Kaitlyn Robrock (Minnie Mouse)

<v Speaker 1>How you doing out there. It's me Tiggert, I am
<v Speaker 1>duc Wayne Duck. It's me Bunkers keep bobcat. All right, y'all,
<v Speaker 1>did it great? Your favorite firefly you desire Hondo old
<v Speaker 1>knock guy.
<v Speaker 2>My name is Jim Cummings and welcome to tuned In.
<v Speaker 1>All right, Welcome back, everybody to another episode of Tuned
<v Speaker 1>In with Jim Cummings. Today we are joined by the
<v Speaker 1>voice of Minnie Mouse, Caitlyn Robrock. Thank you for being here.
<v Speaker 1>How are you doing today?
<v Speaker 3>I'm doing really good.
<v Speaker 1>Thank you, Yeah, thank you for being here.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, indeed, I can't believe that this is Disney Royalty. Sure,
<v Speaker 2>truly Disney Royalty. You're the first lady of Disney.
<v Speaker 3>Well you're one to talk.
<v Speaker 4>You're like a legend.
<v Speaker 2>Oh well no, not really, No, that's somebody else. But
<v Speaker 2>but meanwhile, I digress.
<v Speaker 1>It's uh.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, you are part of the the DNA you
<v Speaker 2>have been. You are a keeper of the flame. You're
<v Speaker 2>an accolyte. You're moving the whole franchise, the whole world
<v Speaker 2>forward for a whole new generations. That's gotta be great.
<v Speaker 4>I'm certainly aware of the scope of how big that was,
<v Speaker 4>and it's it's paying it forward from what I had
<v Speaker 4>growing up as well, because I can count back all
<v Speaker 4>the way to the eighties.
<v Speaker 3>Who were those voices of your childhood?
<v Speaker 4>Who were those formative people who made you laugh, who
<v Speaker 4>made you want to make other people laugh.
<v Speaker 3>That's what it's all about. Our job is to entertain.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, if we're doing it right. True,
<v Speaker 2>how are we doing so far? We get pretty entertained. Okay, good,
<v Speaker 2>they said, yes, Well that's so cool. Now is Mickey
<v Speaker 2>ever going to propose?
<v Speaker 3>He's never not said he wouldn't not propose.
<v Speaker 4>Oh so that's good.
<v Speaker 1>That's good, that's positive. I'm going to write that down.
<v Speaker 1>He's never almost not remembered to say.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, glove size is tricky for rings.
<v Speaker 1>So, but that's true.
<v Speaker 2>And you don't really have a ring finger, do you.
<v Speaker 2>They're all, yeah.
<v Speaker 4>There's four of them. Yeah, I have five at least.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, who knows where it goes?
<v Speaker 2>Oh that's so true. Well true, love never dies.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Were you a big fan of Disney growing up? Oh?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, we grew up in an animation household.
<v Speaker 4>My uncle was an artist and he taught at an
<v Speaker 4>art school, and my dad loved the art of our animation.
<v Speaker 3>So they were both so in that world.
<v Speaker 4>So we were grown we grow up raised on Looney Tunes,
<v Speaker 4>the Disney shorts, Hannah Barbera, the Saturday Morning cartoons, even
<v Speaker 4>like I remember we would even watch like those Top
<v Speaker 4>ten band cartoons because my uncle had.
<v Speaker 3>A copy of it somehow.
<v Speaker 4>But they were very they were very specific about like
<v Speaker 4>this is why these cartoons are not on TV, this
<v Speaker 4>is the problem with it, this is why it seems funny.
<v Speaker 2>I think I had that. Yeah, I had it was
<v Speaker 2>a VHS.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, they did make.
<v Speaker 1>Something like that before.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Wow, that's amazing.
<v Speaker 2>You're the first person I ever heard of remember is
<v Speaker 2>that or brought it up? I mean, that was so cool.
<v Speaker 2>I can't even remember any of them that were banned.
<v Speaker 4>Or why they were mostly the racism or magotry reactions
<v Speaker 4>or making fun of them for being that race. And
<v Speaker 4>a lot of them were in wartime cartoons or Great Recession.
<v Speaker 1>Time just kind of like propaganda.
<v Speaker 4>Not necessarily they did like Looney Tunes, did I believe
<v Speaker 4>Warner Brothers made propaganda cartoons with private snafu and then
<v Speaker 4>Disney made wartime educational videos for supporting video.
<v Speaker 2>Donald Duck was up there screwing around and.
<v Speaker 1>Biplanes.
<v Speaker 4>Animation is a great medium to deliver a message, whatever
<v Speaker 4>that message may be. So it's just what did the times.
<v Speaker 3>Bring you back?
<v Speaker 4>Then how you'll be drawn in by the animation, and
<v Speaker 4>then you'll learn about why are sides better?
<v Speaker 3>There's sides not?
<v Speaker 1>Or yeah, yeah, So when you were watching those cartoons
<v Speaker 1>as a kid, did you do the voices? Did you
<v Speaker 1>know you wanted to do the voices?
<v Speaker 4>I would just mimic them or goof around, yeah, just
<v Speaker 4>to kind of make dad laugh or recreate those funny
<v Speaker 4>little lines.
<v Speaker 3>And to this day, my parents still quote things from
<v Speaker 3>the nineties or eighties.
<v Speaker 4>So I'll tell them like, you know, Katie, are you
<v Speaker 4>coming down for a visit this week? And like, oh no, no,
<v Speaker 4>I'm hanging out with my friend Jordan. And then mom
<v Speaker 4>will go, who is this Jordan? Do we know his parents?
<v Speaker 4>And from a Pinky and the Brain episode, you know,
<v Speaker 4>thirty five years ago or thirty years ago? What other fis?
<v Speaker 3>So they just keep.
<v Speaker 4>Quoting that or I could go on and on, but
<v Speaker 4>there's always a little something and you're always kind of hoping,
<v Speaker 4>like who's gonna know that reference, Who's gonna know that joke,
<v Speaker 4>no one. Okay, I'm weird.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, good, Yeah, well I wrote it. Then in that case,
<v Speaker 2>it's all me. Yeah, there you go.
<v Speaker 4>And this is the stuff I got, you know, detention
<v Speaker 4>after school for doing or making fun of the bullies
<v Speaker 4>who are making fun of me. I would just mimic
<v Speaker 4>them and me like Jay jar Katie's making this voice.
<v Speaker 4>Well she said this, Well you shouldn't have responded that way.
<v Speaker 4>You're both into tenth.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, but I had the better joke. Are you sure
<v Speaker 1>I shouldn't?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah?
<v Speaker 3>Mine was ready. There was just doom.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's right.
<v Speaker 4>Shouldn't it be greated on quality?
<v Speaker 1>That's right, you would think.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I went to Catholic school, and the nuns couldn't
<v Speaker 2>have cared less that. You know, you were both in trouble. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>you know, because okay, well even though well, okay, he
<v Speaker 2>hits you with a spitball, Well that's what you get
<v Speaker 2>for having that big fat head.
<v Speaker 1>Wait a minute, that can't be right.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I don't think they said that very often, but I'm
<v Speaker 2>sure I heard it. Yeah, so I'm quoting one of
<v Speaker 2>those nuns. Oh god, I have to I have to say.
<v Speaker 2>I was thinking the other day because Pete, my guy
<v Speaker 2>is always in any given Mickey projects somewhere. You know,
<v Speaker 2>he's got to be you know, he's got to be
<v Speaker 2>the bed guy, somebody you need a you need friction. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>and we can't have an actual, you know, doctor doom guy.
<v Speaker 1>But but Pete will do the trick.
<v Speaker 2>So as a result all of the iterations, I can't
<v Speaker 2>even I should have looked at it. But there was
<v Speaker 2>you know, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Mickey Mouse fun House, House
<v Speaker 2>of Mouse, a lot of houses. Yeah, going on with
<v Speaker 2>this particular mouse, and now we're moving on with more
<v Speaker 2>Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. It's yeah, there was a two point
<v Speaker 2>oh yeah. So it's like the never ending story. And
<v Speaker 2>I'm really glad. I'm really glad that never well.
<v Speaker 4>And Pete is one of those characters that he has
<v Speaker 4>the full range of what he can and can do.
<v Speaker 4>You know, Mickey and Minnie and Goofy and Donaldaisy like
<v Speaker 4>to a point, there is that kind of limit or like,
<v Speaker 4>oh well, they really wouldn't act this way.
<v Speaker 3>It's just not their nature.
<v Speaker 4>But Pete is a character who like every nature counts
<v Speaker 4>for him, just depending on the situation.
<v Speaker 3>There's so much freedom in that. And I would say,
<v Speaker 3>Goofy too.
<v Speaker 2>Actually, yeah, that's true. Yeah, but well yeah, you know
<v Speaker 2>Pete and Goofy. That's there's your team up right there,
<v Speaker 2>Laurel and Hardy. So yeah, yeah, I agree. Well, that's
<v Speaker 2>one of the things I love about doing Pete. He's
<v Speaker 2>he's an everyman. He can go out there and he
<v Speaker 2>can he can start a fight, he can end it,
<v Speaker 2>he can he can cry if he wants to because
<v Speaker 2>it's Christmas and you know, things like that. It's just
<v Speaker 2>a lot of fun. Yeah, yeah, good stuff. And I
<v Speaker 2>have to ask you, how long have you been Mini?
<v Speaker 3>It's September right, so about two weeks.
<v Speaker 4>Ago, three weeks ago this Thursday was my fifth anniversary.
<v Speaker 1>Wo wow.
<v Speaker 2>Well congratulations.
<v Speaker 4>And for that first year I thought I was still
<v Speaker 4>like on a trial period.
<v Speaker 1>Oh and I had to ask, like.
<v Speaker 4>Am I still in the trial period? And the fun House?
<v Speaker 4>I believe if not Funhouse it was mixed up Adventures.
<v Speaker 4>But they're like no, no, no, we're fine. It's like, okay,
<v Speaker 4>I remember they were mentioning this maybe it's for the
<v Speaker 4>other series, and they're like, uh, this one, the wonderful one. No,
<v Speaker 4>they signed off on you when you did a Texan
<v Speaker 4>accent on Minnie's voice.
<v Speaker 3>Oh, I wouldn't have minded knowing that.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, God forbid the past that little tidbit along.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, but I had a feeling like, I don't think
<v Speaker 4>anyone else is doing it. Yeah, no, Drudy, I'm sure
<v Speaker 4>that's pretty good job.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I think you do. To me, that's one of
<v Speaker 1>the most impressive feats of voice acting is being able
<v Speaker 1>to do like a voice within a voice, if that
<v Speaker 1>makes sense, Like how you said doing an accent in
<v Speaker 1>Minnie's voice and oh gosh, oh gosh, I'm gonna get lambasted.
<v Speaker 1>But the actor who played Bugs Bunny mel Blank, Okay, sure,
<v Speaker 1>mel Blank. There was this great story about mel Blank
<v Speaker 1>doing Bugs Bunny impersonating Elmer Fudd, and then Elmer Fudd
<v Speaker 1>impersonating Bugs Bunny, and I just thought, that's like just
<v Speaker 1>such a wild talent to impersonate yourself. How do you
<v Speaker 1>impersonate yourself as another character or you know, do a
<v Speaker 1>character voice in an accent? Is that something that's natural?
<v Speaker 1>Do you practice it? How does that come about?
<v Speaker 4>Definitely, because how Caitlin would do an accent. Whatever way
<v Speaker 4>I do it, that's the natural way for me to
<v Speaker 4>do it. So I always have to make sure, well,
<v Speaker 4>where does those words and accent sit in a higher
<v Speaker 4>register when she's already got such a specific way of
<v Speaker 4>saying vowels and consonants, or her squeaks and her her
<v Speaker 4>creaks into the vowels, like those little minute things, oh wow,
<v Speaker 4>because or she's she had a lot of nasality for
<v Speaker 4>certain constants. It's just all those tiny little things that
<v Speaker 4>I tried to focus on. So now you kind of
<v Speaker 4>got to forget all of that because would they do
<v Speaker 4>that in Texas or Florida or Minnesota. Let me practice
<v Speaker 4>before I go.
<v Speaker 3>In the boost, so I kind of have an idea.
<v Speaker 1>Of what to do. Yeah, Yeah, what's the toughest you've
<v Speaker 1>had so far?
<v Speaker 4>The toughest anything that's kind of real low and guttery.
<v Speaker 4>It can it's a challenge. I make sure to never
<v Speaker 4>do it when it's painful.
<v Speaker 3>But let's make that the end of the day.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, where I'm not sure if Pete's been in an
<v Speaker 4>episode with Cosmo Cockroach. She's just this little villain guy
<v Speaker 4>and he sits there. And so we did the had
<v Speaker 4>like two episodes, and I asked, could we do this
<v Speaker 4>one at the end? Yes, just because he's gonna he's
<v Speaker 4>gonna want to make it's a little grind. And then
<v Speaker 4>I think the last episode for our show, he will
<v Speaker 4>be singing something and that was like, oh, this is different,
<v Speaker 4>and that one we took extra time with because the
<v Speaker 4>song was written right at my break right ah. And
<v Speaker 4>those are always so hard and like I'm trying to
<v Speaker 4>belt or be an alto, but it's just not holding.
<v Speaker 4>But if I do it as a soprano, it's not
<v Speaker 4>strong enough. So that's always the tricky one. So I
<v Speaker 4>always say like I'm the key of C. If that
<v Speaker 4>helps anybody.
<v Speaker 1>You know your key, Wow, I'm sure that does help
<v Speaker 1>very much.
<v Speaker 4>So. But all of our composers are just great on
<v Speaker 4>the shows because easy melodies to remember, but fun songs
<v Speaker 4>and I'll see I'll catch myself singing it random later.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Come inside, it's fun inside. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Do do do Do do do.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>All those things. Boy, oh boy, what what an what
<v Speaker 2>an incredible you know legacy to to tie into. It's
<v Speaker 2>really just so beautiful. I got to believe that. Well,
<v Speaker 2>like we're saying before, it worldwide, there's instantaneous recognition, you know,
<v Speaker 2>that's have you experienced anything out of the country.
<v Speaker 4>Yet yes, I have two things. I went to Disneyland Paris.
<v Speaker 4>We did some filming out there and just kind of
<v Speaker 4>seeing how that culture, that world experiences Disney and it's
<v Speaker 4>very similar but also very different, just different ways of reacting,
<v Speaker 4>different vibes. Beautiful park, yes, but they like their rides rough,
<v Speaker 4>and so by the end of the day I was
<v Speaker 4>very like, I think I have to stop. And I'm
<v Speaker 4>a thrill seeker, but like they're Indiana Jones, ride like
<v Speaker 4>bang bang bang bang bang ban ban bang bang. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Oh man, I remember that was painful, heads going back
<v Speaker 2>and forth like a gong and.
<v Speaker 3>A and then their their space mountain. It was very fun.
<v Speaker 4>I was like, why is it so dark? I had
<v Speaker 4>my sunglasses and I didn't realize that. And at the
<v Speaker 4>very end we came to we came to such a
<v Speaker 4>sharp stop. My head did the thing, and I remember like, oh,
<v Speaker 4>this is gonna bed four hours. Yeah, so still so
<v Speaker 4>much fun. And then I'll meet people at conventions and
<v Speaker 4>I always tell them like, you can always talk to me.
<v Speaker 3>It's okay.
<v Speaker 4>I know it took a lot to get here. Sometimes
<v Speaker 4>they just want to say thank you or impress upon
<v Speaker 4>us when you did this I felt so good, I
<v Speaker 4>felt so happy.
<v Speaker 3>I wanted you to know that, and like, I see
<v Speaker 3>that as a success.
<v Speaker 4>And then a few people have like written to me
<v Speaker 4>on Instagram and I always acknowledged them. I have to
<v Speaker 4>remember to look at the you know, unknown messages.
<v Speaker 3>I tend to.
<v Speaker 4>Forget, but I always respond if I can or can't,
<v Speaker 4>I will always respond that way. I've acknowledged it, but
<v Speaker 4>I've done one like, you know, hey, my brother is
<v Speaker 4>going through cancer right now. He loves these cartoons. Do
<v Speaker 4>you think you could pass on an encouraging message?
<v Speaker 3>Of course?
<v Speaker 4>And a lovely young lady said, my best friend's getting
<v Speaker 4>married in Japan and they adore Disney and she loves many.
<v Speaker 4>Her bridal dress had little accents towards it. So I
<v Speaker 4>did a little congratulation message. And I had asked her like,
<v Speaker 4>is there a traditional Japanese saying it's like, you know,
<v Speaker 4>live long and prosper something like that, and then she's like, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>this is very common, and she wrote it out in Romaji,
<v Speaker 4>which is English letters for their words, so we can
<v Speaker 4>read it. So then I read it in Japanese as
<v Speaker 4>many to pass on to, and she filmed the reaction
<v Speaker 4>for me because I was really excited, like I kind
<v Speaker 4>of want to know, and it was a video montage
<v Speaker 4>of her friend experiencing Disney for her. She was having fun,
<v Speaker 4>and then my picture popped out up and many started
<v Speaker 4>talking and you you see her going like who's this?
<v Speaker 4>Like it did for a minute and I was like, oh,
<v Speaker 4>it was so odd. But then when I said her
<v Speaker 4>name and then said the congratulations, and that's when she
<v Speaker 4>was like.
<v Speaker 1>What she must have waggd out she did. Her husband too,
<v Speaker 1>was like wait, did did you just.
<v Speaker 2>Hear Minnie Mouse say wow?
<v Speaker 4>And I tried to be as perfectly accented as I could.
<v Speaker 4>I watched a bunch of anime in college, so I
<v Speaker 4>tried to learn the dialect at least so if I
<v Speaker 4>ever had to speak Japanese, I would do it correctly.
<v Speaker 1>What was happen? What was your favorite anime? O?
<v Speaker 4>Love escaflone. Everyone should see it. I love it so much.
<v Speaker 2>And of course, yeah, jessco bar probably a different one, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>Pablo different, Yeah, differently with large eyes.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah that that was a real special treat. So because
<v Speaker 4>that's on the list one day to get out to
<v Speaker 4>Japan one day.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well, god that they'd love you I think they
<v Speaker 2>love Pooh there too.
<v Speaker 4>They adore Pooh.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, they love the cuddly characters like Florice was in
<v Speaker 4>one cartoon in the old days. Chippendale's aforementioned sweetheart, she
<v Speaker 4>was in one cartoon. But there's the character meets you
<v Speaker 4>there and there's merchandise. Yeah, like they adore her. They
<v Speaker 4>adore Someburger's girlfriend from Bambi, the Yellow Bunny, Miss Bunny.
<v Speaker 4>She's got a character there, she's got merch They just
<v Speaker 4>love the cuddly stuff.
<v Speaker 1>Isn't that something?
<v Speaker 4>I think it's adorable me too? Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>Wow, Okay, now I want to go.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that's find of there somewhere compartment.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, right, got it.
<v Speaker 4>The way to do it that way they know we're
<v Speaker 4>there and like come talk to us. Mm hmm.
<v Speaker 1>That's right.
<v Speaker 2>And and anybody who's thinking of inviting both of us,
<v Speaker 2>we're there, right, you'll be there. Okay, Oh that's good. Well,
<v Speaker 2>next podcast will do it from Tokyo Disney.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah or not, maybe like just outside the park entrance
<v Speaker 3>right by the straight side crash Cans were coming to
<v Speaker 3>live from near Tokyo Disney.
<v Speaker 2>Near Tokyo Disney. Yes, indeed, how cool is that all right.
<v Speaker 1>So you were growing up, you were doing the voices,
<v Speaker 1>you were watching animation, your whole family was all into that.
<v Speaker 1>You worked at Disney correct twenty years? Didney twenty years?
<v Speaker 1>Twenty years? What got you into that?
<v Speaker 4>Everyone in college was going there, So it's like, oh,
<v Speaker 4>we're all going to work at Disneyland, and I think
<v Speaker 4>and I got hired. It took me a few tries
<v Speaker 4>because I couldn't give them the availability they needed, but
<v Speaker 4>I hired in. And then within a year, not only
<v Speaker 4>was my whole hire group like they had left or
<v Speaker 4>quit or got fired, but everyone else in the school
<v Speaker 4>had left. So I was like, oh, well I'll stay
<v Speaker 4>why not? And it did give me a lot of
<v Speaker 4>good lessons in how to how to interact with people
<v Speaker 4>of various temperaments, various ages, And it really taught us
<v Speaker 4>the Disney the Disney way, like what's branding?
<v Speaker 3>Light, what's integrity?
<v Speaker 4>Like, yeah, what is our service to our guests who
<v Speaker 4>come to see us?
<v Speaker 1>Now. At the time when you were working at Disney,
<v Speaker 1>were you still auditioning, were you going out for things
<v Speaker 1>as well? Or was that just a different.
<v Speaker 4>That hadn't happened yet. Because I hired in November of three,
<v Speaker 4>and I was still in college and just kind of
<v Speaker 4>juggling things and learning voiceover and getting involved in the community.
<v Speaker 4>It took me a lot longer than anyone else, just
<v Speaker 4>because I had to make sure I had the time,
<v Speaker 4>the money, and am I learning and internalizing what I'm
<v Speaker 4>being taught. So I took Bob Bergen's class twice. I
<v Speaker 4>took Richard Horwitz's class twice, Like I would take classes
<v Speaker 4>and workshops frequently to just constantly remember what are they
<v Speaker 4>teaching me? Remember that so you'll reflect it when auditions
<v Speaker 4>would come. And I had met Bill Farmer through a
<v Speaker 4>friend who did my first demo and I had booked
<v Speaker 4>a show on Adult Swim on my own, so he
<v Speaker 4>kind of helped present me to my agent, Sandy schnar
<v Speaker 4>at Avo. And I'm still with them today. Oh great,
<v Speaker 4>they're lovely.
<v Speaker 2>I was with Sandy for a good long time. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>break out, She's wonderful. Tell her, I said, Helo, I
<v Speaker 2>will little inside baseball. I think I think that's what
<v Speaker 2>that was.
<v Speaker 1>But that's great.
<v Speaker 2>Well, you had a really circuitous route, but yet you
<v Speaker 2>were I think it's so interesting that you were still,
<v Speaker 2>as they say, working for the mouse.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, before lockdown, I juggled both jobs. It's like there's
<v Speaker 4>no need to leave yet it's not public knowledge, so
<v Speaker 4>there's no issues. And it was just it was kind
<v Speaker 4>of fun, like I do something very fancy, no one
<v Speaker 4>around here news, but I would practice the voice, like
<v Speaker 4>around two thousand and fives when I kind of figured out, like, hey,
<v Speaker 4>I can kind of get to that point just by luck.
<v Speaker 4>Some of it's luck and then some of us. Most
<v Speaker 4>of it is your training and your dedication. Make the
<v Speaker 4>most out of what you have. I just was very
<v Speaker 4>lucky that my placement was where it was, and I
<v Speaker 4>never take that for granted.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's an interesting point because people will say, and
<v Speaker 2>only people in our profession or you know, actors in general,
<v Speaker 2>we'll say, well, where's.
<v Speaker 1>That coming from? Is that? Is that going to be
<v Speaker 1>like a is that down there? Is it?
<v Speaker 2>Or is it in the mask? Is it up here?
<v Speaker 1>You know?
<v Speaker 2>And I've had people, well Mark Hamill not to be
<v Speaker 2>a big name dropper here, but I met he's a
<v Speaker 2>cool guy. And the first time I met him a
<v Speaker 2>million years ago, it was he goes, oh, Jim, well
<v Speaker 2>it's great to meet you. So give me some dark
<v Speaker 2>wing what give me some dark wing? Uh dark wing Doc.
<v Speaker 2>He goes, yeah, well I am the terror. Okay, so
<v Speaker 2>that's in the mask. Interesting, I knew it was. I know,
<v Speaker 2>what about poo?
<v Speaker 1>What you know? And yeah, so well I suppose He goes, oh,
<v Speaker 1>so that's wow. Where is that? That's not that's not
<v Speaker 1>in your chest? Is it?
<v Speaker 2>That's light about here? And I go, yeah, I guess.
<v Speaker 2>And I never even freaking thought of it, and he's
<v Speaker 2>having me go down the line and I finally told him,
<v Speaker 2>I said, look, I don't think you understand. You're not
<v Speaker 2>getting to meet me. I'm getting to meet you. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>way up about me. You're you're the joker he was
<v Speaker 2>he was for Batman. Yeah, and uh anyway, just one
<v Speaker 2>of those you know, it reminded me of what you
<v Speaker 2>were outlining there. It's a it's a not an exact science,
<v Speaker 2>but then it is.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, if you love something that much, you'll learn every
<v Speaker 4>aspect of it. And then even going back and watching
<v Speaker 4>older things, like you can see it through a new lens.
<v Speaker 4>Because one of my favorite things, I'm sure it's one
<v Speaker 4>of everyone's favorite things, is when mel Blank would just
<v Speaker 4>scream in those cartoons you never hear that anymore. But
<v Speaker 4>if I recall correctly, back then they were recorded in
<v Speaker 4>those large sound stages, so you had to scream to
<v Speaker 4>get it across, and then they treat it.
<v Speaker 3>And everything, and now we're just in little tiny booths.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, with microphones that'll explode if you pop your pee.
<v Speaker 2>That's right, that's true, perfectly correct, perfectly correct.
<v Speaker 1>Oh man, that's crazy.
<v Speaker 4>But I love that he like studies that nuance too,
<v Speaker 4>because his voiceover career is very good.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, oh yeah, legendary.
<v Speaker 4>Blank Mark Hamill Ham like learning all those aspects about.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, it's Mark Hamill's joker. I mean, that's no.
<v Speaker 4>One never heard anything like that before, and no one
<v Speaker 4>expected it to come out of Luke.
<v Speaker 1>They're great well.
<v Speaker 4>And then when I when I put two and two
<v Speaker 4>together and realize Paul Williams was the penguin. Of course,
<v Speaker 4>that's his voice, and he was so good at it,
<v Speaker 4>Like you wouldn't know that that was them. Bron Peerlman
<v Speaker 4>was Clay Face. You wouldn't know that because they were
<v Speaker 4>hired for the talent, not the name. The name was
<v Speaker 4>just an amazing quinkydink of like you know they could
<v Speaker 4>do that, like they're an actor hire for the talent,
<v Speaker 4>not the name.
<v Speaker 1>Thank you, thank you. And I feel we've talked about
<v Speaker 1>this a few times on this podcast, and it feels
<v Speaker 1>like that's kind of going away a little bit. Sadly.
<v Speaker 1>It seems like they keep going for these big A
<v Speaker 1>list stars to be you know, Chris Pratt and Jack Black,
<v Speaker 1>and you know, it's not like they're not talented, but
<v Speaker 1>I mean, but there's other people. There's specialty, their niche
<v Speaker 1>doesn't quite feel there, you know, it's yeah.
<v Speaker 4>Well, and then like your movies are one thing, and
<v Speaker 4>then if they make TV shows of those movies, that's
<v Speaker 4>when we come.
<v Speaker 1>In right exactly exactly So before you have you ever
<v Speaker 1>had to match a character's voice before?
<v Speaker 4>Many, Yes, I did a few ad R looping matches,
<v Speaker 4>very small things, just because you just kind of need
<v Speaker 4>something to do a line or two. I don't but
<v Speaker 4>I've voiced match Melissa McCarthy, Sarah Silverman, Scarlet Johansson.
<v Speaker 3>But it's been for small things.
<v Speaker 4>I don't think I would be able to do a
<v Speaker 4>huge project and be as believable, whereas in this moment
<v Speaker 4>it just happened to work. But I haven't done that in.
<v Speaker 3>A little while.
<v Speaker 4>But it's it's good homework, Like listen to the ladies
<v Speaker 4>around you, see how close you can get or something
<v Speaker 4>that evokes it, and then learn the men too, and
<v Speaker 4>do impressions because there's a.
<v Speaker 3>New character right there.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's right.
<v Speaker 4>And even if it isn't like, they'll know who you're
<v Speaker 4>doing an impression of by how you speak and the
<v Speaker 4>nuance just a different sounding voice.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. When you record, do you feel the physical physicality
<v Speaker 1>of a character? You know, do you really get like
<v Speaker 1>in your body or not so much?
<v Speaker 4>Not so much, just because as all the times I've
<v Speaker 4>been recording, be it sessions or auditions, we're in very small,
<v Speaker 4>enclosed spaces, and I if I'm not paying attentioning to hands,
<v Speaker 4>like I might knock the mic or hit something and
<v Speaker 4>make a sound.
<v Speaker 3>So it has been very internal.
<v Speaker 4>But there's been definitely times like how do I want
<v Speaker 4>to deliver this, I'd better start moving and let the
<v Speaker 4>voice follow the movement without going completely off mic. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>that itself is a skill, I think, Yeah, a.
<v Speaker 1>Bit of it.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, because it's so easy to do. I used to
<v Speaker 2>do that when I first started because I always stood.
<v Speaker 2>Then I realized, all right, everybody else in the room
<v Speaker 2>is sitting down, I might as well sit, and then
<v Speaker 2>it centers you a bit and it keeps you from
<v Speaker 2>you know, you're doing this physical character like Taz was
<v Speaker 2>ridiculous and I was all over the place. Oh yeah,
<v Speaker 2>that's right, the microphone. Sorry, you know.
<v Speaker 1>So it's it's a thing. It's a thing. Yeah, you know,
<v Speaker 1>it's you.
<v Speaker 2>Got to learn body language to do voiceover and like.
<v Speaker 4>What works best for you. Most people I know sit,
<v Speaker 4>but they know exactly how how they're sitting is how
<v Speaker 4>their body's arranged. If I'm sitting, I'm kind of squishing
<v Speaker 4>my diaphragm a bit, so I may not have as
<v Speaker 4>much energy or enough air to not go Like like
<v Speaker 4>you'll hear creaks and cracks and we'll hear it even
<v Speaker 4>if no one else will, and it drives me insane.
<v Speaker 3>Then it's like, let me just go back real quick.
<v Speaker 4>Let me just go back real quick.
<v Speaker 3>Like we didn't hear anything. Oh it's there, I know
<v Speaker 3>it's there.
<v Speaker 2>Well, someone will someone in Youngstown, Ohio is going, ain't.
<v Speaker 1>You hear that.
<v Speaker 4>I've watched works that have come out on TV or
<v Speaker 4>online and like, oh they use that take.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, I can go back and fix it.
<v Speaker 4>And some of my early stuff with Mini, we were
<v Speaker 4>still kind of finding the path for each genre of
<v Speaker 4>animation or work we were doing. And and I listen
<v Speaker 4>back to that old stuff, I'm like, oh yeah, I
<v Speaker 4>see now where that wasn't exactly an alignment, so it
<v Speaker 4>just that and then cultivating it and crafting it and
<v Speaker 4>polishing it, and then she's where she sits now feels
<v Speaker 4>the most natural and the most approachable. And I'm definitely aware,
<v Speaker 4>like you know, kids five and under, I am their
<v Speaker 4>MANI now, and Russie is too if they watched Original
<v Speaker 4>Clubhouse all of those wonderful projects prior. But if there's
<v Speaker 4>like an updated consistency or any pop culture tie in,
<v Speaker 4>I want to make sure I'm giving them my absolute best,
<v Speaker 4>just like I received the best growing up myself.
<v Speaker 2>That's awesome. It's a good good philosophy.
<v Speaker 4>You want to be someone who you want to be
<v Speaker 4>the outleader to. Don't meet your heroes. You want to
<v Speaker 4>be the one that, like I met them, they were wonderful.
<v Speaker 1>That's right.
<v Speaker 4>You wouldn't be famous or or well known if you
<v Speaker 4>didn't have fans. So treat those fans well and be
<v Speaker 4>grateful they love you as much as you should.
<v Speaker 1>Love them absolutely. And speaking of fans, shameless plug, we
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<v Speaker 3>And I was like, what are you looking at the
<v Speaker 3>lady on the walls?
<v Speaker 1>He's got his own camera?
<v Speaker 3>You got your own camera?
<v Speaker 1>Oh it's good, it's perfect.
<v Speaker 2>See there he is?
<v Speaker 1>Now? Okay, how would you say it? Since getting the
<v Speaker 1>part of Minnie Mouse, your life has changed?
<v Speaker 3>It was very odd.
<v Speaker 4>I don't know what life would have been like prior
<v Speaker 4>to COVID and lockdown because that just changed everything. So
<v Speaker 4>I recorded from home and like there wasn't any fomo
<v Speaker 4>because nobody went anywhere.
<v Speaker 3>Nothing like existed.
<v Speaker 4>So a lot of friends are like, I'm so sad
<v Speaker 4>Comic CON's not happening that. Yeah, but it's not happening
<v Speaker 4>for anybody. We're just kind of we've just paused the movie.
<v Speaker 4>Don't worry about it this year, it'll come back.
<v Speaker 2>It felt very Twilight zoning.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, me, just like we were in suspended animation, Like
<v Speaker 4>where do we go from here?
<v Speaker 3>What will be the process?
<v Speaker 4>How long until it takes to get back to normal?
<v Speaker 4>Will it ever be normal? And like I try to remember,
<v Speaker 4>like from twenty nineteen and before, what did we have
<v Speaker 4>that we don't have now? Or what do we have
<v Speaker 4>now that we.
<v Speaker 1>Didn't then McDonald's breakfast all day.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, twenty four hour stores, they kind of went away.
<v Speaker 4>But even then, what did we have two thousand and
<v Speaker 4>two to twenty twenty that we did or didn't have
<v Speaker 4>before nine to eleven. It's just those same like elements
<v Speaker 4>of what changed things on a global scale that will
<v Speaker 4>affect your everyday life in some way. And we've had
<v Speaker 4>a handful of those, at least in my generation, where
<v Speaker 4>it's like I don't remember the past as well.
<v Speaker 1>You know what? That's that's really funny you say that
<v Speaker 1>because I catch myself sometimes standing in line at a
<v Speaker 1>store and I try to remember how close we stood
<v Speaker 1>to each other before COVID. Yeah, because I swear the spacing,
<v Speaker 1>like social distancing has just kind of changed.
<v Speaker 3>I'm like, even with all the little stickers on the.
<v Speaker 1>Floor, right, yeah, I'm like, did we used to be
<v Speaker 1>like right up against each other? I can't remember well?
<v Speaker 4>And where masks when wearing masks when you were sick
<v Speaker 4>was a common courtesy in Japan, so that way you
<v Speaker 4>could still do what you need to do without getting
<v Speaker 4>anyone else sick or vice versa. If it's like, hey,
<v Speaker 4>everyone's catching something, I'll wear a mask to not catch it.
<v Speaker 4>That's very common out there, and I always loved that.
<v Speaker 4>But pre COVID, like you were just kind of looked
<v Speaker 4>at weird for wearing a mask. But it's the little
<v Speaker 4>things like I don't want to blow out birthday candles
<v Speaker 4>and get my breath and spit on the cake. I
<v Speaker 4>never thought about.
<v Speaker 1>That before, seriously. Yeah, and just a little how much
<v Speaker 1>you touch your face, how much you touch your face
<v Speaker 1>your phone? Yeah, I always remember, just like into the
<v Speaker 1>mask touching or you yeah, you use your you use
<v Speaker 1>your wrist to touch a button, but then you now
<v Speaker 1>are rubbing your eye with your wrists and that kind
<v Speaker 1>of beast.
<v Speaker 3>It's just a little things.
<v Speaker 1>The point.
<v Speaker 4>Well, and we you know, we certainly wash our hands
<v Speaker 4>after using the restroom at Disneyland, but oftentimes it would
<v Speaker 4>be if not hand sanitizer may be a quick wipe.
<v Speaker 4>But because of working there for so long, I had
<v Speaker 4>so many bacteria and viruses and microscopic doses because someone's
<v Speaker 4>sick at any given point of the day. But and
<v Speaker 4>if you just kind of if I walked by someone
<v Speaker 4>who maybe coughed, but a little floaty bug gets in there,
<v Speaker 4>like you can kill it off and learn about it
<v Speaker 4>and it won't affect you, but it just built a
<v Speaker 4>stronger immune system. Yeah, so that was certainly helpful.
<v Speaker 1>So what was your role at Disneyland.
<v Speaker 4>I would go out with the characters to help you
<v Speaker 4>visit them and take pictures.
<v Speaker 1>And all the rests cool.
<v Speaker 4>So if Goofy comes out in town square, he'll stand
<v Speaker 4>over here by this tree, like, if you'd like to
<v Speaker 4>meet them, please line up over here here in square.
<v Speaker 4>No grabbing, no yankee, yes.
<v Speaker 1>No, yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Well now okay, now you know I have to ask, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>did you ever escort her.
<v Speaker 4>All the time? All the time? And some of my
<v Speaker 4>co workers would laugh like of course you're going, and
<v Speaker 4>it's like, well, it's actually because it has the best
<v Speaker 4>break in the schedule, like because at that point it's
<v Speaker 4>like I'll take multiple breaks the day I had. I
<v Speaker 4>helped out character friends in the past. So my knee
<v Speaker 4>is not quite the same, my neck is not quite
<v Speaker 4>And there was a beautiful Christmas season where Clara Cluck
<v Speaker 4>and I were just best buddies. The Big Old chicken
<v Speaker 4>from the Yes and now I voice her? So when
<v Speaker 4>I when when? Because Clara was so sweet to me,
<v Speaker 4>but I fell down a ramp helping her, and I
<v Speaker 4>was like, I think we're done helping the character friends.
<v Speaker 3>Thanks Clara, And.
<v Speaker 4>Then it kind of came back around like, oh, well,
<v Speaker 4>I still am Clara now, which is a lot of
<v Speaker 4>funat and the more opera. She's an opera singer and
<v Speaker 4>I took a semester of opera in college. I was
<v Speaker 4>going to school six weeks.
<v Speaker 1>Really fancy, did do you have a musical background?
<v Speaker 4>Yes? My mom was a singer and a music teacher,
<v Speaker 4>and there was music playing all the time.
<v Speaker 2>Piano.
<v Speaker 3>We had a piano and it kind of played often.
<v Speaker 4>But like my dad invested in like the really fancy
<v Speaker 4>stereo systems and they would play all kinds of music
<v Speaker 4>and they knew like we loved eighties music, so on
<v Speaker 4>Saturday mornings they would play music to kind of wake
<v Speaker 4>us up gently because the alarm clocks are jarring.
<v Speaker 1>For sques like the yeah, woke you up?
<v Speaker 4>Or any money or oh yeah? But so I love
<v Speaker 4>the eighties in particular, and it just kind of was
<v Speaker 4>like there's always something or Karen Carpenter Christmas played right
<v Speaker 4>after we finished Thanksgiving dinner. We'd put the CD on
<v Speaker 4>and it's like we're gently easing into Christmas. Yes, so
<v Speaker 4>there was always something yeah, yeah, yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I wanted to ask you that because I feel like,
<v Speaker 1>I mean, Jim has musical background as well, and a
<v Speaker 1>lot of voice actors seem to that, at least that
<v Speaker 1>we've talked to so far on this podcast, and I
<v Speaker 1>think it must help, like hearing, you know, different different tones,
<v Speaker 1>being able to mimic different voices because you have that
<v Speaker 1>knowledge of.
<v Speaker 4>You know, like a yeah, and some actors do you
<v Speaker 4>want to mimic or an impersonation of. They'll have a
<v Speaker 4>melodious tone about them, or they'll do little tics that
<v Speaker 4>that hit like oh she loves people going hello, like
<v Speaker 4>oh every day she comes in hello, Well what's the notes?
<v Speaker 4>If she's a singing songy type, what are the notes
<v Speaker 4>she jumps on? Or if she's warming up, what are
<v Speaker 4>the It can only help, but I do advocate where
<v Speaker 4>there were singing doubles, so like if the actor really
<v Speaker 4>couldn't sing or wasn't able to, you have a singing
<v Speaker 4>voice match, and it's lovely if you can do both
<v Speaker 4>your own speaking and singing. Everyone enjoys that. But if
<v Speaker 4>the actor is so good they just don't have that
<v Speaker 4>singing ability, hire them for the acting and then hire
<v Speaker 4>a professional singer who can voice match it. That way,
<v Speaker 4>it's a nice marriage. Neither one loses out because.
<v Speaker 1>You or me.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's basically what you're saying, and I agree, but
<v Speaker 2>I like.
<v Speaker 3>It that way.
<v Speaker 4>You're getting the best of both aims, the acting portion
<v Speaker 4>and the singing portion. It's two different languages, Like, well,
<v Speaker 4>you're hearing and acknowledging, and then now you're hearing in
<v Speaker 4>your feeling. That's the entire point of music.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, And you know, I've always maintained that people who
<v Speaker 2>start off as singers end up doing really well in voiceover. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>because they're familiar with the darn thing right off the bat.
<v Speaker 2>And I, of all people, I think Nicholas Cage kind
<v Speaker 2>of pointed this out, but then I kind of took
<v Speaker 2>it away in my head. But if you stop and
<v Speaker 2>think about the way people express certain emotions like bing,
<v Speaker 2>Crosby is a good example, because he would say that
<v Speaker 2>to Jerry Lewis.
<v Speaker 1>Well, I guess that just depends on how you.
<v Speaker 2>Look at the whole things there, Old buddy, what that
<v Speaker 2>was was bile doo doo doo, and that was music.
<v Speaker 2>And if you think of it that way, you're getting
<v Speaker 2>across two things. You know, you're getting across the feeling
<v Speaker 2>of it because it's sort of a jaunty, a jovial thing,
<v Speaker 2>and it conveys and it strengthens the words, you know,
<v Speaker 2>because the words are about this, that and the other thing,
<v Speaker 2>and the music matches that. Like, you know, nobody would
<v Speaker 2>say happy birthday, you know birth Yeah, yeah.
<v Speaker 3>It's just I don't think they're happy.
<v Speaker 2>No, it's not going to happen, So you get that
<v Speaker 2>marriage is what's up.
<v Speaker 4>I think stage theater acting is the strongest acting you
<v Speaker 4>can learn.
<v Speaker 3>That would transition to voiceover.
<v Speaker 4>The very last row in that mezzanine or what triple
<v Speaker 4>mezzanine at the Siegerstrom, you know, where it's like, well,
<v Speaker 4>I think she's wearing a red dress.
<v Speaker 3>But it's like to like they're.
<v Speaker 4>Just sort of blurry in the distance and they have
<v Speaker 4>to project and act with their voice to hit that
<v Speaker 4>back row and sing with it, like yeah, we can
<v Speaker 4>see you're blocking. We might miss out on the facial expressions,
<v Speaker 4>but it's just so many different ways to act. And
<v Speaker 4>it's different from TV and film, where a lot of
<v Speaker 4>your face serves as the the storyboard or it takes
<v Speaker 4>the whole thing into the scope. Well, voice acting just
<v Speaker 4>radio plays, audiobooks. You got to hear it right there,
<v Speaker 4>and everything else is just enhanced icing on the cake.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, yeah, well that was I remember when I
<v Speaker 2>first started off. One of the things you had to
<v Speaker 2>learn was since you they can't see you, they can't
<v Speaker 2>see you lifting something really heavy, they can't see you
<v Speaker 2>pushing something really heavy, they can't see you falling, and
<v Speaker 2>hopefully you're not falling. But it's got to be all.
<v Speaker 1>In the voice. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>And I remember I did this crazy thing called the
<v Speaker 2>California Raisins and we had a guess a guest star
<v Speaker 2>on it and uh and and the line was something
<v Speaker 2>like that was leading him in. He goes, well, I
<v Speaker 2>don't know, I guess that depends on how you look
<v Speaker 2>at it.
<v Speaker 1>What do you what do you think?
<v Speaker 2>And the guy went and that's and all that sounded
<v Speaker 2>like was, you know, it's just you can't do it.
<v Speaker 2>It's not it's you have to get it in the voice. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>you know that you can no matter how many gyrations.
<v Speaker 1>And he was a great actor. He was a great
<v Speaker 1>character actor.
<v Speaker 2>I'm not going to say his name, but he just
<v Speaker 2>stunk it voice over. You know, it's like, oh wow,
<v Speaker 2>that doesn't translate. Does it go back to being rich
<v Speaker 2>and famous?
<v Speaker 1>There? Take out it, get out.
<v Speaker 4>If you really want to do this, treat yourself as
<v Speaker 4>a beginner and learn from the ground up.
<v Speaker 3>Everyone deserves the chance to try.
<v Speaker 4>I can't say everyone could be a voice actor, but
<v Speaker 4>they can come from anywhere, and if the passion is there,
<v Speaker 4>it'll lead you somewhere where you're meant to be.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah for show, Yeah, yeah, And I always knew I
<v Speaker 2>was going to do this, So, like I said, you know,
<v Speaker 2>for long long US five.
<v Speaker 4>I was, so, when did Beauty and the Beast come
<v Speaker 4>out anyone?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah?
<v Speaker 5>I was.
<v Speaker 4>I think I was like seven and a half or
<v Speaker 4>maybe eight, and I saw Hook, you know, and it's
<v Speaker 4>like that's like the generate, the defining movie of childhood.
<v Speaker 4>And then the year after two years no year after
<v Speaker 4>was Aladdin, and so there it is.
<v Speaker 3>Robin Williams.
<v Speaker 4>He's the one in both. He's the one who gets
<v Speaker 4>to play and imagine, and he's an adult.
<v Speaker 3>I can do that too, but how do I do that?
<v Speaker 4>Then it just took as long as it needed to
<v Speaker 4>to find where where can I start walking down that path?
<v Speaker 4>And I always say be safe than sorry, So I
<v Speaker 4>waited a long time to do demos or just like
<v Speaker 4>find the archetypes you're best at, make sure they're the
<v Speaker 4>front and center. Know your natural voice, which is still
<v Speaker 4>hard today. Just speak naturally, like what is naturally? Or
<v Speaker 4>if you're kind of a weirdo character in real life,
<v Speaker 4>which I think I am, Like I'm sure it's like,
<v Speaker 4>oh yeah, it fits everything else, but like it may
<v Speaker 4>not translate, like what is this an adult swim show
<v Speaker 4>or Disney Junior or Nickelodeon?
<v Speaker 3>Where does the pattern fit?
<v Speaker 4>And then anything I'm weaker in or it's like I've
<v Speaker 4>never really done that on my own time. I'll practice it,
<v Speaker 4>study it so I can present it to my agents,
<v Speaker 4>like i'd like to read for these projects or these
<v Speaker 4>characters types. Here's kind of what I've been practicing on
<v Speaker 4>that way, I'm working for them just as much as
<v Speaker 4>they're working for me. Yeah, because I've seen many roles
<v Speaker 4>go by and like I didn't read for that, they
<v Speaker 4>didn't know I could do right A hello lady or wait,
<v Speaker 4>sure they didn't know I could do those things, and
<v Speaker 4>like I gotta tell them what I'm doing.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, that had a good June for a.
<v Speaker 1>Quality to it.
<v Speaker 5>I loved.
<v Speaker 4>I loved June and b Benaderet to my house children.
<v Speaker 6>I'll give you candy and pineapple lepside down cake and
<v Speaker 6>all day raspberry shuckers.
<v Speaker 4>The good good I'll be was my favorite.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. And she, oh gosh, I could picture her in
<v Speaker 2>my head.
<v Speaker 1>Who what was her big role?
<v Speaker 3>She?
<v Speaker 1>She was on camera?
<v Speaker 4>Yes she was.
<v Speaker 3>She popped into I Love Lucy a few times.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, that's where I saw her.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, she popped in there a few times. I think
<v Speaker 4>she was the neighbor. She was the first witch Hazel,
<v Speaker 4>and she was the first or second granny. I believe
<v Speaker 4>she was Mama Bear her. And one of my.
<v Speaker 3>Favorite Learning Tune characters is Little Red riding hood.
<v Speaker 6>With the glasses and about I love that.
<v Speaker 1>I ask too.
<v Speaker 4>It's like I'll do that voice to get into an
<v Speaker 4>annoying character for an audition like this one's a one off,
<v Speaker 4>right or a tertiary, because no one's gonna want to
<v Speaker 4>hear this multiple times. But I love that so much
<v Speaker 4>and then and June they were different, but they still
<v Speaker 4>had that wonderful equality. So for June I kind of
<v Speaker 4>dropped it more like which I don't recall seeing her
<v Speaker 4>at any of the union meetings.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and.
<v Speaker 4>What's the one where she the spell ricochets and turns
<v Speaker 4>her into a beautiful woman? Magic Marra on the road,
<v Speaker 4>who's the ugliest one of all? And that's how I found,
<v Speaker 4>like discovered Ava Gabor, same thing.
<v Speaker 6>Like Maria Darling. You must remember a properly. It does
<v Speaker 6>not yellow fight.
<v Speaker 1>That's really good.
<v Speaker 4>Duchess and this bring what was his name?
<v Speaker 3>Oliver Bernard and Bianca Dutchess and O'Malley.
<v Speaker 1>Oh but I met from Green Acres.
<v Speaker 4>Oh oh Oliver Oliver.
<v Speaker 2>I think it was him Eddie Albert. That sounds right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>look it up at home, that's right, and send your
<v Speaker 2>cards and letters in Oh that's good stuf.
<v Speaker 3>Actually, this person, I'm so sorry.
<v Speaker 2>Do you get over Do they send you around on
<v Speaker 2>like goodwill missions and nice little junkets to Tokyo Disney.
<v Speaker 3>Or I'd love to go there.
<v Speaker 4>I have gone to a couple events as like we'll
<v Speaker 4>perform on d twenty three where we can come and.
<v Speaker 3>Perform our stuff.
<v Speaker 4>And I haven't branched out too much, but I know,
<v Speaker 4>like Brett and Bill have done like autograph signings before
<v Speaker 4>because Brett has fine art and Yao is a Disney legend.
<v Speaker 3>And I'm it is my solemn swear.
<v Speaker 4>Like before I keel over you dress and Corey, I
<v Speaker 4>don't you absolutely deserve.
<v Speaker 3>It far.
<v Speaker 4>But statue get that unlimited pass.
<v Speaker 1>Or yes, yeah, there you go, that'd be good, just like.
<v Speaker 4>The beautiful work of magic is on so many unknown
<v Speaker 4>figures and once they kind of start.
<v Speaker 3>Well like I've heard that voice before, follow it down.
<v Speaker 3>There's so much wonderful work out there and it speaks
<v Speaker 3>for itself.
<v Speaker 2>Well, Corey Burtons, he's like a living his own living legend.
<v Speaker 1>He's been.
<v Speaker 2>He's incredible, you know he's and he knows he'll he'll
<v Speaker 2>dig up the same microphone that Captain Hook used. Wow,
<v Speaker 2>I mean he'll he'll go that far. He's amazing. He's
<v Speaker 2>truly a talented, unbelievable.
<v Speaker 4>I met him like eight years ago, oh yeah, and
<v Speaker 4>we met through a mutual friend and he he's a
<v Speaker 4>very private person, very quiet person, but we talked for
<v Speaker 4>an hour just about anything that came to mind because
<v Speaker 4>it was I was like, am I, I'm I try
<v Speaker 4>to be a safe space for anybody however they feel
<v Speaker 4>comfortable with. But we just got to talking and it
<v Speaker 4>was I couldn't tell you what we said because it
<v Speaker 4>was so long ago, but I remember how it made
<v Speaker 4>me feel. And afterwards he was departing for the day,
<v Speaker 4>his driver came and he's like, thank you so much.
<v Speaker 4>I feel like we're really kind of kindred spirits here.
<v Speaker 3>Have a good rest of the time.
<v Speaker 4>And then I go back in and my friend's like,
<v Speaker 4>I didn't think you were going to talk that long,
<v Speaker 4>and like I have to go cry, like this was
<v Speaker 4>a big moment for me and that meant so much
<v Speaker 4>of just like, Okay, how I think and feel, it's
<v Speaker 4>not it's never wrong, but that passion is still there
<v Speaker 4>and he recognized it. So I'll take that with me forever.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Yeah, Yeah, he's a great guy. We have to
<v Speaker 1>get him on.
<v Speaker 2>Did all of the Chippendale Rescue Rangers with him? And
<v Speaker 2>he was he was Chip and he was Zipper Now
<v Speaker 2>who was Zipper the Fly?
<v Speaker 1>Yes? Okay, and I love it.
<v Speaker 4>They'll like they have a different treatment, like maybe back,
<v Speaker 4>maybe back in the day, you spoke very slowly, and
<v Speaker 4>then they sped it up and now they just changed the.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's what they did.
<v Speaker 2>So they'll they did their lines like this, and.
<v Speaker 1>You know, and I would sit there and there I
<v Speaker 1>go and I would chill ground. That sucked. That was
<v Speaker 1>you know.
<v Speaker 2>Then they play it back and then they speed it
<v Speaker 2>up and he goes, hey, babe, you know, and it
<v Speaker 2>sounds like Chipendale turns instantly into chip and Dale.
<v Speaker 1>It's pretty cool, and I.
<v Speaker 3>Think that you can talk normally now.
<v Speaker 4>And then they'll change it. So they took the filter
<v Speaker 4>off of Corey's tracks once, like just one little track
<v Speaker 4>and like he recorded earlier, listen to this, and they
<v Speaker 4>took off the pitch enhancement, and then he just sounded
<v Speaker 4>like a drunk, like like hey, I can't wait to
<v Speaker 4>do this, and like yeah, oh I walked across the
<v Speaker 4>street away from that guy.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>But then you put it on and like, oh, it's
<v Speaker 4>like it's so cute.
<v Speaker 1>It's silly.
<v Speaker 3>But originally that's like, oh, you pulled the curtain back. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>you know what what what went into that?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's so true.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's hard to look at it's what was somebody
<v Speaker 2>said something that was a it's a yeah, well you
<v Speaker 2>don't want to see how cartoons are made. I mean
<v Speaker 2>I like sausage and I don't want to know how
<v Speaker 2>they make it, you know, so so making cartoons and
<v Speaker 2>making sausage obviously similar, same thing, only different.
<v Speaker 1>Good stuff.
<v Speaker 2>So just to give some context, how far are we
<v Speaker 2>through this next season?
<v Speaker 1>Do you know?
<v Speaker 2>Because I never know anything, we ask you a personal
<v Speaker 2>question here, folks, like.
<v Speaker 4>Because I know we wrapped the first season and it's
<v Speaker 4>getting ready to premiere most likely next year, but we've
<v Speaker 4>certainly been and I believe they did announce that it
<v Speaker 4>had a second season coming. It's a good question, I think.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, good, so.
<v Speaker 2>It's not just me that's not being recorded right now?
<v Speaker 2>Good just checking no, and.
<v Speaker 4>The way they've structured it. This here, I really enjoy
<v Speaker 4>because it brings back a lot of other people.
<v Speaker 3>Pete Clarabell.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, I think Horace source Caller even and I'm very
<v Speaker 4>fond of Mortimer. It's Maurice Lamarch and he's just so
<v Speaker 4>good at that smarmy and it's like that's is he.
<v Speaker 2>Doing that or was that Jeff Bennett?
<v Speaker 4>I forget Jeff did it for the Paultz. I think
<v Speaker 4>he did it for like the direct to DVD movies
<v Speaker 4>and House of Mouse, so he's definitely done it a
<v Speaker 4>few times as well. And he's also quite good at it.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah.
<v Speaker 4>And then Maurice did it all the way back towards
<v Speaker 4>the nineties. And it's just so fun to hear archetypes
<v Speaker 4>that that's not normal for them. They're usually so jovial
<v Speaker 4>or they're so so tough. And now here's this smarmy
<v Speaker 4>jerk who does not get a backpack when he goes
<v Speaker 4>up the stairs and Makeey's fun house.
<v Speaker 1>He doesn't get a backpack.
<v Speaker 4>He just walks up.
<v Speaker 1>Oh bastard.
<v Speaker 4>But it is fun because whenever we see other characters
<v Speaker 4>coming in, it's almost like a tick. I'll just I'll
<v Speaker 4>be like.
<v Speaker 3>Oh, here's here's helper cleare belt.
<v Speaker 4>Oh oh no, sir, or like okay, this one you
<v Speaker 4>meet Pete in the cave, like woh, hello, dear Minnie
<v Speaker 4>the mouse your cave and you can have what you need.
<v Speaker 3>For a nominal fee.
<v Speaker 4>And that was like, you know, Caitlin, do you want
<v Speaker 4>to go out to dinner? Yeah, I'll pay for a
<v Speaker 4>nominal fee. That's a new catchphrase. That's right, but just
<v Speaker 4>anytime they come in, it's just so fun to see that.
<v Speaker 4>So I'm hoping at D twenty three, like in a
<v Speaker 4>couple of years, maybe we could do a classic panel
<v Speaker 4>where we bring all those, like the classic characters in. Yeah, April,
<v Speaker 4>who's so fun I've met her for the first time.
<v Speaker 1>April, She's great, She's so funny. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, she's a good old buddy of mine. And so
<v Speaker 2>was her dad, Paul Winchelled, the original Tigger. Yeah, amazing guy,
<v Speaker 2>unbelievable remembers.
<v Speaker 3>And Gummy Bears too, he was one and Gummy.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, yeah he was Zummy.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, he was Zummy Gummy and and I guess I
<v Speaker 2>kind of inherited his characters. God rest his soul. But yeah,
<v Speaker 2>April's a great buddy of mine. Yeah, and she's crazy,
<v Speaker 2>which is great, the best kind of crazy.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, oh my gosh.
<v Speaker 2>And and Clara bell And I'm trying to think she
<v Speaker 2>was the one who sounded like mister Haney only from
<v Speaker 2>Green Acres, and she had kind of like the female
<v Speaker 2>mister Douglass what was his name, Pat Buttram.
<v Speaker 1>Clara Belle is kind of like the female female pet
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, I can hear that, you know, don't you think? Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I've always thought that.
<v Speaker 2>I always I always have to find some little you know,
<v Speaker 2>tag to put on the voices and everything, and it
<v Speaker 2>helps me drag them out. Yeah again, do you have
<v Speaker 2>any little tricks like that that you have to do?
<v Speaker 4>Have to But it's usually words of like where I
<v Speaker 4>really kind of feel it in the mouth. So for
<v Speaker 4>like Minnie, it's usually a goose like where she's just
<v Speaker 4>I'm excited.
<v Speaker 1>Now, or it's not like her.
<v Speaker 3>Goose.
<v Speaker 4>Like Wayne and Russy recorded a lot together. They were
<v Speaker 4>very rarely apart, and ensemble recording is the best recording
<v Speaker 4>you can get. It's organic, it's fun, and you can
<v Speaker 4>react and like, I'm sure we won't laugh so much
<v Speaker 4>that we've ruined the take. But they would record together,
<v Speaker 4>and it has been told to me that every so
<v Speaker 4>often her chair would slowly kind of move over and
<v Speaker 4>then she'd just end up in his lap and they
<v Speaker 4>would record, and if it was like you know, oh,
<v Speaker 4>I can't wait to go to this the mall, he
<v Speaker 4>would just give her a little goose and well, I
<v Speaker 4>can't wait to go to the mom and then he
<v Speaker 4>just have that little smile on his face. And it's like,
<v Speaker 4>so I just remember goose yourself goose into it, or
<v Speaker 4>for Evan Darling really have the death in there? Oh gosh,
<v Speaker 4>be you know common to me, I let it roll.
<v Speaker 3>So it's just different words or different clicks to get
<v Speaker 3>into that.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's good to have those little little.
<v Speaker 4>Or if a character is based off something, I'll try
<v Speaker 4>to like do an impression of the actor it was
<v Speaker 4>based on and then work my way into Okay, well
<v Speaker 4>what did I do?
<v Speaker 1>Hm?
<v Speaker 4>I forget I did something that was basically Charles Nelson Riley.
<v Speaker 4>Oh yes, and it was fun. But it's like, that's
<v Speaker 4>a lot.
<v Speaker 3>Of work, so I have to really pay attention to it.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, And yeah, Frank Walker does pretty good Charles Nelson,
<v Speaker 2>and he's he's used him as a prototype and and
<v Speaker 2>that's that's kind of a helpful thing too, because if
<v Speaker 2>I've always maintained, if you do a perfect impression of
<v Speaker 2>someone famous, that's good because you never know you may
<v Speaker 2>may be able to use it someding. And if you
<v Speaker 2>do a terrible impression of somebody famous and you don't
<v Speaker 2>know who it is, that's really good. Yeah, because it's
<v Speaker 2>a new character. And if you do a perfect impression
<v Speaker 2>of somebody nobody knows.
<v Speaker 1>That's good.
<v Speaker 2>It's a new character, new to their ears, new to
<v Speaker 2>their ears.
<v Speaker 4>Watch the old movies, watch the old TV shows. Find
<v Speaker 4>those people that are like, what the hell was that?
<v Speaker 3>That's my money maker right there?
<v Speaker 1>That's right, that is exactly right? And who is that?
<v Speaker 2>That reminded me of Mark Kettle Ma Kettel from from
<v Speaker 2>the old I think they were like from the forties,
<v Speaker 2>thirties and forties, and it was some hillbilly family out
<v Speaker 2>there and they were always making pot liquor.
<v Speaker 1>There's a couple of them. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, not Beverly Hillbillies, it was, but it was. I'm
<v Speaker 2>sure Beverly hill Billies was kind of based on it.
<v Speaker 3>I'm you know what I mean, Well, the.
<v Speaker 2>Way are you doing? There were failures out there, and
<v Speaker 2>that was the woman.
<v Speaker 4>The one that comes to mind. I don't think this
<v Speaker 4>is the same, but Lil l Abner and so in
<v Speaker 4>the colorized.
<v Speaker 3>Movie Billy Billy Hayes, Well, yes, ma was the mother.
<v Speaker 1>She was Grandma.
<v Speaker 4>She was Grandma. She was so scrappy and fun and
<v Speaker 4>all that good energy she was. She's a phenomenal person
<v Speaker 4>to study too.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I worked with her a couple of times. Really yeah,
<v Speaker 2>back in the day, and it was the damnedest thing
<v Speaker 2>because I couldn't stop looking at her and she was and.
<v Speaker 1>She was playing something.
<v Speaker 2>One of those gals over they were just like that,
<v Speaker 2>and she was all pissed off all the time, you know,
<v Speaker 2>that slightly western cowboy twangy thing that she i'llbilly whatever
<v Speaker 2>you want to say, and it's just it was the
<v Speaker 2>est thing. I remember thinking, this is the coolest gig
<v Speaker 2>in the world. I get to sit next to little
<v Speaker 2>Abner's mom, which is ridiculous, but it was pretty cool.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, that moment of like, yeah, yeah, you're on the
<v Speaker 4>same level.
<v Speaker 1>No, no, we're not going to go there. Yeah we're not.
<v Speaker 3>I came in off the street. We're just not going
<v Speaker 3>to say anything.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I had that with Pat Buttram too, mister Douglass. He
<v Speaker 2>was in Roger Rabbit and I was I.
<v Speaker 1>Was Bullet the Bullets. Yeah there was Bullets.
<v Speaker 2>Jim Gallo was Walter Brennan, I was Andy Devine, and
<v Speaker 2>Pat Buttram was Pat Buttram. He got to play himself,
<v Speaker 2>which is pretty ridiculously cool. They made all the bullets, uh,
<v Speaker 2>they fashioned them after muddeled them, after Western Sidekicks. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>you know Gabby Hayes and Will Mister.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah for sure. So anyway, kind of cool stuff.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, what a great movie too.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Do you guys have a favorite voice or character
<v Speaker 1>to perform?
<v Speaker 4>Yes, but Avaga bores one and then my be ben
<v Speaker 4>a deeric voice. I've used that before and there was
<v Speaker 4>it was. It was only one season, but we did
<v Speaker 4>like a Thundercat's reboot, the a wacky cartoon style version,
<v Speaker 4>like very similar to Teen Titans Go. I had so
<v Speaker 4>much fun on that show, and those were ensembles. So
<v Speaker 4>I appeared as like nine different characters over the course,
<v Speaker 4>and my favorite was this little old lady who was.
<v Speaker 3>Like a secret superhero.
<v Speaker 4>But one day a month she gets to be on vacation,
<v Speaker 4>so she pretends to be this little old lady and
<v Speaker 4>then Snarf, the alien cat for from Thondero, Snarf it's
<v Speaker 4>his one day off a month, so he and he
<v Speaker 4>was a robot in this reboot, so he turns himself
<v Speaker 4>into a regular cat and goes to her.
<v Speaker 6>And so you know which, mister bottom Dollar is it
<v Speaker 6>that time in dement already? Oh that's why I call you,
<v Speaker 6>mister bottom Dollar, because I bet my bottom dollar. You
<v Speaker 6>show up and you always do well, oh that's adorable and.
<v Speaker 3>Just it was just ridiculous old lady stuff.
<v Speaker 4>And my friend jokes this because when we do, like, okay,
<v Speaker 4>give us a few lines to it, like that's why
<v Speaker 4>I call you mister bottom dollar, because mister ash dollar
<v Speaker 4>won't get by the no no, no gendered and practice.
<v Speaker 4>Just start talking, take away the filter. Just say whatever
<v Speaker 4>comes to mind, you know, whatever I got trouble in school, Like, well,
<v Speaker 4>now I make money off of it, and you never
<v Speaker 4>know what will come out. And if if you've gone
<v Speaker 4>from A to D to you it makes sense. But
<v Speaker 4>everyone else is like, how'd you get there? Like, well
<v Speaker 4>I had B and C. Of course we know how
<v Speaker 4>you did that.
<v Speaker 3>Sure, sure of course, go for your quirky little star.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but the little star, you little check.
<v Speaker 3>You keep reaching for that rainbow.
<v Speaker 4>And my first session of that was with Dana Snyder
<v Speaker 4>and he was on Aquitine, Hunger Force and Venture Brothers
<v Speaker 4>and his natural voice. He's got a wonderful natural voice,
<v Speaker 4>but he's just a smart alec and had no filter either,
<v Speaker 4>So it's just such.
<v Speaker 3>A kick to work with him. And he loves Disney too.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, so like, all right, that seems to be a
<v Speaker 4>good hook to meet new people who doesn't love Disney.
<v Speaker 4>I tell people like, you want a message for your kid,
<v Speaker 4>get some street cred in there? Why not? And I
<v Speaker 4>think I'm not sure if we were at to see together,
<v Speaker 4>but I did a convention and wrestlers are now commonly
<v Speaker 4>going to the Adventures.
<v Speaker 3>That's kind of new. And my roommate was like, where
<v Speaker 3>are you going? Like I'm going to Tennessee or Indie
<v Speaker 3>Pop dang.
<v Speaker 4>It, I can't remember, but it's like, wow, who's going
<v Speaker 4>to be out there? And like a lot of people
<v Speaker 4>and he looks through the list and all of a sudden,
<v Speaker 4>Kurt Engle's going to be there, like oh yeah, not
<v Speaker 4>so not so out of the way now is it?
<v Speaker 1>Looked at this roster?
<v Speaker 4>So I made a point of like asking my helper, like,
<v Speaker 4>could you see if Kurt Engle has a brief moment
<v Speaker 4>where I could duck over and get an autograph or
<v Speaker 4>if he offers video messages, I'd like to buy one
<v Speaker 4>for my roommate. And then she comes back and says, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>he wants to meet you at this time, and he
<v Speaker 4>wants to meet you because his daughters are massive Mini
<v Speaker 4>Mouse fans, so he wants to meet you and get
<v Speaker 4>stuff for them, and I'm like, oh my gosh, this
<v Speaker 4>is perfect.
<v Speaker 1>So that's cool.
<v Speaker 4>I did the messages, I signed the pictures, and then
<v Speaker 4>he did one for Victor and.
<v Speaker 3>It just worked out, and like that's you never know
<v Speaker 3>who you're going to.
<v Speaker 1>Meet, you never know, never known, and hopefully it's great. Yeah. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>do you have a fair favorite voice or character?
<v Speaker 2>Jim Well of mind like.
<v Speaker 1>To perform, Like, which one's the most fun enjoyable?
<v Speaker 2>Probably well, King Louis and Tigger yeah, and dark Wing.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I got a few of them.
<v Speaker 2>And Honda is way out front for me by Star
<v Speaker 2>Wars guy, he's he's way out there. We have to see.
<v Speaker 2>We might not be done with Hondo.
<v Speaker 1>How's that for?
<v Speaker 2>It was that a tease? I think that was?
<v Speaker 4>That was a hopeful festation in the universe that too, Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>that thing yeah at the Universe park. Yeah, you never
<v Speaker 4>know when something will come back around. And then it
<v Speaker 4>really feels like a small world. And nepotism works if
<v Speaker 4>you bring to the table what needs to be done,
<v Speaker 4>it sure does.
<v Speaker 1>It does.
<v Speaker 4>I've seen some wonderful like you know, oh he's the
<v Speaker 4>daughter of this well let's see, he's the daughter on
<v Speaker 4>these two actors, and like, all right, okay, he's really good.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's in the genes.
<v Speaker 4>Like yeah, sometimes and then sometimes you'll have a kid
<v Speaker 4>of a celebrity and like, what happened to your right,
<v Speaker 4>you don't want.
<v Speaker 3>To do nothing?
<v Speaker 1>Your dad was but your mom was.
<v Speaker 4>Different from a dog.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I can say that.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Unfortunately, yes, you're adopted.
<v Speaker 3>You asked he might be adopted.
<v Speaker 2>You're not swimming in the same Geene pool.
<v Speaker 1>Ouch.
<v Speaker 4>But I'm also very fond of Ray because Princess and
<v Speaker 4>the Frog is a.
<v Speaker 3>Brilliant movie.
<v Speaker 4>And that one. Glad you like it, And we've had
<v Speaker 4>multiple argument discussions because I'm not like, personally, I'm not
<v Speaker 4>too fond of Lion King and Big Hero six. The
<v Speaker 4>story is phenomenal, music's amazing animation, gorgeous, excellent voice acting.
<v Speaker 4>But I was always someone who was really sensitive to
<v Speaker 4>losing a character that you've grown so attached to.
<v Speaker 3>Not for no reason, but how realistic could this be?
<v Speaker 4>So when Mufasa died, I was very upset by it
<v Speaker 4>because we love that character and.
<v Speaker 3>There was the reason for it.
<v Speaker 4>But it's like it didn't have to be that way,
<v Speaker 4>but then there you don't have a story. And then
<v Speaker 4>when Tadashi died in Big Hero six and you find
<v Speaker 4>out he had meant to go save someone, that person
<v Speaker 4>wasn't even in the building. He died for no reason,
<v Speaker 4>and he was such a good character.
<v Speaker 3>It leads the rest of the story. But I just
<v Speaker 3>couldn't get over that hump.
<v Speaker 4>And what made Ray different was he was able to
<v Speaker 4>talk to them say goodbye, and everyone realized we all succeeded.
<v Speaker 4>And then you clearly see him become the star next
<v Speaker 4>to Evangeline, and like, so this is this is a
<v Speaker 4>good closure because I think at the end of the
<v Speaker 4>day people want to say goodbye, and those other two
<v Speaker 4>like they didn't know, they didn't.
<v Speaker 3>Get that chance.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, no, I agree, And even.
<v Speaker 4>Bambi's mom was tolerable, Like we didn't see it. It
<v Speaker 4>was so it was like because we don't see it
<v Speaker 4>and know what happened. And then the father steps in
<v Speaker 4>and goes like, no, she can't be with you anymore,
<v Speaker 4>but it's okay because he's there to kind of continue
<v Speaker 4>that guidance. And then Land Before Time is one of
<v Speaker 4>the best animated films I.
<v Speaker 1>Can't real.
<v Speaker 4>It's so sad, which means it's so good because Don
<v Speaker 4>Bluth had a way of sticking it to you and
<v Speaker 4>making you think. And this is kind of real world
<v Speaker 4>elements that kids could understand and used to process. But
<v Speaker 4>real life is hard, and I don't necessarily want to
<v Speaker 4>be sad watching stuff. But when she tries to get
<v Speaker 4>up and she can't and falls back, and then she's like,
<v Speaker 4>do you remember how to get there? And it's like,
<v Speaker 4>why does he have to remember?
<v Speaker 3>You're going?
<v Speaker 4>Like because she knows, And it's just so hard to
<v Speaker 4>watch such a beautifully done scene, and I think I've
<v Speaker 4>remembered the reading. They added that scene where little Foot's
<v Speaker 4>talking to this old dinosaur, grumpy guy and he's kind
<v Speaker 4>of explaining, I'm I'm so upset. I'm mad at my
<v Speaker 4>mom for fighting the t Rex. And then he says like,
<v Speaker 4>I know she's gone, but she's still with you. If
<v Speaker 4>you remember what she taught you, you.
<v Speaker 3>Know it was a really beautiful.
<v Speaker 2>Message, a teaching moment.
<v Speaker 3>A teaching moment, but I've heard of those.
<v Speaker 4>Don Blue had a way of putting characters in peril
<v Speaker 4>that you were like, can this can.
<v Speaker 1>We get out now?
<v Speaker 3>I don't like fible slipping and sliding on that boat.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I don't like little foot.
<v Speaker 3>Walking on that volcano. Where's the next beat?
<v Speaker 4>I'm gonna go get a snack anyone wants to, And
<v Speaker 4>like that's the mark of a brilliant creator, Like you've
<v Speaker 4>gotten me invested in a way that it's like I
<v Speaker 4>almost can't handle it.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, well he does quite well, doesn't He's animation.
<v Speaker 4>He's pretty active on social media, shows concept art, stories
<v Speaker 4>behind it, and a few.
<v Speaker 2>Times at the conventions. It's kind of fun. He's great,
<v Speaker 2>I mean, and I think people like that. He just
<v Speaker 2>has to keep going. Yeah, you know, that's that's what
<v Speaker 2>he does. That's that's who he is.
<v Speaker 3>And he's unlike anyone else.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, like this Disney was his own standalone as we know,
<v Speaker 4>but Don Bluth was also a standalone And I don't
<v Speaker 4>think there's a name I can point to for things
<v Speaker 4>like a DreamWorks or Nickelodeon. Right, they're wonderful companies with projects,
<v Speaker 4>but who's kind of spearheading it where you're seeing that
<v Speaker 4>commonality Whereas Disney had the commonality threads in each era,
<v Speaker 4>and then Don Bluth had his and that's what you
<v Speaker 4>kind of latch onto. I'm a big fan of disaster films,
<v Speaker 4>so I'll watch anything by Roland Emrick. Yeah, and I
<v Speaker 4>I'll watch anything once with m Night Shyamalan because I
<v Speaker 4>keep hoping, like too, me.
<v Speaker 1>Too, the one. Yeah, yeah, he's coming out with that
<v Speaker 1>new one next year early next year, is it?
<v Speaker 3>I think?
<v Speaker 4>So we're we're rewatching a TV show called Wayward Pines.
<v Speaker 4>Very good, a bit slow pacing in the first episode.
<v Speaker 4>It's really setting up a lot of building blocks. I
<v Speaker 4>think it would have been good if they had like
<v Speaker 4>a two episode premiere, because by the end of it,
<v Speaker 4>my roommate was like, I'm not I don't know, I'm
<v Speaker 4>not really catching it, and it's like you would if
<v Speaker 4>I told you what happened. So I tried to give
<v Speaker 4>him a couple of tidbits without spoiling the big stuff,
<v Speaker 4>because when I discovered the big stuff, you want that
<v Speaker 4>moment of like w yeah. And so he's like, Okay,
<v Speaker 4>the way you explained it, I think I'm willing to
<v Speaker 4>give it a to continue with it. So it's like,
<v Speaker 4>let's watch two in a row. That might be a
<v Speaker 4>good palette every thing. Yeah, give it a watch.
<v Speaker 3>It's a great show.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, what's the name of it, Weightward Pinesward Pines.
<v Speaker 4>AND's based on a trilogy book series and I just
<v Speaker 4>finished book one because I'd never read them before.
<v Speaker 3>And book one ends.
<v Speaker 4>I want to say where episode four is, and it's
<v Speaker 4>a ten episode run, so we're going to go through
<v Speaker 4>the books, I believe. I'm not sure if the ending
<v Speaker 4>of season one will line up with the ending of
<v Speaker 4>the book. And then they had a season two which
<v Speaker 4>was not as strong in my opinion, So it's like, oh,
<v Speaker 4>did you guys kind of off on your own and
<v Speaker 4>there was no source one.
<v Speaker 2>It's good to hear about stuff like that because there's
<v Speaker 2>so many bland and boring shows.
<v Speaker 3>There's too much.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's like mostly that. Yeah, so it's good to
<v Speaker 2>have a good one.
<v Speaker 1>And you need to have like seven streaming services. I
<v Speaker 1>mean even I'm on a tangent right now, but even
<v Speaker 1>the NFL, like just to watch football, you have to
<v Speaker 1>have like three different streaming services. Now then, yeah, it's
<v Speaker 1>like Thursday night football, Monday night football, Sunday night football,
<v Speaker 1>they're all they're all on different streaming services. Yeah, we're
<v Speaker 1>just back to cable. Like it's basically it's cable again,
<v Speaker 1>isn't it. Yeah, that's what it seems like.
<v Speaker 4>It's cable, but you do have a massive library, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>where if you get the inkling, it's right there.
<v Speaker 3>But in some ways it's like, yeah.
<v Speaker 4>I know it's there, therefore I don't have to watch
<v Speaker 4>it right now, and then you kind of just don't.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, but if I was, and then they remove it.
<v Speaker 4>But like when I would go visit my parents, they
<v Speaker 4>had cable till recently, so like, well, I'll pop on
<v Speaker 4>Comedy Central and like, Okay, there's a couple of hours.
<v Speaker 3>Of South Park.
<v Speaker 4>What is it going to be? And even if it's
<v Speaker 4>an episode I don't really care for, I'm actually gonna
<v Speaker 4>watch it and play it because it's like you told
<v Speaker 4>me what to do.
<v Speaker 3>You told me I had to watch this one, not
<v Speaker 3>any other.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. It's almost like listening to music on the radio
<v Speaker 1>versus just playing your own, you know, music off your phone.
<v Speaker 4>You never know it. For me, you never know what's
<v Speaker 4>gonna happen.
<v Speaker 1>On I tend to listen to the radio a little longer,
<v Speaker 1>like songs a little longer, because I'm like, all right,
<v Speaker 1>I like this song, We'll get to the next one.
<v Speaker 1>If when I'm on my phone, I'm just skip skip
<v Speaker 1>skip skip. Okay, right, all right, I want this one.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I think it's similar in a way.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah it is.
<v Speaker 2>And it's a and it's like you find yourself going
<v Speaker 2>down the same road.
<v Speaker 1>You know.
<v Speaker 2>For me, it's like okay, I'm done. Okay, one more Springsteen? Okay,
<v Speaker 2>all right.
<v Speaker 1>They said that's like why why in and out Burger
<v Speaker 1>is so so successful because by limiting the choices for
<v Speaker 1>a human being, Like it can be overwhelming to see
<v Speaker 1>me like twenty different and get twenty different menu options.
<v Speaker 1>You know, it's like, okay, A B or C? Which
<v Speaker 1>one do you want? A B or C?
<v Speaker 4>Let's keep it simple, voices. Yeah, you're gonna take it,
<v Speaker 4>and you're gonna like it.
<v Speaker 1>I like you like B. I like B. Yeah? What
<v Speaker 1>about you? Folks? Would I always go and see?
<v Speaker 4>I think see it is like just like just a
<v Speaker 4>plane burger ride or a one single patty.
<v Speaker 1>I think I don't know. I think it's a double double.
<v Speaker 2>Sure, send your cards and letters in, folks, let's get.
<v Speaker 1>Would you like to see us see?
<v Speaker 2>So what is the very next thing that's up for
<v Speaker 2>you these days?
<v Speaker 1>Should we talk about that.
<v Speaker 3>Let's see, there's been a couple of fun.
<v Speaker 4>I A bulk of my work is usually one officer tertiaries,
<v Speaker 4>and I've I've done some looping jobs, which I'm very
<v Speaker 4>fond of, especially for movies.
<v Speaker 1>What have you leave that we should know about.
<v Speaker 4>It's hard to kind of pinpoint where where where can
<v Speaker 4>I find myself in? Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>Okay.
<v Speaker 4>My first one was Frozen two, and I went to
<v Speaker 4>the lot on that and that was actually the day
<v Speaker 4>before the first callback for many So once I had
<v Speaker 4>gotten the call and registered, the point of the rest
<v Speaker 4>of the day, I was just kind of sitting there
<v Speaker 4>a bit of a fugue state, and it's like I
<v Speaker 4>cannot say to anybody, So I'm like, I'm stuck with
<v Speaker 4>this knowledge and nowhere to direct it right right Gosh,
<v Speaker 4>Like Guardians of the Galaxy three, we were all the
<v Speaker 4>animal people and we do a lot. I do a
<v Speaker 4>lot of screaming and a lot of kid voices because
<v Speaker 4>screaming I can do without harming myself so good. And
<v Speaker 4>I'm very late to the game with memes and pop
<v Speaker 4>culture things. So I have a TikTok, but there's no
<v Speaker 4>videos because I don't know how to make a video.
<v Speaker 4>But when I do figure it out, I want to
<v Speaker 4>be very late to the party and do the video
<v Speaker 4>like I'm a voice actor, and then just scream and
<v Speaker 4>then have like five samples of me screaming from different.
<v Speaker 1>Kits and very funny. I need to see that good. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>will you promise us that you will do that?
<v Speaker 4>Yes?
<v Speaker 1>I do, Okay.
<v Speaker 4>I also had an idea for like a joke where like,
<v Speaker 4>either it's me and myself against each other, or if
<v Speaker 4>a friend pops in and like, gosh, I'm sweating so much. Hey, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>how hot is it outside? I'll go check and they'll
<v Speaker 4>open the door. You stick your head out, and then
<v Speaker 4>you'll hear. I want to say, in sync is playing
<v Speaker 4>True to your Heart, which is the Disney song, And
<v Speaker 4>then close the door and look, oh that's right.
<v Speaker 3>They look back and go, it's ninety eight degrees.
<v Speaker 4>Sink. That was literally the joke. Yeah, it's my own joke.
<v Speaker 3>Can't remember that? D me out to the backstreet boy.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, the back Door boys. I thank my brother for
<v Speaker 2>that one.
<v Speaker 1>All right, we're running out of time here. Should we
<v Speaker 1>do a little voice swap?
<v Speaker 4>Sure?
<v Speaker 1>Do you know if the voice swap game?
<v Speaker 4>No?
<v Speaker 1>Teach me right, Yes, I will explain it to the
<v Speaker 1>best of my abilities. I don't know why this is
<v Speaker 1>so hard for me to explain. I don't know why. So, Jim,
<v Speaker 1>you'll each do a character, a character that you voiced
<v Speaker 1>one of their one of their popular lines. So say,
<v Speaker 1>you know, Jim Winnie the pooh oh bother, and then
<v Speaker 1>you'll do that same line in a character voice of
<v Speaker 1>your character. Okay, does that make sense? Yeah? And then
<v Speaker 1>vice versa.
<v Speaker 3>Got it?
<v Speaker 1>All right, I did it, I did it, everybody? I
<v Speaker 1>did it. That was good. What do you think? Get there?
<v Speaker 1>Let's not talk about that. Let's get here.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah thirty podcasts, No, that's not true, but about forty anyway,
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, okay, let's see.
<v Speaker 1>What about shredder? You never do shredder? Oh, that's true,
<v Speaker 1>all right. Turtle power, schmertle power, I say turtle soup.
<v Speaker 4>Turtle power, schmurder power. I say turtle soup.
<v Speaker 1>That's pretty good. That's great.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's pretty good. I'm kind of scared, which is good.
<v Speaker 2>So now you give me one of your characters.
<v Speaker 3>And oh, I do fully see a.
<v Speaker 4>Sun do on Amphibia and and she had a fun
<v Speaker 4>line that in the audition. I improved a little, and
<v Speaker 4>I kept back and I'm keep it in, keep it in.
<v Speaker 4>But it was something like, you.
<v Speaker 3>Know, I couldn't help over hearing.
<v Speaker 4>And if you're looking for a place to get a
<v Speaker 4>full body massage, I know a wonderful place.
<v Speaker 1>Wow. Okay, who should answer that? Maybe not?
<v Speaker 2>Pooh okay, pooh.
<v Speaker 5>You know I couldn't help overhearing that you have an
<v Speaker 5>ability to give a full body massage and that it's
<v Speaker 5>a sweetish honey.
<v Speaker 1>Now is that true? Do you say something kind of
<v Speaker 1>like that.
<v Speaker 3>Very similar, but you elevated it.
<v Speaker 1>Oh?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, you know normal massage you have oil in this one,
<v Speaker 4>you'd have honey.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's true.
<v Speaker 3>Sure, it's good for your skin.
<v Speaker 1>It's a bit of a sticky wicket whatever. That is true.
<v Speaker 2>So it's potentially never mind. They're all going you know
<v Speaker 2>what he was gonna say, Yes, listen with your heart, not.
<v Speaker 3>With your ears.
<v Speaker 1>Oh.
<v Speaker 2>People are writing that down all over the world as
<v Speaker 2>we speak, though, Caleb Abrock, Ladies and gentlemen, Thank you,
<v Speaker 2>thank you, thank you so so very much. Did we
<v Speaker 2>do our swaps?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah? I think we did.
<v Speaker 2>That was fairly swappy.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, do you want to want to do one more
<v Speaker 1>for social media. For social media, it helps bolster the showith.
<v Speaker 2>Let's see you want you've got one for me?
<v Speaker 1>You did a Pete impersonation earlier. Yeah, can you do
<v Speaker 1>a Pete and then you say in Pete's voice the
<v Speaker 1>same line? Yeah, I think that'd be interesting.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, let me come up with a good Pete line here.
<v Speaker 5>Well, you know it's like I always tell the goof
<v Speaker 5>be quiet and quit interrupted me while I'm interrupting you.
<v Speaker 4>When it's like I always tell the goof be quiet
<v Speaker 4>and keep interrupting me while I'm not interrupting you.
<v Speaker 1>Peg.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, that was good, that is wonderful.
<v Speaker 4>But hello, dear Mickey the Mouse me.
<v Speaker 2>Well, you know, I've changed it. I've I've changed the
<v Speaker 2>way people and I'm gonna take credit for this because
<v Speaker 2>I've been doing that for years. It's Mickey Mouse, that's it,
<v Speaker 2>and he's not them. But I would say, well, it's
<v Speaker 2>like I said to my old pal, Mickey the Mouse,
<v Speaker 2>or it's.
<v Speaker 1>Like I said to my sister Mickers.
<v Speaker 2>Look look it's like this, and and he's no longer
<v Speaker 2>only just Mickey. He's Mickey the Mouse or or you
<v Speaker 2>know Mickers, or you know all these different little variations,
<v Speaker 2>and they're sneaking into the dialogue.
<v Speaker 4>Goofy and Mickey have called many men like, hey man,
<v Speaker 4>how you like they've slipped.
<v Speaker 2>In those little Yeah, I've called you mid men a
<v Speaker 2>couple of times. It's cute little easter eggs here, folks. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I think that's what those are. Yeah, yeah, but put
<v Speaker 2>them in your stocking. It's going to be great. Thank
<v Speaker 2>you so much.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, thanks for being here. Thank you. Hooray he.
<v Speaker 4>Thank you.
<v Speaker 1>We'll take us home. Chris, all right, thank you everybody
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<v Speaker 2>Heyw