Erika Harlacher-Stone

How you doing out there. It's me Tigger a dark wing duck. It's
me Bunkers keep bobcat. All right, y'all, did it great? Your
favorite firefly you desire? Hold the old knock guy. My name is Jim
Cummings and welcome to tuned In. All right, welcome back, everybody.
We're here tuned In with Jim Cummings. Today we have Erica Harlckerstone. Thank
you for joining us. Thank you for having me. You know her from
Persona. You know, we're from Seven Deadly Sins and much much more.
Yeah, thank you. Yeah. I couldn't believe your banner today was highly
populated. Thank you. I put a lot of characters on there, just
so people would walk by and go, hey, wait, I don't know
the name of that project, but I remember that character. That's right.
Yeah it worked. Yes, it's very cool to be here with you.
You know, thank you for taking time out and hanging out with us.
I've been listening to you since I can remember so well. It's because I'm
very old, you know, it's because you're very talented and you're in everything.
I was just gonna say that, yeah, beat you to it.
Yeah, sorry, I got you yeah, and uh we're kind of neighbors.
Yeah, we're both Adventure a count of California. Yep, yep,
yeah. I uh. I was born in Camerio and it was nice back
then. It was like not a ton of people were there. I feel
like it really filled out. All the orange groves are gone. Yeah,
you're right about that. Yeah, because when they opened Soaring over California at
California Adventure, it used to have Camerio and it was just the orange groves
and you could smell It's like my favorite party. You can still smell the
oranges when you go on that ride, even though they aren't there anymore on
the ride or in real life. And it's not Soaring over California anymore.
No, I know, it's soaring around the world. Whatever. We have
to give everyone else a little bit of airtime, I guess. Yeah.
Every time that guy hit the golf ball at the screen, I would always
flinch. Oh I got me too, Yeah, memories true. God,
this is amazing. I mean we've never worked together, but I feel like
we have because you're at so many cons that I've I've been to and now
we're here and so now we are working to each other. Yeah, thank
you, thank you for being you. No, it's a it's a real
honor. I you know, I I've loved Winny of the Pooh since I
was a kid. And you know, Dark Wing Duck amazing. You're just
I love the passion and the everything that you put into the characters. It's
a big inspiration. So thank you. Yeah, I've loved the since you
were a kid too, So this is we're going to get along fine here.
That's very sweet. Thank you very much. Yeah, thanks again for
being here. Of course. Do you do a lot of these conventions.
Yeah, within the last few years, I started doing a lot more of
them. I did some before the pandemic, but they used to really stress
me out because I would just kind of, you know, go by myself.
I didn't really have a company helping me navigate everything. And uh,
I just you know, I got into this because I like to act,
so I'm I don't really want to do all the business stuff. And I'm
also really bad at like being the bad guy if something goes wrong and things
do and things do you know, as nice as everybody always is, sometimes
things happen, and yeah, it's just it's been so much nicer since I
got with a company and now go to a ton of them. So that's
good. Yeah, so what's next? Where's next? I Am going to
be in Salt Lake City in a couple of weeks. I've heard, really,
I've heard of that mystical land of Utah. Yes, Salt Lake City.
Have you seen Mormon? Of course? I saw it twice. I
saw with the original Broadway cast in la isn't ah? Shoot the actors name
no, no, no, black Eye who played the original but general Butt.
Yes, yes, the whole original is going to be in Salt Like
I'm pretty sure. Oh my god, I have to tell him. He
was so good in the original cast. Yeah, it was. It was
amazing, and it's like one of my favorite musicals. Yeah. I always
say that's the hardest I've ever laughed with any medium in that span of time.
Right, every time it's in town. Yeah, saw it in London
in New York. I haven't seen it. You have, you have to
see it. It's so good. Oh wow, yeah, sounds about right.
I will, I'll do it. Yeah, there's fireworks happening very oh
perfect. I was thinking, it's like should we be ducking? I know
it was like you cover, we should hide or it's a celebration. Yeah,
obviously, yeah, obviously for the podcast is it's that time. That's
when I ordered him. So that glad you did very very yeah. Well,
speaking of theater, were you were you a theater person in high school?
And yeah, So I did speech and debate. I did oh really
cool debate. Were your categories? Well, I started off, I did
something original, oration boring, I did one, and then you know,
I'm glad you asked that. I'm glad you I made you ask you that,
because then I switched over to humorous interpretation and I just would do like
I did guys and Dolls and something called green Pastures, which would be completely
politically incorrect now because everybody in it was black, and yeah they were in
white face. And no. Well, in speech, you have to play
all the characters. Yeah, you have to play all the characters. So
I played. I did it just like this movie that was on long,
old, ancient movie, probably the forties, and it was a retelling of
the Old Testament through an old black church preacher and everything, and so it
was filtered through that, you know, and the guy was probably from Georgia
somewhere, like that. Yeah, and I did it all and I made
it all the way to the state finals. Nice. I was, Yeah,
I was. I was like gonna be it, you know, I
thought, because I was so stupidly cocky, I did. I did one
speech for this. There were three rounds, one speech for this round,
guys and dolls for the next round, and then green pastors for the third
round. And they compared them and they go, well, wait, but
I got ones. I mean it was it was like golf. There were
three judges and if they they said, well, he was the best,
so he's number one, and sounds like I'm bragging. I'm really not ad
It's kind of a stupid story. But uh so I got a nine,
which is the best you can get because three good judges gave you one.
H And then they somebody discovered that I was switching, switching around doing different
speeches. We can't we can't have that. And I was thinking, well,
doesn't doesn't that make it a little harder? Yeah, I mean I
would ones. Yeah, it is more impressive. But when you said that,
I was like, well, you can do that. You can do
a different thing. Yeah, apparently not you can, but they'll you can
but you can't win hands, you're smack your little hands. You can do
it just just because you want to, just because you can. Yeah,
kind of like white dogs anyway. Yeah, because they can. I feel
like most people when I say speech and debate, they're like, what is
that? Yeah? Yeah I did. I did h I humor and I
did dramatic d I And then I left duo too because I got to work
with a partner. Oh that's cool. Yeah. Plus you have to memorize
less, Yes, exactly. There was one. There was one category which
was only in our county as far as I know, and it was called
thematic. And the reason that I liked it was because it was the only
category that you were allowed to have a binder up there with you, so
you could have the lite written down. Yeah, I couldn't read it the
whole time, but you were allowed to glance at it every now and then.
Okay, so you anytime you're allowed to take a test with a cheat
sheet exactly. Yeah, that's why I went on a voiceover. I don't
memorize anything, boy, you are singing, said that. Yeah. Yeah.
When I was a theater major in college, I was like, man
if I just didn't have to memorize all this stuff. It so nice.
You know. I'm I'm known for terribly uh living oh yeah all the time,
you know, and every single thing I do. And and the only
reason that I'm good at it is because I can't memorize anything. It's like,
for the worst reason in the world. But but it accidentally kind of
trained that little muscle inside of me to well, what was I supposed to
say? Make something up? Okay? And then then yeah, they're they're
off to the races. Yeah. That's why I love improv so much,
because I just feel like you just you just go with your instincts. And
it was so fun. I was in the Second City Conservatory before the pandemic
hit and then you know, everything kind of stopped. So I haven't been
back since, but miss it. Oh yeah. And where where were you
based in in? Like Hollywood? Was that? Yeah city? Second City?
Hollywood? Yeah? Yeah, okay, and it was it was so
fun. That's pretty darn cool, real close to the end. But are
you leaning back into it now or yeah? Well they did they sifted to
online. Doing improv over zoom is the worst thing, thank you, I
have ever experienced, especially improv zoom. Yeah, so like you know how
zoom it'll like it'll focus on the person talking, so then it will kind
of cut off anyone else who wasn't just speaking, and there's like lag issues.
And when we first shifted over to zoom, I was like, okay,
well, should all of our scenes be like we're talking, we're on
like a webcast or something. And they were like, no, pretend you're
in the same room. I was like, this is so hard. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. My daughter Raley was doing it a place, she's
an actress, and as soon as they were ready to open, they said,
oh, you can't what no, no, no, no, you
have to have to be remote. You have to be sitting at home in
your bedroom, you're you know, with a with a camera on you.
And then and it was like the beginning of the Brady Bunch, Yeah,
with all the Brady's on the screen and they're all sitting there, and you
know, it'd be somebody would and it was just awful because somebody would have
to be handing somebody a drink and they go, well, here, George,
and you know, and and somebody would be just like their friend would
be over here and they'd hand the drink here. I almost poured that on
myself. I can't believe you didn't spill that. That was incredible. That
was like a magic trick. I just realized you took the goddamn tap off.
But anyway, and then you know, they'd hand it over here and
it would come in down there, and it just it was so realistic.
Yeah, but she was great. Probably you know you were great impressive blocking.
I mean yeah, yeah, I uh yeah, I did like one
one semester on zoom and man, the fireworks are Yeah, by the way,
we're under oh my gosh. Yeah, I don't know where we are
that there's fireworks happening right now. But for everybody listening, we're not under
attack. I swear we're pretty far. I was thinking we are under attack,
but we're forging ahead. Yes, So I hope you understand the gland
that we are expressing here for you guys, all of you, just for
y'all, for podcast must go. Yeah. Yes, oh my god.
Have you seen Peter Pan goes wrong? I have not. It's so good.
I'm sorry. I go to a lot of theater. That sounds nice.
It's so good. I think it's playing. It might have it might
have just ended this weekend, but if it's not, you should really go
see it. It's in La right now, and I think your Pan goes
Wrong. You can't beat that title. Oh my god, it's so funny.
It's Have you seen the play that Goes Wrong? I don't. I
was in it, actually have Yeah, we're in No, I mean we're
just a lot of wrong. Yeah. Well, that's the basis of the
play That Goes Wrong is that it's they're put on a regular play, but
then set pieces start falling, and you know, the blocking is incredible because
they have to have everything go wrong in a very specific way. Oh right,
right, and so Peter Pan goes Wrong as the same company, it's
just it was even better. It was so funny. Highly recommend it.
It was at the Amendsene. I think in La. It's touring right now,
so if people look at their tour tour dates. But it's so good.
Assuming we're I think we're allowed to go back to the theaters now.
Yeah, yeah, it's definitely allowed. I've been. I saw Into the
Woods recently and I saw, oh, Peter Pan goes wrong. Yeah,
yeah, everything went wrong? Yeah, everything went right? And you made
it. Yes, yes, I had to. You know, I couldn't
go to theater for so many years because of the pandemic. So yeah,
trying to see as much as I can again. I also saw Beetlejuice recently.
Oh my god, so good. Oh yeah, uh yeah. I
literally had tickets for the Book of Mormon like two months before the pandemic.
It was in LA and I was like, everybody, we should all go
as a family. Yeah, and then the pandemic really threw things. I
know, Oh my gosh. Yeah, but now we can see we can
watch it again back in action. I'm so excited. So I just has
to come back to l late. Yes, I know, yeah, I
mean I think it's going to I'm sure. Yeah, we'll be there when
it gets there. Good good, yeah, more or less. Yeah,
Peter Pan goes wrong, super good. Yeah. So I heard that you
can't even go to Japan because you'll just be so swarmed. Is that true?
Can you tell us about that. I am not swarmed in Japan.
No, I am really tall. So I feel like people are like,
WHOA, and I did. I went to Japan for three weeks for my
honeymoon last year. Oh yeah, congratulations, congratulations you and uh while we
were there, you know, people would ask like, oh, what do
you do, and so I would say I was a voice actor. Then
you said whatever i'm want. Yeah yeah, well and over there like being
a voice actor is like the coolest job you could have, you know.
And so we're going to Japan. Yeah. Yeah. As soon as I
said voice actor, everyone was like, oh my gosh, oh wow,
that's so cool, Like what were you in? And I was like,
well, I mean, I'm in the English version of They didn't they didn't
care. They were like, you're in a Hunter Hunter. Oh my gosh,
you're in seven Deadly Sin's Demon Slayer. And it was really cool.
It was that's na. It was nice. Yeah, it was. It
was good to be a rock star right and every now and yeah, and
I like, you know, I like, I like people not really knowing
who I am until I say something about it because then I don't I don't
want me I don't want people to come talk to me all the time.
So yeah, it was nice. Yeah, yeah, no, I agree.
It's like it's a weird thing because uh, you know, you don't
you don't want to feel like you're obligated to be on exactly all. Yes,
you know, yeah, you know, hey, can we just call
my eight nieces and nephews. Yeah, I don't know, maybe not right
now. Yeah. Yeah. I've had instances where I like, go to
the grocery store and then there's a persona fan at the checkout, and I'm
like, I'm so happy to meet them, but also I'm like, oh
my god, I was not prepared to meet fan right now. I need
to start dressing better when I go to the grocery store and uh yeah,
yeah. So I get a little anxious now that people have started, I
think because I started doing YouTube stuff more so people know what I look like
more now, so it happens a little more often. What do you do
on YouTube? I play a lot of the games that I'm in, oh
way, yeah, and I mean mostly I do that. I also play.
I do a monthly among us game with the cast of a game that
I'm in. Cool and so you know, whoever's available? Are you on
Twitch? I was on Twitch, but I like YouTube better because I would
always forget to download my streams from Twitch and then they disappear after a couple
months. And so there are some streams that I did of Persona in particular,
that are just lost forever. I know on YouTube it keeps them forever.
I'm sure somebody recorded it. Somebody. Yeah, I got like clips
of it, but yeah, I mean probably if I asked, I could
have Okay, well, okay, everybody, you've got your work cut out
for you. Yes, right, my whole one hundred hours of Persona that
I played. Please, Yeah, somebody ask yeah, come on, come
on, give it me, give me it, give us a break already.
Yeah. I like it. It's it's fun. I put up some
of my Uh. I did a couple of music videos that I put on
YouTube. Right, do you make music? I do? Yeah, I
have two singles out so far. And then I also did a cover that
got really popular in the Gension Impact fandom because nice it was. It was
really cool. The company that does the game aim I asked them. I
was like, hey, I really think this song fits my character really well.
Can I do an in character version? And usually they'd be like,
you know, every company would be like no, but they're super cool about
it. And they were like, yeah, sure, that's that's great.
So I made a music video and wow, yeah, it's really cool.
Where can everybody see it and love it, so it's on Well, you
can listen to it on Spotify. I have three songs up there, and
then you can watch the music video on YouTube. But my channel is with
the K Games because everyone spells my name E R I C A, so
my brand is now with a K everything. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,
that's cool. I always laugh extra hard in the comments when people will write
Erica with the scene and I'm like, hello, it's in the name,
you guys. Yeah, alas, Yeah, it's fun. And I just
finished writing a novel. I have like too many things going on. Well
ones, Jesus, my focus is unfocused. So and then you're going to
open the show tomorrow with some juggling I understand. H recycle also at the
same time while I'm playing the accordion. So so we got that going for
us. Yeah, yeah, we'll be looking forward to that. Yeah,
ye show. Yeah it's fun. Yeah. I just like being creative.
Yeah yeah. Jim has a musical background as well. Yeah yeah he do.
Yeah, so cool. I was always I was always the singing drummer.
Nice and then finally I auditioned for this band that already had a drummer,
and I go, can I sing, and so then they let me
sing. Oh that's and then all I had to carry was a tambourine and
a cow bell. Oh hey, those are fun, you know, as
much as I love the drums, tambourine cow bell much lighter. Yeah,
those are are very less work. Loop them onto your boat. Accidentally took
mine off, you know, because I was going to impress you with my
darn it next time, the luck next time I'm both at once cow bell
and yeah yeah, plus singing, Yeah, well there you go, and
tap dancing, which is hard in OC extra impressive. Then yeah, I
don't be too impressed yet. So did you do musical theater? Uh?
Yeah, I did. I guess I was the I lived right next door
to my high school in Youngstown, right, and I was always in plays
as a little kid, and whenever they would need like, I was the
I was the little kid in the King and I and a few other shows
like that. What else was there, guys and dolls? But I was
always literally in the neighborhood, so they will get that little ship over there,
that little weasel, you know. And because my older brothers and my
older brother and sisters went there, so they kind of knew me, so
I got drafted into being a musical theater. We're giving you the skills for
your future career, so we should thank all of them. Oh I do.
Yeah, and it was it was great, you know, yeah,
it was really really a great way. And then that started me singing,
yeah you so. And you also did an abridged version of The Phantom of
the Opera? Correct, Yes, I did with Tara Strong Terror Strong Strong.
That's so cool. I love abridged versions of things. They're also what
you see. Okay, anyway, I think I accidentally sang her part.
I think that's the first time you sung on the podcast. It sounded great.
Can we get some more? Well, the Fan of the Opera road
is due inside your mind. I am geeking out. The Phantom of the
Opera is my favorite player, how about that? Yeah? Yeah, that's
cool. It was the best music in the world. Yeah. I saw
it on Broadway when I was in high school and it was so cool.
Oh yeah, it was so cool. Yeah, I saw it on We
saw it in London. Yeah, I saw it in London and uh and
Broadway and uh at the Pantagious I think in l A. Oh yeah,
who's your favorite fantom. You know, I don't know. I can't.
I couldn't name a phantom. Okay, to be quite well, it wasn't
Gerard Butler. Yes, he was in the movie. In the movie,
yeah, the movie. Okay, in the movie. All right, yeah,
But I don't think he's my favorite phantom. I wouldn't say that.
But Robert was amazing. And i'll tell you who's. Michael Crawford was the
first and I saw and he was the acting, you know, the big,
big Broadway guy, and I came up, came because I saw it
like three, three or four times, and after his performance, which I
ended up saying twice, and I was walking away going, that is the
most amazing performance of an actor, an incredible singer, an incredible actor,
credible, oh my god, choreography, this, this, that and the
other thing. And I thought that was it. And then there was another
guy, Norman Somebody, and he was another study, pretty dog gone,
exceptionally good. And then when I saw Robert Gillome, my reaction was,
oh my god, that poor bastard that because I mean, he really was
a tragic figure. But but with Michael Crawford, you didn't he didn't feel
the tragedy, you just felt the right right right or I great? And
with Robert Gillum, you're going, you know what, if you think about
it, this guy's screwed. His face is jacked up, everything is about
it. And he was so vulnerable and so you know, and and and
he made you feel, he made you feel. This is why I love
seeing plays more than once with different casts. I feel like everyone, if
they're doing it right, brings something new to the character. And it's just
so cool. Even if you know, I'm like I didn't like them as
much as the other person, it's still, I don't know, it's such
a such a cool, cool experience. Yeah, yeah, yeah, God,
I've always said they should do that with movies, like they remake movies,
but use the exact same script and then let's see how it'll go differently
with direction and acting. I mean, that's what plays are. You know,
they don't change the script. Yeah, you know, why don't Why
don't we do that with cinema. It's good question, especially if it's already
such a good script. Yeah, you don't need to rewrite the whole thing,
right, have a new cast. Yeah. My favorite movie is The
Matrix and the Watshowsky sisters shot so much footage for that movie that they literally
could just re edit and have a completely different movie off the Frail, And
I know I kind of thought that's what they were going to do with that
Matrix for I don't recognize that movie. But there's a fourth one. Yeah,
there is not. Well, there's not a glitch in our matrix.
Yeah, okay, we cleared that up. Yeah. Yeah, sorry.
I could talk about theater forever, but I won't. That's not what we're
here. Cool, that's cool. It is we're here to happen. I
guess that is how I ended up here. But that's right, that's that's
the that's how you got here. Yeah. In my high school from seventh
to twelfth grade, every spring semester was just Shakespeare for our English courses.
So that wasn't very ambitious at all. Then. Yeah, so you went
the easy way exactly. Yeah. So I started off with the easy stuff
and then wound up an anime. You know, I don't know, I
don't know what happened there. Yeah, but yeah, so that end of
the at the end of the year, each grade would do an abridged version
of each of the whichever play the grade was working on, and so I've
always just I love abridged versions of things, and I just I think that
was so cool. I feel like more high schools should do that. It's
pretty cool. I feel like if you can read and understand Shakespeare, you're
pretty good on most other things. That's true. That's true. Definitely,
definitely you suffer them slings and arrows. Damn it. Right, Oh my
gosh, it's been a while. I need to go see another Shakespeare play
at some point. Yeah, yeah, well I think we're allowed to go
back outside now. Yeah. I'm seeing all. I'm seeing everything, everything
I come across, every every play. Yeah. We were just talking about
stand up comedy at dinner. Are you comic fan? I saw? What
did I see? I saw John Mulaney recently his like comeback tour, and
I had been I'd seen him before before everything went down, and then I
was like, what is this going to be? Like a whole new feel?
What's going on? Oh? Okay? And it was. He was
still very funny, so you know, I still still had a good time.
Yeah, And yeah, I don't go to a lot of live stand
up comedy, but I like watching them on YouTube. But you go all
the time. I got to start joining. I try and go once a
week. Who do you Who do you like? The last person I saw
was Jeremy Piven and Trevor Wallace from social media. Yeah, and they were
hilarious. Yeah, oh man, they would never have thought Jeremy Piven was
Yeah, because I know him best from uh Entourage. Yeah, he was
killing it and wow. Yeah and I didn't even know. I had to
google him after and he's almost sixty and he looks great. Woa god,
he must die his beard. Yeah, I think that I do too,
but I die a gray or is it white? Distinguished? Full blown,
full blown white silber fox. Yeah, there you go. I really want
to see Jeff Dunham at the point. And then there's another like Australian puppet
stand up guy who I forget his name. Yeah, but he's also really
good. I can't think of him. Yeah, we're going to have Bert
Kreischer. You know Bert Kreischer. He always performs shirtless, has that big
bell. I don't know that I've ever seen him. He just had a
new movie come out. Oh yeah, what was the name of that?
The Machine? Yes, the Machine Cool. Yeah, he's gonna so nice.
It was ridiculous. Yeah, check it out. Awesome, Yeah,
I'll check it out. Yeah, we promised him we'd promoted because he's struggling.
Perfect. Yes, that's what we're doing. So we're here. I
feel like here we give to the chaps. I feel like my TikTok algorithm
has just fluctuated between stand up comedy and just animals looking so depends on the
week, and that's what I see. Yeah. Yeah, you know,
baby kittens hanging on to ropes. Oh my god, kittens with yarns.
That's my favorite tech talk page. Yeah. Yeah, I've been getting a
lot of Zay Frank videos, you know Frank, Oh my gosh with his
crazy Dave is crazy Dave here? Yeah, I love those videos. Every
time they come up, I start smiling and my husband goes, is that
the animal guy? He's talking about giraffes, but he calls them goof offices.
It's so funny, so simple. Love. Yeah, so we do
this, we do this fun little thing on the podcast. Who would you
say is your most popular character? I think maybe right now it's Venti in
Kensian Impact Okay, which came out in twenty twenty, which I think is
why it got so popular because it was Yeah, everybody's stuck at home exactly,
so everyone was like, what's this new games we'll busted out. Yeah,
so a lot of like teenagers love benschen Packed and I play it on
Yeah, I play it on my YouTube. But it's very fun. It's
like, actually a very fun game. It's also free to play, so
it's very accessible. So I think that's also why it's Yeah, you can,
like, you know, pay money if you want extra stuff in the
game. That's how they make the most money these days. Huh, exactly.
Yeah, I try to on my YouTube play it without putting any money
into show people like you can play the whole game without paying money, which
is really cool. So yeah, i'd say he's like a drunken Bard character.
Yeah, he's very fun. Just then to the Bard. What's up
Traveler? Yeah freedom you know. Yeah, we were just with Sarah Milla
Cruz. Yes, oh my gosh, yeah, I love Sarah. She
is on one of the series on my YouTube. I'm introducing Kingdom Hearts to
her. Oh yeah, I had no idea what it was the Kingdom Hearts.
Oh yeah, she did not know who Pete was and I know,
I know. I Sometimes I'm like, are you an alien? How do
you not know anything? Dear girl? What's the matter with your face?
Yes? And so we just yeah, right, and so we just started
Kingdom Hearts too, and she was like who is this? And I was
like, what this is? Pete? What are you? It's Pete.
Now she's she'll text me if she sees like any videos and she's like,
Pete, I know who that is? That's right. Well, you know,
people think Mickey Mouse is the oldest Disney character because he is actually I
think Oswald Rabbit predates it. Yes, but Pete and Mickey Mouse were both
in Steamboat Willie. Yes, we just did that level in Kingdom Hearts.
Yeah, and again she was so she was like, what is going crazy
over here? She was like she so, you know, we went up
to Pete and he was like, somebody stole my little guy stole my boat.
And she was like who could that be? And I was like have
you do you not know Steamboat Willie? Like do you not know any of
us? And I was like, you know, Mickey he was kind of
like a trouble maker. He's always he's taking pizza staff. They kind of
switched places. Right, Yeah, I'm teaching her so much. I'll give
you a hint. Wow, pow. That's that's all I that's all I've
got. That's all I've got. You just do the whole all of the
characters. Yeah. Yeah, well you know, speaking of that, well,
since you insist on me telling you I'm blue, now, I kind
of ended up being blue by default. I was talking with my buddy Rick
Dempsey's had of Disney character voices, and it was a couple of weeks ago,
about a month ago. I talked about this and that and and I
said what are you doing and said, what are you up to? And
he says, well, I'm currently casting for Blue. And I said Blue,
and I'm King Louis for Disney too. And I said, well,
come on there, little bridges, we could do something for you. Let
me know what I can help. Yeah, and he goes, Jesus Christ,
thank you, you just cleared my afternoon. And he goes, okay,
yeah, no, you're you're blue, You're blue, And I had
two lines, Wow, anyway, I'm blue. Oh ya. That's how
you get roles in Hollywood by accident. Talking on with the casting director and
being a goober. Just just sit down with the head of character voices.
That's all you have to do. That's all you have to do. You
know what I've got, I've got his number. Let me get you guys
are really all slacking out there. All you guys who want to be voice
actors, come on it. Yeah, you know, people say, you
know, one of my favorite thing is when they'll say, in fact,
oh god of all people. Uh, they did it to Paul McCartney on
Saturday Night Live. So are you doing so you're wanting to p yeah,
tigger? Yeah, what's that like? It's pretty good? What are you
supposed to say? I know, I know people every every time I do
a panel, what's it like being a Do you like being a voice actor?
I'm like, it's cool. I wanted to do it panel now,
Yeah, what's it like here? It's great, it's cool. She's kind
of a panel now. Yeah, how are we doing so far? That's
pretty good? I like it. Okay, this is this is better than
the panels where they just on stage and they're like go and I'm like,
oh my god, Hello, what do you guys want to talk about?
I have no pl and at all. Yeah, that's a good plan.
Yeah. I've had that same plan my whole life, just you know,
improv baby, Yeah, I feel it. Yeah. I remember seeing Raiders,
the first Raiders of the Lost Dark, and somebody said to Harrison Ford,
well, what are we going to do next? I don't know.
I'm making this stuff up as I go along, saying, yeah, that's
how I feel every day. That hit a bullseye. Yeah. I often
am like I have no clue what I'm doing. I somehow managed to trick
people into thinking I know what I'm doing, but really I'm just kind of
like showing up and doing my best. Fooled me. Thank you. I'll
join very large club. Those hits coming. Yeah. So did we talk
about what's next for you before we do that? I wanted to kind of
got off track. We like to do on the podcast, and that's why
the reason why I asked you what your most popular character is. We like
to do, you know, a little role reversalm feed you a line as
one of his characters, and you do it in your character voice, and
then vice versa. Okay, okay, yeah, so we'll start with you,
Jim, give her a line of one of your would you please pass
the honey for me? Would you please pass the honey for me? I
didn't know you did. Satan, Well, he's he's a mischievous god,
so you're not far off. Very cool, and then I give you a
VNTI line. Yes, okay, wouldn't gliding be faster? Wouldn't gliding be
faster? Dead bouting would? Yes? Thank you for acknowledging. Probably.
Yay, that's cool, very exciting. Okay, so one more what Yeah,
let's do it again. Okay, I am the terror that flaps in
the night and you're not. I am the terror that flaps in the night,
and you're not sounded just like you. Thank you, thank you,
thank you. Oh well, let's see. Okay, there's context for this
line. His true name is Barbados. Oh, I've heard of him,
but he yeah, yeah, so he's the god Barbados. So and then
when he opens a treasure chest in the game, he goes, think Barbados,
Wait a minute, So think Barbados, wait a minute. Bunkers.
Yeah. I sang that that theme song to my husband once and he was
like, how do you remember every word? And I was like, I
don't know, it's just totally nuts. Yeah, but you know, it's
weird because Bonkers is not to words talking about that, but he's gotten a
recent researchence and I guess it's from Disney Plus. Yeah, oh that's oh
yeah, that makes sense. I need to rewatch it. It's on Disney
Plus. I didn't even think of that. Well, I think you all
should. Yeah. Really, it's a good show if you want to watch
it with comments. Harry, we just did a deep dive episode of Bonkers
with Jim Cummings. Perfect, That's how I'm going to watch it. Then,
just total coincident. Yeah, yeah, it could have happened. Anybody
just walked into that naturally, so yeah, natural promotion didn't plan it.
Oh my gosh, what good stuff. Thank you? Yeah, well,
thank you so much. Like this is. I mean, you know,
back when I was just a little speech speech and debater, I just did
acting for fun. And then I you know, I always liked cartoons and
games. I never I never grew out of it, and why why bother?
Right exactly, it's it's more fun just embrace those kinds of things.
So it's so cool to be sitting here with you. Thank you so much,
Thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen, my goodness, thank you,
thank you very much. We really appreciate you doing this. Yeah,
totally, no, it's really fun, you know, I love it.
Yeah, and thank you for staying up with us, of course, everybody,
everybody listening. It's what it's three am in the morning. It's quarter
after ten, yeah, a long day after a long day too. That's
true. We did add the less coast time. It's only like a quarter
after eight, so yeah, okay, fine, all right, right right,
oh yeah, it's actually five in the morning. We've stayed up all
night in Australia. It's only like quarter after one's right, true, yes,
yeah, thanks, thank you yea, and the crowd went yeah,
and before we go, do you have anything you want to plug promote.
I'll subscribe to my YouTube with the K games. My TikTok is with a
k Erica, and I sometimes remember that I have a TikTok, so you
know that one's a little more there. I might upload something I don't know.
And if you like young adult fantasy adventure books, by my book when
it comes out eventually, so all right, yeah, hopefully maybe a year
from now. We'll see, all right, thank you. Well, that
just about does it. Thank you everybody, thanks for listening. That was
a great episode. Thank you very much. Thank you appreciate its neighbor was
an audience here. Hello. It wasn't even paying attention.