Casey Kasem Remembered: Things You Might Not Know About Him

By now you know that Casey Kasem passed away on Sunday at age 82.

We all know Casey was the founding voice of "American Top 40" and some of us remember him as the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo, but there are other things you might not know about this legend of radio and television.

According to huffingtonpost.com in their list of Top 10 Things You Might Not Know About Casey Kasem:

Kasem's work on radio commercials was highly lucrative — and not nearly as easy as it might have seemed for someone so smooth on the air. "The greatest compliment that anyone can pay me is that after I say something, they remember it," he once said. "I'll go over a piece of copy until I've gotten the essence of what the writer had in mind, every nuance."

He gained unfortunate attention in the 1990s when he blew up because of a staff error on his "American Top 40" show and his profanity-laced taped remarks made the rounds (he told The New York Times in 2004 that he didn't know it had been made public until years later).

My favorite little known fact about Kasem?

He was an animal advocate and vegan (particularly disgusted with factory farm abuse to animals).

"Some of the things that I do, I think are very important and much more important than the radio show or the television show that I do or anything else that I do. I think right at the top of the list is the basic thing.

And of course the basic thing is to hopefully stop people from killing anything. And to create a non-violent diet for themselves, because a non-violent world has roots in a non-violent diet."

My sentiments exactly, Casey.

I can swear like you, too. :-D