Warner Oland

And reading about it, one of the things they said was they discovered when they had movies like Fu Manchu and Charlie Chan, that if they had too many actual Asians in it, people started, they didn't like it because it made it real obvious.

I guess people, a lot of folks actually believe that, you know, Warner Oland was Asian because he was Charlie Chan.

But if you have an actual Asian person next to him, it's kind of obvious.

Well, he did have number one son, but he was adopted, right? So, you know, whatever.

One listener comments, "Glad to have you back, Adam.

Regarding this Charlie Chan series, I wish Warner Oland were voicing these." Well, it is always nice when you can get the same actor who plays the character in film to do the radio series, like with Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes or Chester Morris as Boston Blackie.

But it can be tricky in terms of, uh, from an economic standpoint, as well as scheduling, and of course, then you also have a matter of radio acting being a bit of a different skill than film acting.

But it- I'd agree, it definitely would be interesting.

Regarding Charlie Chan, Amanda says, "I'm very much enjoying this series.

Thank you." And then another listener writes, "Well, now I've gotten used to whoever this actor is as Charlie Chan.

I don't miss Warner Oland as much." Well, thanks so much.

Walter Connolly's certainly doing a, a good job putting his own spin on the character.