July 23, 2025 • 8 mins
ICYMI: ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A conversation with Disney Legend Bill Farmer (voice of Goofy and Pluto for nearly 30 years), and Bret Iwan (the fourth person EVER to voice Mickey Mouse) who join the program to introduce “Mickey Mouse Clubhouse+”! Airing Mondays at 9am ET/PT, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse+ offers preschoolers and their families all new adventures with Mickey, Minnie and their pals - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Plus the continuation of the beloved Disney
Junior series Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Welcome to the next generation
of free schoolers. And it's still breaking records. I'm talking about.
It's a top three series for preschoolers with more than
five big views on YouTube. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Plus airs
Mondays at nine am Pacific on Disney Junior and is
available for streaming on Disney Plus. Now, let's make the
(00:29):
Clubhouse appear with the magic words miska muska Mickey Mouse.
Joining me on the show right now is Brett Iwan,
the voice of Mickey Mouse.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Welcome, sir, well, thank you, and hey, that's my Liney Mouse.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
And I'm also.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Joined by Bill Farmer, the voice of Goofy and Pluto. Bill,
thank you for coming on this evening.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Worsha. I didn't know there were five billion people watching us.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
It's a whole lot of people. I love it.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
Bill.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Let me start with you. You are a Disney legend
in your own right who's been the vo voice of
Goofy and Pluto for decades as well as countless additional
voices in films like Toy Story, Cars, Monsters, Eke. But
how do you keep the voices straight in your head?
Or do they get confusing after a while.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Not generally, if you know the personality and you know
the character that you're portraying, it usually stays pretty much
in its own box. There are times when I'll probably
do the wrong voice, you know, But once you learn
a character, it has a tendency to stay. So Gorsh,
I can go into Goofy anytime I'll want, and it's
(01:35):
right there.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Brett, I need not tell you how big of shoes
that you are filling as the voice of Mickey Mouse.
You're just the fourth person ever to lend your voice
to Mickey. You were born in Pasadena. That's important to
us folks here in LA but you were raised in
part in Illinois. What was your connection to Disney growing up?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Oh my gosh, I mean, what wasn't my connection to Disney?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Really?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah? Growing up in Pasadena. I'm a southern California kid.
Going to Disneyland was you know, at least a yearly event,
if not more. I was surrounded by Disney you know,
one of my favorite things to do is actually beg
my parents to just drive down the one thirty four
and pass the Disney studio lot just to see this
place that I had, you know, been watching Walton in
(02:19):
the old classic Disneyland TV shows giving tours of I
wanted to drive past the gates and imagine what was
happening in there. My dream was to work for Disney.
I wanted to be an artist. I learned to draw
by drawing Mickey. I wanted to be a Disney artist.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Truly.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
The voice acting is really just came out of left field.
It's a tangent in my life story. But Disney has
been a consistent part of my life since my earliest memories.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Brett, I know what you mean because the studio we
are broadcasting from is right across the street from those
Disney studios that you talk about in that one thirty
four freeway. So we understand completely. And Bill, let me
come to you The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Plus, as I
said my intro, is the latest iteration of Mickey Mouse's Clubhouse.
It's one thing to get the voices right, but what
(03:05):
makes you connect with preschoolers? How do you know when
you get that portion right.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
You hear it from the fans quite often at comic cons,
and it's usually the parents that will say, oh, yes,
little Billy will watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse five times a.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Day on the Disney Plus and stuff. So you just
learn the character.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Doing the character is more about learning the personality than
just the voice, which you learn as a voice actor.
You can do an impression of a character, but it
takes more time to learn the character. How does that
character breathe? How does that character emote? What kind of
(03:46):
character is he? You have to get that and become
that character when you inhabit a role, whatever.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Character it is, and it also helps keep them straight.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Bill, let me follow up with that, because learning the
character is one thing. But you've been in this business
long enough, and I say this with great affection and respect,
you've seen the evolution of media. When you maybe came along,
there was no streaming. There was no cable, these substations
and channels, there was no YouTube. So when kids find
you your voice, your characters in this different media, has
(04:19):
that changed how you approach what you do.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Every show, every performance really has its own vibe, whether
it was a Goofy movie where Goofy had to be
a nurturing father to Max, or on Mickey Mouse Clubhouse,
where it's for the younger audience and you're kind of
teaching lessons and it's all Mickey Donald, Goofy, Daisy Mini.
It has its own vibe and it takes on its
(04:44):
own life, and you kind of get into that vibe
of the show and it differentiates it, but it's still
the same character. It's like showing different facets of a
diamond that you may have never seen before. Okay, Oh,
Goofy can be a nurturing father. Oh, he can actually
be intelligent once in a while, and he can still
goof up things all the time.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
And it's a part of the whole.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
You add to the whole, but you don't take away
from the character.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
You just add to it over the years.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Brett, you may not be as far down the road
in your career as Bill, but I think this does
apply to you.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
How do you go.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
About maintaining the consistency of the sound of Mickey across
media Across Let's say, you may be doing a cartoon,
maybe you're doing something that's live action, I don't know,
maybe something for a game or something like that. How
do you maintain the consistency because my voice doesn't sound
the same as five years ago.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Oh absolutely, I mean it's inevitable that all of our
voices kind of change, right, And thankfully, I think when
I look back at some of the stuff I started
doing sixteen years ago, I've definitely noticed a little smoother
approach to Mickey's voice, where it's a little less trick voice.
You know, if something Bill told me very early on,
he said, do you find your going into the studio
and really thinking about making the voice, making the sound?
(06:04):
And I said, yes, I'm terrified sometimes that is not
going to come out. And he said, well, just give
us some time and that'll go away. And that truly has.
Now I'm able to step into the recording studio and
instead of thinking about the sound, I'm thinking more about
the character. As Bill had just said, you know, it's
more about knowing the character than it is the boy.
Once you get the technicalities of the voice, you know,
(06:25):
Mickey is a falsetto, but he's not too high and.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
He's not too low.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
He's somewhere right in the middle. And once you get
that comfortable space that you can kind of go to
and kick off your sessions with then the rest is
just more so about the personality. And to your point, absolutely,
the different projects require a different dynamic, whether it's an
I show where you're in a giant arena, or you're
at the theme park broadcasting to a whole park audience,
or you know, you talked about YouTube and different stream platforms.
(06:51):
You know, Mickey has his own vlog now on YouTube,
Me and Mickey.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
It's a whole vlog series.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
And so that's a little different too because it's Mickey
holding an iPhone and communicating to his audience the way
so many influencers are nowadays, and so just having a
different awareness. You know, I always say these characters, especially Mickey,
they're actors and themselves, right, Like they approach each different
role the way any of us would as actors, you know,
kind of understanding the audience and the different situations surrounding
(07:20):
how it's being perceived. So yeah, the consistency, I think
more than sound is the character consistency that's the most important.
But of course the sound is iconic, so you can't
let that go to the wayside, And it's just kind
of common sense, like you of protecting your voice daily
to make sure that you're there whenever the call comes in.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Plus first ten episodes now available to stream,
as we were saying, on Disney Plus and airs Mondays
at nine am Pacific on Disney Junior. I'd like to
think my guests, both Bill Farmer, the voice of Goofy
and Pluto, and Brett Iwin, the voice of Mickey Mouse,
thank you gentlemen for coming on tonight.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Thanks for having us leisure.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
It's Later with Mo Kelly KFI AM six forty. We're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, live on YouTube, talking
about streaming and everywhere else
Speaker 1 (08:09):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Plus the continuation of the beloved Disney
Junior series Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Welcome to the next generation
of free schoolers. And it's still breaking records. I'm talking about.
It's a top three series for preschoolers with more than
five big views on YouTube. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Plus airs
Mondays at nine am Pacific on Disney Junior and is
available for streaming on Disney Plus. Now, let's make the
(00:29):
Clubhouse appear with the magic words miska muska Mickey Mouse.
Joining me on the show right now is Brett Iwan,
the voice of Mickey Mouse.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Welcome, sir, well, thank you, and hey, that's my Liney Mouse.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
And I'm also.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Joined by Bill Farmer, the voice of Goofy and Pluto. Bill,
thank you for coming on this evening.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Worsha. I didn't know there were five billion people watching us.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
It's a whole lot of people. I love it.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
Bill.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Let me start with you. You are a Disney legend
in your own right who's been the vo voice of
Goofy and Pluto for decades as well as countless additional
voices in films like Toy Story, Cars, Monsters, Eke. But
how do you keep the voices straight in your head?
Or do they get confusing after a while.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Not generally, if you know the personality and you know
the character that you're portraying, it usually stays pretty much
in its own box. There are times when I'll probably
do the wrong voice, you know, But once you learn
a character, it has a tendency to stay. So Gorsh,
I can go into Goofy anytime I'll want, and it's
(01:35):
right there.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Brett, I need not tell you how big of shoes
that you are filling as the voice of Mickey Mouse.
You're just the fourth person ever to lend your voice
to Mickey. You were born in Pasadena. That's important to
us folks here in LA but you were raised in
part in Illinois. What was your connection to Disney growing up?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Oh my gosh, I mean, what wasn't my connection to Disney?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Really?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah? Growing up in Pasadena. I'm a southern California kid.
Going to Disneyland was you know, at least a yearly event,
if not more. I was surrounded by Disney you know,
one of my favorite things to do is actually beg
my parents to just drive down the one thirty four
and pass the Disney studio lot just to see this
place that I had, you know, been watching Walton in
(02:19):
the old classic Disneyland TV shows giving tours of I
wanted to drive past the gates and imagine what was
happening in there. My dream was to work for Disney.
I wanted to be an artist. I learned to draw
by drawing Mickey. I wanted to be a Disney artist.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Truly.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
The voice acting is really just came out of left field.
It's a tangent in my life story. But Disney has
been a consistent part of my life since my earliest memories.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Brett, I know what you mean because the studio we
are broadcasting from is right across the street from those
Disney studios that you talk about in that one thirty
four freeway. So we understand completely. And Bill, let me
come to you The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Plus, as I
said my intro, is the latest iteration of Mickey Mouse's Clubhouse.
It's one thing to get the voices right, but what
(03:05):
makes you connect with preschoolers? How do you know when
you get that portion right.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
You hear it from the fans quite often at comic cons,
and it's usually the parents that will say, oh, yes,
little Billy will watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse five times a.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Day on the Disney Plus and stuff. So you just
learn the character.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Doing the character is more about learning the personality than
just the voice, which you learn as a voice actor.
You can do an impression of a character, but it
takes more time to learn the character. How does that
character breathe? How does that character emote? What kind of
(03:46):
character is he? You have to get that and become
that character when you inhabit a role, whatever.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Character it is, and it also helps keep them straight.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Bill, let me follow up with that, because learning the
character is one thing. But you've been in this business
long enough, and I say this with great affection and respect,
you've seen the evolution of media. When you maybe came along,
there was no streaming. There was no cable, these substations
and channels, there was no YouTube. So when kids find
you your voice, your characters in this different media, has
(04:19):
that changed how you approach what you do.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Every show, every performance really has its own vibe, whether
it was a Goofy movie where Goofy had to be
a nurturing father to Max, or on Mickey Mouse Clubhouse,
where it's for the younger audience and you're kind of
teaching lessons and it's all Mickey Donald, Goofy, Daisy Mini.
It has its own vibe and it takes on its
(04:44):
own life, and you kind of get into that vibe
of the show and it differentiates it, but it's still
the same character. It's like showing different facets of a
diamond that you may have never seen before. Okay, Oh,
Goofy can be a nurturing father. Oh, he can actually
be intelligent once in a while, and he can still
goof up things all the time.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
And it's a part of the whole.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
You add to the whole, but you don't take away
from the character.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
You just add to it over the years.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Brett, you may not be as far down the road
in your career as Bill, but I think this does
apply to you.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
How do you go.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
About maintaining the consistency of the sound of Mickey across
media Across Let's say, you may be doing a cartoon,
maybe you're doing something that's live action, I don't know,
maybe something for a game or something like that. How
do you maintain the consistency because my voice doesn't sound
the same as five years ago.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Oh absolutely, I mean it's inevitable that all of our
voices kind of change, right, And thankfully, I think when
I look back at some of the stuff I started
doing sixteen years ago, I've definitely noticed a little smoother
approach to Mickey's voice, where it's a little less trick voice.
You know, if something Bill told me very early on,
he said, do you find your going into the studio
and really thinking about making the voice, making the sound?
(06:04):
And I said, yes, I'm terrified sometimes that is not
going to come out. And he said, well, just give
us some time and that'll go away. And that truly has.
Now I'm able to step into the recording studio and
instead of thinking about the sound, I'm thinking more about
the character. As Bill had just said, you know, it's
more about knowing the character than it is the boy.
Once you get the technicalities of the voice, you know,
(06:25):
Mickey is a falsetto, but he's not too high and.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
He's not too low.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
He's somewhere right in the middle. And once you get
that comfortable space that you can kind of go to
and kick off your sessions with then the rest is
just more so about the personality. And to your point, absolutely,
the different projects require a different dynamic, whether it's an
I show where you're in a giant arena, or you're
at the theme park broadcasting to a whole park audience,
or you know, you talked about YouTube and different stream platforms.
(06:51):
You know, Mickey has his own vlog now on YouTube,
Me and Mickey.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
It's a whole vlog series.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
And so that's a little different too because it's Mickey
holding an iPhone and communicating to his audience the way
so many influencers are nowadays, and so just having a
different awareness. You know, I always say these characters, especially Mickey,
they're actors and themselves, right, Like they approach each different
role the way any of us would as actors, you know,
kind of understanding the audience and the different situations surrounding
(07:20):
how it's being perceived. So yeah, the consistency, I think
more than sound is the character consistency that's the most important.
But of course the sound is iconic, so you can't
let that go to the wayside, And it's just kind
of common sense, like you of protecting your voice daily
to make sure that you're there whenever the call comes in.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Plus first ten episodes now available to stream,
as we were saying, on Disney Plus and airs Mondays
at nine am Pacific on Disney Junior. I'd like to
think my guests, both Bill Farmer, the voice of Goofy
and Pluto, and Brett Iwin, the voice of Mickey Mouse,
thank you gentlemen for coming on tonight.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Thanks for having us leisure.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
It's Later with Mo Kelly KFI AM six forty. We're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, live on YouTube, talking
about streaming and everywhere else
Speaker 1 (08:09):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty
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