How you doing out there? It's me Tiger I and Duck Wing Duck. It's me Bunkers Deep Bobcat. All right, y'all, didn't bree your favorite firefly? It desire hold? Oh no go. My name is Jim Cummings and welcome to tuned in. Welcome to tuned in with Jim Cummings here on the four Finger Discount Network. I am Dando, joined right now by producer Chris How are you sir? Hello, Hello, good to hear everybody again. Yes, and we are joined by the man who is going to be
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Comings Podcast. You can find the link for that in the description of this But we're here today to answer some questions from those lovely fans out there, which you've been doing for decades now, Jim, And you never get tired of answering questions to you because these are the reason you keep doing what you do, because we all love our fans, don't we. Yes? Indeed, and that was a question, ah by itself exactly how how easily I answered that? Wow? So I guess the answer is yes. I mean,
forget about it. If you've got a question, I'll make something. I mean, I'll answer it. You should just record a bunch of stock pile answers and then I'll just like splash them. Yeah, there you go, and then let's see what's a good answer. Yes, of course, don't be ridiculous. Ha ha ha. That's a pretty good one. You can use that one over and over again. The one question we tend to get asked a lot here it tuned in is what's your favorite character? So
let's just get that out of the way first. Your favorite character. It's hard to pick a favorite, but you know what, do you It's dark Quen Duck, right, That's the one you always go to, isn't it dark Wing? Uh? He's up there, it's uh, you know, it's the answer is very simple. The problem is I've got more than one, that is it. I don't know if anybody's noticed that, but Poo and Tigger are in their own category. This is an answer I've actually get,
you know, a question I've had before. And then from there you go, you know, Bonkers is in there, but from there you kind of go to oh, Hondo absolutely, because you know, I have a you know, I like the classic characters that I do. You know, Pete, Pooh, Tigger, those areas. I mean, Pete's the oldest Disney character. I don't know how you can't imagine not loving Pete. Besides, he's such a good looking cuss anyway, so you gotta love Pete.
But from there, you know, I go to dark Wing, the tariffa flaps in the night and uh, you know everybody loves Hondo or Knaka. He's kind of a bad guy. But don't forget, you know something, I have an investment for you. Why don't you just add me old Wallet and I'll take care of everything from there. And and and Ray from Princess and the Frog, because you know the women they love a man with a big back. Poet whoa you know, there's Ray so I've got a few
of them. So there we go. If you want to know what your favorite character is, you've now heard it. Yeah, yes, that's right. And another one of my favorites is the next one. Yes, of course, Disney, are you're listening. We need more characters. But yeah, if you want to follow Jim on Twitter, it is at Jim Cummings acme so a c M E at the end of Jim Comings. Also on Instagram it's at Jim J. Cummings and on TikTok at Jim J. Cummings
as well. But we're here today. We've asked some questions on Twitter. So this first question here Jim comes from at Wonder Dog and he says, how did you figure out what Don Carnage should sound like? Well, you know, it's too fantastic that you asked me this question because I love me. Uh No, you know the thing about Don Carnage was he just has
this explosive ego and he can do no wrong. Just ask him, and you know they they I it was interesting because you know, when you think of a pirate, of course he was an air pirate, a sky pirate, but uh, you know they always go to a sort of you know, a British or you know, a pirate or what you know, that type of thing army where you're gonna go a hot at heat of vault and you know, and I thought, oh, man, come on, so
but guess what. There were a lot of Caribbean pirates. Some of them were even pirates of the caribbeing oh bullseye anyway, uh And and Don Carnage sounded like he was I don't think any country would claim him. Maybe a little Cuba, maybe a little Puerto Rico, maybe a little you know, Wyoming. It's hard to say, but you know, I just wanted to come up with the character that nobody wanted to claim for their own. And
so the next thing I know, I was talking like this. And you know something, if I watched not me, I would interview because you get to meet me. And that's where Don Karnage came from. I feel like he saw like an earlier version of like Hondo, just from the vibes of just being like, you know, the confident bad guy. Oh yeah, yeah, that's fair, that's fair. They're not soundedlike but night just okay. Good. Do you get annoyed when someone says, oh, you know
that character, you do, he sounds like that? Is that annoying for a voice acted to say that two roles sounds similar? I would think so. Yeah, I mean, I mean Sterling Holloway, his roles were very similar. But that was just his voice, wasn't it. Oh yeah, yeah, well he was he you know. I mean, you know, I've always said that the car was evil Pooh and the cheshire Cat was crazy Pooh. You know, so you know I trust in me, you know it was, but it was still Sterling. Did you ever watch Tailspin growing
up? Chris? No, No, I didn't. Did you watch television when you were a child, honestly? Not a lot? Not a lot? Yeah, I just I wasn't allowed to watch a lot of television. I was allowed to watch an hour of television a day, and usually my shows were like Pokemon, Like if I got back, it was Pokemon. I forget that you're younger, yeah, I know that much younger than me though, But I see I was never a Pokemon kid. Yeah, yeah, I would have liked to say, Jim voicing a Pokemon that would be
fun. Yeah. And then I played a lot of video games too, so like the one hour a day included video games, so like it was either usually either like TV or video games. So most of the time, like I had two younger siblings too, and like, you know, that's more of like a group activity. It's playing video games. So we played a lot of video games, and like, yeah, the weekends, like
Saturday mornings, like, yeah, we would get our cartoons in. But for me, it was like it was like cat Dog Doug that is our man, Billy West, Doug Funny yeah, yeah, oh yeah, SpongeBob. But yeah, usually it was just like in that one hour I got per day, it was kind of whatever was on. So I never really had like shows, you know, I just kind of watched like whatever was Yeah. Yeah, in the time I was allowed, it still felt like
King at that point in animation was still the Simpsons. And you've said, you've never had any interest youah, never had any interest in you Jim being you played the Horse Duncan Galactica. It's such an odd thing. I was just like, of all the things to play, Yeah, yeah, I know, I thought the same thing. It's like, you've got Jim, You've got the You've got the Jim. You realize it's the Jim Cummings,
right, the gym comings. Yeah, well I think he had a few of these on his show, so he did, you know, Dan and the Gay. Yeah, we're not worried about We're not worried about the Simpsons. No, no, best question at Hamato miss She says, what is the type of music and or song that has been a big influence to get you in the right headspace, whether it be pre work, post work, or just to get through day to day stress. What are your relaxing songs that you go to? Yeah, Mega Death. Oh no, wait,
no that's not me, that's someone else. No, yeah, yeah, that's Margaret. No. You know I was always a motown guy. I mean as a kid. I mean you know, I was the singer for the California Raisins, and so I mean, you know the music I listened to right now. I like Afro Cuban jazz, ju Joe Valdez and Fey Jane as well. Apparently. Oh yeah, absolutely, yeah. You can't beat a good Fijian ballad or thing for what you said, Yes, exactly, new music, Yeah, but no, I am you know I like
singer songwriters, you know, that's for sure. Is that something you wish you had done more of writing writing music because people are just blown away by how good your singing voice is, and you've selling songs in Disney films. But do you wish you wrote more music and recording more music? Threat the is or yes, yes and no. I mean that's that's that's a whole nother you know, realm. And I've got a few songs under my belt
that i could probably do something with. We're talking about it today conincidently, and you know, you never know, stay tuned. Were you ever offered I don't know whether it's something coming up, but we have ever offered the chance to write a song for a Disney film? No, no, no, no, they've you know, let's see Randy Newman, Jim Cummings, Randy Newman, Jim Cummings, ma'am, Maybe we'll go with Randy. They just say us, get you to write the jokes and don't give you the
credit for yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, there you go. Yeah exactly, all right. Next one here at Million GENRD, they say one character they've been a fan of is Pete, and barring a potential upcoming podcast episode where you discuss him, this person hasn't heard you Jim talk about his role much at all with Pete. Why is that is some professional level of courtesy towards a character? Why do you not tend to talk about Pete all that much? Well, I don't know what that's a stupid question.
What kind of stupid crap are you coming up with? There? No, No, I don't know. I you know, if he comes up, he comes up, and he's there. You know, I've been known to do him at plenty of conventions. You know, well, there you go, buddy with Winnie the Pervi. He's sort of like one of the constants, though, isn't he. You know, he's in the games and he's got his Mickey shows and well, you know, Pete is uh the oldest Disney care Perhaps he's tied with Mickey. I think I think Mickey Steamboat Steamboat
really was the first one, right, Yeah, yeah, yeah. My kids get so excited when they hear that. It means they have movies are about to start. It's it's like yes, intro for Disney films out of here that like, oh yes, yeah movies. Yeah, I love it. I love it. Yeah. I'm a Disney kid myself, so you know that. You know, when I started coming up with and landing different roles at you know, for Disney. You know, inside I was just jumping up and down because I as a child, I mean I knew I
always wanted to do this, but I never knew that. I never knew that, you know, I would end up Big Pete or Winnie the Pooh or Tigger. I mean, I just that's too much to think about. You know, you can't think that because besides, they were already being done. Yeah, yeah, exactly by my predecessor's got May they rest in peace? Yeah, when it comes to animation, I don't think there was anyone like Disney's the peak, right, I mean, if you if you have
voiced, that's that's it. That's that's the goal, right. Yeah, yeah, no, I agree. You know, DreamWorks is way up there. You know, Marvel Is there was their own Now they're Disney anyway, Yes, sure, And of course Hannah Barbera I was very blessed to do tons of work for them, and uh yeah no, but no, it's it's Disney. Warner Brothers. Absolutely, but you know, Disney's kind of number one and Warner Brothers. I hope nobody's listening at Warner Brothers, but
they're number two. But for me, though, it was always like you know, you had it was Disney and then it was like the Looney Tunes. They were like that oh you oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I think the Looney Tunes may have almost felt on on par I feel like the Luny Tunes, like they are timeless, like bugs Bunny. He's up there with Mickey Mouse surely, right, Oh absolutely, yeah. I mean, you know, they're the same thing, only different, that's all. You
know. They were more splat and run, there were more pratfalls, there were more you know, they're more like they were bunkers. They were. Yeah. Absolutely, that's a good way to put it. Yeah, that would be nice to have seen Bonkers in space jam all Lanney tunes. But of course I think those two parties were going to be coming to the same table. No, I don't think so, no, no, all right,
let's get to another question. So at bo La but Lah, they say, have you ever played a character that has really strained your voice? And if so, which one? Yes, Well, Taz is the standout there and you know I requested, I said, okay, you know when I when I landed the role of Taz. You know you can't do that all day long. You know, mel Blanc didn't even do it all day long. And so I requested, I said, Okay, let's do this. I can't well, you know, blah blah. Can we do it
on Friday afternoon? In other words, like, you know, the last thing, four o'clock in the afternoon Friday, four to six. And then that way I had the whole weekend to recover, if you know, if need me, if need me. And there was that, and then there was one terrible, awful movie that I did called The Mangler, and you played the bored or something, wasn't it. Yeah, I can't Yeah it
was. I don't know. I don't really want to acknowledge that. Iim what's at the top of your list on your IMDb pago, so you better get into it. Oh is it? Yeah? I'm sure it is. But the good news is I don't mean to be redundant. But I was billed as Tim Yeah comings, and I went yes anyway, tuned in with Tim Cummings. Yeah yeah, thank you, Toe Bouber wherever you are so at k c Ross Underscore Art. Why did Lord Boxman have such a problem
with friendship. Do you have any thoughts on the character and voicing him that you would like to share? Lord Boxman, Lord box me, you must be a friend of Oh god, you are you a friend of Kelkko? You know? I don't know he You know why? Because he was the bad guy. They're always angry, aren't they? Off is where they're constantly pissed. They're always pissed off. He's like, he's like the the tzzy devil. Yeah, the real devils, pissed off at everything. Yeah,
exactly right. Yeah, no, I mean that's it. That's the answer. I wish I had a better one, but somebody, you know, because you know, okay Kao was a great little guy, and uh, you know, they just had to have a bad guy. So I lucked out and I was the bad guy. I go from one extreme to another. You sort of gravitate. You like doing the bad guys? All right? More fun? Oh? I do them both. Yeah, they're both fun. Yeah, I love them. Wait, just off Lord Boxman.
I had to look up who Lord Boxman is because I didn't have no idea. Oh yeah, and for some reason, the number two question on Google, what you know how it has like people also ask, Yeah, the number two question is is Lord Boxman pant sexual? Wow? Apparently he is? Apparently he is? You click on it, it says on Twitter Ian Jones Cordy, I'm assuming that's the career writer. Ian John Yeah confirmed on Twitter that Lord Boxman is pant sexual. Well, it's part of Jim's contract.
He said, I will play the character if he is pant sexual. Jesus a man better than skillet sexual. I don't. I don't know what that pants sexual? Wow? Okay, does he have multiple personalities? Uh? Sure, but they're all a holes? He does? Now? Yeah, he does? Now apparently. Wow, that was just a really random question. I thought it was hilarious. Yeah, and it's obviously because that's number two that's been asked so many times that Google thinks that that's where the
Yeah, like, why is that on everybody's mind? And the next KND, Jim goes to, so, Jim, lord Boxman, let's talk. Can we talk? That hurts my feeling? Thank you at Casey Ross on the score Art for bringing up Lord Boxman or not? This next one at Kyle the Goof, he says, what are yours? What are some of your favorite just lines in general that you have delivered of your career, not characters, just some of your favorite lines. Oh my gosh, yeah,
like I can come up with those. Well, Let's get dangerous is the big one. Right, yeah, Let's get dangerous is a big one. And you know I've said it before. The first line was eye of the terriff that flaps in the night. The next line was wide open. I am duck, way duck, And I used to add lib a lot of those, but I feel like I've already given you a few of those. Did you ever flub your lines when you're trying to improvise dark Wing when you
were recording? Did you ever just to start again? Probably? Yeah, oh yeah, you know, you just do, you know, it's just thought. Yeah, yeah, I am the floaty that will not go no matter how many times you flush. Okay, that's not a good one, you know, but yeah, gosh, I can't nothing comes to mind. God, I wish I had a better answer, But about that'd be a good one, right, Yeah, Yeah, that's that's true. That's the
easiest part of the Taz voice, just the right. Oh yeah, yeah, Well for you bury me in the cold, cold ground when someone's doing a cameo if they request Taz, do you charge anxtion twenty bucks because I hurts your voice? Uh no, but that doesn't mean well, see Taz doesn't really talk talk, so he doesn't get a lot of action. No. Yeah, but if you want somebody to light your fire or whatever, you know, Taz is your guy. Did you voice him in space jam tz? Yeah? Was that you? Yes? I can, well,
the very first one. No you didn't at first one, okay, because he says lemony fresh in that first space jam yeah. Yeah, And the very first one he comes in and goes and I think they just got somebody who was sitting around. He didn't have any lines, it says Lemonee Fresh. That's it. That's all he says. That's oh oh wow, Yeah it was somebody else. Mate, Billy West he was he was bugs in that movie though, Yes he was. Yeah, he's great. That's a
hell of a character to get under you on your resume. All right, Next question here at Jacob Underscore Render Gene, he says, I've always wondered why is Gopher not in the franchise as much as he used to be because he was one of his favorite characters. Why is Gopher not around as much
as he used to be. Do you know, is there a reason for that or is it just you know, yeah, well that's fair, you know, I and I and if you want to check out the very originals from the nineteen sixties, the first three that were there, Gopher pops up and I can't remember the situation or what it was, but he pops up and there's Pooh and tiggering the gang and he said, well, you know, if you want to get rid of me, you have to talk to me. You have to do this that because you know, not in the
book. And that was a sly reference to the fact that A. Milne didn't write Gopher. He literally was not in the book Winnie the Pooh and Tiger two and Day for e or he was actually not in the books. He was. He was a character that they brought up for TV. I wonder if there's a legal reason for him not him phasing him out. Maybe there's a legal reason or something. He knows. I don't know. I think, uh, you know, for one thing, I you know,
too many cooks spoil the broth. I mean, kan I was gonna say, yeah, I felt like towards the late nineties that it felt like there was a lot of new characters being added to Winnie the Pooh. Yeah, yeah, you know, Lumpy and uh you know the few characters that have a lumps bum, you know, they they you know, they had a plethora of different characters. So, but everyone already owned a tiger and Winnie the Pooh toy and did a new characters to sell toy wise. Yeah,
that's right, that's right. Yeah, well they had plenty of those. How many Winny of the Pooh toys do you reckon you own? Is it just a one plutch or do you have a few. I might have a few. You get the one that's famous annoy your videos that you hold up but different different pools. Yeah yeah, well, well that one I stole from the movie Christopher Robin. Is that the one that was getting you a lot of grief on the plane could be? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
but I stole that from when we were doing publicity for Christopher Robin. I was over on the Disney lot and they gave me those to do publicity pictures with and holding them and doing this and that, you know, and and Winnie the Pooh, the movie Winnie the Pooh, which everybody thought was a re release, but it wasn't. It was a great show and you know, Tom Kenny was Rabbit and we just had a ball doing it. And anyway, I stole them, so but don't tell anyone. I wouldn't want
to be that intern talent Jim comies. You can't take the Winnie the Poo doll. Yeah, yeah, they were going, well, actually those are we have them up on the mantle and I said, did you Well no, I mean because because we're gonna put them back, and I go, you know what, I'll take care of it for you, thanks, and then I just kind of left. It's good to be the Pooh. It certainly is. Yes. At Itty Underscore Official, they say, if you could hang out with any one of your characters for a day, who would
you choose? Huh, well, let's see, does it have to be one? I think Tigger and dark Wing. It also depends what you want to be doing during the day, too, doesn't it. Yeah, dark Wing, Hondo would be up there, and Donk Carnage. I feel like Hondo would be the most fun, right just traveling? Yeah, I think so? Yeah, Yeah, Honda's way up there. Oh. Absolutely, here's a question of any universe that you've been a part of, which is the one need want to be if you could go into it, do you
think of the Star Wars universe. Yeah, that wouldn't be bad. Yeah, you know, there's a lot to be said for that method of travel, you know, and I like travel, so we could have I could have done this with you right next to you, had Handel been around, because exactly Starship in my past or presence. So yeah, I've always thought that's one of the most genius things in the history of film. It's just
that opening of in a galaxy far far away a long time ago. Oh okay, absolutely when you first look when you were watching a new Star Wars film, when that when that text comes up on the screen, it just ignites a feeling aside you like, no, either doesn't it, Yes, it does? It does? It works with me, you know. I remember I was maybe eighteen when the first one came out, and and we all, me and my friends and I were sitting there watching TV and we
all went, Okay, we're gonna go see this one. We're gonna go yeaho, We're going to see this one. Yeah. I mean it was like boom at Jordan drawings. Jordan wants to know, has there ever been a joke or a gag that you and other voice actors have made in the recording booth that was implemented into a show that you worked on. Well, that's similar to a lot the Ukunda Matata song. Oh yeah, yes, you improvising gags that found their way in. Oh yeah, yeah. Well,
I mean, you know, there's any number of them. I mean literally too many to mention, you know, because I would do one as written, and then I would do one as it should be, you know, And so yeah, I've a lot of my ad libs make it in. It's just, you know, just the nature of the beast. Do you think there was more improvising going on if you're with somebody in the studio or do you think when you buy yourself you provide more? Okay, yeah,
yes, yes, yes, you know I told you. I think I told you the Robin Williams story that we were doing the third Aladdin and made of it anyway, I was. I played Rasseul, you know, the big guy that you will live to take it up with him. I take my orders directly from ja'far Princess. You know that big muscle guy yea and street yeah, street rat, that's the one. And I had lived There was this one's court sequence uh, in which Robin in the in the
third one turned into an attorney. Uh and and and and all of a sudden, you know, Jeanie was in the courtroom and he was the prosecuting attorney, and my guy was sitting in the witness chair, and he said, well, what about this? And have you done this? And blah blah blah, and then uh and then I had lived an answer and uh. He asked me another thing, and then I had lived another answer and I can't remember them. But the problem is they wanted to keep my ad
lib. So that necessitated bringing Robin back in to re record his lines in response. So he did the first two lines and then the third when he goes, I'm sorry, that's fine, I will not be upstaged by a tertiary character. Goodbye, And he reached over and went like that and rolled me up into a Venetian blind and puff all right, now where were we? You know? And and my character was gone, and I thought, I'm so proud to have been professionally dissed by Robin Williams. So you were
in the studio with Robin recording that. No, no, we did it separately. You know, movies like that, you can't do them, doesn't work, you know. Yeah, I just know when you said you improvised, I didn't know whether you improvised at the time. Yeah, okay, so, oh no, that would have been fun. Yeah. I was gonna say, there's gonna be some stories that did you ever work with Robin on anything? Well outside of that? No, I mean, I mean just like you never have met Robin or anything like that. Oh no,
no, no, no, not a shame. It's just one of those talents where you know, some celebrities they passed and you go when when Robin passed, it felt like you lost a family member. It really did, I know? I amanda that. Yeah. He was a genius. He was a genius. Yeah, he's one of those people much like yourself. He's it's one of those people that the nineties kid, we just grew up with him. He was in so many of the filures that we were raising
Jamunji Misses out Fire. He was Yeah, great movie. This next one hears from at J Shouster and they say, whatever happened to Peg? And Pistol. Where'd they go? Oh, they're doing fine. They live in Burbank. There were I don't know, no little pistol. You know what pistol was is Nancy Curtright. Yes, you know who played Peg? April Winchell. April Winchell. That's it. Paul's one. She Well, you know what's interesting is she has been my wife in two shows and she was
named Peg and both of them. Okay, interwebs, can you name those shows? Uh huh, I'm just gonna let that sit there, Just gonna let it. It was gonna city for half now and see that can answer us. That's right, that's right. But but yeah, so we have to do a show on goof Trip Goose Trips, one of those shows that much like Bond because I just I loved it as a kid. And just quickly before we move on to the next one, what are your initial memories of goof Troop? There must have been a blast to do as well.
Oh gosh, it really really really was a bless because you know, Jenny McSwain was the director, and you know, it was like a license to steal because I used to just add lib all over the place, and it was so much fun. And I can remember one one scene in particular where Pete was Pete was gearing up to to petrify the children, you know, his kids and the neighborhood kids during Halloween and uh, and he's and he's walking off because Peg busted him and said, oh, stop that now,
you get in here right now and leave the children alone. And Peek walks off grumbling, and they said, can you give us something? While he's ticked off and he's walking back toward the house and he goes, well, that's ridiculous. I mean, honestly, what's good boy to having kids if you can't have a little fun with them besides a shock to the systems? Good for him moving now. And then it purchased their little glands that they may grow, you know. And I looked in the booth and Bob Taylor
was just peeing himself laughing. And he goes, purchase their glands, and I said, sure, that's got to be a healthy thing, right, and he goes, I don't know, but it's in and it made it to the show. So I feel like Pete would not be a fan of the twenty twenty three approach to parenting. You know, he's just very much your old school dad, isn't he. Oh, I'm thinking, yes, it's interesting, you say, it's because, like you look at and Goofy.
There's similarities between the relationship between Lucky and Bonkers, isn't there where Goofy is the wacky one and Pizza is like, what are you doing Goofy? You know? Yeah, well kind of a Laurel and Hardy groove too. Yeah, from where goof Goofy didn't go out of his way to be annoying. Neither did Bonkers, But Goofy wasn't on the level of Bonkers. But Goofy was more lovable, I think than what Bunkers Bonkers was. It was more like an accidental misapp you know. Yeah, we're going to be covering
goof Trip. We have to cover a Goofy movie as well, another movie that I absolutely loved as a kid, and just Pete in general. That's going to be we should get Bill on as well to talk about Goofy. Yeah, that'd be good. Let's do it, all right, let's get through some more questions. At Richard t six' three d. He says, do you remember the first line you ever said as Winnie the Pooh. Oh, boy, I remember you said you couldn't remember the audition what you
said in the audition? Could you have for Winnie the Pooh? Yeah, not really. I mean they had, they had sides, you know, and they were all you know, they were all lines from the movie of the original one. Okay, yeah, the original And because they wanted to just the whole idea was to keep the continuity going, to make it sound like the same character, act like the same character. Pooh and Tigger.
Well, he was so established already, wasn't he. Oh oh, yeah, sure, you know, they won an Academy Award, but it was like twenty years prior, so therefore they needed to you know, I mean, if it ain't broke, you don't have to fix it, and Pooh was not broken, so you know, I don't. I don't. I'm sorry to say, I don't really remember the actual but but you've heard them.
It's quite interesting. I want to ask, So what are your thoughts you just touching on them with Winnie the Pooh When you were playing When you first got the role of Winnie the Pooh, you wanted to continue Sterling's voice, right, sure, I'm a big Muppets kid. I grew up on the Muppets. Love the Muppets, right, and my kids now the Muppets
just from me. Yeah. Now, some of the new voices of the Muppets, and particular Big Bird, the new Big Bird, they sound very different, and Kermit the Fox sounds very different to the Kermit and Big Bird that I corrupt. Yeah, but my kids don't see the difference. They just watch it because you know it's Big Bird, doesn't They don't focus on the voice. But do you think it's important that if you're gonna be taking over such an iconic character, do you think it's important they should be trying
to find somebody that can truly capture the same voice. Oh? I think so. I think so, yeah, because it puts me off to the point where I always go Not that I don't enjoy it, but it's just so distracting as of someone who grew up on the Muppets. Yeah, when Kermit doesn't sound like Kermit anymore, I go, I can't focus on it properly anymore. Yeah, No, I agree. I think that's part of
the deal. I think that's in the job description. You know, you have to show up and and be what has been established, because if it ain't broke, don't fix it, right, Like I said, I mean the voice is the character almost, isn't it. Oh yeah, yeah, I mean that's it, you know of Kermit a rubber ducky, I love you. No, it's not going to work. Do you hesitate to try and impersonate other characters that you don't voice? Do you say that as somewhat
of disrespectful? If someone says to you, can you do a voice of another of a friend of yours? Do you do you not mind doing it? It's not a sign of disrespect or is it justuking it whatever? Yeah? Yeah, I don't get that very much. No, you know, it doesn't really come up. You know, nobody's asking me to do SpongeBob because he's being done. Because because one of the questions came through was can
you do Jimmy Cricket's voice? And I thought, I'm not going to ask that, but I thought to be disrespectful for you know, asking jim who does not voice Jimmy Cricket, can you do that voice? I didn't know whether as a voice actor, that would be seen as a sign of disrespect or not. Yeah, I'm trying to think, always make your conscience be your guy. Yeah. That was a fellow named Ukulele Aich I think was his name, and he actually kind of looked and they drew Jimminy Cricket to
look like him. But really, yeah, I don't think Jimminy is around much anymore. No, it's not, you know, God bless him, but I would take a swing at it if it came up. Yeah, you know, because he's no longer with us, God rest, so of course. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, this last one here, this has nothing to do with characters that you voiced before. One last one this is from at Frank b A eight zero one two zero seven zero four. Okay,
that's his username, but oh, good old him. I think I already know the answer to this one because we've touched on your video game expertise in the past. But his question is are you a super Mario Brothers fan? Who I think that whack whack a whacker. Uh No, I'm just not a big I mean, more power to him. I think. You know, if you enjoy it, knock yourself out, you know, just don't spend the whole day doing it. It's interesting because the video game to
film sort of trajectory now has now a big success. For a long time, they tried to turn video game into movies and they just bombed, just didn't do well. And then Sonic the Hedgehog, they they released that a few years ago, did really really well. The Super Mario Brothers movie this year did really really well. But there again, as you call it TV guidecasting, they're getting actors and putting them in there, right, Yeah,
it must get annoying when you think there's all these new opportunities arising. But it's like, I'm not going to people whose craft is voice acting. We're going to people who have a name. Is there a level of frustration there? Oh? Yeah, yeah, I've always said that. You know. It's like, you know, my old joke was, I won't star in the next mission. Impossible if Tom Cruise quits doing you know, voices for
cartoons. And I'm not I'm not breaking my door down. But because there was a lot of talk about the Mario character, and you'd be well aware it's Chris that Chris Pratt voiced Mario in the new film. Oh is that okay? Yeah? When we think of Super Mario, we think of the know it's me the Mario voice from the video games, right, yeah, so long it's been that Italian. I thought it was Italian. Hes a Italian sound, it's to me, yeah it's Italian. But that was saying
it's playing on the stereotypes. But you can still do the Mario voice, but not put on that sort of accent. Right, But it's just Chris Pratt essentially, just doing Chris Pratt as Mario and just go what that doesn't what? See that? That one surprisingly didn't bother me as much as Seth Rogan as Donkey Kong. For some reason, that stood out way more to me. And I thought Jack Black as Bowser was great. I thought that was hilarious. Jack Black was really good. But see he yeah, he
could always I feel like he could be a voice actor. Jack Black. He's just so good. He's very diverse. Yeah, he's very very talented. With you in his voice, he can sound like anything. It's crazy, very true. Yeah. Do you feel like voice actors are good singers as well? Is there an element to singing when it becomes to being a good voice actor? Do you think, Jim, because Jack Black's a great singer. Yeah, Well, I mean I'm sure that it helped me.
There's no doubt about it. You know, I've got sung for other people, you know, so yeah, I you know, because you're using a mic, it's you know, I didn't look for a camera. I'd look for a microphone. So and a microphone. You know, if there's a microphone around, you can sing into it. I feel like being a singer
like contributes to your abilities as a voice actor. Like you're able to control your voice at like such a young age, and you would really learn, like, you know, how to sing out of your you know, out of your out of your mouth or out of your chest or your diaphragm or whatever. I think, in my personal view, I feel like being a singer has more of effect on being a good voice actor than say vice versa.
You know, like, if you're a good voice actor, I don't I don't necessarily think that's going to translate you to you being a good singer. Yeah, you're one hundred percent right, because you know, anybody that's a good singer ends up, you know, because you're used to using the mic, and you're used to getting all the emotion that you need into into a microphone rather than one you know, on a camera. Excuse me, and uh, and you're one hundred percent right. That is a very observation.
I've always said that, it's so true. Just a little, quick, quick, little side story that just maybe think of this and just Jim's prowess for musicality. This is really off topic, but it's kind of on topic. Just Jim, you know, like he's obviously a great singer and very musical. And we're going Christmas caroling one year, just a few years ago. Yeah, Christmas caroling. Wo. Yeah, we went around the
neighborhood Christmas caroling as a family. Yes, And we're like rehearsing, like there's like a dozen of us maybe, and we're rehearsing like roote off the red Nose reindeer, and Jim goes, okay, now let's do this one in C minor or something like that. Yeah, you all of us look at each other. We know your audience. We don't even know what we're singing it right now? Yeah? Yeah, are we gonna change? Are we already in C minor? I don't know? Yeah, who knows?
That was just that was just Jim throwing he's wide around. Yeah, Well we weren't an Asia minor that that was the important thing. Oh god, I remember it. Well, what did you sing on Billy West doorstep? Then he lives down the road, doesn't he? Not much? I like, remember is Christopher's brother Cameron stood on the curb. He was like, no, I'm fine. Yeah, you know, I'll record you doing it. Go ahead, wish them a merry Christmas and wish them you know,
I'll be over here on the curb. Here's here's a five from me. Here's a five. Yeah, here's a fin. Yeah, you're gonna still do that this year? When's last timer? Christmas caroling? Is that just like a one time deal or is that an annual tradition? No, it was the fourth of July actually indepenite day. Yeah, we did Christmas caroly. I wanted to get it in early, get it, get a jump on it, get a jump. Well, if there's one way to you know, have a monopoly over the audience, is you know you have all
the doorsteps of acant and in July. Surely that's right, exactly. It's one of those things though, I feel like it doesn't matter. What if someone rapped off my door and started seeing Christmas carols? I'm not going to turn them away and be like, okay, cool, I'm up for this. But it's one thing we don't really have very often in Australia because here in Australia when it's Christmas, it's like thirty five degree that's about ninety degree
fairy light. So it's hot at Christmas time. So we go to the beach on Christmas morning, where over there you do not want to be going to the beach on Christmas morning? Yeah, what you said? Em. So the whole idea of getting out and caroling, it's just not really a not really a tradition here in Australia, don't do it all that often. All right, gentlemen, Well let's wrap this one up, shall we? All? Good to go? All right, it's been fun, Yes,
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