The Voice of Rob Paulsen

Emmy Award winner Rob Paulsen and his near 40 year career as a voice actor joins Christy and Will on the pod!

Rob discusses how he got his start, his favorite of his many iconic roles and gives important advice for up-and-comers. Plus in a very personal and inspirational moment he shares what he learned about life and career during his battle with throat cancer.

If you only listen to one voice today, you’ll want it to be Rob’s.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Christy, Hey Will, how are you? I'm doing so great.
Today's guest was just such a rainbow. He really is.
It's a strange way to to describe him, but yes
he is. And normally we would do our intro at
the beginning, but I'm away and I had some technical issues,
so we got to talk to this amazing man first

(00:20):
and now we're enjoying him second. But who's our guest today?
Oh man, it's the one, the only Rob Paulson. Wait
to hear this. Hi guys, Hey, how are you? Hey buddy,
this is the coolest thing. So for everybody here at
I Hear Voices. The first thing we need to say
is that this show would absolutely not exist without our

(00:41):
guest today, because one of the greatest shows in history
for anybody who loved animation was Talking Tunes. Oh God,
bless you well man by the way you lowered your
standards enough to get on to come on my show.
That's not you're kidding. You know how honored I was
to be able to sit there with you. And without
Talking Tunes, I Hear Voices would not exist. So credit
where credit is due. We were trying to to pick

(01:02):
up the torch, which is absolutely impossible to do after
having such a brilliant show, So thank you for joining us. Hello, Christie,
nice to see it loves to have a lot of
foudu in the water tower. Look at that beautiful smile. Wow,
I am really excited to me because I'm a huge
fan of yours. You look pretty normal size to me.
But thank you very much. All of this is uh

(01:26):
is just well, you know, well, anytime anytime anyone takes
a moment to express their appreciation for something that you
were paid to do for free, um you would have
done for free, is a is a profound compliment. And
I I love it when people say, well, I know
you hear this all the time, but it's the first
time I heard it from you, and it's always incredibly

(01:49):
flattering and humbling. So thank you, Christie. It's very strange.
One of the things that's so strange and and wonderful. Uh.
And and you know, anytime there's anything terrible like the pandemic,
you try to look for positives wherever you can And
one of the things that came out that was so
positive was a whole new group of people found animation.
Hey man, it has blown up off rightfully so the

(02:13):
most talented actors you will ever meet in history, from
any genre of acting. You want to pick our bar
non voice over actors. I will say that till the
day I beg if they are the best ever. And
people they're starting to get there due just a little bit.
And when you're at a convention and you're seeing on
camera actors with a decent line of people, and then
the voice over actors with people down the street, you

(02:35):
realize you are finally getting their due. Isn't that something? Uh?
It is. I started my career in in Hollywood forty
four years ago, uh, ostensibly to do what I had
done at theater, guide music and all that. So I
came out and was doing TV and movies and a
lot of commercials on camera. H But as you know, well, um,

(02:58):
you know, average looking Caucasian kids from Michigan or a
diamond doesn't Uh. Some are talented, some art and sometimes
it doesn't matter, especially when commercials are small parts on television.
If you fit the suit, you got a shot. Um.
But I'll tell you what. Everybody loves cartoons virtually, and
when I got here, cartoons were pretty much relegated to

(03:19):
Saturday morning. The Three networks. Um, and so they were
literally a handful of actors who were fortunate up to
do them all and rightfully so June Foray and now
blank and you know does Butler and just legends over
and over and over and over again. Um. So in
the mid eighties, I think my agent, uh called. By

(03:40):
the way, I'm still represented by them. They still haven't
figured it out that they should. Don't be a long
time ago, but um they said, have you ever thought
about auditioning for animation as well? Sure, but it's that
gig is closed. Well, you know, things are starting to change.
Of course, this was before uh the Internet, before HBO,
certainly before Cartoon Network anything. So the first show I

(04:04):
went to audition forward shows were g I Joe and Transformers,
and I got a gig, and I remember just minor characters.
I called my agent literally when I found a phone booth, um,
and I said, do whatever it takes, send me out
for more of this. The first thing I noticed when

(04:25):
I walked into this room of wonderful actors, several of
whom where people I recognized from episodic television. You know,
Bob Rigiley or Bill Daily or Marsha Wallace, whomever. And
the second thing I noticed is that they were not
only obviously gifted, but they were utterly unencumbered by how
they looked. They were monsters and you know, bad guys,

(04:49):
good guys singing, not singing exactly why kids begin acting
in the first place. It's literally like high tech sandbox.
And I thought, man on, man, now you're talking. Nobody
gives up Pardner. You know what what I'm looking like? Um,
I was only limited by my chops, my willingness to

(05:10):
be fearless, small enough, you know what I mean, but
not not worry about how I looked, at how I
came across, and by getting the right angle or or
my teeth, none of that. It was literally like being
a kid saying, all right, you be the monster, and
I'm gonna be the guy to kill the monster. That's
what it was. And oh my god, it really was
like like somebody had shown a light on this is

(05:32):
the reason you came to Hollywood. Uh. And honestly, now,
when I'm old enough to be pretty much everybody's grandfather,
people don't know. People don't know that I was the
entertainment at the last time. Pretty old I was checky
of arimathea, you know, but sit down, Judas, that's exactly

(05:52):
and you know what it was, Jesus, what a party,
and you know it was. It was great. But nonetheless, Uh,
now that I'm older, I'm young enough to travel around
the world doing what I'm doing now getting a chance
to meet people, as you had alluded to earlier. Well,
these fantastic conventions, which are so ubiquitous, they're springing up

(06:14):
like it's on a twelve year old. I couldn't be
more excited. The stories we hear over and over again,
you guys, is the extent to which these characters connect
with people. It got me through this my father died.
We used to watch it together, you name it. And
it is so much bigger than my paycheck. It is

(06:35):
so much bigger than an action figure or rating point.
And as long as I can do this physically and
travel around, I can't get enough of it. It is
after the pandemic and increcredible reminder of not only how
fortunate we all are to do this gig, but our
work really is important. It really is, and oh my god,

(06:59):
you guys can't enough of it. Well, it's also the
thing that's amazing is it's generational, which is something that
I love so and every generation really believes that they
have their own, their best, their best cartoons. And with
the funny thing is mine does um so everything, So
everything you've done when we're talking about we can get
and we're going to get into Pinky and the Brain
and all this stuff obviously, but when you say the

(07:21):
first thing you did was G I Joe's, I had
to run home to watch G I Joe. I would
cry when I missed G I Joe. I mean it
was one of those things where this was back in
the day where there was one VCR and somebody had
it on the streets. So it wasn't you couldn't. You
didn't record anything. There was no no YouTube, no DVDs.

(07:44):
If you caught the show, you caught the show. If
you didn't, you didn't. But the idea that you got
to do G I Joe and Transformers, and that was
during the ThunderCats and he Man and silver Hawks. I
mean again that those that's my jam, that's my that's
it got me into those cartoons. So I've got to
know a little bit about what it was like to

(08:05):
record G I Joe. Oh well, I walked in and
Charlie Avert, the lovely Charlie Adder, who just had a
birthday I think the day before yesterday. Uh Charlie and
I meant on G I Joe five six um and
Uh Charlie came from a heavy duty Broadway background and

(08:26):
my background was live theater music and then commercials in
l a um. But we were both really really excited.
And as a kid, when I was a kid, G
I Joe was an action figure for boys. It was
like about that talk. Of course you always said, oh
it's like a Kendall. No, it's not a doll. It's
an acid figure and one of which I had. So

(08:49):
as soon as my agent said G I Joe, I said, oh,
I am so in yeah, try and stop me. So
I got hired to do a character called snow Job,
who was, uh, like I, a Nordic winter soldier, you know.
So he was. He was the Polar. He was a
polar Polar ranger. Came with the sled with the snowmobile

(09:10):
and he did check this out, Christie. He came with
the sled. He was all dressed in white, a white
a white weapon, okay, and he's got a white hood.
So everything is gonna meld in a mission with the
snow sea. You can't see, but what they also don't
tell you. He's got a bright red beer and so
he's like a real Santa Clause. Well said, thank you,

(09:33):
Well said a little more spelled from Boston. And so
I really thinking to myself, Yeah, as much as I
as much as I want to do this gig and
Ruski with half a half a link of being able
to fire his weapon could not be off in three
hundred yards, you know. But every single time you guys
walked in, I could not wait to get to the

(09:54):
the studio. And every time I saw the people whom
I you know, um, Peter Cullen, Frank Welker, over and
over and over again and natily, did I know I
was going to have a really great experience. I was
going to have just a fun experience because you know
these folks and they're so talented, but they're also uh

(10:16):
just the nicest, most accepting, zero pretense, no arrogance. Uh.
I really truly felt like I'd won the lottery. And
I was so thrilled to get g I Joe because
it was a big deal for me. And then they
called me had this, we're doing this other thing called Transformers,
and so I go and become an aerial bot. And

(10:42):
to this day when I go to UH conventions, people
come up to me with I didn't even know that
there was a snow Job action figure? Are you kidding?
My god? How about that? Yeah? I do, my god.
They're they're incredibly uh they become incredibly um. If you

(11:03):
can find a brand new with the bubble thing still
on it focks and has the card to the back
and he tells you the whole back story of everybody
was to save the cards. You could, you could cut
them out and save the cards. And I had all
the cards and all the guys, and it was I
was that kid. I mean that g I Joe, especially
G I Joe, Transformers, mask um, those were all like

(11:26):
you said, that's it was just commercials for the toys.
But that's all that's all I cared about. It was
the greatest thing in the world. So that's that was
my You you change my life in that way. You
That's what it was. That's what it was when you
were What I find interesting about the rooms that we
all work in as voice actors and the community of

(11:47):
people just obviously who were so talented and supportive. We
hear this time and time again. But do you feel like,
I know, some movies it's almost like life imitates art.
But with g I, Joe, did you feel like it
was a more math skilling kind of recording process or five? Well, yeah,
I mean totally. I was trying to be you know,
uh in terms of the context of the character, trying

(12:09):
to be, you know, a badass. Now that I had
my little had a sort of a down east, the
sort of accent there from up and on the northeast,
you know, and and knowing is half the battle, yo, Joe. Um,
it was the coolest thing in the world. But that's
the thing. I'm five nine and a half of buck fifty.
Nobody is going to be intimidated by me, Christie, at

(12:31):
least with respect to my you know, bad ashes. Um.
But man, I I can well, like well all of
you questioned, not just well you too, Christie, all of
us can play characters, uh, for whom we would never
be considered on camera ever. And UM. To to have
that experience still and now to be able to see

(12:54):
generational I was this weekend I was with Maurice la Marshall,
we're doing a thing in Ohio. Oh my god, with
Pinky in the brain and g I Joe. We have
three generations grandparents who are sixty five, who were thirty
when the shows came out, wash them in college or whatever,
had a couple of beers or drank the bong water

(13:14):
and watched cartoons, you know, And now they have their
children and grandchildren and they're all yeah, yeah, And people say, well,
you know, I got to tell you now thinking they drink. Dude.
Steven Spielberg is seventy six. He's my boss, you think,
but he gives him a problem for being the biggest
richest nerd in Hollywood. Of course not. But these are

(13:37):
utterly uh, not at all. I'm what I'm trying to say.
It's not at all inappropriate for anybody to watch cartoons.
My god. If I if I watch Bamby now, I
still fall apart when he starts, when Babby starts screaming
for his mom, I always do course, does that happen

(13:58):
like the Babby's mom is dead by? Like the credits,
by the way, exactly what a way to start a
film that's like, my popcorn is not even done? What
are you doing. I love that that as well, stated
so perfectly at the beginning the incredible platinum lining for
people in our business Visa v COVID is exactly that

(14:20):
that it drove people to kind of go, well, you
know what, I haven't watched G I Joe in a
million years. Let me see if I could paint it
on YouTube. Oh my god, what this dude, I've got? All?
G I jo was on YouTube's and it absolutely has
blown my mind how how marvelous these characters hold up
forever and the extent to which they inspired brand new

(14:42):
creators to go to all these lengths because there's so
much technology now that they can use that never was
available all those years ago. You know what's funny is
I I constantly remind myself and my my wife joke.

(15:03):
My wife and I joke about this the whole time,
because it's kind of like a motto I live by.
There is a very big difference between childish and childlike,
and cartoons and animation are the perfect way to remain
childlike for as long as you want. In defense though
of the nerd Dum, I also think like something that's
brought me to animation time and time again, is is

(15:25):
the art of it, right? I mean every everything that
we see that you've done, it's like different, you know,
everything is just a little Yeah, Ninja Turtles is not
pinky in the brain. We're not even getting into Ninja
Turtles yet we got that much, so much I can't
even it's so much to talk about, um, but no,
but it is. It's it sounds ridiculous, but coming from

(15:47):
on camera and Rob you did this as well, and
Christie you did this as well, you can get burnt
out very quickly. And the industry becomes the industry and
it's this machine. And it's like you forget about the
love of acting in the love and you and then
all of a sudden you're in a booth yeah, and
then next thing you know, you're like, wow, this is
what I wanted the whole time, is just acting well.

(16:10):
And how many times do you guys, both of you
here as on camera's talent, how many times you meet
people who are primarily doing on camera gigs and they
just said, oh my god, who who duration I so bad?
They want to do Simpsons? Are you know family Guy
or whatever? And big actors too, big actors time? How

(16:32):
do you get that gig. How do you do that?
How do I get that? And it's like, oh, give
you my agents name, sir, who's won two Academy Awards. Absolutely,
I mean we did up. I was Donna Tello in
a two thousand and twelve version of Nickelodeon of Turtles
at Nickelodeon and the last season, a thirteen episode arc
and I get to work one day and David Tennant

(16:52):
is they're doing this particular bad guy. And of course
I'm a huge fan of broad Church and let alone
the doctor or who would all be? So I said, Dave,
what a pleasure? Oh man, thank you? And I said,
I said, I we are real. Did you'd be here?
And he said it was absolutely a little bit sort
of non plus not in a really horrible but he said,

(17:16):
this is Ninja Turtles. And it wasn't. It wasn't like, well,
it's turtles. He was, no, this is Ninja turtles. Man
um anybody John Cena was on it, um um. It
just yeah, And it lasts for utterly forever. That silly
little song. I shouldn't say silly that song. I sang

(17:39):
an animaniaction with all the countries of the world that
that that song has now as a stand alone several
piece of modern animation art period. End of story. It's
about to three minutes it and of course it was

(18:02):
very glad to sing it. But the hard part. We
live in Hollywood, you guys. You can throw a dark
and get a good singer. What you can't do is
throw a darkness somebody to write that stuff. And that
is such a testament to great writing, great animation. Uh.
And you don't have to know animaniacs exactly, Christie. You
ain't got to know nothing about Warner Brothers animation, animaniac nothing.

(18:25):
You could watch that and just go, oh my god.
And that that's what I love about about this particular
gig is it's uh, it's sort of not even contextual.
You can watch it for its own reason. Many pieces
and and are many different shows and they are exciting, inspiring,
mind blowing, and they're like you just want to watch

(18:46):
them again and again and again. Well, my one of
my favorite stories Jason Marsden. Um so, my my best
friend Jason, when we were doing Boy Meets World. Um,
the audience, you know, there's a warm up guy for
the audience while they're there, and in between scenes, people
would get up and do Yeah, they get up and
do different um uh talents for the audience. And Jason
would always grab the microphone and do that song every

(19:09):
single week. He just do it in the voice as
much as he could to try to try to emulate you.
And I heard that song over and over and over
from Mr Mark. I just I just love that boy
so much. We did me too. He um. We did
uh you know show together called goof Troop and then
we did the Goofy movie. That was another one of

(19:31):
those things. I don't know. Five six years ago, I
gotta call and Disney said, you guys know all about
d twenty three and the big Disney. We are just there.
We were just there in a couple of weekends. OK. Right,
So they called and said, hey, we're doing a Goofy movie. Um,
you know, retrospective twenty anniversaries. Great. I'd love to come

(19:51):
down you guys. I had no idea how big that
movie is. Two millions of people huge, And it's not
only a charming little movie. But I know I'm preaching
of the choir. But for all your folks out there,
if you've not seen it, watch it again or watch it.
But but also so um my son is now thirty eight,

(20:13):
but anyone, any young boy with his father, can utterly
relate to the difficulties that both were having. Both Max
and Goofy were having to communicate with It's timeless. It
is about, you know, Max hinding his way and Goofy
went to let go and trying to communicate. Very difficult.

(20:34):
But those performances Bill Farmer as Goofy and Jason Marsden
as Max, we're nothing short of incredible. They were heartrending,
oh beautiful and almost like human human elements. Absolutely, Christie
and uh, you know you can see Goofy just gosh.

(20:54):
I just don't know. I don't know, honey, I don't
know what to say to woman. I don't love him
so much. But it's perfect. And yeah, talk about acting
is acting those characters. They're just fine actors. Jason and
Billy are just world class actors. It's not a wonder
that they they do so well because they're really talented.

(21:15):
I remember asking Andrea Romano about that, where I said,
because you know, working with Andrea, you never know it
was like that, like the teenage meeting Ninja Turtles thing
where you walk in the room and you never knew
the actors that were going to be there, and you
were like, oh my god, I get to work with
John Ritter, I get to where it was just one
but Robert Patrick, one person after the next. And I
always asked her, I said, what now when you're casting?
You know, with Andrea, I try to get as many
little tidbits from her as that possibly could. And I

(21:37):
was like, how how do you do your casting? And
she said, I don't ever cast voice over actors. I
cast actors. That's it. She's like, some of them can
do a bunch of voices, some of them can't. But
I always cast actors, and that's that's the difference. Is
it interesting? If you go down her IMDb of the
shows on which she was a director, most, I would say,

(21:59):
most of, not all, All are are iconic shows that
show and the reason they are is because, for example,
Mark Hamill is a tripic actor. Of course, he's a
tripic actor. Kevin Conroy is a mind blowing actor, right,
So Tress McNeil over and over and over and over
and over again. And so it makes perfect sense that

(22:21):
not only is she a tripic director, but she knows
that it is not just about to do in the
funny voice. And I think more and more people, thanks
to shows like yours, are starting to understand it. Wow.
Uh And I know you guys get this at all
the time from young people. Christie, I'm a big fan.
How do I if you get into this? What do
you suggest I do? I do a really great Bart

(22:41):
Simpson good for you and and have a blast. But
I'm not trying to burst your bubble. I would never
tell you not to come out here. But it's about acting,
and it's about improv acting maybe music, stretching yourself, being
utterly self aware. That is to say, not that you're
a beautiful young woman that goes out the window, a

(23:04):
beautiful young woman when you walk out the door. But
the idea is to inhabit the character. And that's why
people love bugs. That's why people love Barts, why they
love Goofy, why they love you know, all these characters.
They're wonderfully well. You mentioned before the term high tech
sandbox to play in, and I think that's something that
we haven't heard before. Will and it's really love that shirt.

(23:27):
I play in a high tech sandbox. And you know, Robert,
you had that Vanity Fair YouTube. You know video that
we saw and I mean, well you saw it, right,
I'm sure you've seen it. You've I think you've quoted
it before Vanity Fairview. Robin. He does all the voices
and it's it's amazing. If you haven't seen it, not

(23:48):
will But you guys listening, if you haven't seen it,
you should definitely go and check out Rob's amazing ability
to just inhabit all of those characters. But I mean,
could we talk about that, I mean, your approach, whatever
you want. He takes all the different characters. Oh, he
takes all the characters and he just goes and he
plays and it's amazing to watch. Well, you guys know

(24:09):
this also, And I think Billy another guy. I gotta
stop dropping names, but we love it. But Billy, you
guys know Billy West and not again on our show.
What a sweet man first and foremost a delightful, sweet
kind on giving man giving and but he opens his mouth,

(24:32):
it's just hm. But Billy coined the phrase, and I
think he's right. He said, you know what, Robbie, what
I love about voice actors is we're fearless. And he's right,
especially I mean while they're working, um, when the producers say,
you know, well, we're looking to a guy. Do you
do a very good dot n I said, well, I
don't really do a good dot Knox, but I'll tell
you what I'll do. I'll give you my take on it,

(24:55):
and I'm gonna jump right in. And the worst that
can happen is the director of a reduce the last
little bit and says, well, you're right, it is not
terribly good, but you know what what you did there
was pretty interesting, and you know, let me take out
a second. Yeah, we don't need donats go go ahead
and do that some more. Well, and that stuff happens

(25:16):
all the time. I've also seen people who say, hey, Rob,
can you do good Donna? Jesus, you know Jeff Benness
the guy I don't. I don't want to embarrass myself.
Oh okay, get Jeff Benni and yep, boom. You just
lost a chance to show that you are fearless if
you're willing to play, and that you are not And

(25:38):
you said it earlier, Christie. It's a it's a big
team experience, and uh it. It really is important not
to have that adult junk about oh my god, I'm
getting old and all that stuff when you know and
it's not about leave your ego outside the door and
if somebody says do not say I'll do the best
I can, but meant to it and you never know

(26:01):
when the producer is going to Christie was unterly fearless.
She jumped right in. It was not exactly what we
thought we wanted, but Christie's talent and her willingness to
jump in the pool was so great. She came up
with something we never would have thought of it. We're
going to write that character to the show. Happens all

(26:22):
the time. I think it has an energy to it too,
right where if you're really going for it and you're
really trying something and you're free in that moment with
your voice, well, it's it's it's also it's one of
those things where I think what you just said is
very very important because we so we're One of the
things we love to do here on I Hear Voices
is we have, you know, an amateur come in and
they get to work with some of these legends, which

(26:44):
obviously we're going to do a little bit later um,
but we try to give nuggets of or have our
guests give nuggets of of of advice on how to
navigate not only the world of animation, but just acting
in general. And something you just said there is is
hugely important in something that we haven't really covered. And
it doesn't matter whether it's animation, it's on camera, it's radio,

(27:07):
it's jokes, whatever it is, you have to commit a
hundred persist if you get the worst case scenario is
you're going to run into the wall, but you're gonna
run into the If you walk into the wall, nobody cares.
If you run into the wall for full steam, there's
a chance you're gonna break through. UM. So that you

(27:28):
have to commit to everything that you do UM. And
you know, for instance, in sitcom, you commit to the
joke and you are relying on your writers to know that, Hey,
if I commit to the joke percent, you're going to
be able to see that the joke doesn't work. But
I gave it. If I give you, you're not gonna
know whether the joke's gonna work or not. I give

(27:48):
You're going to know the joke didn't work. It's the
same in animation. And that is one of the things
with the actors and actresses in the booth that you
get to work with is I don't ever think I've
ever ever seen anybody who works consistently half asid never
And you know, uh um, I've started directing a little

(28:09):
bit and I really enjoyed and that it is so
much easier to pull an actor back than to say,
come on, come on, just I don't want to tell
you how to do it, but god, you're you're not
getting it and uh. And so you don't want to
put an actor on their heels. You don't want to
embarrass them. But if somebody says, uh, and how many
times have you been in a a session with somebody

(28:32):
who's kind of just given, especially on camera talent, and
they say, we need you to really when this happens,
you're you're screaming because your girlfriend has been stolen in
the monster Journey. But they're they're used to having the
camera right here, and so Andrea will say, okay, let's
dud again. It's just really screaming. So what happens They
finally get there, and when the person screams at the

(28:55):
level that the producers and the directors are happy with,
they kind of that's like the way out of my
comfort zone exactly. So but but if you see John Demago,
or you see you know, or you see uh Welker
or any of those other guys, it is astonishing. And
I've worked with Frank I don't know three hundred times.

(29:18):
I've known him forever. Every time I work with that guy,
he does something that just said, Frank, where did that
come from? And he The point is, folks and young
actors out there, Frank never stops learning, he never stops
coming up with new stuff. Guy's got all the money
he'll ever need. Same thing with Tress, same thing with

(29:38):
Nancy Cartwright, same thing with all of it there. They
love the process. They are bona fide actors and it's
something that is utterly part of their soul. I mean,
and whether they're getting paid for it or not, if
I'm hanging out with with you guys and Billy and Uhde,
Bradley Baker, Um, April Winchell or whatever, in five or

(30:03):
ten minutes, will have all these wonderful actors being lit
up by one another and it's going like this, and
we're laughing our guts out. The people around us think
we were utterly insane, but it's and there's no money involved.
It's just about the joy right of the process. And
when you see that happen in the studio. I tell

(30:25):
people all the time, you guys, that's the show. That
is the freaking show. And you're a room with people
like that playing that game at high level, and it's
just it talked about a high tide raising all boats.
I'm way better around those people they do. Christine, at
the beginning, you learned pretty quickly, which is precisely what

(30:46):
Will was suggesting about the commitment. You learned pretty quickly
that it's okay to be a little bit afraid of that,
but if you don't make the choice to jump in,
then you're gonna get run over because people are so
good and the bar is so hot, and you know,
if I die tomorrow, be a little bit of a drag.

(31:07):
My wife had had plenty of money, and they'd say, well,
I reckon, we better start recasting. So there are plenty
of really fabulous actors out there, and when the best
of the best don't rest on their laurels, they just don't.
And that's why it's well it is. But it's also
the only thing I can liken it too. When you're

(31:28):
in a room with with these amazing men and women
that are pushing each other but also at times trying
to one up each other. The only feeling I've ever
had like that in my life is trying to make
my brother's laugh. Like there's like you're trying to get
your get respect, but you also want to earn. It's
the strangest thing. But again, you're right when it comes

(31:51):
to the commitment. You're never gonna hear anybody say, John DiMaggio,
can you bring it up to It's always bring it
back yet, and that's what you want. That's exactly as
you are listening to each other too, all performing and
raising the bar. Oh yeah, you have to listen to me. Sure.
The only technical thing is that sometimes you have to

(32:13):
be very careful about overlapping one another because of the
technical aspects of the animation. But no, I'm always better.
Obviously with respect to COVID, you know, we've all been
lucky enough to keep working, whether recording from home or
solo in a studio. But I'm an old dog. I
much prefer to be with the other actors. They absolutely

(32:33):
make me better. And when you go home exhausted from
four hours of doing what you would do for free,
and what a great way to go through life. You're
exhausted from lapping and hanging out with people that you
would choose to be your friends. Holy smoke. Okay, So
before we we bring in our special guests, which we're
gonna to play with us again because ladies and gentlemen,

(32:55):
we have brought back a fan favorite which were so
excited to have back us, the Garden. We're very excited.
We could not have Rob Paulson here and not do
a little bit of work with But I need to
know some of your basic backgrounds. So for instance, Rob,
what was your animation jam growing up? What were the
shows that you wanted to watch when you were a kid?
Looney Tunes, uh, flint Stone's Johnny Quest. Um, I love

(33:21):
Johnny Quest and I got to be my first uh
steady gig animation was was with the God Blessing the
late Great Gordon Hunt. And there was a a reboot
of Johnny Quest in the mid eighties and I got
to be Hog and I really thought I was going
to lose my mind. But yeah, those shows, there were
a couple of people don't remember, especially there's no reasoning

(33:45):
with their younger folks don't know that flint Stones was
a prime time animated show on ABC. Uh. There was
another animated show with William Wyndham as the star called
um Wait Till Your Father Gets Home. It was a
prime time animated show. Really, I believe, Yeah, I believe
even Johnny Quest uh was was the Jetsons was Jetsons

(34:06):
also prized one? Yeah, and I love the Jetson's uh
in fact two quick stories. Um, this is the coolest thing.
I remember when we did the first episode of the
Johnny Quest reboot and Don Messi, who was the voice
of Dr Quest also was a Boo Boo bear and
uh um uh Bubba Louie Bubba Louie on Quick Drama

(34:30):
Crazy Talent, okay uh. He was the voice of Scooby
Doo until he passed away and Frank now was doing it.
But the first episode of the Johnny Quest I was
in in which I was I was sitting next to
Mr Uh you know, Don to Mr Messi, and all
of a sudden he says, careful, Johnny, there's an It

(34:50):
was like I thought, for lunch, I'll have to have
a seizure salad. Uh. It was. It was Dr freaking
Quest right next to uh. And I kind of had
to gather myself. Then a couple of years later there
was a Jetson's movie in which I played uh, a
rock and roll star, and I was in love with

(35:12):
Judy Jetson, so I got to go to work. I
went to work one day and Gordon Hut says, hey, Robbie,
mel Blank is here? Ay? Good? You want to sit
next to him? And I said, of course. So Mr
Blank was probably I don't know, late seventies, and he
passed away as uh I sat next to them, and
of course it took me a while to must have

(35:33):
the courage, but I said, Mr Blank look like anyone
with a pulse. I'm a I'm a fan and uh,
I just not only need to tell you that, but
if it's not too much trouble. And of course he
knew exactly what he wanted, took off his glasses and
looks at me, said yeah, what's up, doc? And it

(35:54):
was mind melted. Yeah, And immediately immediately, you guys, I
was transported back to sitting in Livonia, Michigan. You know
what's the television? Um? And just killed the web, killed
the web's things and fire. I've seen all those a

(36:18):
hundred times, and it was sudden, I'm sitting next to
this guy was like, you know, kind of small and
old and and that one none of that matter. It
was just astonishing, almost chemical experience of what's up, Doc?
That was real. It's the voice. Yeah, No, I've had

(36:42):
I've told this before, I've told the story before. But
I had exactly the same, exactly the same moment when
I was doing Transformers and so I was I was
Bumblebee and Peter Colin comes in and he's sitting there,
and I'm next to kry Peyton and there's you know,
a couple of us were all in our warties and
we're sitting there and the first line, Peter just goes

(37:04):
Bumblebee and we almost cried in the room, like literally,
and it took me thirty seconds to realize I had
to answer him. It was like he was talking to
me and I was eight years old. I had my
Transformers in front of me, and instantly there's almost nothing
that that brings you back to that place that fast

(37:26):
as when you were a fan of cartoons growing up,
and you hear that voice and you I could smell
the carpet was on again, and I was it was amazing.
So you have those moments, they are magical. I remember
a few years ago when the first Transformers movie came out,
the first Michael Baby movie came out, and Maurice Uh
texted me from the Chinese theater. They said, you know,

(37:50):
we're all kind of excited, but you know, Robbie, I
don't know. They hadn't really talked much about the voice cast,
and of course to the COGNISENTI the the real ill
have you getting Transformers fans? They were like, I hope
they don't put you know, Kevin Nelon as the voice
in here, and so he said, I'll let you know

(38:11):
how it goes. So Mo calls me afterwards. She says, Robbie,
we're sitting here and the audience is full, I mean
jam And as soon as Optimists comes on on the screen,
everybody's screaming and yelling. And then Peter says on the
bus rollout and they everybody jumped up hot corn one

(38:33):
in the air. They started clapping because it was utterly
authentic and their fears were completely blown out. They're just like,
oh my god, it's really optimised and it matters. It matters.
It's not about whether or not Brad Pitt as a
talking dragon. I love Brad Pitt, but unless Brad Pitt
creates the voice that becomes iconic, it doesn't really matter.

(38:57):
And boy, I just I love the those characters have
that much power. Yes, yes, And also I know that
we're going to bring our guest on pretty soon. Right well,
it feels like we'll probably, I think. But I have
a couple I there, we got right when we talk
about the voice being an instrument, right, this is my
final thing. And I'll let well with his questions because

(39:20):
we love you when when we talk about the voice.
By the way, I have my I have my dush
proof clothes on. Okay, good because it's there. Yeah, we're
we're it's it's gonna be essentially the first row of
a Gallagher concert for for a little while here. So
welcome to see worl No for me to um and
uh you know you It says you know in our

(39:41):
notes that you are a survivor of throat cancer. M Um.
That's about that amazing amazing, well it really got my attention. Um,
not toe cancer, not hair cancer. But but I have
to tell you, honestly, and I'm so glad you brought that, Um,

(40:01):
I'm fine. I'm gonna die someday, but not from throat cancer. However, Um,
all of us who are halfway decent humans move through
our lives in a certain hopefully uh well rounded sense
of kindness and empathy and sympathy. I mean we all
live in we live in l l A. I mean

(40:22):
they are homeless encampments on every corner. How many times
a day do you go there? But for the grace
of God? Um? And so when I was diagnosed, the
first thing it was kind of go, wow, that's a
little bit of a surprise. UM. And it wasn't about
why me, Oh my God and the boys that why

(40:42):
why the not me? Do you think anybody wants this?
Of course not um, but now and of course it
was a little bit frightening. Um. It was. The treatment
was very difficult for obvious reasons that the radiation you know,
kind of tears up your throat, your your mouth. But

(41:03):
now that I'm through it, I have an important story.
Not because I'm an actor with throat cancer, but because
I I'm U a guy whose instrument, as you suggested,
was in uh pretty you know, it was pretty dire
danger there for a while uh, but not only did

(41:24):
I survive it, and I'm different, Rob two point oh
is different. I lost fifty pounds that I didn't have
to lose. I couldn't taste frud for I don't know
about three years. Um. I my salim glands were pretty
much shot. But it saved my life and it saved
my voice. So now when I have the great good

(41:47):
fortune of being on with people like you who asked
me about it, we'd never know, you, guys, when somebody's
gonna be watching this terrific show and say, hey, man,
I was watching Christy and Will the other day and
there was this by Ron Pullman. I don't know if
that was his name was, But it turns out the guy, uh,
you know as cartoons and this person watching may have

(42:09):
a loved one who's going through the same thing. You
just never know. Ah. And if they said, oh my god,
uncle Bill, I'm gonna send you something. You gotta watch
this this guy who was on the show, these two
lovely people. Remember how much you turned me on too
pinky in the brain a million years ago, and how
much we still love watching saying hey, what do you

(42:29):
do tonight? Uncle Bill? And you know or you think
that what I'm all that stuff. This guy is your
age and he survived throat cancer. You got this man.
That's why it's important. So now not only have I
been beyond fortunately to make a living doing essentially what
got me in trouble in seventh grade, um, I now

(42:52):
have a story with which I can help people. And
it is not about whether or not they buy an
autograph or buy an action figure. It's a It's a
pure human exchange of information. Uh. And when I say
to somebody either I do have the opportunity to talk

(43:12):
to a lot of people about it, do a lot
of engagements. Um. And so whether I'm holding somebody's hand
literally or figuredily and speaking about our mutual experiences, and
I say, man, I get it, I get it. And
that is a big deal when you're able to say
to somebody with utter authenticity, I really know what you're
going through. Because I don't know what a homeless family

(43:36):
is going through. I never will. I can give them
all the money I've got. But when I say, God,
I know what you're saying, No, you don't. And it
doesn't mean that it's you don't want to stop being
empathic and sympathetic, but if you're able to say you
know with utter certainty, you're just another human. You're not
a doctor, but you know what the struggle is like.

(43:58):
That's a really important part of my life now. And
it turns out that that cancer experience for me had
a platinum lining. So I'm really grateful that you asked
you about that's the platinum lining. What is the platinum
lining up? The fact that I'm able to talk about
it and that I not only can do my job,
and I'll tell you very quickly, Um, it was pretty

(44:22):
difficult because of it was eight weeks of radiation or
a bunch of chemo and all that. Um. But we
are enjoying a renaissance of Animaniacs. We got to do
a reboot of Animaniacs, and so there's a lot of
music in those shows. And I'm a singer before anything.
The reason I got the gig on Animaniacs was I'm

(44:43):
a singer. And and so I remember on the new
New Bunch that we've done for hul we started, they
dropped in two thousand and we're recording in two thousand nineteen.
And my cancer it was in two thousand sixty. Um,
and I remember the first song I got to sing
for animaniacs. Um, it was a little bit uh, it

(45:09):
was a little bit off putting. I jumped into it.
I was prepared, but still I haven't done anything. I
got done with my treatment and when I got to
the song, it was a remarkable experience that I won't forget.
It was like, it was like, Okay, this is my
trial by fire. This is these people love me. Ah,

(45:30):
they will do anything to help me, but it's a business.
And I told them right from the beginning. I said, look, man,
I'm not a hero, but I am. I am logical
and I'm rational. I know you love me. I know
you're gonna do everything you can to wait till I
get better. Great, But if you can't, or if I

(45:54):
come back and you listen to stuff and you go
back and put it together, and you said, Jesus Christ,
how do we tell him that we love him? But
you might have to get somebody to sink for him,
or or maybe you know, recast and we'll do it.
It's not the end of the world. I'm alive it.
You guys have nothing to prove to me. You this

(46:18):
is a business. You didn't ask me to get the cancer.
I didn't ask for it, nobody wants it, so please.
I appreciate that you are concerned about how this lands
on me. But I'm a big boy, and you guys
gotta do what you gotta do. So when I got

(46:38):
through it and they used it, and they used all
the music, I did, all this thing, I've done it,
it was a remarkable time to just take a break
and say, wow, thank God for cutting edge medicine. But
also over and above that um my podcast on which
was so kind to be a part, I ended every episode.

(46:59):
I say, laugh is the best medicine. The cool thing
is you can't ode and the refills are free. And
I'm telling you what it's that God's honest truth. The
the ability to laugh at myself. Um two, uh, find
ways to laugh at the parts that were kind of dark,
make fun of myself when I looked, you know, just
like like a skeleton with a little bit of skin

(47:22):
all written. I mean, does not everybody works that way?
That worked for me. And the joy that all these
characters that I've been so lucky to perform over the years,
all right, it's right in here. And so I call
up Pinky and call up Jacko and all the other knuckleheads,
Carl Wheezer and all that, and it just it just
helped me get through that madness. So that's why it's

(47:43):
the platinum lining. And that's why Christie, I'm so grateful
that you guys let me ramble on about it. It's
a big deal for me. It's amazing. And now you're
helping other people who are who are dealing with the
same thing. That is pretty incredible. Yeah, there's uh one
of my my favorite uh anecdotes very quickly about something
like that is exactly what we're talking about. Where a
man falls into a hole and he's down there and

(48:06):
and people are walking over him, and he sees a
police officer and he says, officer, you gotta help me,
I've fallen in the hole. And the officer throws him
a pair of cuffs and says, don't worry. If somebody
somebody comes at you can arrest him. And then the
doctor walks by and and he says, doc, you gotta
help me. I've fallen into a hole. Please help me.
And the doctor writes some prescription and throws it down
the hole and walks by, and he sees his best
friend walk by, and he says, it's you. You gotta
help me, And the guy jumps in the hole with

(48:27):
him and he says, what are you What are you
doing now? We're both down here, and he says, yeah,
but I've been here before and I know the way out.
So there's that. That is one of my favorite anecdotes ever.
And it's that same kind of kind of thing. So
I had a bunch of questions for you. I don't
even want to ask him anymore because that I want
to end right there. It was no, it's perfect. There
is one question that we ask everybody, and there's only

(48:49):
one question that I want to know, and that's and
I don't think you're even gonna be able to answer
this because you've been everybody. One character you haven't played
that you want to, any character you want, who would
you pick? I really like every after. I really would
love to get a crack at the joker. I just
I think, And you know why, I think because uh

(49:12):
Mark has set the bar so high that I love
a challenge and I would love to come up with
something that was different but interesting. Um and my like
I mentioned, my son is thirty eight is in the
video game business. And I remember Mark and Kevin are

(49:32):
both dear friends. I know you know those guys, and
um uh, my son loves the Batman franchise. And he said,
I'm telling you what. I love the Chris Nolan movies.
I love Christian Bale, Michael Keaton, all that stuff. I
love watching it. I love the whole mythos of Batman.
But I'm telling you what this is after you met

(49:52):
Kevin Conroy and he said, there is no doubt that
if I had to watch one version the rest of
my life, I easily watch the animated series forever and
never looked back. His Batman is Kevin and his joker
is Mark. And I love that character because it's so rich.
But I don't know that I have said that had

(50:15):
I never heard Mark doing it. Mark just killed it
so much that I kind of want to go, well,
I don't expect it to be better. That's a very
subjective thing, but I would love the challenge of coming
up my own version because I've just been so transfixed
by Marx. You know it's pretty cool. I think, Okay,

(50:36):
that's great. Well, yeah that we we get that a lot,
and I think that is the character that everybody seems
to want to tackle is the joker, So we love
that we have our voice over actor with us. He's
coming in today. His name is Brandon and Brandon is

(50:59):
going to be joining us for Across the Garden, which
is coming back. He asked me have brought it back
because people requested it, and we, frankly just absolutely love
to do it. So we can't wait in there is Brandon. Hey, Brandon,
are you've got snow job here? Yeah? I can't with

(51:22):
the g I Joe anymore. I'm gonna start crying, um
brand So Brandon, we we've obviously won before and we've
met you at conventions yep. And actually I won the
fan xbo one one. You won the Live I Hear
Voices Fan Expo episode, which is great. So where are
you from? Denver, Colorado? That's okay, You're from from the

(51:45):
from the Windy Apple, the mile high Windy Apple of Denver,
which we love. And did you get your your script? Oh?
Yes I did, and you are going to be playing
Sue No Sue as in Spread it O. You excited
about our contest coming up? Oh yeah, yet you're like

(52:08):
our number one exactly and we will talk about it
more fuller, but just a quick plug for Christie. What
was the contest called again califragilistic? So nope, not even close.
You're not even trying. She's given up trying. Every episode
I try and I fail. We are going to try again. No,
we are, of course once again announcing the Super Awesome

(52:32):
Contest to become the Next Big Voice Actor contest close close,
that was actually closer than Christie. The Super Awesome Contest
to Become the Next Big Voice Actor. We will be
announcing all of the great prizes and everything. I think
we're gonna be. It's gonna be right around Halloween, if
not on Halloween, that we are going to be able
to really jump into the contest. One person out there
is going to win the opportunity to get an amazing

(52:54):
voice actor career. We can open the door a little
bit for you, we can crack it, but then you
got to kick it open with your talent, is the plan.
But as we're waiting for the contest to launch, we're
getting back into Across the Garden. And for those of
you who are our old fan like Brandon, Yes I
said that right fan. Um, we have two characters that

(53:17):
we invented in the fly called Ricky and Mocha, who
are two little mice that are trying to get across
the garden to get to the other side so that
Mocha can see her boyfriend at the mall. And we
have had some wonderful amateur voice over actors, some amazing
uh pros that come on and we are hopefully the
goal is then amateurre um animators are going to take

(53:37):
these little segments and they're going to animate together a cartoon,
and all of these amateur voiceover actors are going to
get a chance to be on the very right. It
is a ton of fun. We really can't wait. So yes,
Ricky and Mocha are still on their journey and we
are going to pick it up once again Exterior Woods Continuous.
Is everybody ready? All right? Here we go Brandon you ready? Yes,

(54:00):
got my script? We're good. I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready.
Do we go, folks, Let's do it. Ricky and Moca
are still on their journey in the woods. Uh Moca,
do you ever get the feeling that we're not actually
really like, we're just fictional characters being written by someone
else to fulfill some kind of empty hole. They have
in their life. Yeah, you know, like we're never going

(54:23):
to actually get to them all to see your boyfriend
if you even exist. Like every time we feel like
we're getting close to some other crazy character is just
gonna pop up and distract us. No got me neither.

(54:43):
Do you hear that? Do you hear that? Come on,
Ricky Moco, come over a small hill to find a
tiny little kitchen set up in the middle of the clearing.
A chipmunk in a chef's hat and coat is berating
another chipmunk in a black chef's coat, So you'll think
you are to we now you dounky? Are you a donkey?
These are to me? Seriously? Can you answer me? Because

(55:05):
my eyes don't work too good anymore. No chef saying
why would you do this to my south? Tell me
why you do this to my house? I don't know ship.
I just thought he needed something. He did something, dude,
that something. This ric p as been eating my family
for general. What is possibly um flavor? Bab Jeff hit

(55:35):
Sue in the head with a ladle Oh damn, that
finest prea teach in the world. I drive myself and
I'm giving it. Glowing radio RAI one you can pulls
out a piece of paper and shoves it at Sue.
Chef monks Boarder Lisauce should be renamed board all days

(55:55):
to us with this limited depth and indescribable texture, says
would be better surf speckling up a hole in the
wall then on a plate. See quote in describe texture
close court. You cannot buy pub like that. You're dumb.

(56:16):
I don't think you are the words. Ricky and Mocha
walk up. Excuse us? Can I help you? Pap hit
with the ladle again? You're just this? Can you you know?
I feel like I have asked this? How do we

(56:37):
get to the ball? Hit with the ladle? You're thinking?
How about? I'm sorry? Sue's face goes bright red. That it.
He walks over the pot, grabs two spoons and dips in,
and he turns and shoved the spoons into Ricky and
Mocha's mouths. How does this taste? Do you? Their eyes

(57:00):
light up? This is the best thing, so good. The
background chef grabs two spoons and dips him into his
own pot and walks over. Okay, now did you try
this one? Before they can answer, he shoves the spoons
in Rickey and Mocha's mouth. A beat passes. They turned. No,

(57:22):
I don't for me. Oh, I think you see you'll
see you'll see you see you see him. He might
teach you now gold kill dogs potatoes. Chef's about to
answer when Sue slowly raises the ladle again many check.

(57:44):
He smiles and turns to Ricky and Mocha is just
around the bed. Thank you for your service. Thank you
getting weirder right, Yeah, so, good job, great job, Brandon. Honestly,
he's getting better and better with it. From the time
I feel like we first met him and heard him,

(58:06):
he's always been also, Brandon. You might not because you're
in the waiting room, certainly didn't hear the conversation that
we were just having with Rob. But you did something
that exactly what we were talking about. You committed to
what we were doing, and that is the first most
important thing you got to do, Brandon. You came in
and you nailed it. So congratulation. How to give my

(58:27):
best hundred tem per cent all of that times. Look
at him going, look at him going, He'll win that. Oh, Brandon,
thank you so much. Congratulations. Is there any place where
people can find you. Do you have any social media presence?
I do well. I have personal Facebook and Instagram. Instagram

(58:48):
is h g A Brandon easy fine, so you guys
can find me there. Perfect and other than that, I'm
just about around in the world. There's nothing wrong with that.
Thank you so much, Brandon. That is the best. Thank you,
and I hope to see you guys soon against pleasure.
We'll see you agoon, good luck. Thank you. One more thing,
this was my first voice acting Joe. Hey, there's no first,

(59:12):
like first my friend. I know. It was an honor.
Thank Thank you, Brandon. Bye bye. How lovely that you
guys do that. I just think that's great that you're
finding a way to include folks. Good for you, Thank you.
It is so much fun. And yeah, when we so
the first we've actually announced this before, but the first
thing you actually win is a one year contract with

(59:35):
a voice over agency. Wow. And there's another couple of
prizes that we are still working on that are still
going to be absolutely outstanding. So once again, that is
the man. Christie. What's the names? Just okay, you know,
hold on, what's it called? CHRISTI? It is the super

(59:56):
awesome contest to become the next big voice actor. So
awesome contest to become the next big voice actor. There,
I do it, you did so, thank you come back.
He had the time one of the and I was
going to talk to you about this later. This might
be cut. We'll see if we're going to cut this

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or not. But one of the things we're gonna do
is when we get down to the final two contestants,
um actually might be the final four, they're going to
get for you know, a day or so just over zoom.
They're going to get a voice over mentor that's going
to help them and uh, and then we go to
pick the big final winner. So um yeah, we'd love
to have you involved somewhere down the law. It would
be absolutely a pleasure. Anything you guys want. I just

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love to look. You guys were in a happy business.
Isn't this the coolest thing in the world? And look
we are. That's sweet Brandon. He will never forget that,
irrespectable what happens down the road, he will never forget that.
And it's thanks to you guys. That's a very big deal.
It's cool as if we were having fun. So you

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can join us obviously on anywhere you listen to podcasts
or on the I Heart radio app and uh yeah,
please join us and again, um I can't. I can
wish I could remember the name of the contest contest
to become the next big voice over actor. I guess
you almost had a great voice over. Sorry voice over actor.

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There you voice actor? Okay, got it, I'll get it
next time. All right, next time, next episode, now, Rob.
I always end by saying, if you think you can
do what we do, step up and put your voices
where your mouth is. I think we should end with
his you could do us a favor. If you could
do us a favor and you could take us out
with the talking tunes. I was so appreciate the happiness, laughing. Yeah,

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I'll tell you what. Let me do something very crauickly
because if you guys will get a kicked out of this.
Um Will was doing a bit of the United States
count well that song, a little bit of Inside Baseball.
Check out how much talent. This is a great example
of you guys watching. Is that you when you're in Hollywood,

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uh or New York? You never know. I always tell
young people, surround yourself with people of a like mind.
Go to class go out to eat with actors. Just
uh I remember when Animanias was coming along and I
got the job, there was obviously music that was a
big part of it. Um So I had never met

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Randy Rogal, who wrote most of the songs that you
guys know from Animanias, including Yako's World. But what people
don't know is that Jacko's World was the song that
Randy Rogal dave two Warner Brothers as his audition piece.
He wrote that song when they said all right, well

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what have you got? Can you write something on spect?
He said, I sure, Ken He wrote that song just
because he could and played it for them. And that's
one of those things when you hear it, you stick
your head out the door on Mr Spielberg, I think
you should hear this, and not only that. So it
was the first song he wrote for Animaniacs, and it
was the first song I recorded. Talked about setting the

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bar high, unbelievable and he didn't disappoint. However, a few
years later, uh I told Randy, I said, you know,
I've been doing a convention. People every now and then
say are they going to update the Apples World? Because
you know there are a lot of different countries that
they have come to be and some of them gone
away since that song was written, he said, you know what,

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you're right, So an extra eleven minutes on a Tuesday,
and he wrote the follow This is just a quick
update of the song. Okay, it goes like this. Montenegro
and Bodnia, Herze Obania, the Soviet Union is gone. It's
that bag Georgia, Moldovia, Latvia, Batjan who's bekas on? Hey
k hey, I mean talk about left Serbian Cross about

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you Sama, about Balbin Bruni, McCowen, Primia, than Eritrea, Ukraini
outther Stony, here's not Sooni and New Caledonia. He just Lobonia.
I've read Coasting Cape Berti and Door the Solomon out
of Dubai something wow. So he just came up with it.
And as you can tell by the beautiful Christie Romano

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and the impossibly handsome Will the we can all absolutely agree,
folks that laughter is so the best medicine. You don't
know why Becauld you can't owe d and the refills
are free. Thanks a lot, you, guys. It was an
absolute privilege hanging Thank you. Thanks guys, I hear Voices

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