WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.280 --> 00:00:05.120 How are you doing out there? It's me, Tigger, I'm dark waiting 2 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:08.839 duck. It's me Bunker's deep bapcat. All right, y'all, did it 3 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:13.640 rate your favorite firefly? You desire? Hold the old knock out? My 4 00:00:13.759 --> 00:00:19.320 name is Jim Cummings, and welcome to tune Jin. Well, we've known 5 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:22.000 each other a long time. Yeah. Where did we need? You were 6 00:00:22.039 --> 00:00:27.440 ten? Yeah? Well she looked ten. No, was it I think 7 00:00:27.480 --> 00:00:31.399 it was it ICM or was it DPN? Yeah, yeah, that's possible. 8 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:36.719 Yeah, because it was time we worked together. Oh oh, okay, 9 00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:40.759 was it one hundred and one? Maybe? Yeah, I played bad 10 00:00:40.799 --> 00:00:46.799 dog or something. But you know, I have no idea. It's all 11 00:00:46.799 --> 00:00:49.799 the same day at this point. In a Chicken, Yeah, I was 12 00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:54.640 a chicken. Yeah I remember. Yeah, you had an odd character. 13 00:00:55.119 --> 00:01:00.479 Yeah, she literally in the character description that said she's very hyperactive. She's 14 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:04.760 a chicken who thinks she's a dog, and like a high energy and like 15 00:01:04.879 --> 00:01:08.920 a lot of like anxiety, but and she want to be one of the 16 00:01:08.959 --> 00:01:12.200 dogs. And like right before the audition, I called my mom and I'm 17 00:01:12.239 --> 00:01:15.799 like in Toronto, and I'm like, would it be funny if like every 18 00:01:15.799 --> 00:01:19.280 time she has a pee or a bee. She gets stuck on it, 19 00:01:19.359 --> 00:01:21.719 like, you know, I can put up with the growling jokes. So 20 00:01:21.760 --> 00:01:25.920 she had more bake references, even you why asking me why every time across 21 00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:29.760 rob that these like weird little She's like, yes, do that. And 22 00:01:29.799 --> 00:01:34.200 then that book the part you just I got chills. I remember, Yeah, 23 00:01:34.359 --> 00:01:38.079 that's crazy. I remember that first day because first of all, I 24 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:42.200 just moved here from Toronto two years prior, and even though I was very 25 00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:47.200 successful there, getting my feet grounded here was challenging. I was like eviction 26 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:52.599 notice broke for a little while. And the first job I did here was 27 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:55.400 given to me by the woman that gave me my very first job when I 28 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:59.200 was thirteen. Wow, was Marsha Goodman who gave me Hello Kitty, oh 29 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:05.040 sure and remember which was literally the start of my career. And she called 30 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:07.159 me up and she's like, hey, we're doing gadget point Heather. Would 31 00:02:07.159 --> 00:02:08.840 you come be Heather. I'm like, notes, she saved me. And 32 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:12.599 then one hundred and one was one of my first that I like booked out 33 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:15.639 right here and I was sitting in the room with you and eg Daily and 34 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:21.680 cats Susy and Pim Segel and Jeff Bennett, and I was like, gods, 35 00:02:22.680 --> 00:02:25.639 and then he played everyone's ref reference. You know, when you go 36 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:28.759 and you book a job, I'm sorry, I totally like Railroad at your 37 00:02:28.759 --> 00:02:32.719 show jump away. No, no, no, that's good, that's good. 38 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:38.479 I everybody, I'll just prop a squad. You're doing great. They'd 39 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:43.120 rather listen and see you than see or listen you get well. Anyway, 40 00:02:43.159 --> 00:02:45.560 For those who don't know, when you audition and you booked the part, 41 00:02:45.960 --> 00:02:49.039 often you've given a couple of different takes and you don't want which one they 42 00:02:49.080 --> 00:02:51.960 picked. Also, it's not really in your head. I just booked something 43 00:02:51.960 --> 00:02:53.840 that I auditioned for six months ago, so it's like, not in my 44 00:02:53.919 --> 00:02:58.960 head what I did. So they play the raff, which means they play 45 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:00.759 the reference for you what you did, what booked the part? And so 46 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:05.120 they played everyone's and then they played mine, and none of you knew who 47 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:10.000 I was, and all of you went like Mpam Siegel was sitting beside me, 48 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:14.439 I'll never forget it. She goes, You're a room full of grates 49 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:19.560 and you just blew everyone's side. Yeah, I love it, Yes you 50 00:03:19.560 --> 00:03:22.879 did, yeah, and now you are a room full of greats. That's 51 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:28.680 so good. Oh my gosh, that's just amazing. And I mean all 52 00:03:28.719 --> 00:03:34.479 the way down from what the power puffs, the you got a pretty ridiculous 53 00:03:34.639 --> 00:03:38.719 resume. Yeah, you know it's don't you find it pretty phenomenal when yeah, 54 00:03:38.759 --> 00:03:43.639 you know, there's a group of us and maybe really not that many, 55 00:03:43.719 --> 00:03:46.840 maybe ten, right, that have been I was going to be generous 56 00:03:46.840 --> 00:03:50.759 and say, maybe it doesn't. Maybe right that have booked multiple roles that 57 00:03:50.879 --> 00:03:55.639 have really impacted people in a big way around the world. For sure. 58 00:03:55.879 --> 00:03:59.479 For you, it's pooh and a bunch of other things you've done. But 59 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:01.759 like I think, when you're doing it, you don't realize the kind of 60 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:05.960 impact it has until you go to cons and you see people crying and say 61 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:10.120 like, you're the reason I'm alive, you know, Yeah, yeah, 62 00:04:10.199 --> 00:04:14.360 I mean it's I mean, I've had stories that will put you on your 63 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:16.639 knees. Me too, you know, it's like, really, wow, 64 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:19.480 I feel like you're giving me too much credit, But I'll take it. 65 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:23.519 And as long as it made you happy and made you, you know, 66 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:27.279 it was like a lifeline to some people. A lot of people never know 67 00:04:27.079 --> 00:04:30.279 you, No, you don't. And I think our predecessors didn't know because 68 00:04:30.279 --> 00:04:32.439 there was no Internet, you know, when No Blanks was running the show. 69 00:04:32.600 --> 00:04:34.959 Yeah, I mean not that people didn't know who he was, but 70 00:04:35.079 --> 00:04:41.959 now visually they know who we are because this stuff. Yeah, stuff like 71 00:04:41.959 --> 00:04:44.959 this. Yeah, and that recognition that you know, if you're doing a 72 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:47.800 play, if you're doing something live, you know pretty quickly if people are 73 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:50.920 appreciating it, you're selling albums, you know, well, if you're on 74 00:04:50.920 --> 00:04:54.920 a TV show and the ratings are high, you're doing well. But animation 75 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:58.680 people, we don't get a lot of feedback from Hollywood or even love from 76 00:04:58.680 --> 00:05:01.079 Hollywood compared sitting in the room. Yeah, and so to get it from 77 00:05:01.079 --> 00:05:05.639 the fans I think is one of the most rewarding things about this career. 78 00:05:05.959 --> 00:05:10.079 Yeah. I agree. I'm sure we could swap some good stories. Oh. 79 00:05:10.120 --> 00:05:13.600 Absolutely, Okay, I'll give you a quick one. I hope you 80 00:05:13.639 --> 00:05:16.319 guys have heard this a lot anyway. No, but there was a young 81 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:21.519 boy who years ago, his parents contacted me and said, I'll just call 82 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:27.959 him Billy. And they said, well, is there any chance that you 83 00:05:28.120 --> 00:05:32.959 I can get you on the phone with my kid Billy he's seven and like 84 00:05:33.079 --> 00:05:36.240 ten, And I said sure. Well, he to say that he's a 85 00:05:36.279 --> 00:05:40.959 fan is I can't even tell you? But he goes, let me ask 86 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:43.639 you real quick though. Were you the guy that on the Rustoleum commercial? 87 00:05:43.720 --> 00:05:46.800 And I go yeah. He goes, how about how about the Haviline commercial 88 00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:49.439 motor oil? And I said yeah. He goes, damn, okay, 89 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:53.920 wow, okay, Well, anyway, can we call you at ten o'clock 90 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:57.920 Saturday morning? Yeah? So I call him up. He calls up and 91 00:05:58.240 --> 00:06:00.319 said, are you ready. We're gonna put Billy on the phone. Billy, 92 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:03.079 it's your friend, Jim Cummings. So he gets on the phone and 93 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:08.000 he goes, hello, it's mate. Now, I think that you should 94 00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:11.120 do the voice of Bunker Steve Popcat, who was, of course the very 95 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:14.160 first tune detective, and he works out of the Hollywood Division, in the 96 00:06:14.199 --> 00:06:15.759 Tune division. And I said, oh, okay, well, gee, 97 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:18.959 here's Bonkers. Good Now, I think that you should do the voice of 98 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:23.600 Lucky Piquell, his human counterpart, who of course works out of the same 99 00:06:23.639 --> 00:06:26.439 Hollywood division. Blah blah blah blah blah. Oh, Bunkers, what do 100 00:06:26.439 --> 00:06:29.920 you good? Now? I think that you should do the voice of the 101 00:06:30.079 --> 00:06:34.199 street vendor who had a hurdy gurdy, and he was I believe of Nordic 102 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:40.519 persuasion, perhaps Swedish. And I went, well, see good now, 103 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:45.639 and we went and we did this for about forty five minutes. And I 104 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:50.319 said, yes, yeah, and it was it was a Saturday, and 105 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:55.839 and I said, okay, is your dad there? Can I talk to 106 00:06:55.879 --> 00:07:00.720 your mom or dad? Because boy where I'm running out of remember bank here 107 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:03.439 and and and the DA gets on the phone and he goes, He says, 108 00:07:03.560 --> 00:07:09.720 uh, I'm so sorry. I had no idea I had. And 109 00:07:09.800 --> 00:07:12.759 I really mean, oh, his mother wants to talk to you. Oh 110 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:16.519 she gets Oh my god, she's crying her gut eyes out. And I 111 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:19.160 said, oh my gosh, what, don't worry about it. You know 112 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:23.560 it's it's okay. She I had no idea. Who would be doing this? 113 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:28.199 I apologize it wasn't This is a complete And I said, oh, 114 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:30.040 you know, don't worry about it. He said, you know, kids 115 00:07:30.040 --> 00:07:33.199 are chatterboxes. I would have been the same way if I got to talk 116 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:35.879 to bugs, Bunny or Daffy Ducks. He goes, no, no, 117 00:07:35.879 --> 00:07:44.160 no, no, no, that's not it. Billy doesn't speak. And 118 00:07:44.199 --> 00:07:48.519 I said, this chatterbox, you cannot shut this kid up him. Are 119 00:07:48.519 --> 00:07:53.439 we talking about the same billy? She well, he used to, but 120 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:58.439 it hasn't it hasn't been in seven years. He was like maybe three and 121 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:01.480 a half and he just quit talking. Wow, you know, yeah, 122 00:08:01.480 --> 00:08:05.800 it was autistic, you know. And I said, wow, okay, 123 00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:11.959 well you know, and then I just, you know, I'm humbled. 124 00:08:11.959 --> 00:08:13.959 I don't know what to say. And she says, and his dad gets 125 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:18.720 on the phone and he said, this is so great because we have two 126 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:22.519 video cameras going here, you know, the old vhs. And he said, 127 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:24.959 we could take this to his therapist and we could say, you know 128 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:28.879 what, Billy, you do speak You talk to your friend Jim Cummings and 129 00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:33.679 he's a buddy mine to this day. And he wrote a book and he's 130 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:37.399 in his thirties something like that. He wrote some kind of a book, 131 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:43.840 my Journey out of Silence or so yeah, you never know, I have 132 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:48.000 one like that almost like that. This girl was talking a lot. She 133 00:08:48.120 --> 00:08:50.960 was dressed as Raven. I love that story. But it was so beautiful 134 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:54.480 that you didn't and she was and I look over and I see her mom 135 00:08:54.519 --> 00:08:58.720 bawling. And I'm sure, like you, a lot of people cry when 136 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:01.960 they made me. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, So like I was like, 137 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:03.879 oh, she okay, And I went over to check on her and 138 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:07.919 same thing. She said, my daughter hasn't spoken in five years, and 139 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:09.080 when she heard you were coming, she hasn't shut up. And I'm like, 140 00:09:09.960 --> 00:09:13.519 wow, that's like beautiful that we have. Yeah, you know, 141 00:09:15.320 --> 00:09:18.120 going to cons and meeting people and doing stuff like that is the reward of 142 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:24.480 this job. Money's nice, but being able to affect people in that way, 143 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:26.559 it is such a beautiful reward. Yeah. You never know, you 144 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:31.320 just don't know, you know, certain things just poked through and uh. 145 00:09:31.559 --> 00:09:37.320 And it was explained to me that you know, I guess his doctor was 146 00:09:37.360 --> 00:09:39.960 explained to him. He says, some people see the world as if the 147 00:09:39.960 --> 00:09:43.919 door is completely wide open they could walk to and certain people see it the 148 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:48.720 door through this crack. Yeah, and he just said you were on the 149 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:54.639 other side of his crack. Yeah. That could be interpreted an entirely different 150 00:09:54.679 --> 00:09:58.759 way, but you guys know what I meant. You were on the other 151 00:09:58.759 --> 00:10:03.240 side of his crack. Yes, yeah, God, I hope it was 152 00:10:03.279 --> 00:10:13.840 the right side. Okay, sorry about that. Oh yeah, yeah. 153 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:16.639 So what's keeping you busy, what's keeping you happy? Well, We're very 154 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:22.000 lucky. This strike is not affecting voiceover, so we're really lucky to still 155 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:26.919 be doing animation. So I'm still doing Teen Titans Go and a really really 156 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:31.080 beautiful show called Gabby's Dollhouse. It's for little kids, and it's the cutest 157 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:33.279 show I've ever seen in my life. It's just and I was a power. 158 00:10:33.559 --> 00:10:37.879 My daughter loves it. Isn't it the cutest show ever? Where is 159 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:41.480 it Gabby's Doll House? What do you think? I can't remember where it's 160 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:46.000 streaming, but it's like, it's just the cutest show ever. So that 161 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:48.080 I'm doing. And then I've been working on this video game for Harley for 162 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:50.759 like I don't know if you're in it, but it's like the longest it's 163 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:56.080 been like a few years. It's a it's a suicide squad game. So 164 00:10:56.120 --> 00:11:00.840 I'm really stoked for that to come out. That's cool soon. Yeah, 165 00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:03.840 I work a lot, and then the cons. I mean I've been going 166 00:11:03.879 --> 00:11:07.799 almost every other weekend. Yeah, I've gotten a not a rut, but 167 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:15.279 a cycle of like six in a row. And it's little little it really 168 00:11:15.360 --> 00:11:18.600 is, you know. Yeah, I think people don't really understand. He's 169 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:20.919 like, oh, you're just signing autographs. Well, you and I don't 170 00:11:20.919 --> 00:11:24.879 just sign our give our life blood. Yeah, and we give it for 171 00:11:24.960 --> 00:11:30.320 sometimes eight hours and yeah at the end of the day and I'm happy and 172 00:11:30.440 --> 00:11:31.360 waken up and giving all day. But at the end of the day, 173 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:35.879 I'm like, like I've nothing less. Well, first of all, her 174 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:39.559 lines never stop, and she's and and oftentimes I'll be like, oh, 175 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:41.120 man, i gotta go to bathroom. I'll go, and I'll walk through 176 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:45.159 the con and there's Tara sitting over there, and she's sitting up there like 177 00:11:45.240 --> 00:11:48.840 on a queen, like a queen on top of the table, and people 178 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:56.600 are you know, and all the guys are cheapers, you're superty, Yeah, 179 00:11:56.879 --> 00:12:01.759 you know they do do that that they're so yeah, it's so funny. 180 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:05.440 Sou coup and check her out at the next con and she will be 181 00:12:05.480 --> 00:12:11.399 so pretty. I mean, well, well, yeah, which one of 182 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:15.360 your characters Tara surprises you that has connected with people so much? Which one 183 00:12:15.399 --> 00:12:20.200 which characters surprised you? Oh? That one connected with you? Uh well, 184 00:12:20.320 --> 00:12:26.559 I'd say, like the biggest our Raven and Harley and Twilight sparkle in 185 00:12:26.720 --> 00:12:33.159 very big global ways. But they're they're surprising in the magnitude, but not 186 00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:37.399 in their character. Certainly, Twilight Sparkle was the biggest surprise. This is 187 00:12:37.399 --> 00:12:41.759 a show originally designed for young girls. Yeah yeah, and then it spoke 188 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:48.759 to people of all ages, of all races, of all genders around the 189 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:50.919 world, and like you know, people were like I had no friends till 190 00:12:50.919 --> 00:12:54.000 my Little Pony, or I don't know what it is, but I can't 191 00:12:54.000 --> 00:13:01.080 stop watching it and likes completely unknown, unpredictable, beautiful fandom for sure, 192 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:05.960 the loudest fandom I've ever and the sweetest. These people are the first to 193 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:11.519 donate to any charity and help each other out and really wonderful. So I'm 194 00:13:11.519 --> 00:13:15.279 no longer surprised by that, although initially that was the most surprising. I 195 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:18.960 think now the one that surprises me if I'll go like to the UK and 196 00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:22.919 there's like a million ben ten fans, like these people have been like clutching 197 00:13:22.919 --> 00:13:28.559 their ben ten watch for a decade waiting to mebe wow. And Final Fantasy 198 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:33.360 that has a very long fandom. That surprised me, people like that was 199 00:13:33.480 --> 00:13:37.000 my game, that was were you on? That were on? That's the 200 00:13:37.039 --> 00:13:39.080 big game that people really love. Yeah, So when I when I get 201 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:43.799 extra love for Ben ten or Final Fantasy. It's a little bit more of 202 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:46.759 a surprise, like everyone wants. They want a Bubbles print or a Harley 203 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:50.759 print or a Raven print for the print with all my characters on it, 204 00:13:50.799 --> 00:13:54.840 or Timmy Turner, which they released a cop. This year, they finally 205 00:13:54.840 --> 00:13:58.279 released a Timmy Turner pop at Comic Con. That's when I signed the most 206 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:01.159 at cons. You've probably sign a lot of cops. Yeah, there's a 207 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:05.200 thousand poos. Yeah, I mean you wouldn't you wouldn't think so. But 208 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:09.480 I mean there's like, you know, psychedelic poo, yeah poo on acid. 209 00:14:09.759 --> 00:14:13.200 Yeah, I mean it's really there's really one that kind of kind of 210 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:18.159 looks like it. He's multi colored and sitting there and it's like, are 211 00:14:18.200 --> 00:14:22.639 you sure, Okay, I don't know on acid? Yeah. And then 212 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:24.600 uh, I think at the bad time we had a Jim Cummings pop von 213 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:28.919 Yeah, I think so. Well, Rob has one. And there's a 214 00:14:28.960 --> 00:14:33.480 place there's where is that place? It's in Hollywood. You can go get 215 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:37.799 where. Yeah, have you been there? No? They probably have you 216 00:14:37.799 --> 00:14:39.519 on. I just did their show. It's like a when you go do 217 00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:43.360 their show, they walk you through after and you get all kinds of presents. 218 00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:48.080 It's very it's like going to like a Hollywood like museum thing, Like 219 00:14:48.120 --> 00:14:52.080 there's huge pops and like, yeah, there's a million to me too. 220 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:56.679 There's like a million Harley's and a million Ravens. And then the Minutes Pop 221 00:14:56.000 --> 00:14:58.440 is arguably the coolest pop I've ever seen. It's like, which one huge 222 00:14:58.440 --> 00:15:03.480 miss minutes from Loki. It's gigantic. Yeah, its gigantic. Yeah, 223 00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:07.039 that's a cool one. It's really cool. And you know, when you 224 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:09.399 jumped to the mc U, it's a whole other thing. Like I was 225 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:16.759 doing with you Marvel Animation for decades and people don't care that much. When 226 00:15:16.799 --> 00:15:20.879 you jumped into the cinematic universe, it's next level. Yeah, oh wow, 227 00:15:20.919 --> 00:15:24.360 you're now you're in the MCU. Yeah. Yeah, And I got 228 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:26.440 to do two things. I got to do Miss Minis and I got to 229 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:31.159 do mainframe in the last Guardians movie. Oh and from Yeah, it was 230 00:15:31.159 --> 00:15:33.559 really cool to see my name run under stallone. I was like, that's 231 00:15:33.639 --> 00:15:37.039 kind of fun. Yeah, I hope they make a Ravagers movie since they're 232 00:15:37.159 --> 00:15:41.919 supposedly not doing any more Guardians would because yeah, that'd be cool. That 233 00:15:41.960 --> 00:15:46.080 works. Yeah, the first movie that I was everything. I had three 234 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:52.960 lines. I was bullet number two in Who Framed Roger Rabbit and no way, 235 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:56.960 Yeah, that was my very first Is it a loop group? Uh 236 00:15:58.200 --> 00:16:02.080 no, no, it was. I went to I went for an official 237 00:16:02.480 --> 00:16:08.399 I can't remember audition, Yes I did. Yeah, it was weird and 238 00:16:08.720 --> 00:16:12.600 uh and it was just awesome and I got to got to do that and 239 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:17.000 my name was right under Frank Sinatra. Isn't that fun? I was like, 240 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:19.639 oh, okay, no, it was right above it. So my 241 00:16:19.759 --> 00:16:26.039 joke at the time was it I got top Billy. I think people don't 242 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:30.519 realize how much we still geek out over things that we book or get to 243 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:33.639 do. There was I was just on an on camera series in Toronto and 244 00:16:34.159 --> 00:16:37.639 it aired on Netflix, and there's a picture and the what do you call 245 00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:41.519 those? Like shots? What what do you call it? The thumbnails? 246 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:45.840 Oh yeah, show was me in a bathtub right and right under his Johnny 247 00:16:45.840 --> 00:16:48.399 Depp, And I'm like, I'm in a bathtub on top of Johnny Depp. 248 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:52.759 Like I was like, that's pretty cool. That is pretty cool. 249 00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:56.399 I mean, I wouldn't want to trade places with you, but I'll trade 250 00:16:56.440 --> 00:17:02.720 places with him. Show. Yeah, God, but we do. We 251 00:17:02.799 --> 00:17:06.279 still geek out when we book stuff and when we book cool stuff or wouldn't 252 00:17:06.319 --> 00:17:08.799 get asked back to do something that you thought was gone for a long time, 253 00:17:08.839 --> 00:17:12.160 like regrets. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you cannot beat that. 254 00:17:12.359 --> 00:17:15.839 You cannot beat that. Yeah. Something you and Jim and do tire with 255 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:18.960 your work is you take people back to their childhood and reminded what it's like 256 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:22.839 to be a kid again. What takes you back to your childhood, whether 257 00:17:22.880 --> 00:17:29.079 it be something you say, a book you read, or something literally just 258 00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:32.880 I'm so late to the party, but I just watched the Barty Barbie movie 259 00:17:32.920 --> 00:17:34.960 today. I just finished, really, I just finished it this morning before 260 00:17:34.960 --> 00:17:38.759 my gig. I just we were traveling so much, you could have been 261 00:17:38.759 --> 00:17:42.000 in that easy. We couldn't get to the theater. And I was like, 262 00:17:42.279 --> 00:17:45.440 I just I know I'm missing something special. And you know, if 263 00:17:45.480 --> 00:17:48.880 you wait a very long time, when something's so hyped, by the time 264 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:51.640 you see it, you're like, yeah, it's probably overrated. Yeah, 265 00:17:51.720 --> 00:17:56.720 yeah, what a brilliant, perfect movie. Like I laughed so much and 266 00:17:56.880 --> 00:18:02.319 I was really thrust into my childhood. Like all those toys in the opening 267 00:18:02.319 --> 00:18:06.039 scenes, all those toys we played with right, and so to see it 268 00:18:06.079 --> 00:18:08.240 from like their perspective, or to see how it would look to it if 269 00:18:08.279 --> 00:18:12.039 a doll was actually watching the action when she like jumps out of her house, 270 00:18:12.200 --> 00:18:15.960 you know, the way you pick up a doll. This is really 271 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:18.359 weird. And then I'd see a toy or an outfit. I'm like, 272 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:22.839 I'm pretty sure I had that. Yeah, you know, that was really 273 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:26.440 fun for me. And inmation wise, I was a big fan of uh 274 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:32.880 the Flintstones, and I got to play Pebbles on something once and I was 275 00:18:32.920 --> 00:18:37.039 like pinching myself to see Pebbles tear strong like all that. It was like 276 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:38.599 a pilot or a game. It was something very short lived, but it 277 00:18:38.599 --> 00:18:44.720 was still fun to do that. Yeah. Yeah, but you know, 278 00:18:44.759 --> 00:18:48.079 there's lots of things that I watch. And also now going to comic cons 279 00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:52.680 is a really big sort of childhood boost and like memory and heart thing because 280 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:56.799 we see people that we grew up with that were like, like that was 281 00:18:56.880 --> 00:19:02.200 my childhood was watching this show or actually yeah, because pop culture exists at 282 00:19:02.200 --> 00:19:03.920 these cons in a way no other place, Like you go on the green 283 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:10.720 room and you're hanging out with with huge stars from our childhood. Oh yeah, 284 00:19:10.759 --> 00:19:14.680 you know. Yeah, there's William Shatner over there, munching down some 285 00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:18.440 pizza. I just hung out with Christie Brinkley. And when I was a 286 00:19:18.519 --> 00:19:21.960 kid and I saw I saw vacation, I was like, oh, I'm 287 00:19:21.960 --> 00:19:26.200 gonna be that pretty, Like one day I would be that pretty and congratulations. 288 00:19:26.240 --> 00:19:29.400 And we're hanging out and if you saw we did this TikTok, yeah, 289 00:19:29.680 --> 00:19:32.680 and I go, I'm going to be pretty scary party, which is 290 00:19:32.759 --> 00:19:36.640 like this trending sound on TikTok, which is bubbles. And she comes in 291 00:19:36.759 --> 00:19:38.960 and she's like, uh no, and she still looks amazing. She's like, 292 00:19:40.039 --> 00:19:45.640 say, amazing, and she's the nicest, smartest, kindest. We 293 00:19:45.799 --> 00:19:49.400 like hit it off so much, and it's like wow, like I totally 294 00:19:49.519 --> 00:19:52.680 idolized her as a kid, and to like hang out with her and make 295 00:19:52.839 --> 00:19:59.039 videos about how pretty we are. Yeah yeah, okay, you know you 296 00:19:59.119 --> 00:20:00.960 can live through that. Yeah, more of that please? Yeah, it's 297 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:04.160 fun. It's really fun. Wow, I like going to coun She never 298 00:20:04.599 --> 00:20:11.559 hangs out with me and tells me how pretty. Okay you're close. Yeah 299 00:20:11.359 --> 00:20:18.960 that's right. I'll give her a smack roll. Okay, honey, Okay, 300 00:20:18.839 --> 00:20:22.279 how many times do you think you've said the word smack roll Jim in 301 00:20:22.359 --> 00:20:26.599 your life? A grilliant. I'm surprised you don't have your drumsticks. Well, 302 00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:32.279 I've got my drums. They're they're up there, Yeah, somewhere. 303 00:20:32.559 --> 00:20:37.440 I think they're in the attic sticks more famous than gym everyone. Yeah, 304 00:20:37.640 --> 00:20:41.599 well I do. I have them in my knapsack because I'm getting ready to 305 00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:45.759 leave town. Yeah, but I can't leave without your drumsticks, right, 306 00:20:45.200 --> 00:20:48.680 I mean I had a nickel for every time I said that, Probably have 307 00:20:48.759 --> 00:20:53.480 a quarter. But speaking of inspiration, though, Tara, how inspirational for 308 00:20:53.519 --> 00:20:57.359 your Holly Quinn voice was Aileen Silkin? Well, you know, one of 309 00:20:57.400 --> 00:21:00.640 the other things that really put me on the map when I first moved to 310 00:21:00.680 --> 00:21:03.799 town. One was one hundred, one hundred one Dalmatians that we did together 311 00:21:04.200 --> 00:21:08.240 because it was a guaranteed hundred episodes and that never happens we yet maybe six 312 00:21:08.400 --> 00:21:14.160 now or twelve, thirteen, twenty six. One used to be sixty five 313 00:21:14.400 --> 00:21:18.920 Your Tops, right, and then the Powerpuff Girls, which was a huge 314 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:22.839 hit, and also at the same time, around the same time booking Batgirl 315 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:29.880 and to like book that part was a huge deal. Like that waiting room 316 00:21:29.960 --> 00:21:34.920 was stacked with on camera and voiceover legends and it was very surreal, Like 317 00:21:34.960 --> 00:21:38.359 I remember my agent leaving a message on my answering machines like, oh my 318 00:21:38.440 --> 00:21:41.039 god, you're her, You're the bat, You're the girl. It's the 319 00:21:41.039 --> 00:21:45.039 back. And I'm sitting next to Mark Hamill and Kevin Conwray, I'm like, 320 00:21:45.160 --> 00:21:48.480 what the hell is happen? Okay? Yeah, And they were both 321 00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:52.920 so good. I was about to swear, we let to swear on this 322 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:56.240 show. They're both so fucking good, you know, Like and a lot 323 00:21:56.279 --> 00:21:59.920 of times when a listers drop into voiceover, sometimes they're good, but sometimes 324 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:03.799 yeah yeah, And Hamil is one of those that's built for both, like 325 00:22:03.119 --> 00:22:07.119 yeah, he was just so good. Yeah. And also Arlene would come 326 00:22:07.319 --> 00:22:11.480 and I remember being very enamored by her. First of all, she was 327 00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:18.480 very beautiful. She was the original inspiration for Harley. Harley was not a 328 00:22:18.680 --> 00:22:23.240 character conceived in comic books. They decided to give Joker a sidekick, and 329 00:22:23.640 --> 00:22:26.920 they were watching like Days of Our Lives and Bruce, tim and Pauldini saw 330 00:22:27.000 --> 00:22:30.119 her. She was dressed as like a harlequin, like a clown, and 331 00:22:30.160 --> 00:22:34.079 they're like, let's make that the Joker's little side girlfriend, and so that 332 00:22:34.319 --> 00:22:41.079 character was inspired from her as a human didn't exist till they saw her and 333 00:22:41.240 --> 00:22:45.000 hired her. And also her voice was so cute, like sometimes when she 334 00:22:45.160 --> 00:22:48.839 talked, it would just sort of sound like Harley. And she had like 335 00:22:49.880 --> 00:22:56.000 a very unique performance to everything she did, Like you know, you'd normally 336 00:22:56.039 --> 00:22:57.680 see a line and say, oh, that could be read this way, 337 00:22:57.680 --> 00:23:00.599 but she'd read it just a little bit different. And she had these cute 338 00:23:00.680 --> 00:23:04.960 little like squeaks to her voice and quirky things. And I remember like being 339 00:23:06.039 --> 00:23:10.799 quite enamored watching her. And then they brought me in to do the video 340 00:23:10.880 --> 00:23:15.160 games because they wanted something vocally different, and they still wanted it to honor 341 00:23:15.279 --> 00:23:22.519 her original creation but sort of make it my own, which was terrifying. 342 00:23:22.200 --> 00:23:27.000 He's already a very beloved character and a very beloved actist can do the same 343 00:23:27.079 --> 00:23:32.599 thing, only different and hopefully people will like it, And it was really 344 00:23:32.680 --> 00:23:36.640 scary, and thankfully people did. Yeah, I feel really very connected to 345 00:23:36.720 --> 00:23:40.200 Harley. She's like, I get really pissed off when other people play her. 346 00:23:40.240 --> 00:23:45.559 Now I don't like it. Yeah, Well, I often think of 347 00:23:45.599 --> 00:23:49.759 the guys who started the Turtles the four of them, you know, you 348 00:23:49.880 --> 00:23:55.200 know, and how many turtles we're up to about twenty five sets of Ninja 349 00:23:55.240 --> 00:24:00.359 Turtles now, I mean it's one reason to love like character boy say at 350 00:24:00.400 --> 00:24:03.359 Disney, like, if you book Mickey, You're Mickey till you die. 351 00:24:03.559 --> 00:24:06.640 If you book and you get to do all the shows and the video games 352 00:24:06.640 --> 00:24:10.359 and the toys and the parks, and then people connect with that voice, 353 00:24:10.400 --> 00:24:14.000 and I think changing it up all the time unless there's a problem, you 354 00:24:14.079 --> 00:24:15.519 know, no voice actor, just so people know, go, I don't 355 00:24:15.559 --> 00:24:18.920 really feel like doing that anymore, you know, like if your character is 356 00:24:19.000 --> 00:24:22.839 alive and breathing, you want to be doing it. Yeah, And when 357 00:24:22.880 --> 00:24:26.359 they just decide for choice or because they want a bigger celebrity in it, 358 00:24:26.680 --> 00:24:30.680 or it's it's kind of devastating. Yeah, so the performer that helped it 359 00:24:30.920 --> 00:24:34.640 become successful, I could not agree with you more. Yeah, you know, 360 00:24:34.799 --> 00:24:38.559 they've you know, I think Jim McSwain used to say, it's like 361 00:24:38.680 --> 00:24:45.519 TV Guide casting or such and such, screen Gem magazine casting. You know, 362 00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:48.359 Yeah, who's hot? Now, Okay, well you're the new blah 363 00:24:48.400 --> 00:24:52.079 blah blah and Warner Brothers. Sorry, they were a little bit guilty of 364 00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:55.240 that. You know, you know, you'd be sitting around doing a tiny 365 00:24:55.359 --> 00:24:57.960 tuns or a you know, an a maniac and it is anybody got a 366 00:24:59.000 --> 00:25:03.319 good burnt landcaster or you know John Wayne or somebody you know, yeah, 367 00:25:03.799 --> 00:25:07.480 you know, somebody, some famous person, And it was just whoever was 368 00:25:07.559 --> 00:25:11.599 in the room, right, instead of having like a rotating or a steady 369 00:25:11.640 --> 00:25:15.440 person that you went to and uh. And they would even do that with 370 00:25:15.759 --> 00:25:21.240 like no name brand characters like Sylvester. If there was some Sylvester, somebody 371 00:25:21.359 --> 00:25:23.720 was doing Sylvester for a series, but he wasn't there. Well we'll just 372 00:25:23.839 --> 00:25:27.839 get someone else for today. You know. It's like super weird. Yeah 373 00:25:27.960 --> 00:25:30.839 you can. It's not the same whereas Disney, I will say this, 374 00:25:32.160 --> 00:25:34.960 it's really good Disney character voices. It's on the money and it's got to 375 00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:38.480 be in the pocket, and it's the same guy, right, you know. 376 00:25:38.599 --> 00:25:41.319 I mean, I've been doing Pooh most of my life, right, 377 00:25:41.720 --> 00:25:45.519 most of my life, and I'm old, you know. And Ruci and 378 00:25:45.640 --> 00:25:49.279 Rucy and Wayne, the voice of Mickey and Minnie were married. They were 379 00:25:49.359 --> 00:25:52.839 married, the cutest couple ever, unbelievable, and they did it till they 380 00:25:52.920 --> 00:25:57.279 died. Yeah. I worked with her on a show called Jaker's and he 381 00:25:57.319 --> 00:26:00.559 would come with her to every session. She'd sit beside me in the studio 382 00:26:00.640 --> 00:26:03.440 and they were the cutest humans. And she'd hold my hand and she'd look 383 00:26:03.480 --> 00:26:10.319 at way and she goes, isn't he handsome? And when he passed, 384 00:26:10.400 --> 00:26:14.359 she's like, my hand hurts from not getting able to hold It was like, 385 00:26:14.480 --> 00:26:19.079 oh my god, they are like the cutest. Yeah. Yeah. 386 00:26:19.160 --> 00:26:22.440 She was a very sweet sweete so sweet. I mean, most voice over 387 00:26:22.519 --> 00:26:26.839 people are pretty wonderful humans. There are a few that are all, but 388 00:26:26.960 --> 00:26:29.640 most of us are pretty sweet. One of one of my favorite things. 389 00:26:30.119 --> 00:26:34.880 Very early on in my career I can't remember, but there was people who 390 00:26:34.920 --> 00:26:40.160 did a doll talking doll Teddy Ruxpan Yes. And then there was another one, 391 00:26:40.279 --> 00:26:44.559 Mother Goose and Mother Goose obviously you know, she was an animated, 392 00:26:44.720 --> 00:26:51.839 little animatic doll, very impressive little critter and it was Roosy and we and 393 00:26:51.960 --> 00:26:53.839 I was kind of like clean up man. I'd be guard number three or 394 00:26:55.279 --> 00:26:59.279 the Evil Night or you know, in all these Mother Goose fairy tales that 395 00:26:59.319 --> 00:27:04.240 she would tell and we were getting doing the Frog Prince and Russie rest her 396 00:27:04.279 --> 00:27:10.359 soul and you know it's true. Darling could cuss like a sailor, which 397 00:27:10.440 --> 00:27:11.960 was so cute, which I know, going out of here, you're going, 398 00:27:12.039 --> 00:27:15.319 what did you just say? Who's the mother of what? Now? 399 00:27:15.519 --> 00:27:19.839 What kind of mother was it? And and uh and she would and she 400 00:27:21.000 --> 00:27:25.279 could not get through this one line she goes. And then when the princess 401 00:27:25.440 --> 00:27:32.079 leaned over and picked up the little frog, turned him round and kissed him 402 00:27:32.279 --> 00:27:40.680 right on the tip of his little and she couldn't get through it. And 403 00:27:40.799 --> 00:27:44.720 she stopped and she stopped, Okay, give me five minutes of his little 404 00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:47.480 Oh my god, I'm just gonna say it. Can I just get it 405 00:27:47.559 --> 00:27:48.839 out of me, you know? And then then she said it she got 406 00:27:49.039 --> 00:27:52.839 and then like twenty minutes later we had to take Yeah, you know, 407 00:27:52.279 --> 00:27:56.759 she cursed like a sailor. The voice of Mini mouse cursing like a sailor. 408 00:27:56.839 --> 00:28:00.440 What is wrong with this picture? Pretty cute? God blesser, lesser 409 00:28:00.519 --> 00:28:06.119 hard and YouTube wing. Yeah, but but yeah, well the guy's doing 410 00:28:06.160 --> 00:28:07.920 it now are pretty dark good Yeah I don't know that, but but yeah, 411 00:28:08.279 --> 00:28:11.960 yeah, but yeah, I mean it's nice when they when they keep 412 00:28:12.079 --> 00:28:15.839 the same people. Because also the fans appreciate that. Yeah, the fans 413 00:28:15.880 --> 00:28:21.720 are pretty verbal about their favorite's doing certain parts. Yeah, And I think 414 00:28:21.759 --> 00:28:27.000 it's a mistake for Hollywood executives to think, oh, they need an a 415 00:28:27.119 --> 00:28:32.160 lister because that person can only do that voice that way. First of all, 416 00:28:32.519 --> 00:28:36.279 I think I've done hardly at least ten different ways. Right, There's 417 00:28:36.279 --> 00:28:40.480 like the first video games, and then there was a really really dark movie 418 00:28:40.559 --> 00:28:42.720 where she was like darker than the Joker and she was from Chicago, And 419 00:28:42.799 --> 00:28:45.920 then there was the DC Superhero Girls, and then there's other video games and 420 00:28:45.960 --> 00:28:51.000 they all range in pitch and intensity in different Like you and I work a 421 00:28:51.039 --> 00:28:53.519 lot because we're very versatile. So to make the assumption that we couldn't tweak 422 00:28:53.519 --> 00:28:57.519 it a bit for a more adult version of a show or for a bigger 423 00:28:57.599 --> 00:29:03.359 movie is not right. And I get that like names, certain names, 424 00:29:03.880 --> 00:29:07.400 Garner, big blockbuster money. Sure, but it's also, you know, 425 00:29:07.680 --> 00:29:11.920 pretty devastating when you've been doing something for a long time and you are a 426 00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:15.559 big part of why that character speaks to so many people, touched so many 427 00:29:15.640 --> 00:29:19.000 lives than to not. It's like helping bake the bread, bread nut, 428 00:29:19.039 --> 00:29:22.160 getting to eat it. Yeah, it feels it feels right. Yeah, 429 00:29:22.759 --> 00:29:26.839 that's why. Also impressed with the new Rugrats Rabo that they just brought back 430 00:29:26.920 --> 00:29:30.160 everybody, which I thought was very important. Yeah. I think. I 431 00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:33.319 think, honestly, that's why the Powerpuff Girls bombed. I mean, you 432 00:29:33.400 --> 00:29:36.160 know, they had all the guys and not the girls. Why yeah, 433 00:29:36.759 --> 00:29:40.519 we're all still here and money. I never got that made no. I 434 00:29:40.559 --> 00:29:44.319 mean, if anything, the guys would sound different other than the girls. 435 00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:48.799 I mean, you know, I think Teen Titans Go works because it's all 436 00:29:48.839 --> 00:29:53.079 the same cast. The original Teen Titans ended at this very insane, pivotal 437 00:29:53.240 --> 00:29:59.319 story arc that has not been addressed, and it's actually caused a tremendous amount 438 00:29:59.319 --> 00:30:03.559 of stress the fandom for decades, and everyone's begging for season six and p 439 00:30:03.799 --> 00:30:07.519 s. I would love to do it. I don't understand why they can't 440 00:30:07.559 --> 00:30:10.640 do it. At the same time, Go is a comedy, the og 441 00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:15.119 is a very serious, well done animated series that definitely holds up. I 442 00:30:15.240 --> 00:30:18.680 like the darker stuff. I like the old back Yeah, me too. 443 00:30:18.960 --> 00:30:22.920 But what I'm saying is it works because they kept us right, like even 444 00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:26.680 if Powerpuff Girls veered in a different direction animation, and like you're saying Rugrats 445 00:30:26.759 --> 00:30:30.599 win in a different direction, right, it's CG. Keeping the original cast 446 00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:34.599 I think is essential to enabling the show being successful. Yeah. Well, 447 00:30:34.680 --> 00:30:37.920 I mean it's a you know, you dance with the one that brung you, 448 00:30:38.279 --> 00:30:42.519 right, you know the reason you're doing this sequel or this next season 449 00:30:44.079 --> 00:30:47.799 is because we did the first one. Yeah, how about that? Yeah? 450 00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:52.359 Right? Yeah, and god forbid they pay you? Right? Yeah? 451 00:30:52.039 --> 00:30:56.200 How have you found the new rugratstar work? Getting the old gang back? 452 00:30:56.480 --> 00:30:59.079 You know, it's really funny. So our friend Charlie Adler, who 453 00:30:59.240 --> 00:31:04.400 is so hilarious, directs this show and yeah, oh god, I'm sorry. 454 00:31:04.599 --> 00:31:10.119 Yeah, I came in to do my part, and well I was 455 00:31:10.400 --> 00:31:15.240 on Zoom the first time, and you know, initially, and it's still 456 00:31:15.319 --> 00:31:18.440 this way, all of Dill's lines were in the stage directions, like baby 457 00:31:18.519 --> 00:31:22.359 del grabs Tommy's toy, throws up on him, poops and goes to sleep, 458 00:31:22.400 --> 00:31:27.200 and I'd be like, it'd all be like the noises that a baby 459 00:31:27.200 --> 00:31:30.680 would make doing these, and we'd have to like look at the storyboards. 460 00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:36.039 And now the beauty is they have, because of computer programming, storyboards that 461 00:31:36.079 --> 00:31:38.720 you can watch in real time. Right, And so the very first day, 462 00:31:38.759 --> 00:31:41.839 I was like looking at Dilly and like I had to do a bunch 463 00:31:41.839 --> 00:31:45.160 of pooping and screaming and doing whatever, and I just looten. I just 464 00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:48.720 looked at Charlie and I'm like, you know, it feels good to put 465 00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:53.079 this old dipie back on. And that's good because he was probably wearing one. 466 00:31:56.519 --> 00:31:59.200 I mean, he could rock a diaper. Yeah, he was very 467 00:31:59.240 --> 00:32:04.839 good. How is the recording changed from the original series? Competiti You came 468 00:32:04.880 --> 00:32:07.000 in a bit later in the show's run. You came into when the pick 469 00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:10.119 of the Pals, because didn't you debut in the film Baby Dill came out 470 00:32:10.160 --> 00:32:13.079 in the movie. You know, they needed a big story to take it 471 00:32:13.160 --> 00:32:15.079 from series to film, and the big story was a new baby and I 472 00:32:15.240 --> 00:32:20.880 had, you know, having two boys now like and living through that dynamic. 473 00:32:20.960 --> 00:32:22.559 They really did address it in a beautiful way. I remember crying. 474 00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:24.960 I had no kids at the time. I remember crying at the premiere and 475 00:32:24.960 --> 00:32:27.839 I'm like, you can't cry. It's a cartoon and you're in it. 476 00:32:27.880 --> 00:32:30.279 But it was very well done. It's very emotional and beautiful. And then 477 00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:35.640 we would go to the really really dope studios Classy Tubo on Highland, which 478 00:32:35.720 --> 00:32:38.480 had so much history. They didn't real lonsters there and the rats and the 479 00:32:38.559 --> 00:32:43.279 thornberries, and you know, when we go to various studios around town, 480 00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:46.279 they're lovely, but there was something very artistic and unique and special about this 481 00:32:46.359 --> 00:32:50.400 place. And now we're all on Zoom, so you know, we're just 482 00:32:50.480 --> 00:32:52.359 I don't know that it's ever really going to go back. And I appreciate 483 00:32:52.519 --> 00:32:55.160 the fact that we could work During COVID, a lot of people kind of 484 00:32:55.240 --> 00:32:59.319 lost everything, and the fact that we were able to, you know, 485 00:32:59.480 --> 00:33:01.200 voice over the only leg of the industry that really didn't miss a beat. 486 00:33:01.240 --> 00:33:05.319 And if you were already set up with a home studio, you're pretty set. 487 00:33:05.400 --> 00:33:07.319 And we're still we're still working from home most of the time. I 488 00:33:07.359 --> 00:33:12.200 think I've gone in maybe twice. I love it. I mean I love 489 00:33:12.279 --> 00:33:15.759 it because, uh, you know, I did the running around, I 490 00:33:15.839 --> 00:33:20.480 did all that rat racing stuff. And I live in Malibu for the first 491 00:33:20.519 --> 00:33:23.559 time, and there's really nothing quite like living near water. I think we're 492 00:33:23.559 --> 00:33:28.440 supposed to. Yeah, and it's very It's been very healing for me. 493 00:33:28.599 --> 00:33:30.519 Like I went through a painful divorce and I went through a lot of stuff, 494 00:33:30.559 --> 00:33:36.200 and like being at the ocean and just regrouping was very wonderful. And 495 00:33:36.720 --> 00:33:38.599 it's a little bit far from everything. You're a little far too, And 496 00:33:39.000 --> 00:33:43.480 I love my boyfriend and I love my dogs, and the fact that I'm 497 00:33:43.519 --> 00:33:45.559 like, honey, I'm going to work and I just walked down the hall 498 00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:49.119 and then I can play with my animals is kind of great. Yeah, 499 00:33:49.960 --> 00:33:52.799 you know, I like it. I think the only thing that's challenging is 500 00:33:53.519 --> 00:33:59.039 on camera. You don't really know how you did. Although I know SAG's 501 00:33:59.079 --> 00:34:00.200 fighting for this, I don't. I hope they don't hate me. I 502 00:34:00.400 --> 00:34:05.559 like doing the auditions for on camera at home because I'm such a perfectionist and 503 00:34:05.599 --> 00:34:08.599 I've always liked doing my auditions on home voiceover or like voiceover we've been doing 504 00:34:08.639 --> 00:34:13.239 on Christopher a while. Yeah, but you know, when you want to 505 00:34:13.320 --> 00:34:15.760 memorize something and make sure you're getting it all right and you're hitting all your 506 00:34:15.800 --> 00:34:19.159 beats. A lot of times when you go into an on camera audition and 507 00:34:19.199 --> 00:34:22.360 there's a panel people going impress me, your nerves takeover and you don't do 508 00:34:22.440 --> 00:34:23.880 as well as you would have liked to. So the fact that you can 509 00:34:23.960 --> 00:34:27.360 do it perfect and send it off it is pretty great. It's funny because 510 00:34:27.360 --> 00:34:30.360 I'm the complete opposite. Like I love the adrenaline of the judgment, you 511 00:34:30.440 --> 00:34:34.320 know, I feel like that propels the characters. Yeah, and also you 512 00:34:34.360 --> 00:34:37.800 don't get the feedback right. The casting director can't say, oh, make 513 00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:40.360 it bigger or smaller, like you do miss some of that, But I'm 514 00:34:40.440 --> 00:34:45.920 not like that. I like especially voiceover since I started. When I used 515 00:34:45.920 --> 00:34:49.320 to go into the agency, i'd get kind of pissy and I didn't show 516 00:34:49.360 --> 00:34:52.599 it. But I didn't like people telling you what to do in the in 517 00:34:52.679 --> 00:34:57.719 the agent's office right when you get to a callback in the pretty But it's 518 00:34:57.719 --> 00:35:00.000 like, I've been doing this since I'm thirteen. Yeah, don't tell me 519 00:35:00.039 --> 00:35:02.400 how to do this. Yeah, yeah, I would like to wait for 520 00:35:02.519 --> 00:35:07.519 people like listening outside the door. I will spend anywhere from ten minutes to 521 00:35:07.679 --> 00:35:12.039 three hours in an audition if I want to make it perfect. That's that's 522 00:35:12.079 --> 00:35:14.440 the thing too. It takes so much longer, Like when you're go in 523 00:35:14.559 --> 00:35:15.719 person. It's just like, oh, okay, I got one shot, 524 00:35:15.719 --> 00:35:17.719 and like I'm a theater kid, you know, so it's like, Okay, 525 00:35:17.760 --> 00:35:21.400 I gotta be ready, I gotta hit this. You know. Maybe 526 00:35:21.440 --> 00:35:23.679 you get two maybe three if you're lucky, and then it's over and like, 527 00:35:23.840 --> 00:35:27.599 okay whatever, Like the rest is to the wind. At home, 528 00:35:28.079 --> 00:35:30.840 it's like, oh man, I can really Oh I can do this better. 529 00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:32.320 Oh I can do this, you know, but I like, I'm 530 00:35:32.320 --> 00:35:35.599 a perfectionist. I liked it. I like that. What about you do 531 00:35:35.639 --> 00:35:37.920 you like going? Well? You know, I don't mind it. You 532 00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:42.480 know, I haven't lately. I've never been to the agency that I'm with 533 00:35:42.719 --> 00:35:45.360 now, never one time. Oh, I mean I went there literally to 534 00:35:45.960 --> 00:35:50.719 say that I went there, But as far as recording or doing anything, 535 00:35:50.840 --> 00:35:52.519 nope, Yeah, I'm we used to go in a lot. Yeah, 536 00:35:52.760 --> 00:35:55.719 and I missed that. Who are you with now? I'm still with DPN? 537 00:35:55.880 --> 00:36:00.320 Oh okay, good? Who are well? Uh, I'm by the 538 00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:04.239 time it happens, I'll be at DPN. I hope. Are you coming 539 00:36:04.320 --> 00:36:07.519 here? Yeah? I don't even care. I'm just gonna say yeah, 540 00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:13.440 because because it's gonna be an X amount of time has gone by. This 541 00:36:14.800 --> 00:36:20.480 is live streaming, Jim, So everybody, Yeah, well that's now, 542 00:36:20.599 --> 00:36:22.960 don't they? You know what I have to say, Like, sometimes when 543 00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:25.840 you're feeling you're not working a lot or something slow or something didn't go well. 544 00:36:27.599 --> 00:36:30.800 It's like they call it, you know, deck chair at the on 545 00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:34.559 the Titanic, right, Like everyone's getting the same breakdowns, everyone's getting the 546 00:36:34.559 --> 00:36:37.360 same thing. So what Like what's it to you to be wherever you are? 547 00:36:37.000 --> 00:36:39.679 And I have to say, like Jeff Dannis, Natania Rose, oh 548 00:36:39.760 --> 00:36:44.599 yeah, are literally my angels. Like when I was going through hard ship, 549 00:36:44.719 --> 00:36:46.320 Jeff would like take me to lunch and sit with me. He held 550 00:36:46.400 --> 00:36:50.559 my baby for the brists, like these are my these are my family, 551 00:36:50.760 --> 00:36:53.719 you know. And Natania, I feel like she's a hard she's a hard 552 00:36:53.760 --> 00:36:58.599 ass, but she's so fucking smart and I feel like I feel like I 553 00:36:58.679 --> 00:37:01.719 said to her when I feel like I could be like the little girl in 554 00:37:01.800 --> 00:37:06.239 the playground and you're holding my hand and saying telling the bullies like back the 555 00:37:06.280 --> 00:37:08.840 fuck up. Like she's just always got my back, you know. And 556 00:37:09.079 --> 00:37:13.800 she's great when you're when you're working with people that speak on your behalf, 557 00:37:14.159 --> 00:37:16.480 they should be good humans. I think that needs to matter, you know, 558 00:37:17.760 --> 00:37:22.960 humans. You know what I want to talk about? Oh what what 559 00:37:22.079 --> 00:37:24.760 it is I want to talk about? I know what you're going to say, 560 00:37:25.480 --> 00:37:28.800 Oh, okay, you didn't think I was gonna talk about that didn't 561 00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:35.079 bro okay, So I'm quite brilliant at accents. In fact, I played 562 00:37:35.079 --> 00:37:38.320 an on camera British girl for Sabrina and my friend was one of the executives 563 00:37:38.320 --> 00:37:42.800 and she said she went home and they were watching dailies and there was a 564 00:37:42.840 --> 00:37:45.239 scene at the Trevy Fountain where I went, oh fuck. And She's like, 565 00:37:45.320 --> 00:37:47.320 all the people were watching and like they thought you were British till you 566 00:37:47.320 --> 00:37:52.280 went oh fuck. So I'm like, oh, that's so, I'm good 567 00:37:52.320 --> 00:37:55.000 at it. And if I don't call the accent, I'll call the area 568 00:37:55.159 --> 00:37:59.159 and I'll talk to a local, or I'll search, you know, as 569 00:37:59.199 --> 00:38:02.960 many accent kids as I can. Yeah. One of the hardest I've ever 570 00:38:04.159 --> 00:38:09.199 had to learn was Cajun I'll buy that. Yeah. It's like Southern mixed 571 00:38:09.199 --> 00:38:13.760 with French, mixed with like all kinds of crazy shot crazy. So we 572 00:38:13.840 --> 00:38:16.639 were all told we had to learn it for the Zombie Yes, yeah, 573 00:38:16.760 --> 00:38:22.000 the Zombie Island. Zombie Island with the glorious Jim Cummings. I'll come in 574 00:38:22.159 --> 00:38:25.119 with what we thought were pretty decent and then Jim speaks, you grew up 575 00:38:25.159 --> 00:38:29.039 in the Bayou. Yeah, and they're like Okay, no one else is 576 00:38:29.159 --> 00:38:32.360 doing this accent. Oh Jim is Yeah, you guys just all the southern. 577 00:38:32.719 --> 00:38:36.320 Yeah, just be southern. Oh yeah, yeah, God, I 578 00:38:36.400 --> 00:38:38.679 almost remember that. You're the only one they could do green you mails, 579 00:38:38.719 --> 00:38:42.840 I'll look terrible. Well, it's well, you know, it used to 580 00:38:43.159 --> 00:38:45.320 take me off when I would see a movie and they go, oh, 581 00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:50.840 we're you know, well we're going where out there at the bayou and yeah, 582 00:38:50.840 --> 00:38:52.559 I'm new and they was comb or pile. I go, that's not 583 00:38:52.679 --> 00:38:57.239 how they sound. Yeah. It just kind of pissed me off because you 584 00:38:57.360 --> 00:39:00.039 know, I was out there on that, but you're like that, and 585 00:39:00.199 --> 00:39:02.360 you know, I couldn't tell you one thing. Mary, you see you 586 00:39:02.440 --> 00:39:07.239 that when I was out there like that, and that guy you talk about 587 00:39:07.320 --> 00:39:09.880 good and they have no idea what the hell the guy just said. But 588 00:39:10.039 --> 00:39:14.599 I can remember the first guy and this true story. I think I've told 589 00:39:14.639 --> 00:39:22.719 this far, but when when teenage mutant Ninja Turtles needed a Cajun alligator and 590 00:39:22.880 --> 00:39:25.920 I was leatherhead and uh, and they said it has to sound like an 591 00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:31.639 old, crusty crustacean pissed off Cajun, And I said, I got the 592 00:39:31.760 --> 00:39:36.519 guy. And the first guy because I was a deckhead when I was nineteen 593 00:39:36.840 --> 00:39:39.480 on the river and uh. And it was my first time on the river 594 00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:46.119 and it was Leon's LeBlanc. He was problem Napolu there in Louisiana and it's 595 00:39:46.239 --> 00:39:52.119 Louisiana, by the way, it's not Louisiana, and uh and and he 596 00:39:52.360 --> 00:39:54.000 just couldn't believe that I was. I was there, and he goes, 597 00:39:54.320 --> 00:39:59.480 this is my lastest time on the river. And they don't sent me a 598 00:39:59.599 --> 00:40:02.679 Yankee college boy. And I said, well, I'm actually not going to 599 00:40:02.800 --> 00:40:07.000 college. You better go. You ain't going to make it out here. 600 00:40:07.039 --> 00:40:09.119 And no. And I said, well, and the thing about when you're 601 00:40:09.159 --> 00:40:13.559 starving to death and you're nineteen and you're live in New Orleans, go be 602 00:40:13.639 --> 00:40:16.960 a deckhand because you can eat that day. You don't have to wait two 603 00:40:16.960 --> 00:40:21.400 weeks for the paycheck. You can eat that day, you know. So 604 00:40:21.719 --> 00:40:25.039 I did and uh and I just you know, I remembered this guy. 605 00:40:25.480 --> 00:40:29.679 And they said it has to be an old, crusty cajun. So I 606 00:40:29.800 --> 00:40:34.000 just did him. I just literally did. It was name was Leons LeBlanc. 607 00:40:34.559 --> 00:40:37.320 And I've I've told this before, and I just have to believe that 608 00:40:37.519 --> 00:40:40.320 you know something, because it wasn't long after that I moved out here and 609 00:40:40.360 --> 00:40:45.320 start doing it. And I often wondered if his grandkids were sitting there watching 610 00:40:45.920 --> 00:40:49.199 the turtles, you know, and hey, Grandpaul, come in here, 611 00:40:49.800 --> 00:40:52.679 because it's him. It's a really good he's a well I'm limito you one, 612 00:40:52.760 --> 00:40:57.639 I'm going to deed. You get on out there with them turtle and 613 00:40:57.800 --> 00:41:01.320 then you know, and you bring them back. You get me some yeah 614 00:41:02.559 --> 00:41:07.639 uh. And anything that slithered, that fell out of a tree or pooped 615 00:41:08.320 --> 00:41:14.400 or came out of a hole or oh you see that right that boy does 616 00:41:14.599 --> 00:41:22.519 good eating right down, everything was good eating and over rise o talk about 617 00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:28.159 good. Speaking of eaton, let's talk about your veganism, Tara. You 618 00:41:28.280 --> 00:41:35.360 know, I it's it's so important to me, Like I feel very strongly, 619 00:41:35.960 --> 00:41:39.280 and it's one of the reasons I do cons Yep. We are here 620 00:41:39.960 --> 00:41:45.119 to make other people feel good. We are here to spread light, energy 621 00:41:45.320 --> 00:41:51.159 and magic. And I believe love is the most powerful force in the universe. 622 00:41:51.519 --> 00:41:53.079 And I think if we've touched someone in a certain way that made them 623 00:41:53.119 --> 00:41:58.599 feel seen like special, beautiful, smart, creative, whatever it is, 624 00:41:58.719 --> 00:42:02.559 like I take every opportunity to do that at CON's And like you said, 625 00:42:02.599 --> 00:42:07.079 a lot of those kids are on the autism spectrum and people aren't so kind 626 00:42:07.159 --> 00:42:08.400 to them in the real world. And when you see them crying, to 627 00:42:08.519 --> 00:42:14.039 get that kindness, to have someone understanding them is very important to me. 628 00:42:14.519 --> 00:42:16.960 And I like to be a voice for the voiceless. And one of the 629 00:42:17.079 --> 00:42:22.159 most insane atrocities in this country, in this country and around the world is 630 00:42:22.199 --> 00:42:28.119 how we treat factory farmed animals. It is unbelievable that no one and I 631 00:42:28.400 --> 00:42:31.920 mean no one, because obviously the vegan and the vegan community are people who 632 00:42:31.960 --> 00:42:37.880 do care, but most people don't care. And when you are in this 633 00:42:37.000 --> 00:42:42.400 community and you're sent these videos which are readily available online where it's a daily 634 00:42:42.559 --> 00:42:45.440 torture chamber, where the people that work in these places are stabbing, kicking, 635 00:42:45.519 --> 00:42:49.119 punching, herding, killing their friends in front of them. By the 636 00:42:49.159 --> 00:42:51.840 way, these people are walking freely in your neighborhood. Right If you could 637 00:42:51.840 --> 00:42:54.840 go up to a cow and stab it and like it doesn't affect you at 638 00:42:54.920 --> 00:43:00.079 all, that's not a normal And a lot of these animals, even if 639 00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:04.840 they're not absurdly beaten, you know, there's still a lot of them never 640 00:43:04.960 --> 00:43:07.719 get to see daylight, so never outside. It's really inhumane and like, 641 00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:12.159 my heartbreaks that, like these little baby pigs, I can't just go rescue 642 00:43:12.199 --> 00:43:15.800 them and save them. And I understand that many people don't want to give 643 00:43:15.880 --> 00:43:20.320 up meat, so I think at the very least the fight should be to 644 00:43:20.599 --> 00:43:25.360 end cruelty and the unnecessary cruelty. And if we cut down on meat consumption, 645 00:43:25.480 --> 00:43:30.760 so we ended factory farming and had kind farms where animals are treated well, 646 00:43:30.039 --> 00:43:35.079 we could actually do a really big, big, make big impact of 647 00:43:35.199 --> 00:43:38.840 saving the planet. Right, so much of global warming is because of factory 648 00:43:38.880 --> 00:43:44.119 farming. People don't understand it, want to look at it. And anytime 649 00:43:44.199 --> 00:43:46.800 you tweet about it or write about it, because eating meat is such an 650 00:43:46.800 --> 00:43:52.400 addiction, people get furious with you. And I'm not saying fuck you to 651 00:43:52.480 --> 00:43:54.719 people eating meat. I'm saying, let's care about how animals are treated. 652 00:43:54.960 --> 00:43:58.039 And people say, fuck you, I'm not going to do your lifestyle. 653 00:43:58.239 --> 00:44:00.920 They get very angry, and I'm like, why aren't you angry at the 654 00:44:00.920 --> 00:44:04.679 person stabbing a cow, Like, weren't you angry at the atrussits that are 655 00:44:04.760 --> 00:44:07.800 going on every day by the millions to animals. And by the way, 656 00:44:08.239 --> 00:44:13.199 a cow is a big dog a pig. I think pigs would be treated 657 00:44:13.239 --> 00:44:15.320 better if they didn't have such a bad glow up. Like as babies, 658 00:44:15.360 --> 00:44:17.400 they're so cute, but when they're bigger, they're not as cute, and 659 00:44:17.440 --> 00:44:21.239 people don't want to keep them, so I think it's justifiable to eat them. 660 00:44:21.559 --> 00:44:23.880 But like, personality wise, if you play with them, they're the 661 00:44:23.960 --> 00:44:28.800 same as your dog. Yeah, you wouldn't stab your dog. People get 662 00:44:28.920 --> 00:44:30.360 very mad at you, Lynn, but they do the same shit in America, 663 00:44:30.880 --> 00:44:35.079 And I just wish people cared, and I wish people wouldn't get angry 664 00:44:35.119 --> 00:44:39.519 at vegans for pointing out truths, because those are just the truths. These 665 00:44:39.599 --> 00:44:44.559 animals are sad and scared, and when you eat an animal or pay for 666 00:44:44.639 --> 00:44:46.800 their torture, you are consuming sadness, torture, fear, And I just 667 00:44:46.920 --> 00:44:52.280 wish people thought about it more. And you know, my boyfriend eats meat. 668 00:44:52.760 --> 00:44:55.360 My son will have stuff here and there. And I don't like have 669 00:44:55.519 --> 00:44:59.599 a judgment, and I don't want to make people feel bad when they're enjoying 670 00:44:59.599 --> 00:45:02.920 their food, but I do want people to stop the cognitive dissonance that you 671 00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:07.159 think that thing is hopping on your plate like it's having a hard time. 672 00:45:07.360 --> 00:45:09.599 I just wish people cared more about how yeah, yeah, yeah, It's 673 00:45:09.920 --> 00:45:15.000 clearly you're passionate about many things. Animal roots and another thing is being a 674 00:45:15.079 --> 00:45:16.320 mum. It's one of the things you adore the most in this world. 675 00:45:16.599 --> 00:45:21.280 When you became a mother, How, if at all, did that change 676 00:45:21.320 --> 00:45:24.239 your approach to your work? You know, I feel so lucky, and 677 00:45:24.320 --> 00:45:29.199 I know you understand this is that most I mean a lot of a lot 678 00:45:29.280 --> 00:45:32.480 of jobs don't enable you to be a hands on parent. And even sometimes 679 00:45:32.519 --> 00:45:36.599 with on camera you're flying somewhere, you're doing something. You don't always have 680 00:45:37.320 --> 00:45:42.760 that kind of opportunity to really be involved in making breakfast, taking them to 681 00:45:42.800 --> 00:45:45.599 school, right, and so most of our jobs, even when we were 682 00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:47.079 going to studio, we're nine to one, two to six, you could 683 00:45:47.079 --> 00:45:52.440 still make breakfast, drop your kid off at school, and go volunteer on 684 00:45:52.639 --> 00:45:54.760 lunch and pick them up. I've occasionally brought them. I mean well, 685 00:45:54.800 --> 00:46:00.239 I mean to say, if you remember change diapers in La studio, I 686 00:46:00.599 --> 00:46:02.320 worked up till I delivered, and then I brought my babies. If you 687 00:46:02.320 --> 00:46:06.519 remember, I would bring any and I'd bring them till they were like two 688 00:46:06.599 --> 00:46:08.800 or three. When my son started preschool, he was crying and he didn't 689 00:46:08.880 --> 00:46:15.039 understand why the other kids weren't missing Nickelodeon. Like they grew up with very 690 00:46:15.119 --> 00:46:19.639 colorful environments and amazing people doing funny voice. I never saw you at Disney. 691 00:46:19.679 --> 00:46:23.519 I never saw Yeah. I feel really fortunate that I got to ye 692 00:46:23.920 --> 00:46:28.320 bring them when they were babies in the more. Yeah. No, they 693 00:46:28.559 --> 00:46:30.719 they always say to me, Mom, like we had the best childhood and 694 00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:35.960 it's because of you, Like you made it so fun. And gratitude is 695 00:46:36.000 --> 00:46:38.840 the one of the biggest ingredients in happiness for sure, and being grateful brings 696 00:46:38.880 --> 00:46:43.199 more wonderful things to be grateful for. I really believe that. And I 697 00:46:43.280 --> 00:46:45.840 think the funnest thing for me is when they find me in things they don't 698 00:46:45.920 --> 00:46:49.400 know I was in. I don't know if you have this experience with yours, 699 00:46:49.880 --> 00:46:52.199 but like my kids are like I remember coming in the house and my 700 00:46:52.280 --> 00:46:53.840 son was like, well, I'm good in here. He's like, I 701 00:46:53.960 --> 00:46:58.280 was just watching Family Guy and Stewie gets sent to an orphanage and there's like 702 00:46:58.280 --> 00:47:00.159 a million kids there, and you voiced every single one. Oh wow, 703 00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:05.960 that cool, or like Rick and Morty, or like video game find me 704 00:47:06.039 --> 00:47:07.760 on things that aren't like my regular things, and yeah, yeah, I 705 00:47:07.880 --> 00:47:10.519 just had that with Jim. We were on the very first episode of the 706 00:47:10.559 --> 00:47:15.519 podcast. We were talking about it Grand Theft Auto five. Oh right. 707 00:47:15.639 --> 00:47:17.679 He was like, no, I have bought guns from you so many times. 708 00:47:17.840 --> 00:47:22.679 Yes, yes, yeah, I remember years ago when I first came 709 00:47:22.719 --> 00:47:24.719 out. My nephew Boris called me up and he goes, oh, Jim, 710 00:47:25.159 --> 00:47:29.840 yeah, did I just buy an M sixteen from you in an old 711 00:47:30.239 --> 00:47:34.280 Amico gas station And you were like on the down low and the cute tea 712 00:47:34.360 --> 00:47:37.000 and I wasn't supposed to tell anybody, and yeah that rings a bell. 713 00:47:37.199 --> 00:47:40.360 I go, yeah, it goes. Wow, that was pretty cool. 714 00:47:40.880 --> 00:47:44.440 Anyway, I'm gonna be back tomorrow. I think I'm gonna get a shotgun. 715 00:47:44.519 --> 00:47:47.360 I go, okay, I'll be there. I'm sure I'll be there. 716 00:47:47.920 --> 00:47:52.559 That's sobody. Yeah. My kid was playing Injustice and I walked. 717 00:47:52.719 --> 00:47:53.480 I walked in one day after work. He's like, mom, I just 718 00:47:53.800 --> 00:47:59.400 killed everyone as you. I was like, okay, he was, oh 719 00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:05.440 me sweet, Yeah that is so sweet. Are they all dead? Yeah? 720 00:48:05.800 --> 00:48:09.480 Okay, we just check it. Yeah, when my little pony hit. 721 00:48:09.519 --> 00:48:13.599 I was, you know, coming to volunteer hot lunchip Sammy's school and 722 00:48:13.639 --> 00:48:15.079 it was like he was in fourth grade and he was like, Mom, 723 00:48:15.119 --> 00:48:19.280 if the kids like talk about don't talk about my little pony. And I 724 00:48:19.360 --> 00:48:21.760 call him and they all like mom, You're like, oh yeah. The 725 00:48:21.840 --> 00:48:23.880 next season and went Rold's bark, Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 726 00:48:24.920 --> 00:48:30.679 yeah. I've had stuff like that. I remember when my older girls 727 00:48:30.760 --> 00:48:35.639 were were younger, I you know, we'd take turns. One year, 728 00:48:35.639 --> 00:48:38.639 I'd walked them around Halloween, and next year my wife went and so it 729 00:48:38.760 --> 00:48:44.320 was my year to stay home. And uh, I'm my year to walk 730 00:48:44.400 --> 00:48:46.800 them around. And we get back home and my wife says, she goes, 731 00:48:47.360 --> 00:48:51.679 Okay, I just had the cutest experience. These little nine year old 732 00:48:51.719 --> 00:48:54.880 and seven year old boys came up to the door and took a treet. 733 00:48:54.880 --> 00:48:58.199 Took a treet. So I'm giving him candy, giving him candy, and 734 00:48:58.239 --> 00:49:00.920 they post standig one and they looking around, looking around, and she goes, 735 00:49:01.199 --> 00:49:05.800 is there anything else? Boys? She goes, just dark Wing Duck 736 00:49:05.880 --> 00:49:12.760 live here for reals. She goes, yeah he does. He's actually he's 737 00:49:12.800 --> 00:49:16.239 out right now protecting looking out for kids. Who are trick or treating? 738 00:49:16.480 --> 00:49:22.039 And he goes, I told you, you booger, you know, and 739 00:49:22.119 --> 00:49:27.800 then they want to tell them, said he and I've got my shirt one. 740 00:49:28.119 --> 00:49:30.159 Yeah. Well, speaking of doing voices for characters, we like to 741 00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:35.679 do something on this podcast where we'll exchange character voices. So Jim will give 742 00:49:35.679 --> 00:49:37.480 you a line, you do it in a character voice like Timmy Turner or 743 00:49:37.519 --> 00:49:39.599 whatever, and then vice versa. Would you want to do that? Okay, 744 00:49:40.079 --> 00:49:45.960 yeah, okay, Well here as I'll let you pick Twilight Sparkle. 745 00:49:45.119 --> 00:49:51.079 Maybe I am the terror the flaps in the night. I am the terror 746 00:49:51.199 --> 00:49:55.320 that flaps in the night. I'm scared. Okay, your turn. Now 747 00:49:55.320 --> 00:50:00.039 you give me one of yours and tell me who'd be. Okay, you 748 00:50:00.199 --> 00:50:04.639 be dark Wing Duck. Okay, and say how many bps? Girl? 749 00:50:04.760 --> 00:50:10.360 Accupine me? I'm gonna be the prettiest girl at the party. That was 750 00:50:10.800 --> 00:50:17.239 terrible. Well, your job is safe, your gig is solid, rock 751 00:50:17.360 --> 00:50:21.320 solid? All right? Well, all right, right, here's one more. 752 00:50:22.159 --> 00:50:25.000 Uh, and I'll let you pick Okay, maybe Harley. Okay, 753 00:50:25.440 --> 00:50:30.599 have you got an extra smack rol of honey for me? Hi? Open 754 00:50:30.960 --> 00:50:37.800 you got an extra smack honey? I do I think we all do. 755 00:50:37.960 --> 00:50:43.599 I've got all the smackrels. That's a wonderful thing. Oh that was thank 756 00:50:43.639 --> 00:50:46.800 you. You like that a little too much? Yeah, I like that 757 00:50:46.880 --> 00:50:51.360 a little too much. Chris is recording this, you know, so we'll 758 00:50:51.599 --> 00:50:54.000 be visiting my world's going to see that. Yeah, I think so, 759 00:50:54.440 --> 00:50:58.920 I think so. So. Have I asked you what's coming up? What 760 00:50:59.280 --> 00:51:02.599 should everybody be looking out for or like even cons or anything like that. 761 00:51:04.760 --> 00:51:07.719 Well, on my social I'm at to our strong everywhere I talk about my 762 00:51:07.760 --> 00:51:15.840 cons. I'm also soon going to be releasing a class and a million years 763 00:51:15.840 --> 00:51:17.360 ago, I had a website called voice Stars. I think you were on 764 00:51:17.440 --> 00:51:21.920 it because we get asked all the time, like how do you get into 765 00:51:21.960 --> 00:51:24.159 voice over? And I kind of let it go and I get asked. 766 00:51:24.480 --> 00:51:30.840 We get asked every day. Yeah, and I also get asked a coach, 767 00:51:30.920 --> 00:51:34.480 which I don't do, primarily because I'm too busy, but also I 768 00:51:34.559 --> 00:51:37.880 don't like being mean. And the truth is, you're not going to make 769 00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:42.280 this in this business, even if you're the most challenged, beautiful human, 770 00:51:42.400 --> 00:51:45.639 unless there's a serendipitous moment that puts you on the map. There has to 771 00:51:45.719 --> 00:51:49.320 be a little bit of magic, and not everyone gets that. And I've 772 00:51:49.360 --> 00:51:55.000 really hated classes that promise you work or take money from hopefuls because it's like 773 00:51:55.199 --> 00:51:59.960 everybody wants to do it, and the fact is, we know really talent 774 00:52:00.159 --> 00:52:02.760 to people that are hurting, like it's not it's not everyone's gonna get that 775 00:52:02.840 --> 00:52:05.840 chance. And so people ask me all the time. And so my boyfriend 776 00:52:05.880 --> 00:52:07.920 Willie said, well, why don't you do one that's more of a community, 777 00:52:08.599 --> 00:52:13.599 that's not like promising work, but like giving your secrets and making me 778 00:52:13.840 --> 00:52:16.000 people feel like they're part of something. And so I don't want to say 779 00:52:16.039 --> 00:52:21.599 too much because we ended up expanding from that idea into something pretty special and 780 00:52:22.239 --> 00:52:24.679 I already recorded it. I wrote it was funny once I started to sit 781 00:52:24.760 --> 00:52:27.800 down and write, because I'm like, you know what, if people are 782 00:52:27.800 --> 00:52:30.639 going to sign up for this monthly, I want it to be valuable. 783 00:52:30.639 --> 00:52:32.440 I want to give them all my secrets, and i want like inside stuff 784 00:52:32.480 --> 00:52:36.440 that might be kind of weird that other people don't do, and I want 785 00:52:36.480 --> 00:52:38.960 to structure it like from start to job. And I'm like, it's got 786 00:52:39.039 --> 00:52:42.119 it. If I'm sure you've done this where you go to speak at of 787 00:52:42.119 --> 00:52:45.119 college and you just speak because you know it so well. I think if 788 00:52:45.159 --> 00:52:46.679 people are going to pay for these classes, it should be structured. So 789 00:52:46.760 --> 00:52:50.880 I sat down and I wrote Class one, Class two, and it's over 790 00:52:51.039 --> 00:52:54.239 a hundred pages. I couldn't stop, and so we went and recorded them 791 00:52:54.280 --> 00:52:58.760 in a professional studio, and there's about there is ten videos of me giving 792 00:52:58.840 --> 00:53:01.519 all my secrets. And then there's going to be other things where we have 793 00:53:01.639 --> 00:53:04.719 people come on and get to talk to people. Some of you'll come on 794 00:53:04.800 --> 00:53:07.920 and join sometimes, but it's more of like a community than pay me this 795 00:53:08.039 --> 00:53:10.840 money and you'll get work, because we can't even guarantee ourselves. There's a 796 00:53:10.920 --> 00:53:14.519 little yeah, there's a little of that out there. There's a lot of 797 00:53:14.559 --> 00:53:16.599 that. I think people are paying to audition. That's so gross to me. 798 00:53:16.920 --> 00:53:21.480 There are sites that charge people to pay to audition, and nobody in 799 00:53:21.559 --> 00:53:23.920 our world got there doing that, So it's such a scam. And I 800 00:53:24.079 --> 00:53:29.199 just don't like. I don't like people being scammed. Really, I just 801 00:53:29.320 --> 00:53:31.000 I don't like bullies. I don't like I you know, no, I 802 00:53:31.159 --> 00:53:35.320 just I have such a problem. I mean, I grew up with a 803 00:53:35.400 --> 00:53:38.400 mom who was obese, a sister who is different, and I would witness 804 00:53:38.599 --> 00:53:43.039 what it looks like when they come home from being bullied all day. And 805 00:53:43.280 --> 00:53:46.199 I think that's another reason I'm so great with my fans. I've seen it, 806 00:53:46.280 --> 00:53:52.800 I lived it, and to be bullied for being different is so terrible. 807 00:53:52.400 --> 00:53:59.280 And I think that some of these places feed on those people because they 808 00:53:59.360 --> 00:54:05.119 know about the person acting classes. Yeah, yeah, I don't like it. 809 00:54:05.599 --> 00:54:07.679 Anyways, I'm gonna hopefully do it well and I'll be announcing it on 810 00:54:07.760 --> 00:54:12.079 my social Yeah, like how you have to work your way up the ranks 811 00:54:12.119 --> 00:54:15.039 in class and like, oh my gosh, it's more and more money, 812 00:54:15.320 --> 00:54:17.599 and then they make it seem all exclusive when really it's just a buyer's club 813 00:54:17.639 --> 00:54:21.280 of course. Oh yeah. I was in Toronto. I studied at Second 814 00:54:21.360 --> 00:54:22.920 City. I went all the way through, I was on stage. It 815 00:54:23.039 --> 00:54:25.480 was a great, great experience. I moved to LA and I'm like, 816 00:54:25.480 --> 00:54:29.559 I should probably do Groundlings because at that time I would love to have been 817 00:54:29.599 --> 00:54:30.320 on Saturday at Live. And I'm like, I know a lot of people 818 00:54:30.360 --> 00:54:34.480 get picked from there, and so I called them as someone who's already performed 819 00:54:34.519 --> 00:54:36.280 on the Second City stage, like, no, you have to start at 820 00:54:36.360 --> 00:54:38.599 level one. I'm like, really, like really, and I think I 821 00:54:38.880 --> 00:54:43.679 talked my way into like not pre level one, but level one and I 822 00:54:44.039 --> 00:54:49.119 failed. I failed. I failed, and I was like what really? 823 00:54:49.639 --> 00:54:52.159 And they just keep you going and I was like, you know what, 824 00:54:52.559 --> 00:54:55.840 I'm not going to pay for anywere Yeah, I had that exact same experience, 825 00:54:57.000 --> 00:54:59.280 like I was on the one hundred for a few episodes, Like you 826 00:54:59.320 --> 00:55:01.440 know, I've done done stuff here and there, and I'm taking this class 827 00:55:01.440 --> 00:55:04.880 in Vancouver. I'm not going to name the studio, but like the same 828 00:55:04.960 --> 00:55:07.280 thing where it's like, oh, you have to audition for this class and 829 00:55:07.360 --> 00:55:10.239 like you're going to start out the beginners, And I was like, what's 830 00:55:10.320 --> 00:55:14.320 Like, I have a theater degree and I've been acting for ten years now, 831 00:55:14.440 --> 00:55:17.280 like beginners, those classes should be to serve you, right, to 832 00:55:17.360 --> 00:55:20.719 help you, Like, if you've already been acting, you should be at 833 00:55:20.760 --> 00:55:22.679 this level. How do we get you to the next level? Right? 834 00:55:22.760 --> 00:55:24.440 How do we get your game even better? Like what would and to go 835 00:55:24.599 --> 00:55:29.199 back to those places if you've already done it. It's honestly why I didn't 836 00:55:29.239 --> 00:55:31.320 go to college. I started at thirteen. I did theater, I did 837 00:55:31.400 --> 00:55:38.079 TV and film. I did a ton of animation and I booked a few 838 00:55:38.159 --> 00:55:42.800 movies the summer I was supposed to leave for college, and there was a 839 00:55:42.880 --> 00:55:45.719 few different performing arts colleges and I won't say their names for the same reason, 840 00:55:45.760 --> 00:55:47.599 and you what say the names? And the course outline was the beginnings 841 00:55:47.639 --> 00:55:52.199 of singing with limericks and how to audition. And I'm like, why am 842 00:55:52.239 --> 00:55:55.159 I going to spend a fortune learning how to do things I've been paid to 843 00:55:55.280 --> 00:55:59.480 do for a decade? And I ended up saying no to school, doing 844 00:55:59.480 --> 00:56:02.360 the movies and then flying, and especially when you're first starting out, like 845 00:56:02.400 --> 00:56:06.960 a couple hundred bucks is big money, you know, you bet like you're 846 00:56:07.039 --> 00:56:09.320 breaking the bank just to do that. And then they play kate you you 847 00:56:09.440 --> 00:56:13.119 know, like I really like classes where they're hard on me, Like I'm 848 00:56:13.320 --> 00:56:15.000 you know, I played football all my life as well, and you know, 849 00:56:15.079 --> 00:56:19.119 I like that constructive criticism, you know, because I want to get 850 00:56:19.199 --> 00:56:22.119 better, you know, and it's not going to get better if somebody's like, 851 00:56:22.239 --> 00:56:24.440 oh, that was fabulous and then behind their back, Yeah, yeah, 852 00:56:25.239 --> 00:56:29.599 I don't like it. There's so much bullshit in the business that you 853 00:56:29.639 --> 00:56:32.800 don't want it when you're It shouldn't be there when you're trying to work on 854 00:56:32.920 --> 00:56:38.199 your craft, right, and also the show businesses in general, and I 855 00:56:38.280 --> 00:56:43.119 mean mostly when I'm speaking about this, directors and actors, because this is 856 00:56:43.159 --> 00:56:45.639 what I know so closely, is you can go to school and you can 857 00:56:45.760 --> 00:56:50.599 train and you can work, and it doesn't guarantee you work. If you 858 00:56:50.679 --> 00:56:52.800 want to be a doctor or a lawyer, you go to these you go 859 00:56:52.880 --> 00:56:55.599 to that school and you study and you get to work. That's not how 860 00:56:55.639 --> 00:57:00.039 it works in entertainment. So to keep taking it manage of hopefuls in that 861 00:57:00.079 --> 00:57:04.559 way really pisses me off. Yeah, same with me. Yeah, yeah, 862 00:57:04.679 --> 00:57:07.400 I agree, I agree. Yeah, you know, it's like, 863 00:57:07.679 --> 00:57:08.719 you know, just give me a give me a shot, give me a 864 00:57:08.880 --> 00:57:13.480 chance. Yeah, but uh yeah, then get out of the way. 865 00:57:13.760 --> 00:57:15.320 Yeah yeah, and all over. Their rules are so absurd. You know, 866 00:57:15.360 --> 00:57:19.960 you can have a kid that hasn't had any training that comes in and 867 00:57:20.119 --> 00:57:22.360 kills it in something because they came with this gift. Right, to make 868 00:57:22.440 --> 00:57:25.480 in this business, you kind of have to come with some gifts. And 869 00:57:27.280 --> 00:57:29.760 there's not going to be someone that got a book on how to teach a 870 00:57:29.840 --> 00:57:32.159 class that's going to enhance that gift. Right. And also, if you 871 00:57:32.199 --> 00:57:36.199 don't have the gift and you're wasting all that money. That's not great either, 872 00:57:36.760 --> 00:57:38.360 you know, And there's no rhyme or reason. Like I have people 873 00:57:38.440 --> 00:57:43.159 that I've helped get into the agency that have had three hundred auditions that haven't 874 00:57:43.159 --> 00:57:45.599 booked anything. And then I have a guy that write out of the gate 875 00:57:45.639 --> 00:57:49.360 booked fifteen spots for Turbo tax. Like there's no rules, right, So 876 00:57:49.639 --> 00:57:52.239 like, don't keep paying for those classes, and yeah, the rules are 877 00:57:52.280 --> 00:57:59.480 what gets you there. Classes should be to enhance your your craft and also 878 00:57:59.559 --> 00:58:07.239 to bring you confidence, right because acting in general is so a successful career 879 00:58:07.599 --> 00:58:09.920 is built on confidence and even if you don't have it for that moment, 880 00:58:10.000 --> 00:58:13.159 you have to fake it. They have to go in the room that you're 881 00:58:13.159 --> 00:58:16.079 gonna be able to pull off this job. And if that class is going 882 00:58:16.119 --> 00:58:19.519 to give you confidence and boost you, so like, Okay, now I 883 00:58:19.719 --> 00:58:22.119 know that this works because I saw at work in this class and I'm feeling 884 00:58:22.159 --> 00:58:27.079 confident about how to do this, then that accelerates your career. If it's 885 00:58:27.119 --> 00:58:30.159 not doing that, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not working. Wow. 886 00:58:31.079 --> 00:58:34.400 So true. Yeah. I always say the only thing you can really 887 00:58:34.440 --> 00:58:37.920 control as an actor is how good of an actor you are. You know, 888 00:58:37.039 --> 00:58:40.039 you can't control what auditions you get, you can't control what bookings you 889 00:58:40.119 --> 00:58:44.079 get, you can't control your direction, but you can control how good of 890 00:58:44.079 --> 00:58:47.000 an actor you are by constantly staying in class, you know, practicing homework, 891 00:58:47.159 --> 00:58:51.079 exactly doing your homework. Yeah, that's true. And you know, 892 00:58:51.159 --> 00:58:53.719 whenever I've had to audition for this or that or the other thing. I 893 00:58:55.679 --> 00:59:00.880 actually I use Don Carnage as an example. They'll they'll I always give him 894 00:59:00.920 --> 00:59:05.199 one the way that they ask you know, the according to the dr. 895 00:59:05.280 --> 00:59:07.119 I mean you have to you know it, you're smart because I always like 896 00:59:07.199 --> 00:59:10.239 to give at least two or three auditions. You're the same, right, 897 00:59:10.599 --> 00:59:15.880 yeah, yeah, And I always do one, uh the way they write 898 00:59:15.920 --> 00:59:17.519 it, the way they asked, all the requirements. Well he's this, 899 00:59:17.760 --> 00:59:21.599 he's that, he's you know, and then I the second one I do 900 00:59:21.840 --> 00:59:24.480 is the way it should be. Yeah, you know, and and I 901 00:59:24.559 --> 00:59:29.519 mean really different. Think that's what I mean. If there's an alien and 902 00:59:29.679 --> 00:59:31.440 like she's really ugly, but you give her like a sexy voice, like 903 00:59:31.559 --> 00:59:36.639 that's funny, like perfect. Yeah. Yeah, I had this character Don 904 00:59:36.719 --> 00:59:39.800 Carnage that they did that with, and it was they wanted him to be 905 00:59:42.639 --> 00:59:45.480 a typical British pirate. All right, dear me, TI, get over 906 00:59:45.559 --> 00:59:49.719 there, whether it's just so stole the master or do whatever you do with 907 00:59:49.800 --> 00:59:53.800 that. And and but instead I met him come in from Kuba or somewhere 908 00:59:53.880 --> 00:59:59.719 like this, from the Caribbean and uh, and it was just so weird 909 00:59:59.840 --> 01:00:01.639 and different, and said, well let's get that guy. Yeah, and 910 01:00:01.760 --> 01:00:06.920 they you know, they'll catch the curveball. That's right. You never knows. 911 01:00:07.039 --> 01:00:09.199 Give them what, give them what they want, then give them what 912 01:00:09.280 --> 01:00:13.960 they didn't know they wanted. Yeah, that works in on camera too. 913 01:00:14.000 --> 01:00:20.360 When I was doing Big Time Rush, the guy that plays the band's like 914 01:00:20.840 --> 01:00:23.800 manager, Steven Glickman. In the original auditions, they called for someone like 915 01:00:23.960 --> 01:00:28.920 very sleek, like like how you pictures some sleek realtor or something, you 916 01:00:29.000 --> 01:00:30.599 know, like whatever, it's like agent guy, how would you know about? 917 01:00:32.320 --> 01:00:36.840 And so his manager said, you gotta see Stephen because he's not that 918 01:00:37.000 --> 01:00:39.719 type, right, you gotta see him. And they they were trying to 919 01:00:39.760 --> 01:00:43.559 find this character and they couldn't find They brought in Stephen and he blew them 920 01:00:43.599 --> 01:00:46.840 away and he changed their minds. A lot of acting is changing their minds. 921 01:00:47.119 --> 01:00:52.599 Sure, yeah, yeah, for sure till they agree with you. 922 01:00:52.920 --> 01:00:55.800 Yeah, then they're finally on the right track. Yeah, exactly. Oh 923 01:00:57.239 --> 01:01:00.840 don't change yeah, yeah, I don't change them now. Oh man, 924 01:01:00.119 --> 01:01:05.079 that's so cool. So am I going to see you anywhere soon? I 925 01:01:05.199 --> 01:01:07.519 really can't even know where are you going? Where? I don't know? 926 01:01:07.679 --> 01:01:09.599 I was well, I was thinking, because I've seen you a couple Yeah, 927 01:01:09.760 --> 01:01:15.679 and what's next for you? I was just this one schedules Sioux City, 928 01:01:15.960 --> 01:01:17.719 like the next eight weeks booked? Yeah, Sioux City. You know 929 01:01:17.880 --> 01:01:22.400 you have booked. I got a written. What are you doing nineties? 930 01:01:22.800 --> 01:01:24.079 Is that a good one? I haven't done that yet in Tampa Bay. 931 01:01:24.280 --> 01:01:27.599 I want to do that. I want to like bring all the Powerpuff Girls 932 01:01:27.639 --> 01:01:30.119 and do that. Yeah. Yeah, the New York Comic Con. Because 933 01:01:30.159 --> 01:01:32.800 I was thinking we could tell we could tell everybody to come see you. 934 01:01:34.000 --> 01:01:36.960 I really want to go to New York. Yeah. My kids there at 935 01:01:37.039 --> 01:01:39.119 school, so I'm not in that con yet, but I'd like, where 936 01:01:39.159 --> 01:01:45.519 are they My youngest goes to NYU cool? Oh yeah, I'll tell you 937 01:01:45.559 --> 01:01:52.000 where I'm going and why are you I'm going to uh Cincinnati, Okay, 938 01:01:52.159 --> 01:01:54.440 Houston. We'll tell everybody to come see you. Yeah, that's that's the 939 01:01:54.559 --> 01:01:59.159 idea. I just tell everybody you're coming San Francisco, Columbus, Pittsburgh, 940 01:01:59.599 --> 01:02:05.079 Columbus, maybe anyway anyway, but go see Tara everybody. I don't know 941 01:02:05.159 --> 01:02:07.639 what you're looking. Yeah. And if I'm there, Ken see me too. 942 01:02:07.840 --> 01:02:10.119 Yeah. Yeah. It's wild how many conventions there are these days. 943 01:02:10.559 --> 01:02:14.039 You could do two a weekend if you wanted to. Oh yeah yeah, 944 01:02:14.360 --> 01:02:16.400 and people do people do? I think that's crazy? Yeah, yeah, 945 01:02:16.519 --> 01:02:20.400 yeah, too much, that's too much. Yeah. Tom Penny comes and 946 01:02:20.719 --> 01:02:22.880 cleans up on a Friday, makes everyone come on Friday, then he goes 947 01:02:22.920 --> 01:02:27.679 somewhere else for Saturday. I don't know that. I think that's nuts. 948 01:02:27.760 --> 01:02:31.679 I can't do. That is really hard. Yeah, we've done really Yeah. 949 01:02:31.719 --> 01:02:36.599 We've been doing that on Sundays for the last few months. Yeah. 950 01:02:36.920 --> 01:02:39.039 Yeah, and it's those are always exhausting days. And we do the podcast 951 01:02:39.119 --> 01:02:44.199 at the convention, so like after a full day of Jim doing convention stuff, 952 01:02:44.239 --> 01:02:45.480 you know, and then we do like an hour and a half podcast 953 01:02:45.599 --> 01:02:49.440 after, which is yeah, he's a real soldier for that, and then 954 01:02:49.559 --> 01:02:52.159 go into a coma right after after that. You know, it's just like 955 01:02:52.320 --> 01:02:54.920 oh man, yeah, but we have fun. We have a couple of 956 01:02:54.960 --> 01:02:58.840 drinks. Oh yeah, yeah, you do you make it fun? Yeah? 957 01:02:58.920 --> 01:03:00.880 Yeah, I mean my boyfriend a fun We like went on a double 958 01:03:01.000 --> 01:03:05.079 date and now we're such good friends with the girl that voices Dora the Explorer, 959 01:03:05.159 --> 01:03:08.159 Kathleen Hrlis, And I didn't know her because she worked out of New 960 01:03:08.239 --> 01:03:12.000 York. She still does. She's a New York person and we all know 961 01:03:12.079 --> 01:03:15.440 each other, the people in LA that did a ton of animation, and 962 01:03:15.599 --> 01:03:16.960 so she kind of slid into my DMS and she's like, I'm gonna be 963 01:03:17.000 --> 01:03:21.199 at this con. We've never met, and we went on a double date 964 01:03:21.239 --> 01:03:23.719 with them, and we had so much fun. Like first of all, 965 01:03:23.760 --> 01:03:27.280 her husband, Reggie's adorable, and the four of us had so much. 966 01:03:27.320 --> 01:03:32.599 We got really drunk and she started singing the Door of the Explorer song and 967 01:03:32.760 --> 01:03:37.119 this this like family walks by and they looked at her really weird, and 968 01:03:37.199 --> 01:03:42.119 she's like, I'm Dora. Oh God, I can do this. I'm 969 01:03:42.119 --> 01:03:45.920 like I like this. Check. We had we double date with them. 970 01:03:45.119 --> 01:03:49.360 Oh that's funny, make it fun. Yeah, that's cool, good good 971 01:03:49.400 --> 01:03:52.280 good. Yeah. We had a We had a blast with Joey for Tone 972 01:03:52.280 --> 01:03:55.800 a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, he was hitting the bar. That's 973 01:03:55.800 --> 01:03:59.480 funny. It's a good time when whenever it's like your birthday or something, 974 01:03:59.480 --> 01:04:01.519 I'll look on and I'll just google Twistrong and Gym Cummings and a lot of 975 01:04:01.760 --> 01:04:04.760 a lot of them. Are us drinking at a bar to contre Yeah? 976 01:04:05.119 --> 01:04:09.760 Yeah, yeah, that's right. Yeah, I remember the one we went 977 01:04:09.840 --> 01:04:12.960 two years ago. We're sitting in the water. Yeah, where was that? 978 01:04:13.400 --> 01:04:15.840 I don't I think it was Florida, Florida, or you go to 979 01:04:15.880 --> 01:04:19.280 Puerto Rico that might have been it. Huh, yeah, I think it 980 01:04:19.519 --> 01:04:23.320 was. It was beautiful. Yeah, and you get to see the world. 981 01:04:23.599 --> 01:04:26.039 I did a con in Ireland, I did a con in Dubai, 982 01:04:26.840 --> 01:04:30.559 I've done UK. It's fun. You had to travel and see different places. 983 01:04:30.000 --> 01:04:33.320 Yeah, that's phenomenal. Yeah, I would like to do the Dubai 984 01:04:33.440 --> 01:04:40.079 one. Pretty wonderful and like talk about surprise huge Ben ten fans huge. 985 01:04:40.639 --> 01:04:44.719 And also in the UK and a lot of overseas places get different merch than 986 01:04:44.800 --> 01:04:47.559 we do, so they bring like really crazy stuff and I'm like that's cool. 987 01:04:47.639 --> 01:04:49.880 I want one of those. Wow, do you have toys in yourself? 988 01:04:49.920 --> 01:04:54.880 I love getting toys of myself. Oh yes, too many? Boy 989 01:04:54.960 --> 01:04:59.159 do I ever? Yeah? And then my studio up there, In fact, 990 01:04:59.280 --> 01:05:02.400 we rid of them here anyway. They were like forty little backpacks. 991 01:05:02.639 --> 01:05:08.960 Yeah, there's little cutie pie. What are who puts them out of forget 992 01:05:09.079 --> 01:05:13.719 lounge fly? Yeah somebody? Yeah yeah, and there's like hundreds of them. 993 01:05:13.880 --> 01:05:16.239 Yeah, there's hundreds of poos. Well, dozen's lounge fly sand bags? 994 01:05:16.559 --> 01:05:19.880 Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah that's right. Did you mention 995 01:05:20.239 --> 01:05:25.760 loud fun I'll take some bags, take some cute power puff and this minute 996 01:05:25.760 --> 01:05:30.960 sto oh hell yes yeah, let's merchandise. Yeah, well I would. 997 01:05:30.119 --> 01:05:35.519 I think they should be a little what what are those little dolls? Little 998 01:05:35.760 --> 01:05:41.280 punko pops? Yeah, puncos, I mean of you are you kidding? 999 01:05:41.760 --> 01:05:44.239 I told them that there should be a terror verse one. Where is it? 1000 01:05:44.400 --> 01:05:45.639 Yeah? Yeah no, I said, like I think I've been more 1001 01:05:45.719 --> 01:05:48.920 pops than anyone else on the planet. Like, well, so and so 1002 01:05:49.119 --> 01:05:54.000 did this and this. I'm like, okay, there's fifteen Harley's, there's 1003 01:05:54.119 --> 01:05:58.239 twenty Raves. Yeah, there's miss Minutes. There's my character from well I 1004 01:05:58.320 --> 01:06:00.679 met you, this, this, this, this all is everything, like 1005 01:06:00.920 --> 01:06:03.880 make a funco of me with all my funco characters that you've made in the 1006 01:06:04.000 --> 01:06:08.559 thing. How about that we're trying to get the same thing done with Jim, 1007 01:06:08.599 --> 01:06:11.199 because the same story and yeah, I'll make one with the gym and 1008 01:06:11.360 --> 01:06:15.559 hello little trying to blow up. Yeah, let's do that. Or you 1009 01:06:15.679 --> 01:06:19.920 and I we could team up. Yeah, then we could really be insane, 1010 01:06:20.039 --> 01:06:25.559 you know, you know, yeah, we could do that. Let's 1011 01:06:25.599 --> 01:06:28.800 do that, Jim and got that, got that world. Well, thank 1012 01:06:28.840 --> 01:06:32.480 you so much. I'm saying I'm so happy that you've been had. Thank 1013 01:06:32.519 --> 01:06:36.239 you. Yeah, that's I think I said that right. I'm okay. 1014 01:06:36.440 --> 01:06:42.000 So at least I wasn't anywhere near your crack. That's true, damn it. 1015 01:06:44.079 --> 01:06:48.199 You don't have to rub it in. Oh my gosh. Well that's 1016 01:06:48.239 --> 01:06:50.400 fantastic. Thank you so much, my dear friend.