Episode #107 Jim Cummings

Live from the Speakeasy Lounge in Warren Ohio, we are joined by legendary voice actor, and Youngstown native, Jim Cummings, known for his work as the voice of Winnie The Pooh, Tigger, and the Tasmanian Devil!

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Boo. Hello everyone, welcome toanother round of raised boom boom room.
I'm your host. I'm your host, ray Man Sney along here with my
ace, corner man, cut man, my case, my kidneys. Can
you can you see Mike or ishe? Is he hid? Oh?

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You're there? Okay, okay,you're the camera number two. I got
you, I got all right,We're my as. I'm at the Master.
I'm looking at the Master. Lookat this one over here. Okay,
I'm point here. No one blazes, and gentlemen, I apologize.
If he's out the side of myhead. I'm looking at the wrong camera.
That's that's that's not that's not good. All right, that would probably

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help. Probably our next guest probablyknows about camera angles. I'd probably help
if you knew what a camera you'relooking at that. Oh my god,
we've got tell him, tell himabout the guest. Get it again,
because you want to talk fighting alittle a little bit, I gotta talk.
First of all, we ain't beenback since the Super Bowl. We've
been back, which was a hellof a super Bowl. Yeah and uh,

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one of the best I've enjoyed ina long time. Uh great,
you know great, you know youknow, you want to see a competitive
game. It was a great game. Came down that fourth quarter and then
you know, um mahomies took overand and you know, and one's gonna
be knocking Shanahand because I didn't realizehe was the offensive coordinator for the Felons,
thinking that the whole game, soI said, oh, I did

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not know that UM play calling.But you know, if you're but I
tell people, you call the player, whether it's the right player or not.
The team has to tell to playdefense. They have to play defense,
and they also have to to execute. That's the word execute. If
you execute, you make a coupleof them catches like in the Felcus and
they caught the one ball. Ifthe game's over, you don't catch the

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ball. Whose fault is that?UM flow through that one? A little
bit too far? A little far? I mean, you know, Jimmy
g was on all year, wasthe one past when they needed so an.
Yeah, I'm just saying it wasa great It was a great,
great game rich anyhow, but ourour Youngstown forty nine ers did not come
victory. So it was it wasa you know, we all took a

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bed. I'm curious that they ifthe Urslin people root for the Mooney people,
if they root for the forty nine, I would hope. So it's
a Youngstown team, which we're goingto that talking about that. Our next
kiss is an Erslin Gay. We'regonna get to him. But also real
fast though. Um this week nextweekend, this weekend fight on Fox,
Caleb Plant defending his Super been aweighttitle at Las Vegas. No, no,

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I'm sorry in Nashville, his hometown, Nashville. First time he's fought
Nashville. Caleb's Nashville, Tennessee.So they'll be the Saturday night on PBC
on Fox, Caleb Plant will bedefending his super middleweight title in Nashville.
Two weeks on the twenty second,you got the Big heavyweight pay per view
between Deonte Wilder and and Tyson Fury. They fought once. It was a

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draw to coming back to do therematch. Fury says he'll knock out Wilder.
Was in two rounds Big sixty ninewild Wilder six seven. To the
biggest heavyweights fight. I think it'smaybe the biggest heavyweights fighting for the tallest
together combined fight for the heavyweight championship. Of the world. Great fight.

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It's a pay per view coming up, so you want to get that fight.
You'll want to get that all right, With no further due, we're
gonna get to our next guest,our special guest today. Can't thank him
enough. I called him a lastminute but he's very kind of say I'll
do it for your ray. Itruly appreciate it. Our next guest.
Ladies, gentle, but this isa treat. Trust me, our next

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guest. Um. I like him, even though he's an arson grat.
I gotta like him, our nextguest. I was born and raised here
in Youngstome, graduated from Mercia innineteen seventy, went to New Orleans now
nineteen seventy two Marti Gras, andnever came back. He never came back
today. He went down and thenfrom there he went to Los Angeles and

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there he's been there for quite afew years. He'll tell us exactly when
he got to LA and I gottaask him because I always wondered how people
get into the voice business. Ournest actor is probably the foremost the greatest
voice actor of all time as faras I know. I don't know if
anybody who I don't know any donemore. Look at the resums done the

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voices of when need the Pooh,Tasmanian Devil, Tigger, Uh, Daffy
Duck Scar. And now about this, when they did Lion King, Jeremy
Irons was doing the voice of Scar. Now, Jeremy Mins, you know
that got the great He's got histrained in the Royal Theater of London,

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shakespearean actor, got that great voice. He got for whatever reason, he
couldn't finish. And our next guesttook old guy from the west north side
of young what I believe it's northside of maybe it's the west side,
but he'll let it snow of Youngstownfinished doing it. Not only did he
have to do to imitate Jeremy Ironsdoing the voice of Scott doing a different

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imitation. How about that Christopher Robbins, He was the one Christopher robin Um
he played shippetto And why come Ihearing myself now, I'm hearing myself.
I hear it too. I'm hearingmyself from a previous episode. Perhaps maybe
maybe I don't know what happened.Guys, Okay, I WoT to the

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all right? And he did setPinocchio okay, with all those great accolades,
great credits, no further ado.I'm going to introduce Youngstown's own,
but Hollywood's I mean Bobby again,the greatest character voice actor that I know
of. He'll let me know whoelse was a voice actor. I think

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Mel Blank was one blank voices,But but I don't know if he's I
don't know if he's got the resume. Jim. Anyway, our next test
from YAX, I don't know howstraight from out of California freight from Hollywood
come and talking to me, thegreat Jim Cummings. Jim, can't thank
you enough for being on. HiJim, Hey my pleasure. How's it

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going guys? All right? Right, hello Jim? How how was that
intro? Was that okay or alittle long in the tooth? Was it
okay? That wasn't bad? Thatwasn't bad? That was pretty dark good?
And you know it's funny. Icould always tell when somebody's on a
certain website or whatever because Geppetto,I don't I don't know how they got
that one on there, because Inever did Geppetto, Oh you did?

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I think that was in the Ithink that was in the nineteen forties a
little before missed it. You're right, because I read that sippetto he did,
he did Puccio, he did sayI did snow White too, you
know what I mean. I didn'tdo that, but I got ask you.
You took over for Jeremy Irons.He's got one of the greatest voices
of all time and you had it, and you had it not only you

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had imitate him doing Scar. Thatmust have been hell of a thing.
Oh yeah, Now how long itwas? It was fun? You know,
it wasn't It was the kind ofstuff I did, you know,
all day long for free in theshower anyway. That's right, That's that's
that. That was my question.How did you get started to be in
a care I mean no voice actorobviously? When did you realize you can

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imitate voices and do different voices?How were you when you when you realize
you could do that? You hada gift to do that? Well,
you know, honestly, I gottatell you. You know, I was
sitting around and I'd be I'd bein class and even like four years old,
and I'd be doing dolphin noises,you know, and Sister Mary Agnes
would say, we don't have anydolphins. Serious emmaculate conception, mister Cummings.

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You know, of course they don't. They don't know either. But
uh, you know, I waswatching I was watching the old Jack Benny
program with my dad and Mel blank, Mel blank, that's right, he
was on there. Well he wasa great voice actor. I knew before
that because he did all the bigvoices. Yeah right, oh yeah,
well he was well, he waskind of like the the eldest of the

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Frank Sinatra a voiceover guys, Bugs, Bunny, Bunny. My dad tells
me, Yeah, my dad says, he says, you see this guy
right here. I said, yeah, he goes. He's the one that
does all those cartoon voices that youhear on Saturday Morning, Daffy Duck and
and uh you know, bugs Bunnyand Sylvester and this not. And I
thought, well, heck, he'snot getting in trouble for being allowed being

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obnoxious, right, you know,I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna go
that way. I'm gonna do itthat way instead, right, But so,
uh, you know, I startedchanneling it, and I was I
was in a million different plays,like at the Youngstown playoffs, right right
right, which is a great playoff, great great regional playoffs. The oldest
the oldest kid. Yeah, andit was a lot of fun, you

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know, and I, uh,when I was a kid, I had
it was it was it was fun. It was a good way to meet
kids from all around and uh,and there were a lot of girls there,
so that was good and helped,you know, it definitely helped.
And uh, you know, Iaccidentally, I think I was doing research
for what I was going to doas an adult, because I would always
instead, I didn't want to bethe little prince or the little boy.

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I wanted to be the wizard orthe weasel or the troll under the bridge
or something. You know. Itwas more fun. And I think I
was accidentally doing doing research for whatI was going to do as an adult.
And then I was in a band, you know, because I played
drums. I joke around, Isaid, I joke around with people.
I said, well, I've beena professional musician since I was thirteen years

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old. Because me and three ofmy buddies got ten bucks each to play
at our Lady of Mount Carmel's springsocial. Yeah, run up, I
smoked the hollow and we got andhey, you get ten bucks, you're
pro Well it's when you say,Jim, I got ten bucks and Mac
then not a Meca reception. Igot ten bucks Mount Carmel. Also because

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my mom's friend when they had thebig banquets, she was the caterer,
so I used to get for washingdishes. So we started the same joint.
And that's crazy. I met thefood. The food might have been
worth it by itself. Yeah,the food was terriffic. Food was terriffic.
But yeah, but go ahead,But you guys played, you had

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a band, you played music.Did you did you do the v you
do, like being between sets tovoices when you're doing that, did you
No? No, heck no no. I just uh, you know,
I was too busy trying to imitatethe Temptations or right right right a family
Stone or Stevie Wonder you know,right right, I mean we we we
knew like eight songs and we playedthe three time Z, the Good and

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then and then I went on.Then I was in a lot of different
other bands in Young Sun I wasin. I was in the first black
and white band, the first interracialband, well, all the fantastic perels
and I was the white kid.Were you the only white guy? Yeah?
Yeah, and that band. Wehad a couple of bands like that.
Yeah, you were the only whiteguy. So they nickname you spot.

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I was the only white guy.Did they nickname you spy? Did
you? And you were playing lightexactly? You're playing the drums at the
time, Yeah, playing drums andsinging yep. And then you know when
my buddy Bill Piper got rest issolely got out of the army. Uh,
he was eighteen. I was.I just turned eighteen, and he
says, well, I've always wantedto go to Marty grass And I said

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me too, And he says,well, I'm going down. I'm bumming
a ride with my buddy Frank.And I said, oh my hell,
I'll go. So I got myknapsack, you know, that was one
of those orange things that a lotof kids had back then. And I
had one hundred and twenty five bucksbecause I was just laid off from the
sheet and Tube, so I knewI had some time on my hands.
So I went to Marty Gras andI liked it so much I just never

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came back. I got a jobas a deckhand, on a riverboat.
You could eat like right away thatday. It's the time I was working,
you know what I mean. Yeah, at the time, I was
working at the coke works over overby Struthers off Wilson Avenue, right and
it was about it's like ten below. It's three o'clock in the morning.
I'm walking down and I got snowup to my size and it was as

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if the Lord went, what thehell do you want me to do?
Get out of you know? Okay, So I moved to New Orleans and
I liked the weather, so Istayed. Yeah why not? Yeah,
yeah, I got in. Igot my band down there and I sang
it. We are actually pretty good. I made a pretty good living.
Uh. I just was singing atthat time. And then I ended up

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painting Marty Grass floats for a fewyears and uh, you know, just
a little bit of everything. Isold pool cues door to door. It
was crazy market strip joint on Bourbonstreets. There you go. And then
I moved to California and uh,you know, got married, had some

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kids, and started my career here. And I was very fortunate. I
I got my first audition and Inailed the job. It was for Dumbo
Circus for Disney in nineteen eighty five, and uh, and I got the
first job I audition for, soyou know, I was joke around.
I went right from working full timein the real world to the voice acting
world. And I never got tobe a waiter, you know. And

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you got to be in the circusat once. Yeah, could you?
I never got to park anybody's cars, could you? And I'll take it?
Can you imitrate musical instruments too?Or just cartoon characters and noises and
things? Well, you know,I mean I always uh, unless you're
unless you're talking about like uh,you know, like some people do,

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like the beatbox stuff or right,yeah, you know I used to do
that with my with my cheeks andit sounds like a Wawa guitar. It
sounds like it sounds like a shaft. Just gonna say, starts like stars
like the opening of Shaft. Yeah, exactly right, right, Oh man,
that's about it. But but yeah, but when did you realize did

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you had this gift as a kidor as you got older? I mean,
because again you can't. It's it'sa gift and everyone at the top
of it, you can't It's likeit's like being a fighter. You either
could fighter you can't. You gotyou either got to you don't. And
that's a great and at some pointbeing a voice actor, that is the
herd. I'm the worst, andmy kids telling Pop I'm the word.
I can't do accents. I try. I could do it. I could

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do a Spanish accent if I could. I can't even doing a Time accent.
And I don't even know. ButI'm just saying, you're breaking my
heart. I can't do it aterrible The worst things you know better than
me, right is when you tryto be at each when you try to
do like try to do New Yorkaccent, even New York because when I
tried to do New York accent,yo, yo, you don't forget about

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it, like yo, man justspeak, man, just speak pretty good,
talking the the narrow. Don't don'tjust speak. You don't have to
do morning when I'm asking, youknow. But I'm the worst. But
some people have the gifts of wherethey could just do so many accents and
voices and and I mean, likelike you said, I'm saying, but

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just people could do it do itwell, like English accent or Australian accent
or and acle man. How dothey do it? Because I can't do
none of that stuff. But youit come as a gift because you must
have known it as a young childgrowing up. Did you had this gift?
Right? Oh? Yeah, yeahI did. It was you know,
it was you know, I usedto say, I'm you know,
I make a living doing the stuffthat used to get me kicked out of

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class. You know, you're inthe class cut up and you're always cutting
jokes and everything. It was,you know, the nuns weren't too crazy
about that, but it worked out. They they listen, they loved me
much years afterward when I, youknow, contributed the scholarship funds. It
wasn't all the sudden. It wasa pretty it was a good idea.
Then it was how did you knowthat? How'd you know dumbbo was high?

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I mean, who got the wordto you go try for that?
Yeah? Well, you know,it's a it's a thing where I gave
it to a customer in my videostore and he knew a guy who knew
a guy, and he passed alongmy tape and you know, they called
me up from a darn Blue Studiosand he says, well, I got
your tape here, and you don'tstink you're pretty good. But I don't.

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I'm not doing anything. I'm notcasting for anything, so I'll hold
on to it. And uh anduh oh boy, I got on my
foot besogia now if it makes myvoice shake climbing up, but h But
he passed it along and the guycalled me up, Frank Brandt, God
bless him, and he said,hey, I got this tape here.
You want to come up on auditionfor a job? And I said sure,

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So I went up on Thursday,it was my day off, and
he hired me on the spot andwhat part? And it was for the
part of Lion or the Lion onDumbo Circus. And this is in the
late eighties when cable TV was juststarting up and Disney would just start at
the Disney Channel. And they're doingpretty good now from what I hear.

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So do you audition for something orI mean, Tigger has been around forever.
Do you try to make it soundlike Tigger or do you do your
own take on what you think itshould be, what should sound like?
Well, well, you know,Paul Winchell, my friend got rested soul.
He was the original, and Iknew him for years because I was

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doing Winney the Pool and Sterling Holloway. He too has passed on. And
so the idea is, you haveto make it. You have to get
it familiar so that it sounds likeas much like the original as possible,
because that way the people get it. That way, everybody, you know,
they know what's happening. You know, like I got a little cold
right now, but we need thepool. It's a very sort of a

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light voice, and it sounds likethe wind is blowing through the captains to
me. And then Tigger it overthere and he thrilled, posy and a
little bit pitty. But let's puta tigger. So you just you just
you just get it in your head. You get it in your head and
then you're kind of good to go. That's funny, you know. You

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know, Jim, when we didthe documentary Young Youngstown, youngstoins still standing.
You're wonderful and you I'll never forgetyour Lyne. It was funny as
hell, But it's true. You'veworked in the coke fact coke plant,
at the in the steel mill,the coke plant people as gem and you
know all the I mean it wasyou said, you're with the Long John's.
You got to all the big heavystuff on and it's like a like

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a ball me buck buck twenty inthere or something there, you know,
and I'm loving and you realize that, you know. I mean that's I
tell people you want to know whatyou want to do, do something you
don't want to do, that I'llhelp you realize what you do want to
do real quick. Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly. Well, there's a
there's a line and I wish Icould it's it's a good one for you,

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right because it was a guy fromCanada who said, and I damn,
I wish I could remember who itwas. He says, well,
you know, I uh, Ialways wanted to be a boxer, you
know. And I was from Quebec, you know, and so I went
to have to the States, andI always wanted to be a boxer until
I ran into a guy who reallywanted to be a boxer, and I

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didn't want to be a boxer anymore. That's a great line. I've heard
that it's a great line, butit's true. I tell Peo, but
you know, yeah, if youwhen you I love. When guys say,
my kids, what's what's uh,try being a boxer? I said,
no, No, you don't try. You know, boxing picks you.
And you know my kids thinking aboutbeing a No, you don't think
about it. Tell him to goto school, think the it's just yeah,

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it's just something you do because youdon't it picks you. You don't
pick it. Certain things pick Yeah. And you know, like I said,
like like an animal, like apuppy. Puppies picked pick you.
You don't pick the puppy. It'skind of like the patient. Boxing picks
you. Man. And so I'massuming voice acting similar in the sense you

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do it. You got yet thisgift. I got to use this gift.
Yeah, oh that's true. Well, you know another line I always
remembered is that uh and I rememberthinking this myself, but somebody put it
better. He goes, Look,you could play golf, you could play
tennis, you could play football,but you box. Yeah, don't play
boxing. That's right. You don'tplay boxing. That's it. That's it.

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Have you did you ever try tobe an actor in front of the
camera too? Or was it alwaysvoice stuff when you're in Hollywood? You
know, I have I have hereand there, and I've I've had one
or two gigs, but they're theyit has less appeal. In fact,
I didn't married with children with EddieO'Neill a million years ago. But but
even that was a voiceover and uhand it and it was perfectly indicative of

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what you know, you just sitaround all day, you know, and
you are in your trailer or inyour dressing room and your board. You
know, you're better bring a book. I remember the first thing I ever
did was who Framed Roger Rabbit?And I had like four lines total and
it took like eight hours and we'rein the middle of the night. And
then they didn't even use the scene. So I started doing well at voice

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over, and I thought, youknow, and I've got a lot of
famous friends, and they go,listen, if you could cut the buster,
just use their voice, do it, because because otherwise it's a paint
in the butt. I mean,you know, potentially, if you make
it big, big time, thenyou get better money, that's for sure.
I mean, we're not worried aboutEddie O'Neil at this point, right,
I can tell you that no,but you're right, but you know,
but you're right, but you can. Edie even said, you know,

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you know, you know Jim whenEddie did the voice over for the
animated movie but the fish, Yeahthe fish, uh yeah yeah, door
right Eddie play as he said,it's the best. You go there,
your pajamas, you go in there, you know what your hair is,
you know, you go, well, we've gotta brush your teeth. You're
just going to talk. That's act. I mean, that's yeah, that's

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is that in this is that consideredacting? Like sometimes when those people get
Oscar Oh yeah, I get upsetbecause the people that are actually acting.
No, no, but it feelslike they shouldn't get the same award.
It is acting to me because whenyou see, well it's different. If
you can't act, you don't work. But but you got it is acting
because you're you're creating. You're makingthat animated that come to life. You're

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making it come life, and it'sspeaking your words. It's acting. I
guess. Oh no, it's isacting. Oh yeah. I was just
like if you if you're just goingin there and reading, you ain't get
the job. No, yeah,no, it's acting. You gotta act,
have you um. I'll just throwout like Billy Joel who has been
around forever. Has your voice changedthroughout the years? Has it gotten deeper

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or different where you've had to adjustsince you've been doing it so long?
Well, just a little. Imean my voice got you know, let
you get it. It's it's gota different deeper quality to it. But
everything is still there and message changed. I mean, you know I was
you know, I was the TerrorDuck Wait Duck and he's still right there.
And Winny the Pooh, I meanI've been doing that as old,

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as long as I've been doing anything. It was since nineteen eighty seven.
And Christopher Robin came out last yearand I was Winnie the Pooh and I
was Tigger too, and everybody's like, yep, that's our boy, you
know, God bless him. Butno, I mean that the voice is
the last thing to go. Andyou know, I don't drink whiskey and
I never smoked a cigarette in mylife. That helps. That helps,

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Yeah, although some would say it'sthe opposite. Some would say the people
that smoke have better voices than thepeople that don't want to get Yeah,
what you do that's just raspy.Yeah, well I can tell you you
know, speaking of the lion king. Um. You know, I don't
think I'm telling too much out ofclass here, out of school when I

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say that. Uh, Kim Rice, the you know, the lyricist he
brought me in to to do thesong. Basically, Jeremy Iman's Irons does
all the talking powers at shot.But every time you hear the word be,
that's me and you. And hesaid, and he said, said,
he goes. You know, he'sa great actor. He's this and

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that, he goes. But youcan hear every morral Borough the man ever
smoke. That's what I'm saying.Yeah. And it wasn't a compliment,
right right, It wasn't. Itwasn't like, you know, like Tom
Waits has got that whiskey and cigarettesright right right. Sounds like you know,
something backed up. But you knowhe will not be singing any Joe

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Pezzulo songs. That's no. Well, you know we were talking about that.
But we were talking, me andMichael talking. Mike's from very acronary
and we talked about the youngs time. Yeah, to school, high school.
You went to Erlin High School,which is our rival. I went
to Cardinal Money to two procul schoolsour rival was Urslin, But you guys
were first. You guys were first. But if you had a Mount Rushmore

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of ersin alumni, the four Ican think of his Ed O'Neill. You
you Karmen Policy and Karmen you knowpresident you know, and Joey Puzzula used
to be would be so would benumber for you, said Joe Pezzula.
He said, Who's ema makes it? Who's Joe Puzzula? Joe was a

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wonderful he is a wonderful singer.He singed. He's made a lot of
big bands to be saying for SergioMendez and he was the voice of a
big hit. Yeah, what wasthen the song with Sergio never Gonna,
never Gonna let you go, NeverGonna let you Go. I can't too
much better than that. Joey wasthe singer that any gigs he sings,
he made hell of a living man, one of the great. So that
would be about Rushmore. I don'tknow who else would be to Mount Rushmore

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Arson High School. But you guyspretty damn good for you've got Mooney.
Damn you've got Mooney locked up.Well, I don't know, I mean,
I don't know if I'm on.I mean, there's been a lot
of good Barlow family. Uh,the Soups brothers so uh completely brothers.
So I don't know. Maybe i'dbe under one of the pick four Rushmore

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can't be ten, can only befour. That's it. So that I
always said, I don't know whereMarino Marine, Marino Marine, Uh the
Government marine wasn't Yeah, yeah McGovern, McGovern, I keep screwing up that
where she went? You know shewas? She'd sang the song that was
the titles on for the Poseidon Adventure, The Morning After, Morning After?

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Yes, so so yeah, doyou have you ever hear the girl?
Oh? Go ahead? There wasa girl Elizabeth Hartman. Oh yeah she
was. Yeah, she drove hallof It actress, Hallid actor. I
don't know what happened to her,but she was. She was in Earthen
Alumni too. Oh she don't thinkso okay, I think he went to

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Elizabeth Hartman. Was it she onthat that that soap opera at night that
uh uh like a dynasty type.I don't know it was. Yeah.
When the first I know she wasin in a movie with Sydney Partier.
Oh, no, kids, Along long time ago. I mean,
this is like when I was akid, So I don't you know,

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have you ever jim had to doa female voice and is that hood?
Uh? No good? I'm not. But I ended up doing a Janis
Joplin for an Animaniacs once because TrussMcNeil, my friend, was she was
filling under the weather and it wasyou remember the Animaniacs cartoon show that was

(27:26):
out in the nineties. It's backby the way it is. They would
do little Parrot, they would doparodies, and this one was of Woodstock,
the Woodstock Festival, and they wokeup the Slappy Squirrel and she wakes
up in the morning and she's stuckin the middle of Woodstock. And I
was the fake Joe Cocker. Iwas the fake Roger Daltrey from the Who.

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Truss McNeil was sick, so shesaid just have Jimmy do it.
So and that was my Genis Joplin, who was It's coming along to me,
It's really coming along. It's notthat's not too bad, right,
No, not too bad, justbusted flattened. But how did you Joe

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Cocker? Joe Cocker man, Inever heard him speak, only interesting.
One of my favorite singers. Everyoneknows how he did the rock you know,
I'm better now. Yeah, butI never heard us speak. He
was on Letterman one time. Speak. I mean I never heard Concer speak.
Yeah, yeah, he didn't.He didn't. He didn't talk very
well. Everything was I was table. You know. That was Joe Cocker

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talking. Do you and when youdo? Have you ever done songs like
in the cartoons or anything like that? Or you just pretty better sing to
all the sentences? Oh you do? Do you like that? It seems
like with their band background you wouldlike, oh yeah, yeah, you
know I was. I was thelead singer for the California Raisins. Oh
well, there you go. Theyheard it through the great so yeah.

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Oh yeah. I sung that songa thousand times. And you know I
sang in the movie Hercules, themovie Anastasia, uh gosh, all over
the Lion King, any Winnie thePooh movie where whenever they sang that was
me or Tigger, you know,and uh I did. I did a
couple of songs for Ed Asner anda Christmas special one. It's a lot

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of a lot of actors don't sing, and a lot of singers don't act.
Since I can't do either one.They let me do both. There
you go. You know that's weird, hollyweird. What do you do to
keep your voice? I mean,do you do like a lemon tea thing
or honey or anything like you doanything for your voice? Well, of

(29:44):
course I always money, but yeah, you know, I poo has to
have a honey. But no,it's you know, like I say,
I don't whenever I go to ayou know, I could go to a
boxing match, I go to aconcert, I go to a football game.
I'm not the guy screaming in hishead off and can't talk at the
end of it, right right,you know, I'll whistle, i'll clap,
I'll shake something that makes noise,but I'm not the shrieker, you

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know what I mean. Yeah,it's an instrument, you know, you
know, you know, and I'vedone it, you know. But yeah,
absolutely, you know, if you'reyou're a guitar player, you're not
going to operate any heavy machinery incase, right, that's right, don't
go there any don't go there anybuzz stars. But yeah, you know,
so you get the idea, butyou just take care of yourself,

(30:29):
you know, sleep is your friend, Yes, and regular maintenance, regular
maintenance. Look like you said,that's a good way of putting the gym.
You gotta take care of your body. Bodies an instrument, like I
thought, like a car, youtake care of the car, put the
ready gas, and you were I'mone of these guys. Absolutely, I'm
I'm one of these guys who dostream not you know, and a restaurant,
like in a restaurant high high,if it's you're in a nightclub or

(30:51):
a bar that's got a lot ofnoise, I'm talking above it. And
then I'm like, go home thenext three days or off. Oh man,
I'm one of these guys do that, You know what I mean?
And have you ever had had agig that you almost didn't get or had
to bug out of because you weresick or you couldn't do your best?
Well, you know, once ina blue moon, I would still go
in when I had a cold,and I regretted because these the thing about

(31:17):
the what I do, these animatedanimated things. For example, Disney Plus
just came out, and I thinkeverything I ever did for Disney's on there
and it lasts forever. And ifyou had a cold that day, you
say to yourself, well, Igot a tough it up. You know,
it's that blue collar attitude. Ialways say I had a blue collar
attitude toward a no caller career.But I would go and I would try

(31:40):
to tough it out. And occasionally, once in a blue moon, you
know, I'll hear something that,oh god, I had a cold that
day. I should have stayed homeand done it. Did it like two
or three days later? It wouldit would have been the same, you
know, but I wouldn't have hadthat. You know, you throwing a
grout coffee. You got a coffeecan over your head yourself, right,
yeah, you regret it and thenit lasts forever, no voiceover actions,

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good residuals, right you get foryour work? Oh yeah, yeah,
but you forget about? Forget aboutthat's my question if you. I mean,
I figured you did. I meanI was a stump question because I
figured when Disney plus Disney plus doesthat help? Forget it? But does
it help? I mean, doesthat Jim's grant grandchildren will be living off?
That is that true? Jim?Oh yeah, okay, yeah,

(32:25):
oh yeah, I want to makesure. Yeah, I mean I'm still
getting stuff from the eighties. Iam too, Jim. When I first
went out turning five and did afew things, and forces down to forces
down to like seventeen cents, elevencents, And that's no joke. It
cost them more to send it tome. I just got one the other

(32:45):
day. I got one not longerfor one cent, one penny. I
said, Yo, me too,keep it. I put it on Twitter.
I put it on my Twitter.He saw a check in a head
point one on zero dollars and onepenny, one penny because yea, and
and it costs them five bucks tosend it to you, saying, who

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is that from, Jim? Yeah, it was from Universal, I think.
But they all do it. It'stime to pay you, you know,
it doesn't matter. It's time topay. They pay, whether it's
a lot of money or no money, that's it. I've got ten checks
for zero dollars and zero sins becauseit was time to pay me. But
they didn't own me any money,but they so they paid me anyway.

(33:30):
They paid me zero dollars and zerosince and I've had I've had hundreds of
checks for a penny. Yeah,is there and that? And this is
supposed to be the green guys,right, right, exactly exactly. Is
there a role you wanted to getthat you didn't get that you wish you
would have gotten, like a bigone? Uh No, I honestly think

(33:50):
I've gotten every role that I've everreally been on fire to get. Really
I've knocked out, you know,I you know, realistically speaking, you
know, I uh, you know. I always joke around and said,
well I did want to be MargeSimpson, but that didn't work out.
That would have been the female heyabout that getting Jim But I'm kidding no,
of course. But but if youcould, if you could have been

(34:13):
on that show, yeah, yeah, or simply yeah I was. Actually
I was actually on the show once. I mean I know them all,
they're all, of course, butbut I was. I was the I
was wrecked the Wonder Horse or somethinggood for you. The residuals from that
Jesus. So when you do,like when you do a scene for a
movie, Let's say you're doing ascene for a movie, are you in

(34:35):
there with all the other voices atthe same time, playing off each other
or do you just do your partand get the hell out? Yeah?
Yeah, not not very often.You usually do it solo. I mean,
I like it when everybody's there,but with movies it's almost never that
way. Regular shows like do hundred, Knocker, Star Wars, Clone Star
Wars, Clone Wars or Rebels.Hum, those those are ensemblecasts. I

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like that because you get the feedback, you know, you get the energy
in the room, right and uhbut when when you're flying solo, when
you're doing a movie, it's alwaysyou alone, so it's it's kind of
weird. I mean, I'm usedto it obviously, and it and it
works, so you know, youcan't really question it too much. But
uh but I I definitely like itwhen everybody's there, you know, for

(35:24):
the field, for the you know, it's like putting on a play or
a show. This is a dumbquestion, and I don't know if it
will come off right. But you'vedone all the voices you've done. Is
there ever a voice you heard saidoh I want to I would like to
try to and realize you couldn't quiteget it. That makes sense? Yeah,
that makes sense. Yeah, Ithink so. But but so far,

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so good, you know, Yeah, I'm pretty I I uh,
I mean, you know, italmost wouldn't amount to envy and I don't
have too much of that because I'mjust so blessed. I'm grateful for everything
I do have. You know,of course I don't have time, you
know, but I'm just one off. You had home said you've heard somebody's
voice. I'm gonna try to dothat voice, you go, damn it.
I can't get quite get it.I'm just curious. Yeah, well,

(36:08):
you know they you know, I'venever everybody in their dog does Ed
Sullivan, but I I don't doit terrible. I do a terrible Ed
Sullivan and like all the normal onesthat everybody else does, right, yeah,
you know, I kind of stinkit though, But yeah, there's
some that like Trump or Schwartzenegger.There are people that people imitate all the

(36:30):
time, right oh yeah, yeahyeah. And anytime there's somebody that you
know that everybody does, it's likewhy bother? And it's like like Christopher
Walking. I was just gonna say, I'm just gonna imagine that. Jim
said, everybody has a version ofit, and very few do it good.
Very few do it good. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, you ever

(36:52):
walking or shot walk walking? Yeah? Two yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, because everyone talks aboutwhen he when he Eddie Old. He
always tells the story and I'm laughingbecause I can't do walking good, but
tell the story when he was doingSaturday Night Live and he was a guest
host, Eddie was the host LikeLike. Eddie was the host of Like

(37:15):
and he was a host of aSaturday Night Live. And they were talking
about how Christopher Walkin was there likethe week before, two weeks before.
Edie was there, and they weretalking about Christopher walking because I guess they
have a big table read at thebeginning, right and um and walking and
they and they said, they askedyou. So they asked, ed,
do you have any questions? Haveany suggested you? No? No,
If this seems good, they go, you know because like like, Christopher

(37:39):
Walking had suggestions and they they weredoing it and they said, Chris,
do you have any suggestion? Hesaid, yeah, bears are funny.
They said, excuse me, ohgod, He said, yeah, bears
are funny. Christ what bears are? He said? He said, bears

(38:00):
are funny. Therefore bear suits arefunny. And where the fuck's he going
with this? You know? Andyeah, yeah, and so yeah,
and and so I could do bearsof fun I could do that is that
my best, my best Christopher Walkerbears are funny bear suits. You know,

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it's funny that you bring that up, because you know I had this
Watch five. I love that.You know, there's a friend of mine,
as funny said, I have afriend of mine. Remember when we've
had dinner, lunch and il fourno, you've been with me, we've had

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again. Yeah, there's his youngkid. He's been wanting to a voice.
He does voices. He wants tobe a voice actor so bad.
And he always like, I don'tknow if your auditions whatever, but he
does imitate and he does that sceneverbatim, word for word. He does
the best Chrison. He does thebest Chris Walking I've ever heard. But
you know, he does other voiceand he does you know, the couple

(39:06):
other from Um Cartoons character. AndI always said, man, if he
could get his shot, you know, because you don't know, but I
mean there's people like that. Butyou're just there him and you're at the
restaurant. You hear him. Yougo, this get needs a shot because
he does you know, his voice, the ones he does he does very
very well, you know, buthe does Chris Walking. If you close
your eyes, you said, doesChris walking, and he does that scene

(39:29):
every he doesn't verbat him this watchthis watch was up ye your father,
your father, this watch up hisass? I mean, I know,
real intense, so intense. Isthere is there anybody out there you do
like now, like this Frank Caliendoor any of these guys you that you

(39:51):
and obviously the cartoons they do well, But I don't know, is there
anyone Jim that you like or thatyou you know, that you respect in
the business. Oh well, heckyeah, I mean I respect them all.
If you go out there doing yourthing and making a living, then
if you're doing it, you knowright' you know I always that's the way
I feel about it. I tellthat my nieces after you use that my

(40:12):
kids. You know, if youyou know, you make a list of
stuff that you like so much,you would do it all day long for
free. And there's two or threeof them so well, or one of
them that somebody will pay you,and that's that's your success right there.
And if they can pay you alot of money, that's greaty you know,
I remember you said that when wedid the documentary. That's a great
lie. Yeah, yeah, Imean It's funny you said that because I

(40:35):
remember when I first went to La, the first thing that hit me more
than anything. Yeah, how actorswould dump on other actors. Well,
yeah, yeah, why he's doingit. At least he's doing it.
I mean, like there's a lotof guys aren't my flavor. There's a
lot of actors that are not myflavor, but I got I admired them
because they're doing it. I ain'tdoing it, they're doing it. Why

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would you dump on guys who aredoing yea, And now there's so many
actors dump on on guys going butthey're making a living, they're doing their
thing because you know, Dan,well they're gonna be talking. Somebody's gonna
be talking about them. Why wouldI talk about somebody have animosity or anger
or jealousy, whatever it is,because that someone's gonna happen about me.
And trust me, I've ran thatinto I've run into that in my own

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thing. You know, says whenI've been you know a lot of people
youngster ain't happy for me. Alot of people youngster don't weren't happy about
my success. They weren't happy.I mean, it's like I never got
I never understood it. And thesewere other fighters, and I'm thinking,
there's no fighter from youngster in thatterm. Pro for for years, for
for for twenty almost thirty years.I did. And then I'm not saying

(41:42):
I opened the door, but Ihelped push the door open for other AT
fighters. And these guys got jealousand they make comments, think, why
would you be jealous with another fighter? If he's successful, God bless him.
I mean, why, Yeah,I agree, I agree, Oh
God, I never I agree.I'm understood. You know, there's plenty
of room on the boat. Youknow. I always say, you know,

(42:04):
a rising tide raises all the boat. That's exactly right, That's exactly
right. Jim's I agree with that, saying more than anything. And I
never but I heard actors talk aboutother actors, now that myself, now
that my son's an actor, he'salways he said, Man, I'm happy
for those and think, well,well, you aren't you jealous? Why
would I jealous? Because I'm happyfor the guy. He's got a shot.
When I get my shot, I'mgonna make it. I'm gonna hit.

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But he knows because he knows thatbecause the same people you're talking about,
people gonna be talking about me thathalf talked Bobby, So why got
exhausted? It's exhausting, it's exacting. Yeah, and you know better than
exasperating, Jim, you know betterthan me, especially being in LA.
If these actors spent as much energyabout perfecting the craft, about going out

(42:47):
there and creating content for themselves,as if they created as much energy and
that as they do about talking aboutthe other actors and having animosity or bad
feelings about the other actors, they'dbe pretty successful. Because man, that's
all they do is talk about otheractors. That's money. BlimE me.
I thought that. I here's theone thing. You know, my son,

(43:10):
My son was in New York hall last shared. He got there
and he did not probably play incircumstance and brought him back to LA.
And he's in LA now. ButI want him to go back to New
York. And he said he's goingto He But what I'm saying is but
one thing he said out there.He was there for a couple of months.
He said, Pop, Bob,there's a real community, acting community

(43:30):
here in New York that's not inLA. Because you know Jim and La,
Jim, LA, I ain't tellingyou shit because you may be taking
it from me New York Hey.But in New York Hey, I'm not
right for this. But my friendLeo is or my friend Mike. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, you know,it's a community to help each other.
Man. But la oh hell,I ain't tell nobody nothing because God

(43:52):
forbid you take it from me.Seven thousand waiters that wants the same,
you know, that's that's yeah.Yeah, yeah, it's a real community,
man. And I'm sure and you'reeven in. You're part of the
business. They're not. It can'tbe a large group amount of voice actors.
I'm assuming we're all supported, we'reall got I'm assuming you got to
be right. Hey, I maynot be able to do it. I

(44:13):
can't do this voice or I'm not. I can't I'm not feeling good.
But Jim could do it, calledJim. Yeah, why wouldn't you?
Yeah, that's well, that's howI ended up in a Lion king as
at the Hyena the Laughing It wasme, Whoopie Goldberg and Cheech che Yeah,
and my friend, my friend FrankWelker, he was you know,

(44:35):
he first read for the part ofEd the Laughing Crazy hyena, the lunatic
one, you know, with thewith the bug eyes. And he said,
well, you know this isn't reallyworking for me, says much you
called Jimmy Cummings, you never know, and they called me and then and
it worked and it clicked. Andthen next thing, you know, I'm
singing for and I wrote the fartverse in Hakuna Matata and uh congratulate.

(44:57):
I ended up. Yeah, I'mso right. I ended up. Then
I ended up singing being prepared.So you know, one thing leads to
another, and it all comes from, you know, somebody giving you a
tip half tip. You know,there's no room for jealousy. It doesn't
you know, benefit anywhere, andno doesn't serve either person person. I

(45:20):
mean, there's a lot of writtenin factors. I tell people all the
time. People say, you know, they say me, you you do
you can act? Because I've donea few things that do you do you
can? I said, yeah,I used the old line. I don't
know if I can act. Iknow I can act like I can act.
You know I've heard that. Ithink that line. You know,
can I go back to the moment? Can I go back to your furch
chokes only because I only because we'retalking. I said something yesterday. I

(45:43):
said, correct, I said,fart chokes are funniest things. Fart jokes
are always going to be funny.They're always going to be funny, will
be funny. And I did itfunny. And I was and I was
talking. Uh was I talking toyesterday? I was talking to yesterday?
Um was it? Say? No? No, I was talking today.

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I was talking to a friend ofmine, was doing an interview on the
phone. And I said, um, I said, we were talking to
him. He brought up the wordhe brought up about midgets. I said,
oh, no today and I said, midgets are no. No was
today today. This morning we hadI had a meeting for the Ohio Boxing

(46:28):
Commission and this guy came in.The guy came in today and he wanted
to put He wants to start amidget boxing. He wants to put midgets
on like the midget wrestling. Buthe wanted I said, midgets are funny.
He said, well, you know. And a friend of mine there
another commission, says, he said, well, ray, you gotta watch
a little people. I said,no, no, midgets call themselves midgets.

(46:49):
They know the little people. Yougotta say little people. They know
the little people midgets called himself midgets. I said, it's like a full
gymp correct, remember one, It'slike a Fleini movie. Full Leey always
had midgets in a certain and midgetsare funny and everything. Midget jokes are
funny. Midget wrestlers, midget boxerswould be hilarious. I would watch everything

(47:12):
and Mike, I just gotta say, Mike said, midget strippers. They
said to me, there's a midgetstrip joint somewhere. Now there was a
whole joint, and Acron was nota joint. No no, No said
yeah, not all. I wouldknow midget strippers. That's gotta be the
funniest thing ever seen. I madethe joke, and they I said,
I made the joke. I said, I said, is that please?

(47:34):
They go up on somebody. Geez, that's a good joke. You know,
Dumbo Circus, we worked with alot of quote little people, right,
thank you. They've got they've gotmore short jokes than anybody. They
know that. I said, Jim, what do you know the guy there?
Good luck? Gary Gary freaking fromyoungstoime, Gary Frank freaking right right

(47:58):
right right yeah, And he's out. He was out there for a while.
I think he's still out there.He might have came. I think,
yeah, I mean I think so. Jimmy, I ran into a
guy who knew him. Yeah,Jimmy, I haven't met it. I
haven't seen him. Oh Gary,I met Gary. We had lunch to
don a few times. He wasalways making sure, you know, jokes,
yeah, you know, it's yeahby Ray. Ray. Let let

(48:22):
me let me get lunch. Heput his hand in his pocket. He
goes, oops, he's I'm alittle short today. He said, can
you pick it up a short today? But rib shot man? No,
no, come on, man,look, come on, missus. Jokes
are funny. Missuses are funny.Anything you put him it is funny.
Come on now you can if Iask you him a real question, let

(48:45):
me ask you this. It's notabout little people. Well that's okay,
because I think political correctness is boring, all right, good Jim political correct
I am not. Yeah, Iknow I can't politically correct. I mean
you gotta, you gotta watch whatyou say about everything. And I said
I will. Yeah. Well,I said, I don't like to.
I don't like no, I don'tlike watching what I'm saying about everything.

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It's funny, I is, andI'm not going to do that because I'd
never say anything to hurt anybody's feelings. I don't do it. I don't
do it to be hurting. Andthe people, come on, man,
we're in a role. Now,stop this bullshit. Come on stop.
I get it. I get it. With says everybody's too sensitive. You
know, Jim, I was workingfor Fox, right you know I've been
I'm working for Fox doing the commentaryright yeah. So now yeah, I

(49:30):
said to them when the first Icouldn't say when this guy Hispanic guy's name?
And I said, I said,can I just say this? I
can I just say the Latin guy, the Hispanic guy. Oh, ray,
you can't say that. I go, well, what do you mean?
I can't say? I say he'sthe white guy, he's the black
guy, he's the Hispanic guy.Fox like, I go, go no,
no, I'm just gonna say no, no, no, no,
no, no, the black guy, the brother. I can't say the

(49:52):
brother. Oh you can't say thebrother. I said, okay, I'll
just say the black guy or thebrown guy. I say, how about
this way? They go, youyou know, after while you busting their
balls because they're so uptight. Whatwere you gonna say, I said,
RELAXX, Yeah, but you can'tsee no. I mean, look,
I get I said, look,are you gonna say the Caucasian guy or
you call me a white guy?Are you what one is? Or the

(50:14):
Italian the white guy? Are youthe black guy? We get the feeble
fight. Fans understand that the whiteguy, the black guyed hispanic guy.
They got that true. Oh god, Yeah, it's exhausting. Did you
ever Yeah, it is exhausting.I don't even play the game anymore.
You know. It's like a pointhim well over there, you know.
Yeah. Do you ever run acrossin maybe in your younger years, Jim,

(50:34):
an actor or an actress, orsomeone that kind of wowed you,
like, oh my god, I'mstanding next to so and so or someone
that was a complete a hole toyou or anything like that. Did you
remember, Uh, well, sofar, so good. I haven't met
too many a holes good. Butyou know, the one that probably knocked
me out was I met outon Johnseveral times. I've you know, sung

(50:57):
a couple of his songs, andI was in a movie at the Road
to Eldorado and he wrote it andproduced it. And then the movie Nomeo
and Juliet, which with James McAvoyand Emily Blunt. It was animated.
I was the only American in it. And uh, I guess his his
husband or wife David, her husband, complicly correct, he's a man,

(51:22):
he's his husband, husband, hishusband and husband ago shit right, But
but he was. But they weregreat guys, and it was I was
definitely a little star struck there,you know. Oh yeah, yeah,
yeah. I met Elton. Igot chest to meet out one time because
I got to be friends of BernieToppin first and then Bernie. Oh yeah,

(51:43):
Bernie introduced me Elton you know me. Yeah, I mean, you
know, that's that's a star.He's a star, you're right, Oh
yeah, yeah, he's he's oneof the big kids. You know.
Yeah. I'm going back to NewOrleans to see him on Well you talked
about Nolans, Now, I wasjust last year. We did. We
did a fight at Blockxey at thebeau Rivage. So but of course we
drove, so we drove the downwe drove to They said to me,

(52:06):
guys, you know, our guysfrom fox are security. Hey, man're
going down to the Orlands. Youwant to take it? Right? I
said, yeah, let's go downbecause I actually fought in Biloxe nineteen seventy.
I was an amateur. I wasseventeen years old, yea. But
we went for the day off.We went to down to New Orleans and
I never saw a city like that. Of course I was in nineteen seventy
seventy eight. So we went downthere last year, right, And I

(52:30):
never went to what was the joint? What's the joint? Two things?
I went the joint with the Beignettes. That's very famous cafe. Oh yeah,
Dumont Dumont right right. It wasa great joke we had there with
the Bennet's. Out of this world, you know. But what was the
joint? We went to a bar. It was the oldest bar in the

(52:51):
history in the living Yeah, laffright. I was at Lafitte's and I
said, what a great joint?Doesnt you could imagine? And I'm a
guy, I'm history guy, andI'm just integra maca. Imagine like one
hundred years ago somebody sitting there whereI'm standing down, You're going to pa
you know. It was barely hitmy head. I'm a little guy and
I almost hit my head walking intojoint, right, But it was a

(53:12):
great place where pirates went, pirateslike real pirates, and that was yeah,
And I said yeah, I said, man, I just love that
stuff. But it was no one'sgot such great history. And also known
as what Jim? When are?They also known as the most Haunted city
in the most haunted city in theYeah, right right, a lot of
ghosts to us. I gotta Iagree with that. I when I was

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a kid, I moved there andI was I was reading Exorcist in my
house and over now to Jeers Pointand the house was built in like seventeen
ninety nine, and have sworn itthey were all around me at that point.
I'll tell you that right now.You know that was the heck of
a place to read The Exorcist,and I guarantee you it was haunted.

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Jim. I can't take you up. I don't want to give you that
went. Yeah, that our fluman, very cool. I mean,
I can't thank you enough. Don'tyou took my last minute? And I
apologize. I want to have youback at a litter time. But we'll
give you plenty of notice. Iwon't keep calling yet. Okay, so
like nine in the morning, butman, you were wonder that's great.
It was, it was. Itwas a lot of fun. Thank you.

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Anything to look for, anything tolook out forward you're coming up on,
or just what we talked about.Uh, well, you know,
Curious George is still going right.And you gotta tell everybody if they make
it out too Disney. They leftDisney World to stop by Star Wars Galaxy's
Edge. My boy hondo O knockaand uh, he's got an attraction there

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that will knock your socks off.It's called Millennium Falcon. Smugglers Run and
I basically I basically steal the MillenniumFalcon Han Solo ship. You know,
it's like King Arthur's sword Excalibur.I get to steal it about forty times
an hour, and uh go aroundthe galaxy and it's it's it is.

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It will knock you out. Itis like nothing you've ever seen before.
You know, you're you're you're basicallyin the cockpit with Ron Solo where Han
Solo was with Luke Skywalker. Andyou've got the same guns, You've got
the same engines, you've got thesame warp you know, uh, light
speed and it will knock your socksoff. And it's it just opened this

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past past fall and it's gonna bethere forever. So go and enjoy.
Jim, this is a maybe astupid question, and but I'm just curious
that there's none of my business.And I apologize I'm moving something. Do
you get residuals for that? Forthat? No? No, that I
didn't know, because so yeah,you gotta get your money up front and

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your hondo you'r hondo on that.Yes, you're the guy. Oh no
knock if you have a disney Worldright down in Disney World, well Disney
World in Florida, both both bothyou. What if some of your friends
from Young Sounder listening, are youcoming home anytime soon? Uh? Boy,
I don't have anything on the book, but that fair now, Ah,

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that's what I wanted to hear.All right, good, But that
means no not asking you know,if you ask any that not in the
winter time. That's what he said. We're almost done. We're almost through,
thank you, Jim. Hey,Jim, that man, you are
terrific. Thank you so much.All right, guys, I appreciate all

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the voices, all all the peopleI talk to you today. Okay,
thank you. Listen to keep thatexactly. Oh yeah, the faith.
Can you say goodbye in a reallycool voice Tasmanian devil voice or something that's
bye bye, thank you, Jim, thank you. I appreciate you.

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Guys, thank you, bye bye. You're a little forward. Ask him
to do that. Yeah, that'swhat that's why he's on. He loves
it's how nice about that? Wasa great guy, Ladies and gentlemen.
I hope you enjoyed that. Thatwas one of the most interesting things I've
ever done in an internet Just youask a lot of good questions, very
good questions. That's fort and uh. But I love how many times you

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think, how like how many timesyou done? People say put them up?
Put them up. It's the samething, tell joke, funny guy,
yeah or right yeah, or askhim to dort. But but you
know, he's got a gift man, Believe me, voice actors, it's
a gift because you could always dothat. You always working. But the
residuals I try ask you know whatI mean? Because you every time it's

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heard, you don't have to beseen if time it's heard, God bless.
That's that's the one thing about actinggood. You're good for them.
Yeah. People a lot of actorswhen they're not working for years to love
other residuals. That's why an Yeah, Well let's thank the Speak Easy asolutely.
Yes, thank you, thank youthing. I would be remiss if
we didn't think thank all the peoplehere to wonderful people from the Speak Easy

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in downtown Warren. It's right aroundPark Avenue park An North Park Avenue one
three six. I believe it's rightnext to the best Western one three six
North Park Avenuetown place, isn't it. I love this. It's a real
speaking about it. We walked in. We're not walked in, you Wren.
Here they had a gentleman playing theguitar. It's two o'clock after tune.

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There's number five people here. That'scool, and he's playing guitar.
He's playing for love of this music. He just loves to come and play.
She told me the young lady whoowns it. Check it out.
Come downtown Warren. I'll tell youwhat I wish I had it so far,
but I will make me and mybride will come here. On a
weekend just to hang out here becauselovely people. My man dropped it,

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Fred got it for us. It'sgreat family friends, great and so anyway
I want to do tell him aboutyour speaker series. Yes, thank you,
we go, my man, myman, he's just feed me.
We really anybody sees on online onthe Facebook, my facebook page, my
my form, my foundation, RayBoom Mansini Foundation where we started a speaker
series where we're gonna bring in interestingpeople, deep people from outside the box.

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We're kind of try to do itlike three may pass be four times
a year. Our first one,we moved it from February to March.
Now we had to because thank god, we the time frame and the people,
and we did March eighteenth. Oh, I knew you'd sewn I won't
be here out of town. Iknew you do right by Saint Patrick's day.
I knew you do it March eighteenth. I didn't think it that.

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We just had to moving back.What was when he was available March eighteenth,
Wednesday night at the do Your Center, Uh do the old you know,
uh power Powers out of Torium Downtown, the old original Warner Brothers Theater,
Powers out of toorium which is nowyour UH center or afford recital.

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We we do it. We'll geta bus. We have six otter seats.
We were doing UM for people whowe have packages? Could we have
for sponsors? UH twenty five hundreddollars sponsorship gets you by you know title,
I would not choose several times duringthe night. Plus you get ten

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tickets for you whoever you like tobring. UH. You get like said
sponsorship, UH title would be allover placed everywhere. UM or you know
it's one hundred, one hundred dollarsa couple or sixty dollars a person.
But that gives you food. Whohave many stations and Jeff Crystals are is
the chef and a minute a bunchof Crystal catering, one of the best

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chefs in the area. UH severalfood stations. UM meet and greet with
Michael beforehand. Michael Friends says,was a former UH coppo regime of the
Columbo crime crime family, one regionalfive families in New York. UH.
It was the youngest a couple ofregime ever in the history of organized crime,
at twenty four years old. UM, and he did what everyone said

(01:01:00):
you could not never do. Hewalked away from the mob. He found
he was put in Joe. Itwas eight years in Joel. He found
Christ, he found born again,and in Christ he found you know,
found God, his relationship with God. Now he travels the country speaking about
the transformation he had. But hetalks about to sit down with John Gotti.

(01:01:22):
He talks about to sit downs.You have several officers, the police,
the FBI corporation. I mean,Michael is on the top. He
made more money for any single family. He made more money fantastic family since
al Capone. And it wasn't thebiggest family and it wasn't big. It
was actually the smallest. He's oneof the youngest Fays and he was the
youngest and his father who's still alive. It wasn't like Sonny France says.

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He is one hundred and three yearsold, hundreds and the oldest living organized
crime figure ever. Yeah, Imean, it's just unbelievable. But Michael
uh travels the country speaking now abouthis time as a mob boss, talks
about his family. I mean,now what he do, how he walked
away from the mob, and whathe's doing now. And he's just unbelievable.
He's just unbelievable successful. Um,that's type people. I want people

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outside of the box people, youknow, that's just believe me this people,
believe me. Want to tell youkids your tickets now when six hundred
seas sixty thoy person one hundred,a couple with the whole, the food
and meet and greet and all thatthe story you gotta hear it is because,
believe me, want to tell youit's not also entertaining, it's entertaining,

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educational. It's one of them wildbomments. Sometimes you know, facts
stranger than fiction, but more thananything's life altering. Believe me, want
that you come out is your lifewill be changed by listening to his his
uh his stories once in a lifetime. What are you ever going to meet
somebody in the mafia that wants totell you about the mafia and tell you
about right and can't and can't.He doesn't walk, He doesn't walk.

(01:02:52):
He traveled with bodyguards because he says, for I love the opening line,
and I'm gonna tell right now.He walks out and he tells everybody,
I know you're back then to meetthe Godfather, but I'm here to talk
to you about God, the Father. There you go. It's a great
line. It's the truth. Buthe talks about the story at Michael's a
street guy still, he's a streetguy who's found God. Speaks on God
and if any is one of thebest warriors for for for for Christ Christianity.

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But it's just he's just a realwarrior for God. But you hear
your story, it's life alter andentertaining, and so it's just it's so
interesting and you can't you can't.So you don't want him to stop talking.
And you get shifts through to meetand greet and all that stuff,
pictures taken on him and everything atSo again for tickets go down. Call

(01:03:37):
you have to call it. Wehave none to tickets. That's the best
thing about it. So friends ofmine call and no, no called down.
You gotta call the Ford Recital downtownand and you know downtown Youngstown Ford
Recital uh and and get your ticketsthere online and believe me, um it's
worth. If you'd like to bea sponsor, contact tell them you'd like

(01:03:59):
to be a sponsor, will contactus. We'll get in touch with you
have sponsor of any type or justget your tickets. But either way.
March eighteenth, at the four wesell Downtime, Young's Time. I can't
wait. It's gonna be such agreat night. I wish you're gonna be
like, why don't you do something? I know? And I was,
I was excited about excited. Man, Okay, I screwed it up for
you again. Why won't you bethere? Saint Patrick's days on holiday for

(01:04:20):
me? It's a what a littleholiday for me? Why don't you take
it? We're going No, no, take my friends. Oh oh you're
forging this year. We're going toVegas only friends, but you and you
get slop be drunk. Yeah,I mean I would not span. I
think classy, classy drunk. We'redoing it for a long time. No,

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it's okay, okay, well nextSpeaker, please we'll do it again.
We're gonna do it again. Yes, we'll try to do it.
So please get your tickets for theSpeaker series. Go on my Facebook page
at the ray boot come in andbeing taken. Well, what the shows?
Wednesday is coming in on a Tuesday. We get lucky, so maybe
we'll get him that Wednesday afternoon.We could do the show, get him
that afternoon. Gentlemen, if fromthe hotel, yeah, or even Tuesday,

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if he comes in the day,yeah, well you'll get one room
of time I get him because theydon't even get lucky until next time.
If you like, if you liketo show and Joe you see, please
tell your friends. Hit us upon Facebook or any of our pages are
our Facebook page, The Ray bootMancini Raised, Boom boom Room, Raised,
boom boom Room, Hit us uplets to what you think and any

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ideas. We're always open to hearingabout them again. Here from speakeasy in
downtown Warren. Beautiful, Downtown,more beautiful, speak easy. Thank you
can't take them enough for allowing usto be here until next time. Hopefully
next week we'll be back. Untilthen, take care of each other,
love each other, good night,and God bless