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No matter how you plan to give thanks, FamilyDollar is here, with amazing deals on everything but the turkey. Check out all the ways you can save on kitchen essentials like cookware, bakeware, and cooking utensils, then stock up on Thanksgiving staples such as canned veggies, soups, stuffing, and gravy. Shop with smart coupons for even greater discounts. Download the FamilyDollar app, clip, and save. FamilyDollar, helping you do more! Gina Gontec, Tom Muston, in for Marty Lenz this morning, on Colorado's Morning News. Hi, Eric Stratton, Russ Sherman, Dan, glad to meet you. Well, you know him from just about everything, TV and movies, from "Leave it to Beaver" and "Animal House" Fletch in the West Wing, and he has a pretty amazing story about everyone and everything in Hollywood. Yes, he does. And joining us now in the KOA Common Spirit Health Hotline is actor, director, producer, and now author of his new memoir title, Dan, glad to meet you. My seven decades in the Hollywood trenches, it's Tim Mathis and Tim, thanks for joining us. Hey, Tom. Hi, Gina. How are you? Doing well. Doing well. Nice to talk to you. It's so great to talk to you. And you know, I didn't realize that your Hollywood career span back to "Leave it to Beaver." I mean, most of us got to know you from "Animal House." Well, I was lucky enough to start as a kid, and I mean, I didn't amount to much. I just, you know, I did a couple of days here and a couple of days there, "Leave it to Beaver," my three sons, and different shows at Twilight Zone. And then, you know, but there were so many different phases of my career, and that, you know, I did Westerns. I was in Bonanza in the Virginia, and the Quest, and then I decided to change directions and get into improv and learn to do more comedy. And that's how I fell into "Animal House." And that sort of started my adult career, I would say, you know, playing Eric Strand. And it, Matt, Tim, it really encompasses all in this new book, along with many other famous personalities that you highlight in it. What prompted you to write this book? More importantly, the way that you wrote it, because it's almost like a book of advice and a how-to for inspiring actors. Yes, you know, what I wanted to do was, I learned so much from Lucy and Jackie Gleason and Henry Fonda and Dick Van Dyke and Bob Hope, I mean, because these people were from Vaudeville, and, you know, that generation gave me so much information that I wanted to pass it on for people to, we could learn from it, you know, because unless it could be lost, you know, if it's not, if it's not sort of recounted and passed on. And it was so helpful to me, and I think Lucy taught me was, it's not, it's a full-contact sport, show business. And you got to take the good with the bad and you better, you know, toughen up and don't be, don't be so sensitive over the same, because I was 17 when I first met her. She loved, she loved the acting I did, but she thought I was, you know, a little like sensitive and overly sensitive, and she helped toughen me up a bit. There you go. Well, you know, you've worked with some of the best directors in the best. I know you worked on Magnum Forest with Clint Eastwood, but most of us got to know you from Animal House. And I wanted to ask you, you know, you worked with John Belushi, who we all knew from Saturday at Live at the time, what was it like working with him, and did you know that movie would be so iconic when you were working on it? It was, it was the first comedy that was written by people, young people, for young people. I mean, because, you know, the movies of that era were, here's my hours, and there were Bob Hope movies, there was Rock Hudson and Doris Day comedies, and that's what, that's what was being done. But this thing comes along and read so well, John Belushi was the biggest star on TV. And, but when he showed up in Eugene to play this part, the director wanted him surrounded by real actors rather. He didn't want it to be a Saturday Nightlife sketch where it was broadened, you know, and too crazy. And he wanted it to be grounded in reality, and Belushi would be grounded in reality. And, and he was so helpful to me as my, it was my first comedy, he was so sweet and generous to me, and, and he was fabulous and, and, and a, and a dear person, and we lost him way too soon, but he was immensely talented. Well, Tim, as a millennial and a former sorority president, I just want to tell you that this movie truly is a cult classic, because we even made references, and the toga parties sure certainly still exist nowadays. Oh, yes, I write, you know, anytime around a college, I mean, it's still, my daughter, and she went, I never let her see it when she, but she went away to college. She's damn it. I told the party. You've got to say hi to my friend. Well, Tim, I got to say, thank you, sir, may I have another when it comes to your book? Well, we're really excited about to sort of be my eight decades. Yeah, there you go. The book is called "Damn Glad to Meet You," my seven decades of Hollywood trenches author Tim Mathison. Tim, great to talk to you. Nice to talk to you. Thank you. Thank you, Tom. Well, there's only one feeling like knowing your banker personally, like growing up with a bank you can count on, like being sure what you've earned is safe, secure, and local. There's only one feeling like knowing you're supporting your community. You deserve more from a bank. You deserve an institution that stood strong for generations. Bank of Colorado, there's only one. Remember FDIC. Preparing a Thanksgiving feast on a budget this year? No matter how you plan to give thanks, Family Dollar is here, with amazing deals on everything but the turkey. 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