burns is based on a combination of ronald reagan and lionel barrymore. is that true? >> that's in somebody else's mind. >> not in yours? [ laughter ] >> no. >> no? this, this, this was in a profile of you and i thought well, that's interesting. i can't necessarily hear that but. >> no, that's in a writer's you know, desperate. >> somebody is projecting that on you? >> desperate search for metaphor. >> so then tell us where, where did mr. burns, the, the.? >> just, just made it up. >> yeah no basis for it? >> no, no. the, there were only two voices in, in the two characters in the whole panopoly that i do that have any basis in anything remotely resembling reality. i was running out of ideas for voices and so when reverend lovejoy came along i'd done this characterization of this televangelist named ernest angley. >> oh yeah of course. >> heal! he used to do. and people would be slain in the spirit. and i sort of just took his voice down a little bit an octave range and slowed him down a bit. [ laughter ] and then for principal skinner i'd been doing charles kuralt, th