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Speaker 1: Today we have no one, nothing, et cetera less than
Speaker 1: a bodacious one of my oldest pals in the business
Speaker 1: to be sure, and one of the most gifted guys
Speaker 1: that you've ever heard, ever heard. You've always heard him.
Speaker 1: Believe me, you have always heard him and loved his work,
Speaker 1: even if you didn't know what him. It was him.
Speaker 1: Do you ever go to Disneyland? You ever have a oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, a television set? How about a radio?
Speaker 1: You know this man, Corey Burton.
Speaker 2: Lad, please keep your hands, arms feed and legs inside
Speaker 2: all the Tramas movie.
Speaker 1: Told you smoking except that, yeah, until you get on
Speaker 1: the ride.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you for being here, brother, Thank you so
Speaker 1: so very much.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, are you kidding? I mean, uh, you
Speaker 2: know it's like, uh, you want to hang out with me?
Speaker 2: I mean mean, let's do let's do amen. I mean normally,
Speaker 2: you know, like like it's like an interview situition, me
Speaker 2: and my good buddy Josh Morales. Uh, Jent Moore. I
Speaker 2: love doing the interviews with him. But you know, I'm
Speaker 2: like being you know, informative and and and try to
Speaker 2: be especially entertaining. But you and I well, yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean we've gotta have history to pick peace in the
Speaker 2: pod where the where the sort of sort of skewed
Speaker 2: angle talent you know because we different backgrounds. But but
Speaker 2: we're we're the funny voices boys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's true. And when we started, we were the
Speaker 1: young rookies and look to people like Paul Freeze and
Speaker 1: melt Blank and I mean all of those guys. And
Speaker 1: now we're we're the old farts and it and it
Speaker 1: beats the day and it beats the alternative.
Speaker 2: You are, I am not sure what you're doing there
Speaker 2: years on me. What is he doing?
Speaker 1: I'm really like here, Okay, I was thinking.
Speaker 2: And see this was exercises something.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I was thinking.
Speaker 2: Coy, I'm blissfully unaware of putting.
Speaker 1: The zipper down.
Speaker 2: Okay, yes, but you know, I mean, uh, he was saying,
Speaker 2: you know, with anything you wanted to discuss in particular. Yes,
Speaker 2: we don't need those thinking directions or instructions. We just
Speaker 2: hang out.
Speaker 1: But I do have a question for you because you
Speaker 1: you you were in the business. You know, we're right
Speaker 1: next door to each other in age. I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think you beat me. Beat me to
Speaker 1: the punch to the mic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, seen seventy two profession.
Speaker 1: And I was doing he was six years old, by
Speaker 1: the way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, actually said I dished when I was seventeen. Yeah,
Speaker 2: my driver's permit or whatever, driving my mom's Galaxy five
Speaker 2: hundred or something. Maybe it was my dad's Plymouth Settle.
Speaker 1: And there was a microphone in this vehicle.
Speaker 2: I had realistic radio shack microphone.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but you did.
Speaker 2: But in high school, myself and and a talented uh
Speaker 2: very odd friend. Uh, we did commercials for the brand
Speaker 2: new John F. Kennedy High School PA system and we
Speaker 2: didn't realize what Yeah, and I produced.
Speaker 1: Them commercials for to be played over the PA system
Speaker 1: of a high school.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's a that's a look. There's got to
Speaker 1: be money there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, there was. You were just.
Speaker 1: Rolling around in it back then.
Speaker 2: There wasn't money. But no, but there was well infamy
Speaker 2: in a way because we were the you know, we
Speaker 2: were nerd boys.
Speaker 1: That's hard to believe, but okay, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I was the geek and the spas and
Speaker 2: you know, couldn't play sports and didn't want to. But
Speaker 2: but you know, I did the funny voices and we
Speaker 2: would do you know, send up so you know, like
Speaker 2: buy a student activity card and we do like one
Speaker 2: like you know, the the audience wouldn't know, but the
Speaker 2: old jay Ward, the first j Ward cartoon series, Hoppity Hooper.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, san Francisco Hoppity Hooper.
Speaker 1: Can you give me any of the theme songs? Because
Speaker 1: I remember the name it was.
Speaker 5: It was bizarre like uh, it was bizarre jazzy kind
Speaker 5: of stuff because it was done in San Francisco, Okay,
Speaker 5: and narrated by Marvin Miller.
Speaker 2: You ever knew Marvin, But that was before well, let's
Speaker 2: see with Paul Frees in San Francisco. I don't think,
Speaker 2: oh yeah he was. He was in not not not
Speaker 2: in the late fifties or whenever that was maybe, I
Speaker 2: don't know anyway, And but anyway, so I always did
Speaker 2: haunts Conry, you know, it was just yes because I
Speaker 2: was a fan of the jay Ward cartoons. He was
Speaker 2: finally Whiplash, and but.
Speaker 1: With can you give us something? Can you give us something?
Speaker 1: People would perhaps recognize.
Speaker 6: He was, uh, he was Waldo Wigglesworth, Uncle Waldo to
Speaker 6: the Frog Hoppity Hooper, and he would always have a
Speaker 6: ridiculous scheme.
Speaker 1: You know, hardly I could make a j all the
Speaker 1: oh my, he's the best I did I had.
Speaker 2: And then they had this sound effect. It was just
Speaker 2: all cut together sound effects and the sound effects, the
Speaker 2: spinning on myself, as usually know, it's not pretty sound effects.
Speaker 2: We're probably I'm sure it must have been from the
Speaker 2: very start. Skip Craig, who was the track reader, uh
Speaker 2: and dialogue editor for Jay Ward Productions for the whole
Speaker 2: run and Skip as like a teenager, was a fan
Speaker 2: and and played like trombone I think with Spike Jones.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, it's all the Spike Jones. And Jay Ward
Speaker 2: was sort of a little bit like William Gaines Mad Magazine.
Speaker 2: They were all these crazy yeah you know pre LSD. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: but LSD yeah yeah, anyway, yeah, gabbling too much?
Speaker 4: Great, you know.
Speaker 2: And I met com Reid. He was in Don Hills workshop.
Speaker 2: I mean it was in doll Spotless workshop and Don
Speaker 2: hills daughter Annie Hills, was a student there. But Don
Speaker 2: Hills was the director of the Heartbeat Theater, the Salvation
Speaker 2: Army radio drama syndicated. Yeah, yeah yeah. And of course
Speaker 2: when DAWs about this workshop, I was a trained radio actor,
Speaker 2: but I was, you know, yeah, nineteen years old at
Speaker 2: the time or whatever.
Speaker 1: Can you tell everybody who does was and how everybody
Speaker 1: really came and it does knowing but doesn't know they know.
Speaker 2: DAWs Butler was the uh well, I mean the most
Speaker 2: famous character was Yogi Bear. He was Canna Barbara's Yeah,
Speaker 2: basically every leading character voice it was. It was it
Speaker 2: was Dos and his buddy who was a ventriloquist named
Speaker 2: Don Messick, and Don did all those crazy sound effect
Speaker 2: thing and DAWs Butler was you know, a radio actor
Speaker 2: of Audvillion, Quick Drama Gra right, yeah, Quick Drama gra
Speaker 2: and Baba Louis and that was that was all DAWs yeah,
Speaker 2: and Dixie of Pixie and Dixie. He was a snagglepus
Speaker 2: No no, no, no, sorry, not snagglepuss.
Speaker 7: Uh yeah wait, snackle post yes, exit it stays right
Speaker 7: all the way even, And that was yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2: I think that was supposed to be like a like
Speaker 2: a bad impression of Phil Silvers.
Speaker 1: And there was Russian red rough and ready, No, I.
Speaker 2: Think rough and ready. Yeah, rough and Ready was just yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm just a bunch of noises.
Speaker 1: Jay, how you doing?
Speaker 2: They are? Ray Eddie Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I
Speaker 2: think they gave him dialogue later. It's just funny. It's
Speaker 2: kind of like Zipper the Fly and rescue rangers.
Speaker 3: Yes, started, I have a question for you, Corey. Yeah,
Speaker 3: sorry to cut you off like that, No, no problem.
Speaker 3: So what would you say, like broadcasting in radio, was
Speaker 3: your first like attraction to voice acting in a sense.
Speaker 2: Well, no, it was actually Disneyland, it was it was
Speaker 2: Paul Yeah, yeah, well, I mean.
Speaker 4: Half and it wasn't that what you love? A voice
Speaker 4: acting from.
Speaker 2: The Haunted Mansion. But it was for that because Paul
Speaker 2: Freese narrated the adventure through Monsanto's adventure through inner space
Speaker 2: men of Saw, constantly making similar journeys through the mighty microscope. Yeah,
Speaker 2: these tiny bits of snowflake crystal tower above me, like
Speaker 2: an enormous wall of ice. Do you penetrate this gigantic
Speaker 2: chrism or something? Well I can't yeh.
Speaker 1: But that's Americana, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, well Disneyland in the sixties, nineteen sixty eight,
Speaker 2: especially with something really special and that was But anyway,
Speaker 2: so I had heard that voice. I loved it. I
Speaker 2: heard it in cartoons of course, the j Ward cartoons
Speaker 2: and all that. But he to me was always amazing,
Speaker 2: especially I mean one of the few times I think
Speaker 2: I was I was moved to tears as a kid.
Speaker 2: We saw the re release on Saturday matinee at the American,
Speaker 2: the Theater of the Time George Powell's The Time Machine
Speaker 2: and Paul Freese was the voice of the talking rings.
Speaker 2: Oh and it was, you know, so sad. It was,
Speaker 2: you know, the the Devolution of humanity when the morlocks.
Speaker 1: Yes, I remember that. That was the coolest movie.
Speaker 2: It sure was.
Speaker 1: And Alan Young was in it, and I had a
Speaker 1: crush on what was her name, Karen who didn't Yeah, god,
Speaker 1: my little six year old chromosomes were sizzling.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And Rod Taylor him not so much, but yeah,
Speaker 2: he was so cool.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. And it just drove me crazy, that effect
Speaker 1: when they started shooting forward into the future and it was.
Speaker 2: Just stop motion.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: It was because George Powell was originally an animator, but
Speaker 2: he animated the puppet tunes, which were uh, you know,
Speaker 2: just like the California Raisins. They were they weren't clay,
Speaker 2: they were they were a little wooden figures, I think
Speaker 2: figure yeah yeah yeah. And he would have one facial
Speaker 2: pose yeah for every second for for yeah yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: So and they would you know, click a frame of
Speaker 2: you know, and then uh, and then you know, and
Speaker 2: then then it would all be put strung together.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, actually they've they've been they've been cleaned up
Speaker 2: and and re released for a road show by and
Speaker 2: re lost. Yeah yeah, I know, by a guy named
Speaker 2: Arnie Leibovitz. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Anyway, so that's great, but that's cool.
Speaker 2: But so now I've I've gone off on a tangent there,
Speaker 2: of course, but.
Speaker 1: Come back, Corey.
Speaker 4: Before was that the first time you and Jim were together?
Speaker 2: You know regularly we knew each other before then.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you see the voice I.
Speaker 2: Can't remember first meeting. I can't remember. Maybe he was
Speaker 2: outside the Voicecaster.
Speaker 1: I don't remember.
Speaker 2: We were on the sidewalk.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Voicecaster was a legendary audition facility in Burbank, beautiful
Speaker 1: downtown not quite downtown Bank.
Speaker 2: And you were kind of new and down but doing
Speaker 2: very very well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was brand new, and you know you were
Speaker 1: the crystal veteran.
Speaker 2: Wildly talented.
Speaker 1: Well not anyway, it was a long.
Speaker 2: Long time ago, but but I thought, oh this guy's good.
Speaker 1: Oh thank you. And I've been scaling the heights of
Speaker 1: adequacy ever since.
Speaker 2: You were Yeah, you were just getting started and then yeah,
Speaker 2: and we both just bloomed in our own Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: And I think the first big gig that that I
Speaker 1: could pick out that we ever did together was definitely Chippendale.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, oh definitely. And it's funny because we are
Speaker 2: the ven diagram of voice talent that doesn't touch because
Speaker 2: you have an entirely different range, different vocal range, different
Speaker 2: set of resonances.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: And and you came through you know, through music and
Speaker 2: a whole different entertainment angle, whereas I came from radio acting, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: from old radio drama. Yeah, and I worked at the.
Speaker 1: Old time, came from the rock and roll and a
Speaker 1: lot of ex theater exactly.
Speaker 4: And what what what difference is that does that bring? Coming?
Speaker 4: The difference between coming from radio and from music means
Speaker 4: I was louder.
Speaker 2: Well, funnier and more entertaining, fearless. Uh uh, just a
Speaker 2: just a greater ability to to entertain and to and
Speaker 2: to get laughs, a more fluid with that libbing me.
Speaker 2: It's like, okay, in the script, maybe I could if
Speaker 2: I pause here, maybe that will get a laugh, because
Speaker 2: we always do the table read. We mark our scripts.
Speaker 1: Now, did you were you big on preparing beforehand?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, that's what das tell your script and uh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, and see I never did, I
Speaker 1: never ever ever did. They would send them and I
Speaker 1: and I remember telling our good buddy Dave over there,
Speaker 1: who is the head of Disney character voices? Back back then?
Speaker 1: It gets character voices now, but back then he was
Speaker 1: just a page or what have you.
Speaker 2: Well there was Perkins.
Speaker 1: Well no, anyway, but I just want to say, oh.
Speaker 2: You mean Disney TV animation David Sure, yeah, Dave right.
Speaker 1: He would come out to the house and he did.
Speaker 1: I remember him coming all the way out. I lived
Speaker 1: in Santa Rose Valley and he was on July fourth,
Speaker 1: fourth of July, and he brought a dark Wing script
Speaker 1: out to him and I said, buddy, I got to
Speaker 1: tell you something. Thank you, but it's the fourth of July.
Speaker 1: I am not going to read this. The first time
Speaker 1: I read this, I'll be standing in front of a
Speaker 1: microphone and I won't rehearse, and I won't.
Speaker 2: You know exactly and exact.
Speaker 1: Oh well, well they kind of told me I had
Speaker 1: to do this, and I go, I'll take it to
Speaker 1: the session and tell him. Boy that Dave Wright, he
Speaker 1: he is a hell of a guy. He came all
Speaker 1: the way out to rumbucking yeah, and uh to bring
Speaker 1: me a script that I wasn't even going to read
Speaker 1: till I got here, shall we? And they go, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: that's great, Tim, and they gave me the finger and
Speaker 1: then we did the show.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, we always used to do the table reads,
Speaker 2: but uh yeah, but then, you know, especially especially when
Speaker 2: digital recording came in, it was like, just do three
Speaker 2: takes of each line. Yeah, it's like, let's put on
Speaker 2: a show.
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Speaker 2: Do it now we can? We can spin off of
Speaker 2: each other. The timing. Well, I mean it's nice that
Speaker 2: at least, although we have to stop, we can't overlap,
Speaker 2: which bothers edit it. You can edit it if you overlap,
Speaker 2: come on.
Speaker 1: And I'm used to that.
Speaker 2: In fact, he said, oh yeah, I can. I can
Speaker 2: do uh you know, can I can do the track
Speaker 2: reading with overlaps. We did it all the time.
Speaker 4: Who is Craig?
Speaker 2: Who's Craig Skip Craig the jay Ward sound editor. Well
Speaker 2: he's done track reading for so many, so many cartoon series,
Speaker 2: but he started yet with jay Ward. That's funny.
Speaker 1: But wait, I'm just trying to figure out did we
Speaker 1: get the name of your very or did I miss
Speaker 1: it the very first cartoon you did?
Speaker 2: Let's see, well that my very first professional gig. Yes,
Speaker 2: was the voice of Hants Conry because I knew DAWs
Speaker 2: Butler and he knew that I could imitate.
Speaker 1: And wasn't he also Captain Hook?
Speaker 2: Hants Conry was Captain Hook of course, yes, yes, no,
Speaker 2: I haven't captained Hook. And we've uh and we've we've
Speaker 2: altered him a little bit depending on the situation. And
Speaker 2: and boy we oh my god, we had so much
Speaker 2: fun with Jake and the Neverland Pirates. Jeff Bennett, I
Speaker 2: used to have me do mister smeth. I thought you
Speaker 2: would be mister me. But uh, yeah, because Bill Thompson could.
Speaker 1: Have probably did it could be.
Speaker 2: Yes, Well, I cheat thing without without physically doing I.
Speaker 1: Have to cheat I'm not that good an actor. That's
Speaker 1: why I have to pull out my cheek.
Speaker 2: But I don't have that texture. But also too, it's
Speaker 2: it's just a tough character for me. My voice is
Speaker 2: a little bit limited, and.
Speaker 1: Well you know it doesn't work that much, so you're
Speaker 1: not missing anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8: But but Kelly Ward, who directed Jake and the Neverland Pirates,
Speaker 8: they would they would have us as as Hook and
Speaker 8: Smee because he's preschoolers and younger audience.
Speaker 2: They didn't want Hook to be too real, bombastic and
Speaker 2: intimidating scary. But yes, right, he scary. It's like scary,
Speaker 2: it's it's ridiculous. Cons Conrie all colored, you know, chewing lacery.
Speaker 2: But anyway, so you know, finally, as we were saying,
Speaker 2: well why don't you do let's accent and less characters,
Speaker 2: then you're losing the character. And then I was listening
Speaker 2: to some old radio shows. Hans Conried was on the
Speaker 2: mel Blanc radio show, and I.
Speaker 1: Didn't know he had one.
Speaker 2: Yeah he did briefly, you know, with all the great
Speaker 2: character radio character actors and UH, and Hans Connery played Uh.
Speaker 2: I forgot what the character's name was. But anyway, and
Speaker 2: there was one scene in particular that that was the key.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh, that's how we make Captain Hook non threatening,
Speaker 2: ridiculous and allows him to chew every splinter of scenery.
Speaker 2: He was like, mel blank was like a soda jerk
Speaker 2: or something or whatever at a drug store, a rex
Speaker 2: Al drug store, you know, as they did incorporate the
Speaker 2: sponsor into the plot and all that the old radio
Speaker 2: and uh and then there was a line where and
Speaker 2: maybe joke hearns was the boss, I don't remember. And
Speaker 2: how did your you know, how did your wife like
Speaker 2: that new that new vanishing cream used to call cold
Speaker 2: cream or something. Yes, and skin things you put on
Speaker 2: at night?
Speaker 9: He said, oh, she's she loves what it does for
Speaker 9: her skin. But unfortunately there's a problem. Yes, you know,
Speaker 9: in the in the middle of the night, she keeps.
Speaker 6: Sliding out of bed.
Speaker 2: Because it's got a studio audience. So you had to
Speaker 2: go caught boom with the punchline and the way he
Speaker 2: just went so over the top, it was stratospheric, you know.
Speaker 2: And I was like, here's the Hans Conrie that we
Speaker 2: need for the kids version.
Speaker 1: That's why he was good at animation. Yes, that's I mean,
Speaker 1: isn't that Isn't that part of the key to certain
Speaker 1: an animated styles right as being way too much? Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: which is probably why I did okay with it, and
Speaker 1: you you know I was way over the top.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. What I learned, you know, from the old
Speaker 2: Vaudevillians who were the radio character actors as well, most
Speaker 2: of them sho from Vaudeville, at least the trick voiceman
Speaker 2: they need to call guys like us.
Speaker 1: Did you get to you say you learned from them?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: Who were who was still around when you were? They
Speaker 1: were transitioning out and you were transitioning in. Uh Paul Freese? Yeah,
Speaker 1: well yeah, Paul Freeze, and it was a Pillsbury dough
Speaker 1: boy to my idol. Paul free me too, just retalkable, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 2: Just such a such an incredible talent and on you
Speaker 2: unusual personality. I didn't ever work with Paul Freese, but
Speaker 2: on the in in the late seven these early eighties,
Speaker 2: they had a brief resurgence of old time radio, and
Speaker 2: so they had like old time radio producers, the old
Speaker 2: sound effects guys that did the live sound effects. Bud
Speaker 2: Tollisson was his name, and they would set up a
Speaker 2: table with the coconuts and the and the ground at
Speaker 2: the Disney Yeah, and Disney character yeah yeah, bottles of
Speaker 2: water and stuff. Yes, and you can pour a drink,
Speaker 2: you know, give me that.
Speaker 1: So you never worked with Paul Freeze, But who else
Speaker 1: was bad?
Speaker 2: But I met Paul that you may have worked at
Speaker 2: Paul Freeze early on at A he had captain crunch session.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And Bill Scott because because I knew I met
Speaker 2: June Foray through my uncle, my uncle Burton, And that's
Speaker 2: how I have my my stage Moniker. That's not my name.
Speaker 2: I tried working my my my own name, which I
Speaker 2: never liked. I don't. I don't like names anyway because
Speaker 2: I forget. I'm so weird and dyslexic with names and
Speaker 2: socially uh Ralph's yes, No.
Speaker 4: I had had that go with you with script memorizing scripts,
Speaker 4: then oh I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't.
Speaker 2: I can't memorize. I I I can commit certain things
Speaker 2: to memory after I don't know. I can't remember anything
Speaker 2: after it makes an impact. But that's why I would
Speaker 2: never never been a stage, camera, stage or on camera actor,
Speaker 2: because I can't remember lines.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and at this point we're both so you know,
Speaker 1: used to reading it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but we could read, you know, because that was, yeah,
Speaker 2: my training as a radio actor. And you know, in
Speaker 2: the old radio actors, you know, they would go they'd
Speaker 2: be shuttled from studio to studio to live radio guys.
Speaker 2: We Michael Rye O. His real name was Michael Ray.
Speaker 2: He was older than we even thought. And Michael, you know,
Speaker 2: Michael Rye. He was an amazing guy.
Speaker 1: I tell everybody who he was on the Gummy Bears.
Speaker 2: He was character Dookie and I was told after Bill
Speaker 2: Scott passed away.
Speaker 1: Yes see, yeah Toad what Yeah that was? I think
Speaker 1: that might that might have been one of the first
Speaker 1: times we worked together, when I sneaking in on some
Speaker 1: of the Gummy Bear sessions.
Speaker 2: And Michael Rye, Bless his soul, he must have been
Speaker 2: like eighty when we were working with him, and I
Speaker 2: think he lived like over one hundred. Ye did you
Speaker 2: know that he was fabulously wealthy. His name was actually
Speaker 2: Rye Billsbery Billsbury. That sounds yes, Well Billsbury didn't didn't
Speaker 2: sound good on U Bake Good products, so they made
Speaker 2: it Pillsbury. So he was part of the Pillsbury dynasty.
Speaker 1: And he didn't get to be the dough boy.
Speaker 2: No, he wouldn't have wanted to, but anyway, but he
Speaker 2: loved technical with his with his helmet wig. You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, my.
Speaker 1: Real name is Smithsonian. But I don't like to tell anything, yes,
Speaker 1: so let's keep that between us.
Speaker 2: I don't think I'm related to anybody. Oh, No, I
Speaker 2: am related to somebody famous. I think my my mother's
Speaker 2: maiden name is Lang.
Speaker 1: Her father she's Lenna Lang from Superman.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I really related to.
Speaker 2: Clara Dee Lang anyway, who's still around and just as
Speaker 2: annoying as ever. My old mother. She's ninety one now,
Speaker 2: God bless her. He still giving me a headache.
Speaker 1: Anyway.
Speaker 4: Which character on your mom?
Speaker 2: I've never based a character on her, but her great aunt,
Speaker 2: Sadie Sadie Mallinger Maleinger or whatever, was crazy as a bedbug,
Speaker 2: and she looked like it too. She had this crizzy
Speaker 2: wild girl in this wild expression always, and she was
Speaker 2: very loud, and she was the one who at a
Speaker 2: family gathering at some point there would be a lull
Speaker 2: in conversation. And she had a funny voice.
Speaker 1: She had the Dudley do right kind of voice, and she'd.
Speaker 2: Say is it hot and hair?
Speaker 3: Is it just me?
Speaker 2: She had been gap in her teeth. It's just she
Speaker 2: was just wacky. Uh, Aunt Sadie.
Speaker 1: Did you tell her get that lamp shade off your
Speaker 1: head and have a seat. Yeah, but there you got
Speaker 1: a lift.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. She was that type, you know. No, she
Speaker 2: would entertain us kids with inappropriate like limericks and stuff.
Speaker 2: You know. Ohe Gooey was a worm, a mighty worm,
Speaker 2: was he? He thought out on our railroad track that
Speaker 2: train he did not see, you know whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I'm glad he wasn't from Nantucket, I know.
Speaker 2: Well she would say things like that. Actually actually on
Speaker 2: the father's side, Oh boy, well I had my aunt,
Speaker 2: my Aunt Goldie. Now my mom's mom was named Goldie
Speaker 2: or Goldie. But anyway, Aunt Aunt Goldie was from Bessarabia,
Speaker 2: my dad's side of the family, which is which is
Speaker 2: adjacent to Transylvania. Oh perfect, And Aunt Goldie had this
Speaker 2: thick accent and it was and and she sounded like
Speaker 2: a bad Bale Lagosi impression like this. But anyway, but
Speaker 2: but the thing about it is Aunt Goldie swore like
Speaker 2: a sailor. Oh she said, Oh my god, you're so beautiful.
Speaker 2: Oh your son of a bitch our ship.
Speaker 1: I can't believe it. Well, now we have our promo
Speaker 1: for the Yeah, that's great, but that's great. Hey, I
Speaker 1: have a question for you, because I've been known to
Speaker 1: do this. I had my uncle saym and my Aunt
Speaker 1: Grace got rest both their I've weaseled them into a
Speaker 1: few cartoons here and there just over the years. Now,
Speaker 1: have you done that with your family members? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well, well I have Aunt Sadie once,
Speaker 2: uh and something Aunt Sadie.
Speaker 1: That sounded like my aunt Grace. Yeah, what are the odds?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, well you know, I mean.
Speaker 10: Well, you know she was sin take the way she walked,
Speaker 10: you know, and so I I weaseled her into it.
Speaker 1: In fact, she was the basis for Lieutenant Spinellian and
Speaker 1: Chippendale's Rescue Rangers.
Speaker 11: Yeah you were there, Rob, Yeah, so I don't worry.
Speaker 11: I'm going to get everything dumb for you. That was
Speaker 11: partially my Aunt Grace. Yeah, yeah, bless her heart.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we know we we we take from you know,
Speaker 2: the male man families are teachers, yeah, shopkeepers, whatever, whoever. Had.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And do you ever get an approach to do seminars,
Speaker 1: to do classes, to teach, to pass on your your knowledge.
Speaker 2: I did, well, you know, for years before social media,
Speaker 2: when I had a website, I had an interactive message board.
Speaker 2: And you know, DAWs always said, you know, you got
Speaker 2: to pay it back, you know, and so I couldn't.
Speaker 2: I couldn't sit up and be a formal.
Speaker 1: It back. If somebody gives me something, I'll pay it back.
Speaker 2: Well, you're doing it right now, really, because because this
Speaker 2: is this is really informing and inspiring. And so I
Speaker 2: had an interactive message board and I developed this snarky
Speaker 2: for both uh, written character as your instructor, your arrogant
Speaker 2: instructor with a crazy sense of humor and uh and
Speaker 2: I just you know, asked me anything about it is
Speaker 2: all things voice over.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, also you were able to parlay that that character,
Speaker 1: that voice you've just done. If I'm not mistaken, didn't
Speaker 1: you do how to cartoon video slash video with goofy
Speaker 1: how to ski?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah? Yeah, well well that that was that was.
Speaker 1: Or the ninja? Oh that I think that I think
Speaker 1: I'm thinking of the ninja. Oh, the ninja, I hear that.
Speaker 2: There's a whole bunch of them that's based.
Speaker 1: On instructional videos.
Speaker 2: They're based on the Disney Goofy shorts. Yes, that was
Speaker 2: at a time when Pinto Colvig was on the outs
Speaker 2: with Walt because well, because of Gulliver's Travels. Mm hmmm,
Speaker 2: because worked for h I mean, I mean Pindo Colvig
Speaker 2: was Gabby and several characters in Gulliver's Travels, and the
Speaker 2: Fleischer brothers who produced Who Made's Travels were Disney's arch
Speaker 2: enemy the competition. They were New York, New York Jews.
Speaker 2: And and by the way, I think that's where all
Speaker 2: of the bs about Walt being anti Semitic came from. No,
Speaker 2: he just didn't like the Fleischers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was just those two.
Speaker 2: And yet and yet later on he hired Richard Fleischer,
Speaker 2: the son I guess of.
Speaker 1: The Sherman brothers were in there somewhere too, if I'm not.
Speaker 2: Mistakens with Walt the whole time. Did you know did
Speaker 2: you know Dick Sherman very well? Yeah, me too. God
Speaker 2: I loved him and he rest in peace? What a beautiful.
Speaker 1: Man, did you hear? I don't know when this will air,
Speaker 1: Chances art will be over, but there is a tribute
Speaker 1: to him somebody. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: I I shared a dressing room with him, I think
Speaker 2: for some some theme park award thing. I was the
Speaker 2: announcer in the show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you got to meet him a few times, right,
Speaker 1: and yeah he was you know.
Speaker 2: You know, he was just a beautiful, wonderful sweet man.
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I never met Bob
Speaker 2: Robert Sherman, but he was in England most of the time.
Speaker 2: They didn't get along. Everybody knows that. Now. Anyway, I
Speaker 2: have to circle back and complete what I what I
Speaker 2: started before I went off on. This is a long tangent.
Speaker 2: My mother's maiden name is Lang. Her father was Joseph Lang,
Speaker 2: who who fled Austria Hungary in the late twenties. I
Speaker 2: guess because this Hitler guy is causing the brubble and
Speaker 2: he was Orthodox, which was whatever anyway, but his name
Speaker 2: was Joseph Lang. Well there's an actor, Stephen Lang, wonderful
Speaker 2: actor from He was the the the the villain in
Speaker 2: Avatar and uh he was in that recent series. He
Speaker 2: plays lots of a good, good guy. Yeah. When my
Speaker 2: mother's father had hair, I saw some old ancient pictures
Speaker 2: of him. See oh my god, there's a blood relation
Speaker 2: there because in Stephen Lang's parents, grandparents whatever, also escaped Austria, Austria, Hungary.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, thank goodness, otherwise he wouldn't have been to her.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. But but anyway, so, uh, I
Speaker 2: I'm convinced. I'm absolutely convinced I must be related to him.
Speaker 4: Well you're at that, Stephen, Yeah yeah, now terrific.
Speaker 2: Anyway, call us.
Speaker 4: Say special guest right now, Stephen, yes.
Speaker 2: Yes, but are you related that? My detector says, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I I I suspect.
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Speaker 4: Getting back to earlier, we're talking about Schipp and Dale.
Speaker 4: You were saying that you weren't big on improvising. Where Jim,
Speaker 4: that's all Jim does. He just loves the improvise, doesn't
Speaker 4: read the scripts. Jim does Jim right?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, How did you go in studio? If you're very
Speaker 4: much I like to follow the script and Jim is
Speaker 4: going way off the script. How do you handle those situations?
Speaker 4: Do you try and keep up with Jim? Or do
Speaker 4: you what do you do?
Speaker 1: Just smack me around?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, yeah, normal? Do it right? So? I mean
Speaker 2: again with the As a radio actor, you know so
Speaker 2: many well, acting is reacting exactly exactly. You know, you
Speaker 2: just go with it. And you know, of course in
Speaker 2: live radio or uninterrupted recorded cast radio comedy and drama,
Speaker 2: if somebody flubs or says something different or pauses in
Speaker 2: a strange place, you go with it. You know, Oh,
Speaker 2: I didn't notice that spoked on your colleague? Yeah you
Speaker 2: mean that spoked? You know, you say, aha, that'll get
Speaker 2: a laugh because I'm repeating it. And then I've learned also,
Speaker 2: you know, over the years, I've gotten much better and
Speaker 2: much freer, especially when doing the haunts. Conry is something
Speaker 2: I'm very fluent in. And and you know Jeff Bennett
Speaker 2: uh me, you know, Jeff just can't contain himself. I know,
Speaker 2: he's constantly ad Libby and and and so you know
Speaker 2: for comedy stick I like to like, you know, I'll
Speaker 2: I'll repeat something, you know, you know.
Speaker 12: Whatever, everybody has to go away, Yes, go away, well,
Speaker 12: you know, just to tie it together and you sort
Speaker 12: of underline the laugh that may not have been there.
Speaker 2: When when when mister Smed delivered it. But because it's
Speaker 2: it's repeated or mocked, it may strike people funny. And
Speaker 2: you know timing, you know time mean, yeah, timing.
Speaker 4: How did you guys go with recording Chip and Dale?
Speaker 4: Because I'm envisioning you guys were in the studio together,
Speaker 4: But Jim, wasn't it because we had Tress on last
Speaker 4: week as well? Wasn't it a case of for Chippendale's
Speaker 4: voices you had to talk really slow so they could
Speaker 4: state it up right? So, Jim, were you ever recording
Speaker 4: in the studio with Corey and Tests when they were
Speaker 4: doing Chippendale? Because that would have been hard.
Speaker 2: We would do it. We would do it temp straight, straightforward,
Speaker 2: and then usually most of the cast would go on,
Speaker 2: would go home. We'd go back through all of our
Speaker 2: lines very slowly. Now, the funny thing is the original
Speaker 2: Chip and Dale were not legible.
Speaker 1: There were actual chipmunks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well they chattered little. It was basically a bunch
Speaker 2: of nonsense and non sequiturs. Occasionally you could understand a
Speaker 2: word or two. And they were done by a local
Speaker 2: Burbank actress for Ink and Paint Girl, and they were
Speaker 2: sped up like like like double speed or more. So
Speaker 2: it was really fast now for TV animation, especially in
Speaker 2: those days, it had to be like radio with pictures.
Speaker 2: With the accused Rocky and Bullwinkle of being you know,
Speaker 2: limited animation, so you know, you can only they animate
Speaker 2: on the on the threes or the fives as they say,
Speaker 2: you know, they only change change the pose the the
Speaker 2: image once every four or five frames or three three
Speaker 2: to five frames, you know, so they don't have to
Speaker 2: have so many drawings. It's much cheaper and faster. And
Speaker 2: so that's why they had Rocky Bowenkill had a narrator
Speaker 2: and very heavy in dialogue, and you had to get
Speaker 2: so much of the of the plot, the comedy, the
Speaker 2: so much of the show was really radio, you know.
Speaker 2: And so we had to turn Chip and Dale into
Speaker 2: well yeah yeah, yeah, and we worked on it. Spent
Speaker 2: we spent hours, uh with the tape machines at B
Speaker 2: and B, myself, Maygon, uh Les Perkins, probably Tad Stones
Speaker 2: and uh An Art Vitello, I think, and we worked
Speaker 2: figured out so, I mean, I would say, and it's
Speaker 2: not not anything egomaniacal about it, and I don't ever
Speaker 2: expect to be paid anything special. But but I kind
Speaker 2: of formulated it, I mean, with the help of everyone,
Speaker 2: because I thought, well, okay, so we can't so they're
Speaker 2: both women, so we want to separate the characters. That's
Speaker 2: why it's me and Tress. And I thought, well, well.
Speaker 1: You guys had to stay after school and record.
Speaker 2: But these characters, what are they? You know, they're like
Speaker 2: the Little Rascals, but they're like the little rascals. And
Speaker 2: Dale Dress is kind of like Spanky and he's kind
Speaker 2: of a clown a little bit like Alfalfa too, so
Speaker 2: so I based Dale's speaking voice, which is sped up
Speaker 2: on Alfalfa Switzer.
Speaker 1: Can you give us some Dale without being sped.
Speaker 13: Up somely original? Dale was based on Alfalfa Switzer, who
Speaker 13: I think came from Tulsa, Oklahoma or something somewhere like that.
Speaker 13: That and it's the dead you know, the the not
Speaker 13: the dead Endkins, but the little rascals, and they did
Speaker 13: all those nineteen thirties nineteen forties kid like things. How
Speaker 13: about that instead of how about that?
Speaker 2: How do you like that? How do you like that?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: What do you know?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Is that arc to sure that throws you right? Physical
Speaker 2: thirty early forties? Is there a term?
Speaker 3: Is there a technical term for that? Because I know,
Speaker 3: like you've done a lot of voices that's like kind
Speaker 3: of in the Transatlantic accent.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well, I mean, you know, Transatlantic is so
Speaker 2: typical for her.
Speaker 3: So I'm curious if there's another term.
Speaker 1: For captain hook is one?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, the type of style you're talking about, once asked,
Speaker 2: and usually he didn't give a straight answer. Was once
Speaker 2: asked about his his accent, which he normally spoke with.
Speaker 2: And in fact, when I met Hans Conried sitting in
Speaker 2: on a Heartbeat theater and eventually I ended up working
Speaker 2: with him to Heartbeat Theaters and an Alien Worlds radio
Speaker 2: show because Hans was a very fine radio actor and
Speaker 2: loved it. And and so when I was first introduced
Speaker 2: to Hans Conrich was a surprise to me because I
Speaker 2: was this Don Hills was the director.
Speaker 4: He says, Oh, I want you to meet somebody.
Speaker 2: This is Hans Conry's and I was so intimidated. Hey, Hans,
Speaker 2: this kid, he does your voice? Eron, I do it
Speaker 2: for him? Oh God? Well yeah, okay, And so I
Speaker 2: all I could think of was a line from the
Speaker 2: Fractured Flickers series, which I loved. Nobody knows what that
Speaker 2: is now. But if you ever see some fractured flickers,
Speaker 2: I mean, if if you find them anywhere there is
Speaker 2: the silent film actors estates won't let them run anywhere,
Speaker 2: but anyway, uh, you might, you might find them illegally
Speaker 2: posted somewhere. But anyway, Hans Conried was the host. He
Speaker 2: was really snarky and defeat posting fractured flickers and uh
Speaker 2: and and the show opens we're kind of like, uh,
Speaker 2: I don't know, snarky. They were like Letterman show.
Speaker 1: And yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: It's a traditional kind of cold open comedy. Ron and
Speaker 2: Martin's laughing, of course, which was Gary Owens doing the
Speaker 2: cold opens. But anyway, so there was one I could
Speaker 2: I remember this. The following program is brought to you
Speaker 2: by the makers of Mistake. And then they had this
Speaker 2: crazy theme come in and and and and of course
Speaker 2: the footage was upside down when he first when he said.
Speaker 1: That, and was wasn't he also wasn't he on the
Speaker 1: Danny Thomas Show. Wasn't he Uncle Tanoose?
Speaker 2: That's correct? Yeah, yes, he was a wholes and those
Speaker 2: he's so many, so many.
Speaker 1: Great little character.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all kinds of characters, all kinds of dialects and stuff.
Speaker 2: But but yeah, he was interviewed. Uh but oh yeah, no.
Speaker 2: But when I met him and I said, when welcome
Speaker 2: to another scintillating yepisold of fraction flickers. I'm your whole comrade,
Speaker 2: and welcome, you know, he says, oh, that's very interesting,
Speaker 2: young man. But I don't speak with an accent.
Speaker 1: To me, but I don't speak and submit.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah yeah, and and and later on he was
Speaker 2: really nice to me.
Speaker 1: Oh that's good.
Speaker 2: Uh and uh he said.
Speaker 1: They say meet your heroes.
Speaker 2: But well when before he left, and uh, I shook
Speaker 2: his hand and said, you know what an honor it
Speaker 2: was to meet him, And he put his arm on
Speaker 2: his hand on my shoulder and he said, he.
Speaker 9: Said, well that's very it's all very flattering, you know,
Speaker 9: but why don't you find someone more worthy to idolize?
Speaker 2: Oh? Man, Yes, that was odd. That's a character.
Speaker 1: Not a lot of that going around today.
Speaker 2: But there was a later interview that my buddy Keith
Speaker 2: Scott recorded. Yeah and uh and the interviewer with some
Speaker 2: film buff voice buff whatever, they said, what do you
Speaker 2: what do you call the the type of your your
Speaker 2: your style of speech? You you you you speak with
Speaker 2: a sort of dialect accent. You call that accent? I
Speaker 2: call it affected. Yes, Because Hans grew up in New
Speaker 2: York City and spent summers in Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: Jonathan Jonathan Harris are our mutual friend. He had a
Speaker 1: story and it was at Stella Adler I think that
Speaker 1: he was shopping with her at Macy's in New York
Speaker 1: City and a lady recognized her and uh and and
Speaker 1: not him. But so she went up and said, oh
Speaker 1: my god, almost that. I'm just so it's amazing to
Speaker 1: meet you. And you know, you know, I'm from England too,
Speaker 1: And I said, and I was always curious, where are
Speaker 1: you from in England? Back in the mother country? Oh, my, darling, darling,
Speaker 1: I'm not from England.
Speaker 4: I'm simply affected.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and and oh never mind, John, you know it's
Speaker 1: from Oklahoma. Okay, yeah, well, okay, Lady Yanks affect.
Speaker 2: But yeah, you know theatrical well, Hans was, he was
Speaker 2: he idolized John Barrymore and he said and snidely whiplash
Speaker 2: and you know, and then Captain Hockey, Oh, I'm just
Speaker 2: doing Barry moa moah, you know John. And if you know,
Speaker 2: if you've ever seen sin Golly, it is indeed like
Speaker 2: Hans comery. It's the same hot theatrical thing from the
Speaker 2: nineteen thirties, the way that yeah, the way.
Speaker 1: It's also a little bit of the Wizard of Ours.
Speaker 1: Who was that great.
Speaker 2: Guy, Frank Morgan?
Speaker 1: Frank who was he was in there too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Frank Morgan died before before The Wizard
Speaker 2: of Oz was released.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he had no idea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what an iconic.
Speaker 2: Everyone loved him. He was quite the alcoholic. That's why
Speaker 2: he didn't live that long. He was always at his
Speaker 2: little you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well he sold it on that.
Speaker 2: I'm a very good man, very bad.
Speaker 1: So did I ask you? Was there any ever a
Speaker 1: time that you were intimidated by somebody you didn't? You know,
Speaker 1: you walked into a studio and said, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I can't believe I'm here with well other than me obviously, God.
Speaker 2: Actually, I mean, I mean I'm very shy, but you know,
Speaker 2: I mean I didn't know it until my forties. Is like, oh,
Speaker 2: that that's what it is. I'm Asberger's. I'm an autistic spectrum.
Speaker 1: That's a superpower.
Speaker 2: Though. So it's sure as hell is because it's.
Speaker 3: Wait, so I want to interject and ask what what
Speaker 3: was it like going through life undiagnosed? Like was that stressful?
Speaker 3: Did that cause anxiety?
Speaker 2: You know my dear old dad who on his last
Speaker 2: legs but still completely coherent, but he's going to be
Speaker 2: ninety six this month. But anyway, yeah, yeah, when I
Speaker 2: was a little kid, and you know, I was always
Speaker 2: very odd and shy.
Speaker 1: Hard to believe, but okay, yeah.
Speaker 2: And very quiet, always very quiet. Well you got over
Speaker 2: that only amongst you know, you're nutballs. There you go,
Speaker 2: and we're all a little bit on the spectrum. Oh
Speaker 2: you bet, all of us, especially for oh definitely, I mean,
Speaker 2: because I always thought, you know, you know, what did
Speaker 2: I want when I was eight years old? You know,
Speaker 2: you know, what do you want for your birthday? Tape recorder?
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, yeah, I was kind of like that. You
Speaker 1: know what I used to draw. I used to draw
Speaker 1: because I always like the doodle. I always like to draw.
Speaker 1: I would draw microphones, really cool old microphones, and I
Speaker 1: would draw them and then cut them out and put
Speaker 1: them on the like the back of the thing, and
Speaker 1: I would sit and I would talking to them all
Speaker 1: by myself, you know, just in my own little coming
Speaker 1: to a theater near you, yeah, you know, and my
Speaker 1: little sister would walk in and go, are you talking
Speaker 1: to your paper microphone again? And I go, yeah, actually
Speaker 1: I am.
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, pretty much. Yeah. No. I had never had
Speaker 2: any talent for drawing things.
Speaker 1: But well I could draw your microphone.
Speaker 2: I wanted to record things and and make little shows,
Speaker 2: and I did, me and my brother and my cousins,
Speaker 2: and you know, I was the ring leader, and we
Speaker 2: would we would just invent these these little dramas having
Speaker 2: to do with the family, friend and celebrities. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: well I still have recordings of some of them in fact.
Speaker 2: And then it was we did we did our own
Speaker 2: little send up of the Ed Sullivan Show. And my brother,
Speaker 2: who's who's still he's the funny one in the family.
Speaker 2: He was, Oh, you're so funny, So you haven't met
Speaker 2: less my older brother. He's still hilarious. It's funny because
Speaker 2: he's real estate survey accounting whatever kind of profession.
Speaker 1: Well, those guys are maniacs, but.
Speaker 2: He is so funny. Yeah, but anyway, he says, So
Speaker 2: it's the aed Smell Your Butt show.
Speaker 1: You know, we were I was, Oh god, I used
Speaker 1: to love that show, you know.
Speaker 2: And and and cousin Barbie was was Barbie Barfo and
Speaker 2: she was like a bad comedian telling bad jokes. And
Speaker 2: then my brother's so funny, he says, And now here's
Speaker 2: the mucus ball monkeys. But anyway, and then he said
Speaker 2: stand back, and then he introduced me as whatever. You know.
Speaker 2: It was just just totally impromptu, and I invented a character.
Speaker 2: Was later on I figured out it was based on
Speaker 2: Bella no aug you know, but but but similar No,
Speaker 2: the comedians singer big fat you know, but very uh
Speaker 2: cats skills, uh you know Bard Yeah she was. She
Speaker 2: actually she did a lot of the really filthy blue
Speaker 2: you know songs. Yeah, the Jewish Mom's maybe very very similar. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: bell Bella, bar Bella somebody people know. I can't remember.
Speaker 2: But anyway, so and uh and its just a name
Speaker 2: popped into my head and so I did this this
Speaker 2: this winding bag comedian singer and uh. And to this day,
Speaker 2: my brother still refers to it, my cousin still refers
Speaker 2: to it, because it just I don't know how it
Speaker 2: came to me. I said, hello everybody, I'm Murner Telts,
Speaker 2: I'm a senor, I'm a comedian, I'm bouth.
Speaker 1: Oh god, and then I'm multi talented.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't remember what I did. It was
Speaker 2: silly after that, but that was that you broke into
Speaker 2: a dance that got the laugh and we did yeah anyway, but.
Speaker 1: Did we I'm sorry forgive me if if you say,
Speaker 1: but what was your absolute very first animated show that
Speaker 1: you did? Not that you liked her?
Speaker 2: Oh you.
Speaker 1: Because people love stuff like or maybe just.
Speaker 2: Me think it's yeah, No, I think it's it's on IMDb.
Speaker 1: I did like My Little Pony or something onto something.
Speaker 2: Dance heart right.
Speaker 4: Was chipping down the first starring role.
Speaker 2: In I don't yes, I think I think first lead. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: but I mean that was the eighties and there was
Speaker 2: the Transformers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Transgressors were before and after. Yeah, it depends
Speaker 1: on which one.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, well it was Transformers. I was Spike.
Speaker 2: They changed now the name to Sam you know, the kid,
Speaker 2: And it's just me doing Mark Hamill. Wow, because I
Speaker 2: met Mark Hamill doing a d R on Empire Strikes Back,
Speaker 2: and we've been casual. He was in that Buddies ever since. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: in fact, that explains a lot. In fact, during the
Speaker 2: period when Mark was not Luke Skywalker in Front of
Speaker 2: the World anyway, he was more the joker and voice
Speaker 2: guy and comic guy and Jean. But anyway, I was
Speaker 2: running to Mark and he's just he's such a buddy.
Speaker 4: We had to hear you, Mark, we had to hear
Speaker 4: he's such a well.
Speaker 2: Mark, you know. So you know, when I saw Star Wars,
Speaker 2: I was so inspired by it and uh and then
Speaker 2: then then I'll be damned. There's there's Mark Hamill, you know,
Speaker 2: sitting on the couch at Goldwyn Uh.
Speaker 14: I don't know what it's called now, doesn't matter any
Speaker 14: the A d R stage there and IRV Kirshner, the
Speaker 14: director anyway, so we were just doing background a d
Speaker 14: R bits.
Speaker 2: And and Mark, you know, he's Mark. He's excited about everything.
Speaker 1: So nice to meet you, you know, And I thought, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was the same way with me.
Speaker 2: I was there with he. I just love Mark. I
Speaker 2: love him. He's such a pal. That's the other hey pal, But.
Speaker 1: No, you're thinking of Eddie Deson.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I don't know Eddie very well.
Speaker 1: But oh but that's the first thing he always said. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: Do it now.
Speaker 4: This is the one thing that you both have in common.
Speaker 4: I'm not quite sure that you both are aware of it, right.
Speaker 4: We both have been specifically requested by the George Lucas
Speaker 4: for a voice roll.
Speaker 2: Oh oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well it's funny because George,
Speaker 2: through Dave Felony, he knows everything, you know. Yeah, George
Speaker 2: talks to me every day. You know, he's busting my balls.
Speaker 2: But let's stay George. Georgia signed a couple of characters
Speaker 2: to me. I had been doing Christopher Lee Count Dooku
Speaker 2: before then. But then they they had this weird alien
Speaker 2: gun slinger, you know, the bounty hunter and uh and
Speaker 2: they cad Bane cad Bane and they did they did
Speaker 2: a whole test real uh screen test, animatic thing whatever,
Speaker 2: and they hired a beautiful, fabulous actor, Lence Hendrickson. You
Speaker 2: know Lence Hendrickson.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: And it was just a gorgeous Western evil bounty hunter
Speaker 2: gun slinger, you know. And and and and Dave told
Speaker 2: me the stories. I said, so, we're screening this, you know,
Speaker 2: with George and he said, I.
Speaker 1: Like the voice, but it's not weird enough. It's not
Speaker 1: weird enough, you know.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if he can get anew my name.
Speaker 2: He said, could you think he could? He could do
Speaker 2: like that something between that and Peter Laurie And David
Speaker 2: said that to me, and I said, okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, that's what you say when you're a voice
Speaker 1: over gun.
Speaker 2: Can you do this?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Well I just thought, oh, I love that idea. So
Speaker 2: so cad Bane became became a very sinister Peter Laurie.
Speaker 2: But in the Old West, say little Lady and some
Speaker 2: many fine brass you we're in there, you know. So
Speaker 2: he's sort of half Western gunslinger Peter Laurie Nostril, you know,
Speaker 2: half Eastern European wherever Peter Laurie was from.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was sort of a traveling, brilliant actor. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and of course left Europe because he was Jewish too,
Speaker 2: so he ski daddled out out of Germany.
Speaker 1: Yeah, as well.
Speaker 2: And then Nick of Time Yeah, in the thirties.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But of course, Jimmy, you were specifically requested for Hyundai,
Speaker 4: weren't you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know you probably. I bet I'll bet
Speaker 2: you had done the character. I'll bet it came out
Speaker 2: of you because we did the Pirate voices.
Speaker 1: Maya, I don't know. I can remember at home. Oh well, thanks, thanks.
Speaker 1: He's one of my favorite guys. You know the thing,
Speaker 1: I have a little mini philosophy. I've said it before.
Speaker 1: I don't want to bore anybody, but but if you
Speaker 1: do a bad impression of someone, it's a new character.
Speaker 1: And if you put two character two character voices together
Speaker 1: and nobody can tell who the hell you're doing that,
Speaker 1: and that's a that's a new character. And if you
Speaker 1: do a perfect impression of somebody, that nobody knows that's
Speaker 1: a new character. Like I said before, my aunt Grace
Speaker 1: got rest of so Uncle Sam. They've been in cartoons.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and I've I've called up my cousins and say, Okay,
Speaker 1: your mom's going to be on Chippendale Risky Rangers coming up,
Speaker 1: so you might well, what are you talking about? Her
Speaker 1: name is Lieutenant Spinelli. Yeah yeah, and of course it
Speaker 1: was a guy. But you know, so it's just it's
Speaker 1: just fun stuff. Oh but putting together and coming up
Speaker 1: with character voices one thing.
Speaker 2: Speaking of impressions and stuff, I just so cherish. Just
Speaker 2: it delights me, no end to hear you do. Well,
Speaker 2: there's a couple of them, but the one that makes
Speaker 2: me laugh the hardest, Andy Divine. Nobody else can do
Speaker 2: Andy Divine. And you know, I just I just saw
Speaker 2: the old Archimedes Frisbee. You know, the old Twilight Zone.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well yeah Andy Devine. He plays her muddle
Speaker 1: foot on Dark Dark Dark Wing guy, w are you.
Speaker 3: Dres What are you doing?
Speaker 1: We're going to have a bar and and I love it.
Speaker 1: Oh the tumble and tumble weeds. Yeah, I always like
Speaker 1: doing those impressions that nobody else I mean everybody does
Speaker 1: John Wayne, but yeah, you know, I'd rather do Pat Buttram.
Speaker 2: But yeah, exactly exactly, and and and nobody else that
Speaker 2: I know of can can do burl Ives. Oh that's right,
Speaker 2: burl Ives singing whatever, even due.
Speaker 9: Love.
Speaker 2: And I always kind of hated his voice, but at
Speaker 2: the time I was so intrigued by it that I.
Speaker 1: Had that fifties halfway to beat Nick, halfway to Folky.
Speaker 2: Sure is a syrupy sweet mendacity, yeah, men, but but
Speaker 2: with a real, a real sense of darkness and malice
Speaker 2: behind that honey sweet voice. But anyway, Yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Feel like we're getting a real insight into being in
Speaker 4: the studio and the early nineties of Jim just doing
Speaker 4: wacky voices and the whole cost just we.
Speaker 2: All we always our favorite voices. Oh yeah, and entertain
Speaker 2: the hell out of each other.
Speaker 1: I'm glad. No, I'm understood. The deba dare recorded way
Speaker 1: too many tourettes of mine, of Mike Tyson Ohn chronicles.
Speaker 4: Yes, you've only done the Tossing chronicles once on the show. Jim,
Speaker 4: I feel like it's time to bust it again.
Speaker 1: Well I don't, I don't think. Well, yeah, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think of one that I can tell.
Speaker 2: But basically, you know, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 15: I had, I had an opportunity presented unto me in
Speaker 15: a sense. So I presented myself to this party and
Speaker 15: they had holes left, right and center. And so I'm like,
Speaker 15: you know, I see this one, and you know, I'm
Speaker 15: like in love you know me, And I'm sure the champ,
Speaker 15: you know what I'm saying. And I pick her up,
Speaker 15: and now we're heading over to the closet, yo, and
Speaker 15: I have over my shoulder and she was gonna be
Speaker 15: the Tipperary minute of Tyson.
Speaker 2: You feel me?
Speaker 15: And she talking about no no jamp, no, no god
Speaker 15: Jese it put me down, you know, teasing, you know
Speaker 15: what I'm saying. And Yo, my ship was harder than
Speaker 15: Chinese mask.
Speaker 2: Yo.
Speaker 1: Anyway, okay, so that's all. Oh my, and I apparently
Speaker 1: I'm going to miss this coming fight. Uh that's coming up,
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson fight against Godzilla. I think I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 2: I could be sorry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's true. Yeah, Fortunately this will air afterward.
Speaker 1: Don't tell me who won, Boy from the Future. What
Speaker 1: is anything going on right now? Anything going on? We
Speaker 1: should know about anything?
Speaker 2: For me?
Speaker 1: Do you go into conventions or anything.
Speaker 2: Well, I it's funny because I just had to sadly
Speaker 2: turned down another request for convention. I just can't do
Speaker 2: it anymore. I especially traveling well and this damn long COVID.
Speaker 2: It's wow, still hanging on. Every couple of days, it's like,
Speaker 2: oh no, like now I got a little bit of
Speaker 2: a stuff. He knows the bad cough is gone for
Speaker 2: the moment. Then I'm hit with a way of a
Speaker 2: fatigue and then you get skin ship. No, it's every
Speaker 2: organ system in your body just you know, all of.
Speaker 1: A sudden, I'm always.
Speaker 2: Hell. Is that? Oh, no, long covid just weird symptoms.
Speaker 1: Oh that's weird.
Speaker 2: It's autoimmunity system stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We have a game we play on this podcast, and
Speaker 3: it's called the voice Swap Game. I'm going to explain
Speaker 3: how it works if you want to play.
Speaker 2: Well, yes, you see, he does. We'll see about that.
Speaker 16: Is how.
Speaker 3: Jim will give you a line from one of his characters,
Speaker 3: say Winnie the Poo's saying you stay as sweet as honey.
Speaker 3: I'm not even gonna try the voice. Sure maybe maybe
Speaker 3: one day. Then you will take that same line and
Speaker 3: use one of your character voices to say the same line,
Speaker 3: and then we'll swap vice versa. Does that make sense?
Speaker 2: Oh? Sure, sure, sure, yeah, that's that's like. That's like
Speaker 2: ask about the workshop. I have a different character, say
Speaker 2: say this line.
Speaker 1: Okay, so here's a little bit of tigger.
Speaker 15: Oh, tiggers do not like honey yet, icky sticky gooey stuff.
Speaker 16: Christopher count cool, hmmm, tiggers do not like honey, that
Speaker 16: icky sticky gooey stuff.
Speaker 2: I dare say, you have a problem.
Speaker 4: I felt we should get Kad Baine and Hondo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I wouldn't do that if I were you,
Speaker 2: little lady. There's danger.
Speaker 1: I would not do that if I were you, little lady,
Speaker 1: there is danger ahead. Bye, do you know what? Go ahead,
Speaker 1: do it anyway, we'll.
Speaker 2: Nice hat. That's a real cadane.
Speaker 4: The best part about these voice swaps is that hearing
Speaker 4: I reckon you a grade too, christ is hearing each
Speaker 4: voice actor take the line, but do it as the
Speaker 4: character they put you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, well and well, I mean
Speaker 2: you know as well as I. When when you've got
Speaker 2: a character that is a part of you, it's in you.
Speaker 2: You've done it for years, it's just they live in you,
Speaker 2: and and so you're delivering any lines in character, you
Speaker 2: don't even know what you're gonna do or what you're
Speaker 2: gonna say. The just let the character do it. The
Speaker 2: character just comes out of you, right, you know, thinking.
Speaker 1: That's true, Planet, I always stay instincts are the best.
Speaker 2: Thanks, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: Think I was going to request a voice from you.
Speaker 3: It's not necessarily a character voice, but when I was
Speaker 3: doing my research on you and I heard the voice,
Speaker 3: it like just instantly rocket me to childhood. It was
Speaker 3: the tram operator from Disneyland.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: When you first get on, I have Oh.
Speaker 2: It's my nine hundred. Here, that'll be a little bit better, Mike. Oh,
Speaker 2: though it should be on the giffel. Oh yeah, that'll
Speaker 2: be the nine hundred.
Speaker 1: He's gonna get the nine. He's busting out his welcome.
Speaker 1: That's a giffel. Yeah, here we go. I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm a Disney just that word welcome.
Speaker 2: Yes, I feel like I'm Yes. Please keep your hands, arms, feet,
Speaker 2: and legs inside while the tram is moving, and no
Speaker 2: smoking please. You're about to embark on a journey, on
Speaker 2: a whatever a mile journey, you know, to the Magic
Speaker 2: Kingdom of Disneyland and Disney's California Adventures Park. Please watch
Speaker 2: your step as you're board, and take your and take
Speaker 2: small children by the hand.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: Wasn't it something about no sitting on laps or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there'll be no lap sitting. I have one to
Speaker 2: do tomorrow for for Florida.
Speaker 1: No lap how about lap dancing?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Really? And you know there are these things. They're
Speaker 2: written by by lawyers, yes, and.
Speaker 1: Brought to life by Corey.
Speaker 2: Tell you I am and I do this with old
Speaker 2: pal brian Nevsky imagineering a great guy anyway. And I
Speaker 2: don't know how I'm going to make it sound like English.
Speaker 1: They have.
Speaker 2: It's the most convoluted legally kinds of things about please
Speaker 2: please do this, and do not You will be subject
Speaker 2: to a security checkpoint, you know, and.
Speaker 1: We're watching you.
Speaker 2: If you if an object, if an object, no, it
Speaker 2: used to be if an object should fall, if an
Speaker 2: object falls during your whatever, it's like, please wait until
Speaker 2: the end. And I don't know, but until we out,
Speaker 2: push in on the push up on the handle, and
Speaker 2: push out on the door.
Speaker 1: Leaning over, giving special care to kiss your ass.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I say, it doesn't make any sense. But you know,
Speaker 2: you just got to put that big smile, big warm
Speaker 2: smile on and and and believe convince myself that this
Speaker 2: makes sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but it doesn't.
Speaker 2: It doesn't make sense, and people tune it out anyway.
Speaker 1: Whenever you do that, we're all sitting back there on
Speaker 1: the tram at Disneyland. We're all I mean, I could
Speaker 1: see Christopher, He's sitting and going, oh.
Speaker 3: Man, I'm losing it because I've been to Disneyland so
Speaker 3: many times in my life, so so, so so many times,
Speaker 3: like since I was like five years old, and it's
Speaker 3: always been your voice, if I'm not mistaken, And that's
Speaker 3: literally like, well will your introduction and your outroduction to
Speaker 3: your day.
Speaker 2: In the park probably has since that's literally.
Speaker 3: Like your voice is like the bookmark of your day
Speaker 3: in the park. And I think that's why. Honestly, that
Speaker 3: voice hit me harder than any voice on this show,
Speaker 3: just because it's literally like the subliminally the first and
Speaker 3: last voice you hear when you go to Disneyland.
Speaker 2: Well that's and I.
Speaker 3: Didn't even think about it until I was doing the
Speaker 3: research that like, oh yeah, of course they have to
Speaker 3: hire a voice actor to do that voice. It's just
Speaker 3: like something you don't even think about.
Speaker 2: Really announcing, which is a whole different kind of character.
Speaker 2: Voice is not it's because it's not really acting. Yeah. True,
Speaker 2: there's announcing and then there's a narration, which is sort
Speaker 2: of halfway between acting and announcing because it's a structured
Speaker 2: type of of acting performance. But but announcing is musical.
Speaker 2: It's a song Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, Welcome
Speaker 2: to Disneyland us A. But you know, and I grew
Speaker 2: up idolizing them. Well, I mean, what really made me
Speaker 2: want to be? Yes, that's beautiful.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 2: I love you know, I love don't let us do
Speaker 2: them get so pissed off. I was so so annoyed
Speaker 2: at the sound designer on well, I won't say the
Speaker 2: particular film that people can figure it out where I
Speaker 2: had to do the a wind god and they gave
Speaker 2: me a hand mic and so I blew into the
Speaker 2: microphone and delivery line and I heard the play back
Speaker 2: and that's pretty damn cool. Yeah, damn cool, And that's
Speaker 2: of course. And then he said, not just.
Speaker 1: Just just justne project by any chance?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I said, you know, said, why did you just
Speaker 2: do it straight? And then of course they did something
Speaker 2: digital to it and it just sounded boring.
Speaker 1: Well there you go.
Speaker 2: But you know, and I'm always doing that too. It's
Speaker 2: like like like yeah, you know, you know, he falls,
Speaker 2: he falls down a well and it's like, oh, hold on, okay,
Speaker 2: I'm down the well. Now that's funny. Yeah, that's funny,
Speaker 2: or or or you know, uh, you're you're attacked by
Speaker 2: an alien sentient mushroom that's stuck to your face. Again,
Speaker 2: then you do this, Okay, now could you just do
Speaker 2: it straight? And we'll do and you know, and then
Speaker 2: they so they equ it and they yeah, that's a
Speaker 2: digital filter and it's lame. It's lame. Now it's funny,
Speaker 2: it doesn't have character to it. You gotta do it acoustic.
Speaker 2: Do you remember on Rescue Rangers when we had the
Speaker 2: great Jimmy McDonald, Oh.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I was just trying to I was trying
Speaker 1: to get in there and tell him about that guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and what kind of did he was doing. He had
Speaker 1: one end for the wolf and one end for the bear.
Speaker 2: That was his hurricane Hurricane lamp. Yeah, so he was
Speaker 2: doing the bear, Humphrey the bear and he yeah, and
Speaker 2: he pulled out this old you know, chimney from from
Speaker 2: a from.
Speaker 1: A like a real you know l yeah with flame
Speaker 1: in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, and so and it was just
Speaker 2: the glass part and so it's you know that sexy
Speaker 2: shape whatever, you know what they look like Coca cola
Speaker 2: trust what they call it. Yeah yeah, but but you
Speaker 2: know it's that curvacious thing anyway, yeah yeah, yeah, but
Speaker 2: it's not exactly. It was.
Speaker 1: A land like in every Prospector movie cover Prospected movie
Speaker 1: you've ever seen.
Speaker 2: Right, it's but it's sort of a bulb at the bottom.
Speaker 2: So it gives it unique well bear muzzle properties because
Speaker 2: of the shape of it, the acoustics of it, and
Speaker 2: so he would just go, you know, in one end
Speaker 2: of it, it sounds like a bear and even just
Speaker 2: and uh and then the other end becomes a wolf
Speaker 2: because I guess right, because it mimics the shape of
Speaker 2: the muzzle. And I just love that stuff because it's acoustics.
Speaker 2: And but it's organic and you know, I mean, yes,
Speaker 2: wizardry with with digital effects, I respect that, but when
Speaker 2: you when you're just doing something organic, and especially if
Speaker 2: it's for comedy, just pick up something that sounds funny
Speaker 2: and does the job.
Speaker 4: You know, do you think modern day voice actors are
Speaker 4: afraid to be that creative because you know, they don't
Speaker 4: let you.
Speaker 2: They don't let you. It could be that case because
Speaker 2: the sound editors, now you do you do the voices,
Speaker 2: We'll do the sound effects, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, well we don't know.
Speaker 2: And yet some of the characters we do are sound effects,
Speaker 2: like like I did Zipper the Fly, Yeah, how do
Speaker 2: you do fly?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: He's just buzzes and how can I buzz funny? And
Speaker 2: it's got to be kind of screechy. And then because
Speaker 2: I've got that, I've got that that resonance call upon
Speaker 2: and so I just and then I decided to give
Speaker 2: it a bunch of spittle and you know, all these
Speaker 2: farty things, and then it's sped up with the Chip
Speaker 2: and Dale voice and it came out very funny. And
Speaker 2: then and then in the last season to have legible dialogue,
Speaker 2: and I was not happy.
Speaker 1: I hate legible dialogue, you know, when it's just this
Speaker 1: kind of well, I have good news, that wasn't It's
Speaker 1: like like Tasmanian devil, I know, so I had.
Speaker 2: Had to say in that horrible texture. Then sped up.
Speaker 1: I love the simpsence.
Speaker 2: That was harge right, yeah, really kidding, And I just
Speaker 2: thought it was lame. I just I just yeah, like
Speaker 2: Tasmanian Devil. Do they make you say words as TAZ
Speaker 2: very few?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, because the test doesn't talk about no, because the words,
Speaker 2: it's the dialogue exactly. It's got to have all of
Speaker 2: that gotten glutton, all that roaring and spittle and yeah
Speaker 2: and plosives and it's funny and stuff like that, and
Speaker 2: the audience. Here's a secret of voice acting that DAWs
Speaker 2: Butler taught us as radio actors. He said, you know,
Speaker 2: and directors hate it. But he said, you know, good acting,
Speaker 2: good dialogue, well written dialogue. You don't have to you
Speaker 2: don't have to sound out every word. You know it's there,
Speaker 2: and when the audience fills it in in their imagination,
Speaker 2: sure it's more powerful. And he would say, he would say, like, like,
Speaker 2: you know, in a very tender romantic scene, you don't
Speaker 2: say I love you, you know, if you're really.
Speaker 1: Really you do. If you're in special classes, yeah no, if.
Speaker 2: You're really in a state of head over heels infatuation,
Speaker 2: you know, I love view. Okay, the audience here's the
Speaker 2: word love. You don't have to say it. If you
Speaker 2: do that in an average animation session, say oh, you
Speaker 2: didn't say the word love. Your voice cracked or something
Speaker 2: I couldn't hear it.
Speaker 1: Was there.
Speaker 2: That pisces me off. It's like the audience will they
Speaker 2: know it's there, they'll hear it and it'll be much
Speaker 2: more powerful.
Speaker 1: But whatever, sure, whatever, is there anything that's tickling your
Speaker 1: fancy right now that you're working on that I just did.
Speaker 17: It was originally written as as a screenplay, I guess,
Speaker 17: a horror comedy screenplay, and the writer producer decided to
Speaker 17: turn it into.
Speaker 2: An audio book and so it's like a radio play.
Speaker 2: It's not produced yet all the way, but I think,
Speaker 2: but I know, we've recorded all the dialogue for it.
Speaker 1: If you're a fan of everything we do here at
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Speaker 1: slash Jim Cummings podcast.
Speaker 2: Do it Now So he's just doing this independently, and
Speaker 2: because you know, you try to do something like this
Speaker 2: an audiobook production, and the creators never make any money,
Speaker 2: you know. So he wanted to do a deal where people,
Speaker 2: especially with a social media profile which I don't have,
Speaker 2: would co own it so they would make profits from
Speaker 2: sales and they promoted on their now Facebook, Instagram whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and that's great, but I don't have that, I said,
Speaker 2: I don't care. I don't care what it pays. I
Speaker 2: just I saw the script and the narration. It's like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, it's comed horror. And so it's a
Speaker 2: it's a full length radio play. And I don't know
Speaker 2: if you've ever heard the old radio series The Whistler.
Speaker 2: The Whistler was narrated most of the episodes and went
Speaker 2: on for like ten years or more maybe by an
Speaker 2: actor named Bill Foreman. And and it was it was
Speaker 2: kind of like it was kind of like The Shadow,
Speaker 2: but but the Whistler was strictly but it whistled. But
Speaker 2: he was very engaging and snarky. Know that the theme
Speaker 2: from The Whistler, it's the most haunting theme and it's whistled.
Speaker 2: Let's say, let's see I can't whistle.
Speaker 17: But.
Speaker 1: Stop it. It's too haunting. Oh great, now I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be haunted all night.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you could hear the notes in that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know you know that theme. You've heard it before,
Speaker 2: I'm sure. Yeah. The Whistler, well it's on YouTube. You
Speaker 2: can hear Old Whistler shows. They're really good. But anyway,
Speaker 2: with the but I liked the picture of his mind.
Speaker 2: But I saw yeah, but I saw this thing, and
Speaker 2: I saw this narration. It's like, it's not exactly the same,
Speaker 2: but that should be the voice of Bill Foreman. So
Speaker 2: I did my version of of Bill Foreman. You know,
Speaker 2: I am the Whistler, and I know many things where
Speaker 2: I walk by night. I know many strange tales from
Speaker 2: men and women who have slipped into the shadows. Yes,
Speaker 2: I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak.
Speaker 2: And then Marvin Miller would going on tonight, that's.
Speaker 1: Pretty good night episode, you know, Yeah, I love that
Speaker 1: old stuff.
Speaker 2: But it was so good, And then and then he
Speaker 2: would say say, you didn't mean to kill your wife,
Speaker 2: did you, Bill? But you did? Yes? Yes, Now what'll
Speaker 2: you do?
Speaker 1: Run?
Speaker 2: Run? That's what? But no, they'll catch you, won't they
Speaker 2: So you stop into the bar down the street and
Speaker 2: and whatever, you know, it goes on and not sure whatever,
Speaker 2: he just memors the tale of these people who who
Speaker 2: did wrong and and the are trying to weasel out
Speaker 2: of the consequences. Mostly there you go or whatever.
Speaker 1: Like me, they're goody, thank you so much for this.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, oh my god. Can we do this
Speaker 2: every day?
Speaker 4: So cool?
Speaker 1: Well, sure, okay, so I'll see you tomorrow. No, yeah,
Speaker 1: I yeah, good stuffs. Now have we touched on anything?
Speaker 1: You're not You're gonna You're not gonna necessarily go to
Speaker 1: a can that we can see you.
Speaker 2: No, No, I mean that's virtually. But I mean it's
Speaker 2: funny the last time. I mean, I do, I do
Speaker 2: occasional D twenty three s, but I just I can't.
Speaker 2: And I'm sorry for for fans because I sincerely appreciate
Speaker 2: you know, the uh there, the fans appreciation of what
Speaker 2: we do. But but it's bless it's it's so stressful
Speaker 2: for me because you know, I can only talk to
Speaker 2: one or two people at the same time and give
Speaker 2: them my full attention. Sure, and I know you know
Speaker 2: it means the characters mean so much to people. I
Speaker 2: hate signing autographs. I would rather talk to people. But anyway,
Speaker 2: And and my heart breaks for the people that are
Speaker 2: left behind in line. It's like it's like I've been
Speaker 2: here for three hours and I have to pee and
Speaker 2: my and and my my brain is about to depend.
Speaker 2: Yeah really ah no, No, they're just the stress of
Speaker 2: being in crowded situations and being being the center of attention.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Again, that's that's the autistic thing. Uh. You know, I
Speaker 2: can I can go up on on a stage if
Speaker 2: I have a role to play or whatever, like you know,
Speaker 2: most performances, they they love the blows. The blows, you know,
Speaker 2: it's like the attention from an audience.
Speaker 1: So you don't get into voice over to to have
Speaker 1: everybody staring at you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just so uncomfortable.
Speaker 18: It's like like, yeah, I gave well paid no attention
Speaker 18: to that man behind the curtain. As I'm the character,
Speaker 18: the great and powerful character.
Speaker 2: I'm not this little nerdy geek from from the San
Speaker 2: Fernando Valley.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, shall we give them your address to Yeah
Speaker 1: we're just kidding.
Speaker 2: They find it.
Speaker 1: I'm kidding. Yeah, Well, thank you, my friend, but.
Speaker 2: Thank you anyway, but but you know, I'll do D
Speaker 2: twenty three. I love doing panels. Yeah, but then I
Speaker 2: then I have to I have to escape because there
Speaker 2: you go, it's rough on the old boy.
Speaker 1: No you know, yeah, no problem, you're.
Speaker 2: You know, you're neuroses and whatever, piccadillos, whatever get worse
Speaker 2: with age, and it's like, yeah and more and more
Speaker 2: just I usually want to be left alone or or
Speaker 2: at play with with you great folks, you know.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is just like I said, well, we
Speaker 3: really really appreciate you being here. Thank you for we
Speaker 3: got to do it again. Sometimes we've had multiple guests
Speaker 3: on that have come on twice, and you know, it's
Speaker 3: fun to catch up and see and everything like that.
Speaker 2: And I always feel a little guilty. It's like tea,
Speaker 2: you know, I didn't really necessarily accomplish and answer questions
Speaker 2: and shed light on.
Speaker 3: It's all the quality of the conversation. That's that's the goal.
Speaker 2: But you know, the main thing. And pardon me for
Speaker 2: being a little too abuliant. I mean I should shut
Speaker 2: up and listen a little bit more. But I knew
Speaker 2: that it would just be absolutely thrilling and delightful as
Speaker 2: it has been, as it always is well, thanks, just
Speaker 2: hanging out.
Speaker 1: Thanks, I mean, of course, just hang out.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And we're not the fans like the most too. This
Speaker 3: is just the like authenticity.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is just us naturally. We we're not
Speaker 2: we're not we're not performing anything is this is this
Speaker 2: is the way we are, you know, when we meet
Speaker 2: in the lobby, this is the way we are there
Speaker 2: we go, this is what we talk about. And and
Speaker 2: I could just go on forever. I just thank you
Speaker 2: and you know, us US wish people, we use the
Speaker 2: British people in the world. There's no no brag, just fact.
Speaker 2: I don't remember who said that.
Speaker 1: Walter Brennan the guns of Wilson, but I could be wrong.
Speaker 1: I'm not anyway, thank you.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, my CIOs.
Speaker 3: All right, everybody, that was another episode of Tuned In
Speaker 3: with Jim Cummings. I hope you were paying attention. That
Speaker 3: was a good one. We were joined today by Corey Burton.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 2: Corey.
Speaker 3: Thank once again, Brenda Dando as always, thank you, Chris
Speaker 3: and Jim Cummings. Of course we will see you in
Speaker 3: the next one. Don't forget to like and subscribe. Remember
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