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Speaker 2: Welcome back, everybody to another episode of Tuned In with
Speaker 2: Jim Cummings. Today we have Lee Majdube joining us. Thank
Speaker 2: you very much for.
Speaker 1: Being Yes, and the crowd went wild. Yes, the see
Speaker 1: there they are now they are. Thank you for being here.
Speaker 1: Thank you for thank you, thank you, thank you. We
Speaker 1: were in the neighborhood and luckily for us, you were too.
Speaker 3: I was, I was, I uh, I got the Emailings,
Speaker 3: I was like, who's this guy?
Speaker 1: Wait? Wait, I don't know. No, I was. I was like, yes, yes, territory. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're glad you made it. Man, Thank you very much,
Speaker 1: very much, thank you, thank you for inviting me. You
Speaker 1: are in the process now of what I mean, when's
Speaker 1: the next big debut.
Speaker 3: We've got so so Sonic three comes out December twentieth,
Speaker 3: and we just had the trailer. Trailer came out, yeah
Speaker 3: a few days ago. Oh yeah, yeah, and people are
Speaker 3: loving it. Looks great, I bet yeah. Oh man, And
Speaker 3: that is wonderful, good exciting be there, folks. And I
Speaker 3: don't think you're going to have any trouble with that.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, yeah, right, he great, isn't it. Yeah?
Speaker 1: And you're Agent Stone. I'm still Agent Stone.
Speaker 3: Ye, I'm still loyal to uh the doctor Robotanik yes
Speaker 3: by Jim Carrey, who I'm yeah who Agent Stone is
Speaker 3: kind of infatuated with and worships and.
Speaker 1: Who can who can blame him? Yeah? Exactly. When you're
Speaker 1: that evil, there's just something about that purity.
Speaker 3: It's it's you know, it's it's like he's he knows
Speaker 3: what he wants.
Speaker 1: Something attractive about that and everything. Exactly. Why wouldn't you, Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you can nice work, if you can get it
Speaker 1: like they always say yeah, And and you know I
Speaker 1: have to ask you because everybody out there, you know,
Speaker 1: they're going to say you should to ask him. What
Speaker 1: what's Jim Carrey like? What was he like? Is he
Speaker 1: is he? Because he's very calm, very laid back in public.
Speaker 1: You know, he can't get a rise out of him.
Speaker 1: He's nuts. But but but he seems like a great guy.
Speaker 1: He is, you know, he's Uh.
Speaker 3: I mean, I can't I can't say enough like I
Speaker 3: you know, I grew up with with a spener and
Speaker 3: all that, and I.
Speaker 1: Told them all all of what I'm about to tell you.
Speaker 3: But when when I was a kid, like growing up
Speaker 3: in Ottawa, I got picked on a lot, I got
Speaker 3: bullied a lot. And uh, I was always like you know, hyperactive,
Speaker 3: super energetic, really tough to focus, younger than everybody, tiny
Speaker 3: for my age, so easy to pick on.
Speaker 1: But then well we do have a few things in
Speaker 1: common doing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we do high high five bully take that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, great, best to just yeah. But we're rich now
Speaker 1: how about that? You know I'm almost rich. I'm working
Speaker 1: on it. I did this is rich. I'm working on it. Okay,
Speaker 1: I made part of that up anyway, Sue, so we're lying.
Speaker 3: So yeah, So then when Ace came out, A spent
Speaker 3: came out. You know, it was the first time I
Speaker 3: saw like a lead eating character B kookie B hyperactive.
Speaker 1: Yes, well, and.
Speaker 3: I started do impersonations of him and kind of started
Speaker 3: to diminish the bullying in school, like not fully get
Speaker 3: rid of it, but it kind of calmed it down
Speaker 3: a little bit. And then you know, the mask, and
Speaker 3: I started doing impersonation of the mask, and then you
Speaker 3: know the characters and dumb and dumber and so yeah,
Speaker 3: really kind of felt like, oh, I do have a place.
Speaker 3: I do have a space, Like it's okay to be
Speaker 3: to bounce off the walls.
Speaker 1: And I told him like.
Speaker 3: He opened up that space, Like it was so easy
Speaker 3: to work with him, and he was so welcoming and collaborative.
Speaker 1: He's an amazing actor. Yeah, people, you know, it's so
Speaker 1: he's so outlandish and so over the top that you
Speaker 1: end up focusing on that and then you realize, wait
Speaker 1: a minute, and then he turns around and does the
Speaker 1: Truman show. Oh the Truman whoa Man on the Moon?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean internal sunshine is faultless mind to these day
Speaker 3: is one of like the most heartbreaking films to watch
Speaker 3: for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. Well, yeah, I'm a huge fan. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And he's he's incredibly like so meticulous and so specific
Speaker 3: and so prepared. And that that's something I learned too,
Speaker 3: is that it's so easy to assume, like just as
Speaker 3: an audience member, like, oh, he probably shows up the
Speaker 3: set and it's just like off the cuff, figure it
Speaker 3: out as you go. And what I learned is like, oh,
Speaker 3: in order.
Speaker 1: To be that free, you need to be so prepared.
Speaker 1: And that makes perfect sense. Yeah, yeah, and I've got
Speaker 1: to you have to.
Speaker 3: I think I think preparation allows you to then let
Speaker 3: go and and be free. But I don't think you
Speaker 3: can if you're kind of just like, you know, throwing
Speaker 3: everything at the wall and seeing what.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no kidding. Yeah, well he's got a lot to throw. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: even with that preparation. Yeah with yeah, well that's great.
Speaker 1: You know, I almost met him. He was there, and
Speaker 1: this is thirty years ago, a long time ago. It
Speaker 1: was before he exploded. It was I mean, it was
Speaker 1: right before he exploded, because he was coming off the
Speaker 1: oh god, what was the first big TV show? And yeah, yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: and he was insane, and uh, Roger Rabbit had become
Speaker 1: kind of a famous movie at that point, like a
Speaker 1: year or two later, and so Disney said, well, let's
Speaker 1: try and do a character that's kind of Roger Rabbity.
Speaker 1: It's all going to be animation, but some of the
Speaker 1: animation will look a little straight and square. But Roger
Speaker 1: bonkers in this case, balkers the bobcat. He will be
Speaker 1: the tune and he'll be all over the place. He'll
Speaker 1: be bouncing off the walls and this, and that was
Speaker 1: that how bonkers? Yeah, that was the template. That was
Speaker 1: the that's cool the idea behind it. And so, uh,
Speaker 1: they auditioned. I have my friend Andre Ramondo.
Speaker 2: She uh, she.
Speaker 1: Said, they did it for months and I auditioned, I
Speaker 1: mean everybody every comedian in Hollywood audition that I know,
Speaker 1: and every voiceover person in Hollywood audition that I know,
Speaker 1: and so, uh, you know, I did that. I did
Speaker 1: my audition and they said, well, you know what, we'll
Speaker 1: let you know. So so you go home and you go, okay, fine,
Speaker 1: as they do as they do, and then we'll let
Speaker 1: you know and then you never hear from them. But
Speaker 1: they called me back and they said, well, We're just
Speaker 1: going to hold on. I've had this kind of happen before,
Speaker 1: and so I was like, Okay, we'll hold on till
Speaker 1: we just have a handful left. Then we're gonna grab
Speaker 1: all of you and bring you in here and force
Speaker 1: you to arm wrestle each other.
Speaker 3: Okay, I guess bonkers as bonkers method.
Speaker 1: And and so I showed up and there was Jim Carrey, uh.
Speaker 1: And there was Matt Matt Matt Frewer, and he was
Speaker 1: a character Max's headroom. He was the first digital character whatever.
Speaker 1: I don't even can't remember what he did but the show,
Speaker 1: but I remember Matt, but I remember, oh, you know
Speaker 1: that digital guy. So we're all sitting there and they
Speaker 1: and they called in I guess alphabetical order. He went
Speaker 1: in first, and he stood up and he was all
Speaker 1: well dressed and he had a briefcase and he put
Speaker 1: his briefcase down and he walked in right like like that.
Speaker 1: And you know, fifteen twenty minutes later he came out
Speaker 1: and he looks as he goes gentlemen, he reaches down
Speaker 1: and grabs his briefcase. You may leave there, going may leave, Okay.
Speaker 4: Cary.
Speaker 1: Just kicked our ass that's pretty good, you know, And
Speaker 1: I was feeling good about it. I made it to
Speaker 1: the top three, and then Matt went in, and then
Speaker 1: I went in, and then some I ended up with it.
Speaker 1: I was probably cheaper, you know, I mean that was
Speaker 1: probably it, But I mean was it was like did
Speaker 1: everybody know of Jim at that time? Like, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I did right right, you know Fireman, Uh, you know
Speaker 1: Marshall Bill, I don't even know how. Yeah. Then he
Speaker 1: realized he he wasn't marrying wearing makeup. He did that
Speaker 1: to his face. It's still it's still it's hard to
Speaker 1: look at it.
Speaker 3: A little bit of them yeah, and and uh and
Speaker 3: witness it in person and just like.
Speaker 1: It's like transforming. You know, if he went like this,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised and pulled something off. He probably
Speaker 1: could do something that didn't look like he pulled. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's another face under yeah, and there's the gridg yeah,
Speaker 1: which he can do.
Speaker 3: It's it's incredible that that smile, that Grinch smiles just
Speaker 3: it's like no prosthetic help.
Speaker 2: It's him.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's incredible. Yeah. I read that, and it
Speaker 1: was and it was hard to believe.
Speaker 3: I'm going He did it during an interview for Sonic
Speaker 3: one or two and they were talking to him about
Speaker 3: about the Grinch, and he just looked a camera and
Speaker 3: slowly had the.
Speaker 1: Out. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And it's it's still like, you know, it's one of
Speaker 3: those things where you become you become co workers, you're
Speaker 3: working together, you get to know each other, and still
Speaker 3: there's these moments of like having to take.
Speaker 1: A step back. Whoa feeling like that kid watching it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, this is it. It's insane.
Speaker 3: What what we get to do and what you've been
Speaker 3: able to do, and how how so many like I
Speaker 3: don't know how he's affected so many people, How you've
Speaker 3: affected so many people?
Speaker 1: How what we do affect Oh? Yeah, well you too.
Speaker 1: You're you're in the mix now you're stuck. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: you're in that yeah, stuck here? Yeah. Do you end
Speaker 1: up doing a lot of conventions now these days are
Speaker 1: starting starting to imagine? Yeah.
Speaker 3: I did a Sonic one called Sonic Expo recently, and
Speaker 3: it's I engage with fans quite a bit on social media.
Speaker 3: Oh good, And I mean for me, it's not just
Speaker 3: Sonic related. I tend to try to focus on kind
Speaker 3: of like everything I needed to maybe hear when I
Speaker 3: was younger or that's hardest starting out. So it's always
Speaker 3: it's always talking about you know, mental health, the challenges.
Speaker 3: If you have a dream, just keep pursuing it, no
Speaker 3: matter how many times you hear no, your heart's still
Speaker 3: in it.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: One thing I was told that really helped me along
Speaker 3: the way was if your heart is in line with
Speaker 3: it and you work hard, it's not a matter of
Speaker 3: if it will happen, it's a matter of when it will.
Speaker 1: HM.
Speaker 3: So as long as you just stick with it long enough,
Speaker 3: that's a good way something will work out.
Speaker 1: And so would you say it again, I'm gonna write
Speaker 1: that day if if, but yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get there. Oh man, Yeah, that's a good
Speaker 1: way to put it. That's what I said. Well, and
Speaker 1: that really that really helped me.
Speaker 3: And so I just tried to spread that on social
Speaker 3: media and and then getting to know the Sonic fans
Speaker 3: and meeting them in person, and and you know, there
Speaker 3: was there was one family that said they had driven
Speaker 3: from San Antonio to l A to have.
Speaker 1: His daughter met Agent Stone. He's like all she wanted
Speaker 1: to do. I was like, dry He's like.
Speaker 3: You know, anything for my family, and she she she
Speaker 3: doesn't ask for much and wows the one thing, you know,
Speaker 3: when I asked her, hey, you know, like we'd like
Speaker 3: to do something for you.
Speaker 1: What do you want to do? And she was like,
Speaker 1: can we go?
Speaker 3: Showed up and and it happens a lot. But you know,
Speaker 3: I had people dressed up.
Speaker 1: As agents stone and I think it's easy to forget amazing.
Speaker 1: Like some people yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: Or people dressed as robotic would would see me just
Speaker 3: walking around and they'd be like.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's wonderful, a little.
Speaker 3: Wave, take a picture, it's it's it's incredible, and.
Speaker 1: That that's got to be a little bit surreal for them.
Speaker 3: It is for you to just I think, and I
Speaker 3: don't know if you go through it, but it's easy
Speaker 3: for me. Sometimes when things slow down, it's easy to
Speaker 3: feel like, oh wait, hold on, this is it or
Speaker 3: I'm never going to work again, or oh maybe maybe
Speaker 3: I've been lied to. Maybe there's no traction, no momentum,
Speaker 3: no such thing. And then you know, I interact with
Speaker 3: people and get reminded of oh right, no, this this
Speaker 3: effects in such.
Speaker 1: A large Oh yeah, you know, I'm okay. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: would think. So that's the last thing I've ever done. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm good. I thought the same thing when I did
Speaker 1: Dumbo's Circus. Well, at least I could say I did
Speaker 1: this right, you know, But coming from you, it sounds like, yeah,
Speaker 1: Tom Hanks, poor you were You did that one movie
Speaker 1: and I don't know if it's gonna work out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're worried about this guy on we folks y. Yeah,
Speaker 1: too bad. You're not a good looking cuss. But no,
Speaker 1: a fake. It's all fake. This is hours and hour.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, work, yeah, okay, now you're the one that's
Speaker 1: gonna go, jock man, that's wonderful. Dumbo's Circus was that
Speaker 1: before the film or after? Oh well no, well the
Speaker 1: film I think was nineteen forty two, so that was Yeah.
Speaker 1: The movie was so easy because I watched them as kids.
Speaker 1: They're all the same line. So yeah, oh I know.
Speaker 1: Well that's one of the cool things about Disney. Plus
Speaker 1: coming back, all the stuff that I did watch when
Speaker 1: I was four is on there or you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, all the first thing so to a s Dumbo,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I think everybody. Yeah, well, those those movies,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure while plan that they never really get old. No,
Speaker 1: And I've said this about like the Winnie the Pooh
Speaker 1: and Tigger franchise. They're making new poo fans every three years,
Speaker 1: you know, fresh crop.
Speaker 3: But you know it's because the story just makes so
Speaker 3: much like the stories that get told in Winnie the
Speaker 3: Pooh are just they're ageless.
Speaker 1: It's everybody goes through, there's a little parable in there
Speaker 1: and everything.
Speaker 3: Everybody wants those friends, and everybody has little challenges, and
Speaker 3: it's like, you know, just get after it, you.
Speaker 1: Know, yeah, just keep on, keep on. That's that's what
Speaker 1: you gotta do. I want, I wanted to, I wanted to.
Speaker 3: I wanted to copy you, but I can't do the Tiggers.
Speaker 1: So I gave it up immediately. I'm not coming for you.
Speaker 1: I'm not coming for you. Thank you for that, ladies,
Speaker 1: John what we could cross that one off the list?
Speaker 1: That was a question are you coming? That's wonderful? So
Speaker 1: big movie coming out now? Do you get do they
Speaker 1: send you on junkets? Should we be looking? You know?
Speaker 1: Like so on the on the first one, I didn't.
Speaker 3: Because initially Agent Stone wasn't much of of a character.
Speaker 3: He's growing, and he grew while like it was, it
Speaker 3: was meeting with Jim on set, and Jim took a
Speaker 3: liking to me, and we started to work really well
Speaker 3: together and come up with ideas, and with the director,
Speaker 3: we just started to kind of come up with more
Speaker 3: for that team of Robotnic and Stone and give them
Speaker 3: more of a personality. And so in Sonic Too, I
Speaker 3: got to do a junket, but I think it was
Speaker 3: just because it was post COVID, so they.
Speaker 1: Had some people in l A. I was here doing.
Speaker 3: It virtually, So I mean, fingers cross.
Speaker 1: Hopefully I get to do it in personal. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that'll be nice.
Speaker 3: It's still a bucket list thing. I haven't done a
Speaker 3: proper junket yet.
Speaker 1: Oh there you go. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Were you a fan of Sonic growing up?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Sonic two was the first game I
Speaker 3: had personally that was like my own. It was the
Speaker 3: Saga Genesis was the first console and on sale, and
Speaker 3: Sonic two came with it.
Speaker 1: And yeah, so it was.
Speaker 3: The first video Sonic two, meaning the video Yeah, the
Speaker 3: video game Sonic two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, was you know that little that I can't now
Speaker 1: I can't remember the damn tune, but you know the
Speaker 1: one the Sonic one. Yeah, they always have. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: what was little background music? Right? You know, I try
Speaker 1: to remember it now, I'm just like, I don't hear
Speaker 1: what you're saying, you know, I just hold on.
Speaker 3: I'm like, there's so many different notes now and I
Speaker 3: just heard it recently and I'm like, yeah, now I'm stuck.
Speaker 3: Now now I'm like glit, my brains glitching, Like I
Speaker 3: remember the title screen and the stars Sonic and.
Speaker 1: With the Yeah, I think I always defaulted Donkey Kong,
Speaker 1: damn it. Yeah that might have been. It might have
Speaker 1: been dear you sing a Nintendo song to a Genesis
Speaker 1: Genesis person No, but yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: It was the first video game that I that was mine.
Speaker 3: And funny enough, I've never been good at.
Speaker 1: The Sonic games. I'm a big I'm an avid same gamer.
Speaker 1: I love video games.
Speaker 3: I played video games during COVID. I was doing live
Speaker 3: streaming on Twitch and oh yeah and everything and did
Speaker 3: you did you play Sonic?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I played Sonic growing up. I had the second
Speaker 2: Genesis as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't remember much about the game. I need
Speaker 2: to replay it. I just remember like the they had,
Speaker 2: like the loop, the loops.
Speaker 1: I just remember button mashing having him too. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was that was that was the I just spent
Speaker 1: so much time get launched.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I don't remember.
Speaker 3: Go off a ramp and then bounce off of like
Speaker 3: trampolines and lose all your rings and oh man, die.
Speaker 2: Hated losing the rings. I can hear that noise, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I can hear it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, sound of dismal failure. If you're a fan
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Speaker 2: What about the cartoons? Did you watch the cartoons?
Speaker 3: I watched I watched a bit of the Saturday Morning cartoons,
Speaker 3: and uh, yeah, they were they were quite random, I remember,
Speaker 3: not very associated with the video game, but yeah, predominantly
Speaker 3: it was the video games and kind of like, oh,
Speaker 3: if I caught it on time on like Saturday morning.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd watch it. I heard that you had been
Speaker 1: a voice or no, I was just about to mention
Speaker 1: that funny you should bring it up. Yeah, no, but
Speaker 1: I I played Sonic. I mean, I played Robotnik and
Speaker 1: it wasn't egg Man, which and I was glad when
Speaker 1: they came out with the movies that they didn't call
Speaker 1: him eg Man, yeah, because I was like, oh man, Now,
Speaker 1: I can't say I was that guy, right, But but
Speaker 1: I can't believe Jim still following me around after all
Speaker 1: these years. I know, but he told you, he told
Speaker 1: you back then.
Speaker 2: You can go, yeah, yeah, what is what is the
Speaker 2: difference between Eggman and robot Nick? I think I need
Speaker 2: to know once and for all.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think because it's the same character, isn't it?
Speaker 4: Is it not the same character? I think it's the
Speaker 4: same character, like the same thing. If I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 4: And the fans are gonna riot if I get this right.
Speaker 1: Now they know it's one. One is like.
Speaker 3: Japanese, I think the translation, and then one is American
Speaker 3: or North American used. And I can't remember if it
Speaker 3: was egg Man came from the Japanese iteration or Robotnick.
Speaker 1: I think I think it was Robotnick did right, because
Speaker 1: I remember years when when they did. I think it
Speaker 1: was a sixty five episode. Serious, but it was done
Speaker 1: in Canada, and he was egg Man, okay, and everybody,
Speaker 1: and everybody had conventions like still, they'll see the picture.
Speaker 1: I didn't know you were egg Man. I go, well,
Speaker 1: I kind of am, but not really because yeah, it
Speaker 1: was Robotnick. And I was really glad when Jim Carrey
Speaker 1: came out and was Robotnick and yes, okay, good now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have a couple of little like wink wink
Speaker 3: jokes where it's like Sonic will refer to Robotan as Eggman.
Speaker 1: He'd be like, hey, egg Man, stuff like that.
Speaker 3: So there's a reference to it, yeah, because I think
Speaker 3: I think, like you said, it's the same character. I
Speaker 3: just yeah, wondering, really is a different name or different associations.
Speaker 2: I've always wondered.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I still and I've looked it up, I know,
Speaker 3: looked it up and I forget.
Speaker 2: I swear. There's like a different explanation every time too. Yeah,
Speaker 2: people always there's like three or fause your.
Speaker 1: Original design was an egg you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have no.
Speaker 1: Idea, no clue.
Speaker 2: Egg Man was actually an insult. It was a slur. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and so they had to change it for censorship reasons
Speaker 2: in certain countries back.
Speaker 1: In the day. We're calling someone.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that's why that sounds about right.
Speaker 1: Oh, we're not joking.
Speaker 2: Wow, I got you.
Speaker 1: Robotics the slur. Yeah, probably because robotick. Yeah. But yet
Speaker 1: another similarity that Jim Carrey and I have with our initials. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I did a bad cartoon version of him. Thank you.
Speaker 1: That was that was for the audience. That was a
Speaker 1: realization I had.
Speaker 3: I was saying this earlier, was that I I just
Speaker 3: before we started chatting out, I had the realizer was like,
Speaker 3: oh my.
Speaker 1: Gosh, I'm.
Speaker 3: Associated with two of like the greatest jc's. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: Jim Cummings and Jim Carrey.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, well Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ care less about me,
Speaker 1: so I hope he can. Yeah, I'm sure he cares
Speaker 1: about you. He hasn't visited me. Well, that's good to
Speaker 1: work with him, one, that's good. Yeah, I'd love to
Speaker 1: work with him. Don't go, I'll be I'll be up eventually, yeah,
Speaker 1: but not today. Knock on wood, knock on wood. Yes,
Speaker 1: So what it was your favorite video game or so?
Speaker 1: It was my favorite video game? Because like nostalgia wise,
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 3: You know, it was near and dear to me because
Speaker 3: it was like the first one I because that's gotta be.
Speaker 1: Cool as hell. Yeah, you know, you have your your
Speaker 1: favorite video game and then you grow up and go,
Speaker 1: would you like to be a movie or three? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I never. I never would have imagined I had. I
Speaker 1: had a moment. So I remember my first day on set.
Speaker 3: Uh it was gem and I's first day and uh,
Speaker 3: get to set. Everybody's amazing, Gym's not there yet, meet
Speaker 3: the director and the producer.
Speaker 1: So I had just auditioned.
Speaker 3: I had auditioned in town here and got booked off
Speaker 3: tape and yes.
Speaker 1: I didn't meet anybody until I got to set. Well,
Speaker 1: you crushed it. I tried, but there should be a
Speaker 1: soundtrack better. Yeah. So yeah, I was gonna I was
Speaker 1: gonna come up with a noise and then I didn't.
Speaker 1: So that's how good I am improvising in the moment everyone.
Speaker 1: That's incredible, right, that's pretty damn good. Yeah, So so
Speaker 1: met everybody on set.
Speaker 3: Jim shows up and uh, yeah, you know, most most
Speaker 3: of my prep or for Agent Stone was mainly just
Speaker 3: kind of like meditation.
Speaker 1: Everything.
Speaker 3: It was just more of like, you know, be calm
Speaker 3: on that set, just you know, don't yeah, just good advice,
Speaker 3: yeah yeah, just you know, you don't have that much
Speaker 3: to say, so like, don't worry about that, like you're memorized.
Speaker 1: It's all good. Just go grounded as grounded as you
Speaker 1: can be.
Speaker 2: You and nervous.
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 3: I was nervous, but I don't know, like there's something
Speaker 3: to be said for you know, as as my career
Speaker 3: was was moving forward and going through the steps in
Speaker 3: the ups and downs, you know, it's so easy to
Speaker 3: be like, oh, well, I wish I would have booked
Speaker 3: that thing. I wish I would have booked that thing.
Speaker 3: And when I got to Sonic, it was just like
Speaker 3: right time. Because of all the experiences I had up
Speaker 3: to that point, I felt readier than I had ever been,
Speaker 3: so I kind of it was one of those first
Speaker 3: times where I looked back and I was like, no,
Speaker 3: you know, things take the time that they take for
Speaker 3: a reason, and you're not in control of that. And
Speaker 3: so you know, I had had experiences on different sets
Speaker 3: where because of anxiousness, I had dropped lines. So then
Speaker 3: it was learning like okay, don't let my anxiety get
Speaker 3: the best of me, like it's there, It's going to
Speaker 3: be there. I got to accept it. But I can't
Speaker 3: be in an anxious state while I'm trying to memorize
Speaker 3: while I'm trying to get off book.
Speaker 1: So that was my main.
Speaker 3: Focus and got to set and met everybody, and we
Speaker 3: didn't quite know what route Jim was going to go with.
Speaker 3: Was he going to go super dark? You know, we
Speaker 3: just didn't have any idea, and we met up, we
Speaker 3: started to rehearse, and I remember during rehearsal, I had
Speaker 3: this moment. He did this thing where he kind of
Speaker 3: like he was talking to the major and he asks
Speaker 3: him what his name is and then Major says, oh,
Speaker 3: made you know Major, and he's like it doesn't matter,
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter what your name is kind of thing.
Speaker 3: And I had this out of body experience where it
Speaker 3: all kind of hit me at the same time where
Speaker 3: I was like, oh my gosh, I'm watching Jim like
Speaker 3: do what I watched him do? Is it kid and
Speaker 3: growing up and live genius, Live genius, And Oh, that's
Speaker 3: that's what he's going, like, that's what he's doing with
Speaker 3: the character, Okay, And then the realization of like, oh
Speaker 3: my gosh, I'm on a big studio picture for the
Speaker 3: first time in my life. Oh my gosh, Sonic, Oh
Speaker 3: my gosh. This was like a childhood game of mine.
Speaker 3: And and my line came and I flubbed it.
Speaker 1: Of course. It was like it was.
Speaker 3: Like this old line that they gave me in this rewrite,
Speaker 3: and I kind of mashed them together by mistake.
Speaker 1: Well, and that could have been the stuff of genius.
Speaker 1: Probably was. It made no sense.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you that whatever came out of my mouth,
Speaker 3: my mouth made no sense. Nobody cared, right, it was.
Speaker 3: It was just a little whatever, and we just kept going.
Speaker 3: And you know, I felt that that excitement and everything
Speaker 3: rehearsal ended. Jim went to get into wardrobe, and uh,
Speaker 3: I was like, Okay, nobody cared.
Speaker 1: It was just rehearsal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna go to the little tent. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: put in some relaxing music. I'm going to breathe for
Speaker 3: ten to fifteen minutes, and then I'm gonna say these
Speaker 3: three little lines a hundred different ways, just to make
Speaker 3: sure it comes out of my mouth instinctively rather than
Speaker 3: having it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, is that what you do too? Because I've
Speaker 1: been known to do that I don't even have to
Speaker 1: memorize because I can read them.
Speaker 3: Oh really, yeah, well I mean yeah, of course, like
Speaker 3: with vo you yea, yea, yeah yeah, piece of case's
Speaker 3: that's one of the things I love most about it.
Speaker 1: Saving grace. It's the only reason I'm here, only reason
Speaker 1: I've made it. I don't have to memorize.
Speaker 3: Yes, I know, it's it's one of my favorite favorite
Speaker 3: things about about uh yeah, voice voice acting. It's just
Speaker 3: that's one other thing I've been. I've been I still say,
Speaker 3: you know, pursuing and trying to really kick the door down.
Speaker 3: And I've gotten some jobs, but I'm still like learning
Speaker 3: and trying to absorb. And when it comes to voice yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: voiceover and yeah, but with momorization, it's like, yeah, I
Speaker 3: try to do it as many different ways of doing it, impersonations, accents, like,
Speaker 3: just as many different ways as I can, so it
Speaker 3: glues yea into my brain.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So yeah, it's a pretty good method. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: So then that way, it's just you know, and I
Speaker 3: find like when I tried different accents on, I find
Speaker 3: different character traits too, So it's like, sometimes you know,
Speaker 3: I'll go into like a Jason Stethem, right, but then
Speaker 3: I'll find this look kind of groundedness to the guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm like, okay, he doesn't have a British accent,
Speaker 1: he doesn't totally like this, but he feels right, right,
Speaker 1: So then how do I switch it away to my
Speaker 1: pretty damn good? I was like like, behind you, Jim, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're looking for me, Yeah, you're looking for me. That yeah,
Speaker 1: that's good stuff. Yeah wow wow. And so that so
Speaker 1: you you stole that all from Jason Stump. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: so that whole method is Jason Statham's no. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: coming for Jason yeah yeah, well he'll be there unfortunately.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, wow, good stuff.
Speaker 2: So you've done voice work. You've been obviously in movies
Speaker 2: and TV shows. You've been in plays too as well, right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: So I've done some theater.
Speaker 3: A lot of my earlier training I got was at
Speaker 3: the Groundlings in La so like with with improv and
Speaker 3: and everything. And then yeah, and then when I got
Speaker 3: out here, it was funny.
Speaker 1: I I always wanted to to do vo, but it
Speaker 1: just felt like it felt harder to get.
Speaker 3: Into vo than it was to do uh, to film
Speaker 3: and TV, because you know, I always heard like, it's
Speaker 3: a really height in its circle.
Speaker 1: It's tough to get your foot through the door. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've heard that too. After I was in Thank God. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't know there was. Gordon Hunt wrote a book
Speaker 1: and he was the King of Hannah Barbara Helen Hut's dad. Yeah. Great,
Speaker 1: And I read it after after I was already into business.
Speaker 1: I've told this before. I'll be brief, but the fifth
Speaker 1: chapter was how to break into voiceover in Hollywood. Don't bother.
Speaker 1: It's done by like six or seven people and you're
Speaker 1: not one of them. Okay, next right now, page six
Speaker 1: how to be a tap dancer or something, you know. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was like, man, I'm glad I didn't read this
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. Yeah, And I was already in,
Speaker 1: like it's it.
Speaker 3: It's like I can understand that part of me is like, okay,
Speaker 3: but that shouldn't.
Speaker 1: Stop you from trying. No, because there's you should still
Speaker 1: go for it if if that's what your heart desires,
Speaker 1: and the old expression there's always there'll still be room
Speaker 1: at the top. Yeah, so shoot for the stars exactly.
Speaker 3: And so I was doing like early, I was three
Speaker 3: years into doing film and TV and I was doing
Speaker 3: this like pitch like pilot pitch project with another actor
Speaker 3: named Kirby Morrow. And Kirby was a huge, huge.
Speaker 1: Voice actor in town. And I don't know who he was.
Speaker 3: And I remember he he heard me doing accents and
Speaker 3: voices and everything.
Speaker 1: He comes up to me he's like, you know, you
Speaker 1: should really consider it.
Speaker 3: And I think this guy doesn't know what he's talking about, right,
Speaker 3: And I'm like, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: Thanks, dude, you don't get Yeah.
Speaker 3: So a year later, he and I run into each
Speaker 3: other and he was like, you know, I've been thinking
Speaker 3: about you and wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's like I was serious. I still don't
Speaker 1: know who he is, Like he's.
Speaker 3: Been at that time, he had been in the voice
Speaker 3: industry for like fourteen years. He had been he had
Speaker 3: done an iteration of Goku on on Dragon Ball Z
Speaker 3: and he was huge in Ninjago and so many other
Speaker 3: oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And so I told him,
Speaker 3: I was like, dude, I don't know if you if
Speaker 3: you know how hard it is, like I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: And he was like, I've been doing it for fourteen
Speaker 1: years and I was like, what, I have an inkling? Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was like what He's like, yeah, like, do you
Speaker 1: know you know Goku? I was like, shut up. And
Speaker 1: then he went through and then I was like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, I'm an idiot. Dude.
Speaker 3: He started doing the characters and so he opened the door.
Speaker 3: He was teaching, and he uh bless his heart. I
Speaker 3: miss him so much, but he opened he opened his
Speaker 3: his classes up to me. He was like, come, sit in,
Speaker 3: sit in all my classes.
Speaker 1: Learn. Learn.
Speaker 3: He would throw me into the booths and he would
Speaker 3: just like, try this, try this, try this, help me
Speaker 3: put a demo together, help me get an agent. And
Speaker 3: then I started to get out there. You know, yeah, yeah, incredible, incredible.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think I've met anybody in my
Speaker 3: life that hasn't like I firmly believe that I.
Speaker 1: And I can only speak for myself.
Speaker 3: I could have never gotten to where I am and
Speaker 3: don't think I can continue to move forward without support
Speaker 3: from people. I could never do it alone.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: I think it's it's, yes, my perseverance, it's you know,
Speaker 3: it's my hard work, but it's it's having people around
Speaker 3: you when you need that little nudge you go on,
Speaker 3: you got this, Yeah, yeah, here's you know, I always
Speaker 3: I always say it's it's the universe giving you a
Speaker 3: little nugget of gold when you feel like, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm lost, I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: What's the next thing? It's like here, you know.
Speaker 3: I I had that with a teacher at the Groundlings
Speaker 3: who told me, you know, I was having a particularly
Speaker 3: bad week and and he was like, don't don't ever quit.
Speaker 3: He's like, I was moving to Canada and he was like,
Speaker 3: don't quit. You have something, don't quit. I just if anything,
Speaker 3: if you forget everything we talked about it, always have that.
Speaker 1: That is an amazingly good piece of advice. And it
Speaker 1: was told to me in a long way. Uh he said,
Speaker 1: you know, you can have one hundred failures, but you're
Speaker 1: not a failure, right, you know, because you're still going
Speaker 1: oh wait, you're not over yet. Oh yeah, oh you
Speaker 1: didn't quit yet. Oh go go get that because because
Speaker 1: once you get the brass ring, once you get in
Speaker 1: you know whatever, however that looks a sitcom, a cartoon show,
Speaker 1: a radio commercial, you know, it's like, Okay, I guess
Speaker 1: I'm viable. So I did it. Then what else you got?
Speaker 1: Let me take a swing at that? And you you
Speaker 1: don't lose until you quit. Was there was it?
Speaker 3: Did you find that for yourself as well? Like were
Speaker 3: there were there times career wise where there was like
Speaker 3: someone or many someone's that kind of helps you in
Speaker 3: a moment where you felt, oh, man, I don't know
Speaker 3: what the next step is, or I'm feeling a little
Speaker 3: bit like, oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sure you know, and it's hard, you know. I
Speaker 1: will say that I was knock on wood. I was
Speaker 1: very fortunate because I didn't I didn't have a huge
Speaker 1: gap between I was total before. I worked at a
Speaker 1: video store Anaheim Hills and made my first demo tape
Speaker 1: in the video store, and so I fortunately there were
Speaker 1: a couple of our customers who were in the biz,
Speaker 1: and so they knew this person and that person. And
Speaker 1: I passed up my audio tape. It was cassette way back,
Speaker 1: and I got the attention miraculously of some folks who
Speaker 1: were getting ready to cable TV had just started. That's
Speaker 1: how long ago it was. I just I mean, I
Speaker 1: lucked out in the sense that you know, I was
Speaker 1: It wasn't really right place, the right time, but kind
Speaker 1: of right, you know. And I got a job that
Speaker 1: one of the first auditioned for and My luck came
Speaker 1: in the fact that it was a sixty five episode series,
Speaker 1: which they don't come along every day. And so by
Speaker 1: the time and I got I got a job out
Speaker 1: of that. And at the time, you know, it took
Speaker 1: I don't know, almost a year and a half, and
Speaker 1: I lucked into it without an agent. So that gave
Speaker 1: me a chance to work in the business. And then
Speaker 1: I was very syllable to agents. Then well you're already working, Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: what do you do for a living? No? This is
Speaker 1: this is it and I'm never going back. You know.
Speaker 1: I was like, I am not going to go back
Speaker 1: to the.
Speaker 3: It made you made you know that you wanted to
Speaker 3: go into like voice.
Speaker 1: Oll this well that I you know, I've said it before,
Speaker 1: so I feel like I don't over repeat it. But
Speaker 1: I was five, I swear to god. I was five
Speaker 1: years old and I was sitting with my dad watching
Speaker 1: the Jack Benny program way back when Black and White
Speaker 1: and mel Blank was on there. He was, he was
Speaker 1: a regular on there, and he was playing side the
Speaker 1: sombrero wearing torriodor or whatever. And my dad says, you
Speaker 1: see this guy right here, see this master? Now, I
Speaker 1: go yeah, he goes he does that bugs bunny and
Speaker 1: that Daffy Duck and that tazzy he's got does the voices.
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, I thought, well, he doesn't have
Speaker 1: to stand in the corner. He's nobody thinks he's an
Speaker 1: obnoxious little weasel. Everybody likes him. Shit, I've got to
Speaker 1: do that. Yeah, And so you know, and I grew up,
Speaker 1: and I guess I don't know. It was about thirty
Speaker 1: made my demo tape and and I again, you know,
Speaker 1: with great fortune and thank you Jesus, I got that job.
Speaker 1: And it lasted long enough for me to get an
Speaker 1: agent and then I could get other yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: And that was eighty something, eighty four or eighty five.
Speaker 1: So now I good to be here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so wild, Yeah, yeah, working on it.
Speaker 1: I love it. I mean we were saying.
Speaker 3: I mean, I love I love I love the whole industry.
Speaker 3: I love being you know, just being creative and uh
Speaker 3: and letting loose. And what I love most about voice
Speaker 3: is just I find that I can really physically let
Speaker 3: myself just go and not be judged. Sure, and and
Speaker 3: you know, in exchange for finding that right sound or
Speaker 3: or being committed to a moment, and you know, tweaking
Speaker 3: your face enough in a way that that works for
Speaker 3: voice that you know, in film and TV, they might
Speaker 3: be like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't do that. Yeah, don't do that. We like
Speaker 1: the sound of that. I don't look it doesn't look good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But well, your boy Jim Carrey doesn't have any problem
Speaker 1: with that, does he does? But he couldn't. He couldn't
Speaker 1: have done it with you know, Eternal Sunshine. It depends.
Speaker 1: It depends on what you're what you're working on.
Speaker 3: But yeah, to your to your question, Yeah, I've been
Speaker 3: involved in like theater, film, TV.
Speaker 2: Which one do you prefer?
Speaker 1: I prefer.
Speaker 3: They've all got their advantages and disadvantages. I think, uh,
Speaker 3: not as many disadvantages, but they're all different.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 3: I think what's you know, what I just spoke to
Speaker 3: with voice is, is you know, really letting loose and
Speaker 3: not having to be off book, you know, memorized. Film
Speaker 3: and TV is a quicker moving beast than theater is.
Speaker 3: But the rehearsal process of theater I've learned to love.
Speaker 1: I really had a.
Speaker 3: Challenge because I started off in film and TV first,
Speaker 3: really yeah, and then well.
Speaker 1: Usually it's the other way, good for you. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: it was you wound up at the goal then you
Speaker 1: then you thought, well I should probably go and it
Speaker 1: was like I'm doing calisthenics over here.
Speaker 3: At that Like, at that point in my life, it
Speaker 3: was I was quite ego driven, you know, with ever
Speaker 3: whatever I was going through my life was ego and
Speaker 3: and so I was like, you know, theater, this, that
Speaker 3: film and TV, I'm going to be a star.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be like whatever.
Speaker 3: And that didn't work out as quick as I expected
Speaker 3: it too, and then you know, had some rude awakenings
Speaker 3: and and needed to to work on myself quite a bit,
Speaker 3: like on the personal side. And then you know, I
Speaker 3: was chatting with a friend of mine and he was
Speaker 3: he was like, look, I'm not saying that this might
Speaker 3: work for you. But he also hadn't done theater. He
Speaker 3: had done film and TV first and then went into
Speaker 3: the theater for a while, and he was like, I
Speaker 3: didn't feel like I could call myself an actor until
Speaker 3: I experienced theater. And then he was like, oh, now
Speaker 3: I feel like I can call myself an actor because
Speaker 3: of that memorizing a play from beginning to end, that
Speaker 3: rehearsal process. And so I was like okay, and I
Speaker 3: put it out put it out there that I wanted
Speaker 3: to audition for for theater, and I got the first
Speaker 3: play I did. I was a two hander, which means
Speaker 3: it's like two people in the play.
Speaker 1: I probably have the characters. Wow. And that was like
Speaker 1: a test of you know, physicality, How do you change
Speaker 1: your physicality? How do you change your voice enough that
Speaker 1: it's not a distraction. But yeah, the rehearsal process at
Speaker 1: the beginning was really difficult for me because film and TV.
Speaker 3: Come as ready as possible, because you're fortunate if we're
Speaker 3: going to give you three takes, unless you're working on
Speaker 3: a production the size of Sonic where you know you're
Speaker 3: going to get a lot more takes. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: But the rehearsal process was like learned to love that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, the one that I'm still still I have
Speaker 3: a big target on is voice industry, and then you know,
Speaker 3: I'll love it, just you know, still like one of
Speaker 3: the bucket lists is getting to be on an animated
Speaker 3: series of some sort. Got to do a video game,
Speaker 3: which was The Assassin's Creed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, mirage video game play. Was it a challenge for
Speaker 1: you because I've done some of those not not nothing
Speaker 1: like like that, but as big as you, but acting
Speaker 1: to somebody who isn't there? Is it im you with
Speaker 1: curveballs there? Or do you have a reader? Because I
Speaker 1: remember once I had a person reading for me in
Speaker 1: it for the video like it was Yeah, I can't
Speaker 1: even remember the project a long long time ago. Oh no,
Speaker 1: look out, now we have to run. Oh no, oh no,
Speaker 1: they're firing, you know. Oh god, okay, can we not
Speaker 1: hold anywhere? I'll take it from here. Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1: You don't all read the other one's line? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah it was and it was just and I just
Speaker 1: want to hold up a crucifix. It's definitely a challenge,
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 3: I think what I what I'm quite fortunate with is
Speaker 3: that with like film and TV self tapes or like
Speaker 3: going into the room, sometimes the readers aren't really like
Speaker 3: for auditions, and sometimes the readers aren't aren't actors or
Speaker 3: they're not they haven't had much time, right, they're getting
Speaker 3: they're getting the sides, yes, and that moment they're doing
Speaker 3: a coold read and you just happen to be the first.
Speaker 1: One coming in the room and you know, so, so
Speaker 1: that was fun.
Speaker 3: So I had to learn to And this is with
Speaker 3: regards to like the audition process and everything too. Oh Okay,
Speaker 3: if they flob a line or if I'm not getting
Speaker 3: what I think I need, how do I use that
Speaker 3: in the scene.
Speaker 1: So there are moments.
Speaker 3: Where it's like, oh, you know, you're really flat in
Speaker 3: your delivery. That doesn't mean I can't respond to the
Speaker 3: fact that you're flat in your delivery and use that
Speaker 3: in some.
Speaker 1: That could be just as legit as as anything.
Speaker 3: And so I think that helped me when we were
Speaker 3: recording Assassin's Creed, but it is it's definitely a challenge
Speaker 3: because I had I had so I was recording in
Speaker 3: town and then are the you know, the the Ubisoft
Speaker 3: team was split between Montreal and France, and then our
Speaker 3: director I think was in Ontario, so everything, and you know,
Speaker 3: I had a sound engineer there. But yeah, so it
Speaker 3: was all like you know, on.
Speaker 5: That teams it was it was it was post COVID,
Speaker 5: but I think it was like we had to move
Speaker 5: quick in the like the casting that we had been
Speaker 5: running behind.
Speaker 3: So then when I came on board, they were already
Speaker 3: deep into the process. So I think had everything worked
Speaker 3: out ideally, I would have gone to Montreal and been
Speaker 3: there for a while. But yeah, so we recorded here
Speaker 3: and you know, and so the director was reading opposite me.
Speaker 3: But I think again, it's one of those things, is
Speaker 3: where everything happens for a reason. It takes as much
Speaker 3: time as it takes. So I had talked with enough
Speaker 3: people that had done video games. I'd had enough experience,
Speaker 3: you know, with little bit roles on video games that
Speaker 3: I now knew what questions to and because I'm so
Speaker 3: familiar with video games and that, you know.
Speaker 1: It from the other side, Yeah, I was. I was.
Speaker 1: I asked a lot.
Speaker 3: Of questions, and I know that it was annoying. It
Speaker 3: was annoying every session. It was like annoying at the
Speaker 3: beginning of the session because they were like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: we're running behind. And I was like, I promise you guys,
Speaker 3: the questions I'm asking now are going to save us
Speaker 3: time at the end of at the end of the session,
Speaker 3: it's just these So I would ask them, I'm like,
Speaker 3: have you guys recorded the other character yet? Oh, we
Speaker 3: have a couple of lines. Can I hear them? Just
Speaker 3: so I know, like, what's.
Speaker 1: The difference between us Hell's.
Speaker 3: You know, what's the space that we're in because in
Speaker 3: the description they'd be like, oh, you know, they're walking
Speaker 3: through a market, and I'd be like, okay, well is
Speaker 3: it a busy market?
Speaker 1: Is it not? A bit? Is the market? Do I
Speaker 1: need to project? Is she standing in front? Is she
Speaker 1: walking in front of me? Exactly? Do I need to
Speaker 1: be looking over my shoulder? Am I on a horse? Like? Yeah? Right?
Speaker 1: Like who knows?
Speaker 3: So it was good to know those things, uh going
Speaker 3: in And even then, you know, when they'd be after
Speaker 3: we'd record, we'd come back and do re records because
Speaker 3: they're like, oh, okay, we thought they were going to
Speaker 3: be two feet away and now they're six feet away,
Speaker 3: and so or someone's performance was way more projected than
Speaker 3: mend and so to match you know, which.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's now. Do you have occasions where you can
Speaker 1: do recordings on camera? Off came with the cast with
Speaker 1: with a group, you know, the whole because my way,
Speaker 1: I think that's so much easier. That's better. I've always
Speaker 1: wanted that. I don't know if I I mean, we
Speaker 1: did a little like like funly little indie kind of
Speaker 1: podcast the like radio play is just like the Pokemon
Speaker 1: no no, no, no, no, you know about the Pokemon thing. No,
Speaker 1: this is like this was just a few years before COVID,
Speaker 1: but a group of us in town, just voice actors
Speaker 1: kind of got together and and and had just fun
Speaker 1: doing accents and kind of creating this.
Speaker 3: Like radio play together. And there is there is there
Speaker 3: is a vibe when you're in the room with someone
Speaker 3: and and can be like, oh, that's what you're doing.
Speaker 1: That's how I.
Speaker 3: Can respond to that, or or you know, have the
Speaker 3: director in there at the time, or see in the
Speaker 3: moment someone kind of trying to stifle a laugh because
Speaker 3: of something you said or and that we didn't think
Speaker 3: was gonna be funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that stuff. It's it's nice. I miss it.
Speaker 1: I haven't had too many opportunities at it, but uh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's defin.
Speaker 3: Like seeing group records or are those things of like oh, shore,
Speaker 3: I want to I wanna.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're not doing that anymore. Well, they're getting back
Speaker 1: to it by bit. One of my favorites lately has
Speaker 1: been Star Wars Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels. And
Speaker 1: one of my things that I was so proud of
Speaker 1: and I enjoyed doing was cracking up Steve Bloom and
Speaker 1: ruining a take, you know, and I said, Okay, don't
Speaker 1: start laughing until after I stopped talking, because then I
Speaker 1: have to do it over again. I'd rather just you.
Speaker 3: I loved your character, Yeah, I loved your Hondas was
Speaker 3: the best.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you. If you're a fan of everything we
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Speaker 1: let me get away with murder. I never said I'm
Speaker 1: lying the first take. I always did what they will.
Speaker 1: That's like my own personal rule. That way, they can't
Speaker 1: say that you're being obstinate or uncooperative. And then I
Speaker 1: do it to work with, you know, Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: I just change it around, so you know, and uh,
Speaker 1: and it's a lot of fun, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: I just you know, because I think if you're keeping
Speaker 1: yourself happy, that translates everybody, everybody.
Speaker 3: If you can find the fun. I always tell people
Speaker 3: find the fun, whether it's in an audition. I mean,
Speaker 3: they're always they're always figuring out ways.
Speaker 1: These these gardeners, lawn bowers, lowers blowers, they've got it
Speaker 1: out for us. They've got it out for us. They are.
Speaker 1: And this is an actual leaf blow. It's it's I
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys have those, and it's it's
Speaker 1: just a hovering leaf blower.
Speaker 2: Is that door.
Speaker 1: Is wide open. Maybe we took the precaution of they're
Speaker 1: going to bring these messages. Will be right back, Yeah,
Speaker 1: after these messages, be right back. I remember that. I
Speaker 1: remember that's so very well and I used to walk
Speaker 1: around doing that, trying to perfect that because it was
Speaker 1: very stan. It was like a cartoon orson Wells. Would
Speaker 1: they would they have different characters sing that song or
Speaker 1: did they just really have oh well, it was it
Speaker 1: was just it was just a bumper right right between.
Speaker 1: I don't remember if they had like different different sugar pops, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: or something. Anyway, we're back after that raucous cacaphony, I
Speaker 1: mean that leaf blower did not want to hear out hondo. No, No,
Speaker 1: that's true. Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3: We were talking about that's a horrible sounds more like
Speaker 3: what's the character's name from Phantom Menace?
Speaker 1: That's like the that's like, how are you doing? Just
Speaker 1: a flying little menaces? No?
Speaker 3: No, was like no nothing, that was jar job. The
Speaker 3: he was the guy that owned anakin and his mom.
Speaker 2: He was just he worked at the auto shop.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, right, yeah. It's a good looking guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah looking anyway, and he had the rings, the rings,
Speaker 3: just a little flying, big faced thing.
Speaker 1: Anyways, So back to Hondo. Oh chess by all means
Speaker 1: back to Hondo. No, I'm just kidding, well, I could
Speaker 1: tell I'll give you a little tip. This is like
Speaker 1: what what I accidentally fell across across years and years ago.
Speaker 1: If you do a terrible impression of somebody the famous,
Speaker 1: nobody knows who it is, you can call her a
Speaker 1: new character. Yep. And if you do a perfect impression
Speaker 1: of one of your relatives and or uncle, nobody know,
Speaker 1: so that is new character. And uh and and then
Speaker 1: you can put two people together like Hondo, since since
Speaker 1: we're talking about him, is Charles Bronson and Yule Brenner Okay,
Speaker 1: put together now that would be a really ugly person.
Speaker 1: But but but but it makes for an interesting character.
Speaker 1: Very attractive. I mean can't. Yes, and you get Brad
Speaker 1: Pitt or not or Hondo. But yeah, but that's that's
Speaker 1: my story and I'm sticking to it. Damn it. So
Speaker 1: was that the that So that's where the kind of
Speaker 1: like the the accent for Hondo also came from. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I found out years years before the Yule Brenner
Speaker 1: was Chinese and damn it Russian. Really his one parent
Speaker 1: was Chinese. Apparent was Russian. Wow, you don't know that interesting,
Speaker 1: but you get an interesting accent? Yeah when you when
Speaker 1: you which made me think about the blending of the
Speaker 1: accents and you know, coming together.
Speaker 3: It's really fun to play around with accents and CEO,
Speaker 3: if I merged this and that, what do I get?
Speaker 3: That's the lovely thing with with with voices. We were saying,
Speaker 3: it's just like I feel like there's so much more
Speaker 3: opportunity to play.
Speaker 2: You speak a few languages, correct.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I speak Arabic and French.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and do you think that contributes to your creation
Speaker 2: of voices, mannerisms or voices or anything like that.
Speaker 3: I mean, like I know it for sure because we
Speaker 3: moved around a lot, like in my childhood. So my
Speaker 3: first language was Italian.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And then we left Italy and moved to Switzerland
Speaker 3: when I was like four and a half, and so
Speaker 3: you know, I started to I mean I stopped speaking
Speaker 3: Italian and we were in the French part of Switzerland,
Speaker 3: so that's where English and French kind of came in
Speaker 3: at school, Arabic at home.
Speaker 1: And then uh, yeah, what a gift, I mean, the languages.
Speaker 3: And so because also moving around a lot, I ended
Speaker 3: up just spending so much time with action figures and
Speaker 3: creating voices for all these action figures, and then I
Speaker 3: would like play soundtracks to like the action sequences. And yeah,
Speaker 3: so I think it was like speaking the languages. I
Speaker 3: really have, I think a good ear for accents as well,
Speaker 3: so I can automatically just with playing around figure out,
Speaker 3: oh this is where my tongue should go, or this
Speaker 3: is where the voice sits.
Speaker 1: Well that's interesting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I didn't know, like, you know, people would
Speaker 3: would always ask me, oh, can you help me with
Speaker 3: this accent, Like I got to do this for an audition,
Speaker 3: and I just would never know how to explain it
Speaker 3: to them until I started to watch someone who focuses
Speaker 3: on dialects in the industry, like I was watching his
Speaker 3: YouTube videos and he was talking about the technicality of
Speaker 3: like where your tongue is located.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Then I was like, yeah, that is where I.
Speaker 3: It's like it's yeah to speak right, Yeah, that is
Speaker 3: where my tongue is located when I do that. Oh okay, Yeah,
Speaker 3: it might be a better way to explain it to
Speaker 3: people that don't like hear it and know how to
Speaker 3: mimic it.
Speaker 1: I think, I'm I think I'm a great mimic. Yeah
Speaker 1: that's good and uh.
Speaker 3: And typically when I'm working on new accents, I always start,
Speaker 3: like I tell people, I was like, don't don't worry
Speaker 3: about starting off like very stereotypical. It's a great starting point,
Speaker 3: and then start to tweak it.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's right. Yeah, sure, and bring it down. And
Speaker 1: that makes perfect sense. That's good advice. I think, Yeah,
Speaker 1: have you ever taught do seminars or anything like that,
Speaker 1: because once in a blue when I'll get tapped and
Speaker 1: I don't know that I'm I don't know that I'm
Speaker 1: good at teaching. Yeah, you know, it's just I've I've
Speaker 1: I've had it.
Speaker 3: I've like talked to a few classes, but the focus
Speaker 3: is typically more on like you know Q and A,
Speaker 3: and which is what I prefer.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't want to sit and tell you my story
Speaker 3: and then I take up some of your time and
Speaker 3: you don't get a chance to ask me a question
Speaker 3: that you know might be really important to you. So
Speaker 3: I like to come more from a place of like, hey,
Speaker 3: you know, this was kind of my journey. This is
Speaker 3: how long it's taken.
Speaker 1: There's no same exact way for anybody. What are your questions? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: right right, yeah not that quick, but yeah, no, I agree. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've I've had people tell me this because they must
Speaker 1: have read something in the bios. So it looks like
Speaker 1: this is one kid stands up. Because so if I
Speaker 1: want to be like a really good video guy, should
Speaker 1: I move to New Orleans and Peyton Marty Graf floats,
Speaker 1: then get on the tugboat, then move to California and
Speaker 1: make a demo tape? And I go, yeah, that's the path,
Speaker 1: that's you. That's what I did. Yeah, that's what I did.
Speaker 1: And I was thinking, Okay, well, somebody has been on
Speaker 1: the interwebs and I was thinking, yeah, yeah, uh huh,
Speaker 1: that's clearly that's that's to mel blank. Did it blueprint. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's where I messed up. Yeah, I got to go
Speaker 1: to New Orleans. Forgot to design and paint Marty Gras floats.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell my team, well, I need to take
Speaker 1: a break from acting. I need to go to New
Speaker 1: Orleans design some floats. Yeah, I don't forget to play
Speaker 1: drums at a bunch of script bars and okay, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: I can't play drums, but hey, who cares? That's okay?
Speaker 1: Well you are you could sing? Yeah, you could sing,
Speaker 1: that's right. And I've got a tambourine somewhere I can
Speaker 1: give you. Okay, he's on the way, all right, cannoight everybody.
Speaker 3: I always you know, that's a great example of what
Speaker 3: I was talking about. You always need someone in your corner.
Speaker 3: And here you are with a tambourine.
Speaker 1: Look at that, getting ready to launch my career. God. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I don't think we're worried about you. I appreciate that
Speaker 1: we are not worried about you.
Speaker 2: So what is it?
Speaker 1: What is exciting for you? What? What is the goal?
Speaker 1: If you could say, well, you know, what I'd really
Speaker 1: like to do is do a movie with What I'd
Speaker 1: really like to do is write a song with, a
Speaker 1: play with, do a play with, do a TV show
Speaker 1: with or for or at? Oh there's too many, huh
Speaker 1: it is? I mean it's good, you know, like you're
Speaker 1: right in front of me.
Speaker 3: So it's really easy to say that working on something
Speaker 3: with you would be an absolute dream. I'm in you know,
Speaker 3: finding some animated project or feature whatnot and having the
Speaker 3: opportunity to just like be in the booth with you
Speaker 3: and play that. But you know, I was telling you earlier,
Speaker 3: like you know, Winnie the Pooh that the Tigger to
Speaker 3: me is I don't know what it may be again,
Speaker 3: because it's the energetic I.
Speaker 1: Always saw myself in Tigger. Well, Tigger, they're wonderful things.
Speaker 1: They're made at a rubber, Their bottoms are made out
Speaker 1: of string. They're bouncy, promcy, bouncy promcy pun pun pun
Speaker 1: pun pun, the wonderful, wonderful thing about you could be
Speaker 1: one of them too. Oh nice, nice. I'm not really
Speaker 1: good at the growl. Do they have someone to do
Speaker 1: the growl for you? No? No, But but Paul went
Speaker 1: God rested so he could sit there and he would
Speaker 1: just do it all day long. And I was like,
Speaker 1: and I look at him, and I said, I cannot
Speaker 1: tell how the hell he's doing that, you know, because
Speaker 1: you know, I've had people stare at me, one particularly
Speaker 1: annoying person whose name I well, I will say, I'll
Speaker 1: say it later. He's never mind. But but it was like,
Speaker 1: you know, people say, okay, do that. Do that? I saw,
Speaker 1: that's how you do it. And it's like, wait, what
Speaker 1: you can't see anything. I don't think you know, but
Speaker 1: but I get it. I get it, you know, just
Speaker 1: seeing Paul Winchell stand there and and he did that,
Speaker 1: and I was like, and his face didn't move. So
Speaker 1: you do it with your tongue. I do it with
Speaker 1: my throat. Yeah. I have to some yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: have to fin like, I have to have some saliva ready,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah see I just go build up yeah yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It sounds like I'm amphysima or something. Yeah. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: not in jim. That's that's really bad. That's a cat,
Speaker 1: that's not a tigger.
Speaker 3: Yeah anyway, Yeah, but yeah, actually, embarrass that would be
Speaker 3: an absolute dream.
Speaker 1: We're not waiting on me. That world, that's right, that world.
Speaker 1: Let's put let's let's uh, let's let's put the vibes
Speaker 1: out there feel it. I can feel it. That was
Speaker 1: a That wasn't Jason Statham. That was a trailer guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: coming to a theater near you, John Clue. No, I
Speaker 1: can't do the trailer. It's like it's like one man,
Speaker 1: one desire. Oh it's different. That's right. It's got a quality,
Speaker 1: but it's it's not the guy. No you. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: I've done a lot of movie trailers, but I haven't
Speaker 1: done him in a while.
Speaker 2: No, they got away from anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wish they would bring them back.
Speaker 3: I feel like I feel like they don't need them
Speaker 3: on everything, but I feel like there's certain movies, you know,
Speaker 3: like I feel like a John Wick could have a
Speaker 3: trailer with oh yeah, one of our Sonic trailers. Not
Speaker 3: all of them could have like you.
Speaker 1: Know Jim Carrey and Jim Carrey, yeah, stars with Jim
Speaker 1: Carrey himself. Yes, yeah, oh man. But yeah, and and
Speaker 1: I just I just want to keep going, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? For for me, the.
Speaker 3: I think ultimately the dream is to be at a
Speaker 3: point in my career where and this is this is
Speaker 3: something that you just never know as an artist, is
Speaker 3: like is your name?
Speaker 1: You know? Making the rounds when they're discussing, you know,
Speaker 1: oh our top ten uh names for this role on
Speaker 1: a project or whatnot.
Speaker 3: But ultimately, for me, it's not so much you know,
Speaker 3: fame or money or whatnot. It's it's it's longevity, consistency.
Speaker 3: I would love to just be able to work continually.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: I I go through those long droughts and then you know,
Speaker 3: done a lot of work on myself. It's still there's
Speaker 3: times where it gets the better of me and I
Speaker 3: start to like, I don't you know, and then and
Speaker 3: then my I find that, like my own self worth
Speaker 3: is reliant on like the phone call.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the opportunities come. Yeah, it's a little of that.
Speaker 1: It's okay, but you don't want to over yeah, no,
Speaker 1: you don't want it to rule your days and fall
Speaker 1: into a depression. Yeah. The fact that they don't have
Speaker 1: good taste. Yeah it's not my phone. Yeah.
Speaker 3: But yeah, just to be in a place where it's
Speaker 3: you know, consistent, there's longevity and and you know, ideally
Speaker 3: if I was a fly on the wall to know that, oh, hey,
Speaker 3: is am I in the mix?
Speaker 1: You know, to be in the mix? Yeah that's right,
Speaker 1: that's right. Yeah, where am I on the call sheet
Speaker 1: or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Where where am I in
Speaker 1: the discussion for that role? Am I even in a discussion?
Speaker 3: But again, that's a great example of like, I can't
Speaker 3: let that be the end all, be all of how
Speaker 3: I feel about myself. I'm just never going to I'm
Speaker 3: never going to be in those rooms, you know, I'm
Speaker 3: never going to know if I'm being discussed or not.
Speaker 1: But you know, I think it's a pretty good odds
Speaker 1: are pretty good at this point here. Hopefully you're would
Speaker 1: on some more. Would that's your agent's job.
Speaker 3: I've got I've got a great team. I've got a
Speaker 3: great team. I've got a great voice agent. I've got
Speaker 3: a great, great agent out here for filming.
Speaker 1: Should we say who they are? Yes?
Speaker 3: So, Samantha Jewel is my voice agent. My film and
Speaker 3: TV agent is deb Dylla Stone, and my manager out
Speaker 3: in l A is Gary.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have he doesn't have. Last name's Gary.
Speaker 2: That's that's when you're the first one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, wow, he's he knows Steven. He knows Stephen.
Speaker 1: Gary knows Steven also through Stephen, they know al Oh no, okay, Gary,
Speaker 1: all right, yeah, yeah, but I call him just Gary.
Speaker 1: He just Gary. I don't know. I think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: send him my voice just Gary. Hell, yeah, it's just me.
Speaker 1: Who's me? Take a guess? Yeah? Yeah, oh man, Well
Speaker 1: that's good stuff.
Speaker 3: It's again you know, it's great to have people in
Speaker 3: your corner and believe in you and and and and
Speaker 3: hustle for you.
Speaker 1: I think that's that's the most important thing. What what
Speaker 1: have you got any bucket list things you're aiming at
Speaker 1: specific You're a pretty young guy and you've been pretty successful,
Speaker 1: so I know you've knocked a few buckets over, But yeah,
Speaker 1: what's a bucket list? Like you don't want to be
Speaker 1: a tap dancer or anything like that?
Speaker 3: And then no, I can't can't. I can't dance very well.
Speaker 3: I mean I've got rhythm, but I'm not like I can't.
Speaker 3: I'm not a pro dancer.
Speaker 1: I'd actually love to learn to sing. I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't know how to. I don't sing well. I
Speaker 3: think I'm good at mimicking. Again, it was like, you know,
Speaker 3: I can I I can mimic Metallica, but I can't. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but then you want me to sing in my voice?
Speaker 1: I can't. It's it's I'm like flat and pitchy at
Speaker 1: the same time. You know, I can I can't believe
Speaker 1: I actually have a thought on this because it's very specific.
Speaker 1: But you know, when I was a little kid, and
Speaker 1: I mean little, we got transistor radios and I kind
Speaker 1: of learned to sing by imitation, right, I was imitating
Speaker 1: people who were singing. And I can remember there was
Speaker 1: one god I can't think of who it was, but
Speaker 1: the gypsy cry and but pino, Oh, you little mouse,
Speaker 1: why don't you go? It was a novelty song in
Speaker 1: the States, probably not even all over the States, but
Speaker 1: just mimicking those guys. And then the Beatles came along
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, I'm gonna mimic these guys.
Speaker 1: And of course I can't do any of them any justice,
Speaker 1: any good, whatsoever. But I you know, you kind of
Speaker 1: put your talk as things together and yeah, and you
Speaker 1: kind of take it from there. But I think, you know,
Speaker 1: and I've always said, if you do a bad impression
Speaker 1: of somebody, it's a new character, right, you know, same
Speaker 1: with singing.
Speaker 3: Say, anytime they need a mad singer, I'll be like,
Speaker 3: that's a character choice. They yes, right, they'll sing their
Speaker 3: hearts out.
Speaker 1: But they won't do it? Well, yeah, who was it?
Speaker 1: Well it was my fair lady, right, Rex Harrison. He
Speaker 1: couldn't sing and was happy to prove it. And he
Speaker 1: was there, there's something amazing about that went in and
Speaker 1: did it. And the other one was Tommy the who,
Speaker 1: Tommy the who, and who was the Oliver Reed was
Speaker 1: the bad guy. I think, God, I'm showing my age here.
Speaker 1: But and he couldn't sing at all, so he didn't,
Speaker 1: but he's still sang. And Clint Eastwood in Painter Wagon, No,
Speaker 1: but he thought, but he could have fooled him and
Speaker 1: he didn't fool anyone, but yeah, he was. And then
Speaker 1: Lee was it? Lee Marvin was Bold Earn under a
Speaker 1: wand Orrin star And it sounded just like the drunken
Speaker 1: Bears at Disneyland. Oh my gosh, cut your Bear Jamboree.
Speaker 1: That's what it sounded like to me. And I got
Speaker 1: he's he's he's drunk. You know. It was, you know,
Speaker 1: just as flat as you so uh yeah, funk fun
Speaker 1: things to no one tells. So don't try this at home, kids,
Speaker 1: or go ahead? Yeah, I mean, give it, give it,
Speaker 1: give it a try. Why not try to sing? Learn
Speaker 1: to sing? But I do I do think, yeah, like
Speaker 1: stuff like that is the way to go. Is hear it,
Speaker 1: mimic it? Hear it, mimic it. Same thing with voices,
Speaker 1: same thing with like accents. Samely.
Speaker 3: You know, you've got your phones and you can just record,
Speaker 3: like play something back, record it. Does it sound similar?
Speaker 1: No? Okay?
Speaker 3: Can you tell what the difference is? Okay, maybe I'll
Speaker 3: try this or it sound too sharp or whatever. I'm
Speaker 3: like obsessed with stuff like yeah.
Speaker 1: With me, it's like, well the other guy was better.
Speaker 1: That's a difference. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, fine, Well like
Speaker 1: clearly suck, but Jason Statham doesn't. So no always you'll
Speaker 1: always have him, yeah to pull him out. Bless Jason Statham.
Speaker 3: I didn't know I'd ever be able to do that voice,
Speaker 3: and I just kind of like kind of fell into
Speaker 3: it as that works.
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Speaker 3: I find that too with voices and pho, there's something
Speaker 3: physicality that I need.
Speaker 1: There's like, yeah, there's like squinty, Like squinty eyes brings
Speaker 1: some sort of INTELLI does. Yeah. Clint Eastwood, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: can't do Clint without Yeah. Yeah, well I noticed that too.
Speaker 1: And body language helps in voiceover or singing. We were
Speaker 1: talking about it the other day. I remember Entertainment Tonight
Speaker 1: came out to the studio when I first started doing
Speaker 1: Winnie the Pooh and Tigger many many years ago, and
Speaker 1: they they taped me onto my on mic and if
Speaker 1: the sound was down, I would still be able to
Speaker 1: tell you if I was doing Pooh or Tigger, because
Speaker 1: Tigger would stand like this and he would ready to
Speaker 1: bound and pool. I sloped my shoulders down and my
Speaker 1: stomach went out, and it was like, Oh, that's Pooh.
Speaker 1: I mean, so, I guess there's something to that. The
Speaker 1: body language goes into the language.
Speaker 3: Was there was there a way that you came up
Speaker 3: with those voices, like do you remember if there was
Speaker 3: like you just kind of played around you like, oh,
Speaker 3: I like the sound of that.
Speaker 1: Those those those two were probably the first two Biggies
Speaker 1: that I was ever associated with. In fact, no, they were,
Speaker 1: but they were established from the early sixties when I
Speaker 1: was in the audience because they made those first three shorts.
Speaker 1: They were twenty minutes, twenty two minutes, Winnie the Pooh
Speaker 1: and Tiger to Winnie the Pooh in a day for
Speaker 1: e or and I think it was just Winnie the Poop,
Speaker 1: but they put them together, Disney did, and turned it
Speaker 1: into a feature. So now it's like sixty six minutes long.
Speaker 1: I think it asked me fifty nine or sixty minutes
Speaker 1: to be called up right, a future yet so and
Speaker 1: then they won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature,
Speaker 1: and then they went away for twenty years. They didn't
Speaker 1: do it, which I don't know why. I'm glad they
Speaker 1: didn't because it gave me a chance to grow up
Speaker 1: and then I could auditioned and then I was okay good.
Speaker 1: And so they were kind of looking for a match
Speaker 1: to what they had in the Yeah, it had to
Speaker 1: be yeah, and I appreciate that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know Warner Brothers, who I love. They they
Speaker 1: will have a character I don't know, Yosemite Sam or
Speaker 1: a secondary character, and uh, you know, we'd be doing
Speaker 1: an Animaniacs or a Tiny Tunes or a you know,
Speaker 1: Buster and Babs Bunny, and they'd have a cameo for
Speaker 1: fill in the blank, Yosemite Sam. Anybody got a good
Speaker 1: Yosebody Rabbit? Okay, you're him, you know. And and there's
Speaker 1: no consistency even I mean, certainly in the bigger characters.
Speaker 1: But I mean, even now, there's a couple of guys
Speaker 1: that do bugs, you know, and I don't get that.
Speaker 1: I think it's and they're both great, but it should
Speaker 1: just be one guy, yeah, because you know, and I know,
Speaker 1: I mean I have an ear that listens and hears
Speaker 1: and seeks that out. But I don't think you have
Speaker 1: to have that kind of discerning ear in order to go, wait,
Speaker 1: that wasn't bugs from last month?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember, even even as like when I was younger,
Speaker 3: you I think I could tell sometimes where I was like,
Speaker 3: hold on, something sounds different about Yosemite Sam, or something
Speaker 3: sounds or someone yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, boghorn, leghorn, Like
Speaker 3: it sounds like something right, yeah, right, you know, it's
Speaker 3: still the same accent and like, but you could tell
Speaker 3: that there was like a vocal quality that was different even. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think kids picked that stuff up. Oh yeah, A
Speaker 3: lot of times we think we think they're they're not
Speaker 3: as smart as they are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, tell you brilliant. Yeah, unless they're obsessive little weasels
Speaker 1: like I was. They they all picked that up. Yeah, meaty,
Speaker 1: like pay attention to me. Yeah. Did you ever have
Speaker 1: any any naysayers? Because that's kind of all I had.
Speaker 1: I mean, I I had a lot of naysayers. I
Speaker 1: I yeah, but what are you going to do for
Speaker 1: a living? Yeah, yea, yeah, that's how you're gonna make
Speaker 1: it back exactly exactly.
Speaker 3: I mean, I remember, I remember even because I got
Speaker 3: in I started taking acting classes when I was twenty one.
Speaker 1: I thought, yeah, yeah, so I got into it late
Speaker 1: like I always was always, you know, super creative. Well
Speaker 1: it didn't take it lolatistic and you got it late,
Speaker 1: but finishing early, that's fine. I think I'm older than
Speaker 1: you think I am. Yeah, so it was.
Speaker 3: I think in college I was starting to take acting
Speaker 3: classes on the side, I was, I was going after
Speaker 3: a mechanical engineering degree and yeah, taking acting classes on
Speaker 3: the side.
Speaker 1: I wasn't doing well in school or anything.
Speaker 3: And I actually initially wanted to do product design because
Speaker 3: I was always like an artist.
Speaker 1: I was, yeah, sketcher, painting, Yeah yeah, what what are
Speaker 1: what are some of your greatest hits.
Speaker 3: I used to draw a lot of like anime style,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, yeah, yeah, a lot of Dragon ball Z,
Speaker 3: a lot of Saints say uh. It was very anime
Speaker 3: focused because that's what I watched a lot of. I
Speaker 3: draw a lot of like Mickey Tigger, Pooh, Donald, I
Speaker 3: love Donald Duck. That's a voice I wish I've worked
Speaker 3: on so hard. And then' just like I always like
Speaker 3: almost pass out trying to do Donald, like the breath doesn't.
Speaker 1: Quite work, and then it's like that's the only thing.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like I can't, I can't. What did
Speaker 1: he said something? I was like, I don't know, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I used to be able to say, like, oh, my stomach,
Speaker 1: but I can't even just because it sounds. But that's it.
Speaker 1: That's all I can do is very ducky. Yeah yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: whenever you get anger and stuff. But yeah, so I
Speaker 1: draw a lot of that.
Speaker 3: And I had an uncle who was who's super artistic
Speaker 3: and and was teaching at art center in Pasadena, and
Speaker 3: was you know, talking to my dad and he was like,
Speaker 3: I think, like, I think he should pursue this, and
Speaker 3: you know, and my dad I understand now being you know,
Speaker 3: an adult and us having talked more, but at the
Speaker 3: time he was like, no, your sciences or something else,
Speaker 3: because I don't think there's a future art.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's right right, So, but what are
Speaker 1: you going to do for a living? Exactly?
Speaker 3: And and later on we had we had to talk
Speaker 3: years later and he was like, you know, we've just
Speaker 3: your mother and I had gone through so much in
Speaker 3: our youth and we didn't and struggle, and we had
Speaker 3: worked so hard to provide our kids with a life
Speaker 3: away from struggle.
Speaker 1: Can you and here you grow up and blow it? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Well, well his fear was that now I have a
Speaker 3: kid who's making the active decision to pursue something that's
Speaker 3: going to be a difficult life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's fair.
Speaker 3: And you know, I'm happy we had that discussion because
Speaker 3: for a long time I was like, oh, why, why,
Speaker 3: why can't they just support me?
Speaker 1: Why can't they just.
Speaker 3: So I understand it now and you know, being grown now,
Speaker 3: I'm like, right, like, how tough is that to you know,
Speaker 3: work so hard? And then your kids like, yeah, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna go choose one of the toughest things to do.
Speaker 3: But that kind of helped motivate me a little bit.
Speaker 3: And then it was a lot of like people in
Speaker 3: school that like when they found out I was taking
Speaker 3: acting classes, they thought it was just like a hobby
Speaker 3: and I was like, no, I'm going to do it,
Speaker 3: and then you know, they'd make fun of me.
Speaker 1: But I think a lot of your system. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think a lot of my life.
Speaker 3: Like within school and and everything, it's always been oh,
Speaker 3: you're too tiny. Like I was very athletic. I was
Speaker 3: never a jock, but I was very athletic. I was
Speaker 3: always smart, but I wasn't like in the nerd crowd.
Speaker 3: I wasn't in the you know, athlete crowd. I was
Speaker 3: always kind of like other So, you know, I always
Speaker 3: told too small to play football, and then I played football.
Speaker 1: Well, I was too small to play soccer.
Speaker 3: And I played as a goalie, and then I was
Speaker 3: too slow, but then I was the fastest kid, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, in the league. Do you respond well
Speaker 1: to negative criticism, because that's kind of all I did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: was that, Yeah, I mean, you're not gonna do you
Speaker 1: you are going to be all these stories and uh,
Speaker 1: and that made me more determined than go. Then. This
Speaker 1: is really weird because they could say, you know, I
Speaker 1: think you're onto something. You should really go and pursue that.
Speaker 1: You can really do it. Go get them tiger, Yeah
Speaker 1: go yeah, you the man, you know, and and that
Speaker 1: would have been oh okay, yeah, but having them go
Speaker 1: never in a million years like oh hell now now
Speaker 1: it's on that right, you will be gargling those words.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 3: I think negative criticism motiv motivates me, or especially back then,
Speaker 3: motivated me, but there was always the flip side of it.
Speaker 3: Would I would turn it inwards as well, So then
Speaker 3: I would take that and beat myself up. And so
Speaker 3: I had a lot of like that's like one of
Speaker 3: my big challenges. I have a horrible negative voice that's
Speaker 3: gotten better over the years and the work that I've done.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, let your resume cure you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but also like mental health work and therapy and everything,
Speaker 3: like I've had to put a lot of time into
Speaker 3: just you know, silencing that or not even silencing it,
Speaker 3: but learning not to listen to it, so you know fully.
Speaker 3: But so yeah, I think I think the negative or
Speaker 3: people being naysayers really did light a fire out my ass.
Speaker 3: But I would also take that home and kind of
Speaker 3: look in the mirror and be like, oh, you're not
Speaker 3: going to amount to anything either, right or whatever. And
Speaker 3: then I so it was a constant battle of like, no,
Speaker 3: I'm going to prove them wrong, and then it'd be like, no,
Speaker 3: they're right.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm going to prove them wrong. There right.
Speaker 3: So I think it would have been a good balance
Speaker 3: of like I think ideally it would have been a
Speaker 3: little bit of like, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: If you can do that, but maybe you should try. Yes, there,
Speaker 1: you know. So it's kind of find that balance of like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: well I'll support you in it. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: If you do it, it's like, all right, I'll show you. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Well you know the idea of being talked out of
Speaker 1: attempting it, yeah, no, no, no, no, I because you know,
Speaker 1: you know I really should have you know, you know
Speaker 1: what I should have done. And I remember at an
Speaker 1: early age thinking to myself, phone, I never want to
Speaker 1: because you hear the older guys, your older uncles or
Speaker 1: neighbors or anybody you know, well, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: I own this store here, and you know, I sell candy,
Speaker 1: and I you know what I really wanted to do though, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I really wanted to do. And I
Speaker 1: realized at a very early age, I don't ever want
Speaker 1: to make that statement.
Speaker 3: No, no, I I that's something that like really resonates,
Speaker 3: is you know, especially nowadays. Like I think back when
Speaker 3: I was growing up, there was this illusion of like
Speaker 3: job security, like longevity. You were in a job, you
Speaker 3: were you had that job for twenty thirty years. But
Speaker 3: now you look at it like and it's like people
Speaker 3: that have had the job for twenty years just get
Speaker 3: let go. Yeah, And it's like what happened to like loyalty,
Speaker 3: what happened to me? It's like, well, there's no such
Speaker 3: thing if it's that volatile now and there's no such
Speaker 3: thing as job security anymore or as much as there was,
Speaker 3: like in the sixties, seventies, eighties, why not go after
Speaker 3: the thing.
Speaker 1: That, oh you're passioned about? Yeah, well, I worked in
Speaker 1: a steel mill right out of high school. There was
Speaker 1: a Bruce Springsteen song on like I can't remember the
Speaker 1: name of it, but it was about getting a union card.
Speaker 1: On your eighteenth birthday. I actually did that, okay, when
Speaker 1: I was I graduated when I was seventeen, and I
Speaker 1: remember my aunt and hand bless her heart, she gave
Speaker 1: me a ride down to the afl Cio. It was
Speaker 1: the steel mill, and I on my eighteenth birthday I
Speaker 1: could finally worked there. So I went down and applied
Speaker 1: and I got in and I got my union card
Speaker 1: and I was working at a steel mill. And I
Speaker 1: ran into all these guys and this and that and
Speaker 1: on and on and on. And I worked there for
Speaker 1: a year year, maybe not quite a year and a half.
Speaker 1: And I remember after at that point I had left
Speaker 1: Youngstown blah blah blah. And then all these people that
Speaker 1: were if you made it twenty years, you got retirement,
Speaker 1: you got a severance, you got this and that. And
Speaker 1: there were so many people that worked for like sixteen, seventeen, eighteen,
Speaker 1: nineteen years and they just had to walk away. The
Speaker 1: steel mil just shut down. It shut down.
Speaker 2: That was it.
Speaker 1: Imagine And man, you had your nineteen and a half
Speaker 1: years in and all you got was unemployment, and you
Speaker 1: had to keep plugging away for another, I don't know,
Speaker 1: twenty years til you hit sixty five and then you
Speaker 1: got some retirement social security. Yeah, but I mean at
Speaker 1: that point, you've been doing the same thing for nineteen
Speaker 1: years over here and nobody cares what you did in
Speaker 1: a steel mill, you know, and you didn't get any
Speaker 1: practical experience for anything other than going besides like hunkered
Speaker 1: down and do it.
Speaker 3: I remember I had a conversation with my dad because
Speaker 3: I was always kind of like my dad has always
Speaker 3: been like, do whatever I have to do to provide
Speaker 3: for my family, and you know, and figure out improvising
Speaker 3: the moment, and so I think, like, you know, later on,
Speaker 3: once careers start to go a little bit better for me,
Speaker 3: we sat down and had a conversation. I was like,
Speaker 3: you know, something that's always blown me away about you,
Speaker 3: is that is that you know, you've had this job,
Speaker 3: you know, this job that he had, and you know,
Speaker 3: I can't imagine doing that, like waking up every day
Speaker 3: and doing that, like and I always thought there was
Speaker 3: something wrong with me because you know, I couldn't imagine
Speaker 3: being an engineer waking up every day and working on
Speaker 3: other people.
Speaker 1: It was a goal. Yeah, for you, it was something
Speaker 1: to be a voice.
Speaker 3: Is the only thing that's ever that I've ever woken
Speaker 3: like I can wake up without an alarm to do
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. No one's ever had to
Speaker 3: motivate me to be artistic and a performer. And he
Speaker 3: was like, oh, but I've always been passionate about what
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, now I.
Speaker 3: Get it, because I always thought that there was something
Speaker 3: wrong with me in the sense of like how can
Speaker 3: my dad do it? How can my dad hustle like this?
Speaker 3: And and I can't find that fire in me unless
Speaker 3: I'm doing this. Yeah, And he was like, no, there's
Speaker 3: specific there's a specific part of the job that fires
Speaker 3: me up that I'm passionate about.
Speaker 1: That's all. I get it. Yep, I get it because
Speaker 1: that's to be able to have that conversation with him
Speaker 1: and you know, for us to talk, you know, person
Speaker 1: to person and and and you know, being a place
Speaker 1: to to talk about like why didn't you agree with
Speaker 1: like my decision to act and him be in a
Speaker 1: place to be like I was just worried. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was just really worried. Yeah. Yeah. It was like I'm
Speaker 1: the biggest fan and I was just worried. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, but again, maybe, like you said,
Speaker 1: maybe it was concerned, yeah, because they would say, yeah,
Speaker 1: but what are you going to do for a living? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but how are you going to eat? How are you
Speaker 1: going to make money? I go, yeah, but what if
Speaker 1: I do it well enough to make money? Yeah.
Speaker 3: The argument that I had for people was that you
Speaker 3: know what, Okay, so I can go after this thing
Speaker 3: where I might not make much money, but it brings
Speaker 3: me joy, right, and hopefully it affects people in a
Speaker 3: positive way. Or I can pick this other job where
Speaker 3: it allows me to buy a house and I have
Speaker 3: a car, I have a family, I have the white
Speaker 3: picket fence, and it's the ideal, right picture of like
Speaker 3: what life should be.
Speaker 1: And I wake up every morning and I hate my life.
Speaker 1: Like is that sustainable? Right? I'd much rather be.
Speaker 3: Happy, affect people in a positive way, spread light and
Speaker 3: struggle financially.
Speaker 1: Yeah, ideally both It's all good except that last part. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I do believe.
Speaker 3: I do believe in the idea of abundance and there's
Speaker 3: enough for everybody, and you know, so I'm not worried
Speaker 3: about that. But you know, at the time, it was that,
Speaker 3: you know, early on, especially where it's like working retail
Speaker 3: working at a twenty four hour burrito place and background work,
Speaker 3: doing stand and work, like just hustling everywhere I could.
Speaker 1: To just you know, I know this is gonna I
Speaker 1: know I'm doing the right thing, and I got to.
Speaker 3: Just keep going and figure out, like how do I
Speaker 3: maintain it? How do I keep putting food on the
Speaker 3: table or paying rent in order to.
Speaker 1: Like pursue this thing. M there you go, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: keys to the Kingdom, Keys to the happiness. That's the answer. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: it kind of is. It really is do whatever you
Speaker 1: have to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that that's that's something I get asked by some people,
Speaker 3: is like, oh, you know, like I feel kind of,
Speaker 3: you know, sad that I have to have like multiple
Speaker 3: jobs and everything, and I don't know if I can
Speaker 3: put as much time into my acting.
Speaker 1: I was like, don't ever feel ashamed about like having
Speaker 1: to like these side gigs or whatever in order to
Speaker 1: have a roof over your head and feed yourself and
Speaker 1: feed your loved ones, and also, on top of that,
Speaker 1: give you the opportunity to pursue this thing, because one
Speaker 1: day it'll happen. It's just right now, is really you
Speaker 1: don't lose to you quit exactly exactly. That's what I
Speaker 1: tell people too. Is anybody that tells you didn't work out,
Speaker 1: it's because they stopped doing it, not to say there's
Speaker 1: anything wrong with that.
Speaker 3: I used to look down on it early on, and
Speaker 3: then and then I saw people struggling and I was
Speaker 3: learning more and more, and I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 3: there's there's something really I I tip my hat off
Speaker 3: to people that can realize, oh, my heart isn't in this,
Speaker 3: especially when you put years. Yeah, and then to have
Speaker 3: that realization and be like, oh, my heart's not in it,
Speaker 3: I'm not passionate about this.
Speaker 1: I think I gotta do something different like that. That's
Speaker 1: really cool your head from banging your head against the walm,
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. I mean, you know, you just keep going
Speaker 1: until until you won't have it in you anymore, or
Speaker 1: or you keep going until you're underground, until you make
Speaker 1: it until Yeah, but that's what I mean. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: two things that are going to stop you. Your heart's
Speaker 1: not in it. Or you know that should stop you.
Speaker 1: Your heart's not in it, you die, that's true. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's second one. Yeah, that'll do. That's the only guarantee,
Speaker 1: that's no kidding. Yeah. Well, we should we should do
Speaker 1: some voice swampage, don't you think?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: certain to sweat all right, Okay, let's see. I know
Speaker 1: that you like Tigger, but and you don't have to
Speaker 1: do Tigger. You have to do it and you could
Speaker 1: say his kid here, take it away, Christopher.
Speaker 3: Ye.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you help a voice from like Assassin's Creed. You
Speaker 2: would do your character from Assassin's Creed.
Speaker 1: Which is just like a deep Arabic accent or a
Speaker 1: light Arabic accent.
Speaker 2: So you do, like whatever Jim says, whatever line, you
Speaker 2: just imitate that line, but in your character voice, okay,
Speaker 2: and vice versa. Okay, yeah, and then you would take
Speaker 2: a character whoever, whichever character that you've performed as Okay,
Speaker 2: you say a line of theirs Jim will imitate it
Speaker 2: as one of his characters, like dark Wing or Winnie
Speaker 2: the Pooh or whatever.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, alright, so sure, alrighty you want to start
Speaker 1: it off? Sure, sure, okay, So, and do I say
Speaker 1: it in the character? Okay?
Speaker 2: Character?
Speaker 1: We work in the dark to serve the light. Okay,
Speaker 1: who should that be? Maybe? Uh? Pooh? I think would
Speaker 1: be we work in the dark to shave the light.
Speaker 1: And of course the honey. You must save the honey.
Speaker 2: Assassin.
Speaker 3: I never thought i'd want to see Pooh with like
Speaker 3: an assassin blade.
Speaker 1: Yes, and I don't know how to use this to
Speaker 1: scoop honey. Yeah, yes, justicerel that is not why what
Speaker 1: we use that for? I just need the honey. I
Speaker 1: never knew I wanted to say that so bad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's there's no manual with this stuff. So let's see.
Speaker 1: I guess it's my turn now. Okay, So dark Wing
Speaker 1: Duck we'll do so, okay, or should it be dark
Speaker 1: Wing Darkway's good? And uh, character of your choice? You
Speaker 1: could return. I am the terror that flaps in the night. Okay, Okay?
Speaker 3: Do you off the top of my head, do you
Speaker 3: know any other characters that I've done that would be like,
Speaker 3: I could just do it as best.
Speaker 1: I mean, Agent Stone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so I am the terror that flaps, and
Speaker 3: I am the terror that flaps in the night.
Speaker 1: Doctor, I am the terror that flaps in the night.
Speaker 1: Here's that's not very terry. Terry. That's not a word.
Speaker 1: That's a terror terrory. Yeah, I'm just trying. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think of of voice. I can't think I could
Speaker 1: do I could do best.
Speaker 2: You did a voice in Star Wars, did you not
Speaker 2: in the video game?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if I can I can do
Speaker 3: the voice because it the characters haven't been divulged.
Speaker 2: You're restricted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we do a bad Yoda. No, I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm the tear that flap. How would Yoda say? I
Speaker 1: am the tear that flaps in the night? Uh, terror,
Speaker 1: I am flapping the night? I do That's pretty good?
Speaker 1: Yeah like that, Okay, I could see the ears. It's
Speaker 1: more like Yoda from from Return of the Jedi.
Speaker 2: Dempression to do who's your favorite?
Speaker 1: Oh? My favorite impression? I mean I used to do
Speaker 1: Jim a lot. I used to do Ace a lot.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I could try. I could try
Speaker 3: an a spincer. I could try an a spinster if you.
Speaker 1: Give me a line? Oh, okay, how about or I
Speaker 1: could give him and then he gives me a line.
Speaker 3: I'll do it, sure, Okay, okay, I'm in Psycho's Bill
Speaker 3: and Thinkles the Mayor.
Speaker 1: That was really good. That was really good. I would
Speaker 1: complete with face. I would have known who that was
Speaker 1: with the sound down. Okay, okay, nice, Okay. So I'm
Speaker 1: in Psychosville and Finkles the Mayor. Okay, and am I dark?
Speaker 1: Who am I dark wing? Or Tigger?
Speaker 2: Do you wanna whoever?
Speaker 1: I am? In Psychovill and Frinkles the Mayor? This is great? Great? Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm a happy guy. Man, what line? Give
Speaker 1: me a line? Give you see if? Okay, I'm sorry, Jim, No,
Speaker 1: this good.
Speaker 2: How about do the do a robotic line?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Robotic?
Speaker 1: Oh, let me guess you must be a friend of
Speaker 1: sigg Let me guess you must be a friend of
Speaker 1: smigly ll me guess you must be a friend of Smiggy. Yes, that's.
Speaker 2: That's great. I love the manner.
Speaker 1: Yeah you have to really commit yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Well he's he's a huge fan of the show, so
Speaker 1: he'll probably be calling you and congratulating you. Don't ever
Speaker 1: do that again. Yes, got you, Jim, I'm sorry, no problem, boss,
Speaker 1: you got a pal? Hey yeah, Sonic four you bet? Yeah. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm just like I want us to do this all day.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to figure out voices and stuff of
Speaker 1: like we could do. But yeah, it's like I wish
Speaker 1: I had more of a toolkit. I don't know. You're
Speaker 1: doing pretty well, well, thank you.
Speaker 2: I like, what do you have coming up next for you?
Speaker 2: Do you have anything that you want to plug? Anything
Speaker 2: you want to say, some advice to give?
Speaker 3: I mean the advice I think we've talked a lot
Speaker 3: about just you know, if it's something you want to do,
Speaker 3: you just keep going for it. Don't let anybody tell
Speaker 3: you you can't do it.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: And then as far as stuff coming out, I got yeah,
Speaker 3: I I I'm doing a voice a couple of voices
Speaker 3: in the new Star Wars game.
Speaker 1: Nice, and we've.
Speaker 3: Got Sonic three coming out December twentieth, and uh, I'm
Speaker 3: on a show right now.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I can talk about the show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't you hate that? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, but be
Speaker 1: on the lookout, yeah, yeah, fun show on Amazon. Look
Speaker 1: is what I'll say.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, yeah there you go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, thank you, thank thanks for having me. This
Speaker 1: was a blast. Oh do this for like four hours
Speaker 1: all day. It's just today.
Speaker 2: Feel free to come feel free to come back on Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah amazing. I would thank you so much. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much, Jim, Thank you so so much. All right, fantastic.
Speaker 2: Thank you again everybody for watching another episode of Tune
Speaker 2: In with Jim Cummings. I'm producer Chris, Jim. How are
Speaker 2: you doing today?
Speaker 1: It's another Dan in Paradise.
Speaker 2: Yeah, with thank you for joining us today. Really appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Before we end, my sister is gonna kill me if
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Speaker 1: to meet me. And then Mary is very shy. Yes,
Speaker 1: he's super shy. I love Pete. And then Miriam loves
Speaker 1: uh your character from the Frog, Prince, the Prince, the
Speaker 1: Princess of the Frog. Yes, well, Miriam, I are you
Speaker 1: doing don It is me, your buddy, Ray the don
Speaker 1: made me light my butt. I'm kidding with your doll
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Speaker 1: Jim Slash Cummings Podcast, Yes, Patrion, What is it again?
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Speaker 3: Com slash Jim Cummings Podcast, be there or rectangular?
Speaker 2: Yes, I got it on the first try and we'll
Speaker 2: see you in the next one.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much and great, it was a good
Speaker 1: first day. Yeah, jump in on anything. What time is
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