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Speaker 1: you doing out there? It's me tigger. I am Dark
Speaker 1: Wayne Duck. It's me Bunker's Deep Bobcat. All right, y'all,
Speaker 1: is it Rae your favorite firefly you desire? Holdo, old
Speaker 1: knock guy. My name is Jim Cummings and welcome to
Speaker 1: tuned in. Hello, out there, everybody. Jim Cummings here. How
Speaker 1: is everybody doing out there today? On this fine day?
Speaker 1: Of course, I don't know what day you're actually watching this,
Speaker 1: but I have to tell you I had a fun
Speaker 1: experience not too long ago, a few weeks ago, and
Speaker 1: I had a chance to be a guest on another
Speaker 1: podcast which is very weird, and it's called Bungalow Heaven
Speaker 1: Railroad and it's in a garden from a guy who
Speaker 1: lives in Pasadena. His name is Nick Johnson, and he
Speaker 1: built this incredible railroad. It goes back and forth and
Speaker 1: all over his property in Pasadena, California. I will not
Speaker 1: give you the address, sorry, But what started as a
Speaker 1: viral social videos with nearly one hundred million views has
Speaker 1: turned into a really kind of fun show, right and
Speaker 1: where he's got a new guest visits the railroad each episode.
Speaker 1: And I'm an old railroad guy. I remember when I
Speaker 1: was a kid. I had a talka and I had
Speaker 1: I can't even remember the name of it, but it
Speaker 1: was it was really cool and just something about railroad,
Speaker 1: something about a train. Anyway. You could find Bungalow Heaven
Speaker 1: Railroad on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: give me a favorite. Take a listen to this episode,
Speaker 1: see what you think about it. Check it out right here.
Speaker 2: Hi Jim, Welcome to the Bungalow Heaven Railroad.
Speaker 1: Look at this. Yeah, this is great.
Speaker 2: So this is twelve.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2: Have you ever been to a garden railroad before?
Speaker 1: I don't think there are many? No, so no. Do
Speaker 1: I see bonesie trees?
Speaker 3: Yes, lots of bones trees? Yes, all the plants are real,
Speaker 3: that's the question. We get a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The gondola that you see there, that was something that
Speaker 3: was added back in May, right, and yeah, that's our
Speaker 3: little Disneyland.
Speaker 1: Look at this. This is wonderful and they're quieter.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: Always kind of had a thing for trains. I was raised.
Speaker 1: I was born in Youngstown, Ohio. We're right on the tracks.
Speaker 1: I mean you could hit you pick up a buckeye
Speaker 1: and throw it and hit a train from from from
Speaker 1: my yard.
Speaker 2: Did you have a train when you were a kid?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Oh yeah, yeah. And I want to say, there's
Speaker 1: two sides. There's this size, which I like, yep, and
Speaker 1: that's this is g the g okay, And what's the
Speaker 1: other one? The h os those are.
Speaker 3: H is kind of I would say the most common.
Speaker 3: They're about that big. And then oh is Lionel You
Speaker 3: know the Christmas tree? Yeah, with three it's like three rails.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was gonna say, I think that's the one
Speaker 1: I had.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's how a lot of people had that
Speaker 3: as a kid. Hi, I'm Nick and this is the
Speaker 3: Bungalow Heaven Railroad. For the past two years, I've been
Speaker 3: building a garden railroad in the front yard of my
Speaker 3: historic Pasadena home and sharing short videos of this tiny
Speaker 3: world with millions of people around the globe. In this
Speaker 3: new video podcast, I invite a special guest each episode
Speaker 3: to visit the railroad, learn how it works, drive a train,
Speaker 3: and talk about creativity, storytelling, and the joy of building
Speaker 3: things that move people. If you're listening to this as
Speaker 3: an audio only podcast, just imagine you're sitting on the
Speaker 3: porch with us during the conversation. As the trains roll
Speaker 3: peacefully through the garden below. In this first episode, I'm
Speaker 3: thrilled to welcome Jim Cummings, one of the most prolific
Speaker 3: and influential voice actors in entertainment history. More in four decades,
Speaker 3: Jim's voice has shaped animation, film, television, music, and video
Speaker 3: games on a scale few performers have ever matched. He's
Speaker 3: best known as the longtime voice of Winnie the Pooh
Speaker 3: and Tigger, roles he has carried on for nearly forty years.
Speaker 3: He has also brought characters to life across countless beloved
Speaker 3: shows and films, and even contributed his voice to Disney
Speaker 3: Park's attractions, including Millennium Falcons, Smuggler's Run in Galaxy's Edge.
Speaker 3: Please join me in welcoming Jim Cummings to the Bungalow
Speaker 3: Heaven Railroad.
Speaker 2: So I didn't grow up thinking that I would do this. No,
Speaker 2: I built a railroad in my life.
Speaker 1: I grew up thinking you were gonna do this.
Speaker 2: I appreciate the confidence my uncle had.
Speaker 3: This Actually a lot of this railroad in his yard
Speaker 3: since I was a kid, So all this track was his.
Speaker 3: So a lot of these steam engines were his. And
Speaker 3: you know that's my connection to it. And so a
Speaker 3: few years ago he asked me if I would carry
Speaker 3: on his his legacy of the trains, and he gave
Speaker 3: us everything, which was super nice.
Speaker 1: That is nice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, can't beat the price exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Is there an early version of that for you?
Speaker 3: When you know, when you realize that your voice was
Speaker 3: going to be your path in life?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean I knew I was going to do
Speaker 1: what I do, what I wound up doing and still do.
Speaker 1: Is I knew when I was five years old? Wow?
Speaker 1: I told before Jack Benny, old time comedian, had mel Blank,
Speaker 1: the Great melt Blank on the show as a regular
Speaker 1: any and he would he would do bits and do
Speaker 1: voices obviously, and my dad says, you see this guy here,
Speaker 1: he's mel Blank, He's he does that Tasmanian Devil, Bugs,
Speaker 1: Bunny and Daffy Duck and all those voices that you
Speaker 1: like on Saturday morning. So on the spot, I said,
Speaker 1: up before, I said, well, I'm just I'm gonna do that. Wow.
Speaker 1: And he said, oh, okay, but what are you going
Speaker 1: to do for a living?
Speaker 3: That?
Speaker 1: Okay? Yeah, that's good. I mean what do you argue
Speaker 1: with the five year old? So so I did.
Speaker 2: And you ended up doing Tasmanian Devil, right, and I
Speaker 2: ended up.
Speaker 1: Doing Tasmanian Devil. Yeah. Yeah. A few, not many Warner Brothers,
Speaker 1: but a lot of Disney. Yeah yeah. So I knock
Speaker 1: on wood. I have an odd bucket list, you know.
Speaker 1: In life. I always wanted to be a deckhand on
Speaker 1: a Mississippi riverboat. I did that. And I wanted to
Speaker 1: design and paint Mardy Grass floats, So I did that
Speaker 1: Wow in New Orleans. It's one of it and ride
Speaker 1: the rails quote unquote yeah from knowing about it, because
Speaker 1: I mean literally it was, oh, I don't know, maybe
Speaker 1: two football fields away. Yeah, the tracks themselves from from
Speaker 1: where I was born, and it was very fancy neighborhood.
Speaker 1: No it wasn't. And I just it was just such
Speaker 1: a romantic and sort of it felt very Mark twain ish.
Speaker 1: Yeah to me, you know. And I'm a big fan
Speaker 1: of Mark Twain.
Speaker 3: So I grew up in the eighties and nineties and
Speaker 3: many of the cartoons that.
Speaker 2: I watched as you were sick of me, your voice was.
Speaker 3: In them, Dark Wing Duck, Tailspin, Rescue Rangers, Cat Dog.
Speaker 3: I've been watching some Dark Wing Duck because it's on
Speaker 3: Disney Plus and singing, hey, what the good work? My
Speaker 3: wife is not happy about me, the dark wing duck.
Speaker 1: When there's trouble, you cult w.
Speaker 3: So these were iconic and characters you know, of my childhood.
Speaker 3: And with this railroad, the boundaries for me is the
Speaker 3: size of the yard, where the fence line is, the
Speaker 3: climate that we live in. But everything inside is you know,
Speaker 3: has come from my imagination of where I decide the
Speaker 3: track's going to go and what trees I put in.
Speaker 3: When you're handed a character that no one has ever
Speaker 3: heard before, how do you approach that? And what are
Speaker 3: your guardrails in the creative process?
Speaker 1: Well, I don't have any guardrails nothing, no holds barred.
Speaker 1: And whenever I first see a character, there's two things
Speaker 1: to look at. The physicality, what character looks like, and
Speaker 1: you can you know, in other words, he's a big
Speaker 1: three hundred pound seven foot tall fill in the blank.
Speaker 1: You know, it's obviously one of them. You maybe give
Speaker 1: one of these, but it might be fun if you
Speaker 1: just give them a little peeny voice like that, you know,
Speaker 1: because it goes against type, so you know, it depends
Speaker 1: ens and uh, you know, if he's a good guy,
Speaker 1: if he's a bad guy, if he's a sarcastic guy
Speaker 1: like dark Wing Duck. He's not super big, he's not
Speaker 1: super small. So I just wound up somewhere in the
Speaker 1: middle and I informed him. Let his personality informed the voice,
Speaker 1: and yeah, you know, and he's very he's kind of sarcastic.
Speaker 1: He's got a good sense of humor, but he's sarcastic,
Speaker 1: and so he's probably good. I can't find Yeah, okay, yeah, whatever,
Speaker 1: you know, and you just blend all that together, all
Speaker 1: these personality traits. Yeah, and hopefully whatever comes out they buy. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Tailspin is another one that because you know, if you
Speaker 3: can believe it that I'm into trains, I'm also into airplanes.
Speaker 1: And he's my favorite guy. I love her. He is
Speaker 1: no smooth show, which is for of course French. Yeah,
Speaker 1: glad you like him. Yeah, he's one of my all
Speaker 1: time favoites. You know, it's fun to have. It's you know,
Speaker 1: I do. I don't know if I do equal amount
Speaker 1: of good guys and bad guys. I never thought of it,
Speaker 1: but bad guys are fun, yeah, you know, because they
Speaker 1: get in a lot of trouble. Yeah, and they're kind
Speaker 1: of expected to, so it's never a never a letdown.
Speaker 1: Yeah you know you saw that one coming. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, bad guys do have fun. Yeah, what are
Speaker 1: you gonna do?
Speaker 2: That's nice that you get to do a mix of boats.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, well I do one winning the
Speaker 1: Pooh and then I could do like five bad guys
Speaker 1: and still break even because Poo's such a good guy.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, so it works.
Speaker 3: We just did the Winnie the Pooh ride at Disneyland
Speaker 3: the other day and oh yes, did you have.
Speaker 1: A smart roll? There's honey right next door. I believe,
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Speaker 3: That's our new fire lookout tower. Oh okay, you know
Speaker 3: it's it's.
Speaker 1: Uh remember only you could prevent folds.
Speaker 2: That's right, Yes, and you did that?
Speaker 1: That was me? Yeah, I was I was smoking the
Speaker 1: bear for years.
Speaker 2: Wow, I just noticed the water feature.
Speaker 3: Yes, this is this is our little lake. That also
Speaker 3: doesn't work that great, but it you know, it's wet.
Speaker 3: I bought a couple little buckets of concrete, dug a
Speaker 3: hole and use my hands with rubber gloves and oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: well do you want to do you want to drive
Speaker 3: a train?
Speaker 1: Here we go?
Speaker 2: Sure, all right, so let's let's go back there.
Speaker 1: All right. I'll follow you.
Speaker 3: And if you you know, stop, then you can put
Speaker 3: it in reverse send it backwards.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, and is that the accelerator too? Yeah, so
Speaker 1: you just oh okay, yeah, well I think we went
Speaker 1: forward right, Yeah, one more time.
Speaker 2: Now you're in reverse.
Speaker 1: There you go. That's really cool. I like how you
Speaker 1: know it gets out of your eye line every now
Speaker 1: and then.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you don't have to steer it so you
Speaker 3: know else.
Speaker 1: He knows where it's going. How do it know? There
Speaker 1: you are? Oh? Yeah, well you could just do this
Speaker 1: all day?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Is he coming back? Ever? It will? Okay? I was
Speaker 1: thinking I screwed up your No, it's going to the
Speaker 1: actual Santa Fe.
Speaker 3: So here comes the yellow one and then yours will
Speaker 3: be right behind it. Ahha, we're like racing train really something.
Speaker 1: I guess I can.
Speaker 2: Lay that down and yeah.
Speaker 1: A picture. It's a busy day down here, folks down
Speaker 1: at the tracks, right nick, yep, there you go.
Speaker 4: All about Tryanaheim Cuckamonga and the ZUSA named that famous
Speaker 4: cartoon character.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're alone now, Oh wait, but wait this more. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's just too good.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, you're pro.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's just that easy. I'm a pro. It's
Speaker 1: sitting here watching it. Yeah, I've sat before.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Anyone who's seen my railroad can probably guess that. I'm
Speaker 3: a big Disney fan and a lot of this world
Speaker 3: and our railroad pulls inspiration from the park when we
Speaker 3: go and visit. I believe you've contributed to attractions at
Speaker 3: the Disney parks, including the Hondo Naka for Millennium Falcon
Speaker 3: Smuggler's Run. Yes, what was it like reimagining a character
Speaker 3: for a physical space instead of a TV screen? And
Speaker 3: did the process differ from none at all?
Speaker 2: Animation?
Speaker 1: That's the same thing, Yeah, because you don't really want
Speaker 1: to change anything. Yeah, because that's you know, the fact
Speaker 1: that he was the way he was and sarcastic and
Speaker 1: slightly tricky. All those traits are what got him there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you don't want to change it, yep, you
Speaker 2: know you.
Speaker 1: Want to give give the customer what they what they're
Speaker 1: looking for. And it's an amazing thing. You know. It's funny.
Speaker 1: I have an investment opportunity for you, my friend. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you one. Give me all your money and I
Speaker 1: will make sure it is spent very wisely, and I
Speaker 1: promise to keep you posted. Yeah, I'm sure.
Speaker 3: Was it a long time in the making when you
Speaker 3: knew about that ride, you know, from before it gets announced?
Speaker 1: No, I remember it was so crazy that Disney called
Speaker 1: me down to go to Imagineering, which is over in Glendale,
Speaker 1: and they're walking me through this incredible Now, when you're
Speaker 1: making a movie, they are you've heard, familiar with storyboards
Speaker 1: and things like that. They're almost like big giant posters
Speaker 1: of the whole movie. And my agent told me, he said, well,
Speaker 1: they're thinking in terms of doing using Hondo on a ride.
Speaker 1: They might do it. We're not sure. I said, oh, okay, well,
Speaker 1: so what am I doing? Well, they want you to
Speaker 1: go down and walk you through some stuff and see
Speaker 1: how you're if you like it, and I was like,
Speaker 1: of course I like it. I like it, and I
Speaker 1: haven't seen it yet, you know. But and I went
Speaker 1: down they're they're kind of pitching me. Now, we're thinking, now,
Speaker 1: let me know what you think of this, and is
Speaker 1: having him do this and that and have him greet people.
Speaker 1: But then then he's going to appear on a thing.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Does that sound on a screen? Is
Speaker 1: that going to be okay? And I go, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is great. And I realized they were pitching me the idea,
Speaker 1: and I go, just so you know, I think this
Speaker 1: is great. If you're waiting on me, I say, full
Speaker 1: speed ahead, Yeah, let's start recording. You know. I had
Speaker 1: that happen too with the with the movie Winnie the Pooh.
Speaker 1: They were pitching me this movie and I go, you can't.
Speaker 1: It feels like you're pitching me. They go, well, is
Speaker 1: it something you want to do? And I go, you
Speaker 1: couldn't stop me. Yes, the answer is yes, I would
Speaker 1: like to do that because that's what I do.
Speaker 3: And anyway, what was it like when you went on
Speaker 3: these attractions that you've worked on as a fun too?
Speaker 1: It was amazing. I didn't think it was going to
Speaker 1: be that cool. Yeah, I just I don't know, I
Speaker 1: just you know, I remember as a kid, much much
Speaker 1: younger going to Disney landing. Mister Lincoln was there. He
Speaker 1: was he was up and he gave the Gettysburg address
Speaker 1: at the Hall of Presidents or I can't remember what
Speaker 1: it was, but he was there. And I remember one
Speaker 1: time I went there and do wor score and seven
Speaker 1: years ago or forefather Kate, Oh, here we go, you know,
Speaker 1: and he was sitting there and this is you know,
Speaker 1: and I envisioned that, yeah, you know. And so when
Speaker 1: I finally went in to see the ride Millennium Falcons
Speaker 1: Smugglers Run, I walked there, you know where you walk
Speaker 1: in and there's a part where you walk. There's a
Speaker 1: part where you kind of stand and they move you.
Speaker 1: And it's really unbelievably cool. If anybody gets a chance
Speaker 1: to go. I can't recommend it enough. But there is
Speaker 1: a part where he's Hondo's up there and he's giving
Speaker 1: orders and doing this and that and holding forth and
Speaker 1: giving a speech to the people on the other end
Speaker 1: of the line, and he turns around and goes, oh,
Speaker 1: I didn't see you there. And he turns around and
Speaker 1: walks over and looks down at all the people down
Speaker 1: there and like, go, whoa, because you I'm still used
Speaker 1: to mister Lincoln. Yeah, you know. And mister Lincoln was
Speaker 1: not there, but Hondo was. He just turned around and
Speaker 1: walked over and gave you a hell. How you doing?
Speaker 1: What are you doing? Okay? All right, come on, everybody,
Speaker 1: buck up. Let's we're going for a ride. We don't
Speaker 1: have to tell Solo. We don't want him to worry
Speaker 1: about this, you know. And you go and you steal
Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff and Hondo gets to keep it. Yes,
Speaker 1: and it's a beautiful thing. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then you come up on the screen at the
Speaker 3: end and tallies up your damages.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 1: It's amazing.
Speaker 3: You've been the voice of Winnie the Pooh and Tigger
Speaker 3: for many decades now. How did you step into those roles?
Speaker 3: And what does it feel like to carry on characters
Speaker 3: that are so deeply woven into people's childhoods.
Speaker 1: Well, it's an honor. It's an honor for me.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: At the time when I first auditioned for Pooh and Tigger,
Speaker 1: it was twenty years since they had shown up from
Speaker 1: the New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. It was not
Speaker 1: New Adventures, but Winny the Poo and Tigger two Winned
Speaker 1: the Pooh in a Day for Eyre and Winned the Poo.
Speaker 1: There were those three shorts that they made, and they
Speaker 1: put the three of them together to make a feature
Speaker 1: length movie and they won an Academy Award in the
Speaker 1: early sixties, mid mid sixties, and then for some reason,
Speaker 1: they just didn't do anything for like twenty some years,
Speaker 1: which I was grateful for because it gave me a
Speaker 1: chance to grow up and then I could audition for them,
Speaker 1: because you know, I couldn't have done that in junior high.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, and I ended up getting the the the role
Speaker 1: of Winnie the Pooh. And uh, I don't think anybody
Speaker 1: expected it to blossom like it did because one series
Speaker 1: led to another and then they're, okay, well, now we're
Speaker 1: gonna do an attraction for Tokyo Disneyland. Now there's well
Speaker 1: one for Disney Disneyland. Don't forget Paris, you know. And
Speaker 1: it's one project after another, and and they keep coming
Speaker 1: up with the Tigger movie. Yeah, you know, and it's
Speaker 1: a it's a beautiful thing, and I'm I'm just blessed
Speaker 1: and very grateful, eternally grateful.
Speaker 2: So well, you do a great job all of your voices.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 5: M m hm.
Speaker 1: Did you have to make each little board or ah, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: because it looks I mean it almost this almost has
Speaker 1: to be custom because there's no kit.
Speaker 2: It's a very custom hobby.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, there's no not a kit. Can I have
Speaker 1: the standard incredible, trustfull and I naedive water tower and
Speaker 1: you know it's.
Speaker 3: Like no, yeah, you got to Yeah, I mean that's
Speaker 3: you know, it's it's very enjoyable because it's very creative.
Speaker 2: You know, you get to decide where the track goes.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And the other thing that other garden railroaders that I've
Speaker 3: had visit, that we've talked about is that every person's
Speaker 3: garden railroad is it's the same medium, but it's your
Speaker 3: own of Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, well I mean just by virtue of the terrain,
Speaker 1: it's going to be necessarily different. Yeah, I would think right.
Speaker 3: And I love I really love the gardening part of it,
Speaker 3: and again with making the videos.
Speaker 2: Having lots of lush greenery and trees.
Speaker 1: I like bonesie too. Yeah. I have a couple and
Speaker 1: that I've had for a long long time and it's
Speaker 1: really rewarding.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. Did you see did you notice the two redwoods here?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, so those that's so cool. Yeah, those were
Speaker 3: at a nursery in Pasadena. They were about eight feet tall.
Speaker 3: Kind of sad and dying. Really got him for really
Speaker 3: cheap cut him down about a year ago. And this
Speaker 3: one I wanted to look like an old growth with
Speaker 3: the kind of you know, dead wood up towards the.
Speaker 1: Top, like it's been hit by lightning.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So my railroad started as a curiosity.
Speaker 3: I didn't have a master plan for this, That's the
Speaker 3: question I get a lot. If I had, you know,
Speaker 3: track plans and drew it out. We just kind of
Speaker 3: went with it. It was a very artistic process.
Speaker 1: I think the terrain would dictate to a certain extent.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, well, and that what's cool about ours is
Speaker 3: that it was really just a flat yard. So all
Speaker 3: the all the miniature mountains and hills you see was
Speaker 3: I built those? You know, that's great shovel and lots
Speaker 3: of sweat and work too.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So for some neighbors going what are you doing?
Speaker 3: Yes, oh wow, okay, but had to keep keep going.
Speaker 1: How long have you had this baby?
Speaker 2: Going close to two years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and and like I said, it's it will never
Speaker 3: be done. Yeah yeah, because there's I understood. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: So for for someone young who feels that creative pool
Speaker 3: but doesn't know where to start, what advice do you give.
Speaker 1: Well, I it's always the same. It's a if you
Speaker 1: have a local theater, like from Youngstown, Ohio, we had
Speaker 1: the Youngstown Playhouse and they had children's theater department, and
Speaker 1: then there was you know, the adult and it was
Speaker 1: not professional. We're all amateurs. Nobody was being paid. And
Speaker 1: that's how I started. When I was a kid, I
Speaker 1: you know, i'd be ten years old. I didn't want
Speaker 1: to be the young prince. I didn't want to be
Speaker 1: the farm boy next door or whatever. I wanted to
Speaker 1: be the wizard or the troll who lived under the
Speaker 1: bridge or something, you know, And it's just extended my imagination,
Speaker 1: kind of pushed it to the limits because you know,
Speaker 1: you look at a you know, you look at a
Speaker 1: ten year old boy and he's only going to sound
Speaker 1: so many ways. But if maybe it's a ten year
Speaker 1: old gremlin, well that might be a little different. You know,
Speaker 1: that might be you know, come up with a different
Speaker 1: voice for that.
Speaker 3: It was such an honor to have you come visit
Speaker 3: the railroad, and we're so happy that you got to
Speaker 3: see it.
Speaker 1: Good stuff same here, Appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thank you, keep up the good work.
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