Speaker 1: How are you doing out there? It's me Tiger, I
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Speaker 2: It's me Bunkers Deep BABCAD All right, yall, didn't bree
Speaker 2: your favorite firebla you desire?
Speaker 1: Hold? Oh no God. My name is Jim Cummings and
Speaker 1: welcome to tuned In.
Speaker 3: Welcome to this first anniversary edition of Tuned In with
Speaker 3: Jim Cummings. I am Dana, joined of course by producer Chris.
Speaker 3: How are you doing so good?
Speaker 4: How are you guys doing? Jim Brandon, how how are
Speaker 4: you doing?
Speaker 1: It's another day in paradise. Let's let's do it. I
Speaker 1: can't believe it's been a year.
Speaker 3: Another day in paradise, always paradise for Jim. We say
Speaker 3: one year anniversary. It's quite funny because what happened, listeners
Speaker 3: and viewers is that we started this show last June
Speaker 3: and we got to August and Chris went, we never
Speaker 3: celebrated our one year anniversary. We went, yeah, right, what
Speaker 3: we didn't? Did we? So we thought we do it now.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 3: I think what kicked it off was getting Billy West
Speaker 3: back on the show. We realized, wait a minute, he
Speaker 3: was our first guest. It must be an anniversary. Randy somewhere.
Speaker 3: We're way late, but at least we're.
Speaker 1: Doing it right, and you know, better late than never,
Speaker 1: of course, better never late. But yay, what are you
Speaker 1: gonna do? Fecal matter occurs?
Speaker 3: As they say, Jim, did you know what a podcast
Speaker 3: was before you started this show?
Speaker 2: Yes, something to do with Jack and the Beanstock and
Speaker 2: wrong Pod. No, I don't know, no, of course, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know. I was familiar with them, but never did
Speaker 2: I think that i'd be involved in, you know, the
Speaker 2: most incredible one of all time.
Speaker 1: And he yet here we are.
Speaker 3: So we won the award for that last week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, can't go wrong there.
Speaker 3: Well, what were you expecting starting the show? Because the
Speaker 3: original had it talk theme about so basically Jim came
Speaker 3: on my Simpsons podcast because Jim was once the voice
Speaker 3: of a horse on the Simpsons. For all you listeners
Speaker 3: that they be aware.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it was Margaret, my wife, you know chriss moment,
Speaker 2: she said, you know you and this is kind of
Speaker 2: a long time ago, and I was like, no, sounds
Speaker 2: like work, you know, and I already go to conventions
Speaker 2: and no, no, no, And then I think we did
Speaker 2: yours and she goes, we'll see it how can that be?
Speaker 1: And it's like, okay, so here we are. She was right.
Speaker 3: Turns out it's a little work. Yeah, yeah, a little bit,
Speaker 3: as Chris will be well away. So we got basically
Speaker 3: went all right, we need someone who can handle all
Speaker 3: the tech side of things. And then it just evolved
Speaker 3: to Chris just being part of the show. And now
Speaker 3: Chris is producer Chris thank goodness.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, how that evolved? Yes, and now it seems
Speaker 4: like so long ago yet just yesterday.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And oftentimes we'll go to comic cons comic con convention,
Speaker 2: they go, oh wow, yeah, your producer Chris, and it's
Speaker 2: like we're gonna have to get him his own table
Speaker 2: and start signing autographs.
Speaker 1: Phone.
Speaker 3: That's pretty cool.
Speaker 4: That's the weird thing. I was just telling my friend.
Speaker 4: I was over at my friend's house last night and
Speaker 4: I was just telling him that, I said, it's so
Speaker 4: hard for me to get used to when people are
Speaker 4: like just randomly shouting my name at conventions. Yeah, and
Speaker 4: I had no idea. And I'll look I'll look at
Speaker 4: these people and be like hey, they'll be like hey, Chris.
Speaker 4: I'll be like hey, and then I'll look at them
Speaker 4: and realize I have no idea who these people are,
Speaker 4: but they're just fans of the podcast and they're just
Speaker 4: tuned in and a it's a great feeling, but it's
Speaker 4: a weird feeling.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Can you remember the first time you got pointed out
Speaker 3: or noticed in public?
Speaker 4: I can, yes, yes, I assume that questions for.
Speaker 3: This nineteen eighty four and.
Speaker 4: I do. It Actually was late last year. We were
Speaker 4: in we were in Arkansas. We were in Arkansas, and
Speaker 4: you know, every now and then I'll help Jim with
Speaker 4: the handling at his table at a convention. You know,
Speaker 4: maybe it's a little busier than usual, maybe something like that.
Speaker 4: And basically my podcast duties when we are on on
Speaker 4: the road on a show are limited to pretty much
Speaker 4: before and after the show. So during the show, you know,
Speaker 4: I'd like to step been and lend a hand with
Speaker 4: Jim where I can, you know, lend anybody operating the
Speaker 4: convention a hand where I can. And I was actually
Speaker 4: going to a lounge fly booth and we were trying
Speaker 4: to negotiate like a little trade, like if Jim signs
Speaker 4: these backpacks for you, can we get you know, something
Speaker 4: in return. You know, they had some rare backpacks in return,
Speaker 4: blah blah blah. And I was walking over to the
Speaker 4: booth and I hear somebody go producer Chris. And I
Speaker 4: turn around and this guy just waves and I was like, Oh,
Speaker 4: how's it going. He was like, hey man, good, good
Speaker 4: to see you. And I was like, you know, you
Speaker 4: know that little game you play in your head, you
Speaker 4: know where you're like, where do I know this person from?
Speaker 4: In the first thirty seconds minute of conversation, you're trying
Speaker 4: to dial it in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it was Steven Spielberg.
Speaker 4: So that's how I actually do have a story about
Speaker 4: Steven Spielberg as well. Wow, it's actually tasted. Since since
Speaker 4: we're just talking, Since we're just talking, why don't I
Speaker 4: tell this story right now? That'd be great since the
Speaker 4: spotlight's on me right now. I'm just gonna take advantage.
Speaker 1: Please.
Speaker 4: So I was thirteen years old. I was at the
Speaker 4: premiere of the movie Monster House. It was an animated
Speaker 4: movie Steven Spielberg directed, I believe, or maybe he just
Speaker 4: produced it. Maybe he just produced it. Anyway, tell you
Speaker 4: that Spielberg was.
Speaker 3: Tell you there, what was how? What was your ticket in?
Speaker 4: So my dad was involved in some capacity I can't
Speaker 4: remember how it might have even just been through his
Speaker 4: agency that he got, you know, some premiere tickets. But
Speaker 4: me and me and my siblings and my and my
Speaker 4: dad went and I remember Nick Cannon was in the movie.
Speaker 4: He was on the red carpet. I remember we were
Speaker 4: right behind him on the red carpet. Anyway, fast forward,
Speaker 4: it's right before the show starts, and they say, you know,
Speaker 4: one minute until the show starts. So I was like, okay,
Speaker 4: I need to use the bathroom. So I go to
Speaker 4: the bathroom and I remember standing at the urinal and I'm,
Speaker 4: you know, doing my thing, and this guy walks in.
Speaker 4: All the urinals are full, and you know how you
Speaker 4: kind of just you kind of just taking the environment
Speaker 4: around you. You know, you look around at who is
Speaker 4: besides you, and I peek over and the guy that
Speaker 4: stood next to me was Steven Spielberg. And I just
Speaker 4: looked at him and I was like, no way. And
Speaker 4: I remember he looked over at me and then nothing else.
Speaker 4: And then we're washing our hands and I remember looking
Speaker 4: through the mirror. You know how you can like look
Speaker 4: at somebody through the mirror, and I looked at him
Speaker 4: through the mirror. He made I can't eye contact through
Speaker 4: the mirror, and he just winked at me and didn't
Speaker 4: say anything and dried his hands, and he knew exactly.
Speaker 4: I was thirteen years old at the time. He knew exactly.
Speaker 4: He was like, yeah, I know you know who.
Speaker 1: Are Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4: And I was just like, oh, I should have said something.
Speaker 4: I should have said something, but I was just too nervous.
Speaker 4: I didn't say anything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I wouldn't know what to say in that moment.
Speaker 3: What do you say? At the urinal to Steven Spielbey though,
Speaker 3: you know, what do you what do you say?
Speaker 4: Nothing?
Speaker 3: Well, and you can't even look you gotta Oh I
Speaker 3: Chris looked.
Speaker 1: I was coming home.
Speaker 2: My plane was my plane was delayed, delayed. This has
Speaker 2: got to be twenty years ago. And I was traping
Speaker 2: down this hallway.
Speaker 1: I had my luggage. It was one of those mile
Speaker 1: long hallways.
Speaker 2: And I look and there's a guy and it looked
Speaker 2: like he was having trouble walking, but he had two
Speaker 2: other guys with him. They were bookends, and he was shoveling,
Speaker 2: shuffling along, and I realized when he's like, gotta be
Speaker 2: fifty yards away, and I go, I'm about to walk
Speaker 2: into Ray Charles, and it was like seeing the Statue
Speaker 2: of Liberty at the end of the hall. You know,
Speaker 2: it's Ray Charles and I'm walking, We're walking, he's walking.
Speaker 1: We're getting closer together. Nobody else is there.
Speaker 2: I don't know how that happened in such a big airport,
Speaker 2: but so be it. And I said, okay, well you're
Speaker 2: gonna walk right past Ray Charles. Are you going to
Speaker 2: say anything? Einstein?
Speaker 1: And so I went Ray Charles and he goes, how
Speaker 1: you doing?
Speaker 4: Maybe?
Speaker 1: So I was baby, And that's my story. That's it. Sorry,
Speaker 1: that's the whole no big kaboom, but it was great.
Speaker 3: Well, I'd hate to bring the mood down slightly, but Chris,
Speaker 3: you just mentioned a fantastic toilet story there, and Jim
Speaker 3: you once told the amazing story on this podcast where
Speaker 3: you're in the bathroom once and you overheard the legendary
Speaker 3: icon James L. Jones doing this is CNN. I thought
Speaker 3: maybe you'd like to take this time here in the
Speaker 3: podcast to pay tribute to James L.
Speaker 1: Jones, God bless him. Yes.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not sure if this constitute is a tribute,
Speaker 2: but it's a pretty darn cool.
Speaker 1: I was at a police.
Speaker 2: Called Buzzies, and apparently that was the only place that
Speaker 2: he preferred to do his recordings. So I went in
Speaker 2: there to do my business, and you know, and I
Speaker 2: was standing over there and washing my hands, and.
Speaker 4: I hear this is c.
Speaker 5: N no, this is c N wig, this is CNN no.
Speaker 5: Then you hear this is cn N.
Speaker 1: Yes. And that was his read.
Speaker 2: And that's the one that everyone's heard a thousand times.
Speaker 2: And I was there to hear the great one practiced that.
Speaker 2: So that's that's my story. And there you have it.
Speaker 3: Was he aware? Have you told him that? Had she
Speaker 3: told him since that you ever heard him?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Somehow or another, I didn't been around it. Have him
Speaker 2: walk out of going let me shake your hand? Oh no,
Speaker 2: I didn't.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: Did you ever get the chance to speak with him
Speaker 3: or work with him whilst working on the Lion King?
Speaker 3: Or is it just always separate the car.
Speaker 2: No, anytime you do a movie, it's ninety nine percent
Speaker 2: of the time you're doing it solo. No matter what
Speaker 2: I mean. I've I've sung with people solo, very very
Speaker 2: very seldom do you have others in the room with you.
Speaker 3: Well, as we said, this is not necessarily the first anniversary,
Speaker 3: because I think I can of sixty three episodes deep
Speaker 3: into the podcast, Chris, do you have any favorite episodes
Speaker 3: or favorite conversations from that time.
Speaker 4: I knew this was going to come up. I knew
Speaker 4: this was going to come up so honestly in this
Speaker 4: last year. So David Hayter was one of the first
Speaker 4: people that we interviewed. It was but a very short
Speaker 4: one and then luckily we got to interview him again
Speaker 4: just quite recently, and I think that is the biggest
Speaker 4: starstruck person that we've had for me, for me that
Speaker 4: I've been acquainted with on this podcast, just because I
Speaker 4: was such a huge fan of Metal Gear Solid growing up.
Speaker 4: I was such a huge fan and just how friendly
Speaker 4: and how down to earth and everything that David is
Speaker 4: really brings that all up. And then oh, goodness, you're.
Speaker 1: Not allowed to say your dad, I was going to say,
Speaker 1: So that's good.
Speaker 4: So the biggest Another one that was for me was
Speaker 4: Veronica Taylor doing the voice of ash Ketchem. I mean
Speaker 4: that just really like sent me back. And I'm sure
Speaker 4: as many of the viewers, by the way, thank you
Speaker 4: all so much. We're at almost ninety thousand subscribers on YouTube.
Speaker 3: Now I'll do a live check as we do this.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Incredible, incredible, what yeah, what are we at?
Speaker 3: We're currently at eight hundred and sixty three as we recall.
Speaker 4: So we need four hundred of you listeners to subscribe.
Speaker 2: So run out, go, run out on the lawn, yell
Speaker 2: out to your neighbors, do whatever.
Speaker 4: But I was just gonna say, as much as you
Speaker 4: guys can all test, the audience can all attest. I mean,
Speaker 4: Veronica Taylor was literally like the voice of my childhood,
Speaker 4: I mean, as well as Jim But I mean if
Speaker 4: I was only allowed to watch an hour of TV
Speaker 4: a day, and most of the time it was afternoon
Speaker 4: programming and that's when Pokemon was on, and so to
Speaker 4: hear her do the ash Ketchum live in person, it
Speaker 4: just it sent me.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's good stuff, isn't it.
Speaker 4: It was incredible. I mean, there's been so many now
Speaker 4: that I'm thinking about it, I mean, Phil Lamar, Billy West,
Speaker 4: there's been so many. It's just been such a privilege
Speaker 4: to meet all these people and talked all these.
Speaker 3: Bill Fummer and Rob puls On to do the goof
Speaker 3: Troop reunion, that was yeah, well, oh yeah, because I
Speaker 3: don't think we actually spoke about goof Troop. It was
Speaker 3: just these three legends just chatting. It's called the goof
Speaker 3: Trip Reunion that doesn't actually talk about goof Troop.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: That video has had almost two hundred thousand views on
Speaker 3: YouTube below.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, that's one of the most popular ones that's
Speaker 4: been put.
Speaker 3: That's when we had all those videos of the when
Speaker 3: they did the they sang what's the the Yakou song
Speaker 3: around the world? Yeah, trying to sing his tig and
Speaker 3: Bill try to sing it words. Yeah, yeah, great, Tom.
Speaker 3: I do think Billy West has been one of my
Speaker 3: favorite guests. He's just such a down to earth, lovely guy.
Speaker 3: He's just an absolute legend of voice acting very much. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's only one less in particular that you're looking forward
Speaker 3: to maybe getting on the show, Chris, any any ideas
Speaker 3: for voice actors that you would maybe want to get
Speaker 3: on in the future that we haven't had.
Speaker 4: Yet coming up? I really want to talk to Andy Cirkis.
Speaker 4: Andy Cirkis, I'm really excited about. Ella Parnell is another
Speaker 4: one I'm really excited about for her voice acting, of course,
Speaker 4: and oh you and McGregor is another one. I can't
Speaker 4: wait to talk to. And there's just been so many.
Speaker 4: I mean, Ron Pearlman, Zachary Levi. Zachary Levi was another
Speaker 4: one of my favorites. Who was your favorite, Jim, Well,
Speaker 4: you know, who are some of your favorites named Frank.
Speaker 2: Welker That's yeah, that's uh, yeah, it's gonna be that'd
Speaker 2: be good to get. That'll be juicy. But gosh, I
Speaker 2: have I have a lot of them. I'm looking forward
Speaker 2: to revisiting with Tress and that's for sure. And gosh,
Speaker 2: g was great Daily Strong Strong and Tara Daily, they
Speaker 2: were great.
Speaker 1: And it's and.
Speaker 2: It's funny because you know, I'm just going down the
Speaker 2: list and it's all people that I've known from work
Speaker 2: over the years.
Speaker 1: It's like, well, let's see, well I worked with the old.
Speaker 2: Joe over there and that was fun and you know,
Speaker 2: and it's it's just a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: I would love to have.
Speaker 2: Gotten John Williams, the great composer.
Speaker 1: I mean, a beautiful thing.
Speaker 4: But you know who really surprised I think both of us.
Speaker 4: Jim was Corey Feldman. An opportunity to talk to him
Speaker 4: in Tampa Bay. Yes, because I'm not gonna lie and
Speaker 4: we can cut this if if it's if it's a
Speaker 4: little two out there for you, Jim. But we were
Speaker 4: in Tampa Bay. We're at Tampa Big Comic Con, and
Speaker 4: you know, we're we kind of do this thing, you know,
Speaker 4: we're networking in the green room and the hotel and
Speaker 4: blah blah blah, and we're hoping to get people on
Speaker 4: the road, but if not, then we're gonna book them
Speaker 4: for back in LA And we see Corey Feldman and
Speaker 4: he's sitting with Oh goodness, this is name, Oh Goodness
Speaker 4: the comedian po he's sitting there with, and we're like,
Speaker 4: we need to get one of them on the podcast.
Speaker 4: We need to And we had a great setup that
Speaker 4: weekend in Tampa Bay where the podcast was set up
Speaker 4: right next door to the green room, but in a
Speaker 4: private room. And so long story short, end up getting
Speaker 4: Corey Feldman on and me and Jim are kind of
Speaker 4: looking at each other, we go, man, this is kind
Speaker 4: of gonna be a strapping who knows where this is?
Speaker 4: Who knows where this is going to go? And then
Speaker 4: Corey Feldman was so well spoken, so insightful, had such
Speaker 4: a great knowledge of Hollywood, and it kind.
Speaker 1: Of took us.
Speaker 4: We both looked at each other like, Wow, this was
Speaker 4: such an insightful and entertaining guest, and never judge a
Speaker 4: book by its cover, because this is not what we
Speaker 4: expected at all. And then he just had such a
Speaker 4: great interview. And literally he's been doing this since he
Speaker 4: was what two years old, so.
Speaker 1: We should have known bonies.
Speaker 4: But it was yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean that that's how old was he there? Nine?
Speaker 1: Maybe two, maybe ten, twelve?
Speaker 3: Well he was in Gremlins as well, Yeah he was,
Speaker 3: but I think it was he was talking about commercials
Speaker 3: he was doing when he was like two or three,
Speaker 3: Like you were saying, Chris exactly. But you see like
Speaker 3: he's live music, stage show, and you see that version
Speaker 3: of him, and then you see the version of him
Speaker 3: on the podcast and you think, how are these the
Speaker 3: same person?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, he has a great in the military, that
Speaker 4: flipping the switch, knowing which audience you're you're adhering to.
Speaker 4: He has a great knack from it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Were you in the military, He's good to read.
Speaker 4: I was in the military.
Speaker 3: How have we never discussed you being in the military.
Speaker 4: I was in the Air Force for two and a
Speaker 4: half years.
Speaker 3: Air Force. Well, you must have some fun stories.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, I don't know if they were fun. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we're experiences, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: He spent twenty years in the military for two and
Speaker 2: a half years, so yeah, it was crammed a lot
Speaker 2: of acts.
Speaker 4: I sure felt like that. I'm not gonna lie, it
Speaker 4: sure felt like that.
Speaker 3: Well, we're always looking for fresh ideas here for the podcast,
Speaker 3: and I was just going to say that we discussed
Speaker 3: recently that one of the things we're going to focus
Speaker 3: on going forward here with the podcast is producing more
Speaker 3: Patreon content, aren't we, Chris, So some of the ideas
Speaker 3: we've toyed with potentially Patreon exclusive Winnie the Pooh rewatch podcasts,
Speaker 3: which I think would be a lot of fun, a
Speaker 3: litt of Winnie the poof.
Speaker 4: Fans out there.
Speaker 3: We always getting questions about the new adventures of Winnie
Speaker 3: the Pooh, So I think if we can get Jim
Speaker 3: to sit down a couple of times a month and
Speaker 3: just watch the episodes in order, I think people will
Speaker 3: really dig that. Also, Margaret, she's starting to appear on
Speaker 3: social media a lot more now Jim's lovely wife peg
Speaker 3: as he calls her, and then maybe starting their own
Speaker 3: show on patre which I think will be now, Chris,
Speaker 3: remember you can be the be on that show as well.
Speaker 1: What do you reckon?
Speaker 3: Or he's gonna leave them to it.
Speaker 1: We'll let the public get you know, We'll we'll deliver it.
Speaker 4: We'll let the public decide. Yes.
Speaker 3: I would love to hear a podcast where it's just
Speaker 3: you turn the MIC's on, you leave it and just
Speaker 3: see what Jim and Margaret coming out with.
Speaker 2: That could be interesting, or it could be something minutes,
Speaker 2: it could be an hour.
Speaker 3: As you were saying, what with upcoming guests? I think
Speaker 3: selfishly when I'm looking forward to if we can get
Speaker 3: is if you actually make happens he Kazaria from the Simpsons.
Speaker 3: I think that would just be amazing because he's just
Speaker 3: been not just the Simpsons, it's just an icon outside
Speaker 3: of the Simpsons as well. Have been so many movies
Speaker 3: and yeah, ha, Kazari would be a big one for me.
Speaker 3: We can get that to happen. But we also posted
Speaker 3: on Jim social media on his Instagram at Jim J.
Speaker 3: Cummings this morning asking for some questions to sort of
Speaker 3: get a bit of insight into fore you guys as well. So,
Speaker 3: Christ do you want to kick us off? With the
Speaker 3: first question that was sent through from Mt. T Puitt.
Speaker 4: Sure thing. First of all, M. T. Preu says this,
Speaker 4: First of all, thank you so much for doing this podcast.
Speaker 4: It's so refreshing to hear the voice of my childhood
Speaker 4: speak about his admiration for his work. What's the most
Speaker 4: valuable life lesson you've learned from doing Winnie the Pooh
Speaker 4: or voice acting in general?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Well that's a very interesting question. Why
Speaker 2: didn't I think of these before? I should have read these?
Speaker 2: Now I have to think of something up now. Well, patience,
Speaker 2: who is a is a good teacher of patience, And
Speaker 2: you'll never see him in a big hurry unless there's
Speaker 2: honey that's spilt or something, you know, a true emergency.
Speaker 2: But you know, I think he's got that. In fact,
Speaker 2: there what is it the Dao of Poo. There's a
Speaker 2: look out And it's all about his zen approach to
Speaker 2: life and how he maintains his own inner serenity and
Speaker 2: exudes it for others.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's a you know, I think that's
Speaker 1: that's part of his.
Speaker 2: Charm and he sees the world through I've said it before,
Speaker 2: honey colored glasses. You know, He has a way of
Speaker 2: looking at things and evening them out and envisioning a
Speaker 2: beautiful outcome, and he's always right.
Speaker 1: So I want to do that.
Speaker 3: Have you ever lost patience with yourself? What kind of stupid.
Speaker 1: Question is that? Oh I'm sorry, what did you say?
Speaker 3: Have you ever lost patience with yourself where you kind
Speaker 3: of thought you were trying to sort of land a
Speaker 3: particular voice or a particular line delivery and he couldn't
Speaker 3: quite get it the way you had envisioned it, and
Speaker 3: you had the way you wanted it, and you've lost
Speaker 3: patience with yourself?
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, I've wanted to know, not one hundred percent,
Speaker 2: because you know, you can always do take two, so
Speaker 2: you know, there's there's salvation and that that little thing there.
Speaker 2: I once in a blue moon I would hear a
Speaker 2: song maybe and I and I think, and it's actually,
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess it's not even losing patience. But
Speaker 2: I once went to work with a head cold, which
Speaker 2: is an absurd thing, but it was early on in
Speaker 2: my career, and I was, Oh, my gosh, they're counting
Speaker 2: on me.
Speaker 1: I have to go. So you know, I sounded like
Speaker 1: Pooh might have had a.
Speaker 2: Bit of a head cold, and uh, once in a
Speaker 2: blue moon, I'll hear a snippet from that show and go,
Speaker 2: I remember that, you know, And and it was interesting
Speaker 2: because Pooh and Ticker had the same cold, and I thought,
Speaker 2: are people gonna notice this? I I've never had one
Speaker 2: single human being, even after telling this story a few
Speaker 2: times ever, say hey, were you sick that day that
Speaker 2: you went to work?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: So I knock on wood. It's it's not a big deal,
Speaker 2: but there you have it.
Speaker 3: Next questions from at Doth Chris seventy six. Will there
Speaker 3: be any plans or do you know of any plans
Speaker 3: for new adventures of Winnie the Pooh come back? They
Speaker 3: love that show as a kid. Maybe make it for
Speaker 3: adults who are thirty plus who grew up with it
Speaker 3: and with the same animation and everything there. So I
Speaker 3: don't know. I haven't heard any news of a new
Speaker 3: adventures come back. They've got a lot of Winny the
Speaker 3: Pooh sort of more tiging towards younger kids now, haven't
Speaker 3: a's like a baby poo kind of thing, hasn't it's
Speaker 3: a kids show now?
Speaker 2: Well, it didn't really go anywhere, yea. I even kind
Speaker 2: of read for it and it. I think that there's
Speaker 2: such a childlike wonder to Winnie the Pooh and the characters,
Speaker 2: you know, whether it's Piglet or you know, on and on.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's necessary to.
Speaker 2: Cater and make it even younger, because you could be
Speaker 2: eighty and enjoy it and eight and enjoy it. And
Speaker 2: if you're eight months you can look at it and
Speaker 2: enjoy and still, you know, the colors are there.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't think. I don't think it
Speaker 1: would be well served.
Speaker 2: You know, the characters would be well served by you know,
Speaker 2: make you know, three year old rabbit or Tigger, you
Speaker 2: know they we did something like that and it was okay,
Speaker 2: it scaled the heights of almost okay, so you know,
Speaker 2: so that's that's kind of where that is. But I
Speaker 2: wouldn't mind doing the newer Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
Speaker 3: That would have never gonna say no yeah said in
Speaker 3: New York or something.
Speaker 4: No, just kidding, I'm trying to picture what Winnie the
Speaker 4: Pooh would be like targeted for a demographic of over
Speaker 4: thirty year olds.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: See, he'd had to be going through struggles that you
Speaker 3: go through more in adulthood. But I guess that's isn't
Speaker 3: that what the whole we of the Pooh basis is though,
Speaker 3: that each character is its own sort of ones, got
Speaker 3: anxiety ones.
Speaker 1: You know, they're all top basic emotions.
Speaker 3: Who they're all basic emotions that I think that's why
Speaker 3: just the brand and the characters in general are timeless,
Speaker 3: which is why, as you're saying, tweaking them and making
Speaker 3: them babies, there's no need for it because there just
Speaker 3: time is in general and so relatable. Where As you said,
Speaker 3: they're all an emotion that we can allers relate to
Speaker 3: anyway very much.
Speaker 2: So, I mean, you know, Rabbit is very persnickety, and
Speaker 2: he yours, mister gloom, and obviously Kanga and rue or
Speaker 2: mother and child reunion. It's they all have their own
Speaker 2: own spot there. And and Pooh is blistful serenity. He's uh,
Speaker 2: you know, I've said before, Pooh is the eye of
Speaker 2: the storm where all is calm, and Tigger is the storm.
Speaker 2: So all the food groups are well represented.
Speaker 3: I guess the Christopher Robin film Chris is kind of
Speaker 3: that idea in the sense that it was Christopher Robin
Speaker 3: grown up a bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he wasn't It wasn't a child for long on
Speaker 2: the opening scene, but yes it was. Well, the idea
Speaker 2: was that, you know, you never really have to leave
Speaker 2: the hunterd Acre would and.
Speaker 3: We're going to be tackling the film, Christopher Robin in
Speaker 3: an utcoming episode of the podcast look at for that
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 4: Chris, next question, all right, the next question comes from
Speaker 4: fandom and randomness. One voice matching. Is the process to
Speaker 4: approaching it different than when you were taking over for
Speaker 4: someone who has passed away like Sterling? Compared to cases
Speaker 4: where the actor is working on the project, like with
Speaker 4: Jeremy Irons in The Lion King or Christopher Lloyd in Anastasia.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm not sure that the question centers around I.
Speaker 3: Think that asking. Is it when you approach the voice?
Speaker 3: Is it differently trying to match a voice? Do you
Speaker 3: approach it differently if the actor you're trying to approach,
Speaker 3: trying to copy is passed away.
Speaker 2: No, it's because it's you're still being true to the
Speaker 2: original tenor I mean literally the actual sound of their voice.
Speaker 2: You know, you know I've said before that you know
Speaker 2: you've got it if you can cough or you know,
Speaker 2: have dummy trouble or feel you know that type of thing.
Speaker 2: Clear your throat and they go, oh wow, that sounded
Speaker 2: like Tigger or was that Pooh?
Speaker 1: Was that dark winged duck?
Speaker 2: And uh, you know, I think once you've landed on that,
Speaker 2: once you've got that down, then the rest is it's
Speaker 2: it's right there, you know that, then the words, the singing,
Speaker 2: you know, pair of paragraphs, you know, whatever it is.
Speaker 2: H then you're you're on the right track. You have
Speaker 2: to be able to, you know, go and that was
Speaker 2: just me, by the way, So don't don't try and
Speaker 2: figure out who that was. But you know, if you go, okay,
Speaker 2: you know that was Tigger. So it's you know, you
Speaker 2: have to be able to give enough personality to it
Speaker 2: and put it all in the voice, because your face
Speaker 2: doesn't count.
Speaker 3: Christopher Lloyd gave you some pretty direct feedback, didn't he
Speaker 3: when you did his voice? Anastasia? Didn't he didn't he
Speaker 3: hear you? And he's really impressed by your singing yourself.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I don't know that he was. H It's
Speaker 2: just it's kind of a funny one liner. You know,
Speaker 2: they told him, they told this story before. I hope
Speaker 2: I'm not repeating it too much for people out there.
Speaker 2: But you asked, so, hey, no, he said. They told him,
Speaker 2: you know, the producers. They said, well, Christopher, this is great.
Speaker 2: By the way, We've got an amazing song for you.
Speaker 2: I mean it's real Andrew Lloyd Webber, I mean, this
Speaker 2: is like Phantom of the Opera. It's it's really a
Speaker 2: killer song. And he goes, wow, no kidding, Well, I
Speaker 2: hope I don't suck and left. And so they called
Speaker 2: around and a few of the usual suspects, and I
Speaker 2: ended up getting the job. And you know, then he
Speaker 2: was back in you know, it wasn't done with the
Speaker 2: movie yet, and they said, Christopher, would you like to
Speaker 2: hear your song? And they go, oh, sure, yeah, sure,
Speaker 2: go ahead. So they played him the song and he goes, wow,
Speaker 2: I sound pretty good, and so that was my seal
Speaker 2: of approval. And they were kind enough to tell me
Speaker 2: that story, and I've since run into him at a
Speaker 2: couple of conventions.
Speaker 1: He goes, oh, that's right. Yeah, so you're the guy
Speaker 1: that's pretty good. I sounded good, didn't I? And I go, yes,
Speaker 1: you did.
Speaker 2: You sounded in a stunt? What am I going to
Speaker 2: disagree with him?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 3: So that was that One's quite amazing because no one knew,
Speaker 3: nobody realized.
Speaker 1: Well that's the idea.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's so many kids, so many, so many adults.
Speaker 3: Now they see the videos that we put out on
Speaker 3: social media. Have you seen that song? They go, are
Speaker 3: you kidding me? They can't believe?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get that with him and Jeremy
Speaker 2: Irons as well.
Speaker 3: Did you ever ever heard what Jeremy Irons thought of
Speaker 3: your ska? You've never really spoken to Jeremy about it?
Speaker 1: Uh? No, No, I haven't really spoken with him.
Speaker 2: I haven't, but but I did see it was fun
Speaker 2: to see on the celebration. Gosh was it the twenty
Speaker 2: fifteen Yeah, and he wasn't saying it, and not that
Speaker 2: he did, damn Faine. You know, he's an incredible actor.
Speaker 2: You know, once you're that good an actor, you're you're
Speaker 2: you can and ness your way. And he's pretty amazing.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we're not worried about.
Speaker 3: Just put Jeremy's name in you dire. Let's try and
Speaker 3: get him on what do you mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that'd be good.
Speaker 4: I reckon, that's a good scot.
Speaker 3: A scar off would be unbelievable.
Speaker 1: A scar yes, bring your own sav all right.
Speaker 3: Next question here from at panger underscore tang why didn't
Speaker 3: you reply that? Sorry, why didn't you reprise the role
Speaker 3: of Minsk in boulders Gate?
Speaker 1: III.
Speaker 3: I think that's a question Jim can answer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't, you know, they didn't ask. I was not.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I I don't, I don't. I
Speaker 2: couldn't tell you, but go forward the ice booth. But
Speaker 2: everybody seems to latch onto that line. And that was me,
Speaker 2: So that's fine with me. No, I I really don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm not a big gamer, so that's probably not working
Speaker 2: in my favor.
Speaker 1: But I'm glad.
Speaker 3: Every I first started this podcast. When we first started
Speaker 3: this podcast, you were pointing out how you would always
Speaker 3: bring up the boulders Gate story about characters that you've
Speaker 3: completely forgotten, that you don't what they count to they
Speaker 3: do the voice. No, not that one, not that one? Yeah, right,
Speaker 3: and you'd always that was your one. Was the last
Speaker 3: twelve months I've been putting out, we've been putting out
Speaker 3: on the social media that Jim does GTA and he
Speaker 3: does Boulder's Gate and all these pop and now all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, people are coming up to your conventions
Speaker 3: to sign mid stuff that it's like they're really Oh
Speaker 3: wait a minute, that was Jim as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, someone said that, I'm kind of like the
Speaker 2: Where's Waldo of animation?
Speaker 4: So wait?
Speaker 3: Was that Jim was a narrator of Where's Wally as well?
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's fun stuff.
Speaker 3: It is fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Indeed, I've noticed too at conventions they keep putting
Speaker 4: you suspiciously close to Neil Newborn. Oh. Always, your table's
Speaker 4: always a couple couple tables away. And he's pretty close
Speaker 4: to Neil Newborn. And that's another one that we'd love
Speaker 4: to get on this show.
Speaker 1: Okay, have a little.
Speaker 4: Balder's Gate, you know, little.
Speaker 1: Does he does he do he bs gate throw?
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, he plays what's his character's name?
Speaker 1: Come on Internet?
Speaker 4: Answer character's name is. I'll just mouth it and we
Speaker 4: can edit it in.
Speaker 3: I'll look it up. Plays Elijah Kemski.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, that's the the I could tell what you.
Speaker 3: Astarian? A starian?
Speaker 4: But the one he's going to see this and never
Speaker 4: want to going to come up.
Speaker 3: I'll find out what is he actually caught on I'll say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: a starian. Yeah, I'm pretty sure he voices astarian in
Speaker 3: boulders Gate, right, Yeah.
Speaker 4: That's right, that's right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, better than so get that bolders Gate.
Speaker 4: Reunion, Zach. Do your thing, work your magic, Zach.
Speaker 3: I think one of the biggest shocks from the last
Speaker 3: twelve months from jimn doing his social media and whatnot
Speaker 3: is people blown away by the GTA one And you
Speaker 3: were the first one to bring it up on the podcast.
Speaker 3: He said, you were the MI guy on the on
Speaker 3: the on JT. I think even you couldn't believe it.
Speaker 4: I couldn't believe it. Yeah, you couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I remember way back when my nephew Boris
Speaker 2: called me up and he goes, oh, could.
Speaker 1: Jim here we are? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Did I just buy an AK forty seven from you?
Speaker 2: And an old abandoned gas station? And I said, are
Speaker 2: you playing grand theft auto? He goes yeah, I said,
Speaker 2: yeah you did.
Speaker 1: How did I do? Did I?
Speaker 2: How was the service? Was the place clean was it?
Speaker 2: How was the restroom was it? Was it in good
Speaker 2: shape for you?
Speaker 1: Did you? He goes, Okay, I just wanted to make
Speaker 1: sure so.
Speaker 4: And for those of you watching, if you didn't know,
Speaker 4: we've had both Ned Luke and Sean Fontino from Grand
Speaker 4: Theft Auto five on the shows, So go check out
Speaker 4: those episodes and Stephen Oud, Yes, I'm talking to you.
Speaker 4: We're looking for you to get on the podcast next.
Speaker 4: You need to deplete the trifecta.
Speaker 3: That's right, we have to get them all at the
Speaker 3: same time. I just feel like those gods just because
Speaker 3: you went to dinner with them once at the con,
Speaker 3: didn't you. Yes, Yes, just having just been at the
Speaker 3: dinner table. That's a dinner table that any j TA
Speaker 3: fan would want to be a part of the whole rock.
Speaker 4: Star family too, as well as Roger Clark and the
Speaker 4: Jean Fontino. Yes, and it was it was a It
Speaker 4: was a rock star, wasn't he? Rob was there as
Speaker 4: well times Yeah, it was. It was a good time.
Speaker 4: We're trying to we're trying to get all the rock
Speaker 4: star people over to this this uh tuned in with
Speaker 4: Cummings party.
Speaker 3: Absolutely all right, Chris, next question.
Speaker 4: All right. The next question comes from ill Gentally. If
Speaker 4: Winnie the Pooh came knocking on your door, what would
Speaker 4: be the first thing you would say to him? PS,
Speaker 4: I really love your work.
Speaker 2: Would you like a smack will of honey? You know,
Speaker 2: in an effort to be a congenial host, and then
Speaker 2: I would pass out or maybe I would wake up,
Speaker 2: because if it was knocking on my door and I
Speaker 2: answered it, I would probably be sleeping and dreaming.
Speaker 4: And you would do it in that voice. So Poo
Speaker 4: didn't get confused, that's right. So he didn't have an
Speaker 4: existential crisis about why does somebody.
Speaker 3: Say exactly like mind games and use the windy voice.
Speaker 1: Right right right in here?
Speaker 2: A bone turn over there, buddy boy, it'll be magnificent.
Speaker 1: Tiggers don't like honey.
Speaker 3: We'll do a couple more because what we're actually doing,
Speaker 3: let's pull back the curt I'm actually going to be
Speaker 3: recording a chat with the one Steve Bloom as well,
Speaker 3: So we'll do a couple more questions and we'll start
Speaker 3: preparing for that little fun conversation. So this one here
Speaker 3: at Jenny dot Butler ninety five. With the rise of
Speaker 3: social media and voice actors gaining more acknowledgment, do you
Speaker 3: ever find yourself now getting more recognized in public?
Speaker 2: A bit a bit, you know, I it's I Sometimes
Speaker 2: I'm I don't know what to think because I'll be
Speaker 2: walking through the mall or and then you don't know,
Speaker 2: and I'm trying to think was it like this ten
Speaker 2: years ago, twenty years ago? Because you'll be walking along
Speaker 2: and someone will just walking along. Somebody looks at you,
Speaker 2: then they look away, then they look back, then they
Speaker 2: look away, and you can see them thinking. Then they
Speaker 2: look back and they kind of give you a smile
Speaker 2: and I go okay, and I go, you know, and
Speaker 2: they go And you could tell that they that they
Speaker 2: recognize me from who you know from from here probably
Speaker 2: or another podcast? Who Knows an appearance a lot of
Speaker 2: cameos these days. That's a lot of cameos, so you know,
Speaker 2: I guess, and a lot of appearances at comic cons.
Speaker 2: You know that a lot of times the local TV
Speaker 2: stations will be there and they always seem.
Speaker 3: To find in those moments where people are doing double taste,
Speaker 3: Jim's thinking do they know me? Or do they think
Speaker 3: I'm very.
Speaker 1: Hay, Yeah, what is it?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 2: I never worry about this second one, but it's possible
Speaker 2: that they knew. Yeah, it's a beautiful thing. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: get a kick out of it.
Speaker 1: It's fun. Nobody goes into voiceover to get recognized.
Speaker 3: I can tell you that though, Chris, you pick one
Speaker 3: more question and I'll do the same and we'll we
Speaker 3: got all right.
Speaker 4: This one's from Big Jay Disney too. Oh boy, do
Speaker 4: you have a favorite Marvel villain? You voice?
Speaker 1: Boy?
Speaker 2: Well, I didn't do that many, but Chocker was fun.
Speaker 2: Chocker was fun, and oh gosh, Hammerhead, I think hammer Hammerhead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there was Youraven Hunter, right, I.
Speaker 1: Believe I was. Yeah.
Speaker 2: That's the weird thing about a lot of times when
Speaker 2: when somebody picks up a franchise, they'll have their Spider Man.
Speaker 2: They're you know, Robot Nick there, doctor Doom, they're mister Fantastic,
Speaker 2: They're human the thing, you know, and so as a result,
Speaker 2: you end up like three or four Spider Man out there,
Speaker 2: you know, three or four. Well, I think I'm the
Speaker 2: only Shocker so far. But yeah, it just it just
Speaker 2: works that way. And that's you know whatever. There's real
Speaker 2: as long as everybody's happy.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 3: This one here a bit more voice acting, more towards
Speaker 3: your love of music. This one's from at Violet Crystal
Speaker 3: Underscore Official. She says, what is your favorite genre of music, Jim.
Speaker 2: Well, that would probably be R and B, R and
Speaker 2: B afro Cuban jazz, jazz in general, and you know,
Speaker 2: I was a soul guy, so.
Speaker 3: I was just I was expecting rock and roll for
Speaker 3: you because of your your history with singing and whatnot.
Speaker 3: But well, yeah, well that's jazz, more more jazz.
Speaker 2: Well you know, that's that's for listening. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm saying tons of rock and roll, that's for sure.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was probably that was the first thing I did.
Speaker 2: But actually it was mostly Motown for me when I
Speaker 2: when I first started singing and playing drums, you know,
Speaker 2: in the sixties, I was I was thirteen, and me
Speaker 2: and my buddies there were three there were three of them,
Speaker 2: there were four piece, and we had we played it
Speaker 2: let's see Saint Cyril and Methodius back in Youngstown and
Speaker 2: we played it one of their dances and we knew
Speaker 2: twelve songs. So we did one set of twelve songs.
Speaker 2: Then we redid those another time and then and then.
Speaker 1: You could see where this is going.
Speaker 2: So but you know, we got another gig and then
Speaker 2: we learned about three or four more songs, and next
Speaker 2: thing you know, we.
Speaker 1: Had a full set. So so it worked out.
Speaker 3: All right, Chris, it just about does half. First that
Speaker 3: Investory special.
Speaker 1: What do you think? Thanks everybody.
Speaker 4: I want to do one hold a whole, hold the
Speaker 4: fun Hey, hold on, I want to do one more thing.
Speaker 4: I want to do one more thing. Since Jim's familiar
Speaker 4: with this game, I want to do highs and lows.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, of the podcast experience so far. Let's let's
Speaker 4: do two each. Two highs and two lows of the
Speaker 4: podcast experience so far through tuned in with Jim. What
Speaker 4: are the two highest moments? What are the two lowest moments?
Speaker 3: Necessarily a low moment for me, but it was a
Speaker 3: stressful moment. I remember being on this is before we
Speaker 3: had our editor Zach here at the show. Shout out
Speaker 3: to Zach. I would edit all the podcasts and everything myself.
Speaker 3: And then I was on a holiday in England visiting
Speaker 3: my wife's family. And it's two am in the morning
Speaker 3: and I'm sitting there in my undies editing the podcast
Speaker 3: in the spare room out in the backyard. In the
Speaker 3: back I have like a spare little granny flat we
Speaker 3: call here in Australia. Two am editing the podcast. It
Speaker 3: had to be up to like four am. And Nicola
Speaker 3: walks in he goes, what are you doing. I said,
Speaker 3: I'm ending the podcast. She goes get the bed. I
Speaker 3: remember that moment, was sitting in my undies and I'm
Speaker 3: thinking win it an editor. That was a stressful moment.
Speaker 3: I necessarily had a low moment. I guess when the
Speaker 3: tech doesn't work. Chris, Chris, Mindy Sterling is our latest
Speaker 3: episode that went up. You did not have fun doing
Speaker 3: that one.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that was that was yeah, that was That
Speaker 4: was probably one of my lows too. That was stressful.
Speaker 4: That was stressful that episode.
Speaker 3: Chris looked stressed.
Speaker 4: I was. You can see it. You can see it
Speaker 4: in the episode. You can see the sweat glistening off
Speaker 4: my forehead. No air conditioning in the studio that day.
Speaker 4: The air conditioning had broken. And we're setting up, and
Speaker 4: literally right five minutes before I'm done setting up, Mindy
Speaker 4: calls and she's twenty minutes early. Of course she's professional,
Speaker 4: and so I had to go and greet her, get
Speaker 4: her into the room, get her into the studio, and
Speaker 4: then try and finish setting up while maintaining conversation. And
Speaker 4: I cannot tell you how stressed I was. You can
Speaker 4: see it. Watch the Mindy Sterling episode. You can see
Speaker 4: the sweat on my forehead.
Speaker 3: And the reason you was stressed out is because the
Speaker 3: cameras kept start working, which is why in that episode
Speaker 3: there's a lot more of the wide shot as opposed
Speaker 3: to close ups, because what happens when these cameras go off,
Speaker 3: they go And I'm sitting there during the podcast, chatting
Speaker 3: the media. I'm here, did did you doom?
Speaker 4: Nothing?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, poor.
Speaker 4: Chris, And I'm trying to rotate the batteries of remember
Speaker 4: everything plugged in.
Speaker 3: It was I mean, I was slightly laughing inside, but
Speaker 3: also feeling so sorryful.
Speaker 4: I'll follow up that one with another low, which is
Speaker 4: not necessarily low. These are more just like you know,
Speaker 4: speed bumps in the process. And it was coming back
Speaker 4: from So we were in Belgium last year. Jim's the
Speaker 4: voice of Tomorrowland. Jim's the announcer voice of Tomorrowland, one
Speaker 4: of the biggest concerts in the world, festivals.
Speaker 3: Not the theme park, the music festival. Yeah, yeah, but
Speaker 3: he's also the voice of Tomorrowland as well.
Speaker 4: Right, yes, And we did a couple of podcasts with
Speaker 4: some of the artists out there and coming back we
Speaker 4: had gone to Italy. We had gone to Italy, before
Speaker 4: we came back to Florida and in Italy it was
Speaker 4: a big, big ruckus you know, big cluster, you know what.
Speaker 4: And they ended up losing all of the podcast gear,
Speaker 4: all of the e I lost all of the podcast
Speaker 4: gear and we had, I mean Tampa Bay last year.
Speaker 4: We did probably seven or eight podcasts in that one
Speaker 4: weekend and so landing in Tampa Bay, had to go
Speaker 4: and literally re buy all of the equipment. I'm talking
Speaker 4: a couple of bucks, synthesizer, yeah, audio cables, microphones, everye
Speaker 4: on tape so now everything, tripods, all of that.
Speaker 1: It's a top flight operation, are folks.
Speaker 4: Didn't get the podcast equipment back for another nearly three weeks.
Speaker 4: So that was that. That was stressful. That was stressful.
Speaker 4: That was That was not something I want to go
Speaker 4: through again.
Speaker 1: That was that was non fun. Yeah, that that was
Speaker 1: one of That was my low that's for sure.
Speaker 3: Tell them at the time you got arrested trying to
Speaker 3: set up a podcast gdo at a con.
Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, Yes, we're at a convention and I
Speaker 4: think this was Tampa Bay again. This was Tampa Bay again.
Speaker 4: Was in Tampa Bay again, and they told me to
Speaker 4: set up this they said. They told me there was
Speaker 4: an empty room downstairs in the convention center. And these
Speaker 4: convention centers are are massive, like massive. Even with fifty
Speaker 4: thousand people, there's still plenty of rooms of spare and
Speaker 4: they tell me to go set up downstairs. So I
Speaker 4: go and they are like, okay, yeah, room three oh
Speaker 4: seven or whatever it is. I go. I set up
Speaker 4: down there. We do a podcast down there, and we
Speaker 4: did it with oh, shoot, one of the Disney princesses.
Speaker 4: I think it was sweet Lady Linda, Linda Larkin. Yeah,
Speaker 4: with Linda Larkin. We do one great. Everything goes well,
Speaker 4: and the security in the morning, I go into the
Speaker 4: room and the room's locked. Usually they have it, you know,
Speaker 4: so they give us a key. They locked the room
Speaker 4: so that all the equipment's safe and everything like that.
Speaker 4: Go in the morning and I'm setting up for the
Speaker 4: next next podcast and one of the convention owners comes over,
Speaker 4: not even convention owners, convention security comes over and is like, oh,
Speaker 4: you can't use this room. And we're like, oh, okay,
Speaker 4: so we'll move it all out. No problem. We were
Speaker 4: told to use this room. They're like, oh, sorry for
Speaker 4: the confusion. Long story short, go and they tell us
Speaker 4: to set up in another room, like right across the hallway.
Speaker 4: So go set up in there, set up in there,
Speaker 4: get everything all set up, and we're about to have
Speaker 4: the lady from Sabrina the teenage Witch, Almissa John Hutt No, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: older blonde comedian. Oh yes, really funny, really funny.
Speaker 1: Anyway, yeah, anyway.
Speaker 4: We're about to have her come down. And literally I'm
Speaker 4: all set up in there. I go upstairs.
Speaker 3: Carlyn right, Carolyn.
Speaker 4: Right, Carolyn right? Yeah, Ca, and uh go up, go
Speaker 4: up to wrangle everybody. Come down to the studio. I
Speaker 4: come down to get set up, you know, the last
Speaker 4: minute touches, and the same lady comes in again and
Speaker 4: it's like, you can't be in here either, And I'm.
Speaker 1: Like, what, these are empty rooms?
Speaker 4: They keep telling us to go to.
Speaker 1: One empty room after another, nothing in there.
Speaker 4: They keep telling these empty rooms nobody.
Speaker 3: Was it the same lady who told you to go
Speaker 3: to that room?
Speaker 4: Lady? And she says, no, no, okay, now you're now
Speaker 4: you're being you know, now you're trespassing. Now, I said,
Speaker 4: how am I trespassing? I'm gonna take down everything, like
Speaker 4: this is ridiculous. You just told us a camp come
Speaker 4: in here. Long story short, they really had to get
Speaker 4: the police. They brought the police onto the convention site
Speaker 4: and they had them walk me out with all the podcasts.
Speaker 4: And the kicker is it was ten minutes before the
Speaker 4: convention even ended, in an empty room that they told
Speaker 4: us to be in. So that was something, yes, that
Speaker 4: was that was something.
Speaker 1: I called that the security guard mentality.
Speaker 4: Even the police officers were laughing. They were like, we
Speaker 4: can't believe we have to deal with this. And I said,
Speaker 4: I know, I'm sorry for this. If I had understood
Speaker 4: what they meant by telling me to go to this room,
Speaker 4: that I never would have come to do. It is
Speaker 4: what it is. And here we are, and I'm rolling
Speaker 4: all the all the gear out through the convention center,
Speaker 4: being escorted by two of finest. Yeah.
Speaker 3: If you didn't laugh, you'll cry. So how do you
Speaker 3: ever been escorted out of somebody to buy the police before?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: I know, yeah, nothing worth bragging about, not at a convention.
Speaker 4: Not not quite like that.
Speaker 3: I would have been so startled and nervous walking through
Speaker 3: everyone's looking at people looking at you.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, oh yeah, there was oh yeah, people taking footage.
Speaker 3: Hi, everybody Jimmy steps un arrested for chest passing.
Speaker 2: Giving away tuned in T shirts, you know, bumper stickers.
Speaker 3: So wonder the show boomed after that.
Speaker 4: That convention, it was it was so dramatic. It was
Speaker 4: what was really going on. And the thing that I
Speaker 4: couldn't understand was they told us to go in that room,
Speaker 4: so I don't I don't know there there was some
Speaker 4: miscommunication somewhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you must be. You must have thought at one point,
Speaker 3: I'm surely being punked here, right.
Speaker 4: I did, Actually, I really did. I really thought it
Speaker 4: was a stupid It was so stupid.
Speaker 2: But it's like trying to play chess with a chimp,
Speaker 2: but just waste your time and pisses off the chimp.
Speaker 3: Oh, that was a bit of fun. What what would
Speaker 3: have been the highs though? So that was that was
Speaker 3: a the lows, one of the highs, A lot of them, huh.
Speaker 3: I mean I've already touched you know, speaking to some
Speaker 3: legends of our youth, Chris. That's that's been amazing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah. One of the highs for me, was
Speaker 4: one of the highs for me was when we recorded
Speaker 4: at the at the W and Hollywood. We had that
Speaker 4: day was We had Ron Pearlman and Zachary Levi both
Speaker 4: that day and everything. They were so hospitable there and
Speaker 4: everything just went like exactly according to plan. That was
Speaker 4: one of my favorite.
Speaker 1: Venus that had.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then having Zachary Levi sing the Dark Wing
Speaker 2: Duck song because I knew it word for word and
Speaker 2: I was like, man, oh yeah, I love this guy.
Speaker 4: Loved loved his energy. Yeah, great, loved his energy. Great guy.
Speaker 4: Same same thing with Ron Pearlman. Yeah, and yeah, that
Speaker 4: was just like a really busy like we had. We
Speaker 4: had a really busy week that week, and it felt
Speaker 4: really good to it felt really good to get like,
Speaker 4: you know, some of our biggest guests yet in that
Speaker 4: place and have it go so seamlessly and really you know,
Speaker 4: just flow through and everything. And and they sent us
Speaker 4: the hotel themselves, even when they saw Ron Pearlman and
Speaker 4: Zachary Levi and everybody else that we had that day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were very forthcoming.
Speaker 4: They sent us a bottle of champagne. They were so
Speaker 4: thrilled to even have the guests in the hotel, you know.
Speaker 4: And so we're working negotiating some things with them to
Speaker 4: make that maybe one of our main locations that we
Speaker 4: film at because it was just a great experience and
Speaker 4: and everything went smooth as butter to that. Yeah, smooth
Speaker 4: as butter to that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And it's air conditioning in that room too.
Speaker 4: So yes, that helped.
Speaker 1: Depending on the month.
Speaker 3: I will say some of my favorite moments in the podcast,
Speaker 3: just before we wrap up, are when the camera is
Speaker 3: on Chris and all of a sudden, you'll say, Bill
Speaker 3: Farmer us walking in the background, just opened the door,
Speaker 3: and He's just like, oh, close the door again. I
Speaker 3: think there's moments where this the next guest just sort
Speaker 3: of pops the head and pops them guys again.
Speaker 4: Well, because we got to do it because of Jim's schedule.
Speaker 4: You know, everything's so busy that you know, we kind
Speaker 4: of have to stack up. And I'd love to know
Speaker 4: like how many how many podcasts in a day like
Speaker 4: somebody like Joe Rogan does, because I mean, you know,
Speaker 4: we're not quite at Joe Rogan, but I mean it
Speaker 4: feels like such a machine already, you know, of just
Speaker 4: moving people through. And you know, Jim, you were on
Speaker 4: Adam Carolla, you know, and I had the pleasure of
Speaker 4: sitting sitting in on that one and you know, they're
Speaker 4: a machine as well and just cycling people through and
Speaker 4: you know, and you know, it's not to say that
Speaker 4: there's there's no it's not heartfelt. You know, they do
Speaker 4: their research, they know who the people are as much
Speaker 4: as we do, if you know. But it's it's something
Speaker 4: that I really admire when everything just goes according to
Speaker 4: plan and everything's you know, starting to move like a
Speaker 4: well oiled machine. That's one of my highs of the
Speaker 4: podcast is when because you know, we take the podcast
Speaker 4: on the road and there's a lot of logistics involved.
Speaker 4: You know, there's a lot of organizing and you know,
Speaker 4: we can be organizing one guest while you know, researching
Speaker 4: another and trying to book another and trying to find
Speaker 4: somewhere you know, logistically to set up exactly. And it's
Speaker 4: it's a lot of a lot of moving parts, but
Speaker 4: we've been grateful that it it's worked out ninety nine
Speaker 4: percent of the time.
Speaker 3: I think the goal for this year would maybe try
Speaker 3: to get some sort of location, like you said, where
Speaker 3: it's always at the same place the stuff is going
Speaker 3: to be set up. You know it's going to be there.
Speaker 3: You don't have to keep lugging gee to and Front.
Speaker 4: Yeah, would be a new studio just recently that I
Speaker 4: think we're I like it predisposed to. It's a really
Speaker 4: nice one and you know they have a lot.
Speaker 1: Of from people California anyway.
Speaker 4: That's another thing too, you know, meeting people on the road.
Speaker 4: Not everybody lives in LA. Most people live in LA.
Speaker 4: But as far as this industry goes.
Speaker 1: But hey, we travel, Yeah, we get around.
Speaker 3: Now We've going to chat to mister Steve Bloom about
Speaker 3: fifteen minutes. We better wrap this one up. What do
Speaker 3: you act?
Speaker 1: I think we should wrap this up and move on.
Speaker 3: Fun though, Yeah, so our I want to call it
Speaker 3: out eighteen month anniversary. It's what it feels like, really,
Speaker 3: isn't it.
Speaker 4: It's just nice not quite eighteen months.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just been nice and reminisce about the show.
Speaker 2: Not fourteen months, but it feels like thirteen and a
Speaker 2: half because it went so quick.
Speaker 3: A lot of effort goes into this show. So if
Speaker 3: you can't support us on Patreon, we're gonna be putting
Speaker 3: a lot of more exclusive content up in the next
Speaker 3: coming weeks. Like we said, we're gonna be working on
Speaker 3: a Winning the Poo exclusive podcast on there, which I
Speaker 3: know would be a lot of fun. Jim and Margaret
Speaker 3: may start their own podcast, and we want to hear
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Speaker 3: But Chris, thank you for your time.
Speaker 4: Thank you, and I just want to say to everybody watching,
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Speaker 2: And without you or just three guys, yeah run away.
Speaker 2: So thanks for coming. By God bless each and every
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Speaker 1: I never mind, Thanks guys,