WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.320 --> 00:00:06.120 How you doing out there. It's me Tigger Duc Wayne Duck. It's me 2 00:00:06.280 --> 00:00:11.560 Bunkers Deep Bobcat. All right, y'all, didn't bring your favorite firefly you 3 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:15.720 desire? Hold the old knock guy. My name is Jim Cummings and welcome 4 00:00:15.800 --> 00:00:20.760 to tuned In. All right, welcome back. We're tuned in with Jim 5 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:23.480 Cummings. Thank you so much for joining us. Today. We have Miley 6 00:00:23.559 --> 00:00:27.000 Flanagin. You know her as the voice of Naruto. Yes, Yes, 7 00:00:27.120 --> 00:00:32.840 among other things, and most most recently the show You're on Royal Crackers. 8 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:36.880 Royal Crackers, which is on an adult swim. It's very adult, so 9 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:41.560 don't watch it if you're young. Hey boy, boy, that's easy to 10 00:00:41.840 --> 00:00:49.000 believe. I can remember watching Walking in years ago when my youngest was about 11 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:52.840 fourteen, and I went, you know, it was like, wait, 12 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:57.119 what is this me? You know? Porn anime? No, yeah, 13 00:00:57.439 --> 00:01:04.879 you know PORNA wait, I think I just write that copyroll somebody somebody watching 14 00:01:04.920 --> 00:01:07.879 this, we could write that of me and you kind of love that, 15 00:01:10.319 --> 00:01:17.640 of course you do, so tell us more so. Yeah, it's so 16 00:01:17.799 --> 00:01:23.200 weird because I used to when I started going to conventions, mainly for Naruto. 17 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:26.359 It wasn't nearly as popular, and I'd see you guys and Maurice and 18 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:32.319 you know, all the all these people that you knew exactly who they were. 19 00:01:33.239 --> 00:01:37.799 I've never heard of anyone but Maurice. But okay, but it would 20 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:42.400 be like these iconic characters. But years and years ago I did a cartoon 21 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:51.959 with Rusy Taylor and Charlie Adler in the cast and Tara Strong and Mel Brooks, 22 00:01:52.359 --> 00:01:55.719 which was amazing. But he never really recorded with us. I think 23 00:01:55.719 --> 00:01:57.879 he thought I was the coffee girl like when you know, like it was 24 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:02.760 like, hey, nice to me, wow. But it was like so 25 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:08.080 amazing. It was called Jaker's The Adventures of Pigley Winks and Jaker's The Adventures 26 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:13.479 of Pigley Winks Wow, and it was on PBS. I had that once. 27 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:19.000 It sounds like a condition. I'm sorry, has a scabbed over yet? 28 00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:24.719 I just I made that up, thank God. But it was for 29 00:02:24.759 --> 00:02:29.919 five years and I was the lead and it was amazing and terrific and it's 30 00:02:29.960 --> 00:02:34.360 the first time I ever had a lead. And uh so cut to I 31 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:38.000 get Naruto and I have a healthy on camera career and I'm about fifty to 32 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:46.400 fifty person and so I get Naruto and the thing just explodes. And then 33 00:02:46.599 --> 00:02:51.080 I would saying too as we came in the room, like over COVID, 34 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:55.599 people just you know, they just binged it. Yeah, there you go. 35 00:02:55.960 --> 00:03:00.159 So it got even more popular over COVID. Oh yeah yeah, I 36 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:06.199 mean like unvoc really, how cool is that? Yeah, it's cool. 37 00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:09.560 And it's big with like the military because they're all stuck in a submarine or 38 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:15.039 something. Oh oh that's cool, got it. So they binge it because 39 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:19.840 they're like, yeah, you know, seven hundred of Naruto and then about 40 00:03:19.879 --> 00:03:25.479 another to two hundred and seven hundred episodes seven and seven to maybe what cheese 41 00:03:25.479 --> 00:03:30.280 and crackers. It's been nineteen years and that is do mucho. Yes, 42 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:34.360 it is a lot. Here we go, OK, just scutch you a 43 00:03:34.439 --> 00:03:37.159 water? Oh, there we go. Yeah, I have a I've been 44 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:39.199 in the air conditioning all day and I I know, yes, freezing. 45 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:44.159 Yeah I know. So that's what I'm not. He was to. I 46 00:03:44.199 --> 00:03:46.960 know, I woke up and I was saying the air conditioning in my room 47 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:50.199 was just freezing. I've changed it like five times. And I'm like, 48 00:03:51.599 --> 00:03:54.039 I had changed it in your room five times too than you. I saw 49 00:03:54.080 --> 00:03:59.360 the camera. It's funny. I had seventy nine degrees and I woke up 50 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:01.759 freezing. I'm like, this is not some yes not, I think they're 51 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:11.159 all broken. Yeah, yeah, obviously somesode of alien plot conspiracy. It's 52 00:04:11.199 --> 00:04:14.599 good, It's all good. But yeah, so then Naruto kind of exploded. 53 00:04:14.639 --> 00:04:18.279 Borto followed it, and I keep yelling the same things in video games 54 00:04:18.279 --> 00:04:21.279 for like, I don't know, I think I'm probably I used to know 55 00:04:21.319 --> 00:04:27.120 the exact number, but I think I've done maybe almost sixty video games as 56 00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:31.600 Naruto saying pretty much the same thing. Yeah, but it's good to get 57 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:34.839 the fresh paycheck for the same old words. Yes it is. Yeah, 58 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:38.879 I mean I won't tell them if you won't, I know, well, 59 00:04:38.920 --> 00:04:42.000 I mean it's dub so it's it's you know, it's sort of poor man's. 60 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:45.560 It used to be considered like it wasn't that popular, right, People 61 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:48.360 would be like, it's like being an extra versus being a regular. And 62 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:53.199 then all of a sudden it was like, oh, not just the nerds, 63 00:04:53.240 --> 00:04:55.959 but now the cool kids like it. Oh wow, And that was 64 00:04:56.000 --> 00:05:00.600 a big change, that's true. Yeah, so it got very a very 65 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:04.399 different audience. Life is good. Life is great. So it's expanding the 66 00:05:04.480 --> 00:05:10.680 horizons are it is beautiful, it's it is, it's I would say, 67 00:05:10.920 --> 00:05:15.199 the people are weirdly as you will know that the same. So you think 68 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:18.800 it's like different accents. Sure, oh that's true, that's true. Now 69 00:05:18.920 --> 00:05:24.399 have you got overseas with this yet? I have been, Yes, I 70 00:05:24.519 --> 00:05:28.959 loved it. I haven't. I haven't done much. But but we change 71 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:32.920 that tag along. You absolutely can't. All right, I've been to New 72 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:39.839 Zealand, which was amazing. People are amazing, food's amazing, climate's amazing. 73 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:46.839 Oh wow, Australia, Sweden, where it's weird. All the Swedish 74 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:51.160 people, unlike other Europeans, uh, speak English with like an American accent 75 00:05:51.199 --> 00:05:57.360 because half the TV shows at least are American shows that they watch on their 76 00:05:57.360 --> 00:06:01.399 regular network. What a convenient country read it is? Well, you know 77 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:06.439 it'll be like thirty four dollars for martini. But I hate that. Let 78 00:06:06.519 --> 00:06:11.319 me finish. What the hell are they thinking? I don't know is what 79 00:06:11.399 --> 00:06:15.360 I meant to say. Oh man, that's amazing. Stockholm was amazing, 80 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:20.759 of course, Canada and then I did. I don't want to say like 81 00:06:20.759 --> 00:06:26.120 it's another country, because it's not. But Puerto Rico is a Ohio Okay, 82 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:28.959 yeah, sorry, well that's another country. Yeah, Ohio, definitely. 83 00:06:29.319 --> 00:06:31.240 Yeah, Puerto Rico never been. I want to go there. I 84 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:35.079 want to go there for the food and we own it and they can't kick 85 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:39.519 your ass legally. Yeah, if you're there and you know and you're just 86 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:44.519 being you. Is it true that Puerto Ricans don't get passports. I don't 87 00:06:44.560 --> 00:06:46.759 think so. I think they have passport they probably don't need them. There's 88 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:51.439 some like essential thing that well they don't need them to get like here, 89 00:06:51.879 --> 00:06:55.600 they need them to go. Yeah, there's something yeah, of course, 90 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:58.759 yeah, no, I mean like for some reason, my understanding is that 91 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:01.959 they don't get American place or something like that. There's some weird thing that 92 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:06.480 we all get that for some reason Puerto Ricans do not. Yeah. Well, 93 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:10.279 it's a territory, you know. I think it's a yeah, yeah, 94 00:07:10.319 --> 00:07:15.600 that's it. My god, Catholic school. Yeah, uh well Catholic 95 00:07:15.639 --> 00:07:20.720 and or international just because nobody would answer that, but somebody would. No, 96 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:25.000 I'm sorry, it's a it's a territory. How do you know, 97 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:30.800 Sister Marry Agnes or I love the nuns with the man's names, men's names. 98 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:38.120 Oh yeah, sister Edward, Yes, yeah, you know, sister 99 00:07:38.279 --> 00:07:45.240 Lenny. Yeah whatever, it's like Lenny Mary and we never do their last 100 00:07:45.319 --> 00:07:48.839 names. Yeah that's true. Huh son of But I think their last name 101 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:54.720 was son of Joe, son of Oh wait, headmaid. Yeah I could 102 00:07:54.720 --> 00:07:59.920 be wrong. Oh man, that's so funny. Yeah. Where where'd you 103 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:03.480 to tent school? Uh? Youngstown? Oh, I've been to Youngstown. 104 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:07.160 I was stranding there, just kidding. I was too, but it was 105 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:13.000 okay. I was just born. I was flying across the country my friend's 106 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:18.079 four seedar plane with a guy that should really tell us more. No, 107 00:08:18.199 --> 00:08:24.240 it was like a little plane. Oh, I was terrifying kidding. We 108 00:08:24.279 --> 00:08:26.879 could see the storm and she's like, look on the map, look on 109 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:31.519 the map. That was fun. Yeah, And so we had to make 110 00:08:31.560 --> 00:08:37.240 an emergency landing and I was in Youngstown for a while. Emergency. I 111 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:41.279 love. It's the only reason you went to Youngstown is because you had to. 112 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:46.679 I did you? So either go to Youngstown or die? The choice 113 00:08:46.799 --> 00:08:52.840 was you're going. You know what, let's go to Youkstown. Yeah. 114 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:58.840 That's funny because I have the same No, but when did you leave there? 115 00:08:58.279 --> 00:09:07.440 Oh, it's been weeks no, seventy eight something like that. Oh 116 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:13.559 wow, and right to LA. Oh no, wait even before then, 117 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:18.399 no, seventy two wow, whoa. And then I moved to New Orleans 118 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:22.120 for a long time though, but then I moved to LA in about seventy 119 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:24.879 nine or something. Oh okay, yeah, I moved in ninety six. 120 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:33.720 Oh yeah, baby, you're just you're barely an Angelina. Are you okay? 121 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:37.519 Are you registered to vote? Oh my god? Yeah? Okay? 122 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:41.799 Good, great, good, Well that's very cool. Yeah yeah, what 123 00:09:41.840 --> 00:09:48.360 are the New worlds? Yeah? I do that. We're on strike, 124 00:09:48.639 --> 00:09:52.960 so I'm not doing any on camera, which is for a while. It 125 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:58.600 was good because auditioning is hard, and it's harder still. We're doing it 126 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:03.279 all on zoom. Yeah. Oh yeah, can you do it or just 127 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:09.440 auditions? No, I haven't had an I actually put off the flight. 128 00:10:09.480 --> 00:10:13.120 I took a red eye Thursday night here because I had a straight to call 129 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:16.000 back for a director I worked with before. Yeah, cool casting director I 130 00:10:16.039 --> 00:10:20.519 worked with before. So I was like, yeah, fingers crossed, but 131 00:10:20.399 --> 00:10:22.639 I don't know if I'll get it. But it was worth it. And 132 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:26.559 I was in a room and it was like it wasn't It was for a 133 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:30.759 commercial. It isn't on strike, so yeah, yeah, yeah, I 134 00:10:30.759 --> 00:10:35.600 think commercials are the only things doing in person. They just started in person. 135 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:41.200 Yeah, but I haven't had one in commercial audition like six months maybe 136 00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:46.039 yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, well I think it kind of And 137 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:48.279 you're on the show. Not dead yet, are they? Yeah, not 138 00:10:48.399 --> 00:10:54.440 dead yet. With Gina Rodriguez, who's a gift. She's lovely. She 139 00:10:54.559 --> 00:11:03.519 was extremely pregnant, but what she's a producer and obviously because she's extremely pregnant, 140 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:07.440 Yeah, thank you, sorry, could resist. I don't think your 141 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:11.559 husband does anything with the business, which is probably smart. But she's like 142 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:18.600 a light. She's just generous and warm and funny, and I I mean 143 00:11:18.679 --> 00:11:22.639 she was she got more and more pregnant. I'm recurring. Well, of 144 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:26.919 course that's what they do. But you know how she's like I said, 145 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:30.799 oh, that's a cool pink Floyd shirt. Like I was like, that's 146 00:11:30.840 --> 00:11:35.799 cool. Yeah, and I said it's kind of a weird coat. She 147 00:11:35.879 --> 00:11:39.320 goes, how many bags can I have in front of my stomach? She 148 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:43.720 was always like behind a desk, you know, yeah, yeah, so 149 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:46.799 so it'll be weird. We got picked up for a second season, but 150 00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:54.159 literally two days later the writer strike started, So I'm just hoping that it 151 00:11:54.159 --> 00:11:56.960 gets picked up, picked up, yeah, yeah, send your cards and 152 00:11:58.039 --> 00:12:01.279 letters. Is that it? Is that a thing with the writer's strike, 153 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:05.360 Like, so everything that's kind of put on hold, it's gonna have to 154 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:09.320 go through another negotiation once strikes over. Probably not, but I mean, 155 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:13.879 at any point, you can cancel a show literally, of course. Yeah. 156 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:18.519 I've been on shows. I was on a show called God. It 157 00:12:18.679 --> 00:12:22.200 had these people later on became super famous, like Sophia Vergaro was on it 158 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:28.399 before people knew who Saphia was. Kevin Michael Richison on it. What was 159 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:33.320 the name of that? Oh hot property, hot properties, hot property. 160 00:12:33.279 --> 00:12:37.360 Ok, did a guest shot on that, And so I went in and 161 00:12:39.879 --> 00:12:43.159 I filmed on Monday, So it's a guest shot, not a big role. 162 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:48.759 Fild on Monday, went in on Tuesday. It air Tuesday Night, 163 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:54.159 and I was scheduled to work Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday air Tuesday 164 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:58.639 Night. Got canceled on Wednesday and then I had to go back into work 165 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:05.440 on Thursday, the day after they had been canceled from the pilot. From 166 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:09.519 the pilot, Yeah, and I was like it was so weird, like 167 00:13:09.559 --> 00:13:13.679 you know everyone just all the shows Likewilight Zone, Yeah, and all the 168 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:18.960 all the crew was staffed up, you know, they're all they could. 169 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:22.360 They got a season, it carried one one time and they canceled them. 170 00:13:22.519 --> 00:13:28.240 Yeah yeah, oh yeah. I just I can't believe that about Hollywood, 171 00:13:28.279 --> 00:13:31.639 like some of the decisions that they make. And you know, like the 172 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:35.879 most recent thing that comes to my mind that blew me away was that woman. 173 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:41.759 Oh that's They filmed the entire movie and I know one of them and 174 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:46.080 then just decided not to release it. I know what were done special effects, 175 00:13:46.120 --> 00:13:50.559 and it was they they wanted to write off and they took a huge 176 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:56.840 loss of one hundred million dollars. Yeah, help their taxes. And I 177 00:13:56.879 --> 00:14:01.399 don't know anyone hate that problem. I don't know anyone that's seen it. 178 00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:07.000 But one of my friends I met doing labroths, he was like one of 179 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:11.639 the main special effects guys. So he basically was in Georgia for like two 180 00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:16.600 years, owned a house in la and like two years of solid working on 181 00:14:16.639 --> 00:14:20.519 that movie. Yeah, and no one will ever see it, I don't 182 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:22.600 think. I don't know, like you would think that they would just throw 183 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:28.320 it on like a streaming service or leaking, you know, something like yeah, 184 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:31.120 why why absolutely, let us get at least get one of those versions 185 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:35.399 where you know, the guys sitting in the theater and it's all shaky and 186 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:41.320 the audio sucks, and at least get one of those versions that video depot. 187 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:45.039 Yeah, that was that was me. You know. I remember when 188 00:14:45.080 --> 00:14:48.360 I many years, right right before I got in this business, worked at 189 00:14:48.360 --> 00:14:54.399 the video depot and one of the burgeoning sort of venues at the time was 190 00:14:54.679 --> 00:14:58.919 some Nimrod sitting at the back seat. But you know, got plugged it 191 00:14:58.960 --> 00:15:01.320 in with the phantom. Let back here and he did the whole movie on 192 00:15:01.320 --> 00:15:05.200 his little home video. And you come back there and you make copies, 193 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:11.399 you sell them for ten bucks, you know at VHS. Yeah, VHS. 194 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:15.039 Well, I have friends that live in Africa and they're like, oh, 195 00:15:15.120 --> 00:15:18.480 we see everything you're on because they just go to the town center. 196 00:15:18.600 --> 00:15:24.480 Basically cool. It's a dollar for each DVD and you get like a they't 197 00:15:24.519 --> 00:15:28.159 even sell USB drives now, you know, it would be like a USB 198 00:15:28.360 --> 00:15:31.600 drive with like five hundred movies and half of them are in theater. Really 199 00:15:31.720 --> 00:15:35.799 oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, it's amazing conventions. I mean yeah, 200 00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:39.519 because you're not even getting like seventy five cents out of that dollar. 201 00:15:39.679 --> 00:15:43.879 I know. I take your schedule the other day. You did me too, 202 00:15:45.080 --> 00:15:48.600 you did, I've told yeah, but like ten of them. I 203 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:50.120 mean, you know, over the year. Wait, tell the audience how 204 00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:52.600 that works. Tell the audience how it works. How do you get at 205 00:15:52.519 --> 00:15:56.679 a residual for zero dollar? They Well, that's a good question. You 206 00:15:56.679 --> 00:16:00.840 know, there's a bar. Oddly enough, I would know this, but 207 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:06.360 there's a bar down on Venturila Boulevard called residuals. Yeah. And the old 208 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:10.279 the old wisdom was you would take in your check and if it was for 209 00:16:10.440 --> 00:16:14.720 under a buck, you could post it. Well, I had six of 210 00:16:14.759 --> 00:16:18.600 them for zero dollars and zero cents. I never took any in. I 211 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:22.840 just I just thought that I don't want to be the guy with the most 212 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:27.960 of these on the wall in freaking Hollywood history. Yeah, is it all 213 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:32.879 right with you? No, I'm gonna burn them, you know, And 214 00:16:32.919 --> 00:16:37.240 so I did. Yeah. I never I went in there. I bet 215 00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:38.840 in that place. It was a friend of mine plays in a band that 216 00:16:38.919 --> 00:16:42.159 sometimes plays there. But well, how's he getting paid? Not by my 217 00:16:42.519 --> 00:16:48.240 residuals? HBO? Fine, you know that I hate tho. Yeah, 218 00:16:48.519 --> 00:16:52.320 like those guys, I have a band. Yeah, yeah, that's true. 219 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:55.279 They do, don't they. Yeah, they all do, right, 220 00:16:56.399 --> 00:16:59.799 all right, I have a band. Are you happy there? No, 221 00:17:00.039 --> 00:17:02.879 I don't don't have a band. I may start one. But I did 222 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:07.240 just get that zero dollar one right after all the hype was going on about 223 00:17:07.279 --> 00:17:11.799 the strike. And I might point out it also was stated May and I 224 00:17:11.799 --> 00:17:17.119 got it like the end of August. That was like, and it was 225 00:17:17.160 --> 00:17:22.839 early and I have direct deposit. Oh right, really? So like they 226 00:17:22.880 --> 00:17:29.119 mailed it to me for zero yeah, yeah, so I think it. 227 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:33.559 I knew I used to know it years ago. But I think it's around 228 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:37.799 a buck to mail something, the bulk to buy to pay for the stamp 229 00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:41.640 for all that stuff. You know, somebody got to it. Yeah. 230 00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:48.039 I ain't licking it. I ain't catching it. So they're losing money just 231 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:51.200 sending you a zero Oh no, they are. We did a thing years 232 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:55.160 ago. Actress did a thing where we could request if it was under a 233 00:17:55.200 --> 00:17:57.200 dollar, and I brought it up and I was on one committee at one 234 00:17:57.200 --> 00:18:00.480 point, me too, Yeah, and then I got sick of it. 235 00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:03.160 I got sick of the other actors on the community. Yeah, I was 236 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:08.200 just like, oh god, too much talking always there's one guy. Yeah, 237 00:18:08.359 --> 00:18:11.559 that's funny. You did that. I did that too, a long 238 00:18:11.599 --> 00:18:15.240 time ago, A long time. I said, keep and because they could 239 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:18.839 add it up maybe seventy bucks, who knows, I don't. And we 240 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:23.400 also give it to the actors fund. Yes, yes, that went away. 241 00:18:23.559 --> 00:18:29.279 That's exactly what I's But they wouldn't even think about it. Yeah, 242 00:18:30.119 --> 00:18:33.279 you know who was there, David John who? Yeah, probably, I 243 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:36.079 mean, I'm sure he. I mean not that he didn't think about it, 244 00:18:36.079 --> 00:18:41.640 but but they were just like no, you know, and it's like 245 00:18:41.759 --> 00:18:44.880 yeah, and there was you're not going to make any money off cable anyway, 246 00:18:44.920 --> 00:18:52.839 and yeah, anyway, sorry, this is really inside showbiz show. 247 00:18:53.039 --> 00:18:56.039 Yeah, but it's and it's terrible. Yeah, well, I mean that's 248 00:18:56.039 --> 00:19:00.680 the whole thing was anyway a long time ago. Yeah, this time around, 249 00:19:00.680 --> 00:19:04.160 we'll see what we have. What happens, I don't know, I 250 00:19:04.160 --> 00:19:07.480 don't know. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know what reason I 251 00:19:07.519 --> 00:19:12.279 wasn't. Yeah, well there you go me neither. Yeah. Same here. 252 00:19:12.440 --> 00:19:15.359 It's like plus I don't know what they're talking about, you know, 253 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:18.920 Yeah, or they'll get really specific and I'm like, yeah, I just 254 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:22.480 want to be an act I mean an actor, you know. I write, 255 00:19:22.559 --> 00:19:25.960 sometimes, I teach sometimes there you go. But I'm just like, 256 00:19:26.599 --> 00:19:29.960 I don't want to do this. I don't want to be a negotiator. 257 00:19:30.519 --> 00:19:33.920 Yeah, no kidding. I want to be you too. I want to 258 00:19:33.960 --> 00:19:38.119 be you too. Yeah. Yeah, so there yeah, yeah, yeah. 259 00:19:38.160 --> 00:19:41.599 Well Jimmy, you and I have been talking about this in person, 260 00:19:41.839 --> 00:19:45.759 and you know, just like to me, it's fascinating because you guys were 261 00:19:45.799 --> 00:19:48.319 around, you know, when cable was becoming popular for a time. So 262 00:19:48.440 --> 00:19:52.400 can you guys kind of talk about that because for you know, my generation's 263 00:19:52.440 --> 00:19:56.799 AX generation, it's you know, such a such a mind blowing thing because 264 00:19:56.839 --> 00:20:00.440 like you know, I've been naive assumed it kind of just around for us 265 00:20:02.039 --> 00:20:06.039 always there. No, yeah, yeah, I remember. I mean we 266 00:20:06.079 --> 00:20:11.720 had we had four channels if you had good rabbit ears, you know, 267 00:20:11.839 --> 00:20:15.440 and then uh, and then cable came out. You wait, HBO what 268 00:20:15.519 --> 00:20:22.799 Bravo what Hbo? Yeah? Oh yes, it was T N T T 269 00:20:22.200 --> 00:20:26.680 Yeah and on TV was the thing, and I forget the other one, 270 00:20:27.279 --> 00:20:34.079 not FedEx federated anyway, but yeah, and all of a sudden there's a 271 00:20:34.160 --> 00:20:38.440 million channels and nothing on. Yeah you know that? So that was the 272 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:45.240 pisser. Yeah, you know right, somebody wrote a song. Who was 273 00:20:45.279 --> 00:20:52.400 that Springsteen? If the in didn't know, I don't know, but I 274 00:20:52.480 --> 00:20:56.519 just wanted to get that out of it. I remember, And so do 275 00:20:56.559 --> 00:21:00.759 you remember there being resistance to that, Miley? Do you remember like the 276 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:04.440 no he wanted to be on HBO. I did a movie called sixty one 277 00:21:04.519 --> 00:21:12.319 Asterisks Asterisks with Billy Crystal, developed it or directed it, and it was 278 00:21:12.319 --> 00:21:18.319 about Roger Marris, you know, and a baseball movie. I remember one 279 00:21:18.319 --> 00:21:22.240 time I was on the East Coast visiting my parents, who have passed on, 280 00:21:22.319 --> 00:21:25.319 but they retired on Cape Cod. I grew up all around the world, 281 00:21:25.319 --> 00:21:32.359 but so I had to return to Los Angeles from Cape Cod and they 282 00:21:32.400 --> 00:21:34.359 were like, okay, sit down. I was like, oh what did 283 00:21:34.359 --> 00:21:37.039 I do? And they're like, you have two auditions tomorrow. One is 284 00:21:37.640 --> 00:21:44.119 you have to improvise about baseball with Billy Crystal. If you know Billy Crystal 285 00:21:44.279 --> 00:21:49.039 again, Yeah he's a fanatic. Yeah, he's all about baseball. And 286 00:21:49.079 --> 00:21:52.599 then they go then you're going to go across town an audition for this new 287 00:21:52.599 --> 00:21:57.200 show called Kurby Your enthusiasm, and you're gonna have to improvise with Larry David 288 00:21:57.720 --> 00:22:07.160 about incest curious. Yeah, sure, I'm pretty sure. I must have 289 00:22:07.319 --> 00:22:11.680 like changed my underwear because I was just like, are you kidding me? 290 00:22:11.960 --> 00:22:15.799 Yeah, I mean that's insist. And then Baseball with Billy Crystal, that's 291 00:22:15.880 --> 00:22:21.599 not an audition, that's a torture. Yeah, it's a sentence a torture. 292 00:22:21.680 --> 00:22:23.960 Yeah, and that was your introduction to HBO. Yeah, I got 293 00:22:23.960 --> 00:22:27.279 the I got the Billy Crystal thing. I was like played a neighbor. 294 00:22:27.319 --> 00:22:32.160 And then I was able to say to him after I think, because I 295 00:22:32.200 --> 00:22:34.519 think I was a Yankees fan, said, by the way, Billy, 296 00:22:34.559 --> 00:22:41.440 you're you're killing my parents. You're killing my parents. Like, in fact, 297 00:22:41.440 --> 00:22:48.039 my father lived. It had some medical problems that he lived. The 298 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:51.559 Red Sox finally won the World Series, they had the parade, and then 299 00:22:51.559 --> 00:22:53.559 he died. I'm not kidding you. I was like, I'm gonna hold 300 00:22:53.599 --> 00:23:00.039 on. They okay later Jesus. I feel like that would the not Baseball, 301 00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:07.279 but the Raiders. The Raiders. Oh here we go, Oh god, 302 00:23:07.799 --> 00:23:11.720 this is painful. Now now it's become famous. But I didn't get 303 00:23:11.759 --> 00:23:15.480 the incest thing, and what I saw. It wasn't really about it. 304 00:23:15.160 --> 00:23:18.839 I felt okay, And I think it might have been Marissa Janet Winnaker that 305 00:23:18.880 --> 00:23:26.519 got it. Good Company. Yeah, the bane of her existed. Well, 306 00:23:26.519 --> 00:23:30.079 I'm the poor Man's Melissa McCarthy. Dorothy became famous and it was the 307 00:23:30.119 --> 00:23:36.039 best thing ever for my entire on camera career. They were looking for Melissa 308 00:23:36.119 --> 00:23:40.319 McCarthy type, and I'm like, hey, we have the same stunt woman. 309 00:23:40.440 --> 00:23:44.119 The woman. Yeah, she doubles Melissa, and she doubles me. 310 00:23:45.720 --> 00:23:48.920 And they asked me on the show. They'll be like, who do you 311 00:23:48.960 --> 00:23:51.000 want? And I tell them who I want and they're like, okay, 312 00:23:51.039 --> 00:23:57.519 we call the Little Mermaid. No, I just saw the promos. Is 313 00:23:57.559 --> 00:24:02.759 she good nominal? Yeah? I love. I knew her before she was 314 00:24:02.799 --> 00:24:08.599 famous from Brownling's friends and stuff. And then I also, I mean, 315 00:24:08.839 --> 00:24:14.240 I just for the Gilmore Girls, like nine times. Really, I do. 316 00:24:14.359 --> 00:24:17.000 All the writers they come see me in plays that I did. Yeah, 317 00:24:17.039 --> 00:24:21.960 because one of the writers for the girls was playing with Yeah. So 318 00:24:22.000 --> 00:24:23.400 they would come They're like, hey, Miley, and I was like, 319 00:24:23.440 --> 00:24:30.160 you're not casting me again. Macarthy became famous and I was like, thank 320 00:24:30.480 --> 00:24:37.119 you Jesus. Yeah, because I'm gonna slide in the poor right in there. 321 00:24:37.240 --> 00:24:41.000 Yeah, nothing around with that. Yeah, and here you are here 322 00:24:41.039 --> 00:24:45.119 with the poor man. It's very good, My god, not that. 323 00:24:45.359 --> 00:24:48.920 I'm so glad. Who's your stunt double, Jim? Yeah, who is 324 00:24:48.960 --> 00:24:56.079 my stunt double? I think it's me stunts like Jackie Champ. Yeah, 325 00:24:56.440 --> 00:25:00.759 what was that? I am my own wife. No, there's a movie 326 00:25:00.799 --> 00:25:06.240 like that. I am my own Thank god, I'm not Yeah that was 327 00:25:07.480 --> 00:25:12.359 I'm not my own wife. That's right, God, Yeah for your wife, 328 00:25:14.119 --> 00:25:18.240 yeah, not for you. Yeah, she's not here, but you 329 00:25:18.279 --> 00:25:21.240 had a couple of people asking about her to day that. Yeah, it's 330 00:25:21.279 --> 00:25:25.279 interesting. She's been in a couple of tiktoks and they've they've made a big 331 00:25:25.319 --> 00:25:30.519 splash and they're going more peggy, you know, a little more unless you 332 00:25:30.519 --> 00:25:37.680 you easy easy in the background, back more Yeah, you know. So 333 00:25:37.160 --> 00:25:44.160 that's awesome. I'm getting the I'm getting the message. Yeah, you're fine 334 00:25:44.200 --> 00:25:48.519 on your own. Oh yeah, yeah, we're doing fine. Yeah. 335 00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:52.599 It's weird, isn't it. Yeah, Yeah, these conventions are weird. 336 00:25:52.799 --> 00:25:57.359 It's weird, trust us, it's weird, Like it's really weird sometimes, 337 00:25:57.559 --> 00:26:03.920 especially when it's like weird. Yeah, the whole dynamic of it is fascinating 338 00:26:03.960 --> 00:26:07.000 to me and weird. Yeah, there is yet to be a great There's 339 00:26:07.079 --> 00:26:11.920 some death Convent, there's some movies or things about it, but I don't 340 00:26:11.920 --> 00:26:15.440 think anything has ever captured the true weirdness. I'm definitely not getting in an 341 00:26:15.480 --> 00:26:21.519 elemor of William Shatner, like ten Cities in a Row. Yeah, you 342 00:26:21.599 --> 00:26:23.839 know. Yeah, I'm like, never met him, I don't know him, 343 00:26:25.599 --> 00:26:27.640 like sit across from him, and I'm always texting my friends. I'm 344 00:26:27.640 --> 00:26:33.480 like, I'm eating with but not really with, Like John Cusack. Would 345 00:26:33.480 --> 00:26:41.279 you say it's unexplained you can do those voices? Well, I don't know, 346 00:26:41.680 --> 00:26:48.119 John, Well, I think, yeah, OK, doesn't everyone. 347 00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:53.000 I mean, seriously, holy dudes, let's stop and think. Hold on, 348 00:26:53.200 --> 00:27:00.319 you have to do Christopher walk into You know, it's funny that you 349 00:27:00.400 --> 00:27:06.480 would say that to me. It's because like it's like, why is he 350 00:27:06.920 --> 00:27:15.119 note at the end that's terrible? Anything else? But he gets away with 351 00:27:15.160 --> 00:27:17.799 it. Yeah he does. I heard. I don't know. I heard 352 00:27:17.839 --> 00:27:18.720 on the internet. I don't know if this is true, have never met, 353 00:27:21.559 --> 00:27:26.119 it's got to be sure, but I heard that when he was auditioning, 354 00:27:26.160 --> 00:27:29.039 you know, trying to look for his big break. That he would 355 00:27:29.039 --> 00:27:33.400 just put random commas in his lines Christopher Walker. Yeah, No, he 356 00:27:33.400 --> 00:27:36.799 would erase all the punctuation, thank you, thank you. Yeah, he 357 00:27:36.799 --> 00:27:40.480 would take out whateverything, only different. Yeah. I would think, yeah, 358 00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:45.200 and that's that's a that's a theater thing, because I remember learning that 359 00:27:45.240 --> 00:27:47.720 when I was in theater school, the very first thing. But it's the 360 00:27:47.759 --> 00:27:52.599 first step in a multi step process. And then you just stay there and 361 00:27:52.599 --> 00:28:00.839 then yeah, he didn't do step two because he didn't want to. His 362 00:28:00.920 --> 00:28:06.680 wife is a casting director. Really were they married before you got fame? 363 00:28:06.839 --> 00:28:10.920 I don't know. That's a good question. How does she talk talk? 364 00:28:11.079 --> 00:28:15.240 She probably doesn't talk to him. I got it, that's how she talks. 365 00:28:15.880 --> 00:28:18.519 I used to have to wait in the waiting room at CSC, my 366 00:28:18.559 --> 00:28:22.599 agency, Voice Agency, and it was like we'd sit in there and they 367 00:28:22.599 --> 00:28:26.440 were like you could wait in the lobby or you could wait where you went 368 00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:30.319 into the boost back in the old days when you had to audition, like 369 00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:34.160 you had to drive into the agency. Emailing me too. Yeah, And 370 00:28:34.200 --> 00:28:41.759 I would sit there and listen to like seven guys just all do Johnny Carson 371 00:28:41.400 --> 00:28:48.039 and then they do their Christopher Walking and they do their Williams chef. All 372 00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:52.599 the women were just like what it and please someone shut them up? And 373 00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:56.160 it would go on because we'd wait for a long time, right, I 374 00:28:56.160 --> 00:29:00.640 would wait at like an hour and a half sometimes yeah right, yeah, 375 00:29:00.759 --> 00:29:03.559 I guess, and they're just sitting there doing a person. It wasn't me, 376 00:29:04.359 --> 00:29:08.799 don't it was. I was, no, thank you. I say 377 00:29:08.839 --> 00:29:14.160 it because I can. I'm actually picturing the actual seating arrangement. I can 378 00:29:14.240 --> 00:29:18.160 picture every person. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, me too. 379 00:29:19.240 --> 00:29:22.240 I get up and leave. I'm like, I'm out in the lobby, 380 00:29:22.440 --> 00:29:26.400 like sitting on a planter, literally on a planter. Yeah, but 381 00:29:26.519 --> 00:29:30.559 everyone like, but they all stay. And I can't imagine the people that 382 00:29:30.640 --> 00:29:36.680 were like, you know, this agent's assistance. Every day I had to 383 00:29:36.720 --> 00:29:40.519 listen to those guys do their best Christopher Walking. Who are the other ones 384 00:29:40.559 --> 00:29:45.359 they always do? Just one to shoot yourself? Gosh, I did well. 385 00:29:45.480 --> 00:29:51.359 I remember Judy Garland was somebody that the ladies did, okay, and 386 00:29:51.480 --> 00:29:57.799 that you know earth a kit? Oh yeah, it was an earth kit. 387 00:29:59.079 --> 00:30:03.440 I would try and yeah, was this an actor's choice or did they 388 00:30:03.599 --> 00:30:06.920 want to hear people do impersonations? They wanted to hear it. They just 389 00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:11.359 want to hear it, just one upping each other. Yeah, to bug 390 00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:15.079 us the Bosters, I lost. I want an Emmy and I lost an 391 00:30:15.119 --> 00:30:19.640 Emmy to Earth a Kit. Sorry, I brought that talented person person. 392 00:30:19.759 --> 00:30:25.000 I knew I was nominated with Earth the Kit. I was like, this 393 00:30:25.039 --> 00:30:26.480 is ain't gonna happen at this I means I'm going to have a little beer, 394 00:30:26.759 --> 00:30:30.440 you know. Yeah that's true. You know it just like it's not 395 00:30:30.440 --> 00:30:33.160 gonna happ Oh that's funny. Yeah, yeah, that's good stuff. I 396 00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:37.480 loved her, So take that Earth wherever you are, wherever you are. 397 00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:41.400 Yeah, she wasn't there anyways. We all knew we're losers, which is 398 00:30:41.400 --> 00:30:45.640 funny because we're all sitting there, but we're just like everyone's like, you 399 00:30:45.680 --> 00:30:48.000 don't think you're gonna win, are you? Like? Oh no, I'm 400 00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:52.680 not gonna win. All table, we all knew we were losers. Like 401 00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:56.279 that's what everybody started to. Oh that's funny, yeah, because hey, 402 00:30:56.799 --> 00:31:03.839 yeah, you know you have nothing else to do? How about Eartha Earth 403 00:31:03.039 --> 00:31:08.359 was one? What else killed around her a little bit? M I don't 404 00:31:08.359 --> 00:31:14.519 think women do it as much as men do. Do you think do like 405 00:31:14.559 --> 00:31:18.440 impersonations, like, oh, that's true city around. Yeah. Actually, 406 00:31:18.880 --> 00:31:22.799 I can't really think of many famous women impersonating. Yeah yeah, I'm trying 407 00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:27.480 of the girl who did from East McKey Sport, McKey Sport or something like 408 00:31:27.519 --> 00:31:33.720 that. But she did, she did the best barbar streisand oh really yeah, 409 00:31:33.839 --> 00:31:38.759 and she and she would cross her eyes just enough, just enough so 410 00:31:38.799 --> 00:31:44.160 that it bugged you and you know, you know, and with the nostril 411 00:31:44.799 --> 00:31:52.400 and sorry that you're not taping this right. Oh man, that's I've never 412 00:31:52.440 --> 00:31:55.759 thought about that before. Women don't do as many impersonations. Also, don't 413 00:31:55.799 --> 00:32:00.240 do the thing where they quote a line from a movie. Guys will like 414 00:32:00.319 --> 00:32:05.200 it's like unless it's Bridesmaids. I hear a lot of Bridesmaids quotes. I 415 00:32:05.240 --> 00:32:08.720 hear a lot of main girls. She doesn't even go here. Oh really 416 00:32:09.000 --> 00:32:15.240 yeah twenty five year olds. Hey I'm only thirty two. Yeah exactly, 417 00:32:15.799 --> 00:32:20.559 that's exactly what I hang out. Oh yeah, I'm the person that knew 418 00:32:20.559 --> 00:32:23.720 all the bridesmaids before they were famous. Oh yeah, I remember them before 419 00:32:23.720 --> 00:32:29.359 they were famous. Yeah, back to yeah, Wendy mcclannic covey. Yeah, 420 00:32:29.440 --> 00:32:34.599 like you know, heroes, Ay McKinnon, that was a great cast. 421 00:32:34.799 --> 00:32:37.920 Yeah. Yeah, I knew Paul Feek before he was directing Big Stuff. 422 00:32:37.920 --> 00:32:43.440 I played a I played the hands. I have tiny little hands and 423 00:32:43.559 --> 00:32:47.480 I played the hands of a puppet. Hm. Wow, yeah it was 424 00:32:47.799 --> 00:32:54.160 I recognized your hands. That explains everything little. Yeah. So I had 425 00:32:54.160 --> 00:32:59.720 a magician who's like he's been the top magician in the world many times. 426 00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:05.039 John Carney, he's fantastic. Have you ever get real? Where's he he 427 00:33:05.160 --> 00:33:07.480 does? He lives in LA but travels to Germany. I mean he's huge 428 00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:12.240 in like Germany, the Magic Castle. Oh, he has characters too, 429 00:33:12.279 --> 00:33:15.799 and he's hilarious. So the first thing I did in La, actually the 430 00:33:15.880 --> 00:33:21.960 first kind of acting thing but kind of not was John Carney had to sit 431 00:33:22.079 --> 00:33:24.599 on me and he's not a small man and he would sit on me and 432 00:33:24.680 --> 00:33:29.680 I was the hands and I did and Paul Figue was the director. That 433 00:33:29.799 --> 00:33:32.480 sounds like a lot of fun. It was fun. My legs were dead 434 00:33:32.519 --> 00:33:37.000 at the end. Yeah, but yeah, it was like, I think 435 00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:42.880 I can at him through Joel Hodgson from Mystery Science. Yeah. Oh so 436 00:33:42.960 --> 00:33:46.680 the Hogston brothers knew and that was the only people like besides the people I 437 00:33:46.759 --> 00:33:51.279 moved here with to do theater, lived LA with. It was those guys. 438 00:33:51.759 --> 00:33:57.799 So I met Paul many many years pedigree. Yeah, and he always, 439 00:33:58.000 --> 00:34:00.519 like you kind of knew like he had it going on, you know, 440 00:34:00.119 --> 00:34:05.039 But I would have never imagined he would be like this top direct. 441 00:34:05.079 --> 00:34:07.239 I mean we're in a warehouse and like Silmar or something, I don't know. 442 00:34:07.920 --> 00:34:15.679 Yeah, you're lucky if they give you a people Silmar glamorous. Don't 443 00:34:15.679 --> 00:34:21.360 ever go there downtown? Yeah? Oh good, see jock Town somewhere right, 444 00:34:21.400 --> 00:34:24.639 it'side the home depot, Yes, exactly right. Oh man, oh 445 00:34:24.719 --> 00:34:28.719 man. Did you did you ever do stand up comedy? Yeah? Yeah, 446 00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:32.760 yeah, yeah for a while in Minneapolis. The first gig I ever 447 00:34:32.880 --> 00:34:36.440 did, I was asked to do it, forced to do it with Prince 448 00:34:37.119 --> 00:34:40.280 No no, a lot of the Prince of people too. But the first 449 00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:45.039 stand up comedy I did was Collin Cruise, who was a great is a 450 00:34:45.079 --> 00:34:49.079 great comedy Oh yeah yeah. And she she like got a deal in LA. 451 00:34:49.280 --> 00:34:52.880 She was a big deal. And I had meetings with Tim Allen at 452 00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:59.119 the time was one of the top comedians and she maybe go on and Jackie 453 00:34:59.199 --> 00:35:02.599 Kation was the and Jackie is a famous comic now hilarious. And then the 454 00:35:02.719 --> 00:35:07.599 two there was an m C and then the two openers were me and Maria 455 00:35:07.679 --> 00:35:10.559 Bamford and that was the first gig she ever did. We did it together. 456 00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:14.119 Yeah, yeah, she's a buddy of mine too. Oh she is. 457 00:35:14.639 --> 00:35:16.440 We did yeah, we did cat talk. Oh yeah, that's right. 458 00:35:16.559 --> 00:35:21.199 And she she was I was cat and she was you know, shriek. 459 00:35:21.639 --> 00:35:25.039 Yeah yeah, this voice, you know, her impersonations are really speaking 460 00:35:25.039 --> 00:35:29.599 of yeah right yeah yeah her mom. Yeah, she's great. Yeah, 461 00:35:29.760 --> 00:35:32.719 yeah, he's a character. I want to get it. Oh me too. 462 00:35:32.920 --> 00:35:36.159 Yeah, and I forget I didn't know that. Yeah, it just 463 00:35:36.280 --> 00:35:39.119 came out like this week ever on your podcast. Because I'll be at Barnes 464 00:35:39.119 --> 00:35:45.800 and Nobles soon. Yeah yeah, because it's I didn't. I always listened 465 00:35:45.800 --> 00:35:49.519 to her albums or whatever they are CDs. Yeah yeah, but I always 466 00:35:49.559 --> 00:35:51.559 think about that. But you know, she's always like this, She's like 467 00:35:52.199 --> 00:35:58.280 Miley you yeah, yeah, someone specially in your life. And I was 468 00:35:58.320 --> 00:36:01.400 like, yeah, Maria, I've known you thirty years and for twenty eight 469 00:36:01.480 --> 00:36:06.480 of those years I've been with my wife. It's like one time was on 470 00:36:06.559 --> 00:36:10.800 a plane. Not so recently, and I was like, I was in 471 00:36:10.920 --> 00:36:15.440 one of those weird five seat rows. Oh yeah, awful. And I 472 00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:21.679 was like, hopefully you were in the middle. And that's well. Second, 473 00:36:22.159 --> 00:36:23.519 okay, then there's a middle person, and then there's a person. 474 00:36:23.599 --> 00:36:27.960 I see her get up and she has a jacket on comedy store or something 475 00:36:28.079 --> 00:36:30.559 like that, and she walks up and I go she came back, and 476 00:36:30.599 --> 00:36:32.599 I was like, I mean, we know each other from Minneapolis, where 477 00:36:32.599 --> 00:36:37.760 she started and where I start, and she goes, I go, Maria, 478 00:36:37.199 --> 00:36:40.119 you're sitting right there the whole time, and she goes, oh, 479 00:36:42.320 --> 00:36:46.559 Ley, how are you. I was like, good, what's going on? 480 00:36:46.719 --> 00:36:51.920 You know whatever? Oh, I'm going into a cup? Right? 481 00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:55.800 Does she do you really look? This is exactly it. I'm gonna go 482 00:36:55.920 --> 00:37:00.679 do a comedy show. Why are you asking me? Yeah? Right, 483 00:37:01.280 --> 00:37:07.239 because you know the answer because it sounds like a question question. Yeah, 484 00:37:07.880 --> 00:37:10.639 like you know me, I don't know. She's like, oh yeah, 485 00:37:12.480 --> 00:37:15.480 I think so, And I'm like, are you kidding me? Yeah? 486 00:37:15.559 --> 00:37:16.960 Yeah, yeah. I might have got invited to her wedding. I don't 487 00:37:17.000 --> 00:37:21.440 know if I did, but like I knew what was happening. You were 488 00:37:21.519 --> 00:37:25.079 there, right, yeah, So it cracked me up, Like, yeah, 489 00:37:25.079 --> 00:37:29.239 I started with all these crazy comedians. Well that's cool. Yeah, 490 00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:34.719 well yeah, but I never did stand up. Oh no, I didn't 491 00:37:34.840 --> 00:37:38.719 sit down. Lay down, Yeah, lay down and shut up. I 492 00:37:38.840 --> 00:37:43.880 was good at that one. Lay down and shut up. Sure, necessarily 493 00:37:43.920 --> 00:37:47.400 in studios. I had had a few turettes out here and there and there, 494 00:37:47.480 --> 00:37:52.840 and but mostly no, I had to have somebody write it. Yeah, 495 00:37:52.400 --> 00:37:54.960 good for you. Yeah, I loved it when I did it. 496 00:37:55.039 --> 00:37:58.559 But I moved to LA and the first show I did, they said it 497 00:37:58.679 --> 00:38:01.039 was like an open mind, which are not an open mic, well kind 498 00:38:01.079 --> 00:38:05.599 of an open mic, but it's in Minneapolis. It's where you work on 499 00:38:05.679 --> 00:38:08.440 your best, your new material. Oh yeah yeah, friendly place. And 500 00:38:08.480 --> 00:38:13.360 it was a women's show. Yeah yeah. And they knew that you weren't 501 00:38:13.360 --> 00:38:16.039 supposed to be totally polished. You were still working on it. You know, 502 00:38:16.199 --> 00:38:22.920 we've seen Jerry Seinfeld, different people works out at the whatever. Yeah, 503 00:38:23.039 --> 00:38:28.199 see what works? What doesn't? That clubby owns whatever. But so 504 00:38:28.440 --> 00:38:30.039 like, I think that's what's happening. Right. I'm new to LA. 505 00:38:30.079 --> 00:38:36.039 I'm doing a hit play just how I got agents and theater play, and 506 00:38:36.360 --> 00:38:37.519 so I'm like, all right, don't do it. I've been doing it, 507 00:38:37.800 --> 00:38:44.840 been being paid for it. And I get up and I slowly realize 508 00:38:45.519 --> 00:38:51.519 that all the women there were doing their best five and I had concentrated on 509 00:38:51.679 --> 00:38:55.440 doing new material, which you can't do in LA. Yeah. And of 510 00:38:55.519 --> 00:39:00.840 course there are HBO people HBO. I'm sorry, Max. They were like 511 00:39:00.239 --> 00:39:07.519 somebody in the audience. The person person before me was Janine Garofalo. She 512 00:39:07.599 --> 00:39:10.159 was super hot. The person after me was Margaret Chow no way, oh 513 00:39:10.280 --> 00:39:15.519 yeah, And I was like perfect, I'm fucking out. Yeah, like 514 00:39:16.119 --> 00:39:21.639 you couldn't ask for better. Yeah. But I was like, and they're 515 00:39:21.679 --> 00:39:23.480 doing their best stuff. They did the best stuff, And of course, 516 00:39:23.639 --> 00:39:29.280 unbeknownst to me, I just moved here. It was like all these executives 517 00:39:29.320 --> 00:39:32.360 and then they all have their own shows like literally yeah literally yeah yeah yeah. 518 00:39:32.639 --> 00:39:36.360 And so some of my stuff hit, some of it didn't. But 519 00:39:36.440 --> 00:39:40.960 also they peppered the audience. They know that the HBO. Yeah have you 520 00:39:42.039 --> 00:39:45.639 seen Beef? No? Yeah, it's really good. Oh I got to 521 00:39:45.639 --> 00:39:47.679 see it, really good. Yeah, Margaret show which one beef? It's 522 00:39:47.679 --> 00:39:52.360 called Beef on Netflix. Margat shows show. You mentioned that, Oh, 523 00:39:52.400 --> 00:39:54.719 I didn't realize it was her show, not her show. But she's in 524 00:39:54.840 --> 00:39:59.400 it. Okay, yeah, yeah, there you go. Yeah, so 525 00:39:59.559 --> 00:40:01.719 take that. Yeah, And speaking of comedians, you were telling us a 526 00:40:01.719 --> 00:40:07.039 little earlier at dinner that you have been to Ellen's house parties, not her 527 00:40:07.119 --> 00:40:10.559 house parties. I've been to parties with her. Can you tell us about 528 00:40:10.599 --> 00:40:16.519 that? Not much? What's she like? Because there's so much online that 529 00:40:16.639 --> 00:40:20.840 said, you know, coming out against her and she's an asshole. You 530 00:40:20.920 --> 00:40:24.280 know. I had a lot of friends worked with her and they don't talk 531 00:40:24.320 --> 00:40:28.360 about it, and they you know, they loved it. I mean, 532 00:40:28.400 --> 00:40:31.800 I'm a I'm friends with a lot of pretty famous comedians and like, it's 533 00:40:31.880 --> 00:40:36.079 kind of rude to speak so poorly of her. You don't know what a 534 00:40:36.119 --> 00:40:39.159 show runner does to the rest of the crew. So I'll stand up for 535 00:40:39.239 --> 00:40:44.079 that. Like Kelly Clarkson, And there was a horrible article about Marty Short, 536 00:40:44.360 --> 00:40:46.039 like like, come on, Marty Short, how do you do that? 537 00:40:46.559 --> 00:40:51.519 Well, somebody did it and it's a hit piece because they said his 538 00:40:51.639 --> 00:40:54.159 comedy annoyed them and that was the whole premise of the article. I'm like, 539 00:40:54.239 --> 00:40:57.880 that's just being spirited. So about Ellen, I knew a lot of 540 00:40:58.119 --> 00:41:00.199 her writers. Who know we we've known a long time. I know a 541 00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:04.760 lot of people have known her. I've been at several parties before she was 542 00:41:05.079 --> 00:41:08.760 like Ellen Ellen, and she was just very quiet, kind of in the 543 00:41:08.800 --> 00:41:15.880 corner, you know, not mean, you know, not just introverted. 544 00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:21.280 I think so. But most of the comics I know at bigger parties don't 545 00:41:21.280 --> 00:41:24.400 say anything. They just listen. Yeah, right, well, they're gathering 546 00:41:24.519 --> 00:41:30.880 material, you know, they can do impressions of you next week. Oh 547 00:41:30.519 --> 00:41:34.320 you know. Oh my god. I've seen so many of my friends, 548 00:41:34.639 --> 00:41:39.000 like girlfriends crying like after the act because it's all about them. Oh man. 549 00:41:39.320 --> 00:41:43.519 In fact, I got a call about my friend. My friends went 550 00:41:43.559 --> 00:41:46.519 to see like a friend of mine trying out her special. They were like, 551 00:41:46.760 --> 00:41:49.480 did you see it? I said no, I've been out of time, 552 00:41:49.719 --> 00:41:52.079 and I said, it's all about you. I'm like, oh shit, 553 00:41:52.320 --> 00:41:57.199 none of it ended up in her special. I was like, what, 554 00:41:58.760 --> 00:42:01.400 Like all the girlfriends I know that one comics are very nervous. Yeah, 555 00:42:01.719 --> 00:42:06.119 yeah, even like I love Jim Gaffkin. It's all about his kids. 556 00:42:06.360 --> 00:42:10.119 Yeah, it's about his wife. Yeah, but it's like that's what 557 00:42:10.199 --> 00:42:15.840 they do. Yeah, well, I think he found a niche. When 558 00:42:15.880 --> 00:42:21.360 everyone does, they tend to occupy it. Yeah, you know and develop 559 00:42:21.480 --> 00:42:25.719 that well. Yeah, if you can't, if you yeah, shamas going 560 00:42:25.760 --> 00:42:29.880 to be a one trick pony. Yeah, I'll tell you no respect. 561 00:42:30.039 --> 00:42:34.400 Right, there's another one. Oh jeez, I don't I don't know. 562 00:42:35.039 --> 00:42:37.320 So you were one of those guys, but you weren't with my agency. 563 00:42:37.719 --> 00:42:40.519 Yeah, I knew it, Jim, I knew it. The other one, 564 00:42:42.559 --> 00:42:47.960 let's see stallone, the one he wasn't He wasn't that kind of it, 565 00:42:49.079 --> 00:42:52.000 wasn't that kind of a guy. The other guys. I can't think 566 00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:55.519 of anything really, I mean, like, did people do impersonations of oh 567 00:42:55.639 --> 00:43:05.320 yeah, Gilbert godf let's God bless them? Else would they do? Well, 568 00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:10.760 there's a ton of as souls out there to choose from. So that's 569 00:43:12.760 --> 00:43:17.039 that was my Sophie Tucker. Yeah, thank you, ladies. And j 570 00:43:17.559 --> 00:43:21.239 Since we're doing in Precious, it feels like a good time to segue. 571 00:43:21.360 --> 00:43:23.440 We like to do this thing. Jim likes to do this thing where we 572 00:43:23.639 --> 00:43:29.199 trade we trade character lines. So Jim will do a voice of one of 573 00:43:29.280 --> 00:43:31.480 his characters, sure, and then you'll do a voice of one of your 574 00:43:31.599 --> 00:43:35.559 characters and we'll trade the lines. Gotcha. I want to do that. 575 00:43:36.000 --> 00:43:38.920 Yeah, okay, so from from here to yeah, yeah, give her 576 00:43:38.960 --> 00:43:45.559 a line, give her a just one from tigger, don't forget to remember 577 00:43:45.960 --> 00:43:52.360 wherever you go? There you are, I don't know where I'm going. 578 00:43:52.599 --> 00:43:58.960 Believe it. That's pretty good. Then you want to give him a lie 579 00:43:59.639 --> 00:44:07.960 for it, just like all right, Hey, what's up? Why don't 580 00:44:07.960 --> 00:44:13.280 you use yours sing gun anymore? Hey? What's up? Why don't you 581 00:44:13.519 --> 00:44:20.639 use yours a gun anymore? I bet to throw you. I said it, 582 00:44:20.800 --> 00:44:23.440 right, didn't I? Y Yeah? Okay, good, just check 583 00:44:23.519 --> 00:44:30.800 it. Well, thank you. We can dub it flawless over you. 584 00:44:34.159 --> 00:44:38.519 That's another thing like people do think house the mic. It's good, right, 585 00:44:38.679 --> 00:44:45.239 yeah it is. Thank you. See nobody heard that because I didn't 586 00:44:45.239 --> 00:44:51.360 say it. Yeah. Do you remember when there were records and you would 587 00:44:51.360 --> 00:44:58.559 play yes, Yellow Yellow, play to the Southern. Yeah, but you 588 00:44:58.639 --> 00:45:01.280 play it backwards and it sounded like Stevie Nicks or at a higher speed. 589 00:45:05.000 --> 00:45:09.119 Yeah, that's the slower that's the slower one. Sorry, I was wrong, 590 00:45:09.280 --> 00:45:14.079 But when you speeded it up like it was a thing when I was 591 00:45:22.360 --> 00:45:27.360 okay, no, I don't remember. That's exactly you nailed it. Thank 592 00:45:27.440 --> 00:45:34.559 you. You're welcome. My God, I could sleep tonight. It's an 593 00:45:34.679 --> 00:45:39.239 entire lifetime. That's wonderful. I love that. Yeah, well, is 594 00:45:39.280 --> 00:45:45.960 there anything you want to you want to plug your advertise to let the people 595 00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:49.159 are like watch this. I'm like, let the entire universe know right now. 596 00:45:49.320 --> 00:45:52.480 You have the entire universe. God, do you have any conventions coming 597 00:45:52.559 --> 00:45:58.639 up? Oh yeah, I'm in Edmonton next weekend for a fan xpo. 598 00:45:59.159 --> 00:46:07.880 I'm in Miami and then I'm in I was in Miami this yeah, right 599 00:46:08.320 --> 00:46:17.760 connects to humans. Uh see, Oh my god. I do that all 600 00:46:17.800 --> 00:46:20.800 the time. And I'll throw a kid. I'll be like, I'm doing 601 00:46:20.840 --> 00:46:25.719 the rest of the panel in Germany, Like they don't laugh at all at 602 00:46:25.760 --> 00:46:31.320 my stupid I did it. I did it last night and the colossally failed. 603 00:46:31.400 --> 00:46:37.840 It was just like like eight hundred people were like, but six of 604 00:46:37.880 --> 00:46:39.920 them laughed, so I liked it. That's right. I got six of 605 00:46:39.920 --> 00:46:45.880 them, only the smart ones. I got that. And I don't know 606 00:46:45.920 --> 00:46:51.400 if you haven't checked out Royal Crackers. It's a damn funny show. Kilbert 607 00:46:51.400 --> 00:46:53.559 Gottfried is in one episode. I think it's the last work that he did 608 00:46:53.639 --> 00:46:59.360 before and that's one of the earlier episodes, and we got picked up for 609 00:46:59.400 --> 00:47:02.360 a second seas, which you've already completed but is being animated right now. 610 00:47:04.760 --> 00:47:08.880 And I guess I don't know. Naruto never dies. I'll be like ninety 611 00:47:09.000 --> 00:47:15.320 years old. I'll be your age. Jokes on you. I'm ninety seven. 612 00:47:17.599 --> 00:47:22.440 So take that, missy, you little whipper and snapper, you snapper. 613 00:47:22.960 --> 00:47:30.440 That's how you me. That's what I like that. Thank you. 614 00:47:30.159 --> 00:47:35.199 That was my Gabby Hayes. Oh really, no one knows Gabby Hayeses. 615 00:47:35.360 --> 00:47:39.800 Nobody, nobody in the room, nobody out there. Well he's that like 616 00:47:40.880 --> 00:47:45.360 it junkman or like you have the beard, yeah, and no teeth. 617 00:47:45.800 --> 00:47:52.960 What was he on? Uh? I think it was I got a geene 618 00:47:52.960 --> 00:48:00.239 autry maybe kind of anyway, old time cowboy movies where they needed a stupid 619 00:48:00.400 --> 00:48:07.280 sidekick, you know, And that's kind of really what he would say. 620 00:48:07.840 --> 00:48:13.199 But Gabby has teen autry or hop along, I can't remember. I don't 621 00:48:13.199 --> 00:48:15.440 know. I don't either, have the young look it up. He's like 622 00:48:17.440 --> 00:48:23.559 it was another one sounded like Clinton. Sorry, oh to your Clinton. 623 00:48:24.920 --> 00:48:27.960 We're a little rock. He's got to do it, Clinton, Yeah, 624 00:48:28.039 --> 00:48:30.880 you got to do it. Wait a minute, well, you know, 625 00:48:31.079 --> 00:48:38.559 it's a funny thing. You American people just have to give it up and 626 00:48:38.719 --> 00:48:47.679 give me some trust. Hand me over there that little bag of just don't 627 00:48:47.719 --> 00:48:52.039 worry what's in it? Thank you? You know. So it maybe him. 628 00:48:52.960 --> 00:48:59.480 Well have you been to the Clinton Library here? No, it's fantastic 629 00:48:59.599 --> 00:49:04.280 first and secondly, so it's a lot of doses that are elderly women. 630 00:49:04.679 --> 00:49:09.079 Oh god bless. So I'm like, I'm like, hi, you kind 631 00:49:09.119 --> 00:49:13.679 of check in there of course near the gift shop and leave through the gift 632 00:49:13.719 --> 00:49:15.679 shop, exit through the gift shop. So yeah, that's right. And 633 00:49:15.760 --> 00:49:20.280 they said Bill's here today. I was like, wait, is here? 634 00:49:20.559 --> 00:49:27.239 Is here? They're like, yeah, he's speaking so at the cheerleading squad 635 00:49:27.440 --> 00:49:36.440 was I love anybody. I love some Bill Clinton. But but it's so 636 00:49:36.679 --> 00:49:39.599 funny, like the old ladies like adore him, right, So they adore 637 00:49:39.679 --> 00:49:43.719 him. They're like yeah, And I said, well, does he ever 638 00:49:43.760 --> 00:49:46.239 come down? They're like, oh no, no, he has an apartment. 639 00:49:46.280 --> 00:49:50.440 They have an apartment on the top floor of the museum and that's where 640 00:49:50.440 --> 00:49:55.000 they live, the Clintons when they come to Yeah, I think the driver 641 00:49:55.199 --> 00:50:00.719 was telling. So we had this waiters like kind of stonerish look didn't smell 642 00:50:00.760 --> 00:50:04.679 like I don't think it was probably did enjoy it. And he's like I 643 00:50:04.760 --> 00:50:07.639 was like, so he ever come in the restaurant. The restaurant's really good, 644 00:50:07.079 --> 00:50:09.679 and he goes, no, but I do private parties up there. 645 00:50:09.800 --> 00:50:15.280 Sometimes. It was like, how weird is that? It's awesome? Is 646 00:50:15.320 --> 00:50:20.679 he knocks on the door and rings in, you know, like some snacks 647 00:50:20.840 --> 00:50:30.000 or whatever. Yeah, So then you know, we totally left the area 648 00:50:30.119 --> 00:50:35.000 that was allowed to the public, and like I found the room that he 649 00:50:35.119 --> 00:50:42.000 was speaking and it was to the Fulbright Fellows and so like I was just 650 00:50:42.199 --> 00:50:44.599 lingering until then they were like, yeah, get the hell out of here. 651 00:50:45.760 --> 00:50:50.400 I want to meet Bill Clinton. Yeah in his museum. Yeah. 652 00:50:51.119 --> 00:50:54.840 And then the stuff yea, no matter your politics, it's really good and 653 00:50:55.039 --> 00:51:04.320 fascinating. And the impeachment stuff takes one pen well, it's like impeachment and 654 00:51:04.480 --> 00:51:07.360 anyway, this stuff whatever, you know, it's sort of like the next 655 00:51:08.039 --> 00:51:15.280 the Nexit museum exit through the through the gift shop, peach resign yeah yeah, 656 00:51:15.360 --> 00:51:19.320 yeah yeah, and the people that are there just love it. It's 657 00:51:19.360 --> 00:51:23.239 like it never happened. Yeah heck yeah, oh wow, as long as 658 00:51:23.280 --> 00:51:29.960 their boat is floated, as we say, but I suggest you go to 659 00:51:30.039 --> 00:51:34.199 lunch there. It's really cool to where the Clinton Museum. Oh okay, 660 00:51:34.320 --> 00:51:38.519 have a great restaurant. It's very pretty. Sounds good, right, coming 661 00:51:38.599 --> 00:51:44.639 to a museum near you. Yeah, us, so take that. I 662 00:51:44.679 --> 00:51:49.639 haven't met at the Reagan Museum yet, though I think I was a few 663 00:51:49.760 --> 00:51:52.559 years ago. It's three miles from my house. Oh yeah you live, 664 00:51:52.800 --> 00:51:58.559 Yeah, that's yeah, your deep valley living. Yeah. Oh yeah out 665 00:51:58.599 --> 00:52:02.000 there where the air is still air. Yes, and the rock stars are 666 00:52:02.000 --> 00:52:09.519 still Justin Bieber, your neighbor, You and Justin though you're you telling me 667 00:52:10.519 --> 00:52:17.039 Biber? Yeah? Oh I read Kate McKinnon explained or saw on Fallon or 668 00:52:17.079 --> 00:52:22.880 something. She's like, how she does Justin Bieber is you're like when she 669 00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:24.639 does Justin Bieber, which she's really good at. Oh yes, yes, 670 00:52:25.280 --> 00:52:30.519 she does this. She goes. She always says what he does, he 671 00:52:30.599 --> 00:52:35.239 looks like he's done something naughty, and that's how he poses. He's like, 672 00:52:37.159 --> 00:52:40.480 you see her do it. It's so spot on. It's so funny. 673 00:52:42.519 --> 00:52:45.079 Those tricks. It's like uncle tricks. Yeah. Yeah, oh God, 674 00:52:46.079 --> 00:52:50.840 like if you do this, you do brock Obama, no matter what 675 00:52:50.960 --> 00:52:58.119 you do if you do this, Yeah, anybody can. Oh. Oh 676 00:52:58.199 --> 00:53:01.679 that's good stuff. It really is. Thank you so much, thank you. 677 00:53:01.760 --> 00:53:05.119 I talked way too much, but no, no, no, it's 678 00:53:05.159 --> 00:53:10.159 a beautiful thing. You know. It's nice hanging out. Amen, everybody 679 00:53:10.320 --> 00:53:14.559 please, Yeah, I really appreciate you joining us. That's a really good 680 00:53:14.599 --> 00:53:16.400 one. It's my pleasure. I was supposed to do it, and now 681 00:53:16.480 --> 00:53:20.239 I've done it. Yeah, and I get it now with some wine. 682 00:53:20.360 --> 00:53:23.079 And now you've done it. I'm not doing it like you know, a 683 00:53:23.199 --> 00:53:30.679 dirty rotten conventions. Yes, it's good night, everybody. Don't forget to 684 00:53:30.760 --> 00:53:36.519 tip your way try. Thank you very much so much. Thanks for having 685 00:53:36.559 --> 00:53:40.280 me my pleasure. You dear whoever you people are, Yes, yes, 686 00:53:40.760 --> 00:53:44.320 thank you. What do you think? Producer? Thanks so much. Yeah, 687 00:53:44.480 --> 00:53:46.039 yeah we can call it good there. Thank you very much. Everybody 688 00:53:46.079 --> 00:53:50.280 that was tuned in with Jim Cummings. Don't forget to subscribe on Patreon. 689 00:53:50.400 --> 00:53:54.360 We're on YouTube, find us on Spotify and Apple podcasts anywhere else you listen. 690 00:53:54.440 --> 00:53:59.519 iHeartRadio. We're on everything once again. This is Miley flanagain. Thank 691 00:53:59.559 --> 00:54:01.239 you so much for joining us. Really appreciate it, and we'll catch you 692 00:54:01.320 --> 00:54:06.599 next time m