James Rallison (TheOdd1sOut, Oddballs)

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<v Speaker 3>in southern California. Yes it's too hot. It's too hot.
<v Speaker 3>But besides all that, we have a great guest for
<v Speaker 3>you guys today we have James Rallison, known as the
<v Speaker 3>odd Ones Out You Got It's a prominent YouTuber, cartoonist, animator, author,
<v Speaker 3>and voice actor, best known for animated storytime videos and
<v Speaker 3>the Netflix series Oddballs. Thank you so much for being here.
<v Speaker 3>Thanks thanks for having me on.
<v Speaker 4>Uh So, I know I'm the guest on the pod podcast,
<v Speaker 4>but I'm sure you have plenty of questions for me,
<v Speaker 4>but I would love to just ask you some questions about,
<v Speaker 4>like your work as a voice actor and just like
<v Speaker 4>what the industry is like, because a lot of my
<v Speaker 4>voice acting is like by myself. I like just scream
<v Speaker 4>by with no one in my sound booth and like
<v Speaker 4>no one can see, like no one can see me
<v Speaker 4>like descend into madness, you know, as I like just
<v Speaker 4>am talking for an hour at no one.
<v Speaker 3>And then it wasn't.
<v Speaker 4>Until I like did stuff for Netflix where I like
<v Speaker 4>got to like actually be in the booth like with
<v Speaker 4>other voice actors and stuff. And I actually I remember
<v Speaker 4>like the first time I was like a little nervous,
<v Speaker 4>right like doing it in front of people. I was like, oh,
<v Speaker 4>I got to do the voice with like a director
<v Speaker 4>like telling me like.
<v Speaker 1>Well, we can tell you're obviously tongue tied, so please continue.
<v Speaker 4>And there was this one, this one instance at the
<v Speaker 4>in one of the Netflix records where the director was like,
<v Speaker 4>all right, we're gonna need fifteen seconds of this character chewing,
<v Speaker 4>and then the actors like okay, and then just for
<v Speaker 4>fifteen seconds just and then everyone just had to stay
<v Speaker 4>like completely silent because they couldn't like mess up the
<v Speaker 4>take or anything, and we just had to just sit
<v Speaker 4>there just listening for and I just remember thinking like
<v Speaker 4>this has just got to be.
<v Speaker 5>Like a regular Tuesday for voice actors, isn't it?
<v Speaker 4>Like it was such a strange feeling for me, So like,
<v Speaker 4>are there any like in times when you were like
<v Speaker 4>in the booth, just like, I can't believe I get
<v Speaker 4>paid to do this, you know.
<v Speaker 1>Every time? Every time? Yeah, it's the stuff you used
<v Speaker 1>to get me kicked out of class. And so I
<v Speaker 1>learned a lot in the hallway apparently.
<v Speaker 5>Oh did you always know you were going to be
<v Speaker 5>a voice actor?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah? Wow, I sure did. Yeah, I said about five
<v Speaker 1>years old night saw mel Blank on TV and thought, oh,
<v Speaker 1>well he's doing fine. I'll do that. Yeah about you?
<v Speaker 4>Well, I mean like I always So I got my
<v Speaker 4>start making web comics.
<v Speaker 3>You know.
<v Speaker 4>It was just I always liked telling jokes with my
<v Speaker 4>art and then showing them to people. So I, you know,
<v Speaker 4>created a web comic on this website called Tumbler, don't
<v Speaker 4>you know?
<v Speaker 1>Sure?
<v Speaker 5>And uh I got pretty big there.
<v Speaker 4>And I remember like, while I was working on the comics,
<v Speaker 4>I would like watch other YouTube videos while I worked,
<v Speaker 4>and I remember just thinking like I could do that.
<v Speaker 4>So then I transitioned over from comics to YouTube, and
<v Speaker 4>my very first video it's still up on the internet
<v Speaker 4>to this day. But I just had like a terrible
<v Speaker 4>like voice presenting what I you know, I just I
<v Speaker 4>had the script written out. I wrote it out on
<v Speaker 4>paper too. That was another thing, and I just like,
<v Speaker 4>oh man, sorry, I'm going on a rant here, but
<v Speaker 4>like yeah, my very first sound booth. Sound booth was
<v Speaker 4>like my my bedroom closet and I did yeah yeah everybody,
<v Speaker 4>and like I got the like foam but you know,
<v Speaker 4>it was like foam pads that you put over your bed.
<v Speaker 1>I like like the egg cartons.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I like.
<v Speaker 4>Stapled it to the wall. And there's even like one
<v Speaker 4>point I was like, hunch. I didn't have a pop filter,
<v Speaker 4>so I had to like talk at an angle. Right then,
<v Speaker 4>I like learned about what pop filters. Anyways, my first video,
<v Speaker 4>I feel like I totally butchered just my speaking voice.
<v Speaker 4>And like how I like told this story was this.
<v Speaker 4>I still cringe at it, just going oh yeah. So
<v Speaker 4>you know those books you make in elementary school, you know,
<v Speaker 4>like I'm trying to be all casual, but like when
<v Speaker 4>it's just a cartoon, people can't see your your facial expressions.
<v Speaker 4>You kind of you know this you have a little
<v Speaker 4>over animated and yeah, well too much is just barely enough?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, exactly. I'm curious. So, are you, like self
<v Speaker 3>taught on all this stuff or did you go to
<v Speaker 3>some kind of you know, did you get some schooling.
<v Speaker 3>Did you go to college?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah no, I didn't know. I didn't go to art
<v Speaker 4>college or voice acting college. My parents are really supportive,
<v Speaker 4>like animation. Yeah, yeah. Well so I was making these
<v Speaker 4>cartoons in my bedroom. My parents were like, that's cool,
<v Speaker 4>but you know, get a real job, and I said, okay, fine,
<v Speaker 4>So I actually went to school to My major was
<v Speaker 4>math education because.
<v Speaker 3>I thought being a.
<v Speaker 4>Math teacher seems fun. I could probably make that work
<v Speaker 4>and do cartoons on the side. But then while I
<v Speaker 4>was in college, my YouTube kicked off started making a
<v Speaker 4>whole lot of money, and I just stopped going to
<v Speaker 4>my classes because it's like, would I rather go to
<v Speaker 4>my classes and do math homework or stay in my
<v Speaker 4>dorm and then make YouTube videos?
<v Speaker 3>And it all worked.
<v Speaker 1>It was an easy decision.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, And so like all the while, I'm assuming you're
<v Speaker 3>getting more proficient and animating and all this stuff, So like,
<v Speaker 3>are you teaching yourself or learning trial by trial and error?
<v Speaker 3>I guess.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>It was a lot of trial by error, yeah, error ya, figuring.
<v Speaker 5>Out what works what doesn't work for me.
<v Speaker 4>A lot of my voices it's just me though, It's
<v Speaker 4>just like my character, my little like bubble boy that
<v Speaker 4>is still like supposed to be a representation of me.
<v Speaker 4>So when I was doing stuff for Netflix again, it
<v Speaker 4>was still like just my voice. And then they had
<v Speaker 4>me do a couple of voices for different characters. But
<v Speaker 4>I feel like every time I did a different character,
<v Speaker 4>it still sounded like me, you know.
<v Speaker 3>So I that's common.
<v Speaker 4>I was gonna say, like, is that like there's a
<v Speaker 4>lot of like voice actors where it's like you can
<v Speaker 4>tell who they are, but there's still like talented enough
<v Speaker 4>to like play all these different characters.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, yeah yeah, well mel blankhead that I feel
<v Speaker 1>like you have that too, right because you have you
<v Speaker 1>have like all these villains and also have Winnie the Pooh,
<v Speaker 1>the well every now and then, somebody's gonna bleed over
<v Speaker 1>a little bit. What are you gonna do this?
<v Speaker 5>I actually have a question for you, miss Can I
<v Speaker 5>call you mister Cummings?
<v Speaker 1>Jim's good old what's his name, mister.
<v Speaker 3>Good old Jim? So yeah, you, I was, I'm I won't.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know I phrase this. There's this.
<v Speaker 4>I feel like there's a phenomenon sometimes where voice actors
<v Speaker 4>voice two characters, and the two characters will be in
<v Speaker 4>a scene together and they like interact and it's one
<v Speaker 4>voice actor doing two different characters. You've had to do
<v Speaker 4>that with Winnie the Pooh and Tigger all the time?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah?
<v Speaker 4>Was that like hard to like switch between characters or
<v Speaker 4>did you have to like record one character and then.
<v Speaker 5>Go to the other character.
<v Speaker 1>Well, I used to do them both one one read
<v Speaker 1>after the other. But once in a blue moon, I
<v Speaker 1>would catch myself bleeding over, you know, so to speak,
<v Speaker 1>and Pooh would say, well, hold on, hold on, excuse me,
<v Speaker 1>you know, and I had a little Tigger in there
<v Speaker 1>and it was a little too much bounce for Pooh,
<v Speaker 1>and so I just did them separately.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, but that's how I have to do it.
<v Speaker 4>Even for my videos, I have to, like I do
<v Speaker 4>these shorts, and sometimes like the shorts, there's like different characters.
<v Speaker 4>It's still like my voice, but I'll have to like
<v Speaker 4>record every character's voice like in one section and then
<v Speaker 4>like I have to like switch gears to another section
<v Speaker 4>and I've doing the Netflix show. I got to see
<v Speaker 4>like voice actors that would like just read a line
<v Speaker 4>and like switch between the characters like on the same page.
<v Speaker 4>And I remember like like looking away from my computer
<v Speaker 4>and being like, oh, yeah, two people are talking and
<v Speaker 4>then I like look up and it's just one person
<v Speaker 4>being crazy and having a conversation.
<v Speaker 1>It helps to be a little crazy, No, it absolutely does.
<v Speaker 4>Like I voice acting, like on the surface, it's just
<v Speaker 4>doing silly voices, but like it's doing silly voices with
<v Speaker 4>a purpose. I don't know if I'm making sense and do.
<v Speaker 1>Silly voices well, yeah, silly voices.
<v Speaker 3>Well.
<v Speaker 4>And it's also like you have to I saw this
<v Speaker 4>like one documentary you might have been in it about
<v Speaker 4>it was called like I know that voice? Oh yeah,
<v Speaker 4>we were in it, and I remember there was one
<v Speaker 4>voice actor that was like anyone can do a Bugs
<v Speaker 4>Bunny impression, going yeah, what's up, doc? But it's like,
<v Speaker 4>can you do Bugs Bunny getting electrocuted? Can you do
<v Speaker 4>Bugs Bunny?
<v Speaker 5>Like having like oh shure, yeah, so like doing.
<v Speaker 4>Like all the different variations and everything. Yeah, So you
<v Speaker 4>really have to like know the character and like, yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Well that that's my philosophy too. You know, people will say, hey,
<v Speaker 1>you want to hear my Tigger trigger pretty good? Huh?
<v Speaker 1>And I go, oh, it's amazing, you know, but you
<v Speaker 1>really have to do I mean, Tigger would never do Hamlet,
<v Speaker 1>but he would have to get through a paragraph occasionally
<v Speaker 1>here and there. And you have to be able to
<v Speaker 1>sustain it. And and a lot of acting is reacting,
<v Speaker 1>you know, the line before you informs what you're about
<v Speaker 1>to say.
<v Speaker 3>Oh.
<v Speaker 1>Absolutely, you have to you know, get into both mindsets.
<v Speaker 1>But I've done that. I've you know, I've Uh. There
<v Speaker 1>was a character Bonkers, and I played Bonkers, and I
<v Speaker 1>played his human sidekick, Lucky picul and we invented a
<v Speaker 1>weight for them to argue with each other and overlap.
<v Speaker 1>And I would just do all of the Bonkers lines
<v Speaker 1>in my and play the Lucky pequel lines in my head.
<v Speaker 5>So you would like play off yourself.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and then they would play back the Bonkers lines,
<v Speaker 1>and then I would I would say, no, that's not
<v Speaker 1>what I'm will you will you shut up and let
<v Speaker 1>me talk, you know, And those gaps right there.
<v Speaker 3>Were bonkers like so you could hear it, yeah.
<v Speaker 1>And well I had it in my head and then
<v Speaker 1>we'd do one, then do the other, and then they'd
<v Speaker 1>put them both together and it sounded like two people,
<v Speaker 1>but they were overlapping naturally.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, the way that the people did, the way the editors.
<v Speaker 4>That's something that for for my videos, I do all
<v Speaker 4>the sound editing myself, which, like I said, I I
<v Speaker 4>record by myself. You know, just go into the spiraling madness,
<v Speaker 4>just screaming.
<v Speaker 3>Would you say you're a perfectionist a little bit?
<v Speaker 4>When I like record my lines, I was about to
<v Speaker 4>explain something that's probably super obvious to you, but like, please,
<v Speaker 4>when I when I record my lines, I try of
<v Speaker 4>like when I do a new take, I try to
<v Speaker 4>enunciate or enunciate like a different word, or like try
<v Speaker 4>and like say things differently because break it up and
<v Speaker 4>exactly so many times, so many times I'll do a
<v Speaker 4>line and then I'll be like, let's do another one
<v Speaker 4>just for safety, and then I'll just say the exact
<v Speaker 4>same thing in the exact same way, and it's like,
<v Speaker 4>what do we what do we do waste?
<v Speaker 3>Are we?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah? Okay, we're safe?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah exactly. Well, there's a lot of that what uh
<v Speaker 3>when when you like, how do I want to say that?
<v Speaker 4>How do you, I guess, like prepare for a role?
<v Speaker 4>Do you kind of I guess you've been doing it
<v Speaker 4>for so long? Do you do you have like a
<v Speaker 4>system or do you just get in there, get your
<v Speaker 4>lines and then just knock it out of the park
<v Speaker 4>because you're a genius.
<v Speaker 1>Mostly knock it out of the park. No. In fact,
<v Speaker 1>we just did three uh Mickey Mouse Clubhouse this morning.
<v Speaker 3>Oh wow.
<v Speaker 1>And and I don't as far as you know, rehearsing.
<v Speaker 1>I like to I like the first take. I like
<v Speaker 1>to record the first take the first time I'm reading it.
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, And.
<v Speaker 1>Because something will pop into your head. You know, if
<v Speaker 1>it works, it works, and if it doesn't, it doesn't.
<v Speaker 1>And that's and it you can it's all digital now,
<v Speaker 1>you don't even not even wasting tape. Yeah, so you know,
<v Speaker 1>if it works, it works, if it doesn't, it doesn't.
<v Speaker 1>And every now and then you find a little gemstone
<v Speaker 1>like that.
<v Speaker 3>Are you a big ad libber?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah? I add lib a lot. And the trick to
<v Speaker 1>ad libing is it has to be in character and
<v Speaker 1>it has to serve the scene. A lot of people
<v Speaker 1>will add live for the sake of ad living, and
<v Speaker 1>then it's kind of like slows the story down. Now, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>well what were we doing. Oh, that's right, we're looking
<v Speaker 1>for the dog who fell down the well or whatever.
<v Speaker 1>You know that you got to get back to the storyline.
<v Speaker 1>So as long as you're ad living in character and
<v Speaker 1>serving the story, yeah, that's the key.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, that's you know, That's that's what I do too.
<v Speaker 4>I'll like write up a whole script and then go like,
<v Speaker 4>all right, script's great, and then in the booth, I'm like,
<v Speaker 4>I could say it this way.
<v Speaker 5>It sounds clunky if I say it this way.
<v Speaker 3>So oh yeah, it's voice acting something you're looking to
<v Speaker 3>pursue more of. Yeah.
<v Speaker 5>I have a lot of fun doing the silly voices.
<v Speaker 4>But again, I always feel like my voices still just
<v Speaker 4>sound like me though, you know, like I.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's not bad. I mean, that's it's good to
<v Speaker 1>have a signature sound.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. One of my favorite examples of that is his
<v Speaker 3>name is not coming to me right now, but he
<v Speaker 3>plays Bob and Bob's Burgers. Oh yes, yea, and everything
<v Speaker 3>he's in it's just like the same the same voice,
<v Speaker 3>same voice. Yeah, and he makes it worse a really
<v Speaker 3>unique voice. That's so true.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, he's got that sort of yeah.
<v Speaker 3>And Archer yeah Cher, Bob's Big Boys.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I forget what Bob's Burgers. Bob's Big Boy that's
<v Speaker 1>an actual place.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, that's why it's on your mind.
<v Speaker 1>There you goin, folks, tell us his name quickly. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>So this is this is something that I wanted to
<v Speaker 4>ask you, which is kind of crazy. I'm going to
<v Speaker 4>like ask you in person. I probably could look this up.
<v Speaker 4>But were you the singing voice of Rasputin in Anastasia?
<v Speaker 1>Yes?
<v Speaker 3>I knew it.
<v Speaker 4>Every time that comes on, I'm always like, and he sings,
<v Speaker 4>I'm like this this Jim Cummings.
<v Speaker 1>Oh wow, yeah, yeah that's me. Yeah, I'm pretty sure
<v Speaker 1>I was credited.
<v Speaker 3>Sure.
<v Speaker 5>Like I said, I probably shove it up. Yeah, just
<v Speaker 5>every time I watch it better be.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah.
<v Speaker 5>Do you have you like done musicals before?
<v Speaker 3>Like, do you sing ah tons?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah? Yeah yeah so most of my life that's I
<v Speaker 1>started doing that as soon as anything else. I played
<v Speaker 1>drums and I was always in a band, you know,
<v Speaker 1>as a kid, late grade, like junior high, and then
<v Speaker 1>all through high school and then after high school, when
<v Speaker 1>I first moved to New Orleans, I was in a
<v Speaker 1>band that actually made money, So that was a rarity.
<v Speaker 1>That was a new thing. But I was always the
<v Speaker 1>singer and the drummer.
<v Speaker 5>You've just always been working with sound and audio.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, I guess so I was accidentally yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>accidentally doing research and and you know the band that
<v Speaker 1>I was in New Orleans that was very good. We
<v Speaker 1>all our goal was to make it sound like the
<v Speaker 1>record was playing if we could do that. So as
<v Speaker 1>a result, you know, it could be a Rolling Stone
<v Speaker 1>song or uh, you know, Almond Brothers or whoever, whoever
<v Speaker 1>it was. You know, we wanted to sound like the record.
<v Speaker 1>So that meant I had to kind of twist my
<v Speaker 1>pipes around a little bit. And and again it was like,
<v Speaker 1>you know, practice for my future gigs.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and so yeah, the pipes going on.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, it worked out.
<v Speaker 4>Do you are there any like again, sorry that I'm
<v Speaker 4>like asking you these questions. Are there any like specific
<v Speaker 4>characters that you like playing, like villains for example?
<v Speaker 1>Well, villains are fun. They had a lot of fun.
<v Speaker 1>You know Pete, like Pete the Cat, He's he's not
<v Speaker 1>really a villain, but he's here to.
<v Speaker 3>Provide freak exactly.
<v Speaker 1>And bad guys have a lot of fun, so you know,
<v Speaker 1>as you know resputing and I will say that bad
<v Speaker 1>guys get really good songs.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, yeah, villain songs are the best.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, be prepared from Lyon King. But I was also
<v Speaker 1>Powatan from uh in Pocahontas and that was a very
<v Speaker 1>beautiful song as the river cuts his bath.
<v Speaker 3>That's right.
<v Speaker 5>It is just like reminded of all these things in
<v Speaker 5>my childhood.
<v Speaker 3>Were you a Disney fan? Oh? I was.
<v Speaker 5>We had all the VHS's.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah yeah yeah.
<v Speaker 5>Did you guys know what a VHS is?
<v Speaker 3>I don't know. I do. Would you say that inspired
<v Speaker 3>you to be an animator?
<v Speaker 5>Oh no, definitely, like because all the all the movies that.
<v Speaker 4>I watched growing up were just animated movies, so I
<v Speaker 4>guess I was more drawn to the drawings. And all
<v Speaker 4>the books that I read too, were like like comic
<v Speaker 4>books like The Far Side and Cold and Hobbs.
<v Speaker 3>I heard you say that growing up you were only
<v Speaker 3>allowed to watch as much TV as you read time
<v Speaker 3>spent time reading books do that to do my research?
<v Speaker 4>That was that was the rule in our house that
<v Speaker 4>we could only I think it was like to go
<v Speaker 4>on the computer if you wanted to go on the
<v Speaker 4>computer for thirty minutes, you had to read for thirty minutes. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>and then I would I would just read comic books
<v Speaker 4>and then my mom was reading.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>My mom was like that counts, it's fine, and I
<v Speaker 4>was like nice. So yeah, I got to like and
<v Speaker 4>then I was I was probably like twelve years old
<v Speaker 4>when I was like in school and I was bored,
<v Speaker 4>and I just started making these little stick for your
<v Speaker 4>comics and then passing them out to my friends and.
<v Speaker 3>That that like doing great.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, doing that kind of like really taught me like
<v Speaker 4>how to like structure a joke and like how to
<v Speaker 4>you know, make things entertaining with just a small amount
<v Speaker 4>of lines, you know. So yeah, I've always been like
<v Speaker 4>wanting to entertain people with my my art, my drawings.
<v Speaker 3>You know.
<v Speaker 4>He's never trying to like paint the Mona Lisa or anything.
<v Speaker 4>I was sure making little doodles.
<v Speaker 1>Did you do that flip book thing?
<v Speaker 3>Oh? All the time.
<v Speaker 1>And I used to do it and make the arrow
<v Speaker 1>follow itself around the page.
<v Speaker 3>Oh darrow, Yeah, the.
<v Speaker 1>Arrow and an arrow like that, you know, just like do.
<v Speaker 3>Do do do do do do do do do.
<v Speaker 1>As you flip?
<v Speaker 4>Well, for me, it was like a ball bouncing. I
<v Speaker 4>would start then like as it was going down, it
<v Speaker 4>would like stretch. When I hit the ground, it would
<v Speaker 4>stretch the other way. I thought I was so smart
<v Speaker 4>when I.
<v Speaker 1>Invented Oh that's right, Yeah you were.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah I was. I was like, no one's thought of
<v Speaker 3>this before.
<v Speaker 1>You're not gonna believe this. That's really cool. So so
<v Speaker 1>you had the advantage of knowing which target you were
<v Speaker 1>aiming at at a very early age.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I guess.
<v Speaker 4>I guess, well, right, I just like doing it, you know,
<v Speaker 4>I just and it totally makes sense that I like
<v Speaker 4>put my stuff on the internet because like sharing my
<v Speaker 4>comics was like a big part of it, you know,
<v Speaker 4>it's like why I made them. So many like artists
<v Speaker 4>have like their sketch book and like going through it
<v Speaker 4>is like a big no not it's.
<v Speaker 3>Like their diary, you know. Yeah. But like for me,
<v Speaker 3>I was you know, I would just be like, hey, everyone,
<v Speaker 3>look at this comic I made. Don't you think it's funny?
<v Speaker 4>And then seeing the smile on their face would make
<v Speaker 4>it all worth it, you know.
<v Speaker 1>Wow.
<v Speaker 4>But yeah, Like but voice acting though, I think I just,
<v Speaker 4>like I said, trial and error, just how to like
<v Speaker 4>find my voice.
<v Speaker 3>So to speak.
<v Speaker 4>Uh, and you've been doing it enough where it's like
<v Speaker 4>I do.
<v Speaker 5>I do my I guess I do a YouTube voice,
<v Speaker 5>you know.
<v Speaker 1>Uh.
<v Speaker 3>So okay, so okay.
<v Speaker 4>So right at the stage right now, I knew it
<v Speaker 4>was only a matter of time before I brought up
<v Speaker 4>the video that I'm working on right now, which is
<v Speaker 4>about Warrior Cats.
<v Speaker 5>Do you know what?
<v Speaker 3>Warrior Cats?
<v Speaker 1>Warrior Cats.
<v Speaker 3>We don't have to get into it, that's all we do.
<v Speaker 3>Ye let me okay.
<v Speaker 4>Warrior Cats is a book series that follows the society
<v Speaker 4>of feral cats who live in these groups that are
<v Speaker 4>kind of a mix between a gang and a cult.
<v Speaker 4>While they are considered kids books, I will say Warrior
<v Speaker 4>Cats is less fun time happy cat adventures and more
<v Speaker 4>watership down.
<v Speaker 3>So like that's you don't do a lot of cuts
<v Speaker 3>in it. So you don't do a lot of cuts.
<v Speaker 3>That is that's a little sneak.
<v Speaker 1>You didn't have it down on pat. That's you were
<v Speaker 1>really struggling there to get that.
<v Speaker 3>That's really funny. That's really funny how that like subtle
<v Speaker 3>little like tone shifts. It brings me right into your videos,
<v Speaker 3>you know, because obviously over the years, like I've seen
<v Speaker 3>your videos, like obviously yeah, because I'm just talking right now.
<v Speaker 4>But then when I do the YouTube voice, so yeah,
<v Speaker 4>that's funny how that little like exactly.
<v Speaker 3>That was a really weird experience for me because most
<v Speaker 3>of the time we have voice actors on here, you know,
<v Speaker 3>and like their shift in voice is so like drastic
<v Speaker 3>and yours is like so subtle, but then it still
<v Speaker 3>brings me to another place like right, yeah, oh yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I know that voice from these videos.
<v Speaker 4>I've like done shorts before where it's like still it's
<v Speaker 4>like I have two people that are voiced by me
<v Speaker 4>talking and I don't really like change up the voice
<v Speaker 4>too much. Like I'll have like Google Maps, like personified
<v Speaker 4>sitting in a passenger seat and then me just like
<v Speaker 4>arguing with Google Maps, and like it's I'm not doing,
<v Speaker 4>like like I said, the crazy different boy, but I
<v Speaker 4>still have to make them sound like they're two characters,
<v Speaker 4>you know.
<v Speaker 3>And then I think to speak on that. I think
<v Speaker 3>that's where you're talent as an animator comes in too,
<v Speaker 3>to be able to differentiate. So the voice doesn't really
<v Speaker 3>matter that much because the animation itself is telling the
<v Speaker 3>story exactly.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's The thing is that, like anytime
<v Speaker 4>I look at the script or like just listen to
<v Speaker 4>the audio, I have to remind myself, like there's going
<v Speaker 4>to be pictures to this, so I have to imagine,
<v Speaker 4>like what's going to be shown when the pictures are there.
<v Speaker 3>That's really interesting. Yeahah, I'm sure you know all about
<v Speaker 3>voice and cartoons.
<v Speaker 1>Well a little bit, yeah, a little.
<v Speaker 3>Bit can that?
<v Speaker 5>Can I ask you a voice acting question?
<v Speaker 1>Yes?
<v Speaker 4>Was there ever a line that you just couldn't get
<v Speaker 4>right and you just struggled with it constantly for like
<v Speaker 4>years to come?
<v Speaker 1>Boyesh, I don't think so. Oh yeah, you know I
<v Speaker 1>I it reminds me of a story of my sweet
<v Speaker 1>friend Rusie Taylors for many years. She's no longer with us,
<v Speaker 1>but she did this. There was a long time. Oh gosh,
<v Speaker 1>this'd be like twenty five years ago. There were these
<v Speaker 1>toys that talking Mother Goose, talking Teddy ruxman. It was
<v Speaker 1>a Teddy Bear where those people came out with the
<v Speaker 1>mother Goose story and Russy got the job of being
<v Speaker 1>Mother Goose and she was wonderful and there was some
<v Speaker 1>and she was I think, yeah, it was the it
<v Speaker 1>was the princess and the frog. But it wasn't with
<v Speaker 1>the frog Prince. I'm sorry. The Princess and the progue
<v Speaker 1>was a movie, but the Frog Prince, and it's where
<v Speaker 1>the princess had to kiss the frog to turn him
<v Speaker 1>back into a prince. And there was a line in
<v Speaker 1>there where where the princess learned finally that oh, my gosh,
<v Speaker 1>this this energetic little frog is actually a prince and
<v Speaker 1>if I kiss him, you know, he'll turn into a prince.
<v Speaker 1>And then then she and then she gets to be
<v Speaker 1>a princess and a queen. Oh, the king and queen,
<v Speaker 1>and so she's going.
<v Speaker 2>And so it was that she leaned over and kissed
<v Speaker 2>the little green frog right on the tip.
<v Speaker 1>Of his little green and then she could get she
<v Speaker 1>could get. She just started howling out laughter. She goes,
<v Speaker 1>I really want to say, Penis, I'm sorry. I'm terribly sorry.
<v Speaker 4>But that's another thing that I've like learned about voice actors.
<v Speaker 4>Especially when you're in the booth. You just the wildest
<v Speaker 4>things get said, you know, yes, like I want to
<v Speaker 4>get too crazy here, but like like you do, yeah, absolutely,
<v Speaker 4>especially with me because it's just me and there so
<v Speaker 4>no one can like we'll ever hear I said this earlier,
<v Speaker 4>but I'm only sort of joking that, like spiral and madness,
<v Speaker 4>just like screaming into a booth.
<v Speaker 1>Uh yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Do you still, like even today, just do everything yourself
<v Speaker 3>or do you have like a team, oh.
<v Speaker 4>For for voiceover and like sound, Like it's it's all me,
<v Speaker 4>like writing the script, doing the voices, and then editing
<v Speaker 4>the audio and then when that's all done, then I
<v Speaker 4>send that off to storyboarders and background artists and animators
<v Speaker 4>and stuff.
<v Speaker 3>Gotcha.
<v Speaker 4>I used to have someone edit the audio, but it
<v Speaker 4>just was faster if I did it because like I knew, like,
<v Speaker 4>all right, this is the this take took me forever,
<v Speaker 4>you know, like the timing exactly. Yeah, yeah, and yeah
<v Speaker 4>it's editing audio. It's Editing audio is like one of
<v Speaker 4>my least favorite things in the video making process, because
<v Speaker 4>like I can't listen to anything in the background, right,
<v Speaker 4>you know, I have to like just focus on I know,
<v Speaker 4>and just and then like it's to a point where
<v Speaker 4>I'm like this isn't funny anymore, so I have to
<v Speaker 4>like step away from it.
<v Speaker 5>And you get too close to exactly.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah. Yeah, there was speaking of having lines that you
<v Speaker 4>just couldn't get right. There was one line that I
<v Speaker 4>did in a video. I was trying to explain the
<v Speaker 4>context of this would take too much time, but the
<v Speaker 4>line was, who wouldn't want to drop out of a
<v Speaker 4>Muggle public school and live in a castle with a
<v Speaker 4>bunch of soft British boys?
<v Speaker 1>So I wow?
<v Speaker 3>And but like I had to do it in the YouTube.
<v Speaker 3>Boys yeah, And I was like.
<v Speaker 4>Who wouldn't want to drop out of a Muggle public
<v Speaker 4>It's still haunting me. Who wouldn't want to drop out
<v Speaker 4>of them? I keep trying to say drop out out
<v Speaker 4>of a which is like, I don't think that's the right.
<v Speaker 4>Who wouldn't want to drop out of a Muggle public
<v Speaker 4>school and live in whatever?
<v Speaker 5>We don't have to get cut that out on the
<v Speaker 5>public school? Yes, you know Harry Potter?
<v Speaker 1>Right? Oh? Sure, yeah, damn Muggles.
<v Speaker 3>So what's it feel like? How tell us the story
<v Speaker 3>of how Netflix approaches you for this show?
<v Speaker 4>Oh, they didn't approach me. I had to we like,
<v Speaker 4>oh so you saw it after it?
<v Speaker 5>I was gonna yeah, we like had to pitch it
<v Speaker 5>around and stuff.
<v Speaker 3>So who else did you speak with in order to
<v Speaker 3>try and get this done?
<v Speaker 4>I feel like I'm allowed to say this at this point, right,
<v Speaker 4>we like we pitched to like Nickelodeon and Knee and
<v Speaker 4>then there's also this other place called.
<v Speaker 5>Gumand who you know gumand uh and.
<v Speaker 4>The very first people we pitched to they said, like,
<v Speaker 4>no one's ever gonna want to work with a YouTuber
<v Speaker 4>is just like not right, And I was like, oh geez,
<v Speaker 4>I just wasted a whole lot of time with making
<v Speaker 4>this bible.
<v Speaker 3>Then, you know.
<v Speaker 4>But then uh, we pitched it to Netflix. Am I
<v Speaker 4>alone to say we pitched a Netflix, sure? And then
<v Speaker 4>Netflix was like, We'll only do it if bubble Boy
<v Speaker 4>is in it, and I was like, well, bubble Boy
<v Speaker 4>is supposed to be me, James Rallison. This is supposed
<v Speaker 4>to be like its own character, like in a world
<v Speaker 4>and everything. And the Netflix was like, we want bubble Boy,
<v Speaker 4>and I said, okay, fine, so then we uh so
<v Speaker 4>we did. We did bubble Boy and like bubble Boy's
<v Speaker 4>voice by me and it's just like my voice is it?
<v Speaker 3>Like is it like a Marvel type deal where they
<v Speaker 3>have to license the character himself?
<v Speaker 4>It was something like that, like they had to yeah,
<v Speaker 4>like license the character and yeah, that was like a
<v Speaker 4>whole other thing thing too that like, yeah, and so
<v Speaker 4>I basically got to like keep the rights to Bubble Boy.
<v Speaker 5>But then you know, they got pretty much everything else.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that's fine.
<v Speaker 5>I love bubble Boy.
<v Speaker 3>Do you remember that movie bubble Boy?
<v Speaker 5>It was that the Adam Sandler one?
<v Speaker 3>Was it Adam Sandler? Well, I remember there was Remember
<v Speaker 3>he was playing a bubble. I'm probably thinking of water Boy.
<v Speaker 1>John Travolta did one where he was he had no
<v Speaker 1>immune system and he was.
<v Speaker 3>A bubble the whole time.
<v Speaker 5>Wasn't Wasn't that based off of a real thing?
<v Speaker 3>I think probably probably some extreme.
<v Speaker 5>Leave your comments about your favorite bubble Boy in the comment.
<v Speaker 1>Boy, and do we did we not? Is this not working?
<v Speaker 1>I forgot?
<v Speaker 3>It's not working today.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, because we have a logo here.
<v Speaker 3>We have to we have to get good old maintenance
<v Speaker 3>on that, you know.
<v Speaker 1>But you're on the right place, folks, you're here.
<v Speaker 3>We're here on the podcast.
<v Speaker 1>Yes.
<v Speaker 4>If you you had to work with voice directors pretty
<v Speaker 4>much your whole career, right, So when I was like
<v Speaker 4>doing stuff with with NETFLI, it was like the first
<v Speaker 4>time I was working with the voice director and he
<v Speaker 4>was very funny.
<v Speaker 5>His name was Gene and he.
<v Speaker 4>Would always like, like, let's say the line was like, huh,
<v Speaker 4>how'd that get there? He'd be like, all right, imagine
<v Speaker 4>you just killed someone and you hit the body in
<v Speaker 4>your trunk and then you're driving me to the woods
<v Speaker 4>and then the police pull you over and then you
<v Speaker 4>open the trunk and you go, huh, how'd that get there?
<v Speaker 4>And I'd be like, all right, Geen, yeah, let me
<v Speaker 4>pull from that experience. So he would always like have
<v Speaker 4>just like the most wildest examples, and I'd be like, okay,
<v Speaker 4>and then there's one time.
<v Speaker 1>So you wake up on marsh okay exactly.
<v Speaker 4>There was one time I had to do like a
<v Speaker 4>sad line where I was talking to a toaster. But
<v Speaker 4>it was like I had to say something sad and
<v Speaker 4>they were like, they were like, imagine you're talking to your.
<v Speaker 5>Dog who's dying.
<v Speaker 4>And I was like okay, and then like I still
<v Speaker 4>couldn't get it, and They're like, now imagine you're holding
<v Speaker 4>your dead dog and.
<v Speaker 1>I was like, oh God, do I have to?
<v Speaker 3>I don't know, Like that's just acting, isn't it.
<v Speaker 1>You know, Yeah, I guess.
<v Speaker 5>So that's how you get into character, you know.
<v Speaker 1>It's like that old Dustin Hoffman thing when he was
<v Speaker 1>making Marathon Man stayed up all night to look like
<v Speaker 1>he was being tortured, and Sir Lourence Olivier said, what
<v Speaker 1>are you doing? You look like shit. He goes, well,
<v Speaker 1>I wanted to make it look like I was being
<v Speaker 1>tortured all night by this Nazi dentist, which he was,
<v Speaker 1>and he goes, oh my boy, you should try acting.
<v Speaker 1>So there you go, let's try acting.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. Do you get the part?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah? Yeah, well he did. Yeah, and he also got
<v Speaker 1>holes drilled in his teeth.
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<v Speaker 1>dot com slash Jim Ming's podcast Do It Now. So,
<v Speaker 1>what what is your favorite part of all of this
<v Speaker 1>business that you're in? Yeah?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I think finishing a video and just finally being
<v Speaker 4>able to just like send it free into the world.
<v Speaker 1>Is that hard for you because a lot of us
<v Speaker 1>keep going I could. I could do that. I could,
<v Speaker 1>I could.
<v Speaker 4>I was literally gonna like when people draw a picture,
<v Speaker 4>like very often they have a hard time like finishing
<v Speaker 4>it whenever they're like, oh, I can just add this,
<v Speaker 4>do this, And every time I try to like set
<v Speaker 4>like a loose schedule for myself where I'm like I'm
<v Speaker 4>going to post on Saturday, which means I needed to
<v Speaker 4>get this done by Monday.
<v Speaker 3>This done by Tuesday.
<v Speaker 4>And then I, like, I really I realized a pattern
<v Speaker 4>with like my upload schedule that like the day before
<v Speaker 4>I would always be like crunching to finish the video.
<v Speaker 4>I'd always be like staying up super late just like
<v Speaker 4>getting everything like put together. And I kept thinking, like
<v Speaker 4>why do I still like how is this like still
<v Speaker 4>a problem. And I realized it's because I'm like always
<v Speaker 4>adding in these extra little bits, like oh I can
<v Speaker 4>add a little drop shadow here, and oh I.
<v Speaker 3>Can add a little sound effect here.
<v Speaker 4>So just before I post, I'm just always like putting
<v Speaker 4>in the final touches and everything. But then once it's
<v Speaker 4>done and I can just look back at it on
<v Speaker 4>my my garden or whatever, then I can just like
<v Speaker 4>it's honestly just like letting it off into the world
<v Speaker 4>and let people enjoy it. So I think, yeah, finishing
<v Speaker 4>the video is always my favorite part.
<v Speaker 3>What about what about you? Yeah, what's your favorite part?
<v Speaker 1>Oh? Well, I like this podcast. No, I still I
<v Speaker 1>still enjoy you know what I do. I just did
<v Speaker 1>a couple of a couple three Mickey Mouse clubhouses this morning.
<v Speaker 5>Are there ever times where you have to like go
<v Speaker 5>into a booth and they're.
<v Speaker 4>Hey, mister, well, how are your kids? All right, Well,
<v Speaker 4>we're gonna need three seconds of you screaming.
<v Speaker 1>Like, oh sure, yeah, we do those at the end.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, of course, Yeah, that's that's just my thing.
<v Speaker 1>In fact, when we were doing Tasmania, because Taz Tasmanian devil,
<v Speaker 1>he's all screaming mostly yeah, and you can quote me,
<v Speaker 1>but you know, I would say, okay, well let's do
<v Speaker 1>this but Friday afternoons. Yeah, because that way you get
<v Speaker 1>the yeah, you get the weekend.
<v Speaker 3>Now I get that. I would also, uh, it was
<v Speaker 3>so funny.
<v Speaker 4>Like the only like industry experience I have with boys
<v Speaker 4>adding is just with Netflix.
<v Speaker 5>So you probably it's not bad.
<v Speaker 4>You probably have like a lot more like a crazier
<v Speaker 4>stories than what I'm about to say. But like I
<v Speaker 4>just remember there was a scene where I like, legit
<v Speaker 4>had to like scream at the top of.
<v Speaker 3>My lungs you're a slob to someone.
<v Speaker 4>And like so just I'm yelling at this person you're
<v Speaker 4>a slob, and just like seeing her like unchanging reaction
<v Speaker 4>just like yep.
<v Speaker 3>This is what is That's what I'm a slob. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>And I don't know.
<v Speaker 4>It was just like yeah, I like we did it
<v Speaker 4>over zoom and I could like hear my voice like
<v Speaker 4>through her headphones.
<v Speaker 3>Was that loud? You know?
<v Speaker 1>Oh wow?
<v Speaker 3>So it was yeah.
<v Speaker 4>But I like, are there ever times where you had
<v Speaker 4>to like say a very crazy line and you were
<v Speaker 4>just like, oh man, this is the way, Like I
<v Speaker 4>don't know, like like were you like a an alien
<v Speaker 4>and you're like the thesorbit trobs are attacking the disepticons
<v Speaker 4>or something.
<v Speaker 5>You get to say it like super earnestly or something.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, some absolutely ridiculous lines super earnestly. Yeah, Oh god,
<v Speaker 1>I think that's all I do. I don't know that
<v Speaker 1>I ever do anything.
<v Speaker 3>Up but that that's so true.
<v Speaker 1>You know. Gosh, there are something will there comes to mind.
<v Speaker 1>There were I think they were coyotes and there were
<v Speaker 1>a couple of coyotes sneaking up on something. I want
<v Speaker 1>to say it was an old Goofy cart tune or
<v Speaker 1>Mickey mouseen and the one they decided they were all
<v Speaker 1>hillbilly coyote. Well, dad, I don't know nothing that that
<v Speaker 1>ain't none of mine. It must be urine. And uh
<v Speaker 1>and I urine. Yeah, it was supposed to none of mine.
<v Speaker 1>It must be yurine. So I was trying to sneak
<v Speaker 1>it past to see if and of course they caught me,
<v Speaker 1>like they animated it, and they go, we can't do this.
<v Speaker 1>It must be urine. Well it's it's a hillbilly thing.
<v Speaker 1>So they maybe changed it to yours yours. It must
<v Speaker 1>be mine, must be yours yours? And then I said,
<v Speaker 1>piss on it? How many times?
<v Speaker 4>How many times does like a director or executive like
<v Speaker 4>I have to pull back from a joke that you
<v Speaker 4>ac turned on or something, or like thunder that's interesting.
<v Speaker 3>It's them rolling the dumpster, I think, not very nice.
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, it's trash.
<v Speaker 1>And you guys were here for us.
<v Speaker 3>We did under what Yeah two weekends ago, you were
<v Speaker 3>in Houston yesterday.
<v Speaker 5>Right, did you hear?
<v Speaker 3>Were you there?
<v Speaker 4>Like crazy weather? We're having there was like thundering, but
<v Speaker 4>it was like still Sonny out, am I crazy?
<v Speaker 3>Or they might be.
<v Speaker 5>Maybe someone fact checked me on.
<v Speaker 4>What were we We're talking about voices and doing something.
<v Speaker 4>We're talking about thunder yeah, oh no, the dumpster dumpster?
<v Speaker 3>But before that, how are we doing?
<v Speaker 4>Hey, leave a comment about what your favorite part of
<v Speaker 4>this podcast was.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, I want to know as a YouTuber with over
<v Speaker 3>twenty million subscribers on YouTube, which is just crazy to me,
<v Speaker 3>like this, yes, congratulations, that has to be and you
<v Speaker 3>probably know this, like right off the top of your head,
<v Speaker 3>like that has to compare viewer wise to like primetime television,
<v Speaker 3>right or more?
<v Speaker 1>You know, that's a good question.
<v Speaker 4>I think so many like starting YouTubers, like we'll focus
<v Speaker 4>on the numbers too much.
<v Speaker 3>But I'm gonna I'm gonna rebut that, okay because I
<v Speaker 3>have a follow up question, But go on, I think
<v Speaker 3>the Dumpster's all done now.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, No, it's definitely like especially like my my earlier videos.
<v Speaker 4>I don't know if you saw my sewer Boy series.
<v Speaker 4>A lot of people like the seu Boy series. Of course,
<v Speaker 4>I feel like that's like the Yeah, it's like people
<v Speaker 4>see me and They're like you're the suol boy guy,
<v Speaker 4>and I'm like, you know, but like yeah, being like
<v Speaker 4>looking back and just seeing like how big some of
<v Speaker 4>those videos got, I was just like, whoa. I feel
<v Speaker 4>like even at the at the time, I didn't realize
<v Speaker 4>how ginormous of an audience this was. Yeah, and now it's, uh,
<v Speaker 4>it's it's not as what what it was used to
<v Speaker 4>be here everything, but like it's you know, still their
<v Speaker 4>videos are doing well enough and I'm able to like
<v Speaker 4>support myself. Ye, but yeah, I mean what was the
<v Speaker 4>question again, just like, isn't that a crazy amount?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah? It was a lot. Well, yeah, I was. I
<v Speaker 3>was comparing it to primetime television and like, you know,
<v Speaker 3>just the number of eyes because I think, you know,
<v Speaker 3>even I'm in my mid thirties and it's still like
<v Speaker 3>a relatively new thing to me. You've been around, you know,
<v Speaker 3>YouTube for over a decade, correct, Yeah, posting on YouTube,
<v Speaker 3>so you've seen like from the you know, almost a
<v Speaker 3>whole well, definitely a whole different era of YouTubers at
<v Speaker 3>that time. Like I remember like Jena Marbles and like
<v Speaker 3>there was a whole different personalities since retired and then now,
<v Speaker 3>you know, a whole new era of YouTubers.
<v Speaker 4>Like YouTube is constantly going through changes and eras and
<v Speaker 4>stuff like anytime they do something to the algorithm, or
<v Speaker 4>they like you know, have like a monetization thing, or
<v Speaker 4>even like sponsorships being like more common, they like elevated
<v Speaker 4>all these like medium sized channels to be able to
<v Speaker 4>do it full time.
<v Speaker 3>So like, and how do you navigate through all that?
<v Speaker 4>How do you navigate through it? So I'm definitely not
<v Speaker 4>the right person to be talking to about.
<v Speaker 3>This, because you are.
<v Speaker 4>I just make the videos that I would want to
<v Speaker 4>watch there, and there are times where I'll have an idea,
<v Speaker 4>but then I think, I don't think people are gonna
<v Speaker 4>watch that idea, you know. Like so they're just kind
<v Speaker 4>of like you have to find this like balance of
<v Speaker 4>like what do I want to talk about and what
<v Speaker 4>will people find entertaining?
<v Speaker 3>You know. But you do also make an effort to
<v Speaker 3>get your face out there as well.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I've shown my face a couple of times.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's and like you did that that boxing match
<v Speaker 3>with them.
<v Speaker 4>I had a whole there's a whole thing there was
<v Speaker 4>actually we were supposed to be doing a second one
<v Speaker 4>like this year. Oh man, how much time do we have,
<v Speaker 4>whatever you have, it's just the person who had who
<v Speaker 4>ran the event. It was in some controversies regarding the
<v Speaker 4>Palestine Israel conflict, and then like more just internet drama happened,
<v Speaker 4>and then the the like switched ownerships to like a
<v Speaker 4>new person. But then they they were telling me that
<v Speaker 4>it was just like a constant uphill battle to like
<v Speaker 4>get people to be excited for this event.
<v Speaker 5>So then they just ended up canceling it.
<v Speaker 4>And I did all this boxing training for for nothing pretty.
<v Speaker 5>Much, and but I got in good.
<v Speaker 4>I wasn't I'm not like super bummed about it because
<v Speaker 4>I didn't get into pretty decent shape.
<v Speaker 3>What was the motivation to do it in the first place?
<v Speaker 3>The motivator, it strikes like, I mean, I know nothing
<v Speaker 3>about you, but it seems like a very like off. Absolutely.
<v Speaker 3>I think it was.
<v Speaker 4>Not knowing exactly what I was getting into for the
<v Speaker 4>most part was it was a big part of it.
<v Speaker 4>But it was when covid started. I started taking like
<v Speaker 4>working out, I started working out more seriously when covid started.
<v Speaker 4>And then uh, this this YouTuber reached out to me
<v Speaker 4>and was like, Hey, I'm doing a boxing event and
<v Speaker 4>I was like, hey, I'm healthy, let's do it again,
<v Speaker 4>not knowing.
<v Speaker 3>Were you familiar with his videos before him? Yeah?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah, I was totally familiar. I'd like met him
<v Speaker 4>before and everything, okay, and then you know things, you
<v Speaker 4>get in the ring, the adrenaline happens, and you know,
<v Speaker 4>you get knocked out in like ninety seconds.
<v Speaker 3>So but voice acting, though, is.
<v Speaker 1>A lot of fun.
<v Speaker 3>You rarely get knocked out exactly. Yeah, yeah, you just I'm.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, did you notice that smooth segue?
<v Speaker 3>I just I don't know if that's Did you ever
<v Speaker 3>boxed before.
<v Speaker 1>Jim only when I was a kid, Yeah yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, Well I know Jim is a big boxing fan.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah fan, Yeah really, but everybody kept.
<v Speaker 1>I kept gaining weight but not getting any taller, so
<v Speaker 1>everybody was reaching me from across the room. I go,
<v Speaker 1>oh with this, I'm getting in a band.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah you know, it's I don't know.
<v Speaker 4>I definitely I like working out and I like going
<v Speaker 4>to the gym, which you don't see a lot of
<v Speaker 4>animators doing that.
<v Speaker 3>I'm I'm trying to be the change.
<v Speaker 1>Ah, right, that's awesome.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, what else is like highlighted all that?
<v Speaker 1>Let's see Yeah, that's right. We look at this. Look
<v Speaker 1>what we have. Well, we've got the mister Beast to
<v Speaker 1>YouTube battering Roy at battle.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah that do you know what we were the YouTuber
<v Speaker 4>mister Beast is I think?
<v Speaker 5>So that's wow cool. I've been in two of his videos.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, yeah, I haven't seen them all.
<v Speaker 3>That's fine. I don't think so. I've either, but he
<v Speaker 3>hasn't either. He's Uh.
<v Speaker 4>Jimmy will always like get these like big, big events
<v Speaker 4>where he invites bunchs of YouTubers to compete for money.
<v Speaker 4>And then there was one where he did like this
<v Speaker 4>airsoft match and we had like balloons and everything, and
<v Speaker 4>me and my team won that one.
<v Speaker 3>So that was really sad.
<v Speaker 4>And then later he invited a bunch of YouTubers to
<v Speaker 4>be in this giant cube for over a day, over
<v Speaker 4>twenty four hours. Uh, and we like didn't have any
<v Speaker 4>phones or anything. And I like, already, right off the bat,
<v Speaker 4>I think getting fifty YouTubers locked in a room with
<v Speaker 4>no connection to the outside world, that's already a great
<v Speaker 4>idea for a video right there, you know, just like
<v Speaker 4>record the conversation.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, And then uh, I didn't.
<v Speaker 4>I lost to Djenga with one of the challenges we
<v Speaker 4>was Jenga. But then my my friend Jayden actually ended
<v Speaker 4>up winning that challenge, so she won two Mister Beast
<v Speaker 4>challenges and Jenka.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah right, was it like the big Jenga?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, it was, you know, the slightly bigger than average.
<v Speaker 4>I first of all, I just want to say I
<v Speaker 4>never liked Djenga, not even in like this small forms
<v Speaker 4>too much stress. You know, you know it's going to
<v Speaker 4>fall over and it's going to make a loud sound.
<v Speaker 4>I'd rather just play mouse trap or mouse.
<v Speaker 1>Trap well two times in my life, and I played
<v Speaker 1>Jenga way too much two times in my life. I
<v Speaker 1>made it to the very end, Yeah, where every single
<v Speaker 1>one was used, yes, like Chris Cross a single one. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>and there was a lot of.
<v Speaker 5>You know, sneeze and it falls over.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, exactly. But although I don't have a picture of.
<v Speaker 4>It, Well, my my friend Jaden can now say that
<v Speaker 4>she won Jenga and got like a million dollars.
<v Speaker 3>So okay, I didn't do that. Yeah, she had to
<v Speaker 3>do a bunch of other things.
<v Speaker 1>Too, but she's a ahead of me.
<v Speaker 3>Jenga is a big part of it.
<v Speaker 1>I can't imagine that's really like, that's something a million
<v Speaker 1>dollars play the hell out of this game exactly. Wow.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's not so how much money he throws around.
<v Speaker 4>I was gonna say, like we were talking earlier about
<v Speaker 4>like the trends of YouTube and everything, and I think
<v Speaker 4>mister Beast is just changing the game.
<v Speaker 3>Oh for sure. He changed everything. Yeah, change everything every
<v Speaker 3>now it's all you know what I mean. It's very
<v Speaker 3>like like even like his newer videos. I was kind
<v Speaker 3>of a fan of him like years ago, years ago.
<v Speaker 3>I haven't kept up as much as I used to,
<v Speaker 3>but it's just like, you know, like so like quick edit,
<v Speaker 3>Like I feel like I'm not even getting like a
<v Speaker 3>full story that.
<v Speaker 4>Was like in the in the Mister Beast fifty YouTuber
<v Speaker 4>Cube thing. I feel like he could have, like if
<v Speaker 4>this was like a regular TV show, he could have
<v Speaker 4>like made a whole season on right, Yeah, stretched it
<v Speaker 4>out like really had the drama of like, well, this
<v Speaker 4>person's getting eliminated, but no, he just made it was
<v Speaker 4>probably a forty minute video, which is long for mister
<v Speaker 4>pet for sure.
<v Speaker 1>For sure, he.
<v Speaker 3>Usually sticks around like fifteen twenty these days.
<v Speaker 5>But voice acting, though, what do you what are your
<v Speaker 5>thoughts on voice act?
<v Speaker 3>Obviously to talk about YouTube on YouTube.
<v Speaker 1>We're here, Augue YouTube are Yeah, that's right, we're surrounded.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, we're I mean, we're all microphones, so we're kind
<v Speaker 4>of voice acting.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's like a yeah, best of both worlds. We
<v Speaker 3>actually do talk about that on this podcast. That was
<v Speaker 3>interesting because Jim will talk about how, you know, everybody
<v Speaker 3>used to record together back in the day, you know,
<v Speaker 3>all together in a booth. Now it's all over the
<v Speaker 3>and I always make the comment, yeah, it's either over
<v Speaker 3>the computer. But the only time that voice actors really
<v Speaker 3>get to be together again in the same room or
<v Speaker 3>same studio is either a podcast or a convention. Seriously,
<v Speaker 3>like it's really the only time. It's really like.
<v Speaker 1>Cool to see and I think and I miss it,
<v Speaker 1>you know, yeah, I was going to really do.
<v Speaker 4>I get COVID made people work from home, and then
<v Speaker 4>some some industries just stayed working from.
<v Speaker 3>Home, and the entertainment industry was probably the biggest proponent
<v Speaker 3>of that, at least for like the audition process and
<v Speaker 3>recording and everything.
<v Speaker 1>You know, Oh yeah, well look how many times you
<v Speaker 1>had to do something in the hallway or you know, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>it's we're slowly coming around, but I mean we're in
<v Speaker 1>studios again. Yeah, so that's that's a step in the
<v Speaker 1>right direction. You know, I've been there for a while now,
<v Speaker 1>but yeah, I miss those days. I like, see because
<v Speaker 1>you know, ad libs don't work if the person behind
<v Speaker 1>you isn't there, the person without what the next line
<v Speaker 1>isn't there?
<v Speaker 3>No, you know, because you know, well, it's a very
<v Speaker 3>different experience. You know, you've done most of your voice
<v Speaker 3>acting alone, so compared to that experience that you had
<v Speaker 3>with others when you were doing the Netflix show, did
<v Speaker 3>you like it more? Did you like it less?
<v Speaker 4>I liked it more for sure, just like having like
<v Speaker 4>more people to like bounce. Sure, like the whole scene
<v Speaker 4>off of it.
<v Speaker 1>And I think you're better too, because you're almost performing
<v Speaker 1>for an audience.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, Like they say something to you and then I
<v Speaker 4>say something back, you know, instead of it being like stilted,
<v Speaker 4>like one sided conversation.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Do you feel like you've learned things from their performances
<v Speaker 3>and like that experience. I learned that voice actors are crazy,
<v Speaker 3>That's what I learned, and I like that is very true.
<v Speaker 1>I know.
<v Speaker 4>I say this like being fully aware of what I do,
<v Speaker 4>and like how I scream into a booth for hours
<v Speaker 4>out of time. But like voice actors, first off, they
<v Speaker 4>like they have a ritual for me, I like gargle
<v Speaker 4>apple cider vinegar, just to like clear out my throat.
<v Speaker 3>That's good, ye, And so do you do that.
<v Speaker 4>Then you get into a booth and then they do
<v Speaker 4>funny voices for who knows how long, and then we
<v Speaker 4>just let them out into society and we just like
<v Speaker 4>give them money for having to do silly voices. Yeah, no, no,
<v Speaker 4>there was. I met a lot of very cool people,
<v Speaker 4>very talented people. Do you know Gary Anthony Williams.
<v Speaker 5>He's uh, he was, He's very he was.
<v Speaker 3>He played like.
<v Speaker 4>The teacher in the in the Netflix show. But like
<v Speaker 4>we loved his performance so much that we basically just
<v Speaker 4>like wrote this like teacher character into like more stories
<v Speaker 4>just because.
<v Speaker 5>He was just so good.
<v Speaker 4>And that was also another thing too that I learned
<v Speaker 4>that like the voice actor can also like help you
<v Speaker 4>find the character that like you're trying to write. You know,
<v Speaker 4>like because you write the script, you like have an
<v Speaker 4>idea and that you have the design for it too,
<v Speaker 4>so you like have this idea of what the character
<v Speaker 4>is and what they do. But then once the like
<v Speaker 4>voice actor gives them life and like gives them a personality.
<v Speaker 4>Then you can like start writing for them easier because
<v Speaker 4>you know like how they're going to react and what they're.
<v Speaker 3>Going to say.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, so I like having like voice actors really also
<v Speaker 4>like taught me about like how characters are formed and
<v Speaker 4>like what.
<v Speaker 5>Like goes into all that, you know.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, so any fun process.
<v Speaker 3>Shout out to Gary Anthony Williams voice.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, he's a great guy. It's amazing.
<v Speaker 3>And just on that recent topic of conventions, you do
<v Speaker 3>conventions as well, too, don't you.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I've been to this one called vid Con that's
<v Speaker 4>been going on. Uh and I know you do a
<v Speaker 4>lot of conventions too, right, Yeah, there's sure are a lot.
<v Speaker 4>I went this is not on topic, but I went
<v Speaker 4>to this Magic the Gathering convention.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, that's cool.
<v Speaker 3>Do you play Oh I love magic? Oh nice? Yeah?
<v Speaker 3>Do you play it? I don't. I don't. I have
<v Speaker 3>friends who play, but I don't. Don't get sucked in.
<v Speaker 4>It's it's that's what I've heard when there's like it's
<v Speaker 4>so funny, Like I definitely think you have to be
<v Speaker 4>a certain kind of person to like magic, you know,
<v Speaker 4>and I fit the bill you have to like numbers,
<v Speaker 4>you know.
<v Speaker 3>Do you know cash Cards Unlimited?
<v Speaker 1>Uh?
<v Speaker 3>That is that a YouTube channel? No? No, no, it's a
<v Speaker 3>card shop out here. Oh here Cards Unlimited. Yeah no,
<v Speaker 3>I haven't heard. Yeah, I need to introduce you. Is
<v Speaker 3>my buddies a huge, huge collector, I believe it.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, there's a lot of good shops in count Yeah yeah, sorry, just.
<v Speaker 1>Came went in. But but one at that shop right? Oh? Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>and then he got that who was his first?
<v Speaker 3>Oh I can't remember who he got.
<v Speaker 1>I can't remember who he got cash, I don't know.
<v Speaker 3>But they have everything. Yeah, gathering is like his his thing.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, Jim, do you have a lot of people come
<v Speaker 4>up to you at conventions and like ask you to
<v Speaker 4>sign stuff?
<v Speaker 1>Oh?
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, what's the like most common thing that people ask you?
<v Speaker 3>Did?
<v Speaker 1>Well? I bring a lot of pictures, so you know,
<v Speaker 1>there's that dark Wing is up there, and Pooh and Tigger,
<v Speaker 1>and I get a lot of plush animals, plush toys.
<v Speaker 3>And and the characters you voiced.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, and uh, a lot of legs and boobs.
<v Speaker 3>I guess, very very opposite sides of this.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and and then and this is years ago, and
<v Speaker 1>I realized that I had to improve my my my
<v Speaker 1>signature signature. It was just you know, and uh because
<v Speaker 1>this girl brought back and goes, look what I did,
<v Speaker 1>and I go, oh my god, it's my name.
<v Speaker 3>She tattooed it.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah yeah, And I was thinking, I don't know if
<v Speaker 1>I liked it better.
<v Speaker 3>There was a girl who did that just last weekend.
<v Speaker 3>I was in Houston with Jim and she tattooed her
<v Speaker 3>leg like massive Jim Cummings.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, but now now, And I said, let me guess
<v Speaker 1>you're going to have a tattoos. She goes absolutely, And
<v Speaker 1>I'm thinking, what about your husband? He crazy? Can he
<v Speaker 1>be about? Oh yeah, hey, hi Jim, Yeah that's real good.
<v Speaker 1>I'll bother you know, what do you say? You know?
<v Speaker 4>I feel like, if you really, if someone's a really
<v Speaker 4>big fan of your work, they should just get like
<v Speaker 4>a tigger or poo or some other like yeah, sure,
<v Speaker 4>like they don't.
<v Speaker 1>Need to proud that. There's plenty of those. No, I don't.
<v Speaker 1>I don't have any.
<v Speaker 3>Would you ever get a tattoo?
<v Speaker 1>No? I almost did once, and then I realized, see
<v Speaker 1>the problem is I'm very mercurial, and what I really
<v Speaker 1>am crazy about right now? Next week I'll be going, oh, man,
<v Speaker 1>what the hell was I thinking? You know, so I
<v Speaker 1>know better?
<v Speaker 3>Okay, you know better, you know I think.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, everybody hasn't but me. Yeah, I'm sure you
<v Speaker 1>have one? Right? Do you have an s right there
<v Speaker 1>on here? Actually just a superman?
<v Speaker 4>I have two tattoos right here, right here, I'm missing
<v Speaker 4>just Sturnham right here? Actually, uh, have you ever seen
<v Speaker 4>The Dark Crystal by Jim Henson? So I got I
<v Speaker 4>got a Skexies. Oh that's fine, I got a Skexies. Uh,
<v Speaker 4>Dark Crystal. It's the guy that goes my favate.
<v Speaker 1>One of like, oh that's cool. I really like an
<v Speaker 1>evil muppet. Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>It's not my first tattoo, though. This is my first
<v Speaker 4>tattoo in the camera see it?
<v Speaker 3>What's say?
<v Speaker 1>Oh that's pretty good, I say.
<v Speaker 4>I wanted to get a tattoo with no meaning, so
<v Speaker 4>I got the word tattoos congratulations, so I could tell
<v Speaker 4>people that I had a tattoo.
<v Speaker 1>So, yes, what's it of?
<v Speaker 3>It's do you have any tattoos?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah?
<v Speaker 3>I have a tattoo. It's like that dude, where's my car? Yeah?
<v Speaker 3>What's what was there saying on their backs?
<v Speaker 1>Oh?
<v Speaker 4>It was like, bro, dude, dude, sweet, what's mine say?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah? Yeah, it's real.
<v Speaker 5>Who's on first situation?
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<v Speaker 5>You said you almost got a tattoo though.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, what, well, I was two dollars short. Oh thank god? Well, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>it was a really well rendered scorpion with a drop
<v Speaker 1>of blood tripping from the tail, which I thought was
<v Speaker 1>very tasteful. Yeahs cool, and I was gonna get it
<v Speaker 1>right there.
<v Speaker 3>Nice sounds like a band tattoo.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, well I was nineteen.
<v Speaker 4>It's good that they didn't tattoo and then you paid
<v Speaker 4>and then they like you were short, and then they
<v Speaker 4>had to like scrape.
<v Speaker 1>It off or some yeah yeah, yeah, sorry, you don't
<v Speaker 1>get that little blood thing. You have to give it back? No,
<v Speaker 1>but I would just get sick of it and then
<v Speaker 1>hate myself. So I went right to hating myself, and
<v Speaker 1>that way I didn't have to muck it up with
<v Speaker 1>the tattoo in the middle. Don't try it on.
<v Speaker 3>So voice acting, what do you think? So?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, now, when did you think you were going to
<v Speaker 1>do this like super voice acting? Well both, When did
<v Speaker 1>I think I was going? What age it were? You know?
<v Speaker 4>Uh, Like, I guess when I posted my very first comic,
<v Speaker 4>I probably was like, yeah, I'm gonna be big one day,
<v Speaker 4>you know. I like it was like like I'm gonna
<v Speaker 4>na my name in lights or whatever. And then I
<v Speaker 4>like kept posting comics and then no one was reading them,
<v Speaker 4>and then it was I always tell people that I
<v Speaker 4>had to, Like, I posted one hundred comics before I
<v Speaker 4>even got a hundred followers, you know. So I wasn't
<v Speaker 4>doing it for like the numbers or the success. I
<v Speaker 4>was doing it because I enjoyed doing it. And then
<v Speaker 4>after enough trial and error, I like found out what worked.
<v Speaker 4>I found out how to make things funny, how to
<v Speaker 4>structure jokes, and like draw at least decently well not
<v Speaker 4>like abysmally, you know. And then then yeah, then the
<v Speaker 4>comics came out. I remember, I like came home from
<v Speaker 4>high school and I like one of the comics went viral,
<v Speaker 4>and I just like got home, logged into Tumblr and
<v Speaker 4>I see my follower count was at like one fifty
<v Speaker 4>and I was like.
<v Speaker 1>Whoa, it's happening.
<v Speaker 3>You know that was y to jump exactly.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah, I went from like twenty to one to fifty,
<v Speaker 4>and I was like, it's happening.
<v Speaker 1>You know, you're getting a virus. Dad.
<v Speaker 4>I think I'm going to be doing this full time.
<v Speaker 4>And then wait, what was the original? When did I
<v Speaker 4>know I wanted to do this?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah?
<v Speaker 5>I just kept doing it.
<v Speaker 4>And then like even like when I was growing on
<v Speaker 4>Tumblr and like getting popular with the comics, I was
<v Speaker 4>still not making any money off of it because I
<v Speaker 4>was just like I was making like internet currency. I
<v Speaker 4>was getting a lot of likes, and that was like,
<v Speaker 4>I was like nice. And then then on YouTube they
<v Speaker 4>let you monetize things. And then once I figured that out,
<v Speaker 4>it was all over. You know, like it wasn't even
<v Speaker 4>like a crazy amount of money, but I was it
<v Speaker 4>was money exactly, And I was like, hey, I'd rather
<v Speaker 4>just stay in my dorm making YouTube videos, not socializing
<v Speaker 4>with people than like going to classes and doing math homework,
<v Speaker 4>not socializing with people.
<v Speaker 3>What's what's the most amount of money you've made from
<v Speaker 3>one video?
<v Speaker 4>Oh, I don't know, I think it was it was
<v Speaker 4>probably one of the Sue Away ones.
<v Speaker 3>Honestly, man, I remember.
<v Speaker 1>You.
<v Speaker 3>I would if you asked me this like.
<v Speaker 4>Five years ago, I would have been able to like
<v Speaker 4>tell you it to like the number, because I used
<v Speaker 4>to like check, like how much.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, six figures, five figures?
<v Speaker 4>Oh in one, like in one video probably like the
<v Speaker 4>the not to like to my own hone or anything.
<v Speaker 4>But like the Sue Away ones have like one hundred
<v Speaker 4>million views, which is.
<v Speaker 1>Like that's insane.
<v Speaker 3>That is insane.
<v Speaker 4>I like why I don't I don't even know, like
<v Speaker 4>which genie did I like rescue it exactly?
<v Speaker 1>You know.
<v Speaker 3>It's usually like only really music videos that you see.
<v Speaker 4>And like I don't get, Like, I I honestly don't
<v Speaker 4>know why that one in particular was like so universally loved.
<v Speaker 4>I rewatched that video and I'm like, the voice acting
<v Speaker 4>is bad, the backgrounds are bad, jokes are stale.
<v Speaker 1>You know.
<v Speaker 4>So I don't know why people really resonated with that
<v Speaker 4>Suaway one and that so many people I even like
<v Speaker 4>In the first Suebway one, I only called it Sua
<v Speaker 4>Bay once as.
<v Speaker 3>Like a joke.
<v Speaker 4>I was like, I used to work at a small
<v Speaker 4>local sandwich shop. I don't know if you guys heard
<v Speaker 4>of it.
<v Speaker 3>It's called Suabway.
<v Speaker 4>And then that was like literally the only time I
<v Speaker 4>said it, and then the rest of the video called
<v Speaker 4>it subway, and then everyone was like way and then
<v Speaker 4>to hang their head.
<v Speaker 3>Was it around the same time as like Spider Man,
<v Speaker 3>uh go Goofy and Dolan duck out you know what
<v Speaker 3>I'm talking about about, Like weird Day?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, what was the subway?
<v Speaker 5>Was like twenty sixteen question.
<v Speaker 3>So those would have been a couple of years before that.
<v Speaker 3>You know.
<v Speaker 4>I actually had a pretty like existential moment not too
<v Speaker 4>long ago. It was with my boxing coach, and you know,
<v Speaker 4>he he's like, every time I post a picture of
<v Speaker 4>you on Instagram, people comment sua Boy, and I was like, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>it's this video that I made a long time ago.
<v Speaker 4>And then I told him, I was like, yeah, I
<v Speaker 4>think I made it like March twenty sixteen, and then
<v Speaker 4>he's like, oh, that's when my daughter was born, and
<v Speaker 4>like his daughter was like there and she's like nine,
<v Speaker 4>she's like nine years old. And I just like got
<v Speaker 4>to see this like this, what my the age of
<v Speaker 4>what my video was like in a person.
<v Speaker 3>It was just like, oh my god, So yeah that's wild. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>I just well, you must get that experience. That's what
<v Speaker 3>I say to me.
<v Speaker 5>Complained about my age, probably doesn't.
<v Speaker 1>No, no, no, yeah. I didn't even think it was
<v Speaker 1>a complaint. I thought you were bragging. Oh well I had,
<v Speaker 1>but my oldest fan was nine. I'd be going, wow,
<v Speaker 1>what year is this? I cause I'm thirty again, Okay, Okay.
<v Speaker 3>I wasn't. My oldest fan's not nine. Yeah, maybe I don't.
<v Speaker 3>I haven't.
<v Speaker 5>I didn't go to VidCon this year.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, but like you've you've been in the industry yeah
<v Speaker 3>a long time?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, forty years. Oh wow, something like that.
<v Speaker 3>How'd you like get into it?
<v Speaker 1>I just, uh, well, I made a demo tape. I've
<v Speaker 1>told he before. I made a demo tape and shopped
<v Speaker 1>it around a little bit. And then I got a
<v Speaker 1>job an audition, and I got that job, and then
<v Speaker 1>I had another audition and they used the audition for
<v Speaker 1>the job. So I thought, oh my god, well I'm
<v Speaker 1>this is it? And and and I've been doing it
<v Speaker 1>ever since. And that was in eighty five eighty Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>It was Winnie the Pooh the biggest one.
<v Speaker 1>Well yeah, yeah, over time and that was was that
<v Speaker 1>like over time? Is that like the first dark.
<v Speaker 4>Was that like the first instance of Winnie the Pooh
<v Speaker 4>animated or is there some other?
<v Speaker 1>No? Well, back when I was, you know, in grade school,
<v Speaker 1>there were there had three shorts, Winded the Pooh and
<v Speaker 1>Ticker I Winted the Poo in the Day for e
<v Speaker 1>Yor and Winnie the and Winnie the Poo. They were
<v Speaker 1>three twenty two minute episodes that they put together to
<v Speaker 1>make a feature length film, three just in three parts,
<v Speaker 1>and it won the Academy Award in the mid sixties,
<v Speaker 1>sixty four sixty five, and then inexplicably they didn't do
<v Speaker 1>anything at all for twenty more years, which is good because,
<v Speaker 1>like I said, give me a chance to grow up.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>And at that point, you know, Sterling Holloway, God rest
<v Speaker 1>his soul. He was very, very old. And Paul Winchell,
<v Speaker 1>original Tigger, he was still around for a while, so
<v Speaker 1>he was tiggering I was Pooh, and whenever he would
<v Speaker 1>have to go off and go to Africa and cure
<v Speaker 1>hunger or whatever. I mean, he literally did these things.
<v Speaker 1>I would be Tigger liked, and you know, eventually, you know,
<v Speaker 1>time went on and yeah, I mean, Pooh and Tigger
<v Speaker 1>have been with me most of my life. Wow.
<v Speaker 3>So yeah, I'm sure a lot of people like connect
<v Speaker 3>with you.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, yeah, they sure do.
<v Speaker 4>I don't want a fan boy either, but Winnie the
<v Speaker 4>Pooh was like what I was watching as like a preschooler.
<v Speaker 1>Sure, yeah, yeah, I understood, yeah and rightly, so keep
<v Speaker 1>up the good work. Yeah, well you're not watching now,
<v Speaker 1>Jesu's no respect. I'm Rodney Dangerfield over.
<v Speaker 4>Have you have you ever done any anime voices A
<v Speaker 4>little like voices voice for animes?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, very very little, I know, Like.
<v Speaker 4>That's a whole different I guess. Yeah, world and voice acting.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah yeah, it's a very popular world. But it's my
<v Speaker 1>understanding is that it's mostly done in uh forget Dallas
<v Speaker 1>or Houston, Texas. Yeah yeah, and uh and that's that's
<v Speaker 1>where all the anime stuff is based. I guess where
<v Speaker 1>they record it. But I did one. I did Howells
<v Speaker 1>Moving Castle.
<v Speaker 3>Whoa you did ghibli? That?
<v Speaker 1>Did? I know? Yeah?
<v Speaker 5>I think that was me Okay, how was moving castle?
<v Speaker 3>Wait? Do you remember what? Do you remember what character?
<v Speaker 2>You were?
<v Speaker 1>No? Cool? But you guys do. And then I played one.
<v Speaker 4>By the way, I will say, like Ghibli is like
<v Speaker 4>its own genre of anime in my opinion, Like you
<v Speaker 4>have the anime which is like, you know, super tropy
<v Speaker 4>and oh my goodness, and then we got Ghibli which
<v Speaker 4>is like super down to earth and like very artistic
<v Speaker 4>and beautiful.
<v Speaker 1>Well, then I probably wasn't in that one. I was
<v Speaker 1>probably in the one with the arm parts. Hard to say,
<v Speaker 1>but yeah, I cannot for the life and may think
<v Speaker 1>of that that one. Anyway, you guys will send it
<v Speaker 1>in right.
<v Speaker 5>Leave your comments in the comment box now below.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, and please do get.
<v Speaker 5>The Patreon link and leave a comment.
<v Speaker 3>I already said.
<v Speaker 1>That, but do it now do it again.
<v Speaker 3>So going forward, you mentioned when you first came in
<v Speaker 3>here that you're kind of getting back on the YouTube grind.
<v Speaker 3>Have you been taking some time off sometimes to yourself?
<v Speaker 3>And I noticed that you haven't been posting as frequently
<v Speaker 3>on your channel.
<v Speaker 4>You know that's because I've shifted into making comics again.
<v Speaker 4>You know, I've kind of like refound because like that's
<v Speaker 4>how I got my start was just making these comics,
<v Speaker 4>and I think it was like, if if I could
<v Speaker 4>make my a living doing just YouTube shorts, I think
<v Speaker 4>I would do that because, like I really enjoy just
<v Speaker 4>thinking of a joke and then illustrating it and then leaving,
<v Speaker 4>you know, like just like a short.
<v Speaker 3>Little and then haha and then we leave.
<v Speaker 4>So like that that's what I really got with comics,
<v Speaker 4>you know, And then like YouTube shorts came around, and
<v Speaker 4>it's pretty much the same formula of just like think
<v Speaker 4>of a skit, acted out, draw it, and then leave.
<v Speaker 4>But there's like very little money with YouTube shorts, so
<v Speaker 4>I can like, like pretty much the money I make
<v Speaker 4>on YouTube shorts like barely covers the animation that the
<v Speaker 4>money that I spend on animation and stuff, so it's
<v Speaker 4>like they I get them for free kind of. But yeah,
<v Speaker 4>I've been really focusing on this video about war your Cats,
<v Speaker 4>which so let me explain Warrior.
<v Speaker 5>How much time do we have enough?
<v Speaker 4>Okay, so there's this book series. By the way, I'm
<v Speaker 4>so sorry for bringing this up on your podcast. I
<v Speaker 4>come into like you invite me in here. It's so
<v Speaker 4>hard because every social interaction I've had for the last
<v Speaker 4>like five months, I've just been like, have you guys
<v Speaker 4>heard about Warrior Cats? So there's this book series about cats,
<v Speaker 4>and for some reason, people love to draw the cats.
<v Speaker 3>I'm talking like like fan made music videos.
<v Speaker 4>There's like thousands literally saying thousands of these like animated
<v Speaker 4>fan made like cat drawings, you know.
<v Speaker 3>And I wanted to know, like, why.
<v Speaker 4>Do people like drawing these cats so much? Let's pull
<v Speaker 4>up some of the Warrior Cat animations and so I
<v Speaker 4>just like I wanted to know why, Like you know,
<v Speaker 4>I like there, I do animation, So I wanted to
<v Speaker 4>figure out, like why there's somebody overlapping exactly. And then
<v Speaker 4>I like didn't realize the like age group of the
<v Speaker 4>book that I was reading. It's like for little kids.
<v Speaker 5>And I like went into a Barnes and Noble one
<v Speaker 5>time trying to find.
<v Speaker 3>Like physical copies.
<v Speaker 4>So I was looking in the young adult section and
<v Speaker 4>I was like, oh, they don't have any. I couldn't
<v Speaker 4>find any, and then I realized, oh, I'm looking looking
<v Speaker 4>at the young adult section. I had to go to
<v Speaker 4>the kid's corner with like the Princess.
<v Speaker 1>Cas slightly older kids.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, you know, like the little kids section with like
<v Speaker 4>the blocks and the like the Mister Toad and whatever
<v Speaker 4>like yeah, and I realized like, oh, this is way
<v Speaker 4>too young. So but I don't know's I'm having a
<v Speaker 4>good time reading them and everything.
<v Speaker 3>I wanted to read more this year.
<v Speaker 4>So where cats it worked out again. I'm so sorry
<v Speaker 4>for bringing it up on your podcast.
<v Speaker 3>All right, that's quite It's hilarious. I think my little
<v Speaker 3>sister was into that one. Yes, when she was a
<v Speaker 3>little they were she was drawn them too. She was drawing,
<v Speaker 3>she was drawing them exactly.
<v Speaker 1>You know.
<v Speaker 4>The thing is I was drawn. I'm drawing them too.
<v Speaker 4>Actually I'm still drawing them. I'm like making these like
<v Speaker 4>Warrior Cat comics, so you know, I'm putting.
<v Speaker 5>Them in the video so I'm getting like use out
<v Speaker 5>of them.
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, Like I said, I'm.
<v Speaker 4>Just getting kind of like going to my roots of
<v Speaker 4>like making comics again and also YouTube videos.
<v Speaker 3>Nice.
<v Speaker 4>You know, just you're getting you tickle that artistic itch somehow,
<v Speaker 4>right Yeah yeah yeah yeah.
<v Speaker 3>And it sounds like still all the while pursuing some
<v Speaker 3>more voice acting. Yeah, I have an agent. I guess
<v Speaker 3>they wish way you were speaking sounds like you want
<v Speaker 3>to do more of it.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I would like to if anyone's looking for if
<v Speaker 4>anyone's looking for a boy, you know it's in the
<v Speaker 4>right place.
<v Speaker 3>Act.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, so I like, I love I love doing the
<v Speaker 4>silly voices. You tell me what to say and I'll say.
<v Speaker 3>It, no matter what. Maybe not no matter what.
<v Speaker 1>Easy.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, that's great.
<v Speaker 1>Well, now we should tell them your agency.
<v Speaker 3>Oh should we?
<v Speaker 1>Should we?
<v Speaker 5>I mean his name is.
<v Speaker 3>Michael.
<v Speaker 1>Shout out to Michael Michael. All right, Okay, we got that.
<v Speaker 3>One, but thank you so much for being here. Thanks. Yeah. Absolutely,
<v Speaker 3>it's a good chat.
<v Speaker 5>I hope we uh talked about warrior Cats.
<v Speaker 3>Just enough, just enough?
<v Speaker 1>Ye just what was that again?
<v Speaker 3>Warrior Cats?
<v Speaker 4>Warrior Catah, okay, so warriors like not what I was
<v Speaker 4>expecting it Wednesday.
<v Speaker 3>It's warrior Cat Wednesday. By the way, Warrior Cat. There
<v Speaker 3>we go.
<v Speaker 1>That explains a lot.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Did we mentioned it's also tuned in with Jim. I
<v Speaker 1>think we got that one.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yes, and thank you guys over watching. We really
<v Speaker 3>appreciate it. Of course. If you want to see more content,
<v Speaker 3>you know where to check us out on Patreon. There's
<v Speaker 3>bonus content, there's extra episodes, there's all that good stuff.
<v Speaker 3>If you want some merchandise. You can go to Jim
<v Speaker 3>Commings Closet on Shopify and get some cool stuff there.
<v Speaker 3>With all that said and done, I'm producer Chris the
<v Speaker 3>Legend himself, mister Jim Cummings. Hey, James Rallison, thank you
<v Speaker 3>again so much for being here today.
<v Speaker 5>Thanks for having me.
<v Speaker 3>We appreciate you. Guys all. We will see you in
<v Speaker 3>the next one.
<v Speaker 1>Thank you, thank you.