We’ll keep this one short. Peter Cullen is possibly the luckiest voice actor from the 80’s right now. If there’s one person who shouldn’t have so much as an unkind thought for Michael Bay, baby, it’s Peter Cullen. That’s MR. Peter Cullen, ie, the voice of Optimus Prime.

Not only does the guy get a revived career, an awesome monologue in the biggest movie of the summer, and is possibly the greatest cross-generational badass of our toon-time…he gets to do a bit part on Letterman. Congrats Peter Cullen.