Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum - NANCY CARTWRIGHT (Bart Simpson): 38 Seasons of THE SIMPSONS & Eat My Shorts Improv

Episode Date: August 4, 2026

Nancy Cartwright (The Simpsons, Rugrats) joins us this week for a warm and energized conversation about the unique anonymity that comes with being one of the most recognizable voices in television history. Nancy opens up about losing her mother just two weeks before she moved to LA at twenty, why she chose to bury herself in work as her way through that grief, and how a high school marching band cadence eventually became Bart Simpson's most famous catchphrase. We also get into stepping into Chucky Finster on Rugrats, racing 158 miles an hour on a NASCAR track, and why after 38 seasons she still walks into every Simpsons table read like it is the first day. Thank you to our sponsors: 👕 Quince: https://quince.com/inside 🔹 Blue Chew: bluechew.com + “inside” 💰 Download Cash App Today: https://click.cash.app/ui6m/5pqyueaa #CashAppPod. ❤️ This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at https://betterhelp.com/inside and get on your way to being your best self __________________________________________________ 💖 Patreon: ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/insideofyou⁠⁠ 👕 Inside Of You Merch: ⁠⁠https://store.insideofyoupodcast.com/⁠⁠ __________________________________________________ Watch or listen to more episodes! 📺 ⁠⁠https://www.insideofyoupodcast.com/show⁠⁠ __________________________________________________ Follow us online! 📸 Instagram: ⁠⁠https://instagram.com/insideofyoupodcast/⁠⁠ 🤣 TikTok: ⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@insideofyou_podcast⁠⁠ 📘 Facebook: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/insideofyoupodcast/⁠⁠ 🐦 Twitter: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/insideofyoupod⁠⁠ 🌐 Website: ⁠⁠https://www.insideofyoupodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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You might have fast forward, but that's okay. Okay. There it is. Oh, look at that. Look at my little doggies. And there's me in the back. And now we'll just go back to Ryan. Not that work. And perfect. And Ryan's in focus now. All right. Without further ado, let's get into Nancy. Let's get inside of Nancy Cartwright. Where you get nervous for a role. Oh, my God. I get panicked. Do you get anxiety? Yeah. I live with anxiety. What are you doing? I was just taking a live picture. I always get nervous. But I, but that's a lot. That's fun. I look forward to it. Let's get everything out of today we can. And how much time do you have left?

And how are you going to use it well? So come on now. We would have to do another inside of you. But actually, but that's kind of what you're doing, Michael. I mean, you're on this road, this journey of what's inside of you. Inside of you with Michael Rosenbaum was not recorded in front of a live studio audience. You got a museum going on here, dude. I know.

It's such a collection. You have all these. You've got baseball hats. You've got baseballs. You've got Laurel and Hardy are all over the place. You've got, I'm wondering if you do 3D printing yourself. I've had 3D printing on certain things. Like there was a guy named Santi, and he made me all those Smallville characters,

and they're all 3D printing. I do 3D printing. I don't actually do the printing, but I have a piece of art that I got 3D printed. It's a new, anyway. No, it's interesting. Should I go into it? It's showing your nerdery, which is a good thing. We're both nerds and, you know, we like our nerd things.

Guilty is charged. You could just throw that out. True. I mean, do you ever catch yourself doing it and go, oh, my God, stop it? Do you ever do that to yourself? Well, sometimes I can't resist and I do have to kind of throw him in there. It's so easy to do. If I could do it, I would not stop doing it.

I probably would talk like that all the time. If I was such an iconic character of Bart Simpson, I think I would just talk like that all the time. Well, you say. Well, I don't talk like Lex Luthor all the time. But if I did the whole interview like this, people would like, it would just get kind of boring. It would lose its impingement. I think.

Yeah, they'd be like, wait a minute, where's the real voice? They need the real, the real you. But wait, what were we talking about? We were talking about you were in the room, you were at a restaurant and a guy was going to leave. Oh, yeah, that thing, this is just celebrity spotting and being an anonymous celebrity. It's like I can take it either way because usually what happens is he'll walk by and he'll either just ignore me, I'll just see it and see it's coming. And then if he looks up and gives me a certain whatever, I look at him, I go like that. And it's an acknowledgement that he was right. Right.

I knew it. Yeah. It's actually kind of a cool power to have. Yeah. Power may be a little bit strong. Quality. Yeah. It's a good quality to have to be able to use it or not use it at my discretion. Right. And it's, it's definitely, um, keeping me, um, causative over my game. So I don't, if that makes any sense, it does, it does. You just got to be creating and I like to create effects on people. I love doing something that surprises somebody in a good way. Yeah, making an impact. Yeah. Yeah. I think you're a people pleaser like me. Like I always want to, I love when everyone's happy and having a good time. But a people pleaser sometimes, maybe it's not the right word, but something similar to people pleaser, I'm not doing it to like be an apple polisher.

Right. You know what I mean? I'm not doing it to win friends and influence people. I'm just trying to make and create an effect on somebody. So when they leave and we're not talking and, you know, they leave the room where I leave and we're done, that they feel a little bit better than. when I first got there. I love that.

That's a great quality. I mean, as opposed to, like, I don't want people noticing me. I don't want to do the voice. I don't want to do this. And I'm sure there were times. Were there ever times in how many years you've been doing this? We're in season 38 now. Can you believe it?

Knock wood. Knock on wood. You don't need any wood knocking for season 38. Like, usually it's going into season two. Oh, knock on wood. Good God. No, he did a table read yesterday. Still just like the tone of the influence.

entire room is like exhilaration. People are really happy to be there. How many people can say that about, I mean, they can barely last two seasons and they're not happy. They're doing maybe a job. They got cast in the job, but maybe the attitude on the set ain't great because the lead is not happy or is kind of a grumpy person. You need a good leader. Yeah, you need a good leader. So you're a good leader, aren't you? I like to think I am. I go in there and, you know, if I can walk into the room and just by walking in the room, people, they pop up a little bit, great. I'm not trying to be a, be a dominating, dominate everybody, but it's a, I feel like in my position that there's a certain amount of responsibility that some the all I think all the actors on our show we are in a

position to be able to have that responsibility but you have to take it you have to take it and do it and if you don't do it you know okay fine yeah but I want to create an effect I want to make a difference on this planet and I kind of start home base with my I raise two kids I'm a grandma now two grandkids. And so when I go places and considering we've been on the air as long as we've been on the air, it's like maybe, I don't know, I still feel like I can learn from those that have done more than I have done. And if I can create a similar effect on people, great. That's, I'm doing my job then. I love that. Do you, do you, you said table read. Do you still do table reads for every episode? Yeah. Every episode. Yeah, but they're not always live.

Yesterday it was in the studio. It was on the Fox lot where it's all, well, starting in year 2000. I mean, the first 10 years we were in a dungeon. It was, I mean, those were the days. There were ping pong tables in the room. It was kind of cool. It was kind of cool. He's a gaudy-looking orange lamps. But that's when we had like Mary, that's when we had Elizabeth Taylor and Mickey Rooney came in and who else? Ernest Borgne. These are names that a lot of public things. Oh, I love Ernest Borgne. Right. Marty? Marty. He won an Oscar, didn't he? I believe he did. I think he did. It was extraordinary. And I remember studying that and doing that scene in my acting class. And it was, it was career-changing for me. It was good. It opened up all kinds of possibilities. Inside of you is brought to you by Quince. Listen up,

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And like, when did you decide to act? Was it early? Yeah, it was pretty early. When I was seven years old, it was just telling jokes and doing sound effects and making people laugh. And I kind of like that. By the time I was 10, there was a competition. And all I had to do was tell a story 10 minutes long.

It didn't have to be memorized. So I could just read it. And I didn't know what to do. and my mom said, just go in the den. And there, it was World Book Encyclopedia. And there was an addition to it called Childcraft. And they had science. They had history.

They had literature. And in literature, there was the story of how the camel got his hump. It was just a fable. Nothing to it. Not funny, nothing. Just the story of how he got his hump. And I took it. And I still, years later, my brother, after we all grew up and grew out of the family,

my brother kept that collection. And I said, just go to it and open up childcraft and open up to that chapter. Just tell me that there are a lot. I just want to see what it says. He opens it up. He goes, Nancy, it's you all over the place. You and that, because I had cut it down to 10 minutes. I edited it at age 10.

Oh, my gosh. And so that's the story that I told. And something happened on stage where I was flipping my hair and it's like all the camel said was humph was all he said. And you see how I just threw my head forward. Yeah. head hit the microphone, the mic fell over and I fell back and it got a huge laugh. I was like, whoa, that was different. I wasn't expecting that, but that was the moment when I realized that I could

do something that would affect you that you would think was funny. So I started to seek these opportunities. So by the time I was in high school, they had a speech team, mostly they had a debate team, all these different categories. But most of the other categories, categories were like readers theater and dramatic duo and after dinner speaking. And for me, it was humorous interpretation. So my brothers were bringing home these pretty good size trophies for Little League or soapbox derby. And here comes Nancy, little Nancy little middle sister coming home. First place, humorous interpretation. Are you serious? Serious. And judges saying things to me like you've got an unusual voice. You should do cartoons for a living.

I'm like, wait, what? You can actually make a living doing, like, on the Flintstones or the Jetsons or like, wait to your father gets home. It was mind-boggling to you. It was mind-boggling. So I started to kind of, I'm just sort of looking at it. We didn't have the internet. I mean, the library didn't hardly have anything on animation, especially voiceovers.

So I was just getting all these trophies. And then I got a scholarship to go to the university of, like, Ohio was supposed to be. Where'd you grow up? This is south of Dayton and Kettering, Ohio. I played hockey in Dayton. I grew up in Evansville, Indiana, and we played in tournaments in Dayton, Dayton, Ohio. The Turkey tournament in Ohio. I got knocked out unconscious in Ohio in Dayton. Wow. But anyway, go ahead. Well, that's kind of, well, I worked at a radio station. You probably heard a W-I-N-G, winging it in Dayton. You a DJ? No, but I filled in for people that went on vacation. So I kind of learned every job. But what I liked is I lived for the afternoon when I got to

go on the air with the drive time disc jockey. And at this time, they used cassettes and they would have it numbered in there. They kind of had a script that they followed that was broken down hourly and then by the minutes. And even at one time, I was the programmer for that and would see who paid like photomat paid for, you know, a 30 second spot to play at 6.15 p.m. And And that was kind of prime time. So they paid more for that than they would at 2.30 in the afternoon. Right. So it's like I would place them in there.

They called that trafficking. So I was doing trafficking. What was your best DJ voice? Do you remember it? Well, sure. It was this character that I created. They brought me on the air with the afternoon drive time disc jockey. His name was Ken Warren.

And I had such a crush on him. He's old enough to be my dad. But I was like... Ken. You're like Ken and Barbie. Can I be your bar? be. No, it wasn't that. Completely innocent. I was so innocent. And I just really admired him. And he sort of supported my dreams. And I'm telling him, I'd like to go to Hollywood someday. And anyway,

a woman from Warner Brothers music came in. And she was promoting music to our production, what would he be called? The production manager of the studio. And he was another guy that really supported my career. Steve Kirk. He's not around anymore. but Nancy Cartwright. Nancy Cutright. Come on in here. Now, you're the voice of LilyPad. So in the afternoon, I would create this character,

the afternoon, afternoon disc jockey, and do the weather and do the news, you know, and do the traffic. But I created this voice for LilyPad, and we'd be like, You're listening to The Poolside Show with Ken Warren. This is LilyPad. And it looks like you're not supposed to be in the... deep end. Could we get more drinks over here? And she was just silly.

That's awesome. It's just like crazy. And that's the first time I ever did up like an ancestor of Bart. I kind of, it was so easy for me to do. It was almost like you're destined to do it. Maybe. I think so. You might have something there. I think I did. I mean, were you always doing voices and impersonations for people growing up? Not really. So you don't do impressions. I probably do bad impressions. I've never really tried. it. I mean, I do a bad homer. You do? I want to hear a bad homer. Oh, it's a bad homer. You know, he would be sort of like this. That's better than I could do. I do a better march. This will be Bart, Bart, stopped using the word hell. What do you mean? Stop saying hell. Well, hell.

How am I supposed to talk about hell unless I say the word hell? Bart, stop that. That is amazing. Oh, my God. You're mine. You're so. So fast. I've just done a lot of podcasts. Yeah, but you have a podcast. Simpson's Declassified podcast with Sophie. And I was watching some of it. It's so fun to learn about like you had a guy that was on there for like 15 or a long time.

And he does all the impressions too. Oh, Jim Eskiman. Yeah. He's a dear friend. Like the voice of a thousand. He's like it does a thousand voices. Sophie and I met a bit ago. And she worked with me.

and then the idea came up, let's do this podcast. And it's great to have a co-host. You're solo, dude. You know? Solo, because I'm interested in you, in the guest. I just want, and you are too. When I listen, it's like while I was watching today. And I was like, you sit there and you listen and you observe and you try, but you don't, it seems like you know what you're doing.

You're not interrupting. You're letting the person kind of tell their story. And it's fun. It's fun to watch. The operative word is seams. Seams. She's got my back. She's got my back in a big way.

She'll bring up, she'll take what we're talking about and add another thing and add something to the guest. Layered. Yeah. It gets kind of dense. It gets deep. It's fun. It's really fun. And to have somebody like that support you, it's a great feeling.

How many episodes have you done have declassified? We've done, we've done over 25 by now. You love it? I think it's pushing 30. I do. It is fun. It is. Every time we do it, it's like as soon as the guest is gone, we give them like a little like takeaway present.

they get, I can't say it because I don't want to give it away, but the guests get a little. Don't give it away because you asked me to be on the show. And here's the honest, here's what I'll say. I'm really nervous because of course, like everyone, I love The Simpsons. I mean, it's been, it's part of my childhood. It's part of my, I mean, I'm 50, I'll be 54. And, but I, I don't know it religiously. I don't know certain characters, but I know like, my cat sleeps in a drawer. You know that, you know, Ralph, Like, oh my God. What is, what does he say? It's like, my cat's breast smells like cat food.

I like, my cat sleeps in a drawer. Did you never say that? I don't remember saying, I could have. My cat's sleep. Yeah, what's the voice? When I grow up, I want to be a principal or a caterpillar. He's always, his eyebrows are always high. I mean, it's funny because you think, oh, I'm just going to do Bart.

And then you've done so many characters that have become so iconic. Well, dude, surprise to me, too. I didn't know. I didn't know. All of a sudden, it's like I got the script. We're going to be reading it tomorrow. And it says, Dan Castellan at Homer Simpson, Julie Kavanaugh, Marge Simpson, Nancy Carrey, Bart Simpson. And then it's got the other, it's got Hank and Harry and Pamela and Trass and then down there's a character name Nelson Munts, Nancy Carwright, Brer. Ralph Wiggum, Nancy Carrey, and it wasn't in the same episode. But within the first 13 episodes, we were all pretty established with all these. characters that were all doing. And there was no audition. The only audition I did was for Bart and everything else I was assigned. That never happens. I'd been doing it for six years prior to the Simpsons. And I had never been just given, given, given these jobs. And I suppose they could have

taken them away if I couldn't deliver the goods. They never did. Well, there was. There had to be one character. They're like, yeah, we want something a little different. Yeah, there were a couple of people that they didn't make the cut. But I also feel like Jim had the idea, Jim Brooks, had this concept about an ensemble. And he wanted everybody to, he's envisioning a freaking city. This is called Springfield. And we need to have all these citizens of Springfield. So you need to cast people that are really facile. Right. You know, able to do yardly as the exception. But I mean, I'll even throw her a bone. She does more voices than than just Lisa, she'll do an old lady or she'll do a secretary, but her, her voice range is just

more limited. Right. But she, like, nobody does Lisa Simpson like Yardley. Right. You know, she's a cupcake, just a total cupcake. And this all started from the Tracy Allman show? Yeah. I mean, so you audition for it.

Yeah. And it's, it's this thing they do on the Tracy Allman show. And then, I mean, the last thing you're thinking of is, oh, this is going to be a spin-off series and I'm going to be the lead character. Oh, well, I was told that they're looking for a interstitial. I'd never heard of that word before. I'm like, what is that? They go, well, an interstitial's like a little vignette. I go, a vignette. There's another word that is not associated with the animation. What that? It's like a blooper. It's like a blimp. And I go, okay, what is it? Well, they're going to do her show and they need a segue. Okay, I'm with you so far. Keep going. A segue from the show.

And then they do this little 30 second or one minute blooper of this family. And then they go into a commercial. And then they do another commercial. And then they go back to the animated family and then back to her show. So it somehow is supposed to connect, somehow segue you from the harshness of the cut to a commercial and back into the show. It was honestly, it was just, again, it was Jim Brooks's genius idea to add something different to make, make the Tracy Olman show stand out.

And it turned out we got more fan mail than she did. And I think they knew, they didn't let us know for quite a while. I think we had done 38 little vignettes for interstitials. We did 38 of those and then

somebody on the show came to me and said it looks like we're going to be turning this into a half hour. I was like, really? Oh my gosh. Yeah. And it looks like BART's going to be this star. I was like, oh my God. And that lasted for like, I think, I think the first 13 episodes they really had him being the lead, but they recognized fairly quickly that they could get more laughs out of home or because as an adult, he just had more life behind him and his settings. He had

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Oh, but yeah, but I'm going to correct that because I'd been doing cable television and syndicate Saturday morning syndicated. It was just, it was just nominal. It was minimum wage. And then this was prime time. So I got 10 times the amount. I was like, oh my God, dun dun dun dun dun dun. It was like, no, I was happy.

It was a lot more money. Were you nervous when the show first started, where you always like reading the scripts over and over? You didn't want to get fired. You ever feel like, oh, he's going to fire me. Or were you just, you never got nervous. No, I never got nervous about being fired ever. I've never felt like I was going to get fired.

The nervousness was. It's probably why you weren't. There may be something. there. That's another discussion. But here's the thing is that my attention was on, these guys are spending, okay, it's a 21-minute show. It's a half-hour show, but there's the opening credits, there's the end credits, and there's commercials in the middle. So it comes out to a total of 21 minutes. They're spending all day doing this. I said, there's something not right, but the smartest thing that I did. And this did create a little anxiety.

It was like, keep your mouth shut. Nancy, don't say anything. Because I'd been doing cartoon voices for six, seven years prior to The Simpsons. And I'm thinking, this isn't how you do it. I felt like these guys don't know what they're doing. And you know what? They didn't. But it doesn't matter.

It's their show and they're doing it. And look what happened. I just, I'm glad. And there are a couple people who didn't keep their mouth shut. Didn't work out. Didn't work out so good for them. I think when you're brand new, this is just a little, perhaps maybe some advice from experience. Say it.

When you're new, it's best to just observe what's going on. Just take a look around and see how this group is working together because as a voice actor, yeah, I'm one of the leads in the show, but that doesn't make me. Bigger than anybody or the opportunity to. Yeah, I'm not a producer. I'm not making these executive decisions. they've hired me to do a job. So I just want to do my job. So that's where my lane is. And that changes. And I'm not even saying it's changed with the Simpsons. I still, whatever they want, I want to make sure they get. We'll do four takes. I want to make sure they get what they want. But there's still room for improv. What's the most takes you've ever done? Oh, that was in the movie. That was the first Simpsons movie. And it was that it was a skateboard scene where Bart is like naked. And he's doing, and all it has is like, it's all this description of Bart's riding a skateboard.

And somebody crosses in front of him and withholding a glass plate. Now he's jumping up because of rose bushes in the way. Now somebody cuts in from, now there's a bumblebee getting in the way. And I'm going, like that. And then he's like that. We did like 28 takes. They were all different, but it was like... Exhausting.

Yeah. Upper body rest. It was upper respiratory workout. It was anaerobic. It was an anaerobic workout. Wow. You hear those dogs? They got excited from that.

That is amazing. What are some famous like ad-lives that you did that sort of, they made it to the show? I mean, there's probably endless amounts. Well, eat my shorts. That was just, you just came up with it? Dude, kind of, but not really. but it was definitely an ad lib. But when I was in high school,

I was in the marching band, and I was a senior at this time. And the drummer, we played a drum. I played the trumpet, but they were playing the drums. They played the cadence for the high school. Dun-da-da-dun-D-D-Fermont West. Dun-da-Dan, Fairmont West.

Now we were, I'm bragging now, but we were 200 members in that marching band. That's a big band. 200, all brass. So the clarinet players, the floutists, the saxophone, no, not sax, they were, well, they were, trombone. No, they were still in it. People that played woodwinds had to switch over and learn how to play a brass instrument for the marching band. And they did it.

And I'm like, damn, wow, that's like having to learn a foreign language in order to keep your job. It's like, I don't know how they did that. But anyway, but then, da, da, down, Fairmont West. Middle of our senior year, they changed the thing. We would march from the high school to the football stadium doing that drum cadence. And at one time, the drummers changed it. Dun-da-da-dun-dun-dun. Eat my shorts.

And there were people sitting all along the way. And they were excited, but they never understood what we were saying. So it was kind of like an inside joke. Wow. 13 years later, here I am at a table read for The Simpsons. And Bart called, there's something happened. I went, eat my shorts. and it got such a laugh.

And I was just, it was just an ad lib that I was. And that became famous. Dude. Everybody. Can you spell chiching? That's on like so many t-shirts. Then you do commercials? Eat my shorts?

It might have been in, like Butterfinger. I might have said it in a Butterfinger commercial, but more to the point it became this catchphrase. Yeah. And it just became kind of a cool thing. I mean, that is just genius. It just seems like it's a place to explore and improvise and have fun. If you want to do your take, do your take.

Yeah, they never stop us from doing any ad libs. And nine months later, when it finally is on the air, I have no idea what's an ad lib and honestly, it doesn't matter. It's like they will keep, if it worked, they keep it. If it doesn't, it doesn't stick. Yeah. So you just do. You just do.

And have the courage to be able to do it. But still give them what they want. Yeah, give them what they want. you've done so many voices. I mean, on the Simpsons, you've done how many, you say 100 different voices probably? I mean, Nelson Munts, Ralph Wiggum, Todd Flanders. Database, Kearney. Kearney. Yeah, Maggie. And then also Chuckie Finster on Rugrats. I just love Chuckie. He's like one of my favorite guys. I just love him. Did you? The world is your oyster. The world is your toaster. Did you just come up with that voice, you audition for it?

Yeah, the gal, Christina Kavana. she created the original Chucky and at some point in time she she wanted to retire and they had to replace her and they brought me in that was tough that was that was real child i worked my butt off for that and um i i feel like i do a reasonable facsimile of her voice but you can't replace i mean chris is chris and i me so but they were very um they were very kind and generous to me and i got to my records separately because I felt like it was, I needed to really, I could hear it and I really wanted to make sure that they were getting what they needed and wanted. And I felt like I was holding up the record. So they generously said, we'll record you separate. And so for a year,

I did it separate and then I came back in to the fold and worked with the others then. So that, that was a smart ask. You feel you're so full of life and enthusiasm that I wonder, because I like to bring that to, I like to have fun and always come up with things for my friends to do. And, you know, I'm kind of the leader in a sense where I'm like, let's, let's get a group together. Let's play bingo at my house. Yeah. Let's go to the beach.

Let's do that. Let's go bowling. Let's, whatever it is. I mean, do you feel like you're exhausted a lot of the time because you're always so much energy? No. You always have this energy? No, but I'm not exhausted. Do you ever, have you ever been through depression or got anxiety or, or have you never had

to deal with those things? Oh, no, I've had, I have had to deal with it. I've had, I've had incidents happen. Even choosing to move when I did, I was 20 and my mom had passed away two weeks before I was to go. And the family, I mean, that was, I mean, Jesus, my mom. And she knew what I wanted to do. She supported my dreams.

That's why you went. That's right. I'm thinking about it going in because my cousins, it was mostly my cousins, not my immediate family, but my cousins were like, what are you going to do? And it was kind of like, wait, what do you mean? What am I going to do? I'm going to go because really? Really?

You could do that? Because what's the alternative? Stay home and just be sad the rest of my life. No, it's like work, production, that is what, that keeps you going. Yeah. You know, and as you grow older and you find out things and you try things out, you know, then I ended up transferring from Ohio University to UCLA, and I got in their theater department. It saved my life in a way because I immersed myself in quote unquote work that was really fun.

And I started doing theater, that job at the radio station, working with that, meeting the woman from Warner Brothers music. She was into music, but Warner Brothers meant Mel Blank. And I thought, oh, maybe she knows Mel Blank. And so my boss introduced me to her, and she said, I don't know him. I don't do that. But here's my card. Write me a letter, put a tape together. I don't know what I can do for you.

But she actually kept her word. I put a 14 minute demo tape together, which is like a little. Yeah, usually they want like three or five minutes, right? Yeah, maybe two minutes. Like, what? Who is the audacity? Well, that's pretty good. Well, you can tell in 15, 20 seconds if somebody's got it or not, but I didn't know for nothing. And because I didn't know, it's like I didn't have any back off.

I didn't have any, any, there was no little voice saying, you can't do this. You don't know what you're doing. I just did it. That's the best kind of enthusiasm. Yeah. A lot of people lose that. You know, we think too much. Totally.

We start thinking. You weren't thinking. You were like, I'm excited. Let's do this. Or you give somebody else the power over you and you let them in their viewpoint, which is just a stupid opinion that's not helpful. They say, you can't do that. Nobody does that.

How do you make a living? You need to get a, you need job security. Fortunately, I didn't have that in my life. My mom and dad wanted me. to go for me and I'm one of six kids, all of us to go for our dreams. So anyway, fast forward. I'm in California. My mom had just passed away and I didn't even have time to grieve. And so, yes, everybody has problems. We all have problems and we all have to figure out how am I going to get through this because I don't like feeling like this, you know. Yeah. Do you still think about it all

the time? Well, not in a sad way. I, and same, my, my dad, he, he passed away at age 93. Oh, wow. My mom was only 49. But he remarried this fabulous lady. Thank God. And it's, it was a whole new game. And that was, that was, I remember meeting her for the first time and, like, she's sitting on his lap and that was kind of weird. Yeah. But that's a normal reaction. It's just normal. Yeah. So I just kind of go with what's going on and I got to know her and got to see who she is and I really liked her. So my dad's happy, she's happy. Okay, it's a new game. I do think about my mom that she never got to be a grandmother for any of the kids.

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You know, you've been doing this so long. And I noticed that when I had success, everybody came out of the woodwork not just family and friends but like friends of friends people you know it's like hey remember me i'm like yeah you picked on me in high school yeah you you know you you know i got treated like crap and you know and my personality is i'm not i can't be really an asshole i mean i'm sure i can be an asshole but you know i uh i would always be like hey how you doing great you know i never would go yeah too bad buddy yeah you were you were rude i'm not i'm not talking did you have a lot of people come out of the woodwork saying, hey, we went to high school or, hey, or am you always

responding? Yeah, but you know, here's the thing on that. There are people that say, do you remember when I met you? This was like, probably, I don't know, maybe 25 years ago. We were at such and such and you were there and they're saying it and I'm not quite getting it. But you know what? Here's the bottom line on that. Doesn't matter. You just listen. You go, oh my God, those were the days, right? And I'm not going to say anything to make that person feel bad. Yeah. I just, it's like, It's not worth it. It's too much energy. It's more energy.

I don't want to get into any kind of like contentious discussion, you know, about, no, I don't remember it because the guy's going to feel horrible. And plus, I don't, I really don't remember. I've met so many people. Yeah. It's hard to remember what you ate this morning. I have problems remembering what I ate. They're like, oh, breakfast was really good.

I wasn't? Wait, did I eat breakfast? Did I have breakfast? I know, exactly. You know, it's not worth it. It's just a little tiny little tate to tape that we're having and passing each other or maybe at a class reunion. And do you remember? And I said, oh, gosh, tell me how you remember that. And they tell me. And then sometimes it totally comes back. And I go, wait a minute. Is that when you ended up like you left early? And they go, yeah, I went, oh, my God. Yeah, I do remember. You have this innate ability to make people feel good. Well, that's what I was talking about in the beginning. It's just sort of, it's part of you. But Michael, you don't have to live with me.

Are you, are you not? Are you difficult? Are you difficult? Do you ever yell? Do I ever yell? I mean, I can't imagine you. I mean, everybody yells at their kids sometimes. Like, stop doing that.

No, I didn't do that. You aren't a yeller. No. You know, you could have just done it as a voice like a, and made it a little softer. No, my kids would be like, no, no, just be mommy. Do they ever say that? Yeah. Like they don't want to hear the voices?

Yes, when they were really, really little. Like two and three years old, they didn't want me to. read to them like characters. And I was doing The Simpsons at that time, but they just wanted me to be mommy. And you would think that the kids of a voiceover actress would love to hear, and that any kid would love to hear characters come to life. Nope. I want to hear mom. And you know what? I thought, wow, you know what? You got it. I'm just going to be your mom. And I didn't put anything and I didn't act it. I just told the story. And all they wanted was to snuggle. Connection. Yeah. That's sweet. It's kind of lovely. It really is. Has there ever been a moment where you felt

disconnected from yourself because you lived through these characters so long? You know, sometimes when I do scenes, when it's just me in the scene and it's Bart, it's Nelson, it's Todd. It's like, oh my God. And sometimes I just have to make sure that I got my own head on when I walk out of there. It's a little like, wow, it's a one-person show that's doing all these voices. And that's challenging. That's challenging. Yeah. But, no, I'm Nancy Carre.

I'm awesome. Good. Do you think voice actors get the respect they deserve compared to on-camera actors? I don't think we're respected as much. No. I don't. I think it is such a unique arena, if you will, that, Everybody wants it on camera or not because it's like, for the most part, it's pretty, it's fast work.

It's very fast work. And I'm going to call it in the heyday of my career. It's like I was doing My Little Pony, Glow Friends, Snorks, Pound Puppies, Galaxy High, was doing six or eight shows. And going from one show to the next show every single day doing two shows, that was energy. That was excitement. And that was, you know, that's challenging. And they had us booked for four hours, but sometimes they knew that we were going to, we, we were trying to get somewhere by a certain time.

The producers would work at the casting director, who was also the director, they were kind. They were super kind to us. And we got to make these, because we were all trying to make a living doing this. And then you get somebody that's like, you get a celebrity that's going to be on, what was it called? Bobby's World? Yep. Yeah.

Howie Mandel? Yeah. It was so fun. What are you to say? My name is Bobby. Oh, dude. And sometimes people say, hey, Bobby. And I say what? Dude, I think that's a voice.

What would you say? That's so good. Bobby, why do you cry when your mommy puts you on the party? Because it's my party and I'll cry if I want to. I remember that when he was doing stand-up. Oh, my God. See, I think that's a voice that only men can do. I think that's a false.

How do you do that? My name is Bobby. My name is Bobby. It's pretty good. Is it pretty good? They say, Bobby, why do you cry when your mommy puts you on the party? But why do you cry when your mommy puts you on the party? But it's different because I'm a female and the pipes are different.

You've got to use that falsetto. I mean, that's awesome. But you get a celebrity like Howie Mandel to come on to, not the Sims, but maybe another show before he did Bobby's World. he would come on and be a guest on it, like Goof Troop or something, and he would do a voice. It was great to have like a celebrity on there, and they loved it because you get a great paycheck and you move on. So everybody wants to do it, but I say to people, look, if you really want to do it, you got to be a pro. You can't just be a dilettante.

You need to learn how to do it and how to pick character voices that are sustainable. You have to do multiple voices. You can't just do, they can't blend into one another. Right. The Simpsons, it was a, even at that time, for me, it was definitely a learning experience. It took time to really learn that. It did. Because one week, I was doing Nelson months.

And Nelson has this quality and I have to kind of back away from the mic a little because I spit, but like I want you to get the whole sound. And then next thing I know is there's Kearney. And Kearney was also one of the. thugs and I picked a voice that was if I didn't watch out he would sound a little bit too much like Nelson so I would do Nelson but Kearney was like this he didn't have the rough edge but it's pretty much a similar voice but he's a little come on Bart stop it yeah Bart knock it off see there's they're similar but you have to be able to adjust yeah well in different they have to

be differentiated enough that you know and don't get confused, was that Kearney or was that Nelson? Wow. And so you can look at the old shows and see the growth. And Dan, too, how Dan did Homer. He learned and he sort of started sounding like Walter Mathau at the beginning. But he found himself too limited. He didn't have the range of humor, if you will. And then as he opened up his.

own range, he got funnier. Yeah. More psychotic, however you want to look. He just got funnier. Yeah. So then that's the homer that we grew to know and love. See, it's like even what you're talking about, like how much respect you deserve. You like voice.

I'm a voice actor too. I've done a lot of stuff and nothing, not as much as you nearly, but it's not as easy as it looks. You know, you hear something. You go, oh, I can do a voice. Everybody can do a voice. Oh, I can do this. Oh, here I am.

I'm doing a voice. But it's not. It's like taking direction and go, oh, we need you to do this. We need to, you have to almost, it's like, it's acting. Like you have to dig deep sometimes and find it. Find who that guy is or who that girl is. Yeah. And what was fun was working with these writers because they've written this script and they're

kind of on pins and needles the day of the table read because they're going to hear just like us, they're going to hear for the first time these words, this concept, this show, this story that they've written, they're going to hear it for the first time at the table read. And are we going to duplicate slash replicate the emotional impact that they have given those characters for that episode? And this has been the most interesting thing on my podcast to find out from some of these writers that that viewpoint. And I was like, well, I didn't really think about that.

It was touching. And the incredible amount of respect that I have for them and then to find out that they felt the same about us. Like, man, and so that then would strengthen them so they knew they could do even more. And that's how that show and partially why that show has been so successful. because we have this symbiotic relationship where I've done this and then they can do that now.

And then since they did that, now it gives me the freedom to do this, if that makes sense. It makes perfect sense. What advice would you give to voicemover actors, to actors who want to break into cartoons and things like that? It seems like it's harder now to break into that. It's always been such a small group. Yeah, but they're always looking for somebody new. really it's it i would say first of all do what you love make sure you really really love it yeah you have to really and not do it because you think you're going to make a fast buck or you can do it because people

tell you have a funny voice no there are a lot of people that really know what they're doing and you're going to be competing with them so make sure you really really love it and have that passion also surround yourself with people that love you and for what you do i kind of do a spring cleaning you know how we have new year's resolutions every year Mine is like, who's in my life right now? And is this person helping me or are they kind of like... What do they have to offer? Are they like for me, it's just about they make me feel good.

They're a good person. I like being around them. I feel safe around them. Or, you know, this person brings a lot of joy to my life or a lot of energy or a lot of, you know, but the negative stuff, I'm too old for that stuff. I just kind of have to go, look, if you're, you know, if you're with me, great. I don't care. you don't don't be me be you but they have to have something yeah that isn't you know because there's a lot of people along the way that had this negative energy and I kept trying to no it's okay

and fix them and then finally I'm like man you're just bringing me down I can't do it's a lot of work it's a lot of work yeah so that's surround yourself with people that support you um do what you love. What else? Oh, like, have somebody that you admire, like a mentor. If you can get a mentor, get in classes, do classes, use them, use that playground to experiment in a safe environment. You know, do it where you're not being made fun of, but you're being encouraged to do what you love. Yeah. So there are classes, but there are some that are better than others. I think the most important thing you said was love what you do. Whatever it is, if you love it, it should be easy in a way.

It makes it easier to keep fighting, keep the fight alive. Yeah. I always say like, somebody says, I want to be an actor. I go, really? So how long do you think you'll give yourself? It's like, well, I'll try it for a year. You're already done. This is something you have to want forever.

Yeah. It's not something you can just say, well, I'll try it out. If I don't like, no, it has to be, I have to do this. I feel this. You know? I agree. It's like I'm going, I love performing on stage and I seek opportunities to do that because I mostly do these comedy sketches and it's super, super fun.

And I do that for entertainment. I've conducted orchestras. That's great fun. I've like done songs and just, just use props. And I've done a couple one woman shows. Yeah, based on your book, right? Yeah, that's right. A 10-year-old boy?

Yeah, my life is a 10-year-old boy. Yeah, went around the world and did a moment show, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. That was a blast. You love it. You love what you do. I do. That's such a great feeling, right? It is.

It's just like it fulfills me because if someone's purposes to make people happy and on this planet today, it's messed up, man. And we need to have some levity. We need some lightness. A lot of stuff that I see. I can admire certain actors that do shows, but a lot of the tone of the show is pretty darn dark. And I'm like, damn, turn on a six o'clock news.

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I have so many questions and I don't want to keep you forever. I just can't. What's the stock car racing in NASCAR? Did you really? I did. That amazed me. Out of all this stuff, you got your NASCAR license? Yeah, I need to renew it.

But yes, I did. You and Frankie Munez. Oh, is that right? Yeah, he's like a racer. He's a professional race car driver. Wow, I haven't gone that far. They've wanted me to, but I haven't gone that far. But you've raced, like you had a car lap around the...

Well, here's what happened. This is when nobody else was doing it. It was kind of like looking at the internet was fairly, knew and like what could be done that that that we could kind of set a trend here and it was in sports nothing was being done in animation so I ended up working with Turner Turner Sports and NASCAR and they agreed to let us do the production company to do sports blast was the name of it but we created an animated show and this was like back in 2001 and I got um Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kevin Harvick came on. And at the time, Cameron Mannheim was on the practice.

I love her. So she came on as a guest star and Catherine Bell guest starred. And I played this character and it was a character voice that I had never done before. He was like a really smart kid. He wasn't bratty. He was nothing like Bart Simpson. And it was just, it was really, really fun. And I thought, well, is there any way we could go out to the racetrack?

So they'd let us go. We got to do a lesson, do a couple lessons. And I found that I got behind. the wheel and I had the helmet on and the whole thing and there's no rearview mirrors or anything. I got it up to 158.2 miles an hour. It was awesome. And the other riders, no, no, no, nobody else was going that fat. I take great pride in that. You do. I think that's amazing. I've never gone 158 miles an hour. All right. This is called shit talking with Nancy Cartwright. You don't swear very much, do you? Hell no. Shit talking with Nancy Cartwright. These are my patrons. They have a question,

a patron.com slash inside of you to support this show, please do. Ben R says, what's your all-time favorite Simpson episode? That's got to be hard. That's really hard. Come on, Michael. What's the top couple that you think of right away? Okay. Super Caliphized is XBialidosius. That's a Sherry Bobbins episode. I just, it's one of the musicals. Also the episode, I think Bart, Bart something, he, Bart becomes a mother, something like that. It's like he, he's learning how to shoot a gun and Nelson teaches him and he kills the mother bird and he has to like he feels it is so it is so touching wow it was a great at bart gets an F that was another that was he was going to fail the fourth grade and it was the first time that because we only did 13

episodes that first season so this is the first episode of season two and one of those times I guess it was written in a way that uh it was was a challenge for sure, but man, I loved it. And Bart breaks up at the end. He's like he can't, he is trying to explain to his teacher, you know, that he's like, you don't understand. I tried. I tried. I really tried. Now it's true. I'm stupid. Everybody knows it. He knows it. You knows. Everybody knows. Everybody knows. I'm just stupid. And what do you mean? And Mrs. Craboppo's like, what do you mean? Bards. How it must have felt like losing to the battle, blah, blah, blah, Crossing the Delaware in 1770.

Wait, Bart, that's an extra point. You get an extra point. You pass. You pass. You passed. Yes, you passed. I passed. I passed.

I passed. I got a D minus. I passed. So funny, but he totally starts to cry in the episode. And it was... That makes you sad. That probably was emotional for you.

Yeah, but afterwards, when you asked if I ever get exhausted, that was a feeling of like... I felt after having done maybe 45 seconds of dialogue, I felt like I had done a one-woman show because the emotional effort to do that was very demanding and yet so incredibly fulfilling. Linda M, what is a goal you have yet to achieve? Wait, who's Linda M?

She's a patron. She gets to ask a question. She supports the podcast. Oh, that's all. if you're in a top tier or whatever, you get to ask a question. Hi, Linda. Hi. How are you?

Good to see you, Linda. How are you, man? Cool. What's the question? What is the goal you have yet to achieve if there's any out there? Oh, a goal I have yet to achieve. Well, I'm doing a whole thing now. I was very late in becoming an artist.

Like, because in junior high, high school, you had to pick between art and music. And I went the music route. You know, I played trumpet, French horn, bear. You're a musician. Yeah, I can't read, I can't read bass clef. I do treble clef, but I love playing these instruments. Just, you know, I'm an amateur. Not great.

Just okay. But the art thing, I kind of always had a feeling I could do it. So I kind of did it late in my life. Maybe I've been doing it for 10 or so years now. But I want to have an exhibition. Do it. I'll come. I'll get tons of people to come.

Well, a blast. Taylor R says, what advice would you give Bart Simpson? Taylor, it's a good question. What advice? I think it's like, well, here's the thing. If I change Bart Simpson, I give him advice and he becomes a good, productive citizen, we don't have a show anymore. Right. I'm not going to give him good. But if you were his teacher. Okay. What would you say? If I said, let's say I was your teacher and I said, Bart, you have potential. You can really do this. You just need to focus and stop. doing stupid things. I think what I would say to him would be like, Bart, let's just have a chat.

So talk to me. Tell me something. What do you want to be? What do you want to do when you grow up? What do you want to do when you grow up? What do you want to do, buddy? I think he'd be thrown. I think he probably wouldn't know what to say. No, really, I want to know. What do you want to do? Actually, I want to drive cars. Great. Great. So good. So what can we do now that will help you get? I don't know.

How about we go to a museum? Let's go to the Peterson Car Museum. It's in Los Angeles. We'll go there. What do you think? I love that. I don't know. If you give a kid, I'm being very realistic, though, with him.

I'm getting really kind of serious here. Yeah. But that's what you do with a kid. You fake kids that are in trouble, what's their purpose? You know, what are they doing? If a kid has been... You have to get to their level in a way. Yeah, in a way I can see that.

But you really just need to have a real conversation, not cut them off. You have to make them right somehow and inspire this kid. Somehow make him right and give him a goal. Otherwise, why would I want to go to school? Yeah. That's how I felt. there were some teachers that just came down on my level and were like, hey, you know, and talk to me like I was, like a real person. Like a real person. And that's the problem. A lot of times they don't. Just stop that. Don't do that. It's just order, order after order. That makes perfect sense to me. Hey, my son, when he was two years old, he wanted to go to school. But he couldn't because he was still in diapers. He was just at that age at age two. They're still in diapers. And he's like, I don't go school here because his big sister went there. The teacher said to him, you can go to school here. No more diapers.

No more diapers, Jack. Okay. And then that night I went to Target, bought big boy panties, cold turkeyed him at night. Nobody does that. Are you serious? No diapers at night. And you know what? He never had a mistake.

He was in school. Within two days, he was in school. And he loved it. Motivated. Yeah. He had a purpose. That is awesome. Right?

Jen T. says if there was a cartoon made about your life, who would you choose to voice you and why oh boy i don't know i'd probably do myself i mean i should i would be my show what if you died what if you weren't around is there someone that you go i bet they could do a good me yeah probably tear strong oh she's great she's a she's a she's a cupcake that way there's a couple of i did a video game with her yeah she's another one gray cassusi cassusi do you that she's a sweetheart too Yeah. These gals, it's like there are so many talented women in this industry. And you're right, it's very, it is, it's highly competitive. And at the same time, there is always room for somebody else to, to become a part of that. Yeah. I remember when Tara was brand new, she was brand spanking new. And I wanted to see who is this girl that everybody's talking about? She was good. Yeah. Who do you think is your top, if you can name Finkin'N? three or four or one voice over artists of the past or present that are your favorites.

Maybe not present. Maybe someone that you looked up to or I know Mel Blank, right? Yeah, well, June foray. Oh my God, June foray. You can't, you can't beat that. She passed on at age 99. She was still doing that sound, I would say, at 89. She was still doing it.

You know, it changed the last few years, but it's like, damn, she was good. She was good. And who else was? There were a lot of guests that we've had on the show that really surprised me how good. Beverly DeAngelo. She's great. I love Beverly. She was incredible.

She wrote some of the songs that she came on and did, you know, bag me a homer. Come on. Beverly's great. She's been in the podcast. She's just, I love her. She's all over the place. She has, her mind is always like yours. She's just always moving.

I love it. Well, and Lily Tomlin. She's a lover. What a sweetheart. Yeah. So gifted. Tracy Allman. Oh, yeah.

So, so talented. Yeah. Yeah. She could do anything. How long do you think the Simpsons will go? 40. That's it? Yeah.

You think it will stop at 40? Yeah. You're sure. It's my opinion. What if they said we want to keep going? Are we still alive? You're still alive. Would you keep going?

Is everybody still alive? Yeah. Yeah. We'll keep going then. Would you go as long as they wanted to keep going? keep going? Absolutely. And how long does it usually take to record an episode? I mean, it depends how many lines you have, but they record us separate. I mean, I don't usually- Do you do it from home? Yeah. Yeah, they sent us all equipment, so we have all the same equipment.

We all have to, like, lock ourselves up in a little cave. Easy to use? No, I am not an engineer. You know what I'm talking about. Sophie help you? Actually, Gail does. Gail does. Yeah, my executive assistant, she goes in there and does it. But you know what? It's not standard. It's weird because hard drives are fickle. And it's like they have these setups where it's just like... You don't want to deal with it.

No, it's not my job. I just get me... Gail fixed it. How are we doing? Gail, she goes, we're almost there. That's how I'm with Ryan. Ryan, we good? You sure?

It's recording? We're good. She's still recording. This is great. I think Gail's listening to me right. Gail, are you there? She's there. We're good.

We just wanted to make sure you were there. You're there, Gail. I know you're there with Sophie. God, I love this. I mean, it's really, do you ever just sit back and go, wow, this is one of the most iconic things ever, and I'm a huge part of that. I don't just do it on my, like if I'm in my art studio and doing something, I don't just kick back and say that.

I'm awesome. I do say that. Every day I look in the mirror and say, I'm awesome. You're awesome. No, but it does come up. a bit and then I pause for a second and take a look at it. We just celebrated our 800th episode. Come on. People are lucky to do 20. Yeah. You know, and we've done over 800. And that is extraordinary. 800. 800. I mean, like God. You know how long it would take to even just

count to 800? And I bet if you're five years old. And I bet people still want to get into the table reed just to watch. Oh yeah. It's a show. It is like, it is a a show. We have the regular cast in there. The actors are in one end. The writers are at the other end. And around the perimeter, there's about 100 people in the room. There's a lot of guests of the writers. And sometimes I bring guests. I'm just saying. And it's just, it's, it's so, so fun. It just keeps my mojo well greased. I love it. That's amazing. I'm super, I'm so proud and happy for you. You have a great wonderful career. You've done so much.

And it just sounds like you're a great mom. And, you know, you just, you have a lot of life to you. And that's important in this world because it's sometimes dark. I agree. So you got to keep, keep doing you. Thank you. Oh, you're a gem. Yeah.

You're a gem. This has been a pleasure. It has been, thanks. You've asked me some questions that nobody's ever dared go. Really? Yeah, sure. Wow. I hope I didn't offend you.

No. But that's what people love to hear. They love to hear like behind the facade, behind the celebrity, behind like, you know, what makes a person tick? And how do they face adversity? And how do they stay in the business so long? And you are a prime example of someone who has, you know, you're still around. You're still doing it. Well, yeah. Everybody's got obstacles. They're trying to overcome. I don't, I just don't consider them problems. They're obstacles. And when you overcome them, you feel amazing. So it's just, if you look at life being a game, you've got opponents to that game. I've got enemies out there. Everybody has enemies, fleas have enemies. You know what I mean? But it's like, how do you handle that? You handle it pretty good. Yeah, I do. And I got an amazing team around me. It's really important. Life's tough. You know, it's tough. And somehow you got to overcome those things so you can, you know, achieve your goals. We're not, we're not around that long looking like this, you know? Yeah. So thank you very much for having me on your show. Thanks for being here.

Yeah. Hey, y'all, it's Kelly Clarkson with Wayfair. Ever order furniture online and wonder what if? Like, what if it doesn't hold up? That sofa was four days old. You should have ordered from Wayfair. With Wayfair, there's no what if. Just style you love and quality you can trust. Visit Wayfair.ca. Wayfair, every style, every home. Thank you, Nancy, for being here. You're a pleasure. And I'd love to be on your show.

I know you asked me, and I'd be delighted to come on. And I think she gives you a gift, a parting gift. So I'm hoping it's something that from The Simpsons, that'd be dope, wasn't it? I just, my fear is going on her show. And I don't know, you know, I watched up, I don't remember anything. Yeah. But I love the show. Who doesn't love The Simpsons?

There's a lot of Simpsons. There's a lot. The most episodes of Simpsons and anything else. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the interview. Join patreon.com slash inside of you, support this podcast if you want. A lot of great podcasts coming up. And I hope you enjoyed Bruce Campbell. That was an emotional one and really cool to see what he's up to and, you know, battling his cancer and just keeping a good spirit about him. And what else? Zach Braff was a good one. A lot of good ones coming up. And Huey Lewis, you know, talking about how he's deaf and he can't sing anymore. That was, you know, it's eye opening. It's like, be grateful for what you got. Yeah. So thanks.

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And here we go. Nancy D. Little Lisa, U.K. Co. Nico P. Rob B. 4th. Jason W. Raj C. Stacey L. Jamal F. Janelle B. Mike.

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Julie F. F. The 5th. Eduardo Roman the 5th. Or V. Or V. We don't know. Julie F.

J. Wayne P. and Merritt. Did I say Raj? Is Raj not a top tier? No. Raj said he doesn't like you. And he's a jumping ship. And he's going to be exclusively at the Dax Shepherd. Raj is there.

Raj is there. We love you. From the Hollywood Hills in Hollywood, California. I'm Michael Rosenbaum. Thanks for listening. Oh, I'm Ryan Tejas. I'm kind of here as well. He's kind of here. He's a little spacey. A little waved to the camera. We love you. And thanks for being here. Thanks for joining me every week and supporting the show.

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