Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, I'm Welfer. I'm Christy Carlson Romano, and welcome
Speaker 1: to I Hear Voices. It's a podcast that we're also
Speaker 1: filming on my YouTube channel, and it's going to be
Speaker 1: every week where we're interviewing the most iconic voiceover actors
Speaker 1: of all time. That's right. We're gonna be able to
Speaker 1: put some of the names with the faces and the
Speaker 1: faces with the voices of all the people that you
Speaker 1: grew up watching from some of the most iconic animated
Speaker 1: characters in the history of television and film. Who is
Speaker 1: our guest today? Our guest today? We are starting big, folks,
Speaker 1: we are starting really really big. Uh. Let's say bugs money.
Speaker 1: Let's say Daffy Duck. Let's say twee tweety bird. Let's
Speaker 1: say Marvin the Martian. Let's say gijoel say g I Joe.
Speaker 1: Let's say there's too many to count. Eric Bowsa is here.
Speaker 1: Let's get into it. I hear voice. Do you know
Speaker 1: who we're here with. We're here with Derik Bowsa. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do. Yeah, you play everyone well, you know, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say that I am lucky to just at the
Speaker 1: before the before times to leave the house we called
Speaker 1: we called b c T here before. Uh yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I wouldn't say everyone because there's there's so many
Speaker 1: rules for everyone. Yes, but you play most of them,
Speaker 1: which is the joy of it. This is the wonderfulness. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean at least the ones that um, I like
Speaker 1: to say helped raise me as a child, which is good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is incredib Well, first of all, I would read
Speaker 1: we'll get into some of your your credits here. Um,
Speaker 1: I'd read them all, but we've only got an hour.
Speaker 1: Reading Eric Bows's credits is like reading you know, Jay
Speaker 1: Lenos car list. It's like there should be four but
Speaker 1: there's eight hundreds, which, by the way, you could catch
Speaker 1: him every Tuesday's eating a chicken sandwich at Chick fil
Speaker 1: A in Bourbe learned every single Tuesday. Well, actually, sad story,
Speaker 1: happy story, and uncle of mine passed away recently. That's
Speaker 1: the sad part. The good part is that he was
Speaker 1: a hoarder, just like me, and when he left, he
Speaker 1: left all of his things behind, including this old junker
Speaker 1: of a car, which was a nineteen Pontiac gt O
Speaker 1: with the top down that actually transported him from Toronto, Ontario,
Speaker 1: Canada in in the late sixties early seventies to l A.
Speaker 1: And he's the very same uncle that told me that
Speaker 1: I should move here to work in voice. So when
Speaker 1: he passed away, um, you know, it wasn't like it
Speaker 1: was left for anyone. It was just left. It was
Speaker 1: just left behind. And I talked to my other uncle
Speaker 1: who lives very far away in a land called Orange County,
Speaker 1: and so does anyone want you need a passport and
Speaker 1: an extra from there? That's why, Yeah, exactly, passport, the
Speaker 1: Genie Pass. They call it out no more fast passes.
Speaker 1: It called the Genie Pass. Wow, you would think they'd
Speaker 1: go with Lightning McQueen pass genius, you know, one one
Speaker 1: of the roles that you didn't play. Yeah on the show.
Speaker 1: You know, I know this is the way of the
Speaker 1: voice of artists. As we start five conversations at the
Speaker 1: same time the car, I'll go back in order. So
Speaker 1: the car, I asked my other uncle, is anyone what
Speaker 1: are we doing with this thing? And they he pretty
Speaker 1: much said, it's all yours if you want. You know,
Speaker 1: this thing it was not in pieces, but it was
Speaker 1: definitely as we said. As a car person, you say,
Speaker 1: needs some love fixer. Uh, But talking about Disney. I
Speaker 1: think you're born on one side of the fence, the
Speaker 1: Disney side or the Warner Brothers. Yeah, and I you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm talking to do to Disney kids.
Speaker 1: Quite No. I actually I was a very big loony
Speaker 1: tune you Yeah. Yeah, I have to say, was parked
Speaker 1: in front of the TV for hours and I was
Speaker 1: watching looney Tunes and then it became like more of
Speaker 1: the ren and stimpy, you know what. Woodpecker was my
Speaker 1: jam growing up until I until I got a little
Speaker 1: older and found G. I. Joe, which you've done, But
Speaker 1: until I found G I. Joe at like seven or eight,
Speaker 1: Woody Woodpecker was my thing. Yeah, he was. He was
Speaker 1: a troublemaker. Yeah, And I was kind of like, is
Speaker 1: he a Loony tune? Is he a Hannah Barbara character?
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell him. He was his own little thing.
Speaker 1: And not even like um like Jay Word cartoons like
Speaker 1: Rocky and Bully, they kind of looked like like Hanna Barbara,
Speaker 1: very limited style. But what he kind of was in
Speaker 1: that era of like full animation until like it hit
Speaker 1: the nineties and then it was a little bit more limited. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now it's like very rare that you would get like
Speaker 1: full animation coming from Woody unless Woody Woodpecker is a
Speaker 1: feature film. When you say limited for those out there
Speaker 1: that may not be. Yeah, so like full animation, like
Speaker 1: classic Looney Tunes where it's like they spent like nine
Speaker 1: months making one of those animated shorts, the seven minute ones,
Speaker 1: What's opera doc or any of like the classic ones,
Speaker 1: and none of that was sent overseas. That was all
Speaker 1: done in Hollywood, in Burbank, all by hand, all nothing.
Speaker 1: And you know, us modern artists looked to that as
Speaker 1: a reference, and I'm like, what were they looking at
Speaker 1: when they were making these cartoons? What kind of things
Speaker 1: were in their head they are doing? They were listening
Speaker 1: to the voices and there they probably did like a
Speaker 1: lot of unfiltered tobacco smoking indoors in the ceiling, drinking
Speaker 1: at eleven am their inspiration. Well, actually, do you have um,
Speaker 1: do you have any sort of like has anyone really
Speaker 1: brought you into how Mel sort of conceived of all
Speaker 1: of that or I mean his process was not. I
Speaker 1: mean I think we all have been a part of
Speaker 1: that process. If we're talking about an original idea in
Speaker 1: that sense, yes, if there was an original cartoon show
Speaker 1: with original characters. I'm thinking about something like Uncle Grandpa,
Speaker 1: which was kind of like a very wacky, whimsical cartoon
Speaker 1: network type show. I played a talking Fannie Pack named
Speaker 1: belly Bang, and uh, I was like, I wonder what
Speaker 1: his you know, like what a talking Fannie Pack would
Speaker 1: sound like. And my inspiration for that was like what
Speaker 1: I would sound like if I were a Muppet character.
Speaker 1: So I kind of had this weird voice that sounded
Speaker 1: like this that he immediately became the Lisa Simpson of
Speaker 1: the show. Like no one liked him. They're like, well,
Speaker 1: no one really likes Fannie Packs, right, Like they're coming back.
Speaker 1: Apparently there's gonna be a big there. I see one
Speaker 1: in the in the there they're coming back, So they're
Speaker 1: coming back. That's exactly you could put some VHS was yes, yes,
Speaker 1: but yeah in that sense, yes, original, But as far
Speaker 1: as legacy characters, you know, I guess you kind of
Speaker 1: just want to stay as close to the original character
Speaker 1: as possible, only because so many people, especially for talking
Speaker 1: about Bugs, who's like eighty one years old, they all
Speaker 1: know him like they know, like a relative. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, like, well helped raise generations, but funny helped
Speaker 1: to raise generations of kids. It's again, if you're looking
Speaker 1: at the Warner brother side, you're looking at it's the equivalent.
Speaker 1: You know, you look at someone like Jim Jim Cummings
Speaker 1: and Winnie the Pooh, it's like, it's pretty insane, Like
Speaker 1: how amazing some of my inspirational you know who I
Speaker 1: look up to, like the Billy West's or the Coummings
Speaker 1: of the world, or you know, even someone like Tara
Speaker 1: Strong who does Rocky now for Rocky and Bowling Culture,
Speaker 1: and she does she does her best voice match to
Speaker 1: June four A. But let's go into the beginning. Well,
Speaker 1: that's the thing I wanted to talk to you about,
Speaker 1: because you didn't start as a voice actor. You started
Speaker 1: as an artist, didn't you. I started out as a
Speaker 1: production assistant, and then I slowly started to move away
Speaker 1: from that until like kind of production manager. I know
Speaker 1: how photocopier works pretty good at that, changing the Xerox cartridges.
Speaker 1: But yeah, like production assisting and then like editing I
Speaker 1: was doing. I was editing animatics and sound effects. Had
Speaker 1: you had any schooling prior though, like when your uncle
Speaker 1: told you to come down to California. It was basically
Speaker 1: to fix and take care of his lawn. And then
Speaker 1: and then he saw that I could act, like what
Speaker 1: is that a pencil? Was like yes, but yeah it was.
Speaker 1: It was because he knew that I like to draw
Speaker 1: and and and that was a hobby, you know that
Speaker 1: we're talking about like middle school, elementary school is when
Speaker 1: he first started sending me newspaper I still have all
Speaker 1: these l A Times newspaper clippings of like how well
Speaker 1: the Little Mermaid did in the box office, you know,
Speaker 1: like here's something that you might find interesting and an
Speaker 1: idea thing you should come down here. So he was
Speaker 1: like your mentor kind of yeah, you know, aside from
Speaker 1: the support of my parents, who were you know, you're
Speaker 1: talking about immigrants from the Philippines that were like trying
Speaker 1: to find a better life. And at that time, you know,
Speaker 1: late sixties, early seventies, and I'm sure you can attest
Speaker 1: from your folks advice. The better job was go to school,
Speaker 1: become a lawyer, become a doctor. Yeah, that's all we got.
Speaker 1: That's it. Going to dead yeah, yeah, no job after
Speaker 1: the fixed people or soup people, that's that's that's that
Speaker 1: was it were your parents first generation. Yeah, they were,
Speaker 1: they were born and raised. I was not. I was
Speaker 1: born in Toronto. I've never been to the Philippines. If
Speaker 1: I went, I would stick out like a sore thumb.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you were like that guy eats. So you
Speaker 1: were interested in the animation then you you were watching it.
Speaker 1: Would you remember watching your first Bugs Buddy cartoon or
Speaker 1: you know again eighties and nineties, right, we were exposed
Speaker 1: to some of the first way as of Looney Tunes
Speaker 1: in syndication, So it was kind of like a Saturday
Speaker 1: morning thing where you're like, wow, like these are really
Speaker 1: good cartoons, and then they would be shown right next
Speaker 1: to you know, like the eighties PLC they call them
Speaker 1: program length commercials, which are kind of like I mean,
Speaker 1: Ducktails was really cool because it was like comic strip.
Speaker 1: But you're talking more which which we worked on all
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. Let's yeah, and and boy did
Speaker 1: it work even Jim and Jim, So were you when
Speaker 1: you were a kid that great? Were silver Hawks? Let
Speaker 1: we could get it. So when when you were a
Speaker 1: kid then, were you more Bugs Bunny or were you
Speaker 1: more g I Joe Transformers? It would have to be
Speaker 1: like a photo finish. It would have to be like
Speaker 1: a two way time because I I liked it all,
Speaker 1: like for the most part, like they didn't really have
Speaker 1: many Bugs Bunny or Looney Tunes toys. I think I
Speaker 1: had one bendable Bugs Bunny toy. Yeah, they didn't really know.
Speaker 1: They had this the PVC kind of like and you'd
Speaker 1: go by as many as you could, and you had
Speaker 1: like you get the Smurf village and somebody be like,
Speaker 1: here's Gargament and you be like, I don't really want
Speaker 1: that one, but that's what you But it was all
Speaker 1: the toys were all the action awesome g I Joe
Speaker 1: talk about all this kind of stuff where you needed
Speaker 1: every little figure and then you lose the gun in
Speaker 1: like two seconds. And but yeah, I mean I liked
Speaker 1: it all, but definitely like there was something magical to
Speaker 1: me about Bugs Bunny and Looney Tunes and and just
Speaker 1: the characters. There are such solid characters, like you know,
Speaker 1: and it was such a simple set up to I
Speaker 1: think that's what it was. It was very easy to
Speaker 1: to really I think sink your teeth into uh. And
Speaker 1: that's why it's tough when you watch some of these
Speaker 1: classic characters try to expand and you know, and again
Speaker 1: I'm guilty. I'm part of almost all the reboots seeing
Speaker 1: it in different variations. You know, I've been a part
Speaker 1: of Looney Tunes in a big feature film. I've been
Speaker 1: a part of Looney Tunes in a in a Jordan
Speaker 1: Nike shoo commercial. And I've been a part of Looney
Speaker 1: Tunes where the twenty two minute like animated sitcom where
Speaker 1: you know, Bugs and Daffy are roommates in a neighborhood.
Speaker 1: So what's different You are both of them, right, Not me?
Speaker 1: That was actually Jeff Bergman. It was Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: Mr Jeff Bergman, who was like one of the the
Speaker 1: first guy to I would have to say again another
Speaker 1: if you're a nerd like me and you and you
Speaker 1: keep a rolling decks of oh yeah, I'm working on
Speaker 1: my nerd dumb though you're trying to become, you're between
Speaker 1: two nerds, should be the name. That's one of the things.
Speaker 1: One of the reasons we did this is because she's like,
Speaker 1: we're doing It's the twenty anniversary Compossible and congratulations to
Speaker 1: you guys the way, and we're talking about all that,
Speaker 1: and then she's doing Big Hero six and then we're
Speaker 1: talking about animation and I'm going off on her and
Speaker 1: she's like, you know, for all the animation I do,
Speaker 1: I don't really know much about it. And I was like, a,
Speaker 1: so you're like the Charlie Adler type who like I'm
Speaker 1: sitting there talking to Charlie Adler at a session nerding
Speaker 1: out about like tiny tuons. He's like, I don't care.
Speaker 1: I just you know, I hang my coat up and
Speaker 1: I go, you know, like you know, and that's a
Speaker 1: great way to do. It's a quick way the loose.
Speaker 1: I care because you're right, it is probably a great
Speaker 1: way to But we love to talk about getting married
Speaker 1: and buried in this Dino exactly that, which is how
Speaker 1: I'm the the what was that fan? Yeah, the flint
Speaker 1: Stone bam bam, and about it working on it, you
Speaker 1: know what. You know what though, here's the thing, Okay,
Speaker 1: my childhood was was kind of wrapped up in the theater,
Speaker 1: so I kind of say that I'm a theater nerd.
Speaker 1: So I didn't get a lot of exposure to I
Speaker 1: didn't have that extra afternoon time. A lot of time
Speaker 1: it was after I came home, and I remember, no,
Speaker 1: I didn't have friends, not no, No, our friends are
Speaker 1: on the TV. No, I didn't. I think it was
Speaker 1: because I was going back and forth because I started
Speaker 1: at six, and so I was back and forth on
Speaker 1: the train a lot. So I didn't have access to
Speaker 1: TV until I got home, and it was about six
Speaker 1: o'clock at night, and my mom went straight to the
Speaker 1: kitchen to make dinner for everybody. And at that time,
Speaker 1: but was in syndication. I wasn't six. I think it
Speaker 1: was more like eight, ten years old. Stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Thirty seven right now, but I'll be thirty eight and
Speaker 1: a couple of goods for young people. Have you seen
Speaker 1: my shoes? They looked like coffins, Like, you're still younger
Speaker 1: than me, though, I think, uh, maybe are we going
Speaker 1: to go down this guy? Are we gonna I'm turning
Speaker 1: uh three this year? Oh, I'm gonna okay in the world,
Speaker 1: you guys look so dang young. Why is it that
Speaker 1: guy is always age in reverse? It's I don't think
Speaker 1: that's true. Five years ago, I'm gonna steal a friend
Speaker 1: of mine's joke because it was the greatest joke in
Speaker 1: the world. She always says, you know, I went to
Speaker 1: my kindergarten reunion and I was really embarrassed because I
Speaker 1: put on like a hundred pounds and I always thought
Speaker 1: that was just the greatest thing in the world. Because
Speaker 1: we don't really don't know what ages the reverse. We're
Speaker 1: all looking like that's Wendy leaving by the way, but
Speaker 1: we we all still jokes. You don't know. I know,
Speaker 1: I say, who might do? You've always credited? But okay,
Speaker 1: so back to them too. I mean, like when he's
Speaker 1: growing up, you're learning about Looney Tunes, you're being exposed
Speaker 1: all of sudd then you're starting to pick up a pencil,
Speaker 1: you said, and then you're starting to draw the thing.
Speaker 1: You're a pretty phenomenal artist. I could draw right now
Speaker 1: for you. And that's another one of them. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean like it was one of those things where
Speaker 1: where it was it was like a little bit of
Speaker 1: the the art. Just give him a post it note.
Speaker 1: Watch it's going to happen. Elizabeth's got it. Elizabeth does
Speaker 1: everything you did offer did. I just don't also want
Speaker 1: to like damage your table. You have a sharpie, then
Speaker 1: I would need a second piece of paper. But you
Speaker 1: know what, let's just do it like this, Let's just
Speaker 1: do it. So I mean it's like, see you haven't.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I don't want to. Like lacquer, He's the
Speaker 1: guy when you're at a party and they go, hey,
Speaker 1: you know we're gonna play picton and like Eric's team
Speaker 1: pizza hasn't arrived and the magician hasn't showed up. Here's another,
Speaker 1: here's is this one better? This is a little penny thing?
Speaker 1: This is this is it's Marvin the Marsha. Yes, he's
Speaker 1: a bowling bowl with a spartan helmet on. And I
Speaker 1: did that all off microphone? How unprofessional? When when I
Speaker 1: am in animation mode, it's kind of like you kind
Speaker 1: of like lose all how fast? Exception of time? Marvin
Speaker 1: the Martian? Uh right here, you could buy this for
Speaker 1: only keeping it anything person. We got one better, and
Speaker 1: it's Eric's mother. But are you marshall, since we're talking,
Speaker 1: since you as you're signing that, because we haven't really
Speaker 1: said this out loud, what the heck? Let's just start
Speaker 1: listing some stinks. Okay, yes, Earth Creature if I'm right,
Speaker 1: bugs Bunny, that's right, Doc, what's up? I hear voices too?
Speaker 1: And ain't I stink it? Oh? I see you got
Speaker 1: Marvin's good side, Daffy Duck. Yes, I would do it,
Speaker 1: but it's not a pandemic friendly voice. I'm so glad
Speaker 1: we're at least six feet away from my bill Tweetie. Oh,
Speaker 1: I thought I taught a very highly decorated table. Marvin
Speaker 1: the Martian. Yes, I believe we've done this one already,
Speaker 1: but for for the sake of the show Earth Creature,
Speaker 1: I'll do it again. Woody Woodpecker. That's it. That's all
Speaker 1: I can do. You know already I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: my nose is going to start bleeding. That's like one
Speaker 1: of those like he need to be facing the wall
Speaker 1: when I do this voice, Porky Pig, I did it
Speaker 1: for a speed a space jam, but that honor usually
Speaker 1: falls upon Mr Bob Bergen. He's he's one of those
Speaker 1: guys that I feel like he's he's turned it into
Speaker 1: an art form, uh and and and has done it justice.
Speaker 1: But you did it in a little film called Little
Speaker 1: It was a little independent, little independent film that we're
Speaker 1: hoping to it's gonna maybe wreak out. I believe it
Speaker 1: was about soccer. This time exactly be Valley Valley Quiet.
Speaker 1: I'm hunting Webb, but who I think if they ever
Speaker 1: did a live action movie, it could be Seth broken
Speaker 1: definitely very quiet, like he has them hunting Webb. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he actually could. You're going to do all Seth if
Speaker 1: you know, John c Riley could be a good omer
Speaker 1: fund yeah, you know, or or a good record Ralph
Speaker 1: Puss in boots. That is correct, aim a voice match
Speaker 1: for Antonio banderis for pooss in boots. Yeah, and that
Speaker 1: the voice match not an ab match, you know, like
Speaker 1: I can't do the abs of Antonio or the bank account,
Speaker 1: but I can definitely copy the voice. I have a
Speaker 1: question for you, because we could. We could be here
Speaker 1: all day, which I could easily do and just nerd
Speaker 1: out and be so totally happy. But my question is
Speaker 1: every single thing you watch growing up, did you try
Speaker 1: to mimic? I think almost every child does at some point, right,
Speaker 1: like when you're watching No, Yeah, I think that's the thing.
Speaker 1: It's like it's kids just they'll they'll do voices or
Speaker 1: think that they're doing good voices and they're not because
Speaker 1: their kids when they he does. And you know what's
Speaker 1: crazy about my son is that he knows the difference
Speaker 1: between like when I'm doing it or mel blank or
Speaker 1: so he's got yeah. No, like uh, I was in
Speaker 1: the kitchen making him a little lunch and he was
Speaker 1: just just a few feet away in the living room
Speaker 1: watching Fast and the Furious Spy Racers, which is like
Speaker 1: an DreamWorks Netflix cartoon, and he goes Dad, and he
Speaker 1: pauses it. He goes, is this you? And then he
Speaker 1: rewinds it and it's this completely over as a top
Speaker 1: chum and character that I was doing, and I forgot
Speaker 1: that I did the episode and I go yes, and
Speaker 1: I was like, I was like, oh my god, you
Speaker 1: not only do you know my voices, but also the
Speaker 1: bad ones, like the really bad acting. Well, our kids
Speaker 1: are our greatest critics, absolute lutely absolutely like, yes, that
Speaker 1: jacket does make you look Yes, I like, thank you know,
Speaker 1: that's really cool. So he really does have the ear
Speaker 1: because that's yeah, you know. But Eric is one of
Speaker 1: those guys when we're reading all the things, you think
Speaker 1: you're a voice over actor and you're like, I'm pretty
Speaker 1: good at what I do, and then you sit next
Speaker 1: to Eric and you go like, and now I'm going
Speaker 1: to find something else to do. Here's the thing, though,
Speaker 1: It's like, there are like the freaks that do you know,
Speaker 1: weird impressions. But you know, I sit there. I listened
Speaker 1: to yourself in a session and it's like, that's just
Speaker 1: that's just solid acting, and that's really amazing. Imprompt Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I wish that were actually accurately. You're
Speaker 1: like the eternal leading man and everything that we play.
Speaker 1: If he's my sidekick, though, that's true, you were the
Speaker 1: leading you were you were by far the lead. And
Speaker 1: if you if there's ever I have some really good
Speaker 1: t for you. Okay, if there's a reboot of KP
Speaker 1: Kim Possible, because you you know, oh yes, we've heard
Speaker 1: some some grumblings. Yes, do you want to tell him? Well,
Speaker 1: we just saw the We we worked with a director
Speaker 1: who you are very familiar with, Miss Lisia Shaeffer. I
Speaker 1: loved Death. She is the one who cast us on
Speaker 1: Kim Possible. And we were talking about if, if, and
Speaker 1: when there is a reboot of Kim Possible. Some of
Speaker 1: the people she got on the show were just insanely
Speaker 1: amazing and some unfortunately passed, and one of those is
Speaker 1: Ricardo Montalba. Oh my god. So we were like, who
Speaker 1: is going to play senior? Senior? Senior, And before we
Speaker 1: even got it out. She was like, Eric, oh my god. Well,
Speaker 1: Ricardo Montalban again is like one of those amazing performers
Speaker 1: that you know once in a lifetime, like I was
Speaker 1: old enough to see Fantasy Island and then in The
Speaker 1: Naked Gun with Lisie. So yes, they said that you
Speaker 1: would be casting. I mean it was Ricardo Montobon, Jean's
Speaker 1: mart Gary Cole, some of the people. Yeah, now it's
Speaker 1: just or another voice over artist, Christian Lance, who is phenomenal.
Speaker 1: He also has a very spot on Antonio Ben Daris
Speaker 1: and I believe if you, you know, do you guys
Speaker 1: ever just sit around and do dueling. Ben Daris is well,
Speaker 1: there was an episode of dul the Name of our
Speaker 1: band back and forth. Yeah, we we actually kind of did,
Speaker 1: because he did a very somewhat similar voice for Teenage
Speaker 1: Mutant Ninja Turtles the two thousand twelve reboot. His character's
Speaker 1: name was fish Face for the series, not for the Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it was definitely like in the vein of an
Speaker 1: Antonio or a Mr Montalban. And then they did another
Speaker 1: recent reimagining of Ninja Turtles where they had us play
Speaker 1: brothers and basically just do our Ben rrisa so it
Speaker 1: was kind of funny to be in the same room
Speaker 1: as UM and just hearing that. It was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: Teenage mutan in Shurtals is the only TM that's what
Speaker 1: the kids calling. Are you talking about? Yeah? Exactly. Only
Speaker 1: show I watched growing up that I have never been
Speaker 1: cast in even one line ever is Teenage Mutanturnals. That
Speaker 1: blows my mind because I'm like, you would be amazing
Speaker 1: as almost all close on every single role had never
Speaker 1: once been cast, not even once. Is Leo though, come on, no, no, never.
Speaker 1: I never thought that. Never as anyone. I've always come
Speaker 1: close and never been able to that. Same with G
Speaker 1: I Joe. I did two shows growing up that were
Speaker 1: my favorite, and no G I Joe either I loved
Speaker 1: because G I Joe was the best. It was like
Speaker 1: and it's like it's so went, yeah, well that one
Speaker 1: was like I have I remember the last time they
Speaker 1: did like a g I. Well, weren't you in? You
Speaker 1: were in resolute? I was in resolute. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that was I think that was the last g I
Speaker 1: they had something after that? Did they? Really? There was
Speaker 1: another one? Which one was the is the one you did?
Speaker 1: The one that Marsden was Duke or was that the
Speaker 1: one after? I think that was the one after. Who
Speaker 1: were you in Resolute? I was storm Shadow, Tunnel Rats
Speaker 1: and destro of. Can I please hear your destro Uh?
Speaker 1: You know it's crazy? I did? And Arthur author Burghart,
Speaker 1: who was the original destro like this kind of voice,
Speaker 1: but he's actually a Scottish arms dealer if you ever
Speaker 1: are you guy? So I didn't author Burghart, but with
Speaker 1: a Scottish action, so it almost added like Sean if
Speaker 1: Sean Connery and Arnold Schwarzenegger. That's when anybody asked me
Speaker 1: what role I would play? I would I always pick
Speaker 1: Cobra commander, Cobra commander. I never, I've never. I don't
Speaker 1: think I've ever played a bag in my life. He
Speaker 1: would love to play They never have. They never happen
Speaker 1: to play the bag guy. But but just your own
Speaker 1: voice is like, sounds so nice under that mask. Can
Speaker 1: we just maybe get Duke to lay down his arms
Speaker 1: so he can try to take over the world. There
Speaker 1: are people imagine like a big meeting, like with that
Speaker 1: sound coming out of that helmet is like, okay, so
Speaker 1: I just told you and I think that's pretty important.
Speaker 1: The one role I would do if I had the opportunity.
Speaker 1: Is there any role you've never done that you want
Speaker 1: to do? Batman? Yeah, I've never been Batman. Now would
Speaker 1: you be a new Batman like I was a new Batman?
Speaker 1: Or would you be do you want to be Bruce? I? Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean so many great questions. It's coming
Speaker 1: for your job. No, I mean that better I would.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, Batman Beyond Like I grew up
Speaker 1: watching like every day after school. That Warner Brothers block
Speaker 1: for whatever is pretty great blocks like that Freak is
Speaker 1: talking about Ricardo Montoid, tiny Tuons, Animaniacs, Batman the animated series,
Speaker 1: and then Batman Beyond Es and that was like amazing.
Speaker 1: I loved I love that show and was a huge
Speaker 1: fan and I hope and I'm like when I was like,
Speaker 1: come on, I can't tell you without any shadow of
Speaker 1: a doubt, I'm by far the best Terry McGinnis there's
Speaker 1: ever been. Yeah, unbeat only one, literally the best one ever.
Speaker 1: That's amazing though if you think about it, like how
Speaker 1: many bat Batman have there been? There's been a lot
Speaker 1: of Batman. It's like it's weird to say that there's
Speaker 1: been a lot of Batman, there's a lot. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is what Bruce Tim would tell me. So Bruce Tim,
Speaker 1: who created a Batman the animated series, created Batman Beyond.
Speaker 1: He said that the great thing about the Batman character
Speaker 1: was that, like when the movies were really dark, the
Speaker 1: cartoons were really light, you know, like the Christian Bale
Speaker 1: movies came out and it was like Batman Brave in
Speaker 1: the Bold. And when the movies were really light, like
Speaker 1: the Arnold Schwarzenegger ones, the cartoons got really dark, he said,
Speaker 1: because there always has to be a Batman for everyone,
Speaker 1: like a cont so there's always there's the dark Batman
Speaker 1: for the adults. There's gotta be lighter ones for the kids.
Speaker 1: But Kevin just approached it as a straight up Shakespeare. Yes, absolutely,
Speaker 1: and I've talked to him too about that where it's
Speaker 1: just like it's hard for me to hear anyone in
Speaker 1: that role. But also that like the show in its entirety,
Speaker 1: the style of the show, the writing of the show,
Speaker 1: with the tone of the show. I mean Andrea, Andrea
Speaker 1: Romano and you got to work with her and Batman
Speaker 1: Beyond first. She cast me first, we have to She's
Speaker 1: mentioned in every single she will becoming. It's amazing. I
Speaker 1: think I was one of the last people to work
Speaker 1: with her before she went into retirement. That that was
Speaker 1: the first time I was ever nominated for an Emmy.
Speaker 1: Was was because the beat can pull it out of you.
Speaker 1: There's I know. He's a just a insanely talented woman.
Speaker 1: She was one of the first people I started working
Speaker 1: with when I was doing the Ricardo montal Bond impression
Speaker 1: on Degre The Adventures of Money Rivera And and I
Speaker 1: was so green, like greener than Kermit the frog snot
Speaker 1: like I mean, and that's green the chunks in it,
Speaker 1: but like, but she said, I don't know what happened
Speaker 1: to you, like, you know, in a year or two,
Speaker 1: Like just now, what does that mean? I don't know
Speaker 1: what happened to you? What did you mean? I'm curious?
Speaker 1: But is that what you meant? I mean, is that
Speaker 1: what she meant? That you could? I believe? So it
Speaker 1: was like, you know, and and that's the best policy
Speaker 1: ever see you sucking? Well, yeah, I mean walk it back.
Speaker 1: So how did you fall into his work? Going from
Speaker 1: and I'm going to say this is where going back,
Speaker 1: going back to where we're starting back there's gonna be
Speaker 1: so many beginnings of the show. It was like maybe
Speaker 1: one of the last jobs I worked in animation was
Speaker 1: actually on LT Gray at six point Harness. So I
Speaker 1: was working as a character layout artists. So I would
Speaker 1: be the guy that you would. I would take a
Speaker 1: storyboard and I would flesh out poses of these characters
Speaker 1: final poses, and then those poses would get animated by
Speaker 1: somebody else. I'm sorry, stopped very quickly flush out. Does
Speaker 1: that mean you're you doing the color or I'm doing
Speaker 1: like the full like? So a storyboard would be the rudimentary,
Speaker 1: crude like it could be a stick figure of you know,
Speaker 1: Kim Possible, like in this post. I would be the
Speaker 1: guy that would do the final pose of Kim Possible
Speaker 1: full out, and then someone would take like six strongs
Speaker 1: of mine and then in between them so they would
Speaker 1: animate like those six solid posts. Yea, And that actually
Speaker 1: the job that I do now is actually quite glorified.
Speaker 1: I don't even think that that exists anymore in TV
Speaker 1: animation because the storyboard artists now practically animate. Yes, but
Speaker 1: like I mean, they still like hand draw like even
Speaker 1: though it's digital. But I'm saying it's like they if
Speaker 1: you've seen a Family Guy animatic, which is the voice
Speaker 1: with the storyboard. It's like the things animated because yeah,
Speaker 1: so when they ship it overseas or wherever it goes
Speaker 1: to get animated, there's no there's nothing really lost in translation.
Speaker 1: There's not a lot of room for error at that point.
Speaker 1: You're not going to be doing like a lot of retakes.
Speaker 1: You know. Again, I'm an nerd and you guys are
Speaker 1: like retakes. I always got you talk to him about Batman.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but yeah, I was gonna say, uh,
Speaker 1: that was like the last job that I did because
Speaker 1: I had audition for Jorgega Terrace and his wife Sandra Cuwa.
Speaker 1: They created LT. Gray. They also just did Maya and
Speaker 1: the Three for So you're animating the show and you
Speaker 1: auditioned to be on the show. Yeah, I I had
Speaker 1: auditioned to be in the pilot for LT. Gray. And
Speaker 1: did they know that you did voices and you you
Speaker 1: were you trying to find a way in. So Jorge,
Speaker 1: the creative the show, was like, you have to do this.
Speaker 1: I want you to do voices on this. I think
Speaker 1: you're great because you have a really magical talking voice
Speaker 1: too weird, but I'm just still thinking about your so
Speaker 1: you're animating the thing. Yeah. At that point, that was like,
Speaker 1: that was it. I was like I had got on
Speaker 1: the show. Nickelodeon really did try to not hire me
Speaker 1: because they're like this guy of psychopath, who is this person?
Speaker 1: Like he's never I don't see any credits, I don't
Speaker 1: know who he is. He's not even a married Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: crazy uncle kept sending him newspaper clippings that you're Canadian form,
Speaker 1: well most of us. I loved Canada. I got married
Speaker 1: in Canada really wow, beautiful, very very nice. That's where
Speaker 1: I got divorced. And I'm just kidding with you. I'm
Speaker 1: just kidding. I've never been married, so so there you go.
Speaker 1: How could I get divorced if I was never married?
Speaker 1: So yeah, I got on the show. We had been
Speaker 1: recording episodes and it was just one of those things
Speaker 1: where I was like, well, this is it. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be on a show. This is gonna go on for
Speaker 1: thirty years like The Simpsons. I already bought my house
Speaker 1: and I started talking like John Lovett's at that point.
Speaker 1: And after I quit my job, they canceled the show,
Speaker 1: and I was like damn it. And I went crawling
Speaker 1: back to animation and I was like, well, this is
Speaker 1: awkward because I just quit, and I told everyone to
Speaker 1: f themselves, says I left the building and I'm just
Speaker 1: kidding family like that, you just showed up back to
Speaker 1: work the next day and pretended it didn't happen. I
Speaker 1: was like, what are you talking about, guys? I never left.
Speaker 1: Uh No. Six point Harness one of the best animation
Speaker 1: studios in Hollywood. They do lots of stuff for adults,
Speaker 1: swim Nickelodeon, obviously in your cartoon network. But they were
Speaker 1: always encouraging towards me chasing my dream as a voice
Speaker 1: of artist. They knew. They're like, you're actually so much
Speaker 1: more better at voices than you're at so please leave.
Speaker 1: What should tell you something because you're pretty good at drawing? Thanks? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, you do own an original? I do? Actually,
Speaker 1: you know where I think I own another original? If
Speaker 1: I'm not wrong. Didn't you draw a picture on my bathroom? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So I own another original? I think. Is this a
Speaker 1: party that you had at your hand? Yes? So I
Speaker 1: have a bathroom in my in my house off the
Speaker 1: theater that we just have pens in and anybody who
Speaker 1: has movie quotes can just write on the wall. You
Speaker 1: write up all your favorite movie quotes, which just to
Speaker 1: movie quotes, and Eric came over. I hired most of them. Um,
Speaker 1: it was Eric in a bunch of paid extras, and
Speaker 1: then I walked in. There's all these Yeah, I've got
Speaker 1: my exactly Mitch, and it was effort. That was was
Speaker 1: that Transformers. It was a Transformers party and I've got
Speaker 1: also I've got an original bows on my on my wall,
Speaker 1: which is very very cool. Yeah. But going back to animation,
Speaker 1: I found out that Joe's Don't Last Forever. I clearly
Speaker 1: was wrong, and I went back and I actually without
Speaker 1: any leads at that point the show had been canceled.
Speaker 1: I quit again and was like, this is it. This
Speaker 1: is the kind of leap of faith that you might
Speaker 1: have to take to force yourself to start booking. You know,
Speaker 1: did you have an agent? I did? You did? Okay?
Speaker 1: I did, Cynthia McLean SPV Okay, still my agent. Great.
Speaker 1: So that was the kind of like thing that I
Speaker 1: needed to do. The fire that you have to light
Speaker 1: under yourself kind of and you know, work with people
Speaker 1: like Andrea Romano. And then two years later, We've been
Speaker 1: told a lot and we we tend to agree with this,
Speaker 1: is that the acting part of it kind of comes
Speaker 1: into play. It's not just that you have the voice nailed, right.
Speaker 1: Do you think that maybe in that year and a
Speaker 1: half that you kind of like something? Is that what
Speaker 1: it was? Well, you know, you start going into rooms.
Speaker 1: I think the first really gigantic big cast that I
Speaker 1: was a part of after that was benten Omini Verse
Speaker 1: and an episode or two I think, And then you're
Speaker 1: sitting in a room with people like Bumper Robinson and
Speaker 1: Tara Strong and Urylenthal and Jeff Bennett and Rob Paulson
Speaker 1: and John Domaggio and you're just like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: like the imposter syndrome. Still get it? I still get it?
Speaker 1: And I'm talking about that the first card one of
Speaker 1: the first Cartoon Network studio rooms where we were actually
Speaker 1: three people on a mic. So wow, being in a
Speaker 1: room and you're sitting on the floor and you're like
Speaker 1: listening to you know, yak A Warner and Johnny Bravo
Speaker 1: have a conversation in dueling don knots voices but still
Speaker 1: being able to pull off a scene that makes you
Speaker 1: want to cry in goofy voices. So that's the kind
Speaker 1: of thing that you're like, well, I got the goofy
Speaker 1: voices down, and uh, I still have a Canadian accent.
Speaker 1: Do you say, only when I go back, only start
Speaker 1: sounding like the Mackenzie brothers from TV. Yeah. Oh, but yeah.
Speaker 1: It was kind of like being in those kind of
Speaker 1: big rooms. You're kind of just like, man, it's not
Speaker 1: just about the voices up about the acting, and the
Speaker 1: voices will come later. If they need you to be wacky,
Speaker 1: you could definitely show your range by being completely off
Speaker 1: the charts, but you've got to be able to be
Speaker 1: able to be real back they need you to be.
Speaker 1: But you also have to admit there are very few
Speaker 1: actors like yourself that have the combination of the two.
Speaker 1: Because I think there are some people that can act
Speaker 1: and can't do a whole bunch of voices. I think
Speaker 1: I'm a decent actor. I can't do fifty voices. I've
Speaker 1: never been able to do that. And then there's people
Speaker 1: that can do a whole bunch of voices. But until
Speaker 1: that great as an actor, I gotta say though, until
Speaker 1: maybe you're asked to or be pushed to. I've been
Speaker 1: in a couple of times, but not to that. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's some people. I mean again, the marriage of being
Speaker 1: able to do the number of voices that you do
Speaker 1: with the acting talent is pretty could do it right
Speaker 1: now on your show. We could break down a character
Speaker 1: like Bugs or Tweety and see if we could get you,
Speaker 1: guys close to that voice. If you'd like, oh man,
Speaker 1: I'm down for anything, how could you could you? You
Speaker 1: honestly think you could teach us right here to break
Speaker 1: down a voice like Bugs or tweeting. Let's go, okay,
Speaker 1: let's let's boll try. Let's both try. It's funny because
Speaker 1: for me, they kind of live in the same I say,
Speaker 1: a lot of Melds voices live in the same house,
Speaker 1: just in different parts of the house. So I just
Speaker 1: say Bugs lives on like the second floor, closest to
Speaker 1: the attic where Tweetie lives. Tweetie lives in the top
Speaker 1: floor because he's all the way up here why and
Speaker 1: he has a weird affectation, like a baby kind of voice. Ye.
Speaker 1: But I honestly feel also by the way that they
Speaker 1: pitch the hell out of that voice. They pitch it
Speaker 1: up pitching for people that may not know is when
Speaker 1: they digitally go in and kind of tweak. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you think they're doing that for they have to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but but even before digital, when they were on three
Speaker 1: quarter inch tape from Mell, they would they would pitch
Speaker 1: it up. Did you know that Daffy's voice is actually
Speaker 1: Sylvester's voice but pitched up? No, yeah, same voice. How
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do. I'm gonna shield you from my Faliva
Speaker 1: and Sylvester if a big floppy, hungry cat that always
Speaker 1: wants to eat that canary. But if you just change
Speaker 1: the attitude to your despicable like like in that same
Speaker 1: arena and pitch that voice up. But when I do Daffy,
Speaker 1: it's it's the self pitched version, so you don't have
Speaker 1: to do it my verse and of Daffy if the
Speaker 1: Richard dry Fith with a lift, Okay, that makes sense, Bob,
Speaker 1: I'm on vacation. All that little shark mtur Von wants
Speaker 1: to do is eat and make little baby shark really
Speaker 1: is the miracle of life. Jaws all Jaws quotes with
Speaker 1: a list. But let's yeah, let's try bugs. If if
Speaker 1: you could start, you know, by just almost putting your
Speaker 1: voice here, almost putting your voice here, yeah, and you
Speaker 1: kind of start pushing it towards your nose, kind of
Speaker 1: start pushing it towards your nose, and then start doing
Speaker 1: like a New York Brooklyn type accent, and then do
Speaker 1: like a New York Brooklyn type accent, and it becomes uh,
Speaker 1: your version of bugs or a very spot on Joe Pesci.
Speaker 1: You see what I mean though, But it's up here
Speaker 1: a little. But I mean, it doesn't sound like bugs
Speaker 1: at all to me, and it doesn't sound like you
Speaker 1: at all to me, but amazing interesting. So it's just
Speaker 1: kind of changing where you put the stuff. But then
Speaker 1: if you add the lift, like we're talking about now
Speaker 1: stop now, stop doing the New York okay and stay
Speaker 1: here now start talking like with a baby accent like
Speaker 1: I taught, I ta potty taught. And then you take
Speaker 1: that and you put you pitch that up and it
Speaker 1: becomes tweety. This is crazy? Is ever crazy? But now
Speaker 1: are you change that from my here voices? I do?
Speaker 1: But again I am so. We heard another interesting thing
Speaker 1: which was somebody said, don't like try to do the character.
Speaker 1: Don't try to do somebody doing the character. So it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to do Eric Bowsa doing
Speaker 1: Bugs Bunny. Yeah, I want to try to do Bugs Bunny.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, isn't that just
Speaker 1: then trying to do Mel Blank? Kind of Yeah? You know.
Speaker 1: I I talked about this in a in a recent
Speaker 1: interview where it's like even growing up as a kid,
Speaker 1: you know, and Mel Blank passed away, it was it
Speaker 1: was pretty sad, and I was like, you know, it
Speaker 1: was just a kid. I was sad enough to understand
Speaker 1: what that meant, but I was still like, okay, like
Speaker 1: moving past what he did in the original forty your
Speaker 1: run of Looney Tunes, watching like all the stuff come
Speaker 1: out in the eighties where it it wasn't him, Like
Speaker 1: I knew that, but I could still appreciate who was
Speaker 1: doing the voices. So like I got that with the Muppets, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I really got that. When Jim Henson passed, I got
Speaker 1: that kind of but you have a day or two
Speaker 1: of that's not Jim Henson, and then you kind of go, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's not Jim Henson, Like, but I still like the character. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I still I can appreciate what that person is
Speaker 1: is bringing to the table. And you've been Muppets too,
Speaker 1: haven't you? Ah? Yeah, what what every time I stopped
Speaker 1: my tongue? Do you maintain? I mean we've talked about
Speaker 1: our voices getting thrashed before, but I mean you've got
Speaker 1: to how do you prepare for a session? And then
Speaker 1: really I don't go to the gym, as you can
Speaker 1: see because my vocal Jim is watching Looney Tunes like
Speaker 1: an hour a day. Yeah, I watch it with my son.
Speaker 1: I'll watch at least like at least I wouldn't say
Speaker 1: an hour, but like four shorts, like almost there, and
Speaker 1: are you working along with it or no, I'm just
Speaker 1: listen it is you're just listening a lot, and that's
Speaker 1: your But then I'll be like, you know, say, little Philla,
Speaker 1: were you off to what? South Pool? And then I'll
Speaker 1: like I'll look at like my son and he's like yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. When you're at the schoolyard, you know, at
Speaker 1: the park, I'm like, you know, like classic dad on
Speaker 1: his phone at the on the bench and he's like, Dad,
Speaker 1: come over here and do the voice, you know, and
Speaker 1: then I do it. Then it's like okay, go go away,
Speaker 1: go AWAYA But I mean, can you imagine where it's like.
Speaker 1: And now, Johnny, who do you have? This is my dad.
Speaker 1: He works at a bank. Okay, good career day, and uh,
Speaker 1: this is my dad, Eric Bowser. He does the voices
Speaker 1: of everything. I mean, can you can imagine that? I
Speaker 1: can only imagine honestly. So there is a question I
Speaker 1: wanted to ask, and you you brought up your son.
Speaker 1: What is story time like? Yeah? I was gonna say
Speaker 1: the same thing. You must be agree. We do we do? Uh?
Speaker 1: You know we we do the characters. We do as
Speaker 1: many different things as possible. It is It's awesome, that's
Speaker 1: what you said. We were talking before. Your son is
Speaker 1: a big Star Wars fan. So are you doing all
Speaker 1: the Star Wars characters for him? As he's reading stuff,
Speaker 1: you know, playing with the toys and we were. We
Speaker 1: spent about a good solid hour yesterday playing with our
Speaker 1: Ghostbusters toys. And you know I was trying to do
Speaker 1: my best dan Achroid you know impression, not even like
Speaker 1: the Frank Welker race stance, but ghost are the ghost
Speaker 1: Arian you know, I was doing like the and who Texas.
Speaker 1: Someone asked if you're a god? You say yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: But anytime I do Bloomer. It's just Garfield. Yeah, big
Speaker 1: fan of Ghostbusters, big big. I'm actually a huge fan
Speaker 1: of Ghostbusters. That new Ghostbusters was fantastic. Did you like it?
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it? Good and right, yes I heard
Speaker 1: it's good. I like him, Please go see it. How
Speaker 1: many voices were you in that zero? And they had
Speaker 1: they had opportunity? Well, yeah, where where was spoiler? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, well, thanks for ruining that. Thanks everybody,
Speaker 1: Darth Vaders. It's not like they could kill his character. Actually,
Speaker 1: don't think it was. I'm sorry. I don't think it
Speaker 1: was a slimer. I don't think that. I don't try
Speaker 1: to donk gonna watch it. You know, Apparently the original
Speaker 1: script was written so well for for Bill Murray that
Speaker 1: in the entire film, and they won't say which one,
Speaker 1: there's only one line he ad lived in the entire film.
Speaker 1: Every other line Bill Murray said in the original Ghostbusters
Speaker 1: was scripted for him. And that's that's pretty impressive when
Speaker 1: it's Bill Murray, when the lines are written so well.
Speaker 1: They go check out the blooper reel there they have
Speaker 1: multiple takes of so many of those classic scenes that
Speaker 1: and it's like It's pretty funny to see what, aside
Speaker 1: from what we all know, the alternate versions of the
Speaker 1: things that you know of these well known scenes are
Speaker 1: out there that are now like because you know they
Speaker 1: cracked open the vault. Yeah, you're a big nerd with
Speaker 1: that stuff, though, aren't you. Like I am with them, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the biggest, man, it's a tough one. I'd say Ghostbusters
Speaker 1: is number one, and then like Ghostbusters number one? Really,
Speaker 1: Firstbusters is like two, that's awesome. Yeah, what's your number one?
Speaker 1: I don't know if I know as much as you,
Speaker 1: but I'm passionate about Ghostbusters. And like I like cried,
Speaker 1: like Mabe my husband who was sitting next to me
Speaker 1: when I watched this last movie, like okay, don't give
Speaker 1: you Oh my god, don't give it away. It wasn't
Speaker 1: at any particular point. I just the entire as soon
Speaker 1: as the lights went dim and as soon as they
Speaker 1: started the music, Like the music was amazing. That's actually
Speaker 1: pretty interesting you say that, because you know that was
Speaker 1: a big aspect they were they were going for. They
Speaker 1: actually just you know, note for note almost took the
Speaker 1: entire original score of the first one, which was a
Speaker 1: phenomenal l Elmer Bernstein, who also did like American Werewolf
Speaker 1: in London, um crazy. It was, you know, that's such
Speaker 1: a nostalgic music that it becomes is a character on
Speaker 1: its own. It was absolutely important for that they honored that,
Speaker 1: and they didn't honor it in the movie before, which
Speaker 1: maybe we don't need to talk about. And they didn't
Speaker 1: honor it in the movie after the first one, Ghostbusters two,
Speaker 1: it was more like eighties simple well, you know why
Speaker 1: because I think Beverly Hills Cop had come out and
Speaker 1: that theme song from Beverly Hills Cop was so popular
Speaker 1: and it was all synth that they went, that's the
Speaker 1: way we've got to do, you know now, that's what
Speaker 1: it's got to be now. And then they did what
Speaker 1: was it with Bobby Brown that he did the second
Speaker 1: he did he did one of the songs in it,
Speaker 1: and then und did it. So they were kind of
Speaker 1: I think going more more hip hop, but also more
Speaker 1: synth because that was the big thing at the time,
Speaker 1: and it changed the whole soundtrack, which kind of changes
Speaker 1: the whole vibe of the film. I mean it what
Speaker 1: it does. People don't realize how important soundtracks are. But
Speaker 1: again also in animation, I mean you go back and
Speaker 1: you watched some of the original Warner Brothers stuff. We're
Speaker 1: going back to like yeah, if we're gonna go back
Speaker 1: to Luny to selling, but if we're gonna go Batman,
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, and Man the animated series too,
Speaker 1: with the full orchestral soundtrack on on an animated show,
Speaker 1: which we talked about with Kevin just changed, I mean
Speaker 1: change everything. Yeah, Dani Elfman was involved in that. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: Danny Elfman did did the originality, but but I think
Speaker 1: he did the theme song though he did the theme
Speaker 1: song from Batman the Animated series, yes, yeah, and then
Speaker 1: I think it was Christopher Carter I think did Beyond
Speaker 1: did that awesome kind of very one from Beyond, very
Speaker 1: very kind of very moderate, but it does. It's it gets,
Speaker 1: it's you know, can can change the whole vibe of
Speaker 1: something the music that that you bring in absolutely, and
Speaker 1: that in animation. There are some shorts where they're not
Speaker 1: even talking, like road Runner and well Kayla, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's all music. Yeah, absolutely, Fantasia, I mean, look at
Speaker 1: look at the scenes in Fantage. You know it's Mickey
Speaker 1: Mouse cutting stuff up and you just got the orchestral
Speaker 1: score Underneathan and he I don't think he said a
Speaker 1: word in Fantasia, did he? For the most part? Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I mean it's no, he doesn't. Yeah, It's just the
Speaker 1: music can can do that so and also too, it
Speaker 1: can link generationally the characters, right, so even if your
Speaker 1: son can tell the difference between your bugs Bunny and
Speaker 1: Meles Bugs Bunny, the music can still hold the structure
Speaker 1: together even if it's that nuance. Well, especially with Looning
Speaker 1: Tunes cartoons, which is the one that I'm in for
Speaker 1: for HBO Max, they are like if you listen to that,
Speaker 1: it's the whole scored. This quite amazingly scored to, like
Speaker 1: like full orchestra. That's probably for the first time in
Speaker 1: a very long that's you know, you get that. You
Speaker 1: know where you get that in a huge, huge way
Speaker 1: is the Star Wars universe. You know, move walks on
Speaker 1: screen even if it's in episode whenever, if it was
Speaker 1: episode four where we first see him, or you know,
Speaker 1: it's the one of the newer phones and and the
Speaker 1: Luke Skywalker theme starts. I've been watching, you watch, I
Speaker 1: haven't I watch, haven't watched yet. I watched Mandalorian. I
Speaker 1: think once I got what it was, once I figured
Speaker 1: out it was the A Team, then I'm then I
Speaker 1: was fine with it. You know. It took me a
Speaker 1: while to get to that mental space because I was
Speaker 1: just like, oh, I keep showing up in a town,
Speaker 1: he's got to solve a crime, and then what was
Speaker 1: the eight Team? It's like Okay. Once I got there,
Speaker 1: then I was like, now I can enjoy it because
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to Star Wars it out, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. But yeah, there's I'm also I'm a
Speaker 1: lot of times a big fan of less is more
Speaker 1: so when there's sixty two Star Wars shows in the making,
Speaker 1: it's kind of like, Okay, do you feel like we're
Speaker 1: we're living in that there's too much stuff out there.
Speaker 1: I do like so far, we're like have you seen that?
Speaker 1: And you're like nope, nope, I never even heard of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like that too busy life. Yeah, like, if we
Speaker 1: have to do something in the house, if you want
Speaker 1: to see my wife have an instant like anxiety attack,
Speaker 1: take her to like tile World where there's like ten
Speaker 1: thousand samples and she's like, I know, I can't. She's like,
Speaker 1: I need two samples in front of me. I need
Speaker 1: to pick from this one or this one, and then
Speaker 1: that's what I have to do. And I kind of
Speaker 1: feel like that's what it's getting like with content, where
Speaker 1: it shows there's just too long, and I'm like, who's
Speaker 1: making all this stuff? And yet and yet none of
Speaker 1: my friends can sell anything, which is the part that
Speaker 1: I love where it's like everybody's got content, but no
Speaker 1: one's buying. Um. So it's very very strange. So all
Speaker 1: in everything you've done, all the stuff you've done, all
Speaker 1: the stuff you've watched, everything, favorite animated character of all time,
Speaker 1: oh man, favorite animated character of all times, whether you've
Speaker 1: done the part or not. I mean, I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to fall back on on Bugs Bunny only because you know,
Speaker 1: for me, he was, you know, so iconic in everything
Speaker 1: that he's ever done and ever appeared in. And I
Speaker 1: always thought, even especially after, you know, and if it's
Speaker 1: not Ghostbusters for me, that maybe the next one down
Speaker 1: might be who framed Roger Rabbitt? You know, as far
Speaker 1: as like one of the greatest movies ever made, U
Speaker 1: for being a cartoon nerd or nut and just seeing
Speaker 1: like these characters exist in real life with people you know,
Speaker 1: ready ready for me to ruin our podcast. Oh you
Speaker 1: don't like Roger Rabbit in our whole world? You don't
Speaker 1: like Roger Rabbit. I've never seen Roger rab But that's good.
Speaker 1: You can we can change that. I've never seen Roger Rabbit.
Speaker 1: You know what, we should do a very special episode
Speaker 1: where where we we we watch, we will we will
Speaker 1: find a theater. Now, who voiced Roger Rabbit Charles Flesher,
Speaker 1: Charles Flesher, who was a stand up comic if you've
Speaker 1: seen the documentary on how they made that film. I
Speaker 1: mean he basically came to set every day dressed up
Speaker 1: as the character, like the maybe the first ever evidence
Speaker 1: of a causeplay ever, Like he just method yes, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: he was basically in character on set all the time.
Speaker 1: To be there to provide the voice. I'm sure that
Speaker 1: was like later on, that's yeah, but to be there
Speaker 1: to be that character, which is kind of impressive, and
Speaker 1: that would be your second nerdom, you think your second
Speaker 1: if you're going down a tier, yeah, because I mean
Speaker 1: it had almost all the all the best cartoon characters
Speaker 1: ever made in one world, Like I actually own an
Speaker 1: animation cell of the parachute scene where it's Mickey Mouse
Speaker 1: and Bugs Bunny on screen at the same time. Okay,
Speaker 1: so now I gotta see it because I didn't. I
Speaker 1: please see it. I will. I thought I wasn't the nerd. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I never saw it. There's a lot of stuff I've
Speaker 1: never seen, which I probably should because at that time
Speaker 1: you're probably busy working. Yeah. Yeah, but it was also,
Speaker 1: you know, so my my best friend in the world,
Speaker 1: Jason Marsden, that was like his favorite movie ever. And
Speaker 1: I don't not try ever. I think I always just smiling,
Speaker 1: be like yeah, awesome, and never admitted to him like
Speaker 1: I've never actually seen this movie. That would be so great.
Speaker 1: So two teenage boys didn't just like sit together and
Speaker 1: like watch, like be very careful where you're going with
Speaker 1: you watch. Anyone could edit anything at that because their
Speaker 1: way you could have said that without starting with two
Speaker 1: teenage boys. I don't know why that took it to
Speaker 1: a strange place. It was meant to, like, of course
Speaker 1: you guys didn't sit down and watch Roger Rabbit. Why not?
Speaker 1: Marson and I would sit down and watch stuff together
Speaker 1: all the time. Was like our favorite thing. The was
Speaker 1: fun at to this day I've ever had in a
Speaker 1: movie theater was opening Knife Show Girls in Burbank and
Speaker 1: it was Jason and I as it was just because
Speaker 1: after the first line, like literally she I'll never forget this,
Speaker 1: she pulls a knife on the guy and she goes chill,
Speaker 1: and somebody in the in the audience went oh, and
Speaker 1: it became Mystery Science Theater at that point. Just it
Speaker 1: was no holds bar, just everyone for the rest of
Speaker 1: the rood, and that was it. And then we all
Speaker 1: just started throwing outlines. I missed that experience and it
Speaker 1: was so much fun. I had that experience once again,
Speaker 1: except when I watched the Ghostbusters movie had to go
Speaker 1: back to that and I was probably the only person
Speaker 1: living that experience and speaking and oh yes, so the
Speaker 1: new one. I went on a date night with my husband,
Speaker 1: which I never do, and we went to one of
Speaker 1: those fancy places that you can kick up the chair
Speaker 1: and like fancy nachos. They had the not chilling the case,
Speaker 1: so dip and the kick up your feet, children becomes
Speaker 1: the fancy it's been. It was two years. I hadn't
Speaker 1: seen a movie because I lockdown everything. I haven't seen
Speaker 1: a movie in you know, in the theaters. So I
Speaker 1: was like, Mom is going out tonight? Okay. So then
Speaker 1: we're there and it starts and the music starts, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, I was like, I was like, and I
Speaker 1: was like, and I sort of got it. I turned him.
Speaker 1: I was like, don't you take this for me for
Speaker 1: the fancy place tonight. My feet are fully reclined and
Speaker 1: the nachos exactly going out tonight. Yeah, we gotta watch it.
Speaker 1: Oh my, all right, Well this is a perfect place
Speaker 1: to get us to a fun segue that we have
Speaker 1: right now. It's called throw things at Eric no um.
Speaker 1: So I was too fast. I feel like waiting to
Speaker 1: grab this. I know how to throw things. Took the
Speaker 1: heavy stuff away. I come from a long line of
Speaker 1: shoe throwing moms. Yeah that's classic, that's classic. I have
Speaker 1: so many questions, a long line of shoe throwing moms. Anyway,
Speaker 1: the original title of this what do you think? And
Speaker 1: not throw a shoe? But you were driving? I think
Speaker 1: she was driving. I think me and my siblings are
Speaker 1: in the back fighting, and so she's she would reach
Speaker 1: down while operating a motor vehicle to remove her shoewear
Speaker 1: to throw it at you. That's our magic, like her
Speaker 1: watching Ghostbusters that apply and that it was a stick
Speaker 1: shift too, that Jackie Chan's got nothing on your unbelievable.
Speaker 1: So while we are not quite there yet, we will
Speaker 1: be up for the next round because we're building up
Speaker 1: everything we have to do. Eventually, I hear Voices is
Speaker 1: going to be fully interactive. So what we're going to have,
Speaker 1: which is kind of cool, is we're gonna have a
Speaker 1: big screen here and kids from all across the country
Speaker 1: adults as well, are going to be able to skype in,
Speaker 1: zoom in, and cook to the favorite voice over actors,
Speaker 1: but also show us their own personal artwork and have
Speaker 1: the best voice over actors in the world put a
Speaker 1: voice to the characters that they've created. So while we
Speaker 1: couldn't do it fully interacted this time, Christie, that's the
Speaker 1: lady who you can throw a shoe at right here,
Speaker 1: I'll catch it with my hand. That's the other She's magic.
Speaker 1: She went on her social media and we had got
Speaker 1: a stack of original art from kids and people from
Speaker 1: across the country, and we were hoping that you could
Speaker 1: grab one or two at random, or we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about the person who sent it. We've had some
Speaker 1: from some six year olds, from eight year old some
Speaker 1: some adults have sent and you were going to be
Speaker 1: put a voice if you would entertain us to whatever characters.
Speaker 1: So this is like a blind bag Russian Roulette with
Speaker 1: no gunfire, with the safe version of Russian Roulette exactly.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, now, and now it should say on the
Speaker 1: top who it is and what their name? Is There
Speaker 1: a backstory to this picture, Elizabeth, because sometimes they have
Speaker 1: there is a backstory. That's a person for sure that
Speaker 1: submitted the drawing. It was submitted at six for eight am.
Speaker 1: Yes personality, yes easily because she's not very street smart.
Speaker 1: She's Christie. It just kind of looks if I were
Speaker 1: you guys have almost the same hair sty you need
Speaker 1: to get well, okay, we got Yuki and um if
Speaker 1: Yuki were a character, I mean I might not be
Speaker 1: able to qualify for this because if if, if you're
Speaker 1: going to get cast, you know, you never know. I
Speaker 1: know things are very political these days. Derek. You pitch
Speaker 1: your voice through your nose, yeah, if you push it forward.
Speaker 1: Well okay, so again you you can very is very
Speaker 1: bubbly and you can get tricked easily. And old is
Speaker 1: the kid that that drew this again, like and I
Speaker 1: think it's like a twelve year old kid or something
Speaker 1: ten years old. And Evie, thank you so much. And
Speaker 1: I'd have to say that if Yuki could talk, maybe, um,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe Yuki bites sound like this. You know,
Speaker 1: she kind of has that weird that cat mouth that
Speaker 1: kind of has like that to me, Like if you're
Speaker 1: looking at a drawing, the physicality always helps you kind
Speaker 1: of find a voice. And if if she is very uh,
Speaker 1: you know, bubbly, But I don't I don't know why
Speaker 1: is Yuki a girl? Is Yuki a girl? For sure?
Speaker 1: I think whatever, it couldn't be a boy. Well, then
Speaker 1: if it were a boy, he would probably still sound
Speaker 1: like this because I'm not that creative, you know, bubbly.
Speaker 1: I don't know would a bubbly person be that susceptible
Speaker 1: to Yeah, look for me, this is me. Let me
Speaker 1: just take this character. It's me basically, That's all I'm saying. Well,
Speaker 1: then maybe if you he's a boy and a little
Speaker 1: bit more high energy, like it might sound like this.
Speaker 1: There you go. So wait, what you're saying is that
Speaker 1: I haven't been drinking water? Yeah, that that would be
Speaker 1: That would be my yuki yea, so we we'll do
Speaker 1: We'll do another. Okay, okay, it might it might be
Speaker 1: a cat. We've got a lot. We've got a lot
Speaker 1: of cats. At mission, I was on a show called
Speaker 1: Unikitty You were Unity. Christie didn't realize that when she
Speaker 1: she posted all this on National Cat Day, which is
Speaker 1: why a lot of people's oh character, I believe this
Speaker 1: was based off of me. This is this is what
Speaker 1: I look like when I put on my eighties sweats
Speaker 1: and I'm at the gym. Who is that? By the way,
Speaker 1: that's a lie, right, because this is from Sam. This
Speaker 1: is from Sam. Sam created the logo, created the show
Speaker 1: for us. And this character's name is do we know
Speaker 1: the name? This is a nameless rabbit. Maybe maybe because
Speaker 1: it sounds like this, you know, he's he always has
Speaker 1: the giggles all the time and uh and and he
Speaker 1: wants to work out, but he's never going to get
Speaker 1: around to it because he is a bit round himself.
Speaker 1: Uh and uh. I don't know what we could name him.
Speaker 1: What would you guys name this guy? He kind of
Speaker 1: looks like a Sanrio type character, like a Hello Kitty,
Speaker 1: like he could live in the Hello Kiddy I could
Speaker 1: see that bunny boy or wow, funny boy by well,
Speaker 1: we clearly know who the hey, then guys having just
Speaker 1: a regular name like Randy, I'm like, that's Randy. This
Speaker 1: is Charles. Yeah, this is Charles. Yeah, there you go. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But for me, I don't know why. He kind of
Speaker 1: sounds like this and it could be maybe lent to
Speaker 1: like that Seth Rogan type giggling. But okay, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it looks like he's being rushed into the air by
Speaker 1: Maybe he's he's had too many carrots and he's got
Speaker 1: a lot of gas. That I saw, I figured he
Speaker 1: was just hit by a tennis racket, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: and he's lying away. Maybe he's a tennis ball bunny,
Speaker 1: that's what Maybe he could be like like colored, like
Speaker 1: a tennis ball, like that yellow one. Yeah, I love that,
Speaker 1: but I do. I do like this character design very
Speaker 1: very very Thank you Sam and thank you Eric. It
Speaker 1: has truly been an honor to have you here. Well,
Speaker 1: I had no fun at all. This is by the way,
Speaker 1: this was exactly apparently what it was like when she
Speaker 1: was at the Fancy Place watching Ghostbusters. Please don't say
Speaker 1: the fancy Place. Almost almost drowned the fancy listen. By
Speaker 1: the way, is your vocal courts are they ensured? Then
Speaker 1: I am not Selene dion if by the way, if
Speaker 1: you're not, if you thought you were talking to Selene today?
Speaker 1: Did she has a Canadian French actually cutting out all
Speaker 1: the type hand questions. Who was not present for Leo
Speaker 1: or Kate on the set of My Very Bad I
Speaker 1: was not here? That's very good. She's a very intentions.
Speaker 1: She's a very intention What did this? Why did you
Speaker 1: wait till the end? You got to start with you know,
Speaker 1: that's the sign of a good host. Though, thank you,
Speaker 1: you're making it. You like you could do some stuff
Speaker 1: and then jumped in and showed your voice work. That's
Speaker 1: the way. That's what Christie does. So yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: clearly like she's never happy with someone mentioned Selene today.
Speaker 1: We've been waiting for this. Every guy. She's like, you
Speaker 1: think they're going to mention Selene. I'm like, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Did you send him the orally send him the subliminal
Speaker 1: message email where every other word is Selene, or just
Speaker 1: the case your limo driver is named on me to
Speaker 1: pick you up. He'll be se leaning against the car
Speaker 1: now too far anyway, Eric, I don't even know what
Speaker 1: to say. It has been an honor to have you
Speaker 1: on here. You are thank you, most talented human being
Speaker 1: working today. I'm convinced to be in the presence of
Speaker 1: show such fine actors and hosts. And congratulations and I
Speaker 1: wish you guys the best. Thank you. They're going to
Speaker 1: pick this up for many seasons. Literally were canceled halfway through.
Speaker 1: All right, where can we fight? Yes, this is important
Speaker 1: right here in this downtown when actually, can you guys leave?
Speaker 1: This is my apartment. I know a lot of people
Speaker 1: actually really like our place. They want to live here.
Speaker 1: It's a cool pad. But I'm assuming we can find
Speaker 1: you in the fancy place. Fancy place and then eating nachos,
Speaker 1: pinkies up, pinkies up this cave. I'm to this is
Speaker 1: date night, Higgins do. But this the ninety two. I
Speaker 1: see it's a good deal. Yes, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Mixed the Cherry and the Blue, and you're on cameo
Speaker 1: or cameo doing all of Ken Jong's work. By the way,
Speaker 1: everyone keeps saying give me this shout out from the
Speaker 1: masked singer host, I'm like, not me. Not guys are you, Instagram, Twitter,
Speaker 1: everything is all at at bow Zilla. I have to
Speaker 1: do something creative with me and now we've only got
Speaker 1: three hours left. So what do you have coming up?
Speaker 1: So it's like, so we're barely even halfway. I guess
Speaker 1: just HBO Max. There's there's lots coming from Looney Tunes
Speaker 1: that I wish I could talk about now that can't.
Speaker 1: But there's definitely some stuff coming that called that you
Speaker 1: will be very happy to hear from me. Again, it's
Speaker 1: the characters and space Jam is still out there. Go
Speaker 1: check out spaces you have. It's still out there doing
Speaker 1: pretty darn good saically Okay, I guess you know the
Speaker 1: little engine that it is. It's like people really want
Speaker 1: to see this tiny little film get you gotta shoot
Speaker 1: company behind you than anything it tends to it's well,
Speaker 1: that's you know exactly. It's it's it's helpful, to be honest,
Speaker 1: it's helped word out, the word out. I do have
Speaker 1: to bring these shoes back by the way you can started.
Speaker 1: They do. Nothing's for keeps, it's just for fun. It's
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank you so much for coming
Speaker 1: and spending the time with us, and really appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Eric we love you so much. Please come back again
Speaker 1: when we get fully interactive. Come back again because we're
Speaker 1: gonna have people chime in and they're gonna love to
Speaker 1: talk to you that I can't wait, which will be great.
Speaker 1: And don't forget they say that youth is wasted on
Speaker 1: the young, go prove them wrong. Thanks everybody. I Hear
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