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now. How you doing out

2:02

there? It's me, doing out there?

2:04

am It's me, Duck. It's me, Bonkers,

2:06

Steve It's me, All

2:08

right, y'all, this right, y 'all,

2:10

favorite your favorite desire hundo old

2:12

knock-up. My My name is

2:14

Jim Cummings, and welcome

2:16

to to Tune Jin. Welcome

2:20

back back another episode of Tuned

2:22

In with Jim Cummings. tuned in with Jim

2:24

joined as always Chris. Join as always by Jim

2:26

Cummings, how are you doing today?

2:28

We are back in the saddle

2:30

again and I'm very excited today.

2:32

again and have a very special guest.

2:34

today. And today there she is now. She

2:37

is truly now. She is truly a

2:39

she's a young person one

2:41

of my oldest friends in

2:43

the business. None other than in

2:45

the business. None other than the kicking live and

2:47

pink. in the pink. Debbie, Terry, Barry!

2:49

Oh, thank you, Jimmy. Thank you

2:51

so much. That sounds just you

2:53

so much. That sounds just like the

2:56

voice you used when you announced

2:58

one of my uh, promo videos that you did. Thank you.

3:00

you did. nice you. It's so nice

3:02

to be here. It's me, Debbie, It's me,

3:04

Barry, I'm I'm really glad to be

3:06

here. here. What she said, yes, and we are

3:08

and we are glad to have you.

3:10

Thank you, my darling. This is very good.

3:12

good. I've, you know, for know, year over a year

3:14

now, I've been harassing a lot of our

3:16

mutual friends and forcing them to do

3:19

this, you know, by various means of extortion.

3:21

And I'm so I'm so glad to have you

3:23

here because I didn't even have to

3:25

extort you. you. Well, it's near the house, so I

3:27

didn't have to drive very far, is a

3:29

big plus, and I'm in town! in town.

3:31

Oh, that's true. And it's true,

3:33

you are one of my longest

3:35

friends. I have known you

3:38

you I started in this

3:40

business business years ago. years ago. Yeah. Yeah.

3:42

you said. said. Mm-hmm. a day

3:44

or a a minute. Well, always I'll always be

3:46

much older than you. So see, you got

3:48

that than you. Not much, you got No, I think

3:50

so. Sure, sure, sure. Well, we're not going

3:52

to say. We're just really glad you're here

3:54

though. Thank you. going to say. We're

3:56

the, I was thinking about it, I

3:58

wrote, as usual, Thank you. my copious

4:01

notes here. It's so smart to

4:03

have notes. I wish more people

4:05

had notes. Oh, I agree. You

4:07

know, these people that can just

4:10

fly off the handle and say

4:12

things and have word retrieval skills.

4:14

It's like me as a voice

4:16

artist. If it's not written down,

4:19

I can't be clever. Yeah. How

4:21

do you think of that stuff

4:23

to say? It's on the paper.

4:25

Yeah, yeah, that's right. Well, thank

4:28

God for that. We like it

4:30

when people put words in our

4:32

mouth. We do. And we've been

4:34

trading words for a good long

4:37

time. And music. And music. And

4:39

music. But oh boy, are you

4:41

guys in for a treat. We

4:43

were in a band called the

4:46

Tasmaniacs. That's right. Can you guess

4:48

the connection? Yes. Yes. Yes. Debbie

4:50

was my little brother. I played

4:52

Jake to the famous most wonderful

4:55

Tasmanian devil big brother. Taslike. You're

4:57

the best big brother in the

4:59

whole world. That's right. I've had

5:01

so many, you know, little brothers

5:04

and uncles and so many of

5:06

them were women. We don't have

5:08

puberty, you know, we can still

5:10

be them. Well, okay, I'm biting

5:13

my tongue, but that's good. I

5:15

am so glad you're here. And

5:17

I'm trying, I was trying to

5:19

think. What might have been the

5:22

first show that we worked on

5:24

together? Oh golly. Would it have

5:26

been a curious George perhaps? Uh,

5:28

no. Did you ever do Peter

5:31

Pan and the Pirates with Tim

5:33

Curry? Did you do any of

5:35

those? I looked up the credits.

5:37

I couldn't find Jim in that

5:40

one. Yeah, I don't think so.

5:42

What about, oh, I know, what

5:44

a mess. Did you do, what

5:46

a mess? I think we

5:49

did. No, I don't think so. Well, there

5:51

was Tasmania. Let me see, let me just

5:53

look at, let me just look at this.

5:55

No, I think I might have done a

5:57

what a mess. I'm not. Well, definitely. We

5:59

should show that. George anyway

6:01

see look how cool is that those

6:03

are all Debbie well not all of

6:06

them but a good many well the

6:08

the one in the sweater and the

6:10

blue is you yeah that's me she's

6:12

definitely definitely me oh oh was the

6:15

the Adams family yeah I wasn't getting

6:17

away with that I was oh that

6:19

was coming okay I don't know what

6:22

was the first You

6:24

know, there's so many that we

6:26

do. Yeah. And it just, you

6:28

know, people come to my table

6:30

when I met conventions and they'll

6:32

say, do you remember episode four

6:34

of Yacke Smacke that you did

6:36

in 1994? And I'm like. Do

6:38

you remember what you had for

6:40

lunch yesterday? Yeah, yeah. It's kind

6:42

of a blur. It's a fun,

6:44

fabulous, wonderful blur. But a blur.

6:46

A blur. But a blur. I

6:48

just, because... That's true. Who can

6:50

remember them all? I can't. I

6:52

mean, but that's good. Did you

6:54

do some Jimmy Neutrons? I'm sure

6:56

I did. Oh, yes, I did.

6:58

I was, uh, Overlord. Ooh. Overlord.

7:00

Okay, you see there? That guy.

7:02

He was extra cool. And sometimes

7:04

we do shows together and we

7:07

come in at different times so

7:09

we don't really know we did

7:11

the show together but we did.

7:13

That's true. That's true. But being

7:15

in the band with you, man.

7:17

Let's talk about the Adams family.

7:19

Okay, you've alleged. Butter detta. Okay,

7:21

we had to get that out

7:23

of our system or mine. We

7:25

had an amazing cast, like the

7:27

original John Aston Gomez was in

7:29

that, right, right? Yes, God bless

7:31

him. And Carol Channing, with her

7:33

noisy tops? Carol Channing, yes. And

7:35

her tea? You have to tell

7:37

him about that. Oh, the teeth

7:39

and the tops. Well, she always

7:41

had a thermost full of hot

7:43

tea. Oh, and teeth. And teeth,

7:45

too. And she had shirts that

7:47

were noisy. Like when I teach

7:49

voiceover, one of the chapters is

7:51

on what not to wear. Don't

7:53

wear a tambourine. and don't wear

7:55

like silk or a track suit

7:57

because it goes. She

8:00

had some noisy shirts, but she

8:02

could sit still though to her

8:04

credit. Yes, and she had like

8:06

five pounds of bracelets on each.

8:08

Yes, jingle, jangle, jingle, jingle. And

8:10

I brought this up before, but

8:12

I want to say it was

8:14

a Chip and Dale, but she

8:16

was doing... She and Monty, yeah

8:18

it was because I was Monterey

8:20

Jack at the time. And we

8:22

were doing a takeoff on the

8:24

African Queen with Humphrey Bogart and

8:26

Audrey Hepburn. And she was, I

8:28

guess, Audrey Hepburn and I was,

8:30

Humphrey Bogart. And she was doing

8:32

this and she was going all

8:34

over the place and the engineer

8:36

asked her, I'm sorry Miss Jenny,

8:38

you can't really move because we're

8:40

picking up a lot of that.

8:42

It was very, very starch. And

8:44

so she just stood up, took

8:46

off her top. Took off her

8:48

top. Yep. Yes, she was wearing

8:50

a brazier, thank you, Lord. Yeah.

8:52

And, but we all still were

8:55

still kind of going like this

8:57

the whole time. Oh, this is

8:59

marvelous. It's wonderful now I can

9:01

move. That's not a bad Carol

9:03

Channing, by the way. That's really

9:05

a good. Jim is quite the

9:07

impersonator, you guys. He can do

9:09

him, you, you know? Can you

9:11

personate me? Oh, I thought, oh,

9:13

I was saying, wait, I'm married.

9:15

You're married? And so are you.

9:17

I am married. Yeah, I know.

9:19

Where is he? Ian is at

9:21

home. Oh, fine. He's at home

9:23

on. Playing his base, very well,

9:25

by the way. Did we mention

9:27

that? I think so. Oh, he

9:29

plays a mean base. But I

9:31

can't remember what we're talking about

9:33

now, but it had something to

9:35

do with a cartoon. How about

9:37

that? You should do Debbie. Right,

9:39

isn't it? I'm right, Christopher, that

9:41

had something. First we're gonna do

9:43

Debbie. First we're gonna do Debbie,

9:45

yes. That's right. You're gonna imitate

9:47

Debbie. Oh, oh, sure. I'm gonna

9:49

imitate Debbie, but I don't think

9:51

I sounded pink enough. No, you

9:53

and Danny Man try, but you

9:55

can do it. You can't do

9:57

it. I could probably do that

9:59

a little easier. Yeah. But boy,

10:01

oh boy. touch on Wednesday because

10:03

you've said Wednesday was a real

10:05

struggle for you because your voice

10:07

is so high, but she's very

10:09

subdued. She, that is one of

10:11

those characters, sort of like, I

10:13

did this other cartoon with Howie

10:16

Mandel called Bobby's World. Mm-hmm. And,

10:18

yes, yes. And Ginny McSwain was

10:20

always like, less Debbie, give me

10:22

less. And that's how Wednesday was.

10:24

Gordon was always like, just, just

10:26

less for Wednesday. I was like,

10:28

but I'm not really doing anything.

10:30

That's it! That's it! But I'm

10:32

not doing anything at all, really.

10:35

Yeah, it's hard though not

10:37

to be amped up, at

10:39

least for me when I'm

10:42

on the mic. So I

10:44

call it my valium voice.

10:46

Ginny McSine used to call

10:48

it the valium voice. Yeah.

10:50

Well she had colorful direction.

10:52

So when I had Jackie

10:54

on Bobby's World, she was

10:56

down here with long braids

10:58

and she also had a

11:00

pension for low energy. The

11:02

pension? Pension? Pension. The E-N-C-H-A-N-T-A-N-T,

11:04

right. Oh, my mic. But

11:06

who else was in that

11:08

cast? We had, um... Genie

11:10

Elias. Right. The Fabulous, Genie

11:12

Elias is Puzley. Yeah? Cousin

11:15

It. Is there better remember,

11:17

Cousin It? Say yes. Thank

11:19

you. Yeah. Oh, and Rob

11:21

Paulson? Yes. Play somebody that

11:23

shouted like that. Yeah, that

11:25

was Jimmy Neutron, maybe. Okay.

11:27

Sorry. Oh, and then we

11:29

had Dick Beals. Yes. Yes.

11:31

Yes. which was an ancient

11:33

cure. Right. And then they

11:35

decided to bring Speedy Alka

11:37

Celtser back, which I got

11:39

cast as Speedy Alka Celtser.

11:41

Wow. He's down here in

11:43

the corner. I don't know

11:46

if you can see that

11:48

guy right there. Look him

11:50

up. It didn't live a

11:52

long time on the commercials,

11:54

but that was fun following

11:56

in. Oh, yeah, we had

11:58

so much fun in.

12:00

Winters. winners. He wasn't in it,

12:02

but he was down the hall. down the one

12:04

time we were recording and someone said, Jonathan and

12:06

is down the hall and we were like, if

12:08

you guys don't know who Jonathan Winters is, you

12:10

just go know who and you will see the

12:13

person who could like. go Google in another

12:15

personality person like that and make

12:17

up a whole world of

12:19

another person. up a whole world of

12:21

is basically responsible for Robin

12:23

Williams. for Robin the

12:26

inspiration for Robin Williams. Williams.

12:28

when you you and when you see

12:30

you'll go, you'll go. Oh, yeah. Yep,

12:32

that's what Robin was doing. But if you what Robin was

12:34

doing. us he was you hall, he they told us he

12:36

was down the hall. was sitting at Gordon's

12:38

desk. Gordon Hunt was our director. was Hunt, by

12:40

the way. And we all ran down the hall

12:42

because whenever they tell you don't do something, we

12:44

we can do it. down the ran down the hall

12:46

to see Winters. I how mean, how often do you

12:49

get to see Jonathan Winters? living legend

12:51

and he said hi, hi, we said. and

12:53

he went, I'm not Jonathan or

12:55

something, not Jonathan or something

12:57

he went into diatribes. He went into, my

12:59

name is name is Philip and I'm

13:02

a, I'm a, a car, see elsewhere, from

13:04

Chicago's, or somewhere, yeah, he was,

13:06

I'm so sick he was I'm so

13:08

sick of that bastard apparently he's a a

13:10

good -looking son son of a gun. And he looks

13:12

at like me like me. Oh, me me! I

13:14

to me I get to walk

13:17

somewhere you know what I really

13:19

hate when that on on Ed Sullivan

13:21

Because the next day day, oh my God,

13:23

can't go to the to the Yeah,

13:25

he went on just like on just like

13:27

on. and on. It was crazy. Yeah. And he's telling

13:29

us the us the story this about

13:31

this guy that he met in

13:34

the parking lot. lot. Yeah. And goes on

13:36

and on and on. and on. And the

13:38

you know, I I can't imagine. I

13:40

mean, that must must be hell to look

13:42

this much like a celebrity. mean,

13:44

you must get that all the

13:47

time. the Listen, Listen, I'm. Allow me to Allow

13:49

me to apologize. on intruding

13:51

on you. You're a car salesman

13:53

from wherever, or wherever. I And

13:55

here I am this. Anyway, I gotta I

13:57

go, and you go. And he away.

13:59

And Jonathan goes. you don't even

14:01

want my autograph after all that

14:03

shit? And then he coped to

14:06

it and then he gave him

14:08

his autograph. It was crazy. They

14:10

were like, get back into the

14:12

booth, Debbie and Jim. We're recording

14:15

today. Yeah. But wait, we get

14:17

to see movie stars. Yeah. Yes,

14:19

I'm older. It's okay. But that

14:21

was a fun show. We had

14:24

a lot of fun recordings. We

14:26

had a table read, and then

14:28

we'd go in and record it.

14:31

And did Dana Hill do any

14:33

guests on that show? Yeah, I

14:35

think she did some guys on

14:37

every show. God bless our dear

14:40

friend. She's no longer with us,

14:42

Dana. Yeah, man, there's people who

14:44

aren't with us anymore. Yeah, sorry.

14:46

And because of vacation or summer

14:49

vacation, something. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, that

14:51

was a super fun show, Brandon.

14:53

We had a good people. And

14:55

that was like one of the

14:58

last shows that they actually made

15:00

cells for like, like official animation

15:02

cells. Because after that they just

15:04

printed on a laser printer and

15:07

that's what you got. But our

15:09

actual cells, I know Bobby's World

15:11

we had to sells and that

15:14

show, we had them. It was

15:16

very cool. Yeah. Do you have

15:18

any interesting how we mandel stories?

15:22

I always do that. Let's see. Sounds

15:24

like almost far take that back. You

15:26

know, they told me don't try and

15:28

shake his hand, don't try and touch

15:30

him, so I didn't. I was just

15:33

pretty much afraid of him the whole

15:35

time because I didn't want to get

15:37

in trouble. But at that time, when

15:39

we were recording Bobby's World, You know,

15:41

I'm a scuba diver. I've been a

15:44

scuba diver for decades. And at that

15:46

time, I am still the size of

15:48

a 12-year-old boy, but I was at

15:50

that time the size of a 12-year-old

15:52

boy. And they were looking for someone

15:55

to replace to be the body stunt

15:57

double for the kid in this movie

15:59

called Free Willy. So... Jason Richter. they

16:01

enjoyed it in England. Yes, they enjoyed

16:03

it in Rick in England. Free Willie.

16:06

So I went to Warner Brothers and

16:08

met them and they said, okay, you

16:10

can ride the whale for Jason and

16:12

flew me down to Mexico City. They

16:14

tied on some hair that would hold

16:17

up in the salt water and I

16:19

spent seven weeks on the back of

16:21

that whale for that movie because they're

16:23

not going to have a 12 year

16:25

old boy ride the whale because. there's

16:27

things that could happen. And you know,

16:30

there was this trick where he drowns

16:32

and the whale comes and rescues him

16:34

from 18 feet under in a 55

16:36

degree pool and they needed an official

16:38

scuba diver. So during that show, they'd

16:41

be like, well, we're recording a Bobby's

16:43

World. So I got on the plane

16:45

a couple times and came back up

16:47

to LA to record Bobby's World and

16:49

then headed back to Mexico City. Yeah.

16:52

He wanted everybody to do it and

16:54

the producers, remember Gary Conrad? Oh yeah.

16:56

The producers were all, I mean it's

16:58

hard for editors and engineers to separate

17:00

everybody, but you put a bunch of

17:03

voice actors in the studio and put

17:05

headphones on them and they all go

17:07

to town and we love to hear

17:09

ourselves talk and so we talk and

17:11

talk. Yes we do. Yes we do.

17:14

And I mean when one of them's

17:16

Pat Fraley and one of them's Rob

17:18

Paulson. Forget it. Yeah, there's going to

17:20

be... It was a Robin Patch show.

17:22

Ah, yes, there's going to be a

17:25

lot shaking. That's time where I just

17:27

lay in the corner and wake me

17:29

up on my line. And they'd say,

17:31

okay, give us one as written. But

17:33

how we really loved it when we

17:36

could just say whatever we wanted? But

17:38

you guys are funny. I'm just like

17:40

the straight man, you know. I just

17:42

do as written. Well that's good. Funny

17:44

man needs a straight man to bounce

17:46

off. Yeah, you need this. I feel

17:49

very important. I provide bad service. I

17:51

am the straight man for you and

17:53

your funnies. There you go. I feel

17:55

very important because you're importantly feeling important.

17:57

Thank you. I appreciate that. yeah, all

18:00

you funny people, I just sit there

18:02

and watch you and I'm amazed. You

18:04

and Rob and Pat and Howie and

18:06

you guys just just... Well, I don't

18:08

know about Pat. I'm just kidding. See,

18:11

that's funny. More funny, comedy, humor. Free

18:13

jokes. I know most of the people

18:15

we've talked to on this show have

18:17

said that they don't really get to

18:19

record as like a group or an

18:22

ensemble anymore. Is that the same story

18:24

for you as well? Yeah,

18:26

well, I think it is kind

18:28

of coming back a little bit,

18:30

but not fully. And also, times

18:33

are changing. They are changing. I'll

18:35

tell you. It used to be

18:37

they'd say, Debbie, go in, they

18:39

need a seven-year-old girl. They need

18:41

a five-year-old boy. and I go

18:43

on in. And now they really

18:46

bring in a seven-year-old girl and

18:48

a five-year-old boy and then the

18:50

show gets picked up and they

18:52

have to recast it because the

18:54

kids are already 13. If they

18:56

would just do it like they

18:59

used to and let me do

19:01

all the kid voices, I think

19:03

it'd be a better place. I

19:05

know. For all of us, right?

19:07

Well, I've said before, you know,

19:10

we always had, Winnie the Pooh

19:12

had about seven or eight nine

19:14

iterations and would always get a

19:16

fresh boy. Yeah, because he was

19:18

somebody, well, gee, poo, I have

19:20

to go down to the 100

19:23

acre one. All right, next, next

19:25

call Central Casting, we need a

19:27

fresh Christopher Robin. So, yeah. But

19:29

boy, I would love to record

19:31

all together again. Like when we

19:34

did this show called Ephus for

19:36

Family with Bill Burr, they let

19:38

me play a lot of characters

19:40

in that show. I got to

19:42

play his daughter, Maureen. Yes. What

19:44

about Philip? I played kitty with

19:47

the dipper. And then Philip, I

19:49

told Rob flat out, I said,

19:51

I'm stealing Carl for Philip. There

19:53

you go. And I did Philip,

19:55

but he had braces and Carl

19:57

yet really had braces. And then.

20:00

who has the mouth of a sailor,

20:02

and I'm sure there's kids watching this,

20:04

so I won't say what she says,

20:07

but you can just beat your dad's

20:09

head over it with something foul and

20:11

awful. She says really bad things. But

20:13

so fun. What about Beatrice? The nurse?

20:15

I did play Beatrice. The nurse from

20:17

Wisconsin. She's like, which killed? Kid did

20:19

you almost killed this time? And then

20:22

I play Gert, Laura Dern in college.

20:24

Well, she's the mom, but they do

20:26

flashbacks of her in college. And her

20:28

friend was Gert, who had, you know,

20:30

those kennite glasses. Yeah, he hid her.

20:32

And then I got to stunt read

20:34

because they could never get Alice and

20:36

Janie in. So I stunt read Alice

20:39

Janie's line. It was the tip of

20:41

the executive. And as I read it,

20:43

I said, oh, I think it's out

20:45

in the get her arms. Oh, that's

20:47

wonderful. And so when I actually heard

20:49

Alice and Janie read it, they had

20:51

to read it that way. Thanks Allison,

20:53

I gave you that line read. Gave,

20:56

gave her a, that's a full blown

20:58

character. Totally. Yeah. Fun stunt reading in.

21:00

Well, you know, I've, you know, whenever

21:02

people will talk to me and they

21:04

say, well, you do this voice and

21:06

you do that voice voices, voices, voices,

21:08

voices. And I go, nah, but I

21:11

prefer to think of them as characters

21:13

and that the voice part is just

21:15

what they sound like when they talk.

21:17

You know, it's called character voices. They

21:19

are characters. Like, like when you, um,

21:21

when you listen to something that you've

21:23

been on, like when I listen, doesn't

21:25

it just always sound like you? I

21:28

mean, you know you're doing a character,

21:30

but yeah, I think that. Only right

21:32

me too. I'm listening to it. I'm

21:34

going well. That's me and that's me

21:36

again. That's me again. That's me again

21:38

No, no I'm singing Yeah, and it's

21:40

yeah, that was me singing He's quite

21:43

a singer by the way this Jim

21:45

man not a dancer boy he sing?

21:47

You could dance with your hands though

21:49

on the drums. Well that's true. You

21:51

know I still have the drumsticks you

21:53

gave me. They've signed them, you gave

21:55

them to me they're up and I

21:57

don't collect anything. Everything in my house

22:00

or anyone gives me anything, it's out.

22:02

I don't want anything ever. Well there's

22:04

only two of them so it's not

22:06

too bad. Two friends, right. Two things,

22:08

two sticks, true. They don't take up

22:10

a lot of room. Anyway I still

22:12

have them because they mean a lot

22:15

of because they mean a lot of

22:17

because they mean a lot to me

22:19

because they mean a lot to me

22:21

because they mean a lot to me

22:23

because they mean a lot to me.

22:25

That's mean a lot to me. That's

22:27

mean a lot to me because they

22:29

mean a lot to me because they

22:32

mean a lot to me. That's good.

22:34

That's good. Yeah, well I used to

22:36

at the end of every show, I

22:38

would go around at the final recording.

22:40

And because I would sit there all

22:42

year or years and annoy people with

22:44

my sticks, you know. And so I

22:46

figured the least I could do is

22:49

give them all a compliment. Here's your

22:51

free drumsticks. Now you can annoy the

22:53

next session that you go to. Yep,

22:55

yep. Sometimes I take them and hit

22:57

the microphone. People love that. Is this

22:59

on? You love that. The engineer is

23:01

really. Ah. Yes, yes, yes. And did

23:04

we, I'm older of course, but do

23:06

we cover, when you started, because I

23:08

think we're kind of current, concurrent, I

23:10

was, you were but a little blast.

23:12

Yes, I was in the mid 80s,

23:14

maybe late 80s, because I remember I

23:16

had finished college in 83 and then

23:18

went to Nashville for a few years,

23:21

got married, divorced, and then came out

23:23

here like 87, 88, something like that.

23:25

And then Ginny McSwayne sent me over

23:27

to Jeff Dana's and I just started

23:29

working right away and it's just never

23:31

stopped pretty much. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right?

23:33

Nice. Good old Jeff. Knock on, knock

23:36

on. Man, it's been a hide for

23:38

you. I'm glad I didn't go to

23:40

med school. I wouldn't have enjoyed it

23:42

nearly as much. Well, and really, who

23:44

was going to believe me? I'm taking

23:46

right right here, and it says that

23:48

you were a graduate of UCLA, and

23:50

you were in pre-med. I was a

23:53

pre-made graduate, so I took all the,

23:55

I took Biokam and Oken physics, one,

23:57

two, three, I took the hardest classes.

23:59

worked so so hard,

24:01

Jimmy. and I thought graduated

24:03

and I thought, okay, it's time to apply

24:05

to med school. And I did. in my spare

24:07

time I In my spare time, I was

24:09

in the stairwell, playing guitar and singing,

24:11

the on the streets of Westwood with

24:13

my guitar busking. That's all I wanted to

24:15

do was sing and play guitar and

24:18

do and do so So what

24:20

I did. I did. And I think the

24:22

good thing think the good thing

24:24

about all those division chemistry division chemistry

24:26

courses was that when I booked

24:28

Jimmy Neutron, I knew I knew how

24:30

to say all those words. All

24:32

the chemical ha All the chemical

24:34

compounds it came. back to me. Oh,

24:36

that's that's hysterical. many not

24:39

many of us can say

24:41

that. like you're only one. one.

24:44

You're the only one. I'm the

24:46

only one. No, you know, we have a

24:48

couple of lawyers we have a couple of

24:50

our in our world.

24:52

Yeah. Yeah, I think I think

24:54

Laura. Laura Miller, Laura

24:56

Jane Miller. and she, she was an

24:58

attorney and a sunny, sunny, look, an

25:00

attorney. attorney. Yeah, there's some some smarties

25:02

in there, but then they were like they

25:04

were like, all to do is to do is

25:07

voiceover, act. Well, I used to I

25:09

used to sell pots and pans door

25:11

to -door. You You did? of like an an

25:13

attorney. Detroit? No, no, God, no. No. In New Orleans. In

25:15

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25:17

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25:19

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25:47

Yeah, no, UCLA was really great,

25:49

and I don't remember a thing.

25:52

Another blur. blur. And you you know,

25:54

I couldn't make it from,

25:56

I did art stuff, like like acting

25:58

in Oh, yeah. then all the

26:00

heavy science stuff was in South Campus.

26:03

And you can't tell I'm sitting down,

26:05

but I'm only four, ten and a

26:07

half. And I couldn't get there in

26:09

time. Like my stride is just not

26:11

that fast. So I wore roller skates

26:13

eight hours a day at UCLA for

26:15

four years. I skated all over that

26:18

campus. I could run up brew and

26:20

walk and down. I could cart wheels.

26:22

I could cartwheel into the splits. I

26:24

was quite the roller skater. Wow. Now

26:26

I'm just afraid I'll break so I'm

26:28

not allowed to roll or speed anymore.

26:30

Yeah, well don't do that. I'm not

26:33

qualified to watch it. You know, breaking

26:35

is no fun at our age. No,

26:37

or at any age really. No one

26:39

wants to break. A broke is no.

26:41

Breaks are no fun. He knows. Yeah,

26:43

did you break something? My knee. Oh,

26:45

breaking your knee. That's worse. What was

26:48

that? Basketball. Football. Yeah, ACL. MCL, Maniscus,

26:50

all of it. Oh, drag. They just

26:52

rebuilt the whole thing? I screamed harder

26:54

than I ever screamed in my life.

26:56

It's the worst pain ever, isn't it?

26:58

It wasn't even the pain that I

27:01

screamed from. It was the angle, shock,

27:03

like, of feeling your knee literally bend

27:05

backwards. And I was like, oh, oh,

27:07

no. And it just kept going. And

27:09

then that feeling lingers. One of the

27:11

things that stayed with me after surgery

27:13

was like, when you swing your leg,

27:16

it feels like it's just gonna keep

27:18

swinging past like where you're. Until those

27:20

tendons grab a line. Yeah. But even

27:22

after surgery, it's like psychological, you know.

27:25

I don't think that's how bodies work.

27:27

It was right before the pandemic. Well,

27:29

hopefully now you will have like a

27:31

good knee till you're about 60 and

27:33

then you'll get new ones. You know

27:35

what the doctor said to me too?

27:37

He was like, I tightened up your

27:39

knee a little more so it'll last

27:41

longer. Oh, that's nice. I don't think

27:43

that's how bodies work. I don't think

27:45

you just go in and like tighten

27:47

muscles and tendons and like, don't worry,

27:49

it'll last longer now. I mean. Got

27:51

a Philip's head screw on the side

27:53

here to ain't a little tight neck.

27:55

Oh, that's much better. Well, don't go

27:57

roller skating. You can't risk the breaking

27:59

of that day. No. Plus you weigh

28:01

over a hundred pounds and that's a

28:03

lot of weight to come tumbling down.

28:05

I do. He does weigh over a

28:07

hundred pounds. Yeah. Wait, I have to

28:09

ask you this, since you brought up

28:11

height. Hundred? Four ten? Do you have,

28:13

uh, do you do the, the placard?

28:15

Do you have the handicap placard? Don't

28:17

have a handicap placard. I'd be nice.

28:20

I'd like to have one. I went

28:22

to school with this girl who was

28:24

410 and she was so excited on

28:26

her 18th birthday to get the handicap

28:28

placard because she was like, it's a

28:30

privilege. If you're under five feet, then

28:32

you can get it. I wish I

28:34

had known that! Oh my gosh, I

28:36

remember when I was pregnant, really pregnant,

28:38

and we would pull up to like

28:40

Disney or something and you have to

28:42

park pretty far. Oh yeah. I was

28:44

like, can't I get the placard so

28:46

I could park closer so I don't

28:48

have to do the wattle? Could have

28:50

had it. So you and River didn't

28:52

have to? Yeah, he's 23 now. My

28:54

boy is 23. You remember me pregnant?

28:56

Yes, I do. We go back. We

28:58

go back. Yeah, when you're short. Not

29:00

even being being here short. Not even

29:02

being here. Not even being here. Not

29:04

even being here. Huh? Because he wasn't

29:06

born. Right, right. You remember him not

29:08

even being here. Yeah. Yeah. And now

29:10

he's borned up something fierce. He is

29:12

finished college, got his computer science degree.

29:14

Oh, that's. Hi, Rev, if you're watching

29:16

it, you're my boy. That's right. Yeah.

29:18

And you know, you have to say

29:20

his whole name, because get ready for

29:22

the coolest name on the block. His

29:25

name is River Jordan. Yes, it is.

29:27

How about that? His dad was a

29:29

Jordan and I thought, well, we don't

29:31

have a choice. We're gonna name it.

29:33

River. Boy or girl? Yes. That's right.

29:35

Yeah, that's true, huh? Yeah. Yeah, you

29:37

had to do it. His parents were

29:39

old school. And as we were wheeling

29:41

him out of the delivery room, the

29:43

parents, the proud grandparents of their only

29:45

grandson, what's his name? River! River Jordan!

29:47

And so we just turned before we

29:49

could see the look on their face

29:51

because, you know, they didn't know River

29:53

was a popular name. It's a popular

29:55

name now. Well, they were hoping for

29:57

Mississippi. Uh-huh. And so you can understand

29:59

their dismay. but

30:01

then he wasn't a miss or a

30:03

missus. Right, so we dodged a bullet

30:06

there. Don't try this at home, folks.

30:08

No, Lord, don't try this at home,

30:10

folks. No. But, so yeah, UCLA, man.

30:13

Yeah. Roller skate. Then you got the

30:15

gig as skater on hayvernets earnest. Yes,

30:17

one of my boyfriends at the time

30:20

that I met at the country bar

30:22

said moved in Asheville, Deb, so I

30:24

did. And uh... It's a place you

30:27

ought to be. Place you ought to

30:29

be. So I loaded up my car

30:31

and I moved from Beverly. I was

30:34

actually working in Beverly Hills at the

30:36

time. Real estate. Had my real estate

30:38

license three times. So yeah, I was

30:41

in Nashville doing a show at

30:43

Tennessee Rep called To Kill a Walking

30:45

Bird playing Scout, the 12-year-old at 12,

30:47

27 years old. I remember. I know

30:50

where this is going. Yeah. And you

30:52

had Biboveralls. Yes, I told you I

30:54

remember. I played the sister of Jim

30:57

who was played by Patrick Day

30:59

who is now in Los Angeles and

31:01

runs a great kids acting academy. And

31:03

somebody saw me as scout in to

31:06

kill a mockingbird and said, let's put

31:08

her in this TV show we're

31:10

doing with Jim Varney, which is like

31:12

a Peaway's big adventure, and they made

31:15

me the boy clown. So I got

31:17

dressed up in a clown, like a

31:19

bozo outfit, and uh, I played skater.

31:22

You're right, dad. Oh, no, that's a

31:24

different, that's, that's the Durrisle boy.

31:26

That was the Durrisle battery boy. Oh,

31:28

God. That was another 12-year-old boy campaign.

31:31

God, I hope we can edit that

31:33

out. What an embarrassing thing. No, it

31:35

was like, it was his boy clown

31:38

and his dad and him were clowns

31:40

and his mom and his sister

31:42

were normal. And yeah, we did a

31:44

number of episodes. I got in a

31:47

screen actor's galed. I got to quit

31:49

waiting tables at Dahlt's restaurant in Nashville.

31:51

And yeah, I was in SAG.

31:53

And so I thought, well, now I

31:56

can move, I can afford to. to

31:58

Los Angeles and do voice work. I

32:00

didn't know what voice work was then

32:03

until somebody said, well now that you

32:05

did this part on hey Vernets Ernest,

32:07

would you like to do body

32:09

double work for some of the boys

32:12

on one of Jim's movies called Ernest

32:14

Goes to Camp? So I said sure,

32:16

$60 a day there is better than

32:19

$60 a day waiting tables. So I

32:21

So you were making big bucks right

32:23

away? I did, right away. And

32:25

they needed me to stand in for

32:28

Scotty Menville, who was 10 years old

32:30

at the time. And Scotty Menville is

32:32

another one of us voice actors that

32:35

we love so much. That explains the

32:37

notation that I got about you from.

32:39

It's all coming together now. So

32:42

Scotty's mom, Dotty, said, Debbie, why don't

32:44

you do cartoons or voice work? Scotty

32:46

does it. And I'm like, what is

32:49

that? I didn't even know it was

32:51

a thing. Yeah, what is that?

32:53

So she gave me some names. I

32:55

contacted them. Ginny McSwain wrote me back

32:58

from Marvel. She said, great voice. She

33:00

really need to live in LA. So

33:02

got divorced. Move to move back home.

33:05

Well that was the only large

33:07

name. Yes, obviously. What are you

33:09

going to do? That's a showbiz

33:11

name, I think. Debbie Dairyberry. Yeah,

33:13

I mean I like Debbie Greenberg,

33:16

my born name, but my first

33:18

married name, Dairyberry. That just rolls

33:20

off. Sounds like a cartoon. And

33:22

it sounds show busy. Kind of

33:24

it does. I think so. People

33:26

think I made it up. I

33:28

didn't make it up. Anyway, that

33:30

was, uh, and now I, when

33:32

I was on Peter Pan and

33:34

Pirates as Tinkerbell, guess who was

33:36

one of the lost boys. Scotty

33:38

Menville. Oh yeah. Full circle. Oh,

33:40

that's cool. Yeah. I've seen him

33:42

recently at a couple conventions. Yeah,

33:44

yeah. I love conventions. Do you

33:46

do a lot of them? I

33:49

do. Yeah, on and off. I

33:51

mean, not every weekend, but when

33:53

I go, there's a lot of

33:55

nice people. Yeah, I just got

33:57

back from one in New Jersey.

33:59

I love icons meeting all the

34:01

people. that know everything I've done

34:03

because I forgot. Oh, yeah, I've

34:05

had that. Yeah, people come up,

34:07

do the voice, do the voice,

34:09

and I'll do one, I think

34:11

it is, none of the one,

34:13

another one, they go, no. And

34:15

it'll be one that I did,

34:17

you know, 40 years ago, like

34:19

my second job, and I go,

34:22

like my second job, and I

34:24

go, that's one that I did,

34:26

you know, 40 years ago, like

34:28

my second job, like my second

34:30

job, you know. Yes, they do.

34:32

And sometimes it's very just, the

34:34

other day, unnerving. Yeah. Do you

34:36

have any tattoos? No. I don't

34:38

either. Fresh out. Not at the

34:40

moment. I think it hurts too

34:42

much. It scares you. I don't

34:44

want to get hurt. And it's

34:46

for a stupidest reason. I'm very

34:48

mercurial. And if I got a

34:50

tattoo next week, I'd be on,

34:52

what the hell was I thinking?

34:55

I hate that bear. Or, you

34:57

know, I'm just kidding. We love

34:59

that bear. We love that bear.

35:01

Well, if it was that bear,

35:03

then, you know. Jim, what's a

35:05

curial mean? It's like, like, you

35:07

know, real fast and change your

35:09

mind? And, ping pong, like a

35:11

ping pong ball in a laundry

35:13

shoot. Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing,

35:15

bing, bing. I like it. I

35:17

hate it. I hate it. I

35:19

want it. I don't. Get it.

35:21

Get it. Got it. Yeah, I'm

35:23

glad you have this. What other

35:25

things about me are we going

35:28

to talk about? Let's talk. Let's

35:30

stay on the Peter Pan show.

35:32

I think it's very pivotal that

35:34

not necessarily a very popular show

35:36

these days, but you gave Tinkerbell

35:38

her voice, which is pretty iconic.

35:40

I was Tinkerbell's first voice and

35:42

I just, they wanted her to

35:44

be, well for lack of a

35:46

better word, a little bitchy. Yeah,

35:48

she did not like Peter talking

35:50

to anybody else. Well, I remember

35:52

she used to be a sound

35:54

effect, like I want to say

35:56

xylophone, some kind of ding-ding, a

35:59

ring, a triangle, a little, a

36:01

little chime or something. Right, so

36:03

I got to be her first

36:05

voice and I didn't really... the

36:07

Rocky Horror Picture Show or the

36:09

whole, you know, fame of the

36:11

Tim Curry. No, she wasn't. And

36:13

so when they said, Tim Curry's

36:15

being Captain Hook, I was like,

36:17

who's that? And it was great

36:19

to work with him because he

36:21

was pretty funny. I remember once

36:23

we were, remember Buzzy's? Oh sure.

36:25

Are we recorded at Buzzy's? And,

36:27

uh. Recording studio, by the way.

36:29

Here in. In, on Melrose. And

36:32

Tommy, Tim was sitting there, Jimmy,

36:34

Tom, Tim, Tom, Tim, Tim, Tom,

36:36

Tim, anyway. Good old, what's his

36:38

name. Good old Tim, was sitting

36:40

in the waiting room, there's a

36:42

love. And I did. There's a

36:44

love. There's a love. I can't

36:46

do it. It's good. Did he

36:48

know you were a co-star at

36:50

the time? Yeah, well he was

36:52

sitting. I was standing. I like

36:54

to serve, by the way. I

36:56

love to serve people. I love

36:58

to cook. If I come to

37:00

your house, I'll be happy to

37:02

cook and serve you. I like

37:05

to serve. Wow. I like to

37:07

help. Well, that's a that's an

37:09

admirable trait. I don't have any

37:11

control over it. I just like

37:13

to do it. Well, there you

37:15

go. I'm a real, I was

37:17

born to be a very attentive

37:19

partner. Mm. And daughter. Good to

37:21

know. Wow. I'm fighting my job.

37:23

Also had Jason Marsden on it,

37:25

I believe. Yes, Jason Marsden was

37:27

on it. Yeah, I just saw

37:29

him. Yeah, he's in Nashville now,

37:31

I think. Yes, he is. And

37:33

until last year, I didn't, I

37:35

didn't, I thought, who's James Marsden,

37:38

Jason Marsden, I got him mixed

37:40

up. They're not related, right? Uh,

37:42

no, no, no, I don't think

37:44

so. No, no. Just, just this

37:46

Marsden part. But you're all the

37:48

same height. Yes, sort of. As

37:50

a matter of fact, we are,

37:52

I think he's an inch taller.

37:54

I think he might have made

37:56

it to five feet. these lofty

37:58

heights. When I go to a

38:00

convention, or New York, I just

38:02

have to wear a mask. Otherwise,

38:04

it's boobs and armpits. That's all

38:06

I see. I'm right there at

38:09

that level, and every time someone

38:11

coughs, sneezes, or talks, all this

38:13

bit germs just come right down

38:15

to my level. Oh, see. And

38:17

so it's very scary being in

38:19

a. a packed room at my

38:21

height. You guys have to experience

38:23

it sometime. I challenge you. Two

38:25

out of three is not bad.

38:27

One out of two? Or something

38:29

you get, yeah. Thank you for

38:31

getting that. I get it. I

38:33

get it. I'm being! Very good.

38:35

Notice the guys started laughing right

38:37

away. Way before me. Yeah. And

38:39

I remember years ago. You don't

38:42

have to do it now. In

38:44

fact, she knows what I'm going

38:46

to say. I do, I do.

38:48

They were so new and so

38:50

pretty. They were so pretty and

38:52

yeah, and brash and perky and

38:54

just... After I was done breastfeeding

38:56

my son. And she walked in

38:58

and Rob Paulson and I were

39:00

the two lucky men that were

39:02

in the room were waiting there

39:04

and... Oh, how are you doing

39:06

there Debbie? How you feeling? We

39:08

were sick the other day. No,

39:10

no, no. I was at the

39:12

doctors and I go, well, I'm

39:15

sorry to hear that. She goes,

39:17

no, no, no, I wasn't sorry

39:19

to hear that. And I go,

39:21

well, you know, nobody wants to

39:23

hear that. She goes, oh, I

39:25

wasn't sick. See? And I went.

39:27

I got, well you look fine.

39:30

I got new boobs. Yeah, and

39:32

I was like, and Rob and

39:34

I are going, no, you're, you're

39:37

not actually not sick at all.

39:39

You look fabulous as a matter

39:41

of fact. Well, I knew you

39:44

boys were married and you know,

39:46

you were safe. The three of

39:48

you look good. And so, see

39:50

I'm good at math. Yeah, I

39:53

just had no filters. Still don't

39:55

have any filters. You don't get

39:57

to see him today. make sense.

40:00

Yeah, life is good. Yeah, the

40:02

stories, the intimacy that happens in

40:04

our closed little studio. The things

40:07

the engineers see and hear that

40:09

they never say, you know, you

40:11

got to interview engineers. They're the

40:14

ones with the stories, right? Yeah,

40:16

they have got the dirt. And

40:18

they have the dirt to hire

40:20

and fire and keep you working

40:23

or not. Yeah, always be good

40:25

to your engineers. Thank you, Chris.

40:27

Yeah, well, I think he's producing.

40:30

Producing, sorry. But you're kind of

40:32

engineering, you touched my mic. I

40:34

did. So that qualifies as engineering.

40:37

You hear how he said that?

40:39

I did. He can't turn it

40:41

off. It's just how a... Are

40:43

you a voice artist, Chris? No.

40:46

Just a producer. Just a producer.

40:48

A producer. Letting some acting. Just

40:50

an act. Yes, yes. Excellent. Good.

40:53

So you know, you gotta wear

40:55

all the hats. I've never booked

40:57

any voice work, though, yet. Okay,

41:00

well, look at, you're here with

41:02

us now. I know. Here, try

41:04

this, okay? And I've said, I

41:07

don't like that apple that you

41:09

put on my, uh, uh, high

41:11

chair. I don't want that up!

41:13

I don't like that up! That's

41:16

as high as I could go.

41:18

I don't want that apple! I

41:20

think that was good. I don't

41:23

like that apple that you put

41:25

on my chair! And now make

41:27

it unintelligible. Pretty good. Yeah, it's

41:30

pretty good. There's a plate-class window

41:32

that just broke. So that's how

41:34

you know it was good. You

41:36

know, speaking of babies, on that

41:39

show, F is for Family. By

41:41

fourth season, Laura Dern has a

41:43

kid and then the neighbor has

41:46

a kid and they needed baby

41:48

voices and I ended up doing

41:50

like five different infants on that

41:53

show as well. Wow. Yeah. Nice.

41:55

Good fun. You do a good

41:57

baby cry though if I remember,

42:00

right? well, and I do the

42:02

trick that, um, that Sue Blue

42:04

does. Sue, Chuck McGantot taught me

42:06

mine. Oh, the one about, you

42:09

get a handkerchief and you ball

42:11

it up, you give me the

42:13

elbow one. Or that one, or

42:16

that one, yeah. Oh, blue, blue.

42:18

Oh, she's much better. Did

42:23

you just cuss out poor Brendan? I

42:25

did. It's a snow low. Did you

42:27

get to work in the studio with

42:29

Bill Burr? Yes. Yes, we did. You

42:32

know, that's what people say when they

42:34

ask me what's how we meant, what

42:36

how we Mendel's like. Because when they're

42:38

on, they're on. And when they're not

42:40

on, they're just quiet men. Really? You're

42:43

just a nice quiet guy. He's not

42:45

angry. No? Seems like he'd be angry

42:47

all the time. Well that's the on,

42:49

isn't it? That's the on. Yeah, no,

42:52

Bill's not angry. He's a good man.

42:54

Yeah, we like him very much, and

42:56

his wife and his kids. What was

42:58

my price like his director? I had

43:01

him on my Simpsons podcast recently because

43:03

he obviously works for The Simpsons. What

43:05

was he like directing for that show?

43:07

Okay, he has the word retrieval skills

43:10

of like a Harvard professor. I don't

43:12

know how these directors are able to

43:14

just grab words out of the sky

43:16

and make it so accurate that I

43:18

know exactly what he wanted. He's wonderful.

43:21

I love that man. Mike Price, if

43:23

you're watching this, you are the bomb.

43:25

Yeah, he's very funny. And he finds

43:27

things funny. And he's very jolly. You

43:30

know, if he finds it funny, he

43:32

will laugh. And if you can make

43:34

Mike Price laugh. Doesn't make you happy.

43:36

When you make your director's laugh. Yes,

43:39

yes. Yeah, if you make them ruin

43:41

a take, it's good. That is not

43:43

your fault. Yeah, then it's not your

43:45

fault also. Mike Price is, he's really

43:48

amazing, right? I mean, his credits, the

43:50

number of Emmy's, he's won, the, he's

43:52

just so clever. And he was on

43:54

what show? He's one of the producers

43:56

of Simpsons. Simpsons. Yeah, and Eff is

43:59

for Family. Yeah. you ever done a have

44:01

you ever done a No. Me neither. Well, Me

44:03

neither. one. Scott, I'm talking to you, I'm

44:05

talking to you, Mr. Scott And

44:07

Mike Price, I would very much like to I

44:09

would very much like to be on the

44:11

Simpsons. I can cry like a baby. don't

44:13

Um, to you know, I don't have to

44:15

sound like, uh, Lisa, so I'm ready. when

44:18

they were years. remember when they were

44:20

auditioning for the down at the Foxlot. Yes. I went

44:22

down there and I auditioned my

44:24

head off. I really thought that would

44:26

be a fun thing to do. do.

44:28

But But Nancy got it, good for

44:30

her. her. You know? our Nancy, love

44:32

our Yardley. I didn't really know who Yardley

44:34

was at the time, honestly. was at the time,

44:36

honestly. But it's been 35 seasons

44:39

for them for them and I want on

44:41

that show I think that would be a

44:43

good bucket list list offer for me for me.

44:45

I know Charlie Reagan's one of

44:47

the animators. won an Emmy

44:49

for for making Krusty Town. They

44:52

this podcast. podcast. Good, then if

44:54

you're watching watching me and Jimmy

44:56

wanna Jimmy that's right. to be on The was I've

44:58

been on the Yeah, been on The Simpsons? I

45:00

was... I've been on on The Simpsons because

45:02

of my podcast. been that's nice.

45:04

Really? Yeah, Tell... Oh, both real jealous

45:06

about that. They had because of my and

45:08

because of our podcast they drew

45:10

us into it. didn't know that. We're Congratulations

45:12

that. There you go. Did you get that.

45:14

They had two Ozzy Superfans, and me one day and he

45:16

goes you might want to watch this week's

45:18

show And I went go. just watch it

45:20

and that's what it? No? I totally want

45:22

to see that. Congratulations! that. Nothing

45:24

wrong with that. I played a horse. You've

45:27

got to be that. I You've got to be a

45:29

horse on the same - You've horse Let me hear your horse You've

45:32

got to be a I'm, I'm

45:34

a horse. Simpsons? I really good. Let

45:36

me hear Blue told me how to do

45:38

the horse. a horse. That's good. That's

45:40

really good. Oh, so Blue

45:43

told me how to do the horse.

45:45

Oh, yeah. kind of were getting a

45:47

little a I was getting a

45:49

little ducky, yeah. a little ducky. I was getting

45:51

a little ducky. Yeah. No,

45:53

the ducky. That's ducky. Yeah.

45:55

Can you yeah. Can you bark like a pug?

45:57

No. It's like Daniel Ross was

46:00

me how to bark like a

46:02

pug. He was saying you put

46:04

the the Donald Duck, the Duck

46:07

cheek, and then do the bark

46:09

with a muffle kind of sound.

46:11

See if that gives you the

46:13

pug bark. Yeah, yeah, I just

46:15

I can't even I can't even

46:17

do a good decent Donald Duck.

46:19

Can you do a cricket like

46:21

D? Uh, no. But my best

46:24

buddy, D. Bradley Baker? Kenny Papagand

46:26

does an amazing. Does he? Unbelievable

46:28

cricket. That's a tough one. Can't

46:30

have your mouth do a certain

46:32

thing. I used to dream of

46:34

being able to do a cricket.

46:36

I thought it would be the

46:38

funniest thing to do. That's not

46:40

bad. That's, actually, yeah, you can

46:43

hear the high pitch. I think

46:45

the pitch is the hardest thing

46:47

to me. I have any clue.

46:49

I have cricket cluelessness. Yeah,

46:54

I had it for a

46:56

second. You did. I don't

46:58

know if I had my

47:00

regular fork tongue. I can

47:02

cry like a baby. Well,

47:04

we've descended into the other

47:06

world. It shows of ultim,

47:08

it just sounds. Good thing

47:10

they can see our faces.

47:12

I'll be like, is it

47:14

just fuzz on the radio?

47:17

Yes. What's your favorite baby

47:19

sound, Debbie? Is it angry

47:21

baby, sad baby, happy baby?

47:23

Oh gosh. Hey, you want

47:25

to change my diaper? That

47:27

one. Happy baby is a

47:29

is a a lot less

47:31

abrasive. I can be closer

47:33

to the mic for the,

47:35

I like it all. All

47:37

the baby sounds are good.

47:39

It's very messy being a

47:41

baby because it requires a

47:44

lot of like liquid and

47:46

I don't want to dirty

47:48

up your microphone here but

47:50

they usually have to give

47:52

it a pretty good cleaning.

47:54

Sorry, they come in and

47:56

clean afterwards. Well

48:00

not a baby duck. I don't know.

48:02

Oh yeah that's true. But I didn't

48:04

put the wet in it so I

48:06

didn't spittle all over your mind. I

48:09

was very considerate. You're welcome. Yes I

48:11

like it all. You know people are

48:13

like what's your favorite character? I like

48:15

it all. Did you speak to River

48:17

as a baby back and forth when

48:20

he was still younger? I did. Well

48:22

I studied him. You know I take

48:24

infants and put them on my lap

48:26

and I listen to them and I

48:28

met a pitch match match match. You

48:31

know it's like learning a song really.

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Podcast. Do it now. Your voice sounds

48:53

so similar to E.G. Daily to me.

48:55

Does it? I hear like, when he

48:57

has a little more texture in hers.

48:59

Yeah, she's down here a little bit

49:01

more. That's like a little more sand.

49:04

Yeah, a little more texture sand gravel.

49:06

Yeah, but I don't really have the

49:08

gravel unless I'm doing the old lady.

49:10

I figured out how to finally do

49:12

gravel as an old lady without hurting.

49:15

Okay. Yes. I can get a right

49:17

there and then you make your teeth

49:19

funny. Oh, sorry. I need my depends.

49:21

That's great. Thanks so much. I wouldn't

49:23

have known that was you. If I

49:26

looked away, I wouldn't have known because

49:28

we always think we know each other.

49:30

Oh, that's Cummings doing a, you know,

49:32

a goat. That's Cummings goat. Yeah, you

49:34

know, but wow, that was, ooh, I

49:37

have a question for both of you.

49:39

It's been on my mind for some

49:41

time now and I always wonder, as

49:43

a voice actor and you guys are

49:45

both musicians as well, do you... when

49:48

you hear yourself like just normally you

49:50

know like people have a reaction to

49:52

hearing their normal voice because it's not

49:54

really what we hear like in our

49:56

head but I'm you guys can sound

49:59

like so many different people like do

50:01

you think you have a better like

50:03

I guess assessment of what your own

50:05

voice sounds like coming out of your

50:07

mouth? I think we do. Yeah I

50:10

think so too. We're also part. We

50:12

don't go oh is that what I

50:14

sound like? You're like I know exactly.

50:16

I started off that way. I mean

50:18

but I got over it maybe an

50:21

eighth 10th grade or something. Did you

50:23

have a cassette player and you play

50:25

yourself back? Whenever I had a chance,

50:27

because I was always in bands back

50:29

then, and somebody would, you know, record

50:32

it on there, press the two, you

50:34

know, our gigs, or our songs. Yeah,

50:36

you have to press play and record

50:38

at the same time to get to

50:40

record. You don't know that. And the

50:43

little cassette recorders. And then I'd listen

50:45

back to it and I'd say, okay,

50:47

ooh, bah, that was sucked. That wasn't

50:49

bad. And then you just trim and

50:51

trim and then that's how I did

50:54

it's how I did it, you know,

50:56

you know, you know, you know, you

50:58

know, you know, Yeah, I just always

51:00

sounded the same. I guess when I

51:02

first heard myself, I'm like, something's wrong,

51:05

it's a chip monkey, what's going on?

51:07

Something's wrong with the recording, but I

51:09

think you have to. Did you speed

51:11

this up, right? You have to embrace

51:13

your pigeonhole. It's what I call it.

51:16

You have to love who you are,

51:18

the mic likes my voice. It likes

51:20

your voice. And we just have to

51:22

kind of honor that. I

51:25

do sing grown-up music. I have

51:27

a band, Honey Pig, a country

51:29

band, and it's three-part harmony and

51:31

I write a lot of songs.

51:33

I've heard you guys, many a

51:35

song, many a song you have

51:37

sung. Yes, but I also sing

51:39

kids music, which I love singing

51:41

kids music and I just finished

51:43

my fourth kids album and just

51:45

released this great single with Lisa

51:47

Lobe. If you go

51:49

to Debbie Dairyberry Kids, that's all the

51:51

animated videos of all my kids songs

51:53

from the last album and some of

51:56

the other songs. So there's quite a

51:58

few animated videos. for kids and I'm

52:00

hoping that that Debbie Dairyberry kids will

52:02

get funneled into the magic that is

52:04

YouTube kids. One day I'll get into

52:07

YouTube Kids that's the goal but I'm

52:09

still doing kids music. Let's get to

52:11

work on that out there folks. Yep.

52:13

YouTube Kids Debbie Dairyberry. Yep. Watch. Debbie

52:15

Derry Berry kids. It's not on YouTube

52:17

kids yet, but it will be. It

52:20

will be. Yeah, so if you could

52:22

just put your computer on YouTube kids

52:24

and just put it on repeat for

52:26

days, days. And then go on vacation?

52:28

Yeah. Come back and just leave it

52:30

on. And just leave it on. Yeah.

52:33

And do we get introduced to your

52:35

fabulous guitar? She has the coolest guitar.

52:37

Oh, my actually, I think my pink

52:39

guitar is on a couple of the

52:41

videos. I bet. It's on. It should

52:43

be. It's gorgeous. I'm a great recycler.

52:46

I think you can see my beautiful

52:48

pink, J. J. Heart guitar. It's a

52:50

nice one. Yes, it is. But I

52:52

play my Olson for Honey Pig for

52:54

Honey Pig. We like the Olson for

52:56

a heck of a heck of a

52:59

heck of a guitar. Yeah. No relation

53:01

to the twins, so don't be alarmed.

53:03

No. Um, my book though, you wanted

53:05

to talk about, look, look, here it

53:07

is now. Well, this is, this is,

53:09

I just did, I just re- updated

53:12

it so it has this line, this

53:14

is the author's copy, but that's a

53:16

second edition of my book. Here we

53:18

go. Voice over 101, how to succeed

53:20

as a voice actor? By Debbie Deary

53:23

Berry Berry, second edition. You'll feel the

53:25

difference. And actually, I just, I don't

53:27

know if you've ever recorded an audio

53:29

book, but it is, it is tough.

53:31

And I read this whole thing, I

53:33

did the audio book of this whole

53:36

thing, and it's just been released last

53:38

week on Audible. So, you can go

53:40

to ACX, Audible, buy your copy of

53:42

Voice Over 101, how to succeed as

53:44

a voice actor, and in here. You

53:46

know how it's hard to describe with

53:49

words how to bark like a dog

53:51

how to vomit so I have these

53:53

little QR codes in the book that

53:55

takes you to little videos where I'm

53:57

showing you how to vomit You

54:00

can't beat that. Right? It's worth its

54:02

weight in gold. Are you kidding? I

54:04

mean, how many times have I been

54:06

over at the mic going, how the

54:09

heck do I vomit? If only Debbie

54:11

were here, well now, she can be.

54:13

Did we show you this book yet?

54:15

I don't know if we did. Look,

54:17

if not, by God, now you know.

54:20

Don't people ask you, Jim, how can

54:22

I get started in voiceover? Yes. Now

54:24

you don't have to answer anything more

54:26

than. Did we mention the book? Go

54:28

buy the book. Go buy. There's not

54:30

an app for that, or is there?

54:33

Not yet, but there's an audio, an

54:35

audio book, you can listen to it

54:37

as you drive far away. Edible? Edible?

54:39

Edible? I think it's audible. Audible? I

54:41

don't know, you could eat it if

54:44

you like paper? No, I was thinking

54:46

of something else. Oh. Never mind. Yeah.

54:48

Maybe later. Have we said what that

54:50

book is called? It's called Voice Over

54:52

101, How to Succeed as a Voice

54:55

Actor by Debbie Dairy Dairy Barry. Yes.

54:58

Best promotion you've ever had. Thank you.

55:00

And you know, I, a long, long,

55:02

long time ago, our dear buddy Gordon

55:05

Hunt, from Hannah Barbero, which is spoken

55:07

of him before, God rest his soul.

55:09

He wrote a book called How to

55:12

Break Into Show Business. And after I

55:14

was already working for about five years

55:16

and had worked for him any number

55:18

of times, somebody said, blah, blah, blah.

55:21

What was that? From your book, Gordon,

55:23

and they were making a joke. And

55:25

I go, what book was that? And

55:28

I say, well, I wrote a book.

55:30

I wrote a book. And how to

55:32

say something. That's what he sounds like.

55:34

And I said, oh, OK. So I

55:37

went down to Barnes and Noble. and

55:39

I picked it up and the fifth

55:41

chapter and it's everything it's like I

55:43

mean how to go to a circus

55:46

how to audition for this or a

55:48

play or how to stage a play

55:50

how to do you know all the

55:53

stuff and the fifth the fifth chapter

55:55

was how to break into voiceover and

55:57

did you ever read this? It's pretty

55:59

famous and it says don't bother the

56:02

voiceover market is locked up by less

56:04

than 10 people and they all live

56:06

in Hollywood California where you don't and

56:09

if you show up you're not gonna

56:11

get in because did I mention there's

56:13

10 people that do this crap and

56:15

you're not one of them and enjoy

56:18

your day go to chapter six. You

56:20

know back then Jim? He was right.

56:22

Probably. He was right back then. It's

56:25

changed now. I'm glad he was wrong

56:27

at the. There's a lot of people

56:29

in voiceover now. Right in the nick

56:31

of time he was wrong. Because I

56:34

didn't know it was impossible. Well, you

56:36

were one of the 10, Jim. Yeah,

56:38

well, oh, that could be. You were

56:40

one of the 10. Yeah. I was

56:43

thinking about this on the driveover today.

56:45

And it's interesting, like, how you said,

56:47

you know, everything's changed and. And I

56:50

don't even think, like I'm just trying

56:52

to think of popular cartoons now and

56:54

just popular cartoons are just so different

56:56

than they were in the 90s and

56:59

2000s and like the whole landscape and

57:01

we're having this conversation the other day

57:03

we were talking about how sitcoms have

57:06

kind of just disappeared. Like what's a

57:08

popular sitcom right now? Yeah. Like the

57:10

last one I can think of is

57:12

like modern family rest of development. You

57:15

get your, it's more reality based sort

57:17

of sitcoms now where they talk into

57:19

the camera all the time. It's not

57:21

yet in front of a live studio

57:24

audience. That just doesn't exist. It doesn't

57:26

exist. It doesn't exist. And I think

57:28

it kind of went the like Saturday

57:31

morning cartoons, kind of like followed the

57:33

same thing. When you're on the airplane,

57:35

everybody watches. Right? And what I was

57:37

thinking about on the drive over here

57:40

this morning was it's kind of interesting

57:42

how, you know, we've talked about how

57:44

you guys don't record, you know, shows

57:47

in a studio altogether anymore. Yeah. Like,

57:49

you know, I'm thinking about, you know,

57:51

coming to work for this podcast and

57:53

it's kind of interesting how now we're

57:56

back into a different studio, you know,

57:58

a group of people and then these

58:00

characters kind of survive through different mediums.

58:03

And it's like, They're permeating through different

58:05

media. I don't know, I was just

58:07

thinking about it, and it's interesting how

58:09

it's evolved, but the characters have evolved

58:12

with the different mediums. You know they

58:14

say that things take a swing on

58:16

the pendulum sometimes too far, and sometimes

58:18

they come back. So I wonder if

58:21

maybe it would come back. I mean,

58:23

if some producer said, I want to

58:25

do it like it used to be

58:28

done. I want to have everyone in

58:30

the studio together. I want some really

58:32

great writers. I really want an 11-minute

58:34

segment. and a second 11 minute segment.

58:37

We call that a half an hour.

58:39

We call that a half an hour.

58:41

Yeah, with room for commercials. Yes, which

58:44

we don't have to have anymore. But

58:46

we want them. We like our sponsors

58:48

on this show. We're taking really good

58:50

sponsors. That's right. We will take good

58:53

sponsors. I think anime is really moved

58:55

into the forefront of popular culture too.

58:57

You know, yes. You've done some anime

59:00

dubbing, correct? Yes. I've done. Some I

59:02

can't talk about yet. I have a

59:04

new one on Netflix that just came

59:06

out called Rising Impact and I play

59:09

a, you guessed it, a 10-year-old boy.

59:11

No way, Jose. The golfs. Can you

59:13

swing it though? Oh, I didn't meant

59:15

the golf. That was terrible. No, it's

59:18

a pretty little cute little show and

59:20

there's, you know, way back as far

59:22

as Tenchi Muio and Rio Oki and

59:25

Zatch Bell and Glitter Force with Candy

59:27

and Maya. I've done my fair share

59:29

of anime and Sailor Moon. I just

59:31

finished these three Union movies. I've heard

59:34

of that one. Yeah, I play the

59:36

cat. Like I did in Curious George.

59:38

I play a lot of... What's the

59:41

cat's name again, the cat? In what?

59:43

Sailor Moon? Sailor Moon. Diana? The daughter

59:45

of Artemis and... It has like the

59:47

little moon on it, right? Yes. Yeah.

59:50

So yeah, I'm good friends with anime.

59:52

I do a lot of it and

59:54

it's a different... What's the right word

59:57

I'm looking for? Approach? what do you

59:59

get, business model. A business model as

1:00:01

an actor. Because as an actor, you

1:00:03

know, we go into a screen actors,

1:00:06

guild, contract, cartoon studio, we get paid

1:00:08

and we get residuals, and that's one

1:00:10

thing. Anime, you don't get that. It

1:00:12

pays not very much, but when you

1:00:15

go to conventions. The fans are huge.

1:00:17

So yeah, that's true. Those are the

1:00:19

residuals that anime types get. Yeah, but

1:00:22

there are a lot of fans for

1:00:24

anime. I haven't really watched a lot

1:00:26

of it. Have you? No, no, I

1:00:28

haven't. And I've been in very little.

1:00:31

What do you go to watch? When

1:00:33

you watch TV, what do you watch?

1:00:35

Oh, gosh. Nowadays, we tend to binge

1:00:38

watch on certain shows. that are out

1:00:40

there, you know. I like binge watching.

1:00:42

It's very satisfying. You have to wait.

1:00:44

And you can wait or not. Because

1:00:47

I, you know, they make you wait

1:00:49

a week, you forget. I'm the opposite.

1:00:51

My wife and I have changed our

1:00:54

viewing habits because we found certain shows.

1:00:56

We started watching house. We've never seen

1:00:58

house. That's not a show you can

1:01:00

binge because it's a lot of quips,

1:01:03

quips, quips, and it can be overbearing.

1:01:05

But we now watch a different show

1:01:07

every night is house. And we actually

1:01:09

enjoy them more. Interesting. Because that's how

1:01:12

they were designed to be viewed. They

1:01:14

weren't created for once a week viewing.

1:01:16

Do you have to write it down?

1:01:19

How can you remember? No, no, we

1:01:21

just know it. Tuesday night, it's this

1:01:23

though. You know, we just remember. Tuesday

1:01:25

night, X file is night. That's a

1:01:28

very interesting way of approaching it. I

1:01:30

don't know if we'll try it, but

1:01:32

I'll consider it. Binging wasn't a thing

1:01:35

in 2002. Yeah, no, huh. Unless you

1:01:37

had the whole VCR set. Yeah, yeah,

1:01:39

that's true. Yeah, the box set. Yeah.

1:01:41

The whole thing you should put one

1:01:44

in one in, one in, one, one,

1:01:46

one, one, one, one, one, one, one,

1:01:48

one, one, disc, disc, disc, disc, disc,

1:01:50

disc, disc, disc, disc, disc, disc, disc,

1:01:53

disc, disc, disc, disc, disc, disc, disc,

1:01:55

disc, disc, disc, disc, disc, disc, disc,

1:01:57

disc, disc, disc, disc, disc, disc, disc,

1:02:00

disc, disc, disc, disc, disc, disc My

1:02:02

mom would record all my original Winnie

1:02:04

the Pooh things and then she'd say,

1:02:06

well, I sat down and I watched

1:02:09

seven of them the other day, Hun,

1:02:11

because I knew unions were coming. Well,

1:02:13

that's good. You were boning up on

1:02:16

the episodes? Yeah. So the unions were

1:02:18

coming. That's hilarious. Yeah, so that's good.

1:02:20

Because, you know, that's all I do

1:02:22

is sit around talk about Winnie the

1:02:25

Pooh. Yeah. You didn't talk about Mama

1:02:27

Cummings anywhere near enough, Jim. I don't

1:02:29

think I've ever heard about her except

1:02:32

right now. Yeah, well, there you go.

1:02:34

Where did she live? Youngstown. Youngstown, Ohio.

1:02:36

Yeah, that's where we're all from. It's

1:02:38

a great, great town, great place to

1:02:41

be from. Did you ever blow up

1:02:43

a car? Very rarely. Not as much

1:02:45

as you'd think. You'd think. You know,

1:02:47

that was, by the way, she's asking

1:02:50

this for a very good reason. There

1:02:52

is such a thing, and I have

1:02:54

to get Eddie O'Neill and boom, boom

1:02:57

on the show one of these days,

1:02:59

some other guys from Youngstown. But anyway,

1:03:01

there was a thing called a Youngstown

1:03:03

tune-up. Why, what was that, Jim? Thanks

1:03:06

for asking. It's when you are... dissatisfied

1:03:10

with someone. Okay. And what you want

1:03:12

to do is just go ahead and

1:03:15

get you a nice long copper wire

1:03:17

and you wrap that first part around

1:03:19

the little red. post on the battery.

1:03:22

Drop it down inside the car, don't

1:03:24

want anybody to see it. That's called

1:03:26

a warning signal, then snake it up

1:03:29

right behind the back tire, open up

1:03:31

the, yeah, the gas, the gas, the

1:03:33

gas cat, and you wrap, go ahead

1:03:36

and wrap it, your favorite delto spark

1:03:38

plug around there. Drop it down inside

1:03:40

now. Don't anybody ever ever do this

1:03:42

in the history of the world because

1:03:45

you're giving a half to video on

1:03:47

how to boss cars? Ask me what

1:03:49

happens when you start the car. When

1:03:52

you start the car Mr. goes boom.

1:03:54

It goes boom. It goes boom. I

1:03:56

need that. So I like the story.

1:03:59

And the person you didn't like, he

1:04:01

goes boom too. Boom, boom, bye, bye.

1:04:03

So yeah, let's see with Debbie here,

1:04:06

I can tell that story and she

1:04:08

makes it sound nice and g-rated. But

1:04:10

that's called a Youngstown tune-up. I can't

1:04:13

believe I just cop to that on.

1:04:15

You didn't. It was just a story.

1:04:17

You heard, you heard, you heard. I

1:04:19

mean, it's not like, I did it's

1:04:22

not like, I did it. I did

1:04:24

it. Much. I hardly ever, I mean

1:04:26

I never did that. No. No. There's

1:04:29

a whole other side to Jimmy that

1:04:31

you think you know? No. Maybe not.

1:04:33

No, I was selling. No, you were

1:04:36

selling pots and pans. Cots and pans.

1:04:38

Yes. It's coming back to me now.

1:04:40

So Jimmy Neutron, that's gotta be your

1:04:43

most popular character at the conventions when

1:04:45

you go? You know, it is, I'm

1:04:47

gonna get pretty here for a minute.

1:04:49

Yes, yes. I'll tell you. It used

1:04:52

to just be Jimmy Neutron was the

1:04:54

very most popular. But Dracula is right

1:04:56

on there with him. That's right. That's

1:04:59

right. But we'll talk about Jimmy Neutron

1:05:01

because that's been the thing. Like my

1:05:03

whole life, you hope for a show

1:05:06

that they know you for. Like you're

1:05:08

Winnie the Pooh, the signature. And that

1:05:10

was Jimmy Neutron. And can we hear

1:05:13

some? Ah sure, it's Jimmy Neutron and

1:05:15

I'm gonna be with Carl Weiser and

1:05:17

my friend, uh, uh, what's his name,

1:05:20

Shane, and we're gonna head over to

1:05:22

the candy bar in my hovercraft. Okay,

1:05:24

uh, oh, you can flute, oh God,

1:05:26

or did you just poop bolts? Okay,

1:05:29

got a blast! Yeah, he's my favorite

1:05:31

of yours. Yeah, he really is. Thank

1:05:33

you, Jim. Yeah, he's so much fun

1:05:36

to do. Because he's so, so, Ruffin

1:05:38

Ready, he's ready to go, you know,

1:05:40

I mean, it's got that cute little

1:05:43

kid atmosphere that everybody just loves. Well,

1:05:45

he's my little boy song's texture. Because

1:05:47

everybody else who auditioned for him could

1:05:50

do their, their textured voice with their

1:05:52

gravel. And I don't have that. So

1:05:54

when I auditioned, I was like, well,

1:05:57

I'll do sort of. sideways voice thing

1:05:59

out of the side. And you know,

1:06:01

when if you listen to women and

1:06:03

12 year old boys or 11 year

1:06:06

olds, they sound the same. It's really

1:06:08

just the character that you embody. Yeah,

1:06:10

it was the worst thing when my

1:06:13

voice was changing as a kid. And

1:06:15

I answer the phone and I go.

1:06:17

Hello? And they go, hi Sal, how

1:06:20

you doing? How you doing? I go,

1:06:22

I'm not sad. I'm not my mom.

1:06:24

I'm Jimmy. Can't you tell by my

1:06:27

mentally voice? Exactly. But boy, yeah, that

1:06:29

was painful. I don't ever remember having

1:06:31

a high voice. My voice was, it

1:06:33

was deep when I was like really

1:06:36

young. A born with a deep voice?

1:06:38

I remember what it felt like to

1:06:40

scream. That was like one weird thing.

1:06:43

Because like as a kid, as a

1:06:45

young boy, you can scream like a

1:06:47

girl. But then one day that just

1:06:50

goes away. And like you remember the

1:06:52

feeling like in your throat. And it's

1:06:54

a weird thing to just not be

1:06:57

able to do anymore. It's like, oh

1:06:59

yeah. I used to be able to

1:07:01

like blood curtling, high pitch scream. And

1:07:04

then one day is just not existing

1:07:06

anymore. Well, at least you don't have

1:07:08

to do that much. It's been what,

1:07:10

23 years now, because I was pregnant

1:07:13

when I got him. But, you know,

1:07:15

people ask you, did you, did I,

1:07:17

was I excited to book such a

1:07:20

great role? But we book things all

1:07:22

the time and we don't know if

1:07:24

they're gonna launch, if they're gonna become

1:07:27

classic, you don't know. Because there was

1:07:29

no previous. No, he was Johnny Quasar

1:07:31

and they were doing a 10-minute interstitial.

1:07:34

It came to me, they said, here's

1:07:36

a VHS tape. Except for they had

1:07:38

a copyright infringement and they had to

1:07:41

move it made to Jimmy neutron But

1:07:43

the the animation it was nothing like

1:07:45

I like nothing I'd ever seen you

1:07:47

know It was so cool. It was

1:07:50

a first CGI cartoon ever And when

1:07:52

it came out on the 10-minute VHS

1:07:54

the VCR what do you call it

1:07:57

a BHS? I was like this looks

1:07:59

really good I like it. I hope

1:08:01

they do something with it. So they

1:08:04

made another 10-minuteer and another 10-minuteer. And

1:08:06

then, tada, we get to do a

1:08:08

feature. I thought, well that's fun to

1:08:11

do a feature film. Of course, I

1:08:13

don't really watch any Star Trek so

1:08:15

I didn't know all the great people

1:08:18

they were in the feature with me,

1:08:20

but it was super fun to do

1:08:22

a feature and then a series and

1:08:24

then, you know. one thing

1:08:27

after another. But when you book

1:08:29

it, you don't go, ah, I'm

1:08:31

the new voice of making my

1:08:34

house. It's not like that. Right,

1:08:36

right, right. It's just another. Well,

1:08:38

you never know if it's project.

1:08:41

It hasn't gone anywhere yet, because

1:08:43

you haven't done one. But I

1:08:45

think the combination of all the

1:08:48

really amazing voice actors, and sometimes

1:08:50

you just get a magic chemistry,

1:08:52

you know, that just works. And

1:08:54

between the, John Davis, the producer

1:08:57

creator, and between, you know, the

1:08:59

cast, Rob, and Jeff Garcia, Mark

1:09:01

De Carlo, and Megan Kavanaugh, Carol,

1:09:04

and Lawrence, and me, and just,

1:09:06

something about the chemistry and the

1:09:08

writers. Good stuff. Yeah,

1:09:10

I mean I'm grateful every day

1:09:13

for Jim and Euchon. That was

1:09:15

a heck of a thing. Yeah,

1:09:17

yeah, yeah. I imagine he's popular

1:09:19

at cons. He is. And you

1:09:21

know what's very cool after last

1:09:23

year, after 22 years, it happened

1:09:25

that Funco made a pop of

1:09:28

Jimmy Neutron. Oh wow, what took

1:09:30

him so long? Hello? I don't

1:09:32

know Funco, but thanks. I'm glad

1:09:34

you made one. Yeah. We rate

1:09:36

ourselves on how many pops there

1:09:38

are out there of our cartoon

1:09:40

characters. That's right. Yeah, I think

1:09:43

I might be up to five.

1:09:45

It's not bad. It's pretty good.

1:09:47

It's all right. Yeah, you just

1:09:50

never know. I'm hoping that next

1:09:52

year I'll have another one to

1:09:54

add to it, but we can't

1:09:56

talk about a lot of the

1:09:58

stuff we do, can we? Yeah,

1:10:01

until it's done and everybody else

1:10:03

knows about it. Yeah. But that's

1:10:05

okay. Because they'll know. So, uh...

1:10:07

So, yeah. Jimmy Neutron wanted to

1:10:10

ask Poo a couple things. Oh,

1:10:12

did he? Oh, did he now?

1:10:14

Okay. So, uh, excuse me, uh,

1:10:16

who, where are you there? Oh,

1:10:18

yes. Hi, it's Jimmy Neutron, I'm

1:10:21

sure you don't know me, but

1:10:23

I was trying to synthesize a

1:10:25

synthetic honey, and I wanted to

1:10:27

know what your favorite characteristics of

1:10:29

it were so that I could

1:10:32

work on it in my lab.

1:10:34

I don't know what sympathetic honey

1:10:36

is, but it sounds very tasty.

1:10:38

Well, what's your favorite part about

1:10:40

the taste of honey? Who? The

1:10:43

part where I taste the honey?

1:10:45

Okay, uh, and do you find

1:10:47

it's a problem having it be

1:10:49

so sticky because I was thinking

1:10:51

I could create a honey that

1:10:54

wouldn't be sticky that we could

1:10:56

just like slide off like oil?

1:10:58

Not sticky. But I like it

1:11:00

when only the sticky part is

1:11:02

left, because you see, that means

1:11:05

I've had it all. So leave

1:11:07

the sticky. Well, all right, poo.

1:11:09

I'm going to work on it

1:11:11

anyway, because I don't like to

1:11:14

clean up the mess. Well, I

1:11:16

don't blame you, because tickers do

1:11:18

not like honey, not like poo

1:11:20

bears. It's icky, sticky, gooey stuff.

1:11:22

It's only fit for hefalumps and

1:11:25

woosles. And the occasional neutronner. You

1:11:27

know, Tigger, I wondered if you

1:11:29

would like to have a race

1:11:31

with me and my hovercraft. Tickers

1:11:33

don't hover. Do Tiggers run fast?

1:11:36

No, but they could bounce their

1:11:38

little patutskies off. So let's do

1:11:40

that. I don't know where the

1:11:42

patutsk is located, but I'm ready

1:11:44

to dance it off or bounce

1:11:47

it off. Yeah, well, you know

1:11:49

bubble troubles the way of the

1:11:51

future. There

1:11:54

you go. You've got your neutron.

1:11:56

Pooh. Yes, you do. Got the

1:11:58

convo. Have we missed anything? don't

1:12:01

think so. The last thing is

1:12:03

the voice swap. We do a

1:12:05

little, we do a little voice

1:12:07

swap game. It's similar, similar. Oh

1:12:09

yes. So Jim will do like

1:12:11

a quote as poo and then

1:12:13

you'll do the same quote as

1:12:15

Jimmy Neutron, for example, and then

1:12:18

switch, like then you'll do the

1:12:20

line as Jimmy Neutron and then

1:12:22

Jim will do another character. You

1:12:24

know, quote swapping. Yeah, yeah, quote

1:12:26

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now. Okay, why don't

1:12:50

we go with Honda-O-Naka from

1:12:52

Star Wars Rebels and Clomos?

1:12:54

Okay, yeah. Hondo-O-Naka. He's my

1:12:56

only, he's my Star Wars

1:12:58

connection. Hondo-Hondo-Naka. Honda Onaka. Yeah,

1:13:01

that's his name. And he's

1:13:03

a bounty hunter, or actually

1:13:05

he's a kind of a

1:13:07

pirate, but a good guy

1:13:09

for the heart of gold.

1:13:11

And I remember one time

1:13:14

he was in a bar,

1:13:16

a very Disney friendly bar,

1:13:18

of course, but he, I'm

1:13:20

trying to get the line

1:13:22

here. Oh yeah. Somebody picked

1:13:24

this guy above the floor.

1:13:27

He sprung a leak. Oh,

1:13:29

somebody picked this guy up

1:13:31

off the floor! I think

1:13:33

he sprung a leak. Or,

1:13:35

Carl, did you have an

1:13:37

oopsie moment? Probably. That was

1:13:40

my bad rob. It

1:13:42

was my sad Rob Paulson. Okay,

1:13:44

now your turn. The voice of

1:13:46

Carl makes me sad. Whenever I

1:13:48

hear Rob do it, it's like,

1:13:50

it makes me feel sad for

1:13:52

him. It makes me feel sad.

1:13:54

It's like hearing a pathetic little

1:13:56

kid. Yeah, it's like hearing like

1:13:58

a puppy, like cry, like, ugh.

1:14:00

It's got a. apology in it.

1:14:02

Yeah, and you can hear it

1:14:04

from anywhere. You can be in

1:14:06

like the convention center. You can

1:14:08

hear it when it does. That's

1:14:10

what Philip in F. is for

1:14:13

family does. Thank you again, Rob,

1:14:15

for that. Yeah. And so now

1:14:17

we flip-flop? Yeah, how about you

1:14:19

do a Dracula? A Dracula line.

1:14:21

Okay. You look fantastic! I will

1:14:23

see you with monster-high, cool friend!

1:14:26

You look fantastic! Fantastic!

1:14:28

I will see what Mount

1:14:31

Dracul friend past the

1:14:33

honey. Very good! Well,

1:14:35

it was better than like

1:14:37

past the hemoglobin. Past

1:14:39

the hemoglobin, past the

1:14:41

pasta plasma. It's not the

1:14:44

same. It's just not

1:14:46

the same. Should we

1:14:48

do one more? One more?

1:14:50

Okay. Are you game?

1:14:52

What character? Dealer's choice.

1:14:54

The alien. Oh. Pick

1:14:58

me, pick me! The

1:15:00

claw! The claw! When

1:15:05

you record that voice, would they

1:15:07

just take the same, same like

1:15:09

how you just record it and

1:15:11

double it a bunch of times

1:15:13

or would it be a bunch

1:15:15

of different takes to put together?

1:15:18

It was a group group. It

1:15:20

was a bunch of us going

1:15:22

up to the mic and John

1:15:24

Lasseter is like, go do those

1:15:26

aliens and we all have to

1:15:28

the mic to do them. And

1:15:31

when you're looping a show like

1:15:33

that or dubbing in the after

1:15:35

characters, you never know whose voice

1:15:37

they're gonna pick. You just watch

1:15:39

the movie afterwards and you go,

1:15:41

They picked me! But they picked

1:15:43

a bunch of us, you know?

1:15:46

Yeah, interesting. Is it me and

1:15:48

Jess are now? And I don't

1:15:50

know who else, Mickey had us

1:15:52

up there. Yeah, I haven't done

1:15:54

with any looping in years. That

1:15:56

was so fun, the looping is

1:15:59

really fun. It's a lot of

1:16:01

energy. And it's hard because you're

1:16:03

sitting on a sofa like this.

1:16:05

It's dark. There's all kinds of

1:16:07

snacks and treats. and Lorraine Newman's

1:16:09

over there telling you what to

1:16:11

do. Yeah. Our dear buddy. Very

1:16:14

cool. Dear Lorraine, the best screamer

1:16:16

in the business. Were we going

1:16:18

to do another? Yes, let's do.

1:16:20

I did the claw. I did

1:16:22

it. It was your turn. Oh,

1:16:24

no, wait a minute. Give me

1:16:27

some claw again. The claw. Pick

1:16:29

me. How about bonkers? Declar! Declar!

1:16:31

Pick me! Pick me! Please, lucky!

1:16:33

Anyway, Bob Christie Bobkite, the first

1:16:35

tune detective in to in town.

1:16:37

I don't know if you knew

1:16:39

that. I didn't. I'm always learning

1:16:42

something new about the amazing Jim

1:16:44

Cummings. Oh yeah, there you go.

1:16:46

Jimmy, thank you for having me

1:16:48

on your show. It's been so

1:16:50

great to be here. It's so

1:16:52

nice to have you. I'm gonna

1:16:55

put this on my resume, I

1:16:57

was on Jimmy coming, podcast, tuned

1:16:59

in. And I'm gonna put it

1:17:01

on my resume. I'll see you

1:17:03

guys on IMDB. That's right. IMDB.

1:17:05

I like it. IMDB. Right, right.

1:17:07

IMDB pro. Yeah. Gotta have pro.

1:17:10

You gotta see the connections and

1:17:12

the star meter. Excellent. Yeah. Oh,

1:17:14

you know, I'm up a thousand

1:17:16

since last week. Damn it. Nice.

1:17:18

You ever been down below a

1:17:20

thousand? I don't know.

1:17:23

Probably not. Is it good or bad

1:17:25

to be? It's like golf lowers better.

1:17:27

Oh, well then I'm sure I'm up

1:17:29

in the Bagrillians. Yeah, I'm hovering in

1:17:31

the 17,000 range. Yeah, that's good. That's

1:17:34

a pretty good hover. Oh, I do,

1:17:36

you know, I know what you're talking

1:17:38

about now, I think, or maybe I

1:17:40

don't. But for a while, and somebody

1:17:42

else told me this, I was, number

1:17:45

six. on the star meter and it

1:17:47

had nothing to do with me. I

1:17:49

just so happened to be in a

1:17:51

bunch of movies in which I either

1:17:54

sang a song or you know past

1:17:56

gas or did whatever. I know you're

1:17:58

talking about the. earners, the highest income,

1:18:00

that's a different meter. But yes, when

1:18:02

they say, this person's worth this much

1:18:05

money. And you know, you've never started

1:18:07

on your mind. They lied by the

1:18:09

way. The money part. Okay, Samuel Jackson

1:18:11

was number one. They weren't lying about

1:18:14

him. Me is number seven. Pretty big

1:18:16

lie. Yeah, I mistake my bank account

1:18:18

for Sam Jackson's all the time. Me

1:18:20

too. Yeah. And then they, then he

1:18:22

hits me over the head and tells

1:18:25

me to turn around a little funny

1:18:27

cartoon man. You've done it? And that

1:18:29

is it. And I think that concludes

1:18:31

this morning service. Yes. Debbie Dairy, Barry,

1:18:33

ladies and gentlemen, once again, another round

1:18:36

of applause. Thanks, buddy. Thanks, Jimmy. Yeah.

1:18:38

We did good. So I would love

1:18:40

it if you guys would follow me

1:18:42

on my tick-talk at Debbie Dairy-Berry. I'm

1:18:45

going to have them spell it out

1:18:47

for you because it's kind of hard

1:18:49

space, say that name. And my Instagram

1:18:51

is at Debbie Dairy-Berry-Berry-Berry, kids. Thanks. Great.

1:18:53

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