Candi Milo (Looney Tunes, Dexter's Laboratory, Jimmy Neutron)

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<v Speaker 2>Welcome back, everybody to another episode of Tuned In with
<v Speaker 2>Jim Cummings. Today we have Candy Milo joining us. Who
<v Speaker 2>I am sure you know her voice? I mean, your
<v Speaker 2>resume just goes on and on me.
<v Speaker 3>Please. I didn't make Forbes five hundred.
<v Speaker 1>I got writers cramp taking my crib notes.
<v Speaker 3>You were And all I did say to my daughter
<v Speaker 3>is I'm gonna go see Anny of the Boot and tear.
<v Speaker 2>Oh.
<v Speaker 1>She was like, oh my god, Jim, Yeah, how is miss.
<v Speaker 3>Gabby she's so great. She's so married, and she's so great.
<v Speaker 3>Thank you for asking. And I feel like I did
<v Speaker 3>what I what I promised God that I would do.
<v Speaker 3>See I did, I said. When we were her dad
<v Speaker 3>and I were first falling out, I was so bereft
<v Speaker 3>and I was so confused and I didn't understand. And
<v Speaker 3>finally I looked up and I was watching you. It
<v Speaker 3>was a we had decided to he had decided to
<v Speaker 3>be divorced on New Year's Eve, which you know ruins
<v Speaker 3>it for me every year. But I went home and
<v Speaker 3>just was sobbing, and I thought, I'm going to sit
<v Speaker 3>and watch Bette Midler and she is going to bring
<v Speaker 3>on the tears and it's gonna be great. And she
<v Speaker 3>just said, oh, sorry, I'm so happy. I'm so happy.
<v Speaker 3>I can't sing no sad songs. And I was like, well,
<v Speaker 3>off goes the TV. And I looked up and I said,
<v Speaker 3>here's the deal. God, If you could make me stop
<v Speaker 3>crying and you can show me why this is the
<v Speaker 3>best thing for me, I will take care of her
<v Speaker 3>until I hand her over to somebody good. And so
<v Speaker 3>the day after she was married and that it did happen,
<v Speaker 3>I did stop crying. I did find out why it
<v Speaker 3>all happened. And then the day after she was married,
<v Speaker 3>there was a noise outside my hotel room and I
<v Speaker 3>looked out and I haven't seen a sunrise in decades.
<v Speaker 3>I'm a night girl. And I looked out and then
<v Speaker 3>I saw it rise, and I went, I did it.
<v Speaker 3>Wonderful young man and his family they love her. And
<v Speaker 3>I said, it gave me like a whole new perspective. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>little Lisa on life. And I felt like God, well met,
<v Speaker 3>well met, well done, canned, you did it? And I
<v Speaker 3>just I just I don't know, And I feel like
<v Speaker 3>that is the new thing that I believe. I wish
<v Speaker 3>I had done more of it. I know you've done it,
<v Speaker 3>but I wish I had allowed life to unfold a
<v Speaker 3>little bit more rather than trying to direct it and
<v Speaker 3>trying to push my way through it and put saying
<v Speaker 3>and this is right. And also I'm a little teeny
<v Speaker 3>tiny social justice warrior. I wish i'd let it unfold
<v Speaker 3>and trusted. Well.
<v Speaker 1>There's an expression, life is what happens while you're making
<v Speaker 1>plans for the future.
<v Speaker 3>Right, Yeah, and make a plan if you want to
<v Speaker 3>see God laugh, make a plan and I have not
<v Speaker 3>had a bad time because Segue, I did meet you.
<v Speaker 3>I met this community. I got into voiceover and I
<v Speaker 3>had had a couple of weird runs and I said
<v Speaker 3>to my agents was way morse at the time, I
<v Speaker 3>don't think this is for me. I just I don't
<v Speaker 3>you know. There's a lot of characters. And I was like,
<v Speaker 3>I don't know. And you know, my dad was a
<v Speaker 3>Bronx stand up and there's an old show biz guy
<v Speaker 3>and I was yeah, oh god, and I was yeah,
<v Speaker 3>and I was he did play the Cats Skills. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>he'd played the Cat Skills with Louis Armstrong. So it's
<v Speaker 3>in the up upstate New York, and you there are
<v Speaker 3>all these resorts. Dirty Day was in the cat And
<v Speaker 3>the biggest rock promoter of all time was Bill Graham.
<v Speaker 3>And he started as a waiter in the Cat Skills
<v Speaker 3>and he used to see the shows and used to think,
<v Speaker 3>you know, if this guy went on later and let
<v Speaker 3>us serve the Bake Alaska, then then we they should
<v Speaker 3>wait to put that guy on until after we served
<v Speaker 3>the Baked. And then he became the biggest rocketing Altamont
<v Speaker 3>Speedway with the Rolling Stars. He owned Philmore West and
<v Speaker 3>Phil again, you know, and I'm from I'm from the
<v Speaker 3>Bay Area, so he was you know, Bill Graham was
<v Speaker 3>my my god. But he started as a waiter in
<v Speaker 3>the cat Skills and he learned how to set a
<v Speaker 3>show by by controlling a crowd of eaters so that
<v Speaker 3>they could watch the Diurney dancers. Yeah, but it's great,
<v Speaker 3>and I had a great and my dad was much older,
<v Speaker 3>so I have older siblings, and it was just I
<v Speaker 3>had a different idea of what show business. I had
<v Speaker 3>come from Broadway and live performing, and then just to
<v Speaker 3>sit in the room with present company excluded, with these
<v Speaker 3>oversized character people that I was. The noise was nobody's listening,
<v Speaker 3>like you're you're not giving a space for your punchline
<v Speaker 3>to come in because you're busy talking over and I
<v Speaker 3>thought it wasn't for me. And then I remember going
<v Speaker 3>into Way Morrison talking to Nina and saying, well, I'm
<v Speaker 3>going to be single and I don't have any money
<v Speaker 3>to get it in a term, and she went, do
<v Speaker 3>you want to go back to cartoons? And I was like, yes,
<v Speaker 3>you're fine, and that that was it. Nineteen nineteen eighty eight,
<v Speaker 3>wasn't it? And that's how long I've been treading the
<v Speaker 3>board dums.
<v Speaker 1>Well good, well, that's so nice. Yes, well, I remember
<v Speaker 1>the first time I want to say that we worked
<v Speaker 1>together was at Annamarbarra. Yes, how's that?
<v Speaker 3>How's that?
<v Speaker 1>Was it for a swat Cats? What cats?
<v Speaker 3>Did you do? Two stupid dogs? I yeah, because I
<v Speaker 3>remember doing swat Cats. I remember going in for a
<v Speaker 3>bunch of auditions because that was the best place. Even
<v Speaker 3>if you didn't do it there, that was the best place.
<v Speaker 3>They were doing all those shorts. But yes, swat Cat
<v Speaker 3>Aero's squadron and I was Angora.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, I've got written down it's exactly right. And then
<v Speaker 1>you dextered.
<v Speaker 3>I dextered, and I it was really interesting. I had
<v Speaker 3>been really hustling all these bizarre characters that I had
<v Speaker 3>been doing in live shows. And you know, I was
<v Speaker 3>doing poignant comedy at the time, because if you can't
<v Speaker 3>make them drink, make them cry, I don't understand. Yes,
<v Speaker 3>poignant comedy where I was the bane of Mitzi Shore's life.
<v Speaker 3>I'd have like five great jokes and then I'd break
<v Speaker 3>into song because that's really what I wanted to do,
<v Speaker 3>was come down, Yeah, like literally hit it. And the
<v Speaker 3>late Steve Moore was the piano player, and he would
<v Speaker 3>get up and we'd be doing like some well all
<v Speaker 3>the Rainbow and Mitzi's garland esk yeah put the she's
<v Speaker 3>doing this from the back of the room, and I'm like,
<v Speaker 3>hang on. They love the man finish and literally they
<v Speaker 3>love the big finish. And so stand up wasn't for me,
<v Speaker 3>and I was doing I was trying to get on.
<v Speaker 3>I had tested for Mad TV, I had tested for
<v Speaker 3>a Living Color. I had flown out to New York
<v Speaker 3>for Saturday Night Live, and nobody wanted me, which was
<v Speaker 3>which is the story of my life, little I call
<v Speaker 3>it little reasons. I live alone and I think, and
<v Speaker 3>I went back to cartoons, and it seemed like Jim,
<v Speaker 3>and this is really true, it seemed like it had
<v Speaker 3>changed because I all you spotty like I only saw
<v Speaker 3>like the people that I really dug and I liked
<v Speaker 3>your very musical like you, but I would see you
<v Speaker 3>so infrequently, and I got in with some with another crowd.
<v Speaker 3>And then when I came back, I was like, well,
<v Speaker 3>here we go, and it's a whole new me. I'm
<v Speaker 3>making money for attorneys now, let's get let's get on
<v Speaker 3>with it. And then I had so much more. I
<v Speaker 3>had so much more fun. More drive, Yeah, more fun,
<v Speaker 3>more drive, more more throw it off.
<v Speaker 2>I inspiraated.
<v Speaker 3>I did. And I had started with tiny tunes that
<v Speaker 3>it might be did you do tak on tiny the
<v Speaker 3>original one?
<v Speaker 1>I know, well they had yeah, I was. I did
<v Speaker 1>a lot of them. Yeah, but they had something called
<v Speaker 1>baby Task, yes, and that wasn't me.
<v Speaker 2>I think that was.
<v Speaker 3>I think I was, yeah, you know baby Yeah. And
<v Speaker 3>I did Tiny Tune Adventures and and I and you know,
<v Speaker 3>then we and then it just kind of started back
<v Speaker 3>and I started working with Ginny Dink The Dinosaur, Bobby's World,
<v Speaker 3>Little Things, because so much of that time was the
<v Speaker 3>directors that we love needed a cadre of people male
<v Speaker 3>and female that they could count on. That's right, that
<v Speaker 3>we're not going to change lines, that we're not going
<v Speaker 3>to add lib in the middle of a take, that
<v Speaker 3>were reliable, not jerks like that kind of a thing.
<v Speaker 3>And I I think, I'm, well, you know I am,
<v Speaker 3>but you're not a I do interior. I never do
<v Speaker 3>at the end of a line, because I remember that
<v Speaker 3>Frank Welker yeah, looked at me and went no, no, no,
<v Speaker 3>And I was like, all right, he said, because it
<v Speaker 3>leads into something else. And I was like, oh, well,
<v Speaker 3>why is it the end right at the end of
<v Speaker 3>a line? I and so I said, why does everybody
<v Speaker 3>else get to do it? And he said they won't
<v Speaker 3>be back and I thought, oh, I would like to
<v Speaker 3>be back, and he said, don't ever add lib because
<v Speaker 3>if you take it too off, then I can't. Then
<v Speaker 3>my line doesn't make sense.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>No, there's a very famous, semi famous person who only
<v Speaker 1>did that, and everybody would go, is he done right? Okay,
<v Speaker 1>and then you lose the moment and then you lose it.
<v Speaker 1>It's chunky. It's chunky. Yeah, it's it's disjointed. So but
<v Speaker 1>whenever I do it, I always end with the written
<v Speaker 1>what is written.
<v Speaker 3>I always do two takes, and I always do I
<v Speaker 3>had a great acting coach, tell me guy named John Keating.
<v Speaker 3>The script has the job, so do the script first.
<v Speaker 2>That's a good point it.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, the script has the job, so do it first.
<v Speaker 3>And if you have an idea, you say, hang on,
<v Speaker 3>I just have an idea. Just as Jenny said, you know,
<v Speaker 3>change up the punctuation. You can say the same thing,
<v Speaker 3>but you make that a calm instead of a period
<v Speaker 3>and it can be and I wish more people did
<v Speaker 3>that because it's very tough to be with some of
<v Speaker 3>the newer kids that would like to be writer, director, actors.
<v Speaker 3>And I just think I have some online shopping to do,
<v Speaker 3>so let's move on, because I'd like to get the
<v Speaker 3>hell out of here.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I heard that's how Christopher Walking came up with his
<v Speaker 2>style of talking. Is when he would audition, he was like,
<v Speaker 2>I'm just going to put a bunch of punctuation into
<v Speaker 2>this and I won't sound like anybody else.
<v Speaker 3>Right to be different. Yeah, it's that funny.
<v Speaker 2>Because people were like, why is he pausing right there?
<v Speaker 3>Well, I've got a great compliment. I had tested for
<v Speaker 3>the Mayan Lopez Show with her dad George Lopez Lopez v.
<v Speaker 3>Lopez and it was such a great pilot script. And
<v Speaker 3>I tested for the Ex Wife, which I really wanted,
<v Speaker 3>and the little writer was in the room and I'm
<v Speaker 3>on zoom and I'm all dressed up because they I
<v Speaker 3>know that on the rest of the Hollywood Squares thing
<v Speaker 3>that was up were executives and I guess it's the
<v Speaker 3>new thing is so they don't have to pay you
<v Speaker 3>for a test and they don't have to do a contract,
<v Speaker 3>but if you work out, then it's gonna then it's
<v Speaker 3>going to work out. But we I did the test
<v Speaker 3>and the writer hopped on and said, you are the
<v Speaker 3>only actor who has.
<v Speaker 1>Done the words word for word.
<v Speaker 3>Oh, And I said really, And she said, everybody put
<v Speaker 3>a couple of words in and she said, in the
<v Speaker 3>vernacular the way this woman talks, words are purposefully missing.
<v Speaker 3>And I said, well, I thought i'd do it this
<v Speaker 3>way and then if you could tell me the words
<v Speaker 3>are supposed to be in there, and I was like,
<v Speaker 3>that's so great. And so when they let me know
<v Speaker 3>that I didn't get it, I said to the casting
<v Speaker 3>director and the other woman, say all the words right,
<v Speaker 3>and he said, she did exactly what you did, except
<v Speaker 3>that she was on Orange is the New Black and
<v Speaker 3>you're on Space Jam too, And I was like, exactly,
<v Speaker 3>I'm voice on. But it was It's a great lesson
<v Speaker 3>that I think young people can should take is that
<v Speaker 3>you know, do it as written, because that's what we're
<v Speaker 3>all reading. So if you take it home and and
<v Speaker 3>go to town writing all your ad libs down, it's
<v Speaker 3>it's very tough, I.
<v Speaker 2>Feel like, especially on camera too.
<v Speaker 3>Oh my God, but you'd be surprised. You'd be surprised.
<v Speaker 3>Everybody wants to be on Saturday.
<v Speaker 2>I wouldn't be surprised.
<v Speaker 3>No, you wouldn't be surprised. It is. It's especially on
<v Speaker 3>camera because it's memorized, and especially if you are like
<v Speaker 3>us and we read for a Living Camp Clark had
<v Speaker 3>the best line of anything that I have ever heard
<v Speaker 3>in my First of all, I love him, Second of all,
<v Speaker 3>I love him Cam Clark. Cam says to me, we
<v Speaker 3>all know on the podcast can do you do a
<v Speaker 3>can do you do? Games? And I'm like, you know,
<v Speaker 3>I'm not I'm not really big on the games. Something
<v Speaker 3>is very dexter about my speaking voice, as is like,
<v Speaker 3>something's very dexter about that. And I said, and now
<v Speaker 3>they use real kids, so I can't really get a
<v Speaker 3>kid and I certainly can't do a gruff butch officer.
<v Speaker 3>I said, I sound like I'm ridiculous.
<v Speaker 2>And just for the audience, anybody who doesn't know what games.
<v Speaker 3>Are, Oh yeah, video games are just think.
<v Speaker 2>About I thought you were talking about like a method continued, Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>No, no video game. You've done a lot of Yeah, have
<v Speaker 3>you done a lot of video games? And I'm like,
<v Speaker 3>I'm not your girl. I've done a couple, but I'm
<v Speaker 3>always like a dragon a crone. And then I did
<v Speaker 3>Dacidia and I'm Shantoto in Dacitia, which was just a
<v Speaker 3>really high pitched, weird thing. And he said I don't
<v Speaker 3>do them either because there's so much mo cap. And
<v Speaker 3>I'm like, oh, and you, why don't you like mocap?
<v Speaker 3>And he said, oh, honey, memorization fun. I was gonna
<v Speaker 3>wet my pants. And he said, they don't pay you
<v Speaker 3>enough to me memorize. I was like, he said, god forbid,
<v Speaker 3>you got a lead? Are you kidding me? He said,
<v Speaker 3>they have to put papers. I have not laughed right
<v Speaker 3>this and I went, oh, oh, memorization. I said, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I know, mo cap is out because I don't know
<v Speaker 3>what I look like. I don't have any role.
<v Speaker 1>There's that famous story about Marlon Brando that he would
<v Speaker 1>be he would be playing the Godfather and he'd look
<v Speaker 1>up and you know something, I gotta tell you something.
<v Speaker 1>It go like that, and the reason he was looking
<v Speaker 1>up is because the actor who's head his back to
<v Speaker 1>the camera had you know something. The reason I'm looking
<v Speaker 1>at was written on it because he's he They didn't
<v Speaker 1>pay him to memorize. They paid him to act. And
<v Speaker 1>if the words are right there, I mean.
<v Speaker 3>I think that just so, they said. And the Godfather,
<v Speaker 3>so the guy that comes in, Luca Luca broms.
<v Speaker 4>For you on the day of your daughter's wedding, And
<v Speaker 4>they said that they it was Marlon Brando's idea because
<v Speaker 4>it worked for him that he had things.
<v Speaker 3>All over his body because that guy couldn't memorize his lines.
<v Speaker 1>So he was.
<v Speaker 5>Reading and then they was reading, and then he would
<v Speaker 5>forget where he was in the reading, which is why
<v Speaker 5>he says on the day of your daughter's day of
<v Speaker 5>your daughter's wedding.
<v Speaker 3>Is actually reading it on that And Marlon was like,
<v Speaker 3>it worked for me, but I guess you have to
<v Speaker 3>be able to read. And Coppola says this in the extra,
<v Speaker 3>because you know, Godfather's my Christmas movie.
<v Speaker 1>It's a feel good movie.
<v Speaker 6>Damn fine good, thank you, damn fine movie. Yeah, ching,
<v Speaker 6>ching ching.
<v Speaker 1>Every time I hear jingle bells, I think.
<v Speaker 3>You know it's it's me because they have the one
<v Speaker 3>Christmas scene when they go to see you know Ingrid
<v Speaker 3>Bergmann and then they find out feet has been shot.
<v Speaker 3>I could do the entire movie for you right here.
<v Speaker 3>So just so you know I could, I won't talk
<v Speaker 3>to me. Let's talk to you, baby.
<v Speaker 1>Cracker and knuckles and take it away. Yeah. Well, I
<v Speaker 1>got my notes and and I was trying to think
<v Speaker 1>of things that we may have done together, although I
<v Speaker 1>know we did. Chuck Sown, Yeah, and you're wonderful. And
<v Speaker 1>then Johnny Bravo, Johnny Bravo, I mean, Jeff.
<v Speaker 3>We were all in Houston together, folks, and we were
<v Speaker 3>and Jeff was there and doing his explaining how it
<v Speaker 3>was Elvis and it was so fun.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, did you see that?
<v Speaker 3>Okay, we can go back to this podcast. Did you
<v Speaker 3>see the new Elvis documentary that's out produced by Bruce Springsteen.
<v Speaker 3>Oh you must, because there are rehearsal of the comeback
<v Speaker 3>and you can see how nervous Elvis is. But I
<v Speaker 3>got to tell you something. When they get and they
<v Speaker 3>sit him down and he's laughing because they've got him
<v Speaker 3>playing with his band and everything's around. That is the
<v Speaker 3>most beautiful man I have ever seen in my life.
<v Speaker 3>Still is in the documentary, I mean is it is
<v Speaker 3>the footage that they have of that special and him
<v Speaker 3>getting so frustrated because he's missing the downbeat of his
<v Speaker 3>own song, and they're talking about how weird it was
<v Speaker 3>and getting him away from So it's not the one
<v Speaker 3>with the young boy that's imitating him. It is actually
<v Speaker 3>his entire career ending with that sixty eight special.
<v Speaker 1>Oh.
<v Speaker 3>And I was telling Jeff about it and he was like,
<v Speaker 3>I didn't see it either. Netflix. It's really it's really
<v Speaker 3>worth it because the only time Elvis was ever happy
<v Speaker 3>was when he was singing gospel. Isn't that interesting? And
<v Speaker 3>that's the only time he really I think the only
<v Speaker 3>Grammy he ever won was singing gospel. Isn't that funny? Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I mean it's really wonderful. I thought you would like
<v Speaker 3>it because you're such a singer and such a he
<v Speaker 3>was such a pro and he was so unhappy, so
<v Speaker 3>ungodly happy. And then after the sixty eight it was
<v Speaker 3>just the colonel wouldn't let him out of his sight,
<v Speaker 3>and he just went.
<v Speaker 1>He wouldn't leave him out of the country either, wouldn't
<v Speaker 1>let him out of the country. You know that that
<v Speaker 1>thing with Tom Hanks, that movie you were just talking
<v Speaker 1>that was wild.
<v Speaker 3>And I remember my dad said something when Elvis passed
<v Speaker 3>away and he looked at the paper and he said,
<v Speaker 3>colonel finally killed him. And I just thought, Wow, isn't
<v Speaker 3>that something. The colonel finally killed him. Everybody said he
<v Speaker 3>would because he was just running him into the ground.
<v Speaker 1>He was at well, he was paying off debts, yes
<v Speaker 1>he was.
<v Speaker 3>And Elvis was up there singing and getting heavy because
<v Speaker 3>he wasn't exercising. And when he was leading up to
<v Speaker 3>the sixty eight special, they have pictures of him coming
<v Speaker 3>out of the water and he was swimming in the
<v Speaker 3>ocean and he was getting himself back into shape. And
<v Speaker 3>it's always somebody. I feel the same way about Amy Winehouse.
<v Speaker 3>How wonderful she was, her father pushing her to pushing her,
<v Speaker 3>pushing or pushing or pushing her, and then she succumbed
<v Speaker 3>one time to again and her body was just getting
<v Speaker 3>clean and she took a hit of whatever it was.
<v Speaker 2>You ever seen the footage of her last concert, Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>it just got chills thinking about it. It's just it's
<v Speaker 2>gross that anybody would ever let somebody perform.
<v Speaker 3>In that conditions, tweaking and like she.
<v Speaker 2>Literally looks like she's fully on heroin, like just a
<v Speaker 2>skeleton on stage, but still just the angelic voice coming
<v Speaker 2>out still something.
<v Speaker 3>When she can get it, and when she can't, she's
<v Speaker 3>spitting on the audience and she's out, you know, she's
<v Speaker 3>out of her mind. And I was like, you know,
<v Speaker 3>it's interesting, how lucky we are, you and I and
<v Speaker 3>somebody that we love to have found our niche here,
<v Speaker 3>and then that niche and the income we earn from
<v Speaker 3>that allows us to continue that which was our passion.
<v Speaker 3>I will never forget your drumsticks at every session, and
<v Speaker 3>I love that. That's what I wanted to be.
<v Speaker 4>I want to be.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I wanted to drum and I only had a
<v Speaker 3>snare and my father used to come out and go,
<v Speaker 3>I will kill you if you don't stop it. And
<v Speaker 3>I'm like, are you supposed to practice this every day?
<v Speaker 1>I used to punish my parents. I'm going to go practice.
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<v Speaker 3>I remember telling my brother when they had their son,
<v Speaker 3>I said, where where would you put a drum set?
<v Speaker 3>If I got one? Right in the trash, don't do it.
<v Speaker 3>Do not do it. And I was like, because I
<v Speaker 3>think that, yeah, that pays me back for that would
<v Speaker 3>pay him back for all the times he sluved me,
<v Speaker 3>or like would come from behind and flick my neck,
<v Speaker 3>which I hate more than anything. And I was like, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I'll get you back.
<v Speaker 1>I get your drum set.
<v Speaker 3>Enjoy remember that time when I was eleven? All right,
<v Speaker 3>so I do remember your drum sticks.
<v Speaker 1>And here's a tuba to go with it.
<v Speaker 3>Here's a trumpet you carried. You carried Louis Armstrong's trumpet
<v Speaker 3>on stage. I think I'll give Nicholas.
<v Speaker 2>There you go.
<v Speaker 1>Oh take that.
<v Speaker 2>Growing up with a father in show business, where was
<v Speaker 2>there like a pressure for you guys because you have
<v Speaker 2>plenty of siblings.
<v Speaker 3>Right there are five of us kids, and you know,
<v Speaker 3>it was a lot of pressure for my dad because
<v Speaker 3>you know, I just did a con in Albany and
<v Speaker 3>we did it at this joint, this place, this theater
<v Speaker 3>that I have a picture of my dad performing in
<v Speaker 3>show Boat in that theater in nineteen twenty six on
<v Speaker 3>the stage that I was with Jerry Colonna and they
<v Speaker 3>were all doing and I've got the photo and on
<v Speaker 3>the back my aunt who used to travel with my
<v Speaker 3>dad said Schenectady and it's it's misspelled and I need
<v Speaker 3>to go get it copied off and mailed to the
<v Speaker 3>guy because he was saying, you know, we have all
<v Speaker 3>the I Love Lucy memorabilia and I'm getting to it
<v Speaker 3>that I'm getting It's a long story, longer and then
<v Speaker 3>longer still, so they were like, yeah, all this Memorabilian,
<v Speaker 3>here's the call for Philip Morris boy and I said,
<v Speaker 3>that's my dad and he said, no, no, no, it.
<v Speaker 1>Is the well he was the bellhop yeah outfit.
<v Speaker 3>But my dad did it live at that theater low
<v Speaker 3>because he was with the Gus Edwards Kitti troop with
<v Speaker 3>little Liberaci, baby Rose Marie baby ethel Merman and then
<v Speaker 3>the two older Gum sisters and so in that theater.
<v Speaker 1>And I said, but then they actually like when they were.
<v Speaker 3>Because by the time it came on television was the
<v Speaker 3>nineteen fifties. My dad was forty, so there was and
<v Speaker 3>he was a full size man. Johnny Ravatini, who did
<v Speaker 3>it on camera or on television, was a little person
<v Speaker 3>and with a really high voice. And my dad was
<v Speaker 3>six and all the pictures are of my father before that.
<v Speaker 3>So he argued with me and I was like, I'm sorry,
<v Speaker 3>we have the bell hop outfit. This is like a
<v Speaker 3>really famous So what that leads me to Chris is
<v Speaker 3>that my dad's timing was off because by the time
<v Speaker 3>television became hip, my dad was completely gray. He was
<v Speaker 3>early gray, so he was eyeing his hair. He was
<v Speaker 3>on the black circuit. It was just not And he
<v Speaker 3>finally got a great agent, Willie Webber, who handled Don Rickles.
<v Speaker 3>He had done the Ed Sullivan Show twice and it
<v Speaker 3>never it never hit for him and when so what
<v Speaker 3>he did was going from live performances. He was with
<v Speaker 3>June Havoc traveling in Germany that he was on her tour.
<v Speaker 3>USO used to pay really well. It wasn't all volunteer.
<v Speaker 3>It was actually a gig. And then he came back
<v Speaker 3>to do nightclubs and he had moved to San Francisco,
<v Speaker 3>and when he did nightclubs, television came, so you didn't
<v Speaker 3>need to go to nightclubs. You could watch nightclubs on television,
<v Speaker 3>so he couldn't do that. He couldn't get on television.
<v Speaker 3>He never forgave Sinatra he couldn't be part of the
<v Speaker 3>rat pack. And so it just kind of forgave Sinatra
<v Speaker 3>because he went to him and asked, and he said,
<v Speaker 3>you know, we're going to go with a with a crooner.
<v Speaker 3>And my dad was just this big belter kind of
<v Speaker 3>a guy, and you had a wonderful, I mean, an
<v Speaker 3>amazing voice, and he just kept missing, like kept missing.
<v Speaker 3>So the impetus on me to be in show business
<v Speaker 3>was absolutely not, You're not going to do this. I
<v Speaker 3>was a really right kid, and I was skipping grades
<v Speaker 3>and I was really academic. And when we were giggling
<v Speaker 3>before we went on air, everybody, Jim and I were
<v Speaker 3>giggling about my with with Cary Payton, like I went
<v Speaker 3>to an all girls private school and it was highly academic.
<v Speaker 3>And so my dad was like, just like the Godfather,
<v Speaker 3>you're going to be a senator. You're going to be
<v Speaker 3>I had written to Nixon. Nixon wrote me back like
<v Speaker 3>I was on a path, and then I had her
<v Speaker 3>applause and I was done.
<v Speaker 1>I was like what wad?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, And then I well, I know how that? Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>you do know?
<v Speaker 2>And it's addictive, it is.
<v Speaker 3>And I've gotten too San Jose Children's music theater. And
<v Speaker 3>I have a big, loud Broadway voice and I was
<v Speaker 3>teeny tiny and people would crack.
<v Speaker 1>Up, Oh that's a perfect yeah.
<v Speaker 3>And it was I was as like him, and I
<v Speaker 3>think they I had like the anti push. He pushed
<v Speaker 3>me out of show business. To this day, if you
<v Speaker 3>ask me to sing a harmony, I will start my
<v Speaker 3>note a millisecond after you start yours because I'm never
<v Speaker 3>sure if I'm on key. And so I have all
<v Speaker 3>of this drama at my age now. But when my
<v Speaker 3>dad left, it was bittersweet because he felt like he
<v Speaker 3>had been pushed out. But what my dad did was
<v Speaker 3>he opened California's very first home for the mentally ill,
<v Speaker 3>wow called Mile Alarms, and it happened in sixty nine
<v Speaker 3>when the government then it was the very first we
<v Speaker 3>were licensed. And since he came from being a comic,
<v Speaker 3>you have enough money to get us a separate house.
<v Speaker 3>So I and my siblings it was a converted fraternity house.
<v Speaker 3>We lived in the den, mothers a portion apartment, and
<v Speaker 3>then we had twelve men and one woman, so eleven
<v Speaker 3>men one woman in the house. My mom cooked and cleaned,
<v Speaker 3>and my dad did radio shows over the PA system
<v Speaker 3>to make announcements and then announce breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
<v Speaker 3>Welcome to Reasons I Live Alone. And then I just
<v Speaker 3>wrote a book. I wrote a book a couple of
<v Speaker 3>years ago, and then I'm republishing it because some new
<v Speaker 3>stuff has come to light and I have a brand
<v Speaker 3>new publishers, and I'm really excited about it because they're
<v Speaker 3>lovely guys. It's rare bird publishing, and that is It's
<v Speaker 3>why I am.
<v Speaker 1>I think you should what was it again?
<v Speaker 3>It is called surviving the odd, the fine line between
<v Speaker 3>laughter and lithium. Welcome. I should call it Little Reasons
<v Speaker 3>I Live Alone. What I wanted to call it was
<v Speaker 3>I probably should be dead by now, but oh yeah,
<v Speaker 3>right now. I'm just loving these guys I'm working with.
<v Speaker 3>I think a lot of new information came to light
<v Speaker 3>when my mom passed away in twenty one. We found
<v Speaker 3>a bunch of letters, including my dad telling my mom
<v Speaker 3>when he saw me, he was going to wring my
<v Speaker 3>neck because I'd gotten my eighth speeding ticket in San
<v Speaker 3>Jose and they wanted to pull my I.
<v Speaker 2>Was worried for a second too.
<v Speaker 1>I was like the first of my dad.
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, yeah, I was like, no so, and a
<v Speaker 3>bunch of stuff came to light on while he was
<v Speaker 3>in the US. So how much work he did with
<v Speaker 3>the service members who then then it was called shell
<v Speaker 3>shot and that's right, yeah, yeah, and so much of
<v Speaker 3>the verbiage in my book. What I wanted to do
<v Speaker 3>was do it of the time. And the term mentally
<v Speaker 3>retarded is a real pejorative term now like nobody uses that. Well,
<v Speaker 3>you used it like water because it was in the
<v Speaker 3>Diagnostic Statistical Manual. That is what it was called.
<v Speaker 1>Yah. Well, retired just literally means to slow, to slow down.
<v Speaker 3>And so they had all these levels and we had
<v Speaker 3>mostly profound. That's that's what we did best. But you know,
<v Speaker 3>I found all these letters from nineteen forty two. In
<v Speaker 3>nineteen forty three, dear Tony, oh my god, you know,
<v Speaker 3>we want to thank you for all the guys, all
<v Speaker 3>the guys that had shell shocked, all the guys in
<v Speaker 3>the hospital. Nobody else would come. You did the show,
<v Speaker 3>You sang a cappella, or you brought the trio to
<v Speaker 3>the day Room and I found that and so I
<v Speaker 3>rewrote and said, I really think that my dad loved
<v Speaker 3>it show business, was really good at it. His comedy
<v Speaker 3>partner was Martha Ray for those of you, she was
<v Speaker 3>known as the big Mouth, and Kay Ballard was a
<v Speaker 3>friend and all of these, all of these people that
<v Speaker 3>went on June Havoc. It was. It was just a
<v Speaker 3>different time. And I think that it was what he
<v Speaker 3>did from the time he was five and by the
<v Speaker 3>time he was fifty, that was it. He was. It
<v Speaker 3>was enough. He wouldn't even get up to sing at events,
<v Speaker 3>and my mom would always prod him, you know, Tony,
<v Speaker 3>get up, and he was like, I'm done with it.
<v Speaker 3>And I think he probably was broken hearted because there
<v Speaker 3>was no other place for a middle aged man with
<v Speaker 3>snow white bonanza like white Lauren Green hair to go
<v Speaker 3>except TV. And he was too old and then he
<v Speaker 3>was frail, and I think he did a wonderful thing.
<v Speaker 3>And it was called Milow Arms. And I want you
<v Speaker 3>to know that we had a arm. We have a
<v Speaker 3>Chevy white Chevy van that said my worms bored and
<v Speaker 3>Caro two nine seven three six seven zero, which was
<v Speaker 3>our home phone number, which until six pm. Every night
<v Speaker 3>we answer the phone. My alarms venus de milo. Let
<v Speaker 3>me just get rid of an arm.
<v Speaker 1>You and I.
<v Speaker 3>You know, somebody had said when I when I did
<v Speaker 3>end my marriage, somebody said, would you ever get married again?
<v Speaker 3>I was like no, because the secrets sound like everybody
<v Speaker 3>knows who I am. Now there's just no you never know,
<v Speaker 3>like what's you never know?
<v Speaker 1>Okay, you know how they are.
<v Speaker 3>I just it's very true. And I was like, I
<v Speaker 3>just I can't somebody has to come to me completely complete.
<v Speaker 3>I can't have any drama. It's like one of those
<v Speaker 3>you know, I shot my sisters. Okay, you have to go.
<v Speaker 3>I can't be with anybody else where, I say. And
<v Speaker 3>the fun thing about my book, which is it is
<v Speaker 3>horrifically hilarious, I think so. I remember Ginny called me.
<v Speaker 3>She had read the first one and said Ally McSwain
<v Speaker 3>and called me and left a message saying, oh my god,
<v Speaker 3>this is unbelievable. And I said, I know. But so
<v Speaker 3>everybody understands. The comedy in the book is because who
<v Speaker 3>would give these people to us? Why don't you think
<v Speaker 3>that we My dad like doing the hula, like when
<v Speaker 3>he got mad on the phone and somebody would be like,
<v Speaker 3>you know, we're gonna pull them out of here, mister
<v Speaker 3>Milo if you if you yell at them again. My
<v Speaker 3>dad would be talking on the phone doing like the
<v Speaker 3>Watutsi in the hula, going yeah, I'm gonna come over
<v Speaker 3>there and beat you. Put them on hold, going out,
<v Speaker 3>kill this guy back. Okay, well we'll bring him by
<v Speaker 3>for a meeting on Friday. Yeah. No slumber parties. Not
<v Speaker 3>a lot of slumber parties.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, a lot of slumbering.
<v Speaker 3>Though, a lot of slumbering and a lot of issues.
<v Speaker 3>And you know, that was a heady That was a
<v Speaker 3>really heady time. We were on the campus. We were
<v Speaker 3>in a converted fraternity house that lost its charter on
<v Speaker 3>the border of San Jase State University, where my neighbor
<v Speaker 3>was a Fish and Chips h Salt, Fish and Ships
<v Speaker 3>and seven eleven and then fraternity house on the other side.
<v Speaker 3>But it was it had the the home had the
<v Speaker 3>requisite that you needed one way in and one way
<v Speaker 3>out and no sleeping rooms on the first floor so
<v Speaker 3>that nobody could sneak out.
<v Speaker 1>They're okay, that's pretty smart act.
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, we had it. We did. We had one
<v Speaker 3>and then after two years we moved next door, and
<v Speaker 3>my dad cut a hole in the fence and made
<v Speaker 3>a so that he could get to work quicker. And
<v Speaker 3>I have a photo in my book where we were
<v Speaker 3>next door where we could play four square, my siblings
<v Speaker 3>and I and you could see the guys looking down
<v Speaker 3>because they'd beat the line judges whether or not it
<v Speaker 3>was in or out. I have no idea how I
<v Speaker 3>have a kid, and whoever married I don't. I don't know,
<v Speaker 3>but nobody knew when when my husband married me. And
<v Speaker 3>he was like, what is your dad? What did your
<v Speaker 3>dad do for a living? He met my dad, he
<v Speaker 3>was like, what did I say? He was a businessman.
<v Speaker 3>And the last thing that my dad did was when
<v Speaker 3>he gave up the business, which he then tried to
<v Speaker 3>get back, which is the last part of the story.
<v Speaker 3>He had a liquor store in Oakland.
<v Speaker 1>Nice.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, there you go, something safe. And that's what I said.
<v Speaker 1>He had a liquor.
<v Speaker 3>Store And he said, yeah, but before that, and I said,
<v Speaker 3>he was a show business. Don't worry about those sixteen
<v Speaker 3>years in between. And he said, where did you grow up?
<v Speaker 3>So I grew up in downtown San Jose, California, and
<v Speaker 3>we lived for four short years in Saratoga, and I
<v Speaker 3>tell everybody from Saratoga, California, because it's really nice. And
<v Speaker 3>I just omitted, Jim, is it really a lie?
<v Speaker 1>You you were I from Saratoga?
<v Speaker 3>Eventually, yes, I was, Eventually I was. I just I
<v Speaker 3>think it's a good book, and we're re releasing. We're
<v Speaker 3>just gonna let all the drama of the election all
<v Speaker 3>of that. Let's let that settle down. They were asking me.
<v Speaker 3>I asked for a Christmas release because i'd like to
<v Speaker 3>you know this, I'd like to market it. You ready
<v Speaker 3>to say, let's let's sell a lot of books so
<v Speaker 3>that I can get on a best seller list. And
<v Speaker 3>why don't we wait until March until everything clears out,
<v Speaker 3>and let's let things calm down, because they really believe
<v Speaker 3>that the market now is going to be political books,
<v Speaker 3>political thrillers. And he said, let's let the market get saturated.
<v Speaker 2>Well, well that's perfect because it's late February right now.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, so I think you know, believe me.
<v Speaker 1>And it was like, this is going to come out
<v Speaker 1>in February, okay.
<v Speaker 3>And I'm going to even be head to your and
<v Speaker 3>pre order. But I think it's going to be great
<v Speaker 3>and I I always say in the pre ramble, which
<v Speaker 3>is my prolongue, yes, and I say at the very end,
<v Speaker 3>if you don't believe me, I have fucking photos, and
<v Speaker 3>I do. I have photos of the house. I have
<v Speaker 3>photos of the guys, and I can use the because
<v Speaker 3>everybody but me is gone, everybody but me, and I
<v Speaker 3>think that it's important because people did step in to
<v Speaker 3>fill in the gap, and it was a misstep on
<v Speaker 3>everybody's part. This was not a red or blue decision.
<v Speaker 3>This was a state decision. It was what they decided
<v Speaker 3>to do on both sides. I have all I researched
<v Speaker 3>this for years. I'm really thrilled because I was talking
<v Speaker 3>to Robbie Paulson, it's my secret boyfriend, and he wrote
<v Speaker 3>a wonderful book and we were talking about trying to
<v Speaker 3>do something good with the knowledge that we have about
<v Speaker 3>him being so lucky to survive cancer and the humble
<v Speaker 3>beginnings he came from, and then mine with this odd,
<v Speaker 3>this sort of odd show business into the mental health industry,
<v Speaker 3>and before it became the complex that it became, and
<v Speaker 3>it did, it did become a complex, and before.
<v Speaker 1>That a lot of it is was quote housing of people.
<v Speaker 3>Thank you and that's really what it was, and that's
<v Speaker 3>how they presented it to my dad was they said,
<v Speaker 3>we need some place where. That's where the term came from.
<v Speaker 3>It's like they're halfway to independent housing. We are releasing them.
<v Speaker 3>Some people have been in a hospital their entire adult life.
<v Speaker 3>They don't read, they don't like, they need skills, and
<v Speaker 3>so my dad got Goodwill to come and pick up
<v Speaker 3>our guys and bring them to learn how to fix toasters.
<v Speaker 3>My dad's great really truly my cousins. We had a
<v Speaker 3>bigger house, so we had three houses total, and then
<v Speaker 3>we did eventually move away, but the first one, the
<v Speaker 3>second one we moved into, also became one and then
<v Speaker 3>my dad had a we called it the building, the
<v Speaker 3>bigger building, and he my cousin stole a bar and
<v Speaker 3>then had the barber come there and teach and barber
<v Speaker 3>the guys and then teach them how to barber. And
<v Speaker 3>it was just like one of those things where my
<v Speaker 3>dad was saying housing and a vocation, and housing and
<v Speaker 3>a vocation.
<v Speaker 1>That's very progressive. For then I would think that's that's
<v Speaker 1>very forward thinking.
<v Speaker 3>And I think that he thought that if they don't,
<v Speaker 3>they're going to be in the parks, and now you
<v Speaker 3>see that's where it is because people are not willing
<v Speaker 3>to In Los Angeles, it's impossible to live alone if
<v Speaker 3>you're not making X amount of dollars, and so kids
<v Speaker 3>have doubled and tripled up. It's still not working. You
<v Speaker 3>see all these unhoused people and you think, what can
<v Speaker 3>we do. You don't want to institutionalize them. No one
<v Speaker 3>wants that. It's a it's a prison with doctors. So
<v Speaker 3>what we need is what I thought. If show business
<v Speaker 3>doesn't get better, when I would probably do is I
<v Speaker 3>would probably open a home. I would probably I know
<v Speaker 3>how to do it well, know how to not do it,
<v Speaker 3>so how to do it right. But I would love
<v Speaker 3>to when the book comes out, work with the city
<v Speaker 3>of LA and say here's what I learned in the
<v Speaker 3>sixties and then it was all thrown out with the
<v Speaker 3>bathwater and sometimes and you know, my dad was very progressive,
<v Speaker 3>but also his his politics leaned practical, and I it
<v Speaker 3>wasn't a purple household. We were a red household. And
<v Speaker 3>it was like one of those things where because it
<v Speaker 3>didn't matter, it wasn't it you didn't identify as anything.
<v Speaker 3>All my dad said was if we don't do something,
<v Speaker 3>they are all going to be harmed. That's all he
<v Speaker 3>cared about was that they would be harmed. They would
<v Speaker 3>die in a park. They would right. It wasn't they
<v Speaker 3>would overdose. It wasn't that. It would be that they'd
<v Speaker 3>have no food. They and the kids, the students around
<v Speaker 3>the area were fed up. After a while, there was
<v Speaker 3>too many houses as the fraternities failed because it became
<v Speaker 3>the seventies. You know, it was too many. But it's
<v Speaker 3>I think it's an interesting read because it's my take
<v Speaker 3>on familial and institutional insanity. And again I say, why
<v Speaker 3>would they give them to Tony Milow, I'd have no
<v Speaker 3>idea give anybody. But we didn't get We didn't get
<v Speaker 3>the normal ones. We got the most profound because my
<v Speaker 3>dad wasn't a doctor, wasn't close to being a doctor.
<v Speaker 3>Stand up and he was like, God, I'll take that
<v Speaker 3>guy there. And the great thing is is I have
<v Speaker 3>I have photos, so photographic I have photographic evidence.
<v Speaker 1>I was going to say, yeah, souvenirs evidence or yeah evidence,
<v Speaker 1>that's it.
<v Speaker 3>I'm like, I was really there, My my siblings were there.
<v Speaker 3>We all had a lot of skin time in the game,
<v Speaker 3>and and then I do remember saying that to my
<v Speaker 3>soon to be ex husband. Would your dad do when
<v Speaker 3>he was a businessman before that? Yeah, well way before
<v Speaker 3>that he was in show business. And I was like,
<v Speaker 3>it's not not a lie, not the truth, but not
<v Speaker 3>a lie. Perfect right now, I live my life, that's right.
<v Speaker 3>What size jeans do you wear? Not the truth, but
<v Speaker 3>not a lie? Mediums?
<v Speaker 1>Yes, there you go.
<v Speaker 3>Medium.
<v Speaker 1>Oh god, there was a line that was it in
<v Speaker 1>nine to five? But what size shoe do you wear?
<v Speaker 1>And do you know the line I'm talking about? Well,
<v Speaker 1>let's see, normally, in a good shoe, I take a
<v Speaker 1>size five, but if five feels so good, I'd buy
<v Speaker 1>a seven. And if a seven doesn't work, nine's usually
<v Speaker 1>just about perfect, you know, because it's my size five foot,
<v Speaker 1>you know, And it's something like that.
<v Speaker 3>So it's so funny.
<v Speaker 1>It's in there somewhere.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I agree. I just I think that I don't know,
<v Speaker 3>and I it's why when you and I talk and
<v Speaker 3>we laugh and I look around the room sometimes at
<v Speaker 3>the lunacy in our in our sessions and say, I've
<v Speaker 3>seen it, and I just don't have the energy to
<v Speaker 3>diagnose it, but probably could, like you, you know, a
<v Speaker 3>little pink pell would probably be really good for you
<v Speaker 3>right now.
<v Speaker 1>But I think.
<v Speaker 3>The I think voiceover has been like the most fun.
<v Speaker 3>And that is but you guys are most like You're
<v Speaker 3>most like my family, like you're most like like I know,
<v Speaker 3>if you had met my dad, you would you would
<v Speaker 3>talk for out. He would love you, He would have
<v Speaker 3>loved you. You would have talked for hours. He would
<v Speaker 3>have showed you the pictures with him, with Louis Armstrong
<v Speaker 3>and kN Callaway and all that. I mean, you would
<v Speaker 3>have you would have absolutely loved him everybody that I need.
<v Speaker 1>I can't imagine having a picture with Louis Armstrong.
<v Speaker 3>And the three Stooges and him and holding on to
<v Speaker 3>Rose Marie when they were like, she's got a big
<v Speaker 3>bow in her hair and and it's just as one
<v Speaker 3>of the Liberaci was his friends until the day Liberacchi died. Wow,
<v Speaker 3>they were friends. And I opened for Liberacci at the
<v Speaker 3>Flamingo when I was seventeen or something, and then it
<v Speaker 3>and you were singing. I was singing, and I actually
<v Speaker 3>had a song that the Sherman brothers wrote for me
<v Speaker 3>called Piano Papa. And because I was so tiny, they
<v Speaker 3>I was little Candy Milo and I played like I
<v Speaker 3>was twelve and I was seventeen or eighteen, and it
<v Speaker 3>didn't last very long. Seymour Heller was my very first manager,
<v Speaker 3>and it did. It just was like a weird thing
<v Speaker 3>because he was moving into the direction of Scott and
<v Speaker 3>up with people, and he was later in life coming out.
<v Speaker 3>I had never been with a more gracious, beautiful man
<v Speaker 3>in my life. He made an arrangement of the show
<v Speaker 3>Brothers song he got Me a Gown. They decided to
<v Speaker 3>have a boy a man open for him and then
<v Speaker 3>I got to keep everything. He and my dad were friends,
<v Speaker 3>and he was like, she's great, She's really great, but
<v Speaker 3>I'm going to go in this direction. And what my
<v Speaker 3>dad's got photos with him. We called it his wall
<v Speaker 3>of Showbiz. But you would have loved it.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, eaten you up.
<v Speaker 3>Alive because you're so you know, because you're so musical
<v Speaker 3>and you're so into the same kind of sounds he
<v Speaker 3>was into. And you know, he loved that Louisiana. He
<v Speaker 3>loved all of that. I mean, I'm sorry, he loved
<v Speaker 3>all by you stuff. And I just think that that, Yeah.
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<v Speaker 3>And that's why he was on I Forget. They used
<v Speaker 3>to call this again, forgive me. They used to call
<v Speaker 3>it a bastard label, and he was on RCA's bastard
<v Speaker 3>label and I can't think of it. On his little demo,
<v Speaker 3>he's forty five.
<v Speaker 1>Oh great is that?
<v Speaker 3>And I just think that that's why I like voiceovers
<v Speaker 3>so much, is because y'all are like listening to T
<v Speaker 3>Cary talk And I mean, I'm just saying, you know,
<v Speaker 3>it's like one of those where if you if you
<v Speaker 3>weren't in old show business like I was in my dad,
<v Speaker 3>you know it. You have a you have an appreciation
<v Speaker 3>and a love for it. And that's what I like
<v Speaker 3>about being in a room with Tom Kenny, being in
<v Speaker 3>a room with Van Partible as everybody loves where we've
<v Speaker 3>come from.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, you know you all those corny old movies,
<v Speaker 1>old black and white movies that are I mean, I
<v Speaker 1>just eat them up. Yeah. I still I watch Gunsmoke,
<v Speaker 1>just on account.
<v Speaker 2>It's interesting hearing you guys talk nostalgically like this, because
<v Speaker 2>I'm thinking in my life, you know, I'm thirty three, Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>and in my life, you know, like I did grow
<v Speaker 2>up with like this deep reverence for film and television,
<v Speaker 2>you know, but it felt like not my nostalgia, you know,
<v Speaker 2>when I think about when I think back to that,
<v Speaker 2>it feels like my parents, my specifically my dad, who
<v Speaker 2>instilled this love for movies and theater into me. But
<v Speaker 2>when I'm just as you're talking right now, I'm looking here,
<v Speaker 2>you know, we're set up, and I can honestly say
<v Speaker 2>YouTube is like a huge, huge, huge part of like
<v Speaker 2>my upbringing. Like I've been on YouTube watching videos since
<v Speaker 2>I was fourteen years old. Yeah, and I was obsessed
<v Speaker 2>with it from the day it came out. I thought
<v Speaker 2>it was the greatest thing ever. I Mean, we had oh,
<v Speaker 2>Brandon Rodgers on the podcast. I'm not sure if you're
<v Speaker 2>familiar with them, Brandon Rodgers, and he was the same way.
<v Speaker 2>He was like, how is this is not the biggest
<v Speaker 2>thing in the world, like we can make our own
<v Speaker 2>content and just put it out there.
<v Speaker 3>Like you are my daughter's age, and she was all
<v Speaker 3>over YouTube and she was like da da And we
<v Speaker 3>had talked about, you know, me doing a channel and
<v Speaker 3>I said, you know, I just don't.
<v Speaker 1>I don't have.
<v Speaker 3>I think with the book coming out, I don't have
<v Speaker 3>the self discipline to like do something. And I said.
<v Speaker 3>She was like, do instructional, like put up scripts that
<v Speaker 3>you would write, not like we would write that it
<v Speaker 3>wouldn't be real stuff. And she said, show them how
<v Speaker 3>to break it down, show them how to not make
<v Speaker 3>mistakes in a booth, and blah blah blah blah blah.
<v Speaker 3>And it's her she could do it, Chris in her sleep.
<v Speaker 3>She was like, I can create it. And she runs
<v Speaker 3>my TikTok account and she was like putting this up
<v Speaker 3>and putting that up, and I put this up, and
<v Speaker 3>I can cut that, and I'll put the music on
<v Speaker 3>and I I say, my my childhood was colored by
<v Speaker 3>my dad, but my cartoon childhood was colored by Looney Tunes,
<v Speaker 3>Sure and three Stooges and then fractured fairy tales. Because
<v Speaker 3>that's the rhythm of my dad's comedy. That's the rhythm
<v Speaker 3>I grew up with. Like, my dad's big expression was
<v Speaker 3>when he saw something that he didn't like, he'd look
<v Speaker 3>at me and go, He'd go, they tell you, and
<v Speaker 3>we'd be like, Dad, don't say anything. They say, they
<v Speaker 3>tell you about this asshole right here. They tell you.
<v Speaker 3>We'd be like, oh my god, look at my sister
<v Speaker 3>and going he's telling us, Oh my god. And then
<v Speaker 3>she would we'd all just do this like, oh my god,
<v Speaker 3>he just said it again. He's going to tell this
<v Speaker 3>waitress something. And I think that that's why that's not
<v Speaker 3>my time. I mean, I'm a kid of the sixties.
<v Speaker 3>I grew up in the nineteen sixties and then my
<v Speaker 3>high school years were in the seventies. It's like, that's
<v Speaker 3>not my nostalgia, but that is my rhythm. And so
<v Speaker 3>what I've done to my daughter, which I'm sure you've
<v Speaker 3>done to yours, is that I've and stilled music like
<v Speaker 3>she knows the Eagles, she knows Linda Ronstat, she knows
<v Speaker 3>the Fillmore West, she knows the things that went up
<v Speaker 3>in there. Because my television was mash. I mean, I
<v Speaker 3>moved to La. I moved to La in seventy nine
<v Speaker 3>or eighty, and then I've been here since. And I
<v Speaker 3>was like, you know, I think that culturally, I went
<v Speaker 3>to work so young that my culture is gay night
<v Speaker 3>clubs and cartoons. I went from singing, and because that's
<v Speaker 3>all who had nightclubs in LA. You couldn't go to
<v Speaker 3>a supper there were no supper clubs. I could do
<v Speaker 3>my act, you know, in West Hollywood on a Thursday, Friday,
<v Speaker 3>Saturday night. Yeah, and you know, you couldn't sing. You
<v Speaker 3>had to have a straight act. And I remember MITSI
<v Speaker 3>Shore telling me, You're never gonna make it. You too cute.
<v Speaker 3>And I was like, oh, and she said, you're thin.
<v Speaker 3>Nobody's gonna want to nobody. They're gonna the act that
<v Speaker 3>follows you is going to make funny. Their act is
<v Speaker 3>going to be making fun of you for ten minutes.
<v Speaker 3>And I was like, I couldn't get up. I tried it.
<v Speaker 1>What the heck you do now?
<v Speaker 3>Right? You do cartoons? And I think that was, you know,
<v Speaker 3>and that's when they said when I when the marriage
<v Speaker 3>fell apart. I remember going in they said, you know,
<v Speaker 3>they struck. And now cartoons are only four hours. Remember
<v Speaker 3>when it used to be eight hours and I, and
<v Speaker 3>she was like, I think you should give it a try,
<v Speaker 3>and I just went all in. I was like, Okay,
<v Speaker 3>here we go. I will I will do it. And
<v Speaker 3>I think that's what I like most about it is
<v Speaker 3>that we all have this underlying language that we get
<v Speaker 3>and the better voice actors pull from the nineteen forties
<v Speaker 3>and fifties, and the new voice actors pull from Britney Spears.
<v Speaker 3>And that's all I'm going to say. And there's like
<v Speaker 3>a little like the better new actors pull from what
<v Speaker 3>Amy Winehouse, but most of them. Zeitgeist is very pop light.
<v Speaker 3>It's there. Yeah, there's not a lot.
<v Speaker 1>Of bumper sticker yes, humor.
<v Speaker 3>Bam yeah, and it's bumper sticker delivery. And they're watching
<v Speaker 3>YouTube to see how people act rather than being out
<v Speaker 3>among them. And I think there's something to be said
<v Speaker 3>for growing up without a cell phone.
<v Speaker 1>Oh I agree. I agree. I think that that's part
<v Speaker 1>of our downfall. Yeah, you know, showed attention span theater.
<v Speaker 1>Oh my god, It's like that's that's all that's out
<v Speaker 1>there now.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, And I think that it is. It is amazing
<v Speaker 3>when you can turn it off. It was My daughter
<v Speaker 3>just recently got married in October and for ninety six hours,
<v Speaker 3>people were not on their cell phones other than taking pictures. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>and then we faced down. She got married in Santa Barbara.
<v Speaker 3>We stayed at a cute little hotel right by the pier.
<v Speaker 1>It was so beautiful.
<v Speaker 3>She got married at the courthouse. We had a little thing,
<v Speaker 3>and then every night we'd come back and sit at
<v Speaker 3>the fire tables in our section of insanity. They put
<v Speaker 3>us all over here in one spot, and we we
<v Speaker 3>had the greatest time not on our cell phones. And
<v Speaker 3>I said, you know, I don't know what you do
<v Speaker 3>when you have a new kid. Now, what do you
<v Speaker 3>what do you do? What do you do?
<v Speaker 2>Like?
<v Speaker 1>That's that's I don't know.
<v Speaker 3>I guess, well it's not my problem, No more problem.
<v Speaker 1>That's right. Yeah. Gosh, Well, you know it calls me
<v Speaker 1>when you see somebody at the mall or whatever and
<v Speaker 1>there's a little infant in there and being very quiet
<v Speaker 1>and they're on the cell phone or on an iPad,
<v Speaker 1>an iPad.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and I man, we were in where were we
<v Speaker 2>somewhere Europe, maybe London, I don't know. We went out.
<v Speaker 2>It was me, you, Katrina, maybe Darien was there. Anyway.
<v Speaker 2>We went to this nice steakhouse, right, nice steakhouse in Europe.
<v Speaker 2>Go out there, Yeah, And we sit down and table
<v Speaker 2>next to us is little kid on like this rubber
<v Speaker 2>iPad and it's blasting it like full volume in like
<v Speaker 2>you know, a dimly lit steakhouse, you know, you know
<v Speaker 2>the atmosphere, and this kid is like you can see
<v Speaker 2>the glow from his screen, you can hear it. He's
<v Speaker 2>throwing it on the ground like they're like oh, and
<v Speaker 2>they just don't even look up from their conversation and
<v Speaker 2>hand it back to him. And it's like, that's that is.
<v Speaker 3>How we are making compliant kids. And I really don't
<v Speaker 3>like it. I just I. But then I found out
<v Speaker 3>that when you go to school, no matter where you go,
<v Speaker 3>the denominational, non denominational, public, private, you are given an
<v Speaker 3>iPad to do your homework on.
<v Speaker 2>Kids don't know how to type, they don't say typing class.
<v Speaker 3>Well, it's funny because I thought my thank you note,
<v Speaker 3>which was so cute, and then I got a lovely
<v Speaker 3>Christmas card from my daughter with her new last name,
<v Speaker 3>and it's printed because she doesn't really I mean, her
<v Speaker 3>calligraphy is great, but Chris gone like us, you know,
<v Speaker 3>that's great as that we have like a secret code
<v Speaker 3>for kids. Today. I could write all about you and
<v Speaker 3>you can't eat it, which is amazing. Yea, which is amazing.
<v Speaker 2>I think cursive died out with my generation.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, everything was tip, No, Gabby doesn't. Everything is typed
<v Speaker 3>and everything is on these computers, and I say, it'll
<v Speaker 3>be it'll be something that'll bring us back around. But
<v Speaker 3>I do think that that's what was great about not
<v Speaker 3>having access to all the information all the time from
<v Speaker 3>all over the world. It is crazy making and I
<v Speaker 3>didn't use my cell phone for seventy two hours during
<v Speaker 3>that people were texting me. I would go the whole
<v Speaker 3>time in Houston without picking it up. I thought, I'm
<v Speaker 3>here to make money and I don't want to pick
<v Speaker 3>it up here.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>During the convention, I didn't touch it. And then I
<v Speaker 3>would go back every night and look at it for
<v Speaker 3>a little bit and say, I didn't miss anything.
<v Speaker 1>World is still here with fine, and you certainly didn't
<v Speaker 1>miss anything. No, No, Yeah, it drives me nuts, and
<v Speaker 1>I think it's one of my favorite old short stories
<v Speaker 1>science fiction. I want to say it was Isaac Cosimo,
<v Speaker 1>but he writes a story about the futuristic corporation and
<v Speaker 1>it was set. I mean, it's an old show, so
<v Speaker 1>I think it was like set in twenty twenty one,
<v Speaker 1>which was way in the future, right, And there was
<v Speaker 1>a janitor working in this big conglomerate place who plans
<v Speaker 1>everything for the future and this and that, and they,
<v Speaker 1>you know, barely live in the present. And they saw
<v Speaker 1>the janitor over there and he had a pencil and
<v Speaker 1>paper and one of the guy goes, I'm so sorry,
<v Speaker 1>I have to ask you what the hell is that?
<v Speaker 1>And he said, oh, well, this is a pencil. And
<v Speaker 1>he goes, okay, a pencil. Where'd you get that? He goes, oh,
<v Speaker 1>I found a whole mess of them up in the attic.
<v Speaker 1>My grandpa, you know this that, and and yet you
<v Speaker 1>got to sharpen it like and he was and he
<v Speaker 1>was like, what a pencil? Huh And he goes, no, no,
<v Speaker 1>what are the Oh so you have, well these number
<v Speaker 1>what do you do with all these numbers? He goes, Oh,
<v Speaker 1>that's addition, He said, what do you mean you're adding
<v Speaker 1>on to something? He goes no, no, no, it says
<v Speaker 1>like like twenty seven plus thirty three and then on
<v Speaker 1>the bottom that's what it adds up. To and he goes,
<v Speaker 1>why would you why do you do that? And he goes, oh,
<v Speaker 1>that's kind of a hobby. So can you imagine, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>arithmetic is a hobby in the future or is it?
<v Speaker 2>Because he got the worst day?
<v Speaker 3>Well, it was fascinating because I was somewhere where somebody went,
<v Speaker 3>hate Siri. I don't want to do it to like
<v Speaker 3>activate my phone. That's here right, what is twenty seven
<v Speaker 3>plus sixty five?
<v Speaker 2>And I thought, oh my god, Yeah, that blows me away.
<v Speaker 3>You don't know how to carry the you don't know
<v Speaker 3>how to carry the one. Oh my god. I yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I think.
<v Speaker 2>You should be able to multiply that.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, exactly. And I just kind of think, well, you know,
<v Speaker 3>it is what it is. I'm happy for my insane memories.
<v Speaker 3>I'm not really I think as worried about the future
<v Speaker 3>as other people are. And they I got so many
<v Speaker 3>questions in Houston about how do you feel AI is,
<v Speaker 3>And I said, we're going to get tired of it
<v Speaker 3>because people like people.
<v Speaker 2>You know what's crazy though, what just happened this week
<v Speaker 2>the video game franchise Call of Duty. Yeah, they just
<v Speaker 2>fired like five voice actors and replaced them all with AI.
<v Speaker 1>Wow.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, fired them all.
<v Speaker 3>Well, you know, it's it's interesting.
<v Speaker 2>Had been in several games.
<v Speaker 3>We had gone to several meetings and they were talking
<v Speaker 3>about having voice actors strike and they were going to
<v Speaker 3>just strike everything years ago, and they had this one
<v Speaker 3>kid that stood up and I know his name. I
<v Speaker 3>won't say anything, that said, I make a lot of money,
<v Speaker 3>and I believe they gave him like a hundred K
<v Speaker 3>up front because he was something in some huge franchise.
<v Speaker 3>And I said, one day, you will be replaced by
<v Speaker 3>all the free dialogue that you're doing that isn't in
<v Speaker 3>the game, that they're cataloging, and that's little candy. It's
<v Speaker 3>telling you that they're banking everything you see from the
<v Speaker 3>moment you walk in. And now they have a library.
<v Speaker 3>And he was just released off another game, and why.
<v Speaker 1>People don't need you anymore?
<v Speaker 3>Did it? And you didn't stand up with us, and
<v Speaker 3>blah blah blah. And now you you paid in and
<v Speaker 3>you have your pension and you're in your forties. You
<v Speaker 3>have another twenty years before you can collect it. I
<v Speaker 3>hope we're all I hope we're all here. But I
<v Speaker 3>was like, every time you walk in, they I mean
<v Speaker 3>it used to be something at Cartoon Network. I didn't
<v Speaker 3>dig like I'd say, don't record us. We're talking, like,
<v Speaker 3>don't like you'd have a weird guy. Yeah, didn't know
<v Speaker 3>it and they were listening in and recording and I
<v Speaker 3>didn't like it at all. And it was one of
<v Speaker 3>those because that's that's what I said. But what I
<v Speaker 3>firmly believe because we see it every time the technology
<v Speaker 3>pendulum swings. It never quite works for medicine. I think
<v Speaker 3>it's great for speech therapy, like for that kind of stuff.
<v Speaker 3>I think it's great. I've seen the AI commercials. You
<v Speaker 3>can tell because it feels wooden and mechanical. I saw
<v Speaker 3>the robots from Tesla and I was like, the minute
<v Speaker 3>they turn on you, they'll be gone. But I just
<v Speaker 3>think that I do believe in the human spirit. I
<v Speaker 3>do believe. I do believe that they will. Somebody said, oh,
<v Speaker 3>they're going to get better and better. You could tell
<v Speaker 3>that that was AI. It's going to get better and better.
<v Speaker 3>And I said, right, but nobody will have any money
<v Speaker 3>to be able to buy the things that you're selling
<v Speaker 3>because none of us will have jobs. None of us
<v Speaker 3>will have jobs. We won't be able to afford our
<v Speaker 3>rent none of us.
<v Speaker 1>Will have jobs.
<v Speaker 2>I would think that the goal is to have them
<v Speaker 2>replace like the menial tasks, so we can focus more
<v Speaker 2>on important things. But you know that's not gonna happen.
<v Speaker 2>They're gonna be butlers and mansions and yeah, that's gonna
<v Speaker 2>be what.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you know, years ago I did this thing and
<v Speaker 1>it was, uh, it was called I think I've said
<v Speaker 1>this before, but it was called my Interactive Pooh, so
<v Speaker 1>right off the bat, you got a loser, my interact
<v Speaker 1>my interactive what now it sounds like so like play dough?
<v Speaker 1>Is that because you know, if you're too you all
<v Speaker 1>your poo is interactive? Uh So, anyway, I'm doing this
<v Speaker 1>thing and it was sort of a talking pool, but
<v Speaker 1>it was very sweet. It came out rather rather well.
<v Speaker 1>But they at the end of the recording and I
<v Speaker 1>had to say every name in the universe, by the way,
<v Speaker 1>every single name. Did I mention every single name because
<v Speaker 1>there was a lot of a lot of names, a
<v Speaker 1>lot of names, you know, uh, and essays you wouldn't
<v Speaker 1>think that any But they said at the end, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>now here's what we're gonna do. And and they haven't
<v Speaker 1>these pages of what are called phoneymes you know that is.
<v Speaker 1>And it's like and and and and me in and
<v Speaker 1>mo and then nah and and I go, why would
<v Speaker 1>I do that again? And in the midst of her genius,
<v Speaker 1>she goes, well, this way, we see. All you have
<v Speaker 1>to do is take these together and put them in
<v Speaker 1>the right order and and it gets a new word
<v Speaker 1>and we don't have to bring it back and pay
<v Speaker 1>you all over again. And I really and you just
<v Speaker 1>said that right out loud. Everybody you know, I heard you, right,
<v Speaker 1>I can hear you.
<v Speaker 3>And then what is your position on what can you do?
<v Speaker 3>And do it?
<v Speaker 1>And the guy from Disney went and he's thinking, that's
<v Speaker 1>the wrong guy. And I said, oh, oh gosh, I
<v Speaker 1>don't think I'll be able to Oh look, I can't talk.
<v Speaker 1>I mean I can't talk.
<v Speaker 3>Oh my god.
<v Speaker 1>And I did.
<v Speaker 2>I did?
<v Speaker 1>I was that blatant? And I said, And I'm looking
<v Speaker 1>at him and he's going, oh my god, yeah yeah.
<v Speaker 3>And I think that's what they did. They use this
<v Speaker 3>kid enough. They paid him, you know, probably five hundred
<v Speaker 3>thousand dollars over five years. But they had his library.
<v Speaker 3>Every word he's ever said. They can use every call
<v Speaker 3>to action, everything that And I forget what the game was,
<v Speaker 3>but I know.
<v Speaker 1>Well, hopefully it's failed.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and I that's what And I think that's I
<v Speaker 3>didn't know that they were doing that, and that is
<v Speaker 3>I say this. I say let them, and I think
<v Speaker 3>it will. I just believe it. What is the expression.
<v Speaker 3>I believe they'll be hoisted by their own petards. I
<v Speaker 3>believe that this is going to be something that will
<v Speaker 3>be a huge success, but not in the way they
<v Speaker 3>think it is. I think for I can tell Ai
<v Speaker 3>and I don't like it. They did it in the
<v Speaker 3>New Mawana where they everybody's saying that it was a
<v Speaker 3>huge smash and critics hate the movie. They just don't
<v Speaker 3>like it. And I said, and I understand why people
<v Speaker 3>love it because the story is great. But the story
<v Speaker 3>was created by Ai. Everything was created by AI. And
<v Speaker 3>I think that.
<v Speaker 2>The moan was created by AI. Wow, I didn't know.
<v Speaker 1>I did say that one.
<v Speaker 3>And I think that Disney is so innovative. They're going
<v Speaker 3>to try everything, you know, and then get good at it.
<v Speaker 3>But I think eventually they know who their customer base
<v Speaker 3>is and that it has to have warmth. And I
<v Speaker 3>think that is what's missing from AI to warmth and reality,
<v Speaker 3>and being I'm being honest, I think that it will.
<v Speaker 3>The pendulum may not swing all the way back, but
<v Speaker 3>I think they need us.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I have in that. I do because it's a
<v Speaker 1>bringsteights on.
<v Speaker 2>You know.
<v Speaker 1>All that's missing is the human touch.
<v Speaker 3>And really it's true. I saw, I don't know if
<v Speaker 3>it was during the Olympics somebody, they rolled out two
<v Speaker 3>AI commercials and I could tell right away, yes, Coca
<v Speaker 3>Cola was one of them, and something else where people
<v Speaker 3>were walking down a cherry lane and I was like,
<v Speaker 3>this is all AI, this is all and because there
<v Speaker 3>was absolutely no warmth. And I believe that they will
<v Speaker 3>have that. They can synthesize voices now, but it's no
<v Speaker 3>different than when voice Bank went off and then all
<v Speaker 3>those the guy that thought voice Bank was using all
<v Speaker 3>of our voices that he had on there to find
<v Speaker 3>non union actors that sounded like us. And I actually
<v Speaker 3>had coached, which is why I don't coach anymore. I
<v Speaker 3>had coached a young girl putting together her demo and
<v Speaker 3>then she went on there as a candy Milo sound alike.
<v Speaker 3>I thought, that's great, how are you doing? And I
<v Speaker 3>had seen her and I guess I think she is
<v Speaker 3>a waitress. But I thought it was so interesting that
<v Speaker 3>I thought, I'm still alive in kicking, and when I'm gone,
<v Speaker 3>you could have my daughter who sounds like me, or
<v Speaker 3>you can AI me, but nobody cares if you ai me.
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<v Speaker 3>Do it now. I'm not a I'm not a major player,
<v Speaker 3>I mean, and it's so funny. I'm laughing thinking this
<v Speaker 3>all started like and Dexter, because I had replaced Christy Kavin.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and Oslin. She was my daughter, yes, stark Wing
<v Speaker 1>Duck's daughter.
<v Speaker 3>And remember when she left and they were going to
<v Speaker 3>do something with I know, and they were going to
<v Speaker 3>do something again to bring her back, and I was saying,
<v Speaker 3>please just read me. I sound just like her, Please
<v Speaker 3>read me. She was a friend of mine. We had
<v Speaker 3>both been called back several times for the Roseanne bar
<v Speaker 3>she was doing a sketch comedy show. She and her
<v Speaker 3>husband were at the time, Tom, and she and Tom
<v Speaker 3>were putting together and that's when we got to because
<v Speaker 3>we had the same on camera agent and we were
<v Speaker 3>having a blast just going on all these weird auditions.
<v Speaker 3>And when she left and they were thinking about doing
<v Speaker 3>like a little mini reboot, I was like, oh, please
<v Speaker 3>see me, because I can do it. Please see me.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, Roseanne and I have the same birthday.
<v Speaker 3>Do you really date?
<v Speaker 1>Really about that? You'd think we'd hang out or something,
<v Speaker 1>But apparently apparently you know.
<v Speaker 2>Who was yours? Who was born on the same is
<v Speaker 2>Richard Nixon.
<v Speaker 3>Richard Nixon, And on my birthday I wrote him a
<v Speaker 3>letter said.
<v Speaker 1>You were born on the same birthday, not year.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I don't know. He's same birthdays. I don't have anybody.
<v Speaker 3>I do have several January ninth people that I have
<v Speaker 3>met over the years who were also left handed like
<v Speaker 3>I am, and which blows my mind.
<v Speaker 1>And that's interesting.
<v Speaker 3>I had found when Gabby got married one of the
<v Speaker 3>girl's mother that were taking the photos. Their mother spells
<v Speaker 3>her name exactly like I do. My given name is Candace,
<v Speaker 3>but my dad spelled it with a Y, and I've
<v Speaker 3>never met anybody and their mother is a candas with
<v Speaker 3>a wy.
<v Speaker 1>It's like, yeah, that's true.
<v Speaker 3>She has to stop it.
<v Speaker 2>I've never met another Christopher Judge either.
<v Speaker 3>No.
<v Speaker 2>I actually no, I did one time I was working
<v Speaker 2>on set. I was working on set one time. I
<v Speaker 2>totally forgot about this. I was working on set in Victoria, Canada,
<v Speaker 2>of all places, on this miserable shoot. It was called
<v Speaker 2>pop Stars Too, Animal Movie all that. Like, there was
<v Speaker 2>like two cast members and then the rest were animals,
<v Speaker 2>and oh god, those days were miserable, just in the
<v Speaker 2>middle of winter, dark days, reigning everything. Anyway, We're doing
<v Speaker 2>this like boat scene out in Little Harbor, and so
<v Speaker 2>we have like these divers on set, and this guy
<v Speaker 2>comes up to me and he was like, hey, your
<v Speaker 2>name is Chris Judge, right, And then I was like yeah,
<v Speaker 2>and he was like, dude, there's a diver and his
<v Speaker 2>name is Christopher Judge and I was like, no way.
<v Speaker 2>And the kicker is he comes up and we're laughing,
<v Speaker 2>we're taking pictures together. His middle name is Jordan as well.
<v Speaker 2>His name is Christopher Jordan Judge.
<v Speaker 1>Oh no, and that's his name.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, exact same name. I was like, this is bizarre.
<v Speaker 3>That is wild.
<v Speaker 2>Guy looks nothing like me. No, he's like twelve years
<v Speaker 2>older than me. Fat white guy.
<v Speaker 3>That is wild.
<v Speaker 2>I know. I was like, well, because that's not the
<v Speaker 2>very cop. Maybe if he's like Shoe Smith or you know.
<v Speaker 1>Like yeah, yeah, yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I was like, whoa, that's great.
<v Speaker 3>Yea.
<v Speaker 1>I actually met too Joe Smith's but only one Christopher
<v Speaker 1>Jordan and Judge. Now you've only met one too, So
<v Speaker 1>yeah in the mirror, is it time for a voice swap?
<v Speaker 2>We have a game that we probably do.
<v Speaker 1>What do we do?
<v Speaker 3>Okay, tell me about You're gonna love it to death.
<v Speaker 2>It's called the Voice Swapper Extravaganza. So Jim will start off.
<v Speaker 2>He'll give you a line of one of his characters,
<v Speaker 2>say Winnie the Peer or Tiger is something that they say,
<v Speaker 2>and then you'll imitate that line, repeat that line, but
<v Speaker 2>in the voice of one of your characters, and then
<v Speaker 2>we'll go back and forth, and then you'll do a
<v Speaker 2>character blah blah blahay sound good?
<v Speaker 3>Sound good?
<v Speaker 1>Okay, So would you happen to have a macro of
<v Speaker 1>honey about you?
<v Speaker 7>When you happen to have asked the mackerel. I'm honey
<v Speaker 7>about you. I like chocolate mail jeez from Okay, okay.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, so now you give me one and I'll do
<v Speaker 1>it as someone.
<v Speaker 3>You are standid woman, d D D his sister.
<v Speaker 6>Okay, d D you are so stupid woman you can't
<v Speaker 6>even bounce.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, I feel better.
<v Speaker 2>Now, would you say? I conventions? What do people come
<v Speaker 2>up to you for the most which I can think.
<v Speaker 3>There are three which I learned, which I'm getting better
<v Speaker 3>at these, I feel like I'm still a newbie. It
<v Speaker 3>is Dexter from Dexter's laboratory, and they're fully aware that
<v Speaker 3>I didn't create it, but they still ask me lovely sure,
<v Speaker 3>like where did where did the voice come from? And
<v Speaker 3>I was the right exactly and I said, when I
<v Speaker 3>was struggling with it, how it was being pride out
<v Speaker 3>of me was that they you know that voice acting
<v Speaker 3>is like jazz. So I'm a jazz singer. Chrissy was
<v Speaker 3>a jazz singer. We don't. We're both funny. We're both
<v Speaker 3>jazz singers, but my jazz is not like her jazz.
<v Speaker 3>So my pause is I god a for measure here,
<v Speaker 3>I'm gonna hold that out then I'm gonna stop and
<v Speaker 3>come in, and she was just this way, and so
<v Speaker 3>I remember Gendi walking down and saying, Candy, I understand
<v Speaker 3>that you are having problem. And I went, oh, that's
<v Speaker 3>where she got the voice, and he I don't know,
<v Speaker 3>he was really wonderful. But I get dexter a lot.
<v Speaker 3>I get cheese from Foster's home, which is amazing to
<v Speaker 3>me because we had seven years, and he was in
<v Speaker 3>four episodes of seven years. But there was something about
<v Speaker 3>his quiet specialness, his weirdness, the way he was drawn
<v Speaker 3>that it was highly comedic. It was frenetic. People really
<v Speaker 3>love him. And then I get the flee from Muchialucha,
<v Speaker 3>who was and was your friend cheech Marien. So when
<v Speaker 3>I grew up, they used to play on KLIV in
<v Speaker 3>northern California, chich and Chong in full at nine o'clock
<v Speaker 3>at night, and I had a transistor and I was
<v Speaker 3>supposed to be in bed, but I would listen to
<v Speaker 3>the full albums and sometimes they were blue, but so
<v Speaker 3>I would. I would listen to it. And I remember
<v Speaker 3>that they did the bit you know this, Jim Dave's
<v Speaker 3>not here, so he could come to the door and
<v Speaker 3>you'd go, hey, it's me. It's Dave. Open the door,
<v Speaker 3>it's Dave. Dave's not here man. No man is me.
<v Speaker 3>I'm Dave. Who Dave? There's not here man? And then
<v Speaker 3>you go back to it was it was like who's
<v Speaker 3>on first? For Mexicans. So I go to the audition
<v Speaker 3>and I said, and I'm looking at the lines and
<v Speaker 3>then I said, I'm seeing I have an idea, and
<v Speaker 3>they were like, okay, what we want is a little
<v Speaker 3>boy voice with a slight Hispanic accent. And I was like, okay,
<v Speaker 3>hold my beer. I just want to I want to
<v Speaker 3>try something for you. And I did basically that Dave's
<v Speaker 3>not here for that character. And so it's like the
<v Speaker 3>Flea was the Telcoche. I'm behind you one hundred percent,
<v Speaker 3>but I'm way behind you and I just did this
<v Speaker 3>and that voice used to kill me.
<v Speaker 2>That's a great character.
<v Speaker 3>Thank you so for That was Kid's WB and it
<v Speaker 3>was the first flash animation show, so it was very
<v Speaker 3>Flintstones with the very with the same backgrounds going. But
<v Speaker 3>oh shoot, but if you can whip it out so quickly,
<v Speaker 3>they could be in six weeks they could have an
<v Speaker 3>episode out, and we were cranking them out. But they
<v Speaker 3>couldn't syndicate it because it was so US specific. So
<v Speaker 3>I get a lot from the from the Latino and
<v Speaker 3>Hispanic community. What happened? We love that show. I sell
<v Speaker 3>a lot of flea I get a lot of flea gifts,
<v Speaker 3>which I love. I sell a lot of debts that's
<v Speaker 3>a big deal, and a lot of cheese. And it's
<v Speaker 3>so funny because I really lucked into the voice of
<v Speaker 3>Granny and like then, yeah, I get very little of that,
<v Speaker 3>but you know I have. It's and it's because Warner
<v Speaker 3>brother holds on to the bigger projects that I've done
<v Speaker 3>as Granny or Witch Hasler, Missus Chrissy. And we do
<v Speaker 3>have a film coming out in February. Okay, this this
<v Speaker 3>February should be out any day now. It's called The
<v Speaker 3>Day of the Earth Blew Up and it's a full
<v Speaker 3>length Porky and Daffy feature. It does have Eric Boosa
<v Speaker 3>doing both Porky and Daffy. And I gotta say, mm
<v Speaker 3>hm it is it is mel.
<v Speaker 1>Blank Oh yeah, right there.
<v Speaker 2>He was on the show a couple of weeks ago.
<v Speaker 3>Was right there, man, I tell you he's he's like
<v Speaker 3>in in the pocket where you have me laughing out loud,
<v Speaker 3>and then I do Petunia Pig and it's so I'm
<v Speaker 3>doing all this stuff, but Ketchup Entertainment had to buy
<v Speaker 3>it from Warner Brothers. They did a buyout, which was fine,
<v Speaker 3>fine with me, but they're hanging on to Coyote v Acne,
<v Speaker 3>which is Coyote is suing Acne. Yeah, with John Cena
<v Speaker 3>will our net In starting in starring roles. And then
<v Speaker 3>I am doing a plethora but Granny and that is
<v Speaker 3>the entire best story. And I was like, oh my gosh,
<v Speaker 3>so you'd think that here I am this And I
<v Speaker 3>had asked our guys at slub Works. I'm like, why
<v Speaker 3>isn't there a Warner brother panel? Why aren't you like
<v Speaker 3>doing tat Why aren't we doing what we do? And
<v Speaker 3>let me do sweetie and like all of this stuff
<v Speaker 3>and let me come on with what I'm doing now,
<v Speaker 3>which is which is kind of I'm praying that I'm
<v Speaker 3>semi locked in. I have to go meet with somebody
<v Speaker 3>there to being Yeah, please at my age, please God,
<v Speaker 3>thank you.
<v Speaker 1>I'm on everything.
<v Speaker 2>Wait, so can you tell us anything about the Coyote
<v Speaker 2>va acme? So that's not out there that nobody.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know that it will see the light of day.
<v Speaker 2>No, no, no, like something in the movie.
<v Speaker 3>John Sena was asked to watch a scene that I
<v Speaker 3>did as Miss Prissy, so the boys that do brother
<v Speaker 3>Classic and she was the.
<v Speaker 1>Little she was in love with.
<v Speaker 3>And the bonnet, yes, the bonnet and the glasses. She's
<v Speaker 3>a sinister and everybody makes fun of her and she
<v Speaker 3>is madly in love with foghorn leghorns, so she's a jew.
<v Speaker 3>So she's a juror in the in this in this
<v Speaker 3>movie that will never see the light of day. And
<v Speaker 3>they had to have John Cena Dave Green, the director
<v Speaker 3>told me, because I ad libs something so the boys
<v Speaker 3>and that they said they laughed so hard that the
<v Speaker 3>audience laughed over John Cena's line, which was so good.
<v Speaker 3>So they wanted to bring John in and they said,
<v Speaker 3>you need to watch this because this is what she
<v Speaker 3>did was gold but it strews.
<v Speaker 2>So good.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, And so he sat down and he watched it,
<v Speaker 3>and I said, when he walks in it, oh, I'd
<v Speaker 3>let him keep my eggs warm anytime. And he laughed
<v Speaker 3>so hard and he said, cut my line, don't you
<v Speaker 3>dare my line? So that you never see thee.
<v Speaker 1>And apparent now I like him even more, right.
<v Speaker 3>And he followed me on Twitter and he was like,
<v Speaker 3>wrote me a d M saying, you know I watched
<v Speaker 3>it was so great and I was like, oh my god,
<v Speaker 3>John Cena, I'm trying to please God so I will
<v Speaker 3>never see the light of day. And then Granny has
<v Speaker 3>a It's so brilliant and so beautiful. Her b story
<v Speaker 3>is she's looking for her husband, and Granny is in
<v Speaker 3>the nineteen forties. Her story is all animated, all in
<v Speaker 3>the nineteen forties, all all a cool world. The other
<v Speaker 3>thing is in the courtroom. But uh, Witch Hazel is
<v Speaker 3>an office assistant, Miss Prissy. Every time you cut to her,
<v Speaker 3>she says some sort of filthy like little take it
<v Speaker 3>the wrong way. That's all she does. That's all you do.
<v Speaker 3>You cut and she's still making Google eyes at John Cena.
<v Speaker 3>And then that will never He is forever my hero.
<v Speaker 3>I think the entire crew is devastated. I was reaching.
<v Speaker 2>Everybody's devastated.
<v Speaker 1>I'm devastated.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, it's so damn Funny was.
<v Speaker 2>Telling me, not telling me, telling the podcast that he
<v Speaker 2>did like some seven or eight voices on that show.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, we were just and he recorded at home. I
<v Speaker 3>recorded at home. I was doing something where I was
<v Speaker 3>recording the last day and that was when they gave
<v Speaker 3>me the good news, where John was like, cut my line,
<v Speaker 3>recut it and leave her Lisa that it made him
<v Speaker 3>laugh how loud, and then he ran, Dave ran and
<v Speaker 3>they were at Abbey Road and the entire orchestra was
<v Speaker 3>orchestrating my heart felt music as I was talking about
<v Speaker 3>my husband and I'm like, it's the full London and
<v Speaker 3>will never see. But when we went, Gabby and I
<v Speaker 3>went my daughter is Gabby. When we went to this
<v Speaker 3>teeny tiny con in Wales, we'd stopped off in London,
<v Speaker 3>and we walked up and signed the wall because I
<v Speaker 3>sorta recorded there. And then she was like ring the
<v Speaker 3>bell and I was like no, and she was like,
<v Speaker 3>oh ring, it grabs my finger and rings the bell
<v Speaker 3>and I was like, oh sorry. I was just like
<v Speaker 3>my daughter mate and they said no, come in, we
<v Speaker 3>have a store and we went and we bought like
<v Speaker 3>a bunch of beetles. It was so dumb, but it
<v Speaker 3>was such a wonderful.
<v Speaker 1>And we went to London or okay.
<v Speaker 3>London proper where they they were doing a lot and
<v Speaker 3>I don't know if Warner Brothers has something. And I've said,
<v Speaker 3>you know, I can't pretend to know executives' minds. I
<v Speaker 3>don't know their business model. I don't know what they're doing.
<v Speaker 3>I can't pretend to understand. There must be a reason
<v Speaker 3>that we don't know about. But I know that Dave Green,
<v Speaker 3>who directed this, is devastated because I'm telling you, as
<v Speaker 3>funny as the Earth, the day the Earth blew up
<v Speaker 3>is coyote yacme is just as funny. And I'm telling
<v Speaker 3>you the day that Earth blew up is butt crack jokes,
<v Speaker 3>it's slapstick, it's butt crack and chewing them and that's
<v Speaker 3>all it is. And if you know kids ten and under,
<v Speaker 3>literally this is for them. But I think it's Warner Brothers,
<v Speaker 3>Pete Broungart and Alex Kirwan and Derek Bachman are all
<v Speaker 3>the people. Michael Ruoco who are It's absolutely gorgeous, stupid,
<v Speaker 3>It's fabulous. And it's like, that is what I think,
<v Speaker 3>because we do have some great stills. I got stills
<v Speaker 3>from the movie ok So, and they're like, and what
<v Speaker 3>is this? And I was like, wait until February, which
<v Speaker 3>is now, wait until February. You're gonna want this, get
<v Speaker 3>it now, because I may be out of them, but
<v Speaker 3>I think that maybe like, oh it makes me cry.
<v Speaker 3>Maybe like my dad, I'm always just a day late
<v Speaker 3>and a dollar short, you know, And I'm trying to
<v Speaker 3>change that by being as out there as I can
<v Speaker 3>and saying I just need one little break. I just
<v Speaker 3>need one of these Granny slash witch Hazels, slash one
<v Speaker 3>of the June fora voices to break. And the big
<v Speaker 3>break was going to be I did Rooto off the
<v Speaker 3>red Nose reindeer. The woman passed away. There was a
<v Speaker 3>fiftieth anniversary like ten years ago, and I was voicing
<v Speaker 3>Rudolph Rank and bass all and then they were like,
<v Speaker 3>we're going to make another one who can both ranking
<v Speaker 3>and best died. And I was like, oh, dear God,
<v Speaker 3>dear God. So I just keep on, I keep on
<v Speaker 3>keeping on. I have great, great faith. I do. I
<v Speaker 3>have great faith. That's all you can do and then laugh.
<v Speaker 3>And I've never had more fun than I did in
<v Speaker 3>Houston that weekend with all of my friends all in
<v Speaker 3>the same boat. We're all in the same boat going,
<v Speaker 3>let's just go to dinner, spend some of the money
<v Speaker 3>they gave us for per diem and let's go out
<v Speaker 3>and have a drink or seven and then like dinner,
<v Speaker 3>eat tacos, and then to hope we do something in
<v Speaker 3>my I was talking to Robbie Paulson and I said,
<v Speaker 3>you know, my prayer is for him that his book
<v Speaker 3>takes off, that he does his TED talks. And he
<v Speaker 3>was saying, you know, talk to my guy so that
<v Speaker 3>you could do a TED talk about how you grew up.
<v Speaker 3>And I said, you know, I don't know if you
<v Speaker 3>can imagine Carrie Fisher doing a TED talk, but I said,
<v Speaker 3>that's kind of who I am, And that's my situation
<v Speaker 3>where I'm the daughter of somebody that was famous. But
<v Speaker 3>we're like, we're like the poor family that didn't make it,
<v Speaker 3>like Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher made it, Tony Milo
<v Speaker 3>and Candy Milo. It's like we're still keeping on, but
<v Speaker 3>I am. I am keeping on. And when I see
<v Speaker 3>you do something like this, it gives me such joy
<v Speaker 3>because they will not be able to replace us. They
<v Speaker 3>just they can't. They can't do this, They can't write.
<v Speaker 3>How am I going to sit with an AI person
<v Speaker 3>or one of like Elon's robots without faces like yeah,
<v Speaker 3>and then what did you do? Hah, what did you do?
<v Speaker 3>What did you do? I would be like, oh god,
<v Speaker 3>I have to go oh no, no, thank you.
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<v Speaker 3>That's about all I've got like going on waiting for
<v Speaker 3>I think The Day to Earth blew Up is going
<v Speaker 3>to be good. I'm waiting for that to come out.
<v Speaker 1>And she doesn't. You don't mean Armageddon, you mean the movie? Yeah, okay, good.
<v Speaker 3>Because I wish and then and then blew Up. It's
<v Speaker 3>a double on Tandre see and then and then praying
<v Speaker 3>they released the act me and then I'm hoping that
<v Speaker 3>the book does really well. And my idea for that
<v Speaker 3>is that I would like to write a musical for that,
<v Speaker 3>sort of a one woman show with a with a
<v Speaker 3>scrim so the action that I'm not a part of
<v Speaker 3>can take place behind me. But it's kind of a
<v Speaker 3>real stand up version, but with somebody that can sing
<v Speaker 3>it besides me, because I'll probably be eighty by then.
<v Speaker 3>So nobody wants to see that.
<v Speaker 1>Nobody wants to see well, they certainly want to hear.
<v Speaker 3>It too, Yeah, I hope. So I'm trying to figure
<v Speaker 3>out how one does a book launch when one is
<v Speaker 3>not famous for anything other than cartoon voices. See the
<v Speaker 3>last publisher I had, just so the full Tony Milow
<v Speaker 3>effect can happen is that she never read my book,
<v Speaker 3>and she published it perfect and exactly, and she had
<v Speaker 3>played and the manager that I had, quote unquote was
<v Speaker 3>afraid of the publisher. And so when they put it
<v Speaker 3>in the children's section as children's book, people were returning
<v Speaker 3>it because they thought it was about my life and cartoons,
<v Speaker 3>and I thought, no, no, And also spoiler alert, my
<v Speaker 3>voices don't come from our residents. I don't do that.
<v Speaker 3>My voices come from my life. Is a child wishing
<v Speaker 3>that I could just be part of the Brady clan,
<v Speaker 3>just want to be a baby bunch kid. I was like,
<v Speaker 3>that's those are my parents? Get me? How would you
<v Speaker 3>like to be in my family with a high IQ going,
<v Speaker 3>oh my god.
<v Speaker 1>Oh.
<v Speaker 3>Every day I'd wake up and I remember one of
<v Speaker 3>the lines in my book is my dad said, you know,
<v Speaker 3>go to sleep today. Tomorrow can't be any worse than today.
<v Speaker 3>And I said, right, absolutely, And then I woke back
<v Speaker 3>the next day and said, yesterday was as good as
<v Speaker 3>it was ever going to be, which after the first night,
<v Speaker 3>that was as good as and then it was just
<v Speaker 3>chaos for sixteen years, actually chaos, chaos until I moved
<v Speaker 3>to La and was I talked to you on Father's Day. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I gotta go, I gotta I gotta sing in some nightclubs.
<v Speaker 1>And yeah, trying to turn into myself. Yeah, and I
<v Speaker 1>that's what I used to call it. I have to
<v Speaker 1>go somewhere and turn into myself.
<v Speaker 3>From where did you grow up, Jim.
<v Speaker 1>Youngstown, Ohio? Oh wow? Yeah, great place. Yeah, but you know,
<v Speaker 1>but it's also good to be from there. And you
<v Speaker 1>can't do what I do there, So no, you can't
<v Speaker 1>what I wanted to do.
<v Speaker 3>No, And I think the thing about lovely mid size
<v Speaker 3>to small town San Jose was sort of a mid
<v Speaker 3>size town but a small city, and it's now Silicon Valley.
<v Speaker 3>I would never recognize where I grew up. But I
<v Speaker 3>was a little fish in a little pond with a
<v Speaker 3>couple of big fishes who were landed families, and oh,
<v Speaker 3>you know, my dad was pushing for me hard. But
<v Speaker 3>there was there was even politics back then. So it
<v Speaker 3>was one of those where if I wanted to do
<v Speaker 3>and it was interesting, guys, whenever I moved on. When
<v Speaker 3>I was doing something and I couldn't get a lead,
<v Speaker 3>and they were saying, here's the lead in this show,
<v Speaker 3>and the lead in this show, and the lead in
<v Speaker 3>this show. Now we're not going to give you another one.
<v Speaker 3>You're in the chorus, I would move on. I sang
<v Speaker 3>for Marriott's Great America. They said, we're going to put
<v Speaker 3>you in the park rather than the Grand Music Hall.
<v Speaker 3>I moved to LA I worked for Disney in Florida twice.
<v Speaker 3>They did a country show for me because they used
<v Speaker 3>to have a head of talent there that was really brilliant.
<v Speaker 3>So I was a kid of the Kingdom out in Florida.
<v Speaker 3>Went back a second year and we did a country
<v Speaker 3>Jubilee show which fortunately for no one, I have on
<v Speaker 3>tape a bootleg. And then I moved on from theme park,
<v Speaker 3>saying for cruise ships. They said, we're going to have
<v Speaker 3>you only do the Alaska Run. I'm like, I got
<v Speaker 3>to see you did dream Girls. They said we're going
<v Speaker 3>over to pan and I was like, I got a
<v Speaker 3>boyfriend and my dad's dying, and I just keep moving on.
<v Speaker 3>And I think it upsets people when you are But
<v Speaker 3>I say, if you're young and you're resilient, yeah, if
<v Speaker 3>you're willing to leave your family and your hometown to
<v Speaker 3>become yourself, you're I will not man. And I've said
<v Speaker 3>to Gabby your whole life. When if schools got ugly
<v Speaker 3>for her, we moved. It wasn't that I just put
<v Speaker 3>you in a news school where you could see the
<v Speaker 3>same ugly. You know.
<v Speaker 1>What I always said is, hey, Jesus had to leave
<v Speaker 1>town to make it big. He had to get out
<v Speaker 1>of town good enough for him, right, I mean, think
<v Speaker 1>of it, think of it, you know, mom, I must
<v Speaker 1>be about my father's business and he ain't around here, right, exactly,
<v Speaker 1>enjoy the wine, you know, true.
<v Speaker 3>True, And I'm being dead serious, like you know, and
<v Speaker 3>I think you know. I remember there was a gun
<v Speaker 3>incident at a private school that I had Gabby and yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I went to another one, yeah, probably, and.
<v Speaker 3>I said, you know, we're done, We're out of here.
<v Speaker 3>And they were like, what are you gonna do. We're
<v Speaker 3>gonna send her local. I said, I'm moving to Calabasas,
<v Speaker 3>where I put her in public school and she'll be great.
<v Speaker 3>And they were like, you are selling. I was like,
<v Speaker 3>I am. I don't got a husband, I don't got
<v Speaker 3>I can make money on it. I'm gone. I left
<v Speaker 3>my hometown at eighteen years old and drove a Volkswagen
<v Speaker 3>Diesel Rabbit with all that I owned to La and
<v Speaker 3>moved into let me tell you I was. I lived
<v Speaker 3>above Sunset Sound Recording Studios and cleaned for them because
<v Speaker 3>the guy that owned it, Tooty Camarado, was a friend
<v Speaker 3>of my dad's through old show business, Liberaci all that stuff,
<v Speaker 3>and he owned the studio and he had a home
<v Speaker 3>in the back. So I used to go down after
<v Speaker 3>hours and clean the studios. And I lived for free,
<v Speaker 3>and I ate apari and cheese. I sold blood to
<v Speaker 3>go to the local stores. I lived on Sunset and
<v Speaker 3>Highland chap I did that, Yeah, because you do what
<v Speaker 3>you've got to do.
<v Speaker 1>You don't come from dash, did that New Orleans. Yeah yeah, oo, god,
<v Speaker 1>I could still remember it.
<v Speaker 2>There's still Hollywood and Highland not too long ago.
<v Speaker 3>God dang, you know. And I was happy as a clam.
<v Speaker 3>I just was on my way. I would I cut
<v Speaker 3>a demo there that they did for me. Everybody was
<v Speaker 3>trying to help me, and I did. I went on
<v Speaker 3>to cruise ships. I went on to use all the
<v Speaker 3>charts that I was being made that. I went on
<v Speaker 3>to sing with Liberachi. I went on to do many things,
<v Speaker 3>but it wasn't It all led me to all the voices.
<v Speaker 3>And you know, that has been a way for me
<v Speaker 3>to raise my daughter, to have friends to say, hey,
<v Speaker 3>do you guys want to go to dinner and know
<v Speaker 3>that yes, if you don't have plans, sure you'd go.
<v Speaker 3>And I said, there are so many people that I
<v Speaker 3>know that are in working actors and they have no friends,
<v Speaker 3>no community. On camera is a whole different ballgame.
<v Speaker 2>You can even feel it at in the green room
<v Speaker 2>at conventions. You can feel it. There's like a tension
<v Speaker 2>in the air. It's like the certain on camera people.
<v Speaker 2>There's some that are cool, obviously, yeah, but it's completely different.
<v Speaker 2>We did have such a different energy.
<v Speaker 3>Kale with a lovely kid that was talking about being
<v Speaker 3>on a show and it's me Jeff Glenn Bennett, and
<v Speaker 3>then Marty Rabstein, so courage the cowardly doctor. I love
<v Speaker 3>that guy. And this young young actor says mostly on
<v Speaker 3>camera and he's got this one show. Then he said,
<v Speaker 3>I don't know of a lot of people that could
<v Speaker 3>be that can stand up here and say that they
<v Speaker 3>have been on a show for ten years. I looked
<v Speaker 3>at him and I said, except for the three people
<v Speaker 3>sitting on the stage with you right now, who each
<v Speaker 3>of us have about five shows that have been on
<v Speaker 3>for ten years. And I was just like, oh my god.
<v Speaker 3>And then I just yes, and I know, but I
<v Speaker 3>just laughed because there's no conception of who we are
<v Speaker 3>as a community, and we are like how many times
<v Speaker 3>we'd been in the ditches and somebody's fallen behind And
<v Speaker 3>somebody said, if you see somebody and they're not right
<v Speaker 3>for the part, you look at Ginny and she's like,
<v Speaker 3>they need medical. They're in on a show that's our
<v Speaker 3>community and they need medical. They need this, they need that.
<v Speaker 1>People.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, And I remember when I was going through the
<v Speaker 3>divorce and I Nina at that time was calling everybody
<v Speaker 3>and they were having me on doing one and two words,
<v Speaker 3>and I know, producers were like, what are you doing?
<v Speaker 3>And they went, She's perfect for this role. And it
<v Speaker 3>was just that is when I really became in love
<v Speaker 3>with with all our pals, and that's when I really
<v Speaker 3>saw the difference of I wonder if this young actor
<v Speaker 3>will find community in this because they are having such
<v Speaker 3>a great time on camera that I don't know that
<v Speaker 3>they're immersed in this community, do you know.
<v Speaker 1>And I'm hoping it's a little different critteric.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and I'm hoping that they that they do, because
<v Speaker 3>I don't see an end to this. I just don't
<v Speaker 3>know how AI.
<v Speaker 2>I can speak to one experience I had. I was
<v Speaker 2>on a short stint on this show called The one hundred,
<v Speaker 2>and it was actually just a crazy coincidence that my
<v Speaker 2>childhood best friend, like I moved around all over the
<v Speaker 2>place as a kid, and you know, we always wanted
<v Speaker 2>to be actors. We made little, you know videos together
<v Speaker 2>in like fifth sixth grade. And I was sitting in
<v Speaker 2>my room in college my senior year and my roommate
<v Speaker 2>comes in and tells me about this show and he
<v Speaker 2>was like, Hey, you should check out this show called
<v Speaker 2>The one hundred. I'm like, okay, Like usually all the
<v Speaker 2>shows he recommended me were dog shit, you know, crap,
<v Speaker 2>and I'm like all right, like I have nothing else
<v Speaker 2>to watch. I watched the first episode. I see him
<v Speaker 2>see I'm a childhood best friend as one of the leads,
<v Speaker 2>and I'm like, no way. I'm like, I'm getting on
<v Speaker 2>this show. I am moving to Vancouver. It shoots in Vancouver.
<v Speaker 2>I'm moving to Vancouver and I am getting on this show.
<v Speaker 2>And that's what I did. I moved to Vancouver, went
<v Speaker 2>audition for it, got a part the first time, and
<v Speaker 2>turned it down. I said, I'm so perfect for this show,
<v Speaker 2>like I'm not even being cocky, like I am perfect
<v Speaker 2>for this show. I know it. I see it, like
<v Speaker 2>I'm perfect for this show. My agent's like no, no, no,
<v Speaker 2>like you don't want to upset casting. I'm like, they'll
<v Speaker 2>have me back, they'll have me back. Well, they had
<v Speaker 2>me back. Boom booked this book the part again, a
<v Speaker 2>different part. I said I don't want it. I said
<v Speaker 2>I want a bigger part, like I'm holding out. My
<v Speaker 2>agent somehow convinced me like no, no, it's okay. The
<v Speaker 2>character dies in an episode. I'm like whatever. Anyway. The
<v Speaker 2>whole reason I bring that up is on set Boom
<v Speaker 2>having a cigarette outside. See Rick, my friend, no way,
<v Speaker 2>what are you doing here. I'm like, I'm on the
<v Speaker 2>show for this episode. They're like, no way. I'm telling you.
<v Speaker 2>The cast of that show, the two leads ended up
<v Speaker 2>getting married. They go, oh my gosh, yeah, Bob and
<v Speaker 2>Eliza they got married. Wow, And all of them are
<v Speaker 2>to this day on social media. They go to wrestling
<v Speaker 2>matches together, they go to dinners. They are like a
<v Speaker 2>tight knit family.
<v Speaker 1>Wow.
<v Speaker 2>The top like six of that cast. I would say,
<v Speaker 2>and my experience great friends.
<v Speaker 3>And I really and I will just say coming home,
<v Speaker 3>Jim is behind me, Carlos and Jeff and I had
<v Speaker 3>an experience in the airport and the entire flight we're texting.
<v Speaker 3>Then we get off and we're texting on the way home,
<v Speaker 3>and we texted the next day. And it's it's that
<v Speaker 3>feeling of I hope that you find your family. I
<v Speaker 3>hope you find because because we did. I would get
<v Speaker 3>excited when do you remember, Jim? When we'd get our
<v Speaker 3>scripts and it would have the cast on the first
<v Speaker 3>college measure, like I would be like great, great, and
<v Speaker 3>who's voice directing? Oh, it's Jinny, or it's Andrea, or
<v Speaker 3>you know, like Gordon perhaps, Oh gosh, I remember him.
<v Speaker 3>And what was his wife's name, the one ellenated?
<v Speaker 1>Oh, I don't know her name.
<v Speaker 3>She was also a voice actor. She was so cute,
<v Speaker 3>her little.
<v Speaker 1>Short warri Yes, oh yes.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, yeah, loved her and I would get excited when
<v Speaker 3>I would see, you know, Eg's on or you know
<v Speaker 3>Gray is on and Tom is on, and it just
<v Speaker 3>it was. It's just some good stuff. And I say
<v Speaker 3>that it is the perfect marriage of acting, singing and
<v Speaker 3>stand up because if you do do a crazy pass,
<v Speaker 3>you better be able to improv. You really better be
<v Speaker 3>able to throw it out there. But it's it's been
<v Speaker 3>a wonderful time and I don't want it to end,
<v Speaker 3>which is why I will go out there for the
<v Speaker 3>cons and do what I do. What I do. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>it is, and it is, and it didn't you used
<v Speaker 3>to be. But I'm getting better at becoming myself and
<v Speaker 3>be better at I don't need to do every voice.
<v Speaker 3>I don't need to have everything that I've done, and
<v Speaker 3>I need to exhausted anyway. You listen to you like
<v Speaker 3>I'm I'm exhausting just by breathing. Believe me, I can
<v Speaker 3>tell that. I remember when we were locked down and
<v Speaker 3>I was deathly afraid of getting COVID because I had
<v Speaker 3>bad lungs as a kid, and I thought, oh, if
<v Speaker 3>I get this, I'm out for the gap. Like, thanks
<v Speaker 3>so much. Get your affairs in order, Gabby. All the
<v Speaker 3>codes are under the computer in the office, you know,
<v Speaker 3>like one of those. And for the couple of years afterwards,
<v Speaker 3>I didn't know how to be in public. All I
<v Speaker 3>did was walk up to strangers and hug them and say,
<v Speaker 3>do you want to hear about my life story? I mean,
<v Speaker 3>my dad took care of mentally ill people, and like,
<v Speaker 3>I just.
<v Speaker 1>That's a real door opener.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, And I was just like, please just give it.
<v Speaker 3>And now I'm just much more relaxed.
<v Speaker 1>But I do remember this is her relaxed. By the way,
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<v Speaker 3>When you come from a loud family, if you know
<v Speaker 3>my work at all, I want you to know, of
<v Speaker 3>the five of us, I'm the calm one. I'm the
<v Speaker 3>calm one. And I think that it's hard to find
<v Speaker 3>people who match your energy. And that's what I find
<v Speaker 3>in people who love cartoons. And in the room there
<v Speaker 3>are oftentimes that I'm not the biggest person, Like there
<v Speaker 3>are people all bigger than me, Like I just kind
<v Speaker 3>of sit back. And then also I'm a chick, so
<v Speaker 3>I don't get any of the good lines unless I'm
<v Speaker 3>playing the boy. I don't know, Like, what do you
<v Speaker 3>want to say, ALASKI rest his soul. If he's having
<v Speaker 3>problems with that, I can think I can take a
<v Speaker 3>swing of that blind Yeah. Oh God, one day off camera,
<v Speaker 3>I'm going to tell him a story.
<v Speaker 1>Oh he went to sleep.
<v Speaker 3>Oh happy New Year, night, night your n night.
<v Speaker 2>God, God, we are we are running out of time
<v Speaker 2>in the story.
<v Speaker 3>Do you have other questions?
<v Speaker 1>Do you do you have? Like I think we're good.
<v Speaker 3>I think we're good, and I talk so much. And
<v Speaker 3>if you wanted to know about cartoons, I'll have to
<v Speaker 3>come back, and then you'll have to keep me focused
<v Speaker 3>on cartoons.
<v Speaker 1>I have a.
<v Speaker 3>I am the Calm One. I am the Calm One.
<v Speaker 1>Well, of course you are.
<v Speaker 2>All right, everybody. That was another episode of Tuned In
<v Speaker 2>with Jim Cummings. Once again, I'm producer Chris. Today we
<v Speaker 2>were joined by Candy Milo. Thank you so much again
<v Speaker 2>for being here. Really appreciate it.
<v Speaker 3>You guys are wonderful.
<v Speaker 2>And I have a bone to pick with each and
<v Speaker 2>every one of you. As you know, eighty two percent
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<v Speaker 2>What the come on, my gosh, come on, jess A Cracker.
<v Speaker 3>Well, you know what I'm saying, I'm pulling my episode. Subscribe,
<v Speaker 3>I'm pulling the episode.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, that's right.
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<v Speaker 2>That's right, you heard it, So you're in good company,
<v Speaker 2>all right, until the next one. Jim Cummings, I'm producer, Chris,
<v Speaker 2>I'm Candy Milo. We'll see you in the next one.