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Dream Guests (on my podcast!) | John Oates Interview Bonus Clip · The Recess Bell

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  Dream guest of my podcast, Oh my gosh. I mean, hey,
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  everybody, my name is Justin Greenberg and this is Film Reel And on today's
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  episode, I thought of doing something a little bit different. We've been doing
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  different things here on the Film Reel and Uh. A few months ago,
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  I actually had the opportunity to interview John Oates from Hall and Notes and we
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  talked a little bit about the use of his music in movies. And I'm
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  gonna play that clip later on in the show, but before we get to
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  that, I want to talk about some of my dream guests on my podcasts.
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  I had the pleasure of interviewing Jason Muse a few weeks ago on film.
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  But if I could have like a time machine or or just have the
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  opportunity to interview anybody in the history of Hollywood, who would it be?
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  And I thought of some names that I would love to have had the opportunity
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  to get to chat with, and the first one that came to mind is
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  mel Blank. Now you might not recognize the name, but you definitely recognize
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  the characters that he's played over the years. He was the voice of Looney
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  Tunes. Pretty much every Looney Tunes character, that you knew of was voiced
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  originally by Mel Blank. Not only that, he did countless other cartoon voices
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  over the years, for Hannah Barbara cartoons, for MGM. It just anybody
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  that is a fan of cartoons and voice acting knows the name Mel Blank,
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  and I just find his career so fascinating. You know, it spanned over
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  fifty years and so many classic characters that he, you know, created,
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  Like what were the inspirations for those characters? You know, just getting him
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  to do the voices, you know, having him do Bugs Bunny in front
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  of me, which not that way, not sexually, but like you you
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  know, to actually voice that character. I'd be in awe watching him do
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  his craft. Now, is that the best way to conduct an interview?
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  Back do the voice? I don't know, but I'd have to ask him
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  to do the voices. Maybe I'd ask him to do the interview in different
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  characters and you can have me interviewing Daffy Duck or mister Spacey or one of
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  the hundreds and thousands of characters that he's voiced over the years. Mel Blank,
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  you know, lived a very interesting life as well. You know,
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  he's a guy that got into a very bad car accident, was in a
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  coma and he was doing his voice work from his bed, and like,
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  you know, hypothetically, this is just like some weird time traveling interview.
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  I would love to ask him about the current state of animation, you know,
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  the fact that a lot of celebrities now are doing voices, taking away
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  roles from you know, trained voice actors. What would his thoughts be,
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  you know, Will Smith's playing a fish, Like, would he be a
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  fan of that? I think he would be a fan of, you know,
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  Robin Williams doing voice work, But I don't know some celebrities, I
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  just don't think you don't need to be doing voice work. So I'd love
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  to get his take on that. I'd also love to get his take on
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  you know, there's been a lot of controversy in recent years with with people
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  being upset about certain roles being played by certain races. You know, Famously,
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  the character of Pooh from The Simpsons is no longer around, actually because
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  Hank Azaria, who voiced the character, was shamed into not doing the role
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  anymore because he's not Indian, and there's a whole documentary about that. But
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  he's also still doing voices of stereotypical Italian characters. And he's not Italian,
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  so I don't know. I'd love to get Mel Blank's take on it.
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  I would assume he'd be like, it's a cartoon. You know, we're
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  allowed to be things. I'm not really a rabbit. I'm allowed to portray
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  a rabbit. So I would love to just you know, get inside the
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  mind of Mel Blank and hear his take on modern animation, you know,
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  versus hand drawn animation, what his thoughts are about, just you know,
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  getting into character. So Mel Blank would be number one on my list.
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  And if you've never watched Looney Tune short, I don't want to speak to
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  you. I remember working with somebody, a girl, she's probably like eighteen
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  nineteen years old. I was around her age at the time, and we
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  were talking about Looney Tunes that she claims she's never seen any Looney Tunes.
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  So I immediately threw an anvil on her head. I don't know why that's
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  funny. All right, Who else would I want as my dream guest on
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  my podcast? Well, I mentioned this guy a few weeks ago when we
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  were talking about WrestleMania. What actor I think would be a great pro wrestler
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  and Chris Farley jumped to mind. And Chris Farley, I feel like would
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  be a really fun, chaotic interview. I throw him in the same you
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  know things as a rabbit Williams. Those two, you would just let them
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  do the work. You really wouldn't have to do much interviewing. You would
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  just maybe throw out a simple question and then sit back and let the fireworks
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  go. Because you know Chris Farley, I love watching his interviews on Conan
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  or Letterman. He's just such a ball of energy, and maybe that would
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  get annoying after a little while. You know, he had his substance abuse
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  issues. I would probably be such a burden actually, Like hanging out with
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  this guy. Yeah, it would be fun for one night, but doing
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  it constantly, Like all right, Chris, can we take it easy.
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  But to get the chance to interview him, I think would be such a
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  delight. And I would also love to, you know, have a few
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  drinks with mister Farley. Who else would I want to interview? Bill Murray.
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  Bill Murray comes to mind immediately with the being a dream guest on my
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  podcast. Bill Murray is sort of like a recluse. You hear all these
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  like fables about Bill Murray of him just coming up to strangers and you know,
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  riding the subway and just being this untypical I don't know if that's a
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  word, but we're going to go with it. Untypical Hollywood celebrity is a
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  guy that doesn't have an agent. You know, for years he never had
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  a cell phone. He was offered roles, but he never knew he was
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  offered them because he had no contact with the people that were actually offering him
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  the roles. He's just sort of a free spirit. And again, I
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  look at the way he's interviewed on Letterman. A Letterman was such a great
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  interviewer, and I just love their interactions. And I feel like getting the
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  opportunity to speak with Bill Murray about obviously his iconic roles, but just sort
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  of again his approach, his approach to acting, that's sort of like too
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  cool to be their approach. But I also feel like some of the best
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  interviews don't really have to do with their career. When I was growing up,
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  I loved listening to the Opie and Anthony radio show, and they would
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  have guests on, and yeah, they talk about their career, but then
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  they just sort of bullshit about what's happening in the world, and you know,
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  if a topic comes up that doesn't have to do with their career,
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  they'd be able to riff on it and just talk about it. So having
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  Bill Murray to talk about baseball he's a big baseball fan, or is you
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  know, his musical taste, and just to get to know who the people
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  are because there's so many interviews about these guys talking about the roles that they
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  have. There's DVD commentary tracks, there's documentaries, all that stuff, But
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  to like find out what does Bill Murray do for fun? What does you
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  know? What does he eat, what does he enjoy doing, what's his
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  sex life? Like? Just things that you know you typically don't hear in
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  interviews. I would love to get to talk about with Bill Murray, Mel
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  Blank, and Chris Farley as far as acting goes, those would be my
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  big three. But as I mentioned at the top of this episode, I
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  had the opportunity to speak with John Oates, one half of Hall of Notes,
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  one of my favorite musical acts of all time, and we talked a
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  little bit about using his music in movies. So why don't we end this
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  episode of film real with that short little snippet from the interview I had with
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  mister John Oates. And a lot of your eighties hits have been featured in
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  movies, and I'm always curious as to how this goes by, because I'm
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  just tell a quick story of a movie I saw recently. It's called Argyle.
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  I'm not going to get into how much I didn't like the movie,
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  but they featured a song by the Beatles. They featured the New Beatles song,
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  and I didn't care for the fact that this movie was really glorifying guns.
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  And then they're playing a song where the you know, the main guy
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  who wrote the song was killed by a gun. So I was always curious,
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  how you know the process is for your music being used in movies.
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  Do you have any say, Do you get to read the script or is
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  it just sort of out of your hands and you know, whatever is used
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  is used. No. No, I have a very good relationship with our
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  publishing and our record label, Sony Music and BMG, and they what they
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  do is they always are sending us requests. They're sending requests, Hey,
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  we've got an offer to use a same man eater on the voice in Australia,
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  which is actually just something that happened ten minutes before I tail you or
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  that. I'll say there's a TV series on Netflix that this, and they'll
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  give a brief description. And you know, both Daryl and I look at
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  that very closely and we're very very careful and conscious of how our music is
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  being used. So yeah, we do, and we'll either approve it or
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  not approve it. So yees in that in that way, we do have
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  have a say in it. And I think for the most part, most
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  of the requests and are pretty good and you know they're they're quite lucrative as
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  well, so it's a good thing. Yeah. I think a lot of
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  people, maybe younger generation might not even like realize, oh my god,
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  that's a whole note song because it's in Step Brothers, it's in the Wedding
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  Singer, It's it was a Jennifer Lawrence movie last year that featured your songs
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  in it. So I think that is going to make your music stand the
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  test of time as well as you know, just the discography that you have.
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  On top of that, I think the filmography that your you know,
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  your music is used in is gonna make your music timeless, You're still here.
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  It's over. Go home, Go