"Ask Jim Anything" Mailbag #02

How are you doing? Oh, dure, it's me Tigger. I am
Duck Wing Duck. It's me Bunkers keep babcat all right? Yeah? Did
it rate your favorite firefly? You design? Hold old nag. My name
is Jim Cummings, and welcome to tune jin. Welcome to tune in with
Jim Cummings here on the four Finger Discount Network. I am Brendan Dando,
joined by several gentlemen. Here the professor of pop culture, mister Guy Davis.
Hello, everybody. We've got producer Chris in the studio. How are
you, Christopher? Good? How's everybody doing today? We are doing incredible,
of course, because we are joined right now by the man who would
never say no to a Boston creampie. Here's Jim Cummings. Jim, how
are you doing, sir? And the crowd went mild again. Nice to
be here, guys. Good, we're back in the saddle. Yeah,
we are indeed here for another good here for another Q and a podcast.
But I do like these ones where you just sort of sit back and just
have a good old Jim wag about whatever the listeners want us to talk about.
And we've got a plenty of questions for you here today, Jim.
So let's not waste any time. Let's get into him, all right,
So all right, the first question we have for you comes from Chris Stapleton.
He says, have you heard any non English voice performance voice performances of
your characters, and if so, do you have any particular favorites, as
in who nailed the energy of the character. Well, those are good questions.
Yes, I have heard a few, and one of my favorites was
something that I saw and it was from Pocohona's It wasn't me. I was
in the movie and I sang a couple of songs about or song, but
it was actually the Colors of the Wind, and it was done by I
mean, it was in Hindu, French, German, Italian, Spanish,
and it went straight all the way through I mean, all around the globe,
and it sounded beautiful. It sounded like one person. And it was
sent out as a promo and I wish I had I wish I was smart
enough at the time to say can I get a copy of that? Because
it was really cool, but to bring it back home. Unfortunately, Yes,
I have heard a few characters, characters of mine. It brought over
to other languages and and um it was interesting, uh de Shmi, Dolly
wholly duck wing duck, you know, And so I was like l okay,
So that was dark wing. But um one of my favorites that I
had to do, and it was the Kingdom Hearts Ye game, and uh
I I was Pete mostly I was Pete, Maleficent's henchman in the you know,
big old Pete, the cat, you know, the guy, and
there was he This one guy had a whole big speech and it was it
took like five seconds and the translation was what so, I mean he's going?
And then in the in English what And I said, can I add
a little something there? Because that's a lot of lip flap for except so,
but now you know how to say what in Japanese. You're welcome.
Thank you life lessons here with Jim Cummings. You had fun and you learned
a little something too. Yes, yes, right, all right. What's
the next question we got for him? Guy Colie Martin has chimed in with
asking my niece is a diehard Disney fan with an enormous Winnie the Police collection.
Jim, do you like to collect anything? And we're not necessarily talking
pop culture. If emory were just about anything shot classes. Yes I do
um, Yes, Yes, I collect large bars of gold. That's I
think those are fun, always handy to have a few of those. I
think everybody likes those. Is that what you sleep on top of at night?
Yes, exactly. And I have a pretty decent silver dollar collection.
But I could see where this is going. This is a profitable take no
um now, as they say, is your address so we all know where
to find them? Yes? Well, yes, or to sending though,
yeah, feel free to send me large bars of gold. Um. But
at one point, I think I collected drums, and I have drums Chris
will tell you they're like I have called good drums and drums from Africa and
anything that makes noise and a noise the neighbors. I'm really pleased with that
sort of thing, and uh, not comic books so much anymore. But
this is gonna be a long question. Here isn't a long answer? And
what else? What else? Well, I'm kind of surrounded by I Fortunately
I can't get up and walk around and show you because I have a collection
of Winnie to poos, mostly Winnie to poose and tiggers that people have given
me at conventions, and they're very very very sweetening, you know, and
I can't throw anything away apparently, So yeah, I've got a lot,
you know. I'll take a picture and show you next week because I don't
want to mess up Chris's set. But yes, I do speaking Winnie the
Pooh, as we are prone to do on this program. But I was
thinking about you the other day, Jim, because well you're never far from
my mind. But on the on the evening news bulletin, they had a
story about the cost of living going through the roof. Not even Winnie the
Pooh is safe. Turns out some guy had sorted into a collectible store somewhere
in uh Blue was in Sydney down here in Australia, saw a beautiful stuff
to Winnie the Pooh with something like two hundred bucks on the shelf, grabbed
it and ran out the door. He clearly wanted that Winnie and didn't want
to pay for it. Yes, yeah, well I was like Jim Cummings,
did Jim, I got I got it into mail the other day and
and here's fifty bucks is on it as well. What's gonna happen. Is
he going to be a Supernavor Expo in Sydney and Guy's going to rock up
with a twenty dollar winning to Pooja for you to sign. Yes, he
is for year the lookout for him. Oh that'll be nice. Well he's
going to get a free autograph. I canna tell you that right now.
Getting back to drums, what's your favorite drum that you've collected? We're from?
Um? Well, I have got Chris as the I don't want to
hit it because I'll knock something down. You're on a gym bay right now,
or or I've got Jim Bays from Africa and I've got I can't I'm
not gonna do it because I'll miss it anyway. You're sitting on a drum
okay, on a percussion instrument in my house? Yes, and uh I
used to decorate with them. So do I have drums? Is that?
What was that? What the question? What's what's your favorite drum and where's
it from? Yeah? Uh, well it would probably be the Jim Bay
from one Big So I got it in Africa okay, and uh and and
it came over it with me and it's a big one. I mean you
could do. I actually kind of use it for an end table, which
is a little bit of sacral the just thing there. But that's okay,
so but don't tell anyone. So what were you in Africa for work?
Or was that just a holiday? Oh? No, just holiday. Yeah,
I spend a month in Africa with my two older kids and yeah,
we had a good time. Will it be the most exciting place work has
taken you that work has taken me? Um? Well, Australio sure is
a pretty dornyd and uh shucks, and uh Abu Dhabi is kind of in
the works. Yeah, okay, I don't know yet, little tea or
something. And England a few times to England. Yeah, well for Christopher
Robin. They flew me over and uh you know, and did a hang
out there and we did really recorded all the movie. Uh this is a
really inside here, so okay, but we recorded the whole movie so that
you and McGregor and you know, the whole cast had something to react against
because I saw I saw, you know, the first um sort of dummy
run throughs and and they had a little gray bear and the poor guy he
was sitting there talking to um. Well, I don't know pooh. You
know, I suppose we really should be getting back to the hundred would and
you you see this guy extra was sitting there with the gurgling you're right,
I'll fight what your guy. He's a Bryant arm in it, you know,
And it's like, okay, that's and you get just see you in
McGregor's face and he's going, guysh that's just doesn't sound no, no,
you know so, but it was funny. All right. Well, next
question he comes from Nellie Traylon, and Nellie says, are you much of
a golf at gym? And if not, what sports do you like to
play? If any? You know, I'm sorry to say. I golfed
twice, okay, and apparently I wasn't horrible, But then the person I
was with said, yeah, but you're in Colorado. You're twenty thousand feet
up and everybody's half decent here, and that went, all screw it.
Then I'm never gonna do this. So I go to those little miniature put
putt golf courses. Yeah, but now at this point I'm down to darts
and bowling. Darts is good. Bowling is one of the sports that I
enjoyed watching on TV the most. I love watching bowling. It when they
get that curve right, that curve right at the very end, you think
it's going to gut and then yeah, can you manage that? Can you
make that happen and spin? I like watching it? Yeah, but no,
Yes, what's a bad bowler? What's your highest score in bowling?
I think it's like two hundred something, not much. Yeah, I think
I've cracked one hundred. Yeah on the arcade at the bowling side. Yes,
yeah, already got what's the next question? And that's only when that
was only when my kids were really little and we had up the runners on
the side a gutter ball. Yeh, so I was great, Daddy was
good. Have you ever taken Christy have a bowl with gym before? No?
I haven't, haven't. We'll fix that. Yeah, you have to
get ball. I want to say who wins out of Chris Chris versus gym
and to look forward to Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we gotta go
sometime. They're getting rid of a lot of bowling alleys these days. Are
they doing this same thing in Australia? No, No, they're adding bowling
lanes. So we're getting a new bowling lane about a better klomet from my
house and about two months. Yeah, I feel like since COVID out here,
they've really been shutting down. It was likely the iest thing you could
do during COVID. It was like, Oh, put your hands on a
ball and everybody else sneeze ball and just go for it fun. Don't worry
about it touching some of those balls. It's, you know, shortcut to
disease. I blame Joe Biden. Alight. Anyway, we have our next
question. Um, this is from Jeff P that's the initial P, not
the not the word p M. Jeff is asking what element of voice acting
scared you the most? Jim, when you first broke into the business scared
me? What element of voice acting intimidated you? Like? What was the
more? What was the part that intimidated you the most? Maybe getting a
sore throat? I mean nothing, that's a terrible answer, but nothing intimidated
me. I was too stupid to know that I had no business being there,
so I just fell right into it. Were you very well? Were
you really confident when you first started doing it? Were you're just like,
I can do this, I'm going to make this happen. There was a
career waiting. Yeah, yeah, I was. I mean that sounds slightly
arrogant, but I really knew. I mean I knew. I think I
mentioned this before, but I knew I was going to do it when I
was five. Yeah. Why why did it take you so long to start
voice acting? Though? If you knew you from five, you want to
be a voice actor? What was what? I was? Singer forever?
Yeah, and you're more interested in singing then then voice acting at the time.
Yeah, more girls, yeah, until you become a Disney voice actor.
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well, James Morton, he wants to know what was your first car that
you ever owned and what are you driving nowadays? Oh gosh, it was
Man seventy three, maybe Dodge Valiant, I think. But one of the
coolest ones I've ever owned was a mail truck. Wow, when I was
eighteen or an eighteen, and it was the ultimate hippie thing. It was
a mail truck that they delivered mail in. It was completely looked just off
on and they thought it looked great because it was a big red stripe and
a big white stripe and a big blue stripe. And you opened up the
mail truck from behind and there was a little horrible vinyl bar in there that
we had, and terrible shag carpeting on the floor, on the walls,
on the ceiling. It was great. It sounds like it sounds like a
love machine, just absolutely hideous. And it was that. And we would
take it and park it down by where all the hippies were and sit there
and be cool. So that was that was one of my coolest cars ever.
So were you Were you a hippie when you're younger? Probably sure?
Yeah? Yeah? Nice? Pretty long here not quite just or now,
but I was in that neck of the woods. His hair's pretty rocking.
Yes, I've got a picture around here somewhere I could probably grab for you.
Oh that's pretty fresh. That's something for the social media for sure.
Isn't there right behind you off your left shoulder? Oh wait a minute,
Oh this isn't bad. Yeah, yeah, this isn't the one I was
thinking of Jim's fan of photo of himself right. Oh my gosh, that's
a good eye. Yeah, okay, prepared to be frightened and see if
you can name everybody in this picture. Oh, I'll be trying to do
it through the all right, here we go, tilt it up. Um,
well I can say that's that's you on the left. Uh, no,
idea, I can't tell from here, Know who is it? Who's
in the middle? Then who's on the right? Tom Cruise, No,
Steven Spielberg. I looked at the hat and I was like, well,
it's a hat, It's that's not surely not Spielberg that is that actually,
Steven Spielberg, what's that for? Well, he owed me money, of
course, No, no, that's not true. Uh no, this was
for animaniacs, oh wow. And and it was his show and he really
got a kick out of kind of kick out of myself. And I think
it was Triss McNeil that we um we played Hampton the pigs parents, and
we did the mes an old Jewish fellow there listen Hampton with the dead the
duck and the we couldn't this spit. And he thought it was hysterical because
it was like an old vaudeville like Jackie Leonard or one of those you know
guys. He had a good he had a good uh sense of humor.
Do you have a geek count surrounded by people like this or meeting people like
that? I mean, I'm sure you've had people just go, oh my
god, it's Jim Cummings. I been in Oh yeah, but no,
I did, I mean with him? Sure, yeah, you know,
because he's he's made your favorite movie. Nove had which movie it was,
you know? And uh and yeah, absolutely a little bit of animaniacs that
would have been what ninety four five? Yeah, huh, yeah, it
was nineties. Yeah, that's for sure. He was that in the middle
there, that was that trust in the middle. No, no, that
o. God, I'm forgetting her name. She was, but she was
in charge of standing around of course pretty quick. Gig. Yeah, that's
terrible. I forgot her name. I mentioned it was thirty years ago.
Yeah, she was. She was with one of brothers. Is that your
only Tom meeting Steven? Uh? No. No. I did a movie
called Balto Oh yes, and um, yeah, and Kevin Bacon was the
lead and h they had they had various people that were already cast, but
they couldn't get a bad guy. And they had Brendan Frasier. Oh gosh,
I'm gonna forget the other guy. But they had two or three you
know, face actors and yeah, you know, and who will remain nameless,
but yeah, he was one of them. And um, they just
said, well, let's get somebody who does this, and so they called
ICM and I was with them and uh and I got a night an audition,
and um Stephen heard it and he goes, oh that's it, okay,
Well that's that's him, that's Steel. And I played the character Steele.
I was the bad guy. Yes, in the movie Balto Kevin Bacon,
and you know, it was getting so close because they had literally gone
through the whole movie. They were done except for this one character. And
so Steven Spielberg came and directed me like all day long. Oh yeah,
yeah, just he myself and my agent at the time, because he wanted
to meet Steven Spielberg, Jeff Danis and the engineer and that was got to
be some stories there. So what was it like, is he what's the
difference? Yeah, I'll tell you. The damnedest thing is uh. We
were sitting there and boy, I've never told this one. We're sitting there
and he goes, oh, oh okay, I have to take an excuse
me, Jim, I gotta take it. Yeah. Oh hey Bill,
Yeah yeah, Well, believe it or not, I'm I'm recording a cartoon
I got, Uh, I got the guy Jim Jim Cummings. He's uh
in the other room and we're recording the bad Guy for Balto. Yeah.
Yeah, it's animated. Yeah. Oh no, Schinder's list. Yeah no,
I'm doing that. I'm doing that tomorrow anyway. Okay, all right,
well listen, listen, I can't talk. Say hi, Hillary,
okay, I gotta go. And he's sitting there talking to President Clinton.
Wow, and I'm going, okay, that's not bad. I was thinking
it's either Gates, Murray or Clinton. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, three winners. Yeah, Murray would have been okay,
yeah, well well yeah, well possibly Bill farm you know Bill Farmer voice
scoofy, that could be. Yeah, but or not. Is he as
approachable as nice as he seems because he just seems like such a lovely person.
Yeah yeah, I thought so. Yeah, I mean he was really
really a nice guy. Yeah, and he kind of just would cajole you
into the line. He didn't give you a line read, he didn't do
anything like that that, you know, he just he just guided me through
and he just he said he just had to do it because he was tired
of people coming in here and you know, ruining his movies and he and
he was making he was making Schindler's List in Balto simultaneously. I mean,
okay, yeah, let's just juggle these bowling balls that are on fire.
Well that that is a day that we are going to come back to in
a future episode of Shore, because there's plenty more questions Steven spiel By questions
that I've got for you. No, boy, all right, If I
don't know the answer, I'll make something up there. All right, was
the next question. Right. Next question comes from Molly Lee, who wonders
if it's easy to forget how to do a voice that you maybe haven't performed
in a long time, or once you create it isn't just locked into the
memory bank and easy to access. I'm probably good up to about nine of
them. Yeah, yeah, it's just I mean, if somebody says,
come on, do do that grimy Man number two that you did when he
was like mistaken for the milkman but he was the mailman, remember that one?
And no, I don't know you know that one? So you know,
the little little characters like that. But for the most part, no,
I do remember them. I don't know. Once they're in there,
there's sort of an imprint, you know. If you've forgotten one and someone
said, oh, no, it's this guy that showed you something, would
you be immediately be able to go, oh, yeah, I remember that
one and it'll return. Or once you've forgotten the character, it is a
hard to remember it. No, No, I mean once I get a
tip or or a lot of times they'll they'll play something for you while you
haven't done this one in this series blah blah blah. So they'll they'll give
you a little playback of what you did back then, and you're going,
oh, okay, yeah, okay, So he was from Alabama or you
know whatever. Which are the ones that catch you off God the most when
you just at least expect them to ask you this one? Well, there
was one and it was for animaniacs and they needed an Irish guy. I'd
forget the plot, but but they they all had crazy plots anyway, But
there was an irishman and he had to be extremely Irish and this and that,
but you weren't. They wanted me to do it in a complete Irish
accent, but not use any actual words, no words at all, So
I tell us as flamm oh you know. And it was all of this,
and he was scared and he had seen a ghost and the animaniacs were
over in Dublin, uh, doing some ghost hunting or something, and this
guy was just stricken. He was just but he wasn't speechless, but he
still couldn't understand him. And then years and years later there was a movie
called Snatch, and Brad Pitt kind of did that too. He too could
flug MCTA taken it was in Dublin and then it'd always be in a you
know today Apricorn, you know, and that would be like the only thing
that you could understand. And then he said, he said, past the
salt, I was thinking maybe the water has just got lazy that day.
No like doing Irish accent, but were talked about the writing lines for he
just just makes sounds, It'll be fine. Yeah, yeah, so I
did. I'm your guy. This next one is from Phil Stewart. He
says, which Disney afternoon series do you think you've seen the most episodes of?
Okay? Um, dark Wing? Yeah, dark Wing Duck Yeah,
I would think. Yeah, did you ever watch the show when it was
on or was it just just people would show you videos or whatever? Did
you ever actually watch the shows that you were a part of if it was
on TV, you have to sit down and watch them, or once they
have recorded, it's just that that's it, that's done. No, I
am we actually just watched one or two today. But um, now I
I did you know I liked it? Because you know, I'm curious,
does it work? Did that joke work? Did did this plot work?
Different things like that, But I didn't wasn't religious about it, And besides,
I couldn't get home in time to watch them. They were already you
know, I was making other ones. I was. I was interested just
to wonder whether, when the episodes were torn from the animation studios, whether
you actually would watch them to sort of study them, to see whether you
would want to tweak anything here or there. But no, yeah, now,
really, you know, we uh you know, we did a lot
of dr if if we needed to, so you know, that's when you're
doing things to screen and you know, the lip flaps off or something,
so you fix it. But but no, I mean I really liked a
lot of them. You know, Chris and I were just watching a couple
of Markers and there's some funny stuff in there. Yes, and great you
forget, Yeah, definitely do. Our next question is from Grace Parker,
who may be angling for a dinner invitation here because she wants to know some
of your favorite restaurants to dine at. Uhha, well, let's see,
I don't know what do you think? Chris? Who who do we want
sponsoring the show. Let's think about it. Yeah, that's right, that's
right. Then definitely Mastros yeahs, yes, yes and more. Yes.
Who pays when when Chris and Jim Grafford dinner? Who's pay in the bill?
Oh? He does every time? Every good sign every day every time.
Uh, there's a bit of dime and dash going on. I'm sure
or his mom maybe his mom does good either way. But yeah, but
what what are your favorite places when you're thinking about we're going out for dinner?
What comes to Mineland? What are your favorite locals? Uh? Well,
if it doesn't have to be local, then let's go to New Orleans
and we'll go to one of Emerald's places. Yea or Guy Fieri has a
nice uh kiosk at the airport. It's you can get sandwiches. Um but
no, I uh, I don't know. I kind of like a tale
you food. So there's a place Tuscany. It's pretty good locally, but
yeah, Mastro's definitely. What are your favorite places in New Orleans? Are
you just listen to one? But what are your favorite places? And what
do you and what usually what to usually order when you're there? Uh?
Yeah, well, you know it's I like ordering the stuff that's a little
weirder, you know. I love soft shell crab, you know. And
they they know what they're doing there. And uh, like I said,
Emerald's got a cup got I think he's got two or three places now,
And what do I sell there? Um, well, it's kind of like
New Orleans fusion with whatever Emerald comes up with. And and then there's the
one place. Uh, I can't remember the name, but it's just pure
New Orleans food, you know. And red beans and rice is an amazing
delicacy to me. You've got a good recip before it now apparently, and
sous, yes, I do, yes, I do. Didn't Emerald try
to break into tea? He didn't he have his own sitcomb there for a
hawk minute, Oh, I don't know. Well, I know he had
a lot of shows. Yeah, like apart from the cooking show, he
had like a yeah, I think they actually had he had his own self
titled sitcom that lost him maybe two episodes. Really, Oh, said Jim,
you said you'd like to eat weird food. What's the weirdest food you've
ever eaten? Oh? Weird food? Well, m French fried ants,
French French right, ants. How do you cook that? How do you
how do you cook that? I didn't, I didn't do you have?
How is it? How's it served to you? They looked like peanuts,
okay, looked like peanuts. They're like small ants. Also big bat ones.
Yea, yeah, those probably those big African ants and you don't want
them to bite you. I've had that, but um, I've had rattlesnake.
Rattlesnakes good, yeah, yeah, I believe it or not. Yeah,
and uh never had new tria. And if you don't know what that
is? Good? Okay, but people eat it and I'm not one of
those people that eat it. What about gators? Do they eat gators down
there? Yes? They Yeah, they do. Gattails damp oh damn fine
honking tail? Was it tastes like it's a taste like gator, not chicken.
See you'd think it would be chicken, you know, but no it
Uh no, it's kind of chewy, it's a it's a little it's fibrous.
You know, they've got all those it's all a muscle, that tail.
And that's the only part I'm pretty sure that we uh that we have
and uh no, I've never had Coyle's tongue. Seen it down South?
Yes, they you know anything you know. I can tell you that anything
that slithers or or makes a splash in the water, or crawls or poops
or flies over you and does it? You see that? Does good eating?
Ride down? Does who you put that over rise? Talk about good?
You know everything anything from it's really good? How do you say rattlesnake?
What do you eat it with? Carefully? So very carefully, unless
it's dead, then you're a pretty uh no, it comes to the can,
believe it or not? Really like tune. Yeah, it's that rattlesnakes,
that common of a food. They put it in the can. Yeah,
it's uh, you know, I'm trying to think, Yeah it was
rattlesnake. Yeah, I think, I think. And you can only get
it at like roadside joints in texts in Louisiana. It's not you're not gonna
go to your local market. Yeah, a pout of the rattlesnake, please,
Oh you're out of copper head. Copper Head's fine, Yeah, give
me the copper head. You know, these are not things that pop up
on your grocery list with gaidas so it's only the tail that you ate,
or can you eat any part of the gale? Well you can, but
it will kill you. No, I have no idea. I had a
crocodile. I I've eaten a crocodile eye before. Oh wow, I was
wondering about that. So you can eat at least the eye and the tail.
So was this on a bit heads? Their tails? So what's the
what is it in a soup? How do you eat the eyes? It
fried so it's hot. It wasn't a soup. Actually, yeah, it
was like an eye in the middle of a soup. I cannot remember the
flavor. I was like maybe eleven or twelve years old and we were on
vacation, and yeah, I remember. It was so such a weird thing
because I like eating weird things too, Like if somebody else is gonna eat
it, I'll I'll at least try it, you know, Oh yeah,
you gotta try it. That was the Raiders of the Last Start. Remember
when he was in India. I was thinking of, um, what wasn't
it a temple of doom? And they were eating the yeah, yeah,
yeah up and started looking at you merely what I was thinking. I'm like,
oh, I was a kid, I saw a Temple of Doom and
I was like, I was terrified now the monkey brains and eyeing the soup,
and so you were living temple of doom. Woh wait, Okay,
yeah, that's right. Let's get to another question. Let's get to another
one, all right, So this one's from Trish Colling. Do you remember
feeling like you were going through different eras of animation throughout your career, Like
new and different ideas or styles were becoming popular as your career went on to
an extent, Yeah, I mean all the Disney cartoons were all, you
know, of a kind of a type, you know, the animation and
everything, the techniques and everything, and they were they were the best.
But then there were other odd ones like um Choks I did. It was
a short lived I think we did like twelve episodes at thirteen and it was
a very very different thing and uh, you know, what can I say?
And then the last one would probably be okay ko And it was really
it was one of those odd, little quirky shows over there at Nickelodeon,
and it was almost, I don't want to say primitive, but they were
going for a very distinct look and you know it's right, you know what
wasn't me? But they were almost so cartoony that they were making fun of
cartoons or and it was an Odjo didn't make it. So yeah, I
don't even. I don't think I've ever gotten one residual out of that shows.
So I hope it's playing somewhere. How many how many shows or how
many pilots did you make that didn't get picked up? Oh boy, I
don't know. It had to be a couple. Yeah, I don't know
if they didn't get picked up. I don't remember them with there any that
you were confident about and you were surprised when they didn't get picked up?
Or can you tell usually this isn't really gonna know. Yeah, you could
tell, Yeah, you could tell, you could tell. I remember reading
for Hondo Onnaka, one of my favorites, you know, from Star Star
Wars, Clone Wars and Rebels and all that, you know, Yeah,
And I remember thinking, you know, because you read along and you see
all the characters, and I go, well, this is gonna be good.
And I read for I think Boba, Fette and Hondo, and I
really wanted Hondo because I could see you know, he had, he had
a lot of potential and everybody still loves him. And and yeah, and
he went to Disney World, Disneyland. He's got a probably the biggest ride
there, the coolest ride. He's the face of galaxies there. Yeah,
what was your Biba fete? Do you remember? Can you give us no?
I can't remember. It's a long time ago, you know, but
it wasn't obviously he didn't make it. Yeah, you know, but I'm
happy with Hondo. I got the better ended get him up to the changing
style of animation. What were your thoughts when you first started seeing computer generated
animated shows? The transition there? Which do you have one in your for
exact when Toy Story came out, you had the film, so basically you
went from like the line came to Toy Stories like it? Right? What
was it? What were your thoughts when you first saw this new Well,
okay, so this is the feature of animated films. Yeah, you know,
I I liked it. It was good, it was colorful, it
looked it was eye catching. But I'm I'm an old school guy. I
just love I just love animation, you know, and I love watching them
do it. I love I mean just seeing people. I mean, it's
almost like magic to me. You see these guys and they're doing this.
They've got their several pages here and one in each finger, and they're flipping
it up and and they go like that, and all of a sudden,
the squirrel jumps off the tree and runs. And there's a there's a magic
in that for me. Yeah, you know, And I like I like
the way it looks. I like the way it feels, you know,
the the uh, the expression on their faces, true throughout the whole,
the whole thing. And I just I'm a big fan. I think Princess
and the Frog was the last. It was the old. Yeah. I
guess it's kind like streaming a song as opposed to listening to it on vinyl,
isn't it and holding the song in your hand. Yeah, yep,
absolutely. It Actually saw a really interesting video on social media last week.
It was I never realized they did this because they did it so seamlessly.
But Disney would rehash the same animation for various movies, but just tweak so
that the character design was there, like the human shape that add hair or
added dress or whatever, and it's the exact same piece of paper they're clearly
use, but just change the background or whatever. So they were so clever
and how they would would produce these movies so seamlessly that you wouldn't realize they
would just rehashing the same shots, just adding new layers to it. Yeah,
and sometimes they do that. I know they've done it with backgrounds like
if you're in a forest, Yeah, you're in a forest, you know,
so you know, taking from rubbing it over to you know, the
hundred would I think kind of Barbara were classic for that, right where you
just sort of walking along it's just the same background on repeat. Oh yeah,
well that there were the Kings of Limited Animation. Yeah, that's why
Yogi Bear, the Jetsons, Fred Flintstone, they had callers on so that
they're standing there and you know, they've got that stupid stance and the only
thing that's moving, Hey Bonny, Hey, you know, and he's going
like this, and he's going like that, and two little flaps are going
with his mouth, and you are so busy listening to him and looking at
his head you don't realize he's frozen, you know. And then then he
moves his leg. Then they make a sound and he's off ye, and
it's limited. It's a limited animation style. That's the animated version of using
like a backdrop or a studio backlot and just sort of giving it a fresh
cut of paint or something like that. Oh yeah. Here at the four
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what's the next question we got? Guy Tom Bower would like to know what
was the last film you went to see at the movies and if and uh,
would you recommend that movie? Oh god, I haven't been at a
theater in a long time. Well, maybe the last thing you saw on
on that you know, massive big screen you've probably got at your house.
Oh god, well Barkers, Yeah, actually Barkers a little while ago.
Seriously, but yeah, you know I like better Carl Sole. I mean,
you know, different TV shows and around. Yeah, what do you
like when you go to the movies, Because our man guy here been a
movie reviewer for twenty five thirty years, he's not he's not popcorn. He
hates popcorn. He goes to the movies that many times. He doesn't like
that, the junk food. What do you call it, guy, popcorn?
It's a garbage snack, a garbage snack. Are you guys? Are
you popcorn guys when you go to the movies? Oh yeah, yeah yeah.
And then I it was John Wick by the way, that's the John
four there. Okay, yeah, yeah, but that was the last one.
And uh, did you fall asleep? Because that is a long movie,
that's a whole little Wick. Yeah, yeah, it's a lot of
Wick. But um, but yeah, I'm a popcorn guy. Yea.
And they serve beer att the local popcorn local theater. So it's like,
oh, okay, we've only just started to have that here in Australia,
seving alcohol the cinemas. It's like, whoa a brave new world. Oh
yeah. The first time I went to England, I remember, and I
went to see The Man who Went Up a Hill and came down a Mountain
kind of a boring movie. Um and uh and I and I was going
by and I looked and I went, wait a minute, isn't that a
Guinness or whatever? You know? And and they said yes. And I
said, ken, I buy one, end, watch it and take it
in the movie. Well what I wrote, you all mate, no problem,
you know. And I said, I really like London, you know.
And so there you go. You've been to the movies with Jim Chris.
Yeah, a few times. It's Jim Atoka during the movie. No,
no, no, no, that's that's taboo. You can't be a
talker. We're not. Yeah, that's quiet out here unless it's like the
premiere of a movie like Opening Night. People get a little more talkative in
my experience out here, but other than that, it's all alrighty. Well.
This next one he comes from Jacob Simpson. He says, which character
is the most physically straining to perform? And which do you find the easiest
to perform? No, boy, Well, Taz for sure the most difficult.
You know, he's the most Yeah. We whenever we do tests Mania,
I always wanted to do it on Friday afternoons to be the last one
of the last one of the week. And then I did a movie that
was really incredibly terrible, but it came out right after the movie Christine by
Stephen King, and it was called The Mangler. Um I was, and
I was, you know that, Y I'm sorry, Well you'll check and
you know this will be a good one for you. Um. Yeah.
I did the movie and they said, and it was. I swear.
It was a like a gigantic ironing board or a pressing machine that you could,
you know, you could iron a pup tent or a circus tent in
this big sh and it would pull people in and press them steam cleaned them
to death and then they were gone. They weren't. There wasn't even like
a big plotch of oh where did Dorothy go? I don't know? And
the Mangler sitting over there being a big giant printing press, laundromat thing and
and and so, and it was told Hooper who made Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Stephen King wrote it and I got this job, and uh and and I
auditioned and I thought, well, they'll never do it, because to me,
it seemed like this should be multi layered. So I did one and
then I did you know? And then I don't remember the third one,
but you put them all together and it sounds and it was really kind of
scary. But in the end it's a freaking ironing board gone mad and uh
and I just, you know, I was like, okay, well unplug
it, I plug it. You win, we won. Monster's Gone.
And it was just because you see the movie and you're going, oh,
this is terrible, this is terrible, and God bless all the people on
camera. So I said, all right it came out, no, fine,
all right, I guess I'll go see it. I didn't go to
the premiere, but I said, let me go, and I went over
and I saw it in Ceme Valley. It's a little town close by.
It was on a Saturday afternoon. Went to Mattinee and up sitting there and
listen watching it, and it was every bit as bad as I thought it
would be. And in the end it said voice of the mangler, Tim
Cummings, and yes, yes, howe by that Tim, huh is he's
the biz arm. Yeah you go, Tim, because it couldn't have been
me. My name's James. Thank you very much. Good night, everybody.
Yeah, I know you've been. I know you've been hanging on the
film. But Guy's eyes lit up the minute you mentioned that title, because
you know, he's he's bought it. So Guy clearly likes the movie.
He's a couple of buddies of mine did an audio commentary for it, and
they're like film academic types, and one of them is, you know,
spouting this theory bad. You know, this is a real satire of later
or a capitalism and all this, and the Mangler represents this and this I
watch it going making this gesture. Yeah, I'm not sure about that,
guys. But yeah, it's a terrible movie. But it's also a really
enjoyable movie, if you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's just yeah, you can enjoy it because it's terrible. It's one
of those uh god, what those guys that used to sit around and comment
on the movies. Mystery Science Theater three thousand, Yeah, I mean,
he's he's right in there. Are you a horror fan at old jim h?
Yeah? Yeah. I like the classics, I really do like those,
and I mean right up to Rosemary's Baby. That one got at me
and what was it, David Bowie, The Hunger Susan Surrander or Catherine Deneuve.
It feels like this late seventies through to like maybe early nineties was a
real peak era for true horror films, wasn't it. Yeah? Just iways
keep going to the video store and the horror section just looked so incredible.
It was just so many horror movies, and I tend to make horror movies
as much anymore. Yeah, I don't think so. The last one I
really kind of like Benicio del Toro, and I think it was a wolf
turned into a wolf man. Yeah, it was kind of cool. If
someone said to you now to be in a horror film, would you be
all about it? Sure? I just I just feel like horror seemed so
off tight for Jim Cummings. We need the pooh, But I'd love to
see you just voicing this horrible creature or whatever in a in a horror fling.
I'd do it in It's hard peat, Yeah, I'd be. I'd
be on camera too, I mean, what the hell, who cares?
There? You go, potential filmmakers, Jim Cummings in a horror fleet.
Let's make it happen. That's right. Knock knock, Hollywood, Sherry Blaine
has a question for you about which actor you would love to have the chance
to work with before you retire, if you ever retire. Yeah, I
can't say them. Mangler, Well, that's a good question. I don't
know. Maybe Jack Nicholson's in there somewhere and Jeff Bridges. It's never gonna
happen, so I don't you know, Okay, I'll say Tom Cruise,
what the hell put it out into the universe. Just put it out into
the universe. It's manifest Yeah, Derwood Kirby, who, yes, exactly.
Um, but yeah, I don't know. I've never thought about it.
I can see it, Cummings Cruise coming to a theater in the year.
Yeah, yeah. Tim Curry is a pretty good game. I like
Brad Brad Garrett. I've worked with him. Alart Yeah, yeah, I'm
bonkers, which we're going to be doing on an upcoming episode of Tuned in
here with Jim Trimmings. Yeah, yeah, before we go, we're add
of questions here, christ you have any other questions for Jim here? Before
we go? I think I'm good. I'm good. You're good. Yeah,
no, thank you? You know, we know you're good. You
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