How you doing out there? It's me Tigger, I am Dark Wayne Duck.
It's me Bunker's Deep Bobcat. All right, y'all? Is it Rat
your favorite firefly you desire? Hold the old knock guy. My name is
Jim Cummings and welcome to tuned in. Hey, everybody where am I looking?
Welcome to tuned in with Jim Cummings today. Boy, you are so
in the right place. I can't even begin to tell you. We have
none other than world famous Jess harn Now, Hey, how are you?
And what's that That is Cara there too? Why? Yes, yes she
is, and Carra is one word for those who don't know. Yes,
that's so true, Oh Jess and Carra. That's Rightnny and sheriff indeed,
man, but without the mustache at least today. Yes, And everybody's cuter
and more talented, thank you, and taller. She's even taller anyway,
infinitely better singer. God bless you. You're just throwing that quick anecdote on
that They made it Sunny and Share biopick years ago called and the beat goes
on the Sunny and Share story. It was actually pretty good, but they
hired me to do the singing as you and I have been wont to do
for the Sunny Bono guy. Wow, only session I ever did in my
life, folks, where the direction was Jess, can you can you sing
a little worse for real? Wow? It sounds too good, dude.
Wow, I never heard that before. But that's easy. Yeah, I
got added, I think because I'm kind of excited. And yes, I
know those of you who know me know what. I'm usually excited. This
is such a thrill. This is such a thrill for me because quick anecdote
and I'm gonna say the ten times I don't want to embarrass him, even
though I'm gonna my first animated cartoon gig that I ever did, Okay,
I mean I originally I did the voices for Splash Mountain, but that was
one off. But my first episodic cartoon was for a show called Dark Wing
Duck. Yes it was. And I walked into that room. This is
before animaniacs, is before anything, bro and I walked into the room and
I just recorded there yet I remember it well, yeah, yeah, yeah,
B and B yeah, a recording walk over there and he's sitting on
the end. Okay, And I didn't know listen, all you cartoon guys
out there, you know who everybody is. I didn't know who anybody was
except like the bass player for def Leopard. I didn't know who anybody else.
So I walk in and Jimmy sitting over there, and there's an empty
chair, so I sit next to him. I say, hey, man,
you know what's your name? He says Jim. I said, jim
on Jesse. Nice to meet you, man. So we sit there and
we start doing the thing. And I'm listening to jim and he's playing multiple
characters and I'm sitting next to him, and I've always done voices ever since
I was little, like, oh yeah, sure. But he starts doing
his thing, and if you could like looked at my thought process, it
was, oh, you gotta be really good to do this. And that
opinion has increased over the years. Man, Oh thank you, that's amazing.
Absolutely well you would know because you're way beyond really good. Thank God,
bless that many. We're just we're just a lucky bunch of guys.
Man. I know I'm lucky too. Yeah, you're pretty lucky to me.
Look we're hanging out with I know that's a lot of rock. Yeah,
that's pretty good too, right, Yeah, that sure is there is,
man. So I know you've been doing lots of cons here and there
lately, and do you get a kick out of those, because I sure
do. You know what, man, Well, first of all, you
know again, Jimmy, you are you know, Jimmy going into a comic
con. It's sort of like the pulp visiting a Catholic church in New York
City, you know what I mean. It's yeah, I was just gonna
say that because they just they just love them well, they love him so
much. Well, and they've seen jim on the right. Of course,
it's something I do with my mouth. Good. Not everybody, but at
any event, they love him out there, and yes we do. I
do have a great time. And I'll tell you, man, and this
is not lip service, and you know me well enough, I don't really
do lip service. But the best thing about the cons is that we have
an opportunity to hopefully encourage and maybe inspire some of the people who've been kind
enough to follow what we do for as long as they are right. And
it's like, I'll tell you a quick anecdote. I don't think i've ever
shared this one with you, but it's really fun and it sort of sums
up my whole con experience. I was doing a con somewhere in the world.
I don't remember exactly where, but I don't remember where I was this
morning, so that's not okay. I'm signning into what is happening, you
know. So anyway, I was at this con and I went in the
green room, which is where they give you snacks and stuff like that and
then poke until you get vail back out there. So I'm in the grooen
room having something to eat, and there's a lot of TV stars and very
important people milling around, and about fifteen feet away from me, at this
other table was a very well known TV star whose name I will not reveal
anyway, I'll tell you, no, don't do it. She no,
don't. And he's sent across from me, and I could and he was
like staring at me, right, and you know, I don't intimidate very
easily, and I'm like, why is he staring at me? So I
go, hey, man, what's up? And he goes, hey,
how you doing. I said, good, what's on your mind? You
know, because I could tell you had something? And he goes, he
goes I'm sitting across from you out there, and I said, yeah,
I've seen you and he said yeah, and he goes, you got a
big line, right, And I said, well, you know, thank
god, man, I said, I think it's because they think there's like
a water ride or a log ride up at the front, and then so
disappointed when they get up there and it's just me. But what are you
gonna do? It's very nice, right, but you know, and he
goes, he goes, yeah, he goes, I notice you'd take a
lot of time with him, right, And I go, well, yeah,
you know, I said, I figure, if they're gonna wait two
hours to say hello to you, the least you can do is give them
a couple of minutes, you know. And he said, wouldn't you rather
make more money? Right, and listen to his credit, I get it
where he's coming from, because the more you sign, the more you take
pictures, the more money you're gonna have at the end of the day.
Well, what I said was it wasn't premeditated at all, But I go,
I'd rather make a difference. Oh nice, good ants. Yeah,
it was cool, right, but the punchline do the whole thing and he's
kind of went, oh okay, and that was the end of the kind.
But I'll tell you what was neat is, over the course of the
next two or three days, I had several bona fide TV stars and all
their fabulousness come over to me and say, hey, I heard what you
said too, So I'm taking more time with them. That's great, And
that's that's the part of it, because you know, you, man,
Jim, Jim has the distinctions because if you're aware of this, but one
of the characters Jim does is we need the the something. Yeah, we
need the something. And apparently a lot of people have been sleeping with Jim
for years. And I don't mean no, I don't mean in that way.
I mean they're cuddling Jim and Jim is Jim has is this essential part
of their lives and their child. So when they get in front of him
and he starts doing that voice, man, it's like they're the magic power
that we all have to some degree. And you certainly exemplify, is that
when we do what we do, people become eight again. Yes, they
just you know in the beautiful it really is and a gift, what a
gift we have been given that we can do that for people exactly. We've
seen marines like they oh yeah, yeah, kind of go back to like
you said, being six or eight, Yeah, because it's especial. You
know. Another Pat responds go, hey, man, you know our favorite
line that we and I know you here it all the time, dude.
You know you were in my childhood and I always go, man, I
can't believe your parents let me in the house. It's like I would say,
well, I hope I didn't mess up. Well yeah, no,
But I love doing them, man, and I love it. It's always
a huge bonus when when you're there, Oh well thanks same ayor thank you
buddy. You know what's what's really great to you guys about doing what we
do is it's it's it's not don't ever kid yourself and say about anything that
it is you want to do. Oh, it's so hard to break in.
It's so hard to break in. It's so hard to break in.
He broke in. I broke in. If we broke in, you can
break in. But the point is a lot of people, you know,
there's a few of us who've had the rare blessing of doing this for as
long as we have and making this kind of impact. And what's an additional
kind of sidebar blessing is when they've become part of your life. Like this
guy is, yeah, a dear friend of mine. We we we've shared
in a lot of big events in each other's always good and bad. You
know, we've seen each other grow up figuratively and literally, and I just
couldn't be happier about it. Oh yeah, same hair, thanks, same
hair, Thank you, buddy. Yeah, well you know, it's all
that stuff he used to get us kicked out of class paid off. Now
we bought a house. Yeah yeah, yeah, and we get to hang
out with Chris. I know. So that's good. We got that going.
Yeah, you know. And now after meeting Chris's mom, I see
where he gets the good looks. Yeah. You know what I love about
Chris. Chris has that really low resonant kind of thing. Yes, he
does. Like he command attention. Man. She like if you went,
okay, sit over there, it wouldn't have been quite the same, you
know what I mean? That's right. I felt like I was dealing with
somebody much more important than we are. True. True, Now you're hot.
Now you see a minute ago she was saying how she's constantly cold.
She is man. She you know one time we went up to Alaska,
You're life, You're in an igloo, and she's like, oh, I
burned it up. She was all right, look, Chris, are you
really hot? I know that's amazing. I would love to Jim's thinking.
Well. By the way, speaking of that, here's a little anecdote.
While Chris and and Justin, I got Jim, oh, I know you
shouldn't have I wonder if I wonder if I know where this is the thing?
Okay, So Jim and I, Yes, before he met his before
we were and before I filled this think we were single at the same time,
which can be dangerous, can be and Jim being single in the same
zip code at the same time could have been dangerous. We walked in and
there was a soundtrack and we lowered like this. We had these done and
we went like that, let me tell you so say it out. So,
so Jim though, Jim has a secret weapon. Yes, okay,
because because whenever Jim would be chatting up some young lady or whatever saying low
or whatever, I come over and like a good wing. Then I'd say,
Jim does she know, you know what what you're doing? Oh,
I don't know, man. And I'd say, listen, my b he's
gonna do something special for you, and he's gonna whisper in you ears.
So just shut your eyes and let him take you someplace nice, right,
And they'd say okay, and they shut their eyes, and Jim would say
something like, I hope your dad is just a sweet even me, I
want to sit on his lap. But these women, these women, they
coagulated into like pools of butter. So I began to call him, get
this, this is one of mine ladies right there. I saw it in
action. Man. Yeah, well yeah, you know, to your credit,
you would, you would, you would. I would say, you
would be in the restaurant and you over there talking to some really unattractive girl.
Yeah yeah, and uh. And I thought, well, he's obviously
showing pity. He was showing something anyway. And he would say, girl,
a little a little bit of boo. Yeah, come on, my
friend says to George. Justah sweet and dropped the bike. Man. My
my favorite thing was and it was always poortend of good things to come,
and you'll go yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, big wiggle they did.
They did. When they would do, they would do the wiggle.
Yeah you know, And I thought, Okay, my work here is done.
See you're getting the real stuff. You don't get this stuff anywhere else.
No po whisper. Oh. Yeah, man, let me tell you
something, whisper No, babe, when you're out there in the trenches,
you need all the advantages you can get. And let me tell you something.
When you got we need the freaking pooh in your back pocket. You
use that. But I but I will say, I will say, And
Jim, I'm sure you can relate to this too. It's like, you
know, when the when the right person showed up. When I when I
met Kara, man, I literally I've been actively single for four years and
I was the only guy in LA who was really looking for a commitment.
I really wanted to find the girl and be done. And the night that
we went congratulation, I know you think you again. So the night the
night we went on our first date, I said, you want to do
this and I'd never done anything like that in my life. And we've been
together ever since. And all that stuff, all that little black book stuff
and the playing the foot. No, you didn't need to. I didn't
for you, man, I buried that stuff in the backyard, you know,
the good man. I hope you made a lot of that. And
then I met Peggy and then I put it started more stories. Yeah,
yeah, we're good. We're good. But just tell me about everything from
rock Sugar from all the way on down to what is the latest? Are
we doing anything musical right now other than being fabulous in yourself? Yeah?
Man, Well, God bless you for asking. So another parallel we share
is that Jim is a great musician, great singer. Never had sessions.
Went back back in the good old days when we recorded together, Jim would
sit next to me for the pair of the drumsticks and he always, I
know, I know, always with the drumsticks. Great drummer, great singer.
In fact, you know what I always thought was funny, And you
probably had the same experience. When I was kind of new to the business,
they used to do benefits and things like that. Oh yeah, yeah.
And the very first one I ever went to, I got up and
I sang I think I sang Open Arms by Journey right, And people came
up to me, our contemporaries and people who work in the Voiceoverfield, who
knew nothing about my musical stuff, were like, man, I knew,
I knew you said you could sing. I didn't know you could sing like
that. Like that, and you're the same thing. You're the same thing,
because I think no, it is man, I think that people you
know, when they hear oh the guy that does we need the pooh,
the guy that does wacko ad infinitum, you know, go oh he sings.
Oh that's nice. Yeah, yeah, that's true. Yeah is that?
And then I know exactly what you mean. And we had the gift
check this out. How's this for a supergroup? We because we we became
fans of each other's work as well as being great buddies. We we kind
of formed an ipso facto band where we would play at these charity things for
good causes and stuff like that. And it was me and you, Billy
West, Kevin, Michael Richardson, Joe Lala and is there's somebody I'm forgetting?
I think that was it w Berry. That was that was in the
task. This was a second band where all we did was like Bowtown stuff,
remember that, Yeah, yeah, yeah, we did. We did
like get Ready and all those kind of a Medley. Yeah, we looked
stuff and it was just but he's still he can still bring it. But
as far as the band very quickly. Look, i'm breaking the equipment,
Chris. I'll take care of that later. Thanks, man, you got
nothing over there. You're right anyway, chegure it out. Those who don't
know. I know you'll never believe that I've been in bands before. I
could see accountant me too, but that's too easy. But let me tell
you something, you guys, it's so good that I I've made a living
doing what we do because I have no qualifications to do anything in the real
worldsoever. But a few years ago, on a goof, I said to
my great friend Chuck Dran, who is also a friend of yours and admirer
of yours, I said, you know, it'd be funny, man,
it'd be funny if there was like an eighties hair metal band that got stranded
on a desert island at the end of the eighties and got brainwashed by eighties
pop music until they thought that pop was metal and metal was pop. And
he goes, well, what do you mean how would that work? And
I said, I don't know, Like you could play Edner sand Man by
Metallica. But I could sing because the chord changes are kind of similar.
I could sing Don't Stop Believing over the Metallica song, and we could do
like a mash up, and he's like, that wouldn't work, and they
tried to goes, Actually that kind of would work. So we did it
as a goof the thing fricking took off, like saying it like a rocket.
You guys were astonished, Thank you man. And we got to open
up you guys, seriously. We got to open up shows for Aerosmith and
ac DC and Motley Crue and def Leppard and Lincoln Park and all these like
Gloom and Aras whose posters we And they took you to Europe. Yeah,
they took a couple of times. Man, what the hell, why wouldn't
they please take us to Europe? So yeah, and it was just such
a fun thing because what we basically did is we took material that everybody knows
by heart, I did it in a new way. And we just last
year I think it was, we released the second album. The first one
we had to stop selling because of a lawsuit. But that's what everything worked
out. In the end. We're all here we're all five, and the
second one came out and did amazingly well again and we couldn't be proud of
it. If you guys like eighties music, go to YouTube put in the
words rock sugar, and I promise it, you're gonna dig it if you
do it right now. If I wasn't in that band, I like that
band. It's so much fun. So check that out. So, yes,
we're next year. I think we're gonna do some live shows again.
But I find myself Jim, and I don't know if you're of the same
mind. You know, we've been doing this for so long. These days,
what I really love doing, man, is just chilling out, hanging
with my girl, going for walks, watching movies, relaxing and stuff like
that. So the idea of like, I mean, I know with the
con thing, but packing up suitcases and hitting the road for extended periods of
time doesn't have the same luster that it did years ago. You know,
been there, done that, yeah exactly. But I still dig it and
it's not over. And thank god, you know, I can still do
that stuff like you can. And because sometimes you know, the years are
not kind to the things that we do. You know, yeah, I
mean, I remember you take good care of your pipes. I try,
man, I try it. But you know, but my old doc did
you. I don't know who your throat doc is. My old doc was
doctor Ed Canter, who was like the throat doc to the stars. His
office looked like a record label because there were nothing but platinum albums. Yeah
him and you may have over the year, fantastic, yes, but the
greatest of the great. Yeah. Yeah. So one day, one day
I went in there to see him and what he used to say, whenever
you look at me when I get beat up, because you know, like
I say, once every couple of years, my voice takes a vacation without
me, you know, you know, it just sort of goes, you
know what I remember once? Yeah, I do remember. Once you were
around. Yeah, dude, check this out, you guys. The best
thing to do if you have voice problems is just to be quiet, which
is hard under the best of circumstances. Happened to me though, before texting.
Okay, and I was living alone at the time, and I couldn't
speak for six weeks because I wanted to avoid surgery, and I did,
but man, that was a weird life. Experience. Bro Yeah, six
weeks living by yourself. Yeah, it was, it was. It definitely
was, because you've been we've been around each other for so long, you
know that you never know. But anyway I go see cancer, I go
see cancer. He would have me stick up my tongue and say ah,
and he'd lean back in this chair and you'd go, you're doing that,
sirch to sole at crap again, aren't you. Because of the gymnastics and
stuff, the acrobatics that we do vocally, we're not voices, aren't really
designed for that. We find ways to produce that stuff, but it's not
necessarily organic. It's you know. But my favorite story with that was one
time I went in there. I remember the movie The Emperor's New Groove.
You probably worked on it, Oh yeah, but I didn't. Well,
you worked on all the other ones. So I worked on that movie and
they hired me. The title song was for Tom Jones to sing. It
was a song called Perfect World, and they had me go in the studio
to sing it like Tom Jones, to play for Tom Jones so he could
hear it. Yeah, you know, so teach him how to do it
well, to show here's how you should say how he might do it?
Yeah, he's great. So so went in there and Tom Jones. You
know, man, that voice is really big and low in man. You
know you got to sing full out when you're doing Tom Jones. Yeah,
exactly. She's a leader, you know, and all that stuff. So
yeah, they're in there, you know, and I'm singing this thing,
and I happened to get one of those producers and I know, you've worked
with these guys who were like, that was fantastic, Let's do another one
that was fantastic, let's do it. You're kind of going, yeah,
what should I do different? So I did it for like two and a
half hours, right, So I sang this thing and by the time I
left, I was like, oh my gosh, my boys, oh man,
you was really it was really messing up. So I go. I
go the next day to see Cancer and he looks at me and he goes,
he goes, man, he goes, you your chords look like raw
meat. He goes, what the hell are you doing? I said,
ah, I was singing like Tom Jones for two and a half hours yesterday,
and he goes, really, he's in the next room. Right.
Then I go man, no kidding, and he goes, he goes,
yeah, you want to meet him? I said, boy, yeah,
of course I wanted, so got it. Yeah. I walk in there
and there's Tom Jones sitting on the thing, just like we all do it
the doctor. But it's Tom Jones and he's sitting there. And my doctor
says, hey, you know Tom, this is Jess Ronell. He's a
singer too, and one's introduce you guys. And he said, good to
Amazia. Hell, hell are you know? And I said great, man,
And I said, big fan, love your work. And my dad
goes, hey, tell him how you got messed up? Oh boy?
And I go, well, well, I said, since you asked,
I was singing like you for two and a half hours and you know you
did, Jim. He looks at me and he goes, well, then
you can imagine how I bloody feel. He's been singing like that like him
for a long time. Oh my god, true story. Man, that's
that's great. It's fun, right, that is great stuff. Well,
don't you find that the music thing helped you out with voiceover immeasurably? Yeah?
Oh god, yeah, because you hear you hear melody, you know,
pictures and I think yeah, And I wasn't. I was into business
for a long time before it even occurred to me. But everything, I
mean, the lines are are music. Yeah, you know, what the
heck are you doing in here? Exactly a little bit at exactly right.
I always think of it as a saxophone. Yeah, that mean too,
That's what I mean. This is why we get a lot No, I
think in that in that I know that voice movie that we did a bunch
of years back with Johnny. Yeah, I kind of made the point of,
like, even with impressions sometimes, like when you do voices and you
find the music stop down, you know what I mean, And it's like
and you kind of if you followed it on a sheet, you'd be gonna
make a little a suff You hear me do that at home all the time,
taking stuff apart, you know, kind of figuring out how it works.
Yeah, I'm the subject of impressions. I just want to interrupt really
quick. Well, I listen to your voice? God, is that sorry?
Goe? We like to do this thing on this show where we trade
character voices. Good, so Jim will deliver a line in one of his
character voices, and then you say it in one of your character voices and
vice versas. That makes sense. Yeah, and by the way, I
watched a little bit so I know this. Okay, okay, all right,
so what do you want to do? Shall we start? I'll give
you one of my characters in voice and hopefully in script. So here we
go. Yeah, I have the terror foot Flaps of the Night. Okay,
Now, who do you want me to do it as anybody? Anybody
I choose? Yeah, I'm gonna do it like Crash Bandicoot. Oh okay,
okay, yeah, you never heard one of them before? No,
see does he do books on tape time? And that you know what's funny
that I just realized when you did that. See, voices are like equations,
man, and it's like this Crash Bandicoot was just it's one step away
from Eric cart Hey, you guys, Heaven be here coming, you guess.
So that's the same thing. And that is a step away from herve
Miili Chase, which is a master my god. You see. Wow,
that's true. Boom dude. Okay, now I'm gonna give you a woof
all right, okay, all right, I want you to do it as
pooh Okay, and I want you to say, there we go. Okay,
I what you to say? Party emergency, I've got to putty putty
potty. I love this cartoon. Thank you. Man, you can relate
to it. I can't too. Party emergency. I've got to party,
party, party. I just did not if you were single, it would
have been not everybody. I love that. Man. Well, don't forget
to remember to keep on bounching. Okay, okay, let's do that one.
Let's do let's do that one like Iron hide from Transformers. Yes,
okay, say the line one more time. Don't forget to remember to keep
on boots and don't forget to remember to keep on bouncing. Yes, yeah?
Or else? That was? That was me imitating Chris if he was
British. Here's a question, Jim, Oh, here's one. Why are
there so many British things in space? For instance? Obi Wan Kenobi,
I'm not like, I'm not a a fiicionado on like on this stuff.
Like I'm sure a lot of you guys are, so forgive me if my
facts are wrong. Obi Wan Kenobi was on a planet called Tattooine where he
met Loose Skywalker. Why was he a British guy. I guess right,
why was and why why? When I did Iron Hide? By the way,
why is he a British robot? He's he's from another planet. Yeah,
and he's like, they go, no, do British. And I'm
like, okay, okay, if you say so. I mean, after
all, everybody on Saturday is right. I bet you've done a lot of
British space people. Yeah, that's true. See, well, you know,
I I actually developed a mini thought about that, very small thoughts,
tell me, and it was that if we do you do an Aussie accent?
Yeah, Canadians not that distinct, but British and then Liverpool forget about
it, you know the best. But it sounds a little foreign. Yeah,
but you can still understand what they're saying. Bingo much like travel.
Yeah, that's why I like to go to Well, that's because he doesn't
live with you. I'm sorry. The first time she came to the first
time she came to visit me, Bro, I was down. I was
so happy because I ug I dug her so much, man. And I'm
down in my office and she's up taking it. She can take a shower
over in the bathroom and and I'm sitting there in the in the office with
my little kitten, and he's purring on the desk, and I'm thinking,
what beautiful day got this wonderful girl, you know, And I hear this
sound from across the house, true and that, and the sound went like
and I'm like, how was that? And I thought, maybe it's like
a set of bad breaks on a car, or there's something in the in
the heating system in the four stairs. So I'm like, so the cat's
ears go up and quiet right right right, exactly, thank you. So
I take a few steps and looking around for I'm like, the hell is
that? Get a little closer. I'm on the stairs now, and I
hear I'm like, what the hell. Finally get in the bathroom, she
goes. I'm like, okay, okay, I got you, Ozzie.
And we just turned it right up, turn on the hot water. The
shower in our bathroom is complicated, you know, as they are as they
can be. Jim, I'm doing nothing, you never know, but it
is so many things to talk well, you know, and I got confused
and I couldn't do it, and I was panicking because it was the first
time I was there, you know, wanted to take a good impression.
I can't work. She could work the plumbing, but when I get over
excited, I tend to go quite hot. Yeah, she's like the Osborne
on helium. Basically, that's kind of how to irritate you. I think
it's you learned how to work as plumbing. Yeah, better than I should
have known. See, this is what I mean, folks. This is
not your usual. This is Oh my god, get out everybody. It's
going hot on her. Okay's got the move. Yeah, really sad,
really sad moves. God, man. But you know I I we have
so many cool stories. Yeah, we do things. You know. One
of my favorites is that you you used to have. I don't think you
still have this illustrious neighbor. Oh you used to have? Yeah, man,
I still do. Is he still there? Yeah? He's still there.
Oh boy? And uh, I don't know, you know what it's
It's gone around before, so it's not really the end of the world world.
But yeah, for the longest time, my neighbor who he's referring to,
is William Shatner, and for like years and years and years he's thought
I was Gene Simmons of Kiss, which is pretty awesome looking for, especially
because I don't look anything like But I think in his mind, Jim,
I think in his mind, he's like, anybody that looks like me that
can live on his street has to be kissed. There could be no other
explanation. So hard. You're living next door to shatt Yeah, something's got
to be happening in there, right, gene tongue though I do have the
gene tongue. Yeah, I can do the gene tongue thing. Well,
that's just I don't know how this keeps going there. Listen, it's not
me, it's the listen appearances aside. I'm very I'm I'm very chill about
these things, but it keeps coming up. There's another one. Good night
everybody. Now you got to me? No, but yeah, he the
the the the famous encounter, which I think you might be allude to because
yes, I am, oh god, And this was shortly after Jim.
You know I've lived in that house bro since Yeah you bro, Yeah you've
been I got twenty five years. Chris hasn't come over once, dude.
Don't think I haven't noticed, yea, yeah, of course. Yeah.
When you want a buzzy, you just got to use that great voice years
and I'll say, come on upstairs anyway. I I I my neighbor.
I used to have his neighbor and he didn't sleep. All he did was
walk around the neighborhood with a pit bull and a gun because he was a
Vietnam war vet and it was this long story, had a plate in his
head. He was fantastic. Wow. But Shatner. I ran into rich
my neighbor, and he goes, he goes, all Jesse, Jesse.
I just wanted to tell you, he goes. I ran into Shatner.
I said, yeah, he goes, Yeah. I told me weren't kiss
And I said, why did you do that? And he goes because he
asked me if you weren't kissed, I thought it'd be funny, right,
And he didn't have like this. And this guy had no sense of humor,
right, so I actually thought, well, way to go, man,
sure, way to go. So he talked about kids. Right.
So I've getting the mail one day and I'm out the mail like it's like
two weeks later, and I'm going through the mail and I had my back
to the street and I hear this car pull up in my peripheral hearing.
Yes, you know, is a valuable thing to have. And I hear
this voice go h Gene right, And I didn't turn around because that's not
my name, right, So I keep going through it, uh g And
I turn around and they're shattering. He's sitting there in a landa rover and
I go, oh, hey, dude, I go, what's going on?
He goes, he goes on, he goes good, It goes I'm
good. He goes, do you have a second, And I said yeah.
So I walk over his car and he puts his head and he goes,
I'm Bill, And I said, yeah, I know, Bill,
man, I know that. And he goes, oh. He goes,
so up. You enjoying your house? And I said, yeah, very
much, man, I really like it. Now you got to know quick
sidebar. Our house is crazy. It looks like a rocket. Hyeah.
It looks like a space ship. It's really weird. One of the most
unusual houses in America, which is it is totally the reason I got in
the fir And it's so frecking cool. It is very very cool. And
he says he's a perpetual He's perpetually invited to everything. We do. So
he's been there everything, so in any event, so he goes, so
you enjoying your house and I said, yeah, very much. Now this
is the only time in the encounter where he became Captain Kirk because you know,
a lot of us, a lot of us who do what we do,
imitate William Shinner, but everybody is Captain Kirk. He doesn't really talk
like that. He talked. He's just very conversational. It's kind of low
key. So, how are you good to see you? Okay, right,
but at this next line he turned into Captain Kirk. I saw you
enjoying your house and I said, yes, I am, and he goes,
it's an unusual home, like right right, And in that moment I
was like, oh, there it is. That's cool. I like it.
I like that, man, I like that. And I go,
yeah, man, it's it's cool. I said, that's why I bought
it, because it's different, it's unique. And he goes, oh,
and he goes, listen, Gene, there's something I've been dying to ask
you. And I said, okay, what do you got word for word,
dude, because I've told this story ever since it happened, so I
know and even just this sentence, yeah, man, because nobody else but
him ever said this sentence except Frank Sinatra, and that was in like nineteen
sixty two. He goes, he goes, when you go out on the
concert tour, there must be Broad's crazy. Broad's like crazy, dude.
Okay. So so I was like, that's first of all, I thought,
well that's pretty good. You don't hear that all the time. So
I go, I go, yeah, man, it can. It can
get pretty crazy. It gets nuts. That's true. Who know, he
wrote the book. He's he I studied under him. So he goes,
he goes up, he goes. It's like I said, yeah, it
gets pretty crazy. Now, this part was weird because what happened, dude,
Jimmy, he was a little closer. He was probably where car is
you're me. He's in the car seat and I'm standing outside the car the
windows down. He's kind of leaning in for about eight seconds. After I
said I agreed with him that yes, it was crazy, all he did
was staring into my eyes. It's kind of slackshawed for like eight seconds.
Now. I won't do it to you now, but and you don't think
that sounds long but try it sometime. You're talking to them like for eight
seconds, and after eight seconds he goes, god, that's an I go
yeah, yeah, and my skin it's great. Man. My skin kind
of shrunk a little bit because he was creepy and I go, I go,
yeah, man, it's hot. It's hot. He goes, uh,
okay, got a goal, and he took off. And I think
the reason he took off so fast and went home is because he wanted to
go home and contemplate this idea of me and a Jean Simmons costume surrounded by
women on the road, So he got that image fresh in his mind.
I think that's where he was coming from. Yeah. Absolutely, what a
what a gem? Yeah, he's he is a gem. He's still out
there doing it, man, gem of a story. Yeah, and you
know he's like he's like ninety three broninety three. Yeah, I think so,
and he does. He does the cons. He's out there still and
people love him and they want to meet him. And he's moving. Sure,
he's moving, Yeah, he really is. Maybe when he drives too,
Yeah, yeah, he does like a nut on ours. He's practically
hit us a few times and it's never his fault. Yeah, and it's
never his fault. It's never his fault. You were in his road,
I was, you know, what is his road? We're just using it,
man, I remember. Was it was that with you? I think
we're at your house or something and we're up at the lake. Isn't there
a lake up there? Lake? Something up in the hills. There is
a there's not terribly close to me, but I know, I think I
know what you're talking about. But it was anyway, and I cannot,
for the life of me, you remember what we were doing there. I
can't either. But it was a long time ago. And uh, they
had locked the gate. Yeah, they had essentially locked the joggers inside.
Yeah, inside the damn thing. And we're standing there and it's and all
of a sudden, up cubs shut and it shots on upo. Yeah,
it just shutters away. I know what you're talking about. That. Oh
it's funny. I mean, dude, I could I could do this,
Like we could exchange these stories all day. I mean one of the fun
things, like I feel like we felt like it was that night when we
were all at dinner, just like, oh yeah, well we just went
we went to the Russian Tea Room in New York. And we were just
in New York at their Great Comic Con and Jimmy and Peggy and car and
myself went to the Russian Tea Room, which is a historic site, and
we we befriended the manager, as we are want to do because as soon
as they find out you're sitting with poo Haffner, they want to show you
stuff. And they took us upstairs where they used to kill people. That's
kind of cool, right, because you know, and you know what I
thought was interesting. Everything was red, everything was read, so they didn't
have to clean up the blood. Yeah, it was just one less thing
to worry because you just had the sense being in there that there was a
lot of solution. We got to talk about this problem. Let's go upstairs.
We want to show you something. You know, you're going up and
up. It was like an upstairs, it was another upstairs and then yeah
no, but in seriousness, all kidding aside. What was amazing about that
is that we did meet the manager. He couldn't have been kinder, and
he showed us around this beautiful restaurant. And I remember being in there and
looking at these incredible rooms. You guys that are not necessarily the room that
you sit in when you go there. I think you have to especially reserve
them. And I was thinking about what an amazing life experience that was and
how blessed I felt and feel to have shared that not only with you but
with you. Yeah, because we've had we've had a really close now you
know, and and this is this is the latest one. You know,
in a year or two. You know, I'll turn it. I'll go.
Man, wasn't that a gas when we did in your podcast that Yeah,
yeah, I am, you know, and the answer will be yes,
yes, And it's nice that we know that, you know what I
mean. Yeah, I agree, it's very I agree. Thank you,
Thank you so much, Chris Manny you kid dude you call? I answered,
Oh, well, same to you, Thanks buddy, same to you.
Thanks man. Well, you know, Jim is my pool man.
And that's right. It goes out once a week. And you know,
lately there's been a mean skimmer. There's a couple extra leaves up there,
mister c Well not for long, mister, not for long. In fact,
that's it. I'm right now gotta go. I think he is,
because you're going to go entertain the folks. But I am actually that actually
I should go. Yeah, I don't want to cut you if we don't
cut short, I don't want to cut it. Well, I don't want
to cut it short either. Yeah, mean either. But we do have
to get on a plane. Yeah, we got to get on a plane.
There's that. Yeah, So thank you very very much. Yeah,
just before we go, is there anything you'd like to plug any Oh that's
very kind you. That's that's very kind of you. Let's see. Yeah,
check it out. So as far as as far as the necessity of
doing plugging, check out rock Sugar on YouTube when you can. If you
like eighties music, you won't be disappointed. Also, you know, we
have these long lists behind us of the things that we've worked on that are
amazing. Something I'm working on currently that's really fun is this Disney Junior show
called fire Buds. No, No, we're going fire Buds two and that's
a gas. The one I'm thinking about is Robo Gobo Robo Gobo. And
the reason this show is so fun for me is because I think they kind
of designed this character for me Jim, which I know they've done for you
many times, but his character named Monk Wrench, and he's basically like me,
but even more Steven Tyler out. So he's just this rock and roll
monkey villain who just screams constantly and has a guitar that he shoots rays out
of and stuff like that. So that's very very cool. One other thing
I would love to plug is that Kara and I have started this little Instagram
channel. It's not a podcast like this one, it's more a source of
I noticed, you know, Jim, you do cameos all the time.
I'm sure cameos are great because you can say hi to people and send messages
for birthdays and things. But because of the interactions that we have with these
people out on the road where we try to encourage him and talk to him
a little bit about what's happened or whatever, a lot of my cameos were
requests for advice, not that I'm qualified to give any because let's us that
I'm not doctor phild Jim. I'm just made doing my thing, you know,
so, but they asked me for advice, or that asks me for
a pep talk or something. And I said to Kara, I say,
you know what we could do. We could sporadically make little videos again with
no qualifications behind them, but just years of living and years of learning about
things that might be valuable people just as a nice thing to do. So
that's all it is. It's called Harnellovision. It's on Instagram. So in
the face of all the negative stuff that we get faced with every day on
the news, and we hear more and more of it every day, and
I know you feel the same way I do about it. It's just a
place you can go for two three minutes and each thing has a little message
and here's what this one's about, and here's what this one's about. And
it exists for no other reason than to hopefully make people feel a little bit
better for a minute. So check out Harnellvision. That's awesome, perfect,
thanks bro. There you go, Hartnellovision. Oh and it's h A R
N E L E V I S I O N. I can smell no
man and neither is C and neither is E. And one more thing to
plug. And that's the greatness of that guy right there. You guys don't
need me to say it, but I'm telling you the truth. It's like,
if you only love the characters. And I know that's the only chance
a lot of us get is through the characters. You're only getting half the
picture because that guy right there is a real deal. Oh well, God,
bless you. I mean, right back at you. That sounds so
name to say. We love you. I'm Peggy. We love Peggy.
She's out there somewhere and her good looking kid and he's only twelve. It's
only twelve anyway. Thanks guys, so you thanks for watching, you support
this podcast. It rocks indeed all the way Cleveland. All right, thank
you very much for watching. That was another episode of Tuned In with Jim
Cummings. Today we were joined by Jess and Cara Hemp Carnew. Today we
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Wow, Oh that was fun. I usually never screw that up.
You guys gonna go never. That was amazing.