Becoming Lois Lane LIVE in Calgary | Erica Durance at Calgary Expo (Smallville, Saving Hope)

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<v Speaker 2>Do it now? Who you doing out there? It's me
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<v Speaker 1>My name is Jim Cummings and welcome to tuned In.
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<v Speaker 3>of you who don't know. I'm producer Chris. I've produced
<v Speaker 3>podcasts and just two short years ago. It's crazy. This
<v Speaker 3>is surreal to me because two short years ago we
<v Speaker 3>started the podcast and we were doing it like gorilla style.
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<v Speaker 3>corner of the green room and we were just pulling
<v Speaker 3>actors like, hey, do you have fifteen minutes? Can we
<v Speaker 3>get a little interview really quickly? And now to be
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<v Speaker 3>give it up, how so cool, so cool? We got
<v Speaker 3>a really good show for you today. I'm going to
<v Speaker 3>introduce the star, the host, the legend himself, Winnie the Pooh,
<v Speaker 3>and take her to mister Jim Cummings. There he is.
<v Speaker 3>How are you doing you?
<v Speaker 2>My goodness? Well, thanks for all being here. Thanks?
<v Speaker 3>Everybody?
<v Speaker 2>Is everybody happy? Oh? Good?
<v Speaker 3>Wow?
<v Speaker 1>A lot of people? Who Hey, how about that producer Chris? Yes, yes, yes,
<v Speaker 1>oh but wait, there's more.
<v Speaker 3>They're sure is we have another very special guest for
<v Speaker 3>you today. You know her from Smallville, you know her
<v Speaker 3>from Saving Hope and many many more. Miss Erica Durance,
<v Speaker 3>who give it up? Give it up?
<v Speaker 1>Yes, you, my dear, fancy meeting you here.
<v Speaker 4>I know what are the chances? I feel so honored
<v Speaker 4>to be part of this. Thank you for having me.
<v Speaker 5>Here, Thanks for coming out all right, my pleasure.
<v Speaker 3>You're from here in Calgary?
<v Speaker 4>I am, I was born in Calgary.
<v Speaker 3>How's it feel to be back?
<v Speaker 5>It feels great. I feel like I'm with my people again.
<v Speaker 5>I'm so relaxed. I'm almost not like I'm forgetting to perform.
<v Speaker 5>I grew up in Three Hills, so farm girl for
<v Speaker 5>many years, and it's and the weather does not surprise
<v Speaker 5>me at all. I find the wind bracing and cleansing.
<v Speaker 3>Jim you're familiar with Calgary. You've been out here several times.
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, yeah, it's a great place. I love it
<v Speaker 3>up here. Yeah, it's such a like warming city. It's
<v Speaker 3>so friendly. I mean Canada of course, you know.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I was gonna Canadia. Up here, everybody's very friendly
<v Speaker 1>and it's very good.
<v Speaker 2>See.
<v Speaker 1>I'm from a place called Youngstown, Ohio, and our favorite
<v Speaker 1>greeting to each other from there.
<v Speaker 2>Is what's the matter with your problem? So this is great.
<v Speaker 2>I love being here.
<v Speaker 3>So thank you now. For every guest we have on
<v Speaker 3>this podcast, I always try and find a link, you know,
<v Speaker 3>whether it be thematic, whether it be you've worked together before.
<v Speaker 3>You guys have not worked together before. So I'm doing
<v Speaker 3>my research, and one link I came up with is
<v Speaker 3>I think both of the shows that you're most popular for,
<v Speaker 3>Smallville and Winnie the Pooh, I think they're very appealing
<v Speaker 3>to families, very wholesome, you know. And not only that,
<v Speaker 3>but I've heard you in other interviews say, you know,
<v Speaker 3>generations of families watch it. You know, somebody grows up
<v Speaker 3>watching Smallville or Winnie the Pooh and then they introduce
<v Speaker 3>it to their kids and so on and so on.
<v Speaker 3>What is that like when somebody comes up to you
<v Speaker 3>and brings their child and it's like I introduced this
<v Speaker 3>show to them. I made sure that they had to
<v Speaker 3>see this. Blah blah blah. I mean, so few actors
<v Speaker 3>have that opportunity. So I want to know how that
<v Speaker 3>feels to each of you when you get that experience.
<v Speaker 2>Well, I love it.
<v Speaker 1>I I'm very fortunate because Winnie the Pooh generation is
<v Speaker 1>like three years. You know, there's we're making fresh poo
<v Speaker 1>fans every three years. Oh well there's another one. You know,
<v Speaker 1>as soon as they hear one, oh bother, they go,
<v Speaker 1>you know, and it's a three year old. So it's
<v Speaker 1>a beautiful thing. I'll take it. I'm on my fifty
<v Speaker 1>seventh generation now, so I'll take it.
<v Speaker 2>Be O very sweet.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I don't have that many generations.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, but it is is quite something to share in
<v Speaker 5>something positive, you know, and and something that connects us
<v Speaker 5>with our family, with roots, with a level of sentimentality,
<v Speaker 5>but just reminds us of our goodness. And so when
<v Speaker 5>I was doing this twenty five years ago, I was
<v Speaker 5>just kind of pursuing an art and then now here
<v Speaker 5>I am talking to people and they're telling me oh no,
<v Speaker 5>this this helped me through this experience and that experience,
<v Speaker 5>and so for me, if anything, I'm kind of I'm
<v Speaker 5>really humbled by that, and I think it's it's pretty incredible,
<v Speaker 5>so I'm grateful.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. Yeah. Another link that I was thinking about was,
<v Speaker 3>you know, both protagonists Clark Kent and Smallville, and I
<v Speaker 3>guess Winnie the Pooh is the protagonist, but I'm referring
<v Speaker 3>to Christopher Robin. Both take place around the character's formative years.
<v Speaker 3>What do you think is so appealing about, you know,
<v Speaker 3>seeing somebody before they're you know, into adulthood the coming
<v Speaker 3>of age stories, right.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, I know what you mean.
<v Speaker 1>It's uh, it's nice because uh, you know, there there
<v Speaker 1>are there's a certain age where your your mind is open,
<v Speaker 1>your heart is open, your arms are open, and uh
<v Speaker 1>and the more the more wholesome, not without I want
<v Speaker 1>to be all corny up here, but you know it's
<v Speaker 1>better than then.
<v Speaker 2>I don't even want to come up with a terrible example.
<v Speaker 1>But uh, there's a certain time when we're open to
<v Speaker 1>the sweetness of the world, and before the world, there's
<v Speaker 1>plenty of time for the world to get in there
<v Speaker 1>and give it, make turned it into a sour puss.
<v Speaker 1>So enjoy the time that the childhood, the open, the
<v Speaker 1>wide eyed wonder.
<v Speaker 2>I chair.
<v Speaker 1>I always cherish that moment. And you know, I've got
<v Speaker 1>I've got four daughters and now a grandson, and you know,
<v Speaker 1>and I distinctly remember saying, listen, don't be in a
<v Speaker 1>big hurry to grow up, adulthood. It'll be there. Don't worry.
<v Speaker 1>The world will be there and to give you all
<v Speaker 1>the grief. So enjoy childhood. Enjoyed this moment, and let
<v Speaker 1>it last. That's that's the way I feel.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I think, you know, with the coming of age
<v Speaker 5>of Clark's story, you know, having been a little bit older.
<v Speaker 5>But I think that I'm going to just say what
<v Speaker 5>most people say to us is that it was a
<v Speaker 5>connection for them when they were also struggling to find themselves.
<v Speaker 5>Of course, we all get older and we realize there
<v Speaker 5>is no finding of oneself and you never really know
<v Speaker 5>anything in that all so is okay, but there's a
<v Speaker 5>period of time in our lives where we're struggling for
<v Speaker 5>this sense of perfection. And so to see someone like
<v Speaker 5>Clark Kent, who really is, you know, kind of supposed
<v Speaker 5>to be perfect struggle and have a hard time and
<v Speaker 5>be really really human was what I think brought people
<v Speaker 5>together and that's why they loved it.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. Yeah, and you know, in my opinion, you're the
<v Speaker 3>best Lowest Lane ever.
<v Speaker 5>And just what I think you're saying that because we're
<v Speaker 5>kind of family, So.
<v Speaker 3>I was actually leading into that. True. So how you
<v Speaker 3>mentioned Jim. You know, people really relate with with that
<v Speaker 3>family the formative years. And to me, this is very
<v Speaker 3>special because I'm related to both of you and it's,
<v Speaker 3>you know, a little family there. If you didn't know,
<v Speaker 3>Jim is my stepfather.
<v Speaker 1>Hey, hey, Eric, he looks just like me, don't you
<v Speaker 1>think in my dreams? Yeah?
<v Speaker 3>Okay, And Erica's sister Jenny is married to my uncle.
<v Speaker 3>So this is this is a little fun.
<v Speaker 4>I met you when you were a lot younger.
<v Speaker 3>Lot you for a long time.
<v Speaker 4>So this is this is really special?
<v Speaker 3>Yes, it sure is.
<v Speaker 1>You guys didn't know you were coming to a family reunion,
<v Speaker 1>did you.
<v Speaker 5>We're just gonna talk amongst ours, all right, who brought
<v Speaker 5>the potato salad?
<v Speaker 3>Well?
<v Speaker 2>No one, damn, Let's keep going anyway.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, So you joined Smallville in season four. I wanted
<v Speaker 3>to ask you, how was that intimidating going into, you know,
<v Speaker 3>an already set cast and being like the new the
<v Speaker 3>new character. What did that feel like as an actor
<v Speaker 3>stepping it onto that set with already you know, people
<v Speaker 3>already have relationships, they already know the flow of the set,
<v Speaker 3>everything like that Was that intimidating? Was that exciting? How
<v Speaker 3>did you feel about that coming in?
<v Speaker 5>Well, it was exciting, but it was one of those
<v Speaker 5>one of these things does not belong kind of scenarios.
<v Speaker 5>I really felt like, Okay, who's this this girl from Alberta,
<v Speaker 5>who's wound up here doing this show with all these
<v Speaker 5>fancy people from LA.
<v Speaker 4>And but it was like this this bullet train that
<v Speaker 4>was going that I just jumped on.
<v Speaker 5>And so I also had a kind of an odd
<v Speaker 5>sense of, Uh, I'm part of something so much bigger
<v Speaker 5>than me, and I'm very, very, very lucky. I could
<v Speaker 5>never have foreseen that I'd be talking about it now.
<v Speaker 4>But yeah, it was intimidating. But I have to say
<v Speaker 4>the people that I.
<v Speaker 5>Was coming to work with were super chill and really
<v Speaker 5>nice and very welcoming, and so that really helped. And
<v Speaker 5>also at the time, I just came on for four episodes,
<v Speaker 5>so you guys know what it's like when you coming
<v Speaker 5>and you're like, it's a guest star, I'm going to
<v Speaker 5>come and do a few things. I'm gonna leave and
<v Speaker 5>build on it, and so it's only you know later
<v Speaker 5>that I was like, oh, I.
<v Speaker 4>Ended up doing one hundred and fifty episodes of it,
<v Speaker 4>you know.
<v Speaker 3>So was it? Was it surreal?
<v Speaker 6>Yeah?
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, yeah it was. It was I didn't have a
<v Speaker 5>lot of time to get ready for it. And I've
<v Speaker 5>said this a lot. I got it on a Friday,
<v Speaker 5>I started on a Monday, and I just felt like
<v Speaker 5>I was just trying to keep trying to catch up.
<v Speaker 5>So people were like, you made her kind of neurotic
<v Speaker 5>and all that. I was like, no, that was just
<v Speaker 5>fully me being neurotic, and it's caught on film and
<v Speaker 5>they seem to like that.
<v Speaker 4>So it worked out.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yes, it did well. I personally relate to the
<v Speaker 3>surrealness of it. I have a just a quick story
<v Speaker 3>about my own career. I was on the one hundred
<v Speaker 3>for a few episodes and Thank You, Thank You, and
<v Speaker 3>I had seen that show in college. One of my
<v Speaker 3>friends showed me this show and he had the worst
<v Speaker 3>taste in television ever, and I was like, really, you're
<v Speaker 3>gonna show me this show, So I agreed to watch
<v Speaker 3>the pilot of it. I'm watching the pilot and I
<v Speaker 3>see one of my childhood best friends is one of
<v Speaker 3>the leads, Richard Harmon, and I'm like, no way. And
<v Speaker 3>then and there I decided that I'm gonna move to
<v Speaker 3>Vancouver and I'm going to get on that show. And
<v Speaker 3>that's what I did. And I remember that day I
<v Speaker 3>was stepped on set. I was like, oh my god,
<v Speaker 3>like I'm actually here, Like I can't believe I manifested this.
<v Speaker 3>It was wild to me. That leads me to you, Jim.
<v Speaker 3>You have a similar experience of taking over the characters
<v Speaker 3>of Winnie the Pooh and Tigger. Did you feel those
<v Speaker 3>those same emotions? I mean, the surreality of it, the pressure, intimidation.
<v Speaker 3>How did that feel stepping into such law shoes with
<v Speaker 3>such iconic characters.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you know, that's a really good question.
<v Speaker 1>And you know, the thing of that is, I've been
<v Speaker 1>doing Winnie the Pooh and Ticker for a very very
<v Speaker 1>long time now, for literally most of my life. But
<v Speaker 1>the thing is, when Pooh and Ticker first hit the
<v Speaker 1>public eye, it was back in the sixties and I
<v Speaker 1>was in grade school and they and they won an
<v Speaker 1>Academy Award for the first three they put them together.
<v Speaker 1>They were twenty two minutes each. Put all three of
<v Speaker 1>the shorts together. Then it was a movie, won the
<v Speaker 1>Academy Award, went away for twenty years. It was God
<v Speaker 1>for twenty years. People don't think that, but it was
<v Speaker 1>Winnie the Pooh Ticker, the whole Gang. They made a
<v Speaker 1>big splash and went away. Disney put it on the
<v Speaker 1>shelf inexplicably, because you'd think they'd be milking that baby,
<v Speaker 1>you know, for some Somoleans, for some serious honey, right,
<v Speaker 1>But they didn't, Thank God, which gave me a chance
<v Speaker 1>to grow up. Yes, and then they I've told this before.
<v Speaker 1>I hope I don't bore anybody, but but they said,
<v Speaker 1>oh yeah, my agent said they're bringing it back to
<v Speaker 1>the winning of the Boo Crowd, the Hunter Deacre would Gang.
<v Speaker 1>And I go, oh, that's great and well, and they're
<v Speaker 1>holding auditions. Oh, that also was really great. And there's
<v Speaker 1>Poo and there's Tigger, and there's h you know, the
<v Speaker 1>whole Kanga. I didn't audition for Kanga, but I thought, honestly,
<v Speaker 1>I thought I auditioned for I didn't audition for Rabbit.
<v Speaker 1>I didn't feel good about that, but all pooh Tigger
<v Speaker 1>and and e Or and obviously in pood and Tiger,
<v Speaker 1>but I thought I really crushed Ere. I said, wow,
<v Speaker 1>I'm so Eor, thanks for noticing me. Not bad apparently
<v Speaker 1>not good enough, but not bad. Excuse me. So I
<v Speaker 1>went home feeling really good. Agent talked from an agent,
<v Speaker 1>well what do you think?
<v Speaker 2>What do you think? And I go, I am so
<v Speaker 2>gonna be or.
<v Speaker 1>And so like two weeks later, I get a call
<v Speaker 1>and she goes, Okay, I've got good news and bad news.
<v Speaker 1>And I said, oh great, yeah, don't you hate that?
<v Speaker 1>I said, all right, what's the bad news? She goes,
<v Speaker 1>You're not Yore? I said, oh, come on, who's Yor?
<v Speaker 1>And they go Peter Cullen. So you know Optimus Prime,
<v Speaker 1>he's Peter Cullen. You know you lose to Peter Cullen.
<v Speaker 1>You didn't lose. He's just better than you. There's a
<v Speaker 1>lot of that going around when it comes to me.
<v Speaker 1>And I said, all right, well, what's the good news?
<v Speaker 1>And she goes, well, you're winning the poohing Tigger. I said, well,
<v Speaker 1>the hell with e or E or Shmi or you know.
<v Speaker 1>So I had to suffer through uh and I have
<v Speaker 1>all the honey you can ever imagine now, so it
<v Speaker 1>worked out. Yeah, crazy story, but it happens. What and
<v Speaker 1>give up show Bentz.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, Erica. I was watching you in an interview with
<v Speaker 3>Michael Rosenbaum, who's a fabulous interviewer, an actor and obviously
<v Speaker 3>your co star, and you said something that really stuck
<v Speaker 3>with me. I'm going to read it here. You said
<v Speaker 3>talking about your character, you said, it's less about me
<v Speaker 3>and more about what I represent. And I think that
<v Speaker 3>Jim really embodies that as well. Could you kind of
<v Speaker 3>expand on that philosophy as an actor?
<v Speaker 5>Well, I think it's really important when you're approaching work
<v Speaker 5>as an artist to recognize the space that you hold.
<v Speaker 5>And we're here for a minute, and then we're gone
<v Speaker 5>and could be replaced by other people. And our point
<v Speaker 5>to be here is to tell whatever story it is
<v Speaker 5>that's in front of us, and we're lucky to be
<v Speaker 5>part of it. And I just happen to be able
<v Speaker 5>to play a character that is beloved and has been
<v Speaker 5>created by these this fabulous person and had so many incarnations.
<v Speaker 5>And so when you when you kind of keep that
<v Speaker 5>in mind. You're also able to take feedback from the
<v Speaker 5>other people that are helping you, and and they give
<v Speaker 5>you advice and they help to create a character, so
<v Speaker 5>that otherwise, I think then every if you don't keep
<v Speaker 5>yourself in that spot, you.
<v Speaker 4>Miss the magic of it.
<v Speaker 5>And and then and then you you miss all sorts
<v Speaker 5>of beautiful moments that you could kind of come up with.
<v Speaker 3>So yeah, yeah, that's great, And it makes me think
<v Speaker 3>about you too, Jim, because I mean, we were just
<v Speaker 3>talking the other day about a character versus an impression,
<v Speaker 3>and you were saying, you know, a character is when
<v Speaker 3>you truly like embody what it is and expand on that.
<v Speaker 3>Please I want.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Well, you know a lot of people, uh you know,
<v Speaker 1>people come up up to me all the time and
<v Speaker 1>they go, oh, well, you know I do Pooh, I
<v Speaker 1>do Tigger, I do I do dark Wing, And I go, oh,
<v Speaker 1>that's great, do you and they do, and they you know,
<v Speaker 1>they are terrible, thank god, And well sometimes they're pretty good.
<v Speaker 1>Sometimes they're pretty good. In fact, there's a guy out
<v Speaker 1>there who does impressions of cartoon characters and he's pretty good.
<v Speaker 1>But then what they forget, and especially with voiceover. It's
<v Speaker 1>easy for this to happen because it's just a microphone,
<v Speaker 1>doesn't matter what you look like. And they'll they'll do
<v Speaker 1>a sound and they'll have the sound, they'll have the voice.
<v Speaker 1>It'll be there and this and that. But what they
<v Speaker 1>forget is they're not they're not acting. They're just reading
<v Speaker 1>a line and then saying, don't I sound like this
<v Speaker 1>person A, B or C? And yes they do, but
<v Speaker 1>they kind of stink too, you know, because okay, now
<v Speaker 1>can you now, can.
<v Speaker 2>You do that when you're sad? Can you do that line? Happy?
<v Speaker 2>Can you do that? Confused?
<v Speaker 1>And and uh, Jess Arnell, I think I've said it before,
<v Speaker 1>but when it comes to being a voice actor, it's
<v Speaker 1>a small V but a capital A and and that's
<v Speaker 1>that's the thing. And it also helps in this day
<v Speaker 1>and age, any day and age, to be able to
<v Speaker 1>sing in character, because that's kind of cool because there's
<v Speaker 1>a lot of it's just one more feather to you know,
<v Speaker 1>one more errow.
<v Speaker 2>To put in your quiver, so to speak.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, you've Erica, You've said that. I've heard you say
<v Speaker 3>in another interview that you feel like you've changed as
<v Speaker 3>a person, you know, over the last twenty years. How
<v Speaker 3>do you feel like that informs your acting? And if
<v Speaker 3>you were to play Lois Lane again, do you think
<v Speaker 3>that would that would manifest in a different sort of character.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, thank god, I can't revisit it in that way.
<v Speaker 5>I think that there's characters that you play for specific
<v Speaker 5>times in your life, and whatever you're going through is
<v Speaker 5>is is perfect for that time. And I had different
<v Speaker 5>jobs that did that for me. But thank god, we
<v Speaker 5>can evolve into different versions of ourselves. And I look
<v Speaker 5>back on that really fondly. But yeah, I mean twenty
<v Speaker 5>five years a life. If you do a lot, you
<v Speaker 5>go through a lot. And I think that there was
<v Speaker 5>a lightness and a fragility to her, and a spunkiness
<v Speaker 5>and just this sense of a belief that she had
<v Speaker 5>in the incredible that I don't know if I.
<v Speaker 4>Could manifest that in the same way now, So I
<v Speaker 4>might be a little bit of a kill joy.
<v Speaker 5>So maybe it's good that I step away and just
<v Speaker 5>let her kind of exist like that.
<v Speaker 3>And when you said when I heard you say that,
<v Speaker 3>it made me think about you, Jim, And do you
<v Speaker 3>think that the way that you play, you know, any
<v Speaker 3>of your characters today has evolved or changed from when
<v Speaker 3>you first voiced them thirty years ago.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I think so, I think a little bit, because
<v Speaker 1>you know, I think the idea.
<v Speaker 2>Is to be true to the character.
<v Speaker 1>You don't want to change. I mean, Pooh's not going
<v Speaker 1>to show up and become the Hulk. That's it just
<v Speaker 1>wouldn't work. But you have to because otherwise you're just
<v Speaker 1>kind of treading water. You know, as an actor, you're
<v Speaker 1>just treading water and you're recycling oh bother. And you
<v Speaker 1>know you can only say that so much and then
<v Speaker 1>it becomes a bother. So don't don't bother me with
<v Speaker 1>old bother. You know, you don't want to hear that.
<v Speaker 1>So it's the challenge is to keep it fresh and
<v Speaker 1>to keep it moving forward. And with that said, you know,
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<v Speaker 3>Do you ever? So? When I was in college, you know,
<v Speaker 3>I did a lot of stage plays and everything, and sometimes,
<v Speaker 3>you know, it gets so repetitive that you kind of
<v Speaker 3>play like games within the show, you know what I mean,
<v Speaker 3>Like you kind of do something a little bit different
<v Speaker 3>to kind of mess with your co stars and trying
<v Speaker 3>to get an authentic reaction almost like you know, just
<v Speaker 3>to keep yourself entertained. Do you feel like you do
<v Speaker 3>that with your characters? Yeah, yeah, I do.
<v Speaker 2>I do, and.
<v Speaker 1>I because I'm a notorious for whatever it's worth ad
<v Speaker 1>liber And you know, the line my joke is that
<v Speaker 1>that I'll do something as written and then I'll do
<v Speaker 1>the line as it should have been.
<v Speaker 2>And the writers love you for that.
<v Speaker 1>But the fact is, though, if it works, and you know,
<v Speaker 1>and the producers buy it and they think, oh yeah,
<v Speaker 1>leave that in, leave that in, and the writers go, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I wrote that, Yeah, thank you. Well them, Yeah, you're right,
<v Speaker 1>I should get an award, you know. And uh so
<v Speaker 1>it's it's kind of crazy.
<v Speaker 3>Well, I know, you've mentioned before. Oh, I forget which
<v Speaker 3>magazine it was, but it was talking about the top
<v Speaker 3>ten Hondoo Knocker quotes. And can you expand on that?
<v Speaker 1>Yes, yeah, yeah, you guys hip two Star Wars and
<v Speaker 1>you ever heard of that?
<v Speaker 2>I don't know.
<v Speaker 3>You got to give us a little Hondo. You got
<v Speaker 3>to give us a little Hondo. It was.
<v Speaker 1>It was rebels and clone Wars and Hondle knock guy,
<v Speaker 1>he's my fellow there.
<v Speaker 2>Oh. By the way, I have good news.
<v Speaker 7>I have an investment opportunity for each and every one
<v Speaker 7>of you. Just file by, give me no more than
<v Speaker 7>one hundred dollars, no showing off, and I will invest
<v Speaker 7>it for you and get it right back to you
<v Speaker 7>eventually someday maybe okay and maybe not, but you will
<v Speaker 7>have a fun time.
<v Speaker 2>Uh so, yeah, I'm sorry. I'll shut up soon. What
<v Speaker 2>was the hell was the question quotes?
<v Speaker 3>The Vanity Fair quotes?
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, I was yeah, I was so flattered. This
<v Speaker 1>is like ten years ago. Vanity Fair wrote this thing
<v Speaker 1>and it was called the top twelve quotes.
<v Speaker 2>Of Hondo Naka and one of them was.
<v Speaker 7>Well, you know, I may not be as young as
<v Speaker 7>I once was, but I'm older.
<v Speaker 1>And you know, and for some of another people started
<v Speaker 1>glombing onto that. And there were the top twelve Hondu
<v Speaker 1>Knacka quotes and I'm proud to say I made up
<v Speaker 1>ten of them.
<v Speaker 2>So there you go.
<v Speaker 1>That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
<v Speaker 4>You have to tell that story.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, what are you an improper Erica? Do you ever
<v Speaker 3>get the chance to improv on set?
<v Speaker 4>You know, not on that set so much.
<v Speaker 5>And I would say that it may not be my
<v Speaker 5>my skill level. It takes a it takes something. It
<v Speaker 5>takes a level of bravery, court, courage, talent.
<v Speaker 4>Maybe that I don't have.
<v Speaker 5>But I found, like in answering your question from before
<v Speaker 5>of like how do you keep it fresh? I think
<v Speaker 5>that life was imitating art sometimes on the show, Like
<v Speaker 5>if you spend enough time with people, the person that
<v Speaker 5>you were with them in season one is going to
<v Speaker 5>be very different than season ten, and so you can
<v Speaker 5>kind of keep it fresh that way, and you figure
<v Speaker 5>out a vibe with each other and you can kind
<v Speaker 5>of joke around and have fun. But at the end
<v Speaker 5>of the day, there's still a level of shyness that
<v Speaker 5>I have that I haven't like stepped out to do
<v Speaker 5>something like that.
<v Speaker 4>As as much I think that is, I don't know.
<v Speaker 4>I think that I'm pretty introverted.
<v Speaker 3>I do better with like you're introverted. Yeah, there's like
<v Speaker 3>a thousand people here.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, but I'm like, I don't know how to explain it,
<v Speaker 5>but you're not like, I'm not me right now.
<v Speaker 4>It's very weird. It's like I have a.
<v Speaker 5>Task and a job and I'm chatting, and I'm chatting
<v Speaker 5>about something specific.
<v Speaker 4>But when I've done any level of.
<v Speaker 5>Making any it's generally for when I was on Saving Hope,
<v Speaker 5>and somehow the grounding of like really deep emotion was
<v Speaker 5>easier for me than comedy.
<v Speaker 3>So I don't know, interesting, thank you for that. I
<v Speaker 3>appreciate that. That leads me to This is kind of
<v Speaker 3>jumping topics, but I like asking all of our guests this,
<v Speaker 3>and in your career, who has been a person that's
<v Speaker 3>really inspired you or that you looked up to? That's it.
<v Speaker 5>That's it for myself. I met a lady when I
<v Speaker 5>was five, and she was the most spectacular human being
<v Speaker 5>I have ever seen in my life. And she wrote plays,
<v Speaker 5>and she let me tag along and be her second daughter,
<v Speaker 5>and I went to all her plays and she wrote
<v Speaker 5>music and she traveled all over the world with it,
<v Speaker 5>and she's the reason that I acted all and she
<v Speaker 5>just saw this girl that had it insane amount of
<v Speaker 5>emotion and didn't know where to put it and not knowing.
<v Speaker 2>What to do.
<v Speaker 5>She's passed on now, but she her name was Kathy
<v Speaker 5>and she was my was my hero.
<v Speaker 3>Wow. Same question for you, Jim.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Well, as far as somebody.
<v Speaker 3>That inspired you or somebody and that you worked with
<v Speaker 3>where you're like, wow, that's incredible and just really admired
<v Speaker 3>their craft.
<v Speaker 2>Well, I was such a contrary kid that.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Well, you know when I was a kid that you know,
<v Speaker 1>because I've said this before, I knew that I wanted
<v Speaker 1>to do what I ended up doing. When I was five,
<v Speaker 1>I saw it in the Jack Benny program. Mel Blank
<v Speaker 1>was on there, and my dad goes, you see this
<v Speaker 1>bastard and I said, yeah, he goes, I'll tell you what.
<v Speaker 1>He's the one that does that bugs money and that
<v Speaker 1>tas and that that daffy duck that you watch on
<v Speaker 1>Saturday morning. And I thought to myself, well, he doesn't
<v Speaker 1>have to stand in the corner for being weird.
<v Speaker 2>I'll do that. And so I did that. And that's it.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, that was yeah, and now I'm tests and
<v Speaker 1>now I don't have to stand in the corner.
<v Speaker 2>But but you.
<v Speaker 4>Know what, I think we all had to stand in
<v Speaker 4>the corner at some point.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, there's a great yes. Well, you know.
<v Speaker 1>And plus I was from I don't know about you.
<v Speaker 1>I was from Youngstown, Ohio. And you tell people, well,
<v Speaker 1>what are you gonna do? I'm going to be an
<v Speaker 1>actor and I'm gonna do funny voices and maybe I'll
<v Speaker 1>be in a movie and maybe a TV show, and they.
<v Speaker 2>Of course, you will.
<v Speaker 1>Someone take this kid's temperature's he's not well, you know,
<v Speaker 1>And because you were supposed to grow up and work
<v Speaker 1>in a steel mill and do that for like twenty
<v Speaker 1>or forty years and then retire and lose money on
<v Speaker 1>the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Cleveland Browns, and so I
<v Speaker 1>did something else.
<v Speaker 2>That's all.
<v Speaker 3>Erica. You just got me thinking when you said you're
<v Speaker 3>an introvert. I'm actually, you know, going through that in
<v Speaker 3>my head and actually in my life I've met a
<v Speaker 3>lot of introverted actors. One thing that I have an
<v Speaker 3>opinion on you that I want to ask you, do
<v Speaker 3>you feel like playing a character allows you to kind
<v Speaker 3>of express yourself more.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah, yeah.
<v Speaker 5>I think it's kind of the one place that I
<v Speaker 5>feel like I can have the emotions, and my emotions
<v Speaker 5>is that go change gears pretty fast and they can
<v Speaker 5>be pretty big, and it's the only place there's no
<v Speaker 5>judgment for that. Yeah, And otherwise in life I can
<v Speaker 5>be a tornado and an absolute mess and people are like,
<v Speaker 5>I'm sorry, you shifted way too fast and where are
<v Speaker 5>you at and why are you so intense? And the
<v Speaker 5>biggest the comment about me my whole life was intensity.
<v Speaker 5>And on every report card in school was like, Erica
<v Speaker 5>has the potential to be a good leader, but she's unstable.
<v Speaker 2>And I was like, unstable.
<v Speaker 4>Well, guess what I'm going to take that instability. I
<v Speaker 4>put it somewhere so it.
<v Speaker 5>Works out in that zone and it really feels great
<v Speaker 5>to exercise.
<v Speaker 2>That ament that was your superpower.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I guess so, yeah, it's worked out haha to
<v Speaker 5>all the teachers.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah yeah, oh yeah, that's so true. Good for you.
<v Speaker 3>And that makes me think about you too, Jim. I mean,
<v Speaker 3>I wouldn't consider you an introvert, you know, I know
<v Speaker 3>you very well, but it makes me think of the
<v Speaker 3>aspect of We've talked about this before, but when you're
<v Speaker 3>asked to do a character or a voice in your
<v Speaker 3>own speaking voice, and that kind of freaks you out
<v Speaker 3>a little bit. So I feel like you're similar in
<v Speaker 3>the way that, you know, playing a character allows you
<v Speaker 3>to expand and you know, go places that maybe Jim
<v Speaker 3>Cummings wouldn't go. Would you agree with that?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's like they you know, that's like the worst thing.
<v Speaker 1>And thank god, you know, because I'll be the male
<v Speaker 1>man or somebody who's delivering something, or the shopkeeper and
<v Speaker 1>I'll say, well, what what what what.
<v Speaker 2>Does he sound like?
<v Speaker 3>Oh?
<v Speaker 1>Just use your own voice? What what the hell does
<v Speaker 1>that sound like? And they go perfect. And so because
<v Speaker 1>it just throws I think it's nice to have something
<v Speaker 1>to hide behind, you know, because you can't act if
<v Speaker 1>there's nothing there, you know.
<v Speaker 2>The people that I don't have that ability, I'm I'm
<v Speaker 2>just not good enough. Damn it. There I've said it.
<v Speaker 2>I hope you're happy.
<v Speaker 1>No, but it's just nice to have something to hang
<v Speaker 1>your hat on, you know, to you know what I mean.
<v Speaker 1>It's like, can I do it as an old prospector? No?
<v Speaker 2>Your own voice? Oh?
<v Speaker 3>Fine?
<v Speaker 2>And I can get through it now, you know.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, I was thinking about this in preparation for
<v Speaker 3>this show, and both of you, you know, had you know,
<v Speaker 3>your most popular moments. I would say, I mean, maybe
<v Speaker 3>I'm wrong because look at all these people out here
<v Speaker 3>right now. But in a time before social media, you know,
<v Speaker 3>and you know, social media has not only changed you know,
<v Speaker 3>the entertainment business, but you know the world itself. And
<v Speaker 3>I want to ask you, you know, if your approach
<v Speaker 3>to acting or voice acting has changed over that course,
<v Speaker 3>if social media has influenced that change in that at all,
<v Speaker 3>and if you feel pressured to be a part of
<v Speaker 3>social media.
<v Speaker 2>That's a good question. What do you think? I don't know.
<v Speaker 5>I was not part of it for a very long time.
<v Speaker 5>And it wasn't until the fifth season of Saving Hope
<v Speaker 5>that they said I had to get on Twitter.
<v Speaker 3>Interesting and I was like, oh wait, contractually, like you
<v Speaker 3>have to.
<v Speaker 4>They're like, you've got to.
<v Speaker 5>And now if you go to any if you sign
<v Speaker 5>any contract now, they'll be like, what are your handles?
<v Speaker 4>What is your social media account? And that sort of thing.
<v Speaker 5>And I stayed away from it for a very long time,
<v Speaker 5>mainly because I don't have the imagination really to think
<v Speaker 5>of myself as a third person or to assume that
<v Speaker 5>somebody wants I'm always surprised when they were like, you
<v Speaker 5>should just post a reel about something you're doing. I'm like,
<v Speaker 5>why nobody's going to be interested in this? But I'm
<v Speaker 5>trying to take a different tact, which is, you know,
<v Speaker 5>try to be flexible. Try to see how you can
<v Speaker 5>use this as something positive, maybe a message you can
<v Speaker 5>put out. Is there something you want to say in
<v Speaker 5>the world, Is there something you want to do with
<v Speaker 5>it to counteract some of the negativity. But I certainly
<v Speaker 5>loved the time of life where I could just go
<v Speaker 5>and act and then the studio would take care of
<v Speaker 5>all the publicity and you'd go to the circuit and.
<v Speaker 4>And that was easier for my comfort level.
<v Speaker 5>But I would say if I focused on the positive
<v Speaker 5>side of things, it's really brought a lot of people together.
<v Speaker 5>And if you use it as a tool where you
<v Speaker 5>can find your community, then I think it's a really
<v Speaker 5>great thing.
<v Speaker 4>But it's it's also you know, it's a little scary,
<v Speaker 4>so you have to be really think about it.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and I'm not good at it. Sorry, you know.
<v Speaker 1>I'll post about doing something here or there and somebody goes, okay, whatever.
<v Speaker 1>But as long as people get a kick out of it,
<v Speaker 1>it's almost like a bit of a I don't know,
<v Speaker 1>necessary evil.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. Nowadays, and I think social media and the internet
<v Speaker 3>in general has really changed voice acting even more than acting,
<v Speaker 3>I think, because I mean when you were doing it,
<v Speaker 3>you know, back when you started, there was a very
<v Speaker 3>small circle of voice actors. I mean, not a lot
<v Speaker 3>of people even understood what a voice actor was, you know,
<v Speaker 3>And now, I mean you can audition from the other
<v Speaker 3>side of the world and all these people have so
<v Speaker 3>many different voices and characters and everything like that. Do
<v Speaker 3>you feel like it makes it more accepting? Do you
<v Speaker 3>think it's more open now than it was, or do
<v Speaker 3>you think that it's harder because there's so much more competition.
<v Speaker 2>Well, that's a good question.
<v Speaker 1>The way the way I see it is, uh, I
<v Speaker 1>think if you're if you're good, though, there's good, they're
<v Speaker 1>gonna make room for you. You know, there's the old what's
<v Speaker 1>the expression, there's always room at the top. So you know,
<v Speaker 1>I mean, get out there and hone your craft and
<v Speaker 1>and work at it and uh, and.
<v Speaker 2>Then you can use it as it's a. It's a tool,
<v Speaker 2>isn't it? Social media?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's it's very much a tool, and it wasn't
<v Speaker 1>there when I was first coming up, but it's there now.
<v Speaker 2>And and what what's.
<v Speaker 1>Kind of nice about it is, you know, I'll do
<v Speaker 1>conventions here or there or whatever, and you know, and
<v Speaker 1>you're in the middle of Kansas and someone's going, well,
<v Speaker 1>you know, I got a job being the third goober
<v Speaker 1>on the left in a you know, Kellogg's commercial whatever,
<v Speaker 1>and I think, well, good for you. How'd that happen? Well,
<v Speaker 1>I auditioned, and I sent it into my agent in
<v Speaker 1>New York and the kid lives in Smallville, you know,
<v Speaker 1>and uh so, you know, more power to you.
<v Speaker 2>It's a tool, isn't it.
<v Speaker 3>Absolutely I completely agree with that, And like any you know, Internet,
<v Speaker 3>social media, I feel like, exactly, it's a tool, and
<v Speaker 3>it can be used for good or bad. You know,
<v Speaker 3>it's still somewhat human for now, you know.
<v Speaker 2>It's uh yeah, until we're all under AI.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, until under AI, until sky takes sorry, but yeah,
<v Speaker 3>it's a tool. And even you know, like mentioning AI,
<v Speaker 3>I believe that's a tool as well. You know, I
<v Speaker 3>don't believe that is inherently evil or bad for artistry.
<v Speaker 3>I think it's a tool that you could use to enhance.
<v Speaker 3>I mean I use the example like, you know, filming
<v Speaker 3>like a scene of Lord of the Rings, you know,
<v Speaker 3>rather than having like one hundred artists, you know, rendering,
<v Speaker 3>you know, all these orcs running across a battlefield. Who knows.
<v Speaker 3>If you're doing like a short film or an independent film,
<v Speaker 3>maybe you can use AI for that, you know, something
<v Speaker 3>like that to supplement your craft. Not I don't agree with,
<v Speaker 3>you know, just using it to whatever. And that's just
<v Speaker 3>my personal opinion. But we can go down that rabbit
<v Speaker 3>hole another day. Erica, Oh shoot, what was I just
<v Speaker 3>gonna ask you? It was on the tip by time we.
<v Speaker 5>Were thinking about a I was trying to think of
<v Speaker 5>a support group we could all join.
<v Speaker 3>I remember, I remember so obviously being in the world
<v Speaker 3>of Superman. Were you into comics as a kid growing up, Like,
<v Speaker 3>were you a comic reader? Did you have a favorite
<v Speaker 3>superhero or anything like that.
<v Speaker 5>I didn't read a lot of comics. I did like
<v Speaker 5>Superman and Lewis Lane. I watched the movies that were
<v Speaker 5>out at the time, and I watched I actually.
<v Speaker 4>They read a lot of Archie.
<v Speaker 5>So I did a lot of Archie cons and Betty
<v Speaker 5>and Veronica and stuff, and I was like later, I'm like,
<v Speaker 5>wait a minute, these archetypes aren't the best.
<v Speaker 2>But Veronica or Betty?
<v Speaker 4>Oh gosh.
<v Speaker 5>Well when I was younger, I thought Betty, but now
<v Speaker 5>I don't know.
<v Speaker 4>Ronica had a spine.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, she had some boundary.
<v Speaker 4>I think I followed Betty and she had no spine.
<v Speaker 5>I was like, Archie sucks, he said, jerk, And She's like, hy,
<v Speaker 5>I love you.
<v Speaker 4>I'm a good person.
<v Speaker 2>So I had to ask, Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>If you could play any superhero, who would it be?
<v Speaker 4>WHOA wonder woman?
<v Speaker 3>Wonder woman? That's a great answer. How about you, Jim
<v Speaker 3>uh dark way duck.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, that's way better.
<v Speaker 2>You set me. He sent me up for that. I
<v Speaker 2>owe you five bucks, I'll tell you.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, can you give us a little more dark Wing?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>Well I am the terror of that flaps in the night,
<v Speaker 1>the wicked skirts that picks up your nightmares.
<v Speaker 2>Iy A duck Way Duck. So there you have it. Yes,
<v Speaker 2>a dean, thank you, thank you.
<v Speaker 3>Were you a fan of Winnie the Pooh growing up? Uh?
<v Speaker 5>Well, I mean yes, So I didn't know if I
<v Speaker 5>was a fan at the time, but I did like
<v Speaker 5>Winnie the Pooh, and actually my father reminded me of
<v Speaker 5>Winnie the Pooh a lot, bless his heart, and uh so, yes,
<v Speaker 5>I did like it. And it's only now in recent
<v Speaker 5>years that you know, all the memes come up about
<v Speaker 5>Winnie the Pooh and I'm like, oh, my gosh, that
<v Speaker 5>is such a good life lesson. There's so many beautiful,
<v Speaker 5>beautiful things in there. I actually wish. I mean, it's
<v Speaker 5>it's it is current and it's here. But my goodness,
<v Speaker 5>if if I had known at the time that was
<v Speaker 5>the kind of programming I was getting as a kid,
<v Speaker 5>you know, it's it's beautiful, yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Safe, yeah, yeah, I know you went through a kind
<v Speaker 3>of tough breakup and you were telling me that, you know,
<v Speaker 3>that was kind of Winnie the Pooh was kind of
<v Speaker 3>your comfort.
<v Speaker 5>In literally three am, doom scrolling and I had to
<v Speaker 5>curate my page because it got nasty, and then I
<v Speaker 5>clicked on a Winnie the Pooh thing and then I
<v Speaker 5>started trying and I'm like, oh, whinny, I get it.
<v Speaker 4>And then it was like that was my feed.
<v Speaker 5>And so I don't promote doom scrolling, but let's be honest,
<v Speaker 5>we all do it. And if you're gonna doom scroll,
<v Speaker 5>somebody should doom scroll Winnie.
<v Speaker 4>So yeah, I cried a lot. And that's the first
<v Speaker 4>thing I said to Jim.
<v Speaker 5>I was like, Jim, I went through a hard time
<v Speaker 5>a few years ago, and I cried and cried watching yourself.
<v Speaker 2>I'm so glad to have helped. It's so lovely of
<v Speaker 2>you to say so thank you.
<v Speaker 4>I really do want to ring you.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's so sweet.
<v Speaker 6>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>A lot of people come to the table and and
<v Speaker 1>it's funny because I think, you know, with me, I
<v Speaker 1>do a character voice and they don't know who the
<v Speaker 1>heck I am when I'm talking, but they'll say, well,
<v Speaker 1>can can you do it now? And uh and I'll say,
<v Speaker 1>well yes, but only for a smack wirrel of honey,
<v Speaker 1>and I look up at they think, how did you
<v Speaker 1>just do that? You were just sitting there and then
<v Speaker 1>winning and they think it's because they think, I guess folks.
<v Speaker 1>A lot of folks think it's like the studio that
<v Speaker 1>does it, or the microphone or something.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know, but yeah, it's it's solid you. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>it's yeah, I guess so. But I'll tricks.
<v Speaker 3>I'll never get tired of seeing people's faces change. And
<v Speaker 3>you know, I remember the first time I met you.
<v Speaker 3>I met you it was for a it was for
<v Speaker 3>a college project, and you were gracious enough to bring
<v Speaker 3>me along to one of your recordings. And I remember
<v Speaker 3>sitting there. We were having lunch right beforehand, and I
<v Speaker 3>think you were kind of trying to show off a
<v Speaker 3>little bit and you ordered you ordered our food as
<v Speaker 3>Winnie the Pooh and Tiger, and I remember I was
<v Speaker 3>like oh, and looked at the waitress and she was like, oh,
<v Speaker 3>it just like it rockets you back to your childhood.
<v Speaker 2>You know, Oh, yeah, that's true.
<v Speaker 3>That's true, like triggers this nerve in your mind where
<v Speaker 3>it's just like, oh my god, I'm a child again,
<v Speaker 3>and like, yes, it's so easy to forget that we
<v Speaker 3>were all kids. I don't know, do you agree with that.
<v Speaker 3>It's like for some weird reason, like you get into
<v Speaker 3>adulthood and you know, everything's so structured and everything like
<v Speaker 3>that you forget about that like freedom of being a
<v Speaker 3>child and like a little voice or a sound or.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah right, Jack, it's a free trip to being a
<v Speaker 1>five year old. So it's a it's pretty cool.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
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<v Speaker 2>Do it now?
<v Speaker 3>All right, we have about five minutes left. We wanted
<v Speaker 3>to do this little, a little skit for you guys.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, here we go.
<v Speaker 3>It's a scene, pretty fun, it's a it's a scene
<v Speaker 3>from Smallville, and here you go. I'm going to give
<v Speaker 3>this to you now.
<v Speaker 5>It's a bit sassy, and now I'm regretting it because
<v Speaker 5>I'm being really sassy to Winnie the Pooh.
<v Speaker 4>But forgive me.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, So Erica is going to plays Wayne.
<v Speaker 2>I don't see Pooh anywhere on him.
<v Speaker 3>Jim is going to play Clark Kent. But as Winnie
<v Speaker 3>the Pooh.
<v Speaker 1>Oh boy, bring your imagination with you, will you please?
<v Speaker 1>My goodness, oh my goodness is right? Okay, oh good
<v Speaker 1>you have bigger ladies than me.
<v Speaker 2>That's the thing.
<v Speaker 4>We can read these together.
<v Speaker 1>Oh my gosh, Well this this is what's known as
<v Speaker 1>a cold read, which is a disclaimer up front, which
<v Speaker 1>means if I screw something up, it's a cold read.
<v Speaker 5>So I don't have that same excuse, but because I
<v Speaker 5>was supposed to know these lines.
<v Speaker 2>But okay, so we're back in Smallville? Are we?
<v Speaker 4>Okay? Yeah? Can we start now? Okay? Can you see action?
<v Speaker 4>I can only do okay, I can only do things,
<v Speaker 4>and people.
<v Speaker 3>Say action and action.
<v Speaker 5>I thought you'd be outside Lana's dormer with your binoculars
<v Speaker 5>by now.
<v Speaker 6>I appreciate the concern, but Lana and I are none
<v Speaker 6>of your business.
<v Speaker 4>My god, it's so hard to be mean. Oh, come on, Smallville.
<v Speaker 5>I've had three axes put under military surveillance. I'm hardly
<v Speaker 5>qualified to dish out post relationship tact.
<v Speaker 4>But it's time for some tough love. Lana's gonna move on.
<v Speaker 6>She already has.
<v Speaker 2>With Luck and Hazel.
<v Speaker 5>I know, and it sucks, but you gotta trust your
<v Speaker 5>gut that you did this for a reason. Whatever reasons
<v Speaker 5>guys have for dumping hot, smart, funny girls these days, look,
<v Speaker 5>give her some space. Clark, your whole night stock routine
<v Speaker 5>that is going to ruin any of the good feelings
<v Speaker 5>on it has for you.
<v Speaker 1>If there are any, this is crazy looks.
<v Speaker 4>Look okay, let's try again.
<v Speaker 5>Look, sometimes you gotta tuck your feelings away until it's
<v Speaker 5>the right time, Like stuff and dollars into a piggy
<v Speaker 5>bank for a bike you can't quite afford.
<v Speaker 6>Did you say, into a piglet bank? Oh my goodness,
<v Speaker 6>except I can't quite imagine there is anyone else out there.
<v Speaker 5>Well, you never know, Clark. Maybe when you finally crack
<v Speaker 5>open that piggy bank, you'll find that all this time
<v Speaker 5>saving you haven't been saving.
<v Speaker 4>For a bike. You've really been saving for a Harley.
<v Speaker 2>It'll be sorry.
<v Speaker 6>There are times when I think you don't know me
<v Speaker 6>at all, and others where I think you know me
<v Speaker 6>better than anybody, even Christopher, Christopher Judge, not Robin.
<v Speaker 5>Well, well that's what I'm here for, small though, One
<v Speaker 5>save at a time.
<v Speaker 2>And there you have it. Hey, get it up, great
<v Speaker 2>shies and gentlemen.
<v Speaker 3>Well that was a lot of fun. Thank you both
<v Speaker 3>for doing this. That was Thank you all for being here.
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<v Speaker 3>Christopher Judge, Erica Durance and the legend Jim ky Hey.
<v Speaker 4>Thank you, thank you, thank you, thanks for having make
<v Speaker 4>me here