Tress MacNeille (The Simpsons, Animaniacs, Disney, Futurama)

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<v Speaker 1>Hold old knock Gud. My name is Jim Cummings and
<v Speaker 1>welcome to tuned In. Welcome to another tuned In with
<v Speaker 1>Jim Cummings. I am Jim Cummings, producer. Chris's here. I
<v Speaker 1>know what you're thinking, but where's Tress McNeil.
<v Speaker 2>Here? Your answers, your prayers have been answered.
<v Speaker 1>The crowd did not go mild. They went wild, and
<v Speaker 1>that's a beautiful thing. Trust is a dear friend in
<v Speaker 1>the real world, and from heart to heart we've known
<v Speaker 1>each other. And I was thinking, I was talking to
<v Speaker 1>Chris on the way over. I think that you gotta
<v Speaker 1>be like right next door to the first person I
<v Speaker 1>ever met in this business.
<v Speaker 2>I believe, I believe I might have been pretty right.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, you might have had like a month on.
<v Speaker 2>Me right you were well, i'd been I had been
<v Speaker 2>working for Bob Lloyd for since nineteen seventy nine, and
<v Speaker 2>I think I might have met you about nineteen eighty
<v Speaker 2>two or something something like that. And I'm not sure
<v Speaker 2>the chronology, but when I first met you, of course
<v Speaker 2>I was crazy about you right from the beginning. We
<v Speaker 2>were I think we weren't auditioning on something together, but
<v Speaker 2>you were coming into Bob's to audition for something the
<v Speaker 2>voice caster by the way, Yeah, the voice caster. And
<v Speaker 2>and I was working for him, like I said, and
<v Speaker 2>also taking classes and and trying trying to become a
<v Speaker 2>voice actor. But you know, I'm still working on it,
<v Speaker 2>sending out standing out demos and you know, hoping, you know,
<v Speaker 2>makeod friends.
<v Speaker 1>So good news.
<v Speaker 2>And I believe that you were still working at the
<v Speaker 2>video store. I want to say that you were working
<v Speaker 2>to tell our records. Yeah, yeah, yeah, video a video store.
<v Speaker 2>And was it Orange County, yeah, Hills. Yeah, it was
<v Speaker 2>a fur piece because you would come to audition and
<v Speaker 2>it took you a little while. Wow. So yeah, wow,
<v Speaker 2>living the dream out there, yes, behind the Orange curtain,
<v Speaker 2>right from Ohio, right to.
<v Speaker 1>Right behind the Orange curtain.
<v Speaker 2>The dreaded, well, there's nothing more with Well, I'm from
<v Speaker 2>Long Beach, from Long Beach, understand the concept. Yeah, I
<v Speaker 2>do very much. So yeah, yeah, life is good.
<v Speaker 1>So and we were off to the races.
<v Speaker 2>We were and we were lucky enough to be in
<v Speaker 2>the voiceover business at the time when there were other
<v Speaker 2>things were just blossoming and there weren't a whole lot
<v Speaker 2>of people doing voiceover it was, which was great. There
<v Speaker 2>were about fifty of us, and which was fine because
<v Speaker 2>it was a we would tell each other, keep it
<v Speaker 2>a secret, don't tell anyone about this, because it was
<v Speaker 2>such a sweet, sweet gig. And we were just hoping
<v Speaker 2>that we could parlay enough of those small sessions. And
<v Speaker 2>that's how I relied, that's how I made my living,
<v Speaker 2>was one radio session at a time. There were no residuals,
<v Speaker 2>there were no royalties, there were no reuses, there was
<v Speaker 2>no nothing. You went in there, boom, and you know,
<v Speaker 2>hopefully you would get paid. You know, a couple of months.
<v Speaker 1>Later, a couple of months later, and of.
<v Speaker 2>Course I kept track of every dollar, yes, and you
<v Speaker 2>had to because we were we were pretty poor.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, and it was a new it was a new.
<v Speaker 2>World for me, right, and we just didn't know if
<v Speaker 2>we were ever going to work again. I remember thinking, oh,
<v Speaker 2>please God, if I could just you know, say, what
<v Speaker 2>if I could get a job a month, one job
<v Speaker 2>a month, you know, that would augment my uh my
<v Speaker 2>waitress saying and my cater and you know, and somehow
<v Speaker 2>I would make it through. And then I'm thinking, okay,
<v Speaker 2>please God, if I could just do a couple a month,
<v Speaker 2>and it was, oh, can you imagine what life would
<v Speaker 2>be like if you did one voice over a week.
<v Speaker 1>Every single week?
<v Speaker 2>And now it's just like, well, I got to do
<v Speaker 2>one day. Please, look, you can do the one to
<v Speaker 2>day and then you know, if we're u enough, as
<v Speaker 2>I know you and I have been. Then it was
<v Speaker 2>multiple times the day was so much so that you
<v Speaker 2>had gone, you were hired a driver to take you here, there, here,
<v Speaker 2>and there.
<v Speaker 1>I went to don la Fontaine route, that's right, which
<v Speaker 1>was beautiful nine years even.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was going I was going to
<v Speaker 2>some studio studios. Yeah, Yeah. Always advice that I gave
<v Speaker 2>to others, and that was, you know, you're you may
<v Speaker 2>be tempted to to live out further, don't do it.
<v Speaker 2>Just think you want to do every day. I know
<v Speaker 2>you want to be close enough to be able to
<v Speaker 2>be shower shade with shampooed out the door and ready
<v Speaker 2>to audition. Which was the key to my success. And
<v Speaker 2>that's something that brought the voice. The voice caster kind
<v Speaker 2>of inculcated, and that was approach this like an athlete.
<v Speaker 2>You want to be trained, you want to be suited up,
<v Speaker 2>you want to be ready to go every single day,
<v Speaker 2>whether or not you had a job. There's always something
<v Speaker 2>that you can do that's for your career. You can
<v Speaker 2>work on your resume, you can work on your tape,
<v Speaker 2>you can take a class, you.
<v Speaker 1>Can post something online which isn't there yet but it
<v Speaker 1>will be.
<v Speaker 2>It won't be, but get ready, get your learn to code.
<v Speaker 3>But but yeah, we we did approach approach it like athletes,
<v Speaker 3>and I think that's why we thrived.
<v Speaker 1>Well. I always said I have a very blue collar
<v Speaker 1>approach toward a no color career.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I like that no color and I know all.
<v Speaker 1>About colors of blue. Yeah, from steel mals and deckhandying.
<v Speaker 2>I know, if anyone else, if anyone, I think of
<v Speaker 2>you as having an excellent skill stack, and I think
<v Speaker 2>that that makes for an excellent voice actor, having had
<v Speaker 2>many jobs and many skills. Maybe not skills so much,
<v Speaker 2>but many jobs and being that's right. But but but
<v Speaker 2>you take direction and you do what you're told, and
<v Speaker 2>you just go, yes, I'm going to do this, and
<v Speaker 2>you persevere. And that's what you know. Being an actor
<v Speaker 2>is is doing what you're told and persevering and.
<v Speaker 1>Do it often. Yes, have them, yes, maybe daily, maybe
<v Speaker 1>a couple of times day.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Yeah. Repetition is good and you just might you
<v Speaker 2>just might make it. Now, I don't really recommend it
<v Speaker 2>for anybody these days.
<v Speaker 1>It's tough.
<v Speaker 2>I'm scared for them.
<v Speaker 1>It's tough. Yeah, it's tough.
<v Speaker 2>It's uh.
<v Speaker 1>I remember, well we were talking about it before with
<v Speaker 1>the our dear friend Gordon Hunt Gott how to break
<v Speaker 1>into show businesses. I want to say the fifth chapter
<v Speaker 1>was how to break into voiceover. Don't bother. There are
<v Speaker 1>twelve people that do this in California and you're not
<v Speaker 1>one of them. Now for chapter six, how to break
<v Speaker 1>into you know a ballerina. Sure, we got tons of
<v Speaker 1>stuff on.
<v Speaker 2>That voice, which is so which is so sardonic. And
<v Speaker 2>he was, you know, a coach, and I'm sure that
<v Speaker 2>he was being sassy and provocative but although probably correct,
<v Speaker 2>But that doesn't stop people from pursuing their dream. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>it wouldn't have stopped me. I would say, yeah, yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>thank you, thank you for that.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Well see, I've read that like five years into
<v Speaker 1>the business. And I was thinking, well, thank god I
<v Speaker 1>didn't read this five years ago.
<v Speaker 2>I know you would be.
<v Speaker 1>So don't bother huh huh, okay, well all right, the
<v Speaker 1>world needs delivery boys too that the world needs ditch
<v Speaker 1>diggers too.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, And I was trying to think what am I
<v Speaker 2>going to do? What am I going to do? My
<v Speaker 2>first job out of college was an insurance adjuster and
<v Speaker 2>working for Fireman's Funding San Francisco, and I thought, oh god,
<v Speaker 2>I can't do this. Oh no, oh no. It was
<v Speaker 2>fine work, but it was monotonous as allan, Yeah, this
<v Speaker 2>is better than this, is better than yeah, just a
<v Speaker 2>step up that. Yeah, yeah. Never never a dull moment
<v Speaker 2>in our business, which is great.
<v Speaker 1>I agree, I agree, and it's a And I was
<v Speaker 1>I remember, gosh, I don't even know where we were,
<v Speaker 1>maybe at B and B and we're talking about this,
<v Speaker 1>we're talking about that. I think Michael Bell might have
<v Speaker 1>been there different other people. And it occurred to me
<v Speaker 1>because you were talking about doing something earlier and I
<v Speaker 1>was talking about doing something later. And I was thinking,
<v Speaker 1>wait a minute, maybe I think I might be the
<v Speaker 1>male trash and I think she might be the female
<v Speaker 1>gym commings.
<v Speaker 2>I think maybe so.
<v Speaker 1>And I was thinking, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but
<v Speaker 1>I remember thinking that because.
<v Speaker 2>You had a better mullet, what you had a better mullet?
<v Speaker 2>Oh yes, I did severely. I had lots of dark,
<v Speaker 2>lots of hair dark.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's it's only on my back now, I won't okay, uh,
<v Speaker 1>I gave myself chills. But but yeah, that those were
<v Speaker 1>good times, you know. I yeah, you know, you go up,
<v Speaker 1>you show and I just thought that this is how
<v Speaker 1>it worked. You know, you show up, you read a
<v Speaker 1>few lines, they call you the next day, and then
<v Speaker 1>you go to work because you got the job. And
<v Speaker 1>now everybody in the universe it does voiceover. And it
<v Speaker 1>was because the interwebs and the home studios, right, they're
<v Speaker 1>everywhere now which is fine, and I celebrate that because
<v Speaker 1>I got minds.
<v Speaker 2>Well that's a precise and you know what, that's why
<v Speaker 2>we're smiling now, because if we were still trying to
<v Speaker 2>pursue that dream and having to audition and really search
<v Speaker 2>for work, we'd be two miserable human beings. I don't
<v Speaker 2>know if I would have been able to stay in it, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>for long if I had to. I mean, I was
<v Speaker 2>always grateful that I was in voiceover rather than on
<v Speaker 2>camera because you know, I would be able to age gracefully.
<v Speaker 2>But that was a luxury not having to worry about
<v Speaker 2>your looks, and I always.
<v Speaker 1>Will You didn't have a worry. I remember, she was
<v Speaker 1>the fight. You were ten times prettier than Lucille Ball.
<v Speaker 2>Oh she was tall. She was tall, but she was tall.
<v Speaker 2>You can't. You can't fake that, but you can't somewhat.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, I was always glad that that voice over
<v Speaker 2>was my world and never never on camera. I did
<v Speaker 2>do a couple of things, but it was only accidentally
<v Speaker 2>because out of my association with the Growndings. It was
<v Speaker 2>with the Growlings, you you know, for nine years, I think,
<v Speaker 2>and which was great and.
<v Speaker 1>The groundings for everybody that doesn't know both of you.
<v Speaker 1>Isn't there ground breaking improv group out of Hollywood down
<v Speaker 1>on Grounding Theater on Melrose, Yes, yes, Melrose Theater.
<v Speaker 2>That's that's actors and actresses to have come out of there.
<v Speaker 1>Say you you're a part of a hell of an alumni?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, pee Wee Herman, Phil Hartman.
<v Speaker 4>Were you there at the same time as Mindy Sterling?
<v Speaker 2>Oh yes, yeah, yeah, Mindy Sterling. Who's a doll Lorae Newman.
<v Speaker 2>I was after her. But John Lovett's Cassandra Peterson, you know,
<v Speaker 2>Will Ferrell, Cherio, Terry Wown names, Matt Faction, they've done
<v Speaker 2>but names to somebody, yea to somebody. Yeah. What a
<v Speaker 2>grand tradition, right, yeah, and really a very uh helpful
<v Speaker 2>pursuit improv if you are looking to stay and thrive
<v Speaker 2>in the world of voiceover, because being quick on your feet,
<v Speaker 2>I don't have to tell you is the way you
<v Speaker 2>get the job done and the way you improve every
<v Speaker 2>uh every piece of material that comes your way. And
<v Speaker 2>pretty soon producers come to uh uh rely on you
<v Speaker 2>or you hope that you will poop things up, bring
<v Speaker 2>it to their little spot and maybe just kind of
<v Speaker 2>polish things up, just a bit, and you never go
<v Speaker 2>too far, you know, because you don't want to insult
<v Speaker 2>the writers or the material. But if you can just
<v Speaker 2>add a little something here and there.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I remember one I was too notorious. Oh no,
<v Speaker 1>And that was our dear friend Marcus Aslov, who's a great, brilliant,
<v Speaker 1>yes writer, and I was doing I think it was
<v Speaker 1>I was I was a cave man, and.
<v Speaker 2>I think I was on, yeah, I'm.
<v Speaker 1>Sure we are, and go, Okay, that's really good. That's
<v Speaker 1>so much better than mine. Would you read mine? Just
<v Speaker 1>say the words? Right? I kind of felt bad.
<v Speaker 2>That reminds me of a little story that you told
<v Speaker 2>me once about reading bedtime stories to your little girl.
<v Speaker 2>And and so his little girls, you know, getting ready
<v Speaker 2>for bed, and Jim's going to read them a bedtime
<v Speaker 2>story and so he's doing all the voices and doing
<v Speaker 2>his and then the monster said and the little girl said, oh, daddy,
<v Speaker 2>can't you just read it normal?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>Or something like that. Can't you just go ahead read it?
<v Speaker 2>Just to read it's a regular way two voices? And
<v Speaker 2>I said, Missy, those voices will put you through college.
<v Speaker 2>That's right, that's right. Take that, Missy, that's right. Just
<v Speaker 2>ringing too much to the fall.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, well, you know, as problems go, I'll take that one.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, there are there are situations when you don't want
<v Speaker 2>to improvise, well at all. When we first started, there
<v Speaker 2>was not a whole lot of improv You read what
<v Speaker 2>was on the page and you did what you were told.
<v Speaker 2>And I remember being shocked a little bit. I think
<v Speaker 2>it was in Chiba Dale's Rescue Rangers when there was
<v Speaker 2>someone in the cast who was bringing a little put
<v Speaker 2>a little too much sauce on his or her part,
<v Speaker 2>and I thought, oh, that's so uncalled for. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>why are they doing that? And I was a little shocked.
<v Speaker 2>And over time things loosened up a little bit. There
<v Speaker 2>are shows like The Simpsons and even Futurama. Of course, uh,
<v Speaker 2>these shows that are so brilliant, brilliantly written, as are
<v Speaker 2>all of our shows, but those shows in particular, I
<v Speaker 2>mean they have these huge, these huge writing staffs, and uh,
<v Speaker 2>they they plan every word, and so I never messed
<v Speaker 2>with those. I never messed with those.
<v Speaker 1>You can it ain't broke, so don't fix it.
<v Speaker 2>That's right, and you can kind of make it your
<v Speaker 2>own within the parameters of of the written word. But
<v Speaker 2>I never really even bothered to improv on the show,
<v Speaker 2>like that doesn't need it.
<v Speaker 1>Well, I bother, Yeah, yeah, they're they're it's it's already
<v Speaker 1>golden right, nothing wrong with that, boy, And you've I
<v Speaker 1>was going to bring that up that what a wonderful
<v Speaker 1>franchise to just you know, serious, to be associated with
<v Speaker 1>the actual biggest TV show of all.
<v Speaker 2>Time in that while?
<v Speaker 1>How about that in that while? Yeah, but I yes,
<v Speaker 1>it really is.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I feel well, thank you. I mean, believe me,
<v Speaker 2>that was a happy accident. And I didn't I didn't
<v Speaker 2>get on that that party train until the second year
<v Speaker 2>and just doing Walla, just doing Walla and a d
<v Speaker 2>R just post stuff. And then then I let myself
<v Speaker 2>be known within those sessions and that those are sessions
<v Speaker 2>that you can im probably a little bit and bring
<v Speaker 2>a little little and there. And so then they started
<v Speaker 2>to have me come in and do scratch for the
<v Speaker 2>actors who were going to be there that.
<v Speaker 1>That day, or or.
<v Speaker 2>Or their celebrities. You know, I would do celebrity impressions
<v Speaker 2>or if they had some singing that they needed to
<v Speaker 2>be done, well, then they'd have old trust to do it.
<v Speaker 2>So I was fine with all of that happy to
<v Speaker 2>be of service because I remember every every Wednesday night,
<v Speaker 2>I would hope because we would get scripts on Wednesday night,
<v Speaker 2>I would never know if I was For years, I
<v Speaker 2>didn't know if I was going to be working until
<v Speaker 2>late Wednesday night, and I would just pray that someone
<v Speaker 2>was going to be sick. Oh, Yardley, don't get a cold,
<v Speaker 2>and don't come in tomorrow. And every once in a
<v Speaker 2>while my prayers would come true and they'd call me
<v Speaker 2>up and they'd say can you come in and if oh, yes,
<v Speaker 2>I'll be there. And so that was that was a
<v Speaker 2>that was a really nice way. I mean, it wasn't
<v Speaker 2>great money or anything, but you know, over years you
<v Speaker 2>can kind of build up a little bit and before
<v Speaker 2>you know it, you have a real paycheck.
<v Speaker 1>And the residuals are our friend.
<v Speaker 2>Yes they are, Yes they are. Though I never ever
<v Speaker 2>in my career have counted on residuals because number one,
<v Speaker 2>I couldn't figure it out, you know, And if you
<v Speaker 2>try to keep track, you'll lose your mind, you know,
<v Speaker 2>trying to Now, if you want to keep track of
<v Speaker 2>your sessions and the different that's different. And I keep
<v Speaker 2>really good track of that. And yeah, and so I
<v Speaker 2>know what I've done and what should be coming in.
<v Speaker 2>But keeping track of your residuals, that's just in perceiving it.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>And so when you do get a residual residual check,
<v Speaker 2>that is called gravy right there.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, it's called thank you Jesus.
<v Speaker 2>Thank you. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, let's go get a car you want to.
<v Speaker 2>I'd be great.
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<v Speaker 2>Do it now?
<v Speaker 1>Oh god, gosh. So now lately you are here and
<v Speaker 1>there doing some conventions.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, yes, I do.
<v Speaker 1>You're in there? Not too many?
<v Speaker 2>Well, we didn't do we my husband Mike and I
<v Speaker 2>of course did not go this year. Last year we
<v Speaker 2>did go and we saw you and your beautiful wife
<v Speaker 2>there and Chris the levity Chris. We went to Salt
<v Speaker 2>Lake City and New York City, I think, which are
<v Speaker 2>two of the finer cons. So it seems like everyone
<v Speaker 2>we go to is really really nice. But we do
<v Speaker 2>particularly like Salt Lake City and New York has always
<v Speaker 2>been really really good for us. So who knows, maybe
<v Speaker 2>this next year, as we get further and further away
<v Speaker 2>from the height of animaniacs and things like that, I
<v Speaker 2>don't know if they'll be if they'll be asking for me.
<v Speaker 2>But since we do so many cartoons, it just seems
<v Speaker 2>like the composite of our careers will always be a
<v Speaker 2>pretty good draw. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, And I noticed when Disney Plus came out as
<v Speaker 1>much Warner Brothers as I've done, I've still done much
<v Speaker 1>much more for Disney. Yes, And you know I'd mentioned
<v Speaker 1>it before. There'll be a little seven year old come
<v Speaker 1>up and he's dressed as dark Wing duck. Yeah, oh well,
<v Speaker 1>good that showing out the air twenty years before you
<v Speaker 1>were born. So how it? And you know, the dads
<v Speaker 1>we raised them right, showed me the DVDs. But but
<v Speaker 1>nowadays it's all Disney Plus and they and you know,
<v Speaker 1>I checked it. I'm on X amount of shallows.
<v Speaker 2>Uh huh, you mean like about twenty Yeah, I know.
<v Speaker 2>Mike's always saying, oh, look you're on that one and
<v Speaker 2>that one and that one and that one and that
<v Speaker 2>one and that one.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I couldn't go to a page and not see one
<v Speaker 1>of them, right, So okay, well then okay, good, good, good.
<v Speaker 2>That's good. Watch Yeah, keep watching. That's fine. And you know,
<v Speaker 2>right here for Disney Plus and the Disney shows that
<v Speaker 2>we do for the most part, there are you know
<v Speaker 2>what I call my baby shows. And you and I
<v Speaker 2>of course, of course are in Mickey Mouse Clubhouse two
<v Speaker 2>point zero or two Boy five whatever what it is
<v Speaker 2>now and also Mickey mos fun House and Nicky's road
<v Speaker 2>Racing Houses. Now we have another one, the shorts. You
<v Speaker 2>do the shorts?
<v Speaker 1>Oh yes, this was.
<v Speaker 2>Pet Hotel, yeah or Mickey Miney mouse bowtoons. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. And they look they look really interesting. Yeah, they
<v Speaker 1>looked like the old school ones.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, which is very interesting art. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>And it's got a little of that Chris Felucy. Oh,
<v Speaker 1>that's a thing. That's you know what I'm talking about.
<v Speaker 2>That's a house of House of Mouse or you know
<v Speaker 2>with those crazy guys. Yes, Paul, yes, Paul, that team.
<v Speaker 2>I love those cartoons. At first when I saw them,
<v Speaker 2>what is it called not World of Mickey. It's a yeah,
<v Speaker 2>it's like World of Mickey, I.
<v Speaker 1>Think, And yes, the squeak.
<v Speaker 2>Villa, oh man, but that it is very John Chris
<v Speaker 2>Fluski yea his name. And when I first saw it,
<v Speaker 2>I was a little disturbed. I thought, oh no, man,
<v Speaker 2>Megan it too mad magazine. Man, it's just too crazy.
<v Speaker 2>And now I really dig it. I think maybe it's
<v Speaker 2>supposed to come back, isn't it. Don't tell me they
<v Speaker 2>already started.
<v Speaker 1>I won't. Don't And if they did, they.
<v Speaker 2>Yet they'll be calling you. I'm sure. I think it's
<v Speaker 2>in the works. I think there's that's again in the works.
<v Speaker 2>And they're a joy to work for.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, well and it helps if you're the bad guy.
<v Speaker 1>And I'm because they can't really have a villain villain,
<v Speaker 1>but you just need Pete to go in there and
<v Speaker 1>screw things up.
<v Speaker 2>Oh you know, I've always you know, I kid around
<v Speaker 2>in sessions with Kelly ward Are our director, who's great, great,
<v Speaker 2>and I always am talking a little bit about trash
<v Speaker 2>talk Donald and oh yeah, you so he's so angry,
<v Speaker 2>settled down. Oh here comes Pete. Pete, do fix it? Weird?
<v Speaker 2>Were you go? I like your overall's Pete. All I
<v Speaker 2>have to do is unsnap this. Oh, don't get her started.
<v Speaker 2>Well anyway, I always, you know, have this big flirtation
<v Speaker 2>with Pete going on in front of your back, in
<v Speaker 2>front of my back. Thank you for that. That's good.
<v Speaker 1>Oh man, I love it. And I was trying to think,
<v Speaker 1>how many are you?
<v Speaker 4>Said?
<v Speaker 1>Are you sure we did two episodes of sixty five
<v Speaker 1>of Chippendale.
<v Speaker 2>I'm pretty sure we did.
<v Speaker 1>Because because was that me? Because I don't know, I
<v Speaker 1>just I remember we did.
<v Speaker 2>Well, we did it because you.
<v Speaker 1>Did ale x amount of Dark Wings I did of Animaniacs.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but you did. Maybe you're thinking of well there
<v Speaker 2>was there was.
<v Speaker 5>Sixty I just checked it, sixty.
<v Speaker 2>Sixty five at Chippendale and then well let me exaggerate.
<v Speaker 1>About how about Animaniacs though?
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, yeah, but I'm counting the ones that we
<v Speaker 2>did in the very beginning, so it would be Chippendale
<v Speaker 2>and then and then what was the one we did
<v Speaker 2>after that for Disney.
<v Speaker 1>Bears the Wuzzles, Yeah, theles I forgot about that.
<v Speaker 2>Well, tons of those. Oh what was the one with
<v Speaker 2>Jim Magon, the one that he did?
<v Speaker 1>Oh? Tailspin, tailspin, tailspin, yeah, and Jim did Gosh, my
<v Speaker 1>brain hurts, Well, that's who we're right, it's just myle.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's yeah, it's just numbers heard. Yeah, but many,
<v Speaker 2>many of those, and that's what we used to do.
<v Speaker 2>It used to be sixty five, Yeah, sixty five. You
<v Speaker 2>got on a show, you were going to do sixty
<v Speaker 2>five yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and then if you're lucky thirteen for network. Right,
<v Speaker 1>that's that's my pig. When I was thinking, I know
<v Speaker 1>we did that with Dark Wing. We had like the
<v Speaker 1>network two of them.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but there were a million, you know, a million
<v Speaker 2>of those little shows that we did together.
<v Speaker 1>Tomorrow and Poomba was in there somewhere.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, yeah, and yeah I was Shenz.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Bonkers Bonkers. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I was not a regular on Bonkers, but I did
<v Speaker 2>quite a few of those. Oh yeah, and you know
<v Speaker 2>whenever they were needed a chick. Yeah yeah, which wasn't
<v Speaker 2>all the time.
<v Speaker 1>And I'm trying to think were we ever married.
<v Speaker 2>I feel like I was.
<v Speaker 1>A lot.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, there's the conversations.
<v Speaker 1>You can't see anyway.
<v Speaker 2>She's a love. I'm sure we were. Maybe I don't know,
<v Speaker 2>in freakazoid or something could be. I wasn't married. I'm
<v Speaker 2>pretty sure, pretty sure, I you sure along the way
<v Speaker 2>that we have Oh maybe in like the Disney like
<v Speaker 2>uh a lady in the tramp or something like that.
<v Speaker 2>Where were you, Jim, Jim Darling?
<v Speaker 1>Yes, I was darling, you were Jim Darling. I was darling.
<v Speaker 2>I think maybe I was a wife and that.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it could be.
<v Speaker 2>Well, now, everybody, don't look it up, Brandon.
<v Speaker 1>It gives you something, yet, don't look it up.
<v Speaker 2>Give the kids at home, because in my mind, yes,
<v Speaker 2>I did that role and that role and that role
<v Speaker 2>and that role, and I was married to Jim and
<v Speaker 2>this and that and this and that.
<v Speaker 1>And this and in my dreams and you were almost
<v Speaker 1>married to Charlie Adler, which is a sad little thing
<v Speaker 1>to say, but it's kind of fun.
<v Speaker 2>Well yeah, but we yes, no relation now in the
<v Speaker 2>new I shouldn't even mention that the new uh permutation
<v Speaker 2>of that show. Uh they are uh their brother and sister.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, but they still like are fluting with each
<v Speaker 2>other and stuff. But they're rabbits. They're rabbits. Yeah, and
<v Speaker 2>it's biology. Yes, so yes, my love, Charlie Adler.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, we have to get him on here one of
<v Speaker 1>these days.
<v Speaker 2>Oh god, for sure. He's hilarious as you know. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>he's shy. He could probably get it going.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you know, I wanted to share something with you
<v Speaker 1>because we're here on the podcast. Should we shall we
<v Speaker 1>bring this up? Christopher and I are very pleased this
<v Speaker 1>came in the mail. Just why it feels like moments ago,
<v Speaker 1>because it was moments ago.
<v Speaker 2>Did you get an award?
<v Speaker 1>Look, we got a reward and an award for and
<v Speaker 1>it's look and look and it's a box. They set
<v Speaker 1>this box. I don't know what this is, but look
<v Speaker 1>at this box. Look at that damn fied box. Anyway,
<v Speaker 1>get a load of this, folks. It says right here,
<v Speaker 1>presented to tuned In with Jim Cummings for passing one
<v Speaker 1>hundred thousand subscribers.
<v Speaker 2>That's awesome, hy, that's so great. I'm gonna shine that
<v Speaker 2>up for you later on.
<v Speaker 1>Thank you. Yeah, so I wanted to announce it in
<v Speaker 1>your magnificent press.
<v Speaker 2>Oh wow, maybe that is eggs salad.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, right, so there you have it. We'll just sit
<v Speaker 1>it right here.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, hope it doesn't flash the cab.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, oh god, what did you do when once you
<v Speaker 1>came in?
<v Speaker 4>I don't care that box.
<v Speaker 1>But you I don't know what you did. You might
<v Speaker 1>like an absurdly expensive.
<v Speaker 2>Watch or know why I don't do that.
<v Speaker 1>No, you know, I just had to hurry up and
<v Speaker 1>something like that, did I I don't think I wasn't
<v Speaker 1>a watch. I don't know what.
<v Speaker 2>Well, actually I did buy a watch once from UH.
<v Speaker 2>I bought a Rolex from Pat Frayley because he used
<v Speaker 2>to recondition watches. Yes, I don't know where he got it,
<v Speaker 2>but well he's very honest. Fellow used to recondition watches.
<v Speaker 2>And I think maybe I might have been profiling. Oh
<v Speaker 2>I could be, It could be. It was a nice
<v Speaker 2>little watch. I had a leather band, lost it, lost it.
<v Speaker 2>Oh I hate leather bands. You got to be careful
<v Speaker 2>of those. So anyway, so cool. That's why I don't
<v Speaker 2>wear any watches, now.
<v Speaker 1>That's right. Well, besides, you know if you're a little
<v Speaker 1>running a little behind, they'll wait for you.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well but I never but I never count on that,
<v Speaker 2>do you. I know that you're probably always on time?
<v Speaker 1>Well when I'm late, I'm not, but yeah, I.
<v Speaker 2>Try to always be on time.
<v Speaker 4>And who was always late?
<v Speaker 2>Brian Cummings used to be no relation I think we
<v Speaker 2>can say that we used to give him such grief
<v Speaker 2>and the way it went because we were working so much,
<v Speaker 2>this little crew of people, this group of voiceover people.
<v Speaker 2>There might be uh, you know, twenty of us that
<v Speaker 2>were working every day, all day and going from session
<v Speaker 2>to session. And you would have if you had a
<v Speaker 2>session at eight o'clock or eight thirty. I remember, it
<v Speaker 2>would start doing a session for Vaughns. And Brian Cummings
<v Speaker 2>was a spokesperson for Vaughn's and he was coming from
<v Speaker 2>East Jesus out there also in the Valley Valency, and
<v Speaker 2>so he would be late. All was round late, always
<v Speaker 2>something coming up, and he would set off the whole
<v Speaker 2>chain of events. If he was late, then the studio
<v Speaker 2>would be late, and all the talent would be late.
<v Speaker 2>And then it was just like he would set off
<v Speaker 2>this whole chain of lateness and badness. And I remember
<v Speaker 2>once Terry McGovern. You remember Terry McGovern, of course, huh yes,
<v Speaker 2>Oh my god, he was funny. He did, Oh god,
<v Speaker 2>he's funny. He said. He went up to Brian and
<v Speaker 2>he said, Brian, do you want to apologize? And he
<v Speaker 2>said nope. And I thought that's brave right there, that's brave,
<v Speaker 2>you know, to just know that you screwed everybody and
<v Speaker 2>he's a love and you know, it's just something that happened.
<v Speaker 2>But the way the way it shook down in those days,
<v Speaker 2>it was just like if one person's late. It was
<v Speaker 2>like the butterfly. Yes it was.
<v Speaker 1>And he had fourteen kids. Yes, so that can't be quick.
<v Speaker 2>Everything's to do before you get goodbye.
<v Speaker 1>I go, okay, all right, I don't see you later. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I love you too, I know, seriously, I do.
<v Speaker 2>That's right. Yeah, eight kids.
<v Speaker 1>I think yeah, yeah was that all?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah? Eight? Maybe maybe nine at the very end, I
<v Speaker 2>think they.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Well, you and I come from large families.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, yes, I'm one of eight, seven of us. Yeah. See,
<v Speaker 2>that's why that's why we're so well adjusted.
<v Speaker 1>That's right, you know. Yeah, and you were the I'm
<v Speaker 1>right in the middle. You're right in the middle.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, me too.
<v Speaker 2>Really Yeah, we're normal. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. My brother was Bobby was ten and a half
<v Speaker 1>years and old, Terry older, and then Terry there is
<v Speaker 1>nine years younger.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, so nineteen year span.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>How big is your the span of siblings?
<v Speaker 2>I don't know, I don't know. We were all about two.
<v Speaker 1>Years apart, so somewhere in the teens.
<v Speaker 2>Then yeah, I would say, you know, seventeen eighteen years given,
<v Speaker 2>given mom a vacation, everyone a while.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, yeah, but you know what's it's a beautiful thing.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, nothing wrong with that. I've always been very
<v Speaker 2>thankful for my happy and large family and can't really
<v Speaker 2>imagine what it would be like not to have that
<v Speaker 2>core support group, that core group of friends. And knowing
<v Speaker 2>that Kate mullgrew I remember she also was from a
<v Speaker 2>large family, like thirteen or something, and I remember her
<v Speaker 2>saying once, yeah, she wins. She once said, Uh, if
<v Speaker 2>you're from a large family, you don't need friends. I
<v Speaker 2>thought it was cynical, but then you know, because there's
<v Speaker 2>only just so much time.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, there's only just so many pain in the asses
<v Speaker 1>that you can and you got to put.
<v Speaker 2>Up with them.
<v Speaker 1>You gotta put up with them. Yeah, no kidding, the
<v Speaker 1>others are Yeah, that's so true. And uh, now, so
<v Speaker 1>you were right in the middle, now did That's because
<v Speaker 1>I was right in the middle too. But it was
<v Speaker 1>weird because my h I had four older and two younger.
<v Speaker 1>So what happened was it was kind of kind of
<v Speaker 1>screwed up. Dad was married first and his first wife died,
<v Speaker 1>so he met my mom. And then I came along,
<v Speaker 1>and I thought that I was I was it because
<v Speaker 1>because I I was the first one that was born
<v Speaker 1>and my grandma's world and all that was in it,
<v Speaker 1>and I came around and God rest his soul. The
<v Speaker 1>reason it happened I was so popular is because God
<v Speaker 1>rest is soul. My brother Ricky died two months before
<v Speaker 1>I was born, so I ended up being the comfort.
<v Speaker 2>Oh baby, Oh you were the comfort I was, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>and which is nice.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, But what happened is I was Grandma's world and
<v Speaker 1>all that's in it because I distracted her away from
<v Speaker 1>poor Ricky.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>And that's probably what made you funny. And it really
<v Speaker 1>made me think on my feet. A people pleaser, people pleaser,
<v Speaker 1>because come baby, come home. Oh sure, you know I was.
<v Speaker 2>I was all of that and the frog yeah yeah,
<v Speaker 2>the frog.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah and uh and and it's true, you know, all
<v Speaker 1>those feminine dynamic things there. It really worked that way.
<v Speaker 2>I think that that had probably a lot to do
<v Speaker 2>with my piping up so often, and that was, you know,
<v Speaker 2>you you needed to kind of distinguish yourself and make sure,
<v Speaker 2>you got fited and don't have them forget your birthdays
<v Speaker 2>and and things like that, and so you there was
<v Speaker 2>a lot of joking in our in our family.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, and my dad was a crazy man, was
<v Speaker 1>very very funny man.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, he was pissed off at me a lot. But
<v Speaker 1>I can understand. I can't blame him for that. That's
<v Speaker 1>on me, that's on you. Yeah, yes, that's out of
<v Speaker 1>a little Joan Rivers.
<v Speaker 2>Grow up.
<v Speaker 1>Oh my god.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>And uh now I have to ask you because I
<v Speaker 1>knew when I was fine, But when did you know
<v Speaker 1>that you were gonna not be an attorney or a doctor.
<v Speaker 2>Although I wanted to be in an attorney, I thought,
<v Speaker 2>well that I guess that's what I'll do. I graduate
<v Speaker 2>from college, I thought. And I married someone who went
<v Speaker 2>to law school, and I thought, when he's done, it's
<v Speaker 2>going to be my turn. And so but right around
<v Speaker 2>that time, well we got a divorce and I went
<v Speaker 2>to broadcasting school. And but before before that, radio was
<v Speaker 2>my first thing. So but when I was a little kid,
<v Speaker 2>you know, I like to do voices, like to do
<v Speaker 2>cartoon voices, and and uh I loved imaging coca And
<v Speaker 2>I live in her house. Now that's right. I live
<v Speaker 2>in her house, now that's right.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I loved Imaging Coca, and I loved Rosalind Russell and uh.
<v Speaker 2>I loved Carol Burnette, but not as much as as
<v Speaker 2>as I loved Imaging and uh roslind Russell and Lucille Ball.
<v Speaker 2>I loved from Sie and I thought, oh, that's great.
<v Speaker 2>They grow up that they they dress up and they
<v Speaker 2>make funny faces and what a.
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<v Speaker 2>But I was interested in cartoons, but going all through school,
<v Speaker 2>you know, I mean I never I never imagined that
<v Speaker 2>I would go into any kind of showbiz. You know,
<v Speaker 2>that just isn't something that happened to kids from where
<v Speaker 2>I come from, Lakewood, California and Long Beach, and we
<v Speaker 2>didn't know anybody, We didn't have many connections and so
<v Speaker 2>I never took any drama. And I went to college
<v Speaker 2>and no, never you.
<v Speaker 1>Were in place as a kid, No different community theater, No.
<v Speaker 2>No, no, I was in the church choir.
<v Speaker 1>There you go.
<v Speaker 2>And we might have done a class play here and there,
<v Speaker 2>but nothing remarkable. But no, it was not something like
<v Speaker 2>I was destined to be a sbian from an early age.
<v Speaker 2>I got hints of it when I when I did
<v Speaker 2>go to broadcasting school and I was doing well in
<v Speaker 2>a voiceover class that came right after the main radio
<v Speaker 2>DJ program, and I soon discovered that I didn't want
<v Speaker 2>to be a DJ at all because it wasn't the
<v Speaker 2>gig that I thought it was going to be, which was,
<v Speaker 2>you know, playing all the hits everything that you like. Yeah, man,
<v Speaker 2>what could be better than playing your favorite music, you know,
<v Speaker 2>and sending it out everybody?
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, fifteen hundred times a day and then you're
<v Speaker 1>sick of it.
<v Speaker 2>Well, so yes, that too, It finnally did happen. But no,
<v Speaker 2>you you play with the brog director tells you to
<v Speaker 2>play and and you play it at six o'clock in
<v Speaker 2>the morning in Palm Springs for no pay. And I said,
<v Speaker 2>oh no, now I can't do.
<v Speaker 1>That scene, especially the six o'clock That didn't help you. No, no,
<v Speaker 1>it did not help.
<v Speaker 2>No, no, no, I'm still that way. Yeah, funny and
<v Speaker 2>early mass forget about it. So so I took this
<v Speaker 2>voiceover class and was introduced uh to Bob Lloyd, the
<v Speaker 2>voice caster. After that, the last day of class, my
<v Speaker 2>teacher Dave Hall the hull of aalure, said you have
<v Speaker 2>an audition in a half hour, And I went down
<v Speaker 2>to uh S s I here, Santa Monica and Formosa
<v Speaker 2>Sound Services. That's right with Terry there and uh we
<v Speaker 2>had a bunch of friends there. We were doing Boss
<v Speaker 2>there all the time, engineered Gary. Yes, it ended up
<v Speaker 2>over at waves. And then so I went to Bob's
<v Speaker 2>workshop for years and then I started to UH to
<v Speaker 2>work for him during the strike. I wasn't even I
<v Speaker 2>wasn't et cetera. Yeah, yeah, And so just over time
<v Speaker 2>I was able to get some skills, but I didn't
<v Speaker 2>I didn't call myself an actor for many years because
<v Speaker 2>I dare not, because I felt like I didn't have
<v Speaker 2>the CD for that. You know that I was coming
<v Speaker 2>at it from a different way. I was, you know,
<v Speaker 2>kind of like sneaking up on it by uh, being
<v Speaker 2>in casting, and you know, I would sit there, uh
<v Speaker 2>in the studio all day long and listen to the
<v Speaker 2>auditions of all the greatest voice people, all the greatest
<v Speaker 2>voice people coming in and doing all the best work
<v Speaker 2>that existed, and learning all their personalities. And I learned
<v Speaker 2>a million jokes which I would then take over to
<v Speaker 2>the growling theater. It was nothing but a scream all
<v Speaker 2>day long, all the best jokes coming in, you know,
<v Speaker 2>yes and so yeah, all those old guys. So I
<v Speaker 2>didn't call myself an actress for a long time, and
<v Speaker 2>I was hoping that I would be able to uh
<v Speaker 2>uh you know, get an occasional gig that would sweeten
<v Speaker 2>my life somehow. I didn't know really what I was
<v Speaker 2>going to do, but I was lucky enough to be
<v Speaker 2>able to hit it with Bob's help and also my agent,
<v Speaker 2>Rita Minari, who was very supportive of me. Of me,
<v Speaker 2>you know, because back in the beginning, I mean I
<v Speaker 2>listened to tapes. I was no good.
<v Speaker 1>I find that hard to believe.
<v Speaker 2>Excuse me, I take it. Oh, it's come out with hers.
<v Speaker 2>I'm going to turn that. I'm going to turn that off.
<v Speaker 2>She'll come back. So here, may I give it to
<v Speaker 2>you six. Yeah, I feel I feel really blessed because
<v Speaker 2>I know that it was almost an accident. It is
<v Speaker 2>a happy it's like a happy accident that I had
<v Speaker 2>the the support and forgiveness of of of these agents
<v Speaker 2>and these people. And also it was at a time
<v Speaker 2>with much less grooveballism and cynicism, and you know it
<v Speaker 2>wasn't so dog eat doll. Yeah, you know. I mean
<v Speaker 2>we were all kind of like propping each other up
<v Speaker 2>as as young voiceover people, yes, and learning from each other,
<v Speaker 2>ripping each other off. That's all I did. You know,
<v Speaker 2>your little little something you hear a good joke is
<v Speaker 2>spread it around you use oh I heard this impression,
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna do that, and then you.
<v Speaker 1>Know, yeah, yeah, and whenever you because a lot of
<v Speaker 1>times people will ask me, well, when you get a
<v Speaker 1>new character, when you get when you got a new character,
<v Speaker 1>you had this wealth of characters in your life, and
<v Speaker 1>did you I'm sure you did what I've done. I've
<v Speaker 1>done done half impression of your uncle, Yes, of your aunt,
<v Speaker 1>of your cousin, of your third grade teacher.
<v Speaker 2>That's exactly what you do. There are all these amalgamations
<v Speaker 2>of maybe somebody on TV, somebody from school, somebody from church,
<v Speaker 2>you know, the nurse at the doctor's office, you know,
<v Speaker 2>the dental assistant whatever, and so you know, you can
<v Speaker 2>you can go to them. And that is the luxury
<v Speaker 2>of doing these characters that that are yours, they're not
<v Speaker 2>anybody else's. And so now when we read a script,
<v Speaker 2>they don't tell you what to do. They just say, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>you go.
<v Speaker 1>I always like a couple of sketches. That always helps.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, if it's a yeah, yeah, it's nice to know
<v Speaker 2>if they're young or old, or you know, if they're
<v Speaker 2>male or female. You know so, but beyond that, you know,
<v Speaker 2>I mean, they're not gonna tell you. We know pretty
<v Speaker 2>much by this time, not to sound you know, naughty
<v Speaker 2>or anything, but uh, we know by this time what
<v Speaker 2>they expect when they they say, okay, your name is
<v Speaker 2>Billy Bob and you run the Jiffy Lube. So you go,
<v Speaker 2>and you know it. You know exactly what to do
<v Speaker 2>that one. Yes, yes, yes.
<v Speaker 1>Now you're getting specific.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but you can do it. You know you can
<v Speaker 2>do it, you know you can. Yeah. It's interesting because
<v Speaker 2>people say, how do you remember you know your characters?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, And I don't know how you can forget them.
<v Speaker 2>Right, but yeah, yeah, because you know exactly where you
<v Speaker 2>got it to start with, and you can conjure it
<v Speaker 2>up again. But the thing that happens eventually, of course,
<v Speaker 2>and and the thing that scares me is, uh, you know,
<v Speaker 2>having some some voices sound too much alike, especially especially
<v Speaker 2>if they're in the same card, and especially if they're
<v Speaker 2>talking to each other. Yes, and then I think somebody
<v Speaker 2>when is somebody in the room going to say, you know, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>you might want to and uh.
<v Speaker 1>Well speed it up, fay, Yeah, do that right, you know,
<v Speaker 1>because that's what's happening.
<v Speaker 2>I say that to like people all the time, to producers,
<v Speaker 2>and I say, could you just maybe just like it,
<v Speaker 2>just dial her up just a little bit, dial her up,
<v Speaker 2>because they used to They used to dial us up
<v Speaker 2>a little bit on tiny tuons m hm. And they
<v Speaker 2>also on animaniacs, like just a smidge, and I think
<v Speaker 2>that it gave it a really good quality.
<v Speaker 1>But I think they did that with Travis Oates. He
<v Speaker 1>is the fellow who took over as piglet for John Fiedler,
<v Speaker 1>the great John Fiedler. Yes, and uh, and I remember
<v Speaker 1>he was there, and I just so happened he was
<v Speaker 1>getting his last callback and I was doing Pooh and
<v Speaker 1>Tigger and we were sitting there and and Rick Dempsey
<v Speaker 1>was there, our old pal, Yeah Disney character voices, and
<v Speaker 1>he was sitting there and we were friends, and he goes, boy,
<v Speaker 1>he sounds right next door.
<v Speaker 2>He's really good. Yeah, can you spat him.
<v Speaker 1>Up three percent?
<v Speaker 2>Who said that?
<v Speaker 1>You were? Rick? Yeah? And the guy goes, uh, yeah.
<v Speaker 1>And at the time it was easier because it wasn't
<v Speaker 1>literally uh it was dials. Yeah, it was dials anyway,
<v Speaker 1>And all of a sudden, deer there was piglet. We
<v Speaker 1>went yeah, and.
<v Speaker 2>It was really good, you know what you.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, well we've laughed about it. I said, by
<v Speaker 1>the way, a little residual truck is late.
<v Speaker 2>Back that right in he's stopping at Frank's house.
<v Speaker 1>The amazing Frank Walker.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, well he's he's like the Mount Rushmore. He's he's
<v Speaker 1>on the Mount rush.
<v Speaker 2>I always say so, I always, you know, I don't
<v Speaker 2>have any problems just saying that's the guy. That's the guy.
<v Speaker 1>Well, I always say that he's let's see, I mean,
<v Speaker 1>I guess Donald Fontaine has his own groove that that yes,
<v Speaker 1>And then uh, you know, I think June far A
<v Speaker 1>is in there. She's absolutely and you know these are
<v Speaker 1>rush Mount Rushmore people, and absolutely, you know, you can
<v Speaker 1>spray paint my name on the sidewalk in front of
<v Speaker 1>Rushmore and I'll be I'll take that.
<v Speaker 2>That's a that's a well need. I think we both
<v Speaker 2>went to Catholic school.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and I can remember, yes, sister, it is saying that,
<v Speaker 1>you know, the things that got me kicked out of
<v Speaker 1>class is how I make my living now. And so
<v Speaker 1>I think the jokes on sister Mary.
<v Speaker 2>On her she didn't even know. Yeah, she sees that
<v Speaker 2>she's gonna be so embarrassed. And they love me now
<v Speaker 2>for a long long time.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, yeah, all you have to do is put
<v Speaker 1>up a few scholarships and you know, next thing, you know,
<v Speaker 1>you know, comics wasn't all that bad.
<v Speaker 2>Not that when he was just a boy. Were the
<v Speaker 2>Irish done? Oh?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah that too? Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>He our ours were fresh off boat. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Sister Mary Brendon, she had a broken nose and she
<v Speaker 1>and and she couldn't hear, so that was good.
<v Speaker 2>So probably couldn't smell. Yeah better great.
<v Speaker 1>She would go over and it would be hot out
<v Speaker 1>and and she was the window at Youngstown, Ohio. She
<v Speaker 1>would lift up.
<v Speaker 2>There we go. Okay, sister, I think, yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I'm glad you opened the wind a little higher, a
<v Speaker 1>little higher, so farting nuns than.
<v Speaker 4>Farting nuns.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know.
<v Speaker 4>It sounds like a new series.
<v Speaker 2>I know, I can see it now.
<v Speaker 1>Not not flying, no, see, yeah, sister Bertrille, Yeah, okay,
<v Speaker 1>that's just well, that's I always said. It's the stuff
<v Speaker 1>you used to get me kicked out of classes, is what.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. But all you know, really, in the scheme of things,
<v Speaker 2>all very benign stuff. I mean, I understand why people
<v Speaker 2>might be upset if you disobeyed the rules a little
<v Speaker 2>bit because there were probably thirty six kids in your class.
<v Speaker 2>It was usually thirty six to farty and those classes
<v Speaker 2>were jam packed with kids. Yeah, there was no space,
<v Speaker 2>there was no time, and they kept kept you busy
<v Speaker 2>the whole time. There was no nap time, there was
<v Speaker 2>no there was no coloring. Yeah, there was no you know,
<v Speaker 2>but yeah, but.
<v Speaker 4>Pretending to write, should we play the voice swap game?
<v Speaker 4>Jim has a flight to catch, so we have to wrap.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, it's a fabulous thing. Well, I can give you
<v Speaker 1>a character one of my characters, and then you do
<v Speaker 1>it in one of your characters. Then you do one
<v Speaker 1>of your famous catchphrases your character, and I'll do it and.
<v Speaker 2>On my characters. So now pressure is on. Now I
<v Speaker 2>feel bad.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, well maybe not.
<v Speaker 2>The competition is on. I know. Let's all play some
<v Speaker 2>improvisational games.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, okay, now.
<v Speaker 5>So let's Trush just gives a voice and then Jim
<v Speaker 5>can do it. So it's nice.
<v Speaker 1>Stress on tress, Okay, no stress on trust.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, trust, Trust does the quote and Jim will quite
<v Speaker 5>it and his character quite anyone.
<v Speaker 1>Any given one from any of your character, And all
<v Speaker 1>I could pick of his gadget is you used to
<v Speaker 1>complain about.
<v Speaker 2>In every single show?
<v Speaker 1>I have to say, Monty, are you all right? You know?
<v Speaker 1>And I remember that was.
<v Speaker 2>If I could have patched all those are you all
<v Speaker 2>rights together from every character in every show, it would
<v Speaker 2>have gone on and on it. Well, I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>If you're a Futurama fan, sure, yeah. Well one of
<v Speaker 2>Mom's uh best quotes is Gemma squirreling it you crap?
<v Speaker 2>Is this a kid's show?
<v Speaker 1>Crap?
<v Speaker 2>Yes? Yeah, am my squirrel Gamma, Yeah, okay, that's Gemma
<v Speaker 2>squirreling it you crap? Are you bastard? Oh?
<v Speaker 1>Let's see?
<v Speaker 4>Well then that I was gonna say, Pete or Pete.
<v Speaker 2>Well here we go, here's Pete Jamma squirreled? You do
<v Speaker 2>I you crap? It is crap? Okay, do you have
<v Speaker 2>a squirrel and it you crap? Now that seems that
<v Speaker 2>seems like it fits. That's not bad. Yeah, you can
<v Speaker 2>put that on a T shirt. Yeah. And the babs
<v Speaker 2>would say, do you like my ears better? Up? My down?
<v Speaker 1>Oh? Well, let's see, how about dark leeen duck.
<v Speaker 2>Do you like my ears better? Up or down?
<v Speaker 4>Oh?
<v Speaker 1>Crap, I don't have ears.
<v Speaker 2>See I got crapping.
<v Speaker 4>Can you say that as the cheshure cat too craps?
<v Speaker 1>Oh? Yes, the cheshar cat?
<v Speaker 2>What was? Do you like my ears better? Oh? Don
<v Speaker 2>Now that seems fitting.
<v Speaker 1>He's very languid.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, I love him. I love him.
<v Speaker 1>He's probably low stoned. Don't you think a little bit.
<v Speaker 2>Smoking?
<v Speaker 1>A lot of smoking?
<v Speaker 5>I have one personal request stress, being a massive Simpsons fan,
<v Speaker 5>could I have you do seeing all the houses on
<v Speaker 5>fire as Agnes from the Stained Hams bit?
<v Speaker 2>All right, Seymour, the house is on fire, seymore? Do
<v Speaker 2>you want me to tell you when it's seven o'clock.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, I do.
<v Speaker 2>Seymar and I had a huge fight last night over
<v Speaker 2>the inflatable bath pillow.
<v Speaker 1>I can just imagine, very controversial subject, right, yes, Oh
<v Speaker 1>my god.
<v Speaker 2>For years they've been fighting for at least thirty years.
<v Speaker 2>They've been fighting over the inflatable bath pillow.
<v Speaker 1>What a what a beautiful venuity whatever you want to
<v Speaker 1>call that. Yeah, but I mean one gros yes, one,
<v Speaker 1>but not of opening envelopes.
<v Speaker 2>No, I have people to do that.
<v Speaker 1>That's true. That's true.
<v Speaker 2>No, it is good. And you know, of course, all
<v Speaker 2>of those people after all of these many years, are
<v Speaker 2>like family to me, just like you. You know, you
<v Speaker 2>were like a brother. You are like a brother to me.
<v Speaker 2>And well, I've always been so grateful that it was us,
<v Speaker 2>it was us in the very beginning, you know, and
<v Speaker 2>that we kind of latched on to the ones that
<v Speaker 2>we loved right from the very beginning. And we're lucky
<v Speaker 2>enough to be able to work with each other, damn
<v Speaker 2>near every single day. Yeah, we were so lucky, like
<v Speaker 2>having a real job yeah near, yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Hurt near? Yeah, who to thunk it? It's yeah? And
<v Speaker 1>I even though I knew I wanted to do this
<v Speaker 1>when I was five. There ain't no guarantees.
<v Speaker 2>Really, you knew that, Yeah, yeah, I.
<v Speaker 1>Knew I wanted to do it. Well, I totally before.
<v Speaker 1>But I saw Mel Blank on a TV show. Oh
<v Speaker 1>my dad told me who he was, and I won't
<v Speaker 1>he doesn't have to stand in the corner from making
<v Speaker 1>weird noises.
<v Speaker 2>I'll do that. People like this fellow, you know, yes, yes, indeed, Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>well that was very smart of you. I mean, I
<v Speaker 2>love those cartoons. I love the Warner Brothers cartoons and
<v Speaker 2>loved all the impressions that were in those shows. But uh,
<v Speaker 2>and those are the ones that I that I did,
<v Speaker 2>you know, whenever I was, you know, required to do
<v Speaker 2>an impression as a little kid to amuse somebody at
<v Speaker 2>the dinner table or whatever. But I never in mind
<v Speaker 2>I thought that I would one day be doing it
<v Speaker 2>for a living. And so I feel blessed.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Yeah, well I had no choice. If I couldn't
<v Speaker 1>do this, I don't know what.
<v Speaker 4>The hell I was.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, I'd still be good working on riverboats.
<v Speaker 2>That's okay. I have a list. I have a list
<v Speaker 2>of things that you could work at your house. I
<v Speaker 2>give you busy I'm.
<v Speaker 1>Thank you, Betty.
<v Speaker 2>I love you so much. Ladies, gentlemen, Jim Comings.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yes, many more to come thanks to you. And
<v Speaker 1>when this airs, we having another tend just right like that,
<v Speaker 1>just like that. Awesome good job out there where am
<v Speaker 1>I looking you? You know what to do? Spread the word.
<v Speaker 2>Dress big Neil. She's a big, big, lhuge deal.
<v Speaker 4>Thank you so much for being here. Thank you a
<v Speaker 4>really good conversation.
<v Speaker 2>It's really fun.
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<v Speaker 1>Thank you, thank.
<v Speaker 2>You, sir, thank you. Brandon