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Speaker 1: Knock Gud. My name is Jim Cummings and welcome to
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Speaker 2: Hello, and welcome everybody back to another episode of Tuned
Speaker 2: In with Jim Cummings. I'm producer Chris. I'm doing well today.
Speaker 2: Thanks for asking. How are you doing today, Jim?
Speaker 1: It's another day in Paradise is as always.
Speaker 2: Of course, we're always joined by Jim Cummings, the star
Speaker 2: of this whole thing, and today we have a special
Speaker 2: guest for you, Blake Silva.
Speaker 3: How are you doing today? I am doing so great.
Speaker 3: I'm so happy to be here. I can't believe I'm sitting.
Speaker 1: In this room. So thank you for having me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thanks for being here, Thanks for being here, not miss
Speaker 1: it truly sounds good to me.
Speaker 2: It's a beautiful day, beautiful day out here in southern California.
Speaker 4: Tis Yes, it is finally curling off too.
Speaker 1: Yes, so come on down. Yeah, we'll be here for you.
Speaker 2: So you are an avid collector of all things Disney.
Speaker 3: I am I mean, if you can tell I have
Speaker 3: a few, you have a few pieces myself.
Speaker 4: The yeah, I quite truly had to toe today.
Speaker 1: I mean, I do have a.
Speaker 4: Particular character that is my favorite.
Speaker 2: Hm and you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. You could take a wild guess.
Speaker 4: You might take a shot in the dark and hit something.
Speaker 3: But yes, yeah, And I'm usually only a stone's throwaway
Speaker 3: from Disneyland, so I'm a frequent Yeah. It's and it's
Speaker 3: not grumpy the dwarf, right, and it is not grumpy.
Speaker 3: I don't think that the particular character gets grumpy, but
Speaker 3: that's true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. He doesn't even become grumpy. Yeah.
Speaker 3: But I've always been a collector, so even as a kid,
Speaker 3: it's like rocks and shells and all the things. And
Speaker 3: then when I grew up and had money to buy
Speaker 3: the fun stuff, it was it was it was the
Speaker 3: cool stuff that I was always interested in. But yeah,
Speaker 3: collecting is like my where it all started with me,
Speaker 3: even you know, posting on social media and stuff. So
Speaker 3: it just became like, let me share my hobby and
Speaker 3: then kind of just spiraled.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's been quite a journey.
Speaker 2: Do you remember what your first collection was?
Speaker 3: I mean, I would say if it was something just generic.
Speaker 3: As a kid, it was rocks. I like, you know,
Speaker 3: my family vacation at the Grand Canyon or whatever, and
Speaker 3: I would always be in the shop with a little
Speaker 3: velvet bag collecting the little little gems that they had,
Speaker 3: and I.
Speaker 1: Had those little velvetes.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, And then it became a tackle box, and
Speaker 3: then it became rocks sitting on the windowsill and finding
Speaker 3: them in my bed or whatever, just like all over overtaking.
Speaker 1: Few seashells and the sea obligatory seashells. I grew up
Speaker 1: in Ventura, so it was right on the beach. Well
Speaker 1: there you go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I was always a collector of sorts. And
Speaker 3: then I mean I think I've always if it's in
Speaker 3: terms of Disney, I've always had stuff like because my family,
Speaker 3: like I said, grew up in Ventura's only two hours
Speaker 3: away from Disneyland. So we were very much like every
Speaker 3: once in a while, maybe once twice a year, wake
Speaker 3: up a little extra early for school, and our perents
Speaker 3: would say, you know, mom or dad has an appointment
Speaker 3: that we have to leave early for school today for
Speaker 3: and then next thing you know, we're in the drive
Speaker 3: through at m MacDonald's and it's like, why are we
Speaker 3: getting breakfast? And then they're like, we're going to Disneyland,
Speaker 3: so oh that's great.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So we had those really fun memories growing up, and
Speaker 3: it's wonderful we were Disney kids, like watching the VHS tapes.
Speaker 3: And I always tell people like, I was a Winnie
Speaker 3: the Poo fan before I could talk, and now that
Speaker 3: I can talk, all I talk about is Winnie the
Speaker 3: poof So good job.
Speaker 1: Yeah, take a lesson. Yeah, youth of America.
Speaker 3: I take that from my parents too, like allowing me
Speaker 3: to have something as a kid that I.
Speaker 4: Just like was head over heels with and oh that's great.
Speaker 3: I think I just kind of carried that with me
Speaker 3: even when I was too cool for school, like middle school,
Speaker 3: high school. There's always a plush somewhere in my room
Speaker 3: there you go. Yeah, but yeah, that's that's you know
Speaker 3: why I said at the beginning, I'm just so excited
Speaker 3: to be in this room with you.
Speaker 1: So yeah, well that's wonderful, that's great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I would say that's probably the I mean,
Speaker 3: the reason that I'm a fan of yours too is
Speaker 3: because of that collector start. Because you know when I
Speaker 3: became old enough to care about like not just the
Speaker 3: character or characters, but like where they come from and
Speaker 3: why they exist. Like that's when I became aware of you.
Speaker 3: And you know, obviously you fill the shoes very well
Speaker 3: of Sterling, and that's quite a legacy that you get
Speaker 3: to carry on. So I just think that's so special.
Speaker 3: And yeah, being an adult who loves Disney, I'm like
Speaker 3: very tuned into those things. So yeah, yeah, it's a
Speaker 3: special it's a special thing. But you're talking to another
Speaker 3: adult who loves this.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. Oh yeah, oh yeah boy. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean I started off with a crush on a
Speaker 1: net Foticello, the Original Musketeer, So yeah, a hundred times.
Speaker 1: But it's so true.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and here I am. Yeah, so I could
Speaker 3: be wrong. I'm okay with being corrected. But you started
Speaker 3: voicing Poover.
Speaker 1: In eighty eight, maybe eighty six eight.
Speaker 3: Okay, about a year ago. It was very early in
Speaker 3: my Yeah, yeah, a deep dive. I was like looking
Speaker 3: at all the winning of the poop stuff. You know,
Speaker 3: Disney Plus is so cool and they give us like
Speaker 3: the chronological they'll be like, oh here you can watch
Speaker 3: everything from the very beginning, which I think the very
Speaker 3: beginning was Winnie the Poo and the Honey Tree in
Speaker 3: the sixties.
Speaker 1: So oh yes, that was not me. Yeah, but New
Speaker 1: Adventures of Winnie the.
Speaker 3: Pooh, I knew adventures and that was the first thing. Okay, great, okay,
Speaker 3: I love that. So out of all the animated stuff,
Speaker 3: I guess this is something I've always wondered. Do you
Speaker 3: have like a favorite thing that you've worked on for
Speaker 3: animated pooh air?
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, well, I've got a few of them. You know.
Speaker 1: The Search for Christopher Robin, you know, that was a
Speaker 1: very very good one. Yeah, and a game the Silver
Speaker 1: Shows that came up with some beautiful songs. Yeah, wherever
Speaker 1: you are. And while the movie Christopher Robin, yeah, Christopher
Speaker 1: was in both titles. Yeah. I thought that was so
Speaker 1: well done. Yeah, I mean I knew, I knew what
Speaker 1: was going to happen. And I remember sitting there watching
Speaker 1: it for the first time and I still weld up, ant,
Speaker 1: I know what's going to happen. I already know. I've
Speaker 1: seen this. I cheated, I did it. I looked ahead
Speaker 1: in the script here and it was so very well received,
Speaker 1: and it's one of the it and I'm just very
Speaker 1: proud of it, and I'm so glad that it was
Speaker 1: so well received.
Speaker 3: Yeah, twenty eighteen, I think, gosh, it feels like so
Speaker 3: long ago already. I mean, I would love for them
Speaker 3: to do more with just that that storyline. I thought
Speaker 3: you and McGregor was like brilliant in that role as well.
Speaker 3: And you got to do both Poober and Tiger in
Speaker 3: that movie, so you were double exposed to the plot
Speaker 3: and everything. Oh yeah, still out of response.
Speaker 4: I love that.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, absolutely it was. I just thought it was magical,
Speaker 1: so very well done.
Speaker 3: Yeah, as a you know, as we said, adults who
Speaker 3: love Disney, I just think it's so fun when we
Speaker 3: get to experience, like right now these things that have
Speaker 3: been with us for so long again, like when we
Speaker 3: were getting new Star Wars and we're getting remakes or
Speaker 3: live action versions of some of these classics and beloved characters.
Speaker 3: Like I remember last year too, being like how am
Speaker 3: I getting Indiana Jones in twenty twenty three? Like this
Speaker 3: is so cool? So you know, even I kind of
Speaker 3: agree with you.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and Harrison he's cranking it away, Yes, I know,
Speaker 1: I know, unbelievable. So when that movie came out.
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously, as a fan, I was super excited,
Speaker 3: but just being in a theater and watching Winnie the
Speaker 3: Pooh on the screen was like so cool to me
Speaker 3: because as a kid, it was like just VHS, Like
Speaker 3: I was just enjoying it as everybody else was on
Speaker 3: my on my television, popping in the tape and going
Speaker 3: to a big screen. It was just I'm sure that
Speaker 3: was a really surreal thing too. I mean I haven't
Speaker 3: been super plugged into like premieres and stuff, but I'm
Speaker 3: sure you did something of the sort back then.
Speaker 4: That must have been a cool feeling.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, going to the premieres. Yeah yeah, it was, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was crazy. I missed one really good premiere,
Speaker 1: but that's a separate issue, that's but yeah, I just
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I'm half a fan, yeah too.
Speaker 1: You know, I can't pull that out of me. I
Speaker 1: can't totally get away from it, you know, because I've
Speaker 1: said it before. I started off watching Zorro and Spinning Marty.
Speaker 1: I forget the name of that show, but it was
Speaker 1: it was like, you know, Davy Crockett Sorrow, I was
Speaker 1: I was a Disney kid from very early on. And
Speaker 1: here I am. Yeah, so I'm still there.
Speaker 3: What led you to like being the one that took
Speaker 3: over in eighty eight or whatever it was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I can tell you that. Well, there was
Speaker 1: a big there was a big search, a search for
Speaker 1: Winnie the put Christopher Robin. So yeah, that happened too.
Speaker 1: But they just had everybody and their dog come out
Speaker 1: and audition, and my dad's dog was there. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: you go, I think so. And uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: I've said it before, I I I think I auditioned
Speaker 1: for Owl. Hal Smith was a friend of mine, so
Speaker 1: I wasn't too worried about getting Owl. But pooh Tigger
Speaker 1: and an e Or and I thought I crushed there.
Speaker 1: Oh you know, so.
Speaker 4: I don't think i've heard you.
Speaker 1: Well you you have. You don't need to Peter, Peter
Speaker 1: Cullen's doing just fine. And then Brad Garrett did it
Speaker 1: for a movie and they were both amazing. But no,
Speaker 1: I just thought I was a your And my agent
Speaker 1: called up about a week later and said, well, okay,
Speaker 1: we got the results back and I said, oh okay.
Speaker 1: She goesaid, well I got bad news and good news,
Speaker 1: and I said, okay, what's all. Give me the bad news.
Speaker 1: She said, you're not are And I go, oh, man,
Speaker 1: while you're kidding, who got a or who's he? Who's here?
Speaker 1: He said, well that's going to Peter Cullen. You go, oh, well,
Speaker 1: can't complain. You lose Peter Cullin. You're losing to the best. Okay,
Speaker 1: Well what's the good news? She goes, well you're winning
Speaker 1: the Pooh and Tigger. I said, the hell with that's
Speaker 1: quite a call. Yeah yeah, yeah, I said, you know
Speaker 1: or Shmi or you know you can have him? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: So I took my consolation price.
Speaker 3: So at the time, I mean, you thought you nailed
Speaker 3: e Or, which would be on a technical level, but
Speaker 3: did you who did you want? Like, did did you
Speaker 3: have a connection to Pooh Bear before that?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Oh absolutely, yeah, absolutely yeah. I mean that had
Speaker 1: to have cross but certainly Tigger yeah, because he was
Speaker 1: just he was just the coolest.
Speaker 3: I wonder if there was always the intent? Was was
Speaker 3: Tiggered the same always like or was there two different
Speaker 3: voices before you?
Speaker 1: No? No? They uh I know that will Ryan did it?
Speaker 1: For gosh what not? Return to poo There was a
Speaker 1: production that was on Disney Channel and it was by
Speaker 1: the same people who did Dumbo Circus and it was
Speaker 1: people in costume. God wasn't animated, Okay, so it was
Speaker 1: a it was a different critter and it looked different. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they some of the voices were you know, here,
Speaker 1: and some of them were there and some of them
Speaker 1: weren't anywhere. And uh huh. So you know that was it.
Speaker 2: That was different era.
Speaker 1: Yeah, different era, and there wasn't you know, they'd been
Speaker 1: gone apart from that, they've been gone for you know,
Speaker 1: twenty years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, costumes. I don't even think I've seen that as
Speaker 3: a as a fan. I think I should probably look
Speaker 3: into you to at least say I've seen it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to be a tough one to find,
Speaker 1: don't I can't find it removed.
Speaker 2: I want to ask you. You on your social media,
Speaker 2: you have access or knowledge to so many different products,
Speaker 2: like products I've never even considered being products before, and
Speaker 2: you just come across all do you get like tipped off?
Speaker 2: How do you find all these different one of the
Speaker 2: things everything like that?
Speaker 3: So, I mean when we talk about being a collector earlier,
Speaker 3: like I was like anticipating today thinking like gosh, I
Speaker 3: hope they don't ask me like what's your count on
Speaker 3: Winnie the Pooh items, because I just truly like not
Speaker 3: that it's not quantifiable like it is like I could,
Speaker 3: I could figure it out, but I don't know. And
Speaker 3: you know part.
Speaker 4: Of that where do you keep all the stuff? So
Speaker 4: I have my own what I.
Speaker 3: Call Pooh Corner in my house, and it's just like
Speaker 3: a I could have more. I'm actually about to move
Speaker 3: in about a month and I'm thinking Poo Corner might
Speaker 3: turn into like Pooh Room or something. But you know,
Speaker 3: I have bookshelves and it varies from Funko pops to
Speaker 3: you know, bobbleheads and you know, non Funko and books,
Speaker 3: and I have VHS tapes that I that I have
Speaker 3: from years ago and that I've kind of like hunted
Speaker 3: down at strip stores.
Speaker 2: And are you like a completionist, like do you need
Speaker 2: every in some way set? Like do you need every
Speaker 2: poo funk goal?
Speaker 3: I will say, like as a Pooh Bear fan, like
Speaker 3: I'm so fortunate because I'd say I'm biased, but I
Speaker 3: would say he's like the most beloved character. Like and
Speaker 3: there's so much stuff, Like you go to home Goods
Speaker 3: or what like they just year round. There's plates and
Speaker 3: you know, bowls and cuts, just everything, and there's aprons
Speaker 3: and kitchen towels and they do kitchen towels for Christmas
Speaker 3: and Halloween and all. Like poo Bear is everywhere Hallmark,
Speaker 3: like in Target, and there's there's diapers at Walmart that
Speaker 3: have poo Bear on the box, like for a while.
Speaker 1: Yeah, besides maybe the name, yeah, I mean, besides the obvious.
Speaker 3: So I just I think that's kind of what gains
Speaker 3: me so much access is just like you really don't
Speaker 3: have to look hard. And when I started posting about
Speaker 3: my collection and you know, being outward about how I
Speaker 3: have a favorite character, which you know, lots of people do.
Speaker 3: I think a lot of Disney fans are always have
Speaker 3: that one thing that's like, oh, you know, they can
Speaker 3: answer off the top of their head what their favorite
Speaker 3: movie is, favorite villain, favorite character, And it's just always
Speaker 3: been that for me. But I would say, I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm bombarded by messages and comments when there's new stuff,
Speaker 3: so like people ask me sometimes like how do you
Speaker 3: know that this exists? And I'm like, because you tell me, yeah,
Speaker 3: you're yelling at me to go find it, and yeah,
Speaker 3: it's something as silly and simple sometimes as like going
Speaker 3: and looking. I get comments about, oh there's this new
Speaker 3: throw blanket and it's Winnie the Pooh tigger and piggle
Speaker 3: it and there are fall leaves and it's at these stories.
Speaker 3: You got to go find it, and so I'll take
Speaker 3: I'll vlog about it and go look for it and
Speaker 3: to no end sometimes like just you don't find it
Speaker 3: or whatever it is. So I would say, it's just
Speaker 3: such a vast world of collectibles, and sometimes I just
Speaker 3: it's a blessing and a curse to be the fan
Speaker 3: of Pooh Bear in that world, because I'm like I'm
Speaker 3: constantly behind finding somebody.
Speaker 4: I'm also constantly finding something new.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so and I don't know it as a fan yourself,
Speaker 3: like do you hold on to things?
Speaker 4: Do you seek those things out? Is it just too well?
Speaker 4: Yeah I do, Yeah, I do.
Speaker 1: I have to say, I do you know, I've got
Speaker 1: any number of scripts yeah from the past that are
Speaker 1: there and yeah, you know, and they're all signed by
Speaker 1: the by the cast members and uh yeah things like that,
Speaker 1: and it's and and you know, the memories are they're
Speaker 1: just golden for me. Yeah. I have a lot of cells, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, and a lot of memorabilia. I got a
Speaker 1: what do I have memorabilia? I mean, I've got more
Speaker 1: Little Winnie the Poos and dark Wing Ducks and Tiggers
Speaker 1: and you know, and I just you know, I just
Speaker 1: put my name on them. And what I taught the
Speaker 1: whole family gets here, let's sell this. He's not signing anymore. There,
Speaker 1: they've got it. We got to get a couple of
Speaker 1: bucks out of this, so you know, doing my part,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, a little forward thinking. They're right.
Speaker 3: Well, speaking of signing, what's your favorite like, do you
Speaker 3: have a favorite convention that you go to annually or
Speaker 3: do you have a favorite con experience?
Speaker 1: T twenty three is a nice one. Always fine, I
Speaker 1: think they it's every other year. Yeah, and uh that's
Speaker 1: kind of like the the Rolls Royce.
Speaker 3: I would say, yeah, that's to be as a as
Speaker 3: a Disney actor or fan like, oh yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: that's the ultimate.
Speaker 1: And it was good.
Speaker 4: It was great this year.
Speaker 3: I mean I would say it's super experientially driven. And
Speaker 3: after D twenty three related to Winnie the Pooh was
Speaker 3: when I got reached out to by Margaret and also
Speaker 3: got to help Disney Junior promote played eight with Winnie
Speaker 3: the Pooh for the season two, which is just precious.
Speaker 3: When I first watched it, probably like a year ago,
Speaker 3: I was just like, Oh.
Speaker 4: Something new, that's Pooh.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna check it out.
Speaker 3: And I will say I fully expected to hear you.
Speaker 3: And I was so surprised, and not in a negative
Speaker 3: way because it's so cute, but I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: it's just like little kid's voice.
Speaker 1: It's literally little chill kids.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And so they reached out just letting me know
Speaker 3: that there was a season two coming, and so they
Speaker 3: did this really cool One of the producers or artists
Speaker 3: on the show drew me with Poobert and Tigger and
Speaker 3: Piglet and and I'm like, this is official Disney artwork
Speaker 3: with me on it.
Speaker 1: And so I thought that was so cool. It's wonderful.
Speaker 3: And they sent it to me and just said, yeah,
Speaker 3: they wanted to make this for you. And I'm like,
Speaker 3: just very casually sending me like the coolest thing ever,
Speaker 3: because I have some cool stuff like that if you
Speaker 3: don't mind.
Speaker 1: A story, no, So in January, I.
Speaker 3: Was at Disney World and it was a hosted trip
Speaker 3: with the Parks and we got to do as a result,
Speaker 3: it's really cool, like private dinner in the Norway Pavilion
Speaker 3: in like their Norway Loft. It's like above one of
Speaker 3: the stores or restaurants. And we came into this cater
Speaker 3: dinner and there was an artist there that was a
Speaker 3: surprise to us, and it was Stacia Martin and you know,
Speaker 3: legendary Disney artists and historian, just amazing, amazing woman. And
Speaker 3: she went around our tables as we started eating and
Speaker 3: was just asking us about our favorite characters. And turns
Speaker 3: out she was there to draw live for us while
Speaker 3: we ate, and so of course she starts drawing, and
Speaker 3: we all had been given Raffle tickets at the beginning
Speaker 3: of the night and I was kind of like, oh,
Speaker 3: I was like what is this for?
Speaker 1: So then she comes in.
Speaker 3: I'm starting to put the pieces together like she's drawing
Speaker 3: for us, Like there are these like twenty two by
Speaker 3: twenty eight pieces of paper.
Speaker 4: So she starts drawing.
Speaker 3: She does ol Off and Bell and Dopey and Tiana,
Speaker 3: and she's just kind of going through like a list
Speaker 3: after she had talked to all of us and kind
Speaker 3: of heard like who our favorites were. So the of course,
Speaker 3: the whole time I'm like, please draw Pooper, Please drop Poover,
Speaker 3: And she hadn't gotten to him yet, and my ticket
Speaker 3: got called when the bell drawing was finished, and so
Speaker 3: I was like, I mean great, Like that's an amazing piece.
Speaker 3: I got to see it drawn in person, and so
Speaker 3: I get it. And the very last character she's introducing
Speaker 3: and I'm like, I don't I can't tell if she's
Speaker 3: talking about Poover. She's kind of just giving like a
Speaker 3: soft intro to she's gonna draw next, but I'm like,
Speaker 3: still fingers crossed. So she draws poo Be and she
Speaker 3: told a story, and like that was the most engaging
Speaker 3: part of the whole experience, was that she was speaking
Speaker 3: just fact after fact, story after story as she drew,
Speaker 3: and it was so fascinating, just perfectly drawn characters while
Speaker 3: she spoke. And we talked a little bit about, just
Speaker 3: like you mentioned the Sherman Brothers earlier and how they
Speaker 3: were tasked with writing the theme song. And I don't
Speaker 3: want to get his name wrong, Tony Martin. He was
Speaker 3: a set designer married to Julie Andrews at the time,
Speaker 3: and he kind of came to the Sherman Brothers while
Speaker 3: they were writing the song and told them like I
Speaker 3: grew up on these books like by Amil, and like
Speaker 3: I need to tell you like this important like take
Speaker 3: because they're having a hard time because Poo's not very
Speaker 3: like declarative. He's not running around this is me and
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go like he is. He is very like sir,
Speaker 3: go get my honey. But it's like, perhaps I'll go
Speaker 3: get my honey. Yeah, she described it exactly like that.
Speaker 3: I just thought that was so like I had never
Speaker 3: thought about him that way, and I never conceptualized like
Speaker 3: we have these declarative journeys and statements that our favorite
Speaker 3: characters make all the time. But then they wrote the
Speaker 3: song and it was like, you know what, I'm just
Speaker 3: going to have it be about the hundred acre would
Speaker 3: and who you find there because the animated there's not
Speaker 3: a whole lot going on in the books because they're
Speaker 3: kind of just walking around and talking and experience that's right,
Speaker 3: the forest or the woods together, and so that's kind
Speaker 3: of what they wanted to come across in the song.
Speaker 3: So buttoning up the story, a friend of mine won
Speaker 3: the drawing and we traded because her favorite princess was Belle, so.
Speaker 1: I have that drawing a PB hanging on my wall
Speaker 1: right now. That's great.
Speaker 3: And you know, he's always been special to me. But
Speaker 3: the way that Stasia talked about him, and hearing the
Speaker 3: excerpt from Tony he said, like, oh, growing up, I
Speaker 3: was always the ugly duckling and I didn't feel like
Speaker 3: I fit in, and reading those books, I always felt
Speaker 3: so safe because I thought of Poobert as the mayor
Speaker 3: of what i've or town I would be accepted in.
Speaker 1: And I thought that was so cool.
Speaker 3: And I've always felt a deep connection and I maybe
Speaker 3: I don't relate to, you know, feeling like an outcast
Speaker 3: as a kid, because I just I didn't ever feel
Speaker 3: that way. But putting to words that that statement about
Speaker 3: him being the mayor of this like town where I
Speaker 3: was accepted is so cool. And I sat there and
Speaker 3: was like, I think that's why he's special.
Speaker 1: To That's a safe spot, isn't it. Yeah, So I.
Speaker 3: Thought that was really cool because I've always had a
Speaker 3: connection and like you know, I always just tell people
Speaker 3: since I was a kid, I don't know, I just
Speaker 3: he's always been my favorite. I think he's a great friend.
Speaker 3: I think he's really honest and funny and yeah and sweet.
Speaker 3: But then she said that, and I was like, I
Speaker 3: think that's that might be the kicker.
Speaker 1: What you say is what you get. Yeah, there's no,
Speaker 1: he's never a con artist. Yeah, unless you've got extra honey.
Speaker 1: Rabbit has experienced some time or two. Yeah that's true.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's sometimes to his downfall. Yet I'm stuck
Speaker 3: here and there.
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Speaker 2: Well, trailing off the Winnie the Pooh theme song, you
Speaker 2: made a little theme song. You make music.
Speaker 1: I am a singer.
Speaker 2: I am a singer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, good voice, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, so, hearing about the theme song, I had
Speaker 3: just actually a few months prior to that dinner experience
Speaker 3: put out my own version of the theme song.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I like that version, which which which one deep in
Speaker 1: the US.
Speaker 4: Okay, that one starts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I recorded it just because I was like,
Speaker 3: I want to immortalize this time of my life, Like
Speaker 3: I want to use my talent to do something that
Speaker 3: I'm really excited about. And so then hearing that backstory
Speaker 3: about the theme song kind of how it came to be,
Speaker 3: I was like, that's really fun. And maybe another fun
Speaker 3: thing for us to talk about is when Tigger was added,
Speaker 3: because Tigger is actually not originally included in the theme song, and.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming.
Speaker 3: That it's because he wasn't in the honey Tree.
Speaker 1: And I knew that the Gopher wasn't in the book. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that I knew. Yeah, But I know that oftentimes I'll
Speaker 1: be signing something for someone and they'll have an old
Speaker 1: book of a Milns, you know, original, and it's got
Speaker 1: a little map in there of the hundred acre wood
Speaker 1: Rabbit's house, I'll you know, and sometimes Tigger is not there,
Speaker 1: and I and I and I don't I don't get why. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And sometimes he's not in the he doesn't live in
Speaker 1: the wood. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Maybe he's just nomadic and maybe that's the Tigger.
Speaker 3: Maybe you were a part of Tigger movie then, Yeah,
Speaker 3: And I used to love as a kid. Uh, watching
Speaker 3: them all dressed like him, like creating that acceptance with
Speaker 3: him and creating that family that he was like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love that. Yeah, I love the Tigger movie.
Speaker 3: Oh god yeah, seeing that I have a plushya poober
Speaker 3: and he's dressed as Tiggerah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So that's a good one, so fun. It's a
Speaker 1: pretty famous one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like that.
Speaker 1: I don't see a lot of those that would hold
Speaker 1: on to that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like anyway, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, speaking of hanging on to it, what's the rarest
Speaker 2: thing that you say, you don't?
Speaker 4: I actually brought it, you did?
Speaker 1: I brought it?
Speaker 2: So would this be a good time to bust it out?
Speaker 3: Let me just make sure I don't anything here, so
Speaker 3: believe it or not, it's in my bag, but it's
Speaker 3: very well protected. It is a funko pop and it's
Speaker 3: from twenty twelve. I'm okay taking it out because I'm
Speaker 3: not sure. I'm not a stickler like that. I've taken
Speaker 3: it out of the box too, out of its box box.
Speaker 3: But it's a it's flocked so it's fuzzy and it's
Speaker 3: the two Fuzzy Love because yeah, he came out twenty twelve,
Speaker 3: San Diego Comic Con, and there's only four hundred.
Speaker 4: And eighty of those in existence.
Speaker 1: Wow, so now there's four hundred and seventy nine. Well
Speaker 1: all right, I suppose I'll give it back.
Speaker 3: So this this pop too, I got secondhand years and
Speaker 3: years ago during COVID, and you know, potentially it was
Speaker 3: a an impulse purchase, but I saved by selling I
Speaker 3: saved by selling some other collectibles.
Speaker 2: VID how much did that cost?
Speaker 4: So when I bought it it was five hundred.
Speaker 2: How much would it cost if Jim signed it?
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, Well it's valued now is three thousand.
Speaker 1: So this when it's about to be three ten.
Speaker 3: So I've always actually thought about having you sign it,
Speaker 3: because I mean, you're the one, so get.
Speaker 1: We have the technology.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we can do it.
Speaker 1: We could do it.
Speaker 3: So actually, speaking of COVID, during the time when you
Speaker 3: were doing signings and videos for people, I sent in
Speaker 3: a box and you signed one of my pops over COVID,
Speaker 3: and I have the video still on my phone and
Speaker 3: stuff that you filmed for me. Oh good, so I
Speaker 3: was able. I can't remember who the company was V shout,
Speaker 3: I think, so I don't know if it was you
Speaker 3: were somewhere. I don't know if it was maybe you
Speaker 3: went to a con location and it was super limited,
Speaker 3: or maybe they just sent them when I sent that in.
Speaker 4: But it's not this one, obviously.
Speaker 3: But I have another one, the non fuzzy version of
Speaker 3: this that I had sign that's also a more rare collectible.
Speaker 3: And I mean, you know, there's so many people out
Speaker 3: there that are doing it for the value, sure, and
Speaker 3: I just don't I mean, as a true fan, I
Speaker 3: just don't relate to wanting that I want my name
Speaker 3: on it.
Speaker 4: I want, you know, those things.
Speaker 3: And you know what if somebody one day sold a
Speaker 3: collectible that they had signed, Sure, but you know, maybe
Speaker 3: you'll find someone who has your same name, that would
Speaker 3: be that'd be the seller's best best case. But I
Speaker 3: don't ever plan to get rid of them or you know,
Speaker 3: pass it on to whoever one day. But in the
Speaker 3: realm of collectibles online, I do a lot of hunting
Speaker 3: around for different things, and a big part of my
Speaker 3: thing is mystery items, whether so you know Funko Lounge,
Speaker 3: fly stores like Box Lunch and Hot Topic, like they
Speaker 3: still sell enamel pins, but they're single pins in a
Speaker 3: black box.
Speaker 4: And their mystery so you don't know what you're going
Speaker 4: to get.
Speaker 1: And I got in.
Speaker 3: I got into those because I lounge Fly was making
Speaker 3: a lot of winning the poop pen sets. So there'll
Speaker 3: be a set that includes Pooh Bear, tigger, owl, piglet
Speaker 3: e or and maybe they'll throw in roue or somebody.
Speaker 3: A lot of the fans are always like, come on,
Speaker 3: like we want rabbit, we want owl. So they listen
Speaker 3: and we get sets that have owl and rabbit and such.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean people love to watch the excitement, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's not his brother.
Speaker 1: What did Cameron get? I forget years ago or what
Speaker 1: was that you that he got? He bought a mystery
Speaker 1: pack for like fifty bucks and he had oh my god,
Speaker 1: I can't even.
Speaker 2: When he got the baseball bat? Is that I can't remember?
Speaker 1: Maybe and sometimes you can buy the whole set and
Speaker 1: you'll get my homes in there and a couple of
Speaker 1: quarterbacks trading cards. Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, And it was
Speaker 1: like whoa, I mean, it was all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it was like a ten thousand dollars per gosh, you
Speaker 1: know box made, they're like two or three in there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, do you know of the Laarcana game, the Disney cards,
Speaker 3: so those are mystery packs as well. I mean, for
Speaker 3: the most part, you sometimes can get the.
Speaker 1: Starter set or whatever.
Speaker 3: But yeah, those are an absolute hit and I'm not
Speaker 3: supercluded into value of them, but there's tons of cards.
Speaker 2: That are Do you collect them?
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 3: I started doing Lorcanic cards because they were mystery packs
Speaker 3: and it was fun to find out who But then
Speaker 3: then I started chasing after Pho Beer and friends.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think.
Speaker 3: I got a Woo Bear a Tigger Rabbit for sure.
Speaker 3: I don't think that they have like everybody as characters,
Speaker 3: but yeah, there's some really cool cards and they all
Speaker 3: have different right you know, yeah, two or three each.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have a couple of Rays and Peter two.
Speaker 1: And I remember I don't think I found Hondo Hondo. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I got three Hondas in one of them.
Speaker 3: He's one of my favorite Star Wars characters. I'm a
Speaker 3: I'm a junkie for the animated Star Wars stuff, so
Speaker 3: I lo. Yeah, One war is honestly is like why
Speaker 3: I fell in love with Star Wars as an adult,
Speaker 3: because like I watched it before, but when I revisited and.
Speaker 4: Just watched it all. I just thought it was so awesome.
Speaker 3: And that's another thing that I actually didn't even know
Speaker 3: you were a part of until until I became a
Speaker 3: fan of you as a as an actor, you know, and.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my pleasure.
Speaker 3: I was thinking about this morning even, and I was
Speaker 3: just like, gosh it, like the list goes on, like
Speaker 3: when you did those awesome videos.
Speaker 4: I'm a voice actor.
Speaker 3: And gosh finding out even I don't even know if
Speaker 3: the character as a name, but in Shrek.
Speaker 1: Oh the I was the Captain of the Guard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you oga, Like I didn't even know that,
Speaker 3: And like that's a line that I can hear in
Speaker 3: my head because I've seen that movie so many times.
Speaker 4: So, yeah, that's so funny.
Speaker 1: Well that that's funny you bring that up. I can't
Speaker 1: remember the Will Smith movie where it was after the
Speaker 1: Apocalypse everybody was a zombie. I'm lug Oh, I am legend,
Speaker 1: I am legend. Well, apparently he had a few VHS
Speaker 1: tapes left over and he would just put them on
Speaker 1: like for background, and and he walks into his apartment
Speaker 1: and you hear me go, oh go you then you
Speaker 1: the movie? What are you doing in the movie? He
Speaker 1: was watching that movie in his movie, and I looked
Speaker 1: at my wife and I said, I can't believe I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get a check off this one.
Speaker 4: I am.
Speaker 1: I am legend in the credit. This is my new
Speaker 1: favorite Will Smith movie. Out of all of them, this
Speaker 1: is the one I like the most. Wow.
Speaker 3: Wait, I don't even think that I remember that now. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's Halloween time.
Speaker 1: Everybody get out there. You gotta watch that. Go watch
Speaker 1: you gotta love that one part. I could promise you
Speaker 1: that is so funny.
Speaker 2: Somber and he comes in from the kitchen sitting there.
Speaker 1: That is funny.
Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like I can remember that theme
Speaker 3: of him, kind of like, you know, what else are
Speaker 3: you gonna do?
Speaker 4: That's popping an old movie.
Speaker 3: Okay, So before we move on from collectibles, I brought
Speaker 3: one for you to open. So I've got this really
Speaker 3: cool you know Disney doorables. Are you familiar at all?
Speaker 3: So it's just a toy brand by Just Play, and
Speaker 3: they do character little miniatures and there's usually big sets.
Speaker 3: They often include poo Bear and Tigger and Eyre, but
Speaker 3: Poober got his own set and rightly so and rightly
Speaker 3: so so on the back it'll show you all the
Speaker 3: options that there are. I think there's like eight and
Speaker 3: they have different themes and they all have different levels
Speaker 3: of rarity.
Speaker 1: Well, yes they do.
Speaker 4: So you talked about having little trinkets. Now you can
Speaker 4: have one more.
Speaker 1: That is crazy. Do I dare open it too? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Gotta find out where you get. It's a mystery. The
Speaker 1: people want to see the people.
Speaker 3: Let me just say right now, me Blake doing a
Speaker 3: mystery item with Jim and it's Winnie the Pooh Do doo.
Speaker 1: Boom boom boom boom. Let's see, shall we. Okay, here's
Speaker 1: a hint okay, and it's.
Speaker 4: Their depot with the soccer ball.
Speaker 1: It's soccer ball.
Speaker 4: Those are all fuzzy too, every single one of them.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, little fuzzy pooh yeah, oh.
Speaker 3: Man, first doorable. Wow, look at that because they are adorable.
Speaker 1: Look at that, ladies and gentlemen. And he's fuzzy and
Speaker 1: does his head move No it doesn't, but it breaks
Speaker 1: here we go. See anybody see that? Nice? That's one
Speaker 1: cute bear. That is thank you. This is wonderful. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: of course I can't even sign it. It's too small. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I couldn't. I couldn't come empty handed.
Speaker 3: And definitely needed to have you do one of the
Speaker 3: things that I'm most known for, So.
Speaker 1: That is fantastic. Put it back, keep it in the original,
Speaker 1: just on a kind of.
Speaker 2: The original bag, the original bag.
Speaker 1: Surely that makes it much much more valuable.
Speaker 3: Of course you can sign the bag, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: plenty of real estate on the.
Speaker 1: Bas Absolutely, thanks man, and thank you for this too. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I came and gave you enough information to know what
Speaker 3: it's worth and you can hit the hit the road man.
Speaker 1: Yes, well that's that's pretty amazing.
Speaker 4: So when you or when is the last time I
Speaker 4: guess you were at Disneyland.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, it wasn't quite a year.
Speaker 2: We were all there, Yeah, about for Cameron's engagement. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Cameron's a little like a year and a half ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, year and a half. That sounds about right.
Speaker 3: Do you typically go visit the friends, the Pooh and Tigger, Well, yeah.
Speaker 1: They're they're very kind. They'll they'll give me somebody to
Speaker 1: walk me around. Yeah, yeah, it's wart I get recognized
Speaker 1: there a bit, I imagine. Yeah, I don't. I don't usually,
Speaker 1: but well, you know, conventions are Disney yes, as I do, yea.
Speaker 1: And it was funny we were there a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, and there's this thing called Disney bounding. Yeah,
Speaker 1: are you familiar with her? Okay? And what that is
Speaker 1: for people like, say, for instance, if everybody wanted to
Speaker 1: be Disney Bounding of the Hunter acre Wood, which is
Speaker 1: what happened. We were getting ready to go into Club
Speaker 1: thirty three this place, and there were people standing around
Speaker 1: there and there was a very distinguished looking fellow and
Speaker 1: he had a brown vest on, and he had a mustache,
Speaker 1: and he had the traditional sort of eighteen nineties hairdo,
Speaker 1: and he had a vest and a cane. He was
Speaker 1: very proper. Then there was someone standing next to him,
Speaker 1: a lady in a big orangeish sort of sweater that
Speaker 1: went down you can see where this is going. Then
Speaker 1: there's a lady standing next to her wearing striped pajamas
Speaker 1: and they were sort of left right. And I said,
Speaker 1: I'm going to go out on a limb here and
Speaker 1: I'm talking to you, Piglet, you know, are you guys bounders?
Speaker 1: And he said, oh, well, yes, some goals and he
Speaker 1: gave his best owl. Oh I love it. Okay.
Speaker 4: I was thinking in my head it's got to be owl,
Speaker 4: but maybe I'm yes.
Speaker 1: Yes, it was, and it was very cute. It was
Speaker 1: very sweet, and they were just hanging around ling to you.
Speaker 1: When because was that your first exposure to the world
Speaker 1: of bounding? No, but only through the internet. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know that. I saw many live people.
Speaker 3: Sometimes they're right under your nose, I would say, because
Speaker 3: what is bounding for anybody who doesn't yeh. So Disney
Speaker 3: Bounding was actually created by a girl named Leslie Leslie Kay,
Speaker 3: and she started the whole concept years and years ago,
Speaker 3: I can't remember. There's actually a book about it, which
Speaker 3: is pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: And they're recognized, you know, by Disney as like the
Speaker 3: official way to dress up without dressing up and uh,
Speaker 3: you know, as adults, we go to the parks and
Speaker 3: you're not allowed to wear full costume. You can't go
Speaker 3: to the parks dressed at in a Winnie the Pooh costume,
Speaker 3: just like I can't go to the park's dress exactly
Speaker 3: like aston because I'm just so ripped. Everybody's gonna think
Speaker 3: that it's but it's just, you know, you affect people's
Speaker 3: perception of the character because you do not work for Disney,
Speaker 3: and yeah, they don't want you running around taking pictures
Speaker 3: and doing a meet and greet and having a line
Speaker 3: for them because.
Speaker 4: People think you are official.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So Disney Bounding was created as just a way for
Speaker 3: adults to kind of get away with repping their favorite
Speaker 3: characters without doing too much. And yeah, it's just you
Speaker 3: can use time period color shapes. I participate myself because
Speaker 3: I just think it's so fun. And the day that
Speaker 3: I did that dinner in Epcot, I was bounding as Tigger.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and I made a vest that was orange and.
Speaker 4: I colored black stripes on it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, wore a lounge fly backpack of
Speaker 3: Tigger and had the ears and everything.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's pretty fun.
Speaker 3: It's like a kind of way for you to just
Speaker 3: like enjoy and like you capture the essence of the
Speaker 3: character without dressing as exactly like the character, because you
Speaker 3: can only do that for like Ogi Boogie Bash.
Speaker 1: You can actually dress up for Ogie Boogie Oki Boogie Bash.
Speaker 4: Yeah. The Halloween party at California Adventure.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I was gonna say, you have to explain
Speaker 1: that one to y.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, maybe if you're unfamiliar. You know, in Orlando
Speaker 3: they have Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party. That's what
Speaker 3: it's called out there, and then we have Ougi Boogie
Speaker 3: Bash takes place in California Adventure.
Speaker 4: So Ogi Boogie is the generous host. Go meet him.
Speaker 3: They have a bunch of different characters, I mean the
Speaker 3: they premiere a lot of really cool face characters.
Speaker 4: Last year they had.
Speaker 3: Judge Doom from Roger Rabbit, who from Roger Rabbit. And
Speaker 3: this year they have a live action face character doing
Speaker 3: hades which is pretty fun. Oh yeah, so they've got
Speaker 3: a lot of cool stuff and even Doofen Schmertz from
Speaker 3: Phineas and Ferb they have this year.
Speaker 1: Oh, you have a real.
Speaker 4: Person dressed up as a cartoon man.
Speaker 3: It's really interesting. The prosthetics and stuff are pretty awesome.
Speaker 3: You got to look it up because it's it's pretty great.
Speaker 2: Do they do that like I've seen that paint where
Speaker 2: they make it look like it's animated, almost like the
Speaker 2: highlights and the bold makeup.
Speaker 1: Yeah know what I mean.
Speaker 3: I mean, it doesn't it looks like a cartoon human.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's pretty It's pretty cool without being a costume, right,
Speaker 3: like covering his face or anything. But yeah, I've always
Speaker 3: been so curious because I've seen various videos. You know
Speaker 3: of voice actors interacting with their characters and such at
Speaker 3: the parks or you know whatever.
Speaker 4: I know that's probably so cool.
Speaker 3: I mean, I would love to be one of those
Speaker 3: cast members that just happens to know who you are
Speaker 3: that day.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's pretty special. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And do you feel like you get a lot of
Speaker 3: maybe not just from cast members, but just in life,
Speaker 3: Like I'm sure you hear a lot of touching stories
Speaker 3: about what Hubert means.
Speaker 1: To the people.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, he has some tattoos, I'm sure like mine.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, mine's very tasteful.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yours is very very subdued. It's his head.
Speaker 1: It's an outline. Yeah, disembodied floating head. That's great. We
Speaker 1: got hit him making I got to hit him poo.
Speaker 1: But yeah, there's there's plenty of beautiful stories from you know,
Speaker 1: people that that have told me over the years, you know,
Speaker 1: things that who has saved them or given them a
Speaker 1: safe haven. Yeah, you know, and I cherished that. Do
Speaker 1: you relate to that? Sure? Yeah? Oh yeah, you know
Speaker 1: I couldn't imagine meeting Zoro or Davy Crockett you know,
Speaker 1: when I was when I was a kid, So I yes,
Speaker 1: I get it, yeah, you know.
Speaker 3: Because I'm sure you have your own deeper connections to
Speaker 3: Poobert that oh yeah that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah, he's he's gotten me through times of trouble.
Speaker 1: You know, I was going through this horrendous and it
Speaker 1: wasn't even like a custody battle with with an X
Speaker 1: and but it was all the dust was all settled,
Speaker 1: but it was all about you know, getting money, blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. And I actually even wrote it down. I
Speaker 1: said maybe I should bring this up. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I should, but anyway, I was making Christopher Robin
Speaker 1: at the time, and you know, you go to the
Speaker 1: courthouse and you're it's all straightforward and it's all this
Speaker 1: that and and it's very very taxing. And then I
Speaker 1: would leave there and go to a hundred acre wood,
Speaker 1: you know, there's no other way to put it, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, and spend hours and hours making Pooh and
Speaker 1: Tigger come to life in Christopher Robin. And I have
Speaker 1: to say that it's it's when any of the Pooh
Speaker 1: can save you, Yeah that's all. Yeah, yeah, I can
Speaker 1: save you that. Huh.
Speaker 4: Thanks for sharing that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, I have a lot of people that come
Speaker 1: up you know, like to this conventions mm hm. You know,
Speaker 1: people will come up and they'll and they'll have stories
Speaker 1: like that, and then I ended up with one of
Speaker 1: my own. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I'm sure people even listening just feel special
Speaker 3: to hear you share because it's extremely validating as a
Speaker 3: connecting fan to know that that connection runs so much
Speaker 3: deeper than just you, because you know, I have my
Speaker 3: own my own stories that just you know, times of
Speaker 3: uncertainty or just whatever, and just having that one thing
Speaker 3: that kind of grounds you and comfort character is a
Speaker 3: perfect description of Poober, I think, and you know Tigger too,
Speaker 3: And I know that a lot of people find themselves
Speaker 3: in those characters. There's you know, speculations that each of
Speaker 3: them represent something or whatever, and you know, people find
Speaker 3: themselves in their demeanor and their actions and their behaviors.
Speaker 3: And but yeah, that's quite a dissonance going from that
Speaker 3: such going into the studio.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a pendulum swing unlike any other I can
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Speaker 1: dot com slash Jim Cummings podcast Do It Now. You know,
Speaker 1: I've often thought that Winnie the Pooh is can be
Speaker 1: like a mental spiritual oasis. You know, it takes you
Speaker 1: away from the every day and whether it be it
Speaker 1: great or be it not so great. Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: it's a safe haven. Yeah, it's a safe haven. The
Speaker 1: hunter Acre Wood's a pretty pretty safe place to be.
Speaker 4: And have you visited the real one in the UK?
Speaker 3: No, I have not got to go. I know I
Speaker 3: have not either, but uh yeah, we could do a part.
Speaker 4: Two podcasts.
Speaker 1: Catch the Next Flight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, would you mind looking it up?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I don't want to butcher the name,
Speaker 3: but I I want to say like Hartford or something.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: But there's the house that the real Christopher Robin grew
Speaker 3: up in. Is on Airbnb really yeah, which you know,
Speaker 3: of course everything is everything is accessible, but you can
Speaker 3: go and I don't know how much time you actually
Speaker 3: spend on social media, but there's a cafe in the
Speaker 3: middle of the woods that was inspired that the hundred
Speaker 3: acre Wood was inspired by and you can have breakfast
Speaker 3: and it's this themed Winnie the Pooh Cafe and they
Speaker 3: have Winnie the Poo toast and honey and coffee and tea.
Speaker 1: There's gotta be some honey in there for the tea.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you gotta have the side always. But yeah, and
Speaker 3: I've always wanted to visit just because why not. And
Speaker 3: there's there's even activities like there's a bridge and you
Speaker 3: can play poosticks and there's sticks that you can.
Speaker 4: Throw into the water. Just because of that reference, Like
Speaker 4: it's so cool.
Speaker 1: I've played poo sticks many times. Play in Missouri with
Speaker 1: a similar little bridge. Yeah, I gotta play poo sticks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you kinda got a transport there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's a violent sport, but once you get
Speaker 1: past that, it's competitive. It's dare I say highly competitive?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think we're just so lucky as
Speaker 3: fans of him to be able to see that stuff.
Speaker 3: And I just I love hearing the you're a fan
Speaker 3: of him, Like, I just it's I'm sure there's like
Speaker 3: a little bit of a weird like am I saying
Speaker 3: that I'm a fan of.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, well, fortunately it was around. It came from literature, yes,
Speaker 1: and and that that and I'm Strolling Halloway was the
Speaker 1: original original He did the first three without with I
Speaker 1: dare say, without Walt Disney going back and digging up
Speaker 1: from literature, we wouldn't be having this conversation. Yeah, it's true,
Speaker 1: you know, but Walt's genius as usual came through. And
Speaker 1: you know he tapped. He did the same thing with
Speaker 1: Mary Poppins that was kind of a popular children's book,
Speaker 1: I guess, right, yeah, and not a nursery rhyme, but
Speaker 1: in that neck of the woods. And uh and you
Speaker 1: know he mind all those those perfect little place a
Speaker 1: both jungle books another one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's another product Sterling was involved with, right.
Speaker 1: Yes, well he was cal Yeah, he's call and now
Speaker 1: I'm blue. So I'm I'm I've got the trifecta. I've
Speaker 1: been king Louis for a long time. Yeah, pooh for
Speaker 1: a long time. And just recently they needed blue for
Speaker 1: d C D twenty three's not a twenty fifth, get
Speaker 1: what it was?
Speaker 4: Something for you?
Speaker 1: Yeah, anyway, they need they needed blue. So I was below,
Speaker 1: come on on their little bridges, let's get going. Come
Speaker 1: look out now you know.
Speaker 4: So, uh, did you get to sing the baar necessity?
Speaker 1: I have not, not not then. And Phil Harris was
Speaker 1: a friend of mine. Yeah, I got to meet him
Speaker 1: and work with him a few times. Then he kind
Speaker 1: of retired and here I am. Yeah, then I have
Speaker 1: you done any work as Cheshire Cat? Oh? Very little? Yeah,
Speaker 1: not much, but yes, yeah here.
Speaker 3: And as far as the parks go, like you're stamped
Speaker 3: in there right like you you've done work for you?
Speaker 1: Are you?
Speaker 4: Hondo and Galaxy s Edge? Oh yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, every time you hear Hondo, it's me.
Speaker 3: That's like always my favorite fun fact with friends that
Speaker 3: don't go to the parks often, or even just friends
Speaker 3: that are not included in as deep. But We're waiting
Speaker 3: in line for Smugglers Run and I'm like, it's many.
Speaker 1: I hear that. I know it is, Yeah, the same
Speaker 1: Smugglers Run.
Speaker 3: You've seen it. Oh, it's pretty amazing. Gosh that animatronic.
Speaker 3: I just remember seeing that for the first time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it knocked me out. I've said it before.
Speaker 1: You know, you're sitting there looking at it, you go, wow,
Speaker 1: that looks really good. And then because he's facing the
Speaker 1: other direction. Yeah, and he's doing this that the other yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then he turns around and walks over and looks
Speaker 1: down at you and to go, oh, hello, I wasn't
Speaker 1: expecting that. No, so cool. I'm waiting for him to
Speaker 1: jump down and high five. Yeah. Yeah, Hi.
Speaker 3: Okay, So maybe I just I'm not familiar enough if
Speaker 3: there's a cameo. But he's never been seen in live action, right,
Speaker 3: just Clone Wars and Rebels.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it. Yeah, gosh, that's.
Speaker 3: So cool that it feels because he feels live action
Speaker 3: there of course, because you're well and that feels like it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it feels like you have seen him in live action
Speaker 3: because of that. Yeah, which I guess that is part
Speaker 3: of the universe. So that's pretty special. Have you done
Speaker 3: because he's obviously coaching you through the ride when you
Speaker 3: in the Falcon?
Speaker 4: But have you heard of or done chewy mode before?
Speaker 1: Is this?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: I haven't, but I heard an inkling of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: please take it away. Yeah, I get to teach you.
Speaker 1: Some of them don't.
Speaker 3: I don't know exactly how to do it at each station,
Speaker 3: but typically the cast member will assist if you request
Speaker 3: chewy Mode. It just involves like, you know, everybody's got
Speaker 3: to be buckled, and then there's like switches at each
Speaker 3: station the two pilots, two gunners, and two engineers that
Speaker 3: have to be hit before the ride begins. And if
Speaker 3: you hit the marks on all of those buttons and
Speaker 3: switches before you touch anything else, then Chewy will coach
Speaker 3: you through the whole ride. And naturally it's chaotic because.
Speaker 4: You don't know what the heck can you say? It's
Speaker 4: just that the whole time.
Speaker 3: Never have I ever performed as badly on that ride
Speaker 3: as when I'm but it's a riot.
Speaker 1: But at least you had him to blame for it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was just he made me do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: And then of course you still report back to Hondo
Speaker 3: at the end and he's all angry that you're ruined
Speaker 3: the ship.
Speaker 4: Yeah this much, you know coaxium and.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's right, that's right. And then if you do well,
Speaker 1: he says, we still have some time, let's go get
Speaker 1: some more. Yeah. Pretty cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's pretty awesome.
Speaker 1: I've had that happen like once. Yeah, you know, Oh
Speaker 1: that's fun. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Sometimes there's like that extra they do, like the extra
Speaker 3: scenes at the end and stuff, there's extra time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was awesome. I remember when it's interesting because
Speaker 1: when you're on the when you go to Disneyland, it
Speaker 1: looks like you're getting on the Millennium Falcon, the spaceship
Speaker 1: it's and it's actual size, it's real and and I
Speaker 1: remember when they gave us the first walk through. I
Speaker 1: just sat down at that that weird little chessboard, the
Speaker 1: three D and I wanted to hang out there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Milaiavant and the lady says, you know, this is a problem,
Speaker 1: And I said, what's that? She says, People get on
Speaker 1: this thing and they go, wait a minute, this is
Speaker 1: the Millennium. Yeah, okay, I'm just gonna sit what a moment. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna sit down. And it smells like the Millennium Falcon,
Speaker 1: you know, and you're sitting there loving life. And the
Speaker 1: people had to gently go okay, but you have to
Speaker 1: do the ride now because there are other people behind it.
Speaker 4: That immersion is no joke.
Speaker 3: And yeah, and so you've obviously visited, but have you
Speaker 3: you've been with other cast members then, or I say,
Speaker 3: customers gets confusing with the parks, but with other Star
Speaker 3: Wars actors, not.
Speaker 1: On that one Princess and the Frog. Yes, but no.
Speaker 1: In fact, the first time I saw the Millennium Falcon,
Speaker 1: I saw the raw it was over it in Glendale
Speaker 1: with the imagineering where they put it together, come up
Speaker 1: with it, and it's this big giant thing like this,
Speaker 1: like here's the here's the cockpit, and you walk up
Speaker 1: and you get in and it's just you know, and
Speaker 1: then then of course they incorporate that into the ship
Speaker 1: when you're in the park, so it looks like you're
Speaker 1: getting on this big and which you kind of are.
Speaker 1: But and then the thing goes like this all over
Speaker 1: all on the side, and I screwed up and I
Speaker 1: was the navigator and I went and I remember sitting
Speaker 1: there and we're going like this, Okay, this is actual
Speaker 1: gravity because you're strapped on the floor. Yeah wow. And
Speaker 1: I thought, okay, this is a little too real. You
Speaker 1: want to get me up there, my land lover. But
Speaker 1: because I don't know what I'm.
Speaker 4: I'm going to kill us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's it's insane, you know. The attention to
Speaker 1: detail means everything, And that was one of the tenets
Speaker 1: of Walt Walt's original because I've seen any number of
Speaker 1: you know, documentary footage and well, we're here in Anaheim, California,
Speaker 1: making Disney and they hear where they're on a roller coaster.
Speaker 1: They're doing it, and it shows how and he said,
Speaker 1: everything has to be real. The more realistic it is,
Speaker 1: the better, you know, you don't want to leave anything
Speaker 1: to imagination. And it's it's a beautiful concept.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean the whole land itself is just.
Speaker 2: I've always I've always felt like Disney. Disney just strikes me,
Speaker 2: especially when you're in the parks, as like an engineering
Speaker 2: company more than anything, more than entertainment, more than storytelling.
Speaker 2: To me, the engineering of Disney since its inception has
Speaker 2: just been incredible, from the way they make films, the innovations,
Speaker 2: I mean, the technology and the park rides, you know,
Speaker 2: all the inventions that they really have to come up
Speaker 2: with in order to storytell, in order to and I mean, like,
Speaker 2: if you think about it, Star Wars and Disney are
Speaker 2: like a match made in heaven because, you know, George
Speaker 2: Lucas didn't even make his vision at first because the
Speaker 2: technology wasn't there, you know, and what other company, let's
Speaker 2: build the technology, you know, the huge what hollow screens
Speaker 2: that they used they started using in the Mandalorian. I
Speaker 2: mean seeing those is just I saw this video on
Speaker 2: YouTube the other day where they're designing this like multi
Speaker 2: directional treadmill where you can walk and you just walk
Speaker 2: in place. And so let's see like all the virtual
Speaker 2: reality without the glasses. A big screen three sixty around you.
Speaker 4: Did you see the Lucasfilm Area D twenty three.
Speaker 1: No, I haven't seen it.
Speaker 3: They had a smaller scale version of that screen. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and you could take pictures.
Speaker 2: It was right around the corner too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah it was and it looked exactly like you
Speaker 3: could take a photo and it looks like you're on
Speaker 3: the ship or you know, wherever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so cool.
Speaker 4: I mean that technology is amazing.
Speaker 2: And like going back to the animatronics, like the animatronics
Speaker 2: in Hondo incredible. Yeah, animatronics in The Princess and the
Speaker 2: Frog with oh Man beautiful.
Speaker 3: I've got to go on it a couple of times
Speaker 3: a year in Florida and it's pretty fab.
Speaker 2: Avatar Avatar Animatronics in Florida. It's just like it's it's
Speaker 2: so fluid that it's like almost creepy on It's like
Speaker 2: Navvy River Journey ride. Yeah, it's like it's a little
Speaker 2: too large, like in the collar in the in the Clan,
Speaker 2: but with the like medicinal like Mother of the Clan.
Speaker 1: Like it's just unreal.
Speaker 4: I'm like, that's she's real.
Speaker 2: She's right there.
Speaker 3: Oh God, Like you said about Honda, it's like he's
Speaker 3: going to jump down and.
Speaker 1: Just come to any second now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well
Speaker 1: I remember on the Avatar ride too when we did it.
Speaker 1: You know, you get on and you're in this what
Speaker 1: is that a cyclorama?
Speaker 2: I guess it's like a little like motor bike. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're so like an Imax screen almost, yeah.
Speaker 1: But it's all yeah, and you sit on there and
Speaker 1: then you you connect to your avatar of trying to
Speaker 1: get the sequence, and then all of a sudden you
Speaker 1: feel brea it starts breathing. You go, oh, okay, here
Speaker 1: we go.
Speaker 3: You know, that's probably one of the coolest attraction moments
Speaker 3: I've ever had in my life, just like getting ready
Speaker 3: to do this amazing and that you know it's going
Speaker 3: to be great, and then you feel it between your
Speaker 3: legs as if you're actually riding it.
Speaker 4: Yes, you feel the breath.
Speaker 2: I love it when they hit you with the mists.
Speaker 1: And the smell. Yeah, all the flowers exciting.
Speaker 4: And thrilling, sore and over the world.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, absolutely, Well, it's just amazing because you just feel
Speaker 1: like you're there, you know, and and I just you know,
Speaker 1: we sat there and because we had a or a
Speaker 1: guard or somebody to walk us through, as can we
Speaker 1: do it again? Like three more, four, five times? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's one thing you want to redo.
Speaker 3: They just have the technology and like with the trackless
Speaker 3: systems now like Rise of the Resistance, Yeah, rightually in Tokyo.
Speaker 3: I've never been, but Tokyo's Winnie the Pooh ride is
Speaker 3: trackless and there's a big tree in the middle of
Speaker 3: the room and you glide and like I have only
Speaker 3: seen a couple of videos, I try to leave leave
Speaker 3: my imagination open too some things before I can myself.
Speaker 3: But you know, our ride's awesome in California, and it's
Speaker 3: different in Orlando, and like that's that's really fun. But
Speaker 3: it just seems like such an advanced approach to the
Speaker 3: Winning the Poo ride that I just can't wait to
Speaker 3: experience one day. I'm going in April because I'm going
Speaker 3: to Star Wars celebration in Tokyo.
Speaker 1: Ohky yeh'd be fun.
Speaker 3: So hopefully i'll get to see the ride then, but yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: have you been to all the no Tokyo Love to Go?
Speaker 1: Yeah, looks like it, really. I have a had from Paris?
Speaker 1: Does that comet? Yeah? Sure?
Speaker 3: Hey, they were selling Disneyland Paris merchandise at D twenty three,
Speaker 3: so I think we all could just buy proxy.
Speaker 1: We've all been, I've seen it.
Speaker 2: Well, you've been to the one in Paris. You've been
Speaker 2: to the one in Paris?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I haven't been.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: They have the best rides.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so the best and the castle with the
Speaker 3: dragon underneath. Yeah, I think there's a dragon in there. Yeah,
Speaker 3: pretty cool. Yeah, they have the most thrilling rides. I
Speaker 3: haven't been to the Tokyo one either though.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Gotta get over there. Yeah, got to think of
Speaker 1: a and for Disney to pay for us to go
Speaker 1: over there. I guess that's what I'm really saying. There's
Speaker 1: going to be something coming up, got to be. Got
Speaker 1: to be some anniversary something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So what are you most excited for right now
Speaker 3: in in your in your world?
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, well something you can talk about, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's one thing I can't really talk about, But I
Speaker 1: have an interesting thing. Have you ever heard of Tomorrowland? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I went through twice. No, not the Disney No, then,
Speaker 1: well I don't know. Maybe ah see, I got I knew,
Speaker 1: I knew you were I.
Speaker 4: Thought we were doing a bit.
Speaker 1: Okay, how about Frontier Character how about Frontierland? Have you
Speaker 1: ever heard of that? Okay? No, But tomorrow Land is
Speaker 1: a rave. Oh the biggest raves based on Earth. Okay, yeah, yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's massive, yeah, massive, And it's usually held in some
Speaker 1: really interesting place. You know. It was in Brazil for
Speaker 1: a year or two, in Rus Belgium. Uh. Anyway, I'm
Speaker 1: the guy who I'm the There's there's some more wrapped
Speaker 1: around it. Tomorrow Land. There's a place where people can
Speaker 1: go and become one through music and you know, and
Speaker 1: it's all just rave music and people probably just getting
Speaker 1: high beyond there. I did not know this. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: the biggest rave in the world, and they have and
Speaker 1: they're all bigger than Woodstock. Yeah yeah, yeah, And they
Speaker 1: spend astonishing amounts of money to recreate a world for
Speaker 1: that one and then it goes two weeks three maybe
Speaker 1: something like that. It lasts that long, well, you know,
Speaker 1: and then I don't. I don't know that they're consecutive
Speaker 1: in a row, but they donds Thursday Sunday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's one of those like a Coachella, the Rave world,
Speaker 3: Yeah probably, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, infinitely bigger and it's the damnedest thing and everybody's
Speaker 1: there and they're all walking around banging into each other
Speaker 1: because they're doing god god knows what. But it's kind
Speaker 1: of cool. Yeah, and have good food. So the next one,
Speaker 1: that's a good question.
Speaker 3: I just did have you redo it every years, like
Speaker 3: every summer, every summer, because they tell a new story
Speaker 3: or yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's all based on some you know, the
Speaker 1: people of you know, the Children of Icarus. They fly
Speaker 1: too close to the sun. The land in a place
Speaker 1: called to motive Land, and it's kind of like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: That's a fun fact that that's that's it's really crazy.
Speaker 2: You should watch like a trailer of it on YouTube.
Speaker 2: It's got the production value. It's like it's reminiscent of Disneyland,
Speaker 2: but it actually is for for like adults. Obviously.
Speaker 1: I wonder how long this has been a thing, because
Speaker 1: have you been a part of it since its inception,
Speaker 1: So maybe I missed the very first year.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, it's yeah, like a dozen years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh gosh yeah wow. Yeah, I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: I remember doing it in this one house. I did
Speaker 1: it at home and that was good. That's like twenty
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Speaker 2: I want to ask you another question, Blake, since we're
Speaker 2: here on social media, like and subscribe if.
Speaker 1: You like this content, by the way, and is that
Speaker 1: what it is?
Speaker 2: When did you start like getting on the full grind
Speaker 2: hustle of social media because you post so much content.
Speaker 2: I mean it's just like astant flow.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I felt like I was on your page scrolling for
Speaker 2: you know, ten minutes and I was like three days ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Some people love that, Yeah, some people probably.
Speaker 2: Don't love but I think it's important for like people
Speaker 2: who have a social media following to explain to like,
Speaker 2: you know, kids who may be watching, you know, younger
Speaker 2: generations who want to do social media as a career,
Speaker 2: like what it really takes and how much you have
Speaker 2: to post and plan and can you get into that
Speaker 2: a little bit and when you first started really doing it.
Speaker 3: I mean, I've so Before I even started my journey
Speaker 3: that I'm on right now, I was working as like
Speaker 3: a photographer freelance and I went to college for graphic design.
Speaker 3: So I out of college worked for like five years
Speaker 3: as a professional designer in house at a couple different
Speaker 3: companies and tried a bunch of different stuff. I still
Speaker 3: do freelance stuff here and there. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: I started in twenty twenty over Covid. I started posting
Speaker 3: on Instagram just like kind of casually, just about my
Speaker 3: Funko pops or whatever it was.
Speaker 1: And I think, like there's a.
Speaker 3: Huge testament to social media working when you're not forcing
Speaker 3: it to And so many people pursue it because they're like, oh,
Speaker 3: I want to do this and I want to have
Speaker 3: this many followers and I want to be famous and
Speaker 3: all this stuff, and it never works. When you do that,
Speaker 3: when you when you just jump into it and you say, here's.
Speaker 1: What I'm going to get out of this passion. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And so my passion was sharing the things that I love,
Speaker 4: whether that was Disney or collecting Funko Pops or you
Speaker 4: know whatever at the time. Was sparking joy during a lockdown.
Speaker 1: Well, you know it is you if you're passionate about something,
Speaker 1: then you know you're going to draw others to you. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So it was a huge like community builder right off
Speaker 3: the bat, and that was all it was, was just
Speaker 3: making friends over lockdown and having something to talk about
Speaker 3: and having something that was like more joyful than just
Speaker 3: sitting at home watching paint dry. And it just was
Speaker 3: it was interesting to kind of feel like okay. So
Speaker 3: whether it was like oh I just I have five
Speaker 3: thousand followers on Instagram now or whatever it was. Then
Speaker 3: you know, TikTok came around, and you know those those
Speaker 3: platforms that are honestly blowing people up overnight, like following wise,
Speaker 3: like it's just people are shooting into like having so
Speaker 3: many eyes on them.
Speaker 4: And in twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: One, I started posting on TikTok and had no experiences
Speaker 3: with video at all just was like, oh, let me
Speaker 3: just take someone around.
Speaker 4: The first video I ever had that.
Speaker 3: Got a million views in my life was me going
Speaker 3: to Hot Topic the store, oh boy and finding a
Speaker 3: Winnie the Poop pop And so I always like, I
Speaker 3: have the pop still it's like a Valentine's Savers and
Speaker 3: he's like Cupid and he's like shooting a bow. I
Speaker 3: know the one, and I think so far, like I
Speaker 3: look at that pop and I like thank it for
Speaker 3: like what I'm doing now, because it like showed me
Speaker 3: that sharing what I'm interested in can bring people and
Speaker 3: you know you're not alone, Yeah, bring you friends and
Speaker 3: like just help you even just be excited more about
Speaker 3: those things. And you know, that video happened and it
Speaker 3: was like maybe I should just keep going.
Speaker 4: And you know, soon enough it's one hundred thousand followers.
Speaker 3: Soon enough it's ten thousand on Instagram and then growing, growing,
Speaker 3: and you know, I'm about to hit a million on TikTok,
Speaker 3: which is just crazy. And it's been three years and
Speaker 3: I will say, like I never intended this to be
Speaker 3: like what I was doing it, whether it's.
Speaker 1: Not be it God or the universe.
Speaker 3: Like I just took the call of like this could
Speaker 3: work for you. And I got laid off from my
Speaker 3: job in February of twenty twenty three, so I was
Speaker 3: working full time.
Speaker 1: Probably the best thing you ever happened to. I know.
Speaker 4: I always say, now, I didn't get let go, I
Speaker 4: got set free.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 3: And while I liked it and I liked the work
Speaker 3: that I was doing, I didn't know that I would
Speaker 3: find so much fulfillment. And you know I have I
Speaker 3: have bigger dreams than just being an influencer, if you
Speaker 3: want to call it that. Like, I have no acting experience,
Speaker 3: but I've always wanted to ptry voice acting. I've always
Speaker 3: I'm a singer, so I've always wanted to be able
Speaker 3: to Well that's that's a plus do music. That's why
Speaker 3: I put out my own versions. I did the Winnie
Speaker 3: the Pooh song, and I did a song from the
Speaker 3: New Little Mermaid movie. It did the Prince ballad.
Speaker 1: Well, I can tell you for a fact that the best,
Speaker 1: the people who do the very best in voiceover were singers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: every single person whoever you want to name, Yeah, from
Speaker 1: old day modern they started off as singers. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I just you never know, and like when
Speaker 3: I lost my job and kind of realized, like I
Speaker 3: was putting in the work, posting multiple times a week
Speaker 3: on top of working a full time job. I was
Speaker 3: already a full time creator. I was already putting my
Speaker 3: effort in and it wasn't a chore, It wasn't it
Speaker 3: wasn't like daunting task. It was just because I was
Speaker 3: like excited to share the next thing that I got,
Speaker 3: or share this fact that I had. And I built
Speaker 3: a huge community around my love a Pooh Bear, so
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 4: I love that they're out there. Yeah, I love, love
Speaker 4: love that.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: I see people at Disneyland and they come.
Speaker 1: Up, You're the Pooh guy, like that's great. So it's
Speaker 1: so cool, and you know, and yet something else we
Speaker 1: have in common. I get that too.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's another reason why I was just thinking earlier
Speaker 3: and I mentioned it that my gosh, the people who
Speaker 3: are supporting me are going to be so excited to
Speaker 3: see me with you today. So yeah, just like very
Speaker 3: very grateful. But yeah, it's just I don't know, I mean,
Speaker 3: as far as pursuing, it just takes consistency and.
Speaker 1: Hard work and genuine.
Speaker 2: Do you have a schedule for yourself? Is it like, Okay,
Speaker 2: I got a post like.
Speaker 1: At this point.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: I mean I used to tell myself like get ten
Speaker 3: videos up a day, and that was like crunch, like
Speaker 3: I want to grow, and I did. But I would
Speaker 3: never put that on myself now because I just recognize
Speaker 3: the value of like showing up when you're ready to
Speaker 3: fully show up, and you know, a huge part of
Speaker 3: it from you was showing up for those that were
Speaker 3: showing up for me. So like the people that support
Speaker 3: and I try to respond to comments, I try to
Speaker 3: message people back, and if I get mail to my
Speaker 3: po box, I always give them a thank you, make
Speaker 3: a video showing what it was.
Speaker 1: And I get a lot of.
Speaker 3: Winni the Pooh stuff to my po box and I
Speaker 3: mm hmm, I don't I actually thought about bringing it,
Speaker 3: but someone sent me.
Speaker 4: I think it was a pin.
Speaker 3: I don't know if it was like they call them
Speaker 3: fantasy pins when people make them themselves rather than being
Speaker 3: like licensed Disney merchandise. But there was a pin that
Speaker 3: someone made into a magnet and it's all the Winnie
Speaker 3: the Pooh characters and it says your name on it.
Speaker 3: It just says it just says Jim Cummings and I
Speaker 3: was like, maybe someone just made this themselves, but they
Speaker 3: like send it to me.
Speaker 4: It's a magnet.
Speaker 3: So I have a magnet with your name on it.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: But you know, just like really cool stuff.
Speaker 3: I like am eternally grateful even if it all went
Speaker 3: away tomorrow social media, like the relationships that I built
Speaker 3: getting to sit here with you, Like I was on
Speaker 3: the phone on my way here and Bluetooth and uh,
Speaker 3: don't worry, and they were like three years ago. Like
Speaker 3: if someone was telling you, like you'd be on your
Speaker 3: way to go hang out with Jim and do a podcast,
Speaker 3: like you would not believe it.
Speaker 4: I was like, you're right, I wouldn't.
Speaker 3: And it's all just because I decided one day to
Speaker 3: go a hot topic and.
Speaker 4: Pick up that stupid pooh Yeah.
Speaker 3: And you know, I'm grateful to you, even just because
Speaker 3: without the legacy, I wouldn't have the passion and the
Speaker 3: excitement for this thing. And you know, I'm grateful to
Speaker 3: brands like Funko and lounge Fly and Disney, Like Disney
Speaker 3: Disney's been so good to me in the last you
Speaker 3: know years, and you know, treating me so well at
Speaker 3: D twenty three and that cool drawing that I got
Speaker 3: from the production team of Playdate with Pooh and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I never know what could come of it.
Speaker 3: I think of everything as an opportunity to be seen
Speaker 3: and push toward those goals and those exciting things that
Speaker 3: I want to do. If I get to sing for
Speaker 3: something one day or I don't know. And I was
Speaker 3: even like, I'll put out my cover of the Winnie
Speaker 3: the Poos soong. You never know who might see it
Speaker 3: and be like we want you to do it for
Speaker 3: the next show or whatever. It is, like, yeah, you
Speaker 3: just never know. So which Winny of the poofsong?
Speaker 1: Way did that do?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the I've been a hundred Yeah, so I've
Speaker 3: heard that before. It's it's great, It's my favorite. And
Speaker 3: I have gotten some comments like, oh, you got to
Speaker 3: do house at Pooh Corner or I don't, I don't
Speaker 3: know if that's an official.
Speaker 1: People send that to me on and off whenever they
Speaker 1: go and see Kenny Loggins. Yeah, Kenny, that's Kenny Loggins. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how does yeah to get back to pookon a buy
Speaker 1: one so help me? Yeah, if you can, I've got
Speaker 1: to get Yeah, that's a beautiful, beautiful song. So Kenny
Speaker 1: log he's great anyway. Yeah, and people will said, have
Speaker 1: you ever seen this? And you know they're from the
Speaker 1: twentieth row, you know, fiftieth row. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 4: That's the first time every time, you know, I.
Speaker 1: Love it and I love the Gotta Get Up that one? Yes,
Speaker 1: me too. Yeah, now, that one I sang for the
Speaker 1: and they were thinking of using it for the show,
Speaker 1: but they kind of went away. I don't I don't
Speaker 1: think they It was way bad. I mean that was
Speaker 1: eighty seven. Was that for New Adventures? Yeah, okay, and
Speaker 1: I sang the same theme song. Yeah, and it popped
Speaker 1: up somewhere I don't know where we find Oh.
Speaker 4: It's floating around.
Speaker 1: Wow. That was that was pretty good. They should have
Speaker 1: used that, but they got somebody kinda sounded like that anyway.
Speaker 1: He sounded a little more Kenny Loggin's ish, which I
Speaker 1: think at the time was cool. Yeah. It was you.
Speaker 3: Eversed like music and a personal realm before all of this.
Speaker 1: Well, I was always in a band. Yeah, as a kid.
Speaker 1: You know, I've been playing playing drums and singing in
Speaker 1: bands for not much money since I.
Speaker 4: Was thirteen fourteen. Yeah, yeah, that's really cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean I grew up in the church and stuff,
Speaker 3: so I was always doing worship and you know, that's
Speaker 3: how I started singing.
Speaker 1: And then just a lot of people. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: I was in an a capella group in college.
Speaker 3: Very nerdy, very fun, and just you know, as I
Speaker 3: you know, you gain connections and it's like, oh, I
Speaker 3: know someone who has a studio and then you go
Speaker 3: and do a project or whatever it is, and yeah,
Speaker 3: it's fine. I always want to I always have ideas.
Speaker 3: I want to do more songs or I've always wanted
Speaker 3: to do a fun new version of the Heffalumps and
Speaker 3: Oozel song.
Speaker 4: Oh, this is a good question for you. Do you
Speaker 4: know Lumpy's full name?
Speaker 1: Wow? Mic Lumpy. I don't know. The answer is no.
Speaker 3: I asked because I I think I remember the full thing,
Speaker 3: but it's it's quite long. It's hefridge a trump trumpler
Speaker 3: bromp it Heffalump the fourth so Hefridge Heffridge. I think
Speaker 3: it's trumpler trumpler brom bit prompt. Yeah, well you because
Speaker 3: I think I'm not quite sure about the trumpler, but
Speaker 3: Heffridge trumpler brompet, heff a Lump the fourth.
Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, quick, folks, get back right away.
Speaker 2: Hefridge trumpler, trumpler a trumpel trumpler. Okay, Heffridge trumpler, he's
Speaker 2: a trumpler. Brompet, Brompet. Heffalump the fourth.
Speaker 4: Okay, that was pretty good.
Speaker 1: But that's close to trumpet. Yeah, yeah, they were getting
Speaker 1: like the sneaking trumpet in the.
Speaker 3: Yeah you know, and that's another good one. I love
Speaker 3: the Heffalup movie.
Speaker 1: And he makes that sound at both ends. Not everyone
Speaker 1: can do that. So see fun facts to know and
Speaker 1: tell me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the fun fact stuff is always like
Speaker 3: I don't even know sometimes like where I get the information.
Speaker 3: But I just as a fan, I'm just like I
Speaker 3: always want I want the fun facts. I want the
Speaker 3: cool I mean, even just like the I'm sure you're
Speaker 3: familiar with, like the origins of you know, why Huber
Speaker 3: even came to be. Oh you you know, I forget
Speaker 3: the name of the the man who found the bear, but.
Speaker 1: Edward be or somebody.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Edward Bear was the original plushy that a
Speaker 3: Millen gave to Christopher Robin. A lot of people don't
Speaker 3: even know Christopher Robin was a real kid. Obviously the
Speaker 3: fictional was inspired by you know, he wrote it about
Speaker 3: his son, but you know.
Speaker 1: That he was a mascot. Yeah and Canadian.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so the I guess that there's a book called
Speaker 3: Finding Winnie that's all about it. And it was a
Speaker 3: soldier that was I think taking a train through Canada
Speaker 3: during World War two, right, And he's at this train
Speaker 3: thop in Winnipeg, which is why he named and they
Speaker 3: have a statue I think of this bear and they
Speaker 3: do twenty bucks for this cub.
Speaker 1: And I remember reading and can you imagine a guy
Speaker 1: standing there with a bear cup? No, in a very
Speaker 1: very young bear cup.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, quite.
Speaker 3: And you know he got in nineteen thirteen, fourteen, I
Speaker 3: think twenty bucks. It's probably five hundred bucks today. So
Speaker 3: it's like at the train station, twenty dollars.
Speaker 1: Bear, take it, or you're going to join the army? Yeah,
Speaker 1: well let's buy a bear?
Speaker 2: Why not? I could use a bear on the battle
Speaker 2: for no.
Speaker 3: I just I don't know if it was like an
Speaker 3: empathetic purchase or you know, maybe we could use this
Speaker 3: in battle.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but who knows, but you know, ends up.
Speaker 3: Bear ends up in the London zoo and that's where
Speaker 3: AA Mill and Christopher Robins saw it. And then I
Speaker 3: think because of Christopher Robin's affinity for that bear, Winnie,
Speaker 3: that's why he gave him Edward Bear. And yeah, I've
Speaker 3: gotten questions on my social media before, like do you
Speaker 3: know why like his name is Pooh because there's always
Speaker 3: that is his name Pooh?
Speaker 4: Or is he a Pooh? And is his name Winnie like?
Speaker 4: And I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think we all we all lovingly call him poo bear.
Speaker 3: But I've looked into it. There's some clues in some
Speaker 3: of the books, and some of the books old enough
Speaker 3: to describe Christopher Robin dragon Edward bar around the house
Speaker 3: or whatever, and that the sound down the steps it
Speaker 3: would make, Yeah, is why he's Pooh. But then Amil
Speaker 3: also wrote short stories before Winny of the Poot and
Speaker 3: Friends or Many Adventures, and there was a I think
Speaker 3: I forget it was a goose or a swan.
Speaker 4: I think it was a swan that.
Speaker 3: Was named Pooh in the stories because that's the sound
Speaker 3: they made then they were shooing it away. And then
Speaker 3: there's also a description in the book that is the
Speaker 3: sound he would make when you try to get a
Speaker 3: fly off of his nose.
Speaker 4: Poo bear pooh.
Speaker 1: I think they did that in the very first one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: poo two mmmuse yeah, yeah, and there was something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was it a fly, maybe so a fly.
Speaker 3: Or maybe a butterfly because that was a common butterfly.
Speaker 1: It was a butterfly. That's that's the common because it
Speaker 1: rings a bell. Yeah. I could see the picture with
Speaker 1: the butterfly right here on his nose.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's kind of cool to have that like
Speaker 3: a causal like, okay, whinny, we know where that comes from.
Speaker 3: And then pooh, the always throws the.
Speaker 2: Like I heard, Yeah, I heard the swan or the
Speaker 2: goose one whatever that was. Yeah, that's I think that's
Speaker 2: the one. Yeah, what was his name, red Moon? I
Speaker 2: think Red Moon told us that story as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this guy read Moon. He's like a collector, a
Speaker 2: super collector. Yeah, incredible. You should watch the episode. Yeah
Speaker 2: you haven't seen it. Watched the episode with read Moon.
Speaker 2: It's a really good one.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's awesome, very informative, pretty severely cool. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: could learn a thing or just any collector.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's pretty awesome.
Speaker 2: Well, is there anything you want to say to the audience.
Speaker 2: Is there anything you want to plug.
Speaker 3: If you if you are convinced enough after watching this
Speaker 3: to listen to my version of the theme song, I
Speaker 3: would love that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean you just look up Blake Silva and you
Speaker 3: can listen to any of me, any of my songs
Speaker 3: that I sing.
Speaker 4: So I don't have any like original music.
Speaker 3: I haven't really pursued that, but got a few Disney covers,
Speaker 3: love my Winnie the Pooh song a lot.
Speaker 4: It's a very special project.
Speaker 3: And earlier when we talked about Tigger is not the
Speaker 3: theme song, he is added later it's like.
Speaker 4: I think it's a.
Speaker 3: Kanga and little Roue and Tiger too, and they add
Speaker 3: him that way, but he's not originally in it.
Speaker 4: And so my friends and I we.
Speaker 3: Wrote an alt ending, oh good to the song where
Speaker 3: we really just used the the the melody.
Speaker 4: We said uh.
Speaker 1: Po yeah, yeah, yeah, and you.
Speaker 3: Know and we say bouncy chounty, flouncy, bouncy fun fun
Speaker 3: Tiger and poo and me and you, Oh there really
Speaker 3: really good pair.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So we did like an alternate ending because that's the
Speaker 3: question always get, how come tiggers on the song? You
Speaker 3: didn't include Tigger in the song, and I'm like, well,
Speaker 3: I could have said and Tiger too, but I wanted
Speaker 3: to give him more of a moment. Yeah, give him
Speaker 3: something to let him have his cake. You need it too,
Speaker 3: So yeah, if you'd like to listen to that. I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm on social media, Blake's pop nook, pop culture safe
Speaker 3: corner of the Internet. So who's my comfort character? And
Speaker 3: I sometimes people say I'm their comfort creator, So I
Speaker 3: love that, and uh yeah it's fundy there. Yeah, not bad.
Speaker 3: That's not bad, not bad at all. Keep up the
Speaker 3: good work. Thank you, fantastic you too. Yeah, thanks for
Speaker 3: having me.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate good stuff. Mane pleasure.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you all for watching another episode of Tuned
Speaker 2: In with Jim Cummings. Today we had Blake Silva. Thank
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