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How you doing out there? It's
me Tigger. I am Dark Wing Duck.

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It's me Bunkers Deep Bobcat. All
right, y'all, did it rate

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your favorite firefly you desire? Hold
the old knock guy. My name is

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Jim Cummings and welcome to tuned in. Well, welcome everybody to tuned in

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with Jim Cummings. Today we have, of course producer Chris Live and kicking.

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But wait, there's more. Now, how much would you pay?

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None other than the Bill Farmer the
goof himself and the crowd went wild,

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and the crowd went wild. And
it's nice to be here. Good to

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see you, Jim. Yeah,
it's great to be with you. Pete,

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Well, there you go, buddy. Well I really had to yanked

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out out of him, didn't I. Well this is great, man,

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we're Goofy and Pete together again.
Yeah. This is how it all started

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at the Undynamic Duo, the Undynamic
Due. I like that. Oh well,

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this is good stuff. Tell us
if you remember the very first time

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that we met, because it was
like it was last year. No,

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no, it would have been eighty
seven, because that's when I started doing

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Goofy in January twenty third of eighty
seven. Maybe it was a show you

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were on. It was a takeoff
on MTV. It was dtv's it was

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called Disney's Dog One. Valentine was
the show Wow, And I had to

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loop a line of dialogue as Goofy
that's right, And it was terrifying.

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I'd never looped anything too picture before. Normally we just get a script and

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we read the lines, then they
animate later. That was two picture and

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I'd never done that, so I
was totally terrified. Yeah, I hate

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doing that. Maybe Roger Rabbit.
I did some background voices. I didn't

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even do Goofy in that. It
was just the kind of Tony Pope was

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my predecessor on that, but I
was doing the voice. But he had

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to finish out his contract with the
movie and finish the scenes. So I

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did a few background voices in that
movie. But I know you were in

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it as one of the bullets.
Yes, I was bullet number two,

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Bullet number two, and I was
like two or three weasels. And I

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spent an eternity in Griffith Park and
Bob Zamechis was there and we're shooting here.

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Bob Hoskins, the late Great Bob
Hoskins. He was there and he

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was a great guy. We sat
there and he told me war stories about

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how he got in the business,
and then they cut the entire thing.

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It wasn't it was not in the
movie. In the movie, that happens.

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That happened. So I went from
about forty lines to three. I

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think three or four. Somebody in
the inner webs will be able to tell

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us. And that's what you call
is showbiz. And that showed me that's

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that happens more than you'd think.
Yeah, but I did have a trailer.

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You did have a track. I
did have a trade. I'm still

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waiting for mine. Yeah, well
it's it's park next to her mine.

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They might have moved it. You
better on the way home. You'll have

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to pit stop over there. Well
that's good stuff. So we started back.

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Yeah, maybe Roger Rabbit and I
know. The first series we did

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was a goof Troop. Oh yeah. That was also a terrifying experience going

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in there because that was a hell
of a cast. It's like at the

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time, it was like, you
know, Rob Paulson, Frank Welker,

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we had April Winchell, had Dana
Hill, and you and Jenny McSwain directing,

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it was like wow going into it. And in those days we did

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it all ensemble. All of us
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Now it's we like solo and you
just how far is Mackey away from

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me? What's this scene about?
You do your line over and over until

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they like it, and it's not
as fun. No, well, I

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agree, because you have to get
that interaction. Yeah, you know,

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you feed off each other's energy,
and when there's nobody there, there's you

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know, you got to generate make
itself. Yeah you go, oh,

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Mickey's fifty feet away. Oh you're
going to say it a little louder?

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Yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah, no kidding, it's a I don't

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like it as much, and I
don't think they can tell watching No,

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I mean, hope not. It
seems to go together, float flawlessly,

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I guess. But when I watch
it, I'm like, oh, that's

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what they meant. Oh, now
I get the scene. At the time,

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it was just doing a line over
and over. Worsh, Mickey,

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where you going goorsh, Mick,
where are you going? Come on,

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Mickey, let's go or just whatever
you yeah, yeah, yeah, and

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oh take three. I like take
three, and that's what usually shows up

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in the show. Yeah. Yeah, I just did not a Disney character,

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but Taz the other day and there, and it was for a game,

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and it's just the most tedious thing
in the world. Rewarding. They

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paid you. I'm not complaining,
please, but it's like, okay,

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now Taz is falling ten feet now
about fifteen and a half feet? Yeah,

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okay. Video games, Yeah,
video games are tough. Yeah,

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because they always have did they have
Taz screaming like usually these kind of things

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screaming and at the ends and they
say that for the last day. Yeah,

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turn me into a mime. I'm
glad I can talk right now.

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You can test mime the scream on
the way down. Maybe give the artists

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something to do. I'll give you
three good ones and hopefully that's it.

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Yeah, because if you don't,
you start talking like the Gutfather. That's

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true. Yeah, you go home
and just coat the throat for a few

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days. Yes, yes, Now, a lot of people out there and

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we'll circle back as soon as I
remember we were talking about. But a

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lot of people don't know that you
came from a stand up background. Yeah,

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that was the best training I ever
had. I started doing stand up

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in Dallas in nineteen eighty two.
It was just on a fluke a night.

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I was at a comedy club and
anyone could get up a Tuesday night,

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kind of an open mic night,
and so I went home and wrote

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a little routine. Went up the
next week, March seventeenth of nineteen eighty

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two, and that changed my life. I went up there Saint Patrick's Day

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was it? It might have been. I think it's I think it's much.

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Yeah, I don't remember being at
Saint Patrick's Day, but anyway,

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it was lucky for me. Lucky
because the house comic, the host was

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a guy Bill Ingvall who has gone
into a lot of stuff, and he

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was a house comic there and he
was the first one that said, you

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know, I think you ought to
try this. I think you ought to

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come back and do this more and
more. So I did every week for

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about six months. Later. I
started kind of going around Texas and other

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states to as a stand up and
started as a middle Usually start off as

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a beginner and then a middle and
then a headliner. But I started off

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as a middle because in Arlington it
was Amarillo, Texas. Sam Kennison was

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getting kicked out of Amarillo, so
they moved the middle act up to headliner

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and they needed a new middle act. So I got to go in and

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do that, and you got kicked
out. Then I got kicked out.

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Yeah, And so I did that
for about five six years until on the

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advice of an agent in Dallas,
they said, you do all these cartoon

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voices and stuff, y'all, to
go out to Hollywood and give it a

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shot. I came out and got
an apartment, and about five months later

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they said, you do any of
the Disney characters, you know, and

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they like the Goofy and Ocado and
yeah, it's been history ever since.

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That's right. That is so cool. Wow, good for you. Well,

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we have a lot in common because
yeah, we've only been in hundreds

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of cartoons together. Yeah, and
rarely ever see each other because of that.

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Do your stuff at your studio and
they mix it together, but we

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get to work together a lot.
Yeah. Well, I liked I loved

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working over it. It was called
Fidelity Studios in North Hollywood, and one

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of my favorite things, and this
is we We've had jokes about this over

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the years, but one time I
have to tell you and forgive me,

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he's gonna throw a brick at me. But uh, Bill walked in and

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he was a little bit late.
He was coming from another job, very

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popular guy, and he comes in. He goes, well, Gores,

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you know I can't do it.
But you walked in. He kept I'll

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be right there, and you hit
the boom mic and it fell over and

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hit the other boom mic, which
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and we all just sat there and
they were just kind of stunning. I

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go, this is the greatest thing
I've ever seen in my life. Goofy

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walked in and knocked over every microphone, and of course they're not cheap,

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and the engineer's going, they don't
like when that happens. Now, I'll

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be real careful with this microphone here. Yeah, yeah, that's right.

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Actually a couple of things have happened
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I call the Goofy curse. Oh
wow, and absolute true story. I

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was in a studio I've got another
one coming too, and I had a

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Coca Cola and I was going to
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the board and it started falling.
I grabbed for it and I hit the

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top of it and it started spinning
perfect over the board, over a ninety

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six channel board in a studio,
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and the engineer was going, you
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for several Another one, I was
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against my house. Is a Chevy
Chase moment coming up? Absolutely this is

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there's a goofy. Addition to this. I stepped off the ladder and I

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was in sweats. I stepped backward, my foot hit the riser on the

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lawn sprinkler. I started falling back
into a rose bush. Now that's goofy

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enough. But the first rose bush
grabbed my pants and yanked them down totally

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bare butted. I fell into the
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curse. Ouch unencumbered, but well
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your butt. Serious, it was
like the stooges. My wife was like,

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yeah, pulling out the stuff,
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Yeah, so yes, that's followed
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that thorn bush or or goofy.
Oh, I see the goofy. Well,

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I remember one time and it was
we did, and this has got

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to be in the nineties. We
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event and Wayne and Rusie, Mickey
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and I was there. I don't
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and Selm might have been, I
don't remember. But there were telephones down

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in the courtyard there, and it
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could pick up a phone and talk
to Pooh. They could pick up a

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phone and talk to Goofy or Tigger
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phone. And I used to always
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you know, diddy bobbing in law, you know, just a while away

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the time. And you said,
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juggle, and Rusie is standing there, Russie, who was of course many

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miles at the time. And you
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and you're standing next to the curtain
and it went like this, and you

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went a little too far back,
so you turned around and stepped on the

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curtain and that kind of pulled it
down, and the curtain fell over you

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and then you were on the floor. And then the stick came down and

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hit and Russie Taylor god Rest,
he was standing there, and I'm pretty

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sure she peed she would she would
always laugh like she wouldn't make a noise.

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It was like she would laugh until
she went facial right, until her

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face no longer responded to her will. I'd luckily forgotten that incident. Yeah,

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thank you, Oh thank god.
We haven't told anyone, no,

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no, this secret. It's a
secret. Oh my gosh. And and

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I think we did two or three
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was ten seconds. I think it. I think it hit three million people,

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is that right? Yeah, yeah, it's amazing the technology. Three

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point five million views on that's what
I meant to say, those two bigger

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numbers. Anyways, and we've said
many more words now. Yeah, so

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this will be. This will be
everyone on earth, everyone on Earth will

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be We'll be invited to this one. Well, on that note, all

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right, Brendan, how are you
doing down there? I'm doing great.

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Yeah. Let's go back to goof
Troop because that's that's the show everyone remembers.

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Everyone loves goof trop ninety, including
myself. Bill. Take us back

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to when you first got the gig
at goof Troop. How was the show

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first pitched to you and how excited
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Tannem with Jim on this show goof
Troop. Oh, you must have been

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incredibly I was. I was totally
amazed. I forgot how I even heard

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about it, that they were planning
a show, and there was little rumors

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of it for a while, and
then just through my agent, Hey there's

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a series and you're gonna be you
know, in this series called goof Troop

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and Goofy's going to have a son
and oh okay, and you just kind

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of go dumb faced into this thing. Well what's it like? And as

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I say, it was terrifying for
me when I come in here and see

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the best voice actors in the whole
business in the same cast, Frank Welker's,

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you know, a kind of a
voice over god really with all of

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the animals and sound effects that he
does, and Jim and Rob Rob Paulson.

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It was also flying by the seat
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a rehearsal, we didn't get a
table read. We just hear do it

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and it was done kind of scene
at a time, and so you got

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to keep up with everything, and
you know in the back of your mind

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that if you screw up a line, everyone has to start over, so

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you don't want to be the person
screwing up a scene. And we would

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do an entire episode in about two
and a half three hours something like that,

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and it was, Yeah, it
was kind of controlled terror, but

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it became very popular and it still
holds up on you know, like Disney

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Plus and everything. It was.
You know, it was absolutely a fantastic

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time. I thought that, well, maybe I will stay in Hollywood because

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my wife was still in Dallas about
when that came out, and it had

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been going for a few months,
and I said, maybe this is going

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to turn into something. So she
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and I kind of got off the
road doing stand up because Disney would call

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me and they'd say, we need
you for a goof Troop this Friday,

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and I'm saying, well, I'm
in Seattle, I'm doing stand up.

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I need can we do it next
week? And then they said, well,

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if you can't be available, we
might have to get someone else.

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And I said, I'll quit off
the road, off the road, And

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from that time forward it was just
voiceover. So it changed my life in

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the path of my career. Yeah, it's a beautiful thing. How important

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do you think the show Good Trip
was at the longevity of the Goofy character,

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because before then he was, you
know, he's getting his own show

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there. Before then, though,
he was sort of like a sidekick character,

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but now he's the main star.
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people are still talking about Goofy to
this day. That was the first time

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I think in the well they had
duct Tails before that, but not too

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many of the characters. It really
led into a Goofy movie, which of

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all the things I've ever done,
more people at comic cons talk about.

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And it started as a goof Troop
movie. They did a Duct Tales movie

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based on the Ducktails TV series,
but then they wanted to do a goof

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Troop movie. But then later on
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thing. And to this day,
I mean, without fail, at comic

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cons people say thanks for my childhood. That movie brought me and my dad

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together. We didn't really see eye
to eye, and I kind of saw

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things from a different light. And
now it's been twenty eight years since that

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movie came out, people will say, you know, I used to identify

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with Max. Now I got kids. I identified with Goofy's point of view,

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and so yeah, it's a big
circle of life. Yes, that's

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a separate movie that was like that
was oh yes, yes, yeah.

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Goof Troops kind of started it all. And that's right when Disney was starting

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the Disney Channel and so they were
starting to do the Disney Afternoon and I

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had series and stuff, and so
goof Troop was a good addition to that

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and kind of that started off kind
of the regular working for Disney, and

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it's really never slowed down to this
day. Well, knock on woods,

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yes, one, yes, do
you know what the original goof Troop movie

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was going to be about? Before
it became a father and son project,

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we actually recorded at least one session
of a goof Troop movie. I don't

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remember the actual the plot. I
think it was just kind of an extended

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version of goof Troop. And that
was usually because you know, Goofy lives

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next to Pete and their adventures together
and Goofy messing it up. So it

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was kind of along that lines of
the series. But then they took a

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right turn and did the father son
thing in a Goofy movie, and that

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really struck a chord with America.
I think followed the open Road, right.

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Yeah, some songs got to sing. Didn't get to sing in goof

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Troop. Got to sing that.
I want to be singing that song on

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the Disney cruise ship with my son
filling in for Max in about two months,

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and that's going to be an exciting
thing. So that's old is new

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again. Wow, Well, I
want to do a cruise ship. I

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want to go all right, you
can make that happen. We can do

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that. Yeah, you got juice? Yeah, I don't get juice anymore

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because I spill it. Yeah.
Well, you're not brainy, that's true.

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He's not intelligent. D he's goofy. Oh yeah, well that's great.

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So I'm trying to think when he
wouldn't be He can't be the oldest

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Disney character, but he's got to
be in the top five. Yeah,

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as far as I mean from the
time they were invented. He was invented

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in nineteen thirty two. Pluto,
who I've been wasting just as song,

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is actually older nineteen thirty Yeah,
he's even older. He did some of

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the Alice comedies in Silent Days,
Yes, and Steamboat Willie, Steamboat Willie.

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So yeah, so these characters,
and there's no other characters like that,

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the Disney characters, because what other
character has been around that long and

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is still on TV? Or people
always say, well, would you rather

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do a lot of on camera acting? And I've done some movies and stuff,

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but no, what who else is
on television from nineteen eighty seven till

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today and on every day? You
know, you gotta thank your sisters for

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that kind of thing. I don't
know. I see an old movie where

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I'm on camera and I was gonna
ask you about that. Yeah, well

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hold on and sit us. You
are under arrest. Yeah, RoboCop,

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RoboCop? How about that? That
was actually pre dates Goofy. That was

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actually back in my Dallas days.
And yeah, when I see that,

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I look, God, I'm old. Yeah, Goofie sounds the same.

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That's a great thing, that's Trueover
voice doesn't change that much. Yeah,

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well, it's it's interesting because if
somebody told me Chris, I'm a voice

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guy. But if somebody just introduced
me to you and I didn't know who

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you were what you did, I
would end up like in five minutes ago.

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You know who you sound like because
because that's kind of it's an extension

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to me. Yeah, and that
actually was kind of Goofy from Pratt,

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Kansas. By any chance, there's
a good question, you know, from

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a Goofy movie, if you look
at the map that they show he started

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in Ohio, that's my only clue. There's no you know, they don't,

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oh Goofy was born and you know
Haysting's Montana or something like that.

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No, there's no origin story that
I've been able to find where Goofy's supposed

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to have come from. Although people
that do the voice, they will tend

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to make him more country. They'll
kind of put him down there. Well

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there, hell are ye? You
know, I'll put a Southern accent on

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it where I don't. I kind
of use Midwest kind of more. Yeah,

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that's right. When you say other
people who played Goofy, who are

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you referring to? Oh, well, Pinto Colvig was the original voice from

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nineteen thirty two till he passed away
in the late sixties. Then it was

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kind of Goofy Douzier for about twenty
years. A lot of people, but

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there weren't really official voices. Hal
Smith, who played on Andy Griffith as

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Otis the Drunk, he did it
in I think the Christmas Carol, Mickey's

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Christmas Carol, and then Tony Pope
did it in like the Olympic. They

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did some cartoons on the Olympics in
the early or mid eighties. But since

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nineteen eighty seven, I've been the
only voice. So you're the only one

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that's still alive and I'm getting older. Yeah, well that beats beats a

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well, you know, I'd rather
have a mess of birthdays than one funeral.

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Yes, i'd so see words to
live by or die by, but

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words to not die by the same
as living. But yes, getting back

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to origin stories, Bill, do
you still believe that Jessica Rabbit is the

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mother of Max? Oh? Uh
no, that's my theory. There has

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never been one mention of who Goofy
was married to or where Max came from.

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And so just at comic cons I
just you know, people had always

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asked me who's Max's mother, and
I said, well, you know,

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my line was that I think it
was Jessica Rabbit before Roger, because she

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actually mentions you're better than goofy.
So there must have been some kind of

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thing going on in the Roger Rabbit
movie. He's goofy, he's not stupid,

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so he would put a hot date. Wow, Yes, that would

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do it. Wow, it's as
good as any other theory. I like

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it. Well, wow, well
you lie and I'll swear to it.

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Yeah, when I could see why
Jessica might leave Goofy after a while,

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you know he yeah, could drop
her off at the mall and forget to

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pick her up for a few years. That's yeah, but that's a good

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way to go. I could see
the two of them together. He makes

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me laugh. Right, We don't
know. We don't know the origin uh

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story or the continuing story. Well, and goof Troop Peg was a Pete's

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wife. Where'd she go? Yeah, he stole you know, Waffles,

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his dog and cat and all of
that. Where did they go? We

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don't know. Well, we could
write a new Frank is still there,

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Frank Welker, But I don't know. And Nancy cart right, oh yeah

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she did well. Bert Simpson was
my son, no way, no pistol,

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she was. She was a great
daughter. Yeah. Yeah, see

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see most young boys in cartoons are
women, right, so Bart Simpson,

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great, there there you are now
there there? Yeah, like the number

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one and that was actually was goof
Troop before or about the same time as

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the Simpsons. Oh, I don't
know if she was doing goof Troop before

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or after she got the role of
Bart Simpsons. Brandon definitely knows the answer

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to this. So she got the
role of Bot in nineteen eighty seven.

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Well that's when. Okay, goof
Troop actually started recording around eighty nine,

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I think or something like that.
So yeah, well the world will tell

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us soon. Yeah. Did you
ask the question when they were making a

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Goofy movie? Did you ask the
question where's Pagan? Where's Pistol? Did

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you ask the question at the time
or was it just, oh, well

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they're gone. Yeah, we don't
know where they went. That's true.

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I miss them terribly. And then
he changed careers too. Did you ask

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the question to the directors? No. An interesting thing that they are doing

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now is and I saw screening of
it. It's a preliminary screening of it's

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a making of a Goofy movie.
I did not realize when we were doing

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that that they were filming me and
I had no idea, and that they

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have the live action actors for the
iya I Dance and oh I love those.

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Yeah, and a lot of stuff
the Kevin Leema, the director,

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kept over the years and they are
in the process of making a documentary on

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that, so hopefully someday come to
light on probably Disney plus, I would

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imagine. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that sounds good. Well, write

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letters or do whatever. Yeah,
write emails, and it's it's amazing that

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you know this long after the movie, it's still as popular as it is.

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Last year we went up to Indianapolis
to the fun co Oh place and

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people know what that is, the
funko, the little Yeah. I signed

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a lot of those ooh at comic
Con. They call them pops or funkos,

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right, Yeah. And they have
a Goofy movie board game that they

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came out with last year. Oh
wow, and it's a big seller.

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And I'll sign those from time to
time. And so only twenty eight years

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after the movie, so they got
around to it. Wow, is that

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I signed something like that? It
probably a Goofy movie board game. Yeah,

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but this one was really old.
Hmmm did you say that? Yeah,

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it had the it was kind of
the map from the movie. Remember

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where I've signed the map from the
movie. That is a thing that people

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up you know what, that's what
it was. Yeah, it was,

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but it was hard. It was
like a monopoly board. Yeah yeah,

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okay, yeah, yeah because one
of us. Yeah, I think you

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signed it first. And yeah,
And that's that's kind of an article that

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a lot of people will get.
Sometimes it's in a you know, a

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poster kind of thing, or an
eight by ten or a yeah, I

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think a puzzle thing. I think
you can put together. The kids were

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a lot of memorabilia and my favorite
thing though, and I and I I

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just it's so sweet and then you
stop and look at the person. But

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you go to these conventions, you
go to Disneyland wherever you would go,

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and they sell the traditional old school
goofy hat, yeah, the green hat,

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and they've got these two ears and
you see people coming around and I

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thinking, man, you're looking good. You you're you're a true fan.

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Yeah. There are some amazing fans
at the comic cons that will come up

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and they know more. I had
one guy say on the third episode of

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goof Troope, you had a dinosaur
egg and you put it in the front

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closet. Why did you put it
in the front closet. I go,

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I don't know where my wallet is. That's I don't remember what it's a

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logical place to put a dinosaur egg. Now, where would you put it

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in the garage? I don't know. No, I think the front closet.

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It's clear eggs. That's an easy
one. Wow, But you never

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know what people are going to ask. Yeah, and I was going to

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say, what is like the is
there one of the most embarrassing questions or

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interesting questions that that you get asked
as boy, we get him, Oh,

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yes we do. I'm trying to
think of you did you did you

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do this in school? What school
did you go to? Yeah, now

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you get in trouble, yes,
yes, yes, kind of have a

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d D. And I spent all
sixth grade in the coat closet with a

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detention. Yeah yeah, same here. Yeah. I was not not your

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typical kid. No, no,
well that's that's why you're not a typical

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adult. And I guess I'm not
either. But but I was right for

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this job. Yeah. First,
what I do without this? Yeah?

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Well, you know I've told him
before. I don't want to bore anybody,

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but I remember when my dad I
was five years old and we were

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watching Jack Benny and Mel Blank was
a guest on there, and he was

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side from Mexico. And my dad
goes, say this bastard, and I

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said, which one they He goes
a guy talking funny. I go,

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yeah, he goes his name is
Mel Blank. Now you know when you

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get up on Saturday morning and you
see this show and that bugs bunny and

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the dad, Yeah, he goes
he's doing all the voices. And the

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first thing I thought, he doesn't
have to stand in the hall in the

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corner because he does funny voices.
They're paying in. We have to.

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Yeah. I'm like, okay,
I'm gonna do that then, And I

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was five really that I had no
idea. It just started as a joke

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kind of thing. And then you
know fraternity things, they'd have a band

407
00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:25.039
break and they firm er get up
and do something. So I started writing

408
00:28:25.119 --> 00:28:29.160
material and developing some characters. And
then I did radio for a number of

409
00:28:29.240 --> 00:28:33.279
years as a DJ and developed characters, and I bring in all those old

410
00:28:33.240 --> 00:28:37.240
Western things like Pat Butcher or something
like that. Oh yeah, Bill,

411
00:28:37.359 --> 00:28:41.440
it's great to be on your Hey
Pat, what's going on? So okay,

412
00:28:41.680 --> 00:28:44.640
let's do the weather. Well,
now it's gonna be cloudy, and

413
00:28:45.240 --> 00:28:48.640
just play with those. Yeah,
and you develop a little repertoire of those.

414
00:28:48.160 --> 00:28:52.519
And that turned into the stand up
and then it turned into a Disney

415
00:28:52.559 --> 00:28:57.359
job. Yeah, wow, that
worked. Yeah. I got to meet

416
00:28:57.359 --> 00:29:00.319
Pat, but I was very happy
about I did on a goofy movie.

417
00:29:00.440 --> 00:29:03.960
Oh yeah, and that's good.
He Uh, we were about an hour

418
00:29:04.319 --> 00:29:07.599
he was going inside. They sound
like, did be cousins? Yeah,

419
00:29:08.359 --> 00:29:12.279
sort of, maybe not brothers,
but easily cousins. In the In the

420
00:29:12.319 --> 00:29:15.519
movie, he had like one line, you know, he hits the stage

421
00:29:15.559 --> 00:29:22.480
with the Lester's possible here it is, and welcome to Lester's Possum part here

422
00:29:22.519 --> 00:29:30.000
it is that line. Yes,
and what a great, great guy.

423
00:29:30.039 --> 00:29:33.440
He was still trying out material on
me. Yeah, and uh he was

424
00:29:33.480 --> 00:29:37.440
going to do that night and this
was shortly before he passed away. He

425
00:29:37.640 --> 00:29:41.960
was going to do a tribute to
Jack Palance. He was going to do

426
00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:47.079
a roast and he was if you
remember Jack Palance from uh what was it

427
00:29:47.119 --> 00:29:51.240
with? Oh yeah, he's been
in a lot of Westerns and kind of

428
00:29:51.240 --> 00:29:53.920
a tough guy. And uh,
Pat said, you know, I'm gonna

429
00:29:53.960 --> 00:29:59.559
go out there and say Pat,
it's I mean, it's amazing that you

430
00:29:59.680 --> 00:30:03.079
was out there on the oscars and
he was doing one arm push ups and

431
00:30:03.440 --> 00:30:07.640
father time has been very kind to
you. But it looks like mother nature

432
00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:11.599
doesn't kick the hell out of your
face. Yeah. He was trying out

433
00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:15.119
material on me that day in the
waiting room. Yeah, so never quit.

434
00:30:15.599 --> 00:30:19.799
Oh that yeah, no kidding.
Yeah. I got to work with

435
00:30:19.839 --> 00:30:26.559
them on Roger Ebbitt and he he
said, do you know what give me

436
00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:30.839
six good men and a buckboard means? And I said no. He goes,

437
00:30:32.039 --> 00:30:37.799
I don't either. Gene Autry made
me say that in about fifteen goddamn

438
00:30:37.880 --> 00:30:41.720
movies, So yeah, and he
said. And then I was over there

439
00:30:41.720 --> 00:30:47.119
at the Sportsman's Lodge the other day
and I was fixing to meet him,

440
00:30:47.119 --> 00:30:51.440
and I says to the bartender,
so where's gene Autry anyway, and he

441
00:30:51.480 --> 00:30:56.759
says, you're standing on men.
So that's my story. Yeah, he

442
00:30:56.839 --> 00:31:02.440
was a great guy, understanding.
He lost like a finger and an eye

443
00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:06.119
in a cannon explosion, and Geotry
said, don't sue me, and I'll

444
00:31:06.119 --> 00:31:10.240
take care of you forever. Wow. Wow. Don't know if that's true,

445
00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:11.400
but i'd heard that story, so
he said, okay, I want

446
00:31:11.400 --> 00:31:15.640
to play for the Angels. That
would have been He said, okay,

447
00:31:15.839 --> 00:31:21.599
not that, but okay, I
can't quite do that one now, Brent,

448
00:31:21.680 --> 00:31:25.640
do you know who Genautry is coming
from? Down under? We are

449
00:31:25.640 --> 00:31:30.119
still a part of the world,
so we are aware of But I see

450
00:31:30.400 --> 00:31:34.720
there, it's been gone for it's
it's he's it's like almost asking for a

451
00:31:34.759 --> 00:31:38.640
silent movie star. Yeah, it
wasn't a long time. Yeah, it

452
00:31:38.680 --> 00:31:44.319
wasn't exactly yesterday, So you're forgiven
either way. But good for you,

453
00:31:45.559 --> 00:31:48.599
he was. He was like,
didn't he own like the Dodgers at one

454
00:31:48.640 --> 00:31:52.119
time? Yeah? I think no, Anaheim Angels. Anaheim Angels, Yes,

455
00:31:52.319 --> 00:31:56.640
which is a not a football team. What was it in the movie

456
00:31:56.799 --> 00:32:00.519
stand by Me, Stephen King?
Yeah, speaking of Disney. Yeah,

457
00:32:00.559 --> 00:32:02.880
people bring that one up, you
know. Do you know the scene I'm

458
00:32:02.920 --> 00:32:07.640
talking about? Yeah, where they
say why can Goofy talking Pluto can't?

459
00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:10.680
Yes, My original line was,
well, Goofy's got a better agent,

460
00:32:10.720 --> 00:32:14.599
but no, I've got the same
agent, so it doesn't. That's right,

461
00:32:14.880 --> 00:32:16.839
that's right, Goofy gets more,
I guess. And I always say

462
00:32:16.839 --> 00:32:20.519
that, No, Goofy is not
a dog. Some people think he's a

463
00:32:20.599 --> 00:32:23.680
cow. I don't know why there's
this thing people is Goofy a cow?

464
00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:29.799
No? Maybe because she and Clara
Belle had a kind of a little thing

465
00:32:29.880 --> 00:32:35.039
going in a stree Musketeers. But
no, he's not a cow, and

466
00:32:35.079 --> 00:32:38.279
he's not technically a dog. He's
a canine like a wolf is not a

467
00:32:38.319 --> 00:32:44.240
dog, but it's a canine.
Canis Goofus, I think is the scientific

468
00:32:44.640 --> 00:32:52.039
Maximus Goufhus Maximus. And Pluto is
a dog dog and that's a dog.

469
00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:54.680
See, yeah, that's and we
always say Pluto for the last when we're

470
00:32:54.680 --> 00:33:00.079
doing a session because sometimes you do
a lot of that and it's like a

471
00:33:00.200 --> 00:33:04.240
video game. You're talking like that. Oh yeah, yeah, I know

472
00:33:04.359 --> 00:33:07.799
the feeling. Well now now okay, so stand by me. That was

473
00:33:07.799 --> 00:33:13.559
the bit from there. There was
something else that they were referencing, the

474
00:33:13.880 --> 00:33:19.440
dichotomy of Goofy owning pets. Yeah. I was thinking, you gotta,

475
00:33:19.640 --> 00:33:22.079
you know, you gotta. But
then ultimately it's a cartoon. Yeah,

476
00:33:22.119 --> 00:33:24.960
it's a drawing. You know what
is he? Is he a cow?

477
00:33:25.160 --> 00:33:29.519
A dog? No, he's a
drawing. Yeah, he's basically it,

478
00:33:29.839 --> 00:33:31.880
and he has a down to it
and he has a cow for a girlfriend.

479
00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:36.720
Yes, there we go. It's
a natural universe, natural progression.

480
00:33:37.400 --> 00:33:42.160
And I love that because if I'm
not mistaken, that's what I was thinking.

481
00:33:42.440 --> 00:33:46.440
April Winchell the Great, she was
Clara Belle. Yeah, and then

482
00:33:46.599 --> 00:33:51.240
she and then in goof Troops she
was my wife Peg. Okay, yeah,

483
00:33:51.279 --> 00:33:53.720
see you have all of these different
roles you can play and this still.

484
00:33:53.759 --> 00:33:58.200
I saw her just the other day
we were doing I actually went into

485
00:33:58.240 --> 00:34:00.640
a studio during COVID, I started
doing all my stuff at home and my

486
00:34:00.680 --> 00:34:06.640
home studios son's and audio engineers,
so he runs the sessions. But the

487
00:34:06.680 --> 00:34:09.119
other day, since they're doing some
construction at my house, I went into

488
00:34:09.880 --> 00:34:14.760
the studio and April was there.
I haven't seen her in years in the

489
00:34:14.840 --> 00:34:19.719
flesh and it was but she's still
doing Claire Bell. These are long running

490
00:34:19.800 --> 00:34:23.480
jobs. Yes, yes, well
she's been my wife in a few shows.

491
00:34:23.480 --> 00:34:28.880
And her name is always Peg and
now my wife is named Margaret,

492
00:34:28.920 --> 00:34:36.239
which nickname is Peg. He Christopher's
mom. That's prophetic. Yes, there's

493
00:34:36.320 --> 00:34:40.760
something like that. Yeah, Well
I'm glad. I there's a choke in

494
00:34:40.800 --> 00:34:45.079
there somewhere, but but I'm not
going to going to go for that.

495
00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:50.360
I'm not going to excavate it at
this particular time, right, Brendan,

496
00:34:50.679 --> 00:34:53.239
So what time is it there in
Australia? It is currently nine am in

497
00:34:53.280 --> 00:34:57.159
the morning. So I had to
get my parents to company up my children

498
00:34:57.199 --> 00:34:59.480
to take them to school, which
my kids won't appreciative of, but they

499
00:34:59.480 --> 00:35:01.079
wanted Daddy to take them. But
I'm here with Bill Farmer and Jim coming,

500
00:35:01.159 --> 00:35:06.280
so I'm happy at least. Yeah, are you in Sydney or Melbourne

501
00:35:06.400 --> 00:35:08.559
or I'm in a town called Geelong, which is about a forty minute drive

502
00:35:08.639 --> 00:35:12.639
down from Melbourne. So have you've
been to Melbourne? It's forty minutes from

503
00:35:12.639 --> 00:35:15.639
there. Want to be down there
in July at a comic con? So

504
00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:19.039
yes, And I've been to Austria. I have a lot of friends down

505
00:35:19.039 --> 00:35:22.000
there, and this would be my
tenth time. I think. It's no

506
00:35:22.119 --> 00:35:29.159
kidding. Yeah, wow, well
you win. Well I want to go.

507
00:35:29.760 --> 00:35:35.360
Why why's you coming back? I
don't know. We're not waiting on

508
00:35:35.480 --> 00:35:38.000
me. What was that one called
that's like the then abe? Oh yeah,

509
00:35:38.360 --> 00:35:42.679
it was like a book. Usually
this is just to see some friends

510
00:35:42.760 --> 00:35:45.480
really and they're running out of con
down there. But usually it's yeah,

511
00:35:45.679 --> 00:35:51.440
two weekends generally was. I did
New Zealand with the same company and we

512
00:35:51.480 --> 00:35:53.920
did christ Church and then Wellington a
week later, so we got to drive

513
00:35:53.920 --> 00:35:58.480
around the South Island, which is
beautiful and I love when we get a

514
00:35:58.519 --> 00:36:02.760
little week off between gigs. Perth. As far as I've gone in Australia,

515
00:36:02.800 --> 00:36:06.920
that's that's a way over there.
But it was a lot of fun

516
00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:10.400
and I'm looking forward to going back. Try the Tasmanian Devil. Yeah,

517
00:36:10.400 --> 00:36:17.639
that's yeah, yeah, you know, I had to just very briefly.

518
00:36:19.079 --> 00:36:22.360
We were had occasion to be down
Under and we went to a zoo and

519
00:36:22.480 --> 00:36:29.639
uh, Chris will verify this.
We saw a Tasmanian devil and he turned

520
00:36:29.639 --> 00:36:36.760
and ran and he went and I
went, oh, come on, I

521
00:36:36.840 --> 00:36:39.360
mean he sided. I didn't realize
because I'm really just doing mel blank.

522
00:36:39.599 --> 00:36:45.880
You know. He's the original God
Rested Soul. But it sounded just like

523
00:36:45.960 --> 00:36:51.719
it, the actual Tasmani Hit Devil. Sounds like the cartoon I was waiting

524
00:36:51.719 --> 00:36:55.719
for. It was pretty idea in
the cold, cold ground. You know,

525
00:36:55.920 --> 00:37:00.760
he didn't say that, but but
if he did, I wouldn't have

526
00:37:00.760 --> 00:37:05.639
been surprised. Oh man, I
love it, but I do love guaucas.

527
00:37:06.159 --> 00:37:07.840
I can't believe we're on this subject. Do you know what aguaca is?

528
00:37:08.440 --> 00:37:12.320
I think I did, but I
can't remember. What is the happiest

529
00:37:12.360 --> 00:37:15.920
little rodent you could have ever seen? Okay, Brendan, what can we

530
00:37:15.039 --> 00:37:21.000
look? He knows, he knows
Quaka quaka with a yeah, guawka,

531
00:37:21.039 --> 00:37:27.840
I'm thinking of Molly Quawker. Yes, qua c a k. Yeah,

532
00:37:27.880 --> 00:37:30.400
all the animals down there, Okay, everybody that's your assignment, look up,

533
00:37:30.920 --> 00:37:35.400
just start loving on them. Yeah
you can't. I mean, it's

534
00:37:35.559 --> 00:37:37.039
it's too amazing. We've had a
lot of our friends. You've got a

535
00:37:37.079 --> 00:37:39.960
pet, don't you. I do. But in Australia you'll find the animals

536
00:37:39.960 --> 00:37:44.599
that will either be your best friend
or they'll try natcha. Yeah, that's

537
00:37:44.679 --> 00:37:47.639
true. We had a young boy
that came to our from Australia, come

538
00:37:47.840 --> 00:37:51.960
to our house and he came in
running. He was so excited. Mother,

539
00:37:52.079 --> 00:37:54.920
Mother, I can't believe what I
saw. I saw a squirrel and

540
00:37:55.119 --> 00:37:59.320
wow, okay, I said,
don't you have squirrels in Australia. Now

541
00:37:59.360 --> 00:38:07.400
we just have dumb old rouse oh
man. Yeah, and they could kick

542
00:38:07.440 --> 00:38:09.440
your butt, yes they can.
They're bigger than you. Think, yeah,

543
00:38:09.480 --> 00:38:15.280
they sure are. Oh man,
that's ridiculous. And they eat them.

544
00:38:15.519 --> 00:38:19.440
They eat kangaroos. Yeah, I
saw it in dog food. I

545
00:38:19.559 --> 00:38:22.920
taught at restaurants, so I don't
know what that says, but you can

546
00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:27.119
see it at the grocery store.
Oh, kangaroo meat. Okay, it

547
00:38:27.199 --> 00:38:30.239
says we have too many of them. That's the problem they are. They're

548
00:38:30.280 --> 00:38:31.960
all over the place. I saw
a lot of them there. Yeah.

549
00:38:32.039 --> 00:38:36.320
I always thought that was like their
national animal. I think it is.

550
00:38:37.199 --> 00:38:45.360
Yeah, oh gosh, yeah,
well what is your national animal? Now

551
00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:47.159
that we're on this riveting subject?
I think it is the kangaroo. It

552
00:38:47.199 --> 00:38:55.119
is kangaroo, right, it's it's
kangaroo and ay, and that's good eating.

553
00:38:55.719 --> 00:39:00.320
Well, amy is a bird.
Maybe that's more likely to taste better.

554
00:39:00.559 --> 00:39:07.960
Yeah, I've had ostrich, I
really have. I did try kangaroo

555
00:39:07.960 --> 00:39:12.480
at a restaurant. It's a little
tough, little gamy, but it wasn't

556
00:39:12.519 --> 00:39:19.440
bad. Best tune it again that
I think would beat it. But you

557
00:39:19.480 --> 00:39:23.159
know, yes, oh god,
yeah, Well I've had French fried ants.

558
00:39:23.199 --> 00:39:27.400
I can't believe we're on this subject, but that's pretty good. Ants

559
00:39:27.559 --> 00:39:34.559
ants French and they turned into peanuts. They turned there and I've eaten zebra.

560
00:39:35.400 --> 00:39:37.480
I have not eaten zebra. No, that's not bad. That's on

561
00:39:37.559 --> 00:39:43.239
the the two do list, I
guess. And in certain parts of Texas

562
00:39:43.480 --> 00:39:47.679
you can get rattlesnake in a can
like tuna fish. Really, yes,

563
00:39:49.280 --> 00:39:52.760
it might not be rattlesnake, might
be just snake snake, but it's snake.

564
00:39:52.800 --> 00:39:54.719
How would you know? Yeah,
yeah, you can and you find

565
00:39:54.719 --> 00:40:00.360
out. Yeah, but I'm oh
my god, well that's insane. Did

566
00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:04.440
you ever question Brendan? I thought
I heard you starting up a question I

567
00:40:04.519 --> 00:40:07.320
was going to ask just about Goofy
earlier. We're talking about goof Troop,

568
00:40:07.320 --> 00:40:09.320
and I feel like Goofy in a
goof Troop was such a different setting for

569
00:40:09.360 --> 00:40:14.199
the character. The character felt fresh
and new again. Do you feel like

570
00:40:14.239 --> 00:40:17.159
Goofy has evolved since then? Oh? Yeah, has Givy evolved over the

571
00:40:17.239 --> 00:40:21.199
years, do you think? Or? Oh? Absolutely? Goof Troop was

572
00:40:21.280 --> 00:40:23.400
kind of what I call a Saturday
morning type of show. It was high

573
00:40:23.559 --> 00:40:30.159
energy and if you think of the
way that Pento Colvig used to do the

574
00:40:30.239 --> 00:40:34.840
voice, it was kind of guttural
and world holds me, You'll live,

575
00:40:35.280 --> 00:40:37.039
and it's kind of in the back
in goof Troop, I had to kind

576
00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:40.159
of do it up the front of
the lips and gorsh oh. The world

577
00:40:40.239 --> 00:40:44.199
olds me you'll live boom, and
they've kind of kept that way, I

578
00:40:44.199 --> 00:40:47.679
guess for articulation and in a Goofy
movie. I mean that was hard for

579
00:40:47.760 --> 00:40:52.599
me because he'd never had to be
a kind of a worried father and his

580
00:40:52.960 --> 00:40:55.639
kid's gonna, you know, go
to prison and be in the electric chair

581
00:40:55.679 --> 00:40:59.400
and all of this kind of worry
stuff. He's always been happy, go

582
00:40:59.519 --> 00:41:05.400
lucky and goof troops, So that
was a stretch to find the softer side

583
00:41:05.440 --> 00:41:08.920
and the you know, sentimental side
of Goofy and the fatherly love kind of

584
00:41:08.960 --> 00:41:14.599
thing. So I just kind of
thought of my son and it came there,

585
00:41:14.599 --> 00:41:17.480
you go. What were your first
thoughts on the new vision for Goofy

586
00:41:17.480 --> 00:41:22.440
when they first Probably the Mickey Mouse
because you don't playing Goofy for a while.

587
00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:24.400
I love now, Oh here he
is the new and improved Goofy.

588
00:41:24.760 --> 00:41:30.000
Yeah, it's it's different. It's
a different universe. And I think he's

589
00:41:30.039 --> 00:41:32.440
more dressed like he originally was in
nineteen thirty two, so I think of

590
00:41:32.559 --> 00:41:39.199
him more as dippy dog which was
his original name than Goofy, because we

591
00:41:39.199 --> 00:41:44.000
were able to do stuff in the
shorts that we could never do on the

592
00:41:44.039 --> 00:41:47.599
traditional you know, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
kind of thing. And I mean I

593
00:41:47.679 --> 00:41:51.800
remember once where, you know,
like there was one called dog Show where

594
00:41:52.320 --> 00:41:54.880
Goofy and Pluto We're going to go
to a dog show and Mickey puts Goofy

595
00:41:55.000 --> 00:41:59.639
in so he could win something.
Yeah, and then there's one scene where

596
00:41:59.719 --> 00:42:05.880
Goofy is scooting across his butt on
the carpet and I saw that, Okay,

597
00:42:06.079 --> 00:42:08.360
that's different. That's no, We've
never been able to do that.

598
00:42:08.679 --> 00:42:13.000
There was one where Goofy was a
zombie and I said, okay, yeah,

599
00:42:13.079 --> 00:42:17.199
that was really different. And yeah, a lot they're very funny.

600
00:42:17.199 --> 00:42:21.039
I love some of those. Yeah, I love doing all those. Yeah,

601
00:42:21.119 --> 00:42:24.159
the scripts were great, and they're
just more adult, whereas you do

602
00:42:24.239 --> 00:42:29.119
the ones for the you know,
five and under the little kids and stuff,

603
00:42:29.519 --> 00:42:32.840
it can be a little you know, repetitive, but I mean it's

604
00:42:34.199 --> 00:42:37.920
soft, it's not adult enough for
what I would like. And so,

605
00:42:37.039 --> 00:42:43.960
but some of the Mickey shorts are
just genuinely hilarious. Oh yeah, back

606
00:42:43.960 --> 00:42:46.920
in the day, Yeah, yeah, back in the day when was the

607
00:42:47.000 --> 00:42:51.639
day I keep forgetting. I think
it was the nineteen thirties and some of

608
00:42:51.639 --> 00:42:55.239
the books. I've done some books
from then, and they were tougher characters,

609
00:42:55.280 --> 00:42:59.920
they were a little they had more
attitude. Yeah, Mickey sure did.

610
00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:04.960
Yeah, And Wayne always lamented the
fact he said Mickey's too bland.

611
00:43:05.800 --> 00:43:08.320
He says, I wish I had
more lines that were a little bit have

612
00:43:08.440 --> 00:43:13.519
more meat on them. And luckily
he would have loved the shorts. I

613
00:43:13.559 --> 00:43:16.960
think, yes, he would,
God bless him. And I think he

614
00:43:17.159 --> 00:43:22.719
was the longest running Mickey. Yeah, he started in he did it a

615
00:43:22.760 --> 00:43:27.079
few times before. He did it
in Mickey's Christmas Carol in eighty three.

616
00:43:27.239 --> 00:43:30.800
He did the Mickey Mouse Club in
seventy seven, was the first time that

617
00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:35.719
he did that. And then he
died in two thousand and nine. So,

618
00:43:36.119 --> 00:43:40.599
I mean it's twenty two years,
you know, twenty two years and

619
00:43:42.280 --> 00:43:45.320
a lot longer than that. It
was, Yeah, thirty two. I

620
00:43:45.320 --> 00:43:47.000
don't know. And so, and
I'm sorry, how many years is it

621
00:43:47.000 --> 00:43:52.800
for you? Doing this? January
will be completing thirty eight years. Yeah,

622
00:43:52.840 --> 00:43:53.960
there you go. Wow. So, and it's going to be a

623
00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:57.800
career if I don't watch it.
That's right. Yeah, the next thing,

624
00:43:57.800 --> 00:44:04.239
you know, trip over microphone cave? Wow, you know the sound

625
00:44:04.239 --> 00:44:07.280
effects? Ready? Yeah? Yeah? And is there anything coming up that

626
00:44:07.280 --> 00:44:13.199
we should know about any particular projects
that you have? Well, we I

627
00:44:13.199 --> 00:44:16.159
don't know what you can talk about
of upcoming series that we're in and stuff.

628
00:44:16.440 --> 00:44:22.159
I never know. I know I've
got a cruise to go on in

629
00:44:22.199 --> 00:44:25.760
the summer and a couple of boat
things and some more comic cons coming out

630
00:44:27.000 --> 00:44:30.480
that we're doing a series now which
I don't if it. And and we're

631
00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:34.239
getting calls. I know a call
was coming in that maybe that's a new

632
00:44:34.360 --> 00:44:39.880
job. But you never know.
I don't get my bookings usually it's like

633
00:44:39.960 --> 00:44:45.079
I'll get next week's booking like today
or something. Yeah. That's about all

634
00:44:45.119 --> 00:44:49.320
the lead time I ever get.
So it's just okay, something will come

635
00:44:49.679 --> 00:44:52.920
yeah, sure, sure, I
never yeah same here, yeah, unless

636
00:44:52.960 --> 00:44:57.280
it's comic cons. Is there any
comic con we should be on the lookout

637
00:44:57.320 --> 00:44:59.800
for? Would that be? Where
it probably is? And can I remember

638
00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:02.280
now there you go, Okay,
just check it, just check it.

639
00:45:04.159 --> 00:45:07.840
That's right. Well, mailing,
well, next weekend I'm doing one actually,

640
00:45:08.280 --> 00:45:14.239
I think it's sack anime in Sacramento. Oh, yes, and that's

641
00:45:14.280 --> 00:45:19.599
the next and after that, who
knows, you know, I think I'm

642
00:45:19.599 --> 00:45:22.119
going there. I think I've got
that written down. Yeah, I've done

643
00:45:22.159 --> 00:45:28.400
that before. Yeah, anime,
which is an interesting it's a whole nother

644
00:45:28.480 --> 00:45:31.960
world to me, but it's very
popular. Yeah. The closest way've come

645
00:45:32.480 --> 00:45:38.239
as Goofy characters, you know and
Disney characters is probably Kingdom Hearts video game,

646
00:45:38.360 --> 00:45:43.679
which is intensely popular and the longest
running series I found of anything that

647
00:45:43.719 --> 00:45:46.239
we've done. Two thousand and two
is when the first one came out,

648
00:45:46.800 --> 00:45:51.559
and they're getting ready for number four, so that'll be coming up someday.

649
00:45:51.800 --> 00:45:53.800
Wow, well, buy too many
of them? Yeah, actually we don't

650
00:45:53.840 --> 00:46:00.480
get royalties never matter. No,
not from the game. No, we'll

651
00:46:00.480 --> 00:46:02.960
have to fix that's that's worth a
strike. Yes it is. Oh man,

652
00:46:04.239 --> 00:46:06.159
should we play a game? A
voice swap? Chris? Do you

653
00:46:06.159 --> 00:46:08.320
think? Yes? I was read
my mind, read my mind. Yes,

654
00:46:08.400 --> 00:46:12.440
we do a character voice swap with
all the guests that come on the

655
00:46:12.440 --> 00:46:15.039
show. So, oh, Jim
will feed you one of his popular character's

656
00:46:15.119 --> 00:46:19.800
lines and then you'll say them in
one of your popular characters' voices. Oh,

657
00:46:19.800 --> 00:46:21.960
and then vice versa. Do you
want to do that? Yeah?

658
00:46:21.960 --> 00:46:24.280
It might be an impression, but
yeah I can. Okay, okay,

659
00:46:24.599 --> 00:46:28.320
Well, let me see what should
I come up with. I got to

660
00:46:28.360 --> 00:46:30.639
think of a really good one here. Well, if you've got one,

661
00:46:30.719 --> 00:46:34.679
go ahead, let a goof ism. I'll come up with a peteism.

662
00:46:35.320 --> 00:46:38.639
Goorsh pete. Well what's going on? Oh? There we go? Okay,

663
00:46:38.719 --> 00:46:45.079
Well here's one now PG Daddy can't
miss you if you don't go away.

664
00:46:45.719 --> 00:46:47.760
Well, son, now, daddy
can't miss you if you don't go

665
00:46:47.960 --> 00:46:57.159
away. Goofy would never say that, And my line is from a Goofy

666
00:46:57.239 --> 00:47:00.760
movie? Sure, how many cups
of sugar does it take to get to

667
00:47:00.800 --> 00:47:06.280
the moon? How many cups of
sugar does it take to get to the

668
00:47:06.320 --> 00:47:13.719
moon? That hurts? Oh?
Man, oh god, do we have

669
00:47:13.760 --> 00:47:15.840
another one? Yeah, we gotta
do a Pooh one. We gotta do

670
00:47:15.880 --> 00:47:16.960
it. I feel like we need
to hear we need the Pooh say that

671
00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:22.639
line as well? Right, alrighty
well, how many cups of honey does

672
00:47:22.679 --> 00:47:28.519
it take to get to the moon. I've done that. It sounds like

673
00:47:28.559 --> 00:47:31.039
it's not but I could do that, Sylvester. Oh, there you go.

674
00:47:31.800 --> 00:47:36.119
How many cups us sugar does it
take to get to the moon?

675
00:47:37.639 --> 00:47:42.280
Well, and what's the answer?
Three and a half is what max?

676
00:47:42.519 --> 00:47:45.360
I don't know. A dwing coffee? How many cups of coffee does it

677
00:47:45.480 --> 00:47:52.920
take to bunk to the moon?
Oh my god, Okay, stop us

678
00:47:52.960 --> 00:47:58.920
before we kill again. How about
how about one more? That's a good

679
00:47:59.000 --> 00:48:02.000
character. I feel like we always
we always do Pooh and Tigger dark Wing

680
00:48:02.119 --> 00:48:06.280
dark Wing dark Wing doesn't get his
play as much. Yeah, I am

681
00:48:06.280 --> 00:48:09.679
the terror the flaps in the night, the wicked skirts that picks up your

682
00:48:09.800 --> 00:48:15.760
nightmares. Him, dark Wing Duck. I could do that as as fog

683
00:48:15.800 --> 00:48:22.000
Horn. Oh yeah, oh yes, I think I'm the terror that squawks

684
00:48:22.039 --> 00:48:24.440
in the night. It wasn't squaw, I say, bowl, wasn't squawk

685
00:48:24.800 --> 00:48:32.239
close enough? I'm dark Wing Duck. That's pretty good. That's pretty good

686
00:48:34.159 --> 00:48:37.559
fog Horn. He is one of
my all time favorite min too, of

687
00:48:37.639 --> 00:48:40.320
the of the Looney Tunes. Yeah, he's my favorite. Yeah, absolutely,

688
00:48:40.719 --> 00:48:45.519
Actually he's second favorite because yeah,
well you can get a paycheck.

689
00:48:45.719 --> 00:48:49.159
I got him. Yeah, gotta
gotta keep water in that plant. Don't

690
00:48:49.159 --> 00:48:52.400
want to mess that up. Well
that's pretty dark cool. Yeah, I

691
00:48:52.440 --> 00:48:55.239
saw a bill on your on your
IMDb. You've played George Bush a couple

692
00:48:55.239 --> 00:49:00.920
of times. Wow, that says
George Bush, saying I've done a lot

693
00:49:00.960 --> 00:49:07.000
of the presidents over the years.
Actually probably the most. This is embarrassing

694
00:49:07.039 --> 00:49:09.599
to even mention. One of the
first things I ever did. I needed

695
00:49:09.599 --> 00:49:15.679
the money and there was a guy
that looked like Gorbachev and he was doing

696
00:49:15.719 --> 00:49:22.000
a music video called Gorbie and the
Red Hats and they needed Reagan and so

697
00:49:22.400 --> 00:49:28.199
well, you know, I went
in and auditioned and they said, ye,

698
00:49:28.239 --> 00:49:31.039
it's great, but you won't talk. And I'm well, maybe prosthetic

699
00:49:31.119 --> 00:49:35.800
that might be interesting. Anyway,
I did this three days and it was

700
00:49:35.840 --> 00:49:39.639
the most horrible thing that I ever
did. I worked. My co star

701
00:49:39.880 --> 00:49:46.480
was a poster girl, Angeline,
and oh, if you remember Angeline,

702
00:49:46.519 --> 00:49:52.199
looks her up she I understands,
she rocks. She up close. It's

703
00:49:52.199 --> 00:49:54.280
scary because she was old even then
and this is in the late eighties,

704
00:49:54.519 --> 00:50:00.559
and I had to hold her leg
looking lasciviously as they were singing this song

705
00:50:00.079 --> 00:50:05.519
as Gourbie and the Red Hots.
And I'm thinking to myself, okay,

706
00:50:05.559 --> 00:50:08.280
this is show busy, eh,
okay, well this is what this.

707
00:50:08.440 --> 00:50:15.280
I won't be here that long and
the production company the guy's funding this thing

708
00:50:15.519 --> 00:50:20.880
skipped out of town. Stiffed the
production company for about two hundred thousand bucks.

709
00:50:22.079 --> 00:50:24.760
There's not a frame of that movie
in existence. You cannot find it,

710
00:50:25.320 --> 00:50:30.639
but thank god, but you have
an amazing, wonderful memory, a

711
00:50:30.679 --> 00:50:34.400
good story. They had all of
the they had a guy on a ball

712
00:50:34.480 --> 00:50:37.639
that smashed through the Berlin wall that
they had thirty five millimeter. It was

713
00:50:37.679 --> 00:50:42.079
a big production and they just skipped
out of town because it was so horrible.

714
00:50:42.440 --> 00:50:45.880
Wow, that was the first year
I was out here. So I

715
00:50:45.559 --> 00:50:49.960
well, hopefully something will happen.
And then the goofy thing did. Yeah.

716
00:50:50.039 --> 00:50:52.559
Yeah, well that that seemed to
have worked out for you. Yes,

717
00:50:52.679 --> 00:50:55.199
you got to go through a lot
of stuff before you get the good

718
00:50:55.199 --> 00:51:00.159
stuff. Oh there you go.
Well that's wonderful, but not necessarily for

719
00:51:00.239 --> 00:51:05.119
you, because once you switched over
to voiceover you were cranky. Yeah,

720
00:51:05.199 --> 00:51:07.800
it finally hit. That was twelve
years after college. And so students that

721
00:51:07.880 --> 00:51:10.559
I talk to all the time they
say, what do you need to be

722
00:51:10.599 --> 00:51:15.880
a voice actor? And I say, get rich parents. Yeah that helps,

723
00:51:15.239 --> 00:51:19.679
especially the first few years. You're
gonna need another job. Yeah,

724
00:51:19.800 --> 00:51:24.760
don't leave Nebraska and come out here
hoping to be a big star. It's

725
00:51:24.960 --> 00:51:30.119
far few and far between. And
but if you're good at parking cars,

726
00:51:30.400 --> 00:51:34.639
that's always a good skill. It's
always or like you know, picking up

727
00:51:35.199 --> 00:51:38.159
taking orders at Denny's. Oh yeah, that's a good one. It's a

728
00:51:38.159 --> 00:51:42.719
tough business, it really is,
if you think about the number of and

729
00:51:42.760 --> 00:51:45.039
there's still a lot of rejection.
I mean, you know, all the

730
00:51:45.119 --> 00:51:49.000
time I'm doing auditions and I never
hear anything. Well, the lucky ones

731
00:51:49.039 --> 00:51:52.039
that hit, you know, you're
very thankful for. Yeah. Well,

732
00:51:52.039 --> 00:51:55.000
the great Gordon Hunt, he was
the voice director at Hannah Barbara Forever in

733
00:51:55.039 --> 00:52:00.079
a Day and also Helen Hunt,
the amazing actress. Dad. He wrote

734
00:52:00.119 --> 00:52:05.679
a book called Breaking It, How
to Break into show Business, and uh,

735
00:52:06.079 --> 00:52:09.079
it had dancers, it had jugglers, it had musicians, it had

736
00:52:09.119 --> 00:52:15.119
actors actresses of course, and then
the one of the chapters was how to

737
00:52:15.159 --> 00:52:22.199
break into voiceover? Don't bother really, kid you not? This is what

738
00:52:22.800 --> 00:52:25.599
you know, wrapped up by about
four or five maybe six people in Hollywood,

739
00:52:25.920 --> 00:52:29.960
and they're already there and you're not, so forget that, okay,

740
00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:34.199
next and it was and I was
thinking, and of course I was already

741
00:52:34.239 --> 00:52:37.920
working, yeah when I met him, because otherwise I would have never heard

742
00:52:37.960 --> 00:52:40.039
the book. And I'm thinking,
I can't thank you enough for giving me

743
00:52:40.119 --> 00:52:45.000
this book after I've already worked for
you. Yeah, because you know,

744
00:52:45.119 --> 00:52:47.039
I wouldn't have bothered. If I'd
known how hard it was, I probably

745
00:52:47.039 --> 00:52:52.320
wouldn't have bothered. But it's the
best lesson I ever learned. I took

746
00:52:52.320 --> 00:52:57.599
classes from DAWs Butler speaking of him, Oh sure, and he does everybody

747
00:52:57.639 --> 00:53:01.719
know who does bear hound on Snaggle
Push, all of the big Hannibar America

748
00:53:02.119 --> 00:53:08.000
probably Drama gra and Quick Drama,
Graw and Captain Crunch, all hundreds of

749
00:53:08.039 --> 00:53:14.320
them. And he was the thing
that it's not voice acting, it's voice

750
00:53:14.559 --> 00:53:19.880
acting. The acting is more important
than the voice. The voice will come.

751
00:53:20.360 --> 00:53:22.960
You can find a voice for something, but if you can't act,

752
00:53:22.480 --> 00:53:30.679
don't bother's That's what separates the great
from the imitator. The Midland Yeah,

753
00:53:30.760 --> 00:53:35.280
yeah, do you do you have
any nuggets of wisdom to Well, that's

754
00:53:35.320 --> 00:53:38.519
the first, because that's pretty good
take acting. My best training was a

755
00:53:38.639 --> 00:53:43.519
stand up because you get a lot
of honesty. If you suck, they'll

756
00:53:43.599 --> 00:53:46.760
let you know real You can tell
how you're doing with a live audience.

757
00:53:46.760 --> 00:53:52.320
So any kind of live performance where
you're on a stage, you get feedback

758
00:53:52.320 --> 00:53:54.039
from the audience. You'll learn how
to say a line, which is important

759
00:53:54.079 --> 00:53:58.320
in the booth because you just get
a script, say it, make it

760
00:53:58.360 --> 00:54:00.480
funny, you know, and you
gotta do that. So you have to

761
00:54:00.519 --> 00:54:06.239
have those acting chops. So take
acting lessons is the most important part.

762
00:54:06.920 --> 00:54:09.400
So, Bill, what would be
your thoughts then on now it feels like

763
00:54:09.440 --> 00:54:13.760
it's even hotter for someone to break
into voice acting because it feels it seems

764
00:54:13.760 --> 00:54:17.159
like a lot of a list actors
are getting the voice acting spots as opposed

765
00:54:17.199 --> 00:54:22.960
to genuine voice actors. So what's
your thoughts on actors now is getting all

766
00:54:22.960 --> 00:54:27.000
the voice rolls it seems these days. Some are great, some are not.

767
00:54:27.559 --> 00:54:30.599
I mean, you know, Tom
Hanks is Woody, great choice,

768
00:54:31.079 --> 00:54:36.239
it fit the character. He is
a great actor and he's just got that

769
00:54:36.519 --> 00:54:40.320
voice that worked with that character.
I always say to my students that,

770
00:54:40.480 --> 00:54:45.000
like, as they say, a
camera adds ten pounds, I'm really not

771
00:54:45.079 --> 00:54:50.599
this fat, and but a microphone
takes off ten pounds or ten percent energy.

772
00:54:50.800 --> 00:54:54.920
So you gotta find that amount of
exaggeration that you put in the voice,

773
00:54:55.719 --> 00:54:59.480
but it's got to be backed up
by emotion, so the motion has

774
00:54:59.519 --> 00:55:02.800
to push the words off the page. Once you get that, yeah,

775
00:55:02.880 --> 00:55:06.880
you're kind of right in the ballpark. That's why it's very similar to stage

776
00:55:06.920 --> 00:55:09.639
acting. You got to play to
the back of the audience, the bigger,

777
00:55:09.760 --> 00:55:15.119
grander gestures. Yea, they is
a little bit brighter and stuff.

778
00:55:15.000 --> 00:55:20.159
That's kind of what animation is.
Yeah. On camera, Hey, camera's

779
00:55:20.239 --> 00:55:22.559
right there in front of you.
You can be a little bit more subtle

780
00:55:22.599 --> 00:55:24.440
and get it across. That's why
a lot of film actors have trouble doing

781
00:55:24.519 --> 00:55:31.400
voiceovers because they're acting oh yeah,
stuff like and that doesn't translate. Yeah

782
00:55:31.440 --> 00:55:37.639
it does. Yeah, somebody sits
there, goes for five minutes. Yeah,

783
00:55:37.639 --> 00:55:40.440
that's that doesn't play. Yeah,
oh god, that is so true.

784
00:55:40.760 --> 00:55:45.199
And I've often said too that you
know, if you're way too much,

785
00:55:45.280 --> 00:55:50.480
you're probably right there. Yeah,
yeah, you know it's overdo it

786
00:55:50.559 --> 00:55:54.320
over as Yeah, just as long
as the emotions make in it feel real,

787
00:55:54.440 --> 00:56:00.199
and as long you know it's easier
to push it over the top and

788
00:56:00.239 --> 00:56:05.360
pull it back. Then get halfway
there and try to double your enthusiasm or

789
00:56:05.360 --> 00:56:08.119
your conviction or you know fill in
the blank. And uh, you know,

790
00:56:08.719 --> 00:56:13.559
Louder as Prouder. Directors would probably
not tell you to go bigger.

791
00:56:13.840 --> 00:56:15.960
They might say, cut cut it
back a little bit, it's a more

792
00:56:16.000 --> 00:56:20.280
intimate scene or whatever, but rarely
would they tell you to make it bigger.

793
00:56:21.079 --> 00:56:22.679
That's just they don't think you can
do it or something. Yeah,

794
00:56:22.719 --> 00:56:28.679
And I always say instincts are the
best stinks, which because if you which

795
00:56:28.760 --> 00:56:31.480
is kind of iffy as an expression, but but if it feels good to

796
00:56:31.519 --> 00:56:35.480
you and it feels right to you, because I always give them one as

797
00:56:35.519 --> 00:56:37.880
written, yeah, you know,
and then I always give them one the

798
00:56:37.880 --> 00:56:40.840
way it should have been written,
which is my ad lib, you know.

799
00:56:40.920 --> 00:56:45.800
And of course I'm kidding, no
I'm not, but uh, just

800
00:56:45.079 --> 00:56:50.480
be be yourself and be too much. And yeah, I always say instincts

801
00:56:50.519 --> 00:56:53.639
are the best stinks. And if
you're if you give too much, it's

802
00:56:53.719 --> 00:56:58.280
just about right that when I learned
from you and goof troop because I look

803
00:56:58.280 --> 00:57:00.960
at that's not on the scrip and
something you do and then they like that,

804
00:57:01.440 --> 00:57:07.960
oh okay, well go with your
ideas. Yeah absolutely, And then

805
00:57:07.280 --> 00:57:09.880
I've got these little gems and I'm
sure you do too. If you.

806
00:57:10.320 --> 00:57:15.480
If you do a perfect impression of
somebody that no one knows, you have

807
00:57:15.519 --> 00:57:20.159
a new character, right. And
if you do a horrible impression of someone

808
00:57:20.199 --> 00:57:22.880
famous they can't even tell who it
is, you have a new that's a

809
00:57:22.880 --> 00:57:24.320
new character, right. It's like, yeah, if I was going to

810
00:57:24.400 --> 00:57:29.519
do Lucille Ball, she in her
later years she had smokers thing and it

811
00:57:29.599 --> 00:57:32.440
was kind of so I would probably
do it, oh ricky, oh you

812
00:57:32.519 --> 00:57:38.000
know, and it's like, it
doesn't and it's usable. Yeah, so

813
00:57:38.159 --> 00:57:42.599
just do the Lucille Ball and I
got that voice. And then if somebody

814
00:57:42.679 --> 00:57:46.400
goes, you know you're doing it, you know you're doing it perfectly.

815
00:57:47.840 --> 00:57:55.039
Somebody in you say, you've got
to explain it to the That's half of

816
00:57:55.159 --> 00:57:59.440
the audience out there going, what's
that? What's that from? Where they

817
00:57:59.519 --> 00:58:02.119
get that? Where'd they get that? Oh? Man? A lot of

818
00:58:02.119 --> 00:58:07.599
little acting tips. Yes, we
hope you've learned something. Can I sounds?

819
00:58:07.639 --> 00:58:12.199
One final thing you guys voice acting
legends. You guys raised us essentially

820
00:58:12.239 --> 00:58:14.760
Chris and I. And you've been
in the business for fortyiears you've been getting

821
00:58:14.760 --> 00:58:16.519
paid to do voices for forty plus
years or thirty eight years, as you

822
00:58:16.559 --> 00:58:21.159
said, Bill. Do you still
enjoy just doing voices or this? Does

823
00:58:21.159 --> 00:58:25.000
it feel up work? No,
it's always felt like play to me.

824
00:58:25.199 --> 00:58:30.599
It's never felt like man. I've
always said, if you don't enjoy doing

825
00:58:30.639 --> 00:58:34.840
it, why do it? So
life's too short. You know, you

826
00:58:34.840 --> 00:58:37.920
should just follow you know what you
love. All of my hobbies have become

827
00:58:37.960 --> 00:58:42.199
my career. Radio. I'd done
some radio, you know, when I

828
00:58:42.239 --> 00:58:45.480
was a teenager. I got to
go out the local radio station do something.

829
00:58:45.480 --> 00:58:47.559
I thought that was cool, that
was fun. I played around with

830
00:58:47.599 --> 00:58:52.039
electronics and did kits and stuff like
that, and I became a chief engineer

831
00:58:52.039 --> 00:58:57.760
at those radio stations. So I
learned about electronics so I wouldn't electrocute myself.

832
00:58:58.360 --> 00:59:00.679
It's always end up. I always
love Jack, Benny, George Burns,

833
00:59:00.679 --> 00:59:04.320
all those guys on TV. I
would love to do that. I

834
00:59:04.400 --> 00:59:07.800
finally got a chance, and dang
it, I'm gonna jump off the cliff

835
00:59:07.840 --> 00:59:12.360
and try it. And it turned
into something. Same with Hollywood. I

836
00:59:12.519 --> 00:59:15.800
knew that it was difficult, but
I said, yeah, I'm gonna kick

837
00:59:15.840 --> 00:59:19.519
myself if I don't try. Sure, So I came out and see what

838
00:59:19.679 --> 00:59:22.039
happened. If it, you know, I wouldn't be any worse off.

839
00:59:22.079 --> 00:59:25.079
If it didn't, I'd go back
home. But it did. So unless

840
00:59:25.079 --> 00:59:29.159
you try. Yeah, And I
came up with saying, I said,

841
00:59:29.159 --> 00:59:32.320
you know you can. You can
never ensure success in this business, but

842
00:59:32.400 --> 00:59:38.239
you can always ensure failure by not
trying out there and try. Yeah,

843
00:59:38.320 --> 00:59:43.639
nothing ventured, nothing gain exactly.
Wow, there's a couple of Maxims that

844
00:59:43.679 --> 00:59:45.800
are out there like that. But
that puts it very well. You know,

845
00:59:45.920 --> 00:59:53.880
Maxim that magazine that there's a joke
in there somewhere better. I don't

846
00:59:53.880 --> 00:59:59.360
trust myself to uh to dive in. Well, Bill, this is so

847
00:59:59.480 --> 01:00:02.280
cool man, Thank you, it's
great. It's great to actually look across

848
01:00:02.320 --> 01:00:06.079
and see you at a microphone next
to me. It's taken me back to

849
01:00:06.159 --> 01:00:08.960
goof Yes, it's been a long
time. And even though I work with

850
01:00:09.000 --> 01:00:15.320
you every week, it's fun yeah
sort of. Yeah, you're you're in

851
01:00:15.360 --> 01:00:17.719
one studio, I'm in another,
and they mix it all together and make

852
01:00:19.079 --> 01:00:22.239
Disney Magic. This is this is
special. This is a lot of fun.

853
01:00:22.280 --> 01:00:24.039
That one coming up on Friday,
So I think I do too.

854
01:00:24.159 --> 01:00:30.559
Yeah, Actually to see you around
campus, yeah, what do you think,

855
01:00:30.559 --> 01:00:34.800
Brendon fantastic? We take us at
Chris all right, there we go.

856
01:00:35.400 --> 01:00:37.239
Well, thank you all again for
joining us. On another episode of

857
01:00:37.280 --> 01:00:40.159
Tuned In with Jim Cummings, today
we had Bill Farmer. Thank you so

858
01:00:40.280 --> 01:00:44.880
much for joining us. My pleasure, My pleasure, and don't forget to

859
01:00:45.039 --> 01:00:47.679
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860
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861
01:00:52.599 --> 01:00:55.679
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862
01:00:55.719 --> 01:00:59.960
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