WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.280 --> 00:00:05.120 How are you doing out there? It's me tigger, am dark waiting, 2 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:08.800 duck, It's me bunkers keep babcat. All right, y'all? Did it 3 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:14.000 rate your favorite firefly? You design? Hold the old knock. My name 4 00:00:14.119 --> 00:00:20.120 is Jim Cummings and welcome to tune Jin. Welcome to tuned in with Jim 5 00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:23.600 Cummings here on the four Finger Discount Network. I am Dana, joined right 6 00:00:23.640 --> 00:00:27.320 now by producer Chris. Hey you doing, sir? Hello? Everyone good? 7 00:00:27.399 --> 00:00:30.480 How are you doing? Going fantastic? And we also joined, of 8 00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:32.280 course by the man, the Myth, the legend. He is mister Jim 9 00:00:32.280 --> 00:00:34.920 Cummings. How are you, sir? Hello? And a good evening to 10 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:37.960 one and all. But wait, there's more. But wait, there is 11 00:00:38.039 --> 00:00:40.600 more, and it's not one guy Davis, he's off checking on a holiday. 12 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:44.600 We're joined by someone who's fodio. Who is it? This is my 13 00:00:44.679 --> 00:00:48.679 wife, Margaret, and she just so happens to be mother to Christopher. 14 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:52.280 How about that. It's a family affair. We won't call him mother. 15 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:56.880 Margaret? You no, no, no, how are you Margaret? I'm 16 00:00:56.880 --> 00:00:59.799 good? Thanks? How are you good? You look nervous? Don't let 17 00:00:59.799 --> 00:01:04.239 me know. Let's do this I'm excited to finally get you on the trust 18 00:01:04.280 --> 00:01:08.799 me. She's shy, She's not. Anyone who's followed him on social media 19 00:01:08.879 --> 00:01:11.799 knows that Margaret is definitely not a shy person at all, and for good 20 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:15.400 reason. So Margaret, you guys just got back. We're here to talk 21 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:18.879 about your trip down under. You just got back from Australia, but you 22 00:01:18.920 --> 00:01:21.560 came here earlier in the year. How was the second trip round? Was 23 00:01:21.599 --> 00:01:23.079 it it was an improvement? Was it just as good? How was it? 24 00:01:23.239 --> 00:01:26.000 Well? From what I heard, we got the cold weather when we 25 00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:30.840 went this time it was freezing it is our winning and raining. I think 26 00:01:30.879 --> 00:01:38.560 it was one one celsius in Perth not good. When you're not from Australia, 27 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:42.400 you think Australia is always hot and in winter it's really not. Perth 28 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:46.959 is usually the warmest it gets. Perth is the warmest it gets in Australia 29 00:01:47.519 --> 00:01:49.000 year round. How was it in Perth? Was it still cold in Perth? 30 00:01:49.319 --> 00:01:53.799 Well, it was colder in Perth than it was in Sydney. And 31 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:57.040 in Perth it was rain. It was raining the whole time. We had 32 00:01:57.079 --> 00:02:00.120 one day where it was sunny, but I mean we had our twoks or 33 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:04.920 beanies, whatever you want to call them on our big coats. Yeah, 34 00:02:04.959 --> 00:02:07.480 so did you go to Australia or did you go to Alaska? Did you 35 00:02:07.640 --> 00:02:09.879 get your trips confused? All? Yes, I think I could have been 36 00:02:09.919 --> 00:02:14.319 Alabama. Well, when we got to the airport, all the flight attendants 37 00:02:14.319 --> 00:02:17.719 were late coming in and so they were all getting on the plane along with 38 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:23.479 us because they were going off about that there was ice on the tarmac and 39 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:27.719 they were slipping in, sliding because they had to do something earlier, and 40 00:02:27.759 --> 00:02:30.520 they couldn't believe it was cold, and it was like the cold has it's 41 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:34.280 ever been? And yeah, so we just got lucky, I guess. 42 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:38.240 Yeah, but I'm you know, I'm from Canada, so you used to 43 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:43.400 it was nothing. He was gone, where's the cold? It's not too 44 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:46.520 cold? What were you doing Chris whilst mummy and daddy we're over here in 45 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:47.080 a shy What were you doing? I heard you want a bit of a 46 00:02:47.159 --> 00:02:52.759 right trip, ry bit of a road trip? Yeah, I went to 47 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:55.759 Nashville. It was more of a plane trip, okay, but yeah I've 48 00:02:55.800 --> 00:02:59.840 met up with some old friends and yeah, reunite and had a good weekend. 49 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:01.599 I was I was living it up, living it up. Who lives 50 00:03:01.599 --> 00:03:04.759 it up more? And who lives it up more? In the In the 51 00:03:04.759 --> 00:03:07.560 household is Chris old? Is Margaret and Jim? Yes? Margaret and Jim 52 00:03:07.599 --> 00:03:15.719 definitely? Oh, absolutely not? And Chris. Yeah, it's Jim and 53 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:20.159 Chris. I think it was you and your dad. How about there, 54 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:23.879 we'll get that out of the way. Fine, what's let's say if Jim 55 00:03:23.960 --> 00:03:28.240 noses, what does Margaret's drink of choice? Jim, the ones that's near. 56 00:03:28.439 --> 00:03:30.879 It has to be near. She likes wine, wine, okay, 57 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:35.439 any particular wine. Margaret, Well, I like red wine, red wine, 58 00:03:35.479 --> 00:03:38.800 okay. Which was hard for me to figure out because in Australia, 59 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:43.960 every where we went on the menu was Australian wine. Yeah, so I 60 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:47.360 did not know that either that Australia produces quite a lot of wine, very 61 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:50.960 good wine. One of the restaurants we went to, I think it had 62 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:55.439 like forty five pages of wine from Australia from Australia. Right, did you 63 00:03:55.479 --> 00:03:59.840 bring any home with you? No? No, I'm not that big of 64 00:03:59.840 --> 00:04:03.240 a whiner. Favorite favorite was Koala. Surprise was her favorite. How was 65 00:04:03.319 --> 00:04:06.319 the flight? Was it all right? Are you a good flyer? I? 66 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:11.680 Just leave it to the pilots. Yeah, I'm sure. The thing 67 00:04:11.759 --> 00:04:14.039 is, I'm sure if you if you went up there and you know, 68 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:15.600 in Winnie the Poo voice said I would love a try, if I could 69 00:04:15.600 --> 00:04:17.680 just take over for five minutes, They'll probably go, oh my god, 70 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:20.959 oh my god, oh my god, go for it. Oh my god, 71 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:26.240 oh my god, oh my god. Security. Yeah, probably probably 72 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:30.360 would happen. Have you ever fled the plan before? H let's see no, 73 00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:34.319 no, I jumped off of Haleakala. Well, you know, halfway 74 00:04:34.319 --> 00:04:42.600 down to see you the Premier in London for Christopher Robin. They gave Jim 75 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:46.759 a Winnie the Pooh bear to take home and that was the worst thing that 76 00:04:46.759 --> 00:04:50.199 could have happened to us on the flight because we were up in first class 77 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:57.199 and it went all around that Jim was, you know, Jim Cummings and 78 00:04:57.319 --> 00:05:01.839 Winnie the Pooh and every that had a crying baby on the back of the 79 00:05:01.879 --> 00:05:08.120 plane would come up with the flight attendant and saying, oh do you mind 80 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:12.040 could you just give her a baby a little bit of Pooh? The next 81 00:05:12.040 --> 00:05:15.079 thing you know that the stuffed animal was out permanently on the foot of the 82 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:19.399 bed and a baby would come up and Jim would be between the little poo 83 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:26.199 and some of them brought their own pooh. It was less than rewarding bathrooms 84 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:29.079 that way, Lady. Yeah, if we were trying to stick him up 85 00:05:29.079 --> 00:05:31.480 in the overhead, but he was like a real special pooh, so he 86 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:35.000 didn't want to jam him up there with all the luggage and stuff. We 87 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:39.839 were hiding poo throughout the whole flight, trying to put him under the blankets 88 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:42.560 and the pillows. Yeah, thank god no one walked in in the middle 89 00:05:42.600 --> 00:05:47.519 of this conversation. That would have a completely different connotation. But you must 90 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:49.920 love it though, right, You know that you can just bring joy into 91 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:54.720 Yeah, because I find to England with my wife with two small kids in 92 00:05:54.720 --> 00:05:57.519 about four weeks time, and I am panicking because it's a twenty four hour 93 00:05:57.560 --> 00:06:00.079 flight with a four year old where you are going to be. It's good, 94 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:02.959 It's gonna be a nightmare, but you know the fact that you know 95 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:06.120 the peoples only can you can you come with us? I need you there 96 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:11.279 too, right to keep my kids from crying as well. Oh gosh, 97 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:14.959 well, one word books on tape or so you know, yeah, here 98 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:17.399 here the headphones, honey, Well, we had a lot of luggage we 99 00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:21.199 had, which Jim wasn't thrilled about because we brought Lulu with us as well. 100 00:06:23.040 --> 00:06:27.120 She's a teenager, so you know how teenagers love their wardrobe. Teenagers. 101 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:30.879 So when we would get on and off the shuttles to transfer because we 102 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:35.480 went to Fiji in between, Jim would get like a little overwhelmed with all 103 00:06:35.519 --> 00:06:40.079 of the luggage and he would start to get this face expression, and we 104 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:42.600 always tell him, Jim, you gotta watch your face. People know who 105 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:45.720 you are. Jim just stopped that with your face. And then he'd say, 106 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:48.000 well, you're you're governing me. All the bags are telling me what 107 00:06:48.079 --> 00:06:51.000 to do. And then I'd said, Jim, Jim, people are going 108 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:55.600 to record you, and it's gonna be it's gonna be on the internet, 109 00:06:55.879 --> 00:06:59.519 and it's gonna say Winnie the Poo gets mad at the airport in Sydney, 110 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:04.319 them record my hernia instead. Here tell it to my hernia, the true 111 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:09.079 Hollywood story. Oh yes. It suddenly put on like a normal face, 112 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:14.839 like wait, what, oh bother, we've got tonight's scandal. Whinnie the 113 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:19.680 Pooh yells at children, yes, oh God, or falls on the carousel 114 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:26.519 of the luggage because the bags were so heavy, or the wheels got broken 115 00:07:26.600 --> 00:07:29.839 off and we'd have that was always fun. That's a tradition. Everywhere we 116 00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:31.120 go we lose a wheel by wait wait, wait, go back. Did 117 00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:34.600 you actually fall into carousel or was that just a joke? I hope that's 118 00:07:34.639 --> 00:07:40.040 it? No, he did he fall? What? Yeah? I know 119 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:43.519 he falls on the might not have been there. Show him your hand. 120 00:07:44.040 --> 00:07:49.399 No, it was the other gym. They're fine. There are we happy? 121 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:53.319 No? Yes, today, I'll never play piano again. He has 122 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:56.560 to do physical therapy for his fingers because he fell on the escalator. And 123 00:07:56.600 --> 00:07:59.680 see how they're bent. No, that was they're not They don't go all 124 00:07:59.680 --> 00:08:05.879 the way yep, I don't. Yeah, they matched my head. Oh 125 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:11.040 this is painful. Are we done yet? So did Jim pack anything? 126 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:15.480 It was a Jess, Margaret and your daughter. Yeah I packed them. 127 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:18.439 No, Jim. I could my nickname for Jim's suitcases the baby suitcase. 128 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:24.519 I say, why do you always have to pack that baby suitcase? Jim? 129 00:08:26.279 --> 00:08:28.920 He could travel with one little bag and he would be fine, completely 130 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:33.200 fine. Two T shirts, three underwear. What we did see in Perth 131 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:39.120 was we went to the Perth zoo and we actually saw a real Tasmanian devil, 132 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:43.200 yes, wow, which we've never seen before. And it was wide 133 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:46.440 awaken, running all around, and you know, with Jim doing the TAS 134 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:52.879 voice, he was recording the Tasmanian running around and he was talking his Tas 135 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:56.120 and this woman did not appreciate it. And I was trying to get my 136 00:08:56.200 --> 00:09:01.039 phone out to record her standing behind him listening to what he was doing, 137 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:05.120 which I'm sure you can give a sample. And he was talking to the 138 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:09.720 Tasmanian devil in Ta's voice. Yeah, while he was recording, and the 139 00:09:09.799 --> 00:09:15.480 little guys he's in there running around pissed off at the air. You know, 140 00:09:15.799 --> 00:09:18.600 nothing was going wrong and everything was perfect, and he had free food 141 00:09:20.360 --> 00:09:24.480 he had I think there might have been a family in there with him, 142 00:09:24.519 --> 00:09:30.120 wife and kids, and you know, I had a nice little hunch that 143 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:33.840 you know, And and I was doing that too, and the lady didn't. 144 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:39.080 I was underappreciated, let's put it that way. And Lulu was like, 145 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:41.720 Dad, you're embarrassing me. Dad, she doesn't know anything about Tasmanian 146 00:09:41.759 --> 00:09:45.519 devil. Obviously, stop it, Dad, And so of course Jim just 147 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:48.840 did it more. Yeah, and he's called Tasi devil, as you may 148 00:09:48.919 --> 00:09:54.879 well know. Yes, So, so did this woman say anything to you 149 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:58.720 or was she just sort of just but her faces were so obvious. Oh, 150 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:03.159 she was like a really disgusted looking at him like he had a problem, 151 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:07.360 and like how dare he make these terrible noises? And yeah, yeah, 152 00:10:07.559 --> 00:10:09.039 where is this man's help out? What's going on here? Yeah? 153 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:13.320 I was mad she didn't want an autograph. I couldn't understand it. Yeah, 154 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:16.360 I'm right there. What are you gonna running to me next week? 155 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:20.759 And didn't get it. And every animal we saw, Jim had to create 156 00:10:20.799 --> 00:10:24.240 a sound for the animals, even if they didn't sound like that, Like 157 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:30.480 he hasn't sounds for giraffes. Oh yeah, we need to hear this. 158 00:10:30.799 --> 00:10:35.120 Oh well, I can't remember it now, but it sounded tall. Now, 159 00:10:35.159 --> 00:10:39.919 it was a very tall sound, you know, a little dell there, 160 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:43.440 mind my wizard, you know, don't don't walk under there. Do 161 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:46.679 you have any pets, because we have a couple of pets and I put 162 00:10:46.759 --> 00:10:50.279 I've created voices for my pets. Do you have pets and create voices for 163 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:54.039 them as well? Or that just a weird brendan, But no, I've 164 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:56.919 got some pet algae. Okay, that I that I've got it. No, 165 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:00.960 we have cats at this point. We used to have well we had 166 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:05.320 dogs, er and cats, dogs and cats and fish and yeah now we're 167 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:09.360 down to too many fish and too many cats because there's two of them. 168 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:13.360 But so you came to you came to Sydney first, you flew into Sydney 169 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:15.279 and yeah, actually had a trip in between, which we'll get to in 170 00:11:15.360 --> 00:11:18.279 a moment. But you've already been to Sydney before there, right, this 171 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:20.240 isn't your first trip. I've been there a few times. Ye. Yeah, 172 00:11:20.279 --> 00:11:22.679 yeah, it was my first trip. It was your first trip to 173 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:26.440 Sydney. Really, huh, I've never been. Wow, how'd you find? 174 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:28.440 Did you do all the touristy stuff? Did you go to the opera 175 00:11:28.519 --> 00:11:31.679 house and the bridge and all that stuff? Yeah? We did. We 176 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:35.919 um, we did a lot of stuff. But you know, Jim was 177 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:41.720 doing a convention as well. Yeah. And with this convention they have Jim 178 00:11:41.879 --> 00:11:48.200 obligated in the evenings to do meets with their VIP. Yeah. Yeah. 179 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:54.759 And then it was what was vivid? It was Vivid the light Oh yeah, 180 00:11:54.799 --> 00:11:58.039 that was first of all, the light show in Sydney. So that 181 00:11:58.200 --> 00:12:03.639 was amazing because they had like big, huge would they look like squids that 182 00:12:03.759 --> 00:12:07.759 were all like kind of roaming down on the boardwalk of downtown Sydney with the 183 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:13.159 harbor is and then the drones would all come flying over across the bridge and 184 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:16.639 that went on. I guess it was going on for a couple of weeks, 185 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:20.120 but when we got there it was just about it was the last weekend, 186 00:12:20.159 --> 00:12:24.879 so that was quite amazing to see that. Did you see all the 187 00:12:24.519 --> 00:12:28.360 drones in the sky doing it like a light shot as well? It was 188 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:31.639 like drones that looks fantastic. Oh yeah, yeah. I was able to 189 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:35.600 shut down a couple of them, so it was okay. I I took 190 00:12:35.639 --> 00:12:39.080 the precaution of bringing a sling shot, as you would, because you never 191 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:43.120 know exactly. You can't trust every drone you see. You can't. You 192 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:46.559 can't possess a gun in a shy, but you can't possess a sling shot. 193 00:12:46.639 --> 00:12:52.159 So yeah, that's right. We went to the Shangri La Hotel because 194 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:58.039 it has a tower restaurant at the very top, and I just knew with 195 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:01.480 so much advertising on the plane with about this vivid, I said to Jim, 196 00:13:01.639 --> 00:13:05.279 we've got to find someone where we can watch this, like from above 197 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:09.679 everywhere. And so we went over there and went up for an early dinner 198 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:13.639 because I think the light show started at five thirty or six. It gets 199 00:13:13.759 --> 00:13:20.440 dark and yeah, yes, really dark. Yeah yeah, so um we 200 00:13:20.559 --> 00:13:24.159 were able to see that one of the nights. But you know, the 201 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:30.080 conventions are really long and time consuming, and then you know, you're so 202 00:13:30.279 --> 00:13:33.120 exhausted, and then Jim's doing all of the meeting and the greeting. And 203 00:13:33.240 --> 00:13:39.480 what was funny was the convention was forty five minutes from the hotel, so 204 00:13:39.639 --> 00:13:46.240 they had every every single talent all put on one bus, and so we 205 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:52.720 all loaded the bus and we were waiting on you know, the managers, 206 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:56.480 the handlers, the talent, everybody to get loaded on this bus and then 207 00:13:56.919 --> 00:14:01.440 and then off we'd go and go to the convention. And then that bus 208 00:14:01.559 --> 00:14:07.840 didn't leave till every single person was finished on the floor. So if somebody 209 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:11.720 had like a late photo up, we were waiting and it didn't matter. 210 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:18.720 Like Elyssa Milana was there and she had lines for days for her photos, 211 00:14:18.320 --> 00:14:22.360 and so the bus would be just sitting with all of the rest of us. 212 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:26.399 You know, like the illustrator or the creator of teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 213 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:31.960 and your name. Everyone was super fans on there. Everyone was on there 214 00:14:33.039 --> 00:14:37.320 and we're just like waiting and then you have to go into now the meet 215 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:41.000 and greet. So by the time we got back to the hotel, we 216 00:14:41.200 --> 00:14:45.360 were lucky if we could even get dinner because a lot of places weren't taking 217 00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:50.919 seating anymore. Yeah, Alyssa was hungry. I'm just envisioning you guys are 218 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:54.159 getting on this bus. You know, Jim breaking out in the wheels on 219 00:14:54.279 --> 00:14:58.919 the bus go round and round. I set that to him in the morning. 220 00:15:00.159 --> 00:15:01.480 You know, everyone's half asleep. And I got Jim and we sat 221 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:05.080 in the very front because I wanted like a big view of while we're driving 222 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:09.240 right forty five minutes of Sydney. Who knows what we're going to see. 223 00:15:09.399 --> 00:15:11.159 And I said, Jim, there's a mic and it's it turns on like 224 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:15.240 look post on switch. And I said, you should give a tour as 225 00:15:15.279 --> 00:15:18.399 we need the pool. But it was it was to make stuff up. 226 00:15:18.679 --> 00:15:24.559 And I was like, now, Poo's asleep. You know who needs who 227 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:31.399 needs some serious dollar signs to Yea in the morning. 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Slash Jim Cummings podcast link is in the description of 237 00:16:06.039 --> 00:16:08.840 this show. So I guess that's the sibe I don't really see with these 238 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:12.080 cons is just how exhausting it can be on the talent, because you know, 239 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:15.039 people have their little couple of minutes with the guests and they're off on 240 00:16:15.039 --> 00:16:17.720 their way to do whatever they want to do. But like you know, 241 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:21.279 Jim, you know, the all day it's got to be tiring. Like 242 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:23.360 I said, you gotta plus the waiting as well. Yeah. Yeah, 243 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:26.759 And I have a personal philosophy that I don't I want to be up for 244 00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:30.399 every single person. Yeah, because it's not like they can come next month 245 00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:34.159 and run into me or I them. And I try to have try to 246 00:16:34.240 --> 00:16:37.879 treat treat each and every one of them just as if they're the first and 247 00:16:37.960 --> 00:16:41.320 the one and only, you know, and the little kids will come up 248 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:44.639 and and it's it's I'll tell you. One thing that's very interesting is that 249 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:48.519 whenever I do Winnie the pool, people think, oh my god, you 250 00:16:48.759 --> 00:16:52.320 just do it, you know a lot of and and the little kids their 251 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:57.120 eyes go like saucers and and it's really a blessing. It really it warms 252 00:16:57.240 --> 00:17:02.200 my heart. And they go, I thought you had need a microphone or 253 00:17:02.279 --> 00:17:04.240 a special effect or something. And I go, well I do. I 254 00:17:04.759 --> 00:17:08.160 stick my finger in my ear and I twist that that screw in there and 255 00:17:08.720 --> 00:17:15.279 outcomes with either pooh. And so it's very sweet. And of course for 256 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:19.799 a tugo, you dads have to do some bounting and h and and I 257 00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:25.880 just love that, you know, the eyes that when they it's because it's 258 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:30.240 like, especially ladies, if I may say so they could be seventy or 259 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:33.400 eighty and all of a sudden they're five years old again. Yeah, and 260 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:37.920 it's so sweet, it really is. Yeah, I can imagine. Maybe 261 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:40.880 that's one sort of benefit you have being a voice actor is if it just 262 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:44.960 a normal like a usual actor, where you're not a voice actor and you 263 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:47.279 want to be up, you've sort of got to be enthusiastic. Way if 264 00:17:47.279 --> 00:17:49.319 you've just got that voice in your catalog, even if you're up or not, 265 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:52.400 if you just pull that voice out, whether you're tied or not, 266 00:17:52.759 --> 00:17:56.640 it will just make someone's day. It's true, you know, it's it's 267 00:17:56.720 --> 00:18:00.160 like I say, it's a it's a blessing and it's a it's just it's 268 00:18:00.200 --> 00:18:03.079 so wonderful to see people's reactions. You know. Well, you know the 269 00:18:03.160 --> 00:18:07.680 last time Chris, you went right Jim? Did you sit down at the 270 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:14.000 table with Jim? Yeah? I did. For periodically we'd go back and 271 00:18:14.079 --> 00:18:17.480 forth and the line was huge when we were out there. What was the 272 00:18:17.519 --> 00:18:19.160 line like when you guys were out there, it was wrapping around huge, 273 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:25.480 huge, it was Jim had the biggest lines other than oh, with the 274 00:18:25.960 --> 00:18:30.440 Superman and Superwoman or who always later they were there together. Um, but 275 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:34.960 yeah, it never stopped for Jim on both days. It's amazing. You 276 00:18:36.039 --> 00:18:41.720 know what people love in Sydney is Bunkers awesome. Yeah, Bonker, Steve, 277 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:45.519 Bobcat, I was. Everyone was talking about Bonkers. And and so 278 00:18:45.799 --> 00:18:49.559 was Widget the World Watcher, Yeah, which was an old cartoon that I 279 00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:55.960 did many moons ago with Rucy Taylor, she of Mini Mouse Fame, God 280 00:18:56.039 --> 00:18:59.559 Rest her soul, and she was Widget the World Watcher and I was Mega 281 00:18:59.640 --> 00:19:03.240 Brain and people were coming up with Mega Brain things for me to sign, 282 00:19:03.319 --> 00:19:07.440 and I'm going, my god, I barely remember doing this and yeah, 283 00:19:07.720 --> 00:19:10.759 and people would put me on the spot because I guess some people have seen 284 00:19:10.799 --> 00:19:12.960 our TikTok's where it really doesn't know a lot of Jim's characters. And then 285 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:15.319 they would ask and I would go bright red and I didn't know, and 286 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:18.799 then they would get so mad and they'd say, how can you not know 287 00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:21.359 who which it is? And I'm like, who which it from? Woo? 288 00:19:21.400 --> 00:19:23.680 Who where? What? From? Chop puff? And stuff? Is 289 00:19:23.720 --> 00:19:30.200 that they And they got me on the Honda naka because I thought the bird, 290 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:34.039 well Jim has a picture of Honda with this, I thought it was 291 00:19:34.079 --> 00:19:37.839 a bird on his shoulder, and I just got schooled and this guy was 292 00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:42.640 parted the whole thing because evidently it's a monkey. It's a lizard. Okayzard 293 00:19:42.920 --> 00:19:47.240 just any monkey? Okay, who knows that were here? Did you know 294 00:19:47.319 --> 00:19:49.400 that? Chris? I'm sorry you can no longer be a part of this 295 00:19:49.480 --> 00:19:55.359 podcast. A right, all right? I mean it looks like a bird. 296 00:19:55.880 --> 00:19:57.960 Well, okay, fair enough, because you didn't see all of him, 297 00:19:59.119 --> 00:20:03.119 and then they gave his good monkey parts. That's the did you do 298 00:20:03.880 --> 00:20:07.400 just a bird making noise? Too? Boy? I think so and I 299 00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:11.920 might have just you know, it's like you know one of those things. 300 00:20:11.319 --> 00:20:15.319 And here's my favorite, one of my favorite trivia questions. There are two 301 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:22.759 kind of two listen monkeys in the Star Wars universe. I slash hondo O 302 00:20:22.880 --> 00:20:26.119 Naka. I own one of them. No, I cannot expect that you 303 00:20:26.200 --> 00:20:32.240 would know this voice or no his name. But do you know the other 304 00:20:32.920 --> 00:20:37.519 Star Wolves character who has one? The crumb character? Isn't that's Joba the 305 00:20:37.599 --> 00:20:41.119 Hot That's not a monkey. I don't know who is it? That was 306 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:45.599 it? It was? It was Jabba the Hot lizard monkey. Oh yes, 307 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:48.240 yes, and it was a bird in my name. Well, see 308 00:20:49.240 --> 00:20:55.440 mine is Pilf muck Muck, and his is oh gosh, I'm gonna forget 309 00:20:55.519 --> 00:21:00.680 his name, Milf puck Puck. Yeah, no, it's something that's interesting 310 00:21:00.839 --> 00:21:04.000 anyway, mind's better. Yeah, So I got schooled about that all day 311 00:21:04.039 --> 00:21:08.839 long. They were very, very offended that I didn't know who the pink 312 00:21:11.039 --> 00:21:15.319 was Lizard Margie. There are some definitely characters at those conventions, for sure, 313 00:21:15.960 --> 00:21:18.920 and they get very testy if you don't. I remember I worked at 314 00:21:18.960 --> 00:21:22.319 one of them once for my previous employer selling I was selling board games, 315 00:21:22.440 --> 00:21:25.119 right, And for example, there's an old movie Bill and Ted. You 316 00:21:25.200 --> 00:21:27.640 may have had a Bill and Ted with Kiano Reeves and Alex Winter and the 317 00:21:27.759 --> 00:21:30.960 Bill and Ted board game. And this guy went, I like, you 318 00:21:32.079 --> 00:21:33.400 know anything about Bill and Ted? Tell me who was the actors? And 319 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:37.599 I went, Kiano reason Alex Winter one of my favorite movies. Yeah, 320 00:21:37.640 --> 00:21:38.839 well what year did it come out? I'm like, oh, no, 321 00:21:40.119 --> 00:21:42.599 nineteen eighty seven or something eighty eight. He goes, h well, okay. 322 00:21:42.680 --> 00:21:45.400 Then I was like, why are you so angry at me? I'm 323 00:21:45.440 --> 00:21:47.799 just trying to sell you a board game, the Bill and Ted board game. 324 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:49.359 And he's like, but if I didn't know anything about Bill and Ted, 325 00:21:49.440 --> 00:21:52.279 how dare I try and sell him the board game? He was just 326 00:21:52.359 --> 00:21:55.799 you're so angry at me? Oh yeah, no kidding. Well, you 327 00:21:55.880 --> 00:22:00.400 know you can. You can tell him that his favorite pe well had a 328 00:22:00.519 --> 00:22:03.680 really lousy cartoon. I shouldn't. I probably shouldn't say that out loud. 329 00:22:06.079 --> 00:22:07.640 Anyway, they had, They had a cartoon. I did about two or 330 00:22:07.680 --> 00:22:12.039 three episodes him on a Saturday. That was one of my favorite cartoons as 331 00:22:12.079 --> 00:22:15.359 a kid. But was it the first? That's what I meant, That's 332 00:22:15.400 --> 00:22:18.920 what I Okay, let me finish. That was one of my favorite cartoons. 333 00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:22.279 God, you just cut cut me off. Okay, just cut me 334 00:22:22.359 --> 00:22:25.640 off. But no, it was It was really a good It was like 335 00:22:25.759 --> 00:22:30.079 I was saying, and Keanu would show up and he and he would say 336 00:22:30.160 --> 00:22:33.440 he would cuss and and he would always sit in the corner and he go, 337 00:22:33.839 --> 00:22:40.519 oh, whoa, I am a foul mouthed youth with a straight face, 338 00:22:40.599 --> 00:22:47.200 and yeah, thank you, Yeah, I am a foul mosk yes 339 00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:52.119 and so and Gordon Hunt went, uh huh, yeah, who did you 340 00:22:52.240 --> 00:22:55.680 play on that show? Because I was only about thirteen episodes of it, 341 00:22:56.440 --> 00:23:00.519 that one guy that remember that guy, Oh, the guy who knows the 342 00:23:00.599 --> 00:23:03.559 other guy? Yeah, I know that one guy who was standing next and 343 00:23:03.640 --> 00:23:06.759 then he went, whoa, there's something like that. Yeah, I don't 344 00:23:06.799 --> 00:23:08.559 remember, because they did that series and then they did a second season, 345 00:23:08.640 --> 00:23:11.559 but it was Kiano and Alex went a part of the second season. They 346 00:23:11.680 --> 00:23:15.519 just they bought the rights to the show a different company and just made it 347 00:23:15.559 --> 00:23:17.880 their own. It was weird. Yeah, oh wow, that must have 348 00:23:17.920 --> 00:23:19.400 been wonderful. Oh it was. You thought the first one was bad? 349 00:23:22.240 --> 00:23:26.160 Yes, they did. But did you get did you get any good gifts 350 00:23:26.240 --> 00:23:27.960 from fans this time around? And the last time you were given special candles 351 00:23:29.039 --> 00:23:30.519 or something. Someone gave you some candles when you're in Melbourne that time. 352 00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:34.000 Oh yeah, the Disney candles. Yeah. We got so much stuff. 353 00:23:34.240 --> 00:23:37.880 I mean yeah, we had we had to ship like four boxes back. 354 00:23:38.319 --> 00:23:42.160 Yeah. I had a fifty pound piece of chocolate. That's that's the thing, 355 00:23:42.240 --> 00:23:47.000 because because of because of how impactful these characters are, it's like they're 356 00:23:47.000 --> 00:23:48.960 paying to see you, but they also want to thank you as well, 357 00:23:48.960 --> 00:23:52.319 and they've they've got things for you. Yeah, oh my gosh. Well, 358 00:23:52.359 --> 00:23:55.519 we were trying to collect all of the zoo animals because people were giving 359 00:23:55.640 --> 00:24:00.839 us the koala bear. Oh yeah, and what is that the animal that 360 00:24:00.960 --> 00:24:06.920 rolls up into a ball kidna a kidnap a kidna around we call it. 361 00:24:06.960 --> 00:24:10.640 We call it a porcupine. No. The quaker, Oh well, like 362 00:24:10.640 --> 00:24:14.960 a little quaker is like a mini wallet. He's like a little ka Okay, 363 00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:17.160 yeah, he's well, they were giving us all the stuff. He's 364 00:24:17.400 --> 00:24:19.799 yeah, yeah, yeah, And I love those little guys with the permanent 365 00:24:19.880 --> 00:24:25.000 smile. The quaker is a fantastic aren't they. I mean, there's they're 366 00:24:25.079 --> 00:24:29.039 one of them. That's they're all by themselves. Yea. You know they 367 00:24:29.160 --> 00:24:33.799 make they make koala bears look like gargoyles as far as I'm concerned. You 368 00:24:33.880 --> 00:24:36.960 know, you can only see them in Perth and nowhere else. You can't 369 00:24:36.960 --> 00:24:40.400 find him anywhere else. I don't know that. There's an island called Rottnest 370 00:24:40.440 --> 00:24:42.799 Island and that's that's where they originate from. There. You can only find 371 00:24:42.880 --> 00:24:45.720 them there. They might have him at zoos and things, but you can 372 00:24:45.799 --> 00:24:48.559 only find them in the wild on Rottnest Island. Wow. So um. 373 00:24:48.880 --> 00:24:53.079 Christina Vie is that her name, Christine Vie. She plays the voice of 374 00:24:53.160 --> 00:24:56.640 the Lady Bug. It was a Ladybug cartoon. I believe it the Lady 375 00:24:56.920 --> 00:25:00.480 and she does a lot of autemy. She went to the island, right, 376 00:25:00.880 --> 00:25:06.720 Yeah, And I guess they stayed in what are those tents called tents? 377 00:25:07.240 --> 00:25:11.039 No, they're like Christopher, what are those They're like kind of permanent 378 00:25:11.119 --> 00:25:15.359 tent. Yeah, but they have like a fancy name for them there. 379 00:25:15.759 --> 00:25:21.880 Anyways, constructs. They got tucked into going there, and evidently they spent 380 00:25:21.960 --> 00:25:26.519 the night there and they froze and poured with rain and they had hardly any 381 00:25:26.640 --> 00:25:30.880 blankets. And it was like quite a you know, new experience to be 382 00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:34.440 able to see these animals weird because on Rottnest Island it's literally like a potty 383 00:25:34.680 --> 00:25:37.400 island. You can go there and stay in results and things, while you 384 00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:41.160 would live in a tent on that island is crazy. Maybe they wanted the 385 00:25:41.200 --> 00:25:45.279 true experience of being out in the wild. I guess while they were misinformed, 386 00:25:45.799 --> 00:25:48.759 definitely, while we were we are not going to use their travel agent. 387 00:25:48.160 --> 00:25:52.200 Yes, but what what gifts did you get though from fans around? 388 00:25:52.279 --> 00:25:53.599 Well, we got a lot of honey, Yeah, a lot of honey. 389 00:25:53.680 --> 00:25:57.440 We got a lot of honey. Really, yeah, a life size 390 00:25:57.920 --> 00:26:03.599 piece of chocolate of Australia. It was hard to get on the plane. 391 00:26:03.960 --> 00:26:07.480 Yeah, not a small piece. I want to pay the time that thing, 392 00:26:07.559 --> 00:26:10.519 no way, Yeah, I know it was. I'm cereal it was. 393 00:26:10.960 --> 00:26:15.039 It was about as big as a home plate in baseball in a baseball 394 00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:17.519 game. With that, really, it gives you an idea. Yeah, 395 00:26:17.519 --> 00:26:21.640 I'm not a small piece of chocolate. I can't imagine doing anything with it 396 00:26:21.759 --> 00:26:25.359 but staring at it. So listeners out there, if you're going to approach 397 00:26:25.480 --> 00:26:27.359 Jim with a gift at a convention, think about how he's going to get 398 00:26:27.400 --> 00:26:36.000 at home. Yes. Right. They had really big unique pieces of I 399 00:26:36.079 --> 00:26:41.480 guess Disney characters that Jim did or Funcle pops that like you we haven't seen. 400 00:26:41.640 --> 00:26:45.079 Like. They had King Triton a Funcle pop and it was huge. 401 00:26:45.440 --> 00:26:48.559 My kids got one in there. They're like a six inch one. They're 402 00:26:48.559 --> 00:26:52.599 the bigger ones. Yeah, right, are real? Okay, I had 403 00:26:52.599 --> 00:26:55.359 to get that out of my system. Yeah, so you know, we 404 00:26:55.799 --> 00:26:57.759 had to get those kind of things. And I think we found a Funcle 405 00:26:57.839 --> 00:27:03.319 Pop of well Jim is now doing the voice of Blue Blue, Yes, 406 00:27:03.559 --> 00:27:07.920 yeah, And so we found a Funkle pop blue and like just things that 407 00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:11.359 we haven't found over in the United States. What was the other one that 408 00:27:11.519 --> 00:27:17.920 was really rare? Oh gosh, that's Savage dr King, Louis King lou 409 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:22.359 Oh yeah yeah Louis Yeah, the Tailspin one, the Tailspin Yeah, and 410 00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:26.680 then then good old Louis from Tailspin Yeah, right, Tailspin, and then 411 00:27:26.720 --> 00:27:30.599 the one from Tournament jungle Book jungle Book Right. One of my favorite clips 412 00:27:30.920 --> 00:27:33.359 is of you is you Send It to Me. It's one of the behind 413 00:27:33.400 --> 00:27:37.599 the scenes videos available on our on the Patreon. As you find finding things 414 00:27:37.640 --> 00:27:40.960 to do, the hold up in the camera to do the voices for and 415 00:27:41.119 --> 00:27:44.119 you go, oh you, Jim go, you're gonna hear Jim go, 416 00:27:44.839 --> 00:27:47.359 what's that that thing? That's stupid thing over there? And you're like a 417 00:27:47.480 --> 00:27:52.519 pop, yeah, Pop, what's that stupid thing over there? Yeah? 418 00:27:53.440 --> 00:27:59.000 Well, Christopher's sitting in the in the pop room, Funcle Pope room. 419 00:27:59.400 --> 00:28:03.240 They're all to the other side. We're building the funk pop. Yeah. 420 00:28:04.079 --> 00:28:10.640 Now, now, having done Bloo for the what is one hundred anniversary? 421 00:28:11.240 --> 00:28:15.039 Um, I've kind of come full circle. So I'm thinking and and give 422 00:28:15.079 --> 00:28:21.440 me your professional opinion, I should do a duet with myself singing oo bit 423 00:28:21.519 --> 00:28:25.559 do I want to be like you who who oh bo bo ba ba ba 424 00:28:25.640 --> 00:28:30.960 bo you know Louie and baloo Oh. Yeah, there you go, because 425 00:28:32.039 --> 00:28:36.319 I do a duet with myself. I've done it with Tigger and Pooh, 426 00:28:36.920 --> 00:28:40.000 as long as you're doing the dance at the same time, right, yeah, 427 00:28:40.079 --> 00:28:45.359 well yeah, okay, well mama, yeah that's me. I'll do 428 00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:49.960 that. I did get to meet Louie Prima once once, so I was 429 00:28:51.200 --> 00:28:56.119 very very honored. And uh, he was standing outside of You're not gonna 430 00:28:56.160 --> 00:28:57.319 believe this, but it was in New Orleans, in the French Quarter, 431 00:28:57.480 --> 00:29:04.519 outside of a nightclub. Crazy crazy, right, and I and I and 432 00:29:04.640 --> 00:29:08.559 I was and I, you know, you see somebody famous and and I 433 00:29:08.920 --> 00:29:14.839 probably probably not many kids from Ohio knew who he was. But my dad 434 00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:18.359 was crazy about him. And he liked the one song he said that that 435 00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:22.759 he had and it was called how Come my Dog Don't balk when You come 436 00:29:22.880 --> 00:29:26.880 round? Because the thing was, you know, his wife was at home 437 00:29:27.480 --> 00:29:32.039 and anybody who comes by the door, the dog goes out of his mind. 438 00:29:32.559 --> 00:29:36.960 And there's a friend of his that an acquaintance of his that can come 439 00:29:37.000 --> 00:29:41.880 around and the dog doesn't balk because he's been there a few times when Louis 440 00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:45.400 wasn't home. And and I told him that, and he goes, yeah, 441 00:29:45.480 --> 00:29:48.519 that's that's the one, because you don't ever want to have to sing 442 00:29:48.680 --> 00:29:52.920 that song. And I said, okay, that's right, yeah, great 443 00:29:52.960 --> 00:29:56.559 guy. And and I knew Sambutara too. I hired him was to play 444 00:29:56.599 --> 00:30:00.559 it a They had to play it an affair. So the one for your 445 00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:03.160 birthday? Was it? The one? Yeah, because there was one you 446 00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:06.359 lost your voice for your birthday, was your fortieth or something? Oh no, 447 00:30:06.599 --> 00:30:07.680 no, no no, but it was for a birthday. It was 448 00:30:07.720 --> 00:30:11.359 for a birthday today, So Jim makes his birthday. I was gonna say, 449 00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:14.680 so, it sounds like Jim likes they throw a big birthday bash from 450 00:30:14.759 --> 00:30:18.400 himself every year he does. We're actually going to do his seventieth this year 451 00:30:19.079 --> 00:30:23.720 because it was his seventieth last year and he was working and I was sick 452 00:30:25.279 --> 00:30:29.000 and the kids weren't around. So we're going to throw a big, huge 453 00:30:29.039 --> 00:30:30.240 one this year. I mean, at seventy, you've got to do it. 454 00:30:30.680 --> 00:30:33.319 I'm assuming you just look at disney landing is going to let you rent 455 00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:38.160 the place out for nothing, right. Well, I think I think Christopher 456 00:30:38.279 --> 00:30:41.160 is on the wait list for Club thirty three, aren't you? I'm joining? 457 00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:47.519 Yeah, I am serious. So Club thirty three, how does that 458 00:30:47.640 --> 00:30:49.519 work? That concept at Disneyland? So what is for the people who aren't 459 00:30:49.519 --> 00:30:52.960 aware of Club thirty three? Tell us how does that work? Well, 460 00:30:52.039 --> 00:30:56.960 that's it's hard to say. Well, it's it originally started because it was 461 00:30:56.039 --> 00:31:03.440 named after the year that we and he started his Disney empire, nineteen thirty 462 00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:08.599 three. And it originally started as a very private, very intimate, little 463 00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:14.160 gathering hole, watering hole, the only place that served any alcohol, mind 464 00:31:14.240 --> 00:31:18.039 you, in Disneyland. And if you're looking for it, good luck, 465 00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:22.759 you're not gonna find it. You gotta know where it is. And you 466 00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:26.720 really have to know somebody to get in. And so I've been there some 467 00:31:27.720 --> 00:31:33.480 x amount of times, but over the years, and uh, you know, 468 00:31:33.559 --> 00:31:36.960 you have to know somebody. Then they'll you call somebody, and then 469 00:31:37.079 --> 00:31:41.039 somebody send somebody else down and then they walk and then they check you out 470 00:31:41.119 --> 00:31:45.319 and they you know, look this way in cough and then okay, good, 471 00:31:45.359 --> 00:31:49.039 you can commit. So uh so we did that, and I remember 472 00:31:49.079 --> 00:31:53.039 it was years ago. I was there. Oh, gosh, a good 473 00:31:53.119 --> 00:31:56.240 while ago. It was right after Princess and the Frog. Kind of a 474 00:31:56.319 --> 00:32:01.200 cute story, and they had completely redone it all completely completely. Wouldn't have 475 00:32:01.279 --> 00:32:07.160 recognized it. And so I'm walking they let us in and I was there 476 00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:10.920 with my leg I say, my two younger daughters, and we're walking up 477 00:32:12.039 --> 00:32:15.200 the steps and they're they're smiling, and they're looking at me, and they're 478 00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:20.440 going, so, do you know where you are? And I go, 479 00:32:21.359 --> 00:32:24.960 yeah, I think I'm in Club thirty three and they go, yeah, 480 00:32:25.160 --> 00:32:29.359 but you were here before, and I go, yeah, it goes it 481 00:32:29.640 --> 00:32:32.759 doesn't look the same, and I go, it looks nothing. Not one 482 00:32:34.400 --> 00:32:38.240 board looks the same. And so and then I'm walking along and there are 483 00:32:38.279 --> 00:32:45.200 pictures of on the wall, and of course these are Disney paintings, so 484 00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:50.079 they're moving and there's a little log cabin sitting on a bayou and there's smoke 485 00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:54.599 coming out of the chimney actively, it's not just a painting of smoke coming 486 00:32:54.640 --> 00:32:57.839 out of it. And I said, oh, okay. Then you look 487 00:32:57.880 --> 00:33:00.519 and then there's oh, wow, is that is that a No, that's 488 00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:02.799 an alligator? Okay, good in the water. And then you're walking and 489 00:33:02.880 --> 00:33:07.200 then there's another one, and then you walk into the room and there's a 490 00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:13.079 nice, big, gorgeous bar there, and there is a there's a picture 491 00:33:13.079 --> 00:33:17.440 of a sax player and a trumpet player on the wall, and there's a 492 00:33:17.480 --> 00:33:23.400 trumpet hanging above the bar and a saxophone hanging above the bar. And depending 493 00:33:23.440 --> 00:33:30.599 on who's taking a solo, the musician disappears from the painting reappears up on 494 00:33:30.759 --> 00:33:36.039 the wall playing the solo, and then they go back and forth, trumpet 495 00:33:36.119 --> 00:33:39.799 to sax. And I'm walking around and my one daughter was sitting over there 496 00:33:39.839 --> 00:33:45.359 at the tap at the piano playing these songs, and they and this fellow 497 00:33:45.400 --> 00:33:49.359 says, do you still not know where you are? And I go, 498 00:33:49.680 --> 00:33:53.319 wow, this is really really familiar. And they hand me, oh, 499 00:33:53.440 --> 00:33:58.400 I think you can hand me that little thing over there, hunt They hand 500 00:33:58.480 --> 00:34:05.079 me the menu. Yeah, and they say you're in Tiana's Place from Princess 501 00:34:05.160 --> 00:34:09.679 and the Frog, right, and there's the menu with my big glowing butt. 502 00:34:10.159 --> 00:34:14.679 Right, yeah, yeah, that's right. Come on in, y'all. 503 00:34:15.239 --> 00:34:21.039 There you go, Club thirty three. Oh that's right. And uh 504 00:34:21.119 --> 00:34:25.840 and there by the way is Evangeline. Look how she lights up the guy 505 00:34:28.239 --> 00:34:32.280 that's my bell Evangeline, and here's my bell Margaret. So I'm assuming the 506 00:34:32.360 --> 00:34:37.480 oldest, like starstruck by you, right, I guess. And I didn't 507 00:34:37.519 --> 00:34:38.920 know anybody. I guess you know, I'm a voiceover guy. And I 508 00:34:39.079 --> 00:34:42.719 and I said to him, I said, how did you know I am? 509 00:34:42.880 --> 00:34:45.119 I mean, don't I don't get that. And he goes, he's 510 00:34:45.199 --> 00:34:51.679 so sweet. The guy says, mister Cummings, everybody here knows who you 511 00:34:51.800 --> 00:34:54.559 are. And I and I look around and I go like this, and 512 00:34:54.880 --> 00:34:58.800 there's like eight or ten waiters and they're all sitting there looking at me, 513 00:35:00.039 --> 00:35:00.960 and I go, oh, yeah, okay, yeah, I see, 514 00:35:01.000 --> 00:35:05.119 okay, Hi, you know, you know, no many parts today feeling 515 00:35:05.119 --> 00:35:08.920 it's fitty to song to and so I felt like the Pope for a minute. 516 00:35:09.599 --> 00:35:12.920 But so that's my story. Wait, what was on the menu? 517 00:35:13.000 --> 00:35:15.840 We gotta know, we gotta know something that was on the menu. Well, 518 00:35:15.880 --> 00:35:17.719 we just so happened to have it here. I couldn't hear you her, 519 00:35:17.840 --> 00:35:22.480 I can, I cannot open it for you. Okay, do they 520 00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:27.119 have some damned crawfishes? Let me tell y'all what we got. We got 521 00:35:27.199 --> 00:35:30.079 the ruby got that ruby red grape fruit. There you put it in your 522 00:35:30.159 --> 00:35:35.280 face. And let's see what else we got. We got the churing menu, 523 00:35:36.000 --> 00:35:38.280 but there ain't no cheering on the menu. Where we're gonna to keep 524 00:35:38.360 --> 00:35:44.280 looking? How about that a sort of mountain death beverages. Oh, you 525 00:35:44.440 --> 00:35:46.599 know that's good. It's a pountain and a beat, a room beer, 526 00:35:47.199 --> 00:35:51.880 beat a root beer. M Well, there's nothing good on here so far. 527 00:35:51.960 --> 00:35:55.840 Well there is anula anyway. There you have it here, I'll give 528 00:35:55.880 --> 00:35:59.519 you the I was about. I was about to say, it's a good 529 00:35:59.559 --> 00:36:00.920 sales for Club thirty three and two. He sill, there's nothing good on 530 00:36:02.239 --> 00:36:08.440 Yeah, well, you know, according to Ray, I can imagine the 531 00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:14.119 prices must be up there as well. Only those you can afford to get 532 00:36:14.119 --> 00:36:15.159 the Club thirty three can afford to pay for the food there as well. 533 00:36:15.440 --> 00:36:19.159 No, listen, honestly, ask Chris. He's on the waiting list. 534 00:36:19.199 --> 00:36:22.760 He's got he's getting a membership. It's like it's like the same as getting 535 00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:27.639 like a golf membership at a country club or like you know how they have 536 00:36:27.760 --> 00:36:30.400 those like members only restaurants like Soho House and stuff. It's like a similar 537 00:36:30.480 --> 00:36:34.679 process to that. Yeah, it's like you get a recommendation, yea and 538 00:36:34.760 --> 00:36:37.519 then you pay, you know, wait on a waiting list and then eventually 539 00:36:37.599 --> 00:36:39.599 one day you get accepted and pay all their fees and everything. Blah blah 540 00:36:39.599 --> 00:36:44.320 blah. Well, here in Australia we have a really big sporting ground where 541 00:36:44.320 --> 00:36:46.480 we play Austlian roles football and cricket's called the MCG the Melbourne Cricket Ground. 542 00:36:46.480 --> 00:36:49.679 And even want to be part of the social club there. It's like a 543 00:36:49.760 --> 00:36:52.159 twenty year wait to get in there. But you gotta you know, I've 544 00:36:52.159 --> 00:36:54.440 got friends who have put their kids on the list now who are like three, 545 00:36:54.760 --> 00:36:58.039 and they'll get they'll get in there when they're like twenty. But you 546 00:36:58.119 --> 00:37:00.480 gotta that's how long you gotta wait to get bad. Yeah, yeah, 547 00:37:00.760 --> 00:37:05.199 we've we've heard it's quite a while for Club thirty three, like close to 548 00:37:05.280 --> 00:37:08.159 ten years. Wow. Yeah, it's funny you brought up now because I 549 00:37:08.360 --> 00:37:12.880 now think I've been in there by accident. So I was there on my 550 00:37:12.960 --> 00:37:16.000 honeymoon in twenty sixteen, right, and we met friends over there who also 551 00:37:16.039 --> 00:37:19.960 from a show but over there as well, and we thought we're so hungry, 552 00:37:19.960 --> 00:37:22.760 but we'd always wanted to like a crappy Hamburg and chiplet let's go fine 553 00:37:22.800 --> 00:37:24.559 somewhere, and we somewhat across this place. Well, is it like a 554 00:37:24.639 --> 00:37:27.960 restaurant because it looked like it felt like a restaurant, right, yeah, 555 00:37:28.320 --> 00:37:30.960 And then I was just off fancy blah blah blah, and we walked in 556 00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:34.000 and there was no one in there, and we just sort of walked in. 557 00:37:34.119 --> 00:37:37.519 We sat down. It's weird a restaurant and Disneyland and no one's in 558 00:37:37.559 --> 00:37:38.800 here anyway, right, So we're sitting down and men looking at the menus 559 00:37:38.840 --> 00:37:43.039 and people are looking at as funny. And this girl walks over and she 560 00:37:43.119 --> 00:37:46.239 goes, I'm excuse me, I'm do do you have an invitation to be 561 00:37:46.280 --> 00:37:49.639 in here? And we go no, no, just walked in. She 562 00:37:49.960 --> 00:37:52.239 ah, I'm sorry, we enough to ask you to leave. It must 563 00:37:52.239 --> 00:37:54.920 have been Club thirty three. I shouldn't say it was club Was it upstairs? 564 00:37:55.079 --> 00:37:58.000 And she was just like, I think you need to leave, sir. 565 00:37:58.079 --> 00:38:01.400 You are not welcome here. Oh boy, yes, I think I've 566 00:38:01.400 --> 00:38:04.880 been in there, sat down, but I was I was a commoner who 567 00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:07.039 they looked at, laughed at for a little a little bit, and then 568 00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:12.199 they escorted me at quiet. Okay, Well, those members of club thirty 569 00:38:12.239 --> 00:38:15.039 three. They know how to party. They shut Disneyland down. Oh yeah, 570 00:38:15.400 --> 00:38:22.199 remember so Chris, Jim and I the girls. There was just a 571 00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:25.840 pile of us. We got invited because Jim was singing at Club thirty three, 572 00:38:27.000 --> 00:38:31.000 right for like a private or private party climate for Club thirty three and 573 00:38:31.679 --> 00:38:36.559 at the party with time at the party start Chris eleven midnight, Yeah, 574 00:38:36.679 --> 00:38:40.480 midnight, Yeah, and they get you. You get on the train and 575 00:38:40.639 --> 00:38:45.199 everyone loads up on the train which I didn't even know that thing when anywhere. 576 00:38:45.239 --> 00:38:49.679 I thought it was kind of for show. No, yeah, takes 577 00:38:49.679 --> 00:38:52.280 it through Jurassic Park World and stuff like things I didn't even know they had 578 00:38:52.360 --> 00:38:58.800 there. And then you get off and it's the whole entire park is closed 579 00:38:58.880 --> 00:39:02.800 down with bands everywhere, completely close down. Be a huge buffets with ice 580 00:39:02.960 --> 00:39:07.840 filled with crap, lake sticking out, lobster everywhere, big giant ice sculpture, 581 00:39:07.960 --> 00:39:14.599 big part champagne flutes everywhere, and no no us staff really other than 582 00:39:14.679 --> 00:39:16.800 people that are like serving the food. And it's a free for all. 583 00:39:17.159 --> 00:39:20.840 And you can go on the ride and after dark, yeah, you can 584 00:39:20.920 --> 00:39:23.840 go on the rides. Nobody's there to like strap you in or do anything. 585 00:39:24.199 --> 00:39:30.679 We went on what was that ride with the water Oh, the water 586 00:39:30.840 --> 00:39:34.320 ride the Pirates of the Caribbean. Oh, yes, that was it. 587 00:39:35.159 --> 00:39:37.239 We just went on and that over and over again. It was like two 588 00:39:37.280 --> 00:39:38.559 in the morning. Yeah, there was. We didn't see anybody. It 589 00:39:38.760 --> 00:39:44.119 was like ten of us all piled off. Nobody's getting telling us to get 590 00:39:44.159 --> 00:39:46.519 off. I got stuck on that ride for nineteen minutes. It's stopped right 591 00:39:46.599 --> 00:39:50.639 at the very start. It was just this. That was this thing going 592 00:39:50.960 --> 00:39:54.639 dead Men Tell No Tales. I mean to listen to that stopped. Let 593 00:39:54.719 --> 00:40:00.400 us get off. Ninety minutes of dead Men Tell No tal And you thought 594 00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:04.119 you were going to become one of them and tell this tale, but you 595 00:40:04.239 --> 00:40:06.000 made it. If you don't let me off this thing, you will be 596 00:40:06.079 --> 00:40:09.280 sad. Yeah that's right. But yeah that sounds great, so good. 597 00:40:09.480 --> 00:40:12.719 That was that party. What were you singing at the party? How long? 598 00:40:12.840 --> 00:40:15.719 Guy? Was it? Well? It was um it was. They 599 00:40:15.840 --> 00:40:20.400 had me sing both my songs from Princess and the Frog Okay, gonna take 600 00:40:20.480 --> 00:40:23.840 you there and my bell Evangeline and boy it was fun. Yeah. And 601 00:40:23.960 --> 00:40:29.199 I was on the I was on the boat with with like a I don't 602 00:40:29.199 --> 00:40:31.199 know, a seven piece brass band. You know. They had a tuba, 603 00:40:31.360 --> 00:40:36.239 they had trumpet, saxe. It was so nice. It was really 604 00:40:36.400 --> 00:40:39.800 well done, very very classy. They had some unique food there. I 605 00:40:39.960 --> 00:40:45.440 had an alligator gumbo. Yeah, I remember alligator gumbo and like I swear 606 00:40:45.480 --> 00:40:49.400 it was like stork or something. It was some exotic bird. It was 607 00:40:49.480 --> 00:40:52.960 a weird bird, not a stork, but it was something that are extinct 608 00:40:53.000 --> 00:41:00.440 for the commona but for Disney fans, for Disney, yes, yes, 609 00:41:00.639 --> 00:41:05.519 Well, these members they all know each other and evidently they like travel everywhere 610 00:41:05.559 --> 00:41:08.679 together and they go and do everything so like they send it like they're not 611 00:41:08.840 --> 00:41:15.119 even playing around. Like the parties are like a whole other level because they 612 00:41:15.199 --> 00:41:19.880 all know each other and they're all like big kids that are filthy rich running 613 00:41:19.920 --> 00:41:23.400 around to Seyland in the middle of the night. Yeah. I was happy 614 00:41:23.440 --> 00:41:29.280 to be their mascot, you know that night. Well, i'll tell you 615 00:41:29.880 --> 00:41:34.400 just shooting back to Sydney. Um. The one thing that Jim did that 616 00:41:34.559 --> 00:41:38.559 was a little bit different was they had him on a stage right, oh 617 00:41:38.679 --> 00:41:45.679 yeah, like a little mini kind of yeah yeah, yeah, it wasn't 618 00:41:45.760 --> 00:41:47.679 that mini, but it wasn't mini. It was like I was gonna say, 619 00:41:47.679 --> 00:41:51.719 like a little mini stadium because people were singing in there and stuff like 620 00:41:51.800 --> 00:41:55.800 that. Yeah, and the questions were very serious, very different than in 621 00:41:55.920 --> 00:42:00.199 the United States. They came very prepared, they had their notepads, they 622 00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:05.159 had their questions. They were really considering it like it was like a journalism 623 00:42:05.239 --> 00:42:09.559 interview. And so that was really interesting because you actually got to hear some 624 00:42:10.159 --> 00:42:15.840 real serious dialogue. Evidently. You know, there was a lot of questions 625 00:42:15.920 --> 00:42:21.320 about Disney doing the movies, the sales of their films, their animation, 626 00:42:21.960 --> 00:42:27.239 and you know, the competitors, and they had all their their numbers figured 627 00:42:27.280 --> 00:42:30.159 out, and you know, in the United States, not many people would 628 00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:38.360 ask somebody who's been on the front end of Disney for almost forty years about 629 00:42:38.519 --> 00:42:43.360 the competitors and what the money they're making and stuff like that. So they 630 00:42:43.440 --> 00:42:46.440 were taking it really seriously there. I found that one pretty interesting. Yeah, 631 00:42:46.480 --> 00:42:51.880 absolutely. I wonder if that's because you know, here in Australia they 632 00:42:51.960 --> 00:42:53.559 might have been taken the perspective of, well, Jim may never come back, 633 00:42:53.679 --> 00:42:57.119 so this might be my only chance to asking some questions, so let's 634 00:42:57.119 --> 00:43:00.119 not asking the stuff he's already been asked. Where maybe in America you know, 635 00:43:00.199 --> 00:43:01.920 because you do so many in America. It's almost like they don't take 636 00:43:01.960 --> 00:43:04.559 it for granted. But it's like, oh me, he might come back 637 00:43:05.000 --> 00:43:07.320 next year or things like that, where we not that we respect it more, 638 00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:09.679 but it's like we treat it like this could be a one time only. 639 00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:14.360 Sure that makes perfect sense. Yeah, and I do have that sense. 640 00:43:14.599 --> 00:43:15.719 Yeah, I think it means more to us as well, because you 641 00:43:15.760 --> 00:43:19.360 know, you're coming this far, like there's there'll be people there that you 642 00:43:19.840 --> 00:43:22.159 may never come back, you know what I mean, Like it's it's a 643 00:43:22.239 --> 00:43:23.679 it's a big trip, you know, you never know. Yeah, and 644 00:43:23.760 --> 00:43:25.840 it's been what ten years in between trips, so yeah, I think a 645 00:43:25.920 --> 00:43:29.360 show is just really respect to the fact that they're getting the chance to meet 646 00:43:29.360 --> 00:43:30.440 you, Like they really respect the fact that you've made the trip down. 647 00:43:30.559 --> 00:43:34.079 Yeah. Yeah, I think that's a good way of putting it. There 648 00:43:34.079 --> 00:43:37.840 were very respect It was very serious. It was still fun, but it 649 00:43:37.960 --> 00:43:40.599 was it was more serious topics. And the ones that didn't get, you 650 00:43:40.679 --> 00:43:44.639 know, the mic to come over to them, they then would get in 651 00:43:44.679 --> 00:43:47.880 the line and they would wait in the line, and then you'd see him 652 00:43:47.880 --> 00:43:52.079 with these pads and I was like, I wonder if who's that that's coming 653 00:43:52.159 --> 00:43:53.760 up, and then they would say, you know, I didn't get to 654 00:43:54.400 --> 00:43:57.800 talk to you at the Q and A, so do you mind can I 655 00:43:57.880 --> 00:44:02.559 ask you these questions now? It was like, it's fine be interviewed on 656 00:44:02.679 --> 00:44:07.039 the floor in the lineup for the autographs. Again, they weren't going to 657 00:44:07.159 --> 00:44:09.480 let that one go. Yeah, that was very cool. Yeah, I 658 00:44:09.599 --> 00:44:13.519 enjoyed it so much. I want to ask you a question. There is 659 00:44:13.920 --> 00:44:17.159 a Ninja Turtles movie coming out in next month, well early August, and 660 00:44:17.360 --> 00:44:21.920 Leatherhead's in it, but it's voiced by a woman. Were you ever at 661 00:44:21.960 --> 00:44:25.199 all consulted for that role? I heard about that, and that's going to 662 00:44:25.239 --> 00:44:29.760 be interesting. Yeah. I can only assume leather Head is going to be 663 00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:32.079 a female in the movie, because you wouldn't. That doesn't really make sense 664 00:44:32.119 --> 00:44:37.599 to hire Roads to play their own male character, right, Yeah, that's 665 00:44:37.960 --> 00:44:42.559 yeah, leatherette Head, I have no idea. Yeah, I wasn't approached. 666 00:44:42.840 --> 00:44:45.239 None of my friends were that I know of the you know, the 667 00:44:45.320 --> 00:44:50.039 guys are from the cartoon. Yeah, so I don't know. That's a 668 00:44:50.159 --> 00:44:52.039 that's a strange one to me, that that that, you know, you 669 00:44:52.119 --> 00:44:53.599 guys were the original voices, and the fact that you want to be consulted 670 00:44:53.599 --> 00:44:59.480 on the character just seems it seems wrong to me, especially especially for that 671 00:45:00.039 --> 00:45:02.840 character. I mean I could see another one, you know, here or 672 00:45:02.920 --> 00:45:06.920 there. I mean, maybe even a turtle. I don't know, but 673 00:45:07.320 --> 00:45:12.159 um, you know the idea of a female Ninja isn't you know? That's 674 00:45:12.199 --> 00:45:16.800 not that far fetched Electra from Daredevil. But yeah, the idea that Leatherhead, 675 00:45:17.199 --> 00:45:22.639 because Leatherhead the voice that I used was the captain from the very first 676 00:45:22.679 --> 00:45:27.599 Tugboat I think I mentioned. You know, his name was Leon's LeBlanc. 677 00:45:27.960 --> 00:45:31.360 And it don't sound like no woman. No, okay, b Arthur maybe, 678 00:45:31.719 --> 00:45:36.199 but but she's the only one makes a good makes a good soup, 679 00:45:36.320 --> 00:45:39.440 right, you had to make a good sup That's right. I don't know. 680 00:45:39.559 --> 00:45:43.639 I can't wait to not see it. I mean, I'll see it 681 00:45:43.679 --> 00:45:47.239 as soon as I can. But didn't you just do didn't didn't you just 682 00:45:47.320 --> 00:45:52.119 do a video game as letter it? I think? So you just didn't? 683 00:45:52.320 --> 00:45:54.079 I think didn't you do Shredder recently? As a video game? You 684 00:45:54.119 --> 00:45:58.920 did shredd Oh yeah, I was Shredder. I was one third of Shredder 685 00:45:59.480 --> 00:46:04.199 of the Shredders. So you were you were you Shredder after James past Or 686 00:46:04.280 --> 00:46:07.320 James left, he didn't Yeah, he left, well, he left, 687 00:46:07.639 --> 00:46:09.280 Yeah, he left. James Avery left, he was the first one. 688 00:46:09.559 --> 00:46:14.280 Then Dorian Harewood, my buddy, he one of my fellow California reasons, 689 00:46:14.840 --> 00:46:19.880 and then um, I don't know what what happened with that, but I 690 00:46:20.039 --> 00:46:22.320 was Shredder for the last maybe two years or a year and a half something 691 00:46:22.360 --> 00:46:24.960 like that. Okay, of the of the series, the original series, 692 00:46:25.159 --> 00:46:28.880 it's one of one of the characters that you don't really get sort of assigned. 693 00:46:28.920 --> 00:46:30.039 When people think of Jim Cummings, they very really think of Shredder. 694 00:46:30.039 --> 00:46:34.199 But Shredder is a very very big character. But it's just odd that, 695 00:46:34.239 --> 00:46:37.599 you know, no one thinks of Shredder Jim Cummings. You know, it's 696 00:46:37.599 --> 00:46:40.639 always we need to poo teague dark means it's not Shredder. Yeah, I 697 00:46:40.800 --> 00:46:44.880 was the third Shredder, so that that'll be a part of it. I'm 698 00:46:44.920 --> 00:46:47.119 sure, I'm sure. But you know, people in Australia shir did I 699 00:46:47.199 --> 00:46:51.239 signed a lot of Shredders. Yeah. Well, I've got an interested part 700 00:46:51.239 --> 00:46:53.599 of sort of like Ninja Turtles fan groups and so many people commenting on how 701 00:46:53.679 --> 00:46:58.880 amazing it was hearing Leatherheads speak and hearing this the history of Deliverhead character and 702 00:46:59.039 --> 00:47:00.519 getting to meet you know, there were so many people that were just so 703 00:47:00.960 --> 00:47:05.639 glad they got to meet the Leatherhead you know, wow, that's great. 704 00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:08.880 Well, I like meeting them too. So you went to Sydney and Perth 705 00:47:09.000 --> 00:47:12.719 was the one after, but in between, so you know, we're going 706 00:47:12.800 --> 00:47:14.599 to do a show when you're down here, but we didn't find time. 707 00:47:14.639 --> 00:47:15.199 And I messaged you us like, Jim, do you want to do a 708 00:47:15.239 --> 00:47:17.280 show, And you're like, oh, I could, but I'm on my 709 00:47:17.320 --> 00:47:22.239 way to Fiji. I was like, what what was about? Figi? 710 00:47:22.920 --> 00:47:25.920 It was great. It was her idea, you know, big surprise, 711 00:47:27.840 --> 00:47:34.320 and she were sitting around and she goes, okay, so let's pack up 712 00:47:34.360 --> 00:47:37.480 some of our bags and uh, we're gonna put the others in storage andago 713 00:47:37.840 --> 00:47:40.199 and why do you suppose we do that? She goes, We're not going 714 00:47:40.280 --> 00:47:43.880 to need him in Fiji, and I went, oh, well sure, 715 00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:46.400 okay, you know, so off we went. And I had no idea. 716 00:47:46.440 --> 00:47:51.320 Fiji was so close because when you first Topics Guy our the co host, 717 00:47:51.320 --> 00:47:52.159 you messaged me saying they'll be doing a show tomorrow, and I went, 718 00:47:52.559 --> 00:47:55.480 I think Jim's going to Fiji. He's like, what, where? 719 00:47:55.880 --> 00:47:59.199 What? And I looked it up and it's only about a three to four 720 00:47:59.239 --> 00:48:01.280 hour flight away. I always thought faj was so far away from Mischia, 721 00:48:01.400 --> 00:48:05.159 but yeah, it's actually quite close. And Nicola and my wife was like, 722 00:48:05.320 --> 00:48:07.000 wouldn't it be nice to just decide I'm going on a holiday to Faj. 723 00:48:07.159 --> 00:48:08.679 I was like, it would be lovely. But yeah, you were 724 00:48:08.760 --> 00:48:12.679 telling me that when you were there you got to record some songs with a 725 00:48:12.719 --> 00:48:15.119 band or something. It was fun. Yeah, would you tell them? 726 00:48:15.360 --> 00:48:21.559 Well, we went to Idea. We went to one of the hotels after 727 00:48:21.719 --> 00:48:25.480 dinner to see if we could find like, um, some music or something, 728 00:48:25.639 --> 00:48:31.280 you know, and there was these three gentlemen. They were Fijian and 729 00:48:31.639 --> 00:48:36.599 they were credible. They were sitting with their guitars and they had their mics 730 00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:38.840 and they were kind of a bit of a cluster in the beginning. Really 731 00:48:38.960 --> 00:48:43.880 remember the mics fell off, the scan, the speaker fell over. I 732 00:48:43.960 --> 00:48:45.480 mean we were just going, oh my god. And Jim was like, 733 00:48:45.559 --> 00:48:50.159 oh, I feel so bad for these guys. And it was kind of 734 00:48:50.320 --> 00:48:52.519 you know, and they got it together and they were wonderful and then yeah 735 00:48:53.000 --> 00:48:57.880 sang when they started, Oh my goodness, and they were doing a lot 736 00:48:57.960 --> 00:49:01.159 of cover bands. Oh yeah, a lot of run of American music that 737 00:49:01.320 --> 00:49:07.400 Jim loves. And so Jim was kind of clapping away and everyone was very 738 00:49:07.519 --> 00:49:13.119 you know, serious, and Jim likes to acknowledge when somebody's finished singing, 739 00:49:13.639 --> 00:49:16.039 and if he likes the music, you know, they're good. Now I'm 740 00:49:16.039 --> 00:49:21.280 sitting there clapping forcing everybody else to clap. Yeah, and you could kind 741 00:49:21.280 --> 00:49:23.960 of get a couple claps from everybody, but nobody was like really into it. 742 00:49:24.639 --> 00:49:28.239 And then I went over and I left a tip, which I guess 743 00:49:28.360 --> 00:49:32.039 is something that you guys in Australia don't do either. Well, we make 744 00:49:32.119 --> 00:49:35.400 the businesses pay the works a lot more money, that's what we do. 745 00:49:35.639 --> 00:49:38.519 Yeah, that's good. And so I went up and I tipped them and 746 00:49:38.679 --> 00:49:42.320 I said, you know, my husband just loves your music and he's a 747 00:49:42.400 --> 00:49:45.519 singer. And they were like oh really, oh wow, thank you so 748 00:49:45.719 --> 00:49:49.480 much, and we sat back down. In like twenty minutes later, they 749 00:49:49.800 --> 00:49:52.559 asked Jim to come up and sing with them, and we were like what, 750 00:49:53.599 --> 00:49:57.400 So Jim went up and they took like five minutes to figure out what 751 00:49:57.519 --> 00:50:01.800 they were going to sing and ended up singing stand by Me when the Night 752 00:50:02.400 --> 00:50:09.360 is coole that one? Yeah, did you sing the Benny King version or 753 00:50:09.360 --> 00:50:13.559 the John Lennon version? Which version? Did the Benny King? Yeah? 754 00:50:13.599 --> 00:50:15.920 Yeah, yeah, the old one. John was good and they were so 755 00:50:16.199 --> 00:50:20.079 good. Yeah, And we just had so much fun with them. We 756 00:50:20.360 --> 00:50:27.199 enjoyed it so much that um I gave them our hotel and our room number, 757 00:50:27.800 --> 00:50:30.159 and I said, why didn't you come to our hotel tomorrow night and 758 00:50:30.480 --> 00:50:35.239 play with us in our suite? And they were like, what are you 759 00:50:35.360 --> 00:50:37.920 sure? You know? Done? Yea, they had a gig. Yeah, 760 00:50:37.119 --> 00:50:39.760 And we said, yeah, we'll hire you guys. We would just 761 00:50:39.840 --> 00:50:45.119 want to keep hearing you guys sing. And so the next day I said 762 00:50:45.159 --> 00:50:47.559 to Jim, oh, we should go down down and catch the fire dancers 763 00:50:47.960 --> 00:50:52.079 down by the pool. It was starting it like I don't know five, 764 00:50:52.760 --> 00:50:55.400 And we went down there and we met the general manager of the hotel and 765 00:50:55.639 --> 00:50:58.639 we started talking and we said, oh, yeah, we have a band 766 00:50:58.719 --> 00:51:02.760 coming over from the Sharans. He's making ourselves at home. He said, 767 00:51:04.679 --> 00:51:07.400 oh, let me get you a big sweet and you have a view of 768 00:51:07.480 --> 00:51:09.239 the ocean. Let me set all of that up for you. I'd love 769 00:51:09.280 --> 00:51:13.079 to do that for you. Blah blah blah. Here's my business card and 770 00:51:13.239 --> 00:51:15.800 email me and I'll make sure you have it. Well, we never heard 771 00:51:15.880 --> 00:51:20.719 from him again. And then we got a call. And then we got 772 00:51:20.800 --> 00:51:24.239 a call from the front desk and they said the band is here. And 773 00:51:24.360 --> 00:51:28.400 Jim and I were actually saying, I don't think they're gonna show. I 774 00:51:28.480 --> 00:51:30.800 mean, do they really think we're serious? You know, we were kind 775 00:51:30.840 --> 00:51:34.039 of having some drinks. I don't know, I don't know. Let's just 776 00:51:34.119 --> 00:51:37.679 shower anyway. Yeah, we've gone snorkeling all day. We were there as 777 00:51:37.719 --> 00:51:40.079 well, and they showered in. Lulu outs to the phone and she comes 778 00:51:40.159 --> 00:51:44.480 and she says, hey, and I'm in the bathroom in the shower, 779 00:51:44.519 --> 00:51:45.880 and I go, yeah, it goes the band's down in the lobby. 780 00:51:50.039 --> 00:51:52.760 Oh my god. They showed so like I'm trying to shower as fast as 781 00:51:52.800 --> 00:51:57.199 I can, like full of salt water in my hair. We're snorkeling all 782 00:51:57.280 --> 00:51:59.800 day and then Jim's like, what do you think? And I go, 783 00:52:00.079 --> 00:52:01.360 come on, let's go down there. And we're like twenty minutes late, 784 00:52:01.800 --> 00:52:05.760 and you could see on their face, and I mean they had all of 785 00:52:05.800 --> 00:52:09.840 their equipment, the speakers, the microphones, the guitars, everything, and 786 00:52:10.119 --> 00:52:15.280 you could tell on their face that they were just about to walk up to 787 00:52:15.360 --> 00:52:19.119 the front desk, maybe to leave a message that they were leaving, or 788 00:52:19.239 --> 00:52:21.880 that they were going to call us and say, you know, we're just 789 00:52:21.920 --> 00:52:24.360 going to head out. Yeah. And one of the guys turned and he 790 00:52:24.519 --> 00:52:28.920 caught me kind of looking at my hair is all wet, all clomb back, 791 00:52:28.960 --> 00:52:30.639 you know. I wasn't sure if he recognized me. I said, 792 00:52:30.960 --> 00:52:34.039 it's Jim Cumming's wife, how are you? And their face just something like 793 00:52:34.320 --> 00:52:38.960 they let out like this huge side and they all looked at each other and 794 00:52:39.079 --> 00:52:44.000 then we all just started hugging. And then Jim came in and Hi, 795 00:52:44.159 --> 00:52:45.360 flying everything and he said, come on, let's go, and they put 796 00:52:45.440 --> 00:52:51.119 all the equipment on the suitcase trolleys. We found an elevator. It was 797 00:52:51.199 --> 00:52:53.559 great. We set up in our suite which wasn't that big, and that 798 00:52:53.639 --> 00:52:59.679 we just moved the furniture around you. Yeah, and they jammed and they 799 00:52:59.719 --> 00:53:05.599 play a lot of their Fijian music, which was just beautiful and to look 800 00:53:05.639 --> 00:53:08.519 at them and then to hear them sing, you just would never imagine that 801 00:53:08.599 --> 00:53:14.280 it's coming from them. Yeah, and then Jim got in with them, 802 00:53:14.599 --> 00:53:19.199 and Jim jammed with them and we recorded it, and then they said, 803 00:53:19.599 --> 00:53:22.960 you know, we just want to let you know that we have our gigs 804 00:53:22.960 --> 00:53:27.199 still tonight back over at the Sheraton, So we got to pack up and 805 00:53:27.400 --> 00:53:30.760 head over there, but we would like to invite you back to our house 806 00:53:30.440 --> 00:53:36.960 and jam tonight. And just so you know, they're sixteen of us that 807 00:53:37.159 --> 00:53:40.880 live all together, and we are not people of means, but we all 808 00:53:42.199 --> 00:53:46.280 really really love music, and we all love each other and it's what makes 809 00:53:46.360 --> 00:53:51.480 us happy and it would just be us our honor if we could bring you 810 00:53:51.599 --> 00:53:54.719 back to the house and you know, we could continue this jam session. 811 00:53:55.320 --> 00:54:00.440 The only problem was that we were flying out in the morning and we had 812 00:54:00.519 --> 00:54:05.519 to be at the convention in Perth and they were playing at the Sheraton and 813 00:54:05.559 --> 00:54:08.079 they were closing, so that would have been too late for us to have 814 00:54:08.239 --> 00:54:12.079 done it. But we're definitely going to take a rain check on that. 815 00:54:12.440 --> 00:54:15.800 Yeah, it was just down there. Next week. We'll see them. 816 00:54:16.639 --> 00:54:19.519 You sang I stand by me at the show. But like what did you 817 00:54:19.559 --> 00:54:23.679 sing in your room with him? Oh gosh, maybe like a Billy Joel's 818 00:54:23.719 --> 00:54:27.760 song or something you remember, Yeah, you sang Billy Joel. Yeah, 819 00:54:27.960 --> 00:54:30.760 and then you sang some of the feet, one of the Fijian songs with 820 00:54:30.920 --> 00:54:36.400 them. And then they actually want Jim to come back and they want to 821 00:54:36.639 --> 00:54:43.039 record a song, a Fijian song with Jim, and I think we're gonna 822 00:54:43.159 --> 00:54:45.119 we're gonna look into the possibility of doing some time. I'm there. Are 823 00:54:45.159 --> 00:54:47.119 you coming back to the super Niver's Light in the year or is it? 824 00:54:47.199 --> 00:54:50.800 Are you done for Australia now for a while? I think we're done for 825 00:54:50.840 --> 00:54:53.480 a while. Yeah, they have one that is two more at the year 826 00:54:53.679 --> 00:54:55.559 the end of the year, but wasn't sure what you're coming back for those? 827 00:54:55.719 --> 00:54:59.800 Yeah, I don't think so. I understand them to be smallers and 828 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:02.719 I've got different things spoked up here, So yes, yeah, if it 829 00:55:02.840 --> 00:55:07.320 comes up that we could make it work, we would because then we would 830 00:55:07.320 --> 00:55:10.920 go over to Fiji after and how you know, Chris and everyone come on 831 00:55:12.079 --> 00:55:15.599 out and make a make a holiday out of it, and then Jim could 832 00:55:15.679 --> 00:55:19.000 record the song. So you know, we never see never, but for 833 00:55:19.199 --> 00:55:22.719 right now that it's a bit of a conflict with the schedule. There was 834 00:55:22.760 --> 00:55:24.239 another thing where I was confused by the text. So the first thing was 835 00:55:24.280 --> 00:55:27.079 I'm going to Fiji. No. I was like, okay, I'll see 836 00:55:27.079 --> 00:55:29.599 you when you get back. And then you miss him be saying, hey, 837 00:55:30.079 --> 00:55:31.320 the band's coming over tonight. Did she we record something? And I 838 00:55:31.440 --> 00:55:42.159 was like, what these cryptic messages? Bands coming over? FYI? Margaret's 839 00:55:42.320 --> 00:55:45.199 got no phone doesn't work or something, and Jim's lost his Fine, I'm 840 00:55:45.199 --> 00:55:50.000 like, then how are you texting me? Well, Jim loses it and 841 00:55:50.079 --> 00:55:52.280 then all you have to do is feel his pockets and then it's like, 842 00:55:52.360 --> 00:55:55.639 okay, he didn't lose it. But I'm prepared to say, okay, 843 00:55:55.719 --> 00:55:59.519 he's lost his phone, what are we going to And then within thirty seconds 844 00:55:59.519 --> 00:56:01.039 he's found because he was just sinning. Yeah, I just get it. 845 00:56:01.360 --> 00:56:05.920 I just tell her that. So she feels my pockets. Yeah, that's 846 00:56:06.199 --> 00:56:10.199 understandable. There I've said it. Are you happy? So yeah, you 847 00:56:10.239 --> 00:56:14.000 went from Fiji went to Perth. Yeah, so all around you enjoyed your 848 00:56:14.000 --> 00:56:16.599 trip down Under? Oh? Absolutely, I love it. The only thing 849 00:56:16.840 --> 00:56:20.719 was that not many people take cash. Yeah, it was just a case 850 00:56:20.800 --> 00:56:22.400 of that's sort of one of the things that sort of popped up during COVID. 851 00:56:22.440 --> 00:56:27.519 They're like not doing cash and businesses have just gotten used to it now, 852 00:56:27.639 --> 00:56:30.519 which I'm not for it because I'd like to carry around cash in my 853 00:56:30.559 --> 00:56:32.239 pocket, you know, do cashes on the weekend here and there jobs, 854 00:56:32.280 --> 00:56:35.360 and it's just like, well, I've got twenty dollars here, take it. 855 00:56:35.440 --> 00:56:37.559 Like, no, I'd rather your card. I'm like, but I'm 856 00:56:37.599 --> 00:56:39.480 holding twenty dollars right here, would you not like to take? Well, 857 00:56:39.519 --> 00:56:44.599 we were at a restaurant, yeah, oh, last night, and when 858 00:56:44.679 --> 00:56:47.840 we went to go pay, Jim was pulling out cash and he had just 859 00:56:47.960 --> 00:56:52.159 thrown some in his pocket because we weren't taken you know, a lot of 860 00:56:52.159 --> 00:56:55.760 stuff with us. And they started laughing and said, oh, absolutely no, 861 00:56:55.880 --> 00:56:59.840 we don't take cash cards only. And so Jim's like, well, 862 00:57:00.159 --> 00:57:02.480 what if I don't have carts on me? Like and they're like well, 863 00:57:04.239 --> 00:57:07.280 um, oh well, and so we're like, well the dinners should be 864 00:57:07.320 --> 00:57:09.480 free then, shouldn't it. And we were kind of laughing because I had 865 00:57:09.559 --> 00:57:13.920 my wallet on me, but they didn't find the humor in it at all. 866 00:57:13.960 --> 00:57:16.480 In fact, they were shocked that we did not have a card, 867 00:57:17.039 --> 00:57:21.159 or they don't even look at you when you're ordering like fast food, and 868 00:57:21.400 --> 00:57:23.840 they just throw the card up and they're they're down getting your your shake or 869 00:57:23.880 --> 00:57:28.559 your juice, and then they throw the machine up and they're just waiting for 870 00:57:28.599 --> 00:57:30.639 you to tap and then when they finally look up because they haven't heard the 871 00:57:30.719 --> 00:57:35.639 beep, they send see, oh you have cash, like it's it's a 872 00:57:35.760 --> 00:57:39.920 it's a really big pause when you pull cash out in Australia. Yeah, 873 00:57:39.960 --> 00:57:44.360 it's hard. I think that the service may differ because you know, like 874 00:57:44.719 --> 00:57:46.199 we're saying earlier with the tips, we don't do tips here, so you 875 00:57:46.280 --> 00:57:51.719 know, you workers get paid more, so whether they're nice or whatever, 876 00:57:52.000 --> 00:57:53.840 they don't really tend to go the extra mile because they don't necessarily have to 877 00:57:53.920 --> 00:57:57.840 because they're getting it in their way. They're getting any way to America and 878 00:57:57.880 --> 00:58:00.039 the weights are so they're your best friend for the night because they rely on 879 00:58:00.159 --> 00:58:04.400 those tips, where in Australia they're not relying on tips. They're just being 880 00:58:04.440 --> 00:58:07.159 paid accordingly. They're just said to do a job. So I think that's 881 00:58:07.159 --> 00:58:09.039 where that's where it's a little bit different. Maybe oh yeah, oh yeah, 882 00:58:09.079 --> 00:58:13.480 we noticed that big big, big team. I remember when we flew 883 00:58:13.519 --> 00:58:15.679 to the States and I wasn't used to tipping. You know, I live 884 00:58:15.719 --> 00:58:17.599 in Australia. It was the first time I've been to the States. And 885 00:58:19.199 --> 00:58:23.159 the lady who drove us from the airport to the hotel, she was saying, 886 00:58:23.920 --> 00:58:25.679 we gave us some money when we got there. We paid her the 887 00:58:25.760 --> 00:58:28.760 fee or whatever, and she said, no, no, I'll get your 888 00:58:28.760 --> 00:58:30.960 bag out. And I went and took I've got It's fine, I can 889 00:58:30.960 --> 00:58:31.159 do it. And she goes, no, no, I've got it. 890 00:58:31.480 --> 00:58:34.719 I went, okay, fine, thank you, and she took it out 891 00:58:34.960 --> 00:58:37.320 and she should have expected a tip, and I was like, I've got 892 00:58:37.440 --> 00:58:38.599 no cash on me at the moment. It's just sort of plumped my bags 893 00:58:38.639 --> 00:58:45.559 in and left and I was like, okay, okay, So what have 894 00:58:45.639 --> 00:58:47.800 we got coming up in the near future? So you just finished Super over 895 00:58:47.840 --> 00:58:51.119 here in a Stralia. What's coming up next? Do you know? Margaret? 896 00:58:51.159 --> 00:58:52.199 Look, what's the next time jim schedule? Convention wise? Is there 897 00:58:52.199 --> 00:58:55.239 anything coming up on the knee horizon? Oh? Oh wow? Okay, 898 00:58:55.400 --> 00:59:00.480 yeah, So I don't know if you've ever heard of to morrow Land. 899 00:59:00.760 --> 00:59:04.719 Yes, Jim is gonna be voicing. That is that right, Yes he 900 00:59:04.960 --> 00:59:09.239 is. Jim has been voicing Tomorrowland years for over twelve years. Yeah, 901 00:59:09.880 --> 00:59:16.400 and um, they are bringing Jim and his family to Belgium for the opening 902 00:59:16.440 --> 00:59:22.400 of Tomorrowland in on the twenty first of July, six hundred thousand people. 903 00:59:22.599 --> 00:59:27.119 It's a little get together, just a little thing I threw together. And 904 00:59:27.320 --> 00:59:30.760 Jim is the country the Wizard. Are you a wizard or a private don't 905 00:59:30.840 --> 00:59:32.280 know. I think I'm a wizard. Give us the wizard. Well, 906 00:59:32.960 --> 00:59:42.639 people of Tomorrowland, Well come be at one with the universe. Another boulder 907 00:59:42.719 --> 00:59:46.559 roll, another blah blah blah yakadish mcadee, you know. And it's kind 908 00:59:46.599 --> 00:59:50.559 of like that, are you gonna be out on stage in your Dumbledore outfit 909 00:59:50.679 --> 00:59:54.719 or you're just gonna be doing the Jim offered. Jim offered to go and 910 00:59:54.800 --> 00:59:59.280 costume he would have love sex, And then they were thinking about it, 911 00:59:59.440 --> 01:00:01.239 and then they're like, no, actually we don't, we don't want him. 912 01:00:01.280 --> 01:00:07.679 We want we want Jim Cummings like he is the voice of love for 913 01:00:07.199 --> 01:00:12.159 our tomorrow laugh. I was just going to say that, Yeah, he 914 01:00:12.400 --> 01:00:15.639 was like that. We I mean, he just loves Jim. He did 915 01:00:15.719 --> 01:00:22.199 not know who Jim was until um thought during COVID the only thing I did 916 01:00:22.360 --> 01:00:25.360 because he wanted to try and get a hold of Gym during COVID and Jim 917 01:00:25.480 --> 01:00:29.920 had switched agents, and you know, Jim was mostly working from home and 918 01:00:30.000 --> 01:00:32.280 people were you know, yeah, it was a different time, and so 919 01:00:34.360 --> 01:00:37.239 so he was looking him up to try and find him. And then that's 920 01:00:37.280 --> 01:00:42.440 when he discovered who Jim was as a VO. And so he was telling 921 01:00:42.559 --> 01:00:45.280 us the story that like he almost fell out of his chair. He couldn't 922 01:00:45.280 --> 01:00:46.960 believe it. So he was like, you know, we've got to bring 923 01:00:47.079 --> 01:00:51.360 him out here. We've got to have him meet all the DJs, this, 924 01:00:51.559 --> 01:00:53.440 this and that. But you know, during COVID, when Jim did 925 01:00:53.679 --> 01:00:58.639 the recording, or was it just before COVID or after he was just after 926 01:00:58.719 --> 01:01:00.960 COVID around because at the they were closed for two years. Yeah, so 927 01:01:01.159 --> 01:01:06.480 I didn't have my glasses on. And Jim gets the email of the script 928 01:01:07.119 --> 01:01:09.239 and uh, and so I'm looking at it and I'm trying to make the 929 01:01:09.320 --> 01:01:13.239 font binker bigger for Jim. So you know, he's going to do it 930 01:01:13.320 --> 01:01:19.000 in the recording studio here at home, and it says we want you to 931 01:01:19.280 --> 01:01:24.320 kind of capture this feel of this this um link of this this guy talking. 932 01:01:24.400 --> 01:01:28.760 And I wasn't really reading like every word, so I just click on 933 01:01:28.840 --> 01:01:31.800 the YouTube link and I didn't have my glasses on, right, and it's 934 01:01:32.039 --> 01:01:37.000 and it's this guy with this little tiny mustache and he's talking like in the 935 01:01:37.480 --> 01:01:39.000 in the twenties. Yeah, it was, it was yeah, And it 936 01:01:39.119 --> 01:01:44.800 was a very stentorial yeah, you know speech, a rousing speech, a 937 01:01:44.960 --> 01:01:47.880 rallying speech. And so I said, oh my god, Jim, Jim, 938 01:01:49.000 --> 01:01:52.039 you can't do this. You can't do this opening for Tomorroland. And 939 01:01:52.199 --> 01:01:53.679 he goes, well why not? And I go they want you to do 940 01:01:53.760 --> 01:01:58.719 a speech about hit with Hitler. I think Hitler's doing the speech, and 941 01:01:58.840 --> 01:02:02.519 he goes, what this is unacceptable. I'm not doing this, and he 942 01:02:02.679 --> 01:02:06.360 just kind of looked over at the screen and saw the guy and it was 943 01:02:06.440 --> 01:02:08.320 like a black and white video and he's doing this. So he didn't listen 944 01:02:08.400 --> 01:02:12.119 to it too much and he gets on the phone immediately to his agent and 945 01:02:12.280 --> 01:02:15.719 he says, I can't do this. Call me back, and she calls 946 01:02:15.800 --> 01:02:20.239 him back and he says, there's no way. Am I giving a knockoff 947 01:02:20.280 --> 01:02:24.360 speech? Of Hitler and she's quiet and she goes Jim, it's Charlie. 948 01:02:24.440 --> 01:02:35.679 Chaplin was like, Jim, he won't you talk like Hitler. God, 949 01:02:35.760 --> 01:02:37.159 I was doing the white, he was doing the way and everything. Then 950 01:02:37.239 --> 01:02:40.599 we turned up then we turned up that. Yeah, we turned up the 951 01:02:40.679 --> 01:02:44.159 sound and it was just you know, it was yeah. And so we 952 01:02:44.280 --> 01:02:46.400 still laugh at it to this day. And I'll play it to him when 953 01:02:46.400 --> 01:02:50.159 he's getting ready to do and you know, from now on now they have 954 01:02:50.239 --> 01:02:52.639 him go into a studio, you know they're not getting they're not gonna risk 955 01:02:52.760 --> 01:02:57.280 any of that. He says, no. Again, it didn't confuse you 956 01:02:57.360 --> 01:03:00.000 why Hitler was running a little black hat. He was wearing a black hat. 957 01:03:00.880 --> 01:03:06.519 He wasn't And he was speaking about like the unity of it was actually 958 01:03:06.599 --> 01:03:09.679 human race, quite beautiful and how everyone needs to come together. And you 959 01:03:09.800 --> 01:03:14.039 know, very rousing, very yeah, very moving speech. But I didn't 960 01:03:14.039 --> 01:03:16.199 have my glasses one. I thought it was Hitler or the sound. I 961 01:03:16.280 --> 01:03:20.519 can just imagine, Jim, what get her on the phone? Yeah, 962 01:03:21.079 --> 01:03:29.280 yeah, right, And I told I told the Tomorrow lad guy that and 963 01:03:29.599 --> 01:03:36.199 he didn't laugh at all. It was funny, Beltim. I said to 964 01:03:36.280 --> 01:03:38.639 Jim, I don't worry about it. It's just lost in translation. Yeah 965 01:03:40.480 --> 01:03:45.159 it was lost, all right, mostly lost. But yeah, so that's 966 01:03:45.199 --> 01:03:50.199 what Jim's got coming up. And then he's doing He's he's doing um the 967 01:03:50.360 --> 01:03:54.039 forty Con three three or forty Con in Montreal, Quebec, which we weren't 968 01:03:54.079 --> 01:03:58.079 sure if that was going to go on, and you're all invited because of 969 01:03:58.159 --> 01:04:01.559 the fire, but we're missing we're missing jazz week Jazz week ends the weekend 970 01:04:01.639 --> 01:04:06.440 before. Okay, so that's kind of too bad, but those are the 971 01:04:06.960 --> 01:04:12.119 Belgium is the big thing. And then um Yeah, and then Jim's at 972 01:04:12.519 --> 01:04:16.440 in Tampa Bay. He's got his um, he's got his summers for him. 973 01:04:16.760 --> 01:04:21.119 Yeah that Colorado, Colorado. Let us start doing some cardio, working 974 01:04:21.159 --> 01:04:26.800 out, getting ready for your big summer. Absolutely. Yeah. It's funny 975 01:04:26.800 --> 01:04:30.480 you mentioned how the guy was gobsmacked that Jim's who he was. I think 976 01:04:30.559 --> 01:04:32.880 what's happened is, you know, you were a voice of so many shows 977 01:04:32.920 --> 01:04:36.119 from when we were growing up. Now we're all of an age where we're 978 01:04:36.119 --> 01:04:39.840 sort of where some of us are executives and we're sort of running companies and 979 01:04:39.880 --> 01:04:42.760 it's like all the people who are running the show now were the ones that 980 01:04:42.800 --> 01:04:45.519 you raised with your voice, And now everyone it's like you've got a whole 981 01:04:45.559 --> 01:04:46.920 new your whole career, your careasically, like a whole new resurgence as a 982 01:04:47.000 --> 01:04:50.639 result. Oh yeah that plus Disney Plus. You know, Disney Plus was 983 01:04:50.679 --> 01:04:54.280 I mean a lot of people complain about the streaming services, but Disney Plus 984 01:04:54.559 --> 01:04:57.320 is just a plus in my opinion for many reasons. Oh yeah, same 985 01:04:57.400 --> 01:05:00.440 here. Yeah, you know, I think I've said for you know, 986 01:05:00.239 --> 01:05:03.360 it'll be a convention or something. There's a four year old dressed as Darkwing 987 01:05:03.519 --> 01:05:06.559 Duck or King Louis, you know, from Tailspin, And I'm like, 988 01:05:08.079 --> 01:05:10.880 okay, well that show went off twenty years before you were born. So 989 01:05:11.719 --> 01:05:13.960 and they go, oh yeah, no, we got Disney Plus. We're 990 01:05:14.039 --> 01:05:16.400 you know well. And the other thing too is Jim didn't even have a 991 01:05:16.480 --> 01:05:20.880 Spotify account. And when we redid his office for him, um, I 992 01:05:21.039 --> 01:05:25.199 had the computer and I logged in and I created him a Spotify account. 993 01:05:25.559 --> 01:05:30.800 And when I logged in and and there's Jim Cummings and it's just it's it's 994 01:05:30.039 --> 01:05:34.159 it's a station that's somebody made. And I said, who's doing this? 995 01:05:34.559 --> 01:05:40.639 So I emailed Spotify, and they said, well, upload his driver's license 996 01:05:40.679 --> 01:05:44.320 so we know it's him and it's his and they gave it to him. 997 01:05:44.360 --> 01:05:47.800 So they had just made this Jim Cumming Spotify with all of Jim Cummings music. 998 01:05:48.159 --> 01:05:53.440 And at that time he had like one point two listeners a month listening 999 01:05:53.480 --> 01:05:57.639 to Jim Cumming and we didn't even know didn't even didn't even know about it 1000 01:05:57.679 --> 01:06:00.480 because you know, it's a different time. And so now of course we 1001 01:06:00.599 --> 01:06:05.880 know. And so a lot of people also talk to Jim about his singing 1002 01:06:06.480 --> 01:06:11.920 because he sung so many different songs. And now I get an extra like, 1003 01:06:12.000 --> 01:06:14.920 I don't know, one hundred and twenty five grand a week, so 1004 01:06:16.400 --> 01:06:20.800 I'm really glad she's found that. Or it might just be twenty five bucks. 1005 01:06:23.360 --> 01:06:26.920 It's one of those. I think they're called royalties, Jim. They're 1006 01:06:27.039 --> 01:06:30.719 royal, they're very loyal. So just like, for example, Adventures of 1007 01:06:30.760 --> 01:06:31.920 Winning the Pooh, right, the New Adventures back in the eighties, are 1008 01:06:31.920 --> 01:06:35.360 you still getting like kick ass royalties from that because it's now on Disney Plus. 1009 01:06:35.920 --> 01:06:39.400 I don't know if it's kick ass royalties of royalty though, right, 1010 01:06:39.639 --> 01:06:42.199 it's money for nothing now, I mean you put in the hot Ards twenty 1011 01:06:42.360 --> 01:06:44.039 thirty years ago, and now he's still getting money for it. That's a 1012 01:06:44.119 --> 01:06:46.199 great gig in my opinion. Oh yeah, yeah, well, you know 1013 01:06:46.320 --> 01:06:50.599 every now and then, I think maybe about twelve months ago, thirteen months 1014 01:06:50.639 --> 01:06:58.199 ago, I got a check for fifty bucks for Roger Rabbit and that from 1015 01:06:58.519 --> 01:07:01.239 eighty five. Yeah, and I was just a bullet. Yeah, and 1016 01:07:01.440 --> 01:07:05.760 so that you know, it never thank you Lord, never goes away, 1017 01:07:06.199 --> 01:07:10.440 you know completely. So do you get a royalty check for every character? 1018 01:07:10.559 --> 01:07:15.480 Or does Didney just go here is Jim Cumming's account? No, it's it's 1019 01:07:15.599 --> 01:07:20.400 per show and you know, one character and two characters same rate. But 1020 01:07:20.639 --> 01:07:24.880 if you do three characters you get a ten percent bump. So you know 1021 01:07:25.000 --> 01:07:29.960 you're looking for three and and yeah, and that that that's solid. That 1022 01:07:30.199 --> 01:07:35.280 that goes throughout the recording process and on twenty thirty years later, it's still 1023 01:07:35.320 --> 01:07:41.760 according to that paradigm. Have royalties changed like percentage wise over time? I'm 1024 01:07:41.760 --> 01:07:44.320 not really sure really how royalties work. Is that something you need to work 1025 01:07:44.360 --> 01:07:46.599 out when you first sign on to do a voice the royalty is going forward? 1026 01:07:46.679 --> 01:07:48.639 Is that something you have? How does that all work? Well, 1027 01:07:48.880 --> 01:07:51.639 you don't want to sign off on them you want, yeah, yeah, 1028 01:07:53.239 --> 01:07:57.239 but it's you know, we've gone on strike to get a bigger bump here 1029 01:07:57.280 --> 01:08:02.280 and there over the years. But residuals yeah, oh well yeah yeah, 1030 01:08:02.360 --> 01:08:09.239 residuals and royalties resides? How did they differ? What's what's what's so? 1031 01:08:09.440 --> 01:08:15.000 Royalties is residuals is anytime something's played on television you get like a cent or 1032 01:08:15.039 --> 01:08:17.399 something, you get a residual Yeah yeah. And then the royalties are the 1033 01:08:17.560 --> 01:08:21.560 music or from sales. I wonder how much money my kids are putting in 1034 01:08:21.560 --> 01:08:27.840 your pocket? Then the last year watching Disney Plus, well I tell them 1035 01:08:27.880 --> 01:08:30.840 to keep up the good work. Yeah, at least two bucks. So, 1036 01:08:30.000 --> 01:08:34.399 for example, the Union sent Jim an email and said that he hasn't 1037 01:08:34.439 --> 01:08:39.479 claimed or they don't have any claims of jum Jim being a chorus? Is 1038 01:08:39.520 --> 01:08:41.880 that what it was called? Back up? Could be? Yeah, yeah, 1039 01:08:41.880 --> 01:08:44.319 I've done a few of those, and Jim's done a lot of them, 1040 01:08:44.399 --> 01:08:46.560 but he doesn't remember, so um, you know all of them. 1041 01:08:47.039 --> 01:08:51.119 So then they sent you know, a PDF and said go ahead and look 1042 01:08:51.159 --> 01:08:56.520 over it. And I had to list the songs to Jim and I'm like, 1043 01:08:56.600 --> 01:09:00.159 are these you or is it like another Gym Cummings And we literally we 1044 01:09:00.239 --> 01:09:04.760 had to start googling because the songs are so old or they're like he's not 1045 01:09:04.920 --> 01:09:10.079 credited for it. Um, Like what was that movie the with the alligator 1046 01:09:10.399 --> 01:09:14.359 The hook hook hook? Yeah, so what do you singing that? Um? 1047 01:09:14.880 --> 01:09:18.319 Just the chant when Dustin Hoffman's coming out, hook hook hook, show 1048 01:09:18.479 --> 01:09:21.319 us the hook, give us the hook? Yeah, you know. And 1049 01:09:21.439 --> 01:09:27.000 then there was another one and so Jim's never Jim's never gotten royalties for that 1050 01:09:27.560 --> 01:09:32.560 because he never signed up as for a chorus or background singer. So now 1051 01:09:32.640 --> 01:09:36.439 we just had to go through the process of finding all the songs where he's 1052 01:09:36.479 --> 01:09:41.520 not a feature but he's in the song because a lot of them aren't aren't 1053 01:09:41.600 --> 01:09:44.880 on Google. Yeah, so that's a whole other story. Yeah, you 1054 01:09:44.920 --> 01:09:47.520 could do it. The original, Yeah, the original Little Mermaid. I 1055 01:09:47.680 --> 01:09:53.640 was in Fathom's Below Below. I was like in the chorus, you know, 1056 01:09:53.840 --> 01:09:58.119 so I was in two out of three Little Mermaid movies. That's just 1057 01:09:58.439 --> 01:10:00.680 it's I'm a sitting he just an ol. There's all the stuff. You're 1058 01:10:00.680 --> 01:10:01.039 just like, oh, yeah, I did this and I did that, 1059 01:10:01.159 --> 01:10:04.000 Like, for example, being part of that Little Mermaid song that's something that 1060 01:10:04.039 --> 01:10:06.359 would be somebody's claim to fame forever, you know, But for you, 1061 01:10:06.439 --> 01:10:11.560 it's just like, ah, I think I did it. Well. That's 1062 01:10:11.600 --> 01:10:14.600 like even like the chorus songs. When he's singing, He's like, now 1063 01:10:14.960 --> 01:10:16.880 I don't know who that guy is. And then I'll google the guy and 1064 01:10:17.399 --> 01:10:21.039 he's like a famous actor. Um, And then I'm like, you had 1065 01:10:21.079 --> 01:10:25.239 to have Jim, like the Union sending this to you. And then he'll 1066 01:10:25.279 --> 01:10:30.399 start kind of trying to sing the title of the song, and then all 1067 01:10:30.399 --> 01:10:31.079 of a sudden it comes back to him and he starts singing, oh, 1068 01:10:31.159 --> 01:10:32.880 yeah, I did the chorus. And then I was like, I'm like, 1069 01:10:33.000 --> 01:10:38.840 oh my god, this is just crease. I've been busy. Well, 1070 01:10:39.159 --> 01:10:40.960 like I said, it's been lovely to have you on board. You're 1071 01:10:41.000 --> 01:10:43.239 gonna come and walk another another show, maybe a couple of weeks time. 1072 01:10:43.319 --> 01:10:45.800 We'll get more stories about Jim. Jim's travels and the shenanigans he gets up 1073 01:10:45.840 --> 01:10:53.000 to for sure, James rolling his eyes, Chris, thank you for joining 1074 01:10:53.079 --> 01:10:55.880 us today. Even though you're quite silent over there, we're just sort of 1075 01:10:55.920 --> 01:11:00.319 taking it all in all you more embarrassed by your mum's stories of Jim just 1076 01:11:00.399 --> 01:11:04.720 making sure the ship runs smooth, you know, as always, yes, 1077 01:11:05.880 --> 01:11:10.199 really indeed, all right, guys, thank you for listening to Tuned In 1078 01:11:10.239 --> 01:11:13.920 with Jim Cummings. Don't forget to support us on Patreon for early and add 1079 01:11:13.960 --> 01:11:16.399 free access to the show as well as access to exclusive Q and A mail 1080 01:11:16.439 --> 01:11:20.520 bags and prize draws, as well as Cummings commentaries where Jim goes back and 1081 01:11:20.600 --> 01:11:26.039 rewatches all those Disney Afternoons cartoon shows in character. So we've got up there 1082 01:11:26.119 --> 01:11:29.000 right now, a episode of Duck Win Duck where Dark We joins us them. 1083 01:11:29.000 --> 01:11:30.800 We're gonna be doing a bonkers one in July as well. But thank 1084 01:11:30.800 --> 01:11:33.720 you once again and we'll catch you guys in the next episode of Tuned In 1085 01:11:33.880 --> 01:11:35.880 with Jim Cummings, So stay tuned.