WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:05.240 Australia's number one pop culture convention, Supernova is returning once again in twenty twenty 2 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:09.000 three, starting with Gold Coast at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Center on 3 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:12.720 April fifteenth and sixteenth, as well as at the Melbourne show Grounds on April 4 00:00:12.759 --> 00:00:16.519 twenty second and twenty third. Guests include the likes of Boba Fette himself, 5 00:00:16.519 --> 00:00:21.039 Tamara Morrison, Stephen Armel, legendary Disney voice actor, Jim Cummings and so 6 00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:25.079 much more. So gets your tickets today at supernova dot com dot au. 7 00:00:25.719 --> 00:00:45.439 Four Finger Discount. Dude, welcome to fourth Finger Discount, where today we're 8 00:00:45.439 --> 00:00:48.679 heading all the way back to season eight of The Simpsons to review episode four 9 00:00:48.719 --> 00:00:51.280 f one two. It's the Itchy and Scratchy and Pucci Show. I am 10 00:00:51.359 --> 00:00:55.759 Dando, I am guy, and we are not alone Dando No. Today, 11 00:00:55.759 --> 00:00:59.399 we are incredibly honored to be joined by a man who has probably indirectly 12 00:00:59.439 --> 00:01:02.679 given me more life advice than my very own parents. He's a true icon 13 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:04.319 of pop culture and a man who has built a career. I'm making us 14 00:01:04.359 --> 00:01:07.519 all smile. Here is the incredible gym coming. Jim thinks for your time. 15 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:11.120 How are you doing Hey, you very good. Well, I'm glad 16 00:01:11.159 --> 00:01:12.200 to be here. I just realized I need to turn on a couple of 17 00:01:12.280 --> 00:01:15.599 lights. I just got a glimpse of myself and I looked like I'm a 18 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:19.040 vampire. Let me see if I can turn around a light here. That's 19 00:01:19.079 --> 00:01:23.120 fine. Zoom does that to you? I know the family. I'm constantly 20 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:26.959 a judge adjusting lights and blinds and all this kind of stuff. I don't 21 00:01:26.959 --> 00:01:30.120 know if that helps much, but anyway, we're back to live action, 22 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:34.359 and we're back. We're back. Well, what's a typical daylight for you 23 00:01:34.439 --> 00:01:37.760 for Jim Cummings in twenty twenty three when you're not hitting the convention circuit? 24 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:42.319 Is it plenty of Boston Cream Pie and Steely Down? I'm assuming yes, 25 00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:46.959 Actually those are my two of my favorites, as you apparently know. But 26 00:01:47.799 --> 00:01:49.319 yeah, you know, there's a few auditions. I'm send in a few 27 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:53.000 reads here and there, and you know, just get my schedule gone for 28 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:57.480 the day or for the week. I thought you've had this incredible career acting 29 00:01:57.519 --> 00:02:00.640 career, but you've also you're just a muso at heart. Do you think 30 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:04.959 being in a band and getting actually getting paid ten dollars to perform at Lady 31 00:02:04.959 --> 00:02:07.760 of Matt Comwell Social Senate at the age of thirteen. Do you think that's 32 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:10.800 what gave you the performing bug or well, I don't know. It's it's 33 00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:15.680 either that or you know, I've told this before. You know, when 34 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:19.000 I when I was very young, I was like five five years old, 35 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:23.199 sitting there watching the Jack Benny program on television with my dad and mel Blank 36 00:02:23.719 --> 00:02:28.280 was a regular you know, of course Bugs Bunny did Daffy Duck, you 37 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:31.719 know, Tad the original voice for them, and uh, my dad goes, 38 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:34.960 you see this guy, see this guy right here. I said, 39 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:38.719 yeah, he goes. His guy does all those voices for those cartoons like 40 00:02:38.759 --> 00:02:42.879 to watch on Saturday morning, Bugs and Daffy and Tazz and blah blah blah. 41 00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:45.520 And I thought, wow, well he doesn't have to stand in the 42 00:02:45.560 --> 00:02:49.280 corner, does he? For being weird? So I said, well, 43 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:52.560 okay, I'm gonna do that, And so I did. We're all glad 44 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:55.159 you did that. Yeah, me too, Thank you. I appreciate that. 45 00:02:55.400 --> 00:02:58.919 So when he told you that you've got it in Ralph Russo's office, 46 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:00.800 that must have been like the off made a moment, right, Yeah, 47 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:06.000 that was yeah, he It was interesting because it was my first demo tape 48 00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:08.560 and I didn't know anybody in the business. I didn't know. I mean, 49 00:03:08.719 --> 00:03:12.240 who do you know? You know? But I did know a guy 50 00:03:12.319 --> 00:03:15.680 who was at the video depot where I worked as a as a manager, 51 00:03:16.159 --> 00:03:21.599 and he had a talent company talent agency. But it was all like, 52 00:03:21.840 --> 00:03:25.400 you know, clown acts and guys who would you know, poodle acts and 53 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:30.319 he would book you know, bad musicians, magicians and jugglers and things like 54 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:34.400 that. And I said, well, okay, he's in show business. 55 00:03:35.199 --> 00:03:40.080 So I gave him my first demo tape. And it turned out that Mel 56 00:03:40.159 --> 00:03:46.719 Blank just coincidentally had offices in his building and it was it was on Sunset 57 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:50.960 Boulevard, and he saw him walking down the hall one day and he goes, 58 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:53.599 hey, maw maw, maw maw, come here. Hey he got 59 00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:54.199 two minutes. He goes, yeah, yeah, what do you need, 60 00:03:54.280 --> 00:03:58.879 kid? And he said, I got a guy here that wants to be 61 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:00.719 you. And he goes they all do what else you got? He goes, 62 00:04:01.080 --> 00:04:04.039 well, you've got two minutes. He just sent me a demo tape. 63 00:04:04.240 --> 00:04:06.680 At least I could say that I played it from Mel Blank. In 64 00:04:06.719 --> 00:04:10.639 fact, you know because I'll see him. Okay, all right, play. 65 00:04:11.159 --> 00:04:14.199 So he hits play and he said, mel stood there and they put 66 00:04:14.199 --> 00:04:17.519 his head back and he closed his eyes and about ten fifteen seconds and he 67 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:21.639 had to speak smile and uh, and he listened to the tape is about, 68 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:25.680 like I said, two minutes long, and it was over and he 69 00:04:25.720 --> 00:04:30.399 goes tell the kid, he's got it. Oh, and he left and 70 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:33.759 that was it. And so that was like my official sanction. I've got 71 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:39.079 it. He didn't say what, but apparently I had it. It's like 72 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:42.319 being blessed by the Pope. Yeah, it was. I made it. 73 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:45.439 Yeah, Mel blank said, I've got it. So we're here anyway to 74 00:04:45.439 --> 00:04:47.759 talk about the art The Simpsons, a show you've actually been on, you 75 00:04:47.759 --> 00:04:51.319 know, dunk In the Horse in Settles or Galactica. You broke out like 76 00:04:51.399 --> 00:04:55.839 with Winnie the Prove when The Simpsons was, it was before the Simpsons really 77 00:04:55.879 --> 00:04:59.199 exploited, So you were pretty much a Disney legend by the time the Simpsons 78 00:04:59.199 --> 00:05:01.759 exploited. Was ever desire to go on Simpsons in that earlier In those earlier 79 00:05:01.800 --> 00:05:05.600 years, Oh gosh, you know, it seemed like they had they had 80 00:05:05.639 --> 00:05:12.519 their cast and you know, there were just different people on there. Harry 81 00:05:12.600 --> 00:05:15.160 was, oh gosh his name, but they had a pretty good cast. 82 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:19.920 Yeah, people that were very versatile, like Dan Castellanetta, he's an old 83 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:24.920 buddy and Nancy. You know, I've done a one hundred cartoons with each 84 00:05:24.920 --> 00:05:29.199 of them, and uh, you know, with all that talent on there, 85 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:31.079 yeah, they didn't have to go very far. I mean they would 86 00:05:31.079 --> 00:05:38.399 have occasionally people like Kelsey Grammer or some famous facial person Flint Eastwood I think 87 00:05:38.399 --> 00:05:43.240 did one even and uh it was interesting. So I think they had a 88 00:05:43.279 --> 00:05:46.319 covered They didn't have to go out of house very often. They did not, 89 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:48.160 and I think that's clever on their part, just getting say, five 90 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:51.360 core people to do five hundred characters, you know, save a lot of 91 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:56.519 money. Yeah. But did you ever watch the Simpsons envious? Or what 92 00:05:56.639 --> 00:05:59.120 was ever a desire to want to be on the show that seemed to be 93 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:00.680 the biggest animated showing the world at that time, or was it just no, 94 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:04.600 you know what I'm with Disney Maybe so yeah, I never Now, 95 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:09.519 you know, I don't think any any voicewover person gets very envious. I 96 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:13.399 mean we're all grateful for what we have. Yeah, I certainly am you 97 00:06:13.439 --> 00:06:16.079 know. I mean, I I mean, like I've said before, this 98 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:19.120 the stuff used to get me kicked out of school. So for somebody give 99 00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:24.399 me all this fame and fortune and fill in the blank, then okay, 100 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:29.240 I'm not gonna I'm not gonna rock that boat with any with any negative feelings 101 00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:30.959 about it. I'm just I'm just grateful, you know every day, That's 102 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:33.199 all. I think. It's one of the big positives compared to just the 103 00:06:33.439 --> 00:06:36.639 standard acting work that it's the voice acting world. It seems to be so 104 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:41.639 tight knit. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah. Everybody knows everybody now, 105 00:06:41.639 --> 00:06:44.600 so when you finally get the role, it's playing a horse, right. 106 00:06:44.600 --> 00:06:46.639 And Frank Welker, he usually did all the animal sounds for The Simpsons at 107 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:49.439 that point he left them two thousand and six. How did that come about? 108 00:06:49.480 --> 00:06:53.160 Did they approach you? Was Frank sick that day? What happened? 109 00:06:53.519 --> 00:06:57.600 No? I don't know. Um, it's funny. I remember when they 110 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:00.120 were casting for The Simpsons. I was one of the few times I ever 111 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:03.199 lost my voice in my life, and I couldn't even audition. I mean, 112 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:08.560 they already had a core cast anyway, from the Tracy Ullman Show. 113 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:13.000 They were doing those little shorts on there. So but I mean, I 114 00:07:13.519 --> 00:07:16.000 you know, I guess I could have been a clean up guy. But 115 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:20.240 but no, I it just came about. I don't I don't really recall. 116 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:23.920 They must have, you know, I'm sure they called my agent said 117 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:28.079 you got any horses, and they said, sure, yeah, I got 118 00:07:28.079 --> 00:07:31.759 one, and uh so I Palomino on my way over there, and uh, 119 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:35.839 you know, and how hot does it? You can do a voice, 120 00:07:35.920 --> 00:07:39.639 can do a horse sound, but how hot is it to act as 121 00:07:39.639 --> 00:07:43.480 a horse. Yeah, I don't know. I don't remember very much. 122 00:07:44.519 --> 00:07:46.240 To be honest with you. Well, he didn't have to do a lot 123 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:53.199 of acting. It was mostly galloping, yes, you know, and which 124 00:07:53.240 --> 00:07:56.199 I didn't have to do. But I just wanted to make that sound. 125 00:07:56.360 --> 00:07:58.920 What was the Simpsons experience lot? Did you actually go to the studio? 126 00:07:58.959 --> 00:08:01.519 Always just recorded from your hand because you're just doing a couple of horse sounds. 127 00:08:01.560 --> 00:08:03.920 So yeah, yeah, I went to the studio to the show in 128 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:07.480 Centric City. I think it was a Culver City. Yeah, it was 129 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:11.439 a long time ago. How has the voice acting experience changed now? Because 130 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:13.959 back even in those years of the Simpsons, they all got together, did 131 00:08:13.959 --> 00:08:16.560 the show together in the studio. Now they do it all from their house. 132 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:20.879 Is that how you do did recently? I do a lot of it? 133 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:22.680 Yeah, I do a lot of it that way. I did my 134 00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:26.600 first Shark Week. There's a thing that we have here over here, and 135 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:30.079 uh, I did that at home, and that was weird. I don't 136 00:08:30.279 --> 00:08:33.200 I you know, I've always had a home studio, like you know, 137 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:39.600 this fabulous layout that you see here, but you know, started off with 138 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:43.519 a closet and and a beach towel behind me. So that was my soundproofing. 139 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:48.559 But um, but I really like going in and doing an ensemble. 140 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:54.879 I like it because I add live a lot and uh, and so that 141 00:08:56.240 --> 00:09:01.120 either helps the line before me or after me or makes it irrelevant. And 142 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:03.840 if they keep your ad lib and then the line behind you doesn't work, 143 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:09.679 then they have to go and rerecord another. Whereas if if if everyone's all 144 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:13.879 there at the same time, that's problem is alleviated, you know, and 145 00:09:13.960 --> 00:09:16.440 uh, and it's and it's and it feels better. I just like it 146 00:09:16.440 --> 00:09:20.200 because you're playing directly off someone, you know, you're not reading a script 147 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:24.360 and imagining how they would say it in your head. And then like like 148 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:28.519 Mickey Mouse Fun House. We do them right now. We're in our god, 149 00:09:28.559 --> 00:09:33.320 I think thirtieth year of doing that. Variations of that show was Clubhouse, 150 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:39.399 House of Mouse, fun House blah dah dah and uh. And you 151 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:45.440 know, we started off doing it all together and now we do it separately. 152 00:09:45.960 --> 00:09:48.320 Everybody's completely you know, not in the studio at the same time. 153 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:52.480 Blah blah blah. And I don't like it. I don't like it. 154 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:54.200 I like it the old one. I think it comes through when you watch 155 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:58.320 sort of say modern day Simpsons, you can just sort of tell that they're 156 00:09:58.360 --> 00:10:01.360 not together something about it. Sort of it's lost that a little bit of 157 00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:05.159 soul, I think, yeah, oh sure, yeah, And it's and 158 00:10:05.240 --> 00:10:07.840 it's you know, if they you know, if you're you're thinking that the 159 00:10:07.879 --> 00:10:11.519 person delivered the line this way, then you're delivering your line according to what 160 00:10:11.559 --> 00:10:15.879 you thought, and then they weren't saying it that way at all. You 161 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:18.840 know, it doesn't it doesn't gel I don't think I agree. What's your 162 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:22.799 thoughts on the whole AI thing now? Because you watch some I'll watch a 163 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:26.559 clip on YouTube recently of someone who got Harry Shearer's voice as principal Skinner and 164 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:31.399 recreated a scene with their own dialogue using Harry Shearer's voice, using AI, 165 00:10:31.919 --> 00:10:35.200 is that scary as a voice actor? Yeah, I don't. Well, 166 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:37.480 I don't like that either, And I don't think I think it's the thing 167 00:10:37.559 --> 00:10:41.720 that they have to remember is that it's not just a voice, it's a 168 00:10:41.960 --> 00:10:46.279 it's an actor who's musing a voice. You know. My buddy Jess Harnell 169 00:10:46.360 --> 00:10:50.320 says, well, as a voice actor, it's a small V, but 170 00:10:50.399 --> 00:10:54.240 a capital A, you know. And uh, you know, which I 171 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:56.320 think is a good way to put it. And yeah, I don't. 172 00:10:56.759 --> 00:11:01.159 I don't care for it. I mean that's I can't imagine it. You 173 00:11:01.159 --> 00:11:05.519 know, it'll take over. I imagine something like that would be good for 174 00:11:05.559 --> 00:11:09.559 a talking toy. Yes, you know, something very static. Well, 175 00:11:09.559 --> 00:11:13.279 I was gonna ask you what do you think of the Kate differences between doing 176 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:16.559 a voice and acting a voice? Wow? You know there is Uh, 177 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:20.320 I can't a good thing. I can't remember his name because I'm sure be 178 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:24.720 happy to say it. And there was a guy on the interwebs maybe five 179 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:30.399 years ago six and he went all down the line and he goes and here 180 00:11:30.399 --> 00:11:33.360 are Jim Cummings's voices and then he you know, he did dark Wing and 181 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:37.159 then he did Tiz and then he did Tigger, and then he did Pooh, 182 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:39.679 and then he did Hondo knocka. Then he you know, bump it 183 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:45.879 up, up it up, and they were they sounded okay, but I 184 00:11:45.919 --> 00:11:48.039 mean he couldn't have acted wet if you threw him in the pool. Yes, 185 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:52.600 you know, and I thought, okay, wow, you uh you 186 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:56.559 sound like that. And that's all. He probably did it to his mates 187 00:11:56.600 --> 00:11:58.840 at a potty and absolutely killed it. And photo will say, right, 188 00:12:00.039 --> 00:12:03.080 yeah, oh, yeah, yeah, exactly. I'm sure he thought he 189 00:12:03.159 --> 00:12:07.000 was crushing it. But yeah, you know, it's it's no boy. 190 00:12:07.080 --> 00:12:09.960 No. So we here today to talk about the Itchy and Scratchy and Pucci 191 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:11.759 Show, an episode where Homer becomes a voice actor for the character Pucci on 192 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:15.879 each Scratchy show in the Simpsons. Yeah, and at the side of the 193 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:18.639 episode, they asked for the cartoon to create a new character and they do 194 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:20.480 a focus group. Do you have any fun focus group stories? Remember a 195 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:24.960 part of focus groups, particularly children's focus groups for your animated shows. You 196 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:30.399 ever get the feedback from them? No, I know that of all the 197 00:12:30.440 --> 00:12:35.399 closest I ever came to. That was the character Bonkers Bonkers Bobcat. He's 198 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:39.320 on. It was on the Disney Afternoon originally now all over Disney Plus. 199 00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:46.279 And it was interesting, you know, because we it's the only time I've 200 00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:50.080 ever gone through five auditions, and I think in the third, fourth, 201 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:54.159 and fifth audition they actually have to pay you a session fee. Well, 202 00:12:54.399 --> 00:13:00.519 because they should have made up there they I was told that they are one 203 00:13:00.600 --> 00:13:05.559 hundred people. And I do remember sitting in a in a lobby with everybody 204 00:13:05.559 --> 00:13:09.840 there and we're all there was like twenty people in there, and uh, 205 00:13:09.879 --> 00:13:11.600 they said, well, they're they're not gonna even know this week or next 206 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:16.399 week. They'll they'll just figure it out and probably about a month. I 207 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:18.480 said, oh wow, that's a long time, so long ago, because 208 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:22.759 they're auditioning one hundred people a five hundred, I mean, oh my god, 209 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:24.720 everybody in their dog so you know, you're there, you're there, 210 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:30.840 you're there. Do that audition and they get a callback. Okay, now 211 00:13:30.879 --> 00:13:35.399 there's only dozens of people there, and okay, well another call the other 212 00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:41.279 callback. Really wow, okay, so you go back and made it all 213 00:13:41.320 --> 00:13:46.240 the way to the fifth callback. And I went in and dog on. 214 00:13:46.279 --> 00:13:50.639 I'm gonna forget his name, but if Philip was doing Max Headroom, which 215 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:54.519 was a and Jim Carrey was sitting there, wow, and he was. 216 00:13:54.480 --> 00:14:00.519 He was on Living Color at the time, a big on camera role. 217 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:07.279 Uh he was kind of a breakout character obviously. And Matt just writ Matt 218 00:14:07.279 --> 00:14:09.799 Freua, was that the guy? Oh yes, Matt Freuer, thank you. 219 00:14:09.960 --> 00:14:13.559 Yeah, that's exactly right. Yeah, that's who it was. And 220 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:16.360 they were there, and the three of us were sitting there looking at each 221 00:14:16.360 --> 00:14:22.200 other, and Jim Carrey had an at teschee case for whatever reason I'll never 222 00:14:22.279 --> 00:14:24.759 know, and they took in Matt Frewer first, and he came out and 223 00:14:24.919 --> 00:14:28.080 go, well, I guess we'll see ce ce ce ce. See what 224 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:33.480 happens. You know, really funny because he was the bizarre thing. And 225 00:14:33.679 --> 00:14:37.360 uh then Jim Carrey went in, and about half an hour or so later 226 00:14:37.399 --> 00:14:41.440 he came out. He picks up his briefcase and says, well, I 227 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:48.879 guess you'd go and then and then he walked on out of there, and 228 00:14:48.919 --> 00:14:52.320 I said, I think I'll stick around. And uh so then I went 229 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:56.559 in finally and I did it. And about him a week later, they 230 00:14:56.559 --> 00:14:58.720 called me up and they go, how would you like to be bunkers? 231 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:05.360 And I said, well, I guess I'll stick around. And so yeah, 232 00:15:05.399 --> 00:15:09.240 that was that was my That was my big brush with him. So 233 00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:11.000 you beat Jim Carrey. That's a claim to fame in himself, isn't it. 234 00:15:11.159 --> 00:15:13.840 Yeah? I would think, yeah, yeah, that's crazy. Probably 235 00:15:13.960 --> 00:15:18.120 I couldn't do it now, but I think he's he's somewhere spending money or 236 00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:22.399 counting it, yes, slipping on a pile of it. Yes, well 237 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:26.320 yeah. In the episode the woman who voices Itchy and scratches Jim Ballamy, 238 00:15:26.360 --> 00:15:30.200 she does both characters in the episode, and Homer when he meets her, 239 00:15:30.200 --> 00:15:33.399 he's taken it back. He can't believe a woman is hosting his arm voice 240 00:15:33.399 --> 00:15:35.279 and these two characters, both of them. Hell yeah? Is that an 241 00:15:35.279 --> 00:15:39.440 experience you get every day someone has gone, well, you've you've voiced all 242 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:41.679 these people, like you must just encounter that every day of your life. 243 00:15:43.399 --> 00:15:46.320 Well, not quite, but I do a lot of conventions these days. 244 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:50.879 Yeah, And oh my gosh, I always get it for Jeremy Iris because 245 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:54.559 I sang a song I did like four or five lines looping because he was 246 00:15:54.960 --> 00:16:00.279 back in England, but I sang a song called be Prepared and he never 247 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:06.279 even says the words be prepared and um. And people will often come up 248 00:16:06.279 --> 00:16:07.559 and they'll and then they'll, first of all, they'll go, okay, 249 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:11.919 so you didn't do but you didn't, but this does you don't sound like 250 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:15.480 that? I go, thank you. I know, I don't. I'm 251 00:16:15.480 --> 00:16:19.159 not an actual duck. That's all right, don't worry about it, you 252 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:22.759 know. And and they'll say, but but that was you. But I 253 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:25.799 thought I thought you were lucky Pakala, and I thought you were and I, 254 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:29.519 yeah, I am, I am, And they scar is the one 255 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:33.320 from Lion King that gets him every time they got Now, now that was 256 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:37.879 that was Jeremy Irons, and I go, you were supposed to think it 257 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:41.240 was Jeremy Irons and it wasn't Russell Means and Pokerhonnas either. And I did 258 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:45.919 all his singing. You know, he didn't even care. He didn't even 259 00:16:45.159 --> 00:16:48.559 And now I saw him at entertainment tonight. He kind of took me off. 260 00:16:48.600 --> 00:16:52.080 He goes, because they asked him, what what did you enjoy most 261 00:16:52.120 --> 00:16:56.200 about being in this great big Disney movie? And as a Native American, 262 00:16:56.240 --> 00:17:03.639 he goes, well, I I really enjoyed the singing, I really and 263 00:17:03.639 --> 00:17:07.680 and and everywhere, and they're all gone, oh, so will you sang? 264 00:17:08.440 --> 00:17:14.480 Yes? Oh yes, did you like my singing? And I guess 265 00:17:14.519 --> 00:17:17.119 he was just busting their chops. But if they were going along with it, 266 00:17:17.160 --> 00:17:19.759 I think he was fine with it, just testing the water to say 267 00:17:19.759 --> 00:17:22.079 whether they knew anything or not. I don't know anything. I'll go with 268 00:17:22.119 --> 00:17:26.799 it. Yeah, yeah, I think so, I think so. And 269 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:30.279 uh, but that's okay because you know, the check cleared, so Jim. 270 00:17:30.319 --> 00:17:33.000 When Chris Hemsworth has to play thor again, he obviously has to hit 271 00:17:33.039 --> 00:17:37.000 the gym again or has to sort of maintain a certain I guess regimen. 272 00:17:37.480 --> 00:17:42.559 And I'm wondering if for a voice actor you have to constantly be mindful of 273 00:17:42.599 --> 00:17:47.079 your instrument. You constantly have to be training it or maintaining it. You 274 00:17:47.119 --> 00:17:49.759 know, is it hot tea and lemon every morning? I mean, how 275 00:17:49.759 --> 00:17:53.240 do you keep your vocal called sort of limbering and pumped up? Well, 276 00:17:53.759 --> 00:17:56.640 I've often had hot tea and lemon in the studio with a little bit of 277 00:17:56.640 --> 00:18:04.279 honey obviously some money, but no, I I have all the cigarettes I've 278 00:18:04.319 --> 00:18:08.000 ever smoked in my life. Right here in my hand. So you know, 279 00:18:08.079 --> 00:18:11.359 there's that. And um, you know, I'll go to a football 280 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:15.440 game or baseball, you know, and and I clap and I whistle. 281 00:18:15.759 --> 00:18:19.759 I oh, yeah, you know, because it's a it's an instrument. 282 00:18:19.839 --> 00:18:22.359 You know, you're gotta be aware. It's the money maker. Yeah. 283 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:26.400 Yeah, it's an instrument for me and a money maker. So I don't 284 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:30.559 you know, if I was a dancer, I wouldn't be walking across hot 285 00:18:30.599 --> 00:18:33.880 coals either, you know. So yeah, it's you know, it's just 286 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:37.720 maintaining being healthy. You know. So far, so good. We'll spit 287 00:18:37.759 --> 00:18:41.200 you speaking of the linking just before, and that was funny because when we 288 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:42.240 post it up that we're gonna get a chance to speak to you, everyone 289 00:18:42.279 --> 00:18:45.880 goes, why is Sky there? It's Jeremy. Yeah, it's not him, 290 00:18:45.880 --> 00:18:48.839 it's Jeremy. But my favorite liking story for yourself is that you wrote 291 00:18:48.839 --> 00:18:53.359 the fot line in a kutamatada. That's amazing. I did, thank you, 292 00:18:53.519 --> 00:18:59.119 thank you acting yeah, my buddy, Jess harnell Um. As it 293 00:18:59.160 --> 00:19:03.519 turns out, Nathan and Ernie, Sabella, Timon and Bomba they were not 294 00:19:03.599 --> 00:19:08.000 singers, and so they said, well, you know, let's just get 295 00:19:08.079 --> 00:19:15.079 Jim and Jess in here and have them sing Kuna Matata, and then we 296 00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:18.759 can get them a cassette because back then it was all cassettes and they can 297 00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:22.400 drive around in their car listening to it all day. And that way, 298 00:19:22.480 --> 00:19:25.319 when we get them into the studio at the end of the month, you 299 00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:29.160 know, they'll know it as well as they know Happy Birthday, you know, 300 00:19:29.279 --> 00:19:32.400 just they'll know it by heart. They we won't have to sit there 301 00:19:32.440 --> 00:19:36.000 and agonize because I've done that in studio with people who do not sing, 302 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:40.559 and I really feel sorry for them because you're you're really taking them out of 303 00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:44.279 their wheelhouse. I haven't done it in a long time, but you know 304 00:19:44.400 --> 00:19:48.559 somebody who just doesn't sing, you know, there while your character sings, 305 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:53.599 oh well, m you know, which was actually it was good that Christopher 306 00:19:53.680 --> 00:19:56.319 Lloyd did that, you know, and he said, wow, that may 307 00:19:56.400 --> 00:20:02.799 know how I saw and me out here, but bye, you know. 308 00:20:02.920 --> 00:20:06.880 And then they called me in and I went in and I sang his song, 309 00:20:07.599 --> 00:20:11.559 Uh call my Men Young bah blah blah blah blah blah and the Dog 310 00:20:11.599 --> 00:20:14.599 of the Night. You know, it was very Lord Webber and uh, 311 00:20:15.720 --> 00:20:18.359 oh gosh, where was that going with that? Oh? Yeah, So 312 00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:21.559 we were we were doing a kun of atada and I was to moan and 313 00:20:21.599 --> 00:20:26.640 he was or I was pull and he was tom and We're going through the 314 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:30.960 song and I remember Rob Minkoff brought up the one of the producers said, 315 00:20:30.400 --> 00:20:34.240 well, I don't know these lyrics. I mean, it's like it's just 316 00:20:34.279 --> 00:20:37.519 reminds me. I feel like I'm talking to my parents. You know. 317 00:20:37.880 --> 00:20:41.279 When I was a kid, it was really hard. You have it easy. 318 00:20:41.559 --> 00:20:44.839 I had to lift rocks all day and you get it, you know, 319 00:20:44.880 --> 00:20:48.720 it's loadida for you. And oh I had to go uphill both ways 320 00:20:48.839 --> 00:20:52.200 to school, you know, and in the snow, and it was terrible 321 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:53.200 for me. And I go, yeah, no, it gets old really 322 00:20:53.279 --> 00:21:00.240 quickly. Hey doesn't this wart hog doesn't he have a flatulence problem? And 323 00:21:00.359 --> 00:21:04.279 they go yeah, And I said okay, and I went over and I 324 00:21:04.359 --> 00:21:08.720 whispered the lyrics into Jess's here. Oh the shame, but what's in the 325 00:21:08.839 --> 00:21:12.799 name? And I got down harder and every time that I but not in 326 00:21:12.839 --> 00:21:18.440 front of the kids. Sorry, coonamatada. So I alluded to the word 327 00:21:18.519 --> 00:21:22.279 parted, which you can't say parted because farted is a word that shouldn't be 328 00:21:22.319 --> 00:21:26.079 said, you know, parted. We're bleeping it out of this Yeah, 329 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:30.960 yeah, don't say it. And so I'm just glad I didn't say it, 330 00:21:32.079 --> 00:21:36.319 you know, farted anyway, so that I'm trying to class up the 331 00:21:36.400 --> 00:21:40.920 joint. So that was Yeah, that was my That was my big king 332 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:47.400 moment. Lyric is oddly enough, I didn't get Sir Tim Rice apparently wrote 333 00:21:47.440 --> 00:21:51.799 those words. Yeah, Nolton John, that's the last time I let them 334 00:21:51.799 --> 00:21:56.480 in what everybody remembers you Rice? Yeah, yeah, it's so true. 335 00:21:56.559 --> 00:21:59.440 Yeah, it's funny because it's literally that's literally my wife's favorite movie. We 336 00:21:59.519 --> 00:22:03.720 listened to the track at least once a week and my kids kumata that monament. 337 00:22:03.759 --> 00:22:07.799 That is my kid's favorite monament in the whole movie. Oh my gosh, 338 00:22:07.839 --> 00:22:11.079 that's funny. You know, I remember got it and I've got it 339 00:22:11.119 --> 00:22:15.880 around here somewhere. The La Times came out and said that this is a 340 00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:19.839 Disney movie that everybody has to see. Went for one reason. Who knew 341 00:22:21.319 --> 00:22:26.240 Jeremy Irons could sing? And he's phenomenal. He is because the bad guys 342 00:22:26.319 --> 00:22:29.799 always get a really really good song, like Captain hook Hat. It had 343 00:22:29.799 --> 00:22:33.440 a great song, and uh, and it's also the only of course that 344 00:22:33.519 --> 00:22:38.400 was me. And it's also the only Disney movie you'll ever see where you 345 00:22:38.599 --> 00:22:45.640 almost hear a rhyme based around flatulence. So I'm thinking, so, A, 346 00:22:45.039 --> 00:22:51.240 I'm giving Jeremy Irons credit for something he didn't do, and B I'm 347 00:22:51.279 --> 00:22:56.519 giving Tim Rice and Elton John credit for writing lyrics that I had lived. 348 00:22:56.640 --> 00:23:00.440 And uh, where's my check? You know the check, Claire? You 349 00:23:00.519 --> 00:23:07.960 know. So I don't know what a quick job is, Jim. With 350 00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:12.039 all these people lifting your laurels, it must be nice when work you do 351 00:23:12.440 --> 00:23:18.200 is visibly appreciate. I'm thinking of like when the Christopher Robin movie came out 352 00:23:18.200 --> 00:23:19.839 of the one with you and McGregor. I think there was a lovely piece 353 00:23:19.839 --> 00:23:23.079 in Vanity Fair where they basically said, Jim Gummy deserves an ask him for 354 00:23:23.119 --> 00:23:33.039 this for his for Yeah. I couldn't have agreed more. But oddly enough 355 00:23:33.079 --> 00:23:37.319 it didn't happen. But I know, and I wrote them a letter, 356 00:23:37.319 --> 00:23:40.440 wrote that fellow, a letter that was very kind. That was very very 357 00:23:40.440 --> 00:23:45.200 sweet of him, you know, I and I wasn't even ticker originally, 358 00:23:45.920 --> 00:23:48.440 no, not to two thousands. Yeah, yeah, that was there was 359 00:23:48.559 --> 00:23:52.920 another fellow what's the thing as someone who myself I grew up in the nineties. 360 00:23:52.200 --> 00:23:56.279 The voices behind the characters were never sort of market It was just like 361 00:23:56.359 --> 00:23:59.039 the characters, right. I think, now we're all getting old enough to 362 00:23:59.160 --> 00:24:03.039 go back and read his and learn this goes We sort of go he voiced 363 00:24:03.160 --> 00:24:07.519 our childhood? How is this man not has an a statue at Disney World 364 00:24:07.559 --> 00:24:08.799 of this man? You know what I mean? Like like, it's just 365 00:24:08.880 --> 00:24:12.920 it's it's crazy. Yeah, thank you for that. I actually get that 366 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:18.000 a lot. You you bo okay, you voiced my entire childhood, you 367 00:24:18.079 --> 00:24:22.079 know. And the guy's like forty years old, and they go, okay, 368 00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:25.079 well but I didn't mess you up. Oh no, no, you 369 00:24:25.079 --> 00:24:26.279 didn't mess me up. It was great, you know. Yeah, there 370 00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:33.079 was a very good impression of Dando. You just did oh well thirty four 371 00:24:33.359 --> 00:24:37.079 thirty four not quite forty yet. But speaking of fans, right, So, 372 00:24:37.119 --> 00:24:41.400 in this episode of the of the Scratching Pitch Up the Simpsons, they 373 00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:44.119 go up on they look a panel and as an audience in front of them, 374 00:24:44.559 --> 00:24:48.960 and we have a very snarky fan who thinks he's a genius. He 375 00:24:48.960 --> 00:24:51.759 has his shirt says, genius at work, and he brings up and a 376 00:24:51.799 --> 00:24:53.400 mistake during one of the animated shows, and they put they're sort of up 377 00:24:53.400 --> 00:24:56.640 on the stage going, what are you talking about? You're a gray man, 378 00:24:56.680 --> 00:24:59.039 what are you doing this for? And do you ever come across moments 379 00:24:59.039 --> 00:25:00.559 like that where you just wish you could politely to say what is wrong with 380 00:25:00.599 --> 00:25:08.359 you? Yeah? Occasionally occasionally, you know, when you know it's you 381 00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:18.519 know, there was Oh wow, No, it's Bob IgA pick up. 382 00:25:18.920 --> 00:25:22.000 Yeah, it's Bob again with your check for the fighting Jake. Sorry, 383 00:25:22.039 --> 00:25:26.920 Patrick, I have to call you back. I was accountant. Oh how's 384 00:25:26.920 --> 00:25:30.559 it calling out for? What's that? To check? What? I don't 385 00:25:30.759 --> 00:25:34.240 know? I'm sorry, I can't believe that just did. Sorry, we're 386 00:25:34.240 --> 00:25:38.759 talking about I'm fans that just They asked questions about an episode of Darkwing Duck 387 00:25:38.799 --> 00:25:45.279 from season two The k How How how will I know this? Yes? 388 00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:48.440 Yes, yes, and no? And one of my favorites is uh it's 389 00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:52.680 one of the things. So were you you were like Darkwing dark or something 390 00:25:52.799 --> 00:25:56.279 or what? Yeah? But I thought I thought I thought you were Naga 391 00:25:56.359 --> 00:26:00.200 Duck. Well I was Naga Duck. You just said dark Wing. No, 392 00:26:00.200 --> 00:26:03.920 no, I was dark wing and Naga duck. Oh, well how's 393 00:26:03.960 --> 00:26:07.200 that? How'd that go? What? What is that? I don't know 394 00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:11.960 what that means? You know what was that? Like? Well, what 395 00:26:12.039 --> 00:26:18.240 was that? Are you pooh? Well? Yeah, but I thought you 396 00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:21.839 were a tigger? Well I yeah, well I am pooh, so you 397 00:26:21.880 --> 00:26:26.160 pooh and tigger? Yes, that's right? What about you? Or what 398 00:26:26.240 --> 00:26:29.599 about you? Or I go, well, no, that's that's that's not 399 00:26:29.680 --> 00:26:37.319 me. Okay, just checking. Okay, thanks, thanks for coming by. 400 00:26:37.440 --> 00:26:40.319 Would would you like an autograph nowur? It's on pop with what's your 401 00:26:40.319 --> 00:26:44.920 favorite character that your voice? Yeah? Oh that's painful. I have too 402 00:26:44.920 --> 00:26:48.160 many of them. It's Pooh, Tiggered, dark Winged, Tazza, Hondo, 403 00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:51.319 Oanaka, and Ray from Princess in the Frog. So I have to 404 00:26:51.359 --> 00:26:52.920 thank you, Jim. I've just scratched the next five questions off my list. 405 00:26:53.599 --> 00:26:57.720 Okay, good. Which which is the character you think gave you the 406 00:26:57.720 --> 00:27:03.440 most freedom to just beat you? Uh? Boy? Probably Hondo, I'm 407 00:27:03.519 --> 00:27:08.799 not gonna yeah, because he's a he's a wise guy and uh and uh. 408 00:27:10.960 --> 00:27:15.640 I think we were talking about a little while ago they had um I 409 00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:22.559 think it was Vanity Fair that had the ten top twelve lines of Hondo o'naka, 410 00:27:22.680 --> 00:27:26.200 and I made up ten of them. They were just at you know, 411 00:27:26.440 --> 00:27:30.160 and I thought that was just that really really works, you know, 412 00:27:30.279 --> 00:27:34.680 so that was despined with me, Jim. Act actors get get top cast, 413 00:27:36.039 --> 00:27:38.519 the voice actors get top cast. Well, I think to an extent 414 00:27:38.640 --> 00:27:41.279 it hadn't really happened to me, but it's about to say, I mean, 415 00:27:41.319 --> 00:27:45.079 you've got a great degree of versatility. It seems yeah, yeah, 416 00:27:45.279 --> 00:27:48.519 I think. Well, I started on a show called Dumbo Circus. It's 417 00:27:48.519 --> 00:27:52.480 not not on anymore. I don't even think they saved any of them. 418 00:27:52.519 --> 00:27:56.039 And I was kind of like they joked around. Ron Gans got restless, 419 00:27:56.039 --> 00:28:03.160 solely played. He played a cute tea anyway, he said, oh here 420 00:28:03.160 --> 00:28:07.720 he is Cast of thousands. Oh thanks. That was my nickname Cast of 421 00:28:07.759 --> 00:28:15.880 Thousands because I played Lionel and then like half the spectators and guest start guests, 422 00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:19.039 people you know, coming and going. So that that was it was 423 00:28:19.160 --> 00:28:22.400 kind of like on the job training, you know, I I was getting 424 00:28:22.440 --> 00:28:26.920 paid to learn and develop. Lasted for a year and a half. So 425 00:28:27.240 --> 00:28:30.519 when was the first time you remembered not remembering one of your characters? Because 426 00:28:30.519 --> 00:28:34.240 you've done so many already. Well it's not that I didn't really remember, 427 00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:40.920 but you know, I've done some video games, not not many, but 428 00:28:41.000 --> 00:28:45.240 apparently I've done some really popular ones. And this is at a convention. 429 00:28:45.240 --> 00:28:48.319 It's got to be like ten years ago. And these two guys come up, 430 00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:52.640 you know, okay, so do the voice? Do the voice? 431 00:28:52.240 --> 00:28:56.480 And I go, oh bother, No, no, no, the voice? 432 00:28:56.519 --> 00:28:57.599 You know the voice? And I go and then I'll do take her 433 00:28:57.720 --> 00:29:02.519 no dark Wing. No, it's not what what voice? I mean? 434 00:29:02.599 --> 00:29:07.079 Can you beat more specific? Uh? Balder's Gate? And I went, 435 00:29:07.960 --> 00:29:11.720 what about it? Oh? It was a video game? Oh geez okay. 436 00:29:11.880 --> 00:29:17.039 And it was a character named Minsk and he was modeled after Lenny from 437 00:29:17.160 --> 00:29:22.680 in of Mice and Men. And he had a hamster and uh he was 438 00:29:22.519 --> 00:29:26.759 sweet. He was Nordic of some sort. But the mean skin the hamster 439 00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:32.640 of just this boo. Don't mess withe boo or he'll get you through, 440 00:29:32.920 --> 00:29:36.279 you know. And it's and and I said, wow, okay, that 441 00:29:36.319 --> 00:29:40.480 was from nineteen ninety five, you know, so that's it's not top of 442 00:29:40.519 --> 00:29:45.559 mind due the voice. Yeah that one, sure, surely you mean mins 443 00:29:45.640 --> 00:29:48.079 from nineteen ninety five, do you lot that though, because it's because when 444 00:29:48.079 --> 00:29:51.680 you haven't a voice of so long, is it like using muscles that haven't 445 00:29:51.680 --> 00:29:53.200 been used for a while, just trying to remember those kind of voices always 446 00:29:53.200 --> 00:29:56.880 just there's always always name. Once you've created it, it's you can just 447 00:29:56.960 --> 00:30:00.599 go to it. Yeah. For for me, it's pretty easy. I 448 00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:03.000 could just go to it, you know. You know that's my old joke. 449 00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:07.640 I'm schizophrenic and so are we. 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What are some of the more interesting things that you 459 00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:44.519 now get asked to sign besides you know, DVD covers and Funko pops. 460 00:30:44.640 --> 00:30:48.559 Is there anything odd ball that yet asked to sign these days? Well, 461 00:30:48.640 --> 00:30:55.920 the occasional breask, yeah always helps, and I don't. It's I don't 462 00:30:55.960 --> 00:31:03.039 and you know, I don't like doing that signing um and and occasionally someone 463 00:31:03.079 --> 00:31:07.200 will and I remember, and women will do this and that's always on the 464 00:31:07.240 --> 00:31:12.039 ankle and could I sign their foot their their ankle And I go, you're 465 00:31:12.039 --> 00:31:17.799 gonna you know, you're gonna shower and this is gonna be there. She 466 00:31:17.839 --> 00:31:22.559 goes, not till I get the tattoos. Oh, oh, you're tattooing 467 00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:26.440 my name And I don't know about that. That's that's a tough one. 468 00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:32.640 That's that's my name is next level fan, isn't it. Yeah, you 469 00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:38.599 you are a fan? And uh. And then she'll show me that, 470 00:31:38.759 --> 00:31:42.240 you know, she's got all these characters and there will be Pooh and Ticker 471 00:31:42.319 --> 00:31:48.920 and dark Ring and they're all dancing up the leg and yeah, I have 472 00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:52.680 a lot of a lot of tattoos, a lot of tattoos, Jim. 473 00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:56.240 It strikes me that occasionally you have a very wholesome fan momentum. I was 474 00:31:56.240 --> 00:32:00.759 reading an article a little while ago about the work you do with with the 475 00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:05.160 Make a Witch Foundation, particularly you were on the phone to a little girl 476 00:32:05.240 --> 00:32:08.279 who who wanted he Winnie the Pooh, and uh, I was saying, 477 00:32:08.319 --> 00:32:10.000 I love you, Winnie the Pooh, and I was like, oh my 478 00:32:10.039 --> 00:32:13.960 god, God, it's too early for me to be in tears. Oh 479 00:32:14.119 --> 00:32:15.960 yeah, yeah, I remember it well. I mean, you know, 480 00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:19.480 terminal cancer. I think I want to say. She was two and a 481 00:32:19.519 --> 00:32:23.000 half three and to make a wish. People called me up and they said 482 00:32:23.200 --> 00:32:27.000 can you do this? And I said, my lord, can I would 483 00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:30.440 love to. I would love to. And then she died like six months 484 00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:35.119 later. Oh going, and I just it just destroyed me. I didn't 485 00:32:35.119 --> 00:32:37.200 know what to think, you know. And I said, well, you 486 00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:40.640 know, and their mother, oh God, bless her. She gets on 487 00:32:40.680 --> 00:32:45.039 here and she said thank you, thank you, thank you. And I 488 00:32:45.079 --> 00:32:46.960 said, oh no, it's strange. She goes, yeah, but she's 489 00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:52.559 smiling. She hasn't smiled in a year and a half. And I'm okay, 490 00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:57.880 well that was half her life, you know. And I said, 491 00:32:57.880 --> 00:33:02.519 well, you know, you're only welcome. I feel like I should be 492 00:33:02.559 --> 00:33:07.759 thanking you for this blessing to you know, see this precious little girl and 493 00:33:07.880 --> 00:33:12.680 maker Mager smile, Mager smile. I'm sorry to start our bad memories, 494 00:33:12.720 --> 00:33:15.039 Jim, but I mean it must just do it pointed. Yeah, warm 495 00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:19.720 inside though, to be able to use your gift in that way. Yeah, 496 00:33:19.720 --> 00:33:22.119 no, I agree. I agree. It's it's a beautiful, beautiful 497 00:33:22.119 --> 00:33:30.000 thing. And I have a similar story by this young man has actually just 498 00:33:30.119 --> 00:33:35.079 texted me yesterday, years ago, years ago, got to be I don't 499 00:33:35.079 --> 00:33:38.480 know, maybe twenty years ago. He was ten probably at the time. 500 00:33:39.000 --> 00:33:44.039 And my agent at the time called me up and he said, hey, 501 00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:50.839 can you talk to this young boy. His his dad is in the Army 502 00:33:50.880 --> 00:33:52.759 Corps of Engineers or something and and blah blah blah. And he was a 503 00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:59.640 doctor and but his son is you know, he's he knows all about your 504 00:33:59.720 --> 00:34:01.720 character. This is one of the Disney Afternoon was going full force, full 505 00:34:01.759 --> 00:34:06.759 force, and uh and would you talk to him? Would you take some 506 00:34:06.799 --> 00:34:09.280 time on Saturday to speak with him? And he lives in Washington, DC. 507 00:34:09.440 --> 00:34:12.559 And I said sure, sure, sure, absolutely, you know, 508 00:34:13.239 --> 00:34:16.159 and so I get on the phone and as dad's there and he goes, 509 00:34:16.440 --> 00:34:21.440 is this Jim Cully's Yeah, he goes, listen before before I put him 510 00:34:21.480 --> 00:34:24.360 on the phone, I'm gonna call him Ronnie. Are you the guy on 511 00:34:24.360 --> 00:34:28.360 the Wheati's commercial with Boomer Size and the football player? And I go, 512 00:34:28.440 --> 00:34:30.840 oh, yeah, that's me. He goes, wow, okay, how 513 00:34:30.880 --> 00:34:36.119 about Havilne the motor Royal for Is that you on that commercial too? And 514 00:34:36.159 --> 00:34:37.760 I go oh, yeah, yeah, that's me. And he goes, 515 00:34:38.360 --> 00:34:43.199 wow, Well, I know, I know that you're in all these oh 516 00:34:43.320 --> 00:34:45.360 you know what here, I'm just gonna put Ronnie on the phone and I 517 00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:47.840 said, hey, Ronnie, how are you doing. Your dad tells me 518 00:34:47.880 --> 00:34:52.039 that you recover a really good ear and he goes, yes, thank you. 519 00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:55.559 Now, I think that you should do the voice of Balker Steve Bobcat, 520 00:34:55.559 --> 00:34:59.599 who is of course the very first tune detective who lives in Tunetown. 521 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.320 And they went, oh, but jee you okay there, good. Now, 522 00:35:02.400 --> 00:35:05.639 I think that you should do the voice of Lucky for Kell, who 523 00:35:05.719 --> 00:35:08.000 is of course his human counterpart, and he too is in the Hollywood Tune 524 00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:12.320 Division. Oh I'm doing that, but good Now, I think that you 525 00:35:12.320 --> 00:35:15.239 should do the voice of cat from Cat Dog. He is, of course 526 00:35:15.639 --> 00:35:17.920 the other end of dog, and did, well, yeah, okay, 527 00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:22.119 good Now, I think that you should do the voice of dark winged Duck. 528 00:35:22.360 --> 00:35:23.840 And he even though he sounds like Drake Mallard, which is of course 529 00:35:23.840 --> 00:35:28.599 his secret identity, you can do blah blah blah. And I'm doing that, 530 00:35:28.880 --> 00:35:31.159 doing that, doing that, and we're going for about forty five minutes, 531 00:35:32.280 --> 00:35:36.760 and it's always good. Now I think that you should do and so 532 00:35:37.480 --> 00:35:43.039 and I said, is your dad there? And I talked to Dad. 533 00:35:44.280 --> 00:35:47.159 Yes, And he gets on the phone and he goes, holy, I'm 534 00:35:47.280 --> 00:35:52.960 so sorry. I had listen. I had no no idea that he his 535 00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:57.239 mother's got to talk to you. And she gets on and I go and 536 00:35:57.280 --> 00:35:59.360 I go, hi, how are you, how are you, ma'am? 537 00:35:59.400 --> 00:36:01.840 And oh my god, oh my god. She's in tears. She's just 538 00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:06.239 crying. She's crying and crying. She goes, I'm so sorry. But 539 00:36:06.320 --> 00:36:08.880 we had no idea. We had no idea. We have two video cameras 540 00:36:08.880 --> 00:36:13.639 going right now and this is, this is phenomenal. And I said, 541 00:36:13.639 --> 00:36:15.760 oh, I don't worry about it. You know, he's a little chatterbox. 542 00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:19.159 He you know, he's got a lot to say, and I would 543 00:36:19.159 --> 00:36:21.599 have done the same thing at his age. She goes, no, no, 544 00:36:21.599 --> 00:36:23.599 no, no, no, not that kind of no, no idea, 545 00:36:24.360 --> 00:36:30.039 Ronnie doesn't speak. Oh my god, wow, I said, he 546 00:36:30.119 --> 00:36:36.519 doesn't speak, this little guy. I couldn't shut up. He goes, 547 00:36:37.480 --> 00:36:42.760 he's almost ten. We haven't heard his voice since he was three. Whoa, 548 00:36:43.800 --> 00:36:49.880 oh god, she shoot me. And I just I was flabbergasted. 549 00:36:50.440 --> 00:36:52.599 And uh. And his dad gets on it and he says, he goes, 550 00:36:52.760 --> 00:36:57.800 this is great. I can't thank you enough. This is beyond therapeutic. 551 00:36:57.880 --> 00:37:00.519 This is miraculous. This is you know. And he was he was 552 00:37:00.559 --> 00:37:02.559 in tears, and then I was in tears. Then my two daughters are 553 00:37:02.599 --> 00:37:07.440 here there, and then we're all sitting around crying and uh and and he 554 00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:12.360 says, now I can take this to his therapist and I could play this 555 00:37:12.360 --> 00:37:15.639 this video for him and say, oh, yes, Ronnie, you do 556 00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:22.639 speak, you speak very very well. And to twenty years later, he 557 00:37:22.559 --> 00:37:27.199 called me yesterday he told you, thank god, Yeah, I'm still in 558 00:37:27.199 --> 00:37:30.800 contact with him. So now so so you basically helped him to lend a 559 00:37:30.840 --> 00:37:37.119 talk going forward. He spent going forward all oh yeah, oh yeah, 560 00:37:37.159 --> 00:37:38.679 well see I looked it like, I said, yeah, I've seen him, 561 00:37:38.760 --> 00:37:43.719 Yeah, I've seen him. That's an amazing story. Yeah, And 562 00:37:43.719 --> 00:37:46.800 and his dad was explained. They explained autism to me like if if we 563 00:37:46.880 --> 00:37:52.199 see people at through an open door, completely opened door and not at you 564 00:37:52.239 --> 00:37:55.480 know, that's how we do. But if you're certain people that have autism, 565 00:37:55.480 --> 00:38:00.000 and there's many degrees, they see the same world, but they only 566 00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:05.519 get to look through the keyhole. And he says, and the way he 567 00:38:05.559 --> 00:38:07.719 explained it, he said, when he was looking through the keyhole, the 568 00:38:07.840 --> 00:38:12.440 Disney Afternoon was on the other side, and he would sit there and he 569 00:38:12.480 --> 00:38:15.800 would watch the show with his dad and he would lean over and go and 570 00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:21.239 he would whisper many make sure what's you say? And it would be Monterey 571 00:38:21.320 --> 00:38:24.960 Jack or uh, you know King Louis or just you know dark Wing or 572 00:38:24.960 --> 00:38:32.800 who negative check? Oh wow, so he really really picked up. He 573 00:38:32.800 --> 00:38:36.840 he's got it. You know it got an ear. You know that is 574 00:38:37.519 --> 00:38:39.000 well you may not have got the check for the kunamatata, but you got 575 00:38:39.000 --> 00:38:44.320 stories like that. So yeah, yeah, no, it's true, exactly 576 00:38:44.360 --> 00:38:46.280 right, because I was thinking, I mean, the voice actors are clearly 577 00:38:46.519 --> 00:38:52.400 beloved advice many people but at the same time that don't decide like the high 578 00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:54.800 profile of you know, sitting about the line talent particularly you know from the 579 00:38:54.840 --> 00:39:00.280 two thousands onwards. You know, you started saying Mikes and Eddie Murphy and 580 00:39:00.280 --> 00:39:04.920 so and so in Shrek and you know, oh yeah stock cost of shocktail 581 00:39:05.039 --> 00:39:07.039 or something like that. Oh yeah, yeah, you know my friend calls 582 00:39:07.039 --> 00:39:14.199 a TV guidecasting. Yeah, how is that? So has that made your 583 00:39:14.440 --> 00:39:16.599 Did that make your career more difficult because it felt like the biggars were focusing 584 00:39:16.599 --> 00:39:21.800 on actors as opposed to the voice actor. Yeah? Yeah, well, 585 00:39:21.840 --> 00:39:23.920 you know, I know a lot of people were not crazy about it. 586 00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:30.320 I had knocker would. I had enough characters that were kind of established, 587 00:39:30.719 --> 00:39:35.400 and I would sneak in to a lot of movies anyway, uh, you 588 00:39:35.440 --> 00:39:39.559 know, like Princess and the Frog, and I got that one because I 589 00:39:39.599 --> 00:39:43.920 could sing. And also they wanted I was a decan on a riverboat. 590 00:39:45.239 --> 00:39:50.440 And the caging. They wanted a cage in accent. That's not like somebody 591 00:39:50.440 --> 00:39:53.079 from down there and Alabama talking like ess so I do and there Boddy. 592 00:39:53.599 --> 00:39:58.480 You know that's that's just a sudden accent, whereas a cage and accent you 593 00:39:58.559 --> 00:40:01.039 go out that the value day like that, you've got to know, you 594 00:40:01.119 --> 00:40:05.039 got to know. And so and I was a decade out of riverboat, 595 00:40:05.079 --> 00:40:07.639 so I had it down, you know. And quick aside, The first 596 00:40:08.639 --> 00:40:14.960 teenage muting Ninja Turtles I ever did was I played a character, a Cajun 597 00:40:15.079 --> 00:40:22.280 alligator called Letter yea yeah, and he was He was the voice of my 598 00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:28.559 very first riverboat tugboat captain. That's how he talked. Yeah, that's and 599 00:40:28.599 --> 00:40:30.920 I always have said that if you do a perfect impression of somebody, nobody 600 00:40:30.960 --> 00:40:35.119 knows, it's a new character. If you do a terrible impression of somebody, 601 00:40:35.119 --> 00:40:37.360 everybody knows, I can't even tell who it is, that's a new 602 00:40:37.440 --> 00:40:40.920 character. So he was a new character and evil Letter and he told black 603 00:40:42.039 --> 00:40:45.480 days. And I often wonder, because my career started a couple of years 604 00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:49.679 right after that. He was sitting there and the teenage muting Ninja Turtles. 605 00:40:49.679 --> 00:40:52.239 Come on, Hey, grandpa, you want to come in here? Look 606 00:40:52.239 --> 00:40:57.239 at this galligator here, you want to to you know this guy? I 607 00:40:57.280 --> 00:41:00.679 don't know. Fun stuff growing out. One of my friend it toys was 608 00:41:00.679 --> 00:41:05.039 a leather head toys. Oh really, there you go. That's why that's 609 00:41:05.039 --> 00:41:08.159 how I knew that. Yea, yeah, but yeah, but you've mentioned 610 00:41:08.199 --> 00:41:12.519 in previous interviews Dark Ring Duck Right when they pulled the pin on that show, 611 00:41:12.920 --> 00:41:15.760 it was still one of the most popular, the most popular Disney animated 612 00:41:15.800 --> 00:41:17.320 show going at the time. Did you get back to that now and just 613 00:41:17.360 --> 00:41:21.719 think why there was rumors of a reboot? Is that still happening, What's 614 00:41:21.800 --> 00:41:25.960 what's the plan? Yeah, well he was in one of the duck Tails 615 00:41:27.079 --> 00:41:30.840 just for yeah year or two, a couple of years ago, and uh, 616 00:41:30.840 --> 00:41:34.599 and that was it. I mean, there's always a rumor of dark 617 00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:37.519 Well, you know, I hear they're making more dark Wings and I go, 618 00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:42.480 well, i'd I'd like to get a phone call because we're not waiting 619 00:41:42.480 --> 00:41:47.480 on me. You know, they redid Ducktails completely the newcast. I don't 620 00:41:47.519 --> 00:41:52.079 know for better or worse, but they did, you know, but you 621 00:41:52.159 --> 00:41:55.360 know it was pretty good. It was odd looking animation. It was it 622 00:41:55.440 --> 00:41:58.639 wasn't my wasn't my cup of tea. But I know I grew up with 623 00:41:58.639 --> 00:42:01.400 what you were working on. But what were your thoughts on the Chippendale movie 624 00:42:01.400 --> 00:42:04.840 from from last year? I thought I really enjoyed that. I thought it 625 00:42:04.880 --> 00:42:07.000 was fantastic. Yeah, I got a kick out of it. Yeah. 626 00:42:07.519 --> 00:42:10.440 I had a few cameos in there, so that was what documents. And 627 00:42:10.480 --> 00:42:14.920 I think Pete was in there as well. I mean a Goofy movie was 628 00:42:14.920 --> 00:42:17.039 one of my favorite movies growing up. I loved Pete. Yeah, yeah, 629 00:42:17.119 --> 00:42:20.440 I liked it. Yeah, I liked that movie. It was It 630 00:42:20.480 --> 00:42:24.800 was great. And uh, you know, uh Pete, Pete, Goofy. 631 00:42:24.840 --> 00:42:28.760 They're just like Mutton, jeff Or Laurel and Hardy. You know, 632 00:42:28.800 --> 00:42:31.960 they're they're quite a team. You know, they're better with each other than 633 00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:37.119 they are separately. I always thought you mentioned Hondo earlier Big Style Wars him, 634 00:42:37.119 --> 00:42:40.039 assuming your Big Style Wars fan yourself as well. Oh yeah, you 635 00:42:40.079 --> 00:42:43.679 were in your mid twenties when the first film came out. Were you a 636 00:42:43.920 --> 00:42:47.599 Luke Skywalker guy or a Han solo guy? Oh boy? I uh were 637 00:42:47.639 --> 00:42:53.360 you lay guys buddy? Yeah, I was a layout guy. Uh yeah, 638 00:42:53.400 --> 00:42:58.519 but probably I'd probably identified more with Han because he was more of a 639 00:42:58.559 --> 00:43:01.679 wise guy. Yeah. But uh but Mark's a good buddy of mine. 640 00:43:01.719 --> 00:43:04.679 So yeah, that's what I was gonna say. What with Mark, you 641 00:43:04.719 --> 00:43:07.119 know, a legendary voice after in his own right, You know, I 642 00:43:07.159 --> 00:43:09.960 think he's oh yeah, he's known as Luke Skawalker. But I think to 643 00:43:10.119 --> 00:43:14.159 anyone who grew up in the nineties and beyond is like, no, he's 644 00:43:14.239 --> 00:43:19.039 the joker. Yeah, oh you bet, yeah. Absolutely. It's so 645 00:43:19.079 --> 00:43:22.400 funny because the first time I met him, we were at we were doing 646 00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:28.800 Tasmania and uh and they were starting up Batman and he was a joker and 647 00:43:28.840 --> 00:43:31.039 they go, Jim, did you know that Mark Camills is down there and 648 00:43:31.079 --> 00:43:34.519 he's doing the joke? And I go, oh my god, I'm gonna 649 00:43:34.519 --> 00:43:36.719 go bust in because you know, I did a couple of Batman too. 650 00:43:36.760 --> 00:43:38.119 I mean they know, yeah, yeah, I can just go in and 651 00:43:38.239 --> 00:43:43.760 bug him and and uh. And it's I'm walking across the parking lot and 652 00:43:43.840 --> 00:43:46.639 Mark's walking and he goes, oh wow. And then he comes up to 653 00:43:46.679 --> 00:43:49.920 me and he goes, hey, how are you doing, buddy, Mark 654 00:43:49.960 --> 00:43:52.360 Camill? And I go, yeah, I know, man. Jim Commings, 655 00:43:52.360 --> 00:43:53.880 good to meet you goes, yeah, so what are you doing? 656 00:43:54.400 --> 00:44:00.079 I said, well, I'm I'm doing tasks right now and uh and and 657 00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:01.239 he goes, oh, we'll listen to me. Fame. Give me some 658 00:44:01.360 --> 00:44:07.280 dark wing, what give me? Give me some dark win dug. I 659 00:44:07.360 --> 00:44:09.960 am the terror that blaps him. He goes, oh, okay, so 660 00:44:10.039 --> 00:44:15.159 that's in the mask. It's not entirely in the mask. It's not it's 661 00:44:15.199 --> 00:44:19.840 not really nasal, is it. I go, uh, okay, you 662 00:44:19.920 --> 00:44:22.719 go, okay, well give me some times. It was Oh to see, 663 00:44:22.719 --> 00:44:27.199 that's perfect that that sounds just like no blank now give me pooh. 664 00:44:27.199 --> 00:44:30.679 Oh my god, I cannot believe this again. I'm so gonna turn this 665 00:44:30.800 --> 00:44:36.039 off. Sorry, really popular guy. Why is it ringing? Uh? 666 00:44:36.360 --> 00:44:39.480 Yeah, there you go anyway. Uh. And he's having me do all 667 00:44:39.480 --> 00:44:45.360 these characters and he goes and give me some Tigger and I go, you 668 00:44:45.440 --> 00:44:49.920 know, he goes and and finally like three or four characters and they go, 669 00:44:50.079 --> 00:44:53.400 okay, hold on, you're not getting to meet me. I'm getting 670 00:44:53.440 --> 00:44:58.760 to meet you. Okay, okay, give me some Luke and he laugh 671 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:04.159 and you know, we just became buddies ever since. A great guy. 672 00:45:04.239 --> 00:45:07.920 He just seems like the loveliest person who just enjoys being Mike Hamill. Oh 673 00:45:07.000 --> 00:45:14.199 yeah, yeah. We did a couple of Hannah Barbara's shows and I was 674 00:45:14.559 --> 00:45:19.000 the Cajun, of course, designated Cajun, and he was he was a 675 00:45:19.039 --> 00:45:22.719 bad guy and what was it? Returned to swamp something village, you know. 676 00:45:23.599 --> 00:45:27.039 But I got a great poster out of it and a lot of great 677 00:45:27.039 --> 00:45:30.079 stories. So it's just a lot of fun. Well, your your friends, 678 00:45:30.159 --> 00:45:31.039 he said, and your friends of Mark and it's a very tight in 679 00:45:31.079 --> 00:45:35.599 the community. Do you guys ever help each other with voices? Have you 680 00:45:35.599 --> 00:45:37.360 ever not given a voice of somebody but sort of gone, Maybe if you 681 00:45:37.400 --> 00:45:39.840 do it more like this, it might be better. Have you ever you 682 00:45:39.840 --> 00:45:43.840 can think of an iconic character that you've sort of helped guide somebody too? 683 00:45:44.519 --> 00:45:50.320 Yeah, No, I haven't had that. Um, but my dear friend 684 00:45:50.320 --> 00:45:55.039 Wayne Allwine was Mickey Mouse and he he got he was ill for a while, 685 00:45:55.199 --> 00:46:01.960 and uh, I know that he was instrumental in helping along Brett the 686 00:46:02.039 --> 00:46:07.280 new Mickey Mouse. And he was very gracious in that regard. You know, 687 00:46:07.360 --> 00:46:09.159 he and Rucy Taylor, Mickey and Minnie were married, you know, 688 00:46:09.679 --> 00:46:13.400 which I thought, I was just so sweet, you can't even stand it. 689 00:46:14.159 --> 00:46:16.519 And yeah, and he, God rest his soul, he was. 690 00:46:16.639 --> 00:46:22.920 He was very gracious. But I've never yeah, I've given you know, 691 00:46:23.000 --> 00:46:27.960 advice, and you know, I think I did a seminar once or twice, 692 00:46:27.960 --> 00:46:30.880 But I realize I'm not that good a teacher. I don't. I 693 00:46:30.920 --> 00:46:34.360 don't know how. You know, how do you go back? Yeah? 694 00:46:34.360 --> 00:46:37.559 Go go tell people. I mean, you know, I always recommend d 695 00:46:37.719 --> 00:46:40.880 Bradley Baker. He's got one, he's got a good website. And you 696 00:46:40.920 --> 00:46:45.920 know, Chris Zimmerman did, and I know bj Ward gave some classes for 697 00:46:45.960 --> 00:46:51.039 a while. But yeah, I don't. I don't know how. I 698 00:46:51.079 --> 00:46:53.599 mean, you know, do bad impressions of famous people? And are good 699 00:46:53.599 --> 00:46:58.760 impressions of famous people? Do perfect impressions of people nobody knows? And that's 700 00:46:58.760 --> 00:47:02.000 about it, you know, and characters that you met, gentleman. On 701 00:47:02.079 --> 00:47:07.360 that note, I'm sorry, I might have to skip out the content more 702 00:47:07.760 --> 00:47:12.840 content mill is calling. Okay, but Jim, you did mention doing good 703 00:47:12.880 --> 00:47:15.920 accents of famous people. I wondered before I depart, I could hear your 704 00:47:15.920 --> 00:47:20.679 Mike Tyson, I here, it's quite good. Well, I could think 705 00:47:20.760 --> 00:47:25.000 of this nature how Never, if I did, I would have to wipe 706 00:47:25.039 --> 00:47:30.679 your head up up the flow because it's so good. Yeah, I just 707 00:47:30.719 --> 00:47:32.719 hope, I just hope I don't run into make one of these days. 708 00:47:32.960 --> 00:47:38.400 So you don't want me on it in a web, you know, we 709 00:47:38.480 --> 00:47:42.760 don't want that, we don't. I think it's a different side of mine 710 00:47:42.800 --> 00:47:45.199 these days, anyway, with his own little brand of what if we call 711 00:47:45.239 --> 00:47:49.280 it. Yeah, I think he's mellowed out a little. Yeah. Yeah, 712 00:47:49.920 --> 00:47:52.199 I'll let you gentlemen keep talking. But Jim, thank you so much 713 00:47:52.199 --> 00:47:54.079 for your time too. It was a great, great pleasure for me to 714 00:47:54.079 --> 00:47:58.039 speak with you. I know it is for Dan. He's probably gonna keep 715 00:47:58.039 --> 00:48:02.000 you on the line for another hour. But thank you so much for being 716 00:48:02.079 --> 00:48:05.440 up a bit, for being with us today. Man, I really really 717 00:48:05.480 --> 00:48:07.800 appreciate it was a great pleasure. Thank you. All right, Daniel, 718 00:48:07.920 --> 00:48:09.519 enjoy the rest of your chat. I'll talk to you a bit of a 719 00:48:09.559 --> 00:48:15.480 letter. So you got your gig for Winnie in the late eighties. Do 720 00:48:15.519 --> 00:48:17.199 you think that was just a case of just perfect timing, because in my 721 00:48:17.239 --> 00:48:21.960 opinion, that was really the golden era for Disney animation, That was the 722 00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:25.400 real boot. No. I agree. I you know, I've told the 723 00:48:25.400 --> 00:48:35.199 story before, and I auditioned for Gopher Rabbit, Pooh Tigger and uh an 724 00:48:35.199 --> 00:48:37.519 eyor you know, because you just throw it again some wall, see what 725 00:48:37.559 --> 00:48:43.400 happens. And I thought I really nailed or I thought, oh, I'm 726 00:48:43.440 --> 00:48:46.480 so gonna be Ego. Yeah, you know. I went home and I 727 00:48:46.599 --> 00:48:50.400 took about a week and a half, two weeks, and my agent calls 728 00:48:50.480 --> 00:48:52.239 up. She goes, well, I have good news and I have bad 729 00:48:52.280 --> 00:48:55.880 news. And I said, oh, really, what's We'll give me the 730 00:48:55.880 --> 00:48:59.840 bad news, give me the bad news. She goes, You're not gonna 731 00:48:59.840 --> 00:49:02.920 be or. And I go, really, who's he or? She said, 732 00:49:02.960 --> 00:49:06.800 well, Peter Cullen. And I went, oh, wow, you 733 00:49:06.840 --> 00:49:08.920 know, you lose to the great Peter Culin. He amazing, he optimist, 734 00:49:08.920 --> 00:49:13.440 prime, he's you know, he's Peter Cullen exactly. I said, 735 00:49:13.480 --> 00:49:16.880 well, I can't I guess, I guess I can't complain, you know. 736 00:49:17.000 --> 00:49:20.920 And I said, what's the good news. She goes, You're winning 737 00:49:21.000 --> 00:49:23.119 the Pooh and Tigger, and I said, the hell of the or? 738 00:49:25.360 --> 00:49:30.639 He or we are. But at the time, you know, Paul Winchell 739 00:49:30.719 --> 00:49:35.039 was, uh, he was still with us when Sterling, God rest his 740 00:49:35.079 --> 00:49:37.840 soul. You know, they're both gone now. But Sterling was in his 741 00:49:37.920 --> 00:49:42.039 late nineties, so he was just you know, he was done. He 742 00:49:42.119 --> 00:49:45.360 didn't want to go out to play anymore. He was and God love him, 743 00:49:45.400 --> 00:49:50.360 and and but Paul did and He was going back and forth this in 744 00:49:50.440 --> 00:49:53.679 the late eighties, and they were having this famine over there, and he 745 00:49:53.760 --> 00:50:00.119 had developed an idea to raise these in the shore in Mississippi. Over here, 746 00:50:00.159 --> 00:50:04.320 we have these little things that are like half salamander, half fish, 747 00:50:05.079 --> 00:50:09.079 and they're all very very nutritious and very ugly. And they're called mud skippers. 748 00:50:09.119 --> 00:50:14.679 And you look at him, oh yeah, oh yeah, so but 749 00:50:15.760 --> 00:50:20.800 they're all nutrition. And so he decided he was going to teach them how 750 00:50:20.800 --> 00:50:23.559 to raise these because you can raise them in mud practically, you know. 751 00:50:24.119 --> 00:50:29.519 And so he was going back and forth to try and cure hunger. You 752 00:50:29.559 --> 00:50:31.440 know, he invented one of the artificials. It was one of the inventors 753 00:50:31.440 --> 00:50:38.000 of the Jarvis artificial heart, Knucklehead Smith Tigger, and he was curing hunger. 754 00:50:38.119 --> 00:50:42.599 Yeah. Well, so, I mean he had his plate was full, 755 00:50:42.760 --> 00:50:45.000 yes, And so when he was over there, I was Tigger. 756 00:50:45.079 --> 00:50:50.559 I jokingly referred to myself as Tigger. Like fortunately a lot of nobody was 757 00:50:50.599 --> 00:50:53.559 able to tell I mean, I all I could hear was me, you 758 00:50:53.639 --> 00:50:57.960 know, like at the time he said when he first heard your tiger, 759 00:50:57.960 --> 00:51:00.079 and you sort of went through what doesn't sound right? Yeah, no, 760 00:51:00.360 --> 00:51:06.880 doesn't. That's the problem, sterling. He just was we need the pooh, 761 00:51:06.880 --> 00:51:08.920 wasn't he He heard him talking, just talking. Yeah, it was 762 00:51:08.960 --> 00:51:12.280 just him talking a lot that story. You said. I think it was 763 00:51:12.320 --> 00:51:14.400 maybe your girlfriend. I maybe you watch at the time. You were having 764 00:51:14.719 --> 00:51:16.679 lunch at a diner and you heard him. You heard him ordering the food. 765 00:51:17.280 --> 00:51:20.400 How does how does no one else in the room just commedicately get that's 766 00:51:20.400 --> 00:51:23.159 when the food? Yeah? Yeah, well there he was. He was 767 00:51:23.199 --> 00:51:27.800 the only other table. Oh yeah, there was no one else there. 768 00:51:28.159 --> 00:51:30.639 And you could we couldn't see him because he was in a booth and we 769 00:51:30.639 --> 00:51:34.679 were sitting at a upper table, and and he said, I believe I 770 00:51:34.760 --> 00:51:39.320 will have the choulder, And I went yeah, And so I got up 771 00:51:39.320 --> 00:51:42.840 and I looked and there he wasn't God bless him. He would looked like 772 00:51:42.840 --> 00:51:45.320 an albino crow. Yeah, you know, I had a big shock of 773 00:51:45.920 --> 00:51:51.760 giant white hair. It was really something. And I wish I went up 774 00:51:51.800 --> 00:51:53.599 and talked to him, because I mean, I had no idea that I 775 00:51:53.639 --> 00:51:57.960 would that this was going to revive it like two or three years later, 776 00:51:58.719 --> 00:52:02.440 that I would end up being WINNI The poop described the intimidation of having to 777 00:52:02.519 --> 00:52:07.519 voice such an icon of Disney. Well, I didn't know it was intimidating 778 00:52:07.559 --> 00:52:09.119 at the time. I was too young and stupid. Okay, yeah, 779 00:52:09.159 --> 00:52:15.079 so I just okay, you know, because he hadn't he hadn't been around. 780 00:52:15.280 --> 00:52:17.840 Yeah, because that that animated series really revived it, didn't it. 781 00:52:17.920 --> 00:52:22.480 Yeah? Oh yeah, yeah, very very much. So you know, 782 00:52:22.679 --> 00:52:25.039 um, you know, people will say, now, were you the original 783 00:52:25.119 --> 00:52:29.400 because and I got no. No. I was in grade school when the 784 00:52:29.400 --> 00:52:31.800 original came out, but then it was gone for twenty years, and I 785 00:52:31.840 --> 00:52:35.800 was grateful, I said, it gave me time to grow up. So 786 00:52:36.199 --> 00:52:38.639 so then I then I could, you know, be the new one of 787 00:52:38.719 --> 00:52:42.280 the poop. I know you've said you had to an audition for every role, 788 00:52:42.639 --> 00:52:45.239 but were they ever roles that you just felt, well, they probably 789 00:52:45.239 --> 00:52:46.679 had me and mom when they wrote this one. Boy, I don't know 790 00:52:46.719 --> 00:52:51.800 if it was. It might be dark Wing or Hondo. Dark Wing Hondo 791 00:52:51.920 --> 00:52:54.159 really feel like they just you an extension of you, don't they? Yeah? 792 00:52:54.239 --> 00:52:59.280 Yeah, you know they have this similar sense of sense of humor. 793 00:52:59.559 --> 00:53:01.440 Yes, all ye, that's for sure. And you know, and I, 794 00:53:01.760 --> 00:53:06.000 like I said, I had lived all of them. The you know 795 00:53:06.199 --> 00:53:08.800 when dark Wing was getting ready to launch into battle. He was I am 796 00:53:08.840 --> 00:53:13.360 the terror that flaps in the night. I am the wicked scourge that picks 797 00:53:13.360 --> 00:53:16.400 such her nightmares. I am dark Way Duck and that would be his battle 798 00:53:16.440 --> 00:53:21.280 cry. And by about the seventh or eighth show, and I would always 799 00:53:21.280 --> 00:53:23.039 do it as written, one take, and then we'd do a second take, 800 00:53:23.519 --> 00:53:28.639 and I would and by the seventh or eighth show, the writers going, 801 00:53:28.960 --> 00:53:31.039 I am the terror that flaps in the night. It doesn't matter what 802 00:53:31.119 --> 00:53:36.039 I right here, Jim's gonna say something else anyway. I am dark Wayne 803 00:53:36.159 --> 00:53:40.039 Duck. And I always wish I saved that script because that would that would 804 00:53:40.039 --> 00:53:43.719 be good in a frame. What's great is that they have the faith that 805 00:53:43.880 --> 00:53:45.599 for you to just be able to just make stuff up anyway. Yeah, 806 00:53:46.119 --> 00:53:49.960 it doesn't matter what I say here. Yes, but I always did it 807 00:53:50.079 --> 00:53:52.480 as written, and then I just did another one. You know. Jenny 808 00:53:52.559 --> 00:53:55.639 mc swaine would she our great director. She would say, okay, give 809 00:53:55.679 --> 00:53:59.159 me one for the give me one for the road comings. Then I said, 810 00:53:59.199 --> 00:54:01.519 okay. It was easier back then for Chooting's animation, because you think 811 00:54:01.559 --> 00:54:04.960 there was more freedom to sort of get away with things. He probably couldn't 812 00:54:04.960 --> 00:54:08.239 get away with now yeah, oh yeah, yeah, we you know, 813 00:54:08.360 --> 00:54:15.320 And I would occasionally try to sneak things by and I would then they would 814 00:54:15.559 --> 00:54:17.519 have to fix it in post. You have to come in and do And 815 00:54:17.599 --> 00:54:21.920 I remember once, I think it was on The Bunker Show or there was 816 00:54:21.960 --> 00:54:27.400 these two hillbilly hound dogs and it would billy talk like legs, she has 817 00:54:27.480 --> 00:54:31.280 list down there lack an old hill billy and and one of the lines would 818 00:54:31.679 --> 00:54:37.639 know that that that don't belong to me, that must be yours and my. 819 00:54:37.800 --> 00:54:40.639 Instead I said, well, that ain't none of mine. I believe 820 00:54:40.760 --> 00:54:47.440 that's urine, and and it sounded okay, yeah, you know, it 821 00:54:47.559 --> 00:54:52.199 sounded like a hillbilly. And they go, you can't say it must be 822 00:54:52.519 --> 00:54:58.400 urine. I got it, but it is his and it ain't mine. 823 00:54:58.559 --> 00:55:01.840 And that this okay, we'll just say it's not yours. Just do that, 824 00:55:01.960 --> 00:55:06.519 okay, So okay. One of the it's funny in the modern world 825 00:55:06.559 --> 00:55:07.880 that was streaming. Streaming is just everything now. I think one of the 826 00:55:07.920 --> 00:55:13.199 biggest positives of streaming is that it's made it all these shows that you that 827 00:55:13.280 --> 00:55:15.039 we grew up on, all these shows that you worked on in the early 828 00:55:15.119 --> 00:55:17.480 ninet is so accessible now because shows we met a bunk as a couple of 829 00:55:17.519 --> 00:55:22.239 times for a good while before streaming was a thing. I'm thinking in my 830 00:55:22.280 --> 00:55:23.679 head, was Bonk as a show? Or am I just crazy? Because 831 00:55:23.679 --> 00:55:27.480 I remember watching this Bunkers show as a kid, but no one remembered it 832 00:55:27.559 --> 00:55:29.960 really was. It wasn't on TV anymore. I'm like, was it just 833 00:55:29.960 --> 00:55:31.360 a figment of my imagination? And the Disney Plus coming and I went, 834 00:55:31.639 --> 00:55:36.719 it's the show. I knew this existed. Yeah, so that's the positive 835 00:55:36.719 --> 00:55:42.079 Disney Plus. It had two origins. The first one started off with Bonkers 836 00:55:42.119 --> 00:55:47.440 had a a lady partner, and it wasn't as good. It was kind 837 00:55:47.480 --> 00:55:52.760 of forgetting the name of whose partner got up so longer. But anyway, 838 00:55:52.800 --> 00:55:59.119 when they rebooted it, they new writers, new new complete art direction, 839 00:55:59.679 --> 00:56:06.840 and that's when Lucky Pakeel was brought on and I wounded up being my Bonkers 840 00:56:06.880 --> 00:56:09.960 and Lucky, so that was kind of fun, and you know, and 841 00:56:09.960 --> 00:56:15.079 I would get in arguments with myself and we invented a really interesting way to 842 00:56:15.679 --> 00:56:20.960 have these arguments because Bonkers Lucky we have to go no, but yeah, 843 00:56:21.039 --> 00:56:23.840 we have to get over and we're not going to do that, but but 844 00:56:24.400 --> 00:56:29.039 you know, and so I would record all of bonkers lines in my head 845 00:56:29.039 --> 00:56:32.239 when they would get these little made you know, those little quick, quick, 846 00:56:32.320 --> 00:56:38.239 quick arguments, and I would record Bonkers first and thinking in my mind 847 00:56:38.280 --> 00:56:42.440 what I was going to do with Lucky Paquell, and then they would play 848 00:56:43.280 --> 00:56:47.199 Bonkers back through the headphones and I would just insert Lucky into into the right 849 00:56:47.280 --> 00:56:51.559 spots, you know, and it was really organic. It was really nice 850 00:56:52.480 --> 00:56:55.039 sort of times when you would voice a conversation in one take. Also always 851 00:56:55.079 --> 00:56:58.840 separated with the characters. That might be easy for the editing side of things. 852 00:57:00.679 --> 00:57:04.880 Well, I used to do do all the characters in a row, 853 00:57:05.159 --> 00:57:07.320 but then I just wanted to separate them because I wanted to, like Pooh 854 00:57:07.320 --> 00:57:12.519 and Tigger, you know, definitely, because I wanted to keep poo in 855 00:57:12.559 --> 00:57:15.639 a pristine you know, because if you bounce back and forth, the first 856 00:57:15.639 --> 00:57:17.760 syllable might sound like the other character or something. That's a good point. 857 00:57:17.840 --> 00:57:21.440 Yeah, I never thought about that. Yeah, one, we'll find a 858 00:57:21.480 --> 00:57:23.840 question for you. Go. So, in this Simpsons episode that we're discussing 859 00:57:23.840 --> 00:57:28.000 earlier, that the character of Pooch the Humber voices gets marketed everywhere, you 860 00:57:28.000 --> 00:57:30.880 know, nappies and magazine covers. Do you have a look at your characters 861 00:57:31.519 --> 00:57:36.760 and see yourself or is it important that you have to separate Jim Cummings from 862 00:57:36.800 --> 00:57:39.960 the character. Oh gosh, you know, I'm very proprietary of them. 863 00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:45.840 I'm very you know, I watch out for them. I don't let you 864 00:57:45.880 --> 00:57:52.519 know there was I wan't to even mentioned this spoof horrible movie, but uh, 865 00:57:52.760 --> 00:57:55.360 I'm talking about Yeah. I'm just I'm very respectful of them. I 866 00:57:57.159 --> 00:58:00.480 you know, I you know, I don't take myself seriously, but I 867 00:58:00.519 --> 00:58:05.119 take the work seriously, you know. And you have to be grateful and 868 00:58:05.239 --> 00:58:08.079 be full of gratitude, and uh and I certainly, yeah, I mean 869 00:58:08.159 --> 00:58:14.119 to be and because you know, there, for the grace of God, 870 00:58:14.159 --> 00:58:16.400 I could be working at a steel mill. So you know, you have 871 00:58:16.480 --> 00:58:21.679 to have to be humble and be grateful. Yes, that's the way I 872 00:58:22.039 --> 00:58:23.920 feel about it. And I'm very you know, people will say, like 873 00:58:24.000 --> 00:58:28.320 at a convention, hey, could you could could you speak like winning to 874 00:58:28.320 --> 00:58:31.119 poo? And I ask my girlfriend, no, no, I can't tell 875 00:58:31.159 --> 00:58:34.280 you how much. No, you know, getting Brandy points that way, 876 00:58:34.280 --> 00:58:37.599 buddy, Yeah, yeah, and you're not no, could you make Winn 877 00:58:37.599 --> 00:58:44.280 a pood cust about dark? No? If he did that, would this 878 00:58:44.440 --> 00:58:46.880 NY be annoyed? Do you think it is? It? Yeah? It 879 00:58:46.920 --> 00:58:50.719 should be, I would be yeah, exactly. Yeah. All right, 880 00:58:50.719 --> 00:58:52.360 guys, well doc forget. As we said earlier, Jim's gonna be hitting 881 00:58:52.400 --> 00:58:54.920 the convention circuit. I'll walk throughout the states in twenty twenty three, so 882 00:58:55.000 --> 00:58:59.119 be sure to check out Jim cummings well dot com to see when he'll be 883 00:58:59.159 --> 00:59:00.360 in a town. Knee, But Jim, thank you so much for your 884 00:59:00.360 --> 00:59:02.920 time today. It's been an absolute honor to be able to speak with you. 885 00:59:02.920 --> 00:59:06.440 You're an absolute legend and I wish you nothing but the best going for 886 00:59:06.519 --> 00:59:07.480 it, all right, you two? Damn God bless