He played a couple of different roles in SG-1, but you wouldn’t necessarily believe it under make-up! SGU’s “Brody” actor Peter Kelamis sits down with David to explore his Stargate history, along with all the broken noses that made it to screen!

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Timecodes
0:00 – Splash Screen
0:20 – Opening Credits
0:46 – Welcome and Episode Outline
1:40 – Call to Action
2:51 – Guest Introduction
5:00 – Are you a science fiction fan?
7:54 – The Acting Bug
9:30 – When did you start getting your feet wet?
11:24 – Personal Heroes
12:48 – Did you feel affecting on people’s’ lives positively though the work?
15:13 – Military involvement in Stargate Continuum
16:18 – First appearance in the franchise (SG1 6×14 Smoke and Mirrors)
20:34 – Did you sense that the people from the previous show would carry into SGU?
22:17 – Doyle Boron and a Broken Nose (SG1 7×08 Space Race)
28:31 – Auditioning for Adam Brody
31:53 – What was it like to work with Robert Carlyle?
34:49 – Incorporating comedy into the show (SGU 2×14 Hope)
40:02 – On-set memories
47:01 – Who did you find yourself gravitating with more from a human to human standpoint?
48:14 – Do you have any aspects you could’ve dived into in Season Three?
49:56 – Two Seasons of SGU
52:20 – SGU as a Trail Blazer
53:55 – SGA Cancellation and SGU Commencement
56:39 – Destiny Set
58:36 – Would you like to return to the franchise in any form?
1:01:08 – Any more movement in Dragon Ball universe?
1:02:17 – Any news for us to look out for? (New movie and Riverdale)
1:04:40 – Fans deserve another Stargate
1:06:15 – Post-Interview Housekeeping
1:09:35 – End Credits

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TRANSCRIPT
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David Read:
Might help if I turn my mic on. Welcome to Episode 3, with a 6 in front of it. 63. Dialing Home. Or not even… One of these days, or one of these times when you wish you could start over and do your show all over again but it’s live. Welcome to Episode 63 of Dial the Gate. My name is David Read. Thanks so much for tuning in. If you tuned in for the Cliff Simon tributes, thank you so much for that. It’s time now to, as Cliff would say, show must go on. And that was definitely one of the things that he believed in, so we’re gonna do the same here. So, I’d like to bring in Peter Kelamis in just a couple of minutes here. Brody from Stargate Universe. One of my favorites. Before we do that, I would invite you to share this show. If you like Stargate and you wanna see more content like this on YouTube, it would mean a great deal if you click the Like button. It really makes the difference with YouTube’s algorithm [and] will definitely help the show grow its audience. Please also consider sharing this video with a Stargate friend, and if you wanna get notified about future episodes, click the Subscribe icon. Giving the bell icon a click will notify you the moment a new video drops, and you’ll get my notifications of any last-minute guest changes. This is key if you plan on watching live. And clips from this live stream will be released over the course of the next several days on GateWorld.net’s YouTube channel. So, for this episode I am gonna be inviting you to go to youtube.com/dialthegate to submit questions to Peter live, and then I will go ahead and get those over to him and as… I’ve got someone pinging me here so I’ve gotta stop that. And then, before we bring those questions in, I’ll have a conversation with Peter here as well. So, without further ado, Mr. Peter Kelamis. Brody of Stargate Universe. Thank you so much for joining us on Dial the Gate, sir.

Peter Kelamis:
Thank you for having me. I appreciate it.

David Read:
How are you doing? How are things going?

Peter Kelamis:
I am good. Obviously, we’re all reeling from the news regarding Cliff, which goes without saying. We’re all processing that in our own way but I think rarely would you and will you ever meet a person who enjoyed life any more than that guy.

David Read:
Absolutely.

Peter Kelamis:
He’s the type of guy that… I never worked with him on screen ever. We were on different incarnations of Stargate so I never worked with him directly, but I did conventions with him and what a guy. What an incredibly warm and wonderful human being, and he will be sorely missed.

David Read:
I appreciate you still going ahead and joining us. Part of me was thinking, “Well, maybe I should reschedule with Peter,” and then I remembered you with Gary Jones at Gatecon and just laughing my guts out with the two of you on stage doing, I think it was cabaret night. And I remember it was so much fun. And Gary Jones had… I was, like, “He’s met his match,” and I didn’t think that was possible and you absolutely just about stole it from him. So, I was, like, “You know what? Let’s have… Go ahead and have Peter on after this so that we can have some laughs.” So, Peter, “Bark like a seal.”

Peter Kelamis:
And you mentioned Gary. I did improv with Gary back in the old days at the now defunct Punch Science Comedy Club. So, I was part of the improv group that used to work there so it was dusting off the rust for me. I know Gary still does much more improv than I do so I was intimidated but thanks for the kind evaluation.

David Read:
It certainly did not look like it so absolutely. Are you a science fiction fan?

Peter Kelamis:
I’m a huge science fiction fan, to a point where any time… We have a 12-year-old daughter so getting in charge of the TV can be a challenge sometimes. “What are we gonna watch? What she wans to watch.” That’s what’s gonna happen. That’s what’s happening. Once everybody goes to bed and you get the Netflix to yourself and all that, it’s straight to the sci-fi for me. It always has been. Last night I rewatched… It said, “Continue watching Blade Runner.” Yes.

David Read:
Absolutely. The new one or the old one?

Peter Kelamis:
Sorry, the original.

David Read:
Yes. And all six versions of it.

Peter Kelamis:
You can still see me, correct? There you are.

David Read:
You’re all good.

Peter Kelamis:
Yeah, the original one.

David Read:
It’s one of the greatest movies that are out there and I didn’t see it until the last seven or eight years ago. I was, like, “Man, did I miss something while I was growing up. So trippy.”

Peter Kelamis:
So trippy. And the cinematography is just… You can tell, even just, like, sometimes a single shot. You look at it in details. Somebody worked on that for weeks. Everything was just… It was incredible. It’s incredible.

David Read:
Isn’t it creepy how much science fiction that came out in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s has now become science fact?

Peter Kelamis:
Absolutely. There’s been a few articles about the Star Trek connection to everything from camcorders, which are now iPads or phones, communicators, all that sort of thing.

David Read:
Exactly right. Right here.

Peter Kelamis:
Exactly. Scanners that are handheld that can find a piece of metal in your body or more substantial than that. It’s incredible. I don’t know… I guess it’s the old… Does the horse lead the cart kind of thing, I think, in a way where people think, “Hey, wouldn’t it be great to have that? OK. Well, let’s work on that.”

David Read:
I think it really does contribute to human ingenuity where we can will something into solid reality because someone else has paved the way of, “Wouldn’t it be nice to do this?” There are a lot of different approaches to everything. We just have to put things together in the right sequence with the right stuff, and we make it happen.

Peter Kelamis:
Exactly.

David Read:
It’s a little scary.

Peter Kelamis:
It’s funny, too, when you think of certain shows like Mad Men and the very, very early episodes he’s, like, “Hey, is this the only copy of this?” “Well, yeah, unless you got some kind of machine that can make another copy. Some sort of space age machine.” “What, are you nuts?” So, there’s references to that all over the place but a lot of times you look back and it’s hilarious.

David Read:
Absolutely. How old were you when you discovered that acting was gonna be your life? When did you realize that you have the bug?

Peter Kelamis:
Very early. I used to get in a lot of trouble at school because I used to watch The Carol Burnett Show. It was my big, big thing and my favorite part was at the end when they would ask her questions and then she would kind of answer off the cuff. But watching people like Harvey Korman and specifically Tim Conway do their thing, that was just magic to me. Instantly it’s, like, “Oh my God. That’s what I wanna do if I can pull it off somehow.” And I remember this one quote. It was my… 1977 so I was like 11. 10 or 11 years old. We went to a friend’s birthday and God bless his mother, she put up with all these screaming boys and she took us out for dinner and then she took us to Star Wars. The most magical night of my life. We came out of there… Being an adult and watching Star Wars at that age was a mindblower but you can imagine being 10 years old and watching it. And I remember thinking at the time, because all my friends were, like, “Wouldn’t it be cool to be Luke Skywalker,” and I actually remember saying… I go, “No, it would be even cooler to be Mark Hamill playing Luke Skywalker.” That would have been better than that if there’s such a thing.

David Read:
When did you… Were you in high school plays? College? When did you start doing…? When did you start getting your feet wet?

Peter Kelamis:
I can be very funny around groups, especially friends or house parties. When I loosen up, I’m a lot of fun but I’m actually very… I’m quite shy, heading into new situations and new people. Even doing stand-up, there’s a lot of time I would be more comfortable in a room full of 300 strangers than meeting a new person for the first time often.

David Read:
Why do you think that is?

Peter Kelamis:
I don’t know what kind of insecurity that says. I don’t really know. I just enjoy entertaining people. I enjoy making them laugh. When they laugh, maybe it’s just the endorphin rush of me thinking I’ve accomplished something. I don’t know where the mentality is, but I just enjoy it so much. Where I enjoy people telling really good stories and recounting interesting characters they may ran across in their daily life. I love that stuff. I always have.

David Read:
There is something about connecting with a large group of people that is utterly infectious. And you’re right. It is a high. There is a dopamine release when that happens, when you truly connect with a group of people. And other times, you’ve done standup, it’s, like, “Oh, that was a bomb. Moving on.”

Peter Kelamis:
There’s some shows where you come out of there and you’re, like, “What the hell happened?” And it’s sometimes the same material you did on the early show the same night.

David Read:
Isn’t that weird?

Peter Kelamis:
And it killed.

David Read:
It’s the room.

Peter Kelamis:
And people on the late show hate it. And hopefully as you get more experience, you figure out how to correct those issues.

David Read:
Peter, who are your heroes? Personally, in your life. Those people who motivated you, you looked up to and professionally, who helped you in your journey, whether you knew them or not?

Peter Kelamis:
It’s funny. It’s such a… It’s a weird question because you gotta almost figure out where the parameters are for something like that.

David Read:
Right. A lot of people say, “Well, heroes. MLK. If we wanna talk about a hero.” I mean more narrowly.

Peter Kelamis:
Growing up for me it was watching these entertainers, and I remember when I first saw the first Peter Sellers movie, I was, like, “Oh my, this guy’s a god. The commit[ment]… Not a commitment to character. He completely transformed into a completely different person before your eyes and you never for a second doubted it that that wasn’t a complete being unto itself that is not related to the actor. So for me [it] was people who perform and entertain and things like that. If you go to another level, there’s the JFKs and things like that. When I started getting into high school and learning about different pieces of history and things like that. But for me, growing up, it was the entertainers. The entertainers were the biggest icons for me.

David Read:
They are the ones who lead the charge in transforming so much of culture and adjusting us as we go along. And seeing what’s… Tapping into what’s acceptable and what’s not and getting us to adopt new ideas and new thoughts, for better or for worse. It’s a powerful thing. It’s one of those situations where it’s like… When you get to be placed in an important franchise like Stargate, which has had such a positive effect on people’s lives over the years… Just chicken soup. So much of it’s just pure satisfaction. It’s gotta be, like, “OK. Here we go. It’s now my turn and let’s make it good.”

Peter Kelamis:
And when you say that I didn’t maybe fully realize until I started getting to conventions.

David Read:
Really?

Peter Kelamis:
Oftentimes. There were fans that were really emotional when they would meet you but oftentimes, members of the military would come up to your table, many times in uniform, and thank you. You could see it in their eyes it was a really heartfelt “Thank you.” One individual said he was hurt during active duty and while he was recovering, he would watch the show and it kind of helped. Not just helped them because, “That’s what got me through,” and you’re, like, “Wow.” I’m a paid individual. I’m an actor and I love what I do, and I love this particular show more than anything else.

David Read:
You’re working.

Peter Kelamis:
Yeah, but for it to have that kind of an effect on somebody really meant something special.

David Read:
Was that something that you guys were aware of while you were filming the third incarnation of this thing? Subconsciously. Obviously, you’re not talking about it on set. You’re doing the work. But how visceral was that when you were in the midst of the work?

Peter Kelamis:
We knew, based on the other shows, because the other shows at that time have been on 17 years maybe.

David Read:
It’s been a while.

Peter Kelamis:
Maybe about 15 years. 10 and five?

David Read:
So, it was 2009 that you guys came out and SG-1 came on in ’97. 12 years.

Peter Kelamis:
I think I’m fairly close to that. But we knew how much the military was even involved in the filming. I remember… Gosh, was it Continuum when the submarine came up through the ice?

David Read:
Yes.

Peter Kelamis:
And I remember… I think it was a Gatecon. Was it Gatecon when…? And I’m trying to remember [if] it was Brad Wright that was describing when they coordinated with the military as to how that was gonna happen. And it’s basically, “Oh, we’re gonna send a laser from space to the ice and then the submarine is down there somewhere and it’s gonna shoot up and so just set up your cameras and if we get it right then it’ll come up here.” And you’re, like, “God. It’s unbelievable.”

David Read:
“If you feel a rumble, run.”

Peter Kelamis:
So, we knew that military really appreciated the show, and I think they were treated very respectfully within the franchise and that’s probably why it’s such a good association between the two.

David Read:
Your first appearance in Stargate SG-1 is in Smoke and Mirrors as Dr. Brent Langham. And there is a great scene between you and Christopher Judge. It’s just a pure intimidation and tactics scene. There’s humor there. There still is humor there, even though the guy absolutely comes off as scared-es-less. Tell us about getting cast originally.

Peter Kelamis:
Getting cast was… Here’s the story. I auditioned for Stargate so many times, to the point where I couldn’t… I never got hired. And I literally told my agent… He called up and he said, “You have another audition for Stargate.” I was, like, “Why? Let’s just say no. Because I’m not what they’re looking for. I don’t know what they’re looking for but I’m not getting it. Or something’s not working. Let’s save everybody a whole lot of time, including them, and instead of me going in and not getting the gig, how about I save some of their time not go in and not get the gig. How about we do that and everybody saves an afternoon.” And he was, like, “No, no. Go in.” And I went in and it was Peter DeLuise who was directing the episode, who I absolutely love, and I kind of quickly developed a Peter DeLuise impression that I would crack. And I did it in front of him all the time. So, it wasn’t like [inaudible]. Because DeLuise would come at you with direction, it was stilted, little words here and there, and you didn’t quite understand and then he’d yell, “Action,” before you had time to figure it out. So, scene where you’re gonna come in, you’re gonna look out the window and you see something out there that’s coming at the ship, and you run for help. And then he would come in and go, “OK. So, you come in, you see the thing, you look right at it and then you go into this. Action!” “What the hell am I doing?” Somehow it all works. You learn how to understand DeLuise-an.

David Read:
That’s great.

Peter Kelamis:
Then it’s cake from there. It’s a cake walk from there. So, I went in and, God bless him, he was directing that episode. And I had auditioned, like I said, so many times. I think I auditioned for Andy Mikita and all these great directors that I eventually ended up being lucky enough to work with. So, Peter cast me, and I finally got in, and there’s a scene, like you say, with Chris Judge, and I’ve been captured, I was manipulating these mimic devices, and I got caught. So, I’m in an interrogation room and it’s really dark and it’s intimidating and then DeLuise comes in, “OK. So, this guy is coming in. He’s very large. You don’t know what’s gonna happen. Go.” And then we do it. I don’t even think Teal’c has a line. I had to rewatch… I don’t think he says anything.

David Read:
That’s the point.

Peter Kelamis:
The character’s intimidated. He’s answering questions like a Muppet because [inaudible], “OK. I did it. And then I did that.” He only does, “Mhm.” I don’t think he says anything. So, we did it a few times and DeLuise is trying to get the inner emotion up from me. I’m already scared but he really wanted to peak it. So, on the final take, he comes up to me and goes, “OK. This guy’s here. He locks the door. It’s just your name and there’s a big possibility he could rape you. Action!” And that’s the take they used. Chris Judge just hovering over you and it’s, like, “Alright. Let’s get it over with.”

David Read:
The things that directors do to get a performance. Hearing some interesting stories over the years and that absolutely does not surprise me from Peter DeLuise. He is a force of nature, and you just get out of his way and do what you can to help him. Crazy guy. That sounds about right. Did you get a sense of the workings of that group of people that would carry into SGU at that point?

Peter Kelamis:
I think yes and no. SGU, it felt like Stargate, but it was clearly a different Stargate in tone, in look and feel, camera movement, everything. The gate was there so you had an instant familiarity with the show, but it was a very different beast. And there was a couple of times where very prominent cast member from previous series guest starred on SGU. And sometimes it looked a little stilted. RDA was on and he was his jovial self, cracking the jokes and stuff like that. And I remember a scene where he cracked the joke and then Louis Ferreira, Lieutenant Young or Captain Young…

David Read:
Colonel Young. Keep going up.

Peter Kelamis:
Louis Ferreira. I remember Louis’ face, just like… So, it was just this… You could tell RDA was used to the jokes being lobbed over and received, and this time it was, like, “Listen. I’m not even really here. I’m on a communication stone. You’re seeing my consciousness.”

David Read:
Your avatar, yeah.

Peter Kelamis:
“And I’m trying to get home. So, can we cut the shit?” So, it was a mix of things but it was always really cool when somebody from the previous series made an appearance. We loved it.

David Read:
Before we get to SGU, you were in another Stargate SG-1 episode the following season, and unless you were listening for your voice, it would be easy to miss you under all that makeup. You were a Hebridian character by the name of Coyle Boron, who was a race announcer for the Loop of Kon Garat. Tell us about…

Peter Kelamis:
That one, I had to look that up, too. I mean, I knew who the character was but all that other stuff, you got it.

David Read:
The Loop of Kon Garant was a Hebridian race, and you were one of the race announcers, and you must have listed seven or eight different fictitious products and sponsors. What was it like under all that makeup and those, I think, contact lenses, if I’m not mistaken. What was that like putting all that on and making that show happen? Very different type of Stargate episode.

Peter Kelamis:
You know what? Under the best circumstances, getting under all that stuff and having contacts and all that is very confining, and you can get claustrophobic and all those things. To make things worse, literally the night before a friend of mine asked me to join their no contact softball league because they were short a player. And I’m, like, “Yeah, sure. I gotta work in the morning but it’s a 6 p.m. game and so how bad can it be?” So, I go, and it turns out that this woman decided it was gonna be contact without letting anybody else know. So, I’m shortstop, the ball is coming at me, and she comes at me shoulder first and breaks my nose over the other side of my face. Literally smashed. So, off I go to emergency and this is literally what happens. The doctor’s, like, “OK.” Because my wife shows up there because I call her, and she’s like… I’m in the waiting room and I’m, like, “Do you think it’s broken?” And it’s a way over here. The nose is over here. And she’s, like, “Yeah. That’s broken.” “Well, maybe it’s just moved up.” “No, broken.” The doctor comes in and goes, “OK, well, we’re gonna have to push that back in.” He goes, “I’m just gonna give you a little bit of this,” and he literally says, this is a quote, he goes, “Well, you’re an actor, you’re probably used to this. Just gonna give you a little cocaine.” I’m, like, “What?” It’s literally cocaine on a matchstick and they swab it around in there because they’re about to put his lower heel from his shoe on your face, move it back over. So, he gives me the coke and that starts kicking in and I’m getting all excited, “Hey, wow! Feeling good.” I’m going around the emergency room, ripping over curtains from other people. I don’t even know who they are. “Hey, they’re giving coke over here. I don’t know if you guys are in pain. They’re handing it out for free. I know a guy.” And then I open up a curtain and there’s another actor, Michael Banyar, who’s there passing a stone. But out of nowhere, there he is, bloated out to her and there’s Kelamis, high on coke, opening up, “Hey! Michael Banyar! I got coke over here.” Literally that’s what’s happening. So, he comes back, they push the nose over and they have to put a metal brace over my nose and then I get home and it’s near 11 o’clock right now, and I’m trying to call producers of the show to let them know that my face has been beaten. And I’m trying to make these calls with the coke in my head. And I got a hold of some people. I don’t even know what I said to this dude, like, “What the hell you were talking about when you called me?” “I called you?” I show up on set and God bless the producers. They all came in one at a time in makeup chair, and I still had this full metal brace on there, and I think it was John N. Smith who was a producer, but nobody ever saw him. He was like Snuffleupagus of the series.

David Read:
That’s right.

Peter Kelamis:
You knew him by name. Nobody had ever seen him. But I guess he heard that Kelamis busted his schnozz and, like Audi king out of hiding, comes down, he looks at me and goes, “Oh, wow. When I was younger, I broke my nose and look at this. Look at the movement on there.” So, he turns to the special effects makeup person and says, “Have we ever seen this species of alien before?” And they’re, like, “No, it’s the first time.” He goes, “OK. Well, they’re gonna have a big nose.” They constructed the entire makeup over the metal brace.

David Read:
Wow. So, you were wearing it?

Peter Kelamis:
Yeah, I’m still wearing it. I had to do all my scenes… There was no time to get anybody else. I think, from a realistic point, that would have been a better plan, but they had no time. This was late at night for filming in the morning. So, off we went and being in all that makeup, we did all our scenes in a row. And we had multiple scenes and multiple little snippets. And I was working with Colin Murdock, who was another Vancouver actor, who’s fantastic and very, very funny. So, it was good being with somebody that I knew and we got through it. You go back and watch that episode, those is…

David Read:
The nose is much larger. I’ll be darned. Look at that.

Peter Kelamis:
There’s a full broken nose brace underneath.

David Read:
It’s interesting because the race was introduced in Season Six, but the human Hebridian hybrids had never been seen before. So, that was a real… Because you actually have hair there, underneath there. And you’re all up in coke land. Or coming down from it.

Peter Kelamis:
Coming down.

David Read:
Wow. Going under all that prosthetics is hard enough and dealing with just things happen in your personal life, that was so cool. I’ve hears tory after story where the Stargate production team said, “OK. So, this is how it’s gonna be. We’ll just make things work.” The show must go on.

Peter Kelamis:
Yeah, show must go on. They were all very, very nice. They kept checking, “Are you ok? You need a break?” And I’m, like, “No, I’m good.”

David Read:
Tell us about auditioning for Adam Brody and the journey that was gonna be Destiny.

Peter Kelamis:
It was late in December, and my agent called and said, “They’re doing a new Stargate series.” I’m, like, “OK.” So, there’s a role that came up and they want you to go in and read for it.” So, I went in, I read for it and that was it. Went home. Christmas happens. New Year Eve’s. All that you forget about. It’s the end of the year. Rarely do you audition that late in the year. Usually, they shut things down, this kind of thing. The agent called. It was around January 4th or something. It was very early in the year, and she said, “They wanna see you again for the Stargate show.” I’m, like, “Which one?” She goes, “The Stargate. Remember?” “I don’t.” “The scientist…” “Oh, yeah.” So, I go in and Andy Mikita was there, and I did the scene and he’s, like, “That was great. Thank you for coming in.” And halfway home I got the call, and they go, “Yeah. You got it.” I’m, like, “Right.” And then goes to, “OK. Well, how many days of work is it?” Because we didn’t know. And as the show went on, I nicknamed it “Survivor in space.” Because we didn’t know who was gonna die off. Which character was gonna commit suicide or fly through an air lock. We didn’t know.

David Read:
Or turn into a data a data stream on the Destiny computer.

Peter Kelamis:
We literally… It sounds funny but it’s true. We used to… When they handed out new script for the next episode, sometimes they would be… They’d come off the press still hot from the photocopier. And they’d start handing them out and we would grab them. Especially me, Patrick Gilmore, Jen Spence, that scientist crew.

David Read:
The trio.

Peter Kelamis:
The trio. We would go to the last page and start going backwards to see if we were still alive at the end. Because if you see your name on page, like, 118, you’re, like, “Yes.”

David Read:
“I made it, baby.”

Peter Kelamis:
“I made it.” And that’s what we would do. And even at the very last episode of the first season, I remember looking at Gilmore and we were trying to analyze if we’re coming back or if we die, and he was stuck on the ship and then I ran off with Rush at the very end. So, I was, like, “I don’t know what’s gonna happen to you but I’m with Rush so I’m probably OK.” This is literally how we would analyze our existence as actors on the show. But it was such a good time. As dark and serious as the tone of the show was, completely opposite as far as the acting behind the scenes. When we had scenes together, especially in the mess hall, we get in so much trouble because the jokes… We couldn’t stop and just laughing. And Ming-na’s laugh, you could hear across the ship. Loudest, most… I’ve never heard a person enjoy laughing more than Ming. God bless her. It’s a wonderful sound. If you ever get to hear it at that level, it’s great.

David Read:
Bobby Carlyle. What was it like working with that magician?

Peter Kelamis:
Loved it. I was already a fan and going in there, there was a number of actors that I obviously was familiar with based on their work, like Lou Diamond Phillips and Louis Ferreira, and obviously Bobby Carlyle. He’s just such a great, straightforward kind of guy. He’s just meticulous with the work. I don’t think I ever saw him screw up a line once. He was always just so not just prepared but just so good. Every little scene. I remember this one time, he was in a dream state in the chair, and they had electrodes stuck to him. And I was describing what we were gonna try to do to pull him out or the risks of disconnecting, if I remember correctly. And I’m doing the scenes to the other actor, and I would do the scene, and I would look back at Carlyle in the chair, who had no lines, he’s in a coma, and I saw him do this, like, just… So, he’s having a conversation while he’s under moving his lips. That’s something that I don’t think 99 percent of actors doing that shot would think, “Oh, well…” In his mind, he’s somewhere else. He’s having a conversation and his mouth is moving, which is… It was such a little thing, but I remember right there going, “Damn, look at this guy.”

David Read:
He’s still acting.

Peter Kelamis:
He’s still acting being a corpse on a chair.

David Read:
For all intents and purposes.

Peter Kelamis:
Imagine [inaudible]? Wow!

David Read:
Alaina Huffman had said, when she first met him, that he was very quiet.

Peter Kelamis:
He is.

David Read:
And had almost a mumbling reach with his voice. And that, with the Scottish accent, she was, like, “Oh my God. We’re screwed. No one’s gonna understand this guy.” And then the cameras rolled, and his presence was right there, and it just came out and just, like, “Oh, I get it now. OK.” Just a transformation.

Peter Kelamis:
He actually toned the Scottish down a little bit.

David Read:
For American audiences?

Peter Kelamis:
Yes. And the only reason I know that… Well, working with him every day. But knowing that, one time he had one of his best friends visit from Scotland and we were outside of the trailers, and then you when old buddies get together, like old drinking buddies?

David Read:
Their shorthand.

Peter Kelamis:
Right away, it’s, like, “Oh, that’s my mate, he’s from Scotland.” “Hey, guys!” How’re you doing? I came to visit Bobby.” We turned to each other, and we didn’t understand a word.

David Read:
That’s great. Jeez, man. It’s a wonderful cast of characters that you guys had. So many more stories were supposed to be told but I loved the shorthand between you and Jen Spence and Patrick Gilmore. The repartee back and forth, ping-ponging between all three of you, and then you’ve got David Blue on one side, and you’ve got Carlyle on the other, and then all the military officers all around. It was a treat to get to see all of these parts moving in different unexpected ways. The dialogue was just brilliant.

Peter Kelamis:
Thank you. I started doing… I’m sorry. My dog is running around here.

David Read:
No, it’s all good. We love dogs.

Peter Kelamis:
They didn’t know that I did stand-up. I started doing stand-up when I was 18 years old, but they had no clue, the producers, that I did that. And I remember being in the lunch line up one day with Patrick Gilmore and then Joe Mallozzi was in front of us. I don’t even know how it even came up in the conversation. He said, “Well, weren’t you in that show?” And Mallozzi turned around and he’s, like, “What show? What are you talking about?” “He does stand-up. Stand-up comedy.” He’s, like, “What?” And after that day, it’s almost, like, I had a bit of a license to screw around a little more. That whole episode when Volker was getting the kidney transplant.

David Read:
Yes. I was about to bring it up with the batteries.

Peter Kelamis:
With the batteries and all that. I literally just did that in rehearsal. That’s not in the script. I just did the rehearsal with the batteries. The cast was trying to hold it together but all I could hear were the producers over there cracking up. And then they yelled, “Cut,” and they came running over and said, “Do that again.”

David Read:
“That thing that you did. One more”

Peter Kelamis:
Because it was literally… I thought they were gonna go, “OK. You gotta cool it with the extra…” But they let me do it.

David Read:
That’s great. Did you have any recommendations on the song or was that in post?

Peter Kelamis:
No. You know what? They were gonna… They ended up using that but originally, they were gonna use… What was he gonna use?

David Read:
Also sprach Zarathustra. I’m sure that was a part of it because that was a part of the episode but the song that comes on instead…

Peter Kelamis:
Yes, you’re right. That is what they were gonna do and then the yadda-yadda, which I think worked out better because of the ridiculousness of this. And I remember, I knew I was milking it too much when I think… I’m doing the batteries and I’m trying them out looking over, and I think it was Alaina Huffman when I looked over. And I’m doing it for so long, she actually had to take another breath. That’s how long I would take. Then she… I’m just waiting for him to yell, “Cut!”

David Read:
Alaina. I say it every once in a while. I would have loved to see her take command of the ship more often. She had a presence about here. She could have run that ship.

Peter Kelamis:
She was a badass character. She’s just great.

David Read:
Absolutely. I wanted to know what it was like to wear this bad boy.

Peter Kelamis:
I just was admiring all your stuff earlier on. Wow.

David Read:
Thank you. I’m not sure if that’s the one or not because there were three of them.

Peter Kelamis:
I don’t know. But I was one of the earlier, not the earliest, people to wear it, in the scene of me and Riley when he gets blown up.

David Read:
Exactly.

Peter Kelamis:
In the corridor there. So, we wore those, and they were… You need three people to put them on, which is kind of…

David Read:
It’s crazy.

Peter Kelamis:
…mannequin yourself and then they… It’s like a human version of Iron Man. You just go like this, “Clink, clink, clink.” [Drill sounds] And they put me together! And then the last thing is here, put this mask on. So, put the mask on and it was so hot. It was really cooking. And to the point where the second AD yelled, “Cut,” they had to rip them off, we had little fans and stuff.

David Read:
Give you guys a break.

Peter Kelamis:
After that, because I think me and Riley were complaining about it, being whiney about it…

David Read:
Haig Sutherland.

Peter Kelamis:
It was great. Just so much fun. They installed these mechanical little fans in the back part there with battery packs so people… So, we took the hit for everybody initially, and then everybody else got the…

David Read:
Like, “We’re not doing that. You’re gonna have to put those in if you want us to put them on.” Crazy stuff.

Peter Kelamis:
We suffered for everybody.

David Read:
I have fan questions coming in and I do wanna get to them. I wanna start bringing them in and I’ll come back around to ask some more of mine here. So, I loved Brody’s liquor stand.

Peter Kelamis:
I loved it.

David Read:
It was terrific. The parts of all these props were gorgeous. The steampunk style stuff. I loved that telescope, too, in that observation deck. Have you ever distilled liquor in real life and if so, did it turn out better than on Destiny?

Peter Kelamis:
Years ago, I went to one of these make-your-own-wine shop things. I think it was Chardonnay to piss because that’s what it tasted like. Horrible. Don’t ever go to those things. It’s completely…

David Read:
That’s the name of it?

Peter Kelamis:
No, I just made that up. That’s what it should have been called after I tasted it. Don’t ever go to those things. Just buy. If you want an expensive bottle of wine, go buy wine. It’s like cool-aid crystals in wine bottle. It’s horrible. So, I’ve never done it beyond that. No. Jeremy Heiner. Oh, by the way, it’s a font.

Peter Kelamis:
I love hearing it.

David Read:
Great moment. “Did you have any input into the script there, into naming the country Futura?”

Peter Kelamis:
No.

David Read:
Or that’s something you just received?

Peter Kelamis:
Yeah, that was fully scripted. Again, going back to DeLuise, oftentimes he would look for the little things. There was a quick scene once where I was on one of the consoles and somebody said something to me, and as they’re walking away, we’re talking about Einstein. And then he started coming up with these facts. He just let the camera roll and goes, “Just do a whole bunch of lines in a row.” And he gave me some things, like, “Just kind of like Einstein. He never wore socks. He never had a driver’s license. He only bathed once a week.” And don’t know how many we did. It was one of these… You never know what they’re gonna use.

David Read:
Absolutely. Would you watch the show as it aired?

Peter Kelamis:
Yes.

David Read:
Did you guys…? Did any of you guys have watch parties together?

Peter Kelamis:
We did early on. We had a few of them but after that it became more difficult because we were gone a lot of times, people were working, or getting to set, off set, or whatever, what have you. So, it’s a little more difficult after that.

David Read:
When you watch it, are you hoping that certain takes are gonna be used or is it, like, “Oh, they did go ahead and used that one,” or “OK. I thought I did better over here?” Is the work such a wash of everything that you just content to sit down and watch it?

Peter Kelamis:
I give directors, producers and editors of that show credit because they picked fantastic takes every time. I don’t think I ever came out of there saying, “I wish they used that take,” and they didn’t. Except once. It was towards the end of our… Beginning of our summer break. And one of the producers comes up and he said, “Listen, I don’t know if you heard. We’re gonna have… You have a shower scene.” I’m, like, “What are you talking about?” And he goes, “No, no. We’re gonna come back. We’re gonna do a scene on the planet. We show Greer in this beautiful mega flourished planet of greenery and all, and then we pan back to the shop and you’re showing the really dungeony conditions on the ship and then there’s you in the shower.” And I’m, like, “Are you serious?” “Yes.” So, that’s it. It ruined my summer. There I am waiting the whole summer. No burgers for Kelamis. Nothing. No beer. Just nothing and then I just… I was proud of myself because I probably got into the best shape of my life and whatever in the month and a half we had off, and then we’d come back, and I was so nervous because I’m not Brian J. Smith. I don’t get a lot of shirtless…

David Read:
His shirt was always getting lost.

Peter Kelamis:
He could be going to a job interview, “What about if he had no shirt? What if we do that?” So, anyways, I got in shape. I was still nervous. When you get to set and you do a thing like that, they poor makeup girl has to come in with a series of banana hammocks that you gotta choose from to cover up your parts. And she’s blushing and you’re just, like, “I don’t know. That one. I’ll wear that one.” “Really? The leopard skin?” “Yeah. Why not?” So, I get to set, they’re all set up for the shot, that thing and all that, and I remember… You come in a robe like Hugh Heffner with your leopard skin banana hammock on, and then I walked in the shower and, “OK. Let’s get ready.” And then they pulled the robe off and it’s just my ass hanging out. And all I hear is Grizz [Salzl], our camera guy go… “Screw you, Grizz.”

David Read:
I worked hard on this.

Peter Kelamis:
You don’t know how hard it was to get, too. But they were all very gracious about it and we did the scene and then when I got back to my trailer, they had this massive plate of cupcakes and cookies. And they’re, like, “Get back to it.”

David Read:
I don’t remember that scene.

Peter Kelamis:
No. This is the best part.

David Read:
Oh, we were getting to it. OK.

Peter Kelamis:
First lunch, producers come by and go, “Oh, by the way, that shower scene? We had to cut it.” And I was, like, “You have no idea how proud I was of my work.” So, I don’t know. Hopefully there’s some deleted scenes thing.

David Read:
Absolutely. We’ll get to see him scrubbing at some point with the mist.

Peter Kelamis:
Grabbing my buff Greek God buddy.

David Read:
With the leopard skin. Was it really leopard print?

Peter Kelamis:
No. It reminded me of it. Up here.

David Read:
The things you wondered about Adam Brody. Scotty0709, “How many takes did you need for that scene before Volker’s surgery and the music changed to the Nu Ma Nu Ma song?” There we go. How many times did you actually shoot it? Just the once and then the rehearsal?

Peter Kelamis:
I think we did the rehearsal and then I think it wasn’t very many because the camera was on me for that whole segment, and then they got other people’s coverage where I wasn’t allowed to drop the batteries, but I had to mime it. They did two or three maybe. Gilmore was laughing the most cause he was just supposed to be under almost… And then he was just [inaudible].

David Read:
Yeah! They’re gonna start slicing him up.

Peter Kelamis:
He couldn’t hold it together, though. Goran Andonowski, “With which actor did you have the best working relationships?” Who did you find yourself gravitating with more from just a human-to-human standpoint?

Peter Kelamis:
Probably Patrick Gilmore. We became very, very good friends during the shoot. We’re both Vancouver actors but we had never auditioned before and knew of each other. Nothing before, which is kind of odd, because you usually run into relatively the same people in the same city.

David Read:
It’s a small city. It was. Not so much anymore.

Peter Kelamis:
Exactly. So, we became really good friends and sometimes we’d pick each other up from work, take one car, because most of the time our scenes were together. Many times, they were. And we really would… It sounds so goofy, but we would literally say, “This is the best job in the world. We have the best job in the world.” We’re pinching ourselves going, “We’re working on Stargate. We’re making good money. We’re working with great people. We’re having the best time of our lives. Is this it? Because if this is it, it’s pretty good.” So, it was really, really cool.

David Read:
What…? Where did the message go? OK. Jett Ison, “Are there any aspects that you wish you could have dived into Season Three?” What were you looking forward to attacking next? Or were you just taking every script as they came?

Peter Kelamis:
I’d take it as it comes but I think heading into maybe Season Three or Season Four, I know they did an origins episode with Greer, and it may have been a neat episode to have an origin story of the scientists. If you think that initially that’s maybe not that exciting…

David Read:
How did they get recruited?

Peter Kelamis:
How did you get recruited? How did you get to Icarus? I think that could have been an interesting journey, even as a B-storyline on an episode, to delve into. And then moving forward, we didn’t know. We had rumors of where the show was gonna go, like, we did reach Earth. We didn’t know. And that was exciting to look forward to.

David Read:
Where did you think Destiny was going? Do you think it was heading back to Earth? We were closer than we thought?

Peter Kelamis:
Yes. I do. But I think after spanning the big divide, I think there was a lot to take in once we stopped. Whole new galaxies. Whole new universes. Whole new aliens. Whole new everything. I think there was a lot to delve into, and I think it was getting really creative. And it’s a shame we didn’t get to tell more of it.

David Read:
I think… I was so invested in that story, and when they got pulled early, just carved my heart out with a spoon. Did you know from the get-go that the series had two seasons that sci-fi greenlit for two seasons or was that something that you found out when, “We’re getting a Season Two now. We’re gonna go ahead and do it.”

Peter Kelamis:
Well, initially, we… I was, again, part of the scientist crew. Big cast. We had, like, nine regulars, and then I think there were five recurrings I guess if you wanna call them that. I was listed as a guest star in every episode. Just kind of the way logistics of casting and stuff go. So, we found out… I remember being there when I think we were finishing Episode 10, I think, of Season One, and all the regulars started cheering and high fiving each other. We’re, like, “What’s going on?” They’re, like, “We got to Episode 10.” I’m, like, “But there’s another 20,” and they’re, like, “No, no. They had up to 10 to decide if they’re gonna give us 20.” We’re, like, “We had no idea.” And then after, I guess, taking it to 20, it gave them the extra season. Or we knew we got renewed after that.

David Read:
My understanding was that sci-fi had agreed out of the gate to do two seasons, but it makes sense that they compartmentalized that information so it’s quite easy no one knew that.

Peter Kelamis:
No. And then we didn’t know beyond Season Two. And there was a lot of weird things going on at the time with… I’m amazed that the Nielsen system still exists in any form.

David Read:
Me too. It’s very archaic.

Peter Kelamis:
It’s literally a horse and buggy system, based on… In a world of electronics and instant downloads and all that, it’s so… It makes no sense. But we were a victim, I think, partially of that. The download ratings and live ratings, the Live+7s, all these ways to calculate the show, and I think they realized afterwards there were a lot more people watching the show in the download form that there were tuning in initially. And now, when you turn on your TV with Netflix and everything else, Disney Plus, Prime, all that stuff, that’s just the way it is now. And I think if the show had been on now, nobody would blink twice. They would just go, “We’ll do another season or two because that’s how it’s done.”

David Read:
Well, they were… At this point, we were much more open to taking in those other sources as well. Don’t get me wrong. The Nielsens are still extremely important archaically so but at the same time, we’re really… I think SGU was developed at a point when a lot of this stuff was crossing over into much more mainstream. You guys did a serialized story much earlier, before that was regularly adopted, and the tone of the show a lot earlier than what ultimately came later with a lot of other television. People were, like, “This is awfully dark.” You guys were trailblazers.

Peter Kelamis:
I think we… Well, I say we, I mean writers or creators. But the creators really had a great vision. I loved it. I thought it looked amazing. But back to the ratings, before I forget, people forget that traditionally Stargate was on in the summer. So, those ratings, you were up against a movie of the week. We were up against primetime. And prime time, like, big shows. For us to be doing and having been pulled in the numbers that we were was actually quite good considering this scenario. But people forget about the scenario. They think, “Well, your ratings were a lot less.” We were up against the primetime show and we were on a cable channel. So, only a fraction of people could get the show, and we were still bringing in those numbers. So, there’s different things to look at.

David Read:
And I’m gonna address the elephant in the room here, there was a perception that you had taken from Atlantis. So, Atlantis… Everyone was… All the Atlantis fans were certainly expecting a Season Six, and instead they got a new show with a completely new dynamics, a completely new texture, and it was something that a lot of people had difficulty adjusting to.

Peter Kelamis:
I agree, and the producers even said to us, to our faces, “It was a mistake,” essentially say, “We’re gonna cancel this show but here’s the new show almost in the same breath.” Fans needed a chance to digest that and understand.

David Read:
The timing, especially.

Peter Kelamis:
They agree that that was maybe not the best way to do it, and in retrospect it probably wasn’t. And it didn’t help… I don’t wanna sound like I’m bitching about other people. But there were some pretty substantial and well-known primary cast members of specifically Atlantis that came out and really kind of kicked us in the teeth out of the gate. And I understand. They were angry that their show was over with. I understand that. I’ve been an actor. I’ve been on cancelled show before. It sucks. But to attack us about it and almost… When fans are already upset…

David Read:
You’re throwing gasoline.

Peter Kelamis:
And the members start putting gasoline on that fire, it didn’t help us. And we knew about it. We heard about it. And we were upset about it. And there’s very specific people that did that, and I cannot mention who they are. You probably figured it out. We got hired to do a show and we were proud of the show. We all worked really, really hard at it, as did the rest of the cast, crew, everybody. Producers. We all worked really hard.

David Read:
We had James Robbins … Go ahead.

Peter Kelamis:
Sorry. And looking back at it, I’m very proud of what we did, and I think it holds up over time and I hope… They keep teasing us with some sort of incarnation, and whether that’s gonna reference back and complete our story, who knows what it’s gonna be. It may not have to do with us at all. It’d just be a whole new thing, but fans deserve… I’ll say three words. Fans deserve Stargate. They’ve gone far too long without it and come on, guys, MGM, get it together. The fan base is there. What are you waiting for?

David Read:
SG4. Brad’s wanting to make it happen, for sure. Absolutely. We were talking with James Robbins about a month ago, and man, he went to town on those sets. And Elizabeth Lee wants to know, “What was it like working on Destiny,” with the lighting and the green screen, and the props? This whole texture was just so cool. It was like being on a… I got to walk those sets, and it was like being on a submarine. An H.G. Wells submarine.

Peter Kelamis:
It really was. And it was so realistic that sometimes they’d call for lunch and everybody would go and say, “Oh, I forgot something,” and I’d go back. And when it was completely empty, it was just…

David Read:
You were on that ship.

Peter Kelamis:
You were on that ship. And you’d obviously hear a humming, whether it’s the AC’s or something. I said to people… I go, “If somebody bonked me over the head and I woke up on that ship, I’d swear to God I was on it. On a spaceship.” I wouldn’t question it for a second. The detail was unbelievable. I remember in Season Two, when we got to the bridge, and that was the first time we’d seen the bridge. I think, again, it was Gilmore. He goes, “Have you seen the bridge?” I was, like, “No.” And you had to go up a ladder that wasn’t even finished yet, for construction to get there. “You have to go up the ladder,” because they didn’t want us climbing ladders and shit and getting hurt. But we snuck up anyways, and we’re, like, “Oh, man. This is awesome.” We’re like kids in a candy store. We would get excited about everything on that show, just as much as the fans, if not more. Something new would come up and, like, “Man, did you check out the shuttle? We got a shuttle.” And we got to walk into the shuttle and we’re, like, “This is the coolest thing ever.”

David Read:
And it shared… the shuttle door was shared with the bridge, if I’m not mistaken. You had the shuttle on one side, and then you had the door here and then the bridge was up here, if I’m not mistaken, on the other side. Because the door had to go down, because you were on the top of freaking ship.

Peter Kelamis:
That’s right.

David Read:
What a cool set.

Peter Kelamis:
It was amazing.

David Read:
Emily Cheetham, “If they were to reboot the franchise, would you wanna return or do you think that they should go off in an entirely new direction?” If you could have your way. As an audience member.

Peter Kelamis:
I would love to return for personal reasons because I love the show, and I love everything about it. New direction? I don’t know. I think because there’s been three franchises of the show, I think some sort of baton needs to be passed to whatever’s coming next. I don’t know what the answer to that would be. The selfish me says, “OK. Wind up the Destiny storyline.” The other ratings are going there and if it’s going well, you can go down that path, or if not, retire the ship. And you could play it a little fluid but that’s the selfish me because I’d love to come back. But I think people, fans, we… Stargate has been off the air for over 10 years now and I think people need… I think baton is the best word I can use. You need something to pass from there to here. You would need at least acknowledge that you fans have been fans for years and years and decades, and we’re gonna honor that with honoring the past and moving forward.

David Read:
I think that I would be willing… As long as what happened with the Wraith in Atlantis was acknowledged, and what happened with Destiny’s path was acknowledged, if we could get some of those players back here and there to enhance SG4 in whatever shape that it’s gonna be, I could accept those.

Peter Kelamis:
And again, as human beings, we’re all 10 years older. And we’re coming out of stasis pod.

David Read:
They were broken.

Peter Kelamis:
They were broken from the creation there. It’s sci-fi. You can explain off some of that but as actors, we’re 10 years older.

David Read:
And in some cases, many pounds lighter.

Peter Kelamis:
Maybe a couple of pounds every year.

David Read:
Look at David Blue. He’s a god now.

Peter Kelamis:
He’s pumped up now. “What the hell were you doing while we were asleep?”

David Read:
“I finally got around to jogging.” Sir, it has been such a pleasure to have you on and I… Oh! I wanted to ask. Any more movement in the Dragon Ball universe for you?

Peter Kelamis:
No. But they haven’t asked. I get asked that a lot, if I would do a guest spot of a character. It was a big thing a few years ago with Goku, when they brought that character back and whether people thought that I should have possibly done a particular voice. And there’s a lot of stuff around that, but I didn’t get the opportunity to do that. If they asked, in some way, shape or form, of course I would love that. I love Dragon Ball Z fans. I love going to conventions. I’m off to one in July. Kameha Con 3. It was cancelled due to pandemic, and now it’s rescheduled. Kamehacon.com, and you’ll see me, as well as many other actors in the series.

David Read:
What’s the address again?

Peter Kelamis:
Kamehacon.com.

David Read:
Kameha.

Peter Kelamis:
It’s in Dallas, Texas. And this is the third one coming up.

David Read:
That’s great. Terrific. Anything else we need to be looking out for the next few months?

Peter Kelamis:
Yeah. I just got news, like three days ago, I landed a movie. Certain things, certain gigs, you get excited about and then certain gigs, you kind of pinch yourself excitedness, and that’s what this one is for me because of who I get to work with. I’m freaking out but I’m so excited because it’s an actor from one of my favorite shows ever that I get to work with, and another actor who is this incredible icon. I almost said Hollywood. It cheapens it. They’re an actor of just epic proportions and they’re incredible and I get to work with both of them. God, I’m just dying to say more. I’d love to scream this out right now.

David Read:
Well, let’s keep your job.

Peter Kelamis:
Yeah. There’s that and there’s also a series that I got to do with the Farrelly Brothers called The Now. It was for Quibi, which since fell apart. But I understand that it’s being either bought out or they might be selling the series itself.

David Read:
Picking it up.

Peter Kelamis:
And I hope that footage gets out because, again, I got to work with pretty amazing actor as well.

David Read:
OK. Great. Is it more often than not that the people that you look up to in the industry meet your expectations? I’m sure occasionally they fail to.

Peter Kelamis:
Very few times has that happened but for the most part everybody’s pretty, pretty cool. And one thing. I’m sorry. I forgot to mention. I’ve got a bit of a recurring thing going on on Riverdale now.

David Read:
OK. Samm Pansky.

Peter Kelamis:
Samm Pansky. So, Jughead’s agent Samm Pansky. We just got [inaudible], one of the directors that I got to work with a lot on my previous series Beyond. And I had auditioned and then he called me afterwards going, “Hey, I just saw your audition for the thing and I’m pushing for ‘ya and I hope you get it,” and it was great, and I ended up getting it. It was great because I got to try on a New York accent. He talks like this all the time, and I just love doing that wherever I can.

David Read:
Absolutely. I don’t think that Brody’s days are over with. I have good feelings, and I don’t think that we’ve seen the last of him in physical form.

Peter Kelamis:
I hope not. It’s like I say. I really hope fans get another Stargate because like I say, they deserve it. They’ve been patient. They’ve been unyielding with their loyalty to the franchise. Come on MGM, the fans deserve it.

David Read:
Absolutely. My friend, I wanna really thank you for coming on and lighting this weekend for us. I’m glad that you’re feeling better and that physically everything’s working itself out there. OK. I might as well say. There was an injury and you’re feeling better.

Peter Kelamis:
Yes. Nothing life-threatening. It was the whole thing and it’s good and I’m feeling good.

David Read:
Good. It means a lot that you came on and I appreciate you taking the time.

Peter Kelamis:
Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

David Read:
Thanks so much. I’m gonna go ahead and wrap up the show here. Take that dog for a walk.

Peter Kelamis:
Yeah, I know.

David Read:
Thanks, Peter.

Peter Kelamis:
Thank you.

David Read:
Be well, sir. Bye-bye now.

Peter Kelamis:
You too.

David Read:
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