WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:03.759 Hey everybody, Jim Cummings here. Welcome to my podcast, tuned 2 00:00:03.799 --> 00:00:07.200 In with Jim Cummings. We have a great guest for 3 00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:10.080 you today, but before we get to that, make sure 4 00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:14.880 you like and subscribe. Our podcast has partnered with the 5 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:19.960 largest comic con in North America, fan Expo, the Juggernaut. 6 00:00:20.359 --> 00:00:24.239 We're touring all over North America live, so get your 7 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:27.239 tickets and come be a part of the live audience. 8 00:00:27.320 --> 00:00:28.039 It'll be fun. 9 00:00:28.359 --> 00:00:32.280 Go to FANEXPOHQ dot com for the tickets. We'll see 10 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:35.520 you in a city near you or a little bit away, 11 00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:38.560 but you can drive. 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I am producer Chris, joined as always by 33 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:37.400 the legend himself, mister Jim Cummings. How are you doing today, sir? 34 00:01:37.560 --> 00:01:41.560 It's another day in paradise, especially on account of because. 35 00:01:44.280 --> 00:01:46.599 We have Irene Better joining us today. Thank you so 36 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:47.439 much for being here. 37 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:49.040 I'm so glad to be here. 38 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:50.640 Thank you, Thank you, Jim. 39 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:55.120 It is so nice to see you, and because oftentimes 40 00:01:55.159 --> 00:01:57.519 I'll see you and there's a line of people in 41 00:01:57.519 --> 00:01:59.840 front of you and I can't barely see you because 42 00:01:59.840 --> 00:02:02.560 you're signing autographs and having too much fun. 43 00:02:02.599 --> 00:02:05.000 And thanks for being here. Thank you very much for 44 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:05.959 maybe a little. 45 00:02:05.719 --> 00:02:06.519 But you can't stop me. 46 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:09.879 Do you want to just tell the audience a little 47 00:02:09.919 --> 00:02:12.639 bit about yourself? Of course you're the voice of Pocahontas, 48 00:02:12.719 --> 00:02:14.520 but do you want to elaborate a little bit for 49 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:15.479 anybody who may not. 50 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:22.400 Know sure, I'm Irene. She was the goddess of peace Pocahontas. 51 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:26.000 We talk about the Pocahontas of peace as well. And 52 00:02:26.240 --> 00:02:30.960 my Nupiac name is good Dirk, which means one who dropped. 53 00:02:31.439 --> 00:02:33.159 So when I was growing up, I didn't know. I 54 00:02:33.199 --> 00:02:36.280 thought that I was going to be clumsy or something, 55 00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:39.039 but really it was one who fell from the sky. 56 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:41.199 Oh wow, yeah, well that's not bad. 57 00:02:41.400 --> 00:02:44.360 Yeah. And then my Crea name is iron Woman. So 58 00:02:44.439 --> 00:02:48.360 I'm a Nupiac and Upick and may Ti Cree and 59 00:02:48.840 --> 00:02:53.120 I'm very proud to say that i am indigenous to 60 00:02:53.159 --> 00:02:56.800 this nation, but I'm part of the human nation, and 61 00:02:57.080 --> 00:03:00.840 i am an actor that has been had the honor 62 00:03:01.039 --> 00:03:05.759 and to be able to tell hundreds of stories of 63 00:03:05.759 --> 00:03:06.680 indigenous women. 64 00:03:06.840 --> 00:03:10.080 So oh that's great. Oh wow, I feel like clapping. 65 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:13.439 That was very profound. 66 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:15.280 That was that was wonderful. 67 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:18.039 I wish my name meant something that important. 68 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:20.360 Yeah. Yeah, min. 69 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:25.960 My middle name is Joe. Joe, I mean, okay, let's 70 00:03:26.800 --> 00:03:27.439 ready to sleep. 71 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:31.319 Irene Bedard is my was my given name growing up. 72 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:33.759 But we're given our names in the New back way 73 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:38.680 before we're born, and it's a form of reincarnation in 74 00:03:38.719 --> 00:03:41.199 a way that we're given our names from our grandparents, 75 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:44.159 and our grandparents are the one who usually get it 76 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:47.479 from their grandparents, and so when they're you're given that name, 77 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:51.400 it's like you're given the the air, the breath, the heartbeat, 78 00:03:51.639 --> 00:03:54.960 and the responsibilities of the person who carried that name 79 00:03:55.000 --> 00:04:00.199 before you. And so to me, it's it's uh, just 80 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:05.039 a beautiful way to understand how interconnected we all are 81 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:09.360 and that we're all also part of this deep time, 82 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:13.280 that we're the love of a thousand ancestors. And so 83 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:17.040 when I get the chance to play different characters that 84 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:20.199 come from our history, in a way, I feel like 85 00:04:20.240 --> 00:04:23.920 I'm given the opportunity to bring their spirit back to life. 86 00:04:24.040 --> 00:04:29.040 Wow, that's beautiful. Well, I'm named after my grandpa. He 87 00:04:29.240 --> 00:04:33.480 was James Joseph too. I mean, the most common names 88 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:34.040 in the world. 89 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:35.000 But you win. 90 00:04:35.639 --> 00:04:39.639 I mean, gosh, that's beautiful. That's a beautiful tradition. It's 91 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:42.519 great to be a part of that, isn't it. You know, 92 00:04:42.680 --> 00:04:45.920 it's something that you bring with you throughout your life. 93 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:48.160 And I think that's in a lot of ways, what 94 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:55.360 like this prevailing society is searching for missing wanting that 95 00:04:56.079 --> 00:05:01.639 connection to deep time. That connection elders and our connection 96 00:05:01.800 --> 00:05:04.279 to the earth and all the creatures that live upon it. 97 00:05:05.399 --> 00:05:10.000 That's what I mean. We're all indigenous. We all had drums, songs, stories, 98 00:05:10.079 --> 00:05:12.720 relationships to the earth, relationship to our elders and the 99 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:17.800 coming generations, and songs and stories that related to where 100 00:05:17.839 --> 00:05:20.079 we came from and who we are as a community 101 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:22.720 of people. That's what a culture and a tribe is, 102 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:25.199 and we all came from that. It's just that the 103 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:27.279 prevailing society has paved over. 104 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:32.480 It, paved over it. Boy, that's well said. Gosh, that's 105 00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:34.879 that's very poetic. Goodness. 106 00:05:35.319 --> 00:05:37.600 Well, I'm an actor. I'm a storyteller, though. 107 00:05:37.519 --> 00:05:37.800 That's it. 108 00:05:38.360 --> 00:05:40.720 Well, I was just about to say storytelling seems to 109 00:05:40.800 --> 00:05:42.480 be very very important to you. 110 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:45.920 Yes, yeah, I think that's you know, I made a 111 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:48.439 mission and vision statement for myself at my halfway to 112 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:52.439 hundred party then, and that was to heal through the 113 00:05:52.480 --> 00:05:54.439 power and art of storytelling. 114 00:05:55.879 --> 00:06:00.000 Yeah, good for you, And and here you are continue. 115 00:06:00.959 --> 00:06:03.040 Well, thank you. That's got any more. 116 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:08.279 I feel like, well, you can I call you at night? 117 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:11.319 I mean, would you read me one of. 118 00:06:11.279 --> 00:06:13.839 Those that's beautiful I find? 119 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:17.240 Oh sorry, I was just gonna chime in and say, 120 00:06:17.279 --> 00:06:20.040 I find it interesting. You know, the almost one hundred 121 00:06:20.040 --> 00:06:21.959 people that we've talked to on this podcast so far, 122 00:06:22.040 --> 00:06:25.800 you know, everybody from you know, actors to voice actors, 123 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:30.360 to artists to historians. It's really interesting. The one through 124 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:33.319 line that seems to connect most, not all, people in 125 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:37.839 this industry is storytelling, you know, and that's I think 126 00:06:37.839 --> 00:06:39.800 that's I mean me as an you know, I'm an 127 00:06:39.839 --> 00:06:41.920 actor as well, I'm a performer as well. That's always 128 00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:44.879 been the one thing that's drawn me to, you know, performing, 129 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:48.720 is storytelling. I mean I used to be the annoying 130 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:50.439 little kid in the car and my dad would be like, 131 00:06:50.680 --> 00:06:51.879 stop making up stories. 132 00:06:53.240 --> 00:06:56.839 It happens next Now it happens exactly. 133 00:06:57.319 --> 00:07:00.480 And I think that's something that's kind of over shadowed 134 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:04.160 in today's society, is storytelling. I mean, it's one of 135 00:07:04.199 --> 00:07:07.639 the things that makes us, you know, unique from other animals. 136 00:07:07.680 --> 00:07:09.959 You know, we've been telling stories since we were cavemen, 137 00:07:10.040 --> 00:07:13.680 you know, drawing paintings on walls, and that's how we've 138 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:17.439 passed along knowledge through so many generations. And I feel 139 00:07:17.480 --> 00:07:18.839 like it's, i don't know, kind. 140 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:21.240 Of slightly a lost art. 141 00:07:21.439 --> 00:07:24.800 It's not viewed as so valuable in this society. I 142 00:07:24.839 --> 00:07:26.040 don't know, what do you guys think? 143 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:29.800 Yeah, yeah, that's a good point. Well, everything's hurry up, 144 00:07:29.879 --> 00:07:31.879 let's get it over. But come on, hey, come on, 145 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:34.920 let's go, you know, and you can't. You got to 146 00:07:34.959 --> 00:07:37.199 slow down and let that wash over you. 147 00:07:37.560 --> 00:07:40.319 I think, yeah, And I think our attention span is 148 00:07:40.360 --> 00:07:44.199 definitely shorter. You know, it's get that thirty second video, 149 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:48.959 scroll on to the next right. But I think ultimately 150 00:07:49.319 --> 00:07:53.160 we are in a way made of story. It's you know, 151 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:56.680 it's like, you know, here's the story of the Declaration 152 00:07:56.759 --> 00:07:59.040 of the Independence in the Constitution of the United States 153 00:07:59.079 --> 00:08:03.199 of America. You know, we write words down to relate 154 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:06.399 to each other, or we speak words and we tell stories. 155 00:08:06.600 --> 00:08:09.199 We just now instead of a flickering fire, we do 156 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:12.199 it around a television or in front of a big screen. 157 00:08:12.639 --> 00:08:15.480 And so, you know, words that we are, we have 158 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:20.439 been translated as the storytellers. It's why you know, you've 159 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:24.360 spark so much joy, Jim, you spark a lot of joy. 160 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:24.959 Bless you. 161 00:08:25.839 --> 00:08:28.639 I see it when we you know, just so much 162 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:31.720 love goes through direction and it's so beautiful. 163 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:37.919 One tries. And that's also it lends to our own 164 00:08:39.279 --> 00:08:41.759 It speaks to our immortal soul, doesn't it. 165 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:45.440 It does because could it's a continuation. 166 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:48.440 And you know, and and it goes through to be Oh, 167 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:53.320 you saved me when Pokemonas came out, you know, they 168 00:08:53.360 --> 00:08:56.600 sent me on a big tour around America to sign autographs, 169 00:08:56.639 --> 00:09:00.080 tell stories and sign autographs. And people would wait in 170 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:04.120 line forever with you know, and and so often they 171 00:09:04.360 --> 00:09:06.480 finally get to the front of the line and either 172 00:09:06.559 --> 00:09:10.039 the kid is was was you know, sometimes the kid 173 00:09:10.039 --> 00:09:12.480 would be would be upset because they've been waiting for 174 00:09:12.519 --> 00:09:14.759 so long they didn't know what they were waiting, or 175 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:17.240 they got scared when they finally got to the front 176 00:09:17.240 --> 00:09:19.559 of the line, something like that. But I had a 177 00:09:19.840 --> 00:09:23.240 stuffed Winnie the Pooh, and Winnie would just come out 178 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:27.759 and just change the whole scenario. The tears would go away, 179 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:31.759 and laughter and love would come. And that's weenie. 180 00:09:32.639 --> 00:09:34.480 Oh that's a lovely story. 181 00:09:34.759 --> 00:09:35.799 Thank you so much. 182 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:38.080 She's a sweetest. 183 00:09:38.759 --> 00:09:40.840 That's beautiful. What a nice thing to say. 184 00:09:40.879 --> 00:09:43.639 What a great here that Thank you. Now I can 185 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:45.679 go back to being a dipstick and. 186 00:09:47.480 --> 00:09:51.320 Even out. Oh that's great, Thank you for that. Thank 187 00:09:51.360 --> 00:09:51.720 you for that. 188 00:09:51.879 --> 00:09:54.519 Well you you do a lot of conventions too, don't you, 189 00:09:55.000 --> 00:09:56.159 or do you? 190 00:09:56.159 --> 00:10:00.559 You know I speaking of Yeah, when when we it 191 00:10:00.600 --> 00:10:04.960 was COVID and and then I was filming American Primeval 192 00:10:05.159 --> 00:10:08.519 and realized, you know, we were going on we were 193 00:10:08.519 --> 00:10:10.519 on strike already, We're on the writers strike, and then 194 00:10:10.519 --> 00:10:13.480 we were going on strike strike, and so I saw 195 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:16.000 the writing on the wall and decided, you know, and 196 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:18.279 I wanted, you know, I'm keeping my boat afloat by 197 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:21.960 by doing this. And it is so fun. I mean, 198 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:27.919 I enjoy it so much. It really when I first 199 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:32.000 started out, I was a theater major and I had, 200 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:36.960 uh my big dream was to study with Jersey Krotowski 201 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:40.360 and poland you know, and I moved from Philly to 202 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:45.159 New York to with the American Indian Community House members 203 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:48.120 and we started a Native American theater ensemble, and I 204 00:10:48.159 --> 00:10:51.159 was going to write plays and do plays, and you know, 205 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:53.919 it just wasn't even in my wheelhouse of thought that 206 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:57.960 I would be doing film and television. And so, you know, 207 00:10:58.240 --> 00:11:04.720 to me, this this transition to being being a voice, 208 00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:10.279 you know, has been a strange and difficult one because 209 00:11:10.879 --> 00:11:15.039 I'm just a girl from Alaska and the idea of 210 00:11:15.159 --> 00:11:18.600 having to at that time to speak on behalf of 211 00:11:18.679 --> 00:11:21.559 all Native Americans was was difficult. 212 00:11:21.879 --> 00:11:24.240 You know, well that's quite a responsibility. 213 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:25.320 Yeah yeah. 214 00:11:25.360 --> 00:11:28.720 It was one of my favorite lines from that one movie. 215 00:11:29.440 --> 00:11:31.240 It's a great day to be indigenous. 216 00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:34.320 So I hope this is a great day to be 217 00:11:34.360 --> 00:11:35.159 indigenous for you. 218 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:40.519 From Smoke Signals, right, Yeah, you know. I mean yesterday 219 00:11:40.519 --> 00:11:44.600 we had the you know, the birthright citizenship in front 220 00:11:44.600 --> 00:11:49.240 of the Supreme Court and they argued about whether Indigenous 221 00:11:49.279 --> 00:11:53.519 people have birthright citizenship, and of all people, I just 222 00:11:53.559 --> 00:11:55.600 thought that that wouldn't even be that. 223 00:11:56.960 --> 00:12:00.159 Yeah, something out of Southwark, you. 224 00:12:00.200 --> 00:12:05.279 Know, living in South Park a little bit. 225 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:12.879 Aren't we. It's actually funny if you watch the history 226 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:16.559 of the evolution I should say of south Park, and 227 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:22.080 it actually has become more grounded in reality since its inception. 228 00:12:22.200 --> 00:12:24.200 I mean there used to be like aliens in every 229 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:28.039 episode and everything, and now it's like mostly focused on politics. 230 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:32.679 But it's still this wild freak show. It's pretty crazy. 231 00:12:32.679 --> 00:12:34.679 But we have to address the elephant in the room, 232 00:12:34.759 --> 00:12:39.720 which is somehow Disney has not recognized either of you 233 00:12:39.840 --> 00:12:42.759 as Disney legends. Oh what is what is going on? Well? 234 00:12:42.919 --> 00:12:46.840 Yeah, yeah, see I would have. I would have thought 235 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:47.240 you were. 236 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:50.039 Yeah, I mean, because. 237 00:12:51.720 --> 00:12:55.120 Isn't it isn't that kind of like the law if 238 00:12:55.120 --> 00:12:58.519 you're a princess or a star. I mean, let's see, 239 00:12:58.519 --> 00:12:59.919 what was the name of the movie again? 240 00:13:00.480 --> 00:13:02.759 Yeah? And tigger that? 241 00:13:03.080 --> 00:13:04.039 Yeah? 242 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:06.720 Well, I thank you for noticing. 243 00:13:08.039 --> 00:13:10.559 Is it like the Is it like the Academy Awards? 244 00:13:10.600 --> 00:13:13.840 Like do you have to do like some what's the 245 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:15.879 word I'm looking for donations? 246 00:13:16.399 --> 00:13:18.559 Yeah? Who knows? It's academic? All right? 247 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:24.440 I yeah, tough tough or Disney legend Disney. I mean, 248 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:28.519 I I don't know what to say. Obviously. 249 00:13:29.799 --> 00:13:31.519 People come up to me all the time, and I'm 250 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:33.120 sure you get introduced. 251 00:13:32.679 --> 00:13:33.159 This way too. 252 00:13:33.480 --> 00:13:36.159 Here she is a Disney legend, ladies and gentlemen. But 253 00:13:36.200 --> 00:13:38.279 people don't get that that's an actual title. 254 00:13:38.960 --> 00:13:40.639 That's a thing, that's a yeah. 255 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:43.639 You know, I know, I know why they would say it, 256 00:13:43.679 --> 00:13:48.320 and I am yeah to myself as well, But but 257 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:51.960 I ended up correcting them and I go, well, actually, 258 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:55.840 thank you, first of all, but second of all, I'm not. 259 00:13:56.679 --> 00:14:01.639 And they then then everybody's weird, and uh, but what 260 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:02.159 are you gonna do? 261 00:14:02.840 --> 00:14:04.360 You know you can't can't fight city? 262 00:14:04.399 --> 00:14:05.159 All right? 263 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:08.519 Well, I do know that. You know, a lot of 264 00:14:08.519 --> 00:14:12.320 people ask me too about whether they're going to do 265 00:14:12.360 --> 00:14:14.759 the live action, and I'm you know, I don't know. 266 00:14:14.879 --> 00:14:18.559 I'm not part of that, you know, conversation, but h 267 00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:23.480 but I think it would be very interesting for them 268 00:14:23.519 --> 00:14:26.840 to do that. I think they should do it all 269 00:14:26.960 --> 00:14:29.360 the way up until she sees the ship. That might 270 00:14:29.480 --> 00:14:31.200 that might work for them, you know what I mean? 271 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:38.279 And I really do I I I think I understand 272 00:14:38.320 --> 00:14:43.039 some of the reasoning for Pocahontas their reasoning, but I don't. 273 00:14:44.559 --> 00:14:46.799 But I necessarily subscribe to it. 274 00:14:46.679 --> 00:14:52.440 Right, Yeah, I mean it. I know that it's through 275 00:14:52.600 --> 00:14:56.039 every measure of the of the word that we were 276 00:14:56.600 --> 00:15:00.799 as a group of people, as as artists, working on 277 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:06.039 everything to make this the most beautiful picture. And it 278 00:15:06.120 --> 00:15:09.720 did incredibly well, and it still does incredibly well, you know, 279 00:15:10.240 --> 00:15:14.600 And I think that though it has the issues of 280 00:15:14.639 --> 00:15:18.120 the time, right and that also, you know, being the 281 00:15:18.159 --> 00:15:23.919 biggest one is the historical inaccuracies, and it's dealing with 282 00:15:24.039 --> 00:15:29.519 the ideas of prejudice and racism, but you know, and 283 00:15:29.600 --> 00:15:32.679 how we can build bridges to one another. And I 284 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:37.200 think that's really what is you know, why it continues 285 00:15:37.240 --> 00:15:41.519 and sticks to that belief system that I was telling 286 00:15:41.559 --> 00:15:44.600 you about. I mean, she has a relationship to her elders, 287 00:15:44.600 --> 00:15:49.039 her father or grandmother, willow and nature, you know, the 288 00:15:49.120 --> 00:15:53.080 creatures around her. She understands that we're all part of 289 00:15:53.159 --> 00:15:58.000 this medicine wheel here. So this is the four Directions 290 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:04.159 and the four seasons, and the four peoples of the planet, 291 00:16:05.240 --> 00:16:07.919 and it's the four ages. And it just means we're 292 00:16:07.960 --> 00:16:10.600 all connected, we're all part of the same and we 293 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:14.480 can now prove that through physics. You know, the butterfly effect. 294 00:16:14.879 --> 00:16:19.840 You know, the fact or even just the fact that 295 00:16:19.879 --> 00:16:23.679 and this is a horrifying example of it. But it 296 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:27.000 really goes to the point of that when we dropped 297 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:32.480 the Nagasaki in Hiroshima bombs, every single living creature, every 298 00:16:32.600 --> 00:16:37.879 blade of grass now has cessium one thirty eight in us. 299 00:16:38.759 --> 00:16:42.639 So that is how interconnected we are. One thing happens 300 00:16:42.679 --> 00:16:46.879 on the planet and for now millennia we all have. 301 00:16:48.759 --> 00:16:51.120 Yes, I'm curious, I just want to go back to that, 302 00:16:51.480 --> 00:16:53.320 what are the four peoples of the Earth. I've never 303 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:54.039 heard that before. 304 00:16:54.360 --> 00:16:57.320 Well, you know, I think this is a much later 305 00:16:57.519 --> 00:17:01.440 interpretation of it, but you know, it's the the white, 306 00:17:01.600 --> 00:17:04.880 yellow red black. You know that it's the four that is. 307 00:17:05.720 --> 00:17:09.319 But these these colors also represent the times of the 308 00:17:10.079 --> 00:17:14.119 of the the times of life, you know, so from 309 00:17:14.160 --> 00:17:19.680 birth to to young youthhood and to then adulthood, to 310 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:23.160 then our later age and then as we go back 311 00:17:23.200 --> 00:17:23.759 and return. 312 00:17:24.119 --> 00:17:28.200 Wow. So yeah, and it just I love symbolic. 313 00:17:27.799 --> 00:17:30.839 Things like that, right, it's and so I when I 314 00:17:30.880 --> 00:17:35.039 sign my autograph, I always sign it with the medicine wheel. 315 00:17:35.039 --> 00:17:38.960 And oh is that what that is? Well, that's good 316 00:17:38.960 --> 00:17:42.319 to know. Yeah, yeah, well you signed a lot of autographs, 317 00:17:42.319 --> 00:17:45.160 that's for sure. That's a beautiful thing. 318 00:17:45.400 --> 00:17:45.680 Wow. 319 00:17:46.519 --> 00:17:50.519 I'm learning something new all the time here, fantastic. 320 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:52.839 I think that's the point of this is life is 321 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:55.160 a gift given to us to learn, you know, and 322 00:17:55.200 --> 00:17:58.119 so every single day, I don't I think of it 323 00:17:58.160 --> 00:18:01.079 as you know, when I'm can learn today? You know 324 00:18:01.319 --> 00:18:04.920 what else is there new? When I take on a 325 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:08.440 new role, it's such an opportunity for me to learn 326 00:18:08.480 --> 00:18:11.240 a whole new set of things, you know, whether it's 327 00:18:11.519 --> 00:18:14.839 a language. You know, when I was at the University 328 00:18:14.839 --> 00:18:18.240 of the Arts, we had four years of speech and 329 00:18:18.359 --> 00:18:21.519 that included dialects you know, from all around the world. 330 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:24.559 That we had to learn and I just was going 331 00:18:24.559 --> 00:18:28.920 through especially like Scottish Irish cock me you know all 332 00:18:28.960 --> 00:18:31.920 these you know, no one is ever going to ask 333 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:36.200 me to do these, but it has been so well. 334 00:18:36.240 --> 00:18:40.079 I would like to hear some cockne it has. 335 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:43.160 Been so I got to do it with when when 336 00:18:43.279 --> 00:18:50.200 our son was little reading Harry Pottery voices, you know, 337 00:18:50.359 --> 00:18:55.240 I did a production of Our Town where I sort 338 00:18:55.240 --> 00:18:59.039 of channeled Catherine Hepburn and Audrey Hepburn and it was 339 00:18:59.039 --> 00:19:01.960 an Alaska need a version of it. But we started 340 00:19:01.960 --> 00:19:09.880 in Alaska and then it go to Alaskanatid Alaska Native Yeah, yeah, 341 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:14.079 like alascinated. Yeah, we were alascinated for. 342 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:15.680 You. 343 00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:19.920 Okay, but yeah, I mean so I got to do 344 00:19:20.119 --> 00:19:22.119 you know, I got to park the car and had 345 00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:25.240 yard for that. 346 00:19:22.960 --> 00:19:28.720 Oh wow, that's funny. 347 00:19:29.200 --> 00:19:32.160 But you know, I mean for the most of what 348 00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:35.480 I do, even voiceover wise, whether it's you know, Scooby 349 00:19:35.480 --> 00:19:39.920 Doo to whatever, they are looking for me to produce 350 00:19:40.079 --> 00:19:43.279 the indigenous tones. You know, So. 351 00:19:44.799 --> 00:19:47.839 Does that ever get frustrating? Does do you feel boxed in? 352 00:19:47.960 --> 00:19:51.039 Or is that some I mean, you know, sometimes I 353 00:19:51.160 --> 00:19:53.960 have such a great imagination though that you know. I 354 00:19:54.000 --> 00:19:56.880 mean when I do get the chance. I was asked 355 00:19:57.839 --> 00:20:01.000 to do a murderous grandmother her and I think that 356 00:20:01.079 --> 00:20:03.400 they thought I was going to be like, where's my gun? 357 00:20:04.680 --> 00:20:05.000 Like that. 358 00:20:05.720 --> 00:20:09.960 I had worked on a film and the first a 359 00:20:10.119 --> 00:20:13.920 d had this little, tiny voice and she talked like this, 360 00:20:14.319 --> 00:20:16.000 and at first you're like, how is she going to 361 00:20:16.079 --> 00:20:18.759 do this? And then after a while it became very 362 00:20:19.200 --> 00:20:23.240 very scary because you thought she was going to break. 363 00:20:25.839 --> 00:20:30.359 I did that similar right in. The director would just 364 00:20:30.400 --> 00:20:34.359 thought it was great because well, that's pretty scary. Where's 365 00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:34.880 my gun? 366 00:20:36.160 --> 00:20:41.279 Yes, Oh my gosh, what was that movie? There was 367 00:20:41.839 --> 00:20:42.599 one of those. 368 00:20:43.960 --> 00:20:52.559 Uh oh tonight you've been long to me, you know, 369 00:20:52.640 --> 00:20:55.039 And it was just the scariest song because it was 370 00:20:55.319 --> 00:20:59.559 it was in a movie about it. I can't think yeah, 371 00:20:59.799 --> 00:21:02.599 and it was it was set against this young girl 372 00:21:02.599 --> 00:21:04.920 who turned out to be a hatchet murderer and it 373 00:21:05.000 --> 00:21:08.039 was the scariest damn song in the world because of 374 00:21:08.119 --> 00:21:09.279 what it was depicting. 375 00:21:09.920 --> 00:21:12.599 Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, boy, context is everything, isn't it. 376 00:21:12.720 --> 00:21:13.559 Yeah. 377 00:21:13.599 --> 00:21:16.119 If you're a fan of everything we do here at 378 00:21:16.160 --> 00:21:19.000 tuned in with Jim Cummings, you could support the show 379 00:21:19.039 --> 00:21:23.680 on Patreon for bonus exclusive podcasts, as well as early 380 00:21:23.759 --> 00:21:27.759 in ad free access to the show itself, prize drawings, 381 00:21:27.799 --> 00:21:30.920 and more. You'll feel the difference, So go ahead and 382 00:21:31.000 --> 00:21:34.839 join the tuned in family today at Patreon dot com, 383 00:21:34.880 --> 00:21:38.279 slash Jim Cummings podcast Do It Now. 384 00:21:39.279 --> 00:21:41.799 But you know, I mean all of that speech has 385 00:21:41.799 --> 00:21:45.400 of course helped me in doing adr when I have 386 00:21:45.440 --> 00:21:49.160 to go and reproduce what I've done on film, you know, 387 00:21:49.440 --> 00:21:53.119 doing any kind of animation and work. That's been a 388 00:21:53.160 --> 00:21:55.880 lot of you know, because you know, is it, how 389 00:21:56.000 --> 00:21:59.079 close is she? How far is she? You having to 390 00:21:59.240 --> 00:22:02.319 work on the micro all that. But one of the 391 00:22:02.359 --> 00:22:06.599 things that having all that speech definitely helped with was 392 00:22:07.240 --> 00:22:11.480 I speak languages I don't speak, you know. I people say, 393 00:22:11.680 --> 00:22:14.319 I've been asked by a director, Okay, let's hear some 394 00:22:14.400 --> 00:22:18.039 Native American. I'm like, well, that's kind of like me 395 00:22:18.160 --> 00:22:25.359 asking you can we hear some European, German, Italian? Which 396 00:22:25.400 --> 00:22:34.000 one I've spoken la Quota several times, Dine Sashawani Mick Mack. 397 00:22:34.480 --> 00:22:37.000 I mean, just languages that I have to learn by 398 00:22:37.240 --> 00:22:43.079 ear by wrote, you know, and and so yeah, it 399 00:22:43.200 --> 00:22:45.799 really was helpful to go through all of those voice 400 00:22:46.200 --> 00:22:50.480 did you go to did you go to voice acting school? 401 00:22:51.359 --> 00:22:51.720