Eric Bauza (Looney Tunes, Puss In Boots, Bob's Burgers)

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<v Speaker 1>My name is Jim Cummings and welcome to tuned In. Hey, everybody,
<v Speaker 1>welcome back to tuned In with Jim Cummings. I'm Jim
<v Speaker 1>Cummings and he's Eric Bowser, producer Chris Don't. He's right here,
<v Speaker 1>but wait, there's more. Where is our friend from down
<v Speaker 1>under Brenda there?
<v Speaker 4>He is.
<v Speaker 1>Say hi to everybody.
<v Speaker 2>Hi, everybody, we are back in the saddle.
<v Speaker 1>I'm so glad you can make it.
<v Speaker 2>Busy guy folks, oh boy, not busy. Not as busy
<v Speaker 2>as you because well, I don't know you were busy
<v Speaker 2>in the booth. And now we were just talking before
<v Speaker 2>this about the con culture, comic con culture in New York,
<v Speaker 2>comic all the different cons. You've been in them, all,
<v Speaker 2>been to.
<v Speaker 1>A few of them. Yeah, And it's just a lot
<v Speaker 1>of fun.
<v Speaker 2>It feels like, you know, many years ago there was
<v Speaker 2>like a rise and sort of like a fallen dip.
<v Speaker 2>But it's just it's it hasn't gone anywhere, and it's
<v Speaker 2>like seeing your old friends now. I'm assuming that you
<v Speaker 2>see a lot of the regulars now.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I like going to them because you can see people.
<v Speaker 1>You can see your old buddies that you used to
<v Speaker 1>record with, because we never seemed to be in the booth.
<v Speaker 2>This is actually I'm actually keyed in. This is special offense.
<v Speaker 1>This is cool.
<v Speaker 2>This is the most elaborate zoom background that I have
<v Speaker 2>in my on my desktop. Jim's not here. I'm a
<v Speaker 2>I you know, I'm from Canada, Canada, Canadian Ai, hey a,
<v Speaker 2>I get it. Yeah, more comedy.
<v Speaker 4>Where in Canada are you from?
<v Speaker 2>I'm from Toronto. Yeah, but more specifically, I said, I
<v Speaker 2>feel like I'm on wings in Waiings world, sitting on
<v Speaker 2>this couch with you, Mike. Mike Myers is from Scarborough,
<v Speaker 2>as is I think John Candy was raised there. Jim Carrey,
<v Speaker 2>my other favorite Canadian comedian, Drake the Rapper, who's from there.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yes, yeah, a lot of.
<v Speaker 5>I'm Canadian as well, but from this from the other side, Vancouver. Yeah,
<v Speaker 5>very very cool.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, yes, I'm I'm the UFO. According to Vancouver folks,
<v Speaker 2>unwanted from Ontario. That's the is what they call it charm.
<v Speaker 2>There's a rivalry. I see.
<v Speaker 1>Well, you're probably winning, You're just you're doing fine. They
<v Speaker 1>must hate you. On the other side.
<v Speaker 2>Well, look, you have some Canadians here in our in
<v Speaker 2>our our office mates, Terra Strong, Terry s LaMarsh, Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>David Kay another implant from Vancouver, and so many others,
<v Speaker 2>so many.
<v Speaker 1>Others, so true. Yeah, well it's come down here to
<v Speaker 1>get warm.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, exactly. Rather, I don't know how shovels work anymore.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know unless they enjoyed the circus for.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, well I see you, yeah, I see your tiktoks
<v Speaker 1>and that with that cute little guy of yours. Oh,
<v Speaker 1>it's not even.
<v Speaker 2>Growing like crazy. That's my son, Riker. He's eight years
<v Speaker 2>old now, and in about a year, we're gonna be
<v Speaker 2>able to share clothes. That's how big he's getting or
<v Speaker 2>how small I am shrinking. Yeah, one or the other.
<v Speaker 2>You'll meet in the middle. I seem to find a
<v Speaker 2>pothole to stand in any time I'm standing in someone
<v Speaker 2>next to someone tall. I think most voice actors are
<v Speaker 2>our size. We like to call it fun size, close
<v Speaker 2>to close to the mic.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, but why do you think that is? Because I've
<v Speaker 4>noticed that as well.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know. I think I think it's we make
<v Speaker 2>up for it our height in our voice we have.
<v Speaker 2>We have tall voices, tall voices.
<v Speaker 4>That's what it is.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I like that. I like that. I'll be stealing
<v Speaker 2>that soon.
<v Speaker 1>I'll be writing that soon. It's gonna be great. So,
<v Speaker 1>so what can you say what you were doing this morning?
<v Speaker 1>Because you were busy?
<v Speaker 2>We know that.
<v Speaker 3>Uh, well, doc, I was doing my morning exercise, which
<v Speaker 3>includes a lot of stretching and carrot eating. I made
<v Speaker 3>a carrot omelet, and you did. I wasn't waking. I
<v Speaker 3>was just pampering myself.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's good.
<v Speaker 3>Well, we need that, you know, I hit the Tanning
<v Speaker 3>booth to get this luxury of tan and then and
<v Speaker 3>then I found myself here in the wild supper Bank.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, very wild. You could always drive by a building
<v Speaker 2>and not know what's going on in there, like I
<v Speaker 2>would never have guessed, no, that your podcast is being filmed.
<v Speaker 2>You know. There's like a mechanic shop next to us. Yeah. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>there's a couple of couple of gangsters like.
<v Speaker 1>Gravel pit. Yeah, one of our star attractions on this
<v Speaker 1>particular street, and we're not going.
<v Speaker 2>To tell you where it is. It's like the back cave.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, that's true.
<v Speaker 2>That is true.
<v Speaker 1>It kind of it actually is kind of like the
<v Speaker 1>bat Cave, I believe it or not. Look very animated
<v Speaker 1>in here. Yeah, I get it.
<v Speaker 2>There we go.
<v Speaker 1>Oh my god, my hat down. But yeah, man, thanks
<v Speaker 1>for being here. Yes, thanks for being here. You know
<v Speaker 1>I often thought, you know, we met years ago and
<v Speaker 1>it was four, the world famous cat.
<v Speaker 2>Oh my gosh. I was just thinking about.
<v Speaker 1>Shall we bring him up?
<v Speaker 2>Sure? Yeah, it's funny. You know, I think in this
<v Speaker 2>career that we have Yeah, sometimes we have the luck
<v Speaker 2>of creating an iconic character, and most often times we
<v Speaker 2>get asked to embody another iconic character that was created
<v Speaker 2>by someone else mel Blanc, for instance, we have that
<v Speaker 2>in common Taz over here. I'd say the quintin One
<v Speaker 2>of the modern day quintessential Taz is barn On, probably
<v Speaker 2>the only Taz that's had his own series of all
<v Speaker 2>the other taz Is past mel tas media. But oh yeah,
<v Speaker 2>we got to work alongside the great Andrea Romano for
<v Speaker 2>for a few seasons on the Adventures of Push in Boots,
<v Speaker 2>of course, who was originated by the great Antonio Benderz,
<v Speaker 2>who again, you know, more than just an accent to
<v Speaker 2>me is the unpredictability of how he performs that character.
<v Speaker 2>It's not necessarily okay, you have to pay attention to
<v Speaker 2>the origin and the ethnicity, but for me, it's more
<v Speaker 2>of how much fun Antonio has with playing that character.
<v Speaker 2>I never know where he's gonna go left or with it,
<v Speaker 2>if he's gonna speak low or scream really loud, you know,
<v Speaker 2>like he he goes off the charts with that character,
<v Speaker 2>and I think that's kind of where I find. You know,
<v Speaker 2>if you're going to take on a persona, you got
<v Speaker 2>to add that ingredient to you have to be able
<v Speaker 2>to be as free with the character as the original performer.
<v Speaker 1>Oh sure, I agree like with.
<v Speaker 2>With mel Blank.
<v Speaker 3>You know, if you can get that nasally New York
<v Speaker 3>buck tooth.
<v Speaker 2>Sound, but to go off voice, uh like when he's
<v Speaker 2>helping Playboy Penguin try to get back to uh South,
<v Speaker 2>I'm dying. You know. It's that. That's the stuff that
<v Speaker 2>as a kid, I'm like, oh my god, Like it's
<v Speaker 2>not even bugs anymore, it's just the guy. He just
<v Speaker 2>breaks character.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah right, so yeah, that adds a little juice.
<v Speaker 2>But you know, I come from the world of animation,
<v Speaker 2>not not just as a voiceover artist, but I started
<v Speaker 2>in animation as a character layout artist. I used to draw. Yeah, no, kid,
<v Speaker 2>that's why it's why it was a horrible, very animated period.
<v Speaker 2>Definitely animated. But what I was going to say is
<v Speaker 2>because of spending time with you and other living legends
<v Speaker 2>in the booth, that's how I learned how to become
<v Speaker 2>a better actor by watching you guys perform. I never
<v Speaker 2>went to school for dramatic arts or performing arts. It
<v Speaker 2>was you know, I just love cartoons. But when I
<v Speaker 2>got here, it was like, you know, it was a
<v Speaker 2>route awakening. It's like you're good at voices, but eh,
<v Speaker 2>you got to get better at acting. And Noil told
<v Speaker 2>me that. Well one person did, the person who said
<v Speaker 2>next time. Yeah. Yeah, But these are the things if
<v Speaker 2>you're a young voiceover artist or artist, you're gonna hear
<v Speaker 2>a lot in the beginning of your career. But don't
<v Speaker 2>take that closed door as the end of it all
<v Speaker 2>for you. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I always went, Okay, this is what I need to
<v Speaker 1>It's a learning experience.
<v Speaker 2>And just by the luck of being in rooms with
<v Speaker 2>people like you, Rob Paulson and Jeff Bennett, you know,
<v Speaker 2>I just learned, John DiMaggio, I just learned how to
<v Speaker 2>to do it, like, just to be to be better.
<v Speaker 2>I guess.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, well better is good.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, better is apparently better. Yeah, better better, it gets
<v Speaker 2>you the better job. Well, you're you're on top of it. Now.
<v Speaker 1>You are just a monster. I mean you you are.
<v Speaker 1>Somebody brought it up that I'm kind of like a
<v Speaker 1>Disney guy, the you know, right sort of, and.
<v Speaker 2>You're the w B. I was thinking about that. That's
<v Speaker 2>why I wear this shirt. By the way, it's a
<v Speaker 2>Star T shirt. It's a little it's a little inside
<v Speaker 2>baseball and I'm sure you Jim Cumming. Fans will know
<v Speaker 2>why I'm yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Well, whenever I signed one of those, I always put
<v Speaker 1>a musical note yes off to the side so the
<v Speaker 1>people know I wasn't scar Throughout the entire I did
<v Speaker 1>like four or five lines, sure, but then I sang
<v Speaker 1>be prepared, Yes, be prepared.
<v Speaker 2>Did you get a higher song?
<v Speaker 1>No?
<v Speaker 2>He'd speaks, so does he's the speaking part.
<v Speaker 1>He never says the words be prepared, right, I mean,
<v Speaker 1>like even when he's you know, not singing.
<v Speaker 2>And this is how obsessed I was with voiceover and
<v Speaker 2>a nerd as a kid was I remember buying that
<v Speaker 2>soundtrack and looking and by and by buying I mean
<v Speaker 2>a CD, a CD stealing, yes, but I mean I
<v Speaker 2>purchased the CD, kids. And if you look up what
<v Speaker 2>CD means, it's a it's like a hard compact. It's
<v Speaker 2>a it's like an MP three but you could touch it. Uh.
<v Speaker 2>And it used to come with a little pamphlet, a
<v Speaker 2>little booklet, and inside that are the credits. And in
<v Speaker 2>that credits list on the track list you will see
<v Speaker 2>the name Jim Cummings in the track be Prepared. And
<v Speaker 2>as a nerd, as a kid, I would always listen
<v Speaker 2>to that and try to find you in yes, thinking,
<v Speaker 2>oh my god, this guy.
<v Speaker 1>Well years ago I had I had, as you will know,
<v Speaker 1>like when when you go to convention, certain people are.
<v Speaker 6>Are very obsessed and they they happen to know every
<v Speaker 6>single solitary thing and everything of the things of this nature.
<v Speaker 6>And I happen to know for a fact that your
<v Speaker 6>character Ed did not say anything during the entirety of
<v Speaker 6>that song. So I'm curious as to why your name
<v Speaker 6>would even be mentioned.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, proved me wrong.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, And it was like, okay, well I said, no,
<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry, that was mister Jeremy Ironts.
<v Speaker 2>This is the culture we live in though, you know,
<v Speaker 2>and when you when you introduce the behind the scenes,
<v Speaker 2>and god bless the fans, that's why we do this.
<v Speaker 2>But it's almost like everyone's an expert now. And yes,
<v Speaker 2>I swear they love looking for those loose threads to
<v Speaker 2>pull on, you know. And that's fine, you know, we
<v Speaker 2>we all love we'll, we all like to appear behind
<v Speaker 2>the curtain. But yes, me, on the other hand, I
<v Speaker 2>was just like floored, you know, anytime I find out
<v Speaker 2>these these fun facts about how these movies get made.
<v Speaker 2>Right for instance, during the pandemic. There's a very legendary
<v Speaker 2>actor by the name of James Hung. You know, mister
<v Speaker 2>James Hul You probably work with him many times. But
<v Speaker 2>you know, Big Trouble in The Little Little China. He
<v Speaker 2>was a cool goo tool dude. Completely eh. He plays
<v Speaker 2>Poe's father in Kung Fu Panda. Paul. You're not gonna
<v Speaker 2>become a Kung Fu masta. You know, he's that guy.
<v Speaker 2>But he recorded from home like a lot of us
<v Speaker 2>did during the pandemic, and you know, he's a much
<v Speaker 2>older gentleman, and not all of us are professional engineers.
<v Speaker 2>So there was a project, I think it was called
<v Speaker 2>like Disco Batman or something. It was like they've done
<v Speaker 2>every version of Batman now and now, including seventies sploitation film.
<v Speaker 2>And you know in every seventies movie some the villain
<v Speaker 2>was always the guy with the fu man chew mustache. Yes,
<v Speaker 2>well that's how you could tell come to a secret layer. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>long nails too, yes, yeah, like like doctor Zin from
<v Speaker 2>Johnny Quest. Yes, uh, but yeah, he played the bad
<v Speaker 2>guy in that movie. But for some odd reason, anytime
<v Speaker 2>you have to say a plural like oh, look at
<v Speaker 2>that flock of bird. But he would turn his head
<v Speaker 2>on the s. So I was hired to come in
<v Speaker 2>to finish James Hong's plurals in that movie. Oh god, credit,
<v Speaker 2>what a credit. Anytime you hear him say, uh yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I'll have some dumpling and I'm the yeah dumpling.
<v Speaker 1>You were in charge of diphthongs.
<v Speaker 2>I forget it's some kind of thong song. Yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I I am all the plural. There's literally a folder
<v Speaker 2>with just me doing James hung S's somewhere. Oh my,
<v Speaker 2>you know, but you know, I go, that's a hell
<v Speaker 2>of a credit. On the end of the other line
<v Speaker 2>was Bruce tim of course we know from Batman the
<v Speaker 2>animated series. He was producing that one, and I just
<v Speaker 2>he was like, wow, that's great, you know. And you
<v Speaker 2>know Bruce, he's just like yes, poker face, like he
<v Speaker 2>never smiles. But to hear him say that's that's awesome,
<v Speaker 2>that's great, I'm like, wow, Okay, I'm doing something right.
<v Speaker 2>Well you've said before, yes it's true, true, but yeah,
<v Speaker 2>we do some funny things in this in this industry.
<v Speaker 2>And I always say, whatever puts gas in the tank,
<v Speaker 2>yeah that's true. Now, you know, I have one job
<v Speaker 2>that I did that was. It was weird.
<v Speaker 1>It was the kind of terrible and and I don't
<v Speaker 1>really like bringing it up, but did you ever have
<v Speaker 1>one of those that where you're just sitting there, what
<v Speaker 1>the hell am I doing here?
<v Speaker 2>For me, it was the beginning of my career. I
<v Speaker 2>actually talked to Mark Summers about this on another podcast
<v Speaker 2>now nice I had mentioned before I was an artist,
<v Speaker 2>before I was a voiceover artist, and even before being
<v Speaker 2>an artist an editor, I was a production manager at
<v Speaker 2>an animation studio, actually the same studio that created the
<v Speaker 2>Ren and Stimpy show spumcoh Wow. Now years ago before
<v Speaker 2>actually there was even a market for adult animation. They
<v Speaker 2>had thought of doing a reboot of Rand and Stimpy,
<v Speaker 2>which was more adult in nature and not even like
<v Speaker 2>not even in like a clever, playful way. It was
<v Speaker 2>just literally no holds barred.
<v Speaker 1>Oh wow.
<v Speaker 2>And one of our good colleagues, he's been on the show,
<v Speaker 2>mister Billy West, was the original voice of Stimpy and
<v Speaker 2>later took on the role of Ren. You know, when
<v Speaker 2>they were producing this show, I was again on board
<v Speaker 2>as a production manager. The idea and hope was to
<v Speaker 2>get him back for that series. But I think, you know,
<v Speaker 2>for him that was he had done it for five seasons.
<v Speaker 2>I think it was a few. That's huge success. And
<v Speaker 2>you know he was this is now in his Futurama days,
<v Speaker 2>read eminem days. He's not looking back. He doesn't need
<v Speaker 2>to go back to that one. So he refused, right,
<v Speaker 2>he said, no thanks, and again, I'm production manager on
<v Speaker 2>this and now I'm thinking, okay, Plan A is out
<v Speaker 2>the window, working with the creator.
<v Speaker 1>Time to step in.
<v Speaker 2>No, no, I was like, what are we going to do?
<v Speaker 2>And they cast another actor who came in and took
<v Speaker 2>over the role, recorded one episode and started to bring
<v Speaker 2>in his own script pages. This was the craziest thing
<v Speaker 2>I've ever seen.
<v Speaker 1>He's bringing in the storylines and.
<v Speaker 2>He brings in pages of script that he wrote, saying,
<v Speaker 2>now this would be funnier. What And he's actually no
<v Speaker 2>longer with us now, rest in peace and all you know,
<v Speaker 2>he'll for his for his sake and legacy remain nameless.
<v Speaker 2>I'll tell you after the show, and then I'll tell you, guys.
<v Speaker 2>It's it's hot gossip. Guys. I was there. I was like,
<v Speaker 2>what is happening? So that guy got let go and
<v Speaker 2>Plan C now was you know. I was talking to
<v Speaker 2>John John k was the creator of the show. He's like, well,
<v Speaker 2>there's only one thing left to do, and that's make
<v Speaker 2>Stimpy a mute character. I was like, huh, like uh, like,
<v Speaker 2>what do you mean. He's like, well, when Tweety and
<v Speaker 2>Sylvester were together, they would talk to each other. They
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna eat that bird if it's the last thing
<v Speaker 2>I do. But then when Porky and Sylvester were teamed up,
<v Speaker 2>Porky could talk, but Sylvester acted like a regular house
<v Speaker 2>cat and wouldn't say a word. So he thought, well, easy,
<v Speaker 2>that's weird o. Easy, We'll take this like world famous
<v Speaker 2>character that everyone loves to and not give him any
<v Speaker 2>lines of dialogue. And and you know, like like that's brilliant. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>like Austin Powers and doctor of all of a sudden,
<v Speaker 2>he's a mine.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's not the same. It's not the same.
<v Speaker 2>Oh boy, oh boy, so in in in you know,
<v Speaker 2>not even thinking about you know, legacies and and other
<v Speaker 2>people's participation in their creations. I was like, Okay, maybe
<v Speaker 2>I'll maybe I'll try because they were auditioning, still sure,
<v Speaker 2>And I ended up auditioning for it and I got it,
<v Speaker 2>you know, and again for me Billy West. And I've
<v Speaker 2>talked to Billy about this, and I've said it to him.
<v Speaker 2>He will always be that character. And I never meant
<v Speaker 2>any ill will towards him or any of the fans
<v Speaker 2>or anything like that. But it's it's a tough thing
<v Speaker 2>when you're when you're here and you're you know, trying
<v Speaker 2>to trying to trying to save the show that you're
<v Speaker 2>working on and working for this moniacal boss who then
<v Speaker 2>later you know, ends up you know, getting canceled for
<v Speaker 2>other reasons. But you're just kind of like, wow, what
<v Speaker 2>what a weird situation that was, and what a weird
<v Speaker 2>studio was. But the one thing that you could say
<v Speaker 2>about that studio was how much talent it drew to
<v Speaker 2>to the Hive, to the honeypot, to the Hive, but
<v Speaker 2>how much abuse a lot of people took in that studio,
<v Speaker 2>you know, trying to get stuff either approved or just
<v Speaker 2>just uh the the you know, well, everyone to be improved.
<v Speaker 2>Everyone thought he was the be all end all of
<v Speaker 2>you know, because he was such a great artist and
<v Speaker 2>trained a lot of great artists. But you know, you
<v Speaker 2>end up working at other studios and go, oh, there's
<v Speaker 2>other people to work with. That's not the only person
<v Speaker 2>I can work with, that's true. And there was also
<v Speaker 2>a situation where he knew I wanted to do voices,
<v Speaker 2>but never let me. It was always like, really, oh
<v Speaker 2>you want to do voices, great, but you have to
<v Speaker 2>do this for me.
<v Speaker 1>But what geez, what an unsung hero you were though,
<v Speaker 1>I mean, that's that's insane.
<v Speaker 2>It was crazy.
<v Speaker 1>I was like a pot of gold. Nah, I had
<v Speaker 1>me the copper. Yeah, yeah, you know that doesn't work. No,
<v Speaker 1>give me the panies. You can keep the gold, the balloons.
<v Speaker 2>It was a little nuts, but you know, hey, here
<v Speaker 2>we are. I'd made it through.
<v Speaker 1>Well yeah, you know, and I've got you as a
<v Speaker 1>castor potting something here. It is a star.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's a beautiful thing. Uh. When we were working
<v Speaker 2>on Pussing Boots, I gotta say it was it was
<v Speaker 2>such an education and such an It was a lot
<v Speaker 2>of fun. We got to do a lot of scenes together. Yes, Ginger,
<v Speaker 2>I remember. I remember one day I came into work
<v Speaker 2>and you weren't. You had just finished your session and
<v Speaker 2>Andrea Ramono said, Jim actually left you something on the
<v Speaker 2>on your music set. It was a gift and it
<v Speaker 2>was this cool T shirt. And if you know me, you'll.
<v Speaker 1>Know that I love He's cool T shirt, graphic.
<v Speaker 2>Teas, and it was a Puss and Boots T shirt.
<v Speaker 2>I remember what it said. What did it say? Fear
<v Speaker 2>me if you dare, if you dare? Yeah, I thought
<v Speaker 2>that's cool as hell. And I was like, damn it,
<v Speaker 2>fear me if you dare. I mean, man, I was like,
<v Speaker 2>damn it, damn it, Jim, that's you know, a star
<v Speaker 2>Trek line. But damn it, Jim, what a nice guy,
<v Speaker 2>what a nice gesture. It didn't have to do that.
<v Speaker 2>No one ever has to do anything nice for each
<v Speaker 2>other on this planet. But you know what, something like
<v Speaker 2>that stayed with me for so long, and I wanted
<v Speaker 2>to return the favor. And if you know me, I
<v Speaker 2>like graphic teas, but I love art. And if you
<v Speaker 2>know me, when I go shopping, I don't often shop
<v Speaker 2>for myself. I shop for other people. So I wanted
<v Speaker 2>to give this to you. This is a jury duty
<v Speaker 2>for us. Roll. Now, if I were a true friend,
<v Speaker 2>I would have got it framed. But now I'm going
<v Speaker 2>to give you a task. I will, I will, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>please please do? We are we ready for the great
<v Speaker 2>reveal can we can we? Yeah? So look it's paper,
<v Speaker 2>it's paper, it really is.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, all right, hold on, I have a slight idea
<v Speaker 1>of what it might now.
<v Speaker 2>I imagine being with such iconic characters. You probably own
<v Speaker 2>or have lots of artwork of these guys in your house.
<v Speaker 2>Could be But this is a special one. If and
<v Speaker 2>if you read the certificate of authenticity, the certificate of authenticity,
<v Speaker 2>and if you want to read it as a character.
<v Speaker 1>It's authentic authenticity. Oh John Coots.
<v Speaker 7>Originally illustrisated exquisite multicolored pencils. Oh, I could use a
<v Speaker 7>couple of toes with full Winny the pool an tike
<v Speaker 7>it to what's something about bedtime stories?
<v Speaker 1>I don't have my skepticals on.
<v Speaker 7>But instead did it with air brushed underwater no way watercolor.
<v Speaker 2>Air brushing looks from the book. So it's a from
<v Speaker 2>a book, and it's an excellent condition. It's a it's
<v Speaker 2>an original hand drawn color pencil rendering of Winnie the
<v Speaker 2>Poo and Tiger from a story book, a children's storybook.
<v Speaker 2>And I thought, it's it's you and you and I
<v Speaker 2>have some experience talking to myself, and oh yeah, it's
<v Speaker 2>it's super cool. And I think the audience should take
<v Speaker 2>a peek if they could take a look at that
<v Speaker 2>where you pause and zoomo.
<v Speaker 4>Doing here but this one there we go.
<v Speaker 2>But I thought you should have that in your.
<v Speaker 1>Thank you, thank you, thank you. Sure thing that is magniferous. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>we will put this right here.
<v Speaker 2>It's it's it's cool. I just you know, yes, you
<v Speaker 2>don't see that often.
<v Speaker 1>It's a beautiful thing.
<v Speaker 2>And then no AI was used in the creation of
<v Speaker 2>that image. Yes, we know we had to kill a
<v Speaker 2>few pencils, but that's a few trees. Definitely a beautiful
<v Speaker 2>that's what you.
<v Speaker 8>Mentioned the word canceled before. And we were talking to
<v Speaker 8>bit off air Chris and I about a certain film
<v Speaker 8>that's being canceled that we that you get the chance
<v Speaker 8>to actually see. Can we talk about this supposed film
<v Speaker 8>that supposedly exists ot there somewhere.
<v Speaker 2>Now, are we talking about a certain film regarding a
<v Speaker 2>coyote and a certain roadrunner? Okay, that would be the one.
<v Speaker 4>What it's about.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that is two meeps for yes, one meep for no. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>boy oh boy. This is this is this is going
<v Speaker 2>to be another NT. This is a whole other episode.
<v Speaker 2>But here we go.
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<v Speaker 2>Do it now, strap in. This is just the way
<v Speaker 2>our industry is right now, and it's it's unfortunate and
<v Speaker 2>fortunate that we get to work as artists. We get
<v Speaker 2>to us you know, people here, even this podcast, this
<v Speaker 2>is like art. This is something that we enjoy and
<v Speaker 2>what we are livelihood and what we like to do.
<v Speaker 2>And hey, guess what, sometimes we get paid for it.
<v Speaker 2>But the unfortunate, ugly side to most of what we
<v Speaker 2>do for a living.
<v Speaker 1>Social business has business in it. Exactly, I knew you
<v Speaker 1>were gonna say.
<v Speaker 2>Exactly, there is commerce even to this art. This beautiful
<v Speaker 2>piece of art still had to go through you know,
<v Speaker 2>some similar the system. And when you're a big corporation
<v Speaker 2>Lake Warner Brothers, sometimes these movies have to fall through
<v Speaker 2>the cracks in order to make the books the numbers
<v Speaker 2>make sense, and we were one of them. But again,
<v Speaker 2>the harsh reality is the years and years of backbreaking
<v Speaker 2>feats that artists and set people and lighting people and
<v Speaker 2>you know people that hold the microphones and the you
<v Speaker 2>know Will Ford say, John Cena, the stars of the movie, myself,
<v Speaker 2>Candy Milo, who did voices on them. I did ten
<v Speaker 2>voices in this film.
<v Speaker 1>Ten yeah, yeah, yeah, And I should have just been
<v Speaker 1>the EB movie and.
<v Speaker 2>Why not geez I resemble that Romont w B. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>So from what I heard, it's not exactly canceled or
<v Speaker 2>in the trash. It's just either either it has already
<v Speaker 2>been written off for taxes, but people don't know that. Actually,
<v Speaker 2>you can unwrite things that have been written off, so
<v Speaker 2>long as you give the government back whatever cut you
<v Speaker 2>got back from the film. Say, for instance, if the
<v Speaker 2>movie was seventy million dollars, they get forty million or
<v Speaker 2>thirty million back. So in order to resurrect that project,
<v Speaker 2>you have to give back that money and then it
<v Speaker 2>becomes then you're watchable.
<v Speaker 4>Do you think Brothers would ever do that? Though? I
<v Speaker 4>feel like that's a long shot.
<v Speaker 2>That spirit regime, No, the next one perhaps, Now listen.
<v Speaker 4>To this what about if somebody else bought it? Like,
<v Speaker 4>is that possible? Can you buy it from the tax man?
<v Speaker 2>Absolutely? So this is what I just was able to
<v Speaker 2>celebrate was a US debut of a film that I'm
<v Speaker 2>in as.
<v Speaker 3>Of Daffy Duck and Parky Pig called The Day the.
<v Speaker 2>Earth Blew Up a Looney Tunes movie. Now this Day
<v Speaker 2>the Earth Blew Up Altes movie.
<v Speaker 1>I hope you wrote that down.
<v Speaker 2>You see the hashtag, it's like this big wow. It's
<v Speaker 2>like the handkerchief that keeps coming out of.
<v Speaker 3>The magician sleeve.
<v Speaker 2>So this one was made not under the Warner Brothers
<v Speaker 2>theatrical department, but the Warner Brothers Television Animation department. So
<v Speaker 2>the budget was significantly lower, and it had less John
<v Speaker 2>Cena and less stars in it. It was all two
<v Speaker 2>D animation, not even CG. So the idea that, oh, yeah, well,
<v Speaker 2>there's less risk for them as opposed to a seventy
<v Speaker 2>million dollar movie. And again I could think, I think
<v Speaker 2>about it every sometimes every something every week happens. So
<v Speaker 2>something every week happens to make me think about like
<v Speaker 2>Coyote versus Acman, and the risks that these companies are
<v Speaker 2>willing and not willing to take. So the entire cast
<v Speaker 2>of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice was asked to lower their salaries to
<v Speaker 2>release the movie in theaters.
<v Speaker 4>Wow.
<v Speaker 2>So now it comes in at ninety million, and it
<v Speaker 2>makes four hundred million dollars. Right, that's not bad money,
<v Speaker 2>not at all. Now a week later, Joker two comes out,
<v Speaker 2>same company. The budget is two hundred million dollars. Now, again,
<v Speaker 2>this was a lightning in a bottle movie. The first
<v Speaker 2>one made a billion dollars worldwide.
<v Speaker 1>But did yes, yeah I didn't know that.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, wow, a billion dollars worldwide. And then they give
<v Speaker 2>Todd Phillips, the director, carte blanche to make this movie,
<v Speaker 2>no notes, no screenings, no test screenings, and look what happened.
<v Speaker 2>Like a two hundred million dollar movie makes forty million
<v Speaker 2>dollars and maybe who knows, and it needs two hundred
<v Speaker 2>and forty to break even.
<v Speaker 1>See that's a that's a hell of a hill.
<v Speaker 2>So then you think about like something like Looney Tunes
<v Speaker 2>Coyote versus Acme, and it's like seventy million. Maybe at
<v Speaker 2>this point, with all the press that we've been giving it,
<v Speaker 2>you could just probably release that and that movie would
<v Speaker 2>make so much money. It would make so much because
<v Speaker 2>of more big curiosity.
<v Speaker 4>Oh sure, I was so excited.
<v Speaker 8>I thought it was a publicity stunt when I first
<v Speaker 8>heard it, I thought, this is just a great publicity stunt.
<v Speaker 8>They're going to say the cancer of the film. Then
<v Speaker 8>gave changed my minds and everyone's gonna go, oh my god,
<v Speaker 8>we better say it before we meet it.
<v Speaker 2>Because of look at what happened with Deadpool, right Deadpool
<v Speaker 2>was not going to get released, and then that footage
<v Speaker 2>got leak, I mean right round, yeah, and it it
<v Speaker 2>just now we're at Now we're at Wolverine Deadpool, which
<v Speaker 2>is another billion dollars, you know, just because someone like
<v Speaker 2>put that out there and it was so good. And
<v Speaker 2>same thing with Sonic the Hedgehog. Everyone was uproar when
<v Speaker 2>he the character design came out. He did look weird.
<v Speaker 2>They make a joke about it in the Chippendale Respiratory movie,
<v Speaker 2>which is hilarious, and you know, they changed the design
<v Speaker 2>and here we are. It's it's a trilogy, you know
<v Speaker 2>what I mean, Like, there's three, there's three Sonic the
<v Speaker 2>Hedgehog movies. Because of audience, you know, they demanded better
<v Speaker 2>and it's participation. We thought that that was gonna happen
<v Speaker 2>with Coyote versus Acme because everyone was behind it. And
<v Speaker 2>you know, my hope.
<v Speaker 4>Is this.
<v Speaker 2>The the Porky Daffy movie comes out in theaters next
<v Speaker 2>year February twenty eighth. Oh okay, And so far it's
<v Speaker 2>been screened in the Anise Film Festival in France with
<v Speaker 2>great reception, and it just premiered here in the US
<v Speaker 2>on the weekend. Great reception.
<v Speaker 4>Good.
<v Speaker 2>My hope is that it makes its money back and
<v Speaker 2>more and that it opens the game for a Taz movie.
<v Speaker 2>I want to see a Taz movie too. I want
<v Speaker 2>there was supposed to be a Taz series. Call yes Taz,
<v Speaker 2>imagine that a books bunny Taz movie.
<v Speaker 3>How about that? Who and donate me.
<v Speaker 2>I'm all skimming bones, I'm all games. But yeah, AnyWho. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>that's my Hollywood rant and also the end of my career.
<v Speaker 2>Thank you for watching.
<v Speaker 8>Yeah, I'm just jealous of you liked the Fighter, didn't you?
<v Speaker 8>Or you didn't like it, but you've laced the fighter
<v Speaker 8>in the court room.
<v Speaker 2>What's funny is that that was already released in a
<v Speaker 2>previous article with one of the exec producers and you know,
<v Speaker 2>uh I put it out and suddenly it was news.
<v Speaker 2>There was like a little stretch of time last year
<v Speaker 2>between and I'll tell you, I remember we were at
<v Speaker 2>the end of the writers strike. The writer strike ended
<v Speaker 2>on a Wednesday, and literally on Friday is when we
<v Speaker 2>found out we were you know, when we were cut.
<v Speaker 2>And it wasn't just us. Remember there was Batgirl and
<v Speaker 2>there was Scoob Holiday Hunt, which was apparently there was
<v Speaker 2>a sequel to the Scooby Doo animated CG movie that
<v Speaker 2>was awesome under Warner Brothers. And I you know the director,
<v Speaker 2>Tony Tony, I know you worked with him. He literally
<v Speaker 2>finished the score of the movie to lock Picture of
<v Speaker 2>the Day that he found out he was canceled. So
<v Speaker 2>like that the movie was in the trash.
<v Speaker 4>Wow, that's so sad.
<v Speaker 2>Like you're you're putting the finals, get you're getting oh man,
<v Speaker 2>you're putting the final like like that that costs money,
<v Speaker 2>like all that money, and you're thinking, you know, it's
<v Speaker 2>kind of weird.
<v Speaker 1>We're poised for takeoff here and like.
<v Speaker 2>Like why bother doing anything? It kind of hurts, you know,
<v Speaker 2>you're kind of like it's you know again for us
<v Speaker 2>artists again like it's what well, yeah, yeah, it hurts
<v Speaker 2>because you're you're, you know, putting your your heart and
<v Speaker 2>soul into this thing.
<v Speaker 1>Un Plus, you're like going to theater and seeing people
<v Speaker 1>laugh and they get that joke. Oh they did, Oh good,
<v Speaker 1>oh good, all that works exactly what we know. It's
<v Speaker 1>it's gratifying.
<v Speaker 2>When we're in the sound booth, we literally have horse
<v Speaker 2>blideners on it and we don't know what we're if
<v Speaker 2>this will you know, years later. It takes time to
<v Speaker 2>make and once it's made, will it get seen? And
<v Speaker 2>if it gets seen, will it be liked? So the
<v Speaker 2>fact that something that you chiseled away at for two
<v Speaker 2>to four years is now just expendable, yeah, Number one,
<v Speaker 2>that hurts. Number two. It also kind of teaches the
<v Speaker 2>audience to think that these characters are expendable, so that
<v Speaker 2>they think, ah, well, if I don't have to see
<v Speaker 2>Aloni to this movie next year, maybe I don't. Maybe
<v Speaker 2>I don't need to see them ever again. You know,
<v Speaker 2>like it kind of trains the audience. I don't like
<v Speaker 2>that exactly. So, I mean, as much as I like
<v Speaker 2>driving my uber car, you know, you guys need to
<v Speaker 2>write to Lax after.
<v Speaker 4>I have a question for you, Eric.
<v Speaker 5>So we've been talking about you know, you're doing a
<v Speaker 5>bunch of imitations of voices. You know, obviously you've taken
<v Speaker 5>on you know, legacy voices and whatnot. I'm curious what
<v Speaker 5>your approach is to a you know, a legacy voice.
<v Speaker 5>I'll call it versus like an original character, when you
<v Speaker 5>have to come up with a voice for an original character.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well, original characters are are That's the dream right there?
<v Speaker 2>I mean, and talk to this man. This, this guy's
<v Speaker 2>the you know, I often say like him and Billy
<v Speaker 2>West are like the modern day Mel Blanks not just
<v Speaker 2>because they've done Mel blank voices, but because they've created
<v Speaker 2>an array of their own original characters like Mel Blank.
<v Speaker 2>And that's the the real dream of any voiceover artists
<v Speaker 2>is as much as we like playing these icon classic
<v Speaker 2>you know, this guy's dark winged duck, he's bonkers, he's
<v Speaker 2>anything and everything. You know, a few other I've been
<v Speaker 2>on rides where this I was like, hondo that you
<v Speaker 2>know what I mean, Like, that's fantastic, And again that's
<v Speaker 2>the dream. And but what I love about the idea
<v Speaker 2>that hey, here's a character, go for it. It's the
<v Speaker 2>world is yours. Really, you know, there's no there's no
<v Speaker 2>there's no ceiling to what you can you can do,
<v Speaker 2>And you know, I don't know if I have yet
<v Speaker 2>to you know, coin my Johnny Bravo or Bubbles from
<v Speaker 2>Powerpuff Girls or Bender from Futurama yet. But you know,
<v Speaker 2>if if the majority of what I do is is
<v Speaker 2>voice matching and you know icons, I'm happy with that too. Sure.
<v Speaker 5>When I was looking over your credits on one credit
<v Speaker 5>that stood out to me was the grompl my customs
<v Speaker 5>agent from Rick and Morty.
<v Speaker 4>I love Rick and Morty.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, yeah, And I'm curious because you gave him such
<v Speaker 5>just like a regular voice regularly. So when you see
<v Speaker 5>the take us through that process, when you see the
<v Speaker 5>animation of like this alien, massive mosquito looking creature.
<v Speaker 2>I think Jim will agree, it's like whatever is sometimes
<v Speaker 2>funnier is what is contrast to the design. Yes, so
<v Speaker 2>you can have that and it should sound like that.
<v Speaker 2>But if it just sounds like uh, doc request, that's
<v Speaker 2>all I'm gonna do. That's my best Don Messic impression.
<v Speaker 2>Johnny Hodgy. We had to go with Race. He's there
<v Speaker 2>to protect us. Yeah, yeah, it's you know it's the
<v Speaker 2>it's the I'm Filipino Canadian, but how white can I sound?
<v Speaker 2>That's my you know, that's the that's my key right there.
<v Speaker 2>So pretty thank you very much. I appreciate as beige
<v Speaker 2>as this paper. Yeah, that was the approach to that character.
<v Speaker 2>And it's the you know, it's the end of the series,
<v Speaker 2>the scene or the episode, and it's one of my
<v Speaker 2>favorite some of the favorite lines written is uh, you
<v Speaker 2>your next going to the machine and they're like, well,
<v Speaker 2>why do we have to go into the machine. It's
<v Speaker 2>like it's a new machine that the text stuff all
<v Speaker 2>the way up your butt. Yeah, it's like it's like
<v Speaker 2>they're going through Uh now you're talking. Yeah, warning kids. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>Rick and Morty is an adult show. Yeah, it's it definitely,
<v Speaker 2>Uh one of the funnier characters I've ever had to do.
<v Speaker 2>I thought you were going to talk about. This is
<v Speaker 2>another show we worked on with Turbo Fast, which was
<v Speaker 2>one of Netflix's If you remember a DreamWorks movie where
<v Speaker 2>starring Ryan Reynolds trying to be a snail that wants
<v Speaker 2>to go fast. Oh yeah, yes, I believe you played
<v Speaker 2>a possibly a Cajun character, could have been a cook
<v Speaker 2>that wanted to cut. Yeah, that rings the bell. I
<v Speaker 2>think he wanted to eat everybody. He wanted to cook everyone.
<v Speaker 2>I tend to be designated Cajun in cartoons. Yeah, and
<v Speaker 2>I was grade in that show. There were a lot
<v Speaker 2>of celebrities in the film. One of them was was
<v Speaker 2>I had to do a Paul Giamoni voice match. Now, Uh, Turbo,
<v Speaker 2>you're gonna have to wear a helmet, okay, Uh, you know,
<v Speaker 2>safety first, Turbo.
<v Speaker 1>That's really good.
<v Speaker 2>You know when I when I watch uh, you know,
<v Speaker 2>Paul Giamondi in his interviews, he's very subdued, and he
<v Speaker 2>always tries to sound like he's trying to eat his shoulders.
<v Speaker 2>He's trying to eat his own hack. You know. That's interesting.
<v Speaker 2>You do what I do when I do an impression
<v Speaker 2>of somebody. I don't know that.
<v Speaker 1>They certainly don't look like him, but you were doing
<v Speaker 1>all of it, and.
<v Speaker 2>And it was you were just there. Yeah, No, that's yeah.
<v Speaker 2>And there's that little tuck like I don't know anybody else.
<v Speaker 2>I don't want anybody to hear this, but you you know,
<v Speaker 2>and he does that, and I love him for that,
<v Speaker 2>you know, like he's such a character. And and that's
<v Speaker 2>where I think you know, when when a celebrity takes
<v Speaker 2>on a you know, and we could talk about this
<v Speaker 2>because you've had experience within the Winnie the Pooh feature
<v Speaker 2>film with celebrities verses what they should sound like, right,
<v Speaker 2>And it's funny where when a celebrity like maybe Eddie
<v Speaker 2>Murphy or Mike Myers or even Paul Jimony that has
<v Speaker 2>a or Seth or Seth Rogan. Of course, right, he's
<v Speaker 2>gonna character. And Tom Kenny says it, he goes, we
<v Speaker 2>do character voices, but they have voices with character, you know,
<v Speaker 2>like Chris Rock, right, come on, you know he's yeah,
<v Speaker 2>that's awesome.
<v Speaker 1>I love a good Chris Rock.
<v Speaker 2>My favorite was when he was at the Oscars and
<v Speaker 2>he goes, animation is the.
<v Speaker 3>Easiest job in the world.
<v Speaker 2>We say one thing and they give us a million
<v Speaker 2>dollars and I'm like, they give you a million? Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I get I get, like, negative, I owe them a million.
<v Speaker 2>It's almost like the funniest thing where it's like, no, man, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>celebrities do. Yeah, I remember that. You know, Chris Proud
<v Speaker 2>is the voice of this couch. Yeah, he's everywhere. But yeah,
<v Speaker 2>you know, we get to sometimes get to hop in
<v Speaker 2>and and do voices for the celebrities and uh and
<v Speaker 2>sometimes we get replaced sometimes, yes we do.
<v Speaker 1>And you know I used to say, you know, I said, look,
<v Speaker 1>it's like this, Tom Cruise, I won't star in any
<v Speaker 1>mission impossible movies if you shut the.
<v Speaker 2>Hell up, that's all I ask.
<v Speaker 1>Just shut up, Captain Planet, you know or whoever.
<v Speaker 4>You know.
<v Speaker 1>It's like, okay, you know it's TV Guide casting. But
<v Speaker 1>you know I've replaced a couple celebrities here and there
<v Speaker 1>over the years. And I'm sure you have.
<v Speaker 2>Oh my gosh, last year for me, the year.
<v Speaker 1>Of the substitutional Yes, so this take him out famous
<v Speaker 1>person was a talented person.
<v Speaker 2>Call Eric. It was my mantra for last year was
<v Speaker 2>if you're either too busy, too crazy, or you were
<v Speaker 2>at the Capitol Building. I replaced someone that was at
<v Speaker 2>the Capitol Building.
<v Speaker 8>No way, Who was Vegas?
<v Speaker 4>Right?
<v Speaker 2>This was on Bob's Burger, Gary Beausey, I don't know,
<v Speaker 2>I don't know here, I'm at the Capitol Building, you know.
<v Speaker 1>No.
<v Speaker 4>No.
<v Speaker 2>There was a comedic actor by the name of j Johnston.
<v Speaker 2>He was a very funny guy on Mister Show with
<v Speaker 2>Tom Kenny. Oh yeah, Jim Jill Tali and Uh, Jack Black,
<v Speaker 2>Sarah Silverman, Bob, Oden Kirk and uh and David Cross
<v Speaker 2>and Jay Johnson was one of the players, and he
<v Speaker 2>did a voice on Bob's Burger's that say, Hey, Jimmy Pestow,
<v Speaker 2>Hey Bob, mind if I put my meat in your freezer? Hey,
<v Speaker 2>that's a zoom. That's what I had to do. I
<v Speaker 2>was voice matching him because he happened to be at
<v Speaker 2>the at the Capitol Building on that day was the
<v Speaker 2>anniversary is coming up this January the anniversary because if
<v Speaker 2>you happen to be there, that was not a good thing.
<v Speaker 2>And he uh is in jail, so it's hard to
<v Speaker 2>do voices in jail.
<v Speaker 1>You see.
<v Speaker 2>That's got a throw a real monkey ranch in. So
<v Speaker 2>the character was missing.
<v Speaker 4>He's literally in, yeah, you can't have that.
<v Speaker 5>In the Bob's Burgers episode, this call is being recorded
<v Speaker 5>from a government facility.
<v Speaker 2>So I was told, yeah, to accept the Churchill. I
<v Speaker 2>actually was on that show first, not to replace him,
<v Speaker 2>but to voice match Bill Hayter from Saturday Night Live,
<v Speaker 2>who was just ended up being too busy to play
<v Speaker 2>the voice of Big Bob to be himself. Yeah, well,
<v Speaker 2>you know, he was on the show is Bob's dad
<v Speaker 2>who would show up occasionally. He's not in the show
<v Speaker 2>all the time. Oh, but I was there to kind
<v Speaker 2>of voice match him, and I told him, I said, hey,
<v Speaker 2>I know how this city works. I know how Hollywood works.
<v Speaker 2>When when the A listers busy, then I come in.
<v Speaker 2>But when he's not busy, I go back in the
<v Speaker 2>janitor closet with the probe in the bucket and they went, no, no,
<v Speaker 2>no no, they went, you're the guy now. They said,
<v Speaker 2>you're just going to be the guy now because we
<v Speaker 2>can't we can't well they can't ping pong around like that.
<v Speaker 1>Right, I would think.
<v Speaker 2>So while I was there, they said, and here's another
<v Speaker 2>rogue that you could maybe VOICEMAI And I was like okay,
<v Speaker 2>And then that was the the j Johnston would wait.
<v Speaker 5>So they give it to you on the spot, like
<v Speaker 5>no preparation. They're like, listen to this, can you do it?
<v Speaker 2>I definitely had to audition for both.
<v Speaker 4>There was you know, I'm sure there's how much preparation
<v Speaker 4>do you get for that?
<v Speaker 2>Sometimes the same day you have to just do it
<v Speaker 2>the same day, Yeah, and dig it up on your phone. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah. I made a reference they gave you the reference,
<v Speaker 2>they gave you an episode and uh, and I just
<v Speaker 2>read it and that just ended up being the it.
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, yeah, kids. Uh And now to all your
<v Speaker 2>celebrities out there, you shouldn't be worried about it. AI,
<v Speaker 2>you should be worried about us taking your job.
<v Speaker 1>That's right, A may I.
<v Speaker 5>You seem to really like doing impressions, and you've talked
<v Speaker 5>on other podcasts about how you would do pot I mean,
<v Speaker 5>how you would do impressions of different voices, you know,
<v Speaker 5>in school over the PA and stuff like that.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, I think you probably did the same things, right,
<v Speaker 2>Do you have a favorite? I? You know, there was
<v Speaker 2>one time I imitated the school secretary. I was sitting
<v Speaker 2>in the front of the class because I usually got
<v Speaker 2>in trouble. I was moved to the front and the
<v Speaker 2>PA system was right by the door, and the secretary,
<v Speaker 2>her name was jan Corey, and she almost had like
<v Speaker 2>a Marge Simpson voice. It was like a smoker's smoker's voice.
<v Speaker 2>And I was able to kind of do this impression
<v Speaker 2>of her and I called my ship. I must have
<v Speaker 2>loved it. I came out to my car when I
<v Speaker 2>my tires were slashed a note from Janzi stopped doing
<v Speaker 2>my voice. Yeah, but I got myself out of class
<v Speaker 2>because my teacher was in the back of the class
<v Speaker 2>and I asked to I asked her to excuse me
<v Speaker 2>to go to the office in Jen's but she thought
<v Speaker 2>it was coming from the PA system. That's wonderful. So
<v Speaker 2>I went, uh, miss King, is Eric bousing Glass? Can
<v Speaker 2>he please come down to the office. And I people
<v Speaker 2>thought it's yeah, it worked. I couldn't believe it. Oh wow,
<v Speaker 2>that's wonderful.
<v Speaker 4>It's like unlocking a superpower.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Yeah. And then you know, of course there's a
<v Speaker 2>Jeff Bridges man and the drive through. You know, I'd
<v Speaker 2>go to In and Out and I'd say, give me
<v Speaker 2>that milkshake animal style man, and yeah, yeah. It ties
<v Speaker 2>the whole room together. Many wonder dude.
<v Speaker 4>And then you pull up to the window and they're
<v Speaker 4>looking for him.
<v Speaker 2>They're like, what's Kim Jong doing here? The host of
<v Speaker 2>the Masked singers here? But it sounds like Jeff Bridges.
<v Speaker 1>That's really awesome. So you're you're kind of known that.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, like you're the impression guy. You can do it.
<v Speaker 2>It's getting it done. That's yeah, that's that's a pretty good. Uh,
<v Speaker 2>it's a tough job, but do it.
<v Speaker 1>That's a ridiculou good skill. Now you know what I've
<v Speaker 1>done too, is have you ever done this? Because people
<v Speaker 1>have said, you know, how do you come up with this?
<v Speaker 1>How do you come up with that? And I've well, Hondo,
<v Speaker 1>I'll knock on my my Star Wars guy. He is
<v Speaker 1>a and I joking around with When I'm whever I'm
<v Speaker 1>doing a little seminar or something like that, I'll say,
<v Speaker 1>can you guess who the two celebrities are that I'm
<v Speaker 1>putting a mashing up? And nobody knows? And I couldn't
<v Speaker 1>do it either. I mean I wouldn't if I didn't
<v Speaker 1>know the answer.
<v Speaker 4>I wouldn't.
<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't, you know. And old the old knock god,
<v Speaker 1>he's a you know, a whole knocker transport solutions.
<v Speaker 2>Don't worry, my friend, I'll tell you what.
<v Speaker 1>Give me all of your money, not a problem.
<v Speaker 2>I will take it.
<v Speaker 1>I will invest it for you because you see, I
<v Speaker 1>would rather invest it for you than cheat you out
<v Speaker 1>of it, you know.
<v Speaker 2>And and he's he's your Brenner yea. And oh now
<v Speaker 2>I'm forgetting his name.
<v Speaker 1>Charles Bronson put together.
<v Speaker 2>Oh my gosh, those are like too badasses.
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<v Speaker 2>Now? When you were when when you're asked to perform
<v Speaker 2>this character, did you ever get to see the animatronic
<v Speaker 2>or the.
<v Speaker 1>No, no, really, yeah I didn't see him. In fact,
<v Speaker 1>it was h when we did it. When I did
<v Speaker 1>it first, one might have been Clone Wars.
<v Speaker 2>I think it might have been. Yeah, so he was
<v Speaker 2>he was an existing character in the series already, yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>before the ride and then he became I mean, it's
<v Speaker 2>just I've been on that ride a million times. Oh yeah,
<v Speaker 2>every time I see it's a lot of fun. I'm
<v Speaker 2>still like, damn, yeah, it is cool.
<v Speaker 1>It's a really cool ride. Well, we have pictures of
<v Speaker 1>us as a family. We all went there and uh
<v Speaker 1>we got to go on the inaugural whenever you want
<v Speaker 1>to say voyage and and uh it. The thing is,
<v Speaker 1>they they told me one of the problems is that
<v Speaker 1>it's such an accurate portrayal of the Millennium Falcon. You know,
<v Speaker 1>you walk up and you go, holy crap, it's here.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, it's not like, you know, you don't walk
<v Speaker 1>into some big black room and all of a sudden
<v Speaker 1>it looks like but you get up and you walk
<v Speaker 1>up and you're sitting and you're at that table with
<v Speaker 1>the three D chess players and you're going, oh man,
<v Speaker 1>this is oh and then somebody hit his head up there,
<v Speaker 1>you know, and you're remembering all the things that happened,
<v Speaker 1>and you just get in there and it takes off
<v Speaker 1>and it boggles my It's no, it.
<v Speaker 2>Is not only like a feast for the senses, but
<v Speaker 2>it's just a lot of fun. Yeah. We we went
<v Speaker 2>for many years at Disneyland with nothing as grand like that,
<v Speaker 2>and now now it's like we're kids in the kandy store. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>And really you probably know this when you go to
<v Speaker 2>the park. You could actually operate the practical falcon from
<v Speaker 2>the outside with your with your phone. Did you know that? Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>there's something app. There's like I don't know if it's
<v Speaker 2>off the the the Genie app for the park itself
<v Speaker 2>or there's something that. Yeah, and I'm sure there are
<v Speaker 2>people watching will know that there's something that you could
<v Speaker 2>access where you could press buttons on your phone and
<v Speaker 2>things happen to the like compartments steam.
<v Speaker 1>Oh no, I didn't know that.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Yeah, So when you go to the park next time,
<v Speaker 2>you ask someone that works there, one of the performers,
<v Speaker 2>they'll let you know. But you could like hit a
<v Speaker 2>button on your phone when you're outside of the ride
<v Speaker 2>and you know, like the the actual falcons outside like
<v Speaker 2>like a little like a door will open and steam
<v Speaker 2>will come out or a light will blink. No, that's
<v Speaker 2>kind of cool. Yeah, there's like like your little Easter
<v Speaker 2>eggs in the park that you could do.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. And I remember when they were they were first
<v Speaker 1>talking about it and it was presented to me. And
<v Speaker 1>they've done this twice, once with the Winning of the
<v Speaker 1>Boom movie and once with this this incredible ride they
<v Speaker 1>brought me to the park. Are too imagineering? And uh,
<v Speaker 1>were we have something we want, want want you to see.
<v Speaker 1>So I go up and and they have these big,
<v Speaker 1>gigantic rooms and it's like when you're gonna do a movie.
<v Speaker 1>They have storyboards all over, creation all around. You're walking
<v Speaker 1>all around, and you know, just walls and walls full
<v Speaker 1>of it, and and they go and what we're thinking
<v Speaker 1>of is blah blah blah. And then and then what
<v Speaker 1>will happen is you'll you'll go down here and then
<v Speaker 1>people will do that. And I said, and you've done
<v Speaker 1>all this on spec.
<v Speaker 2>You not even know?
<v Speaker 1>You don't this is all on spec. Yeah, you're not.
<v Speaker 1>You don't even have a commitment for Andy goes. Oh sorry,
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, no, you didn't tell him. It's half done.
<v Speaker 1>It's halfway built already. I said, So you're trying to
<v Speaker 1>convince me to do this? Are you even close to kidding?
<v Speaker 1>There's a slim chance I'm in Yeah, yeah, I have
<v Speaker 1>an idea.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, yeah, I'll do it. How about that just rides
<v Speaker 2>that they do. They're in imagineering. They're they're creating like
<v Speaker 2>science and there you know, they're creating things with with
<v Speaker 2>formulas physics and inventing things like technology, furthering technology.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I'm still boggled by mister Lincoln.
<v Speaker 2>He stands up.
<v Speaker 1>And he's giving sign language. Oh no, he's got somebody's
<v Speaker 1>forgot a servo, and his writers.
<v Speaker 2>Saying, that's not the real Abraham Lincoln. You're talking to
<v Speaker 2>a canadi a gullible Canadian.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, but it was great, and you know, and
<v Speaker 1>I just thought it was the coolest thing in the world.
<v Speaker 1>And I thought, oh, well, this is nice. We're gonna
<v Speaker 1>walk and he's he's turned around and he's looking up
<v Speaker 1>up at the screen and he's doing something. He's shuffling
<v Speaker 1>things around, and then he turns around and walks.
<v Speaker 2>Over to the ends. And I went, oh, wow, that's crazy.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, so yeah, let's watch this. This is good.
<v Speaker 2>It just knocked me out. Yeah, I can't And which
<v Speaker 2>which one was the the the Frog and the Princess.
<v Speaker 2>The Princess in the front. That's that ride that you got,
<v Speaker 2>that's that got a hole make that's pretty cool. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>and you were a part of that one too.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I'm singing. I'm singing at the end, and you know,
<v Speaker 1>and it and it ticked me off because they're going,
<v Speaker 1>wait a minute, what do you mean Ray's not going to.
<v Speaker 2>Be in the ride anyway.
<v Speaker 1>Well he was killed as well. Give him a damn flashback.
<v Speaker 1>We had flashbacks all the time. Yeah, everybody has a flashback.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah that how you know. And I was like, well,
<v Speaker 1>then they bring us over, bring the family over to
<v Speaker 1>for the inaugural voyage, and you know, Keith David was there,
<v Speaker 1>and Nony Rose, Michael Leon Woolley, and we're all just
<v Speaker 1>sitting there digging life, you know, we're cool and everything.
<v Speaker 1>And oh and by the way, it broke down and
<v Speaker 1>so we got to sit out in the blistering so
<v Speaker 1>for half an hour.
<v Speaker 2>You're kidding, I'm about to get up out of here.
<v Speaker 2>I'm not gonna be sitting here. I'm not here. I
<v Speaker 2>didn't come here to work on my tent, you know.
<v Speaker 2>And then it.
<v Speaker 1>Started back up again, and off we were going. But
<v Speaker 1>Ray wasn't there, wasn't there, and I'm going, okay, where's Ray,
<v Speaker 1>where's ra Tiana?
<v Speaker 2>You look great?
<v Speaker 1>Where's Ray? You know? And then all of a sudden, going,
<v Speaker 1>take damn, we're going, Dick, and I got the song
<v Speaker 1>going there, I went okay, and I'm leading the fireflies
<v Speaker 1>out into the night.
<v Speaker 2>Or wherever the hell we were going.
<v Speaker 1>So I will, Okay, I.
<v Speaker 2>Feel better there it is there, it is. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>that's it. You're you're I mean, aside from again the
<v Speaker 2>this thing icons, you're just part of that park as
<v Speaker 2>your own. I guess yea. And I like that. It's
<v Speaker 2>right next to the Winnie the Pooh and Tigger ride.
<v Speaker 2>Oh is it? Yeah? There was. I haven't been there.
<v Speaker 1>And then raise berets and then I think it's I
<v Speaker 1>think it's tis.
<v Speaker 2>That's awesome. So they not only just did the ride,
<v Speaker 2>but the little area around.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I got a little corner.
<v Speaker 2>Great.
<v Speaker 1>I felt so good about that. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>My theme park participation is I'm in the Shreks has
<v Speaker 2>a new cottage in the Florida Universal, and I'm pussing
<v Speaker 2>boots telling people where the bathroom is.
<v Speaker 4>That's it.
<v Speaker 2>That's pretty good. All the male leader boxes are here
<v Speaker 2>and the lady leader boxes are there, and that's it.
<v Speaker 2>That's all I say. That's my legacy the theme park.
<v Speaker 2>It's important to know, though, that's the vital information. Be
<v Speaker 2>sure to bury your turks. Yeah, that's what I do
<v Speaker 2>at that's sage advice.
<v Speaker 1>Sage advice.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 8>Yeah, gim was in the original Shrek.
<v Speaker 2>As Yes, I was Captain of the Captain of the Guard.
<v Speaker 2>Oh no way, Oga, good god, what aga? I said? Oga?
<v Speaker 2>It's something about and then if it's a flying donky
<v Speaker 2>you know, and you know that they have Shrek Raves now, right,
<v Speaker 2>Shrek raves. Have you seen this? No, goat what you have?
<v Speaker 2>You know what I'm talking about. This is where we're at.
<v Speaker 2>He just came from one. He's still yeah, your your
<v Speaker 2>your glowstick is still glowing. But I mean the fact
<v Speaker 2>that you were in this movie that was made now
<v Speaker 2>DreamWorks is now but thirty years old. Now celebrated the
<v Speaker 2>fact that they've turned one of their flagship. I don't
<v Speaker 2>know if they did it, but someone did. There's Shrek
<v Speaker 2>Raves where you could just go trip out at Shrek
<v Speaker 2>Shrek like moments from the movie remix with techno music
<v Speaker 2>and people dress up like the characters. I'm sure someone
<v Speaker 2>has dressed up as your character.
<v Speaker 4>That is hilarious.
<v Speaker 2>I've never seen tripping Shrek balls.
<v Speaker 1>Wow, that sounds like a condition on that.
<v Speaker 2>You know there's a cream for that. Yeah, doctor, I'm
<v Speaker 2>sure there is. I think I have a condition. Well,
<v Speaker 2>they called it a Shrek ball, but they said, how
<v Speaker 2>about a Shrek ring? That's gonna be cooler.
<v Speaker 8>But here, Eric, I know you're the Looney Tunes guy,
<v Speaker 8>but honestly me, growing up, I was a Muppets kid,
<v Speaker 8>adored the Muppets, and my kids now love babies. It's
<v Speaker 8>the show they watch every day. My daughter takes a
<v Speaker 8>fuzzy toy to bed every night.
<v Speaker 2>Kid growing up? What's that? What's your what's your kid's name?
<v Speaker 8>So Holly is mine. She just turned for yesterday, Holly.
<v Speaker 8>And my son is six, Elliott. So they adore the
<v Speaker 8>Muppets and they just love muffer Babies every morning before school,
<v Speaker 8>muffert Babies.
<v Speaker 9>I hate Holly. Heye, Elliott, it's your bell, fuzzy bear.
<v Speaker 9>Want to hear a good joke? Okay, okay, Why did
<v Speaker 9>the chicken cross the playground to get to the other slide?
<v Speaker 1>Oh? There you go.
<v Speaker 2>I got to do Fozzy for Muppets is another thing.
<v Speaker 2>I was again talking to someone about it the other day,
<v Speaker 2>where it was just such a part of our of
<v Speaker 2>our lives, you know. It was it was like a
<v Speaker 2>Variety show when when variety shows, we were a thing
<v Speaker 2>there and it's something that you know, definitely everyone in
<v Speaker 2>the family could enjoy, and of course we had Kermit
<v Speaker 2>the Frog in Sesame Street, so he was there. But
<v Speaker 2>it's it's so hard for me to think that if
<v Speaker 2>you were to show a picture of Kermit the Frog
<v Speaker 2>to a kid now, they probably wouldn't even know who
<v Speaker 2>that character is. And I just hope that they continue
<v Speaker 2>to do things with these great characters so that we
<v Speaker 2>don't forget about them, you know. I love the Muppets,
<v Speaker 2>and I feel like there should there should always be
<v Speaker 2>something with these great characters that j American. Absolutely, there's
<v Speaker 2>nothing else like it in any other country, you know,
<v Speaker 2>and it's and it's definitely transcended. You know, all all
<v Speaker 2>different parts of of of you know, of Earth. People
<v Speaker 2>have seen or have run into Miss Piggy at one
<v Speaker 2>point in another. But with Kury exactly exactly, Robert Ducky,
<v Speaker 2>I love you.
<v Speaker 1>That was my I think that was Kit.
<v Speaker 2>Ernie Ernie and Kermit, you know. Yeah, it's it's that
<v Speaker 2>same clog voice that both Jim Henson and Frank Oz
<v Speaker 2>kind of kind of have. It's like that back of
<v Speaker 2>the throat kind of you know, like like Bert was
<v Speaker 2>also frank Oz, and you know, it's just another they
<v Speaker 2>were just such a good pair.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I remember the first time I heard Jim Henson talking,
<v Speaker 1>I thought, well, he's doing no, wait, that's that's him, right,
<v Speaker 1>that's kind of just him. Yeah, it's just natural.
<v Speaker 2>That's a different thing, kind of just pushes it just
<v Speaker 2>a little. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>And like Sterling Holloway, that was him talking exactly that.
<v Speaker 1>It used to kind of be that way back then.
<v Speaker 1>And Paul Wincho was not that far away from Tigger.
<v Speaker 1>It was just right in there, you know, got a
<v Speaker 1>little bit of little nose in there.
<v Speaker 2>I tell you, crazy is it? And I remember hearing
<v Speaker 2>you in an episode of Animaniacs ninety nine tune were
<v Speaker 2>you saying, oh, yeah, good night toune night tune? Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>my gosh.
<v Speaker 1>And it was taken and it was to be because
<v Speaker 1>Sterling Halloway narrated yes things too, like Peter and the
<v Speaker 1>Wolf was an old one, I think in the fifties
<v Speaker 1>or something.
<v Speaker 2>And I just thought, like I knew who it news you,
<v Speaker 2>but I knew that it was your you know, you're
<v Speaker 2>what you do. But I'm like, man, how crazy is
<v Speaker 2>that You're born with those the plumbing, I say, the
<v Speaker 2>plumbing and the pipes. You know, there's the pipes in
<v Speaker 2>the plumbing though it just whatever it is that you
<v Speaker 2>have it just in the bulls eye, like it never misses.
<v Speaker 2>Oh you know what I mean.
<v Speaker 1>Things.
<v Speaker 2>It's like one of those things where you're just like, damn.
<v Speaker 1>Now when you take over, because I've thought of this,
<v Speaker 1>because people have asked me and blah blah blah, and
<v Speaker 1>what is your approach? Because you take all these all
<v Speaker 1>of your voices are classic iconic. See for me, I
<v Speaker 1>try and think of them, think of like them, you know,
<v Speaker 1>and you know what they would say, and that that
<v Speaker 1>helps with ad living and background and that type of thing.
<v Speaker 1>But but what is your process.
<v Speaker 2>Do you think of it?
<v Speaker 1>I just think of it as sound first, and like
<v Speaker 1>for me, I want to be able to cough or
<v Speaker 1>burp or you know some other bodily function and everybody go.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, is that tigger doing that? You know, Wow, that's
<v Speaker 2>that's pretty profound that even obviously noises that aren't they
<v Speaker 2>have to be THEMN character. It's got to be them. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>and definitely what we talked about earlier, it's it's yeah,
<v Speaker 2>there's definitely sound for sure, but a lot of it
<v Speaker 2>is the personality. I always say that mel Blank created
<v Speaker 2>these personalities, not necessarily voices. Because you know, as we've
<v Speaker 2>all said, anyone can.
<v Speaker 1>Say what's up to do the same thing. Yeah, I
<v Speaker 1>call them characters. They're not coors with those voices.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Yeah, So it's definitely a combination of Obviously, clearly kids,
<v Speaker 2>I'm not an athlete. The ass dent in my couch
<v Speaker 2>will tell you otherwise. I am a trained couch potato
<v Speaker 2>and have watched Mastered the sport, the Master the Sport
<v Speaker 2>of Looney Tuning. I mean yeah, I'll watch almost you know,
<v Speaker 2>you know, at least one short a day or something.
<v Speaker 2>It's like like my equivalent of going to the gym is.
<v Speaker 3>Twenty three, twenty four, twenty five.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's like you know, yeah, like you know, when
<v Speaker 2>I was auditioning for Looney Tunes originally, and you were
<v Speaker 2>on Looney Tune Show. Yeah, as a couple of min
<v Speaker 2>I was Marvin the Martian. Isn't that lovely earth creature? Oh? Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>And I've been voicing Marvin for gosh well almost fifteen years.
<v Speaker 1>But he was one of my favorites because he didn't
<v Speaker 1>sound like anybody, and and and and it wasn't there
<v Speaker 1>a thing get him?
<v Speaker 2>Get him? Because I used to do that badly, just
<v Speaker 2>as a kid. Gee and see that was kirmedy. That's
<v Speaker 2>Pete Puma. That's a that's a good Pete Puma. Well
<v Speaker 2>that's what I meant. Yeah, oh, gee, rabbit, you want
<v Speaker 2>two lumps or three? Oh yeah yeah yeah, three lamps? Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Boom boom boom yeah exactly. It's like we know these
<v Speaker 2>comedy beats, and it's like I often say, it's like, uh,
<v Speaker 2>you know, you know the lyrics to your favorite song
<v Speaker 2>and you know those notes, and then it it's almost
<v Speaker 2>like we're remixers, you know. It's almost like, Okay, here's
<v Speaker 2>some new musical notes. Here are the notes that you know,
<v Speaker 2>but here's different arrangements. So we know that Winny the
<v Speaker 2>Pooh sung, but can you can you deliver us a
<v Speaker 2>new Winny of the Poo sung with these new arrangements,
<v Speaker 2>with the notes that you know. And then of course
<v Speaker 2>there's the amazing voice directors we work with to help
<v Speaker 2>us rain in that performance, as well as the writers
<v Speaker 2>and producers who are often on that call or in
<v Speaker 2>that room with you to help you guide the performance.
<v Speaker 2>You know, and especially if you're playing against yourself, you
<v Speaker 2>probably throw every dart at the wall and then they
<v Speaker 2>pick and choose which takes to contrast them. Do you
<v Speaker 2>often record them one passes pooh, one passes.
<v Speaker 1>To yeah, we do we. I used to do it
<v Speaker 1>the other way around. Wow, you know, with both of
<v Speaker 1>them talking to each other. And once in a blue moment,
<v Speaker 1>I'd hear one of the a leak, you know, tigger,
<v Speaker 1>would you know, hold on there and hold on there?
<v Speaker 4>Okay, ok, let's do that one again.
<v Speaker 2>But they live in two different areas.
<v Speaker 1>If you're you know, that's for sure. Yeah, that's for sure.
<v Speaker 2>Uh that's what I say about mel blank. It's the
<v Speaker 2>house of mel blank. Some of them live in the attic.
<v Speaker 3>Like tweety bird he wives up here, and bugs is
<v Speaker 3>kind of like down on this, you know, the sure,
<v Speaker 3>you know. And then maybe pal.
<v Speaker 2>Vester and uh, you know, right right around here. And
<v Speaker 2>then I'll say fog horns down in the basement run. Yes,
<v Speaker 2>I love foghorn, that's right. Yeah. So yeah, see that
<v Speaker 2>house that says do og, that says chicken, go get
<v Speaker 2>a boy, Yeah yeah, chicken, that is yes.
<v Speaker 1>I used to love those were my favorite things about foghorn.
<v Speaker 2>You know, well, we gotta get going, shake a tail feather, that.
<v Speaker 1>Is move Bun's son. Yeah, in other words, we're leave,
<v Speaker 1>you know, and he would he would expand on it.
<v Speaker 2>You know, he'd always see these weird, weird like non sequarys,
<v Speaker 2>like a you'd be as confused as a mouse as
<v Speaker 2>a mouse got a burlesque show. I'm like, what the
<v Speaker 2>mouse had a burlesque show? Or you'd be like a
<v Speaker 2>millipede and a toll counting contest, you know, weird catchphraises
<v Speaker 2>that only fog Horn.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, and I just loved him. He's one of my
<v Speaker 1>all time favorites. I think he should get more.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I do too, and I you know again, i'd
<v Speaker 2>watch if if if we have our way and they
<v Speaker 2>release Coyote Versus Actme, we we might get to see him.
<v Speaker 2>He's he's in that movie a lot, so, uh, can
<v Speaker 2>you play him? That's right, Yeah, it's Coyote Versus Actually
<v Speaker 2>get ten characters.
<v Speaker 1>You got to be doing something.
<v Speaker 2>Well. It's the story of Coyote suing the Acme Corporation
<v Speaker 2>because he's never been able to eat the Roadrunner because
<v Speaker 2>of faulty products. Oh that's the point of the movie.
<v Speaker 2>So it's my perfect a live action like Roger Rabbit
<v Speaker 2>court drama with Looney tunes. So wow, what better voice
<v Speaker 2>would you have? Now? I say, you're on I object
<v Speaker 2>you know ya zip take for instance, exhibit A. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>imagine the sweaty Southerner in a courtroom. Yes, it's perfect,
<v Speaker 2>it's the perfect story. It really really is. So but yeah,
<v Speaker 2>that's so.
<v Speaker 5>Are the other other animated characters in the movie, like,
<v Speaker 5>are they part of the prosecution or witnesses.
<v Speaker 2>Or what's what's funny is coyote doesn't talk right, Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>so he's writing on these picket signs. It's the whole movie.
<v Speaker 2>And I mean, well, Forte, you know, carries the whole
<v Speaker 2>film on his back. But every now and then you'll
<v Speaker 2>get a cameo from other Looney Tunes characters in the movie.
<v Speaker 2>That's great.
<v Speaker 5>You know, it wasn't a specific example. We want we
<v Speaker 5>want the juice.
<v Speaker 2>Uh, Daffy is in a satan asylum. They're trying to
<v Speaker 2>find evidence and it's Daffy Daffy duck is. He's been
<v Speaker 2>put in a looney bin literally.
<v Speaker 3>And he's out there, Jeff calmly painting a picture.
<v Speaker 2>And then someone brings up acne and then he goes nuts.
<v Speaker 9>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's funny when when you do Daffy, and I'll
<v Speaker 2>tell you this. He mel Blank was doing Sylvester and
<v Speaker 2>then they would speed up his voice. Oh yeah, like tweety.
<v Speaker 3>I'm sure probably sounded like this, and then they would
<v Speaker 3>speed it up in the machine.
<v Speaker 2>I do a self pitch, same thing for Daffy. But
<v Speaker 2>when mel Blank performed Daffy, he was still doing phil Vester.
<v Speaker 2>You're despicable. Oh, come on, buns, And then they would
<v Speaker 2>speed it up like that and they would begin Daffy.
<v Speaker 2>When I hear Daffy, I hear Richard Dreyfus with a
<v Speaker 2>lisp for whatever reason.
<v Speaker 3>Not now, Mayor Vaughan. What we're dealing with here, if
<v Speaker 3>a perfect eating machine, okay, and all the machine wants
<v Speaker 3>to do, I'm a fourth of July is eat and
<v Speaker 3>make little baby sharks. And I'm not gonna be a
<v Speaker 3>hot meal for from shark. Okay, Yeah, that's my Richard
<v Speaker 3>dreyf If with a list is definitely.
<v Speaker 1>That's awesome. That's really good. That's what happens. We have
<v Speaker 1>too much time on your hand. I've seen him at
<v Speaker 1>a couple of conventions. I think we should next time around.
<v Speaker 1>If I go and harass it, come.
<v Speaker 2>Here, let me strangle you. Yeah, responsible for this?
<v Speaker 1>Oh that's hysterical.
<v Speaker 8>Have you seen the finished product of Coyote?
<v Speaker 2>I have, I have, I have. It's uh, it's a
<v Speaker 2>beautiful film. I'll be honest, it's it's what what's great
<v Speaker 2>about it is it's not a nostalgia grab, it's not
<v Speaker 2>a product tie in, it's not there's no basketball players involved.
<v Speaker 2>It's literally just a very simple Looney Tunes film. You
<v Speaker 2>know that that actually is a little that actually makes
<v Speaker 2>you care about these seven minute short form characters. For sure.
<v Speaker 2>You know they're really just made to be thrown away
<v Speaker 2>at the you know, these gag cartoons. But this movie
<v Speaker 2>actually really makes you feel bad for these This Coyote.
<v Speaker 1>Wow, Oh yeah, he's taken a lot of lumps.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah exactly.
<v Speaker 8>Was it originally as the launch pad for the new
<v Speaker 8>Looney Tunes era for w BA, Well.
<v Speaker 2>I think again. What we're you know, what we had
<v Speaker 2>faced was that this was just like the Daffy and
<v Speaker 2>Porky movie. We started making that in twenty nineteen, so
<v Speaker 2>this was made kind of for streaming, and they were
<v Speaker 2>both just great productions. And there were several other productions
<v Speaker 2>that were supposed to go that didn't and I feel
<v Speaker 2>like it was just again, we're in this era now
<v Speaker 2>of we had too much content and now we have
<v Speaker 2>no content. It's almost like the companies are like, Okay,
<v Speaker 2>we got to stop. We gotta put the brakes on,
<v Speaker 2>stop the hemorrhaging. And then maybe once we figured stuff out,
<v Speaker 2>we'll go back, because already they're starting to produce more
<v Speaker 2>stuff at Warner Brothers. And you know, and you know,
<v Speaker 2>you know that's gonna happen. It's a pendulum, right, it
<v Speaker 2>swings back and forth. And I mean, luckily and oddly enough,
<v Speaker 2>what's saving me right now is preschool shows. Like preschool
<v Speaker 2>shows and adult swim shows. There seems to be nothing
<v Speaker 2>the whole spectrum but only the book ends. Yeah, but
<v Speaker 2>they really remember there was a time where we would
<v Speaker 2>go in like for Ben ten. There were so many
<v Speaker 2>of these great kids like seven to eleven shows, and
<v Speaker 2>they just seem to be non existent. And I think
<v Speaker 2>a lot of it is because of roadblocks, minecraft iPads, YouTube,
<v Speaker 2>you know, there's yeah, But what's weird is I have
<v Speaker 2>an eight year old side he's watching like Gumball or
<v Speaker 2>regular show, but he's not watching it like he's still
<v Speaker 2>catching it on YouTube. Off the right channels. I'm always
<v Speaker 2>making sure at least cartoon at work he is getting
<v Speaker 2>the clicks that it needs. But it's not like when
<v Speaker 2>we were growing up as kids, where oh, this show's
<v Speaker 2>on at five pm only on Friday, Okay, we have
<v Speaker 2>to all watch this at the same time. It's not
<v Speaker 2>like that anything.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I liked that. I liked it because it felt
<v Speaker 1>like everybody. You know, I remember going to like football
<v Speaker 1>practice after I had enough time to go home and
<v Speaker 1>get some get a half sandwich and watch a cartoon,
<v Speaker 1>and everybody would go to practice right next door. I
<v Speaker 1>live right next door to the high school where my
<v Speaker 1>grade school would also go and practice, and everybody talked about,
<v Speaker 1>you know, the Bowery Boys or whatever the cartoon was
<v Speaker 1>that they just watched.
<v Speaker 2>It's something that it's communal, unified everyone it did. It
<v Speaker 2>gave people like a sense of community and and yeah,
<v Speaker 2>and now now when you're given the choice to watch
<v Speaker 2>it any time you want, Yeah, there's still evidence of like, oh,
<v Speaker 2>when this person watched it for the ratings purposes, but
<v Speaker 2>as far as like, you know, giving that that that
<v Speaker 2>real sense of backing and fandom, you know, it's kind
<v Speaker 2>of like hit and miss and a lot of shows
<v Speaker 2>suffer because there's just a lot, right, Like, you have
<v Speaker 2>to you have to almost find some of these unless
<v Speaker 2>someone's telling you, hey, watch this, this is a good show.
<v Speaker 2>You're kind of like, I don't know where to begin. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>as far as like, oh, what should I watch next?
<v Speaker 2>Or you know, so, I don't know. There's there's a lot.
<v Speaker 2>There's a lot that I think needs to be rethought
<v Speaker 2>or or how we distribute to people in the audience
<v Speaker 2>and for us as artists too, you know, I mean
<v Speaker 2>you did Saturday morning cartoons.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, back when Saturday Morning was Saturday Morning, it was good.
<v Speaker 2>Happened to catch a little bit of that as far
<v Speaker 2>as residuals are concerned. And now I get a sack
<v Speaker 2>of peanuts from Netflix and it says, yeah, take this
<v Speaker 2>tier wells Fargo deposit box and good luck.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Yeah, that's true.
<v Speaker 2>It's tough. It's a different, different critter, different world.
<v Speaker 8>How do royalties differ from TV royalties to streaming? Is
<v Speaker 8>it vastly different?
<v Speaker 2>Well? I mean it's funny because I think we were
<v Speaker 2>told we don't have those numbers, and then like now
<v Speaker 2>there is uh advertising tier based streaming for the people
<v Speaker 2>that can afford just non commercial streaming. Now the advertisers
<v Speaker 2>are back, So it's almost like we've reverted back to television,
<v Speaker 2>except it's not ala carte. Right, you could do the
<v Speaker 2>Paramount Plus and Disney and then not do warners or
<v Speaker 2>warners in Disney and not do Amazon. But now people
<v Speaker 2>can't even afford regular streaming. Now they have to pay
<v Speaker 2>for ads, and now suddenly they have the numbers. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>because advertis there's need to know that what they're buying
<v Speaker 2>into is being seen.
<v Speaker 5>Well, that's a big reason for the strike last year, right,
<v Speaker 5>was transparency between these streaming companies, right, Yeah, So.
<v Speaker 2>Now they're kind of basing it off of like yeah,
<v Speaker 2>minimum like x amount of views, like it has to
<v Speaker 2>have this extraordinary amount of life. And it's like, well,
<v Speaker 2>you know, if you're ordering more seasons of it, clearly
<v Speaker 2>it's doing well if you're and therefore I should be
<v Speaker 2>entitled to some kind of If I'm not going to
<v Speaker 2>get the residuals, I should at least get some kind
<v Speaker 2>of get a raise.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>So I mean, luckily again, preschool is like, you know,
<v Speaker 2>paying for my gas this week, and it's like they're
<v Speaker 2>not afraid to do original ideas in preschool as well
<v Speaker 2>as using their existing intellectual property, and the same thing
<v Speaker 2>for adult animation, Like there's more original adult cartoons out
<v Speaker 2>there than there are reboots of stuff, So it's a
<v Speaker 2>crazy you know. I don't know who makes these rules,
<v Speaker 2>but hey, if you have ideas, go preschool, go adult,
<v Speaker 2>or just now make it yourself. I feel like like
<v Speaker 2>that show Bluey that originated in Australia, which was not
<v Speaker 2>an original Disney show, but because they got the numbers
<v Speaker 2>and the eyes, Disney acquired it for distribution and it's
<v Speaker 2>now on Disney. So if you have the numbers before
<v Speaker 2>it exists anywhere, then you might get scooped up by somebody.
<v Speaker 2>That's the dream I guess. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, So
<v Speaker 2>we're gonna make our own show, so let's do it.
<v Speaker 1>Let's see me a pencil. Yeah yeah, hell yes, that's
<v Speaker 1>not a bad idea, not bad. I think we should
<v Speaker 1>do that.
<v Speaker 2>Have you ever heard of Kung Fu Cow Cow? I'm
<v Speaker 2>well you will.
<v Speaker 8>Chris should be place a voice swap?
<v Speaker 5>Do you think, yeah, yeah, it's a good time for
<v Speaker 5>a voice swamp. Do you know this game?
<v Speaker 2>I've I've heard of it, I've seen a legend and
<v Speaker 2>who are we who are we going to do battle
<v Speaker 2>with here?
<v Speaker 1>Well, with his two Emmys, let's see what we can
<v Speaker 1>do here. I had to get that in two Emmys.
<v Speaker 2>I'm telling you that's a wonderful thing. Tell us who
<v Speaker 2>for which characters?
<v Speaker 3>Well, Doc, I'm proud to say that I may be
<v Speaker 3>the voice poison and that includes Mel blank in this
<v Speaker 3>company to win an award.
<v Speaker 2>A performance award for bugs money in eighty years there
<v Speaker 2>there hasn't been in a for each of that done son, right,
<v Speaker 2>doesn't it doesn't. It doesn't wow because if you think
<v Speaker 2>about it, I guess the Emmy organization or Television Academy
<v Speaker 2>didn't really exist. While the original run of the Looney
<v Speaker 2>you know, in the forties it was more the the
<v Speaker 2>race was still then the Oscars, and it did win Oscars.
<v Speaker 2>Looney Tunes did win Golden Statues, but Mel was never
<v Speaker 2>awarded an Individual Achievement award for his and I think
<v Speaker 2>still I'm still trying to get you know, uh, you.
<v Speaker 1>Know, he's got a square on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
<v Speaker 2>He definitely does. He does definitely does have taken pictures.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, But yeah, I have an Emmy
<v Speaker 2>two Emmys for for for Loony Tunes cartoons, and then
<v Speaker 2>the other one was for Bugs Bunny Builders for the
<v Speaker 2>same Charkers, Bugs, Daffy Tweety, and Marvin so PERI. Yes,
<v Speaker 2>I thought we'd get that out there going on.
<v Speaker 4>We're not.
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<v Speaker 2>Do it now. Now I've seen you do uh and
<v Speaker 2>I know, hey you this is your show. You guys
<v Speaker 2>call the shots.
<v Speaker 4>Uh.
<v Speaker 2>But I've often seen you do dark Wing with with
<v Speaker 2>other other folks and we could do multiple ones if
<v Speaker 2>you want, sure, but I've my dream was to do
<v Speaker 2>Daffy Duck and Darkwing Duck. Okay together, that could be
<v Speaker 2>doing well.
<v Speaker 1>They kind of look alike, a look alike.
<v Speaker 2>The almost even sound similar. Yeah. Well dark Wing is nasal, Yes,
<v Speaker 2>he's nasal.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, that's for sure.
<v Speaker 2>I am the terror the flaps in the night.
<v Speaker 3>Now wait a second. You see, I thought I was
<v Speaker 3>the terror that flaps in the night.
<v Speaker 2>No, you molt in the night?
<v Speaker 3>I malt. Yeah, yes, that's true, especially during the fall.
<v Speaker 2>But I thought I was the you know, daff is
<v Speaker 2>always trying to one up someone else like that was
<v Speaker 2>that was it? That was my dream, right, there was
<v Speaker 2>the duel with dark Wing and Daffy. But you should
<v Speaker 2>have dark Wing.
<v Speaker 3>Now say you're despicable.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, now now I can't say it without sounding like Daffy.
<v Speaker 2>Now you're despicable. Wow, I'm so jealous. I've never heard
<v Speaker 2>anyone fit without a lift.
<v Speaker 3>How I found like, if I didn't have this fat tongue,
<v Speaker 3>I need.
<v Speaker 2>Tongue reduction for tongue. Isn't it that something like that?
<v Speaker 2>Oh boy, yeah, I mean there's that's one, but there
<v Speaker 2>are there are others that are on the list of.
<v Speaker 1>There are Well, I'll tell you what.
<v Speaker 2>You come up with a catchphrase, right.
<v Speaker 3>Ooh, I thought I ta punny tad? I did I
<v Speaker 3>did tee you putty tad?
<v Speaker 4>Okay, who should respond to that?
<v Speaker 1>Oh?
<v Speaker 2>I thought I ta I did I did see a
<v Speaker 2>putty tad? Yum? Oh, brother, can I eat me? Tasmanian
<v Speaker 2>devils eat everything exactly. There is the metabolism on a
<v Speaker 2>Tasmanian devil is insane.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and I have to tell this very briefly because
<v Speaker 1>you know, we went to Australia a couple of years
<v Speaker 1>ago and we went and saw a Tasmanian devil. They're
<v Speaker 1>not as big as you'd think they are. And but
<v Speaker 1>the damnedest thing.
<v Speaker 2>He was in there running around and all of a
<v Speaker 2>sudden he turns around.
<v Speaker 1>And he's running away and he goes.
<v Speaker 2>And no way, I.
<v Speaker 1>Said, that's what I said.
<v Speaker 2>I said, no, what did you hear that thing?
<v Speaker 1>And he turns around money it sounds like melb Is.
<v Speaker 2>I like, hey, and it gave me I've got good here.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, And he's just all pissed off for no reason.
<v Speaker 2>He's just running around all mad. What's funny, though, is
<v Speaker 2>that if you watch one of the original Taz shorts,
<v Speaker 2>he's not big at all. He's atally drawn smaller than yeah. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>and he's just but that's what makes it him more
<v Speaker 2>terrifying is that he's just so assuming, this little guy
<v Speaker 2>who's got like the worst temper and the biggest appetite
<v Speaker 2>you know.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that must have been trippy for you to say.
<v Speaker 1>It was unbelievable and it knocked me out. I was like,
<v Speaker 1>say that again, please, you know, and I'm trying to
<v Speaker 1>get it on.
<v Speaker 5>I have a request for a voice swap. Yeah, i'd
<v Speaker 5>love to hear Honda with your the uh oh, the
<v Speaker 5>stories I could tell, Oh yeah, I'd love to hear
<v Speaker 5>that with the Gromflo. I just love I'd love to
<v Speaker 5>hear that because it sounds like something you'd say to.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, here we go, So here's Hondo and Knaka.
<v Speaker 7>Oh these stories I could tell.
<v Speaker 2>So many of them true. Oh, the stories I could
<v Speaker 2>tell of things that I found up people's butts, so
<v Speaker 2>many of them are unfortunately true.
<v Speaker 3>The stories I could tell so many of them true, Doc,
<v Speaker 3>that's wonderful.
<v Speaker 8>I just like it would be a waste if we
<v Speaker 8>didn't get the two icons bugs and Winny to do
<v Speaker 8>one as well.
<v Speaker 4>Of course.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, yeah, well when he should lead this though.
<v Speaker 1>All right, then.
<v Speaker 7>Excuse me, mister Bunny, could you please pass the honey?
<v Speaker 3>And well, Doc, I got a variety, we got some
<v Speaker 3>carrot honey, and well that's all I got. You know,
<v Speaker 3>I got a rumble in my tumbling, ain't I you stinking?
<v Speaker 2>Yes? You are?
<v Speaker 3>Sorry?
<v Speaker 2>Pool?
<v Speaker 3>Could you please pass the carrot? Honey?
<v Speaker 1>Well, I passed something, but it.
<v Speaker 3>We passed the test. That's what it is, of time,
<v Speaker 3>not a gall stone.
<v Speaker 4>That's okay, that's great.
<v Speaker 8>I think that's the first time Winnie the Poo has
<v Speaker 8>ever officially spoken to Bugs Bunny in character like that.
<v Speaker 1>I think so.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, probably we could definitely do. When's Roger Rabbit three
<v Speaker 2>coming out? That's all I wanted. I guess we got it.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, was there a two?
<v Speaker 2>I wish? I wish there were two, But I mean,
<v Speaker 2>wouldn't that be something. I'm just waiting for it? Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>there it is. I gotta I gotta get it on
<v Speaker 2>the side. That's something else. Yeah, I'm just waiting for
<v Speaker 2>Disney to buy Wonder Brothers and then we can have
<v Speaker 2>Roger Rabbit too.
<v Speaker 4>That's right. That's right.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, that is true, isn't it?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>All those those those mashups.
<v Speaker 4>Well, is there anything upcoming that people should look for
<v Speaker 4>that you want to plug shamelessly on the way to podcast?
<v Speaker 2>So you guys got to watch it? All right? Yeah? Geez, Louise,
<v Speaker 2>And when when are you coming up from Australia to
<v Speaker 2>come visit us up here when Jim flats. All right,
<v Speaker 2>so we will never see him again? All right, Well,
<v Speaker 2>I won't know if you have legs or not. I
<v Speaker 2>will only see this much, this portion of you.
<v Speaker 8>I would show you, but I'm not wearing pants.
<v Speaker 1>Well he's a Futurama episode, don't they have the guys
<v Speaker 1>in that?
<v Speaker 4>You know in my head, the jar just sitting there, jar.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well you know again the day the earth blew up.
<v Speaker 2>That'll be in theaters next year, February twenty eighth, and again.
<v Speaker 2>Until then, I'll be driving you to your airport in
<v Speaker 2>case you need anything. Transformance, Transformists, Transformers, earth Spark. I
<v Speaker 2>play the voice of Prowl. Who was you were in
<v Speaker 2>trans right? I can't I can't even I can't even
<v Speaker 2>imagine who you probably voiced in in Transformers, but a.
<v Speaker 1>Long long time ago, right after Burner, Ripper, Snapper, Crabclaw
<v Speaker 1>and that other guy I can't remember.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, there you go. I mean again, too many to count,
<v Speaker 2>but yeah, that's exciting to be part of another. Yeah
<v Speaker 2>legacy and and uh you know when I got my
<v Speaker 2>second emmy, uh, mister Peter Cullen was up there getting
<v Speaker 2>his Lifetime Emmy and having witnessed Frank Welker kind of
<v Speaker 2>do his speech for Peter, you know, Welcome.
<v Speaker 1>Human stage was was awesome.
<v Speaker 2>You know, I got the guy, I get to see
<v Speaker 2>Megatron and give a speech about Optimus Prime. You know
<v Speaker 2>who gets to say that that's insane and you know
<v Speaker 2>they couldn't be nicer, just like yourself. Very cool. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>we did it again, ladies and gentlemen. Eric Boles another
<v Speaker 2>successful episode. He send your cards and letters in Yes,
<v Speaker 2>and I guess it would only be appropriate.
<v Speaker 3>To say the the that's how.
<v Speaker 1>Folks, that's there's ours, there's our ending.
<v Speaker 2>Thanks of course. That was so much fun.
<v Speaker 4>Guys, Yeah, thank you so much.
<v Speaker 2>Really appreciate it, really really spilled the beans on a
<v Speaker 2>lot of stuff. Use it all, that's right, mm hmm