WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.399 --> 00:00:05.559 How you doing out there? It's me Tigger. I am Duc Wayne Duck. 2 00:00:05.839 --> 00:00:09.240 It's me Bunkers Deep Bobcat. All right, y'all, did it great? 3 00:00:09.640 --> 00:00:14.240 Your favorite firefly you desire hold the old knock guy. My name is 4 00:00:14.359 --> 00:00:20.960 Jim Cummings and welcome to Tuned In. Welcome back, everybody to another episode 5 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:25.199 of Tuned In with Jim Cummings. As always, we're joined by producer Brendan. 6 00:00:25.320 --> 00:00:27.839 How are you doing today, sir, I'm fantastic. Thanks for having 7 00:00:27.879 --> 00:00:31.679 me. Our guest today is Kathleen Hurles. Nice of you to join us. 8 00:00:32.039 --> 00:00:36.479 Hi, thanks for having me in the crowd One World, and of 9 00:00:36.520 --> 00:00:38.640 course, as usual, the man of the hour, Jim Commings. How 10 00:00:38.679 --> 00:00:41.320 are you doing today? Jim? Oh, it's another day at paradise. 11 00:00:41.399 --> 00:00:43.960 But I hope everybody will forgive me. I've got a little bit of a 12 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:49.200 head cold. But the good news is you probably can't even catch up a 13 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:52.840 germ of it, so I think you're all pretty safe. There's one of 14 00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:55.000 the risks of you take when you go to the conventions, though, right 15 00:00:55.039 --> 00:00:59.880 when you're dealing with all those people on the road again. Yeah, we're 16 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:03.640 really on the road this time for a good long time. So I'm glad 17 00:01:03.679 --> 00:01:06.680 to be back, and I'm glad you're here, Kathleen, let's hear it. 18 00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:10.760 Yes, yes, I think I'm actually going to meet you in person 19 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:17.359 at Smoky Mountain Fest in August. I think I saw your name. Good 20 00:01:17.359 --> 00:01:19.680 good. Well, you know I have one thing to say to you. 21 00:01:21.079 --> 00:01:27.760 Yes, actually, Winnie the Pooh does do say come meel? I love 22 00:01:27.799 --> 00:01:33.439 it. If you guys don't know, meel means honey, I should probably 23 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:38.879 say it in Dora's voice. In English, we say honey. In Spanish, 24 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:49.480 we say miil, can you s meel? Yes I can. And 25 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:52.400 I hope I said you're a sweetest honey. Yes you did? Yes, 26 00:01:52.640 --> 00:02:00.000 Okay, okay, now I'm okay now wondering the voice of door Explora. 27 00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:08.840 Yes, yeah, just a little indicator there, and what fun I mean, 28 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:15.360 my gosh. Yeah, it's been crazy, crazy journey, an adventure 29 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:19.879 I started when I was so young too. I don't know how much you 30 00:02:19.919 --> 00:02:23.120 guys know, but I was cast when I was seven years old and I'm 31 00:02:23.159 --> 00:02:28.360 thirty three years old now, so I feel like it's been like a lifetime 32 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:32.080 ago since I, you know, brought Dora to life. But yeah, 33 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:37.599 it's been a wild Ride for sure. That is so funny. That is 34 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:42.120 wonderful. Congratulations. By the way, of now being Dora's mother on the 35 00:02:42.159 --> 00:02:46.240 new Rape Base, Yes, yep. So there's a Dora reboot exclusively right 36 00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:51.000 now on Paramount Plus and they brought me back as Dora's mom. So it's 37 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:53.719 like a full circle moment. Oh my gosh. It's really really exciting too. 38 00:02:53.719 --> 00:02:58.080 And the show is great. It's awesome. Yeah, okay, well 39 00:02:58.120 --> 00:03:01.639 everybody tune in. You have your marching order Rama Plus. Yes, let's 40 00:03:01.639 --> 00:03:06.800 do it. I love that. That's wonderful. So you're in New York 41 00:03:06.840 --> 00:03:08.800 now. Now. I do a lot of stuff from home. Is that 42 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:13.240 the case with you? Yes, for sure. Yeah. There is a 43 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:15.680 studio though that we record in Manhattan, which is not too far from me. 44 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:20.680 So sometimes it's just easier just to go in and just record in the 45 00:03:20.719 --> 00:03:23.400 studio. Yeah. Well, you know, I like that too because I 46 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:28.800 have like a blue collar attitude toward a no collar career. You know, 47 00:03:28.840 --> 00:03:30.759 I feel like, I'm okay, I'm going to work, yes, and 48 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:36.000 then I go and talk to myself and act crazy. No. I love 49 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:39.560 it's good and you know exactly what's going on with that, don't you, 50 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:44.879 Yeah, I do. I have to take the train to go into the 51 00:03:44.919 --> 00:03:46.319 city, so I just make a day of it, kind of like I 52 00:03:46.360 --> 00:03:51.159 go into Manhattan and I just go get a sweet treat after I record at 53 00:03:51.199 --> 00:03:55.879 like some cute cafe and then good for you. Yeah, I would imagine, 54 00:03:55.879 --> 00:04:00.800 Now, seriously, do people go up to you and go, excuse 55 00:04:00.840 --> 00:04:06.840 me? Do you, by any chance know Dora the Explorer? So okay, 56 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:12.400 So it's really interesting because growing up, we didn't have social media, 57 00:04:12.800 --> 00:04:15.560 and it's just saying that is kind of weird because our lives are, you 58 00:04:15.600 --> 00:04:20.399 know, surrounding by social media. So I had no way of telling people 59 00:04:20.519 --> 00:04:25.800 or people really knowing like who I was. And I don't think people in 60 00:04:25.800 --> 00:04:29.839 school really understood what voice acting was even to begin with. So when I 61 00:04:29.839 --> 00:04:31.040 would say, oh, I'm going to record, They're like what, Like 62 00:04:31.079 --> 00:04:36.439 what are you doing? So it was just really different. But now last 63 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:44.560 year was my first year experiencing like the concircuit, so before I started attending 64 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:46.240 them, my manager at the time was like, you know, you really 65 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:49.199 need to create like a social media presence, like people need to know who 66 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:54.079 you are, where you're going to be. Because I never posted about my 67 00:04:54.240 --> 00:04:58.079 life as Dora and all of that beforehand, so I was like, I 68 00:04:58.079 --> 00:05:00.839 don't know, like I don't know if people really can care about Dora anymore 69 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:06.399 or me in fact, you know, So I started posting and the response 70 00:05:06.680 --> 00:05:13.160 that I got was incredible. I was blown away overwhelmed, and I was 71 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:16.480 like, wow, like people still love her and still know her. It 72 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:20.480 was just really really overwhelming, but in a great way. So now I 73 00:05:20.519 --> 00:05:26.600 feel like I've had more interactions with people like outside and they're like, wait, 74 00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:29.240 I think I've seen you, like on TikTok, like are you Dora? 75 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:33.079 And I'm like, yeah, that's me. Yeah, I said, 76 00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:35.680 are you famous or you just kind of remind me of my uncle? And 77 00:05:35.720 --> 00:05:41.120 I said I'm probably. So there's a funny story. When I was posting 78 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:44.040 a lot very frequently. I don't know how the algorithm works, but I 79 00:05:44.040 --> 00:05:47.199 feel like it it like pushes out to like locally, to where you are. 80 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:51.079 I think at first, okay, yeah, And I got a delivery 81 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:55.560 from like my ups driver, who like, after a while you get to 82 00:05:55.600 --> 00:05:58.800 know, like you know, you get to know them personally. And but 83 00:05:58.920 --> 00:06:02.040 before that, we just moved to a new place and he was like, 84 00:06:02.600 --> 00:06:06.000 oh, you know, I was at you know, the local restaurant, 85 00:06:06.040 --> 00:06:10.720 and people were telling me like who you were and stuff like that, and 86 00:06:10.759 --> 00:06:15.199 I was like, oh, you mean you know Dora the Explorer and he's 87 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:16.800 like yeah. People were saying like that you live here, and I was 88 00:06:16.839 --> 00:06:21.399 like, oh, cool, I really, but why not? There's a 89 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:27.040 lot to explore. Yeah, exactly, so it makes sense. But yeah, 90 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:29.759 I don't know. It's just it's cool to have like kind of people 91 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:33.720 recognize you here and mm hmmm. Yeah. Now do you have on camera 92 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:39.600 aspirations as well? Because you're such are you're a doll? Oh? Thank 93 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:44.759 you? I as of right now, I don't. Growing up, I 94 00:06:44.959 --> 00:06:49.000 did. I think after I was recast, I was like, you know, 95 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:51.959 I think I just want to do on camera. I kind of wanted 96 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:56.959 to figure out who I was outside of Dora, just because when I was 97 00:06:57.040 --> 00:07:00.879 voicing Dora was really all that I could do. I mean with school and 98 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:04.120 being a kid and for Dora, we did so many things, toys, 99 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:09.000 games like it just took up a lot of my time. And I did 100 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:11.600 a few, like on camera things too as a kid. But I think 101 00:07:11.639 --> 00:07:14.160 when I was eighteen, I was like, okay, I want to be 102 00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:16.480 like, you know, a TV actor and a movie actor and figure all 103 00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:19.560 that out. And I tried to do that for a few years, also 104 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:24.439 going to college here in New York, and it didn't really work out for 105 00:07:24.519 --> 00:07:28.720 me too much, so I kind of like lost the passion. I didn't 106 00:07:28.720 --> 00:07:32.079 want to move to LA really yet at the time. And then after a 107 00:07:32.079 --> 00:07:33.879 while, I was like, you know, you know, I need to 108 00:07:33.920 --> 00:07:36.600 pay my bills. I was like twenty five, and I was like, 109 00:07:36.680 --> 00:07:40.759 I need something steady. I want to you know, build a stable life 110 00:07:40.759 --> 00:07:44.399 for a little bit. And so I did that for a few years, 111 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:51.199 and then COVID happened and I lost my job in interior design and I was 112 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:55.160 like, okay, maybe now that I can audition at home now, I 113 00:07:55.240 --> 00:07:58.319 was like, maybe let me start doing that and try to just see if 114 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:01.720 I can, you know, book something. And when I started doing that, 115 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:07.319 I started to realize like how much I missed voice acting and being in 116 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:11.279 the booth and recording and doing all of those things. And that's when I 117 00:08:11.360 --> 00:08:15.160 was kind of like, maybe I want to do this again, maybe on 118 00:08:15.279 --> 00:08:20.240 camera and TV isn't really like my place, like I always loved and felt 119 00:08:20.319 --> 00:08:26.160 comfortable in a booth and doing voices, so was it daunting getting back into 120 00:08:26.199 --> 00:08:33.519 the world of via, Yes, because it's a different world now. It's 121 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:37.320 a different industry than when I was a kid. I mean talk about the 122 00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:43.000 technical aspects of it. Now you know you're alone. You don't have someone 123 00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:48.159 in the booth or a director or a booth director to tell you like, 124 00:08:48.600 --> 00:08:50.519 this is what you're auditioning for, this is what they're looking for. It's 125 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:54.679 kind of like, Okay, here's a script. Yeah, they just and 126 00:08:54.759 --> 00:08:58.000 you have to be so you have to be a director, you have to 127 00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:03.480 be an engineer, you have to write figure everything out. And I feel 128 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:07.919 like at the time, because I had this iconic role I people like would 129 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:11.080 just assume like, oh, you know what you're doing, or you should 130 00:09:11.120 --> 00:09:13.759 know what you're doing. I don't have to tell you. But then at 131 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:18.559 the same time, I'm like, no, but like I need to learn, 132 00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:22.559 Like there's so much that I don't know and so many things, and 133 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:26.559 I just felt like I didn't have the tools, Like I lost my foundation. 134 00:09:26.879 --> 00:09:30.440 And that's kind of like what it's good to get that backpack and the 135 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:33.519 feed to get the feedback, you know, like you know, like you 136 00:09:33.519 --> 00:09:37.360 can ease I misunderstood lines, my whole career and they go, oh, 137 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:39.919 in other words, he wasn't being sarcastic. He was because you know, 138 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:45.200 that's that's like a natural tendency for me, because you could take any different 139 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:50.360 any number of lines, thirteen different ways, you know for sure. So 140 00:09:50.600 --> 00:09:54.159 I yeah, it's really difficult. Well, now you're an accomplished director and 141 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:58.600 producer and recording engineer and actress. Ye, my own fas and just hang 142 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:05.919 them. Yeah that's great. Straight, Yeah, I know. Stop, 143 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:09.960 that'd be so crazy. I'd love that listen. Auditioning for Sesame Street as 144 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:15.159 a kid was like you won the lottery, like once they picked you, 145 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:18.919 because it was so hard to get into and my mom was like just always 146 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:22.679 trying to get me to audition again and again. She's like, they're gonna 147 00:10:22.679 --> 00:10:24.440 pick you, They're gonna pick you. And then like obviously, once they 148 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:26.799 pick you to be one of the kids, then they just bring you back 149 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:31.919 constantly. But it's really funny watching myself on those episodes because I start off 150 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:35.000 so young and then I'm like twelve. Like also as a kid, I'm 151 00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:39.440 like okay, I think it's just like I was like, okay, that 152 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:41.840 should be the last episode. I was like I'm getting too old for Sesame 153 00:10:41.879 --> 00:10:46.840 Street. But it's getting too old yay. I felt like at the time, 154 00:10:46.679 --> 00:10:50.840 well, is it true what they say about Big Bird, He's just 155 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:54.759 a huge prima donna. No, not at all. I think I was 156 00:10:54.879 --> 00:11:00.879 just too scared from seeing all the people rolling around under the puppet. I 157 00:11:00.960 --> 00:11:05.120 made that up anyway, so I thought i'd throw that out there if I 158 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:07.720 would have been died, you know what, It's so true. I could 159 00:11:07.799 --> 00:11:15.440 not stand that with the feathers all over. Oh do you imagine we started 160 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:20.320 like this huge rumor about people interesting with Sesame Straight for the kids, right, 161 00:11:20.320 --> 00:11:22.879 because when you're a kid, you're watching Sesame Straight and these characters they're 162 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:26.360 brought to life, they're they're people in your eyes. So when you went 163 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:28.559 to Sesame Straight as a child, what were your first thoughts when you saw 164 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:33.720 these people doing the puppets? Was it, oh, yeah, horrified? 165 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:39.639 I remember I was like, why are they on these little They're rolling around 166 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:43.440 everywhere? I was like, why is this happening? And then they kind 167 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:46.559 of explain it to you, like what's going on? But like it's hard 168 00:11:46.600 --> 00:11:50.159 as a kid. I remember like trying to act normal because you just see 169 00:11:50.360 --> 00:11:54.480 you're trying to understand how it's all working, like seeing them rolling around in 170 00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:58.279 their hands and the thing. Then they have a little microphone and then all 171 00:11:58.320 --> 00:12:03.120 these things are happening, and it was. It was a really crazy experience. 172 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:05.879 It was really cool. Though. That's quite a discipline, isn't it. 173 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:09.480 You can't just walk off the street and take up that gig. There's 174 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:13.840 there's my acrobatics and all sorts of things involved, and you're doing the character. 175 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:20.720 Yeah, because because they're essentially their own puppeteers, they're animating themselves live, 176 00:12:20.759 --> 00:12:24.679 which is wow, that's not bad. I mean, if you stop 177 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:28.120 to think about it, that's that's a hell of a gig. Yeah, 178 00:12:28.759 --> 00:12:31.279 man, or you got you got the sweet end of that. Yeah, 179 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:35.919 I got to watch it. Watch it a Oh sorry, I just tripped 180 00:12:35.919 --> 00:12:41.600 over Kermit. Sorry down there. I did fall in one of the episodes. 181 00:12:41.759 --> 00:12:45.480 You could see it. Yeah, I just like disappear and I fall 182 00:12:45.519 --> 00:12:48.399 and then I just get back up. Really funny. What was some of 183 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:54.000 the difficulties of voicing such an iconic character at such a young age. I 184 00:12:54.039 --> 00:12:58.759 think, looking back on it, I think it you know, when I 185 00:12:58.799 --> 00:13:01.679 was seven years old, that was just my voice I wasn't really putting on 186 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:07.600 a character, you know, it was just me, and I think as 187 00:13:07.639 --> 00:13:11.919 I got older, it was easy for me to like go back into it 188 00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:15.240 because my voice is just at a higher pitch, So it was just easy 189 00:13:15.240 --> 00:13:18.600 for me to you know, do it. That wasn't difficult, but I 190 00:13:18.679 --> 00:13:26.120 think trying to figure out who I was like because the voice was me, 191 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:31.080 right, I'm not making another character. So I think I just had difficulty 192 00:13:31.240 --> 00:13:35.759 too with especially within like voice acting, like creating other voices and figuring out 193 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:39.320 like who else can I be? Who else can I sound like? Or 194 00:13:39.639 --> 00:13:43.480 what would this character sound like? Just because I was always so connected to 195 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:50.080 Dora and people just always associated me with her that I think it was just 196 00:13:50.120 --> 00:13:54.240 hard for me to kind of disconnect myself from her, especially how she talked 197 00:13:54.279 --> 00:13:58.240 too, because she doesn't talk you know, like conversationally. She talks like 198 00:13:58.279 --> 00:14:03.559 a very sing songy way. Mm hm. So I'm for doing that for 199 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:07.200 so long, it was just kind of hard to get out of that. 200 00:14:07.639 --> 00:14:13.639 Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, well I avoided that by being you know, 201 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:16.320 having multiple voices in my head, I guess, you know, so 202 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:20.080 that's okay, But that's that's a wonderful thing. That's what a great calling 203 00:14:20.120 --> 00:14:26.120 card because it's a I mean, it's it's gonna last forever. Yeah, 204 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:28.720 in a way I would think, right, I would think so, yeah, 205 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:31.720 and I didn't think that for a long time, and you know, 206 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:37.159 with posting and all the comic cons last year and then the reboot also, 207 00:14:37.799 --> 00:14:41.720 yeah, it's crazy to see the response and how many people are so connected 208 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:46.120 to her and the show. Oh yeah, you know. And it's global 209 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:50.440 too, like Dora is dubbed in so many different countries and she's known all 210 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:54.039 over the world, so it's just it's amazing. Well, it was the 211 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:58.679 first nicode and show to have a Latina in the late animated role ever. 212 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:01.559 Yeah, yeah, deal. I think that in most places around the world 213 00:15:01.639 --> 00:15:05.799 with the dubbed versions, she's teaching English. Is that true. Yes, 214 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:11.480 it's really funny because I've definitely YouTube Dora in France and she, you know, 215 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:15.919 looking the way that she looks, she looks Latina and she's speaking French 216 00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:18.480 and teaching English, and it's just so cute, like because you would never 217 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:22.200 think, you know, but I don't know, I love it. I 218 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:26.600 think it's awesome. That's cute. Oh, that must be adorable. Yeah, 219 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:30.600 so Dora's voicy version of one was just your voice as a child. 220 00:15:31.039 --> 00:15:33.279 So now coming back as mommy, did you just think maybe I'll just do 221 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:37.639 my voice now? Yeah, I thought that would be something. You know, 222 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:43.720 in my mind, I'm kind of still Dora and now I'm just in 223 00:15:45.279 --> 00:15:48.399 my mind, I'm just Dora grown up in a sense. Sure, so 224 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:50.840 I know, you know, you try to make it a little more maternal 225 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:54.000 and a little deeper and more in my chest and take a lot of breath, 226 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:58.879 but essentially it's just me. But I think it that was like a 227 00:15:58.919 --> 00:16:02.759 nod to my character and to the original voice of Dora. Oh of course. 228 00:16:02.879 --> 00:16:06.320 Yeah. Well I think that's comforting for people too. People like that 229 00:16:06.399 --> 00:16:08.639 continuation. They like, yeah, you know, like, well, I'll 230 00:16:08.679 --> 00:16:11.559 go to a convention or whatever. People will say, well, you know, 231 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:15.360 I remember when I was six years old or ten years old, who 232 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:18.120 was this, that and the other thing, And then now they've got a 233 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:22.120 six year old or a ten year old and kind of passed that love down 234 00:16:22.919 --> 00:16:26.039 and it's very nice. It's comforting. It's nice to know, so I 235 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:32.000 know the feeling and that you must feel great about that. Yeah, I 236 00:16:32.039 --> 00:16:37.960 think meeting the fans as an adult has really made me appreciate what I did 237 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:42.759 and the show and the impacts so much more. I don't think I really 238 00:16:42.840 --> 00:16:48.759 understood anything really when I was a kid, Like I knew how important it 239 00:16:48.879 --> 00:16:55.000 was. We did so many different events with the Latino communities, with schools, 240 00:16:55.159 --> 00:17:00.639 but I didn't understand how impactful and how much she meant until probably last 241 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:03.400 year, when people would come up to me and be like, you know, 242 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:08.079 Dora was the only person that looked like me on TV and she's an 243 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:12.359 animated character, you know, So like that, like you know, made 244 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:17.519 me sad but also happy, like wow, like this is a lot bigger 245 00:17:17.559 --> 00:17:21.759 than I ever thought. So it really puts it in a different perspective. 246 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:26.319 Well, everybody in the world knows Dora they Explorer. I mean everybody. 247 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:29.440 I remember she was. There was a joke about her in a movie. 248 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:33.160 It was one of those teen age brat movies and who do you think you 249 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:37.359 are? Dora the Explorer something like that. I can't remember the circumstance. 250 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:41.960 But when you make it to that level of just you're out there in the 251 00:17:41.119 --> 00:17:45.079 Zeitgeister in the air, you know you've arrived. Yeah, you know, 252 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:48.519 I know here. There's so many different I don't know how much you guys 253 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:53.000 have seen, but there's so many different like parodies of Dora, some really 254 00:17:53.079 --> 00:18:00.920 extreme and probably not kid appropriate, I can't be recommended. And then it 255 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:06.039 goes the other extreme, right, like horror, like scary like Dora video 256 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:10.079 games or like an iteration, it's not she's not called Dora, but like 257 00:18:10.440 --> 00:18:12.720 you know, it's it's like she's like in a horror house or whatever. 258 00:18:14.279 --> 00:18:18.920 So like she's been like it's pretty crazy. Oh my gosh, Yeah it 259 00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:22.880 doesn't sound like at all. Yeah, yeah, a little experience with that 260 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:27.519 myself. It won't be talking about that. We will have another question for 261 00:18:27.559 --> 00:18:30.960 you. In doing these conventions, obviously you get to interact with the fans 262 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:36.279 and everything, but is there has there any been any celebrities that like you've 263 00:18:36.279 --> 00:18:38.160 looked up to, that you've met or have been starstruck by and doing the 264 00:18:38.200 --> 00:18:45.319 convention circuit. Oh my goodness, like everyone I feel like, well, 265 00:18:45.359 --> 00:18:48.559 first of all, like imposter syndrome with me, like going into the green 266 00:18:48.640 --> 00:18:51.119 room in the back, like forget it. I'm like, I don't even 267 00:18:51.160 --> 00:18:55.839 know why or how I'm here right now, but like you know, I 268 00:18:55.920 --> 00:18:57.279 was, I grew up in New York. We recorded in New York, 269 00:18:57.559 --> 00:19:03.519 and after I like the first season, I recorded alone, Like I didn't 270 00:19:03.519 --> 00:19:07.920 record with like my cast members anymore. And I didn't ever meet like other 271 00:19:07.039 --> 00:19:12.839 voice actors. Yeah, I never got a chance to, especially like Nickelodeon. 272 00:19:14.359 --> 00:19:18.359 You know, the main studio was in la and if I went there 273 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:22.640 every few years, it just so happened that no one was working that day. 274 00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:26.000 Never got to meet That's fair. You'd think they'd hook you up at 275 00:19:26.039 --> 00:19:29.279 the gang. I know, like I would meet, you know, the 276 00:19:29.359 --> 00:19:33.400 animators, which was always so fun, But other voice actors, I never 277 00:19:33.480 --> 00:19:37.200 got a chance to meet them or like be mentored by them or really kind 278 00:19:37.200 --> 00:19:41.880 of understand the ins and outs of like you know, the industry within voice 279 00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:48.000 acting. So that's one of like also the biggest blessings I feel like I've 280 00:19:48.079 --> 00:19:53.880 earned doing the cons is being connected and talking to other voice actors, asking 281 00:19:55.000 --> 00:19:59.960 questions and kind of learning things that I never knew before. As a kid, 282 00:20:00.039 --> 00:20:03.839 I did everything with my mom. She's an immigrant from Peru. She 283 00:20:04.079 --> 00:20:08.599 was in her late twenties when I got castes Dora, and everything was new 284 00:20:08.640 --> 00:20:11.400 for her and she kind of kind of just went with the flow and kind 285 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:15.799 of did what we were told. We were never taught. You know, 286 00:20:15.880 --> 00:20:18.680 this is what we do, this is how you know, how things work. 287 00:20:18.400 --> 00:20:22.880 So everything kind of felt new to me. So I've made friends with 288 00:20:23.079 --> 00:20:29.759 you know, Tara Strong and Richard Horwitz, and they're they've been so amazing 289 00:20:29.839 --> 00:20:33.599 to kind of like guide me and help me and kind of rebuild my you 290 00:20:33.640 --> 00:20:38.039 know, foundation in this career. And I've been so fortunate. But yeah, 291 00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:42.599 everyone I meet, I'm just like fangirling inside and I just try to 292 00:20:42.680 --> 00:20:45.960 keep calm because I have vomit of the mouth sometimes and I just say weird, 293 00:20:47.279 --> 00:20:49.880 So I try not to say anything. I know that one I've got 294 00:20:49.880 --> 00:20:55.440 that. Do you? Oh yeah, I think we all do. So 295 00:20:55.759 --> 00:20:57.200 I should have said that Nevis Gen wants to speak to you, Kathleen. 296 00:20:57.279 --> 00:21:02.000 It's crazy. Oh no, oh no, please, Well I think we'll 297 00:21:02.000 --> 00:21:04.640 make it. I like when you guys reached out to me, I was 298 00:21:04.839 --> 00:21:08.839 I screamed and I ran to my husband. I was like, you would 299 00:21:08.880 --> 00:21:15.319 never guess who wants to Yay. Well, we're honored. It's it's it's 300 00:21:15.359 --> 00:21:18.279 a pleasure, it's a joy. I'm glad you had. I'm glad you 301 00:21:18.279 --> 00:21:22.559 had time. Yeah, of course I have all the time. I don't 302 00:21:22.599 --> 00:21:27.279 work a corporate job anymore, full time figuring out you know, my career 303 00:21:27.279 --> 00:21:33.279 and vo so this is I don't work in steel mills anymore either, So 304 00:21:33.359 --> 00:21:36.559 I understand that. I get it. I get the joy of that. 305 00:21:37.319 --> 00:21:40.079 Yeah. The goal is to not go back, right, That's what the 306 00:21:40.119 --> 00:21:42.559 goal is, to not go back. Great job, union mem with great 307 00:21:42.559 --> 00:21:49.079 hospitalization, but a little tough. Even if I did, I'd be retired, 308 00:21:49.119 --> 00:21:52.079 so I guess i'd be okay. But anyway, it's nice to be 309 00:21:52.119 --> 00:21:53.839 here. Yes, and now I get to hang out with you. Yeah, 310 00:21:55.519 --> 00:21:57.839 it's awesome, even coast to coast, Yes, which is amazing. 311 00:21:57.880 --> 00:22:02.000 It's amazing. And you know what's amazing too. And when I first started 312 00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:06.440 doing these, I would be uh, not not not the podcast, but 313 00:22:06.920 --> 00:22:10.160 oftentimes I would be recording, oh, I don't know, a jiffy loube 314 00:22:10.200 --> 00:22:14.039 commercial. And they were based in New York, so they'd say, all 315 00:22:14.119 --> 00:22:19.200 right, Jim, do you have your lines? And I'm going, oh 316 00:22:19.200 --> 00:22:25.559 my god, come you know, and the delay was painful. You're sitting 317 00:22:25.720 --> 00:22:30.759 I'm not something that's happening right now. I was like what, Yeah, 318 00:22:30.960 --> 00:22:37.000 yeah, and it's just you're sitting there like, yes, all right, 319 00:22:37.039 --> 00:22:41.359 we'll do it, and you know, and so I appreciate that. I 320 00:22:41.400 --> 00:22:47.160 really do come a long way for sure. Yes we have, Yes we 321 00:22:47.240 --> 00:22:49.720 have. If you're a fan of everything we do here at tuned In with 322 00:22:49.799 --> 00:22:53.000 Jim Cummings, but you're tired of listening to these ads, then you'll absolutely 323 00:22:53.039 --> 00:22:56.160 love being a member of the tuned In Family on Patreon, where you not 324 00:22:56.200 --> 00:23:00.880 only get access to hours of bonus podcasts includ and commentaries of classic Disney shows, 325 00:23:02.119 --> 00:23:04.279 but you also get this show early and add free every single week, 326 00:23:04.400 --> 00:23:08.559 as well as access to exclusive tuned In Facebook and Disco communities. So go 327 00:23:08.599 --> 00:23:11.599 ahead and join the tuned In Family today for as little as two dollars per 328 00:23:11.640 --> 00:23:18.119 month at patreon dot com. Slash Gymcommings podcast. Fun fact, I've been 329 00:23:18.400 --> 00:23:23.400 trying to be all over right all over the internet, and I started streaming 330 00:23:25.319 --> 00:23:32.960 like me playing video games, and I have like a love for Disney and 331 00:23:33.119 --> 00:23:38.440 Final Fantasy m which is like really strange. So I was trying to figure 332 00:23:38.440 --> 00:23:41.960 out which game to play, if I was going to do Final Fantasy first, 333 00:23:41.119 --> 00:23:45.640 or like a Kingdom Hearts game or a Disney game, and then Eventually 334 00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:48.759 it came into doing Kingdom Hearts Like all people were like, oh, play 335 00:23:48.839 --> 00:23:53.960 Kingdom Hearts game. So I just finished Kingdom Hearts one like right before you 336 00:23:55.000 --> 00:23:57.039 guys reached out to me and I was like, this is this is just 337 00:23:57.079 --> 00:24:02.319 like perfect? It was perfect. I watched you a video, did you 338 00:24:02.920 --> 00:24:07.559 yes? You see I wasn't lying. I really did play the game a 339 00:24:08.759 --> 00:24:11.680 yeah. It I don't know, Jim, if you've ever played this game, 340 00:24:12.079 --> 00:24:17.319 it actually might be fun to watch you play this game. But it 341 00:24:17.359 --> 00:24:21.720 is so hard. It is not easy to follow. They say not to 342 00:24:21.759 --> 00:24:25.799 play. I mean the first one, like the story is pretty difficult to 343 00:24:25.880 --> 00:24:30.720 kind of like figure out gameplay wise. So it was pretty difficult, but 344 00:24:32.359 --> 00:24:37.119 it was really fun. Paid good money to watch Jim get frustrated playing these 345 00:24:37.119 --> 00:24:41.200 old video games. Yeah, I would definitely pay. I would pay. 346 00:24:41.720 --> 00:24:45.759 Yeah, I get frustrated playing with an etcha sketch, So so this would 347 00:24:45.839 --> 00:24:51.200 be deadly. This would be I'm not bad at darts, right, Crys 348 00:24:51.200 --> 00:24:56.079 will tell you, Yeah, Jim wanted darts. Hey that's pretty good. 349 00:24:56.599 --> 00:25:00.359 There you got pinball pinball. I've seen Jim got pin ball machines for hours. 350 00:25:00.440 --> 00:25:04.880 Oh that's true. That's true, Yes, so please a mean pinball. 351 00:25:06.079 --> 00:25:08.440 So you imagine dark Wing Duck though raging at playing the old Dark Wing 352 00:25:08.519 --> 00:25:14.640 Duck Super Nintendo game. I think it'd be hilarious to watch. That could 353 00:25:14.680 --> 00:25:18.240 be. Yeah, and I've got a pretty good dark Wing Duck costume. 354 00:25:19.920 --> 00:25:25.400 Yeah, that better you dress? No no, no, no, no, 355 00:25:25.599 --> 00:25:32.039 he's yeah. Yeah. When there's trouble you called d w let's get 356 00:25:32.160 --> 00:25:36.720 dangerous. Forgive my ignorance, Kathleen. But the other voice actors on the 357 00:25:36.720 --> 00:25:40.240 original series when it first started, were they kids as well? Yeah, 358 00:25:40.319 --> 00:25:45.400 all of them were kids, except for the voice of Swiper, who also 359 00:25:45.480 --> 00:25:49.319 did the voice of the Map. Okay, so I can't imagine what it 360 00:25:49.400 --> 00:25:52.160 must have been like for the director because you said the first season you will 361 00:25:52.200 --> 00:25:56.880 recorded together. What was that atmosphere like of just a bunch of kid Yes, 362 00:25:56.319 --> 00:26:03.240 it was crazy. I remember we recorded in a booth downtown by Christopher 363 00:26:03.279 --> 00:26:10.559 Street, and we were all just running around, and I mean, luckily 364 00:26:10.599 --> 00:26:14.119 we all got along really well, and we would just play and they would 365 00:26:14.119 --> 00:26:18.279 always be like a million snacks and we would just be eating and sugar rush 366 00:26:18.319 --> 00:26:22.279 and like all of that. Oh boy, you guys were animated. That's 367 00:26:22.319 --> 00:26:25.920 for sure, yes, definitely, And I think we recorded a lot of 368 00:26:26.000 --> 00:26:32.039 songs probably that day, if my memory is correct. But after that, 369 00:26:32.160 --> 00:26:34.559 I think they were just like, no, we're not doing that again. 370 00:26:34.599 --> 00:26:37.799 And then it kind of the groups got smaller, and then it was just 371 00:26:37.880 --> 00:26:45.039 me and Boots for a long time, and and it was just me Boots. 372 00:26:45.799 --> 00:26:49.000 Well, I can remember stealing a French fry off of one of my 373 00:26:49.079 --> 00:26:53.960 kids plates they go swipe or no swiping, because I swiped a fry. 374 00:26:55.519 --> 00:27:00.000 Yeah, it was guilty. So I was caught on did your kids watch 375 00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:04.640 Store? I assume, so yeah, absolutely, it couldn't carry less. 376 00:27:04.880 --> 00:27:08.440 Yeah, well I'm not on that show, you little weasel. I know. 377 00:27:08.480 --> 00:27:12.519 I don't know what I should have been on there. I agree, 378 00:27:12.799 --> 00:27:18.519 it's one of opportunity. I know. I was looking through your IMDb to 379 00:27:18.559 --> 00:27:21.960 see if maybe you were on the show at some point, and I was 380 00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:25.079 like, damn, well there's a reboot, isn't that Yeah, there's a 381 00:27:25.079 --> 00:27:29.000 reboot. Well maybe if only I knew someone on the show, you know 382 00:27:29.039 --> 00:27:32.920 what, that they could put in a word for me. Wait, hold 383 00:27:33.039 --> 00:27:37.799 on, wait, Cathleys did Now this is going to work out. This 384 00:27:37.880 --> 00:27:41.319 is going to be great. If I have one thing to do this year 385 00:27:41.519 --> 00:27:47.519 is to get you on the reboot. That's priority number one for me right 386 00:27:47.559 --> 00:27:52.319 now. I could boot. I can reboot, reboot the boot. I'm 387 00:27:52.319 --> 00:27:55.839 there. There is there a character that's a boot. Maybe he can just 388 00:27:55.880 --> 00:27:57.480 play the boot. That was just I was just thinking that he can play, 389 00:27:57.599 --> 00:28:03.799 Like what if boots his boots started talking. Yes, that could be. 390 00:28:04.559 --> 00:28:08.359 We've just signed exploring. Make it happen. That's it and he only 391 00:28:08.400 --> 00:28:14.799 speaks in the pig Latin. How do you feel about the new animation style 392 00:28:14.839 --> 00:28:22.279 of the show. It'd be educational. The new animation style I it took 393 00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:27.319 Initially it's different, so I think it was just hard to kind of see 394 00:28:27.480 --> 00:28:33.279 Dora in a different style. But as I watched the show and see it 395 00:28:33.319 --> 00:28:37.680 come to life, I really enjoy it. I mean, obviously everything is 396 00:28:37.759 --> 00:28:40.920 growing. Animation is different. I mean I love it. I think the 397 00:28:41.000 --> 00:28:44.920 colors are more more vibrant and it I guess for kids, it feels like 398 00:28:44.960 --> 00:28:49.079 they're more immersed into the world of Dora the way like the CG and kind 399 00:28:49.079 --> 00:28:55.880 of animation style is. I do have a love and appreciation for you know, 400 00:28:56.119 --> 00:28:59.759 how animation was before. I've always loved to see how kind of that 401 00:28:59.799 --> 00:29:03.839 of how that was brought to life. In college, I did a paper 402 00:29:03.880 --> 00:29:11.200 on kind of like the evolution of you know, animation within Disney and Walt 403 00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:17.039 Disney and kind of see how they create depth or how they did create depth, 404 00:29:17.559 --> 00:29:21.359 like the world of snowe I think, Yeah, that was so cool. 405 00:29:21.400 --> 00:29:25.799 I was like, this is like masterpiece like work, and a lot 406 00:29:25.799 --> 00:29:30.839 of people don't know how that was made. So I do appreciate the work 407 00:29:30.839 --> 00:29:33.720 and stuff and how animation. Yeah, it's really fascinating. I've been over 408 00:29:33.759 --> 00:29:37.799 there, like you know, a hundred times, but a thousand times, 409 00:29:37.160 --> 00:29:41.440 and they have the original I think it was snow White too. They that 410 00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:45.839 triplane camera and the way that they did it. The camera was on here, 411 00:29:45.240 --> 00:29:49.519 there was a plate of leaves of forest here about a foot away, 412 00:29:51.000 --> 00:29:55.799 then two feet away there was a babbling brook. Then back in the distance 413 00:29:56.039 --> 00:29:59.599 was the far away mountains. Yeah, and they wouldn't move, and they 414 00:29:59.599 --> 00:30:03.759 would move accordingly, and then they would just animate the characters walking through it. 415 00:30:03.319 --> 00:30:07.599 And it was just magic, you know what was a genius. Yeah, 416 00:30:07.759 --> 00:30:11.079 he came up with that. He came up with that. It wasn't 417 00:30:11.240 --> 00:30:17.359 limited animation, and it was so well I guess that's why he was Walt 418 00:30:17.400 --> 00:30:21.960 Disney and the rest of us are just fans, because I sure was one. 419 00:30:22.039 --> 00:30:23.920 But yeah, I'm glad to hear you appreciate that because I do too. 420 00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:27.480 That's so cool that you saw that in person. I only saw it 421 00:30:27.480 --> 00:30:30.240 in like a video, and I was just like, well, that's so 422 00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:36.039 cool. But it's just sitting out in the hallway. Wow, this priceless 423 00:30:36.079 --> 00:30:41.160 object. Plus there's one hundred yards around it. I'm sure you know you're 424 00:30:41.200 --> 00:30:45.200 not getting out of the you're not getting out of the hallway with it, 425 00:30:45.240 --> 00:30:49.839 but little bulky anyway. But yeah, that's good stuff. Come a long 426 00:30:49.880 --> 00:30:53.359 way, right. Yeah. And then there's South Park and they don't have 427 00:30:53.400 --> 00:30:59.279 that. They have they have a cardboard cutouts and it bait it to me. 428 00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:04.200 But I love that too, Like even yeah, for sure. Do 429 00:31:04.680 --> 00:31:11.880 you know the game paper Mario? Okay, Jim, you have to watch 430 00:31:11.960 --> 00:31:15.559 like the cut scenes because or even just watch someone play it because it is 431 00:31:15.720 --> 00:31:19.960 hilarious. I watch my husband play it and it's just like they're obviously their 432 00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:23.440 paper. So the way that they move is just like they're just always like 433 00:31:23.519 --> 00:31:27.839 shifting and they're saying like really funny things whoever writes a script for that game 434 00:31:27.960 --> 00:31:33.720 is awesome because it's just so funny. But yeah, I highly recommend. 435 00:31:33.720 --> 00:31:36.920 Okay, it's really fun. I guess it depends who your audience is, 436 00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:40.599 right, I feel like for kids that kind of you know, that new 437 00:31:40.640 --> 00:31:44.119 animation, the CG animation, I don't know what the proper term is, 438 00:31:44.200 --> 00:31:48.680 but you know, I think that G C G I that's more appealing for 439 00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:52.519 them. You know, it's catching the colors and the bubbly kind of features, 440 00:31:53.920 --> 00:31:56.759 and I feel like, you know, maybe adults can appreciate a two 441 00:31:56.839 --> 00:32:00.000 D or different type of you know, old school a kind of animation. 442 00:32:00.519 --> 00:32:04.440 What's what we grew up with, wasn't it. I think kids now just 443 00:32:04.519 --> 00:32:07.319 expect that kind of CGI because I put when I was a kid, I 444 00:32:07.359 --> 00:32:10.200 was a big Muppets fan, and I just love the show at the Muppet 445 00:32:10.200 --> 00:32:14.599 Babies an animated show, right, But my kids love the new version of 446 00:32:14.680 --> 00:32:15.400 Babies. I said, oh, this is the one I used to watch 447 00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:17.359 when I was a kid, and I put it on and they go five 448 00:32:17.400 --> 00:32:20.200 minutes, they go, this doesn't look any good. Put the other one 449 00:32:20.200 --> 00:32:22.599 on back, and I thought, uh, okay, then it's just kids 450 00:32:22.599 --> 00:32:24.680 have expectations. Now it's like the Simpsons. I put the old Simpsons on, 451 00:32:25.119 --> 00:32:29.240 not interested new Simpsons, which many say aren't that good anymore, but 452 00:32:29.279 --> 00:32:35.160 they just love the visual of it. Yeah, that's bratera catching. So 453 00:32:35.519 --> 00:32:37.640 you've retired from Dora at the age of eighteen. I think it was was 454 00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:42.759 eighteen, Yeah, eighteen, I got recast? Was that so? So, 455 00:32:42.920 --> 00:32:45.440 did you retire or did you get recasted? Was that your decision? 456 00:32:45.480 --> 00:32:49.119 Now? I got recast there, Okay, it always says she retired, 457 00:32:49.240 --> 00:32:52.400 and I think, what would you retire? You can still do the voice. 458 00:32:52.799 --> 00:32:57.599 Well, I saw something online where it had to do and this may 459 00:32:57.720 --> 00:32:59.680 just be a rumor, so correct me if I'm wrong. Did it have 460 00:32:59.720 --> 00:33:02.720 anything to do with your speech and a retainer? No, but I've read 461 00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:07.880 that also. Yeah, isn't that weird? Yeah? People just make up 462 00:33:07.920 --> 00:33:14.359 a story and well you know why. It's because he had that that long 463 00:33:14.680 --> 00:33:17.720 transfer with a bab boom, so he had to take time off, right 464 00:33:19.079 --> 00:33:22.559 like I did. Wait what and then they try and tell you a convention 465 00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:27.920 that you're wrong right? Yeah? Oh yeah, yeah, that's actually happened 466 00:33:27.920 --> 00:33:31.960 to me a couple of yeah. Yeah, And it was oddly enough, 467 00:33:31.960 --> 00:33:36.119 it was just I mean, it was only like a year ago. And 468 00:33:36.200 --> 00:33:39.599 the other day it was for the Lion King. And a guy was telling 469 00:33:39.640 --> 00:33:44.079 me that no, no, no, you didn't sing, be prepared. 470 00:33:44.119 --> 00:33:46.839 You didn't sing in that Ed didn't say anything. I said, well, 471 00:33:46.920 --> 00:33:50.680 I know, Ed didn't say anything. I didn't say I was playing Ed. 472 00:33:50.880 --> 00:33:54.480 Ed was there eating his foot in the background while Jeremy was done. 473 00:33:54.839 --> 00:33:59.480 And then and I didn't sing the whole song. I didn't sing or speak 474 00:33:59.519 --> 00:34:02.880 sing. All the speaking was Germany. But I came in uh new bit 475 00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:06.599 hard. Anyway, I finished the song you know, be very bad and 476 00:34:06.640 --> 00:34:10.599 you do the villain laugh and then it just kids. No, it didn't 477 00:34:10.639 --> 00:34:15.719 have anything to say. I know. I wasn't. Next question, you're 478 00:34:15.800 --> 00:34:19.400 right, I didn't. That wasn't me. Do I have to give back 479 00:34:19.440 --> 00:34:22.119 the gold record? I hope not, you know, the platinum whatever? 480 00:34:22.199 --> 00:34:24.679 When? Yeah? Anyway, yeah, Well conventions are fun, aren't they. 481 00:34:24.760 --> 00:34:29.079 Yeah, they're really fun. We do like them. Now, do 482 00:34:29.119 --> 00:34:35.519 you have any pet peeves or ridiculous questions that you just get too many of? 483 00:34:35.760 --> 00:34:38.880 Like I do? Yes, so many. It's kind of hard to 484 00:34:39.119 --> 00:34:43.480 like, uh figure out. But they then they'll come, they'll come in 485 00:34:43.519 --> 00:34:45.119 your mind, like randomly you're like, oh, I remember when they asked 486 00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:50.199 you that question. You're like, what, well, I love doing them. 487 00:34:50.480 --> 00:34:52.800 By the way, everybody out there, I love you. Keep coming 488 00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:57.960 cut, don't take this the right way anyway, wrong way, anyway. 489 00:34:58.360 --> 00:35:00.559 No, of course, it's all in love love, you know, And 490 00:35:00.599 --> 00:35:05.880 it's just fun because you get stories and you remember all of these people by 491 00:35:05.880 --> 00:35:08.079 that, by all of their questions, the stories that they come to you 492 00:35:08.159 --> 00:35:12.639 with, and that stings with you forever. Yeah, well you must have 493 00:35:12.679 --> 00:35:15.480 been a great comfort. I mean, I can only imagine these little Latina 494 00:35:15.519 --> 00:35:20.039 girls coming up and going to you. Are it for me? Because there 495 00:35:20.119 --> 00:35:24.039 wasn't you were it? Literally were it? You were someone representing them. 496 00:35:24.440 --> 00:35:31.599 Yeah, it has to be rewarding, so rewarding, overwhelming. Sometimes I 497 00:35:31.639 --> 00:35:36.639 feel like I feel so blessed because it could have been anyone, right and 498 00:35:36.719 --> 00:35:40.440 for it to be me and to have that impact. I really sometimes I'm 499 00:35:40.480 --> 00:35:44.440 already an emotional person as it is, but like, if I think about 500 00:35:44.480 --> 00:35:47.840 it too much then I'll just start crying because it's just it's so special. 501 00:35:49.119 --> 00:35:52.880 You know, what we do, how we touch people. I'm sure at 502 00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:58.480 cons people come to you and cry and tell you their stories and sometimes it's 503 00:35:58.519 --> 00:36:02.800 really heavy. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, but that also puts it 504 00:36:02.840 --> 00:36:08.880 in perspective too, like what we do means something. Our voice means something 505 00:36:09.159 --> 00:36:15.480 in whatever character that is, and even just our own voices. Sure nobody 506 00:36:15.480 --> 00:36:20.760 agrees with daring about mine. But yeah, thanks thanks for reminding me. 507 00:36:21.280 --> 00:36:23.920 No, but I agree. I agree. It's a beautiful thing. You 508 00:36:23.960 --> 00:36:27.920 know, we're sitting I've said it before, we're sitting in these little booths 509 00:36:27.920 --> 00:36:32.880 and we're all alone usually I mean people. I remember Terry McGovern who played 510 00:36:32.920 --> 00:36:37.760 Launchpad on Dark Wing Duck. We did one show together out of one hundred 511 00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:42.519 and twenty five shows, one show when we were both in the same room, 512 00:36:42.599 --> 00:36:45.920 and that was it. And people hear that and they just can't believe 513 00:36:45.960 --> 00:36:52.199 it, and I can't believe it either, kind of h but it's He 514 00:36:52.880 --> 00:36:58.480 lived in San Francisco, and of course I'm in southern California, so I 515 00:36:58.559 --> 00:37:04.360 understand. It's so nice and for a whole generation plus of little girls to 516 00:37:04.400 --> 00:37:07.440 come up, they must just go crazy for you. What a great thing 517 00:37:07.519 --> 00:37:10.599 for you. Yeah, it's funny. I when I do the voice, 518 00:37:10.599 --> 00:37:14.280 well, when I was younger and I would do the voice. I would 519 00:37:14.320 --> 00:37:17.199 ask people to close their eyes, and I think some people yeah, But 520 00:37:17.400 --> 00:37:22.960 mostly I did it because I was just so shy as a kid that I 521 00:37:22.039 --> 00:37:25.920 didn't want them looking at me like while I was doing the voice. So 522 00:37:25.920 --> 00:37:29.000 I would just be like, oh, well, just close your eyes and 523 00:37:29.000 --> 00:37:30.719 they'd be like why. I'd be like, oh, just just picture door 524 00:37:30.800 --> 00:37:35.159 in your mind and you know, just do it that way. So that's 525 00:37:35.199 --> 00:37:38.079 kind of how it started. But then I started to realize it was more 526 00:37:38.119 --> 00:37:43.920 helpful for them because if I didn't ask them to and they were sometimes they 527 00:37:43.960 --> 00:37:47.400 would just start crying because they couldn't understand, kind of like, wait, 528 00:37:47.440 --> 00:37:51.239 this is Dora standing in front of me, but she doesn't look like Dora, 529 00:37:51.719 --> 00:37:54.559 but she sounds like Dora. And then it kind of just like, 530 00:37:54.920 --> 00:37:58.480 you know, they get so confused and then they don't know what to do. 531 00:37:59.360 --> 00:38:04.440 So I kind of ye keep doing that as I get older, but 532 00:38:04.519 --> 00:38:07.079 it's kind of fun to see people's reactions with their eyes closed, like as 533 00:38:07.079 --> 00:38:10.400 you're talking to them. Yes, yeah, yeah, I do that. 534 00:38:10.480 --> 00:38:15.400 Sometimes I'm gonna have to remember that that's a good tip because sometimes you know, 535 00:38:15.519 --> 00:38:16.679 dads will come up and they'll have a little four year old girl and 536 00:38:17.239 --> 00:38:21.960 can you give her some Winnie the Pooh or something. Well, you're just 537 00:38:21.960 --> 00:38:27.039 the sweetest honey. And then she goes you see the trimmer? Yeah, 538 00:38:27.159 --> 00:38:30.880 why is this guy? Why is he sounded? Where's winning the What have 539 00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:36.199 you done with him? Bring him back? Let him go? No, 540 00:38:36.559 --> 00:38:38.599 it's okay, it's okay. Yeah, you ain't got to watch, you 541 00:38:38.639 --> 00:38:43.679 know, I know, but it's nice to nice to be noticed, I 542 00:38:43.679 --> 00:38:46.119 guess, right for sure, Yeah, in one way or the other. 543 00:38:46.440 --> 00:38:50.920 Mm hmm. Yeah, and I bring I usually travel with like a life 544 00:38:50.920 --> 00:38:55.760 sized door, a doll mmmm its door in real life. Okay, if 545 00:38:55.800 --> 00:39:00.360 you google it, it says she's five too. I don't know how. 546 00:39:01.760 --> 00:39:07.440 I don't know if who wrote that, but she's not someone who never met 547 00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:10.519 her. Yeah, I don't know, but she definitely must be like three 548 00:39:10.559 --> 00:39:15.000 feet right, she's seven. I'm still bad. I don't have kids yet, 549 00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:19.840 so three feet seven year old? Seven? Yeah, sure, whatever 550 00:39:19.880 --> 00:39:22.159 you say. My son five and a half, and he's about a little 551 00:39:22.159 --> 00:39:25.159 bit bigger than that, so he probably a bit bigger. Yeah. Yeah. 552 00:39:25.239 --> 00:39:29.320 The thing is, you said you only recently started doing the convention circuit, 553 00:39:29.440 --> 00:39:31.880 right, so for all this time, fans of the show who grew 554 00:39:31.920 --> 00:39:36.719 up watching it had no idea maybe a who you were, who the voice 555 00:39:36.760 --> 00:39:38.800 actually was, or be how to meet you. So it must have just 556 00:39:38.880 --> 00:39:42.320 come as a big surprise and be so exciting. Oh my god, I 557 00:39:42.400 --> 00:39:46.559 actually finally now meet Dora. Yeah. I feel like people would come up 558 00:39:46.960 --> 00:39:51.880 to my table and if there were other women at the table, they didn't 559 00:39:52.199 --> 00:39:52.920 you know, they didn't know. They were like, oh is she here? 560 00:39:53.159 --> 00:39:57.440 She not here? Or like, is one of you who's Dora? 561 00:39:57.639 --> 00:40:01.880 Like they did they didn't know what I look like, big goggle eyes either, 562 00:40:01.960 --> 00:40:08.280 you know those big brown Yeah, I need a aircut. Is she 563 00:40:08.360 --> 00:40:15.079 here? Oh? Then she is? God, she's cute. Wow, 564 00:40:15.840 --> 00:40:19.880 Oh that's amazing. Where did you get that from? So this one? 565 00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:22.519 I usually when I did the voice for dolls, they would send me one 566 00:40:22.599 --> 00:40:28.239 whenever, you know, it was going to the stores. And that one 567 00:40:28.960 --> 00:40:31.280 my mom had in her attic for years. I completely forgot about it. 568 00:40:31.760 --> 00:40:35.880 And when I yeah, and when I started doing the cons my mom's like, 569 00:40:35.880 --> 00:40:37.639 Okay, take all your door stuff from the attic. You can keep 570 00:40:37.639 --> 00:40:42.280 it at your house and maybe you can use it. And I got this 571 00:40:42.440 --> 00:40:45.679 huge box. I was like, what is this? I'm pulling it apart, 572 00:40:45.760 --> 00:40:50.239 and she was in her box, original box, everything like untouched, 573 00:40:51.159 --> 00:40:52.239 and I unboxed her and I was like, wow, I wonder if she 574 00:40:52.320 --> 00:40:59.719 still works, And then my voice started playing and it's still really now she 575 00:40:59.800 --> 00:41:01.920 does at work. I think she's been on the plane too many times. 576 00:41:02.519 --> 00:41:07.239 But yeah, oh my gosh, that's say so you can just do it 577 00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:08.760 for her, yes, exactly, Yeah, that's right. I was thinking 578 00:41:08.760 --> 00:41:12.199 one way or another, you'll be able to hear her, right exactly. 579 00:41:12.800 --> 00:41:15.280 I can't believe they made one that big. They can speak, Yeah, 580 00:41:15.400 --> 00:41:19.679 that's size. Yeah, that was pretty cool. I mean did they sell 581 00:41:19.719 --> 00:41:23.039 those because I want one? Yeah. There's so there's a girl that I 582 00:41:23.079 --> 00:41:27.880 follow online. She collects like a bunch of dolls, Dora and I think 583 00:41:27.880 --> 00:41:34.440 powerpuff Girls, but she has I think twenty three of this doll. Oh 584 00:41:34.519 --> 00:41:37.079 my gosh. Yeah, that they have their own apartment. They must have. 585 00:41:37.199 --> 00:41:40.519 Yeah, And I'm like so tempted to like reach out to her and 586 00:41:40.559 --> 00:41:44.400 be like, can I buy maybe one or two from you? Because mine 587 00:41:44.519 --> 00:41:49.880 is kind of like going down but winding down. Yeah, and it's you 588 00:41:49.920 --> 00:41:54.119 have to replace batteries obviously, and yeah, but her head's kind of gym. 589 00:41:54.159 --> 00:42:00.000 She's magic. Yeah, yeah, okay from the kid's gonna scream, 590 00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:07.440 oh god, yeah, hopefully I'm not there for that. I did singing 591 00:42:07.480 --> 00:42:14.000 telegrams for a day once and uh and this is like the first six months 592 00:42:14.039 --> 00:42:16.760 of my career. And it was Easter and I was at the Easter Bunny 593 00:42:17.119 --> 00:42:22.760 and I went to I went to this house and your kid, you know 594 00:42:22.119 --> 00:42:27.679 this, goofy boy said, and I realized I was dressing breathing the same 595 00:42:27.719 --> 00:42:31.000 hair over over again, and I had they had to pass out. So 596 00:42:31.000 --> 00:42:34.920 I had to pull off my head and go who sorry, I had to 597 00:42:34.920 --> 00:42:39.320 get that kid goes, you know, the Easter Bunny just pulled off his 598 00:42:39.519 --> 00:42:46.800 head and there's some guy in there, and uh, I just hope nobody 599 00:42:47.119 --> 00:42:51.159 in fact, make sure this isn't on the podcast. We can edit that 600 00:42:51.199 --> 00:42:53.400 out right, We don't have to. You never know. Maybe you'll find 601 00:42:53.440 --> 00:42:57.559 the person that's aw yeah yeah, the kids. He's like thirty five, 602 00:42:57.599 --> 00:43:00.960 and he goes, yeah, I remember that. I hated that guy. 603 00:43:00.960 --> 00:43:04.719 So there he is, so there he that's what he's doing now. Oh 604 00:43:04.760 --> 00:43:07.800 man, I'm sending him a letter. So yeah, we'll edit that out 605 00:43:07.880 --> 00:43:13.800 right. Yeah, okay, good Kathleen, was Dora U parut of your 606 00:43:13.840 --> 00:43:20.119 life the last fifteen years? Not really. I feel like when I got 607 00:43:20.159 --> 00:43:25.239 recast, I was graduating from high school, and you know, I was 608 00:43:25.760 --> 00:43:30.360 trying to find out who I was, like who I wanted to be. 609 00:43:30.559 --> 00:43:34.639 You know, at that age, it's such like a transitional period and you 610 00:43:34.679 --> 00:43:37.239 know you're going to college and you have all of these different things changing. 611 00:43:37.920 --> 00:43:42.280 It kind of was like a good thing, I feel like for me looking 612 00:43:42.320 --> 00:43:45.199 back on it, being recast and kind of figure out figuring out, Okay, 613 00:43:45.239 --> 00:43:49.760 like what do I want to do? Who am I outside of Dora? 614 00:43:51.519 --> 00:43:54.960 And I feel like I kind of left Dora in the past at that 615 00:43:55.079 --> 00:43:58.639 point, and I was like, I'm going to just kind of not focus 616 00:43:58.679 --> 00:44:02.480 too much on that part of my life and try to build something new. 617 00:44:04.159 --> 00:44:07.079 I think that's kind of what my mentality was at the time. So I 618 00:44:07.079 --> 00:44:10.760 didn't really you know, talk about her that much or wasn't really too involved 619 00:44:12.519 --> 00:44:15.079 with kind of what the show was doing. I wasn't watching the new episodes. 620 00:44:15.760 --> 00:44:20.440 I always you know, I always loved seeing her everywhere and kind of 621 00:44:20.440 --> 00:44:23.800 but I never kind of associated myself with the show until now. Until the 622 00:44:23.840 --> 00:44:29.679 reboot was there any feeling of resentment that what I was thinking. No, 623 00:44:30.079 --> 00:44:36.199 yeah, no, I mean so for the show. I always knew, 624 00:44:36.480 --> 00:44:39.480 you know, the shows on Nickelodeon that time. I think after Dora there 625 00:44:39.599 --> 00:44:45.159 was like Ni How Kai Lan and the Backyardigans, and they all had kid 626 00:44:45.199 --> 00:44:49.199 casts also because that was kind of like what they wanted to do. They 627 00:44:49.239 --> 00:44:53.679 wanted that authentic child's voice. So I knew all of us kind of knew 628 00:44:53.679 --> 00:44:57.960 we were getting older. We were seventeen, you know, and we're like, 629 00:44:58.039 --> 00:45:00.719 okay, like we knew we weren't going to do this forever, and 630 00:45:00.760 --> 00:45:07.360 we knew there was a potential recast. And Boots was a boy, and 631 00:45:07.400 --> 00:45:10.480 he got recast a lot sooner just because you know, with boys you want 632 00:45:10.519 --> 00:45:15.880 to get their voices change. So we knew it was coming, and I 633 00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:22.719 think at that point I kind of was ready to to go also do no 634 00:45:22.719 --> 00:45:27.679 no resentment, And even now, like you do, like I love her 635 00:45:27.719 --> 00:45:30.000 so much, She's so cute and I just love seeing her kind of take 636 00:45:30.039 --> 00:45:35.599 on the legacy and keep going. Well, it's kind of like seeing one 637 00:45:35.639 --> 00:45:39.079 of your kids succeed, you know, they because they wouldn't be doing it 638 00:45:39.119 --> 00:45:44.920 without you, And that's it That's that's it. That's the bottom line. 639 00:45:45.039 --> 00:45:49.760 That Dora would not be moving on or doing moving one inch forward were it 640 00:45:49.800 --> 00:45:53.840 not for you. That'll never change. Yeah, so good for you, 641 00:45:54.039 --> 00:45:58.239 Thank you. That's something that's definitely a feather for the hat, right, 642 00:45:58.559 --> 00:46:02.760 yeah, one a big bird's feathers, Yes, hopefully that guy. I 643 00:46:02.760 --> 00:46:07.360 think I have one of his feathers. Actually, someone gave me one at 644 00:46:07.360 --> 00:46:09.880 a con. Oh oh wow, I think I have it somewhere. What 645 00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:13.760 a strange present to give somebody. I have one of big birds feathers here? 646 00:46:13.800 --> 00:46:17.960 You take this? Yeah? Well it was was it? I think 647 00:46:17.960 --> 00:46:23.119 it was Kermit? He's killing me now, I'll figure it out. We're 648 00:46:23.119 --> 00:46:27.920 gonna have to cut this part out because I'm not so sure. Yeah right, 649 00:46:28.400 --> 00:46:32.239 Jim Henson, you mean was it Jim Henson? No? No, 650 00:46:32.239 --> 00:46:36.480 no, no, no no. Do you mean do you mean the new 651 00:46:36.559 --> 00:46:38.920 voice of Kerman or the one that that changed over about four or five years 652 00:46:38.920 --> 00:46:43.000 ago? I think the one that changed four or five years ago. Okay, 653 00:46:43.039 --> 00:46:46.920 he was Stave somebody I believe Steve something. Yes, Steve, yes, 654 00:46:47.320 --> 00:46:51.280 the person that he was with. He gave me one, and I 655 00:46:51.280 --> 00:46:57.280 can't remember. I think Steve was also on Sesame Street. At some point, 656 00:46:57.599 --> 00:47:00.199 if you're a fan of everything we do here at tuned In with Jim 657 00:47:00.239 --> 00:47:02.480 Cummings, but you're tired of listening to these ads, then you'll absolutely love 658 00:47:02.559 --> 00:47:06.639 being a member of the tuned In Family on Patreon, where you not only 659 00:47:06.679 --> 00:47:10.119 get access to hours of bonus podcasts, including commentaries of classic Disney shows, 660 00:47:10.360 --> 00:47:14.800 but you also get this show early and ad free every single week, as 661 00:47:14.800 --> 00:47:19.119 well as access to exclusive tuned In Facebook and Discord communities. So go ahead 662 00:47:19.159 --> 00:47:22.119 and join the tuned In Family today for as little as two dollars per month 663 00:47:22.199 --> 00:47:27.480 at patreon dot com. Slash Gymcommings podcast. What was so the set of 664 00:47:27.519 --> 00:47:30.239 Sesame Street? As a kid, you think it's a real place. Was 665 00:47:30.239 --> 00:47:34.360 it a big set Sesame Street? What did it look like? No, 666 00:47:34.559 --> 00:47:37.400 it was. It wasn't that big at all. It was kind of just 667 00:47:37.239 --> 00:47:42.159 that main street and kind of like the stairs. From what I remember, 668 00:47:42.239 --> 00:47:46.159 it was kind of like three different sections. It was the trash can, 669 00:47:46.519 --> 00:47:52.000 Yeah, there was a trash can. Then it was like that hallway where 670 00:47:52.039 --> 00:47:54.039 a big bird usually comes out and kind of and snuffle off. I guess 671 00:47:54.920 --> 00:48:00.679 I think partly because it was like a big space and then the the porch 672 00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:04.559 or like the steps in front of the house, and then across from that 673 00:48:04.719 --> 00:48:08.320 was the grocery store or the store. I forget. I've read that you 674 00:48:08.360 --> 00:48:12.360 want to be you want to voice a Disney princess at some point. But 675 00:48:12.400 --> 00:48:15.039 what are some of the Disney princesses that you, if any, gravitated towards 676 00:48:15.079 --> 00:48:19.079 when you were growing up? You read a lot about me. I'm getting 677 00:48:19.119 --> 00:48:24.519 nervous. Yeah, like I said, I have, I mean, like 678 00:48:24.719 --> 00:48:28.840 so many you know, kids and people all over. Like if you love 679 00:48:28.880 --> 00:48:30.880 Disney, you kind of just like love it hard. And you grew up 680 00:48:30.920 --> 00:48:37.719 on like all of the movies and all of the characters, and the Little 681 00:48:37.719 --> 00:48:43.639 Mermaid was my favorite. I would rewind that VHS tape every time it ended. 682 00:48:43.639 --> 00:48:47.239 I'd be like rewinded and just play it back. Yeah, And I 683 00:48:47.280 --> 00:48:52.960 always wanted to be a Disney princess, but I always I never saw one 684 00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:57.000 that looked like me, and I kind of felt like it was not possible. 685 00:48:57.679 --> 00:49:00.840 And I sang. I always sang growing up. My mom put me 686 00:49:00.880 --> 00:49:02.719 in pageants and all that stuff, So I was always singing or doing something. 687 00:49:04.400 --> 00:49:07.599 Yeah, And so I would always sing the songs and do all that 688 00:49:07.639 --> 00:49:10.360 stuff, and I was like, oh, maybe one day I can you 689 00:49:10.360 --> 00:49:15.559 know, voice want or who knows? But I everyone at Nickelodeon like knew 690 00:49:15.559 --> 00:49:21.280 that, or the people that I worked with. And the last episode that 691 00:49:21.400 --> 00:49:23.079 I I don't know if it was the last episode that I recorded, but 692 00:49:23.079 --> 00:49:28.119 it's the last episode of season four, which was my final season that I 693 00:49:28.159 --> 00:49:32.320 recorded. And funny enough, I have the doll right here. Oh wow. 694 00:49:34.039 --> 00:49:39.880 It was Dora's fairy Tale Adventure and Dora becomes a princess, so it 695 00:49:40.000 --> 00:49:45.920 was Yeah, it was kind of special to me and that I got to 696 00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:50.400 become a princess before I kind of left the show and kind of fulfill my 697 00:49:51.159 --> 00:49:59.039 princess dreams. But then they brought me back to voice Cinderella in another episode, 698 00:49:59.440 --> 00:50:02.679 so that was cool too. That's not bad. Well, she's definitely 699 00:50:02.679 --> 00:50:08.239 a way up there in the pantheon of princesses. And my gosh, did 700 00:50:08.280 --> 00:50:14.400 you get to keep the slippers quite for Disney to buy a Nickelodeon, then 701 00:50:14.800 --> 00:50:21.840 we all happen to Yeah, then alone everything. Give us a tip whenever 702 00:50:21.880 --> 00:50:25.960 that happens, let us know and we'll buy more stock. You mentioned earlier 703 00:50:27.159 --> 00:50:30.800 interior design. Is that something that you want to pursue still now or is 704 00:50:30.840 --> 00:50:36.719 it back to you No. So, man, I've had I've had so 705 00:50:36.800 --> 00:50:43.400 many jobs outside of voice acting and through college, I've worked at so many 706 00:50:43.440 --> 00:50:50.000 restaurants. I've sold life insurance, I've worked retail and so many different stores. 707 00:50:50.039 --> 00:50:54.119 But I kind of fell into interior design. I went to college for 708 00:50:54.199 --> 00:51:02.119 communications and I mine almost minored in Latin American studies. But after when I 709 00:51:02.199 --> 00:51:06.760 was still trying to be an actor working at restaurants, I was also working 710 00:51:06.880 --> 00:51:09.800 at Equinox at the time, the gym, so I could have a free 711 00:51:09.840 --> 00:51:15.920 membership and have that. Yeah, it's cool. It has a lot of 712 00:51:16.440 --> 00:51:22.199 cool amenities and things. But I, you know, got connected with a 713 00:51:22.199 --> 00:51:29.760 few people and I ended up getting a chance to be like the corporate receptionist, 714 00:51:30.840 --> 00:51:34.159 which was like in flat Iron at the time, so you know, 715 00:51:34.199 --> 00:51:36.000 I was like, Okay, I'll take it. And I had like a 716 00:51:36.039 --> 00:51:40.119 steady job and I did that for like a year, and then they were 717 00:51:40.159 --> 00:51:45.199 building hotels, so they were building out that team, and I was just 718 00:51:45.280 --> 00:51:50.880 friendly with the senior vice president of design just from her coming in and out. 719 00:51:51.039 --> 00:51:55.000 And her assistant had left and she needed a new assistant so she asked 720 00:51:55.000 --> 00:51:58.039 me if I wanted to apply, and I was like, yeah, sure. 721 00:51:58.760 --> 00:52:01.440 Then I got the job, and I kind of just learned from being 722 00:52:01.480 --> 00:52:07.320 her assistant kind of design and how things worked. And then eventually, I 723 00:52:07.360 --> 00:52:09.440 don't even know how it happened, but then I became like a design manager 724 00:52:09.480 --> 00:52:15.280 and kind of helped build Wow, the things within the room. They call 725 00:52:15.280 --> 00:52:19.440 it OS and E operating supplies and equipment, so it's like the bedding, 726 00:52:19.639 --> 00:52:23.360 picking out the mattress, the snacks that go on the drawer, like all 727 00:52:23.400 --> 00:52:29.559 of those types of things. And I did that and then COVID hit and 728 00:52:30.039 --> 00:52:34.719 I got furloughed from that job, and then I moved to a private firm 729 00:52:35.119 --> 00:52:39.239 in New York and I did project management up until last year. And I 730 00:52:39.280 --> 00:52:43.239 loved it. I loved it. I feel like I'm good at it. 731 00:52:44.719 --> 00:52:47.199 But yeah, yeah, I have a love for it. But I like 732 00:52:47.239 --> 00:52:52.639 where I am now. Yes, we want to I like it too. 733 00:52:52.960 --> 00:52:55.880 Yeah, I'm just trying to envision the people taking your resume. Oh says 734 00:52:55.880 --> 00:53:00.559 he worked for Nick letting you the voice of Dora the Explorer. That's just 735 00:53:00.800 --> 00:53:04.599 yeah, that's you applied for a giget a restaurant, but you went the 736 00:53:04.639 --> 00:53:07.679 voice of the most iconic argue with my iconic female animated character of the twenty 737 00:53:07.679 --> 00:53:13.400 fifth century. Yeah, it was definitely at the top of my resume. 738 00:53:14.119 --> 00:53:19.519 Oh yeah, yeah, well I've got talking about deckhand and steel worker on 739 00:53:19.639 --> 00:53:22.920 mine too, So I feel your pain or joy as it exactly. It 740 00:53:22.920 --> 00:53:27.039 depends how you look at it. Yes, yeah, and I sold call 741 00:53:27.079 --> 00:53:30.960 your encyclopedias for a week, did you. Yes, that was me. 742 00:53:31.880 --> 00:53:37.119 Yeah, your parents are going get out of here, And that was probably 743 00:53:37.159 --> 00:53:38.159 me. I was the guy that they told them. You know what, 744 00:53:38.519 --> 00:53:44.679 I think we my parents bought one, bought the whole set. Well, 745 00:53:44.679 --> 00:53:49.000 then that definitely wasn't me. That would have been a successful stuff. No, 746 00:53:49.079 --> 00:53:53.440 I really do different books. Oh sure, sure yeah, wow, 747 00:53:53.719 --> 00:53:59.360 wow, yet another thing we have in common. Yeah, you see so 748 00:53:59.599 --> 00:54:02.800 what I feel really good now. I'm going to call her after this and 749 00:54:02.840 --> 00:54:07.639 ask her about them. See if she still has them, please please and 750 00:54:07.719 --> 00:54:12.519 tell her thanks for the tip. And you got it. And I think 751 00:54:12.559 --> 00:54:15.440 you were sleeping at the time. And she told me that I'll buy them 752 00:54:15.440 --> 00:54:21.039 if you leave, so I did and she did. Yeah. Oh man, 753 00:54:21.199 --> 00:54:25.039 I was such a sucker for like the QBC things. Oh I would 754 00:54:25.079 --> 00:54:30.000 get in trouble so many times because I'm just such an easy sell. I 755 00:54:30.039 --> 00:54:31.599 would just be like, oh, I need that, and then you just 756 00:54:31.639 --> 00:54:37.280 buy it. Yeah. It's an amazing vibel Feltzer, which was Mad Magazine's 757 00:54:37.320 --> 00:54:42.159 gizmo that nobody knew what it was, and so there you go. Yeah, 758 00:54:42.360 --> 00:54:44.880 I still meet it. I need that. Actually, time I see 759 00:54:44.880 --> 00:54:49.519 you, I'll bring one along. And it's fifty bucks by the way, 760 00:54:49.679 --> 00:54:53.599 Yeah that's all, but it's a vibel Feltzer. So you got that gun 761 00:54:53.679 --> 00:54:59.920 for me or something. Dad. I'm so glad you were here today. 762 00:55:00.280 --> 00:55:02.159 Thank you. But we don't want to tie it up yet, guys, 763 00:55:02.199 --> 00:55:05.719 right, because don't we have one more order of business? Chris, Well, 764 00:55:05.719 --> 00:55:07.679 we have a we have a game we played, don't we, Chris, 765 00:55:07.840 --> 00:55:10.360 we do. I want you to explain it this time, because I 766 00:55:10.360 --> 00:55:15.760 want to hear how somebody else explains it. I always there's pressure take it 767 00:55:15.800 --> 00:55:19.000 away, Yeah, okay, pressures. So, Kathleen, what we do 768 00:55:19.840 --> 00:55:22.840 is we get you to say a voice as Dora, one of her most 769 00:55:22.000 --> 00:55:27.000 iconic quotes, and then Jim will say that same quote as one of his 770 00:55:27.280 --> 00:55:30.000 iconic characters, and then he'll say one to say, for example, Winnie 771 00:55:30.039 --> 00:55:31.760 the Pooh, He'll say it Winnie the Pooh quote. Then you have to 772 00:55:31.760 --> 00:55:36.719 then quote that same quote in Dora's voice. Okay, you go first, 773 00:55:36.719 --> 00:55:39.000 you say one of Dora's most iconic quotes, and then Jim you you say 774 00:55:39.079 --> 00:55:43.639 this as Winnie. I was wondering too if maybe we could do it in 775 00:55:43.880 --> 00:55:47.440 because I've got I got my cheat sheet here and I've got some will you 776 00:55:47.480 --> 00:55:52.159 pass the honey, and I've got it in Spanish and have you ever been 777 00:55:52.159 --> 00:55:54.800 to the hundred acre wood? Got it in Spanish? Friend of mine? 778 00:55:54.840 --> 00:56:00.239 Help me? And thank you Dora for being here today. I've got that 779 00:56:00.360 --> 00:56:05.559 for you to So maybe I'll start that. I'll throw that last one in 780 00:56:05.960 --> 00:56:07.400 and then we could do the regular one, because because I wanted, I 781 00:56:07.440 --> 00:56:12.599 want you to critique me and be evil and tear just tear me apart because 782 00:56:12.599 --> 00:56:15.840 I'm not going to do it well. But this is Winnie the Pooh speaking 783 00:56:15.880 --> 00:56:22.079 in Spanish, saying thank you Dora for being here today. I hope okay, 784 00:56:22.559 --> 00:56:31.000 you got this glacious, but I started, Oh, that was perfect. 785 00:56:31.239 --> 00:56:40.679 I'm sorry, that's the word I was looking for. Afect. Then 786 00:56:45.000 --> 00:56:50.239 okay, I've used up all. Do they dub the shell because you should 787 00:56:50.320 --> 00:56:53.679 just do it. I'm sure they do. Yeah. In fact, one 788 00:56:53.719 --> 00:56:58.599 of the craziest things I've ever seen. And it wasn't me, but they 789 00:56:58.639 --> 00:57:01.239 did Colors of the Wind from Poker Honess and all these singers, and it 790 00:57:01.320 --> 00:57:06.360 was in like eighteen different languages. Wow. And the song was seamless, 791 00:57:06.360 --> 00:57:07.760 sound like the same person singing it. Really, I mean they had went 792 00:57:07.800 --> 00:57:13.079 into galag in, French and German, Ukrainian, Wow, all around the 793 00:57:13.079 --> 00:57:17.920 world. It was really cool. It's not me, not yet me those 794 00:57:19.239 --> 00:57:24.679 language not yet see see. Okay, So now go ahead take it away. 795 00:57:25.360 --> 00:57:29.400 We said it before, so I have to do swiper, no swiping, 796 00:57:29.559 --> 00:57:32.000 I mean, just okay, okay, but I'll say it three times 797 00:57:32.239 --> 00:57:39.280 as we do okay, okay, sweeper, no sweeping sweeper, no sweeping 798 00:57:39.760 --> 00:57:45.400 sweeper, no sweeping. Okay, I'm not going to be able to do 799 00:57:45.440 --> 00:57:51.400 it that high. And how about should we have Tigger do this. Let's 800 00:57:51.519 --> 00:57:53.000 let's let's do it. Let's do it as Doculan, Let's do it as 801 00:57:53.000 --> 00:58:01.199 Winny. All three okay, all right, swipeer, no swiping, no 802 00:58:01.559 --> 00:58:08.719 swiping the swiper, no swiping. They're a little dark wing on there. 803 00:58:09.159 --> 00:58:13.920 I love it's so good. That was that was frightening. Why don't you 804 00:58:13.960 --> 00:58:16.840 be Dora in the reboot as all of those characters. Oh, yeah, 805 00:58:16.880 --> 00:58:22.960 let's do that. I'd love to hear Dora say the quote Jim, the 806 00:58:22.960 --> 00:58:25.760 big one, the braver than you've seen that, the iconic one. Oh 807 00:58:25.760 --> 00:58:30.440 but that's like a paragraph. Oh, it's lines. You'd be fine. 808 00:58:30.559 --> 00:58:34.519 You could write you could write it in the chat for me. Okay, 809 00:58:34.559 --> 00:58:37.480 well, then that's on you, Brendan. You brought it up. Go 810 00:58:37.519 --> 00:58:39.800 ahead read it in the chat. Wise guy, I'll find it. Jim, 811 00:58:42.039 --> 00:58:44.800 you're braver than your beans. No, you're braver than you believe, 812 00:58:45.159 --> 00:58:49.760 smarter than you think. And bounce heard and some kid did what be I'll 813 00:58:49.800 --> 00:58:53.159 find the actual question. Yeah. I also thought it would be funny to 814 00:58:53.239 --> 00:58:59.400 do what dark Wing Duck says as Dora's voice, like, I'm what do 815 00:58:59.519 --> 00:59:01.800 you say? I'm in the Terror, the Terror laps in the night and 816 00:59:01.920 --> 00:59:07.199 the winged scourge to pecks at your nightmares. I am duk way Duck. 817 00:59:07.440 --> 00:59:14.280 We'll do it on the voice Jim, but shoube I'm gonna forget the rest. 818 00:59:15.119 --> 00:59:16.880 Yeah, that voice gets to say it as dock Wing and then we'll 819 00:59:16.880 --> 00:59:21.679 get it as Dora. Here we go. I am the terror the flaps 820 00:59:21.679 --> 00:59:27.400 in the night. I am the winged scourge that pecks such a neckmares I 821 00:59:27.719 --> 00:59:35.079 duck we duck. I am the terror that flaps in the night. In 822 00:59:35.239 --> 00:59:40.679 English, we say night. In Spanish we say nutchie. Can you say 823 00:59:40.840 --> 00:59:50.320 nautchie nochi no job? Apparently not, but now you have to say, 824 00:59:50.400 --> 00:59:59.599 all right, duck, way duck. I am dark we duck. Very 825 00:59:59.639 --> 01:00:02.679 good. Thank God. If cute was a weapon, we'd be dead. 826 01:00:07.320 --> 01:00:13.119 That's like the best compliment I think I've ever gotten. Love that, Kathleen. 827 01:00:13.320 --> 01:00:15.440 We want to boost your social media up, so let's put all your 828 01:00:15.440 --> 01:00:19.440 social media, he asked, because you know you're extreamly happening. TikTok. 829 01:00:19.559 --> 01:00:23.000 Let's let's plug it. All. Everything is at my name, Kathleen Herless, 830 01:00:23.239 --> 01:00:30.079 except for YouTube. It's the Kathleen Herless. Because Kathleen Harless was taken. 831 01:00:30.199 --> 01:00:34.000 I don't know by who, but not by me. So I had 832 01:00:34.039 --> 01:00:37.440 that too. Yeah I didn't. I don't know if I even found who 833 01:00:37.480 --> 01:00:42.079 the other one is, but I do have a quick little I guess we 834 01:00:42.119 --> 01:00:44.159 can call it a game. You don't have to include it, but I 835 01:00:44.159 --> 01:00:47.920 think it's funny because I bought. Okay, let's i'll explain the story after. 836 01:00:49.360 --> 01:00:52.280 Okay, but Jim, this doll that I'm going to hold up is 837 01:00:53.280 --> 01:00:59.039 a character that you played, but you have to guess who it is. 838 01:01:00.159 --> 01:01:05.360 I'm going to show you only the back of the dogs. Oh oh great, 839 01:01:05.800 --> 01:01:13.800 Oh jeez, Oh, it may not be what it seems. I'll 840 01:01:13.840 --> 01:01:17.159 just say that. M m, it's it's it's not a bear. Is 841 01:01:17.199 --> 01:01:22.320 it a snowman? It looks like, yeah, are those bunny ears? 842 01:01:22.440 --> 01:01:28.400 Is it gim in the Easter bunny costume? Oh? No? Butout knowing 843 01:01:28.480 --> 01:01:31.519 that story, this is so much fun here. It's just crazy enough to 844 01:01:31.599 --> 01:01:37.000 work. And uh and but you're sure it's some character of mine? Yeah, 845 01:01:37.119 --> 01:01:39.079 do you give up? I give up? Okay, here we go. 846 01:01:42.920 --> 01:01:49.320 So you are cheating. You are cheating. It's like, I love 847 01:01:49.320 --> 01:01:52.519 it so much. I had to show you. But now with your story, 848 01:01:52.679 --> 01:01:55.280 I mean this is you need this now? Yes? I do. 849 01:01:55.880 --> 01:02:00.360 I might have one. I was actually looking around. I've got I've got 850 01:02:00.400 --> 01:02:07.760 a few memorable billy is here, yeah, a few thousand, But I 851 01:02:07.760 --> 01:02:09.920 don't have that one. So fine, picked wan, I say something new 852 01:02:09.960 --> 01:02:15.199 that's we need to pull a guy should buy that for gym. Yeah he's 853 01:02:15.199 --> 01:02:20.719 got it or he probably has it. Yeah, yeah something like that. 854 01:02:20.760 --> 01:02:25.239 He's already got it. Yeah yeah, I actually found this and Tokyo Disney 855 01:02:25.840 --> 01:02:30.519 last year. Nice. Yeah, Jim Chris, you basically went to Tekyo, 856 01:02:30.559 --> 01:02:32.920 didn't you? With the Tekya you went to it was it. I 857 01:02:34.000 --> 01:02:36.719 went to Tokyo, but I didn't make it to Tokyo Disney, okay, 858 01:02:36.760 --> 01:02:39.519 and you didn't really go. I know, I think we're going. We're 859 01:02:39.559 --> 01:02:44.920 going again. So yeah, No, it's beautiful. Yeah, it's like 860 01:02:44.960 --> 01:02:47.679 the top Disney park. I feel we didn't just go to Disney Paris. 861 01:02:49.079 --> 01:02:52.360 Disney Paris as well. Yeah, it was not horrible. I swear the 862 01:02:52.440 --> 01:02:57.840 rides. The rides are awesome. Yeah, the rides there cool. Yeah, 863 01:02:58.159 --> 01:03:00.079 they know how to do that for at the House of the Mouse. 864 01:03:00.480 --> 01:03:06.239 Yeah, they're getting good at it, aren't. They smoke cigarettes in Paris 865 01:03:06.360 --> 01:03:08.760 in Disneyland. It's insane the way they can still smoke. They can smoke 866 01:03:08.800 --> 01:03:14.039 cigarettes in Disneyland. Parents. That shocked me so much seeing people walking around 867 01:03:14.039 --> 01:03:22.480 the park smoking cigarettes. It was so French. Just then, did you 868 01:03:22.559 --> 01:03:24.920 feel like you needed to also have a cigarette did you feel like left out? 869 01:03:25.039 --> 01:03:29.639 I actually did, Yeah, you do want to be left out? 870 01:03:30.960 --> 01:03:34.960 No, I could honestly say, I've got every cigarette I've ever smoked in 871 01:03:35.079 --> 01:03:38.719 my hand, every single one. Yeah. I never smoked cigarette. You 872 01:03:38.760 --> 01:03:43.440 know. My dad, God rest is Soul, he smoked constantly. And 873 01:03:43.559 --> 01:03:45.280 oh, I with my little five year old self, I just thought, 874 01:03:45.280 --> 01:03:47.480 Okay, that's stink. So I'm not going to do that. I'm just 875 01:03:47.519 --> 01:03:51.679 not a stunk. I'm not a health nut. But yeah, no, 876 01:03:52.360 --> 01:03:54.960 never mind. Yeah, but yeah, there you have it. Yeah, 877 01:03:55.000 --> 01:03:58.639 it's important for you for your voice acting anyway, to not smoke, right, 878 01:03:58.719 --> 01:04:00.760 Ye, well yeah I would think. Yeah, yeah, I have 879 01:04:00.800 --> 01:04:03.679 one more suggestion. Tell me, if you guys are game, do you 880 01:04:03.719 --> 01:04:08.960 think we could do like a little improv conversation between Dora and Winnie the Pooh. 881 01:04:11.199 --> 01:04:15.320 Sure you don't have to, I'm just throwing it out there. What's 882 01:04:15.320 --> 01:04:18.400 the conversation gonna be about? It has to be about honey, do it? 883 01:04:18.559 --> 01:04:24.559 Or about swiping? Yeah, Dora teaches Poo how to speak Spanish? 884 01:04:24.960 --> 01:04:31.280 Okay? Ohah, oh, Dora? What's your name? My name is 885 01:04:31.480 --> 01:04:36.519 Winnie the Pool and it's lovely to meet you. Hi, Renie. It's 886 01:04:36.679 --> 01:04:44.039 lovely to meet you too. What do you like to eat? Well, 887 01:04:44.440 --> 01:04:50.000 let me shrink, shrink, shrink, shrink. I usually enjoy a little 888 01:04:50.039 --> 01:04:58.280 honey on my honey, and then for this hurt, I get some money. 889 01:05:00.280 --> 01:05:03.199 That sounds benny, see us, sir? Can I try some? 890 01:05:04.400 --> 01:05:13.199 Yes, but not too much? Just kidding glass, Yes, thank you? 891 01:05:14.639 --> 01:05:18.000 Oh oh, I think I hear sweeper here may try to sweep your 892 01:05:18.079 --> 01:05:23.079 honey. If we see him, we have to say sweeper, not sweeping 893 01:05:23.199 --> 01:05:27.440 three times. Can you say it with me? Of course? I can 894 01:05:27.840 --> 01:05:34.039 anything for me. Okay, here we go sweepers sweep, swiping, sweeper, 895 01:05:34.159 --> 01:05:45.599 sweep. Sweet, good job he didn't swipe your honey. I don't 896 01:05:45.599 --> 01:05:49.519 know what I would do without yo, Dora. Oh, I just have 897 01:05:49.599 --> 01:05:55.960 to keep on. That's wonderful, Thank you, hooray. That was awesome. 898 01:05:56.360 --> 01:06:00.119 I think we've just found our new podcast game. Yes we do. 899 01:06:00.360 --> 01:06:04.119 Yeah, just reinaccines. I love. That is awesome. That's the cross 900 01:06:04.119 --> 01:06:06.960 livere we never knew we needed. Right there, Yes, we should do 901 01:06:08.000 --> 01:06:12.079 it. We'll do it in person in August. Let's do it now. 902 01:06:12.119 --> 01:06:15.519 I was going to say my final question, I would like, is there 903 01:06:15.519 --> 01:06:18.559 anything we should know about anything at all that we should be thinking about to 904 01:06:19.320 --> 01:06:24.880 referencing your your next moves or wherever it may be, or however, Yeah, 905 01:06:24.960 --> 01:06:28.480 I'm just follow me on all of my social media. I try to 906 01:06:28.519 --> 01:06:32.039 like of course post and keep everyone updated on what I'm doing and all on 907 01:06:32.079 --> 01:06:39.239 there, and yeah, just send just send me positive vibes my way and 908 01:06:39.599 --> 01:06:45.920 that you know I find do that my next adventure. Okay, all Kathleen 909 01:06:45.960 --> 01:06:48.199 social media and website would be viable. In the description of this video slash 910 01:06:48.199 --> 01:06:59.400 podcast, fantastic. Thank you very very much, Kathleen. Who's going to 911 01:06:59.440 --> 01:07:01.920 take us home? My Chris I opened up you take us on? Okay, 912 01:07:02.079 --> 01:07:04.599 Well, thank you so much guys for checking out this episode here I've 913 01:07:04.639 --> 01:07:09.719 tuned in with Jim Cummings John by Kathleen Hurlss aka Dora the Explorer. Don't 914 01:07:09.719 --> 01:07:13.000 forget to rate reviews on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, where you do find this 915 01:07:13.079 --> 01:07:15.960 show. Hit the subscribe button on YouTube, and be sure to follow Kathleen 916 01:07:15.079 --> 01:07:17.880 on all of the social media's and check you out at any upcoming convention she 917 01:07:17.920 --> 01:07:20.480 is appearing at. Thank you' again Kathleen for your time and all the best. 918 01:07:21.440 --> 01:07:26.159 Thank you bye, guys, Thank you it was nice meeting you. 919 01:07:26.840 --> 01:07:27.639 Nice to meet you,