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<v Speaker 1>out there? It's me Tigger, I am Doc Wayne Duck.

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<v Speaker 1>It's me Bunkers Deep Bobcat. All right, y'all? Is it great?

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<v Speaker 2>Your favorite firefly you desire?

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<v Speaker 1>Hold old Knock Gud. My name is Jim Cummings and

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<v Speaker 1>welcome to tuned In.

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<v Speaker 3>Welcome back, everybody to another episode of Tuned In with

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<v Speaker 3>Jim Cummings.

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<v Speaker 4>Today, we have a very special guest for you.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, well you may not know her face, but everybody,

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<v Speaker 3>almost everybody that we've talked to on this show knows

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<v Speaker 3>her face and holds her in the highest regards. Over

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<v Speaker 3>ten thousand studio sessions, correct, over ten thousand studio sessions.

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<v Speaker 2>Eight.

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<v Speaker 3>Emmy's just an amazing career and an amazing person, so

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<v Speaker 3>from what I've heard. Andrea Romano joins us today.

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<v Speaker 2>Thanks for having me, Thanks for inviting me to play.

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<v Speaker 1>Amen.

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<v Speaker 2>Something you always said to me every session, whether you

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<v Speaker 2>had two lines or two hundred lines, you always thanked

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<v Speaker 2>me for inviting you to complain. I always thought that

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<v Speaker 2>was so elegant and lovely.

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<v Speaker 1>So oh, I appreciate that.

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<v Speaker 2>I appreciate you well, Oh my.

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<v Speaker 1>God, And I'm so glad she has a really good memory,

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<v Speaker 1>because boy, oh boy, and we were talking earlier, and

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<v Speaker 1>I have to say that my career and our friendship are.

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<v Speaker 2>The same age just about just about me.

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<v Speaker 1>I you know, I would I broke into the business

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<v Speaker 1>by accident. On purpose. I mean I was aiming for it,

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<v Speaker 1>but the way I did it was by accident. You know.

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<v Speaker 1>A customer in my video store said he heard about

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<v Speaker 1>a guy who knew a guy who was casting for

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<v Speaker 1>a thing, and isn't that what you were trying to do?

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<v Speaker 1>And I go, yeah, so I got that job and

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<v Speaker 1>and that's and then they I said, I don't know

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<v Speaker 1>a single soul you should take. You should take a workshop.

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<v Speaker 1>And I said, a workshop, You mean they teach this

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<v Speaker 1>sort of thing? Boy, do they ever have? I have

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<v Speaker 1>good luck to you, And here you were and Sue

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<v Speaker 1>Blue and uh, and so I got in touch with you.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you remember eighty four ish and change? Eighty four

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<v Speaker 1>and change?

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<v Speaker 2>So I was just startying Hanna Barbara.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, or eighty five, eighty five maybe eighty five, but

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<v Speaker 1>but yeah, but and it was over forty years as

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<v Speaker 1>the voice caster. Yeah, yes, oh yeah, absolutely, yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>And I'm only forty five, so it's pretty good.

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<v Speaker 1>You were just a little nipper. Yes, indeed, I forgot

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<v Speaker 1>it was.

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<v Speaker 2>The class I met you. Yes, I forgot it was

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<v Speaker 2>in the class. Wow beautiful If I remember correctly, we

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<v Speaker 2>had what somebody referred to as a bunch of ringers

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<v Speaker 2>in that class because so many people then went on

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<v Speaker 2>and had careers. Oh it wasn't Anne Ryerson in there

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<v Speaker 2>and Clark Cam Clark, and I think there was one

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<v Speaker 2>or two other people that also then went on to

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<v Speaker 2>have like good voiceover careers.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, oh my gosh. Yeah. Made Whitman's Pat Music, Pat Music,

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<v Speaker 1>yeah right, yeah, why she's not Whitman, I don't know

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<v Speaker 1>or the other one.

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<v Speaker 2>But yeah, she's Pat Music because that was her name

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<v Speaker 2>professionally before she got married to Jeff Whitman, and then

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<v Speaker 2>she kept her name Pat Music.

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<v Speaker 1>It's very musical it is.

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<v Speaker 2>Indeed, I would have kept it.

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<v Speaker 1>I would have kept it. And and uh and I said, commings,

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<v Speaker 1>Oh there we go.

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<v Speaker 2>Forgive me.

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<v Speaker 1>She's very popular.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm so sorry.

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<v Speaker 1>She was really popular your phone. She's a bigger, bigger

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<v Speaker 1>name on the online.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm really sorry. Technically challenged, Yeah, oh you too.

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<v Speaker 1>Huh, everything's a challenge.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, somebody, I forget I was supposed to do something,

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<v Speaker 2>sign up for something somewhere I think it was with Spectrum.

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<v Speaker 1>Was that you too, Okay, And that's because I'm on

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<v Speaker 1>them anyway, go ahead.

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<v Speaker 2>And they well, if you have this, then do this

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<v Speaker 2>with the roku and then you can do this, and

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<v Speaker 2>then do it. And I'm like, you just said twelve

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<v Speaker 2>words that none of which makes sense to me. Can

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<v Speaker 2>somebody just come to my house and fix this? And

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<v Speaker 2>they say no, they just don't. They don't send people out.

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<v Speaker 2>They just they don't anymore. Very rarely will they say

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<v Speaker 2>I can help you from here. Probably not, probably not.

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<v Speaker 2>And they didn't. Yeah, And the landline I was speaking

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<v Speaker 2>to them on that they supply disintegrated to the point

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<v Speaker 2>where we could no longer hear each other. Myself and

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<v Speaker 2>the person that was trying during that phone call, during

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<v Speaker 2>that phone call, so anyhow, sorry.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, I know I think we have a legitimate gripe.

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<v Speaker 2>I do have something else I have to do with

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<v Speaker 2>that might have been who was calling?

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<v Speaker 1>But I did I hear write ten thoughts ten thousand? Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>I have to think about that. That's a lot of.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, even back when when we first started with Ducktails,

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<v Speaker 2>that was one of the very first series that started

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<v Speaker 2>with a buy of sixty five.

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<v Speaker 1>I was sixty five right off the bat, so it

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<v Speaker 1>was gone.

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<v Speaker 2>With the days of thirteen and twenty six, it was

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<v Speaker 2>sixty five, and then you know, if you only got

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<v Speaker 2>picked up for twenty six, it was pretty much guaranteed

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<v Speaker 2>you were going to at least go to fifty two.

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<v Speaker 2>And of course this was all because of the syndicated

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<v Speaker 2>package it made.

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<v Speaker 1>Ita and therefore, yeah, it adds up.

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<v Speaker 2>So aside from the class, was it Ductails our first?

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<v Speaker 1>Yes? Yes, and I remember I was, and I remember

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<v Speaker 1>it because Disney named the theater El Capitan. I played

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<v Speaker 1>El Capitan, Yes, And you needed an old four hundred

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<v Speaker 1>year old Spanish pirates, so who else would obviously Cal

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<v Speaker 1>Cummings you know, wow, I love do you remember that.

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<v Speaker 5>I remember, I must tell you, my young friend, you

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<v Speaker 5>have to find an old ool in sheep.

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<v Speaker 2>What do you say? You know, that's why you got

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<v Speaker 2>the job.

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<v Speaker 1>But but but.

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<v Speaker 2>That's a really good voice. Thank you very good.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and it hurts and it reminds me of my uncle.

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<v Speaker 2>Say, I think I used that a similar that voice

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<v Speaker 2>on pussing Boots.

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<v Speaker 1>Or something that you came something that was it was

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<v Speaker 1>it was I was uh huh, I know el Cabong,

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<v Speaker 1>So that was that was. That was drama and wrong.

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<v Speaker 2>There's so many of those cartoons that are airing again

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<v Speaker 2>and make me so happy. The classic kind of yeah Ratoons,

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<v Speaker 2>the Huckleberry Hounds, which were my personal favorite, oh yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>and to get to meet people like Dolls Butler and

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<v Speaker 2>oh god yeah Blank and June.

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<v Speaker 1>For I never did meet dos Butler. Who is the

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<v Speaker 1>very first legendary guy that you met. You were at

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<v Speaker 1>Anna Barbara.

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<v Speaker 2>You were here, it would have been Dawes and I

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<v Speaker 2>met him, not at Hanna Barbera. I met him.

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<v Speaker 4>Who can just clarify for the audio, Doug.

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<v Speaker 2>Butler is the voice of Yogi Bear Huckleberry Hound Quick.

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<v Speaker 2>So any voice that wasn't Don Messick or was, and

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<v Speaker 2>I do believe that Don Messick and Dowes Butler were

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<v Speaker 2>equally as talented, certainly as well. But Mel had better

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<v Speaker 2>publicity because he was an on camera actor in the

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<v Speaker 2>Jack Benny Show and so he actually had a publicity

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<v Speaker 2>machine in position, and so he got all the press.

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<v Speaker 2>And when Warner Brothers decided to use cartoon character voices

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<v Speaker 2>and said let's save some money and just use one guy,

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<v Speaker 2>that gave Mel a huge foot up in the industry altogether,

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<v Speaker 2>Dowes Butler. When I first met Dawes, I was at

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<v Speaker 2>Hanna Barbara, maybe my first week there, so we're talking

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<v Speaker 2>nineteen eighty four. And when he came in, and he

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<v Speaker 2>was a diminutive man, a giant talent. He wasn't much

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<v Speaker 2>taller than I am, and I'm just five foot and

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<v Speaker 2>I shook his hand, and I know I must have

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<v Speaker 2>been shaking like the fans we meet at calm Con.

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<v Speaker 2>And I just said, mister Butler, I'm so happy to

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<v Speaker 2>meet you. Huckleberry Hound was my personal favorite character in

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<v Speaker 2>the whole world, and he spoke to me as Huckleberry Hound.

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<v Speaker 2>And at this point, I'm, you know, a twenty seven

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<v Speaker 2>to twenty eight year old woman, and I burst into

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<v Speaker 2>tears just, oh gosh, it just wept and oh, because

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<v Speaker 2>I was transported in time, as watching those cartoons do

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<v Speaker 2>to you. Now, you you remember the pajamas, the feety

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<v Speaker 2>pajamas you were wearing, the cereal that you used to

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<v Speaker 2>eat to watch. Because Saturday morning and weekday afternoons were

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<v Speaker 2>the only times we could watch cartoons. There wasn't a

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<v Speaker 2>cartoon network, there wasn't a boomerang, there were none of

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<v Speaker 2>the two. You couldn't find cartoons other than those times. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>and so, but to meet Dawes was an absolute throughout

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<v Speaker 2>mel Mel was fabulous. We did I'm not sure if

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<v Speaker 2>you were a part of this. I don't think you were.

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe one of the things I did that you weren't

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<v Speaker 2>a part of when we remade The Jetsons. Oh, and

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<v Speaker 2>of course all those guys were on that show.

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<v Speaker 1>I was on many Yeah, I guessed it.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>And then I sang the song as George Jetson great

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<v Speaker 1>we Are the.

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<v Speaker 2>World or whatever or whatever.

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<v Speaker 1>I can't remember the name of it, but it was, honestly,

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<v Speaker 1>it was actually kind of similar to that. But I

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<v Speaker 1>was singing George Jetson.

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<v Speaker 2>That's great, we remade it. I forgot about it. It was

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<v Speaker 2>like forty gosh, they made twenty six original episodes and

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<v Speaker 2>then twenty years later they decided to make forty one

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<v Speaker 2>additional ones to make a syndicated package.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh and was that what that happened?

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<v Speaker 2>And then so Gordon Hunt, the director at Hannibar at

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<v Speaker 2>the time, the voice director, and I was the casting

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<v Speaker 2>director at the time. We sat down and I said, Gordon,

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<v Speaker 2>I think they're all still alive, and we reach out

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<v Speaker 2>to all the original actors first and go from there.

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<v Speaker 2>And He's like, let's try so.

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<v Speaker 1>We we certainly knew about.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, But but this is even before. This was way

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<v Speaker 2>back when. For the original Jetson's voices, this is DAWs

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<v Speaker 2>Butler and mel Blank as mister Spaceley. This is George O'Hanlon, right,

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<v Speaker 2>Georgia O'Hanlon a Penny Singleton because the Jetsons was and

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<v Speaker 2>she was Judy Janet Waldo was jew who still sounded

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<v Speaker 2>exactly the same. But what was so cool about doing

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<v Speaker 2>the Jetsons again after twenty six years or whatever and

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<v Speaker 2>getting them all back was Dawes was a teacher, and

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<v Speaker 2>Dawes taught fabulous classes and taught many voice actors that

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<v Speaker 2>we have right, Roger Rose and many many successful voice actors.

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<v Speaker 2>And Penny Singleton had dentures at this point and her

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<v Speaker 2>dancers would click when she would record, so she was

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<v Speaker 2>let's try it. So we would send them the scripts

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<v Speaker 2>in advance. She would read every word of the script,

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<v Speaker 2>to George and recorded on a cassette. You might have

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<v Speaker 2>so he would remember the story, and then Gordon would

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<v Speaker 2>and I would sit in the control room and listen

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<v Speaker 2>for any issues. And then after we recorded all of

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<v Speaker 2>know the food to raca cycle and those words we

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<v Speaker 2>all the rest of the parts. That they lose their strength,

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<v Speaker 2>and that raises the back of that day. Back in

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<v Speaker 2>those days, we didn't have the ability to just click

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<v Speaker 3>mean they have to record slower speaking the dialogue?

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<v Speaker 2>And so this actually fixed two problems. It fixed the

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<v Speaker 2>pitch and it fixed the pace. There you go, that said.

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<v Speaker 2>main characters, Chipdale and Zipper, all bed right. So they

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<v Speaker 2>So we would record the whole cast who didn't have

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<v Speaker 2>that it made sense and it didn't sound like the

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<v Speaker 2>actors were acting that way, and then do their pickups.

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<v Speaker 2>It was a very complicated, joyful.

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<v Speaker 1>Remember it so well?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, my gosh, which show did you do? Fat Cat?

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<v Speaker 1>That was Rescue Rangers.

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<v Speaker 2>Rangers only just threw away the oven myt that you

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<v Speaker 2>It was no good anymore, but it was a gift

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<v Speaker 2>from you, and I saved it forever. Very hard to

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<v Speaker 1>Oh that's good. Yeah, God only knows where those are now.

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<v Speaker 1>I've they had that one little sort of not a

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<v Speaker 1>mini reboot, but what would you call it?

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<v Speaker 2>That? Uh back at the Ductails of Rescue Angels.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, well, they they had a cameo oh in a.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh it wasn't that.

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<v Speaker 3>It was like less than ten years ago, right, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>and it wasn't well received.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't remember hearing about it.

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<v Speaker 1>No, well, it was like two lines, two or three lines.

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<v Speaker 1>Fat Cat had a line of the Chividelle. Each had

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<v Speaker 4>They made an appearance in another.

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<v Speaker 1>It was Yeah, it was some kind of retrospect a feature.

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<v Speaker 4>No, it was a series. Yeah, I can't remember for

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<v Speaker 4>the lifetime.

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<v Speaker 2>Was not.

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<v Speaker 1>It wasn't a big hit. Apparently it's not a big hit.

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<v Speaker 1>All good, but it was.

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<v Speaker 4>Let us know in the comments, I'm sure you guys know.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's true. You guys know everything. They really do too,

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<v Speaker 1>they do. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>They actually information way faster than we did.

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<v Speaker 1>I oh, I know.

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<v Speaker 2>I used to have I mean IMDb and.

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<v Speaker 1>All years off Enyclopedia.

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<v Speaker 2>Truly, I had a mimeograft okay, list of the Hannah

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<v Speaker 2>Barbera classic characters and who voiced them. So, for example,

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<v Speaker 2>when we did the Jetsons, I had to go back

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<v Speaker 2>and find out who did Henry the plumber, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>the handyman and the Jetson thing and find out And

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<v Speaker 2>here's the interesting thing I learned. All that information, by

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<v Speaker 2>the way, was actually on three by five cards written

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<v Speaker 2>in pencil that I found the casting notes for the Jetsons.

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<v Speaker 1>And somebody's rollox or something, a.

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<v Speaker 2>Box of things in storage, I mean forever took to

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<v Speaker 2>find it written in pencil.

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<v Speaker 1>It's in the Smithsonian now it should be.

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<v Speaker 2>And here's the trivia that so few people know is

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<v Speaker 2>George Jetson. The first episode was originally voiced by Murray Amsterdam,

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<v Speaker 2>and they replaced him with George Howe Hanlon before it aired.

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<v Speaker 2>But the little card with the pencil and the line

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<v Speaker 2>through it didn't erase. Fortunately, they wrote the line through

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<v Speaker 2>and then put Georgia Island, so he did it first,

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<v Speaker 2>and that would have been good casting. I think, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>I can.

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<v Speaker 1>Tell you that. But yeah, and for folks who don't

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<v Speaker 1>know who that is, he was on the old Dick

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<v Speaker 1>Van Dyke Show. And if you don't know who that is,

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<v Speaker 1>what the hell are you watching this thing?

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<v Speaker 2>For any He just turned ninety nine, Dick Van Dyke. Yes,

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<v Speaker 2>you still still can sing, still can dance a little

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<v Speaker 2>bit around? Yeah, and really, really, what's his name? Chris

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<v Speaker 2>the musician who just did a thing with him? Oh

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<v Speaker 2>he's huge. This is just terrible.

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<v Speaker 1>Chris Good, Chris Christopher Cross.

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<v Speaker 4>No, no, let us know. In the comments.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm so embarrassed. They just did a huge concert over

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<v Speaker 2>in Europe and Ireland, and he did a special with

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<v Speaker 2>Dick van Dyke and wrote a song for him on

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<v Speaker 2>the spot, wrote a song from on the piano. He's huge.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm just so embarrassed it'll come sitting the cart.

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<v Speaker 4>Do you have any musical background. I do.

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<v Speaker 2>As a matter of fact, I originally was going to

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<v Speaker 2>use music as my as my thing. I played bass, clarinet,

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<v Speaker 2>and I sang and literally as I was leaving for

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<v Speaker 2>college with music as my major, to the State University

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<v Speaker 2>of New York at Fredonia, Upstate New York, as in Hale,

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<v Speaker 2>as in hell, heal tell you a story about that

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<v Speaker 2>in a second. I just decided that music didn't do

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<v Speaker 2>it for me, for it didn't thrill me the way

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<v Speaker 2>I wanted to be thrilled by my choice of career.

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<v Speaker 2>And as I looked at this, it was one of

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<v Speaker 2>those buck slips. It was one of those hard pieces

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<v Speaker 2>of cardboard that's about that size and had all the

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<v Speaker 2>majors that the college offered. And I looked at music,

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<v Speaker 2>and I went down farther and I saw theater arts,

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<v Speaker 2>and I went and I checked that and changed my

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<v Speaker 2>major like a week before I showed up a college

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<v Speaker 2>because the whole first year is always liberal arts. You

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<v Speaker 2>have to take all the same courses no matter what

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<v Speaker 2>you're going to specialize in. And and I'm so glad

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<v Speaker 2>I did because it really changed my trajectory. And but

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<v Speaker 2>the music always helped me because.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, you've only overseen about it.

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<v Speaker 3>That's why I asked so many voice actors. So many

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<v Speaker 3>voice actors have musical theater backgrounds. Have you know, we're

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<v Speaker 3>in a band, And I think it really helps with

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<v Speaker 3>like the timing and the intonation and everything.

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<v Speaker 4>And the reason I ask.

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<v Speaker 3>You is because you have to have for your profession,

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<v Speaker 3>your career, you have to have a good ear. You

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<v Speaker 3>have to be able to distinguish things.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, oh that's so true.

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<v Speaker 2>It was joyous to direct musicals. It really was absolutely

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<v Speaker 2>thrilling because I can read music, and also because I

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<v Speaker 2>was able to let actors, which has always kind of

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<v Speaker 2>been my theory of let me make an ass of myself.

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<v Speaker 2>So the actor, if they feel like they're making an

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<v Speaker 2>ass of themselves, they feel like it's okay. Andrea did it.

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<v Speaker 2>And so I would sing something for them, not worrying

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<v Speaker 2>about my performance, just trying to show it needs to

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<v Speaker 2>be no no no no no no no no no

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<v Speaker 4>Na.

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<v Speaker 2>And that's all I would have to do. And then

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<v Speaker 2>they after go okay, and then they could take it

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<v Speaker 2>to their level of performance, which was far superior to mine.

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<v Speaker 2>But at least I could. I knew where that note

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<v Speaker 2>had to get to.

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<v Speaker 1>That's important.

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<v Speaker 2>It really is State University of New York at Fredonia.

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<v Speaker 2>It's claim to fame. When the Marx Brothers toured there

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<v Speaker 2>as a vaudeville group, they threw them out. So duck soup,

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<v Speaker 2>Hail hell free don oh my Alma moder Wow, that's

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<v Speaker 2>pretty cool, nicol. So every year, of course they would

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<v Speaker 2>have a huge screening of duck soup and get.

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<v Speaker 1>That's very cool. I didn't know that. I mean, I

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<v Speaker 1>knew the about to Donia part. I still I got

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<v Speaker 1>my Andrea lore I know my stuff. Thanks Mary, And

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<v Speaker 1>that's why you're here too.

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<v Speaker 4>So you guys work together on Ducktails, what else?

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<v Speaker 2>Rescue Rangers Rangers, there was a series at Disney. We

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<v Speaker 2>did a lot of Disney stuff together. I also brought

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<v Speaker 2>you into the Warner Brothers world because I wanted you

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<v Speaker 2>to be on everything. I was working on Frank. But

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<v Speaker 2>we did a show, and I'm so glad we're getting

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<v Speaker 2>the opportunity to speak about it. We did a show

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<v Speaker 1>Yes we did, and it was and it was.

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<v Speaker 2>It was one of those situations. Now I was not

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<v Speaker 2>the casting director on these projects, because Disney had their

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<v Speaker 2>own casting department, uh, And they went through dozens and

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<v Speaker 2>dozens and dozens, I'd say hundreds.

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<v Speaker 1>And it was inspired by Roger Rabbit, the success of Roger.

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<v Speaker 2>Correct as many things work, the animation industry was, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>reinvigorated by the success of Roger Rabbit people.

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<v Speaker 1>And the concept of calling cartoon characters tunes that itself.

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<v Speaker 2>Absolutely absolutely, but thank me say thank you Steven Spielberg

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<v Speaker 2>for bringing you back to everybody.

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<v Speaker 1>Ye.

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<v Speaker 2>And so when I heard who they were auditioning, and

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<v Speaker 2>who they had auditioned, and who they had called back,

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<v Speaker 2>and who they had called back twice and who they

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<v Speaker 2>called back the third time, and they were now in

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<v Speaker 2>the fourth and sixth callback for Jim Cummings, who, by

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<v Speaker 2>the way, was the first person they read for the character.

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<v Speaker 2>And after months and months of auditions, they cast them.

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<v Speaker 2>And the first person to read for us.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>And then I mean they had gone to the point

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<v Speaker 2>where they're ever having to pay you for callbacks because Sad, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>I think I got Sad tells you you can audition

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<v Speaker 2>three times without getting compensated, and after that you have

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<v Speaker 2>to be compensated because there's more stress, there's more.

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<v Speaker 4>Takes time out of your day, absolutely.

427
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<v Speaker 2>And there's more. And I guess deep and deeper. The

428
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<v Speaker 2>problem I had with that show was Roger Rabbit was

429
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<v Speaker 2>live action and animated. It was very simple to see

430
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<v Speaker 2>who the live people were and who the animated characters were.

431
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<v Speaker 2>Bonkers was supposed to be about this world where that

432
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<v Speaker 2>was the same. There were live characters and there were tunes,

433
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<v Speaker 2>but they were all animated. So it didn't make any sense.

434
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<v Speaker 1>I could never It wasn't clearly delineated.

435
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<v Speaker 2>It was not. And then and then some nasty business

436
00:22:13.000 --> 00:22:15.720
<v Speaker 2>took place. You may recall where I was directing. I

437
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<v Speaker 2>think I did forty episodes of that show, and then

438
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<v Speaker 2>we're doing sixty five. Yeah, and then they invited somebody

439
00:22:21.519 --> 00:22:24.640
<v Speaker 2>to come sit in and watch. Okay, find a problem,

440
00:22:24.680 --> 00:22:27.119
<v Speaker 2>come watch, come watch, and then one day out of

441
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<v Speaker 2>the blue, Andrea, we're going to have that person direct

442
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<v Speaker 2>the rest of the episodes. It was crummy business. It

443
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<v Speaker 2>was bad business.

444
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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, yeah.

445
00:22:35.319 --> 00:22:37.880
<v Speaker 2>But my point is, no matter what success you have

446
00:22:38.039 --> 00:22:41.400
<v Speaker 2>or where you are, you always get fired. Yeah, You're

447
00:22:41.440 --> 00:22:45.519
<v Speaker 2>always elitable to be fired, to be replaced. It doesn't

448
00:22:45.559 --> 00:22:47.480
<v Speaker 2>matter if you're Frank Welker or a Jim Cummings or

449
00:22:47.519 --> 00:22:50.880
<v Speaker 2>John Demaggio or Tress McNeil. You can get replaced.

450
00:22:51.000 --> 00:22:56.039
<v Speaker 1>Yes, and so especially us, we're like, it's it's a shame.

451
00:22:56.400 --> 00:22:57.480
<v Speaker 4>Business is so crazy.

452
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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. If you're a fan of everything we do here

453
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<v Speaker 1>at tuned In with Jim Cummings, you could support the

454
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<v Speaker 1>join the tuned In family today at patreon dot com

458
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459
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<v Speaker 4>I was just talking with one of my friends about this,

460
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<v Speaker 4>sorry unrest. It's just last week and.

461
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<v Speaker 3>We were talking about awards, right, and in the film

462
00:23:32.559 --> 00:23:36.240
<v Speaker 3>industry you can literally win an Oscar and be broke, Like,

463
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<v Speaker 3>how many stories have you heard like Oscar winners and.

464
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<v Speaker 2>Please hire me yes, yes, it's just in their acceptance speech,

465
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<v Speaker 2>please hire me you need a job.

466
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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's now based off that statement. Did you feel

467
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<v Speaker 3>more job security behind.

468
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<v Speaker 4>The scenes or no? Is it the same situation.

469
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<v Speaker 2>It's the same situation. I was very lucky that I

470
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<v Speaker 2>came into the industry at a time just before it floated,

471
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<v Speaker 2>just before so many cartoons were being made and they

472
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<v Speaker 2>needed voice directors. And I started as a casting director,

473
00:24:08.200 --> 00:24:11.039
<v Speaker 2>and then Jenny McSwain moved on to direct and I

474
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<v Speaker 2>became you know, I was there Hanna Barbera, and then

475
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<v Speaker 2>Disney Tom Ruzica, who I knew from being an agent

476
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<v Speaker 2>and I was an agent. He was a creative director

477
00:24:23.319 --> 00:24:26.160
<v Speaker 2>at Leo Burnett and we had done business together, and

478
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<v Speaker 2>he called me one day and said, we're going to

479
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<v Speaker 2>create this thing called Disney TV Animation, And frankly, I

480
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<v Speaker 2>was shocked. I was like, there is no TV division

481
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<v Speaker 2>for animation right now, just like Warner Brothers. And so

482
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<v Speaker 2>he said, yeah, we're going to do this thing called Ductails,

483
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<v Speaker 2>and we're going to audition a bunch of different directors

484
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<v Speaker 2>and somebody will do the remaining We're gonna have five

485
00:24:45.480 --> 00:24:48.880
<v Speaker 2>people auditioned as directors and then one of them will

486
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<v Speaker 2>do the remaining sixty and I directed the second episode

487
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<v Speaker 2>and they said, we're not even going to audition the

488
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<v Speaker 2>other directors we want. And what was shocking was Hanna

489
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<v Speaker 2>Barbera let me stay on staff casting in Hanna Barbara

490
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<v Speaker 2>while I went off one half day a week and

491
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<v Speaker 2>directed ductals. Never would be today would be allowed. They

492
00:25:07.440 --> 00:25:10.559
<v Speaker 2>were so awesome to let me do that. And then

493
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<v Speaker 2>I started doing Rescue Rangers and then a bunch of

494
00:25:13.799 --> 00:25:15.039
<v Speaker 2>other stuff, winning the Poo.

495
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<v Speaker 1>Yes, what was the name of.

496
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<v Speaker 2>The producer that used to direct, Carl Gears? Carl?

497
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<v Speaker 1>Carl Gears.

498
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<v Speaker 2>He wants me to come in and direct because he

499
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<v Speaker 2>didn't want to direct anymore. He wanted to be able

500
00:25:27.359 --> 00:25:28.799
<v Speaker 2>to sit back and just listen. I think it was

501
00:25:28.839 --> 00:25:31.519
<v Speaker 2>Carl who was the one. He was whoever was used

502
00:25:31.559 --> 00:25:34.799
<v Speaker 2>to let us sit down on the carpet and he

503
00:25:34.839 --> 00:25:37.400
<v Speaker 2>would tell us the story of the episode like we

504
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<v Speaker 2>were kids getting read and nighttime story.

505
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<v Speaker 1>Yeah you remember that, that was him and Carl. Yeah, Carl

506
00:25:43.559 --> 00:25:47.839
<v Speaker 1>did that. He had the beard and the glasses and

507
00:25:47.920 --> 00:25:53.039
<v Speaker 1>it always wore a vest. Great great guy. Really sorry for.

508
00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:54.960
<v Speaker 2>Whoever he was. I can't remember the name. Embarrass it

509
00:25:55.000 --> 00:25:57.440
<v Speaker 2>might be called. But what was so lovely is you know,

510
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<v Speaker 2>usually when you do an animated series, my experience had

511
00:26:00.279 --> 00:26:02.799
<v Speaker 2>been all the actors sit around with the scripts. I

512
00:26:02.839 --> 00:26:06.160
<v Speaker 2>have the script and describe what action was important. The

513
00:26:06.200 --> 00:26:08.640
<v Speaker 2>actors make their notes, we rehearse, we just set any

514
00:26:08.759 --> 00:26:12.160
<v Speaker 2>we'll set any guest voices that maybe had not been

515
00:26:12.279 --> 00:26:15.480
<v Speaker 2>established yet, and then you record. But this was different.

516
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<v Speaker 2>He would describe the story. He would we literally would

517
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<v Speaker 2>sit on the floor with our you know, blankets and

518
00:26:21.400 --> 00:26:24.440
<v Speaker 2>pilos practically, and he would describe the story and then

519
00:26:24.440 --> 00:26:26.480
<v Speaker 2>we would get up and record it. And it was

520
00:26:26.880 --> 00:26:29.160
<v Speaker 2>joyful thought, it was fun.

521
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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and we did that a lot of them at

522
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<v Speaker 1>the old B and B R. Yeah, that was great.

523
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<v Speaker 1>That was Now it's a sandwich shop.

524
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<v Speaker 2>Is that what it is?

525
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<v Speaker 1>Sandwich shop?

526
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<v Speaker 2>Oh my goodness, that is where it is. And isn't

527
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<v Speaker 2>Dubbing Brothers also over there to I think they have

528
00:26:46.359 --> 00:26:48.599
<v Speaker 2>a little piece of it. There is still some recording

529
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<v Speaker 2>in there in that same building, but by farther on Magnolia.

530
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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, well there's everything there.

531
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<v Speaker 2>You know, we're still there yesterday.

532
00:27:01.559 --> 00:27:05.000
<v Speaker 1>That's crazy. And you know, speaking of bonkers, I can

533
00:27:05.039 --> 00:27:09.799
<v Speaker 1>still remember and I just it's such a weird little thing.

534
00:27:10.079 --> 00:27:11.599
<v Speaker 1>It just popped into my head. I think I might

535
00:27:11.640 --> 00:27:14.640
<v Speaker 1>have mentioned it before. But during those callbacks, and we

536
00:27:14.680 --> 00:27:18.440
<v Speaker 1>had so many callbacks, it was down to me Matt Frewer,

537
00:27:18.440 --> 00:27:20.759
<v Speaker 1>who was a Max headroom, and a guy who was

538
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<v Speaker 1>on a show called in Living Color at the time

539
00:27:22.799 --> 00:27:27.000
<v Speaker 1>called Jim Carrey. Yes, And it was the only time

540
00:27:27.039 --> 00:27:31.279
<v Speaker 1>I ran into him in my professional life ever. You know,

541
00:27:31.279 --> 00:27:34.759
<v Speaker 1>I think he's so brilliant. But he went in first

542
00:27:35.519 --> 00:27:40.079
<v Speaker 1>maybe alphabetical order, who knows, and and he had a briefcase.

543
00:27:40.440 --> 00:27:47.880
<v Speaker 1>Then he came out and he goes, gentlemen, you and

544
00:27:47.960 --> 00:27:51.680
<v Speaker 1>he picked up his briefcase and Jim carried out at

545
00:27:51.680 --> 00:27:56.000
<v Speaker 1>the building. I'm gonna kick his ass, yeah, And so

546
00:27:56.079 --> 00:27:57.880
<v Speaker 1>I did once and you know.

547
00:27:59.000 --> 00:28:07.680
<v Speaker 2>Came into audition that show that was his first animated series. Yeah.

548
00:28:08.440 --> 00:28:12.400
<v Speaker 2>One of the humans was a police officer. He was

549
00:28:13.599 --> 00:28:17.880
<v Speaker 2>he was a fabulous, fabulous just loved him on the

550
00:28:17.920 --> 00:28:20.720
<v Speaker 2>podcast great. And then you know who else was in

551
00:28:20.720 --> 00:28:23.960
<v Speaker 2>that show was read a Moreno. And I remember, like

552
00:28:24.960 --> 00:28:27.440
<v Speaker 2>they when we would get to all the callbacks and go, Okay,

553
00:28:27.440 --> 00:28:30.559
<v Speaker 2>here's the preferred here's the preferred moreno or or or

554
00:28:30.599 --> 00:28:34.519
<v Speaker 2>I'm like read a moreno, yes, triple threat. She's got

555
00:28:34.519 --> 00:28:39.279
<v Speaker 2>an show everything, and she wants to do our show.

556
00:28:40.839 --> 00:28:43.680
<v Speaker 1>And she brought her daughter to the sessions. Was because

557
00:28:43.680 --> 00:28:44.839
<v Speaker 1>she was getting a big kick out of it.

558
00:28:44.960 --> 00:28:47.480
<v Speaker 2>It was so much fun. She was so she was game,

559
00:28:47.799 --> 00:28:51.279
<v Speaker 2>absolutely game. And and to watch actors like that learn

560
00:28:51.480 --> 00:28:55.440
<v Speaker 2>from animation voice actors, they just they would watch. They

561
00:28:55.480 --> 00:28:58.839
<v Speaker 2>would just look and go and we say, she used

562
00:28:58.880 --> 00:29:01.920
<v Speaker 2>to overlap, like you doing normal. You can't overlap the

563
00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:05.279
<v Speaker 2>animation and talking about how to turn pages and you

564
00:29:05.319 --> 00:29:07.640
<v Speaker 2>can't turn pages on your dialogue. You have to wait

565
00:29:07.880 --> 00:29:11.200
<v Speaker 2>those little time. But you don't have to teach them acting. No,

566
00:29:11.440 --> 00:29:14.400
<v Speaker 2>you don't have to teach him anything about finding the character.

567
00:29:14.799 --> 00:29:17.200
<v Speaker 1>It was so cool because I would get there early

568
00:29:17.240 --> 00:29:21.200
<v Speaker 1>so I could sit next to her. And she was

569
00:29:21.359 --> 00:29:24.960
<v Speaker 1>just as pretty as a picture. She was gracious and

570
00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:27.599
<v Speaker 1>she brought her daughter and she goes and she and

571
00:29:28.200 --> 00:29:33.400
<v Speaker 1>she goes, this is fuck this. You can do it.

572
00:29:33.599 --> 00:29:36.319
<v Speaker 1>You can do anything. Because you know what I always

573
00:29:36.319 --> 00:29:38.839
<v Speaker 1>have a problem with, I'm a little too much.

574
00:29:40.160 --> 00:29:43.640
<v Speaker 2>I could be too much animation. Not here, honey, No,

575
00:29:44.119 --> 00:29:46.160
<v Speaker 2>it's like I you just go. This is like a

576
00:29:46.240 --> 00:29:46.880
<v Speaker 2>license to.

577
00:29:46.799 --> 00:29:49.160
<v Speaker 1>Steal any more lines, you know, And she.

578
00:29:49.240 --> 00:29:53.279
<v Speaker 2>Was like she was game, and wasn't Nancy Carlor on

579
00:29:53.359 --> 00:29:54.880
<v Speaker 2>this too? Nancy?

580
00:29:55.279 --> 00:29:59.960
<v Speaker 1>She was the dear bonkers. She was Bunker's girlfriend, who

581
00:30:00.279 --> 00:30:03.079
<v Speaker 1>who she didn't really like him that much, but.

582
00:30:03.119 --> 00:30:05.680
<v Speaker 2>He should liked her because she was dreaming.

583
00:30:05.720 --> 00:30:08.880
<v Speaker 1>Because she was dreaming, she was kind of spicy.

584
00:30:09.039 --> 00:30:14.440
<v Speaker 2>She was like, is that Chris Chris the books? Yeah,

585
00:30:14.519 --> 00:30:18.960
<v Speaker 2>I remember, I've used a million times. Why is your

586
00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:20.880
<v Speaker 2>heart pounding out of your chest like that?

587
00:30:21.119 --> 00:30:21.319
<v Speaker 1>Yeah?

588
00:30:22.079 --> 00:30:22.599
<v Speaker 2>So sweet?

589
00:30:22.759 --> 00:30:27.200
<v Speaker 1>Yes, wonderful, wonderful Yeah yeah yeah yeah. But then we

590
00:30:27.240 --> 00:30:28.960
<v Speaker 1>did I don't make him like that anymore.

591
00:30:29.680 --> 00:30:32.000
<v Speaker 2>But we also did a lot of Warner brother stuff together,

592
00:30:32.039 --> 00:30:34.680
<v Speaker 2>and you came in and played on Tiny Tooths and

593
00:30:34.720 --> 00:30:36.240
<v Speaker 2>you sang on some of the main titles.

594
00:30:37.000 --> 00:30:40.480
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, I was on the main title. It It

595
00:30:40.640 --> 00:30:43.920
<v Speaker 1>took a while to to for it to fade off,

596
00:30:43.960 --> 00:30:47.039
<v Speaker 1>because it was every like eight or nine shows, somebody

597
00:30:47.079 --> 00:30:54.799
<v Speaker 1>else would be singing the well that was Tasmania. But

598
00:30:54.960 --> 00:30:59.640
<v Speaker 1>and then Rob says something, you know, it was fun,

599
00:31:00.079 --> 00:31:01.160
<v Speaker 1>It really really was.

600
00:31:01.880 --> 00:31:03.359
<v Speaker 2>Came to play on.

601
00:31:03.359 --> 00:31:07.640
<v Speaker 1>One of my favorites was when the Animaniacs went to

602
00:31:08.039 --> 00:31:11.200
<v Speaker 1>Ireland and you hired me to be an Irish guy.

603
00:31:11.400 --> 00:31:13.759
<v Speaker 1>But I wasn't allowed to say anything. But I was

604
00:31:13.759 --> 00:31:16.960
<v Speaker 1>supposed to never shut up, but I couldn't say anything.

605
00:31:17.480 --> 00:31:20.960
<v Speaker 1>So you told me I had to do Irish Gibberish

606
00:31:21.160 --> 00:31:29.880
<v Speaker 1>for the whole thing, and and I would always ended

607
00:31:29.920 --> 00:31:37.119
<v Speaker 1>in mick, you know, and oh, yeah, this is great,

608
00:31:37.839 --> 00:31:40.200
<v Speaker 1>you know. And I said, I'm gonna call my dad everybody.

609
00:31:40.759 --> 00:31:42.640
<v Speaker 1>I got to be some really Irish guy.

610
00:31:43.480 --> 00:31:45.599
<v Speaker 2>I went to Ireland for the first time last year.

611
00:31:47.119 --> 00:31:48.519
<v Speaker 2>I was invited to Dublin Con.

612
00:31:48.640 --> 00:31:50.799
<v Speaker 1>Oh my gosh, well that's where green comes from.

613
00:31:50.960 --> 00:31:54.799
<v Speaker 2>That's it is where green comes from. And the fans

614
00:31:54.880 --> 00:31:59.119
<v Speaker 2>are fantastic. I know, what a country Ireland. And then

615
00:31:59.720 --> 00:32:02.519
<v Speaker 2>we stayed and towards Scotland for a couple of weeks too,

616
00:32:02.519 --> 00:32:03.839
<v Speaker 2>and that was magnificently.

617
00:32:03.880 --> 00:32:06.079
<v Speaker 1>Did you survive and enjoy any meals there? I mean,

618
00:32:06.119 --> 00:32:06.960
<v Speaker 1>did you like to eat?

619
00:32:08.640 --> 00:32:08.839
<v Speaker 4>You know?

620
00:32:09.400 --> 00:32:14.400
<v Speaker 2>I I enjoyed my Jamison jamison, just kidding. No, I

621
00:32:14.400 --> 00:32:17.519
<v Speaker 2>haven't eaten meat in fifty years, so I don't need organs.

622
00:32:18.039 --> 00:32:22.400
<v Speaker 1>It's not meat, it's laps and lands.

623
00:32:23.920 --> 00:32:29.279
<v Speaker 2>Flash, I know, it's no you know, grate cheese, wonderful cheese, excellent. No,

624
00:32:29.279 --> 00:32:30.640
<v Speaker 2>I had no trouble eating those wines.

625
00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:33.720
<v Speaker 1>Fine, I understand they have some beer and whiskey over there.

626
00:32:34.119 --> 00:32:35.799
<v Speaker 2>You know. I learned to drink jamison.

627
00:32:36.240 --> 00:32:36.480
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

628
00:32:36.599 --> 00:32:39.559
<v Speaker 2>And I also learned that Guinness in the North of Ireland,

629
00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:43.000
<v Speaker 2>Murphy's in the South of Ireland. Yeah, both those foamy,

630
00:32:43.039 --> 00:32:46.559
<v Speaker 2>dark beers. But yeah, so I learned that Hinden Walls.

631
00:32:46.400 --> 00:32:48.079
<v Speaker 4>And they served them like room temperature.

632
00:32:48.240 --> 00:32:50.519
<v Speaker 2>Yeah they do. It is like a meal though, I

633
00:32:50.519 --> 00:32:56.200
<v Speaker 2>mean really and absolutely delicious. Loved it and there was

634
00:32:56.240 --> 00:32:59.160
<v Speaker 2>no fish and chips available in the country anymore because

635
00:32:59.680 --> 00:33:03.759
<v Speaker 2>and I them all, Okay, everywhere we went, I was, well,

636
00:33:03.839 --> 00:33:07.519
<v Speaker 2>let's have a Soladh fish and chips, yeah, because they

637
00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:10.119
<v Speaker 2>really know how to make it. But we went even

638
00:33:10.160 --> 00:33:14.279
<v Speaker 2>to Belfast and that was phenomenal and I love it,

639
00:33:14.319 --> 00:33:17.519
<v Speaker 2>loved it. Yeah, I stole your story about the Irish

640
00:33:17.559 --> 00:33:18.039
<v Speaker 2>accent and.

641
00:33:20.279 --> 00:33:24.640
<v Speaker 1>Beautiful thing. Yeah. Yeah. We had so much fun doing those.

642
00:33:24.960 --> 00:33:27.359
<v Speaker 2>So much fun. And you know, we had the great

643
00:33:28.200 --> 00:33:32.680
<v Speaker 2>work with Steven Spielberg. I mean he would Stephen Spielberg

644
00:33:33.640 --> 00:33:34.799
<v Speaker 2>that it was great.

645
00:33:35.240 --> 00:33:35.480
<v Speaker 4>It was.

646
00:33:35.599 --> 00:33:37.559
<v Speaker 2>I mean, there was that moment when I said, okay,

647
00:33:37.559 --> 00:33:38.960
<v Speaker 2>stand by Stephen one second I turned.

648
00:33:38.960 --> 00:33:40.359
<v Speaker 4>It was a nerve wracking at all.

649
00:33:43.359 --> 00:33:44.079
<v Speaker 2>Mind the room.

650
00:33:44.599 --> 00:33:48.160
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I remembered with Jane in the background. She she

651
00:33:48.160 --> 00:33:51.279
<v Speaker 1>stood in the background of everybody's picture, Jane President of

652
00:33:51.279 --> 00:33:52.000
<v Speaker 1>Warner Brothers.

653
00:33:51.920 --> 00:33:53.880
<v Speaker 2>Jean mccurty, j mccurty.

654
00:33:54.279 --> 00:33:56.640
<v Speaker 1>And and uh and I remember her. I seen her

655
00:33:56.640 --> 00:34:00.519
<v Speaker 1>at White House, but she's standing there in the background

656
00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:04.799
<v Speaker 1>always with me, shaking hands with the Yes, I have.

657
00:34:06.279 --> 00:34:10.480
<v Speaker 2>Those, absolutely I do. But yeah, it was great. It

658
00:34:10.559 --> 00:34:14.159
<v Speaker 2>was intimidating. I've directed many directors since that was probably

659
00:34:14.199 --> 00:34:17.800
<v Speaker 2>my first I directed lands I directed, and.

660
00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:19.800
<v Speaker 3>Just as a point of reference, So what was Steven

661
00:34:19.840 --> 00:34:21.360
<v Speaker 3>Spielberg known for at the time.

662
00:34:23.239 --> 00:34:26.639
<v Speaker 2>At the time would have been Jaws.

663
00:34:26.280 --> 00:34:28.480
<v Speaker 1>T was out there, that's for sure.

664
00:34:29.000 --> 00:34:29.199
<v Speaker 4>You know.

665
00:34:29.320 --> 00:34:31.800
<v Speaker 2>During the time when we were working with him, he

666
00:34:31.880 --> 00:34:37.719
<v Speaker 2>directed Schindler's List, and he was like, it's not my

667
00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:40.039
<v Speaker 2>usual fare, you know, because an of us really knew

668
00:34:40.079 --> 00:34:42.719
<v Speaker 2>what was going on. And he was like, you're gonna

669
00:34:42.800 --> 00:34:45.559
<v Speaker 2>need to watch a cartoon after you see Schindler's List.

670
00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:47.440
<v Speaker 2>I mean, such a stunning director.

671
00:34:47.480 --> 00:34:50.159
<v Speaker 1>You know. That's so weird because I did that movie.

672
00:34:50.360 --> 00:34:53.119
<v Speaker 1>It was Balto and I was like the third guy.

673
00:34:53.360 --> 00:34:56.639
<v Speaker 1>They kept hiring really famous people. And one of my

674
00:34:56.719 --> 00:34:59.440
<v Speaker 1>pals over there said can you maybe just start Jim Cummings.

675
00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:02.559
<v Speaker 1>He's not famous, but maybe he can do it. So

676
00:35:02.599 --> 00:35:04.840
<v Speaker 1>they brought me in. It was Kevin Bacon was Balto

677
00:35:04.920 --> 00:35:08.480
<v Speaker 1>and I was Steel, the bad guy. So I got

678
00:35:08.480 --> 00:35:11.239
<v Speaker 1>to replace a couple of guys like that. Featherstone was

679
00:35:11.239 --> 00:35:15.800
<v Speaker 1>another one, and he directed me all day. I was

680
00:35:15.840 --> 00:35:17.559
<v Speaker 1>you know, Steven Spielberg and that was.

681
00:35:17.679 --> 00:35:20.079
<v Speaker 2>He was a great guy, my favorite.

682
00:35:20.440 --> 00:35:22.480
<v Speaker 1>And Jeff Dane it's my agent. And the time he

683
00:35:22.559 --> 00:35:24.320
<v Speaker 1>had to come all of a sudden, never went to

684
00:35:24.320 --> 00:35:26.760
<v Speaker 1>work with a a day. He goes, wait, I'm sorry,

685
00:35:26.800 --> 00:35:29.760
<v Speaker 1>who's going to be the you know, I could probably

686
00:35:29.880 --> 00:35:32.400
<v Speaker 1>spare some you know, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go.

687
00:35:32.559 --> 00:35:34.519
<v Speaker 1>So I go, yeah, I know, of course you are.

688
00:35:34.960 --> 00:35:40.280
<v Speaker 1>And and he sat there and my favorite thing, Stephen goes,

689
00:35:41.079 --> 00:35:43.280
<v Speaker 1>I don't think I've told this before. So this is

690
00:35:44.239 --> 00:35:48.119
<v Speaker 1>He goes, guys, I need a break. I need a break. Yeah, okay, yeah, Hey,

691
00:35:48.119 --> 00:35:52.360
<v Speaker 1>how you doing Bill? Yeah? Oh no, no'm I'm at work.

692
00:35:52.519 --> 00:35:56.719
<v Speaker 1>Yeah yeah, I'm at work. Uh yeah yeah yeah. Well

693
00:35:56.760 --> 00:35:59.480
<v Speaker 1>this one's animated. No, this it's not that one. This

694
00:35:59.480 --> 00:36:04.119
<v Speaker 1>one's anime made it yeah oh yeah, oh yeah, well

695
00:36:04.280 --> 00:36:06.360
<v Speaker 1>yeah I know it is kind of weird doing them

696
00:36:07.079 --> 00:36:09.679
<v Speaker 1>both at the same time, but you know, it's it's work.

697
00:36:09.800 --> 00:36:11.840
<v Speaker 1>It's worked anyway. Listen, I gotta go say hi to

698
00:36:11.920 --> 00:36:17.239
<v Speaker 1>Hillary and he and I said, were we talking to

699
00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:21.039
<v Speaker 1>the president? He goes, oh, yeah, yeah, and I go, oh,

700
00:36:21.840 --> 00:36:25.800
<v Speaker 1>of course, yes, sure, cool, yeah, I mean why not

701
00:36:26.599 --> 00:36:27.480
<v Speaker 1>I lost.

702
00:36:27.599 --> 00:36:29.960
<v Speaker 2>I have a similar but not quite as good story.

703
00:36:30.840 --> 00:36:33.800
<v Speaker 2>Very good. Yeah, it's a very good one. I was directing.

704
00:36:33.880 --> 00:36:37.440
<v Speaker 2>I did the first five or six Land Before Time sequels. Yes,

705
00:36:37.519 --> 00:36:40.159
<v Speaker 2>I snuck in on one and oh, yes, you did

706
00:36:40.760 --> 00:36:41.719
<v Speaker 2>only one.

707
00:36:41.840 --> 00:36:43.000
<v Speaker 1>I think, so maybe one or two.

708
00:36:43.440 --> 00:36:46.559
<v Speaker 2>And so I was doing maybe the second one. And

709
00:36:46.760 --> 00:36:50.079
<v Speaker 2>we had just won an Emmy for Animaniacs, and Stephen

710
00:36:50.280 --> 00:36:52.440
<v Speaker 2>Spielberg was supposed to come to our offices over at

711
00:36:52.480 --> 00:36:55.559
<v Speaker 2>the Sherman Oaks Gallery and collect his Emmy, and we

712
00:36:55.559 --> 00:36:57.320
<v Speaker 2>were gonna do a big thing around the table and

713
00:36:57.400 --> 00:36:59.039
<v Speaker 2>chat and laugh and spend some time with Stephen, which

714
00:36:59.079 --> 00:37:01.880
<v Speaker 2>is always fun. And he kept canceling in that day.

715
00:37:01.880 --> 00:37:03.800
<v Speaker 2>It doesn't work out, so I had to go to

716
00:37:03.920 --> 00:37:06.079
<v Speaker 2>a session. I had to go direct Land Before Time

717
00:37:06.599 --> 00:37:08.719
<v Speaker 2>and so I'm in the middle of directing the session

718
00:37:09.239 --> 00:37:12.119
<v Speaker 2>and somebody comes in from the front office and says,

719
00:37:12.599 --> 00:37:14.840
<v Speaker 2>got a phone. I said, I'm sorry you guys. I

720
00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:16.719
<v Speaker 2>really apologize, but I have to take this phone call.

721
00:37:16.760 --> 00:37:19.119
<v Speaker 2>They're calling me from an emergency for some sort I

722
00:37:19.119 --> 00:37:23.679
<v Speaker 2>don't know. Pick it up. Hello, Andre, It's Stephen, Hi,

723
00:37:23.920 --> 00:37:27.480
<v Speaker 2>Steven Stevie. And he said, I understand. He's like, congradulations

724
00:37:27.519 --> 00:37:29.719
<v Speaker 2>on your emmy. I se, congratulations to you on your Emmy.

725
00:37:30.199 --> 00:37:33.400
<v Speaker 2>And he said I understand you're directing Land Before Time

726
00:37:33.519 --> 00:37:38.320
<v Speaker 2>And I said, yeah, you edited the first one, the

727
00:37:38.360 --> 00:37:42.320
<v Speaker 2>feature film, after it had sat on the shelf for years,

728
00:37:42.360 --> 00:37:46.840
<v Speaker 2>into something that could actually be released. And he said, oh, yeah, absolutely,

729
00:37:46.840 --> 00:37:50.079
<v Speaker 2>and then he started I don't want to say bad mouthing,

730
00:37:50.119 --> 00:37:52.719
<v Speaker 2>but he started joking about some of the characters ducky,

731
00:37:52.920 --> 00:37:55.960
<v Speaker 2>totally derivative, blah blah. And I'm in the room with

732
00:37:56.079 --> 00:38:00.280
<v Speaker 2>all the producers of the current show and I'm like, yeah.

733
00:38:00.280 --> 00:38:01.159
<v Speaker 1>Uh huh uh.

734
00:38:01.079 --> 00:38:04.280
<v Speaker 2>Huh absolutely right.

735
00:38:04.559 --> 00:38:04.800
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.

736
00:38:04.880 --> 00:38:06.519
<v Speaker 2>We talked for about five minutes and I said, I

737
00:38:06.559 --> 00:38:08.599
<v Speaker 2>really appreciate the call. I'm so sorry I couldn't be there.

738
00:38:08.599 --> 00:38:10.599
<v Speaker 2>I was looking forward to seeing you, but thanks, thanks

739
00:38:10.639 --> 00:38:13.679
<v Speaker 2>so much, and take care. Okay, bye. Yeah, I'm sorry

740
00:38:13.719 --> 00:38:14.199
<v Speaker 2>you guys.

741
00:38:14.360 --> 00:38:14.880
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I was.

742
00:38:14.840 --> 00:38:18.880
<v Speaker 2>Steven Spielberg and there do you do. Oh so not

743
00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:21.280
<v Speaker 2>exactly as good as yours, the president, but.

744
00:38:22.719 --> 00:38:27.480
<v Speaker 1>Working on damn good, I should say, was amazing. I

745
00:38:27.519 --> 00:38:30.000
<v Speaker 1>have I'm going to tell this one because we both

746
00:38:30.159 --> 00:38:33.880
<v Speaker 1>know this guy. But after Lion King, I was a

747
00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:38.239
<v Speaker 1>long time ago. It was a Saturday and I was

748
00:38:38.639 --> 00:38:42.360
<v Speaker 1>I was fiddling around. I was trying to get unclogged

749
00:38:42.440 --> 00:38:44.960
<v Speaker 1>my daughter's Olivia. She was like twelve at the time

750
00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:49.280
<v Speaker 1>or eleven. She's forty now, you know. I was unclogging

751
00:38:49.280 --> 00:38:51.519
<v Speaker 1>her drain because lots of we just put the hair

752
00:38:51.599 --> 00:38:54.199
<v Speaker 1>right down that we don't care. And so I'm doing

753
00:38:54.239 --> 00:38:58.760
<v Speaker 1>that and it's Saturday, and she goes dad telephone and

754
00:38:58.800 --> 00:39:01.679
<v Speaker 1>I said, oh, honey, can you take a message? Yeah,

755
00:39:01.800 --> 00:39:04.440
<v Speaker 1>I mean yeah, just take a message. I'll call him

756
00:39:04.440 --> 00:39:08.320
<v Speaker 1>in a minute, okay, And I'm going and you know,

757
00:39:08.440 --> 00:39:15.960
<v Speaker 1>and she goes, okay, So so cee a t z

758
00:39:16.519 --> 00:39:21.119
<v Speaker 1>okay a t z e and b e R. It

759
00:39:21.239 --> 00:39:26.039
<v Speaker 1>was Jeffrey Katzenberg. So I said, who oh, that is coming.

760
00:39:26.360 --> 00:39:30.760
<v Speaker 1>That is hold on Jeffrey. And I swear to the Lord,

761
00:39:31.480 --> 00:39:33.880
<v Speaker 1>how many times have I told you not to call

762
00:39:33.960 --> 00:39:37.599
<v Speaker 1>me on a Saturday? I swear to God. I said that,

763
00:39:37.679 --> 00:39:40.920
<v Speaker 1>you know I did, and uh and he laughed like

764
00:39:41.599 --> 00:39:44.519
<v Speaker 1>I think and uh and he said, well, Jim, I

765
00:39:44.559 --> 00:39:46.320
<v Speaker 1>just and he just called me up to congratulate me.

766
00:39:46.719 --> 00:39:49.599
<v Speaker 1>And I thought that's great, great, Yeah, and it was cool.

767
00:39:50.079 --> 00:39:53.519
<v Speaker 1>And they didn't they didn't tell him that I sang

768
00:39:53.599 --> 00:39:56.440
<v Speaker 1>be prepared until after he signed off on it. Oh wow,

769
00:39:56.679 --> 00:39:57.719
<v Speaker 1>So that was kind of cool.

770
00:39:57.800 --> 00:40:00.920
<v Speaker 2>Well, we all have our tricks, yes, I mean, I

771
00:40:00.920 --> 00:40:03.199
<v Speaker 2>think about when we did Animaniacs and we had just

772
00:40:03.239 --> 00:40:05.760
<v Speaker 2>finished Tiny Tunes, and we knew who we wanted to

773
00:40:05.760 --> 00:40:08.960
<v Speaker 2>play certain roles. So when we submitted to mister Spielberg,

774
00:40:09.039 --> 00:40:11.599
<v Speaker 2>whom we have tremendous respect for him, we're not trying

775
00:40:11.639 --> 00:40:15.840
<v Speaker 2>to do anything underhanded, but we were trying to control

776
00:40:15.920 --> 00:40:21.440
<v Speaker 2>the narrative by numbering the auditions rather than puting names. Five.

777
00:40:21.800 --> 00:40:27.519
<v Speaker 2>Remember that the five submissions for Yako Warner, three of

778
00:40:27.559 --> 00:40:30.440
<v Speaker 2>which were Rob Paulson. All that because we knew we

779
00:40:30.480 --> 00:40:32.920
<v Speaker 2>wanted Rob. Rob was the guy we knew we needed

780
00:40:33.000 --> 00:40:33.920
<v Speaker 2>him to make it work.

781
00:40:34.760 --> 00:40:37.239
<v Speaker 1>And so he's away exactly.

782
00:40:37.280 --> 00:40:39.159
<v Speaker 2>So we had three choices of Rob Paulson to choose

783
00:40:39.159 --> 00:40:41.079
<v Speaker 2>from and two other people if he didn't like Rob.

784
00:40:42.079 --> 00:40:45.000
<v Speaker 2>But so we you know, it's like you said, we

785
00:40:45.039 --> 00:40:47.639
<v Speaker 2>didn't tell him about changing somebody's voice or doing whatever

786
00:40:47.719 --> 00:40:50.480
<v Speaker 2>until after the fact, until after they approved it. And

787
00:40:50.519 --> 00:40:53.119
<v Speaker 2>again not trying to be duplicitous, just trying to get

788
00:40:53.119 --> 00:40:55.400
<v Speaker 2>the job done the best way that we knew possible.

789
00:40:56.639 --> 00:40:59.320
<v Speaker 1>Speaking of I think that's that clears the slight.

790
00:40:59.480 --> 00:41:03.199
<v Speaker 2>Indeed, I think speaking of animaniacs and music and doing

791
00:41:03.199 --> 00:41:06.800
<v Speaker 2>all that, Stephen Julie Bernstein did a tremendous amount of

792
00:41:06.840 --> 00:41:08.440
<v Speaker 2>the music for a lot of the shows we've worked

793
00:41:08.480 --> 00:41:13.639
<v Speaker 2>down together together with the brilliant and dearly departed Richard Stone,

794
00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:18.159
<v Speaker 2>and to make us all feel older. Their youngest Madeleine

795
00:41:18.639 --> 00:41:19.920
<v Speaker 2>is getting married next week.

796
00:41:20.199 --> 00:41:23.639
<v Speaker 1>Okay, I mean the little toddler.

797
00:41:24.400 --> 00:41:26.880
<v Speaker 2>This one, the one I've known her since first, she's

798
00:41:26.920 --> 00:41:32.079
<v Speaker 2>getting married next week. It's just it just but the

799
00:41:32.719 --> 00:41:33.400
<v Speaker 2>was dying.

800
00:41:33.360 --> 00:41:38.199
<v Speaker 1>No, I said, it beats dying. Every birthday means you're

801
00:41:38.280 --> 00:41:40.840
<v Speaker 1>still here, exactly.

802
00:41:40.920 --> 00:41:43.159
<v Speaker 2>But it's it's lovely that we're all still friends.

803
00:41:43.199 --> 00:41:44.599
<v Speaker 1>You know that we all still see each.

804
00:41:44.440 --> 00:41:46.800
<v Speaker 2>Other and try to stay in touch. And I'm not

805
00:41:46.880 --> 00:41:49.320
<v Speaker 2>on any social media, so I don't have that connection,

806
00:41:49.800 --> 00:41:52.800
<v Speaker 2>but people do reach out and everyone's a while here. Hey,

807
00:41:52.800 --> 00:41:54.320
<v Speaker 2>I just saw so and so at the end of

808
00:41:54.360 --> 00:41:56.039
<v Speaker 2>the day, and they send their regards. Oh, thank you

809
00:41:56.119 --> 00:41:56.480
<v Speaker 2>very much.

810
00:41:56.639 --> 00:42:00.440
<v Speaker 1>Well, occasionally I'll see Tress and Jess and Rob on

811
00:42:00.559 --> 00:42:02.000
<v Speaker 1>and off probably the most of me.

812
00:42:02.239 --> 00:42:03.960
<v Speaker 2>Do you do comic cons?

813
00:42:04.039 --> 00:42:04.159
<v Speaker 1>Oh?

814
00:42:04.239 --> 00:42:08.199
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, I do a few, all only the special ones.

815
00:42:08.519 --> 00:42:11.480
<v Speaker 2>It's it's hard, there's there's I don't do all of them.

816
00:42:11.480 --> 00:42:12.320
<v Speaker 2>I know, I keep hitting this.

817
00:42:12.519 --> 00:42:13.880
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I don't do all of them.

818
00:42:13.920 --> 00:42:16.039
<v Speaker 2>I don't either. Some of them are too It's not

819
00:42:16.119 --> 00:42:19.079
<v Speaker 2>that they're too small, it's that the complication of getting

820
00:42:19.079 --> 00:42:22.000
<v Speaker 2>to that place and and and I'm no big star.

821
00:42:22.119 --> 00:42:25.280
<v Speaker 2>I'm just not. I'm not. When I was working, before

822
00:42:25.320 --> 00:42:28.400
<v Speaker 2>I was retired, I was a bigger draw because people

823
00:42:28.480 --> 00:42:29.920
<v Speaker 2>felt like they could get in front of me and

824
00:42:29.920 --> 00:42:33.159
<v Speaker 2>do their voices in my face, which was always a mistake.

825
00:42:33.280 --> 00:42:33.400
<v Speaker 1>Oh.

826
00:42:33.599 --> 00:42:36.559
<v Speaker 2>They used to chase me down at San Diego Comic Con,

827
00:42:36.639 --> 00:42:38.760
<v Speaker 2>literally chase me, because I'd be there doing five or

828
00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:40.639
<v Speaker 2>six panels and I'd be running for one panel to

829
00:42:40.679 --> 00:42:44.000
<v Speaker 2>get to the opposite end of the Sandy Rodney dangerfield.

830
00:42:44.880 --> 00:42:47.400
<v Speaker 2>Not even no, they would just run up and start

831
00:42:47.400 --> 00:42:49.280
<v Speaker 2>doing it in my face, like because they knew this

832
00:42:49.320 --> 00:42:51.480
<v Speaker 2>was the only chance they saw me read from running

833
00:42:53.480 --> 00:42:55.440
<v Speaker 2>and I was like, if you put it on a

834
00:42:55.480 --> 00:42:57.239
<v Speaker 2>tape and send it to my office, I promise I

835
00:42:57.320 --> 00:42:59.639
<v Speaker 2>will listen to it. I listened to everything that's sent

836
00:42:59.719 --> 00:43:02.239
<v Speaker 2>to me. I have always done that. Oh yeah, whether

837
00:43:02.239 --> 00:43:05.280
<v Speaker 2>they're union or not union, whatever, I always listen, make notes.

838
00:43:05.320 --> 00:43:07.559
<v Speaker 2>And if they would call up to follow up, I

839
00:43:07.559 --> 00:43:12.679
<v Speaker 2>would tell them, well, you need some acting experience. These voices,

840
00:43:12.880 --> 00:43:14.880
<v Speaker 2>I couldn't tell what they were. I didn't know how

841
00:43:14.920 --> 00:43:17.599
<v Speaker 2>to cast them. I didn't you need to make sure

842
00:43:17.639 --> 00:43:21.559
<v Speaker 2>that they're identifiables. Oh that's a good professor voice. Oh

843
00:43:21.639 --> 00:43:24.960
<v Speaker 2>that's a very good doctor. That would be very good exactly.

844
00:43:25.679 --> 00:43:28.719
<v Speaker 2>And often people would do too short a clip. They

845
00:43:28.719 --> 00:43:31.960
<v Speaker 2>would try to show, you know, fifty voices in fifty seconds.

846
00:43:32.079 --> 00:43:34.239
<v Speaker 2>It's like you can't. No, I have to tell that

847
00:43:34.280 --> 00:43:36.599
<v Speaker 2>you can sustain it. You were joking about Rodney Daingerfield

848
00:43:36.599 --> 00:43:38.159
<v Speaker 2>a second ago. Someone would go, you know, don't get

849
00:43:38.159 --> 00:43:41.039
<v Speaker 2>no respect, but they can't do anything else and sound

850
00:43:41.079 --> 00:43:43.920
<v Speaker 2>like Rodney Dangerfield. And so I would need people to

851
00:43:43.920 --> 00:43:46.840
<v Speaker 2>do fifteen seconds or so. But yeah, I don't do

852
00:43:47.039 --> 00:43:50.840
<v Speaker 2>very many. I like the big fat ones because I travel,

853
00:43:51.400 --> 00:43:54.480
<v Speaker 2>and I like traveling, although it's a little scary right now,

854
00:43:54.559 --> 00:43:57.800
<v Speaker 2>isn't it? With aeroplane issues. It's a little bit scary.

855
00:43:57.840 --> 00:43:59.679
<v Speaker 2>But I'm still going to get it online next week.

856
00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:03.480
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, well I had COVID already. If that's an issue, No,

857
00:44:03.599 --> 00:44:04.199
<v Speaker 1>that wasn't it.

858
00:44:04.199 --> 00:44:06.199
<v Speaker 4>It's the it's the airplanes going down.

859
00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:09.400
<v Speaker 2>Oh, the planes knocking into each other, separate the lack

860
00:44:09.440 --> 00:44:10.679
<v Speaker 2>of air traffic control.

861
00:44:10.840 --> 00:44:13.039
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's always nice to aim.

862
00:44:13.239 --> 00:44:16.960
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and because I'm married to a Brazilian, we're not

863
00:44:17.000 --> 00:44:20.599
<v Speaker 2>traveling internationally because who knows if you easy to get

864
00:44:20.639 --> 00:44:23.280
<v Speaker 2>back even though he's a dual citizen.

865
00:44:23.840 --> 00:44:26.360
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<v Speaker 3>You know, in regards to like big actors coming into animation,

873
00:44:53.239 --> 00:44:54.960
<v Speaker 3>I heard a podcast you were on. You were talking

874
00:44:54.960 --> 00:44:57.119
<v Speaker 3>about that how it really changed things and you know,

875
00:44:57.199 --> 00:44:59.840
<v Speaker 3>people like Mark Hamill, and you know, we're starting to

876
00:45:00.239 --> 00:45:02.679
<v Speaker 3>kind of see the you know, it was lucrative and

877
00:45:02.719 --> 00:45:06.480
<v Speaker 3>they wanted to get into it. I'm curious that that

878
00:45:06.599 --> 00:45:10.679
<v Speaker 3>push or that I don't know, decision to start getting

879
00:45:10.719 --> 00:45:13.679
<v Speaker 3>you know, on camera actors. What level does that come from?

880
00:45:13.760 --> 00:45:16.280
<v Speaker 3>Does that come from you guys as a casting director?

881
00:45:16.480 --> 00:45:19.159
<v Speaker 3>Does that come from production? Who really is.

882
00:45:20.920 --> 00:45:22.960
<v Speaker 2>And I'll tell you where it kind of started. And

883
00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:25.599
<v Speaker 2>I have to take some of the blame or credit,

884
00:45:25.639 --> 00:45:29.280
<v Speaker 2>however you look at it. Gordon Hunt and I when

885
00:45:29.320 --> 00:45:33.079
<v Speaker 2>we were over at Hanna Barbera, they and you heard

886
00:45:33.079 --> 00:45:34.760
<v Speaker 2>this a million times. I'm sure when we get a

887
00:45:34.760 --> 00:45:37.239
<v Speaker 2>breakdown for a show, we want new voices, we want

888
00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:38.159
<v Speaker 2>different voices.

889
00:45:39.679 --> 00:45:40.559
<v Speaker 1>I forgot about that.

890
00:45:40.559 --> 00:45:41.400
<v Speaker 4>I was too strong.

891
00:45:43.880 --> 00:45:48.239
<v Speaker 2>We don't want the same old Yeah. Fine, yeah. So

892
00:45:48.400 --> 00:45:50.679
<v Speaker 2>Gordon Hunt had been the casting director at the Mark

893
00:45:50.719 --> 00:45:53.920
<v Speaker 2>Tapeer Form downtown Los Angeles, the Music Center, and he said,

894
00:45:53.960 --> 00:45:57.920
<v Speaker 2>you know, there's an awful lot of really talented actors

895
00:45:58.440 --> 00:46:01.400
<v Speaker 2>who do stage work, and because they're used to that

896
00:46:01.679 --> 00:46:06.079
<v Speaker 2>boosted energy, that slightly higher energy than people who are

897
00:46:06.119 --> 00:46:09.480
<v Speaker 2>strictly on camera. Because the camera captures everything, you can

898
00:46:09.519 --> 00:46:13.440
<v Speaker 2>be so a little tiny prince, you know, fabulously on

899
00:46:13.519 --> 00:46:18.679
<v Speaker 2>camera cartoons doesn't make it, and so we said, let's

900
00:46:18.719 --> 00:46:22.840
<v Speaker 2>start auditioning some of those people. Let's start bringing in

901
00:46:22.880 --> 00:46:25.320
<v Speaker 2>some of those actors, the Jeffrey Tambors.

902
00:46:27.480 --> 00:46:30.199
<v Speaker 4>And what was the reasoning behind it, just to experiment, to.

903
00:46:31.000 --> 00:46:35.159
<v Speaker 2>Supply the producers what they were asking for, which was

904
00:46:35.239 --> 00:46:38.480
<v Speaker 2>different voices, different people, not the same old people. And

905
00:46:38.519 --> 00:46:41.360
<v Speaker 2>then the Mark Hamill's who reached out and said I

906
00:46:41.400 --> 00:46:43.639
<v Speaker 2>want to be a part of the Batman series. And

907
00:46:43.719 --> 00:46:46.079
<v Speaker 2>then come to find out he was such a huge

908
00:46:46.079 --> 00:46:49.360
<v Speaker 2>collector of Batman memoribilea and stuff. I think most of

909
00:46:49.400 --> 00:46:52.159
<v Speaker 2>which got lost in the fire, which breaks my heart.

910
00:46:53.920 --> 00:46:55.400
<v Speaker 2>But you know, Mark came and worked for me. I

911
00:46:55.440 --> 00:46:57.119
<v Speaker 2>did hire him right after he reached out saying I

912
00:46:57.119 --> 00:46:58.920
<v Speaker 2>want to play on Batman, and I hired him and

913
00:46:58.960 --> 00:47:00.719
<v Speaker 2>he did a great guest star and then he said

914
00:47:01.239 --> 00:47:02.599
<v Speaker 2>at the end of the session, he pulled me over

915
00:47:02.639 --> 00:47:03.960
<v Speaker 2>to the side. He said, I had so much fun,

916
00:47:04.360 --> 00:47:06.920
<v Speaker 2>and I thank you for the gig, but I really

917
00:47:06.960 --> 00:47:10.920
<v Speaker 2>want to be a part of Batman. And coincidentally, there

918
00:47:10.960 --> 00:47:14.039
<v Speaker 2>was a decision made to replace the Joker voice, which

919
00:47:14.039 --> 00:47:16.000
<v Speaker 2>I never would have done. I love Tim Curry's Joker.

920
00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:18.119
<v Speaker 2>I wouldn't have done it myself, but my job is

921
00:47:18.159 --> 00:47:20.239
<v Speaker 2>to supply the producers with that which they asked for.

922
00:47:20.760 --> 00:47:24.159
<v Speaker 2>And so Mark auditioned and was crazy good. We already

923
00:47:24.159 --> 00:47:28.039
<v Speaker 2>had five episodes in productions only come up with his

924
00:47:28.039 --> 00:47:30.719
<v Speaker 2>own voice, but he had to match Tim Curry's mouth

925
00:47:30.760 --> 00:47:34.920
<v Speaker 2>flaps because they were already animated. And you know, from

926
00:47:34.960 --> 00:47:37.119
<v Speaker 2>most people, when they think of The Joker, they think

927
00:47:37.159 --> 00:47:37.719
<v Speaker 2>of Mark Hamer.

928
00:47:37.719 --> 00:47:38.639
<v Speaker 4>Absolutely, when they think of.

929
00:47:38.639 --> 00:47:42.000
<v Speaker 2>Batman, they think of Kevin conroyly. But I have been

930
00:47:42.199 --> 00:47:44.840
<v Speaker 2>adamant about this from the get go, and I will

931
00:47:44.880 --> 00:47:47.960
<v Speaker 2>always fight for the right actor. If they happen to

932
00:47:47.960 --> 00:47:50.000
<v Speaker 2>be a celebrity, I'll fight for them. If they're a

933
00:47:50.079 --> 00:47:52.079
<v Speaker 2>rank and file voice actor, I will fight for them.

934
00:47:52.320 --> 00:47:55.639
<v Speaker 2>And many times I had to say, absolutely, this is

935
00:47:55.679 --> 00:47:59.079
<v Speaker 2>the right guy. I know he's not the big, fat

936
00:47:59.119 --> 00:48:01.719
<v Speaker 2>celebrity you want, but he's going to come through for

937
00:48:01.760 --> 00:48:04.159
<v Speaker 2>you if you're going to do a series. First of all,

938
00:48:04.159 --> 00:48:05.599
<v Speaker 2>he's not going to take off from New York and

939
00:48:05.599 --> 00:48:07.480
<v Speaker 2>do a Broadway play for six months.

940
00:48:07.480 --> 00:48:11.679
<v Speaker 1>And I never did that.

941
00:48:13.559 --> 00:48:15.320
<v Speaker 2>And there were people who did. You know, there were

942
00:48:15.320 --> 00:48:17.360
<v Speaker 2>people who auditioned for me. There was one after audition

943
00:48:17.400 --> 00:48:20.639
<v Speaker 2>for Superman, and we were like absolutely, you are. We

944
00:48:20.679 --> 00:48:22.840
<v Speaker 2>would love for you to be Superman. And then we

945
00:48:22.880 --> 00:48:25.239
<v Speaker 2>called the agent and the agent said, oh, he's leaving next

946
00:48:25.239 --> 00:48:27.599
<v Speaker 2>week for a run on Broadway. We're like, well, why

947
00:48:27.679 --> 00:48:30.239
<v Speaker 2>didn't you tell us this? This was back in the

948
00:48:30.320 --> 00:48:34.000
<v Speaker 2>day when they get the phone patch. There wasn't even

949
00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:37.880
<v Speaker 2>ISDN or any kind of satellite recording. It was listening

950
00:48:37.920 --> 00:48:40.320
<v Speaker 2>over a phone line to an actor who had not

951
00:48:40.360 --> 00:48:43.119
<v Speaker 2>had any experience doing this yet, so we couldn't. We couldn't.

952
00:48:44.239 --> 00:48:46.960
<v Speaker 2>Where we found the fabulous Tim Daly who became our

953
00:48:47.079 --> 00:48:49.599
<v Speaker 2>Superman and was fantastic. And then Tim went to New

954
00:48:49.679 --> 00:48:53.519
<v Speaker 2>York to do Madam Secretary and something else and was

955
00:48:53.559 --> 00:48:56.280
<v Speaker 2>not available. And then we found the glorious George Newburn

956
00:48:56.400 --> 00:48:59.960
<v Speaker 2>who then became Superman. So so, but always I would

957
00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:02.440
<v Speaker 2>I always fight for the right actor for the role.

958
00:49:02.639 --> 00:49:05.480
<v Speaker 2>And you know, as you know, many of these series,

959
00:49:05.480 --> 00:49:07.280
<v Speaker 2>when they first come up with these projects, they're not

960
00:49:07.360 --> 00:49:10.519
<v Speaker 2>over scale their scale. Everybody's getting the same dough. But

961
00:49:11.320 --> 00:49:15.480
<v Speaker 2>there's no memorization, there's no wardrobe, there's no makeup unless

962
00:49:15.480 --> 00:49:19.079
<v Speaker 2>they're doing you know, epks and interviews afterwards. Factor can

963
00:49:19.079 --> 00:49:22.559
<v Speaker 2>show up in their pajamas, you know, as long as

964
00:49:22.599 --> 00:49:24.360
<v Speaker 2>their voice is warmed up, they can come do the gig.

965
00:49:24.880 --> 00:49:27.239
<v Speaker 2>And so there was a lot of appeal. I remember

966
00:49:27.239 --> 00:49:29.800
<v Speaker 2>Brookshields reached out to me and said, I am pregnant.

967
00:49:29.840 --> 00:49:31.840
<v Speaker 2>I can't do on camera work. I want to stay

968
00:49:31.840 --> 00:49:35.320
<v Speaker 2>in Los Angeles. Can you find something for me? Absolutely?

969
00:49:35.400 --> 00:49:37.360
<v Speaker 2>I thought she was a lovely actress and found something

970
00:49:37.440 --> 00:49:40.039
<v Speaker 2>that she came in and she was excellent. And the

971
00:49:40.159 --> 00:49:42.559
<v Speaker 2>number of people I've had the opportunity, I mean, as

972
00:49:42.599 --> 00:49:46.400
<v Speaker 2>a casting director. It allowed me to hire people I

973
00:49:46.440 --> 00:49:52.119
<v Speaker 2>admired across the board, I mean ridiculously. The downside of

974
00:49:52.159 --> 00:49:55.679
<v Speaker 2>that was hiring them and then having to replace them

975
00:49:56.000 --> 00:49:58.679
<v Speaker 2>if they couldn't cut the mustard. And I would work

976
00:49:58.719 --> 00:50:02.400
<v Speaker 2>with them for hour hours after school, you know, con

977
00:50:02.440 --> 00:50:04.679
<v Speaker 2>Tinuesday after school, and you just keep them and make

978
00:50:04.760 --> 00:50:08.639
<v Speaker 2>jokes and do everything I could to get the proper voice.

979
00:50:08.760 --> 00:50:11.599
<v Speaker 2>I remember Michael and Sarah was working with us on

980
00:50:12.440 --> 00:50:15.400
<v Speaker 2>as a mister Freeze on Batman and he did the

981
00:50:15.400 --> 00:50:18.280
<v Speaker 2>first episode and I thought he was terrific, and Bruce

982
00:50:18.320 --> 00:50:20.199
<v Speaker 2>Tim said it's not working. I want to replace him,

983
00:50:20.239 --> 00:50:22.360
<v Speaker 2>and I said, please let me keep him after school

984
00:50:22.719 --> 00:50:24.960
<v Speaker 2>and we kept him after we released everybody else, and

985
00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:27.280
<v Speaker 2>I worked with him for another hour and found exactly

986
00:50:27.320 --> 00:50:30.480
<v Speaker 2>the voice that he then did for twenty more episodes. Oh,

987
00:50:30.840 --> 00:50:33.840
<v Speaker 2>I didn't have to replace him. But there was someone

988
00:50:33.880 --> 00:50:37.039
<v Speaker 2>I was after for years and I finally got it.

989
00:50:37.400 --> 00:50:38.800
<v Speaker 2>Wasn't that he didn't want to work with me or anything.

990
00:50:38.800 --> 00:50:41.119
<v Speaker 2>He just wasn't available. He was busy working on camera.

991
00:50:41.159 --> 00:50:45.400
<v Speaker 2>Actor got him perfect role for him, came in, never

992
00:50:45.480 --> 00:50:48.239
<v Speaker 2>spoke louder than this, and he was the villain of

993
00:50:48.280 --> 00:50:51.519
<v Speaker 2>the episode, the villain so quiet anyone. And I'm like,

994
00:50:51.519 --> 00:50:53.039
<v Speaker 2>I'm going to keep pushing you. I'm going to keep

995
00:50:53.039 --> 00:50:54.800
<v Speaker 2>pushing you. I need bigger, I need louder, hear you.

996
00:50:55.679 --> 00:50:57.480
<v Speaker 2>And he said, I just I don't go any louder

997
00:50:57.519 --> 00:50:59.000
<v Speaker 2>than this. And of course I knew, because I knew

998
00:50:59.000 --> 00:51:01.000
<v Speaker 2>it was on camera work that he did, and I

999
00:51:01.039 --> 00:51:02.000
<v Speaker 2>had to replace him.

1000
00:51:02.199 --> 00:51:03.079
<v Speaker 1>Oh my gosh.

1001
00:51:03.119 --> 00:51:06.639
<v Speaker 2>And so when the contract came here, that is after

1002
00:51:06.840 --> 00:51:09.800
<v Speaker 2>I will show the contract, girl said to me, you

1003
00:51:09.880 --> 00:51:13.119
<v Speaker 2>know he was drunk. What because she sat right next

1004
00:51:13.159 --> 00:51:15.719
<v Speaker 2>to him as he executed his contracts at the session

1005
00:51:15.760 --> 00:51:19.880
<v Speaker 2>and she said he wreaked of alcohol. So, long story short,

1006
00:51:19.920 --> 00:51:21.320
<v Speaker 2>when I went back to the agent to find out,

1007
00:51:21.320 --> 00:51:24.440
<v Speaker 2>he was nervous because he hadn't done this, and so

1008
00:51:24.480 --> 00:51:27.679
<v Speaker 2>he fortified himself with alcohol, which made him even more

1009
00:51:27.719 --> 00:51:32.159
<v Speaker 2>intimidated and couldn't do the job. And I know he

1010
00:51:32.159 --> 00:51:34.440
<v Speaker 2>could have done it. I know he couldn't have done it.

1011
00:51:34.480 --> 00:51:37.519
<v Speaker 2>He just you know. And we did the ensemble records.

1012
00:51:37.559 --> 00:51:39.920
<v Speaker 2>It was a Justice League, so there's you know, fifteen

1013
00:51:40.039 --> 00:51:44.000
<v Speaker 2>twenty actors. We had those huge recording facilities that had

1014
00:51:44.239 --> 00:51:47.199
<v Speaker 2>fifteen microphones. I could record everybody at the same time.

1015
00:51:47.599 --> 00:51:49.559
<v Speaker 2>And I think he just was intimidated and couldn't.

1016
00:51:50.719 --> 00:51:54.519
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I've seen that in actors. There was a video

1017
00:51:55.440 --> 00:51:58.079
<v Speaker 1>directed video thing that I did years ago with a

1018
00:51:58.199 --> 00:52:01.639
<v Speaker 1>very famous person. I won't tell you, but uh think

1019
00:52:01.719 --> 00:52:06.760
<v Speaker 1>Star Trek and and he he was in the studio

1020
00:52:07.000 --> 00:52:12.679
<v Speaker 1>and and he's looking around like this and uh yeah,

1021
00:52:12.880 --> 00:52:17.920
<v Speaker 1>oh no, no, what oh dear, and and uh yeah

1022
00:52:18.000 --> 00:52:25.400
<v Speaker 1>and and and and everybody's going and uh and went

1023
00:52:25.440 --> 00:52:28.000
<v Speaker 1>on went on and it turns out, you know, we

1024
00:52:28.039 --> 00:52:30.840
<v Speaker 1>did the whole thing. And then it turns out they

1025
00:52:30.920 --> 00:52:33.239
<v Speaker 1>called me back in for pickups. They rewrote a few things,

1026
00:52:33.519 --> 00:52:37.159
<v Speaker 1>and I said, how did that go the other day?

1027
00:52:37.159 --> 00:52:39.639
<v Speaker 1>Do I still have the same buddy on the screen?

1028
00:52:40.000 --> 00:52:43.400
<v Speaker 1>And and he said he was so intimidated by what

1029
00:52:43.519 --> 00:52:46.519
<v Speaker 1>was going on around him because he couldn't. And I

1030
00:52:46.559 --> 00:52:49.599
<v Speaker 1>was like, he didn't even have to memorize. He's he's

1031
00:52:49.639 --> 00:52:54.039
<v Speaker 1>a really famous guy. He's making a ship ton of money.

1032
00:52:54.320 --> 00:52:55.800
<v Speaker 1>What the hell is that? You know?

1033
00:52:56.000 --> 00:52:58.599
<v Speaker 2>That funny, but you get to see it. You see

1034
00:52:58.639 --> 00:53:01.079
<v Speaker 2>it in the weirdest way. Is the way the nervousness,

1035
00:53:01.199 --> 00:53:03.440
<v Speaker 2>like an actor hasn't really done that. You can do it.

1036
00:53:03.480 --> 00:53:05.880
<v Speaker 2>But they sit there doing the entire recording session doing this,

1037
00:53:05.960 --> 00:53:10.039
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah you can't. Everything you do, we hear, and

1038
00:53:10.079 --> 00:53:11.760
<v Speaker 2>he would like chat to the actor next to him

1039
00:53:11.760 --> 00:53:13.159
<v Speaker 2>while somebody else was recording.

1040
00:53:13.159 --> 00:53:14.440
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, yeah, that's we are.

1041
00:53:14.400 --> 00:53:17.960
<v Speaker 2>Live the whole time, all those weird things. But I

1042
00:53:18.000 --> 00:53:19.760
<v Speaker 2>wanted to mention it reminded me of did I finish?

1043
00:53:19.920 --> 00:53:20.599
<v Speaker 2>Did you finish a story?

1044
00:53:20.639 --> 00:53:20.800
<v Speaker 1>Day?

1045
00:53:21.039 --> 00:53:21.239
<v Speaker 5>Yeah?

1046
00:53:21.239 --> 00:53:21.800
<v Speaker 1>That was it.

1047
00:53:21.800 --> 00:53:23.559
<v Speaker 2>It was so I had the great opportunity I directed

1048
00:53:23.559 --> 00:53:26.119
<v Speaker 2>a so called The Boondocks for I was just about

1049
00:53:26.119 --> 00:53:27.719
<v Speaker 2>to ask you about the boon and I got to

1050
00:53:27.760 --> 00:53:31.840
<v Speaker 2>work with the great Samuel Jackson, And of course they

1051
00:53:31.880 --> 00:53:36.280
<v Speaker 2>had to do a parody of fiction. By the way,

1052
00:53:36.320 --> 00:53:36.920
<v Speaker 2>can I swear?

1053
00:53:37.079 --> 00:53:38.960
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, okay, just check it.

1054
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<v Speaker 2>So the episode was about and forgive me. Forgive me,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm going to say the N word a couple of times.

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00:53:44.079 --> 00:53:45.960
<v Speaker 2>And I never was comfortable to saying the N word.

1057
00:53:46.119 --> 00:53:47.920
<v Speaker 2>There was one episode where we had to say it

1058
00:53:48.000 --> 00:53:50.920
<v Speaker 2>fifty six times in the episode and have two quick stories.

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00:53:51.119 --> 00:53:55.400
<v Speaker 3>He said, fife anyway right now, were directing on this, Okay,

1060
00:53:57.280 --> 00:53:58.039
<v Speaker 3>do the initial casting.

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00:53:58.079 --> 00:54:01.360
<v Speaker 2>But I did all the episode casting, and so the

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00:54:01.440 --> 00:54:03.320
<v Speaker 2>very first time I had to record Kevin Richardson on

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00:54:03.320 --> 00:54:05.760
<v Speaker 2>that episode, he wasn't available for the ensemble record. I

1064
00:54:05.760 --> 00:54:08.679
<v Speaker 2>had to record him by himself where at Salami Studios

1065
00:54:09.039 --> 00:54:11.199
<v Speaker 2>where when the actors, when I'm sitting, when the actors

1066
00:54:11.239 --> 00:54:13.400
<v Speaker 2>are sitting, I can just barely see like this much

1067
00:54:13.400 --> 00:54:15.360
<v Speaker 2>of it, that's right. And so I said, okay, Kevin,

1068
00:54:15.360 --> 00:54:17.079
<v Speaker 2>I'll reach into the first line and you just you know,

1069
00:54:17.119 --> 00:54:19.000
<v Speaker 2>we'll just go on from the scene from there. So

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00:54:19.159 --> 00:54:23.280
<v Speaker 2>we're at line fifteen. This is take one, and the

1071
00:54:23.280 --> 00:54:25.679
<v Speaker 2>guy before he says, yo, nigga, what's up there? The

1072
00:54:25.719 --> 00:54:29.039
<v Speaker 2>hose that? And I'm waiting for Kevin to read his

1073
00:54:29.119 --> 00:54:33.199
<v Speaker 2>line and nothing and nothing, and so I stumped up

1074
00:54:33.400 --> 00:54:38.360
<v Speaker 2>and look and he's completely like agog his mouth is open.

1075
00:54:38.480 --> 00:54:45.039
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, it's because I said Nigga isn't just like

1076
00:54:45.199 --> 00:54:49.320
<v Speaker 2>I've ever seen Kevin Richardson like speechless. No, that was

1077
00:54:49.880 --> 00:54:52.119
<v Speaker 2>that was it. You did it, I did it.

1078
00:54:52.639 --> 00:54:54.519
<v Speaker 1>So the episode was just for the record. He's one

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00:54:54.559 --> 00:54:58.199
<v Speaker 1>of the most talented guys on the block and stunningly

1080
00:54:58.280 --> 00:55:01.800
<v Speaker 1>looks like it looks like world class wrestlers. So you're

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00:55:01.840 --> 00:55:02.679
<v Speaker 1>not going to mess with him.

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00:55:02.679 --> 00:55:06.119
<v Speaker 2>First beautiful black man, beautiful talent.

1083
00:55:06.440 --> 00:55:07.199
<v Speaker 1>Oh lord.

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00:55:07.360 --> 00:55:11.079
<v Speaker 2>So Samuel Jackson, first time I'm directing him, and the

1085
00:55:11.119 --> 00:55:13.599
<v Speaker 2>scene is all about the episode is all about forgive

1086
00:55:13.639 --> 00:55:17.800
<v Speaker 2>me again, Niga technology, right when there's my space and

1087
00:55:17.840 --> 00:55:23.960
<v Speaker 2>all those and so it starts with the two characters.

1088
00:55:24.199 --> 00:55:27.840
<v Speaker 2>It was Samuel Jackson and Eddie Murphy's brother, Charlie Murray

1089
00:55:28.079 --> 00:55:30.519
<v Speaker 2>the two characters, and Charlie wasn't available for the session,

1090
00:55:30.559 --> 00:55:33.079
<v Speaker 2>so I had to read with Samuel Jackson. I just

1091
00:55:33.159 --> 00:55:36.079
<v Speaker 2>was so happy to read with Samuel Jackson. So the

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00:55:36.119 --> 00:55:41.599
<v Speaker 2>scene begins and with Charlie Murphy's character is saying something

1093
00:55:41.639 --> 00:55:44.639
<v Speaker 2>about nick technology is great. I'm at the strip club.

1094
00:55:44.639 --> 00:55:46.159
<v Speaker 2>I got a titty in one hand, a titty in

1095
00:55:46.199 --> 00:55:48.880
<v Speaker 2>the other hand, and I'm checking my messages, and then

1096
00:55:48.960 --> 00:55:53.280
<v Speaker 2>Samuel Jackson's line comes, so I read him. I got

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00:55:53.280 --> 00:55:55.000
<v Speaker 2>a titty in one hand, titty on the other hand,

1098
00:55:55.119 --> 00:55:57.920
<v Speaker 2>and I'm checking my messages. Samuel goes into the scene,

1099
00:55:58.199 --> 00:56:00.960
<v Speaker 2>ruin the whole scene once, the scene the second time,

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00:56:01.320 --> 00:56:03.280
<v Speaker 2>so I got titty in one hand, titting the other hand,

1101
00:56:03.280 --> 00:56:05.800
<v Speaker 2>and run the scene the second time. I said, anything

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00:56:05.840 --> 00:56:07.599
<v Speaker 2>you want to pick up, Samuel, anything you want to

1103
00:56:07.599 --> 00:56:09.000
<v Speaker 2>do again? He goes, can we just run the whole

1104
00:56:09.000 --> 00:56:11.239
<v Speaker 2>scene one more time? I said, absolutely, no problem, of course,

1105
00:56:11.280 --> 00:56:12.800
<v Speaker 2>I got everything I need, so you can do anything

1106
00:56:12.840 --> 00:56:15.039
<v Speaker 2>you want. And I said, do you need me to

1107
00:56:15.199 --> 00:56:16.320
<v Speaker 2>read in that first lining?

1108
00:56:16.360 --> 00:56:24.320
<v Speaker 1>And he goes, please, Yeah, he just wanted to hear it.

1109
00:56:26.079 --> 00:56:29.840
<v Speaker 2>It was so cute. And then also that scene went

1110
00:56:29.920 --> 00:56:33.199
<v Speaker 2>on to have the you know, say what again? Yeah, yeah, yeah,

1111
00:56:33.440 --> 00:56:35.079
<v Speaker 2>I have to that scene with him, which is just

1112
00:56:35.119 --> 00:56:37.920
<v Speaker 2>so fantastic. So those kinds of things where I got

1113
00:56:37.920 --> 00:56:41.360
<v Speaker 2>to work with actors who I admire so much, whether

1114
00:56:41.360 --> 00:56:47.840
<v Speaker 2>it was Chlorus Leachman or you know, I'm Bewitched h

1115
00:56:47.880 --> 00:56:51.079
<v Speaker 2>Elizabeth who insisted I call her Lizzie.

1116
00:56:51.719 --> 00:56:52.320
<v Speaker 1>Lizzie.

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00:56:52.480 --> 00:56:53.639
<v Speaker 2>Wow, so sweet.

1118
00:56:53.719 --> 00:56:56.320
<v Speaker 4>So Gina King must have been great.

1119
00:56:56.400 --> 00:57:00.639
<v Speaker 2>Regina King, What an angel, What a talented actors and

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00:57:00.719 --> 00:57:05.599
<v Speaker 2>director and person I mean crazy, I got to most deaf,

1121
00:57:05.760 --> 00:57:10.239
<v Speaker 2>I got to direct and oh my gosh, crazy, wonderful, talented,

1122
00:57:10.639 --> 00:57:14.039
<v Speaker 2>Kat Williams, brilliant, so Snoop.

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00:57:13.719 --> 00:57:15.920
<v Speaker 1>Dogg, snep dog Jesus.

1124
00:57:16.280 --> 00:57:19.280
<v Speaker 2>First of all, getting these wrappers into the studio was

1125
00:57:19.400 --> 00:57:23.559
<v Speaker 2>just impossible. Snoop Dogg was late three months. We finally

1126
00:57:23.599 --> 00:57:24.039
<v Speaker 2>get him in.

1127
00:57:24.159 --> 00:57:25.559
<v Speaker 1>That's a long wait, and like.

1128
00:57:25.480 --> 00:57:27.920
<v Speaker 2>I always do, as I always do, I walk them

1129
00:57:27.960 --> 00:57:29.599
<v Speaker 2>to the microphone and you start the comforty.

1130
00:57:29.639 --> 00:57:32.079
<v Speaker 1>We share a blunt with you.

1131
00:57:32.480 --> 00:57:34.800
<v Speaker 2>Chat chat with them. Make sure you here's the script

1132
00:57:34.800 --> 00:57:36.360
<v Speaker 2>in friend, you had a chance to look it over. Okay,

1133
00:57:36.400 --> 00:57:40.360
<v Speaker 2>good stand by. I'm a Salami Studios studio. See. So

1134
00:57:40.400 --> 00:57:43.000
<v Speaker 2>I have to leave him and walk around through the

1135
00:57:43.000 --> 00:57:45.400
<v Speaker 2>hallway and then get into the recording booth to the

1136
00:57:45.840 --> 00:57:49.480
<v Speaker 2>control room and I look up and he's gone. He's

1137
00:57:49.480 --> 00:57:52.519
<v Speaker 2>already upstairs with the blunt. He's outside, like, damn it,

1138
00:57:53.960 --> 00:57:55.920
<v Speaker 2>how do I get him? I got him in the

1139
00:57:55.960 --> 00:57:59.519
<v Speaker 2>studio and now he's disappeared. Oh, I finally got it.

1140
00:58:00.039 --> 00:58:01.000
<v Speaker 1>He spent the horrording.

1141
00:58:01.559 --> 00:58:03.440
<v Speaker 2>I needed him for about an hour. We did his

1142
00:58:03.480 --> 00:58:05.400
<v Speaker 2>work and then he's like well, and we booked a

1143
00:58:05.400 --> 00:58:07.280
<v Speaker 2>studio for like five hours we knew we're going to

1144
00:58:07.320 --> 00:58:10.119
<v Speaker 2>be there. He's like, can I just play? And it's

1145
00:58:10.159 --> 00:58:13.920
<v Speaker 2>your studio, go nuts, And so he stayed. The longest,

1146
00:58:14.079 --> 00:58:16.639
<v Speaker 2>thinnest fingers you've ever seen. You know that he's a

1147
00:58:16.679 --> 00:58:18.559
<v Speaker 2>tall drink of water, you've seen it, but when you

1148
00:58:18.599 --> 00:58:21.559
<v Speaker 2>shake his hand, it's just it's an amazing thing. How

1149
00:58:21.599 --> 00:58:25.639
<v Speaker 2>long and thin, really talented, did a very good job.

1150
00:58:25.760 --> 00:58:27.719
<v Speaker 2>Happy to work with him on a couple of other

1151
00:58:27.760 --> 00:58:28.519
<v Speaker 2>projects as well.

1152
00:58:28.519 --> 00:58:29.599
<v Speaker 1>But that's great.

1153
00:58:31.079 --> 00:58:36.159
<v Speaker 2>Michael Michael, Michael b Jordan, Michael multiple times, be Michael

1154
00:58:36.159 --> 00:58:41.599
<v Speaker 2>B Jordan multiple times. Fabulous guy creed himself And it

1155
00:58:41.639 --> 00:58:43.880
<v Speaker 2>was before it was just as he was beginning to

1156
00:58:44.599 --> 00:58:47.719
<v Speaker 2>find his night and came to play and he played

1157
00:58:47.719 --> 00:58:50.400
<v Speaker 2>cydebalg for me on something and I did a boon.

1158
00:58:50.639 --> 00:58:52.840
<v Speaker 4>I have to ask you, what was Aaron McGruder.

1159
00:58:52.519 --> 00:58:56.880
<v Speaker 2>Like and is a genius? There's no question he's He

1160
00:58:56.960 --> 00:58:59.760
<v Speaker 2>created a comic strip that was so far and above

1161
00:59:00.039 --> 00:59:04.159
<v Speaker 2>anything like it that was being done politically, just what

1162
00:59:04.199 --> 00:59:08.360
<v Speaker 2>was happening in the world culturally, the whole thing. Aaron

1163
00:59:09.280 --> 00:59:11.840
<v Speaker 2>had a really hard time wrapping his head around a

1164
00:59:11.880 --> 00:59:16.440
<v Speaker 2>production schedule and what they needed overseas in order to

1165
00:59:16.519 --> 00:59:19.519
<v Speaker 2>animate to get it back to make air dates, and

1166
00:59:19.639 --> 00:59:23.559
<v Speaker 2>so he would constantly rewrite scenes, and rewrite scenes, and

1167
00:59:23.599 --> 00:59:26.559
<v Speaker 2>rewrite things that were already in animation, and so he

1168
00:59:26.639 --> 00:59:30.639
<v Speaker 2>had a really hard time making air dates. And studios

1169
00:59:30.679 --> 00:59:33.239
<v Speaker 2>aren't very tolerant because you get fined if you listen

1170
00:59:33.239 --> 00:59:35.960
<v Speaker 2>to air date a lot of ADR, and he would

1171
00:59:36.000 --> 00:59:38.719
<v Speaker 2>rewrite during the ADR and it would be like, you

1172
00:59:38.719 --> 00:59:39.880
<v Speaker 2>know what, give me a minute, I'm going to come

1173
00:59:39.920 --> 00:59:43.599
<v Speaker 2>up with a new thing here, and fifteen years, fifteen

1174
00:59:43.639 --> 00:59:45.599
<v Speaker 2>minutes later he would have line and it would be brilliant,

1175
00:59:45.639 --> 00:59:48.760
<v Speaker 2>it would be great. It's just that there's a time

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00:59:48.920 --> 00:59:51.480
<v Speaker 2>concern that we all had to get used to. I

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00:59:51.519 --> 00:59:54.519
<v Speaker 2>would have loved to have done eight hour sessions. Sometimes

1178
00:59:54.880 --> 00:59:57.559
<v Speaker 2>I can't. I had to get it rehearsed and recorded

1179
00:59:57.599 --> 00:59:59.360
<v Speaker 2>in four hours. That's all I had. It's all the

1180
00:59:59.360 --> 01:00:02.800
<v Speaker 2>screen actors gives me. And I liked ensemble records. I

1181
01:00:02.920 --> 01:00:05.440
<v Speaker 2>liked us all on the same I liked you guys

1182
01:00:05.480 --> 01:00:08.440
<v Speaker 2>acting with each other, perfectly, willing to step in when

1183
01:00:08.480 --> 01:00:10.239
<v Speaker 2>I needed to to read you a line in so

1184
01:00:10.280 --> 01:00:12.440
<v Speaker 2>you could have somebody to act against if they weren't there.

1185
01:00:12.920 --> 01:00:16.880
<v Speaker 2>But to do every single actor solo, and I retire

1186
01:00:16.920 --> 01:00:20.400
<v Speaker 2>at a good time because the pandemic hit and everybody

1187
01:00:20.480 --> 01:00:24.000
<v Speaker 2>recorded separately, everybody recorded from and some of them something

1188
01:00:24.039 --> 01:00:28.719
<v Speaker 2>will still do at home. And so to me, casting

1189
01:00:28.840 --> 01:00:31.800
<v Speaker 2>was always kind of like making the cake, putting all

1190
01:00:31.800 --> 01:00:35.400
<v Speaker 2>the stuff together and making the cake. The recording sessions

1191
01:00:35.679 --> 01:00:38.280
<v Speaker 2>were getting to eat the cake with everybody. We all

1192
01:00:38.320 --> 01:00:40.719
<v Speaker 2>got to eat the cake. And so when that was

1193
01:00:40.719 --> 01:00:44.719
<v Speaker 2>taken away for me, that was a big that I

1194
01:00:44.840 --> 01:00:46.840
<v Speaker 2>was true. I just like, no, that's not I don't

1195
01:00:46.880 --> 01:00:50.039
<v Speaker 2>I'm not interested in individual I mean, well, we had to,

1196
01:00:50.119 --> 01:00:55.280
<v Speaker 2>of course, but I really liked the ensemble. I liked

1197
01:00:55.559 --> 01:01:01.079
<v Speaker 2>because so much of acting is reacting. So time you

1198
01:01:01.920 --> 01:01:04.199
<v Speaker 2>if you're recording all by yourself and the actor before

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01:01:04.199 --> 01:01:06.679
<v Speaker 2>you has not recorded yet, I have to read you in.

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01:01:07.159 --> 01:01:09.480
<v Speaker 2>I have to get at least five or six different

1201
01:01:09.599 --> 01:01:12.760
<v Speaker 2>versions from you, because for good measure, in case's going

1202
01:01:12.800 --> 01:01:13.360
<v Speaker 2>to cut together.

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01:01:13.599 --> 01:01:15.480
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's right, that is so right.

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01:01:16.159 --> 01:01:16.440
<v Speaker 4>God.

1205
01:01:16.880 --> 01:01:20.000
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I have a weird my famous Robin Williams story

1206
01:01:20.440 --> 01:01:21.360
<v Speaker 1>about that we did.

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01:01:21.840 --> 01:01:22.440
<v Speaker 4>He was the.

1208
01:01:22.400 --> 01:01:25.800
<v Speaker 1>Genie in Aladdin and I was Brazil, the guard and

1209
01:01:25.960 --> 01:01:28.480
<v Speaker 1>there's this one scene where he uh and the third

1210
01:01:28.519 --> 01:01:31.519
<v Speaker 1>one where he grabbed a hold of me and went

1211
01:01:31.639 --> 01:01:34.679
<v Speaker 1>like this, and uh, all of a sudden, we're in

1212
01:01:34.920 --> 01:01:37.719
<v Speaker 1>a courtroom and he was the judge, and he was

1213
01:01:37.719 --> 01:01:40.239
<v Speaker 1>the prosecuting attorney, and I was in the witness stand

1214
01:01:40.639 --> 01:01:42.760
<v Speaker 1>sitting there like this, and and I had lived a

1215
01:01:42.760 --> 01:01:46.039
<v Speaker 1>couple of things, and and and they kept him excellent

1216
01:01:46.239 --> 01:01:51.960
<v Speaker 1>and and uh, and he had already recorded, and so

1217
01:01:52.039 --> 01:01:55.440
<v Speaker 1>he had to come back. They had to record a

1218
01:01:55.440 --> 01:01:57.480
<v Speaker 1>couple of things because his line didn't work, because they

1219
01:01:57.519 --> 01:01:59.960
<v Speaker 1>wanted to keep mine. And so they did that one

1220
01:02:00.280 --> 01:02:04.679
<v Speaker 1>or twice, and he goes and and finally they said, well, okay,

1221
01:02:04.719 --> 01:02:07.480
<v Speaker 1>well we finally got got the scene. And I go, yeah,

1222
01:02:07.960 --> 01:02:09.679
<v Speaker 1>would you would you like to see it? And I

1223
01:02:09.719 --> 01:02:12.639
<v Speaker 1>said sure, yeah, yeah, And it's and it's Robin. It's

1224
01:02:12.679 --> 01:02:15.119
<v Speaker 1>me doing this and saying something. And then boom, he

1225
01:02:15.159 --> 01:02:17.159
<v Speaker 1>snaps it and puts me in the thing there and

1226
01:02:17.159 --> 01:02:19.280
<v Speaker 1>he goes, I'm sorry, but I will not be upstaged

1227
01:02:19.280 --> 01:02:21.800
<v Speaker 1>by a tertiary character. And he reached over and grabbed

1228
01:02:21.840 --> 01:02:23.559
<v Speaker 1>my feet and rolled me up into a blind and

1229
01:02:23.639 --> 01:02:27.760
<v Speaker 1>threw me out into the universe. So I got personally dissed.

1230
01:02:28.519 --> 01:02:33.079
<v Speaker 1>I got well, they had like one or two of

1231
01:02:33.079 --> 01:02:35.679
<v Speaker 1>my zingers in there. And then he goes, I'm sorry,

1232
01:02:35.679 --> 01:02:38.079
<v Speaker 1>but I will not be upstage by a tertiary character.

1233
01:02:38.480 --> 01:02:40.159
<v Speaker 1>So he got the two ends so he can get

1234
01:02:40.320 --> 01:02:43.239
<v Speaker 1>knew that he was insulted, and then he got rid

1235
01:02:43.280 --> 01:02:48.519
<v Speaker 1>of my ass and well I don't know about that,

1236
01:02:48.559 --> 01:02:52.440
<v Speaker 1>but he was tired of living around me. He was like, no, no, no.

1237
01:02:54.440 --> 01:02:57.440
<v Speaker 3>Around here, all right, I hate to do this. We're

1238
01:02:57.519 --> 01:03:01.400
<v Speaker 3>stacked up this time. Just I flew by, we have

1239
01:03:01.440 --> 01:03:05.320
<v Speaker 3>another people yeah, way, I know. Yes, I was just

1240
01:03:05.320 --> 01:03:07.000
<v Speaker 3>about to say we need to do this again.

1241
01:03:07.039 --> 01:03:10.159
<v Speaker 2>We didn't even talk about this stuff.

1242
01:03:10.880 --> 01:03:14.440
<v Speaker 3>This was definitely part one. Yes, absolutely that that hour

1243
01:03:14.559 --> 01:03:18.559
<v Speaker 3>just flew by. You're such a high energy versus it's

1244
01:03:18.599 --> 01:03:23.559
<v Speaker 3>a pleasure to our quickest period and honestly, like to

1245
01:03:23.599 --> 01:03:25.840
<v Speaker 3>all you guys watching, to me, this is what the

1246
01:03:25.840 --> 01:03:29.199
<v Speaker 3>heart of Tuned In with Jim cummings In is. It's

1247
01:03:29.360 --> 01:03:32.159
<v Speaker 3>it's just like you guys go way back, and it's

1248
01:03:32.239 --> 01:03:35.920
<v Speaker 3>like getting to peer in to what those sessions were

1249
01:03:36.079 --> 01:03:38.800
<v Speaker 3>like and your inner personal relationships. To me, it's so

1250
01:03:38.880 --> 01:03:41.320
<v Speaker 3>different than just like a normal interview or a normal

1251
01:03:41.360 --> 01:03:44.639
<v Speaker 3>podcast because of that past history. And you guys are

1252
01:03:44.760 --> 01:03:47.719
<v Speaker 3>peers rather than you know, somebody like me with no relation.

1253
01:03:48.000 --> 01:03:49.800
<v Speaker 3>You know saying, oh, what was it like on this?

1254
01:03:49.880 --> 01:03:50.920
<v Speaker 3>What was it like on that?

1255
01:03:51.000 --> 01:03:51.239
<v Speaker 4>You know?

1256
01:03:51.880 --> 01:03:54.039
<v Speaker 3>And I think that's why this went by so fast.

1257
01:03:54.079 --> 01:03:56.320
<v Speaker 3>It's because it's just like good friends catching up.

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01:03:59.320 --> 01:04:03.000
<v Speaker 1>Good good. You heard it here first right from her mouth.

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<v Speaker 4>We can do it again next week if you want to.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, Andre Romano.

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<v Speaker 2>Everyone, thank you so much for one here the only

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<v Speaker 2>thanks for having me.

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<v Speaker 3>And stay tuned for part two. As always, if you

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<v Speaker 3>like this kind of content, like and subscribe, it'll help

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<v Speaker 3>the YouTube algorithm show you more videos like this. And

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<v Speaker 3>if you like it so much that you want to

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<v Speaker 3>see even more than nobody else gets to see. Guess what,

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<v Speaker 3>there's a patreon that's right tuned in. When Jim Comming's

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<v Speaker 3>on Patreon, you get bonus content, exclusive episodes that nobody

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<v Speaker 3>else here on YouTube gets to see. So make sure

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<v Speaker 3>to subscribe for that. If that's what you're into, everything.

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<v Speaker 1>Else you'll feel different.

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<v Speaker 3>Jim Commings closet on Shopify if he want some merchandise,

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<v Speaker 3>and am I forget anything anything else?

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know.

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<v Speaker 1>I think that's it.

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<v Speaker 4>That's about it well too.

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<v Speaker 3>For now, I'm producer, Chris Jim Cummings Andrea Romano Thank

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<v Speaker 3>you so much for joining us. We will see you

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<v Speaker 3>in the next film.

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<v Speaker 1>Yay. Thanks buddy, was so fun to listen to me.

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<v Speaker 1>Believable