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Hold the old knock gud. 11 00:00:38.840 --> 00:00:41.840 My name is Jim Cummings and welcome to tuned In. 12 00:00:43.799 --> 00:00:46.359 Welcome back, everybody to another episode of Tuned In with 13 00:00:46.439 --> 00:00:49.600 Jim Cummings. Today we have Lee Majdube joining us. Thank 14 00:00:49.600 --> 00:00:50.719 you very much for. 15 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:55.920 Being Yes, and the crowd went wild. Yes, the see 16 00:00:55.960 --> 00:00:58.560 there they are now they are. Thank you for being here. 17 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:00.560 Thank you for thank you, thank you, thank you. We 18 00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:03.560 were in the neighborhood and luckily for us, you were too. 19 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:07.000 I was, I was, I uh, I got the Emailings, 20 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:09.239 I was like, who's this guy? 21 00:01:09.359 --> 00:01:18.480 Wait? Wait, I don't know. No, I was. I was like, yes, yes, territory. Yeah, 22 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:20.680 we're glad you made it. Man, Thank you very much, 23 00:01:20.879 --> 00:01:23.640 very much, thank you, thank you for inviting me. You 24 00:01:23.719 --> 00:01:28.480 are in the process now of what I mean, when's 25 00:01:28.519 --> 00:01:30.560 the next big debut. 26 00:01:31.599 --> 00:01:36.640 We've got so so Sonic three comes out December twentieth, 27 00:01:37.480 --> 00:01:41.200 and we just had the trailer. Trailer came out, yeah 28 00:01:41.239 --> 00:01:44.599 a few days ago. Oh yeah, yeah, and people are 29 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:47.599 loving it. Looks great, I bet yeah. Oh man, And 30 00:01:47.799 --> 00:01:52.879 that is wonderful, good exciting be there, folks. And I 31 00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:54.519 don't think you're going to have any trouble with that. 32 00:01:54.920 --> 00:01:59.079 No, no, no, yeah, right, he great, isn't it. Yeah? 33 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:02.519 And you're Agent Stone. I'm still Agent Stone. 34 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:08.319 Ye, I'm still loyal to uh the doctor Robotanik yes 35 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:13.159 by Jim Carrey, who I'm yeah who Agent Stone is 36 00:02:13.280 --> 00:02:18.120 kind of infatuated with and worships and. 37 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:20.879 Who can who can blame him? Yeah? Exactly. When you're 38 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:23.439 that evil, there's just something about that purity. 39 00:02:23.639 --> 00:02:26.800 It's it's you know, it's it's like he's he knows 40 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:27.919 what he wants. 41 00:02:27.960 --> 00:02:33.800 Something attractive about that and everything. Exactly. Why wouldn't you, Yeah, 42 00:02:33.840 --> 00:02:36.319 if you can nice work, if you can get it 43 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:39.039 like they always say yeah, And and you know I 44 00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:42.439 have to ask you because everybody out there, you know, 45 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:44.639 they're going to say you should to ask him. What 46 00:02:44.639 --> 00:02:47.039 what's Jim Carrey like? What was he like? Is he 47 00:02:47.199 --> 00:02:50.240 is he? Because he's very calm, very laid back in public. 48 00:02:50.639 --> 00:02:52.759 You know, he can't get a rise out of him. 49 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:58.080 He's nuts. But but but he seems like a great guy. 50 00:02:58.120 --> 00:03:00.159 He is, you know, he's Uh. 51 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:03.199 I mean, I can't I can't say enough like I 52 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:08.439 you know, I grew up with with a spener and 53 00:03:08.520 --> 00:03:09.840 all that, and I. 54 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:12.360 Told them all all of what I'm about to tell you. 55 00:03:12.360 --> 00:03:14.400 But when when I was a kid, like growing up 56 00:03:14.479 --> 00:03:16.360 in Ottawa, I got picked on a lot, I got 57 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:20.439 bullied a lot. And uh, I was always like you know, hyperactive, 58 00:03:20.439 --> 00:03:24.439 super energetic, really tough to focus, younger than everybody, tiny 59 00:03:24.479 --> 00:03:27.919 for my age, so easy to pick on. 60 00:03:28.360 --> 00:03:30.240 But then well we do have a few things in 61 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:30.919 common doing. 62 00:03:31.039 --> 00:03:36.520 Yeah, we do high high five bully take that. 63 00:03:36.879 --> 00:03:40.599 Yeah, great, best to just yeah. But we're rich now 64 00:03:40.639 --> 00:03:44.000 how about that? You know I'm almost rich. I'm working 65 00:03:44.039 --> 00:03:47.599 on it. I did this is rich. I'm working on it. Okay, 66 00:03:47.599 --> 00:03:52.120 I made part of that up anyway, Sue, so we're lying. 67 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:55.680 So yeah, So then when Ace came out, A spent 68 00:03:56.000 --> 00:03:58.759 came out. You know, it was the first time I 69 00:03:58.800 --> 00:04:04.400 saw like a lead eating character B kookie B hyperactive. 70 00:04:04.479 --> 00:04:05.759 Yes, well, and. 71 00:04:05.719 --> 00:04:09.639 I started do impersonations of him and kind of started 72 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:12.759 to diminish the bullying in school, like not fully get 73 00:04:12.879 --> 00:04:14.759 rid of it, but it kind of calmed it down 74 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:16.839 a little bit. And then you know, the mask, and 75 00:04:16.879 --> 00:04:19.600 I started doing impersonation of the mask, and then you 76 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:24.439 know the characters and dumb and dumber and so yeah, 77 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:28.800 really kind of felt like, oh, I do have a place. 78 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:31.199 I do have a space, Like it's okay to be 79 00:04:31.439 --> 00:04:32.639 to bounce off the walls. 80 00:04:32.680 --> 00:04:34.920 And I told him like. 81 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:37.120 He opened up that space, Like it was so easy 82 00:04:37.160 --> 00:04:41.399 to work with him, and he was so welcoming and collaborative. 83 00:04:42.519 --> 00:04:45.279 He's an amazing actor. Yeah, people, you know, it's so 84 00:04:45.399 --> 00:04:48.040 he's so outlandish and so over the top that you 85 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:51.160 end up focusing on that and then you realize, wait 86 00:04:51.160 --> 00:04:52.600 a minute, and then he turns around and does the 87 00:04:52.600 --> 00:04:56.279 Truman show. Oh the Truman whoa Man on the Moon? 88 00:04:57.120 --> 00:05:01.120 Yeah, I mean internal sunshine is faultless mind to these day 89 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:04.079 is one of like the most heartbreaking films to watch 90 00:05:04.360 --> 00:05:04.600 for me. 91 00:05:05.079 --> 00:05:09.000 Yeah, I agree. Well, yeah, I'm a huge fan. Yeah. 92 00:05:09.000 --> 00:05:15.120 And he's he's incredibly like so meticulous and so specific 93 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:19.000 and so prepared. And that that's something I learned too, 94 00:05:19.079 --> 00:05:22.319 is that it's so easy to assume, like just as 95 00:05:22.360 --> 00:05:24.639 an audience member, like, oh, he probably shows up the 96 00:05:24.680 --> 00:05:26.879 set and it's just like off the cuff, figure it 97 00:05:26.920 --> 00:05:29.439 out as you go. And what I learned is like, oh, 98 00:05:29.480 --> 00:05:30.240 in order. 99 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:33.879 To be that free, you need to be so prepared. 100 00:05:35.839 --> 00:05:38.519 And that makes perfect sense. Yeah, yeah, and I've got 101 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:39.680 to you have to. 102 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:44.800 I think I think preparation allows you to then let 103 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:48.839 go and and be free. But I don't think you 104 00:05:49.240 --> 00:05:51.879 can if you're kind of just like, you know, throwing 105 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:53.240 everything at the wall and seeing what. 106 00:05:53.879 --> 00:05:57.279 Yeah, no kidding. Yeah, well he's got a lot to throw. Yeah, yeah, 107 00:05:58.199 --> 00:06:02.120 even with that preparation. Yeah with yeah, well that's great. 108 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:08.959 You know, I almost met him. He was there, and 109 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:14.360 this is thirty years ago, a long time ago. It 110 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:16.759 was before he exploded. It was I mean, it was 111 00:06:16.879 --> 00:06:20.120 right before he exploded, because he was coming off the 112 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:26.759 oh god, what was the first big TV show? And yeah, yeah, uh, 113 00:06:27.199 --> 00:06:32.240 and he was insane, and uh, Roger Rabbit had become 114 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:35.120 kind of a famous movie at that point, like a 115 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:37.959 year or two later, and so Disney said, well, let's 116 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:40.959 try and do a character that's kind of Roger Rabbity. 117 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:43.000 It's all going to be animation, but some of the 118 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:46.079 animation will look a little straight and square. But Roger 119 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:50.480 bonkers in this case, balkers the bobcat. He will be 120 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:52.560 the tune and he'll be all over the place. He'll 121 00:06:52.600 --> 00:06:54.639 be bouncing off the walls and this, and that was 122 00:06:54.680 --> 00:06:59.839 that how bonkers? Yeah, that was the template. That was 123 00:06:59.879 --> 00:07:03.160 the that's cool the idea behind it. And so, uh, 124 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:07.680 they auditioned. I have my friend Andre Ramondo. 125 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:09.839 She uh, she. 126 00:07:09.839 --> 00:07:14.120 Said, they did it for months and I auditioned, I 127 00:07:14.120 --> 00:07:18.279 mean everybody every comedian in Hollywood audition that I know, 128 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:22.279 and every voiceover person in Hollywood audition that I know, 129 00:07:22.920 --> 00:07:25.920 and so, uh, you know, I did that. I did 130 00:07:25.959 --> 00:07:28.199 my audition and they said, well, you know what, we'll 131 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:31.000 let you know. So so you go home and you go, okay, fine, 132 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:33.399 as they do as they do, and then we'll let 133 00:07:33.439 --> 00:07:35.319 you know and then you never hear from them. But 134 00:07:35.439 --> 00:07:37.040 they called me back and they said, well, We're just 135 00:07:37.079 --> 00:07:40.360 going to hold on. I've had this kind of happen before, 136 00:07:40.439 --> 00:07:43.160 and so I was like, Okay, we'll hold on till 137 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:45.639 we just have a handful left. Then we're gonna grab 138 00:07:45.639 --> 00:07:47.800 all of you and bring you in here and force 139 00:07:47.839 --> 00:07:49.600 you to arm wrestle each other. 140 00:07:51.040 --> 00:07:54.720 Okay, I guess bonkers as bonkers method. 141 00:07:54.920 --> 00:08:00.279 And and so I showed up and there was Jim Carrey, uh. 142 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:04.439 And there was Matt Matt Matt Frewer, and he was 143 00:08:04.480 --> 00:08:09.560 a character Max's headroom. He was the first digital character whatever. 144 00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:13.120 I don't even can't remember what he did but the show, 145 00:08:13.160 --> 00:08:16.639 but I remember Matt, but I remember, oh, you know 146 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:19.720 that digital guy. So we're all sitting there and they 147 00:08:19.879 --> 00:08:23.360 and they called in I guess alphabetical order. He went 148 00:08:23.399 --> 00:08:25.120 in first, and he stood up and he was all 149 00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:27.680 well dressed and he had a briefcase and he put 150 00:08:27.680 --> 00:08:31.439 his briefcase down and he walked in right like like that. 151 00:08:32.159 --> 00:08:34.639 And you know, fifteen twenty minutes later he came out 152 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:38.200 and he looks as he goes gentlemen, he reaches down 153 00:08:38.200 --> 00:08:47.919 and grabs his briefcase. You may leave there, going may leave, Okay. 154 00:08:49.440 --> 00:08:50.159 Cary. 155 00:08:51.960 --> 00:08:54.600 Just kicked our ass that's pretty good, you know, And 156 00:08:54.639 --> 00:08:56.200 I was feeling good about it. I made it to 157 00:08:56.240 --> 00:08:58.440 the top three, and then Matt went in, and then 158 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:01.279 I went in, and then some I ended up with it. 159 00:09:01.559 --> 00:09:05.440 I was probably cheaper, you know, I mean that was 160 00:09:05.559 --> 00:09:09.799 probably it, But I mean was it was like did 161 00:09:09.799 --> 00:09:13.159 everybody know of Jim at that time? Like, well, yeah, 162 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:15.919 I did right right, you know Fireman, Uh, you know 163 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:21.960 Marshall Bill, I don't even know how. Yeah. Then he 164 00:09:22.080 --> 00:09:25.320 realized he he wasn't marrying wearing makeup. He did that 165 00:09:25.480 --> 00:09:28.679 to his face. It's still it's still it's hard to 166 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:29.159 look at it. 167 00:09:29.159 --> 00:09:33.000 A little bit of them yeah, and and uh and 168 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:35.559 witness it in person and just like. 169 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:40.279 It's like transforming. You know, if he went like this, 170 00:09:40.399 --> 00:09:44.120 I wouldn't be surprised and pulled something off. He probably 171 00:09:44.159 --> 00:09:48.120 could do something that didn't look like he pulled. Yeah. Yeah, 172 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:52.480 there's another face under yeah, and there's the gridg yeah, 173 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:53.200 which he can do. 174 00:09:53.279 --> 00:09:56.440 It's it's incredible that that smile, that Grinch smiles just 175 00:09:56.600 --> 00:09:58.440 it's like no prosthetic help. 176 00:09:58.320 --> 00:09:59.279 It's him. 177 00:09:59.639 --> 00:10:03.080 Yeah. Yeah, it's incredible. Yeah. I read that, and it 178 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:04.720 was and it was hard to believe. 179 00:10:04.720 --> 00:10:08.000 I'm going He did it during an interview for Sonic 180 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:11.919 one or two and they were talking to him about 181 00:10:11.960 --> 00:10:14.759 about the Grinch, and he just looked a camera and 182 00:10:14.879 --> 00:10:15.799 slowly had the. 183 00:10:17.879 --> 00:10:19.919 Out. Yeah. 184 00:10:19.960 --> 00:10:22.919 And it's it's still like, you know, it's one of 185 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:26.279 those things where you become you become co workers, you're 186 00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:28.519 working together, you get to know each other, and still 187 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:31.919 there's these moments of like having to take. 188 00:10:32.200 --> 00:10:37.000 A step back. Whoa feeling like that kid watching it? Yeah, 189 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:39.240 you know, this is it. It's insane. 190 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:43.000 What what we get to do and what you've been 191 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:47.600 able to do, and how how so many like I 192 00:10:47.600 --> 00:10:49.480 don't know how he's affected so many people, How you've 193 00:10:49.480 --> 00:10:50.679 affected so many people? 194 00:10:50.840 --> 00:10:53.480 How what we do affect Oh? Yeah, well you too. 195 00:10:53.519 --> 00:10:56.840 You're you're in the mix now you're stuck. Yeah, you're 196 00:10:56.960 --> 00:11:00.440 you're in that yeah, stuck here? Yeah. Do you end 197 00:11:00.519 --> 00:11:03.000 up doing a lot of conventions now these days are 198 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:06.240 starting starting to imagine? Yeah. 199 00:11:06.320 --> 00:11:13.159 I did a Sonic one called Sonic Expo recently, and 200 00:11:13.960 --> 00:11:16.879 it's I engage with fans quite a bit on social media. 201 00:11:17.039 --> 00:11:19.960 Oh good, And I mean for me, it's not just 202 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:25.200 Sonic related. I tend to try to focus on kind 203 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:27.679 of like everything I needed to maybe hear when I 204 00:11:27.720 --> 00:11:30.879 was younger or that's hardest starting out. So it's always 205 00:11:30.919 --> 00:11:33.960 it's always talking about you know, mental health, the challenges. 206 00:11:34.320 --> 00:11:36.399 If you have a dream, just keep pursuing it, no 207 00:11:36.440 --> 00:11:39.200 matter how many times you hear no, your heart's still 208 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:39.519 in it. 209 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:40.200 You know. 210 00:11:40.879 --> 00:11:44.120 One thing I was told that really helped me along 211 00:11:44.159 --> 00:11:46.759 the way was if your heart is in line with 212 00:11:46.840 --> 00:11:51.080 it and you work hard, it's not a matter of 213 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:53.480 if it will happen, it's a matter of when it will. 214 00:11:53.559 --> 00:11:53.679 HM. 215 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:56.240 So as long as you just stick with it long enough, 216 00:11:56.320 --> 00:11:58.240 that's a good way something will work out. 217 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:01.159 And so would you say it again, I'm gonna write 218 00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:04.200 that day if if, but yeah, that's a good one. 219 00:12:04.240 --> 00:12:09.759 You're gonna get there. Oh man, Yeah, that's a good 220 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:11.200 way to put it. That's what I said. Well, and 221 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:12.799 that really that really helped me. 222 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:15.279 And so I just tried to spread that on social 223 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:19.000 media and and then getting to know the Sonic fans 224 00:12:19.000 --> 00:12:21.960 and meeting them in person, and and you know, there 225 00:12:22.039 --> 00:12:24.519 was there was one family that said they had driven 226 00:12:24.600 --> 00:12:30.360 from San Antonio to l A to have. 227 00:12:30.240 --> 00:12:32.960 His daughter met Agent Stone. He's like all she wanted 228 00:12:32.960 --> 00:12:37.960 to do. I was like, dry He's like. 229 00:12:38.799 --> 00:12:41.600 You know, anything for my family, and she she she 230 00:12:41.639 --> 00:12:45.200 doesn't ask for much and wows the one thing, you know, 231 00:12:45.200 --> 00:12:47.120 when I asked her, hey, you know, like we'd like 232 00:12:47.159 --> 00:12:47.879 to do something for you. 233 00:12:47.919 --> 00:12:49.600 What do you want to do? And she was like, 234 00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:51.879 can we go? 235 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:55.399 Showed up and and it happens a lot. But you know, 236 00:12:55.480 --> 00:12:56.759 I had people dressed up. 237 00:12:56.679 --> 00:13:02.639 As agents stone and I think it's easy to forget amazing. 238 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:07.399 Like some people yeah yeah yeah. 239 00:13:06.200 --> 00:13:09.159 Or people dressed as robotic would would see me just 240 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:10.759 walking around and they'd be like. 241 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:13.120 Oh, that's wonderful, a little. 242 00:13:12.919 --> 00:13:19.000 Wave, take a picture, it's it's it's incredible, and. 243 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:20.840 That that's got to be a little bit surreal for them. 244 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:26.120 It is for you to just I think, and I 245 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:29.799 don't know if you go through it, but it's easy 246 00:13:29.799 --> 00:13:32.080 for me. Sometimes when things slow down, it's easy to 247 00:13:32.159 --> 00:13:35.919 feel like, oh wait, hold on, this is it or 248 00:13:36.080 --> 00:13:40.200 I'm never going to work again, or oh maybe maybe 249 00:13:40.240 --> 00:13:43.440 I've been lied to. Maybe there's no traction, no momentum, 250 00:13:43.480 --> 00:13:46.879 no such thing. And then you know, I interact with 251 00:13:46.919 --> 00:13:51.159 people and get reminded of oh right, no, this this 252 00:13:51.240 --> 00:13:52.799 effects in such. 253 00:13:52.600 --> 00:13:56.120 A large Oh yeah, you know, I'm okay. Yeah, I 254 00:13:56.120 --> 00:14:00.559 would think. So that's the last thing I've ever done. Yeah, 255 00:14:00.600 --> 00:14:02.840 I'm good. I thought the same thing when I did 256 00:14:02.919 --> 00:14:06.480 Dumbo's Circus. Well, at least I could say I did 257 00:14:06.559 --> 00:14:10.919 this right, you know, But coming from you, it sounds like, yeah, 258 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:14.399 Tom Hanks, poor you were You did that one movie 259 00:14:14.399 --> 00:14:16.919 and I don't know if it's gonna work out. Yeah, 260 00:14:16.919 --> 00:14:19.679 we're worried about this guy on we folks y. Yeah, 261 00:14:19.759 --> 00:14:23.559 too bad. You're not a good looking cuss. But no, 262 00:14:23.639 --> 00:14:26.120 a fake. It's all fake. This is hours and hour. 263 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:28.759 Oh yeah, work, yeah, okay, now you're the one that's 264 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:36.759 gonna go, jock man, that's wonderful. Dumbo's Circus was that 265 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:42.399 before the film or after? Oh well no, well the 266 00:14:42.399 --> 00:14:45.759 film I think was nineteen forty two, so that was Yeah. 267 00:14:45.799 --> 00:14:48.240 The movie was so easy because I watched them as kids. 268 00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:51.679 They're all the same line. So yeah, oh I know. 269 00:14:51.960 --> 00:14:54.200 Well that's one of the cool things about Disney. Plus 270 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:56.200 coming back, all the stuff that I did watch when 271 00:14:56.200 --> 00:14:58.799 I was four is on there or you know what 272 00:14:58.840 --> 00:15:00.600 I mean, all the first thing so to a s Dumbo, 273 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:05.480 Oh yeah, yeah, I think everybody. Yeah, well, those those movies, 274 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:10.519 and I'm sure while plan that they never really get old. No, 275 00:15:10.799 --> 00:15:13.799 And I've said this about like the Winnie the Pooh 276 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:18.200 and Tigger franchise. They're making new poo fans every three years, 277 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:20.120 you know, fresh crop. 278 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:23.279 But you know it's because the story just makes so 279 00:15:23.399 --> 00:15:26.159 much like the stories that get told in Winnie the 280 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:29.000 Pooh are just they're ageless. 281 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:31.879 It's everybody goes through, there's a little parable in there 282 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:33.279 and everything. 283 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:37.440 Everybody wants those friends, and everybody has little challenges, and 284 00:15:37.480 --> 00:15:39.960 it's like, you know, just get after it, you. 285 00:15:39.879 --> 00:15:44.360 Know, yeah, just keep on, keep on. That's that's what 286 00:15:44.399 --> 00:15:47.799 you gotta do. I want, I wanted to, I wanted to. 287 00:15:48.039 --> 00:15:51.120 I wanted to copy you, but I can't do the Tiggers. 288 00:15:51.840 --> 00:15:55.080 So I gave it up immediately. I'm not coming for you. 289 00:15:55.279 --> 00:15:59.720 I'm not coming for you. Thank you for that, ladies, 290 00:15:59.799 --> 00:16:02.159 John what we could cross that one off the list? 291 00:16:02.600 --> 00:16:08.879 That was a question are you coming? That's wonderful? So 292 00:16:09.240 --> 00:16:12.440 big movie coming out now? Do you get do they 293 00:16:12.519 --> 00:16:15.360 send you on junkets? Should we be looking? You know? 294 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:18.960 Like so on the on the first one, I didn't. 295 00:16:20.120 --> 00:16:25.200 Because initially Agent Stone wasn't much of of a character. 296 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:28.320 He's growing, and he grew while like it was, it 297 00:16:28.399 --> 00:16:31.679 was meeting with Jim on set, and Jim took a 298 00:16:31.720 --> 00:16:34.440 liking to me, and we started to work really well 299 00:16:34.480 --> 00:16:37.600 together and come up with ideas, and with the director, 300 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:40.559 we just started to kind of come up with more 301 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:43.919 for that team of Robotnic and Stone and give them 302 00:16:43.919 --> 00:16:46.440 more of a personality. And so in Sonic Too, I 303 00:16:46.480 --> 00:16:47.919 got to do a junket, but I think it was 304 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:49.919 just because it was post COVID, so they. 305 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:52.879 Had some people in l A. I was here doing. 306 00:16:52.679 --> 00:16:58.200 It virtually, So I mean, fingers cross. 307 00:16:58.279 --> 00:17:01.039 Hopefully I get to do it in personal. Oh yeah, yeah, 308 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:01.759 that'll be nice. 309 00:17:01.799 --> 00:17:03.639 It's still a bucket list thing. I haven't done a 310 00:17:03.799 --> 00:17:05.000 proper junket yet. 311 00:17:05.480 --> 00:17:06.400 Oh there you go. Yeah. 312 00:17:06.720 --> 00:17:08.319 Were you a fan of Sonic growing up? 313 00:17:08.599 --> 00:17:08.880 Yeah? 314 00:17:09.279 --> 00:17:12.599 Yeah, I mean Sonic two was the first game I 315 00:17:13.440 --> 00:17:16.200 had personally that was like my own. It was the 316 00:17:16.200 --> 00:17:20.599 Saga Genesis was the first console and on sale, and 317 00:17:20.759 --> 00:17:22.480 Sonic two came with it. 318 00:17:22.680 --> 00:17:24.240 And yeah, so it was. 319 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:26.960 The first video Sonic two, meaning the video Yeah, the 320 00:17:27.039 --> 00:17:28.039 video game Sonic two. 321 00:17:28.200 --> 00:17:35.759 Yeah, was you know that little that I can't now 322 00:17:35.799 --> 00:17:37.599 I can't remember the damn tune, but you know the 323 00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:43.279 one the Sonic one. Yeah, they always have. Yeah, yeah, 324 00:17:43.319 --> 00:17:48.160 what was little background music? Right? You know, I try 325 00:17:48.200 --> 00:17:50.000 to remember it now, I'm just like, I don't hear 326 00:17:50.119 --> 00:17:52.279 what you're saying, you know, I just hold on. 327 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:54.640 I'm like, there's so many different notes now and I 328 00:17:54.759 --> 00:17:57.559 just heard it recently and I'm like, yeah, now I'm stuck. 329 00:17:57.599 --> 00:18:00.680 Now now I'm like glit, my brains glitching, Like I 330 00:18:00.880 --> 00:18:04.319 remember the title screen and the stars Sonic and. 331 00:18:04.200 --> 00:18:07.920 With the Yeah, I think I always defaulted Donkey Kong, 332 00:18:08.039 --> 00:18:10.440 damn it. Yeah that might have been. It might have 333 00:18:10.440 --> 00:18:18.640 been dear you sing a Nintendo song to a Genesis 334 00:18:19.400 --> 00:18:22.279 Genesis person No, but yeah, yeah. 335 00:18:22.319 --> 00:18:24.920 It was the first video game that I that was mine. 336 00:18:25.279 --> 00:18:28.720 And funny enough, I've never been good at. 337 00:18:28.640 --> 00:18:31.720 The Sonic games. I'm a big I'm an avid same gamer. 338 00:18:31.799 --> 00:18:33.039 I love video games. 339 00:18:33.079 --> 00:18:37.079 I played video games during COVID. I was doing live 340 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:40.839 streaming on Twitch and oh yeah and everything and did 341 00:18:40.839 --> 00:18:42.160 you did you play Sonic? 342 00:18:42.359 --> 00:18:44.279 Yeah? I played Sonic growing up. I had the second 343 00:18:44.279 --> 00:18:45.160 Genesis as well. 344 00:18:45.359 --> 00:18:45.720 Yeah. 345 00:18:45.799 --> 00:18:48.680 Yeah, I don't remember much about the game. I need 346 00:18:48.680 --> 00:18:50.920 to replay it. I just remember like the they had, 347 00:18:50.960 --> 00:18:51.960 like the loop, the loops. 348 00:18:52.200 --> 00:18:58.039 I just remember button mashing having him too. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, 349 00:18:58.079 --> 00:19:00.920 that was that was that was the I just spent 350 00:19:01.079 --> 00:19:02.599 so much time get launched. 351 00:19:02.920 --> 00:19:04.319 Yeah yeah, I don't remember. 352 00:19:04.519 --> 00:19:06.599 Go off a ramp and then bounce off of like 353 00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:11.359 trampolines and lose all your rings and oh man, die. 354 00:19:11.480 --> 00:19:13.799 Hated losing the rings. I can hear that noise, Yeah, 355 00:19:13.839 --> 00:19:14.359 I can hear it. 356 00:19:14.680 --> 00:19:20.480 Yeah, yeah, sound of dismal failure. 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Did you watch the cartoons? 364 00:19:47.640 --> 00:19:51.480 I watched I watched a bit of the Saturday Morning cartoons, 365 00:19:52.440 --> 00:19:57.000 and uh, yeah, they were they were quite random, I remember, 366 00:19:58.000 --> 00:20:02.720 not very associated with the video game, but yeah, predominantly 367 00:20:02.720 --> 00:20:04.519 it was the video games and kind of like, oh, 368 00:20:04.599 --> 00:20:08.440 if I caught it on time on like Saturday morning. 369 00:20:08.400 --> 00:20:11.960 Yeah, I'd watch it. I heard that you had been 370 00:20:12.480 --> 00:20:15.759 a voice or no, I was just about to mention 371 00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:23.319 that funny you should bring it up. Yeah, no, but 372 00:20:23.400 --> 00:20:27.319 I I played Sonic. I mean, I played Robotnik and 373 00:20:27.359 --> 00:20:30.079 it wasn't egg Man, which and I was glad when 374 00:20:30.119 --> 00:20:31.720 they came out with the movies that they didn't call 375 00:20:31.759 --> 00:20:34.480 him eg Man, yeah, because I was like, oh man, Now, 376 00:20:34.519 --> 00:20:37.640 I can't say I was that guy, right, But but 377 00:20:38.319 --> 00:20:40.799 I can't believe Jim still following me around after all 378 00:20:40.799 --> 00:20:43.480 these years. I know, but he told you, he told 379 00:20:43.519 --> 00:20:44.759 you back then. 380 00:20:44.440 --> 00:20:47.079 You can go, yeah, yeah, what is what is the 381 00:20:47.119 --> 00:20:50.440 difference between Eggman and robot Nick? I think I need 382 00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:51.480 to know once and for all. 383 00:20:51.599 --> 00:20:54.519 Yeah, I think because it's the same character, isn't it? 384 00:20:54.559 --> 00:20:56.400 Is it not the same character? I think it's the 385 00:20:56.480 --> 00:21:00.720 same character, like the same thing. If I'm not mistaken. 386 00:21:01.920 --> 00:21:05.160 And the fans are gonna riot if I get this right. 387 00:21:05.039 --> 00:21:09.720 Now they know it's one. One is like. 388 00:21:10.599 --> 00:21:16.880 Japanese, I think the translation, and then one is American 389 00:21:16.960 --> 00:21:19.240 or North American used. And I can't remember if it 390 00:21:19.319 --> 00:21:23.839 was egg Man came from the Japanese iteration or Robotnick. 391 00:21:24.240 --> 00:21:26.599 I think I think it was Robotnick did right, because 392 00:21:27.319 --> 00:21:31.400 I remember years when when they did. I think it 393 00:21:31.440 --> 00:21:34.440 was a sixty five episode. Serious, but it was done 394 00:21:34.440 --> 00:21:37.960 in Canada, and he was egg Man, okay, and everybody, 395 00:21:38.119 --> 00:21:40.759 and everybody had conventions like still, they'll see the picture. 396 00:21:40.960 --> 00:21:42.880 I didn't know you were egg Man. I go, well, 397 00:21:43.000 --> 00:21:45.160 I kind of am, but not really because yeah, it 398 00:21:45.240 --> 00:21:49.160 was Robotnick. And I was really glad when Jim Carrey 399 00:21:49.200 --> 00:21:53.119 came out and was Robotnick and yes, okay, good now. 400 00:21:53.799 --> 00:21:55.759 Yeah, we have a couple of little like wink wink 401 00:21:56.079 --> 00:22:01.039