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EdAgain
"Now therefore, fear the LORD, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the LORD! And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. BUT AS FOR ME AND MY HOUSE, WE WILL SERVE THE LORD." Joshua chapter 24 verses 14 and 15 NKJV
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We will try to present stories, ideas, goals, thoughts, anectdotes, dreams, prayers, and history of Edward right here within this area. Stay tuned, don't touch that dial you're tuned to KNUT. That's K-Nut! Cause Ed is one of the biggest nut in the cache!
E D N U T T E R Y or Ed's story of voice characters and such.
When we were still newly adopted and living in Columbus, Georgia. Mom had to sit little Franky (Ed) on her knee and teach him to talk without the Georgia drawl. Which was difficult because he had just learned to talk in the first place less than a year earlier! Mom would set him on her knee facing her and make him repeat and mouth the words "O-PEN YOUR MOUTH". She said "it sounds like you got mush in your mouth"! Now he gets paid to talk with that same mouth! If you didn't know it Edward was also born a hair-lip (cleft-lip) and so this was also a concern regarding getting him to speak correctly. When Ed was small, the thought processes that went on inside his head were soon learned to be vocalized in content as to authority. By authority he means that what kind of voice went with what thought was directly relevent to what kind of character would have come up with such a thought. If it was a thought like "don't do that Edward, you'll be in trouble", the voice would be "authored" by someone in charge, older, parental, adult etc. A silly stupid thought would of course be "authored" by a goofy voice. Get the idea? He originally got the idea from listening to his older brother David, who had already begun imitating the cartoons that we watched and listened to on television. Edward then applied this concept to his developing humorous outlook on life. Ed started to develop his "radio voice" as a teen. When Ed's dad got one of the early SONY cassette recorders for use in his college classes, Edward would snap it up and read the news from the Great Falls Tribune into it. Then Edward would get bold and interview his friends from church, Bruce Harpine and Elmer Arnold. This of course brought lots of humor to an otherwise dull learning process. During Ed's time in the USMC he would often goof off using his "radio voice" and do some voice characterizations. One time on a Naval ship he was invited to be guest DJ on the ships entertainment "radio" station. After his discharge from the Marine Corps, Ed took a semester of college at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California taking radio broadcasting courses, speech, and psychology. However the cost of living far exceeded his VA benefits, so he went to work and landed in the aircraft industry. In the early 80's Ed entered a "DJ contest" and was awarded runner-up and a discount to go to the Columbia School of Broadcasting in Hollywood and Anaheim. Ed achieved honor roll throughout his courses and was rewarded with a paying job in radio even before finishing the course. He had tried to acquire a position as an intern through the school's job placement program, but the director thought it would be best to just place him in a paying job. KWRM Corona California had the priviledge of having Ed at their Weekend board for over a year. Ed and his dream of voicing cartoon characters. While Ed was working at Hughes Aircrash Company in Fullerton and weekending at KWRM in Corona, Ed would check in on the job hotline offered to Columbia School of Broadcasting alumni. Hanna Barbera was looking for some fresh voice over talent for some new Christian cartoons series that they were going to be producing. Ed put together six of his richest voices and sent them off to Andrea Romano the casting director of Hanna Barbera at the time. Using patience and persistence, Ed called Andrea as soon as he got the return receipt saying that his tape and resume had arrived at Hanna Barbera. Andrea hadn't had the chance to listen to Ed's tape yet, but said that she would. Ed called again two days later and she still had not listened, but promised that she would make it a point to listen to it over the weekend. Monday about 11am Ed called and reached Andrea again. This time she had listened to his tape as she had promised and mentioned that normally they wanted 10 voices and not 6, but several voices that he did were quite impressive and unique, especially the one called "pretty bird"! Now she had to ask him some questions before she invited him up to audition at Hanna Barbera. The first two questions sunk his ship. One was "are you a member of S.A.G.?" Ed had really no idea at the time what S.A.G. was but now he wasn't a member. Two, "are you a member of A.F.T.R.A.? Same answer there. So no interview, no job. He was advised to take a special course being given in southern Orange County by Gordon Jump (the Big guy in WKRP In Cincinatti, and the Maytag repairman) that would get him in to A.F.T.R.A. within 6-9 months. Instead, Ed got married and let his wife talk him out of going for his dream. Of course Ed now takes that responsibility as his and the fact that he did not stand up for his dream can only be his own fault.
The continuing saga of a madman..... well, at least he's K-nuts!
Ed's first job in radio was in Corona, California at KWRM, known on the air as K-Warm (we called it K-worm). He ended his first year as a country music jock known as "Zane Marshall". Ed suffered a case of appendicitis and had to take some medical leave for about a month. During this time, KWRM had already replaced him. Edward went on to work at KYMS - "The Eagle" Christian radio in Santa Ana, California as a weekend board engineer. This lasted for several months until a supervisor at his full-time aircraft industry job (Northrop Aircraft Co.) decided that Ed should work mandatory overtime on weekends and quit his radio job. Unfortunately, that is what happened. As soon as the supervisor found out that Ed no longer had his weekend radio job, the mandatory overtime ended.
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