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Speaker 5: It's like two thousand people in the audience.
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Speaker 4: And I feel like that live show really adds like
Speaker 4: to the dynamic of the podcast. You know, it's a
Speaker 4: little different than here in the studio, but there's audience participation.
Speaker 4: I mean you get to see it recorded live, it's
Speaker 4: on YouTube the next week and obviously Apple and everything
Speaker 4: like that. But yeah, I just really feel like there's
Speaker 4: there's an energy about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree. And there's very little nudity, so you
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Speaker 5: Minimal nudy, you don't very just come on.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But with all that said and done, we have a
Speaker 4: very special guest for you today with I mean, looking
Speaker 4: at your credits, I mean just incredible. I mean, over
Speaker 4: four hundred voices. I'm probably lowballing that. I mean, just incredible.
Speaker 4: We'll get all into it right now, none of the
Speaker 4: than Michael Bell. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Hey, guys, this is a treat.
Speaker 3: Thank you, oh bless you, sir, Thank you very very
Speaker 3: much for being here.
Speaker 2: I was at as I told you, I was at
Speaker 2: the straight of horror moves. I try to figure it
Speaker 2: out and try to hear them out, and you.
Speaker 3: Know, yeah, well you know those Horrmusians.
Speaker 2: You knows exactly. And my Iranian is so bad.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, there's a joke in there about the planet
Speaker 3: Uranus too. I understand you've heard.
Speaker 2: A lot, a lot, and it's backfired on me a
Speaker 2: couple of times.
Speaker 3: Hey, but seriously, you kids are marvelous. Good night.
Speaker 5: How are you doing today.
Speaker 2: I'm good, I'm good considering. Hey, you know, I'm as
Speaker 2: I was telling him, I was telling you earlier. And
Speaker 2: I hope this doesn't affect any future considerations for series.
Speaker 2: But I'm eighty seven and and I wake up in
Speaker 2: the morning and I get out of bed and.
Speaker 3: I go nailed it.
Speaker 2: So how good I am?
Speaker 5: That's right?
Speaker 2: And also when you consider the alternative wonder But seriously.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well you've been You've been waking up for
Speaker 3: a long time. You've been doing this.
Speaker 2: I'm jumping out of bed doing my stuff, yea. And
Speaker 2: I've been working on my impression of you, and I
Speaker 2: still haven't nailed it.
Speaker 3: Well, so am I and know?
Speaker 2: But then I've worked on Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I still can't do it. I still can't do it.
Speaker 2: I watched him all during doing Dark Wing, and I'm
Speaker 2: working on my stuff and I'm watching him, So I'm
Speaker 2: gonna have to get to that sooner or later.
Speaker 3: So that explains the animosity between Cuackerjack and Dark Wing.
Speaker 2: That that was the basic reason it was so funny
Speaker 2: when we did that. Was all sitting in like you
Speaker 2: had your voice down, and we were all sitting online
Speaker 2: and line and they got the scripts in front of us,
Speaker 2: and they didn't tell us who we're playing in advance.
Speaker 3: Oh really no.
Speaker 2: So so when the scripts came down and I think
Speaker 2: Dan cast I was on my right and I was
Speaker 2: sitting there and they said, okay, Mike, you're doing your
Speaker 2: character as tracker Jack. And I said, okay, I said,
Speaker 2: I know what I'm gonna do. Do a Kirk Douglas
Speaker 2: kind of thing. Because he's so crazy, I crack his voice,
Speaker 2: you know, one of those. God, that's what I'll do.
Speaker 2: But Dan's character was first, and that's what Dan did.
Speaker 2: Now I was stuck. Now I had to come up
Speaker 2: real quick with something generic. So I came with just
Speaker 2: as wacky as sound as I possibly could. But I thought, here,
Speaker 2: I'm working on this. I said, I know exactly where
Speaker 2: I'm going to go with this guy. And that's what
Speaker 2: they used to do. They'd say when you were like,
Speaker 2: if you're if their character was first, and they happened
Speaker 2: to do the farmer that you were going to do,
Speaker 2: and the farmer number one. I'm ready and I'm Farmer
Speaker 2: number two, and I know what I'm going to do,
Speaker 2: and that was.
Speaker 3: What I was going to do.
Speaker 2: Farmer got another farmer.
Speaker 3: Yes, oh my god.
Speaker 5: So is there like a moment of anxiety in that.
Speaker 2: Oh deep moment and those are our word depends because
Speaker 2: I've never was quite sure if I was gonna be
Speaker 2: able to hold an infanty. Somebody had a voice that
Speaker 2: I was going to do the character I was going
Speaker 2: to do. You just clenched.
Speaker 3: I remember showing up at the voicecaster. This is such
Speaker 3: inside ball. But speaking of William Shallard. He was, he was,
Speaker 3: he was there and Percy Rodriguez showed up and he
Speaker 3: and he said, oh great, I was gonna do you.
Speaker 2: Person, oh with that that great voice.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, yeah, anyway, Yeah, it's inside baseball there forgive us.
Speaker 2: That's okay. You know they live love, they love it.
Speaker 2: Don't they love it?
Speaker 3: Don't you love it out there?
Speaker 2: Think?
Speaker 3: Yes he does? Oh my god. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So Jim was telling me that he's known you since
Speaker 4: pretty much the day he got into the industry.
Speaker 2: Very very the earth was cooling, yes, yes, that's so long.
Speaker 2: He's know.
Speaker 3: How about those dinosaurs?
Speaker 2: Huh? Oh my god. Right yeah. And when she'd go
Speaker 2: like this or that's not a.
Speaker 3: Shore fitted and we were both old thank you. Yes,
Speaker 3: we know the jingle from the Dinosaur Show.
Speaker 2: People are going, who the heck isn Who's mom?
Speaker 3: She was? She was? She was with Burt Reynolds.
Speaker 2: This was Burt Ynolds. Jony remember Johnny Gerber I do.
Speaker 2: Johnny Gerber was great voice person. And we were called
Speaker 2: in to do some voices for a movie called The
Speaker 2: Man who Loved Cat Litter, A Man who loved cat
Speaker 2: dancing close and and and he was Van Reynolds and
Speaker 2: it was his film and we just kept imitating him
Speaker 2: and he didn't know it. So we knew he were different.
Speaker 2: We knew that we as voice people, even though you know,
Speaker 2: we had done someone camera I'm treating. But we knew
Speaker 2: we were different because he never got us. He'd look
Speaker 2: at us literally like he he like we were. We
Speaker 2: came in to clean the studio. We were joking and
Speaker 2: playing and doing voices and stick and he was off
Speaker 2: on the side gun, you know, fixing his mustache. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I once I did a show with with with Tom
Speaker 3: Kenny and and Uh and Uh, Peter and all these
Speaker 3: great people, Carlos, Elis Rocky and Uh. And I convinced
Speaker 3: everybody to do all of our characters as the character
Speaker 3: doing William Shatner. Oh wow, the character doing William Shatner.
Speaker 3: And we got there and I remember Peter Uh, our
Speaker 3: producer writer, is it maybe? And you know, it just
Speaker 3: could not have been more trepidacious. So we did about
Speaker 3: three or four pages of it and he said, wait
Speaker 3: a minute, we can't do this.
Speaker 2: Oh god, it's great.
Speaker 3: We can't we can't do this. I was like, but
Speaker 3: we're halfway through the show. Yeah, but it's it. No, No,
Speaker 3: we just you know, it's funny, and I thought I
Speaker 3: thought it was a great idea.
Speaker 2: No, it's a great idea. It's a funny idea.
Speaker 4: I don't want to gloss over like to me that
Speaker 4: that is one of the quintessential talents of voice acting.
Speaker 4: When I you know, when I was first getting into
Speaker 4: it in college, I couldn't believe that people could imitate
Speaker 4: in a character voice another person or character.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Mean there's the famous you know skit of bugs Bunny
Speaker 4: imitating Elmer Fudd and Elmer Fudd imitating bugs Bunny when
Speaker 4: it's the same person. How do you do that? Like,
Speaker 4: how do you tune into that? It's it's incredible.
Speaker 2: I got to work with Meil Blank, Yes, a long
Speaker 2: time ago. It's a long story. So any event, when
Speaker 2: I teach and you teach voice, and I teach voice
Speaker 2: over the kids, and I say, plagiar eyes, don't shage
Speaker 2: your eyes. It's why God made your eyes. So if
Speaker 2: you plage yourise, it's still yours. It's your algorithm, even
Speaker 2: though it's the actor. Even though I mean, I used
Speaker 2: to do Jack Palance when I met Jack Polance because
Speaker 2: I worked for him and yeah, that kind of always
Speaker 2: had a had asthma, and his laugh was it was
Speaker 2: really creepy, really awful.
Speaker 3: And I wound up.
Speaker 2: Listening to him saying, I'm going to do that. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna do that. That's my next bad guy, my next
Speaker 2: black hat. That's chance to do him. And they said,
Speaker 2: where'd you come up with it? I said, it's just
Speaker 2: something that I would Jack Palance, I came.
Speaker 3: Up with it. Well, I have a mini philosophy that
Speaker 3: if you do a terrible impression of somebody really famous,
Speaker 3: nobody knows who it is, you have a new character.
Speaker 2: Yes, you got a new kyes you do. Yeah, And
Speaker 2: I do mostly bad imitations, so I've always got a
Speaker 2: new character. I made lots me.
Speaker 3: Too, and and and if you put two characters together,
Speaker 3: and then you have a new character, like yeah, one
Speaker 3: of my favorite guys is guy from Star Wars, Hondo
Speaker 3: and Knock. I've told this before, and he is. He
Speaker 3: is Charles Bronson and Juel Brenner put together. Now they'd
Speaker 3: have an ugly kid.
Speaker 2: Yes, but if you'll forgive me, that's a butt baby,
Speaker 2: that's a baby.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we did.
Speaker 5: I haven't heard that turn.
Speaker 3: So long, that's a but baby. But he'd looked like
Speaker 3: Hondo and sounded like Hondo. So there you go. Tell
Speaker 3: no one what you have learned here today.
Speaker 4: Well, speaking of Star Wars, I heard a great story
Speaker 4: that you told on another podcast about your involvement in
Speaker 4: Star Wars oh and seeing it for the first time.
Speaker 4: Do you mind sharing that story?
Speaker 2: I really can. I really, I really know. I really
Speaker 2: got my finger on the post, don't I. I once
Speaker 2: told Jack Nicholson to get out of the business. Yes,
Speaker 2: And we were in class together. And I've seen him
Speaker 2: in a film. I think it was a horror.
Speaker 6: Film, something thirteen, wasn't it, like the pro or so
Speaker 6: the Ravens call off and Jack Nicholson's got tights on
Speaker 6: it and he and legs like a stork and he's
Speaker 6: running around with his hair has combed down.
Speaker 2: And then I saw him driving in his car. We
Speaker 2: were driving it and ilean, I said Jack, and he
Speaker 2: waved and I said, I said, I saw the raven.
Speaker 2: I said, don't give up your day job, and he
Speaker 2: went like that, you know, and don't I know it?
Speaker 3: Do I?
Speaker 2: Did I predict his future? Did I not predict his?
Speaker 2: The thing the same thing with Star Wars. Lucas called
Speaker 2: me in.
Speaker 3: He didn't know me.
Speaker 2: I came from the Asian obviously, and I went in
Speaker 2: and he said, I want to show you what we're doing,
Speaker 2: and he ran the dailies and I looked at it,
Speaker 2: and he must have seen my face because I see
Speaker 2: these guys with flashlights. It's obviously before they have the
Speaker 2: little thing whatever, and they go, well, then I'm going
Speaker 2: and one kid's a surfer and the other one is
Speaker 2: this guy who I thought was very stiff, and I went, wow, okay,
Speaker 2: and he looked at me and said, it's an action picture.
Speaker 2: It's not an acting picture, and he said okay, I
Speaker 2: don't know what that means, but sure. And then I
Speaker 2: see Alec Guinness has the thing, and I said great.
Speaker 2: So I start to do the voices that he asks
Speaker 2: me to do. Would you replace this guy? So it's
Speaker 2: a guy at the council and he says something to
Speaker 2: Darth Vader, and Darth Vader goes and the guy starts going.
Speaker 3: Oh that guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So after he does, I said, okay, I did it.
Speaker 2: I said, can I make suggestion to you? I didn't
Speaker 2: even know who Lucas was. That's how much I knew,
Speaker 2: and I said, why don't you leave him alone? He's good,
Speaker 2: he's doing a nice job. And he said, well he's British.
Speaker 2: I said, well, so far everybody I'm seeing his British.
Speaker 2: And he said, you think he's that good.
Speaker 7: I said yeah, I want to work find.
Speaker 5: Somebody for him, because they had asked you to dub
Speaker 5: his va, to dub.
Speaker 2: His voice, and I said, he's really good. So he
Speaker 2: left him in and I thought, this film, please, And
Speaker 2: then so then they said. Then they said, this other guy,
Speaker 2: this older dude out in the talking to Princess Laura
Speaker 2: or whatever my name is up so they're talking to her,
Speaker 2: and I said, yea, I'll do him.
Speaker 3: I gotta work.
Speaker 2: I do his waist down a bunch of the guys
Speaker 2: and they're playing, going, oh I've been shot. Oh gow up,
Speaker 2: I'm dying. Okay, I'm over here to the red et cetera.
Speaker 2: And then I leave. And then years later, a year later,
Speaker 2: two years, whatever it is, I'm with a bunch of
Speaker 2: buddies and they said, we're gonna go see Star Wars
Speaker 2: at Gramin's Chinese and I said, I'm out, not doing it.
Speaker 2: I saw that not I loved sci FI, but that's
Speaker 2: you know, it's coca. And they went, come on, Mike,
Speaker 2: Come on, Mike, and they dragged me and we've got
Speaker 2: on the line. I'm standing in line and the guy
Speaker 2: starts passing the joint around and I'm going, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: need this, okay, fine, watch it sat down started. After
Speaker 2: it was over, they said whoa, and I went whoa.
Speaker 2: They said, what force did you do? I said, I'm
Speaker 2: got a freaking clue. That was great. I have no idea.
Speaker 2: Years and I had never seen it after that until
Speaker 2: years later, until I started stopped getting or never got residuals. Oh,
Speaker 2: never got residuals, never got as bad. Went to the agent,
Speaker 2: went to the agent and said, it's been a while
Speaker 2: and I never got They contacted the company, and the
Speaker 2: company said, prove that you did it. Oh, And this
Speaker 2: is what eleven years later, because it never occurred to me.
Speaker 2: I mean, I had, you know, like you, the garage
Speaker 2: full of contracts that I finally had to shred because
Speaker 2: I couldn't get my car in. That was the one
Speaker 2: I the one I shouldn't have shred. Wow, because I
Speaker 2: did have a contract. Said, but I got a contract.
Speaker 2: It proves that residuals, because I never got I never
Speaker 2: did anything without residuals. Sure, once they came into into
Speaker 2: being in seventy one, seventy two something like that, and
Speaker 2: they didn't want to go to the didn't want to
Speaker 2: go to court, and they said, well, if we go
Speaker 2: to court, we'll kill you.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, good luck, good luck, good luck. Let
Speaker 3: me we'll be right here.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So that's that's my story.
Speaker 5: Oh baby, I could have bought this block.
Speaker 3: Yeah, instead you did it with two words butter butter.
Speaker 3: I knew, I knew. I didn't have to say much
Speaker 3: to our gay Yeah.
Speaker 2: I call my house lost with sidualities.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. Is that loose? That that was? That
Speaker 3: was a famous story going around the community. You know,
Speaker 3: you know, Michaels Michael's house.
Speaker 2: But that's right.
Speaker 4: And for for those of you out of the loop,
Speaker 4: this was a parquet Butter commercial, big, big commercial for
Speaker 4: you in the eighties.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they had there. There was those articles and things.
Speaker 2: And I was on television when when it was Entertainment Tonight,
Speaker 2: and I wound up having to go to the set
Speaker 2: to do it. And because they said, now you want
Speaker 2: to do to work with the people and work with
Speaker 2: people who are now gone who did on camera stuff.
Speaker 2: And I had to sit there and off camera, and
Speaker 2: I had a little machine that I would move so
Speaker 2: that the lid would go like that better and I
Speaker 2: go better. Packay, So how is language used on your
Speaker 2: on your language?
Speaker 3: It's a little bit of okay, okay, a little bit okay. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean you know, okay, it's not gonna be.
Speaker 5: You can get a couple of words in there.
Speaker 3: We don't go full mcplain okaya.
Speaker 2: Oh I got wait, my hair's turning white thinking about it.
Speaker 2: So we had room where there was a couple of
Speaker 2: kids came in and they were and they were at
Speaker 2: the table and they're making breakfast for mom. Oh yeah
Speaker 2: and uh and they said, okay, go ahead, can I
Speaker 2: do the thing with butter paquet? And the kids laugh
Speaker 2: and it's okay. But by the second and third take
Speaker 2: the kids going and it's terrible. So the director doesn't
Speaker 2: know what to do. And I said, let me get
Speaker 2: onto the table. I know this sounds gross, but I
Speaker 2: get under the table and these two little patent leather
Speaker 2: feet are kicking and I said, okay, roll it, and
Speaker 2: they roll it and he goes let's make mommy breakfast.
Speaker 2: They go, okay, make mommy breakfast, and then lid goes
Speaker 2: better and I went kakapopo. Well, they weren't expecting and
Speaker 2: they broke up. They got a sugar. The second time
Speaker 2: they go they started again, I went pepecaca. Oh god,
Speaker 2: they fell apart and I went pepe cocka doo doo.
Speaker 2: No matter what I could do, just to keep it that.
Speaker 2: They were hysterical. We got take after take after take
Speaker 2: because they something funny was gonna come up. Yeah, we
Speaker 2: break for lunch. Oh, and I'm standing and I'm talking
Speaker 2: to the assistant director and the director comes over and
Speaker 2: he says, their mother of the girls is at the
Speaker 2: other end of the studio and I look and she's
Speaker 2: a block away and I see her setting like this,
Speaker 2: and I said, what is it? And they said, she
Speaker 2: doesn't like that language and she doesn't want to use
Speaker 2: that and used to use that language for the kids.
Speaker 2: And I said, oh, well, how about I say coxsup, motherfucker?
Speaker 2: And he asked me, said you really want me to
Speaker 2: tell her that? And I said yes, yes. So he
Speaker 2: walks to length.
Speaker 3: And I watched him.
Speaker 2: She's like this, waiting and he's leans in there, and
Speaker 2: he goes and she goes. Anyway, she walked off. I
Speaker 2: got to do cock a poopoo doo dooo. Keep keeping
Speaker 2: through the rest of the day.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, ding ding ding ding ding ding. Oh man,
Speaker 3: that's doitch now you you put that in your book, right,
Speaker 3: I mean, how to break into voiceover, how.
Speaker 2: To break in the worse over?
Speaker 3: Sure? Absolutely, I remember that book you have. You wrote
Speaker 3: a book.
Speaker 2: No no, not me, oh not you, No, not me?
Speaker 3: No, but your name was ont of somewhere No no,
Speaker 3: probably Pat Frailey. No, I mean would sell.
Speaker 2: So who's going to buy Pat Frayley?
Speaker 3: Yeah, uh yeah, maybe his kids.
Speaker 5: Do you guys remember the first time you met?
Speaker 2: Well, I do, he doesn't.
Speaker 3: No, I don't see.
Speaker 2: Everything's a blur.
Speaker 3: Told you no, it was uh we were at B
Speaker 3: and B Studio and you were Burger, yes, Barber Burger
Speaker 3: and uh and you were sitting there and Jenny McSwain
Speaker 3: was sitting there and and it was probably a Monday.
Speaker 3: Came in and and she goes, oh, and we're getting ready.
Speaker 3: I think I think it was dark Wing. Probably, yeah,
Speaker 3: it might have been dark Wing And uh.
Speaker 2: Oh no, that's not right.
Speaker 3: Because I ended up doing before. But anyway, well we
Speaker 3: were we were there for whatever reason. Yeah, and uh
Speaker 3: and uh and she goes, oh there he is, Hey commings,
Speaker 3: what's up, Hodshot, how's it going? What it what it
Speaker 3: got any new stuff together? And I go, uh, yeah,
Speaker 3: I had this audition the other week and and it
Speaker 3: turned I just got a phone call that I got. Uh,
Speaker 3: I got Winny the Poop whoa, and and you went, whoa, yeah,
Speaker 3: and she goes and he turns and you turned her
Speaker 3: and you go, he got Winny the Pool. You know,
Speaker 3: Pool hadn't been around for twenty five years. And I
Speaker 3: was saying, well, no, they're well they're bringing them back,
Speaker 3: they're bringing them back. Yeah, And I get to beat
Speaker 3: Tigger when Paul Winchell's out of town. No, that doesn't
Speaker 3: sound right, and I go, well, of course it is.
Speaker 3: He goes, he got Tigger too when Paul Winchell's out
Speaker 3: of town. And I just it was just one of
Speaker 3: those things that only Michael Bellan. And of course Jenny,
Speaker 3: you're foil Jenny.
Speaker 2: Of course you know we still see Jenny.
Speaker 3: Yes we do.
Speaker 5: She was on the podcast not too long ago.
Speaker 2: Did you clean the mics? No, issues.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well I do, and yes we.
Speaker 2: Clean either that or back home than one of the two.
Speaker 3: Yeah something. Oh my gosh, that's funny. Oh that's funny.
Speaker 3: Well we all had a crush on Jenny, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: That's so funny. And but yeah, that was that was
Speaker 3: Those were great days. And she uh and I used
Speaker 3: to say that we're Halli con days and she goes, oh,
Speaker 3: you're such a guber from Ohio. It's Helsy And I
Speaker 3: thought it was Ali g No, that's some actress Hallie,
Speaker 3: you know, no, man.
Speaker 2: She changed it to Ali Berry.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Probably.
Speaker 4: Well, another project you guys both worked on was tail Spin.
Speaker 4: If I'm not mistaken, tail Spin, where you play.
Speaker 2: Memory is great, you know. He he probably has a
Speaker 2: great memory because I people say, remember when you did
Speaker 2: the voice of it? And I said, I don't remember.
Speaker 2: Don't have a clip that I don't get. I don't,
Speaker 2: I don't, I don't And then they do it for
Speaker 2: me and I still don't get it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they do it for you badly. Thank god, it's
Speaker 3: very badly. But yeah, I was Don Carnage on Telsman
Speaker 3: and a couple of I was King Louis, which I
Speaker 3: was my favorite thing.
Speaker 2: Now dark Wing, of course, dark Wing of Dodwing is real,
Speaker 2: real clear. Smurfs is clear for me.
Speaker 5: Smurfs, let's talk about it. Smurfs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for g I Joe, I was doke for g
Speaker 2: I Joe, Smurs is handy, lazy and that incredibly cool jacket.
Speaker 2: It's my jacket. It's my jacket. Is my jacket?
Speaker 3: Did we show the people that you know? You know?
Speaker 2: I make friends so quick to see m j the
Speaker 2: other day at the Panchag Yeah, which was station. Oh
Speaker 2: my god, I've heard I would like to see this
Speaker 2: kid that does it. The two kids are three kids
Speaker 2: that played them at different stages of his life. Did
Speaker 2: anybody ever move like that other than Michael Jackson? Did anybody?
Speaker 2: But what so great was he took? Now this is
Speaker 2: great about don't chage your eyes. That's why God maje
Speaker 2: your eyes when I they played your eyes. He had
Speaker 2: they showed during the curtain, the curtain that came down.
Speaker 2: It had his notes and the notes was watch Fred Astaire,
Speaker 2: watch what's his name from Chicago? Bob Fosse. Bob Fosse
Speaker 2: watched all these movies and he lists all the movies.
Speaker 2: This was his notes all the movies, all the great
Speaker 2: musicals and the dancers and then Nicholas brothers from way
Speaker 2: back when the Nicholas were the early movies. That's and
Speaker 2: he watched them and that's how he designed his all
Speaker 2: his his new approach to dance to music, because up
Speaker 2: to them it was just rock and pot. You know,
Speaker 2: he was doing great stuff, but it wasn't what made
Speaker 2: him the super guy. May wait, this is my jacket.
Speaker 2: This is my wife and daughter got it for me
Speaker 2: as a gift because when they gave to us, brought
Speaker 2: it out that the studio gave to us. Just literally
Speaker 2: chair if you want. And you know what's funny is
Speaker 2: that Frank Welker never ever wore his until I started
Speaker 2: Wear of Mind and I saw him in a recent
Speaker 2: at the Megatron event. I saw him a Megatron and
Speaker 2: he said, I went wore other jackets who he did
Speaker 2: a whole thing. Yeah, had his jacket, Frank, Frank, Frank,
Speaker 2: I said, I want your jacket when you die because
Speaker 2: I can make a fortune on eBay with that thing.
Speaker 3: Will that's so nice to for you to volunteer that day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I'm very I'm very practical.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, practical guy.
Speaker 2: I think in those think in those terms.
Speaker 3: You know, yeah, so is he never got married?
Speaker 2: Yes, I know, but but yeah, yeah, he's what's the
Speaker 2: joke there, he Well, if you never get married, you
Speaker 2: never get divorced. Not only that, you don't have Yeah,
Speaker 2: no alimony, there's none of that stuff. Yea. Also he
Speaker 2: catted around a lot. I mean I was single, I
Speaker 2: was single.
Speaker 3: Were worried about Frank?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm Frank just is dating everybody that walked. Yeah.
Speaker 2: But the funny thing about Frank is gentle, sweet, nice guy.
Speaker 2: You know, he's just one of those guys you want
Speaker 2: in case you're in an accident. You want him there
Speaker 2: because he's really wonderful. And our friend Jony Gerber, one
Speaker 2: of the top voice ladies in the business, said, I
Speaker 2: suspect that Frank has a hefty bag for the teenage
Speaker 2: parts in his guard I knew it.
Speaker 3: I knew it. S're gonna say, I've seen him.
Speaker 2: So nice, he was so nice, we live next door,
Speaker 2: A sweet guy. And then until he uncover all this,
Speaker 2: but he was also Kujo and he was Kujo. Yes
Speaker 2: he was Kujo.
Speaker 3: Just saying he was Kujo.
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Speaker 2: Do it now. I remember, Frank. I remember we were
Speaker 2: doing I don't know if it wasn't a Smurks. We
Speaker 2: were doing a Ace Space Ace or something and we
Speaker 2: had to be land in water and h the director
Speaker 2: at the time, said he was Hunt and he said
Speaker 2: Gordon Gordon, and he was Gordon. He said something yes.
Speaker 2: Gordon said, okay, Mike, we have to talk underwater here.
Speaker 2: So I said, okay, great, this is easy, this is
Speaker 2: no problem. So what do I know? He uses real water,
Speaker 2: So I this is what I did.
Speaker 3: I went, oh, what did I do that?
Speaker 2: I'll get it. Gordon, Yeah, I'm sorry, At which point
Speaker 2: Frank he says to Frank, Frank, your character also with him,
Speaker 2: talks underwater, why don't you try first? And of course
Speaker 2: Frank goes exactly and I said, yeah, Frank, why didn't
Speaker 2: you suggest to me that I do it's because it
Speaker 2: was so much fun watching you drown.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, see I thought I invented that that
Speaker 3: underwater thing, but I guess not, but Frank probably did.
Speaker 2: Hey probably, so you do it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that could be. Yeah, that's you know, plagi.
Speaker 2: Your eyes, don't shade your eyes. I tell everybody if
Speaker 2: somebody else does something great, I think for years I
Speaker 2: used to go like this. I did movies with Jony Gerber.
Speaker 2: We used to do Mexican films. We used to dub
Speaker 2: Mexican films, you see with the yeah, with the with
Speaker 2: the wrestlers with the yeah, that's used to dub them.
Speaker 2: And one of them was a ghost and they said, okay, Mike,
Speaker 2: you're gonna be the ghost. Iing, Oh, I don't know
Speaker 2: whatever the hell that was. They bought it, and I
Speaker 2: tell people going to try it if you see if
Speaker 2: it works.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 5: Wow, this is a question for both of you. Guys.
Speaker 4: This just makes what you just said makes me think
Speaker 4: of this. Do you feel like there's any character voice
Speaker 4: that you've gotten away with if that makes sense. You know,
Speaker 4: you tried something very off the wall and you were
Speaker 4: surprised that they liked it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but what was you.
Speaker 3: What was your The first one that comes to mind, Uh, well,
Speaker 3: either Lieutenant's Binelli on Chippadale's Rescue Rangers because it was
Speaker 3: my aunt Grace or and I've used this, I was going.
Speaker 5: To hear the voice for the for the wow the.
Speaker 8: Lieutenant's been out, like you know what I was trying
Speaker 8: to tell you, guys, it's don't forget to remember you know,
Speaker 8: that's the first thing that you want to do.
Speaker 2: It's your aunt san Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and God rest her soul, you know. The other
Speaker 3: the one was my uncle saying.
Speaker 2: Oh no, that that I would always expect to be great.
Speaker 2: Yeah that I've said, that's not getting away with anything.
Speaker 2: That's wonderful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's awful saying. But that was how he talked.
Speaker 2: Well, I did an Aunt Pauline. I did my Aunt
Speaker 2: Pauline from Brooklyn, from New York. And it was one
Speaker 2: of those things that Hannah Barbara I was a ranger
Speaker 2: and I'm talking to the character and I said, oh
Speaker 2: you do that. Don't you ever talk to me like
Speaker 2: that and get out of the park because you're not
Speaker 2: staying here. And I thought, they're not going to buy this,
Speaker 2: and so we like that Mike, they keep with you. Okay,
Speaker 2: good aunt, Pauline, thank you very much wherever you are.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you've done that too. Then you've stolen like your
Speaker 3: like your school teachers, and.
Speaker 2: You're absolutely just that's that's that's the concept of plagiarizing.
Speaker 2: It's family, friends, people that sound a certain way. Doesn't
Speaker 2: have to be celebrities. Won't sue you.
Speaker 3: Perhaps I won't sue you.
Speaker 2: Always good, Yes, Katherine Epperny Davis. I did what's her name?
Speaker 2: Who is the famous chef Julia? I've done Julia child
Speaker 2: for a commercial. They were casting only women. They wanted
Speaker 2: Julia Charles and none of the women then could do
Speaker 2: Julia Childs. And so I said, why don't you let
Speaker 2: me audition for it? The agency said they just want women. Well,
Speaker 2: just say Michelle Bell.
Speaker 3: So I did this.
Speaker 7: Thing for Ford show Fabular string.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do the whole thing. And I made it
Speaker 2: sound like she was eating.
Speaker 7: So I'm sure when the steering wheelers just got the
Speaker 7: turbino engine, wonderful and they bought it wow, and I did,
Speaker 7: I said, whoa okay, guys now?
Speaker 2: And I was studying Betty Davis. I was studying and
Speaker 2: I studied.
Speaker 3: That's great, what a great idea.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean multi, I'm sure multiple voice actors a
Speaker 4: whole this opinion. But somebody we had on a podcast,
Speaker 4: I can't remember who. Maybe it was Jess Harnell. I
Speaker 4: think maybe it might have been Jess, but he was saying,
Speaker 4: you know, if you're trying to get into voiceover whatever,
Speaker 4: don't only do impressions of, you know, the same sex,
Speaker 4: do impressions of the opposite because that adds a little twist,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely well. Joni taught me that. Jordi Gerber, she
Speaker 2: did it's the crowd as much too young. But Georgie Jessel,
Speaker 2: the famous Georgie Jessel, who was the toast Master General,
Speaker 2: and he had a leaky eye, and she would say, hello,
Speaker 2: this is Georgina Jess. I'm my eyes leaking. I'm sorry, sorry,
Speaker 2: and my metals are rusting, but I would like to
Speaker 2: say to you, you know, and that's exactly what he's
Speaker 2: and she and I said, you can do that, then
Speaker 2: I'm gonna play women. I'm gonna do women's voices. I'm
Speaker 2: not I'm not gonna do anybody out of a job,
Speaker 2: but you know, if I can do it, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: give it. So I would do Betty Davis for a character.
Speaker 2: I did one for an on camera. I did one
Speaker 2: a iron size with uh, oh wow, when I was
Speaker 2: guest staring on Iron and I did it guy kind
Speaker 2: of like that, Oh you're such a fool, you know.
Speaker 2: I did not just not over the top, but he was.
Speaker 2: He ran an improv group and one of the members
Speaker 2: got killed. And so I was doing doing this and
Speaker 2: I said to uh at the time, to the star
Speaker 2: of the show, Raymond Burr, he said, Raymond, can, I'm
Speaker 2: going to do something with this guy. He's just not
Speaker 2: over the top when you go with it, And he
Speaker 2: said go and I said great. So I said, so,
Speaker 2: what's your name as the character? And then he says,
Speaker 2: I said, oh, you're very cute. And I jumped in
Speaker 2: his lap and he wheeled off and he wheeled off
Speaker 2: and he reeled and the director standard director, now you're great,
Speaker 2: and he's looking at he goes.
Speaker 3: What the hell is that?
Speaker 2: What is that? Wait a minute, I don't see that here,
Speaker 2: and he and I laughing, But I continued with the
Speaker 2: character without him willing off, and I paid him just
Speaker 2: slightly running this acting group. Okay, really, you know, not
Speaker 2: not on the nose, just enough to make him a
Speaker 2: little bit right like he does. He does impressions, but
Speaker 2: he doesn't think he's gay, right right, He's just pleased,
Speaker 2: just please to have to do that. And the shoulder house,
Speaker 2: that's another thing. You know, you ask about it because
Speaker 2: you've got a really good You've got a good announcers voice.
Speaker 2: God knows y, Yeah, really good voice. That's the thing
Speaker 2: I said when people say to when you do it,
Speaker 2: don't And I watch him too. You don't stand there
Speaker 2: with your hands on your sides. You really you are
Speaker 2: doing on camera to some degree, and that's going to
Speaker 2: help you motivate there. Because if I'm playing a good guy,
Speaker 2: I stand with both feet on the floor knowing I'm
Speaker 2: never going to get this on character. Care I never
Speaker 2: played this on character. I'll never be that character. But
Speaker 2: I stand there and I think John Wayne, Clint Eastwood,
Speaker 2: you know, one of the guys, Ryan Reynolds, whomever. And
Speaker 2: I stand there like that, and I think in those terms,
Speaker 2: and I get my eyes on that level and I
Speaker 2: stay there. And if I'm playing a weasly character, I
Speaker 2: just immediately creep into him get small again like this
Speaker 2: and do all that stuff. So if it's on camera,
Speaker 2: you would see that. But it helps me and it
Speaker 2: helps me build that character and that the same thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Jim, you've talked about that multiple times, especially with
Speaker 4: Pooh and Tier.
Speaker 3: I remember entertainment Tonight came way back during the very
Speaker 3: very very first first season of Winny the Pooh, the
Speaker 3: New Adventures Whinny the Pooh, and and I was and
Speaker 3: they were behind me, and I was doing Winny the Pooh,
Speaker 3: and I realized and before the sound came on, I
Speaker 3: knew I was doing Pooh because I stood there and
Speaker 3: my stomach was back. And then when when I was
Speaker 3: doing Tiggerves, I was there and I didn't even know
Speaker 3: I was doing it. You do it, but you just
Speaker 3: you just do that.
Speaker 2: It's you know when they say you're voice acting, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: but you're acting, right, Yeah, You're still on camera, no
Speaker 2: matter what happens, You're still on camera.
Speaker 3: Still have that Yeah, it's like Jess Harnell says, voice
Speaker 3: acting is very small V but a capital A. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, cool, I like that. That's not that's good, that's good.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I remember doing when we did the when we do
Speaker 2: the Smurfs and we had to do all. I played
Speaker 2: three characters on Handy, lazy, and grouchy, and I remember
Speaker 2: what we had to do it It was it was
Speaker 2: adjusting to those different characters and making them smaller and
Speaker 2: be smaller, because if I was lazy, I would do
Speaker 2: this kind of thing and just yeah, just whatever it was.
Speaker 2: And if I was you know, handy or are we
Speaker 2: doing that Papa Smurf now and I'm back here, Browchi,
Speaker 2: I was really whatever the heck it was. You get
Speaker 2: into that. Except after one night. One night actually was
Speaker 2: when I first met my wife, Victoria, Victoria caw and
Speaker 2: uh uh. She was the first date, and she'd come
Speaker 2: to my house up on the hill. This is before,
Speaker 2: you know, before I bought this one and uh and
Speaker 2: We're sitting watching Peter Seller's movie and I'm getting hungry.
Speaker 2: It was the first date, and I'm nervous and we're
Speaker 2: sitting beautiful, beautiful woman and she's sitting watching televis me
Speaker 2: and I said, would you like something to do? She said, no,
Speaker 2: I I don't do anything like that on the first date.
Speaker 2: I never eat food, really, she said, Okay, don't want
Speaker 2: to look human. I just want to look the way
Speaker 2: I look said okay. So I went inside and I
Speaker 2: got and I got my uh and I got my
Speaker 2: banana bread that the friend had given me, and I
Speaker 2: took a slice and toasted it and came back in
Speaker 2: and ate it. I started a little dizzy and feeling
Speaker 2: a little strange, so I thought maybe I need more food.
Speaker 2: So I went in and another slice of banana bread
Speaker 2: and toasted it up, and came back and sat down.
Speaker 2: And I was sitting there and she started a comment
Speaker 2: on the movie with Peter Sellers, and she said, isn't
Speaker 2: this great? He's such a wonderful He's such a talent.
Speaker 2: But it was like, this is me great, he's such
Speaker 2: a talent.
Speaker 3: And I went, oh great, what is she doing?
Speaker 2: Why is she doing that? I thought, oh my god,
Speaker 2: I'm stoned. Oh my god. She said I really love
Speaker 2: Peter selling I thought, oh, oh, I'm dying here. So
Speaker 2: I go in the kitchen and I called my friend.
Speaker 2: I said, the banana bread you gave me or anything
Speaker 2: in She was curious. She said, it's green. I told
Speaker 2: you it was green. I thought I thought it was
Speaker 2: green bananas. What are you talking about? It was? She
Speaker 2: put in a lid and I ate half the banana bread.
Speaker 2: So I said to Victoria at that, I said, okay,
Speaker 2: excuse me. She said what I said, I'll be right back.
Speaker 3: I left.
Speaker 2: I came back just in my took off all my clothes,
Speaker 2: of course, put on a towel into my pool. I
Speaker 2: thought I'd swim it off in the dark. I said,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna swim this off. And I'm swimming, and all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, my imagination I'm going and I saw
Speaker 2: that fin. I saw that fin cutting through the dark
Speaker 2: borders of my pool. I got immediately out, exactly, I
Speaker 2: mean wrapped, and I just sat in this and I
Speaker 2: had a sum room and just seeing that, she came
Speaker 2: and she said, you okay. So I'm so sorry Stone.
Speaker 2: And it was a terrible night, really sick. Next morning, smurfs,
Speaker 2: I work with my sunglasses.
Speaker 9: Come on the seats lined up in front of it,
Speaker 9: and we start off with.
Speaker 3: The song Oh.
Speaker 9: Jesus, and I hear this in my voice my ear,
Speaker 9: and I'm dying that delight.
Speaker 2: I am dying all morning long, and nobody everybody's looking.
Speaker 2: I mean, the thing, why you got sunglasses? My eyes
Speaker 2: my hurt, my eyes hurt. Yeah, And it was just
Speaker 2: all morning well, what are we doing now, bob? Oh?
Speaker 2: Even my own voice was killing me. Yeah, the morning
Speaker 2: and I said, I've ever watched that show. I'll know
Speaker 2: which show it is. I'll just know because I look.
Speaker 2: I'm sure I look bersirred doing it, but I'm sure
Speaker 2: I sounded bersir.
Speaker 3: You had to have.
Speaker 5: Did anybody pick up on it or nobody?
Speaker 2: Well, everybody's in your own world, is true?
Speaker 3: Even thank god there were other people there. Oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: to absorb the whatever they absorbed the banana ache? Do
Speaker 3: you have any with you by the check, But.
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, I don't. I was going to
Speaker 2: bring some actually I.
Speaker 3: Know, Well there goes our after party.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I want to bring up a character that you did
Speaker 4: that I'm personally a big fan of. I was telling
Speaker 4: Jim about this earlier before you, before you arrived. Was
Speaker 4: the Fear from Metal Fear? Yes, I thought that was
Speaker 4: a great character. It's a great game. And can you
Speaker 4: just speak to sure?
Speaker 2: Remember when we get it? You know when you get
Speaker 2: it and you remember, they just give you a photograph.
Speaker 2: They said, which one do you want to do? And
Speaker 2: I said, this looks good, destroying whatever it is this guy?
Speaker 2: And I said, how can I make it because my
Speaker 2: voice is not like yours even. I mean, I used
Speaker 2: to have that kind of load, the gravity, but I
Speaker 2: don't have that anymore. It's more more more mel tor mae.
Speaker 2: Now I'm up.
Speaker 3: Here velvet, fake velvet.
Speaker 9: So I had a golo and I I I am
Speaker 9: the fear.
Speaker 3: I am the fear.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's go. We're ready and to work that out.
Speaker 2: And when I saw it was so great because you know,
Speaker 2: you don't see this most everybody doesn't know. We don't
Speaker 2: get to see these. He just wind up doing it
Speaker 2: and they paint to voice whatever it is.
Speaker 4: And in my opinion that that whole game franchise might
Speaker 4: be the most cinematic video games of all times. I mean,
Speaker 4: and you know what I love about that franchise is
Speaker 4: every time they introduce a character, say the fear. You know,
Speaker 4: the character name comes up and you know it shows
Speaker 4: the fear he drops into the scene. But then right
Speaker 4: beside it in parentheses they say Michael Bell the voice act.
Speaker 2: Isn't it strange?
Speaker 4: And they give so much. Did you ever meet Hideo Kajima? No, no, no,
Speaker 4: never met him.
Speaker 2: People ask me about the artists of half these shows
Speaker 2: because a lot of games, do a lot of games
Speaker 2: and I don't. And you know, I think I recently
Speaker 2: met some recently because they picked up a game I
Speaker 2: did called Soul Reaver. Oh yes, he picked that up
Speaker 2: because they wound up being Soul River and it's cooled Ascendants.
Speaker 2: It's coming at this like the fourth permutation of it,
Speaker 2: so Diablo to Soulriva to Defiance to Ascendants, which is
Speaker 2: brand new. And got to meet some of the artists
Speaker 2: that was a little bit different. Yeah, finally got to
Speaker 2: meet the guys.
Speaker 4: I just asked that because in my opinion, I think
Speaker 4: Hideo Kajima is like literally a genius. Genius not even exaggerating,
Speaker 4: you know, I don't use that word lightning. And I
Speaker 4: actually got to meet him a couple of years ago
Speaker 4: at the Video Game Awards. I was there with my dad,
Speaker 4: who's also a voice actor, and we're on the we
Speaker 4: were lined up to go do the you know, the
Speaker 4: walk through, the step through on the red carpet, and
Speaker 4: we're in line and I see Hideokagina in front of us,
Speaker 4: and I was like, oh my, like it started shrinking
Speaker 4: and I was like, no way, I admire this man.
Speaker 2: You know, it was a lot of people. Wouldn't they
Speaker 2: just a name?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, No. I I saw him and I was like,
Speaker 5: oh my god, that's Kajima's son, Like, oh, daddy, daddy,
Speaker 5: do you know who that is?
Speaker 2: That's ID.
Speaker 4: And usually I'm not like this, but I had to
Speaker 4: just tap him on the shoulder and just be mister Kajima,
Speaker 4: you her amazing.
Speaker 5: I just love your work. I just wanted to introduce myself.
Speaker 2: What was his response?
Speaker 4: He just, oh, thank you very much, thank you, you know,
Speaker 4: just very grateful. Yeah, pretty much. But that was like,
Speaker 4: you know, I'm usually not starstruck, and I wouldn't say
Speaker 4: I was starstruck in that moment, but it's just like phenomenal.
Speaker 2: Hey, I get starstruck. I you know, you know when
Speaker 2: we have our fans that come up and they tell
Speaker 2: you how they grew up with you and all that,
Speaker 2: how wonderful it is, and it's it's really really great.
Speaker 2: It hit me when there was a guy and you'll
Speaker 2: know who I'm talking about, who was at the table
Speaker 2: opposite me and uh and I looked up and he
Speaker 2: had a huge poster of Banbie gigantic poster talking about
Speaker 2: and I looked and I went, oh my god, so
Speaker 2: I said my hand. I said, I'm not gonna be
Speaker 2: right back. Said where'd you get that poster? And he said, oh,
Speaker 2: I've have it for years. I said that's original. He
Speaker 2: said yeah. I said, well gave it to you. Whered
Speaker 2: you get it? And he said, well, Walt gave it
Speaker 2: to me. I said, wal too, He said, Walt Disney.
Speaker 2: I said, Walt Disney gave you that poster? Why? He said, well,
Speaker 2: I'm a Bambi.
Speaker 3: Yeah, then you go. Okay.
Speaker 2: I was stunned. I grabbed this poor guy, Donnie, now
Speaker 2: you know, I grabbed it. Oh my god. I gave
Speaker 2: him a big hung Oh my god, that was my childhood.
Speaker 2: Oh and he got so excited making flower Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: oh my god, oh yes, what he said? I'm just
Speaker 2: so great. And I'm told that Thumper does the thlumber
Speaker 2: is at these things. I've never seen him. I've never
Speaker 2: met him. And of course we only I met the
Speaker 2: Margaret who is who is the principal figure for a
Speaker 2: tinker Bell? Yes, tinker Bell. Yes, And once we were
Speaker 2: at dinner. I met her because we went to dinner
Speaker 2: and oh, she's been her nineties or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and she she and I presented Awards about five
Speaker 3: years ago at the Annies. Oh nice, yeah, and she
Speaker 3: was just Jesus chanting.
Speaker 2: But she was sitting and we're having dinner at some
Speaker 2: Japanese restaurant and one of those events, and Aleana I said,
Speaker 2: so you and Walt Disney you knew him. Then I said,
Speaker 2: and I mean not that you're not great looking now,
Speaker 2: but you were a babe. I said, you were. Really
Speaker 2: those photos that you have young, you were a babe.
Speaker 2: She said, well, yes I was. And I said, so
Speaker 2: you and Walt uh marmat you and Walt. Did you
Speaker 2: ever you know, did you ever? She was very subtle,
Speaker 2: very subtle about it, you know, yeah, yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: mister subtler. And she looked at me she said, I'm
Speaker 2: not telling.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you for verifying so cool.
Speaker 2: I'm not telling she is so cool. I thought she'd go,
Speaker 2: oh dear, oh no, not me.
Speaker 3: And then you went, yes, you are, you're telling. Well.
Speaker 5: Speaking of the voice of Bambie, what was.
Speaker 2: His name again, Nannie Donegal?
Speaker 4: Yes, Donny don Agan, Yes he was. He was on
Speaker 4: the podcast. For anybody watching, he wants to check out
Speaker 4: that episode.
Speaker 2: Of a couple of months.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and what a life he had what an incredible
Speaker 5: He was in.
Speaker 2: The Frankenstein movies. He was the kid in Frankenstein opposite
Speaker 2: but Nego Sia.
Speaker 5: And he was in the Army.
Speaker 2: I mean he was in the service.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But he showed me these photos and I said, you
Speaker 2: met Basil Rathbones. Oh yes, he was telling me wonderful
Speaker 2: stories and all kinds of wow. Well that's what that's
Speaker 2: my history. That's you know, that's what. Oh yeah, I
Speaker 2: love that period. Now of course he's Rathbone. Nobody knows
Speaker 2: what you're talking about.
Speaker 4: Another franchise that you guys have both played roles in
Speaker 4: is Transformers. Transformers you played.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was after Burner, a ripper snapper.
Speaker 5: Yes, ripper Snappers.
Speaker 3: I was thinking of Crabclaw and that other guy who Yeah,
Speaker 3: I can't remember, but.
Speaker 5: What was the character you played? You played? Right? Was
Speaker 5: it pro Yes?
Speaker 2: And Brainstorm and something Aid First Aid and a couple
Speaker 2: of others. You know, everybody, they all everybody everybody has
Speaker 2: a favorite. It touches them in some way and you
Speaker 2: don't know why that particular one. The guys that do
Speaker 2: like prout became love and became cops or soldiers. I said,
Speaker 2: I joined the service peper as you you guys come up,
Speaker 2: said we became Marines because of you, because of me. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because when I did g I Joe, because of because
Speaker 2: of uh Duke Duke. And I said, well, okay, you
Speaker 2: never you never killed anybody and yelled my name or anything,
Speaker 2: did you when you're in service? No, sir, No, sir.
Speaker 2: We're this is straight, so straight, you know, No, sir.
Speaker 2: We just just want to let you it was nice
Speaker 2: to meet you, and just killed them in general. Just
Speaker 2: kill them in Gero people in general. Just take them down.
Speaker 3: They were bad guys.
Speaker 2: This is from Michael Bell.
Speaker 3: That's right. Take that miscreant, but it.
Speaker 2: Is, you know, it's it's so interesting, it's so new.
Speaker 2: It's always so interesting because I'm going to be seeing you,
Speaker 2: I think in Philadelphia and I don't know if it's Philly,
Speaker 2: but I'm going to see you in Chicago and then
Speaker 2: I guess Denver or Dallas or wherever it is.
Speaker 4: If you've had a fan expo and just so on
Speaker 4: that note, don't forget we're doing the podcast live the
Speaker 4: fan expo. So if you're in Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver, and
Speaker 4: the list you can find at the beginning and end
Speaker 4: of this podcast, be sure to check it out.
Speaker 5: It's a good time.
Speaker 4: I was just gonna say that I'm financially obligated, but
Speaker 4: I came.
Speaker 2: But I like his voice saying it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's ready to got a good voice.
Speaker 4: Yeah what Speaking of these conventions, what character do you
Speaker 4: get requested the most? Who do people come up to
Speaker 4: you for the most?
Speaker 2: Probably probably I guess Duke and then Prowl the most.
Speaker 2: I get some Brainstone, quacker Jack, not a lot, but
Speaker 2: I got enough quar and especially when new people, I
Speaker 2: guess I get a lot of Uh, Rugrats.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's I would think when I was doing my
Speaker 4: research on you, when I saw rug.
Speaker 5: Rats, and.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was I mean without even hearing the voices,
Speaker 4: I mean, that just brings me back. That was one
Speaker 4: of my favorite shows growing up. Yeah, and you you
Speaker 4: played Stu.
Speaker 2: I played Stu and Chucky's dad che Yes.
Speaker 5: Yes, that's right.
Speaker 2: And we did a memore. We did a Mother's Day
Speaker 2: piece where Chaz has to explain to uh to Chucky
Speaker 2: why his mother I remember from Mother's Day and when
Speaker 2: I read it, I was very moved by it by myself,
Speaker 2: so I would as an actor, I was able to
Speaker 2: bring it as it were. It wasn't just here, it
Speaker 2: was really down here and uh and explaining it. And
Speaker 2: when we finished recording, I know it's got to do
Speaker 2: a second take. And I looked up and everybody in
Speaker 2: the booth was crying. The engineer, the director, the casting director,
Speaker 2: the producer. They were also sobbing.
Speaker 9: It was so great when they were crying, and I say, oh,
Speaker 9: this is gonna be a biggie. It was a good
Speaker 9: because that's a jaded crew. Oh yeah, I mean, if
Speaker 9: they're going, wow, you ding ding ding.
Speaker 2: Good name for a series, The Jaded Crew, The Jaded Crew,
Speaker 2: good name for a series.
Speaker 3: I just wrote that, Yeah, right off the top of
Speaker 3: my head.
Speaker 4: Would you say that was like a challenge doing such
Speaker 4: a heavy scene and kind of I mean, don't take
Speaker 4: this the wrong way, but it's kind of a goofy voice,
Speaker 4: you know, it's.
Speaker 2: Kind well I got that because the gall who played
Speaker 2: Chucky originally Chris Kavanaugh, who was also of course, had
Speaker 2: that kind of thing that she chose. She chose that
Speaker 2: voice to be that day's kind of thing. So when
Speaker 2: I heard it, when I started doing I said, can
Speaker 2: I hear what she sounds like?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: He sounds like they said okay, sure, and they said
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do that. That's it will have inherited it
Speaker 2: from his dad. So I wound up doing that kind
Speaker 2: of sad, just like she did. So she said, she
Speaker 2: talked to me, we don't have the same sid family resemblance.
Speaker 2: Let's hole that works, and they said, well buy it
Speaker 2: by that.
Speaker 3: Works for us, Chris.
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Speaker 3: Do it now.
Speaker 2: After that first year, maybe first two years, I went
Speaker 2: up doing all the visiting characters as well as as
Speaker 2: well as as you probably have told people, we could
Speaker 2: only we could do three, and so we wound up
Speaker 2: if it was only if I wound up had two characters,
Speaker 2: I could do that third character, and so I wound
Speaker 2: up having three characters. So I went up doing all
Speaker 2: the guest characters until they started ringing and soelebrities. Yeah,
Speaker 2: right to do the guests.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we all remember those days.
Speaker 2: That was that was that was painful.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've heard you talk about this subject on every
Speaker 4: interview pretty much I listened to or read about was this,
Speaker 4: uh you know you espousing, you know when Hollywood actors
Speaker 4: started taking voice over roles. And there's something we've talked
Speaker 4: about in this podcast before, something that I have a huge,
Speaker 4: great personally with And I'm just curious to ask you
Speaker 4: because you know, first of this is a two part question.
Speaker 4: So first of all, what inspired you to get into
Speaker 4: this profession because you were, you know, around before even
Speaker 4: television was around. So it's not necessarily I'm taking your words.
Speaker 5: I'm taking your words.
Speaker 3: It's true. It's true.
Speaker 2: It's true, my heart, Yes, it's true.
Speaker 5: I took those arebatim words.
Speaker 2: Before television was Sorry. I remember sitting watching watching the radio. No, no,
Speaker 2: watch radio, watching the television. What is it? It was
Speaker 2: like an Indian or something, and it was just air.
Speaker 2: Isn't that great? Was sitting in Brooklyn, our friends are
Speaker 2: watching the test patterning? Yeah it was great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just picture wait and it was right after.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, that was the that's when TV ended. That's
Speaker 2: when TV at night you ended to this spangled banner
Speaker 2: and it was over.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the three channels were off. Now, yes, sometimes the
Speaker 3: public TV. If you had rabbit ears with aluminum foil
Speaker 3: around them, and you could get rabbit.
Speaker 2: Ears, now you wear them on your head because if
Speaker 2: you're hearing voices, you're going to ask me.
Speaker 4: So the question was what inspired you to be a
Speaker 4: part of this industry? I mean to me it you know,
Speaker 4: it's something so new would be you know without an influence.
Speaker 2: Seen what happened was? I knew nothing about it. I
Speaker 2: was in a contract to Universal Studios. I was doing
Speaker 2: a lot of on camera I guess started almost every
Speaker 2: television show in the seventies right.
Speaker 5: Up to the eighties, including Star Trek and Student.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, exactly. But but I met Jony Gerber and
Speaker 2: Joni said to me, you do all these voices, why
Speaker 2: are you doing on camera? I love working on camera,
Speaker 2: love acting. And she said, but you have all this
Speaker 2: ability to do all these other characters that she will
Speaker 2: never play on camera. Why don't you why don't you
Speaker 2: get involved? And I said, okay, So I slept with her.
Speaker 2: That's when he told me I had a good voice,
Speaker 2: that's right. And so she introduced me to Bud Davis
Speaker 2: over at Cunningham and she said, Bud listened to him.
Speaker 2: She did. We did a tape in her in her
Speaker 2: house while she played the piano and was going in
Speaker 2: the background, She's going, she's doing stuff and I'm doing
Speaker 2: character just voices that are stuff I wrote. And he listened.
Speaker 2: He said, okay, I think that'll be good. And bless
Speaker 2: his heart. Bud is gone now, but bless his heart.
Speaker 2: To get me started. He got a call from a
Speaker 2: producer over it one of the studios and she was
Speaker 2: looking for another actor and he was not available, and
Speaker 2: he's let me send Michael Bell. And she said, I
Speaker 2: don't know who he is, so just try and say,
Speaker 2: I don't know who he is. I'll taste it. I'll
Speaker 2: tell you what. Let him come in, let him record,
Speaker 2: and if you buy it, you don't have to pay him, okay.
Speaker 2: As a way of get me going, so I went,
Speaker 2: it was your jump start, that was my jump start.
Speaker 2: It was like a lost leader. I went in met
Speaker 2: with him, uh, and I did the thing and I
Speaker 2: left and I came back and she said she loved it.
Speaker 2: She's paying you. And from there and I started to
Speaker 2: do albums, voices for albums.
Speaker 5: Interesting for recording, Yeah, what kind of albums?
Speaker 3: What was it?
Speaker 2: No, the musical albums? What was got? The studio up
Speaker 2: on Librea used to be the Charlie Chaplin studio years ago.
Speaker 2: Then they became oh, the other studio for the guy
Speaker 2: wrote yeah whatever, I can't remember his name. And they
Speaker 2: had studio there, where's the old Charlie Chaplin studio? And
Speaker 2: we're doing records, all the records, records, Folks records. And
Speaker 2: I was doing I was doing promos for these records. Yeah,
Speaker 2: for all these wonderful records. Yeah. Wow, it interesting good gig.
Speaker 2: I mean Jesus was a great gig.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But he showed me and Joni brought me to him,
Speaker 2: and that's where I got excuse me, the voice of Butter.
Speaker 2: When they brought me in, that's just one word. I said, well,
Speaker 2: what is this is for parks? It's gonna see Butter?
Speaker 2: I said, Okay, what what am I doing? They explained,
Speaker 2: and all these we're all going in and out, voices
Speaker 2: in and out. Who cares? Is this one voice? Who cares?
Speaker 5: Wow?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Who cares?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I remember when I first started to business. I'm
Speaker 3: so sorry that I cannot remember this man's name. But uh,
Speaker 3: I lived down in Corona, California when I made my
Speaker 3: first demo tape, so I would go back and forth.
Speaker 3: I was right in the middle of between San Diego
Speaker 3: and La so I would go to Sandy a lot
Speaker 3: to do. Back when I just first started, and I
Speaker 3: met a man who was in the business, and uh
Speaker 3: and and and we were doing some kind of comedic
Speaker 3: spot and I was always the comedic dufest in the
Speaker 3: spots of radio and he's and he said, so, how
Speaker 3: long you've been in the business. I go about an
Speaker 3: hour and a half and he goes, oh, I'm doing it.
Speaker 3: He goes, you want to hear a good one? And
Speaker 3: I go okay, and he goes, okay, e double l
Speaker 3: old double good Kellogg's best to you. And I said
Speaker 3: that was you and he goes, yep, yep. And I
Speaker 3: only did like three takes. They used it for twenty
Speaker 3: years and I go, yeah they did.
Speaker 2: Whoa And did you get residuals said yeah, yeah, he
Speaker 2: must have.
Speaker 3: And that because I remember hearing that, I'm sure you do.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, sure for cheerios or whoever whoever you know,
Speaker 3: Kellogg's cornflakes.
Speaker 2: Now it's all on YouTube. Yeah, and we don't get
Speaker 2: paid for that, and we're supposed to. We're supposed to.
Speaker 2: It's licensing. But that's another story.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, all of that.
Speaker 2: Because I've watched all my old commercials on YouTube, all
Speaker 2: Mark commercials. Don't get paid for it, you should be. Yeah,
Speaker 2: a lot of shows of a lot of shows that
Speaker 2: have been on the air for years in the seventies, whatever,
Speaker 2: shows that I've done and get some recisuals for. But
Speaker 2: I got another from YouTube. Neither do you, None of
Speaker 2: does nonether do any of the actors who are now
Speaker 2: being featured on YouTube. They get money, not the actors
Speaker 2: but the company. You know, they get bucks. YouTube gets
Speaker 2: bucks and it's and it happens to be illegal, but
Speaker 2: talk about a union.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like the wild West of social media. And
Speaker 4: it's something you know, for like our channel as well,
Speaker 4: you know, other other pages will take our clips and
Speaker 4: promote them. They you know, and it's like they're getting
Speaker 4: ad revenue. But it's almost like a trade off, trade
Speaker 4: off because it's like okay, okay, well it's getting the
Speaker 4: name we're out there, but they're.
Speaker 5: Generating money, generating money, and you're not content.
Speaker 2: I get it, I get it.
Speaker 3: Nice.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a weird.
Speaker 2: That's why I never worked nude.
Speaker 3: That's not what I heard, but that was in the beginning.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, I said.
Speaker 2: People say that I'm having an ee operation. I said,
Speaker 2: from all those years of auditioning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think, I hope I'm not repeating myself.
Speaker 3: But like you said to Vince Edwards, yeah but they
Speaker 3: got you got the job. Get sitting too long. My
Speaker 3: ass really hurts, and and you go, yeah, but you
Speaker 3: got the job.
Speaker 2: You got the job. That's right.
Speaker 3: Wow, Ben Casey.
Speaker 2: Ben Casey, Casey, ben Casey, not the other one.
Speaker 3: Not Doctor Kildare.
Speaker 2: There, smart man. Smart Man took acting lessons while he
Speaker 2: was doing Doctor God. Went to England and went to
Speaker 2: Rada to study while he was doing Doctor Kildare. Right
Speaker 2: after the show, he said, I got to learn my
Speaker 2: craft now that I'm a star, I got to learn
Speaker 2: my craft. Smart guy. Yeah, really smart.
Speaker 3: Good for him.
Speaker 4: Well, speaking of acting classes, I heard a story that
Speaker 4: actually Cam Clark took your class.
Speaker 2: Yes, Cam cam took the class I had. I've had.
Speaker 2: Oh pop music, Cam Clark Rusi Taylor, Neil.
Speaker 3: Ross serious alumni.
Speaker 2: Lauren Lauren Lester. I had a host of kats who
Speaker 2: Ci wow my class, all early buddings. They were voice
Speaker 2: alettes and uh and Ruci came because her voice is
Speaker 2: out here and she wanted to get deep. So I
Speaker 2: gave her Margaret Rutherford missus Marple. She spoke like this,
Speaker 2: She said, oh, dear, really did a voice that over here?
Speaker 2: I said, try that, get deep, give it a give
Speaker 2: it a low jaw, give it an underslung jaw, and
Speaker 2: come back. And she came back and she did, I
Speaker 2: got a deep voice. I got a deep around and
Speaker 2: everybody liked that. And those were people that that I
Speaker 2: managed to play with. And when Cam came, he was
Speaker 2: auditioning stuff and who knew that eventually you could mix
Speaker 2: us like his voice was close to mine an algorithm
Speaker 2: and he went out, and so he came back to
Speaker 2: one of the classes and he said, I have an
Speaker 2: announcement to make. I got my first commerce, I got
Speaker 2: my first cartoon. We all went whoa when we played,
Speaker 2: and I felt great, It really felt great that I
Speaker 2: had something to do that he said, And I said,
Speaker 2: what is it? And he told me I said, I
Speaker 2: auditioned for that, and he looked at me. I said,
Speaker 2: I'm only kiddy. I'm thrilled I did, but I'm thrilled
Speaker 2: you did well. You can meet your teacher, did great care,
Speaker 2: you did great, absolutely and every now and then because
Speaker 2: we do a world of warcraft, and I once went in,
Speaker 2: they started, we're going to play it back for you,
Speaker 2: play your character medieve back for you. And I said okay,
Speaker 2: and they played it back. I went, it's not me.
Speaker 2: They said, it is you. I said, it's not me.
Speaker 2: He said, And I hear them talking. Isn't that Michael
Speaker 2: bow him? I think that's when Cam Clark was here,
Speaker 2: Cam Clark. I hear the guys, I said, you had
Speaker 2: Cam Clark come in? Was I dying? Was there something
Speaker 2: wrong with me? Did I make somebody? Did I say
Speaker 2: something to somebody? Did I pissed somebody off? They said,
Speaker 2: Oh no, I you out of town or something? Oh sure, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: where was I was? I was out of town?
Speaker 5: I was?
Speaker 2: I was. I was in Glendale right exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I got a big sign on my car says I
Speaker 2: did to Glendale out of town. So they mixed and
Speaker 2: matched us, and I wound up then I took over
Speaker 2: from there again Mediev and I said, oh so cam
Speaker 2: glax O. Rob Halson said the same thing. Rob said,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm going to be doing your voice. I said,
Speaker 2: maybe the light part. You can't get the deep part.
Speaker 2: You can do the one up here. That's what you
Speaker 2: sound like. Rob. Yeah, you're over here, right, okay, Rob,
Speaker 2: but you can't get down here, right, that's right?
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well there's a joke in there too, butes and gentlemen.
Speaker 2: But I want to say, yeah, so okay, So I
Speaker 2: have a question for you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, are we talking about your big theater, TV on
Speaker 3: camera or VO? Which do you have an arena in
Speaker 3: which you love more than another voiceover? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love theater, but I got so tired of
Speaker 2: memorizing you too. I love being on stage. I loved it.
Speaker 2: I'm so glad you said that I had my own theater,
Speaker 2: the West End Playhouse. We introduced new plays we did
Speaker 2: in eric Idol play and he came to see and
Speaker 2: he said, I can't believe you guys have done this.
Speaker 2: He said that it's better than our production in London.
Speaker 2: He was so excited. And recently my daughter, who's an actress,
Speaker 2: Ashley Bell, who's in the Groundings, was doing stuff the
Speaker 2: Groundings and Eric Idol was there for something and she
Speaker 2: was part of the group and she mentioned to him
Speaker 2: about the play that we had done his play, and
Speaker 2: he said, yes, it was in the valley. Uh, you
Speaker 2: guys did that plan And he was so excited. It
Speaker 2: was a wonderful production of Actually was so excited because
Speaker 2: her dad and her mom went before she was born
Speaker 2: and had done this play Wow for Eric Idol, And
Speaker 2: we love doing it. We love doing theater.
Speaker 3: But learning lines, Oh, I think that's why I ended up.
Speaker 3: You know, I had lived notoriously, and I think part
Speaker 3: of the reason I had lived so much is even
Speaker 3: when I can read it is I just couldn't memorize
Speaker 3: the lines. So I did well, I'll tell you one thing,
Speaker 3: you know, and then here comes the bs and uh.
Speaker 3: And that's how I got through it.
Speaker 2: I did a soap opera. Can you imagine what life
Speaker 2: must have been like for me? I did a soap
Speaker 2: opera called morning Star before Days of Our Lives was
Speaker 2: the precursor of the Days of Our Lives. For a year,
Speaker 2: I was just out of the army and I got
Speaker 2: a job and I was making one hundred and twenty
Speaker 2: five dollars a week. Oh and there was a lot
Speaker 2: of money for me, and I had since I was
Speaker 2: the new guy in town, I had all the exposition,
Speaker 2: so I had. So when missus wes Moore was murdered,
Speaker 2: do we think that mister wes Moore did it? Or
Speaker 2: do you think that she took the pills herself? And
Speaker 2: because and I'm having to learn this all night long,
Speaker 2: I'm up all night, I must look like eighty years old.
Speaker 2: The next morning when I went to the set in MEBC,
Speaker 2: and they had que cards, and I refuse to read
Speaker 2: the queue cards, and I learned the lines. But it
Speaker 2: was every night I'd be like this, and I'd sit
Speaker 2: around and we'd learn the lines. We'd we'd work together,
Speaker 2: et cetera. And the next morning I'd get up and go, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm not allowed to read the cue cards. I just
Speaker 2: have to really get through this. And I remember, finally
Speaker 2: when I got comfortable enough, we had a scene in
Speaker 2: a restaurant and this detective comes in, and I'm the
Speaker 2: young guy. I have to ask the detective, so what'd
Speaker 2: you find out? And he's got a shit load of lines,
Speaker 2: and I said to him, listen, if you've never done
Speaker 2: soap opera, don't worry about it. Q CAUs will be
Speaker 2: right over. I'm back. I don't rate here cars. I said, no,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, okay, I just want to let you know.
Speaker 2: He said, I don't rake here cards. I said, okay, fine,
Speaker 2: and we get on and he started to lie. God
Speaker 2: bless you, God bless you, and I say to him.
Speaker 2: I lean over to him and I say to him, Okay,
Speaker 2: so what do you think happened with miss and miss
Speaker 2: west Moreland? Did she take the pills? Do you think
Speaker 2: he killed her? And he went, well, personally, I feel that.
Speaker 3: Perfect.
Speaker 2: And I said, so what do you think do you think?
Speaker 2: Did she do it? Or did he do it to her?
Speaker 2: He went, I went, so what do you think? Said?
Speaker 2: I can't do this. I can't do this, and I
Speaker 2: know that's not in the script. He gets off the
Speaker 2: seat and walks out of the student way and I
Speaker 2: hear the right guy.
Speaker 3: Holy shit, what the hell was that?
Speaker 2: What's that?
Speaker 3: Where did it go?
Speaker 2: Yeah? And we hear the door closes, the studio door closes. Oh, Grant,
Speaker 2: I'm like this because you don't stop. They had to
Speaker 2: cut its tape but still you don't stop. They immediately
Speaker 2: had another actor come in let him read the cue
Speaker 2: card lines. Somebody was he was one of the cameramen
Speaker 2: or something came in and he does this scene. I
Speaker 2: watched this the next morning, and I'm curious to see
Speaker 2: how it worked. We saw start the scene and then
Speaker 2: they cut to the actor who forgot his lines opening up,
Speaker 2: back to me, back to another actor, to another actor,
Speaker 2: save the opening with me and just with him, and
Speaker 2: then back to me. We saved tape. We saved some tape.
Speaker 2: We saved about twenty feet of tapes. I don't worry about.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, And.
Speaker 2: We got this other looks nothing like him, respawning looking
Speaker 2: over my shoulder, like like it's like they're doing Saturday
Speaker 2: Night Live. He's looking over my shoulders.
Speaker 3: Oh God, like bewitch with the two Darren's going back and.
Speaker 2: Forth, going back and forth. It was so bizarre.
Speaker 4: That reminds me of They did that, not the same episode,
Speaker 4: but in Game of Thrones they did that with an actor.
Speaker 4: There was one There was an actor playing a character.
Speaker 4: He was like he was like Denaris's like henchman. You know,
Speaker 4: he had the blades and everything, and he was like
Speaker 4: in love with her. Remember he had the long hair.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yes, of course, I don't forget the character's name.
Speaker 4: But he started out as that character, and then the
Speaker 4: further you go into the series, it's not even explained
Speaker 4: or anything. All of a sudden, he has cut off
Speaker 4: black hair and looks completely different.
Speaker 3: But it's the same character, perfect, And it's like when
Speaker 3: something happened.
Speaker 5: I don't know what happened behind the scenes, you know.
Speaker 4: It's just it was remember money, Yeah, I remember watching
Speaker 4: that and be like, wait, who is this guy? And
Speaker 4: then they're referring to him as his name and I'm like,
Speaker 4: blonde here before to save money.
Speaker 2: They they're not going to explain anything. I mean, not
Speaker 2: even going to rewrite and say he died and this
Speaker 2: is his book, Melvin. You know it's not going to happen.
Speaker 2: It's so but having to do it in the soap
Speaker 2: opera and watching this guy's face when he went and
Speaker 2: I knew exactly how he felt because my heart always
Speaker 2: felt like that when I was on the soap opera
Speaker 2: for that year, and I always felt like that. I thought,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, how much I can give as much as
Speaker 2: I can, But I'm scared crapless. I really was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would imagine how long did you a year?
Speaker 3: A year?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And that would have scared me to death. Oh it was.
Speaker 2: But it was my first NAT other than Verdict is Yours?
Speaker 2: Where I got to improvise through a whole thing. Then
Speaker 2: I went in the army. After that, I was in
Speaker 2: the service and did all that and then came out.
Speaker 2: But that was, Oh my god, that was you got
Speaker 2: a soap opera and went great. Never occurred to me.
Speaker 2: Then I looked at the lines. I went, oh, this
Speaker 2: is mine, this whole paragraph is mine. Then they would
Speaker 2: another person would say, so, what do you think? Then
Speaker 2: I'd have all these lines. So Jerry, what happened? I went,
Speaker 2: Oh my god, all these lines and so thank god.
Speaker 2: I had a wonderful actress by the name of Betsy
Speaker 2: Jones Moreland who was long past, who worked with me
Speaker 2: every night because she loved to act. Everybody else on
Speaker 2: the soap uper.
Speaker 5: Yeah hair yeah, and makeup look pretty?
Speaker 2: Yeah, all looking pretty.
Speaker 3: And I'm just yeah, you had to carry the weight.
Speaker 2: I got to carry the weight.
Speaker 3: O yeah what and give up show bazs what and
Speaker 3: give up show bass exactly.
Speaker 2: But I was making I get the check and go,
Speaker 2: look it's one hundred and twenty five dollars, you know,
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty five dollars.
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 5: And this is what year?
Speaker 2: Good god, it must have been in the sixties, sixty
Speaker 2: and I was part of NBC. I was part of
Speaker 2: the studio, and I remember, I remember I was. I
Speaker 2: was in between two studios, Dean Martin's show and our studio,
Speaker 2: and I was at rest at that point. It was
Speaker 2: like the wardrobe or something, and Tulula Bankhead was on.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, and I snuck and I opened up
Speaker 2: the door and I'm watching two bankhead working with him,
Speaker 2: and I'm it's amazing. It's a little bankhead, you know,
Speaker 2: good guy sit in the phone rings in the lobby
Speaker 2: and I pick it up and going hello NBC, And
Speaker 2: I said, Hi, can I speak to Tulula? I said,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I have to talk to Tulua. This is
Speaker 2: her agent. Well, I went, okay. One moment, at which
Speaker 2: point a little bankhead comes out and I say, I'm
Speaker 2: miss bankhead, this phone call is for you. And she says,
Speaker 2: what I said you. She says, who are you? I said,
Speaker 2: Michael's just Michael. What I said Michael Bell. Just don't
Speaker 2: pick up. There's callers running on ever pick up that phone.
Speaker 2: And she said, I didn't care because it's the Lula Bankhead.
Speaker 3: Yeah to me, Yeah, yeah, yeah, big star.
Speaker 2: I told Jony, I said, when it came up to bankhead,
Speaker 2: talk to me, she said, I said, Michael Bell.
Speaker 3: She said, Michael What? Oh god, Almighty Pitts was next.
Speaker 5: Listen, Hey, how about that?
Speaker 3: I loved it?
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, this question is for my OPA because he
Speaker 5: loved this show. You were on Mash. Yes, you were
Speaker 5: on Mash. You were recurring, they.
Speaker 2: Were, They were apparently this wonderful voice over guy. Why
Speaker 2: can't I remember him? Oh my god, wonderful voice over
Speaker 2: guy who's older dude. And was out with the producer
Speaker 2: at a baseball game.
Speaker 3: And Ernie and no, it's I know.
Speaker 2: If I tell you, you'll know, damn it. I thanked
Speaker 2: him a million times. And the producer said, I'm running
Speaker 2: out of leading men, I'm running out of guests. Sorry,
Speaker 2: I'm running out of guest male guest stars. And he said,
Speaker 2: what about Michael Bell? And he went, oh, yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: because I didn't a lot of television, never read for it.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: Scott. The script got on this said what I did
Speaker 2: do years ago was I tested for one of the
Speaker 2: roles opposite Alan Alda with the other guy who got it,
Speaker 2: the blonde guy, and I tested for him, and they said,
Speaker 2: you're too close to Alan, tall, skinny, dark hair, too close.
Speaker 2: So we're going with whatever his name is, who wasn't
Speaker 2: even interested in acting. He was actually a Wall Street guy.
Speaker 2: He really liked Wall Street, really became a businessman. He
Speaker 2: became a manager Wall Street manager. So I said, okay,
Speaker 2: you know that was it and I lost out on
Speaker 2: a wonderful show and then they bring me in the
Speaker 2: redda is fabulous. Alan was wonderful, he was nice, everybody
Speaker 2: was pleasant to me, the director. It was the first
Speaker 2: time the director was directing that show. And the director
Speaker 2: played crazy, the character in City Across the River the
Speaker 2: movie Amboy Duke City Across the Over years ago. Remember
Speaker 2: seeing oh and he was wonderful. He was just this
Speaker 2: real wacky guy. And now I'm working with him. He
Speaker 2: didn't like me. He said to me, when you do this,
Speaker 2: play him bad. And I said, no, I've been in
Speaker 2: the business long enough to know, Ah, I'm not going
Speaker 2: to do that. I'm not going to play I'm a
Speaker 2: bad guy from his point of view, I'm irresponsible, irreverent,
Speaker 2: But he doesn't see himself as bad. He see himself
Speaker 2: as an opportunist. And he has these little kids, I guess,
Speaker 2: the little kids getting metal and some of them get
Speaker 2: blown up, but he visits him in the hospital and
Speaker 2: he gives them stuff, gives them money. And so I said,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to play him bad. He's just who
Speaker 2: he is. And we had a fight and he said, well,
Speaker 2: why I want you to? I said, see you around,
Speaker 2: and I walked off the set and I sat down
Speaker 2: and Alan came over and said, I was wondering how
Speaker 2: long it was going to take you, And he said,
Speaker 2: you understand that we know our roles. He can't direct
Speaker 2: any of us. Leretta said, I know who I am.
Speaker 2: He can't direct me none of it. The only person
Speaker 2: he can direct, forgive me is you.
Speaker 3: So he had to make his mark.
Speaker 2: He directed me wrong, I'm.
Speaker 3: Going to do that.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to do that, and I didn't.
Speaker 4: Isn't that funny when you have creative differences on set?
Speaker 2: And I went back on the one thing I learned
Speaker 2: as an actor, You don't play the bad guy bad
Speaker 2: you can be as evil as all. You can be
Speaker 2: Struda Martin all you want. But Strudther Martin's character thought
Speaker 2: he was doing the right thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well Jim knows that.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, yeah, no matter what you're doing,
Speaker 2: it's it's it's So that's my answer to that, And
Speaker 2: it was. It was wonderful to be on mash, of course,
Speaker 2: and herb Ellis was the voice. Herb Ellis, wonderful voice. Wonderful,
Speaker 2: wonderful voice. Made this suggestion to a producer and said,
Speaker 2: what about Michael bell How I mean, think about it.
Speaker 2: They don't do that nowadays.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now you have to read for everything. You have to audition. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I know, audition an audition cost.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Well, Frank Welker, God bless him, he's the He's one
Speaker 3: of the you know, the beatles of voiceover. He he auditioned.
Speaker 3: He went in to do something for a little cartoon
Speaker 3: movie called The Lion King, and and he was doing
Speaker 3: ed I ultimately ended up doing and he was laughing
Speaker 3: and doing this and that, and they were just trying
Speaker 3: to get him, you know, And Frank, I mean, he
Speaker 3: can do anything anyway he could. You could tell him,
Speaker 3: you know, to do a Martian dragon from but from
Speaker 3: the south side of Mars and then that way, you know,
Speaker 3: you'd do that.
Speaker 2: He did sixty nine ducks, didn't.
Speaker 3: He Oh, well, yeah, he did dozens of ducks. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And then then he did a chorus all simultaneously anyway,
Speaker 3: and bless his heart, he goes, you know, I'm not
Speaker 3: feeling it, you know, I just.
Speaker 2: Call Jimmy Cummings bringing wonderful and.
Speaker 3: Unbelievable. So they brought me in and and they couldn't
Speaker 3: figure out what to do with it. I think I've
Speaker 3: told this before, but they got a legal pad and
Speaker 3: they said, this character has to express every emotion possible,
Speaker 3: but it has to be with a laugh, laughing hyena.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, And I said, oh, okay, well here, let's
Speaker 3: write right down, you know, so we're writing down insutions,
Speaker 3: you know, reticence, you know, all all this every possible
Speaker 3: and we I just stood there and for maybe thirty
Speaker 3: five forty minutes I just laughed in every and I
Speaker 3: just down the line. Click, Okay, there goes hesitation, you know,
Speaker 3: and then we'd move on to the next one and
Speaker 3: then and then at the end of it, he goes,
Speaker 3: we've got in tour de force blah blah blah. And
Speaker 3: I just thought, oh, this is this is big time.
Speaker 2: And he recommended you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he recommended me. And then before I left,
Speaker 3: they were they were saying, so now you were you sing?
Speaker 3: And I go, yes, I do, and they go, okay,
Speaker 3: I want to hear a song and I said yeah,
Speaker 3: And it was Jeremy Irons the Villain's song Villains get
Speaker 3: the best song. That's the boy Villains get the best song,
Speaker 3: Captain Hook or Peter Pan who had the better song?
Speaker 3: Captain Hook? Uh so, and it was be pre Pad
Speaker 3: and they played it and uh they played it down
Speaker 3: and I said, oh, yeah, I can do that hell
Speaker 3: out of this. Yeah, you know, but you have sound
Speaker 3: like Jeremy Irons, so oh I uh, I sounded like
Speaker 3: Jeremy Ironson and I got all this great platinum from Frank.
Speaker 2: Welcome great and Frank when we did when we did
Speaker 2: uh G I Joe and had to sing the song.
Speaker 2: As we're walking all over sound, I couldn't stand next
Speaker 2: to Frank because Frank can't sing. Frank's and made me
Speaker 2: off thinking I can't sing either, but I can least
Speaker 2: get close to one key and walking down there, we're
Speaker 2: going ge I Joe, and I hear g I Joe
Speaker 2: and I go okay, Frank, Okay, excuse me, I have
Speaker 2: to get over here. Yeah, stand there here, Joe. Frank,
Speaker 2: could you just move your lips because nobody's going to
Speaker 2: know whether you're singing or not. Yeah, yeah, that's true,
Speaker 2: because you're going to drive everybody crazy. And he's laughing
Speaker 2: and he's going, gee, we go GI Joe Joe.
Speaker 3: My god. Yeah, it's okay, Frank. You can do every
Speaker 3: single other thing.
Speaker 2: Don't have to that. You don't have to sing, you
Speaker 2: don't have to dance. You're off the hook. We have
Speaker 2: people for that, yes, right, absolutely, you know.
Speaker 3: We've got people. Yeah, Frank is people.
Speaker 4: Well, I think it's the time in the show where
Speaker 4: we play a little game. I don't know if you're
Speaker 4: aware of this game. It's called a voice swap games.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, it's so.
Speaker 4: How it works is Jim will do a voice line
Speaker 4: of one of his characters, let's say Winnie the Pooh.
Speaker 4: He'll say one of his catch phrases, and then you
Speaker 4: will repeat that same phrase, but in one of your
Speaker 4: character voices of your choosing, and then we'll switch the
Speaker 4: roles and we'll do that a couple times back and forth.
Speaker 5: Of your game.
Speaker 3: Then you give me one of your guys.
Speaker 2: Okay, what do you think.
Speaker 3: One thing that we did together was dark Wing and Quackerjack.
Speaker 3: Assuming you remember Quackerjack that I remember, I think I
Speaker 3: was going to say, yeah, that would be good. So okay,
Speaker 3: well I'll give you a dark Wing line and you
Speaker 3: repeat it back as quacker Okay, okay, it's too easy
Speaker 3: to go. Let's get dangerous because.
Speaker 2: Hold it right there, Quackerjack, you're not pulling anybody. I'm
Speaker 2: the good guy.
Speaker 3: And you're the bad guy.
Speaker 10: Hold it right there, quacker Jack, you're not fooling anybody.
Speaker 10: I'm the you're the good guy, and I'm the bad guy, right,
Speaker 10: banana head.
Speaker 3: That's right? Oh yeah, I forgot banana head. That's right.
Speaker 3: I love that, lad. That's good.
Speaker 4: It's so memorable, very cool. It just brings me straight
Speaker 4: back to childhood. Here, who's a character you'd like to do?
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, we're gonna need a bigger boat.
Speaker 3: And uh maybe maybe Pooh should should be Okay, we're
Speaker 3: going to need a bigger boat. Love it, love it?
Speaker 3: And who is the character?
Speaker 2: That's Chucky's dad.
Speaker 5: Okay, I thought so.
Speaker 4: I thought that's from the movie. Yeah, Chucky's dad. I
Speaker 4: have I have a personal request. Can you do Tigger
Speaker 4: and the Fear?
Speaker 2: Oh? Good god?
Speaker 3: Okay. The wonderful thing about tiggers, it's tiggers.
Speaker 2: They're wonderful things. A wonderful thing about tiggers is tiggers
Speaker 2: is a wonderful thing.
Speaker 3: Yes they are.
Speaker 5: I'm just picturing them in the forest, crawling up the.
Speaker 2: Tongue. But that's how you got the job, That's how
Speaker 2: I got But I want to say, but no, folks,
Speaker 2: but really, waiter please.
Speaker 4: I feel like for the fans, we have to do
Speaker 4: Duke Duke. Yeah, if that knowing is half the battle? Sorry,
Speaker 4: can you do that again?
Speaker 5: I was kind of talking over you knowing is half
Speaker 5: the battle, And uh.
Speaker 2: What's who played my who played my brother in the
Speaker 2: movie John? What is the actor start in Miami TV
Speaker 2: series Mamy Vice John Joe Edward James.
Speaker 3: Almost.
Speaker 2: No, No, I'm trying to think of his you know him.
Speaker 2: He's very handsome and he always plays the sheriff and
Speaker 2: he's his daughter is an actress. I think your name
Speaker 2: is Dakota. Oh, moved, he played he played my brother
Speaker 2: in the movie Don Johnson. Don Johnson's Don Johnson. So
Speaker 2: knowing is half the battle? Screwed Don Johnson.
Speaker 3: That sounds like a Bulker's line.
Speaker 2: Knowing is half the battle. It's screwed Don Johnson.
Speaker 3: That was terrible.
Speaker 4: I feel like that would be like a canon Bonker's
Speaker 4: line because he's you know, is in the industry.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, do you want to do one more?
Speaker 5: I'm loving this good.
Speaker 3: Yes, go ahead, Okay, let's see who we got.
Speaker 5: How about Hondo. It's it's yesterday, was made the fourth.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, that's true. It is a Hondo naka and
Speaker 3: made the fold to be with you. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 5: How about a smurf?
Speaker 2: Okay, Oh yeah, it is I Hondo?
Speaker 3: What Hondo naka, May the force be with you, Yes,
Speaker 3: may the Vold be with you. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: It is all right, Hondo and naka, I mean the horse,
Speaker 2: the horse, All the force be with you. Thank you, Papa.
Speaker 2: What is wrong with this picture besides everything?
Speaker 5: And which voice was that?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, you could almost see you turned blue?
Speaker 3: Look you're wearing a smurf blue.
Speaker 2: Well, he has the smurf jackets a little bit smurfy.
Speaker 2: I must tell you, you know, Alan Oppenheimer, I have
Speaker 2: seen this, and I tell the story when I did Uh,
Speaker 2: I was doing uh, this series with Mel blank and uh,
Speaker 2: and he did this wonderful car you know he is
Speaker 2: and he used to do that on the and the
Speaker 2: thing was on that Jack Benny show. We do not
Speaker 2: miss any And we're sitting there and uh, I'm doing
Speaker 2: this the first time with Mel that I'm doing a
Speaker 2: series with him, and he's sitting to my right, and
Speaker 2: I'm sitting in world, sitting in seats meet him here
Speaker 2: and me there and the rest of the cast here.
Speaker 2: At which point, Uh, I'm the good guy. I'm the kid.
Speaker 2: I'm always Oh, what do we do now, speed buggy,
Speaker 2: We're really in trouble lies and he goes, Okay, here's
Speaker 2: what I'm gonna do. But and he did that, and
Speaker 2: he went okay. Then he came back. M I was
Speaker 2: sopping wet. Oh really, because he doesn't there's no one
Speaker 2: else in the room. It's just him, and he's great.
Speaker 2: But he goes all the way and I'm stopping wet,
Speaker 2: and I went I looked at him and went, Jesus,
Speaker 2: I have a whole show to do. And every time
Speaker 2: I said, oh, we're in trouble, speed buggy, he said,
Speaker 2: I know, but I know, but look get out of it. Oh.
Speaker 3: Christ came back.
Speaker 2: The next show a spit guard. Oppenheimer was our guest,
Speaker 2: and he was the bad guy. And I said, al
Speaker 2: meet Mel blank, oh Mel, oh my god, this is
Speaker 2: such a pleasure, such a treatment, say Alan Hawi is oh,
Speaker 2: and this is so racion. And you know, since you're
Speaker 2: the bad guy, most of your stuff is with him,
Speaker 2: why don't you sit next to him?
Speaker 5: Set him up?
Speaker 2: And he sat next to him and these tall high
Speaker 2: chairs you know they had the high cheers. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: that you could tip either way because it's but it's
Speaker 2: the high and so he said, he and he has
Speaker 2: his line, and I'm sitting I got my script over here,
Speaker 2: and Alan's over here and Miller is over here. Which
Speaker 2: point we start the thing And I say my line, Oh,
Speaker 2: what are we doing now? We're really in trouble, speed buggy.
Speaker 2: And then and Melo goes and I'm where about it?
Speaker 2: We're okay? I see I see out of the corner
Speaker 2: of my eye, I see Alan go oh. And he
Speaker 2: looks at him like this, and he's back on his script.
Speaker 3: And I was like, it says that in the script.
Speaker 2: And he turns around and looks at me and I'm
Speaker 2: back on my script. I'm not looking at you right right,
Speaker 2: And he sits like this. And the next time we
Speaker 2: have the line where he has a bad lie, where
Speaker 2: can I get you? I says, no, you won't, No,
Speaker 2: you won't. You haven't got me.
Speaker 3: Oh god.
Speaker 2: Then he goes back and Alan goes like this. And
Speaker 2: then finally the next time he has that line, Alan
Speaker 2: goes like this and tips the whole chair to the left. Oh,
Speaker 2: as he's going, I have to tipped my chair to
Speaker 2: the left. The actresses are tipping her and all of
Speaker 2: us are like this through the whole show we're doing.
Speaker 2: I think I think Gordon needed a dramnine. Then by
Speaker 2: the time this was over, Yeah, yeah, you going back
Speaker 2: and forth through the holes. Every time we were going
Speaker 2: like this and we had a break, I got off
Speaker 2: my chair real fast, went outside to the lot and
Speaker 2: I went to the back of the lot because I
Speaker 2: knew Alan was looking for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: I could see him. You know. I looked around, and
Speaker 2: I seem he's looking looking around for a tart. And
Speaker 2: finally I know we have to get back and we
Speaker 2: can't get it.
Speaker 3: Oh my god. That was oh yeah, yeah, yeah, thank you, Michael. Yeah, sure,
Speaker 3: you don't want to trade seats? Oh my god.
Speaker 5: God.
Speaker 2: And every time we had a bad guy, every time
Speaker 2: we had a bad guy in the show, I'd sit
Speaker 2: him next to next to it so good. I really mean,
Speaker 2: you really got wet because he really spit. I mean
Speaker 2: he he put his all his energy.
Speaker 3: He knew that character, yeah, doing it for years.
Speaker 2: But when he went, I mean you could see it.
Speaker 2: He's like a European actor, really coming right right.
Speaker 3: What didn't give up? Show Baz? Yes, Oh my god,
Speaker 3: Oh that's wonderful.
Speaker 5: That's great.
Speaker 3: That's great. Marster our old friend.
Speaker 2: And you sing like he sings. I am always amazed
Speaker 2: that anyone who can sing, oh well, good thanks, so
Speaker 2: distance from me, such a distance from me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know it used to get me in
Speaker 3: trouble as a kid. You know all this stuff.
Speaker 2: Did you learn how to sing or did you just sing?
Speaker 3: I just say, I just say, but it was like five,
Speaker 3: you can keep a key, you you can stand pretty much? Yeah, yeah, wow,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 5: I I used to.
Speaker 3: I remember I was five, I was five or six,
Speaker 3: and and I got my first transistor radio and those
Speaker 3: were like a little deck of cars back then. And
Speaker 3: I would just listen and I would have it under
Speaker 3: my pillow and my mom wouldn't know. And then I
Speaker 3: would go through a lot of batteries, you know, just listening.
Speaker 3: And I would listen to singers, and I mean there
Speaker 3: was Leslie Gore, there was Leslie. I mean god, I
Speaker 3: wanted to yeah. Yeah. And I just used to listen
Speaker 3: to all those songs and hum them in my head.
Speaker 3: And it was probably training and not knowing that I was,
Speaker 3: not knowing you were doing it. Yeah, but yeah, and
Speaker 3: then I then I think I was in my first band.
Speaker 3: It was like eight eighth grade something like that. Sixth
Speaker 3: seventh grade.
Speaker 2: See, I'm I would. I would audition and sing never
Speaker 2: get it. I mean I would study so hard, even learning.
Speaker 2: I learned a song in French to audition for a
Speaker 2: play that was had you had to sing in French
Speaker 2: and I learned from a guy who was French. And
Speaker 2: she'd work with me and work with me and work
Speaker 2: with me, and I thought it was okay, and it wasn't. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I do other stuff and every time I thought I'd sing,
Speaker 2: and finally, I think it was Six Feet Under. The
Speaker 2: series Six Feet Under had me come in an audition
Speaker 2: for the director and I auditioned. I had long hair
Speaker 2: and a beard and everything. And he said to me,
Speaker 2: you have to sing a song. And I said what song?
Speaker 2: I'll just find anything, So I said, okay. I used
Speaker 2: to remember what do you get when you fall in love?
Speaker 2: You get a little? And I sang the first couple
Speaker 2: of phrases that he said, okay, thank.
Speaker 3: You very much.
Speaker 2: I said, well that's another thing I died with and
Speaker 2: I left like agent call said, you got it, I said,
Speaker 2: and now I'm gonna have to sing on camera? Are
Speaker 2: you serious? I was so comfortable in the room I
Speaker 2: didn't care because then I wouldn't get it. And so
Speaker 2: what they did was, I said, and not only that,
Speaker 2: there was music, and there was So they gave me
Speaker 2: a little thing that I put in my ear and
Speaker 2: I had a chorus behind me. And when they started
Speaker 2: to play, I said, hit the key before you linked
Speaker 2: to the I said, yeah, that's what they do. Yes, okay,
Speaker 2: we are there. And then I would say and they go, okay,
Speaker 2: that was good striding and I said, okay, that was okay. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: we had some problems. I said, okay, this little thing.
Speaker 2: I could hear them in my ear and I hear
Speaker 2: them go and I know exactly where to go anywhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2: But other than that, I would have been dead. You
Speaker 2: got that little sucker in my ear, I would have
Speaker 2: been dead.
Speaker 3: Because yeah, well you know that's a standard though. I
Speaker 3: mean they always do that. Don't give you the note, Yeah,
Speaker 3: like your note, like right before they record, they'll they'll
Speaker 3: go boom and then you know, come in, what do
Speaker 3: you again?
Speaker 2: Shoot? Really?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, yeah, they do that.
Speaker 2: Because I got to tell you that that really it helps,
Speaker 2: it must. But once I get past that, I could
Speaker 2: start out with that. But I don't know if I
Speaker 2: would end with that. Yeah, because don't forget doing Oliver
Speaker 2: Twist and the Artful Dodger for Hannah Babera. And they
Speaker 2: gave me Artful Dodger and I had to sing and
Speaker 2: I said, wow, okay, but I don't really sing Jack Wilde. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was one of those things. I had to do that.
Speaker 2: But the but what's his name from the monkeys who
Speaker 2: used to sing?
Speaker 3: Oh? David Jones?
Speaker 2: Davy Jones auditioned for it. Did it off Broadway?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: And they gave it to me, And I'm thinking, what
Speaker 2: I mean, what are they thinking? He did it? He
Speaker 2: knows the role. Yeah, it's different dialogue because it's a cartoon.
Speaker 2: I get it. But he gets to sing and he sings.
Speaker 2: I don't sing. I said, yes, I did a good
Speaker 2: thought English dialect, but he already has an English dialect.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: They still, for whatever reason and wherever the gods were,
Speaker 2: they said, now let's give it to Michael. Let's give
Speaker 2: it because it was the starter for me. Hannibaber. That
Speaker 2: was the starter for me. That's what started me down,
Speaker 2: that whole Hanniba. And now I watch it and I cringe, literally,
Speaker 2: I clench because it's so bad. It's so bad. I think.
Speaker 5: I'm sure it's not.
Speaker 3: What episode wasn't so that everyone can watch it bad.
Speaker 2: It's bad, it's not good.
Speaker 3: Watch what's a bad one?
Speaker 2: WA's the bad one? That's a bad one.
Speaker 3: That's the name of it.
Speaker 5: Oh god, Well, this has been so great, so much.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 3: I really appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Did you have anything else, Jim? And sorry, I didn't
Speaker 5: want to cut you off.
Speaker 3: And no, no, I'm just grateful that you took some
Speaker 3: time out of your day to this was come and
Speaker 3: hang out.
Speaker 2: It was fun being late, it was fun.
Speaker 3: Well, there's no such thing as late.
Speaker 2: Okay that I got. I feel terrible on it. Just
Speaker 2: it's not my nature. Yeah, you know what.
Speaker 4: Honestly, as the person who you know sets this whole
Speaker 4: thing up and arrives here early, it's much more stressful
Speaker 4: for me when people are super early. Yes, yes, because
Speaker 4: for some reason, I don't like being watched setting up
Speaker 4: the equipment.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like it stresses me out.
Speaker 2: You'd be really bad in adult films.
Speaker 4: No, but we've had a couple of guests who shown
Speaker 4: up like forty five minutes early, and that's like when
Speaker 4: I'm getting here, though, and I'm like, oh my god, like, okay,
Speaker 4: I have to make small talk while setting up the
Speaker 4: equipment and doing the tests and everything. And then I'm
Speaker 4: usually you know, stressed out, so I start sweating and
Speaker 4: you can see it through my shirt and then I'm
Speaker 4: all self conscious. And and we had oh what was
Speaker 4: her name? She played for Alfarbis in Austin Powers we
Speaker 4: had last year and that happened. I was a little
Speaker 4: late though as well. She wasn't super early. But I'm
Speaker 4: setting up the equipment, I'm making small talk with her
Speaker 4: and we had been to dinner at a couple conventions,
Speaker 4: like she wasn't a stranger. And I'm setting up and
Speaker 4: the ac this was a previous studio and the a
Speaker 4: C had gone out that day. And it's right in Burbank.
Speaker 4: It's like down the street, and thank god, we brought
Speaker 4: a lot of host setting up and Mindy's there, Gym's there.
Speaker 4: You know, they're both sitting there waiting for me to
Speaker 4: get and I'm sweating, like sweating like no other and mindygos.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, he's sweating.
Speaker 4: I don't say anything about it that I'm like wiping myself.
Speaker 4: And you know, when you're so hot. You can't cool down.
Speaker 5: Especially, Yeah, all that pierced through my soul.
Speaker 2: Of course, then you would have you would have really
Speaker 2: been interested. In the early years of television.
Speaker 3: And I was there.
Speaker 2: They used in movies. They used those hot lights, really
Speaker 2: hot lights, and I could just feel it begin to
Speaker 2: run down. And I turn around and I'm looking Atlanta Turner. Wow,
Speaker 2: and she's cool. She's in her late sixties or something.
Speaker 2: She's cool. She's looking into the lights and I want
Speaker 2: to go because I can't see. It's like Cleig lights.
Speaker 2: And they don't do that anymore, but there was a
Speaker 2: period of time, but literally it was like Cleag lights.
Speaker 2: And I would get on the set and I go,
Speaker 2: I literally, how am I going to not do this?
Speaker 2: Or the whole thing? And I'd watch these actresses, Barbara
Speaker 2: Stanwick cool like this, give me a give me a
Speaker 2: give me a bastard amber, and give me a thing.
Speaker 2: And the lights are piercing hot, and she's cool and comfortable,
Speaker 2: and I'm in Texas Western gear and my boots are
Speaker 2: filling up. And Jessus, I have no idea how they
Speaker 2: did that. Those ladies they just steal them. They were
Speaker 2: steal They steel themselves against those hot lights, and they
Speaker 2: look fresh. No one ever would come in and dab them, right,
Speaker 2: I mean I I'd get off the set, and I
Speaker 2: was always the last shout of the day. Jew I mean,
Speaker 2: I always always sweating like this and always patted me down.
Speaker 2: I'm putting on more stuff and more backup. By the
Speaker 2: end of the day you could.
Speaker 3: Peel it off.
Speaker 2: And these gals just always look you leave me alone.
Speaker 2: I'm fine, don't touch my hair, don't touch my face.
Speaker 2: I'm fine, queen, but gorgeous, but gorgeous and look great.
Speaker 2: And then women were, they were, they were, you were older,
Speaker 2: and that attorney came over and introduced herself to me. Wow, hi,
Speaker 2: I'm not a turner. What's your name? I remember?
Speaker 3: Michael Bell?
Speaker 2: Michael Bell. Do I have any scenes with you? I said,
Speaker 2: I don't think so, miss Turner. She said, well, I'll
Speaker 2: see you later, and she walked away, and I thought,
Speaker 2: any bad.
Speaker 5: Wow, not a turner, My god, wow.
Speaker 2: I would tell that to some kids.
Speaker 3: Who oh yeah, who, yeah, that's no fair. No, yeah.
Speaker 3: You have to know. There's a famous story about Shelley Winter.
Speaker 3: She went into read for something, you know, well into
Speaker 3: her career, and the girl that was like twenty years old,
Speaker 3: and you're here to read and your name please, I'm
Speaker 3: Shelley Winter, Shelley so h no, wait no, it's s
Speaker 3: s H E L L. Eat. Now is that like
Speaker 3: an E y or just a just okay, just a
Speaker 3: why winter? Is it winter or Winters?
Speaker 2: What is it's us?
Speaker 3: Wait right here? And she went home, got her oscar,
Speaker 3: brought it back. She goes, I'm Shelley Winters. Okay, right,
Speaker 3: tell him I'm here and so it is my oscar.
Speaker 3: Oh right, that win Winters.
Speaker 2: Yeah, who is it? Who is the famous director went
Speaker 2: through a very very similar experience and they said, uh,
Speaker 2: what have you done? He said, you start first, you
Speaker 2: go first. Yeah, it was a very famous director. That's
Speaker 2: really really Billy Wild or someone like that.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, yes, he said, you first.
Speaker 2: This Lily said this little kay, you talked about it
Speaker 2: on television, little casting director, he said. The kid looked
Speaker 2: like he still needed clearer sue. He was the casting director.
Speaker 2: And he said, and what have you done? He said,
Speaker 2: you first? That's pretty good. That's not bad.
Speaker 3: I get yeah, I'll have to remember that. Hopefully I'll
Speaker 3: never use it.
Speaker 2: No, you you will, when they you will. I told
Speaker 2: you that, I think did I tell you that? B
Speaker 2: J Ward he was in the in the booth next
Speaker 2: was in the thing next to me at one of
Speaker 2: the cons and the guy came over to her table
Speaker 2: and he said, you were in in in the dog
Speaker 2: thing went for Hada my bear with the house Scooby,
Speaker 2: Scooby doing She said, yes, you were mona whatever the
Speaker 2: hely CaCu. She's yes, Oh my godd, you do that voice.
Speaker 2: Oh my godd, you do that. So she said sure.
Speaker 2: She said, okay, Scoob, we're in trouble and blah blah blah,
Speaker 2: et cetera. And he went, no, that's not it. How
Speaker 2: do you love that?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, how do you?
Speaker 2: I mean, you don't have that problem because you know
Speaker 2: your voice is Yeah. But but just to say no,
Speaker 2: that's not my friend, Marshall Wallace, the late Marshal Wallace,
Speaker 2: rest her soul. Sure, And someone stopped once and she said,
Speaker 2: you know, I didn't think you were that funny when
Speaker 2: I saw you in this last Bob Nohart show. And
Speaker 2: marsh said, where do you see critique me on my forehead? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, anywhere. I'll show you something else you want
Speaker 3: to see it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, critique me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a little person who now go back and watch
Speaker 3: your TV, go back and work at Arby's and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: and enjoy Enjoy. We have the meets Enjoy Wheel of Fortune.
Speaker 2: That's funny.
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Speaker 2: I did talk to a really wonderful actress who was
Speaker 2: nominated for Academy What you never mentioned names, who's an
Speaker 2: old friend, been around for years, merrill something no, no, okay,
Speaker 2: along that line, at her period in her life Oka
Speaker 2: and BC comes out. She's older at this point, and
Speaker 2: I wanted to get her work, so I said, my
Speaker 2: agent would be glad to take you on if you
Speaker 2: want to do a con. She said, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't do that, sweetheart. I said, yeah, but you've
Speaker 2: told me you live in New York. You've got two roommates.
Speaker 2: In New York. Yeah, and you get invited to stuff
Speaker 2: because you are who you are and people wanted to
Speaker 2: get your autograph. You may not have to go to
Speaker 2: the event if you don't want to. She said, I
Speaker 2: would never do that now for a million years a
Speaker 2: million dollars. And I said, yeah, I understand, Okay, I
Speaker 2: want put myself in that position. I said, okay, what
Speaker 2: you can do is sign the autographs at home. You
Speaker 2: have all your pictures, that said. And she says, I
Speaker 2: don't need I don't do that. That's embarrassing. And I thought,
Speaker 2: you know, I said, you know, there's a lot of
Speaker 2: people and I'm telling her that I do it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And I tell her the kind of money that a
Speaker 2: name can get. And I said, I do okay on lines,
Speaker 2: but I don't do what he does. I don't do
Speaker 2: what Frank Welker does. I don't do what Mark Hamill does.
Speaker 2: But those guys said, you know, they can they can
Speaker 2: walk away with twenty thirty forty thousand dollars for a
Speaker 2: weekend of fifty thousand. You could do that. You're that
Speaker 2: big a name. You were in a big, major motion
Speaker 2: and you had been a number of motion pictures. But
Speaker 2: the major Motion picture nominated for me. I think you've
Speaker 2: got that. I don't even knows she got the Academo,
Speaker 2: but she was nominated for an Academy award. Everybody knows
Speaker 2: who you are. I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't embarrass myself, said, okay.
Speaker 2: I never talked to her again.
Speaker 3: I hung up.
Speaker 2: I said, okay, no, swet, I wasn't angry. I said, okay,
Speaker 2: it's embarrassing to me because you're saying that I'm a
Speaker 2: I'm a performing monkey. Yeah, and it kisses me off.
Speaker 2: So I hung up and took her off my email list.
Speaker 2: And she calls me all the time for personal reasons
Speaker 2: because she's got some adjititive shit going on back here.
Speaker 2: And I've always helped her, and I've always assisted, and
Speaker 2: I've gone to see her, and you know, I've seen
Speaker 2: him when I've gone to New York. I spent some
Speaker 2: time with there. That's it. You get to do that
Speaker 2: to me only once. Yeah, I may have a little
Speaker 2: Italian in me because it's that kind Yeah, yeah, sure,
Speaker 2: that little thing, you know, Yeah, absolutely, I believe. How
Speaker 2: dare you? How dare you?
Speaker 3: I said? I told her, I said, you know who's
Speaker 3: to send to hang out with me.
Speaker 2: I said, you know who's standing next to me. I
Speaker 2: told about the three or four well known actors, big
Speaker 2: stars alongside doing really well, you know, because she doesn't
Speaker 2: know anybody else. She knows the big movie stars.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 2: It's embarrassing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that's right there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that sure is. Yeah. You go there and have
Speaker 3: people fawn all over you well, and then they'll give
Speaker 3: you money. Yeah, so I don't blame you. Who needs that? Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, I.
Speaker 2: Said, I said, you make I understand if you make
Speaker 2: them happy, they're so glad to meet you. You're doing
Speaker 2: something nice. You had a chunking down some cash for it.
Speaker 2: And sometimes you don't take cash. Sometimes you say, sweetheart,
Speaker 2: especially if it's somebody who's who came out of the
Speaker 2: oven too soon, you know you, I see that's not necessary.
Speaker 2: There's no problem.
Speaker 3: We know those guys.
Speaker 2: I'm glad to give you an autograph. You don't have
Speaker 2: to pay. It's okay, you know, really, and they're crying
Speaker 2: and standing at the table, but they you know, they
Speaker 2: that's my feeling. They do they come out and be
Speaker 2: able to do soon. I'm really glad to help them
Speaker 2: I'm really glad to do it because they're very sweet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they sure are you and I know what it
Speaker 3: means to have baked or not.
Speaker 2: You know, and then and everybody else, everybody else is
Speaker 2: so thrilled to meet you. Nope, she wasn't having.
Speaker 3: Any of it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I even you know, I travel with
Speaker 4: Jim to some of these conventions. Like I said, by
Speaker 4: the way, did you guys know that we're doing the
Speaker 4: podcast live? If fan Expo is here, that's true, check
Speaker 4: out the beginning and then for the episode to see
Speaker 4: the dates. But when I travel with Jim, sometimes, you know,
Speaker 4: I'll be sitting by you at your table or whatever,
Speaker 4: or even just walking through the convention, and I'll have
Speaker 4: people go Chris, and I look, and I'll think it's
Speaker 4: like somebody and hey, and I love the podcast. You know,
Speaker 4: you do such a great job. And it always takes
Speaker 4: me back because you know, like the mode I'm in
Speaker 4: is like this is like, I mean, I love the job,
Speaker 4: but it's work, you know, Like I'm working right now,
Speaker 4: and so I don't even think about like the back
Speaker 4: end of like when it airs, because like pretty much
Speaker 4: my job for the episode ends when it's edited. And
Speaker 4: we put it out, you know, and I'm on to
Speaker 4: the next guest or whatever, you know, doing my research
Speaker 4: or whatever. So it always takes me back when people
Speaker 4: are like, yeah, oh, I know you, and I'm like, yeah, wow, yeah, but.
Speaker 2: It's so important. I was at Jack Angel's funeral over
Speaker 2: in the Forest Lawn and he was in the army,
Speaker 2: so they had a whole the flag and the whole thing,
Speaker 2: and they went down and and Arlene was sitting there
Speaker 2: and we were also, and someone got up to make
Speaker 2: a declaration. It was one of his closest fans, and
Speaker 2: she was so hard felt. My wife turned around, she's
Speaker 2: I never want to hear any of these people ever
Speaker 2: complain about fans, because every now and then someone says
Speaker 2: things I said, you don't hear mak I'm thrilled to death.
Speaker 2: She said, look at that. How important he was to that?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Oh god, yeah she was.
Speaker 2: She just was literally she was caught up, and Arlie
Speaker 2: was in the front. She knew she'd be there, you know,
Speaker 2: she's and there are fans that, you know, you have
Speaker 2: certain fans that are just locked in. You have a
Speaker 2: lot of fans, but then there are certain fans that
Speaker 2: are just oh god, it's you. Yeah, yeah, keep coming back.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, you know, I don't flatter myself, but I
Speaker 3: will say that Winnie the Pooh has uh he just
Speaker 3: is such a an icon to so so so many people. Yes,
Speaker 3: you know, and uh and there you know, and sometimes
Speaker 3: it's it's a little funny because you know, the husband
Speaker 3: will be there and he'll be like fifty and his
Speaker 3: wife's there and she's forty something, you know, and she
Speaker 3: can't talk because she's too busy crying and and you know,
Speaker 3: and then oh, what do your sweet you know, give
Speaker 3: her some Pooh and him and then then it's all
Speaker 3: over with. Then she's incapacitated and and he's stand and everyone.
Speaker 11: She really likes she really does, you know. I'm just
Speaker 11: telling you she really really. I mean, we have like
Speaker 11: forty dolls and dolls you know, and you.
Speaker 3: Know from when she was a kid. That's so funny. Well,
Speaker 3: thank you God bless her. So I always give her
Speaker 3: the extra you know whatever.
Speaker 2: Of course, no, that's so funny, but it's so sweet.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 2: It's very very sweet.
Speaker 3: And yeah, animation fans are I don't know, huge huge huge,
Speaker 3: I mean, and you can see and my theory is
Speaker 3: that it transports you back to when you're five. Yeah,
Speaker 3: everything was pretty good when you were five. Yeah, everything
Speaker 3: was good. Yeah.
Speaker 2: But I've heard I've heard people say things about some
Speaker 2: stars that were really nasty. Yeah, so I were really cold,
Speaker 2: you know, right, I have to keep going. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: I'll be something behind you.
Speaker 3: Who's got the time for that?
Speaker 2: Excuse me? That's you know this, it's adulation. So it's like,
Speaker 2: I know that feeling that I had for Bamby, and
Speaker 2: we have that feeling for Thumper and the people that
Speaker 2: I grew up with, and certainly was stymied by talking
Speaker 2: to Lana Turner and you know, and do you remember
Speaker 2: Louis Hayward. Louis Hayward. Louis Hayward was a very well
Speaker 2: known actor. He always did swashbucklers and he was he
Speaker 2: was if you look up Louis Hayward. He did some
Speaker 2: wonderful swashman And I remember as a fan, Jony and
Speaker 2: I were big fans of Louie Hayward because he played
Speaker 2: the Scarlet Pimpernel character opposite Bennie Barnes, who was the Queen.
Speaker 2: And this is we're talking forties movie stars and and
Speaker 2: he would go downstairs. He'd go down and he'd have
Speaker 2: a side kicking okay now, and he put on his
Speaker 2: mask and do his thing and his swash. But next
Speaker 2: to her he would be like this, and he would
Speaker 2: talk like this, and he said, oh, your majesty, and
Speaker 2: he'd take a fan and go like this and really
Speaker 2: be devil the hell out of the sheriff. For whoever
Speaker 2: that guy was always hated him. He said, your majesty,
Speaker 2: and he do he played his very feet with a
Speaker 2: dot here and the wig, and then he'd go down
Speaker 2: and then come to go take up okay, quick patcho,
Speaker 2: and he'd go the thing and writing out and a
Speaker 2: mazarro almost like well, we loved him. And I did
Speaker 2: a Survivors the woman I did with the lanitary, and
Speaker 2: he's doing the scene with me, and I am jelled,
Speaker 2: I am so excited and he and he's ready to
Speaker 2: do the scene, I said, and the dregs says, okay,
Speaker 2: we're ready to go, and I said, okay a second,
Speaker 2: I said, I just have to tell you you did
Speaker 2: and I think I was filled a scar of pimpernel
Speaker 2: or something like that, whatever those dashing things, and he said, yes,
Speaker 2: I said, and you did the first Betty Davis impression
Speaker 2: ever done in movies. And he went, what I went,
Speaker 2: you went your majesty where he lost it? He absolutely
Speaker 2: lost it. He said, how old are you? You wait
Speaker 2: a minute, kid, I said, in my thirties, he said,
Speaker 2: and you remembered, I said. He said, that's oh my god.
Speaker 2: He just roared and wo. So now we're doing the scene.
Speaker 2: He's off camera. I'm sitting there, supposed to be in
Speaker 2: a lobby of a hotel. I'm supposed to mark him
Speaker 2: because I'm going to kill him. And I have a newspaper,
Speaker 2: you know, all shot cameras here, newspaper shout over on
Speaker 2: my shoulder. I lowered the newspaper and they watched my
Speaker 2: eyes follow him, and they watched miss He's going off,
Speaker 2: and just before he goes at a camera view, he goes,
Speaker 2: that's great. It was such a long shot.
Speaker 3: I didn't dare.
Speaker 12: I didn't dare fall apart. I just wanted to go ship.
Speaker 12: But he went, oh, just as oh my god, I said,
Speaker 12: snow we had went.
Speaker 2: Man. She said, Mikey No. I said, yeah, oh, Mikey.
Speaker 2: We were so excited because we were both big fans
Speaker 2: of his and that particular movie. Wow, and you kept
Speaker 2: it together, kept it together. That was hard, Yes, that
Speaker 2: was that was difficult.
Speaker 3: Keeping no kidding, that's good story.
Speaker 2: This was a treat guys, Jesus chat.
Speaker 5: That was so great, fantastic and thank you guys all
Speaker 5: for watching out there. We really appreciate you.
Speaker 4: Like I said before, we have a live podcast right
Speaker 4: now in partnership with fan xpo. Let me give you
Speaker 4: the dates one more time. Let me pull them up here.
Speaker 4: The next one that will be at is Philadelphia, May
Speaker 4: twenty nine to the thirty first, and once again this
Speaker 4: is fan xpo. We're doing a live podcast very similar
Speaker 4: to this, similar to a panel. It's a little more
Speaker 4: panelish when we do the live podcast just because of
Speaker 4: the format, but it's nice to it's nice to have
Speaker 4: the audience involved and to have you guys watch it
Speaker 4: live and then if you're not able to make it,
Speaker 4: then you can see it on YouTube. We post all
Speaker 4: of them on YouTube. The one after Philadelphia is Chicago
Speaker 4: August fourteenth to the sixteenth, Toronto August twenty seventh to
Speaker 4: the thirtieth, Dallas September eleventh to thirteenth, and San Francisco
Speaker 4: November twenty seven to twenty ninth, and there are more
Speaker 4: dates being added. There's a couple that we've done that
Speaker 4: are not on this list, so pay sure to check
Speaker 4: that out on the podcast page, on YouTube, on Instagram,
Speaker 4: Jim's Instagram, any, Jim's website, Jim Cummings World. All of
Speaker 4: it's posted all up there, sky and we really hope
Speaker 4: you enjoyed this episode.
Speaker 5: I did.
Speaker 4: This was a great one. I think I had a
Speaker 4: lot of fun. Thank you so much, Michael Bell for
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 4: And with all that said and done, once again, I'm
Speaker 4: producer Chris the Legend himself, mister Jim Cummings and the
Speaker 4: other legend himself, mister Michael Bell. Thank you again so
Speaker 4: much for being here, and we will see you all
Speaker 4: in the next one.
Speaker 3: TD boo, Yeah that was cool.
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