WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:03.000 You're watching too good with Jim Comings. Its clears me, 2 00:00:03.120 --> 00:00:04.519 but hopefully you're gonna like it. 3 00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:12.439 Do what you did with Kim Coming. How you doing 4 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:16.600 out there? It's me Tigger Duc Wayne Duck. It's me 5 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:18.160 Bunkers keep bobcat. 6 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:19.399 All right, y'all, did a. 7 00:00:19.480 --> 00:00:22.519 Rate your favorite firefly you desire? 8 00:00:22.640 --> 00:00:23.719 Hold the old knock guy. 9 00:00:24.039 --> 00:00:27.000 My name is Jim Cummings and welcome to tune in. 10 00:00:28.960 --> 00:00:30.399 Thank you so much for being here again. 11 00:00:30.640 --> 00:00:32.759 Due a man. I'd be here every day if you 12 00:00:32.759 --> 00:00:34.560 guys would finally would let me know where you're gonna be. 13 00:00:34.600 --> 00:00:38.079 But you move around, yeah, you're always on the move. Sure, 14 00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:41.479 I'd be like Ed mcmahanson in the corner going yes year. 15 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:48.840 That on the road, bouncing around. It's been fun though, 16 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:51.960 it's been fun. And honestly, when when you guys were 17 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:55.560 on last year and at the last year last year, 18 00:00:55.600 --> 00:00:58.399 at the very end of last year. Yeah, yeah, when 19 00:00:58.399 --> 00:01:01.479 you guys were on, that was like probably my favorite 20 00:01:01.520 --> 00:01:02.960 location that we've ever had. 21 00:01:03.039 --> 00:01:04.319 I like this one. 22 00:01:04.719 --> 00:01:06.000 This is the new favorite love. 23 00:01:05.959 --> 00:01:08.560 Right, Yeah, that was great. That was great and you know, 24 00:01:08.599 --> 00:01:10.239 of course you're in the hotel, you feel like you know, 25 00:01:10.319 --> 00:01:15.640 thirst and hell the w. 26 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:15.480 And you know what they did, you know what the 27 00:01:15.519 --> 00:01:17.680 staff did. I don't know if you guys knew this. 28 00:01:18.719 --> 00:01:25.879 So that day it was you guys, Ron Pearlman and Shazam. 29 00:01:25.799 --> 00:01:27.680 Zachary Levi Zachary. 30 00:01:27.760 --> 00:01:29.560 Yes, yet it was you three that day. 31 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:31.920 They recorded all three that day. Wow. Yeah. 32 00:01:31.959 --> 00:01:35.239 And they bought it. The hotel brought a bottle of 33 00:01:35.319 --> 00:01:39.400 champagne for every guest because they were so thrilled, really 34 00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:41.879 that they were that we were bringing people into the hotel. 35 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:45.040 You know what, It's beautiful that they did that. But 36 00:01:45.079 --> 00:01:46.760 I think, honestly, you know, it's like I kind of 37 00:01:47.359 --> 00:01:48.799 you know, car knows this very well. I kind of 38 00:01:48.799 --> 00:01:50.319 lived my life, and I think Jim does too. I 39 00:01:50.319 --> 00:01:51.840 want to be the guy that people are happy to 40 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:54.079 see walking in and walking out. I don't know that 41 00:01:54.120 --> 00:01:58.040 they would do that for everybody, but I think this guy, no, seriously, 42 00:01:58.040 --> 00:02:01.359 I think he breeds so much goodwill and he's automatically 43 00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:03.239 he's got a part of people's hearts just because of 44 00:02:03.319 --> 00:02:05.840 what he's done. So, you know, it's like the excitement 45 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:08.240 of him being there, and then the people you mentioned 46 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:11.039 being there myself, notwithstanding, they're probably like, oh my gosh, 47 00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:13.479 it's it's Jim Cummings with this person. This is the 48 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:16.400 best day ever. Man. You know, like, if if you 49 00:02:16.439 --> 00:02:19.240 know people didn't basically sleep with a plush version of 50 00:02:19.240 --> 00:02:23.039 you every night, maybe they they do, you know, a 51 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:25.560 lot of them there, Jim. Jim's one of the only 52 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:27.280 people I know who could walk up to anybody and say, 53 00:02:27.319 --> 00:02:28.919 you know, you've probably been sleeping with me for years 54 00:02:28.919 --> 00:02:34.520 and yeah. 55 00:02:32.120 --> 00:02:35.479 Well they do bring him to cons they're old and 56 00:02:35.719 --> 00:02:36.280 he didn't looking. 57 00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:39.240 I go, oh, that's a that's got a lot of 58 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:42.479 hugs on it. 59 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:45.280 Jim. I'll say, man, it's you know. What's what's crazy 60 00:02:45.319 --> 00:02:46.759 is when I was a kid. I think it explains 61 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:48.800 me being kind of a pack rat. Now. I had 62 00:02:48.840 --> 00:02:51.039 a box my my family moved away when I was sixteen, 63 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:53.879 and I had a box. And in that box where 64 00:02:53.960 --> 00:02:57.719 all the precious relics that I kept from my being 65 00:02:57.759 --> 00:03:00.520 born to when I was sixteen, pictures in school reports 66 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:02.800 and things like that. And in there in that box, 67 00:03:02.840 --> 00:03:05.319 which sadly got lost and it broke my heart, was 68 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:08.280 my Winnie the Pooh. And I slept with Winnie the 69 00:03:08.319 --> 00:03:10.919 Pooh from the time I was about four to the 70 00:03:10.919 --> 00:03:12.439 time I was about eight. But you know, it was 71 00:03:12.479 --> 00:03:14.039 so sweet. I never told you this in all the 72 00:03:14.120 --> 00:03:14.919 years we've been palace. 73 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:20.680 You should totally be getting this. 74 00:03:20.680 --> 00:03:22.599 This is real, this is this is the real stuff. Man. 75 00:03:22.840 --> 00:03:25.080 I when you know, my mom said, you know, she 76 00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:26.479 said some point she said, do you think you want 77 00:03:26.479 --> 00:03:28.319 to keep sleeping with Winnie the Pooh. You know you're 78 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:29.960 gonna to be a big boy. And I said, say 79 00:03:30.039 --> 00:03:31.759 what A little little while longer, a little while longer. 80 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:34.719 So the one night came and I go, you know, Mom, 81 00:03:34.759 --> 00:03:37.120 I think I think I'm okay to sleep by myself. 82 00:03:37.520 --> 00:03:39.599 You can put Winnie in the chair over there. And 83 00:03:39.639 --> 00:03:42.560 she goes, okay, So she picks him up and she's 84 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:45.599 walking away, and no kidding, man, I go, you know 85 00:03:45.639 --> 00:03:49.319 what he said, he gets scared in the chair. Just 86 00:03:49.319 --> 00:03:51.280 put him at the foot of the bed. So I 87 00:03:51.319 --> 00:03:54.439 slept for like another year with Winnie the Pooh. If 88 00:03:54.479 --> 00:04:00.479 so facto you right down there between my beautiful That's 89 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:01.879 one of the reasons I love you, man. I love 90 00:04:01.919 --> 00:04:02.560 that one of them. 91 00:04:02.599 --> 00:04:06.319 Man, Yes, it's good. I have a question burning in 92 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:06.719 my mind. 93 00:04:07.159 --> 00:04:10.280 First, the first question is your hair looks fantastic and why. 94 00:04:11.159 --> 00:04:15.159 I'm growing it out? Everybody, I'm trying to get like Jesse. 95 00:04:15.960 --> 00:04:21.160 Soon enough, he's going to be a tribute act. It's 96 00:04:21.160 --> 00:04:22.360 going to be fair. He'll go out on the road 97 00:04:22.360 --> 00:04:24.759 instead of me. It'll be and we're going, right, I 98 00:04:24.759 --> 00:04:26.920 mean we're rolling okay, Oh yeah, yeah, we're going. This 99 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:27.199 is it? 100 00:04:27.279 --> 00:04:28.319 Can people see you? 101 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:32.639 Let me look great? He smells really good to see him. 102 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:34.480 Don't don't bother, but just go over and smell him 103 00:04:34.480 --> 00:04:37.079 a little bit. Yeah. You know what's crazy. 104 00:04:37.439 --> 00:04:40.959 Another little way you never know what has been crazy 105 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:44.160 is going to these conventions. I've now started getting noticed 106 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:48.000 at conventions and they're like, oh, your producer, Chris. And 107 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:51.480 I've been walking through you know, center before and people 108 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:55.079 are like, Chris, and I turned around and I don't 109 00:04:55.160 --> 00:04:58.000 recognize this person's face at all, and they're like, great 110 00:04:58.079 --> 00:04:58.800 to see your body. 111 00:04:58.959 --> 00:05:01.240 And I'm like, what in the world you're here. You're 112 00:05:01.240 --> 00:05:05.000 gonna get mister mamoa, mister mamaha, so be careful. 113 00:05:05.399 --> 00:05:07.120 I used to get that a lot in college because 114 00:05:07.120 --> 00:05:08.920 I had the law I'm playing football. 115 00:05:09.000 --> 00:05:11.240 I was like, another fifty pounds, dude. 116 00:05:11.519 --> 00:05:14.120 But the question I want to ask you is when 117 00:05:14.839 --> 00:05:18.639 in your life did you start dressing so extravagantly Oh 118 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:23.560 my god, that got to be like because I'm picturing 119 00:05:23.720 --> 00:05:25.480 I'm picturing a high school Jess. 120 00:05:25.560 --> 00:05:26.839 What did you wear to high school? 121 00:05:26.920 --> 00:05:27.240 Dude? 122 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:30.040 You know what's funny is my life is divided into 123 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:33.639 like several different like sections. Right, My first section was 124 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:35.879 kid actor Jess and I did when I was a 125 00:05:35.879 --> 00:05:38.079 little boy. One of the biggest things, one of the 126 00:05:38.079 --> 00:05:39.720 first biggest things I ever did was I was in 127 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:42.319 a major production of Oliver and I played the artful Dodger. 128 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:44.680 Of course you did well, yeah, yeah, it was good. 129 00:05:44.680 --> 00:05:46.920 You know Colin's hideous out at home? Oh that that 130 00:05:47.040 --> 00:05:49.240 was me? Right, well, what was fun about that? This 131 00:05:49.319 --> 00:05:51.480 is a fun story too, my father and I'm going 132 00:05:51.560 --> 00:05:53.439 to get to your answer, but this, whether you use 133 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:55.680 this or not, it's a fun anecdote. My father, Jim 134 00:05:55.720 --> 00:05:58.480 knows this because he met my dad, thank goodness, was 135 00:05:58.519 --> 00:06:02.000 a very accomplished memusician. Chris. I mean he backed up 136 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:05.319 like some of the legends Judy Garland and Peggy Lee 137 00:06:05.319 --> 00:06:08.600 and Franklin him. Of course absolutely, and he had a 138 00:06:08.680 --> 00:06:11.680 very distinctive way of talking. And this is yeah, this 139 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:13.759 is good. This is a good anecdote because what happened 140 00:06:13.879 --> 00:06:16.079 was I loved I saw the movie Oliver. You remember 141 00:06:16.079 --> 00:06:18.519 that movie with Roby, you know, And I just I 142 00:06:18.600 --> 00:06:21.040 was like six or seven, and I'm like, this is 143 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:22.759 the greatest movie I've ever seen. I would watch it 144 00:06:22.759 --> 00:06:24.040 over and over. My mom would take me to theater. 145 00:06:24.040 --> 00:06:26.399 I'd see it over north And one day I happened 146 00:06:26.399 --> 00:06:28.319 to look in the newspaper. I was living in Philadelphia, 147 00:06:28.399 --> 00:06:32.120 and it said casting for the national touring production of Oliver. 148 00:06:32.199 --> 00:06:33.879 And this was in the days when if they had kids, 149 00:06:34.079 --> 00:06:36.600 they cast them in the individual cities rather than take 150 00:06:36.639 --> 00:06:38.480 them around the country. Now they take around the country. 151 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:41.959 And it said looking for babblah blah, the artful dodger, right, 152 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:44.360 and it said must be hang on, I'm trying to 153 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:47.360 remember everything. Must be between five six and five eight, 154 00:06:47.879 --> 00:06:50.680 have dance training, this, that and the other as a kid, right, 155 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:52.480 as a kid. And I had none of these things. 156 00:06:52.480 --> 00:06:54.759 I think I was about five foot one. I was 157 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:56.800 just a little kid, you know. And I was eight. 158 00:06:56.920 --> 00:07:00.720 And they said between the gag eleven thirteen without with 159 00:07:00.759 --> 00:07:02.480 your voice and not having changed yet. And I was 160 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:05.000 like eight years old. And I saw it and it's 161 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:06.920 like big production, and I knew the theater was at 162 00:07:06.920 --> 00:07:09.160 the fancy theater in Philadelphia. So I'm going to see 163 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:11.079 my dad. My dad had a very distinctive way of 164 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:14.319 talking where he'd emphasize a random word and it sounded 165 00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:17.800 very odd'll illustrate. And he's sitting there reading his own paper. 166 00:07:17.839 --> 00:07:19.120 And I go and I go, hey, Daddy, I said, 167 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:21.360 I have to go to this so I can be 168 00:07:21.399 --> 00:07:23.439 the artful dodger. And he goes, let me see that. 169 00:07:23.759 --> 00:07:25.160 And now, if you've never met my dad, it's one 170 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:27.759 of my best impressions. I'm sorry they don't have a 171 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:29.800 point of her because this is a good impression. And 172 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:32.399 he looks at the parpent and go, you can't go 173 00:07:32.519 --> 00:07:35.000 to this, and I go why not? He goes, you 174 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:38.279 don't have any of the qualifications, because he would even 175 00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:40.959 get these words very straight. And I said, I said, wait, 176 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:43.560 you mean he goes, you don't dance. They want a 177 00:07:43.639 --> 00:07:47.199 kid that's five six, you're five to two. You know whatever. 178 00:07:47.279 --> 00:07:48.759 He goes, he goes, you're not going to get this, 179 00:07:49.199 --> 00:07:50.959 and I said, no, you have to take me so 180 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:53.319 I can be the artful dodger, right, and he goes, 181 00:07:53.480 --> 00:07:56.759 you know what, I'm gonna take you, And you know why, 182 00:07:56.759 --> 00:07:58.160 I'm gonna take you. And I said, well, I go 183 00:07:58.279 --> 00:08:04.160 so you can find out that you're not always gonna 184 00:08:04.199 --> 00:08:07.160 get what you want right. And I said, okay, So 185 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:11.920 he took me. Oh that's a chat. Yeah boy, I did. 186 00:08:12.199 --> 00:08:16.560 I got it right. And I'm like and and he's like, like, 187 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:18.319 I couldn't believe that I pulled it up, but I did. 188 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:20.360 And that was my introduction. So I had this this 189 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:22.480 little kind of showbized kid thing and I did TV. 190 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:26.519 I had a Jesse Harnell TV show on local TV. Yeah. Man, 191 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:31.800 it was like, believe it or not, nobody can see it. 192 00:08:32.200 --> 00:08:34.279 I would. It was just a local, a local show 193 00:08:34.320 --> 00:08:37.399 in Philly. Somebody dig it up, Somebody send you out there. 194 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:41.720 I know you can find it. We'll get that into 195 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:44.200 the Smithsonian. That would be freaking great. Man. The only 196 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:45.759 way could have been better is if he was on him. 197 00:08:45.799 --> 00:08:49.039 But I digress. It was like an American idol for kids, 198 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:51.440 and I would introduce all these kid acts and they compete. 199 00:08:51.440 --> 00:08:53.440 They'd win like five hundred bucks in the finalist would 200 00:08:53.440 --> 00:08:54.360 win a thousand or something. 201 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:55.240 And how old are you now? 202 00:08:55.559 --> 00:08:57.759 I'm nine? Okay, And I got really good reviews. The 203 00:08:57.799 --> 00:08:59.399 all everything was funny and by the way I was 204 00:08:59.440 --> 00:09:01.279 shorter than the kid who played Oliver, because the whole 205 00:09:01.320 --> 00:09:03.840 dynamic was they wanted the boy to be taller than Oliver, 206 00:09:04.039 --> 00:09:07.000 but I was shorter and it went really really well anyway, 207 00:09:07.879 --> 00:09:10.480 So I'm doing that. I have the Jesse Harnell Show, 208 00:09:10.519 --> 00:09:13.639 and I'm thinking, this is my life. But then I 209 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:16.759 was when I was fourteen years old. When I was 210 00:09:16.759 --> 00:09:20.240 fourteen years old, I went to like it was a 211 00:09:20.279 --> 00:09:22.440 kiss concert. Maybe I was younger, maybe twelve or something, 212 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:25.039 and I saw these guys and there's fire blowing up 213 00:09:25.080 --> 00:09:27.000 and there's all these lights and there's a lot of 214 00:09:27.039 --> 00:09:31.000 girls screaming, and I went, that seems like a good jazz. 215 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:35.600 So I couldn't exactly circling back to your question of 216 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:38.639 forty five minutes ago, Chris, I couldn't exactly go to 217 00:09:38.639 --> 00:09:41.720 school dressed in armor and dragon boots. But I could 218 00:09:41.799 --> 00:09:46.039 raise my mom's closet and find scarves and like vests 219 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:48.240 and stuff like that that fit me. 220 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:49.879 So you were doing that in high school. 221 00:09:51.879 --> 00:09:54.919 But it's gonna get much more dangerous because what happened 222 00:09:55.039 --> 00:09:57.360 was man. So I always sort of did it, I 223 00:09:57.360 --> 00:09:59.480 mean because I like it, and in fact, all you 224 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:01.279 kids there I met a lot of you guys on 225 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:03.600 the road, and kids ask me about about the clothes 226 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:05.360 and stuff like that, and I always tell them, I say, look, 227 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:07.559 you know, I said, I always the way I figure 228 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:09.720 it is if everybody else is wearing the same stuff 229 00:10:09.759 --> 00:10:11.919 and that's covered and I can do my own thing. 230 00:10:12.120 --> 00:10:13.919 And I tell them that you can do your own 231 00:10:13.960 --> 00:10:15.919 thing too. Doesn't have to be this as long as 232 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:18.559 you're being true to who you are. It's a beautiful thing, 233 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:20.360 right And kids sometimes say, they go, well, what if 234 00:10:20.360 --> 00:10:21.679 people don't like it? And I go, well, here's the 235 00:10:21.720 --> 00:10:24.360 good news. The people that don't like it aren't the 236 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:26.440 people who are supposed to like it, and the people 237 00:10:26.480 --> 00:10:28.799 who do like it are your people and they'll find you. 238 00:10:29.240 --> 00:10:32.320 So it's awesome. But the clothes thing, that the clothes 239 00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:36.720 thing took a huge leap when I met this one. Okay, 240 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:41.759 it was it was like this, and then it mushroomed 241 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:44.720 into this gigantic explosion in my life. And because she's 242 00:10:44.759 --> 00:10:48.639 a certified stylist, Kara is so many good things, but 243 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:53.759 she's an amazing stylist. Basically with the clothes. I won't 244 00:10:53.799 --> 00:10:56.840 use fell language, but I kid you not. She at 245 00:10:56.879 --> 00:10:59.360 the beginning of each week. At the beginning of each week, 246 00:10:59.399 --> 00:11:01.840 we have a clothing rack and she hangs up my 247 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:04.519 outfits for the week with her outfits for the week 248 00:11:04.799 --> 00:11:08.559 next to each other on hangers. Shirt, trousers, jacket, if 249 00:11:08.559 --> 00:11:11.200 a jacket is we weren't coordinated color. 250 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:16.679 Yeah, you see the fabrics, look at that. 251 00:11:17.480 --> 00:11:19.799 It's it's just and they have to be customed right 252 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:21.559 just far away. 253 00:11:21.279 --> 00:11:22.080 From ma and mind. 254 00:11:22.159 --> 00:11:26.200 I'm so glad, you know what, because she looks better 255 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:27.120 than me and whatever. 256 00:11:27.279 --> 00:11:30.200 Yeah, I'm telling you, man, he's a sexy got No, 257 00:11:30.559 --> 00:11:32.639 it's like she just because you love you love the 258 00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:33.759 stuff just as much as me. 259 00:11:33.879 --> 00:11:34.360 Yeah, I do. 260 00:11:34.440 --> 00:11:37.279 I love like fabrics and playing with different colors and 261 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:40.759 different patterns, and Jess is just cool enough to be 262 00:11:40.799 --> 00:11:41.440 able to pull it up. 263 00:11:42.559 --> 00:11:45.480 I tell people I'm her man Akin what I did 264 00:11:45.720 --> 00:11:46.320 see that? Man? 265 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:50.679 I was in Tokyo last year and I texted you 266 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:54.360 guys and there was literally like the coolest like sequince 267 00:11:54.440 --> 00:11:56.919 suit and literally like I saw it in the window 268 00:11:56.960 --> 00:11:59.080 and I was I need that. My mind raced. We 269 00:11:59.120 --> 00:12:01.279 got to go back, We got to go texted you 270 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:04.080 for your sizes and what do you know, in Japan, 271 00:12:04.240 --> 00:12:06.080 they didn't have anywhere near your side. 272 00:12:06.159 --> 00:12:10.200 Oh no, no, yeah, we don't have one of like 273 00:12:10.440 --> 00:12:14.200 twelve year old children. No, it's amazing. Another very This 274 00:12:14.240 --> 00:12:15.799 is a very quick anecdote, but it's true. Before I 275 00:12:15.840 --> 00:12:17.320 met car I was single for a few years and 276 00:12:17.320 --> 00:12:18.960 I was just kind of, you know, searching the world 277 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:20.919 with a telescope, looking for my girl. And I would 278 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:23.600 go shopping and all these fashion guys in these manufacturers 279 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:26.000 that I know, and they'd have like a girl's dress 280 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:27.840 or a girls this or a girl's that, and I'd say, yeah, 281 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:29.279 I'm gonna get all this stuff from me and let 282 00:12:29.279 --> 00:12:31.120 me have that dress. And they go, oh, you got 283 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:33.960 a girlfriend. I go nah, and they go oh okay, 284 00:12:33.960 --> 00:12:35.080 and I go, no, no, no, it's not for me. 285 00:12:35.159 --> 00:12:36.879 I said, this is this is she's this is for 286 00:12:36.919 --> 00:12:38.840 her when I when she comes, and they go, well, 287 00:12:38.840 --> 00:12:40.279 how do you know she's gonna like it? She didn't 288 00:12:40.360 --> 00:12:43.679 like it, And I kid you not. If she hadn't, 289 00:12:43.679 --> 00:12:45.840 if she'd shown up and this wasn't her, stop all 290 00:12:45.879 --> 00:12:47.399 this stuff, I would have been We'll give it to 291 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:49.840 somebody else. But when we met, I said, I've been 292 00:12:49.879 --> 00:12:52.279 buying you clothes for four years. She said, I said, 293 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:55.960 oh my goodness, I love this, I guess, and she 294 00:12:56.039 --> 00:12:58.440 started wearing all this stuff and it's like it was 295 00:12:58.559 --> 00:12:59.000 so cool. 296 00:12:59.000 --> 00:13:05.000 I had like every single color like that was starting point, 297 00:13:05.080 --> 00:13:07.559 that was the base, and then it just true. 298 00:13:07.919 --> 00:13:10.159 Is that nuts? That is crazy? I know. Man. 299 00:13:10.879 --> 00:13:13.440 We dressed like this separately though, Like when I lived 300 00:13:13.440 --> 00:13:16.879 in London, I still dressed this way. Like when we 301 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:19.440 met for the first time in person at the airport, 302 00:13:19.480 --> 00:13:25.679 we kind of looked at each other and went, ah. 303 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:26.919 Yeah it is it was. It was worth the way. 304 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:29.679 Oh that's good stuff. But isn't a cool because stylistic 305 00:13:29.799 --> 00:13:31.840 it is, we cut from the same cloth. 306 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:37.960 Chris, again, there's plenty more of that. 307 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:40.120 No, I love it. I love it. I love seeing 308 00:13:40.159 --> 00:13:41.639 you guys on the road. You guys are always so 309 00:13:41.720 --> 00:13:42.240 cute together. 310 00:13:42.679 --> 00:13:45.279 Thank you. Man. Well, that's another funny thing, dude. This 311 00:13:45.399 --> 00:13:47.679 is gym will related to this, you know, when we're 312 00:13:47.720 --> 00:13:48.200 out there. 313 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:49.879 Very jingly with this is this. 314 00:13:49.960 --> 00:13:53.759 Okay, it's fine, it's Christmas, we're coming up on the holidays. 315 00:13:53.799 --> 00:13:57.480 This is great. What was funny is if we don't 316 00:13:57.480 --> 00:13:59.679 do this right, like let's say, if we do a 317 00:13:59.759 --> 00:14:02.480 can or something like that, and we don't show up dress. 318 00:14:02.480 --> 00:14:06.159 Similarly, Yeah, if I'm like wearing pink and he's in green. 319 00:14:06.559 --> 00:14:16.120 They're like, you guys aren't like counseling. So we did. 320 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:18.200 It once, like I wanted to wear like this neon 321 00:14:18.279 --> 00:14:21.399 fusia pink thing and Jesse didn't. 322 00:14:21.639 --> 00:14:24.519 Right, well, you know, look great. 323 00:14:25.840 --> 00:14:29.039 Now we have to get him some because he was 324 00:14:29.080 --> 00:14:32.720 wearing wanted to wear and you wasn't. You was in 325 00:14:32.759 --> 00:14:33.559 blue or something. 326 00:14:33.559 --> 00:14:36.480 And you remember we went for lunch and they were 327 00:14:36.519 --> 00:14:38.720 like you guys okay, and we were. 328 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:42.519 Like, there's whispers. So now we're like, oh, we got 329 00:14:42.559 --> 00:14:44.600 to make sure because you know what else is very 330 00:14:44.600 --> 00:14:46.799 sweet man. It's a lot of people, Jim. You know, 331 00:14:46.840 --> 00:14:48.960 they'll come to our table and we'll catch up and 332 00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:50.679 they'll say, well, I said, so can I you know 333 00:14:50.679 --> 00:14:52.399 what do you need this? No, I'm good man, I 334 00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:54.080 really just wanted to see what you guys were wearing. 335 00:14:54.399 --> 00:14:58.399 It's like it's taken on a light. It's wonderful and 336 00:14:58.440 --> 00:15:00.879 it is fun. Man. It's like it's like we got 337 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:01.559 a lot of crayons. 338 00:15:02.919 --> 00:15:05.240 Okay, and follow follow up question because I know the 339 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:07.480 people are wondering. I'm looking out for you guys. He 340 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:12.039 is see around the house. You're chilling. It's Sunday, COVID. 341 00:15:12.600 --> 00:15:14.000 What are you wearing around the house? 342 00:15:14.120 --> 00:15:14.679 Same thing? 343 00:15:16.360 --> 00:15:20.320 You're not getting all dressed up, just sit around the house. Well, okay, 344 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:23.919 you you don't own any sweatpants. I do because like 345 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:27.960 rostones on them and stuff. Dude, I'll send you a picture, 346 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:29.320 you know what, you know we'll do. We'll send you 347 00:15:29.360 --> 00:15:32.159 some of our casual work, even inserted into this. 348 00:15:32.120 --> 00:15:35.720 Puzzle people kid, and I'll show you. Please do. I 349 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:39.200 don't want to show that because this is this is 350 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:39.879 basically it. 351 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:43.879 We just we But you mentioned COVID. I'm just gonna 352 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:47.360 say something wrong. When when COVID was happening and we. 353 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:50.200 Were just kind of I forgot, Yeah, this is good 354 00:15:50.559 --> 00:15:51.080 in the house. 355 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:57.039 We still caes. 356 00:15:56.200 --> 00:16:01.799 Also the cages she does after midnight. 357 00:16:01.840 --> 00:16:04.240 Man, my funny accent, isn't it. 358 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:05.559 Sorry? 359 00:16:06.279 --> 00:16:09.159 No, we still had like the Friday night date night, 360 00:16:09.279 --> 00:16:12.600 but we would get fully dressed up. We were going out, 361 00:16:12.600 --> 00:16:15.480 like Jesse came in the sequin blazer and the jackets 362 00:16:15.519 --> 00:16:18.559 and everything, and we'd have like we still have dinner. 363 00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:20.519 She'd make dinner and we'd pick it up someplace and 364 00:16:20.559 --> 00:16:23.159 bring it home and we'd like candles and sit there. Yeah, 365 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:26.919 we did dress up big halloweeners. Oh yeah, we like Halloween. 366 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:28.240 Do you have a costume for this year? 367 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:30.799 Well? See, our Halloween plans kind of got to rail 368 00:16:30.879 --> 00:16:32.759 because we did have costumes, and she'll tell you what 369 00:16:32.799 --> 00:16:33.399 they were. 370 00:16:33.320 --> 00:16:35.440 But no, when does this come out? 371 00:16:36.519 --> 00:16:36.679 No? 372 00:16:36.879 --> 00:16:40.639 Yeah, but it doesn't matter. But but what happened was 373 00:16:40.679 --> 00:16:42.879 we had these costumes, but then something else came up 374 00:16:42.919 --> 00:16:44.799 the same night we were planning to go to Halloween 375 00:16:44.840 --> 00:16:47.799 party stuff, and we had to like rethink it because 376 00:16:47.799 --> 00:16:50.360 the costumes we had required more time. She was going 377 00:16:50.440 --> 00:16:54.039 to be like a sexy Jason from Friday the thirteenth, 378 00:16:54.200 --> 00:16:57.360 and that was like a heavy metal Freddy Krueger, and 379 00:16:57.399 --> 00:16:59.200 she was going to do our makeups and stuff like that. 380 00:16:59.240 --> 00:17:01.120 But now, so we had to get something that we 381 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:03.159 could change into really quick because we're coming in front 382 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:03.840 of a formal. 383 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:06.279 Doing like a boat party thing, so we couldn't be 384 00:17:06.359 --> 00:17:07.480 like Freddy Kruger on the. 385 00:17:09.519 --> 00:17:10.799 So tell them what we're going to be because it 386 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:14.240 kind of sizes the whole thing in a bow. Yeah, 387 00:17:14.279 --> 00:17:15.880 bo like you know, kind of puts a ribbon. 388 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:17.720 On you mean cat. 389 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:20.599 No, that's another story. 390 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:23.920 So we're going to be in something like this for 391 00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:26.000 the boat party, right, and then we need something that 392 00:17:26.039 --> 00:17:29.400 we can change into in the car to get out. 393 00:17:29.599 --> 00:17:34.240 And right, by the way, they're talking about a Lamborghining. 394 00:17:34.319 --> 00:17:36.480 Well it's a stolen one, but it's a you know, 395 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:37.640 and we found it. 396 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:41.240 So they've got like they've got the seats are molded 397 00:17:41.400 --> 00:17:44.480 onto them anyway, Yeah, they're molded into that. 398 00:17:44.599 --> 00:17:46.839 By the way. Best thing about that car, folks, I 399 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:48.279 want you to know. It has nothing to do with 400 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:50.279 prestige or the title of the car or how fast 401 00:17:50.279 --> 00:17:52.079 it goes. It has to do with this. Hey man, 402 00:17:52.359 --> 00:17:54.359 can you pick me up at the airport? Dude, I'd 403 00:17:54.400 --> 00:17:59.960 love to No trunk space, they can't do it. Go ahead, 404 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:00.920 who are we're going to be? 405 00:18:02.920 --> 00:18:05.759 We pull it over our outfits because we were like, 406 00:18:05.759 --> 00:18:08.720 we can't get changed. Probably we just needed something to 407 00:18:08.759 --> 00:18:13.880 pull over. So we've got the outfits and it's pea pods. 408 00:18:13.880 --> 00:18:18.240 Gonna be piece of Yeah, I've heard of them in 409 00:18:18.279 --> 00:18:19.920 the pod. It's gonna be nice. 410 00:18:19.960 --> 00:18:21.880 Well inside a picture, so you don't think I'm crazy. 411 00:18:22.119 --> 00:18:22.880 It's really cool. 412 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:24.799 Yeah, it's gonna be. It's gonna be cute. It's still 413 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:26.160 us and we can do it in thirty seconds. I'm 414 00:18:26.200 --> 00:18:27.880 gonna I'm going to go on record and be a hater. 415 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:33.160 I don't like that. Caution. I want to see a picture, yeah. 416 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:36.200 One of us, because we got to picture the costume. 417 00:18:36.240 --> 00:18:38.920 But you gotta wait, I got to fill it out. 418 00:18:38.960 --> 00:18:40.079 You guys have to send me a picture. 419 00:18:40.119 --> 00:18:42.440 It'll be good. Change my mind because right now I'm 420 00:18:42.480 --> 00:18:45.240 going to be a hater. Yeah, funny, I understand, I 421 00:18:45.279 --> 00:18:46.920 get it, man, But I think that when you see it, well, 422 00:18:46.920 --> 00:18:48.839 then the other thing is we might be it might 423 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:49.079 be I. 424 00:18:49.079 --> 00:18:51.559 Don't know how we're going to. 425 00:18:50.759 --> 00:18:55.039 Say, and we can't live it up, like yeah, you're 426 00:18:55.039 --> 00:18:56.599 like you're walking around like a pea pod. But you 427 00:18:56.599 --> 00:18:57.400 know it's gonna. 428 00:18:57.160 --> 00:18:59.599 Be Welcome everybody to another episode of Tuned In with 429 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:05.039 Jim to We have Jessic Carrall Carnell. Yeah, and and 430 00:19:05.079 --> 00:19:06.759 it's been a great time already and we're going to 431 00:19:06.839 --> 00:19:07.920 dive right into it. 432 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:10.720 Yeah, where is right? You know what's awesome, man, is 433 00:19:10.720 --> 00:19:13.200 it's like doing this Honestly, is it even like doing 434 00:19:13.279 --> 00:19:15.920 an interview? This is like hanging out with my pal 435 00:19:16.039 --> 00:19:18.559 for my whole life and my new palam of a 436 00:19:18.559 --> 00:19:21.039 couple of years ago, and it's just comfortable. It doesn't 437 00:19:21.039 --> 00:19:24.920 feel like, uh, you know, well the next question, Yeah, 438 00:19:24.920 --> 00:19:27.200 you know, it's not. It's just it's just does hanging well. 439 00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:28.920 That's the great thing about a podcast, right, It's like 440 00:19:28.960 --> 00:19:32.599 a discourse. It's like very good lax. And it's interesting too, 441 00:19:32.759 --> 00:19:35.039 Like of all the guests, I think we're we're in 442 00:19:35.079 --> 00:19:37.640 the seventies now of the amount of guests that we 443 00:19:37.720 --> 00:19:38.079 put on. 444 00:19:38.200 --> 00:19:39.400 Congratulations guys. 445 00:19:39.559 --> 00:19:42.279 Yeah, and almost one hundred things, almost one hundred thousand 446 00:19:42.279 --> 00:19:43.440 subscribers on YouTube. 447 00:19:43.440 --> 00:19:44.319 Too fantastic. 448 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:48.680 It's like, busy, make it happen with this one. We're 449 00:19:48.720 --> 00:19:51.559 at ninety seven thousand. Let's just get three thousands subs 450 00:19:51.640 --> 00:19:54.359 right now. Two percent of you aren't even subscribed. So 451 00:19:55.119 --> 00:19:57.559 if you subscribe right now, then we'll make it happen. 452 00:19:57.839 --> 00:19:59.200 And that's all because of you. 453 00:19:59.279 --> 00:20:06.519 Guys. Let me, how can I want how can you 454 00:20:06.559 --> 00:20:07.960 not want? Him to be happy? He's we do need 455 00:20:08.039 --> 00:20:09.960 the freaking pood dude, get busy, come on. 456 00:20:10.880 --> 00:20:14.519 What he said, Yeah, no, it is great. And what 457 00:20:14.559 --> 00:20:16.440 I was saying is like some of the some of 458 00:20:16.480 --> 00:20:19.440 the guests we have on. It's interesting too because like 459 00:20:19.960 --> 00:20:23.359 this podcast kind of format, you know, this medium is 460 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:26.640 kind of new, you know, to like at least popular culture. 461 00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:29.400 Yes, and a lot of people. 462 00:20:29.400 --> 00:20:32.079 You know, will you know, when we're in talks of 463 00:20:32.119 --> 00:20:34.359 booking them on the show, they're like, Okay, well can 464 00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:37.000 I have the questions in advance? And it's like, no, 465 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:40.480 it's it's a discussion. It's very casual. It's very you know, 466 00:20:40.640 --> 00:20:44.799 you're almost getting to know somebody in this forum. You know, 467 00:20:44.880 --> 00:20:48.039 it's it's we want it to seem like a discussion 468 00:20:48.079 --> 00:20:51.319 between two people, not like you know, not like Katie Curic, 469 00:20:51.400 --> 00:20:55.720 you know, like a b C. Here's the agenda, you know, 470 00:20:55.839 --> 00:20:58.079 let's see where it goes. And if we don't get 471 00:20:58.119 --> 00:21:01.920 to anything, come back on. You know why I'm not going. 472 00:21:02.440 --> 00:21:04.119 I hope to be a frequent visitor because it's so 473 00:21:04.200 --> 00:21:05.480 much fun. And I'll tell you what you just said 474 00:21:05.559 --> 00:21:08.359 is very interesting, Chris, because what it sort of does. 475 00:21:08.599 --> 00:21:10.400 And I mean no disrespect to the folks who want 476 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:12.440 to work that way. I understand their feelings, of course, 477 00:21:13.079 --> 00:21:15.519 but and I'll throw this over to Jim and to 478 00:21:15.559 --> 00:21:18.759 get your thoughts on it. Man. One one little kind 479 00:21:18.799 --> 00:21:21.160 of ground rule that I have for voiceovers that I've 480 00:21:21.160 --> 00:21:22.680 had for years and years and years. When we talk 481 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:26.039 about voiceovers, people say, how do you know when you 482 00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:28.519 really have a character down, like do you when? Is 483 00:21:28.519 --> 00:21:31.240 it like second nature? And I said, A character is 484 00:21:31.319 --> 00:21:34.519 second nature when I can sit down with you and 485 00:21:34.599 --> 00:21:36.400 you can talk to me for fifteen minutes and I'll 486 00:21:36.440 --> 00:21:39.440 be that character with no script, no pre arranged stuff 487 00:21:39.480 --> 00:21:41.440 at all, and I'll know exactly what to say or 488 00:21:41.440 --> 00:21:43.240 how to react to whatever you throw at me right 489 00:21:43.440 --> 00:21:46.400 when you're very very So it's almost like maybe guys 490 00:21:46.440 --> 00:21:48.599 who want the questions in events haven't really found their 491 00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:51.319 own character. Yeah. I don't know, no offense to them, 492 00:21:51.319 --> 00:21:53.759 but it's like it's yeah, you know, because because when 493 00:21:53.799 --> 00:21:55.960 we have our guys down, I know I could talk 494 00:21:55.960 --> 00:21:58.240 to Jim as Tigger for half an hour. Yeah you know, 495 00:21:58.279 --> 00:21:59.480 it would be well, you know. 496 00:21:59.720 --> 00:22:02.599 And often when we get and I credit you with 497 00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:05.720 the this answer as well, because they'll say, well, what 498 00:22:05.799 --> 00:22:07.720 you know being a voice actor is this, and and 499 00:22:08.039 --> 00:22:11.119 I remember years ago, and I've given you credit every time. 500 00:22:11.319 --> 00:22:11.559 Thank you. 501 00:22:11.640 --> 00:22:13.039 I said, yeah, Well, when it comes to being a 502 00:22:13.160 --> 00:22:16.960 voice actor, small V capital A, that's it, you know, 503 00:22:17.160 --> 00:22:19.640 and so you know, and and they say. 504 00:22:19.759 --> 00:22:22.240 Well you do voices, you do? You do voices, blah 505 00:22:22.279 --> 00:22:24.039 blah blah voice voice voice voice voice. 506 00:22:24.119 --> 00:22:27.160 Yeah, and I go, yeah, but okay, how. 507 00:22:27.079 --> 00:22:31.160 Never, ye what what I what I feel like I'm 508 00:22:31.200 --> 00:22:33.079 doing is I'm a character actor. 509 00:22:33.799 --> 00:22:36.960 I'm a I do characters. That's just how they sound 510 00:22:36.960 --> 00:22:40.000 when they talk. Wow. I love that. Yeah, that's okay, 511 00:22:40.119 --> 00:22:41.880 that's that's it. That's really it. 512 00:22:41.960 --> 00:22:42.160 Yeah. 513 00:22:42.200 --> 00:22:44.039 My my version of that, I think I like yours 514 00:22:44.039 --> 00:22:46.039 a little better is I say that it's not about 515 00:22:46.119 --> 00:22:50.559 doing funny voices. It's about creating believable characters with your voice. 516 00:22:50.759 --> 00:22:52.880 But what you said is actually more heartwarming. And it's like, 517 00:22:52.920 --> 00:22:55.160 you know, you're a good example of it, because no, 518 00:22:55.279 --> 00:22:57.200 because seriously, it's like it's like, you know, I think 519 00:22:57.200 --> 00:23:02.279 that nostalgia aside the we need the Pooh thing in particular, Uh, 520 00:23:02.920 --> 00:23:06.200 there's so much heart when you do well, no, you 521 00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:08.039 know what I mean. And it's like there are people 522 00:23:08.839 --> 00:23:12.279 God bless them, you know, who do that impression and 523 00:23:12.279 --> 00:23:16.599 and oftentimes it's a very good impression, but there's no 524 00:23:17.720 --> 00:23:20.200 you did. You know. It's it's like there's no foundation 525 00:23:20.279 --> 00:23:23.240 of love and soul has the soul dude, that's it. 526 00:23:23.440 --> 00:23:25.599 And that helps because he's he is a soul man, 527 00:23:25.680 --> 00:23:29.319 I mean, Jim, absolutely soul. So so yeah, right, I mean, 528 00:23:29.400 --> 00:23:31.400 isn't that true. It's like it's like, that's that's what 529 00:23:31.480 --> 00:23:33.160 it comes down to, and it's not it's not about 530 00:23:33.160 --> 00:23:36.440 doing funny voices. It's about being believable, knowing your stuff 531 00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:38.839 and being able to answer questions and a character. I 532 00:23:38.880 --> 00:23:40.519 know really well is this one so you can ask 533 00:23:40.599 --> 00:23:43.799 me anything. That's right, that's right. I'm real good at 534 00:23:43.799 --> 00:23:47.119 being me. Man. Yeah, I'm the second best atage. 535 00:23:50.519 --> 00:23:53.279 That's a beautiful thing and it's very true. It's very 536 00:23:53.400 --> 00:23:55.559 very true. Like I said, like you said, small v 537 00:23:55.759 --> 00:23:57.599 capital a, that's it money all the way. 538 00:23:57.759 --> 00:23:59.440 And you know, for all you guys out there hoping 539 00:23:59.480 --> 00:24:02.359 to do it, good news is that you can get better, 540 00:24:02.519 --> 00:24:04.319 you know what I mean. At those things. Then the 541 00:24:04.359 --> 00:24:07.160 way to become a good actor is to act. And 542 00:24:07.200 --> 00:24:10.079 if you you know, look into community theater, look into classes, 543 00:24:10.079 --> 00:24:12.880 look into things like that, because there's something near everybody. 544 00:24:13.000 --> 00:24:15.440 And another really good thing that we didn't have so 545 00:24:15.519 --> 00:24:17.680 much when we were coming up. We used to record ourselves. 546 00:24:17.680 --> 00:24:19.839 Remember cassettes Jim, Oh yeah, I used to. 547 00:24:20.720 --> 00:24:24.039 We still have a ton of them in the office. 548 00:24:24.079 --> 00:24:25.799 He's gone, like a ton of these cassettes. 549 00:24:25.920 --> 00:24:27.680 Yeah, oh yeah, And I'd get a call to Jim 550 00:24:27.720 --> 00:24:29.559 to do fill in the blank, you know, can you 551 00:24:29.599 --> 00:24:31.400 do so Alan Arkin or something? And I'd go and 552 00:24:31.400 --> 00:24:34.200 I'd find a VHS of an Alan Arkin movie and 553 00:24:34.279 --> 00:24:36.119 put it in the thing and stand there and look 554 00:24:36.160 --> 00:24:38.599 for a good scene. Hold my cassette up. Go like this, 555 00:24:38.720 --> 00:24:40.200 you know, and like and like be in the car 556 00:24:40.319 --> 00:24:42.559 listening to this little cassette and parroting it, parrotting it 557 00:24:42.640 --> 00:24:44.400 until I had it. Go to the gig, do the gig, 558 00:24:44.440 --> 00:24:46.519 and promptly forget how to do it. Well. Now, there 559 00:24:46.519 --> 00:24:48.319 are so many tools that you can use. Guys. You 560 00:24:48.359 --> 00:24:50.519 can use YouTube to find things. You can do an 561 00:24:50.559 --> 00:24:53.240 exercise like a really quick great vo exercise if you've 562 00:24:53.279 --> 00:24:55.680 never tried it and you don't eat anybody but yourself. 563 00:24:55.720 --> 00:24:58.559 A phone and a remote control. Turn on your TV. Okay, 564 00:24:59.359 --> 00:25:02.200 have the MU and pressed press record on your phone, 565 00:25:02.880 --> 00:25:05.079 unpressed the mute. Listen to what's going on with the 566 00:25:05.119 --> 00:25:08.200 TV for about five seconds. Mute it again. Repeat exactly 567 00:25:08.480 --> 00:25:10.279 what was just on the TV. Try to sound as 568 00:25:10.359 --> 00:25:12.839 much likely as you can. Change the channel. Do it again. 569 00:25:13.000 --> 00:25:14.960 Do this ten times. Not only will you get an 570 00:25:14.960 --> 00:25:17.240 awesome head rush at the end of it. When you 571 00:25:17.400 --> 00:25:20.079 when you turn it off, you're gonna find out, Wow, 572 00:25:20.599 --> 00:25:22.519 I can kind of do a Scottish accent. I didn't 573 00:25:22.559 --> 00:25:24.240 know I could do that, And wow, I do the 574 00:25:24.240 --> 00:25:27.240 worst impression ever of John Malkovich. But that's kind of 575 00:25:27.240 --> 00:25:29.559 a cool new voice I just saw. And you you 576 00:25:29.599 --> 00:25:32.000 get done with that stuff, you will find out stuff 577 00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:33.640 you never thought you could do. So there you go. 578 00:25:33.680 --> 00:25:38.119 That's right, that's well said, exactly really yeah, And also 579 00:25:38.200 --> 00:25:40.240 as far as the acting thing, read things, you know, 580 00:25:40.279 --> 00:25:42.559 record things and read them, and you listen back to them. 581 00:25:42.559 --> 00:25:44.599 Forget that it's you, and ask yourself, now, if I 582 00:25:44.640 --> 00:25:47.599 heard that, would I think somebody was reading it to me? 583 00:25:47.680 --> 00:25:49.279 Or was somebody was talking to me? And if it 584 00:25:49.319 --> 00:25:51.400 sounds like somebody was reading it to you, keep doing 585 00:25:51.440 --> 00:25:56.359 it until it doesn't. It is perfect all she wrote 586 00:25:56.799 --> 00:26:00.599 there it is man, drop them like boo. Yes, no, 587 00:26:00.799 --> 00:26:02.039 that is so true. Right. 588 00:26:03.000 --> 00:26:04.680 If you're a fan of everything we do here at 589 00:26:04.720 --> 00:26:06.839 tuned In with Jim Cummings, you could support the show 590 00:26:06.880 --> 00:26:09.359 for as little as just two dollars per month on Patreon, 591 00:26:09.400 --> 00:26:12.160 where supporters not only get early and add free access 592 00:26:12.200 --> 00:26:15.039 to the show, but you'll also get bonus podcasts, including 593 00:26:15.079 --> 00:26:18.200 audio commentaries of classic Disney shows, hosted by Jim and 594 00:26:18.279 --> 00:26:20.759 his various characters. So go ahead and support the show 595 00:26:20.759 --> 00:26:24.000 today at patreon dot com. Slash Jim Commings podcast link 596 00:26:24.079 --> 00:26:25.480 is in the description of this show. 597 00:26:26.039 --> 00:26:30.680 And I remember years ago you were playing everyone's one 598 00:26:30.720 --> 00:26:33.519 of I gotta believe it's everybody's favorite character in the 599 00:26:33.559 --> 00:26:36.480 Wizard of Oz and you were the Cowardly Lion, and 600 00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:40.039 I remember seeing pictures of you and and it was 601 00:26:40.160 --> 00:26:42.480 I think it was an interior Ontario somewhere in the 602 00:26:42.559 --> 00:26:44.759 end of the Empire. Yes it was, and I was like, damn, 603 00:26:44.799 --> 00:26:47.000 I can't get out there for some reason or another. 604 00:26:47.480 --> 00:26:49.119 And I guess you just crushed it. And do you 605 00:26:49.240 --> 00:26:53.359 love the stage too well? I mean, obviously playing rock 606 00:26:53.400 --> 00:26:54.039 and roll on Rock. 607 00:26:54.000 --> 00:26:55.799 And Roll show, that's and that's as you know, and 608 00:26:55.839 --> 00:26:58.480 as you've done, that's that's the court. That's the foundation 609 00:26:58.759 --> 00:27:01.319 of everything that I do mean in the voiceover stuff, Jim, 610 00:27:01.640 --> 00:27:04.960 and it definitely applies to you. I think one of 611 00:27:05.000 --> 00:27:07.079 our secret weapons and a lot of our friends out 612 00:27:07.079 --> 00:27:08.799 there who we work with have the same thing is 613 00:27:08.799 --> 00:27:12.680 being a singer helps so much and As far as 614 00:27:12.680 --> 00:27:15.440 being on stage, I always said, I said that I 615 00:27:15.920 --> 00:27:19.279 like like theater. I really enjoyed doing theater. But I've 616 00:27:19.279 --> 00:27:23.359 never been partial to haircuts, so I can really only 617 00:27:23.440 --> 00:27:29.200 play a pirate Jesus or the cowardly Lion. Therefore, I 618 00:27:29.240 --> 00:27:31.519 love I've done Jesus for Jesus Christ. Super I was 619 00:27:31.559 --> 00:27:34.480 gonna say, you've got you're two out of three? Yeah, three, 620 00:27:34.519 --> 00:27:36.680 bro and the cowardly line. You know the sweetest thing 621 00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:38.839 about that, Jim, It's just it's just magic to me, man, 622 00:27:38.880 --> 00:27:40.799 It's like it's a there's a question I got for you. 623 00:27:40.880 --> 00:27:44.000 And then seg way back, did you like or have 624 00:27:44.079 --> 00:27:47.759 a relationship with Winnie the Pooh before you became Winnie 625 00:27:47.799 --> 00:27:48.119 the Pooh? 626 00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:49.920 Was I knew you were aware of it, but did 627 00:27:49.960 --> 00:27:55.640 it have well, yes and no, my younger brother Terry did. Okay, 628 00:27:55.759 --> 00:27:58.799 And and gosh, I think I've told this before, but 629 00:27:58.880 --> 00:27:59.759 it's a terrible. 630 00:27:59.519 --> 00:28:00.920 Now to me, please, but it was. 631 00:28:02.240 --> 00:28:05.279 You know, this is obviously in the the original in 632 00:28:05.359 --> 00:28:09.240 the whenever that was in the sixties. Yeah, And he 633 00:28:09.279 --> 00:28:12.079 would watch it on Disney whatever, you know, the world 634 00:28:12.079 --> 00:28:12.680 of Color. 635 00:28:12.519 --> 00:28:15.680 The wonderful, the wonderful World of Color. Yeah, And I said, do. 636 00:28:15.720 --> 00:28:16.680 You know, WINNI the poo. 637 00:28:16.759 --> 00:28:19.720 You know what poo is, don't you? You know what 638 00:28:19.799 --> 00:28:20.240 poo is? 639 00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:25.640 If you take that h off, it's pooh. 640 00:28:25.799 --> 00:28:28.279 We need a poop. We need a poop. 641 00:28:28.880 --> 00:28:33.880 And and he brought that up years later and he goes, okay, yeah, hey, 642 00:28:33.960 --> 00:28:35.799 we need pop. 643 00:28:37.279 --> 00:28:40.079 And said, yeah, okay, you're in the House of Boo 644 00:28:40.240 --> 00:28:46.279 built man. Yeah see that. Let me get this, Okay, 645 00:28:46.680 --> 00:28:47.559 I feel better now. 646 00:28:47.880 --> 00:28:48.359 Wow. 647 00:28:48.519 --> 00:28:52.200 So well, the reason I ask you the question is because, seriously, 648 00:28:52.240 --> 00:28:55.200 bar none, I've I've you know, I've been so blessed 649 00:28:55.359 --> 00:28:57.519 so many times in my career by so many things, 650 00:28:57.519 --> 00:29:00.359 and one of them was my all time favorite movie 651 00:29:00.680 --> 00:29:02.720 is The Wizard of Us. Right. I think, to me, 652 00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:05.559 it's like the most perfect movie there's ever been. I'm 653 00:29:05.599 --> 00:29:08.039 so glad they haven't really tried to redo it but 654 00:29:08.119 --> 00:29:10.240 have just let it be its thing, right, And the 655 00:29:10.319 --> 00:29:12.119 cast was so perfect, and I grew up with it. 656 00:29:12.200 --> 00:29:14.759 Every year, at Easter, Thanksgiving, whatever it was, my family 657 00:29:14.799 --> 00:29:16.400 would sit down in front of the couch and we watched, 658 00:29:16.519 --> 00:29:18.240 you know, we watched The Wizard of Oz and everything. 659 00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:20.119 And one of the first voices I ever learned to 660 00:29:20.160 --> 00:29:23.319 do was the cowardly Lion. So not only as it 661 00:29:23.359 --> 00:29:25.000 happened did I end up playing it in a in 662 00:29:25.039 --> 00:29:27.640 a big musical production of it, which was very good 663 00:29:27.680 --> 00:29:30.799 and a very nice memory. But I became the official 664 00:29:30.920 --> 00:29:33.119 voice of the Lion for all like the Warner Brothers 665 00:29:33.119 --> 00:29:36.319 ancillary products and for Wizard of Oz show revivals and 666 00:29:36.319 --> 00:29:38.920 cartoons and stuff like that. And it's so cool because 667 00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:40.880 every time I'm on I'm like, can I stop doing this? 668 00:29:41.160 --> 00:29:45.400 I got happy and saw it all. It's it's just like, 669 00:29:46.839 --> 00:29:49.599 you know, yes, you know, it's like it's like it's just. 670 00:29:49.519 --> 00:29:52.079 Like I remember that, I thinking that was the damnest 671 00:29:52.119 --> 00:29:53.240 lion whar I ever heard? 672 00:29:53.240 --> 00:29:56.200 Oh? But just because what is it? Yeah, it's not 673 00:29:56.279 --> 00:29:57.240 even yeah. 674 00:29:57.319 --> 00:29:59.559 It was he. 675 00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:03.559 Is there a so that that voice has to come 676 00:30:03.599 --> 00:30:06.519 from the original, right, Well yeah, you know in my 677 00:30:06.680 --> 00:30:08.720 in my mind, and it's it's sort of okay. 678 00:30:08.799 --> 00:30:10.799 A really good parallel to draw to that is it's like, 679 00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:14.400 you know, there are certain things like this this beatle 680 00:30:14.440 --> 00:30:16.720 thing that Jim and I worked on recently. It comes 681 00:30:16.720 --> 00:30:18.400 to mind too. It's the same kind of thing. There's 682 00:30:18.440 --> 00:30:22.480 certain things. My band Rock Sugar is all about taking 683 00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:24.599 stuff that you're really familiar with and making it new, 684 00:30:24.720 --> 00:30:27.319 making doing new things with it, doing these mashups and 685 00:30:27.319 --> 00:30:30.119 creating something new out of it. But with the Cowardly Lion, 686 00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:32.559 when they said here's the audition, right, and that said, 687 00:30:32.599 --> 00:30:35.039 you don't you you may or may not do an 688 00:30:35.039 --> 00:30:38.319 impression of Burtlar, you know, and I'm like, look, man, 689 00:30:39.319 --> 00:30:42.440 you know, I know I could create something with this 690 00:30:42.559 --> 00:30:46.160 that would be different, but that was perfect, Like like 691 00:30:46.279 --> 00:30:49.119 I could grade something that was pretty good, but that's perfect. 692 00:30:49.279 --> 00:30:51.160 So if I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna do that 693 00:30:51.240 --> 00:30:52.720 as a tip of the hat. I mean, I give 694 00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:54.680 him full credit, you know. And it's like it's like 695 00:30:54.759 --> 00:30:57.559 if when Jim does we need the poo, he embodies, 696 00:30:57.599 --> 00:30:59.200 we need the pooh, and if he you know, well, 697 00:30:59.240 --> 00:31:01.079 I'm gonna put I'm gonn I'm gonna change it. You know. 698 00:31:01.119 --> 00:31:03.400 It's like saying, no, man, it's not and he and 699 00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:05.680 he does it. He takes it to another level. But 700 00:31:05.799 --> 00:31:08.480 he's he's faithful to what people's Yeah, I think you 701 00:31:08.559 --> 00:31:11.319 have to be yeah, you know, and sometimes sometimes they 702 00:31:11.359 --> 00:31:14.160 do that, they bring things back. I won't mention any names, 703 00:31:14.200 --> 00:31:17.279 but you know, we've been involved in in reboots of shows, 704 00:31:17.319 --> 00:31:23.279 and so many Arthur was that was safe too? Yeah water, yeah, 705 00:31:23.480 --> 00:31:27.359 but yeah, they didn't take that seriously handle have it 706 00:31:27.440 --> 00:31:33.240 with that. It's terrible anyway, you like the original he's 707 00:31:33.240 --> 00:31:36.680 talking about the talking about the Yeah, it wasn't. It's 708 00:31:36.720 --> 00:31:41.119 a whole other show y see, well should that says it? 709 00:31:48.920 --> 00:31:51.640 But no, it's like it's it's like there's certain things 710 00:31:51.680 --> 00:31:53.880 that are that are that are classic and perfect and 711 00:31:54.079 --> 00:31:56.599 you don't, you know, don't repaint the mona Lisa Man 712 00:31:56.599 --> 00:31:59.680 the yeah you were, you were? 713 00:31:59.720 --> 00:32:03.839 You mentioned your experience on Abbey Road, like, Jim, do 714 00:32:03.880 --> 00:32:06.079 you want to talk about that a little bit forever? 715 00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:08.039 Yeah? 716 00:32:09.079 --> 00:32:11.039 The audience, the audience, what did you guys do? 717 00:32:11.599 --> 00:32:16.640 Well, what did we do? I sat there and it 718 00:32:16.799 --> 00:32:20.960 just was overwhelmed. That's what I did. But but no, 719 00:32:21.119 --> 00:32:22.799 well you recorded that a road. 720 00:32:22.759 --> 00:32:26.680 Did recorded recorded three songs because because because the world 721 00:32:26.799 --> 00:32:30.400 is round, that was that was very intricate harmonies me, 722 00:32:30.519 --> 00:32:34.440 Jim and Robert unbelievable. And then no reply that was 723 00:32:34.440 --> 00:32:38.160 a due It was a good one. And then you know, 724 00:32:38.519 --> 00:32:42.119 this is terrible because I remember singing songs with you 725 00:32:42.359 --> 00:32:43.599 there that we didn't sing. 726 00:32:43.799 --> 00:32:47.759 Yeah, we were just I remember I just I can 727 00:32:47.839 --> 00:32:49.920 go through them. I can go through all these songs, 728 00:32:49.960 --> 00:32:51.559 you know, And did we do that? Wee, No, we 729 00:32:51.559 --> 00:32:53.839 didn't do that. We kind of feels like but it 730 00:32:53.880 --> 00:32:54.640 feels like we did. 731 00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:58.839 And I gosh, again, I give myself goose bumps when 732 00:32:58.880 --> 00:33:02.920 I think when I when I recall this with this man, um, 733 00:33:03.519 --> 00:33:06.640 you know, it was magical. And I'll tell everybody, you know, 734 00:33:06.680 --> 00:33:09.799 we're going through these songs and you know, you walk 735 00:33:09.839 --> 00:33:11.119 in and go, wow, this is Ivy Road. 736 00:33:11.480 --> 00:33:16.720 Yeah, Beatles, Beatles recorded here. Wow. Okay, yeah, that smells. 737 00:33:16.400 --> 00:33:20.359 Like the Beatles, you know, and you're just going through 738 00:33:20.880 --> 00:33:25.519 and you know I was there, Margaret was there, you know, 739 00:33:25.720 --> 00:33:26.400 we were all. 740 00:33:26.359 --> 00:33:28.599 There, and we made her sing too, by the way, 741 00:33:28.680 --> 00:33:31.079 Yes we got her exactly right. 742 00:33:31.880 --> 00:33:34.599 And somebody said something about blisters on their face. 743 00:33:34.640 --> 00:33:37.000 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we had a special guest RINGO. 744 00:33:39.920 --> 00:33:42.000 I'll I'll throw in a bit of a bit of 745 00:33:42.039 --> 00:33:44.079 back context that I'll throw backward to Jeniffer. You guys, 746 00:33:44.119 --> 00:33:47.680 so you understand what's happening here. It's like, so, okay, 747 00:33:48.039 --> 00:33:51.160 my all time favorite band, Jimmy is who is your 748 00:33:51.200 --> 00:33:54.839 all time favorite musical artist? Is it the Beatles? The Beatles? 749 00:33:54.839 --> 00:33:57.559 Okay, so I always say, no, I think you're asking 750 00:33:57.599 --> 00:34:00.839 me who my second one is, Okay, because okay it's 751 00:34:00.839 --> 00:34:02.079 the Beatles, and now we can talk. 752 00:34:02.160 --> 00:34:07.160 Okay, Yeah, God got it, Yes, perfect, I see exactly 753 00:34:07.200 --> 00:34:09.760 what you're saying. Well in my musical background, Chris, because 754 00:34:09.920 --> 00:34:12.840 I definitely that's the biggest part of my background is music, 755 00:34:13.360 --> 00:34:15.760 and I always tell people I break it down like this. 756 00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:18.679 The Beatles taught me how to write a song. Steve 757 00:34:18.719 --> 00:34:21.000 Perry taught me how to sing a song, and Kiss 758 00:34:21.039 --> 00:34:22.880 taught me how to perform a song. Because it's like 759 00:34:22.920 --> 00:34:24.920 when I was a kid, those are my influences, but 760 00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:28.440 the Beatles to occupy a very special place in my 761 00:34:28.480 --> 00:34:30.840 heart and in my life. Right. My first memory as 762 00:34:30.840 --> 00:34:33.519 a child was my big brother Jeff, holding my hands 763 00:34:33.599 --> 00:34:35.840 up and dancing with me. I saw her standing there. 764 00:34:35.880 --> 00:34:37.960 I was wearing a diaper, but I can still I 765 00:34:38.039 --> 00:34:40.440 described the room to my mom and she's like, you 766 00:34:40.480 --> 00:34:42.519 were like not even one years old when we were there. 767 00:34:42.519 --> 00:34:44.400 I said, yeah, but I remember the washing machine and 768 00:34:44.400 --> 00:34:47.159 she's like, and there's no pictures, so it was very strange. 769 00:34:47.280 --> 00:34:50.000 So the Beatles have just always been this enormous thing 770 00:34:50.039 --> 00:34:52.679 in my life and in Jim's as well, and then 771 00:34:52.800 --> 00:34:56.679 probably lots and lots of you guys. Well, my beautiful 772 00:34:56.679 --> 00:34:58.360 wife is from the UK and I've taken a lot 773 00:34:58.360 --> 00:35:00.400 of trips over there, and I would routine go to 774 00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:03.280 Abbey Road, which is the studio that the Beatles recorded 775 00:35:03.480 --> 00:35:06.679 like ninety two percent of everything they ever did. And 776 00:35:06.760 --> 00:35:09.400 of course the famous crosswalk from the album cover is there, 777 00:35:09.719 --> 00:35:14.360 the zebra crossing is there, and people go and they 778 00:35:14.360 --> 00:35:17.239 take pictures, and of course there's the building right So 779 00:35:17.320 --> 00:35:19.719 every time I was there, Chris, I'm like, I want 780 00:35:19.719 --> 00:35:23.079 to see Studio two saw Yeah, yeah right there, say 781 00:35:23.199 --> 00:35:25.159 say say this is what I'm talking That's the zebra 782 00:35:25.199 --> 00:35:28.719 crossing right there, folks. So I wanted so bad to 783 00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:31.239 go into studio too, because that's where they did all 784 00:35:31.320 --> 00:35:33.280 this stuff. And I'm talking about that's where they did 785 00:35:33.280 --> 00:35:35.960 their test to get their record deal and where they 786 00:35:36.000 --> 00:35:38.840 recorded the last song they ever did together in that room. 787 00:35:38.880 --> 00:35:41.079 So it's just like all these books. So and I 788 00:35:41.159 --> 00:35:43.400 always walk up and I walk in and I try 789 00:35:43.400 --> 00:35:45.719 to be my most pleasant and my most friendly and 790 00:35:45.800 --> 00:35:48.599 my least scary and go, hey is it you know, 791 00:35:48.679 --> 00:35:50.719 it would it be possible just to kind of pop 792 00:35:50.719 --> 00:35:52.480 my head into the studio two and just maybe lick 793 00:35:52.559 --> 00:35:54.440 the floor for a minute or whatever, and you know, 794 00:35:54.480 --> 00:35:56.480 and they'd be like, I'm so sorry. I say, it 795 00:35:56.519 --> 00:35:58.199 is a working studio. We do a lot of tools, 796 00:35:58.239 --> 00:36:00.280 and we do get ask client off and kind loud, 797 00:36:00.519 --> 00:36:03.159 and I'm like, okay. And one day she says to me, 798 00:36:03.199 --> 00:36:04.960 she goes, what if it's a wedding studio, why don't 799 00:36:04.960 --> 00:36:09.159 you rent it? And I went, wow, there you go. Yeah, 800 00:36:09.239 --> 00:36:11.679 see you wait a minute and I went, I see 801 00:36:11.679 --> 00:36:14.639 where you're going. Yeah, And I'm like, I have a 802 00:36:14.719 --> 00:36:20.559 check book to right, So booked it, booked it a 803 00:36:20.639 --> 00:36:24.679 year out, okay, and you know when it might have 804 00:36:24.719 --> 00:36:27.320 been yeah, And you know, when you when you have 805 00:36:27.360 --> 00:36:28.880 an event like that where they go wedding or some 806 00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:31.079 big trip or whatever, it's very far off. You don't 807 00:36:31.119 --> 00:36:32.599 really think about it too much. But I knew it 808 00:36:32.639 --> 00:36:34.760 was there. I knew I wanted him there. I knew 809 00:36:34.760 --> 00:36:36.880 I wanted Pauls in there, my our buddy Rob Paulson, 810 00:36:36.920 --> 00:36:39.920 who was also there with us. But I was like, okay, well, 811 00:36:39.960 --> 00:36:42.039 it's far off enough. I don't think about it. But 812 00:36:42.119 --> 00:36:44.440 then as it started getting closer. Right now, it's three 813 00:36:44.440 --> 00:36:46.760 months out, and I'm like, oh, why should probably think 814 00:36:46.760 --> 00:36:48.400 about what songs I want to do because they have 815 00:36:48.440 --> 00:36:50.639 a whole lot of songs. So I made my list. 816 00:36:51.119 --> 00:36:54.599 My list had over one hundred on them. I thought, well, 817 00:36:54.639 --> 00:36:58.119 it's a busy day. Those were says. Those were just 818 00:36:58.119 --> 00:36:59.760 my favorites out of the two hundred and ninety two 819 00:36:59.840 --> 00:37:02.119 or whatever it is that they So I'm like, okay, 820 00:37:02.159 --> 00:37:04.239 I've got to cut that down. And as I cut 821 00:37:04.239 --> 00:37:07.039 it down, one of my real criteria to Cuttage Gym, 822 00:37:07.039 --> 00:37:08.599 I think I told you this was I wanted to 823 00:37:08.599 --> 00:37:10.800 focus on the fact of not so much just the 824 00:37:10.800 --> 00:37:14.039 big hits, but how diverse their songwriting was. And a 825 00:37:14.079 --> 00:37:15.480 good way to point that out, a really good way 826 00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:18.239 to point that out to you is they they did 827 00:37:18.320 --> 00:37:20.320 I Want to Hold Your Hand, okay, which is like 828 00:37:20.320 --> 00:37:22.159 one of the best pop songs of all time. Right, 829 00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:27.159 Oh yeah, tell you something. They clap in hands, right, 830 00:37:27.320 --> 00:37:29.079 and it's just as happy and poppy as can be. 831 00:37:29.480 --> 00:37:33.639 Three years later, they were doing let Me Take You Down, 832 00:37:33.960 --> 00:37:38.440 because it's like a totally different freaking man in three years. 833 00:37:38.719 --> 00:37:40.480 So I thought, well, I want to focus on that. 834 00:37:40.639 --> 00:37:43.880 So I picked credible growth, right, just amazing, I said, 835 00:37:43.920 --> 00:37:46.800 I want to shine the spotlight on how much these 836 00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:50.519 guys grew and how almost unrecognizable they were to the 837 00:37:50.599 --> 00:37:54.880 former iteration of themselves. So put these song lists together, right, 838 00:37:55.000 --> 00:37:57.079 get the tracks together, because I knew I couldn't track 839 00:37:57.119 --> 00:37:59.400 stuff over in there. I only had ten hours to 840 00:37:59.440 --> 00:38:02.280 sing on this, and we rent the room. We show 841 00:38:02.400 --> 00:38:04.800 up there at ten in the morning, meet the engineer, 842 00:38:04.880 --> 00:38:07.480 really really nice guy named Paul Pritchard, had everything so 843 00:38:07.639 --> 00:38:10.719 nice for us. But walking into the room and I'll 844 00:38:10.719 --> 00:38:14.239 get to my friend's experience in a moment, was such 845 00:38:14.239 --> 00:38:16.840 a trip, you guys, because it's like, it's not just 846 00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:19.760 the room where they were my favorite band of all time, 847 00:38:19.800 --> 00:38:21.840 and again music has been the driving force of my 848 00:38:21.920 --> 00:38:26.440 life from my entire life, recorded everything. It's basically unchained, 849 00:38:26.480 --> 00:38:29.119 it's changed. It's also the room where the writer of 850 00:38:29.159 --> 00:38:31.440 the song. It doesn't work like it like it does 851 00:38:31.519 --> 00:38:33.679 now because now you know, if I write a song, 852 00:38:34.199 --> 00:38:36.519 I can put it together on my computer, send it 853 00:38:36.519 --> 00:38:38.960 to you, say, hey, Jim, put some drums on this. 854 00:38:39.039 --> 00:38:40.719 You send it back and I go, you know what, 855 00:38:40.800 --> 00:38:43.599 give me more of a fill there and okay, change 856 00:38:43.639 --> 00:38:46.679 the backing goes. When the Beatles worked the Beatles worked 857 00:38:46.719 --> 00:38:48.840 exactly like this, and I'm not even kidney. They'd be like, 858 00:38:49.159 --> 00:38:51.880 all right, fellas, we need a song for the movie tomorrow, 859 00:38:51.920 --> 00:38:53.920 so you've got to come up with something. We're thinking, 860 00:38:54.039 --> 00:38:56.400 you know, and Ringo say, well, it's been on Holidays 861 00:38:56.480 --> 00:38:59.000 night today, and John goes, Holiday's nine. That's a good idea. 862 00:38:59.119 --> 00:39:01.639 And he went back, literally went home, picked up an 863 00:39:01.639 --> 00:39:03.920 acoustic came in the next day. I went great, goes 864 00:39:03.960 --> 00:39:06.920 like this, Mom is man a houndays, and he's teaching 865 00:39:06.960 --> 00:39:09.760 the guys the song in this room. Then they're recording 866 00:39:09.800 --> 00:39:12.400 it in this room. That room, right, Okay. So I 867 00:39:12.440 --> 00:39:14.559 walk in there and I know it real real well, Chris, 868 00:39:14.599 --> 00:39:16.039 It's like I've never been in it, but I've been 869 00:39:16.039 --> 00:39:17.719 in it my whole life. I know exactly where they 870 00:39:17.760 --> 00:39:20.199 used to set up. Ringo's drums were there. I mean 871 00:39:20.239 --> 00:39:22.320 then as years went by they would move keyboards and 872 00:39:22.360 --> 00:39:24.239 things to different places. I knew where they recorded that. 873 00:39:24.280 --> 00:39:26.599 I knew where Paul sat when he did Blackbird. I 874 00:39:26.679 --> 00:39:28.960 knew everything. I'm like ray Man in that room. I 875 00:39:29.039 --> 00:39:32.360 know everything, every detail. So here I am in this 876 00:39:32.480 --> 00:39:34.840 room and I'm going to sing these songs, right, and 877 00:39:34.880 --> 00:39:36.840 the engineer comes down. He goes, right, well, how many 878 00:39:36.840 --> 00:39:38.800 songs are you thinking of doing? And I said, I'm 879 00:39:38.800 --> 00:39:42.239 shooting for twenty one and he goes, well, no, you'd 880 00:39:42.239 --> 00:39:44.440 have to be Superman what. And I'm like, I'm like, no, 881 00:39:44.480 --> 00:39:46.000 we're gonna do it, dude, We're gonna do it. And 882 00:39:46.039 --> 00:39:49.000 we did. We did do it. And what was amazing 883 00:39:49.199 --> 00:39:53.840 is midway through the day, Jimmy shows up and you know, 884 00:39:54.039 --> 00:39:56.760 I've known Jim and loved Jim for years and years 885 00:39:56.800 --> 00:40:00.440 and years, shows up and he got choked up. He started, 886 00:40:00.440 --> 00:40:02.280 he got like tears in his yes, and he was 887 00:40:02.280 --> 00:40:05.800 he had to take a second just because of the history. 888 00:40:06.039 --> 00:40:08.159 And they haven't changed the gym, you know that, it's 889 00:40:08.199 --> 00:40:08.519 just like. 890 00:40:08.519 --> 00:40:10.159 It was exactly. 891 00:40:10.559 --> 00:40:12.840 And I was there for like twenty minutes and and 892 00:40:12.840 --> 00:40:15.679 and it just slowly washed over me. You know, I'm 893 00:40:15.679 --> 00:40:18.119 walking down the steps and I go, oh, those are 894 00:40:18.119 --> 00:40:20.840 the steps, Yeah, stupid stuff, you know. 895 00:40:20.960 --> 00:40:22.199 And that look, oh wait. 896 00:40:22.119 --> 00:40:27.599 That that's oh oh the door, those doors to the 897 00:40:27.599 --> 00:40:31.679 echo chamber, the echo chamber, and John was sitting right 898 00:40:31.679 --> 00:40:37.039 there there there and then I'm going, yeah, me too, again. 899 00:40:37.199 --> 00:40:38.239 And I just welled up. 900 00:40:38.239 --> 00:40:41.480 But I just started tearing up, and I said I'm 901 00:40:42.440 --> 00:40:43.480 looking overcome. 902 00:40:43.599 --> 00:40:46.079 Yeah, I don't know what to do with myself. I know, 903 00:40:46.519 --> 00:40:50.440 And there was there was a moment and do you 904 00:40:50.440 --> 00:40:52.039 want to show him? You want to show him? 905 00:40:52.599 --> 00:40:52.800 Are you? 906 00:40:53.360 --> 00:40:55.280 Yeah? There was a moment. This this is one of 907 00:40:55.360 --> 00:40:58.320 my favorite moments. So now this is not this is 908 00:40:58.360 --> 00:41:01.679 not a sales pace. This is just a I made 909 00:41:01.679 --> 00:41:04.039 a CD and a DVD and you can find it 910 00:41:04.079 --> 00:41:06.719 at rocksugar band dot com. We were not playing on 911 00:41:06.840 --> 00:41:08.639 selling a ton of them. But if you if you 912 00:41:08.639 --> 00:41:11.480 want to check it out, I guarantee you the songs 913 00:41:11.480 --> 00:41:14.039 will give you some great memories of both then and now. 914 00:41:14.440 --> 00:41:16.679 There are some amazing moments, isn't it on the rock 915 00:41:16.840 --> 00:41:18.480 it's a digital download. Yeah, but you can get the 916 00:41:18.519 --> 00:41:21.239 video as well on the download. And the best part 917 00:41:21.239 --> 00:41:22.880 my wife here, who I never knew was such a 918 00:41:22.880 --> 00:41:27.760 good documentarian, you neither. She filmed a making of video 919 00:41:28.159 --> 00:41:30.519 and you basically get to go through the whole day 920 00:41:30.519 --> 00:41:30.800 with us. 921 00:41:30.840 --> 00:41:34.519 You see us arrived, getting literally in the hotel room. 922 00:41:34.880 --> 00:41:37.920 Yeah, but don't get any ideas it starts. It starts 923 00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:38.679 the day off. 924 00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:48.119 Going into the lift downstairs elevator, Yeah, the elevator, and 925 00:41:48.159 --> 00:41:51.000 then yeah, getting into the cab getting there and shows 926 00:41:51.079 --> 00:41:55.360 Jimmy arriving. Captures a really sweet moment. Actually I won't 927 00:41:55.400 --> 00:41:57.920 give it away, but it's between these two when Jesse's 928 00:41:57.920 --> 00:41:59.239 singing and Jimmy's watching. 929 00:41:59.280 --> 00:41:59.880 It's really cool. 930 00:42:00.039 --> 00:42:04.000 There's a lot of money. It's but one of my 931 00:42:04.079 --> 00:42:06.840 favorite things is there's a song. Okay, it's a it's 932 00:42:06.880 --> 00:42:09.440 an old Beatles songs from like nineteen sixty four, and 933 00:42:09.480 --> 00:42:12.000 it's called No Reply, and I always loved it because 934 00:42:12.079 --> 00:42:17.039 it has these amazing two part harmonies that are deceptively simple, 935 00:42:17.239 --> 00:42:20.880 but that's what makes them not simple. And jim walk 936 00:42:20.960 --> 00:42:23.719 in and he's looking around. He's literally it's on the video. 937 00:42:23.760 --> 00:42:27.000 You'll see this. He's he's looking around, and I go, hey, man, 938 00:42:27.079 --> 00:42:29.480 let's sing this. And I start singing it and he 939 00:42:29.559 --> 00:42:31.800 turns to the mic and he sings it with me 940 00:42:32.320 --> 00:42:35.079 and Chris, I kid you not. We never We never, 941 00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:39.679 straight up man. We didn't rehearse it, we didn't go 942 00:42:40.199 --> 00:42:44.519 on and and it was like, I've finished the rehearsal 943 00:42:44.519 --> 00:42:46.320 and I'm like, we didn't. We should have recorded that. 944 00:42:46.360 --> 00:42:47.480 There was not even any music. 945 00:42:47.519 --> 00:42:48.119 It was amazing. 946 00:42:48.199 --> 00:42:52.920 Yeah. Yeah, So that's it's on the DVD. So that said, 947 00:42:53.320 --> 00:42:56.199 we're gonna sing it to you. Yeah, he had that'll 948 00:42:56.280 --> 00:42:59.519 serenade you. The only way this could be more romantic 949 00:42:59.599 --> 00:43:01.559 is if we were standing underneath your window at night, 950 00:43:01.639 --> 00:43:02.320 but then your neighbors. 951 00:43:02.480 --> 00:43:05.679 I just want to insert a little personal anecdote speaking 952 00:43:05.719 --> 00:43:10.559 of documentaries and music studios. I'm a big fan of 953 00:43:10.599 --> 00:43:14.440 the rapper The Game, and he recorded his platinum selling 954 00:43:14.559 --> 00:43:18.679 album the documentary right next door in this in this build, 955 00:43:18.760 --> 00:43:23.159 in this building, right next door. I have not been there. 956 00:43:24.679 --> 00:43:26.719 I knowed right next door. 957 00:43:26.800 --> 00:43:27.480 No, you gotta go. 958 00:43:28.360 --> 00:43:30.320 Yeah, because and you'll see it when you're walking out. 959 00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:32.559 On the wall they have the platinum plaque addressed to 960 00:43:32.599 --> 00:43:33.119 the studio. 961 00:43:33.280 --> 00:43:35.960 See. I love that. And we both have had the experience, 962 00:43:36.360 --> 00:43:39.800 I know, Jim has I mean, I've recorded in Capital studios, 963 00:43:39.840 --> 00:43:42.760 were recorded, you know, we recorded all these places. I 964 00:43:42.840 --> 00:43:45.079 recorded in the room where they did, you know, Hotel California, 965 00:43:45.079 --> 00:43:46.880 where the egos did. It's a cool feeling. It's cool 966 00:43:47.679 --> 00:43:51.159 for me, dude. This this was like, okay, this was 967 00:43:51.199 --> 00:43:54.199 like this is Mecca, a devout Cathy getting the sleep 968 00:43:54.239 --> 00:43:57.880 in the pope's bedroom without the obvious we're going to 969 00:43:57.960 --> 00:44:00.360 keep you appropriate, but it's like it was like. It 970 00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:02.960 was like we're in the headquarters. Man. Oh yeah, okay, 971 00:44:03.360 --> 00:44:05.880 zero serenade. You want to hear this grind zero? 972 00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:06.599 Everybody does? 973 00:44:06.599 --> 00:44:08.400 All right? I got to put on our beetle hats. 974 00:44:08.480 --> 00:44:12.119 Are you ready? I got on that killing me because 975 00:44:12.119 --> 00:44:14.239 he bought me that hat and I almost wore it 976 00:44:14.320 --> 00:44:16.320 today and I should have, but I'm I'm wearing at 977 00:44:16.320 --> 00:44:18.119 other times we got cutie. 978 00:44:18.119 --> 00:44:22.159 Looks all right, here we go? 979 00:44:22.320 --> 00:44:24.239 You ready, bro? Here we go? All right, here we go. 980 00:44:24.440 --> 00:44:27.840 This happened was before when I give to your told 981 00:44:28.960 --> 00:44:32.519 no reply, They. 982 00:44:32.400 --> 00:44:35.719 Said it wasn't you. But I saw you picked through 983 00:44:37.119 --> 00:44:37.840 your window. 984 00:44:40.199 --> 00:44:45.000 I saw the lad. I saw the lad. 985 00:44:47.519 --> 00:44:50.480 I know that sees on me because it's up to 986 00:44:50.519 --> 00:44:52.800 see your face. 987 00:44:53.880 --> 00:44:58.599 M I tried to telephone, they sent you one. Not home. 988 00:44:59.679 --> 00:45:03.639 That's a lie, yeah, buddy, because out of the where 989 00:45:03.639 --> 00:45:05.920 you've been and I saw you walk in. 990 00:45:07.119 --> 00:45:07.679 You won't do. 991 00:45:10.360 --> 00:45:11.679 Honeyly died. 992 00:45:13.920 --> 00:45:15.599 Honeyly died. 993 00:45:17.320 --> 00:45:22.039 Because you walked hand in hand with another man in 994 00:45:22.079 --> 00:45:23.320 my place. 995 00:45:23.079 --> 00:45:28.039 My favorite part right here. If I were you, I'd 996 00:45:28.199 --> 00:45:36.079 realize that I love you more than. 997 00:45:35.960 --> 00:45:45.719 Any other God, and I forgive the lie said. 998 00:45:49.000 --> 00:45:53.519 Heard before? Will you gave me no reply. 999 00:45:54.840 --> 00:45:59.320 Wow, I try to telephone. They said you were at home, 1000 00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:05.000 but that's a longe because I know where you've been 1001 00:46:05.559 --> 00:46:07.079 and I saw you walk. 1002 00:46:06.880 --> 00:46:16.679 In your dord. Honey, it died, honiy died. 1003 00:46:18.719 --> 00:46:24.199 Because you are tanding hands with another man in my place. 1004 00:46:26.639 --> 00:46:31.119 No reply, no reply? 1005 00:46:32.480 --> 00:46:34.920 Come on, DN, you see what I'm saying. You're seeing 1006 00:46:34.960 --> 00:46:40.960 that show solo. Come up. That's how it's done, ladies 1007 00:46:41.000 --> 00:46:45.840 and gentlemen only right. But we were an abbey road 1008 00:46:45.880 --> 00:46:48.800 then I gotta tell you. 1009 00:46:48.679 --> 00:46:51.639 Just it's so good you guys. You took me right back. 1010 00:46:52.800 --> 00:46:54.559 Good good, well, I mean, doing that with you, it's 1011 00:46:54.599 --> 00:46:56.880 just it's just it's like my It warms my heart 1012 00:46:56.920 --> 00:46:58.800 in so many ways because the song has been a 1013 00:46:58.840 --> 00:47:01.519 part of my life forever. Doing it with you, hearing 1014 00:47:01.559 --> 00:47:05.119 you sing so good, it's just like, man, life is good, bro. 1015 00:47:05.159 --> 00:47:07.079 And it's always good when you have the right words. 1016 00:47:08.960 --> 00:47:11.920 I'm a big fan of actual lyrics. I didn't sneak 1017 00:47:11.960 --> 00:47:21.000 one Yellow submarine and they're just to screw you up, right, 1018 00:47:21.559 --> 00:47:22.360 But how cool was that? 1019 00:47:22.400 --> 00:47:23.079 See what I'm saying. 1020 00:47:23.079 --> 00:47:23.760 That was so cool. 1021 00:47:23.760 --> 00:47:25.639 And that's just like a microcosmic example. 1022 00:47:25.679 --> 00:47:28.599 When you sing, what's it like singing with your natural 1023 00:47:28.679 --> 00:47:31.559 voice versus imitating or playing a character. 1024 00:47:31.840 --> 00:47:35.800 Wow, that's a good question. I am okay. That harkens 1025 00:47:35.880 --> 00:47:39.199 back to when I did this record. I didn't set 1026 00:47:39.239 --> 00:47:41.480 out to do like Beatle impressions, you know what I mean. 1027 00:47:41.519 --> 00:47:44.840 It's like, but I did keep very faithful again because 1028 00:47:44.880 --> 00:47:47.280 I'm like, well, you can't really improve on profess. Yeah, 1029 00:47:47.320 --> 00:47:50.119 I can't fight it. Yeah, right, you know you'll do 1030 00:47:50.199 --> 00:47:56.880 John Spot All right, I'll do Jones. That's a great idea. Great, 1031 00:47:57.199 --> 00:48:00.079 it's good, but it's part of your DNA. And it's like, 1032 00:48:00.719 --> 00:48:02.360 I don't know. That's a really good question. 1033 00:48:02.760 --> 00:48:04.679 But the reason I asked is because we just had 1034 00:48:04.800 --> 00:48:09.039 Hankazaria on the podcast, and right now he's doing a 1035 00:48:10.239 --> 00:48:16.679 tour of singing, but as Bruce Springsteen, he's like doing 1036 00:48:16.880 --> 00:48:20.559 like he's not singing, just cover. He's like covering in 1037 00:48:20.599 --> 00:48:21.320 an imitation. 1038 00:48:21.519 --> 00:48:21.760 Yeah. 1039 00:48:22.320 --> 00:48:25.079 And he said he feels so much more comfortable and 1040 00:48:25.360 --> 00:48:29.320 has throughout his whole career imitating even when he's acting, 1041 00:48:29.400 --> 00:48:31.320 he feels like he has to put on a voice 1042 00:48:31.440 --> 00:48:35.440 or you know, like imitate something because he feels so 1043 00:48:35.480 --> 00:48:36.920 self conscious in his own skin. 1044 00:48:37.239 --> 00:48:39.559 Wow, that he feels weird. 1045 00:48:39.440 --> 00:48:42.880 Performing as himself and he wanted to challenge himself. He's 1046 00:48:42.880 --> 00:48:45.320 turning sixty or he just turned sixty, and he wanted 1047 00:48:45.360 --> 00:48:48.559 to challenge himself with something vocally, And so he spent 1048 00:48:48.639 --> 00:48:51.159 months and months and months learning how to sing like 1049 00:48:51.280 --> 00:48:54.960 Bruce Springsteen. And now he's doing two shows a month, 1050 00:48:55.239 --> 00:48:56.440 two shows a month. 1051 00:48:56.440 --> 00:49:01.280 That's performing as around the country. Yeah. In answer, he's 1052 00:49:01.320 --> 00:49:07.239 got that screen doors flaying, he's got all that. 1053 00:49:07.119 --> 00:49:10.360 That's sort of so, I guess I bring that up 1054 00:49:10.400 --> 00:49:13.119 to bring context to the question that I just asked you, 1055 00:49:13.400 --> 00:49:18.239 was how mentally, how does that feel for you singing 1056 00:49:18.280 --> 00:49:21.840 a character versus singing in an impression versus singing in 1057 00:49:21.880 --> 00:49:22.719 your true voice? 1058 00:49:22.840 --> 00:49:23.320 It's great? 1059 00:49:23.360 --> 00:49:24.440 What's what's the difference? 1060 00:49:24.440 --> 00:49:26.320 It's a great question. And man, you know, it's like 1061 00:49:26.400 --> 00:49:30.280 I always tell people that we all become amalgams of 1062 00:49:30.320 --> 00:49:31.679 the people who've influenced us. 1063 00:49:32.119 --> 00:49:34.880 Right, Yes, you have no problem in singing it's yourself. 1064 00:49:36.679 --> 00:49:37.239 Oh no, I'm not. 1065 00:49:37.280 --> 00:49:39.119 I'm not. I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that. 1066 00:49:39.159 --> 00:49:42.400 But it's it's like, you know, when okay, it's it's 1067 00:49:42.440 --> 00:49:44.639 like in my development as a singer, Chris, which I 1068 00:49:44.760 --> 00:49:48.159 was long before I was a voiceover actor, I was like, well, 1069 00:49:48.840 --> 00:49:51.679 you know my biggest influences. It's like, I really loved 1070 00:49:51.719 --> 00:49:53.920 Steve Perry. I used to I used to practice all 1071 00:49:53.960 --> 00:49:55.760 Steve Perry's stuff and all his runs and all his 1072 00:49:55.880 --> 00:49:58.320 things and do that. I also loved Robert Plant of 1073 00:49:58.400 --> 00:50:01.119 led Zeppelin, and I love To Henley of the Eagles. 1074 00:50:01.400 --> 00:50:05.039 So it's like when I sort of became myself vocally, 1075 00:50:05.920 --> 00:50:09.559 I'm like cross between Steep Perry, rob and Don Henley 1076 00:50:09.559 --> 00:50:12.119 of the Eagles. Right, it's a damn fine, it's a 1077 00:50:12.199 --> 00:50:14.639 nice it's not a bad recip. That's not a bad resume, man. 1078 00:50:14.719 --> 00:50:16.960 But you know what's cool is it's like we all 1079 00:50:17.039 --> 00:50:19.440 kind of if we're really blessed, we all kind of 1080 00:50:19.440 --> 00:50:21.039 find our lane and we get to drive in it, 1081 00:50:21.239 --> 00:50:24.360 you know. And it's like the rock Sugar thing, which 1082 00:50:24.400 --> 00:50:27.159 is the biggest six I mean my I had original 1083 00:50:27.159 --> 00:50:29.239 bands here in l A. And we had major success 1084 00:50:29.280 --> 00:50:32.639 on a very local level. Like we had the Loud 1085 00:50:32.639 --> 00:50:34.880 and Clear, We had the attendance record at the Whiskey 1086 00:50:35.079 --> 00:50:36.719 for that year, we had the attendance record at the 1087 00:50:36.760 --> 00:50:39.239 Palace in Hollywood for that year, more people. We drew 1088 00:50:39.280 --> 00:50:43.519 a ton of people, but we never well and I 1089 00:50:43.559 --> 00:50:47.280 think you invented mash up, well, live mashups kind of. 1090 00:50:47.440 --> 00:50:52.639 I mean to anybody who it's you man, well and 1091 00:50:53.039 --> 00:50:55.880 it's Chucky Durant. Yeah, but it's it's like, what's cool 1092 00:50:56.280 --> 00:50:58.199 is mash ups? You know DJ's have been doing those 1093 00:50:58.199 --> 00:51:00.960 for years, and then we thought, well, we'll do live mashups. 1094 00:51:01.000 --> 00:51:04.559 You know, we'll take we'll take a metal song like 1095 00:51:04.559 --> 00:51:11.480 an anthem, usually with the you know, the top of 1096 00:51:11.480 --> 00:51:15.079 the right now, but we do mashups of eighties metal 1097 00:51:15.119 --> 00:51:17.679 with eighties pop, and we do them live, right, We don't. 1098 00:51:17.719 --> 00:51:19.880 It's not records. It's not a guy spinning records. And 1099 00:51:19.920 --> 00:51:22.760 then thank you man. Jimmy's been with us for some 1100 00:51:22.760 --> 00:51:26.320 of those things. But it took off. And what's funny 1101 00:51:26.400 --> 00:51:29.400 is with rock Sugar. I reflected on it later and 1102 00:51:29.440 --> 00:51:32.960 I thought, you know, this is such a great vehicle 1103 00:51:33.039 --> 00:51:35.880 for me because before I became a singer, I think 1104 00:51:35.960 --> 00:51:37.840 jim knows this, he might not, or before I became 1105 00:51:37.840 --> 00:51:41.880 a voiceover actor, my primary income was being a session 1106 00:51:41.960 --> 00:51:45.960 singer and my calling card, my secret weapon, if you will, 1107 00:51:46.000 --> 00:51:47.960 that I had at that time was the ability to 1108 00:51:48.000 --> 00:51:50.519 imitate singers. And there was something that was very in 1109 00:51:50.639 --> 00:51:53.920 Vogue at the time called sound Alikes, and I was 1110 00:51:53.960 --> 00:51:57.159 interviewed like five times on Entertainments and I remember Entertainments 1111 00:51:57.159 --> 00:51:59.400 on Night. Jim, I'm sure you've been on that about 1112 00:51:59.480 --> 00:52:02.159 doing sounds because it was really cool because there was 1113 00:52:02.159 --> 00:52:04.960 like a legal loophole, and what it was was, Okay, 1114 00:52:05.000 --> 00:52:07.239 we got this TV show. The year is nineteen ninety two. 1115 00:52:07.239 --> 00:52:08.960 When we got this TV show, we want to use 1116 00:52:09.480 --> 00:52:12.280 guns N' Roses song? Okay, guns N' Roses. If you're 1117 00:52:12.280 --> 00:52:13.840 going to use that record once a quarter of a 1118 00:52:13.840 --> 00:52:18.159 million dollars to license that record. Well wait, there's fine 1119 00:52:18.199 --> 00:52:22.199 print here. If we record a new track and happen 1120 00:52:22.320 --> 00:52:25.239 to hire a guy who sounds like actual Rose, we 1121 00:52:25.320 --> 00:52:29.360 can do it for five thousand dollars. Let's do that. 1122 00:52:29.599 --> 00:52:29.840 Yeah. 1123 00:52:29.840 --> 00:52:32.039 Well I did more of those than anybody I did. 1124 00:52:32.079 --> 00:52:34.400 I did like literally before I became a voice over actor, 1125 00:52:34.440 --> 00:52:35.760 I did hundreds of these sellers. 1126 00:52:37.000 --> 00:52:38.679 If you're a fan of everything we do here at 1127 00:52:38.719 --> 00:52:40.880 tuned In with Jim Cummings, you could support the show 1128 00:52:40.920 --> 00:52:43.360 for as little as just two dollars per month on Patreon, 1129 00:52:43.440 --> 00:52:46.159 where supporters not only get early and add free access 1130 00:52:46.199 --> 00:52:49.039 to the show, but you'll also get bonus podcasts, including 1131 00:52:49.079 --> 00:52:52.280 audio commentaries of classic Disney shows, hosted by Jim and 1132 00:52:52.280 --> 00:52:54.760 his various characters. So go ahead and support the show 1133 00:52:54.800 --> 00:52:58.159 today at Patreon dot com. Slash Jymcummings podcast link is 1134 00:52:58.159 --> 00:52:59.719 in the description of this show. 1135 00:53:00.119 --> 00:53:02.519 My biggest That one time when you've got to tell this, 1136 00:53:02.559 --> 00:53:05.280 to tell this story, do you remember that one time 1137 00:53:05.280 --> 00:53:07.519 when you told me that your dad called you up 1138 00:53:07.719 --> 00:53:09.199 and said, can. 1139 00:53:09.039 --> 00:53:11.239 You sound like this guy? Yeah, well you had to 1140 00:53:11.320 --> 00:53:12.599 run to the record store. 1141 00:53:12.840 --> 00:53:17.880 Well, my father, my father. I'll tell an abbreviated version 1142 00:53:17.880 --> 00:53:20.320 of it because we don't want to have a mini series, 1143 00:53:20.320 --> 00:53:21.880 but I'll give you a quick I'll give you the 1144 00:53:21.920 --> 00:53:24.239 quick version of it. My dad was doing the music 1145 00:53:24.559 --> 00:53:26.480 my first sound like job ever, Jim. He was doing 1146 00:53:26.519 --> 00:53:28.960 the show for music for a show called Shadow Chasers, 1147 00:53:29.079 --> 00:53:32.719 which was about guys chasing supernatural phenomena. And he had 1148 00:53:32.760 --> 00:53:35.960 told me my father didn't like anybody's music unless he 1149 00:53:36.000 --> 00:53:38.400 had something to do with it, Chris, unless he was involved. Yeah. 1150 00:53:38.599 --> 00:53:39.880 So one day he was in the car and he 1151 00:53:39.920 --> 00:53:41.760 was bitching about something. He goes, do you know this 1152 00:53:41.840 --> 00:53:45.679 little bastard, the Prince. I'm like the Prince all right, 1153 00:53:45.719 --> 00:53:47.840 And I'm like the prince of what. He goes, there's 1154 00:53:47.880 --> 00:53:50.719 a singer, the Prince. I go, I go, you mean prince? 1155 00:53:50.760 --> 00:53:54.920 He goes, god's it goes got this song. He wants 1156 00:53:54.960 --> 00:53:58.480 to charge half a million to do the song. And 1157 00:53:58.559 --> 00:54:00.920 that's even for a sound like an what's the sound like? 1158 00:54:01.280 --> 00:54:02.960 He goes, you know, it's where you'll hire the guy. 1159 00:54:02.960 --> 00:54:04.800 And he comes in and he sings like the visuals 1160 00:54:04.840 --> 00:54:06.400 and I go, Dad, I can do that. 1161 00:54:06.679 --> 00:54:09.599 Yeah right, And he goes. He goes, you feeling. I 1162 00:54:09.840 --> 00:54:12.920 been doing that since I was I've done great news. 1163 00:54:14.480 --> 00:54:16.920 So he goes, he goes, this is this is Glen 1164 00:54:17.920 --> 00:54:20.800 so yeah. Yeah, so he calls me up. He goes, 1165 00:54:20.800 --> 00:54:23.199 he goes, he calls me up like a week later, 1166 00:54:23.639 --> 00:54:26.639 and I answered the phone and I have music crank 1167 00:54:26.679 --> 00:54:28.159 and this is my full rock and roll days. I 1168 00:54:28.159 --> 00:54:29.719 was living bo like the other guy's in the band 1169 00:54:29.800 --> 00:54:32.400 and in this terrible apartment and music's blaring and I 1170 00:54:32.440 --> 00:54:34.639 pick up the phone. I'm like hello, and he goes, 1171 00:54:34.760 --> 00:54:40.039 turn the music down, So like, turn music down? Okay, Dad, 1172 00:54:40.079 --> 00:54:43.800 what's up? He goes, can you sing the Heat song 1173 00:54:44.639 --> 00:54:49.800 by Glenn Fries and sound exactly like Glenn Fries? So 1174 00:54:49.880 --> 00:54:53.079 I'm doing mental calculations and I'm like, the heat is 1175 00:54:53.119 --> 00:54:56.199 on by Glenn Fry. I go, I go, yeah, I 1176 00:54:56.199 --> 00:54:57.920 can do that. He goes, don't say yeah. I go. 1177 00:54:58.320 --> 00:55:00.480 He goes, have you tried, and I go no. When 1178 00:55:00.480 --> 00:55:03.000 he goes, then don't say and I go no, But 1179 00:55:03.000 --> 00:55:06.159 I think I know I can do it. It's easy, right, 1180 00:55:06.199 --> 00:55:08.039 and he goes, he goes, here's what we're gonna do. 1181 00:55:08.639 --> 00:55:10.800 He goes, go to the go find out if you 1182 00:55:10.840 --> 00:55:13.800 can sing that. I'm gonna call you back in thirty minutes, 1183 00:55:13.960 --> 00:55:15.280 and they I'll want you to sing it to me. 1184 00:55:15.320 --> 00:55:17.000 And I'm looking at the fact I don't have the record. 1185 00:55:17.239 --> 00:55:20.480 This is before YouTube. I'm thinking, Okay, the record store 1186 00:55:20.480 --> 00:55:22.000 is ten minutes up the street. Maybe I can go 1187 00:55:22.000 --> 00:55:24.719 buy the forty five forty five get home. And so 1188 00:55:24.760 --> 00:55:26.519 I did this. I'm racing because I know my father 1189 00:55:26.559 --> 00:55:27.599 if I could, if he. 1190 00:55:27.639 --> 00:55:31.480 Was he was on and he said he meant. 1191 00:55:31.280 --> 00:55:33.760 He met thirty minutes. Okay, So I get it. I'm 1192 00:55:33.760 --> 00:55:35.760 listening to it. I'm writing down frantically the first verse 1193 00:55:35.760 --> 00:55:38.480 of the song. He calls me that the phone rings right, hello, 1194 00:55:39.159 --> 00:55:43.159 let me hear it right, And I'm like, okay. So 1195 00:55:43.239 --> 00:55:47.320 I start, I put the record and it's no. I 1196 00:55:47.360 --> 00:55:49.880 hear him again. He goes, turn the music up. I 1197 00:55:49.880 --> 00:55:51.239 go to because he goes, I don't want to hear 1198 00:55:51.280 --> 00:55:53.719 the record. I've heard the record. I want to hear you. 1199 00:55:53.960 --> 00:55:57.599 I said, well, like a cappella. He goes, yes, acapella, right, 1200 00:55:57.639 --> 00:55:59.679 and I go. I go okay, so I sing it 1201 00:55:59.679 --> 00:56:03.400 to him same the first verse, total silence, and one 1202 00:56:03.480 --> 00:56:06.559 chorus total silence. Then because it's my dad, and he goes, 1203 00:56:06.719 --> 00:56:13.159 hm hmm right, He goes, all right, can you be 1204 00:56:13.239 --> 00:56:18.480 at Warner Brothers tomorrow morning sharp eight? And I go 1205 00:56:18.760 --> 00:56:21.320 eight o'clock. Go dad, that's really early, he goes. He goes, 1206 00:56:21.360 --> 00:56:23.519 don't give me that. He goes, this isn't you jumping 1207 00:56:23.599 --> 00:56:27.079 around and spends at the roxy. He goes this, He goes, 1208 00:56:27.119 --> 00:56:29.400 this is real shop. He goes, can I say, yeah, 1209 00:56:29.400 --> 00:56:31.159 I can do that. I can do. He goes, all right, 1210 00:56:31.320 --> 00:56:33.119 he goes, be there at eight o'clock. I said, okay. 1211 00:56:33.159 --> 00:56:35.679 So he had to get up at five. Of course, 1212 00:56:35.840 --> 00:56:37.639 work on the whole song, write it all out, Jim. 1213 00:56:37.639 --> 00:56:39.440 I got all my little notes, man, I got to figure. 1214 00:56:39.840 --> 00:56:42.800 I go there. Now there's a big the Clint Eastwood 1215 00:56:42.800 --> 00:56:44.559 scoring stage, which is still the big as far as 1216 00:56:44.559 --> 00:56:46.400 I know, the big scoring stage there on Warner Brothers. 1217 00:56:46.559 --> 00:56:48.039 He told me that's where it is. I get in, 1218 00:56:48.079 --> 00:56:49.679 I get my little pass. I'm walking up on the 1219 00:56:49.679 --> 00:56:51.440 movie lot of figure. Wow, he made all these movies. 1220 00:56:51.440 --> 00:56:54.519 It's so cool. Turn the corner. My dad is waiting 1221 00:56:54.559 --> 00:56:57.159 around the corner, like pacing from the Clint Eastwood thing, 1222 00:56:57.239 --> 00:56:59.400 right from the scoring stage, and I go, hey, Dad. 1223 00:56:59.400 --> 00:57:02.039 He goes, and he pulls me around the corner right 1224 00:57:02.079 --> 00:57:05.760 and he goes. He goes, listen, I've been thinking because 1225 00:57:05.840 --> 00:57:08.800 I've been thinking about this, and I said, okay, what's up. 1226 00:57:09.079 --> 00:57:13.039 He goes, I feel like it's a bad idea for 1227 00:57:13.159 --> 00:57:17.440 them to know you, my son, right, And I go okay, 1228 00:57:17.719 --> 00:57:20.119 and he goes, So we haven't done any paperwork yet. 1229 00:57:20.320 --> 00:57:23.079 He goes, here's how it's gonna work. He goes, you 1230 00:57:23.159 --> 00:57:28.840 come in and we don't know each other, right, this 1231 00:57:28.880 --> 00:57:30.719 is for real, for real, and I go I go okay, 1232 00:57:30.920 --> 00:57:33.440 and he goes, then if you screw up, I can 1233 00:57:33.519 --> 00:57:38.440 fire you, right, And I'm like, okay, all right, confidence dude. 1234 00:57:38.440 --> 00:57:40.679 It's very funny. And I told this story to like psychology, 1235 00:57:40.679 --> 00:57:43.119 not in therapy sessions, but like it's a funny story 1236 00:57:43.199 --> 00:57:45.679 and psychologists will hear this and go, oh my gosh, 1237 00:57:45.679 --> 00:57:48.239 that must have really affected And I go, I thought 1238 00:57:48.239 --> 00:57:51.159 it was hilarious because I knew my dad, right. So 1239 00:57:51.159 --> 00:57:53.559 so he's like he's like, he's like, here's what we'll do. 1240 00:57:53.719 --> 00:57:55.679 I'm gonna go in that booth. And when I do, 1241 00:57:56.199 --> 00:57:58.639 he goes, there's a little window in the glass. I'm 1242 00:57:58.679 --> 00:58:01.360 gonna signal you. And when I gave you the signal, 1243 00:58:01.599 --> 00:58:05.000 you come in. And I go, okay, what's the what's 1244 00:58:05.079 --> 00:58:07.679 what's the signal? Right? And he goes like this, he goes, 1245 00:58:07.840 --> 00:58:11.159 he goes, this is the signal. Oh, Jimmy, looks me. 1246 00:58:11.199 --> 00:58:16.360 He goes this gools So I go, okay. So when 1247 00:58:16.400 --> 00:58:18.760 you go like that, I come in. He goes, that's right. 1248 00:58:18.880 --> 00:58:23.679 And I remember we don't know each other. I said, okay, 1249 00:58:23.840 --> 00:58:26.159 But so o he goes and he goes in and 1250 00:58:26.239 --> 00:58:28.440 I can see him because there's a little thing, right, 1251 00:58:28.519 --> 00:58:30.519 and he's patting people on the back and he's smiling 1252 00:58:30.559 --> 00:58:32.880 and he's gonna you know, by the way, the session 1253 00:58:32.920 --> 00:58:35.440 doesn't start till nine. Okay, he just wanted me there 1254 00:58:35.480 --> 00:58:38.079 at eight, all right, so just to show that he 1255 00:58:38.480 --> 00:58:41.159 I could get there at it. So I walk up. No, no, 1256 00:58:41.159 --> 00:58:42.960 I don't walk up. I'm looking in there and I 1257 00:58:42.960 --> 00:58:44.920 see him and you're me and he looks at me 1258 00:58:44.960 --> 00:58:47.800 and he goes like this. He goes, right, now, I 1259 00:58:47.840 --> 00:58:49.440 like mess with my dad. I always love messing with 1260 00:58:49.480 --> 00:58:51.440 my dad. I miss your dad, and I was like 1261 00:58:51.480 --> 00:58:53.679 messing with So I go like this. I go like, 1262 00:58:53.760 --> 00:58:55.880 I can't. I can't quite make it out right. So 1263 00:58:55.920 --> 00:58:59.039 he looks at me again and he goes right, and 1264 00:58:59.280 --> 00:59:06.679 I go like this right, and he goes he's that yeah, 1265 00:59:06.280 --> 00:59:08.920 yeah right. So I go, oh yeah, So I walk up. 1266 00:59:08.960 --> 00:59:10.519 I walk up and I pushed the door to the 1267 00:59:10.599 --> 00:59:13.639 room open and I go excuse me, and he goes, 1268 00:59:14.199 --> 00:59:16.400 hell yeah. He goes, this is a closed session. You 1269 00:59:16.400 --> 00:59:18.519 can't just come in here. And I go. I go, well, 1270 00:59:18.800 --> 00:59:20.519 I'm here to sing. The heat is on for the 1271 00:59:20.639 --> 00:59:23.440 Shadow Chasers show. And he goes, oh, here, you're the singer. 1272 00:59:23.800 --> 00:59:26.320 And he goes, I don't know who he is. I've 1273 00:59:26.320 --> 00:59:28.639 never seen him before in my life for this exactly 1274 00:59:29.360 --> 00:59:31.920 yeah right, yeah, he goes. He goes, well, I don't 1275 00:59:31.920 --> 00:59:34.320 know who hired you. He goes, but just sit over 1276 00:59:34.400 --> 00:59:35.800 there and wait because we got a lot of work 1277 00:59:35.840 --> 00:59:37.719 to do. Don't make any noise. And I'm like and 1278 00:59:37.719 --> 00:59:39.760 I'm like, okay, thank you, sir. So I sit down 1279 00:59:39.760 --> 00:59:43.280 to the corner. I brought a book orchestra, like eighty 1280 00:59:43.280 --> 00:59:46.440 piece orchestra. This room, the record room was probably a 1281 00:59:46.480 --> 00:59:48.280 little bigger Jim than Abbey Road. I mean it was. 1282 00:59:48.280 --> 00:59:50.960 It's just huge in there, and and there's eighty guys 1283 00:59:50.960 --> 00:59:52.599 with violins and cellos. My dad goes out on the 1284 00:59:52.639 --> 00:59:55.000 conductor stand. They start at nine. The down beats at 1285 00:59:55.079 --> 00:59:59.320 nine eleven forty five. Okay. I start hearing the engineer 1286 00:59:59.320 --> 01:00:01.119 going wow, we're way abut, oh my gosh, and there's 1287 01:00:01.360 --> 01:00:04.559 like this buzz in the room. And finally somebody said, well, hey, Bubby, 1288 01:00:04.599 --> 01:00:06.679 maybe if you know, if you wouldn't mind standing through lunch. 1289 01:00:06.719 --> 01:00:08.480 He was the engineer, maybe we could get the vocal 1290 01:00:08.519 --> 01:00:11.159 done over lunch and we can catch up on some time. 1291 01:00:11.360 --> 01:00:14.079 And he goes, oh my gosh, oh you know, okay, whatever, right, 1292 01:00:14.360 --> 01:00:17.920 so everybody they have to break. It's union orchestra breaks 1293 01:00:18.480 --> 01:00:20.599 and uh my dad comes back in the room and 1294 01:00:20.599 --> 01:00:22.320 they go, hey, Joe, they said we're gonna we're gonna 1295 01:00:22.320 --> 01:00:24.000 try to cut the vocal now and get that done 1296 01:00:24.039 --> 01:00:27.760 because we're running so behind. He goes, oh girl, right right, 1297 01:00:27.840 --> 01:00:30.199 So all these guys leave and Jim, this was my 1298 01:00:30.360 --> 01:00:33.840 first ever professional recording session for anything other than my 1299 01:00:33.920 --> 01:00:37.559 bands ever. Oh yeah, and they roll out a microphone 1300 01:00:37.880 --> 01:00:40.400 in the middle of this airplane hangar. I mean, it's 1301 01:00:40.400 --> 01:00:43.320 this gigantic, So there's one mic. I'm the only guy 1302 01:00:43.360 --> 01:00:46.400 in there, and I walk out right and I'm like, 1303 01:00:46.599 --> 01:00:48.960 and all these people because this was the pilot episode 1304 01:00:48.960 --> 01:00:50.920 of this show, Chris, all these people are in the 1305 01:00:50.960 --> 01:00:52.920 control room, the producer and the writer, and then this 1306 01:00:53.039 --> 01:00:54.679 guy and then that guy. There's like fifteen people and 1307 01:00:54.719 --> 01:00:57.559 they're all standing there looking at me like that right good? 1308 01:00:57.719 --> 01:01:01.039 No pressure, yeah, no pressure. Yeah, that's nobody knows that 1309 01:01:01.480 --> 01:01:03.679 I'm Joe Hartell's son. So so I go in there 1310 01:01:03.800 --> 01:01:06.239 and the engineered Bobby goes okay, and he wasn't happy 1311 01:01:06.360 --> 01:01:07.840 and he because he had to stay for lunch, and 1312 01:01:07.840 --> 01:01:09.639 he goes, he goes, all right, man, he goes, he goes, 1313 01:01:09.679 --> 01:01:11.199 let's check the level. Can you give me a little bit? 1314 01:01:11.199 --> 01:01:12.960 I said, yeah, So I sing the first few lines 1315 01:01:13.199 --> 01:01:16.039 and he stops it and he goes okay, man, he goes, 1316 01:01:16.119 --> 01:01:17.679 let's le let's go for one. He goes. It was 1317 01:01:17.679 --> 01:01:20.320 only doing the first like sixty seconds of the song. 1318 01:01:20.719 --> 01:01:23.719 So they roll it and I sing it right, and 1319 01:01:23.800 --> 01:01:25.679 I could hear I remember this so well, you guys. 1320 01:01:25.719 --> 01:01:28.800 I could hear my heart beating in my headphones, like 1321 01:01:28.920 --> 01:01:32.199 before they turn on the track, I hear boom boom, 1322 01:01:32.480 --> 01:01:35.320 because it was very intimidating. And I don't really get intimidated, 1323 01:01:35.360 --> 01:01:39.280 but I was aware of my surroundings and that was 1324 01:01:39.280 --> 01:01:43.320 a little guy. So I was like, what, likew So, 1325 01:01:43.320 --> 01:01:45.920 so I sing a thing and I look in and 1326 01:01:45.960 --> 01:01:48.760 nobody says anything, but they're smiling. They're like that's a 1327 01:01:48.760 --> 01:01:52.679 good that's good. So the guy goes, So Bobby, much friendlier, goes, 1328 01:01:52.840 --> 01:01:55.079 okay man, He goes, you want to do the first harmony? 1329 01:01:55.320 --> 01:01:58.280 And I go, yeah, sure, So I sing the first 1330 01:01:58.320 --> 01:02:00.800 harmony right now. They look even how up here and 1331 01:02:00.840 --> 01:02:04.519 he goes, okay, let's do the second harmony, and I go, okay, right, 1332 01:02:05.159 --> 01:02:07.400 so I sing the second harmony. I've been singing now 1333 01:02:07.480 --> 01:02:10.719 for about three minutes maybe four. They pausitive. They stopped 1334 01:02:10.760 --> 01:02:13.800 the thing and they're clapping, and Bobby goes all right man, 1335 01:02:13.840 --> 01:02:16.239 that's a wrap. Right. So I'm like, wow, wow, I was. 1336 01:02:16.599 --> 01:02:19.079 I'm like, this is good, this is this is this 1337 01:02:19.159 --> 01:02:22.239 beats spandex at the Roxy any day. So I go 1338 01:02:22.360 --> 01:02:25.119 walking in to the record room and they're all they 1339 01:02:25.159 --> 01:02:28.920 were applauding God bless him, and my father idiotized. He 1340 01:02:29.159 --> 01:02:31.239 stands up and he goes. 1341 01:02:31.320 --> 01:02:40.639 Here's my sons wonderful And I was so happy about it. 1342 01:02:40.719 --> 01:02:43.199 But this is again, it's a true story. I can 1343 01:02:43.400 --> 01:02:45.320 I've never told you that. So that that was my 1344 01:02:45.440 --> 01:02:47.800 beginning in show business and an answer to your question, 1345 01:02:48.079 --> 01:02:51.559 I've always been able. I've always been I've always had 1346 01:02:51.760 --> 01:02:53.719 like my own voice. We talked about developing that as 1347 01:02:53.719 --> 01:02:56.880 an amalgam of my favorite singers who I aspired to 1348 01:02:56.920 --> 01:02:59.199 be like. And I always tell kids, take the people 1349 01:02:59.239 --> 01:03:00.719 you love. If you want to be a voiceover actor, 1350 01:03:00.760 --> 01:03:03.079 listen to Jim Cummings and listen to Billy West, and 1351 01:03:03.119 --> 01:03:06.239 listen to Rob Paulson and put together your own version 1352 01:03:06.280 --> 01:03:08.599 of those guys and make it uniquely you. Those can 1353 01:03:08.639 --> 01:03:11.639 be your foundational points, right, But then eventually you want 1354 01:03:11.639 --> 01:03:13.320 to find your own voice. And I always had my 1355 01:03:13.360 --> 01:03:15.800 own voice. But the rock Sugar thing hitting like it 1356 01:03:15.840 --> 01:03:18.159 did with such a trip because in that band, what 1357 01:03:18.280 --> 01:03:21.960 I really tried to do was try to personify Brian 1358 01:03:22.000 --> 01:03:24.199 Adams when I was doing the Brian Adams thing, and 1359 01:03:24.320 --> 01:03:26.880 Axel Rose and Joe Elliott from def Leppard and Steve 1360 01:03:26.920 --> 01:03:29.199 Perry from Journey and this person from that band in 1361 01:03:29.199 --> 01:03:31.199 that person. So I got to use in the law 1362 01:03:31.280 --> 01:03:34.559 in the end, in the circle of my rock vocal career, 1363 01:03:34.960 --> 01:03:37.320 I got to go from singing in my original bands 1364 01:03:37.400 --> 01:03:39.840 just as me, this amalgam kind of thing, to in 1365 01:03:39.960 --> 01:03:42.440 Rock Sugar, where we actually got to be on stages 1366 01:03:42.599 --> 01:03:45.960 with Aerosmith and ACDC in front of forty fifty thousand people. 1367 01:03:45.960 --> 01:03:48.760 Sometimes I got to sing that a hell of a 1368 01:03:48.840 --> 01:03:51.039 tour we did, man, and I got to sing like 1369 01:03:51.119 --> 01:03:52.920 in tribute to the guys who shaped me in the 1370 01:03:52.960 --> 01:03:55.639 first place. So it was just like this, this beautiful circle. 1371 01:03:55.840 --> 01:03:57.880 My first demo, Chris, that I ever made. I don't 1372 01:03:57.880 --> 01:03:59.480 even know if Jim's ever heard this to be a 1373 01:03:59.519 --> 01:04:03.000 session singer, was I did we are the World? Remember 1374 01:04:03.000 --> 01:04:05.800 we are the World? Of course I imitated everybody. I 1375 01:04:05.840 --> 01:04:08.159 knew what you were going to say. That was my demo. 1376 01:04:08.239 --> 01:04:11.519 It's the cool thing, is brother, even if it sucked. 1377 01:04:11.599 --> 01:04:14.599 You guys, it would have stood out, well, you're very sweet, 1378 01:04:14.719 --> 01:04:18.000 but it didn't. But people when I got it, when 1379 01:04:18.039 --> 01:04:20.039 people'd hire me from that demo because I was like 1380 01:04:20.039 --> 01:04:22.440 the new guy, I'd go, they go, hey, man, it's 1381 01:04:22.440 --> 01:04:23.880 really nice to meet you. I'd say, well, thanks for 1382 01:04:23.960 --> 01:04:26.679 hiring me, and they say, dude, even if we hated 1383 01:04:26.679 --> 01:04:29.360 your demo, just the fact that you had the gonads 1384 01:04:29.400 --> 01:04:32.159 to try to do that, but it was actually really good. 1385 01:04:32.159 --> 01:04:34.519 But we called people and we don't remember the last 1386 01:04:34.519 --> 01:04:36.360 time we called people in the office to hear a demo. 1387 01:04:36.960 --> 01:04:39.760 But this was so different. So kids, when you're looking 1388 01:04:39.800 --> 01:04:41.800 for a way in, if you can find something that's 1389 01:04:41.800 --> 01:04:43.960 a little bit different, even if it's a little bit weird, 1390 01:04:44.320 --> 01:04:45.119 it might just. 1391 01:04:46.239 --> 01:04:48.679 Well, since we're on the topic of singing, that's great. 1392 01:04:48.719 --> 01:04:52.639 Do you happen to remember Wacko's Capital State song? 1393 01:04:52.920 --> 01:04:53.159 Sure? 1394 01:04:53.239 --> 01:04:53.840 Man, you do. 1395 01:04:54.000 --> 01:04:56.159 I mean I don't remember. Here's the thing, see, yeah, 1396 01:04:56.280 --> 01:05:01.360 I know I don't know women high Waters. By that, 1397 01:05:01.480 --> 01:05:04.360 I mean I work with Rob Paulson on a Nimniacs. 1398 01:05:04.400 --> 01:05:05.960 That was That was my introduction to a lot of 1399 01:05:05.960 --> 01:05:10.000 these guys I met. Jim. Jim is the first, like 1400 01:05:10.159 --> 01:05:13.599 Mount Rushmore voice guy that I met. And what's really 1401 01:05:13.639 --> 01:05:16.480 weird is that before I even met Jim, I sang 1402 01:05:16.519 --> 01:05:20.480 the theme song to Jim's show Tasmania as a session singer. 1403 01:05:20.519 --> 01:05:24.519 I wasn't even doing voice. You know, I'm from this 1404 01:05:24.559 --> 01:05:27.559 way down on the scholars, always yellow and right, you know, Sean, 1405 01:05:27.639 --> 01:05:30.679 And then she would go, we didn't even know each other. 1406 01:05:31.000 --> 01:05:33.239 But the first big guy that was saying now coming back. 1407 01:05:33.320 --> 01:05:36.920 Rob Paulson plays Jaco on Animaniacs. And the funny thing 1408 01:05:36.960 --> 01:05:39.760 is with an maniac is that me, him and Tress 1409 01:05:40.079 --> 01:05:42.320 basically are those characters. 1410 01:05:42.360 --> 01:05:47.559 So he so Rob did his United make up and 1411 01:05:47.599 --> 01:05:49.800 you know that that that went so that was so 1412 01:05:49.920 --> 01:05:53.199 popular on social media that people animated it. I bet 1413 01:05:53.360 --> 01:05:56.760 people animated it. There was independent artists and they animated 1414 01:05:56.760 --> 01:05:58.119 it and you can see it on YouTube and it 1415 01:05:58.159 --> 01:05:59.280 has like one hundred thousand likes. 1416 01:05:59.280 --> 01:06:03.800 Well, here's the thing, Rob Robbie, Yeah, he's a song 1417 01:06:03.840 --> 01:06:05.880 and dance man and he'll he'll get up on the 1418 01:06:05.920 --> 01:06:09.119 table at a restaurant and saying Diaco's Wago's we now me. 1419 01:06:09.880 --> 01:06:13.239 I know the words to every Journey song ever created, 1420 01:06:13.239 --> 01:06:16.480 including all the well all the lad libs and stuff 1421 01:06:16.519 --> 01:06:18.639 like that. But I don't know anything like Sam Cooks 1422 01:06:18.719 --> 01:06:20.679 all the Sam Cooks stuff. I don't know any of 1423 01:06:20.719 --> 01:06:22.199 the things I did. But I will give you this, 1424 01:06:22.239 --> 01:06:24.199 all right, all right, this is just for you because 1425 01:06:24.199 --> 01:06:26.880 I love you, man, than I don't. I don't know 1426 01:06:26.880 --> 01:06:28.360 the whole thing. If I had the thing in front 1427 01:06:28.360 --> 01:06:31.639 of me, I could do it. But matt In Measuisiana, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1428 01:06:31.719 --> 01:06:35.559 and Columbus, tell Ohio. That's Montgomery, Hadadama south of Halla 1429 01:06:35.639 --> 01:06:39.559 and Montana. Then the Colorado London bus Yadaho, Texas hes Alston. 1430 01:06:39.679 --> 01:06:44.440 Then we go to Massachusets, Bustin, Albanie, New York, Tannahsee, Florida, Washington, 1431 01:06:44.519 --> 01:06:47.000 d C. Santa Fe, New Mexico. And that's for Tennessee. 1432 01:06:47.320 --> 01:06:49.119 Elvis used to hang out there a lot, you know, 1433 01:06:49.400 --> 01:06:52.079 And I made up the last see. So there's a 1434 01:06:52.119 --> 01:06:55.000 little something, a little blast from the past this week. 1435 01:06:55.119 --> 01:06:57.679 That's as far as I get because after that, I don't. OK. Yeah, 1436 01:06:58.360 --> 01:07:00.920 although if I'm in a yeah, yeah, if I'm in 1437 01:07:01.000 --> 01:07:03.079 a bar and somebody goes, hey, but you don't know 1438 01:07:03.159 --> 01:07:10.079 the capital of Delaware, I make it comes up like that, 1439 01:07:10.320 --> 01:07:12.960 but it's not. It's it's not second to the rest. 1440 01:07:13.079 --> 01:07:16.599 Do you remember I mean, do you remember your greatest 1441 01:07:16.639 --> 01:07:18.599 hits in in in the cartoon thing? I mean, can 1442 01:07:18.639 --> 01:07:22.840 you can you go through like Rob Can kind of yeah? 1443 01:07:23.400 --> 01:07:28.239 You know, he's that day I'm telling. 1444 01:07:28.000 --> 01:07:36.440 You, and you. 1445 01:07:31.039 --> 01:07:34.760 Are looking for. 1446 01:07:36.280 --> 01:07:40.199 When I auditioned for the California Raisins, they said, oh, man, dude. 1447 01:07:40.079 --> 01:07:41.719 Which who do you want to go for? 1448 01:07:41.800 --> 01:07:43.840 And I go, I would love to be the lead 1449 01:07:43.880 --> 01:07:48.199 singer and they go okay, okay, and so then then 1450 01:07:48.800 --> 01:07:51.960 and then this was the recording engineer. And this is 1451 01:07:52.000 --> 01:07:56.639 a really interesting, kind of interesting story. Uh, I got 1452 01:07:56.639 --> 01:07:57.039 the job. 1453 01:07:57.760 --> 01:08:01.280 Yeah, yeah. And I showed up and I was sitting 1454 01:08:01.320 --> 01:08:05.320 on the couch and uh, and the. 1455 01:08:05.000 --> 01:08:07.079 The people were sitting there and it was over at 1456 01:08:07.559 --> 01:08:11.159 I think it was at Waves anyway, and I'm sitting 1457 01:08:11.159 --> 01:08:12.920 there and I'm sitting there and I look in the room. 1458 01:08:12.960 --> 01:08:13.639 There's nobody there. 1459 01:08:13.679 --> 01:08:16.399 There's nobody there, and you know, the engineers there, and 1460 01:08:17.159 --> 01:08:17.680 I don't know. 1461 01:08:18.079 --> 01:08:19.960 And so I said, is this your audition or is 1462 01:08:19.960 --> 01:08:23.359 this no? This is the first session, first session? Got it? 1463 01:08:24.079 --> 01:08:27.279 And I show up and there was this lady down 1464 01:08:27.319 --> 01:08:30.800 here from San Francisco and she says, uh. 1465 01:08:30.600 --> 01:08:34.319 And and we were talking, what are you doing? Well, 1466 01:08:34.359 --> 01:08:35.319 I'm here to do the reason. 1467 01:08:35.399 --> 01:08:37.279 Oh really, what are you going to do? 1468 01:08:37.800 --> 01:08:40.760 And I said, well, I guess I'm the singer. 1469 01:08:40.800 --> 01:08:45.720 And she goes, you're not Jim Cummings, right, and I said, oh, yeah, yeah, 1470 01:08:45.760 --> 01:08:48.159 that's right, you're. 1471 01:08:48.000 --> 01:08:53.439 The nice black man on the tape. I said, well. 1472 01:08:54.840 --> 01:09:01.880 No, but yeah, excuse you take out the black partape. 1473 01:09:02.680 --> 01:09:08.319 They she called and they U they kind of asked 1474 01:09:08.359 --> 01:09:09.199 me to go home. 1475 01:09:09.800 --> 01:09:13.600 And really, yeah, they yeah, we all went home and 1476 01:09:14.119 --> 01:09:17.439 I didn't know that, and yeah, and they said that, well, 1477 01:09:17.720 --> 01:09:20.800 you know, they have the impression that, you know, the 1478 01:09:20.920 --> 01:09:25.039 Raisins are purple, but they they're black purple. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 1479 01:09:25.359 --> 01:09:27.520 And I said, oh, okay, well they're an R and B. 1480 01:09:28.399 --> 01:09:31.039 I can't fight that, you know, you know, okay, not 1481 01:09:31.079 --> 01:09:33.279 a problem. And I'm not here to take somebody's job. 1482 01:09:33.359 --> 01:09:36.319 Whoever the hell had it first, you know, because there 1483 01:09:36.359 --> 01:09:39.880 wasn't anybody, so they said. And then my agent called 1484 01:09:39.960 --> 01:09:43.239 up about four days later. I said, well, you would 1485 01:09:43.279 --> 01:09:45.760 you like to audition for the California Raisins And I 1486 01:09:45.760 --> 01:09:49.880 said again and and she said yeah, And I said, 1487 01:09:49.880 --> 01:09:51.000 but you can't say your name. 1488 01:09:51.600 --> 01:09:53.159 You're not allowed to. They're giving you. 1489 01:09:53.159 --> 01:09:58.359 Numbers, and I said, oh wow, because they already saw 1490 01:09:58.439 --> 01:10:01.640 me and I ruined it. Wow, the shocking pink up 1491 01:10:02.239 --> 01:10:07.439 you see, and yeah, it works against pigmentation. So I 1492 01:10:07.760 --> 01:10:10.880 auditioned and uh and and and I decided I would 1493 01:10:10.920 --> 01:10:13.039 do I can't get next to you by the temptation 1494 01:10:13.560 --> 01:10:16.039 that together all the all the yeah, I remember that 1495 01:10:16.520 --> 01:10:20.319 because they each temptation sang yeah. So I figured out, oh, 1496 01:10:20.359 --> 01:10:25.760 that's cracked and the guy blue getting way whatever I 1497 01:10:25.840 --> 01:10:29.600 want to do, so yeah, So I did them all 1498 01:10:30.319 --> 01:10:33.039 and uh and uh, and I figured, wow, they gotta 1499 01:10:33.079 --> 01:10:33.720 hire one of me. 1500 01:10:34.159 --> 01:10:34.960 They got to hire one. 1501 01:10:35.079 --> 01:10:37.439 Oh that was genius, so they so yeah, and then 1502 01:10:37.479 --> 01:10:38.359 I got the job again. 1503 01:10:38.479 --> 01:10:41.520 So it was cool. Wow, well, you know, it's fantastic. 1504 01:10:41.640 --> 01:10:43.439 And this just occurred to me. And I know I've 1505 01:10:43.439 --> 01:10:46.800 never told you this, but before I even thought of 1506 01:10:46.840 --> 01:10:51.520 doing voiceovers, the California raisins were very prevalent, like you 1507 01:10:51.560 --> 01:10:54.119 couldn't really get away from them. Yeah, like they were. 1508 01:10:54.159 --> 01:10:57.600 You guys were everywhere. And I remember I actually said 1509 01:10:57.640 --> 01:11:01.479 to chucked around our mutual great friend. We were watching 1510 01:11:01.520 --> 01:11:05.640 TV in my little apartment on Violand Avenue in Studio 1511 01:11:05.760 --> 01:11:08.000 City and a California Raisins thing came on. I don't 1512 01:11:08.039 --> 01:11:10.119 know if it was a commercial or a special, might 1513 01:11:10.119 --> 01:11:14.079 have been like a TV special. And I said to him, 1514 01:11:14.520 --> 01:11:16.079 I said, you know what's fun You know it's funny, man, 1515 01:11:16.119 --> 01:11:18.239 you know it's interesting. He said what I said, the 1516 01:11:18.279 --> 01:11:20.680 guy they got to sing it sounds a lot like 1517 01:11:20.720 --> 01:11:22.800 the guy who's talking it. They did a really good job. 1518 01:11:22.840 --> 01:11:23.800 And he goes, well, how do you know it's not 1519 01:11:23.800 --> 01:11:25.680 the same guy who goes the guy singing. It's a 1520 01:11:25.720 --> 01:11:28.439 real singer. He's not like a cartoon guy. And I 1521 01:11:29.239 --> 01:11:31.479 that's no offense. Obviously, I've learned since then. A lot 1522 01:11:31.520 --> 01:11:34.039 of the a lot of my cartoon friends are fantastic singers. 1523 01:11:34.239 --> 01:11:38.359 But you like you well, I was going to say 1524 01:11:38.359 --> 01:11:41.199 a lot of mine are too. There's one. Now, there's one, 1525 01:11:41.439 --> 01:11:43.479 God bless you. But it's it's like, no, I was like, 1526 01:11:43.680 --> 01:11:46.760 because you you know, you can really sing, man. I mean, 1527 01:11:46.760 --> 01:11:49.119 it's like what we alluded to a moment ago is 1528 01:11:49.159 --> 01:11:50.960 that we had boy one of the one of the 1529 01:11:50.960 --> 01:11:52.640 most fun things. We might have mentioned it the other 1530 01:11:52.680 --> 01:11:54.760 time we sat down here with Chris, but we did 1531 01:11:54.800 --> 01:11:57.159 a charity thing. It was mainly for charity where Me, 1532 01:11:57.960 --> 01:12:01.680 Jimmy Cummings, Kevin, Michael Richardson, Billy West got together and 1533 01:12:01.760 --> 01:12:03.720 the guy named Joe Lala was there and we got 1534 01:12:03.760 --> 01:12:06.359 together and we did all old motown songs. 1535 01:12:06.399 --> 01:12:06.600 Yeah. 1536 01:12:06.640 --> 01:12:08.439 I remember you guys talking about this. 1537 01:12:08.680 --> 01:12:11.920 Oh my god, I just when I wasn't singing, I 1538 01:12:11.960 --> 01:12:13.760 was just sitting there grooving on these guys. 1539 01:12:14.239 --> 01:12:15.399 You bring that back, you guys. 1540 01:12:15.439 --> 01:12:16.359 Yeah, we should do that again. 1541 01:12:16.359 --> 01:12:18.279 That was really fun, like a one off special. 1542 01:12:19.800 --> 01:12:22.159 And we did that Temptations thing and as I recall, 1543 01:12:22.439 --> 01:12:24.319 because you do such a you do such a great 1544 01:12:24.399 --> 01:12:26.119 David Ruffin, who was like the main guy in the 1545 01:12:26.199 --> 01:12:29.079 in the in the Temptations and you sing you singing 1546 01:12:29.159 --> 01:12:30.640 too Proud to beg That's one of my favorite is 1547 01:12:30.680 --> 01:12:32.960 you do. But on that one you just talked about 1548 01:12:34.079 --> 01:12:39.560 you you sang the first thing and then Kevin Yah. Yeah, 1549 01:12:39.560 --> 01:12:40.800 but I mean you could have done the whole thing, 1550 01:12:40.920 --> 01:12:42.760 but it's it was just I remember standing there grooving 1551 01:12:42.800 --> 01:12:45.159 and that reminds me when we're at Abbey Road. Another 1552 01:12:45.199 --> 01:12:48.439 moment on the DVD that's so precious to me is 1553 01:12:48.479 --> 01:12:51.119 we were singing this three part harmony. One we sang 1554 01:12:51.119 --> 01:12:54.800 two three part harmony ones, because which is unbelievably intricate 1555 01:12:54.840 --> 01:12:56.560 and it's probably the most beautiful thing on the record 1556 01:12:56.680 --> 01:13:00.600 when you hear it, remember that one, Chris, I think 1557 01:13:00.640 --> 01:13:02.800 you'll dig it. But what we also remember all of 1558 01:13:02.840 --> 01:13:05.720 them fantastic. Yeah, when we did, we did I'll Be Back, 1559 01:13:05.760 --> 01:13:08.560 which is this beautiful you know, if you break my 1560 01:13:08.840 --> 01:13:13.079 Heart ago And it's this beautiful, beautiful song and we're 1561 01:13:13.119 --> 01:13:15.840 singing it, all three of us together, Me, Jim and Rob, 1562 01:13:16.000 --> 01:13:19.880 and you can just see Jimmy glowing and he just 1563 01:13:20.319 --> 01:13:22.840 this smile comes up and he's kind of looking around 1564 01:13:22.920 --> 01:13:25.319 and then Rob starts kind of dancing as he's singing, 1565 01:13:25.560 --> 01:13:29.079 and it's like, man, ain't nothing better than capture enjoy it? 1566 01:13:31.279 --> 01:13:36.640 So yeah, me too, man at any any chance. 1567 01:13:36.720 --> 01:13:39.800 And that's at least for me hearing these things, you know, 1568 01:13:39.920 --> 01:13:43.600 it's it's inspiring to like keep pursuing, you know, creative 1569 01:13:43.680 --> 01:13:46.600 endeavors because a lot of people go stagnant. You know, 1570 01:13:46.680 --> 01:13:49.760 a lot of people just don't indulge. They kind of 1571 01:13:49.760 --> 01:13:52.319 get caught up in the in the michelieu of life 1572 01:13:52.399 --> 01:13:54.439 and kind of just you know, let that fade away. 1573 01:13:54.479 --> 01:13:57.079 And that's something so inspiring to hear, and you know 1574 01:13:57.119 --> 01:13:59.760 how you guys went to Abbey Road, Hanks Area doing 1575 01:13:59.800 --> 01:14:02.159 his thing, and just so many people we talked to, 1576 01:14:02.279 --> 01:14:04.840 you know, just always looking for that creative outlet, this. 1577 01:14:04.800 --> 01:14:07.039 Whole thing that you guys are doing here. Yeah, for sure, 1578 01:14:07.279 --> 01:14:10.239 you know this didn't exist in your universe two years ago, 1579 01:14:10.279 --> 01:14:10.720 where did it? 1580 01:14:10.800 --> 01:14:13.359 I mean no, No, we just had our one year 1581 01:14:13.359 --> 01:14:15.199 anniversary like a month ago, you. 1582 01:14:15.199 --> 01:14:17.279 Know, and now and look at it. It's growing and it. 1583 01:14:19.720 --> 01:14:23.439 And honestly, the most inspiring thing for the podcast to 1584 01:14:23.560 --> 01:14:25.840 me is just like when we're on the road and 1585 01:14:25.880 --> 01:14:28.199 people are talking about it and people come up and 1586 01:14:28.239 --> 01:14:30.079 be like, I want to be on the podcast, and 1587 01:14:30.199 --> 01:14:30.920 you know, and like. 1588 01:14:31.279 --> 01:14:31.760 And it's great. 1589 01:14:31.800 --> 01:14:33.560 Christopher gets recognized now at the time. 1590 01:14:33.640 --> 01:14:36.279 Yeah, and it's just really cool, like like travel, I 1591 01:14:36.319 --> 01:14:39.439 mean I could have never you know, you asked me 1592 01:14:39.680 --> 01:14:42.239 what like two years ago, you know, am I going 1593 01:14:42.279 --> 01:14:44.800 to be on the road with my childhood, you know, 1594 01:14:44.880 --> 01:14:48.640 the voice of my child the voice going around and 1595 01:14:48.680 --> 01:14:51.319 then meeting all these other voices of my childhood and 1596 01:14:51.359 --> 01:14:54.199 all these inspirational people and like getting to sit face 1597 01:14:54.239 --> 01:14:56.600 to face with them. I mean, like this podcast has 1598 01:14:56.640 --> 01:15:00.000 been a dream opportunity for me and it's been great. 1599 01:15:00.279 --> 01:15:01.199 That's so kind man. 1600 01:15:01.479 --> 01:15:06.119 But saying that, I have to now switch the gears 1601 01:15:06.159 --> 01:15:08.600 because we have to play a game, and you've played 1602 01:15:08.600 --> 01:15:11.479 this game before. Okay, yes, it's called the Old Voice 1603 01:15:11.479 --> 01:15:16.319 Swap game. Oh yeah, yes, yes, do you remember the rules? 1604 01:15:16.520 --> 01:15:19.560 Yeah? What is it? He does line as one of 1605 01:15:19.600 --> 01:15:21.800 his characters, and then I have to repeat it and 1606 01:15:21.800 --> 01:15:22.279 then by. 1607 01:15:22.359 --> 01:15:24.560 One of your characters. 1608 01:15:24.560 --> 01:15:26.520 Okay, then you do it? Yeah, yeah, I got it. 1609 01:15:26.560 --> 01:15:27.960 So you want to set it up, Chris, or how 1610 01:15:27.960 --> 01:15:28.800 does it work? Yeah? 1611 01:15:28.920 --> 01:15:29.600 Yeah, yeah, sure. 1612 01:15:29.840 --> 01:15:33.239 Everybody you played along with us before, Come on, Chris, 1613 01:15:33.279 --> 01:15:36.199 this is as close as so. I want to enjoy this. 1614 01:15:36.319 --> 01:15:38.119 These are two crazy characters. 1615 01:15:40.399 --> 01:15:42.560 They have a little bit of they have a little bit. 1616 01:15:42.439 --> 01:15:46.680 Of similarity as I feel like Crash Bandicoo and Taz. 1617 01:15:47.239 --> 01:15:47.479 Yeah. 1618 01:15:47.600 --> 01:15:49.079 They both spind, they spend. 1619 01:15:48.880 --> 01:15:51.359 They both spend, and there both sort of unintelligible. By 1620 01:15:51.399 --> 01:15:53.920 the way, what a great challenge you met, Segu when 1621 01:15:53.960 --> 01:15:56.720 you did Tasmania and you managed to maintain I've never 1622 01:15:56.760 --> 01:15:59.640 told you this. You managed to maintain what he does 1623 01:15:59.640 --> 01:16:02.359 with that d look at that that stuff and talk 1624 01:16:02.399 --> 01:16:03.960 at this. I'm like, how's he going to do it? 1625 01:16:04.199 --> 01:16:07.960 That's how he's going to do it. Yeah, amazing spoke occasional. 1626 01:16:08.000 --> 01:16:10.640 Yeah yeah, yeah, well for you, that's what I mean. 1627 01:16:10.880 --> 01:16:14.439 But it's perfect, it's perfect. It's like, wow, that's how 1628 01:16:14.479 --> 01:16:16.560 he would talk. All right. So yeah, I think that's 1629 01:16:16.600 --> 01:16:18.399 a fantastic match. 1630 01:16:18.439 --> 01:16:19.199 All right, So we do? 1631 01:16:19.399 --> 01:16:19.920 What do we do? 1632 01:16:19.960 --> 01:16:23.279 How do do I? You start off with a crush line? 1633 01:16:23.319 --> 01:16:23.920 What's a line? 1634 01:16:24.079 --> 01:16:27.359 Okay? The closest thing we get to a line? Okay? 1635 01:16:27.600 --> 01:16:30.359 All right, are you ready? 1636 01:16:30.800 --> 01:16:32.880 Try to write this down because it's great. Okay, here 1637 01:16:32.880 --> 01:16:51.760 we go by pancake. You got that? Got it? Yeah? 1638 01:16:52.520 --> 01:16:53.840 That's it? Okay, so. 1639 01:16:55.920 --> 01:16:59.800 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. 1640 01:17:01.640 --> 01:17:06.479 That didn't sound like task we're doing. It was they 1641 01:17:06.560 --> 01:17:08.039 had to do it. 1642 01:17:10.399 --> 01:17:10.760 I had. 1643 01:17:10.960 --> 01:17:15.680 I wanted to hear say that okay here, but no, meanwhile, 1644 01:17:15.720 --> 01:17:17.359 back at it more appropriate. 1645 01:17:20.319 --> 01:17:27.960 Okay, and that's why he's coming you see. All right? 1646 01:17:28.319 --> 01:17:31.399 I just need to interject because I think that's so cool. 1647 01:17:31.640 --> 01:17:33.399 I think that's so cool. And we've talked about this 1648 01:17:33.439 --> 01:17:35.760 so many times. You've mentioned so many times how music 1649 01:17:35.920 --> 01:17:37.199 just helps you with voice acting. 1650 01:17:37.560 --> 01:17:40.640 And the first thing you do is just mate the notes, rhythm, 1651 01:17:42.239 --> 01:17:43.880 breaking down the beat exactly. Yeah. 1652 01:17:43.960 --> 01:17:45.560 I thought that was so cool. That's the first time 1653 01:17:45.560 --> 01:17:46.359 I've ever seen you do that. 1654 01:17:47.359 --> 01:17:52.720 Man. Yeah, he's gonna throw one at me to do. Okay, okay, yes, 1655 01:17:53.079 --> 01:17:56.199 oh god, are you picking? So I got to listen 1656 01:17:56.239 --> 01:17:57.800 to this free will? This is free will? 1657 01:17:58.039 --> 01:18:01.199 Okay, Well, let's drag out dark wing. He can't can't 1658 01:18:01.199 --> 01:18:01.680 go too wrong? 1659 01:18:01.800 --> 01:18:05.680 Okay. I am the terror that flaps in the night. 1660 01:18:06.800 --> 01:18:10.079 Who am I doing? Man? Who should I do? When 1661 01:18:10.079 --> 01:18:13.439 you use your choice? Okay, Okay, I'm gonna do. I'm 1662 01:18:13.439 --> 01:18:16.199 gonna do Ironhide of the Transformers. Yeah, okay, that's that's 1663 01:18:16.239 --> 01:18:17.560 because that's that's really good read. 1664 01:18:18.479 --> 01:18:22.479 I am the terror that flaps in the night. 1665 01:18:23.359 --> 01:18:27.399 About take that off? I love that. 1666 01:18:27.680 --> 01:18:29.760 I love that. Did you do them in the movies? 1667 01:18:29.960 --> 01:18:34.399 Yeah? Oh yeah, somebody had to, man, somebody had And 1668 01:18:34.439 --> 01:18:35.960 I remember when I went to do the second or 1669 01:18:36.000 --> 01:18:37.760 third one, Chris, I don't remember which one was, Michael 1670 01:18:37.760 --> 01:18:39.640 Bay said to me, he goes, Okay, now this is 1671 01:18:39.640 --> 01:18:43.760 where you die, and I'm like what wait? Wait wait, yeah, yeah, 1672 01:18:44.079 --> 01:18:45.720 I didn't tell you. No, I didn't tell me, and 1673 01:18:45.760 --> 01:18:48.439 I got a mortgage, so wait a minute. I come 1674 01:18:48.479 --> 01:18:52.279 back in the next one. Dream sequence, Michael, my dream sequence, right, 1675 01:18:52.439 --> 01:18:55.720 Michael begas so much flak at least online. And that 1676 01:18:55.760 --> 01:18:58.239 guy is such a good director. He does his thing. 1677 01:18:58.399 --> 01:19:00.720 You watch on Michael Bay movie. 1678 01:19:01.199 --> 01:19:03.840 I don't think people realize how hard directing is. You 1679 01:19:03.840 --> 01:19:04.039 know what. 1680 01:19:04.039 --> 01:19:06.560 He actually watched a Michael Bay movie. And tell me 1681 01:19:06.640 --> 01:19:09.319 that's not the most cinematic movie you've ever seen. Light 1682 01:19:09.479 --> 01:19:10.880 He's very every single one. 1683 01:19:10.960 --> 01:19:11.199 You know what. 1684 01:19:11.199 --> 01:19:13.479 He actually the most cinematic movie you've ever seen. This 1685 01:19:13.920 --> 01:19:15.800 this comes from his mouth. Man, this is this is 1686 01:19:15.880 --> 01:19:16.479 very true. 1687 01:19:16.920 --> 01:19:18.960 Michael Bay once said to me, because we actually had 1688 01:19:19.000 --> 01:19:22.520 some nice, nice interactions and conversations. And he goes, Jess, 1689 01:19:22.760 --> 01:19:25.239 this is his words, not mine. He goes, it may 1690 01:19:25.279 --> 01:19:28.079 not be the best director that ever lived, but I 1691 01:19:28.119 --> 01:19:31.600 can make stuff blow up better than anybody. That's exactly 1692 01:19:32.159 --> 01:19:36.239 exactly what he said. And a quick, quick anecdote, Chris, 1693 01:19:36.279 --> 01:19:37.920 you'll get a kick out of this if you like Transformers. 1694 01:19:37.960 --> 01:19:39.439 And this is one I don't often tell, but it's very, 1695 01:19:39.520 --> 01:19:42.560 very funny. Is for some reason, I'm always fascinated by 1696 01:19:42.560 --> 01:19:46.479 how many Brits are in out of space, like Obi 1697 01:19:46.520 --> 01:19:50.880 wan Kenobi who was on the planet. Who he's British? 1698 01:19:50.680 --> 01:19:54.439 Ye see three po British. Okay, you guys really get 1699 01:19:54.520 --> 01:19:57.880 him colonized more than anything. But I have a theory 1700 01:19:57.920 --> 01:20:01.560 about that. I want to hear this. This is a 1701 01:20:01.600 --> 01:20:03.319 little mini theory God. 1702 01:20:03.359 --> 01:20:06.880 And what it is is we, you know, certainly Americans, 1703 01:20:07.079 --> 01:20:10.319 we always liked the idea of somebody being from somewhere else, 1704 01:20:10.760 --> 01:20:15.520 somewhere else, and and and England with its myriad accents. 1705 01:20:15.800 --> 01:20:19.079 Supplies that. But you can tell what the hell they're saying. Okay, yeah, 1706 01:20:19.119 --> 01:20:20.960 good point. And so that's pretty good. 1707 01:20:21.199 --> 01:20:28.880 Yeah, to an extent, may not even like Game of Thrones, 1708 01:20:28.960 --> 01:20:33.880 like they're imaginary lands, snow British. 1709 01:20:34.720 --> 01:20:37.520 This was you got to tell thou no, no, no, 1710 01:20:37.560 --> 01:20:37.880 I got it. 1711 01:20:37.920 --> 01:20:41.560 Let me, Michael Bay, go back to get side trecked. 1712 01:20:42.079 --> 01:20:44.600 There's a lot of stories this, this is, this is 1713 01:20:44.640 --> 01:20:47.359 really this is pretty funny. So so Michael Bay. We 1714 01:20:47.399 --> 01:20:49.680 did the first Transformers and I auditioned. It was very 1715 01:20:49.720 --> 01:20:52.079 funny because when I when I did audition, I basically 1716 01:20:52.399 --> 01:20:55.560 it was this horrible rundown building in North Hollywood that 1717 01:20:55.560 --> 01:20:58.159 you're like, you feel like you're gonna get mugged on 1718 01:20:58.159 --> 01:21:00.239 your way in. And my agents are like, I'm like, 1719 01:21:00.279 --> 01:21:01.800 what's this for? And they go it's top secret and 1720 01:21:01.840 --> 01:21:03.000 I'm like, because they didn't want to say it was 1721 01:21:03.000 --> 01:21:05.479 Transformers for some reason. And I said, okay, So I 1722 01:21:05.520 --> 01:21:07.760 get in there. The guy filming me is filming me 1723 01:21:07.800 --> 01:21:10.399 on like a cheap like flip phone, like for the 1724 01:21:10.439 --> 01:21:13.760 and I'm thinking this the cheapest stupidest thing ever, right, 1725 01:21:14.039 --> 01:21:16.680 So I basically threw it away. And they're like, you're 1726 01:21:16.680 --> 01:21:19.680 playing this robot and you're, you know, a weapon specialist 1727 01:21:19.760 --> 01:21:21.800 and all this kind of stuff. And I thought, well, 1728 01:21:21.880 --> 01:21:23.399 you know, if he's all making very big and I'll 1729 01:21:23.399 --> 01:21:25.920 put him down to here, you know. And for some reason, 1730 01:21:25.960 --> 01:21:27.640 my mind went to doing in bridging. So I didn't 1731 01:21:27.680 --> 01:21:29.840 know why, but I just did. So I recorded it 1732 01:21:30.119 --> 01:21:31.760 and I get the phone call and they say, okay, 1733 01:21:32.159 --> 01:21:34.119 you got it, dude, it's Transformers. It's the movie. It's 1734 01:21:34.119 --> 01:21:35.560 a big deal. I'm like, wow, I had no I 1735 01:21:35.600 --> 01:21:37.199 would have thought it was like a bad tackle bell 1736 01:21:37.239 --> 01:21:39.479 commercial for like Northwold, California. 1737 01:21:39.720 --> 01:21:39.960 Wow. 1738 01:21:40.000 --> 01:21:41.720 I mean it was so so I going to do it, 1739 01:21:41.800 --> 01:21:44.600 and I recorded and Bay is there was very very friendly, 1740 01:21:44.680 --> 01:21:48.840 got through, it was fine, came back for the second movie. Now, 1741 01:21:49.079 --> 01:21:53.119 Michael Bay makes a lot of money, okay, and has 1742 01:21:53.159 --> 01:21:55.000 made a lot of money and has made a lot 1743 01:21:55.000 --> 01:21:57.680 of very very big movies, so he has a lot 1744 01:21:57.680 --> 01:22:01.319 of people around him, and let's just say, his word 1745 01:22:01.760 --> 01:22:03.920 goes okay, it's like he's the guy. 1746 01:22:04.239 --> 01:22:04.640 Yeah right. 1747 01:22:05.039 --> 01:22:07.439 So I'm in there and he shows my goodness, I'm 1748 01:22:07.439 --> 01:22:08.960 got to see it too, and yeah, let's like we 1749 01:22:09.000 --> 01:22:10.199 got to make this pick. I got to get back. 1750 01:22:10.199 --> 01:22:12.560 I'm like, okay, okay, okay. So I start recording the 1751 01:22:12.600 --> 01:22:15.199 dialogue for the second movie. Right, I'm like, you know, 1752 01:22:15.520 --> 01:22:17.720 we must retrieve the cube of whatever it is I'm 1753 01:22:17.760 --> 01:22:19.399 talking about. I get a couple of lines into it, 1754 01:22:19.439 --> 01:22:20.720 and he goes, hey, wait wait wait wait wait wait 1755 01:22:20.720 --> 01:22:22.920 wait wait wait, and he goes, why are you doing 1756 01:22:22.920 --> 01:22:27.880 a British accent? This is true? And I'm like, I'm like, oh, 1757 01:22:28.239 --> 01:22:31.600 because I did it in the first movie, right, And 1758 01:22:31.640 --> 01:22:34.199 he goes, no, I don't think you did, right, Oh boy, 1759 01:22:34.800 --> 01:22:40.119 this is it gets I don't think you did. I 1760 01:22:40.119 --> 01:22:43.680 don't think you did, right. It gets Chris, Chris, you'll 1761 01:22:43.680 --> 01:22:47.119 love this. I go, no, I don't think I did. 1762 01:22:47.439 --> 01:22:49.000 He was I don't think you did, and I said 1763 01:22:49.239 --> 01:22:52.920 I'm pretty sure, pretty sure, Michael, and he goes, you 1764 01:22:52.960 --> 01:22:54.439 know what, let's not do it. He goes do it 1765 01:22:54.439 --> 01:22:58.560 without the accent, right. So I'm like, and because I'm 1766 01:22:58.600 --> 01:23:00.720 a business man in my head, then I don't do 1767 01:23:00.760 --> 01:23:03.079 and then I'll have to bring me back. I'll get 1768 01:23:03.079 --> 01:23:05.199 paid again and I'll do the British acment. Right. So 1769 01:23:05.239 --> 01:23:06.720 I start doing. I'm like, you know, we we have 1770 01:23:06.800 --> 01:23:09.560 to retrieve the cube. And I'm doing it, you know American. 1771 01:23:09.920 --> 01:23:12.960 Now I turned my head and I'm facing the screen 1772 01:23:13.000 --> 01:23:15.199 I wanted. It's like a soundstage thing, and he Michael 1773 01:23:15.199 --> 01:23:16.960 bays in there with me, and I'm looking in the 1774 01:23:16.960 --> 01:23:23.600 control room and people are like melting down. They know 1775 01:23:23.640 --> 01:23:26.479 they can't use any of this, and then they're and 1776 01:23:26.520 --> 01:23:28.079 they're all fringing out. But I know what's happening. Was 1777 01:23:28.119 --> 01:23:29.479 just like, are you gonna tell them? I'm not gonna 1778 01:23:29.479 --> 01:23:33.119 tell them. Yeah, right, somebody, but it ain't gonna be me. 1779 01:23:33.399 --> 01:23:36.199 Michael listened to the first movie. You wouldn't think you'd 1780 01:23:36.239 --> 01:23:39.319 seen it made. Yeah, so I mean it better while 1781 01:23:39.319 --> 01:23:42.600 I've been a minute. But anyway, so so after like 1782 01:23:42.960 --> 01:23:44.119 I did like seven or eight. 1783 01:23:44.000 --> 01:23:45.880 Lines and he's going, yeah, yeah, good, Okay, give me 1784 01:23:45.920 --> 01:23:48.000 more on that, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. He was very 1785 01:23:48.000 --> 01:23:51.159 hands on. Somebody kind of there's the talk back and 1786 01:23:51.159 --> 01:23:58.640 this guy goes, I'm Michael. Yeah he's just fu. He goes, me, 1787 01:23:58.680 --> 01:24:00.640 you know we have we actually called up some footage 1788 01:24:00.640 --> 01:24:03.800 from the first movie, and he he he was doing 1789 01:24:03.800 --> 01:24:07.640 a British accent, right. Megan goes right, and then let 1790 01:24:07.680 --> 01:24:10.199 me see it, right, So he he looks at it 1791 01:24:10.199 --> 01:24:12.560 and he goes, huh, and he goes, I guess who 1792 01:24:12.640 --> 01:24:16.680 worked So I did it again. But it's like, I 1793 01:24:16.720 --> 01:24:20.199 just loved Jim become man. Listen. I don't claim to 1794 01:24:20.239 --> 01:24:22.159 have seen everything that I've worked on over the years, 1795 01:24:22.159 --> 01:24:24.359 but you would think if you're direct in a movie, 1796 01:24:24.720 --> 01:24:25.760 you have to see it a. 1797 01:24:25.720 --> 01:24:28.760 Lot, right, I mean what you would think, right, when 1798 01:24:28.760 --> 01:24:30.600 do you think in the editing room? 1799 01:24:31.079 --> 01:24:34.239 You know, seeing a couple takes a couple of a 1800 01:24:34.279 --> 01:24:37.880 couple of times. But yeah, he legit. I almost recorded 1801 01:24:37.960 --> 01:24:41.239 the second movie without the same he had. He had 1802 01:24:41.239 --> 01:24:44.600 a lot of robots, he had a lot of Yeah, 1803 01:24:44.640 --> 01:24:45.119 he sure did. 1804 01:24:45.600 --> 01:24:47.439 He had a lot of other takes that were very 1805 01:24:47.439 --> 01:24:48.560 attractive in those movies. 1806 01:24:48.640 --> 01:24:49.880 Yes, yeah he did. 1807 01:24:50.039 --> 01:24:51.439 Maybe his attention was focused. 1808 01:24:51.600 --> 01:24:54.319 Yeah, you know, I think I can't blame him. I 1809 01:24:54.359 --> 01:24:57.239 think that movie, I think that made Megan Fox Yeah, 1810 01:24:57.279 --> 01:24:59.960 well that that was a big break man, That was it. 1811 01:25:00.159 --> 01:25:01.760 Why shouldn't that car or something like that? 1812 01:25:01.960 --> 01:25:03.880 You have like a supermodel in all those movies? 1813 01:25:03.960 --> 01:25:15.039 Sure he did. Coincidence? I get out everybody and Carol. 1814 01:25:15.079 --> 01:25:20.560 When will you be starring in one? That's exactly Michael debut? 1815 01:25:21.880 --> 01:25:27.000 Yes, now no comment Transgressors twelve. 1816 01:25:31.720 --> 01:25:33.439 If you're a fan of everything we do here at 1817 01:25:33.439 --> 01:25:35.560 tuned In with Jim Cummings, you can support the show 1818 01:25:35.600 --> 01:25:38.079 for as little as just two dollars per month on Patreon, 1819 01:25:38.119 --> 01:25:40.880 where supporters not only get early and add free access 1820 01:25:40.920 --> 01:25:43.760 to the show, but you'll also get bonus podcasts, including 1821 01:25:43.800 --> 01:25:46.960 audio commentaries of classic Disney shows, hosted by Jim and 1822 01:25:47.000 --> 01:25:49.479 his various characters. So go ahead and support the show 1823 01:25:49.479 --> 01:25:52.720 today at patreon dot com. Slash Jim Cummings podcast link 1824 01:25:52.800 --> 01:25:54.199 is in the description of this show. 1825 01:25:54.680 --> 01:25:56.800 Do you know what? You know what fascinates me, Curts 1826 01:25:56.960 --> 01:25:59.800 is how many Fast and Furious movies there there are? 1827 01:26:00.279 --> 01:26:00.720 You know what? 1828 01:26:01.039 --> 01:26:02.439 How many? I love them? 1829 01:26:02.880 --> 01:26:03.760 I love them? 1830 01:26:03.840 --> 01:26:04.199 Really. 1831 01:26:04.399 --> 01:26:06.920 Fast and the Furious is one of the best movies 1832 01:26:07.000 --> 01:26:09.079 you can go see in the theaters because it's like 1833 01:26:09.079 --> 01:26:11.920 an amusement. It's like an amusement park ride. I get 1834 01:26:11.960 --> 01:26:15.680 that it's not serious. You see the most ridiculous stunts 1835 01:26:15.720 --> 01:26:20.840 you've ever seen in your life. Yeah, a car parachuting 1836 01:26:20.880 --> 01:26:27.920 from space, a car riding a rope swing across a cliff, 1837 01:26:28.720 --> 01:26:31.479 A Dodge Challenger rides a rope swing across a cliff. 1838 01:26:31.520 --> 01:26:34.359 If that's not the coolest thing, you're literally sitting in 1839 01:26:34.399 --> 01:26:37.119 a movie theater. And that's what you were doing playing 1840 01:26:37.119 --> 01:26:39.640 with hot wheels. That's what you were doing, playing with 1841 01:26:39.680 --> 01:26:43.640 hot wheels. And now it's two billion dollar movie exploding 1842 01:26:43.720 --> 01:26:48.840 everywhere with the cheesiest with the cheesiest lions ever and 1843 01:26:49.000 --> 01:26:51.079 just pure testostero. 1844 01:26:53.279 --> 01:26:58.720 Yeah it is Jason Mulla. Shut up again. 1845 01:26:58.760 --> 01:27:02.439 People just say all over the place, but sweat on 1846 01:27:02.520 --> 01:27:04.319 the pecks. 1847 01:27:03.760 --> 01:27:09.960 But you know what's funny though, Actually I actually love 1848 01:27:10.039 --> 01:27:11.119 The Fastes the Furious. 1849 01:27:11.239 --> 01:27:12.399 I love all of those movies. 1850 01:27:12.439 --> 01:27:13.800 I think you just made a good case for it 1851 01:27:13.800 --> 01:27:17.439 because my line has always been, like somebody once asked me, 1852 01:27:17.720 --> 01:27:20.439 and I just thought this was a great response from anybody. 1853 01:27:20.479 --> 01:27:22.920 But they go, they go, hey, man, are you are 1854 01:27:22.920 --> 01:27:24.880 you gonna go see? Are you? What do you think 1855 01:27:24.880 --> 01:27:27.359 of them making Fast and Furious twelve? And I said, well, 1856 01:27:27.359 --> 01:27:29.399 they had to. There were so many unanswered questions in 1857 01:27:29.439 --> 01:27:35.960 the first eleven yea, they got so many loose you know, 1858 01:27:36.479 --> 01:27:39.359 a cartoon Fast and Furious. I'd watched that because, you know, 1859 01:27:39.479 --> 01:27:42.239 seeing Winnie the Pooh in a souped up Ferrari jumping 1860 01:27:42.319 --> 01:27:43.439 over for the fall. You know. 1861 01:27:43.600 --> 01:27:45.920 One of my favorite, speaking of amusement parks, one of 1862 01:27:45.920 --> 01:27:49.520 my favorite attractions ever at Universal Studios was the Fast 1863 01:27:49.520 --> 01:27:53.920 and the Furious attraction. It's long gone, We've been gone 1864 01:27:53.920 --> 01:27:56.760 for like a decade, but they had these two They 1865 01:27:56.800 --> 01:27:59.479 had these two cars and they were on big robotic 1866 01:27:59.640 --> 01:28:02.199 arms and you would go through the attraction and then 1867 01:28:02.199 --> 01:28:04.960 they would make the cars do these flips and twist 1868 01:28:05.000 --> 01:28:07.960 all around on these big robotic arms. They would have 1869 01:28:08.079 --> 01:28:10.680 water effects, fire everything, and I guess it was too 1870 01:28:10.720 --> 01:28:13.159 expensive for them to keep doing it. So now you 1871 01:28:13.279 --> 01:28:17.000 just drive by and this is on the the tram 1872 01:28:17.039 --> 01:28:21.520 tour the Universal Studios when you do the backlot. Yeah, 1873 01:28:21.560 --> 01:28:23.000 and you would drive through it, but now you just 1874 01:28:23.119 --> 01:28:26.319 drive by and it's like production vehicles and they're all 1875 01:28:26.359 --> 01:28:31.439 just lined up from like Jurassic par Fast and the Furious. Yes, right, 1876 01:28:31.479 --> 01:28:35.960 they it's gone, and I love is on the back 1877 01:28:36.079 --> 01:28:38.600 Law tour. Still you can still see the area where 1878 01:28:38.600 --> 01:28:41.239 it is, like, you can still see it's still stage there. 1879 01:28:41.279 --> 01:28:42.039 You just don't go in. 1880 01:28:42.199 --> 01:28:44.479 Let me take some of my personal credo. Okay. I 1881 01:28:44.479 --> 01:28:46.680 don't want to hear theme parks complaining about not making 1882 01:28:46.680 --> 01:28:48.640 money when they're charging me fifteen dollars for a bottle 1883 01:28:48.680 --> 01:28:50.720 of water, So shut up. Yeah, put the Fast and 1884 01:28:50.760 --> 01:28:51.680 Furious back, then. 1885 01:28:51.560 --> 01:28:55.520 Theme park are the We We just were in Walt 1886 01:28:55.560 --> 01:28:58.960 Disney World. Yeah, and for some reason for appearance, it 1887 01:28:58.960 --> 01:29:02.479 finally clicked. No, it was for what were you there for? 1888 01:29:02.600 --> 01:29:03.760 It was for the princess and. 1889 01:29:03.800 --> 01:29:06.720 The front Yeah, the debut of the ride. Yeah, you 1890 01:29:06.760 --> 01:29:08.000 are you doing good? 1891 01:29:08.359 --> 01:29:14.720 Yeah? They re themed the Splash Mountains. 1892 01:29:11.520 --> 01:29:18.960 Yes, if somebody was going to replace than anybody else. 1893 01:29:19.159 --> 01:29:21.359 But we're just there and it finally like clicked to me. 1894 01:29:21.520 --> 01:29:23.880 I don't know, it just clicked. And I was looking 1895 01:29:23.920 --> 01:29:27.520 around and I'm like, theme parks make so much money. 1896 01:29:27.720 --> 01:29:33.079 It's that the movies Avengers, Star Wars, all these movies, 1897 01:29:34.000 --> 01:29:37.880 you know, the the Avatar, they're just advertisements for people 1898 01:29:37.920 --> 01:29:41.199 to go to the parks. They're literally just advertisements. A 1899 01:29:41.279 --> 01:29:44.239 billion dollars on a movie is nothing for Disney and amazing. 1900 01:29:44.479 --> 01:29:46.199 You know how much money they make at the parks. 1901 01:29:46.199 --> 01:29:50.000 I know, just like oh these kids see oh we 1902 01:29:50.039 --> 01:29:52.239 went and saw Avatar. It doesn't matter if the movie 1903 01:29:52.279 --> 01:29:53.840 was good or not. Now I get to go on 1904 01:29:54.119 --> 01:29:57.720 Avatar in Disneyland. You know, I want to go there. 1905 01:29:58.279 --> 01:29:59.319 I want to go there. 1906 01:29:59.439 --> 01:29:59.640 Yeah. 1907 01:30:00.159 --> 01:30:02.039 I just saw Star Wars. It doesn't matter if Star 1908 01:30:02.079 --> 01:30:05.439 Wars Rogue one. It doesn't matter if a TV series sucked, no, 1909 01:30:05.600 --> 01:30:08.039 what the Acolyte just got canceled. It doesn't matter because 1910 01:30:08.039 --> 01:30:10.800 people are talking about Star Wars. You go to Disneyland, 1911 01:30:10.960 --> 01:30:14.279 there's a Star Wars. There's a there's a live action Hondo. 1912 01:30:14.439 --> 01:30:15.880 Yeah, you like Wars. 1913 01:30:15.880 --> 01:30:18.800 There's a live action Hondo. That's you're living the world. 1914 01:30:19.039 --> 01:30:22.119 And they do such a good job. 1915 01:30:22.319 --> 01:30:23.479 No, it is man like. 1916 01:30:23.600 --> 01:30:26.640 It's like these movies are like one hundred million dollars 1917 01:30:26.680 --> 01:30:29.960 billboards for people to go to theme parks by merchandise. 1918 01:30:30.000 --> 01:30:33.600 I can only imagine what merchandise sales if. 1919 01:30:33.479 --> 01:30:36.279 You I once did I you know, as Jimmy has, 1920 01:30:36.520 --> 01:30:38.880 you know you do voices for theme parks. Yeah, and 1921 01:30:38.920 --> 01:30:40.600 I went at one of the one of the sessions. 1922 01:30:40.600 --> 01:30:42.479 And this is going back. You guys is like fifteen 1923 01:30:42.560 --> 01:30:44.159 years ago. And I happen to say to one of 1924 01:30:44.159 --> 01:30:46.199 the guys who has invaulted building the attraction, I said, 1925 01:30:46.239 --> 01:30:49.479 so the cost basis, man, it's got to be unbelievably. 1926 01:30:49.439 --> 01:30:51.439 He goes, We'll think of it this way. He said, 1927 01:30:51.479 --> 01:30:55.079 the average person who walks in drops three hundred dollars. 1928 01:30:55.479 --> 01:30:57.359 And I said, I said, this was fifteen years ago, 1929 01:30:57.399 --> 01:31:00.560 before the admission was two hundred. Okay, So I'm like, 1930 01:31:00.680 --> 01:31:02.680 I'm like, really, goes, yeah, one hundred and fifty admission, 1931 01:31:02.680 --> 01:31:04.560 they're gonna get a T shirt, they're gonna buy food, 1932 01:31:04.680 --> 01:31:07.760 blah blah, blah blah blah. So for a family of five, okay, 1933 01:31:07.760 --> 01:31:10.159 that's fifteen hundred dollars for the day, right, And I said, 1934 01:31:10.359 --> 01:31:13.079 twenty dollars churo, a twenty dollars turo, and a ten 1935 01:31:13.119 --> 01:31:14.880 dollars bottle of water. Right, So if you do the 1936 01:31:14.920 --> 01:31:16.479 math and he goes, he goes, So do the math. 1937 01:31:16.520 --> 01:31:20.880 He goes at three hundred dollars eighty thousand times eighty 1938 01:31:20.880 --> 01:31:25.319 thousand times three hundred dollars every day, Okay, in eighty thousand, 1939 01:31:25.359 --> 01:31:26.800 it's just kind of mid level number. I think the 1940 01:31:26.840 --> 01:31:30.600 capacity is like fifteen Yeah, you know. So it's like 1941 01:31:30.920 --> 01:31:33.520 I'm talking about the Disneyland park, but it's just like, 1942 01:31:33.680 --> 01:31:37.079 oh my god, it's like it takes him a month 1943 01:31:37.119 --> 01:31:37.520 to make. 1944 01:31:37.439 --> 01:31:41.159 And then take it to another level based off based 1945 01:31:41.159 --> 01:31:43.680 off those numbers. To take it to another level, Michael 1946 01:31:43.720 --> 01:31:46.119 Jackson used to rent out the park to himself for 1947 01:31:46.159 --> 01:31:47.880 the day. I know, you know, and you know what 1948 01:31:47.960 --> 01:31:52.079 everybody is, everybody stay at home. I'm gonna I'm gonna 1949 01:31:52.079 --> 01:31:53.159 take Disney today. 1950 01:31:53.239 --> 01:31:56.760 Yeah, so what did you do this afternoon? I took 1951 01:31:56.800 --> 01:31:58.920 him a Disney there. That's say, Yeah, that's pretty good man. 1952 01:31:58.960 --> 01:31:59.880 That's not a bad way to. 1953 01:32:00.079 --> 01:32:03.399 Yeah, can you imagine the whole place? 1954 01:32:03.960 --> 01:32:05.520 Do you get the tour guides when you go there? 1955 01:32:05.640 --> 01:32:07.039 Sure? Yeah, But you know what, you know, it was 1956 01:32:07.079 --> 01:32:08.920 a cool memory that we had one time, Cara and 1957 01:32:08.960 --> 01:32:11.199 me we went to Disney World and we were the 1958 01:32:11.279 --> 01:32:15.039 last two people other than employees in the park. That 1959 01:32:15.159 --> 01:32:17.720 was so we took Yeah, we took a picture laying 1960 01:32:17.840 --> 01:32:20.880 down on the ground with the Sleeping Beauty Castle. Bag 1961 01:32:21.079 --> 01:32:23.640 was like, huh and there's nobody there. Yeah, I quite 1962 01:32:23.720 --> 01:32:26.680 know how it came out. How that's nice? Yeah, what 1963 01:32:26.720 --> 01:32:29.199 that means? You know, it's cool those places. Man. You know, 1964 01:32:29.199 --> 01:32:31.119 it's it's like, the great thing about it is that. 1965 01:32:31.239 --> 01:32:33.880 For I think the reason Disney in particular, the reason 1966 01:32:33.880 --> 01:32:35.520 that they do as well as they do, is because 1967 01:32:35.840 --> 01:32:38.920 it's an escape patch from the real world. And it's 1968 01:32:38.960 --> 01:32:41.039 it's things that are sweet and things that are happy 1969 01:32:41.079 --> 01:32:43.399 and things that make you feel good inside. Which is 1970 01:32:43.439 --> 01:32:44.800 sort of described as your whole career. 1971 01:32:44.880 --> 01:32:48.039 Well you know, well, you know, and Walt said he 1972 01:32:48.119 --> 01:32:50.520 had a famous quote that he said, no, I'm not 1973 01:32:50.560 --> 01:32:52.720 worried about you know. They were doing this and that, 1974 01:32:52.800 --> 01:32:55.359 and they go, you know, you're you're spending money. You're 1975 01:32:55.399 --> 01:32:59.079 spending a you know, forty thousand dollars on this curbstone 1976 01:32:59.119 --> 01:33:01.319 here and that's going And he goes, no, no, no, 1977 01:33:01.560 --> 01:33:05.640 you don't understand if if you spend money on the people, 1978 01:33:06.079 --> 01:33:08.880 and that's what we're doing, they will give it back 1979 01:33:08.920 --> 01:33:09.119 to you. 1980 01:33:09.560 --> 01:33:12.520 They will give it back to you and much much more. Wow. 1981 01:33:12.600 --> 01:33:15.800 Man, you know that person knows that it's special for them. 1982 01:33:15.840 --> 01:33:17.279 For them, that's their day. 1983 01:33:17.439 --> 01:33:19.840 They're here with their kids, with their loved ones, with 1984 01:33:19.880 --> 01:33:21.000 their with themselves. 1985 01:33:21.039 --> 01:33:22.479 Wow, that's nice. 1986 01:33:22.760 --> 01:33:25.199 You know, they will say, well he wow, he really 1987 01:33:25.199 --> 01:33:28.239 did took a lot of extra time he didn't have 1988 01:33:28.319 --> 01:33:32.239 to do this or that, but he did. And I 1989 01:33:32.319 --> 01:33:34.239 just think it's much better now and that kicks it up, 1990 01:33:34.279 --> 01:33:35.359 and that chicks it up a not. 1991 01:33:35.520 --> 01:33:37.800 Yeah, well, and that's something, man, that's very beautiful. I 1992 01:33:37.880 --> 01:33:40.560 like that a lot. Yeah, that's why he's Walt Disney 1993 01:33:40.680 --> 01:33:41.920 Disney exactly, man. 1994 01:33:42.119 --> 01:33:45.239 Yeah, I mean what a what a you know imagination? 1995 01:33:45.560 --> 01:33:49.159 Is Trump's education? Yeah? Oh of course, man, I think 1996 01:33:49.239 --> 01:33:51.000 you know. And also, you know what's funny about that 1997 01:33:51.119 --> 01:33:53.520 is is it hearkening back to that that little quote 1998 01:33:53.680 --> 01:33:55.840 I said earlier about wanted to be the person that 1999 01:33:55.880 --> 01:33:58.079 people are happier to see walking in the room than 2000 01:33:58.119 --> 01:33:59.840 out of the room. I've always said that. I think 2001 01:34:00.439 --> 01:34:02.680 one of the reason, one of the key things to success, 2002 01:34:02.720 --> 01:34:05.640 you guys, for whatever you know, endeavors you might want 2003 01:34:05.680 --> 01:34:08.479 to take on in your life is kindness, you know, 2004 01:34:08.720 --> 01:34:11.640 because if we could all like be cool to each 2005 01:34:11.640 --> 01:34:13.520 other and be nice to each other and be easy 2006 01:34:13.520 --> 01:34:16.720 to have around. I have heard a lot of casting directors, 2007 01:34:16.720 --> 01:34:20.399 et cetera, people say, man, given a choice between hiring 2008 01:34:20.600 --> 01:34:22.720 this guy or this guy for the job, and this 2009 01:34:22.800 --> 01:34:25.399 guy's it just amount a little bit with talent. Yeah, 2010 01:34:25.399 --> 01:34:27.159 but this guy's a lot more fun and a lot 2011 01:34:27.199 --> 01:34:28.000 easier to hang with. 2012 01:34:28.359 --> 01:34:31.600 We literally the other day, Hankasaria just told us a 2013 01:34:31.640 --> 01:34:35.520 story about that where he was not the original voice 2014 01:34:35.520 --> 01:34:38.159 of I don't know a poo or something a poo 2015 01:34:38.239 --> 01:34:41.600 on Simpsons and he was like, oh, like didn't find 2016 01:34:41.600 --> 01:34:45.680 out until like fifteen years later, And was it because 2017 01:34:46.239 --> 01:34:48.960 Graining was like, oh yeah, that guy was just we 2018 01:34:49.000 --> 01:34:51.039 didn't like. He was good for the job, but we 2019 01:34:51.119 --> 01:34:52.239 just didn't like him as a person. 2020 01:34:52.279 --> 01:34:54.680 See what I'm saying, Well, my whole, my whole. You know, 2021 01:34:54.720 --> 01:34:58.760 one of my introductions to show business, and I'm not 2022 01:34:58.760 --> 01:35:01.399 going to mention any name, was you know, I had 2023 01:35:02.119 --> 01:35:05.520 I had been a singer, as we've talked about and 2024 01:35:05.640 --> 01:35:07.640 saying lots and lots of commercials and sounded likes. And 2025 01:35:07.720 --> 01:35:10.600 a guy that I sang for was doing the music 2026 01:35:10.720 --> 01:35:13.319 for Splash Mountain. I didn't have a voice over age 2027 01:35:13.319 --> 01:35:15.319 and I didn't have anything like that. And he just 2028 01:35:15.399 --> 01:35:17.640 knew because I'd be on the MiCT session screwing around 2029 01:35:17.640 --> 01:35:22.000 doing impressions and things like that. You don't know, Mike 2030 01:35:22.079 --> 01:35:24.479 go whatever. You know, I'm just doing stuff right, And 2031 01:35:24.520 --> 01:35:26.680 he'd be like, hey, you know those those stupid voices 2032 01:35:26.720 --> 01:35:28.239 you do. I said yeah. He said, I need you 2033 01:35:28.279 --> 01:35:30.479 an audition to be on this theme park ride if 2034 01:35:30.479 --> 01:35:32.119 you want to give it a shot. And I said, 2035 01:35:32.239 --> 01:35:34.880 oh my gosh, and Jim, honestly my mind, this is good. 2036 01:35:34.880 --> 01:35:37.680 And it still kind of goes there. Wasn't like wow, 2037 01:35:37.720 --> 01:35:39.600 what is that? Pay My mind was so if I 2038 01:35:39.720 --> 01:35:41.760 go there, I'm going to hear my voice coming out 2039 01:35:41.760 --> 01:35:44.039 of one of those That was it. That's all I want. 2040 01:35:44.159 --> 01:35:46.439 So I auditioned and I got it. My second big 2041 01:35:46.560 --> 01:35:49.439 job well in the Lexicon. It was among my first 2042 01:35:49.479 --> 01:35:54.520 big jobs was replacing somebody who was difficult to work with. 2043 01:35:54.640 --> 01:35:58.560 And and uh, I bother right, and what was funny? 2044 01:35:58.840 --> 01:36:00.079 Is this? This? 2045 01:36:00.079 --> 01:36:00.199 This? 2046 01:36:00.319 --> 01:36:02.039 I always come back to this. I always share this 2047 01:36:02.079 --> 01:36:03.920 with people that are trying to get somewhere or whatever. 2048 01:36:04.680 --> 01:36:07.479 His words when they they warned him, they said, listen, 2049 01:36:07.560 --> 01:36:09.920 you know you keep doing this, We're going to replace you. 2050 01:36:10.520 --> 01:36:13.640 And his words were, you won't be able to find 2051 01:36:13.640 --> 01:36:16.920 anybody who can do it. So the lesson is there's 2052 01:36:17.039 --> 01:36:21.760 always somebody do it, not necessarily me or you kiss 2053 01:36:21.960 --> 01:36:24.720 death right there. There's always somebody. And in Los Angeles 2054 01:36:24.760 --> 01:36:27.600 he's probably next to you with the store. So there's 2055 01:36:27.600 --> 01:36:29.640 probably ten of you, right, you got you got to 2056 01:36:29.720 --> 01:36:33.039 keep your humility man. Gratitude for sure, and you got it. 2057 01:36:33.159 --> 01:36:34.920 Gratitude is key. 2058 01:36:35.039 --> 01:36:37.560 Amen to that every day man. All right, before we finish, 2059 01:36:37.600 --> 01:36:39.520 I want to try something new on this podcast. 2060 01:36:40.039 --> 01:36:40.479 There we go. 2061 01:36:40.600 --> 01:36:42.199 Let me know. If you guys are down, Jim, this 2062 01:36:42.319 --> 01:36:43.119 is for you as well. 2063 01:36:43.199 --> 01:36:43.640 I'm down. 2064 01:36:43.920 --> 01:36:47.479 I'm very curious on the process of developing a voice 2065 01:36:47.479 --> 01:36:49.720 for a character. So I'm going to show you a 2066 01:36:49.760 --> 01:36:53.399 picture of a completely original cartoon character. Nobody knows him, 2067 01:36:53.840 --> 01:36:56.720 and I want to hear what voice comes out. Do 2068 01:36:56.760 --> 01:36:58.640 you guys want to try that? Do you want to 2069 01:36:58.640 --> 01:37:01.119 try That's for both of you. Okay, So here's here's 2070 01:37:01.119 --> 01:37:03.640 the care It's just a picture. Here's the character. It's 2071 01:37:03.720 --> 01:37:04.720 just just a picture. 2072 01:37:06.720 --> 01:37:09.560 Did you know that I did? That's cool, it's really cool. 2073 01:37:09.640 --> 01:37:11.159 Can I show the Can I show the folks. 2074 01:37:11.359 --> 01:37:14.399 We'll put a little okay so that they have a 2075 01:37:14.439 --> 01:37:17.359 clear visual on the screen. But I'm really curious about 2076 01:37:17.359 --> 01:37:18.159 the development. 2077 01:37:18.640 --> 01:37:20.600 Okay, Well, my first thing, see when I look at 2078 01:37:20.600 --> 01:37:23.479 this is he's got a lot of girth. So my 2079 01:37:23.520 --> 01:37:26.000 first thought is that he'd probably be down here someplace 2080 01:37:26.239 --> 01:37:28.319 and have like a lot of bottom end in his voice. 2081 01:37:28.399 --> 01:37:30.920 But then I'd say, but he also he looks kind 2082 01:37:30.920 --> 01:37:33.359 of nervous and like nebshy, so he's got some of 2083 01:37:33.359 --> 01:37:35.479 the Oh my gosh, I'm very nervous right now. I 2084 01:37:35.479 --> 01:37:37.359 don't like the way this is shaping up. So we 2085 01:37:37.439 --> 01:37:39.520 kind of combine them. Oh my gosh, I don't like 2086 01:37:39.560 --> 01:37:42.199 the way this is shaping up. Your very nervous right now. 2087 01:37:42.359 --> 01:37:44.720 This could be anything bad. What's gonna happen to me? 2088 01:37:44.960 --> 01:37:47.720 Oh boy, okay, I love it. It's like that. I 2089 01:37:47.720 --> 01:37:48.159 love it. 2090 01:37:48.399 --> 01:37:50.680 I love it. And then in that voice, you say, 2091 01:37:50.840 --> 01:37:52.600 you're watching tuned in with Jim Cummings. 2092 01:37:53.039 --> 01:37:55.600 You're watching tuned in with Jim commies. It scares me, 2093 01:37:55.720 --> 01:37:57.199 but hopefully you're gonna like it. 2094 01:37:59.119 --> 01:38:03.239 I love it, I love it. Let's hear your take. No, 2095 01:38:03.479 --> 01:38:04.840 same guy, same guys. 2096 01:38:05.399 --> 01:38:09.079 Do your do your spin? Okay? Yeah, but not the 2097 01:38:09.119 --> 01:38:09.600 same guy. 2098 01:38:09.920 --> 01:38:14.600 Yeah, yeah, I'm a guest. Oh jesus, let's okay. 2099 01:38:14.600 --> 01:38:18.720 Well he's got a nose and has has everybody seen 2100 01:38:18.760 --> 01:38:19.279 this guy yet? 2101 01:38:19.399 --> 01:38:19.600 Well? 2102 01:38:19.600 --> 01:38:26.600 Okay, okay, I don't know it. Cheaps, he could please 2103 01:38:26.640 --> 01:38:31.800 tell me you have a Klee deck, But my nose 2104 01:38:31.920 --> 01:38:34.680 is about to never mind, you don't want to. 2105 01:38:34.680 --> 01:38:39.319 Know because he's scared looking. 2106 01:38:39.359 --> 01:38:40.439 Yeah that's what I too. 2107 01:38:40.600 --> 01:38:43.000 Yeah, I mean he sounds like a worried Jewish father. 2108 01:38:43.960 --> 01:38:51.159 Yeah, yes, he's cal Rubinstein. Yeah yeah. 2109 01:38:51.960 --> 01:38:59.319 What's the Hefferstein Hefersteign? Yeah, something with Heffer anyway. 2110 01:38:59.439 --> 01:39:02.560 Yes, So now you're in that voice you're watching with 2111 01:39:02.600 --> 01:39:03.319 Jim Cummings. 2112 01:39:03.520 --> 01:39:07.760 Okay, do what you who did with Kim coming? 2113 01:39:10.159 --> 01:39:12.439 Dude, I gotta tell you that was so much fun. 2114 01:39:12.640 --> 01:39:14.399 What a great what a great thing. You've never done 2115 01:39:14.399 --> 01:39:15.039 that before. 2116 01:39:15.159 --> 01:39:15.800 Done that before? 2117 01:39:15.880 --> 01:39:17.720 You gotta do that. Yeah, you gotta do that all 2118 01:39:17.760 --> 01:39:18.039 the time. 2119 01:39:18.079 --> 01:39:19.119 And you're a good autist. 2120 01:39:19.159 --> 01:39:21.439 That's really you are a good artist. Yes, we got 2121 01:39:21.439 --> 01:39:24.279 great here, and you smell good. Listen stop being so 2122 01:39:24.319 --> 01:39:26.920 good at everything because you're making people uncomfortable. It's not cool. 2123 01:39:27.079 --> 01:39:30.159 And now listen there's before we Go. I got it. 2124 01:39:30.359 --> 01:39:35.039 Yeah, that's another character that you as another character reminds 2125 01:39:35.079 --> 01:39:36.359 me of someone. 2126 01:39:38.920 --> 01:39:41.760 Good. That's a character about that. 2127 01:39:41.760 --> 01:39:42.720 That's a cartoon. 2128 01:39:44.119 --> 01:39:45.960 How about you try you want you want to do 2129 01:39:46.000 --> 01:39:50.640 a voice? Yeah that's a good one. Yeah yeah, yeah, 2130 01:39:50.800 --> 01:39:53.399 you're just yeah, yeah, do it to it to a voice? 2131 01:39:57.840 --> 01:40:00.760 Anything that happened on tuned in all right. 2132 01:40:00.640 --> 01:40:05.159 What okay, Well, because it's like we're in America. 2133 01:40:05.439 --> 01:40:07.279 Yeah, and she looks. 2134 01:40:07.119 --> 01:40:08.640 Kind of can we show them this one? 2135 01:40:08.720 --> 01:40:11.239 Yeah? Yeah, okay, this will never have a four folks. 2136 01:40:11.239 --> 01:40:13.560 She looks a little dizzy, like a little ditsy. 2137 01:40:13.640 --> 01:40:14.399 Yeah, I can see that. 2138 01:40:14.560 --> 01:40:17.000 So, like, I think she's totally going to be like. 2139 01:40:18.680 --> 01:40:18.720 That. 2140 01:40:19.439 --> 01:40:21.640 She's going to be like this, and she's not gonna 2141 01:40:21.680 --> 01:40:25.680 eat much. She goes out for dinner, she's going to 2142 01:40:25.800 --> 01:40:28.119 like totally just suck on an ice cube because there's 2143 01:40:28.119 --> 01:40:33.359 no carbs in there. 2144 01:40:35.560 --> 01:40:41.640 Ladies and gentleman. Her name is Karadashian. Alright, now look 2145 01:40:41.720 --> 01:40:44.319 before we go, three things I want to hit on 2146 01:40:44.640 --> 01:40:47.159 and use them as you will. A really great anecdote 2147 01:40:47.159 --> 01:40:50.119 about my brother Jim over there that I don't know 2148 01:40:50.159 --> 01:40:52.199 that i've shared if I have to forgive the redundancy, 2149 01:40:52.239 --> 01:40:53.600 but I have to say it because it's such a 2150 01:40:53.640 --> 01:40:56.199 great story. We mentioned chucked arand a couple of times. 2151 01:40:56.239 --> 01:40:58.720 Chucky is my musical partner in rock. Sugares makes the 2152 01:40:58.720 --> 01:41:02.079 greatest voice over demos in the world. Demosrock dot Com 2153 01:41:02.159 --> 01:41:04.159 is his website. If you're inclined to make a demo, 2154 01:41:04.359 --> 01:41:06.880 I can't recommend anybody more highly. But there was a 2155 01:41:06.960 --> 01:41:09.640 day early in his voiceover career, Chris, this was so cool, 2156 01:41:09.800 --> 01:41:11.560 and I've never forgotten and I've told this story a 2157 01:41:11.600 --> 01:41:13.840 million times and he told me. I said, what are 2158 01:41:13.840 --> 01:41:15.600 you doing tomorrow? And he goes, Oh my god, man, 2159 01:41:15.600 --> 01:41:17.159 I'm so bummed out. I gotta get up at like 2160 01:41:17.199 --> 01:41:19.119 seven thirty in the morning because from eight thirty in 2161 01:41:19.159 --> 01:41:22.199 the morning until six o'clock at night, I'm running auditions 2162 01:41:22.199 --> 01:41:24.920 for this cartoon movie and They're bringing in forty five 2163 01:41:24.960 --> 01:41:27.239 people to read. And I'm gonna be sitting there all day, 2164 01:41:27.279 --> 01:41:29.000 over and over and over here in the same thing. 2165 01:41:29.039 --> 01:41:31.920 And I go, no, dude, wow. I go, that's that's 2166 01:41:31.960 --> 01:41:33.239 not how to look at it. Because I'm a big 2167 01:41:33.279 --> 01:41:35.560 believer in perception, and you can change when you change 2168 01:41:35.560 --> 01:41:37.159 the way you look at things, the things you look 2169 01:41:37.199 --> 01:41:39.520 at change, right. So I said to him, I go, dude, 2170 01:41:39.680 --> 01:41:42.439 that's a good one, right. I go, dude, this is amazing. 2171 01:41:42.680 --> 01:41:45.199 I said, I'm going in on that. I said, this 2172 01:41:45.279 --> 01:41:47.880 is a big project. I'm sure they're calling in like 2173 01:41:47.920 --> 01:41:50.439 the best voiceover people in the world. You're gonna hear 2174 01:41:51.359 --> 01:41:54.399 an all star lineup of the greatest voiceover people in 2175 01:41:54.399 --> 01:41:57.359 the whole world reading the same characters. You're gonna be 2176 01:41:57.359 --> 01:42:00.119 able to compare and contrast and go, Wow, that I 2177 01:42:00.119 --> 01:42:01.399 did that and that guy did that, and it's a 2178 01:42:01.479 --> 01:42:03.720 really high level. I wish I could be a fly level. 2179 01:42:03.800 --> 01:42:05.880 And he goes, yeah, that's kind of cool to look 2180 01:42:05.880 --> 01:42:07.560 at it that way. So he goes in, this was 2181 01:42:07.680 --> 01:42:08.960 kind of the beginning of my career. I think I 2182 01:42:09.000 --> 01:42:11.439 was three or four years into it. So he comes 2183 01:42:11.520 --> 01:42:13.199 home that night, right and we actually went out and 2184 01:42:13.199 --> 01:42:14.960 got a bite and I said, well, dude, how was it, 2185 01:42:15.359 --> 01:42:17.000 And this is the true story that he told me. 2186 01:42:17.159 --> 01:42:20.960 He said, dude, it was unbelievable. Man. He said, like 2187 01:42:21.000 --> 01:42:23.439 you said, the level of talent. These were all like 2188 01:42:23.600 --> 01:42:26.039 the biggest guys in the industry whatever. He said. Now, 2189 01:42:26.039 --> 01:42:28.800 I remember the first guy came in and he was great, 2190 01:42:29.000 --> 01:42:31.279 and the second guy came in and he was great, 2191 01:42:31.279 --> 01:42:33.880 and the third, and the fourth and the fifth, and 2192 01:42:33.920 --> 01:42:36.760 I'm not just saying this, he goes, And then Jim 2193 01:42:36.760 --> 01:42:40.159 Cummings came in, and he goes, and I forgot what 2194 01:42:40.239 --> 01:42:43.520 I was doing. Wow, he goes, I forgot to run 2195 01:42:43.560 --> 01:42:45.720 the faders. I got so into what he was saying. 2196 01:42:46.199 --> 01:42:49.920 And it's not that the other guys weren't terrific. It's 2197 01:42:49.960 --> 01:42:51.600 that Jim brought magic to it. 2198 01:42:51.840 --> 01:42:52.359 Yeah right. 2199 01:42:52.560 --> 01:42:55.439 And that's not only my way of paying a quick 2200 01:42:55.479 --> 01:42:57.439 tribute to you, bro, but it's also my way of 2201 01:42:57.439 --> 01:42:59.600 saying to you guys out there, I just want to 2202 01:42:59.640 --> 01:43:02.239 leave you something positive, because I'm all about being positive. 2203 01:43:02.439 --> 01:43:05.560 And it's like anything that you have inside of you 2204 01:43:05.680 --> 01:43:07.880 that you do that you love to do, Like we 2205 01:43:07.920 --> 01:43:09.680 meet all these kids on the road who do art 2206 01:43:10.119 --> 01:43:12.880 or who sing, or who do voices, or who want 2207 01:43:12.880 --> 01:43:15.439 to be a veterinarian or whatever it is that's in 2208 01:43:15.479 --> 01:43:17.840 your heart to do it. It's there for a reason, 2209 01:43:17.880 --> 01:43:20.560 and the reason is that you can do it. It's 2210 01:43:20.600 --> 01:43:22.960 inside of you to do it. That's why it exists. 2211 01:43:23.359 --> 01:43:26.479 So don't deny it. Don't like say, well, you know 2212 01:43:26.520 --> 01:43:28.560 it's a small group of people that do voice over, 2213 01:43:28.840 --> 01:43:31.000 or I could never be a rock star or a 2214 01:43:31.000 --> 01:43:33.920 pop star because I don't look like this, or you know, well, 2215 01:43:33.960 --> 01:43:36.000 there's so many people trying to do art for Disney. 2216 01:43:36.119 --> 01:43:39.439 I could never do that. Listen, I got in. He 2217 01:43:39.560 --> 01:43:41.760 got in. People get in all the time, and you 2218 01:43:41.760 --> 01:43:44.640 can look for us right exactly. And if it's in 2219 01:43:44.680 --> 01:43:47.840 your heart and you've got skills, use those skills because 2220 01:43:47.840 --> 01:43:48.600 they're there for a reason. 2221 01:43:48.640 --> 01:43:49.079 Beautiful. 2222 01:43:49.279 --> 01:43:53.000 And finally, if you guys are bored, go to rocksugar 2223 01:43:53.079 --> 01:43:56.600 band dot com check out this beatles things. It's it's 2224 01:43:56.640 --> 01:43:58.640 so much fun, I promise you. If I had nothing 2225 01:43:58.640 --> 01:44:00.600 to do with it, I would say, just dig it 2226 01:44:00.680 --> 01:44:04.680 the most. And and the video documentary is almost better 2227 01:44:04.840 --> 01:44:07.560 than the record because you get you get, you get 2228 01:44:07.600 --> 01:44:09.840 to be there and you get to see there and 2229 01:44:09.920 --> 01:44:12.359 share the day with us. So if you're inclined, please 2230 01:44:12.439 --> 01:44:14.079 check it out. Love to hear if you dig it, 2231 01:44:14.079 --> 01:44:14.800 and I hope that you do. 2232 01:44:15.199 --> 01:44:15.720 That's great. 2233 01:44:15.760 --> 01:44:16.039 That's it. 2234 01:44:16.239 --> 01:44:17.159 Thank you so much you. 2235 01:44:17.079 --> 01:44:19.600 Want to enjoy? Man, I swear I could have kept 2236 01:44:19.600 --> 01:44:21.600 talking with you guys for like another month and a half. 2237 01:44:21.640 --> 01:44:24.520 So thanks a lot. Yeah, well you're gonna have to 2238 01:44:24.560 --> 01:44:27.039 come back then. I would love to anytime. And Jimmy, 2239 01:44:27.279 --> 01:44:30.239 you know, man, you know, just what can I say? 2240 01:44:30.319 --> 01:44:36.439 Go us bro rocked it? How about that? 2241 01:44:36.520 --> 01:44:39.000 I think people are gonna love it if you love it? 2242 01:44:39.439 --> 01:44:39.560 Hell? 2243 01:44:39.680 --> 01:44:43.319 Now there she goes back some more voices and yeah, 2244 01:44:43.760 --> 01:44:44.399 war come up. 2245 01:44:44.279 --> 01:44:46.600 With more stuff, man, that's right? Does she come with 2246 01:44:46.600 --> 01:44:55.199 the soundtrack? She walks in the room. Yeah, because it's 2247 01:44:55.800 --> 01:45:02.720 I think, why shouldn't it be because Suiciah? Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, 2248 01:45:03.079 --> 01:45:06.640 what I said. Well, we love you. 2249 01:45:06.720 --> 01:45:10.520 Thanks everybody, Thank you, yes, thank you everybody for watching 2250 01:45:10.520 --> 01:45:14.000 another episode of Tuned In with Jim Cummings. Today we 2251 01:45:14.039 --> 01:45:17.000 had Jess and Cara Harnell. Thank you so much for 2252 01:45:17.039 --> 01:45:22.000 being here. Really appreciate it. Great discussion and as always, 2253 01:45:22.079 --> 01:45:24.439 don't forget to like and subscribe. We are so close 2254 01:45:24.439 --> 01:45:26.520 to one hundred thousand. Can we just have this episode? 2255 01:45:26.560 --> 01:45:32.319 Can we make this episode more subs and then we're there? 2256 01:45:32.720 --> 01:45:36.239 Eighty two of you are not subscribed. Yeah, yeah, we're looking. 2257 01:45:37.159 --> 01:45:39.920 We're looking and talking to you so much. To all 2258 01:45:39.960 --> 01:45:42.840 of our patrons on Patreon. If you don't know, you 2259 01:45:42.880 --> 01:45:45.640 can find bonus content on Patreon. You get early releases, 2260 01:45:45.640 --> 01:45:47.920 you got to see these episodes early, you get a 2261 01:45:47.960 --> 01:45:51.000 whole bunch of additional content. So subscribe to Patreon if 2262 01:45:51.039 --> 01:45:54.399 you like to support, and of course, as always, Jim, 2263 01:45:54.600 --> 01:45:59.560 thank you so much. God blessed and we will see 2264 01:45:59.640 --> 01:46:02.359 you in the next one show next time. 2265 01:46:06.720 --> 01:46:07.159 Mm hmm.