WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.679 --> 00:00:04.879 How you doing out there? It's me Tigger. I am 2 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:08.960 Duc Wayne Duck. It's me Bunkers Deep Bobcat. All right, y'all, 3 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:13.080 did it great? Your favorite firefly you desire? Hold Old 4 00:00:13.119 --> 00:00:16.239 Knock Gud. My name is Jim Cummings and welcome to 5 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:16.839 tuned In. 6 00:00:18.760 --> 00:00:21.920 Hello, and welcome everybody back to another episode of Tuned 7 00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:25.079 In with Jim Cummings. I'm producer Chris. I'm doing well today. 8 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:27.359 Thanks for asking. How are you doing today, Jim? 9 00:00:27.640 --> 00:00:30.559 It's another day in Paradise is as always. 10 00:00:30.440 --> 00:00:33.920 Of course, we're always joined by Jim Cummings, the star 11 00:00:34.039 --> 00:00:35.960 of this whole thing, and today we have a special 12 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:37.200 guest for you, Blake Silva. 13 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:39.200 How are you doing today? I am doing so great. 14 00:00:39.240 --> 00:00:42.560 I'm so happy to be here. I can't believe I'm sitting. 15 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:44.359 In this room. So thank you for having me. Yeah, 16 00:00:44.399 --> 00:00:46.479 thanks for being here, Thanks for being here, not miss 17 00:00:46.520 --> 00:00:48.159 it truly sounds good to me. 18 00:00:48.679 --> 00:00:51.759 It's a beautiful day, beautiful day out here in southern California. 19 00:00:52.039 --> 00:00:55.079 Tis Yes, it is finally curling off too. 20 00:00:55.840 --> 00:01:00.000 Yes, so come on down. Yeah, we'll be here for you. 21 00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:03.119 So you are an avid collector of all things Disney. 22 00:01:03.439 --> 00:01:05.599 I am I mean, if you can tell I have 23 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:08.079 a few, you have a few pieces myself. 24 00:01:09.359 --> 00:01:11.920 The yeah, I quite truly had to toe today. 25 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:14.159 I mean, I do have a. 26 00:01:13.959 --> 00:01:16.719 Particular character that is my favorite. 27 00:01:16.920 --> 00:01:18.400 Hm and you. 28 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:20.480 Yeah, I don't know. You could take a wild guess. 29 00:01:20.480 --> 00:01:22.920 You might take a shot in the dark and hit something. 30 00:01:23.040 --> 00:01:26.959 But yes, yeah, And I'm usually only a stone's throwaway 31 00:01:27.079 --> 00:01:30.680 from Disneyland, so I'm a frequent Yeah. It's and it's 32 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:33.799 not grumpy the dwarf, right, and it is not grumpy. 33 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:37.640 I don't think that the particular character gets grumpy, but 34 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:38.760 that's true. 35 00:01:39.159 --> 00:01:42.599 Yeah, that's true. He doesn't even become grumpy. Yeah. 36 00:01:42.760 --> 00:01:45.560 But I've always been a collector, so even as a kid, 37 00:01:45.599 --> 00:01:48.680 it's like rocks and shells and all the things. And 38 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:50.519 then when I grew up and had money to buy 39 00:01:50.560 --> 00:01:52.840 the fun stuff, it was it was it was the 40 00:01:52.840 --> 00:01:55.400 cool stuff that I was always interested in. But yeah, 41 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:58.719 collecting is like my where it all started with me, 42 00:01:58.799 --> 00:02:01.519 even you know, posting on social media and stuff. So 43 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:04.079 it just became like, let me share my hobby and 44 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:05.840 then kind of just spiraled. 45 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:08.159 But yeah, it's been quite a journey. 46 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:10.080 Do you remember what your first collection was? 47 00:02:11.199 --> 00:02:13.599 I mean, I would say if it was something just generic. 48 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:15.439 As a kid, it was rocks. I like, you know, 49 00:02:15.479 --> 00:02:18.360 my family vacation at the Grand Canyon or whatever, and 50 00:02:18.360 --> 00:02:19.879 I would always be in the shop with a little 51 00:02:19.960 --> 00:02:23.319 velvet bag collecting the little little gems that they had, 52 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:23.719 and I. 53 00:02:23.719 --> 00:02:24.759 Had those little velvetes. 54 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:27.520 Yeah yeah, And then it became a tackle box, and 55 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:30.560 then it became rocks sitting on the windowsill and finding 56 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:34.039 them in my bed or whatever, just like all over overtaking. 57 00:02:33.639 --> 00:02:37.520 Few seashells and the sea obligatory seashells. I grew up 58 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:39.879 in Ventura, so it was right on the beach. Well 59 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:40.319 there you go. 60 00:02:40.439 --> 00:02:43.759 Yeah, So I was always a collector of sorts. And 61 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:46.000 then I mean I think I've always if it's in 62 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:50.039 terms of Disney, I've always had stuff like because my family, 63 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:52.199 like I said, grew up in Ventura's only two hours 64 00:02:52.199 --> 00:02:55.639 away from Disneyland. So we were very much like every 65 00:02:55.639 --> 00:02:57.680 once in a while, maybe once twice a year, wake 66 00:02:57.800 --> 00:03:00.159 up a little extra early for school, and our perents 67 00:03:00.199 --> 00:03:03.000 would say, you know, mom or dad has an appointment 68 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:05.199 that we have to leave early for school today for 69 00:03:05.400 --> 00:03:07.280 and then next thing you know, we're in the drive 70 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:09.719 through at m MacDonald's and it's like, why are we 71 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:12.639 getting breakfast? And then they're like, we're going to Disneyland, 72 00:03:12.680 --> 00:03:13.759 so oh that's great. 73 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:14.000 Yeah. 74 00:03:14.039 --> 00:03:16.199 So we had those really fun memories growing up, and 75 00:03:16.240 --> 00:03:19.800 it's wonderful we were Disney kids, like watching the VHS tapes. 76 00:03:19.879 --> 00:03:22.439 And I always tell people like, I was a Winnie 77 00:03:22.439 --> 00:03:24.159 the Poo fan before I could talk, and now that 78 00:03:24.199 --> 00:03:25.759 I can talk, all I talk about is Winnie the 79 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:27.439 poof So good job. 80 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:30.400 Yeah, take a lesson. Yeah, youth of America. 81 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:33.039 I take that from my parents too, like allowing me 82 00:03:33.120 --> 00:03:34.479 to have something as a kid that I. 83 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:37.319 Just like was head over heels with and oh that's great. 84 00:03:37.439 --> 00:03:39.680 I think I just kind of carried that with me 85 00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:41.960 even when I was too cool for school, like middle school, 86 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:44.439 high school. There's always a plush somewhere in my room 87 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:47.599 there you go. Yeah, but yeah, that's that's you know 88 00:03:47.639 --> 00:03:50.080 why I said at the beginning, I'm just so excited 89 00:03:50.120 --> 00:03:52.159 to be in this room with you. 90 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:55.840 So yeah, well that's wonderful, that's great. 91 00:03:55.960 --> 00:04:00.400 Yeah, And I would say that's probably the I mean, 92 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:02.599 the reason that I'm a fan of yours too is 93 00:04:02.639 --> 00:04:07.039 because of that collector start. Because you know when I 94 00:04:07.080 --> 00:04:09.639 became old enough to care about like not just the 95 00:04:09.719 --> 00:04:12.560 character or characters, but like where they come from and 96 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:15.400 why they exist. Like that's when I became aware of you. 97 00:04:16.279 --> 00:04:19.319 And you know, obviously you fill the shoes very well 98 00:04:19.319 --> 00:04:23.240 of Sterling, and that's quite a legacy that you get 99 00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:25.920 to carry on. So I just think that's so special. 100 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:29.480 And yeah, being an adult who loves Disney, I'm like 101 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:31.959 very tuned into those things. So yeah, yeah, it's a 102 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:34.680 special it's a special thing. But you're talking to another 103 00:04:34.720 --> 00:04:35.560 adult who loves this. 104 00:04:36.839 --> 00:04:40.079 I didn't know that. Oh yeah, oh yeah boy. Yeah. 105 00:04:40.120 --> 00:04:42.560 I mean I started off with a crush on a 106 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:45.759 net Foticello, the Original Musketeer, So yeah, a hundred times. 107 00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:47.240 But it's so true. 108 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:50.480 Yeah yeah, and here I am. Yeah, so I could 109 00:04:50.519 --> 00:04:53.040 be wrong. I'm okay with being corrected. But you started 110 00:04:53.120 --> 00:04:53.920 voicing Poover. 111 00:04:53.839 --> 00:05:00.120 In eighty eight, maybe eighty six eight. 112 00:05:00.439 --> 00:05:03.560 Okay, about a year ago. It was very early in 113 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:05.839 my Yeah, yeah, a deep dive. I was like looking 114 00:05:05.839 --> 00:05:07.160 at all the winning of the poop stuff. You know, 115 00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:08.759 Disney Plus is so cool and they give us like 116 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:11.160 the chronological they'll be like, oh here you can watch 117 00:05:11.160 --> 00:05:14.120 everything from the very beginning, which I think the very 118 00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:15.959 beginning was Winnie the Poo and the Honey Tree in 119 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:16.639 the sixties. 120 00:05:16.680 --> 00:05:18.800 So oh yes, that was not me. Yeah, but New 121 00:05:18.839 --> 00:05:19.720 Adventures of Winnie the. 122 00:05:19.720 --> 00:05:22.759 Pooh, I knew adventures and that was the first thing. Okay, great, okay, 123 00:05:22.759 --> 00:05:26.040 I love that. So out of all the animated stuff, 124 00:05:26.040 --> 00:05:27.600 I guess this is something I've always wondered. Do you 125 00:05:27.639 --> 00:05:31.199 have like a favorite thing that you've worked on for 126 00:05:31.279 --> 00:05:32.199 animated pooh air? 127 00:05:33.160 --> 00:05:38.360 Oh gosh, well, I've got a few of them. You know. 128 00:05:38.439 --> 00:05:41.480 The Search for Christopher Robin, you know, that was a 129 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:44.600 very very good one. Yeah, and a game the Silver 130 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:47.720 Shows that came up with some beautiful songs. Yeah, wherever 131 00:05:47.879 --> 00:05:53.079 you are. And while the movie Christopher Robin, yeah, Christopher 132 00:05:53.199 --> 00:05:55.319 was in both titles. Yeah. I thought that was so 133 00:05:55.399 --> 00:05:58.480 well done. Yeah, I mean I knew, I knew what 134 00:05:58.680 --> 00:06:02.079 was going to happen. And I remember sitting there watching 135 00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:05.279 it for the first time and I still weld up, ant, 136 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:08.360 I know what's going to happen. I already know. I've 137 00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:11.000 seen this. I cheated, I did it. I looked ahead 138 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:15.319 in the script here and it was so very well received, 139 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:17.680 and it's one of the it and I'm just very 140 00:06:17.720 --> 00:06:20.480 proud of it, and I'm so glad that it was 141 00:06:20.519 --> 00:06:21.360 so well received. 142 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:25.040 Yeah, twenty eighteen, I think, gosh, it feels like so 143 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:28.800 long ago already. I mean, I would love for them 144 00:06:28.839 --> 00:06:31.000 to do more with just that that storyline. I thought 145 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:34.160 you and McGregor was like brilliant in that role as well. 146 00:06:34.759 --> 00:06:36.920 And you got to do both Poober and Tiger in 147 00:06:36.920 --> 00:06:39.800 that movie, so you were double exposed to the plot 148 00:06:39.839 --> 00:06:42.279 and everything. Oh yeah, still out of response. 149 00:06:42.360 --> 00:06:42.879 I love that. 150 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:46.800 Oh yes, absolutely it was. I just thought it was magical, 151 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:48.000 so very well done. 152 00:06:48.120 --> 00:06:50.360 Yeah, as a you know, as we said, adults who 153 00:06:50.360 --> 00:06:52.120 love Disney, I just think it's so fun when we 154 00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:56.360 get to experience, like right now these things that have 155 00:06:56.439 --> 00:06:58.800 been with us for so long again, like when we 156 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:02.079 were getting new Star Wars and we're getting remakes or 157 00:07:02.120 --> 00:07:06.399 live action versions of some of these classics and beloved characters. 158 00:07:06.439 --> 00:07:10.639 Like I remember last year too, being like how am 159 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:15.639 I getting Indiana Jones in twenty twenty three? Like this 160 00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:18.399 is so cool? So you know, even I kind of 161 00:07:18.439 --> 00:07:18.959 agree with you. 162 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:24.399 Yeah. Yeah, and Harrison he's cranking it away, Yes, I know, 163 00:07:24.839 --> 00:07:27.199 I know, unbelievable. So when that movie came out. 164 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:29.439 I mean, obviously, as a fan, I was super excited, 165 00:07:29.439 --> 00:07:32.279 but just being in a theater and watching Winnie the 166 00:07:32.279 --> 00:07:34.160 Pooh on the screen was like so cool to me 167 00:07:34.279 --> 00:07:36.480 because as a kid, it was like just VHS, Like 168 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:39.000 I was just enjoying it as everybody else was on 169 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:42.399 my on my television, popping in the tape and going 170 00:07:42.439 --> 00:07:44.160 to a big screen. It was just I'm sure that 171 00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:46.759 was a really surreal thing too. I mean I haven't 172 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:49.519 been super plugged into like premieres and stuff, but I'm 173 00:07:49.560 --> 00:07:52.360 sure you did something of the sort back then. 174 00:07:52.839 --> 00:07:54.079 That must have been a cool feeling. 175 00:07:54.519 --> 00:07:59.360 Oh yeah, going to the premieres. Yeah yeah, it was, Yeah, yeah, 176 00:07:59.439 --> 00:08:04.879 it was. It was crazy. I missed one really good premiere, 177 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:09.160 but that's a separate issue, that's but yeah, I just 178 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:13.360 you know, I mean, I'm half a fan, yeah too. 179 00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:17.519 You know, I can't pull that out of me. I 180 00:08:17.560 --> 00:08:20.240 can't totally get away from it, you know, because I've 181 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:24.839 said it before. I started off watching Zorro and Spinning Marty. 182 00:08:25.759 --> 00:08:27.399 I forget the name of that show, but it was 183 00:08:27.839 --> 00:08:31.639 it was like, you know, Davy Crockett Sorrow, I was 184 00:08:32.279 --> 00:08:35.399 I was a Disney kid from very early on. And 185 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:37.840 here I am. Yeah, so I'm still there. 186 00:08:38.279 --> 00:08:41.960 What led you to like being the one that took 187 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:44.759 over in eighty eight or whatever it was. 188 00:08:44.879 --> 00:08:48.240 Yeah, well I can tell you that. Well, there was 189 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:52.200 a big there was a big search, a search for 190 00:08:52.279 --> 00:08:56.799 Winnie the put Christopher Robin. So yeah, that happened too. 191 00:08:57.320 --> 00:09:01.720 But they just had everybody and their dog come out 192 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:05.639 and audition, and my dad's dog was there. Yeah, there 193 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:09.799 you go, I think so. And uh, you know, I 194 00:09:09.559 --> 00:09:13.279 I've said it before, I I I think I auditioned 195 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:16.759 for Owl. Hal Smith was a friend of mine, so 196 00:09:17.200 --> 00:09:20.840 I wasn't too worried about getting Owl. But pooh Tigger 197 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:24.279 and an e Or and I thought I crushed there. 198 00:09:24.519 --> 00:09:26.000 Oh you know, so. 199 00:09:26.200 --> 00:09:27.799 I don't think i've heard you. 200 00:09:27.879 --> 00:09:31.519 Well you you have. You don't need to Peter, Peter 201 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:34.919 Cullen's doing just fine. And then Brad Garrett did it 202 00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:39.159 for a movie and they were both amazing. But no, 203 00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:41.720 I just thought I was a your And my agent 204 00:09:41.799 --> 00:09:43.919 called up about a week later and said, well, okay, 205 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:45.960 we got the results back and I said, oh okay. 206 00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:48.480 She goesaid, well I got bad news and good news, 207 00:09:48.559 --> 00:09:51.120 and I said, okay, what's all. Give me the bad news. 208 00:09:51.480 --> 00:09:53.360 She said, you're not are And I go, oh, man, 209 00:09:53.559 --> 00:09:56.240 while you're kidding, who got a or who's he? Who's here? 210 00:09:56.720 --> 00:09:59.840 He said, well that's going to Peter Cullen. You go, oh, well, 211 00:10:00.279 --> 00:10:04.879 can't complain. You lose Peter Cullin. You're losing to the best. Okay, 212 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:06.960 Well what's the good news? She goes, well you're winning 213 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:10.360 the Pooh and Tigger. I said, the hell with that's 214 00:10:10.440 --> 00:10:12.799 quite a call. Yeah yeah, yeah, I said, you know 215 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:17.000 or Shmi or you know you can have him? Yeah, yeah, 216 00:10:17.039 --> 00:10:19.519 So I took my consolation price. 217 00:10:19.679 --> 00:10:22.840 So at the time, I mean, you thought you nailed 218 00:10:22.879 --> 00:10:25.480 e Or, which would be on a technical level, but 219 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:27.879 did you who did you want? Like, did did you 220 00:10:27.919 --> 00:10:30.240 have a connection to Pooh Bear before that? 221 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:34.080 Yeah? Oh absolutely, yeah, absolutely yeah. I mean that had 222 00:10:34.120 --> 00:10:37.519 to have cross but certainly Tigger yeah, because he was 223 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:39.279 just he was just the coolest. 224 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:43.000 I wonder if there was always the intent? Was was 225 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:45.799 Tiggered the same always like or was there two different 226 00:10:45.879 --> 00:10:47.720 voices before you? 227 00:10:47.759 --> 00:10:51.519 No? No? They uh I know that will Ryan did it? 228 00:10:51.600 --> 00:10:56.320 For gosh what not? Return to poo There was a 229 00:10:56.360 --> 00:10:59.159 production that was on Disney Channel and it was by 230 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:01.639 the same people who did Dumbo Circus and it was 231 00:11:01.679 --> 00:11:05.320 people in costume. God wasn't animated, Okay, so it was 232 00:11:05.320 --> 00:11:07.960 a it was a different critter and it looked different. Yeah, 233 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:10.440 and they some of the voices were you know, here, 234 00:11:10.480 --> 00:11:12.279 and some of them were there and some of them 235 00:11:12.279 --> 00:11:16.879 weren't anywhere. And uh huh. So you know that was it. 236 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:17.919 That was different era. 237 00:11:18.200 --> 00:11:21.480 Yeah, different era, and there wasn't you know, they'd been 238 00:11:21.519 --> 00:11:24.639 gone apart from that, they've been gone for you know, 239 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:25.399 twenty years. 240 00:11:25.559 --> 00:11:28.480 Yeah, costumes. I don't even think I've seen that as 241 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:30.559 a as a fan. I think I should probably look 242 00:11:30.559 --> 00:11:32.399 into you to at least say I've seen it. 243 00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:34.279 Yeah, it's going to be a tough one to find, 244 00:11:34.440 --> 00:11:36.720 don't I can't find it removed. 245 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:40.159 I want to ask you. You on your social media, 246 00:11:40.279 --> 00:11:44.279 you have access or knowledge to so many different products, 247 00:11:44.279 --> 00:11:47.200 like products I've never even considered being products before, and 248 00:11:47.240 --> 00:11:49.879 you just come across all do you get like tipped off? 249 00:11:49.919 --> 00:11:52.320 How do you find all these different one of the 250 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:53.879 things everything like that? 251 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:57.279 So, I mean when we talk about being a collector earlier, 252 00:11:57.440 --> 00:12:01.159 like I was like anticipating today thinking like gosh, I 253 00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:03.240 hope they don't ask me like what's your count on 254 00:12:03.279 --> 00:12:06.200 Winnie the Pooh items, because I just truly like not 255 00:12:06.320 --> 00:12:09.399 that it's not quantifiable like it is like I could, 256 00:12:09.480 --> 00:12:13.120 I could figure it out, but I don't know. And 257 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:14.200 you know part. 258 00:12:14.039 --> 00:12:15.960 Of that where do you keep all the stuff? So 259 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:17.320 I have my own what I. 260 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:21.440 Call Pooh Corner in my house, and it's just like 261 00:12:21.519 --> 00:12:23.720 a I could have more. I'm actually about to move 262 00:12:23.759 --> 00:12:25.879 in about a month and I'm thinking Poo Corner might 263 00:12:25.919 --> 00:12:28.600 turn into like Pooh Room or something. But you know, 264 00:12:28.679 --> 00:12:32.519 I have bookshelves and it varies from Funko pops to 265 00:12:33.919 --> 00:12:38.320 you know, bobbleheads and you know, non Funko and books, 266 00:12:38.360 --> 00:12:41.120 and I have VHS tapes that I that I have 267 00:12:41.240 --> 00:12:43.200 from years ago and that I've kind of like hunted 268 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:44.519 down at strip stores. 269 00:12:44.559 --> 00:12:46.440 And are you like a completionist, like do you need 270 00:12:46.519 --> 00:12:48.840 every in some way set? Like do you need every 271 00:12:48.879 --> 00:12:49.639 poo funk goal? 272 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:52.120 I will say, like as a Pooh Bear fan, like 273 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:55.279 I'm so fortunate because I'd say I'm biased, but I 274 00:12:55.320 --> 00:12:58.159 would say he's like the most beloved character. Like and 275 00:12:58.200 --> 00:13:01.600 there's so much stuff, Like you go to home Goods 276 00:13:01.679 --> 00:13:05.000 or what like they just year round. There's plates and 277 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:10.440 you know, bowls and cuts, just everything, and there's aprons 278 00:13:10.440 --> 00:13:12.679 and kitchen towels and they do kitchen towels for Christmas 279 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:16.000 and Halloween and all. Like poo Bear is everywhere Hallmark, 280 00:13:16.159 --> 00:13:19.639 like in Target, and there's there's diapers at Walmart that 281 00:13:19.720 --> 00:13:21.440 have poo Bear on the box, like for a while. 282 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:25.519 Yeah, besides maybe the name, yeah, I mean, besides the obvious. 283 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:29.639 So I just I think that's kind of what gains 284 00:13:29.679 --> 00:13:32.320 me so much access is just like you really don't 285 00:13:32.360 --> 00:13:37.240 have to look hard. And when I started posting about 286 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:39.879 my collection and you know, being outward about how I 287 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:42.000 have a favorite character, which you know, lots of people do. 288 00:13:42.039 --> 00:13:44.519 I think a lot of Disney fans are always have 289 00:13:44.600 --> 00:13:46.240 that one thing that's like, oh, you know, they can 290 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:47.919 answer off the top of their head what their favorite 291 00:13:47.960 --> 00:13:51.799 movie is, favorite villain, favorite character, And it's just always 292 00:13:51.840 --> 00:13:54.360 been that for me. But I would say, I mean, 293 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:57.799 I'm bombarded by messages and comments when there's new stuff, 294 00:13:57.840 --> 00:14:00.000 so like people ask me sometimes like how do you 295 00:14:00.360 --> 00:14:04.240 know that this exists? And I'm like, because you tell me, yeah, 296 00:14:04.600 --> 00:14:07.200 you're yelling at me to go find it, and yeah, 297 00:14:07.320 --> 00:14:10.120 it's something as silly and simple sometimes as like going 298 00:14:10.200 --> 00:14:12.440 and looking. I get comments about, oh there's this new 299 00:14:12.840 --> 00:14:15.240 throw blanket and it's Winnie the Pooh tigger and piggle 300 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:18.600 it and there are fall leaves and it's at these stories. 301 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:20.240 You got to go find it, and so I'll take 302 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:22.440 I'll vlog about it and go look for it and 303 00:14:22.960 --> 00:14:25.559 to no end sometimes like just you don't find it 304 00:14:25.679 --> 00:14:27.840 or whatever it is. So I would say, it's just 305 00:14:27.840 --> 00:14:32.440 such a vast world of collectibles, and sometimes I just 306 00:14:32.559 --> 00:14:34.600 it's a blessing and a curse to be the fan 307 00:14:34.639 --> 00:14:37.399 of Pooh Bear in that world, because I'm like I'm 308 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:39.480 constantly behind finding somebody. 309 00:14:39.480 --> 00:14:41.759 I'm also constantly finding something new. 310 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:42.679 Yeah. 311 00:14:42.759 --> 00:14:46.399 Yeah, so and I don't know it as a fan yourself, 312 00:14:46.519 --> 00:14:49.120 like do you hold on to things? 313 00:14:49.200 --> 00:14:52.480 Do you seek those things out? Is it just too well? 314 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:53.879 Yeah I do, Yeah, I do. 315 00:14:54.639 --> 00:14:57.080 I have to say, I do you know, I've got 316 00:14:57.320 --> 00:14:59.759 any number of scripts yeah from the past that are 317 00:14:59.799 --> 00:15:02.159 there and yeah, you know, and they're all signed by 318 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:05.399 the by the cast members and uh yeah things like that, 319 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:07.840 and it's and and you know, the memories are they're 320 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:11.159 just golden for me. Yeah. I have a lot of cells, yeah, 321 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:14.080 you know, and a lot of memorabilia. I got a 322 00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:17.399 what do I have memorabilia? I mean, I've got more 323 00:15:17.519 --> 00:15:20.919 Little Winnie the Poos and dark Wing Ducks and Tiggers 324 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:23.919 and you know, and I just you know, I just 325 00:15:23.960 --> 00:15:27.080 put my name on them. And what I taught the 326 00:15:27.120 --> 00:15:32.840 whole family gets here, let's sell this. He's not signing anymore. There, 327 00:15:32.879 --> 00:15:34.519 they've got it. We got to get a couple of 328 00:15:34.559 --> 00:15:37.440 bucks out of this, so you know, doing my part, 329 00:15:37.559 --> 00:15:39.960 you know, yeah, a little forward thinking. They're right. 330 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:44.039 Well, speaking of signing, what's your favorite like, do you 331 00:15:44.080 --> 00:15:47.159 have a favorite convention that you go to annually or 332 00:15:47.200 --> 00:15:49.039 do you have a favorite con experience? 333 00:15:49.080 --> 00:15:51.279 T twenty three is a nice one. Always fine, I 334 00:15:51.279 --> 00:15:55.320 think they it's every other year. Yeah, and uh that's 335 00:15:55.360 --> 00:15:57.440 kind of like the the Rolls Royce. 336 00:15:57.720 --> 00:16:01.519 I would say, yeah, that's to be as a as 337 00:16:01.559 --> 00:16:05.600 a Disney actor or fan like, oh yeah, I mean 338 00:16:05.639 --> 00:16:06.399 that's the ultimate. 339 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:07.320 And it was good. 340 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:08.240 It was great this year. 341 00:16:09.679 --> 00:16:13.159 I mean I would say it's super experientially driven. And 342 00:16:13.240 --> 00:16:16.639 after D twenty three related to Winnie the Pooh was 343 00:16:16.679 --> 00:16:20.639 when I got reached out to by Margaret and also 344 00:16:20.759 --> 00:16:23.720 got to help Disney Junior promote played eight with Winnie 345 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:27.120 the Pooh for the season two, which is just precious. 346 00:16:28.679 --> 00:16:31.720 When I first watched it, probably like a year ago, 347 00:16:31.759 --> 00:16:32.840 I was just like, Oh. 348 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:34.399 Something new, that's Pooh. 349 00:16:34.399 --> 00:16:35.360 I'm gonna check it out. 350 00:16:35.679 --> 00:16:38.360 And I will say I fully expected to hear you. 351 00:16:39.159 --> 00:16:42.360 And I was so surprised, and not in a negative 352 00:16:42.360 --> 00:16:45.399 way because it's so cute, but I was like, oh, 353 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:46.919 it's just like little kid's voice. 354 00:16:46.960 --> 00:16:48.639 It's literally little chill kids. 355 00:16:48.799 --> 00:16:52.279 Yeah, And so they reached out just letting me know 356 00:16:52.320 --> 00:16:54.279 that there was a season two coming, and so they 357 00:16:54.279 --> 00:16:59.360 did this really cool One of the producers or artists 358 00:16:59.399 --> 00:17:03.679 on the show drew me with Poobert and Tigger and 359 00:17:03.679 --> 00:17:09.039 Piglet and and I'm like, this is official Disney artwork 360 00:17:09.240 --> 00:17:10.079 with me on it. 361 00:17:10.119 --> 00:17:12.799 And so I thought that was so cool. It's wonderful. 362 00:17:12.839 --> 00:17:14.200 And they sent it to me and just said, yeah, 363 00:17:14.200 --> 00:17:16.480 they wanted to make this for you. And I'm like, 364 00:17:17.240 --> 00:17:20.000 just very casually sending me like the coolest thing ever, 365 00:17:20.680 --> 00:17:23.920 because I have some cool stuff like that if you 366 00:17:23.920 --> 00:17:24.519 don't mind. 367 00:17:24.319 --> 00:17:28.680 A story, no, So in January, I. 368 00:17:28.680 --> 00:17:30.680 Was at Disney World and it was a hosted trip 369 00:17:30.880 --> 00:17:33.799 with the Parks and we got to do as a result, 370 00:17:33.880 --> 00:17:37.880 it's really cool, like private dinner in the Norway Pavilion 371 00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:40.279 in like their Norway Loft. It's like above one of 372 00:17:40.319 --> 00:17:43.519 the stores or restaurants. And we came into this cater 373 00:17:43.599 --> 00:17:45.920 dinner and there was an artist there that was a 374 00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:49.720 surprise to us, and it was Stacia Martin and you know, 375 00:17:49.839 --> 00:17:54.640 legendary Disney artists and historian, just amazing, amazing woman. And 376 00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:57.720 she went around our tables as we started eating and 377 00:17:57.839 --> 00:18:01.279 was just asking us about our favorite characters. And turns 378 00:18:01.279 --> 00:18:04.519 out she was there to draw live for us while 379 00:18:04.559 --> 00:18:08.119 we ate, and so of course she starts drawing, and 380 00:18:08.319 --> 00:18:10.319 we all had been given Raffle tickets at the beginning 381 00:18:10.359 --> 00:18:11.680 of the night and I was kind of like, oh, 382 00:18:11.720 --> 00:18:12.720 I was like what is this for? 383 00:18:13.160 --> 00:18:13.839 So then she comes in. 384 00:18:13.880 --> 00:18:16.000 I'm starting to put the pieces together like she's drawing 385 00:18:16.039 --> 00:18:18.119 for us, Like there are these like twenty two by 386 00:18:18.160 --> 00:18:19.680 twenty eight pieces of paper. 387 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:21.400 So she starts drawing. 388 00:18:21.400 --> 00:18:26.839 She does ol Off and Bell and Dopey and Tiana, 389 00:18:27.480 --> 00:18:29.240 and she's just kind of going through like a list 390 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:30.799 after she had talked to all of us and kind 391 00:18:30.839 --> 00:18:33.519 of heard like who our favorites were. So the of course, 392 00:18:33.559 --> 00:18:35.880 the whole time I'm like, please draw Pooper, Please drop Poover, 393 00:18:36.519 --> 00:18:39.839 And she hadn't gotten to him yet, and my ticket 394 00:18:39.880 --> 00:18:42.440 got called when the bell drawing was finished, and so 395 00:18:42.519 --> 00:18:44.640 I was like, I mean great, Like that's an amazing piece. 396 00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:47.319 I got to see it drawn in person, and so 397 00:18:47.440 --> 00:18:50.720 I get it. And the very last character she's introducing 398 00:18:50.759 --> 00:18:53.079 and I'm like, I don't I can't tell if she's 399 00:18:53.119 --> 00:18:55.519 talking about Poover. She's kind of just giving like a 400 00:18:55.559 --> 00:18:57.480 soft intro to she's gonna draw next, but I'm like, 401 00:18:57.480 --> 00:19:00.559