WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:03.120 I'm Colleen O'Shaughnessy and you're tuned In with Jim Cummings. 2 00:00:03.879 --> 00:00:06.400 If you're a fan of everything we do here at 3 00:00:06.400 --> 00:00:09.240 tuned In with Jim Cummings, you could support the show 4 00:00:09.279 --> 00:00:13.960 on Patreon for bonus exclusive podcasts, as well as early 5 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:18.039 in ad free access to the show itself, prize drawings, 6 00:00:18.079 --> 00:00:21.160 and more. You'll feel the difference, so go ahead and 7 00:00:21.239 --> 00:00:25.120 join the tuned In family today at patreon dot com 8 00:00:25.160 --> 00:00:31.000 slash Jim Cummings Podcast. Do it now? How you doing 9 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:34.560 out there? It's me Tigger, I am Dark Wayne Duck. 10 00:00:34.840 --> 00:00:37.920 It's me Bunkers Deep Bobcat. All right, y'all, did it 11 00:00:38.079 --> 00:00:42.280 Ray your favorite firefly you desire? Hondo, Old knock Guy. 12 00:00:42.600 --> 00:00:45.600 My name is Jim Cummings and welcome to tuned In. 13 00:00:47.240 --> 00:00:49.719 Welcome back, everybody to another episode of Tuned In with 14 00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:53.359 Jim Cummings. I'm producer Chris, joined by Brenda Dando. How 15 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:54.200 are you doing today, sir? 16 00:00:54.479 --> 00:00:54.719 Great? 17 00:00:54.719 --> 00:00:57.399 Thank you, and of course Jim Cummings. 18 00:00:57.719 --> 00:00:59.880 Hello everybody, thanks for joining us. 19 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:02.119 And today we have a very special guest. You know 20 00:01:02.159 --> 00:01:07.000 her from tons of iol Naruto digimon at south Park 21 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:10.879 Video Games played some superheroes. Colleen o shaughnessy, thanks for 22 00:01:10.920 --> 00:01:11.599 joining us today. 23 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:16.760 I'm so glad you made it me too, on this 24 00:01:16.920 --> 00:01:18.120 balmy day of ours. 25 00:01:18.120 --> 00:01:20.920 Here so cows a wee bit wet. 26 00:01:21.480 --> 00:01:24.359 Just a wee bit, but by god, we're high and dry, 27 00:01:24.599 --> 00:01:28.079 or or at least we're dry and maybe high. Later 28 00:01:28.200 --> 00:01:29.359 we'll work we'll work. 29 00:01:29.159 --> 00:01:29.760 On that later. 30 00:01:30.359 --> 00:01:31.959 But I didn't know that kind of podcast. 31 00:01:32.040 --> 00:01:36.599 Yes, well, thank goodness. It's not like I said later, 32 00:01:37.319 --> 00:01:40.439 But thanks for being here. This is so cool. And 33 00:01:40.480 --> 00:01:42.719 you know I always tend to always like to do 34 00:01:42.760 --> 00:01:46.319 my research. See, I'm taking this very seriously. Where am I? 35 00:01:46.439 --> 00:01:50.439 There we go, and I did my due diligence and 36 00:01:50.480 --> 00:01:55.040 what have you. And one, we have some interesting things 37 00:01:55.079 --> 00:02:01.359 in common, which the interesting ones, the interesting and no, 38 00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:05.640 but you're from Grand Rapids, Michigan. I'm not so okay, 39 00:02:05.719 --> 00:02:08.199 so not that right off the bat, we have that 40 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:11.919 not going for us, okay, but it says here that 41 00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:16.639 and this, Ye're officially the only person that I know 42 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:20.639 other than me who can say this. Not that we're bragging, 43 00:02:20.680 --> 00:02:22.879 but I'll brag about you and then I'll just get 44 00:02:22.879 --> 00:02:27.199 a little basking in your glory. But your first audition 45 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:31.159 was used as the job. Yes, andya tell us about 46 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:33.680 that one because that's real comment. 47 00:02:34.159 --> 00:02:37.280 Isn't that weird? So yeah, so I was. It was 48 00:02:37.319 --> 00:02:39.759 for a reporter Barbie book, and so I went all 49 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:45.280 the way down to oh gosh, what's the toys, the 50 00:02:45.960 --> 00:02:47.280 Mattel Mattel thank you? 51 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:47.759 Oh my gosh. 52 00:02:47.759 --> 00:02:49.199 So I had to go down what is an el 53 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:51.800 segundo or somewhere really far And this was back in 54 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:54.759 the Thomas Guide days. So I was like, how do 55 00:02:54.879 --> 00:02:56.919 I get there. I didn't have my fancy phone with 56 00:02:56.960 --> 00:02:59.240 the GPS to tell me exactly, you know, in five 57 00:02:59.319 --> 00:02:59.800 hundred feet. 58 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:02.800 Yeah, the phone was like a shoe box back then, 59 00:03:02.840 --> 00:03:03.960 as I recall, even though. 60 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:05.280 If I had one at that point, I think I 61 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:07.319 still had a pager. But it was really cool though. 62 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:10.840 I was see through and green, so that's fun. But yeah, No, 63 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:13.639 I went down there and it was like so secretive. 64 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:15.800 It was, you know, this was before we had to 65 00:03:15.960 --> 00:03:19.479 sign NDAs. I think they just I maybe signed something 66 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:21.719 when I got there, but they literally had somebody go 67 00:03:21.759 --> 00:03:24.919 to the bathroom with me because everything was like They're like, 68 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:27.080 don't look at anything. I was like wow, And they 69 00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:30.319 had this really small little recording booth in the back 70 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:32.719 of the offices, and I had to have somebody with 71 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:34.240 me at all times, and there was a badge and 72 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:35.240 this was just the audition. 73 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:37.639 I was like, wow, and this is the audition. 74 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:40.680 This was the audition. So I went and you know, 75 00:03:40.719 --> 00:03:43.479 and I did my thing, and I was playing Skipper 76 00:03:43.680 --> 00:03:45.280 Barbie's her little sister. 77 00:03:45.879 --> 00:03:47.840 I think, yeah, I think it's her sister, kind of 78 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:49.719 like Batman and Robin Barbie. 79 00:03:49.759 --> 00:03:51.919 And I remember I had growing up Skipper. 80 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:54.360 Arm and. 81 00:03:56.240 --> 00:03:57.960 But no, so I went back and I did my thing, 82 00:03:58.159 --> 00:04:00.360 It's fun to be a reporter, and did it a 83 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:00.919 bunch of times. 84 00:04:00.919 --> 00:04:01.240 That was it. 85 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:03.639 That was the only line. And then I don't know, 86 00:04:04.159 --> 00:04:06.639 that was it, and we did it. I don't know, 87 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:09.120 probably how many times. 88 00:04:09.719 --> 00:04:10.000 That's all. 89 00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:12.240 She said, it's fun to be a reporter. It's fun 90 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:14.560 to be a reporter, and so that and that was it. 91 00:04:14.599 --> 00:04:17.639 And then my agent was like, well, you booked that thing, 92 00:04:17.639 --> 00:04:19.560 but good news, you don't have to go do it 93 00:04:19.639 --> 00:04:23.720 because they're just using that. And and then whenever when 94 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:25.000 it came out, because it was on one of those 95 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:28.839 books that you push the button and right sure, yeah, yeah, 96 00:04:28.839 --> 00:04:30.560 and it was like, you know, it was like it 97 00:04:30.600 --> 00:04:32.279 had it was a book, and then the side. 98 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:35.079 Had all the little right the responses. 99 00:04:35.319 --> 00:04:37.360 Yeah, and my button was skipper and you pushed it 100 00:04:37.439 --> 00:04:39.240 and it was fun to be a reporter. And my 101 00:04:39.319 --> 00:04:41.240 mom thought, I don't know how many of them because 102 00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:41.600 that was. 103 00:04:41.560 --> 00:04:45.759 The very Yeah. 104 00:04:44.600 --> 00:04:45.319 Do you still have it? 105 00:04:45.920 --> 00:04:48.920 We do, but the battery is dead. And I don't know, 106 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:51.040 like I think it's those small disc ones, but it's 107 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:53.000 a different size. I don't know if I can even 108 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:54.120 find it. 109 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:54.519 I don't know. 110 00:04:54.639 --> 00:04:58.000 Yeah. Yeah, that was the very first one official paying 111 00:04:58.839 --> 00:04:59.639 vo games. Ye. 112 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:01.839 Yeah, you and I are the only people I know 113 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:06.360 that can make that statement. So what we're pretty darn cool, nice, 114 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:10.079 you know. And it was mine was for and I 115 00:05:10.120 --> 00:05:12.319 didn't even have an agent at the time, but I 116 00:05:12.399 --> 00:05:15.439 heard about this mysterious place on Kowenga Boulevard called the 117 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:19.759 Voicecaster Bob Lloyd, God Rest his Soul, and I made 118 00:05:19.800 --> 00:05:21.319 a demo tape and somebody said, well, you have to 119 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:23.720 go see Bob Bloyd. Okay. I went to see Bob 120 00:05:23.720 --> 00:05:25.959 Bloyd and he said, so, who's your agent, He goes, 121 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:28.680 and I told, well, I don't. I don't have an agent. 122 00:05:29.439 --> 00:05:33.120 Kathy Purdisic was there she goes, okay, well here, shut 123 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:35.519 up and read this, which is hard to do, uh, 124 00:05:35.879 --> 00:05:40.040 because I did them separately. And a couple of days later, 125 00:05:41.040 --> 00:05:43.399 I get a phone call and they said, well, oh 126 00:05:43.480 --> 00:05:46.000 you got the job. And it was for Haunted. It 127 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:47.959 was a toy haunted house. They were going to use 128 00:05:47.959 --> 00:05:50.879 it a toy fair, I guess, whatever that is. And 129 00:05:51.560 --> 00:05:55.360 it was for Mattel's Haunted House. And I was the 130 00:05:55.480 --> 00:05:59.920 voice the haunted those and I probably sounded something like that. 131 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:03.519 I can't remember. But and and like I said, I 132 00:06:03.759 --> 00:06:05.639 thought I died and went to heaven. They called up 133 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:07.399 and they go, well you got the job, and I go, oh, 134 00:06:07.519 --> 00:06:11.279 that's great. I could go to another real recording studio 135 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:14.160 and talk onto a microphone like the big kids. 136 00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:14.079 You know. 137 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:17.199 And they go nope. But but isn't that funny? 138 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:18.920 Because I was disappointed too. 139 00:06:19.319 --> 00:06:19.560 Yeah. 140 00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:22.000 I was like, oh I had that weird secretive thing. 141 00:06:22.079 --> 00:06:26.240 And then I mean, yay, but oh but wow, yeah, 142 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:29.079 And did you think that? Because I thought, oh, well, 143 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:32.920 then I'm going to do this forever. You audition, they 144 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:35.240 use the audition, you get a check out the oil. 145 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:36.680 That's going to happen every time. 146 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:39.639 Right, Okay, has that ever happened to you? 147 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:40.879 Since never happened again? 148 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:45.759 Maybe no same here, same you anything? Never? How could 149 00:06:45.759 --> 00:06:45.959 it be. 150 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:50.160 My second audition? Oh wow, yeah, that's from the one hundred. 151 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:53.040 Oh that's right, Yeah, that's right, it was my second audition. 152 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:53.839 Nice. 153 00:06:54.839 --> 00:06:56.879 See he had to wait, I know, he had to 154 00:06:56.920 --> 00:07:01.920 suffer like it was a big Oh man, that's that 155 00:07:02.040 --> 00:07:03.759 is so my second. 156 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:06.240 I don't remember how many in it was, but definitely 157 00:07:06.279 --> 00:07:06.920 not number two. 158 00:07:07.240 --> 00:07:11.199 Yeah. Yeah, and we both broke in without an agent. 159 00:07:12.120 --> 00:07:14.439 Nice I had an agent. 160 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:17.560 And nowadays should we should we save that for the 161 00:07:17.639 --> 00:07:19.120 end to tell everybody how to get to you? 162 00:07:19.439 --> 00:07:19.560 Oh? 163 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:22.920 Okay, or we say it now, let's say it now, 164 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:25.720 we'll do it again at the end. We'll give them 165 00:07:25.759 --> 00:07:29.040 a double whammy. So while you're busy falling in love 166 00:07:29.079 --> 00:07:31.600 with this amazing woman, you could contact her and give 167 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:32.800 her too much money. 168 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:34.759 At Arlene Thornton and Associates. 169 00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:42.319 Please don't hold your applause. Thanks you, thank you for that. 170 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:45.800 We're good to go. So so, we're glad. 171 00:07:45.560 --> 00:07:46.000 To have you. 172 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:51.040 And you're from Troy, Michigan, Troy, Michigan, and that's where 173 00:07:51.079 --> 00:07:55.839 I'm not from. Not far away, not far away in 174 00:07:55.920 --> 00:08:00.439 Youngstown and it's it's a were you inspired to? Because 175 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:03.560 I was inspired to do anything that meant leave Youngstown. 176 00:08:03.639 --> 00:08:07.240 Love Youngstown, but not couldn't do it. Couldn't do it? 177 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:10.040 No, you know, I loved where I grew up. I 178 00:08:10.079 --> 00:08:13.319 went to the University of Michigan, and funny enough, this 179 00:08:13.480 --> 00:08:15.439 was not the plan. This was not the original plan. 180 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:18.759 The original plan was I was doing a double major 181 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:23.399 at University of Michigan in musical theater and psychology. But that, 182 00:08:23.480 --> 00:08:25.879 you know, wasn't the plan to really I was going 183 00:08:25.920 --> 00:08:28.040 to meld those together. Then I was going to go 184 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:30.079 to grad school and do music therapy. 185 00:08:30.519 --> 00:08:31.519 What is music therapy? 186 00:08:31.560 --> 00:08:32.039 No kidding? 187 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:35.960 Well, so it's, you know, doing therapy using music. And 188 00:08:36.399 --> 00:08:40.600 I had worked at a senior center, like an adult 189 00:08:40.600 --> 00:08:43.240 care facility, and I really, I really enjoyed it. So 190 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:46.240 I was going to do music therapy and geriatrics. I figured, 191 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:48.879 you know, everybody loves listen to some kind of music, 192 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:51.720 no matter what it is. Everybody has something that. 193 00:08:51.639 --> 00:08:53.440 They listened to, whatever that genre mauld be. 194 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:57.720 And I kind of connected with these elderly people with 195 00:08:58.200 --> 00:09:00.759 I have a very strange had a lot of songs 196 00:09:00.759 --> 00:09:01.080 in my head. 197 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:07.480 You're doing great now, person skills, thank you. 198 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:10.679 No, there was an Alzheimer's woman who she kept. She 199 00:09:10.799 --> 00:09:13.279 was a really great escape artist and I was just 200 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:15.399 helping out in the kitchen the dining room. 201 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:17.679 She just like a great escape. 202 00:09:17.799 --> 00:09:20.679 She would like get out of her wing like the 203 00:09:20.799 --> 00:09:24.039 area where common like, oh there was Beulah again. Off 204 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:26.720 she goes run it. And she was fast. She was 205 00:09:26.759 --> 00:09:28.879 really fast. And so I happened to be in the 206 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:29.759 hallway like. 207 00:09:29.919 --> 00:09:32.720 Whatever was bringing napkins or something to the diner. 208 00:09:32.799 --> 00:09:34.320 I can't remember what I was doing, but it was 209 00:09:34.360 --> 00:09:36.559 just me and Beulah, and I knew Bulla wasn't where 210 00:09:36.559 --> 00:09:38.279 she was supposed to be. So I started singing to her. 211 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:43.120 I sang that I'm just conjured up an old timey song. 212 00:09:43.159 --> 00:09:47.679 I'm like dazy day, give me your rants are true. 213 00:09:47.799 --> 00:09:49.679 And I just started and she started singing with me, 214 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:52.559 and we just started walking back down the hallway where 215 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:55.200 she was supposed to go. And I was like, somebody 216 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:56.759 come get Beulah. 217 00:09:57.559 --> 00:09:58.519 I'm not George. 218 00:09:59.639 --> 00:10:01.720 So that was the plan I was. And I found 219 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:04.840 a program at Dayton University in Dane, Ohio, and that 220 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:07.679 was the plan. Two majors at University. 221 00:10:07.399 --> 00:10:11.320 Of Michigan was a lot, and by like, I. 222 00:10:11.279 --> 00:10:14.120 Was determined to finish. But year four I. 223 00:10:14.039 --> 00:10:14.720 Was like, I can't. 224 00:10:15.559 --> 00:10:17.519 I can't do any more school. And I didn't know 225 00:10:17.519 --> 00:10:18.759 what I was going to do because I didn't want 226 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:21.159 to go to New York Chicago. 227 00:10:21.320 --> 00:10:23.399 That's what everybody did back then. I mean it was 228 00:10:23.440 --> 00:10:24.720 like yeah. 229 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:26.519 And I didn't want to do it. And and Chicago 230 00:10:26.639 --> 00:10:30.559 at the time was very serious, you know, you had 231 00:10:30.559 --> 00:10:33.159 to be like a serious actor. And not that I 232 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:35.000 wasn't serious about what I was doing, but I was like, 233 00:10:35.679 --> 00:10:36.879 were are my jazz hands? 234 00:10:36.960 --> 00:10:37.039 Like? 235 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:39.679 I didn't. Yeah, well, it's more of a thing where 236 00:10:39.679 --> 00:10:42.679 you have to take yourself seriously. Yes, I know what 237 00:10:42.720 --> 00:10:48.879 you meant by that. I just was like, yeah, acting. 238 00:10:47.759 --> 00:10:51.480 Yeah, all I could just that wasn't me. And I 239 00:10:51.519 --> 00:10:53.399 was like, I want to be funny and silly, like 240 00:10:53.759 --> 00:10:56.279 that's where my that's my jam is the funny and 241 00:10:56.320 --> 00:11:00.720 the silly and the jazz hands. So I always just 242 00:11:00.759 --> 00:11:01.240 did voices. 243 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:02.200 They just kind of came out. 244 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:04.480 And at the end of a dance class at Michigan, 245 00:11:04.840 --> 00:11:06.519 my dancing structor came running. 246 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:08.240 Over and she was like, was that you? And I'm like, 247 00:11:08.519 --> 00:11:09.399 I'm sorry. 248 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:11.879 They just come out. I didn't. She goes, no, you 249 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:14.480 need to do voiceover. That was you know, she was 250 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:17.600 blown away and it didn't occur to me that that 251 00:11:17.639 --> 00:11:19.799 could be a job like it, just like I watched 252 00:11:19.919 --> 00:11:22.799 the crap out of cartoons. Yeah, yeah, everything I went 253 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:24.879 around the house, it had. 254 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:27.080 To be somebody else. Yeah, And back in the day, 255 00:11:27.080 --> 00:11:30.600 it really was only like X amount of people. You know, 256 00:11:30.679 --> 00:11:35.320 June for a maybe me mel blank, you know, I 257 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:39.159 think I think trust would be that the next lady. Gosh, 258 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:43.799 when it comes to you know, Grand grand Dams of Vo, 259 00:11:44.039 --> 00:11:47.559 there's June for a and then you have to kind 260 00:11:47.559 --> 00:11:49.240 of scratch your head for a while, and then kep 261 00:11:49.399 --> 00:11:53.000 Tress McNeil, you know, she's yeah, carrying the towards these 262 00:11:53.080 --> 00:11:57.440 days and now you well, gosh, I. 263 00:11:57.360 --> 00:12:02.039 Mean happy to be lumped in with those amazing but yeah, 264 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:03.960 so you know, so that was it for me. Once 265 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:05.600 I heard that, I was like, Okay, well, how do 266 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:06.120 I do that? 267 00:12:06.240 --> 00:12:06.919 I'm in Michigan. 268 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:07.799 How does that work? 269 00:12:08.159 --> 00:12:11.559 How did your family react? Because you have a theatrical family, correct. 270 00:12:11.399 --> 00:12:14.519 I do? My mom? So, my mom always there was 271 00:12:14.559 --> 00:12:17.639 always singing. It always stemmed from music, So there was 272 00:12:17.679 --> 00:12:21.960 always singing in our house. And my sister started doing theaters. 273 00:12:21.960 --> 00:12:24.840 She's the one that older, younger, younger, almost. 274 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:25.279 Five years younger. 275 00:12:25.799 --> 00:12:28.279 So she started us out and she auditioned. 276 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:29.720 That was Katie. 277 00:12:29.879 --> 00:12:35.639 Yep, Katy beautiful Katy. She yes, So she started. She 278 00:12:35.919 --> 00:12:40.200 auditioned for local production of Annie, and we sat through 279 00:12:40.320 --> 00:12:43.720 like two hundred renditions of coming see you know Soun's 280 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:47.559 coming out tomorrow, and she got up She literally was 281 00:12:47.600 --> 00:12:50.200 like number two O six or something. I don't think 282 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:51.879 we were there from the very beginning, but it was. 283 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:54.759 It was a lot of people are auditioning. 284 00:12:54.799 --> 00:12:58.159 Friend, amaze anybody. Everybody wanted to be an Annie. 285 00:12:58.480 --> 00:12:59.000 That's true. 286 00:12:59.039 --> 00:13:01.559 Everybody did. And every kid that every person that had 287 00:13:01.559 --> 00:13:03.879 a kid that could maybe fit in that angury age 288 00:13:03.960 --> 00:13:07.600 range showed up to that theater. She got up there 289 00:13:07.639 --> 00:13:09.840 and like, like I said, there was always music in 290 00:13:09.879 --> 00:13:12.519 her house. We were always singing. But she got up 291 00:13:12.519 --> 00:13:15.440 there and we were like, who knew she could sing 292 00:13:15.559 --> 00:13:17.759 like that? Like that she could just I mean, she 293 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:20.600 belted that sucker right out. And she was sort of 294 00:13:20.600 --> 00:13:23.639 in between ages. She wasn't old enough to be Annie, 295 00:13:23.639 --> 00:13:26.080 but she wasn't young enough to be I think Mollie 296 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:30.080 is the littlest one, so she I think she was 297 00:13:30.120 --> 00:13:33.159 like an understudy for tests and then she was just 298 00:13:33.639 --> 00:13:39.159 but she was in every episode, every episode, every performance. 299 00:13:40.120 --> 00:13:43.919 She was like, you know whatever, Warbucks once yeah, yeah, 300 00:13:44.080 --> 00:13:47.440 at a Thousand Oaks. And my daughter Raleigh, she's an actress, 301 00:13:47.440 --> 00:13:51.759 and she she was Pepper, the tough little yes, you know, 302 00:13:52.279 --> 00:13:56.879 a little orphan yeah yeah. And that theaters theater is 303 00:13:56.879 --> 00:13:58.320 it isn't it? Don't you love it? 304 00:13:58.679 --> 00:14:01.159 I absolutely love it. I don't get to do it enough. 305 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:05.440 I was doing this improv group for a while. The 306 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:07.639 empty stage was great because it was period pieces. We 307 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:11.720 would just take the radio scripts from the thirties, forties, 308 00:14:11.720 --> 00:14:14.720 fifties and perform them live and dress in period costume. 309 00:14:14.759 --> 00:14:16.279 But we'd do it like a radio place, so we'd 310 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:18.679 hold our scripts and how you know. He got old 311 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:21.960 timey microphones and stuff, and that was fantastic because that 312 00:14:22.080 --> 00:14:26.120 was my little like and almost everybody up there were improvisers, 313 00:14:26.519 --> 00:14:28.559 so we kind of go off script a little bit 314 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:29.679 and it was just a blast. 315 00:14:29.799 --> 00:14:30.440 Oh that's good. 316 00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:33.720 He moved to Portland, so we've done it. He's come 317 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:35.080 back a couple of times, but I haven't. 318 00:14:35.639 --> 00:14:36.399 It's been a few years. 319 00:14:36.399 --> 00:14:39.200 It was he weird because I understand keep Portland weird as. 320 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:40.159 He's pretty good. 321 00:14:40.879 --> 00:14:45.440 Okay, so we all it made sense? Miss it is? Yeah, 322 00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:48.600 I have to agree. Yeah, what's that supposed to me anyway? 323 00:14:48.759 --> 00:14:52.879 I mean, do you ever improvise lines when you're recording. 324 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:54.320 For when they let us? 325 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:55.120 Yeah? 326 00:14:55.480 --> 00:14:58.279 I mean, I mean I don't out there. I guess 327 00:14:58.279 --> 00:15:00.399 every once in a while. If I know that and 328 00:15:00.440 --> 00:15:04.279 I know the you know, the vibe in the room, 329 00:15:04.600 --> 00:15:06.519 I might you know, sometimes you just can't help yourself. 330 00:15:06.519 --> 00:15:07.759 You just throw zingers out there. 331 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:10.960 But you know, I'm a I'm a team player, so 332 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:14.200 I stick to the script if I'm supposed to. 333 00:15:15.200 --> 00:15:19.639 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm a notorious ad liber and 334 00:15:19.840 --> 00:15:22.799 and I've been known to screw people up because they 335 00:15:22.840 --> 00:15:26.360 don't know are you done? Are you done? You know, 336 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:27.799 they're looking at their watch. 337 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:28.360 You know. 338 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:32.039 So yeah, thank god for editing we have. It's hard 339 00:15:32.039 --> 00:15:34.279 to do that live because the other guys sitting there 340 00:15:34.279 --> 00:15:40.639 going yeah, yeah, yeah. 341 00:15:41.240 --> 00:15:43.080 I have a question about a role that I haven't 342 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:45.440 seen you talk about on any other podcasts or anything 343 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:47.480 like that. And maybe you have and I just didn't 344 00:15:47.519 --> 00:15:49.919 see it, But you played the new Kid's mom. In 345 00:15:49.960 --> 00:15:52.480 the south Park video game, And I wanted to ask 346 00:15:52.519 --> 00:15:54.200 you because I played that video game. I'll played both 347 00:15:54.200 --> 00:15:55.440 of them, and I thought that I thought it was 348 00:15:55.480 --> 00:15:58.000 so much fun because it feels like you're you're actually 349 00:15:58.039 --> 00:15:59.200 in an episode of south Park. 350 00:15:59.279 --> 00:15:59.399 Right. 351 00:15:59.399 --> 00:16:03.000 They did those gets phenomenally, But the storyline, I mean, 352 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:04.960 when you saw that script for anybody who doesn't know, 353 00:16:05.039 --> 00:16:08.960 like literally you're you're a south Park character, and you're 354 00:16:09.639 --> 00:16:14.120 a child of a very domestic, abusive household. Correct, the 355 00:16:14.440 --> 00:16:17.159 parents are always fighting, you know, they're literally cussing out 356 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:19.240 each other back and forth anytime you walk in the room. 357 00:16:19.799 --> 00:16:21.679 And then i'd say, in the climax of the game, 358 00:16:21.720 --> 00:16:23.000 I'm talking about the Fractured. 359 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:27.799 But hoole, it is such a great title. 360 00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:32.879 The climax of the game, you as a character literally 361 00:16:32.919 --> 00:16:35.200 have to choose between killing your mom and your dad. 362 00:16:35.399 --> 00:16:38.639 As these characters. No, no, you're not the kid, but 363 00:16:38.919 --> 00:16:41.679 you're the character who's begging, you know, kill daddy, killed 364 00:16:41.759 --> 00:16:44.720 daddy or the other you know, the dad's saying kill mommy, 365 00:16:44.759 --> 00:16:46.840 kill mommy, and they're both in this like torture chamber. 366 00:16:47.320 --> 00:16:49.720 And like even for south Park, that's done. You know, 367 00:16:49.799 --> 00:16:53.399 it's really and who knows if they I don't even know. 368 00:16:53.600 --> 00:16:55.960 Maybe you know they got away with more because it 369 00:16:56.000 --> 00:16:58.080 was a video game rather than TV. I don't know. 370 00:16:58.120 --> 00:16:59.559 I just want to know your thoughts when you saw 371 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:01.519 that script and this is what you're going to be happening, 372 00:17:01.960 --> 00:17:04.759 was your emotions? What's your reaction to that? 373 00:17:05.160 --> 00:17:10.920 Well, the more uncomfortable part was all of the behind 374 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:13.440 closed doors scenes. You know, there was a lot of 375 00:17:15.079 --> 00:17:19.039 intimacy between the parents. Yeah, and that was you know, 376 00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:21.319 when you're seeing a booth by yourself and there, you know, 377 00:17:21.359 --> 00:17:23.079 there's a window and they can see it. I'm like, okay, 378 00:17:23.160 --> 00:17:25.680 just don't don't watch, don't look at me, you know, 379 00:17:25.799 --> 00:17:31.160 like because who knows what your face is doing. But 380 00:17:31.240 --> 00:17:33.160 there was a lot of that. That was the more 381 00:17:34.319 --> 00:17:38.480 uncomfortable thing for me. Is that weird? That's I mean, 382 00:17:38.519 --> 00:17:40.920 I'm good with beg my life. I mean, you know, 383 00:17:41.240 --> 00:17:49.799 let my character live episode relationships. So but yeah, and 384 00:17:49.799 --> 00:17:52.400 that was when I was like, Okay, definitely, kid cannot 385 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:58.119 play this game for sure, no, no, no, yeah, yeah, 386 00:17:58.119 --> 00:17:59.279 and some of his friends did. 387 00:17:59.359 --> 00:18:02.960 And did you get a record with Matt and Tree. 388 00:18:03.279 --> 00:18:08.079 Sort of it's it's they have an interesting method, like 389 00:18:09.559 --> 00:18:12.440 one or the other is sometimes in there when you start, 390 00:18:13.039 --> 00:18:16.880 but often and I forget which one does the recording, 391 00:18:17.799 --> 00:18:20.680 somebody records it. And because he wants that cadence. So 392 00:18:20.759 --> 00:18:23.799 that's a little bit it's hard to like, like because 393 00:18:23.799 --> 00:18:26.920 for me having a music background and I have a 394 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:29.799 really good ear, and so if they play something for me, 395 00:18:30.359 --> 00:18:33.119 I want to do that. That's what my brain wants 396 00:18:33.160 --> 00:18:36.000 to do. But I have to do whatever character that 397 00:18:36.039 --> 00:18:39.359 I'm doing, so to do his cadence, and this character 398 00:18:39.480 --> 00:18:40.319 is a little. 399 00:18:41.519 --> 00:18:42.000 Challenging. 400 00:18:42.200 --> 00:18:43.960 Yeah, it's a little mixed up in your head a 401 00:18:43.960 --> 00:18:46.680