WEBVTT - The Voice of Rob Paulsen 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:04.560 Hey, Christy, Hey Will, how are you? I'm doing so great. 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:09.280 Today's guest was just such a rainbow. He really is. 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:12.240 It's a strange way to to describe him, but yes 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:14.640 he is. And normally we would do our intro at 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:18.160 the beginning, but I'm away and I had some technical issues, 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:20.280 so we got to talk to this amazing man first 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:23.600 and now we're enjoying him second. But who's our guest today? 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:27.080 Oh man, it's the one, the only Rob Paulson. Wait 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:31.520 to hear this. Hi guys, Hey, how are you? Hey buddy, 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:33.960 this is the coolest thing. So for everybody here at 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:35.720 I Hear Voices. The first thing we need to say 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:41.080 is that this show would absolutely not exist without our 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:45.159 guest today, because one of the greatest shows in history 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:48.200 for anybody who loved animation was Talking Tunes. Oh God, 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:50.080 bless you well man by the way you lowered your 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:52.200 standards enough to get on to come on my show. 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:55.600 That's not you're kidding. You know how honored I was 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:57.920 to be able to sit there with you. And without 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:00.440 Talking Tunes, I Hear Voices would not exist. So credit 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:02.880 where credit is due. We were trying to to pick 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:05.360 up the torch, which is absolutely impossible to do after 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:09.880 having such a brilliant show, So thank you for joining us. Hello, Christie, 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:11.120 nice to see it loves to have a lot of 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:13.680 foudu in the water tower. Look at that beautiful smile. Wow, 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:19.119 I am really excited to me because I'm a huge 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:22.000 fan of yours. You look pretty normal size to me. 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:26.120 But thank you very much. All of this is uh 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:30.960 is just well, you know, well, anytime anytime anyone takes 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:34.720 a moment to express their appreciation for something that you 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:38.120 were paid to do for free, um you would have 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:41.480 done for free, is a is a profound compliment. And 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:43.600 I I love it when people say, well, I know 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:46.000 you hear this all the time, but it's the first 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:49.720 time I heard it from you, and it's always incredibly 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:52.040 flattering and humbling. So thank you, Christie. It's very strange. 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:55.840 One of the things that's so strange and and wonderful. Uh. 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:59.160 And and you know, anytime there's anything terrible like the pandemic, 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:01.760 you try to look for positives wherever you can And 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:03.360 one of the things that came out that was so 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:06.560 positive was a whole new group of people found animation. 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:13.720 Hey man, it has blown up off rightfully so the 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:17.000 most talented actors you will ever meet in history, from 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:20.079 any genre of acting. You want to pick our bar 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:21.959 non voice over actors. I will say that till the 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.919 day I beg if they are the best ever. And 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:27.000 people they're starting to get there due just a little bit. 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:29.120 And when you're at a convention and you're seeing on 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:31.480 camera actors with a decent line of people, and then 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:35.480 the voice over actors with people down the street, you 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:38.959 realize you are finally getting their due. Isn't that something? Uh? 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:43.120 It is. I started my career in in Hollywood forty 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:47.880 four years ago, uh, ostensibly to do what I had 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.000 done at theater, guide music and all that. So I 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:53.320 came out and was doing TV and movies and a 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:58.359 lot of commercials on camera. H But as you know, well, um, 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:01.800 you know, average looking Caucasian kids from Michigan or a 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:05.120 diamond doesn't Uh. Some are talented, some art and sometimes 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:08.720 it doesn't matter, especially when commercials are small parts on television. 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:11.400 If you fit the suit, you got a shot. Um. 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:16.160 But I'll tell you what. Everybody loves cartoons virtually, and 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:19.600 when I got here, cartoons were pretty much relegated to 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:23.160 Saturday morning. The Three networks. Um, and so they were 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:25.280 literally a handful of actors who were fortunate up to 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:28.560 do them all and rightfully so June Foray and now 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:34.079 blank and you know does Butler and just legends over 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:37.040 and over and over and over again. Um. So in 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:40.640 the mid eighties, I think my agent, uh called. By 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:42.680 the way, I'm still represented by them. They still haven't 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:44.520 figured it out that they should. Don't be a long 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:47.800 time ago, but um they said, have you ever thought 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:51.640 about auditioning for animation as well? Sure, but it's that 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:55.040 gig is closed. Well, you know, things are starting to change. 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:59.600 Of course, this was before uh the Internet, before HBO, 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:04.040 certainly before Cartoon Network anything. So the first show I 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:08.320 went to audition forward shows were g I Joe and Transformers, 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:13.200 and I got a gig, and I remember just minor characters. 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:18.920 I called my agent literally when I found a phone booth, um, 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:23.400 and I said, do whatever it takes, send me out 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.640 for more of this. The first thing I noticed when 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:29.160 I walked into this room of wonderful actors, several of 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:32.479 whom where people I recognized from episodic television. You know, 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:38.200 Bob Rigiley or Bill Daily or Marsha Wallace, whomever. And 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:40.000 the second thing I noticed is that they were not 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:45.160 only obviously gifted, but they were utterly unencumbered by how 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:48.960 they looked. They were monsters and you know, bad guys, 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:54.000 good guys singing, not singing exactly why kids begin acting 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:57.760 in the first place. It's literally like high tech sandbox. 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:01.440 And I thought, man on, man, now you're talking. Nobody 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:04.480 gives up Pardner. You know what what I'm looking like? Um, 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:10.520 I was only limited by my chops, my willingness to 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:12.560 be fearless, small enough, you know what I mean, but 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:15.120 not not worry about how I looked, at how I 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:17.440 came across, and by getting the right angle or or 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:20.200 my teeth, none of that. It was literally like being 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:22.480 a kid saying, all right, you be the monster, and 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:25.120 I'm gonna be the guy to kill the monster. That's 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:28.440 what it was. And oh my god, it really was 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:32.360 like like somebody had shown a light on this is 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:36.400 the reason you came to Hollywood. Uh. And honestly, now, 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:39.880 when I'm old enough to be pretty much everybody's grandfather, 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:42.279 people don't know. People don't know that I was the 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:47.520 entertainment at the last time. Pretty old I was checky 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:52.960 of arimathea, you know, but sit down, Judas, that's exactly 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:55.119 and you know what it was, Jesus, what a party, 0:05:55.160 --> 0:06:00.160 and you know it was. It was great. But nonetheless, Uh, 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:06.359 now that I'm older, I'm young enough to travel around 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:08.599 the world doing what I'm doing now getting a chance 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:10.680 to meet people, as you had alluded to earlier. Well, 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:14.440 these fantastic conventions, which are so ubiquitous, they're springing up 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:16.160 like it's on a twelve year old. I couldn't be 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:20.080 more excited. The stories we hear over and over again, 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:24.400 you guys, is the extent to which these characters connect 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:28.680 with people. It got me through this my father died. 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:32.400 We used to watch it together, you name it. And 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.760 it is so much bigger than my paycheck. It is 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:38.040 so much bigger than an action figure or rating point. 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:41.320 And as long as I can do this physically and 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:44.800 travel around, I can't get enough of it. It is 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:51.480 after the pandemic and increcredible reminder of not only how 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:55.280 fortunate we all are to do this gig, but our 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:59.320 work really is important. It really is, and oh my god, 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:01.800 you guys can't enough of it. Well, it's also the 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:04.680 thing that's amazing is it's generational, which is something that 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:07.280 I love so and every generation really believes that they 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.760 have their own, their best, their best cartoons. And with 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:15.360 the funny thing is mine does um so everything, So 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:17.040 everything you've done when we're talking about we can get 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:18.480 and we're going to get into Pinky and the Brain 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:21.440 and all this stuff obviously, but when you say the 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:27.760 first thing you did was G I Joe's, I had 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.640 to run home to watch G I Joe. I would 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:33.480 cry when I missed G I Joe. I mean it 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:34.880 was one of those things where this was back in 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:37.640 the day where there was one VCR and somebody had 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:39.320 it on the streets. So it wasn't you couldn't. You 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:43.560 didn't record anything. There was no no YouTube, no DVDs. 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:46.720 If you caught the show, you caught the show. If 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:49.560 you didn't, you didn't. But the idea that you got 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:53.440 to do G I Joe and Transformers, and that was 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:57.040 during the ThunderCats and he Man and silver Hawks. I 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:59.880 mean again that those that's my jam, that's my that's 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:02.400 it got me into those cartoons. So I've got to 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:05.360 know a little bit about what it was like to 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:08.480 record G I Joe. Oh well, I walked in and 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:11.600 Charlie Avert, the lovely Charlie Adder, who just had a 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:14.600 birthday I think the day before yesterday. Uh Charlie and 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:21.520 I meant on G I Joe five six um and 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:26.160 Uh Charlie came from a heavy duty Broadway background and 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:30.520 my background was live theater music and then commercials in 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:34.840 l a um. But we were both really really excited. 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:36.920 And as a kid, when I was a kid, G 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:39.320 I Joe was an action figure for boys. It was 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.080 like about that talk. Of course you always said, oh 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.040 it's like a Kendall. No, it's not a doll. It's 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:49.000 an acid figure and one of which I had. So 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.960 as soon as my agent said G I Joe, I said, oh, 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.560 I am so in yeah, try and stop me. So 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:57.760 I got hired to do a character called snow Job, 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:03.880 who was, uh, like I, a Nordic winter soldier, you know. 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:05.679 So he was. He was the Polar. He was a 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:10.160 polar Polar ranger. Came with the sled with the snowmobile 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:12.240 and he did check this out, Christie. He came with 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:15.920 the sled. He was all dressed in white, a white 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:19.439 a white weapon, okay, and he's got a white hood. 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:22.280 So everything is gonna meld in a mission with the 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:24.880 snow sea. You can't see, but what they also don't 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:29.640 tell you. He's got a bright red beer and so 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:33.880 he's like a real Santa Clause. Well said, thank you, 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:37.320 Well said a little more spelled from Boston. And so 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:40.200 I really thinking to myself, Yeah, as much as I 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:42.040 as much as I want to do this gig and 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:44.880 Ruski with half a half a link of being able 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:46.959 to fire his weapon could not be off in three 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:50.720 hundred yards, you know. But every single time you guys 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:54.240 walked in, I could not wait to get to the 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.880 the studio. And every time I saw the people whom 0:09:56.920 --> 0:10:02.440 I you know, um, Peter Cullen, Frank Welker, over and 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:04.640 over and over again and natily, did I know I 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.040 was going to have a really great experience. I was 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:11.480 going to have just a fun experience because you know 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:16.680 these folks and they're so talented, but they're also uh 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:25.480 just the nicest, most accepting, zero pretense, no arrogance. Uh. 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:27.880 I really truly felt like I'd won the lottery. And 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:30.960 I was so thrilled to get g I Joe because 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:34.079 it was a big deal for me. And then they 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:36.719 called me had this, we're doing this other thing called Transformers, 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:40.280 and so I go and become an aerial bot. And 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:45.480 to this day when I go to UH conventions, people 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:47.320 come up to me with I didn't even know that 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:51.200 there was a snow Job action figure? Are you kidding? 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:56.360 My god? How about that? Yeah? I do, my god. 0:10:56.440 --> 0:11:03.200 They're they're incredibly uh they become incredibly um. If you 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.760 can find a brand new with the bubble thing still 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:10.719 on it focks and has the card to the back 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:12.520 and he tells you the whole back story of everybody 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:14.839 was to save the cards. You could, you could cut 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:16.280 them out and save the cards. And I had all 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.120 the cards and all the guys, and it was I 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.840 was that kid. I mean that g I Joe, especially 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:26.360 G I Joe, Transformers, mask um, those were all like 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:28.520 you said, that's it was just commercials for the toys. 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.760 But that's all that's all I cared about. It was 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:34.080 the greatest thing in the world. So that's that was 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:37.679 my You you change my life in that way. You 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:40.600 That's what it was. That's what it was when you 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:44.120 were What I find interesting about the rooms that we 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:47.200 all work in as voice actors and the community of 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:50.200 people just obviously who were so talented and supportive. We 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:53.440 hear this time and time again. But do you feel like, 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:56.280 I know, some movies it's almost like life imitates art. 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:59.120 But with g I, Joe, did you feel like it 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:04.320 was a more math skilling kind of recording process or five? Well, yeah, 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:06.600 I mean totally. I was trying to be you know, 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:09.800 uh in terms of the context of the character, trying 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:11.520 to be, you know, a badass. Now that I had 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:13.599 my little had a sort of a down east, the 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.560 sort of accent there from up and on the northeast, 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:20.760 you know, and and knowing is half the battle, yo, Joe. Um, 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:23.720 it was the coolest thing in the world. But that's 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:27.080 the thing. I'm five nine and a half of buck fifty. 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:30.920 Nobody is going to be intimidated by me, Christie, at 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:35.079 least with respect to my you know, bad ashes. Um. 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:37.920 But man, I I can well, like well all of 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:39.800 you questioned, not just well you too, Christie, all of 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:43.560 us can play characters, uh, for whom we would never 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:48.960 be considered on camera ever. And UM. To to have 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:54.000 that experience still and now to be able to see 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:58.360 generational I was this weekend I was with Maurice la Marshall, 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:01.079 we're doing a thing in Ohio. Oh my god, with 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:03.720 Pinky in the brain and g I Joe. We have 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:09.719 three generations grandparents who are sixty five, who were thirty 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:12.880 when the shows came out, wash them in college or whatever, 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:14.880 had a couple of beers or drank the bong water 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:18.520 and watched cartoons, you know, And now they have their 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:24.240 children and grandchildren and they're all yeah, yeah, And people say, well, 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:27.880 you know, I got to tell you now thinking they drink. Dude. 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:32.000 Steven Spielberg is seventy six. He's my boss, you think, 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:34.360 but he gives him a problem for being the biggest 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:37.280 richest nerd in Hollywood. Of course not. But these are 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:44.640 utterly uh, not at all. I'm what I'm trying to say. 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:50.080 It's not at all inappropriate for anybody to watch cartoons. 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:52.960 My god. If I if I watch Bamby now, I 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:55.520 still fall apart when he starts, when Babby starts screaming 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:58.920 for his mom, I always do course, does that happen 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:01.280 like the Babby's mom is dead by? Like the credits, 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:03.560 by the way, exactly what a way to start a 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:06.360 film that's like, my popcorn is not even done? What 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:11.240 are you doing. I love that that as well, stated 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:16.360 so perfectly at the beginning the incredible platinum lining for 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:20.200 people in our business Visa v COVID is exactly that 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:22.520 that it drove people to kind of go, well, you 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:23.920 know what, I haven't watched G I Joe in a 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:25.280 million years. Let me see if I could paint it 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:27.920 on YouTube. Oh my god, what this dude, I've got? All? 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:33.440 G I jo was on YouTube's and it absolutely has 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:38.520 blown my mind how how marvelous these characters hold up 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:42.200 forever and the extent to which they inspired brand new 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:46.200 creators to go to all these lengths because there's so 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:48.720 much technology now that they can use that never was 0:14:48.760 --> 0:15:00.560 available all those years ago. You know what's funny is 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:03.560 I I constantly remind myself and my my wife joke. 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:04.920 My wife and I joke about this the whole time, 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:06.680 because it's kind of like a motto I live by. 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:10.160 There is a very big difference between childish and childlike, 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:16.000 and cartoons and animation are the perfect way to remain 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:19.920 childlike for as long as you want. In defense though 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.920 of the nerd Dum, I also think like something that's 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:25.720 brought me to animation time and time again, is is 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:28.960 the art of it, right? I mean every everything that 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:31.800 we see that you've done, it's like different, you know, 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:35.240 everything is just a little Yeah, Ninja Turtles is not 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:37.880 pinky in the brain. We're not even getting into Ninja 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:40.480 Turtles yet we got that much, so much I can't 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:43.920 even it's so much to talk about, um, but no, 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:47.600 but it is. It's it sounds ridiculous, but coming from 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:49.200 on camera and Rob you did this as well, and 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:51.720 Christie you did this as well, you can get burnt 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:54.560 out very quickly. And the industry becomes the industry and 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:57.640 it's this machine. And it's like you forget about the 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:00.280 love of acting in the love and you and then 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:03.280 all of a sudden you're in a booth yeah, and 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.680 then next thing you know, you're like, wow, this is 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:10.680 what I wanted the whole time, is just acting well. 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:12.520 And how many times do you guys, both of you 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:15.640 here as on camera's talent, how many times you meet 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:19.280 people who are primarily doing on camera gigs and they 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:23.680 just said, oh my god, who who duration I so bad? 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:27.400 They want to do Simpsons? Are you know family Guy 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:32.560 or whatever? And big actors too, big actors time? How 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:34.080 do you get that gig. How do you do that? 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:35.800 How do I get that? And it's like, oh, give 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:39.280 you my agents name, sir, who's won two Academy Awards. Absolutely, 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.200 I mean we did up. I was Donna Tello in 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:45.480 a two thousand and twelve version of Nickelodeon of Turtles 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:48.960 at Nickelodeon and the last season, a thirteen episode arc 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:52.240 and I get to work one day and David Tennant 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:56.000 is they're doing this particular bad guy. And of course 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:59.400 I'm a huge fan of broad Church and let alone 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:03.080 the doctor or who would all be? So I said, Dave, 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:05.320 what a pleasure? Oh man, thank you? And I said, 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:10.040 I said, I we are real. Did you'd be here? 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:12.840 And he said it was absolutely a little bit sort 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:15.280 of non plus not in a really horrible but he said, 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:19.920 this is Ninja Turtles. And it wasn't. It wasn't like, well, 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:23.000 it's turtles. He was, no, this is Ninja turtles. Man 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:28.399 um anybody John Cena was on it, um um. It 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:35.800 just yeah, And it lasts for utterly forever. That silly 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:38.640 little song. I shouldn't say silly that song. I sang 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:46.240 an animaniaction with all the countries of the world that 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:52.240 that that song has now as a stand alone several 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:57.120 piece of modern animation art period. End of story. It's 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:02.440 about to three minutes it and of course it was 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:05.159 very glad to sing it. But the hard part. We 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:06.960 live in Hollywood, you guys. You can throw a dark 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:08.960 and get a good singer. What you can't do is 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:12.560 throw a darkness somebody to write that stuff. And that 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:16.720 is such a testament to great writing, great animation. Uh. 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:20.679 And you don't have to know animaniacs exactly, Christie. You 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:25.200 ain't got to know nothing about Warner Brothers animation, animaniac nothing. 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:27.600 You could watch that and just go, oh my god. 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:31.600 And that that's what I love about about this particular 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:35.280 gig is it's uh, it's sort of not even contextual. 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:40.119 You can watch it for its own reason. Many pieces 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:44.600 and and are many different shows and they are exciting, inspiring, 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:46.880 mind blowing, and they're like you just want to watch 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:49.399 them again and again and again. Well, my one of 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:52.920 my favorite stories Jason Marsden. Um so, my my best 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:55.280 friend Jason, when we were doing Boy Meets World. Um, 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:57.840 the audience, you know, there's a warm up guy for 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:00.240 the audience while they're there, and in between scenes, people 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:02.439 would get up and do Yeah, they get up and 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:06.359 do different um uh talents for the audience. And Jason 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:09.040 would always grab the microphone and do that song every 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:11.000 single week. He just do it in the voice as 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:13.000 much as he could to try to try to emulate you. 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:16.120 And I heard that song over and over and over 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:20.840 from Mr Mark. I just I just love that boy 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:26.200 so much. We did me too. He um. We did 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:29.040 uh you know show together called goof Troop and then 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:31.399 we did the Goofy movie. That was another one of 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:34.960 those things. I don't know. Five six years ago, I 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:37.040 gotta call and Disney said, you guys know all about 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:40.560 d twenty three and the big Disney. We are just there. 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:42.240 We were just there in a couple of weekends. OK. Right, 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:47.000 So they called and said, hey, we're doing a Goofy movie. Um, 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:51.640 you know, retrospective twenty anniversaries. Great. I'd love to come 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:55.400 down you guys. I had no idea how big that 0:19:55.480 --> 0:20:01.080 movie is. Two millions of people huge, And it's not 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:03.760 only a charming little movie. But I know I'm preaching 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:05.480 of the choir. But for all your folks out there, 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:08.240 if you've not seen it, watch it again or watch it. 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:12.640 But but also so um my son is now thirty eight, 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:18.760 but anyone, any young boy with his father, can utterly 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:22.520 relate to the difficulties that both were having. Both Max 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:26.840 and Goofy were having to communicate with It's timeless. It 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:30.320 is about, you know, Max hinding his way and Goofy 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:33.440 went to let go and trying to communicate. Very difficult. 0:20:34.119 --> 0:20:38.560 But those performances Bill Farmer as Goofy and Jason Marsden 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:43.400 as Max, we're nothing short of incredible. They were heartrending, 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:51.120 oh beautiful and almost like human human elements. Absolutely, Christie 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:54.560 and uh, you know you can see Goofy just gosh. 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:56.520 I just don't know. I don't know, honey, I don't 0:20:56.560 --> 0:20:58.160 know what to say to woman. I don't love him 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:03.880 so much. But it's perfect. And yeah, talk about acting 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:08.080 is acting those characters. They're just fine actors. Jason and 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:10.760 Billy are just world class actors. It's not a wonder 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:14.640 that they they do so well because they're really talented. 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:17.760 I remember asking Andrea Romano about that, where I said, 0:21:17.760 --> 0:21:20.240 because you know, working with Andrea, you never know it 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:22.439 was like that, like the teenage meeting Ninja Turtles thing 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:24.000 where you walk in the room and you never knew 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:25.280 the actors that were going to be there, and you 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:26.440 were like, oh my god, I get to work with 0:21:26.520 --> 0:21:28.200 John Ritter, I get to where it was just one 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:30.960 but Robert Patrick, one person after the next. And I 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:33.760 always asked her, I said, what now when you're casting? 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:35.440 You know, with Andrea, I try to get as many 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:37.720 little tidbits from her as that possibly could. And I 0:21:37.800 --> 0:21:39.639 was like, how how do you do your casting? And 0:21:39.680 --> 0:21:42.879 she said, I don't ever cast voice over actors. I 0:21:43.040 --> 0:21:46.600 cast actors. That's it. She's like, some of them can 0:21:46.600 --> 0:21:48.680 do a bunch of voices, some of them can't. But 0:21:48.840 --> 0:21:52.960 I always cast actors, and that's that's the difference. Is 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:55.680 it interesting? If you go down her IMDb of the 0:21:55.720 --> 0:21:59.160 shows on which she was a director, most, I would say, 0:21:59.200 --> 0:22:03.600 most of, not all, All are are iconic shows that 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:06.720 show and the reason they are is because, for example, 0:22:07.280 --> 0:22:09.840 Mark Hamill is a tripic actor. Of course, he's a 0:22:09.840 --> 0:22:14.200 tripic actor. Kevin Conroy is a mind blowing actor, right, 0:22:14.400 --> 0:22:17.760 So Tress McNeil over and over and over and over 0:22:17.800 --> 0:22:21.000 and over again. And so it makes perfect sense that 0:22:21.520 --> 0:22:23.920 not only is she a tripic director, but she knows 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:25.639 that it is not just about to do in the 0:22:25.720 --> 0:22:28.400 funny voice. And I think more and more people, thanks 0:22:28.400 --> 0:22:31.680 to shows like yours, are starting to understand it. Wow. 0:22:31.960 --> 0:22:33.560 Uh And I know you guys get this at all 0:22:33.600 --> 0:22:36.720 the time from young people. Christie, I'm a big fan. 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:38.919 How do I if you get into this? What do 0:22:38.960 --> 0:22:41.800 you suggest I do? I do a really great Bart 0:22:41.880 --> 0:22:46.000 Simpson good for you and and have a blast. But 0:22:46.440 --> 0:22:48.280