Jason Marsden (A Goofy Movie, Hocus Pocus)

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:34):
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Speaker 1 (00:37):
Hold old knock Gud. My name is Jim Cummings and
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Speaker 3 (00:43):
Welcome back, everybody to another episode of Tuned In with
Jim Cummings. I am producer Chris, joined as always by
the legend himself, mister Jim Cummings.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
How are you doing today, sir?

Speaker 1 (00:52):
I'm sorry, I'm trying to sip up my That's great. Hey, oh,
I didn't know that the kids were here. He got
a great show for you today. You're in luck man,
oh man, you bought the back the right horse. My
old pal Jason's here.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
What's happening.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Jason is having too much fun today, are you?

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Okay, good.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
We wouldn't be having more fun if I was in
gym coming to hotel room. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yes, this is a studio, studio.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
It's elaborate studios.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yes, I love what I've done with the place.

Speaker 5 (01:25):
Yes, people recognize the furniture. Yes, definitely, Yes, good old Kamart. Yes,
we share no expense. Good to see a pal.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Good to see you, sir.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
Yeah, yeah, thank you so much for doing this.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah, no kidding. You didn't have to twist my rom
Oh well good, well that that that eliminates a lot
of guesswork. Yes, so we're here at and we're in
We're famous Houston, Houston, Houston, Texas, Houston for those of
you who don't recognize the where we are, because how
about that.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
You guys have worked on numerous projects together, numerous numerous
most notably probably probably the Goofy movie.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
A Goofy movie, Goofy. The Goofy Movie will be the
third one.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yet another which I have No, there's not confirmation of that,
but I think that's the first time I met or
worked with you was gonna be because I was obviously
aware of you because you were on like everything I
watched growing up. I was like, who's this guy, Jim Cummings,
see his name all the time. And you signed my

(02:35):
I had a dark wing Duck coloring book, and I
knew you were gonna be in there that day. And
I don't think I was supposed to because I didn't
have any scenes with you, Max, didn't have any scenes
with Pete. But I brought it in and you signed
it for me, and I still got it get out.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, that's amazing. Yeah, that's really cool. Can I have
it back? It's probably worth something now.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
I'm gotta put my son to college.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Oh that's well, that's good stuff. That's good to know.
I remember. I remember we were doing that, and we
were at a place called Waves, I'm pretty sure, and
we're trading lines, going back and forth, and you and
Bill Farmer were doing your thing, yes, and and I
just decided, in the midst of my professionalism to just

(03:22):
lay down on the floor and sleep, and so.

Speaker 6 (03:26):
I did, which is a comment in our performance.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yea and everybody and I just it was just one
of those things that sticks in my mind, and I
don't know why.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Now, forgive me if there's uncomfortable talk about. You know,
Bill was going through like they were talking about like
maybe recasting him, and they had him do goofy and
like his normal voice. And there was a day I
showed up and it was not Jim Cummings voicing Pete.
Were you aware of this? Oh?

Speaker 1 (03:54):
No, I did not know. They Wait, there's more.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
They I guess they the cart the cartoon characters had
been too cartoony. But it was the late great old Bowen,
you know, Earl Bowen. Oh sure, sure, he was doing
uh Pete, and he was just using his own voice,
and it seemed very It was a little it was too.
Definitely wasn't the same. But I'm glad they they wised
up and they kept.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Actual. Yeah. Wow, I did not know that. I never
liked girl. No, I'm kidding. He's he's a great, great
old guy. Got god rest. Oh yeah, I think he
retired to Hawaii.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
He did. His wife had passed away. She always wanted
to retire in Hawaii, and he was so heartbroken that
he just did that himself. Actually ran into him at
a restaurant somewhere in Burbank, and he told me he
was gonna. It was the last time I saw him.
He went and moved to Hawaii and retired and lived
the rest of his life piece peace.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
It's not bad.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
People would know him from Terminator movies.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
He was Yeah, he was some Terminator movies and he
was also uh Detective Canifki on Bonkers. He played the
I didn't on the Bunkers shown that. Yeah, he was
a cool guy where we love we like him, yeah, man, yeah,
and now we like you. Thanks. Oh seriously, but are

(05:12):
you preparing anything special for today? Like, is it just
a run another day in paradise for you.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
For the convention? Yeah, because we do these a lot. Yeah,
I don't about you. I dig it. I like the travel,
I like meeting the people. It is you do fall
into a routine because it is a job. I mean,
you have to be present for a lot of energy,
a lot of people.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
That's what I was doing wrong. Crap, that explains everything.

Speaker 6 (05:37):
Jim is behind a curtain all the time.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
Glad we're talking. Yeah, it's a yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah, I'm preparing to answer the same questions a lot. Yes,
the pictures and stuff, but hold hold space for a
lot lots of people.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Well, now I've got my own little list of questions
that you just can't eight to be asked for the
fourteenth time in the last ten minutes, and what what
is your favorite.

Speaker 5 (06:09):
Question to hate the It's it's not that I hate it,
it's just but it's that's not but it's it is.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
I don't know how to answer that. Like they asked,
the most consistent question is what is your favorite character?
You voiced right?

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (06:25):
And those who know my fiance behind she helps me
at my table.

Speaker 6 (06:31):
She can answer.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
She can answer all the questions if I'm not there,
but I'm always like, it's like picking your favorite child.
I only have one child, so that's easy. Every experience
is so it's so unique and different depending on like
not just the character, but the project and who you
work with and the residuals. The residuals absolutely number one,

(06:52):
number one.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, what about you? What's your residual.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Know?

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Uh? Well, you know I always tell him Pooh, Ticker,
dark Wing, ray and Hondo.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, because it's like, do I want to give the
the real answer that's personal or give them what they do,
give them what they want to hear. Yes, you know,
because I'll talk because I worked on the shows Transformers,
rescue Bots, growing up a huge Transformers and robots, And
did you work on transformers?

Speaker 1 (07:22):
I did a couple of corse you.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Did, of course you did.

Speaker 4 (07:24):
You were the voice of.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
Ripper Snapper part Knocker. I think that was me.

Speaker 6 (07:36):
Wait, oh no, wait, that wasn't part Knocker transforming.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
That must be really cool to be a fan of
a show and then get cast on that show.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
How's that?

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Yes, it's insane, because uh, I've got a blanking his
name Optimist Prime Peter Collin, Peter Collin, who I'd never
met before. He came in and did Optimist on our
a couple of times, and he's like, you know, a
little guy like me didn't know that, and he's very
soft spoken, has it like a ranch in Montana.

Speaker 6 (08:08):
And again he worked by himself.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
He came in without away from us, but I knew
he was going to be there and made a point
to come in so I could meet him get a picture.
And I was in the booth as he was doing
the recording, and as soon as he started talking like
Optimist Prime like, I got emotional. I felt myself going
back to like my twelve year old self, like came
way to get Home and yeah, blows my mind. So

(08:32):
I like that's like some of the like when people
ask me, like favorite character, favorite project work on, that's
one of them. But that's a long, boring story for
most So I usually had no Max goof Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah, well I think Max s gooof Is would be
one of your top favorite characters. I mean a Goofy movie.
I'm that's a big hit for a for I think
it was in Disney's tune division, is that right? It
wasn't like feature features, but it wasn't like cartoons on
the like Saturday Morning.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Correct.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
It was somewhere right in the middle. They had this
division that they pumped out. I think like Little Mermaid
two and three were in that division.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
And yeah, I think that was after the fact they
did Ductails the feature and it was like an offset
animation division that made make movies more on the cheap,
and a goof movie was supposed to be part of that.
That's why it's not like part of like the classics
collections in this it's it's a different company in a way. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
When it came out, was not a critical hit, not
a really financial hit. I think it made its money
back and then some. But the nostalgia factor, like really yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's that's why I'm here at the most of these events.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yeah, it's actually called nostalgic con Wow.

Speaker 4 (09:46):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
I think we're really living in like the age of nostalgia. Like,
I think that's what defines the twenty twenties so far,
is like, you know, there's so much access to so
much different media and everything, and you know, Disney Plus
and you know, some things are getting rebooted, not only rebooted,
but rewatched because of the accessibility. And I think the
nostalgia is like what they're really pumping to everybody. I mean,

(10:10):
just look at everything. I mean even you know, Happy
Gilmore too. You know, this is a bit of a tangent,
but I watched that movie and it was like nothing
but callbacks and cameos A big one. Callbacks and cameos
the movie. I've never seen so many in my life.

Speaker 4 (10:25):
Yeah, it was nuts. It was nuts. I really enjoyed
the movie.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
But it's just interesting, you know, this phenomenon that we're
living in right now.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
I heard it explained romantically in a way as I
received it is that as we get older, you know,
I'm fifty and a half fifty point five. As we
get older, our nostalgia is more becomes valuable to us,
Our past becomes more valuable to us. And that's the
feelings that I got watching Transformers and why it's like

(10:53):
I can revisit that feeling when I when I see
a new Transformer, or you know, get in my case,
getting to meet Peter Cullen, you know, or every you know,
every time I'm gonna get to see this guy. You know,
it's a hit in the field goods, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
Right in the fields. Yeah, we like that. Those are
good feels. Yeah, yeah, it's good.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
What do you get nostalgic about?

Speaker 4 (11:10):
You?

Speaker 1 (11:11):
Boy? A lot of stuff the Temptations, Motown.

Speaker 6 (11:17):
Yeah, music is not the same.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Can we talk about that?

Speaker 1 (11:19):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
I found myself like an old man being like, oh
this hip hop today is terrible day. I tell you what,
you had diggable planets like that's hip hop? Yeah yeah,
none of this where they just basically rhyming the same
word over and over and over again. But yeah, like
we will never have like do Wop or Temptations or
groups like that that again, I don't think.

Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah, I saw something online that said there was like
a scientific study and apparently they figured out that most people,
for most people, the best music, whatever they view the
best music, is what they listened to when they were
seventeen years old. For some reason, very specifically seventeen years old,
you usually view as like the best music to you.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
Dig dig seventeen pop by that, yeah, by that as well.

Speaker 4 (12:07):
Are you Are you a musician? Do you sing? Do
you play any instruments?

Speaker 6 (12:10):
I played drums a little bit.

Speaker 4 (12:11):
I go, there you go.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Jimmy Wi always come into session with drumsticks in his
back pocket.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
I don't have a mirror, damn it.

Speaker 4 (12:19):
I know you don't bring them as much as you
used to.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
That's crazy.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
I usually I know. I used to bring mine to
events because I was like, I don't know if it's
going to talk to me, I'll bring my practice pad.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yeah, yeah, there you go.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
H But I play a little bit. I live in Nashville,
so I'm surrounded by you have to do some amazing musicians.
And you'll go to a you know, a house party
or backyard barbecue and someone like, oh wait, let's sing
a song, and they'll bring out their guitars, like, oh wait,
let me go to my car and get my my
my mandolin.

Speaker 6 (12:46):
Well, let me get my car, let me get.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
My trumpet, and wow, this jam session that happens and
I'm just sitting there like part of this. Sohow what
can I do?

Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (12:54):
I can't bring a drum kit with you everywhere?

Speaker 1 (12:57):
Harmonica?

Speaker 6 (12:58):
Harmonica?

Speaker 1 (12:58):
Yeah, Harmonica?

Speaker 2 (12:59):
You play Monica? No, No, but.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
You can if you get one.

Speaker 6 (13:03):
All right. No, I played like two songs Harmonica.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
Uh huh.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
They say it's one of the easiest to learn.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yeah, wow, it's just right there. Anything you get hold
in your hand, Yes, how hard could it be? Good
night everybody, Thank you, Thank you.

Speaker 4 (13:24):
I like the realization that came over here.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
Yeah, should I.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Don't know what your audience is like here, let's go
to the paper. What's about?

Speaker 6 (13:34):
More about me?

Speaker 3 (13:36):
Another show you guys worked on together. I'm not sure
if you record it together. But was Sonic the Hedgehog?

Speaker 1 (13:42):
So oh yeah?

Speaker 6 (13:43):
No, I was by myself in that one? I remember, yeah,
and I.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
Was dead head joke.

Speaker 4 (13:48):
You played Dirk okay, Dirk Jim played Robotic.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
I take your word for it. The time there's gigs
and like, yeah, really it was like thirty minutes of
my time and I leave. That was the one with
Julia White has Sonic correct, Yes I did. I was
by myself on that one.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Jilil was a nice guy. He doesn't
like me and he won't do the show. No, I'm kidding,
what Jilil? I just made that up, but it sounded controversial. Sure,
you know I doesn't like him.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
I don't think Julia likes me either. And work together
all the time and he never returns my phone calls, Juliel,
if you're watching this.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yeah, his number is one eight. Okay, I've got it
right here. I'll hold it up to the camera.

Speaker 6 (14:32):
It's right here on the kiron here.

Speaker 4 (14:35):
When did when did you get the performance bug?

Speaker 2 (14:37):
Like?

Speaker 3 (14:37):
When did you know you wanted to be a performer
because you not only do voices, but also you have
a great on camera career as well.

Speaker 6 (14:44):
And oh thank you? Yes, I mean, I'm an only child.
Loved watching TV as.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
A kid and always was attracted to the idea of
being an actor being on TV. I watched the show
a Nickelodeon. You can't do that on television. You ever
hear about this is a Canadian like SNL and and
I thought, okay, let's see if I if I want
to be an actor, I guess I have to say
a boot and sorry, I have to talk like this

(15:11):
because that's how the kids are talking. I had no
idea it was Canadian, but it seemed like so much fun.
And then we I'm from Rhode Island originally, so my
stepdad got a gig teaching ballet at Fullerton College in California.
So we moved from Hode Island to Fullerton and like
a few months after being there, someone suggested to my

(15:32):
parents like, oh, your son's cute, get him in acting,
And my mom went to ching.

Speaker 6 (15:35):
That's a great idea, I found.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
Ah, exactly how old are you at this time?

Speaker 2 (15:41):
I'm eleven And the place was called Delmar Media Arts
in Irvine, California.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
Oh wow.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
Actually would go back and teach voice over there and
I and one of our students was Caitlin Robrock who's
now and I did twelve.

Speaker 6 (16:00):
So that was all ages.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Was like Thursday nights, so it was kids my age
up through adults. And oh, my gosh, what was his name?
From W Kripe in Cincinnati and he was the maytag guy.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
Oh, I know who you're talking about. Gordon Jump.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
Yes, Gordon Jump Yes, was our big celebrity, like like speaker,
and he came in and it was my first actor
I ever met. But they but they trained you for
like the technical aspect of acting, like how to audition
for camera, how to slate, learn your lines, and they
covered commercial theatrical, a little bit of voiceover.

Speaker 6 (16:35):
And apparently I was doing really good or I fit.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
A model, and they sent me to an agent, Cunning
and Mescott to Painty and they signed me that day
and immediately started saturating me on on on things.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
Cool. Yeah, wow, that's so that works. It worked well.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
It was it was the eighties. There was no diversity.
It was like the blonde guy or the dark haired guy,
and that was yeah, that was.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
You were the dark haired guy. Yes, wow, see see
how I picked that up?

Speaker 4 (17:00):
Very good.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah, and you were also Billy Crystal. A lot of
people don't know that.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
Yes, a lot of people don't know that.

Speaker 6 (17:06):
Yeah they no.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
Yeah, young Billy Crystal in a movie that he directed,
Mister Saturday Night.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
It's a great.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
Movie they made. He'd made a musical of it and
Broadway a couple of years ago.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
I didn't know that.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
Yeah, and he was reprised his role David Paymer, who
was nominated for his role, and mister Surry Knight reprised
his role. I think people were expecting like the zaniness
of uh like city slickers, but it was.

Speaker 6 (17:32):
A very it was funny, but it.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
Was a ground story about like this sort of washed
up comic and but it's great. If you haven't seen it,
definitely watch it. And I played Billy at like thirteen
and sixteen.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember it. I remember it. Think
I know this guy. Yeah, man, that was really cool. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
And for the longest time, every I'm watching like old
stuff that I because I'll just sit sometimes, you know,
and cry and watch my old work.

Speaker 4 (17:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
But I noticed that even on the sitcoms, I'm always
talking like this. I was like, no, wonder I kept
getting hired the I want to be borsch Belt. Yeah,
this kid, he gets the jokes.

Speaker 6 (18:12):
I'm always talking, yeah, selling the joke.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
Like let me tell you something, Yes, I can see it. Yeah,
oh my god, it's that.

Speaker 6 (18:20):
The cadence stuck with me for a while.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
Yeah. Rhythm.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
It was a good time.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
Yeah, that was a good time. I remember thinking it
doesn't look a thing like Billy Crystal. But that's okay, yes,
because he's got you know, you had the thing they.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
Had one day where they gave me a nose. They
gave me like a little extra tip to my nose.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
We shot it.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
It was it was so media school you didn't really
make a difference and they ended up just like, let's
not use it was extra time in the makeup chair anyway.

Speaker 6 (18:45):
But Billy was great. He directed it. You've ever met him?

Speaker 4 (18:48):
No?

Speaker 2 (18:49):
Uh? Lot, it was great, a lot of fun, a
lot of fun. Was proud of the work that I
did on that.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
Maybe you can call him and you see if he
wants to do the podcast.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
Yes, I'll do that. Billy Billy, if you're watching, julil
if you're still watching it, call Billy for us.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (19:03):
No, Julie White hates Billy Crystal.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
Were terrible.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
You're going to create all this that Jealel White hates everybody.
That's true, he does. I'm sure he doesn't.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
So sorry, Joel, What may I call you? Joel Lee?
What do you guess? Lel? That's probably not not the same. So,
uh you actually drove here?

Speaker 6 (19:27):
Yeah no, no, no, I flew here from it from.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
Oh Okay, I can't remember where the hell I am.
We're doing too many conventions. You ever get that here
we are in New York. This isn't New York.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
It's a it's a luxury problem. Like, yeah, I'll forget, Like, like,
which one was this con?

Speaker 1 (19:41):
Where was there?

Speaker 2 (19:42):
Really? And this is this one? Uh? You were here
in December too, weren't you wear the same This is
the first time that I did a con like within
a year of the in the same city, same con,
same city.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
Yeah, I think so, Well, it's a big city. It's
a big city, so hopefully fresh people will.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
Be Yes, we had this.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
We need fresh people out.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
Yeah, we were here in December and it was the
You remember the downstairs lobby was like a giant all
decorating Christmas and a giant chocolate sculpture that people kept
taking bites out the somebody keep coming in like heating
it and re sculpting as they were like bite marks
on the Santa claus Is downstairs.

Speaker 4 (20:25):
Jesus.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
That was the first thing I thought when I walked
in last night. I was like, why does this lobby different?
Just like there was a massive Christmas treats. Oh yeah,
that's why it looks different.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
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(21:04):
slash Jim Cummings Podcast. Do it now?

Speaker 4 (21:08):
Do you remember? Do you remember your first acting role?

Speaker 6 (21:11):
Yeah, it was a McDonald's commercial.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
McDonald's commercial which you can.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
See on the YouTube if you type in like mcpumpkin
happy Meal.

Speaker 4 (21:21):
Oh yeah, we'll put a link. We'll put a link
for you guys.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
Please, because I played three characters, yeah, versatile. I was eleven,
twelve years old. They did the regular commercial and they
cut to this kid in an attic and I'm plugging
the because the happy Meal was in like these pumpkin
these plastic pumpkin papers that you could use for trigger
treating afterwards. And I was a gold prospector, a vampire

(21:45):
and and a bunny.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
Type cast again yes, wow, yeah, and.

Speaker 6 (21:52):
I still have I still have.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
I don't know when this will will air, but I
can go home and take a picture of that.

Speaker 6 (21:59):
Have the pay the actual payoffs.

Speaker 4 (22:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, back in the day.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
I should just recreate that.

Speaker 4 (22:04):
Uh you should. That would be actually so funny.

Speaker 6 (22:06):
Listen to nostalgia. People gonna want that.

Speaker 4 (22:08):
Here.

Speaker 6 (22:08):
If you want Jason Marsden to recreate that, click this button.
I don't know what you guys are doing.

Speaker 4 (22:13):
Yeah, do that.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
Yes, that'll be a sequel.

Speaker 6 (22:19):
Did you ever do on camera stuff?

Speaker 1 (22:22):
I did one because I showed up thinking it was
a voiceover audition and they and they and they go, well, here,
oh you got it's gonna be on camera. And he
looked at me like of course, and I went, oh, yeah,
of course, Yeah, I mean what you want to see this? Sure?

(22:43):
And and and I said, so, are there there a
script around here? Anything? And he goes, no, just do
part of your stand up? And I went, okay, yeah, so,
uh I just made my first demo tape. I did
the demo tape.

Speaker 6 (23:01):
Okay, wait wait, were you doing stand up?

Speaker 1 (23:03):
No? So I thought it was a voice over. I'm
telling you I I showed up and she goes, well,
Sandy Schnar, she said, well, they're they're doing something. They're
doing it's for a comedy special and they need some
vo but blah blah blah. And I said, oh, oh
that'll be good, and and it wasn't and it was
on camera and I still got the job.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
Well, he doesn't have a face for radio. You guys
got a yeah, oh yeahs blue eyes.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
But come on, it's I didn't know what to do,
so I just to redd it out my uh in
a good way, uh, my my demo tape, and and
they and I got the job. Nice and bj Ward
was in it. Bj Ward, Yeah, yeah, bless her.

Speaker 2 (23:46):
You say Sandy Schnar was your agent at the Yes,
she's my current agent now.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeah, she's a great lady. Yeah, versus what are the odds? Right,
I don't I don't know.

Speaker 6 (23:54):
Though not very significant, small town.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
That's hollyweird.

Speaker 6 (23:58):
Yeah you do you you do voiceover?

Speaker 2 (24:00):
You got a great voice.

Speaker 4 (24:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (24:02):
I actually just booked my first ever voiceover roll just
a couple of weeks ago.

Speaker 4 (24:06):
Well was it a couple of weeks ago?

Speaker 3 (24:08):
It was an anime show called Hollow Healer that has
not yet released.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
Yes, gives a lot of screaming.

Speaker 4 (24:12):
I did screaming.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
The picture certainly did screaming, crying, all that good stuff. Fights,
you know, fight, Yeah, I like, I like acting out
the fight scenes.

Speaker 4 (24:22):
You know, it's it's fine.

Speaker 3 (24:23):
And I was like sweating in the booth, like I
was giving it my all totally.

Speaker 4 (24:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (24:27):
I called my therapist and like, I don't have to
come in today.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
I did. I did a voiceover, yeah, screaming I'm good,
I'm good.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
Yeah, well Tess would get that out of me. Yes,
we always did. Tasmania always had to do that on
a Friday afternoon because you know, you blow out, you
blow out your pipe.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
That's four hours of just get because he was unintelligible.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
Yes, gibberish, gibberish, and then every now and it's say,
well for you bury me in the cold, cold ground.
And that was it, you know, you know, yes, tz
like hate or Test Hungry.

Speaker 6 (25:05):
There was one.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
Episode I watched it just cracked me up. It was
all about like was obsessed with magic and that was
the whole Oh yeah, test like magic, tas Like that
was the entire I think that's the only thing you said, Yes, yeah, yeah,
that was That was Vitello's cruel joke.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
Yes, okay, here's your Taz like magic yeah, I go okay, no,
that no, that's it. But you have to say it
fifty different times, and it has to mean something different
sound and come across differently every time.

Speaker 4 (25:33):
Right, that's like the original I am group.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, so I was grouped. Wow.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
Now you mentioned Rob, and I'm getting people like getting
all that together in a room is outstanding. Are the
people that that you get excited about when you know
when you walk in a room like, oh yeah, Rob's here.
Maybe you don't like Rob.

Speaker 6 (25:52):
I don't know. We don't have to.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
I never cared for him.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
No, not sour personality, yeah no, no, beats children and
drawnless and weasel.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
Totally. Who is it again? Rob Bob Bob Bob anyway, yeah, Pilsner,
I forget anyway, No, that never liked him, uh him
and Frank Welker never could never have hated those guys.
Yes we're kidding, but oh god, I forgot. What I
was going to say is.

Speaker 6 (26:26):
There's someoney you work off of?

Speaker 4 (26:27):
Well that.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
Well Rob you Yeah, I mean where we're doing good? Yeah,
so far, so good? So far?

Speaker 2 (26:35):
Solways get so to be I mean, I'm improv is
never my thing. I would say I've been the improv
classes and I'm so I'm still like so self aware.
But folks like yourself and Rob and just can go off,
you know, NonStop, even like musically, Uh, I get so
caught up and it's like I just I don't want

(26:56):
to I don't want to improve anymore. I just want
to sit back and watch it. That's okay.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
I have obser observing your secret power. Yes, yes, well
your secret is safe with me.

Speaker 3 (27:07):
I want to ask you the same question, same question
right back at you.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
Oh man, I mean Jimmy, of course, because it's always
you know, it's always gonna be a good time. Billy West. Yes,
because Billy, there's things that spout when you're lucky. Okay,
you kids today they're doing voiceover. If you're a professional
voiceover actor working today, I guarantee you you're not working
in a group, which is a shame. You need to
bug your producer and your directors and be like, hey,

(27:33):
can we all come in together if you are blessed?
But but getting to share space with these wild and
crazy guys, these knucklebouts, like magic happens.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
It's very good. Yeah, it's it's a beautiful thing. And
you can't you know, if you do add lib which
I really do, I always give him one as written,
is that you have that philosophy too, and then yes,
if you do another one, then you throw something else in.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
Yeah, and I hope that they they're not too precious
where they want it just in the syt I'm happy
to do it like that. And I don't. I don't
do I'm I admit and one of those arrogant actors.
I don't like line readings. It's like, let me, let
me try a bunch for you. There are some directors
that will just do that, and I get very irritated.
Uh yeah, it's like you've hired us to to bring

(28:16):
life to this, not mimic.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
Like the famous Shatner tapes.

Speaker 2 (28:23):
Please don't tell me how to do it.

Speaker 3 (28:26):
What you just said reminds me of a phrase where
it's the most control you ever have as an actor
is in your audition because after that, yeah, you know,
the the script, he is involved, and the directors involved,
and everybody's molding your performance. And especially these days, you know,
with a self tape, like there's nobody even you know,

(28:47):
you don't even sure you're not even in front of
a casting director. You know, giving you some notes or anything,
and you should own that, in my opinion, because that
is the most you, that's the most creativity that comes
from you in an acting performance that you'll ever get
in the whole process, even if you book the role whatever,
you know, it's only going to get less, and it's
going to get chipped down, chip down, chipped down.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
And this is this audition is my chance to you know,
showcase myself above everybody else, my chance to get the job.
So let me try things when we're on set. Yeah,
you want me to stick the script absolutely. When I
there was a time period in the mid two thousands
where I was auditioning an audition for Modern Family Okay,

(29:29):
and I was told, like, you're going to show up.
If they like you, you'll get a call back that afternoon.
So I show up and I saw an opportunity to
slip in a joke. The casting director interrupted my audition,
just shut me down. He's like, whoa, our writers win
Emmys and they want to hear their words, So don't
add lib news to say I didn't get the call

(29:51):
back that.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
After slim slim chance. Yeah, oh that's terrible. You should
have called me eddieo Nails a buddy of mine. Yes, yeah,
oh man, yeah, we were on We made our TV
debuts together. Really yeah. He was in sixth grade and
he was a senior. Oh wow in high school. We
both went to the same high school.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
I've never met him.

Speaker 4 (30:12):
I know that is lightning or that's thunder. You heard them?
Ow wow, I saw lightning.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
Here we are folks head for the Hills.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
I know David Fostino who's the son on the show.
And I never got to meet Ed, but I've heard amazing.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
Yeah he's great. Yeah, yeah, he's he's he's a badass
for me.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
That's that's right here.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
Yeah, that's right. And we've got to get you on
the podcast, Ed yea, yeah, do it and yeah yeah, yeah,
that's it. You'll listen to him in me remember me,
good old what's his name? Anyway?

Speaker 3 (30:47):
What in your career do you think has been like
the most challenging moment? I know for actors, I mean
I can speak from experience. You know, there's a lot
of up and ups and downs. You know, there's a
lot of lulls, even for you know, the famous working actors.
It's like there's a lot of periods where you know
there's just not a lot happening. What do you think
is the most challenging moment that you've faced in your career?

Speaker 2 (31:08):
Well, that where you're talking about specifically. I remember in
my mid twenties, I experienced my first lull because I was,
you know, not saying I was busy, but I was
very busy from a kid on and I was booking
sitcoms left and right, and then it was it was
a stagnation, and you start to question yourself.

Speaker 6 (31:30):
It's like what am I? Am I do I suck?

Speaker 2 (31:32):
What am I doing? And then I, luckily there was voiceover,
had an aptitude for that. I'd made relationships with that,
so I was working a lot in voiceover. And then
even that started stagnate, and just the industry shifts. It's
not show talent and show business and you have to
keep minding yourself of that. So there were these like
I feel like, am I doing something wrong? Am I

(31:53):
terrible at this? Because I if I was lucky to
get like an on camera audition, and I had so
much space between my last on camera gig and all
they're seeing in my recent resume is voiceover. I was
being labeled it's like, oh, you're this cartoon guy. You
can't you can't.

Speaker 6 (32:12):
Do on camera like Hi, I mean I'm active an actor.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
I'm still the same thing. So that's always been the struggle.
But as I've gotten older and you give less fucks?
Can I say that on this too late? Yes? And
I realized I am good at what I do. There
is a place for me in this industry. It also
helps to make content, you know, like you know, you
make your own fun, like what you're doing here?

Speaker 1 (32:35):
Oh you bet.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
And I never ever, don't, ever, ever, ever rely on
this business or anybody for you got to you gotta
make it yourself.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
Yeah, amen to that. That's good advice. You all might
want to write that down.

Speaker 4 (32:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:47):
Yeah, there's nobody looking for you. There's nobody looking for anybody.

Speaker 4 (32:50):
You know. You have to you have to get in
their face.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
Sure.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
Yeah. I always had a philosophy that I what do
you do for a living? While I own and operate
the Jim Cummings Company. Yeah yeah, I mean that's literally
kind of what it is. All of us. We're all
doing that.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
You do have to step back and look at yourself
as like that, you know. Jason Marsden the product, you know,
not not the person, but like the product is does
voice of the product is part of of you know,
the these Disney characters, but product does do this and
this and that. And have to value myself as as
such it is. Yeah, you have to look yourself as
a business.

Speaker 4 (33:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
One of the hardest things I struggled with was coming
to the realization that, like, you can't do everything. You can't, like,
you can't what do you mean as far as acting
like you can't. You can go into an audition like oh, like,
what what do you do best? You know, what do
you do best? And I would say I can do anything,
you know, I can do everything.

Speaker 6 (33:45):
Yeah, They're like, no, what do you do?

Speaker 4 (33:50):
You know?

Speaker 3 (33:50):
Even like the most famous A list celebrities. You know,
there's that pigeonhole and then you kind of have to
get pigeonholes. At least in my opinion, you have to
get pigeonholes first before they you branch out.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
Sure you know. Yeah, I could play a drill sergeant
and in some like cubric movie yeah five to one.

Speaker 6 (34:07):
Yeah, you know, my hands.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
Are super soft. It's not gonna be accurate. Well, the
comedy The Kids version.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
Of I think they already had that pork clips now
only thirty five cents a pound.

Speaker 3 (34:23):
On that subject though I remember it. I remember seeing
this interview with Emma Stone and she was talking about
working on some movie and the director goes like, she's
trying out all these things in this scene and blah
blah blah. And then he's like, hey, can you just
do that crying face that you do? And she was like,
oh my god, I have a crying face. Like I

(34:44):
guess I do do that a lot. It was like, yeah,
that's why we're hiring you, Like, we want that, we
want that. What are you experimenting with?

Speaker 1 (34:52):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (34:52):
I have noticed? Oh there again, I have noticed, you know,
as a my product and the business, like one of
the things I seem to book the most. They seem
to book like the fast talkers and arrogant guys that
that seems to be in my echelon. Those the things

(35:13):
they seem to book naturally. Because you know, you do
think you you could do anything, but ultimately, if your producer,
casting director, you you want to find something that kind
of that can naturally inhabit these these roles. And now
I'm just thinking like, wow, you're so versatile because you can,
you can habit, you know, someone like Pete and then uh,
and then someone's soft like what the pooh?

Speaker 1 (35:31):
Well that's true, but I flourish when I'm sarcastic. Yes,
and a wise guy. You know. Dark Wing Duck was
one of my bigger guys. He's all sarcasm. Sure, and
it's fun. It's fun. It's kind of fun, you know,
especially when you're working with Goofy or somebody like Launchpad
or you know, it's it comes rather.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
Naturally, Yes, yes it does.

Speaker 1 (35:55):
And I have, you know, utter contempt for most people anyway. Yes,
so it's okay.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
I'm just lucky to be here.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
It just tends to leak out.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
Yeah yeah, yeah, you know, but how did it?

Speaker 6 (36:08):
But whoa damn sorry?

Speaker 4 (36:12):
I should have never had that.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
That's sausage.

Speaker 4 (36:16):
That sausage.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
What were you going to say?

Speaker 4 (36:20):
Well?

Speaker 2 (36:20):
Yeah, but you also but there is a softness to
you because the sensitive part of Jim is expressed through Pooh.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
And so you're buying that huh.

Speaker 6 (36:30):
Sinker, are you kidding me?

Speaker 2 (36:32):
Like everyone else and you're from Princess and the Frog.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
Oh good old ray. Yeah, well thank you that that.

Speaker 6 (36:38):
Part was like written for you. I can like.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
Yeah, well, I know that's funny you bring that up.
I knew. I just said to myself, there is no
way on God's green Earth, I'm not going to be
in this damn movie, you know. And you never think that, sure, yeah,
I don't anyway. I mean, when or whatever, I'm auditioning
for my old career, you know, a couple two or

(37:02):
three of them here and there you go, I'm gonna
get this one, you know. And that was one of them.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
And Ray was one of them. I said, if I
don't get this, because you know, I'm I'm going to
bore everybody again. But I used to be a deckhand
on a riverboat in New Orleans and you get that, uh,
you know, you get that gauge and accident. I did.
My boy he would his name was Leo. Yeah yeah,

(37:31):
And and I was, what, I'm sorry, what the hell.

Speaker 4 (37:33):
Did you just say?

Speaker 2 (37:35):
You know?

Speaker 1 (37:35):
I did? I did a lot of that. They loved me, sure,
they hated me, hated you, hated hated you.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
How did that project originally come to you? Like, what
did you know about it when it first got Christs
in the front?

Speaker 1 (37:49):
Well? It uh? I remember they just said you know
it's it's set in New Orleans and and uh and
I said, so am I you know? Uh? And I
just knew. I mean, there was no there was just
no way, uh but that. But of course it was
predominantly black cast. So I'm going on shit, right city,

(38:09):
wrong color. But I played a bug. Yeah, so it
was cool. Yeah, I was off the hook.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
I had a friend who, uh was reading that role
and he got very very close, you get. They flew
him to l l A and read. He seemed so
confident about it and.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
For what role? He was going for your role? Oh,
you're kidding, Red, Oh no, but I knew. I hate
this guy.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
But I knew I'm kidding and I and I had
to be. I was like, good luck, my man. But
everyone who is in the business that knows like it's
it's I'm like, it's great, good luck. In the back
of my mind, it's going to be Jimmy's. It's gonna
be Jimmy's. There's no quite because of you know, the
authenticity of what you just just talked about. It's a
no brainer. Plus the singing and all that. And it

(38:54):
was one of those like when I saw it, jim
like even knowing it was you. It was like is
it are you? Wow? That's like I literally immerse yourself.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
Oh good, good good. Oh it's nice to hear. Thanks.

Speaker 2 (39:05):
I love that. I love going to see that. Phil
Maher was in something recently and I'm watching this and
I had to text him like are you in this?
I didn't even wait for the credits, like aprecire, that's you.
I love it when I see my friends like you
think you know, they're all their work and then you
get blown away. Yeah, constantly blown away.

Speaker 1 (39:22):
Yeah, we like that. We like that part. Yeah, it's
all I always say. It's the stuff used get me
kicked out of class? How was that? Was that? Like
that work for you? No?

Speaker 6 (39:31):
I was kind of a I wasn't a class clown.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
Yeah it was.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
It was a try hard. It was a people pleaser.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
Oh yeah, oh good for you. Well it worked. You
please a lot of people these days, ye try yeah,
and you'll be pleasing some today.

Speaker 2 (39:45):
Yes, as we were both.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
Yeah, yes, as long as it's okay with the weather.

Speaker 6 (39:49):
Luckily we don't have to it's it's not an outdoor
con yehness.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
Yeah that's yeah, that's true. That's true. Well, I don't.
I don't want to have one of those not not today,
see right all the time.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
So it was in this movie Hocus Focus and me
and some of other cast members do an event in Salem,
Massachusetts every year, and the first year we did it,
we set up a meet and greet in Salem Common,
which is like their little central park, and we like,
we will get a tent for privacy in case it
rained just a little bit. I'm sure they'll be fine,

(40:23):
and we got heaters and everything, and we did not
anticipate the amount. I mean, we knew there were hocus
Pocus fans, but people lined up and waited like four
or five hours to see us, and it poured rain
from eleven am till eight pm non stop. People were
coming into our tent. They're drenched and we're like dry,

(40:45):
and they're like assholes, But once they got in they
were very excited to meet us. And this one couples like, man,
we waited four hours to see you guys, we're so excited.
Who would you wait in line four hours to see
We looked at each other like nobody. Yeah, I mean
I'm thinking of like the people that like see like
the Bee Opper, the bealls like, I don't know. I
don't know. That'd be in the rain.

Speaker 6 (41:06):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
Yeah, no one, yes, your mom. Yeah, that's painful.

Speaker 6 (41:17):
We felt bad. So it's been indoors ever since.

Speaker 1 (41:20):
Yes, yeah, well you're going to be indoorsed today.

Speaker 2 (41:22):
Yes, and you as well. And you as well.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
join the tuned In family today at patreon dot com

(41:46):
slash Jim Cummings podcast. Do it Now?

Speaker 2 (41:50):
Is just the wrap up? I feel like it's the
wrap up?

Speaker 1 (41:52):
Oh, I don't know if it could be. Is it done?
Are we done being cute?

Speaker 4 (41:56):
Before that?

Speaker 3 (41:57):
I just want to talk about Boy Meets World. In
Full House, you had recurring roles on Yes, Yes, what
do you want to know? I want to know what
that experience was like. It was Those were very popular shows.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
Yeah, it was Wholehouse very big too. Full House was great.
They treated me like I was part of the cast.
Bob Saggot. You ever met Bob, No, Bob Like I've
never I've never experienced this on any show I worked.
On the first episode I did, we were on location
in San Francisco, and as soon as I check in
my hotel, the phone rings and it's Bob Saggott. He's like, hey,

(42:29):
so when you know we're going out to dinner later,
if you want to join us, you're welcome. Like he
didn't know me from Adam, but he chose to include
me in their outings and I did. It was like,
absolutely went out with It was him and Candics. I've
known since we were kids, so it's fun getting to
play like her boyfriend for a second. But we all
went to dinner. It was me Saggot, Coolier, you know, Coolier,
and we all we crashed a comedy club and because

(42:55):
they were them, they just let them go on stage
and due time and we're in the back, like I
felt like a king. It was so much fun.

Speaker 1 (43:01):
That's great.

Speaker 6 (43:02):
And my favorite.

Speaker 2 (43:04):
Experience from Full House was when we're shooting on the
Warner Brothers a lot.

Speaker 6 (43:08):
They're shooting Batman Forever.

Speaker 2 (43:10):
With Jim Carrey, Tommy Lee Jones and I'm a big
Batman fan at who's Tim Batman shoulder? So I would
crash the set every chance I got just to see
a bit, you know, see kill Mercy. I don't want
to see that the outfits, So I made on the set.
One day Sweet talked to eighties and I got to
see Jim Carrey and Tommy Lee Jones in their.

Speaker 6 (43:32):
Full villain get up doing a scene together.

Speaker 1 (43:36):
Oh cool, it was awesome.

Speaker 6 (43:37):
So I'm on cloud nine.

Speaker 2 (43:38):
I have to go back to full House because we're
doing a show for the live audience like that night,
and I go in the makeup room, like, y'all, I
just saw Jim Carrey Tommy Lee Jones freaking out, and
Bob Saga goes, you saw Jim show me? And he
made me escort him out. This is the soundstage. We
have a show to do. Mind you walk him over
two store two doors down do their soundstage, and unfortunately

(44:01):
they had wrapped, but there was a trailer right there
and it said Riddler. I'm like, written on like masking tape, Riddler,
and I'm like, this might be his door. And I
had no idea how they knew each other. And Bob
knocks on the door and Jim Carrey opens the door,
still in full It was the white alien with the

(44:22):
silver rhinestone question marks and the big hair. He's like,
how's it going, And he greeted Bob so warmly, and
it was and he invited the cents just me. Bob
saggat Jim Carrey his assistant, and they're chatting it up,
and you know, to showcase Bob's amazing sense of humor,
Jim Carrey asked like, how's Dave COOLi A And Bob's like, oh,
he's great. His mouth is really sore because he's been blowing.

Speaker 1 (44:44):
Me all day.

Speaker 6 (44:45):
Like that was.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
That was that situation, and then we went back to the.

Speaker 4 (44:51):
Setter Care experience.

Speaker 1 (44:52):
Jim Carrey came.

Speaker 6 (44:53):
Back and said, hi to everyone sign autographs and stuff.

Speaker 4 (44:56):
That's awesome, that's really cool.

Speaker 6 (44:58):
Yeah, because he can't.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
Yeah, yeah, man, but I completely forgot, like, yeah, Jim
was a stand up, Bob was a stand up. They
knew each other in that circuit that wasn't like super
public knowledge for the rest of us at the time.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
Right right, right, Well, it's amazing how many comics end
up before the camera and they're pretty good.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
Actor Bill Bill Farmer starting to stand up.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
Yeah, that's true. Yeah, well he's no good, he's no,
it's true.

Speaker 6 (45:22):
That's true.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
We're kidding Bill. If it was true, we couldn't say
it anyway. Is this on camera? Yeah? Well, hey, you know,
is he here? By the way, he's not, because I
don't get it if you're here and I'm here, Uh.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
He I think he's got something else he's tied.

Speaker 4 (45:44):
Up in and Rob are here either, I don't think.

Speaker 6 (45:47):
I guess not.

Speaker 4 (45:48):
I don't know it.

Speaker 6 (45:49):
It's gonna be representing the goof the Goofy. Yeah, the team. No,
Bill is going to Burning Man.

Speaker 2 (45:55):
Oh, he goes, Yeah he does. I went to Burning
Man with Bill.

Speaker 4 (46:00):
Tell us about that.

Speaker 6 (46:01):
Well, we not together.

Speaker 2 (46:02):
We were different camps, but I think it was both
of our first time.

Speaker 6 (46:06):
It was great.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
If if you haven't heard of Burning Man, it's this big,
like almost the anarchistic event that happens in in the
middle of the desert on outside Reno and uh, yes,
whatever you've heard about it is true. But there is
also art and uh great expression isn't And.

Speaker 3 (46:25):
There's no like monetary transactions, right, everything's like trading and
bartering like not I mean not really.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
It's it's there's there's you could buy ice, you could
buy coffee. But everything you're, you're, you're, you're instructed to
when you show up, everything you need you bring with
you and then some so you can like you'll people
set up a bar, people set up like a little
restaurant and you and it's your charge to gift people things.
It's not really like a barter thing, but people are
there to happily. Like someone set you ride bikes because

(46:54):
it's so vast to walk, but someone brings a whole
camp to like fix your bike if you need to. Wow,
there's AA camps, there's camps for deviate activity, there's camps
for just funny through there's families things.

Speaker 6 (47:07):
Wow, it's so much fun.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
And Bill gos and he I think goes with the
Cordillera Film Festival and uh, I guess one of the
guys that owns Man Chinese Theater.

Speaker 6 (47:18):
So I have this great set up showing movies and
stuff on.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
Yeah. Wow, I haven't been back to the big burn
and forever. I like the smaller regional ones where there's
water and shade.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
Yeah, I'm a big water fan. Yes, Oh wow, that's crazy.

Speaker 6 (47:34):
I think you would dig it.

Speaker 1 (47:35):
It's it's it's just a spectacle, I mean, mat like
what eighty thousand people bring into a week where usually
there's nothing there.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
You've people have seen it at home, like if you
see a car commercial where our cars driving through the dust.
That's the black Rock desert and then they disperse and
it's like there's like nothing happening, never there.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
Yeah, well that's good.

Speaker 2 (47:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:57):
They don't leave a mess.

Speaker 2 (47:59):
No, you leave no trace. That's one of the principles,
leave no trace to Yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:05):
Yeah, or God will say it will smike you apparently. Yes,
I think we're about to get smoked here. I haven't
heard this in a long time.

Speaker 4 (48:12):
Oh you can't even see out the window anymore.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (48:15):
Wow, we're in a real storm.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
By Hattie. We are not walking to the con.

Speaker 4 (48:19):
We are not. Well I want us to, but we
are not.

Speaker 6 (48:23):
There's a there's a covered walkway.

Speaker 2 (48:25):
It's We're good, damn it. He wanted to go outside.

Speaker 1 (48:28):
Yeah, but with an umbrella. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. If you're
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(48:50):
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Speaker 3 (48:58):
I think we're getting to the point of the show
where we play a little game. But if you're game
for it, this is the voice swap game, all right?

Speaker 4 (49:07):
All right? So how it works?

Speaker 1 (49:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (49:08):
Yeah, Jim will.

Speaker 3 (49:10):
Do one of his iconic voices, you know, Winnie the
pood Tiger whatever, dark Wing we want to do dark Wing? Yeah, yeah,
and then you will do that same line in one
of your character voices, and then vice versa makes sense?

Speaker 1 (49:24):
Yeah, all right, all right, all right, then, so let's let's.

Speaker 3 (49:29):
Do how about dark Wing Duck and Danger Duck? Okay,
the two ducks?

Speaker 1 (49:34):
Okay, Wow, a lot of alliteration going on.

Speaker 2 (49:37):
Here today, Danger Duck. I have to set up because
I don't think anybody saw this cartoon. Okay, do Lunatics
on Leash? Did you do an episode of Lunatics on Leash?

Speaker 1 (49:46):
That rings a bell?

Speaker 2 (49:47):
It was like the futuristic Warner Brothers characters Bugs and Daffy,
but there were future like sci fi heroes and I
was danger Duck and it was basically my daffy impression.
So oh okay, that's what's gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (50:00):
Okay, well I'll do dark Wing. Look that. Let's see.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
Well, I am the terror the flaps in the night.

Speaker 6 (50:09):
I am also the terror that flaps of the night.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
Wow, you sound just like him. You sound just like you. Yeah,
that's good stuff.

Speaker 4 (50:21):
How about maxim Pete?

Speaker 2 (50:23):
Max and Pete?

Speaker 1 (50:23):
All right, yes, all right, go ahead, you're on deck.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
Okay, h come on, dad, it's power line, the most
popular musician in the planet.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
Come on, dad, it's power line, the most popular musician.

Speaker 4 (50:42):
Whooped you fish? I feel like we have to. I
want to hear Max invitating Pete.

Speaker 1 (50:50):
Yeah, oh there you go. Well, come on over here,
sonning poor daddy's finger.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
Come on over your dad, put your son's finger.

Speaker 6 (51:05):
Yep, that hard.

Speaker 1 (51:10):
That's disturbing.

Speaker 4 (51:12):
You know.

Speaker 1 (51:13):
That was one of my favorite things in the movie,
one of the Goofy movies, when you were walking down
to you you were walking down the street with with
your dad Goofy, trying to be anybody else in the
world except who you were, because your son of Goofy,
for God's sake, and then you you oh, no, you
know you had caught You've caught the yeah ye, the

(51:36):
son of a Goofy goof Yeah. Yeah, that's that's got
to be one of the most iconic laughs ever.

Speaker 2 (51:47):
I think, so yeah, you know you think of Goofy.
That's automatically you go yeah yeah, and every you know,
that's we're at an event. If someone meets Bill, like
most of the time, if some it doesn't know who
is by sight, they'll look at Bill, you know, this
regular guy in some Hawaiian shirt, You'll look the picture
of Goofy and they'll be.

Speaker 6 (52:07):
Like, well, you're the voice of Goofy and he goes.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
Gorsher, Sure I am, and they burst into confetti.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
Yes, yes, yeah, it's beautiful. It's a beautiful It's a
nice little secret power, isn't it. Yes, because you can
instantly transform somebody back to being twelve or five or something.

Speaker 2 (52:23):
I don't know about you. I used to be embarrassed
to do it. There was a part of me that's
like it's conceited of me too. I don't know where
I got this thought process. I'm like, I'll be myself
if I'm if I'm showcasing this and then I start
to remember, like first time I met Dan Castlenetta, you Billy,
I mean, everyone like will do the voice for me

(52:43):
and it brings me such a joy. It's like, yeah,
it costs nothing and I'm happy to do it. Now
I have the people have to like, you know, pay
me to stop doing it.

Speaker 1 (52:50):
Yeah, yeah, I understand that. Yeah. Well, and it's and
it's you know, it's a free trip. But like I said,
back to being twelve or five years old, you know,
they that they turned back into that because it was
you know, if you're sitting around watching cartoons, you're probably
having a pretty good day.

Speaker 4 (53:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (53:08):
Yeah, it's not going to be like, oh god anything
Bambie again. I hate that. You know, nobody says that, right.
You know.

Speaker 3 (53:16):
I had such a severe case of that when we
had Veronica Taylor on the show. Oh it was a
big Pokemon that was for sure my most watched cartoony,
and when she did ashes voice, I was just like, oh,
and I'm kind of like desensitized to Jim. It's like
I'm around him so much, so it doesn't like hit
me with the same nostalgia anymore. It did, you know
in the first place. Obviously, but man, when I heard

(53:39):
Veronica Taylor, I was.

Speaker 1 (53:40):
Like, oh my god, that way, that's as.

Speaker 4 (53:43):
Way like, how are you right here, right right.

Speaker 1 (53:48):
Right now? Yeah, it's a beautiful thing.

Speaker 2 (53:49):
So your nineties kid, Yeah yeah, I was born in
ninety one. Yeah, Power Rangers, Power Rangers, yep.

Speaker 3 (53:56):
Oh yeah, ANIMADIAX for sure. Not so much Batman not
so much better. Fast Frame the Brain Impossible show. What
was the one we were just talking about the other
day with U with Butch Hartman, of course you were fairly.

Speaker 2 (54:15):
Timmy's friend talks really about fast like this.

Speaker 6 (54:19):
Yeah, I love that.

Speaker 2 (54:20):
That's that's a show like I will happily accept line
readings because like when you got someone like have you
ever had Butch Harmond on the show? Butch is great
and uh he's his show is like that show is
his sense of humor and his energy and he will
he will let us play, but but he will always
will ultimately give me a line reading. I'm happy to
do it because that's someone like I'm happy to please.

(54:41):
This is this is your vision? Yeah, love work on
that show.

Speaker 6 (54:44):
That's so much fun.

Speaker 1 (54:45):
Yeah, that's good stuff. Well, Edgie, I think it's the
word that we like.

Speaker 6 (54:50):
To use edgy, fast paced for sure.

Speaker 1 (54:52):
Yes, irre, yes, that's another good word. Yeah, yeah, are
we good?

Speaker 2 (54:59):
I think so exhausted.

Speaker 1 (55:01):
I think we did our It's a beautiful thing. Glad,
Thank you, brother.

Speaker 4 (55:06):
Thank you so much for doing this.

Speaker 3 (55:07):
I know it's you know, it's like you have a
busy day ahead of you, and you know it's not
always the easiest thing to do it on the road
at these conventions, but we really appreciate it.

Speaker 6 (55:15):
You know, happy to do it.

Speaker 2 (55:16):
I have mad love for you, always have always always
excited when as a young fledgling voice actor, I'm like,
what I'm gonna share space with Jim Cummings, No way,
I'm not worthy.

Speaker 6 (55:26):
And then getting to watch you.

Speaker 2 (55:27):
I've learned a lot by sharing space with you. I'm
glad the were pals.

Speaker 1 (55:32):
Hey, amen a whole much. Amen, God bless.

Speaker 2 (55:34):
And Chris you're all right too, how about that?

Speaker 4 (55:37):
Yeah, I'm just glad I get to be like a
little fly. And you know it's funny too.

Speaker 3 (55:43):
And you know, every convention it's like, you know, because
we always gather another another guest or whatever, and then
you see more and more people, like there's seventeen people
at this convention that.

Speaker 4 (55:52):
Have been on the podcast.

Speaker 3 (55:54):
It's really cool and I like doing the little thing,
like doing the little rounds and saying hi to everybody,
and it's like a reunion, you know, it's fun.

Speaker 1 (56:01):
I love these things, beautiful things.

Speaker 4 (56:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (56:03):
Well, thank you guys all so much for Oh sorry,
I didn't mean to cut you off.

Speaker 2 (56:06):
No, no, that was it.

Speaker 3 (56:07):
Okay, Well, thank you guys all out there for watching
so much. This was another episode of Tuned In with
Jim Cummings. I'm producer Chris the Legend, mister Jim Cummings,
and thank you so much for joining us today. Mister
Jason Marsden. Really appreciate it. I really appreciate. I appreciate
you guys for watching. You like this content, please like
and subscribe. We really appreciate it. It helps us out,

(56:28):
It helps you out to see what you like. Really
appreciate it. If you like this content so much that
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Patreon members get access to bonus episodes, extended episodes, contest giveaways,
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(56:49):
find it on Shopify at Jim Commings closet. On Shopify,
there's key chains, their shirts, there's a whole bunch of
good stuff. Convention dates that are upcoming will be linked
right below in the description. As I mentioned during the podcast,
we'll add some links as well to some adjacent stuff
that McDonald's commercial.

Speaker 4 (57:05):
Looking forward to seeing that.

Speaker 1 (57:07):
Yea.

Speaker 3 (57:07):
And with all that said and done, once again, I'm
a print producer. Chris, Jason, Morrisden, Jim Cummings. We will
see you in the next one.

Speaker 2 (57:14):
Much love,

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