Speaker 1: Las show.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's very exciting. So Butch Hartman's about to come in,
Speaker 2: and I'm actually recording this after the interview, just so
Speaker 2: you guys know. So the setup. So Butch Hartman, as
Speaker 2: you'll know, created The Fairly Odd Parents. Danny Phantom, a
Speaker 2: big animation guy, now has his own studio. You'll hear
Speaker 2: all about it. But Scuba Steve came to me and
Speaker 2: was like, hey, do you want to have Butch Hartman on?
Speaker 2: And we have a little meeting after the show most days,
Speaker 2: and I was like, I don't know, like and he
Speaker 2: goes with everybody on the show is trying to do voiceovers,
Speaker 2: and I was like, oh, that is perfect. So you
Speaker 2: were going to hear and I thought it was super fun,
Speaker 2: super compelling, the entire interview now with Butch Hartman, who
Speaker 2: now has Butch Hartman Studios and he makes his own
Speaker 2: cartoons under his own company. But I think to all
Speaker 2: of us on the show, this was super fun. So
Speaker 2: here he is and you can follow him at Butch Hartman.
Speaker 2: But us the show did not know who was coming in,
Speaker 2: by the way, and then Lunchbox thought it was O's
Speaker 2: that he's already on. That's o's you'll hear it. Okay,
Speaker 2: butch Hartman, here we go. We're about to have a
Speaker 2: guest enter the studio. I think everybody's gonna.
Speaker 3: Be like, what in the world, let's go.
Speaker 2: I think everybody's gonna get very excited. I don't think
Speaker 2: you'll recognize this person's face when he walks in. But
Speaker 2: when I tell you who it is and he sits
Speaker 2: down at the microphone, then I think everybody will sit
Speaker 2: up just a little bit taller and be on a
Speaker 2: little better behavior. Any guesses amy I have?
Speaker 4: Honestly, I'm stumped.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say, I love this guest booking so much,
Speaker 2: but why do they.
Speaker 4: Not look like who we know them to be?
Speaker 2: Because you will not know them to be. No, they
Speaker 2: don't have a mask on, you will not know them
Speaker 2: to be.
Speaker 5: This it's about something that they they've done.
Speaker 2: Okay, he's walking recognizing he's walking in? Now, come on,
Speaker 2: what is hunchbuck? There's no way, let's go.
Speaker 3: Let's go.
Speaker 2: Let's go. Do you know who that is? Let's go?
Speaker 3: Do you do you know who it is?
Speaker 6: That is? O?
Speaker 2: What? O's No, you have a microphone, but by you
Speaker 2: anywhere you know I'm talking about the guy you do. So,
Speaker 2: But first of all, I'm so excited you're here. You
Speaker 2: have no idea the timeliness of you being here. This
Speaker 2: is the greatest gift that you're here. Really, Yes, for
Speaker 2: a couple of reasons. My gosh, I haven't We haven't
Speaker 2: told them who you are what you do yet, because
Speaker 2: you're going to affect this room in such a way
Speaker 2: that they're going to explode.
Speaker 1: Okay, am I safe over here?
Speaker 2: You're safe. There's gonna be no liquids. Okay, So everybody,
Speaker 2: this is Butch Hartman. But Hartman is known for creating
Speaker 2: Nickelodeon classics like The Fairly Odd Parents.
Speaker 1: But that's awesome on zero reaction.
Speaker 2: They're all trying to be cartoon voice actors. But I'm
Speaker 2: Danny Phantom, right all right, cartoon given to freak out,
Speaker 2: but else to get behind the couch, get behind what
Speaker 2: do you need? Okay? So, but first of all, it
Speaker 2: is a pleasure to me.
Speaker 7: Well, first of all, thanks for having me on. I'm
Speaker 7: grateful to be here. Thanks great to meet you too.
Speaker 2: Yes, this is They're all now going to start going,
Speaker 2: how can I impress Butch? So you just be ready
Speaker 2: for that, Okay, Okay, see they're going to super impressed already.
Speaker 5: By the way, Super's very nice.
Speaker 2: You like that.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you very much. So my wife trusts me today.
Speaker 2: That has a good jacket. Thank you. You created fairly OddParents.
Speaker 1: I created fairly OddParents back in nineteen ninety seven. That's
Speaker 1: how old. Yeah, I know, that's how old I am. Yes,
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 7: And uh, it was just a little like a drawing
Speaker 7: to Actually, I brought you a gift.
Speaker 1: By the way, that's a drawing of Cosmo on a
Speaker 1: post it. That's for you. I brought that for you.
Speaker 2: Look at this.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so there you goes. That's old Cosmo. And uh
Speaker 7: I found a post in the green room. So hope
Speaker 7: you don't mind if I took that. You just do
Speaker 7: that right now? Yes, sure, yes, see I heat the
Speaker 7: process for all of you.
Speaker 2: One one. Nobody else gets one now, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2: Fairly odd parents are hilarious. By the way, Thank you,
Speaker 2: Thank you. Did it runs that long? Like the only
Speaker 2: show that I for.
Speaker 7: It ran for eighteen years on Nickelodeon, and they still
Speaker 7: I still see it.
Speaker 1: It's on all the time. Yeah, it still runs all
Speaker 1: the time.
Speaker 2: Do you still make new ones.
Speaker 7: No, we don't make new ones anymore. But I made
Speaker 7: I made fairly OddParents. I did Danny Phantom at the
Speaker 7: same time. It was another one, and then I don't
Speaker 7: hear anybody cheering, by the way, anybody's cheering.
Speaker 3: For And what's the next?
Speaker 2: Let's end that.
Speaker 7: And then a show called Tough Puppy and one called
Speaker 7: Bunsen is a Beast. So had a great time at
Speaker 7: Nickelodeon for twenty years.
Speaker 2: How did you start? What were you an artist? And
Speaker 2: you said, I have this idea and I've drawn this.
Speaker 7: I've been drawing since I was a little kid. And
Speaker 7: then I got into the industry. I'm from Michigan originally,
Speaker 7: and then I ended up going to California to go
Speaker 7: to school. Wanted to work for Disney, never did, and
Speaker 7: then ended up finding my way to uh through the industry.
Speaker 7: Worked for many years, and then they were basically Nickelodeon
Speaker 7: was pretty new in the nineties and they were looking
Speaker 7: for show ideas, and so I went in with this
Speaker 7: idea I thought was kind of fun, A little boy
Speaker 7: with two fairy godparents and grant as every wish. But
Speaker 7: they get it wrong all the time, and they liked it,
Speaker 7: so I I had to make one cartoon, and then
Speaker 7: after that they love that one so much, I got
Speaker 7: to make like three more, four more. So I had
Speaker 7: about ten little short cartoons I made pretty much by myself,
Speaker 7: and then they focus tested them.
Speaker 1: You guys ever been in a focused test before.
Speaker 7: It's a terrifying thing where they put kids in a
Speaker 7: room to watch your show and you're behind a piece
Speaker 7: of glass and you can't go in, and the kids
Speaker 7: watch your show and they give you like you know,
Speaker 7: they vote on it. And luckily, the kids liked the show,
Speaker 7: and so Nickelodeon picked it up as a series in
Speaker 7: March of two thousand and one, that's when it first aired.
Speaker 2: Did you ever draw for other shows before you had
Speaker 2: your own show?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Multiple, multiple I ended up doing.
Speaker 7: I worked at you know, Hannah Barbera, I worked at
Speaker 7: Ambling Productions. I worked all over the place as much
Speaker 7: as I could. And you had to learn all these
Speaker 7: different styles of show art before you can, you know,
Speaker 7: make your own stuff.
Speaker 2: That is so cool. Now, let me give me some
Speaker 2: background on this sh this show. Yes, yes, so they
Speaker 2: have all in their own respective ways, auditioned for different
Speaker 2: I would say, not voice over, but like voice actor role.
Speaker 1: You guys are in the vocal realm. You guys do
Speaker 1: vocal things. That's right.
Speaker 2: Microphones for like twenty years. If you're in a room
Speaker 2: with microphone on a show, Yes, and.
Speaker 3: It's a good voice actor, like tell me talk to me.
Speaker 7: The best thing that makes a good voice actor is
Speaker 7: make it a good choice. If you come in with
Speaker 7: a choice that helps me make my day easier, that's
Speaker 7: gonna make me happy.
Speaker 4: What do you mean by choice?
Speaker 3: If you know, you know, you may answer the question,
Speaker 3: go ahead.
Speaker 7: For example, like if if the character is like a
Speaker 7: beautiful young princess who is sad that she's been turned
Speaker 7: into a frog, right, you need to come in and
Speaker 7: show me how that princess would act and not would
Speaker 7: that princess be would she just be a normal voice
Speaker 7: or would you have a choice meaning would you make
Speaker 7: an emotional choice there? Could you come in with some
Speaker 7: emotion or like and you can be funny on top
Speaker 7: of it, would say, I'll give you a line. I'll
Speaker 7: give you a line of dialogue. If you say, I
Speaker 7: can't believe the witch turned me into a frog, but
Speaker 7: I shall rise again.
Speaker 4: I can't believe the witch turned me into a frog.
Speaker 4: But I I shall rise again.
Speaker 3: React everyone, he's being nice.
Speaker 4: Don't tell you what he's being sad to hopeful.
Speaker 2: But go ahead.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, please get First of all, I thought that
Speaker 7: was fantastic audition. I just threw it at you too,
Speaker 7: and that was a terrible line I made up. But
Speaker 7: you made it better, so that.
Speaker 4: Was really it wasn't terrible.
Speaker 7: Let's try one more. I would I would say this.
Speaker 7: I would say this is a voice director. I said,
Speaker 7: let's have a little more energy. And I know I
Speaker 7: normally give line reads anyway, so be like. I can't
Speaker 7: believe he turned into a frog, but I should make
Speaker 7: it really big. Let's let's really feel it. I want
Speaker 7: you to outdo the guy with the bear in his shirt. Okay,
Speaker 7: right here we go, ready on account of three one
Speaker 7: two three.
Speaker 6: I can't believe I was turned into a frog, but
Speaker 6: I shall rise again.
Speaker 1: The difference.
Speaker 2: Beautiful because you guys are all haters.
Speaker 3: It wouldn't believe me.
Speaker 5: I'm just waiting for my line.
Speaker 2: But some more questions, Yes, sir, Yes, sir. I would
Speaker 2: think that everyone thinks they could do cartoon ViOS Bobby Bones.
Speaker 1: You're exactly right.
Speaker 7: Everybody thinks they can and people can do funny voices,
Speaker 7: but it's got to have the acting behind it. And
Speaker 7: like I said, when you come in with a choice
Speaker 7: like and by the way, thanks for doing that, I
Speaker 7: need me to put you on the spot.
Speaker 1: You did great.
Speaker 7: But people come in if you can make my day
Speaker 7: easier as a producer, Like if I can write to
Speaker 7: that voice you just did, I've bet people come in.
Speaker 7: I wasn't expecting anything from them and they did this
Speaker 7: great line reading. I went, wait, I can make that
Speaker 7: a permanent character in the show. You know that character,
Speaker 7: we can write for that, Like the guy who played
Speaker 7: mister Crocker on Fairly Odd Parents Mother if you know
Speaker 7: Very Good Parents, Carlos alas Raki came in and I said,
Speaker 7: he's just a crazy teacher, and he goes, if I
Speaker 7: can bind Richard Dreyfus with Willy Wonka And he made
Speaker 7: this incredible voice, and so we'd started to writing that
Speaker 7: character into the show. Became one of the most iconic
Speaker 7: characters on the show. So a voice actor can pretty
Speaker 7: much make a living out of a character they create
Speaker 7: if they come in with a great choice.
Speaker 2: You know what feedback would you give Amy overall? Or
Speaker 2: if she is auditioning for roles.
Speaker 7: I think Amy did a fantastic job. I think if
Speaker 7: you want to, you strike me as somebody who can
Speaker 7: do a lot of things.
Speaker 1: And are you to do comedy a.
Speaker 2: Lot I've taken, Oh perfect, Yeah, I would say.
Speaker 7: The cool thing is about you got a great voice
Speaker 7: already and you're really confident and if you, if you
Speaker 7: could maybe just meeting you for two seconds here, always
Speaker 7: keep working on the comedy and see if you can
Speaker 7: make that even stronger and get those improv skills even
Speaker 7: more honed. Because I just threw that line at you
Speaker 7: and you did great. But even being like being insane
Speaker 7: like this guy over here, you know I can sometimes helping.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yeah, you did great though great so the
Speaker 2: guy here in the blue shirt just audition But how's
Speaker 2: it going, man, Eddie? Tell Butch about the role you
Speaker 2: auditioned for.
Speaker 5: Yes, I auditioned for. It's like a spin off of
Speaker 5: My Little Pony basically, and they wanted a dad who
Speaker 5: was one of the horses, and I'm a horse dad.
Speaker 5: That's a horse dad and almost like a two caring dad,
Speaker 5: like it's a very worrisome dad about his kids and
Speaker 5: forties to fifties, and I was like, that's me. So
Speaker 5: they brought they gave me some lines. I sent him
Speaker 5: whatever you know they asked for. I haven't heard anything back,
Speaker 5: but it's been a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: Would you like to run them by?
Speaker 1: Butch?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 5: The lines?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got the lines right here?
Speaker 5: Let me pull them off.
Speaker 7: And it's a horse. Now are you supposed to be
Speaker 7: going for comedy here? Is just like supposed to be
Speaker 7: really sincere? What did they ask you?
Speaker 5: They said that the horse is just worried about his
Speaker 5: kids at all times. Got it?
Speaker 7: So I can see some comedy in that little over,
Speaker 7: little little neurotic. Okay, okay, okay, I see a little neurotic.
Speaker 3: Don't give him tips?
Speaker 2: He already lunchbox. You're not Butcher's boss.
Speaker 1: He's not the boss.
Speaker 2: No, he's not the boss. Punch. What do you live
Speaker 2: in La? I do live in Lay. Do you start
Speaker 2: in a studio?
Speaker 1: I did start in new studio, And.
Speaker 2: So now what does that mean for you? Are you
Speaker 2: now creating and have everybody.
Speaker 7: Creating a whole bunch of brand new stuff? And I
Speaker 7: got some brand new shows. We have one that's on
Speaker 7: Angel Studios right now. It's a cartoon called The Garden
Speaker 7: Cartoon that teaches kids the Bible, which is real exciting.
Speaker 7: So you guys can see that on Angel Studios. But
Speaker 7: I got I left Nickelodeon in twenty eighteen to do
Speaker 7: my own stuff. So we have a whole bunch of
Speaker 7: new ip coming out pretty soon.
Speaker 2: When you say Angel Studios, how do we find that?
Speaker 7: It's on the Angel Studios platform. Angel Studios they were
Speaker 7: best known.
Speaker 2: For the Chosen So we can download the app.
Speaker 7: Download the app, download the platform, and one of the
Speaker 7: biggest out there in the family market. It's really really
Speaker 7: fun because as a lot of platforms out there right
Speaker 7: now that have some family friendly stuff in them, but
Speaker 7: Angel's pretty much one family friendly.
Speaker 6: Like no surprises pretty much, are the kids no surprises?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Well, my goal is to make sure kids have a
Speaker 7: safe place to go, but an entertaining place to go too.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm trying to do, all right, Eddie, are
Speaker 1: we ready with your audition?
Speaker 5: I got the line? Okay, one line, yes, So the
Speaker 5: kid is leaving and they're about.
Speaker 1: To the horse.
Speaker 7: Kid is leaving the horsehouse, correct, and the dad is
Speaker 7: worried about that horse. Dad's worried.
Speaker 5: Yes, Okay, here's here's the here's my performance.
Speaker 1: Okay, is there a drum roll or something we could play?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 2: Either for sure?
Speaker 8: Is right?
Speaker 2: Would you mind hitting some kind of a drummer?
Speaker 9: So?
Speaker 5: What about your royal duties? I feel like you're gonna
Speaker 5: leave and just forget.
Speaker 3: All about us.
Speaker 7: Not bad at all, he said, what was he?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: Well that's a good question, I think.
Speaker 4: Perplexed?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I did not want her to leave.
Speaker 2: There was a nuance to it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'd probably have to hear a couple more lines
Speaker 7: to get a feel for this horse character.
Speaker 1: Does he have a name?
Speaker 5: His name is Nightlight.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 2: Are there more lines, Eddie?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I have to listen to the audio because all I
Speaker 5: have is my ring.
Speaker 2: Like you said, why don't you just improv?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll give you a line. Okay, what about your
Speaker 1: ol duties?
Speaker 9: Like?
Speaker 7: How about you can't leave? All the plants are gonna die?
Speaker 7: Say that love it?
Speaker 5: Well, you can't leave. I mean all the plants are
Speaker 5: gonna die.
Speaker 1: Bigger, make it bigger.
Speaker 3: Come on, you can't leave the plants die.
Speaker 1: I put a few tears in there, like Bill Murray
Speaker 1: would do.
Speaker 5: If you can't leave, I mean the plants, they're all gonna.
Speaker 1: Die and see there we go. Now we're getting this
Speaker 1: really good man.
Speaker 2: He's got energy, got.
Speaker 1: You surrounded by talent.
Speaker 2: This is think youre creating talent well, Angel Studios, No, but.
Speaker 7: It's funny when if you if you can create a
Speaker 7: great character with that voice like that, I mean, think
Speaker 7: about SpongeBob, oh my gosh, based the Crabs. You know,
Speaker 7: if you could do a voice like that and just
Speaker 7: really make that character come to life, that's something that
Speaker 7: you can really build on for decades, if you can
Speaker 7: really really nail it.
Speaker 2: See, that's what I feel like with the Angel Studios
Speaker 2: and the content you're creating that kids now need more
Speaker 2: of that type of content, like safe, clean content.
Speaker 1: Here's what I think. I think.
Speaker 7: You know, look, I'm I'm a Christian guy, and I
Speaker 7: don't ever want anyone to think I'm trying to, you know,
Speaker 7: make sure you're you're a Christian or anything. But I
Speaker 7: do stuff where I want to make sure that the
Speaker 7: end of the day, I feel good about what I
Speaker 7: put out there. There's a ton of kids that won't
Speaker 7: never go into a church, but they're all going to
Speaker 7: have a phone to look at and you know, who's
Speaker 7: putting stuff on that screen. So I'm to make sure
Speaker 7: at least I can put a healthy option on the
Speaker 7: screen and something that's uplifting for kids and families, because
Speaker 7: as a parent, I have two daughters.
Speaker 1: They're grown up now. But now I have a granddaughter.
Speaker 1: So what is she going to watch? Right?
Speaker 7: Hopefully the Princess Show and Horse Dad. I think Horse
Speaker 7: Dad becomes a series and we just call it no
Speaker 7: horse Dad. It's fun of your title.
Speaker 2: Princess, the Princess and the horse Dad. That's who wouldn't
Speaker 2: watch that? I would watch that.
Speaker 3: Man. What's how's it going? I've got my ticket to
Speaker 3: l A and are you ready to audition?
Speaker 7: Oh my gosh, I'll just move there with you. I
Speaker 7: should draw a horse Dad. By the way, while we're
Speaker 7: sitting all right, who's your character?
Speaker 2: Who's you know?
Speaker 9: I listen, man, I'm open. I'm an open book. Whatever
Speaker 9: you need me to do, I can adapt.
Speaker 3: See them. They are pigeonholed like he's like, I have character.
Speaker 3: I can come in.
Speaker 2: They did say they had one character. Literally, were just doing.
Speaker 4: A character just off the cuff, was a princess.
Speaker 1: Yeah you did great?
Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean, what what do you want. You
Speaker 3: want angry dad?
Speaker 2: You want?
Speaker 3: What do you want me to be?
Speaker 7: I think, just going by who you are already, I
Speaker 7: would never want to pull you down because that energy
Speaker 7: is great. I think you're like a tiger. That's a
Speaker 7: gym coach. That's what I think you're like. You're like,
Speaker 7: all right, everybody, today, it's dodgeball. Okay, we're playing dodgeball.
Speaker 3: To give me a line, you tell me the concept.
Speaker 7: You're a tiger gym coach and you're announcing it's dodgeball
Speaker 7: and you're picking teams.
Speaker 1: Here we go, ready, one, two, three.
Speaker 3: Little Jimmy and Sally and Susie. Guess what today is.
Speaker 3: It's dodgeball. Jimmy. You're over there, boys versus girls?
Speaker 9: You know why boys rule and girls?
Speaker 2: WHOA.
Speaker 7: That's amazing. That's amazing. Man, that was epics. See I
Speaker 7: could draw that character in two seconds.
Speaker 1: That's great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I gave him something to work with.
Speaker 2: To be fair, you did create the character that right.
Speaker 1: In front of Yeah, yeah, yeah he did on the
Speaker 1: Tiger Jim coach. That's for you can see it? Can
Speaker 1: you see the Tiger Jym coach?
Speaker 7: Though?
Speaker 2: You sure can see a tiger Jim coach. I saw
Speaker 2: a horse, Dad.
Speaker 3: And no contr on them. Let's focus on me now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I can focus on all three of you.
Speaker 2: I thought all three of you guys.
Speaker 7: Did a great John, I'm the lovely princess who's just
Speaker 7: trying to make the story end. Well, you're struggling and
Speaker 7: you run into these fairy tale characters who do not
Speaker 7: want to go along with the story.
Speaker 1: That's what happens.
Speaker 2: Why are you in town here? What are you doing?
Speaker 7: We're at the NRB Convention, a National Religious Broadcasters Convention.
Speaker 7: I'm announcing but Hartman Studios there and so.
Speaker 2: We're Oh, this is a whole new like everybody, I'm
Speaker 2: doing it.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, we have a huge booth and everything. It's massive.
Speaker 7: We're announcing eight new shows.
Speaker 1: Yes, you're in luck.
Speaker 6: I think we're all Christians here, we are.
Speaker 3: I'm a big captain.
Speaker 5: I love to stop by the booth.
Speaker 1: Yes, have the genu flec with where you come in.
Speaker 1: You gotta get it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Exata Mark John exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we saw your favorite scription before.
Speaker 2: Do you feel do you feel there's like a changing
Speaker 2: aesthetic and animation that you either have to lead and
Speaker 2: change that aesthetic or do you like, see what other
Speaker 2: people are drawing and then try to chase that at times, you.
Speaker 7: Know, it's interesting. I think the what's going on in
Speaker 7: animation right now. I think I think parents want to
Speaker 7: feel like they can put the phone in front of
Speaker 7: their kids and just walk away and take a breather
Speaker 7: for a minute. There's so many things out there that
Speaker 7: are negative right now. That's unfortunate. So I think really
Speaker 7: parents are looking for a great place to put their kids.
Speaker 7: Kids are looking for something entertaining that doesn't feel like
Speaker 7: it's too boring or that their mom and dad are
Speaker 7: making them watch.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just want to.
Speaker 7: Create great characters that kids can fall in love with
Speaker 7: and want to watch again over and over and over again.
Speaker 7: And that's what that's my job. I did it for
Speaker 7: twenty years in Nickelodeon. We're doing it with our new
Speaker 7: studio now and I'm having a blast doing it. But
Speaker 7: I do think that we as the filmmakers have to
Speaker 7: really be responsible what we put in that screen.
Speaker 1: That's my that's my advice. Where'd you grow up, Michigan?
Speaker 2: And so you moved to LA and was the dream
Speaker 2: to be an artist?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I moved La. This is back in the eighties, now,
Speaker 7: prior to the internet. So I had to like, you know,
Speaker 7: fill out an envelope and put my portfolio in a
Speaker 7: may in an envelope and send it to cal Arts.
Speaker 7: So I went to cal Arts and Valencia, and that
Speaker 7: was the only school in the country that was teaching
Speaker 7: animation at the time. And so I went out there
Speaker 7: in the eighties and kind of never looked back. I
Speaker 7: just loved California state out there. I always wanted to
Speaker 7: work for Disney, but I never did end up going
Speaker 7: to the TV.
Speaker 2: Did you ever get on a game show? Good question,
Speaker 2: because he tried. He tried to get on a game show.
Speaker 2: They didn't put him on too much.
Speaker 1: I can't.
Speaker 2: I got You've got a clear now it's Tiger Tiger
Speaker 2: Tiger co coach.
Speaker 7: I was on two game shows. That's so funny, as
Speaker 7: you would a Yeah, I was on two game shows. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and I won, Actually seventeen thousand dollars you want, I
Speaker 7: don't have it with me, guys, calm down. So I
Speaker 7: spent it already, all right, I spent the money.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 1: I was on two game shows.
Speaker 7: One was called Body Language, where I had to act
Speaker 7: out charades and like guests Clues. The other one was
Speaker 7: called The Match Game Hollywood Squares Hour. They took these
Speaker 7: two game shows to combine them together.
Speaker 1: But I was.
Speaker 7: I was in LA for like two weeks and got
Speaker 7: on that game show and won like two grand on
Speaker 7: that game show.
Speaker 1: I was, I was eighteen years old.
Speaker 2: What advice? Because he went and spent a week off
Speaker 2: the show. Yeah, trying to get on prices, right, you
Speaker 2: let him do that. I did, because he just wants
Speaker 2: to do it. And then but they never put him
Speaker 2: on the energy you hadd and put you on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a bad one, man. I don't know
Speaker 3: what happened.
Speaker 9: I felt like maybe the first day I went a
Speaker 9: little too over the top, yeah, and was just talking
Speaker 9: to everybody, was up in everybody's business, and like, so
Speaker 9: then I kind of tried to calm it. I tried
Speaker 9: to go for Valentine's Day, but I didn't have a couple,
Speaker 9: so they wouldn't let me on then. And then so
Speaker 9: the third day I tried to be a little more
Speaker 9: calm and reserved.
Speaker 3: That didn't work either.
Speaker 1: That's a great story. Who didn't love that story? Did
Speaker 1: you guys love that story?
Speaker 4: It was a great storyline for yeah, that's a.
Speaker 1: Great cartoon story right there.
Speaker 7: I think they want like housewives though, and things like
Speaker 7: that on prices, right maybe, yeah, maybe I could be wrong.
Speaker 7: I don't produce it, but I think your energy is great.
Speaker 7: Maybe they were just looking for different energy that it
Speaker 7: was just a bad day. Man, Do you even know
Speaker 7: any prices? If I threw things up here, which you've
Speaker 7: been able.
Speaker 3: To get everything?
Speaker 1: Really? I thought, okay, well I should have known.
Speaker 9: I can't tell you how much your jacket is, or
Speaker 9: your shoes or your watch because it looks all expensive.
Speaker 3: But if it's cheap, I.
Speaker 6: Know what it is, Like a carton of milk heinos, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Wow, okay, it's carton out like five five? I have
Speaker 2: no I didn't even know if that's gallon. Here, we'll
Speaker 2: see the garden cartoon. Yes, serious, tell me about that
Speaker 2: garden cartoon.
Speaker 1: Thank you for asking.
Speaker 7: When I first up Nickelodeon, I wanted I've been developing
Speaker 7: this cartoon for years, but I Nickelodeon would never make it,
Speaker 7: only because they would never make a Christian cartoon. I
Speaker 7: had a great time at Nickelodeon, but they just weren't
Speaker 7: into making that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: So I was I was developed.
Speaker 7: I was developing this stuff, this cartoon, the Garden Cartoon,
Speaker 7: for years, and I ended up making it on my own.
Speaker 7: It's about a little lion named Lenny a little lamb
Speaker 7: named Lucy, and they live and work in a miraculous
Speaker 7: garden and every day God comes down as a rainbow
Speaker 7: and gives them an assignment and they have to do it,
Speaker 7: and through a song or a scripture, they learn how
Speaker 7: to do it, but they normally don't do it as
Speaker 7: well as they should, so they have a great time learning.
Speaker 7: The show is funny first. I wanted to make it funny.
Speaker 7: It's basically fairly odd parents with scripture in it. I
Speaker 7: wanted to make it funny and make it like something
Speaker 7: that you know, kids could be entertained by first before
Speaker 7: they got a lesson out of it. So I think
Speaker 7: it's great. It's on Angel Studios now. We got twenty
Speaker 7: half hours we made and it's just been a blast
Speaker 7: to make.
Speaker 2: Work with their wife.
Speaker 7: I work with my wife, Julienne, who is the love
Speaker 7: of my life. Thirty four years I've been married, and
Speaker 7: so what is her role? She is my number one,
Speaker 7: my main motivator in life, and she also handles all
Speaker 7: the money, So be nice to my wife. She handles
Speaker 7: all the money, got it, She's the one.
Speaker 3: Okay, how cool would it be to play God?
Speaker 2: Like anybody that says that, be afraid of them?
Speaker 3: How cool?
Speaker 2: So generally I'm afraid of people to say that.
Speaker 9: Someone runs in at a party. So what do you
Speaker 9: do for a living? Oh, I'm on the you know
Speaker 9: garden cartoon?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm the voice of God? I mean how cool.
Speaker 1: Does that sound?
Speaker 2: You could be God's brother?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, Jerry, God's brother, God's brother Jerry. Who's Harry?
Speaker 2: Jerry's better than Ryde. I've yeah, gotten ride.
Speaker 3: I'll be there man.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but now you'd be great on a voice. As
Speaker 7: a voice on that, I think all of you guys
Speaker 7: would do. We could have the horse goal, you could
Speaker 7: have the Princess.
Speaker 1: Of course.
Speaker 7: The girl who plays Lucy the Lamb is a lot
Speaker 7: like you. She has a really nice feminine voice, so
Speaker 7: she's very Yeah, she's so cute, like, yeah.
Speaker 9: Is that a much?
Speaker 1: A great show?
Speaker 7: It's all over the place, and we had a great
Speaker 7: time making it. But that's one of those things where
Speaker 7: I had to not just learn how to do that.
Speaker 7: It was already I already knew how to make the show,
Speaker 7: but then distributing the show, getting it out in the world.
Speaker 7: I had to learn all that stuff because when you
Speaker 7: have your own studio, you gotta buy all the supplies
Speaker 7: and and and hire all the people and all that stuff.
Speaker 7: So I've been really elevated to a different level, which
Speaker 7: I think God's really shown favor in my life in
Speaker 7: that way, because I've had to learn a lot.
Speaker 2: Did you do any of the voices on Fairly Odd Parents?
Speaker 7: I did one doctor he's a he's the fairy Doctor's
Speaker 7: name is doctor Rip Studwell, and doctor Rip Studwell is
Speaker 7: a handsome fairy doctor who also plays one on TV.
Speaker 7: And so he would come in and uh and he
Speaker 7: would do he would be like, well, this is terrible.
Speaker 7: What's wrong, doctor rip stud Well? My headshots came out horrible?
Speaker 7: You know that type of thing, you know. So he's
Speaker 7: not really focused on the mission at hand.
Speaker 2: Whenever you have a show that is picked up by
Speaker 2: a network, do they order four episodes, ten episodes? And
Speaker 2: when does it go from This is something that we
Speaker 2: are going to really settle in with and this is
Speaker 2: going to be a show for a long time.
Speaker 7: It really depends on the audience depends if the audience
Speaker 7: wants to wants to watch it anymore. You know, back
Speaker 7: in the day at Nickelodeon, we were getting a thing
Speaker 7: called ratings. You guys know what ratings are, obviously you're
Speaker 7: you're in radio. So we would get ratings every week,
Speaker 7: and like, let's say, back in the day, a good
Speaker 7: rating was a five. Fairly our parents was getting like
Speaker 7: tens and elevens back then. So Nickelodeon is like, yeah,
Speaker 7: we need to keep picking this show up. And there
Speaker 7: were cond times where we would beat SpongeBob in the
Speaker 7: ratings and stuff like that. I mean, SpongeBob's an awesome show,
Speaker 7: but we would sometimes meet it in the ratings, so
Speaker 7: they knew they had a hit on their hands, which
Speaker 7: was really cool.
Speaker 2: I'm assuming you're still getting paid handsomely because they're still
Speaker 2: running it.
Speaker 7: I don't know our the word handsomely, but yeah, we
Speaker 7: do get stay. Yeah, we do get paid. No, we
Speaker 7: definitely get paid for sure. But that's one of the
Speaker 7: things too. I mean, you get to create a show,
Speaker 7: you get to get paid to do it. It's a
Speaker 7: wonderful thing. You do get residuals, you do get things
Speaker 7: in the future that add up, which is really really great.
Speaker 7: That's why people come to Hollywood. They want to you know,
Speaker 7: that's a very lucrative reward if you can make it work.
Speaker 7: But like, it takes a long I'd always tell people
Speaker 7: like selling a show is like throwing a dart through
Speaker 7: a donut, but the donuts on a Merry go round.
Speaker 7: It's all just got to line up perfectly. But you
Speaker 7: got to keep throwing, and you got to keep trying,
Speaker 7: because if you don't keep trying, you're never gonna make
Speaker 7: it happen in the first place.
Speaker 2: In Hollywood, do you sometimes not say what you do
Speaker 2: because you know people are then always going to try
Speaker 2: to impress you by doing what they think you want
Speaker 2: them to do to get a job.
Speaker 1: I mean, like if I.
Speaker 7: Walk into a room and people start doing voices for
Speaker 7: me like that, that's like that kind of a thing
Speaker 7: I would know.
Speaker 1: Who would ever do?
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 7: Sometimes I actually like telling people what I do because
Speaker 7: nobody expects it.
Speaker 1: It's like, what do you do? I'm a lawyer? What
Speaker 1: do you do? I'm I work in medicine. What do
Speaker 1: you do?
Speaker 7: I draw cartoons? Everyone goes, what what do you mean
Speaker 7: to draw cartoons? Tell me more, and I say I
Speaker 7: do the fairly outparnts and they go, what you gotta be?
Speaker 7: So that's it's always kind of fun to spring that up,
Speaker 7: which is good. And I get recognized a lot of
Speaker 7: starf Bucks too, which is very interesting because that that
Speaker 7: age range, that gen Z millennial age range is people
Speaker 7: that kind of grew up with my show. So I
Speaker 7: have a lot of Starbucks coffee cups with my pictures
Speaker 7: drawn on them.
Speaker 1: They'll draw characters for me.
Speaker 2: That's so cool. Okay, everybody can ask one final question
Speaker 2: to Butch. I know you're all sitting here, we have
Speaker 2: any questions? Yes, they have one hundred, so I'm gonna
Speaker 2: give them one first.
Speaker 6: Well have you ever had a fish character or do
Speaker 6: you have a fish character coming up? Because something that
Speaker 6: I said, well even on the radio fifteen twenty years ago,
Speaker 6: was I always wanted to be the voice of a fish.
Speaker 4: I don't know why.
Speaker 6: I have no idea, It's just something that has come
Speaker 6: out from time to time, so sort of like it's just.
Speaker 2: Like, could it be your Christian faith?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, fish?
Speaker 6: Like you know growing up my mom got the fish
Speaker 6: magnet on her car.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, of course, So I don't know.
Speaker 6: It's just one of those things where you look back
Speaker 6: and it's like, oh wow. I kind of manifested that because
Speaker 6: it happened. Like I always said I wanted to be
Speaker 6: in a Hallmark Christmas movie, and then I handed a
Speaker 6: role on a Christmas movie on HBO.
Speaker 4: Thank you. My big scene was in the bathroom.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. Wow. I thought he would say something like that.
Speaker 3: It was with the thought I would have that too.
Speaker 1: It's a bathroom for sure.
Speaker 4: The director said, this is a pivotal moment.
Speaker 6: This was like it was when the main character like
Speaker 6: shifted because of my scene.
Speaker 4: So you know, that was my moment there.
Speaker 6: But that happened, so I sort of said it on
Speaker 6: air and then things just started to happen.
Speaker 4: It took years.
Speaker 7: So that is a fish character on Fairly Odd Parents
Speaker 7: because the fairies would turn into fish when they were
Speaker 7: in Timmy's bedroom, they would they were fairies, but then
Speaker 7: when the parents would come in, they would disguise themselves
Speaker 7: as fish and being a fishbowl. So I guess that
Speaker 7: characters would turn into fish.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did you have a fish character in mind? Amy?
Speaker 6: It was really I just it could be any kind
Speaker 6: of fish and it's sort of just something I've even
Speaker 6: said casually and buzzing.
Speaker 1: Like Finding Nemo.
Speaker 4: Oh I loved Finding Nemo right there? Great movie. So anyway,
Speaker 4: if you if if you.
Speaker 6: Have a fish character, yeah, I would love the opportunity
Speaker 6: to audition if a fish, write.
Speaker 4: It down or where's the post it?
Speaker 7: I can give you my I'm gonna write down fish characters.
Speaker 7: There's a line real quick, can you say? I want
Speaker 7: you to give me a laugh and say, oh the
Speaker 7: bubbles tickle? Ready one too? Great?
Speaker 2: That go the bubbles tickle?
Speaker 1: Beautiful job.
Speaker 2: I want to catch you. That was so good. Wow,
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 4: Just throw me back though, Eddie.
Speaker 5: Okay, so but this is a real question. I'm not
Speaker 5: trying to like you know, I don't believe you true
Speaker 5: true question. Okay, how does someone audition for you? Like
Speaker 5: is there open casting calls? And then how many do
Speaker 5: you get? You get like thousands of people? And how
Speaker 5: do you swift through all that?
Speaker 7: Now you you, as a voice actor, have to create
Speaker 7: a what's known as a real a sample version of
Speaker 7: all your voices about a two minute reel, and then
Speaker 7: that gets taken to an agent and that agent puts
Speaker 7: it into a file and then when the casting call
Speaker 7: comes through, the agent sees it and they will then
Speaker 7: look at your reel and then they'll just whether or
Speaker 7: not you're good enough for the role. So out of
Speaker 7: the thousand that try, they'll sift it down to about ten,
Speaker 7: and I'll get those ten and then I'll pick one
Speaker 7: out of the ten. It's a very very competitive field.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 5: Have you ever hired someone and then halfway through the
Speaker 5: production being like, it's just not gonna work.
Speaker 7: Yeah, today, As a matter of fact, this morning, I
Speaker 7: was going to hire you, but I have to twitch them, Sorr,
Speaker 7: I have to change.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no.
Speaker 7: I have many times you hire somebody, think they're great,
Speaker 7: and for some reason the day of the recording, it
Speaker 7: just doesn't work out.
Speaker 1: For some reason.
Speaker 7: There's been celebrities I've worked with where you get this
Speaker 7: great celebrity voice coming in and then for some reason
Speaker 7: they get behind the mic, and it's really weird when
Speaker 7: they're not in front of a camera. Being in front
Speaker 7: of a cameras different than being behind a mic, and
Speaker 7: so it's just different for them. And so sometimes they
Speaker 7: just don't bring it and you have to kind of
Speaker 7: you have to you let them do it and then
Speaker 7: you kind of change them up at the end. So yeah,
Speaker 7: we've had that, sadly we've had to do that sometimes.
Speaker 2: Lex Box.
Speaker 3: Your final question, Yeah, Butch, nice beating you. Thanks for
Speaker 3: coming man.
Speaker 9: I just want to say, uh, just let me get
Speaker 9: jot down your number and your email so we can
Speaker 9: skip through all the agents.
Speaker 2: And all that.
Speaker 3: Yes, now that we know each other, you kind of
Speaker 3: know what I have.
Speaker 2: We know each other really well now exactly if you.
Speaker 9: Could just shoot me over your email and your phone
Speaker 9: number and that way you've lines you want me to
Speaker 9: you know, test out, drop them to me and I'll
Speaker 9: send them back.
Speaker 1: My email is don't email me at Butch Hartman.
Speaker 6: H yeah, wait in the real how many voices you say?
Speaker 6: They send a real with all their voices? Like, what's
Speaker 6: the ideal?
Speaker 7: Whenever your ranges. If you can do five voices, you
Speaker 7: can do ten. Just make sure it sounds like it.
Speaker 7: I always say, write a scene where like five people
Speaker 7: are talking to each other, and do that scene all
Speaker 7: the five, all.
Speaker 2: The different basically Eddie Murphy in uh yeah, doctor doctor,
Speaker 2: do all the.
Speaker 7: Characters do little or or a nutty profession that one too. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: but you can do whatever voices you can do. Let's
Speaker 7: hear it, because it's gonna really it's going to depend
Speaker 7: on whether I go, oh, that's really cool.
Speaker 1: I could use that, you know. And also it's connections
Speaker 1: to who you know.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I know you now, so that's wrong.
Speaker 1: I'll give you my real later on.
Speaker 2: I want to go to Mike D. Mike D is
Speaker 2: our animation expert. Here, Mike, you have really okay.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I was a part of that demographic that millennial
Speaker 8: watch that show all all the time. Did you ever
Speaker 8: get a note of like you were maybe making a
Speaker 8: character turned into something like the Fairly Odd Parents And
Speaker 8: Nickeolodey was like.
Speaker 2: Man, you can't do that.
Speaker 7: We never well, the fairies could turn into things on
Speaker 7: the show, as you know, and uh, we never got
Speaker 7: a note on that. But we did want to do
Speaker 7: a show once where we wrote a script. Timmy wanted
Speaker 7: to know where babies come from, and so we wrote
Speaker 7: this whole episode if they go to the stork factory
Speaker 7: up and up in the clouds, right, and so we
Speaker 7: had all these storks, these different babies, conveyor belts and
Speaker 7: all this. It was really funny story. They said, you
Speaker 7: can't do that story. We can't do where the babies
Speaker 7: come from?
Speaker 1: And I said, why not? We do all these other things.
Speaker 1: So that was one story we couldn't do.
Speaker 7: But other than that other changing into things, we kept
Speaker 7: it pretty clean mostly.
Speaker 1: You know, we kind of knew where our line was.
Speaker 7: I mean because we were working in kids TV, so
Speaker 7: we knew we couldn't do all stuff let's say, like
Speaker 7: a Rick and Morty episode or like you know, I
Speaker 7: got South Park EPI, so we couldn't go there with
Speaker 7: that kind of humor.
Speaker 1: But we have a lot of jokes that we that
Speaker 1: kids like your age now go. I get all those
Speaker 1: jokes I didn't get when I was a kid.
Speaker 7: You know, the adults get them now. So it's it
Speaker 7: was pretty fun doing that.
Speaker 8: And then oh sorry, oh I'm not like these guys.
Speaker 8: I don't want to get into voice acting, but I
Speaker 8: love drawing. Like during the show, I'll make like little
Speaker 8: doodles over here, Like what is your advice is if
Speaker 8: they make a real Like what do you do as
Speaker 8: an animator?
Speaker 1: Same thing? You have a portfolio and let me see
Speaker 1: what you can do.
Speaker 7: Let me see your drawings, let me see how let
Speaker 7: me see your cartoon stuff, let me see your realistic stuff,
Speaker 7: your life drawing stuff, because if I'm gonna hire you
Speaker 7: as an artist, You've got to be able to draw
Speaker 7: my stuff. Like I said, Remember I said about making
Speaker 7: your life easier. You know, you need to make my
Speaker 7: life easier. Like you know, can I what's your name, Mike?
Speaker 1: Mike? I said, Can Mike draw this? Can Mike do this? Okay?
Speaker 7: Oh Mike, give that to Mike. Mike can do that.
Speaker 7: That's what I want. That's the kind of guy I
Speaker 7: want to hire. You know I want to hire Mike.
Speaker 7: Is Mike can draw that. But if Mike draws it,
Speaker 7: messes it up and then Butcher has to draw it.
Speaker 7: It's like, why is Mike here? What is Mike doing here?
Speaker 7: Good point that type of this means drawing, by the way,
Speaker 7: when I do this.
Speaker 2: So the Guarden cartoons streaming on Angel Studios, and I
Speaker 2: guess I have Apple TV and Roku. I can just
Speaker 2: get it.
Speaker 7: You get it there, and we just we just signed
Speaker 7: an exclusive season two deal with Angel as well for Garden,
Speaker 7: so that's going on there as well. We have two
Speaker 7: movies out too, so a Christmas movie just came by,
Speaker 7: and we had one last summer too, so garden's doing
Speaker 7: really well.
Speaker 1: We're really excited about it.
Speaker 2: Before you came in, I would not tell them who
Speaker 2: was coming in, and I said, it is a secret
Speaker 2: guest because I knew that it would be an eruption
Speaker 2: like this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we would have been more prepared.
Speaker 2: I didn't want them to be there because they want
Speaker 2: You guys.
Speaker 7: Did great, you guys, and I almost looking for voice
Speaker 7: actors too. So keep rest assured. I will remember all
Speaker 7: of this, believe me, but you especially, I'll remember why.
Speaker 2: I do know why.
Speaker 1: I don't know why.
Speaker 3: I remember why.
Speaker 5: Let me tell you though. Somebody that's not gonna make
Speaker 5: your life easy is that dude right there?
Speaker 2: But if I give it because I'm this is really cool.
Speaker 2: So thank you for drawing this. I'm gonna keep this.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna value this. Would you draw one of this
Speaker 2: from Mike when you're done, because Mike is such a
Speaker 2: big fan. And so before you get out of it,
Speaker 2: what character.
Speaker 1: Do you want Mike?
Speaker 7: I love Timmy, Timmy, Okay, I'll draw it while we talk.
Speaker 7: If I can do this at the same time, keeps.
Speaker 2: Then I'll do a little promo for you while you
Speaker 2: do that. You guys can follow Butch at Butch Hartman
Speaker 2: and go to the Butch Hartman Studios. And again as
Speaker 2: we talked about the Garden cartoon streaming on Angel Studios.
Speaker 7: I'm all over TikTok and Instagram and all that stuff too,
Speaker 7: So follow me for an old guy. Not too bad
Speaker 7: getting a few followers here and there. So thanks for
Speaker 7: thanks you on people for letting me on your social media.
Speaker 2: Is it still but Hartman on TikTok? Do you have
Speaker 2: the name just.
Speaker 1: Butch Hartman on TikTok?
Speaker 2: Right there, you guys really amazing. He's John little timmy.
Speaker 3: Two point four million followers on TikTok.
Speaker 7: Dang two point four and one two three, four, five
Speaker 7: six more writing six more right today?
Speaker 2: Right o, may what what did you see over there?
Speaker 3: I'm just looking at the followers.
Speaker 2: That's two point three more than you.
Speaker 9: Huh No, it's like two point four more than me.
Speaker 1: Wait right there, that's your little worst of the camera.
Speaker 1: Wait at this camera here? Where there you go? Okay,
Speaker 1: come on, can you come get this? All right? But
Speaker 1: I hope you like it.
Speaker 2: But this has been a thrill for me and exciting
Speaker 2: for all of them, So thank you so much.
Speaker 1: For Hey, it's an honor to be here. I'm really
Speaker 1: grateful to be on guys.
Speaker 2: Thank you, good luck with your good luck with the
Speaker 2: new venture, and thank you. You know, if they all
Speaker 2: show up with your booth later today, don't be surprised.
Speaker 7: I would love you guys to come by the way.
Speaker 7: We we we went all out in this booth. It's
Speaker 7: really cool. It's very big. All the shows are on display.
Speaker 7: It's really cool. So it's over at the Gaylord Hotel.
Speaker 7: Have you've been to this hotel?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's more like a city.
Speaker 1: It's a city. It's like an amusement park, city greenhouse.
Speaker 7: It's massive, it's huge. There is its speaking of Jurassic Park.
Speaker 7: I think there's things roaming around in there. I'm not
Speaker 7: really sure.
Speaker 1: There's a huge jungle in there. It's crazy.
Speaker 2: It fits. It's the Opery's over there.
Speaker 1: I know it's massive.
Speaker 2: I know there is the Great Butch Harman. Everybody.
Speaker 1: Thank you, guys, honored, honored, thank you, thank you,