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Hello, everybody. I'm Leonard Malton, and this is Malton on movies.

And normally you would hear my daughter's voice as well, but Jesse is not here today.

I'm sorry. I know she's the one you tune in for. You're just going to have to make do with me.

But I am here with somebody who makes up for any absence or any negativity, any kind of

possible liability, because my guest today is J.K. Simmons. Hello.

How are you? I'm not going to try and be as witty and entertaining and a bullion as

Jesse or as high-voiced for that matter. But I'm great. I'm happy to be here.

Thank you. But you could if you wanted to. Yeah, you know, I could give it a try, but

in fact, this gives us an interesting starting point because we were just, you wanted to. Yeah, you know, I could give it a try, but...

In fact, this gives us an interesting starting point, because we were just talking briefly

off-mic, as they say, about voiceovers. And you do quite a few, and you do a lot of cartoon

voice work as well, a lot of animation, even video game voice work.

And I guess anybody who has read up on you at all knows, and if they don't, they're

going to find out right now that you have been, lo these many years, the yellow M&M.

Indeed, sweet, dumb yellow.

And who is your partner in that?

Billy West. And I have been red and yellow for, it's around two decades now. Wow.

And there's actually, if I can bend your ear about it, a ridiculous, very actory story about that because when they were auditioning, you know, for the new red and yellow M&Ms, I went in to

Janet Eisenberg, one of my favorite voice casting directors in New York that we were living

in New York at the time.

And I was playing, I was doing a guest star on a TV show.

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