Vollständiges Transkript von Remembering Eric Bauza (October 27, 2026)

was 38 00:01:53.810 --> 00:01:56.709 pretty darn successful. They've done like a lot of, you know, 39 00:01:56.829 --> 00:01:59.530 I think they do way more crossovers in, in comic 40 00:01:59.569 --> 00:02:03.030 books these days than they do, uh, you know, in animation. 41 00:02:03.069 --> 00:02:05.409 And I feel like that used to be, you know, 42 00:02:05.450 --> 00:02:08.210 of course the ultimate crossover movie would be Roger Rabbit, 43 00:02:08.250 --> 00:02:11.039 of course. But, uh, you know, there really hasn't been 44 00:02:11.090 --> 00:02:17.009 a lot of, you know, crossover franchises like, like Batman 45 00:02:17.030 --> 00:02:20.110 Ninja Turtles, which is, I hope is going to set 46 00:02:20.150 --> 00:02:23.250 a trend for, And if we're the first one in 47 00:02:23.289 --> 00:02:26.150 a while and hopefully we do well, you know, it'll 48 00:02:26.189 --> 00:02:28.550 encourage all the studios to do like a lot more 49 00:02:28.650 --> 00:02:32.620 like reimaginings and crossovers of like your favorite characters. Yeah. 50 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:36.599 I just saw that they're doing Batman 1966. So the 51 00:02:36.639 --> 00:02:40.000 Adam West version with the old school Archie version. So 52 00:02:40.039 --> 00:02:41.340 hopefully maybe we can see that eventually. 53 00:02:41.379 --> 00:02:43.800 Yeah. That's hilarious. 54 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:45.740 Yeah. I can't wait to see that. And I'm not 55 00:02:45.759 --> 00:02:47.180 even a big comic book fan, but I'm going to 56 00:02:47.219 --> 00:02:51.159 definitely buy that issue and read what's going on. But yeah, 57 00:02:51.180 --> 00:02:54.599 I'm excited about Batman versus Ninja Turtles because you play 58 00:02:55.360 --> 00:02:56.379 one of the Ninja Turtles, right? 59 00:02:56.840 --> 00:03:00.020 Yeah. You know, I feel like I'm one of the 60 00:03:00.340 --> 00:03:06.189 guys now as far as being a representative of like 61 00:03:06.930 --> 00:03:11.099 the regular voice actor mixed in with like the, the, uh, 62 00:03:11.180 --> 00:03:14.419 cast of celebrities. Cause if you look at that cast, man, 63 00:03:14.479 --> 00:03:16.460 oh man, like at least with the main turtles, there's, 64 00:03:16.500 --> 00:03:20.460 there's a lot of really, uh, amazing, uh, voiceover talent 65 00:03:20.520 --> 00:03:22.969 as far as their celebrity status is concerned, you know, 66 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:27.550 Kyle Mooney, Darren, Darren, Chris, uh, Baron Vaughn, uh, and 67 00:03:27.569 --> 00:03:31.189 then me, I feel like, you know, I, I feel 68 00:03:31.229 --> 00:03:34.889 like I'm there, uh, for the fans, as far as 69 00:03:34.969 --> 00:03:40.219 someone that's been involved now with two TV series versions 70 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:45.280 of Ninja Turtles. I played Tiger Claw in the 2012 71 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:49.199 Ninja Turtles. And a more squishy version of that voice 72 00:03:49.219 --> 00:03:51.340 will be Master Splinter. Yes. 73 00:03:51.960 --> 00:03:55.580 That's so awesome. Yeah, I'm getting goosebumps. 74 00:03:55.620 --> 00:03:58.719 My joke is that I took Tiger Claw's voice and 75 00:03:58.780 --> 00:04:00.889 I left it in me. I washed it with hot 76 00:04:00.930 --> 00:04:03.169 water and I dried it too long. So the voice 77 00:04:03.229 --> 00:04:08.270 became like really, really scrunched up. Uh, but yeah, uh, 78 00:04:08.530 --> 00:04:11.460 I'm very happy to be a part of, you know, any, 79 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:14.240 any version of, of Ninja Turtles. Cause I love that 80 00:04:14.300 --> 00:04:16.319 show so much growing up as a kid. Yeah. 81 00:04:16.339 --> 00:04:17.860 So let's talk about that. When you were a kid 82 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:20.600 growing up, you're watching cartoons. Was it at that moment? 83 00:04:20.620 --> 00:04:22.019 You're like, Hey, I want to do this for a living. 84 00:04:22.399 --> 00:04:24.750 Or did you get into like acting because you want 85 00:04:24.769 --> 00:04:26.430 to be on camera and then you kind of found 86 00:04:26.970 --> 00:04:28.610 a voice work. How did that start? 87 00:04:29.850 --> 00:04:32.089 Well, the funny thing is, is that I never, and 88 00:04:32.129 --> 00:04:36.189 I made a joke about it at, uh, Andrea Romano's 89 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:39.269 retirement party, you know, uh, the very, Oh yeah. 90 00:04:39.290 --> 00:04:41.050 I'm very familiar with her voice voiceover. 91 00:04:41.310 --> 00:04:44.709 Oh yeah. She's, she's been around and definitely, uh, my 92 00:04:44.769 --> 00:04:50.589 education and voiceover started every day after school with, uh, Animaniacs, Batman, 93 00:04:50.610 --> 00:04:55.699 the animated series, tiny tunes, freakazoid, all the classic Warner brothers, uh, 94 00:04:55.800 --> 00:04:57.600 you know, the classic. 95 00:04:57.240 --> 00:04:59.019 Nineties cartoon brain. 96 00:04:59.480 --> 00:05:03.389 Uh, Oh yeah. And these are people that, I never 97 00:05:03.449 --> 00:05:05.810 thought I would ever get to meet in my entire life, 98 00:05:05.850 --> 00:05:12.379 let alone work with. So I'm not a quote-unquote classically 99 00:05:12.449 --> 00:05:15.959 trained actor as far as my education is concerned. I 100 00:05:16.060 --> 00:05:22.540 actually went to school for broadcasting. I love radio. If 101 00:05:22.579 --> 00:05:24.459 you guys have an open spot, I would love to 102 00:05:24.500 --> 00:05:25.500 join you guys every week. 103 00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:27.180 Yeah, absolutely. 104 00:05:27.959 --> 00:05:29.699 I mean, that's kind of what I went to school for. 105 00:05:30.420 --> 00:05:35.079 And then I ended up interning in animation studios around Hollywood. 106 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:40.509 And then someone said, oh, instead of drawing, they'll pay 107 00:05:40.550 --> 00:05:43.540 you to read into a microphone. And I kind of 108 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:45.930 just stumbled my way into voiceover that way. 109 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:48.649 That's incredible. See, I think we're cut from the same cloth,

110 00:05:48.709 --> 00:05:51.910 you and I, because growing up, I was studying the greats, 111 00:05:52.009 --> 00:05:54.269 you know, in animation as far as voiceover work, like 112 00:05:54.290 --> 00:05:56.870 Mel Blanc. And even like, you know, people don't think 113 00:05:56.889 --> 00:05:59.870 of this guy as a voiceover actor, but he absolutely was. 114 00:06:00.129 --> 00:06:03.889 Jim Henson, who was an incredible voice actor, you know, 115 00:06:03.990 --> 00:06:06.509 and he was able to bring a sock to life 116 00:06:06.670 --> 00:06:07.790 with just his voice, you know? 117 00:06:08.430 --> 00:06:12.949 Oh, absolutely. I get to work on, actually, just... recently 118 00:06:12.990 --> 00:06:17.100 just got nominated for an Emmy for, uh, Fozzie bear. 119 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:22.439 Look at you. Yeah. Yeah. 120 00:06:22.839 --> 00:06:24.420 That is, that is incredible. 121 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:27.139 Again, Jim Henson and Frank Oz. 122 00:06:27.350 --> 00:06:28.529 I mean, it was great. 123 00:06:28.769 --> 00:06:33.370 Created, created these universes and characters that, uh, that we've 124 00:06:33.430 --> 00:06:36.350 loved for so many years. And I'm, I'm extremely lucky 125 00:06:36.370 --> 00:06:37.889 to be a part of that franchise as well. 126 00:06:37.990 --> 00:06:39.769 Yeah. So I, you know, I studied these guys and 127 00:06:39.790 --> 00:06:41.819 I used to listen to old radio dramas like Abbott 128 00:06:41.860 --> 00:06:44.420 and Costello and, uh, you know, Jack Benny and all these, 129 00:06:44.680 --> 00:06:47.430 all these things and really studied anything I could about 130 00:06:47.490 --> 00:06:49.850 voice acting. And I've been on a microphone for, since 131 00:06:49.910 --> 00:06:51.250 I could talk. No lie. I was on a Bugs 132 00:06:51.290 --> 00:06:53.949 Bunny little tape recorder back in the day, recording 90 133 00:06:53.949 --> 00:06:56.910 minutes of doing voices and all this stuff. And I thought, 134 00:06:57.110 --> 00:06:58.310 this is what I'm going to do one day. I'm 135 00:06:58.329 --> 00:07:01.509 going to do voice work, right? And then as I 136 00:07:01.529 --> 00:07:03.430 got older, I realized there's a couple of things that 137 00:07:03.470 --> 00:07:06.120 you kind of need. in order to be successful in this. 138 00:07:06.180 --> 00:07:07.899 And one was talent, which I don't have. I mean, 139 00:07:07.939 --> 00:07:10.120 I can make a mean like ramen noodle soup, right? 140 00:07:10.180 --> 00:07:12.720 I can, I can do the water to noodle ratio. 141 00:07:12.740 --> 00:07:15.120 I can get that all right. But as far as 142 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:17.360 like acting, I'm not a very good actor, I don't think. 143 00:07:17.399 --> 00:07:19.879 And then, so I didn't have that. And then stamina 144 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:22.279 is another thing I don't have. And a lot of 145 00:07:22.319 --> 00:07:23.180 different activities really. 146 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:26.870 Cut from the same cloth you say. And I feel 147 00:07:26.889 --> 00:07:30.589 like I did most of my learning in the booth 148 00:07:30.769 --> 00:07:34.870 and like kind of just doing the job, even, even 149 00:07:34.930 --> 00:07:37.980 if I wasn't as good as I, you know, You 150 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:40.120 get better every year if you want to keep trying 151 00:07:40.180 --> 00:07:42.660 at something, you know? And I say, don't give up, man. 152 00:07:42.860 --> 00:07:44.879 Yeah, well, my motto is, if you don't think you're 153 00:07:44.899 --> 00:07:47.379 good at something, don't even try. And that's how I 154 00:07:47.399 --> 00:07:49.680 live my life. And so that's what's got me this far. 155 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:51.389 But moving on. 156 00:07:51.420 --> 00:07:55.490 Let's get something straight here. I'm on your show. 157 00:07:55.529 --> 00:07:59.069 Let's not forget. That's true. But here's the deal. I'm 158 00:07:59.110 --> 00:08:02.250 still like, the talent level in this room, everyone in 159 00:08:02.290 --> 00:08:04.829 this room is far below you. Let's just say that. 160 00:08:04.889 --> 00:08:06.250 No offense to everybody in this room, by the way. 161 00:08:07.490 --> 00:08:10.629 But Jaime, yes, for sure. What I'm jealous about is, 162 00:08:10.649 --> 00:08:12.500 number one, like you kind of mentioned this before, you 163 00:08:12.519 --> 00:08:13.740 get to work with all the greats, right? You get 164 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:16.180 to work with, like, Billy West, Rob Paulson, who's my 165 00:08:16.560 --> 00:08:19.600 all-time favorite voice. Like, he was my Mel Blanc growing up, right? 166 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:22.160 And one of my favorite people who's been super nice 167 00:08:22.180 --> 00:08:24.810 to me over the years. And he actually has a 168 00:08:24.829 --> 00:08:26.370 book coming out. He told me to promote the book 169 00:08:26.930 --> 00:08:29.709 on your interview specifically. He said he's paying me to 170 00:08:29.769 --> 00:08:31.930 interrupt your interview just to promote his book, Voice Overs, 171 00:08:32.070 --> 00:08:32.750 coming out in October. 172 00:08:33.649 --> 00:08:37.470 I call Rob Paulsen the Johnny Carson of animation. 173 00:08:37.610 --> 00:08:38.620 He really is. 174 00:08:38.669 --> 00:08:41.279 Because he is, you know, I mean, he's got his 175 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:44.179 talk show and he's got books coming out, you know, 176 00:08:44.759 --> 00:08:48.120 and all around class. And I am so lucky to 177 00:08:48.179 --> 00:08:51.720 be on his maiden voyage as a voiceover director. 178 00:08:51.860 --> 00:08:54.080 Yeah, that's right. Because you're on that new version of 179 00:08:54.100 --> 00:08:55.580 Ninja Turtles that he's the director. 180 00:08:55.279 --> 00:09:00.379 Of, right? Yeah. Who better than Mr. Rob Paulsen than 181 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:05.029 to guide us on another... crazy version of these characters. 182 00:09:05.730 --> 00:09:08.370 I feel like, well, they're not even teenagers anymore.

They're 183 00:09:08.370 --> 00:09:11.370 30 years old. They've been around for that long, and 184 00:09:11.789 --> 00:09:14.740 it's hard for me to call them teenagers. I know 185 00:09:14.759 --> 00:09:16.809 these characters like I know my cousin. 186 00:09:17.129 --> 00:09:20.470 Right, exactly. Grew up with them. They're midlife crisis turtles 187 00:09:20.509 --> 00:09:24.049 at this point that kind of has some sort of 188 00:09:24.070 --> 00:09:24.570 ninja skills. 189 00:09:24.929 --> 00:09:27.029 They're okay with being bald. 190 00:09:27.190 --> 00:09:31.100 Right, yeah. They're fine with that. They've embraced it. My 191 00:09:31.139 --> 00:09:33.379 brother introduced me. My brother's a big gamer, and he 192 00:09:33.399 --> 00:09:36.679 introduced me to a mobile game called Looney Tunes World 193 00:09:36.740 --> 00:09:39.240 of Mayhem. I don't know anything about these mobile games. 194 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:40.320 I try to play them, but I don't know what 195 00:09:40.340 --> 00:09:41.279 I'm doing, and I end up spending a lot of 196 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:44.610 money because I get frustrated at I'm their prime customer, right? Like, 197 00:09:44.629 --> 00:09:45.929 I'm the guy that's like, I can't pass this level 198 00:09:45.990 --> 00:09:46.409 and I spent $ 20. 199 00:09:46.350 --> 00:09:50.370 That's how we get you, Doc. 200 00:09:50.409 --> 00:09:53.269 Look at that. This guy, I found out after I 201 00:09:53.289 --> 00:09:56.389 downloaded this game that this guy did 99.9% of the 202 00:09:57.649 --> 00:10:01.600 characters in this game. Like, even Granny, right? You did Granny? Oh, yeah, 203 00:10:01.629 --> 00:10:03.519 that's correct, Tweety. 204 00:10:03.559 --> 00:10:07.340 Sylvester, Sylvester, you leave Tweety alone. 205 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:08.940 That's incredible. 206 00:10:09.659 --> 00:10:11.519 And then they would kind of like pitch that up 207 00:10:11.559 --> 00:10:15.399 a bit. But I mean, you know, these mobile games, 208 00:10:16.250 --> 00:10:18.789 you kind of just, you get invited to, to be 209 00:10:19.210 --> 00:10:21.230 a handful of characters and then they find out you 210 00:10:21.250 --> 00:10:24.070 can do more. And, uh, there, there may or may 211 00:10:24.110 --> 00:10:27.009 not have been a grand budget on this. So they, 212 00:10:27.250 --> 00:10:32.149 they could only really, they could only really hire myself and, um, uh, 213 00:10:32.220 --> 00:10:37.740 Bob Bergen, uh, cause you know, he's the ultimate porky pig. And, uh, 214 00:10:37.940 --> 00:10:41.960 I think this is actually even before Looney Tunes cartoons 215 00:10:42.019 --> 00:10:46.330 comes out this summer, uh, um uh looney tunes world 216 00:10:46.370 --> 00:10:48.600 of mayhem was the very very first time that i 217 00:10:48.629 --> 00:10:52.320 voiced bugs gaffey and and a bunch of these characters 218 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:55.000 really like i mean they're i i'd say that those 219 00:10:55.059 --> 00:10:57.960 are like excuse me the the main strong ones uh 220 00:10:58.620 --> 00:11:00.559 and then the other ones you know you kind of 221 00:11:00.600 --> 00:11:03.200 hear them and go oh well we gotta get brett 222 00:11:03.240 --> 00:11:06.139 tatashore in we gotta get jeff bergman back you know 223 00:11:06.179 --> 00:11:09.070 like uh I I'm glad that I got to do it, 224 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:10.980 but I would never want to do that. 225 00:11:11.059 --> 00:11:12.460 All that again. Yeah. That's a lot of pressure. 226 00:11:12.639 --> 00:11:16.799 That's, that's what sets guys like me aside from guys 227 00:11:16.850 --> 00:11:20.210 like Mel blank. Like I always, I always think about 228 00:11:20.250 --> 00:11:22.870 this every time I'm in the sound booth, like here 229 00:11:22.929 --> 00:11:26.649 we are, you know, 2019, there's like maybe four or 230 00:11:26.730 --> 00:11:30.860 five of us supplying the voices of what one man did. 231 00:11:31.149 --> 00:11:31.480 Right. 232 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:35.490 And like, Not only did he do an army of 233 00:11:35.570 --> 00:11:40.389 characters by himself, but he was probably in a warehouse 234 00:11:40.450 --> 00:11:44.769 at Warner Brothers with no air conditioning, wearing a three-piece 235 00:11:44.830 --> 00:11:52.919 wool suit, probably smoking indoors, probably drinking. It's insane what 236 00:11:52.980 --> 00:11:58.840 he was able to achieve just by being himself. I 237 00:11:58.879 --> 00:12:02.039 feel like he will go down in history as being 238 00:12:02.710 --> 00:12:05.149 one of the great, if not the greatest voiceover artists 239 00:12:05.419 --> 00:12:06.580 to ever do it. 240 00:12:07.059 --> 00:12:09.080 But you know what's cool is like, so here you are, 241 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:11.299 you grew up on Looney Tunes, right? And so now 242 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:13.179 you get a call and you're like, hey, can you 243 00:12:13.220 --> 00:12:15.559 be Bugs Bunny? And you're like, wait, what? Like, that's 244 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:17.419 got to be like a, I know, you know, you're 245 00:12:17.460 --> 00:12:19.480 the snow cone on this cartoon or whatever. And that 246 00:12:19.500 --> 00:12:21.460 pays your bills and all that stuff, right? You get that. 247 00:12:21.500 --> 00:12:23.460 That's a job. But then you finally get that one 248 00:12:23.519 --> 00:12:26.240 call that's like, hey, can you be Bugs Bunny? You 249 00:12:26.279 --> 00:12:28.399 got to at that moment be like, what happened? You know, 250 00:12:28.659 --> 00:12:30.779 I was a kid in Canada watching Looney Tunes at 251 00:12:30.840 --> 00:12:32.539 one point and now I am Bugs Bunny. 252 00:12:33.799 --> 00:12:38.039 Yeah, it is definitely one of the most surreal jobs 253 00:12:38.179 --> 00:12:42.990 I've ever had the honor of doing because everyone can 254 00:12:43.029 --> 00:12:45.750 do Bugs Bunny, right? Everyone has a Bugs Bunny. Everyone's 255 00:12:45.850 --> 00:12:48.529 tried it at least once. If you grew up

watching 256 00:12:48.590 --> 00:12:51.450 Roger Rabbit, I mean, there are probably times in my 257 00:12:52.129 --> 00:12:54.629 youth that I probably thought I was a cartoon character 258 00:12:55.330 --> 00:12:58.960 because the amount of cartoons that I watched, like you 259 00:12:59.000 --> 00:13:01.019 and I probably are around the same age group. I 260 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:05.210 was born in 79. Yeah. So I watched the reruns 261 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:09.690 of like the Flintstones and Yogi Bear, Jetsons, Warner Brothers. 262 00:13:10.070 --> 00:13:13.509 And then I watched the new 90s stuff, you know, 263 00:13:13.690 --> 00:13:17.049 after Mel Blanc passed away. So the Jeff Bergman era, 264 00:13:17.129 --> 00:13:20.740 the Greg Burson, the Bob Bergen, anyone with the last 265 00:13:20.779 --> 00:13:21.759 name that starts with a B. 266 00:13:21.940 --> 00:13:25.600 Yeah. And Billy West was thrown in there for Space Jam, too. 267 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:26.539 So that was also. 268 00:13:26.759 --> 00:13:29.789 Yeah. Oh, absolutely. Billy West is certainly up in there. 269 00:13:30.370 --> 00:13:33.070 I used to play that Bugs Bunny rap track off 270 00:13:33.110 --> 00:13:33.789 the soundtrack. 271 00:13:33.830 --> 00:13:36.269 Oh, Buggin'? That's my only Bugs Bunny impression. 272 00:13:36.970 --> 00:13:38.950 Written by Jay-Z, by the way. 273 00:13:38.990 --> 00:13:39.529 Was that really? 274 00:13:39.549 --> 00:13:43.129 That rap song. Oh, yeah. If you look at the credits, 275 00:13:43.529 --> 00:13:46.490 it's not Jay-Z, but it's like it's his real name. Right. 276 00:13:46.529 --> 00:13:49.629 Spider, what's Jay-Z's real name? 277 00:13:49.669 --> 00:13:50.549 You have to take a look. 278 00:13:51.029 --> 00:13:51.409 That's incredible. 279 00:13:51.429 --> 00:13:53.870 I didn't know. You gotta take a look, but... That's right, Doc. 280 00:13:54.190 --> 00:13:57.100 I only spit lyrics from Jay-Z, my homeboy. 281 00:13:57.159 --> 00:13:57.700 Yeah, so. 282 00:13:59.299 --> 00:14:02.259 Yeah, so you get that email saying, would you like 283 00:14:02.299 --> 00:14:05.539 to try to be the voice of Bugs? And you 284 00:14:05.610 --> 00:14:08.570 have to say yes only because, for me, it's out 285 00:14:08.610 --> 00:14:12.909 of respect to the character and not to disrespect anyone 286 00:14:12.950 --> 00:14:15.830 else that has done it before because there really hasn't 287 00:14:15.950 --> 00:14:22.179 been a lot of people in Bugs' past, in his history. 288 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:26.740 And I've worked with Jeff, and I think that pound 289 00:14:26.779 --> 00:14:31.779 for pound... Jeff Bergman, vocal cord for vocal cord. I 290 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:36.840 would have to say Bergman is probably the best predecessor 291 00:14:36.879 --> 00:14:42.860 for these characters after Mel. No question. Because he did 292 00:14:42.899 --> 00:14:46.980 them all just as good. And the only other person 293 00:14:47.019 --> 00:14:50.230 I could think of would be the late, great Joe Alasky. 294 00:14:50.759 --> 00:14:52.970 He has the honor of saying that he did a 295 00:14:52.990 --> 00:14:55.750 Mel Blank voice while Mel was still alive. and that 296 00:14:55.809 --> 00:14:58.370 was Yosemite Sam and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. 297 00:14:58.509 --> 00:14:59.470 Oh, that's right. 298 00:15:00.450 --> 00:15:03.669 But yeah, I am thankful not just for the original 299 00:15:03.730 --> 00:15:06.210 work that was laid down by Mel, but I'm even 300 00:15:06.370 --> 00:15:09.549 more grateful for people like Jeff Bergman and Billy West 301 00:15:09.889 --> 00:15:12.750 who have carried the mantle long enough for me to 302 00:15:12.769 --> 00:15:14.120 be interested in these characters. 303 00:15:14.789 --> 00:15:16.759 That's so cool. I'm just so happy for you, really. 304 00:15:16.799 --> 00:15:19.029 It's like, It's like if we were in the same 305 00:15:19.070 --> 00:15:21.409 high school, right, and we were both football players, and 306 00:15:21.649 --> 00:15:23.950 we had dreams of going pro, and I had a 307 00:15:24.029 --> 00:15:27.240 serious ankle injury, and my NFL career is over, and 308 00:15:27.879 --> 00:15:30.120 now I'm selling insurance, I have five kids, and you 309 00:15:30.179 --> 00:15:31.759 are winning the Super Bowl, and I'm rooting for you. 310 00:15:31.799 --> 00:15:32.919 That's what I feel like. 311 00:15:34.279 --> 00:15:37.779 Well, this is my theory. Everyone's still invited to the party, 312 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:42.009 you see. That's so crazy. Everyone's, you know, you just 313 00:15:42.029 --> 00:15:43.769 kind of let that ankle heal a bit. 314 00:15:44.049 --> 00:15:45.710 That's right, that's right. I'm going to get back out there. 315 00:15:45.730 --> 00:15:48.450 I'll be like that new Cowboys player that joined the 316 00:15:48.470 --> 00:15:49.149 team after he retired. 317 00:15:50.370 --> 00:15:50.809 Yeah. 318 00:15:51.350 --> 00:15:54.230 So are you the official voice of Bugs and Daffy 319 00:15:54.269 --> 00:15:55.590 now for Warner Brothers Properties? 320 00:15:55.870 --> 00:15:58.509 I would say that I'm just the most current. Okay. 321 00:15:58.669 --> 00:16:03.700 And again, I think Warner's is a little bit more 322 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:07.120 open to having more than just one choice. 323 00:16:07.139 --> 00:16:08.740 One choice, yeah. 324 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:14.100 I think that... You know, they always just try to 325 00:16:14.159 --> 00:16:18.600 reinvent these characters only because much like Ninja Turtles, it's 326 00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:23.710 like they can. It's like people just love seeing these 327 00:16:23.769 --> 00:16:28.029 characters in new ways and new shapes, new forms. You know, 328 00:16:28.809 --> 00:16:31.289 I remember when Looney Tunes show first came out in 2011, 329 00:16:31.289 --> 00:16:35.360 I think. And, you know, not a lot of people 330 00:16:35.399 --> 00:16:37.860 were like, oh, well, it's a little bit

different. Like, 331 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:40.220 it's kind of like more adult sitcom-y. 332 00:16:40.399 --> 00:16:41.779 Yeah. 333 00:16:41.870 --> 00:16:44.409 But years later, I'm catching it on, like, YouTube, and 334 00:16:44.450 --> 00:16:47.450 I see that it has, like, you know, officially off 335 00:16:47.509 --> 00:16:50.289 of the Warner Brothers YouTube channel, and it's in, like, 336 00:16:50.370 --> 00:16:53.690 the hundreds and thousands, even millions of views. And people 337 00:16:53.769 --> 00:16:58.139 are now discovering it, like, years later and are into it. 338 00:16:58.620 --> 00:17:02.159 So I feel like, you know, I think in this 339 00:17:02.279 --> 00:17:06.500 round of shorts, They just wanted to really shake it 340 00:17:06.559 --> 00:17:10.319 up a bit, and that's why they opened the auditions. Usually, 341 00:17:11.579 --> 00:17:15.059 they know who can do these voices, and they call 342 00:17:15.079 --> 00:17:20.039 those guys in, myself included. I've done gigs as, I think, 343 00:17:20.079 --> 00:17:25.180 the longest-running character I've portrayed in the Looney Tunes universe 344 00:17:25.220 --> 00:17:30.049 is Marvin the Martian. That's right. That's about seven space 345 00:17:30.109 --> 00:17:31.480 years for a creature. 346 00:17:31.509 --> 00:17:31.619 Yeah. 347 00:17:32.109 --> 00:17:35.670 So, uh, I'm lucky with that, but, um, I feel 348 00:17:35.710 --> 00:17:37.880 like that's, you know, one of the reasons why they, 349 00:17:37.940 --> 00:17:39.640 they got me in there like, Oh, you know, he's, 350 00:17:39.859 --> 00:17:42.680 he's in the pocket. So let's see, uh, you know, 351 00:17:42.700 --> 00:17:44.599 this is not the first time I've auditioned for bugs. 352 00:17:44.660 --> 00:17:48.730 It's actually the second time. Um, and, uh, you know, 353 00:17:48.750 --> 00:17:52.380 for whatever reason from 2011, uh, All the way up 354 00:17:52.440 --> 00:17:55.880 until now, my voice has changed, I guess. I went 355 00:17:55.920 --> 00:17:57.180 through my toy puberty. 356 00:17:59.089 --> 00:18:01.549 And these shorts that you're referencing, these are a new 357 00:18:02.009 --> 00:18:04.430 batch of shorts that they're releasing, you said, in the summertime. 358 00:18:04.509 --> 00:18:07.009 And it's more of the classic, like they're going back 359 00:18:07.029 --> 00:18:09.609 to the roots of the characters and they're putting out 360 00:18:09.630 --> 00:18:12.509 new like eight minute shorts, right? Is that what I'm understanding? 361 00:18:12.670 --> 00:18:15.950 Oh, some of them are one minute. Some of them 362 00:18:16.029 --> 00:18:18.849 are three minutes. Some of them are seven minutes. it's 363 00:18:18.970 --> 00:18:21.349 rare that they'll ever get to like eight or 11 364 00:18:21.349 --> 00:18:24.500 minutes long because they really, they really want to go 365 00:18:24.559 --> 00:18:28.819 back to like that really, you know, quick snappy, get in, 366 00:18:28.859 --> 00:18:32.420 get out, maybe like set up a joke, tell three 367 00:18:32.660 --> 00:18:35.279 almost similar jokes and then get out kind of method of, 368 00:18:35.519 --> 00:18:38.660 of these shorts. Uh, and you know, like there's not, 369 00:18:38.700 --> 00:18:43.589 there's dialogue, but only when necessary. And I feel like that's, 370 00:18:43.829 --> 00:18:46.230 that's as close as this is ever going to be. 371 00:18:46.289 --> 00:18:51.009 I feel like to the originals, even downright to the design, uh, 372 00:18:51.230 --> 00:18:54.809 bugs is wearing yellow gloves. Yeah. You know, he used 373 00:18:54.829 --> 00:18:58.049 to wear yellow, yellow gloves and like, uh, maybe like 374 00:18:58.089 --> 00:19:01.579 the first two, three shorts. And then sometimes in the 375 00:19:01.599 --> 00:19:04.859 comic strips, but, uh, Pete Brown guard, he is the 376 00:19:04.900 --> 00:19:08.880 guy that was the creator and voice of uncle grandpa. Uh, 377 00:19:09.200 --> 00:19:11.900 he's the main showrunner on this and he is, uh, 378 00:19:12.630 --> 00:19:18.230 A very visual, visually funny, you know, director and showrunner. 379 00:19:19.369 --> 00:19:21.650 He does like a lot of sight gags, very much 380 00:19:21.690 --> 00:19:24.819 like a modern day Tex Avery. And I don't think 381 00:19:24.839 --> 00:19:28.200 they could have picked a better person to to bring 382 00:19:28.240 --> 00:19:30.740 these characters back to life in the way that I 383 00:19:30.819 --> 00:19:34.279 feel like. The fans, the true diehard fans have been 384 00:19:34.319 --> 00:19:35.559 waiting for all these years. 385 00:19:35.619 --> 00:19:39.319 Yeah, well, I can tell you, I'm excited. And I read, 386 00:19:39.380 --> 00:19:41.230 I don't know if you can confirm or deny this, 387 00:19:41.509 --> 00:19:44.930 I read in the infallible IMDB that you were signed 388 00:19:44.950 --> 00:19:47.990 on to play Bugs Bunny and Daffy on Space Jam 2? 389 00:19:47.970 --> 00:19:52.000 Yeah, well... that was so funny because I feel like 390 00:19:53.220 --> 00:19:57.250 about the same time or just shortly after the news 391 00:19:57.430 --> 00:20:00.750 broke about the Looney Tunes cartoons, like the new shorts, 392 00:20:01.849 --> 00:20:06.269 they started kind of like rumors resurfacing about Space Jam 2. 393 00:20:06.269 --> 00:20:08.430 And there was like maybe one or two articles that 394 00:20:08.589 --> 00:20:12.589 actually cited me as the voice of Bugs in the shorts. 395 00:20:13.210 --> 00:20:18.819 And I think that the reporters started the rumor mill saying, oh, well, 396 00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:22.279 clearly if he's the new Bugs here– he might be 397 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:25.720 the new bug there, which is not the case. I cannot, 398 00:20:26.170 --> 00:20:28.269 I cannot, I cannot confirm that news. 399 00:20:28.349 --> 00:20:32.089 All right. Well, let's, we can hope. 400 00:20:32.190 --> 00:20:34.630 Yes. And I feel like here's the thing. Oh, well, well, 401 00:20:34.650 -->

00:20:39.180 thank you. I appreciate that. The, the nerd, the nerd, uh, the, the, 402 00:20:39.259 --> 00:20:42.819 the nerd in me wants, the original cast to come back. 403 00:20:42.880 --> 00:20:43.779 Yeah, that's true. 404 00:20:43.880 --> 00:20:48.440 Uh, but, but, uh, but two time Emmy nominated voice actor, 405 00:20:48.500 --> 00:20:51.680 Eric Bowser wants all of us to work on the movie. 406 00:20:52.140 --> 00:20:54.259 Maybe you could be a voice double. Maybe you can 407 00:20:54.279 --> 00:20:56.140 have a Billy do, you know, some of the main 408 00:20:56.160 --> 00:20:57.740 stuff and then you just do like the screams or something. 409 00:20:57.799 --> 00:21:00.000 I need you in there though. You have to be, 410 00:21:00.039 --> 00:21:01.579 I don't know. I got to have you there. 411 00:21:01.640 --> 00:21:05.099 Well, I mean, even if I'm Marvin or any, any 412 00:21:05.160 --> 00:21:07.440 character at this point for me, I, I would love 413 00:21:07.480 --> 00:21:10.380 to see us all like in, in a session, just, um, 414 00:21:10.990 --> 00:21:13.960 you know, belting out these characters and, and just having 415 00:21:13.980 --> 00:21:16.160 a good time. Cause I feel like you have to 416 00:21:16.200 --> 00:21:19.339 pay respect and homage to the original guys, because why 417 00:21:19.420 --> 00:21:21.819 else would we be so excited about this film? That's 418 00:21:21.859 --> 00:21:24.440 going to come out if there wasn't one to begin with, right. 419 00:21:24.680 --> 00:21:27.670 You know, like, you know, I, I, it's weird. Cause 420 00:21:27.849 --> 00:21:29.970 I'm on both sides of the fence. Like I'm a 421 00:21:30.029 --> 00:21:33.769 purist and I'll always be a fan first. Uh, but 422 00:21:34.210 --> 00:21:35.950 at the end of the day, I got a kid 423 00:21:35.990 --> 00:21:38.259 that needs to go to college probably sooner than later. Right. 424 00:21:38.319 --> 00:21:39.299 I don't know. Yeah. 425 00:21:39.519 --> 00:21:40.240 No, I hear you. 426 00:21:40.460 --> 00:21:40.859 I hear you. 427 00:21:41.059 --> 00:21:42.660 Hey, so what's retro kid? 428 00:21:43.079 --> 00:21:45.400 Oh, man, I'm glad that you asked. And thank you 429 00:21:45.440 --> 00:21:48.289 for a year. You're probably one of the very first 430 00:21:49.349 --> 00:21:53.609 interviewers to ask me about this company that my friend 431 00:21:53.670 --> 00:21:57.420 and my best friend, Steve Gaskin from high school and I. 432 00:21:58.059 --> 00:22:01.420 we just love graphic t-shirts. I don't know. I think 433 00:22:01.519 --> 00:22:05.440 I was one of like, it's like 1999, like 2000. Um, 434 00:22:07.019 --> 00:22:09.759 you know, I discovered I'm, I'm from Toronto. So when 435 00:22:09.799 --> 00:22:12.920 I did my internship out here in LA, I discovered 436 00:22:12.940 --> 00:22:17.329 this magical store called hot topic. And it had this 437 00:22:17.369 --> 00:22:20.450 little backpack back in the day when I think maybe 438 00:22:20.509 --> 00:22:23.490 graphic t-shirts weren't like a big deal. It was just 439 00:22:23.529 --> 00:22:25.599 kind of like a thing to put on, um, when, 440 00:22:25.680 --> 00:22:28.400 when you had to do laundry. It seems like now, 441 00:22:28.940 --> 00:22:33.589 now more than ever, people just love like this, this 442 00:22:33.809 --> 00:22:39.069 explosion of like collaborations with companies like hundreds and, um, 443 00:22:39.349 --> 00:22:44.809 you know, uh, uh, Huff, you know, they do collaborations 444 00:22:44.849 --> 00:22:48.920 with Looney Tunes, South Park, Garfield, And that's all fine 445 00:22:48.980 --> 00:22:52.220 and dandy, but I think Retro Kid is kind of 446 00:22:52.259 --> 00:22:55.140 like along the lines of like, we like to call 447 00:22:55.180 --> 00:23:00.940 ourselves a nostalgic streetwear brand. So we started doing stuff 448 00:23:01.000 --> 00:23:04.259 that was nostalgic to people growing up in Toronto, stuff 449 00:23:04.279 --> 00:23:08.609 like Degrassi we want to tackle. We just announced a 450 00:23:08.740 --> 00:23:14.569 really big children's cult classic children's program in Canada called 451 00:23:15.130 --> 00:23:18.839 The Hilarious House of Frightenstein. it was this really obscure 452 00:23:18.900 --> 00:23:24.740 kid show that was like, kind of like, you know, Dracula, Frankenstein, Igor, 453 00:23:24.789 --> 00:23:28.569 like all like the kind of like a classic monster 454 00:23:28.630 --> 00:23:32.150 tropes and flipped on its head into a kid show. 455 00:23:32.750 --> 00:23:35.069 And it was so crazy. And I was like, you know, 456 00:23:35.089 --> 00:23:38.190 what are the chances that these guys would want to 457 00:23:38.230 --> 00:23:41.799 collaborate with us on like a revamp of like their 458 00:23:41.839 --> 00:23:45.140 designs and their characters and, they said, yes, they were 459 00:23:45.180 --> 00:23:47.660 very open to it. I feel like they're also, yeah, 460 00:23:47.680 --> 00:23:50.640 they're primed to do a reboot soon too, but we 461 00:23:50.660 --> 00:23:55.119 want to start expanding, um, outside of, of Canada, like 462 00:23:55.160 --> 00:23:58.720 nostalgia outside of Canada. So they're sure we have plans 463 00:23:58.849 --> 00:24:01.720 to check out the licensing expo in Vegas and maybe 464 00:24:02.180 --> 00:24:03.809 see if we could shake some hands and make some 465 00:24:03.849 --> 00:24:08.230 new deals and resurrect some, um, you know, classic titles, uh, 466 00:24:08.450 --> 00:24:10.950 blood sport being something that we loved as a kid, 467 00:24:10.970 --> 00:24:14.819 but that was like an old, Van Damme movie. And then, 468 00:24:14.859 --> 00:24:18.460 you know, Beetlejuice, but, uh, you know, maybe not like 469 00:24:18.500 --> 00:24:22.130 the Michael Keaton Beetlejuice, maybe like the animated Beetlejuice that, 470 00:24:22.289 --> 00:24:24.130 you know, we, I've never seen a t-shirt like. 471 00:24:24.150 --> 00:24:25.049 Yeah, I haven't either. 472

00:24:25.329 --> 00:24:27.740 So retro kid is all about the obscure. If you 473 00:24:27.759 --> 00:24:31.019 want to maybe follow us on Instagram, we're at retro kid, 474 00:24:31.259 --> 00:24:35.880 underscore T O. And our website is constantly being updated 475 00:24:35.940 --> 00:24:37.380 at retrokid.ca. 476 00:24:37.680 --> 00:24:40.160 Perfect. Does anybody in this room have anything to ask 477 00:24:40.240 --> 00:24:42.000 Eric about? I know we're running out of time. I 478 00:24:42.039 --> 00:24:44.539 know you've got things to do, Eric, but anybody have 479 00:24:44.619 --> 00:24:48.289 anything to ask? Eric's an aspiring actor. Maybe he has 480 00:24:48.349 --> 00:24:50.089 an acting question for you. Do you have anything? No, 481 00:24:50.109 --> 00:24:52.190 I just want to move to L.A. so I can... Okay. 482 00:24:52.210 --> 00:24:54.769 Do you feel like it's beneficial to obviously be in 483 00:24:54.789 --> 00:24:57.700 the industry and kind of... Cause you said you interned 484 00:24:57.880 --> 00:25:00.940 in LA. So you find that like to be there 485 00:25:01.019 --> 00:25:03.099 with everybody else. And like, that's how you kind of 486 00:25:03.700 --> 00:25:04.619 broke into the market. 487 00:25:04.900 --> 00:25:09.140 Well, yeah, you know, it's crazy because I was on 488 00:25:09.259 --> 00:25:11.920 the other side of the glass before I went to 489 00:25:11.960 --> 00:25:16.109 that side. So all the people that I grew up 490 00:25:16.190 --> 00:25:18.950 and made friends with, like from 1999, all the way 491 00:25:18.990 --> 00:25:22.269 to now, these are now people who are executives in 492 00:25:22.369 --> 00:25:26.150 charge of like making decisions. So it's like, I grew up, 493 00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:30.319 Like and learn from and learn with the people that 494 00:25:30.359 --> 00:25:33.380 are now making these crazy decisions like, oh, who should 495 00:25:33.420 --> 00:25:36.980 we cast, you know, you know, in this position today? Oh, 496 00:25:37.000 --> 00:25:40.009 you know, Bowser's always done that voice just for fun 497 00:25:40.119 --> 00:25:43.069 when he was an intern. And now it's something, you 498 00:25:43.089 --> 00:25:45.089 know what I mean? And I can't say that it's 499 00:25:45.109 --> 00:25:48.150 going to work for everybody that way. But I'm saying 500 00:25:48.299 --> 00:25:51.660 it gives you a different point of view than a 501 00:25:51.720 --> 00:25:54.960 normal actor would, like being shot out of acting school 502 00:25:55.480 --> 00:26:01.059 versus a guy that has done photocopies and scanned images 503 00:26:01.240 --> 00:26:05.579 in and assembled storyboards. I also edited animatics, so I 504 00:26:05.619 --> 00:26:08.579 know really good timing in animation, sound effects, and music. 505 00:26:09.329 --> 00:26:12.190 So it's crazy. There's a lot of jobs in animation, 506 00:26:12.250 --> 00:26:14.980 not just voiceover, not just drawing animation. that you can 507 00:26:15.019 --> 00:26:17.210 just be there and be a part of the action 508 00:26:17.750 --> 00:26:20.230 and kind of just like, you know, you know, feel 509 00:26:20.269 --> 00:26:22.609 around maybe voice acting, you might like it. And then 510 00:26:22.630 --> 00:26:25.089 you try it and you're like, nah, not for me. 511 00:26:25.390 --> 00:26:29.109 But then you're suddenly still working in animation. Maybe you 512 00:26:29.130 --> 00:26:32.170 just want to be a part of it. But another 513 00:26:32.190 --> 00:26:35.920 good tip would be if, and I say practice always 514 00:26:35.960 --> 00:26:38.279 makes perfect. There's only so much you can learn in 515 00:26:38.319 --> 00:26:43.460 a classroom versus actually being there and physically moving around 516 00:26:43.539 --> 00:26:46.519 and like, you know, jamming with someone on an idea. 517 00:26:47.480 --> 00:26:51.140 Talk to your local schools, you know, third year students, 518 00:26:51.259 --> 00:26:54.319 kids that are about to graduate in animation. They're usually 519 00:26:54.380 --> 00:26:58.160 looking for like voice actors for their student films. So 520 00:26:58.180 --> 00:27:00.990 a lot of the times I would go to UCLA 521 00:27:01.130 --> 00:27:04.930 or USC and volunteer my services as a voice actor 522 00:27:04.950 --> 00:27:08.730 and for those students who couldn't exactly afford to hire 523 00:27:08.769 --> 00:27:09.450 a real actor. 524 00:27:09.650 --> 00:27:11.089 Oh, how cool is that? It's a great idea. 525 00:27:11.450 --> 00:27:13.410 Because you think about it, these are the kids that 526 00:27:13.450 --> 00:27:16.009 would pretty much technically be my boss in a year. 527 00:27:17.230 --> 00:27:19.730 You know, if they work fast and tell me, I'll 528 00:27:19.759 --> 00:27:20.069 tell you. 529 00:27:20.019 --> 00:27:24.539 Something, you young whippersnappers, you're really fast these days. 530 00:27:25.240 --> 00:27:29.059 Yeah, it's kind of crazy how someone can fast track 531 00:27:30.039 --> 00:27:33.619 in this industry, especially with YouTube now and Instagram. It's like, 532 00:27:34.140 --> 00:27:36.329 You put something up there, it gets a million hits. 533 00:27:36.470 --> 00:27:38.470 Suddenly it's a new series on Netflix. Yeah. 534 00:27:38.869 --> 00:27:40.910 So what he's telling you, Eric, is that what he's 535 00:27:40.930 --> 00:27:42.089 telling you is, first off, you've got to learn how 536 00:27:42.109 --> 00:27:45.339 to act. That's number one. And then put a demo 537 00:27:45.359 --> 00:27:47.420 together and intern at some of these places. 538 00:27:47.779 --> 00:27:50.599 You just cut together your demo. Shouldn't be longer than 539 00:27:50.640 --> 00:27:54.950 a minute. Get some variety in that first 30 seconds. 540 00:27:56.349 --> 00:27:59.819 and not just in pitch, but of course, acting range. 541 00:28:00.619 --> 00:28:04.279 It's voice acting, acting first. It should be act voicing 542 00:28:04.380 --> 00:28:06.859 is what it should be. Cause you

know, like that's 543 00:28:06.900 --> 00:28:09.500 how I learned the hard way that, yeah, so what 544 00:28:09.940 --> 00:28:12.109 I could do a Homer Simpson impression or a Beavis 545 00:28:12.150 --> 00:28:17.089 and butthead impression. Like those guys are still alive doing voices, right? Like, 546 00:28:17.269 --> 00:28:20.470 like let's hear some original stuff. Or if you, if 547 00:28:20.509 --> 00:28:24.299 you do do really good impressions, you know, make sure 548 00:28:24.319 --> 00:28:26.799 that they're like stuff that we, you know, that, that 549 00:28:27.359 --> 00:28:29.740 is going to excite people. You know, I feel like 550 00:28:29.779 --> 00:28:33.380 Christopher Walken has, has done his rounds, you know, dip, 551 00:28:33.680 --> 00:28:35.180 you know, you know, I, I do a pretty good 552 00:28:35.240 --> 00:28:40.779 Jeff Bridges impression, but nobody asks for Jeff Bridges, man. 553 00:28:40.789 --> 00:28:45.029 It's so weird. Yeah, ma'am. But I mean like, you know, just, 554 00:28:45.130 --> 00:28:48.700 just Do stuff that's going to excite people and make 555 00:28:48.740 --> 00:28:51.480 yourself stick out from the crowd. Wow. 556 00:28:51.619 --> 00:28:53.359 So he tells you to actually do something instead of 557 00:28:53.380 --> 00:28:55.599 just sitting around talking about it. Like you with your 558 00:28:55.680 --> 00:28:57.660 pinky impression. 559 00:28:57.680 --> 00:28:57.960 Right. 560 00:28:57.980 --> 00:29:00.049 My pinky impression. Rob's still alive, so I can't do that. 561 00:29:00.660 --> 00:29:02.690 So reboot in 50 years. 562 00:29:02.750 --> 00:29:03.109 I'm there. 563 00:29:03.130 --> 00:29:05.029 Hey, I'm telling you, man. 564 00:29:05.470 --> 00:29:07.849 And the funny thing is, like, I look at Ninja 565 00:29:07.869 --> 00:29:12.539 Turtles and I'm like, this show, I mean, I'm excited 566 00:29:12.579 --> 00:29:15.250 to be a part of it. in two forms, three 567 00:29:15.289 --> 00:29:17.910 forms now. And I just know it's going to keep 568 00:29:18.109 --> 00:29:22.609 going because the, the interest is there. And, you know, 569 00:29:22.809 --> 00:29:25.349 if you're a big company like Nickelodeon that buys a 570 00:29:25.390 --> 00:29:28.170 franchise like Ninja turtles, it's not like you're just going 571 00:29:28.190 --> 00:29:30.670 to like, let it sit on the shelf and collect dust. 572 00:29:30.730 --> 00:29:33.509 Like that's, that's a, that's a toy that needs to 573 00:29:33.549 --> 00:29:37.089 be played with all the time. Right. But if you 574 00:29:37.109 --> 00:29:39.880 guys are ever in the LA area, hit me up and, 575 00:29:40.130 --> 00:29:41.599 you know, we'll grab a burger. 576 00:29:41.279 --> 00:29:45.710 And, and Well, I was about to extend the invitation here. 577 00:29:45.809 --> 00:29:47.829 If you're ever in Dallas for a con or whatever 578 00:29:47.849 --> 00:29:49.769 you're in here for, hit us up. There's a Chili's. 579 00:29:49.789 --> 00:29:51.069 I don't know if you guys have this in California. 580 00:29:51.349 --> 00:29:53.609 There's a Chili's down the street that has a two-for-one. 581 00:29:53.670 --> 00:29:57.000 It's a killer deal. I will buy. I spare no 582 00:29:57.039 --> 00:30:00.859 expense for my guests. But yeah, absolutely, man. Listen, I 583 00:30:00.900 --> 00:30:04.359 appreciate your time. I am rooting for you, man. It's 584 00:30:04.380 --> 00:30:06.599 so cool to see what you're doing. And I know 585 00:30:06.619 --> 00:30:10.200 you're a humble guy, but you're incredibly talented. And It's 586 00:30:10.240 --> 00:30:12.069 cool to see you get all these gigs and be 587 00:30:12.470 --> 00:30:14.849 nominated for all this stuff. If people want to find 588 00:30:14.910 --> 00:30:16.809 out what you're up to next, what's the best place 589 00:30:16.849 --> 00:30:18.109 to find you? On social media or do you have 590 00:30:18.130 --> 00:30:18.589 a website? 591 00:30:18.930 --> 00:30:24.160 Yeah, well, no website, but at Bauzilla is my Twitter 592 00:30:24.339 --> 00:30:30.119 and my Instagram handle. So that's at B-A-U-Z-I-L-L-A. And again, 593 00:30:30.539 --> 00:30:33.309 on Instagram, RetroKid underscore T-O. 594 00:30:33.910 --> 00:30:36.700 Eric, I appreciate it. Thank you so much for coming on. 595 00:30:37.259 --> 00:30:41.960 Why, thanks, Michael Gavala. And any time, Doc, any time. 596 00:30:42.079 --> 00:30:43.380 That's so cool. 597 00:30:43.420 --> 00:30:46.900 But less about the rabbit and more about the duck, okay? 598 00:30:47.180 --> 00:30:49.440 You know, I'm playing that mobile game now just to 599 00:30:49.480 --> 00:30:51.849 unlock more characters to hear the impressions that you do, 600 00:30:52.049 --> 00:30:53.640 the voices that you do. I'm playing it. 601 00:30:53.789 --> 00:30:57.589 There's more. We've recorded more since the beginning. 602 00:30:57.650 --> 00:30:59.509 Oh, well, I'm going bankrupt just buying all these little 603 00:30:59.529 --> 00:31:01.549 gems and stuff so I can unlock these characters. So 604 00:31:01.890 --> 00:31:02.589 I thank you, Eric. 605 00:31:02.650 --> 00:31:03.210 I appreciate that. 606 00:31:03.680 --> 00:31:04.859 All right. Take care, guys. 607 00:31:04.940 --> 00:31:05.549 All right. 608 00:31:05.609 --> 00:31:07.349 Thank you, Eric. 609 00:31:07.390 --> 00:31:08.170 What's up, Doc? 610 00:31:08.509 --> 00:31:09.910 This is Bugs Bunny. 611 00:31:09.809 --> 00:31:14.289 And Dappy Duck, and you're listening to Michael Chabala. Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo! 612 00:31:14.390 --> 00:31:14.730 Woo-hoo!