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Speaker 3: Welcome back, everybody to another episode of Tuned In with
Speaker 3: Jim Cummings. I'm producer Chris sitting here with the legend himself.
Speaker 3: How are you doing today, sir?
Speaker 2: So far, so good. Everybody's happy, daddy's rich, mama's good looking,
Speaker 2: all that good stuff. You know.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, we're sitting here in good old Missouri.
Speaker 2: Yes we are.
Speaker 3: Yes, we've been out here for a little bit, and
Speaker 3: I heard a rumor on the internet, so you have
Speaker 3: to verify if this is true or not. But you
Speaker 3: came up with the voice of dark wing duck here
Speaker 3: in Missouri? Is that true?
Speaker 2: It is true? It is true, and there are actual
Speaker 2: many native ducks here for inspiration.
Speaker 3: Yeah, was that actually part of your inspiration?
Speaker 2: But don't But it sounds good, doesn't it, So we're
Speaker 2: sticking with it.
Speaker 3: It does so it's not bad. Well, hey, we got
Speaker 3: a really good episode coming up for you today. We're
Speaker 3: sitting down with Daniel Ross. We know you're going to
Speaker 3: really like this conversation, but first we have a couple
Speaker 3: announcements to make. If you didn't see last week our
Speaker 3: conversation with Townsend Coleman, I mean I had a great time.
Speaker 3: How about yourself, Jim, Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's old, but in mine from a long time.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: He's great, great.
Speaker 3: Guy and you may know him as the voice of.
Speaker 2: Uh, well, let's see of the Ninja turtles. How about that?
Speaker 2: And he is also Waldo from Where's Waldo? You would
Speaker 2: have never expected that one? And uh you know what,
Speaker 2: can I tell you? He gets around and if you
Speaker 2: sound suspiciously like the tick as well. It's because he
Speaker 2: is so uh, you know, turtles ticks. He's he's got
Speaker 2: going making his way through the teas.
Speaker 3: And I found it fascinating that he said that. At
Speaker 3: conventions people are always so shocked to find out that
Speaker 3: he's the tick. And I'm like, what, Yeah, what an
Speaker 3: iconic role, iconic voice. I mean, yeah, he's such a
Speaker 3: sweet guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's got those great you know those those
Speaker 2: antler what antenna You gotta love those. I always got
Speaker 2: to kick out of those. I don't know why.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was that was a really fun time. So
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Speaker 3: And last, but not least, Jim, you have some conventions
Speaker 3: coming up, don't you.
Speaker 2: Yes, we have to let you folks know. How about Birmingham,
Speaker 2: Alabama v XV and it's called the Iron City Comic
Speaker 2: Con that's coming up May thirty first, June first, So
Speaker 2: be there May thirty first, June first. But wait, there's more.
Speaker 2: The River Walk in a ma con in San Antonio, Texas.
Speaker 2: Beautiful place to go anyway, So come on down, and
Speaker 2: it's going to be perfect. It's in May, May seventeenth, eighteenth.
Speaker 2: Come down. Well, well, you know, maybe we'll share a
Speaker 2: fahita who knows it's just crazy enough to work, or
Speaker 2: a hard boiled egg.
Speaker 3: Something I almost forgot. Jim, you just had a brand
Speaker 3: new movie come out.
Speaker 2: You know. It just so happens that if you're anywhere
Speaker 2: on Earth and there is a movie theater near you,
Speaker 2: why don't you take the family, and I mean the
Speaker 2: family and everybody, Grandma and Grandpa, the whole gang and
Speaker 2: go see King of Kings. King of Kings. It is
Speaker 2: truly the greatest story ever told. And if you're not
Speaker 2: familiar with it, I don't know what in it you're from,
Speaker 2: but you're gonna really like this one. The cast is amazing.
Speaker 2: I literally won't get into it because it's just like
Speaker 2: who's who incorrect? I mean, from James Bond to Uma
Speaker 2: Thurman to Oscar Isaac, Oscar Isaac is Jesus and Ben
Speaker 2: Kingsley I mean, Gandhi's in it for Krann out loud?
Speaker 2: What do you want? Anyway? You're gonna love it King
Speaker 2: of Kings, So please.
Speaker 3: Great movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let us know what you think.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right. Well, with all that said, here comes
Speaker 3: the conversation with Daniel Ross. We hope you enjoy it.
Speaker 3: We know you'll enjoy it. For now, I'm producer Chris.
Speaker 3: We'll see you in the next one.
Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 3: Hi everybody, and today we have a very special guest.
Speaker 3: You know his voice for sure, Donald Duck, Lucky Charms,
Speaker 3: among many many more. Daniel Ross. Thank you for joining
Speaker 3: us today.
Speaker 2: Thank you for having me.
Speaker 4: I'm on down I.
Speaker 2: See see.
Speaker 3: That's gotta be such a hard voice to do, like,
Speaker 3: is there any like pain or.
Speaker 1: Oh I mean exos of course, no, it is. It
Speaker 1: is taxing. Uh, it's not using my normal vocal.
Speaker 2: It's not quote unquote a voice per se, is it exactly?
Speaker 2: It's amazing.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a it's a people trick. Yeahs as
Speaker 1: it always was for me growing up. Moved to Hollywood
Speaker 1: and did something with it.
Speaker 2: That's right. Yeah, but me too, did you when you
Speaker 2: were a kid and you know, the teacher called on
Speaker 2: you to say, you know, because I'm terrible at it,
Speaker 2: you would have actually sounded like you said something, yes,
Speaker 2: you do that.
Speaker 1: Like I did, And I got into all kinds of
Speaker 1: trouble with you too.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was very naughty as a child. I did
Speaker 1: lots of prank phone calls and yeah yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: made a menace of myself before I even knew that
Speaker 1: voice acting was a thing. So yeah, but Donald Duck
Speaker 1: has always had a special place in my life in
Speaker 1: my heart. I often tell the story about Mama Duck,
Speaker 1: who you met many years ago, and she taught me
Speaker 1: when I was three years old how to do the voice,
Speaker 1: and so that was cool. That was our love language.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, No matter.
Speaker 1: What was going on in the world, we would quack
Speaker 1: at each other and it was just something very special.
Speaker 1: And so friends family would always.
Speaker 2: Say, hey, do the voice.
Speaker 1: Do the voice, and so I would do it, and
Speaker 1: I just I loved seeing people light up and smile
Speaker 1: because there was a there's a connection when you do
Speaker 1: a character. It's not just hey, I'm doing something silly.
Speaker 1: There's a connection inside of all of us that I
Speaker 1: always found to be really special. And that's something you've
Speaker 1: connected with for many generations, including my own. So yeah,
Speaker 1: very happy to have played the duck for some time.
Speaker 2: I want to. Yeah. And you know, and it's great
Speaker 2: because you can see people I've said it before, you know,
Speaker 2: somebody standing there, they're forty years old, thirty years old,
Speaker 2: and you know, you do Pooh, you do Donald, and
Speaker 2: all of a sudden they're five. Yeah, and it's really cool.
Speaker 2: It's it's really really nice.
Speaker 1: It's something and their kids get it too.
Speaker 5: All they do.
Speaker 1: Although you have to be careful because sometimes I'll do
Speaker 1: the Donald voice to somebody too young and they don't understand,
Speaker 1: and so I'll say and.
Speaker 2: They go.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I always say now close your eyes, yeah, and
Speaker 1: they can hear it first and then they understand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I've got that with Taz good you got
Speaker 2: you can't you can't do it with.
Speaker 1: The you know, well, Taz is a favorite. And you
Speaker 1: and I actually worked on a game called Multiverses where
Speaker 1: you were Taz and I played Gizmo Stripe, the Brain,
Speaker 1: Gremlin from Gremlins.
Speaker 2: Too, and Uncle Shagworth. They had a bunch of characters
Speaker 2: shag Worthy.
Speaker 1: That's right, Uncle Shagworthy, Actual Service.
Speaker 2: Shag Yes, you gotta watch out. You got to got
Speaker 2: to pick your audience on that one.
Speaker 5: That's very true.
Speaker 1: A very obscure spooy dooo character who was from like
Speaker 1: I think one episode in the seventies, and Casey Kasem
Speaker 1: did the voice and he sounded just like Shaggy, so
Speaker 1: we had to do a new version, and coming up
Speaker 1: with that voice was just so much fun. In the script,
Speaker 1: they kept using the word like just like Shaggy would
Speaker 1: like this, like that, like Scoob. So I'm like, like
Speaker 1: Uncle shag Worthy, actual Service, like you Gremlin's better not
Speaker 1: be off to my jewels, And it was just it
Speaker 1: just came out of jewels.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and even we even did I think for the
Speaker 1: Brain gremlin. He tries to communicate with Taz in one line,
Speaker 1: and so he does a maybe you understand this old
Speaker 1: chap and blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, as long as you ended up. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you gotta do that, and you gotta get that bottom
Speaker 2: tongue going because that's where the resonance comes from.
Speaker 5: My God, like the tas mating and punctuation.
Speaker 2: Ah. Taz does not do books on tape, so.
Speaker 1: Well he should, he really should, and they should be
Speaker 1: very durable.
Speaker 2: It was the best of times. It was the worst
Speaker 2: of times. You know, Taz, what was that?
Speaker 1: You're gonna break me, man, I'm just like, wow, okay,
Speaker 1: it's incredible.
Speaker 3: Imagine Taz is like one of those people announcing the
Speaker 3: train stops. You know, the voices that you hear on
Speaker 3: the train. Oh right, yeah, well stop.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Mel Blank did do that as one of his characters. Yeah,
Speaker 2: on the train. Whenever they were on a train. The
Speaker 2: next step and Manga and I don't recall, and he was,
Speaker 2: I don't know, just some train guy whatever they were
Speaker 2: called the conductor conductor. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: he was everybody they used.
Speaker 3: They used Seth Rogan up in Vancouver on the skytrain
Speaker 3: for a little bit because he's a he's a Vancouver right.
Speaker 5: Oh really yeah, and so they used his voice.
Speaker 2: I can't even imagine. That's funny. Yeah, well he might
Speaker 2: be doing something with the dark wing, right we maybe
Speaker 2: who knows? Who knows, said Jim knowingly. Okay, now we're
Speaker 2: going to change the subject. And then we said that
Speaker 2: for project you and I worked on was you were
Speaker 2: Donald and I was I was Peaked, And that was
Speaker 2: Chippendale's Nutty Tails. Nutty Tails. Yeah, that was one of them.
Speaker 1: Although that actually that came after Roads to Racers. It
Speaker 1: was one of those little inter interstitials they did short episodes.
Speaker 1: But I will never forget. After I was cast in
Speaker 1: this role, my life completely changed. It was one of
Speaker 1: the greatest things that had ever happened to me. And
Speaker 1: it came at a time again with that connection with
Speaker 1: my mom where she had just gone through about a
Speaker 1: breast cancer. She was in remission and both our lives
Speaker 1: had been turned upside down, and so that news changed everything.
Speaker 1: And I got to bring her out to Los Angeles
Speaker 1: two Disney studios to see all the handprints and you know,
Speaker 1: to meet some people and meeting you, and that sparkle
Speaker 1: in her eye that had dissipated after so many years
Speaker 1: came back. Look at that and that was something so
Speaker 1: special to me.
Speaker 2: But for Roads to Racers.
Speaker 1: The day you and she met and you and I met,
Speaker 1: we were at a party at Debbie dry Berry's Chuol
Speaker 1: friend and she was throwing me a birthday party. I
Speaker 1: was very happy, and I went up to her and
Speaker 1: I said, hey, Debbie.
Speaker 2: You know Jim is here.
Speaker 1: Can I can I tell him we're working on the
Speaker 1: same show.
Speaker 4: And She's like, of.
Speaker 2: Course, go talk to him.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh my god, this guy is my childhood,
Speaker 1: as you often here from everyone, and so I build
Speaker 1: up the courage and I walk up to you with
Speaker 1: all the confidence of a snail and I said, hey, Jim,
Speaker 1: we're we're.
Speaker 2: Working on the same show together. And You're like, oh,
Speaker 2: that's great. What are we working on? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And I said Mickey and the Road Strace And she
Speaker 1: said what are you doing? And I said, Donald, And
Speaker 1: you looked at me with this curious look, and you said,
Speaker 1: that's the best I've heard since Clarence Ducky Nash Congrats kid, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you said, give me some.
Speaker 2: More I understood what you said.
Speaker 1: Well you broke into some Pete and uh, I'll lutch
Speaker 1: you do that, But you basically said old quackers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah. I used to go, yeah, I've kind
Speaker 2: of ruined the canon Disney cannon. I call him Mickey
Speaker 2: the Mouse, and now I see it in print from
Speaker 2: other completely other things, and don't and and good old quackers,
Speaker 2: yeah quackers duck over there? What the hell did you say?
Speaker 2: You know, like you know, and that's well, that was
Speaker 2: what you say.
Speaker 4: What do you say?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And so yeah, we had that little exchange as you
Speaker 1: as Pete and me as Donald, and I said, thanks man,
Speaker 1: it's so great to meet you. And I proceeded to
Speaker 1: walk to my car and shut myself in and wept
Speaker 1: like a man. Oh because that was just that was
Speaker 1: so incredibly special to me.
Speaker 2: Oh that's great. Well, thank you for that, thank you,
Speaker 2: thank you for that.
Speaker 3: Wait, something you just said made me think was that
Speaker 3: was that a trope for Donald Duck Originally that you
Speaker 3: couldn't he was unintelligible.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but.
Speaker 3: Like Kenny south Park trope that they were going for.
Speaker 2: It was that it was quite that.
Speaker 1: I don't think it initially started that way. I know
Speaker 1: from my research and connection with the character that Walt
Speaker 1: wanted someone who could do the things that Mickey couldn't
Speaker 1: in certain ways. And when Clarence Ducky Nash came up
Speaker 1: with that voice, uh, it took on a life of
Speaker 1: its own. And so I think as time progressed from
Speaker 1: the wise Little Hen in nineteen thirty four, it became
Speaker 1: a thing like we don't understand what he's saying, but.
Speaker 2: We love it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I think that's really what stuff I've gotten
Speaker 2: that into, know, at least one show, because you know,
Speaker 2: this is back a long time ago. But and Pete
Speaker 2: and Donald were doing something and then and he goes
Speaker 2: and the line, yeah, but the line was, hey, we
Speaker 2: got to get out of here. And so I said
Speaker 2: to him, Hey.
Speaker 6: I have no idea what d hill you just said,
Speaker 6: but we've got to get out of here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, come on, you know it works. Yeah, that's exactly
Speaker 2: how it works. So, yeah, that's not bad.
Speaker 1: Buckle speech you got there, sir. It's like it's like
Speaker 1: you're a voice actor or something.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1: Well that's the technical term buckle speech, which is a
Speaker 1: there's a pocket of air in your cheek that makes
Speaker 1: the sound. Yeah, and then you use the front parts
Speaker 1: to enunciate and the back parts for consonants. So even
Speaker 1: saying the word donald duck requires all three with that
Speaker 1: K at the end.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just learned something.
Speaker 2: What what's it called buckle speech?
Speaker 3: Buckle speech? Yeah, wow, that's really interesting. That's fascinating.
Speaker 2: That's interesting whole thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I guess they can't call it donald duck talk. There
Speaker 1: has to be a technical term. Yeah, donald tickus uh
Speaker 1: duham duckamus.
Speaker 3: What other voice? What other voice would use that speech?
Speaker 1: So obviously there's been other quack quackers out there, like
Speaker 1: Yacky Doodle, yeah, little quacker, the one, the super cute
Speaker 1: little ducky.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was what was his name, Little Quackery. He
Speaker 2: was a cute one. Yeah. I liked him. I did too.
Speaker 1: I got to play his younger cousin in an episode
Speaker 1: of Tom and Jared, and.
Speaker 2: He was an egg because he could have only been
Speaker 2: so much younger.
Speaker 1: Well, he didn't have the affectation, he wasn't using the
Speaker 1: buckle speech, and I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, waste an opportunity here, But I was just happy
Speaker 2: to be in the room. Yeah, yeah, me too, I'm
Speaker 2: always happy to be in that room.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I always thought I never intended to come to LA
Speaker 1: and play this character. I never even thought it would
Speaker 1: be in the cards because those roles, as you know,
Speaker 1: are like Supreme Court nominations.
Speaker 2: You're in for life.
Speaker 1: And so I was thinking of other ways that I
Speaker 1: could use the voice, and I'm like, I could bark
Speaker 1: like a pug. Okay, cool, maybe I'll have you never
Speaker 1: know someday, you know, whatever else might pop up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I invented my little and it's either a
Speaker 2: dolphin or a squirrel. Yeah, you know so. And I
Speaker 2: don't even know what that is. It's just something I
Speaker 2: used to annoy my parents with. That's the whole point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're not annoying your parents, what are you
Speaker 1: doing with this talent?
Speaker 2: Yeah? What are you doing with this talent? Yeah?
Speaker 1: My dad always wanted me to be a doctor or
Speaker 1: a lawyer. He was a doctor. He was a dentist
Speaker 1: and so very very left brain and he didn't understand
Speaker 1: all of this, but he supported me. Anytime I had
Speaker 1: to play in school, he would always show up. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: he'd say, you know, well, you got to think about
Speaker 1: what you're going to be doing later in life. You
Speaker 1: got to think seriously about it.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, I'm going to be an actor. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: I had the same thing, and my dad would say, yeah,
Speaker 2: but it's fine, But what are you going to do
Speaker 2: for a living? What are you gonna do for the living? No,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do that, okay, but how are you going
Speaker 2: to pay the bills with that? Ye? Okay, Well put
Speaker 2: it this way. Why starve doing that? Don't you want
Speaker 2: to have something to fall back and I and I
Speaker 2: get that, I get that thinking, you know, being a
Speaker 2: dad now in a long time. But if you don't
Speaker 2: have anything to fall back on, then maybe you just
Speaker 2: have to put your eggs all in that one basket
Speaker 2: and guard the hell out of that basket and make
Speaker 2: that one. You know, if you're going to go for it,
Speaker 2: then do it and do it so well that somebody
Speaker 2: will pay you. And look what you've done. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: so far, so good, so far, so good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It was your dad around to see your success.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, he was. He was, God bless him.
Speaker 2: And it was interesting because Chuck McCann, the great, late
Speaker 2: great Chuck mccannon, Hi guy, you know, he's a character actor,
Speaker 2: great guy, and he and I worked together dozens and
Speaker 2: dozens of times. And my dad, you know, I flew
Speaker 2: him my mom and I think, who else? My aunt?
Speaker 2: And then you know, they're all no longer with us.
Speaker 2: But it was so nice and and my dad said, wait,
Speaker 2: who's this guy? Who's this character again? And I said,
Speaker 2: Chuck mccannon goes, well, christ I know him. Where do
Speaker 2: I know him from? Where do I know him from?
Speaker 2: I said, Dad, you know this guy from everything. He's
Speaker 2: been in any number of movies. He was always like
Speaker 2: second banana, you know, he's one of those guys, like
Speaker 2: like a Tim Conway kind of guy, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And he goes, wow, that's pretty damn good. And we're
Speaker 2: walking toward that we did the show. My dad mom
Speaker 2: were there watching, and then we're all walking to the
Speaker 2: car and they apparently he just look at the draw.
Speaker 2: He ended up parking next to me, and he goes
Speaker 2: and he started bragging on me to my dad. He goes,
Speaker 2: let me tell you, this kid of yours, I'll tell you.
Speaker 2: I listen, I've been doing this a long time. And
Speaker 2: this guy over here, you know, And without me expanding
Speaker 2: on that, and my dad it was like, damn, Chuck
Speaker 2: McCann thinks my kid's okay, maybe he's onto something. Maybe
Speaker 2: maybe okay, good enough for Chuck, I can work with that.
Speaker 2: What was that like for you though?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: That was great validation. Sure, Yeah, that's what it was. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm a very sentimental guy, So I love these shows,
Speaker 1: these these new ones.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, me too, me too.
Speaker 1: It just it means so much to me, because this
Speaker 1: career and this work that we do.
Speaker 2: Means so much. Yeah, to so many people. It does
Speaker 2: gets them through a lot of tough times. And I
Speaker 2: always cherish those stories, and you know, and I've got
Speaker 2: stories on your knees, you know, but especially from Pooh,
Speaker 2: He's like everybody's security blanket. Yes, you can wrap up
Speaker 2: and you don't want to wrap up and pooh. Anyway,
Speaker 2: you get the idea, get you guys, get the idea, right, Okay,
Speaker 2: all right, I'll shut up. Okay, don't you shut up?
Speaker 2: Say something interesting? Interesting? That was it.
Speaker 4: I was going to break into some Winny the pooh.
Speaker 2: It's not as good as that guy.
Speaker 4: Though.
Speaker 1: When I do it, people say, oh, you're doing penny
Speaker 1: Wise from from here right?
Speaker 4: Oh, Georgie, we will float?
Speaker 2: Oh god, the hairstep away. That sounded a little like
Speaker 2: aunt Bee. Oh Andy, Oh say Andy, and see there's
Speaker 2: aunt Bee. Ain't me aunt be? Yes? Oh god, I'll
Speaker 2: have to add that into the repertoire.
Speaker 3: You started your acting career on camera, correct, Yes, yes,
Speaker 3: So that was your first passion was on camera. I'm
Speaker 3: going to be I'm going to be that lead man,
Speaker 3: I'm going to be the star.
Speaker 1: It was in the direction that I wanted to be.
Speaker 1: I started in theater.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: High school was my first real.
Speaker 1: Introduction and actually no, I would say getting in front
Speaker 1: of my family and making a fool of myself when
Speaker 1: I was a kid, that was my first introduction to Ooh,
Speaker 1: I like the attention I'm getting. And so, you know,
Speaker 1: in high school, obviously I did theater. I studied Shakespeare,
Speaker 1: I won some awards. I performed at the Folger in Washington.
Speaker 3: D C.
Speaker 2: In Elizabethan clothing.
Speaker 1: I think I did it was Shylock's monologue from the
Speaker 1: Merchant of Venice. Oh wow, Prick used to lead, Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: And that was and I won an award for that,
Speaker 1: and so it was the first time I went, well,
Speaker 1: maybe this is something I should lean into. And so
Speaker 1: acting and the performer arts really became a solace for
Speaker 1: me in a time that was very tumultuous. When I
Speaker 1: grew up, my family kind of split and I ended
Speaker 1: up homeless for a very brief time, and when I
Speaker 1: would go to school, that was my escape and I
Speaker 1: loved it for that. But I also really loved seeing
Speaker 1: how people were affected by the material. And I would
Speaker 1: know going to a movie or going to watch a
Speaker 1: TV show like that was an escape for me, and
Speaker 1: I would feel things that I may never feel in
Speaker 1: real life, or see things that I may never have
Speaker 1: the opportunity to see. And to me, that was a
Speaker 1: spark of magic. And so I was drawn to the
Speaker 1: magic and I said, this is what I want to do,
Speaker 1: This is how I want to affect the world positively.
Speaker 1: If I can take whatever you know, nonsense and turbulence
Speaker 1: was in my life and turn it into something positive,
Speaker 1: then cool.
Speaker 3: So theater.
Speaker 1: I studied it in college, musical theater. Then I dropped
Speaker 1: out of college and started into TV and film, and
Speaker 1: I was an extra on a bunch of things, a
Speaker 1: stand in. I got my SAG card working on a
Speaker 1: movie called Latter forty nine as Walking Phoenix's stand in.
Speaker 1: It was a firefighter movie, and that was just that
Speaker 1: was incredible. I was working full days at Target in
Speaker 1: the day and then at night I would head out
Speaker 1: to Baltimore and I'd film overnight then latherinse, repeat for
Speaker 1: a month. And that got me into the guild.
Speaker 3: Oh that's cool, and you're on the wire too, correct.
Speaker 2: I was on the wire. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I worked on that a bunch of times and nothing
Speaker 1: of significance, but yeah, just being on set and taking
Speaker 1: it all in for sure, because at that point in
Speaker 1: my career, I'm sure you remember this, there's a point
Speaker 1: where you're like, it's that magical beyond that you don't
Speaker 1: know about, but you get to touch it, and once
Speaker 1: you do, you get to peel back the curtain and
Speaker 1: see what's on the other side.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the wire for me.
Speaker 1: And so, yeah, I worked on the wire Chris Rock's
Speaker 1: movie Head of State, or I met Bernie Mack.
Speaker 3: Ahead of tell us a story about Bernie mac Man.
Speaker 3: Love Bernie Mack so much, you.
Speaker 2: Know America, you know, I used to love him.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, his show was so funny show. He
Speaker 5: was just such a funny guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my god. Gone, he was amazing, no kidding, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean I almost cried when the guy left us.
Speaker 2: Yeah he was, he was on it, but you yeah, kids,
Speaker 2: he was.
Speaker 1: He was incredibly He was very personable. I was just
Speaker 1: an extra for this movie. I wasn't doing anything of
Speaker 1: major significance. Later I did some minor stunt work that
Speaker 1: ended up getting cut, of course, But yeah, I got
Speaker 1: to work with him, and I was standing like I
Speaker 1: think I was sitting right behind him in a crowd
Speaker 1: scene and in between takes, he was doing his thing.
Speaker 1: But he was very down to earth and while he
Speaker 1: was turning on Bernie Mack to a ten in his performances,
Speaker 1: what he told us is that he always wanted to
Speaker 1: be an actor and the comedy was his way into that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so I just I thought that was really special.
Speaker 2: Oh and so yeah, Chris Rock was great.
Speaker 1: I did this one scene where the villain of the
Speaker 1: movie he runs into me and I flail papers and
Speaker 1: it got cut. But Chris Rock was going person to
Speaker 1: person and he's like, nice job, you did great. And
Speaker 1: he comes to me and he goes ah and it
Speaker 1: keeps walking and I'm like, oh, goodie, I've been acknowledged.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, he gave you.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It was like, that's good. That's gotta be good. Thank you.
Speaker 2: So it's gotta be good. We'll have another please.
Speaker 3: I loved that movie growing up, and it's so crazy
Speaker 3: to think, like that wasn't even that long ago, and
Speaker 3: it was such a crazy concept to have a black
Speaker 3: president that they made a whole comedy movie about it.
Speaker 3: It was like, this is never gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, this is never gonna happen famous
Speaker 1: last words.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, great movie though. I love that movie.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I was doing that around the area and just
Speaker 1: kind of floating to production to production, and then my
Speaker 1: buddy and I I was working at Black Blockbuster at
Speaker 1: the time, was back in Maryland.
Speaker 2: That's where I grew up.
Speaker 1: I was born in DC and lived in Maryland and so, yeah,
Speaker 1: at the time, I was a store manager at Blockbuster.
Speaker 2: I think you had some history. I was a video
Speaker 2: depot guy.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, so you guys were competitions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, coast to coast. That's wild.
Speaker 1: I mean I was working at Target and then I
Speaker 1: bumped over to Blockbuster. I loved it. I got to
Speaker 1: work with movies and talk movies all day. Blockbuster didn't
Speaker 1: do so well in the long term. But I was
Speaker 1: walking around with my buddy Justin who we had done
Speaker 1: some independent films together, and we became fast friends. And
Speaker 1: we're walking around one day and we're like, what movie
Speaker 1: isn't here? We should we should make our own movie.
Speaker 1: What an amazing idea. So we're walking around and we're like,
Speaker 1: we don't see anything. Let's let's make a movie called
Speaker 1: Ninja's Versus Zombies. That's just the thing that came to mind.
Speaker 2: And so we did.
Speaker 1: We coupled together cast and crew, and we maxed out
Speaker 1: credit cards and it was so low fi, but we
Speaker 1: did it and we accomplished it, and we looked at
Speaker 1: each other and we said we should we should do
Speaker 1: it another, we should keep going. So we made Ninjas
Speaker 1: Versus vampires, and vampires.
Speaker 2: Commercially don't get along with anyone. No, no, they don't.
Speaker 1: They always have to fight somebody God. So the zombies
Speaker 1: didn't farewell, and then the Vampires. That became our most
Speaker 1: commercially successful feature. We got it distributed worldwide, and I
Speaker 1: think in twenty ten it was the most illegally downloaded
Speaker 1: movie on the web, which, yeah, great, we didn't make
Speaker 1: any money off of it, but great for saying that.
Speaker 2: Nice trivia exactly.
Speaker 1: And so we followed up with Ninjas Versus Monsters and
Speaker 1: we and we left it there. We're like, we made
Speaker 1: a trilogy that was fun. And so I kind of
Speaker 1: became a big fish in a little pond, and I
Speaker 1: was working on different productions as a producer. But my
Speaker 1: aim was I want to be in it. I want
Speaker 1: to be in it if I'm going to produce it.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of what I was doing. And then
Speaker 1: after a series of events, I was either going to
Speaker 1: file paperwork to run for state Congress in Maryland because
Speaker 1: I wanted to.
Speaker 2: Bring obviously a career choice. Yeah, one of those things.
Speaker 2: What the hell.
Speaker 1: Well, there was a huge independent film community, including the
Speaker 1: folks who made The Blair Witch project in Sanchez and
Speaker 1: so many incredibly talented people who would work out of
Speaker 1: Baltimore in DC, and they were taking the tax credits away,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, well, maybe that's something I could help with.
Speaker 1: And then I said, well, maybe I could go to
Speaker 1: LA and Hollywood and take a stab as a voice
Speaker 1: actor too, because everyone keeps telling me you should do that,
Speaker 1: And so I made the choice to pack up my
Speaker 1: car and drive cross country and within the very first
Speaker 1: year that I got here, Lucky the Leprechaun Donald Duck.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: It was the most life changing and incredible experience I've
Speaker 1: ever had. Quite frankly, I think the right choice. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I have no doubt about that.
Speaker 2: I think you're pretty safe, pretty solid ground there legged
Speaker 2: the Leprechaun. You know, can you tell everybody who that is?
Speaker 2: Because I think there's a cereal and surreal cereal.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, there's a cereal with lots of marshmallowy goodness,
Speaker 1: lots of artificial colors and sweet and delicious. And when
Speaker 1: I was a child, I would pick out all the
Speaker 1: marshmallows and I'd mush them into a ball and I
Speaker 1: would eat the ball, and then it looked like I
Speaker 1: murdered a unicorn because the colors were just imprinted on
Speaker 1: my hands.
Speaker 2: Yes, And were they in fact magically delicious.
Speaker 1: They wereically magically delicious.
Speaker 2: They're magically delicious. See that's where.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that commercial was everywhere, those commercials, they were everywhere, everywhere.
Speaker 1: And so the day I started to book some work
Speaker 1: when I moved to LA and everything was kind of
Speaker 1: going up acording to plan. I was working at Target overnight,
Speaker 1: managing all the trucks coming in and the freight going out.
Speaker 2: All the drugs coming in.
Speaker 1: Yes, all of those the trucks, the trucks struckly the
Speaker 1: money at the end that was my drug.
Speaker 2: And so I could feed myself.
Speaker 1: But there was a point where I started to book
Speaker 1: enough work and I'm like, I think it's time to
Speaker 1: let go of working the nine to five and health
Speaker 1: insurance and a steady paycheck. And so the day that
Speaker 1: I said goodbye and I drove off the parking lot
Speaker 1: at eight am, exhausted from work, my agent called and said,
Speaker 1: you booked lucky.
Speaker 2: Oh, there you go, And I.
Speaker 1: Pulled over my car and I went, I booked Lucky.
Speaker 2: Yes, I got lucky. You got lucky when you got lucky.
Speaker 1: Lucky exactly, and so that moment was not lost on
Speaker 1: me to say, you made this choice, you listened to
Speaker 1: your gut, and you're being rewarded for that.
Speaker 2: And I say instincts are the best stinks. Ye, and
Speaker 2: they smell so good. It's got to be the way
Speaker 2: to go. I had lots of beans the day before.
Speaker 1: But yeah, So with Lucky, there's been several Lucky the
Speaker 1: leprechauns over his I want to say sixty years and
Speaker 1: he's been.
Speaker 3: Around kind of yeah, I realized that now long Holy Covin.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I believe it's been about sixty years or just under,
Speaker 1: like fifty eight, fifty nine, maybe sixty.
Speaker 2: He invented cereal. Yeah, well, he's been around for long enough.
Speaker 1: And so when I had my turn as Lucky, they
Speaker 1: asked me to emulate a voice match Doug Prize, who
Speaker 1: was I think one of the longest running ones. The
Speaker 1: first one was Arthur Anderson and there were a few more,
Speaker 1: and then Doug Preze had the longest run and he
Speaker 1: had such a soft voice. He was a very soft voice,
Speaker 1: and that's what they wanted. So I was there to
Speaker 1: emulate Doug Preeze, and because it was a commercial agency.
Speaker 1: You know, the voice transfers from person to person. There's
Speaker 1: not always one person who does the voice. So I
Speaker 1: was fortunate enough to be one of the few. And
Speaker 1: it was just amazing. And people always ask me, do
Speaker 1: you get free cereal? And I said no, they gave
Speaker 1: me money so I could not.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, besides, I wouldn't have gotten Lucky Charms exactly. Sorry,
Speaker 2: but I just yeah, shredded wheat. Never mind, that's all
Speaker 2: you get. Okay, you get shredded wheat. What was your
Speaker 2: favorite What was your favorite cereal growing up? Now that
Speaker 2: we're talking about it, It was Lucky.
Speaker 1: Charming, it was, and I never and I was never
Speaker 1: allowed to have it unless I go visit my grandpa.
Speaker 5: Sugar, You're gonna be bouncing off the walls.
Speaker 1: Well, my father was a dentist, okay, diabetic. Sorry dad,
Speaker 1: I'm spilling all the details. But uh yeah, so in
Speaker 1: our household, that was that was a faux pap. And
Speaker 1: so when I would visit my grandparents, they'd say, you
Speaker 1: get whatever you want. I'd say, I'm getting this.
Speaker 2: I was. I was a Sugar Pops guy and Coco Crispies, yes,
Speaker 2: because then you had a bowl full of chocolate milk. Yeah,
Speaker 2: at the end of it, after you got all the
Speaker 2: cocoa crispies.
Speaker 1: See, and I love the marshmallows. So for me it
Speaker 1: was count chalky yeah, see chocolate.
Speaker 5: I was raisin brand, you know what I was too.
Speaker 3: I loved the juicy little Raisins double scoop raisin bran.
Speaker 1: Yeah, crusted to me, possibly as best as it was
Speaker 1: delicious whatever.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 3: Weird reaction to sweets, Like when things are too sweet,
Speaker 3: it's like it's almost like a spiciness for like other people,
Speaker 3: you know, it's like it's too sugary, too sugary. I
Speaker 3: like the yeah, the raisins or the ones you get
Speaker 3: with like the almonds and the granola all in it.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I love those ones. And they always market
Speaker 3: it as you know, like the fit Cereal. I'm like,
Speaker 3: this just tastes delicious.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, as a kid, you weren't going to choose those
Speaker 1: like I want the one with the cartoon character.
Speaker 3: And oh I really did, I really did what I want.
Speaker 3: I really did go for the raisin bran like that.
Speaker 2: Was era of marketing.
Speaker 3: In articular, were the toys. Remember they had toys in
Speaker 3: the boxes. They used to have the toy at the
Speaker 3: bottom and Cereal box. Absolutely there were some Cereals I
Speaker 3: would buy just for the toy. Yeah, I just want
Speaker 3: this toy.
Speaker 2: And sometimes they weren't even good.
Speaker 1: I know, you get like ooh, a sticker or like
Speaker 1: an octopus that'll climb down the wall slowly or.
Speaker 2: Something like that. That used to piss me off about Cracker check.
Speaker 2: First they took away the peanuts, big mistake. What and
Speaker 2: then that instead of getting a toy in it, you'd
Speaker 2: get a sticker with a star on. Yeah, yeh, yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: you ate the whole thing. You get a star.
Speaker 3: Remember, I got a? I got a. They had a
Speaker 3: demo CD of Spiro the video game in one of
Speaker 3: the Cereal boxes, Like a full on, like fifteen minute
Speaker 3: video game for your computer was in the serial box.
Speaker 3: And I just think that's so crazy to think about
Speaker 3: these stays, you know, like they were just handing that
Speaker 3: out DVDs.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and like you get an episode of something
Speaker 1: right on DVD. But I'm of the generation. I still
Speaker 1: remember when McDonald's had in the newspaper they had this
Speaker 1: thing where you play a record and if if it
Speaker 1: goes through the entire song where they read off the menu,
Speaker 1: then you win a million dollars. Really, and so everybody
Speaker 1: was buying up papers trying to get that. So incentivizing
Speaker 1: you to buy something was a part and parcel to
Speaker 1: my generation growing up. I think all the commercialism, all
Speaker 1: the things I grew up with, the things I grew
Speaker 1: up with you with, were, you know, selling toys, so
Speaker 1: we're selling the product.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, they used to say that cartoons were filler
Speaker 2: for selling whatever it is they were selling. They were
Speaker 2: they had to. They couldn't just put on commercials, so
Speaker 2: they threw a cartoon, a little slice of a cartoon
Speaker 2: in here to shut the kid up and make them
Speaker 2: pretend like they're not really there to buy cereal, all
Speaker 2: the while, you know, infesting your little wee little brains.
Speaker 2: I know, I never recovered.
Speaker 3: We were just talking about this topic. Not too long ago,
Speaker 3: we went to Disney World. Jim had the opening of
Speaker 3: the new Splash Mountain. They remodeled it. They remodeled it
Speaker 3: to be you know, Tiana's by you whatever, you ye,
Speaker 3: Princess and the Frog, and we were talking about, you know,
Speaker 3: we had the little Disney tour guy that Jim always gets,
Speaker 3: you know, because he's a legend. And I'm looking around
Speaker 3: the park and I mean, disney World is so much
Speaker 3: more elaborate than Disneyland. Yes, just phenomenal. I mean the Avatar,
Speaker 3: the tree, everything, and I'm looking around and in my mind,
Speaker 3: I just see dollar signs spinning, like how much all
Speaker 3: of this have caught? And then it dawned on me.
Speaker 3: I was like, all these Marvel movies and every TV shows,
Speaker 3: they're just advertising to get you to go to Disneyland.
Speaker 3: Like they are billion dollar billboards to get you into
Speaker 3: the Disney brand. Nothing more like they they make a
Speaker 3: hundred times those that money. They don't care about the
Speaker 3: movies and the shows. They want you to get into Disneyland.
Speaker 3: At least that's my theory, because those parks are generating
Speaker 3: so much revenue. It's like a movie. Yeah, yeah, spend
Speaker 3: a billion dollars on Avengers.
Speaker 2: On a magic key that. Spend a billion dollars on
Speaker 2: a magic key pass. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Honestly, my first experience with Disney World was only a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. It was after my mom had passed.
Speaker 1: She loved the movie Avatar, and we always said, someday
Speaker 1: we're going to get to go to Disney World and
Speaker 1: we'll go ride the ride together. And that never happened,
Speaker 1: but I went and did it for her, for us,
Speaker 1: and so I went with a good thread.
Speaker 2: Damn cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just for the record, you get a chance do
Speaker 1: it the second time. I'm going to talk in this
Speaker 1: conversation that I wept at the end of that. It
Speaker 1: was so beautiful and obviously the experience was very personal.
Speaker 1: But my love for Disney was Disneyland. I mean, that
Speaker 1: was Walt's vision in his creation, his first one, and
Speaker 1: so I like to just go and sit on the
Speaker 1: bench and take it in and people watch me too,
Speaker 1: you know, as a small cog in the machine. To
Speaker 1: just be there and to take it in is really
Speaker 1: special to me. And now going to Disney World, I
Speaker 1: was blown away by the scope of it, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is yeah, this is like a billion.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you need to five billion dollars, need a go
Speaker 2: cart to get around, you know, it's not at least
Speaker 2: and use a helicopter in some of the places.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well we would use what it was the mini vans,
Speaker 1: the mini themed vans.
Speaker 2: That they have running around those Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: I love going to the parks. Yeah yeah, me too.
Speaker 1: And Princess and the frog. That's incredible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's it's a really, really fantastic ride. And
Speaker 2: I hope it doesn't break down anymore. We we we
Speaker 2: were on the inaugural ride. We're all sitting there and
Speaker 2: it's the whole cast and we're having a great time.
Speaker 2: You were there, you know your moment. We're all uh
Speaker 2: sitting around from deep beep. Oh no. And we're sitting there.
Speaker 3: And they have all the media. They have all the
Speaker 3: media doing the press and everything. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's tons of media. There's tons of picture
Speaker 2: take people taking your pictures, and and Keith David sitting nigger. Okay,
Speaker 2: well I'm about to get up out of here. It's
Speaker 2: about ninety five degrees and it was in Florida, and
Speaker 2: uh little damp, yeah, little damp, you know, and a
Speaker 2: Nika Noni Rose, she's trying to be close. She goes, well,
Speaker 2: this is really I gotta see. Oh yea, I have
Speaker 2: to we have to get me out here. I gotta
Speaker 2: I gotta go, and yeah, it look great, it's gonna
Speaker 2: be fun. And then then then the stinking thing got it.
Speaker 2: Oh finally, oh we'll finally moving. Stop ten feet later
Speaker 2: for another fifteen twenty minutes. Oh so we get back
Speaker 2: and everybody's going, uh, you know, like I wasn't driving,
Speaker 2: Why did you slow it down?
Speaker 6: Damn?
Speaker 2: Yeah? What did you do? Yeah? So uh yeah yeah.
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Speaker 1: You know my one of the last Disney movies that
Speaker 1: was too d animated, Princess and the Frog that was
Speaker 1: in my Blockbuster store. It was in my Blockbuster store
Speaker 1: and I kept recommending it to people and it sat
Speaker 1: on the shelf.
Speaker 2: Which broke my heart.
Speaker 4: It was so good.
Speaker 2: So I was so glad to see them actually acknowledging it.
Speaker 1: They're going back to two D. I hope didn't we
Speaker 1: read that somewhere. I think I saw something similar. I
Speaker 1: hope it. I hope it stinks.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love three D. I love CG. But it's no
Speaker 1: longer a novelty. It's it's the status quo.
Speaker 3: And just leave it for video games, like video games
Speaker 3: are great storytellers.
Speaker 1: Here TD video games too, for sure, Oh absolut, yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah.
Speaker 3: We were just Colleen O'Shaughnessy. We were talking about the
Speaker 3: south Park game yesterday just does a voice voices in there,
Speaker 3: and that was one of my favorite video games ever.
Speaker 3: It feels like you're in south Park. It feels like
Speaker 3: you're actually a character in south Park, and it's all
Speaker 3: two D. You know, it's just like the show. Its great,
Speaker 3: it's phenomenal.
Speaker 1: And then you got stuff like Cuphead. Yeah, parkens back
Speaker 1: to like the Fleischer animation days.
Speaker 2: I love the way that looks. So was it something
Speaker 2: in the Cuphead? What was the other one? What's the
Speaker 2: whole name? Or is it just Cuphead? Okay, I remember that,
Speaker 2: but I remember looking at that going, oh, this is
Speaker 2: like right up my alley. It's got that look. It's
Speaker 2: got kind of like vaguely nineteen twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: But even the voice, in the feel of the audio
Speaker 1: itself that tinmy, you know, nature of the microphones.
Speaker 2: I just love it, really doos and I love that.
Speaker 1: I love it when you can say, oh, we're not
Speaker 1: going to do what everybody else is doing, let's do
Speaker 1: something different.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But your character in Princess and the Frog remind me
Speaker 1: of his name again.
Speaker 2: Oh Ray Ray, that's right.
Speaker 1: I was so tickled when I saw your name in
Speaker 1: the credits because I went, wait a minute.
Speaker 4: That was Jim.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, that was Jim.
Speaker 1: There's a reason I was like that, and it's because, Jim,
Speaker 1: you were the first voice actor that I recognized as
Speaker 1: a voice across different shows when I was a kid.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I was.
Speaker 1: Disney Afternoon, Chip and Dale, Rescue Rangers, Tail Spin, and
Speaker 1: so I remember listening you know, dark Wing Duck. That
Speaker 1: voice sounds really familiar. I can't put my finger on it.
Speaker 1: Then I hear Don Carnage. That sounds really familiar. Monterey Jack.
Speaker 1: There's a through line here. And then I go to
Speaker 1: look at the credits and I see your name, and
Speaker 1: I went, wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've had a couple of people tell me that, actually.
Speaker 1: That one person is doing all these different voices. That
Speaker 1: was the first time I recognized that, as just a
Speaker 1: regular person enjoying cartoons doing silly voices, there's one person.
Speaker 1: Then I went back and went, oh and mel blank
Speaker 1: did all the voices on you know, let me tune,
Speaker 1: and this, here's Rob Paulson, and here's you know, Jim
Speaker 1: and so many others. And that was like a light
Speaker 1: bulb moment that went off. So when I saw your
Speaker 1: name and the credits, I went, I got fooled, because
Speaker 1: I think I can hear when Jim's doing his character voices,
Speaker 1: but that one fooled me, and I went, wow, he
Speaker 1: still got it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's good stuff you used to do. Stuff you
Speaker 2: used to get me kicked out of class. Mmm, that's
Speaker 2: what I always say.
Speaker 3: You want me both man?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, so much for that. Yeah, it's better
Speaker 2: outside in the hall.
Speaker 1: How do you? Obviously you know your Instagram better than anybody.
Speaker 1: And I think the biggest departure from your typical voices
Speaker 1: that I hear you do are things like Winnie the Pooh.
Speaker 1: It's just it's so fundamentally different from everything.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well good, yeah, well that's the idea.
Speaker 1: And then obviously you do movie trailers and and you
Speaker 1: know you sing gosh. When I found out you were
Speaker 1: doubling Scar in The Lion King and in Pokahon.
Speaker 2: Tiles, Hercules, Anastasia. Yeah, my wall up there? Okay, who
Speaker 2: else is anyway?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Was Hunchback in there too.
Speaker 2: I was. I did like two or three characters in it,
Speaker 2: singing great Tony j.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so what an amazing voice him and Paul Freeze,
Speaker 1: those voices.
Speaker 5: I just remember, do you sing?
Speaker 2: I can.
Speaker 1: I don't get to do it very often, but I do.
Speaker 1: I just released a song on my socials. There's a musical,
Speaker 1: an animated musical that's in development, and they had a
Speaker 1: villain song, and so I was like, let me take
Speaker 1: a shot at it, and so I did.
Speaker 2: I love villains. There's so much fun.
Speaker 1: I did a cover of Toxic Love from fern Gully
Speaker 1: with hexas Tim Curry's Toxic Love. Toxic Love. That's where
Speaker 1: he's singing, Uh, slime beneath me, slime up ooh you
Speaker 1: love my.
Speaker 2: Talksic glove. Yeah that was a little too good. You're
Speaker 2: Tim Curry. Tim.
Speaker 1: I was just doing it out of appreciation. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I love to sing.
Speaker 2: I love to sing. It's so much fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And we did some singing as Donald, which was difficult.
Speaker 2: That was tough.
Speaker 1: Folding notes and I discovered I could add some vibrato
Speaker 1: to Donald, and I'm like, oh, let's use this.
Speaker 5: Wow, that sounds like a challenge.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't even that's it. That sounds good. Were
Speaker 2: you here?
Speaker 1: Your here?
Speaker 2: Very good? Thank you, fantastic one. My God. Are the
Speaker 2: things that we do for for love and art? That's
Speaker 2: really what it boils down to.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I love what I do.
Speaker 1: You love what you do, and I want to keep
Speaker 1: doing it for the rest of my life in any
Speaker 1: way that I can. And if it means I sing, great,
Speaker 1: if it means I do my own voice or I
Speaker 1: put on a voice, Yeah, you just did that one.
Speaker 3: I just did. Do you still go for on camera stuff?
Speaker 1: You know, I really spent the past decade focusing entirely
Speaker 1: on voiceover. I believed that if I was to be successful,
Speaker 1: I needed to put everything that I had into it,
Speaker 1: every ounce of my creative being and my time. And
Speaker 1: that was a worth worthwhile gamble. And so now I'm
Speaker 1: at a point where I'd like to branch back out.
Speaker 2: I do miss the medium.
Speaker 1: But I was doing a movie two years ago called
Speaker 1: Stinky Summer, and it's like Stinky Stinky Summer, and I
Speaker 1: play a bad guy similar to the Bad Guys and
Speaker 1: Home Alone Okay, so the movie is like Home Alone
Speaker 1: but at summer camp. Yeah yeah, and so the kids
Speaker 1: set traps for me and beat me up and it.
Speaker 2: Was just so much fun, lovable OAF exactly yeah, you
Speaker 2: got it, gets arrested at the end. Amazing.
Speaker 5: They do the classic tarring and feathering like parent trap.
Speaker 1: Well, they didn't quite have the budget I think for that,
Speaker 1: but similar similar I got. I got covered in glitter
Speaker 1: and ivy.
Speaker 3: That's the modern tar and feathering, glitter and butter.
Speaker 1: I got hit in the face at one point, which
Speaker 1: was which allowed me to use one of my random
Speaker 1: people tricks. I can do this thing with my eye
Speaker 1: where I can just kind of keep this, you know,
Speaker 1: around for a while.
Speaker 2: And look around the room.
Speaker 1: So I was able to use that for the movie,
Speaker 1: and it was fun.
Speaker 2: Rusy, Rusy, God rest her soul. She Rusy Taylor, the
Speaker 2: great mini mouse friend forever and ever. She used to
Speaker 2: be able to look right at you and I guess
Speaker 2: I'll do it to this camera. She'd look right at
Speaker 2: you and here her eyes were going like this, and
Speaker 2: when I would go like this, when I would go
Speaker 2: like that, then this I would Then she would do
Speaker 2: wall eyes. Then she would look. Then then she would
Speaker 2: scare herself and it was it was the damnedest thing.
Speaker 2: And I got a headache every time she did it.
Speaker 2: I said, I'm getting a headache on your behalf. Stop
Speaker 2: doing that, you know. And bless her heart. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: she she played. I worked with her a million times
Speaker 2: not to get off on a thing here, but she's
Speaker 2: such a sweetheart. And my favorite thing about Rusie Taylor
Speaker 2: is uh and I'll say this, and and she has
Speaker 2: no I'm not saying anything out of school. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know that. And she cussed like a sailor when
Speaker 2: she felt like it, and you know, to just hear
Speaker 2: this little angelic voice say, oh my, you know. And
Speaker 2: she was mother Goose for it was the Teddy Ruxman
Speaker 2: people and I was a bunch of characters there, and
Speaker 2: she was Mother Goose. And there was a line that
Speaker 2: and then the princess leaned over and kissed the little frog.
Speaker 1: Right on.
Speaker 2: The tip of his you know, and she and she
Speaker 2: couldn't get it. She couldn't get it. We all had.
Speaker 2: She We sat there for like fifteen minutes and she
Speaker 2: could right on the you know. And and I said,
Speaker 2: should we just leave, let's let's all bej War was
Speaker 2: there and I go, you know, we're gonna leave. It
Speaker 2: was a group session. Yeah, there was a bunch of
Speaker 2: people there. We're gonna leave, and you kiss him right
Speaker 2: on the tip of his little I don't know where
Speaker 2: you were gonna kiss. I think it was had. I'm
Speaker 2: pretty sure it was a head head and uh so
Speaker 2: we went out, and then twenty minutes later somebody came
Speaker 2: to said, Okay, you guys can come in now. I
Speaker 2: think we got something we can use, you know, and
Speaker 2: you're sitting in there with Minnie Mouse cussing her just
Speaker 2: the greatest Gallen the world.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, look, that's the privilege and luxury of
Speaker 1: knowing the people behind the scenes. You know, sometimes off camera,
Speaker 1: off the record. Uh, you know, we mass some things
Speaker 1: that are funny in person, but we would not share
Speaker 1: off Broadway exactly. Now, Russie, she gave me quite a gift.
Speaker 1: The last time I saw her, we were recording Mickey
Speaker 1: Mouse Mixed Up Adventures and I had met her. Kelly
Speaker 1: Ward introduced me to her after a session and I
Speaker 1: was overwhelmed, obviously to meet her. And she had pink hair,
Speaker 1: you know, on the back of her head.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a walker at the time. And she was very sweet,
Speaker 1: but very very short with me, and you know, she
Speaker 1: went about her day. I was just excited to be
Speaker 1: in the room and you know, sucking some of the
Speaker 1: energy like this.
Speaker 2: Yes, you're amazing.
Speaker 1: And she warmed up to me over time and we
Speaker 1: would have conversation. But there was one time she poked
Speaker 1: her head out of the booth and she goes.
Speaker 2: Oh, Daniel, do the voice, honey.
Speaker 1: I said, well, one voice, what are you talking about.
Speaker 1: She goes, oh, you know, do the voice, and I
Speaker 1: said darn, and she broke out into Huey, Dewey and
Speaker 1: Louie those voices. And we had a whole conversation as
Speaker 1: Uncle Donald and the nephews. And to me, that was
Speaker 1: just I was in heaven. I was in heaven and
Speaker 1: it was the last time I saw her. It was
Speaker 1: the last time I saw her. I will never forget that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeaheart, Yeah, no kidding. Well, her and Wayne, I
Speaker 2: remember the two of them when they got married. They
Speaker 2: did it on the down low because they didn't want
Speaker 2: And I was thinking, why I would let who cares?
Speaker 2: Mickey and Minnie got married. Yeah, okay, that's come on,
Speaker 2: But you mean they really are married. They finally got married.
Speaker 2: He finally made it an honest woman of her what
Speaker 2: you know, Donald and days you're still dead. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: that's my Mickey Mouse. Second. Wow, that's wow. You too. Yeah,
Speaker 2: everybody has that one. That's pretty good. Buddy, he's yours.
Speaker 3: Oh no, wow, that's pretty good. That's pretty good.
Speaker 2: See, everybody can do me.
Speaker 1: Christopher Walkins at home going wow, you know I can't
Speaker 1: do Mickey.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Did you do a lot of impressions growing up?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was That was the main thing. That was
Speaker 1: how I knew the voice acting would eventually be what
Speaker 1: I would get into because I would impersonate the Looney Tunes.
Speaker 2: Character or your parents or that.
Speaker 1: Just get out of school today and so we can't
Speaker 1: come in and they're like, we know it's you. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: stop it, you got to be here.
Speaker 2: Okay. Well, see I was popular with kids because you know,
Speaker 2: I would uh, you know, we'd skips go occasionally. And
Speaker 2: then my buddy Carlos Rosario, he said, you know, you
Speaker 2: have to call the school now and and be my dad.
Speaker 2: And I said, so I have to be your dad?
Speaker 2: And I go, yeah, what is his name? And he said, oh,
Speaker 2: by the way, you know we're from Ecuador, and I
Speaker 2: said the equator, no, no, no, So I had to
Speaker 2: sound Carlos can be coming into school today, you know so,
Speaker 2: and I thought I'm gonna save under that, and then
Speaker 2: I twisted him into dun Karnage. Yeah, thirty years later.
Speaker 2: So you know, you never know where you gonna come
Speaker 2: up with the perspiration or the inspiration, right for these guys, right.
Speaker 1: I mean usually we find something that we're comfortable. I
Speaker 1: keep up with the mic. We can come up with
Speaker 1: something we're comfortable with and then Mesh and Marsh and
Speaker 1: put them together. And yeah, a lot of the times
Speaker 1: it's people we know in real life.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah yeah. And is that a process for you, Like, yeah,
Speaker 2: the first thing you do is you look at a
Speaker 2: picture and then you you try.
Speaker 1: To see if there's something similar or I usually go
Speaker 1: to the script first. I'll avoid the picture to begin
Speaker 1: with because I want to see what the acting part
Speaker 1: is going to be. I want to see what I'm
Speaker 1: pulling out of myself first, and then then in my
Speaker 1: process I'll augmental incorporate the picture. You know, are they
Speaker 1: wearing raki or you know, what's going on with them.
Speaker 1: Do they have really like big cheeks? You know, what
Speaker 1: am I going to add to that character? Or who
Speaker 1: do I know who.
Speaker 2: Has really big cheeks?
Speaker 3: So it's right, you wouldn't know what.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was my cheat. Well you know, and then
Speaker 2: you know, you don't have to say anything because it
Speaker 2: sounds that weird sound. And that's all that I would
Speaker 2: gravitate to when I was a kid.
Speaker 1: I just loved the unique voices of the eighties in particular,
Speaker 1: and even like the McDonald's commercials which Russy worked on
Speaker 1: as as Birdie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Grimace and Birdie and whoever those other characters.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but the Hamburglar and oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, may.
Speaker 3: What happens to all those goons?
Speaker 1: Well, I voiced Grimace now, which is full circle, and
Speaker 1: I think there's only been four of us, including Frank Welker.
Speaker 3: Wow, good company.
Speaker 1: When he when he was doing his turn, I could
Speaker 1: I could tell it was Frank because we kind of
Speaker 1: have Barney Rubble kind of thing going on, and and
Speaker 1: he was. It was just like, oh, that's a voice
Speaker 1: that I am picking up on. And it's just so
Speaker 1: strange that my career thus far has been a lot
Speaker 1: of these legacy characters things that have come before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it. Well, that's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 3: Have you seen one of the Grimace like horror memes
Speaker 3: haunting people?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, I was, Uh I haven't seen that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so a couple of years ago that.
Speaker 2: Movie or something.
Speaker 3: It's not a full blown movie, but it's blood. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I can't wait to hear what that's a forbidden name
Speaker 3: on this podcast. We're going to bleep that title. Cut
Speaker 3: that out, Zach, these are your instructions. Get that out
Speaker 3: of here.
Speaker 1: Oh, there were a couple of years ago there was
Speaker 1: a trend that popped up on social media with the shake.
Speaker 1: So McDonald's was offering a purple shake to celebrate Grimace's birthday. Harmless, fun,
Speaker 1: amazing you met like that kind of shake? No, not
Speaker 1: that kind of shit, the kind that apparently you pour
Speaker 1: all over yourself, because that's what people ended up doing.
Speaker 1: And so I was grateful to be voicing the character
Speaker 1: for a couple of TV spots and it just excited
Speaker 1: to be playing a character that I know from my childhood.
Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, online I started getting messages,
Speaker 1: why why did you kidnap my family? Give me my
Speaker 1: dog back? Why did you burn our house down, Please
Speaker 1: Grimace stop.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, what did I just get canceled? What
Speaker 2: did I do?
Speaker 1: It became a thing where people would drink the shake
Speaker 1: and then they'd come up with all these creative ways
Speaker 1: to be dead with the shake port all over themselves
Speaker 1: and this is real.
Speaker 2: It's real, and.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and there were some really creative takes. Even
Speaker 1: some celebrities got in on it, and uh.
Speaker 3: It was really funny.
Speaker 2: It just it took.
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody at the PR firm for McDonald's
Speaker 1: knew that this was going to happen. Yeah, so then
Speaker 1: it turned into well, no, we need justice for Grimace
Speaker 1: because he didn't commit these crimes.
Speaker 2: Wow, I missed this whole shebang. It was wild. It
Speaker 2: was wild, so Jesus.
Speaker 1: I was just grateful to be earning a paycheck and
Speaker 1: playing a character that I adore, and here it took
Speaker 1: on this whole other life. And I just think it's
Speaker 1: funny to this day. Tickles me purple.
Speaker 3: I thought it was hilarious.
Speaker 2: Yes, I.
Speaker 3: Just always remember this one video somebody made it. It was
Speaker 3: like Grimace like out in a field and it was
Speaker 3: like yeah, edited like the ring and it was like
Speaker 3: getting closer with every jump cut and just so silly.
Speaker 5: The internet culture is so funny to be and.
Speaker 1: Yet McDonald's made money hand over fist because people would
Speaker 1: go in, they'd buy the shake on themselves and leave.
Speaker 3: Yeah, speak of this is such a tangent, but I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna bring it up anyway. Speaking of purple and McDonald's,
Speaker 3: did you know that like every country and even cities
Speaker 3: have like different menu options for McDonald's. I was in Bangkok, Thailand,
Speaker 3: and you know the little apple pies they have. They
Speaker 3: had I still don't know to this day what it
Speaker 3: was called, but it was like the same little apple pie.
Speaker 3: And then they have like this very delicacy that's like
Speaker 3: kind of bitter, kind of sweet, and it's bright purple. Like, Oh,
Speaker 3: I'm looking at the menu outside, you know, they have
Speaker 3: the pictures and I'm like, what is this apple pie
Speaker 3: with like it almost looks like, you know, purple like flubber,
Speaker 3: Like it's like looks almost radioactive. Yeah, I gotta try this,
Speaker 3: you know? I had?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, you got.
Speaker 3: That's always one of my things. Whenever whatever country I
Speaker 3: travel to in the world, I always go to McDonald's.
Speaker 3: I always get one of their local items, you know,
Speaker 3: like whatever's specific to that region. Yeah, and I always
Speaker 3: get a big Mac because I have to see what
Speaker 3: the difference between every yeah mac is. Now.
Speaker 2: Is there a big difference country to country Big Mac?
Speaker 3: Yes, because every country has different like laws of what
Speaker 3: you can put in the food, what you can use
Speaker 3: as substitutes, blah blah blah. So they actually do taste
Speaker 3: vastly different, at least in my opinion as a big Mac.
Speaker 2: Connoissea different types of sawdust in the.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, sometimes it's oak tree, sometimes it's pine.
Speaker 2: Yeah. See I could see that.
Speaker 1: Sometimes delicious lead.
Speaker 2: Some paint chips, oh crazy.
Speaker 1: But in Japan, the first time I went to Japan,
Speaker 1: I went to McDonald's and their menu was completely different. Yes,
Speaker 1: not only are the ingredients sourced so clean in Japan,
Speaker 1: like every bit of food, even fast food is like gourmet,
Speaker 1: but they had such unique options for for their items,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to try them all. I didn't have
Speaker 1: time or the stomach, but man, it was good.
Speaker 3: Do you try. I was just in Tokyo last year
Speaker 3: and I had to try. I don't know if they
Speaker 3: had it when you were there, but it was the
Speaker 3: It was the egg McMuffin, but then they had a
Speaker 3: grilled mac and cheese patty in it as well, and
Speaker 3: then there was like a sweet jam spread over it.
Speaker 3: It was like a brownish jam, I don't know what fruit.
Speaker 3: And it was like the best big mac, I mean,
Speaker 3: not big mac, egg McMuffin I've ever had like that
Speaker 3: mac and cheese patty. Like they baked like mac and
Speaker 3: cheese and then they like squeezed it into a patty
Speaker 3: and like deep fried it and then put it on
Speaker 3: an egg McMuffin. Oh, it was so good. It was
Speaker 3: so good.
Speaker 1: They out America and America fry with that one.
Speaker 2: Anything you can deep fry.
Speaker 3: I think I had it every morning. I had it
Speaker 3: the first morning I was in Tokyo, and then I
Speaker 3: was like, yeah, is better than an egg McMuffin. I
Speaker 3: don't care what else is on the man and.
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Speaker 1: Well, I mean my first experience was going to the
Speaker 1: convenience stores.
Speaker 2: Have you been to Japan. I'm sure you have never.
Speaker 2: Oh what an experience.
Speaker 1: Everything, all the food is incredible, The people are wonderful. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you do gang busters out there. But I go into
Speaker 1: seven eleven to get an egg sandell, you know, and
Speaker 1: try some of the food. It's all gourmet, some of
Speaker 1: the best food I'd ever had.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, what, oh, yeah, I'm in seven eleven.
Speaker 3: Wow, I hate so much at the little seven elevens
Speaker 3: And they have the they have the vending machines but
Speaker 3: with hot items, like you can get like a hot tea,
Speaker 3: a hot coffee out of a vending machine.
Speaker 2: You want soup, the.
Speaker 3: Little pork the little pork buns. They have the little
Speaker 3: pork buns right there, and it's like the best pork
Speaker 3: bun You've ever had. And it's in seven eleven.
Speaker 1: Yes, anyway, Yeah, I love those.
Speaker 2: At seven eleven.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so good.
Speaker 2: That's what it. That's what it's called.
Speaker 1: Yeah, see, we got a book it poo pooh and
Speaker 1: Donald goes to Tokyo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the very first thing I saw when I got
Speaker 3: off the plane is a big banner and there's Winnie
Speaker 3: the Pooh, there's Mickey, there's Tigger, and I took a picture.
Speaker 5: I was like, Jim, they love got you like a couple.
Speaker 3: I got you like a jacket with Winnie the Pooh
Speaker 3: embroidered on the back out there and like a nice
Speaker 3: little sweater. Yeah, incredible, loved it out there. Anyway, let's
Speaker 3: bring it back to it. Have you ever voiced any
Speaker 3: Disney voices? Have you worked with Disney at all?
Speaker 2: Disney? Let me think I need to think about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I voiced the kid is coming back to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, mostly Donald.
Speaker 1: That That was my intro into other than Yeah, other
Speaker 1: than that, mostly the side characters on the show, because
Speaker 1: when we go in, we do our main character and
Speaker 1: then a couple you know, side characters. That's part of
Speaker 1: the deal. And so it was an opportunity for me
Speaker 1: to enjoy being a utility player and show myself off
Speaker 1: a little bit. And so the more that I did,
Speaker 1: the more they said, Okay, well, get Daniel to do this,
Speaker 1: because normally it's you and Bill Farmer and Corey who
Speaker 1: would do the side characters Corey Burton so more and
Speaker 1: more they would bring me in for some of the
Speaker 1: side characters, and we did the Lonely Ghosts. There was
Speaker 1: an episode with the Lonely Ghosts and I got to
Speaker 1: play one of the ghosts, and that for me was like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I'm tapping into that thing again where
Speaker 1: I get to do something so cool. But any day
Speaker 1: you get to work for Disney, it's a great day.
Speaker 3: I agree.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, Yeah. Nobody knows better than I. Very grateful,
Speaker 2: grateful to do, very grateful, Gotta stay grateful, got to
Speaker 2: stay humble, and I bet they're grateful for you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well that goes without saying, oh no, wait, that wasn't
Speaker 2: very humble, wasn't it. Yeah, Okay, I take that last
Speaker 2: one back a little bit. Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Seeing that little Disney logo on the paycheck is
Speaker 3: so cool.
Speaker 2: Huh Yeah, I'm not going to complain.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I worked on one TV show for Disney and
Speaker 3: that was like the coolest thing to me, was like
Speaker 3: seeing that little Disney logo on the check. This Disney,
Speaker 3: Yeah I got yeah, so cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Walt knew what he was doing. He
Speaker 2: sure did. Yeah, I mean he's like a true American icon,
Speaker 2: a pioneer of ever everything. Yeah, I mean, what an empire.
Speaker 2: And it all started with the mouse that was my
Speaker 2: bad Waltdasney.
Speaker 3: I have no idea what he sounded like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I'm about to go visit his childhood home
Speaker 1: in Marsline. I have a con in Kansas City, so
Speaker 1: I'm going to take the drive Garceline next week. This
Speaker 1: next week Planet Comic Con is Worl'll be and so
Speaker 1: very excited to see that and just take it in
Speaker 1: and you know, thank the employees, you know, get to
Speaker 1: know them a little bit, because honestly, one of my
Speaker 1: favorite things when I go to the parks is getting
Speaker 1: to know the cast members.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because they're you know, I do my.
Speaker 1: Thing behind the scenes, we do our thing behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: but they're doing it every day. They're making those experiences
Speaker 1: for everybody, and I just think that's so special because
Speaker 1: you walk away, maybe you have the luxury of one
Speaker 1: Disney trip in your life and that's it. That those
Speaker 1: memories are going to stay with you for a lifetime
Speaker 1: for sure. And so I always handed to cast members
Speaker 1: and anytime these places I'm just so thankful that they're
Speaker 1: doing what they're doing and continuing that legacy that.
Speaker 2: Well, well me too. Yeah, you know, I this is
Speaker 2: years ago. I had occasion. It was it Disney something
Speaker 2: I won't say Land or World because I you know,
Speaker 2: the person was anyway, I was standing there talking getting
Speaker 2: my picture taken, and it was one of those things
Speaker 2: like a photo op where you stop there and there's
Speaker 2: a toadstool you can sit on and here's yeah, here's
Speaker 2: Pooh and here or a honeypot and there's Pooh and
Speaker 2: Tigger and they're both there, and I would dare say
Speaker 2: they all recognize me, you know, and they're jumping up
Speaker 2: and down there and they can't say anything. They can't
Speaker 2: say a word because it's completely taboo.
Speaker 3: It's like the best and the worst day of your life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Can't say.
Speaker 2: I know, they just can't say. They can't do a
Speaker 2: damn thing. And and so uh and I went up
Speaker 2: and I said, shall we take pictures together? You know,
Speaker 2: And they're shaking their heads up, they're about to lose
Speaker 2: their heads and uh and and so we did it,
Speaker 2: and you know, they're both all doing this, and I go,
Speaker 2: stop doing that. Looks at the palels of the character.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And the people in costume, Oh wait, there are
Speaker 2: people in costume. They work for Disney what but no
Speaker 2: magic a lot. I didn't mean it like that, but
Speaker 2: I yeah, no, no, it's just people in costume anyway.
Speaker 2: And they they I said, what's so nice to meet you?
Speaker 2: And they're all doing this this kind of mind bullshit
Speaker 2: and response, you know, and I go, it's okay. I mean,
Speaker 2: I know you're in there. It's okay. And the guy goes,
Speaker 2: anybody goes, we're not allowed to talk. I'm so happy
Speaker 2: right now. I can't even I'm gonna pee. Okay, Well,
Speaker 2: don't do that. Don't do that. We're gonna take some
Speaker 2: pictures here and just tell everybody that we chatted. I can't,
Speaker 2: all right, but then don't. Then I don't want to
Speaker 2: get you fired because you're doing a great job here.
Speaker 5: You don't want poop Pee in himself?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we don't want poop Pee in himself. No
Speaker 2: one that would that wouldn't. No one would like that
Speaker 2: pooh Pee is himself. That's ironic. And it was actually
Speaker 2: I think it was Tigger. But you know, we ended
Speaker 2: up taking a bunch of pictures together and and it
Speaker 2: was it was a lot of fun. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I brought my Emmy to Disney World, and oh good
Speaker 1: because I wanted to get some pictures with with the
Speaker 1: duck with the man cross and so, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I brought it out with in costume. Yeah that that guy.
Speaker 1: I think it was actually Donald, but yeah, we'll go
Speaker 1: with that. And so uh, I brought that out and
Speaker 1: we took some pictures and video and Donald kept coming
Speaker 1: out like probably about three or four times, and excited
Speaker 1: every single time because you know, why not. I think
Speaker 1: I think it might have been other people jumping in yea.
Speaker 1: So and so that was just that that was so
Speaker 1: funny to me. But anytime I go to the parks,
Speaker 1: I love to meet with Donald. When it was his
Speaker 1: ninetieth birthday recently, I sang him Happy Birthday in the voice.
Speaker 1: That was one of the videos on TikTok that did
Speaker 1: pretty well. But anytime I go, I just get to
Speaker 1: say hi to the.
Speaker 2: Bus and it's nice.
Speaker 1: And I don't make myself inconspicuous. I wear a Donald
Speaker 1: shirt and I tell people, you know, hey, I'm here.
Speaker 1: If you want to come see me, please come say hi.
Speaker 1: That's cool, you know, like that's that means the world
Speaker 1: to me. If I can be there for somebody to
Speaker 1: do the voice and have that connection. I get it
Speaker 1: at conventions, but if I'm at the park, what better.
Speaker 2: Place to do it?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, for sure, and everybody there's going to love that.
Speaker 2: I think I love it the most though. I really do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do too, especially when you're in queue with
Speaker 1: somebody and they don't know who you are, but then
Speaker 1: somebody nudges them and says, hey, you know yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: and then and then they turn around, go my friend
Speaker 1: says this, do the voice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, always.
Speaker 1: And then I got yeah, they go no, not that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah I thought you did. Goofy Yeah no, no, no,
Speaker 2: Goofy's my favorite.
Speaker 1: Oh well sorry yeah yeah yeah, yeah, I've had I've
Speaker 1: had that.
Speaker 2: Jess Harnell tells a story about that this kid was
Speaker 2: wearing a wacko Warner T shirt and in line and uh,
Speaker 2: he was standing that's one of my same He does
Speaker 2: World Disney somewhere, and his mom can rest her soul.
Speaker 2: She said, well, you have to tell this little guy.
Speaker 2: You have you have to tell him. He's right in
Speaker 2: front of you in line. You're in line. He's in
Speaker 2: front of you, he's eleven years old, he's wearing your
Speaker 2: T shirt. You gotta do it. And of course Jess
Speaker 2: looks like a rock star because he's a rock star.
Speaker 2: Is a rock star, and so you know, he said, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, my mom wanted to me to tell you that. Anyway,
Speaker 2: my name is Jess. Are you doing, buddy, Yeah? Anyway, yeah,
Speaker 2: and uh, I do that voice that you know, I
Speaker 2: do the Warner brother that you have there, and he goes,
Speaker 2: do you no, no, no, oh, you know what. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: I don't mean I do it like I sound like
Speaker 2: the guy. I'm the guy actually, like when you hear
Speaker 2: the cartoon, it's me talking. He goes, okay, buddy, of
Speaker 2: course it is. And he said no, no, I really,
Speaker 2: I really. And now all of a sudden he's fighting
Speaker 2: for his life just to be himself. And as man
Speaker 2: I said, and he he said, while it's nice to
Speaker 2: run into you know, this is my bad wacko that
Speaker 2: I'm doing here, And he goes, Jess is sitting there
Speaker 2: trying to pray. No, no, no, I said, I said,
Speaker 2: look at it, said this and that and oh oh
Speaker 2: my goodness, by by bah and he goes, that's pretty good,
Speaker 2: and he got well, it's pretty good. Listen you little ship,
Speaker 2: it's you know, it's all of a sudden, you're men
Speaker 2: pissed off at an eleven year old anyway, never mind.
Speaker 3: Enjoy your ride.
Speaker 2: I hope you're right the matter hornets. Yeah yeah, has
Speaker 2: that happened to you? No respect? Uh No, that hasn't
Speaker 2: happened to me.
Speaker 1: Someone walks up to your booth and goes, I don't
Speaker 1: really think that's you.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, well yeah, so far, so good. Okay,
Speaker 2: I think I think their parents have got them indoctrinated. Maybe,
Speaker 2: you know, I would, I would.
Speaker 1: Although every time he and I are generate together, his
Speaker 1: line is incredibly long, and I just I just look
Speaker 1: at the people in his line with a with a
Speaker 1: wistful look.
Speaker 2: Yeah you could be over here full of whist come
Speaker 2: to me. Well where I'm not worried.
Speaker 3: About that time with Jim, because we'll take this, we'll
Speaker 3: take this on the road, you know, and do the
Speaker 3: do the podcast on the road. And I'm sitting over
Speaker 3: there at his table one time, and this guy comes
Speaker 3: up and he's looking at all the pictures and he
Speaker 3: looks at one and He's like, oh, I didn't know
Speaker 3: you were fuzzy Lumpkins. I didn't like that guy. And
Speaker 3: Jim's like, oh, okay, thanks.
Speaker 2: Thanks for coming up.
Speaker 6: Laughs on out of here, Dan, tell your story walking there, Junior.
Speaker 2: You know that's right, that was fuzzy, by the way.
Speaker 3: Or do people ever come up to you and they
Speaker 3: have like a script and they're like, hey, you just like,
Speaker 3: you know, read this for me, and it's like, no,
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna read it right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I get a cameo, like a three page cameo
Speaker 2: and then say as Pooh, and then say as Tigger,
Speaker 2: and then say and then I're going down the line
Speaker 2: and I.
Speaker 3: Go, uh no, yeah, there's like four hundred people behind you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And there there are there are limits
Speaker 1: to what we can and can't do, you know in
Speaker 1: those circumstances, because we don't own those characters will and
Speaker 1: will not talk. We're not doing impressions where we can
Speaker 1: just kind of do anything. We have to be mindful
Speaker 1: of our overlords wherever they may be. And that's just
Speaker 1: kind of the way it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's an odd thing. Can you do the can
Speaker 2: you one of my favorites? Can you do the noise
Speaker 2: of Winnie the Pooh. And I said, no, I can't
Speaker 2: do not the noise of winning, the noise of it's
Speaker 2: just him talking, but you know, do the noise of
Speaker 2: Winnie the Pooh. And and you know, the mom said,
Speaker 2: it just meets the boys. Yeah, oh, mother, Yeah you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: they don't don't bother. Yeah.
Speaker 1: No. My favorite is when usually in Transformers, because I
Speaker 1: voiced Starscream in two thousand and seven, one of my
Speaker 1: favorite characters and one of my favorite franchise rightly, so,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, and and people will walk up and say,
Speaker 1: you did Starscream, right, and I say, yes, human, I
Speaker 1: did star Scream and they go, I liked Chris La
Speaker 1: and then they walk away and I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, I did too.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: At the end of the conversation, why was he the original? Yeah,
Speaker 2: he was the original. Yeah. I was here with him
Speaker 2: once a long time ago. He was amazing. Yeah, he
Speaker 2: really was.
Speaker 1: And I've come to the crazy I know his daughter Abby.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had.
Speaker 1: An amazing story. Actually, when I first got here, I
Speaker 1: was at jim I was at Rob Paulson's Talking Tunes,
Speaker 1: and it was when I were still doing it live,
Speaker 1: and so everybody was there just royalty across the board,
Speaker 1: and of course me, I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, oh my gosh, look at all these people, so starstruck.
Speaker 1: And at the end of it, I'm standing in a
Speaker 1: semicircle with a bunch of people and I'm telling this
Speaker 1: story about how I was invited to this little town
Speaker 1: in Sharon, Pennsylvania to sign some autographs for Transformers.
Speaker 2: And in Sharon, Pennsylvania, because Sharon is it was Sharon, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2: There you go, and do you really Yeah, it's not
Speaker 2: far from the extown. Oh my gosh, that's right. How
Speaker 2: about that?
Speaker 1: They had a marching band waiting for me. They had
Speaker 1: it in the newspaper. I'm like, little old made Okay. Also,
Speaker 1: we signed the things and I go to this super fan,
Speaker 1: Mark's house. He had a Transformer's museum in his basement
Speaker 1: and it was incredible. And we're having dinner with his
Speaker 1: family and he's bringing some stuff out from me a
Speaker 1: sign and he brings out the vinyl album from the
Speaker 1: eighty six the Transformers the movie. Oh, signed by everybody,
Speaker 1: and I think, including you with a pen and he
Speaker 1: hands it to me and I went.
Speaker 3: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 2: I didn't work on that.
Speaker 1: That's this is sacrilege to me. And he said, I've
Speaker 1: never met anybody who's done the voice of starscreen before,
Speaker 1: and it would just mean the world to me if
Speaker 1: you would the character.
Speaker 2: Well, I thought.
Speaker 1: I thought about it for a minute because I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm touching this thing that, to me as a collector,
Speaker 1: as a Transformers fan, is is just like a holy grail.
Speaker 1: And so I said, okay, I will sign it for Chris.
Speaker 1: For Chris, and I signed it and I did a
Speaker 1: big gulp goop.
Speaker 2: I can't believe I.
Speaker 1: Did that, but I handed it to him. And I'm
Speaker 1: telling this story outside of talking tunes and this girl
Speaker 1: across from me is starting to cry and I'm like why,
Speaker 1: and she.
Speaker 2: Said, Chris was my dad. Oh, look at that. Chris
Speaker 2: was my dad. And so became friends.
Speaker 1: We had a group together called the Green Giraffes Go
Speaker 1: Green Giraffes. We were just voiceover people that would meet
Speaker 1: every week just to go over copy and we do
Speaker 1: improv and stuff, and all of us have kind of
Speaker 1: gone off and done our own things.
Speaker 2: But yeah, she was a part of that too.
Speaker 5: We need to get Green Girafts back together.
Speaker 2: Yes, we do. Yes, we do.
Speaker 1: Green Drafts also included Jan Johns, who I think you know.
Speaker 1: She's done a lot of the Disney stuff. She and
Speaker 1: I work together in Maryland and now here in La.
Speaker 5: Nice, very cool, small world.
Speaker 2: It is is, but I wouldn't want to paint it,
Speaker 2: you know. I take some to that small not that small.
Speaker 2: Oh man, that's awesome. If you're a fan of everything
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Speaker 2: thanks man, I'm so glad you made it here today.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. I think we have a little
Speaker 2: something called a.
Speaker 3: Voice swamp, don't we It's voice swamp.
Speaker 2: Today's voice swap with none other than you know who,
Speaker 2: is sponsored by Route sixty six Car Museum in Springfield, Missouri.
Speaker 2: You gotta love this place. It's got the coolest cars
Speaker 2: in the world, maybe even Baba b Lema the Batmobile.
Speaker 5: That's right, he has the thatmobile that's Batmobile.
Speaker 3: And doesn't he have the Ghostbusters car too?
Speaker 2: Ghost But yeah, I think the Ghostbuster and the freaking
Speaker 2: coolest cars you've ever seen from.
Speaker 3: Like the thirties and the forties.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you don't know, I never even heard of
Speaker 2: the manufacturer. Like one was called the Breed of Something,
Speaker 2: and it was from other countries, and then some were
Speaker 2: from here, but they were only in business for like
Speaker 2: from nineteen twenty to nineteen twenty four, and these unbelievable cars.
Speaker 2: And I think one of them was had wood, wasn't it.
Speaker 5: I think like it had like the wood paneling.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the wood paneling. Does Jay Leno own all of them? No,
Speaker 2: No he doesn't, but uh boy, he's yeah, he's got
Speaker 2: he owns the ones out in Burbank Airport. Yeah.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: It was always wild when he would come out for
Speaker 1: sessions and he partnered Yeah, ridiculously large cars in that
Speaker 1: tiny thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know it's not my favorite car, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, and it would bring it. And I remember
Speaker 2: I was helping him get out once and I go
Speaker 2: okay stop and he go no no, no, I got room. No,
Speaker 2: no no, no, you don't know because he took out
Speaker 2: the wood panal. Yes, that's when he took out the
Speaker 2: wood penel. He did it right in front of me.
Speaker 2: I go, I told you to stop. He goes, It's
Speaker 2: just a slide they can put and okay, yeah, well
Speaker 2: that's what I want.
Speaker 3: I was going to say, Man, did you know he's
Speaker 3: never had an agent in his whole career? What he's
Speaker 3: never had an agent.
Speaker 1: I think that's why he only wears blue jeans, probably
Speaker 1: blue jean shirts and blue jeans.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I did this game show. I was contestant
Speaker 3: on a game show that he was hosting, and just
Speaker 3: like in the breaks, it was during COVID, so there
Speaker 3: was like twelve of us. So we got like actually
Speaker 3: like interpersonal time with him for like three hours. It
Speaker 3: was pretty cool and he was like yeah. Somebody asked him,
Speaker 3: you know, like how did you, you know, break into
Speaker 3: the industry, and I forget the specifics, but he was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I booked this and then I never even bothered getting
Speaker 3: an agent. I just kept getting work. What you don't
Speaker 3: even realize.
Speaker 2: Cars?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, his ten percent is his car collection.
Speaker 2: Wow, boy, that is insane and to this day, I mean.
Speaker 3: To this day. That was only what four or five
Speaker 3: years ago?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 5: Yeah shit.
Speaker 3: But anyway, without further ado, shall we get into these
Speaker 3: voice swaps. I was thinking, since you guys have characters
Speaker 3: that interact so frequently, maybe we could switch this up
Speaker 3: a little bit and have like a little conversation, like
Speaker 3: a little back and forth between Pete and Donald. What
Speaker 3: do you guys think about that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but the questions who's doing Pete? Yes, Donald and Pete.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's do a little like a conversation rather than
Speaker 3: a voice swap, like a.
Speaker 2: Little here you go.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, you know, quackers, It's like I was saying
Speaker 6: just the other day, what the heck are you saying?
Speaker 2: So what's somethime? Well, that hears it up wrong? So
Speaker 2: you said, would you be taking book? No? That was
Speaker 2: that was painful. That was good. And uh so let's
Speaker 2: see stripes and tasks.
Speaker 1: Now, you worked on Gremlins, didn't you?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: If I remember correctly, you weren't. You weren't in the
Speaker 1: Gremlin squad.
Speaker 2: I remember hearing something about that. Well I should have been.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Stripe was originally voiced by Frank Welker.
Speaker 4: That was a little interesting tie in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, Frank's fine, Yeah, he's doing fine. But let's
Speaker 2: do Grimace and Tiger. H tigger, have you been to
Speaker 2: McDonald's for a happy meal? Oh?
Speaker 6: No, Tiggers have happy meals no matter where they go.
Speaker 6: They don't even have to go to McDougall's. They are happy, happy,
Speaker 6: as long as tigers are bouncing. Do you feel me there,
Speaker 6: buddy boy?
Speaker 2: I feel like bouncing for sure. Well, my work here
Speaker 2: is done by my shake, the camera by my shake,
Speaker 2: and who else star screaming pood?
Speaker 3: Do we star screaming poo star poop? But then we
Speaker 3: also have to do star scream and one of your
Speaker 3: Transformer characters.
Speaker 2: Better not?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying to think of after burner, after burner, Yeah,
Speaker 2: after printer would just be and I and I can't
Speaker 2: remember what he's on.
Speaker 6: I think it was just me and he was ready
Speaker 6: to go, and he's hi, I'm after burner, damn it?
Speaker 2: You know off. That's where I'm pissed. Okay, I'm pissed off.
Speaker 2: Did I just did I just?
Speaker 3: I hope?
Speaker 2: Not?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Okay, good here, I'll start that one if you want, okay, please?
Speaker 2: Oh look in autobot that flies my favorite I.
Speaker 6: Hope you're talking to me after burner, because I'm my
Speaker 6: favorite too, So take that suck.
Speaker 1: But well, I'm gonna make myself a combiner of my
Speaker 1: own since U form superion, I'll create Bruetickus and he's
Speaker 1: gonna kick your butt.
Speaker 2: Why do bad guys always laugh? It's in the contract.
Speaker 2: That's in the contract. You gotta leave him laughing when
Speaker 2: you leave him, that's right.
Speaker 3: And then let's just do a let's just do a
Speaker 3: star scream and a poo. But just like a quote
Speaker 3: like the traditional old okay boy swapper.
Speaker 1: Do you want to do a dueling poos? Because mine's terrible?
Speaker 3: Let's do it. Let's do it.
Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, let's do dueling pool?
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, would you like to share pooh?
Speaker 4: Would you like to fling pool with me?
Speaker 2: Oh? Mother? As long as you don't do it very well?
Speaker 4: No, I don't think I do it very well. I
Speaker 4: just try.
Speaker 6: Well, that's true. Thank goodness, I've got some job security
Speaker 6: over here.
Speaker 1: Well, there's always another tiger in the health.
Speaker 2: Good night, everybody. We're gonna bouth on the couch. We're
Speaker 2: gonna spend the rest of the podcast trying to get
Speaker 2: my buddy out of the shell, trying to get you
Speaker 2: to step up and keep the viewers engaged.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you again so much for being here. That
Speaker 3: was a really fun conversation. And of course you're welcome
Speaker 3: back whenever.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I'll be here tomorrow.
Speaker 2: No, don't do that.
Speaker 1: Sincerely, beyond a pleasure. Thank you for having me, Thank
Speaker 1: you for watching. And yeah, this guy, this guy's incredible
Speaker 1: turn to my childhood part of yours. This podcast is amazing.
Speaker 2: Keep watching.
Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: I'm solicited completely.
Speaker 3: Here's that fine, all right, Well, thank you everybody for watching.
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Speaker 1: Great Greg, awesome gang.
Speaker 3: It good fun. That was.
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