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Speaker 1: Hold old Knock Gud. My name is Jim Cummings and
Speaker 1: welcome to Tuned In.
Speaker 4: Welcome back, everybody to another episode of Tuned In with
Speaker 4: Jim Cummings. I'm producer Chris, joined as always by the
Speaker 4: legend himself, mister Jim Cummings.
Speaker 5: Hey, how are you doing today?
Speaker 6: Sir?
Speaker 1: It's another Dad Paradise, like I always say, and it's
Speaker 1: always true.
Speaker 5: It sure is. And we have a very special guest
Speaker 5: for you.
Speaker 1: Cuta yes, Jeff Glenn Bennett. Accept no substitute. Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2: Just happened in the neighborhood Jeff Bennett.
Speaker 1: And the crowd went wild.
Speaker 2: Everybody.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, you are the epitome of a joke
Speaker 1: that was thrown at me when I very first started,
Speaker 1: because I was like clean up guy on Dumbo Circus
Speaker 1: and that I'd be the janitor or the literally you know,
Speaker 1: or the big baker or you know something. And and
Speaker 1: my old buddy Ron Goet cast of thousands, that's you,
Speaker 1: cast of thousands. You know, whenever you see at the
Speaker 1: end of a movie plus a cast of thousands, it's
Speaker 1: probably him.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 7: That's funny because yeah, I mean after like we were
Speaker 7: just saying thirty yeah, thirty plus years. I mean when
Speaker 7: I came to town, you were you were the man.
Speaker 2: You were like, that's right. And who's who's who's doing
Speaker 2: that part?
Speaker 7: Jim Cummings really and and who's who's doing what that
Speaker 7: would be Jim Commings.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, those two parts that I gotta I gotta
Speaker 1: watch this, Jim Comings.
Speaker 7: I gotta see what's going on, see how we do this,
Speaker 7: because I did not know you.
Speaker 1: You did just fine.
Speaker 7: We did.
Speaker 2: Okay, we ain't worried about this guy.
Speaker 1: Okay, we ain't worried about him.
Speaker 7: But it was I remember, you know, it was the
Speaker 7: first thing that we worked on together.
Speaker 2: Was probably bonkers.
Speaker 1: Yeah we were Jitters, yeah, I remember it well. Do Yeah, a.
Speaker 2: Very shy dog. It was a little porky like, but yes,
Speaker 2: Jitters a dog and Roderick Lizard. Yeah it was as well.
Speaker 7: He was a very he was just a very sort
Speaker 7: of I was thinking of Olivier when I did it,
Speaker 7: because I would go up at the end of all
Speaker 7: my lines. I remember the old interview that he had,
Speaker 7: David Frost or somebody, yes, and.
Speaker 2: They said, why is it you always seem to have this.
Speaker 7: Speech rhythm where at the end of the old lines
Speaker 7: you tend to go up at the end of your line.
Speaker 2: This is I do not go up at the end
Speaker 2: of my lines. I was like, that was like the
Speaker 2: inspiration for there we go. But it's just like you.
Speaker 7: I'm sure the things that you watched, you know you, yeah,
Speaker 7: you would just go like I think Carnage was yeah,
Speaker 7: Brenner meets.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you'll Brenner, and I think Charlebody yeah, Charles
Speaker 1: Bronson and Brenner Yeah, yeah, he was he was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't have wanted to see the child that they produced,
Speaker 1: but he sounded like, don't carnage. Don't carnage all they
Speaker 1: are and then I don't and then you don't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I make everybody else roll it.
Speaker 2: But that was that was it.
Speaker 7: It was like, you know, you never knew where the
Speaker 7: inspiration was gonna come from. But ye know, I wonder
Speaker 7: if if you put this person in this person and.
Speaker 1: Together, yeah you know, yeah, do you do that? Is
Speaker 1: that one are your tricks?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I mean that was what I would do with with Yeah,
Speaker 7: a bunch of different characters. They just ended up being
Speaker 7: hybrids of people that I grew up watching or or
Speaker 7: or it was like somebody said, hey, you know this
Speaker 7: is this character is kind of like a you know,
Speaker 7: I specialized in seventies seventies character actors for the most arts.
Speaker 2: Just like he's kind of like a kind of like
Speaker 2: a Don Knots or something. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, oh, I would just go rid into doing to
Speaker 7: die and because they watched him so much growing up,
Speaker 7: and he made me laugh and the guy won about
Speaker 7: twelve Emmys.
Speaker 1: In a row, barn Then I'd give you like two
Speaker 1: syllables of Andy. Then you're good for another five minutes, now,
Speaker 1: Barney Well, and then he'd be off on it. Yeah, right, right,
Speaker 1: the legendary the outtakes. Oh my god, well I can remember.
Speaker 1: I want to repeat myself, but you and I would
Speaker 1: piss off Charlie Adler on and off occasionally Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3: Just cut to the chase, say the line for gods
Speaker 3: to kill you, to say the line they're paying you.
Speaker 1: Come on, Jesus, what time is it?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, and I'm alone in my closet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, at home.
Speaker 2: I got to be somewhere in five minutes. Your mother's
Speaker 2: ass come on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's calling you up, Jeff, it's taken you forever.
Speaker 1: Let's go, let's do this. Yes, that's right.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I remember the show that the three of us.
Speaker 2: I think that was the first time I worked with
Speaker 2: both of you. I was maybe Tailsman text text ten Star. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was Pith Possum and texting Star, the Oli Possum.
Speaker 1: I've got them written down because they were they were.
Speaker 1: They didn't come up in your bio, and I'm going,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, I distinctly remember those.
Speaker 2: I don't know why.
Speaker 1: Yeah I don't. I don't either, But you know what,
Speaker 1: what was weird? That was an odd little time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, an animation and nobody knew exactly what the
Speaker 1: hell they were wanting to do.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Like it came out of a lot of It's
Speaker 7: kind of like Cartoon Network, you know, the things that
Speaker 7: came out of Cartoon Network at the time, like Johnny
Speaker 7: Bravo and Chicken and Powerpuff Girls and all that. Yeah
Speaker 7: did he was kind of doing some of that with
Speaker 7: these shorts. The Maker started out as a short, Yes,
Speaker 7: and the pith possum thing was that was those were
Speaker 7: shorts and everything.
Speaker 2: And I think that was Bill cop right, that was
Speaker 2: Bill cop who did think?
Speaker 7: So who was he was a character himself.
Speaker 1: He himself was Bill wherever you are?
Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 7: But I remember we that was. That was an interesting
Speaker 7: time too because I had just started. I was just
Speaker 7: asks Johnny Bravo and I literally had an audition like
Speaker 7: down the street for Text ten Star right after that,
Speaker 7: and I was like, so, what do you want for
Speaker 7: this character? He's like he's like a he's you know,
Speaker 7: he's like a young Elvis.
Speaker 2: He's doing like a young Elvis.
Speaker 1: Was just what you wanted to hear.
Speaker 2: I just did that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I did it. I was standard Elvis a
Speaker 1: little while ago.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, And I was like, well, what are the odds.
Speaker 7: There's no way I'm going to end up doing both
Speaker 7: of them. So I'm just gonna you know, there's only
Speaker 7: so many ways you can do Elvis. I'm like, you
Speaker 7: want older young or yeah, the toilet what you know?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2: So now he was like, I want young. I was like, okay.
Speaker 2: So I ended up doing him pretty much the same
Speaker 2: way at.
Speaker 7: And then he comes through like two weeks later after
Speaker 7: we start doing it because he cast.
Speaker 2: Me and it was and he's like, so it's this
Speaker 2: Johnny Bravo thing I keep hearing about and and is
Speaker 2: it Elvis? Are you doing Elvis? No?
Speaker 1: Well kind of you said Carl Perkins, you were doing Carl,
Speaker 1: You're doing Wayne Newton.
Speaker 2: I was doing a touch just mostly Wayne, mostly Wayne.
Speaker 1: Yeah, got myself into a little uh so whatever became
Speaker 1: of that, I mean, well not much.
Speaker 7: Johnny went on, Yeah, and text didn't well that's what
Speaker 7: happened with that.
Speaker 1: Well that could have happened anyway, but yeah, with or
Speaker 1: without yeah, Elvis.
Speaker 2: I think that's part of why they just didn't remember those.
Speaker 1: Roles, that's right. What about Pith Seriffly? What about Pith, Yes,
Speaker 1: superhero tomorrow.
Speaker 2: And I was just you know, that was just your yes,
Speaker 2: say the top.
Speaker 1: Superhero kind of guess kind of. I always thought it
Speaker 1: like he was double do Wright's cousin, right right, because
Speaker 1: that was like standard hero for a.
Speaker 2: While, exactly get him exactly. Yeah, oh my god, yeah yeah, but.
Speaker 7: I remember you cracked me up. What was the what
Speaker 7: was the character you played on that? There was like
Speaker 7: the Orson Wells thing that you were.
Speaker 2: Doing, oh for a while.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was only for a.
Speaker 2: Couple of episodes, but be yes, I remember.
Speaker 1: It's gone. All the robe is gone, all pooty, I must.
Speaker 8: Change pooty and stinky and stinky.
Speaker 2: I don't know what.
Speaker 7: I just remember I lost it because yeah, you know
Speaker 7: that was We had a great cast, Yeah, we did.
Speaker 7: And I think Charlie was like Marth about what was
Speaker 7: the one where he was? Was it earthworm Gym? Where
Speaker 7: he was? Where was he professor monkey? For a head,
Speaker 7: Oh that must have been Earthworm? That was Earthworm Jim, Yeah, yeah, professor,
Speaker 7: which was another sort of you know, he's a superhero
Speaker 7: but he's a worm.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yeah, that was yeah Dan Castle.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, but it is so like you Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh man, we've had way too much fun over the years.
Speaker 2: I know, and I know I would say between the
Speaker 2: two of us we might have a few credits.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think you might be onto.
Speaker 7: Something came up to me one day, Maurice LaMarsh and
Speaker 7: we happen to be at the same album record store, oh,
Speaker 7: just looking through vinyl, and he said, do you realize
Speaker 7: you have like over fifteen hundred credits?
Speaker 2: And I was like, no, no, I don't. I haven't
Speaker 2: been like watching get up and go to work.
Speaker 1: Look, I just get up and go to work.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, And he's like, no, you you have over
Speaker 7: fifteen hundred credits, just like that's not that's you know
Speaker 7: whatnot that you mentioned.
Speaker 2: I guess it is.
Speaker 1: It's a hell of a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: For I like, I have one hundred and fifty, so
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred's gotta be good times five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, who knows.
Speaker 4: What really stood out to me looking through your career
Speaker 4: is how many shows that you'll voice like fifteen twenty
Speaker 4: characters on like like Dave the Barbarian for example. I
Speaker 4: love that show and you played like I think, like
Speaker 4: fifteen different characters. It was like just going through all
Speaker 4: the credits, it's.
Speaker 2: Like, which is often who whoa?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean remember when you did it, and
Speaker 2: I'm like yeah, and like it was like one of.
Speaker 4: A lot of them are like you know, a one
Speaker 4: line character or something like that. You know, like it's
Speaker 4: like you know, you'll be playing the background characters exactly
Speaker 4: literally literally.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But I wanted to ask you, how do you just
Speaker 4: like keep coming up with new voices? Like how do
Speaker 4: you have all these voices stored in?
Speaker 2: How do you do that? I don't always.
Speaker 4: Is it like imitations like you were talking about earlier,
Speaker 4: Like Okay, maybe I can take this person and this
Speaker 4: person combined them into something and that'll be another one or.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 7: Some of it is like taking the impression and going
Speaker 7: a totally different way with it. But I mean for years,
Speaker 7: you know, I ended up doing a lot of like
Speaker 7: the Joe Peshy kind of stuff on.
Speaker 2: Different different shows. And I would be any you know,
Speaker 2: like any Maniacs. I'm pretty sure yeah if.
Speaker 7: We did that, and and Mighty Ducks was that way,
Speaker 7: and then Powerpuff Girls.
Speaker 9: I was a was like he was the leader of
Speaker 9: the gang Green Gang, so you know, he was always
Speaker 9: talking like this, get those girls.
Speaker 2: It was the same. It was kind of the same
Speaker 2: thing with Mighty Ducks.
Speaker 7: But it started out and these always end up as
Speaker 7: like accidents. It started out as like I remember Jamie saying,
Speaker 7: now they wanted to be He's.
Speaker 2: Sort of this.
Speaker 7: Uh former like jewel thief criminal, So we want sort
Speaker 7: of this this little errold flinnish a little bit there,
Speaker 7: almost like a pizza roa tool or something in that,
Speaker 7: and he's, oh, that's great, that's great.
Speaker 2: And then the next week they said, no, they don't
Speaker 2: like the Peter ro tool. Just go just go with
Speaker 2: the pushy.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah, well I get those guys confused. Yeah, Peter.
Speaker 2: They wanted to be like an actual sounding criminal.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, oh god yeah yeah, or the DeNiro.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not the first time I dug the hole.
Speaker 2: I'll dig the hole this time.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, well you want me to dig the whole.
Speaker 2: It was bothering me, Spider, He's always on my back.
Speaker 2: I had to shoot it.
Speaker 1: And that makes yeah, And I knew guys like that
Speaker 1: in real life, and that's makes perfect sense, right. You
Speaker 1: gotta gotta solve a problem. Goodbye. Yeah, Now we got
Speaker 1: to dig a hole.
Speaker 2: But you didn't like that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm afraid they did. But enough of that,
Speaker 1: this gay banter about Youngstown, Ohio. Yeah, let's get off
Speaker 1: this subject real quick because people are looking at me.
Speaker 1: Uh So anyway, Yeah, it's all the stuff that used
Speaker 1: to get you kicked out of school too, Yes, right,
Speaker 1: because that actually did happen to me. I'd make a
Speaker 1: joke about it.
Speaker 2: But oh man, back in Texas, it was like it was.
Speaker 1: Something wrong with this boy, you know that, right.
Speaker 2: I spent a lot of time in the in the hallways.
Speaker 1: Yeah, me too.
Speaker 7: You know, here you go get out, yeah, be rolling
Speaker 7: the Yeah it's Jeff again.
Speaker 2: You know, they'd be rolling the.
Speaker 7: Historical documentary or whatever, and we'd be in the back,
Speaker 7: Me and another buddy would be in the back doing it,
Speaker 7: you know.
Speaker 1: You know yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: It was just it was always something and I was like,
Speaker 7: all right, get out, yeah, or you know, end up
Speaker 7: doing don Notts or Travolta or something about.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I swear the guy looked like he was on fire.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I can't believe it.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: It's like I will have something else, yeah, for for
Speaker 2: the audition.
Speaker 7: They'll go, oh that's great, But let's try the Travolta,
Speaker 7: you know. And then so Travolta has ended up as
Speaker 7: like the Horse, the Horse on Looney Tunes and uh
Speaker 7: in Nickelodeon a couple of times from Nickelodeon.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so that's how I end up.
Speaker 7: That's why I said I don't, because I end up
Speaker 7: redoing a lot of stuff over there. But you know,
Speaker 7: hopefully you change it up a little bit and people
Speaker 7: forgive you for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah they do, because yeah, yeah sometimes yeah, Amen.
Speaker 2: Was like, I'm not more walking, please, Yeah, I've been
Speaker 2: walking all my life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's tired.
Speaker 2: I'm so tired of walking.
Speaker 1: I never that never really gets old for me for
Speaker 1: some reason. I mean, I know, he's like the most
Speaker 1: overdown guy. It used to be, buddy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: It's like the commercial that they did during the Super Bowl.
Speaker 7: It's like the people that are parking his car, the people.
Speaker 2: That are you know, this waiter, mister Wulkin. I have
Speaker 2: a special o though, just for you, you know.
Speaker 10: Yeah, but I remember the one we did, and I
Speaker 10: think you played the narrator for the Brainy Brainy.
Speaker 2: The pooh oh oh.
Speaker 7: Yeah that must have been interesting for Jim because it's like, yes,
Speaker 7: I think I was doing my characters.
Speaker 2: Was it Orson?
Speaker 7: Well you didn't get to do him, you know, because
Speaker 7: Yahni is supposed to be winning.
Speaker 2: Oh right.
Speaker 7: And then I did Jagger, which was Tiger right, turn
Speaker 7: Jagger into Jagger and it.
Speaker 1: Was O god, yeah that was animatum.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got beautiful wraps.
Speaker 1: Oh god.
Speaker 2: It was weird. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And they hired me to be in it. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it was like, okay, this is so I'm you are
Speaker 1: making fun of myself.
Speaker 8: It was a blousery day, yeah, yeah, yes, would oh Man.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And Christopher Robin Christopher walking.
Speaker 1: Was Christopher Christopher Walking, Yes.
Speaker 7: And did the speech from it was Annie Holler Manhattan.
Speaker 7: Sometimes the nights I'm riding on my bike, I see
Speaker 7: the lights approach, I think where they coming from.
Speaker 1: I want to drive, right, I want to drive. Yes.
Speaker 1: And then with with the Woody Allen sitting there going
Speaker 1: the whole time.
Speaker 8: Okay, cinematic, yes, okay, Christopher, yeah we'll be on her
Speaker 8: ring now we got away with a lot.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And he's a strange man.
Speaker 1: And then the uh one thing that I used to
Speaker 1: always do uh and and they would inevitably Andrea or
Speaker 1: Jenny would catch it. I was always trying to sneak
Speaker 1: in half a cussword, right, you know. I remember once
Speaker 1: that that and they called me back in and I said, damn,
Speaker 1: I almost made it. But it was I was playing
Speaker 1: a coyote and he was a hillbilly coyote and something
Speaker 1: like that, and he said, well.
Speaker 2: That don't belong to me.
Speaker 1: It must be urine. And they were going, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: so that's good, and I went, wow, you know, and
Speaker 1: then fair enough, like two months later, yeah, Jim, we
Speaker 1: need you to redo this line, must be yours. There
Speaker 1: goes my urine.
Speaker 2: Right right. Oh wow, I didn't get to keep my urine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they flushed it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 7: They've always been great that way, with the the the horrible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the syllogisms, and it's fun to see what you
Speaker 1: can sneak by, right right, you know, just.
Speaker 7: See they're there to be able to get away with
Speaker 7: you definitely can't anymore. Yeah, yeah, unless they really let
Speaker 7: you improv it. I mean there were some people that
Speaker 7: really oh yeah, they liked the improv take. Yeah, which
Speaker 7: was always great because we were having fun anyway.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7: I always think I always say I wish we had
Speaker 7: more b roll of what we were doing behind the scenes,
Speaker 7: because mm hmm, it's it's like the cartoon behind the
Speaker 7: cartoon that we were having so much fun.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, yeah, yeah, And it's not like that anymore. You know,
Speaker 1: you can't go to uh, go to a session. There'll
Speaker 1: be five or six people in the cartoon, but they
Speaker 1: ain't there right right, you know, it's just you and
Speaker 1: you and you.
Speaker 2: And uh and the directors usually you know at.
Speaker 1: Home, Yeah, at home some time.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and uh, yeah, I won't hear those days of
Speaker 7: seeing Carol Channing take off her blouse in the studio.
Speaker 2: That's never gonna happen. Yeah. She was like, oh well,
Speaker 2: I'll just take this off. It's just yes, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I remember that.
Speaker 7: And and I remember people saying, oh, yes, she did
Speaker 7: that in our session too. And she's always like, she'll
Speaker 7: be wearing a bra and he yes, does the rest
Speaker 7: of her bra and yeah, no, no.
Speaker 2: Doctor, this time, don't do that. This time she had
Speaker 2: no bra and she didn't And and Brad Garrett was there.
Speaker 2: Oh I think it was two stupid dogs. Yes, And
Speaker 2: she went away and it was.
Speaker 7: At the old Barbara oh yeah, and she got well,
Speaker 7: I just go back here and you said little party,
Speaker 7: and she just she had the door open even though
Speaker 7: she was like halfway in where you go in the
Speaker 7: door and into the studio.
Speaker 2: And then she took off her blouse and there was
Speaker 2: nothing underneath. Yeah, and then bent over and I see
Speaker 2: look over. Brad Carrot is like.
Speaker 7: Afterwards he was like, I just kept thinking ula shaped baby.
Speaker 2: Oh I can't see that. You can't.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I can't either, thank you.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 7: And then and then she would go and she'd have
Speaker 7: like this this little igloo of fish with like sardines.
Speaker 1: Oh, Brian, oh god, I forgot.
Speaker 2: And she would go and dip them in, and Brian,
Speaker 2: she was like a large cat.
Speaker 1: Yes. And Charlie Adler had something to say about that too,
Speaker 1: because it was keeping something up company, right, I can't right, yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, Charlie.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Sorry, folks, God, we're having this big inside joke in
Speaker 1: front of all these nice people.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 4: Anyway, No, I think that's great because Jim's told that story,
Speaker 4: well a similar story, so many times of her, you know,
Speaker 4: taking it often.
Speaker 3: Oh, yes, this is marvelish. This is great, sweetie. Can
Speaker 3: you put this up on the hangar?
Speaker 1: Sweetie? Thank you? Sweedy if you're a fan of everything
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Speaker 7: And she would wear those very loud, not not prints,
Speaker 7: but they were like heavy, like heavy cottons or something.
Speaker 2: So every time she goes yeah against the mic, it.
Speaker 1: Was like, yeah, yeah, it sounded like somebody reading a newspaper.
Speaker 7: And it was like and it was the same thing
Speaker 7: with with yeah.
Speaker 1: Her Bengals and her tambourines. She would wear tambourines for
Speaker 1: for a fashion right statement.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my mama did the same thing.
Speaker 7: And Johnny Broubble, Yeah, she would wear she would wear
Speaker 7: all the jewelry and she would wow.
Speaker 2: Joy, Oh, this is wonderful, Brenda. Brenda of a car
Speaker 2: and she's wearing all this jewelry.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh.
Speaker 7: And at the same time she's saying to me, where'd
Speaker 7: you get that damn stuff? You know, like you know,
Speaker 7: she's five yeah, you know, she's five, and she would
Speaker 7: she would start cussing in front of Oh May, and
Speaker 7: there's there's Jeff back there, Jeff Whitman, May's dad.
Speaker 2: You know, I see him kind of going, oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and May's like, what twelve?
Speaker 2: That hell? Did you get that? Honey? Oh my god,
Speaker 2: yeah that's beautiful.
Speaker 7: Oh god, oh the damn ear rings.
Speaker 1: Well, now May cusses on her own, so it's she
Speaker 1: finally made it, she could finally cuss.
Speaker 2: She learned from the best.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh god, that's a terrible, terrible memory that we're
Speaker 1: not going to ever talk about again. But uh, but
Speaker 1: I was just looking at some of the cool stuff
Speaker 1: that that we've done, and a lot of people don't
Speaker 1: know that you are the one of your biggest characters
Speaker 1: and you're not even really doing a character for him.
Speaker 1: The man in the yellow hat, he kind of sounds
Speaker 1: like you, yeah, that's what the romance, that's that's that's
Speaker 1: him right there.
Speaker 2: That threw me off.
Speaker 7: Yeah, literally, I remember because Sue Blue was like, yeah,
Speaker 7: the first day, oh honey, you know, they'll play us
Speaker 7: our auditions that we did, you know, it was like,
Speaker 7: didn't we usually do like three or four takes or something.
Speaker 7: I remember saying, so which one, which one did you
Speaker 7: end up going with? And she went, oh, oh yeah,
Speaker 7: oh honey, it's just your own voice, just your own voice, honey.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I went, now, what how does that go? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I need the ref Can you play it for me?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: You know? And then they plan.
Speaker 1: I go, that's it.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be doing that every week.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, it's just just talking like this because I'm
Speaker 7: so not used to that. Yeah, can we make it
Speaker 7: late the man in the oellow hat something?
Speaker 1: No, no, just yeah, yeah, yeah, you know that's right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you and Frank and right and you as as
Speaker 2: you gotta do a little a little squirrel.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2: I got to hear some squirrel.
Speaker 1: Yeah that was squirrel.
Speaker 7: That was That was so much fun for me because
Speaker 7: I got to just sit back and do my own
Speaker 7: voice and listen to you guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, have two different things.
Speaker 7: I ended up playing other characters, but yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 7: and Cassie Rob. I was like all the old grants
Speaker 7: first started working with.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think the.
Speaker 7: First time I worked with Frank mm hmm might have
Speaker 7: been the Cowboys of moo Mesa.
Speaker 1: Most people forgot where the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: Marshall Moo, I was the Colorado kid, Yes you were?
Speaker 2: And uh and and I was that's right. And Pat
Speaker 2: Frayley was Marshall Moo.
Speaker 1: Yes he was Moon Montana. And don't forget the code
Speaker 1: of the.
Speaker 2: My mom.
Speaker 7: You know what's funny about that is like they came
Speaker 7: out with a lot of different little paraphernalia off of
Speaker 7: that show. And my mom when I went back to Houston,
Speaker 7: my mom had like a shampoo bottle with my character.
Speaker 7: It was like, no kid full of soaper, full of shampoo.
Speaker 7: Cal damn shampoo bottle.
Speaker 1: That's awesome.
Speaker 2: I was like, this is something so wrong and so
Speaker 2: okay that at the same time.
Speaker 1: Did you have to pose for that?
Speaker 7: I mean, you know, and of course I didn't get
Speaker 7: anything for it, of course, of course. But that was
Speaker 7: the first time I met Frank, and I was just
Speaker 7: like I had already heard so you know, Frank Welker
Speaker 7: the legend, the legend, and I had already heard so
Speaker 7: much about him, and I was just like, man, this
Speaker 7: is this is That was the period where I was
Speaker 7: going through.
Speaker 2: I get to work with Jim, I got to work with.
Speaker 7: Frank, Rob's coming in and then Mark Hamill came in
Speaker 7: for like the first time.
Speaker 1: So that that then your head went.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And then I was like I got to meet
Speaker 7: Mark Hamilon and he walked up to me and he goes,
Speaker 7: so you play the Colorado kid.
Speaker 2: You have a red kerchief and.
Speaker 1: You and he did the same thing to me.
Speaker 7: Yeah stuff, when I go, you're freaking Luke Skywalker man, Wait, yeah,
Speaker 7: your number me, I'm meeting you that.
Speaker 1: I actually told him that. Yeah, yeah, I had no.
Speaker 1: He's such a fan boy. What a character, what a
Speaker 1: great guy. Yeah, that is too funny. Well, you've worked
Speaker 1: with a lot of the famous, facially famous people facially famous.
Speaker 2: And it was the same way on Gargoyls. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: Well Keith, he's a Asner played Bronson. Yeah, and yeah,
Speaker 2: or Hudson.
Speaker 1: It was Hudson there you go, that was Hudson and Goliath.
Speaker 7: They sat him next to me the first day and
Speaker 7: they were showing us all the beautiful artwork and everything
Speaker 7: and discussing the characters.
Speaker 2: Back when you did that, you know, and.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, we'd have a whole day where it
Speaker 7: was just like here's what it's going to look like,
Speaker 7: this is what you know, and this is your character.
Speaker 2: You know, we talk about it.
Speaker 7: They were drawing of everything, renderings everywhere, and they sent
Speaker 7: me right next to Ed Asner and I'm like the legend.
Speaker 2: What do I say? I say to him? He looks
Speaker 2: over me and I go, I love you because it
Speaker 2: was like, yeah, it's like nobody today, we'll understand that. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Again, he was boss on Mary Tyler Moore and and
Speaker 7: Ted Baxter would always come in and he would say
Speaker 7: something like.
Speaker 2: Oh please, I knew the day off. Yeah, and he
Speaker 2: just looked at me and said, shut up.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It was so perfect, like that was him, that
Speaker 1: was him. You got personally dissed. Yeah, you can't beat that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It was a great great man, great absolutely who who
Speaker 1: who did you ever work with?
Speaker 2: Anybody?
Speaker 1: Who famous, not so famous, talented, not so talented, whoever
Speaker 1: just kind of knocked you back and you and took
Speaker 1: you by surprise. And you know, it's like, I can't
Speaker 1: believe I'm sitting next to.
Speaker 7: Well, hey, Adam West was that way simply because.
Speaker 1: He was so sunny old.
Speaker 2: Yes, he was just so focused on doing his thing.
Speaker 7: He was so good that it threw me off because
Speaker 7: I had already been and this is Johnny Bravo. I'd
Speaker 7: already been doing Johnny Bravo for a while, and I
Speaker 7: mean it might not have been that long actually, And
Speaker 7: somebody sent me a picture the other day of the
Speaker 7: day that we all met Adam West, and we were
Speaker 7: all like, we look like babies.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 7: It's like Seth MacFarlane had big cold bottle glasses, looked
Speaker 7: like he was sixteen, butch all those guys Van looked
Speaker 7: like a.
Speaker 2: Kid, and he was I think it was like twenty
Speaker 2: one some time, and.
Speaker 7: Adam West comes in and it was supposed to be
Speaker 7: William Shatner originally because it was like nine one one.
Speaker 2: The whole thing was like, it was supposed to be mom.
Speaker 2: Mama doesn't come.
Speaker 7: Home and Johnny gets worried, so he calls nine one one.
Speaker 7: And this was back when nine one one was really popular,
Speaker 7: you know, Rescue nine one. So they wanted to William
Speaker 7: Shatner kind of think about that, and then he didn't
Speaker 7: want to do it, or there was some reason he
Speaker 7: couldn't do it, so they called in Adam West to
Speaker 7: do it and changed it to.
Speaker 1: An equally wooden character.
Speaker 6: Changed to Rescues Are Us, and it became and it
Speaker 6: became at every line that he said.
Speaker 2: He was so devoted to it.
Speaker 7: He was just so intense that I couldn't look over
Speaker 7: because every time I looked over he was doing his
Speaker 7: Batman kind of thing and Johnny, let's go find your mama. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and I just I lost it and it was like
Speaker 7: collect that was one of the first times she was
Speaker 7: directing the show, and she said, I've never seen you
Speaker 7: do that where you just yeah, louse it because you're
Speaker 7: usually pretty professional about.
Speaker 5: This, you know.
Speaker 1: But it was like, yeah, but Adam, you.
Speaker 2: Can't look at him.
Speaker 7: I just got to do my line and hope that
Speaker 7: I don't yeah, that you don't hear me laughing.
Speaker 1: There's no defense against that, right, right, there's no defense.
Speaker 1: You can't Adam West sitting there being Adam West.
Speaker 5: Yeah, can you some more Adam West? That was so funny,
Speaker 5: had his own manager there with him.
Speaker 2: Where will I sign? Just here? Okay, let's go do this.
Speaker 2: You know. I was like, I was like, Adam was
Speaker 2: a little bit like you have to be a little
Speaker 2: bit like.
Speaker 7: You got your You're halfway on the toilet and you're
Speaker 7: you're still you're still trying, and eventually it works.
Speaker 1: There you go that's the time. Show is secret.
Speaker 2: You want to know how to do voices, This is
Speaker 2: how you do voices.
Speaker 5: That's right, this showy toilet.
Speaker 2: And put in a little spice of this and then
Speaker 2: coming with a baritone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now see educational, that's right. It's very informative here.
Speaker 7: We do want to like, we do want to help
Speaker 7: with whatever free classes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my gosh Jesus, that is too too good.
Speaker 5: Yeah that's great. Oh good.
Speaker 7: That was the you know, the way that I started, yeah,
Speaker 7: as a kid, and it drove my parents crazy because yeah,
Speaker 7: well good, we all did that. That's a good start.
Speaker 7: I remember seeing I think it was Mom and Jerry
Speaker 7: the little duck. What was the duck?
Speaker 2: Plucky? Was it plucky? One of those oh oh? And
Speaker 2: it was kind of like yeah, and it was and
Speaker 2: it yeah really yeah, And it.
Speaker 7: Would run around a quacky duck, Yeah, quacky duck something
Speaker 7: like that. And I was trying to sound like him,
Speaker 7: and he sounded like a little baby duck.
Speaker 1: Yeah, kind of like a ten year old maybe.
Speaker 2: So I was trying to do that and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: this is working.
Speaker 7: It was probably nine, maybe ten or something, and but
Speaker 7: I ended up doing coming up with the helium thing,
Speaker 7: which we all you know, a lot of people ended
Speaker 7: up yeah, a smoon, a.
Speaker 1: Spy folks, you know, or gremlin and then a while
Speaker 1: that was called Gremlin like.
Speaker 2: Night, and my parents were like, my god, what are
Speaker 2: we gonna do?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, what are we going to do with this Christy?
Speaker 1: You know, he's never going to get your job, know that.
Speaker 1: What are you going to do for a limming?
Speaker 2: I'm so worried about him?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, he shut up? Son, shut down, Sit down, son,
Speaker 1: sit down. Deep breath, yep, deep breath.
Speaker 7: So yeah, I mean, but that's the first one I
Speaker 7: ever remember where I watched something and I tried to
Speaker 7: do it, you know, and then that's just what came out.
Speaker 7: It wasn't the actual thing, but wow, close enough for
Speaker 7: government work, I guess.
Speaker 1: And what was your very first gig, your first voice,
Speaker 1: your first gig, your first cartoon?
Speaker 7: Oh, Prince Valiant, Prince, Prince Valiant, Prince. I was the
Speaker 7: one where Stu Rosen called me up and said give
Speaker 7: me your best Franklin Jalla.
Speaker 1: And I was like, Franklin Jet Frankline over the phone.
Speaker 7: I'm doing you know what I thought was like Franklin Joe.
Speaker 7: I just remembered him from the old Vampire.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and mister smooth. That's that's great. I see it
Speaker 2: scream music tomorrow nine o'clock. Then, of course he showed
Speaker 2: up at nine forty five.
Speaker 1: Yes, so with donuts right for himself.
Speaker 7: And smoking behind the glass. At the time, you could
Speaker 7: smoke in the studio. I don't think you can smoke.
Speaker 1: A cigarette out on a cler but yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Does that great impression.
Speaker 7: He's like he's got the he's got the cigarette and
Speaker 7: the crawler in the coffee.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I go, oh, I'm in sack. Do it again,
Speaker 2: you know? Yeah, I remember Rob poked me and he goes,
Speaker 2: look at that. The whole box of donuts is gone.
Speaker 2: The whole thing is gone. He finished that whole thing.
Speaker 2: He's still not done with the session.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's calling for reinforcement.
Speaker 7: And he abused me for four hours because I had
Speaker 7: all the lines. It was my first job and I
Speaker 7: was the fill. So the villain had all the lines.
Speaker 7: Was my first job was to come and tell me.
Speaker 7: And then you know, three minutes later, I'm still talking.
Speaker 7: Robbie's over there going waiting for his one line.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's I was gonna say and.
Speaker 7: You know, and and then but he saw I was
Speaker 7: probably sweating because after every line he would come, oh, Alan, sat,
Speaker 7: let's do it again, Let's try to be better.
Speaker 2: I was I going, oh god, this is what all
Speaker 2: of them are like, you know, yeah, I'm just gonna
Speaker 2: want to do this.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And.
Speaker 2: He Robbie took me aside and he goes, hey, don't worry, man,
Speaker 2: he's that way with everybody. Yeah, he's that way with
Speaker 2: me too.
Speaker 7: Yeah. I was like, Okay, I can make it. I
Speaker 7: can make it through this.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. That was the first job.
Speaker 5: And then how old were you?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 5: I was.
Speaker 2: Twenty nine, maybe twenty eight, twenty nine something.
Speaker 1: Like that, Yeah, because I I I.
Speaker 2: Got here in eighty nine. Yeah yeah, January of eighty
Speaker 2: nine from Houston, Yeah, Houston. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 7: So yeah, it was eighty nine, and I think that
Speaker 7: probably wasn't until ninety two or something ninety two or
Speaker 7: ninety three that we did those.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And then James Bond Junior with Corey Burton as James.
Speaker 2: And then I was IQ.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, grandson of Q, who was very he's very
Speaker 9: much like a young Terry Thomas.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I did this sort of thing.
Speaker 9: But they had this sort of cybrant s in a way,
Speaker 9: but he was he was a genius. Came up with
Speaker 9: you know, this is a this is a ballpoint pen.
Speaker 9: That's all sailah a dot shooter, so be careful.
Speaker 1: Yes, she was a very small round thing.
Speaker 7: Right, But I remember I was going I was just
Speaker 7: getting ready to take Sue Blues Workshop at the time,
Speaker 7: M because she had that book and I remember reading
Speaker 7: the book like.
Speaker 1: She and Andre had one that I took together. Right,
Speaker 1: that was my that was my intro Wow into the
Speaker 1: into that but they used to be partners.
Speaker 2: And what was that like? It was great, it was fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Pat Music was there, Cam Clark was in that one.
Speaker 1: A couple of other people that ended up ended up
Speaker 1: you know, working so that was kind of fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember it was my intro.
Speaker 7: Corey was I was auditioning with him at SBV at
Speaker 7: the time, and we finished our audition out in the
Speaker 7: street m and he said.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm I'm sure we'll be working together soon. You're
Speaker 2: very good, I can tell you know. Yeah. Yeah, it
Speaker 2: was like maybe three weeks later we were doing Wow.
Speaker 2: So worked out worked out pretty well.
Speaker 1: That's pretty darn cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think Bonkers was not long after that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that sounds about right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah that.
Speaker 1: We went through so many auditions for that, it was
Speaker 1: just ridiculous. Yeah, finally broke it down and then you
Speaker 1: were jitters like like I think, as we said, he
Speaker 1: made live.
Speaker 2: Little.
Speaker 1: I thought that was a cool character.
Speaker 7: And and Rita Moreno as the elephant. Wasn't she an
Speaker 7: elephant or something?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Type cast again, type cast again?
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. And somebody's girlfriend wasn't she supposed to be?
Speaker 1: Like and Rod Perlman was there?
Speaker 2: He was yeah yeah with his cigars. Yeah, well he
Speaker 2: would smoke the scar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he uh and you know he was Canniff
Speaker 1: gi or who I think I think that's right.
Speaker 2: Wow, Jack. See I didn't even remember the names of
Speaker 2: the Yeah, so many other people.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I remember a couple of while like I did,
Speaker 7: and yeah it was yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been a while ago and I've had a
Speaker 1: few of these so yeah, yeah, no kidding, well boy,
Speaker 1: oh boy, well it's you know, and it'll never kind
Speaker 1: of be that way again.
Speaker 2: I don't think you know.
Speaker 1: Where everybody, but all these people are all sitting around
Speaker 1: a room now I.
Speaker 7: Feel bad for this generation of boy silver actors.
Speaker 2: Because.
Speaker 7: You know, the cables were kind of the golden days. Yeah,
Speaker 7: we yeah, I mean we'd go to the audition. They
Speaker 7: would have the copy there for you with the character
Speaker 7: on it.
Speaker 2: M hmm.
Speaker 7: There were twelve of the guys waiting to read. You
Speaker 7: might have to wait a while to go in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you did.
Speaker 7: But then the director would say, oh, that was great.
Speaker 7: Andrea or Jenny or who would say, are there that's
Speaker 7: that's that's great, but let's do it this way. Put
Speaker 7: a lampshade on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's what Jenny would say, Yeah, that's right, and
Speaker 7: uh and change it up and you'd know you'd get
Speaker 7: direction right there, you know, as opposed to here's the character,
Speaker 7: now go with it.
Speaker 2: Good look. Yeah, and we don't have any that much direction, right,
Speaker 2: it's just have a go at it. Yeah, you get it, right?
Speaker 2: You get it?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And if you do, you do, you don't you don't.
Speaker 7: But there's no there's no clues or hints, yeah, necessarily
Speaker 7: as to what it is.
Speaker 1: It's like, I think this sits Yeah. Well, the last
Speaker 1: thing you want to hear is, well, know what when
Speaker 1: we hear it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly okay, so give you eighteen things to choose from.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: It's a hard road to right, folks.
Speaker 2: It's tough out here.
Speaker 1: Start out here for.
Speaker 6: A p.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I got nothing to complain about.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, God forbid, Let that be the worst problem
Speaker 1: we ever have, right right?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Do it Now? What else did we do together? Though?
Speaker 2: Didn't we? Oh?
Speaker 1: Well? Do we talk about gogoys?
Speaker 2: Did you go a little bit? Yeah? Okay? Was that us?
Speaker 2: That was us?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 5: What about what about this show The Lions Guard? Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Do you remember doing that show?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I had never heard of it before before doing research
Speaker 4: on this and The Lion King. You were doing ed
Speaker 4: and you did Zazu if that's right?
Speaker 5: Correct? Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had done.
Speaker 7: I came in originally to do uh scratch on the
Speaker 7: remake of The Lion King for with the song ron Atkinson.
Speaker 2: N't that his character? Right? Yeah? And I think he was.
Speaker 7: He was off over the pond doing something, probably Johnny English,
Speaker 7: one of theirs.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. So they had me do the scratch of
Speaker 2: the song the Morning Report. Mmm. So I did that,
Speaker 2: but then they liked it so much.
Speaker 1: They just didn't know that. Oh that's cool, and they
Speaker 1: said that that's.
Speaker 2: That sounded great, so they left it in the movie. Wow,
Speaker 2: And I.
Speaker 1: Didn't How did I not know this all this time?
Speaker 2: That's great, they don't want you to it's the same
Speaker 2: I did the same thing on James and the Giant Peak.
Speaker 4: So in The Lion King, that's you singing the Morning Report, right, Wow,
Speaker 4: I didn't know that.
Speaker 2: How did I not know that?
Speaker 1: I mean I was singing for someone else too, Jeremy
Speaker 1: what's his name, some British guy, good Old? Well, I'm
Speaker 1: kidding it's good Old what's his name? You know? Jeremy, Jeremy,
Speaker 1: get out of here. I love that guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Well, it turned out they liked what I did in that,
Speaker 7: so they they hired me to do it in The
Speaker 7: Lion Guard.
Speaker 5: Mm hmmm. So go.
Speaker 2: Fun you don't know, you know, he's very full of
Speaker 2: himself all the time. He's a fun character.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's why I did. That's one of the
Speaker 4: things I didn't like about the live action Lion King.
Speaker 4: They took out the Morning Report, right, they took out
Speaker 4: that song, and I'm like, I'm ready because that's kind
Speaker 4: of like the song that guess the movie going, you know.
Speaker 1: And they took about They took out be Prepared too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, they like remixed it. It was like a
Speaker 4: weird like remix. It wasn't the original.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't.
Speaker 1: It was terrible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was also wasn't me.
Speaker 5: This is sort of this is this is.
Speaker 4: Sort of a tangent, but I want to talk about it.
Speaker 4: I've always thought it would be such a good idea
Speaker 4: for them to remake movies or cartoons for that fact,
Speaker 4: with the exact same script as the original, like the
Speaker 4: exact same script, and just shoot it differently or animate
Speaker 4: it differently, and see what comes up, see what comes
Speaker 4: out of it. And I guarantee because I did this.
Speaker 4: I had a class in college and we were all
Speaker 4: given it was a directing class. We're all given a
Speaker 4: fifteen minute short and we had to direct it differently.
Speaker 4: Everybody has the same script. You wouldn't believe how differently
Speaker 4: some of the things came out. You know, they said
Speaker 4: the creators of the Matrix said that they had so
Speaker 4: much footage that they could re release a whole other
Speaker 4: Matrix recut with out of the same shots but all
Speaker 4: the freaking same dialogue. Yeah, and I thought that would
Speaker 4: be so creative and so cool. And if you think
Speaker 4: about it, that's essentially what theater has been doing for
Speaker 4: thousands of years. It's the same script. All that changes
Speaker 4: is the direction, the blocking, the set, the set, you know,
Speaker 4: like I don't know, Yeah, yeah, I just wanted to
Speaker 4: throw that.
Speaker 2: In there, because I would totally be up for that.
Speaker 5: I always thought that would be a cool but.
Speaker 7: You do Bullwinkle, but just the same way. Because back
Speaker 7: when we were watching, I didn't get a lot of it.
Speaker 7: I didn't understand the political jokes. You know, there was
Speaker 7: a lot of communist jokes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, Beanie and Cecil again, you know, we have
Speaker 2: your own fun with it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, you.
Speaker 1: Can't remember Beanie and Cecil that that was all that.
Speaker 1: There was tons of like political satire in there, right,
Speaker 1: you know, in retrospect. You could see it, the green
Speaker 1: Witch Island and all this, you know, all that stuff, Oh.
Speaker 7: My gosh, and all the all the old Oh my gosh,
Speaker 7: so so many, so many wonderful.
Speaker 2: Taxs, tid Staff and those guys that did the puppets.
Speaker 11: Yes, Sid Croft, Sid Kroft, he was, he was at
Speaker 11: a table not far from me and I and I
Speaker 11: went and got his Autographsis, Yeah, I said, you know,
Speaker 11: we we watched H H stuff like every day for
Speaker 11: the longest time when we were.
Speaker 2: Kids, and just love that.
Speaker 1: If you can't get enough.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and you know all of those all of those
Speaker 7: those were banana splits.
Speaker 2: Those were huge back in the day.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I remember it, flipping like a pancake, popping
Speaker 1: like a cork and fliego bingo Trooper and snort all
Speaker 1: around the heavy Yes, I do know all the words,
Speaker 1: but I won't sing him now. Don't worry anymore, okay,
Speaker 1: uh yeah.
Speaker 2: And I think they're set caught on fire.
Speaker 7: At one point they had like the whole studio burned down.
Speaker 2: But I had to get his autograph because I was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm a huge fan of yours.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Wow, that's amazing.
Speaker 7: I don't know if he could redo those the same
Speaker 7: way anymore, because they kind of seemed like they were
Speaker 7: a little drug induced to begin with. Yeah, no, no,
Speaker 7: but he was doing mushrooms.
Speaker 2: None of that was happening, you know.
Speaker 7: It was just like maybe this is what we did, yeah,
Speaker 7: and we just had fun with it.
Speaker 1: Well, the way that they made hr puffin Stuff's mouth move,
Speaker 1: it was just a big giant clamshell looking thing that
Speaker 1: his eyes were up here and the mouth went up
Speaker 1: and down like that. And it was a guy and
Speaker 1: he was just on a hinge and the mouth was
Speaker 1: this far open like at any given moment, and in
Speaker 1: order to make it look like he was talking, he
Speaker 1: had to jump up and down to make the lips
Speaker 1: smacked together, so it looked like he might be saying
Speaker 1: something close to what he was really saying. But it
Speaker 1: was awful and and you just loved it.
Speaker 2: That was the era of all of that. It was
Speaker 2: like Clutch Cargo, Clutch Cargo. Clutch Cargo was another one
Speaker 2: where they did They had the human mouth yes, and
Speaker 2: the animated around.
Speaker 7: It, yes, and it was it was like everything was
Speaker 7: like Mick Jagger style.
Speaker 2: You know, and it was like it's just so bizarre.
Speaker 2: Oh god, that was the stingly drug induced but probably.
Speaker 7: Not probably Yeah, Clutch Cargo and yeah, Spinner and paddle Foot,
Speaker 7: remember the dogs.
Speaker 1: And and uh yeah yeah anyway, wow, okay, sorry, we're
Speaker 1: going talk amongst yourself.
Speaker 2: We're going way back.
Speaker 1: Yes, hey remember when that was the way Back Machine?
Speaker 2: Hold on? Yeah, talking rocks? That was fun.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well I remember, you know after when I would
Speaker 7: come home from school it was like the Flintstones, Gilligan's
Speaker 7: Island and uh leave it to Beaver, like three back
Speaker 7: to back with the Flintstone. I mean it started out
Speaker 7: as a prime time comedy m it was a prime
Speaker 7: time show.
Speaker 1: I think it was the first one, I think, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it first animated prime time. Yeah, I remember
Speaker 1: that way thinking that was like boring the greatest thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true, that's true. Talking about yourselves.
Speaker 2: We are then what about me? What did I do?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 7: And I remember when we did, which was the Book
Speaker 7: of Pooh, the Book of Poo, which was a fine
Speaker 7: book that was a funky Pooh because there were a
Speaker 7: lot of songs that we had to do that were
Speaker 7: very intricate, kind.
Speaker 2: Of beatlesque, yes written kind of songs. And I was
Speaker 2: doing excuse at the time, and I did, oh did
Speaker 2: the deer, and I.
Speaker 12: Would have to I'd have to sing these sort of
Speaker 12: pigoty songs, but sort of is the George Harrison part.
Speaker 12: So I'd be singing, I don't know why we come.
Speaker 2: Around here, and.
Speaker 7: It would be just like all these minor keys and stuff,
Speaker 7: and I'd.
Speaker 2: Be like, I'm never gonna make it through this song. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't think, and they let's play the track.
Speaker 7: Now you sing with the track, but you know, it
Speaker 7: would be like you doing melody and I'm singing like.
Speaker 2: Just so bizarre.
Speaker 1: Those are painful times.
Speaker 2: Pigglet in the Beatles. It just wasn't no, it was
Speaker 2: it was a.
Speaker 1: WHI don't try that at home show.
Speaker 2: Yeah. We spent a lot of time getting those songs right.
Speaker 1: That is so damn true, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And they were odd. They were odd songs.
Speaker 2: And the guy who.
Speaker 1: Wrote them only dressed in or orange. I can't remember. God,
Speaker 1: bless you, buddy, you're a great songwriter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, dressed in orange?
Speaker 5: What do you mean that's interesting? He only dressed in orange,
Speaker 5: Like he wore like orange paints.
Speaker 1: Only orange jeans, orange, I'm sure underwear he had orange shirts.
Speaker 1: He had one hundred orange shirts, one hundred orange, lots
Speaker 1: of orange shoes, orange, orange, orange.
Speaker 2: He only dressed.
Speaker 5: That's so interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so it's you know, you gotta go with
Speaker 1: your inspiration, my orange.
Speaker 5: The pink lady in West Hollywood, right, Oh, you know
Speaker 5: the pink lady. She only wears pink and she wanders around.
Speaker 5: Is that her name? I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's been around forever.
Speaker 5: She's been around for Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: They've been around, like in a pink corvette.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, that's right. Yes.
Speaker 7: I saw the car one day, like it was somewhere
Speaker 7: in Tarzana or something, and I'm like, yeah, she's here,
Speaker 7: Angelina's here.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and she's got her and there's like eight
Speaker 1: people out there going.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah I have seen her.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the other ten thousands are going right.
Speaker 5: She's a local legend.
Speaker 7: There's another woman that also used to be When I
Speaker 7: used to go to SBV, like on Librea, I'd see
Speaker 7: this woman in like they look like ten inch heels.
Speaker 7: Oh and she also had this huge beehive hair do
Speaker 7: and people would call her like giraffe woman walking on
Speaker 7: these I can't stand up and do it.
Speaker 2: But she's walking on those heels, and it looked.
Speaker 7: Like she was back, like she was like her whole
Speaker 7: thing was like she was this way. She was walking
Speaker 7: against the wind or something.
Speaker 2: It was strange and these heels. Everybody thought the wind's
Speaker 2: just gonna blow her over at some point. You know,
Speaker 2: she's ah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I miss all our old weirdos. I know, we don't.
Speaker 1: We don't.
Speaker 2: We have a lot of them.
Speaker 1: We don't have any good weirdos anymore. I blame COVID.
Speaker 2: Pull up to his studio and yeah, see plenty of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: What's the guy doing with the back of his car?
Speaker 2: What is he pulling out of the trunk?
Speaker 1: Yeah? And why are you washing my windshield?
Speaker 7: Even working with Jonathan Winters, I mean, he came up
Speaker 7: to me in the parking lot and I don't know
Speaker 7: if he knew that we were going to be working together,
Speaker 7: but he had his medical bag with him, which looked
Speaker 7: like it was from like.
Speaker 1: Jonathan Amazing, the inspiration for Robin Williams and everybody else.
Speaker 2: And you know, and you worked.
Speaker 1: With him X amount of times. Yeah, yeah, me too,
Speaker 1: I'm happy to say.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: But he came up to me in the parking lot
Speaker 7: and he's holding this this medical bag which I think
Speaker 7: pretty much held everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, and then he you'll enjoy this.
Speaker 7: Being an Ohio guy, he pulled something out of his
Speaker 7: pocket and he comes up to me and he goes,
Speaker 7: I ever seen one of these before? And I go, no,
Speaker 7: mister Wood, And I started to say, you know, we're
Speaker 7: gonna be that's a buckeye.
Speaker 2: Ever seen a buckeye up close? Let me tell you
Speaker 2: about buckeye. And then he goes into buckeyes for like
Speaker 2: the next five minutes.
Speaker 5: Wow, what's a buck eye?
Speaker 2: It's like a nut, it's a rose.
Speaker 1: It's like the Ohio State buckeyes. We have ten million
Speaker 1: buck eye trees and they all and they they grow,
Speaker 1: they they are in the Yeah.
Speaker 4: I can't believe I never even knew this. Yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 4: I always wonder.
Speaker 2: That's why they're called the bucket.
Speaker 1: And if you and if you chop them off before
Speaker 1: they're they're ripe, they will. They're like porcupines. They're green
Speaker 1: that you can't catch them. You have to let them
Speaker 1: hit on the ground then pick him up.
Speaker 2: So that's pretty much the snap throw with your friend.
Speaker 2: That's pretty much.
Speaker 7: What he was telling me, and I'm going, yeah, why
Speaker 7: am I in the Hannibarbarier parking lot listening to the
Speaker 7: Buckeye five minute Diet about Buckeyes walking together?
Speaker 2: Ohioes and go do Johnny Bravo. And he was hysterical.
Speaker 7: And then after he kept everybody after for like thirty
Speaker 7: minutes just telling stories.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well I always usually I don't have mere right now,
Speaker 1: but I trouble with my drumsticks a lot of times.
Speaker 1: And and we were doing I guess, I guess it
Speaker 1: was the Adams family. I was lurch and and rip
Speaker 1: rip Taylor was there and uh and and Jonathan was there. Hey,
Speaker 1: and he says I want and goes, I want you
Speaker 1: to take one drum stick and hand it to him,
Speaker 1: just one, just one, and then stand back because he's
Speaker 1: gonna do something.
Speaker 2: He's gonna do something crazy.
Speaker 1: So so he took it. Yeah, and I think he did.
Speaker 1: That was probably the first one. And then he went ahem, O,
Speaker 1: Sabby must follow me. Oh wait here hold this. Oh
Speaker 1: he fell asleep, you know.
Speaker 2: And they've got blow guns.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he and I always do a blowgun for
Speaker 1: some reason. Yeah, but but yeah, he just he just
Speaker 1: you you can't. He didn't have an off switch and
Speaker 1: you could really really see. Yeah, that was he would show.
Speaker 2: He would come out.
Speaker 7: Yeah when you know, when we were at least when
Speaker 7: I was a kid, we'd watch his show and he'd
Speaker 7: bring this big trunk, would be this big trunk out
Speaker 7: on stage and he just pulled something.
Speaker 2: Out yeah before car time, you know, yeah, put it around.
Speaker 7: His head or something, and the same thing, like you're careful,
Speaker 7: you know, this is Indian country.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2: It was just just wild wow things that he would do. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's nobody like him anymore. No, there's nobody. I mean
Speaker 2: Jim Carrey. Plus he would kind of he would.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he would show up at Bob's Big Boy and
Speaker 7: entertain people right there, right just in the middle of lunch, right, Yeah,
Speaker 7: you're having a.
Speaker 2: Half pounder there, you know, I was a half pounder,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Well he told me this one story about
Speaker 1: he's uh, he was walking across the the parking lot
Speaker 1: at a K Mart or something. You're getting into his
Speaker 1: car and Lily said, oh my god, I can't believe
Speaker 1: I'm running into you. This is so nice, it's so wonderful.
Speaker 6: Hi.
Speaker 1: You know, I've been a fan of yours for ever
Speaker 1: and ever, and when you do Ed Sullivan and this
Speaker 1: and that and all right, stop it right there, missy,
Speaker 1: all right, all right, fine, listen.
Speaker 3: I just want you to know I'm sick to death
Speaker 3: of people like you bucking me in every park.
Speaker 1: I go to the drag cleaner, Oh you look like
Speaker 1: Jonathan Winter. I go to the store. Oh you look
Speaker 1: like Jonathan Alpha Beta, you look like Jonathan Winners. I
Speaker 1: am so sick of that bastard. If he was here, now,
Speaker 1: you know what I'd do to him, I'd kick him
Speaker 1: right in the knees. Oh, my, you're not, of course
Speaker 1: I'm not.
Speaker 2: I'm a bye guy.
Speaker 1: I'm a chiropractor from Saugus. My name is Alistair part knock,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, And and he would go and
Speaker 1: he would be righted. Yeah, and I am. Can I
Speaker 1: tell you it's the bane in my existence. Ever since
Speaker 1: he was on that goddamn Ed Sullivan, he's been and
Speaker 1: he and he goes off on Ed Sullivan, pissed off
Speaker 1: of Ed Sullivan for making Jonathan when it's famous, And
Speaker 1: and then then he and she goes well again, I
Speaker 1: really have to go. I'm all right, fine, Wait a minute,
Speaker 1: you don't even want my autograph after all that.
Speaker 2: But I thought you were. I was kidding.
Speaker 1: Oh Joe, oh wait, you really are. Uh huh you
Speaker 1: know what do you do? That's so funny it and
Speaker 1: you know it's true. You know he did that. I
Speaker 1: mean Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: He played. He played so many jokes all the time. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Did you ever work with Seth MacFarlane again after Johnny Bravo?
Speaker 2: I don't. I might have done one or two Family
Speaker 2: Guys just briefly.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think he cast me. It's like this, like Saudi Saudi.
Speaker 7: Arabian guy at a at a you know, like a
Speaker 7: waiter at a lunch place or something.
Speaker 2: I don't even remember what I did, but it was, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was something like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I had one of those.
Speaker 2: I did a everything everything is everything is that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: But it's uh yeah, I mean that that was it.
Speaker 1: And I had like two lines and uh and and
Speaker 1: we did it over the phone and it was weird.
Speaker 1: And he goes, oh, okay, well, and I said, so
Speaker 1: now I get to say I did your show. He goes, yeah,
Speaker 1: huh okay, that's good, okay bye, And then that was it.
Speaker 1: So what show is it? American dad. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: so that a line and then I was gone, yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'm happy now I can die happy, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I like the fact knowing that. I mean, he looked
Speaker 2: at the time.
Speaker 7: We've got it somewhere. I'm not going to show it though.
Speaker 7: What's that the picture of us on Adam West Day? Oh,
Speaker 7: because he he kind of seth looked like the kid
Speaker 7: that you know, Adam had dropped him off at the studio.
Speaker 1: Yeah, have fun that day and watch yeah.
Speaker 2: And he was the right you know, he was one
Speaker 2: of the writers on the show, but he.
Speaker 7: Was like I didn't always see those guys. I think
Speaker 7: he came in though, to do like a Don Delaisee
Speaker 7: thing on Johnny Bravo at one point because they were
Speaker 7: hoping Don Delawiese could do it.
Speaker 2: Then he couldn't do it, and then he came on
Speaker 2: to do it. Oh wow, So yeah that was fun.
Speaker 1: Don delaise There's another one picked me.
Speaker 7: Up from when we were doing I can't think it
Speaker 7: was a Johnny Bravo.
Speaker 2: We were on break and he picked me up.
Speaker 13: From behind and I was like, okay, I did not
Speaker 13: expect to telise and that's you know, my mother's ass
Speaker 13: comes from Tom.
Speaker 2: I think it started there. Oh god, guess you would
Speaker 2: miss a ligne. He would be going just oh, my
Speaker 2: mother's ask.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so I think that's where Charlie Eddler starts.
Speaker 2: Sorry, we went out of the We went out of Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Do it now?
Speaker 5: Do you want to play a voice swap game?
Speaker 2: We're really going up sure voices?
Speaker 5: Yes, all right, Here's how it works.
Speaker 4: Jim will do a line of one of his characters,
Speaker 4: say a line as that character, and then you'll do
Speaker 4: the same line, but as one of your characters, and
Speaker 4: then vice versa.
Speaker 5: Does that make sense?
Speaker 2: Oh, so we're not we're not swapping voices.
Speaker 5: Really swapping lines.
Speaker 4: So it'll be like Winnie the Pooh, one of your characters,
Speaker 4: one of your characters, one of Jim's but same line,
Speaker 4: same line, just back and forth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's see. Okay, So, so what shall we be
Speaker 1: Pooh or tigger?
Speaker 2: Or who should we do here today?
Speaker 4: Since we talked about Piglet, it might be funny to
Speaker 4: do piglet and pig lit and tiger peg litt and Pookay.
Speaker 1: Okay, well here, all right, I'll give you a tigger line.
Speaker 1: The wonderful thing about tiggers our tiggers are wonderful things.
Speaker 12: The wonderful thing about tiggers is tiggers are wonderful things.
Speaker 4: I feel like that's something Piglet would say. He'd be encouraging,
Speaker 4: be encouraging and trying to play a lot.
Speaker 2: True. Yes, I'll give me another one as someone else.
Speaker 1: Okay, well here, now you give me one then, yes,
Speaker 1: and I'll do Who should that be? Pooh? Yes, that'll
Speaker 1: because that stupid Go away?
Speaker 2: Go away, you children, you who should frighten me for hours?
Speaker 1: Go away? Go away, you you silly children, you frighten
Speaker 1: me for hours? Go away, go away, you silly children.
Speaker 1: You've frightened me for hours.
Speaker 2: Okay, that is something Pooh would never say.
Speaker 1: That is something Pooh would ever never say.
Speaker 2: Get the hell out bleeding.
Speaker 5: Which one of your characters do you think is the
Speaker 5: most like Johnny Bravo.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, let's see the most.
Speaker 5: Like maybe dark Wing or Lucky Lucky Pequel.
Speaker 1: No, Lucky's those carnage he is no mucho. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: that would be good.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So you want to start with Johnny Brow or you want.
Speaker 7: To start with Sure, let's start with Johnny bro So
Speaker 7: I'll say I'll just say, hey, pretty mamma, how's it going?
Speaker 1: Okay, Now I gotta put that into my brain. Hey,
Speaker 1: that pretty mama, how ship going?
Speaker 2: I like the boom booms.
Speaker 14: Say hey man, I'm pretty Hey, son of the Gun,
Speaker 14: I am pretty.
Speaker 4: Absolutely that show was so funny. I actually just watched
Speaker 4: the pilot of Johnny Bravo, like not too long ago.
Speaker 5: I was just revisiting. Wow, that was yeah and so funny.
Speaker 5: Is that's weird?
Speaker 7: I think Roger Rose is on it too, and he
Speaker 7: plays like a Sammy Davis character like the Monkeys, Yeah
Speaker 7: yeah or something, Yeah, that would be he Yeah, And
Speaker 7: I think Johnny ends up like, It's okay, I don't
Speaker 7: mind kissing a what he ends up kissing a duck,
Speaker 7: a donkey or something. Yeah, I don't mind that you're
Speaker 7: a donkey.
Speaker 2: And it was. It was a really strange episode.
Speaker 4: Yeah, was so weird, and it was he was like
Speaker 4: the he went into what's the little girl's name, the
Speaker 4: little girl, little neighbor girl. Yeah, she uh, Susie, sus Susie. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he goes into show and tell for Susie and like
Speaker 4: the teachers like into him at first, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 4: and I can't remember what he did.
Speaker 5: I can't remember what he did.
Speaker 4: But I was like, this is such a stark contrast
Speaker 4: because like throughout the rest of the series, they're not
Speaker 4: really interested at first.
Speaker 5: They're always like picked out by him. But she is
Speaker 5: like he beat up and he was like, you want
Speaker 5: to see me comb my hair really fast? And I
Speaker 5: just thought that that's what he did for showing tell.
Speaker 4: Hair calling really fastby oh my god, that cracks me up.
Speaker 5: I was like, how did these guys think of this stuff?
Speaker 7: I remember Frank Frank telling me that he worked with
Speaker 7: all this Yeah, the movie.
Speaker 1: I saw the picture. He's got a picture of.
Speaker 2: It, Girl trouble. Yeah, and he's set on the brink,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 7: Elvis would come up and say, hey man, you should
Speaker 7: do that dog and cat thing again.
Speaker 2: Do it for my buddy here.
Speaker 7: He doesn't believe he can do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Frank, he does a dog and cat fight.
Speaker 7: Yeah, fighting, and you know, yeah fence or whatever.
Speaker 1: Yes, oh god, yeah that's fine. Frank. Entertaining Elvish, entertaining
Speaker 1: the king one of the best. Yeah, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: And now here you are carrying on that tradition.
Speaker 2: And now we're the grandpas. Yeah, yeah, that's I remember
Speaker 2: what I was like. I was the young gun. I
Speaker 2: was the young guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you two.
Speaker 7: Everybody else was like you know yeah, and then I
Speaker 7: remember seeing guys who look like us.
Speaker 2: Now we're not working with them anymore. What happened to them?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Those guys that used to work with you know.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, now you don't notice because everybody's in their
Speaker 7: own closet.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 1: And do you do do you do conventions these days?
Speaker 1: Are you? Are you?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't do enough branching out into that area.
Speaker 7: I do some here and there, yeah, but I can't
Speaker 7: you know, I can't do it like weekly like some people.
Speaker 2: Are you doing a bunch? Uh? Yeah?
Speaker 1: But not weekly? Yeah, you know, a couple of months, right,
Speaker 1: you know, get gets you out of the house.
Speaker 2: You're doing anaheun coming up. Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: We should tell if you have anything to tell people,
Speaker 1: we should tell them you come see us.
Speaker 7: It's June sixth through the eighth at the Anaheim Convention Center.
Speaker 1: That is very true.
Speaker 2: I just.
Speaker 5: Be there.
Speaker 2: Be there.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: A lot of good people, a lot of really good people.
Speaker 4: I saw they have like over one hundred guests. They
Speaker 4: have over one hundred guests.
Speaker 2: Think we do. I think it's going to be a
Speaker 2: nuts Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well we're the only two you have to come and see.
Speaker 2: Right at the second best place on earth. This will
Speaker 2: be right across.
Speaker 5: This will be passed by the time this air.
Speaker 1: I was gonna Did you have a good time? We
Speaker 1: did too, I remember you.
Speaker 7: Hopefully you got our autographs. Yeah, and it went well. Yeah,
Speaker 7: I'm sorry if I didn't do the voice you wanted.
Speaker 4: I wanted to ask you, do you have a musical
Speaker 4: background to do any musical theater? Do you play any instruments,
Speaker 4: because I've noticed that a lot of voice actors have not.
Speaker 7: I know I did some singing, yeah, you know, for
Speaker 7: a while.
Speaker 2: But not with not with a band or anything like that.
Speaker 7: Okay, that was choir boy for a while, you know,
Speaker 7: did that in high school and there you go.
Speaker 2: You know, enjoyed singing, but I didn't. It wasn't like
Speaker 2: didn't light you on fire. No, I mean I loved it,
Speaker 2: but it wasn't you know, something I did all the time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: just to the radio. That's right, That's right.
Speaker 1: Well, that's that's how it also.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'm just curious because so many, so many
Speaker 4: voice actors that we've talked to have like a musical background,
Speaker 4: and they all say, they all say, you know, it's helped.
Speaker 5: With their ear. Jim specifically, you know, many many musical theaters,
Speaker 5: so many, so many people from musical theater, right, voice actor.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's interesting. So I just wanted to add
Speaker 4: to my mental tally if yes or no, I would.
Speaker 7: Just sing along with you know whomever and did sort
Speaker 7: of singing and rssians as well. Yeah, and harmonized. So yeah,
Speaker 7: it did. It did certainly develops the ear really well.
Speaker 7: I agree, But I had no idea they'd be asking
Speaker 7: for singing that much. In the shows that we ended
Speaker 7: up doing, I mean, Animaniacs, we did all of the
Speaker 7: songs and that yeah, yeah, with Randy Roguel doing all
Speaker 7: those and yeah, yep.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I think Rob and he have a one two
Speaker 1: man show that they go out and do and they
Speaker 1: sing the sing the songs.
Speaker 2: Right, they've never invited me, But.
Speaker 1: It's because I don't belong there, because I shouldn't be there, right,
Speaker 1: That's probably why.
Speaker 2: That could be the reason.
Speaker 1: That could be.
Speaker 2: I think it might be. Honest, it did wrote the
Speaker 2: backup singer, Is it that one?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, keep backing up. They told me by all
Speaker 1: means back up.
Speaker 2: It's like twenty feet from stardom.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you stayed twenty feet back.
Speaker 1: Oh man.
Speaker 2: But we didn't have some fun on those shows. Yes,
Speaker 2: we did doing doing some fun songs. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Are you in production as we speak on anything? Because
Speaker 1: I'm not a couple of things A couple of things.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And I'm still.
Speaker 7: Doing you know, like Disney Junior stuff O, good pubstruction,
Speaker 7: anything with pups in the names. I'm doing right, well,
Speaker 7: that's good Puppy dog Pals, Pubstruction, Pretzel and the Pup
Speaker 7: Pound Puppies, Pound Puppies.
Speaker 2: I'm all about the pups. The tents. Yeah, and some
Speaker 2: of the Nickelodeon plays nice, nice, nice yeah yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 7: And then I'm you know, scheduled to do a couple
Speaker 7: of things, but I cannot talk about them.
Speaker 2: They won't allow me. Yeah, but to sign.
Speaker 1: See, I don't have anything going, but I tell them
Speaker 1: I do, and I can't talk about it because that
Speaker 1: way it sounds like I'm really still going all right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a secret.
Speaker 1: But don't tell any don't tell anybody. Oh well, buddy,
Speaker 1: thanks for being here, man, thanks for so fantastic.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2: You very much.
Speaker 1: Great to see you both, Jeff Glenn Bennett, Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: the one and only accept no substitutes, absolutely the real deal.
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