Omahan Len Witte is the man behind the "South Park" style videos that animate segments of the "Todd & Tyler Radio Empire" for listeners of KEZO (92.3 FM).Witte, who is known as "Dick Payne" on the videos and in posts to the "Todd and Tyler Unauthorized" discussion forum, said he stumbled upon the idea while trying to hear a segment in which a co-worker called the popular morning show.
"That night I downloaded the MP3 and cut everything out besides his call," Witte said. "A couple of days later I was playing with Windows Movie Maker and had the idea of adding the audio from my coworker's call. Then I thought a cartoon would be cute and thought of the South Park character site that I had seen before."
Since then, Witte has created cartoon characters for each of the show's stars (Todd Brandt, Mike Tyler, Travis Justice, news reader Craig Evans and producer Jeremy Campbell) as well as regular guests, Dr. Ed Dominguez, Jay Medicine Hat, "Black Tony" and "Larry The Cable Guy."
Each character has 18 images, as well as the ability to blink their eyes. Witte said it takes him about a minute to create a single second of video. The longest of the 11 videos currently posted on YouTube is three minutes and 48 seconds.
Judging by the number of views, the videos are being seen by quite a few people. One of the first videos he created (last November) has been watched nearly 9,000 times.
"I am happy they (Todd and Tyler) like the clips," the 36-year-old said. "They keep me from playing poker online."
7 comments:
I am simply amazed that they refer to themselves as the "Todd & Tyler Radio Empire". That's some chutzpah.
I'm now waiting for the Todd & Tyler Radio Empire and their fleet of Star Destroyers to start conquering countries around the world, one by one.
Who are these guys? I'm Sirius.
Their show is all laughter. There is nobody who laughs that much at anything, much less Z92. It's obviously forced.
Todd: Boobs.
Todd/Tyler/Black Man/Dyslexic Sports Guy: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.
-Commercial for strip club in Council Bluffs-
Omaha must be redneck heaven. This crap might be funny at a Klan rally---are you people really that backward? I'd be embarassed to admit that people who think like this are from my hometown---you've got a long way to go, kids.
In the story about the new guy on KGOR (below this one), he kind of talks about how lame some Omaha radio really is.
It's only a matter of time before people grow tired of Todd & Tyler talking about national stuff. They made a name for themselves by making fun of local stuff.
As long as they keep fake laughing throughout the show, they will be fine. There are a lot of people that believe if they hear laughter, a show is funny.
Speaking of laughter...I hate the way Producer Jeremy laughs...gotta be fake...
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