How are you doing? Oh, dure, it's me Tiger. I am
Duck Wing Duck. It's me Bunkers keep babcat all right? Yeah, I
did it rate your favorite bibly you design? Hold oh nag. My name
is Jim Cummings, and welcome to tune Jim. Welcome everybody too. Tuned
in with Jim Cummings here on the four Finger Discount Network for a very special
Q and A episode. I am Brendan Dando, joined right now by several
gentlemen, the first of which being the Professor of pop Culture, Guy Davis.
Hello, everybody, we have professor a professor Chris. It's producer Chris.
We have producer Chris in the studio over there here doing Chris. We
can go with professor. Yeah, I feel you look like a professor.
Yes, And of course the ultimate professor professor of voice acting here is one
Jim Cummings. Jim, how are you doing, sir? Oh man,
here we go again. I say, we do it. I'm having a
great time. Yeah, let's do it. Indeed, so you know you're
a veteran of the con world. Now you always going to a different conventions.
You're doing Q and A panel, So that's very much what we're going
to be doing here. We've asked some of our supporters for some questions for
Jim coming just asked him anything, hashtag asked him anything, and have sent
through a whole bunch that we're going to be asking you today. So basically,
the whole purpose of this podcast is, you know, some people they
can't afford to go to cons, they might not live near where the cons
being held. So we're bringing the con to the people. So we're gonna
be doing a couple of Q and A podcasts each month, and this is
gonna be the first one we're gonna be doing right here on tuned in.
So, Jim, are you ready to answer your first question? Yes,
I say fire away and if I don't know the answer, I'll make something
up, all right. Men in the back, his name is Mitch Grinter.
He asked you as much as he's sure both script and animation combine as
inspiration. What do you first look to when creating a voice? None of
your damn business, Match, stay out of my work. Okay, geez,
some people I can't believe he as a gland to ask that. No,
thanks for asking, Match, That's what I meant to say, it's
coming back to me, so gosh. Yeah, well, you know,
sometimes it's fun. If you see a guy we's five hundred pounds, it's
fun to give him a little bitty voice like that. You never know a
coup work. And they say the opposite of true. If a guys looks
like an aunt, it's kind of fun to make him sound like Godzilla or
in this case, my uncle Sam got restless soul um but um. But
you you know, like with a guy like dark Wing, he's not super
big, he's not very super small, but then you you you kind of
infuse the personality in there, and dark Wings very sort of sarcastic and a
Wisenheimer, and so am I and uh, so I guess that was a
perfect fit. But it's all those things and and uh a lot of times,
uh, they'll know it, you know, there's an expression with casting
directors and directors, producers, writers, well I don't know what I want,
but I'll know it when I hear it. And you know, not
to get off topic, but don carnage for Tailspin, which is probably another
show they everybody was British but me and I don't know what this accent was,
but it was sort of slightly Cuban caribbee and and you know they had
pirates too. Of course he was a sky pirate. But you know,
it's the point is it's kind of fun to throw him something that they just
would never have thought of, and that works. That works. I just
wanted to tag onto something really quick, a little add on question to that,
because you know, obviously we're talking about creating character voices. But you
know, I remember you talking about something where, you know, when you
have to do voices that aren't original, and they wanted to sound you know,
like almost like a carbon copy of the voice actor who did it before
you. I remember you mentioning something about, like, you know, finding
a way to bring like your own voice into somebody else's voice essentially. Could
you elaborate on that just how you approach that? Oh sure, yeah,
well, you know, like you could take Pooh and Tigger for example,
and then you rely on the personalities. You have to first of all,
the voice print dash to be right there, dash to be Pool. You
know, it has to be Pool if he's sneezing or you know, yawning
or whatever. And with any established character. But um, you know you
let it informed by the way, have it be informed by the personalities?
Uh, you know, by you know, the the atmosphere and everything else
around it. And what was the second half of the question? To make
sure I address it. What I'm really trying to get out is like,
how do you bring you to something when you're really just like almost copying it,
you know, like you had mentioned, I forget in detail. I'd
love for you to go into like detail on how how you bring like yourself
to another voice if that's making sense, you know, how you bring like
a core piece of you into something that's not necessarily They're not looking for anything
necessarily different or unique. They're looking for right well, you know, uh
I that's a good one. You know, the movie Christopher Robin is probably
a good example of that, um, because I I found myself almost to
ad living as but it has to be Pooh. It had to be it
had to sound like Pooh. And there were a few lines that I changed
around, and um, gosh, I wish I could come up with a
good example for you right now. Oh wow. One was, um when
when Christopher Robin grew up and Pooh was cast by the wayside, you know,
and everyone. I'll give you a moment to get your tissues. If
you saw the movie, you know what I mean. And uh, there
was a moment when Pooh realized that Christopher Robin probably forgot him. You know,
he was a man, he was an adult. He's out there in
the business world, he's an accountant, he's doing great things and dah da
da da da, don't have time for this syllable silliness. And and I
remember thinking, well, you know, you know, if I were Pooh,
and I guess I am, you know, I would say, so
did you forget about me? And it was one of those poignant moments.
And uh, and they they kind of redid it. And and you had
said, yeah, I suppose I did, you know, And it was
one of those things where you let it breathe and nobody said anything for a
while, and uh, and it was just one of those sweet, sweet,
bittersweet moments. You know, those moments are there, but you have
to I think one of one thing is to let it breathe a little bit,
because sometimes we do. Certainly an animation, uh, you know,
it's breakneck speed, boom boom boom, joke, set up jokes, set
up jokes, set up joke, But there's an expression. There's when it's
voice acting, it's a small V but a capital A. So you have
to remember that, you know, not informs it. I think we have
a question from that QB looking fellow in the back there, that's that's Pat
rots Uh. He was asking Jim, is there a character? I mean,
you clearly have a repertoire and a portfolio full of voices, but is
there a character you wish you had voiced? Oh my gosh, yes,
God, thanks for bringing it up, Pat, Pat, Marge Simpson,
there are you happy? Fine? My biggest failure. No, it's a
good question. And I've actually been asked that a few times. And you
know, no, I because what that would translate to, and you know
in the real world is jealousy, you know. And uh, I should
have got that, you know, and every every actor in the world got
a little bit of that. Wait who got it? Oh? Fine,
sure, Robert de Niro, Fine, And uh, you just can't.
You just can't go there. I don't anyway. Well, obviously you are
a legend of voice acting. But when it comes to the kitchen, though,
hell are you in the kitchen? Because Julia parkey wants to know what
is your signature dish? What is jim coming signature dish in the kitchen?
Well, you haven't had toast until I've bust up my toaster, you know.
But gosh, his signature dish, you know, uh said for him
when I when I was a kid, I was decading on a riverboat and
I showed up and apparently and I didn't know this, you know, I
was nineteen and uh, oh, by the way, boy, you to
cook what? No, I'm not, you're not. Oh boy, do
you like scrambled eggs? And wait till I get is there a toaster around
here? Prepared to be dazzled? You know? But uh no, but
I I ended up. I ended up learning how to make red beans and
rice. And that's uh, you know red I call them riverboat red beans
because I learned how to make them on the Mississippi. And when I I've
told this story before, when I say that I learned to make them on
the Mississippi River, I mean I don't mean on the shore. I don't
mean you could see the river from where we were docked or whatever. No,
I was on a boat called the Old Dutch and and uh, and
he said, well boy, and his name was Leons LeBlanc and there's a
story about him too, but you know, God rest his soul. He
said, yeah, I'm got this is my last time on the river,
and I ain't got time to teach you how to do this stuff. No,
but by the time you get over here, you're going to know how
to me rab being and rise. And I said, wow, okay,
that's I could. Probably that skill will come in handy and so now I
do. And just for quick, since you dragged it out of me.
Uh that was the voice of Leatherhead on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I knew
it was something I couldn't Yeah. Yeah, and I have to tell you
that, you know, the Turtles was one of the first jobs I ever
got when I was in the business. And you know, I know that
he retired because he was He told me he retired, and I couldn't help,
but wonder if his grandkids were teenage muting Ninja Turtle fans. And leather
Head comes on, I'm going to get y'all turtles. Hey, grandpa,
come in here. Do you know this? Get it right here? This
elegant, you know, so you know, look a little quick sidebar there
for you. So do you do you still cook off and now or is
it just you know ordering or do you still cook? Do you still do
you like to cook? Oh? Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, not
too many things, you know. But grilled the other chicken the other day,
Chris Crispy, Honest, what's the food like living? It's actually toast.
He makes this really good toast actually where he puts in the frying pan
and puts a cookie cutter in the middle. Yeah, yeah, the middle,
and put the egg, puts the egg into the toast. Do you
want the name? The name? It's well, they call it a man
on a raft, A man on a raft? Yeah, man on a
raft. I've never heard that one before. Yeah, you cut out,
you cut out, You get a shot glass or whatever. Maybe you don't
have them, but there are plenty of them around here. Or or the
top of a spray on. You just carve it out and make a perfect
circle, PLoP that on the side, put a little butter in there and
goes the egg. Turn it over and life is good. Runny egg when
you eat it, or well I like him a little semi runny. Yeah,
not to run okay, not too not too hard, hard, not
too hard. But then you throw a little throw a little ham on top,
little cheese ham boom. Cooking with Cummings. That's a show. It's
coming to YouTube soon. That's a delicacy, I tell you. Oh man,
I'm for to that anyway. Next question, guy, Yeah, no,
ye, we are definitely going to have to have just a riverboat themed
episode because I just want to hear that couch in the accent for like half
an hour. Oh yeah, that's all I want. Voice actor Jadon Lebron
asks as a voice actor himself, and knowing that everyone's reasons for getting into
the game are different, what can pill you, Jim Cummings to get into
voice acting? I couldn't do anything else. And we ken it was your
dad pointing to the TV. Wasn't it he didn't he dad say those galls
on TV? They yeah it was. It was when I was five.
Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. You know, I was sitting
there, we were watching the Jack Benny program and um mel blank was uh
part of the repertoire the company that was on there every week, and uh
he was doing his famous ce Si routine where uh he was wearing a sarapi
and a Mexican sombrero, and he goes, so, what is your name
there? My friend Si? I see? And uh do you come here
often? See? And uh so do you? And he just went on
and on and every answer was c so you know, Sue, you know.
And and so my dad goes, he say it is bastard and I
go, yeah, he said, that's bastard. Every every Saturday morning you
wake up and and he's the one that does that Daffy Duck, that Arnold
Dug, the Tasmania this, and that's that's him. That's him. He's
a Sylvester guy in it. And the first thing I thought, well,
he doesn't have to stand in the corner from making weird sounds, now,
does he? And so I said, okay, I'm gonna do that.
Everybody likes him. He seems to be doing fairly well for himself. He's
on television, We're watching him, he ain't watching us, And so I
said, okay, that's what I'll do. How soon realistically after that moment,
did you stop practicing voices or was it just something that you just did.
You didn't practice, they just came out. Yeah, No, I
didn't practice. I just did it all the time. Yeah, I just
did it all the time. Everybody was so flattered. They hated me.
You know, my uncle Sam got restless soul, you know what. He
dug just like this, and that's just the way he's unlike somebody dragging a
garden regge grounds the gravel. And and everybody would saying, Jerry, do
argle than do arga than hell, damn Jesus Christ. Zed's both to sound
like me, you know. And that was and then I and you didn't
mess with Uncle Sam because because he was he was. He was as messed.
He was as badass as he sounded, and that was pretty bad.
So no that I was just kidding, That wasn't you. There must have
been a point where it went from something that you do to something that you
could do for a living. I mean, what do you do you recall
that that moment in your life, all that all that that phase of your
life where it's like, Okay, I can make a buck. Because there's
a difference between doing voices and realizing, wait a minute, I'm actually really
good at this. Well I guess I knew. I mean I was always
in place like like I said as a kid, like, uh, even
you know, grade school, high school, and um, and I there
was speech tournaments. I don't know if you guys have there, but we
have. It was called the NFL National Forensics League. Not that I wish
I was in the other one, but this, you know, this one
will have to do. And why do you go to speech tournaments? And
I was involved big shock humorous interpretation. And that's where you do. You
take a cutting from a play or a cut from movies, four or five
pages, maybe six, and you do all the characters. And so I
did that, and um and I knew, like I said, from very
very early age that I was going to end up doing that. And um,
you know, I got out of I got got out of high school,
and and I went to all these speech tournaments and I would win.
I It sounds weird to say, but I will one free one I ever
went to. I was. I came here, I was the first.
Yeah, yeah, I mean that's I don't think I've told that to anybody
before, but because it sounds like such a brag, but but I just
it was something you had a knack for. I mean, Lebron probably did
pretty well in basketball, when he was in high school. Help being the
best of the best. Kenny, Oh yeah, it's a curse. Yeah
that now I remember that. I was just gonna say that, but uh
and bragging if he can do it? Yeah yeah, yeah, that was
the guns of will sonnet But um, you know, it was just something
that I always had. I now, I always knew that I was going
to do it. I always really did somehow or another. And uh,
and I'm like I said, I made my first demo tape and I got
lucky to an extent. I mean, there's got to be luck in there
somewhere. And I got the very first job that I ever went out for.
And I think Chris pointed out last week he was Dumbo Circus and uh.
And and that that lasted for I'm going to say like a year and
a half. Well that it was enough to live on. You know,
We're doing two shows and I was making about three hundred bucks a week more
doing eight hours than the total including drivetime. Then I was at the video
depot and I was hundreds of dollars more and that was fifty hours. So
I said, OK, I'm gonna do this And then was in your own
time, Nan yeah, watch exactly right. And so by the time that
ended up, I had an agent, and then I was doing a lot
of TV commercials, radio radio, a lot of radio spots, good back
and forth, even to San Diego, and you know, one thing led
to another. Here we are, Chris. Can you remember the first voice
that Jim did for you? Yes? I can, the first voice,
Yes I can. It was the first time I met Jim. I was
in college. Actually, I was in college and I was doing a project
for one of my communications classes and Jim volunteered to take me out and he
was doing a recording for a McDonald's commercial, and funnily enough, funnily enough
it was and we went down I think it was some studio in like Malibu
or Santa Monica or something like that. Yeah, and we went down there,
and funnily enough, it was McDonald's commercial for in Australia. And I
was fascinated because I was like, it was maybe like a three line commercial.
It was like, you know, try the new McDonald's frappe, you
know, this summer only I'm loving it. You know, I can't do
the accent nearly as good obviously, Yeah, but uh, yeah, it
was that was the very first voice I heard him do, like in person.
And I think afterwards we went to we went for like a little lunch
afterwards at a restaurant and then he ordered to the to the waitress in Tiger's
voice and then seeing her reaction, seeing her like melt down all of a
sudden at the table and like need a moment as our server. I just
thought that was so hilarious. And the combination between the two, like,
I thought, wow, I thought they would have just hired like a local,
you know, ausy guy to say three lines like you know, yeah,
but I guess Jim sounds Jim sounds more Australian than they do even so
I guess that's what. Yeah, I remember that? Do you do?
You guys remember Tristan Rogers. He was, He was a big soap star
Australia fella. He was on Days of Our Lives. Yeah, yeah,
well, uh, I don't you might hears the here. You really won't
remember this Matil Debay wine coolers. Uh it was one of those terrible wine
coolers that came out late eighties, early nineties. Yeah, and uh it
was Matil Debay wine cooler, you know, and it was a bad poul
Agan was getting the refinemus and uh, and you know, and they and
I was doing a spot with him and uh, we were supposed to be
two guys upon a cliff doing something doing this and that. No, it
was really hot. And I finally ahead and Matilda Bay Wine Cooler, you
know, and we're going back and forth and um, apparently he said to
the producers beforehand, Um, he said, well, now this villa is
he from Mistralgia And he said no. He goes, well, well I'll
be I'll be seeing you again because our guarantee we're going to overlap. And
then I'll have to come back with the new guy because he's not going to
sound like it's from Mstrouge. And then we went through the whole bit and
he goes, all right, remember all that bullshit I said earlier? Never
mind, you know. So so I that made me feel good. I'm
interested to know what what Tiger would order at the McDonald's. What would Tiger
order at McDonald's. Definitely to frag Definitely not a Matilda by Wine Cooler,
gasper decorad, but something something Nason sloppy that's ninety sent the menu. If
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the description of this show. I've got another one here from Henry Scanlon,
and Henry says, your character Hondo is a huge part of the Star Wars
Galaxy's Edge. But can you recall your first ever visit to Disneyland. Oh
gosh, let's see. Yeah, yeah, I sure can, um and
it was it was actually, I guess Chippendale Rescue Rangers was out and my
oldest daughter who's in her forties now. Uh, she was. She was
the firstborn and she was about three three and a half. And we took
her there and we went inside the show and it was, um and it
was it was Cat fat Cat. It was like the Chippendale Rescue Rangers skypilot
show, you know, and it was the whole such as that. And
it was and that was and it was to see see me doing some work.
It was. It was interesting, you know. I mean it's like
in every it's weird because every time I've ever been to Disneyland, there's been
an attraction there that I would just check up on to see how it was,
you know, like as if I didn't know how it went. But
boy, still still sounds the same, right, just check it all right,
carry on talk amongst yourself. No, let me do that for you.
But yeah, it was fun. We have a question from Diane mccury.
Has anyone ever had to fill in for one of your characters? Um?
No, never been a time when you're unavailable. You've always been available.
Well, you know, it's these type of things are it's fairly flexible.
And um, I could say this. I once and I made this
mistake because I have this very blue collar attitude toward a no caller career.
And I was a little under the weather and I was a little bit of
a cold, you know, this type of thing. And it was doing
the very very first season of the New Adventures of Windy Pooh. And I
went to work anyway, and I remember hearing Pooh come out, Pooh sh
ou died. Look, I had a bit of a cold, and I
went, oh, gosh, see the thing is they last forever? You
know that, you know I when I was a kid, I said earlier,
I enjoyed cartoons from the nineteen thirties, you know, forties, fifties,
and so don't be sick. You know, they could put it off
for a couple of days till you get better. And you know that's how
I learned it protective. Are you of your roles? Uh? Well,
very they're they're kind of like my kids, you know, they become an
extension of your personality. And I almost told the story about someone replacing me
as Don Carnage and he couldn't pronounce the name. Great, yeah, he
called it Don car Nash. What was he replacing you? Oh, I
don't know. He might have been facially famous. Thanks for bringing it up.
No, but that that that it was good, wasn't it? Yeah?
It was, God, No, it was. But my friend Jinny
McSwain, uh has a she's a great director, you know her, Andre
Romano. There a few of them out there, Gordon hunt um. And
she said, well they she called a TV guide casting. Oh, let's
this person's on a famous soap opera. Oh, this one just made him.
Oh, this one, this one, this one, you know,
and it's a different critter. But they got this uh chap who made some
sort of splash and some broad Way little the fancy thing, and they they
decided it would be fun to have him come in and do not carnage but
darn carnash. And I heard that. I went at least say the guy's
name, right. So was this after the show had started? Uh?
No, this is actually just in the past couple of year, three,
four years, No more than oh so recently. I think during the run
of the original show. No, I was gonna say, it seems to
be a more recurring thing. Now have you noticed now that it seems to
be they've they more focused on whose names on the post as opposed to have
the quality of the actual voice. Do you feel like that's the way it's
sort of the the tract they've gone down now? Oh yeah, sure,
very much so you know, um, but you know, I'm happy to
say the fans no, yeah, yeah there Uh gosh, I feel like
I'm repeating myself. But at the sneak preview of Christopher Robin, I wasn't
the original Tigger. Uh that is that's a story in itself. That's another
episode, that one. But but they had um And oddly enough, Peggy
and I were Margaret, my wife and I were at another movie theater in
the Thousand Oaks, small just not that one, but they had a test
run. You know, when the movie's like seventy percent done, they'll they'll
invite this one and that one. You know, all these people. They'll
fill up it just to get a the audience reaction, you know. And
the color color is not there, the color correction isn't right, and different
scenes whoops, there's a camera, there's a boom, you know, but
people critique it and everything, and and the guys were saying that because as
I said, I wasn't cast as Tiger originally. Then somehow or along the
line, somebody said, let's that's a good jim back. Can we just
do that? It would kill you to get you so uh they did and
uh apparently when the movie started and Tiger came on, someone stood up and
went it's yeah, and and every and the whole audience went yay, you
know, because I probably knew half of them. So, but that was
a pretty cool story. Chris, that was you, right, Yeah it
was. It was Chris, Chris and Margaret, just the cheese squad.
But but that that made me. That made my day. And this one
comes from Alliott j O'Neill and Aliot wants to know how does your approach to
a role different between a video game and one for a TV show or film,
if at all? Well, money, just kidding, Uh No,
I don't think there is one. There are all the super Bowl for me.
You know, they're all the title fake. I don't, I don't,
I don't. Whatever I have to bring, I bring it all because
you know, it's like I said, before, they live forever. You
know, you don't want to go, oh what wow? D you phone
that end? Didn't he? Jeez? Oh man, Philip? Video games
maybe less so, because you know I might go back and play games from
the nineties. But Elliott, my son, who's four, he's not going
to go back and play the old games in the nineties because I don't look
clear enough. Way, No, I would need to poo. And I
made a series from nineteen eighty seven that still looks as it was then and
it still looks fine to watch now. Right. Yeah, So I feel
like maybe maybe if your video game characters maybe more forgotten than you TV roles,
would you would you think that? Yeah, yeah, well I think
that it's a it's less rewarding for the actor. I can tell you that
I did one I guess it's some kind of game the other last week,
and uh, you know, it's just a lot of repetition. It's there's
no interaction, you know for video games, Um, there's no interaction because
there's no one in there. So you have to, you know, have
somebody read the line before so at least know what you're responding to, and
then you give them two or three lines that would work depending on the inflection
that they might get it. If this one does that, you know,
da da dada. So it's a little it's a little unrewarding. Uh,
you know, video games. I don't do many. I don't do many.
Yeah, how does your approach for things like, for example, video
games? Right, it's a lot of fighting games. How do they direct
that to you? Is it just okay, now you getting punched in the
face? Go, how do you change it up? How do you change
it up? How do you how do you what's the difference between getting punched
in the face and you're kicking a wall? You know? Yeah, well
ones you're getting punched in the face, and the other is yes, but
no, yeah, yeah, but it's just a lot of a lot of
grunting. Yeah, well, you know, and they you can only spell
so many, so many ways, And what will happen is it'll say there'll
be yeah, maybe two and a half seconds, and then it'll be the
description will be on the rate and it'll say slipped and fell down the first
three steps, but regained his balance, excited, riveting stuff, right,
um? Incredibly specifically yeah, yeah, but it is. It is very
specific and u so it kind of gives you. You know, I've done
like whole pages without anybody saying anything on the other side of the screen except
okay, yeah that's good, Yeah, okay, good. Um you know,
so because you know the game and the visuals and all the music and
the sound effects and everything are doing a great deal of the work. So
yeah, you know, just stick to the lines and get them said and
get out of there. While we're talking about video games, Jim, I
mean Mike Joseph would like to know about your experience working on the Kingdom Hearts
video games and asking do you know what the games are about or ever or
have you ever played them? You play Poo and Tiger apparently in those games,
guys, don't ring a bell. Jim is looking very puzzled. No,
no, yeah, you know it's funny. I don't. I'm not
a big gamer, like at all, not difend in the eighties or you
never just never were a video game anything. Pinball, pinball? Yeah,
so I'll be fan of pimball. What does some mean let's get into pimball.
But if some of your favorite pinball machines? Oh gosh, well,
are you to have one down in the garage? And it was Mars Attacks
and it was awesome. It's one of my favorite ones ever. I love
Mars Attacks, remember Chris remembers it was. And pinball I think it's not
a licensing by any means, but it is the most fun to play,
trying to shoot the ball up the middle and hit that spaceship unbelieving. Yeah,
oh yeah yeah, And I would play it for hours. So that's
I've clocked it once. I've finished it once any in my life. Yeah
yeah, I think so too. Is it a movie tie in or is
it? No, it's it's called Attack from Mars. It's not actually tied
into anything, but it's just it is such a brilli The gameplay is so
fun, it's so easy to pick up, it's so simple. Yeah.
Yeah, just amazing, just fantastic. Yeah. Yeah, we're going to
get into an episode about your pinball fascination because I'm a big pinball fan here
myself. Oh yeah, oh yeah, well yeah. I used to work
at the video depot and I would spend my lunch hour down there at the
Pizza Hut because they had pinball machines. They're dying breed now, but you
know when whenever I find one, I'm like, right, it's my wife,
Nicola, you go do something. I'm going to be here for the
next two hours. Put some calls in this machine. Understood, all right,
what's a couple more questions here. So this one's from Ken Tran to
Ken says, what are some of the strangest things that somebody has asked you
to sign for them at a convention or on the street, whatever, anything?
Strangest things besides boobs of course. Yeah, I was gonna say,
plenty of body parts. Um, nothing strange about them, Yeah, nothing
strange about them. The first one stuck up on me a long time ago.
Uh you know, a lady had me same right here, and I
go, oh, boy, okay, well can you're trying to be cool,
you know, like all those at home. It's on the chest.
Yeah, yeah, oh yeah yeah. And she came back the next day
and goes, well, what do you think? And I went, oh,
well, now, hello, there one on the raig. You know,
what does one say? I don't want don't want to be rude to
a breast? Um, so yeah, thank you. When someone says to
you, I'm going to get this tattooed and you're you're about to do it,
is it nervous thinking I better get this exactly right, because when I
do this right, they can look an idiot for the rest of their life.
Yeah, oh I know, yeah, Uh, well, I always
misspell my name. No, I don't, just that. I'll teach them,
you know. Wait, Ji, And what's what's what the been a
question for me? What's what's your favorite thing that you have signed from somebody
else besides the George Lucas letter that you've brought up before. Oh yeah,
Um do you have much memorability of things that have been signed by fellow co
workers or anyone? Yeah? Yeah, I kind of do. You know,
nothing that comes to mind except for all this stuff. Um yeah,
I've got a uh some things from different movies that Princess and the Frog and
gosh, I've got who framed Roger Rabbit around here somewhere. I've got to
be one. Yeah, I've got Pat Buttram, um uh, because I
was one of the bullets in Roger Rabbitt and Pat Buttram was the fellow the
talk like this and he was an old cowboy. Uh. You know,
there was a guy who was supposed to be Pat Buttram. One was supposed
to be Andy Divine that was me, and the other one was supposed to
be Warded Brennan and the real McCoy's. Well, Pat Buttram played himself,
so you know, and uh, and and I had him. I just
had to do it. I said, can you can you please sign my
script, mister Buttram? He said sure, But mister Buttram was my daddy.
My name's Pat. And I said, oh, okay, there you
go. And he said, and he writes, and he says to Jim,
shoot low, they might be crawling, Pat Buttram, And he says,
do you know what that means? And I said, shoot low,
they might be crawling. I have advice for the marksman. He goes,
maybe, but I don't know. And I must have said that ship in
twenty different movies. And I said, oh, okay, well there you
go. Because he and Gene Autry made all these cereals. They were like
half an hour each, and I guess they just would play them before the
big movie. I don't really remember it. I'm not even that old,
but but but I knew he was cool because he was mister Haney on Green
Acres, which was an old also an old TV show. So yeah,
another great theme song. Oh yeah, ump up um, yeah, there
you go. Yes, yes, indeed, should we wrap this? Q?
And I up? Then do you think, gentlemen, do you think
we ustle the question? They to be honest, what do you think because
one last one? Should one last one? I got reckon God's fan one
loss, tap into the my o bag? What did you pulled? That
guy reaching rot to the bottom and pool that one by Sophie Kidbey Jim your
your career has taken you all over the world, whether it's the work that
you do or the cons that you attend. Is there somewhere in the world
that you'd love to travel to that you haven't visited yet? Yes? Uh
well, let's see the Parth nine uh Rome and Paris. I think never
been to Paris, No, never, never. I think that somebody should
bring me over there to do at least one voiceover, and I'd be so
not even you didn't go to Paris Disneyland once, didn't there at all?
I know? I think, you know, maybe we could. You could
send somebody, you know, somebody a little memo to I think Paris Disneyland
may have closed down. Actually, oh no, I think I think I
may have. I'm not too sure. Don't quote me on that. Does
christ You wanted to a quick Google producer Chris is Paris Disneyland still a things
are still going. He's nodding or is he just nodding to say that he's
looking. Yeah, not even say that it is looking. May I point
out, yes, Disney Disneyland Paris is closed until no thirty am tomorrow.
I feel much better. Apparently thinks longer than usual for coronavirus. I think
it closed for extending longer than the rest of the pokes. That would be
make me more sense about to hear. But I remember that story when we
went with my wife. I might have been Space Mountain, I can't remember,
but I had a camera with me around my neck, and I remember
obviously didn't speak English there and he was saying he was pointing to my camera,
and I said, no, no, I'm gonna I want to hold
onto this. INDI goes if he goes, if keep camera there, break
face, And I was like, oh, you mean better put it away
from my own safety. Yeah, you go upside down, your face broken.
Yeah that you know, that's that's a good tip. Thank you.
Yeah, camera down or break face? Yeah, I remember that. But
yes, all right, Well, thank you Jim for this little Q special
here and tuned in. It's been a lot of fun. Does this make
you feel like you're at a convention? When you're doing all this a bit.
Yeah, yeah, it's a good feeling. I like it. I
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