Don LaFontaine has a wonderful, deep bass baritone voice and does most of the movie trailers we'll ever see. His nickname is the Voice of God.
Well, the Voice of God made an appearance on public radio over the weekend. While I was sitting in that icky, horrible traffic on my way down to Woodbridge, I got to hear Don LaFontaine make light chit chat with Peter Sagal and whomever else was on the show that day.
Don was playing in the "Not My Job" segment where they ask famous (or at least semi-famous) people questions about things they don't normally need to know anything about. (Don's topic was Steve Wynn's new Las Vegas casino resort.) Normally, the celebrity plays on behalf of a listener and if the celeb gets two right questions out of three, the listener gets Carl Kasell's voice doing the message on their home answering machine. I actually know someone who won this prize and I've been bitter with jealousy ever since.
Don wasn't doing too well - let's remember, folks, this man records probably 50,000 movie trailers an hour, so he doesn't have a lot of free time - so he offered to the do the outgoing message if he tanked. He tanked and Peter Sagal put him on the spot. Is he gonna do the message? He sure is.
How cool is that?!?!
So if anyone out there wishes to get me the coolest present ever - and happens to know Don LaFontaine - or knows someone who knows him - and Don owes them a favor or something .... well, my birthday is December 31st. And I would speak of you glowingly for years to come.
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