In this very special Very Special 200th episode Ken welcomes Billy West (Ren & Stimpy, Doug, Futurama) back to the show. Almost two years to the day from Billy's last appearance on the show (at the Riot LA Comedy Festival) Ken and Billy sat down at North East Comic Con for Round II of chats. Ken and Billy discuss the traumatic origins of Billy's talents, TV sign offs, the infamous CNN "End of the World" video, Ted Turner, The Critic, Maurice LeMarche, Pinky & The Brain, Ed Wood, Orson Welles, the debut of Star Trek, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., the horrors of internet trolls, raising a little hit man, the value of a shared experience, Beanie & Cecil, ABC Television's Children's TV Standards and Practices, a life in comic books, the Batmobile, rage society, the assassination of JFK, Mel Blanc, G. Gordon Liddy, the tutelage of Barry Crimmins at the Ding Ho, being a Chicken McNugget, The Howard Stern Show, Trump, Futurama, Ren & Stimpy, Bob Clampett, Kurt Loader, Doug, Booster Gold and Skeets on JLU, Fry, Nickelodeon, Matt Groening, classic showbiz Marblemouths, Jay Leno: Drug Kingpin, Adam Carolla: Master of the Simile, The Cincinnati Reds, Boston Racism vs. Detroit Racism, Irish vs. Italians, Richie Reardon from Revere, Boston's ability to coin phrases, wanting to do good work, how your future is unwritten, confessions of a $900 Million dollar loss, treating people right, Tom Kenny, Molasses spills, the character vs. the voice, Jack Kirby, meeting Les Paul, Jackson Beck, The Comedy Channel, Percy Rodriguez, Paul Frees, Elvis, and the influence of Captain Marvel Jr.

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