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In 1957 – I was seven – I went to Sleepaway camp with Paul Winchel’s daughter. Naturally, dad brought Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smit and put on a show. In 1975, I was in the same est training as Paul. I told him the camp story. He was speechless.

But seriously, I’ve long dreamed of doing an oral history of ventriloquism, including material from the dummy’s point of view.

One of these days…

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Oh my god. I would totally read a book about ventriloquism with actual dummy interviews.

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LOLOL "prepubescent think tank"

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Weirdly, we were never funded by the government, despite some really forward-thinking ideas.

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😂😂😂

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