One one one one one. Okay. Go ahead. Hi, this is Dave Madden the voice of Bernard Walton

Welcome to the official adventures of Odyssey podcast. Oh, I said oh, Odyssey instead of in Odyssey take it again

Yeah, why don't you take it to be accurate about it? Yeah, you're a professional

Hi, this is Dave Madden the voice of Bernard Walton. Welcome to the official adventures in Odyssey podcast

Hi, this is Paul McCusker writer director for adventures in Odyssey, and this is Dave Arnold executive producer for adventures in Odyssey and today

We are talking about our beloved friend Dave Madden who passed away on January 16th of this year

Phil Lawler here. I grew up watching Dave on

television shows like

laugh in and of course his signature character the perpetually

cramudgently

Ruben Kincaid who was the band manager for the partridge family

I thought it was a great coup for us to be able to actually get Dave. I thought he would be way too

big for us to actually put on the on the show

But he was very willing to come on and he loved working on the program

I think the first thing Dave did for us was family vacation and he played Chester. Should we try to hitchhike maybe?

He didn't you never know what kind of lunatic will pick up. He was so much fun to work with

That we said well, we've got to do something we can't leave this guy in this town so far from Odyssey

We've got to do something to bring him in tell me about Bernard Walton

How was that character created? How did you create Bernard Walton? Well Bernard

Boy, see I have to go back to the very beginning now. I have to go back 19 years to

To recall how that all started and I and I have a hard time doing the old memory banks their date

I don't think I have old memory banks

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