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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And that's, you know, that's the enemy. It's, you know. Always out there too. And you gotta remember that the enemy is present to invade our thoughts, to invade our lives, to kill our minds with doubt and fear. And you mentioned, you know, so much fear going on. I'm reading a book right now, Power Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale, published in 51, 52, something like that.
And there's a whole, I just came upon a section where it said, the primary thing right now is to keep people in fear. 1950 whatever. It's been going on for a long time. This is the warfare that we're born into. Fear. And fear is the mind killer. Fear is the soul killer. That's how you get in there.
That other guy is. That's reminding me of another thing. This is the way life goes for me. I see these things. That Twilight Zone thing where the guy is walking along. He's died. He goes to the pearly gates. And he's got his dog with him. And he says, is this it? And St. Peter says, yeah. Yeah, come on in. He says, my dog can come? He says, no. He says, oh, Ellen. Oh, that's OK then.
I think I'll just keep walking a bit. So he keeps walking. He takes his dog with him and comes along another set of gates. What's this? He says, St. Peter says, well, welcome. Really? I can come on? You want a dog, too? He says, yeah, of course. He said, well, a fellow down the road. He said, he was St. Peter. He said, I couldn't bring my dog. And he said, oh, that's the other place.
So, yeah, that's the other guy, doesn't it?
There's a, there's a guy, there was a, There was a critic, John Simon was his name. He began writing maybe in the mid 70s and through maybe 2000. And he was so mean, personally mean to people, actors that he didn't like. He just called them fat or you're disgusting. And it became entertaining to see what nastiness he would conjure up in his next review. But it became stylish to write that way.
He set a new kind of style that maybe was born out of the 70s, maybe was born out of what was going on in the 80s. I don't really know what happened. But it became the norm. It became the norm to be mean to people. And I thought that's, it was just such a wrong turn, I think. And I do sort of put it at his feet.
I mean, you know, theater critics are known for being sort of, you know, no turn unstoned. You know, that was sort of one of their things, yeah. But to do it charmingly, the British are a little bit better about doing it charmingly. This guy was directly personal and nasty. And I thought, boy, that really changed things. To dial back on one thing,
about a year and a half ago, somebody said, if you were president, what would you do differently? What would you want to do? I said, I would ask that we become a nation of good manners again. I just think we need to treat each other better, speak better to one another, honorifically, respect each other, whether we come from different sides, and just reinstate mannerly behavior.
Even in our kids, you know, shoes off the couch. My wife always points out, she says, she watches Disney shows where the kids jump up and down on a bed with their shoes on. I'm thinking, yeah, you're right. That's awful. How did we let that happen? But it's like there was a whole generation that was sort of broken into this idea that you just treat everything you have with disrespect.
But if you respect nothing, you certainly won't respect yourself.
Love them for the opposition, yeah.
Well, I'll circle back to the book. I talk about that thing. There was a restaurant nearby, one of the places I live, that said, hate is not welcome here. I thought, well, you just said to people, you don't welcome hate, but you've written it all over your restaurant. How about... Love is invited. Love is welcome here. Instead of this hate thing. And I thought, well, okay, whatever your reason is.
But if you're in the thrall of hatred, if you are in its charming way, you will never do anything but pave yourself the road to destruction. Hate will kill you.
Can't be a nice way to live. Yeah.
Kids. Kate. That's kind of it. That's it. Maybe that's why I said living in true courage would be just to live my life with them. I have to live my life, too, though. You've got to do one or the other. Put the mask on yourself first before you put it on the kid. Yeah.
And so... I'm off on another track all of a sudden. Kirstie Alley, when I was going to do my first appearance on The Tonight Show, Kirstie Alley said, oh, just go on and play a character. Just make up something and just have fun. And I thought... Okay, I get it. And she was kind of like that. She was always sort of entertaining.
Kirstie was, you know, keep a lot of hats in the air and say you can't spot you. She was such a wonderful person and so funny. But when she said that, I thought to myself, I don't think I have the energy to be able to do that. I think I just have to be able to be honest. So that's what I've always been. I've been as honest as I can be.
Once in a while I'll watch an appearance and think, oh, well, did I do that right? It doesn't really matter because I didn't do it I didn't dissemble, at least. You know, I didn't have to cover myself in any way. So it's easier. If there's some specific question I'm not comfortable with, I won't answer it.
Then you're okay. Okay, that was it. I'm sorry.
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