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How are you doing? No,
dare, It's me Tigger am dark Wing

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Duck It's me Bunkers. Keep babcat
a right ya did agree your favorite fibly

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you design? Hold? Oh no
go. My name is Jim Cummings and

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welcome to tune Jim. Welcome to
tune in with Jim Cummings. I'm Brennan,

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dad of the four Finger Discount Network, joined right now by producer Chris.

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How you doing, sir, good? How's everybody doing today? We're

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doing fantastic and of course we're joined
by the terror that flaps in the night

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himself. He is, of course
dark with no No Jim Cummings, Jim,

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how are you so superb Thank you
for asking my friend stay dangerous out

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there? Oh wow, is here
already? Chris? How exciting he is?

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Yes he is. So I'm doing
fantastic. Of course Dark Wings here

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to discuss bonkers today. Oh wait, no, not Bunkers, We're here

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to talk about Dark Ring Dark Yes, I'm not gonna lie. I think

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people have been more excited for this
episode than anything we've done in the past.

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They just really they love themselves some
Dark Wing and for good reason.

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You've said in the past that.
I know it's a big statement because you've

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voiced so many characters in the past. The pooh Is is just an absolutely

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icon pop culture. But it's dark
Wing your favorite. He's way up there.

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Yeah. You know people say they
always say, well, what is

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your favorite character? Like, you
know, and the problem is it's a

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good problem. But I've got a
few, you know, so uh,

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Poo and Tigger or if I've said
this before, I forgive me, but

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they're way up there. And then
you know, I go kind of from

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there right to dark Wing and uh, you know, Taz is in there,

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Hondo Onnaka from Star Wars, Clone
Wars, and Ray from Princess and

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the Frog. So I've got like
five or six, you know, top

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top dogs there. But you know, there's no doubt about it. I

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mean dark Wing is he is the
terror the flaps in the night. Yeah.

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What is it about him that makes
him one of your favorite characters?

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Well, you know, he's the
Uh I'm either sorry or happy to say

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he's the most like me. You
know, he's very sarcastic, he's a

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he's a Wisenheimer. You know,
he's not the biggest guy in the world,

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but you know, he could talk
the biggest guy in the world,

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and uh, he was just an
enormous amount of fun and and I think

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it was directly related to just how
much freedom they gave me, you know,

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to just improvise and and play and
drag everybody along for the ride.

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You know. Jenny McSwain, the
great Jenny McSwain, she was our voice

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director and to her, I mean, bless her heart, we should get

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here on here too. But she
said she goes, doing a dark wing

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session is like riding a horse that
you're you found out in the prairie and

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you're trying to attain it. And
Cummings has just gone out of his mind

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and he's losing it. He's he's
just you know, doing all this stuff

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and carrying carrying on in a thousand
different ways, and it was just like,

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there's no telling what he's gonna say
next. So everybody had to be

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on this on their toes and and
I think it came came across and I'm

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really pleased because of Disney Plus now
and it's one of their top shows and

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you know, it's thirty years twenty
five years old something maybe more so I'm

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very proud. Yeah, I'm very
proud of that. With all the improvising,

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it wasn't from the get go.
That wasn't I've seen the interviews where

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you said you were like three or
four episodes in and they realize, oh

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wait, Jim's just gonna make up
the catchphrase every episode. Yeah before and

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then there's an iconic story tell it
again, the iconic story about the spot.

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Oh well, you know, there
comes a point in in every script

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when there's sort of a call to
arms, if you will, and dark

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Wings ready to go in and do
some battle with the bad guy. And

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uh, and he'll show up in
a back alley or a balcony of an

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old, abandoned movie theater and very
well let on his end anyway, don't.

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I have no idea where the lighting
came from, but you know,

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hepe you stay. I am the
terror that flaps in the night. And

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then there would always be a line
in the middle, and the third line

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would always be I am duck,
weak duck, and it would be we

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probably about five or six shows in
and we only did like one hundred and

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however many it it said, I
am the terror that flaps in the night.

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It doesn't matter what I'm right here, Jim's gonna say something else anyway,

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I am duck, wake duck,
and sou that was true when you

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sold that script. How prow were
you when knowing that the rot Isn't they

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trust you to come up with something? Yeah? Well, the thing is

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I always did their their line as
written. I always always did. That

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was the first take, and I'd
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Do I just do another day?
Sure? And you know Jenny, Jenny

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would let us do another take,
and inevitably they would they would choose the

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second one. It would be,
you know, and it was I don't

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I don't want to tell this again. But the one that was rejected was

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really disgusting, and so I won't
say it here. How Doc, it's

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not the urine story, is it. It's not that one, Yeah,

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that is. It's okay. Actually
the floaty had something to do with the

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floating. Okay, Oh, we
don't know that one. Have you ever?

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Have you ever told that one before? Maybe you know it's it's you

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know, I have the floaty that
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crime. You know. I was
like, wait, what what did I

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just say? And I said,
okay, cancel that and then I made

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up something else because I was like, wait a minute, I just called

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myself anyway a piece of food something
like that. Yeah, and that's a

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and without the H. Who is
you really need the H? You really

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have the age? I really do? Do you want to know something?

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It's a bit freaky. And I
didn't plan this and only dawned on me

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yesterday that we're recording this on the
sixth of September your time, twenty twenty

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three, thirty two years to the
day that Darkwing Duck premiered. Get out,

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yep to the da Let's get dangerous. Let's do it, shall we?

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That's crazy. I didn't not know
that. Today, thanks for that.

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On Disney Channel, Darkling Dawns the
Duck Part one and two premiered for

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the first time, like a movie
length premiered and rightly so, and rightly

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so. Yeah, thirty two years
ago today. There you go, two

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years ago today. But let's let's
just start off. Let's just start off

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those so Darkwing duck. Right,
those two words darkwing duck. What immediately

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springs to Jim Cummings mind when you
hear those words dark wing duck, what

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do you think of? Oh gosh, great times, fantastic times. You

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know, it was a golden in
my life, that whole. I mean,

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I had a couple of decades of
golden moments in my life throughout the

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Disney Afternoon. Uh. And and
it started, I think, I want

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to say, Dark Wings started as
a ABC show, No became it started

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on Disney. It was on the
channel or you know, in the in

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the Disney Afternoon lineup, this is
what they used to call it. And

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and then ABC said because they didn't
even own Disney yet or Disney didn't known

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them, or however that goes,
but they said, you know, those

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are doing really well. Can we
have a bunch? So we made a

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bunch for Saturday morning? And I
remember thinking, that is so cool that

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we're doing the show. We're loving
it, we're having great time, everybody's

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having a great time. And somebody
else noticed it, noticed that this big

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DV network said can we have some
of those? And early around Okay,

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sure, you know so the answer
is always yes when they want more shows.

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Yeah. So I just remember I
read that apparently has started off,

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and it's sort of some people are
saying it is and some people saying it

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wasn't. It was meant to be
a spinoff of duck Tails. Do you

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know the truth blind it was it
a spinoff of duck Tails or not?

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Because I had launch paid on there, but I believe tad Stones is coming

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and said, nah, that wasn't
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idea. But when he first would
pitched the idea, it wasn't pitched to

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you as a spinoff of duck Tails
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fact, it wasn't even mentioned.
It really wasn't even mentioned. Yeah,

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it was you know tad Stone,
Tad is readies Dark Wings Dad. I

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always say tad Stones is Dark Wings
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mother, and uh, you know, the voice director, and so no,

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I don't know that it was at
all. I just think, you

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know, the only commonality was they
were ducks. Yeah, okay, you

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know, and they occupied you know, they occupied this name airspace. But

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say can it wasn't the same as
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Louie lived yea scrugeously so you know, yeah different, yeah, absolutely,

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yeah. So I don't think so
you're touching on earlier that it's one of

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your most beloved roles, one of
your favorites. I saw an interview recently

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where you said this is about seven
eight years ago that you said it.

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One of the reasons for that is
that you feel like it was the first

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character where you were able to create
your own voice for it. Because you've

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been winning, You've done Tigo and
things like that and Taz, but this

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is one of the first roles where
you felt like this was you creating something.

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Yes, no, that's one hundred
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I first, I mean even in
Dumbo Circus when I was lying on the

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lion, he was a takeoff on
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And so by the time Dark Wing
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He was there was there were no
characters excuse me, there were no

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dark Wings before MOI and there never
will be another one after me. Thank

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you. I just wanted to get
that in anyway. Uh So, uh,

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yeah, he's my guy. Yeah, and I'm very very proud of

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that. Yeah, and I love
the guy. Did you have any input

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into the capital Was he already creating, fully fleshed out and established before you

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were given the role. Well,
you know, you you do have input

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because with Gosh I'm a notorious ad
libber. Not only with the intro.

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I'm the tear of the flaps in
the night Winged Scurgee, you know,

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but just throughout the show, I
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and and they kept them all and
it all went toward, uh, you

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know, establishing the personality that everybody
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you know, I mean it wasn't
it was it official? No? But

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was it definite and palpable? Yes, because you're a big fan and it's

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very very comic centric this character,
isn't it. Yeah? I think so.

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Well, I've got all the comic
books. I've got them here somewhere,

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but can't let you see them because
I don't want to bend the cover.

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You understand, everybody out there is
going, yeah that's true. Yeah,

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okay, I feel you. They're
behind glass. Yeah, they're behind

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glass. Yeah, hermetically sealed.
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Slash Jim Cummings podcast link is in
the description of this show. Chris,

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were you were a dark Wing fan
growing up? Yeah? I was.

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Yeah, I would definitely catch dark
Wing. So I grew up in

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Canada and we didn't have the Disney
Channel. Growing up, there was no

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Disney Channel in Canada. We just
had it on like a free to air

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station. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was called it was called the

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Family Channel in Canada. And now
they have the Disney Channel in Canada,

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but that was just a couple of
years ago they got it, and so

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yeah, it was a different schedule
and it wasn't as you know, like

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routine, but definitely anytime dark Wing
came on, I was definitely tune in.

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I just felt like Darkwing was the
cool one, wasn't It was like

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the cool Disney show. Absolutely,
yeah, yeah, I have to agree,

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even if a superhero aspect to it, the super the superheroes and supervillain

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just made it feel cool when you're
a kid and it's an adult god.

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Yeah yeah, yeah. Well it
was like, you know, I was

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always a big still am comic book, and this was a comic book.

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It was an animated comic book.
To me, I was like, okay,

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oh, absolutely full speed ahead.
And I think because of so many

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comic references, with whether it be
the names of the characters, all the

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villains and things like that, when
you're watching it, don't really feel like

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you're watching just a kid's Disney show. You feel like you're watching a show

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that all ages can enjoy, as
opposed to like Tailspin. You know,

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it's it's got some adult humor in
it, but you feel like you're watching

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a kids show or you know,
Bonkers. You know it's got adult humor

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in it, but it still feels
like a bit of a kid show,

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where the comic aspect and the dark
sort of nature of Dark Ring Duck makes

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it feel more adult than usual Disney
animated show. Yeah, well I agree,

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I absolutely agree, you know,
and I think that was by design.

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I think it was you know,
I know, the tad Stones and

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all the great writers that we worked
with, they all had that sly sense

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of humor, you know, and
they always you know, it was like

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the kids in the back of the
room. We wanted to get something over

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on the teacher, and so I
think that's what they were doing. Like

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you know, uh, Taras Bulba
was a character and it was I'm going

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to forget the name of it,
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and gosh Yule Brenner, and that
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and it was Taras Balba or something
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giant bad guy. But it was
played by Tim Curry and I really

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really enjoyed. I mean, I
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a great guy, a great actor. I hope he's feeling good at this

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point. And you know, it
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these people that you couldn't believe,
you know, for guest roles, you

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know, like Carol Channing and Tim
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and and it was just a joy. Everybody kind of wanted to. You

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know, Rita Marino I think was
in one that might have been bonkers,

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but you know, all these incredible
actors they just kind of like enjoyed moonlighting

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coming over and dipping their toe into
animation and hanging out in this weird little

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world of ours, and you know, it was great. And A Dark

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Wing was a magnet for that because
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It wasn't just for I mean,
it was well written because it wasn't for

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first graders, third, fourth,
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for college kids also at the same
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trick, and I think that was
one of the keys. I think it's

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one of the cases of the longevity
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plus everyone like myself who grew up
watching it, we can still enjoy

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it now as adults not feel like
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my son, like my son who's
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to turn three, they can watch
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You know, it's just it's just
funny, being silly, but I'm enjoying

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the humor. I'm like, ah, I'm pretty sure Jim, we made

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that lineup because I don't think of
what it would have been. Yeah.

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Well, every time you think that
you're right, just for the record,

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every time you think that you're right, that was a little too knowing that

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was a little two inside. Yeah
he made that up. Yeah, you

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know. So, Yeah, it's
just back to your point about just dark

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Wing being like a comic book,
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And Jim you mentioned, you know, he would have been one of the

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guys sitting in the back of the
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it growing up was just like he
had the same kind of like energy to

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me as like a Deadpool or like
a Spider Man, you know how they're

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so they have the quips and you
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think that's what really made me gravitate
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you know, I'm now learning you
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But yeah, but that sense of
humor kind of in the middle of

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action is just such a It's so
appealing to me and I think many other

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people too. Oh. Thanks,
yeah, yeah, I could remember one.

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Gosh, I can't see I can't
remember the name of the episode,

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but it was there was this lady
that was going on and on about fashion

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or something, and Darker was trying
to, uh save them from being ripped

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off by Taurus Bulba or something or
you know, you know, bush rude

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or whoever it was, and uh, it's just going and another thing and

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another well, thank you for sharing. And and then he just dove through

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there and and it was just and
I've gotten letters and people at the time

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they're going, was that written thank
you for sharing? Because that was kind

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of a thing at the day in
the in the late eighties, early nineties,

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thank you for sharing. It was
real touchy feely, and everybody got

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that I was being sarcastic, so
that made me thank you for sharing.

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Shut up, okay, goodbye.
You know. I think an element that

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you bring to a lot of your
characters too, like Chris was touching in

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there with with the humor, is
that you'd like to break the fourth wall.

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Bonkers did a lot as well.
You'd like to address the audience a

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lot with your humor. I think, yeah, it's true. Yeah,

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well, you know it draws them
in. It's fun for me, it's

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fun for everybody. And you know, I've always enjoyed doing that, and

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you can't do it with every character
like Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Will will

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never what wall? They didn't even
know there was the first wall? Yeah,

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you know, much less the fourth
wall. So yeah, I appreciate

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that, except at the coronation.
What's that? Except when Poo's at the

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coronation. I feel like that breaks
in a little bit. Okay, yeah,

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fair enough, Yeah busted. Yeah
did you guys see that? Everybody

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on YouTube? Okay? Good?
Yeah, yeah, I think they're breaking

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the fourth wall. To breaking that
fourth wall also creates this sense of inclusiveness

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with with the kids watching as well. It feels like you're it's like you're

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you're acknowledging that they're watching. It's
like I know you're they're watching. Come

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along for the ride? Yeah,
well said, yeah, I agree.

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Yeah, it's very true because it's
it's inclusive. As we say no,

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and it's gonna be said just like
that as well. I'm pretty sure that's

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how you have to say. It's
inclusive. So you're welcome to be included

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if you include me I'll include you. How's that that's fair? Right?

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Exactly right. So let's get to
how you became dark Wing, right,

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So is it similar to what would
discuss last week with with leather Head and

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all in Turtles rolls? Was Was
this just something that your agent pitched you

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because you were already working on Tailspin
and Chip and Dale at this point or

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is it a case of, you
know, if Jim wants a role,

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he's going he's probably going to get
it. Or did you still have to

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go through the same genuine audition process
to get dark Wing Duck. No,

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I just told them to the hell
up and hire me. That's what I

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thought would happen. Yeah, actually, oh no, wait no, wait

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I didn't say that. Wait let
me let me recalibrate. Yeah, any

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I was saying. I didn't say
anything like that at all. No,

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So what did what did your first
here about? Doc? We had had

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it come back? Well, I
remember, you know, the audition went

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out to me and every everybody else
in town, and it was They actually,

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oddly enough, based it a little
bit off of a Daffy Duck uh

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Warner Brothers episode in which he took
on the roll of the Scarlet Pimpernel and

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it was a one off. It
was in one one Bugs Bunny short,

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you know, one seven minute cartoon. But but he he dressed he the

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outfit looked like dark Wing, but
it was red. You know. He

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had the big flowing hat and sort
of a you know, slightly musketeer ish

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and it had a little bit of
the shadow in it, which was an

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old I guess forties pulp uh,
you know, a pulp fiction character.

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And so they put it together and
they said, well, we can't make

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it red. We can't you know
this and that, and this guy's white

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and Daffy was black, and so
they kind of you know, massaged it

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a little bit and came up with
that outfit that he's got on. Uh.

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In fact, I think you can
see it right back there. There's

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a few. I'm never far from
a few dark Wing everywhere, dark ways

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everywhere. I mean, in case
he's I feel like someone's watching me anyway.

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So yeah, they just put that
all together, and you know,

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they they certainly didn't want it to
sound you know like at that point,

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Donald and Daffy Duck were the two
famous ducks if you will, you know,

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and Donald nobody can understand what the
hell he's saying. So we couldn't

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have that, could we. And
then Daffy fluffer and fuck attack, you

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know, with all the spitting and
the this and the that, we can't

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do that. So I honestly I
thought, gosh, I don't think I've

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ever said this before. Okay,
so nobody, everybody cover your ears,

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because this is stuff that nobody's ever
heard before, unless I've said it before.

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And and I was thinking that it
would be nice to have a little

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bit of the looniness of Gaffy Daffy
Duck in there, but without the spit,

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and you can understand what the hell
he's saying, you know, because

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that's always a plus when you when
you're when you're doing voice over, to

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let them actually know what you're saying. And and uh, you know,

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because Daffy Duck and sort of like
this, and dark Wink Duck is sort

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of like that, and I'm sure
there was no similarity in that, maybe

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a little bit, but I just
thought I just thought, well, let's

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try that, you know, and
let's see and you know, and then

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see it's not just a voice I've
always said. You know, people will

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say, well, how do I
become a voice actor. Now, it's

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not that you're becoming a voice actor, you're becoming an actor who who uses

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your voice? You know, it's
uh, Jess Harnell said it. Uh

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when when you're a voice actor,
it's a small V, but it's a

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capital A and uh. And that's
that's the key. You know, you're

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you're you're acting in character, and
that's just the voice that they have.

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And you know, you know,
I apparently worked. It definitely worked.

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You were just landing so many roles
with Disney at that point in time.

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Can you remember anyone else who auditioned
for Dark Wing? Like, because I

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don't remember with a bonk because you
said, Jim Carry, Can you remember

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anybody notable that went for Dark Wing? Oh? Yeah, gosh, you

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know, I don't know that I
was privy to it. Uh, yeah,

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I'm pretty sure, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Richard Burton, who else?

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Tell me? Bruce Willis definitely Bruce, Anthony Hopkins. Anthony Anthony Hopkins was

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your Brenner? Your Brenner? Yeah? Oh and Meryl Street really she wouldn't.

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Yeah, I kicked her ass.
Yeah, so there so was it?

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Was it a different process to Boggers
thinks. I know with Boker's he

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said, I think you're brought back
maybe five times. I think five times.

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So with this one, you auditioned
and was it a case of what

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we found out man? Or did
you did you have to come back a

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few times? How was the duck
duck process? Yeah? I want to

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say it was like three, two
or three times. Yeah, because they

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didn't know, you know, they
were they were going back and forth to

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weather and not. He would have
a certain you know, and I just

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thought, oh god, I'm not
going to do that really, So with

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the idea of giving him that lisp
kind of where they yeah a little bit.

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But the most important thing with him
was attitude. You know. I

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mean he's he has no superpowers,
he's a pretty good detective. He's got

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lots of gadgets. So it was
more Batman than anything else, you know,

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Batman with a little shadow in there. I mean, he had the

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thunder Quack, he had the the
you know, all the motorcycle, the

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you know, the gas gun,
suck gass, evil doers. And one

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of my favorite things was when I
don't know if I told you, but

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I remember when because it went to
ABC, it was very, very,

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very popular, and they went,
oh, jeez, can let's put this

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on on on network on on Saturday, not just you know, five days

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a week. And so they put
it on there and a couple episodes in

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I guess ABC called me in and
you know, at the at the beginning

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of a recording session and they go, now, we just want to make

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sure you are saying suck gas evil
doors, right, yeah, yeah,

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yeah. I mean he's got a
gas gun. It's like one of his

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It's kind of a passive weapon,
and that was part of the the idea.

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You know, you throw you throw
a rope and it wraps around them

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and knocks them down. Well,
they're not going to blow up and die,

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right, so a gas gun knocks
him out. They're not going to

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be shot in the head. So
they were the sort of PC you know,

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user friendly weaponry, and so the
gas gun was a part of it.

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And they go, okay, so
he's saying suck gas evil doers.

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Yes, that's that's absolutely what he's
saying. And they go and then they

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go quiet, and they go,
okay, well, do me a favorite

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really hit the g on gas because
suck ass evil doers just it's not the

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same, And I went, all
right, all right, thank you suck

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ass evil, got it, got
it? Got it? Ding ding ding

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ding ding? Yeah, help how
it sounds. It's not my fault.

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Yeah, yeah, I know you
have a problem with Geez apparently, so

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touching back, So you said that
was twenty with the idea of given dark

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wing duck a lisp all the spitting
like like Daffy and Donald. What is

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it about duck characters? Why do
they have to give them that that speech

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impediment? What? What is something
about that design duck? What is it

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why? I don't know, it's
it's not It wasn't my idea and it

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lasted for ten seconds. Okay,
well, no that sucks. Why do

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you think they gave Daffy and Donald
like both ducks the same speeching like,

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what do you think that was the
case? I don't know. I think

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first of all, ducks don't talk, Brandon, I don't know if you

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knew that that's that's Yeah, you
see now that there's a there's a problem

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inherent in the system. But you
know, I don't know. I think

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it's it's partly you know, giving
it's part of giving a cartoon character a

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goofy sounding voice, and it's built
into the model. You know, bubba

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blub bla blah bo. You know, certain characters just have to sound a

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little little dim or a little too
undim or whatever, and you know,

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you just have to mold it to
to to fit. And I just think

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that that's you know, up until
that point, all the all the different

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characters had speech impediment. And you
know, so I gave him Tigger and

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said, that's all you get with
you having so many lead roles. He

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had Winnie the Pooh, and you
had Dark Wing and you got Bunkers.

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Was ever a point where everyone else
in the Disney community were like, well,

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Jim's going for it. Why am
I bothering? He's going to get

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it. Anyway, when you're for
to this day, no one will audition

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for anything that I'm if If he
Jim's going for it's like, well,

405
00:28:55.359 --> 00:28:57.680
why waste my time? You know
he's going to get it? So true?

406
00:28:57.920 --> 00:29:02.319
Exactly right, Yeah, it's it's
a well known fact. I can't

407
00:29:02.359 --> 00:29:07.359
believe you you knew that. Yeah, it's so true. Yeah. Well

408
00:29:07.559 --> 00:29:14.000
yeah, I'm by the way,
I'm going next year all three powerpuff Girls,

409
00:29:14.279 --> 00:29:18.519
right wow? Really? Yeah,
no, I just made that,

410
00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:22.599
but but it sounds good if we
can get that going on. They clarified

411
00:29:22.599 --> 00:29:25.519
because that would have been a big
headline on comicbook dot com. Okay,

412
00:29:25.759 --> 00:29:30.119
okay, yeah, yeah, all
three powerpuff Girls. Yeah, yes,

413
00:29:32.279 --> 00:29:40.759
Beware Beware Ted before Dark Wing.
Oh gosh, that's a good question.

414
00:29:41.119 --> 00:29:44.119
Would he Would he have been aware
of your work when creating dcs. I'm

415
00:29:44.119 --> 00:29:45.960
just interested to wonder luck with a
Do you think he had you when he

416
00:29:47.079 --> 00:29:49.079
better? But do you think he
had you in mind when he created the

417
00:29:49.160 --> 00:29:52.880
dark Green dark character? Well?
Do you think he had anyone? You

418
00:29:53.000 --> 00:29:56.880
know? I can't I can't think
that. I can't flatter myself that much.

419
00:29:57.000 --> 00:30:00.440
But you know, it's very I
mean I've known him for a hundred

420
00:30:00.519 --> 00:30:03.920
years. You know, all the
all the guys over there at Disney,

421
00:30:04.839 --> 00:30:10.359
Disney Character voices and Disney TV Animation, you know, Jim Meghan, Mark

422
00:30:10.519 --> 00:30:14.640
Zaslov, you know at Wexler.
I could go down the list and I'm

423
00:30:14.720 --> 00:30:18.440
gonna stop, Toby, I'm gonna
stop because if I keep going, I'll

424
00:30:18.599 --> 00:30:22.799
leave somebody out and that won't be
right. But yeah, I mean we

425
00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:27.000
were all it was interesting. I
mean, we were all kind of in

426
00:30:27.079 --> 00:30:33.440
our prime, in our thirties or
you know, and uh, you know,

427
00:30:33.839 --> 00:30:40.160
cable television was exploding. You know, people nowadays think it was there

428
00:30:40.200 --> 00:30:44.839
forever. But when I was a
little boy, there were four stations,

429
00:30:45.640 --> 00:30:52.240
ABC, NBC, CBS and whatever. You know, public television was back

430
00:30:52.279 --> 00:30:56.440
then, uhf and that was it. And then all of a sudden,

431
00:30:56.519 --> 00:31:03.119
boom, all these cable channels opened
up and they needed programming, They really

432
00:31:03.240 --> 00:31:07.240
really needed programming. So Disney started
cranking out you know, tail Spend,

433
00:31:07.359 --> 00:31:11.519
Dark Wing, you know, Bunkers, just on and on and on,

434
00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:18.839
Gummy Bears. So yeah, oh
yeah, absolutely, And so you know,

435
00:31:18.960 --> 00:31:22.920
I think I was a little bit
of it was being at a good

436
00:31:23.000 --> 00:31:27.440
place at a good time, ray
placed at a ray time whatever the expression.

437
00:31:27.519 --> 00:31:30.119
Also right people at the right time
as well, you know, because

438
00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:33.839
it wasn't just the ideas. They
had to have the right people behind the

439
00:31:33.920 --> 00:31:36.039
voice as well, you know,
to make it work. Oh yeah,

440
00:31:36.240 --> 00:31:40.720
yeah, and Raiders and the Raiders
producers, animators. Yeah, no doubt

441
00:31:40.720 --> 00:31:45.759
about it. You know, I've
read online apparently apparently Darkwing Dark the Show

442
00:31:45.920 --> 00:31:48.680
was a last minute replacement for was
originally going to be a proposed reboot of

443
00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:53.160
the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. But
apparently Disney didn't have the rights to the

444
00:31:53.279 --> 00:31:56.599
characters. They only had the home
video rights. So they went, okay,

445
00:31:56.680 --> 00:32:00.279
scrap that plan. It's something different. That's where the idea for dark

446
00:32:00.319 --> 00:32:07.359
Green Duck was actually born. Wow
that I didn't know. Yeah, well,

447
00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:12.559
Rocky and ballwinkl were there were no
Disney, no no, but because

448
00:32:12.599 --> 00:32:15.039
Disney owned the rights of the home
video the home video, so they just

449
00:32:15.119 --> 00:32:19.160
assumed they owned the rights to the
characters, but they didn't once they did

450
00:32:19.200 --> 00:32:22.119
some research and wait a minute,
we own the home video rights for Rocky

451
00:32:22.119 --> 00:32:23.880
and Bullwinkle, but not the rights
to go and make new episodes of the

452
00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:30.279
of the show. Gee, Ruggy, Okay, well I don't know what

453
00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:32.039
to say. Yeah, but we
bull a rebbit out of my head.

454
00:32:34.160 --> 00:32:37.519
I could do a terrible Bullwinkle for
you. Yeah, but I blessed Jude

455
00:32:38.200 --> 00:32:43.920
And you're saying you're saying it early
about the inspiration for the dark Green character.

456
00:32:43.920 --> 00:32:47.039
Apparently it was also inspired by There
was two episodes of Duck Tales and

457
00:32:47.119 --> 00:32:51.720
it was called Double O Duck starring
launched Pad mcquack as a secret agent,

458
00:32:52.319 --> 00:32:55.359
and an episode called them the Mass
Mellard with Scrooge McDuck became a mass vigilante

459
00:32:55.960 --> 00:33:00.279
superhero wearing a purple uniform and a
cape, and they kind of cane the

460
00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:02.359
two aliments together. That's sort of
another idea of where the dark Wing Duck

461
00:33:02.480 --> 00:33:07.559
was. Where Tagg the inspiration for
dark Win Duck as well. M Oh

462
00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:13.440
yeah, yeah, definitely the scarlet
pimpernel was in there. And I don't

463
00:33:13.559 --> 00:33:17.400
know that launch Pad was ever going
to be the hero. I mean,

464
00:33:17.519 --> 00:33:21.640
I think he's born to be a
sidekick. Well, in the original idea,

465
00:33:21.759 --> 00:33:23.680
he actually was. So the original
premise was going to be called it

466
00:33:23.799 --> 00:33:27.680
was going to be called Double Low
Duck, where he would be like a

467
00:33:27.799 --> 00:33:31.920
James Bond esque hero agent to be
launched Pad mcquack, and he was going

468
00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:36.680
to be that, but it turns
out again due to copyright, they didn't

469
00:33:36.720 --> 00:33:42.720
own the rights to the term double
that. Yeah, I didn't know that.

470
00:33:42.799 --> 00:33:46.200
I didn't know the product that it
was designed for, launch Pad launch

471
00:33:46.240 --> 00:33:49.480
Pad was going to be Double Low
Duck that was going to be launched Pad

472
00:33:49.559 --> 00:33:52.400
mcquack. And then when when that
failed, Tad was then tasked with the

473
00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:57.400
idea right come up with a new
hero, Dark Wing Duck was born and

474
00:33:58.119 --> 00:34:00.400
that's where it all happened, and
he thought launched. I was still going

475
00:34:00.440 --> 00:34:02.640
to include launch Pad, but we'll
include him as the sidekick for dark Wing,

476
00:34:02.680 --> 00:34:07.159
and that's duck Wing. Duck was
borne. Wow you heard it here,

477
00:34:07.199 --> 00:34:09.639
folks. So it just sounds like
back in the day, Disney just

478
00:34:09.639 --> 00:34:14.800
didn't know what they owned and what
they didn't. Yeah. Yeah, well

479
00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:19.159
I remember double o Duck. I
remember that coming up. Yeah, that

480
00:34:19.519 --> 00:34:25.400
did not fly. And Robot Duck
was another one, Robot Duck. Okay,

481
00:34:27.039 --> 00:34:34.880
yeah, and that was robot not
robot Duck. Oh gosh, it

482
00:34:35.039 --> 00:34:40.719
was Hamilton's. It was his character, that Robot Duck when he and he

483
00:34:40.840 --> 00:34:45.719
had a wheel and he was Gizmo
Duck. What's it? Yeah, yeah,

484
00:34:46.440 --> 00:34:50.880
gizmo. Yeah. They had the
same problem, I guess. So

485
00:34:50.960 --> 00:34:52.920
it was going to be originally called
like a robot Duck kind of thing.

486
00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:54.719
Okay, that robot Duck. Yeah
wow, Okay, there you go.

487
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podcast with the dark Wing name though, Do you ever know what the inspiration

494
00:35:23.960 --> 00:35:27.960
for the name Darkwing came from?
Just because it sounds like a cool superhero,

495
00:35:28.880 --> 00:35:32.280
is it? No? I was
never Privy Diner, so it was

496
00:35:32.280 --> 00:35:36.320
already called Darkwing, but I thought
it was pretty cool. Yeah, oh

497
00:35:36.440 --> 00:35:39.519
yeah, yeah, and I thought
it was a damn fine name. King

498
00:35:39.639 --> 00:35:45.719
Duck absolutely, yeah, you know, anything dark is good. How was

499
00:35:45.760 --> 00:35:47.599
he originally pitched to you? So
when you're creating the voice, what did

500
00:35:47.639 --> 00:35:51.559
they say to you? What did
they say they wanted? Then? What

501
00:35:51.639 --> 00:35:54.679
did you bring yourself as well?
Well, you know it was it always

502
00:35:54.719 --> 00:36:00.079
had a slate batman aspect to it, a slate scarlet peppernel aspect to it,

503
00:36:00.719 --> 00:36:06.800
and you know, then they threw
into single Dad, you know,

504
00:36:07.119 --> 00:36:14.480
which kind of gave him a whole
new dimension and uh great, yeah,

505
00:36:14.679 --> 00:36:19.480
oh I know, and uh and
of course she she eventually you know,

506
00:36:19.639 --> 00:36:23.920
Goslin, Uh, Chrissy Kavanaugh got
rest her soul and eg Daily took over

507
00:36:23.960 --> 00:36:30.159
the role of the Great eg Daily
magnificently. But she was quiver Wing Quack

508
00:36:31.039 --> 00:36:36.039
and she you know, had her
little bow and arrow with suction cup arrows

509
00:36:36.239 --> 00:36:39.440
on it, and it was great
and and it was a really cool addition.

510
00:36:39.840 --> 00:36:44.239
And she would show up on Dark
Wings missions and it was like,

511
00:36:44.519 --> 00:36:47.159
oh God, no, I have
to protect my daughter and get the bad

512
00:36:47.239 --> 00:36:51.800
guy. You know. So it
was crazy. So she she was a

513
00:36:51.920 --> 00:36:57.280
real interesting curveball. It was kind
of brilliant. You know, Okay,

514
00:36:57.360 --> 00:37:00.400
your daughter is going to show up. Wait what I'm fighting crime? No,

515
00:37:01.000 --> 00:37:05.960
get home and do your homework.
Oh do the dishes too, you

516
00:37:06.039 --> 00:37:10.400
know. So it was it was
really interesting and I think it added a

517
00:37:10.519 --> 00:37:15.960
whole new layer. It was wonderful
because a lot of those shows they had

518
00:37:15.000 --> 00:37:19.480
that buddy aspect, didn't they Like
we touched on Tailspin during our commentary recently,

519
00:37:19.559 --> 00:37:22.760
where you know, Blue and Kick
Cloud Kicking and things like that,

520
00:37:22.119 --> 00:37:25.440
and Mowgli and Blue as well.
But others thought was so interesting to have

521
00:37:25.519 --> 00:37:30.360
this this superhero being a single father
of a daughter. It was very It

522
00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:31.639
was just I don't think it had
really been done before I had it.

523
00:37:34.039 --> 00:37:37.599
Uh on a Disney show anyway.
Yeah, no, no, has it

524
00:37:37.679 --> 00:37:42.559
been done since? I can't think
of another one? It probably has,

525
00:37:42.800 --> 00:37:45.639
but nothing springs to mind. But
look, was that was that element to

526
00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:49.800
his character? Was that? Were
you aware of that when you first went

527
00:37:49.880 --> 00:37:51.840
for the role? Was that something
they added in later on? Were you

528
00:37:51.880 --> 00:37:55.320
where he was going to be a
single father? Well? Yeah, yeah

529
00:37:55.480 --> 00:37:59.400
from day one? Yeah, because
such an interesting you know, I had

530
00:37:59.440 --> 00:38:04.239
two daughters, Yeah, and I
my daughter, Olivia is the oldest,

531
00:38:04.320 --> 00:38:10.239
and she got called Goslin at school. Really and you would that, yeah,

532
00:38:10.360 --> 00:38:14.239
you would think. So I said, come on, is that that

533
00:38:14.480 --> 00:38:17.840
patch? Because it's a busy dad. I said, no, it's not

534
00:38:19.519 --> 00:38:23.760
you. You're wondering your dad's dark
wink duck. Shut up. You're welcome,

535
00:38:24.480 --> 00:38:29.440
you know. I mean, it's
like you know, and I can

536
00:38:29.559 --> 00:38:35.719
remember, you know, answering the
phone, answering the door for Halloween and

537
00:38:35.800 --> 00:38:38.960
the little kids were there trick or
treat and I put the stuff in there,

538
00:38:39.840 --> 00:38:44.199
you know, the candy in there
in their little bags there and these

539
00:38:44.920 --> 00:38:47.400
I remember these two little boys that
were like seven and nine, and they're

540
00:38:47.400 --> 00:38:52.559
sitting there looking around the house,
and I said, is there anything else

541
00:38:52.800 --> 00:38:58.519
I can do for you? Well? Does dark Wink Duck live here for

542
00:38:58.639 --> 00:39:02.239
reels. I said, yes he
does, but he's out. He's out

543
00:39:02.320 --> 00:39:07.719
now protecting, protecting, you know, the Santa Rosa Valley from uh,

544
00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:10.320
you know, bad guys. And
he goes and the little guy goes up

545
00:39:10.320 --> 00:39:14.280
to his brother goes, I told
you, you, stupid booger. I

546
00:39:14.480 --> 00:39:19.960
told you he lived here, you
know, and I would just bust it

547
00:39:20.079 --> 00:39:24.280
up. And we gave him like
all the candy and thanks, and I

548
00:39:24.320 --> 00:39:31.039
said stay dangerous and then went,
you know, yeah, yeah, yeah,

549
00:39:31.199 --> 00:39:35.320
I hate dark ring. Yeah.
Oh man, did you ever dress

550
00:39:35.400 --> 00:39:37.400
up for Halloween as the characters you
voiced? Are you a Halloween kind of

551
00:39:37.480 --> 00:39:40.960
guy? I am a Halloween kind
of guy, but no, No.

552
00:39:43.239 --> 00:39:46.480
Peggy and I had the closest.
Peggy and I did an amazing It was

553
00:39:46.679 --> 00:39:54.320
a wedding of of what skeletons like
maybe five or six years ago, remember

554
00:39:54.360 --> 00:39:58.800
that. It was awesome. And
we put it all over the lawn and

555
00:39:58.880 --> 00:40:01.360
we went all out. She went
and got all these these sort of purple

556
00:40:01.880 --> 00:40:07.559
uh lights that that kind of day
glow and everything. It was a wedding

557
00:40:08.119 --> 00:40:13.360
complete with white chairs, people sitting
in the audience, Grandpa sitting there sleep

558
00:40:13.599 --> 00:40:17.440
and they're all skeletons, and it
was awesome. And Jim having that Jim

559
00:40:17.559 --> 00:40:21.960
had like a speaker system set up
so he would do voices as trick or

560
00:40:22.039 --> 00:40:25.039
treaters were coming up, Yes,
and he would do like some spooky voices

561
00:40:25.159 --> 00:40:28.920
or character voices or whatever. And
people got such a kick out of it.

562
00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:31.199
I swear there was a line like
halfway around the block. Yeah,

563
00:40:31.679 --> 00:40:35.800
yeah, just to come up and
get some M and m's from us.

564
00:40:36.320 --> 00:40:38.599
They Jim's house. So then it
was Jim doing the voice. I don't

565
00:40:38.719 --> 00:40:43.000
I don't know. I don't know
that some people might have known some somewhere,

566
00:40:43.199 --> 00:40:46.599
yeah, yeah, but I mean
it was it was not your your

567
00:40:46.960 --> 00:40:52.559
your uncle's Halloween house, that's for
sure. What are some of you Halloween

568
00:40:52.639 --> 00:40:57.039
movies or specials or things like that, because you're if you're a Halloween guy,

569
00:40:57.400 --> 00:40:59.880
I love a good Halloween TV special. Look, do you have anything?

570
00:41:00.039 --> 00:41:04.119
And it springs to borrow boy,
So do I you know? The

571
00:41:04.239 --> 00:41:09.119
original Halloween was interesting? Yeah,
you know, Jamie Lee and the gang

572
00:41:09.199 --> 00:41:15.039
there. And I'm not a big
fan of just slasher splasher, you know,

573
00:41:15.239 --> 00:41:20.719
blah blah blah. You know,
I really like it's like when it

574
00:41:20.800 --> 00:41:23.039
comes to movies like that. I
mean, the Exorcist is way up there,

575
00:41:23.440 --> 00:41:27.760
and it was all cerebral. It
was all you know in your head,

576
00:41:27.840 --> 00:41:31.800
and and it wasn't like boo you
know, the boogey Man jumps out

577
00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:37.119
of the closet or what have you. But you know, I those the

578
00:41:37.199 --> 00:41:42.039
kind of the kind of movies that
I like. What about The Nightmare Before

579
00:41:42.159 --> 00:41:45.719
Christmas? That's one of my favorites, Like that was a hell of a

580
00:41:45.760 --> 00:41:47.760
good movie. I like that movie
because you can watch it twice. You

581
00:41:47.800 --> 00:41:52.519
can watch it for Halloween and Christmas. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're

582
00:41:52.599 --> 00:41:54.000
right, that's double up on it. Or if you like me, I

583
00:41:54.159 --> 00:41:58.920
just watch them up at Christmas Carol
whenever I feel like it. So yeah,

584
00:41:59.599 --> 00:42:05.719
that's you're a Halloween guy, which
means that we can do a tuned

585
00:42:05.760 --> 00:42:09.360
in Halloween special in a month or
so. Oh, I'm sure I'll do

586
00:42:09.480 --> 00:42:19.320
some homework and see see what I've
gotten my memory voices. Yes, beware

587
00:42:19.360 --> 00:42:25.519
of he chhaking strangers. You mentioned, you mentioned Christine. You mentioned Christine

588
00:42:25.519 --> 00:42:29.400
before Goslin. Let's get back to
Goslin. Christine. Well, let's talk

589
00:42:29.440 --> 00:42:31.800
about working with Christine because she,
you know, for those underwhere She also

590
00:42:31.840 --> 00:42:36.000
played like Chucky Kinster and Ruggrass.
She was Babe, she was Dexter and

591
00:42:36.039 --> 00:42:38.400
Dexter's Labatory, but she was Goslin
in the show. So let's talk about

592
00:42:38.400 --> 00:42:43.360
your favorite memories of working with Christine. Oh my god, she was.

593
00:42:44.400 --> 00:42:47.199
She was just a gem. She
was I'm trying to think she might have

594
00:42:47.239 --> 00:42:51.440
been from Utah. She was from
a small town, small town girl.

595
00:42:52.639 --> 00:42:58.639
She brought all of that. Yeah, she Christine Kavanaugh. She brought all

596
00:42:58.679 --> 00:43:01.039
of that sort of wide I had
innocence to it, and I think it

597
00:43:01.159 --> 00:43:05.920
sparkled through in the character, and
I, you know, it was she

598
00:43:06.079 --> 00:43:10.519
was just a doll. I was
crazy about her, and you know,

599
00:43:10.639 --> 00:43:15.719
we were we were all just so
lucky to have her. And she was

600
00:43:15.880 --> 00:43:19.960
just a bright, shining light.
And she, you know, she would

601
00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:25.039
occasionally, you know, sneak something
by Jenny, our director, and we

602
00:43:25.199 --> 00:43:28.679
thought she was doing it on purpose, and then Jenny Wine here it and

603
00:43:28.719 --> 00:43:30.960
she goes, no, that's that's
She said, Uh, well, I

604
00:43:31.039 --> 00:43:35.599
could tell you one thing. I'm
not going to be going after some guy

605
00:43:35.719 --> 00:43:40.719
with a maniacal laugh and and I
guess the preferred pronunciation is maniacal laugh.

606
00:43:42.119 --> 00:43:45.679
But she said maniacal and we all
just died, you know. And and

607
00:43:45.760 --> 00:43:50.000
it was it was just perfect.
And she had that kind of pure sense

608
00:43:50.079 --> 00:43:53.480
of putting it out there. And
she she had no she wasn't worried about

609
00:43:53.559 --> 00:43:58.119
looking oops, like I mispronounced something. Nope, Nope, it was it

610
00:43:58.280 --> 00:44:01.159
was It was her instinct. And
you know, I've got an expression instincts,

611
00:44:01.159 --> 00:44:07.000
so the best thinks. And and
she was just pure and she was

612
00:44:07.599 --> 00:44:13.440
And I think that's what really came
across in Babe too, you know,

613
00:44:13.880 --> 00:44:19.639
it was that sweet heart of hers
that came through what character she played?

614
00:44:20.440 --> 00:44:23.320
What's that? Which one? We
were just trying to confirm which characters she

615
00:44:23.360 --> 00:44:27.760
played? I got her IMDb up
here. Where is she from? Utah?

616
00:44:27.960 --> 00:44:31.559
Christine? Oh, where is she
from? I thought there was like

617
00:44:31.679 --> 00:44:36.719
Wyoming she was? Where was she
from? Chris is looking up now for

618
00:44:36.840 --> 00:44:42.559
us? It just says she wasn't
just says American. Yeah. We unfortunately

619
00:44:42.599 --> 00:44:45.400
lost her several years ago, which
is just a tragedy. Such a young

620
00:44:45.440 --> 00:44:52.280
a. Yeah from Layton, Utah, Utah. There you go, there

621
00:44:52.440 --> 00:44:54.800
you go. But yeah, I
love that. I love that, you

622
00:44:55.159 --> 00:44:59.440
know, she would deliberately mispronounce words
because that just made it so much more

623
00:44:59.480 --> 00:45:01.599
relatables a kid because it you'd watch
her and when she's playing a kid,

624
00:45:01.800 --> 00:45:06.599
you felt like you were watching a
kid playing the role because the kid would

625
00:45:06.840 --> 00:45:10.079
a kid would pronounce words incorrectly,
you know, by accident. She just

626
00:45:10.199 --> 00:45:13.719
knew to do that. That's that's
just It's genius, really, isn't it.

627
00:45:14.559 --> 00:45:17.360
Yeah? Right, it wasn't a
fox pass. It was you know,

628
00:45:17.440 --> 00:45:21.840
it was it was true it Did
anyone else improvise? Or was it?

629
00:45:21.920 --> 00:45:23.280
That? Is that mainly your stick? You know? But I guess

630
00:45:23.280 --> 00:45:27.400
that is improvising in a different way. It's it's reading words differently. But

631
00:45:27.920 --> 00:45:30.320
did anyone else improvise on the shows
that you worked, like, particularly Dark

632
00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:32.440
Wing Duck? Did anyone else improvise? Was it okay and improvise off?

633
00:45:32.559 --> 00:45:36.079
Or was it just let Jim do
his thing and we'll work around it.

634
00:45:36.920 --> 00:45:40.400
Yeah? While I was the worst
or best depending on your opinion, Uh,

635
00:45:42.559 --> 00:45:46.599
you know, and gosh, I
don't know, eighty eight percent seventy

636
00:45:46.760 --> 00:45:52.639
percent of the time we didn't have
everybody there, like for instance, I

637
00:45:52.719 --> 00:45:55.280
can I can tell you this.
You know, Darkwing Duck and launch Pad

638
00:45:55.360 --> 00:46:01.360
mcquack. Yeah, that's the team, right, We did one show at

639
00:46:01.400 --> 00:46:07.280
the same time. Wow, you
and Terry did a show. Terry and

640
00:46:07.360 --> 00:46:13.039
a we did a show. Out
of one hundred and nine I don't even

641
00:46:13.320 --> 00:46:16.000
know how many there are the interweb, the interwebs, ninety two episodes I

642
00:46:16.079 --> 00:46:19.519
believe of the show. Yeah,
is that what it was? Yeah,

643
00:46:19.599 --> 00:46:24.039
Well, we did a show together, that's it. I wonder if,

644
00:46:24.159 --> 00:46:27.639
knowing that, because you know,
we've discussed bonkers in the past, how

645
00:46:27.800 --> 00:46:30.440
you know you were able to sort
of create this real life conversation because you

646
00:46:30.519 --> 00:46:36.039
were in the same with yourself essentially
right where and you've always myself, You're

647
00:46:36.119 --> 00:46:39.519
always you know, the conversations when
the people in the room always feel more

648
00:46:39.599 --> 00:46:43.760
natural because you can bounce off of
the energy. I wonder, knowing that

649
00:46:43.880 --> 00:46:45.719
you weren't in the same room of
Terry, if you go back and watch

650
00:46:45.760 --> 00:46:49.840
the show now, whether you can
sense a difference in the chemistry compared to

651
00:46:49.920 --> 00:46:52.000
that of a bonker's. I wonder
if you can. I'm not sure you

652
00:46:52.039 --> 00:46:57.599
don't reckon And no I don't because
I have thought that you know, and

653
00:46:58.639 --> 00:47:01.039
and you know, I'll occasionally,
you know, late night, I'll be

654
00:47:01.079 --> 00:47:02.840
sitting there and I go, all
right, I don't want to dark Wing,

655
00:47:04.280 --> 00:47:07.320
you know, just because it's on
Disney. Plus it's an easy evil

656
00:47:07.920 --> 00:47:10.880
and and it's like a nice It's
like revisiting an old friend, you know,

657
00:47:10.960 --> 00:47:15.280
stop by something, stopping by somebody's
house that you haven't seen in a

658
00:47:15.320 --> 00:47:19.119
while. And uh, and I
get a kick out of it. I

659
00:47:19.440 --> 00:47:22.039
do. I mean, it's like, like I say, visiting an old

660
00:47:22.079 --> 00:47:25.719
friend. So I don't. It
doesn't it. It doesn't bother me.

661
00:47:27.239 --> 00:47:29.760
It doesn't. It's not like,
oh man, I should have this or

662
00:47:29.840 --> 00:47:34.559
should have that, should have you
know, because I believe I don't leave

663
00:47:34.599 --> 00:47:39.280
anything in the locker room. I
bring it all, you know, I

664
00:47:39.519 --> 00:47:47.840
I treat everything. Every single session
is the super Bowl for me. I

665
00:47:47.880 --> 00:47:52.639
don't know any other way. Yeah, I mean, regardless, Yeah,

666
00:47:52.880 --> 00:47:57.440
it just doesn't matter. It has
to be that way. So when you

667
00:47:57.519 --> 00:47:59.800
go back and watch those old shows, like I said, Late Night you

668
00:48:00.119 --> 00:48:01.159
on a dark Queen, does it
make you want to pick up the phone

669
00:48:01.159 --> 00:48:05.159
and just give Terry a cole?
Did you get nostalgic like that for it?

670
00:48:06.760 --> 00:48:08.519
Uh? Yeah, Well I haven't
seen him in a couple of years,

671
00:48:08.639 --> 00:48:13.840
but it's always great to see him, you know. And you know,

672
00:48:13.880 --> 00:48:16.079
we have a pretty good Bond,
you know, he and Katie Lee

673
00:48:17.000 --> 00:48:22.719
and you know the various people that
are you know, God blessed still Yeah,

674
00:48:23.159 --> 00:48:28.000
sure, yeah, yeah, I
haven't seen Dan in a few years.

675
00:48:28.119 --> 00:48:30.599
But but yeah, obviously, so
he played your psychic So yeah,

676
00:48:30.639 --> 00:48:34.519
that's that's incredible to think that.
So why was that? Was it just

677
00:48:34.559 --> 00:48:37.440
he lived in different cities? Like
why was Terry not around to be in

678
00:48:37.480 --> 00:48:40.679
the studio? Yeah, he actually
had a radio show and Rancisco, so

679
00:48:40.760 --> 00:48:46.679
he couldn't morning I think it was
Morning Drive, And it was literally kind

680
00:48:46.800 --> 00:48:51.599
of impossible to get him here.
You know, We're doing a show at

681
00:48:51.639 --> 00:48:55.559
two in the afternoon and he gets
off the air at one you know something,

682
00:48:55.719 --> 00:48:58.840
you know, you know what I
mean, something like that, and

683
00:48:59.000 --> 00:49:02.440
it just it was n We just
couldn't didn't work. So was it a

684
00:49:02.519 --> 00:49:07.800
case of you're a voice actor?
Right first and foremost? Was Terry Moore

685
00:49:07.920 --> 00:49:13.000
a radio guy who did some voice
acting. That sounds about right. Yeah,

686
00:49:13.199 --> 00:49:15.760
that's saying it's a bad thing,
but you know, like your your

687
00:49:15.880 --> 00:49:17.920
job was voice actor. No,
no, no, no, there was

688
00:49:17.960 --> 00:49:22.239
certainly nothing bad about it, that's
that's for sure. But yeah, that

689
00:49:22.280 --> 00:49:25.840
I would buy that. That sounds
about right for people who may not know

690
00:49:27.480 --> 00:49:30.000
who Terry is. Besides launch Pad
for me, I was remember who as

691
00:49:30.039 --> 00:49:32.960
the guy who yells at Robin Williams
at the beginning of Missus Doubt Fire.

692
00:49:34.000 --> 00:49:37.639
Have you seen Missus Doubtfire? Oh
you're sure? Yeah? So in the

693
00:49:37.719 --> 00:49:39.920
opening scene, Chris, you've seen
Missus Doubt for I'm assuming Chris, yeah,

694
00:49:40.079 --> 00:49:45.000
yeah. In the opening scene where
Daniel play with Robin Williams is improvising

695
00:49:45.079 --> 00:49:49.679
the bird coughing on the cigarette and
he's saying we can't have a children's cartoon

696
00:49:49.719 --> 00:49:52.639
promoting smoking, blah blah blah,
and the director says, Daniel, you

697
00:49:52.679 --> 00:49:54.079
know what are you doing? You've
got to say what's on the in the

698
00:49:54.159 --> 00:49:58.800
script? Well, that's Terry MC. That's Terry telling off Robin Williams in

699
00:49:58.800 --> 00:50:01.480
the opening scene. Now Missus Doubt
Fire. M well, someone had to

700
00:50:01.519 --> 00:50:05.440
straighten him marked. Did you have
moments like that? Though, like he

701
00:50:05.480 --> 00:50:08.119
Missus Doubtfight, there he's he's not
unimpressed with what the character is doing for

702
00:50:08.159 --> 00:50:14.119
a kids show. Did you ever
have moments where you went this character wouldn't

703
00:50:14.119 --> 00:50:16.159
do this or b should we really
be doing this on a kids show?

704
00:50:16.199 --> 00:50:20.159
Did you have a moment where you
sort of questioned what was being put out

705
00:50:20.159 --> 00:50:23.440
the what you're being what was being
asked of you? Well, I told

706
00:50:23.480 --> 00:50:28.519
you the sucker ass evil doer line, right, I mean we've covered that,

707
00:50:28.719 --> 00:50:31.159
right, so yeah, yeah,
okay, no, but this thing

708
00:50:31.239 --> 00:50:35.000
between like like trying to sneak in
a little naughty weight here and there,

709
00:50:35.000 --> 00:50:37.400
but like, you know, promoting
smoking, for example, like things like

710
00:50:37.519 --> 00:50:40.400
that, where's the line for you? You know? No, while there

711
00:50:40.519 --> 00:50:46.559
was certainly nothing even remotely close to
smoking when you have Disney over you,

712
00:50:46.679 --> 00:50:50.679
I have every cigarette I've ever smoked
in my life. It may yeah,

713
00:50:51.199 --> 00:50:54.960
yeah, that's that's how many I've
smoked. And you know, because I

714
00:50:55.079 --> 00:51:00.519
always knew, and it's not that
I'm particularly virtuous. I just thought it

715
00:51:00.599 --> 00:51:04.840
stunk. Yeah, I just thought
my dad smoke, God rest his soul.

716
00:51:05.239 --> 00:51:07.400
And I know, okay, that
stinks. Why are you doing that

717
00:51:07.519 --> 00:51:10.840
again? You know, how much
fun could it be? It stinks,

718
00:51:12.440 --> 00:51:17.920
you know, so very childish,
but I'm sure better for my health overall.

719
00:51:19.719 --> 00:51:23.079
But what was the question, Sorry, it was just about did you

720
00:51:23.119 --> 00:51:25.760
have did you have a moment where
you went I'm not so sure about this

721
00:51:25.880 --> 00:51:30.199
being in a kid's show, but
obviously Disney, Disney as your overseers.

722
00:51:30.280 --> 00:51:32.840
I'm pretty sure Disney would have made
sure nothing that they got through anyway,

723
00:51:34.039 --> 00:51:38.400
Yeah, yeah, you know.
I Uh. In fact, I I

724
00:51:38.519 --> 00:51:42.440
have to say there were there were
certain certain little shorts that I've done for

725
00:51:42.559 --> 00:51:49.039
Disney over the years. And don't
tell anybody this, but there were there

726
00:51:49.159 --> 00:51:54.079
was a thing called, oh Gosh
to Disney blah blah blah. Anyway,

727
00:51:54.119 --> 00:52:00.920
it was these two coyotes or whatever, and they there was they were trying

728
00:52:00.960 --> 00:52:06.920
to just discover who's who's who dropped
this box or who who wasn't And oh,

729
00:52:07.039 --> 00:52:08.000
we went back, wait did you
drop this early? And no,

730
00:52:08.440 --> 00:52:13.239
and I said, well it ain't
mine. It must be Urine. The

731
00:52:13.320 --> 00:52:19.599
your story, Yeah, the Urine
story. And and and they they they

732
00:52:19.679 --> 00:52:23.079
went to production, they went,
they went all the way through and it

733
00:52:23.199 --> 00:52:27.760
was this close to airing and they
go, wait a minute, did you

734
00:52:27.920 --> 00:52:32.119
say urine? And I said I
might, did you know? And uh

735
00:52:32.719 --> 00:52:36.679
And they go, well, you
can't say urine. And I said,

736
00:52:36.679 --> 00:52:39.599
well, it was kind of like
saying yours, but he's a hillbilly.

737
00:52:40.360 --> 00:52:44.440
And they go, okay, well
then say yours. And I'm going all

738
00:52:44.559 --> 00:52:46.920
right, fine, So I went
all right, it ain't mine, it

739
00:52:47.119 --> 00:52:52.880
must be yours, and so they
won. You know, I tried to

740
00:52:52.960 --> 00:52:59.119
get Urine in America. Sorry,
Canada, we we all you know,

741
00:52:59.400 --> 00:53:02.320
what can I say? Jesus?
I want to talk about the villains of

742
00:53:02.440 --> 00:53:05.639
Dark Quen Duck because there are a
lot of them, A lot of people

743
00:53:05.840 --> 00:53:07.679
have. It's kind of like Ninja
Turtles now Ninja Turtles. We discussed last

744
00:53:07.679 --> 00:53:10.480
week how they've got all these villains
that might appear one or two episodes or

745
00:53:10.480 --> 00:53:14.320
people just they hang on to them, but they just they love the villains

746
00:53:14.320 --> 00:53:17.239
of Dark Quen duckfot is so memorable. But the key ones were like Mega

747
00:53:17.320 --> 00:53:21.519
volt. Let's talk about Mega Voult. Dan Castellanetta, right, oh yeah.

748
00:53:21.679 --> 00:53:23.440
Obviously he was working on The Simpsons
at the same time, because the

749
00:53:23.480 --> 00:53:27.480
Simpsons started an eighty nine. Yeah
I think they had started yeah yeah,

750
00:53:27.599 --> 00:53:30.760
yeah, so when I understand they
did well with it. Yeah yeah,

751
00:53:30.960 --> 00:53:35.519
I think it's still going. Actually
I think it sims to maybe so yeah,

752
00:53:35.599 --> 00:53:37.519
a little bit. So when Dan
comes in, So did you work

753
00:53:37.639 --> 00:53:40.960
in the studio with Dan or was
he remote as well? No, No,

754
00:53:42.119 --> 00:53:45.719
we're there. You know, everybody
that lived around Eli, you know,

755
00:53:45.920 --> 00:53:49.000
we don't come into the studio.
So what tell us about this?

756
00:53:49.760 --> 00:53:52.880
Obviously I'm a huge Simpsons fan.
You know, I'll meet up this podcast.

757
00:53:52.880 --> 00:53:54.719
So what's it like? I'm a
huge dand fan. He's a great

758
00:53:54.800 --> 00:54:00.679
guy, funny as hell, you
know, and we did Tears Me Together

759
00:54:00.760 --> 00:54:05.760
too, and Earth were in gym
together too. Uh So he's uh,

760
00:54:05.960 --> 00:54:09.639
you know, I mean he's so
gifted, he's Ah. It was interesting

761
00:54:09.719 --> 00:54:17.800
because he did Mega Volt was a
combination of Gene Wilder and a little bit

762
00:54:19.079 --> 00:54:22.880
of God, I can't I can't
really put my finger on it, but

763
00:54:23.000 --> 00:54:29.360
Charles Nelson Riley maybe, but it
was, Oh, that is so like

764
00:54:29.679 --> 00:54:36.039
you you know he uh, it
was just a takeoff on mostly Gene Wilder,

765
00:54:36.440 --> 00:54:39.880
and I thought it was brilliant because
he was so frustrated. Like if

766
00:54:39.920 --> 00:54:45.000
you saw the producers, the original
producers was Zero Mastelle and Jeane Wilder.

767
00:54:45.760 --> 00:54:50.840
You know. He uh, Jean's
character needed his blanket and he had to

768
00:54:51.000 --> 00:54:55.400
have a blanket, you know,
And and Dan kind of brought that urgency,

769
00:54:55.559 --> 00:55:00.039
that need neediness to the character and
it was really cool as hell.

770
00:55:00.920 --> 00:55:07.440
It was funny as hell, and
you know, the two personalities played off

771
00:55:07.480 --> 00:55:10.800
against each other, so well,
you know, and he's he's the man,

772
00:55:12.679 --> 00:55:15.000
but the talented that has brought such
an energy to these to these Disney

773
00:55:15.039 --> 00:55:19.480
shows. Like we were discussing Ninja
Turtles last week, could you sense the

774
00:55:19.519 --> 00:55:22.599
difference between making a Ninja Turtle show
and these Disney shows? Because Ninja Turtles

775
00:55:22.719 --> 00:55:27.000
like that, you know, it
was a hit, but you know you're

776
00:55:27.039 --> 00:55:30.840
saying bonga and things like that,
where this one felt like you were making

777
00:55:30.599 --> 00:55:35.119
a show for adults right when you're
making Dark when Duck. Yeah, no,

778
00:55:35.239 --> 00:55:37.199
I agree, Yeah, it was
very much so. You know,

779
00:55:38.079 --> 00:55:42.840
in fact, we prided ourselves on
that, on being able to entertain mom

780
00:55:42.880 --> 00:55:45.719
and dad and the kids. Yep, you know that that had that was

781
00:55:46.199 --> 00:55:52.320
literally in the Bible, you know, so you know, I'm glad it

782
00:55:52.400 --> 00:55:58.360
worked. Is that Where is that
where the desire to improvise stemmed from wanting

783
00:55:58.400 --> 00:56:00.480
to make sure that's or is it
just is it just who you are?

784
00:56:01.519 --> 00:56:05.400
Yeah? It's just who I am? Yeah, because Dan Dan's very is

785
00:56:05.440 --> 00:56:07.840
great improvising as well, isn't it. Oh god, yeah, yeah,

786
00:56:07.960 --> 00:56:13.719
he was great and he was on
you know the Tasmania show. He was

787
00:56:14.679 --> 00:56:17.800
you know, he played any number
of characters in that show. And uh,

788
00:56:19.719 --> 00:56:23.000
he's just a karmic genius, you
know, and a voice artist,

789
00:56:23.679 --> 00:56:28.320
so you know, more power to
him. Need to getting hooked up on

790
00:56:28.400 --> 00:56:32.119
some seasons gigs. Yeah, yeah, I did a Simpsons. Yeah you

791
00:56:32.199 --> 00:56:36.920
did that. You are a horse. I was a horse. That's where

792
00:56:37.000 --> 00:56:42.039
we originally, you know, that's
where it all started talking about. But

793
00:56:42.239 --> 00:56:46.639
also Michael Bell he played quacker Jack
and Tino he played bush Root. Already

794
00:56:46.639 --> 00:56:50.400
discussed bush Root when we did that
commentary. But you know, you know,

795
00:56:50.559 --> 00:56:53.599
Jack Angel and Tim carry already covered. It's just incredible, an incredible

796
00:56:53.679 --> 00:56:58.840
roster of talent. Oh god.
Yeah. Yeah, Well Michael's a good

797
00:56:58.880 --> 00:57:01.599
buddy and I'll see him every now
and then it conventions. Yeah and uh

798
00:57:01.760 --> 00:57:07.239
and he's still going strong and yeah, very very true. Quacker Jack was

799
00:57:07.320 --> 00:57:08.800
one of my favorites. Yeah,
because he was going to ask you what

800
00:57:08.880 --> 00:57:12.559
were some of your favorite what was
some of your favorite villains? Like can

801
00:57:12.599 --> 00:57:15.639
you remember the sides of the villains? Sure? Yeah, I mean well

802
00:57:15.719 --> 00:57:22.000
Tim Curry very much, so Taras
Bulba, and you know, I have

803
00:57:22.039 --> 00:57:27.159
a soft soft spot for Tino and
Sanna. You know, he was kind

804
00:57:27.199 --> 00:57:30.639
of had a John Candy vibe to
him, you know, which is a

805
00:57:30.840 --> 00:57:35.280
beautiful guy, and I mean,
gosh, bush Root, you know.

806
00:57:36.119 --> 00:57:39.480
Uh, And and don't forget I
was my worst enemy. Yes, I

807
00:57:39.639 --> 00:57:45.960
was Nega Duck. Yeah, so
yeah, Nega Duck. You know.

808
00:57:46.000 --> 00:57:51.760
It was kind of like dark Wing
with a bass amplifier on his on his

809
00:57:51.920 --> 00:57:54.440
voice. I guess at a lot
of talks played a bit how you played

810
00:57:54.440 --> 00:57:58.360
the two main roles in Bonkers,
but you know you were the hero and

811
00:57:58.679 --> 00:58:05.599
the villain in dark Wing Duck as
well, Yeah, that's the hero.

812
00:58:05.960 --> 00:58:09.679
How fun was that a lot of
fun? Because I could play well,

813
00:58:09.760 --> 00:58:15.559
I always knew what I was going
to say as the other guy, and

814
00:58:15.920 --> 00:58:21.239
so I could pre pre established what
how pissed off I was going to be

815
00:58:21.440 --> 00:58:24.639
or how righteous I was going to
be, And you know it was great.

816
00:58:25.679 --> 00:58:29.800
You know I knew what was coming
because it was coming from me.

817
00:58:30.599 --> 00:58:35.119
Did you used to say, is
what you did with with Lucky and Bonkers?

818
00:58:35.679 --> 00:58:37.559
You would pre record it and then
talk over the top. No,

819
00:58:37.840 --> 00:58:42.360
actually no, on that one,
I didn't. And uh, dark Wing

820
00:58:42.440 --> 00:58:45.119
came before, I believe, so
yeah, you know, it hadn't even

821
00:58:45.519 --> 00:58:50.079
hadn't even occurred to me to do
that. And it's not like they were

822
00:58:50.639 --> 00:58:54.039
partners, you know, the way
Lucky and Bonkers were, you know they

823
00:58:54.119 --> 00:59:04.119
were occasionally you know, Nega Duck
was occasionally in there and so and if

824
00:59:04.199 --> 00:59:13.840
anybody could tell me which cartoon comic
book character Negaduc's color scheme for his uniform

825
00:59:14.079 --> 00:59:19.400
was, I think they should send
it in and tell us, yes,

826
00:59:19.719 --> 00:59:27.320
who where have you seen this color
scheme before? In which comic book character?

827
00:59:28.719 --> 00:59:30.840
The first person ads correctly, Jim, we'll give you a shout out

828
00:59:30.079 --> 00:59:34.840
on the next podcast. What do
you recommend that? How about that?

829
00:59:35.039 --> 00:59:37.599
Yeah, Jim Cummings Podcast, your
listeners. The first person to send it

830
00:59:37.679 --> 00:59:42.000
incorrectly, we'll get their name right
out on the next week's podcast by Jim

831
00:59:42.119 --> 00:59:45.719
himself. Yes, that's right now, speaking of very famous. It's a

832
00:59:45.760 --> 00:59:47.719
good segue. Jim. You just
thank you for setting me up there.

833
00:59:47.880 --> 00:59:51.559
You've got some names on the paper
in front of you. Because we've got

834
00:59:51.639 --> 00:59:54.880
some amazing supporters on the tune the
Patreon channel, and these guys they can

835
00:59:54.960 --> 00:59:59.519
they contribute to the Patreon and they
get accessed early and add free access to

836
00:59:59.639 --> 01:00:04.960
this show plus also access to our
bonus podcast called Cummings Commentaries, where each

837
01:00:05.000 --> 01:00:07.800
month we go back and we do
an audio commentary on a classic Disney animated

838
01:00:07.840 --> 01:00:12.159
series, whether it be Tailspin or
Bonkers or Dark Green Duck, and even

839
01:00:12.239 --> 01:00:15.199
the characters themselves make a guest appearance
if Jim voice them, of course,

840
01:00:15.280 --> 01:00:17.159
But Jim, let's do some shout
outs to people who have been so generous

841
01:00:17.159 --> 01:00:21.599
to support us on Patreon so far? Are right? Are you ready?

842
01:00:22.519 --> 01:00:28.480
Are you ready? Will Gunt,
Amy O'Neill, Michael King, Mark,

843
01:00:28.679 --> 01:00:36.400
Matt Ooh, how about Matt Cartelly
and Gregory Montoya and the world famous cossover.

844
01:00:36.920 --> 01:00:44.440
Oh, sounds like a villain,
Dante m Nicky Bloom, Nico Tunes,

845
01:00:45.199 --> 01:00:51.199
Vince b Yvon Paradise. Oh,
that's a nice name, Gaudy,

846
01:00:51.920 --> 01:01:00.760
Damon Damon, Yes, Damon t
Chuck t chow mm the sorry about that

847
01:01:01.239 --> 01:01:07.239
pronouncing it correctly? The squank?
How about Disney Captain thirty? How about

848
01:01:07.360 --> 01:01:14.360
Andrew Brady, Jesse Locke, Jordan
Haley, Dane, Martin, Michael Natally,

849
01:01:15.199 --> 01:01:21.719
Nick Dane m mc dyne. There
we go, Tim English, Thank

850
01:01:21.760 --> 01:01:27.000
you Tim for having a really easily
pronounceable name. John schaff and let's not

851
01:01:27.119 --> 01:01:35.079
forget Bry. How about Kat's Katie
gee mm and Nazarene Ooh, Nazarnin.

852
01:01:35.239 --> 01:01:37.239
How about Nazaar Nin. There you
go, Jed, thank you for an

853
01:01:37.280 --> 01:01:45.039
easy name, Jed and Nancy Foote
e j Paladin Ooh sounds like a villain.

854
01:01:45.440 --> 01:01:47.400
There you go. Guys. So, if you want to get your

855
01:01:47.440 --> 01:01:50.800
name it out on the show by
Jim, you're just gonna be a supporter

856
01:01:50.880 --> 01:01:52.199
of ours on Patreon. You can
find a link for that in the description

857
01:01:52.239 --> 01:01:55.119
of either of this video. If
you're watching us on YouTube or this podcast

858
01:01:55.320 --> 01:02:00.400
is just patreon dot com slash Jim
Cummings Podcast and yes, for five dollars

859
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or more per month to get access
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860
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prize draws where you can win a
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861
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from Jim, and so much more. So Yeah, support us now on

862
01:02:09.960 --> 01:02:14.679
Patreon and help this little podcast empire
grow. But yes, thank you for

863
01:02:14.719 --> 01:02:15.519
reading out that names. It's funny, Chris. I was looking at you

864
01:02:15.559 --> 01:02:17.960
when Jim was renee the names,
and I'm thinking, when I was putting

865
01:02:19.000 --> 01:02:20.960
this list together for him, I
like, do I write this that phonetically

866
01:02:21.039 --> 01:02:24.800
or do I do I create a
challenge for him? Yes, the challenge.

867
01:02:24.880 --> 01:02:28.960
It was a challenge and I did
it with that I did it without

868
01:02:28.960 --> 01:02:32.039
most spectacles. Yeah, you did
it great, Probably did not did not

869
01:02:32.239 --> 01:02:35.719
help. It's what's funny is the
ones I thought you would mess up,

870
01:02:35.760 --> 01:02:37.760
you didn't, and the easy ones
some of them you did. I was

871
01:02:37.800 --> 01:02:42.280
like, okay, whatever, ye
like, who is this Joe Smith Smith?

872
01:02:42.440 --> 01:02:47.239
No, that can't be raped,
genuine Jed. No one's name Jed.

873
01:02:47.920 --> 01:02:52.360
Oh wait, mister Claimpett Sorry yes, yeah, Well, thank you

874
01:02:52.480 --> 01:02:54.639
everybody, God bless Yeah, thank
you so much for all of your support

875
01:02:54.719 --> 01:02:58.519
so far. Now, we've had
a lot of questions come through on a

876
01:02:58.559 --> 01:03:00.800
social media so what we did with
thought of an idea rather than just taggle

877
01:03:00.840 --> 01:03:02.920
a bunch of questions. At the
end of this podcast, we're going to

878
01:03:02.960 --> 01:03:07.960
do a special Dark Queen Duck specific
mailbag podcast because there's so many questions coming

879
01:03:07.960 --> 01:03:10.800
through, over two hundred questions coming
through, so we have to go through

880
01:03:10.880 --> 01:03:15.320
them all and pick out the best
ones and I make sure there's no repeats,

881
01:03:15.480 --> 01:03:17.920
and we'll be the answering that on
the next podcasts Bonus Extra podcast I've

882
01:03:17.960 --> 01:03:20.800
tuned in this week, so make
sure you look out for that in your

883
01:03:20.840 --> 01:03:23.599
feeds. If you do post a
question on the social media before we go,

884
01:03:23.679 --> 01:03:25.320
though, Jim, A couple of
things I want to touch on.

885
01:03:25.559 --> 01:03:31.239
So people did ask about about They
wanted your thoughts on the Duck Tails reboot

886
01:03:31.280 --> 01:03:37.039
that included Darkwing Duck, which you
weren't the voice of right, So what

887
01:03:37.159 --> 01:03:38.800
were your thoughts on Did you see
it? Did you see dark Queen Duck

888
01:03:39.199 --> 01:03:42.760
reappearing on? Well? I wasn't. I wasn't I was. I think

889
01:03:42.800 --> 01:03:46.320
it was Greg Mallard. Yeah,
you know, people have asked me about

890
01:03:46.320 --> 01:03:52.320
that before. My problem was I
couldn't quite the storyline didn't really work for

891
01:03:52.480 --> 01:03:58.360
me. I hope no one heard
that. Just kidding, I help everyone

892
01:03:58.480 --> 01:04:03.239
heard that, But no, it
was interesting. You know, it's I

893
01:04:03.320 --> 01:04:12.079
don't know how you how you do
a reboot that doesn't reboot. It's pretty

894
01:04:12.159 --> 01:04:15.159
much that simple. Although I guess
that's not really a reboot. It was

895
01:04:15.239 --> 01:04:19.639
an homage. It was a I'm
not a hundred percent sure a new audience,

896
01:04:20.559 --> 01:04:25.760
Yeah, for a new audience.
And you know what's interesting is,

897
01:04:27.639 --> 01:04:30.360
you know, I think I might
have said this before, h With certain

898
01:04:30.400 --> 01:04:40.599
of my characters Darkwing, uh first
among them, I improvised so much that

899
01:04:42.800 --> 01:04:48.360
I'm not a hundred percent sure that
you know, writing for a character that

900
01:04:48.519 --> 01:04:54.760
no one has written for except the
guy doing it is all that easy,

901
01:04:56.000 --> 01:05:00.159
you know, so you know the
writer what you do. Yeah, yeah,

902
01:05:00.559 --> 01:05:04.239
well, you know, a lot
of the writers, they they were

903
01:05:04.320 --> 01:05:08.679
grateful. They were like, oh
man, I didn't know I wrote that

904
01:05:08.760 --> 01:05:13.960
well, and it was just because
I always do everything is written and like

905
01:05:14.079 --> 01:05:15.639
I said before, and then I'll
just do one as as a lark.

906
01:05:16.239 --> 01:05:19.400
And a lot of times they used
the lark because it's a little more whimsical.

907
01:05:19.480 --> 01:05:23.800
That's in the moment, and you
know, and I'm very grateful,

908
01:05:24.360 --> 01:05:28.039
you know, I don't I don't
make bones about it. I'm not you

909
01:05:28.119 --> 01:05:31.400
know, saying I'm Shakespeare, that's
for sure. But Christmas, I don't

910
01:05:31.400 --> 01:05:33.800
know. I don't know. Yeah, yeah, there you go. That's

911
01:05:33.960 --> 01:05:40.639
right. Yeah. But a lot
of people as rumors everywhere online. It's

912
01:05:40.639 --> 01:05:43.360
been gone for a long time to
have they're getting more and more hated lately.

913
01:05:43.840 --> 01:05:47.480
A Dark Green Duck reboot. Apparently
you got any news on that?

914
01:05:50.239 --> 01:05:59.480
Stay tuned two ohs, I didn't
hear any. Yeah that kind of yeah,

915
01:06:00.079 --> 01:06:02.440
you know, if it happens,
I will be there, I really

916
01:06:02.519 --> 01:06:08.400
hope. Unless they get you know, Joe Smith to do it. Can

917
01:06:08.480 --> 01:06:13.360
you imagine they still Dark Quen Duck
reboot and didn't include the original dark Quen

918
01:06:13.440 --> 01:06:18.119
Duck. I'm pretty sure the hashtag
Twitter fanfare would not be impressed. Yeah,

919
01:06:18.599 --> 01:06:23.639
yeah, oh yeah, yeah,
public outcry to bring Jim back.

920
01:06:24.000 --> 01:06:27.599
That this is the thing, you
know, the character has been so beloved

921
01:06:27.679 --> 01:06:32.159
for thirty years as one person.
Why change it? Why? Why would

922
01:06:32.199 --> 01:06:36.880
you change it? Now? You
wouldn't be madness. Yeah. And if

923
01:06:36.880 --> 01:06:41.280
you're going said and if you're going
to continue the show on, I hope

924
01:06:41.320 --> 01:06:45.320
it's not a reimagining, you know
what they want to reboot, continue the

925
01:06:45.360 --> 01:06:47.960
show on. But the show is
now readily available on Disney Plus. Just

926
01:06:48.360 --> 01:06:51.360
just continue the show on as it
was, don't change it, just keep

927
01:06:51.400 --> 01:06:55.320
it going. That's that's what people
want. If people are enjoying Dark Quen,

928
01:06:55.400 --> 01:06:59.119
that's the point where you think it's
worth doing more, then just do

929
01:06:59.360 --> 01:07:02.920
more. Remake it. Yeah,
No, I agree with you. I

930
01:07:03.039 --> 01:07:08.840
agree with you. Yeah. And
we're all still around, We're all we're

931
01:07:08.920 --> 01:07:13.119
still here, live and kicking,
you know, Katie Lee E. G.

932
01:07:13.320 --> 01:07:16.000
Daley, who I'm going to be
speaking with in in a few minutes.

933
01:07:16.679 --> 01:07:23.000
Terry mcgoverns and ready to kick but
let's make it happen. All the

934
01:07:23.039 --> 01:07:25.559
people behind that show. You know
who you are, we know you're listening.

935
01:07:25.719 --> 01:07:28.519
Make it who you are now.
Of course, there's plenty of other

936
01:07:28.559 --> 01:07:30.199
things we could cover here with dark
En Duck, whether it be the video

937
01:07:30.320 --> 01:07:33.639
games, which I know you love
talking about, Jim, the comic books

938
01:07:33.639 --> 01:07:36.519
as well, we're not gonna be
having we haven't got aten time to talk

939
01:07:36.559 --> 01:07:39.760
about those today. We're gonna be
doing those on a future show. But

940
01:07:39.960 --> 01:07:42.639
the reason we're saving those for a
future show, particularly the comics, is

941
01:07:42.679 --> 01:07:45.880
we're going to be getting several of
the writers and animators from the comics on

942
01:07:45.960 --> 01:07:47.840
the show, the artist to talk
about the comics themselves as well with Jim,

943
01:07:48.079 --> 01:07:53.039
Chris and myself. So it's very
very exciting a future episode as well.

944
01:07:53.079 --> 01:07:55.159
They've contact us all on Twitter and
we're going to make that happen.

945
01:07:55.159 --> 01:07:57.599
It's going to be very exciting.
But before we go, one more thing,

946
01:07:58.360 --> 01:08:00.679
Chris, you're usually on top of
all this, so I'm shimming you

947
01:08:00.719 --> 01:08:03.679
already know. Did you know that
there was actually a band episode of dark

948
01:08:03.760 --> 01:08:10.039
Ring Duck. I did? I
did know that, And do you want

949
01:08:10.079 --> 01:08:12.800
it? I'll let you take it
away to explain what what's going on here?

950
01:08:12.840 --> 01:08:15.279
What episode is that? Because it's
still actually banned on Disney Plus you're

951
01:08:15.319 --> 01:08:18.600
still that's right, Yeah, yep, yep, yep, it is so.

952
01:08:18.840 --> 01:08:21.880
I believe it was in the third
season, an episode called Hot Spells.

953
01:08:24.640 --> 01:08:27.800
Yeah. Yeah, if if my
research is correct, it was taken

954
01:08:27.840 --> 01:08:33.960
off the air because it kind of
conflicted with Christianity and it featured featured the

955
01:08:34.239 --> 01:08:43.119
devil? Is that sent into Haydes? Yeah, yes, so the devil

956
01:08:43.119 --> 01:08:45.880
had appeared on a previous episode,
but in this one here he gets Goslin

957
01:08:45.960 --> 01:08:49.279
to perform dark magic, which was
very no, no, apparently right right

958
01:08:49.439 --> 01:08:54.000
right right. I can't agree more
as her father. And do you remember

959
01:08:54.000 --> 01:08:59.239
anything about that, Jim, Yeah, yeah I do. And and it

960
01:08:59.359 --> 01:09:01.039
was very sting at the time when
we're recording it, and I was going,

961
01:09:01.520 --> 01:09:08.479
oh, okay, well this will
play well and you know Amish Town

962
01:09:08.760 --> 01:09:14.399
or you know the at the Vatican, uh, and so uh, we'll

963
01:09:14.439 --> 01:09:17.880
see what happens here, and you
know it was it was. It was

964
01:09:17.960 --> 01:09:24.439
a time of innovation and adventure and
and skating along the edge, skating on

965
01:09:24.560 --> 01:09:29.840
thin ice. I guess and uh, I remember, and I've seen it.

966
01:09:30.319 --> 01:09:34.199
Gosh, it's been years. But
it looks good. You know,

967
01:09:34.680 --> 01:09:42.960
Satan looked good. Uh nice,
nice red tones, had beautiful horns,

968
01:09:45.239 --> 01:09:47.720
yeah, Marty Ingles, so right, yeah, and well see I think

969
01:09:47.760 --> 01:09:54.319
that's part part of the problem because
Marty Ingles was Satan, so you know,

970
01:09:54.479 --> 01:09:58.520
God rest his soul. But yeah, I'd forgotten that and it was

971
01:09:58.840 --> 01:10:02.720
and the think of it, it's
so silly, is that. My thought

972
01:10:02.840 --> 01:10:10.079
at the time was that it was
so silly that you had to work to

973
01:10:10.199 --> 01:10:13.399
take offense at it. You couldn't
take it seriously. Yeah, yeah,

974
01:10:13.439 --> 01:10:17.520
you couldn't. Yeah, it's like
you can't really really you're taking this offense

975
01:10:17.600 --> 01:10:21.239
at this because yeah, and one
of the fascinating things to me about like

976
01:10:21.359 --> 01:10:26.479
especially about band episodes and things of
that nature, is how it's still banned.

977
01:10:26.760 --> 01:10:30.880
And you know, I've seen a
few other cartoons on Disney Plus and

978
01:10:30.920 --> 01:10:33.399
I'm a big fan of you know, sometimes you see a little disclaimer,

979
01:10:33.680 --> 01:10:39.279
you know, like times change,
cultures change, you know, especially when

980
01:10:39.359 --> 01:10:43.720
we're going back thirty forty years,
and I think it's better like for the

981
01:10:43.840 --> 01:10:46.520
culture and for an educational purpose,
just to like, you know, have

982
01:10:46.720 --> 01:10:49.920
that little disclaimer. You know,
things have changed, attitudes have changed.

983
01:10:49.960 --> 01:10:55.680
This is how originally was. But
we're not necessarily endorsing this anymore. But

984
01:10:55.800 --> 01:11:00.319
here see it in his original format, rather than just censoring it and acting

985
01:11:00.359 --> 01:11:02.279
like it never existed. That's my
person, don't you. Yeah, don't

986
01:11:02.359 --> 01:11:05.760
delete history, just acknowledge history is
different to what it is now. Yeah.

987
01:11:06.319 --> 01:11:10.479
Yeah, no, I agree.
I think that's a perfect position.

988
01:11:11.319 --> 01:11:15.880
I because it happens when I agree
with the book in the Jungle Book has

989
01:11:15.880 --> 01:11:17.840
got the disclaimer at the start,
or Aladdin's got the disclaimer at the start,

990
01:11:18.000 --> 01:11:19.920
which you can't skip over. You
have to watch it for like ten

991
01:11:19.960 --> 01:11:21.960
seconds or whatever, which is fine. I understand why it's there, but

992
01:11:23.840 --> 01:11:26.079
because we did what was it was
a book? Because that had some band

993
01:11:26.119 --> 01:11:29.000
episodes about that. It was terrorism, wasn't it. Yeah, but they're

994
01:11:29.039 --> 01:11:31.520
still available on Disney Plus. But
this one here, no, still not

995
01:11:31.600 --> 01:11:35.479
available. Yeah, good and believe
it. But if you're a bit of

996
01:11:35.479 --> 01:11:41.439
a pirate like myself, you can
go on YouTube and source it. Yes,

997
01:11:42.239 --> 01:11:45.279
excellent, Yes, well please do
in that case. So if you

998
01:11:45.319 --> 01:11:47.520
do want to watch Hot Spells the
Dark Green Duck Band episode that is available

999
01:11:47.680 --> 01:11:50.399
right now on YouTube, you'll I
might put them, actually I won't put

1000
01:11:50.399 --> 01:11:53.479
link might get in trouble, but
you can find it. Just just look

1001
01:11:53.520 --> 01:11:56.640
for it on YouTube. It's out. Go ahead, throw it up.

1002
01:11:56.680 --> 01:11:59.159
I don't think anybody's going to care. Maybe we'll do an audio commentary on

1003
01:11:59.239 --> 01:12:02.640
it for Patriot if it's available.
It's available. Alrighty, al right,

1004
01:12:02.680 --> 01:12:04.319
Well, is there anything else,
Chris you want to do? You want

1005
01:12:04.359 --> 01:12:09.399
to discuss before we let Jim go
and dark Wing Duck go. There's one

1006
01:12:09.479 --> 01:12:13.439
last really short thing and it was
just more about a commentary on the fandom

1007
01:12:13.479 --> 01:12:16.920
of dark Wing Duck and every convention
I go to, I swear the fans

1008
01:12:17.000 --> 01:12:21.279
of dark Wing has the absolute best
cause plays. Like I've seen some of

1009
01:12:21.359 --> 01:12:26.279
the best costumes, whether it be
dark Wing like mixed with Batman, one

1010
01:12:26.319 --> 01:12:29.840
of my favorites. I saw a
dark Wing Mandalorian and I have a picture

1011
01:12:29.920 --> 01:12:31.479
of that. You know, we
can put this stuff in the video.

1012
01:12:31.840 --> 01:12:36.119
They mentioned it too, and it's
so good and they Yeah, dark Wing,

1013
01:12:36.199 --> 01:12:40.119
by far, of all your characters, they have the best cause plays.

1014
01:12:40.640 --> 01:12:44.520
The poo is a lot of what
do they call it bounding? Bounding

1015
01:12:44.760 --> 01:12:46.960
when they just kind of dress in
the colors, Yeah, where it's the

1016
01:12:47.079 --> 01:12:50.119
colors and they not have two little
ears. Yeah, but dark Wing,

1017
01:12:50.319 --> 01:12:55.720
Like, I've seen some super elaborate
costumes and every time it's always to me

1018
01:12:55.840 --> 01:13:00.800
the best. Yeah, dark Wing
Alorean was the Mandel you know that was

1019
01:13:00.880 --> 01:13:04.079
like, are you kidding me?
This is great? Yeah, I'm a

1020
01:13:04.159 --> 01:13:08.039
picture of it. We can throw
it up on Yeah. So if you

1021
01:13:08.119 --> 01:13:10.439
are a Cause player right there,
who's done that sending your pitches, well,

1022
01:13:10.439 --> 01:13:12.920
we'll get Jim to post on the
social media because I'm excited to see

1023
01:13:12.920 --> 01:13:17.000
these Mandalorian and dark Wing that sounds
mood too or anything or just dark Wing

1024
01:13:17.079 --> 01:13:20.199
and dark Wing any dark Wing duck
yeah cause plays. Send it all through.

1025
01:13:20.239 --> 01:13:24.039
We'll put a big collash together and
we'll wack it up on our social

1026
01:13:24.079 --> 01:13:26.760
media. If you want to be
Jim Cummings social media famous, send it

1027
01:13:26.800 --> 01:13:30.920
through Gim Cumings Podcasts at gmail dot
com. Right. Well, you know,

1028
01:13:30.319 --> 01:13:33.039
The Road del Dorado was one of
my movies. I always liked it

1029
01:13:33.680 --> 01:13:40.119
and I had these guys coming I
played Cortez and the Road del Doorrado and

1030
01:13:42.199 --> 01:13:44.319
you know, you know, o
god, I'm gonna forget the names of

1031
01:13:44.399 --> 01:13:51.520
the two guys that's that started it, but they it was Tulio and Julio,

1032
01:13:51.720 --> 01:13:57.039
not tu Leo and Julio. Anyway, it was Kevin Klein and kind

1033
01:13:57.119 --> 01:14:02.800
of kind of Kevin Brenner, and
these two guys were incredible. They came

1034
01:14:02.880 --> 01:14:08.399
up and they acted like I was
Cortez, you know, because I was

1035
01:14:09.199 --> 01:14:15.159
the sort of Orson Wells bad guy
in that show. And we put it

1036
01:14:15.239 --> 01:14:19.119
out there and it was a sensation, mini sensation, just like years ago

1037
01:14:19.640 --> 01:14:25.199
on YouTube. I'm sure it's dead
now, but it's fun to be the

1038
01:14:25.279 --> 01:14:30.760
bad guy, you know, every
now and then. So, hey,

1039
01:14:30.159 --> 01:14:33.520
did dark Wing always have Were you
always going to be naked Duck on the

1040
01:14:33.560 --> 01:14:38.600
show or was that something that you
are still peaceful? No? No,

1041
01:14:38.800 --> 01:14:42.159
they just said, you know,
we want him to sound like dark Wing

1042
01:14:42.359 --> 01:14:46.960
only if he went to the dark
side. Yeah. So when you auditioned

1043
01:14:47.039 --> 01:14:51.279
for the role, you were auditioning
for both essentially. Yeah, well,

1044
01:14:53.640 --> 01:14:56.960
Naga Duck wasn't there yet. It
was Darkwing only. Yeah. Yeah.

1045
01:14:57.000 --> 01:15:00.239
And then like a year later they
said, well let's do the it yeah

1046
01:15:00.399 --> 01:15:04.720
of of you know, whatever whatever
that would be. You know, so

1047
01:15:04.840 --> 01:15:09.640
he was negga Duck. So there
we go. This has been fun,

1048
01:15:09.720 --> 01:15:12.520
isn't it. Chris going I feel
like dark Ring Duck is the besides,

1049
01:15:12.520 --> 01:15:15.079
what do I feel like Dark Ring
Duck is like the pinnacle for Jim.

1050
01:15:15.119 --> 01:15:16.680
Don't you think it's the one that
everyone that seems to the most right.

1051
01:15:18.760 --> 01:15:21.640
Yeah, this definitely created the most
buzz on social media. So don't forget,

1052
01:15:21.640 --> 01:15:25.680
guys, We've got plenty more Dark
Ring Duck episodes of the podcast coming

1053
01:15:25.760 --> 01:15:29.279
up. And also don't forget you
can't support the show on Patreon to get

1054
01:15:29.319 --> 01:15:31.279
early and add free access to the
show. All supporters get a shout out

1055
01:15:31.319 --> 01:15:34.399
by Jim, as well as entry
into a prise draw for a special video

1056
01:15:34.479 --> 01:15:39.319
message and signed photo. You also
got access to exclusive podcasts such as our

1057
01:15:39.359 --> 01:15:43.479
comings commentaries, whereas I said earlier, we go back and record audio commentaries

1058
01:15:43.880 --> 01:15:46.720
of classic Disney shows with special appearances
from the characters that Jim voices himself.

1059
01:15:47.319 --> 01:15:50.000
So far, we've done Duck,
Wing, Dark Bonkers, and tail Spin,

1060
01:15:50.159 --> 01:15:53.239
and I'm hoping the next one we're
going to be the patrons get the

1061
01:15:53.319 --> 01:15:55.319
vote. It's going to be goof
Trips. I'm looking forward to going back

1062
01:15:55.319 --> 01:15:59.560
and revisiting goof Troop as well Troupe. Yeah, make sure goof Troop.

1063
01:16:00.119 --> 01:16:02.039
I really want to hear some more
Pete please. I wanted to. Will

1064
01:16:02.199 --> 01:16:05.359
dare you go? And if you
want to get in touch, like I

1065
01:16:05.439 --> 01:16:09.960
said, contact us Jim Cummings Podcast
at gmail dot com. Thank you all

1066
01:16:10.000 --> 01:16:13.319
again for listening, Absolute Champions,
Thank you, Chris for joining us once

1067
01:16:13.319 --> 01:16:16.439
again. Thank you, thank you, thank you Jim And of course one

1068
01:16:16.479 --> 01:16:20.159
more final question, does Duck Win
Duck have any final words for all those

1069
01:16:20.199 --> 01:16:26.600
amazing listeners out there. Yes,
let's get toterous, but do it safely