for it and there
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00:44:17.960 --> 00:44:22.320
was no signatae the artists work. So now we're having
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loves who will saying it's just finishing lunch and having
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some coffee. And his wife came in and said, Michael said,
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I know you. You appreciated Lobot so forth, the tour
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and uh of all the of all the paintings, of
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00:44:39.199 --> 00:44:43.800
all the artworks and sketches, the oils and so watercolors
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00:44:43.840 --> 00:44:48.559
and so forth, of all the masters, which painting did
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00:44:48.639 --> 00:44:56.480
you like most of all? Well, I said, this is Rappleton's.
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You're not going to be believe me. I'm not an aficionado,
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but I am appreciate the guy who loves art and
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00:45:09.559 --> 00:45:16.920
the painting behind Uh, mister Robinson doesn't have a signature
581
00:45:20.480 --> 00:45:26.400
that behind me moves me so much. It is so real.
582
00:45:27.320 --> 00:45:29.360
I want to I want to boot out and grab
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00:45:29.519 --> 00:45:34.679
the food off the off the canvas. And she said,
584
00:45:34.760 --> 00:45:38.239
see Eddie Michael is the second one who said that
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00:45:40.079 --> 00:45:48.880
Eddie G. Robinson had painted that he did it. He
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was a brilliant painter. He was so good and he
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00:45:54.039 --> 00:45:56.920
you know he had He said, no, no, no, no,
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no no. I said, I I can't tell you a
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00:46:02.400 --> 00:46:08.880
whole emotional appreciated of the beautiful work. And he was
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00:46:08.960 --> 00:46:13.360
so humble. And that was Eddie G. Robinson, he says.
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00:46:13.800 --> 00:46:16.480
And rob and I had very a lot of fun.
592
00:46:17.199 --> 00:46:26.079
We we had a uh celebrity softball team and yeah,
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00:46:26.559 --> 00:46:30.480
and I Rob uh was a good athlete, played tennis.
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00:46:30.920 --> 00:46:35.360
We played tennis together and Uh, I told him about it.
595
00:46:36.599 --> 00:46:40.239
We were towards the end of the filming seven teams
596
00:46:41.079 --> 00:46:44.079
and he said, I told me when I would celebrity
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00:46:44.360 --> 00:46:46.360
get together. He said, can I come out and play?
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00:46:47.199 --> 00:46:52.159
I said sure, yeah, So he came out and UH
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00:46:53.679 --> 00:46:57.599
we were having We had one of the wonderful time
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00:46:58.119 --> 00:47:02.239
and he he was, you know, rope on heavy set
601
00:47:02.880 --> 00:47:07.079
and run like that. I was so surprised at speed
602
00:47:08.000 --> 00:47:10.559
in the outfield he went and grabbed it a couple
603
00:47:10.599 --> 00:47:15.679
of fly balls and really looking look like he really
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00:47:15.760 --> 00:47:19.880
knew what he was doing and love coming out and
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00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:26.960
that we Uh, we had a wonderful time when all
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00:47:27.039 --> 00:47:30.079
those seeds out on the cliff. When away, I had
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to go from one room to another and we were
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00:47:32.719 --> 00:47:38.599
two hundred feet above the ocean. And I had played
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00:47:38.960 --> 00:47:43.559
a character that was afraid of heights and had a phobia.
610
00:47:44.360 --> 00:47:51.239
Uh uh enclosure of phobia was a phobia to be
611
00:47:51.559 --> 00:47:59.320
complied in a in a elevator and also uh phobias pipes.
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00:48:01.119 --> 00:48:07.000
I I surprised Rob when I was we were supposed
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to I guess I got it now it's clussphobia and yeah,
614
00:48:13.239 --> 00:48:17.719
so it's a character and uh so I had that
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responsibility uh as a character to perform that going out
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00:48:24.480 --> 00:48:32.039
on the ledge. So I play road well before coming out.
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Uh the door set Uh she locked, Uh Joe Collins
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00:48:41.239 --> 00:48:44.840
had locked. We had to go schood. So he went
619
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stood first and he went and got on the ledge
620
00:48:49.440 --> 00:48:52.920
and disappeared a couple of steps. But I stayed back.
621
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I didn't do it. I wanted him to come and
622
00:48:57.079 --> 00:49:00.280
get me. But that was an important that was a
623
00:49:00.360 --> 00:49:03.679
creative boon. Well, Ron, it was such a good actor
624
00:49:04.480 --> 00:49:08.559
and it was so creative. I couldn't put wood by it.
625
00:49:09.400 --> 00:49:12.800
He came back and grabbed me. But if you see
626
00:49:12.840 --> 00:49:16.679
the movie again, you know somewhere and posed me out
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00:49:16.719 --> 00:49:23.440
on the ledge and you got it done. Afterwards, he said, Michael,
628
00:49:23.559 --> 00:49:28.360
that was so great, he said, I love you. He said,
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I enjoyed the moment, so.
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I'm sorry.
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Go ahead, good Michael.
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00:49:36.440 --> 00:49:38.599
The other question I wanted to ask you is when
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you were doing Westbound with Randall Scott and you had
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00:49:42.480 --> 00:49:46.519
to keep your arm hidden. I've watched that movie several
635
00:49:46.599 --> 00:49:49.360
times and I don't know was your arm at your side, behind.
636
00:49:49.119 --> 00:49:49.760
You, in front of you?
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Where was your arm that was supposed to have been
638
00:49:52.760 --> 00:49:54.039
amputated in the Civil War.
639
00:49:55.440 --> 00:49:58.039
Well, I took my left arm first of all. I
640
00:49:58.119 --> 00:50:01.519
got a very large extra hard shirt at the time,
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so it would be to be an ample room and
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00:50:05.440 --> 00:50:08.280
would kind of troop down, and you hide it as
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much as the cook. And I took my hand and arm,
644
00:50:13.559 --> 00:50:18.719
put it back at my buttocks and let the sleep
645
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drop down, you know. And I did that for oh
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three four days and walked around.
647
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That's hard on this, that's hard on this. I'm going
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to have your arm way down there.
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I had a high practice in my home and so forth.
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But uh an attendive to that story. Uh that our direction,
651
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great butt Betteger was another John Ford, the one wonderful,
652
00:50:49.840 --> 00:50:53.119
wonderful director. He did so many of the one That's
653
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got movies and and of course dude did two mules
654
00:50:57.519 --> 00:51:04.159
for Sister Sarah with uh Clint Eastwood. But I had
655
00:51:04.159 --> 00:51:11.039
an idea, I said, Bud, I would like to take
656
00:51:11.119 --> 00:51:17.599
their Winchester rifle home, of their lever action home with
657
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me over the weekend. Would you okay, Pops that I
658
00:51:22.000 --> 00:51:24.320
could take it with me? And I want to I
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00:51:24.400 --> 00:51:28.360
want to rehearse. Uh h, I want to do something
660
00:51:28.440 --> 00:51:31.519
with it, he said, by all means, he said, I'll
661
00:51:31.559 --> 00:51:34.559
call down there right now. I'll this on a Friday,
662
00:51:35.159 --> 00:51:37.320
and the weekend was coming, and I had the weekend
663
00:51:38.719 --> 00:51:41.800
a couple of things I had in minds of uh
664
00:51:41.960 --> 00:51:46.280
to bring in Monday. So he said, bomb, I want
665
00:51:46.320 --> 00:51:50.559
to the pop department. They okayed everything to the director.
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I brought it home and I began cranking. This is
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00:51:54.239 --> 00:52:01.920
before the rifle man ever did crank. Yeah right, I
668
00:52:03.159 --> 00:52:07.199
shot and I speak hand, so I was able to
669
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control and crank it and grab it in one motion.
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So I would crank it, got crank it, grab it
671
00:52:16.440 --> 00:52:20.360
and I would. But the weekend I was an expert
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00:52:20.800 --> 00:52:22.880
at it and I could do it with one hand,
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00:52:23.719 --> 00:52:32.800
one perfectly. So yeah, Monday, and I said, book, look
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what I developed. It wasn't written. That was my creative
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00:52:37.199 --> 00:52:43.639
constribution to the counter. So I brought it and I
676
00:52:43.760 --> 00:52:48.760
showed them who cash and they said, wow, wonderful. So
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00:52:49.000 --> 00:52:52.639
Booth said, okay, I we got it. And it happened
678
00:52:52.639 --> 00:52:56.320
to me the first scene that we had to do
679
00:52:56.559 --> 00:53:00.440
that that of the first scene of the movie that
680
00:53:00.800 --> 00:53:04.079
day was with the rifle and the one where I
681
00:53:04.239 --> 00:53:10.599
cranked one hand. Now, story wise, I didn't have the
682
00:53:10.719 --> 00:53:14.320
confidence the character, and he thought he was half a man.
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00:53:15.239 --> 00:53:18.519
So to convince me I could do a lot with
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00:53:18.679 --> 00:53:26.239
one hand, Randy was to teach me in the story.
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00:53:27.440 --> 00:53:31.760
See in the screen, Yeah, he thinks me. So I
686
00:53:31.920 --> 00:53:36.519
got to teach him off screen, but on screen he
687
00:53:36.639 --> 00:53:43.039
has to teach me follow me. Yes, Now Randy is
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00:53:43.119 --> 00:53:46.000
not his coordinator, and God love him. He wasn't his
689
00:53:46.159 --> 00:53:56.719
coordinatorsion professional laught, so he was bleeding. He was cut
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00:53:57.199 --> 00:54:03.880
down the taping. It took a third six tapes. Oh oh,
691
00:54:04.039 --> 00:54:08.199
and it was. They came down from the from the
692
00:54:08.280 --> 00:54:11.760
production open said, but what are you doing? You know
693
00:54:12.280 --> 00:54:15.039
the day is almost started and you haven't even got
694
00:54:15.199 --> 00:54:17.840
the one take yet. He said, We're gonna get this
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00:54:18.800 --> 00:54:23.039
no matter what well we did, and how important there
696
00:54:23.280 --> 00:54:27.840
was to the script and the story. Yes, that is
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00:54:28.000 --> 00:54:35.599
my created contribution, uh, to the physical, physical, creative constitution
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to the story of the movie.
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00:54:40.079 --> 00:54:44.880
I have my last one. My last question is, Michael,
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00:54:45.280 --> 00:54:47.440
why did you get an oscar for Winter Hawk?
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00:54:50.239 --> 00:54:54.280
When no, I say the longest that you should have.
702
00:54:54.559 --> 00:54:57.079
You should have been awarded an oscar for the movie
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00:54:57.159 --> 00:54:58.599
Winter Hawk. That's that's what.
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John Wayne said that too to me, and I was
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00:55:02.039 --> 00:55:08.320
thanking torn when I did. John Wayne through his charities
706
00:55:08.400 --> 00:55:13.880
and in his hometown of Newport Beach, which was Child Abuse,
707
00:55:14.639 --> 00:55:18.039
the wonderful charity that we raised a lot of money,
708
00:55:18.800 --> 00:55:23.679
his son Patrick Wade and he that's Patrick and I
709
00:55:23.800 --> 00:55:28.840
were the auctioneers and raised each year for three years
710
00:55:29.280 --> 00:55:37.440
over fifty thousand dollars with no publicity and he said,
711
00:55:37.599 --> 00:55:41.079
got an editor for Winter. Yeah. When he saw Winner
712
00:55:41.159 --> 00:55:44.480
all he said, Michael, you should have been nominated for
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00:55:44.639 --> 00:55:50.239
the War for the simple tour. But anyway, thank you Wayne,
714
00:55:50.239 --> 00:55:54.400
and I am that was my It's my favorite movie
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00:55:55.199 --> 00:56:01.159
for more than one reason. First, maybe one a half
716
00:56:01.239 --> 00:56:05.079
of one percent of the actors have the good fortune
717
00:56:05.480 --> 00:56:10.159
and the opportunity to play a title role. I was
718
00:56:10.239 --> 00:56:14.239
given that opportunity, and I had the good fortune of
719
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of playing that character that I loved and made a
720
00:56:20.639 --> 00:56:26.840
marriage with that character that was not written. He was
721
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not written that he was a spiritual man. I brought
722
00:56:30.039 --> 00:56:35.199
a spiritual essence to the character. Meaning didn't know that
723
00:56:35.960 --> 00:56:40.800
the decision I made I related to the stars, the boon,
724
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the wind, the wild road, and before I made the decision,
725
00:56:46.519 --> 00:56:50.000
so that every decision I made was based on a
726
00:56:50.079 --> 00:57:04.119
greater lessons than ego, because ego killed more people than cheesecake. You, Michael,
727
00:57:08.920 --> 00:57:13.360
thank you, very wonderful questions. God God bless you.
728
00:57:16.039 --> 00:57:18.760
All right, and uh we're gonna We're gonna pass the
729
00:57:18.840 --> 00:57:22.960
mic over to Paul. Paul you have some questions for Michael.
730
00:57:24.000 --> 00:57:26.400
I I'd love to my friend.
731
00:57:26.480 --> 00:57:26.719
Thank you.
732
00:57:26.760 --> 00:57:29.280
I'm like riveted listening to these stories, though, Michael, thank
733
00:57:29.320 --> 00:57:31.519
you so much for being our guest on here tonight.
734
00:57:31.599 --> 00:57:33.239
It's a it's a treat. It's a pleasure.
735
00:57:33.880 --> 00:57:40.039
Uh well, I tell you might enjoy the various anecdotes.
736
00:57:41.280 --> 00:57:48.440
Two stories of Adjason. The thedendum to the question makes
737
00:57:48.480 --> 00:57:51.239
for a nice color and an education. A lot of
738
00:57:51.800 --> 00:57:54.960
people go behind and scene don't know what goes on
739
00:57:55.159 --> 00:57:58.559
and what happens, and they look at it on the
740
00:57:58.599 --> 00:58:01.800
school and say, oh, geez, was great, But the work
741
00:58:01.960 --> 00:58:06.880
that goes behind it sometimes is a lot of hard
742
00:58:07.000 --> 00:58:08.480
work to make it work.
743
00:58:09.960 --> 00:58:12.039
Well, it's just great. And I've been looking over all
744
00:58:12.119 --> 00:58:14.519
the you know, all of your credits and everything that
745
00:58:14.599 --> 00:58:16.920
you've done, and I'm like a child of the sixties
746
00:58:16.960 --> 00:58:19.239
and seventies, right, so I grew up watching a ton
747
00:58:19.320 --> 00:58:23.000
of the things that you were in, especially during like
748
00:58:23.519 --> 00:58:26.760
the heyday of you know, sixties television, you know, right
749
00:58:27.320 --> 00:58:28.480
before and right.
750
00:58:28.440 --> 00:58:29.360
After Star Trek.
751
00:58:29.440 --> 00:58:33.440
But a huge Star Trek fan, and I think amongst
752
00:58:33.880 --> 00:58:37.840
fans of the original series, Friday's Child really stands out right.
753
00:58:38.000 --> 00:58:41.559
It's a great episode and it's one of the ones
754
00:58:41.599 --> 00:58:43.760
that people remember because it's when they were still going
755
00:58:43.800 --> 00:58:46.320
out and shooting on location like you were describing, right.
756
00:58:46.480 --> 00:58:48.400
I mean, some of the later episodes were all on
757
00:58:48.519 --> 00:58:51.039
a set, but you guys are out there on location,
758
00:58:51.159 --> 00:58:54.840
which just made it feel really real and and exciting.
759
00:58:55.039 --> 00:58:58.400
It was very compelling, and it's it's like a The
760
00:58:58.519 --> 00:59:01.159
story kind of reminds me a little bit of Dune almost,
761
00:59:01.320 --> 00:59:04.480
because you have these tribal uh folks and they're trying
762
00:59:04.519 --> 00:59:08.000
to sort things out and there's this influence with the
763
00:59:08.079 --> 00:59:11.280
Klingons and whatnot. And I remember, I don't know, I
764
00:59:11.400 --> 00:59:13.239
was probably like, you know, in my teenage years, and
765
00:59:13.280 --> 00:59:15.719
I'm watching this episode for one of the first times,
766
00:59:15.719 --> 00:59:17.360
and I'm like, what is the deal with this Klingon?
767
00:59:17.760 --> 00:59:20.320
He looked really familiar to me? And then I'm like,
768
00:59:20.360 --> 00:59:22.079
wait a minute, this is the police captain from the
769
00:59:22.159 --> 00:59:27.360
mod Squads. Yeah, It's like is it tij andrews Am
770
00:59:27.400 --> 00:59:28.360
I saying his name right?
771
00:59:28.639 --> 00:59:38.000
Yeah? Yeah, Tigers? Uh. He played the Klings and he
772
00:59:38.199 --> 00:59:42.880
was the antagonist, and Uh, Tiger's a very nice, grand
773
00:59:43.119 --> 00:59:45.719
good actor. We've known. We knew each other for a
774
00:59:45.800 --> 00:59:50.559
long time and we were neighbors uh in Encino, Uh
775
00:59:51.760 --> 00:59:55.480
where he lived. He would live about old maybe a
776
00:59:55.519 --> 00:59:59.719
half a mile from my home. But uh, there was
777
00:59:59.760 --> 01:00:04.239
so interesting things like like the weapon that I had
778
01:00:04.360 --> 01:00:12.519
a clinging, you know, the cligan well sometimes yeah, yeah,
779
01:00:12.599 --> 01:00:17.119
that was such a unique addition to the character and
780
01:00:18.079 --> 01:00:22.840
his expertise and uh and the man the man who
781
01:00:23.039 --> 01:00:26.760
ws to how to throw it, uh, to be effective
782
01:00:26.840 --> 01:00:30.199
and to be accurate and so forth. So and they
783
01:00:30.280 --> 01:00:35.719
said up some many off stage and uh, when we
784
01:00:36.559 --> 01:00:41.719
had a little encounter, uh to flip the throw it.
785
01:00:43.719 --> 01:00:48.400
It looked like a professional. It worked really really nice,
786
01:00:48.480 --> 01:00:51.239
but it took some manys the time and wh it
787
01:00:51.400 --> 01:00:56.760
was from. We had good actors to work with, and
788
01:00:56.920 --> 01:01:03.920
a wardrobe wardrobe was fabulous. But by god, I'll tell
789
01:01:03.920 --> 01:01:10.679
you a little story. I was doing a venue and
790
01:01:10.840 --> 01:01:18.280
a uh uh Trechy came to the table and said, Michael,
791
01:01:19.239 --> 01:01:22.960
He said, do you I have that outfit you wore
792
01:01:23.119 --> 01:01:26.800
in when you were doing Friday's Child? I said, no,
793
01:01:26.920 --> 01:01:30.559
I wish I did it because the wardrobe guy it
794
01:01:30.719 --> 01:01:34.719
was it was so too wet and everything and and uh,
795
01:01:35.000 --> 01:01:37.639
the character dies. So they weren't going to use the
796
01:01:39.280 --> 01:01:43.360
character the wardrobe anymore because I could get zapped in it.
797
01:01:44.239 --> 01:01:47.920
And so he said you wanted and so forth, And
798
01:01:48.559 --> 01:01:51.320
I said, well, no, what do I know what. I
799
01:01:51.400 --> 01:01:53.559
didn't have any use for it. I didn't realize at
800
01:01:53.599 --> 01:01:58.760
the time. So the the Turkey said to me, he said,
801
01:01:58.840 --> 01:02:04.119
oh god, he said, if you had more of that wardrobe,
802
01:02:04.760 --> 01:02:06.840
he said, I'm going to give you twenty five thousand
803
01:02:06.960 --> 01:02:14.280
dollars for wah wow. So I said, well, okay, I
804
01:02:14.480 --> 01:02:16.679
wasn't I wasn't made to be a rich man.
805
01:02:18.719 --> 01:02:21.119
If only had gone to the dry cleaners after shooting
806
01:02:21.199 --> 01:02:22.039
that day, it would be.
807
01:02:24.000 --> 01:02:28.400
But I'm telling you the fans and the commercial aspect
808
01:02:28.559 --> 01:02:33.400
of all these products and wardrobe and uh the like
809
01:02:33.519 --> 01:02:38.679
the clinic clicking and the weapons they use and h
810
01:02:38.840 --> 01:02:44.599
you know, the commerciality in the immediate of dollars and
811
01:02:44.760 --> 01:02:49.480
the actors that and of course uh let it eve
812
01:02:49.519 --> 01:02:54.679
away and uh Shadow and the interruptors made so much
813
01:02:54.920 --> 01:02:58.480
more money than they ever made while they were shooting
814
01:02:59.079 --> 01:03:01.639
and working on during the three years.
815
01:03:01.519 --> 01:03:01.800
Of the.
816
01:03:03.679 --> 01:03:08.360
Of the of the show, they made millions of dollars work.
817
01:03:08.440 --> 01:03:13.280
He got, uh the autographs at one time I know
818
01:03:13.440 --> 01:03:17.679
at what time, Shadow was getting one hundred dollars of
819
01:03:17.719 --> 01:03:22.360
autograph words. And they had a favorite Nations cause with
820
01:03:23.320 --> 01:03:27.519
Leonard Boy, so he got as much as Shadow did
821
01:03:28.159 --> 01:03:33.199
you know, so they got news between fifteen one hundred
822
01:03:33.199 --> 01:03:35.559
dollars of an autograph. If they were ordered on the
823
01:03:35.599 --> 01:03:39.599
piece of newspaper, they got one hundred dollars wow, or
824
01:03:39.679 --> 01:03:43.000
fifty dollars or whatever the going rate at the top was.
825
01:03:43.320 --> 01:03:49.760
So he had the kamber a home. Uh, you know,
826
01:03:50.239 --> 01:03:57.599
prolific and very financial, successful industry. It's just uh and
827
01:03:57.719 --> 01:04:03.199
it's still going strong. And thanks yeah, thanks to both
828
01:04:03.280 --> 01:04:08.719
of you, Jim, Eric and you Charlie, the two the
829
01:04:10.280 --> 01:04:15.960
Star Trek name a lot well and the interesting people
830
01:04:16.280 --> 01:04:20.840
stories that your fans I'm sure will find interesting to
831
01:04:21.360 --> 01:04:23.679
listen to. Great job, guys.
832
01:04:23.880 --> 01:04:27.599
We we just love good stories and we love good actors, man.
833
01:04:27.679 --> 01:04:29.800
That's that's that's what unites us. And we get a
834
01:04:29.800 --> 01:04:31.840
lot of that from Star Trek, from you know, year
835
01:04:31.920 --> 01:04:33.440
in for year out, and we just you know, we
836
01:04:33.519 --> 01:04:35.760
get hooked and we're young and we never give up.
837
01:04:35.880 --> 01:04:38.079
So that's a lot of what happens.
838
01:04:38.639 --> 01:04:38.880
I have.
839
01:04:39.400 --> 01:04:41.199
I just have to mention because I was looking over
840
01:04:41.480 --> 01:04:44.960
your credits on here, I'm just so delighted to see
841
01:04:45.440 --> 01:04:47.960
because it's one of my favorite genres. Is so many
842
01:04:48.000 --> 01:04:50.400
great westerns that are on here, both in TV and
843
01:04:50.559 --> 01:04:53.639
in screen and I have a hunch I know what
844
01:04:53.679 --> 01:04:55.480
you're going to say to this, because you were talking
845
01:04:55.639 --> 01:04:59.920
very affectionately about Winter Hawk earlier. Would you say that's
846
01:05:00.039 --> 01:05:02.719
your favorite Western as far as the ones that you're
847
01:05:02.920 --> 01:05:05.039
past the others that you are.
848
01:05:06.280 --> 01:05:11.800
Reason I mentioned that playing the title was very rare
849
01:05:12.000 --> 01:05:15.559
by our business, and then being able to make a
850
01:05:15.679 --> 01:05:20.039
marriage with the character, to make him a spiritual man
851
01:05:20.800 --> 01:05:27.960
and write that beautiful Appaloosa, Uh, he was so special, uh,
852
01:05:29.159 --> 01:05:33.880
to give another dimension to the character as you who
853
01:05:35.000 --> 01:05:39.599
you remember the wonderful sceneson and a wonderful stunt man
854
01:05:39.760 --> 01:05:46.800
beheaded that this uh, buddy, that's such a great uh
855
01:05:47.519 --> 01:05:53.599
a job as a stuntman. And then those wonderful scenes
856
01:05:54.519 --> 01:06:03.199
throughout were really high caliber lighting. Because he was seventeen, Charlie,
857
01:06:03.239 --> 01:06:09.360
he was seventeen hands tied. He was a Arabian and
858
01:06:09.480 --> 01:06:13.719
then a Thoroughbred, so he had the power of an
859
01:06:13.800 --> 01:06:18.679
Arabian and the speed of a Sabred. They had the
860
01:06:18.880 --> 01:06:24.800
rangements every morning, had to uh uh, it's just my
861
01:06:24.960 --> 01:06:33.199
talk with Charlie or Paul Paul right now, Paul, I'm sorry, Paul, Paul. Uh.
862
01:06:34.159 --> 01:06:40.920
The branglers had to run him, exercise him for two
863
01:06:41.159 --> 01:06:47.000
hours every morning to wear him down so that when
864
01:06:47.119 --> 01:06:49.920
he when I got on it went worked with him.
865
01:06:50.639 --> 01:06:54.559
He was not as as so feisty, you know, so
866
01:06:54.880 --> 01:06:59.360
energetic he was. He was so noble. He was just wonderful.
867
01:07:00.239 --> 01:07:03.480
And I got him the plants and the picture a
868
01:07:03.639 --> 01:07:09.280
wonderful people work coming into the the encampment. I got
869
01:07:09.360 --> 01:07:14.519
him to dance and the nice things. He was. He
870
01:07:14.760 --> 01:07:19.559
was sis and he didn't have the reflectors that were
871
01:07:19.679 --> 01:07:25.960
used in those days were the enemy of most most horses,
872
01:07:26.719 --> 01:07:32.000
and reflecting uh from the sun to give light, the
873
01:07:32.119 --> 01:07:34.639
light of the scene. If they had hid it in
874
01:07:34.719 --> 01:07:39.000
the eye, they would spook this horse never. But it
875
01:07:39.119 --> 01:07:45.599
didn't bother him alone. And from this this uh wonderful
876
01:07:45.679 --> 01:07:51.800
piece that I I enjoyed though for so many reasons.
877
01:07:52.159 --> 01:07:55.920
And the casts one of the greatest casts of all time.
878
01:07:56.800 --> 01:08:00.880
And I'm show you. I'm sorry to say, my heart,
879
01:08:01.679 --> 01:08:06.119
my heart aches to know that other than the young
880
01:08:06.280 --> 01:08:12.360
boy Cotton, I'm the only one of one, they're all deceased.
881
01:08:13.760 --> 01:08:21.560
He sold Yeah, yeah, Baricon, yeah cook right, he won't
882
01:08:21.600 --> 01:08:26.960
to Jove's. Yeah, they're all they're all going. It's it's
883
01:08:27.399 --> 01:08:32.319
it's so sad. The Charlie sother is still a lot.
884
01:08:32.439 --> 01:08:36.039
I don't know. I haven't heard from from him and
885
01:08:36.680 --> 01:08:40.680
and the family for a long time, so I hope
886
01:08:40.720 --> 01:08:48.159
he's well. And of course Dawn, Dawn is gone, jes
887
01:08:48.239 --> 01:08:50.319
as lady Lady.
888
01:08:51.159 --> 01:08:52.680
Do Wells right, don Well?
889
01:08:52.840 --> 01:08:56.399
No one news, so I don't. Don Wells is gone
890
01:08:57.199 --> 01:09:02.920
and Dennis simple, Dennis pass away and they're all God
891
01:09:03.119 --> 01:09:11.239
except and it's just a same So sorry to say that.
892
01:09:11.479 --> 01:09:15.079
But they were beautiful to work with. We had just
893
01:09:15.199 --> 01:09:19.199
the greatest array of character people and the best weather.
894
01:09:19.439 --> 01:09:22.680
We had an Indian summer so to speak. We had
895
01:09:22.760 --> 01:09:27.159
good weather right up until December when we finished the picture,
896
01:09:28.640 --> 01:09:32.039
so we were very fortunate. Well, we didn't have snow.
897
01:09:32.680 --> 01:09:37.399
We didn't have any snow, and this is an interesting story.
898
01:09:38.119 --> 01:09:45.199
So we had to go and tandem the whole company
899
01:09:46.159 --> 01:09:56.159
from Kaalismell, Montana to Durango and Pulgatory. Now Purgatory was
900
01:09:56.520 --> 01:10:03.239
twenty miles south of Durango, and there was no snow
901
01:10:03.760 --> 01:10:08.000
for two weeks. We were ready to go to Alasta
902
01:10:08.560 --> 01:10:11.439
because there was no snow in a new country. And
903
01:10:11.600 --> 01:10:16.880
finally they got snow and and uh in the Durango
904
01:10:17.640 --> 01:10:23.520
and a permontory and we went and chambed them our
905
01:10:23.600 --> 01:10:27.439
trailers and cars and so forth, and went all day
906
01:10:27.520 --> 01:10:30.720
and night. Finally got there. We got there. It was
907
01:10:30.760 --> 01:10:36.880
a blizzard. It was two feet of snow. This is
908
01:10:37.000 --> 01:10:39.520
a leading I'm leading up the wonderful story. They're going
909
01:10:39.600 --> 01:10:43.119
to kick out of this two feet of snow. And
910
01:10:43.239 --> 01:10:47.920
we had to carry no assistance whatsoever. Each one of
911
01:10:48.000 --> 01:10:51.920
us were on our own. They get and we were
912
01:10:52.039 --> 01:10:57.800
directed where all cottages were. We each had a cottage,
913
01:10:58.319 --> 01:11:02.319
and we went and I took my luggage and went
914
01:11:03.680 --> 01:11:07.600
the trade to two seaters though to my cottage. Got
915
01:11:07.720 --> 01:11:11.680
there through the bags on and Foard fell on the
916
01:11:12.359 --> 01:11:16.359
on the bed and fell out, passed out. Now, we
917
01:11:16.479 --> 01:11:20.800
didn't have a call. That was on a Saturday, so
918
01:11:20.960 --> 01:11:24.079
we were off Sunday and Monday we were going to work,
919
01:11:24.239 --> 01:11:27.119
so we had day off to recoup. And Monday we
920
01:11:27.239 --> 01:11:32.640
had an early call six o'clock, breakfast seven o'clock and makeup.
921
01:11:33.640 --> 01:11:41.399
So woo he sold uh life ericson and myself we
922
01:11:41.640 --> 01:11:45.479
had the early call. So the three of us, I
923
01:11:45.600 --> 01:11:50.199
went to the commissary UH to have breakfast, and we
924
01:11:50.520 --> 01:11:58.000
had had more tables, tables and benches and had wonderful
925
01:11:58.039 --> 01:12:01.239
food there and so forth for all of us and
926
01:12:01.479 --> 01:12:05.119
the US Ski team happened to be there because there
927
01:12:05.199 --> 01:12:10.039
was no no snow anywhere the fusing except there in purgatory.
928
01:12:10.439 --> 01:12:13.560
So we're sitting there in full I'm in full with
929
01:12:13.720 --> 01:12:18.439
gaddet Win. Our walk is all dressed and and as
930
01:12:18.880 --> 01:12:24.119
wonderful uh outfit, and of course the two mountain men
931
01:12:24.680 --> 01:12:29.279
in their outfits and so forth. We're sitting there very quietly,
932
01:12:29.520 --> 01:12:35.119
not much speaking because we're still still thinking about what
933
01:12:35.359 --> 01:12:39.279
we're what had transpired the last day, a couple of days,
934
01:12:40.399 --> 01:12:43.800
and the door opens. We were sitting close to the
935
01:12:43.880 --> 01:12:49.640
doors and we could hear the thumping as the door opens.
936
01:12:50.279 --> 01:12:58.600
Doo doo, doo doom. These skiers were thumping all the
937
01:12:58.800 --> 01:13:02.239
snow off their boots and coming in to have breakfast.
938
01:13:02.279 --> 01:13:08.000
Who was the US Speak team? They walked in. They
939
01:13:08.239 --> 01:13:12.520
walked in and saw them three of us and you
940
01:13:12.640 --> 01:13:16.039
can move now you want to. I want to tell
941
01:13:16.159 --> 01:13:20.520
you they looked at us and you can read their lips.
942
01:13:21.359 --> 01:13:32.720
Whim is this oo regarded two mountain men and when
943
01:13:32.760 --> 01:13:41.560
you are something, work with them or go blind? Became
944
01:13:41.640 --> 01:13:46.840
in introductions wor an order. I told you to the coach,
945
01:13:47.600 --> 01:13:54.399
I invited him to the set. Uh said, well, center
946
01:13:54.520 --> 01:13:58.039
limousine after those who would like to come and see
947
01:13:58.079 --> 01:14:00.880
how we work and so forth. So he said, you
948
01:14:00.960 --> 01:14:03.960
know what, in the afternoon, they could use a couple
949
01:14:04.039 --> 01:14:08.560
miles off. He said, it's a good idea. So we said,
950
01:14:08.680 --> 01:14:12.199
we said for a whole bunch of them limousines. They
951
01:14:12.319 --> 01:14:15.359
came and said, really had a good time and had
952
01:14:15.479 --> 01:14:20.359
experienced something all of them then, Uh never had a
953
01:14:20.479 --> 01:14:25.279
chance to before in their livestock. So these just some
954
01:14:25.520 --> 01:14:27.920
of the things that hapit alone the way.
955
01:14:29.680 --> 01:14:34.359
It's incredible, man, You're an incredible repository of Hollywood history
956
01:14:34.479 --> 01:14:35.119
and stories.
957
01:14:35.199 --> 01:14:35.479
Michael.
958
01:14:35.520 --> 01:14:38.560
We're just I think we could we can sit down
959
01:14:38.640 --> 01:14:41.479
and talk with you for hours, my friend. But the phone,
960
01:14:41.920 --> 01:14:44.960
the bank that we have of our phone calls is
961
01:14:45.039 --> 01:14:47.239
lit up like a Christmas tree. So I'm going to
962
01:14:47.319 --> 01:14:50.640
try to not be selfish with our time, and we'll
963
01:14:50.680 --> 01:14:52.840
bring some of our other callers on here. I think
964
01:14:52.920 --> 01:14:55.119
Jim's going to patch them through now. But Michael, what
965
01:14:55.239 --> 01:14:58.199
a pleasure there. Great to get the chance to speak
966
01:14:58.239 --> 01:15:00.800
with you, and just wishing all the best. God bless brother,
967
01:15:02.359 --> 01:15:04.079
thank you, thank you so much.
968
01:15:05.520 --> 01:15:10.079
All right, Michael, we have a caller from area code
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01:15:10.239 --> 01:15:13.479
four eight zero. What's your name and where are your
970
01:15:13.520 --> 01:15:14.520
calling us from tonight?
971
01:15:16.560 --> 01:15:19.560
My name is Ray and I'm calling from Phoenix, Arizona.
972
01:15:20.760 --> 01:15:22.520
Hi, Ray, Welcome to the show. Do you have a
973
01:15:22.600 --> 01:15:23.439
question for Michael?
974
01:15:27.039 --> 01:15:27.439
Michael?
975
01:15:27.600 --> 01:15:28.279
How are you?
976
01:15:28.600 --> 01:15:29.840
Sir? You sound great.
977
01:15:30.359 --> 01:15:35.199
I've been listening, and uh, while you know you're right host,
978
01:15:35.960 --> 01:15:38.000
you could be on with Michael for seven or eight
979
01:15:38.079 --> 01:15:43.399
hours and never even scratch the surface. My goodness, I've
980
01:15:43.439 --> 01:15:49.159
got a quick question when you are on Star Trek
981
01:15:49.279 --> 01:15:53.760
for that that wonderful famous episode. And of course, Julie
982
01:15:53.840 --> 01:15:59.119
Newmar one of my favorite actresses, a dancer like you
983
01:15:59.199 --> 01:16:03.680
were talking about. Uh, she played played Stupefying Jones on
984
01:16:03.840 --> 01:16:08.000
Lil Abner. But I wanted to ask you, was was
985
01:16:08.119 --> 01:16:13.680
William Shatner as Goofy then as he was in later
986
01:16:13.840 --> 01:16:17.000
life in all of his acting roles. I know he's
987
01:16:17.039 --> 01:16:19.880
a kind of a genius like you are. I think
988
01:16:19.960 --> 01:16:22.479
you two guys are about the same age. But was
989
01:16:22.560 --> 01:16:25.039
he as Goofy then as he has been over the years?
990
01:16:26.760 --> 01:16:30.239
Yeah, you know what, You're absolutely right, he's exactly the
991
01:16:30.359 --> 01:16:36.600
same age as men and uh Veriet Chelton. William is
992
01:16:36.640 --> 01:16:41.960
a very good businessman, uh terutric actor and a great
993
01:16:42.039 --> 01:16:45.840
personality hit it, a great sense of you. He would
994
01:16:45.920 --> 01:16:49.560
go in and when we were all gathered uh and
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01:16:50.560 --> 01:16:56.720
smile uh assem who hevy panel discussion And he would
996
01:16:56.800 --> 01:17:02.359
come in and uh uh uh first of all uh
997
01:17:03.279 --> 01:17:06.399
everyone would be seated, and then they would introduce him
998
01:17:06.520 --> 01:17:09.880
last of course, and he would come in and the
999
01:17:10.159 --> 01:17:13.640
place be packed. To me, a couple of thousands dollars seats.
1000
01:17:14.159 --> 01:17:17.560
They're not a not an empty seed though in the maps.
1001
01:17:18.319 --> 01:17:20.640
And he walked in. There's the kind of humor we have.
1002
01:17:21.359 --> 01:17:23.520
And the more he did it, the more they love him.
1003
01:17:24.199 --> 01:17:28.439
And then he he uh uh. He did this over
1004
01:17:28.520 --> 01:17:31.760
the years and then he just became a part of it.
1005
01:17:31.920 --> 01:17:34.840
The more he did what I'm about to say, the
1006
01:17:35.000 --> 01:17:39.560
more they loved him, and they embraced him. Immediately. He
1007
01:17:39.600 --> 01:17:42.720
would walk in and look out there, he said, what
1008
01:17:43.079 --> 01:17:50.439
kind I have in the world doing here? And so
1009
01:17:51.239 --> 01:17:54.640
he loosened them up and then no matter what he said,
1010
01:17:55.640 --> 01:17:59.720
they were on his side. Right. He knew how to
1011
01:17:59.760 --> 01:18:02.960
work an audience because he came from he was a
1012
01:18:03.319 --> 01:18:07.600
radio did a lot radio in uh Canada. He's Canadian
1013
01:18:08.920 --> 01:18:13.840
and did a lot of radio and just Uh, I
1014
01:18:13.960 --> 01:18:16.560
don't round performer. I had a lot of respect for
1015
01:18:16.720 --> 01:18:22.039
him and he knew exactly what he was doing or
1016
01:18:23.119 --> 01:18:26.239
the total of a little bit the situation of himself
1017
01:18:26.840 --> 01:18:31.800
and was they expected him the audiences and uh all
1018
01:18:31.880 --> 01:18:35.479
to work for the audience and work with the Leonard
1019
01:18:35.560 --> 01:18:38.800
Nimoy because usually they worked just the two of them.
1020
01:18:39.640 --> 01:18:44.800
Uh uh would be center stage and uh they worked
1021
01:18:45.199 --> 01:18:49.119
extremely well together, so he would be basically a straight
1022
01:18:49.199 --> 01:18:52.800
man would be uh kne Moy and of course uh
1023
01:18:52.920 --> 01:18:57.600
Bill with the uh the the humor had a great
1024
01:18:57.640 --> 01:18:58.079
sense of you.
1025
01:18:58.279 --> 01:19:03.840
Gap very yeah, Michael, if I'm permitted a follow up
1026
01:19:03.920 --> 01:19:07.319
quick question. You've probably been asked this before, and it
1027
01:19:07.399 --> 01:19:09.640
might be the most difficult question anybody could.
1028
01:19:09.479 --> 01:19:09.840
Ask you.
1029
01:19:11.640 --> 01:19:16.840
With your storied career, the talent, the producing, the writing.
1030
01:19:16.960 --> 01:19:21.079
I know Winter Hawk is maybe one of your greatest roles,
1031
01:19:21.960 --> 01:19:24.600
but with all the movies I've seen you in and
1032
01:19:24.720 --> 01:19:29.399
the television shows over the years, and all of the
1033
01:19:29.520 --> 01:19:36.760
stars that you've acted with, is there one actor or
1034
01:19:36.920 --> 01:19:41.880
actress that stands out in your mind where either the
1035
01:19:42.079 --> 01:19:45.680
role that you played together or the person that they
1036
01:19:45.800 --> 01:19:49.760
were and you together hit it off and it really
1037
01:19:49.880 --> 01:19:53.600
stands out in your mind, who is your If you're
1038
01:19:53.600 --> 01:19:55.960
going to do another role with somebody, who would you
1039
01:19:56.039 --> 01:19:56.760
want to do it with?
1040
01:19:58.000 --> 01:20:02.960
Well, that's very interesting. That's a sub question because as
1041
01:20:04.039 --> 01:20:08.920
only the actors I work with the most part, I
1042
01:20:09.039 --> 01:20:14.399
really thoroughly enjoyed and respected their their their contributions to
1043
01:20:14.560 --> 01:20:19.279
whatever we were doing, you know, from Robinson Randall, Scott,
1044
01:20:19.720 --> 01:20:27.279
Virginia Mayo, uh a, Rod Steiger, Joe Collins and one
1045
01:20:27.319 --> 01:20:31.439
of uh god, I'm doing too with Audie Murphy who
1046
01:20:31.560 --> 01:20:35.720
uh working with audio. They were all they all had
1047
01:20:36.439 --> 01:20:41.960
uh different attributes the things that they brought uh to
1048
01:20:42.119 --> 01:20:46.840
work on the screen and exchange with me and so
1049
01:20:47.079 --> 01:20:54.279
forth and working and uh. But two actors that I
1050
01:20:54.399 --> 01:20:59.840
work with for for different reasons, right, these are different reasons.
1051
01:21:00.600 --> 01:21:04.479
And they all worked talented. I never never worked with
1052
01:21:05.399 --> 01:21:09.560
an actor that wasn't and wasn't talented, wasn't gifted, and
1053
01:21:10.159 --> 01:21:14.800
didn't have a great deal over us. But two actors
1054
01:21:14.880 --> 01:21:20.840
that I've worked with were the most unselfish actors I've
1055
01:21:20.880 --> 01:21:28.680
ever worked with was Rory Calhoun and Robert Taylor. Wow
1056
01:21:28.760 --> 01:21:31.479
when I did that, Yeah, when I did I did?
1057
01:21:32.279 --> 01:21:37.279
They call him smoking? Smoking? Rony Calhoun were very under
1058
01:21:37.359 --> 01:21:41.800
radio active, very good active, a very nice man and
1059
01:21:42.359 --> 01:21:46.520
the likes of Barbara Taylor, the talent and what do
1060
01:21:46.560 --> 01:21:49.600
you do behind the camera in front of the camera,
1061
01:21:50.119 --> 01:21:54.000
very few actors that he was so intelligent and so
1062
01:21:55.119 --> 01:22:00.600
aware of every aspect of filmmaking, and a very handsome man,
1063
01:22:00.720 --> 01:22:05.800
both very godsome man and very modest, very modest. And
1064
01:22:06.359 --> 01:22:08.800
when we were doing The Killer Instinct, which was like
1065
01:22:09.560 --> 01:22:12.960
a Desert ut playhouse where I played a fighter, I
1066
01:22:13.079 --> 01:22:17.800
played a Mexican fighter and spoke Spanish and so forth
1067
01:22:17.880 --> 01:22:21.560
and did all the fight work for Rory Calhoun and myself,
1068
01:22:22.439 --> 01:22:25.720
and of course I don't want to leave. That reminded
1069
01:22:25.760 --> 01:22:31.119
me of Elvis Presley and working with Kid Galahad was
1070
01:22:31.159 --> 01:22:37.039
another kind of experience. But when Rory and I were
1071
01:22:37.119 --> 01:22:42.039
doing The Killer Instinct were Janis Rule. The three of
1072
01:22:42.159 --> 01:22:46.399
us were sorry and the Desilute Playhouse it was a
1073
01:22:46.560 --> 01:22:51.279
very popular show at that time and owned by H.
1074
01:22:52.399 --> 01:23:00.960
Lucian Desi Lucian owned the show, and we were and
1075
01:23:01.760 --> 01:23:06.600
I was I was working very hard in particular sequence
1076
01:23:07.479 --> 01:23:14.199
and uh director said, okay, uh Michael, Uh, I want
1077
01:23:14.239 --> 01:23:17.960
to get a two shotow of you and and uh
1078
01:23:18.159 --> 01:23:21.760
Rory here, I want to walk, we're here and stuff
1079
01:23:21.840 --> 01:23:23.960
here and I'll cut it up and so forth and
1080
01:23:24.079 --> 01:23:30.439
so on. Well smoke, he said no, uh, said to
1081
01:23:30.520 --> 01:23:36.199
our photographer and director. He said no. He said, look,
1082
01:23:36.640 --> 01:23:40.520
Michael Sue is such a great job. He's just stay
1083
01:23:40.560 --> 01:23:45.000
with them, stay with him with the whole, the whole
1084
01:23:45.399 --> 01:23:47.880
master shot and so forth, and then we would go
1085
01:23:48.000 --> 01:23:50.880
in on the closer, but stay with him. He's just
1086
01:23:51.159 --> 01:23:55.079
he's just doing such a woeful job. Now. That was
1087
01:23:55.800 --> 01:23:59.560
so unselfish of him, and so and the director said okay,
1088
01:24:00.840 --> 01:24:04.159
and they stay with me now. The same thing when
1089
01:24:04.239 --> 01:24:08.239
I did Death Valley Days, I did two shows with
1090
01:24:08.399 --> 01:24:12.640
Robert Taylor, Death Valley Days, which he hosted at the
1091
01:24:12.800 --> 01:24:20.079
Startling and I did The Detective which he produced and started.
1092
01:24:22.079 --> 01:24:27.640
We were going to interesting story. In those days, you
1093
01:24:27.800 --> 01:24:31.600
have to fly from l A Airport to US Vegas
1094
01:24:32.520 --> 01:24:38.000
and then when you got to Las Vegas. Robert Stabler
1095
01:24:39.039 --> 01:24:42.960
was the producer, executive producer and producer of Death valid
1096
01:24:43.000 --> 01:24:46.640
Davis at that time, and he was a pilot. He
1097
01:24:46.760 --> 01:24:49.560
had a twin engip pointing so that when we got
1098
01:24:49.600 --> 01:24:54.600
a look played from from Los Angeles to Vegas, we
1099
01:24:54.880 --> 01:25:00.960
uh uh. Robert Taylor, I as I go on Robert
1100
01:25:01.000 --> 01:25:06.279
Taylor's twin ins of plane the flyouf uh to canab Utah.
1101
01:25:07.239 --> 01:25:12.920
Well we got oh three quarters there, and it was
1102
01:25:13.680 --> 01:25:17.399
we're coming into a mesa where the land in about
1103
01:25:17.800 --> 01:25:23.000
you know, about ten fifteen minutes. And Bob Taylor said
1104
01:25:23.079 --> 01:25:28.399
to uh, Bob Taylor, Bob Stabler, He said, well you
1105
01:25:28.640 --> 01:25:35.000
moment by uh take the wheel. He said, no, no, no,
1106
01:25:35.079 --> 01:25:40.000
no no. He knew that Robert Taylor was a pilot
1107
01:25:40.319 --> 01:25:43.319
unduring World War two, and I think he was an
1108
01:25:43.359 --> 01:25:46.720
inception as well. So he took the He took the
1109
01:25:47.760 --> 01:25:52.720
the wheel and he guided the plane. Now that Mesa
1110
01:25:53.119 --> 01:25:56.159
because I've gone I've flew in there the three four times,
1111
01:25:56.800 --> 01:26:02.760
and Mesa was always windy and flying here and we
1112
01:26:02.880 --> 01:26:08.319
had they had a rough time beginning and be very
1113
01:26:08.399 --> 01:26:12.840
bumpy going in. And he set that plane down, Bob
1114
01:26:12.920 --> 01:26:15.079
Sailor set that kind of like a baby.
1115
01:26:15.880 --> 01:26:16.199
Got it.
1116
01:26:16.319 --> 01:26:22.239
We landed so forth and so on, and Bob stables by.
1117
01:26:23.239 --> 01:26:28.039
He said, Bob, I've done this in overloaded times. That's
1118
01:26:28.079 --> 01:26:31.439
the best landing I had in this turbulence with that
1119
01:26:31.640 --> 01:26:35.000
we had in a long time. Thank you very much.
1120
01:26:36.000 --> 01:26:44.439
So now when we we were working uh uh said,
1121
01:26:44.720 --> 01:26:49.159
So Bob said, uh, when we finished, it was before
1122
01:26:49.640 --> 01:26:54.039
that there are four part he said, let's have dinner together.
1123
01:26:54.920 --> 01:26:58.279
Uh at the lunch there the famous launch there in
1124
01:26:58.439 --> 01:27:03.920
canab And I said, And we got there. We met
1125
01:27:03.920 --> 01:27:08.520
at six o'clock, were ordering, and Bob was a chain smoker.
1126
01:27:10.079 --> 01:27:14.439
It eventually took his life. He and Roy Calhoun were
1127
01:27:14.479 --> 01:27:19.439
both chained smokers. And they called Rory smoking because he
1128
01:27:19.880 --> 01:27:25.279
smoked all the time and Bob Tilt was never lit cigarette,
1129
01:27:26.039 --> 01:27:30.520
whether he was eating, whether he was finished whatever. Anyway,
1130
01:27:31.479 --> 01:27:35.399
when we got there and they beat the greatest armadine,
1131
01:27:36.039 --> 01:27:40.159
a trout armundine at the lodge I had previously a
1132
01:27:40.239 --> 01:27:43.520
couple of times before, and I said, Bob, they made
1133
01:27:43.560 --> 01:27:48.159
the best trout armondine, the fresh armadin fresh trout they
1134
01:27:48.199 --> 01:27:51.079
get in every day. So he said, great, all that
1135
01:27:51.239 --> 01:27:55.399
what you were? So we sat down with the trout.
1136
01:27:55.520 --> 01:28:01.840
Came beautiful trout armondine, and he had coffee drink black coffee,
1137
01:28:02.399 --> 01:28:06.600
and cigarettes and how there he is moving now the
1138
01:28:06.680 --> 01:28:12.840
food shape. Literally he had about three morsels four morsels
1139
01:28:12.920 --> 01:28:20.399
of food. They said, Michael, I'm gonna preside get work
1140
01:28:20.479 --> 01:28:24.039
on the script, and you'll excuse me. He said you're
1141
01:28:24.159 --> 01:28:30.520
like this, I'll see you tomorrow. Okay, okay, naked the
1142
01:28:30.680 --> 01:28:35.920
night and he had said to the waitress, bring me
1143
01:28:36.560 --> 01:28:40.760
a He had a thermos, another one more ons for
1144
01:28:40.920 --> 01:28:46.279
one person. The oman's huge mustn't been a gallon. I said,
1145
01:28:46.279 --> 01:28:50.359
it's black coffee. He said, just black coffee, and she
1146
01:28:51.000 --> 01:28:54.199
before he left, he took that that firmas of black
1147
01:28:54.239 --> 01:28:59.199
coffee and go okay Bissau. The next morning, we're working,
1148
01:29:00.680 --> 01:29:04.720
he called the work good morning director. Everything is going
1149
01:29:05.079 --> 01:29:08.640
going all well, and we're doing the scene. Of course
1150
01:29:09.520 --> 01:29:15.399
he should we very well smoking smoking so forth, and
1151
01:29:15.520 --> 01:29:18.039
the director and I would get his cigarettes. He will
1152
01:29:18.119 --> 01:29:20.880
put it on. We're working by a fireplace, so he
1153
01:29:20.960 --> 01:29:24.079
put his cigarette a manly piece. So we would go
1154
01:29:24.199 --> 01:29:26.399
over and take a cigarette and throw it him the
1155
01:29:26.439 --> 01:29:30.199
fireplace and he would go over and look and it
1156
01:29:30.399 --> 01:29:33.239
wasn't there. He didn't say a word. He would just
1157
01:29:33.479 --> 01:29:36.039
reach in his pocket, slide up and the other cigarette.
1158
01:29:37.079 --> 01:29:41.640
So now we're doing the scene, and it was again
1159
01:29:42.000 --> 01:29:46.560
one of those two shots coming down to walking into
1160
01:29:46.640 --> 01:29:51.800
the fort, and he said to the center, to the director,
1161
01:29:52.720 --> 01:29:58.800
he said, Michael, so doing a held job. He says,
1162
01:29:58.880 --> 01:30:01.840
stay with Michael h I M, I don't know filmed
1163
01:30:01.880 --> 01:30:04.840
with my life job because I know where it's going
1164
01:30:04.920 --> 01:30:08.079
to be. Five in the enemy he said, stay with Michael,
1165
01:30:09.680 --> 01:30:16.800
he said, okay, unselfishly they kept the camera, meaning most
1166
01:30:16.840 --> 01:30:20.479
of the time. That's the kind of that's the kind
1167
01:30:20.520 --> 01:30:24.359
of actors. They were showing. Solf a joy to work
1168
01:30:24.479 --> 01:30:29.359
with and before them and Uh, he and the Rory
1169
01:30:29.439 --> 01:30:33.319
were friends in the table they were going on the Uh,
1170
01:30:33.880 --> 01:30:38.199
we're going to hunting in in the fall, he said, Michael,
1171
01:30:38.399 --> 01:30:42.159
if you're a hunting and like to go dear, he said, Uh,
1172
01:30:42.680 --> 01:30:48.239
Rory and and Clark and I. He said, you're welcome
1173
01:30:48.319 --> 01:30:50.640
to join us. I'll be in touch with him. So
1174
01:30:51.199 --> 01:30:56.520
what happened months later? A couple of months later, I
1175
01:30:57.840 --> 01:31:04.199
heard from his beautiful wife. Uh said that he's got
1176
01:31:05.199 --> 01:31:09.880
some some health problems. But we'll be about to be
1177
01:31:10.039 --> 01:31:13.600
back to you the the honey trip is called off
1178
01:31:14.319 --> 01:31:18.600
and Uh, I'll get back to you in a short while.
1179
01:31:19.239 --> 01:31:23.560
I keep you up to day. Well about six months
1180
01:31:23.600 --> 01:31:28.359
a year later, he died of cancer. The cigarettes and
1181
01:31:28.560 --> 01:31:34.319
Roy is the same thing. Roy's died of cigarettes smoking,
1182
01:31:35.199 --> 01:31:39.479
and UH, it's just so sad. And those start things.
1183
01:31:39.800 --> 01:31:44.560
It killed, it killed a lot of wonderful lax. John
1184
01:31:44.640 --> 01:31:49.880
Wayne was smoking. Yeah, and uh, it's just uh, it's
1185
01:31:49.960 --> 01:31:54.279
so sad. He was so solid. Yeah. And he was
1186
01:31:54.359 --> 01:31:57.760
only you, I believe, only sixty years old. Sixty years
1187
01:31:57.800 --> 01:32:02.079
old years of age. Yeah, so was Card Gable. The
1188
01:32:02.159 --> 01:32:05.960
Gable was only sixty. It was a big, big smoker
1189
01:32:06.800 --> 01:32:11.359
and all. And so God bless them, they will enjoy
1190
01:32:11.439 --> 01:32:15.079
the work with. I work with the best people of
1191
01:32:15.279 --> 01:32:23.479
Joan Fontaine, Oh, wonderful lifelesses, Karen Steele, wonderful, good soul professional.
1192
01:32:24.960 --> 01:32:27.960
I was very fortunate throughout my life to work with
1193
01:32:28.079 --> 01:32:32.479
so many good actresses and actors in the various types
1194
01:32:32.520 --> 01:32:37.399
of roles. Versatility was my salvation. And that's what I
1195
01:32:37.760 --> 01:32:44.680
chose for myself. I chose my ability leading man who
1196
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had the ability to go with the character, and I
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01:32:48.199 --> 01:32:53.319
turned out several series to be a star. I chose
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to be an artist. I chose my life to go
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in the direction lead as an art art fool. My
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01:33:05.560 --> 01:33:13.119
life and work I tuigently adhere to an artful I
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01:33:13.239 --> 01:33:21.760
accomplish that, and that's my cradle, that's my crazo that
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01:33:21.920 --> 01:33:25.720
I chose. Well, my soul, Well, what a blessing Michael.
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01:33:25.760 --> 01:33:27.479
Thank you so much for letting me talk to you
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01:33:27.680 --> 01:33:30.720
and your host and of course I wish you all
1205
01:33:30.760 --> 01:33:34.159
the best and many blessings. You're still working. I understand
1206
01:33:34.239 --> 01:33:36.039
you're still writing, and you're.
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01:33:38.079 --> 01:33:40.960
I'm on my seven grade, Michael, Michael.
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01:33:41.039 --> 01:33:42.520
I want to be like you and I grow up.
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01:33:44.279 --> 01:33:49.119
All right, Thank everybody very much, and and thank you
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01:33:49.279 --> 01:33:50.640
so much for taking my call.
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01:33:51.640 --> 01:33:56.239
Yeah, thank you, thank you so much, thank you, thank you,
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01:33:56.880 --> 01:33:57.640
thank you for calling.
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01:33:58.800 --> 01:33:59.840
All right, Bud pleasure.
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01:34:01.600 --> 01:34:03.600
All right, I think I'm going to pass the mic
1215
01:34:03.760 --> 01:34:07.199
over to my one of my other co hosts. Uh, Charles,
1216
01:34:07.880 --> 01:34:11.359
who met you down in Las Vegas? Charles Michael is
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01:34:11.479 --> 01:34:12.039
all yours?
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01:34:18.920 --> 01:34:23.680
They are Las Vegas. Did you have to return Joe
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01:34:23.840 --> 01:34:33.079
de Joy? Oh? Yes, Well, what a question I want
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01:34:33.119 --> 01:34:37.520
to ask you, Joe, compared to the other I know,
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01:34:37.640 --> 01:34:40.600
the years are going on and every year they was
1222
01:34:40.760 --> 01:34:47.680
so successful, compared this past year, the success and what
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01:34:47.960 --> 01:34:53.800
they had to hop for that this uh venue, this year,
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01:34:54.279 --> 01:34:59.199
the saw track events compared to last year in the
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01:34:59.279 --> 01:35:06.000
other years, did you find it different or more enjoyable.
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01:35:05.680 --> 01:35:11.239
Or I thought it mostly evil, mostly equal?
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01:35:14.960 --> 01:35:15.079
Uh?
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01:35:16.239 --> 01:35:19.439
Last year? I think last year was an interesting invention
1229
01:35:20.279 --> 01:35:23.359
because it was trying to strike and it was interesting
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01:35:23.560 --> 01:35:27.920
what actors could and couldn't talk about, and so that
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01:35:28.119 --> 01:35:29.760
made a very interesting convention.
1232
01:35:31.319 --> 01:35:38.000
Yes, yes, I was there for both of them. I
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01:35:38.159 --> 01:35:41.000
kind of agree with I agree with you in that
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01:35:41.199 --> 01:35:46.560
area that it was because they were also different. And yes,
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01:35:47.840 --> 01:35:51.039
sometimes you know the reason why sometimes you don't. And
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01:35:51.119 --> 01:35:53.640
I wanted to hear that from you. Thank you, I
1237
01:35:53.680 --> 01:35:54.279
appreciate you.
1238
01:35:55.359 --> 01:35:59.159
Oh, you're very welcome. One of the things I would
1239
01:35:59.239 --> 01:36:03.960
love to hear of story about is the last role
1240
01:36:04.119 --> 01:36:07.760
you ever did and your second time of getting to
1241
01:36:07.840 --> 01:36:12.159
work with some Star Trek actors and how did you
1242
01:36:12.239 --> 01:36:16.600
get unbelievable? How you get unbelievable?
1243
01:36:17.439 --> 01:36:23.319
Yes, that's it. It was a great experience. It was
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01:36:23.359 --> 01:36:30.039
a both the board screenplayer. You know, they had so
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01:36:30.159 --> 01:36:35.520
many gainst dogs in the in the in the story,
1246
01:36:35.680 --> 01:36:42.399
in the film, and I enjoyed my character, but my
1247
01:36:42.640 --> 01:36:49.079
character had quite a bit the same compared to a
1248
01:36:49.199 --> 01:36:55.880
lot of the other UH actors that came and went
1249
01:36:56.119 --> 01:37:00.399
in the in the story. So in particular in the
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01:37:00.520 --> 01:37:05.279
last the last scene of the picture, really when UH
1251
01:37:05.800 --> 01:37:12.439
Ceo codes for his UH Little Guy's services. Because he
1252
01:37:12.560 --> 01:37:15.000
always wanted to be an actor, so he's got it.
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01:37:15.399 --> 01:37:19.039
He got his nish and I was the recipient of
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01:37:19.159 --> 01:37:24.199
the cole the contact from the agent between between the
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01:37:25.399 --> 01:37:29.760
little Puppet and the agency. So there, I thought it
1256
01:37:29.840 --> 01:37:36.359
was a nice moment. Could see that I enjoyed. I
1257
01:37:36.560 --> 01:37:40.640
enjoyed doing it. Hollywood.
1258
01:37:40.680 --> 01:37:42.359
I'm glad you were able to make it to that
1259
01:37:42.600 --> 01:37:46.560
movie and that we We actually had a couple of
1260
01:37:46.840 --> 01:37:50.199
the stars come in and in that promote the movie
1261
01:37:50.399 --> 01:37:51.680
on our podcast, so.
1262
01:37:53.640 --> 01:37:56.199
To make sure we saw Yeah, I.
1263
01:38:00.319 --> 01:38:08.880
Understand you. I understand that it's been resistribted. Is he's
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01:38:09.039 --> 01:38:14.000
out again with a snoop dog you know? Uh uh yeah?
1265
01:38:14.239 --> 01:38:18.840
Being so popular today, Yeah, he's a every time I
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01:38:18.960 --> 01:38:23.119
turn on the commercial org events of any time he's in.
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01:38:24.119 --> 01:38:29.239
So he's in the film. So Iventure they would take
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01:38:29.279 --> 01:38:32.279
advantage of his popularity.
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01:38:34.960 --> 01:38:38.279
I hope they do. One more question. As I was
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01:38:38.359 --> 01:38:42.279
looking through all of your stock, you've done. You hit
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01:38:42.520 --> 01:38:47.800
a good one with me with a couple of times
1272
01:38:47.840 --> 01:38:51.039
you got to work with Lee Majors, especially a six
1273
01:38:51.159 --> 01:38:52.039
million dollar man.
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01:38:54.079 --> 01:39:00.880
Yeah. Yeah, Lee was a incredible tattoo. Yeah here the
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01:39:02.439 --> 01:39:10.319
really good uh uh great, great uh athletic, But he
1276
01:39:10.479 --> 01:39:14.960
was a good athlete. He played football, and it was
1277
01:39:15.279 --> 01:39:18.960
I'm not sure it was oklahom work somewhere where he
1278
01:39:19.680 --> 01:39:22.760
he was a running back and so he he could
1279
01:39:22.800 --> 01:39:25.840
do a lot of things, uh physically he did a
1280
01:39:25.880 --> 01:39:29.920
lot of his own stunts and everything, and he ended
1281
01:39:30.560 --> 01:39:36.520
uh a great memory. He would do scenes in one take.
1282
01:39:37.600 --> 01:39:43.279
He was uh mortal, yeah, and not report his photographic memory.
1283
01:39:44.199 --> 01:39:47.600
He could he could do a monologue and so forth
1284
01:39:48.359 --> 01:39:52.520
and then not for not forget a word. He was
1285
01:39:52.640 --> 01:39:58.920
Albert professional and likable personality. Had had an interesting character
1286
01:39:59.560 --> 01:40:02.079
that was I learned still school. I had a lot
1287
01:40:02.159 --> 01:40:06.680
of stumps and a lot of things to do besides acting.
1288
01:40:07.279 --> 01:40:12.399
So I thought he was uh did a great job
1289
01:40:12.479 --> 01:40:15.760
and I enjoyed a couple of segments that I have
1290
01:40:16.680 --> 01:40:19.439
to do with him. They were different roads of different characters,
1291
01:40:20.239 --> 01:40:23.039
and we had a lot of fun fun working again.
1292
01:40:23.840 --> 01:40:28.319
He was easy, very easy going and easy to work with.
1293
01:40:30.880 --> 01:40:34.520
Found wonderful. Well, I'm going to pass you over to
1294
01:40:35.000 --> 01:40:37.079
Eric and see what Eric's questions are.
1295
01:40:38.880 --> 01:40:48.600
And thank you, thank you, Hi Michael, thanks for sitting
1296
01:40:48.640 --> 01:40:50.479
here with us. I mean, this is what I've been
1297
01:40:51.720 --> 01:40:53.199
an epic podcast.
1298
01:40:52.880 --> 01:40:55.439
Here where we're deep into it and it's just been
1299
01:40:55.479 --> 01:40:57.239
such a joy to listen to all your stories and
1300
01:40:57.279 --> 01:40:59.960
everything and wondering. You know, we've been talking a lot
1301
01:41:00.079 --> 01:41:02.520
about your career, all the various things that you've done
1302
01:41:03.319 --> 01:41:03.920
over time.
1303
01:41:05.039 --> 01:41:08.880
What about other hobbies do you do? You ever not work?
1304
01:41:09.439 --> 01:41:12.800
And if you don't work, what do you do when
1305
01:41:12.840 --> 01:41:13.560
you're not working?
1306
01:41:14.720 --> 01:41:19.279
Well? And now now I know my hobby and my
1307
01:41:19.399 --> 01:41:25.079
mom is fighting. But I don't play a golf anymore.
1308
01:41:25.199 --> 01:41:29.920
My knees a bad, had some surgery. Both these so
1309
01:41:30.079 --> 01:41:33.319
I don't play a golf anymore. I don't play tennis
1310
01:41:33.439 --> 01:41:36.000
in the moment, but years ago I played a lot
1311
01:41:36.079 --> 01:41:39.720
of tennis and a lot of the celebrity tournaments, raising
1312
01:41:40.079 --> 01:41:44.560
funds for various shadow of an organizations, and a lot
1313
01:41:44.640 --> 01:41:47.640
of golf. I had my own golf tournament in the
1314
01:41:47.760 --> 01:41:51.960
Palm Springs area for eight years. I raised thousands of
1315
01:41:52.079 --> 01:41:56.800
dollars for a lot of easy called needy causes and
1316
01:41:57.880 --> 01:42:02.800
enjoyed all the cameraun with the celebrities and that I
1317
01:42:02.920 --> 01:42:08.600
had invited to play support me and the charities. That
1318
01:42:08.760 --> 01:42:11.760
was a lot of fun. Of course, go to ball
1319
01:42:11.880 --> 01:42:15.640
games when I lived in Los Angeles. I was at
1320
01:42:15.800 --> 01:42:21.079
Dodger ball games in sixteen seventies and evens, I went
1321
01:42:21.119 --> 01:42:26.800
and said with Cal Campanis and new Timmy Timmy Lasorda
1322
01:42:26.960 --> 01:42:30.000
very well, a lot of the ball players having been
1323
01:42:30.039 --> 01:42:34.600
the next professional ball player. Myself, I never stopped loving baseball,
1324
01:42:34.680 --> 01:42:38.079
and to this day I watched baseball. My wife and
1325
01:42:38.199 --> 01:42:43.399
I love baseball. My wife's father was the announcer for
1326
01:42:43.479 --> 01:42:47.600
the Hollywood Stars baseball team in the Pacific Coast League.
1327
01:42:48.359 --> 01:42:55.800
So she loved baseball and she grew up listening and
1328
01:42:55.960 --> 01:43:01.279
watching baseball with her dad, so that that keeps so thanks,
1329
01:43:02.199 --> 01:43:10.840
uh busy. And her dad was the original creator, one
1330
01:43:10.880 --> 01:43:16.039
of the creators of the original Home Run Derby. Oh,
1331
01:43:16.159 --> 01:43:20.760
I don't know if you remember that. Yeah, her dad
1332
01:43:21.000 --> 01:43:26.800
was the original announcer for that. Uh So, he was
1333
01:43:26.880 --> 01:43:31.239
the host of that show, the original Home Run Derby.
1334
01:43:31.880 --> 01:43:36.119
So baseball and of course sports. We watched football, and
1335
01:43:36.319 --> 01:43:39.760
we watched tennis, and we go to the tennis matches
1336
01:43:39.840 --> 01:43:44.560
here every year. We're invited to on set and meet
1337
01:43:44.600 --> 01:43:48.560
our dear friend Charlie passer Out and the wonderful hosts
1338
01:43:49.119 --> 01:43:54.640
that invited us every year to the the events uh
1339
01:43:54.880 --> 01:44:00.279
here in the tournaments of the in the tennis cars
1340
01:44:00.920 --> 01:44:06.680
in uh uh Indian Wells, which matches are wonderful. They're
1341
01:44:06.760 --> 01:44:09.640
just great to watch. So we watch a lot of tennis,
1342
01:44:10.239 --> 01:44:13.920
a lot of baseball, a lot of football, and our
1343
01:44:14.039 --> 01:44:19.039
home and and of course in between, my hobby is cooking.
1344
01:44:19.199 --> 01:44:24.600
I like to cook tangent food, and so we we
1345
01:44:24.720 --> 01:44:26.960
have a pretty good diet here that Mary Kay is
1346
01:44:27.000 --> 01:44:30.600
a good cook. She did he cooks and some of
1347
01:44:30.680 --> 01:44:36.520
the other uh good uh hamburgers, and we have we
1348
01:44:36.760 --> 01:44:41.279
like sushi, and we have the chicken dinners, and I
1349
01:44:41.600 --> 01:44:46.399
make the pastas and the sauces and uh eight plants
1350
01:44:46.520 --> 01:44:52.920
and and goodies. So we have a very food rounded
1351
01:44:53.800 --> 01:44:57.279
life that includes a lot of entertainment and we love
1352
01:44:58.000 --> 01:45:02.840
we live sports. We still both. I've brought my wife
1353
01:45:03.920 --> 01:45:07.199
married a woman that loves sports as voice as I do,
1354
01:45:07.720 --> 01:45:12.439
so we don't have a conflict or problems. So we're
1355
01:45:12.520 --> 01:45:16.119
watching all the sports. And I know that I know
1356
01:45:16.359 --> 01:45:19.880
a lot of the players in the tennis world and
1357
01:45:20.119 --> 01:45:25.680
golf and and uh baseball, Uh I see them some
1358
01:45:25.880 --> 01:45:29.479
of them from time to time. So we were waking
1359
01:45:29.600 --> 01:45:33.720
for Judge and we have a lot of entertainment that
1360
01:45:34.199 --> 01:45:38.720
Richard's our lives. But I still keep writing. I'm writing
1361
01:45:38.840 --> 01:45:44.399
my seventh book. I just finished my sixth books a
1362
01:45:44.520 --> 01:45:50.640
matter of fact. Uh, Eric, you go on my website.
1363
01:45:50.720 --> 01:45:55.279
You can see everything. Michael Dante Way dot com. That's
1364
01:45:55.399 --> 01:46:01.399
very simple. Michael Dante Way dot com. You'rediens can pick
1365
01:46:01.520 --> 01:46:06.039
up on that. And my radio show I have. My
1366
01:46:06.279 --> 01:46:14.239
radio show website is Team Dante Radio Shows Prove Team
1367
01:46:14.359 --> 01:46:20.600
Dante Radio Shows dot com. Uh, and Spotify. It's not Spotify,
1368
01:46:21.479 --> 01:46:26.399
so it's uh, everything is there, but you can go
1369
01:46:26.640 --> 01:46:30.199
my website. It's so simple. You can see everything that
1370
01:46:30.399 --> 01:46:34.960
I have to and I accomplished and awards and uh.
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01:46:35.600 --> 01:46:40.039
You can join my fan group on my website Michael
1372
01:46:40.239 --> 01:46:44.640
Dante Way dot com. That's very simple. Them I C
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01:46:45.039 --> 01:46:52.119
H d A and T Way d A worry dot
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01:46:52.279 --> 01:46:53.800
com all one word.
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01:46:54.800 --> 01:46:57.560
Yeah, So yeah, that's fantastic.
1376
01:46:58.920 --> 01:47:03.439
John my fane to see what I what I do
1377
01:47:03.560 --> 01:47:08.520
over whatbside, keep it formed of what's going on and
1378
01:47:09.119 --> 01:47:12.000
what I'm doing and and we'll be doing and so
1379
01:47:12.199 --> 01:47:16.840
fortant and so on. So it's been it's been a
1380
01:47:16.920 --> 01:47:21.279
great ride, a great one. We've been so busy and
1381
01:47:22.119 --> 01:47:27.399
keep it busy, creative with it two, Uh, invent and
1382
01:47:27.600 --> 01:47:31.640
create in my life and to continue to do that
1383
01:47:31.880 --> 01:47:38.279
to uh the time I leave this, we're over and
1384
01:47:40.039 --> 01:47:47.680
go far and down to the great one. So we're
1385
01:47:47.760 --> 01:47:52.880
happy and love what we do and have a wonderful
1386
01:47:53.239 --> 01:47:58.000
team teamwork. We're a great team. We work well together.
1387
01:47:59.159 --> 01:48:04.319
So well, Uh, come and join the friend group my
1388
01:48:04.479 --> 01:48:08.079
friend group on my website, Ben, you could keep up
1389
01:48:08.119 --> 01:48:12.159
with all the things that we do. Oh, are doing well.
1390
01:48:12.319 --> 01:48:15.039
Michael Dante Way dot com is a fantastic website. I
1391
01:48:15.319 --> 01:48:18.439
admit that I have spent kind of an unreasonable amount
1392
01:48:18.479 --> 01:48:20.600
of time on it over the last week, just preparing
1393
01:48:20.640 --> 01:48:24.800
for this podcast and making sure I understood, uh, just
1394
01:48:24.960 --> 01:48:27.840
the myriad things that you've done. But I think if
1395
01:48:27.880 --> 01:48:31.119
we were to close out our questioning for you, not
1396
01:48:31.319 --> 01:48:33.439
questioning that sounds like you're on the stand, But we
1397
01:48:33.640 --> 01:48:36.279
just there's one thing in particular that I think is
1398
01:48:36.399 --> 01:48:39.079
very special about you as a guest on this podcast
1399
01:48:39.119 --> 01:48:43.960
that is maybe maybe unique or certainly rare, that we'd
1400
01:48:44.039 --> 01:48:45.479
like to ask you about as a group, and that
1401
01:48:45.800 --> 01:48:53.720
is you seem to have an absolutely impeccable memory, remembering details,
1402
01:48:54.119 --> 01:48:59.560
remembering timing of things, remembering people's names. Is this just
1403
01:49:00.039 --> 01:49:02.960
the way your brain has always worked? Do you have
1404
01:49:03.039 --> 01:49:06.920
any secrets for those people out there who want amazing
1405
01:49:07.000 --> 01:49:08.840
memories when they're ninety three years old.
1406
01:49:10.359 --> 01:49:14.319
I both turned ninety three September. Second, I'm so happy
1407
01:49:14.359 --> 01:49:17.680
you mentioned that, because I did want to mention that
1408
01:49:18.680 --> 01:49:23.239
I do have a memory, of terrific memory, and in
1409
01:49:24.560 --> 01:49:31.840
my mind, I keep active, creatively active. Every day I read,
1410
01:49:32.640 --> 01:49:38.840
I'm on the computer, and I disciplined and actually made
1411
01:49:38.920 --> 01:49:45.920
myself to writing and creating and inventing characters and situations.
1412
01:49:45.960 --> 01:49:51.640
And sorry that SU have en reached my life that
1413
01:49:51.800 --> 01:49:55.279
I can incorporate in my stories.
1414
01:49:56.560 --> 01:49:58.000
That I.
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01:49:59.560 --> 01:50:04.119
Enjoy. I should say love sharing with my fans and
1416
01:50:04.760 --> 01:50:08.560
people that don't know me, I will get to know
1417
01:50:08.760 --> 01:50:13.199
me if they purchased my books. Here my books of
1418
01:50:13.279 --> 01:50:16.840
her sale, and they only could buy my books. You
1419
01:50:16.920 --> 01:50:19.960
could go on Amazon and buy the books, but they're
1420
01:50:20.000 --> 01:50:23.359
not ornergas. You know, you have to counsel me to
1421
01:50:23.479 --> 01:50:29.960
buy an autograph book. So my autobiography is Eric. It
1422
01:50:30.079 --> 01:50:35.079
took me two solid years to write day and night,
1423
01:50:35.159 --> 01:50:40.199
and I remembered everything. I remembered all the names, all
1424
01:50:40.279 --> 01:50:45.319
the places, all the dates, and in it is. It's
1425
01:50:45.399 --> 01:50:50.000
got some wonderful stories, about a hundred pictures. It's three
1426
01:50:50.079 --> 01:50:59.880
hundred and six pages it's one of those wonderful books
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01:51:00.359 --> 01:51:04.239
for uh, what do you call it? Coffee table that's
1428
01:51:04.279 --> 01:51:08.119
the word I was looking for. Coffee table book. A nice,
1429
01:51:08.760 --> 01:51:15.079
good size full of color, wonderful anecdotes, and about one
1430
01:51:15.159 --> 01:51:18.479
hundred pictures of it. And it's three hundred and six pages.
1431
01:51:19.399 --> 01:51:22.720
And my recipes are in there about the food out
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that I evented, when I cook and how I cook him,
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and all the all the recipes and all of the
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01:51:31.520 --> 01:51:35.760
stars of all the shows that are recorded on my
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01:51:35.960 --> 01:51:42.840
celebrity classic radio show are all there. Listen, it's a
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01:51:43.880 --> 01:51:47.199
it's a beautiful book. Now, all they have to do
1437
01:51:47.359 --> 01:51:55.279
is emailed me that Michael Dante Way at alel dot com.
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01:51:56.479 --> 01:52:00.279
If you're like that one of my books or an
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01:52:00.319 --> 01:52:02.560
autograph book. You can only get an order to get
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01:52:02.640 --> 01:52:07.239
books from me, not through Amazon. And by the way,
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01:52:07.279 --> 01:52:10.439
the holidays are coming up, and they make great gifts
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01:52:10.479 --> 01:52:13.760
and birthday gifts. They make great I have a lot
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01:52:13.840 --> 01:52:19.359
of fans. I have two fans every year that buy
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01:52:19.439 --> 01:52:23.840
my books, but twenty one books every year, every one
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01:52:23.920 --> 01:52:28.319
of my books and the twenty one books, uh to
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01:52:28.600 --> 01:52:31.600
twenty one of their friends for Christmas books every year.
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01:52:32.239 --> 01:52:40.000
So it's that kind of camaraderie and UH fan support
1448
01:52:40.159 --> 01:52:44.359
we have and all the other dudes. Any of my
1449
01:52:44.479 --> 01:52:50.279
autobiography are really my other five books. Just email the
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01:52:51.920 --> 01:52:56.880
Michael Dante Way at aol dot com.
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01:52:58.439 --> 01:52:59.279
It's just that easy.
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01:52:59.600 --> 01:53:03.920
There to Michael Dante Way dot com. Michael Dante, thank
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01:53:03.920 --> 01:53:06.560
you so much for coming on our podcast. I'm going
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01:53:06.600 --> 01:53:09.800
to close out my portion there and handed back to
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01:53:09.920 --> 01:53:11.640
Jim for the close of the show. But I just
1456
01:53:11.760 --> 01:53:14.359
really appreciate the time that you've spent with us and
1457
01:53:14.439 --> 01:53:17.479
the fun stories that you've shared. You're a wonderful person.
1458
01:53:18.000 --> 01:53:20.199
You have a wonderful personality. It's been great getting to
1459
01:53:20.279 --> 01:53:25.720
know you. And your memory stuns me. This really stuns me,
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01:53:26.000 --> 01:53:29.119
so thank you so much for sharing your time with us.
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01:53:31.079 --> 01:53:34.960
Well, thank you so much, Michael, And please make sure
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01:53:35.000 --> 01:53:39.439
you tell your wife how awesome she is, because I
1463
01:53:39.560 --> 01:53:43.560
had so much fun talking with her this afternoon. In fact,
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01:53:44.119 --> 01:53:47.039
I might invite her to a podcast to share some
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01:53:47.199 --> 01:53:50.079
of her stories. So she's a very special lady and
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01:53:50.199 --> 01:53:53.319
I really appreciate it talking with her. And thank you
1467
01:53:53.439 --> 01:53:55.920
so much for taking time out of your busy schedule
1468
01:53:56.479 --> 01:53:58.800
to share some of your stories and talk about Star
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01:53:58.920 --> 01:54:05.560
Trek with us. We really really appreciate it, and every
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01:54:05.640 --> 01:54:06.000
one of you.
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01:54:06.399 --> 01:54:14.680
Thank you so much. Jam's Eric and of course Paul
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01:54:15.560 --> 01:54:19.279
and Uncle Jim, Uncle Jim. I never called your uncle Jim.
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01:54:19.359 --> 01:54:22.119
I sort of mentioned Uncle Jim, and sort of James
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01:54:22.760 --> 01:54:29.760
and Charles. So thank you James, Paul, Uncle Jim, and Eric.
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01:54:30.479 --> 01:54:33.640
It was such a pleasure. I enjoined it and brought
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01:54:33.720 --> 01:54:36.520
back a lot of nice memories for me. So I'm
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01:54:36.560 --> 01:54:40.880
really good about what the questions you've asked me and
1478
01:54:41.039 --> 01:54:47.600
I have really really uh appreciate at the time, and
1479
01:54:48.359 --> 01:54:52.800
for me to express myself and share these one of
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01:54:52.880 --> 01:54:58.720
the stories that I have. I have a sort of
1481
01:54:58.760 --> 01:55:06.279
way in my sixty proceeds as an actor writer radio
1482
01:55:06.479 --> 01:55:12.319
talk shows in Hollywood over those sixty plus years.
1483
01:55:13.439 --> 01:55:16.880
Thank you so much, Michael. We really appreciate it, and
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01:55:17.560 --> 01:55:20.319
I wish I could thank each and every one of
1485
01:55:20.399 --> 01:55:23.560
the callers tonight. I can't remember all of your names
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01:55:23.760 --> 01:55:28.079
or where you called from, but thank you Mary, Mary,
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01:55:28.319 --> 01:55:31.039
Mary so much.
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01:55:34.359 --> 01:55:35.760
What an experience.
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01:55:36.880 --> 01:55:48.880
This con clues with this clinger. Thank you, bye bye,
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01:55:51.000 --> 01:55:56.520
Thank you, d will say will be good was American.
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01:55:57.399 --> 01:56:01.399
Thank you, Michael, Michael, thank you good night, Michael.
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01:56:02.319 --> 01:56:04.319
And of course I got to end out the show
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01:56:04.439 --> 01:56:07.159
by saying so much thank you to Eric for hanging
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01:56:07.159 --> 01:56:08.960
out and talking with us. Thank you so much.
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01:56:09.079 --> 01:56:09.239
Eric.
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01:56:09.920 --> 01:56:12.039
Oh absolutely, man, that was one of those shows that
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01:56:12.159 --> 01:56:14.479
goes down as one of the special ones.
1498
01:56:14.520 --> 01:56:15.520
I think great guys that was.
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01:56:15.680 --> 01:56:17.600
That was just such a I don't want to hang up.
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01:56:18.840 --> 01:56:24.720
Yeah, I feel like we've been It's like we've been
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01:56:24.760 --> 01:56:29.000
hanging out at the brown Derby or something.
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01:56:29.039 --> 01:56:29.199
You know.
1503
01:56:29.239 --> 01:56:31.359
I keep waiting for like Charlton Heston to walk.
1504
01:56:31.239 --> 01:56:35.399
In, you know, just like this guy was everybody wait,
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01:56:35.560 --> 01:56:38.920
hold on man. I mean, it's amazing man. And she's
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01:56:39.039 --> 01:56:42.199
just like, I hope I have half his memory.
1507
01:56:42.239 --> 01:56:46.920
When I am his aide, he just goes. Man, He's
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01:56:46.960 --> 01:56:49.920
just so enthusiastic and he just got all these details
1509
01:56:49.960 --> 01:56:50.319
and everything.
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01:56:50.359 --> 01:56:51.880
It's just like, what a what a great.
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01:56:52.119 --> 01:56:53.720
As soon as I'm done eating dinner, I'm gonna go
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01:56:53.840 --> 01:56:57.239
pop Friday's Child in and watch it again because I'm like,
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01:56:57.319 --> 01:56:59.079
I gotta I can't resist it.
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01:56:59.239 --> 01:56:59.399
Man.
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01:56:59.560 --> 01:57:05.680
It's so And I gotta tell you one thanks for calling.
1516
01:57:09.039 --> 01:57:11.800
His wife is just as exciting. She was talking about
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01:57:11.880 --> 01:57:13.880
Charlton Heston this morning.
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01:57:14.479 --> 01:57:14.880
Awesome.
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01:57:15.479 --> 01:57:15.600
Uh.
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01:57:15.760 --> 01:57:17.720
Anyways, I want to say thank you so much to
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01:57:18.279 --> 01:57:20.680
Charles as well for hanging out with us tonight in
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01:57:20.720 --> 01:57:21.239
tech talking.
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01:57:21.319 --> 01:57:23.920
Thank you, Charles, thank you.
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01:57:24.159 --> 01:57:28.239
I'm glad I was able to get the information to
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01:57:28.359 --> 01:57:29.920
you so you can get him on the show.
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01:57:30.640 --> 01:57:36.319
Great, super good, good snack Charles. He was awesome, Yeah,
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01:57:36.399 --> 01:57:36.680
he was.
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01:57:36.880 --> 01:57:43.199
I was absolutely great. He was fun. And unfortunately it
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01:57:43.279 --> 01:57:45.560
looks like my Mets aren't gonna make it this year,
1530
01:57:47.119 --> 01:57:50.439
so maybe next year. But it was fun. It was
1531
01:57:50.520 --> 01:57:53.560
a fun ride anyways, and we did beat the Atlanta
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01:57:53.600 --> 01:57:56.079
Braves in one of the most thrilling games I've ever
1533
01:57:56.199 --> 01:57:59.439
watched in my life. Through congratulations to the New York Mets.
1534
01:57:59.479 --> 01:58:01.640
And I know next zer will turn out better. So
1535
01:58:02.680 --> 01:58:05.159
and I already told you guys the schedule for the
1536
01:58:05.239 --> 01:58:07.720
next couple of shows, so don't forget to put us
1537
01:58:07.760 --> 01:58:11.159
on speed dial and check out next week. It's a
1538
01:58:11.239 --> 01:58:15.960
lot of fun and as always, Star Treks fans are
1539
01:58:16.079 --> 01:58:20.439
the best fans. You better believe it. Failing frequencies are closed.
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01:58:20.680 --> 01:58:24.359
Good night, everybody can I noil.
1541
01:58:28.119 --> 01:58:32.239
Let's see what's on that engage?
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01:58:46.039 --> 01:58:49.560
Hello, you have reached the Q continuum. We are unable
1543
01:58:49.600 --> 01:58:51.199
to get to the phone right now because we are
1544
01:58:51.279 --> 01:58:54.720
busy living in a plane of existence your feeble mortal
1545
01:58:54.920 --> 01:58:59.680
minds cannot possibly comprehend. Furthermore, it's pointless to leave a
1546
01:58:59.680 --> 01:59:02.840
messag because we, of course already knew that you would call,
1547
01:59:03.239 --> 01:59:05.039
and we simply do not care.
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01:59:05.840 --> 01:59:11.319
Half a nice day, h