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Speaker 2: All right, Welcome back, everybody to another episode of Tuned
Speaker 2: In with Jim Cummings. I am producer Chris, joined as
Speaker 2: always by the legend himself, mister Jim Cummings. How are
Speaker 2: you doing today, sir?
Speaker 1: Hello, Hello Chris. It's another day in.
Speaker 2: Paradise, another day indeed, and today we have a very
Speaker 2: special guest for you, Nadas and Jordan Reynolds. Thank you
Speaker 2: so much for being here.
Speaker 1: What's up?
Speaker 2: I really appreciate honor to be here.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 3: What a great job. I hit the mic in the beginning.
Speaker 2: And I kicked the cameras at the same time you
Speaker 2: kicked the camera.
Speaker 3: It's all pretty good.
Speaker 1: Start all right, Okay, well I'll fall out of my
Speaker 1: chair in your honor and yeah saw me. Thanks for
Speaker 1: being here man, of course, my pleasure. Dude, you have
Speaker 1: a super big trip to get here, right.
Speaker 4: No, now, I'm close enough and I used to live
Speaker 4: actually in this part of town, so I didn't get
Speaker 4: entirely lost until they're like, turn down an alleyway.
Speaker 3: I'm like, that's just where you get the Yeah, yeah, yeah, Burbank.
Speaker 1: John is going, yeah, well you made it. Thank you
Speaker 1: for doing so.
Speaker 2: I made it.
Speaker 3: No, I wouldn't miss his day for the world.
Speaker 1: So well, good, good, good, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So yeah, where where shall we start? Well?
Speaker 2: I want to start. First of all, you have to start.
Speaker 2: I have to start with Marvel Rivals because I've been
Speaker 2: obsessed for like the past years playing it.
Speaker 3: I sure have.
Speaker 2: What do you mean, I guarantee you take a guess
Speaker 2: what kind of main do I look like?
Speaker 3: Tank? You're football player?
Speaker 2: You've done your research, all right, look at that. I
Speaker 2: feel under this spot like it.
Speaker 4: Took me a while because and it just brings up
Speaker 4: this other guy who I'm like, he kind of looks
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 3: Oh I see on the Gym's podcast.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yep, yeah, you've found me out. I'm
Speaker 2: blessing you go so very first was Mantis, played by
Speaker 2: the wonderful colleing you O'Shaughnessy, who we actually had on
Speaker 2: the podcast as well.
Speaker 4: No way, I just met her at the l Capy Tan.
Speaker 4: There was a big Marvel Rivals Hollywood Boulevard event. It
Speaker 4: was crazy last week and I met her for the
Speaker 4: first time.
Speaker 2: You guys have such a talented cast.
Speaker 3: It's a kid.
Speaker 2: Yeah crazy. I mean, who else did we have who
Speaker 2: plays Iron Man? Am I dropping?
Speaker 3: Which he was great?
Speaker 2: He was on the podcast as well as playing some
Speaker 2: old names, right because I put it back on.
Speaker 4: You played the Hulk, I know, but my guess would
Speaker 4: have not been Mantis the.
Speaker 2: Freda sure fred at him on the podcast, and of
Speaker 2: course you play at Warlock brilliantly. It is I the
Speaker 2: I'm telling you your performance, your voice performance. It gives
Speaker 2: me chills every time I hear the I'm so great.
Speaker 2: I just want to commed you on your performance. Man,
Speaker 2: the voice acting in that game is incredible. It's it is.
Speaker 4: It's really you never know where anything is going to go, right,
Speaker 4: Like even with you do like an animated show or
Speaker 4: a game, and you're like, I'm.
Speaker 1: Done with and you have to do you have to
Speaker 1: do like five hundred Well in case they turn left,
Speaker 1: you have to do these four hundred lines, yes, but
Speaker 1: if they go straight, then you have these two hundred lines.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: And if the rock falls and hits you on the
Speaker 1: left side of your head, you're I mean, wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: what can you can you have?
Speaker 4: Can you do a pained effort out of the left
Speaker 4: side of your groin?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: What is that?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: One game efforts. It's a thing. It's a thing.
Speaker 1: I could I could hear the shifting of the gonet.
Speaker 1: That was really good. It's my dad, you've done that before.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a few times.
Speaker 1: That's good.
Speaker 2: Did you guys go to record together at all?
Speaker 3: Never ever? Ever in gaming except it's like what your
Speaker 3: the work your dad does?
Speaker 4: Right, Like if you're on a performance capture stage and
Speaker 4: you put on the gear and all that, then you
Speaker 4: have to do this hard thing called memorizing lines, which
Speaker 4: is not what I gotten a voiceover for But it's right,
Speaker 4: that's where some of these games head is for the
Speaker 4: on camera territory skill set. But no, that's the only
Speaker 4: time you're ever going to be with a cast made
Speaker 4: in video games, and it's I wish I've never got
Speaker 4: to experience a cast recording.
Speaker 2: Really.
Speaker 4: You know my wife, Maria Juno, she's a voice actor.
Speaker 4: She's Storm in the game, amongst many other epic gaming characters.
Speaker 4: But she, I think, did you I'm going to feel
Speaker 4: like an ass if you weren't on the show, But
Speaker 4: I think maybe we're youna curious George ever, Oh yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: I think she did a cast record maybe before.
Speaker 3: COVID, before COVID dimes.
Speaker 4: You were there was a cast record, and Frank Welker
Speaker 4: was there. You were there, and if you hadnt, Jeff
Speaker 4: may have been there, and she was freaking out inside.
Speaker 4: She's just like, yeah, you know, because you were so
Speaker 4: horrible to her.
Speaker 1: That's kidd That sounds about right, oh her? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: like nervy, pushy.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, for like ten autographs we gave her.
Speaker 1: Hell absolutely no, no.
Speaker 4: But that's the only time she's done like cast records
Speaker 4: other than performance capture. So I really, I've done a
Speaker 4: lot of improv. You know, I come from Denver's where
Speaker 4: I built my career and voice acting, where there's no
Speaker 4: character work there.
Speaker 3: It's all commercials and stuff.
Speaker 4: But I use a thing called the Internet to build
Speaker 4: a career, and I wanted to do better, have voice
Speaker 4: acting and just but you know, with maybe aspirations to
Speaker 4: one day do some character like stuff that I didn't
Speaker 4: get a whole lot of access to living in Denver,
Speaker 4: and so I did a lot of improv. So I'm
Speaker 4: used to having that, like feeding off of the other person.
Speaker 4: That's great acting acting is reacting. Yeah, and you don't
Speaker 4: get that in gaming at all, So no, you don't.
Speaker 4: It's in my opinion, that makes it more difficult because
Speaker 4: you're just.
Speaker 1: Agree Yeah, I agree. We've talked about it before. You're
Speaker 1: you're flying solo, you have to you're using your imagination anyway,
Speaker 1: even if you get a room full of people with you.
Speaker 1: But boy, when you're just there and I mean, and
Speaker 1: then then it's the tedious stuff like Okay, now you're falling,
Speaker 1: well it's only ten feet, Okay, now that this time
Speaker 1: you're falling about thirty five and a half feet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the half matters, okay, and you know, and then you know,
Speaker 1: now you're falling from the third moon of Jupiter. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's a long fall. Yes, that means the rough one.
Speaker 1: So you know you save those for the end of
Speaker 1: the session.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that most of the time they do.
Speaker 4: Actually, have you ever had to call a session because
Speaker 4: you're like any anything, whether it's animation, gaming, your throat
Speaker 4: is so shredded and they can't quite hear that, or
Speaker 4: they're like, before you do some permanent damage.
Speaker 1: One, no, not not because of damage, but I can
Speaker 1: remember and and it luckily, it happened very very early
Speaker 1: in my career. And I might have said this before,
Speaker 1: but I just I had a cold. And I used
Speaker 1: to I mean, I used to work in a steel mill,
Speaker 1: I used to work on riverboats, and and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: so I have a very blue collar work ethic toward
Speaker 1: a no collar Career's just just the way it is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and uh, and you know, I was sick, and I
Speaker 1: kind of sounded like I had a cold, but I
Speaker 1: thought to myself, well, no I don't really, but yeah
Speaker 1: I did. And uh, And like I said, I just
Speaker 1: had this attitude, no gotta get up, got to shut up,
Speaker 1: go to work, and I gargle with salt water, went
Speaker 1: in and it was the third time I was ever
Speaker 1: winning to put and at this point it's like a
Speaker 1: thousand times or more and more. Yeah, But then it
Speaker 1: was it was brand new, untrottered territory, and I'm just
Speaker 1: thinking to myself, well, God, I don't I can't let
Speaker 1: them down. I can't, you know, blah blah blah. I'll
Speaker 1: just soldier through. And so I got a bunch of
Speaker 1: recoiler cough drops, put him in a bottle of water
Speaker 1: and shook it up until it looked like, you know,
Speaker 1: swamp water, and drank it and sipped it and kind
Speaker 1: of gargled my way through it. And then a year
Speaker 1: or so later, when it came on, I could hear
Speaker 1: the cold, and it was you know, and I think
Speaker 1: I was tiggering that show too, So it was weird.
Speaker 1: You know, here's Owl, here's Rabbit, here's really you know,
Speaker 1: all the Christopher, Robin and then Pooh and Tigger both
Speaker 1: had a cold.
Speaker 3: Could anyone hear it?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 3: Could you hear when you heard it?
Speaker 1: I could? Yeah, yeah I could. And of course I'm
Speaker 1: sure I was exaggerating in my head, but that's all
Speaker 1: I could hear. You know, it's like everybody's going to
Speaker 1: sit there and go, wow, he should have stayed home,
Speaker 1: you know, wow, he really just doesn't respect us at all.
Speaker 3: I mean those are different times, pre COVID and all that, right.
Speaker 1: Oh, very pre Yeah, this is the eighties, yeah, eighty five.
Speaker 4: Where I feel like you just see, like we were
Speaker 4: just watching I think it was Adventures and babysitting, you know,
Speaker 4: during how crazy crazy the world is right now, we
Speaker 4: all want to escape. And it's one of my wife's
Speaker 4: favorite movies, and so we put it as a cute
Speaker 4: It's just a great wholesome movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But there was a scene where I think some girl
Speaker 4: I think it was this movie, but some eighties movie,
Speaker 4: where someone comes over to help babysit a really sick
Speaker 4: toddler for you know, they're like six or something. I
Speaker 4: think the adorable girl who has the thor helmet. I
Speaker 4: think she has a cold or something, and they just
Speaker 4: no one cares. They're just like around They're like, oh,
Speaker 4: here you go, you want to hang out, like they're
Speaker 4: just around them, Whereas nowadays, especially as a voice act.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: So but now that's good because I you power through,
Speaker 4: which I've done with many sessions, but I've only had
Speaker 4: to call one, and I was terrified because it was
Speaker 4: my first. I won't say it, but it's one of
Speaker 4: my first games, like a big game. The role was
Speaker 4: incredibly unimportant.
Speaker 1: It was just like watch Out, watch Out, and I
Speaker 1: love that guy. Yeah?
Speaker 3: Is he great?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I signed so many autographs, right, yeah, watch Out.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm not kidding. The script was they and they apologize.
Speaker 4: They were really professional, but I just think they were
Speaker 4: a bit newer to the voice acting directing side of things.
Speaker 3: They were used to on camera.
Speaker 4: Stuff, so I think they weren't as familiar with how
Speaker 4: much you can't push this instrument, and so we did.
Speaker 4: We were forty five minutes in and I'd been screening
Speaker 4: what I just did. There was a six out of ten.
Speaker 4: I was doing ten out of ten, you know, oh
Speaker 4: you know, if I swing.
Speaker 3: This out, it was you know what?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Right, so do that for forty five I'm watching it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, So hopefully you don't get the cops called
Speaker 4: it's it's a podcast studio, but I did. But they
Speaker 4: kept varying it, so'd be like watch Out Grenade and
Speaker 4: I'm not crapping you. It was the next line of
Speaker 4: the grenade Comma watch Out, and I.
Speaker 1: Was just like, this is this the final script?
Speaker 3: Or you guys are just and they were.
Speaker 4: They were actually like, wait, isn't it supposed to be?
Speaker 4: So I was really feeling it, but I was newer
Speaker 4: in my career. I just moved to LA. I was like,
Speaker 4: maybe here for a year. Was like twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen.
Speaker 4: I was absolutely terrified to even bring it up because again,
Speaker 4: like you said, I come, I come a very hard
Speaker 4: work like my dad is stilled hard working to me,
Speaker 4: like you get the job done. And I, you know,
Speaker 4: privately just talked to the director. I'm like, I'm sorry,
Speaker 4: I'm not trying to be a diva. I'm like, if
Speaker 4: I keep going at this rate, I'm afraid I could
Speaker 4: possibly do permanent damage. But more not more importantly, but
Speaker 4: and also i won't be able to work the rest
Speaker 4: of this week.
Speaker 3: And I've got like.
Speaker 4: Four auditions for the QUARTERO I get I have a
Speaker 4: commercial tomorrow, you know. So they were so polite and
Speaker 4: they called it off and then they got the script
Speaker 4: more organized when I.
Speaker 3: Came back a week later, and they didn't.
Speaker 4: Push me as hard you know, so, but I so,
Speaker 4: you know, to anyone trying to get in the business
Speaker 4: right like you need to You don't need to be like, no,
Speaker 4: I need to break every five minutes. You can't get
Speaker 4: away with that, No, but you can. You can ask questions.
Speaker 4: You can, and all of us actor creative types are
Speaker 4: really eager and eager to please, especially in the beginning. Oh,
Speaker 4: so I encourage people to, like, no, ask a question
Speaker 4: if you don't know what the hell's going on in
Speaker 4: the scene, and especially if they're mechanical things going on
Speaker 4: where you feel like they're pushing you and you need
Speaker 4: to break, ask if you can have a break, or
Speaker 4: or if it's got as bad as I got, you
Speaker 4: have to call the session, and you know most people
Speaker 4: will respect that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It's just a fascinating part that you know, I know
Speaker 4: you mentioned it often on the podcast. It's the un
Speaker 4: sexy party games. Yeah, the throat ripping, shredding stuff, the.
Speaker 1: Un sexy part because everything else is pretty darn sexy.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 4: We like every time we go to our session, Jim
Speaker 4: and I, we we put on our thongs and you know,
Speaker 4: our coconut.
Speaker 1: It's coming back to right now. Yeah, I remember that that,
Speaker 1: oh man, oh man, who the fuck it that like
Speaker 1: years ago that you would be the king of this
Speaker 1: whole groove here with the.
Speaker 2: King of what well video?
Speaker 1: I mean, they weren't even there games like that. I remember,
Speaker 1: like Pong. Yes, when I was you know, et your
Speaker 1: sketch was knocked me out. Now we've got a universes.
Speaker 1: I mean, you've got that. It's like you're in in
Speaker 1: who are you? You're an avenger, aren't you? What? What
Speaker 1: do you mean?
Speaker 3: You're an adventer?
Speaker 4: And what he's talking about as an avenger?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, as an adventure Yeah.
Speaker 4: So actually I think it was Frank Welker that does
Speaker 4: the beeps and boops in Pong. It's probably him, probably,
Speaker 4: I mean, what doesn't doesn't he done?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've we've talked about him a lot. Yeah. One
Speaker 1: of my favorites was Spock's scream in the Wrath of
Speaker 1: khn No No, Kirk scream in Wrath of Khan.
Speaker 3: I don't, I haven't. I've seen clips. I think I've seen.
Speaker 3: It's like a meme.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 3: Williams. Has william been on here?
Speaker 1: Not yet?
Speaker 2: Oh man. I saw him the other day though. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the Saturn Awards the other day.
Speaker 3: I feel like that's crazy.
Speaker 4: Everything all my social media feed this week has been
Speaker 4: like Saturn Awards. Yeah, oh yeah, I guess I'll see
Speaker 4: him on their next Yeah.
Speaker 2: It was a good time. It was a good time.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: And if you scroll right to the end, you might
Speaker 1: see me.
Speaker 2: Yeah presenting.
Speaker 1: Oh cool? Present?
Speaker 3: Would you what awards you present? If you remember?
Speaker 1: Special effects?
Speaker 3: Oh? Sweet?
Speaker 2: And guess who won?
Speaker 3: H I l am, I don't know what person you
Speaker 3: it's a movie.
Speaker 2: It's yeah, I won Best Specialistffects.
Speaker 3: I thought you were like effects from what I heard.
Speaker 2: I like what I do with the hitting record on
Speaker 2: these cameras.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know, me said.
Speaker 2: You've worked on it's got the recording logo up on
Speaker 2: the TV. That's a Saturn Award right there.
Speaker 3: I cly thought something I can't avoid.
Speaker 2: No, it was Avatar, Fire and Ash for special effects. Yeah,
Speaker 2: James Cameron won like I think, like six awards that night.
Speaker 3: It was insane.
Speaker 4: I mean, you don't that much money to a movie
Speaker 4: and then take twenty years to make it.
Speaker 3: You'd hope you can get some damn.
Speaker 2: But it's interesting too, like back to kind of like
Speaker 2: video games. I mean he talked about you know, the
Speaker 2: method of filming Avatar is kind of similar to the
Speaker 2: motion capture that a lot of video games use these days.
Speaker 2: You know, they don't even use like a physical camera.
Speaker 2: It's like it's like a little iPad looking thing and
Speaker 2: it like triangulates where a camera would be, so they
Speaker 2: can move it all around in a virtual space, you know,
Speaker 2: like like the void. You know, like how they do
Speaker 2: that motion capture. Have you done anything motion capture? You
Speaker 2: seem very familiar with it.
Speaker 4: I'm familiar just because I have so many friends and
Speaker 4: people who've done it. I have done a few classes,
Speaker 4: but the most I've done is facial capture. So they
Speaker 4: literally put a whole helmet on and there's like a
Speaker 4: camera on a pole, there's lights in your face. So
Speaker 4: I did it for Batman Arkham, the one that came
Speaker 4: out the VR QUD No, not that that's what it's called,
Speaker 4: but it's like there's all these Arkham there's like five
Speaker 4: different Arkham games, but it's the latest one that came
Speaker 4: out on the meta VR headset last year or two
Speaker 4: years ago. So Maro actually plays essentially the lady who
Speaker 4: helps raise Batman. Bruce Wayne and Harvey Dent as kids
Speaker 4: in a way, and then I play like, I play.
Speaker 1: This I play this guy named bird Like and there's
Speaker 1: this camera.
Speaker 3: I could barely see the script because there's lights in
Speaker 3: my face.
Speaker 4: So I'm like, can you turn up the brightness on
Speaker 4: the TV because there's so many bright lights in my
Speaker 4: face to capture you know, my my facial and lips performance.
Speaker 3: And then they put that on the character.
Speaker 2: You know, you have to do that for Hondo. Yeah,
Speaker 2: face it was just face, my face.
Speaker 3: It's better just have face.
Speaker 2: It was for the Star Wars Outlaws Outlaws.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, video game or whatever it was, Yeah,
Speaker 1: some kind of yeah, unbelievable. Yeah. The stuff that that
Speaker 1: goes on now is like, do.
Speaker 2: You feel like that because you have you know, that's
Speaker 2: a fairly new thing. Do you feel like that interrupts
Speaker 2: your performance or is that a challenge to act around
Speaker 2: or is it just something that you have to deal with.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not crazy about it. Yeah, you know, it's
Speaker 1: not I'd rather first of all, I'd rather not have
Speaker 1: that for cocta thing on my head that that's for sure.
Speaker 1: But I mean, but but I mean, you look at
Speaker 1: I got nothing to complain about, like, look at your
Speaker 1: dad all the stuff he had to go through for
Speaker 1: forgot war. You know, got a war. I was like, cray,
Speaker 1: you actually had war.
Speaker 3: War with all the equipment all over your body.
Speaker 1: And yeah, yeah, it's a lot. It's a totally different form. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just want to sit in a room with a microphone.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 4: It's uh, that's a little easier memorization.
Speaker 1: Just go in right.
Speaker 3: But that's actually one thing.
Speaker 4: How do you feel, Jim from doing you know, you're
Speaker 4: one of the kings of animation and having done a
Speaker 4: lot of games though too, and and in at least
Speaker 4: in my experience with games, you rarely get the script beforehand.
Speaker 3: You just it's all cold reading.
Speaker 4: We go, yeah, cold read an animation you get you
Speaker 4: tend to get the script at least a day before days.
Speaker 3: It is usually pretty cold.
Speaker 1: No, just a lot of times. I mean mostly it's
Speaker 1: the first time I read it. I'm on a mic microphone.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Is that by choice kind of yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you can always do take two, Yeah, but
Speaker 1: you can never do take one the way you might
Speaker 1: have done it had you read it like the day before.
Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with being familiar with the character. But
Speaker 1: line by line, I just prefer, you know, to go
Speaker 1: off instincts. You know. That's kind of the way I've
Speaker 1: just always done it. And that's harder and harder to
Speaker 1: do now because it's all on an etrascale, an iPad
Speaker 1: or something, you know. And they used to. It's funny
Speaker 1: because a friend of mine, Dave Wright, who's like head
Speaker 1: of everything now over at Disney, he used to be
Speaker 1: the guy twenty five years ago, thirty years ago. He
Speaker 1: would be the guy who would drive out and I
Speaker 1: always lived out in like Ventura County or Westlake Village,
Speaker 1: somewhere Santa Rosa Valley, and he'd come. I remember once
Speaker 1: it was. And if he's ever on the podcast, and
Speaker 1: you will be, Dave. So there it was the fourth
Speaker 1: of July and and and my doorbell rings, and I
Speaker 1: wouldn't have even heard it because we're all out in
Speaker 1: the back. But I just went and been there and
Speaker 1: I go, what the hell are you doing here? He goes,
Speaker 1: I'm bringing you your script. And I go, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to read it. He goes, what do you mean.
Speaker 1: I go, I'm not going to read it, but you
Speaker 1: brought it, so come on in and have a chicken
Speaker 1: wing you know, you know that's wild.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and delivering the script. Times have changed.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that reminds me of this one scene in
Speaker 2: what was that movie Entourage? Oh and Jeremy Pivens's character,
Speaker 2: I forget what the character his name. Anyway, they go
Speaker 2: to a comedy show and he accidentally switches briefcases with
Speaker 2: this guy and has a script that he has to
Speaker 2: read by the next day, and he like tracks it
Speaker 2: down and he's it's ends up in Oxnard, and he's like, Oxnard,
Speaker 2: the fuck.
Speaker 4: Is every time I hear Actually, it's the first time
Speaker 4: I've ever been there. I just drove there last weekend
Speaker 4: to pick up I'm ripped up all the carpet in
Speaker 4: my studio. No, I drove ox Starn't to pick up
Speaker 4: a script. Yeah, they make us work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you really earn these.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know they're like, oh, gas is going up,
Speaker 4: We'll go pick up your script.
Speaker 3: We don't care, Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Maybe.
Speaker 3: No, I went to go pick.
Speaker 4: Up flooring, putting new flooring in my studio like an
Speaker 4: old carpet, and it was cozy and squishy, but it
Speaker 4: was disgusting to look at. So uh But yeah, I'm like,
Speaker 4: we're I've heard what ox not what and I drove
Speaker 4: over there, and so it's kind of funny you bring
Speaker 4: up oxnar pretty I'm now familiar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's that.
Speaker 4: Where it was, It's where the wood was in stock
Speaker 4: So you.
Speaker 2: Know what made you want to get into voiceover?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 2: And when did you know?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 4: It's it was kind of like a slow trickle for
Speaker 4: me where you know, being raised in Colorado, I'm not
Speaker 4: exposed to anything entertainment business wise at all than just
Speaker 4: watching TV. And we didn't even have you know, we're
Speaker 4: low income and on a good year, you know, middle class,
Speaker 4: lots of kids, and my dad had his own carpet
Speaker 4: cleaning business and my mom was essentially the full time
Speaker 4: assistant doing home and calls and you know, so it
Speaker 4: was it was hard work for my parents to they
Speaker 4: worked their butt off so.
Speaker 3: We we couldn't afford.
Speaker 1: Was that my too? Yeah, we used to dream of
Speaker 1: being lower class. Definitely, we were just poperday stricken. People
Speaker 1: would love on us more.
Speaker 4: But what the point I was making with that is
Speaker 4: we didn't have cable TV. So while all my friends,
Speaker 4: you know and the nineties and stuff were having cable
Speaker 4: I would I would go next door to watch Nickelodeon
Speaker 4: and all the shows that weren't on just the four
Speaker 4: channels we got with ore like TV, so I didn't
Speaker 4: get to see a lot unless I went somewhere else.
Speaker 1: Did you have the aluminum oil on the raviad ears
Speaker 1: no actual foil? But I definitely mess with the because
Speaker 1: we okay, because we had that and I thought it
Speaker 1: was brilliant at it. Okay, now, nobody move and we'll
Speaker 1: see the because I'm watching Captain Kangaroo here.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's kind of like it's sounded kind of
Speaker 4: like the Dad and Christmas story, like like you know, goes.
Speaker 3: Black, nobody move, a fuse is out.
Speaker 4: Yes, but the purpose of the Dad wanting to fix everything.
Speaker 4: I love that character. But yeah, anyways, yeah, my voice everything,
Speaker 4: I you know, I just consumed at the shows that
Speaker 4: I watched the most were like Animaniacs with my mom.
Speaker 4: It was like Frasier and Animaniacs, two.
Speaker 1: Completely different shows.
Speaker 3: But that's when my mom and I bonded over. Mister Bean.
Speaker 3: Add that to the list because PBS, it's great Rowan
Speaker 3: Edkinson Atkinson the parrot and it's not a damn parrot.
Speaker 3: What is he in the line? Kid?
Speaker 1: Was uh the con Yes, that show, but I don't
Speaker 1: know that he was can.
Speaker 2: Wasn't he a two can?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: It was you're thinking of the fruit loops? Yeah, the
Speaker 2: fruit loops guy are like the same bird?
Speaker 1: No, no, come on, this is live. Call us right
Speaker 1: now and.
Speaker 2: Tell us what kind of bird is? I need to
Speaker 2: know when I thought he was a two ken this
Speaker 2: whole time.
Speaker 4: He's like more plain color, gosh right, whereas more colors.
Speaker 2: You know, this is the most extensive bird knowledge.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 4: You don't edit this out because it's it's it's vital.
Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody's sitting at home going he's a macaw's either
Speaker 1: or what a vulture? You know. I don't know what he.
Speaker 2: Is throwing tomatoes at, that's for sure. No, he's not
Speaker 2: a flamingo or an eagle. I know those ones.
Speaker 1: No, it's not a flaming. Oh that's okay.
Speaker 3: Well, god, you know what my sister would know. She's
Speaker 3: actually really into birds.
Speaker 4: So you know, I might have to call phone a friend,
Speaker 4: you know, the weakest link. But anyways, on the cartoon stuff,
Speaker 4: you know, I mostly I watched a lot of stuff
Speaker 4: on repeat because we didn't we would record Simpsons episodes
Speaker 4: and Animaniacs episodes.
Speaker 1: And then we vhs. Yes, there you go.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm old enough.
Speaker 1: Remember.
Speaker 4: I feel like on streaming services, by the way, it
Speaker 4: used to be able to, like if you have an
Speaker 4: Apple TV, you could just kind of swipe through like quickly,
Speaker 4: like digitally, And I feel like, do you feel like
Speaker 4: these apps now?
Speaker 3: It's like they're very clunky.
Speaker 4: It's all slow now, like a VCR, like you tap
Speaker 4: on it and you see it going like ten seconds,
Speaker 4: ten seconds.
Speaker 2: I don't want to go back to the VCR.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Anyways, add but watched a lot of the stuff and
Speaker 4: it heard you dark Wing Duck. I didn't get to
Speaker 4: see much of Winnie the Poop.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Why, just some for somebody say in the household.
Speaker 3: I know, so you're the one that I leave.
Speaker 1: You're the worst.
Speaker 4: But I didn't have like a lot of Winnie the
Speaker 4: Pooh exposure for whatever reason. But anyways, point being is
Speaker 4: just the cartoon stuff I love. But I never was like,
Speaker 4: you know, like you said you're a five, You're like
Speaker 4: you knew you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah I didn't.
Speaker 1: Or you didn't know I did one did the bug
Speaker 1: whatever it is.
Speaker 4: It was really was kind of playing around with voices.
Speaker 4: I had older sisters and they would I would just
Speaker 4: impersonate various Simpsons characters sloppily, and I just liked making
Speaker 4: them laugh. You know, any who doesn't like making someone laugh.
Speaker 4: It's very because it's disarming. It's like the most vulnerable
Speaker 4: point you could be. I feel is laughing in my opinion.
Speaker 4: And when I was the second youngest of six, so
Speaker 4: I kind of like it wasn't lost in this stuff,
Speaker 4: but like it was, well.
Speaker 1: That's good. Yeah, but like you got to you got
Speaker 1: to learn how to tap dance, come home. Yeah, keep
Speaker 1: them from killing you because you're you're the youngest.
Speaker 3: I was really lucky though.
Speaker 4: Actually I didn't get the whole like you know, older
Speaker 4: sibling bully treatment.
Speaker 3: They were very good kind to me. I don't know
Speaker 3: because I tap dance enough. But yeah, but I would do.
Speaker 4: I just got the bug of like, oh this is
Speaker 4: I like making them laugh and they I was in
Speaker 4: the The Magic Flute Opera in like fifth grade.
Speaker 3: You know whatever it means.
Speaker 4: Iway was literally had one line as someone I don't
Speaker 4: remember what I'm like. Some would think something come down
Speaker 4: to the whatever and watch a great yeah role of
Speaker 4: the Century.
Speaker 1: Yes, it wasn't it. It was a tree, wasn't it.
Speaker 3: It was a tree with huge lips on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's mine.
Speaker 3: And but but I was in.
Speaker 4: The rehearsals all the time, so I'd hear all the songs.
Speaker 4: And you know that I can't hit anymore, but when
Speaker 4: I was a choir boy age, you know the song like,
Speaker 4: I'm hitting the notes pretty poorly. But it's a very
Speaker 4: hard song to sing. It's sung in the Amideis film,
Speaker 4: if you remember that, my favorite film of all time. Yes,
Speaker 4: there's a part where she's kind of warming up singing it,
Speaker 4: and it's a hard ass song.
Speaker 3: I sing it like the lyrics very well.
Speaker 1: Remember that that's not bad.
Speaker 4: I can't retain lyrics at all. So it was the
Speaker 4: perfect song for me. It is that, yeah, And so
Speaker 4: I would sing it and my sisters would laugh at me.
Speaker 4: And I first thought they were laughing like at me, Oh,
Speaker 4: you sound so stupid or ridiculous, right, And I'm like
Speaker 4: still laughing at me, and they're like, no, we're laughing
Speaker 4: because it's so like spot on, Like you sound like
Speaker 4: you sound like the late you know, as a kid
Speaker 4: put your voice. I was like, oh, okay, so kind
Speaker 4: of that little taste of that little entertainment thing. But
Speaker 4: I was very quite shy as a kid. When my
Speaker 4: parents they're like, oh, yeah, like, what's Jordan doing.
Speaker 1: So many actors are shy as children?
Speaker 3: Really were you?
Speaker 1: Kind of?
Speaker 4: Yeah at first, okay, because you said you did a
Speaker 4: lot of like theater and stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I but but nevertheless, like I would be
Speaker 1: shy at first, and then you couldn't shut me up,
Speaker 1: so I went.
Speaker 2: On, you went to the other Yeah, oh you mean you.
Speaker 4: You eventually shifted to yeah mouth, Yeah, I think so. Yeah,
Speaker 4: well that paid off good. Yeah, you have to learn
Speaker 4: how to at least do this.
Speaker 1: Yeah. My joke is that I'm actually a failed mime.
Speaker 1: You know, right, Jim, we can hear you. You're you're
Speaker 1: not You're not crooked, You're you're stuck. You know.
Speaker 3: That's wild. But yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 4: I was actually shy enough or just not confident enough
Speaker 4: that I didn't do any acting things anything. In junior
Speaker 4: high high school. The most I did performative wise was
Speaker 4: I was just in the the advanced dish choir. I
Speaker 4: got we were like in all state choir in junior high,
Speaker 4: but I never did the solos. I didn't try out
Speaker 4: for the solos. Well, sorry, I take that.
Speaker 3: Back.
Speaker 4: In elementary school, I was the tin man that totally forgot.
Speaker 4: I was a tin man and the Wizard of Oz.
Speaker 4: So a man's see I camera lyrics.
Speaker 3: Kettle from on his metal and now no more.
Speaker 4: Hearts are gonna destroy me in the comments. I'm sorry,
Speaker 4: But so that was. I like that, but clearly not
Speaker 4: enough to pursue it once you hit puberty. Because when
Speaker 4: you hit puberty, everything is serious and you think everything's
Speaker 4: out to get you and you have no confidence.
Speaker 3: So I think I just kind of.
Speaker 4: You get And I had many Yeah, I had a
Speaker 4: bad acne problem, so you know, the typical teenage stuff,
Speaker 4: and so yeah, I was.
Speaker 3: I didn't have that, like I gotta I gotta perform
Speaker 3: and moved to Hollywood.
Speaker 4: That wasn't me, but I did joke. I loved music.
Speaker 4: I liked singing in choir enough like where it was interesting.
Speaker 4: It got a creative bug at me. Couldn't reach sheet
Speaker 4: music to save my life. So my acchoir teacher, she
Speaker 4: was so sweet. Missus missus Shipley if you ever ever
Speaker 4: see this interview.
Speaker 1: She's a huge fan.
Speaker 3: But seriously, she was so sweet.
Speaker 4: And patient with me because she would do the tests
Speaker 4: where at the end of the semester you have to
Speaker 4: be written, you know, like what is this note and all?
Speaker 1: And I would fail all of that, right.
Speaker 4: Like all my other classes, like algebra and everything, I
Speaker 4: did horrible and absolutely horrible. Yeah, but choir I would
Speaker 4: try to at least get the B minus or so sure, yeah, right,
Speaker 4: and so the test I would fail that written test.
Speaker 4: And then she there was the ear test, which I
Speaker 4: would always play, like Simon says, like play twelve notes
Speaker 4: and then I would play it, you.
Speaker 1: Know, la la la la la la la la la
Speaker 1: la la.
Speaker 3: And so my.
Speaker 4: Ability to hit the notes and have a good ear
Speaker 4: was there, and she was kind enough to be like.
Speaker 3: He's a little talented.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah right, and so but anyways, I don't know
Speaker 4: where I'm going with this other than like where'd I
Speaker 4: get the whole voiceover thing?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 3: Those were just kind of a little play you put
Speaker 3: it all together.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I would also impersonate teachers, so oh yeah, me too. Yeah,
Speaker 4: which do you remember teacher impressions?
Speaker 1: Well, I remember thinking that well, and I've said this before.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be redundant, but if you do
Speaker 1: a bad impression of somebody famous, yeah, nobody knows who
Speaker 1: it is, that's a new character. If you do a
Speaker 1: perfect impression of somebody like your teacher who nobody even
Speaker 1: heard of, that's a new character.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know you can put those it's everything.
Speaker 1: You can use.
Speaker 4: Everything, absolutely, and people will never know unless you tell,
Speaker 4: and they'll never know.
Speaker 1: Just it, that's right.
Speaker 2: But I didn't even realize, like, like you just said,
Speaker 2: I didn't even realize that Winnie the Pooh and the
Speaker 2: Chasure Cat were so close together. Oh, until Jim told me.
Speaker 2: He was like, yeah, it's kind of just like, how
Speaker 2: do you describe it?
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, cat was winning the Poo on acid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how close those voices are.
Speaker 1: And Ca the snake from Jungle Book, the original Jungle
Speaker 1: Book that was also Sterling Holloway, God rest his soul,
Speaker 1: and he was evil Pooh trust sting me. Oh my god. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's and you know these characters hypnotizing Moldly and then
Speaker 1: eating him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's the that's the best scene in the movie.
Speaker 4: That's I think that's my favorite scene in the whole
Speaker 4: movie too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I really like it.
Speaker 4: Funny, Like, there's just so much you could take you
Speaker 4: could watch it on mute, you could just listen to it.
Speaker 1: Then you it's and I got to play that role
Speaker 1: years later, many many, like like twenty years had gone
Speaker 1: by and they decided on video they were going to
Speaker 1: make Jungle Book two, and uh Ka was in there,
Speaker 1: and so I got to be kaw No. They just
Speaker 1: kind of hird me because it's right though, yeah, well
Speaker 1: it is. It's see. Sterling really didn't have uh back
Speaker 1: in the day. I mean character actors like below that
Speaker 1: was just Phil Harris talking.
Speaker 2: You do it very little bridges.
Speaker 1: You know, everything's a bit of a strain there.
Speaker 3: You know, like for each each line.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but and you know a lot of those like
Speaker 1: John Fiedler the Great he was Piglet. That was him talking.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, I just enough.
Speaker 1: That was his big line. And uh And then like
Speaker 1: I said, Sterling all the way, he's the one. If
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Speaker 1: Cummings podcast, Do It Now. I've told the story before.
Speaker 1: I was down in Laguna Beach many many, many many
Speaker 1: years ago, way before I was even in the business,
Speaker 1: and I heard this. You couldn't see who was in
Speaker 1: the booths, but I thought I was the only person
Speaker 1: in the restaurant. And waitress walks over and says, do
Speaker 1: you have any decision? Have you come to? What would
Speaker 1: you like for lunch? Apparently he's been sitting there for
Speaker 1: a while, and you hear this little voice, Yes, I
Speaker 1: believe I shall have the choulder. And I was like, going, wait,
Speaker 1: the pool, and there he was. I went and I
Speaker 1: looked back and there was Sterling and he's probably about
Speaker 1: in his nineties and had all this big shock of
Speaker 1: haystack of white hair sitting there looking at me like that,
Speaker 1: and I wish I went up to him.
Speaker 3: Oh wait, have you ever met him? No, that was
Speaker 3: your opportunity, wastunity. Oh winchell.
Speaker 1: I knew he was a friend of mine, God rest
Speaker 1: is so he's a legend. Yeah, he was great and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, And I had a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of interaction with Paul. He was a good guy. That's
Speaker 1: so cool.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's it's weird being able to meet especially
Speaker 4: like for you to like voices you have literally inherited,
Speaker 4: you know, if you ever get that opportunity to meet
Speaker 4: the first person to do that.
Speaker 1: Wow. But never got to meet David Crockett though, damn it.
Speaker 3: Someday someday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but oh.
Speaker 3: God, oh go ahead, Oh no, I was no.
Speaker 4: I was trying to stay on track if you wanted,
Speaker 4: in terms of the because I never really concluded.
Speaker 3: The whole How did I.
Speaker 1: Get in a voice?
Speaker 3: Thing?
Speaker 2: Did it was?
Speaker 1: It was?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Was that it was a Ford fair Lane?
Speaker 3: Yes, oh yeah, Ford, I wish that's a cool car.
Speaker 4: But no, it was just like I had little hints
Speaker 4: of just like that creativity where.
Speaker 6: Mister Sperry is who I would impersonate to the class
Speaker 6: if he would, I think, if he was ready late
Speaker 6: he he, I would you know, kind of be like,
Speaker 6: all right, class, the word of the day is tune
Speaker 6: in exclamation, you know, and so it would make a
Speaker 6: class laugh.
Speaker 3: Because I was not popular.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so any anything to feel popular for about ten
Speaker 4: seconds I would attempted, and it worked half the time.
Speaker 4: So so you know those little things where it was like, oh,
Speaker 4: this is fun and.
Speaker 1: You were doing research for your future unintentionally.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then when did you decide to make it
Speaker 2: a career.
Speaker 4: It was it was just a slow effect where you know,
Speaker 4: in my early twenties, people I would I worked at
Speaker 4: Dish Network tech support, the five thirty am to two
Speaker 4: thirty am shift.
Speaker 3: Which voices on the phone.
Speaker 1: No I went in, I may no, I didn't.
Speaker 4: Do voices, but but what would happen is, uh, it
Speaker 4: was always like very elderly lady in particular, it would
Speaker 4: be they just can't sleep, so they'd be calling in
Speaker 4: at like one in the morning to get their Addish
Speaker 4: network fixed, and so I'd help them troubleshoot, you know,
Speaker 4: I'm plug this, do that, and always to get like
Speaker 4: their Golden Girls fixed or something. And I didn't, by
Speaker 4: the way, I didn't appreciate how good. I thought that
Speaker 4: show was lame for.
Speaker 3: Old ladies, right until like this past.
Speaker 4: Five ten years, Like this show is rellily that shows
Speaker 4: of all time, the best actors of all time. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I adore so I'm a full Golden Girls confer by
Speaker 4: the way, But back then, I'm like it's.
Speaker 3: Just this old lady show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, anyway, that's true.
Speaker 3: Oh I adore them so much.
Speaker 1: I think that show is My wife's crazy about them.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So anyways, these old Ladies in particular is mostly them.
Speaker 4: And I would be like, is there anything else I
Speaker 4: can help you with today? Man, you're all sorted out,
Speaker 4: and it's.
Speaker 1: Like, oh no, but you have shuts a nice voice.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe you should get into radio.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, oh wow, maybe maybe I should. I was.
Speaker 4: It just gave me a little like oh thanks, because
Speaker 4: I felt, you know, what's the funnest job.
Speaker 3: I didn't feel.
Speaker 1: I wasn't like ashamed, but I also wasn't proud of
Speaker 1: it was just a job.
Speaker 3: And so it gave me.
Speaker 4: It was like okay, noted, and that kept happening, and
Speaker 4: other people in maybe friend circles would just say something
Speaker 4: like you have a nice voice. So that led me
Speaker 4: to take classes or getting your voice is very radio
Speaker 4: esque to me, Like that I've done. I literally thought
Speaker 4: that zero radio. You never doubt, and thank god I didn't,
Speaker 4: because all I hear horror stories like horrible pay, horrible
Speaker 4: job conditions, underappreciated. It's fun and that's what keeps these
Speaker 4: DJs there. My wife was an FM radio DJ on
Speaker 4: three stations at the same time.
Speaker 3: Literally oh wow, the same like one day and does she.
Speaker 1: Say hello out there that gallon.
Speaker 3: No, not like the jazz lady.
Speaker 4: She was more she had awaken bake show, it is
Speaker 4: what it was called, but they weren't actually you know,
Speaker 4: it was just called like, yeah, it was a talk
Speaker 4: show in the morning, like kind of like breakfast club
Speaker 4: right where it's just like very personality driven. And then
Speaker 4: she was also like a more polished I think it
Speaker 4: was like at least a logan on a country station.
Speaker 3: So she didn't like completely shift her voices. But I've
Speaker 3: heard the horror stories of Ratio, so I'm like not
Speaker 3: going to go that way, no, thank you.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And so I took classes and read books, and this
Speaker 4: is the days of like MySpace and stuff. So I
Speaker 4: was finding voice actors, but not like big names like you.
Speaker 4: People like you weren't really accessible. So I was connecting
Speaker 4: with people that were like living in Ohio and they're
Speaker 4: making six figures doing just commercials and training videos and
Speaker 4: phone like thank you for calling. I'm like, what you
Speaker 4: can make a you know, in volume, you can make
Speaker 4: money doing that. So that's what got me interested doing
Speaker 4: using my voice, and it's really fun. It's some of
Speaker 4: it's boring, but it's more creative than working a regular
Speaker 4: job and a cubicle underfloor my life.
Speaker 3: So it was a long burn.
Speaker 4: I just I consumed everything. I absorbed it, but I
Speaker 4: didn't do with it for years.
Speaker 3: Right, It's very easy.
Speaker 4: Anyone wants to become a painter a biker voice actor,
Speaker 4: It's very easy to go up to your table and
Speaker 4: ask Jim, how do I get in voiceover? And you
Speaker 4: can give them everything that's to be perfect for them,
Speaker 4: and you know their age and in this generation, and
Speaker 4: it's very rare anyone's going to follow that because the
Speaker 4: doing part is the hardest part and we're all guilty
Speaker 4: of it. So eventually I got I you know, all right, jo,
Speaker 4: when you actually want to make money at this, like
Speaker 4: or do you want to keep I had a very
Speaker 4: comfortable it job, so I used to build computers and
Speaker 4: stuff like that, so I didn't go to the college thing.
Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah, failed high school, I had to take
Speaker 4: a fifth year. I'm not going to pay money to
Speaker 4: you know, fail again, So I pay for the college part.
Speaker 4: Let me just get a job, and then I got
Speaker 4: a pretty nice it job from just my nerd knowledge.
Speaker 1: But I'm like, I don't know if i want to
Speaker 1: do this my whole life.
Speaker 3: I'm too creative.
Speaker 4: I just like I get more joy when I'm in
Speaker 4: these improv classes when I'm making people laugh. So it
Speaker 4: was just more and I'm like, the idea that I
Speaker 4: could make money and pay all my bills and not
Speaker 4: just be this little side hobby thing was very appealing
Speaker 4: and satisfying.
Speaker 1: It.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so long story longer. Yeah, I took enough classes.
Speaker 4: And and then built you know, did everything online.
Speaker 3: Just everything was online.
Speaker 4: Voice one two three was the main website I used
Speaker 4: to just you just you pay four hundred bucks at
Speaker 4: the time a year. You get access to audition for
Speaker 4: anything that goes up. So I booked radio commercials, training videos,
Speaker 4: so you.
Speaker 1: Get one gig out of it and you paid for it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, exactly, And it was I think the first
Speaker 4: one was four hundred bucks. So so and you build
Speaker 4: your own clients and then you eventually can get an agent.
Speaker 1: So it was the more of your agency.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's in Colorado, you know, like because I built
Speaker 4: my career in Colorado, and my wife Mary and Denver
Speaker 4: Metro was Golden and then in my adulthood it was like,
Speaker 4: you know, Broomfield was North Denver, so Denver area, and
Speaker 4: my wife Mary built her career in Louisiana.
Speaker 3: And you're from Louisiana, right.
Speaker 1: Well, been a long long time there. Yeah, she was
Speaker 1: moved there out of high school in Homa.
Speaker 3: Have you heard of Homa?
Speaker 1: Played there many times?
Speaker 3: Oh really?
Speaker 1: Yeah? You played drums, right, drums and sing?
Speaker 3: Okay, like at the same time.
Speaker 1: Well, yes, wow, but actually the band, well, I was
Speaker 1: in a couple of bands in New Orleans. But the
Speaker 1: one band that I was in that I actually didn't
Speaker 1: have to have another job in the only one was
Speaker 1: a band Infusion, and I was just the singer. So
Speaker 1: I played tambourine. I was lead tambourine.
Speaker 3: You played, but you.
Speaker 4: Played it all like sexy like Robert Plan you know,
Speaker 4: Oh right, that was you.
Speaker 3: You're like that was understudy. Yes, it doesn't. He sometimes
Speaker 3: have a tambourine during his moments when the guitar.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't think so, No, I don't
Speaker 1: think he doesn't.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, all right, maybe there's some rock band.
Speaker 1: Nets that that's the Yeah, whatever, that however, that's how
Speaker 1: it goes. Yeah that was him. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2: And I'm just so hard to believe that you were
Speaker 2: bad in school. You might be the most researched guess
Speaker 2: we've ever had.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, you don't even I could drop all
Speaker 4: the research we've had.
Speaker 2: People to show up and they didn't even know it
Speaker 2: was on camera.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you know what, that might just be driven
Speaker 4: from my the deep shame I had from being such
Speaker 4: a horrific student, you know, like because it's embarrassing, right,
Speaker 4: Like you have never bothered me, Really you weren't, you.
Speaker 1: Know, I mean I kind out. I only I felt
Speaker 1: bad about it because my parents made me feel bad.
Speaker 2: About it, as they should for you.
Speaker 1: And I stupidly, you know, I went to a Catholic
Speaker 1: school all twelve twelve years, and and I I made them.
Speaker 1: In fact, there was a movie Peggy Sue Peggy Peggy
Speaker 1: Sue got married. I think Kathleen Turner was that a
Speaker 1: long time ago, And and she went back to her
Speaker 1: high school and uh, some kind of a f back
Speaker 1: I forget the premise, but she suddenly woke up and
Speaker 1: she was sixteen again, and her parents were there and
Speaker 1: she was late for school, and so she just kind
Speaker 1: of went with it, but she was in but having
Speaker 1: come from the future, she told the teacher. And I
Speaker 1: was the only idiot in the theater that laughed at this.
Speaker 1: She goes, she said, well, actually, you know no, mister Taylor,
Speaker 1: I happened to know for a fact that I will
Speaker 1: never ever, ever ever do one algebra problem once I
Speaker 1: leave this room.
Speaker 3: That's the truth.
Speaker 1: I will never ever ever. And I laughed like hell
Speaker 1: because I actually made the mistake of telling that to
Speaker 1: the sister Ellen Rose, who was the algebra nun. And
Speaker 1: she said, and I said, I am shooting for the
Speaker 1: lowest D minus that you have because I just want
Speaker 1: to pass. I only want to pass. I promise you
Speaker 1: I will never ever again. And this is way before
Speaker 1: cell phones with computers and then calculators, so you know,
Speaker 1: And I said, I know, I won't. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't know why anyone.
Speaker 3: Does now, God bless them seriously.
Speaker 1: And so she said, oh, okay, good, Uh huh lois
Speaker 1: du Yeah, well it's called an.
Speaker 3: F O.
Speaker 1: Iron like, yeah, I failed, and then I took it
Speaker 1: in uh summer school failed. Yeah, it was My parents
Speaker 1: were like what wait, what are we going to do
Speaker 1: with this kid? Jesus. Yeah, yes, I see some work
Speaker 1: boots in your future, mister. Somebody's going to be looking
Speaker 1: good in that helmet. Here, take these sunglasses. You're going
Speaker 1: to be looking at molten steel. So and I did
Speaker 1: that too, how long? Di Well? I quote unquote worked
Speaker 1: there for a year. But back then it was like
Speaker 1: you work six months, then you go on strike or
Speaker 1: they laid you off. It was called laid off. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then you collect unemployment for six months.
Speaker 3: That's just what you do.
Speaker 1: It's just what you do. Wow.
Speaker 2: They're probably like circumnavigating some kind of labor laws. Sorry, yeah,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, we've employed you for this long then we
Speaker 2: have to do X y Z. But if you just
Speaker 2: go on unemployment then yeah, way.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah yeah man, I should have done that with a.
Speaker 3: I had a three three month.
Speaker 4: Job at best Buy when I was I think I
Speaker 4: was eighteen, and I was very proud of myself because
Speaker 4: it was before it's called geek squad.
Speaker 3: So it's called right now.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it used to be called the tech benches,
Speaker 4: like right before they called it the geek squad, but
Speaker 4: same look or no ties, thank god. But it was
Speaker 4: just a blackpool of shirt. And I interviewed and I
Speaker 4: got it for the as a seasonal job, right, so
Speaker 4: it's just during the busy holiday season.
Speaker 3: Women's buying all the game. It's for the holidays.
Speaker 4: And so I was building computers, repairing computers, up selling.
Speaker 4: You know, Oh, you have this computer that all is
Speaker 4: a junk on it? Want me to clean it off
Speaker 4: for a hundred bucks, you know, wow, and.
Speaker 1: Sit there and delete. Yeah, take a hundred bucks.
Speaker 3: I mean I didn't get to keep any of that.
Speaker 3: That all goes, you know.
Speaker 4: But my point to that was, oh, after, I was
Speaker 4: devastated when they let me go because they said it
Speaker 4: was look, there's a possibility, easy possibility, you're gonna have
Speaker 4: to be let go. But it was the first like
Speaker 4: job that I had that wasn't cleaning carpets, which is
Speaker 4: with my dad and I adore my dad. But that's
Speaker 4: hard work. You know, that's some hard work clean carpets.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was like, yeah, it's there's harder jobs like pre pavement,
Speaker 4: but carpet cleaning it's you know, it's labor intensive, it's hot,
Speaker 4: the machines are loud and just blowing off heat.
Speaker 3: It's it's A, it's a it's a rougher job.
Speaker 4: So I'm like, I'm doing something I actually love, building computers,
Speaker 4: talking to people, and they let me go, and I like,
Speaker 4: I think I sobbed when I went back into my car.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, so I should have done the
Speaker 4: unempoyment thing.
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, yeah, the secret.
Speaker 3: But do you do these conventions?
Speaker 2: Do you do comic conventions?
Speaker 4: I just started last because of the Marvel Rivals game,
Speaker 4: so I've done I've been in about one hundred games
Speaker 4: at this point, but there just has been when yeah,
Speaker 4: and some some prominent in.
Speaker 2: Adam Warlock is like the voice you're most known for.
Speaker 2: Absolutely yeah.
Speaker 4: But what's cool, though, is there's other smaller roles and
Speaker 4: anime shows like JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Seven Deadly Sins. I'm
Speaker 4: I'm Ludo c l and Seven Deadly Sins and Archangel
Speaker 4: and uh and some other side more nuanced characters from
Speaker 4: other types of like YouTube things.
Speaker 3: And I didn't.
Speaker 4: Know there was any fandom for it until you know,
Speaker 4: this Adam Warlock character in Marvel Rivals got the clout
Speaker 4: for conventions to want to even bring me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then people walk up to the table and
Speaker 3: they're like, oh wait, oh wait, you're the wait you're
Speaker 3: in Pokemon.
Speaker 4: You're that guy, right, And I'm like, you care about
Speaker 4: the like you even know they exist because no one
Speaker 4: I've never had anyone tweet at me or DM me
Speaker 4: about these characters, even though I've announced them. But I
Speaker 4: don't expect people to see that one pope, right, But
Speaker 4: this particular character. The game was so big and still is, uh.
Speaker 1: Like you as long as possible.
Speaker 4: That they brought some of the cast out to San
Speaker 4: Diego Comicon last year. So we had this room there
Speaker 4: was like two to three thousand people standing.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've never experienced anything like it was overnight. You
Speaker 3: were in that room. My god, it's crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well what was it?
Speaker 4: I don't know if you were. I doubt your re memories.
Speaker 4: It was a lot going on, but both of you.
Speaker 4: The one element of my my voice was shot from
Speaker 4: because I've been doing a ton of cons and I
Speaker 4: got sick about a month prior, and my the symptoms
Speaker 4: were all gone, like I was testing negative. But my
Speaker 4: voice sort of likes I can't even actually impersonate it.
Speaker 4: My voice sort of like sounded like this, like now
Speaker 4: I sound like, what's what's Awski Now I sound like
Speaker 4: rods No, but it was. It was just kind of
Speaker 4: like like a huskier and up here and Locke's character
Speaker 4: it sits down here, it's very relaxed and there's a
Speaker 4: lot of resonance to it.
Speaker 3: That part of my voice was gone perfect, so perfect.
Speaker 4: Luckily I didn't there's like interviews out of me when
Speaker 4: I was, because they did a ton of interviews and
Speaker 4: no barely anyone's been like, what's.
Speaker 1: Wrong with Adam's voice?
Speaker 3: Your character?
Speaker 4: Like they just call you pooh, right, I mean not
Speaker 4: under the shoe poo, but you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, the.
Speaker 4: Good smelling poo. Yeah, honey smelling pooh. Yes, but they
Speaker 4: get No one said anything but on that panel, I
Speaker 4: was absolutely terrified because because we have to, we have
Speaker 4: to yell our ultimate lines, and it's it's this big
Speaker 4: moment in the game where it's like the epics soup
Speaker 4: like kind of like a he man, like I love
Speaker 4: the power. Oh yeah, it's it's what the fans identify
Speaker 4: with as the ultimate supercharge moment of their favorite character.
Speaker 4: Yes that you know, it was very familiar with by
Speaker 4: playing the game. So I was terrified that, like I
Speaker 4: was going to sound nothing like it. When it was
Speaker 4: my turn in the room of thousands of people to
Speaker 4: yell my line, and thank god, it sounded pretty much
Speaker 4: like it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was so scared.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But in the next day, when we didn't have a
Speaker 4: jam pack schedule, I was just walking the floor and
Speaker 4: and that was weird because I've never had anyone right.
Speaker 4: So a few people were like, we do we sall it.
Speaker 4: I'm like, I'll just like, you know, sign whatever they
Speaker 4: had around. That's new to me. That's totally new to me.
Speaker 3: And but I walked. I didn't. I wasn't walking around
Speaker 3: to do that. I wasn't walking around like anyone there.
Speaker 4: It was just it just was random, and I just
Speaker 4: want to actually see what was going on. And what
Speaker 4: was one of those things that was going on is
Speaker 4: you were on the floor and I had never met you,
Speaker 4: and I was waiting in a fairly short line, and
Speaker 4: you had a very good handler assistant vetting like, so.
Speaker 1: You're actually gonna you know, buy something?
Speaker 3: Are You're just gonna waste gems time?
Speaker 4: She didn't talk like that, but she that was the
Speaker 4: that's her job. And I was just like, oh, I'm
Speaker 4: actually I'm not gonna I just I just Alicia shake
Speaker 4: his hands. He's one of the legends, you know, like
Speaker 4: I would love to meet him. Just I'll make it
Speaker 4: very quick. I'm not going to chat as you're off.
Speaker 4: I pro I said, to give myself more cloud. I'm like,
Speaker 4: I'm actually here as a talent. You know, I was
Speaker 4: on the panel, and.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I did actually have that badge, right, but.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of people with industry badges and stuff.
Speaker 4: So so she was just doing her job to make sure.
Speaker 3: But luckily when she was doubting if.
Speaker 4: I was a legit actor, yeah, I could just feel
Speaker 4: it going south. The one of we share one of
Speaker 4: the same talent or con managers celeb works and I
Speaker 4: can't remember who it was because there's a lot of
Speaker 4: people work for them, but they were sitting next to you,
Speaker 4: and so before it was my turn, he says Jordan
Speaker 4: Jordan Reynolds, and I'm like, yeah, that's me. We rep
Speaker 4: you right, like yeah, and so he's like he's fine,
Speaker 4: let him up. Oh yeah, I'm not just some creepy fan.
Speaker 4: It's just like I want I want to stroke Jim's hand,
Speaker 4: please me. So that's how I felt like I was
Speaker 4: coming across to the lady.
Speaker 3: So I came up. It was very brief, but my
Speaker 3: voice was so blown out.
Speaker 4: I had to like lean over the table and it
Speaker 4: was I'm like, I'm like, hey, Jimmy, oh no, I
Speaker 4: am so and You're like, oh, it's very kind.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, it's funny. There's a lot of people
Speaker 1: that I think get excited or something and they burst,
Speaker 1: like by Saturday night or Sunday morning their voices. Could
Speaker 1: you make this one out to Lenny Lenny Kirks sorry,
Speaker 1: And I said, yeah, well, if you're catchy, stay the
Speaker 1: hell away here write it down exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's the scary part I actually had.
Speaker 3: You know, there's a wide range of people.
Speaker 1: Social skills of fans, right, yeah, very wide range. And
Speaker 1: that's very well said, by the way, Yes, it's much
Speaker 1: better than sane. A lot of people are just assholes.
Speaker 4: I was call an asshole, which I would never say that. No, No,
Speaker 4: there's I'm not talking about like the straight up assholes.
Speaker 3: I'm talking more just like you know, social cues and
Speaker 3: things like that.
Speaker 4: Oh, sure, you know, there's we're not all perfect at it,
Speaker 4: but there was. I was at a con and this,
Speaker 4: you know, it's probably late teens, early twenties. And he
Speaker 4: came up to my table. Luckily it was a deeper
Speaker 4: table because he was just like he was coughing a
Speaker 4: little bit, but he didn't I usually can hear because
Speaker 4: you know, voice actors have very sharp ears. I don't
Speaker 4: even know your voice. I've never heard you speak, but
Speaker 4: I can hear if there's something going on most of
Speaker 4: the time, like he didn't quite have that, but and
Speaker 4: he wasn't quite coughing either, but he proceeded to introduce himself,
Speaker 4: not buying anything, just wanted to just say hi, very quickly,
Speaker 4: and he said something along the lines of he said,
Speaker 4: what do you say. He's just like he's like, yeah,
Speaker 4: I leryngitis, and it's like really, it's so bad.
Speaker 3: It's contagious. I just got it like yesterday, and I'm like, oh, thanks, okay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I kind of like the the elves on the
Speaker 4: Christmas Story, like like nice football.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I can't get sick.
Speaker 2: It's my job, kidding.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's.
Speaker 3: A terrifying part of it.
Speaker 2: One thing that cracks me up when I go to
Speaker 2: conventions with Jim is they'll come up to gym. Some
Speaker 2: people will come up and be like, so you were
Speaker 2: Fuzzy Lumpkins, you were dark wing Duck, and Jim's like yes, yes,
Speaker 2: and then they'll just like start naming characters that he was.
Speaker 2: And then Jim's like yes, and it's like all right,
Speaker 2: pleasure to meet you. Just walk away.
Speaker 1: You know why.
Speaker 3: That probably made their day.
Speaker 4: You know, you don't seems very odd, but every everyone
Speaker 4: just has different things.
Speaker 3: That fulfill them.
Speaker 4: And and it's been I appreciate it because it takes
Speaker 4: a lot of courage for these people to come up.
Speaker 1: Yes, you know sometimes yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 4: Can see people literally share oh god, yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: and and Pool gets a lot of tears.
Speaker 1: I bet, yeah, yeah, I've got I have tissues on
Speaker 1: the table, you know, a box of clean You're serious? No, yeah,
Speaker 1: I do, yeah, wow, because uh, you know, and it's
Speaker 1: always really a sweet lady, a woman, you know, it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's a should be sitting there.
Speaker 5: And as we standing there spot she's a really big
Speaker 5: poo fan. She and I just and then I get
Speaker 5: up and hug them, and then they then they then
Speaker 5: they you know, they usually you're a eate or.
Speaker 1: Something, and I mean had one of those.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, actually I might have made that last part.
Speaker 4: You have you have snotsuckers, tissue and diapers on the table.
Speaker 3: Yeah, anyone?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I almost said something else, but I didn't.
Speaker 3: That's good.
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Speaker 2: Well, I think it's that time of this podcast where
Speaker 2: we do a little voice swap. What do you think, right?
Speaker 3: Sure? Yeah, terrifying, But it's actually be terrifying if we
Speaker 3: hadn't try to do the other person's voice, which you
Speaker 3: should try to get somebody do.
Speaker 2: But people get so scared by that. Like it because
Speaker 2: people assume that right away and you can see like, yeah,
Speaker 2: they go, oh hell, hardened veterans and they're like, voice swap,
Speaker 2: I can't do those voices.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, man, I love it because I'll make his
Speaker 4: rebrief there is I took Groundlings classes and they they
Speaker 4: put you through it right, and I had done enough
Speaker 4: improv and I think it's because I've done a lot
Speaker 4: of voiceovers my full time job when I was doing it,
Speaker 4: and the classes that is. And there was this exercise
Speaker 4: we had to do and there's like twelve of us,
Speaker 4: and the exercise was all the students, Oh my god,
Speaker 4: it's so crazy. So I sit here in a chair
Speaker 4: and the eleven students who've been in this class with
Speaker 4: me for weeks, so we've really got to know each
Speaker 4: other's voices and mannerisms, personalities. The exercise is for the
Speaker 4: eleven students to go up on the stage. It's just
Speaker 4: a room and you sit there and the teacher's like,
Speaker 4: all right, everyone do your best. Jordan Reynolds go and
Speaker 4: everyone starts like so but you're all talking at the
Speaker 4: same time, so you're having to pick out phrases they
Speaker 4: say and how they're placing their voice.
Speaker 1: And I was like crying. I thought it was so funny.
Speaker 4: I loved it, but not the other Like it was
Speaker 4: like half of the students were just mortified, which is
Speaker 4: not a natural exercise. But I loved thankfully confident enough
Speaker 4: now and thick enough skin that I just think it.
Speaker 3: Was so fun. But I can't remember what the point
Speaker 3: of the exercise.
Speaker 2: It's an interesting thing to probably just to get over
Speaker 2: the fear of performing in public. Perhaps, Yeah, but you know,
Speaker 2: they do studies where on average, people fear public speaking
Speaker 2: more than death. Yes, more than death. People would rather
Speaker 2: die than speak in public.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, no, I've heard that a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and I get it.
Speaker 2: It's but yeah, but it's like a primal thing, you know,
Speaker 2: like if you you know, we're animals at the end
Speaker 2: of the day, if you see a whole bunch of
Speaker 2: you know, potential threats locking eyes on you, you know,
Speaker 2: it's like, oh, like I am surrounded, you know, And yeah,
Speaker 2: it can be intim I never really had stage right
Speaker 2: at all. I loved performing. I loved being up in
Speaker 2: front of people, like I wanted the attention. But I
Speaker 2: can definitely like when I do perform, there's there's like
Speaker 2: an anxiety, like not a bad anxiety, but there's like
Speaker 2: an energy that swells up.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm on you know.
Speaker 2: It's like and I use that, I've.
Speaker 1: Used that to fuel of performance exactly.
Speaker 2: But I can see how that can be crippling to people,
Speaker 2: you know, Like.
Speaker 4: Well, performing is different than like a public speech, which
Speaker 4: all that stuff. To me, it's all that's so serious,
Speaker 4: but it's like I'm here to read the script or
Speaker 4: it's like if it's a eulogy or a political thing,
Speaker 4: all of that has a very serious, adult like connotation
Speaker 4: to it, Whereas what we get to do as actors,
Speaker 4: we're just being idiots.
Speaker 3: Like especially if we get to we.
Speaker 7: Could completely get to change our voice into something that
Speaker 7: is absolutely not who this is my crappy and the
Speaker 7: killing but it's actually no showdo that's not where poo lives,
Speaker 7: but it's.
Speaker 4: But we get to do that, right, So there's I
Speaker 4: feel like we can kind of escape and tap into
Speaker 4: something that isn't us, Whereas if it's like public speaking speech,
Speaker 4: it's just you trying to be the perfect version of you.
Speaker 3: No ums, no butts. So I think that's what people
Speaker 3: associate with.
Speaker 1: No thanks, take me out back, Yeah, give me a
Speaker 1: script read from.
Speaker 3: The ear please? Ex anyways, I mean to derail from
Speaker 3: the exercise.
Speaker 2: All right, here we go. Okay, well how it works?
Speaker 2: Is there any characters you would like to request?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Man, m you mentioned dark wing. Yeah, we got to
Speaker 3: get a dark wing duck in there, if you.
Speaker 4: Don't mind, okay, and uh, let's do the King Louis.
Speaker 1: Louis, King Louis sure, yeah, King Louis right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I wasn't like it was king something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because you you've inherited. Yeah, yes, and it's it's
Speaker 4: just I just love that character.
Speaker 1: Somemore good. Yeah, me too, Yeah, me too. I always
Speaker 1: have loved him. Yeah, he's he's one of my all
Speaker 1: time favorites, went away, all right, one of my top
Speaker 1: six maybe, wow, something like that.
Speaker 3: I love that question, though, what's your favorite? What's your
Speaker 3: favorite you've ever done?
Speaker 1: Just pick one? I can't do you can't really do that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that one? Which one?
Speaker 2: Do you like? That?
Speaker 1: That was it?
Speaker 3: How did you know?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, dark dark wing duck all right?
Speaker 1: Started off show, so I I and then he explained
Speaker 1: to him.
Speaker 2: You'll do and then let's do add more luck okay, okay.
Speaker 1: I am the terror that flaps in the night. I
Speaker 1: am the terror that flaps in the night.
Speaker 2: Doesn't sound very flapping now he actually flaps, now, he
Speaker 2: actually flies. Yeah, no idea.
Speaker 4: How happy I am because I play and stream and
Speaker 4: everything is, oh my god, I saw you playing with
Speaker 4: Neckros not too long.
Speaker 3: Yeah that was That's a wild ride.
Speaker 4: Yeah oh yeah it was Nechroas and Bulger and I
Speaker 4: love to impersonally Boger he has, Yeah, this is Bulger.
Speaker 3: He's like, he's like, no, that's that ship. Bro, No,
Speaker 3: I don't even know what why would you why?
Speaker 4: That's yeah, I'm strange man, and like it's a very
Speaker 4: light accent.
Speaker 2: Where is she from Marble Rivals that I'm crying?
Speaker 3: I love I love both of them.
Speaker 2: Hey, necroso I will.
Speaker 3: I'll give you a clip afterwards where I impersonated in
Speaker 3: front of him, I think. But okay, so yeah that
Speaker 3: was all right.
Speaker 4: So that was Adam doing dark Wing Duck, which is
Speaker 4: something I never imagined not to get to do.
Speaker 2: Well, yes, well, who was your character again?
Speaker 4: In Pokemon It's it's so there's all these different properties.
Speaker 4: But but yeah, Pokemon Masters is a game, and he's, uh,
Speaker 4: there's two train conductors.
Speaker 3: They're twin brothers, and there's Ingo, who I voice, and Emitt.
Speaker 4: So they look the same but they just have different
Speaker 4: colored coats. So they have a catchphrase.
Speaker 3: Yes, So it's really just one word.
Speaker 4: So do you want do you want a one word
Speaker 4: option which is just all aboard.
Speaker 3: Or do you want a.
Speaker 1: Few more words to play with a few more words
Speaker 1: I played with?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so another This is a very endearing line, he says.
Speaker 4: Ingo from Pokemon Masters says, there is no I think
Speaker 4: it's yeah, here we go.
Speaker 3: Remember there is no terminal called end in your life.
Speaker 1: Okay, so this will be King Louis then Yes, Remember
Speaker 1: there was no terminal called end in your life? Son?
Speaker 2: Wait can you do that one? I feel like that
Speaker 2: would be such a good Pooh quote, very philosophical.
Speaker 1: Remember there is no terminal called end. I think in
Speaker 1: the hundred.
Speaker 3: Acre wood, I love it so much.
Speaker 1: Please pass the honey right here?
Speaker 3: Yells everything?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got a yallon excellent. What's what are you
Speaker 1: off to next?
Speaker 3: Today? A power nap?
Speaker 7: Do you know?
Speaker 3: I don't ever feel more powerful after a power nap?
Speaker 4: This week we'll see I probably can't talk just.
Speaker 2: Like projects coming up everything?
Speaker 4: What can we actually talk about until it's out where
Speaker 4: people see?
Speaker 2: I will say.
Speaker 4: The next thing I could that's announce is wonder con
Speaker 4: are you going to be there?
Speaker 1: We are?
Speaker 2: That's in Orlando, right, oh?
Speaker 3: No, maybe there's an Orlando.
Speaker 2: Oh no, think Medica. Yeah, it's Mega Con. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: think going to wonder Con. I think so, I don't think.
Speaker 3: I can't never just like just point and I'll walk.
Speaker 3: They'll drive there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because we're doing we're doing this live at a
Speaker 2: bunch of conventions. So I've been traveling with time.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: People get a kick, yeah, audience sorry yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: that's just a whole different kind of energy.
Speaker 3: So but yeah, I'll be a wonder Con and Ana.
Speaker 4: I'm at the end of this month. I don't know
Speaker 4: when this post, but.
Speaker 2: This will be like two three weeks, okay, so you'll.
Speaker 3: Be like right right around.
Speaker 4: The other ones are like Fandom Con, Silicon Valley, Anime
Speaker 4: of Sac Anime.
Speaker 2: Anime is a good one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the first time there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 4: And the big one is New Zealand. I've never been.
Speaker 4: We're going to be it's like farming ed in con
Speaker 4: in Auckland.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we'll be there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, watch out for the ruse, Yeah, the kangaroo.
Speaker 7: The I just hope I run into Chris hemswith I
Speaker 7: know he's actually Australian. But I want to show him
Speaker 7: the best Chris Hems with it I could do and
Speaker 7: see if he's impressed by it.
Speaker 2: That's damn good.
Speaker 1: It's that bad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do sound alike work, but I haven't been
Speaker 4: able to do him yet.
Speaker 3: So he's on my bucket list.
Speaker 1: That's good. That's good.
Speaker 2: Well, that's great. Thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you for having me. Is seriously good
Speaker 3: an honor Hans.
Speaker 2: What are you doing?
Speaker 1: Absolute thank you, thank you, and.
Speaker 2: I wish we could go longer. You're fascinating to listen
Speaker 2: to it.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, all.
Speaker 4: That failed high school years get a lot of philosophy
Speaker 4: of the brain.
Speaker 1: There'll be a quiz. So I hope you were taking notes.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, thank you guys all so much for watching.
Speaker 2: That was another episode of Tuna with Jim Cummings. I'm producer,
Speaker 2: Chris the Legend himself, mister Jim Cummings and Jordan Reynolds.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much again for being here, and thank
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Speaker 1: And clap, oh yeah