Collier Landry Boyle
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170 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Collier Landry Boyle’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There was a matador and a bull. And I remember, I'm gonna be the bull. And my mom was like, dinner's ready. And I run with my eyes closed and I run smack dab into our Land's End table and I split my head open. They take me to the naval base where my father worked at the hospital right there, the clinic.
My mom's freaking out and he's stitching me up, you know, and I remember I was like crying and my mom was feeding me like salami and provolone cheese because we didn't get to have our dinner, but he stitched me up. And it was like one of those moments of like my dad being there to save me.
I mean, my mother was my whole world. The sun rose and set with her, you know. I just loved being around my mom. I would help her like shop. She loved to go to museums, the theater. She loved cultural things.
I remember one time my mother was like shopping at Tiffany's. There was a Rolex counter. There was this sales girl working at the counter and I got her to let me try on a Rolex. My mother was mortified because first of all, we're not buying you a Rolex.
Second of all, she was mortified that I had talked the sales girl into letting me put this, you know, whatever, $5,000 watch on my wrist and walk around the store with it. I just thought it was fun to play grownup. And she just got a kick out of that because she just was like, that's my little boy. Like he just charms people into doing things for him, I guess.
My mother used to say he's 11 going on 40. That's what she would tell people.
If we were going somewhere, I was expected to behave a certain way, where I was maybe upholding my aristocratic family, if you will.
My mother's last name was Schmidt. We were related to Schmidt's Brewery in Philadelphia. And she was related to Grace Kelly, Princess Grace of Monaco.
My mother had a station wagon where, you know, you have the front seats, then you have the middle seats, then you have the back seat that faces out the back, right? On road trips, my parents would be playing, you know, the Philharmonic. And I'd be over the orchestra pit, which was the back of the station wagon, conducting as if I was conducting the orchestra.
Maybe I was using a soda straw as my baton, maybe. They thought it was hilarious.
I was taking tap dance lessons, so I would tap dance for the patients and then I had this little harmonica, which I still have, and I would play like the harmonica and like sing and do a whole little thing to entertain.
We go to this party in the middle of the sticks. And these are, you know, I mean this with all due respect, but these are rednecks. These are beer drinking, quad riding, you know, salt of the earth type of people. I looked around and I thought, this is a whole different world. Here I am in my little penny loafers, my little polo shirt and little shorts.
And I remember Sherry got on the quad and she said, do you want to ride the quad with me? And I was like, okay. I was like, I'm here. I'm like, I'm going to have fun, right?
I looked back. And my father is walking with Sherry, talking to her, and he has his arm around her. They're in this very serious conversation. And later on, we say our goodbyes and we get in the truck and I ask my father, who is that woman? He tells me she's daddy's patient and she's terminally ill. And daddy was consoling her. I was like, oh, that's terrible. That's absolutely terrible.
A lot of times he would come in late at night or he would be gone by the morning.
I didn't really know what their marriage was other than it looked normal. But what is normal?
My parents were never really affectionate with one another. I don't ever really recall seeing them hold hands or embrace or anything like that. It had been a while since they had been, you know, I would imagine, together in any sort of way. A lot of times he would be sleeping on the couch and that's how I would find him in the morning.
I definitely seen them argue, but I never knew what it was about.
My father would have this temper that you could just set off at the drop of a hat. And there was no telling what would set him off. We would go outside to play catch, and he would end up trying to throw fastballs and hit me in the groin or my head to teach me how to be a man.
So my father says, I'm going to stop, get a tan real quick. So we stopped at the tanning salon. And out comes Sherry. I was like, oh, that's the woman from the other week, you know, the patient. And Sherry comes out of the tanning salon with these two radio control cars. And she's like, happy Father's Day. And my dad's like, oh, what a nice surprise. And she's got the batteries and everything.
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