April 14, 2025 • 30 mins
On the show James Ross Meskimen American actor, comedian and impressionist. He has appeared in films for director Ron Howard, as well as films by Paul Thomas Anderson and Garry Marshall. He has also been the voice of several JibJab videos.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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can follow your podcast. This week's show, we're going to
talk about the Last of Us Season two. It is
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premiering this week. I'm excited as it good or bad
five nights as Freddy's Part two is coming out, and
there's a Simpsons character that might not be on anymore.
Star Wars is back in the news, and of course
we don't want to forget something that we love so much.
What is it? I'll let you know right after this
Welcome where once a year, sci fi buffs take their
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lips off the barrel of a loaded gun and spend
half a day adjusting their eyes to sunline.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I want to see a comic book with pregnant zombie nuns.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
He's psychotic nerds.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
What a bunch of freaking nerds.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I'm a nerd too.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
You have personality some work. I'm on fut of the.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Popular that was kind of a lonely nerd.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
In high school, I started a quilt, I did yoga
twice a week, were flip flops in public. I'm just
so well. Before we get shot in the Last of Us,
I wanted to let you guys know we're gonna have
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on the show today jim Meskimon. He is the second
voice to fill in for Aladdin, who was on The
Fresh Prince of bel Air. Nice guy. Uh, we'll get
into all the voices he does and this stand up
comedy funny guy, We'll get into that first off. Before
you the Last of Us. Like you just said, I
wanted to talk about a Minecraft went into this movie
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thinking that it was going to be a piece of
crap and came out going, hey, it was stupid, but
it wasn't that bad. No, not that bad at all.
And a lot of people there is a thing all
over the news and YouTube. People are so into the
memes and they're so into the to the the easter
eggs of what Minecraft is that people know exactly when
the chicken the zombie. You gotta see this if you
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know anything about Minecraft. During that happens, people teenager are
actually jumping backs of other people and are fighting in
theaters and throwing.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Poppa, Can you explain that? Why the chicken thing?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
It's a popular thing to do. You're asking the wrong
person about Minecraft.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Don't you have a child?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
He doesn't even really know. He doesn't know about it.
He knows Minecraft, but he's known detail what it's about.
And everybody's fault. The big thing is now and Jack
Brack did it again? The song about the chicken, how
good it was being cooked alive right in front of them.
That's something people are using it all over Instagram, Twitter
and TikTok.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Do you really think that was really important? But it's
about that? But I you sorry, I'm not speaking English correctly.
Is that really a big deal?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
No? No, I personally know. But if it was a
meme or something I saw, I probably would flip out
about it. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Well, I think what it is, it's not them jumping.
If you go to Reddit, they're calling out and shouting
chicken jockey. So it's a popular character and they're trolling.
So that what it is. It's a particular one. Does
that make sense?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah? Another character was the King, remember the pig King
that walked by? Yes, so that represents one of the
highest scoring, one of the biggest players of Minecraft who
that was his character for years and I guess he
died in two thousand and twenty three of cancer, so
they were representing him there. He was just a big,
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big advocate player of Minecraft. I've never really gotten to it.
I sat there, played a little bit and I'm like, yeah,
I don't like the graphics, but people love it. And
another thing is McDonald's is going full force of it.
If you go on to TikTok, it's been amazing and
I saw it on there. People are like, oh, I'm
on a mission today to go to McDonald's to get
the limited edition Grimace Minecraft toy. So I bought it
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with Aaron Michael because he wanted my son. You wanted
the Minecraft toys. I got it and I bought the
adult happy Meal. I'm making have it. So I opened
it up and the first one I got it's Grimas
and he goes online. I guess you could sell it
for like forty bucks now on on eBay. Now is
it going to stay like that? I don't know. Maybe
they'll put tariffs on it. It might go down, and then
you buy it and then they go they say, we're
going to take off ninety days and he goes back up.
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You never I.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Thought there's no politics on this show. But the sticker
is pretty disgusting though. I saw the sticker in my
office and I was like, what what sticker? Froyd uh
for the Minecraft?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I saw that. But but the kids are yearning.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
There's a whopping yeah, because hey, the sales for the
box office one hundred and fifty seven million. And just
let you know, chicken Jockey is got famous from Jack
Black because he mentioned it in the movie. So that's
the reason why it's getting really popular. And there is
a lot of famous characters in the McDonald's, like the Lama,
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you name it.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
So for all ages, would you recommend Minecraft?
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I would.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Okay, we actually had a what was it like, a
seven year old man next to you next to is
girlfriend that he had.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
A nice old girlfriend. They want to see Minecraft. There
that's what happens. And you're older man, you have a
lot of money and you got to take your girlfriends down.
So with that you either got to take him to
see Minecraft, Disneyland or Chuck e Cheese.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Okay, but here I have a question for you, mister
sauce man. Did you get the nether flame sauce.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I didn't get that.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
No, it's so much salt. I can't have that.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
So remember, this is already going to McDonald's.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I'm already going to McDonald's. Just get his Yeah, yeah, father,
bad enough, I've already you know, Oh what a feeling.
They says that it is whatever McDonald's is. I'm in
the toilet.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Well and your sonsh but let's talk about the Last
of Us.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Is that show in the toilett?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
So Last of Us ended off with a high note
last season with the fourteen year old girl, Uh, they
wanted to kill her. If you've seen the show Bella
Ramsey based on the video game Fantastic first season. Now
season two did the premiere. It's out this Sunday on
HBO if you can check it out. If not, it's streamingly.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I know, right after White Lotus and.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
So the lastest teaser, they says the show's emotional capacities,
it stretches it. It's getting more emotional. But the biggest drawback.
And I was reading over on reviews and stuff. I
don't want to read too much into this because I
don't want to let you guys know what exactly is
going to happen. It says the last of those packs
on the action and war heavy season two, which there's
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a lot more fighting, but they said there's not a
lot of character development of the new characters coming in.
They spread them out, so you'll meet one character episode
one and you don't find anything about them until like
episode six or seven. So they're like, they're a little
upset about that. And yes, they do let you stream
on the dvance and they let you see all of
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them that give an opinion. So people write articles about it.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Yeah, they were quoted saying, you don't want to wait
four years for a seventeen episode finish or whatever it is.
So season two is coming out, like you said, April thirteenth.
But guess what. Season three has already been approved.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Molly, So I guess again. It says season two's new
characters are a weak point of the show, and they said, uh,
season two strives to be more original, drifting away a
little bit from the video game to do their own stuff.
So that's all I got to say about that. I
didn't want to go into two more detail because it
hasn't come out yet. I don't want to read too
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much more because I swear to God if this spoils
it for me, I will flip off my.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Well, you're right, White Lotus. But let's talk about other sequels.
Five Nights Megan two point zero and Black Foam two
all coming out with new dates at the end of
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Five Notes of Freddy's two. The trailer confirms things fans
were expecting a lot of. There's new characters coming into it.
And let me make sure. Now, remember I've never played
Five Nights of Freddy's.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Mate has never had all our Michael has.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Does he know the characters?
Speaker 4 (07:53):
I don't know if he knows the name, he reads
the books. So both you have two kids in this house,
excuse me, two people in this house who do look
at it? And from this movie that made over two
hundred and ninety seven million dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
So Josh Hedderson definitely.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Knows how to pick movies where they make box off
his head.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
So this is what happened. The same characters from the
first movie are going to be in the second one,
so continuation. The toys or the animatronic guys, remember how
they look kind of crappy falling apart. These are shinier
and cleanier. That means they're putting more money into the movie.
And two new characters.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
They're always been ugly, ye do you know this one?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
They look better and we'll just have to see including
dressed and character costs and joint juster cardinal games, trying
to see if anything. No, no, that's it. So this
is coming out and it's.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah, and it's still said in nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Right, So but at the new Freddy's Pizzeria, he will enter,
he will realize that nothing everything there is as it seems.
So it's shinier because guess what they open again? So
you know, sometimes people just don't learn their lessons. So
it's not that it's a bigger budget. But we do
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have you know, Josh coming back as well, and I
assume a couple of female interests. But guess what. Wayne
Night will be there from Jurassic Part.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Here's the thing. The first movie, I thought it was
all right, it was great. I gotta be honest, it
was all right. It wasn't fantastic. It wasn't a blockbuster
movie that I oh, I can't wait for seeon two.
I'm excited to see it because it's something scary that
can probably see because they say it's much scarier than
the first. So I'm like that. But it was all right.
It's one of those movies like if it's there, it's there.
If I miss something, I won't lose the storyline at all.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Okay, but will you lose the storyline for if Hank Azra,
who has been saying this since twenty twenty one, does
not want to play a boo for the Simpsons want
to tell our listeners why, I will.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Tell them that. Let's get in a quick interview and
then we're gonna come right back, and then we got
three more things to finish off on. This is a
great interview. Jim Meskiman, the voice of a ladd into
video games. He's even at Disney Parks. Everything that happens
that you see like having at Disney Parks, Jim does it.
We talked about a little bit, all right, Let's get
a quick interview with him and what he's doing and
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what he's up to, funny guy, and then we'll come right
back and we talk about Pooh and I've got a
few other stars that are coming into the new Doom universe.
I'll explain all that we could back I mean like,
you look so like I know you from somewhere I
don't know what is. And we were saying we were
probably in jail together. Maybe I know you from there.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
So one, that's the one I'm recognized for the most.
We're usually at the TSA at la. Are you serious?
I almost every time I go there, I get that.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
You're an actor.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I guess I'm an act. So let's know you from well,
I think you know me from Fresh princiviilla like, yes,
that's it, and then they know me.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
So let me say, let me see if I say
this right, Jim mess come in meskam in meskamen. We're nationally.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Really, I believe the family lord, which may or may
not be true, is that you to be Mike Simmons. Really,
And when I went to Texas, they just said maskum it?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
So do you do you? You eat hummus?
Speaker 4 (11:07):
No?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Not? Hes got? I screwed that up so bad, so bad?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Haigus and hummus sounds like a great vaudeville act.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
So let's let's back this up. Jim. I'm looking at
a table fullest stuff, be half from all the voiceovers,
the acting, everything in Fresh Prince of bel Air, Friends,
The Grinch, Aladdin? How did this all begin? Did you
want to do this?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Well? You know, I was a sporadic Uh. I'm not
the most focused person. I really marvel at people who
like Nancy Carr Wright, my friend Nancy ky Wright, who
knew that she wanted to do cartoon voiceovers from a
very early age, and she went in that direction and
obviously became, you know, just a stellar superstar in that field.
For me, I like to draw cartoons, I like to
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do impressions, I like to do plays and I and
then I just wasn't sure. So in my twenties I
actually focused very heavily on painting, and I lived in Spain,
I studied art. I was very serious about it. And
then then I had an epiphany and I realized because
I always did plays too, I would do plays and
I would study art. And I had an epiphany in
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Madrid and I met Harvey Kaitel on the street. Wow, randomly, Yeah,
you know, meetium anywhere is random, but in Madrid it's
really random. And I'm sure neither of us have been
back that often. And I realized, oh, you know, this
excites me. I want to be an act and I
decided to move to New York at that point, and
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I got into improv I kept myself in New York
by working as an illustrator cartoonist, and I worked for
Rank and Bass and I designed characters for ThunderCats, and
I did that for about a year, and then I
started to get work in commercials, radio voiceovers, and Rank
and Bass even hired me to do voices for an
animated series that they were doing, which was a great
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benefit to me. I mean it was like there wasn't
a lot of animation going on at the time. This
is nineteen eighty six eighty seven. I did a show
called the Comic Strip, did like sixty five episodes of
that sucker, and young Seth Green was on the show.
He was probably about thirteen years old. She's pretty sure
he'd been bar Mitz, but I'm not sure I think
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about it.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Do you know what you're saying right now? You're a
pretty freaking lucky guy so far. You got a great God.
This is amazing, And.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
I'm very lucky too, because my mom is Marion Ross
of Happy Days.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Are you serious?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
I didn't know that, missus c and she's ninety just
turned ninety six. We just celebrated her birthday the other day,
and so I got to watch a professional actress, a
single mom by the way, run her career and become
from being a working actor kind of like I am
to you know, this sort of iconic, incredible superstar who
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everybody loves. So anyway, I learned a lot just from
us were of observing what she did. And when I
when it became time for me to be an actor
and I finally made the commitment in my twenties, I
put to work everything that I could think of that
i'd noticed her doing.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
That's amazing. I mean, look, so we're gonna go over
it fresh Prince of bel Air voiceover Avatar Friends The Grinch.
You played one of the who's on there.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
It was Officer Hulan, Officerland the police officer. I remember
four months on that show.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
So I told you I heard you. He said he
was sorry?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (14:31):
As I said he was sorry?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
How many different voices can you do?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
I don't know. I'm always learning new ones. I'm very
interested in the voice as a channel of communication. I'm
interested in how people talk. And when I learned something,
I kind of stow it away. Yeah, And it's like,
I'm like a collector and an enthusiast, you know. I
feel like, you know, I'm like a I flatter myself
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that I'm like a musician. I have an instrument I liked.
It can convey emotion, It can convey mood and changes
and place and everything. So I like to exercise it
and it gives me great pleasure.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
All right, big million dollar question. When did you get
called up to the big lead to do the Genie?
When did that happen? What happened?
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Well, actually I met an agent, Pat Brady, who's very
famous in the animation world and in the Disney world,
at a party, a very small dinner party at Phil
Proker's house, and I was looking for a new representation
and she was there and she said, and I was
horsing around with Phil and doing voices all evening, drinking wine,
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doing voices, and she said, you know, I know Disney's
looking for someone to do the Blue Genie. I'm gonna
submit you. And I went go right ahead, Pat, and
I auditioned and Robin was still alive. This is a
fifteen years ago maybe, And I got the gig and
he had to approve it, and I had a long
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relationship with Pat Brady. She's retired as an agent now
she's now just doing conventions I think anyway, and I've
been doing it ever since, and it's always an honor,
always harder than I think it's going to be. It's uh,
it's such a a an athletic impression. It has a
lot of brio, it has a lot of expression, it
has energy. Oh changes on a time. It's exciting. So
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it's I work up with big shoes the film that
you do.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
An amazing job at it.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Guy, It's an honor. It's always an honor.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
You're a lucky You're a lucky sob.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
You don't realize that, No, No, I realize it.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
You are great. Thank you. Okay, So is all this
stuff on all your stuff you've done? Do you have
a website set up or anything like that?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Yeah, Jimmeskamon dot com. And I'm on YouTube. I've a
YouTube channel, jim Meskamon, jim.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Are you are you? Are you voicing stuff? And you're
on YouTube? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Yeah, I'm always doing impressions on YouTube, doing.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
A lot of work. As soon as your.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Cartoons, I do drawings every month and people can caption
it win a prize.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
As soon as you this airs, I'm putting all this
stuff on there and everything there. I know this guy
from somewhere. I don't know where I've met you before.
What I have You're an amazing gentleman. You're awesome, Jim,
Thank you for letting me sit down with you. Let
this gentleman get up here. You want to talk with you.
So if you want to catch Jim's interview and other
interviews we did over the course of the weeks, they're
always on the SoundCloud. They get added later on. So
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I gonna be right away. I had him as core
as I can get them up as fast as possible.
All right, as she told us about a Pooh voiced
by Hanka Zira, he's opening up and just recently did
an article that.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Again, Ramera is the second time he's brought this up.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Who hey, So Washington posted an interview for him from
twenty twenty one, because did you know there was a
book called The Problem with a Boo where someone who
is also Indian American talked about how he felt about
this growing up, where he was glad for the representation
because he didn't see that as a kid but and
(18:01):
aboo is funny, but that doesn't mean this representation is
accurate or right or righteous.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yeah, so there's a did you see the twenty seventeen
documentary he did The Problem with a Poo? It was
by an Indian comedian har.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Harry, Yes, the author of the Problem with a book.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he did a documentary on it. Yeah,
and then so heck Zara announced the twenty twenty that
he would not be playing a Pooh anymore. But then
he came back and they talked him into doing stuff.
And I'm not saying that. I don't know. I could
be wrong, but money does talk. He is getting paid
a lot for it. So they said, hey, you know,
character trends hot. You never know. Oh you have good beginning, sir.
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First you think of an idea that there's already been done,
and then you give it a title that nobody could
possibly be like, didn't you think this best.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Seller list for eighteen months?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Everybody didn't bill movies of all Time? So what what
are you thinking? I mean, thank y'all come again, he said.
He recently talked about that. He's actually trying to learn
to move away for it, as he says, is there
a learned people were being hurt by a poo just
the different things he did.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Yeah, yeah, because the author said, and the documentary filmmaker said,
he called Azerra a white guy doing an impression of
a white guy making fun of my father. That's quote
from the author from the Problem with a Boo.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Damn wow. I mean, and he did step down from
the role.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Now he finally has and a poo was.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Not spoken in the Simpsons since Ezra stepped down the role.
So this is what they're thinking, and this is this
is just speculation or read this in an article. It
remains me seeing whether the character recast with a South
Asian voice actor in the future.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Yeah, I mean the Southeasian representation. I mean thinking about
Indiana Jones and then Temple of Doom, Like really, they're
all eating monkey brains, you know, so there's been a
lot of different.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Things they know, eat monkey brains.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
I you know, when you put it in mainstream, like,
what's really the purpose of that? You know, there's just
so many other beauties that are out there and the
representations on there on there, so it's important to represent
correctly but also broadly too, right, So there is not stereotypes.
(20:18):
That's a whole go right, you know, so a boo,
you know, like this is sad of this kid. Thank
you for correcting me.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Okay, it's poo is the monkey from Aladdin.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Sorry, pooh Is.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
And that's why I am not if I said to
you and as a little kid, and I got to
go a pooh, that means I gotta go to the restroom.
So those are the three different things. I'm just helping
you out. I'm I'm making a joke, but go ahead.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
No, But in a twenty fifteen interview, Azari acknowledge that
the Carris impact, as as one as he's portray is
ratially motivating bullying that targets children with South Asian heritage.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
So let's see what happened.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I mean, we're not stereotyping it. I mean there tell
the people that own like Quickie Marts and seven to eleven's,
you know, that's what they're trying to stereotype. Am I right?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Well, Also just the lack of education, the limited knowledge,
you know, the woman's just only having kids. I mean,
I don't think anyone wants to be stereotyped, to be
in a box, no matter who you are, a wet background.
Also right, like you're telling me there's no Indian actors
who could voice all that. The interesting thing is w
(21:31):
Camu Bell, in a season FX Totally Bias, had had
some issues with the author of the and the creator
of the documentaries, and on the show, he said that
Bell hurt him rallying against a boot for performanti racial
stereotypes about Indians. So Bell told him like, we did
not write it into a stand up comedy routine. Performing
(21:53):
on the show, Bell would fire him. So it's interesting
for people from different backgrounds, from different groups the press,
there is some issues because some people say it's just
a comedy. That's why I'm just saying, like, let's just
have a lot of representation. Why is he the only
Indian family there? That doesn't make any sense to me.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
I know everyone's yellow and he's the only one brown.
That's what's wrong. Where's the white people there too? I mean,
thank y'all, come again? Have you noticed that? Why?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I don't really like the Simpsons?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Remember that? All right? So Avengers Doom Day. If you've
watched the videos of the chairs that go down there,
it's in trending for people saying Marvel's not gonna losing
its flair. They had millions and millions and millions of
people waiting for each chair to be announced of what
actors are going to be in the new movies. But
it looks like the X Men are going to be
(22:46):
back there in full force because they're hiring everybody from
the X Men, and it looks like Magneto's back or
old Magneto, and it's going to be the Brotherhood what's
it called, the Brotherhood of Mutants that is going to
be one of the characters. Now, this is just something
that they o recently didn't article with him and Alan Cummings,
who riggingly played night Crawler, was a huge fan favorite.
(23:09):
They kind of said they wanted to get him out
of the story because too many blue individuals in there.
We've got Beast and then we've got Nightcrawler. Right, it's
not always true. Alan Commings in an interview said they
asked them come back many different times, but he said,
I did not want to and this is a problem
for a lot of people, a lot. I did not
want to have to spend hours and hours and hours
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in the makeup chair. And he's excited to come back
now because are you ready for this listening? It's only
it's only going to be ninety minutes to put on
the makeup now because times have changed. They said it
only takes ninety minutes. He used to do four and
a half hours to apply it because they had to
put all the scars all over his body every place,
and all the tattoo.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Do you know what I mean, the blue fing But
what I'm really excited. I mean he's an amazing actor.
Don't want to dismiss that, but do you also know
that Patrick Stewart's coming back as Professor Ax. Yes, their
riginal mistake Becca is coming back? Loki, Yes, Tommy Boy
is back, saying Chi, mister uh Jesmulu will be coming back.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Saying Chi, I just have an article up there and
didn't get to it. But you guy, you go to
your nerdside dot com.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Shang Chi.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
The actor says he's so excited to be there because
he's going to be next to Patrick Stewart, all the
people he gets to work with. He goes, I'm so
excited about this, so excited.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Yeah, it's really great.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
And even the one who's ageless, Paul Rudd, Scott Lang
will be there, aunt, man.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
You're ready for this is Alan Commings. Don't just take guests,
don't read. But how old do you think he is?
Because he made a point of this during the Internet
sixty you loucked in you?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
No, he said he has the same as what white
hair as I do.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
I'm going back to being a sixty year old superhero
and everyone seems to really love it. That's all he says.
I liked him as Nightcrawler. Now, is it wrong? The
voice he used as like he was trying to talk
like it's from Berlin or something.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
No, no, no, no, that's perfect. No. No, he's very good
method actor.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
I'm so excited about Scott Summer, so hopefully it doesn't
sound as damage. But Phoenix, where are you? I have
not seen what's going on with Phoenix, so she's not
going there. You know Bucky's gonna be there, es Peter
from Fantastic four, Winston Duke, who's Winston Duke? Wakanda Forever honey?
(25:23):
Oh yes, m Baku is coming back.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
There's another article I did that's up to your nerd side.
Do you know they asked Eddie Murphy if he'd like
to be at Wakanda and you know what. Eddie Murphy's
response was, what the hell am I going to do
standing around like I'm some head of a tribe or
something like that. He goes, I'm not into the superhero things.
And it's nice that he said. I mean, there's nothing
wrong with that. I respect him for saying that. He goes,
(25:47):
he goes, I'd rather play a villain. Give me a
villain role. I don't want to do a villain because
he loved when he played a Brooklyn vampire in Brooklyn
and he was the Well, let.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Me ask you, do you think he'd play a serious role.
Do you think he has this act teen chops for that?
Speaker 1 (26:02):
I don't. I think he could, but I don't know.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Well, listen, folks, if you just want some laughs, if
you go on YouTube, hit Hollywood, there's something Zammunda versus Wakanda,
Eddie Murphy and coming to America too and Wakanda.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
So use your imagination. But what else is left for
the show.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
One last thing is for Star Wars fans. You're just
gonna freaking love about this. Now mark this day down
June twelfth, But it's going to be a BFI south
Bank Theater in London, so I hate about that, but
it's a good day. You ready for this? It's almost
impossible unless you have me have a laser disc sit
at my mom's house still, which I can't really play.
(26:40):
And it's the original Star Wars unedited, completely unedited. That
means no job of the Hut CGI where Han Solo
walks over in him or cuts put back in or
CGI in this it doesn't look right, or the moon blowing,
the Death Star blowing, just the original original. Well, they're
going to release it at all the stuff and you're
(27:02):
ready for this is what's exciting. All the deleted scenes
they're putting back in. Oh my god, so those times.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
But do you understand the significance of June twelve? No,
you tell me, okay, because on June twelve, it's a
significant date for Star Wars. Starting in nineteen forty eight,
when Lynn Woarren was born, all went to twenty twenty four,
a Dark Vader twenty twenty forty seven to be published.
I don't expect you to know this, but give me
some other things. Also June twelve, Vader Dark Visions of
(27:30):
five was published Star Wars Insider.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
One night he was public William.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Did you just hear what I said. They're putting the
deleted scenes and they're allowed to do this for this
only this theater of Star Wars. So yes, but.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Play you know, June twelve, is it?
Speaker 1 (27:44):
I'm just today, Yes, but I've always wanted to see it.
When there's that big space battle and the scene opens
up and Luke Skywiger's the robot and he goes, there's
something up there, what's going on? And you see it
all blowing up and there's some droid we've never seen
before and he runs back. They're putting it back in there.
When the most Icolate or the spaceport where he hangs
out his friends, he tries to get his tail as
(28:05):
friends and you see him talking to Biggs about how
he's joined the rebellion.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
They're putting all that back in So here's my ques.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
On top of that, you get to see the original
job of the Hut walking around talking to Han Solo,
the big heavyset guy. That was his big break in Hollywood.
He didn't get as it was originally meant to be seen. Now,
this isn't anyhing that to do with the franchise. It's
just a one time shot that they're going to show
this is amazing.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
But you're sure they're not trying to spice up the
movement for Daisy Ridley's news.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Oh that's not coming up. Start showing that to six.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I know, but that's where you start the spice, right,
So the.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Movie can freaking suck. They're gonna hit me over the
head and just take my money. Anyhow.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
That's wonderful. But here's my question to you.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Would you rather go to London and watch the movie
make you happy?
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Or would you.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Rather go to Japan and make your son happy going
into Nintendo Land?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Yeah, London, Wow, selfishness, fishness. And then he chose The
Dark Fores.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
I had the hole show The Dark.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Fores during spring break. All right, we gotta wrap up
the show. That is it. We're out, hey, make sure
to fall us on social media at your nerd side.
Comic CON's coming up, and it's up in the board.
This is amazing. I love this. All right? Coming up?
What do we got?
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
First one coming up? We're gonna be in Roseville the
eighteenth and the twentieth, but I'm probably gonna do the
twentieth only, and we are gonna be there with our
friend Tara Sands, who we are starting another show with,
and I'll get into that later. On April twenty sixth,
will be a Sack Toy Con and I gotta start
playing Galaxy Con. It's happening, but I'm not going to
get into that. Also, May the fourth be with you.
(29:40):
It's coming up. We'll be at Disneyland. I'll be working
down there, but one day I'm gonna be joining up
for May the fourth festivities. And let's not forget that
we're gonna be trying out for the first time ever
in late May, no early May. Actually Universal Studios for
their fan fest the sixteenth, the seventeenth, and eighteenth will
be there, but we're gonna be celebrated on the seventh, but.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Also for other locations May for Pacific Toy Anime Comic
Con all in pacifica Comic Con Livermore on June twenty eighth,
but Deesso Toy Anime Comic Con April thirteenth and Raised
in City Con Yes in Lodi, California.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Mayad load I one. I want to hit up.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Am I your secretary. I want to sorry.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
I like it out there. We'll talk to you next
week and make sure to send in those emails. If
you have any questions and everybody keeps asking me what
new eighties movies to watch, I'll get that to you, guys.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
A promise I turn forgot it.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Look, no, I got it, but I'll probably turn into
a YouTube channel. I swear.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Hi, this is Billy West and you're listening to your
nerd side with Fonseca otherwise known as the Fauns.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Hey
So before the show starts. Most important thing is if
you're listening to this any place, make sure to subscribe
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talk about the Last of Us Season two. It is
(00:20):
premiering this week. I'm excited as it good or bad
five nights as Freddy's Part two is coming out, and
there's a Simpsons character that might not be on anymore.
Star Wars is back in the news, and of course
we don't want to forget something that we love so much.
What is it? I'll let you know right after this
Welcome where once a year, sci fi buffs take their
(00:43):
lips off the barrel of a loaded gun and spend
half a day adjusting their eyes to sunline.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I want to see a comic book with pregnant zombie nuns.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
He's psychotic nerds.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
What a bunch of freaking nerds.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I'm a nerd too.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
You have personality some work. I'm on fut of the.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Popular that was kind of a lonely nerd.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
In high school, I started a quilt, I did yoga
twice a week, were flip flops in public. I'm just
so well. Before we get shot in the Last of Us,
I wanted to let you guys know we're gonna have
(01:21):
on the show today jim Meskimon. He is the second
voice to fill in for Aladdin, who was on The
Fresh Prince of bel Air. Nice guy. Uh, we'll get
into all the voices he does and this stand up
comedy funny guy, We'll get into that first off. Before
you the Last of Us. Like you just said, I
wanted to talk about a Minecraft went into this movie
(01:42):
thinking that it was going to be a piece of
crap and came out going, hey, it was stupid, but
it wasn't that bad. No, not that bad at all.
And a lot of people there is a thing all
over the news and YouTube. People are so into the
memes and they're so into the to the the easter
eggs of what Minecraft is that people know exactly when
the chicken the zombie. You gotta see this if you
(02:04):
know anything about Minecraft. During that happens, people teenager are
actually jumping backs of other people and are fighting in
theaters and throwing.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Poppa, Can you explain that? Why the chicken thing?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
It's a popular thing to do. You're asking the wrong
person about Minecraft.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Don't you have a child?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
He doesn't even really know. He doesn't know about it.
He knows Minecraft, but he's known detail what it's about.
And everybody's fault. The big thing is now and Jack
Brack did it again? The song about the chicken, how
good it was being cooked alive right in front of them.
That's something people are using it all over Instagram, Twitter
and TikTok.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Do you really think that was really important? But it's
about that? But I you sorry, I'm not speaking English correctly.
Is that really a big deal?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
No? No, I personally know. But if it was a
meme or something I saw, I probably would flip out
about it. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Well, I think what it is, it's not them jumping.
If you go to Reddit, they're calling out and shouting
chicken jockey. So it's a popular character and they're trolling.
So that what it is. It's a particular one. Does
that make sense?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah? Another character was the King, remember the pig King
that walked by? Yes, so that represents one of the
highest scoring, one of the biggest players of Minecraft who
that was his character for years and I guess he
died in two thousand and twenty three of cancer, so
they were representing him there. He was just a big,
(03:27):
big advocate player of Minecraft. I've never really gotten to it.
I sat there, played a little bit and I'm like, yeah,
I don't like the graphics, but people love it. And
another thing is McDonald's is going full force of it.
If you go on to TikTok, it's been amazing and
I saw it on there. People are like, oh, I'm
on a mission today to go to McDonald's to get
the limited edition Grimace Minecraft toy. So I bought it
(03:51):
with Aaron Michael because he wanted my son. You wanted
the Minecraft toys. I got it and I bought the
adult happy Meal. I'm making have it. So I opened
it up and the first one I got it's Grimas
and he goes online. I guess you could sell it
for like forty bucks now on on eBay. Now is
it going to stay like that? I don't know. Maybe
they'll put tariffs on it. It might go down, and then
you buy it and then they go they say, we're
going to take off ninety days and he goes back up.
(04:13):
You never I.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Thought there's no politics on this show. But the sticker
is pretty disgusting though. I saw the sticker in my
office and I was like, what what sticker? Froyd uh
for the Minecraft?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I saw that. But but the kids are yearning.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
There's a whopping yeah, because hey, the sales for the
box office one hundred and fifty seven million. And just
let you know, chicken Jockey is got famous from Jack
Black because he mentioned it in the movie. So that's
the reason why it's getting really popular. And there is
a lot of famous characters in the McDonald's, like the Lama,
(04:50):
you name it.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
So for all ages, would you recommend Minecraft?
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I would.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Okay, we actually had a what was it like, a
seven year old man next to you next to is
girlfriend that he had.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
A nice old girlfriend. They want to see Minecraft. There
that's what happens. And you're older man, you have a
lot of money and you got to take your girlfriends down.
So with that you either got to take him to
see Minecraft, Disneyland or Chuck e Cheese.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Okay, but here I have a question for you, mister
sauce man. Did you get the nether flame sauce.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I didn't get that.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
No, it's so much salt. I can't have that.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
So remember, this is already going to McDonald's.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I'm already going to McDonald's. Just get his Yeah, yeah, father,
bad enough, I've already you know, Oh what a feeling.
They says that it is whatever McDonald's is. I'm in
the toilet.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Well and your sonsh but let's talk about the Last
of Us.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Is that show in the toilett?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
So Last of Us ended off with a high note
last season with the fourteen year old girl, Uh, they
wanted to kill her. If you've seen the show Bella
Ramsey based on the video game Fantastic first season. Now
season two did the premiere. It's out this Sunday on
HBO if you can check it out. If not, it's streamingly.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I know, right after White Lotus and.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
So the lastest teaser, they says the show's emotional capacities,
it stretches it. It's getting more emotional. But the biggest drawback.
And I was reading over on reviews and stuff. I
don't want to read too much into this because I
don't want to let you guys know what exactly is
going to happen. It says the last of those packs
on the action and war heavy season two, which there's
(06:23):
a lot more fighting, but they said there's not a
lot of character development of the new characters coming in.
They spread them out, so you'll meet one character episode
one and you don't find anything about them until like
episode six or seven. So they're like, they're a little
upset about that. And yes, they do let you stream
on the dvance and they let you see all of
(06:43):
them that give an opinion. So people write articles about it.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Yeah, they were quoted saying, you don't want to wait
four years for a seventeen episode finish or whatever it is.
So season two is coming out, like you said, April thirteenth.
But guess what. Season three has already been approved.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Molly, So I guess again. It says season two's new
characters are a weak point of the show, and they said, uh,
season two strives to be more original, drifting away a
little bit from the video game to do their own stuff.
So that's all I got to say about that. I
didn't want to go into two more detail because it
hasn't come out yet. I don't want to read too
(07:21):
much more because I swear to God if this spoils
it for me, I will flip off my.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Well, you're right, White Lotus. But let's talk about other sequels.
Five Nights Megan two point zero and Black Foam two
all coming out with new dates at the end of
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Five Notes of Freddy's two. The trailer confirms things fans
were expecting a lot of. There's new characters coming into it.
And let me make sure. Now, remember I've never played
Five Nights of Freddy's.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Mate has never had all our Michael has.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Does he know the characters?
Speaker 4 (07:53):
I don't know if he knows the name, he reads
the books. So both you have two kids in this house,
excuse me, two people in this house who do look
at it? And from this movie that made over two
hundred and ninety seven million dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
So Josh Hedderson definitely.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Knows how to pick movies where they make box off
his head.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
So this is what happened. The same characters from the
first movie are going to be in the second one,
so continuation. The toys or the animatronic guys, remember how
they look kind of crappy falling apart. These are shinier
and cleanier. That means they're putting more money into the movie.
And two new characters.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
They're always been ugly, ye do you know this one?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
They look better and we'll just have to see including
dressed and character costs and joint juster cardinal games, trying
to see if anything. No, no, that's it. So this
is coming out and it's.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah, and it's still said in nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Right, So but at the new Freddy's Pizzeria, he will enter,
he will realize that nothing everything there is as it seems.
So it's shinier because guess what they open again? So
you know, sometimes people just don't learn their lessons. So
it's not that it's a bigger budget. But we do
(09:08):
have you know, Josh coming back as well, and I
assume a couple of female interests. But guess what. Wayne
Night will be there from Jurassic Part.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Here's the thing. The first movie, I thought it was
all right, it was great. I gotta be honest, it
was all right. It wasn't fantastic. It wasn't a blockbuster
movie that I oh, I can't wait for seeon two.
I'm excited to see it because it's something scary that
can probably see because they say it's much scarier than
the first. So I'm like that. But it was all right.
It's one of those movies like if it's there, it's there.
If I miss something, I won't lose the storyline at all.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Okay, but will you lose the storyline for if Hank Azra,
who has been saying this since twenty twenty one, does
not want to play a boo for the Simpsons want
to tell our listeners why, I will.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Tell them that. Let's get in a quick interview and
then we're gonna come right back, and then we got
three more things to finish off on. This is a
great interview. Jim Meskiman, the voice of a ladd into
video games. He's even at Disney Parks. Everything that happens
that you see like having at Disney Parks, Jim does it.
We talked about a little bit, all right, Let's get
a quick interview with him and what he's doing and
(10:11):
what he's up to, funny guy, and then we'll come right
back and we talk about Pooh and I've got a
few other stars that are coming into the new Doom universe.
I'll explain all that we could back I mean like,
you look so like I know you from somewhere I
don't know what is. And we were saying we were
probably in jail together. Maybe I know you from there.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
So one, that's the one I'm recognized for the most.
We're usually at the TSA at la. Are you serious?
I almost every time I go there, I get that.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
You're an actor.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I guess I'm an act. So let's know you from well,
I think you know me from Fresh princiviilla like, yes,
that's it, and then they know me.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
So let me say, let me see if I say
this right, Jim mess come in meskam in meskamen. We're nationally.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Really, I believe the family lord, which may or may
not be true, is that you to be Mike Simmons. Really,
And when I went to Texas, they just said maskum it?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
So do you do you? You eat hummus?
Speaker 4 (11:07):
No?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Not? Hes got? I screwed that up so bad, so bad?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Haigus and hummus sounds like a great vaudeville act.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
So let's let's back this up. Jim. I'm looking at
a table fullest stuff, be half from all the voiceovers,
the acting, everything in Fresh Prince of bel Air, Friends,
The Grinch, Aladdin? How did this all begin? Did you
want to do this?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Well? You know, I was a sporadic Uh. I'm not
the most focused person. I really marvel at people who
like Nancy Carr Wright, my friend Nancy ky Wright, who
knew that she wanted to do cartoon voiceovers from a
very early age, and she went in that direction and
obviously became, you know, just a stellar superstar in that field.
For me, I like to draw cartoons, I like to
(11:52):
do impressions, I like to do plays and I and
then I just wasn't sure. So in my twenties I
actually focused very heavily on painting, and I lived in Spain,
I studied art. I was very serious about it. And
then then I had an epiphany and I realized because
I always did plays too, I would do plays and
I would study art. And I had an epiphany in
(12:14):
Madrid and I met Harvey Kaitel on the street. Wow, randomly, Yeah,
you know, meetium anywhere is random, but in Madrid it's
really random. And I'm sure neither of us have been
back that often. And I realized, oh, you know, this
excites me. I want to be an act and I
decided to move to New York at that point, and
(12:34):
I got into improv I kept myself in New York
by working as an illustrator cartoonist, and I worked for
Rank and Bass and I designed characters for ThunderCats, and
I did that for about a year, and then I
started to get work in commercials, radio voiceovers, and Rank
and Bass even hired me to do voices for an
animated series that they were doing, which was a great
(12:57):
benefit to me. I mean it was like there wasn't
a lot of animation going on at the time. This
is nineteen eighty six eighty seven. I did a show
called the Comic Strip, did like sixty five episodes of
that sucker, and young Seth Green was on the show.
He was probably about thirteen years old. She's pretty sure
he'd been bar Mitz, but I'm not sure I think
(13:18):
about it.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Do you know what you're saying right now? You're a
pretty freaking lucky guy so far. You got a great God.
This is amazing, And.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
I'm very lucky too, because my mom is Marion Ross
of Happy Days.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Are you serious?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
I didn't know that, missus c and she's ninety just
turned ninety six. We just celebrated her birthday the other day,
and so I got to watch a professional actress, a
single mom by the way, run her career and become
from being a working actor kind of like I am
to you know, this sort of iconic, incredible superstar who
(13:55):
everybody loves. So anyway, I learned a lot just from
us were of observing what she did. And when I
when it became time for me to be an actor
and I finally made the commitment in my twenties, I
put to work everything that I could think of that
i'd noticed her doing.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
That's amazing. I mean, look, so we're gonna go over
it fresh Prince of bel Air voiceover Avatar Friends The Grinch.
You played one of the who's on there.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
It was Officer Hulan, Officerland the police officer. I remember
four months on that show.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
So I told you I heard you. He said he
was sorry?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (14:31):
As I said he was sorry?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
How many different voices can you do?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
I don't know. I'm always learning new ones. I'm very
interested in the voice as a channel of communication. I'm
interested in how people talk. And when I learned something,
I kind of stow it away. Yeah, And it's like,
I'm like a collector and an enthusiast, you know. I
feel like, you know, I'm like a I flatter myself
(14:56):
that I'm like a musician. I have an instrument I liked.
It can convey emotion, It can convey mood and changes
and place and everything. So I like to exercise it
and it gives me great pleasure.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
All right, big million dollar question. When did you get
called up to the big lead to do the Genie?
When did that happen? What happened?
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Well, actually I met an agent, Pat Brady, who's very
famous in the animation world and in the Disney world,
at a party, a very small dinner party at Phil
Proker's house, and I was looking for a new representation
and she was there and she said, and I was
horsing around with Phil and doing voices all evening, drinking wine,
(15:40):
doing voices, and she said, you know, I know Disney's
looking for someone to do the Blue Genie. I'm gonna
submit you. And I went go right ahead, Pat, and
I auditioned and Robin was still alive. This is a
fifteen years ago maybe, And I got the gig and
he had to approve it, and I had a long
(16:00):
relationship with Pat Brady. She's retired as an agent now
she's now just doing conventions I think anyway, and I've
been doing it ever since, and it's always an honor,
always harder than I think it's going to be. It's uh,
it's such a a an athletic impression. It has a
lot of brio, it has a lot of expression, it
has energy. Oh changes on a time. It's exciting. So
(16:23):
it's I work up with big shoes the film that
you do.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
An amazing job at it.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Guy, It's an honor. It's always an honor.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
You're a lucky You're a lucky sob.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
You don't realize that, No, No, I realize it.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
You are great. Thank you. Okay, So is all this
stuff on all your stuff you've done? Do you have
a website set up or anything like that?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Yeah, Jimmeskamon dot com. And I'm on YouTube. I've a
YouTube channel, jim Meskamon, jim.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Are you are you? Are you voicing stuff? And you're
on YouTube? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Yeah, I'm always doing impressions on YouTube, doing.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
A lot of work. As soon as your.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Cartoons, I do drawings every month and people can caption
it win a prize.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
As soon as you this airs, I'm putting all this
stuff on there and everything there. I know this guy
from somewhere. I don't know where I've met you before.
What I have You're an amazing gentleman. You're awesome, Jim,
Thank you for letting me sit down with you. Let
this gentleman get up here. You want to talk with you.
So if you want to catch Jim's interview and other
interviews we did over the course of the weeks, they're
always on the SoundCloud. They get added later on. So
(17:21):
I gonna be right away. I had him as core
as I can get them up as fast as possible.
All right, as she told us about a Pooh voiced
by Hanka Zira, he's opening up and just recently did
an article that.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Again, Ramera is the second time he's brought this up.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Who hey, So Washington posted an interview for him from
twenty twenty one, because did you know there was a
book called The Problem with a Boo where someone who
is also Indian American talked about how he felt about
this growing up, where he was glad for the representation
because he didn't see that as a kid but and
(18:01):
aboo is funny, but that doesn't mean this representation is
accurate or right or righteous.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yeah, so there's a did you see the twenty seventeen
documentary he did The Problem with a Poo? It was
by an Indian comedian har.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Harry, Yes, the author of the Problem with a book.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he did a documentary on it. Yeah,
and then so heck Zara announced the twenty twenty that
he would not be playing a Pooh anymore. But then
he came back and they talked him into doing stuff.
And I'm not saying that. I don't know. I could
be wrong, but money does talk. He is getting paid
a lot for it. So they said, hey, you know,
character trends hot. You never know. Oh you have good beginning, sir.
(18:39):
First you think of an idea that there's already been done,
and then you give it a title that nobody could
possibly be like, didn't you think this best.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Seller list for eighteen months?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Everybody didn't bill movies of all Time? So what what
are you thinking? I mean, thank y'all come again, he said.
He recently talked about that. He's actually trying to learn
to move away for it, as he says, is there
a learned people were being hurt by a poo just
the different things he did.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Yeah, yeah, because the author said, and the documentary filmmaker said,
he called Azerra a white guy doing an impression of
a white guy making fun of my father. That's quote
from the author from the Problem with a Boo.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Damn wow. I mean, and he did step down from
the role.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Now he finally has and a poo was.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Not spoken in the Simpsons since Ezra stepped down the role.
So this is what they're thinking, and this is this
is just speculation or read this in an article. It
remains me seeing whether the character recast with a South
Asian voice actor in the future.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Yeah, I mean the Southeasian representation. I mean thinking about
Indiana Jones and then Temple of Doom, Like really, they're
all eating monkey brains, you know, so there's been a
lot of different.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Things they know, eat monkey brains.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
I you know, when you put it in mainstream, like,
what's really the purpose of that? You know, there's just
so many other beauties that are out there and the
representations on there on there, so it's important to represent
correctly but also broadly too, right, So there is not stereotypes.
(20:18):
That's a whole go right, you know, so a boo,
you know, like this is sad of this kid. Thank
you for correcting me.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Okay, it's poo is the monkey from Aladdin.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Sorry, pooh Is.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
And that's why I am not if I said to
you and as a little kid, and I got to
go a pooh, that means I gotta go to the restroom.
So those are the three different things. I'm just helping
you out. I'm I'm making a joke, but go ahead.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
No, But in a twenty fifteen interview, Azari acknowledge that
the Carris impact, as as one as he's portray is
ratially motivating bullying that targets children with South Asian heritage.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
So let's see what happened.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I mean, we're not stereotyping it. I mean there tell
the people that own like Quickie Marts and seven to eleven's,
you know, that's what they're trying to stereotype. Am I right?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Well, Also just the lack of education, the limited knowledge,
you know, the woman's just only having kids. I mean,
I don't think anyone wants to be stereotyped, to be
in a box, no matter who you are, a wet background.
Also right, like you're telling me there's no Indian actors
who could voice all that. The interesting thing is w
(21:31):
Camu Bell, in a season FX Totally Bias, had had
some issues with the author of the and the creator
of the documentaries, and on the show, he said that
Bell hurt him rallying against a boot for performanti racial
stereotypes about Indians. So Bell told him like, we did
not write it into a stand up comedy routine. Performing
(21:53):
on the show, Bell would fire him. So it's interesting
for people from different backgrounds, from different groups the press,
there is some issues because some people say it's just
a comedy. That's why I'm just saying, like, let's just
have a lot of representation. Why is he the only
Indian family there? That doesn't make any sense to me.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
I know everyone's yellow and he's the only one brown.
That's what's wrong. Where's the white people there too? I mean,
thank y'all, come again? Have you noticed that? Why?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I don't really like the Simpsons?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Remember that? All right? So Avengers Doom Day. If you've
watched the videos of the chairs that go down there,
it's in trending for people saying Marvel's not gonna losing
its flair. They had millions and millions and millions of
people waiting for each chair to be announced of what
actors are going to be in the new movies. But
it looks like the X Men are going to be
(22:46):
back there in full force because they're hiring everybody from
the X Men, and it looks like Magneto's back or
old Magneto, and it's going to be the Brotherhood what's
it called, the Brotherhood of Mutants that is going to
be one of the characters. Now, this is just something
that they o recently didn't article with him and Alan Cummings,
who riggingly played night Crawler, was a huge fan favorite.
(23:09):
They kind of said they wanted to get him out
of the story because too many blue individuals in there.
We've got Beast and then we've got Nightcrawler. Right, it's
not always true. Alan Commings in an interview said they
asked them come back many different times, but he said,
I did not want to and this is a problem
for a lot of people, a lot. I did not
want to have to spend hours and hours and hours
(23:29):
in the makeup chair. And he's excited to come back
now because are you ready for this listening? It's only
it's only going to be ninety minutes to put on
the makeup now because times have changed. They said it
only takes ninety minutes. He used to do four and
a half hours to apply it because they had to
put all the scars all over his body every place,
and all the tattoo.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Do you know what I mean, the blue fing But
what I'm really excited. I mean he's an amazing actor.
Don't want to dismiss that, but do you also know
that Patrick Stewart's coming back as Professor Ax. Yes, their
riginal mistake Becca is coming back? Loki, Yes, Tommy Boy
is back, saying Chi, mister uh Jesmulu will be coming back.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Saying Chi, I just have an article up there and
didn't get to it. But you guy, you go to
your nerdside dot com.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Shang Chi.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
The actor says he's so excited to be there because
he's going to be next to Patrick Stewart, all the
people he gets to work with. He goes, I'm so
excited about this, so excited.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Yeah, it's really great.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
And even the one who's ageless, Paul Rudd, Scott Lang
will be there, aunt, man.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
You're ready for this is Alan Commings. Don't just take guests,
don't read. But how old do you think he is?
Because he made a point of this during the Internet
sixty you loucked in you?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
No, he said he has the same as what white
hair as I do.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
I'm going back to being a sixty year old superhero
and everyone seems to really love it. That's all he says.
I liked him as Nightcrawler. Now, is it wrong? The
voice he used as like he was trying to talk
like it's from Berlin or something.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
No, no, no, no, that's perfect. No. No, he's very good
method actor.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
I'm so excited about Scott Summer, so hopefully it doesn't
sound as damage. But Phoenix, where are you? I have
not seen what's going on with Phoenix, so she's not
going there. You know Bucky's gonna be there, es Peter
from Fantastic four, Winston Duke, who's Winston Duke? Wakanda Forever honey?
(25:23):
Oh yes, m Baku is coming back.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
There's another article I did that's up to your nerd side.
Do you know they asked Eddie Murphy if he'd like
to be at Wakanda and you know what. Eddie Murphy's
response was, what the hell am I going to do
standing around like I'm some head of a tribe or
something like that. He goes, I'm not into the superhero things.
And it's nice that he said. I mean, there's nothing
wrong with that. I respect him for saying that. He goes,
(25:47):
he goes, I'd rather play a villain. Give me a
villain role. I don't want to do a villain because
he loved when he played a Brooklyn vampire in Brooklyn
and he was the Well, let.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Me ask you, do you think he'd play a serious role.
Do you think he has this act teen chops for that?
Speaker 1 (26:02):
I don't. I think he could, but I don't know.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Well, listen, folks, if you just want some laughs, if
you go on YouTube, hit Hollywood, there's something Zammunda versus Wakanda,
Eddie Murphy and coming to America too and Wakanda.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
So use your imagination. But what else is left for
the show.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
One last thing is for Star Wars fans. You're just
gonna freaking love about this. Now mark this day down
June twelfth, But it's going to be a BFI south
Bank Theater in London, so I hate about that, but
it's a good day. You ready for this? It's almost
impossible unless you have me have a laser disc sit
at my mom's house still, which I can't really play.
(26:40):
And it's the original Star Wars unedited, completely unedited. That
means no job of the Hut CGI where Han Solo
walks over in him or cuts put back in or
CGI in this it doesn't look right, or the moon blowing,
the Death Star blowing, just the original original. Well, they're
going to release it at all the stuff and you're
(27:02):
ready for this is what's exciting. All the deleted scenes
they're putting back in. Oh my god, so those times.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
But do you understand the significance of June twelve? No,
you tell me, okay, because on June twelve, it's a
significant date for Star Wars. Starting in nineteen forty eight,
when Lynn Woarren was born, all went to twenty twenty four,
a Dark Vader twenty twenty forty seven to be published.
I don't expect you to know this, but give me
some other things. Also June twelve, Vader Dark Visions of
(27:30):
five was published Star Wars Insider.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
One night he was public William.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Did you just hear what I said. They're putting the
deleted scenes and they're allowed to do this for this
only this theater of Star Wars. So yes, but.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Play you know, June twelve, is it?
Speaker 1 (27:44):
I'm just today, Yes, but I've always wanted to see it.
When there's that big space battle and the scene opens
up and Luke Skywiger's the robot and he goes, there's
something up there, what's going on? And you see it
all blowing up and there's some droid we've never seen
before and he runs back. They're putting it back in there.
When the most Icolate or the spaceport where he hangs
out his friends, he tries to get his tail as
(28:05):
friends and you see him talking to Biggs about how
he's joined the rebellion.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
They're putting all that back in So here's my ques.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
On top of that, you get to see the original
job of the Hut walking around talking to Han Solo,
the big heavyset guy. That was his big break in Hollywood.
He didn't get as it was originally meant to be seen. Now,
this isn't anyhing that to do with the franchise. It's
just a one time shot that they're going to show
this is amazing.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
But you're sure they're not trying to spice up the
movement for Daisy Ridley's news.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Oh that's not coming up. Start showing that to six.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I know, but that's where you start the spice, right,
So the.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Movie can freaking suck. They're gonna hit me over the
head and just take my money. Anyhow.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
That's wonderful. But here's my question to you.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Would you rather go to London and watch the movie
make you happy?
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Or would you.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Rather go to Japan and make your son happy going
into Nintendo Land?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Yeah, London, Wow, selfishness, fishness. And then he chose The
Dark Fores.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
I had the hole show The Dark.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Fores during spring break. All right, we gotta wrap up
the show. That is it. We're out, hey, make sure
to fall us on social media at your nerd side.
Comic CON's coming up, and it's up in the board.
This is amazing. I love this. All right? Coming up?
What do we got?
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
First one coming up? We're gonna be in Roseville the
eighteenth and the twentieth, but I'm probably gonna do the
twentieth only, and we are gonna be there with our
friend Tara Sands, who we are starting another show with,
and I'll get into that later. On April twenty sixth,
will be a Sack Toy Con and I gotta start
playing Galaxy Con. It's happening, but I'm not going to
get into that. Also, May the fourth be with you.
(29:40):
It's coming up. We'll be at Disneyland. I'll be working
down there, but one day I'm gonna be joining up
for May the fourth festivities. And let's not forget that
we're gonna be trying out for the first time ever
in late May, no early May. Actually Universal Studios for
their fan fest the sixteenth, the seventeenth, and eighteenth will
be there, but we're gonna be celebrated on the seventh, but.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Also for other locations May for Pacific Toy Anime Comic
Con all in pacifica Comic Con Livermore on June twenty eighth,
but Deesso Toy Anime Comic Con April thirteenth and Raised
in City Con Yes in Lodi, California.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Mayad load I one. I want to hit up.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Am I your secretary. I want to sorry.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
I like it out there. We'll talk to you next
week and make sure to send in those emails. If
you have any questions and everybody keeps asking me what
new eighties movies to watch, I'll get that to you, guys.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
A promise I turn forgot it.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Look, no, I got it, but I'll probably turn into
a YouTube channel. I swear.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Hi, this is Billy West and you're listening to your
nerd side with Fonseca otherwise known as the Fauns.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
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