National Winnie the Pooh Day 2026!

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<v Speaker 2>Welcome back everybody to another episode of Tuned In with
<v Speaker 2>Jim Cummings. I'm producer Chris, joined as always by the
<v Speaker 2>legend himself, mister Jim Cummings. How are you doing today, sir?
<v Speaker 1>And truly another day in paradise? And fine, what it is?
<v Speaker 2>Yes, it is a special day, is it not? It is?
<v Speaker 2>Tomorrow's a special day. Tomorrow's a special day. Yes, And
<v Speaker 2>what is tomorrow?
<v Speaker 1>It's a well it's Winnie the Pooh eve AA Milne's birthday.
<v Speaker 1>How about that?
<v Speaker 2>Yes, National Winnie the Pooh Day, January eighteenth, how about that?
<v Speaker 1>And we're both very happy to be here, and I
<v Speaker 1>thank you all first of all for being out there,
<v Speaker 1>for being a supporter of Winnie the Pooh and certainly
<v Speaker 1>our podcast, our humble podcast. So we're here to pay
<v Speaker 1>a little tribute and have a little fun. I hope
<v Speaker 1>you do too.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, we thought it'd be a thought, it would be
<v Speaker 2>a kind of fun. So, you know, look back on
<v Speaker 2>the history of Winnie the Pooh and talking about some experiences.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, it's such a pervasive character, and you know,
<v Speaker 2>we were just talking about not only American culture, but
<v Speaker 2>world culture, you know, spans so many different Oh yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Well, you know, we've had opportunities to go to other
<v Speaker 1>countries across the globe and it's interesting. He's he's pretty
<v Speaker 1>big time everywhere. Yeah, and if you go ice skating
<v Speaker 1>in Japan, apparently you're going to run into Winnie the Pooh,
<v Speaker 1>which I love. I can't think of. Oh, I should
<v Speaker 1>have looked up the fella's name. But that the last Olympics,
<v Speaker 1>when the Japanese ice skater was out there and there
<v Speaker 1>were like ten thousand, they had to stop. They had
<v Speaker 1>to stop the proceedings because there were hundreds and hundreds
<v Speaker 1>of Winnie the Pooh's little three or four inch Winnie
<v Speaker 1>the Poo's thrown onto the floor.
<v Speaker 2>Oh no way, I didn't know.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's well you guys have seen it, right, Oh,
<v Speaker 1>shake your head, okay, good, Yeah, see they know.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, maybe we can find a clip of that. That'd
<v Speaker 2>be cool to see.
<v Speaker 1>It would be.
<v Speaker 2>But before we get more into national Winnie the Pooh Day,
<v Speaker 2>I have a couple announcements to make This year. The
<v Speaker 2>podcast is going live on the road at fan Xpo.
<v Speaker 1>That's true.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, we're going to be doing some live podcasts and
<v Speaker 2>have some audience interaction for you guys. So if you're
<v Speaker 2>in the area, you can come up and ask some
<v Speaker 2>questions and you'll be right here on this channel on YouTube.
<v Speaker 2>It'll be pretty fun, that's right. And the next couple
<v Speaker 2>that are coming up. The next one is March nineteenth
<v Speaker 2>to twenty second, and that's MegaCon Orlando. So if you're
<v Speaker 2>in Orlando around March, maybe make it a little bonus
<v Speaker 2>stop on your way to Disney World.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, indeed, please do come on by.
<v Speaker 2>And after that one up in Canada in April is
<v Speaker 2>Calgary Xpo. That's another fan expo in Calgary. Doing a
<v Speaker 2>couple in Calgary this year. I won't name any more
<v Speaker 2>just for now, but you can find all this information
<v Speaker 2>on Jim's website. And yes, the podcast Tuned In with
<v Speaker 2>Jim Cummings will be on the road and we're excited
<v Speaker 2>to try that out on the road again.
<v Speaker 1>So come and say us, see us and say hi.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. But speaking of traveling all around and just Winnie
<v Speaker 2>the Pooh's you know mass impact. I mean, if you
<v Speaker 2>think about it, how many characters just is featuring in
<v Speaker 2>Disneyland alone, you know, across all the parks, across the world, Shanghai, Japan, Paris,
<v Speaker 2>you know, Orlando, la Am I missing one, Mars and ye, Mars.
<v Speaker 2>Did you know they're opening one? No? But do you
<v Speaker 2>know that they're opening one in the Middle East in Dubai.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, I didn't know that.
<v Speaker 2>I just heard. Yeah, they were talking about it when
<v Speaker 2>we were in Orlando for this last trip long ago.
<v Speaker 1>Let's go. I've never been to Dubai. Yeah, let's do it.
<v Speaker 1>I'm there.
<v Speaker 2>I wonder, I wonder how many they're going to end
<v Speaker 2>up making, because that that has to be the I mean,
<v Speaker 2>speaking of making money, I mean, Winnie the Pooh has
<v Speaker 2>generated how many billions of dollars?
<v Speaker 1>It's true. Yeah, and I only get half of that,
<v Speaker 1>by the way, so you know, keeping me humble.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, he's he's got to be. It says here.
<v Speaker 2>He's the second most requested Disney character in all the parts.
<v Speaker 2>That's true, only second to Mickey. Yeah, but it's probably
<v Speaker 2>a close. You know. It's a photo finish, that's right,
<v Speaker 2>photo finished, second to make good thing.
<v Speaker 1>Good thing. He and I are pals. I'll tell you what,
<v Speaker 1>because boy and Tigger's in there somewhere.
<v Speaker 2>Tiger's got to be in there.
<v Speaker 1>He's got to be in there bouncing around, right, it's
<v Speaker 1>so magnificent. So uh yeah, no kidding, We've this is
<v Speaker 1>going to be an interesting year. And there is a
<v Speaker 1>certain duck that's coming up on an anniversary, the Terrific
<v Speaker 1>Flaps in the Night.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I just thought i'd throw that in. Yes, So, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>it's a big year for anniversaries.
<v Speaker 1>Excuse me, I've been working all day and for me,
<v Speaker 1>that means in a studio doing poop. Uh, well, doing
<v Speaker 1>Pete doing Pete.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>So but I can't give away any secrets, but Pete wins. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>I'm just kidding. That was about it. But yeah, it's
<v Speaker 1>going to be fun.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and this year's especially special for the national Winnie
<v Speaker 2>the Pooh Day because it's the hundredth anniversary.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, one hundredth anniversary. Wow.
<v Speaker 2>I can't think of another media that's been around for
<v Speaker 2>one hundred years and still going. Intellectual property, yeah.
<v Speaker 1>And still yeah, that's what we call IP. Yes, interesting pesos,
<v Speaker 1>I don't know, I don't know, incredible payo. There we go.
<v Speaker 1>That was a little better, but yeah, it's it's very
<v Speaker 1>nice and and uh, we're glad to have you guys
<v Speaker 1>all along for the ride, and uh, we got some
<v Speaker 1>very interesting things coming up. I remember coming up as
<v Speaker 1>a kid and watching the Shirley Temple Show. Every Better.
<v Speaker 1>Remember Shirley Temple, she was a child star and then
<v Speaker 1>she grew up and started doing it. And we just
<v Speaker 1>found out that she had what wasn't there a a
<v Speaker 1>Winnie the Pooh version of marionettes?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, marionette Winnie the Pooh on THEA.
<v Speaker 1>I never knew that.
<v Speaker 2>Shirley Temple's Storybook on NBC in nineteen sixty had a
<v Speaker 2>marionette version of Winnie the Pooh.
<v Speaker 1>That cracks me up. I love that.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I love that.
<v Speaker 1>And he's so pervasive. He's here, he's there, he's you know.
<v Speaker 1>We did the Book of Pooh a few years ago
<v Speaker 1>X amount of years ago, and it wasn't quite marionettes,
<v Speaker 1>but it was people in green screen standing behind these
<v Speaker 1>incredible puppets. They're about like this big. Tigger was like
<v Speaker 1>this big, and it was folks manipulating him. There were
<v Speaker 1>seven people, dang working tigger, one for the tail, one
<v Speaker 1>for the and and they would they would do the
<v Speaker 1>eyebrows and he would go, hey doing do the face
<v Speaker 1>one unbelievable. It was really cool. It was a great show.
<v Speaker 1>I hope you guys liked it. But yeah, there's been
<v Speaker 1>so many iterations, so many iterations.
<v Speaker 2>I mean when you think about you know, even the
<v Speaker 2>first Winnie the Poo was a physical teddy bear, right,
<v Speaker 2>so that's like her first one. And then there's the
<v Speaker 2>storybook version, and then there's the all the different animations
<v Speaker 2>of him, you know, all the different animations, the marionettes.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, think about the costumes. You've got two D animation,
<v Speaker 2>three D animation, changing the style because Disney kind of
<v Speaker 2>changed the style of Oh yeah A Milne's original drawings.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, yeah, yeah, absolutely. And they gave him the sweater,
<v Speaker 1>did I I don't know why I went like this,
<v Speaker 1>I'm not wearing one, but but they gave him the
<v Speaker 1>red sweater.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's why I wore a red sweater episode.
<v Speaker 1>Look at that.
<v Speaker 2>I'm bounding a little bit, and you can just picture
<v Speaker 2>I'm wearing yellow pants too. I'm wearing yellow pants.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, but yeah, it's pretty darn cool. It's kind of amazing.
<v Speaker 1>It's an honor to be associated with something of so
<v Speaker 1>long standing and so dear to so many people's hearts.
<v Speaker 1>You know, as you know, you and I we do
<v Speaker 1>a lot of conventions together, and people always have their
<v Speaker 1>own special Winnie the Pooh story. It's very close to
<v Speaker 1>their hearts and got them through a lot of tough
<v Speaker 1>times out there, and it's an honor. It's an honor
<v Speaker 1>to know that, I mean a little small part of that.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, speaking of all the iterations, do you this question
<v Speaker 2>just came to my mind. Do you have a favorite
<v Speaker 2>look of Winnie the Pooh, Because I know, even at
<v Speaker 2>conventions when people come up to you have seen you know,
<v Speaker 2>you have that classic you know, Ege Shepherd illustration of
<v Speaker 2>Winnie the Pooh what I like to call the old
<v Speaker 2>poo you know, the kind of rougher like in Christopher
<v Speaker 2>Robin how we were kind of portrayeding Christopher Robb right,
<v Speaker 2>and then there's obviously the Disney Pooh, you know, the
<v Speaker 2>bright yellow. And it's interesting to see people you know,
<v Speaker 2>come and have different attachments to the different art styles
<v Speaker 2>of that. That's true, and that you could even extend that,
<v Speaker 2>you know to a funko pop. No iteration is something physical,
<v Speaker 2>you know, because we all have those different like, you know,
<v Speaker 2>just the way something looks. We kind of prefer it
<v Speaker 2>this way or so true.
<v Speaker 1>You know, I really got to kick out of the movie.
<v Speaker 1>Christopher Robin. I loved it anyway. I mean I ended
<v Speaker 1>up tearing up. And it's not like I didn't know
<v Speaker 1>what was going to happen. But I really liked what
<v Speaker 1>they did with Pooh because he really looked like somebody's
<v Speaker 1>favorite little stuffy who just got up and started walking around.
<v Speaker 1>And it was magical. And I hope you guys liked
<v Speaker 1>it too. Yeah, and maybe we should do a sequel.
<v Speaker 2>It's been some time too, you know that that movie
<v Speaker 2>feels recent, but it's yeah, it's coming up on ten years.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, it's.
<v Speaker 2>Coming up on ten years.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>And what I liked about I was watching some clips
<v Speaker 2>of Ewan McGregor and he would bring bring the little
<v Speaker 2>Winnie the Pooh doll with him when he was getting
<v Speaker 2>interviewed for the first I saw him bring it on Ellen,
<v Speaker 2>and I thought that was funny and dear.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Christopher and Robin and Winnie the Pooh a boy?
<v Speaker 2>And is Bear a boy? And is Bear?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that was good stuff.
<v Speaker 2>Since we're talking about the physical versions, so when you
<v Speaker 2>say that iteration is probably your favorite portrayal of Pooh, gosh.
<v Speaker 1>It's way up there. That and the New Adventures.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, to me, that's the classic, like what I perceive
<v Speaker 2>as the classic because I was a kid, you know,
<v Speaker 2>when I was first exposed to that. So I'm I'm
<v Speaker 2>impartial to that.
<v Speaker 1>You know.
<v Speaker 2>I like the bright colors, like the bright the red,
<v Speaker 2>and it was very smooth, Like the edges of the
<v Speaker 2>cartoon were very smooth. I remember that, Like I liked.
<v Speaker 2>I liked how defined they were from the background. You know,
<v Speaker 2>it was almost like two different animation stuff.
<v Speaker 1>Disney knows how to do that, you know that three
<v Speaker 1>almost not three D. But you know that's like, yeah
<v Speaker 1>thing that They've got different documentaries on how that's done.
<v Speaker 1>It's pretty cool.
<v Speaker 2>Done amazingly too, yea, how they shoot it with a
<v Speaker 2>physical camera and like physically move the layers of the Backyes,
<v Speaker 2>creates that parallax.
<v Speaker 1>Jungle Book has a lot of that in two. But
<v Speaker 1>I digress. Yeah, and I'm also king Louis in Blue.
<v Speaker 1>But anyway, I just thought I throw that in there. Anyway,
<v Speaker 1>what were we talking about?
<v Speaker 2>We're talking about just like the different forms that the
<v Speaker 2>different forms when what was your first what was I
<v Speaker 2>just talked about my for his first exposure to Pooh Bear.
<v Speaker 2>What was your first like as a kid, like before
<v Speaker 2>even well, yeah, it was a career thought or a
<v Speaker 2>possibility of course.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, I remember it well. My brother Terry's nine years
<v Speaker 1>younger than me, and he was a huge Winny the
<v Speaker 1>poof han when it first came out, Winny the Poo
<v Speaker 1>and The Day for He or Winnie the Pooh and
<v Speaker 1>Tigger two and Winnie the Pooh. It was those three
<v Speaker 1>shorts that Walt Disney put together to make a movie,
<v Speaker 1>and they won an Academy Award, Yes they did, and
<v Speaker 1>it was kind of amazing. And my younger brother Terry
<v Speaker 1>was really crazy about it. He just thought it was
<v Speaker 1>great and he was winning the Pooh Whinny the Pooh
<v Speaker 1>and uh and and uh barely can tell this, but
<v Speaker 1>I will. I said, you know what pooh is, don't you?
<v Speaker 1>You know? You take off the H and it really
<v Speaker 1>means something else in case you didn't know, you know,
<v Speaker 1>And he was and you know, the jokes on me.
<v Speaker 1>I grew up and I became to poo but with
<v Speaker 1>an H.
<v Speaker 2>No problem.
<v Speaker 1>So but yeah, that's kind of like a nice family
<v Speaker 1>little aside there.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, So in the years between that. You know, you
<v Speaker 2>go from your first exposure and then when did it
<v Speaker 2>start becoming like a reality, like oh, you get the
<v Speaker 2>audition for Winnie the Pooh, or yeah, so it comes
<v Speaker 2>across to your agent, or how's that coming across?
<v Speaker 1>Well, it was in eighties, eighty four, eighty five ish,
<v Speaker 1>and I just got into the business. And you have
<v Speaker 1>to remember Pooh was gone for twenty years, which I
<v Speaker 1>was really grateful for because it gave me a chance
<v Speaker 1>to grow up. And uh so that was good. And
<v Speaker 1>I auditioned for I don't think I auditioned for Rabbit,
<v Speaker 1>but I auditioned for Poo, Tigger.
<v Speaker 2>And e or But before that, even before you get
<v Speaker 2>into that, even like what you see Winnie the Pooh
<v Speaker 2>coming car, Well, I guess it's different, right because it
<v Speaker 2>had been kind of shelved for twenty years.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, I wasn't out there.
<v Speaker 2>So was it like a big like ooh, Winnie the Pooh,
<v Speaker 2>this could be the next big thing, or is like
<v Speaker 2>oh they're trying this.
<v Speaker 1>No, you know, it really wasn't a big thing because
<v Speaker 1>it was a semi distant memory. He was still there,
<v Speaker 1>you know the way. I don't know, Mighty Mouse or
<v Speaker 1>some you know, some different cartoon character that was around
<v Speaker 1>but not current, And he wasn't current, that's for sure.
<v Speaker 1>And Disney decided, well, you know, it's time to dust
<v Speaker 1>off the Hunter acre Wood Gang. And I've said it before.
<v Speaker 1>I auditioned for several of them, and boy, I came
<v Speaker 1>home and I call him Age and I go, boy,
<v Speaker 1>am I ever going to be e yor I got
<v Speaker 1>I nailed yor I'm so Eyor. She goes, well, is
<v Speaker 1>that all you did? And I go, well, I did
<v Speaker 1>Winnie the Pooh, an I auditioned for Tigger, and I
<v Speaker 1>think Gopher and maybe I'll do you know, But but
<v Speaker 1>she calls me up. Two weeks later, she calls me up.
<v Speaker 1>She goes, well, I have bad news and it's some
<v Speaker 1>good news. And I said, oh, you're kidding me. And
<v Speaker 1>I said, so, well, give me the bad news and
<v Speaker 1>she says, well, you're not Or and I go, god,
<v Speaker 1>you're kidding me. Well who's e Or? She goes Peter
<v Speaker 1>Cullen and I go, oh, well, okay, you know you
<v Speaker 1>lose a gig to Peter Cullen. You're doing fine, you
<v Speaker 1>know Optimus Prime. I mean, he's only amazing. And I
<v Speaker 1>said so what's the good news. She goes, well, you
<v Speaker 1>are Winnie the Pooh and Tigger, and I went e
<v Speaker 1>or shmi or you know. I was like, okay, you know,
<v Speaker 1>I'm good and I just kind of couldn't believe it.
<v Speaker 1>And I didn't really have a sense of it going
<v Speaker 1>to be as explosive as it turned out, you know,
<v Speaker 1>And I don't know, a thousand cartoons later, several movies,
<v Speaker 1>Tigger movie, so it worked out.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I guess that's what I'm saying. Yeah, it's crazy
<v Speaker 2>to think. I mean, there was this whole another I
<v Speaker 2>think there was originally like once again, I'll call when
<v Speaker 2>I say the Old Pooh like I mean, you know,
<v Speaker 2>the the first iteration with pre Disney iteration. I think
<v Speaker 2>there was a lot more fandom for the Old Poo
<v Speaker 2>across the pond in the UK. I think it was
<v Speaker 2>more tied to like their culture, British culture, and then
<v Speaker 2>I think when it became Disney, it kind of got
<v Speaker 2>more americanized, and literally actually did because they introduced the
<v Speaker 2>king the character Gopher, right, Yeah, that's true. Gopher was
<v Speaker 2>never in the original stories. He was not in the book,
<v Speaker 2>and he was not in the book, and that meant
<v Speaker 2>the book book, you know, so yeah, yeah, and so
<v Speaker 2>when it became more americanized, Sorry, I kind of lost
<v Speaker 2>my train.
<v Speaker 1>Well yeah, it made a big transition, and and I
<v Speaker 1>think they, as usual Disney discovered their own version with
<v Speaker 1>a pot of gold. They you know, they mind this
<v Speaker 1>great traditional thing, kind of like Pinocchio.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, that's what I was trying to say. Yeah, exactly
<v Speaker 2>what I was leading up to is that you are
<v Speaker 2>so you have such a heavy hand in the American
<v Speaker 2>celebration of Winnie the Pooh, like in the popularization. I
<v Speaker 2>should say that the popularization of Winnie the Pooh in
<v Speaker 2>North America is largely associated with you, because that's kind
<v Speaker 2>of the same time that that's starting to take off. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>that's true in popularity. I think that's fair to say. Yeah, oh,
<v Speaker 2>I think so, yeah, yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, but it was it was great to go
<v Speaker 1>over and and go to New York and see the
<v Speaker 1>oge the original dolls that I guess A Milne grew
<v Speaker 1>up with.
<v Speaker 2>That's right, they're in the museum there.
<v Speaker 1>They're in the museum. It's kind of amazing.
<v Speaker 2>They're in the New York Public Library stephen A. Schwarzten
<v Speaker 2>building right in New York.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and it's very nostalgic and it's interesting to go
<v Speaker 1>there and see them and realize that from there that
<v Speaker 1>started it all, you know. And of course now he's
<v Speaker 1>the second only to Mickey Mouse, so we're pretty good company.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Did you know that in the late nineties there
<v Speaker 2>was actually a British museum that was asking and I
<v Speaker 2>put asking in quotation marks. They were kind of implying
<v Speaker 2>that they should have the original dolls in their museum
<v Speaker 2>because it's British.
<v Speaker 1>Well, I could see them asking that.
<v Speaker 2>So there's another little you know, the old poo versus
<v Speaker 2>new poo kind of.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I could see them asking that. Good luck having
<v Speaker 1>it happened. I'm sure, Yeah, it's not. Yeah, I don't
<v Speaker 1>We'll see. We could take them.
<v Speaker 2>We could take them right here.
<v Speaker 1>They look good on the coffee table. Sure, move over,
<v Speaker 1>we have a chest sit here, we'll move it over.
<v Speaker 1>We got plenty of room. Move over the bongos. Put
<v Speaker 1>them up on that chet and.
<v Speaker 2>Never put them in the studio. That's where they belong,
<v Speaker 2>in that tuned in studio.
<v Speaker 1>That's right. Oh god, yeah, we'll tune into that anytime.
<v Speaker 1>And so what else we have here? We got our
<v Speaker 1>cheat sheets here, folks, So cut this out if it's boring.
<v Speaker 2>So we got that. Well, one thing that I think
<v Speaker 2>that kind of kind of tails off of this conversation is,
<v Speaker 2>you know, we were just talking about the different different
<v Speaker 2>animation styles in different ways that poo bears appeared, you know,
<v Speaker 2>either in real life or on screen and on the stage. Again,
<v Speaker 2>there was another there was a musical that was released
<v Speaker 2>in twenty twenty two by the name of that was
<v Speaker 2>what was the name of it? Again, I have it
<v Speaker 2>written down.
<v Speaker 1>And there was live people on stage with.
<v Speaker 2>Like once again like Marionette type, you know. It was
<v Speaker 2>like almost big stuffies that they manipulated maybe three or
<v Speaker 2>four people to a character.
<v Speaker 1>And I can't remember. Was that kind of like Lion
<v Speaker 1>King on Broadway.
<v Speaker 2>A little bit? A little bit? Yeah, Yeah, there was.
<v Speaker 2>I believe there was like seven songs. It was a musical,
<v Speaker 2>of course, it was called Disney's Winnie the Pooh, the
<v Speaker 2>New Musical Adaptation, and it was very based on, like,
<v Speaker 2>you know, the original story, the original Disney story of
<v Speaker 2>Winnie the Pooh kind of like a variation of that.
<v Speaker 2>The Sherman Brothers, I believe did the music for you.
<v Speaker 2>My dear friend, I'm not mistaken. And they did the
<v Speaker 2>the Sherman brothers already wrote the original.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yes, indeed, yeah, and they were good friends of mine.
<v Speaker 1>I'm very honored. Oh boy, am I honored to say, yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>that's so cool.
<v Speaker 2>I mean they were the you've described it before as
<v Speaker 2>the they were like the kings of the earworm, right.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yes, yeah, yeah. In fact, I remember them telling me,
<v Speaker 1>you know, I'm not going to hum It's a Small
<v Speaker 1>World because you'll hate me later. But they they they
<v Speaker 1>told me the stories of working with Walt, and uh,
<v Speaker 1>and I was so honored because it's like talking to
<v Speaker 1>Mount Rushmore to me, to me anyway, and uh, you
<v Speaker 1>know they wrote Jim Jimmery, Chim Jimmery way any that
<v Speaker 1>they wrote your favorite song, your favorite distance song was
<v Speaker 1>written by the Sherman brothers, you know, Okay, and nowadays
<v Speaker 1>maybe Randy Newman. So gosh, where was it going with that?
<v Speaker 1>It was such a beautiful thing. And they and they
<v Speaker 1>said that Walt told them when they he needed a
<v Speaker 1>song for It's a Small World at Disneyland, and no,
<v Speaker 1>I won't hummet for you. I won't even do it
<v Speaker 1>because I'm a nice man and uh and uh they uh,
<v Speaker 1>he told me because I want an earworm. I want
<v Speaker 1>something that if you hear it more than once in
<v Speaker 1>your whole life, you can ever forget it, and you'll
<v Speaker 1>probably come, you know, after dinner, you'll be going do
<v Speaker 1>you do do do do? Do? Do? You know purposely
<v Speaker 1>set out to write an earworm, and an earworm is
<v Speaker 1>a word for a song that you can't get out
<v Speaker 1>of your head. And I think It's a small World qualifies.
<v Speaker 2>I think I think the Winnie the Pooh theme song
<v Speaker 2>qualifies as well.
<v Speaker 1>That's true. Yeah, I mean that's true.
<v Speaker 2>You hear that, and you know, do do do do? Do? Do?
<v Speaker 1>Do? You sing it? But yeah, yeah, and tiggers are
<v Speaker 1>wonderful things. I'm going down the list in my head.
<v Speaker 1>I'll promise you I'll stop.
<v Speaker 2>So did they write the Tigers song as well?
<v Speaker 1>Oh?
<v Speaker 2>They wrote them all, They wrote them all, They wrote
<v Speaker 2>them all. Truly legends, truly legends.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they truly are. Yeah, And I was very very
<v Speaker 1>honored to sing for them with them many many times.
<v Speaker 1>You know, I've had nothing like having the shown of
<v Speaker 1>brother sherman brothers sitting at a piano teaching you a
<v Speaker 1>song and I'm going this is Mount Rushmore talking to me. There.
<v Speaker 1>Mount Rushmore is teaching me a song. It was good stuff.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's really cool.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it really is.
<v Speaker 2>That's really cool, and it's it's nice to see too.
<v Speaker 2>Like you you had mentioned, you know, obviously what was
<v Speaker 2>it the h the Academy Award that Winnie the Pooh
<v Speaker 2>won way back in the sixties, and since then, I
<v Speaker 2>mean there's been numerous awards, i mean Daytime Emmys for
<v Speaker 2>the new adventure of one of the Pooh and the
<v Speaker 2>list goes on and on, and so it's nice to see, like,
<v Speaker 2>how recognize it's been over the years. Yeah, you know,
<v Speaker 2>it's been and once again, you know, going back to
<v Speaker 2>the subject of like the new and I call the
<v Speaker 2>new popularity of winn of the Pooh kind of like
<v Speaker 2>the eighties on you know what I mean, nineteen twenty
<v Speaker 2>to nineteen eighty. Sure, I feel like was one period
<v Speaker 2>of Pooh and then kind of the Disney rebirth.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's true, and that's true. That's a good way
<v Speaker 1>to put it. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>One of the things that I noticed while just kind
<v Speaker 2>of doing some more research on this kind of phenomenon
<v Speaker 2>of Winnie the Pooh is the anniversaries. You know, you
<v Speaker 2>would think, you know, when you're starting a company or
<v Speaker 2>a business, intellectual property, whatever, you think, you know, the
<v Speaker 2>big anniversaries are like ten, twenty five, fifty, you know.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, but the fiftieth anniversary kind of fell in
<v Speaker 2>that dead period for Pooh, you know that we were talking.
<v Speaker 2>I know what you mean, because that was only like
<v Speaker 2>the seventies. So what I noticed, like the eightieth anniversary,
<v Speaker 2>there was a big there was a big celebration for Pooh.
<v Speaker 2>And that's when he got his star on the Walk
<v Speaker 2>of Fans, right, you remember that, I.
<v Speaker 1>Do remember it. It was. It was pretty darn cool.
<v Speaker 1>And I'm waiting for Tigger. Actually I'm waiting for mine too,
<v Speaker 1>by the way, I'm right here, just in case anybody's
<v Speaker 1>got some juice.
<v Speaker 2>That must be a unique club of people who have
<v Speaker 2>characters on the Walk of Fame. Yeah, without their own name.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah yeah, yeah, I don't know. Well, technically, you know,
<v Speaker 1>it could easily have been Sterling Holloway. And I think
<v Speaker 1>he is on there. I God, I hope he is, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>you know, And I believe Paul Winchell is, you know,
<v Speaker 1>and uh, and I know he's They're both on the
<v Speaker 1>uh over at the Disney Lot, which you know, I've
<v Speaker 1>been there. I was there today. Uh, they've got them there. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>and they've got their hands in the in the in
<v Speaker 1>the mud, in the cement.
<v Speaker 2>And that's kind of cool outside of the theater.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's kind of cool.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that is cool.
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<v Speaker 2>Do It Now one? Just this a quick aside, one
<v Speaker 2>fun fact I like about the Hollywood Walk of Fames.
<v Speaker 2>You know whose star is the only star that's not
<v Speaker 2>on the floor. It's on a wall?
<v Speaker 1>WHOA?
<v Speaker 2>Do you know whose it is?
<v Speaker 1>Spider Man?
<v Speaker 2>Not Spider that's a good guess though, that's not bad
<v Speaker 2>yeah uh ooh it's Mohammad al Lee. Oh, because he
<v Speaker 2>said the only way that he would agree to have
<v Speaker 2>one is that if nobody was walking over him.
<v Speaker 1>WHOA, yeah, well you know they said, Okay, boss the champ,
<v Speaker 1>whatever you say, that's a good one.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Where it's on the wall. It's like right by
<v Speaker 2>the Chinese Man theater.
<v Speaker 1>Oh okay.
<v Speaker 2>It's like you know, you know, like the shiny tiles
<v Speaker 2>that they have on the Walk of Fame. It's not
<v Speaker 2>like a regular sidewalk if they have those that go
<v Speaker 2>like halfway up the wall.
<v Speaker 1>Oh okay.
<v Speaker 2>His plaque is right there.
<v Speaker 1>And rightly damn so he ain't the greatest for nothing
<v Speaker 1>good to be the king King, It's true. All those expressions, wow, wow,
<v Speaker 1>he's floating like a butterfly. Well that's good to hear.
<v Speaker 2>But on the topic of anniversary, since this year's the
<v Speaker 2>one hundredth, we just talked about the eightieth anniversary where
<v Speaker 2>Pooh Bear got his star on the Walk of Fame.
<v Speaker 2>You fast forward another decade. The ninetieth anniversary was heavily
<v Speaker 2>associated with Queen Elizabeth the Second Why you're so right? Yes,
<v Speaker 2>because she turned ninety that year. She was born in
<v Speaker 2>the same year that Winnie the Pooh was created, nineteen
<v Speaker 2>twenty six.
<v Speaker 1>Oh I forgot that.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, so there was a there was a little
<v Speaker 2>a little uh.
<v Speaker 1>A little Soisra in their honor, and I would think so.
<v Speaker 2>That year also the book Winny the Pooh Meets the Queen.
<v Speaker 2>How do I forget that?
<v Speaker 1>So, yeah, what a great thing.
<v Speaker 2>Couldn't have made it easier. It's twenty's sixteen that year
<v Speaker 2>for the ninetieth anniversary as well. Yes, yes, I'm getting there,
<v Speaker 2>getting there.
<v Speaker 1>H wow, Whinny of the Pooh Meets the Queen.
<v Speaker 2>Whinny of the Pooh Meets the Queen. It's obviously a
<v Speaker 2>short story and it's just about Pooh Bear in the
<v Speaker 2>game going. It's Buckingham Palace and meeting the Queen.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's right. And Freddie Mercury was not there, different queen,
<v Speaker 1>but yeah, that's pretty dark. Cool. Well, he's very much
<v Speaker 1>ingrained in British culture, you know, it's British literature, and
<v Speaker 1>I think that gives it a very interesting base, you know,
<v Speaker 1>it comes from literature. So and the narration has always
<v Speaker 1>been very much akin to the stories, the way the
<v Speaker 1>stories were written. And I always thought that that was
<v Speaker 1>a nice touch.
<v Speaker 2>Even in like some of the beginning Disney animations, they
<v Speaker 2>animated it to almost look like a story book, not
<v Speaker 2>almost to literally look Yeah, yeah they did, you know,
<v Speaker 2>and then they actually zoom in on the you know,
<v Speaker 2>the little I'm losing the word the picture, sure, the picture. Yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>that's what I was. That's the word I was looking for.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's right. And then uh, you know when the rain, rain,
<v Speaker 1>rain came down, down down, Do Do do doo, And
<v Speaker 1>it's taken right from the book. You know that the
<v Speaker 1>lyrics are taken right from the book. And I can
<v Speaker 1>remember Tigger saying, yeah, somebody narrate me down from up here,
<v Speaker 1>and he's in the tree and it's uh and it
<v Speaker 1>was it was just a beautiful uh what is that
<v Speaker 1>mcguffin an instrument to to storytell, you know, And and
<v Speaker 1>you can see, uh, Pooh's coming down and he turns
<v Speaker 1>up the turns the umbrella upside down, and he said,
<v Speaker 1>I must rescue my supper. And he comes in and
<v Speaker 1>finishes the musical phrase and he's looking to get honeypot
<v Speaker 1>out of the out of the and it's just amazing.
<v Speaker 1>It's it's just so much fun. Yeah, and and uh,
<v Speaker 1>the Tigger movie used that particular vehicle a lot too,
<v Speaker 1>you know, talking to talking to the camera to camera,
<v Speaker 1>you know, and it was kind of cool. Yeah, you know,
<v Speaker 1>you guys have seen it. If not, go buy a DVD.
<v Speaker 2>If I'm not mistaken to the oh. There was this one,
<v Speaker 2>honestly probably my favorite Winnie the Pooh movie.
<v Speaker 1>Mm hmm, Christopher Robin, Winny the Poo and Tiger two.
<v Speaker 2>It was Winnie the Pooh and him and the gang.
<v Speaker 2>They go to Skull Rock. They go to Skull Shock
<v Speaker 2>looking for Christopher Robin. He's gone.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, yes, the search for Christopher Robbins.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, yes, And that was probably one of my favorite ones.
<v Speaker 2>And I love like the feature long pun that at
<v Speaker 2>the end, it was just that he went to school
<v Speaker 2>and the school so.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, Yeah, Well Pooh's good at getting a lot of
<v Speaker 1>drama out of something that's been completely misunderstood and misconstrued. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>the and of course rabbit didn't help or who was
<v Speaker 1>an owl reading it? Well, going to a skull what
<v Speaker 1>you know?
<v Speaker 2>Can he be wrong?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, exactly right? And uh that was going. That was
<v Speaker 1>that was very well received and we got and beautiful,
<v Speaker 1>beautiful music to the Silver Shires, Silver Share and silver
<v Speaker 1>Shire and Pooh has always, uh Disney has always had
<v Speaker 1>a great, a great way of telling a story with
<v Speaker 1>the song. And boy they were they were on point
<v Speaker 1>throughout the entire you know, pantheon of catalog of different
<v Speaker 1>Winny the Poo movies and Tigger and and it's just
<v Speaker 1>a beautiful thing right up to Princess and the Frog.
<v Speaker 1>You know, Randy Newman can't go wrong.
<v Speaker 2>No, you cannot.
<v Speaker 1>I think we should get Randy to write the next
<v Speaker 1>Winnie the Pooh movie or Tigger. I'm just putting it
<v Speaker 1>out there.
<v Speaker 2>What was the book that you were holding up briefly there?
<v Speaker 1>Yes, well this was kind of nice and it just
<v Speaker 1>so happened to be in England when this came up.
<v Speaker 1>And it's Winnie the Pooh meets the King and we gosh,
<v Speaker 1>let's see who else was there?
<v Speaker 2>Lionel Ritchie? And was this this was for the coronation
<v Speaker 2>of the kid for the coronation of the kids. This
<v Speaker 2>is after the queen passed away? Yes, and wow, here
<v Speaker 2>we go as it goes. And you know, I won't
<v Speaker 2>show who.
<v Speaker 1>Wrote that or did that, but it's a it's a
<v Speaker 1>dedication to me. And yes, Pooh is wearing a crown
<v Speaker 1>there and he kind of has a way of sneaking
<v Speaker 1>in and saying hello and having a good day. And
<v Speaker 1>here I'll just show you this last picture with my
<v Speaker 1>close personal friend, King Charles. I'm just saying, pop up
<v Speaker 1>your pillow and dream. How about that?
<v Speaker 2>And they even did a little animated segment I remember
<v Speaker 2>during the coronation that featured Pooh and piglets.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, it was Yeah, that was a gas We we
<v Speaker 1>had a beautiful time doing that, and you know, it
<v Speaker 1>was nice to be just a little cog in a
<v Speaker 1>very big wheel.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. I was about to say that must have been
<v Speaker 2>an interesting phone call, ring ring, Oh, Hey, the King
<v Speaker 2>is requesting your voice for this Winnie the Pooh, Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>for his coronation.
<v Speaker 1>And who knew that he was a fan of Winnie
<v Speaker 1>the Pooh. And I think we said somebody else in
<v Speaker 1>that sort of category named Barack is another pan of
<v Speaker 1>our podcast, and so you know, King Charles, King Barack, Hi, guys,
<v Speaker 1>I hope you're having a great time out there. Queen Elizabeth, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I mean yeah, it kind of gives me goosebumps.
<v Speaker 2>I think that probably meant at a lot to him,
<v Speaker 2>just because of the association with the royal family for
<v Speaker 2>so long and kind of that, you know that the
<v Speaker 2>parallel of being you know, the same age as yeah,
<v Speaker 2>as Winnie the Pooh and you know the British, the
<v Speaker 2>British pride, the Brits. You Brits are pretty proud. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>you guys are sneakily proud.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, not so sneakily.
<v Speaker 2>I have a British cousin and he never he never
<v Speaker 2>fails to remind me of how many countries Britain is conquered. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, you guys are sneakily proud. I bet you
<v Speaker 2>any of you Britain's Britain as listening, I bet you
<v Speaker 2>have an idea what I'm talking.
<v Speaker 1>We won't bring up the American Revolution. Oh too okay,
<v Speaker 1>but yeah, thanks guys, like a subscribe. Yeah, it's very
<v Speaker 1>interesting and it's it's something eternally proud of.
<v Speaker 2>In another forty years from now, then the Disney version
<v Speaker 2>of Winnie the Pooh is going to be public domain,
<v Speaker 2>so they could technically make a showdown of British Pooh
<v Speaker 2>versus American poo, the ultimate showdown. That's true, and it
<v Speaker 2>could be like a he's going through the hundred. It's
<v Speaker 2>like a oh, I'm going I'm going off on a tam.
<v Speaker 1>Here we go, Here we go.
<v Speaker 2>Disney owns the multiverse. It's not impossible. Disney owns the multiverse.
<v Speaker 1>That is true.
<v Speaker 2>That is and speaking of multiverse, I mean who has
<v Speaker 2>made cameos in numerous other, numerous other ips.
<v Speaker 1>That's true.
<v Speaker 2>There was Doc mcstuffan's you.
<v Speaker 1>Know, yeah, yes, that's very true.
<v Speaker 2>Who had a little cameo in that?
<v Speaker 1>Yes he did, and Tiger was there too.
<v Speaker 2>Tiger was there too, and well you know that.
<v Speaker 1>He needed a stitch. Who better than Doc mcstuffans.
<v Speaker 2>And like Kingdom Hearts, you know the video game? Oh sure, sure,
<v Speaker 2>who was obviously in that? Oh yeah, yeah, definitely, that's okay.
<v Speaker 2>So there's a little bit of a poo multiverse already.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that is true. That is very true. I saw
<v Speaker 1>and I'm pretty sure he sells. Honey, somewhere, somebody's done something.
<v Speaker 1>But honey, I'm not sure if it's sanctioned or I
<v Speaker 1>could be wrong, not not real sure, like I would
<v Speaker 1>tell a trampoline or two. I'm sure sure. I'm just saying.
<v Speaker 1>I'm just putting it out there. So if you want
<v Speaker 1>to give me.
<v Speaker 2>A call, I saw even a I saw a clip
<v Speaker 2>of a Simpson's short. It was a little short that
<v Speaker 2>Simpsons did a few years ago, and they featured Winnie
<v Speaker 2>the Pooh, but they just had what's his name who
<v Speaker 2>plays Dan Castlenetta. They just had him playing like all
<v Speaker 2>these different Disney characters because I guess they got the
<v Speaker 2>rights from Disney to like portray. But Poo bears in there,
<v Speaker 2>oh wow. And I was trying to find I was
<v Speaker 2>trying to find the clip of him talking. But they're
<v Speaker 2>like sitting at a bar and Poo has a little
<v Speaker 2>jar of honey as it. It's like a little jar
<v Speaker 2>of honey on The Simpsons, and they have like Donald
<v Speaker 2>Duck in it too, and Goofy and oh no kidding.
<v Speaker 2>It's all like. I hadn't heard about that until just
<v Speaker 2>the other day when I was doing some research for
<v Speaker 2>this man, because I was trying to find some stuff
<v Speaker 2>for you guys that we've you know, because we've talked
<v Speaker 2>about a little bit of the history of Pooh and
<v Speaker 2>other episodes.
<v Speaker 1>Called Dan Castlenetta right now, okay, maybe later, oh boy, wow. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>we'll try you never know, where he pops up.
<v Speaker 2>I'll try to find a clip of that and put
<v Speaker 2>it in this episode for you guys. Because one of
<v Speaker 2>the clips I saw they were pretty cool, you know.
<v Speaker 2>They just had somebody talking over it like like I'm
<v Speaker 2>doing right now, which could possibly be happening for the
<v Speaker 2>viewers right now. They could be seeing a clip as
<v Speaker 2>I'm talking if we can't find the audio. But we'll
<v Speaker 2>see what we can do. Yeah, and then didn't you
<v Speaker 2>just do Pooh Bear? I don't believe it's released yet,
<v Speaker 2>but for and correct me if if we need to
<v Speaker 2>take this out or anything. But for family guy, that
<v Speaker 2>could be. That could be, that could be.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, there might be a little Sois ree through the
<v Speaker 1>hundred acre wood. So we'll have to see if it
<v Speaker 1>passes Mustard. Yeah, you never know, could end up on
<v Speaker 1>the cutting room floor, could not. We have to wait
<v Speaker 1>and see. So stay tuned, won't you. Yeah, it's it's interesting.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, so Pooh was obviously you know, made his
<v Speaker 2>way around and then you know, for the movie we
<v Speaker 2>shall not name, of course, and now that he's public
<v Speaker 2>ip or public domain, I mean, but yeah, I made
<v Speaker 2>his way around a bunch of cameos.
<v Speaker 1>Speaking of cameos, no, I won't do that. Yeah, that's true. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>it's interesting. Well, it's it's not so nice to be
<v Speaker 1>a part of something that that people are so engaged by,
<v Speaker 1>engage in, and you know, It's been a part of
<v Speaker 1>people's lives and and I you know, I've said before
<v Speaker 1>I take my work seriously but not myself, And I'm
<v Speaker 1>glad people like it, so thank you.
<v Speaker 2>From the day I've met you too, it's always like
<v Speaker 2>struck me as such like a superpower in a way
<v Speaker 2>that you know, you're you're such a recognizable voice, but
<v Speaker 2>you don't have to have the burden of like, you know,
<v Speaker 2>people just flocking up to you. I mean, obviously in
<v Speaker 2>the certain places, you know, you get your crowds. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>but it's just the coolest thing. Allow. I'll never forget
<v Speaker 2>the first time I heard you do the voice. You know,
<v Speaker 2>it's oh, I've since become you know, a little bit accustomed.
<v Speaker 1>Enamored, are not unenamored?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but when I first heard it, and I was like, oh, like,
<v Speaker 2>it's like a such a transformation. It's whoa like that voice? Yes, yes, yes,
<v Speaker 2>that is incredible.
<v Speaker 1>Please pass the honey, won't stay sweetish honey.
<v Speaker 2>There was a good moment when we were just in
<v Speaker 2>Orlando at Disney World where a lady came up, remember
<v Speaker 2>her little daughter came running up and then you did
<v Speaker 2>the voice for oh yeah, yeah, yeah, and the mother goes, oh, wow,
<v Speaker 2>you're really good at that voice.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, yeah, wow, just like him. And I said yeah,
<v Speaker 1>well okay, yeah. She goes no, oh my god, and
<v Speaker 1>then she frokes and.
<v Speaker 2>Then she's making sure her daughter knows the importance of
<v Speaker 2>yeah who who she's talking to you like, honey, this
<v Speaker 2>is the man.
<v Speaker 1>He doesn't sound like him, he's him. Yeah, that's I
<v Speaker 1>get a kick out of that. That's one of my
<v Speaker 1>favorite things.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it's I mean, it never gets
<v Speaker 2>old for me to see either.
<v Speaker 1>And occasionally some guy will say, would you whisper this
<v Speaker 1>into my girlfriend's here? And I go no, because you
<v Speaker 1>know what they're saying, Oh my gosh.
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, oh this okay. We mentioned this briefly in
<v Speaker 2>the Christmas Pooh episode. Yes, but I've just found out
<v Speaker 2>how many items. I don't think I mentioned how many
<v Speaker 2>items this woman has. This lady, oh bless sir, excuse me.
<v Speaker 2>This lady deb Hoffman from Wakesha, Wisconsin, has the biggest
<v Speaker 2>winn of the Pooh memorabilia collection in the world. In
<v Speaker 2>the world take a venture how many venture a guess
<v Speaker 2>how many items it consists of.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I almost knew this but then I don't it's
<v Speaker 1>like thirty five thousand a little less, okay, because that's
<v Speaker 1>way too many. I mean, yeah, I'm just trying to.
<v Speaker 2>Think, but it's something twenty five twenty oh, twenty thousand.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, how do you even know that you have that?
<v Speaker 2>And the thing that hit me when I read that
<v Speaker 2>because she set the world record in two thousand and
<v Speaker 2>it was like two thousand and eight two thousand.
<v Speaker 1>Can you imagine being the second place winner and there's
<v Speaker 1>like four between the difference is like four pieces, you'd
<v Speaker 1>be pissed.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, And she set the record with four thousand and
<v Speaker 2>so the last update on her was in twenty twenty,
<v Speaker 2>where she had twenty thousand items, So it might actually
<v Speaker 2>be close to thirty five thousand, but I was trying
<v Speaker 2>to find which I could not find, but the number,
<v Speaker 2>like the actual number of like how much memorabilia of
<v Speaker 2>Pooh has been produced?
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, that's true, because if she.
<v Speaker 2>Has twenty thousand items, she's got to have, mom, how
<v Speaker 2>many have been out there?
<v Speaker 1>You know? Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>And like I wonder if it counts like you know,
<v Speaker 2>bootleg on license stuff. Oh yeah, you know, it would
<v Speaker 2>have to almost, Yeah, because twenty thousand I mean man.
<v Speaker 1>Books, toys, I mean there's decals.
<v Speaker 2>Phone stick, yeah, every stuff like that, at shrinkets, key chains,
<v Speaker 2>I mean, what anything you could think of that has memorbilia.
<v Speaker 2>There's got to be. I bet there's Pooh drumsticks.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, ooh, that sounds good. I'll take a set
<v Speaker 1>of those. And I've done any number of those those
<v Speaker 1>toys over the years, back in the day when you
<v Speaker 1>would pull the thing, would you please pass the honey?
<v Speaker 1>You know?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>And then one thing that we did, my Interactive Pool Yes,
<v Speaker 1>which was an interesting name. It took like six months
<v Speaker 1>to do because first we did the stories and I
<v Speaker 1>would pause when it was the person that one day
<v Speaker 1>in the hundred acre would Mary, and then you would
<v Speaker 1>go forward. And it took six months to get through
<v Speaker 1>the name. And they wanted to do three names in
<v Speaker 1>a row, and my brain started to turn into fudge
<v Speaker 1>and I couldn't do it, and I said, how about
<v Speaker 1>we do one in a row and if we need pickups,
<v Speaker 1>let's do it that way. Because it was I can't
<v Speaker 1>remember how many it was, but it took forever to
<v Speaker 1>get out of the d's. That's all I can tell you.
<v Speaker 1>There was the Chandra kudu shugu do rengee do rudle.
<v Speaker 1>You know it's just and then oh yeah, it was,
<v Speaker 1>it was. It was terrible. It was semi torturous. So
<v Speaker 1>I charged them too much money. No, but it was
<v Speaker 1>and people loved it.
<v Speaker 2>I wonder if anybody, if anybody out there put in
<v Speaker 2>the comments, if you have or had my interactive pew,
<v Speaker 2>because we've talked about this a few times and I
<v Speaker 2>want to see I want to see the I'm going
<v Speaker 2>to look on eBay too. I'm going to look on ebe.
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna try and find one one. Oh, I bet
<v Speaker 2>Deborah has one. She has one. Yeah, deb the twenty thousand,
<v Speaker 2>there's got to be interactive to twenty thousand.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's true. Huh wow. We should get her on
<v Speaker 1>the podcast.
<v Speaker 2>That would be fascinating. We'd have to do it at
<v Speaker 2>her house. It is worth it'd be worth it. True
<v Speaker 2>because she wouldn't be able to travel. She'd need a
<v Speaker 2>freight container.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, she couldn't.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, there's no way. Imagine the shipping costs on that.
<v Speaker 2>Oh that's not going anywre No.
<v Speaker 1>We can't do that. But what else we got here?
<v Speaker 1>A bunch of cool stuff?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I think we've touched on most of what what
<v Speaker 2>I had come up with here, Yes, you know, and
<v Speaker 2>once again, just for you guys watching, we just wanted to,
<v Speaker 2>you know, celebrate winning the national winning of the Pooh Day.
<v Speaker 2>It's an interesting thing and obviously it's been a big
<v Speaker 2>impact on your life of course playing this character. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I mean, somebody would be lucky enough to play one
<v Speaker 2>character like this, and you void hundreds. I mean, it's
<v Speaker 2>just an amazing career that you've had.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, but only one Pooh.
<v Speaker 2>Only one Pooh exactly. And that's that's why we took
<v Speaker 2>the time out, you know, to talk about this in
<v Speaker 2>this episode, because poop is so special to so many people,
<v Speaker 2>and myself included.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, me too. And uh and then there's Tigger. Mm hmm.
<v Speaker 2>Can't forget Tigger.
<v Speaker 1>I can't forget Tigger, Tigger. They're wonderful things, Jeff, in
<v Speaker 1>case you kind of forgot that. But yeah, well, gosh,
<v Speaker 1>I hope everybody enjoyed this.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I know I did. Do you want to send
<v Speaker 2>off a last message to Pooh? I'll do a send
<v Speaker 2>off message and then how about we do that? How
<v Speaker 2>about we just do a send off message for national
<v Speaker 2>Winnie the Pooh day. Okay, all right. My first exposure
<v Speaker 2>to Winnie the Pooh was as a wee lad as
<v Speaker 2>we all once were. And actually my favorite character was Tigger,
<v Speaker 2>and I loved doing the Tigger. Don't ask me to
<v Speaker 2>do it, because I don't do it anymore, but I
<v Speaker 2>love doing the Tigger voice. I loved Tiger voice.
<v Speaker 1>And give us a little taste. Oh man, just keep
<v Speaker 1>on bouncing, bouncing. That's pretty good.
<v Speaker 2>That's not good.
<v Speaker 1>That's okay, not all that.
<v Speaker 2>That might be credible, that might.
<v Speaker 1>Be yeah, that's okay. I don't want you to do
<v Speaker 1>it too well.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but yeah, And obviously you know, I enjoyed the movies.
<v Speaker 2>The Taker movie was one of my favorites. And uh,
<v Speaker 2>the one we just were talking about, you know, where
<v Speaker 2>Poo and the gang go to Skull Rock and it
<v Speaker 2>was just always, you know, just a warming part in
<v Speaker 2>my heart growing up. And it's it's cool to come
<v Speaker 2>full circle and here I am talking to the legend himself,
<v Speaker 2>you know, on National Winning the Poo Day. So it's
<v Speaker 2>it's it's a blessing. And I think Winnie the Pooh
<v Speaker 2>represents that that that faith, that hope, that that kindness,
<v Speaker 2>that purity to a lot of people, and it certainly
<v Speaker 2>does to me.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Well, you know, I always uh, I like the
<v Speaker 1>fact that that it's for me. It's the sincerity and
<v Speaker 1>it's the heartfelt and it's not sentimentality for sentimentality's sake.
<v Speaker 1>It's not you know, it's not corny, it's not this
<v Speaker 1>or that. It's real. He's real, and you know, his
<v Speaker 1>emotions and his love for life and his friends is very,
<v Speaker 1>very real. And I've said it before. I don't take
<v Speaker 1>myself seriously, but I dig my work seriously, and I
<v Speaker 1>take Pooh very seriously. And I want to thank all
<v Speaker 1>of you out there for allowing me to be your
<v Speaker 1>Winnie the Pooh and have a smackrel of honey on me?
<v Speaker 1>Will you God? Bless?
<v Speaker 2>Well? Said? Well said? Well, thank you once again for
<v Speaker 2>me as well as Jim. For all of you guys watching,
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<v Speaker 2>you guys like this one. I think that was that
<v Speaker 2>was I liked. You know, there's so much there's so
<v Speaker 2>much history to Winnie the Pooh. I mean a day
<v Speaker 2>like you know, National Winning the Pooh Day only makes sense.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, we could probably do a whole other episode,
<v Speaker 2>go even more in depth. And actually, you know, search up,
<v Speaker 2>I found some really cool videos on very similar subjects.
<v Speaker 1>You know.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, I'll leave his I'll leave his channel in the
<v Speaker 2>description here, but there's a video I watched and it
<v Speaker 2>was all about the different animation styles that Disney went
<v Speaker 2>through with Winni the Pooh. I mean, there's some great
<v Speaker 2>stuff here on YouTube to check out some other channels.
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<v Speaker 2>with all that said and done, that's another.
<v Speaker 1>Episode wrapped up absolutely.
<v Speaker 2>I'm producer the legend himself, mister Jim Cummings.
<v Speaker 1>Stay sweetish, honey, and don't forget to keep on bunting
<v Speaker 1>and we.
<v Speaker 2>Will see you in the next one. Thanks for watching,
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