Kelsey Grammer
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586 appearances
6 recordings
5 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 26 Dec
Kelsey Grammer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, great pictures. You know what's great about my kids? The latest round, 12, 10, and 8, they always go, oh, that's AI.
I know. And they dismiss it almost immediately, which is really smart. They understand people are going to try to put out things that aren't true. And they already tuned into that.
AI so far, I know we're getting to AGI, which is self-generated, I guess, but AI is programmed by people. And so what they know basically is what the people wanted it to know. And so you have to be really careful about that as well because there's certain, there's leanings. Whenever you program something, that person has ideas that they want engendered in other people. So you got to be careful.
But I am careful. And what's funny is it doesn't make me feel old. It makes me just feel – I'm trying to think because I like being a dinosaur. I mean, I like it because I know that the brain I've got was actually generated by the toil that I've put in. I haven't been just plugged into something and then told this is what you need to think.
I actually arrived at a lot of this stuff by virtue of hard work.
So I like being over here.
I got through the plasticine all on my own.
No, I think it's a devotion to healing. I got to live my healing. I got to focus on things. Having the personal sort of Remember there's a book called Stranger in a Strange Land? I think Elon's done it. He's got the company called G-R-O-K. It's called grokking. You would grok something. You got something in a profound way.
And that was coined in that book, Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. Very popular in the 70s. Really popular. There are songs about it. We don't really remember it, but I do. But that communion with tragedy that I had, that familiarity with my grandfather dying young, my father getting shot, my sister being murdered in the horrible way she was.
It gave me an understanding of something that's the human journey, the human experience is what I'm good at. And because of what I've lived, there's a kind of almost authority to it. So as an actor, I would just uncover that and bring it to it. And I know that was probably helpful. That's what's the irony of it is that the suffering was helpful for making something genuine or authentic.
You can't fool people as an actor. Maybe AI can almost get there. Eventually. But really great acting is always going to be spontaneous and connected to the human experience. And I was given this breadth and depth of experience that would come through. And I think it gave me a sense of authority.
Time heals all wounds.
Yeah. It's still, you abide with it, but it's not going away.
I do try to spare them too much stuff unless it's just, it's such a poignant moment, such an ironic alignment that I say, I got to tell you this line. So I don't do it too often, but once in a while, I'd all sit them down and read them some Shakespeare.
I mean, it's like, my older kids, I'm still trying to figure out what they actually think of me. My two older daughters, we have a pretty good relationship, and then we don't have a good relationship, and then we have a great relationship. It's just...
whatever it is i'm not cool no one day you'll be surrounded by family hopefully at a joyous time and they'll go you're not as much of a lame-o as i thought it'll be like the happiest moment of your life right yeah it's my eight-year-old james actually was talking to me by the pool two years ago in upstate and we're sitting having a nice conversation about how to do a certain thing or whatever and he stops her saying he says you're all right i like spending time with you
God bless you. You're not as cool as Captain Underpants or whatever.
You're okay. So that was actually, that was a real highlight for me.
That was about two or three years ago. Really? Yeah, yeah. Maybe I'm slow. I mean, you know, I probably am. Okay. But I was sitting somewhere and... somebody, you could tell that their regard for me was genuine. And the guy just said, you're a legend. That's a really weird thing to be told. But when I started to think about it, I thought, I'm good at what I do. And okay, all right, it's time.
Maybe I just put away this self-effacing crap and just said, yes, I'm good at what I do and I've earned my place here. And that's a pretty decent feeling. That's okay.
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