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Welcome one and all to Malton on Movies.

I'm Leonard Malton.

And I'm Jesse Malton.

And we are here with, well, we're here with somebody that if you don't know,

even by voice.

Even by voice, but certainly by face, you live under many rocks.

A boat. Many, many, many rocks.

His name is Ed Begley, Jr. and Ed, we're delighted to have you here.

Thank you, Leonard. Thank you, Jesse. Both for having me.

Thank you for coming.

My dad and I were talking about all the ways that people could possibly have seen you at this point.

Because I said, not only are you on The Simpsons playing yourself talking about environmentalism, which is a wonderful episode.

My dad said you've said before is the one thing your kids think is the coolest. It was my assent to stardom, not working

with Jack Nicholson, Merrill Streep, none of that. They thought that was fine. Don't get me wrong.

They were impressed. But now, Dad, you're a rock star. You're on the Simpsons. And then on a second time, I must be big. You did it. So you did that. And then you were the best gag. One of the best gags possibly the Independent Spirit Awards has ever done. Where they pull back the curtain and you're on a bicycle powering the entire event. That's right. Rain Wilson says the power's dimming. They had an effect where the lights went down a little bit. We've got to get this back on track. Ed, please, piggy pulls a curtain

back and I'm there riding a bike. And it is. It remains one of the funniest, one of the funniest

gags I've ever had. No, it's great. And then on top of all of that, you've been in movies with people like Meryl Streep and Roseanne. A movie with Meryl Streep and Roseanne.

I don't know how you survived it, but God bless you, you did.

It was fantastic. It was the most fun you could ever imagine.

And I love, I do love that movie. It's a cute, campy, funny movie. I had a great time.

It was the last of the 80s. We did it in 89 and it was a lot of fun and

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