"Larry Lechon" with Eric Bauza

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Welcome to culturally canceled. This is a very an episode for me. This one is the first time I think it's the first time I've done just me and another person. Right. Oh, that's right, we had love it. Wow, I have to follow him. Oh, Eric, how dare you so on the show of Me today? Not only are we just by ourselves, he's the only one other than John Lovet's but also one of my Canadian homeboys and the voice of five five characters, five characters in Looney Tunes. He's the new

voice of all of them. And he's and he's my my first time meeting him actually, but we've known about each other for a little while and we've sent each other. Well, he sent me clothing in the past. It was weird because it was used underwear, but whatever clothing is clothing. Um, please welcome my new friend. Eric Bowser is in the house with me tonight. Hew. You see he's Uh, that

was a really good Stewie. What did you know? When people see the footage, I'll be like, I can't believe you guys got the host of Masks singer to be on the show. They're like, Man, Ken's gained a little bit away. He yeah, he has, he has. Thank you for having me. Man, you're not just the show, but in in your in your in your home and and uh it's it's good to connect with a fellow canny. I'm homesick. I know I have some Canadian things in

the house. I have catchup chips if you want. I saw that, and and not just on the counter with the drawer and oh yeah, I think I might have a coffee crisp touch. I found the stash you could find coffee crisp that the Chevron gas station at like Hollywood Way, and uh, it's like right by the report like one thirty four. Yeah, It's like I couldn't believe it. There was like the all Canadian stash in there, like Arrow, really malteezers, they got the whole thing. Got malteesers upstairs

if you want. Really, this is what's this. I'm telling you. I was like, I as soon as I discovered that, I was like, I may never have to go home again. Do they have Jersey milk? No, they don't. I forgot about that one. That Jersey milk is good. Jersey milk was just just classic chocolate, right, it was. It was it was just like a Hershey bar, but you see, but Jersey milk was tasty. It was like something good about it. I think, uh, I think Arrow would trumpet though,

that's me personally. I love arrow. Mirage is like a fat arrow. Okay, Mirrage, now we're talking. I need that on a T shirt. Yeah, Mirage, that's a good one. Remember the the how much for the caramelk secret? I'll give you the catramilk secret. And then that was like and then they would end the commercial on like someone just took a piece of it, and then the cat when you look at it's just really very very sexual.

It was like the cream pie of chocolates. It's the it's the last and the only thing you want in your mouth if you're talking Canadian delicacies. And what about what was that other commercial where they coffee crisp was those two like wafers and they pour the chocolate over it. Yeah that was like I thought I was getting away with something as a kid because I thought, well, I can't drink coffee. It was it had caffeine and oh yeah,

there's Mirage up on the screen. What was that one commercial where they had made it sound really sexual where they were like and they're pouring the chocolate on in the commercial and they're talking really sensual, like picture this chocolate and then the milk chocolate on it was it Canadian? It was Canadian. It was definitely Canadian. Canadians and their sexual chocolate, sexual chocolate ladies. It always comes back to coming to America. Uh. And then there was the toffee fae.

Is that a Canadian thing where you have toffee fa out here? Toffee toffee tofie Faye Court thought it was Tofife. You know, you say to Fife, it's probably to Fife toffee fee. That's what they said in the commercial toffi fee, because it's toffee inside. Now a lot of these, a lot of these are also available. And by the way, we're only gonna be talking about chocolates from Canada for the next era, but a lot of these are like Briti there is to to Fife the British. It could

be a hazel nut and caramel with creamyn. Because here's the big thing about Canada and England. In the U. K's like smarties, right, like we got Smartmarties and over here smarties are rockets, rockets exactly. That's the biggest what separates us. Well, you guys call smarties, we call rockets, and what we call smarties is chocolate. They're like Eminem's bud Better you know those Canadians, they come in with the chocolate and they screw it all up. Smarties are

rockets and rockets are smarties? Just disgusting. You know that some of these guys are a light, but they're taking all the jobs. We gotta build a wall around Canada with putin, Right, it's their favorite food. It's cheese, rise and gravy. It's true, it's Russian food. Yeah. I could have Puttin in my mouth all day. Hello, I love it. I love it. How many voices do you do? Eric, I don't know. I don't know one of those guys who just doesn't and go, oh, apparently I could do

this one too. Yes, I feel like that's the case. And you know, I spent a lot of time watching like a lot of cartoons. That's that's where I had the Looney Tunes. If if we're going to go back to that, it's Saturday mornings on Global above his Bunny and Tweetie show. We're on Global. Yeah, it was. They had an hour. And that's like basically since if you're looking at the lineage of Looney Tunes, they were made in like forties fifties, so they that's why some of them. Listen,

we were talking about this. Some of them are so racist. And when the guy would like have the cigar that exploded, and he would look like a h he was in black face, it's the lips would be it was like we didn't even a cardo. It didn't have cardos. When were kids were like, that's funny, and I realized, now,

I go, holy sh it, that's so fucking racist. I mean, they had an episode Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips you know that now, Now that's that's a real cartoon and oh yeah, they have the bone on their nose and they were making a soup out of another human. It was all propaganda and the Bugs Bunny up then flipped to the Nips. And now Mel Blank is rolling in his grave. No, just kidding. I'm sure he's proud. But when did Mel Blank day? And so who filled in

for the past thirty two years before you? The first guy, Jeff Bergman, he was actually bugs in in the movie Space Jam. I was I am Bugs for HBO Max's Looney Tunes cartoons. I'm in space Gym as Daffy duck Elma very very quiet. I'm hunting that web. Marvin the marsh. He isn't their lovely earth creature used to love Marvin the Martian Fog, I say, fog horn leg harn. You know that Russell Peter's son like a dirt road between two corn fields, nothing between the ears. That's a joke, son,

that's a joke. Uh And then uh, yeah, Porky Pig. I'm gonna you know, Filipino, Porky Lichen or Larry Lichon, we'll call him. Yeah, we're gonna switch it up. Bury the bob boy buried. That sounds like a sex move in the Philippines. Let me bury my bub boy in you. But yeah, only five in that one, but I mean five on. I mean, look were at some time we were doing I was doing scratch dialogue for all the characters, even Granny, just because they needed someone in there to

act against Lebron. I was in the booth with Lebron at least four or five times. Very cool, very very cool, very very tall. You should play basketball, I think, or clean the gutters. He's so tall. Man. Like we we took a picture with him, I was saying earlier, we all looked like we were standing in potholes, like like next to him, it was. It was me and his kneecaps was acting. I never saw it. But he was good. I mean, you're going to say that, but everybody else

said he sucked. At least with me in the booth. My niece and nephew said how, I said, how space Jam. It was really good. But Lebron is a terrible actor. You know what a nine year old calling you have to I got good news is he's a decent basketball player. Yeah, at the very end of the day, at least he has that to fall back on. But if a nine year old, if if you know, they say the brutal honesty about the thing. But I don't think really Lebron

gives a ship either way. So you know, I mean the guy between producing the film, being in the bubble during the pandemic, uh, you know, being family and nobody. Nobody's ever going to dispute his drive. There's a reason he is where he is in life because he's not me. He's not lazy. Sweeping the Raptors two years in a row. Yeah, we will never forget that. Did he sweep? But he never won that year? Did he? How many rings does he have now? And I think it's Lebrono's form rings

there which one are you? You look great in the red flowered shirt, the one that looks like short round from Indiana Jones next to Indiana Genes. That's Spike brand Brand. He was the animation director. He worked on the original Space Gym and now he's the animation director on on the sequel twenty five years later. What's it? The number one movie? It was, right, it was. It was at one point the number one movie. And to do that in a in a pandemic, it's very hard to do. Yeah,

how did they do that? Yeah? I don't understand that. I mean, I understand it, but I don't understand it, you know what I mean. I'm like, morally and and for humanity, we understand it, but uh, for for the outcome of the movie's sake regarding box office, that's that, you know, And and the numbers are hidden and and and they say there's a formula that's going to work out. I just don't see it. I don't I don't see

why they would do that. I'm just used to movies like coming on pay per view, like like at the tail end of them being in theaters. Yeah, and they're already advertising its presence on on home video and blue ray and all that stuff. People still do that, people still I still do it. I still like having that tangible thing. I do like tangible things. But do we have a DVD player? Do we have a Blue ray? Are you still producing like content on like tangible? Is

it all streaming now? It's all streaming as far as I know. I mean, I still own like all your original stuff. Really. Oh yeah, it's never it's never go I gotta style at my house. Well, yeah, that's from my tangible days. The tangible I think. I think I have like a tangible copy of Notorious, the one that with the Netflix special I made. I made a stack of them just for like promo. Nice. But when we still have them. I've seen him somewhere in the house a stack of them. Yeah we have. We had a

bunch of them. I'll give you one, please, because I don't think that works are streaming it anymore. Well, fuck my dreams. Huh. I heard that you're going to uh Abu Dhabi. I am going to Abu Dhabi And is that the first time you know? I've been to Abu Dhabi many times. Um, I've never been what's it like? Should come? They might think you're a worker. If I go, I might stay right like, I might not have buzz board to leave. I'm I'm just know you have bilibino.

You have to go back to work. They have the Warner Brothers theme park there, do they? Yes, you should come. I've done voices in rides that I may never get to try. You should come to Abudhabi. Uh, your money. You could get a ticket at a head Airways. Right, that's the we're gonna go. Um. Yeah, it's the Eddie had Arena that I'm opening, Okay, And I wanted to fly Eddie Had on that on that flight, but I wanted to do there. They have these first class private suites. Yeah,

they're like, but they're not. They're not running them right now, and I'm like, come on, wouldn't they I don't know. I guess it's probably costs them a lot of money to run that plane. Yeah, right, right, right right. So I'm going Emirates. Okay, it's not like I'm suffering. I'm still going to say that doesn't send too bad. I'm

still going Emirates first, you know what I mean. It's not like I still get a suite, and I still get a shower on board if I want, you know, well, well safety wise, I'm still live the mind like, being far from like the general population on the plane is probably a better idea than oh yeah, being in the mix. It's probably gonna be just me in the first class in the life, I have no problem with. I'll just keep switching seats the whole flight. What is the audience

going to be? Like, I mean, like you did it demographically speaking, no, no, no volume one. Oh, they're only doing three thousand seats, which is weird because it's in an arena, right, that's what just open and it's sold out. I'm like, just open it up. They're having like I mean, arena like basketball like games that have like I'm hoping you're not spread out because that will Oh my god, the laughs are gonna be echoing in that place. If you spread out three thousand people in a seat arena,

your mind as will be playing to yourself. You're gonna hear You're gonna hear things. The one guy in the back, yeah, you else, what what's he talking about? Who's he talking about? The crowd? Work in a in a in a arena that big how do you How do you manage to

do that? That's my favorite part of your every every bit of your stand up is like I like to So what I do is when I'm in an arena, I have two camera guys on stage and they'll shoot the audience and they know basically they the parameters of where I will speak to somebody, of course, because there's only so far I can go, so they know that's even lit because yeah, so they noticed scan like the first two to three rows maximum three and then uh

and then and then they'll kind of figure out. They'll they know my these guys have been with me for a long time, so they know my moves. They'll be like, he's probably gonna talk to that guy. Probably gonna talk to that guy. I don't know until I get out there, and then we all figure it out. And sometimes I'm like, hey, you and they'll get the wrong guy. What are you doing the rest of that? The guy I'm talking to, I said, a black guy, and you shut up a

white woman. I mean that's the but but that that's even better though, right, I mean anything you know, do you get to um, do you get to do lots of winging it on? Any of the voices. Definitely, like on this one, there there were like which one on this on this podcast on Space Jam on Space Jam, like I'm thinking about like something that I just did, and it was basically like here's the script. But even you know, when you're working on a film, it's like

versus TV. As you know, in animation like they needed yesterday and TV. But with film it's like we got two years, so we'd be going back into the booth like for months working and hammering out scenes that they're like, this is funnier. There's always time to punch up, and then they will give you the opportunity to you know, here's do three on the three on the page, and

do one that you like right right or yeah. And then Malcolm d Lee the director, Malcolm directed this, Malcolm d Lee, son of a bit, you know, Malcolm, Yeah, I'm a text his ask text of column right now, welcome d Lee, the director of Space Jamnue legacy was I did not know that he was always in the room, and uh, if not in the room during the pandemic, I'd be recording in my my Christopher walk in closet.

As as long as I was making Malcolm. Laugh. I knew I was doing my job right because I'm we're talking with a guy that's worked with Hattish Heart, all the all the greats, Mr Ben Schwartz. And I was supposed to do a movie with Malcolm but then I don't know what happened with that. But okay, they never never came together. But then he keeps texting me like we've got to work together. I'm like, you're the one doing all the work. Put me in. You should have

been in space, jam man. Yeah, he's he's um, Spike Lee's cousin. No way, you didn't know that. Yes, Spike Lee's cousin. I did not know it. And his mother is Jamaican. Okay, that's why we all. That's what I mean. You know, he's that's the power of of grown up in Toronto, of the Island folk and la Jamaican. Well, you know he's if he says he's going to put

you in something, he's he's good to his word. I'm sure he's been many years now, it's been right, well now in a half years of Malcolm, you funk, what's wrong with you? It was Barbershop three or four whatever, was one of the barbershops. Okay, so I didn't know that he was. He continuing that that legacy if he did the last barbershop that they did, and um, and I was supposed to be in it. But then they gave it to a different Indian kid, which is fine,

I mean, there he is, there he is. They gave it to a younger, better looking Indian one that looked more Indian. I'm like, that's fair. Whatever. I end up doing Jungle Book instead. So that's why I only do voice over, because they'll never give it to another Filipino guy. They might, you know, joke coin might take your joke coin man. Another another, another generous comedian. He I haven't met him, I've I've been a fan of his work. And he sent me a bunch of gear and yeah,

congratulations and never sent me ship. And how long have you guys have known each other? Fifteen years? Holy smokes. He opened for me. I took him on tour to Australia him and I'm ed, I'm ed a matter of fact. And I just found the flyer for. I found a stack of the flyers for when I was in the Vegas house. But I noticed a lot of artwork in your house, a lot of music memorabilia and and the ones in twos spending lots. I've been djas and five. Dude,

that's amazing man. Starting from Scratch. Yes, Scratch and I have known each other since eighty nine. We did Alive to Air together back in ninety. He's a huge retro Kid supporter. Yes, he is, as as am. I I know wearing You've always wearing your mr dress up right now And dude, I like, so, how do we are you one of the owners of retro Ki. Yeah. I designed these shirts. Really, I designed it. So before I

went into animation, I was an animator. I was like working, uh in in a few studios like in and around Hollywood, just drawing, and then someone said, you know, they'll they'll give you money to read into a microphone. So it was like kind of moonlighting between drawing during like my shifts, and then I would go to like Nickelodeon an audition for stuff, and then drive back to the animation house and and draw. I don't know how long you've been in l A. About twenty years. Oh really? Yeah you

came out here way early then. Yeah. Yeah. Again, like was like the college internship. I was at Centennial Centennial College. I performed there. Yeah really yeah? Which one that Centennial Centennial College? Which one in uh Oshawa? No? Mine was my campus was the one buy paper Mortimer by by the dan for I think I did that one. I did all of them. Yeah. There was like an auditorium. It would have like the Nooner Show. It was the Nooner Show noon it was uh the loony noony show.

It was like cost your dollar to get in really sure for sure? Yeah, And I would be doing those shows back in the yeah, back in the day. I actually have a flyer from one of them I posted up in my house in Vegas. It's a looney Looney Tuesday was Looney Tuesdays or something like that. Tuesdays for Loony Tuesdays. For KFC. That was the big deal. And it was like, I don't know, one of those colleges

like New Him or something. You know, you were you broke them, old man, You're You're like nothing anyone Like my family, we would anytime you had a special on TV. We would always like tape it on VHS because that's that's all you could do back then, and we would just watch the ship out of your your specials man. Well, the first two were kind of bad. Now, the first one was really good. I was very green then I was I don't doing stand up six years? Really six years?

Six years? It was six years. And I mean you're the kind of comic and I mean, you know, uh, I mean people know stand up comedy, but I mean, like that, just go out when when there's no special known Netflix, just go out to a bar maybe that has five or ten people, and just still tells jokes like an audience. You got to do it. That's really the hustle is thirty two years. So you know who tried to get me to do stand up was Harlan Williams. Really,

I was like, how you're a Canadian fella. Hey there, buddy, you do voices? Hey Beckers, why don't you do it? Hey? Shot? Who wants a hot corn beef sandwich? You know? It was hot corn beef. We always text each other around. It was really random Canadian things. It'll do you ever send him stuff? Every now and then we will should you know, who wants something? Bonnie McFarland wants a bunch of stuff? Well yeah, you know, yeah. We were on Ian Bags Uh podcast at one point yeah, she saw

me with one of my which one. Yeah. She was like, oh my god, where'd you get that? I go, it's a Canadian. Come, I'll get you. I'll get them to send you some stuff. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll have to hit her up then I'll tell her I was on your show and we always hook up the Canadians with our our Canadian guard. We're working on a y t V campaign. Might have some Breaker High hoodies and I hate to take a page out of Drake's book. He showed up to a Raptors game and a Breaker

High hoodie. Really yeah, where you got it from? I don't know. I'm sure he had his maide. I mean he has a clothing company. I'm sure you've all heard of it. This is um, this is this is one of our You and Harlan. Harlan basically the literally Holy Grape Crush. He texted. Then he saw this painting of a Max Milk Oh yeah, and he was like, I was going to buy you this at an art show and Whistler, but then decided you deserve Becker's I mean better.

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there on stage and make people laugh again, Jenner. I'm like, who's so he put me up on the stage. Uh, the Long Beach laugh Factory that I was terrified it was him and Adam Ray how long ago? And this is the years and years and years and years and years ago. And you know, I was trying for for a little bit, but I was like, I can't. I don't wake up thinking of the rest of the joke, you know. I I wake up thinking can can I do that voice? And and that's what is the voice?

And that's all it needs. A look at you guys and Harley, look at that. Harlan out chinned me in that photo. That is an ugly photo of both of us. That is like a fucking caricature photo. What the fun my face looks seventy You guys are so close together in proximity, but there it is is that Norman Jewison, Oh my god, it is he came to our college ones to talk about some and that was the one where me and Alan Thick and nia Ardalos were there.

That's the Canadian mount Rushmore right there. Who's that woman? I don't know? That might be his wife. Interesting fact about yeah, Lynn st David Jewish? What is the interesting fact about Norman? He's not Jewish? What he's not? What's with that last name? Even like Norman? Never mind Jewison? I mean, I go, you Jewish? He goes, no, go what with a name like jewis soon your jewie son? I'm like, no, not Jewish. I'm like, what the fuck your name is? Norman? He's been living a lie this

whole time? Well, he's been getting away with eat. He wanted to remake that movie The Russians Are Coming, Remember, and he wanted me to do it. And he wanted me to learn Russian or either wanted me to learn Russian or Arabic one or the other. He wanted me to learn Arabic for the role. Like, how am I going to learn an entire language for the role? I mean, I mean I could figure it out. I was gonna say, I wouldn't. I wouldn't sell yourself short. You're You're horrible.

That sucking what I always had good jackets? Man, Where do you get your who's your stylists? I got you? You need something? You get you? Look you got you got me the gear, the Russell, the only gear I could give you. I mean, you've get sent me so much stuff and there's more coming. Man, I want the knob Hill Farms stuff. Is that out yet? It is? I haven't got that yet. I loved kno Hill Farms.

We've been working with the guy who runs Retro Ontario and that guy has been like in the Canadian pop culture nostalgia game for a while because he used to work at City TV. So I used to work at CITYTV. So really, yeah, I used to um work on lunch television. Okay, So you're always like in entertainment, in production, behind the scenes, and I just wanted to, Like had been doing stand up five years, I was never on TV and I ended up becoming like all of those people that don't

get paid voluntotter. It was an intern and yeah, I would have to take down the breakfast television set, then put up the lunch television set, and then to make money, I would work on electric circus as a cable puller. Oh my god, ec ten bucks an hour was like, yeah, I'm making bank. I don't know a cable Like at a dance club every Friday night, I would be the guy across the street. Know, when they did the shot from the street into the building, I would be on

the camera guy outside holding the cables. That was me, And I think I have I'm probably do have it somewhere, but I have videotape. When we do a lot of wide shot, you would see the camera and I'm like, that's me. You look at my TV holding holding the camera. Just hold the cable camera in dude. Cable puller is still an essential part of production, I think now then then they have it like down to science, like the cables on the guy's hip now and it's on an

elastic or something. It's it's it's all high tech. Yeah, it's all bluetooth now, but not in Canada. Caada, they still got it. They still got it back the Caveman era of production. Let's talk about shirts. We should do like other al right, Okay, So beach commerce beach combers has been definitely tossed around the CBC. So Canadian broadcast Corporation. I wanted to do some David Suzuki stuff I wanted. I wanted the I love David David Suzuki, such a

cool guy legend. I wanted to do like the glasses, the mustache and like the big hair yea, but not as you know, just like the simplistic art. Uh we were gonna do. Um gosh, there's there's just so much stuff. Max Milk. Oh, I was going to ask about Maximulk today. I wanted the cat, but there's an old school cat remember that one too, maxim Milk at m AC. So

these are like convenience stores in and around Canada. If if there's listeners that don't understand what we're talking about, but I'm sure there's gonna Jugo Milk, there's jug City. It was jug City. Jug City and that was like our least popular shirt to say, yeah, well women might have with big boobs might about it. That was that was like hey fellows, hey Jugsy. It was the Canadian Hooters of convenience stories. If that makes any sense. Food city,

Can you do a food city? Food city and towers that would be Towers Miracle Bouku Uh yeah, wait, Miracle mart Miracle mart. But before that was Miracle Bocu. What miracle boucou? I don't know that. That was like seventies, consumers distributing, consumers distributing. That would be the most boring shirt. But I but it wouldn't because the logo is actually really dope. It's it's it looks really good. It looks very it looks very discoy. What about what about Hakeem

Optical it's still around. I think people would wear shirt glasses on item optical Cedar by eight that was the famous players do a famous players one? Famous players would be sick. That would be dope. Famous players yea, even just yeah, the name famous players too would be good. But Ontario place we're trying to get, but they wouldn't let us do. Like the look, there's a jug City right now. We may have leftovers if in case anyone wants a Jug City shirt. I want a Jug City shirt.

It was pretty dope. We look at that. Uh there, I am there when when I used to own a Jug City? Why does it look like it's a mug shot for that city? Actually? Oh my god, at my story, what is happening in this photo? I wonder more than milk. That's oh, one customer who counted, we only do things in the hundreds in Ontario. Count how many customers came in if you got that answer. But I love those

uh those genes, those acid washed jeans. This was just last year, I believe the fashion because it can't be that long ago. In all fairness, I don't know, but I'm thinking we have a lot more to cover as far as like Canadian nostalgia. And that's that's what we wanted, was that how are we going to stand out in a sea of people selling shirts all the time? And and we thought Canadian pop culture. You brought back the City TV stuff, right, we did very limited because I

never got any of that either. I'm so sorry, Russell. What's your partner's name out there? Steve? Steve, Yeah, he hooks me up. He was the one that was like very animal. He's like, we gotta start so you card now scratch, you know, scratch, you know. I got Eric McCormick on the West Coast. I saw, yeah, I saw him wear what was he wearing? Had he had a case? Yes?

So yeah, I would design these things and you know a lot of the stuff we're wearing or you could see especially Mr Dress of nothing was ever preserved digitally, so I would have to freeze frame YouTube and then and then clean it in illustrator or have one of our production artists kind of like I would lay it out and then they would recreate it digitally, so then CBC would walk away with like all these digital assets now that they could reproduce into you know, whatever they want.

CBC hoodie is actually one of my favorites. It is our our best seller. The color is so perfect. Yeah, and then the logo was nice and raised. It's like I want to. I want to get into doing hats for Canadian you know, hats are tricky for me. You're wearing I can't wear, but you got one on now and that's I know. But it's got to be like when I wear like a ball cap. It's got to be one of those um flex fit ones. Okay, like a full back, have fullback and flex fits because I

need the curve because you're hip hop bad. You gotta be able to, I know, but I can't rock the flat brim. It sucks because I would love to. This was an experiment, trust me, it works well on you. I'm worried to look like a b boy though. Yeah, we got to do some of these. How what was that other show, mass your minds? Yeah, dude, masterminds. Uh, bumper Stumpers, Bumper Stumpers. The classic one was Definition, right, that was just remember that song Definition Powers. Another Scarborough kid,

that Quincy Jones who did that? Yes, that's crazy right. That is the weirdest like hidden fact that, of course only someone like Mike Myers would bring to the surface, was that Quincy Jones composed that song soul bossa Nova, which was the name the beginning of Austin Power that song for whatever reason, and that was a Canadian game show theme show Mastermind Definition. Uh, you said just like Mom at the beginning of this Just like Mom was a good one. My brother was on Uncle Bobby. What

do you remember Uncle Bobby. He used to drive. So I went to elementary school in Scarborough at at the very beginning Saint Maria GARRETTI Kennedy by Kennedy Station, And I believe Uncle Bobby used to be a bus driver. He used to drive like a school bus. Really yeah, the Uncle Bobby show, Yeah, I remember. My brother was one of the they called the fun time kids or something like that. So he was like in the audience, he was one of the kids, like on the floor

kids sitting on the floor in front of him. Then Bimbo would dropbo, Bimbo, Bimbo, where did your mommy go? Wait a minute, what the fuck? There's some hidden ship on that. There's retrotary the clown. Wow. So who do you think? Where was that broadcast that was shot in like kitchen or something. Oh my god, there is Yeah, there's Uncle Bobby and there's the yeah, the oh man. Yeah, there's some some weird My brother was on that and

like the late sixties or early seventies or something. So you you are as you you could just be the retro kid spokesperson, though I would do it. Kid, Well, we should do a Russell collection. I'm down with that because I mean, there there's no greater ambassador to the nation of Canada than than you. Drake, really, Drake in all fairness, who's that? Yeah, Drake? Fairness Drake? And then

the weekend in bieber and and Murray. You know, I gotta and would kill me if I'm gonna tell the story anyway, Sorry, Ann, but I'm no. I won't post it and don't. It's just for us. I'll talk about it, but I won't show the picture I have. When I hosted the Juno's in two thousand and seven or eight, the first time, it was in Calgary and one of the in between one of the things, I had to dress up like a cowboy, so they put on a full cowboy outfit on me. The wrangler jeans, cowboy has

that you it's because we're in Calgary. I walked out to introduce the next thing and I addressed a cowboy and then they put socks in my crotch to make it look really big, and uh, I got a picture of me and Anne Murray and she's holding my crotch what because of the socks. She's not actually touching my pen and she's just touching the socks. But she knew that it was. It was all, yeah, I have that picture. And she was like, don't ever fucking post this, And

I was like, I won't post it. I've never posted him. A man of my word and I love you too much. We won't post it, but we will definitely print it on one I'm gonna show him off camera though, just for the record. Well that is like a blessing from the Pope getting crotch touched by Anne Murray. Yeah she's actually really cool, Yeah, really cool. She's a rock star, man, she is, and she has all those songs that you forget. She had Snowbird, right, Oh yeah, was that the that

was the one. There was a bunch of them, But I can't believe that that happened to you. Now, I'm going to go hunting for that footage and I wonder if that was the time right there, because I think that's where she's wearing the red jacket. I think that might be it around that time. Really yeah, man, oh man, Well dude, I I'm gonna have to get Steve on the line and uh yeah, we text each other on when we DM each other, and uh, I was good,

excited when I get my little retro. I never The thing with me is whenever I get things sent to me, I never post him on my Instagram. And I don't know why. I think it's one of those things where I'm like, I don't want people to know where I got this from, right, you want to keep it a hit. I want to keep it a secret. And I also don't want to people go, hey, man, can they hook

me up to right? Right? Well? Nowadays? That's I mean, we were just huge fans of yours and we wanted you to have some stuff that we knew you would enjoy, and and and not and not everyone's going to get the stuff that I mean. Have you sent LaVar Burton the Reading Rainbow stuff? No? And I don't know. I don't know if it's a sensitive subject with him. And he's pretty cool about it, is he he's actually a

really really good, really good guy. I would I would guess that's going to get his address and get it for you to send him some stuff if he if he's cool. Again, I I we never really tried. And again we're so small potatoes grassroots stuff. We we literally just no publicists, just reach out to the people ourselves, you know. But I'm a big fan of it, though I wasn't sure if it was a sensitive subject with

him or not. Think it is because when we like we're making those shirts, there were and and all of the garb even this this is like neither this is this is stop. I'm so sorry, man, I should have come with with gifts, But did you came with two stuffed animals from my daughter A Daffy and a and a bug that was specifically for them, and I know the viewer the like once they're gonna do voices. You have this guy and you know Daffy of Jeff Richard

d with a list that voice, it makes sense. You know, we're not gonna line up to be a hot meal for thumb shark. Okay, we're dealing with a perfect eating machine. Mr Vaughan, was there one they asked you to do that you couldn't do again? It's we were talking about this earlier about say hey, Eric can do this and you go, I think so you're trying your go fund sounds left thing like it. Everybody makes fun of me

because my default for any impression is love. It's literally, ever go do this, and I'll go do and they go, that's love. It's like, okay, let me try it again. That's still love. That still love. It's because love it's is so like you know, he's one of those voices you just fall into and Kim Jong in, that's love it. That's love it again? All right, people of North Korea? Yeah, can you imagine if that's how he talked like? That would be amazing. I haven't shipped in ten years. You're

all under my control tonight. Yeah, I mean it's um And I saw him at the Love It's Comedy Club back at the Universal. I did that place back in the day. That was that was the place man Hula themed. Yeah, it was a very weird thing them. Uh but yeah, voices, it's like sometimes I'll sit there and try to to nail something, get things down. But it's like with Daffy, it was always bugs, right, everyone wants to do Bugs at home, Like yeah at home accounts. Yeah, when when

you're sitting there, going can I do this voice? Like what is it about bugs? Bunny that everyone loves? And it's the hardest kind of voice from York, New York, the Nasal, the Brooklyn Bronx thing, And but I never thought Daffy Daffy was was something I could do until you're asked to audition for it and then you sit down and you try to peel back the voice because Daffy, when mel Blank was doing the voice, he was actually

doing Phil Vester. Nobody knows if, but he was doing Phil Vester and they would pitch it up like how they I guess used to do it or still kind of do it with Trey Parker on South Park when where he's doing Cartman, he's not doing that pitched thing. He's kind of doing this this kind of deep kid voice thing and they pitch it up and for whatever reason, it turns in the Cartman. So that's how Daffy has done He's actually doing Sylvester's voice, but then they they

raise it. But when I'm doing it, it's like a self pitched voice. Like how when you do love it's it's a son of a pitch, son of a pitch. I think I was never I used to try doing voices. But well, here's the thing. There's impressions and there's voices. You do tons of voices in your act. Yes, like the ship thing isn't none of them are famous, Like none of the people Like it's not like here's my impression, it's like here's my next door neighbor. Yeah, and here's

the thing. I think that's what what what kind of irked me about stand up was I think Harlan was was you don't do the do the the voice, the impression. And when I got up there, I just wanted to do jokes or material because I didn't want to feel like I was, you know, on a crutch. But that's how you got to do it, I get. I mean you need the safety net for sure. For sure, and and people that have turned it into mega careers, like someone like Jay Farrell, you know who's who's insanely talented

and j Jamie Fox does really good impression. Oh my uh, I mean got an oscar for it. Yeah, I got two of them now. But yeah, I mean, you know, I uh, stand up will always be a spectator sport for me, and and it's always just going to be, you know, strictly voice over, and I'm happy with that. What about your own cartoons that you want to do? That is something? Cartoons? Is that bad? No? No, no, no, that is definitely animation. It's a cartoon. I mean animation

in the industry, but cartoons or cartoons. I definitely have like a handful of ideas that I that I want to pitch. You know, uh, two adults swim in the in that area canvoice someone, can't? You could be any all of it whatever you want, Russell, I'm voicing something right now for HBO Max Velma. Yes, yes, I play her dad on it. Really my voice is my voice on it. Okay, it's not like, um, it's not like I switched it up. I'm like, hey, I'm like, hey, listen,

you know, I'm just literally me. I'm just literally doing my voice. But you have and it's so easy to write, right right. I go in when they're like we need you for an hour and knock it out in fifteen minutes. Some people have difficulty with that. Some people have like me. I, I sometimes have difficulty with my own voice. So I'm like, that's why I do voices, you know, like the sky. Sometimes you don't like the way you sound, right Like I don't like the way I sound when I hear

it back. I'm like, when they approached you with the world, did you want to do like more charactery stuff or did you want to do something just They just wanted something straight. Yeah, they wanted it straight. And I was like, really, I thought they would want an Indian accent or something, and they were like no, because Mindy Kaling is Velma. They and they switched the nationality of Elma right like yeah, And I love the argument there. She's like, yeah, what

are you talking about? There are nerty Indians out there, Are there no ship. Yeah, that's that's a given. But I love that character change and I feel like, you know, we're living in this aging world now where it's like, yeah, like why not why not have the variety and why not have it speak to you know, such a huge part of your audience. There are probably people long before they made the switch that were of the Indian background

and culture that loves Scooby Doo. Oh yeah. I used to do Scooby Doo in my act back in the day. They were impression. This was early. Excuse me, this was early in my career. I used to do a joke about going to India and watching morning cartoons and I said they would have they had Scooby dude, And it was like the weeks that's really good, dude. I bet you could do like a ship tun of cartoon impressions and you didn't even know. I used to do a gazoo,

Hello dumb dumb. Yes, oh god, Fred, hey did gazoo? How's it going? Hello dumb dumb? And then I used to do like when there was a big dopey guy in the audience. Usually when there's like, say there was it happened in Oklahoma. I remember ready there was a big Indian guy in the frontal, big dopey looking guy, and I go, you remind me of that, um, that Robin Hood Bugs Bunny cartoon. And I kept looking at him going, don't you worry, never robbing hull swoopy here.

That was the best they drew with those big lips. Yeah, I did not know this was my friend, Robin Hood. Yeah, yeah, you've been seeing that dropped the entire picture. He's never arrived. Yeah, dude, that was like me and my brother's favorite cartoon, the Robin Hood one and uh the two Hillbillies Hillbilly here,

which on the Hillbillies. It was the it was promenade across the floor, right out that door, out the door, run into the glad, and everybody promenade like that, and then they would do the little do They would beat the ship out of each other because they would be following what bugs Bunny was saying. Like, they would take sticks and that was the whole, the whole stick. But

those are like two of them memorable like brother. No, my brother was mainly he was the you know, well like we we grew up laughing and and and cutting jokes. He is he's six years older than me, and my brothers six years older than me. And he's my manager. My other manager, Paul, he's here, he's also my manager. Yes, yes, yes, you always have to have someone in the family keeping an eye out for sure. Um, I'm sure he would,

he would be my manager. But he's too busy working for Bell, so you know which part of Bell he's on the floor. He's he's making sure everyone can hear each other, Bell Mobility, all the whole like Internet and all that stuff. He's he's more of a technical savvy guy. Yeah, my brother is a brains guy. He's he's in the business of of of Hollywood though he's he's Yeah, but my brother knows how to like negotiate, definitely knows how to negotiate, and he definitely knows how to think a

little bit more strategically than I do. Well, that's good. You're you're busy being creative and there's no time for you to spend any of your brain cells thinking of like the teams being crossed, because then you think about these guys that are doing all these other things. You're like, somebody has to be guiding them, And I'm like, how

do you get one of these guides. Yeah, well, I mean because you should do this, this and this and put your money in that great and then they see them getting richer and rich, and I'm like, what a fund is Nobody helping me? Yea, my my managers, My my best friend's mom, Judy, it was, she's my manager. I like to call her because like, you know, no one, no one would you know, step up and and she was like, yeah, well this kid, this kid clearly has

something in in animation. So yeah, because you know what's funny is I was playing people the the animated gift you sent me with the voice of Bugs on it. Amber goes, holy shit. I go, well, he's the voice. He's not doing an impression of it. He's the voice. It sounds great. It's still you know, I'll always just beat the seventh guy to voice Bugs Bunny. It'll always be mel but you know, don't Yeah, Wow was number one numero. You know, he was the he was the

bank to oh my god, argue arguably. I mean they say he's the man of a thousand voices. I think I think you never met him though I never met him. He died before you can meet him. Eighty nine. I was born seventy nine. I could have met him, but I was not out here in Hollywood. That's wild. That was the guy. What's he doing and probably twiggling his ear to make it a voice car speeding innzalez eddie. Yeah,

it was the guy. But now Gabriel Iglesias doing speedy, Oh yeah, that makes sense that that's the weird thing to me. Now, not weird in that way, but they're like, oh no, this person has to do the voice because they are that people. I'm like, you're missing the point here. This is animation, this is not real life. Well here's the thing, and this is the argument now. And what I always go back to is just you know, voice over was always the thing that it didn't matter what

you look like. It was just if you could do the voice, if you could pull off the acting. And of course you know, if it's if it's cultural appropriation, then it's a no, no, it's bad if that's what they say, if you're if you're yeah true true true. Now now today, um, but I feel like you know now that they're kind of shining a light on it. Uh, it's good for for equality and people that probably didn't

have a chance as at voicing a character, which I get. Yeah, but somebody, you're still on the air of comedy side. If it's I'm on the I'm on the what works. Yeah, and I would like to get back to a place where that is still if it's funny, it's funny. And if if you're we're gonna get to a place where, like, um, Eric, you can't do bugs anymore because you're not a rabbit. You're not a bunny. Yeah, you're not a rabbit. But I eat all a lot of carriage, Doc, that's the

that's the secret. But yeah, no, it's it's like it's My favorite line was I must I should have made a left in Albuquerque. Yeah, I took a wrong tointed albu Quoque. That was my favorite left at albu Quique because that's a kid. I was like, what's albu Quokee? It sounds funny. He goes, uh say this don't look like the Coachella Valley to me, boy bank Couca manga. That's the other one you do, uh fog horn? Yeah, I say far I did it at the beginning. Russell

pay attention. Sorry, sorry, kids, that's okay. I don't want your neighbors to get scared. Sounds like a Trump supporter. It is is definitely a Trump more definitely Southern fried like my my my maga hat. Yeah, I ain't wearing no mask. Yeah, I'm worried about Corona. I'm worried about bird flu. Yeah yeah. And again like looking at that roster there, it's it's pretty in saying to see how many he's done from he was from New York. I've

also done Dino's Voice Stones that's have you done it? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, they had the reboot they did They did like one called Yabadaba Dinos where it was more about the kids. But that's all I did. I was, you know, go to the booth for four hours and just bark and that was it. That was that was my job. That's the That's the part I like least is when they make you do the the random noises. Oh yeah, like I'll be I'll be done early, and they're like, do

we need any sounds? Yeah? Can you laugh? Can you cry? Can you cough? Can you bark? Can you sneeze? Can you have you done any video games? No? That's what the money isn't it. Here's the thing. No, No, residuals in video games, and it's probably the most taxing you could do, because I'm sure you guys playing, if you're sitting there playing a game, someone gets hurt or stabbed. They get thrown off a chair, they get thrown off a balcony, they get thrown off a building, and each

specific noise has to be done from scratch. So they go, you get punched in the face, you get stabbed in the side, you go. You have to do all those noises, and they want them like some people want them sucking ten times in a row, ten times in a row, and then the intensity so you walk out of there you're exhausted with the Yeah, it was like, it's like my version of going to the gym. It's like but but with no residuals and a sore throat at the

end of it. Yes, I've had that happen at the end of voicing s. You remember I did those weird ones, Pauly, those other ones. What was a giant robot? Is that what it's calling? No, And Bella Thorne was on one of them with me. I only did it because Bella Thorne was gonna be doing it, and then I realized I didn't realize. You don't meet these people when you're doing it. Oh no, they like shove you in a broom closet by yourself. M hm oh, ribb it, I

forgot about Ribbit. I played two things on that right, Yeah, but I also played it was my Wasn't the bat like a deep Ac Choper type of guy? Was this a video game? It was a animation project. Ribbit. H man, I'm telling you you must have done and seen so many things come and go in this town. But you sold you you've been here longer. Yeah, I mean you out last me by five years. Well, I know that you're Did you make that move at twenty years old? Though? Uh?

With family out here? You know, I couldn't have done it with family. There was no couch to crash on while I was doing an internship out here where it was a studio by the name of Spumco. They were responsible. Yeah, they were the responsible form. Yeah I might as well have been. They were the ones that produced the original Rent and Stimpy show. Oh I love Rent and Stimpy. Yeah, that was an old nineties Nickelodeon classic. But from there

I moved to another studio called six point harness. And then that's where I was like gaining traction with Like again, in animation, it's like working in the trenches. You never know who you're going to meet. Oh, this is river. That was the one. That's the one. I'm I'm not even on the fucking poster. Wow. Oh there I am in the bottom on the left. That's me. There you go,

a little brown bat. That's awesome. But yeah, it's it's like you you just kind of like work away and you you throw all the darts at the board and whichever one sticks you just hopefully branch off to the next thing. So when I did Um Jungle Book, I was Rocky the Rhino and fabric. I'm like, well, start shooting. Goes okay, you're gonna tell him watching kid, And I was like, hey, watch it kid. He goes, no, No, I don't do that more more calm. I was like,

watch it, cude, yeah, because yeah, that's it. I go, okay, fine. And then I did the peacock in the in the film, in the film, the new one, the one came up five years ago. I gotta watch it back now. It's only at the beginning. I'm I'm, I'm the peacock fighting the porcupine over us over a branch from the truce, the water truce, and Gary Shandling was the porcupine. So when we shot it, we were actually standing together, you guys, like on set doing were at Sony doing it in

the giant theater room. There they had it on the screen and we each had a chopstick in our mouth and we were pretending we're fighting over the stick with Gary Shandling. God, damn, dude, that's insane. Who's your ill? I guess Mel definitely Mel for sure, living legend. I would have to say Billy West. He was you know, you might know him as the red Eminem, but he was like almost every voice on Future Rama. He was Fry Farnsworth Zoidberger. I'd say that he was like the

modern Mel Blank. Is the modern Mel Blank. And you know, not just for the ability to imitate Mel Blanks characters, but the very reason that he create eights classic voices, like the voices that you know you or cracks down impressions that you never think would be possible. For Stimpy, he was the voice of Snimpy. He was doing a Larry. He was the other one. He was the cat with the fat nose. He was also a rent to. He did voice rend I'm a cat with a fat nose.

We gotta get you back in in in children's animation. But the voice he did for Stimpy was an impression of Larry Fine from The Three Stooges. It was like, hey, hey, Mole, I pete in my shoe. Yeah, we gotta get those guys. It was like that kind of voice. Yes, yes, and uh. He was on The Stern Show for a number of years. M he was you know, yeah, I guess you know. Do you know Craig gas I don't you know who he is? He's a stand up, he does impressions and yeah,

he was in the original space gym. Yah, because Ivan Rightman was on. He was he was produced? Was he not producing private parts for Stern? I think that's how they kind of met. And then he said, hey, why don't you audition for this basketball cartoon movie? And yeah, so yeah, so we're going back to that other conversation yet earlier it was Jeff Bergman was the first guy,

then Greg Burson, then Billy West, Joe Alaski. Um, I think Noel Blank had had a try at doing bugs and then his son no Noel blank, there's Billy, uh but yeah, and then me so hopefully I can continue that. But who's that one on the top right, top right is Doug Doug from I think he was He had a Nickelodeon show, then it moved to Disney and it was, you know, basically kind of like that voice that he does, you know for Fry. It was kind of similar to that.

And there's a guy named Reno. Do you know Reno to Romeo? Yeah, the from Toronto. Yeah. I want to thank everybody for tuning into this episode of Culturally Canceled with myself, Russell Peters, my special guest, Eric Bowser, the Man of a Thousand Voices, the new Man of a Thousand Voices. Thanks for tuning in. Guys. We'll see uh when I see you U