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Speaker 2: Welcome back, everybody to another episode of Tuned In with
Speaker 2: Jim Cummings. I'm producer Chris, joined as always by the
Speaker 2: legend himself, mister Jim Cummings. How are you doing today, sir?
Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, very good. It's a beautiful day, wonderful day
Speaker 1: in paradise here.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's a hot day out today.
Speaker 2: Today we have a very special for you, the very
Speaker 2: talented Matt Lancer.
Speaker 3: How are you doing today, sir?
Speaker 4: Thank you, I'm I'm I'm well, I'm in Nashville, so
Speaker 4: it's quite hot here too. Are you guys in l
Speaker 4: a row? Oh yeah, yeah, ye humidity, so we might
Speaker 4: have your beat.
Speaker 1: That's true, that's true. But you're in Atlanta, right, Nashville, Nashville, Nashville, Nashville.
Speaker 4: I'm a stone's throw from James Old Taylor. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: literally a stone's throw.
Speaker 1: Wow, no, kid, it's funny.
Speaker 4: It'd be a good throw.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, yeah, good throw. Well tell him, get him
Speaker 1: stoned and tell him that.
Speaker 4: I said, yeah, can on the on the on the string. Yeah,
Speaker 4: there you go.
Speaker 1: They work.
Speaker 4: Hey.
Speaker 1: Yeah, great to have you here, man, that's that's a
Speaker 1: it's a beautiful thing. My old Star Wars clone Wars buddy.
Speaker 4: Thank you absolutely, thank you for having me. It's an
Speaker 4: honor to an honor to be on the line with you. No,
Speaker 4: you're you're a legend.
Speaker 1: So in my own mind, that's right, everyone's mine. Well,
Speaker 1: thanks for being here, and thank you for that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: We've been doing this for a while now. Lots of
Speaker 1: folks out there. We come in, we have fun and
Speaker 1: you know, nothing too, having nothing to I don't think
Speaker 1: what what politics and religion, that's about the only thing
Speaker 1: we we haven't solved.
Speaker 4: And if you do, you know you need to go
Speaker 4: to Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good luck. Yeah, yes, indeed it's great to
Speaker 1: have you man. Thank you. And you know, I was
Speaker 1: doing I was doing some research on you, and I
Speaker 1: realized that we were born not that far away from
Speaker 1: each other. I mean I saw Northeastern Ohio and I said,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, I'm from Northeastern Ohio.
Speaker 4: You know, you know I had seen that before too, Jim.
Speaker 4: I was. I had done the google on YouTube because
Speaker 4: I'm like, I know, I've seen him in six million projects.
Speaker 4: I want to feel somewhat knowledgeable. And I saw that
Speaker 4: as well. You were born in Youngstown, is that right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm afraid so.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So I was born in Maslin, Ohio. Which I
Speaker 4: don't know how far that is, but it can't be
Speaker 4: more than an hour an hour and a half.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's not because it's in Ohio, right, Yeah, I understand.
Speaker 1: They play a little football there.
Speaker 4: They play some football, that's right. Yeah, that's like one
Speaker 4: of my first memories, you know, living with Ohio. I
Speaker 4: was there until I was eight years old, and you know,
Speaker 4: the little kid NFL uniforms, like the little uniforms that
Speaker 4: was my first you know, intro to football. I had
Speaker 4: a Cleveland Brown's Bernie Cozar number nineteen. Wow, Bernie Cozar,
Speaker 4: a little jersey and helmet, and you know, I've just
Speaker 4: sort of been a Browns fan my whole life. I'm
Speaker 4: a Falcons fan too, because I more or less grew
Speaker 4: up in Atlanta after eight years old until I was
Speaker 4: an adult. But there's something about the Browns and this
Speaker 4: nostalgia of it. My wife is actually from Akron, oh
Speaker 4: and my whole family, at least my mom's side, is
Speaker 4: actually still in Ohio and we actually own a home
Speaker 4: in the Canton area in Ohio. So unfortunately I am
Speaker 4: a Browns fan. Uh well but close. You get a
Speaker 4: choice with the Steelers though, too, right.
Speaker 1: That's true. Yeah, well I was literally right between them,
Speaker 1: so you know, whoever was had a more winning season,
Speaker 1: that's who I went with them.
Speaker 4: So you're a Steelers fan?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I suppose so.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the Browns had a couple of years
Speaker 4: in the history of the Browns, you know, yeah, they
Speaker 4: were good.
Speaker 1: But definitely an Ohio State fan, how about that? So
Speaker 1: we got to get that out.
Speaker 4: So I'm not an Ohio State fan. Yeah, because I
Speaker 4: went to Georgia and I moved there and then I
Speaker 4: actually went to University of Georgia. So I'm a bulldog guy.
Speaker 4: But my fans not bad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's not bad. Well you got it, not bad? Yeah,
Speaker 1: good for you. Ye. Well, this is interesting because it's
Speaker 1: a it's good to see you without a line of
Speaker 1: people in front of you dying for your autograph. It's
Speaker 1: kind of cool.
Speaker 4: Don't know about that, you know, but it's fun. We
Speaker 4: go to these things and you know people now you know, Jim,
Speaker 4: we've been doing the Clone Wars. We started in like
Speaker 4: what two thousand and six, I think it came out,
Speaker 4: you know, And so now you got all these people
Speaker 4: that are mid twenties and young twenties, and they literally
Speaker 4: grew up with the show. Yes, and this show is
Speaker 4: a core part of their childhood and their memories. And
Speaker 4: so that's a lot of the people that I'm getting
Speaker 4: at my table. I'm sure you've got a whole lifetime
Speaker 4: of characters.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I've got too. Yeah, what I've got those
Speaker 1: kids and their parents and the parents.
Speaker 4: Good for you. But it's it's really cool. It's really
Speaker 4: fun to have people come up and say you know, man,
Speaker 4: this was my childhood and this show meant so much
Speaker 4: and oftentimes I'm sure, as you know, it's more than
Speaker 4: just I like the shows. Yeah, it means a lot
Speaker 4: more to a lot of people in certain ways, and
Speaker 4: numerous stories that more pertain to you know, heart and
Speaker 4: life situations than just oh I like the show. Not
Speaker 4: that we don't love that as well, but it's a
Speaker 4: pretty cool and unique spot to be in.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I'm getting getting to kind of witness and hear these
Speaker 4: people's stories.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, oh, I agree. I agree. It's it's nice
Speaker 1: to know, and it's it's interesting over the years I've
Speaker 1: noticed doing these conventions and conferences and everything that you know,
Speaker 1: cartoon character, especially like with Winnie the Poo and everything,
Speaker 1: He's helped people get through things, get through tough times,
Speaker 1: get through you know, oh my gosh, you know, and
Speaker 1: you hear stories about Grandma's funeral and you know, God
Speaker 1: bless them, you know. And I said, well, thank you.
Speaker 1: I'm very very grateful, and I never you know, I
Speaker 1: don't take myself seriously. I'm sure you're the same, but
Speaker 1: I take the work seriously because it means something to
Speaker 1: other people, and.
Speaker 4: I can't imagine, you know, the stories that I get
Speaker 4: and I play, you know, in the Star Wars. It's
Speaker 4: it's an action hero and fantasy. Sure, I can't imagine
Speaker 4: the stories that you probably get with what you just
Speaker 4: said Winnie the Pooh, because Winnie the Pooh, it's he's
Speaker 4: such a kind of a soft, kind of nurturing, kind
Speaker 4: of comfort food. Yeah, he's kind of like your your
Speaker 4: pillow in your safe bed, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: So I can't imagine the stuff that you get. I mean,
Speaker 4: I've got people coming to me saying I can't fall
Speaker 4: asleep without Clone Wars, and I'm like, really, with all
Speaker 4: the blasters and the King, that's what puts you to sleep.
Speaker 1: But yeah, but I can imagine that was my bed blaster.
Speaker 4: And Winnie the Pooh was our comfort.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's what it was, that's for sure. Well yeah,
Speaker 1: well it's always nice to know that Winnie the Pooh
Speaker 1: comforts people, because then I build up my camera and
Speaker 1: then it can go back to being a jerk. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: and still break even.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can put in your nice guy bank and
Speaker 4: then just go about your business until.
Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, but again, you hear good stuff.
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Like I said, it's good to see you without a
Speaker 1: line of people between us.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And in fact, at the end, we'll have to you know,
Speaker 1: we have to make an announcement of any place that
Speaker 1: people can come and see you in the near future.
Speaker 1: And we won't tell him now because we're gonna make
Speaker 1: him late.
Speaker 4: Wait. Yeah, okay, I have to think about it for
Speaker 4: a minute.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2: Were you a big Star Wars fan before you got
Speaker 2: the role of Anakin?
Speaker 4: Not really, No, I had seen Star Wars, sure, you know,
Speaker 4: I think I think my first introduction to Star Wars
Speaker 4: was because my parents weren't Star Wars people either. I
Speaker 4: didn't really come from Star Wars family. So I really
Speaker 4: think that my first Star Wars film that I saw
Speaker 4: was maybe Attack of the Clones just in my basement
Speaker 4: as a very young teenager. You know. Of course, I
Speaker 4: knew Star Wars characters through pop culture. Everyone knows Darth
Speaker 4: Vader and Luke Skywalker, but I didn't know the story.
Speaker 4: I didn't really know how it how it all came together.
Speaker 4: So no, And then once I booked the job, though,
Speaker 4: you know that, I really dug into it and it
Speaker 4: kind of became a Star Wars nerd and people know this,
Speaker 4: but but my I had Star Wars kind of a
Speaker 4: Star Wars themed wedding. My dog's name is Ahsoka.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, dog that goes over well.
Speaker 4: She's yeah, she's thirteen years old now and we named
Speaker 4: her Soka thirteen years ago.
Speaker 1: So, oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: What what's a kind of Star Wars themed wedding.
Speaker 4: Well, we had Star Wars elements to it. We My
Speaker 4: groom's cake was the Death Star I had. I had
Speaker 4: some Clone Troopers, some great great guys from the Fible
Speaker 4: first came out to the wedding and walked in the
Speaker 4: wedding party, you know the yeah, yeah, yeah, and uh.
Speaker 1: Those guys are cool. They're really They're a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: They're great. They're wonderful people. They do some cool things. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and you know children's hospitals and charities and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: They're like the New Shriners, you know, they go out
Speaker 1: and do cool stuff for people.
Speaker 4: It's really neat make a lot of people happy. They
Speaker 4: made me yeah yeah, oh yeah, but man, yeah, it
Speaker 4: was fun. We had a little couple of Star Wars vows.
Speaker 4: I think my wife said something like you're the Obi
Speaker 4: Wan for me. No, under a you know, like a
Speaker 4: you know, they do like military swords if you're like
Speaker 4: a marine. Well, yeah, not a marine. But we had
Speaker 4: like the lightsabers, so we had party favors and people
Speaker 4: held up the lightsabers and we walked we walked out.
Speaker 1: Oh that's cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we had Star Wars elements.
Speaker 1: I was looking around for because the five Ozho first
Speaker 1: gave me an honorary plaque for being hondo O Naka.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And uh, and I think we haven't packed up. I'm
Speaker 1: sorry to say, because uh, you know, we're doing a
Speaker 1: little juggling here. But but yeah, it's really great and
Speaker 1: they're into it. My gosh, these guys are dead serious.
Speaker 1: They walked through. I remember years ago I was walking through, uh,
Speaker 1: just hanging out with Mark Hamill. It was at the
Speaker 1: San Diego San Diego Comic Con, you know, the big
Speaker 1: big mamou and uh and and these guys walk in
Speaker 1: tandem there at marching to boom boom boo boom, you know,
Speaker 1: dead dead, dead serious and Mark and I were just
Speaker 1: hanging out in the hallway. I think Tom Kenney was there.
Speaker 1: And so anyway, Luke Skywalker, uh, you know, cat Dog
Speaker 1: and Winnie the Pooh we're all talking anyway, uh, and
Speaker 1: you hear all of a sudden they they stop dead
Speaker 1: dead in their tracks and they see Mark, and you hear, oh.
Speaker 4: My god, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: And then Mark goes, I gotta go, and he runs
Speaker 1: down the hall and it cracked me up because he
Speaker 1: literally ran down the hall. So we're standing there watching
Speaker 1: Luke Skywalker being shape east by storm troopers and.
Speaker 4: I'm thinking, should have filmed it? Yeah, I wish.
Speaker 1: I'd love to get them to recreate that, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure they'd be happy to do so, except maybe not Mark.
Speaker 1: But it's a fun world. Yeah.
Speaker 4: We definitely have some passionate fans and that's what makes
Speaker 4: it fun though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh god, yeah, yeah. They must go nuts at
Speaker 1: you over you at the conventions, and I know they do.
Speaker 4: Sometimes sometimes no one cares a thing in the world.
Speaker 4: Oh you never know you.
Speaker 1: I don't know about that. I don't know about that. Well,
Speaker 1: you've had a lot of people caring a lot of
Speaker 1: things in the world. We were doing some research on you,
Speaker 1: and oh my gosh, you're all over the place right
Speaker 1: you were command did Commander in Chief with Geena Davis,
Speaker 1: who I'm crazy about years ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was one of my first really really big jobs.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, quick, quick fun story with that, Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: I had been out in LA for a relatively short
Speaker 4: amount of time. I think it was around six months
Speaker 4: by that point, and then I booked that job. And
Speaker 4: that does not happen to people, you know, all of
Speaker 4: a sudden, I was a series regular on an ABC
Speaker 4: show with an Oscar Winner as my mom. I mean,
Speaker 4: it was wild. Had no idea what I was doing.
Speaker 4: I mean, I tend to look back on all my
Speaker 4: work and cringe, but truly back back then, yeah, it's bad, bad, bad,
Speaker 4: But man, I'm proud to be a part of that show.
Speaker 4: And you know, I got to work with Gina of course,
Speaker 4: and Donald Sutherland to a degree. We we didn't have
Speaker 4: a lot of scenes where we had dialogue, but I was.
Speaker 4: I was in scene with him at times. Getting to
Speaker 4: watch these people work when I was so young and
Speaker 4: fresh and green. It was a lot of experience.
Speaker 1: And yeah, well he's a great actor too. I mean
Speaker 1: on Marvel, Donald Suthams, he's wonderful.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good for you man.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And then that just sort of, you know, paved
Speaker 4: the way, and I ended up ended up on a
Speaker 4: lot of other really great shows with a lot of
Speaker 4: a lot of great people.
Speaker 1: Well, you were on the cult hit, right, Heroes.
Speaker 4: I was on Heroes. I was on Heroes before it
Speaker 4: became a hit because I think I did like episodes.
Speaker 1: Well you probably helped make it a hit, then, how
Speaker 1: about that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, there you go, that's the way to go. It
Speaker 4: wasn't many of the other series regular actors.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it couldn't have been.
Speaker 4: Yeah it was. I think I did like episode three
Speaker 4: through seven or something on that and you know it
Speaker 4: had just aired maybe.
Speaker 3: And where did they shoot that?
Speaker 4: They shot it in la for some reason. Yeah, the
Speaker 4: majority of my stuff was in like Valencia. We shot
Speaker 4: a lot out there. So yeah, but yeah, that was
Speaker 4: then it just sort of season two, that thing really
Speaker 4: really blew up, and you know, it really wasn't a
Speaker 4: part of it, Uh didn't. So I didn't really feel
Speaker 4: the fandom from that really, But but yeah, yeah, mmm,
Speaker 4: a lot of a lot of good stuff. I was
Speaker 4: able to do a play with Lawrence Fishburne. It was
Speaker 4: me and him and one other girl man. That was
Speaker 4: an experience.
Speaker 1: I was going to ask you about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you gotta tell us about that well, that was
Speaker 3: a play.
Speaker 4: Uh Alfred Yuri wrote that and it was like I said,
Speaker 4: me and and Lawrence and another girl. I believe her
Speaker 4: name was Amanda McDonald. Maybe I haven't seen her in years,
Speaker 4: but uh that was really the first theater I'd really done.
Speaker 4: And then all of a sudden, I'm in and I
Speaker 4: mean one in one, one on one scenes with with
Speaker 4: Lawrence Fishburne at all?
Speaker 3: Was that? Was that nervous.
Speaker 4: As I nervous? Oh my god. I mean every night
Speaker 4: before I went out there, I was trying to do
Speaker 4: push ups or whatever I could do to like just
Speaker 4: try to call myself. It's one of those things with theater.
Speaker 4: And by the way, this was at the Mark Taper
Speaker 4: Form in LA. I think this might be the second
Speaker 4: largest theater in LA. I think it seats around eight
Speaker 4: hundred and of course we sold out every night. It's
Speaker 4: it's you know, Florence Fishburn's more years so and he's wonderful.
Speaker 4: Uh So that was intimidating and scary, but it's like
Speaker 4: taking five acting classes at one time. I remember one
Speaker 4: night we had been doing it several weeks at this point,
Speaker 4: and looking back, I totally understand. But he came to
Speaker 4: my dressing room and he goes, I'm gonna throw you
Speaker 4: a curve ball tonight. I want you to hit it.
Speaker 4: I want you to hit it out of the park.
Speaker 4: And I was like, oh, no problem. And he left
Speaker 4: and I'm like, what does that mean?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, but no nerves, no nerves. But looking back,
Speaker 4: I really what he was saying is I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 4: gonna do things just a little bit different. We want
Speaker 4: to keep it fresh for ourselves. And looking back, I
Speaker 4: understand it, and you know, whatever, whatever, don't remember you
Speaker 4: know specifically what he did that night, but but eventually,
Speaker 4: you know, we the words just kind of we're there,
Speaker 4: and uh, you know, you sort of ben begun to
Speaker 4: look for things to sort of go wrong to kind
Speaker 4: of you can work with it? Yeah, can can we
Speaker 4: work through this? And one one evening we there was
Speaker 4: a scene in the kitchen where we had to open
Speaker 4: up coke bottle or something that I had to open
Speaker 4: it and the thing exploded everywhere perfect, you know, yeah, exactly, Yeah,
Speaker 4: but I remember it because you know, coke or whatever
Speaker 4: was went everywhere. We're grabbing towels out of the kitchen
Speaker 4: and we're just continuing this scene while we're the blocking
Speaker 4: is totally different than what we'd rehearsed, and it worked.
Speaker 4: And I remember that because I was like, this is
Speaker 4: really interesting. We had to figure out how to make
Speaker 4: that thing work and we did, and no one would
Speaker 4: have known the difference.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: To me, that's the most exhilarating part about acting on
Speaker 2: stage is like the game within the game, that's what
Speaker 2: I call it. It's like when you've reheard something so
Speaker 2: many times that you know it like the back of
Speaker 2: your hand, but like exactly what you're talking about. The
Speaker 2: intricacies that come up with even a different inflection on
Speaker 2: something or like you mentioned, you know, different blocking. To me,
Speaker 2: that's like the most fun part about being on stage.
Speaker 4: It's so vulnerable being on stage, right, Yeah, so vulnerable.
Speaker 4: You know, you can hide behind a microphone, you can
Speaker 4: hide behind a camera because you can just cut and
Speaker 4: then just restart. But when you're out there in front
Speaker 4: of eight hundred people on Saturday night and you've got
Speaker 4: long fish for next to you, and these people are
Speaker 4: paying good money and they're expecting to see art, and
Speaker 4: I'm just trying to survive.
Speaker 1: You know, He's a hell of an actor. My gosh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, oh he really is.
Speaker 2: And I don't think a lot of people know how
Speaker 2: good he is on stage, Like he really has a
Speaker 2: thespian background, Like he was a theater actor first and foremost.
Speaker 2: You know, obviously he got the fame from the Matrix,
Speaker 2: but he is a phenomenal actor.
Speaker 4: When they when they use the word presence on screen
Speaker 4: or on stage, he is that. He has such a
Speaker 4: presence about him. And I haven't seen him since actually,
Speaker 4: but I kind of want to apologize just for like
Speaker 4: ruining his play.
Speaker 1: Generous. I'm sure you're in I'm standing.
Speaker 2: Did you did you grow up as a theater kid
Speaker 2: where you're doing plays? As a kid, I did church plays.
Speaker 1: I went with the first time you were on stage?
Speaker 1: Can you remember that?
Speaker 4: Well? That that the first time I was really stage?
Speaker 4: Was that the first time? But aside from yeah, I mean,
Speaker 4: aside from you know, church skits, but I don't think
Speaker 4: you can really count that. But I did not grow up.
Speaker 4: I grew up. I grew up as a sports kid.
Speaker 4: I was playing more sports and I can't kind of
Speaker 4: came from a sports family. My sister did some stage
Speaker 4: and you know, she was part of chorus and and
Speaker 4: she did. She did some some theater when she was
Speaker 4: in high school, so I remember going to watch, but
Speaker 4: I was a part of it, not the same as
Speaker 4: being on stage, you know, so that really I really
Speaker 4: did not have a back gruned in. And I think,
Speaker 4: I feel like, maybe I still feel like this. And
Speaker 4: I have heard this before, so I get it. But
Speaker 4: a lot of times I just feel like I'm a faker,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. I don't know how I'm doing.
Speaker 4: I'm just faking.
Speaker 1: Care, fake it till you make it right.
Speaker 4: I guess, I guess, But you know, it's like you
Speaker 4: feel like you're sometimes you feel like you're a phony.
Speaker 4: I mean, Jim, You've got about a million projects under
Speaker 4: your name, so I can't imagine you feel like that
Speaker 4: at any time. But but sometimes I'm like, why am
Speaker 4: I here? You know? They could cast someone away with me,
Speaker 4: you know, But I don't know. It's just it happens.
Speaker 4: And then and then sometimes sometimes things do fall into place,
Speaker 4: and and you know, like in for example, the case
Speaker 4: of Star Wars, we've gotten great feedback Shore Wars and
Speaker 4: just me personally actually with the character of Anakin. For
Speaker 4: the most part, I I mostly get love and I'm
Speaker 4: not saying that's all me. I'm not saying that's all
Speaker 4: my performance. But I obviously like to think that I.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, I can contribute it to that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I mean, but I but I'm I'm not
Speaker 4: just being humble. I mean, I mean obviously, like you know,
Speaker 4: being a voice actor, you are a small part of
Speaker 4: a larger Oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're that's exactly my words.
Speaker 4: You know that the animation and the writers and the director.
Speaker 4: So I'm not just trying to be like, you know,
Speaker 4: QUI with that or what. Yeah, but but yeah, but
Speaker 4: but but response, you know, has been really wonderful and
Speaker 4: you know, as we talked about a little bit earlier,
Speaker 4: it's really impacted people in positive ways. So yeah, I
Speaker 4: don't know. I just do what I do and hopefully
Speaker 4: I get work and I try the best that I
Speaker 4: can and and commit myself to it.
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Speaker 1: dot com, Slash Jim Cummings podcast, Do It Now. Well,
Speaker 1: I always say that it's just such a blessing, especially
Speaker 1: for a guy like me. You know, I've said it before.
Speaker 1: I've worked steel mills, I worked a deckhand on a riverboat,
Speaker 1: and so I'm in heaven forever. This is wait what
Speaker 1: what now? What do I get to do?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And it's the kind of I always said, you know,
Speaker 1: it's the kind of stuff I used to do in
Speaker 1: the shower for free. Yeah, you know, and and if
Speaker 1: they'll pay you, geez, forget it. Yep, ding ding ding
Speaker 1: ding ding ding ding. That's that's like hitting the lottery.
Speaker 4: To me, I say the same thing, you know. With
Speaker 4: with vo especially, I feel like it's one of those
Speaker 4: things that we all have done as kids. We give
Speaker 4: voices the characters in the sandbox, and it's literally what
Speaker 4: it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just you just.
Speaker 4: Got to understand how to kind of commit and perform
Speaker 4: in a little bit more of a deeper way and
Speaker 4: you get paid for Yeah, but it's that's what it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And I remember, you know, I did a I've
Speaker 1: done one or two, maybe maybe a half dozen workshops
Speaker 1: over the years for friends who have you know, classes
Speaker 1: or whatever. And I always think, you know, it's instincts
Speaker 1: are the best thinks, right, and if you know, if
Speaker 1: you think something in your head, because I'm ad lib
Speaker 1: a lot and it's and it's good for me because
Speaker 1: back in the day when I was doing plays, I
Speaker 1: couldn't remember the lines very well, so I had to
Speaker 1: learn to add lib otherwise you have this dead air.
Speaker 1: And I just tell people, you know, if you you know,
Speaker 1: when it comes to advice and things like that, do
Speaker 1: the impression of your uncle or your aunt or somebody,
Speaker 1: or if you do a terrible impression, nobody knows who
Speaker 1: it is. That's a new character. And you know, all
Speaker 1: these little things can go into go into formulating and
Speaker 1: developing and fleshing out all these characters that were asked
Speaker 1: to do. Do you have a process like when they
Speaker 1: say you know, well you're you know, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you've ever had this, but you know, we want
Speaker 1: you to play an old prospector in the eighteen seventies
Speaker 1: and east from Alabama. You know where does that take you?
Speaker 1: Well besides Alabama?
Speaker 4: Right, I think that I tend to when it comes
Speaker 4: to voiceover. I definitely tend to. I don't think I'm
Speaker 4: probably known in the casting world as as a accent
Speaker 4: guy or a dialect guy, you know. I And I'm
Speaker 4: okay with that. I mean, obviously I'd love to work
Speaker 4: more than I do. We all do. But I would
Speaker 4: like to think that when I do perform a character
Speaker 4: that it feels like it's got a real life behind it.
Speaker 4: And so, you know, for me, I just want to
Speaker 4: make sure that I'm that I I am, I'm bringing
Speaker 4: life in an authentic way and that I and that
Speaker 4: I'm I'm a good actor. That's my goal as far
Speaker 4: as like process goes. And kind of the same thing
Speaker 4: really for me too. On on camera, you know, they're
Speaker 4: really they're really not going to give me much of
Speaker 4: a chance for something that I couldn't sort of fit
Speaker 4: into a mold anyway. But you know, I don't know,
Speaker 4: I mean, when it comes to on camera or really
Speaker 4: behind the mic, I guess it's just watch what's out there,
Speaker 4: watch what's out there, and imitate the great you know,
Speaker 4: and then you know, even even if that if that
Speaker 4: other actor, that other project is is just a starting
Speaker 4: canvas for you, and then you can kind of start
Speaker 4: to fill in your own colors, and I think that's
Speaker 4: that's what I do. I always look at an audition
Speaker 4: and you know, I feel like it's my job to
Speaker 4: the painting is kind of there, which just that's sort
Speaker 4: of the dialogue and that's sort of the scene, and
Speaker 4: it's my job to paint with the colors and I
Speaker 4: can have the downs, I can I can add the
Speaker 4: the tempo, I can control. You know. It's things like that.
Speaker 4: I think I look for ways, you know, that I
Speaker 4: can control. And I know that's maybe not quite answering
Speaker 4: the question you asked, but it's just sort of I'm
Speaker 4: just sort of going and you know, process.
Speaker 1: And of course, yeah.
Speaker 4: You know, I had like a we had a role on.
Speaker 4: It was a Netflix show called Jupiter's Legacy. It was
Speaker 4: a few years back, and I'm proud of the work
Speaker 4: that I did on that. It was a sort of
Speaker 4: slightly eclectic character. He was sort of a nineteen thirty
Speaker 4: sort of a playboy, kind kind of flashy.
Speaker 1: Oh that's kind of cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, the show was awesome. I really had
Speaker 4: Netflix had this big plan for it. Supposedly spent hundreds
Speaker 4: of millions on the IP. It was a market Killar
Speaker 4: comic which has done really well as a comic book.
Speaker 4: But we did eight eight episodes. They ended up and
Speaker 4: what was the what was the comic book that was
Speaker 4: called Jupiter's Legacy. It was okay, yeah, Jupiter's Legacy, and
Speaker 4: then the show is also called Jupiter's Legacy, and there
Speaker 4: was actually there was like a prequel comic called Jupiter's
Speaker 4: Circle and it's a whole ip. But but anyway, for
Speaker 4: that particular audition, this kind of kind of flashy playboy.
Speaker 4: I loved what Robert Downey Jr. Was doing and as
Speaker 4: as Iron Man, as Tony Stark, you know, he's he's
Speaker 4: kind of big and loud, and so I kind of
Speaker 4: took that confidence and kind of rolled with that. You know.
Speaker 4: It's like sort of a Robert Downey Jr. And just
Speaker 4: at times incorporate the coolness of like a Harrison Ford
Speaker 4: and as Han solo or even Indiana Jones.
Speaker 1: That's a pretty good mix.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can't go wrong with that mix, right, Like
Speaker 4: a Paul Newman, you know, Paul Newman. Paul Newman is
Speaker 4: one to me that I always try to draw from
Speaker 4: a little bit. He's a really interesting leading man to
Speaker 4: watch and you know, if you watch Paul Newman, to me,
Speaker 4: he always looks like he has a secret, and he's
Speaker 4: always got this like sort of kind of a smirk,
Speaker 4: kind of a smile, kind of a smirk going on,
Speaker 4: and it always looks like he's got a secret that
Speaker 4: you want to next time you watch Paul Newman, watch
Speaker 4: you know, he looks like he's got a secret. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that's always interesting. And Luke, that's for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean really yeah, but I kind of borrow
Speaker 4: from that too, you know. And uh, I don't know, man,
Speaker 4: I just don't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, put it together. It's sorcery. It's a it's
Speaker 1: a recipe, and you hope and you hope it comes
Speaker 1: out half more than half baked. Yeah. Oh man, Well
Speaker 1: that's good stuff and you have done. But I was
Speaker 1: I was looking up your your your voice credits here,
Speaker 1: and you've got some pretty cool stuff here, you know
Speaker 1: what the Secret of Wings, the Ultimate Spider Man, the
Speaker 1: Justice League, and of course Star Wars, the Bad Batch
Speaker 1: and uh you do you have any favorites? Do you
Speaker 1: like villains or heroes or you know the male man.
Speaker 4: Well, I feel like I've had a lot of fun
Speaker 4: with the hero until he becomes the one with yea
Speaker 4: with Star Wars. But uh, yeah, I have I mean,
Speaker 4: you know, not compared to again, like someone like yourself
Speaker 4: or James Arnold Taylor, you know, legends like this. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I've had some fun with THEO. I did Ultimate Spider Man.
Speaker 4: We did that four or five seasons. And for that
Speaker 4: one I did, I was doing Flash Thompson, who's kind
Speaker 4: of the you know that bully. Yeah, just just kind
Speaker 4: of loud in your face bully. And then for whatever reason,
Speaker 4: they had let go there Harry Osbourne, so they wanted
Speaker 4: me to do Harry Osborne. So I was doing Flash
Speaker 4: Thompson and Harry Osborne, who's he's a low key a
Speaker 4: hero friend in that show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he became the Green Goblin.
Speaker 4: He did, he did, But I didn't do Green Goblin.
Speaker 4: But I did do Agent Venom because Flash Thompson becomes
Speaker 4: Agent Venom and so that was kind of.
Speaker 1: Fun too, wow, sort.
Speaker 4: Of the heroic version of Venom. But yeah, I've done man,
Speaker 4: I've done little bits on Scooby Doo and yeah, Secret
Speaker 4: of the Wings, which my daughter loves that movie. That's
Speaker 4: on a lot in our house right now than your
Speaker 4: old daughter so great. It's it's one of the Disney
Speaker 4: tinker Bell movies and part of that and that's what
Speaker 4: that was. So yeah, it's it's been it's been a blast.
Speaker 4: I mean, I really love the world of voiceover, and
Speaker 4: it's it's interesting because I feel like a lot of people,
Speaker 4: maybe especially like ten years ago, now it's a little different.
Speaker 4: People are really people are really like kind of looking
Speaker 4: at your social media and your IMDb and seeing the
Speaker 4: thing the different projects you do. But you know, definitely
Speaker 4: ten years ago when I did like I did five
Speaker 4: seasons of nine to two and zero, and it was
Speaker 4: you know, mostly aimed at young girls, you know, and
Speaker 4: so I had I had people that had no idea
Speaker 4: that I did vo and sometimes still now people that
Speaker 4: are fans of Star Wars, fans of Anak and they
Speaker 4: have no idea that I do on camera work. Oh
Speaker 4: you know, I'm like.
Speaker 1: Well, sure, well, Star Wars fans are rabid. You know,
Speaker 1: if you if you do anything in the Star Wars,
Speaker 1: you're in you.
Speaker 4: Are you are? Yeah, and vice versa. You know, a
Speaker 4: lot of a lot of on camera people that know
Speaker 4: me strictly from an on camera career, I have no
Speaker 4: idea that I you know, I have done some really
Speaker 4: great voice over roles as well.
Speaker 2: On that note, I think it's really interesting these days
Speaker 2: how you can even throw like social media into the mix,
Speaker 2: Like how many times do you come across like a
Speaker 2: profile with like millions of followers and like you've never
Speaker 2: heard of this person and it's like, oh, like they
Speaker 2: have like such a massive audience and like I've never
Speaker 2: never seen a clip of this.
Speaker 4: Like same And I feel that way, Like I guess
Speaker 4: I'm not I'm not really a music buff kind of guy.
Speaker 4: I like music, but I couldn't name you all the
Speaker 4: bands from the seventies and I'm just not that guy.
Speaker 4: Uh But even now, I mean there's there's like artists.
Speaker 1: That I'm oh, yeah, I can't do it now, she's
Speaker 1: got I can't do it for the seventies.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I listened to like Spotify nineties for
Speaker 4: me is what it is. I'm working out. I'm listening
Speaker 4: to like, you know, I don' a Nirvana and things
Speaker 4: like that, and I'm like, yeah, don't know, I know,
Speaker 4: you know, I think it makes I feel like I'm
Speaker 4: getting older.
Speaker 1: Oh hear tell me about it.
Speaker 4: Well, time doesn't stop for anyone doesn't.
Speaker 1: No, it doesn't.
Speaker 2: But I just want to go back to your childhood
Speaker 2: for a second because I wanted this to ask this question.
Speaker 2: So you talked about you were into sports as a kid.
Speaker 2: When did you decide that you wanted to be an actor?
Speaker 2: At what point was there like a moment did you
Speaker 2: kind of dip your feet in. I know you were
Speaker 2: on the on that reality show Manhunt, and that you
Speaker 2: mentioned how that was kind of how you got your agent.
Speaker 2: You know, he saw you on that show and that
Speaker 2: was kind of your introduction. But where was the precipice of, like,
Speaker 2: I want to be a performer.
Speaker 4: Sure. Yeah, So I was in college and I was
Speaker 4: working with the Atlanta Braves as a bat boy, and
Speaker 4: I was also working simultaneously at a golf course as
Speaker 4: a cart guy, you know. So I'd be there at
Speaker 4: five am and get the cars ready and it was
Speaker 4: a it was a pretty nice golf course in my
Speaker 4: area in Georgia. And we had a fax come through,
Speaker 4: not anything else, not internet.
Speaker 1: It was a fact, that's right.
Speaker 4: We had the facts come through to our pro shop
Speaker 4: that they were looking for extras on a movie that
Speaker 4: they were doing in Atlanta. It was a golf movie
Speaker 4: called Bobby Jones Stroke of Genius. Jim Caviezel was in
Speaker 4: that as Bobby Jones.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
Speaker 4: And so they shot that thing in Atlanta, and I thought,
Speaker 4: that's amazing. And you got to keep in mind Atlanta
Speaker 4: twenty twenty five years ago, there was nothing going on.
Speaker 4: There's no industry in Atlanta like there is now. So
Speaker 4: for me, you know, growing up as a kid, that
Speaker 4: that didn't cross my mind at all. That's just that
Speaker 4: was a world I could never be a part of.
Speaker 4: It literally didn't cross my mind. Right. I was watching
Speaker 4: things like Jurassic Park and whatever movies, but I that
Speaker 4: connection that I could be a part of it was
Speaker 4: not in my wheelhouse. And so after that facts came through,
Speaker 4: of course I went to be an extra because I
Speaker 4: thought it would be awesome. And I really that's kind
Speaker 4: of where I got bit with the bug, so to speak.
Speaker 4: You know, I saw all the big line heights and
Speaker 4: and I think when I saw that happening in real
Speaker 4: life with my own two eyes, that's when it opened
Speaker 4: up that I was like, wait, I maybe I could
Speaker 4: be doing that. And I think that's where it became
Speaker 4: real and uh, and that's how it started and and
Speaker 4: and from that I was an extra, but I got
Speaker 4: selected to be a featured extra, which I still had
Speaker 4: no I still had no lines, no dialogue.
Speaker 1: I was going to ask you that no any line
Speaker 1: that meant like one line.
Speaker 4: Or no, no, not one line. But it was called
Speaker 4: featured because I played. I got to play Bobby Jones
Speaker 4: caddy for one of the tournaments. So they actually had
Speaker 4: the camera kind of close up on my face book.
Speaker 4: Oh ye, looks a couple of looks. You know, he'd
Speaker 4: miss a shot. It would be you know, you know,
Speaker 4: stuff like that. So uh and you know, we went
Speaker 4: to the Fox Theater in Atlanta with my family and
Speaker 4: it was this big premiere. And so from there I
Speaker 4: started taking some acting classes at the Alliance Theater in Atlanta.
Speaker 4: M hm. And and then the reality show happened. And
Speaker 4: again it was a newspaper casting call and I went
Speaker 4: into this hotel, big ballroom that they were seeing a
Speaker 4: bunch of guys and really essentially that show was kind
Speaker 4: of like the America's Next Top Model, you know, the
Speaker 4: Tyra Banks Show, but it was for men. And whoever
Speaker 4: won got one hundred thousand dollars for a contract. And
Speaker 4: I mean that was un.
Speaker 2: What were like the competitions like on that show, like
Speaker 2: what would you guys have to do?
Speaker 4: Well, so I basically I let's see, well i'll tell you.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you. One of the competitions that I actually
Speaker 4: won was an acting competition, and so good that competition was.
Speaker 4: There was a there was a board room of fake
Speaker 4: actors that they had hired. Of course, we as the
Speaker 4: contestants on the show, we didn't know that they were
Speaker 4: not real executives. We thought they were real advertising executives
Speaker 4: for a jeans company. And so my gosh, that was
Speaker 4: they had us doing. Of course silly things. We had
Speaker 4: our jeens, and you know they would say, well tell us,
Speaker 4: tell us why so and so should by these jeans,
Speaker 4: and we kind of had to pitch them their jeans,
Speaker 4: and you know, of course stupid things happened. They were like, well,
Speaker 4: get up on the table and do a little walk
Speaker 4: on the on the boardroom table. And I was, I
Speaker 4: was up there doing this thing, and anyway, I guess
Speaker 4: I put together, you know, in my pitch in my head,
Speaker 4: a pitch that was like a sellable pitch and kind
Speaker 4: of sold the jeans. And so I won that competition.
Speaker 1: Oh that's great. Yeah, but then you got a free
Speaker 1: pair of jeans.
Speaker 4: I don't even think I got a free pair of
Speaker 4: jean Oh no. But when I got out of that,
Speaker 4: I actually I ended up getting kicked off the show
Speaker 4: and like I don't know, eighth place or something because
Speaker 4: I was too fat for a modeling show.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: And I was like, yeah, I said, you know, it's okay,
Speaker 4: I can't see that, but okay, well compared to a
Speaker 4: bunch of models, so you know, I had never done this,
Speaker 4: and so I was like, you know, it's so cool,
Speaker 4: it's right. You know. I don't know if you guys
Speaker 4: have ever seen it, but they have these exit interviews.
Speaker 4: You get kicked off, they interview you where they they
Speaker 4: hope to get some really some tears out of you
Speaker 4: and some drama. But I was like, you know, it's
Speaker 4: all right. I would rather be an actor anyway. I'm
Speaker 4: not really a model. I don't have a model's body.
Speaker 4: I'm five ten, I'm not six two. It's perfectly fine.
Speaker 4: I'd rather be an actor. So on that show, my
Speaker 4: manager at the time happened to be He said he
Speaker 4: was playing poker one night and channels were going and
Speaker 4: he saw me say I'd rather be an actor. He
Speaker 4: found my email. I was back at the University of
Speaker 4: Georgia's you know, finishing school, and he emailed me and said, hey,
Speaker 4: I'm a manager in LA If you were serious, let
Speaker 4: me know. And that's how we connected. And yeah, finished
Speaker 4: the semester and saved up a few grand and I
Speaker 4: drove out my car with you know.
Speaker 1: Kill What year was that that was?
Speaker 4: I was literally driving on December thirty, first of four,
Speaker 4: So I literally arrived like day one in.
Speaker 1: My apartment of five, no kidding, wow, Yeah, And the
Speaker 1: rest is history.
Speaker 4: The rest is history. I had a rough time just
Speaker 4: for a few months. I was probably think I was
Speaker 4: down to you know, the last dollar or something, and
Speaker 4: and and I ended up booking two jobs at one time.
Speaker 4: My first job was eight Simple Rules for Dating my
Speaker 4: teenage daughter with Ritter.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
Speaker 4: It was like an ABC comedy, oh yeah. And then
Speaker 4: roughly at the same exact time, I booked a recurring
Speaker 4: role on a on a Fox teen horror show called
Speaker 4: Point Pleasant. And I remember that vividly because I could
Speaker 4: afford a small Starbucks vanilla latte, and I thought I
Speaker 4: was on top of the world.
Speaker 1: I was like, yes, I wait, you can shop at Starbuck.
Speaker 4: Well I did. No point point being is I couldn't
Speaker 4: really afford anything. I was about to run out of
Speaker 4: my last buck. And then all of a sudden, you know,
Speaker 4: I was getting top of show, which at the time
Speaker 4: was like I don't know, fifty eight hundred dollars or
Speaker 4: something for an episode, and I did three or four episodes,
Speaker 4: and I was like, I've made it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, heck yeah.
Speaker 4: I was so naive. But but I could afford my latte.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4: I remember cruising up the four or five. We shot
Speaker 4: that thing in San Diego. I remember cruising up the
Speaker 4: four or five. I talking to my mom or my
Speaker 4: aunt on my phone, had a Starbucks, my ninety eight
Speaker 4: accuracyl and life was good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt. Well, hey, you know, if you I
Speaker 1: think anybody who's success successful, is anybody who's working.
Speaker 4: Hey, especially now man especially Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's it's scary out there, I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think I would like to be
Speaker 1: starting out now. It would It would be a little scary.
Speaker 4: We don't you feel that constantly? My friends and I
Speaker 4: because I have a lot of friends that are in
Speaker 4: the industry. We constantly say, we literally don't know how
Speaker 4: people make it in LA if they're not working as
Speaker 4: a doctor or a series regular on some show or something.
Speaker 4: We just I don't know how you do it. Now,
Speaker 4: I really don't. As expensive as rent prices are and
Speaker 4: food process you're working. You gotta be working three jobs
Speaker 4: just to get by, you know, if you're not always
Speaker 4: trying to get started, Well.
Speaker 1: You can't eat at McDonald's anymore money wise. No, it's
Speaker 1: it's yeah, it's kind of scary.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: We'll do these little trips on the weekends, as you know,
Speaker 1: and we'll go to convention here or there, and I'm shocked,
Speaker 1: you know, we can have dinner for four people and
Speaker 1: it's a couple hundred bucks instead of flirting with a
Speaker 1: thousand easily. Well, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 3: I can speak to that.
Speaker 2: You know, as a little bit younger of an actor,
Speaker 2: I kind of experience this whole like social media shift,
Speaker 2: and it's really like I feel like as an actor,
Speaker 2: you know, trying to make it, you really have to
Speaker 2: have like a whole bunch of different things going, you know,
Speaker 2: like social media. I had a clothing company selling clothing,
Speaker 2: you know, just like you got to do what you
Speaker 2: can and just keep hustling. And then I was very fortunate,
Speaker 2: you know, to get this opportunity, you know, to produce
Speaker 2: this show with Jim, and it's just like, you know,
Speaker 2: my main app focus has always been acting, but like
Speaker 2: there's other creative aspects where I feel like you can
Speaker 2: exercise and still get that gratification, maybe in a little
Speaker 2: bit different way.
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Speaker 2: I think maybe you experienced that too with your podcast.
Speaker 2: You had a podcast with your wife, correct, the Hello
Speaker 2: Baby we did?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, this was back in twenty seventeen, which now
Speaker 4: feels like this is prior to most people having a podcast.
Speaker 4: But yeah, we we just sort of we started that
Speaker 4: one chronicling our journey as first time parents, and oh yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, I'm a bit of a tech nerd. I
Speaker 4: like my tech and my microphones and my things like that,
Speaker 4: and so back then it was a lot of fun
Speaker 4: for me to technically set this thing up. And then
Speaker 4: we kind of just started doing this for ourselves, just
Speaker 4: sort of talking about what we were feeling, what she
Speaker 4: was feeling, what I was feeling, and I think a
Speaker 4: couple episodes in we just decided like, we're going to
Speaker 4: make this a real thing, and so we you know,
Speaker 4: got the ad placement agency and we basically, yeah, we
Speaker 4: did an episode every week. And it's really really cool
Speaker 4: because now we can go back and listen to that,
Speaker 4: and that is so awesome and so awesome that we
Speaker 4: have that audio for my daughter to go back and
Speaker 4: listen to twenty years from now about how mom and
Speaker 4: dad were feeling in that moment, you know, because we
Speaker 4: were we were joyful, you know, we we we had
Speaker 4: prayed for her and so and actually we were you
Speaker 4: probably know, Jim, we're pregnant again right now. My wife
Speaker 4: is twenty three weeks right now.
Speaker 3: And congratulations, well, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we were contemplating doing the you know, another season
Speaker 4: of the podcast. We've just been so busy. You tend
Speaker 4: to be a little busier when you have children already.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's for sure.
Speaker 4: So we haven't gotten to record anything, but we might
Speaker 4: just kind of record, you know, a few, not not weekly,
Speaker 4: but that's what we did. And yeah, man, we're so
Speaker 4: glad we had it. And we got some really really
Speaker 4: great response off that well, off that one as well,
Speaker 4: just a lot of people saying, you know, hey, at
Speaker 4: that time in twenty seventeen, there maybe was a couple,
Speaker 4: maybe a few, a small handful of podcasts that we're
Speaker 4: parenting and pregnancy related podcasts. Oh sure, yeah, and at
Speaker 4: that time, and it really helped a lot of people.
Speaker 4: We got a lot of comments, like, you know, because
Speaker 4: we had like overall is very healthy pregnancy, but of
Speaker 4: course we had things that happened and scarers that happened,
Speaker 4: and oh yes, as they as they do. And you know,
Speaker 4: we had people, you know, oh, we're listening along to
Speaker 4: you know whatever week nineteen and we felt the same
Speaker 4: way or my daughter had the same thing and we
Speaker 4: had to see the doctor. And it really gave me
Speaker 4: a lot of comfort that you guys had experienced this
Speaker 4: and I could. So it was really cool in that
Speaker 4: way too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, that's beautiful. Yea, yeah, yeah, well that's a
Speaker 1: great memory.
Speaker 2: I think a cool thing you mentioned about it was
Speaker 2: how it was like a like a journal, almost like
Speaker 2: a journal, and being able to share that in the future.
Speaker 2: And you know, I've kind of experienced that too, just
Speaker 2: in the last two years on this podcast. It's really
Speaker 2: interesting to like go back and look at like how
Speaker 2: you've developed, like even just as like an interviewer.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: I know me and Jim have talked about this before
Speaker 2: because this is both our first time, you know, doing
Speaker 2: something like this, and it's really fascinating to like tweak
Speaker 2: all those little skills that you don't even necessarily think
Speaker 2: of when you're watching somebody do it, you.
Speaker 4: Know, yeah, absolutely, it's that's that's the cool part about
Speaker 4: you know this audio and video even say performing you know,
Speaker 4: doing TV shows and movies and stuff. You look back
Speaker 4: and you know, although I'm embarrassed about it, it is
Speaker 4: fun to see progression of how I've gotten better at
Speaker 4: certain things and you know, things that I can look
Speaker 4: back and be proud about. But yeah, certainly that diary
Speaker 4: aspect of our.
Speaker 1: Pregnancy, and you know that's beautiful, yeah, yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 1: it'll be nice for the little one too.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, you know.
Speaker 1: That's that's gonna be that's gonna be cute, that'll be sweet.
Speaker 4: Could could be the most valuable ball for her.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you mentioned she's seven now has she has she
Speaker 2: gone back yet or is still too young? Has she
Speaker 2: listened to any of them?
Speaker 4: She hasn't listened to it. I don't even really I
Speaker 4: don't even really know that she knows we have that,
Speaker 4: but because we haven't like sat down and said, hey,
Speaker 4: listen to this. But she's she's really into, you know,
Speaker 4: going back in our phones and looking at pictures and
Speaker 4: videos of herself she was a baby and mommy was pregnant.
Speaker 4: You know, at this time, she's really really into this
Speaker 4: pregnancy now as a big sister. She's really excited about it.
Speaker 4: You know, we have all the pregnancy apps, the bump
Speaker 4: app and all that sort of stuff, and she wants
Speaker 4: to look at it every day and you know, how
Speaker 4: big is the baby and what you know, what do
Speaker 4: you what fruit do you compare it to today? What's
Speaker 4: the size? What's developed in today? And she's been so
Speaker 4: involved in the excitement of this current pregnancy.
Speaker 1: That she's going to be an excellent big sister.
Speaker 4: Absolutely. Yeah, this is as much her baby as it is,
Speaker 4: you know, me and me and Mommy's baby. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: so yeah, she's she's really really pumped to be a
Speaker 4: big sister.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well I remember at that age. You know, my kids
Speaker 1: are all adults now, but I remember, you know, telling them,
Speaker 1: you know what, girls, what these are the good old days?
Speaker 1: And they go, oh, okay, And then of course eventually
Speaker 1: I'd say, you know what, girls, yeah, dad, these are
Speaker 1: the good old days. Okay. Then I go, well they
Speaker 1: will bae dang it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I promise you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, you don't have that perspective until you do.
Speaker 4: Man. Man, it's uh, it's wild. Do you guys remember
Speaker 4: this song came out in nineteen ninety nine, Chris, I
Speaker 4: don't know how old you are, but and I don't
Speaker 4: remember who it was by, but it was kind of
Speaker 4: the first of its kind. It was a song, but
Speaker 4: it was a guy and he was just talking. It
Speaker 4: might have been called like sunscreen, and he was like
Speaker 4: the very it was. It was like he was talking
Speaker 4: for a couple of minutes about advice, and he was like,
Speaker 4: where your sunscreen? You're gonna wanna wear your sunscreen? It's
Speaker 4: the most valuable thing, you know, talk to your parents
Speaker 4: and and uh, it just popped up on social media things.
Speaker 4: It reminded me of that. But yeah, but the advice
Speaker 4: is so true. Came out in nineteen ninety nine and
Speaker 4: everything applies today still. It's yeah, except the sunscreen thing,
Speaker 4: because I've seen articles that talk about sunscreen now causes cancer.
Speaker 4: You know, we can't win.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so you're doomed if you do and doomed
Speaker 3: if you don't.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I guess, so that's that's not fair.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, yeah, yeah, what was it? I remember
Speaker 1: that commercial about eggs. The eggs were walking around looking
Speaker 1: at the camera, going, well, I guess we're okay for
Speaker 1: you again. You can eat us again. For a couple
Speaker 1: of years there, we weren't allowed to eat eggs because
Speaker 1: they'll kill you till you're dead. Yeah, and uh and
Speaker 1: now well we're back. You can you can have us.
Speaker 1: So I thought that was nice.
Speaker 4: I don't understand. I don't you eat a raw egg
Speaker 4: and you could die from salmonella if you're making brownies,
Speaker 4: But then you can eat you can drink six raw
Speaker 4: eggs if you're trying to build muscle. I don't get it.
Speaker 1: What's the Yeah, right, yeah, Rocky looked okay, he did.
Speaker 4: All right, but yeah, yeah, clearly.
Speaker 1: No, huh, that doesn't look like it. Yeah, that's funny.
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Speaker 2: Do it now, Well, we usually do with this little
Speaker 2: game on this podcast, and it's a it's a little
Speaker 2: voice swap game. If you're interested in playing, I went
Speaker 2: on sure. It's pretty simple. So Jim will say a
Speaker 2: line of one of his characters, one of his voice characters,
Speaker 2: you know, say Winnie the Pooh, and then you'll copy
Speaker 2: that same line in one of the characters that you've voiced,
Speaker 2: and then we'll swap back and forth.
Speaker 1: And then yeah, and then you can give me one
Speaker 1: of your line.
Speaker 4: So no, and then this can be This could be
Speaker 4: from any vo or any on camera.
Speaker 3: Anything you want, anything you want.
Speaker 1: Whatever, whatever pops into your head.
Speaker 4: Okay, and you have to preface it, which with which
Speaker 4: character it is?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, just for the audience.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So like, for example, like we have Hondo and Anakin,
Speaker 2: so Jim would say a Hondo line, and then you'd
Speaker 2: say that Hondo line as Anakin and vice versa.
Speaker 3: Okay, how about we start off.
Speaker 1: With all right, there you go. I think Hondo is
Speaker 1: a good place to start. Okay, Hondo here is an
Speaker 1: actual of course, I had lived all the lines, so
Speaker 1: they're easier for me to remember. I don't think I
Speaker 1: ever said I didn't say half the words that they wrote.
Speaker 1: I did give them one as written, and then I
Speaker 1: don't know if you ever remember reading along in the script,
Speaker 1: you know, and then I would do it as it
Speaker 1: should have been. So I'll do one of my favorite
Speaker 1: ad libs that I came up with. Alright, so Hondos
Speaker 1: was reminiscent. He said, Oh my goodness, the stories, the
Speaker 1: stories I could tell, so many of them.
Speaker 4: True, Okay, so Anakin is really my voice in the
Speaker 4: later seasons. Yeah, a little. I'm a little deeper, a
Speaker 4: little more down in here, so it'd be a little
Speaker 4: more like, Oh my goodness, the stories I could tell
Speaker 4: about me and padme something like that.
Speaker 1: Any of them true.
Speaker 4: All of them are true.
Speaker 1: The rumors are always true.
Speaker 4: Always true, always true.
Speaker 1: There you go, All right.
Speaker 3: Did Anakin and Hondo ever interact in Clone Wars?
Speaker 4: I can't recall, Jim, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I gotta believe we did. Yeah, I mean I think so.
Speaker 4: I don't know. You know, Anakin, I feel like he
Speaker 4: wouldn't mind tagging along. Actually, Hondo's pretty fun, So yeah,
Speaker 4: I could see Anakin wanting some adventure with Hondo. Get me,
Speaker 4: get me away from this old Obi Wan guy. He's
Speaker 4: a rule follower.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I remember one of the things that I
Speaker 1: enjoyed doing was cracking up Steve Bloom and kind of
Speaker 1: screwing up his lines because you know, he would start
Speaker 1: laughing instead of doing his line. Yeah, so that's how
Speaker 1: I knew I was onto something.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Did you guys ever do any sessions together while recording
Speaker 2: the Clone Wars?
Speaker 4: I feel like we kind of entered in the booth.
Speaker 4: I just don't. I just don't don't recall if we
Speaker 4: had immediate exchange of dialogue.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, let us know in the comments. I'm sure,
Speaker 2: I'm sure they're fans will know, I'm.
Speaker 1: Sure that is true.
Speaker 4: We could queue up the you know, I haven't gone
Speaker 4: back and watched any of these episodes in a long
Speaker 4: long time, and I made it a point I want
Speaker 4: to go back and watch a handful of these episodes again,
Speaker 4: ones that people talk to me about often. For me,
Speaker 4: it's like the Umbara arc and there's a there's a
Speaker 4: Mortis uh Forced God Planet arc that people talk a
Speaker 4: lot about. Now I remember that pretty well, but there's
Speaker 4: a few. But anyway, I want to go back and
Speaker 4: watch these things because I want to be able to
Speaker 4: talk with a little more Star Wars knowledge when people come.
Speaker 1: To the table. But yeah, you have to get refreshed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: watch them or you know, because you know, people will
Speaker 1: come up to me and they'll a lot of times
Speaker 1: I told the story before those that do the word
Speaker 1: do the line? Do the line? Like I what line?
Speaker 1: Oh bother, No, the line, you know, And and it's
Speaker 1: and it was from a video game that I did
Speaker 1: a hundred years ago, and it was Go Ford the
Speaker 1: Ice Boo and it was and now I'm not going
Speaker 1: to remember the name of the damn game. Oh gosh. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we'll edit that up.
Speaker 4: You know, what's what's interesting, though, is is is people,
Speaker 4: you know, they come up to your table and let's
Speaker 4: for example, that they're a fan of Winnie the Pooh
Speaker 4: and that's their thing, right, so they know the line,
Speaker 4: they remember these lines. But for you, you know, I'm
Speaker 4: not and I'm not saying Winnie the Pooh or even
Speaker 4: Anakin is just a job. But it's a job for us,
Speaker 4: and we've done we've done a lot of them, and
Speaker 4: we've said a lot that's the problem for a lot
Speaker 4: of different projects. And I think I think that's something
Speaker 4: that and and I find it enduring and it's very sweet.
Speaker 4: I think people just kind of don't. I don't realize that.
Speaker 4: They don't realize that, Yeah I don't. I've been doing
Speaker 4: this for fifteen years with lines from all kinds of characters.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, oh god, they just can't.
Speaker 4: I don't. I don't have a cue up like like
Speaker 4: you do, you know.
Speaker 1: Like they do. Yeah, they do well, yeah, and you know,
Speaker 1: and it's very gratifying and it's wonderful that it means
Speaker 1: that much to them that it impacts them and they
Speaker 1: carry it around in their head their heart.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 1: Know, and it just makes me grateful. I'm sure you're
Speaker 1: in the same category.
Speaker 4: It does it does it is? You know, yeah, it's
Speaker 4: I it feels like I'm disappointing them when I can't
Speaker 4: come up with it though, you.
Speaker 1: Know, yeah, so yes, yeah, well what are you going
Speaker 1: to do? But yeah, man, well, I just thank you
Speaker 1: so much for being here. It's really great.
Speaker 4: Always, it's always fun to come in and just you know,
Speaker 4: have a loose chat with others and yeah, especially in
Speaker 4: the industry. And absolutely, I know you know it's been
Speaker 4: around you for a while and it's it's true, it's truly,
Speaker 4: it's an honor to be, you know, even considered to
Speaker 4: be doing this podcast with you because, oh, thank You're
Speaker 4: an absolute legend someone I look up to.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you. I appreciate that. Yeah, sir, it doesn't.
Speaker 1: I don't feel legendary. But I'll on the other hand,
Speaker 1: I'm well stupid.
Speaker 4: I'll take you are You're.
Speaker 1: Absolutely bless you, bless you, thank you, and anything you
Speaker 1: want to close with that, we should be looking forward
Speaker 1: to anything you want to talut anything.
Speaker 4: Okay, By the time this probably comes out, I have
Speaker 4: a show coming out on Amazon Prime actually tomorrow, so
Speaker 4: oh wow, it's May twentieth is the release date, and
Speaker 4: I believe all episodes are being released. It's called Motorheads.
Speaker 4: It's a nice yeah. So for those watching, if you
Speaker 4: haven't seen it, it's I'm sure it's on there, Go
Speaker 4: to Amazon find it. It's a it's kind of a
Speaker 4: teen teen kind of coming of age television show, sort
Speaker 4: of like we keep comparing. It's a Friday night lights
Speaker 4: meets Fast and Furious to the town laws, street racing,
Speaker 4: not football.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's that's pretty good.
Speaker 4: It's really cool, and the scripts were wonderful. It's the
Speaker 4: first time I'm playing a dad to a teenager and
Speaker 4: that's weird for me, but really good scripts. I saw
Speaker 4: the first two episodes and I was really impressed. It's
Speaker 4: shot really well. So you know, yeah, anyone watching, go
Speaker 4: check that out. I'm looking forward to its release. I've
Speaker 4: mentioned James Arnold Taylor before. James and I are working
Speaker 4: on a show called Gabriel and the Guardians, and that
Speaker 4: is a It's an animated series on the Angel platform
Speaker 4: and we've released one episode and it's gotten some really
Speaker 4: great attention. It's beautiful to look at it is.
Speaker 1: I love Angel. They're they're great people.
Speaker 4: It's it's eye candy to look at. Performances are amazing,
Speaker 4: Christina Viz in there, Johnny Young, Bosh, myself, James and
Speaker 4: it is a show that's loosely based around a lot
Speaker 4: of ancient Hebrew text. So it's very cool, very very
Speaker 4: there's bifficult ties and connections and inspiration. I should say,
Speaker 4: if you look for it, you will find the inspiration.
Speaker 4: But in and of itself, it is a fantasy story
Speaker 4: with fantasy characters. But really proud to be a part
Speaker 4: of that one and can't wait to see more of that.
Speaker 4: I think we've we've done six episodes. I think we're
Speaker 4: about to gear up to do the second half of
Speaker 4: the season, so maybe another six or something. I don't know.
Speaker 4: Don't don't take my word on that.
Speaker 1: I'm just avoided good. But check out too many more. Yeah, hopefully, hopefully, hopefully. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll knock wood for you. Thank you well, thank you brother.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you being here. Thank you ever so much.
Speaker 4: It is my pleasure, ad a blast. Thanks for having me. Yes,
Speaker 4: thank you very much. Yeah, I'll just take us, take
Speaker 4: us home. Thank you everybody, ladies and gentlemen for watching.
Speaker 4: That was another episode of Tuned in with Jim Cummings.
Speaker 4: Today we were joined by Matt Lanter. Thank you again
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Speaker 1: Thank you.