Speaker 1: You're watching too good with Jim Comings. Its clears me,
Speaker 1: but hopefully you're gonna like it.
Speaker 2: Do what you did with Kim Coming. How you doing
Speaker 2: out there? It's me Tigger Duc Wayne Duck. It's me
Speaker 2: Bunkers keep bobcat.
Speaker 1: All right, y'all, did a.
Speaker 2: Rate your favorite firefly you desire?
Speaker 1: Hold the old knock guy.
Speaker 2: My name is Jim Cummings and welcome to tune in.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for being here again.
Speaker 1: Due a man. I'd be here every day if you
Speaker 1: guys would finally would let me know where you're gonna be.
Speaker 1: But you move around, yeah, you're always on the move. Sure,
Speaker 1: I'd be like Ed mcmahanson in the corner going yes year.
Speaker 3: That on the road, bouncing around. It's been fun though,
Speaker 3: it's been fun. And honestly, when when you guys were
Speaker 3: on last year and at the last year last year,
Speaker 3: at the very end of last year. Yeah, yeah, when
Speaker 3: you guys were on, that was like probably my favorite
Speaker 3: location that we've ever had.
Speaker 1: I like this one.
Speaker 3: This is the new favorite love.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, that was great. That was great and you know,
Speaker 1: of course you're in the hotel, you feel like you know,
Speaker 1: thirst and hell the w.
Speaker 3: And you know what they did, you know what the
Speaker 3: staff did. I don't know if you guys knew this.
Speaker 3: So that day it was you guys, Ron Pearlman and Shazam.
Speaker 1: Zachary Levi Zachary.
Speaker 3: Yes, yet it was you three that day.
Speaker 1: They recorded all three that day. Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And they bought it. The hotel brought a bottle of
Speaker 3: champagne for every guest because they were so thrilled, really
Speaker 3: that they were that we were bringing people into the hotel.
Speaker 1: You know what, It's beautiful that they did that. But
Speaker 1: I think, honestly, you know, it's like I kind of
Speaker 1: you know, car knows this very well. I kind of
Speaker 1: lived my life, and I think Jim does too. I
Speaker 1: want to be the guy that people are happy to
Speaker 1: see walking in and walking out. I don't know that
Speaker 1: they would do that for everybody, but I think this guy, no, seriously,
Speaker 1: I think he breeds so much goodwill and he's automatically
Speaker 1: he's got a part of people's hearts just because of
Speaker 1: what he's done. So, you know, it's like the excitement
Speaker 1: of him being there, and then the people you mentioned
Speaker 1: being there myself, notwithstanding, they're probably like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: it's it's Jim Cummings with this person. This is the
Speaker 1: best day ever. Man. You know, like, if if you
Speaker 1: know people didn't basically sleep with a plush version of
Speaker 1: you every night, maybe they they do, you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of them there, Jim. Jim's one of the only
Speaker 1: people I know who could walk up to anybody and say,
Speaker 1: you know, you've probably been sleeping with me for years
Speaker 1: and yeah.
Speaker 4: Well they do bring him to cons they're old and
Speaker 4: he didn't looking.
Speaker 5: I go, oh, that's a that's got a lot of
Speaker 5: hugs on it.
Speaker 1: Jim. I'll say, man, it's you know. What's what's crazy
Speaker 1: is when I was a kid. I think it explains
Speaker 1: me being kind of a pack rat. Now. I had
Speaker 1: a box my my family moved away when I was sixteen,
Speaker 1: and I had a box. And in that box where
Speaker 1: all the precious relics that I kept from my being
Speaker 1: born to when I was sixteen, pictures in school reports
Speaker 1: and things like that. And in there in that box,
Speaker 1: which sadly got lost and it broke my heart, was
Speaker 1: my Winnie the Pooh. And I slept with Winnie the
Speaker 1: Pooh from the time I was about four to the
Speaker 1: time I was about eight. But you know, it was
Speaker 1: so sweet. I never told you this in all the
Speaker 1: years we've been palace.
Speaker 6: You should totally be getting this.
Speaker 1: This is real, this is this is the real stuff. Man.
Speaker 1: I when you know, my mom said, you know, she
Speaker 1: said some point she said, do you think you want
Speaker 1: to keep sleeping with Winnie the Pooh. You know you're
Speaker 1: gonna to be a big boy. And I said, say
Speaker 1: what A little little while longer, a little while longer.
Speaker 1: So the one night came and I go, you know, Mom,
Speaker 1: I think I think I'm okay to sleep by myself.
Speaker 1: You can put Winnie in the chair over there. And
Speaker 1: she goes, okay, So she picks him up and she's
Speaker 1: walking away, and no kidding, man, I go, you know
Speaker 1: what he said, he gets scared in the chair. Just
Speaker 1: put him at the foot of the bed. So I
Speaker 1: slept for like another year with Winnie the Pooh. If
Speaker 1: so facto you right down there between my beautiful That's
Speaker 1: one of the reasons I love you, man. I love
Speaker 1: that one of them.
Speaker 3: Man, Yes, it's good. I have a question burning in
Speaker 3: my mind.
Speaker 1: First, the first question is your hair looks fantastic and why.
Speaker 3: I'm growing it out? Everybody, I'm trying to get like Jesse.
Speaker 1: Soon enough, he's going to be a tribute act. It's
Speaker 1: going to be fair. He'll go out on the road
Speaker 1: instead of me. It'll be and we're going, right, I
Speaker 1: mean we're rolling okay, Oh yeah, yeah, we're going. This
Speaker 1: is it?
Speaker 7: Can people see you?
Speaker 1: Let me look great? He smells really good to see him.
Speaker 1: Don't don't bother, but just go over and smell him
Speaker 1: a little bit. Yeah. You know what's crazy.
Speaker 3: Another little way you never know what has been crazy
Speaker 3: is going to these conventions. I've now started getting noticed
Speaker 3: at conventions and they're like, oh, your producer, Chris. And
Speaker 3: I've been walking through you know, center before and people
Speaker 3: are like, Chris, and I turned around and I don't
Speaker 3: recognize this person's face at all, and they're like, great
Speaker 3: to see your body.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, what in the world you're here. You're
Speaker 1: gonna get mister mamoa, mister mamaha, so be careful.
Speaker 3: I used to get that a lot in college because
Speaker 3: I had the law I'm playing football.
Speaker 1: I was like, another fifty pounds, dude.
Speaker 3: But the question I want to ask you is when
Speaker 3: in your life did you start dressing so extravagantly Oh
Speaker 3: my god, that got to be like because I'm picturing
Speaker 3: I'm picturing a high school Jess.
Speaker 1: What did you wear to high school?
Speaker 3: Dude?
Speaker 1: You know what's funny is my life is divided into
Speaker 1: like several different like sections. Right, My first section was
Speaker 1: kid actor Jess and I did when I was a
Speaker 1: little boy. One of the biggest things, one of the
Speaker 1: first biggest things I ever did was I was in
Speaker 1: a major production of Oliver and I played the artful Dodger.
Speaker 1: Of course you did well, yeah, yeah, it was good.
Speaker 1: You know Colin's hideous out at home? Oh that that
Speaker 1: was me? Right, well, what was fun about that? This
Speaker 1: is a fun story too, my father and I'm going
Speaker 1: to get to your answer, but this, whether you use
Speaker 1: this or not, it's a fun anecdote. My father, Jim
Speaker 1: knows this because he met my dad, thank goodness, was
Speaker 1: a very accomplished memusician. Chris. I mean he backed up
Speaker 1: like some of the legends Judy Garland and Peggy Lee
Speaker 1: and Franklin him. Of course absolutely, and he had a
Speaker 1: very distinctive way of talking. And this is yeah, this
Speaker 1: is good. This is a good anecdote because what happened
Speaker 1: was I loved I saw the movie Oliver. You remember
Speaker 1: that movie with Roby, you know, And I just I
Speaker 1: was like six or seven, and I'm like, this is
Speaker 1: the greatest movie I've ever seen. I would watch it
Speaker 1: over and over. My mom would take me to theater.
Speaker 1: I'd see it over north And one day I happened
Speaker 1: to look in the newspaper. I was living in Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: and it said casting for the national touring production of Oliver.
Speaker 1: And this was in the days when if they had kids,
Speaker 1: they cast them in the individual cities rather than take
Speaker 1: them around the country. Now they take around the country.
Speaker 1: And it said looking for babblah blah, the artful dodger, right,
Speaker 1: and it said must be hang on, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: remember everything. Must be between five six and five eight,
Speaker 1: have dance training, this, that and the other as a kid, right,
Speaker 1: as a kid. And I had none of these things.
Speaker 1: I think I was about five foot one. I was
Speaker 1: just a little kid, you know. And I was eight.
Speaker 1: And they said between the gag eleven thirteen without with
Speaker 1: your voice and not having changed yet. And I was
Speaker 1: like eight years old. And I saw it and it's
Speaker 1: like big production, and I knew the theater was at
Speaker 1: the fancy theater in Philadelphia. So I'm going to see
Speaker 1: my dad. My dad had a very distinctive way of
Speaker 1: talking where he'd emphasize a random word and it sounded
Speaker 1: very odd'll illustrate. And he's sitting there reading his own paper.
Speaker 1: And I go and I go, hey, Daddy, I said,
Speaker 1: I have to go to this so I can be
Speaker 1: the artful dodger. And he goes, let me see that.
Speaker 1: And now, if you've never met my dad, it's one
Speaker 1: of my best impressions. I'm sorry they don't have a
Speaker 1: point of her because this is a good impression. And
Speaker 1: he looks at the parpent and go, you can't go
Speaker 1: to this, and I go why not? He goes, you
Speaker 1: don't have any of the qualifications, because he would even
Speaker 1: get these words very straight. And I said, I said, wait,
Speaker 1: you mean he goes, you don't dance. They want a
Speaker 1: kid that's five six, you're five to two. You know whatever.
Speaker 1: He goes, he goes, you're not going to get this,
Speaker 1: and I said, no, you have to take me so
Speaker 1: I can be the artful dodger, right, and he goes,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna take you, And you know why,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take you. And I said, well, I go
Speaker 1: so you can find out that you're not always gonna
Speaker 1: get what you want right. And I said, okay, So
Speaker 1: he took me. Oh that's a chat. Yeah boy, I did.
Speaker 1: I got it right. And I'm like and and he's like, like,
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe that I pulled it up, but I did.
Speaker 1: And that was my introduction. So I had this this
Speaker 1: little kind of showbized kid thing and I did TV.
Speaker 1: I had a Jesse Harnell TV show on local TV. Yeah. Man,
Speaker 1: it was like, believe it or not, nobody can see it.
Speaker 1: I would. It was just a local, a local show
Speaker 1: in Philly. Somebody dig it up, Somebody send you out there.
Speaker 1: I know you can find it. We'll get that into
Speaker 1: the Smithsonian. That would be freaking great. Man. The only
Speaker 1: way could have been better is if he was on him.
Speaker 1: But I digress. It was like an American idol for kids,
Speaker 1: and I would introduce all these kid acts and they compete.
Speaker 1: They'd win like five hundred bucks in the finalist would
Speaker 1: win a thousand or something.
Speaker 3: And how old are you now?
Speaker 1: I'm nine? Okay, And I got really good reviews. The
Speaker 1: all everything was funny and by the way I was
Speaker 1: shorter than the kid who played Oliver, because the whole
Speaker 1: dynamic was they wanted the boy to be taller than Oliver,
Speaker 1: but I was shorter and it went really really well anyway,
Speaker 1: So I'm doing that. I have the Jesse Harnell Show,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, this is my life. But then I
Speaker 1: was when I was fourteen years old. When I was
Speaker 1: fourteen years old, I went to like it was a
Speaker 1: kiss concert. Maybe I was younger, maybe twelve or something,
Speaker 1: and I saw these guys and there's fire blowing up
Speaker 1: and there's all these lights and there's a lot of
Speaker 1: girls screaming, and I went, that seems like a good jazz.
Speaker 1: So I couldn't exactly circling back to your question of
Speaker 1: forty five minutes ago, Chris, I couldn't exactly go to
Speaker 1: school dressed in armor and dragon boots. But I could
Speaker 1: raise my mom's closet and find scarves and like vests
Speaker 1: and stuff like that that fit me.
Speaker 3: So you were doing that in high school.
Speaker 1: But it's gonna get much more dangerous because what happened
Speaker 1: was man. So I always sort of did it, I
Speaker 1: mean because I like it, and in fact, all you
Speaker 1: kids there I met a lot of you guys on
Speaker 1: the road, and kids ask me about about the clothes
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, and I always tell them, I say, look,
Speaker 1: you know, I said, I always the way I figure
Speaker 1: it is if everybody else is wearing the same stuff
Speaker 1: and that's covered and I can do my own thing.
Speaker 1: And I tell them that you can do your own
Speaker 1: thing too. Doesn't have to be this as long as
Speaker 1: you're being true to who you are. It's a beautiful thing,
Speaker 1: right And kids sometimes say, they go, well, what if
Speaker 1: people don't like it? And I go, well, here's the
Speaker 1: good news. The people that don't like it aren't the
Speaker 1: people who are supposed to like it, and the people
Speaker 1: who do like it are your people and they'll find you.
Speaker 1: So it's awesome. But the clothes thing, that the clothes
Speaker 1: thing took a huge leap when I met this one. Okay,
Speaker 1: it was it was like this, and then it mushroomed
Speaker 1: into this gigantic explosion in my life. And because she's
Speaker 1: a certified stylist, Kara is so many good things, but
Speaker 1: she's an amazing stylist. Basically with the clothes. I won't
Speaker 1: use fell language, but I kid you not. She at
Speaker 1: the beginning of each week. At the beginning of each week,
Speaker 1: we have a clothing rack and she hangs up my
Speaker 1: outfits for the week with her outfits for the week
Speaker 1: next to each other on hangers. Shirt, trousers, jacket, if
Speaker 1: a jacket is we weren't coordinated color.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you see the fabrics, look at that.
Speaker 3: It's it's just and they have to be customed right
Speaker 3: just far away.
Speaker 1: From ma and mind.
Speaker 8: I'm so glad, you know what, because she looks better
Speaker 8: than me and whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm telling you, man, he's a sexy got No,
Speaker 1: it's like she just because you love you love the
Speaker 1: stuff just as much as me.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I do.
Speaker 6: I love like fabrics and playing with different colors and
Speaker 6: different patterns, and Jess is just cool enough to be
Speaker 6: able to pull it up.
Speaker 1: I tell people I'm her man Akin what I did
Speaker 1: see that? Man?
Speaker 3: I was in Tokyo last year and I texted you
Speaker 3: guys and there was literally like the coolest like sequince
Speaker 3: suit and literally like I saw it in the window
Speaker 3: and I was I need that. My mind raced. We
Speaker 3: got to go back, We got to go texted you
Speaker 3: for your sizes and what do you know, in Japan,
Speaker 3: they didn't have anywhere near your side.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, yeah, we don't have one of like
Speaker 1: twelve year old children. No, it's amazing. Another very This
Speaker 1: is a very quick anecdote, but it's true. Before I
Speaker 1: met car I was single for a few years and
Speaker 1: I was just kind of, you know, searching the world
Speaker 1: with a telescope, looking for my girl. And I would
Speaker 1: go shopping and all these fashion guys in these manufacturers
Speaker 1: that I know, and they'd have like a girl's dress
Speaker 1: or a girls this or a girl's that, and I'd say, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get all this stuff from me and let
Speaker 1: me have that dress. And they go, oh, you got
Speaker 1: a girlfriend. I go nah, and they go oh okay,
Speaker 1: and I go, no, no, no, it's not for me.
Speaker 1: I said, this is this is she's this is for
Speaker 1: her when I when she comes, and they go, well,
Speaker 1: how do you know she's gonna like it? She didn't
Speaker 1: like it, And I kid you not. If she hadn't,
Speaker 1: if she'd shown up and this wasn't her, stop all
Speaker 1: this stuff, I would have been We'll give it to
Speaker 1: somebody else. But when we met, I said, I've been
Speaker 1: buying you clothes for four years. She said, I said,
Speaker 1: oh my goodness, I love this, I guess, and she
Speaker 1: started wearing all this stuff and it's like it was
Speaker 1: so cool.
Speaker 6: I had like every single color like that was starting point,
Speaker 6: that was the base, and then it just true.
Speaker 1: Is that nuts? That is crazy? I know. Man.
Speaker 6: We dressed like this separately though, Like when I lived
Speaker 6: in London, I still dressed this way. Like when we
Speaker 6: met for the first time in person at the airport,
Speaker 6: we kind of looked at each other and went, ah.
Speaker 1: Yeah it is it was. It was worth the way.
Speaker 1: Oh that's good stuff. But isn't a cool because stylistic
Speaker 1: it is, we cut from the same cloth.
Speaker 9: Chris, again, there's plenty more of that.
Speaker 3: No, I love it. I love it. I love seeing
Speaker 3: you guys on the road. You guys are always so
Speaker 3: cute together.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Man. Well, that's another funny thing, dude. This
Speaker 1: is gym will related to this, you know, when we're
Speaker 1: out there.
Speaker 7: Very jingly with this is this.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's fine, it's Christmas, we're coming up on the holidays.
Speaker 1: This is great. What was funny is if we don't
Speaker 1: do this right, like let's say, if we do a
Speaker 1: can or something like that, and we don't show up dress.
Speaker 6: Similarly, Yeah, if I'm like wearing pink and he's in green.
Speaker 1: They're like, you guys aren't like counseling. So we did.
Speaker 6: It once, like I wanted to wear like this neon
Speaker 6: fusia pink thing and Jesse didn't.
Speaker 1: Right, well, you know, look great.
Speaker 7: Now we have to get him some because he was
Speaker 7: wearing wanted to wear and you wasn't. You was in
Speaker 7: blue or something.
Speaker 6: And you remember we went for lunch and they were
Speaker 6: like you guys okay, and we were.
Speaker 1: Like, there's whispers. So now we're like, oh, we got
Speaker 1: to make sure because you know what else is very
Speaker 1: sweet man. It's a lot of people, Jim. You know,
Speaker 1: they'll come to our table and we'll catch up and
Speaker 1: they'll say, well, I said, so can I you know
Speaker 1: what do you need this? No, I'm good man, I
Speaker 1: really just wanted to see what you guys were wearing.
Speaker 1: It's like it's taken on a light. It's wonderful and
Speaker 1: it is fun. Man. It's like it's like we got
Speaker 1: a lot of crayons.
Speaker 3: Okay, and follow follow up question because I know the
Speaker 3: people are wondering. I'm looking out for you guys. He
Speaker 3: is see around the house. You're chilling. It's Sunday, COVID.
Speaker 3: What are you wearing around the house?
Speaker 1: Same thing?
Speaker 3: You're not getting all dressed up, just sit around the house. Well, okay,
Speaker 3: you you don't own any sweatpants. I do because like
Speaker 3: rostones on them and stuff. Dude, I'll send you a picture,
Speaker 3: you know what, you know we'll do. We'll send you
Speaker 3: some of our casual work, even inserted into this.
Speaker 1: Puzzle people kid, and I'll show you. Please do. I
Speaker 1: don't want to show that because this is this is
Speaker 1: basically it.
Speaker 6: We just we But you mentioned COVID. I'm just gonna
Speaker 6: say something wrong. When when COVID was happening and we.
Speaker 1: Were just kind of I forgot, Yeah, this is good
Speaker 1: in the house.
Speaker 7: We still caes.
Speaker 1: Also the cages she does after midnight.
Speaker 7: Man, my funny accent, isn't it.
Speaker 1: Sorry?
Speaker 6: No, we still had like the Friday night date night,
Speaker 6: but we would get fully dressed up. We were going out,
Speaker 6: like Jesse came in the sequin blazer and the jackets
Speaker 6: and everything, and we'd have like we still have dinner.
Speaker 1: She'd make dinner and we'd pick it up someplace and
Speaker 1: bring it home and we'd like candles and sit there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we did dress up big halloweeners. Oh yeah, we like Halloween.
Speaker 3: Do you have a costume for this year?
Speaker 1: Well? See, our Halloween plans kind of got to rail
Speaker 1: because we did have costumes, and she'll tell you what
Speaker 1: they were.
Speaker 7: But no, when does this come out?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it doesn't matter. But but what happened was
Speaker 1: we had these costumes, but then something else came up
Speaker 1: the same night we were planning to go to Halloween
Speaker 1: party stuff, and we had to like rethink it because
Speaker 1: the costumes we had required more time. She was going
Speaker 1: to be like a sexy Jason from Friday the thirteenth,
Speaker 1: and that was like a heavy metal Freddy Krueger, and
Speaker 1: she was going to do our makeups and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But now, so we had to get something that we
Speaker 1: could change into really quick because we're coming in front
Speaker 1: of a formal.
Speaker 6: Doing like a boat party thing, so we couldn't be
Speaker 6: like Freddy Kruger on the.
Speaker 1: So tell them what we're going to be because it
Speaker 1: kind of sizes the whole thing in a bow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: bo like you know, kind of puts a ribbon.
Speaker 10: On you mean cat.
Speaker 1: No, that's another story.
Speaker 6: So we're going to be in something like this for
Speaker 6: the boat party, right, and then we need something that
Speaker 6: we can change into in the car to get out.
Speaker 1: And right, by the way, they're talking about a Lamborghining.
Speaker 1: Well it's a stolen one, but it's a you know,
Speaker 1: and we found it.
Speaker 5: So they've got like they've got the seats are molded
Speaker 5: onto them anyway, Yeah, they're molded into that.
Speaker 1: By the way. Best thing about that car, folks, I
Speaker 1: want you to know. It has nothing to do with
Speaker 1: prestige or the title of the car or how fast
Speaker 1: it goes. It has to do with this. Hey man,
Speaker 1: can you pick me up at the airport? Dude, I'd
Speaker 1: love to No trunk space, they can't do it. Go ahead,
Speaker 1: who are we're going to be?
Speaker 6: We pull it over our outfits because we were like,
Speaker 6: we can't get changed. Probably we just needed something to
Speaker 6: pull over. So we've got the outfits and it's pea pods.
Speaker 1: Gonna be piece of Yeah, I've heard of them in
Speaker 1: the pod. It's gonna be nice.
Speaker 6: Well inside a picture, so you don't think I'm crazy.
Speaker 6: It's really cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be. It's gonna be cute. It's still
Speaker 1: us and we can do it in thirty seconds. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm going to go on record and be a hater.
Speaker 3: I don't like that. Caution. I want to see a picture, yeah.
Speaker 1: One of us, because we got to picture the costume.
Speaker 1: But you gotta wait, I got to fill it out.
Speaker 3: You guys have to send me a picture.
Speaker 1: It'll be good. Change my mind because right now I'm
Speaker 1: going to be a hater. Yeah, funny, I understand, I
Speaker 1: get it, man, But I think that when you see it, well,
Speaker 1: then the other thing is we might be it might
Speaker 1: be I.
Speaker 7: Don't know how we're going to.
Speaker 1: Say, and we can't live it up, like yeah, you're
Speaker 1: like you're walking around like a pea pod. But you
Speaker 1: know it's gonna.
Speaker 3: Be Welcome everybody to another episode of Tuned In with
Speaker 3: Jim to We have Jessic Carrall Carnell. Yeah, and and
Speaker 3: it's been a great time already and we're going to
Speaker 3: dive right into it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, where is right? You know what's awesome, man, is
Speaker 1: it's like doing this Honestly, is it even like doing
Speaker 1: an interview? This is like hanging out with my pal
Speaker 1: for my whole life and my new palam of a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, and it's just comfortable. It doesn't
Speaker 1: feel like, uh, you know, well the next question, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not. It's just it's just does hanging well.
Speaker 3: That's the great thing about a podcast, right, It's like
Speaker 3: a discourse. It's like very good lax. And it's interesting too,
Speaker 3: Like of all the guests, I think we're we're in
Speaker 3: the seventies now of the amount of guests that we
Speaker 3: put on.
Speaker 1: Congratulations guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and almost one hundred things, almost one hundred thousand
Speaker 3: subscribers on YouTube.
Speaker 1: Too fantastic.
Speaker 3: It's like, busy, make it happen with this one. We're
Speaker 3: at ninety seven thousand. Let's just get three thousands subs
Speaker 3: right now. Two percent of you aren't even subscribed. So
Speaker 3: if you subscribe right now, then we'll make it happen.
Speaker 3: And that's all because of you.
Speaker 1: Guys. Let me, how can I want how can you
Speaker 1: not want? Him to be happy? He's we do need
Speaker 1: the freaking pood dude, get busy, come on.
Speaker 3: What he said, Yeah, no, it is great. And what
Speaker 3: I was saying is like some of the some of
Speaker 3: the guests we have on. It's interesting too because like
Speaker 3: this podcast kind of format, you know, this medium is
Speaker 3: kind of new, you know, to like at least popular culture.
Speaker 1: Yes, and a lot of people.
Speaker 3: You know, will you know, when we're in talks of
Speaker 3: booking them on the show, they're like, Okay, well can
Speaker 3: I have the questions in advance? And it's like, no,
Speaker 3: it's it's a discussion. It's very casual. It's very you know,
Speaker 3: you're almost getting to know somebody in this forum. You know,
Speaker 3: it's it's we want it to seem like a discussion
Speaker 3: between two people, not like you know, not like Katie Curic,
Speaker 3: you know, like a b C. Here's the agenda, you know,
Speaker 3: let's see where it goes. And if we don't get
Speaker 3: to anything, come back on. You know why I'm not going.
Speaker 1: I hope to be a frequent visitor because it's so
Speaker 1: much fun. And I'll tell you what you just said
Speaker 1: is very interesting, Chris, because what it sort of does.
Speaker 1: And I mean no disrespect to the folks who want
Speaker 1: to work that way. I understand their feelings, of course,
Speaker 1: but and I'll throw this over to Jim and to
Speaker 1: get your thoughts on it. Man. One one little kind
Speaker 1: of ground rule that I have for voiceovers that I've
Speaker 1: had for years and years and years. When we talk
Speaker 1: about voiceovers, people say, how do you know when you
Speaker 1: really have a character down, like do you when? Is
Speaker 1: it like second nature? And I said, A character is
Speaker 1: second nature when I can sit down with you and
Speaker 1: you can talk to me for fifteen minutes and I'll
Speaker 1: be that character with no script, no pre arranged stuff
Speaker 1: at all, and I'll know exactly what to say or
Speaker 1: how to react to whatever you throw at me right
Speaker 1: when you're very very So it's almost like maybe guys
Speaker 1: who want the questions in events haven't really found their
Speaker 1: own character. Yeah. I don't know, no offense to them,
Speaker 1: but it's like it's yeah, you know, because because when
Speaker 1: we have our guys down, I know I could talk
Speaker 1: to Jim as Tigger for half an hour. Yeah you know,
Speaker 1: it would be well, you know.
Speaker 5: And often when we get and I credit you with
Speaker 5: the this answer as well, because they'll say, well, what
Speaker 5: you know being a voice actor is this, and and
Speaker 5: I remember years ago, and I've given you credit every time.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 5: I said, yeah, Well, when it comes to being a
Speaker 5: voice actor, small V capital A, that's it, you know,
Speaker 5: and so you know, and and they say.
Speaker 1: Well you do voices, you do? You do voices, blah
Speaker 1: blah blah voice voice voice voice voice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I go, yeah, but okay, how.
Speaker 5: Never, ye what what I what I feel like I'm
Speaker 5: doing is I'm a character actor.
Speaker 1: I'm a I do characters. That's just how they sound
Speaker 1: when they talk. Wow. I love that. Yeah, that's okay,
Speaker 1: that's that's it. That's really it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: My my version of that, I think I like yours
Speaker 1: a little better is I say that it's not about
Speaker 1: doing funny voices. It's about creating believable characters with your voice.
Speaker 1: But what you said is actually more heartwarming. And it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, you're a good example of it, because no,
Speaker 1: because seriously, it's like it's like, you know, I think
Speaker 1: that nostalgia aside the we need the Pooh thing in particular, Uh,
Speaker 1: there's so much heart when you do well, no, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And it's like there are people
Speaker 1: God bless them, you know, who do that impression and
Speaker 1: and oftentimes it's a very good impression, but there's no
Speaker 1: you did. You know. It's it's like there's no foundation
Speaker 1: of love and soul has the soul dude, that's it.
Speaker 1: And that helps because he's he is a soul man,
Speaker 1: I mean, Jim, absolutely soul. So so yeah, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: isn't that true. It's like it's like, that's that's what
Speaker 1: it comes down to, and it's not it's not about
Speaker 1: doing funny voices. It's about being believable, knowing your stuff
Speaker 1: and being able to answer questions and a character. I
Speaker 1: know really well is this one so you can ask
Speaker 1: me anything. That's right, that's right. I'm real good at
Speaker 1: being me. Man. Yeah, I'm the second best atage.
Speaker 5: That's a beautiful thing and it's very true. It's very
Speaker 5: very true. Like I said, like you said, small v
Speaker 5: capital a, that's it money all the way.
Speaker 1: And you know, for all you guys out there hoping
Speaker 1: to do it, good news is that you can get better,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. At those things. Then the
Speaker 1: way to become a good actor is to act. And
Speaker 1: if you you know, look into community theater, look into classes,
Speaker 1: look into things like that, because there's something near everybody.
Speaker 1: And another really good thing that we didn't have so
Speaker 1: much when we were coming up. We used to record ourselves.
Speaker 1: Remember cassettes Jim, Oh yeah, I used to.
Speaker 7: We still have a ton of them in the office.
Speaker 7: He's gone, like a ton of these cassettes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, And I'd get a call to Jim
Speaker 1: to do fill in the blank, you know, can you
Speaker 1: do so Alan Arkin or something? And I'd go and
Speaker 1: I'd find a VHS of an Alan Arkin movie and
Speaker 1: put it in the thing and stand there and look
Speaker 1: for a good scene. Hold my cassette up. Go like this,
Speaker 1: you know, and like and like be in the car
Speaker 1: listening to this little cassette and parroting it, parrotting it
Speaker 1: until I had it. Go to the gig, do the gig,
Speaker 1: and promptly forget how to do it. Well. Now, there
Speaker 1: are so many tools that you can use. Guys. You
Speaker 1: can use YouTube to find things. You can do an
Speaker 1: exercise like a really quick great vo exercise if you've
Speaker 1: never tried it and you don't eat anybody but yourself.
Speaker 1: A phone and a remote control. Turn on your TV. Okay,
Speaker 1: have the MU and pressed press record on your phone,
Speaker 1: unpressed the mute. Listen to what's going on with the
Speaker 1: TV for about five seconds. Mute it again. Repeat exactly
Speaker 1: what was just on the TV. Try to sound as
Speaker 1: much likely as you can. Change the channel. Do it again.
Speaker 1: Do this ten times. Not only will you get an
Speaker 1: awesome head rush at the end of it. When you
Speaker 1: when you turn it off, you're gonna find out, Wow,
Speaker 1: I can kind of do a Scottish accent. I didn't
Speaker 1: know I could do that, And wow, I do the
Speaker 1: worst impression ever of John Malkovich. But that's kind of
Speaker 1: a cool new voice I just saw. And you you
Speaker 1: get done with that stuff, you will find out stuff
Speaker 1: you never thought you could do. So there you go.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's well said, exactly really yeah, And also
Speaker 1: as far as the acting thing, read things, you know,
Speaker 1: record things and read them, and you listen back to them.
Speaker 1: Forget that it's you, and ask yourself, now, if I
Speaker 1: heard that, would I think somebody was reading it to me?
Speaker 1: Or was somebody was talking to me? And if it
Speaker 1: sounds like somebody was reading it to you, keep doing
Speaker 1: it until it doesn't. It is perfect all she wrote
Speaker 1: there it is man, drop them like boo. Yes, no,
Speaker 1: that is so true. Right.
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Speaker 5: And I remember years ago you were playing everyone's one
Speaker 5: of I gotta believe it's everybody's favorite character in the
Speaker 5: Wizard of Oz and you were the Cowardly Lion, and
Speaker 5: I remember seeing pictures of you and and it was
Speaker 5: I think it was an interior Ontario somewhere in the
Speaker 5: end of the Empire. Yes it was, and I was like, damn,
Speaker 5: I can't get out there for some reason or another.
Speaker 5: And I guess you just crushed it. And do you
Speaker 5: love the stage too well? I mean, obviously playing rock
Speaker 5: and roll on Rock.
Speaker 1: And Roll show, that's and that's as you know, and
Speaker 1: as you've done, that's that's the court. That's the foundation
Speaker 1: of everything that I do mean in the voiceover stuff, Jim,
Speaker 1: and it definitely applies to you. I think one of
Speaker 1: our secret weapons and a lot of our friends out
Speaker 1: there who we work with have the same thing is
Speaker 1: being a singer helps so much and As far as
Speaker 1: being on stage, I always said, I said that I
Speaker 1: like like theater. I really enjoyed doing theater. But I've
Speaker 1: never been partial to haircuts, so I can really only
Speaker 1: play a pirate Jesus or the cowardly Lion. Therefore, I
Speaker 1: love I've done Jesus for Jesus Christ. Super I was
Speaker 1: gonna say, you've got you're two out of three? Yeah, three,
Speaker 1: bro and the cowardly line. You know the sweetest thing
Speaker 1: about that, Jim, It's just it's just magic to me, man,
Speaker 1: It's like it's a there's a question I got for you.
Speaker 1: And then seg way back, did you like or have
Speaker 1: a relationship with Winnie the Pooh before you became Winnie
Speaker 1: the Pooh?
Speaker 5: Was I knew you were aware of it, but did
Speaker 5: it have well, yes and no, my younger brother Terry did. Okay,
Speaker 5: And and gosh, I think I've told this before, but
Speaker 5: it's a terrible.
Speaker 1: Now to me, please, but it was.
Speaker 5: You know, this is obviously in the the original in
Speaker 5: the whenever that was in the sixties. Yeah, And he
Speaker 5: would watch it on Disney whatever, you know, the world
Speaker 5: of Color.
Speaker 1: The wonderful, the wonderful World of Color. Yeah, And I said, do.
Speaker 2: You know, WINNI the poo.
Speaker 1: You know what poo is, don't you? You know what
Speaker 1: poo is?
Speaker 11: If you take that h off, it's pooh.
Speaker 2: We need a poop. We need a poop.
Speaker 5: And and he brought that up years later and he goes, okay, yeah, hey,
Speaker 5: we need pop.
Speaker 1: And said, yeah, okay, you're in the House of Boo
Speaker 1: built man. Yeah see that. Let me get this, Okay,
Speaker 1: I feel better now.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: So well, the reason I ask you the question is because, seriously,
Speaker 1: bar none, I've I've you know, I've been so blessed
Speaker 1: so many times in my career by so many things,
Speaker 1: and one of them was my all time favorite movie
Speaker 1: is The Wizard of Us. Right. I think, to me,
Speaker 1: it's like the most perfect movie there's ever been. I'm
Speaker 1: so glad they haven't really tried to redo it but
Speaker 1: have just let it be its thing, right, And the
Speaker 1: cast was so perfect, and I grew up with it.
Speaker 1: Every year, at Easter, Thanksgiving, whatever it was, my family
Speaker 1: would sit down in front of the couch and we watched,
Speaker 1: you know, we watched The Wizard of Oz and everything.
Speaker 1: And one of the first voices I ever learned to
Speaker 1: do was the cowardly Lion. So not only as it
Speaker 1: happened did I end up playing it in a in
Speaker 1: a big musical production of it, which was very good
Speaker 1: and a very nice memory. But I became the official
Speaker 1: voice of the Lion for all like the Warner Brothers
Speaker 1: ancillary products and for Wizard of Oz show revivals and
Speaker 1: cartoons and stuff like that. And it's so cool because
Speaker 1: every time I'm on I'm like, can I stop doing this?
Speaker 1: I got happy and saw it all. It's it's just like,
Speaker 1: you know, yes, you know, it's like it's like it's just.
Speaker 5: Like I remember that, I thinking that was the damnest
Speaker 5: lion whar I ever heard?
Speaker 1: Oh? But just because what is it? Yeah, it's not
Speaker 1: even yeah.
Speaker 2: It was he.
Speaker 3: Is there a so that that voice has to come
Speaker 3: from the original, right, Well yeah, you know in my
Speaker 3: in my mind, and it's it's sort of okay.
Speaker 1: A really good parallel to draw to that is it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, there are certain things like this this beatle
Speaker 1: thing that Jim and I worked on recently. It comes
Speaker 1: to mind too. It's the same kind of thing. There's
Speaker 1: certain things. My band Rock Sugar is all about taking
Speaker 1: stuff that you're really familiar with and making it new,
Speaker 1: making doing new things with it, doing these mashups and
Speaker 1: creating something new out of it. But with the Cowardly Lion,
Speaker 1: when they said here's the audition, right, and that said,
Speaker 1: you don't you you may or may not do an
Speaker 1: impression of Burtlar, you know, and I'm like, look, man,
Speaker 1: you know, I know I could create something with this
Speaker 1: that would be different, but that was perfect, Like like
Speaker 1: I could grade something that was pretty good, but that's perfect.
Speaker 1: So if I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna do that
Speaker 1: as a tip of the hat. I mean, I give
Speaker 1: him full credit, you know. And it's like it's like
Speaker 1: if when Jim does we need the poo, he embodies,
Speaker 1: we need the pooh, and if he you know, well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put I'm gonn I'm gonna change it. You know.
Speaker 1: It's like saying, no, man, it's not and he and
Speaker 1: he does it. He takes it to another level. But
Speaker 1: he's he's faithful to what people's Yeah, I think you
Speaker 1: have to be yeah, you know, and sometimes sometimes they
Speaker 1: do that, they bring things back. I won't mention any names,
Speaker 1: but you know, we've been involved in in reboots of shows,
Speaker 1: and so many Arthur was that was safe too? Yeah water, yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, they didn't take that seriously handle have it
Speaker 1: with that. It's terrible anyway, you like the original he's
Speaker 1: talking about the talking about the Yeah, it wasn't. It's
Speaker 1: a whole other show y see, well should that says it?
Speaker 1: But no, it's like it's it's like there's certain things
Speaker 1: that are that are that are classic and perfect and
Speaker 1: you don't, you know, don't repaint the mona Lisa Man
Speaker 1: the yeah you were, you were?
Speaker 3: You mentioned your experience on Abbey Road, like, Jim, do
Speaker 3: you want to talk about that a little bit forever?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: The audience, the audience, what did you guys do?
Speaker 1: Well, what did we do? I sat there and it
Speaker 1: just was overwhelmed. That's what I did. But but no,
Speaker 1: well you recorded that a road.
Speaker 5: Did recorded recorded three songs because because because the world
Speaker 5: is round, that was that was very intricate harmonies me,
Speaker 5: Jim and Robert unbelievable. And then no reply that was
Speaker 5: a due It was a good one. And then you know,
Speaker 5: this is terrible because I remember singing songs with you
Speaker 5: there that we didn't sing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were just I remember I just I can
Speaker 1: go through them. I can go through all these songs,
Speaker 1: you know, And did we do that? Wee, No, we
Speaker 1: didn't do that. We kind of feels like but it
Speaker 1: feels like we did.
Speaker 5: And I gosh, again, I give myself goose bumps when
Speaker 5: I think when I when I recall this with this man, um,
Speaker 5: you know, it was magical. And I'll tell everybody, you know,
Speaker 5: we're going through these songs and you know, you walk
Speaker 5: in and go, wow, this is Ivy Road.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Beatles, Beatles recorded here. Wow. Okay, yeah, that smells.
Speaker 5: Like the Beatles, you know, and you're just going through
Speaker 5: and you know I was there, Margaret was there, you know,
Speaker 5: we were all.
Speaker 1: There, and we made her sing too, by the way,
Speaker 1: Yes we got her exactly right.
Speaker 4: And somebody said something about blisters on their face.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we had a special guest RINGO.
Speaker 1: I'll I'll throw in a bit of a bit of
Speaker 1: back context that I'll throw backward to Jeniffer. You guys,
Speaker 1: so you understand what's happening here. It's like, so, okay,
Speaker 1: my all time favorite band, Jimmy is who is your
Speaker 1: all time favorite musical artist? Is it the Beatles? The Beatles?
Speaker 5: Okay, so I always say, no, I think you're asking
Speaker 5: me who my second one is, Okay, because okay it's
Speaker 5: the Beatles, and now we can talk.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, God got it, Yes, perfect, I see exactly
Speaker 1: what you're saying. Well in my musical background, Chris, because
Speaker 1: I definitely that's the biggest part of my background is music,
Speaker 1: and I always tell people I break it down like this.
Speaker 1: The Beatles taught me how to write a song. Steve
Speaker 1: Perry taught me how to sing a song, and Kiss
Speaker 1: taught me how to perform a song. Because it's like
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, those are my influences, but
Speaker 1: the Beatles to occupy a very special place in my
Speaker 1: heart and in my life. Right. My first memory as
Speaker 1: a child was my big brother Jeff, holding my hands
Speaker 1: up and dancing with me. I saw her standing there.
Speaker 1: I was wearing a diaper, but I can still I
Speaker 1: described the room to my mom and she's like, you
Speaker 1: were like not even one years old when we were there.
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, but I remember the washing machine and
Speaker 1: she's like, and there's no pictures, so it was very strange.
Speaker 1: So the Beatles have just always been this enormous thing
Speaker 1: in my life and in Jim's as well, and then
Speaker 1: probably lots and lots of you guys. Well, my beautiful
Speaker 1: wife is from the UK and I've taken a lot
Speaker 1: of trips over there, and I would routine go to
Speaker 1: Abbey Road, which is the studio that the Beatles recorded
Speaker 1: like ninety two percent of everything they ever did. And
Speaker 1: of course the famous crosswalk from the album cover is there,
Speaker 1: the zebra crossing is there, and people go and they
Speaker 1: take pictures, and of course there's the building right So
Speaker 1: every time I was there, Chris, I'm like, I want
Speaker 1: to see Studio two saw Yeah, yeah right there, say
Speaker 1: say say this is what I'm talking That's the zebra
Speaker 1: crossing right there, folks. So I wanted so bad to
Speaker 1: go into studio too, because that's where they did all
Speaker 1: this stuff. And I'm talking about that's where they did
Speaker 1: their test to get their record deal and where they
Speaker 1: recorded the last song they ever did together in that room.
Speaker 1: So it's just like all these books. So and I
Speaker 1: always walk up and I walk in and I try
Speaker 1: to be my most pleasant and my most friendly and
Speaker 1: my least scary and go, hey is it you know,
Speaker 1: it would it be possible just to kind of pop
Speaker 1: my head into the studio two and just maybe lick
Speaker 1: the floor for a minute or whatever, and you know,
Speaker 1: and they'd be like, I'm so sorry. I say, it
Speaker 1: is a working studio. We do a lot of tools,
Speaker 1: and we do get ask client off and kind loud,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, okay. And one day she says to me,
Speaker 1: she goes, what if it's a wedding studio, why don't
Speaker 1: you rent it? And I went, wow, there you go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: see you wait a minute and I went, I see
Speaker 1: where you're going. Yeah, And I'm like, I have a
Speaker 1: check book to right, So booked it, booked it a
Speaker 1: year out, okay, and you know when it might have
Speaker 1: been yeah, And you know, when you when you have
Speaker 1: an event like that where they go wedding or some
Speaker 1: big trip or whatever, it's very far off. You don't
Speaker 1: really think about it too much. But I knew it
Speaker 1: was there. I knew I wanted him there. I knew
Speaker 1: I wanted Pauls in there, my our buddy Rob Paulson,
Speaker 1: who was also there with us. But I was like, okay, well,
Speaker 1: it's far off enough. I don't think about it. But
Speaker 1: then as it started getting closer. Right now, it's three
Speaker 1: months out, and I'm like, oh, why should probably think
Speaker 1: about what songs I want to do because they have
Speaker 1: a whole lot of songs. So I made my list.
Speaker 1: My list had over one hundred on them. I thought, well,
Speaker 1: it's a busy day. Those were says. Those were just
Speaker 1: my favorites out of the two hundred and ninety two
Speaker 1: or whatever it is that they So I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: I've got to cut that down. And as I cut
Speaker 1: it down, one of my real criteria to Cuttage Gym,
Speaker 1: I think I told you this was I wanted to
Speaker 1: focus on the fact of not so much just the
Speaker 1: big hits, but how diverse their songwriting was. And a
Speaker 1: good way to point that out, a really good way
Speaker 1: to point that out to you is they they did
Speaker 1: I Want to Hold Your Hand, okay, which is like
Speaker 1: one of the best pop songs of all time. Right,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, tell you something. They clap in hands, right,
Speaker 1: and it's just as happy and poppy as can be.
Speaker 1: Three years later, they were doing let Me Take You Down,
Speaker 1: because it's like a totally different freaking man in three years.
Speaker 1: So I thought, well, I want to focus on that.
Speaker 1: So I picked credible growth, right, just amazing, I said,
Speaker 1: I want to shine the spotlight on how much these
Speaker 1: guys grew and how almost unrecognizable they were to the
Speaker 1: former iteration of themselves. So put these song lists together, right,
Speaker 1: get the tracks together, because I knew I couldn't track
Speaker 1: stuff over in there. I only had ten hours to
Speaker 1: sing on this, and we rent the room. We show
Speaker 1: up there at ten in the morning, meet the engineer,
Speaker 1: really really nice guy named Paul Pritchard, had everything so
Speaker 1: nice for us. But walking into the room and I'll
Speaker 1: get to my friend's experience in a moment, was such
Speaker 1: a trip, you guys, because it's like, it's not just
Speaker 1: the room where they were my favorite band of all time,
Speaker 1: and again music has been the driving force of my
Speaker 1: life from my entire life, recorded everything. It's basically unchained,
Speaker 1: it's changed. It's also the room where the writer of
Speaker 1: the song. It doesn't work like it like it does
Speaker 1: now because now you know, if I write a song,
Speaker 1: I can put it together on my computer, send it
Speaker 1: to you, say, hey, Jim, put some drums on this.
Speaker 1: You send it back and I go, you know what,
Speaker 1: give me more of a fill there and okay, change
Speaker 1: the backing goes. When the Beatles worked the Beatles worked
Speaker 1: exactly like this, and I'm not even kidney. They'd be like,
Speaker 1: all right, fellas, we need a song for the movie tomorrow,
Speaker 1: so you've got to come up with something. We're thinking,
Speaker 1: you know, and Ringo say, well, it's been on Holidays
Speaker 1: night today, and John goes, Holiday's nine. That's a good idea.
Speaker 1: And he went back, literally went home, picked up an
Speaker 1: acoustic came in the next day. I went great, goes
Speaker 1: like this, Mom is man a houndays, and he's teaching
Speaker 1: the guys the song in this room. Then they're recording
Speaker 1: it in this room. That room, right, Okay. So I
Speaker 1: walk in there and I know it real real well, Chris,
Speaker 1: It's like I've never been in it, but I've been
Speaker 1: in it my whole life. I know exactly where they
Speaker 1: used to set up. Ringo's drums were there. I mean
Speaker 1: then as years went by they would move keyboards and
Speaker 1: things to different places. I knew where they recorded that.
Speaker 1: I knew where Paul sat when he did Blackbird. I
Speaker 1: knew everything. I'm like ray Man in that room. I
Speaker 1: know everything, every detail. So here I am in this
Speaker 1: room and I'm going to sing these songs, right, and
Speaker 1: the engineer comes down. He goes, right, well, how many
Speaker 1: songs are you thinking of doing? And I said, I'm
Speaker 1: shooting for twenty one and he goes, well, no, you'd
Speaker 1: have to be Superman what. And I'm like, I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do it, dude, We're gonna do it. And
Speaker 1: we did. We did do it. And what was amazing
Speaker 1: is midway through the day, Jimmy shows up and you know,
Speaker 1: I've known Jim and loved Jim for years and years
Speaker 1: and years, shows up and he got choked up. He started,
Speaker 1: he got like tears in his yes, and he was
Speaker 1: he had to take a second just because of the history.
Speaker 1: And they haven't changed the gym, you know that, it's
Speaker 1: just like.
Speaker 7: It was exactly.
Speaker 5: And I was there for like twenty minutes and and
Speaker 5: and it just slowly washed over me. You know, I'm
Speaker 5: walking down the steps and I go, oh, those are
Speaker 5: the steps, Yeah, stupid stuff, you know.
Speaker 1: And that look, oh wait.
Speaker 12: That that's oh oh the door, those doors to the
Speaker 12: echo chamber, the echo chamber, and John was sitting right
Speaker 12: there there there and then I'm going, yeah, me too, again.
Speaker 1: And I just welled up.
Speaker 5: But I just started tearing up, and I said I'm
Speaker 5: looking overcome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know what to do with myself. I know,
Speaker 1: And there was there was a moment and do you
Speaker 1: want to show him? You want to show him?
Speaker 3: Are you?
Speaker 1: Yeah? There was a moment. This this is one of
Speaker 1: my favorite moments. So now this is not this is
Speaker 1: not a sales pace. This is just a I made
Speaker 1: a CD and a DVD and you can find it
Speaker 1: at rocksugar band dot com. We were not playing on
Speaker 1: selling a ton of them. But if you if you
Speaker 1: want to check it out, I guarantee you the songs
Speaker 1: will give you some great memories of both then and now.
Speaker 1: There are some amazing moments, isn't it on the rock
Speaker 1: it's a digital download. Yeah, but you can get the
Speaker 1: video as well on the download. And the best part
Speaker 1: my wife here, who I never knew was such a
Speaker 1: good documentarian, you neither. She filmed a making of video
Speaker 1: and you basically get to go through the whole day
Speaker 1: with us.
Speaker 7: You see us arrived, getting literally in the hotel room.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but don't get any ideas it starts. It starts
Speaker 1: the day off.
Speaker 6: Going into the lift downstairs elevator, Yeah, the elevator, and
Speaker 6: then yeah, getting into the cab getting there and shows
Speaker 6: Jimmy arriving. Captures a really sweet moment. Actually I won't
Speaker 6: give it away, but it's between these two when Jesse's
Speaker 6: singing and Jimmy's watching.
Speaker 7: It's really cool.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of money. It's but one of my
Speaker 1: favorite things is there's a song. Okay, it's a it's
Speaker 1: an old Beatles songs from like nineteen sixty four, and
Speaker 1: it's called No Reply, and I always loved it because
Speaker 1: it has these amazing two part harmonies that are deceptively simple,
Speaker 1: but that's what makes them not simple. And jim walk
Speaker 1: in and he's looking around. He's literally it's on the video.
Speaker 1: You'll see this. He's he's looking around, and I go, hey, man,
Speaker 1: let's sing this. And I start singing it and he
Speaker 1: turns to the mic and he sings it with me
Speaker 1: and Chris, I kid you not. We never We never,
Speaker 1: straight up man. We didn't rehearse it, we didn't go
Speaker 1: on and and it was like, I've finished the rehearsal
Speaker 1: and I'm like, we didn't. We should have recorded that.
Speaker 1: There was not even any music.
Speaker 7: It was amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So that's it's on the DVD. So that said,
Speaker 1: we're gonna sing it to you. Yeah, he had that'll
Speaker 1: serenade you. The only way this could be more romantic
Speaker 1: is if we were standing underneath your window at night,
Speaker 1: but then your neighbors.
Speaker 3: I just want to insert a little personal anecdote speaking
Speaker 3: of documentaries and music studios. I'm a big fan of
Speaker 3: the rapper The Game, and he recorded his platinum selling
Speaker 3: album the documentary right next door in this in this build,
Speaker 3: in this building, right next door. I have not been there.
Speaker 3: I knowed right next door.
Speaker 1: No, you gotta go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because and you'll see it when you're walking out.
Speaker 3: On the wall they have the platinum plaque addressed to
Speaker 3: the studio.
Speaker 1: See. I love that. And we both have had the experience,
Speaker 1: I know, Jim has I mean, I've recorded in Capital studios,
Speaker 1: were recorded, you know, we recorded all these places. I
Speaker 1: recorded in the room where they did, you know, Hotel California,
Speaker 1: where the egos did. It's a cool feeling. It's cool
Speaker 1: for me, dude. This this was like, okay, this was
Speaker 1: like this is Mecca, a devout Cathy getting the sleep
Speaker 1: in the pope's bedroom without the obvious we're going to
Speaker 1: keep you appropriate, but it's like it was like. It
Speaker 1: was like we're in the headquarters. Man. Oh yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: zero serenade. You want to hear this grind zero?
Speaker 3: Everybody does?
Speaker 1: All right? I got to put on our beetle hats.
Speaker 1: Are you ready? I got on that killing me because
Speaker 1: he bought me that hat and I almost wore it
Speaker 1: today and I should have, but I'm I'm wearing at
Speaker 1: other times we got cutie.
Speaker 13: Looks all right, here we go?
Speaker 1: You ready, bro? Here we go? All right, here we go.
Speaker 13: This happened was before when I give to your told
Speaker 13: no reply, They.
Speaker 11: Said it wasn't you. But I saw you picked through
Speaker 11: your window.
Speaker 1: I saw the lad. I saw the lad.
Speaker 13: I know that sees on me because it's up to
Speaker 13: see your face.
Speaker 1: M I tried to telephone, they sent you one. Not home.
Speaker 13: That's a lie, yeah, buddy, because out of the where
Speaker 13: you've been and I saw you walk in.
Speaker 1: You won't do.
Speaker 2: Honeyly died.
Speaker 1: Honeyly died.
Speaker 11: Because you walked hand in hand with another man in
Speaker 11: my place.
Speaker 1: My favorite part right here. If I were you, I'd
Speaker 1: realize that I love you more than.
Speaker 5: Any other God, and I forgive the lie said.
Speaker 1: Heard before? Will you gave me no reply.
Speaker 13: Wow, I try to telephone. They said you were at home,
Speaker 13: but that's a longe because I know where you've been
Speaker 13: and I saw you walk.
Speaker 1: In your dord. Honey, it died, honiy died.
Speaker 13: Because you are tanding hands with another man in my place.
Speaker 13: No reply, no reply?
Speaker 1: Come on, DN, you see what I'm saying. You're seeing
Speaker 1: that show solo. Come up. That's how it's done, ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen only right. But we were an abbey road
Speaker 1: then I gotta tell you.
Speaker 7: Just it's so good you guys. You took me right back.
Speaker 1: Good good, well, I mean, doing that with you, it's
Speaker 1: just it's just it's like my It warms my heart
Speaker 1: in so many ways because the song has been a
Speaker 1: part of my life forever. Doing it with you, hearing
Speaker 1: you sing so good, it's just like, man, life is good, bro.
Speaker 5: And it's always good when you have the right words.
Speaker 5: I'm a big fan of actual lyrics. I didn't sneak
Speaker 5: one Yellow submarine and they're just to screw you up, right,
Speaker 5: But how cool was that?
Speaker 1: See what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: That was so cool.
Speaker 1: And that's just like a microcosmic example.
Speaker 3: When you sing, what's it like singing with your natural
Speaker 3: voice versus imitating or playing a character.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's a good question. I am okay. That harkens
Speaker 1: back to when I did this record. I didn't set
Speaker 1: out to do like Beatle impressions, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's like, but I did keep very faithful again because
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, you can't really improve on profess. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't fight it. Yeah, right, you know you'll do
Speaker 1: John Spot All right, I'll do Jones. That's a great idea. Great,
Speaker 1: it's good, but it's part of your DNA. And it's like,
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's a really good question.
Speaker 3: But the reason I asked is because we just had
Speaker 3: Hankazaria on the podcast, and right now he's doing a
Speaker 3: tour of singing, but as Bruce Springsteen, he's like doing
Speaker 3: like he's not singing, just cover. He's like covering in
Speaker 3: an imitation.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And he said he feels so much more comfortable and
Speaker 3: has throughout his whole career imitating even when he's acting,
Speaker 3: he feels like he has to put on a voice
Speaker 3: or you know, like imitate something because he feels so
Speaker 3: self conscious in his own skin.
Speaker 1: Wow, that he feels weird.
Speaker 3: Performing as himself and he wanted to challenge himself. He's
Speaker 3: turning sixty or he just turned sixty, and he wanted
Speaker 3: to challenge himself with something vocally, And so he spent
Speaker 3: months and months and months learning how to sing like
Speaker 3: Bruce Springsteen. And now he's doing two shows a month,
Speaker 3: two shows a month.
Speaker 1: That's performing as around the country. Yeah. In answer, he's
Speaker 1: got that screen doors flaying, he's got all that.
Speaker 3: That's sort of so, I guess I bring that up
Speaker 3: to bring context to the question that I just asked you,
Speaker 3: was how mentally, how does that feel for you singing
Speaker 3: a character versus singing in an impression versus singing in
Speaker 3: your true voice?
Speaker 1: It's great?
Speaker 3: What's what's the difference?
Speaker 1: It's a great question. And man, you know, it's like
Speaker 1: I always tell people that we all become amalgams of
Speaker 1: the people who've influenced us.
Speaker 7: Right, Yes, you have no problem in singing it's yourself.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that.
Speaker 1: But it's it's like, you know, when okay, it's it's
Speaker 1: like in my development as a singer, Chris, which I
Speaker 1: was long before I was a voiceover actor, I was like, well,
Speaker 1: you know my biggest influences. It's like, I really loved
Speaker 1: Steve Perry. I used to I used to practice all
Speaker 1: Steve Perry's stuff and all his runs and all his
Speaker 1: things and do that. I also loved Robert Plant of
Speaker 1: led Zeppelin, and I love To Henley of the Eagles.
Speaker 1: So it's like when I sort of became myself vocally,
Speaker 1: I'm like cross between Steep Perry, rob and Don Henley
Speaker 1: of the Eagles. Right, it's a damn fine, it's a
Speaker 1: nice it's not a bad recip. That's not a bad resume, man.
Speaker 1: But you know what's cool is it's like we all
Speaker 1: kind of if we're really blessed, we all kind of
Speaker 1: find our lane and we get to drive in it,
Speaker 1: you know. And it's like the rock Sugar thing, which
Speaker 1: is the biggest six I mean my I had original
Speaker 1: bands here in l A. And we had major success
Speaker 1: on a very local level. Like we had the Loud
Speaker 1: and Clear, We had the attendance record at the Whiskey
Speaker 1: for that year, we had the attendance record at the
Speaker 1: Palace in Hollywood for that year, more people. We drew
Speaker 1: a ton of people, but we never well and I
Speaker 1: think you invented mash up, well, live mashups kind of.
Speaker 1: I mean to anybody who it's you man, well and
Speaker 1: it's Chucky Durant. Yeah, but it's it's like, what's cool
Speaker 1: is mash ups? You know DJ's have been doing those
Speaker 1: for years, and then we thought, well, we'll do live mashups.
Speaker 1: You know, we'll take we'll take a metal song like
Speaker 1: an anthem, usually with the you know, the top of
Speaker 1: the right now, but we do mashups of eighties metal
Speaker 1: with eighties pop, and we do them live, right, We don't.
Speaker 1: It's not records. It's not a guy spinning records. And
Speaker 1: then thank you man. Jimmy's been with us for some
Speaker 1: of those things. But it took off. And what's funny
Speaker 1: is with rock Sugar. I reflected on it later and
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, this is such a great vehicle
Speaker 1: for me because before I became a singer, I think
Speaker 1: jim knows this, he might not, or before I became
Speaker 1: a voiceover actor, my primary income was being a session
Speaker 1: singer and my calling card, my secret weapon, if you will,
Speaker 1: that I had at that time was the ability to
Speaker 1: imitate singers. And there was something that was very in
Speaker 1: Vogue at the time called sound Alikes, and I was
Speaker 1: interviewed like five times on Entertainments and I remember Entertainments
Speaker 1: on Night. Jim, I'm sure you've been on that about
Speaker 1: doing sounds because it was really cool because there was
Speaker 1: like a legal loophole, and what it was was, Okay,
Speaker 1: we got this TV show. The year is nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 1: When we got this TV show, we want to use
Speaker 1: guns N' Roses song? Okay, guns N' Roses. If you're
Speaker 1: going to use that record once a quarter of a
Speaker 1: million dollars to license that record. Well wait, there's fine
Speaker 1: print here. If we record a new track and happen
Speaker 1: to hire a guy who sounds like actual Rose, we
Speaker 1: can do it for five thousand dollars. Let's do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well I did more of those than anybody I did.
Speaker 1: I did like literally before I became a voice over actor,
Speaker 1: I did hundreds of these sellers.
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Speaker 6: My biggest That one time when you've got to tell this,
Speaker 6: to tell this story, do you remember that one time
Speaker 6: when you told me that your dad called you up
Speaker 6: and said, can.
Speaker 7: You sound like this guy? Yeah, well you had to
Speaker 7: run to the record store.
Speaker 1: Well, my father, my father. I'll tell an abbreviated version
Speaker 1: of it because we don't want to have a mini series,
Speaker 1: but I'll give you a quick I'll give you the
Speaker 1: quick version of it. My dad was doing the music
Speaker 1: my first sound like job ever, Jim. He was doing
Speaker 1: the show for music for a show called Shadow Chasers,
Speaker 1: which was about guys chasing supernatural phenomena. And he had
Speaker 1: told me my father didn't like anybody's music unless he
Speaker 1: had something to do with it, Chris, unless he was involved. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So one day he was in the car and he
Speaker 1: was bitching about something. He goes, do you know this
Speaker 1: little bastard, the Prince. I'm like the Prince all right,
Speaker 1: And I'm like the prince of what. He goes, there's
Speaker 1: a singer, the Prince. I go, I go, you mean prince?
Speaker 14: He goes, god's it goes got this song. He wants
Speaker 14: to charge half a million to do the song. And
Speaker 14: that's even for a sound like an what's the sound like?
Speaker 14: He goes, you know, it's where you'll hire the guy.
Speaker 14: And he comes in and he sings like the visuals
Speaker 14: and I go, Dad, I can do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, And he goes. He goes, you feeling. I
Speaker 1: been doing that since I was I've done great news.
Speaker 1: So he goes, he goes, this is this is Glen
Speaker 1: so yeah. Yeah, so he calls me up. He goes,
Speaker 1: he goes, he calls me up like a week later,
Speaker 1: and I answered the phone and I have music crank
Speaker 1: and this is my full rock and roll days. I
Speaker 1: was living bo like the other guy's in the band
Speaker 1: and in this terrible apartment and music's blaring and I
Speaker 1: pick up the phone. I'm like hello, and he goes,
Speaker 1: turn the music down, So like, turn music down? Okay, Dad,
Speaker 1: what's up? He goes, can you sing the Heat song
Speaker 1: by Glenn Fries and sound exactly like Glenn Fries? So
Speaker 1: I'm doing mental calculations and I'm like, the heat is
Speaker 1: on by Glenn Fry. I go, I go, yeah, I
Speaker 1: can do that. He goes, don't say yeah. I go.
Speaker 1: He goes, have you tried, and I go no. When
Speaker 1: he goes, then don't say and I go no, But
Speaker 1: I think I know I can do it. It's easy, right,
Speaker 1: and he goes, he goes, here's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: He goes, go to the go find out if you
Speaker 1: can sing that. I'm gonna call you back in thirty minutes,
Speaker 1: and they I'll want you to sing it to me.
Speaker 1: And I'm looking at the fact I don't have the record.
Speaker 1: This is before YouTube. I'm thinking, Okay, the record store
Speaker 1: is ten minutes up the street. Maybe I can go
Speaker 1: buy the forty five forty five get home. And so
Speaker 1: I did this. I'm racing because I know my father
Speaker 1: if I could, if he.
Speaker 7: Was he was on and he said he meant.
Speaker 1: He met thirty minutes. Okay, So I get it. I'm
Speaker 1: listening to it. I'm writing down frantically the first verse
Speaker 1: of the song. He calls me that the phone rings right, hello,
Speaker 1: let me hear it right, And I'm like, okay. So
Speaker 1: I start, I put the record and it's no. I
Speaker 1: hear him again. He goes, turn the music up. I
Speaker 1: go to because he goes, I don't want to hear
Speaker 1: the record. I've heard the record. I want to hear you.
Speaker 1: I said, well, like a cappella. He goes, yes, acapella, right,
Speaker 1: and I go. I go okay, so I sing it
Speaker 1: to him same the first verse, total silence, and one
Speaker 1: chorus total silence. Then because it's my dad, and he goes,
Speaker 1: hm hmm right, He goes, all right, can you be
Speaker 1: at Warner Brothers tomorrow morning sharp eight? And I go
Speaker 1: eight o'clock. Go dad, that's really early, he goes. He goes,
Speaker 1: don't give me that. He goes, this isn't you jumping
Speaker 1: around and spends at the roxy. He goes this, He goes,
Speaker 1: this is real shop. He goes, can I say, yeah,
Speaker 1: I can do that. I can do. He goes, all right,
Speaker 1: he goes, be there at eight o'clock. I said, okay.
Speaker 1: So he had to get up at five. Of course,
Speaker 1: work on the whole song, write it all out, Jim.
Speaker 1: I got all my little notes, man, I got to figure.
Speaker 1: I go there. Now there's a big the Clint Eastwood
Speaker 1: scoring stage, which is still the big as far as
Speaker 1: I know, the big scoring stage there on Warner Brothers.
Speaker 1: He told me that's where it is. I get in,
Speaker 1: I get my little pass. I'm walking up on the
Speaker 1: movie lot of figure. Wow, he made all these movies.
Speaker 1: It's so cool. Turn the corner. My dad is waiting
Speaker 1: around the corner, like pacing from the Clint Eastwood thing,
Speaker 1: right from the scoring stage, and I go, hey, Dad.
Speaker 1: He goes, and he pulls me around the corner right
Speaker 1: and he goes. He goes, listen, I've been thinking because
Speaker 1: I've been thinking about this, and I said, okay, what's up.
Speaker 1: He goes, I feel like it's a bad idea for
Speaker 1: them to know you, my son, right, And I go okay,
Speaker 1: and he goes, So we haven't done any paperwork yet.
Speaker 1: He goes, here's how it's gonna work. He goes, you
Speaker 1: come in and we don't know each other, right, this
Speaker 1: is for real, for real, and I go I go okay,
Speaker 1: and he goes, then if you screw up, I can
Speaker 1: fire you, right, And I'm like, okay, all right, confidence dude.
Speaker 1: It's very funny. And I told this story to like psychology,
Speaker 1: not in therapy sessions, but like it's a funny story
Speaker 1: and psychologists will hear this and go, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: that must have really affected And I go, I thought
Speaker 1: it was hilarious because I knew my dad, right. So
Speaker 1: so he's like he's like, he's like, here's what we'll do.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go in that booth. And when I do,
Speaker 1: he goes, there's a little window in the glass. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna signal you. And when I gave you the signal,
Speaker 1: you come in. And I go, okay, what's the what's
Speaker 1: what's the signal? Right? And he goes like this, he goes,
Speaker 1: he goes, this is the signal. Oh, Jimmy, looks me.
Speaker 1: He goes this gools So I go, okay. So when
Speaker 1: you go like that, I come in. He goes, that's right.
Speaker 1: And I remember we don't know each other. I said, okay,
Speaker 1: But so o he goes and he goes in and
Speaker 1: I can see him because there's a little thing, right,
Speaker 1: and he's patting people on the back and he's smiling
Speaker 1: and he's gonna you know, by the way, the session
Speaker 1: doesn't start till nine. Okay, he just wanted me there
Speaker 1: at eight, all right, so just to show that he
Speaker 1: I could get there at it. So I walk up. No, no,
Speaker 1: I don't walk up. I'm looking in there and I
Speaker 1: see him and you're me and he looks at me
Speaker 1: and he goes like this. He goes, right, now, I
Speaker 1: like mess with my dad. I always love messing with
Speaker 1: my dad. I miss your dad, and I was like
Speaker 1: messing with So I go like this. I go like,
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't quite make it out right. So
Speaker 1: he looks at me again and he goes right, and
Speaker 1: I go like this right, and he goes he's that yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah right. So I go, oh yeah, So I walk up.
Speaker 1: I walk up and I pushed the door to the
Speaker 1: room open and I go excuse me, and he goes,
Speaker 1: hell yeah. He goes, this is a closed session. You
Speaker 1: can't just come in here. And I go. I go, well,
Speaker 1: I'm here to sing. The heat is on for the
Speaker 1: Shadow Chasers show. And he goes, oh, here, you're the singer.
Speaker 1: And he goes, I don't know who he is. I've
Speaker 1: never seen him before in my life for this exactly
Speaker 1: yeah right, yeah, he goes. He goes, well, I don't
Speaker 1: know who hired you. He goes, but just sit over
Speaker 1: there and wait because we got a lot of work
Speaker 1: to do. Don't make any noise. And I'm like and
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, thank you, sir. So I sit down
Speaker 1: to the corner. I brought a book orchestra, like eighty
Speaker 1: piece orchestra. This room, the record room was probably a
Speaker 1: little bigger Jim than Abbey Road. I mean it was.
Speaker 1: It's just huge in there, and and there's eighty guys
Speaker 1: with violins and cellos. My dad goes out on the
Speaker 1: conductor stand. They start at nine. The down beats at
Speaker 1: nine eleven forty five. Okay. I start hearing the engineer
Speaker 1: going wow, we're way abut, oh my gosh, and there's
Speaker 1: like this buzz in the room. And finally somebody said, well, hey, Bubby,
Speaker 1: maybe if you know, if you wouldn't mind standing through lunch.
Speaker 1: He was the engineer, maybe we could get the vocal
Speaker 1: done over lunch and we can catch up on some time.
Speaker 1: And he goes, oh my gosh, oh you know, okay, whatever, right,
Speaker 1: so everybody they have to break. It's union orchestra breaks
Speaker 1: and uh my dad comes back in the room and
Speaker 1: they go, hey, Joe, they said we're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 1: try to cut the vocal now and get that done
Speaker 1: because we're running so behind. He goes, oh girl, right right,
Speaker 1: So all these guys leave and Jim, this was my
Speaker 1: first ever professional recording session for anything other than my
Speaker 1: bands ever. Oh yeah, and they roll out a microphone
Speaker 1: in the middle of this airplane hangar. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: this gigantic, So there's one mic. I'm the only guy
Speaker 1: in there, and I walk out right and I'm like,
Speaker 1: and all these people because this was the pilot episode
Speaker 1: of this show, Chris, all these people are in the
Speaker 1: control room, the producer and the writer, and then this
Speaker 1: guy and then that guy. There's like fifteen people and
Speaker 1: they're all standing there looking at me like that right good?
Speaker 1: No pressure, yeah, no pressure. Yeah, that's nobody knows that
Speaker 1: I'm Joe Hartell's son. So so I go in there
Speaker 1: and the engineered Bobby goes okay, and he wasn't happy
Speaker 1: and he because he had to stay for lunch, and
Speaker 1: he goes, he goes, all right, man, he goes, he goes,
Speaker 1: let's check the level. Can you give me a little bit?
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, So I sing the first few lines
Speaker 1: and he stops it and he goes okay, man, he goes,
Speaker 1: let's le let's go for one. He goes. It was
Speaker 1: only doing the first like sixty seconds of the song.
Speaker 1: So they roll it and I sing it right, and
Speaker 1: I could hear I remember this so well, you guys.
Speaker 1: I could hear my heart beating in my headphones, like
Speaker 1: before they turn on the track, I hear boom boom,
Speaker 1: because it was very intimidating. And I don't really get intimidated,
Speaker 1: but I was aware of my surroundings and that was
Speaker 1: a little guy. So I was like, what, likew So,
Speaker 1: so I sing a thing and I look in and
Speaker 1: nobody says anything, but they're smiling. They're like that's a
Speaker 1: good that's good. So the guy goes, So Bobby, much friendlier, goes,
Speaker 1: okay man, He goes, you want to do the first harmony?
Speaker 1: And I go, yeah, sure, So I sing the first
Speaker 1: harmony right now. They look even how up here and
Speaker 1: he goes, okay, let's do the second harmony, and I go, okay, right,
Speaker 1: so I sing the second harmony. I've been singing now
Speaker 1: for about three minutes maybe four. They pausitive. They stopped
Speaker 1: the thing and they're clapping, and Bobby goes all right man,
Speaker 1: that's a wrap. Right. So I'm like, wow, wow, I was.
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is good, this is this is this
Speaker 1: beats spandex at the Roxy any day. So I go
Speaker 1: walking in to the record room and they're all they
Speaker 1: were applauding God bless him, and my father idiotized. He
Speaker 1: stands up and he goes.
Speaker 8: Here's my sons wonderful And I was so happy about it.
Speaker 1: But this is again, it's a true story. I can
Speaker 1: I've never told you that. So that that was my
Speaker 1: beginning in show business and an answer to your question,
Speaker 1: I've always been able. I've always been I've always had
Speaker 1: like my own voice. We talked about developing that as
Speaker 1: an amalgam of my favorite singers who I aspired to
Speaker 1: be like. And I always tell kids, take the people
Speaker 1: you love. If you want to be a voiceover actor,
Speaker 1: listen to Jim Cummings and listen to Billy West, and
Speaker 1: listen to Rob Paulson and put together your own version
Speaker 1: of those guys and make it uniquely you. Those can
Speaker 1: be your foundational points, right, But then eventually you want
Speaker 1: to find your own voice. And I always had my
Speaker 1: own voice. But the rock Sugar thing hitting like it
Speaker 1: did with such a trip because in that band, what
Speaker 1: I really tried to do was try to personify Brian
Speaker 1: Adams when I was doing the Brian Adams thing, and
Speaker 1: Axel Rose and Joe Elliott from def Leppard and Steve
Speaker 1: Perry from Journey and this person from that band in
Speaker 1: that person. So I got to use in the law
Speaker 1: in the end, in the circle of my rock vocal career,
Speaker 1: I got to go from singing in my original bands
Speaker 1: just as me, this amalgam kind of thing, to in
Speaker 1: Rock Sugar, where we actually got to be on stages
Speaker 1: with Aerosmith and ACDC in front of forty fifty thousand people.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I got to sing that a hell of a
Speaker 1: tour we did, man, and I got to sing like
Speaker 1: in tribute to the guys who shaped me in the
Speaker 1: first place. So it was just like this, this beautiful circle.
Speaker 1: My first demo, Chris, that I ever made. I don't
Speaker 1: even know if Jim's ever heard this to be a
Speaker 1: session singer, was I did we are the World? Remember
Speaker 1: we are the World? Of course I imitated everybody. I
Speaker 1: knew what you were going to say. That was my demo.
Speaker 1: It's the cool thing, is brother, even if it sucked.
Speaker 1: You guys, it would have stood out, well, you're very sweet,
Speaker 1: but it didn't. But people when I got it, when
Speaker 1: people'd hire me from that demo because I was like
Speaker 1: the new guy, I'd go, they go, hey, man, it's
Speaker 1: really nice to meet you. I'd say, well, thanks for
Speaker 1: hiring me, and they say, dude, even if we hated
Speaker 1: your demo, just the fact that you had the gonads
Speaker 1: to try to do that, but it was actually really good.
Speaker 1: But we called people and we don't remember the last
Speaker 1: time we called people in the office to hear a demo.
Speaker 1: But this was so different. So kids, when you're looking
Speaker 1: for a way in, if you can find something that's
Speaker 1: a little bit different, even if it's a little bit weird,
Speaker 1: it might just.
Speaker 3: Well, since we're on the topic of singing, that's great.
Speaker 3: Do you happen to remember Wacko's Capital State song?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 3: Man, you do.
Speaker 1: I mean I don't remember. Here's the thing, see, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know I don't know women high Waters. By that,
Speaker 1: I mean I work with Rob Paulson on a Nimniacs.
Speaker 1: That was That was my introduction to a lot of
Speaker 1: these guys I met. Jim. Jim is the first, like
Speaker 1: Mount Rushmore voice guy that I met. And what's really
Speaker 1: weird is that before I even met Jim, I sang
Speaker 1: the theme song to Jim's show Tasmania as a session singer.
Speaker 1: I wasn't even doing voice. You know, I'm from this
Speaker 1: way down on the scholars, always yellow and right, you know, Sean,
Speaker 1: And then she would go, we didn't even know each other.
Speaker 1: But the first big guy that was saying now coming back.
Speaker 1: Rob Paulson plays Jaco on Animaniacs. And the funny thing
Speaker 1: is with an maniac is that me, him and Tress
Speaker 1: basically are those characters.
Speaker 3: So he so Rob did his United make up and
Speaker 3: you know that that that went so that was so
Speaker 3: popular on social media that people animated it. I bet
Speaker 3: people animated it. There was independent artists and they animated
Speaker 3: it and you can see it on YouTube and it
Speaker 3: has like one hundred thousand likes.
Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing, Rob Robbie, Yeah, he's a song
Speaker 1: and dance man and he'll he'll get up on the
Speaker 1: table at a restaurant and saying Diaco's Wago's we now me.
Speaker 1: I know the words to every Journey song ever created,
Speaker 1: including all the well all the lad libs and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. But I don't know anything like Sam Cooks
Speaker 1: all the Sam Cooks stuff. I don't know any of
Speaker 1: the things I did. But I will give you this,
Speaker 1: all right, all right, this is just for you because
Speaker 1: I love you, man, than I don't. I don't know
Speaker 1: the whole thing. If I had the thing in front
Speaker 1: of me, I could do it. But matt In Measuisiana, Indianapolis, Indiana,
Speaker 1: and Columbus, tell Ohio. That's Montgomery, Hadadama south of Halla
Speaker 1: and Montana. Then the Colorado London bus Yadaho, Texas hes Alston.
Speaker 1: Then we go to Massachusets, Bustin, Albanie, New York, Tannahsee, Florida, Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. Santa Fe, New Mexico. And that's for Tennessee.
Speaker 1: Elvis used to hang out there a lot, you know,
Speaker 1: And I made up the last see. So there's a
Speaker 1: little something, a little blast from the past this week.
Speaker 1: That's as far as I get because after that, I don't. OK. Yeah,
Speaker 1: although if I'm in a yeah, yeah, if I'm in
Speaker 1: a bar and somebody goes, hey, but you don't know
Speaker 1: the capital of Delaware, I make it comes up like that,
Speaker 1: but it's not. It's it's not second to the rest.
Speaker 1: Do you remember I mean, do you remember your greatest
Speaker 1: hits in in in the cartoon thing? I mean, can
Speaker 1: you can you go through like Rob Can kind of yeah?
Speaker 1: You know, he's that day I'm telling.
Speaker 6: You, and you.
Speaker 1: Are looking for.
Speaker 5: When I auditioned for the California Raisins, they said, oh, man, dude.
Speaker 1: Which who do you want to go for?
Speaker 5: And I go, I would love to be the lead
Speaker 5: singer and they go okay, okay, and so then then
Speaker 5: and then this was the recording engineer. And this is
Speaker 5: a really interesting, kind of interesting story. Uh, I got
Speaker 5: the job.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. And I showed up and I was sitting
Speaker 1: on the couch and uh, and the.
Speaker 5: The people were sitting there and it was over at
Speaker 5: I think it was at Waves anyway, and I'm sitting
Speaker 5: there and I'm sitting there and I look in the room.
Speaker 1: There's nobody there.
Speaker 4: There's nobody there, and you know, the engineers there, and
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: And so I said, is this your audition or is
Speaker 1: this no? This is the first session, first session? Got it?
Speaker 5: And I show up and there was this lady down
Speaker 5: here from San Francisco and she says, uh.
Speaker 4: And and we were talking, what are you doing? Well,
Speaker 4: I'm here to do the reason.
Speaker 2: Oh really, what are you going to do?
Speaker 4: And I said, well, I guess I'm the singer.
Speaker 5: And she goes, you're not Jim Cummings, right, and I said, oh, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: that's right, you're.
Speaker 1: The nice black man on the tape. I said, well.
Speaker 8: No, but yeah, excuse you take out the black partape.
Speaker 8: They she called and they U they kind of asked
Speaker 8: me to go home.
Speaker 5: And really, yeah, they yeah, we all went home and
Speaker 5: I didn't know that, and yeah, and they said that, well,
Speaker 5: you know, they have the impression that, you know, the
Speaker 5: Raisins are purple, but they they're black purple. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: And I said, oh, okay, well they're an R and B.
Speaker 5: I can't fight that, you know, you know, okay, not
Speaker 5: a problem. And I'm not here to take somebody's job.
Speaker 5: Whoever the hell had it first, you know, because there
Speaker 5: wasn't anybody, so they said. And then my agent called
Speaker 5: up about four days later. I said, well, you would
Speaker 5: you like to audition for the California Raisins And I
Speaker 5: said again and and she said yeah, And I said,
Speaker 5: but you can't say your name.
Speaker 1: You're not allowed to. They're giving you.
Speaker 5: Numbers, and I said, oh wow, because they already saw
Speaker 5: me and I ruined it. Wow, the shocking pink up
Speaker 5: you see, and yeah, it works against pigmentation. So I
Speaker 5: auditioned and uh and and and I decided I would
Speaker 5: do I can't get next to you by the temptation
Speaker 5: that together all the all the yeah, I remember that
Speaker 5: because they each temptation sang yeah. So I figured out, oh,
Speaker 5: that's cracked and the guy blue getting way whatever I
Speaker 5: want to do, so yeah, So I did them all
Speaker 5: and uh and uh, and I figured, wow, they gotta
Speaker 5: hire one of me.
Speaker 1: They got to hire one.
Speaker 4: Oh that was genius, so they so yeah, and then
Speaker 4: I got the job again.
Speaker 1: So it was cool. Wow, well, you know, it's fantastic.
Speaker 1: And this just occurred to me. And I know I've
Speaker 1: never told you this, but before I even thought of
Speaker 1: doing voiceovers, the California raisins were very prevalent, like you
Speaker 1: couldn't really get away from them. Yeah, like they were.
Speaker 1: You guys were everywhere. And I remember I actually said
Speaker 1: to chucked around our mutual great friend. We were watching
Speaker 1: TV in my little apartment on Violand Avenue in Studio
Speaker 1: City and a California Raisins thing came on. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it was a commercial or a special, might
Speaker 1: have been like a TV special. And I said to him,
Speaker 1: I said, you know what's fun You know it's funny, man,
Speaker 1: you know it's interesting. He said what I said, the
Speaker 1: guy they got to sing it sounds a lot like
Speaker 1: the guy who's talking it. They did a really good job.
Speaker 1: And he goes, well, how do you know it's not
Speaker 1: the same guy who goes the guy singing. It's a
Speaker 1: real singer. He's not like a cartoon guy. And I
Speaker 1: that's no offense. Obviously, I've learned since then. A lot
Speaker 1: of the a lot of my cartoon friends are fantastic singers.
Speaker 1: But you like you well, I was going to say
Speaker 1: a lot of mine are too. There's one. Now, there's one,
Speaker 1: God bless you. But it's it's like, no, I was like,
Speaker 1: because you you know, you can really sing, man. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like what we alluded to a moment ago is
Speaker 1: that we had boy one of the one of the
Speaker 1: most fun things. We might have mentioned it the other
Speaker 1: time we sat down here with Chris, but we did
Speaker 1: a charity thing. It was mainly for charity where Me,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Cummings, Kevin, Michael Richardson, Billy West got together and
Speaker 1: the guy named Joe Lala was there and we got
Speaker 1: together and we did all old motown songs.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I remember you guys talking about this.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I just when I wasn't singing, I
Speaker 1: was just sitting there grooving on these guys.
Speaker 7: You bring that back, you guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we should do that again.
Speaker 7: That was really fun, like a one off special.
Speaker 1: And we did that Temptations thing and as I recall,
Speaker 1: because you do such a you do such a great
Speaker 1: David Ruffin, who was like the main guy in the
Speaker 1: in the in the Temptations and you sing you singing
Speaker 1: too Proud to beg That's one of my favorite is
Speaker 1: you do. But on that one you just talked about
Speaker 1: you you sang the first thing and then Kevin Yah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I mean you could have done the whole thing,
Speaker 1: but it's it was just I remember standing there grooving
Speaker 1: and that reminds me when we're at Abbey Road. Another
Speaker 1: moment on the DVD that's so precious to me is
Speaker 1: we were singing this three part harmony. One we sang
Speaker 1: two three part harmony ones, because which is unbelievably intricate
Speaker 1: and it's probably the most beautiful thing on the record
Speaker 1: when you hear it, remember that one, Chris, I think
Speaker 1: you'll dig it. But what we also remember all of
Speaker 1: them fantastic. Yeah, when we did, we did I'll Be Back,
Speaker 1: which is this beautiful you know, if you break my
Speaker 1: Heart ago And it's this beautiful, beautiful song and we're
Speaker 1: singing it, all three of us together, Me, Jim and Rob,
Speaker 1: and you can just see Jimmy glowing and he just
Speaker 1: this smile comes up and he's kind of looking around
Speaker 1: and then Rob starts kind of dancing as he's singing,
Speaker 1: and it's like, man, ain't nothing better than capture enjoy it?
Speaker 1: So yeah, me too, man at any any chance.
Speaker 3: And that's at least for me hearing these things, you know,
Speaker 3: it's it's inspiring to like keep pursuing, you know, creative
Speaker 3: endeavors because a lot of people go stagnant. You know,
Speaker 3: a lot of people just don't indulge. They kind of
Speaker 3: get caught up in the in the michelieu of life
Speaker 3: and kind of just you know, let that fade away.
Speaker 3: And that's something so inspiring to hear, and you know
Speaker 3: how you guys went to Abbey Road, Hanks Area doing
Speaker 3: his thing, and just so many people we talked to,
Speaker 3: you know, just always looking for that creative outlet, this.
Speaker 1: Whole thing that you guys are doing here. Yeah, for sure,
Speaker 1: you know this didn't exist in your universe two years ago,
Speaker 1: where did it?
Speaker 3: I mean no, No, we just had our one year
Speaker 3: anniversary like a month ago, you.
Speaker 1: Know, and now and look at it. It's growing and it.
Speaker 3: And honestly, the most inspiring thing for the podcast to
Speaker 3: me is just like when we're on the road and
Speaker 3: people are talking about it and people come up and
Speaker 3: be like, I want to be on the podcast, and
Speaker 3: you know, and like.
Speaker 1: And it's great.
Speaker 4: Christopher gets recognized now at the time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's just really cool, like like travel, I
Speaker 3: mean I could have never you know, you asked me
Speaker 3: what like two years ago, you know, am I going
Speaker 3: to be on the road with my childhood, you know,
Speaker 3: the voice of my child the voice going around and
Speaker 3: then meeting all these other voices of my childhood and
Speaker 3: all these inspirational people and like getting to sit face
Speaker 3: to face with them. I mean, like this podcast has
Speaker 3: been a dream opportunity for me and it's been great.
Speaker 1: That's so kind man.
Speaker 3: But saying that, I have to now switch the gears
Speaker 3: because we have to play a game, and you've played
Speaker 3: this game before. Okay, yes, it's called the Old Voice
Speaker 3: Swap game. Oh yeah, yes, yes, do you remember the rules?
Speaker 1: Yeah? What is it? He does line as one of
Speaker 1: his characters, and then I have to repeat it and
Speaker 1: then by.
Speaker 3: One of your characters.
Speaker 1: Okay, then you do it? Yeah, yeah, I got it.
Speaker 1: So you want to set it up, Chris, or how
Speaker 1: does it work? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, sure.
Speaker 1: Everybody you played along with us before, Come on, Chris,
Speaker 1: this is as close as so. I want to enjoy this.
Speaker 3: These are two crazy characters.
Speaker 1: They have a little bit of they have a little bit.
Speaker 3: Of similarity as I feel like Crash Bandicoo and Taz.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: They both spind, they spend.
Speaker 1: They both spend, and there both sort of unintelligible. By
Speaker 1: the way, what a great challenge you met, Segu when
Speaker 1: you did Tasmania and you managed to maintain I've never
Speaker 1: told you this. You managed to maintain what he does
Speaker 1: with that d look at that that stuff and talk
Speaker 1: at this. I'm like, how's he going to do it?
Speaker 1: That's how he's going to do it. Yeah, amazing spoke occasional.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, well for you, that's what I mean.
Speaker 1: But it's perfect, it's perfect. It's like, wow, that's how
Speaker 1: he would talk. All right. So yeah, I think that's
Speaker 1: a fantastic match.
Speaker 3: All right, So we do?
Speaker 1: What do we do?
Speaker 3: How do do I? You start off with a crush line?
Speaker 3: What's a line?
Speaker 1: Okay? The closest thing we get to a line? Okay?
Speaker 4: All right, are you ready?
Speaker 1: Try to write this down because it's great. Okay, here
Speaker 1: we go by pancake. You got that? Got it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: That's it? Okay, so.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: That didn't sound like task we're doing. It was they
Speaker 1: had to do it.
Speaker 2: I had.
Speaker 5: I wanted to hear say that okay here, but no, meanwhile,
Speaker 5: back at it more appropriate.
Speaker 1: Okay, and that's why he's coming you see. All right?
Speaker 3: I just need to interject because I think that's so cool.
Speaker 3: I think that's so cool. And we've talked about this
Speaker 3: so many times. You've mentioned so many times how music
Speaker 3: just helps you with voice acting.
Speaker 1: And the first thing you do is just mate the notes, rhythm,
Speaker 1: breaking down the beat exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I thought that was so cool. That's the first time
Speaker 3: I've ever seen you do that.
Speaker 1: Man. Yeah, he's gonna throw one at me to do. Okay, okay, yes,
Speaker 1: oh god, are you picking? So I got to listen
Speaker 1: to this free will? This is free will?
Speaker 5: Okay, Well, let's drag out dark wing. He can't can't
Speaker 5: go too wrong?
Speaker 1: Okay. I am the terror that flaps in the night.
Speaker 1: Who am I doing? Man? Who should I do? When
Speaker 1: you use your choice? Okay, Okay, I'm gonna do. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do Ironhide of the Transformers. Yeah, okay, that's that's
Speaker 1: because that's that's really good read.
Speaker 2: I am the terror that flaps in the night.
Speaker 1: About take that off? I love that.
Speaker 3: I love that. Did you do them in the movies?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Oh yeah, somebody had to, man, somebody had And
Speaker 1: I remember when I went to do the second or
Speaker 1: third one, Chris, I don't remember which one was, Michael
Speaker 1: Bay said to me, he goes, Okay, now this is
Speaker 1: where you die, and I'm like what wait? Wait wait, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't tell you. No, I didn't tell me, and
Speaker 1: I got a mortgage, so wait a minute. I come
Speaker 1: back in the next one. Dream sequence, Michael, my dream sequence, right,
Speaker 1: Michael begas so much flak at least online. And that
Speaker 1: guy is such a good director. He does his thing.
Speaker 3: You watch on Michael Bay movie.
Speaker 1: I don't think people realize how hard directing is. You
Speaker 1: know what.
Speaker 3: He actually watched a Michael Bay movie. And tell me
Speaker 3: that's not the most cinematic movie you've ever seen. Light
Speaker 3: He's very every single one.
Speaker 1: You know what.
Speaker 3: He actually the most cinematic movie you've ever seen. This
Speaker 3: this comes from his mouth. Man, this is this is
Speaker 3: very true.
Speaker 1: Michael Bay once said to me, because we actually had
Speaker 1: some nice, nice interactions and conversations. And he goes, Jess,
Speaker 1: this is his words, not mine. He goes, it may
Speaker 1: not be the best director that ever lived, but I
Speaker 1: can make stuff blow up better than anybody. That's exactly
Speaker 1: exactly what he said. And a quick, quick anecdote, Chris,
Speaker 1: you'll get a kick out of this if you like Transformers.
Speaker 1: And this is one I don't often tell, but it's very,
Speaker 1: very funny. Is for some reason, I'm always fascinated by
Speaker 1: how many Brits are in out of space, like Obi
Speaker 1: wan Kenobi who was on the planet. Who he's British?
Speaker 1: Ye see three po British. Okay, you guys really get
Speaker 1: him colonized more than anything. But I have a theory
Speaker 1: about that. I want to hear this. This is a
Speaker 1: little mini theory God.
Speaker 5: And what it is is we, you know, certainly Americans,
Speaker 5: we always liked the idea of somebody being from somewhere else,
Speaker 5: somewhere else, and and and England with its myriad accents.
Speaker 1: Supplies that. But you can tell what the hell they're saying. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: good point. And so that's pretty good.
Speaker 9: Yeah, to an extent, may not even like Game of Thrones,
Speaker 9: like they're imaginary lands, snow British.
Speaker 7: This was you got to tell thou no, no, no,
Speaker 7: I got it.
Speaker 1: Let me, Michael Bay, go back to get side trecked.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of stories this, this is, this is
Speaker 1: really this is pretty funny. So so Michael Bay. We
Speaker 1: did the first Transformers and I auditioned. It was very
Speaker 1: funny because when I when I did audition, I basically
Speaker 1: it was this horrible rundown building in North Hollywood that
Speaker 1: you're like, you feel like you're gonna get mugged on
Speaker 1: your way in. And my agents are like, I'm like,
Speaker 1: what's this for? And they go it's top secret and
Speaker 1: I'm like, because they didn't want to say it was
Speaker 1: Transformers for some reason. And I said, okay, So I
Speaker 1: get in there. The guy filming me is filming me
Speaker 1: on like a cheap like flip phone, like for the
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking this the cheapest stupidest thing ever, right,
Speaker 1: So I basically threw it away. And they're like, you're
Speaker 1: playing this robot and you're, you know, a weapon specialist
Speaker 1: and all this kind of stuff. And I thought, well,
Speaker 1: you know, if he's all making very big and I'll
Speaker 1: put him down to here, you know. And for some reason,
Speaker 1: my mind went to doing in bridging. So I didn't
Speaker 1: know why, but I just did. So I recorded it
Speaker 1: and I get the phone call and they say, okay,
Speaker 1: you got it, dude, it's Transformers. It's the movie. It's
Speaker 1: a big deal. I'm like, wow, I had no I
Speaker 1: would have thought it was like a bad tackle bell
Speaker 1: commercial for like Northwold, California.
Speaker 10: Wow.
Speaker 1: I mean it was so so I going to do it,
Speaker 1: and I recorded and Bay is there was very very friendly,
Speaker 1: got through, it was fine, came back for the second movie. Now,
Speaker 1: Michael Bay makes a lot of money, okay, and has
Speaker 1: made a lot of money and has made a lot
Speaker 1: of very very big movies, so he has a lot
Speaker 1: of people around him, and let's just say, his word
Speaker 1: goes okay, it's like he's the guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah right.
Speaker 1: So I'm in there and he shows my goodness, I'm
Speaker 1: got to see it too, and yeah, let's like we
Speaker 1: got to make this pick. I got to get back.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, okay, okay. So I start recording the
Speaker 1: dialogue for the second movie. Right, I'm like, you know,
Speaker 1: we must retrieve the cube of whatever it is I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. I get a couple of lines into it,
Speaker 1: and he goes, hey, wait wait wait wait wait wait
Speaker 1: wait wait wait, and he goes, why are you doing
Speaker 1: a British accent? This is true? And I'm like, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: because I did it in the first movie, right, And
Speaker 1: he goes, no, I don't think you did, right, Oh boy,
Speaker 1: this is it gets I don't think you did. I
Speaker 1: don't think you did, right. It gets Chris, Chris, you'll
Speaker 1: love this. I go, no, I don't think I did.
Speaker 1: He was I don't think you did, and I said
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure, pretty sure, Michael, and he goes, you
Speaker 1: know what, let's not do it. He goes do it
Speaker 1: without the accent, right. So I'm like, and because I'm
Speaker 1: a business man in my head, then I don't do
Speaker 1: and then I'll have to bring me back. I'll get
Speaker 1: paid again and I'll do the British acment. Right. So
Speaker 1: I start doing. I'm like, you know, we we have
Speaker 1: to retrieve the cube. And I'm doing it, you know American.
Speaker 1: Now I turned my head and I'm facing the screen
Speaker 1: I wanted. It's like a soundstage thing, and he Michael
Speaker 1: bays in there with me, and I'm looking in the
Speaker 1: control room and people are like melting down. They know
Speaker 1: they can't use any of this, and then they're and
Speaker 1: they're all fringing out. But I know what's happening. Was
Speaker 1: just like, are you gonna tell them? I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: tell them. Yeah, right, somebody, but it ain't gonna be me.
Speaker 5: Michael listened to the first movie. You wouldn't think you'd
Speaker 5: seen it made. Yeah, so I mean it better while
Speaker 5: I've been a minute. But anyway, so so after like
Speaker 5: I did like seven or eight.
Speaker 1: Lines and he's going, yeah, yeah, good, Okay, give me
Speaker 1: more on that, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. He was very
Speaker 1: hands on. Somebody kind of there's the talk back and
Speaker 1: this guy goes, I'm Michael. Yeah he's just fu. He goes, me,
Speaker 1: you know we have we actually called up some footage
Speaker 1: from the first movie, and he he he was doing
Speaker 1: a British accent, right. Megan goes right, and then let
Speaker 1: me see it, right, So he he looks at it
Speaker 1: and he goes, huh, and he goes, I guess who
Speaker 1: worked So I did it again. But it's like, I
Speaker 1: just loved Jim become man. Listen. I don't claim to
Speaker 1: have seen everything that I've worked on over the years,
Speaker 1: but you would think if you're direct in a movie,
Speaker 1: you have to see it a.
Speaker 11: Lot, right, I mean what you would think, right, when
Speaker 11: do you think in the editing room?
Speaker 1: You know, seeing a couple takes a couple of a
Speaker 1: couple of times. But yeah, he legit. I almost recorded
Speaker 1: the second movie without the same he had. He had
Speaker 1: a lot of robots, he had a lot of Yeah,
Speaker 1: he sure did.
Speaker 3: He had a lot of other takes that were very
Speaker 3: attractive in those movies.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah he did.
Speaker 3: Maybe his attention was focused.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I think I can't blame him. I
Speaker 1: think that movie, I think that made Megan Fox Yeah,
Speaker 1: well that that was a big break man, That was it.
Speaker 1: Why shouldn't that car or something like that?
Speaker 3: You have like a supermodel in all those movies?
Speaker 1: Sure he did. Coincidence? I get out everybody and Carol.
Speaker 1: When will you be starring in one? That's exactly Michael debut?
Speaker 8: Yes, now no comment Transgressors twelve.
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Speaker 1: Do you know what? You know what fascinates me, Curts
Speaker 1: is how many Fast and Furious movies there there are?
Speaker 3: You know what?
Speaker 1: How many? I love them?
Speaker 3: I love them?
Speaker 1: Really.
Speaker 3: Fast and the Furious is one of the best movies
Speaker 3: you can go see in the theaters because it's like
Speaker 3: an amusement. It's like an amusement park ride. I get
Speaker 3: that it's not serious. You see the most ridiculous stunts
Speaker 3: you've ever seen in your life. Yeah, a car parachuting
Speaker 3: from space, a car riding a rope swing across a cliff,
Speaker 3: A Dodge Challenger rides a rope swing across a cliff.
Speaker 3: If that's not the coolest thing, you're literally sitting in
Speaker 3: a movie theater. And that's what you were doing playing
Speaker 3: with hot wheels. That's what you were doing, playing with
Speaker 3: hot wheels. And now it's two billion dollar movie exploding
Speaker 3: everywhere with the cheesiest with the cheesiest lions ever and
Speaker 3: just pure testostero.
Speaker 1: Yeah it is Jason Mulla. Shut up again.
Speaker 3: People just say all over the place, but sweat on
Speaker 3: the pecks.
Speaker 1: But you know what's funny though, Actually I actually love
Speaker 1: The Fastes the Furious.
Speaker 3: I love all of those movies.
Speaker 1: I think you just made a good case for it
Speaker 1: because my line has always been, like somebody once asked me,
Speaker 1: and I just thought this was a great response from anybody.
Speaker 1: But they go, they go, hey, man, are you are
Speaker 1: you gonna go see? Are you? What do you think
Speaker 1: of them making Fast and Furious twelve? And I said, well,
Speaker 1: they had to. There were so many unanswered questions in
Speaker 1: the first eleven yea, they got so many loose you know,
Speaker 1: a cartoon Fast and Furious. I'd watched that because, you know,
Speaker 1: seeing Winnie the Pooh in a souped up Ferrari jumping
Speaker 1: over for the fall. You know.
Speaker 3: One of my favorite, speaking of amusement parks, one of
Speaker 3: my favorite attractions ever at Universal Studios was the Fast
Speaker 3: and the Furious attraction. It's long gone, We've been gone
Speaker 3: for like a decade, but they had these two They
Speaker 3: had these two cars and they were on big robotic
Speaker 3: arms and you would go through the attraction and then
Speaker 3: they would make the cars do these flips and twist
Speaker 3: all around on these big robotic arms. They would have
Speaker 3: water effects, fire everything, and I guess it was too
Speaker 3: expensive for them to keep doing it. So now you
Speaker 3: just drive by and this is on the the tram
Speaker 3: tour the Universal Studios when you do the backlot. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and you would drive through it, but now you just
Speaker 3: drive by and it's like production vehicles and they're all
Speaker 3: just lined up from like Jurassic par Fast and the Furious. Yes, right,
Speaker 3: they it's gone, and I love is on the back
Speaker 3: Law tour. Still you can still see the area where
Speaker 3: it is, like, you can still see it's still stage there.
Speaker 3: You just don't go in.
Speaker 1: Let me take some of my personal credo. Okay. I
Speaker 1: don't want to hear theme parks complaining about not making
Speaker 1: money when they're charging me fifteen dollars for a bottle
Speaker 1: of water, So shut up. Yeah, put the Fast and
Speaker 1: Furious back, then.
Speaker 3: Theme park are the We We just were in Walt
Speaker 3: Disney World. Yeah, and for some reason for appearance, it
Speaker 3: finally clicked. No, it was for what were you there for?
Speaker 3: It was for the princess and.
Speaker 1: The front Yeah, the debut of the ride. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: are you doing good?
Speaker 3: Yeah? They re themed the Splash Mountains.
Speaker 1: Yes, if somebody was going to replace than anybody else.
Speaker 3: But we're just there and it finally like clicked to me.
Speaker 3: I don't know, it just clicked. And I was looking
Speaker 3: around and I'm like, theme parks make so much money.
Speaker 3: It's that the movies Avengers, Star Wars, all these movies,
Speaker 3: you know, the the Avatar, they're just advertisements for people
Speaker 3: to go to the parks. They're literally just advertisements. A
Speaker 3: billion dollars on a movie is nothing for Disney and amazing.
Speaker 3: You know how much money they make at the parks.
Speaker 3: I know, just like oh these kids see oh we
Speaker 3: went and saw Avatar. It doesn't matter if the movie
Speaker 3: was good or not. Now I get to go on
Speaker 3: Avatar in Disneyland. You know, I want to go there.
Speaker 3: I want to go there.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I just saw Star Wars. It doesn't matter if Star
Speaker 3: Wars Rogue one. It doesn't matter if a TV series sucked, no,
Speaker 3: what the Acolyte just got canceled. It doesn't matter because
Speaker 3: people are talking about Star Wars. You go to Disneyland,
Speaker 3: there's a Star Wars. There's a there's a live action Hondo.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you like Wars.
Speaker 3: There's a live action Hondo. That's you're living the world.
Speaker 3: And they do such a good job.
Speaker 1: No, it is man like.
Speaker 3: It's like these movies are like one hundred million dollars
Speaker 3: billboards for people to go to theme parks by merchandise.
Speaker 3: I can only imagine what merchandise sales if.
Speaker 1: You I once did I you know, as Jimmy has,
Speaker 1: you know you do voices for theme parks. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I went at one of the one of the sessions.
Speaker 1: And this is going back. You guys is like fifteen
Speaker 1: years ago. And I happen to say to one of
Speaker 1: the guys who has invaulted building the attraction, I said,
Speaker 1: so the cost basis, man, it's got to be unbelievably.
Speaker 1: He goes, We'll think of it this way. He said,
Speaker 1: the average person who walks in drops three hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: And I said, I said, this was fifteen years ago,
Speaker 1: before the admission was two hundred. Okay, So I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm like, really, goes, yeah, one hundred and fifty admission,
Speaker 1: they're gonna get a T shirt, they're gonna buy food,
Speaker 1: blah blah, blah blah blah. So for a family of five, okay,
Speaker 1: that's fifteen hundred dollars for the day, right, And I said,
Speaker 1: twenty dollars churo, a twenty dollars turo, and a ten
Speaker 1: dollars bottle of water. Right, So if you do the
Speaker 1: math and he goes, he goes, So do the math.
Speaker 1: He goes at three hundred dollars eighty thousand times eighty
Speaker 1: thousand times three hundred dollars every day, Okay, in eighty thousand,
Speaker 1: it's just kind of mid level number. I think the
Speaker 1: capacity is like fifteen Yeah, you know. So it's like
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the Disneyland park, but it's just like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, it's like it takes him a month
Speaker 1: to make.
Speaker 3: And then take it to another level based off based
Speaker 3: off those numbers. To take it to another level, Michael
Speaker 3: Jackson used to rent out the park to himself for
Speaker 3: the day. I know, you know, and you know what
Speaker 3: everybody is, everybody stay at home. I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 3: take Disney today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so what did you do this afternoon? I took
Speaker 1: him a Disney there. That's say, Yeah, that's pretty good man.
Speaker 1: That's not a bad way to.
Speaker 7: Yeah, can you imagine the whole place?
Speaker 3: Do you get the tour guides when you go there?
Speaker 1: Sure? Yeah, But you know what, you know, it was
Speaker 1: a cool memory that we had one time, Cara and
Speaker 1: me we went to Disney World and we were the
Speaker 1: last two people other than employees in the park. That
Speaker 1: was so we took Yeah, we took a picture laying
Speaker 1: down on the ground with the Sleeping Beauty Castle. Bag
Speaker 1: was like, huh and there's nobody there. Yeah, I quite
Speaker 1: know how it came out. How that's nice? Yeah, what
Speaker 1: that means? You know, it's cool those places. Man. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's like, the great thing about it is that.
Speaker 1: For I think the reason Disney in particular, the reason
Speaker 1: that they do as well as they do, is because
Speaker 1: it's an escape patch from the real world. And it's
Speaker 1: it's things that are sweet and things that are happy
Speaker 1: and things that make you feel good inside. Which is
Speaker 1: sort of described as your whole career.
Speaker 5: Well you know, well, you know, and Walt said he
Speaker 5: had a famous quote that he said, no, I'm not
Speaker 5: worried about you know. They were doing this and that,
Speaker 5: and they go, you know, you're you're spending money. You're
Speaker 5: spending a you know, forty thousand dollars on this curbstone
Speaker 5: here and that's going And he goes, no, no, no,
Speaker 5: you don't understand if if you spend money on the people,
Speaker 5: and that's what we're doing, they will give it back
Speaker 5: to you.
Speaker 1: They will give it back to you and much much more. Wow.
Speaker 4: Man, you know that person knows that it's special for them.
Speaker 1: For them, that's their day.
Speaker 5: They're here with their kids, with their loved ones, with
Speaker 5: their with themselves.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's nice.
Speaker 5: You know, they will say, well he wow, he really
Speaker 5: did took a lot of extra time he didn't have
Speaker 5: to do this or that, but he did. And I
Speaker 5: just think it's much better now and that kicks it up,
Speaker 5: and that chicks it up a not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, and that's something, man, that's very beautiful. I
Speaker 1: like that a lot. Yeah, that's why he's Walt Disney
Speaker 1: Disney exactly, man.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean what a what a you know imagination?
Speaker 1: Is Trump's education? Yeah? Oh of course, man, I think
Speaker 1: you know. And also, you know what's funny about that
Speaker 1: is is it hearkening back to that that little quote
Speaker 1: I said earlier about wanted to be the person that
Speaker 1: people are happier to see walking in the room than
Speaker 1: out of the room. I've always said that. I think
Speaker 1: one of the reason, one of the key things to success,
Speaker 1: you guys, for whatever you know, endeavors you might want
Speaker 1: to take on in your life is kindness, you know,
Speaker 1: because if we could all like be cool to each
Speaker 1: other and be nice to each other and be easy
Speaker 1: to have around. I have heard a lot of casting directors,
Speaker 1: et cetera, people say, man, given a choice between hiring
Speaker 1: this guy or this guy for the job, and this
Speaker 1: guy's it just amount a little bit with talent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but this guy's a lot more fun and a lot
Speaker 1: easier to hang with.
Speaker 3: We literally the other day, Hankasaria just told us a
Speaker 3: story about that where he was not the original voice
Speaker 3: of I don't know a poo or something a poo
Speaker 3: on Simpsons and he was like, oh, like didn't find
Speaker 3: out until like fifteen years later, And was it because
Speaker 3: Graining was like, oh yeah, that guy was just we
Speaker 3: didn't like. He was good for the job, but we
Speaker 3: just didn't like him as a person.
Speaker 1: See what I'm saying, Well, my whole, my whole. You know,
Speaker 1: one of my introductions to show business, and I'm not
Speaker 1: going to mention any name, was you know, I had
Speaker 1: I had been a singer, as we've talked about and
Speaker 1: saying lots and lots of commercials and sounded likes. And
Speaker 1: a guy that I sang for was doing the music
Speaker 1: for Splash Mountain. I didn't have a voice over age
Speaker 1: and I didn't have anything like that. And he just
Speaker 1: knew because I'd be on the MiCT session screwing around
Speaker 1: doing impressions and things like that. You don't know, Mike
Speaker 1: go whatever. You know, I'm just doing stuff right, And
Speaker 1: he'd be like, hey, you know those those stupid voices
Speaker 1: you do. I said yeah. He said, I need you
Speaker 1: an audition to be on this theme park ride if
Speaker 1: you want to give it a shot. And I said,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, and Jim, honestly my mind, this is good.
Speaker 1: And it still kind of goes there. Wasn't like wow,
Speaker 1: what is that? Pay My mind was so if I
Speaker 1: go there, I'm going to hear my voice coming out
Speaker 1: of one of those That was it. That's all I want.
Speaker 1: So I auditioned and I got it. My second big
Speaker 1: job well in the Lexicon. It was among my first
Speaker 1: big jobs was replacing somebody who was difficult to work with.
Speaker 1: And and uh, I bother right, and what was funny?
Speaker 1: Is this? This?
Speaker 10: This?
Speaker 1: I always come back to this. I always share this
Speaker 1: with people that are trying to get somewhere or whatever.
Speaker 1: His words when they they warned him, they said, listen,
Speaker 1: you know you keep doing this, We're going to replace you.
Speaker 1: And his words were, you won't be able to find
Speaker 1: anybody who can do it. So the lesson is there's
Speaker 1: always somebody do it, not necessarily me or you kiss
Speaker 1: death right there. There's always somebody. And in Los Angeles
Speaker 1: he's probably next to you with the store. So there's
Speaker 1: probably ten of you, right, you got you got to
Speaker 1: keep your humility man. Gratitude for sure, and you got it.
Speaker 1: Gratitude is key.
Speaker 3: Amen to that every day man. All right, before we finish,
Speaker 3: I want to try something new on this podcast.
Speaker 1: There we go.
Speaker 3: Let me know. If you guys are down, Jim, this
Speaker 3: is for you as well.
Speaker 1: I'm down.
Speaker 3: I'm very curious on the process of developing a voice
Speaker 3: for a character. So I'm going to show you a
Speaker 3: picture of a completely original cartoon character. Nobody knows him,
Speaker 3: and I want to hear what voice comes out. Do
Speaker 3: you guys want to try that? Do you want to
Speaker 3: try That's for both of you. Okay, So here's here's
Speaker 3: the care It's just a picture. Here's the character. It's
Speaker 3: just just a picture.
Speaker 1: Did you know that I did? That's cool, it's really cool.
Speaker 1: Can I show the Can I show the folks.
Speaker 3: We'll put a little okay so that they have a
Speaker 3: clear visual on the screen. But I'm really curious about
Speaker 3: the development.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, my first thing, see when I look at
Speaker 1: this is he's got a lot of girth. So my
Speaker 1: first thought is that he'd probably be down here someplace
Speaker 1: and have like a lot of bottom end in his voice.
Speaker 1: But then I'd say, but he also he looks kind
Speaker 1: of nervous and like nebshy, so he's got some of
Speaker 1: the Oh my gosh, I'm very nervous right now. I
Speaker 1: don't like the way this is shaping up. So we
Speaker 1: kind of combine them. Oh my gosh, I don't like
Speaker 1: the way this is shaping up. Your very nervous right now.
Speaker 1: This could be anything bad. What's gonna happen to me?
Speaker 1: Oh boy, okay, I love it. It's like that. I
Speaker 1: love it.
Speaker 3: I love it. And then in that voice, you say,
Speaker 3: you're watching tuned in with Jim Cummings.
Speaker 1: You're watching tuned in with Jim commies. It scares me,
Speaker 1: but hopefully you're gonna like it.
Speaker 3: I love it, I love it. Let's hear your take. No,
Speaker 3: same guy, same guys.
Speaker 5: Do your do your spin? Okay? Yeah, but not the
Speaker 5: same guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm a guest. Oh jesus, let's okay.
Speaker 5: Well he's got a nose and has has everybody seen
Speaker 5: this guy yet?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, I don't know it. Cheaps, he could please
Speaker 2: tell me you have a Klee deck, But my nose
Speaker 2: is about to never mind, you don't want to.
Speaker 5: Know because he's scared looking.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's what I too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he sounds like a worried Jewish father.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, he's cal Rubinstein. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: What's the Hefferstein Hefersteign? Yeah, something with Heffer anyway.
Speaker 3: Yes, So now you're in that voice you're watching with
Speaker 3: Jim Cummings.
Speaker 2: Okay, do what you who did with Kim coming?
Speaker 1: Dude, I gotta tell you that was so much fun.
Speaker 1: What a great what a great thing. You've never done
Speaker 1: that before.
Speaker 3: Done that before?
Speaker 1: You gotta do that. Yeah, you gotta do that all
Speaker 1: the time.
Speaker 7: And you're a good autist.
Speaker 1: That's really you are a good artist. Yes, we got
Speaker 1: great here, and you smell good. Listen stop being so
Speaker 1: good at everything because you're making people uncomfortable. It's not cool.
Speaker 1: And now listen there's before we Go. I got it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's another character that you as another character reminds
Speaker 3: me of someone.
Speaker 1: Good. That's a character about that.
Speaker 7: That's a cartoon.
Speaker 1: How about you try you want you want to do
Speaker 1: a voice? Yeah that's a good one. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're just yeah, yeah, do it to it to a voice?
Speaker 1: Anything that happened on tuned in all right.
Speaker 7: What okay, Well, because it's like we're in America.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and she looks.
Speaker 7: Kind of can we show them this one?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, okay, this will never have a four folks.
Speaker 7: She looks a little dizzy, like a little ditsy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can see that.
Speaker 7: So, like, I think she's totally going to be like.
Speaker 1: That.
Speaker 6: She's going to be like this, and she's not gonna
Speaker 6: eat much. She goes out for dinner, she's going to
Speaker 6: like totally just suck on an ice cube because there's
Speaker 6: no carbs in there.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentleman. Her name is Karadashian. Alright, now look
Speaker 1: before we go, three things I want to hit on
Speaker 1: and use them as you will. A really great anecdote
Speaker 1: about my brother Jim over there that I don't know
Speaker 1: that i've shared if I have to forgive the redundancy,
Speaker 1: but I have to say it because it's such a
Speaker 1: great story. We mentioned chucked arand a couple of times.
Speaker 1: Chucky is my musical partner in rock. Sugares makes the
Speaker 1: greatest voice over demos in the world. Demosrock dot Com
Speaker 1: is his website. If you're inclined to make a demo,
Speaker 1: I can't recommend anybody more highly. But there was a
Speaker 1: day early in his voiceover career, Chris, this was so cool,
Speaker 1: and I've never forgotten and I've told this story a
Speaker 1: million times and he told me. I said, what are
Speaker 1: you doing tomorrow? And he goes, Oh my god, man,
Speaker 1: I'm so bummed out. I gotta get up at like
Speaker 1: seven thirty in the morning because from eight thirty in
Speaker 1: the morning until six o'clock at night, I'm running auditions
Speaker 1: for this cartoon movie and They're bringing in forty five
Speaker 1: people to read. And I'm gonna be sitting there all day,
Speaker 1: over and over and over here in the same thing.
Speaker 1: And I go, no, dude, wow. I go, that's that's
Speaker 1: not how to look at it. Because I'm a big
Speaker 1: believer in perception, and you can change when you change
Speaker 1: the way you look at things, the things you look
Speaker 1: at change, right. So I said to him, I go, dude,
Speaker 1: that's a good one, right. I go, dude, this is amazing.
Speaker 1: I said, I'm going in on that. I said, this
Speaker 1: is a big project. I'm sure they're calling in like
Speaker 1: the best voiceover people in the world. You're gonna hear
Speaker 1: an all star lineup of the greatest voiceover people in
Speaker 1: the whole world reading the same characters. You're gonna be
Speaker 1: able to compare and contrast and go, Wow, that I
Speaker 1: did that and that guy did that, and it's a
Speaker 1: really high level. I wish I could be a fly level.
Speaker 1: And he goes, yeah, that's kind of cool to look
Speaker 1: at it that way. So he goes in, this was
Speaker 1: kind of the beginning of my career. I think I
Speaker 1: was three or four years into it. So he comes
Speaker 1: home that night, right and we actually went out and
Speaker 1: got a bite and I said, well, dude, how was it,
Speaker 1: And this is the true story that he told me.
Speaker 1: He said, dude, it was unbelievable. Man. He said, like
Speaker 1: you said, the level of talent. These were all like
Speaker 1: the biggest guys in the industry whatever. He said. Now,
Speaker 1: I remember the first guy came in and he was great,
Speaker 1: and the second guy came in and he was great,
Speaker 1: and the third, and the fourth and the fifth, and
Speaker 1: I'm not just saying this, he goes, And then Jim
Speaker 1: Cummings came in, and he goes, and I forgot what
Speaker 1: I was doing. Wow, he goes, I forgot to run
Speaker 1: the faders. I got so into what he was saying.
Speaker 1: And it's not that the other guys weren't terrific. It's
Speaker 1: that Jim brought magic to it.
Speaker 3: Yeah right.
Speaker 1: And that's not only my way of paying a quick
Speaker 1: tribute to you, bro, but it's also my way of
Speaker 1: saying to you guys out there, I just want to
Speaker 1: leave you something positive, because I'm all about being positive.
Speaker 1: And it's like anything that you have inside of you
Speaker 1: that you do that you love to do, Like we
Speaker 1: meet all these kids on the road who do art
Speaker 1: or who sing, or who do voices, or who want
Speaker 1: to be a veterinarian or whatever it is that's in
Speaker 1: your heart to do it. It's there for a reason,
Speaker 1: and the reason is that you can do it. It's
Speaker 1: inside of you to do it. That's why it exists.
Speaker 1: So don't deny it. Don't like say, well, you know
Speaker 1: it's a small group of people that do voice over,
Speaker 1: or I could never be a rock star or a
Speaker 1: pop star because I don't look like this, or you know, well,
Speaker 1: there's so many people trying to do art for Disney.
Speaker 1: I could never do that. Listen, I got in. He
Speaker 1: got in. People get in all the time, and you
Speaker 1: can look for us right exactly. And if it's in
Speaker 1: your heart and you've got skills, use those skills because
Speaker 1: they're there for a reason.
Speaker 3: Beautiful.
Speaker 1: And finally, if you guys are bored, go to rocksugar
Speaker 1: band dot com check out this beatles things. It's it's
Speaker 1: so much fun, I promise you. If I had nothing
Speaker 1: to do with it, I would say, just dig it
Speaker 1: the most. And and the video documentary is almost better
Speaker 1: than the record because you get you get, you get
Speaker 1: to be there and you get to see there and
Speaker 1: share the day with us. So if you're inclined, please
Speaker 1: check it out. Love to hear if you dig it,
Speaker 1: and I hope that you do.
Speaker 3: That's great.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much you.
Speaker 1: Want to enjoy? Man, I swear I could have kept
Speaker 1: talking with you guys for like another month and a half.
Speaker 1: So thanks a lot. Yeah, well you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: come back then. I would love to anytime. And Jimmy,
Speaker 1: you know, man, you know, just what can I say?
Speaker 1: Go us bro rocked it? How about that?
Speaker 3: I think people are gonna love it if you love it?
Speaker 13: Hell?
Speaker 3: Now there she goes back some more voices and yeah,
Speaker 3: war come up.
Speaker 1: With more stuff, man, that's right? Does she come with
Speaker 1: the soundtrack? She walks in the room. Yeah, because it's
Speaker 1: I think, why shouldn't it be because Suiciah? Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: what I said. Well, we love you.
Speaker 3: Thanks everybody, Thank you, yes, thank you everybody for watching
Speaker 3: another episode of Tuned In with Jim Cummings. Today we
Speaker 3: had Jess and Cara Harnell. Thank you so much for
Speaker 3: being here. Really appreciate it. Great discussion and as always,
Speaker 3: don't forget to like and subscribe. We are so close
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Speaker 3: Can we make this episode more subs and then we're there?
Speaker 3: Eighty two of you are not subscribed. Yeah, yeah, we're looking.
Speaker 3: We're looking and talking to you so much. To all
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Speaker 3: thank you so much. God blessed and we will see
Speaker 3: you in the next one show next time.
Speaker 14: Mm hmm.