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How you doing out there? It's
me Tigger, I am dark Wayne Duck.

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It's me Bunker's keep Bobcat. All
right, y'all, did it right?

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Your favorite firefly you design? Hold
the old knock out. My name

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is Jim Cummings and welcome to tune
Jin. But yeah, ladies and gentlemen,

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one of my truly oldest buddies in
the business. That's true. And

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yes, that is actually true.
And Maurice sa Marsh by the way,

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you know I'm better as the Brain. You know, I'm better as many

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things. And one of my favorite
things was the movie where you played Marlon

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Brando. Oh you mean Utopia?
Yeah, and that was Yeah, that

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was fun. And you know,
the Brain is loosely based on well,

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two people. It's based on on
Tom Minton, who was a writer and

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his partner Eddie Fitzgerald. They're both
writers at first hand of Barbara and then

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Warner Brothers. Well, that's true, the look and the look, and

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I had no idea that's where they
based the character. The sketch of the

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character on basically made them mice and
so. But having never met Tom,

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I just saw Orson Wells in that
face, rowy cheeks the dour expression I

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just saw, come Pinky back to
the lab. We must plan for tomorrow

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night, where we'll do the same
thing we do every night, try to

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take over the world. You know. But I you know, you know

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this because you were there that I
got I got doing Orson Wells because Phil

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Proctor, uh, and then later
Neil Ross gave me copies of outtakes of

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Orson Wells doing the Falls and Peace
commercial and the Palms on Wine commercial.

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They had him on video too,
they had and so I mean I got

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hold of this. All this great
stuff was Wells being himself, which to

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me was even more fascinating than the
characters. Oh my god. And at

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the time, folks, I don't
know if you would remember this, but

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he was Gallow Gallow Palms mess On
vintage, dated and fermented in the bottle,

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and like the best champagne. And
you know he's kind of he's kind

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of out of it in the shot, Yes, you know, of of

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you know, one, not two
take two. The French champagne has long

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been celebrated for its excellence. There
is a California champagne inspired by that same

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excellence, and like the best champagne, he's vintage dated fermented in the bottle

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and cut. Yeah, that's that's
tone perfectly, that is note perfect,

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so funny. We remember watching that
with you when we were doing Animaniacs,

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Yes at Soundcast Soundcastle Studios. Yes, and uh. And then following in

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the next cut on the tape was
William Shatner doing she Backed My Bags last

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night pre flight zero nine am I'm
gonna be as a guy by the and

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a rocket man talk singing rocket Man, And I think we were both on

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the floor literally we sunk to the
floor out of our chairs. Oh yes.

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And then they kept cutting back and
forth too. Uh if you remember,

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I guess what was that the Grammys
or something, But anyway, they

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kept cutting back and forth to Mark
Hamill. Yeah, and he was in

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the audience going, yeah, it
was this nineteenth Well was great because it

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was Bernie Toppin and he comes out
and makes the introduction and he says,

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oh yes, he says. And
now in nineteen seventy eight at the Science

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Fiction Film Awards, my rocket main
as interpreted by William Shatner, and he

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just seemed like it was so painful
and Chattner, you know, you gotta

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give him credit because I'm sure he
was, like he went to the directions.

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I was in New York and I
saw this thing called Performance Odd,

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and I want to do it for
rocket Man, because I mean there were

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three Shatners, you know. There
was there was there was a rock It

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Man, the party guy. There
was right sullen rocket Man, the one

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who knows his fate is sealed.
And then there's giant heads Shatner, you

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know, and I think it will
be a long long time as though he's

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fate, you know, as though
he's God. Oh God. Those were

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and we always, you know,
we had to when we were doing like

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Tasmania, Yeah, and any number
of the other shows. If someone said

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any given thing that's set off any
any orson Welly and Response, we got

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to hear the whole full thing.
I had no I had no filter.

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I just knew. I just had
to get that voice down more and more.

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I don't know why. It's almost
like I was on a collision course

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with brain and I had to perfect
that voice. And Miriam Flynn would say,

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all right, this is gonna take
about two or three minutes. I'm

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just gonna see here. Go ahead, you kids talk amongst yourself, rolling

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round and I have no more time
you join on what I'm up against.

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It's come to the point now where
frozen peas actually means any any outtake,

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any moment of audio verite. People
just use the term frozen peas And does

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dude, does the audience know that
due to your your proclivity to falling into

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that at any given moment? Was
there ever an Animaniacs show based on that?

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There was? See how I was
that subtle enough? In season In

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season one, actually they just decided
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kind of scratch the itch for me, So they built an entire episode where

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Brain goes in. It's called Yes
Always Brain goes in, and it's like

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it's like a peak behind the curtain. And now we show you how the

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recording process. Brain will record a
frozen peas commercial? Can we go in?

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And then then there's Brain up there
on the on the thing on a

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stool and he does we know remote
farm in Lincolnshire where Missus Buckley lives Every

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July peas grow there? Do you
really mean that? And then Pinkies No,

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Andrea Romana, Andrea Romano playing herself, goes Harry and Harry, our

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dear Harry, and parted Harry Androws
Life Engineer, and they drew them as

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they as they looked in Life and
the caricatures. But you know, she

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came in and directed me and said, could you do it in July?

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Wow, that doesn't make any sense, which sorry, no known way of

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saying an English sentence, which you
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Get me a jury and show me
how you can say in July and I'll

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make cheese for you. We cleaned
it up because in the original cheese can,

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it's just a in the original the
true orson I'll take it. He

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goes, show me how you can
say in July and I'll go down on

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you. It's such a idiotic if
I say so, yeah, yeah,

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so, God, unbelievable. It's
just the best. Those were fun times,

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man, means it was. It
was. You know, now we're

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so controlled, we're all doing it
from our home studios, and you know

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there's so many protocols in place.
Full casts aren't assembling anymore. Yeah.

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Last show that I ever did,
God, that's depressing because now I realize

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it's been years. But the last
show I ever did with the full cast

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was Star Wars Clone Wars. Oh, so you would do full cast recording

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for that. Yeah, it's just
like that, so don't you. I

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just like that so much better.
You get synergy and yeah, just you

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get a sense of you feed off
each other. Yeah, it's it's unbelievable

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and it's one of the one of
the casualties and our business of of you

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know, the dark time that we
don't get to do that. And I'm

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hoping it'll make its way back.
I will say that Futurama, which is

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back on Hulu, new episodes drop
every Monday night. We managed to give

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us Monday nights on Hulu. We
drop over of our new season. It's

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the third time we've come back from
the dead. So even Lazarus, we've

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got him being but we we've got
to the point where we would have half

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the cast. They would allow four
people in the studio at La Studios and

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uh Billy would be in the main
studio, and then three of us would

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be in a satellite room but with
the sliding doors so we could see each

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other and work off of each other
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used to be in that you know, wonderful sort of semicircle horseshoe pattern and

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just all eight of us there,
and just eight of us doing fifty two

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voices, you know, amongst ourselves. That's so and I yeah, Dearly,

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my favorite way to work. Oh
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yeah, yeah, I know.
Well, you know it's it's like

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you can't play catch with yourself.
No, there are the things you can

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play with yourself. But that's true
exactly. And yet you've worked enough for

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Disney that you know the Disney model, especially the feature model, is to

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always have you alone, totally isolated. That's how he did Utopia, and

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that's how mister Big you know,
came. But there's still that synergy because

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the directors in the room with you
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throng out ideas, you know.
And like mister Big was originally a very

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sinister character in Zutopia, but as
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and batted it back and forth,
he became funnier. You know. We

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want we must have gone back.
Of course, when you've got five years

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and so many millions of dollars to
work on things like that, you know,

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just we probably worked on mister Big
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Yeah, good Richard coming in with
great ideas and you know the whole skunk

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butt rug thing. Yeah, you
might you get Grandmama skunk, but rug

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a rug made from the butt of
a skunk. We buried Grandmama on that

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run. You know, it was
like that was just all just riffing with

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rich and and us trying to,
you know, make each other laugh,

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trying to riff. Oh yeah,
but that's the luxury of doing feature film.

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And again you're not You're not alone
alone in there because rich is wonderful

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director. He can read in the
other characters. Uh, you know,

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gosh, we've got who's who?
Name won't come to me. No face

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faces there, Kravit was in Greece. Was in Greece. Ah not John

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Travolta. No, no, no, uh damn oh oh he's gonna kill

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me. Oh blonde here, Yes, we're both old. No no,

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no. Kelly Ward, Kelly Ward, God bless him. Sorry, Kelly,

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I don't know why. I mean, your face was him. I

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was in my head the whole time
and the name would not come. So

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weird. So Kelly Ward is actually
one of those people that can read you

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in and he does every voice on
the show. We did a show called

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The seventy which was like a kind
of a j Wardish take on the Seven

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Dwarves. Tom Rueger, you know, head honcho and Animaniacs developed this and

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it's the Seven Dwars twenty years before
they meet snow White. And he would

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read with Yeah, he would read
with me. And he did all other

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of the Seven Dwars, including Kevin
Michael Richards, a happy character who was

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just the most ridiculously happy character you've
ever met in your life. He could

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read them all and you would feel
like they were in the room. That's

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how good. Oh wow, that's
that's good. Directing is is just means

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so much. Yeah oh yeah,
yeah yeah. I work with him all

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the time. He does the latest
iteration of Mickey Mouse fun House, Right,

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I get to play more of a
mouse every fifth episode of that closest

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thing there is to a villain.
He's not really a villain. He's just

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kind of clueless and rude and then
he loves a lesson. Yeah yeah,

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yeah, yeah, Well Pete's not
really a villain either, well okay,

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maybe a little bit. Yeah,
but it's just cranky. Yeah, he's

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just cranky. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, he's just pissed all the

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time, continuously pissed. So that's
great, man. So so let me

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ask something here. We are at
a comic con. We are as we

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record this, and you guys tell
where we are by any chance. We're

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in the world famous Tampa Bay.
We are. It's the actual bay.

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Yes, we're not kidding around here
and sitting on the dock of the exactly

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bay. Yes, and it's beautiful. Yeah, yeah, yeah, setting.

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We just we feel like we should
just have a cup of tea.

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Yes, you know, I agree. Yeah, it's slowly yeah, I

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do, I agree. Yeah.
I love these cons though. I mean

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this is you get to meet people
who tell you that somehow, somehow,

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something you did change their day on
a very dark day, or maybe many

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dark days. And I can't tell
you how many people have told me that

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they were going to do the dark
need to themselves and they flipped on an

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episode of your show, yeah,
my show, and the laughter that came

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from it dispelled the thought, you
know, because we you know, whether

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we you know, whether it's the
endorphins that come from laughter or just you

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know, poof the thought goes away
and you can you realize, I can't

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believe I was going to do that
to myself, you know. And that's

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the fact that I get to deliver
that that shot of endorphin and you do,

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and he goes even further back with
you. Because when Winnie the Pooh

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they meet, they meet Winnie the
Pooh in their babyhood, man Oh in

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their DNA from from if you ever
decided, will turn evil and and start

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the world with subliminal messages as Pooh
it's time for them to rise up.

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They follow him more readily than they
follow the brain. Ye yes, yea,

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and conquer the world. Here,
let's take over the world. What

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excuse me to go? But I
must take over the world. Oh,

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but Pooh don't pick of it.
So I don't know. But it's yeah,

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it's it's it's very gratifying because I've
had so many people say that that

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I have babysat them or gotten them
through a lot of tough times. Pooh

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is like a healing bomb. I
will say that, you know, he

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really Uh, it's a blessing.
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a twin. It it was a
boy and a girl twin. Set of

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twins told me that I raised them
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streets because by the time they got
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on and they would record. Their
mom was a nurse and she couldn't get

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home till like six, and so
she was at work. My wife,

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my wife's mom was a nurse,
so I know this. Oh yeah,

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well yes, oh yeah, well
you know she she u. They would

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set the VCR video tape recorder video
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and uh, three, three thirty, four, four thirty and then you

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know, they would record the Disney
Afternoon, those four shows and then they

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would watch them. And by the
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they got home from school, mom
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off the streets yea, and kept
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really yeah, and he was actually
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it. And he goes, and
I have to record something from my sister

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because she's my twin sister and she
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her and blah blah blah. And
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every now and then you meet somebody, Yeah, I get a little

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gooey. If you feel like you've
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this used to be the best,
the best voice I ever did. Yes,

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yeah, who has to say something
super profound? Let me quote the

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Dolly lamaz boo. Yeah yeah,
yeah, and uh and and and you

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realize that, you know, guys
like us, we can't take ourselves too

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seriously. No, but you have
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It's a technique and you can't be
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you've got to You've got to go
into the world that you're whatever the world

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is that you're that you're helping to
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sketches, we don't have the backgrounds
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I just had a vague sense of
what brain looked like, or you know,

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any of the characters on Futurama look
like because you knew Tom Minton.

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Well, I didn't know Tomy character
sketch stayed in my head. Oh yeah,

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and so but I mean I didn't
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I kind of draw the cartoon in
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words on the script, and you
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into that world. It's that it
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most of any of the acting,
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's
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And while you don't have to,
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hair, lighting, makeup, costumes. You also don't have those things to

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help you along. You know a
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sure it's it's yeah, it's great. And you don't have to memorize either,

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you know, for the most part, that's my favorite part, not

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memorizing. Yeah, and then you
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lived so much that it's like,
yeah, scripted because you can't read,

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you know, I can't, so
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yeah, it's it's my favorite thing. It's my favorite thing in the home

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wide world. And you know,
I always say, this is this kind

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of thing. You used to get
me kicked out of class. Same here,

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you know, same here. The
jokes on system Mary Agnes now has

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been for almost forty years. Take
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And in mister Bean not a different
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not not. He had the name
of a British comedian's character. He

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had the face of mister space Ley
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him. Oh wow, right down
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of Hitler mustache. And but mister
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We've got to let you go.
Sorry, you haven't attended enough classes.

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You spent so much time down in
the cafeteria holding court. And listen,

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we walk by, We hear your
jokes, we hear your impressions. You're

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very too, really good, and
we hope we get to come see you

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perform at at you know, at
the time of the O'Keefe was the O'Keefe

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Center was the big theater in Toronto
at the time. We hope we get

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to come down and see or go
to Las Vegas and see you perform.

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And I have I have been an
opening act in Las Vegas. And next

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March March thirtieth, my birthday,
I will actually be at the Roy Thompson

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Hall with Rob Paulson and Randy Roguel
He and the Animaniacs Live show my home

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team. That date again is that
March thirtieth, twenty twenty four, my

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sixty sixth birthday, and I will
appear on stage in front of the Toronto

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Symphony Orchestra. What yeah, doing
the music of Animaniacs with Rob Paulson and

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Randy Rogelli. We will do a
brain song. There's a beautiful there's a

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hilarious sketches and I'll probably you know, do a little extra pattern in the

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middle, because I'm sure you will. Yeah, that's one that's pretty great.

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Yeah, because I remember one of
the Roy Thompson Hall went up and

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it was this new acoustically perfect hall
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And it isn't that the one where
it's kind of like, uh got it

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the Disney Theater where I don't think
Frank Annon this one, but oh okay,

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it's very much but you can hear
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Yeah. I love stuff like that. Yeah, I really, I

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really do good for you, man, Thanks man, that's good to thank

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Rob Paulson and Randy roa for that. Yeah. Are you going to do

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a drum solo? That's where that's
where you come into that worked out in

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perfectly in your back pocket. That's
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Yeah, Oh wow, that's awesome, buddy. Yeah, thank congratulation,

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thank you, thank you. Listen. Should we go back to work?

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I think we gotta we got it, We got to. I've got at

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least a fan waiting for me at
the at my table, and I should

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probably go put some smiles on something. Yeah. I agree. Well you've

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done it here, buddy, thankk
you so much. Oh Man driving me

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on the show. Not orson Wells, No, but the brilliant, brilliant

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imitation. Yes, Maraice LaMarsh,
everybody you know Eman love him. Thanks

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coming to a con near you.
That was awesome. Coming to a near

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getting out of everybody awesome. Oh
that was so cool. Thanks, Yeah, buddy,