Power, Purpose and Kratos | Christopher Judge LIVE at Fan Expo (Stargate SG-1, God of War)

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<v Speaker 1>We've got some pretty bonacious things lined up here and
<v Speaker 1>some pretty amazing people. Speaking of which we're gonna see
<v Speaker 1>what we can do about.
<v Speaker 2>That right now. How you doing out there? It's me Tigger,
<v Speaker 2>I am Duc Wayne Duck.
<v Speaker 1>It's me Bunkers keep bobcat All right, y'all?
<v Speaker 3>Did it great?
<v Speaker 1>Your favorite bibeline you desire, hold old knock Gud. My
<v Speaker 1>name is Jim Cummings and Welcome to tune In.
<v Speaker 4>This is the first time we're ever doing this live,
<v Speaker 4>first live recording of tuned In with Jim Coummings, who
<v Speaker 4>watches the podcast. Yeah, yeah, everybody else you need, you
<v Speaker 4>need to get with the program. All right, Well, we
<v Speaker 4>have a very special guest for you today. You know
<v Speaker 4>him from Stargate SG one. You know him as Kratos
<v Speaker 4>from God of War, none other than Christopher Judge. Give
<v Speaker 4>it up.
<v Speaker 3>How are you doing today, sir? I am good. I'm
<v Speaker 3>well rested and ready to go. All right, good to here.
<v Speaker 4>And of course we would be nowhere without this legend himself,
<v Speaker 4>mister Jim Commies, you know him as Wendy to Peru
<v Speaker 4>and Tigger two.
<v Speaker 2>Thank you. Oh fancy meeting you here.
<v Speaker 5>Hi, everybody, I noticed son that you said Jim was
<v Speaker 5>a legend.
<v Speaker 3>You gotta just didn't say any of that about me
<v Speaker 3>and the legendary Christopher Judge. But he is a real legend.
<v Speaker 4>I knew you were going to say something about that.
<v Speaker 2>Well we got it kicked off to a good family
<v Speaker 2>feud here everybody. It's a beautiful thing. Where's that guy?
<v Speaker 2>Shouldn't we have contestants up here? Well?
<v Speaker 1>Welcome to the last day, right, are you ready to
<v Speaker 1>have way too much fun? And please say yes, I
<v Speaker 1>know this guy, I know this dude. Were you overachieving today?
<v Speaker 1>Are good for you? Keep up the good work.
<v Speaker 3>Well, today is a very big day for you to Jim.
<v Speaker 4>Today is National Winnie the Pooh Day.
<v Speaker 2>I just don't know what to say. Please pass the.
<v Speaker 4>Honey, as well as it being the hundredth anniversary of
<v Speaker 4>Winnie the Pooh.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I know, And that's funny because I could probably
<v Speaker 1>pass for like ninety nine.
<v Speaker 2>On a good day. But yeah, how about that? Who
<v Speaker 2>knew the silly old bear lasting all.
<v Speaker 1>These years'ble started in literature from AA miln and I
<v Speaker 1>showed up many years later and ruined it. So and
<v Speaker 1>now we're all happy and the checks in the mail
<v Speaker 1>thank you for being here?
<v Speaker 3>All right? You get paid to do this?
<v Speaker 2>No, not this the other stuff? Well you know all
<v Speaker 2>about that.
<v Speaker 3>Well, yeah, this is a big year for both of you.
<v Speaker 4>There's been announcement of Stargate continuation as well through Amazon. Yes,
<v Speaker 4>can I ask if you have any involvement with this
<v Speaker 4>project coming up? Are you allowed to say?
<v Speaker 5>I don't think this is speaking on a turn, but
<v Speaker 5>I met with Martin Garrell in December, who will be
<v Speaker 5>the showrunner. I guess it was kind of to gauge
<v Speaker 5>my level of interest in whatever form this is going
<v Speaker 5>to take. And I'm gonna meet with the writing producing
<v Speaker 5>team either later this month or early February, so you
<v Speaker 5>never know. But yeah, I'm just excited the show is
<v Speaker 5>coming back. So I mean, to me, the Star was
<v Speaker 5>always the Stargate and where it can take you and
<v Speaker 5>where it can take your imagination and the hope that
<v Speaker 5>it that it offered, so you know, I think it's
<v Speaker 5>a great time for it to come back. So yeah, yeah, absolutely.
<v Speaker 3>Very excited to see that.
<v Speaker 1>It seems like any show, any movie, anything with the
<v Speaker 1>word star in.
<v Speaker 2>It, you're good to go.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, you.
<v Speaker 2>Know, Star Gate, Star Trek, star Wars.
<v Speaker 5>I actually have this other kind of big space opera
<v Speaker 5>and it's called Star Hawks because we actually did the
<v Speaker 5>research and it's there's something it's like a weird number,
<v Speaker 5>like seventy eight percent more likely that it's a success
<v Speaker 5>if it has star in the name.
<v Speaker 2>Wow, there you go.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so that's the cheek code right there.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, right, Welcome to our star panel.
<v Speaker 1>By the way, everybody, are you feeling story good, starry,
<v Speaker 1>starry night.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, very good.
<v Speaker 4>And on the topic of reboot, I know it's not
<v Speaker 4>a reboot, it's a continuation, but reboots, they're in the
<v Speaker 4>works with a certain tear that flaps in the night
<v Speaker 4>as well, if I'm right.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, did y'all know that I have the terror that
<v Speaker 1>flaps in the night? Please tell me you know who
<v Speaker 1>that is? Okay, good, just check it.
<v Speaker 2>I got to check the temperature here. But yeah, there's.
<v Speaker 1>An ugly rumor going around Hollywood that the Dark One
<v Speaker 1>coming back, So stay tuned. Yeah, yeah, so dust off
<v Speaker 1>those capes and the masks and let's get ready to rumble, right, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>good stuff.
<v Speaker 4>I have a question for the both of you, what
<v Speaker 4>do you how do you feel about we kind of
<v Speaker 4>live in like this era of nostalgia and remakes, and
<v Speaker 4>you know, these companies kind of stick to like the
<v Speaker 4>same ips that are tried and true. Do you think
<v Speaker 4>that's beneficial for entertainment or do you think it's a hinderance.
<v Speaker 1>Only if we're in them, If we if he's in it,
<v Speaker 1>it's pretty darn good, I'll tell you no, it's no.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know.
<v Speaker 1>I think it speaks to the fact that there's an
<v Speaker 1>old expression. Nothing is completely original, and it's hard to
<v Speaker 1>come up with an original thought, and so you know,
<v Speaker 1>obviously I'm not, but it's just it's just the way
<v Speaker 1>it goes. And I think the familiarity helps you know something,
<v Speaker 1>oh God, that reminds me of blah blah blah fill
<v Speaker 1>in the blank, and then you just put it on
<v Speaker 1>like an.
<v Speaker 2>Old pair of shoes. And I think it's probably a
<v Speaker 2>comfort level.
<v Speaker 5>I agree one hundred percent. You know, when times are
<v Speaker 5>kind of uncertain or whatever, to have a touchstone to
<v Speaker 5>better days, you know, in our minds. I mean, that
<v Speaker 5>will always be.
<v Speaker 3>Popular. But it also I don't care where they can
<v Speaker 3>do not hire any more. It's it also speaks to
<v Speaker 3>Hollywood because.
<v Speaker 5>There are new ideas out there, but they're so reluctant
<v Speaker 5>to take a risk.
<v Speaker 3>On new ips.
<v Speaker 5>And I find it incredibly frustrating because there's there's new
<v Speaker 5>generations of voices, and I think it's really important that
<v Speaker 5>we hear from them. And so hopefully, you know, with
<v Speaker 5>the truncation of kind of the studio system, hopefully that
<v Speaker 5>will allow kind of other means of intellectual property to
<v Speaker 5>find its way through different mediums. So I'm very hopeful
<v Speaker 5>for the future, but hopefully the kind of quote unquote
<v Speaker 5>studio system is on.
<v Speaker 3>Its last legs.
<v Speaker 5>I hope, because I think that is really keeping a
<v Speaker 5>lot of new, exciting, interesting voices from being heard.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah, well said, well said, all right, I want
<v Speaker 4>to take it back, Just for anybody in the room
<v Speaker 4>who didn't know, I think this is always a good
<v Speaker 4>question when asking performers, actors, musicians, whoever in the creative field,
<v Speaker 4>when you first knew that this was what you wanted
<v Speaker 4>to do?
<v Speaker 3>Uh huh?
<v Speaker 2>Should I go? Okay, well, I've told this before.
<v Speaker 1>I hope I'm not boring anybody, and if I am
<v Speaker 1>a really excited anyway, but no, I vividly remember I
<v Speaker 1>was five years old and I was watching a TV
<v Speaker 1>show with my dad, Jack Benny, if anybody members, that
<v Speaker 1>was an old comedian and mel Blank was on there,
<v Speaker 1>the great guy who did Bugs, Bunny and Daffy Duck
<v Speaker 1>and the Original Task all those and and.
<v Speaker 2>He was kind of it.
<v Speaker 1>He'd come out and he'd come out and do funny
<v Speaker 1>voices and everything, and it was kind of a kind
<v Speaker 1>of a cool thing. And my dad goes, you say
<v Speaker 1>this guy right here, I said, yeah, he goes that
<v Speaker 1>guy does that bugs bunny, he does that Daffy duck,
<v Speaker 1>he does that task. He'd you know, he get up
<v Speaker 1>on Saturday morning. Back when I was a kid, he
<v Speaker 1>had to get up on Saturday morning and watch cartoons.
<v Speaker 1>That was the only time it was on, and all
<v Speaker 1>the help people are going there.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, that sucked.
<v Speaker 1>But anyway, he told me, he said, that's the guy
<v Speaker 1>who does all those voices. And I remember vividly thinking, well,
<v Speaker 1>he doesn't have to stand in the corner, does he?
<v Speaker 1>For being weird? And so I said, well, I'm going
<v Speaker 1>to do that.
<v Speaker 2>So there you go. So I do that now. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I think it's good to have a focus.
<v Speaker 3>Early.
<v Speaker 2>Did you know you had the bug?
<v Speaker 3>I did?
<v Speaker 5>I knew probably around six or seven. It was a
<v Speaker 5>movie Sounder, Kevin Hooks, Cicily Tyson, Paul Winfield. Yes, and
<v Speaker 5>it was about a young man whose father who had
<v Speaker 5>a difficult relationship.
<v Speaker 3>With his father.
<v Speaker 5>His father ended up going to prison. His best friend
<v Speaker 5>became his dog, Sounder. Cut to his dad gets out
<v Speaker 5>of prison, has to put Sounder down, and I was devastated.
<v Speaker 3>And just some clicks that I want to make people
<v Speaker 3>feel like.
<v Speaker 5>That, And that was it I knew right then, so
<v Speaker 5>kind of everything else I did in my life from
<v Speaker 5>that point was to kind of get me into this business.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah right, sure did.
<v Speaker 4>Something that fascinates me about both of your careers is
<v Speaker 4>your versatility with your voices. I want to ask you
<v Speaker 4>about your approach to, say, recording a cartoon voice, an
<v Speaker 4>animation voice versus say, motion capture. And I know even Jim,
<v Speaker 4>you've done some of that for Honda a NAKA. For
<v Speaker 4>Star Wars Outlaws, they took a recording of your face
<v Speaker 4>and imposed. So my question for you guys is what,
<v Speaker 4>if any different approach do you have based on the
<v Speaker 4>medium that you're going to be performing in, say it's
<v Speaker 4>on screen, motion capture, voice over, even the difference between
<v Speaker 4>animation and say commercial, do you have a different approach
<v Speaker 4>or is it kind of.
<v Speaker 1>I kind of don't because it's not going to look
<v Speaker 1>like me anyway, thank god, you know, although I kind
<v Speaker 1>of do look like Pooh every now and then. I'm
<v Speaker 1>getting a little in a little time in here, but uh,
<v Speaker 1>it doesn't. It doesn't really affect me. I think it's
<v Speaker 1>because I've done so many weird characters and everything. I
<v Speaker 1>don't even think about it. At this point, you know so,
<v Speaker 1>but yeah, that but the motion capture was an interesting thing.
<v Speaker 1>I've done that and I did it with Tom Kenny
<v Speaker 1>when we were cat Dog, remember cat Dog.
<v Speaker 2>That was a weird Well, thank you, but that was
<v Speaker 2>a weird one.
<v Speaker 1>And I'm thinking, don't ask me how they went to
<v Speaker 1>the bathroom, please, cause you don't want to know. It
<v Speaker 1>was not a pretty sight. But I don't even remember
<v Speaker 1>the question now. I'm still thinking about it going to
<v Speaker 1>the No, we don't want to do it.
<v Speaker 4>But well, the question was just if you have a
<v Speaker 4>different approach. And I'm curious because you've done so much
<v Speaker 4>commercial work. And I actually got shown a commercial by
<v Speaker 4>somebody at the convention yesterday where you played Sanita.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, he showed you that as well.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that was that cracked me up. I couldn't live.
<v Speaker 1>I was Santa for fruit Loop. Oh no, it was
<v Speaker 1>Fred Flintstone and me a Santa and that's what hey,
<v Speaker 1>no get no fruity pebbles, you know, And that was
<v Speaker 1>I was Santa talking to the three women on the corner.
<v Speaker 2>Ho ho ho, there's an old joke about that. No,
<v Speaker 2>you know, but we're not gonna tell it today. Oh,
<v Speaker 2>she's in. I got a really red face right here.
<v Speaker 2>And then he said there were three women on the corner.
<v Speaker 2>No that was that wasn't that was him. He said
<v Speaker 2>that anyway. So yeah, how about you?
<v Speaker 4>For you, Christopher, I actually don't know when did you
<v Speaker 4>first started getting into voice work, because obviously you have
<v Speaker 4>an amazing voice.
<v Speaker 5>Well, thank you. I haven't. It's been truly by accident.
<v Speaker 5>Anything that I've done voice related has just been either
<v Speaker 5>someone I knew or a company just calling them an
<v Speaker 5>agent and just make an offer. I've never actually gotten
<v Speaker 5>a voice job that I've ever auditioned for, not one. Wow,
<v Speaker 5>And it's.
<v Speaker 3>Just a skill I don't possess like you.
<v Speaker 5>Hear this truly legendary man, and you got a million
<v Speaker 5>voices and you can just call on them and it's
<v Speaker 5>just so amazing to me, and you can take a
<v Speaker 5>piece of copy and make it magical. I just don't
<v Speaker 5>have that. It takes me weeks to sit with a
<v Speaker 5>piece and kind of just let it wash through me
<v Speaker 5>to kind of decide who this guy is. So I
<v Speaker 5>just don't really have and I don't have a bunch
<v Speaker 5>of voices. I mean, this is kind of it, you know,
<v Speaker 5>it's it's pretty good.
<v Speaker 3>Everything is. Everything is kind of just a variation of
<v Speaker 3>you know this.
<v Speaker 5>I mean, come on, let's face it, it's not that
<v Speaker 5>far from indeed to boy. That's not a huge range there.
<v Speaker 5>So I am just forever in amazement being lucky enough
<v Speaker 5>to be around gym. I did an animated series with
<v Speaker 5>my partner called Wacky Races and just a legend. So
<v Speaker 5>it's for me, it's just sheer fear. And I'm sitting
<v Speaker 5>there just gripping onto the stand with the script song.
<v Speaker 5>I'm just going, oh my god, just please don't embarrass yourself.
<v Speaker 3>So, I mean, and that's the only time.
<v Speaker 5>I've really ever kind of varied outside just the bottom
<v Speaker 5>of my register. I don't know if you guys ever
<v Speaker 5>ever saw Wacky Races, but I played a guy brick crashman,
<v Speaker 5>and so here, let me put this back a little bit.
<v Speaker 5>So the director producers, also my writing producer partner, said
<v Speaker 5>try something different, like get out of your range a little.
<v Speaker 3>Bit, like have fun with this, like no one's gonna
<v Speaker 3>judge you.
<v Speaker 5>So I would start the episodes and kind of describe
<v Speaker 5>what was going on in the episodes, and it'd be.
<v Speaker 3>Like hey, hey, hey, hey, I'm big brick.
<v Speaker 5>Crashman come into you from the Wacky Races five hundred
<v Speaker 5>and so that was the that's pretty good time that
<v Speaker 5>I ever heard. So it was just really a liberating
<v Speaker 5>experience just to know that, hey, if it's ever called on,
<v Speaker 5>you know, I don't have to live in the basement
<v Speaker 5>of my voice.
<v Speaker 4>Well, since we're doing voices, if you guys have watched
<v Speaker 4>the podcast before, we have a little segment where we
<v Speaker 4>do a voice swap since this is a little bit
<v Speaker 4>truncated today, Yes.
<v Speaker 3>Don't worry.
<v Speaker 4>Don't worry, you can handle it.
<v Speaker 3>It's all Mastard.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, he do a hell of a poot hown't you think?
<v Speaker 3>So? How it works? How is it?
<v Speaker 4>How it works? Let's say, okay, Jim will go first.
<v Speaker 4>He'll say a line of one of his iconic characters,
<v Speaker 4>Winny the Pooh. We have to do Winny the Pooh
<v Speaker 4>since it's National winn of the Pooh Day. And then
<v Speaker 4>you will repeat that line. Christopher, you will repeat.
<v Speaker 3>That line, but in one of yours so as tilk Oh.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, you're saying.
<v Speaker 3>As tilk or as credos. Oh, thank god. You have
<v Speaker 3>no idea how much shrink.
<v Speaker 4>It's just went on, and then we'll do it vice versa.
<v Speaker 4>How's that sound.
<v Speaker 2>All right? So start off with the poo pooh phrase.
<v Speaker 3>Does anybody have a phrase that they'd like to hear?
<v Speaker 3>Since this is alive? Anybody?
<v Speaker 2>Oh? Well that's a song. Well okay, so.
<v Speaker 5>Listen, lady, don't make this more difficult than it needs
<v Speaker 5>to be.
<v Speaker 2>It's already hard enough. Well, I'm just a little black
<v Speaker 2>rain cloud.
<v Speaker 3>In fact, I am just a little black rain cloud.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah yeah, all right, now now now now it's.
<v Speaker 3>Your turn's true?
<v Speaker 5>Okay, I was wrong, boy, Feel their pain, take it
<v Speaker 5>into your heart.
<v Speaker 3>It's what your mother would have wanted and I want.
<v Speaker 2>Also, Oh thanks Shakespeare. I don't even know what you said.
<v Speaker 2>This is like what a piece of work is? Man?
<v Speaker 2>How old?
<v Speaker 3>No?
<v Speaker 6>I swear to God, I'm just a little okay, I'll screw.
<v Speaker 3>I'll trunk.
<v Speaker 2>Uh.
<v Speaker 3>Feel their pain, boy, feel their pain.
<v Speaker 2>I just saw a tiger set there and I figured
<v Speaker 2>that it would be inspired by.
<v Speaker 4>All right, how about how about one more with I
<v Speaker 4>really like that voice that you just did. I think
<v Speaker 4>that's a really unique one from Wacky Races. How about
<v Speaker 4>we do one is dark Wings? Since dark Wings in
<v Speaker 4>the mix right now.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I am the terror that flaps in the night.
<v Speaker 3>I am the terror of flaps in the night.
<v Speaker 2>There got a couple of octaves in there. I that's
<v Speaker 2>putting all right?
<v Speaker 5>All right now?
<v Speaker 3>Oh boy, that's great. That's great.
<v Speaker 4>So let's talk about these conventions since we're here at
<v Speaker 4>Fan Expo. The kind of perception I think of comic
<v Speaker 4>cons has kind of changed over the last decade for sure.
<v Speaker 4>You know, I feel like it kind of used to
<v Speaker 4>be perceived as you know, this thing that you did
<v Speaker 4>if you weren't actively working in the industry. You know,
<v Speaker 4>it was kind of something Okay, I need to go
<v Speaker 4>do conventions now. And then now all of a sudden,
<v Speaker 4>you see these massive A listers and legends such as yourselves,
<v Speaker 4>you know, doing this more and more frequently. What's that
<v Speaker 4>experience like to get to actually like engage with the fans,
<v Speaker 4>Because when you're in recording audio, you know, you're just
<v Speaker 4>you say it all the time, Jim, You're just in
<v Speaker 4>a booth by yourself, or even on set. You know,
<v Speaker 4>it's kind of like a closed off thing and you
<v Speaker 4>kind of have to get into your own headspace. It's
<v Speaker 4>not so much you know, appreciation from your co workers,
<v Speaker 4>not that they don't appreciate it, but it's a different feeling.
<v Speaker 4>What do you guys think has changed over the last
<v Speaker 4>ten years for people to now be doing this.
<v Speaker 3>What do you think?
<v Speaker 2>I don't know.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, you know, I think you summed it up very nicely.
<v Speaker 5>We work in a bubble and so you don't have
<v Speaker 5>you know, which is a lot of people do theater
<v Speaker 5>because they want that instant feedback, that kind of instant gratification.
<v Speaker 5>But a lot of times we do things that will
<v Speaker 5>air in six months to a year, so you become
<v Speaker 5>kind of removed from it. It just gives away. And
<v Speaker 5>I don't hope I'm not overstepping. When you're lucky enough
<v Speaker 5>to have a career that spans, you know, thirty forty
<v Speaker 5>fifty years, I find it gratifying to come say thank
<v Speaker 5>you because we wouldn't be here. I don't know, it
<v Speaker 5>sounds cliched, but we truly wouldn't be here if it
<v Speaker 5>weren't for you, you know. I mean, this is the
<v Speaker 5>twentieth year of god a war we started. We started
<v Speaker 5>Stargate next year will be thirty years ago, and Stargate specifically,
<v Speaker 5>it's only coming back because the fandom wouldn't let it
<v Speaker 5>go away, and I mean it's an honor for me
<v Speaker 5>to come say thank you.
<v Speaker 3>That's why I enjoy doing this.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, I was just gonna say that.
<v Speaker 3>So now.
<v Speaker 2>Now I have nothing to say.
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<v Speaker 1>slash Jim Cummings Podcast Do it now now. I always
<v Speaker 1>think it's a privilege, you know, to do what we do,
<v Speaker 1>and I've said it before. It's the stuff that well,
<v Speaker 1>I make a living doing the things that used to
<v Speaker 1>get me kicked out of class. Sister Mary Agnes was
<v Speaker 1>not amused, I can assure you, so you know, I'm
<v Speaker 1>just I'm grateful every day and there's no doubt about it.
<v Speaker 1>I think if you're not grateful and you don't have gratitude,
<v Speaker 1>you don't have happiness. And I like being happy. So
<v Speaker 1>I'm grateful.
<v Speaker 2>Thank you all of you, you know, that's for sure.
<v Speaker 4>On a little bit of a deeper note, I think
<v Speaker 4>it's always important deeper than that. Yeah, yeah, yep, enough
<v Speaker 4>of this. I think it's always important to talk about,
<v Speaker 4>you know, especially you know, when talking to people with
<v Speaker 4>such prolific careers, you know, like you mentioned spanning twenty
<v Speaker 4>thirty forty fifty years, even to talk about the struggles
<v Speaker 4>that you may or may not have faced in that time,
<v Speaker 4>because from the outside looking in, I feel like it's
<v Speaker 4>easy to kind of put performers on a pedestal and like, oh,
<v Speaker 4>they got it so good. But at the end of
<v Speaker 4>the day, we're all still human, right, So can you
<v Speaker 4>talk about maybe a time that you know you felt
<v Speaker 4>insecure or maybe not completely confident in yourself if at all,
<v Speaker 4>you know, if it didn't happen, then sure. But I'm
<v Speaker 4>always curious to hear that like human element of performers
<v Speaker 4>because as a performer myself, you know, there's a lot
<v Speaker 4>of peaks and valleys. You know, it's not like a
<v Speaker 4>smooth incline. You know, it's not work X amount of years,
<v Speaker 4>you get a promotion and nothing's promised. Even how many
<v Speaker 4>times have we seen you know, actors on a huge
<v Speaker 4>massive TV series and then kind of that that's it,
<v Speaker 4>you know, So how do you battle that going through
<v Speaker 4>your career?
<v Speaker 2>Gosh, I don't I don't know. You just got to
<v Speaker 2>keep plowing away.
<v Speaker 5>You know.
<v Speaker 1>Auditions are your saving grace. And I you know, whenever
<v Speaker 1>I can tell you one thing, whenever I work, and
<v Speaker 1>I've had a lot of gigs, obviously, I think of
<v Speaker 1>every one of them as the super Bowl. I think
<v Speaker 1>that every single day is the super Bowl, you know,
<v Speaker 1>a voiceover in this case, but without the football. But
<v Speaker 1>you know, and I've said it before, I don't take
<v Speaker 1>myself seriously, but I take the work seriously. And one
<v Speaker 1>reason that I do, and it's been born out over
<v Speaker 1>the years of doing comic CONTs, is that it means
<v Speaker 1>so much.
<v Speaker 2>To other people. To you, guys, I've got stories that
<v Speaker 2>will put you on your knees.
<v Speaker 1>You know, people that have been depressed, or they had
<v Speaker 1>a terrible thing, their house burned down for God's sake,
<v Speaker 1>and then you know, and Winnie Apoo was there to
<v Speaker 1>comfort them or something, and it's just it's an honor.
<v Speaker 1>And like I say, I don't take myself seriously, but
<v Speaker 1>the fact that people can take such comfort and go
<v Speaker 1>away with such warm feelings.
<v Speaker 2>And you know, I take that seriously. I take that seriously.
<v Speaker 1>And uh and and you know, I'm sure you feel
<v Speaker 1>the same way when people come up to you. Oh
<v Speaker 1>that one went till it was this and that, and
<v Speaker 1>he saved the day, and I felt like you were
<v Speaker 1>saving me.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, right, I mean absolutely, it's good.
<v Speaker 5>It's it's it's like a paradox what we do. It
<v Speaker 5>means so much too. It's an incredibly intimate act too.
<v Speaker 5>When you do a series and people enjoy the series,
<v Speaker 5>it's an incredibly intimate act to allow us as characters
<v Speaker 5>into your homes every week or you know, kind of
<v Speaker 5>change with streaming, but it and we become part of
<v Speaker 5>your family. So I and Jim said it, right, We
<v Speaker 5>do not take that lightly, that you are walking welcoming
<v Speaker 5>us into your hearts and homes.
<v Speaker 3>Uh.
<v Speaker 5>But you mirror that with what we face in the business.
<v Speaker 5>Where in the business, especially like nowadays, the performer is
<v Speaker 5>often the bottom of the barrel and the actor who
<v Speaker 5>is the character is even lower than that.
<v Speaker 3>So it's a lot of times if you don't have
<v Speaker 3>your your real true.
<v Speaker 5>Establishment of self, it's such a soul taking business. If
<v Speaker 5>you allow it to be because you're always too fat,
<v Speaker 5>too skinny, too tall, too short, too light, too dark,
<v Speaker 5>and so to.
<v Speaker 3>Deal with.
<v Speaker 5>That amount of judgment and negativity towards yourself, you got
<v Speaker 5>to have a pretty thick shield, and you don't come
<v Speaker 5>into it with it, that's for sure, because I remember
<v Speaker 5>how I used to live and die with every audition
<v Speaker 5>and every audition I didn't get crushed me. And back
<v Speaker 5>then they used to tell you why you didn't get it,
<v Speaker 5>which was even worse.
<v Speaker 3>I feel like that's better. Well, if it were as
<v Speaker 3>when I had that shield built, it would have been better.
<v Speaker 5>But this is in the days where everything was the
<v Speaker 5>role that was going to catapult me to where I
<v Speaker 5>was gonna be, which isn't the case. So it took
<v Speaker 5>a long long It actually took me having children to
<v Speaker 5>allow that shield to start forming because there had to
<v Speaker 5>be because I mean, acting was it for me. I mean,
<v Speaker 5>it was the thing that allowed me to not be me.
<v Speaker 5>And it wasn't until I had a higher purpose, being
<v Speaker 5>a father that allowed me to put what I do
<v Speaker 5>for work in its place. And that's truly kind of
<v Speaker 5>when I started becoming more successful when it didn't have
<v Speaker 5>the weight of my being in it, and it just
<v Speaker 5>allowed it really freed me up to kind of let
<v Speaker 5>go emotionally and say I can give it this and
<v Speaker 5>they can't use it to hurt me.
<v Speaker 3>There you go, nice, thank you, thank you.
<v Speaker 4>Well, yeah, they say, you know when you're when you're auditioning,
<v Speaker 4>you can kind of like there's the reek of desperation
<v Speaker 4>if you want it too much.
<v Speaker 3>And I'm sure you've seen that too, Jim.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, yeah, flop sweat is terrible, right, Yeah, we don't.
<v Speaker 4>Like that, and it's almost like you need to keep
<v Speaker 4>falling down and getting back up to kind of get
<v Speaker 4>rid of that. Because everybody who wants to be a performer,
<v Speaker 4>I mean, if you really want it, you're gonna have
<v Speaker 4>that a little bit. You know, you're gonna be like,
<v Speaker 4>you know, please me to me, you know, and then
<v Speaker 4>it's almost like, you know, when you're the cool guy
<v Speaker 4>who's like.
<v Speaker 3>I got I know what I got and they're like, oh,
<v Speaker 3>I want you.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah yeah that's right. Yeah, well that's you just said it.
<v Speaker 5>If you walk in like you're it, I'm it. And
<v Speaker 5>if you guys don't see it, you guys are losers.
<v Speaker 5>That's right, you know, I'm the dude that's going to
<v Speaker 5>make this a hit, and I can't help it if
<v Speaker 5>you guys don't see.
<v Speaker 4>It, that's right, all right. We're going to open it
<v Speaker 4>up to questions from you guys in just a minute.
<v Speaker 4>Before that, I just want to talk again about the podcast.
<v Speaker 4>If you guys haven't checked it out, tuned in with
<v Speaker 4>Jim Cummings. It's honestly, I've been working on it with
<v Speaker 4>you for what now, two years, job two years, and
<v Speaker 4>I'm just honestly personally so blessed for the opportunity.
<v Speaker 3>I just want to thank you again. It's just been
<v Speaker 3>a great time.
<v Speaker 2>Well good, well he's amazing at.
<v Speaker 3>It, so well, thank you. I appreciate I appreciate that.
<v Speaker 4>And yeah, we've we've had some great guests on you
<v Speaker 4>guys should really check it out. It's available on whatever
<v Speaker 4>you listen to, Spotify, Apple YouTube, you can watch it.
<v Speaker 4>We film every episode and we've had some amazing people
<v Speaker 4>from actors on camera Alan Tudic to Disney princesses, Jody Benson,
<v Speaker 4>Susan Egan all the way to I mean we had
<v Speaker 4>a Disney historian, a Disney collector, multiple animators, you know,
<v Speaker 4>just incredible, different different views, on the entertainment industry, the
<v Speaker 4>different facets of it, kind of like, you know, we
<v Speaker 4>kind of peel the peel the cover back and take
<v Speaker 4>a look at, you know, the creation of.
<v Speaker 3>The sausage, so to speak.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, And I've just had a blast doing and I've
<v Speaker 4>learned so much over these last two years doing this
<v Speaker 4>with you.
<v Speaker 2>It's just been Chris on that subject. Would you like
<v Speaker 2>to share who we recently found out is a fan
<v Speaker 2>of the podcast?
<v Speaker 3>Apparently?
<v Speaker 2>How about this?
<v Speaker 4>Barack Obama is apparently a fan then President Obama himself,
<v Speaker 4>So that's that was pretty cool to see.
<v Speaker 2>How you doing, girls, Yeah, it's uncle Jim.
<v Speaker 3>Hi, Hey Barry when I'm in Chicago. Ah, let's play
<v Speaker 3>a little golf. Then here you go. You might be
<v Speaker 3>able to give me on some courses that I may
<v Speaker 3>not be able to get on too.
<v Speaker 4>He'll get you ont And just one last thing just
<v Speaker 4>before we go to questions, if you want to see
<v Speaker 4>like an extended version of this pretty much.
<v Speaker 3>Christopher Judge was on the.
<v Speaker 4>Podcast about a year ago and it's a good episode too.
<v Speaker 4>It's about an hour and a half long. We really
<v Speaker 4>get into it, had a good time and there's just
<v Speaker 4>so many interesting people that we've had on It's just
<v Speaker 4>really cool and lots more coming. We're going to do
<v Speaker 4>this live recording at ten different fan x is this year,
<v Speaker 4>so we're gonna kind of be touring around this year
<v Speaker 4>doing this as well as well as recording in the studio.
<v Speaker 4>So please like and subscribe on YouTube and keep on following.
<v Speaker 2>All right, please do, thank you.
<v Speaker 4>All right, let's turn it over to some questions from
<v Speaker 4>the fans, and if you don't mind just speaking directly
<v Speaker 4>into the microphone, we want to make sure.
<v Speaker 3>We have it is on today. Yes, all right, Hi,
<v Speaker 3>my name's Robin.
<v Speaker 7>Thank you for you know, the things that you know,
<v Speaker 7>all the work that you guys have done. I've enjoyed
<v Speaker 7>you know you mister as mister Pooh and you as
<v Speaker 7>Tilk in Stargate and really appreciate that. My question is
<v Speaker 7>related to Winnie the Pooh. I heard it on the
<v Speaker 7>radio this morning. So did you when you came here
<v Speaker 7>for this weekend, did you plan to do your podcast
<v Speaker 7>on A. A. Milne's birthday?
<v Speaker 2>Yes, I may be stupid, but I sure ain't dumb.
<v Speaker 2>That was serendipitous, I would think, right, that's a perfect time.
<v Speaker 8>Yeah, my name is Jeremiah, I've been here all three
<v Speaker 8>days about my son yesterday.
<v Speaker 2>No, I've met you, and.
<v Speaker 8>So I'm old enough to have grown up with most
<v Speaker 8>of the characters that you have done me over the years.
<v Speaker 1>I know.
<v Speaker 8>So I just personally want to say thank you because
<v Speaker 8>you were a majority of my childhood growing up, and
<v Speaker 8>that is why it has encouraged me to become a
<v Speaker 8>voice actor myself, and so still in the beginning stages.
<v Speaker 8>So it's not but having all the different characters from
<v Speaker 8>like Muppets and your characters that you have done, and
<v Speaker 8>just the life experiences that they go through.
<v Speaker 5>It's just great.
<v Speaker 8>Christopher, now that we know, I didn't learn this until yesterday,
<v Speaker 8>But knowing that you two share a grandchild, what are
<v Speaker 8>some of the things that you're going to instill into
<v Speaker 8>that grandchild together as voice actors? As well as is
<v Speaker 8>there any is there going to be any collab with
<v Speaker 8>the two of you and any of your future works.
<v Speaker 3>Oh that's a great question. Whoa wow.
<v Speaker 5>I would be to take your second question. I would
<v Speaker 5>be honored to work with Jim. You know, it's to
<v Speaker 5>work with the true legend and you know it's it's
<v Speaker 5>odd Jim and I couldn't be more different. But I
<v Speaker 5>adore what do you mean? I adore this man. He's
<v Speaker 5>so lovely. My children and that we uh have a
<v Speaker 5>grand child now. I love seeing the clips of Jim with.
<v Speaker 2>Jacks and could not be cut by the way. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>my goodness, it's weapons grade cute.
<v Speaker 5>I mean, it really is a wonderful situation, you know,
<v Speaker 5>it truly is. And it's to know that this is
<v Speaker 5>going to go on for a long time. It's it's
<v Speaker 5>really comforting. It's really great and I'm.
<v Speaker 2>Just oh he and we just had him on the
<v Speaker 2>with Al Roker.
<v Speaker 3>Thanks for the invite.
<v Speaker 2>Let me get this out. Did we have Hey, how
<v Speaker 2>you doing, buddy?
<v Speaker 9>Good morning, thanks for being here. First of all, mister Judge,
<v Speaker 9>my question for you, with God of War having the
<v Speaker 9>live action series, are you going to have any role
<v Speaker 9>at all? Would you want to or have they talked
<v Speaker 9>to at all or do you have you heard anything
<v Speaker 9>at all? You know it we're I mean we're talking
<v Speaker 9>about it.
<v Speaker 3>I'm not it doesn't.
<v Speaker 5>I've invested in, uh, the gaming part of it, you know,
<v Speaker 5>so it wasn't I was on the fence about doing
<v Speaker 5>the live action. I mean, I'm sixty one years old
<v Speaker 5>when I when I did Stargate, I was thirty three
<v Speaker 5>when we started and I was forty five when it ended.
<v Speaker 5>And the last it was tough, and that was an
<v Speaker 5>ensemble cast in Vancouver. The weather the last two years
<v Speaker 5>read havoc on my joints now sixty one to do
<v Speaker 5>a show that this guy's going to be in almost
<v Speaker 5>every scene and two seasons are guaranteed. So that's almost
<v Speaker 5>two years. You've seen his wardrobe and not many clothes
<v Speaker 5>in Vancouver. Yeah, Oh kind of lost its luster for me. Yeah,
<v Speaker 5>and then you know, and literally when when Jackson was born,
<v Speaker 5>it allowed me to really kind of reassess where I
<v Speaker 5>want to be, Like I had to miss so much
<v Speaker 5>of my kids growing up, so kind of have a
<v Speaker 5>somewhat of a do over. And I don't want to
<v Speaker 5>make the and not to say it was a mistake,
<v Speaker 5>I don't want to make the same choices. So it
<v Speaker 5>really when people ask about, oh, how do you feel
<v Speaker 5>about Ryan, all I've said since the live action was
<v Speaker 5>announced that if it's not me, I truly hope it's
<v Speaker 5>somebody that loves and cherishes this character.
<v Speaker 3>As much as we all do.
<v Speaker 5>With Ryan Hurst. They got it right. He obviously is
<v Speaker 5>a great actor. He was storing the game, but he's
<v Speaker 5>a gamer and he's played God of War since its creation.
<v Speaker 5>So I mean, bravo, bravo, and I hope it's a huge,
<v Speaker 5>huge hit. So I'm as excited as everybody else, you know.
<v Speaker 5>So there are no misgivings, no matter what you read,
<v Speaker 5>there are no hard feelings, there's no being upset. I
<v Speaker 5>am thrilled, so I.
<v Speaker 1>Would think, so, yeah, spark a new interest anyway, exactly
<v Speaker 1>across there's that expression of rising tide raises all the boats.
<v Speaker 3>Mm hm.
<v Speaker 4>I mean even look at you know, the the popularity
<v Speaker 4>of TC Carson since the since the game, the new
<v Speaker 4>reboot has come out. You know, I see TC at
<v Speaker 4>these conventions all the time. He's a great guy, great guy,
<v Speaker 4>great guy.
<v Speaker 2>There you go, all right.
<v Speaker 5>Like this directly into it.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I think you can pull it down a little
<v Speaker 3>bit like that. There you go, There we go.
<v Speaker 10>This is exciting because I have two of you are
<v Speaker 10>two are the spectrum of my childhood watching very fun.
<v Speaker 2>Well, I hope we didn't mess you up too much.
<v Speaker 3>All good things.
<v Speaker 10>My question for you guys is especially watching talk and
<v Speaker 10>then seeing you got on the scenes. I always wondered,
<v Speaker 10>like like there was such a contrast to them. So
<v Speaker 10>my question is for both of you, which of your
<v Speaker 10>characters did you find like more similar to you, like
<v Speaker 10>easy to kind of get into, and which ones you
<v Speaker 10>really had to stretch?
<v Speaker 2>Boy geez, I don't know. Maybe dark Wing Duck is
<v Speaker 2>a big one with me. The terrific flaps in the night.
<v Speaker 1>You could clap now, Okay, then I'm shameless.
<v Speaker 2>I'm sure I have no shame.
<v Speaker 1>Uh And and Tigger, I think you know they're both
<v Speaker 1>you know, tiggered, somebody who doesn't take themselves very seriously,
<v Speaker 1>although dark Wing kind of does. But but he's you know,
<v Speaker 1>I'm a wise guy, like like dark Wing is't so yeah,
<v Speaker 1>not too much.
<v Speaker 2>Pooh, he's too laid back. I don't know.
<v Speaker 5>I'm so diametrically opposed to the characters I play, other
<v Speaker 5>than the lengths that they will go too for the
<v Speaker 5>love of their children. That way, I'm exactly like them,
<v Speaker 5>But how it manifesting that, how they carry themselves from
<v Speaker 5>day to day.
<v Speaker 3>I am nothing like any.
<v Speaker 2>Of the characters I've ever played, which is probably good.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, that's probably good. Is probably good. Thank you very much.
<v Speaker 4>We have time for one more quick question.
<v Speaker 2>Hello. I don't know how any of this asking question
<v Speaker 2>things work, but I'm good. Yeah, I'm gonna try. And
<v Speaker 2>my question is for both of you. What is your
<v Speaker 2>favorite character you've ever played?
<v Speaker 10>And why?
<v Speaker 5>Well?
<v Speaker 2>I don't know. Well, I like dark Wing, dark Wing
<v Speaker 2>Duck and the Tear of the Flaps on the Night.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know if I mentioned that, but uh, but
<v Speaker 2>and uh, I sure do like Pooh and Ticker. See
<v Speaker 2>I get this a lot.
<v Speaker 1>And and it's you know, you can't pick your favorite kid,
<v Speaker 1>you know, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that was easy.
<v Speaker 2>I said that one up and it's out of the park.
<v Speaker 1>But uh, Pooh, Tigger, dark Wing, Taz is in there.
<v Speaker 1>And I like Ray from Princess and the Frog and
<v Speaker 1>Hondo Naka.
<v Speaker 2>So those are my kids. I don't know those those
<v Speaker 2>are like my favorites. If that, If that answers, you know,
<v Speaker 2>what are yours?
<v Speaker 3>I really I really liked when he like, well, he
<v Speaker 3>likes you tool.
<v Speaker 2>That's really good when I get.
<v Speaker 5>I haven't enjoyed playing a lot of the characters. Kratos
<v Speaker 5>was the role I waited for my entire career. He's
<v Speaker 5>it's not fun to play it. It's it really isn't.
<v Speaker 5>I mean it was gut wrenching and uh I I
<v Speaker 5>loved everything surrounding it, loved who I worked with, love
<v Speaker 5>everything about that part of it, but actually inhabiting that
<v Speaker 5>skin in was not fun. Tilk had moments, but a
<v Speaker 5>lot of times, just to be that still and to
<v Speaker 5>be kind of that kind of brooding kind of a
<v Speaker 5>lot of times, he wasn't fun to play. Probably the
<v Speaker 5>character that I really enjoyed playing well actually.
<v Speaker 3>D Mob.
<v Speaker 5>From Death Jam, because it just allowed me to be
<v Speaker 5>as just bad as dude that had didn't have you know,
<v Speaker 5>he uh and he's kind of the only I don't
<v Speaker 5>I don't even know if he's like.
<v Speaker 3>A villain. You know, yeah, he's just an antagonist. He's
<v Speaker 3>just different the protagonist.
<v Speaker 5>But that's kind of one of the only antagonists I've
<v Speaker 5>ever got and the chance to play, So it was
<v Speaker 5>kind of it was fun for me to play against
<v Speaker 5>kind of everything my career has been and Rick Crashman,
<v Speaker 5>just because he's so different than any of the other
<v Speaker 5>characters that I've ever played, and just to be able
<v Speaker 5>to just kind of let it fly and be goofy
<v Speaker 5>and not know what's gonna come up.
<v Speaker 3>You know. It was a lot of fun.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, well, thank you very much and thank you all
<v Speaker 4>for being here at the first ever live recording of
<v Speaker 4>Tuned In with Jim Cummings. And thank you guys all
<v Speaker 4>out there watching on YouTube. We really appreciate you guys.
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<v Speaker 2>Yes, indeed, hey, we're coming to say hello to us
<v Speaker 2>at the tables.
<v Speaker 4>We'll be there once again. I'm producer Chris, joined by
<v Speaker 4>the legends Christopher Judge.
<v Speaker 3>And Jim Cummings. We will see you in the next one.