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Nerd of Mouth

Bonus: A Conversation with Dave Willis

Nerd of Mouth

The Last Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Leisure, Video Games

4.7649 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

We sit down with Dave Willis (Aqua Teen, Squidbillies, Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell, Space Ghost) and pick his brain about his career, the early days of Adult Swim, and what the future holds for animation. Want even more WizBru? Support us on Patreon! Patreon.com/WizBru

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0:00.0

We are so happy to be here with Dave Willis, the co-creator behind Agatine Hunger Force, Squidbillies,

0:26.9

your pretty face is going to hell, and so many other things. Thank you so much for joining us today.

0:32.1

Thanks for having me. Yeah, of course. Our pleasure. And Jake is here as well. Jake, say hello. I hope that all of the listeners here have already listened to our adult swim retrospective, so we don't got to play catch-up. We can get right into the meat. We can get right into the nitty grit. Yeah. Let's do it. Where do you want to start? I guess I should be running this, right? How about the very first thing I really want to ask about that I'm so curious about

0:55.6

is really kind of at the very beginning is that you actually got the,

0:59.5

and forgive me if you've been asked about this a million times,

1:01.6

but you actually got the job there by writing a referral page and crayon

1:07.3

in the voice of a little boy? Well, kind of kind of quaint now but uh but yeah

1:15.8

i i had worked on a on a shoot for a cd rom if that date if that date a cartoon network cd rom and

1:25.3

i talked to the producer and she knew,

1:29.3

she knew somebody met with Matt Thompson who went on to do Archer and they were like,

1:34.6

well, we don't need anybody, but Andy Merrill, the guy voiced Brack and was very instrumental

1:41.8

in one of the guys that created Space Coast Coast to Coast

1:46.0

needed a PA.

1:48.0

And yeah, I just sent this letter that was written by one of my sister's special ed students,

1:55.9

but I told them what to write, which is like, ha!

2:01.2

My name is Robert.

2:02.7

I am eight.

2:03.6

Dave Willis exhibits a professionalism, which I find profound in this day and age.

2:09.9

Recommend him without reservation.

2:12.1

Here is a car.

2:13.1

Robert.

2:14.6

So that's already way ahead of, see, we're getting good deeds.

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