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now, they show with most handsome voice

0:02

talent working today it's common

0:05

sense with bill barrett's hosted

0:07

by that dan carlin guy voice

0:11

that you heard they're in the introduction as

0:13

he said, himself, it was bill barrett

0:18

the

0:18

number one choice that i would

0:20

have had if somebody had said to me

0:22

in two thousand and five when we started podcasting

0:25

that you could have any

0:27

a big voice announcer in the entire

0:30

world who would you pick

0:33

i would pick build their it for reasons

0:35

that will become a parent i think as we

0:37

talk about him the lost

0:39

him yesterday

0:42

aug seventeenth the

0:44

only twenty two to cancerous

0:47

so many of us have lost friends

0:50

and relatives a terrible disease

0:53

and in bills case

0:55

i wanted to do this tribute

0:58

because of all he's done for us i hope

1:00

that bills , and friends

1:02

are okay with this but

1:05

given all that he's done for us

1:07

he would be ungrateful i think to

1:09

not celebrate

1:11

this amazing person and first

1:13

of all point out that what you hear when you

1:15

hear bill in any of our shows

1:18

is a tiny fraction of what

1:20

bill does spill was not a

1:23

voice announcer as a main gate

1:26

that was just sort of a little side geek he did

1:28

bill was a star

1:30

the pacific northwest of here in in country

1:32

music radio bill is a celebrity

1:37

i mean this is a guy who has

1:40

the on into the country radio hall of

1:42

fame

1:44

he spent almost half a century

1:46

in radio just in the area that i live

1:48

in even longer if you include

1:50

outside that area he's a three time

1:53

winner

1:54

the country music small market on

1:56

air personality of the year i mean this is a

1:58

guy that

1:59

is huge and could have been in

2:02

new york or los angeles or any of

2:04

the big radio market said he wanted to but like

2:06

so many of the media people that

2:08

, up in places like eugene

2:11

oregon there's a lot of of

2:13

cities out there the fall into a similar

2:15

category where you get these media people

2:17

who should be on their way

2:19

up to new york or los angeles

2:22

or chicago or one of those places but

2:24

finds that the quality of life is such

2:27

that the raid

2:29

the success in the proved it would have come

2:31

with something like a new york

2:33

radio gig right the number one medium

2:35

market the country which mail and of easily

2:38

work and for , overall

2:40

life satisfaction that comes with working

2:43

in a place like this the first first

2:45

job i ever had was in eugene oregon

2:48

and we used to joke at the station

2:51

that we worked at that he was see you

2:53

in lieu of pay but the view

2:55

was fantastic the

2:57

view for build bear it was fantastic

3:00

he was the

3:02

number one guy forever

3:04

here in when he went from k u g

3:07

and radio you know with the number

3:09

one country show and moved to another station

3:11

they instantly had the never one country show

3:14

show your wasn't about song

3:16

programming programmers decisions

3:19

on marketing or branding or contests or

3:21

anything like that was bill his

3:24

coach jim fox you by the way i've

3:27

, bill for almost thirty years i've known him longer

3:29

some first media person i

3:32

think outside of the station that i worked in that i

3:34

met when i came to oregon and the perfect

3:36

piece of chemistry that made the whole bill

3:39

barrett thing thing than the

3:41

sum of it's parts and they always had a third

3:43

person tracy buried did it and tracy

3:45

berries been doing it as

3:47

of recently she's fabulous my wife did

3:49

it for years almost

3:52

to build barrett and tim fox the bear

3:54

in the foxes they were called and

3:57

that's would build there was like by the way if

3:59

you combine in like one part jonathan

4:02

winters there was a little bit of jonathan winners and

4:04

bill on the sense that he was an improvisational

4:06

genius and i could schedule

4:08

a ten minute recording session with him and

4:10

forty minutes later we're still in

4:13

a riffing off stuff and villas giving the stuff

4:15

that i didn't write for liners that

4:17

just came to him off top of his head you'd end up

4:19

with wonderful stuff and just as wonderful

4:21

little session this fabulous

4:23

personality whose idea

4:25

of calling somebody a bad name by the way

4:27

sometimes was the usually was

4:29

something like not lead mr

4:33

like jonathan winners and like the big

4:35

bear from the jungle book

4:37

cartoon ballou without the hipster

4:40

side of him and bear was

4:42

one of his nicknames right to bear

4:44

in the fox and team fox like isn't perfect

4:47

school were talented foil for

4:49

bills work and then

4:50

the third person in the emmy he was just awesome

4:54

awesome

4:55

and could have star anywhere

4:59

i told ben at the time is there

5:01

was or is or will be a ban

5:03

the once and future producer

5:05

this program where me that

5:08

bill do agree to do this for us i said we

5:10

just got the best downturn the world the number one

5:12

guy i would have chosen from anywhere got

5:15

he was wonderful an early on when

5:19

we're in two thousand two thousand and podcasting

5:21

this isn't over amateur

5:23

a fair to have somebody that

5:25

sounded like one of the major broadcast

5:28

networks bought brought in a big voice to

5:30

do this set us apart from the

5:32

get go the

5:34

very good co i mean bill he

5:36

wouldn't

5:37

make a he wouldn't think twice about it because

5:39

he was really old radio guy that podcast

5:41

never really registered out

5:43

with him but him mean

5:46

he must have been one of the first

5:48

big professional voice announcers

5:51

ever to appear on the podcast i mean i'm

5:53

not saying he was the first because i don't know any better and

5:55

and there were other people out there but he must have been

5:57

one of the very early pioneers

6:02

and on the hardcore history show we've

6:04

always been very straight with the

6:06

marketing and branding in the emerging as

6:08

they call it and radio but with common sense

6:10

which was or political in current events show we

6:13

always tried to take the edge

6:15

off what was to com um

6:19

, m besides me being loud

6:21

talking very fast and having and eggs

6:23

and i would say was passionate the critiques might

6:25

say was angry arm i

6:27

think the self deprecating

6:30

sort of marketing and branding and imaging

6:32

that we did and the

6:35

hard turning lemons into lemonade you know

6:37

turning miss making something like loud angry

6:39

fast talking people into applause

6:42

all that sort of stuff on was meant

6:44

to offset the downsides

6:47

of what you were gonna get with me what's funny is all

6:49

the radical stuff from years ago

6:51

that i used to warn the audience about the

6:55

the political

6:56

like mid line or median

7:00

attitudes in places like united states

7:02

where maybe the whole world has moved so

7:04

far that the stuff i was trying

7:07

to be no sort of cushion the blow for my

7:09

audience back then in terms

7:11

of you know what your body him a shot you but don't worth

7:13

it all seemed pretty darn blinds

7:16

a now does not that's how extreme

7:18

things are

7:21

that has nothing to do with build barrett

7:25

he helped

7:26

what the show on the map i think

7:29

and give us a sense where

7:33

when listeners might give you a few

7:35

seconds to see if this was

7:37

worth listening the any more of

7:39

this podcast back in the early days of podcasting

7:42

when all you had to do is listen sometimes to the audio

7:44

quality dunno i don't wanna listen anymore after

7:47

thirty seconds bill made

7:49

you realized right away whoa what it was

7:51

is this and it was because he had

7:53

he had that says forced

7:55

you to sort of prick up your ears and listen

7:59

let me they at the outset hear

8:02

that , you're about to hear turns out

8:04

to be a little self serving serving

8:06

wasn't intentional bill would build did for

8:08

us was all of this branding and the imaging and

8:10

marketing and so the only

8:13

thing of bills work thing of only pieces

8:15

bills work that i have the rights to rebroadcast

8:17

of the stuff he did for us and so he's doing such a great

8:19

job of branding and imaging for us there's

8:22

no way for me to expose you to some of bills

8:24

stuff without a reflecting

8:27

positively on us and once again i suppose

8:30

that i am piggybacking on bills

8:32

talent for my own benefit

8:35

and he'd have some wonderful comeback like

8:39

they'd said that to him on

8:41

put some exposure to a little bit of a guy

8:45

there's been a part of my and my wife's life

8:47

for almost thirty years

8:49

and

8:50

we are all especially

8:53

in this neck of the woods a

8:55

lot poorer

8:57

the comedies gone the fabulous

9:00

there it

9:02

hi this is bill damn doesn't have time

9:05

to solicits why well i'm a panhandler

9:07

a podcasting would you make a donation please

9:10

if not we're going to send somebody to

9:12

your house you're better protected kneecaps

9:14

that is all very much welcome

9:17

to commonsense with dan carlin

9:20

for russian press one the

9:22

german press two

9:24

already latin based romance languages price

9:26

three

9:27

welcome to the people of france

9:30

were listening to of the a commonsense with

9:32

say vive la false and viva la

9:35

the seeley people are intelligence

9:38

congratulations for thinking outside

9:40

the bomb you europeans

9:42

and pacific rim people yeah i'm looking

9:44

to do australia you people are just

9:47

as susceptible to guilt as everyone else so

9:49

put a little shrimp on the barbie for den

9:51

and ben because we knew where you live

9:54

in australia the

9:56

lovely day down under but more important

9:58

and i've a nice died

9:59

that your body and gallon

10:06

yeah finally you

10:08

go i have all the ingredients

10:10

to create my masterpiece me

10:12

one pocket liberal one pot

10:15

conservative than yes

10:17

i did dash of libertarian angel

10:19

radical and a snifter of moderation

10:22

plus a bucket to be

10:26

a new creation oh

10:31

man we need to find the affected me

10:34

i know how about commons

10:40

i was the guy who wrote the coffee for bill

10:43

except when he improvised which was all

10:45

the time and he would

10:47

take what i had written and become

10:50

the creative talent equivalent

10:53

of a force multiplier and

10:55

make a bunch of sort of drab

10:57

words on a page saying

11:00

sometimes literally with

11:02

everything from accents to celebrity

11:04

impersonations two characters

11:07

that

11:08

the only bill knew where they came from

11:11

example

11:13

these dan carlin store whole idea

11:15

for common sense show from russia

11:17

in old soviet union was called communist

11:20

said cause we sudden

11:23

violent account dan carlin as one

11:25

of our own you cease dispensing

11:27

clear headed analysis and and entertaining

11:30

fashion is an age old irish

11:32

tradition off for from thought

11:34

his ears then is one

11:36

of those unique people he just has

11:38

an innate ability to see both sides the with

11:40

issue and they get mad about

11:42

both of them oh father i'm

11:44

so confused don't worry about

11:47

it and run with nosy the

11:49

liberty voice impersonated gas is likely

11:51

bacterial some sideways we always get their first

11:54

this is common sense right

11:57

said is said to said assess

11:59

this current rachid yeah i used to be

12:01

independent used to be assists

12:03

independent not of this dan

12:06

carlin guys got it off the ground we're

12:08

moving in on a server juri why

12:10

not why not we're non partisan

12:12

right with practical me a prude

12:14

into soon if the host of a podcast these

12:17

like get wet sometimes or perhaps is tied

12:19

up in a solid maybe this is common sense

12:22

maybe not is a judgment calls a judgment

12:24

call

12:26

the hills humor was instrumental

12:29

in setting the right tone for

12:31

the current events political show that we did

12:33

which was gonna be intense and you

12:35

know how passionate know that sorta stuff

12:38

and and when bill would lead off

12:40

the entire affairs of setting

12:42

the tone with some humor it was the

12:44

perfect yin and yang combination

12:47

they gave a real sense that while we might be very

12:49

interested and involved in what we were

12:51

talking about we didn't take ourselves too seriously

12:54

we , recurring characters that bill

12:56

kept bringing into the opens

12:58

and then not a segment where people

13:01

would supposedly have written letters

13:03

to the show and bill would read them and hear

13:05

them man of the thousand voices would read these

13:07

supposed letters from all over the planet

13:10

and eight they would sound exactly the same

13:12

like it was same you know american from

13:14

middle american

13:16

check out what i'm talking about here and

13:18

think of have very different it was to have somebody

13:21

the little smile on your face before

13:23

you delve into politics and current events

13:26

from his last time we saw those two things mix together

13:28

right

13:30

a mrs k yeah can

13:33

of kara cora mongolia rights

13:35

a , vinnie boom bots of

13:38

the amazon rainforest rights

13:40

a mr from

13:44

the kalahari desert rights hey

13:46

guys i love the show one

13:49

question though how do you all deal

13:51

with dans intensity level on a day

13:53

to day basis it must be a grind

13:56

yes mr the i can't pronounce

13:58

your name it is i deal

14:00

with it by having his little to actually do with

14:02

damn as possible been

14:05

the engineer then

14:08

is just screwed oh

14:10

do i remember that day and call and

14:12

guy he was up punk a

14:15

mr are nader rights

14:17

sellers i loved the show

14:20

until the recent news hit that you were bought by cyberattack

14:23

digit soft i mean with the leather jackets

14:25

with die hair off my god

14:27

to hear em i believe that the billions

14:30

of dollars that such a giant corporation can

14:32

funnel did and won't change his independent

14:34

prospective where you're smiling

14:37

does read you're smiling star

14:39

horrible royals got common sense

14:41

for crying out loud i wish i could sing

14:43

like i don't know like dead poland

14:46

not as scary done well

14:48

thanks for asking mr nader just

14:50

like our legislature the host of

14:52

common sense is completely on corruptible

14:55

maybe that person might turn out to be after

14:58

all dan carlin is just as symbols a

15:00

symbol of cybertechnologies soft cyber

15:02

detected a soft as if it's good will

15:04

buy it and then sell it back to you a buck

15:06

a show we'll call the cops

15:10

one thing that ,

15:12

never got on the show was why i

15:14

was doing the self deprecating stuff stuff

15:17

he would tease me and sometimes just

15:19

laugh out loud when he would read the liners

15:21

that i'd written and he would see

15:23

the self deprecating comments deprecating would make

15:26

it was it was it was of offsetting

15:29

what comes off sometimes maybe as and know

15:31

it all or an arrogance that

15:33

dumb in reality a me i don't

15:35

think is there but build it and degrees there he wouldn't

15:38

he wouldn't

15:39

come back with the sort of things he did

15:41

which wealth you can listen to his

15:43

reaction sometimes when he would hear the the

15:45

ways we would approach the branding or the imaging

15:49

and dumb and he would always try

15:51

when he could to slip been something

15:53

of his own that had a positive

15:56

thing instead of the sorts of things i used to

15:58

write for myself

16:00

well mister cow thanks for pointing

16:02

out the elephant in the living room if you haven't

16:04

figured out dams got a what way too high an

16:06

opinion of himself you never worked you've

16:08

never worked with him take it for me he shares more

16:11

qualities with william shatner than just

16:13

isn't for his widow

16:16

, yourself down dance smothering

16:18

you and mushrooms and onion since nineteen

16:20

ninety four he's dan carlin and

16:23

this carlin and sense what

16:25

i held that meme i

16:28

didn't care for this episode well you're

16:30

probably not alone the good news is there are

16:32

lots of past shows available from dan

16:34

carlin dot com i'm your ninety

16:36

nine cents will get you an instant download

16:39

of one of the classic common sense shows have a past

16:42

back when it was worth paying for go

16:44

to dan carlin cause the sport

16:46

if you're really back selling your show

16:48

here if you

16:50

think something's missing it's

16:52

probably the ritalin

16:55

that's it he beat yourself up a minute come over

16:57

there sloppy as i said earlier

17:00

bill had

17:01

jonathan winners sort of vibe

17:03

to him in terms of his ability to just

17:05

come out with stuff spontaneously

17:08

an endlessly in turning our in a short

17:10

little recording sessions into

17:12

rather

17:13

a long enjoyable affairs and i

17:15

laughed are listening to some of these

17:17

raw tapes i mean the funny thing is

17:19

is bill could the chastise

17:21

me for my self deprecating liners

17:24

that i wrote but he had no problem having some

17:26

fun with me and some of the adler

17:28

statements i mean

17:30

the minister

17:32

giving you common sense given you twice

17:34

giving you more bullshit than you can handle

17:37

dan carlin he's a jokester

17:39

he's a prankster he's a sometimes wanna

17:41

be wagster he's

17:43

what

17:44

a pattern cordial emotions

17:46

one or more them and put up on the phone until

17:49

he starts talking george give

17:51

me some hardcore history how about my last

17:54

prostate exam well thanks

17:56

for asking mr swaggered me even though dan

17:58

can be pious self right this

18:00

and over dramatic and he likes to do a little

18:02

self annoying bell and m t

18:04

comes by it naturally no experience necessary

18:07

living proof of what happens when cousins

18:09

mary sees dan carlin and

18:11

this is common sense

18:14

still had the ability to talk in

18:16

a high range all the way to the low range

18:18

and he called the low range the

18:20

red zone i think it's an

18:22

nfl reference but i'm not sure

18:25

but we loved the red zone voice

18:27

and we would have been so often do

18:30

multiple versions of different

18:32

things that we wrote in a bunch of different voices

18:34

but we're in a when he got to that red zone voice

18:37

that just hit the sweet spot for us i mean listen

18:39

to some of these examples of build going

18:41

way down in the in the range

18:43

of something that sounds like an old nfl

18:46

films production was some classic

18:48

voice from the fifties or sixties in

18:50

when that announcer rains that is just

18:52

so rare

18:55

it seems like everybody with a political

18:57

show as a deep voice to intro

18:59

the material okay let's

19:02

play okay

19:06

let's play like the big boys a

19:08

know den the

19:11

island there's a

19:13

reason it doesn't sound like the old

19:15

media that's because

19:17

it's the new media taking

19:20

you to nonpartisan places you've

19:22

never been do and leaving

19:25

you there i say

19:27

it's a combination mo the best

19:29

the public broadcasting has to offer

19:32

and nfl football beating

19:35

the ideas into the to if until something

19:37

breaks commonsense

19:39

with dan carlin

19:42

i think wanted the best barometers

19:44

of what kind of talent bill had his

19:47

to notice that most

19:49

people who could perform

19:51

and do what we just listen to bill

19:53

do when have been content

19:56

to be some of the best voice work actors

19:58

and voiceover guy

19:59

the in the business and

20:02

yet for build this was assigned gig

20:05

this is a little and den dumb to

20:08

, he really did was hold court over

20:11

the great his radio success in

20:14

terms of ratings that

20:16

i exist at all time i was hearing build

20:18

build beat my numbers easily by like double

20:21

how good of a program he and

20:23

tim and and , in

20:25

my wife had i'm during

20:28

their heyday and time interesting him

20:30

as i said are still doing the working

20:32

going strong but i mean there's mean giant

20:36

finger sized hole in

20:38

in all of of our lives right now and bills

20:40

her

20:41

help in our success and

20:44

like a lot of other people including

20:46

his 11 children and many

20:49

grandchildren everybody's

20:51

gonna miss him

20:53

you want any repeats on anyting,

20:55

just

20:56

one thing

20:58

i'd

20:58

like either

21:00

it from the top and

21:02

run through it all again would you

21:04

going

21:05

monsieur