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  One third of Combat Division returning from Germany in the air about the United States
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  at the time of the shooting at twelve thirty four PM, the entire telephone
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  system went out in Washington for a solid hour, and on the plane back
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  to Washington, word was radioed from the White House situation's room to Linda Johnson,
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  the one individual who performed the assassination. That sound like a bunch of
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  coincidences to mister Garrison. Only Donald Sutherland could go and take a script that
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  is relatively dry at times and turn it into something that is absolutely entrancing,
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  and if not only because of that iconic voice, just the way he delivers.
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  He was truly one of a kind. Legendary passed away yesterday at the
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  age of eighty eight. We found out from his son Keefer Sutherland, who
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  made a social media post about it. We wanted to talk a little bit
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  about the impact and the legacy of Donald Sutherland with a cinema file someone who
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  has actually spoken with his son. He is the host of the Go Tell
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  Someone podcast as well as a podcast about the show twenty four. Ryan Richardson
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  joins me, right now, Ryan, how you doing. I'm doing all
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  right, I'm still surprised by you know, Donald's other and not walking among
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  us anymore. It's really it's one of those losses where you go he was
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  just iconic and absolutely everything. He wasn't necessarily always the forefront of every movie,
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  no, but when you saw him, you knew something special was going
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  to happen. He was somebody that was able to be a character actor and
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  the lead like he could. He would go back and forth. He didn't
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  have to be like you said, he didn't have to be the star,
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  but he always made a presence in what he did. I mean, look
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  at I mean the list, Mash. I first time I remember seeing was
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  an Invasion of the Body Snatches and I was probably too young to see that
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  movie, but I remember being freaked out that that performance like it was.
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  It was amazing, just everything he does, as you said, just an
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  incredible character actor. You have a favorite movie that he was in, you
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  know, I mean, the Selm afficionado in me would say, Mash,
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  you know Hawkeye when he originated the role of Hawkeye that then went on to
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  TV and went on for years and years and years. But the Guilty Pleasure
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  lock up. I liked seeing Donald South of them play a bad guy,
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  and he played Warden drum Goool in that movie Where was a Sevester Stallone?
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  When was that? Oh that was I want to say the late eighty nine.
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  Eighty nine, Yeah, yeah, that was an eighty nine. But
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  yeah, the lock Up it's on I think it's on Netflix for one of
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  the streamers right now. I'll definitely have to it's definitely a Netflix. Yes,
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  it's not Neflix. Well, he's got such an incredible resume. You
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  know, it's an insane amount, like it's over it's well over one hundred.
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  Yeah. I started looking at it. I was like, I know
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  the standard ones, right, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Yeah, trying to
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  Kill Backdraft, The Hunger Games, Horrible Boston. He was in Horrible Boston.
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  But there's one he did called Man on the Train that's a really good
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  indie movie. And he started that with Larry mullen Junior from You Two.
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  Like most people don't know Larry mullen Junior did a movie, but he did
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  a movie with Donald Sutherland. He just constantly worked. It's unbelievable. Well,
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  we can't forget the two thousand and eight hit Fools Gold with Kate Hudson
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  and Matthew Juanity. Of course he played Nigel Honeycut. I mean, come
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  on, yeah, I mean, but he can take it. He can
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  take an okay role and make it great just by being who he was.
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  He certainly could. Yeah, that's what a good character actor did, right.
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  Yeah. And you know he got his start in radio. I didn't
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  know that. I found that out yesterday when all of the news started to
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  come out and people were putting it together. The sizzle reels of it started
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  in radio and New Brunswick at the age of something like fourteen, just walked
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  into the station and was like, hey, I'd like a job. Oh
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  oh the days. He probably had that voice at fourteenth too, probably so
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  walked in and they were like, well, we're putting this one on absolutely,
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  how old are you fourteen? While we can skirt child labor laws.
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  It's still the black and white times right now, right exactly. The talkies
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  are just like really making it in the movie exactly. So you've got a
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  He did a really really interesting podcast about twenty four You brought together people that
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  were involved with it, fans, cast members. It all culminated in a
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  conversation that you had with Keifer Sutherland, the star of twenty four, the
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  son of Donald Sutherland, and you ended up talking a little bit about his
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  father, Donald. Can you just briefly let us know just how you got
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  to that point in the conversation, then we're going to go and just play
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  that clip. Yeah. So no, he I didn't. I had no
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  intention. We had this really rare opportunity to speak to him in twenty twenty
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  one, and they gave us a half an hour and we sily podcast.
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  We werehearsed because we wanted it. You wanted to get it right. Yes,
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  And I remember I said we won't ask about his parents. I mean
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  his mother, Shirley Doug this is the legend his father, Donald Souther was
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  like, that's that's a whole podcast just by itself, and I said,
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  we're not going to bring it up. But he brought it up in the
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  conversation and he talked about how his dad was a huge fan of twenty four
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  and how you know he just and that was like his dad was so proud
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  of him, you know, doing that role, and how he'd always been
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  so supportive of his own acting career. I mean, Kei for himself had
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  an amazing acting career. It's it's you know, he's it's just the admiration
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  he had for his father, and the mutual admiration between the two was so
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  encouraging, and it just came out as part of the conversation, which I
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  loved. Well, let's take a listen to that conversation right now. My
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  father has such a different perspective on twenty four because he lived in France at
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  the time, and so he watched twenty four without commercials, and you know,
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  whereas friends of mine complained about the commercial breaks all the time, my
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  dad, I realized, never mentioned it at all because of course he never
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  saw it with commercials, so he enjoyed it in a very different way.
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  And your dad watched all the way through. He enjoyed the series. He
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  did. He was so sweet. He would he would call me up and
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  you know, and he would ask me what's going to happen and then he
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  would ask me not to tell him, and yeah, it was it was
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  really, it was very sweet. I love the movie you did together a
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  couple of years ago, Forsaken. Oh, thank you very much, thank
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  you. Yeah, I know, we really enjoyed doing it together. And
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  you know, that's you get to check the mark off the bucket list,
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  and so thank you very much. Must have been really great to speak with
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  Keefer there. He's got, you know, one of those voices as well,
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  not as deep as his father's, but just as iconic. You mentioned
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  that twenty fifteen movie Forsaken It. It's really you don't often get to have
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  a father and a son playing off of each other right in both title roles,
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  and you can just hear it in Keefer's voice how much he appreciated that
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  opportunity to have, you know, I've got the movie poster right in front
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  of me and and hearing him talk about it because it was actually was one
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  of the last my dad was into western and that was one of the last
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  movies my dad and I watched together, which is again just brings back a
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  lot of memories. But yeah, to hear they had been they were in
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  a Time to Kill, but they were not in the same scene, like
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  they were both in the same movie, but not in the same scenes years
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  ago. But so he said, this is something he had looked forward to,
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  was doing a film with his with his father, directed by Canadian John
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  Fassar, who also directed twenty four Into that kind of stuff. And it's
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  also a litill on Netflix, which is cool, like Forsaken is a is
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  a kind of a rare endie film with the two of them, and not
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  that I want to take things in a different direction at all, but it's
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  got Brian Cox, so that's pretty great as well. Yeah, yeah it
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  does yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, So what to me more and
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  anymore? He was an incredibly proud Canadian. I came across a Twitter thread
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  last night of a Canadian pardon yeah, of Canadian journal Honorey, Canadian honore
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  Academy Award, Honorary Ward. And one thing that I came across was a
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  journalist who shared a memory of meeting Donald Sutherland, who wrote a column at
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  the time about for the restoration of voting rights. It turned into a friendship
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  between the two of them, and he ended up inviting the journalist to his
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  premiere of The Hunger Games Part two in London, and they bumped into each
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  other at the premiere and Donald Sutherland ended up giving the journalist all of the
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  tickets that he had to all of the after parties, and he said,
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  I don't go to them anymore. My wife and I just come to the
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  first thing, So why don't you go please and have so much fun?
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  And I thought, what an incredible story. And it's just that's such a
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  Canadian thing. So it is a very Canadian thing, isn't it. You
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  know, to be there and and and you know we have those we have
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  those elements kind of conjuring up every once in a while, for sure.
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  I mean, how many how many actors, actors and actresses have had a
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  hit in every decade for six decades? That's crazy. It leads me to
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  the last question that I have for you, what impact do you think it
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  is? Like, what's his leg in every decade? It's the sixties,
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  and so what's the legacy of that? Pretty crazy? Are we ever going
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  to see something like that again? I don't know, because I mean,
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  yeah, I mean just just for the fact that he started in the sixties
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  and and I might have been seven decades. I didn't look in the twenties.
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  There might even be something in there that you know that he's actually I
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  just got this. I won this TV show called Lawman bath Reeves, and
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  I was like, oh, it's so interesting that I saw he was in
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  it. And I was like, yeah, I want to see that this
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  looks interesting. Well, it's an opportune time to really go and dust off
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  any of the hundred plus movies that he's in. Close your eyes, pick
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  one out. It's going to be good. Ryan. I want to thank
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  you so much for joining me, sharing some thoughts about this and being able
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  to chat with you about that conversation you had with Keifer Sutherland about his father,
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  Donald Sutherland. I just must have been really special. It really was.
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  Thanks for sharing that. That was pretty amazing. Thank you amazing,
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  Thank you, Thanks so much. You have yourself a great rest of your
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  day and weekend. Thank you very much, Stay cool. Thank you.
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  Ryan Richardson. As the host of the gotel Someone podcast, you can also
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  hear him here often on AM eight hundred clw's The Dan McDonald Shows Round Tape