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This week on Toon’d In!, Jim Cummings welcomes acclaimed actress and voice actor Nicole Oliver! Known for her commanding performances in animation and genre television, Nicole has built an extraordinary career spanning anime, western animation, and live-action sci-fi—captivating audiences with strength, warmth, and remarkable vocal range. She is best known as Princess Celestia in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and for her appearances in Stargate SG-1, along with an extensive body of work across animated series, video games, and feature films.

In this engaging and wide-ranging episode—recorded live at Fan Expo Vancouver—Nicole shares her journey into professional acting, from classical training to becoming one of the most recognizable voices in modern animation. She breaks down the technical craft of voice performance, including character development, vocal control, emotional authenticity, and the stamina required for long-running franchises. Nicole also reflects on working within ensemble casts, collaborating with directors, and adapting performances for different mediums—from ADR and dubbing to original animation.

Jim and Nicole dive deep into the evolving entertainment landscape—exploring the growth of the global voice acting industry, the rise of fan conventions as community hubs, and the crossover between animation, sci-fi television, and gaming culture. Along the way, Nicole opens up about longevity in a competitive field, mentorship, connecting with multi-generational audiences, and the responsibility of portraying characters who inspire fans around the world.

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<v Speaker 6>All right, y'all?
<v Speaker 5>Is it Ray your favorite firefly you desire? Hondo Old
<v Speaker 5>Knock Goud is Jim Cummings and welcome to tuned In.
<v Speaker 7>Hello, Hello, Hello fan ex Bill Vancouver. How are you
<v Speaker 7>doing today? Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second ever live
<v Speaker 7>recording of Tuned In with Jim Cummings.
<v Speaker 6>Give it up, Give it up, give it up?
<v Speaker 7>Yes, yes, yes, who here has seen or heard the podcast?
<v Speaker 7>Before hands up. Ah, so a lot of you have
<v Speaker 7>some work to do. Yes, yes, we have a good time.
<v Speaker 7>There's just really briefly, there's a whole bunch of guests
<v Speaker 7>that are at this convention right now that have been
<v Speaker 7>on the podcast. We've had a great time, you know,
<v Speaker 7>just discussing acting, voice acting. Even some Disney artists have
<v Speaker 7>been on. So if you haven't seen it, be sure
<v Speaker 7>to check it out. And without further ado, I'm going
<v Speaker 7>to introduce our guests for today. You know her from
<v Speaker 7>my Little Pony, none other than Nicole Oliver right here
<v Speaker 7>in the middle. And last but not least, none other
<v Speaker 7>than the legend himself, mister Jim Cummings.
<v Speaker 4>How are you doing alright?
<v Speaker 6>Is this thing on?
<v Speaker 2>Hello?
<v Speaker 4>Nice place you got here?
<v Speaker 8>Hello?
<v Speaker 3>I have knocked up my glasses on my head, I'm ready.
<v Speaker 3>Look at all the pretty people out there.
<v Speaker 2>Whi everyone?
<v Speaker 6>Are you doing?
<v Speaker 4>I'm blinded? So I'm glad? Are you sure? Okay? Good?
<v Speaker 5>It sounds good, sounds promising. Thanks for all getting out
<v Speaker 5>of bed and coming down and seeing us. Thank you
<v Speaker 5>so so very much. I say we get dangerous now,
<v Speaker 5>what do you think? Let's get dangerous? What do you
<v Speaker 5>think Christopher. Shall we so?
<v Speaker 6>I have no voice, but shall we shall?
<v Speaker 4>Well? Thank you so much for coming.
<v Speaker 3>Oh, thank you for having me. I'm I'm quite honored
<v Speaker 3>to be sitting with Winnie the pool.
<v Speaker 4>Oh like a likely story. You have twenty minutes to
<v Speaker 4>cut that out, all right.
<v Speaker 9>Only if you give me some honey.
<v Speaker 5>Oh thank you, sexty pony voice. I don't think ponies
<v Speaker 5>are allowed to talk like that.
<v Speaker 3>Are they only on their off hours?
<v Speaker 4>I think?
<v Speaker 5>Oh, well, I hope this hour isn't off, but it is,
<v Speaker 5>so it's too late.
<v Speaker 4>And thanks all for being here, folks. This is lovely.
<v Speaker 4>Thank you very much, thank you, thank you.
<v Speaker 7>So I thought we could start at the beginning. One
<v Speaker 7>of the things that fascinates me so much about the
<v Speaker 7>entertainment industry is all the avenues that actors and performers
<v Speaker 7>take to end up where they are in their career.
<v Speaker 7>And I've been listening and researching on you, Nicole, and
<v Speaker 7>I think that you share a lot of similar philosophies
<v Speaker 7>to Jim when it comes to your approach creative approach
<v Speaker 7>to a hello, acting or anything like that. But you
<v Speaker 7>also had very different backgrounds. You know, you were classically trained,
<v Speaker 7>correct you went over.
<v Speaker 6>The ponds I did.
<v Speaker 9>I trained Shakespeare.
<v Speaker 3>Jeremy Irons was one of my instructors.
<v Speaker 4>No, it's named drup star himself.
<v Speaker 3>Name drop.
<v Speaker 5>Yes, it's like Elizabeth Taylor told you never be a
<v Speaker 5>name dropper.
<v Speaker 9>Well too, right now, I guess. Yeah, I started.
<v Speaker 3>Well, I was a dancer a long time ago when
<v Speaker 3>I was a kid and so, and that's really hard
<v Speaker 3>on the body. I tore my knee out when I
<v Speaker 3>was twelve, and then I thought I'd be a lawyer.
<v Speaker 4>Oh wow, they went your pole vaulting career.
<v Speaker 3>And then I did the school play and I got
<v Speaker 3>bitten by the bugol. But my parents said I had
<v Speaker 3>to get an education, so I did go to the
<v Speaker 3>classical road. I went to theater school and graduated.
<v Speaker 9>A long time ago when the earth.
<v Speaker 3>Was flat, and have been a professional actor for pushing
<v Speaker 3>almost forty years now. And yeah, it's amazing. I started
<v Speaker 3>when I was minus five.
<v Speaker 4>No, and you're only thirty two, so that's amazing.
<v Speaker 2>Right.
<v Speaker 9>Wow, that's girl math.
<v Speaker 4>And you were acting like an embryo.
<v Speaker 3>I was you lying there and vibrating. But no, so
<v Speaker 3>doing a long time in a lot of different avenues,
<v Speaker 3>and even in my career I've done a lot of things.
<v Speaker 9>I you know, it's.
<v Speaker 3>I'm really grateful to be able to do what I
<v Speaker 3>love and I don't take that for granted.
<v Speaker 9>It every day.
<v Speaker 5>How old were you do you think when you when
<v Speaker 5>you knew you had the bug? When you said, you know,
<v Speaker 5>I'm going to do this and that's it.
<v Speaker 6>Sixteen sixteen.
<v Speaker 9>Yeah, during the high school play?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah? Is that what it was that you that.
<v Speaker 9>Crime of miss Jean Brodie.
<v Speaker 3>I remember walking out on stage and I remember the applause,
<v Speaker 3>and I just remember, well, I just loved being part
<v Speaker 3>of a group of just playing and getting to be
<v Speaker 3>something different or walking different shoes, or experience different emotions
<v Speaker 3>that maybe you weren't allowed to and the freedom in that,
<v Speaker 3>you know is was intoxicating.
<v Speaker 9>And rewarding. And I'm still doing it so you know.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, still still going, still trying. Yeah, absolutely good for you.
<v Speaker 7>I want to go back and ask you what it
<v Speaker 7>was like working with Jeremy Irons, like having a mentor
<v Speaker 7>like that, having a coach or a teacher like that.
<v Speaker 6>What was that like?
<v Speaker 7>And Jim, for you when you sang in the Lion King,
<v Speaker 7>did you work with Jeremy Irons or were you separate.
<v Speaker 5>No, I didn't I think we ever really met, which
<v Speaker 5>is kind of weird.
<v Speaker 4>But no, I was there.
<v Speaker 5>I had already sung a song, a demo for Hakuna
<v Speaker 5>Matata Jess Harnell and I. You guys, no Jess and
<v Speaker 5>a maniacs got a loving Jess Arnell. Well, Disney hired
<v Speaker 5>us to do a demo for Ernie Sabella and Nathan
<v Speaker 5>Lane Poomba and Timow and they figured because they weren't singers,
<v Speaker 5>they said, well, let's just get Jim adjusted to do it.
<v Speaker 5>So we'll you know, they can give him a cassette.
<v Speaker 5>They can drive around in their car listen to it,
<v Speaker 5>listen to it, listen to it over and over for
<v Speaker 5>a month. That way, you know the song like, you know,
<v Speaker 5>happy Birthday. You know, everybody knows Happy Birthday. It's that
<v Speaker 5>kind of thing. So that's what they did. And they said,
<v Speaker 5>and you know, since you're here, would you like to
<v Speaker 5>take a swing at be prepared the villain song?
<v Speaker 4>You guys saw Lion King, right, be.
<v Speaker 5>Prepared and the bad guy has to laugh at the
<v Speaker 5>end of the song.
<v Speaker 4>It's a law. And so so there you go.
<v Speaker 5>And they said, well, let's have Jim take a swing
<v Speaker 5>at it and it apparently I didn't stink, so I
<v Speaker 5>got into snuck into the movie too.
<v Speaker 9>That's so cool, you know.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, a lot of those happy circumstances.
<v Speaker 9>Well, I met mister Irons, call me Jeremy. I was staying.
<v Speaker 3>It was at Oxford in England, and I was boarding
<v Speaker 3>there at Balliol College, and he was teaching us shocking Shakespeare.
<v Speaker 4>Wow.
<v Speaker 3>And we were doing Julius Caesar and every day we
<v Speaker 3>meet out in the quad and go walking along the
<v Speaker 3>Thames and talk Shakespeare and do our lines. And my
<v Speaker 3>classmates were from all around the world, so not all
<v Speaker 3>of them spoke English, so I might be doing my
<v Speaker 3>lines in English, but the other actors were speaking Spanish
<v Speaker 3>or Russian, and it was mind boggling. And then we
<v Speaker 3>just sit down and have a pint and talk. So
<v Speaker 3>you know, it was this real kind of fundamental introduction
<v Speaker 3>for me to like the substance and the foundation that
<v Speaker 3>somebody I've admired has and had and that, and just
<v Speaker 3>how real it all was to you can get to
<v Speaker 3>separate the artifice from the acting right, and in such
<v Speaker 3>a gorgeous location with steeped in history, it was no kidd,
<v Speaker 3>really inspiring.
<v Speaker 4>Wow.
<v Speaker 5>That's you're walking into some well born steps over there
<v Speaker 5>in Shakespeareville.
<v Speaker 9>Yes, right, right, very much. So, all the world's a
<v Speaker 9>stage and all that you know.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, the.
<v Speaker 4>Whole world is yes, Yes, here's one.
<v Speaker 7>Now another question I have for another question I have
<v Speaker 7>for both of you. I mean, one of the things
<v Speaker 7>that fascinates me so much about voice acting is just
<v Speaker 7>the ability to obviously change your voice into so many
<v Speaker 7>different characters. For you too, specifically, one of the talents
<v Speaker 7>that amazes me is your ability to play so many
<v Speaker 7>different characters within the same show. Like I saw you
<v Speaker 7>were on a show called Littlest Pet Shop where you
<v Speaker 7>played over twenty characters. Just you, over twenty characters, Jim.
<v Speaker 7>For you, I think of you know a Sarge's Heroes,
<v Speaker 7>where you played pretty much every single character. So is
<v Speaker 7>the process and how much do you lean on the
<v Speaker 7>animation to differentiate your voice when you're doing over twenty
<v Speaker 7>voices in one project?
<v Speaker 4>Take it away?
<v Speaker 9>Process?
<v Speaker 4>Well, I.
<v Speaker 3>Listened a lot to the world around me. I get
<v Speaker 3>inspired by what I hear around me. But I've always
<v Speaker 3>been making funny voices ever since I was a kid.
<v Speaker 3>My mom told me I spoke with a British accent
<v Speaker 3>for six months when I was like six years old,
<v Speaker 3>No kid drove her nuts, and then I apparently switched
<v Speaker 3>to a French accent. So I've always loved the music
<v Speaker 3>of voices, and I've even I haven't been arrested yet,
<v Speaker 3>but there I was. One time I was in nordstrooms
<v Speaker 3>and there was this woman who was at the makeup
<v Speaker 3>and she was looking for a very particular kind of
<v Speaker 3>blush and she was going on and on and on
<v Speaker 3>about the blush not too orange, not to caral, but
<v Speaker 3>you know side they hate it, it's too orange.
<v Speaker 9>And I was like, who is that?
<v Speaker 3>And so I was trying to get my phone out
<v Speaker 3>to record her and not get arrested for stalking. So
<v Speaker 3>I mean that we all have so many voices inside
<v Speaker 3>of us. It just takes the courage, I think, to
<v Speaker 3>take the leap. But I also get inspired by lots
<v Speaker 3>around me and those who've come before me.
<v Speaker 5>So yeah, yeah, do you I used to do impressions
<v Speaker 5>of my relatives.
<v Speaker 6>Oh yes, do you do?
<v Speaker 4>What where do you come up with yours?
<v Speaker 3>So I have an aunt, Sylvia, who lives in Winnipeg,
<v Speaker 3>Manitoba above Minnesota, and.
<v Speaker 10>Sylvia Sylvia used to smoke, but she didn't smoke, you
<v Speaker 10>know what I mean, you know, and so when I
<v Speaker 10>would go over she oh, Nikki it is that's what
<v Speaker 10>my family called me, was Nick, Oh Nikki, look at
<v Speaker 10>it's so oh no that's no.
<v Speaker 9>I'm not smoking, no Nick. But today I had a bit.
<v Speaker 4>Of one cigarette smoking. Yeah it wasn't.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, well cigarette smoking maybe both. That might explain a lot.
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, so family too, really great. Yeah, nobody's billed
<v Speaker 3>me yet for using their voice, but I'm sure that's sticking.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah. Yeah.
<v Speaker 5>Well, my aunt Grace God rest he soul was Lieutenant
<v Speaker 5>Spinelli on Chippendale's Rescue Rangers. I know that's how you
<v Speaker 5>guys see that show Chippendale. Member, there's an old show.
<v Speaker 4>Oh thanks, thank you very much.
<v Speaker 11>But you know, to my waves, think to my little Liz,
<v Speaker 11>that's just the way she sounded. How you doing there, Jim,
<v Speaker 11>won't get over here, give your aunt Grace a hug.
<v Speaker 5>That was my aunt, not my uncle. And so uh
<v Speaker 5>and and you know, I just put her in a
<v Speaker 5>cartoon and everybody bought it. You know, that's one of
<v Speaker 5>my tricks. And I you know, to this day, I'll
<v Speaker 5>still come up with different things like that, and I
<v Speaker 5>put two together.
<v Speaker 4>I've you ever blend together two people?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah?
<v Speaker 3>Well, my boys when they were little their voices, because
<v Speaker 3>kids' voices are unbelievable. There's such great reactors. And on
<v Speaker 3>some shows, you know they're going to want to hire
<v Speaker 3>an adult to do a boy Do you do a
<v Speaker 3>boy voice or something because we can work longer hours
<v Speaker 3>and maybe we won't be as temperamental. I don't know, Jim,
<v Speaker 3>but sometimes I'd be looking at my kids and they'd
<v Speaker 3>be like, much stop it, stop it, mom, stop it,
<v Speaker 3>don't steal my voice. Mom, stop it.
<v Speaker 2>It's like I was the voice snatcher.
<v Speaker 5>But that's pretty good. And he was right smack dab
<v Speaker 5>in the middle of puberty there. It sounded like.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and the kids are yeah, yeah yeah.
<v Speaker 4>I remember I was in ninth grade and I answered
<v Speaker 4>the phone, Hello, how you doing? Oh hi Sally, which
<v Speaker 4>was my mom.
<v Speaker 1>I go, this is this isn't Sally, it's Jim High.
<v Speaker 5>You know, And I did my back. Then I finally
<v Speaker 5>they dropped, and I finally, well.
<v Speaker 3>I go a big borrow and politely steal and ask
<v Speaker 3>for forgiveness from almost anything.
<v Speaker 9>Yeah, it's all around you.
<v Speaker 5>Well, it's easier to ask for permission then, I mean
<v Speaker 5>forgiveness than permission.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, there you go exactly.
<v Speaker 7>Both of you doing these voices right now gives me
<v Speaker 7>the question growing up, did you find just like a
<v Speaker 7>compulsion to do these voices? Like it was just something
<v Speaker 7>where like I need to do a voice. It's just
<v Speaker 7>an urge, you know, these voices are coming out coming out?
<v Speaker 7>Or is it something that you really had to sit
<v Speaker 7>down and workshop and craft every time you made a
<v Speaker 7>new voice.
<v Speaker 3>I always say anyone who knows me, it's like, what's
<v Speaker 3>your real voice? I'm all over the place with it,
<v Speaker 3>and I love to saying but really, I mean, bugs bunny.
<v Speaker 3>I watched that growing up and was just so inspired
<v Speaker 3>by all of that and and just yeah, so it's
<v Speaker 3>the music, right, it's all around you, And I think, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>you know, sometimes when I'm trying to find a voice,
<v Speaker 3>I'll think of like tonally, like I play piano, So
<v Speaker 3>what you know, does this person's voice around here, this
<v Speaker 3>note up here, the notes and then maybe she's gonna
<v Speaker 3>live here or is it done here and that's where
<v Speaker 3>she's going to be and that you.
<v Speaker 2>Know, does she have a bit of a cold, maybe
<v Speaker 2>down here.
<v Speaker 4>She's a smoker, ye.
<v Speaker 10>Like that, right, But the notes, the.
<v Speaker 3>Notes of it, all right, the music notes really helped
<v Speaker 3>me kind of find scale. Yeah, yeah, the the odd time, what,
<v Speaker 3>I have no inspiration all.
<v Speaker 9>The time, all the time.
<v Speaker 7>Well, it's funny you mentioned that because we've talked to
<v Speaker 7>so many actors on this podcast, and so many come
<v Speaker 7>from a musical background, you know, finding those notes, I mean,
<v Speaker 7>you know, I know Jim's a singer.
<v Speaker 6>Were you ever singer? Yeah?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I am a singer. I was a singer. I
<v Speaker 3>will always be a singer. You kind of have to
<v Speaker 3>be able to do it all and if you can't,
<v Speaker 3>you have to be able to fake it really well,
<v Speaker 3>I think in this business. So singing now is in
<v Speaker 3>school choirs. And then I actually sang in some rock
<v Speaker 3>bands in Toronto, Ontario, Canada whoo in the eighties and
<v Speaker 3>nineties and started out musical, did musical theater, and then
<v Speaker 3>I got seducted to the dark side of film and
<v Speaker 3>television also known as the paycheck differential. And yeah, so
<v Speaker 3>and then music and on a lot of animation shows.
<v Speaker 3>Now there's been a lot of music and so My
<v Speaker 3>Little Pony was the first cartoon that I had sung for.
<v Speaker 5>Oh that's cool. I was about to ask you that. Yeah,
<v Speaker 5>did you say you were in a band or you were?
<v Speaker 9>I was like, yeah, I was.
<v Speaker 3>We had an item musical band. I think we called
<v Speaker 3>ourselves six six nine because that was the lead guitarist
<v Speaker 3>address at the time on austin'son was very original thinking
<v Speaker 3>of the name. But we did covers like oh the
<v Speaker 3>long cool Woman and old black Dress. You heard that song?
<v Speaker 9>I do, yes, like from a lot of time.
<v Speaker 8>With the Hollies, Uh, you know, the just one Look
<v Speaker 8>she was a bad a little long.
<v Speaker 9>Come won't it?
<v Speaker 5>Okay, you have ten minutes to stop that?
<v Speaker 4>Okay, all right, that's wonderful. Good for you.
<v Speaker 6>It wasn't that.
<v Speaker 4>Come on, help me out?
<v Speaker 3>I thank you?
<v Speaker 6>Oh pretty good?
<v Speaker 3>Huh, very sweet? Yeah, but no singing on My Little
<v Speaker 3>Pony was was nerve wracking. Daniel Ingram was the composer
<v Speaker 3>on it, and it's just incredible and was who Daniel Ingram?
<v Speaker 3>And he's been nominated for Emmys and I don't know,
<v Speaker 3>probably I think he lines his whole room with him now.
<v Speaker 3>But it was incredible because it was a real mix
<v Speaker 3>throwback to those classical music musicals, but also there was
<v Speaker 3>something very relatable and almost poppy in the music on
<v Speaker 3>that show it and it had its own thing.
<v Speaker 9>It has its own life now even.
<v Speaker 3>After the run of the show. So yeah, sang on
<v Speaker 3>that and I still sing. People ask me not to,
<v Speaker 3>but I'll sing anyway. Well actually in my car, right, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>that's right.
<v Speaker 4>Well, you never know get a gig out of it
<v Speaker 4>that you can't.
<v Speaker 6>I know you were in a band as well, Jim.
<v Speaker 6>What was the name of your band?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, well I was in a bunch of them, but
<v Speaker 4>Fusion was the one band in it.
<v Speaker 5>Was like one that I was. I was a fantastic
<v Speaker 5>parrel in high school, which was cool, and I was
<v Speaker 5>a sweet soul spice in high school. I was the
<v Speaker 5>white kid and I still am and except now I'm
<v Speaker 5>the white old fart.
<v Speaker 9>Uh.
<v Speaker 5>But Fusion was the band in New Orleans, the only
<v Speaker 5>one I made money in that I could make a
<v Speaker 5>living doing. And we just did cover songs and stuff
<v Speaker 5>like that. Would anyone like to hear some of you?
<v Speaker 5>Arrayah heap say no good, okay, no, no, no, no, okay,
<v Speaker 5>take me acrop Okay, We're done.
<v Speaker 7>And uh, do you remember the first time you sung
<v Speaker 7>in a in a cartoon.
<v Speaker 5>Oh gosh, that's a good. Oh, Dumbo Circus, it would
<v Speaker 5>have to be. It was, yeah, Dumbo Circus, it was.
<v Speaker 4>It was a brand new thing.
<v Speaker 5>It was called cable Tea the ooh yeah, yeah, that
<v Speaker 5>was yeah, that was a while ago and Disney Channel
<v Speaker 5>had just started and they said, well, we need some
<v Speaker 5>content because we can't keep rerunning these old things from
<v Speaker 5>forty to fifty years ago. So they started Dumbo's Circus
<v Speaker 5>and I was I was Lion Old the Lion Dumbo's
<v Speaker 5>Powell and it was people in costume, you know, some
<v Speaker 5>some little people, some you know, regular folks.
<v Speaker 4>And they were in costume.
<v Speaker 5>There wasn't animated, so you know, it was hard to
<v Speaker 5>have like a five foot mouse because it was based
<v Speaker 5>on Timothy from Dumbo, and so they made him a lion.
<v Speaker 5>So I got to be Lionel the Lion, and that
<v Speaker 5>was my first job for Disney.
<v Speaker 3>That's one of my favorite things when you're different characters,
<v Speaker 3>like how would they sound when they sing? You know
<v Speaker 3>what I mean? Like because it's it's not just enough
<v Speaker 3>for those who are like interested in doing voiceover, right,
<v Speaker 3>like just what your character is going to sound like.
<v Speaker 3>But it's also like, what do they sound like? What's
<v Speaker 3>their laugh sound like? What do they sound like when
<v Speaker 3>they sing?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah?
<v Speaker 9>Because do they sing? Are they tone deaf? Do they
<v Speaker 9>talk sing?
<v Speaker 3>Wow?
<v Speaker 4>That's all? Yeah, I have that same philosophy.
<v Speaker 3>You know, and so and what could what can you
<v Speaker 3>add to it that's going to make it kind of
<v Speaker 3>stand out a little bit like that can help add
<v Speaker 3>back into the character. So I don't see singing as
<v Speaker 3>a character. There are some not all actors will sing.
<v Speaker 3>There are they'll hire some people who just sing for
<v Speaker 3>certain characters. Yes, but I probably.
<v Speaker 9>Because I'm a control free well.
<v Speaker 3>I love to be able to do both, and I'm
<v Speaker 3>very grateful when I'm given the opportunity to do so,
<v Speaker 3>because you really can really flesh out the character that way,
<v Speaker 3>you know.
<v Speaker 5>And I agree, yeah, absolutely, And I think everybody likes that.
<v Speaker 5>When the song comes on, you know, I remember, you know,
<v Speaker 5>I've had four daughters, and I remember, you know, the
<v Speaker 5>cartoon beyond it's something to be playing, and the song
<v Speaker 5>will come on and they get up and they start
<v Speaker 5>waltzing around the room. So everybody picks up on it,
<v Speaker 5>you know, young, old, doesn't matter.
<v Speaker 3>I think I played, Uh, there's a cartoon came in
<v Speaker 3>a little while ago called press Start, and I had
<v Speaker 3>a character press Start based on the kids books, and
<v Speaker 3>I played Helga the Viking and I got to do
<v Speaker 3>opera singing and oh did.
<v Speaker 4>You have the helmet with the.
<v Speaker 5>And and just and it came Wow, I'm just glad
<v Speaker 5>none of this glass started breaking.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, but to be able to like I went into
<v Speaker 3>I got offer the part and they're like, oh, by
<v Speaker 3>the way, we wanted to be an opera singer. I
<v Speaker 3>didn't know that. First of all, she had to have
<v Speaker 3>a really bad accent and the worst the better, you knew,
<v Speaker 3>kind of a cross between Beaker and you know somebody.
<v Speaker 9>And so then they then she do the opera singing.
<v Speaker 9>You know, I'd have to sing the song.
<v Speaker 3>And it was just so fun. First of all terrifying
<v Speaker 3>because I'm like, what are.
<v Speaker 4>We gonna do? And the dogs liked it. They're going,
<v Speaker 4>what what do you want?
<v Speaker 3>I'm over here right the studio dogs are crazy. But
<v Speaker 3>that's what's so fun about working in this business. I
<v Speaker 3>don't know if you' fel the same way. Just those
<v Speaker 3>challenges that make you want to run out of the
<v Speaker 3>room and hide, and also that you just can't wait
<v Speaker 3>to stand up and shout to the rooftops. You know,
<v Speaker 3>I kind of I feel like I live between.
<v Speaker 4>Terror and.
<v Speaker 9>In these exalting highs. When I'm in the booth all
<v Speaker 9>the time.
<v Speaker 3>You never know what's going to come your way, and
<v Speaker 3>you never know if you're going to be able to
<v Speaker 3>do it or not, and then when you do it,
<v Speaker 3>you're like, yeah, I knew we could do that.
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<v Speaker 7>Do you feel like that pressure is higher or lower
<v Speaker 7>when you're recording in a group versus an individual setting?
<v Speaker 3>I think, well, I love group records, and they're a
<v Speaker 3>rare thing to begin with, because to get everyone's schedule
<v Speaker 3>and alignment is so hard.
<v Speaker 9>But then with COVID that went out the window.
<v Speaker 4>I know that's crazy.
<v Speaker 3>As an actor, I didn't get into this business to
<v Speaker 3>work in isolation, so I found that's been a real
<v Speaker 3>challenge because I get inspired by everyone's.
<v Speaker 4>Nay, acting is reacting?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, also what do you how are you going to
<v Speaker 3>say the line? What are you going to do? But
<v Speaker 3>then also you might be inspired by the way that
<v Speaker 3>you would give a line to me. It's going to
<v Speaker 3>make me do something that I hadn't thought of, practiced
<v Speaker 3>or whatever. And it's those yummy moments of of of
<v Speaker 3>just that creative spark that.
<v Speaker 9>When you're working on your own. Yeah, it's really tough.
<v Speaker 9>Do you have to do it all?
<v Speaker 6>Right? Yeah?
<v Speaker 4>I agree?
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, and I and I like to I tend to
<v Speaker 5>add live. I always do it as written, yep. But
<v Speaker 5>then I'll do it as that should have been written,
<v Speaker 5>and that which is my ad libe that I made up.
<v Speaker 9>And do you negotiate a writing credit?
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, but you can't negotiate to because the writers are going,
<v Speaker 5>oh yeah that was good.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah I wrote that.
<v Speaker 2>I'll take that, thank you.
<v Speaker 4>Sure.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 5>There's a semi famous story about when we did Aladdin
<v Speaker 5>and and I had a scene with Robin Williams not
<v Speaker 5>in the room at the same time, but I had
<v Speaker 5>lived a couple of lines that I was I was
<v Speaker 5>the big guy the doukizuldas directly from Jaffa.
<v Speaker 4>If you guys saw that movie, that was me, that
<v Speaker 4>was me. Thanks, and uh, they'd.
<v Speaker 5>Liked a couple of my lines, so they kept them,
<v Speaker 5>but they didn't, Uh it didn't work with Robin's line
<v Speaker 5>that followed right after. So they had to hire Robin Williams,
<v Speaker 5>and I'm sure he was cheap, you know, to come
<v Speaker 5>back in and fix the lines. And if you see
<v Speaker 5>I want to I think it's the third one. There's
<v Speaker 5>a courtroom scene.
<v Speaker 4>And he didn't.
<v Speaker 5>He wasn't crazy about the fact that he had to
<v Speaker 5>fix his lines because oh, little funny cartoon man, oh
<v Speaker 5>very nice, Oh had lib Oh I never heard of that.
<v Speaker 5>And so he came in and he said, well, well,
<v Speaker 5>we won't have this problem anymore. I'll tell you what.
<v Speaker 5>I'm sorry. I will not take guff from a tertiary character.
<v Speaker 5>And he leaned over and grabbed my feet and rolled
<v Speaker 5>me up like a blind and Genie vanished me. So
<v Speaker 5>so I got dissed by Robin Williams in a major
<v Speaker 5>motion picture.
<v Speaker 4>Thank you, Thank you.
<v Speaker 5>He gave me his finger personally sort of symbolically symbolical.
<v Speaker 4>Please let's change the subject. The cool question for you?
<v Speaker 7>Sure, So you've done so much work not only in
<v Speaker 7>voiceover but also on camera and a host, sting and
<v Speaker 7>many anymore, how different is your approach to whatever medium
<v Speaker 7>you're working with or is it very similar, say your
<v Speaker 7>approach versus on camera or recording in a booth?
<v Speaker 4>Great question.
<v Speaker 3>Well, first of all, it's all acting, right. Voice is
<v Speaker 3>just the adjective in front of the noun. And so
<v Speaker 3>you're an actor, so it's always who am I? What
<v Speaker 3>are my similarities to this character?
<v Speaker 9>That's difference? So how can I find my way in?
<v Speaker 3>I believe preparation, whether it's an animation character or a
<v Speaker 3>television role or a movie.
<v Speaker 9>You're only as good as your last job.
<v Speaker 3>So I take it very seriously and do a lot
<v Speaker 3>of prep work and and try and think outside of
<v Speaker 3>the box, and and so that when I'm actually in
<v Speaker 3>the booth or on set, I can just let it
<v Speaker 3>all go and have fun and be present and enjoy
<v Speaker 3>the moment and you know, everything else around you, without
<v Speaker 3>being so stuck in my head or terrified that I
<v Speaker 3>don't even know what I'm doing.
<v Speaker 5>You know, well, you know I the way I have
<v Speaker 5>a philosophy if it was a football game.
<v Speaker 4>Then I treat every gig like it's the super Bowl.
<v Speaker 6>Yep.
<v Speaker 5>You know that's I think that's the only way to go, yep,
<v Speaker 5>because otherwise, you know, what are you doing? You know
<v Speaker 5>you're not You're gifted to not have to sell shoes because.
<v Speaker 4>I've done that. It sucks and this is much better
<v Speaker 4>to hang out with you.
<v Speaker 3>I sold jewelry.
<v Speaker 9>Yeah, I worked in retail. I get you.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah. Oh wow, there you go. Well I used to
<v Speaker 4>sell pots and pants door to door.
<v Speaker 9>Here you win, that's it.
<v Speaker 4>Okay.
<v Speaker 5>I used to sell my blood. Okay, never mind, Okay,
<v Speaker 5>as long as.
<v Speaker 9>I'm pots and pants Jim.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, which is sadly true.
<v Speaker 9>Yeah, every job like the super Bowl.
<v Speaker 3>And also, I think one of the things I miss
<v Speaker 3>about auditioning in person, so much of our industry has
<v Speaker 3>moved online, right yeah, which is a whole other story.
<v Speaker 3>It makes me cry, but that in person, I've gotten
<v Speaker 3>jobs like I've gone to audition for something and they've
<v Speaker 3>seen something else and they ask you back for something,
<v Speaker 3>or they'll ask you in.
<v Speaker 9>That moment, can you try this for me?
<v Speaker 3>Or because of how you were doing a guest spot
<v Speaker 3>on a certain show. I've had them right, like all
<v Speaker 3>of a sudden, you have a three episode arc or
<v Speaker 3>an animation there we know she can do this too,
<v Speaker 3>or can you do this as well? And I was
<v Speaker 3>just working on a movie the other day. I was
<v Speaker 3>an animated film I'm not allowed to talk about. And
<v Speaker 3>I was brought in to do some smaller the name
<v Speaker 3>that's right or else the lawyers will descend from the ceiling.
<v Speaker 3>But and I was doing walat.
<v Speaker 4>I'll get it out of her and tell you later.
<v Speaker 3>But at the end, the director came up to me
<v Speaker 3>and said, you know, we had swung for the Fences
<v Speaker 3>on this went a different way on one of the leads,
<v Speaker 3>which I had also auditioned for.
<v Speaker 9>And he's like, I think.
<v Speaker 3>We we'd like to go with you.
<v Speaker 9>Can I just work with you for a little bit.
<v Speaker 3>I have a different idea and that's come back my
<v Speaker 3>way now, right? And so had I not been in
<v Speaker 3>the booth with the director doing these things like there's
<v Speaker 3>no small parts, there's no to be asked to contribute,
<v Speaker 3>is incredible. You show up, you do your best, just
<v Speaker 3>speak for the Fences. Super Bowl every time, Bad Bunny
<v Speaker 3>halftime show.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, yeah, there you go right, yeah, yeah. Gratitude is essential.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I'm grateful for all of it, every little every
<v Speaker 5>little bit. I think that's that's part of being happy too, gratitude.
<v Speaker 5>You can't be happy if you don't have gratitude. No, right, yes,
<v Speaker 5>it's a thing. Yeah, yeah, it's true. Yeah, I stole
<v Speaker 5>that from Dennis Sprigger, but he was right.
<v Speaker 4>So there you have it.
<v Speaker 7>Yeah, a question for both of you. I'm curious as
<v Speaker 7>an actor what it feels like. You know, it's great,
<v Speaker 7>it's book a part of course. You know, that's exciting.
<v Speaker 7>Your adrenaline is going. You know, you're excited to perform.
<v Speaker 7>It's another thing to get cast in a part of
<v Speaker 7>a major ip like Marvel. You know, you both have
<v Speaker 7>played superheroes before in Marvel. You know properties and obviously
<v Speaker 7>Winnie the Pooh something is so big like mine, little Pony.
<v Speaker 7>You know, what's that feeling when you get cast in
<v Speaker 7>something that's already so established and so big, like, oh
<v Speaker 7>my god, like people already know that. You know, the part,
<v Speaker 7>the anticipation part of is this going to blow up?
<v Speaker 6>Is gone? You already know it's huge.
<v Speaker 7>What's that feeling like when you get cast in one
<v Speaker 7>of those properties? Did you grow up as a comic fan.
<v Speaker 7>I know Jim did.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I know why had all the Archie comics? Those
<v Speaker 3>were my you.
<v Speaker 4>You read a lot of Archie comics.
<v Speaker 3>Ye, me too, a lot of Archie comics.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>I mean I think if you let the magnitude of
<v Speaker 3>some of it hit you, I would never.
<v Speaker 1>Get out of bed.
<v Speaker 2>I'd be like not today people.
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, I played Black Widow and Lego Marvel, I've
<v Speaker 3>been the Sorceress. And he was going to ask you that,
<v Speaker 3>you know, lots of different parts like that, I've camera,
<v Speaker 3>I've worked with you, worked with Julia Robertson, so you
<v Speaker 3>can't really think about it, but certainly after the fact,
<v Speaker 3>I fangirl us fangirling knowing I was coming to talk
<v Speaker 3>with you, Winnie, and that you know, was say, mister Cummings.
<v Speaker 4>And in a.
<v Speaker 7>Part like Black Widow, does the does the on camera
<v Speaker 7>actors performance have any influence into your character or is
<v Speaker 7>it just brought one hundred percent through you or is
<v Speaker 7>there a.
<v Speaker 9>Mix kind of a little both.
<v Speaker 3>It's going to depend really on the animation director and
<v Speaker 3>where they're wanting to go, whether they're trying to I mean,
<v Speaker 3>Scarlet Johanson, give me a break, Like what Colin Joseph's
<v Speaker 3>the luckiest man on the planet as whereas I'm concered
<v Speaker 3>next to my hut, next to my husband, that is,
<v Speaker 3>he's the luckiest man on the planet. But she's incredible.
<v Speaker 3>She's got a great tone about her, you know. But
<v Speaker 3>I loved my favorite on camp, like Florence Pugh as
<v Speaker 3>her sister.
<v Speaker 9>Come on now, the hair flip?
<v Speaker 3>So those there's a lot of things in live action
<v Speaker 3>that do come over into the booth that you try.
<v Speaker 3>But you see, it's her voice when we're using our
<v Speaker 3>whole body in front of the microphone. It's not just
<v Speaker 3>the voice. I always say, what are you going to
<v Speaker 3>do with the other now?
<v Speaker 4>Yer?
<v Speaker 3>So how do you do the hair flip with your voice?
<v Speaker 6>Like?
<v Speaker 3>Is it a sassy attitude? Is its true?
<v Speaker 9>You know?
<v Speaker 3>How do you get into all the things that we
<v Speaker 3>take for granted? With their eyes? It's if it's an inspiration,
<v Speaker 3>how do we get it in here to then have
<v Speaker 3>it meet? Because you see the eyes and the ears.
<v Speaker 9>Coming together, right?
<v Speaker 3>So yeah, but yeah, sure, Marvel, huge, Yeah it's gonna right.
<v Speaker 3>Did it not feel the same way for you? Oh?
<v Speaker 4>Absolutely? Well?
<v Speaker 5>Did you ever read comic books? Speaking of Marvel, pard
<v Speaker 5>of me. Were you see girls don't read comic books?
<v Speaker 4>Do this?
<v Speaker 3>Sorry?
<v Speaker 2>What was that?
<v Speaker 12>Where?
<v Speaker 5>No?
<v Speaker 9>I read com I brothers?
<v Speaker 4>Okay? Good?
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, I mean I had star I had Star
<v Speaker 3>Wars sheets on my bed. I had the original Star
<v Speaker 3>Wars sheets on my bed because my brothers did, and
<v Speaker 3>I was like, oh, I want them too. And then yeah,
<v Speaker 3>so I've always collected stuff, yeah, you know, dolls or
<v Speaker 3>I mean I have the original Sonny and Share Barbie,
<v Speaker 3>like I love Charlie's Angels, I love pop colors, oh
<v Speaker 3>my gosh, you know all that kind of stuff. And
<v Speaker 3>I just I think, you know, when you look at
<v Speaker 3>what's really impacting people, it's such a great end to
<v Speaker 3>understanding how people tick. And that goes back to what
<v Speaker 3>we do for a living.
<v Speaker 5>Right, So yeah, so true, yeah, always, well it's a blessing.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah. And did you always knew you were going to
<v Speaker 4>do this sort of thing?
<v Speaker 9>Yeah?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, that's right, Yeah, that's right.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I didn't want a quiet life.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I mean I kind of knew I was going
<v Speaker 5>to do something exactly like this when I was five.
<v Speaker 3>So I always say, but the challenge is just, you know,
<v Speaker 3>how do you keep reinvent how do I keep reinventing
<v Speaker 3>myself without losing who I really am, because you're trying
<v Speaker 3>to please a bunch of masters and mistresses, right that
<v Speaker 3>all have different ideas and the whims of change all
<v Speaker 3>the time. And and you know, aging and being a
<v Speaker 3>woman in this business and dealing with all those sort
<v Speaker 3>of things too. I have a lot to say, I
<v Speaker 3>have a lot I want to do, and gosh darn it,
<v Speaker 3>I'm going to find a way to do it.
<v Speaker 1>That's right.
<v Speaker 4>Strong opinions for all occasions.
<v Speaker 6>You will give it up.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, strong opinions for all occasions.
<v Speaker 5>That from Jimmy McSwain, the great director, voice director. That's
<v Speaker 5>her line. Yeah, so, and you can quote her.
<v Speaker 7>I will, I will, all right, jim I think it's
<v Speaker 7>time for a voice swap.
<v Speaker 6>What do you think?
<v Speaker 7>But yes, that time of the show has come. Those
<v Speaker 7>of you who watched the podcast know what's coming. Those
<v Speaker 7>of you who don't, you're in for a treat. So
<v Speaker 7>how this game works. I did homework, You did some homework.
<v Speaker 9>Take my notebook out.
<v Speaker 6>Look at that. I think that's the first.
<v Speaker 2>Of all, I'm of an age.
<v Speaker 3>Second of all, I'm in the menopause, sir, of all,
<v Speaker 3>what's my name?
<v Speaker 2>I don't remember what day it is, Jim.
<v Speaker 4>Did you say men on or No?
<v Speaker 3>That really?
<v Speaker 6>Okay?
<v Speaker 7>So how it works for anybody who doesn't know Nicole?
<v Speaker 7>You can go first, since you're prepared, you got the
<v Speaker 7>notebook and everything. You'll pick one of your characters and
<v Speaker 7>one of their iconic quotes. You'll say that in the
<v Speaker 7>character's voice, and then Jim, you'll do the same thing
<v Speaker 7>in one of your character voices, and then we'll go
<v Speaker 7>by you guys.
<v Speaker 5>See one of these before you're in luck, I think, please,
<v Speaker 5>or in Canada, one of these.
<v Speaker 3>So I'll start with Princess Celestia.
<v Speaker 5>Oh perfect, I do a perfect Princess Celestia.
<v Speaker 9>So here it is.
<v Speaker 3>You ready, Here we go. I was not aware that
<v Speaker 3>I was an expression to the moon.
<v Speaker 4>Wait wasn't that Jackie Gleeson to the moon? Alice?
<v Speaker 3>Well, nobody knows what that is, even borrow and you steal.
<v Speaker 3>I banished my sister to the moon. I'll have you know, Jim, damn,
<v Speaker 3>I did she was bother something.
<v Speaker 5>I'm not going to mess with that. No, now, I
<v Speaker 5>forgot the quote.
<v Speaker 3>I was not aware that I was an expression to
<v Speaker 3>the moon.
<v Speaker 4>I was not aware that that was an expression. I expression,
<v Speaker 4>oh wow.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, like dear Celestia, people would say, and I was like,
<v Speaker 3>I was not aware that I was an expression.
<v Speaker 2>And to the moon.
<v Speaker 4>How about dark wing duck?
<v Speaker 5>I was not aware that I was an expression to
<v Speaker 5>the moon d w all right, okay, so let's see.
<v Speaker 5>Let me give you one. Okay, here we go. How
<v Speaker 5>about tigger? Should we do tigger? Say yes, thank you? Okay,
<v Speaker 5>your choice, dealer's choice on who's going to respond. But uh,
<v Speaker 5>the wonderful thing about tiggers, it's tiggers are wonderful things.
<v Speaker 3>Hey, thank you, le Maybe respond as cheerily. The wonderful
<v Speaker 3>thing about tiggers is that tiggers are wonderful things.
<v Speaker 4>Very nice. Wow, I feel like bouncing. That was very good.
<v Speaker 2>Bounce with the capital b.
<v Speaker 6>Okay, about we do one more back and forth? How
<v Speaker 6>does that sound? One more character each?
<v Speaker 4>Well more each? Okay?
<v Speaker 5>So who what did someone say? Mooh or pooh? Okay?
<v Speaker 4>There was some guy selling hot dogs?
<v Speaker 5>Never mind, Okay, would you please pass the honey?
<v Speaker 9>An your black widow?
<v Speaker 10>Would you please pass the honey?
<v Speaker 12>Oh?
<v Speaker 4>I think she won that one. Oh?
<v Speaker 3>How about oh sorceress from he Man?
<v Speaker 4>Oh?
<v Speaker 2>He man by the power of Grace school. He man,
<v Speaker 2>by the power of Grayschool.
<v Speaker 5>How about Tash hey Man, by the power of Gracecoal.
<v Speaker 6>There we got back.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, I'm spat on the microphone. Now I have to
<v Speaker 4>We're done.
<v Speaker 2>That was great.
<v Speaker 4>Oh that's pretty good. Hooray. Well, thank you, my dear.
<v Speaker 4>This is amazing.
<v Speaker 7>Wait before we go, before we go home, work question
<v Speaker 7>for you, Nicole. I have to know. So you played
<v Speaker 7>multiple characters in the movie Sausage Party with Seth Rogen. Yes,
<v Speaker 7>I have to know what went through your mind the
<v Speaker 7>first time you read through that script.
<v Speaker 9>I was so good.
<v Speaker 12>I was I'm going to be canceled, do I when
<v Speaker 12>I saw the drawings, I I'm never going to be
<v Speaker 12>able to unsee how the buns looked.
<v Speaker 9>Yeah, my character, Sally Bunn.
<v Speaker 3>Was the squish one at the back of the package,
<v Speaker 3>and she ended up getting together with Michael Sarah's hot dog.
<v Speaker 4>I like how the body language comes in. You see
<v Speaker 4>she's all along on the side of.
<v Speaker 2>At the back there.
<v Speaker 3>And uh, I did a couple of them. But that movie,
<v Speaker 3>that record was a group record, and it was ridiculously fun.
<v Speaker 3>Just trying to not laugh to get a clean take
<v Speaker 3>was next to impossible, and the and the idea. The
<v Speaker 3>jokes were, have you all seen sausage party? Have people
<v Speaker 3>seen savage at those who are of a certain age,
<v Speaker 3>wh are allowed to see that type of thing? Okay,
<v Speaker 3>so you know it's a little out there and dirty
<v Speaker 3>and weird and the weirder the better, and and the
<v Speaker 3>writers were there and they would get ideas and you
<v Speaker 3>go and you like, I'm saying this normally by saying this,
<v Speaker 3>it's being recorded and it will be there forever, and
<v Speaker 3>then back to I'm going to be canceled. But you know,
<v Speaker 3>but yeah, it was, it was.
<v Speaker 9>It was one for the books.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it was definitely a great memory for me for sure,
<v Speaker 3>by the.
<v Speaker 4>Things we do for love, money, in.
<v Speaker 7>The rain and the snow and all right, well, I
<v Speaker 7>think we have time for one last question for each
<v Speaker 7>of you.
<v Speaker 6>Here we go.
<v Speaker 7>I wanted to ask if you could go right now
<v Speaker 7>back in time and talk to your eighteen year old self,
<v Speaker 7>what would you tell them.
<v Speaker 9>Oh, I've been asked this before.
<v Speaker 3>I kind of sum it up by saying, I would
<v Speaker 3>tell my eighteen year old self to eat the bread.
<v Speaker 3>And what I mean by that is, as a young
<v Speaker 3>woman in the industry.
<v Speaker 9>Starting out, it was some tough times.
<v Speaker 3>A lot of the stories and the expectations were true,
<v Speaker 3>and feeling whether or not I was good enough, and
<v Speaker 3>I could measure it up to other people's ideas of
<v Speaker 3>what I should be, what I should do, what I
<v Speaker 3>should sound like, And I would tell my eighteen year
<v Speaker 3>old self to eat the bread. Don't take away from
<v Speaker 3>any of your dreams, your aspirations, what you want to
<v Speaker 3>do to try and please somebody else who isn't going
<v Speaker 3>to be around tomorrow and who doesn't really care.
<v Speaker 9>So eat the bread. That's what I say.
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, well said, Well said, Oh.
<v Speaker 5>That's that sucks, because I was just going to say
<v Speaker 5>that now I'm screwed. Uh No, I I don't have
<v Speaker 5>too many regrets, you know, so I would say, you know,
<v Speaker 5>do follow.
<v Speaker 4>In fact, this is kind of advice for anybody too.
<v Speaker 5>If you if you find something I make, I remember
<v Speaker 5>making a list of things that I would do all
<v Speaker 5>day long for free, and then decide to do them
<v Speaker 5>so well that somebody will stupid enough to pay you.
<v Speaker 5>And that's as close as it gets to success or
<v Speaker 5>you know, in my mind, happiness. And because if you
<v Speaker 5>enjoy what you do and love what you do. You
<v Speaker 5>never have to work a day in your life, and
<v Speaker 5>I would have jumped into that a little sooner than.
<v Speaker 4>Waited as long as I did to do it. So yeah,
<v Speaker 4>that's what it would be.
<v Speaker 7>Yeah, all right, thank you, thank you well, thank you
<v Speaker 7>guys all so much for thank you all.
<v Speaker 3>I just want to say one thing because I knew
<v Speaker 3>that I was coming to meet you, and I am
<v Speaker 3>a huge fan body of your work and here, but
<v Speaker 3>Winnie the Pooh and aamail and have been a huge
<v Speaker 3>part of my life. And one of the things are
<v Speaker 3>iconic character is Princess celestiaan Winnie the Pooh have in
<v Speaker 3>common is friendship, right, and I have had this picture
<v Speaker 3>of Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Rock or Winnie the
<v Speaker 3>Poo and Piglet walking, you.
<v Speaker 9>Know the image I'm talking about.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so I wanted to Princess Celestia, wanted to say
<v Speaker 3>something to you. Oh, any day spent with you is
<v Speaker 3>my favorite day.
<v Speaker 2>So today is my new favorite day.
<v Speaker 4>Mine tool.
<v Speaker 9>Thank you for having me.
<v Speaker 4>You're a sweetish honey. Oh Nicole, bless you. Thank you
<v Speaker 4>so much for tuning in.
<v Speaker 3>Thank you for having me.
<v Speaker 4>This is thank you.
<v Speaker 6>Thank you so much.
<v Speaker 7>Everybody for watching as well, and everybody out there on
<v Speaker 7>the interwebs watching as well. We really appreciate you, guys.
<v Speaker 7>This podcast has been such a fantastic journey.
<v Speaker 6>We really appreciate it.
<v Speaker 7>And we're going to be doing this at I believe
<v Speaker 7>seven more fan expos this year, so you can check
<v Speaker 7>out all the updated lists online of where to find us.
<v Speaker 7>And this has been a great time. One more time.
<v Speaker 7>Give it up for Nicole, Oliver Hey and Jim Cummings.
<v Speaker 7>Thank you, thank you, God bless I'm producer Chris. Thank
<v Speaker 7>you all again so much for watching. Really appreciate it.
<v Speaker 7>We'll see you the next one. Okay, Oh, you know what,
<v Speaker 7>we'd like to gather in for a group photo if
<v Speaker 7>you guys don't mind you guys, we want all.
<v Speaker 4>Of you to be in the picture.
<v Speaker 9>If you will now, would you come join?
<v Speaker 4>Thank you sure, especially Tigger.
<v Speaker 1>Look at this guy hete both Soloian from the hundred
<v Speaker 1>to acre.
<v Speaker 6>Would

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