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A phone call from "LT" a/k/a Lieutenant Jim Dangle of Reno 911: Miami
2-14-07 WCT Interview
by Richard Knight, Jr.
2-14-07 WCT Interview
by Richard Knight, Jr.
"LT" shows off his spiffy new Miami version of his renowned short shorts and "LT" giving yet another order to his crack squad
(notice LT's gaze is directly fixed on Deputy Jones)
(notice LT's gaze is directly fixed on Deputy Jones)
Arkansas born and bred Lieutenant Jim Dangle (or “LT” as he prefers to be called), has become familiar to fans of the reality show
in which he stars, “Reno 911” over the past four seasons on Comedy Central. Now the openly gay LT, his blonde highlights,
signature short shorts, and the rest of his wacked out, bumbling fellow police officers have traveled to Miami (for a police
convention). Their adventures, as can be expected, were so inadvertently hilarious and so superb an example of political and
sexual incorrectness, that the results are being released in a movie, titled Reno 911: Miami (in theatres on February 23rd).
“LT” took time out to send an oral Valentine’s Day card to readers of Windy City Times via the following interview in between
updating his MySpace page (www.MySpace.com/butterscotchjockey), and sewing his kilt for the Reno 911 crew’s impending visit to
Scotland. Highlights from LT’s “personal greeting”:
WINDY CITY TIMES (WCT): Exactly, how many pairs of those short shorts do you own and do you sew them all yourself?
LIEUTENANT JIM DANGLE (LT) (in a distinctive southern accent): Yes, I sew every pair myself. Right now I got about three in rotation
and here’s the problem. When you dry clean something that small it becomes…well I’m rapidly approaching infinity small.
WCT: That was pretty obvious 50 foot high on that screen.
LT: Yes I know. It’s getting’ tighter and tighter and tighter. Pretty soon it’s just going to look like I spray painted ‘em on and
honestly in Florida, I would have been better off.
WCT: And that would have been the place to do that although I have to say that the candy jock strap was a special touch.
LT: Richard I would like to point out that if it were a candy jock strap it would’ve had two straps that went across the back lower part
of the butt cheek. It was actually a candy g-string that went up my Donner Pass and then around the front.
WCT: Thank you. Good corrective. You know I can tell you that my readership is chock full of those short short wearer types.
LT: Good. We’re a growing community.
WCT: What exactly, these particular readers of ours might want to know, will it take to get Lt. Dangle out of those short shorts?
What do you look for when you’re looking for somebody?
LT: Here’s the thing: I’m not too finicky but I do like a Pacific Islander type fellow, generally the color of like a latte and generally
under 6’1”, 6’ deuce, do not apply.
WCT: Once you go there you…
LT: You never go back. Literally the Pacific Islands are hard to get to on earth and hard to get back from emotionally.
WCT: Now talking about those legs of yours…
LT: Yes sir?
WCT: Have you ever thought about having those legs insured? You know like Betty Grable did?
LT: I would love to do that. I went out to the State Farm out in my neck of the woods and I presented a whole series of
photographs I had taken – some of them from my MySpace page; some from when I had purchased a new bronzer; a whole variety
of shots from different angles and the fellow was real reluctant to give me that kind of policy. Apparently you’ve got to go to Lloyd’s
of London for that. If the Lloyd’s people will do it I would love to get them insured but I’ll tell you right now – State Farm, Washoe
County, Nevada won’t do it.
WCT: Not going for it, huh?
LT: They wouldn’t even insure my Miata again. They’re real particular.
WCT: Was it kind of like nirvana for you to go to the sheriff’s academy for police training?
LT: It’s a remarkably easy program – the Reno Sheriff’s Academy. It’s about six and a half weeks. One week is all field trips, we
had Arbor Day off, we had a bunch of days off and then the last whole week you just watch cop movies and then if you can do 25
push ups and a couple of squat thrusts you’re good.
WCT: What’s your favorite cop movie, LT?
LT: I’m going to go, let’s see, (sings a little bit of the “C.H.I.P.S.” theme music)…
WCT: There’s a lot to choose from – so many cops, so little time…
LT: Let me think, let me think, let me think. Okay, I’m going to go with Chicago. There is some law enforcement in it I would like
to point out. People mostly say it’s a Fosse vehicle but it’s definitely got law enforcement in it.
WCT: Richard Gere as the DA. That’s right. Now this is starting to make sense. You know, I don’t mean to pry but…
LT: That’s exactly why I’m here. I’m here to be pried.
WCT: Thank you – I’m glad you said it. You know, aside from the obvious – getting to wear the tight uniform that shows off—
LT: Oh I “don’t get.” It’s not that I “get,” it’s an honor.
WCT: That’s what made you want to become a police officer – it was a calling?
LT: Well, they took away my real estate license and that’s what made me want to become a police officer and while the pay is the
same as working at Arby’s you get to carry a gun so the people who are getting paid the same as me at Arby’s when they’re getting
attacked they’re unarmed.
WCT: So a favorite fellow officer in the Reno department there? Just trying to leave your sexual proclivities out of this for a second.
LT: Basing that on say, smell?
WCT: You absolutely could.
LT: Deputy Jones the big black guy (about 6’1 or 6’2” to be exact).
WCT: Okay, now adding in your sexual proclivity.
LT: (without hesitation) Jones the big black guy. Because he both smells good and he’s real, real sexy. You know I’ve often had a
daydream and sometimes an asleep dream where me and him do a version of “Big River,” do you know what I’m talking about?
WCT: Well, sure, the musical, you’ve got a showtune queen here.
LT: Have you seen “Zumanity,” (the Cirque du Soleil show)?
WCT: I have not.
LT: It’s like that. That’s my version of it. We’re body painted on a raft singing “Oh look out for me, muddy water, your mysteries
are deep and wide.”
WCT: You know you obviously are setting a wonderful example for your fellow officers in more ways than one.
LT: I think so.
WCT: How about that Cherish Kimble. Any chance that you can help her out of the closet?
LT: I thought she was already out.
WCT: Can I just ask you, LT, and again, here’s a question directly lobbed from my readership: what’s it going to take for you to
settle down...at least for one night?
LT: Oh, for one night? Oh that’d be easy. Honestly, just a good cry and three or four Midori Red Bulls. There’s a lot of fellows I’d
settle down with after three or four Midori Red Bulls.
WCT: Okay, to make it go on for at least a month so there’s an anniversary involved?
LT: You know I certainly would be into the long term type of thing as long as it was slightly open-ended.
WCT: Alright. What slogan does LT live by?
LT: I love my fellow man.
WCT: A lot?
LT: A lot and I hope he loves me back for at least 15 minutes.
WCT: That’s a beautiful thing.
LT: Thank you.
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Check out upcoming episodes of www.windycityqueercast.com for an expanded audio version of Knight at the
Movies interview with “LT.”
in which he stars, “Reno 911” over the past four seasons on Comedy Central. Now the openly gay LT, his blonde highlights,
signature short shorts, and the rest of his wacked out, bumbling fellow police officers have traveled to Miami (for a police
convention). Their adventures, as can be expected, were so inadvertently hilarious and so superb an example of political and
sexual incorrectness, that the results are being released in a movie, titled Reno 911: Miami (in theatres on February 23rd).
“LT” took time out to send an oral Valentine’s Day card to readers of Windy City Times via the following interview in between
updating his MySpace page (www.MySpace.com/butterscotchjockey), and sewing his kilt for the Reno 911 crew’s impending visit to
Scotland. Highlights from LT’s “personal greeting”:
WINDY CITY TIMES (WCT): Exactly, how many pairs of those short shorts do you own and do you sew them all yourself?
LIEUTENANT JIM DANGLE (LT) (in a distinctive southern accent): Yes, I sew every pair myself. Right now I got about three in rotation
and here’s the problem. When you dry clean something that small it becomes…well I’m rapidly approaching infinity small.
WCT: That was pretty obvious 50 foot high on that screen.
LT: Yes I know. It’s getting’ tighter and tighter and tighter. Pretty soon it’s just going to look like I spray painted ‘em on and
honestly in Florida, I would have been better off.
WCT: And that would have been the place to do that although I have to say that the candy jock strap was a special touch.
LT: Richard I would like to point out that if it were a candy jock strap it would’ve had two straps that went across the back lower part
of the butt cheek. It was actually a candy g-string that went up my Donner Pass and then around the front.
WCT: Thank you. Good corrective. You know I can tell you that my readership is chock full of those short short wearer types.
LT: Good. We’re a growing community.
WCT: What exactly, these particular readers of ours might want to know, will it take to get Lt. Dangle out of those short shorts?
What do you look for when you’re looking for somebody?
LT: Here’s the thing: I’m not too finicky but I do like a Pacific Islander type fellow, generally the color of like a latte and generally
under 6’1”, 6’ deuce, do not apply.
WCT: Once you go there you…
LT: You never go back. Literally the Pacific Islands are hard to get to on earth and hard to get back from emotionally.
WCT: Now talking about those legs of yours…
LT: Yes sir?
WCT: Have you ever thought about having those legs insured? You know like Betty Grable did?
LT: I would love to do that. I went out to the State Farm out in my neck of the woods and I presented a whole series of
photographs I had taken – some of them from my MySpace page; some from when I had purchased a new bronzer; a whole variety
of shots from different angles and the fellow was real reluctant to give me that kind of policy. Apparently you’ve got to go to Lloyd’s
of London for that. If the Lloyd’s people will do it I would love to get them insured but I’ll tell you right now – State Farm, Washoe
County, Nevada won’t do it.
WCT: Not going for it, huh?
LT: They wouldn’t even insure my Miata again. They’re real particular.
WCT: Was it kind of like nirvana for you to go to the sheriff’s academy for police training?
LT: It’s a remarkably easy program – the Reno Sheriff’s Academy. It’s about six and a half weeks. One week is all field trips, we
had Arbor Day off, we had a bunch of days off and then the last whole week you just watch cop movies and then if you can do 25
push ups and a couple of squat thrusts you’re good.
WCT: What’s your favorite cop movie, LT?
LT: I’m going to go, let’s see, (sings a little bit of the “C.H.I.P.S.” theme music)…
WCT: There’s a lot to choose from – so many cops, so little time…
LT: Let me think, let me think, let me think. Okay, I’m going to go with Chicago. There is some law enforcement in it I would like
to point out. People mostly say it’s a Fosse vehicle but it’s definitely got law enforcement in it.
WCT: Richard Gere as the DA. That’s right. Now this is starting to make sense. You know, I don’t mean to pry but…
LT: That’s exactly why I’m here. I’m here to be pried.
WCT: Thank you – I’m glad you said it. You know, aside from the obvious – getting to wear the tight uniform that shows off—
LT: Oh I “don’t get.” It’s not that I “get,” it’s an honor.
WCT: That’s what made you want to become a police officer – it was a calling?
LT: Well, they took away my real estate license and that’s what made me want to become a police officer and while the pay is the
same as working at Arby’s you get to carry a gun so the people who are getting paid the same as me at Arby’s when they’re getting
attacked they’re unarmed.
WCT: So a favorite fellow officer in the Reno department there? Just trying to leave your sexual proclivities out of this for a second.
LT: Basing that on say, smell?
WCT: You absolutely could.
LT: Deputy Jones the big black guy (about 6’1 or 6’2” to be exact).
WCT: Okay, now adding in your sexual proclivity.
LT: (without hesitation) Jones the big black guy. Because he both smells good and he’s real, real sexy. You know I’ve often had a
daydream and sometimes an asleep dream where me and him do a version of “Big River,” do you know what I’m talking about?
WCT: Well, sure, the musical, you’ve got a showtune queen here.
LT: Have you seen “Zumanity,” (the Cirque du Soleil show)?
WCT: I have not.
LT: It’s like that. That’s my version of it. We’re body painted on a raft singing “Oh look out for me, muddy water, your mysteries
are deep and wide.”
WCT: You know you obviously are setting a wonderful example for your fellow officers in more ways than one.
LT: I think so.
WCT: How about that Cherish Kimble. Any chance that you can help her out of the closet?
LT: I thought she was already out.
WCT: Can I just ask you, LT, and again, here’s a question directly lobbed from my readership: what’s it going to take for you to
settle down...at least for one night?
LT: Oh, for one night? Oh that’d be easy. Honestly, just a good cry and three or four Midori Red Bulls. There’s a lot of fellows I’d
settle down with after three or four Midori Red Bulls.
WCT: Okay, to make it go on for at least a month so there’s an anniversary involved?
LT: You know I certainly would be into the long term type of thing as long as it was slightly open-ended.
WCT: Alright. What slogan does LT live by?
LT: I love my fellow man.
WCT: A lot?
LT: A lot and I hope he loves me back for at least 15 minutes.
WCT: That’s a beautiful thing.
LT: Thank you.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Check out upcoming episodes of www.windycityqueercast.com for an expanded audio version of Knight at the
Movies interview with “LT.”
