Podcast: The Ride - Looney Tunes at Six Flags with Eric Bauza

Episode Date: March 17, 2023

Eric Bauza (voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Marvin the Martian, Tweety Bird and more) joins us to discuss going from Looney Tunes fan to Looney Tunes voice actor. Plus, Looney Tunes at Six Flags and parks around the world! Annette Funicello's Music Career episode up at The Second Gate: Patreon.com/PodcastTheRide Listen to Podcast: The Ride Ad-Free on Forever Dog Plus: http://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plus WATCH THIS EPISODE: https://youtu.be/gka2u8eUm_M FOLLOW PODCAST: THE RIDE: https://twitter.com/PodcastTheRide https://www.instagram.com/podcasttheride BUY PODCAST: THE RIDE MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/podcast-the-ride PODCAST THE RIDE IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/podcast-the-ride Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FOREVER! DOG! heavy dose of Toronto nostalgia. It's the Looney Tunes at Six Flags with Looney Tunes voice Eric Bauza on Podcast The Ride, hosted by three very good boys who are deeply uncomfortable with the phrase putty tat. I'm a rack and frack and varmint by the name of Scott Gairdner, joined by my co-host. What a maroon. It's Mike Carlson. That's true. That is what I am. But I'm still reeling from what you said earlier.

Yeah, yeah. With the context. Yeah, I'm sorry. When I said earlier, I mean 15 seconds ago. That was earlier than right now. Yes. Well, we'll try to avoid disgusting, lewd phrases such as that. Please.

And host number three, ain't eat a stinker. It's Jason Sheridan. I've been sitting over here with bated breath to see what I was given tonight. I mean, that's you've said the phrase before, even not not even in the context of the Looney Tunes. Oh, yeah. You are the stinker of the show. And today we are talking about all things Looney Tunes, including their Six Flags Association, Bugs Bunny World, and Magic Mountain. And we're doing it because we're joined by an excellent guest who, he voices some of the more obscure characters in the Looney Tunes canon, just some of the more esoteric,

the deeper cuts, such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Marvin the Martian, Foghorn Leghorn, too many to name. It's the Emmy-winning Eric Bauza. Hello. Oh, forget about him. Do me. Do me. Daffy.

It's me. Do me next. Am I a loser? And am I? What am I to you, Scott? The lists are arbitrary. I didn't mean to put you in any particular order. We could do it again and you could be number one, Daffy.

Oh, I see. I see. Not good enough for an insult from you. I get it. Oh, jeez. Okay. Not on your radar, I see. I didn't want to insult you.

I thought you seemed a little touchy. I don't know. I'll just go. Come on, Daffy. Come on now. Relax. Everyone's friends here. I was going to Start off with like

You can do as much or as little voices as you'd like to do You will steer the ship I am just a whore When it comes to These characters I am just thankful to be here Thank you guys Thank you for doing it

These characters for me are who I grew up watching And from anyone that's Read an interview or seen another Thank you for doing that. where these characters had somewhat of a renaissance, I guess, because they were originally made in the 40s, 50s. And decades later, here they are in the 90s being slathered over air fresheners, mud flaps, for 18-wheeler trucks. Coca-Cola cans promoting Six Flags. Coca-Cola, Six Flags, yes. Is that the right brand? I think it was Coke, right?

Yeah, I think so. And that the right brand? I think it was Coke, right? Yeah. And that ties in my appearance here today is my obsession with the Looney Tunes, not just as cartoon characters, but as backdrops to the Six Flags Magic Mountains theme park. Right on. the corporate faces of various parks, and not just to jump around a little bit because we're sort of Looney Tunes focused, I don't want to shut off another character, because you're the voice of the face of Six Flags, but also a character we've talked about a lot over the years who is by default Universal's Mickey, and that is Woody Woodpecker.

That's right! And it doesn't get you into Super Nintendo World any faster than any other. No, what? No, you gotta watch our virtual queue when you get there, yeah. Hi, I'm the voice of Woody Woodpecker. They're like, yeah, yeah, sure, pal. You have a platinum pass or not?

And I'm like, I do, And they're like, you can go. I was there last night. The red pass. That's what I have. The red feathers of Woody. But here's the thing. I've learned you can only, the only way to skip to the front of the line for Bowser's Castle Mario Kart, the ride, is to have a VIP pass, which is $400 per pass. But that includes a free lunch, a guided tour.

Oh, that's what gets you the, now you're on the back line, you're going to the sets and everything. You're not just on the big tram. But if you're just there, that is the only way, unless you get there right before the park opens and you're lined up to go into Mario Land

or whatever it is. Right, right. Yeah, that's the hack. You have to pay $400. Money is always the hack. you have to pay 400 dollars money is always the hack let me tell you something about money and theme parks it's open doors it's what what's what makes the those things run not electricity but just paper money yeah yeah um you've been a uh you've been a universal fan a theme parks fan it seems like forever part of me

asking you if you wanted to do this was your Instagram, which is a treasure trove of, like, memories of yours. And it's constantly you seemingly proving your voice nerd credentials, I feel like. That you were completely the kid who loves this stuff, and now you get to do it and how cool is that? Again, going back to the night, I ran into our colleague Kyle Mooney at Six Flags Magic Mountain, who we both worked with on Smash, Saturday morning. All Star hits, which you were so great on. Some of our favorite voices in the whole thing.

Thank you. We were there because of the premiere of, to celebrate the premiere of Space Jam A New Legacy, which I was lucky enough to do one or five voices. I don't know how many voices I did on it. But even if I was like the out of focus, you know, tree in the background, I would have been happy. There were a lot of out of focus characters in the movie.

Maybe no movie ever has had more out of focus characters. HBO Max, the movie. With LeBron, maybe. Sometimes. But yeah, we. HBO Max, the movie. With LeBron, maybe. Sometimes. But yeah, we were there to celebrate that movie, and it was kind of funny because on the red carpet, if you were just kind of like walking in, there was a mascot of Daffy,

but specifically for me, Sylvester. And I remember when I first visited Los Angeles and first went to Six Flags, there's photos of me. And I, you know, and I've actually compared I put them together now where it's me from like 1994 and Sylvester in Six Flags in 1994. And then what that was like two years ago or, you know, 2020, like in the thick of the pandemic, it was actually a big thing that we were even able to go to Six Flags to do this because it was that one week in LA where there wasn't COVID, if you remember. They're like, hey, it's gone.

Let's go out and lick fire hydrants and stuff. Cut the Six Flags padlock. Yeah, and then literally after that movie premiered, lockdown again. But I remember being on that red carpet wanting to take that photo knowing that that photo existed in 1994 at that exact same theme park. Wow, wow. So I had put them side by side so you could see how little I've grown since then. I'm still like a tiny person, but a tiny nerd. Wait, which to that end, do we have that picture, Jason?

I think you loaded up a photo. I loaded up, yeah, a photo. Eric, I got this on your- This is the blackmail photo, right? Yeah, yeah. We will show this to all of our viewers. This is available on Forever Dog on the YouTube also. Well, Eric, you might be ahead of me because i i see you uh

brought a shirt but i emailed this might be the exact shirt that we we may or may not see any minute and if not now we could see it later i'm sure if we did the the the gist of this is i think a picture of you in you were in eighth grade do i have that right if if the braces are correct and the laser background is correct, that was the- Yeah, the laser background really gives away a range of dates. That was the era, not to date yourself, but never post a photo of you with lasers in the background.

It looks like I was a jewel thief, like I was in a heist. You were in the middle, yeah. I was in mid-heist. Oh, there it is. Look at this. Just that weird widow's peak that I have there. Oh, there it is. Oh, God.

The further down you go, the worse it gets. Keep going. We've seen the braces. Scroll down. This is like it's loading on Windows in 1985. Yeah, I feel like I'm trying to download pornography in the 90s. We're just trying to get to a kid's shirt, though. We're not trying to do something weird. We're not trying to do this. We're just trying to get to a kid's shirt, though. We're not trying to do something weird.

We're not trying to do anything. We're just trying to see an 8th grader's full shirt. If you want to scroll down a few more pixels, maybe we'll get to the juice of the photo. Or is this all... There it is! Good God! Listeners, this is a very early 90s

kind of like purple pastel pattern that's extremely busy in very 90s fashion. And the pattern is primarily made up of Bugs Bunny. It's like a wild berry Pop-Tart of a shirt. It's such a good, it's like the most attractive color scheme to me because we're all growing up, we all grew up the same. This is it. That was essentially what was fashionable back in the 90s and this was to me like i saw this hanging in the in the you know the the gift shops of six flags in the children's area because that's the only place in six flags where the looney tunes exist and i like, oh my God, I'm going to get married and buried in this shirt.

And I was in the eighth grade and I knew that already. And I actually brought it with me. Wow. This is it. So this is the shirt that predicted my future. This is the exact same shirt. And for whatever reason, this is the funny, disgusting part about it. There's a giant hole

in the back where my ass might be. Like I blew out a fart and ruined the garment. And if this isn't going to make the podcast even weirder, I'm going to try it on

to see if it... Oh, wow. I'm so glad we have the video component. Before I pass it around so you can all get a sniff. Because that's what I was hoping that you would do. Like how you're holding it down.

It feels like a holy garment of some kind. Like whoever wears it is bestowed with voice powers or something. I commend you for holding on to it because that would go for hundreds on Depop. This is actually the original plot of Big. But they're like, it's too weird that he wants to be the voice of Bugs Bunny when he's older. What if he just wants to be Big? Forget about the Looney Tunes element.

This is what I had pitched, New Line Cinema. No, what is this? This is Looney Tunes exclusively for Six Flags is what the label says. Can't find that on, well, not the internet at the time. You can't find that in the Warner Brothers studio store. And it says, Looney Tunes characters' names and all related indica.

Indica. Isn't that? Sounds like a weed strain. Indica and sativa are trademarks of Warner Brothers 1991. Yeah, so. Oh, crazy hearing bugs say the strains. Is he allowed? Is that okay? I'll say, you got any foghorn kush?

That's what I want to know, son. Okay, here. Here, I'm going to try the sun. This is history. Am I wrong? Does anyone else get nervous when Bugs starts talking in a way where one of the most famous people on Earth is talking to you?

Oh, yeah. Oh, a thousand percent. It's a little Oh, yeah. Oh, a thousand percent. It's a little strange, maybe. No, it's great. I'm like, oh my gosh, Boogs is in the room. There's something otherworldly about it. It takes me to a different place. This is a pretty successful transfer

on Eric's part so far. This looks great. I built a time machine. I'm sure one of these buttons is going to pop. I'm going to leave the gut part of the shirt on the button. This is future-proofing from clothing manufacturers in the 90s by making all things very baggy. Okay, big reveal.

You're going to want this again in 30 years. Oh, my God. Wow, it looks great. It still fits, guys. If I could recreate the pose. Can we key out the red of the curtain and give you some lasers? It was great. It still fits, guys. If I could recreate the pose. We key out the red of the curtain and give you some lasers. We'll work on the post on this.

So either I was a really big eighth grader or I'm a very small man. It's either which. I'll just stop it now because all the dates I had lined up this Friday on Tinder are gone. Well, I wanted to commend you because that is something that I would buy when I was that young at a Six Flags. I would not have had the gumption to wear it both to school and on picture day. So people thought

and they still say it, like, why are you wearing a pajama top to picture day? They're like, what is your, you're an idiot. And I'm like, you'll all see. Wait till we all live this through this thing called COVID-19. And then, and only then after I will be the voice of Bugs Bunny in the year 2020, I think. It's a good thing you have that shirt and not like a tougher to get voice. I don't know who else in Warner Brothers.

I mean, you were in the Looney Tunes. But like, you know, if you went to Universal and bought the same pattern but Frankenstein's or the Phantom, then you're just dependent on are they doing anything with the property? Is the Dark Universe up and running? Then my dream would be to be the guy

in the Frankenstein outfit. And again, it would be a very unimpressive photo of Frankenstein at 5 And again, it would be a very unimpressive photo of Frankenstein at 5'5". Even with those big phone book shoes, no one would be threatened. The least intimidating Frankenstein. I want a picture with Marilyn.

Marilyn Monroe. That's a picture. Is that the sound of short Frankenstein? Yeah. He's like literally half the angst of Big Frankenstein Yeah, sounds right to me But yeah, going back to Six Flags You know, again

And being a kid on vacation Where your parents give you Here's like a little bit of vacation Here's your budget Now don't go crazy Don't, you know, buy food Buy the things you need to survive while you're away for a couple weeks. And, of course, I was under the care of my aunt and uncle.

But I blew it all on Looney Tunes stuff. I bought an all-brown Wile E. Coyote shirt where it was the color of his fur and only his muzzle, eyes, and ears. It was so 90s. It was like, God, they were so good. Actually, you know what I should have done, and I'm an idiot, maybe on part two of this, I bought every Warner Brothers catalog off eBay. I don't think you can search for it

because I'm, again, obsessed. I'm obsessed. You can't find a 90s Warner Brothers catalog on eBay right now. It's because they're all at my house. I bought them. Oh, really? And they were released by season.

So there goes my son's college fund. At least the first few weeks of his university career are gone because I just had to have that Rover Dangerfield cover of Rodney Dangerfield and his dog self. Wow. Yeah, I'll scan that and send it for your fans. Please send whatever for the socials. He understands.

These are priceless items. Where did this catalog, because there was the studio store, which I was really fond of, and the malls, but the catalog was a whole other. So it was like the size of, it was very thin. It was seasonal,

so it was only like you know spring summer winter of course they had christmas and holiday stuff but like it was just for the studio store and there are pictures of like celebrities that were hot back then so i actually have because it's warner brothers 100th uh this year i have been scanning pages of that in of the catalog and like erasing all like the like the writing so I act if you check on my and my Instagram there's a picture of Mark Lynn Baker Bronson Pinchot and the girl that played Mary Ann on perfect strangers and they're all wearing Daffy Duck or Looney Tunes stuff and they're all like like hey like because they're popular they're so yeah who else gene

shallot was uh featured heavily now you've got our attention it's like it's like him and tweety and sylvester eating cake and like wow because i think at that point they were celebrating their 50th and then there's one of jonathan there's lots of jonathan winters like just like in different attire like warner Brothers ball caps and stuff. But they would get, and of course, Fritz Friehling, Chuck Jones, these are beloved directors of the Warner Brothers history and legend. They're still alive. Mel Blanc also was featured in the catalog, posing with bugs, like a cartoon drawing of bugs. Oh, wow.

But yeah, there's so much good stuff in there. There's an entire catalog just about gremlins 2 so if you're a huge fan of that movie i'm like truly and there's stuff in there that you'll just you'll never be able to get and my goal is to try to recreate like because i work with the intellectual property like the licensing of warners oh yeah i'm trying to milk this for as much as possible yeah yeah. Yeah. Right. You have a brand also. Yeah. Yeah. Retro kid in Toronto,

Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Wow. Wow. And we deal a lot with Canadian nostalgia, like Degrassi stuff that made it here hoping, you know,

some Americans will latch onto it, but otherwise it's just a collection of really obscure Canadian children's programming where you're just like, what the hell were they doing in Canada? Why does this exist? It's so weird. When I was reading about your work, I definitely had some long detours

learning about Mr. Dress-Up. Yes. And also looking at your store's expansive website. Yeah, thank you. And oddly enough, Mr. Dress-Up was like our Mr. Rogers. And actually they were friends uh at one point in in their in their history but he was basically like our you know our childhood for

whatever reason there was always a guy who lived by himself that would talk to you and would have friends who were who happened to just be puppets that also kind of live at this weird house that isn't his house it's like a place where they could be creative and then like leave like kiwi's playhouse was kind of like that oh that's true yes we go visit a place we leave our creativity here at the single man's house this is where we go smoke weed is basically there was another guy in canada like another show called fred penner's place we had that they put that on Nickelodeon too. Okay, so there you go.

So you would follow this guy through a tree trunk into this secret part of the forest and he would sing to you and then he'd be like, oh we need to go now. Like yeah, it's too bad. Don't tell your parents. Yeah, yeah. Don't tell anyone in the tree trunk.

Yeah. There's so much stranger danger but then also every show was go visit this weird guy's house. Yeah. It was come over. Hang out for 22 minutes. We'll make stuff, and I'll put some clothes on and pretend to be someone else. Everything's going to be fine.

Everything's going to be fine. Sure. Yeah. Kids, do that on PBS. Do not do it two blocks away. Absolutely do not. Don't look, do that on PBS. Do not do it two blocks away. Absolutely do not. Don't look a stranger in the eye. Do not go to Mr. Smith's.

Stay the hell away. Stay at a Mr. Smith's tree trunk. Maybe there's a new thing we just created. It's like a host that operates inside an abandoned amusement park, and he's like, come ride rides with me. Sure. I have the keys still. Yeah, climb the fence.

I got a hole in the fence just for you. Go flip some switches. Let's see if any of this electricity turns on. You don't need seatbelts. Put your mouth under this fountain soda machine. It never goes bad. Never. Oh, no, a rat flew out.

Oh, well. And the puppet friends are like, yeah, raccoons and rats. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe a homeless guy could be the sidekick. I don't know. This sounds good. Or a security guard. The security guard.

Oh, sure, yeah, yeah, yeah. He'd be the nemesis of the show. Grizzle a security guard who's seen some shit. He doesn't use that word, but we know he is. This is great, because we need to like, abandoned amusement parks have gotten a bad rap from the Scooby-Doo franchise, and it's time to learn they can be joyous places.

Sure, yeah. We can't let good time, the second act of good time. Oh, yeah, right. Yeah, yeah. You're not necessarily going to get drugged and left for dead. No. Yeah, yeah. Things might turn out great.

There's no, a lesson doesn't need to be learned every episode. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's pure fun, you know? Oh, something else to ask you about, too, in terms of that Instagram stuff. I also love seeing you at the, I forgot this place existed. The building's still there,

but this might have been on your LA sojourns also, that you took pictures at what was then the Hanna-Barbera headquarters, which is now, I think people live there. It's an apartment complex. It's condos and a gym. Wow. Yeah, the think people live there. It's an apartment complex. It's condos and a gym. Wow. Yeah, the LA Fitness is there.

It's like a complex just below the Universal City Hill. Yeah. And I totally, actually, until I saw your Instagram, I forgot that'd be part of the tour that my dad would take me on. It's like, not just Universal, but they make the Flintstones and stuff here, too. What a magical, it must have been so like-

Did you guys ever get to see that building while it was still around? Not in its state, no. that building while it was still around? Not in its state, no. I just thought it was an interesting building architecturally for a long time. Then a few years ago I saw like a photo of the guard stand with like someone in a yogi walk around costume in it.

There are still hints and remnants of Hanna-Barbera in that complex, in that area. Like paintings of like dinosaur footprints on the ground. I think there might be some murals on the wall that they are still going to keep up in memory of Hanna-Barbera. But I remember being a kid growing up in Toronto watching Two Stupid Dogs, Powerpuff Girls,

Dexter's Lab, Johnny Bravo. At the end of every episode in those 90s Hanna-Barbera, before they became Cartoon Network, there would be a voice going, send all your fan mail to 26555 Coinga Boulevard. And I was like, Coinga Boulevard? I was like, that's a weird name. And

I remember, I felt so bad for my uncle, who's no longer with us, but he never had kids, and every time I visited, I was always like, take me here now! I need to see this place now. Chukwunga, the most magical place in the city. You know, you're probably like in your mid-40s, almost 50,

and this stupid kid comes from Canada, and he's demanding you, take me to these places. And sure enough, he did. He was also the uncle, too, by the way, that would send me clips and clippings of LA Times newspaper, the entertainment section, like Little Mermaid breaks box office doll. He was the one that encouraged me to be in animation.

So that's what he gets. He gets a kid that's obsessed. So he, in fact, did drive me to Hanna-Barbera. It was the weekendbara it was the weekend so it was closed i did take pictures outside of this building and uh yeah now it's a gym and uh it's kind of sad but at the same time you know i i've i've managed to you know work and make friends with people that were inside of that building people that could tell me stories about hearing you know like people like mel blank or don messick who was the original

voice of scooby like in like the walls were paper thin like if someone was getting in trouble you could hear someone arguing like you know like four offices away and just weird stuff and uh you know i'm talking about like Frank Welker, who's still a living legend, still with us. Yeah, yeah. He is literally half of IMDB if you look him up. He was like all the gremlins, you know. Megatron.

Yeah, he's done so many voices in everything. But now he is Scooby-Doo and is still Freddie Jones from that. He still does it. Yeah, that from that. He still does it. He still does it. Oh, my God. We got him on Smash. It was unbelievable. You did?

I can't believe it. Yeah, yeah. It didn't even get to see him. I don't think we even had the Zoom window. It was like a scratchy bad connection. Then you're like, are we going to be able to understand this? And then that voice comes booming through. I think we'll be fine.

That's so great. I'm glad that he was. It just makes it that much more authentic that you got Frank in there. That was the thought, was like, yeah, we're doing this full 80s, 90s tribute. What better way to make it authentic than getting the people from then, because those vocal qualities you recognize instantly. But yourself included, because we thought of you right away

because you are the new version of that, you know? Aw, thanks, Doc. I bet you say that to all your guests who voice Bugs Bunny. Yeah. This is so sad. I'm doing the voice, and I'm wearing the shirt. Nothing.

Oh, my God. No, it's not. It's kidding. We're blown away. This is like, this will be the nerdiest episode on ARPA. Yeah, I want to say, like, I want to start being like, thank you, Bugs, so much for all you've done. That's the decor of, I think, all of us.

You're welcome, Doc. You're doing just fine. You've got your own show. There's lights and a stage and a couch. Thank you, Bugs. It's amazing. That's all I ever wanted. The most encouraging note we've got in years.

Can I ask a question? Do you do the Wiley, like intelligent Wiley? Yes. Wiley Coyote. Super genius. Yeah. I've only ever done it like maybe like once or twice, maybe for like an app video game on your phone.

Oh, wow. And it was literally like, here's five things that he said. Right. Just say them. But yeah, Mel Blanc's normal voice print is very difficult to kind of get. Because he had a very rich, smoked at 9 a.m., butted out at 9 p.m., probably unfiltered. We did have to ask you to put out your unfiltered

Chesterfields when we started recording. When you saw me, I was sucking on a rain-drizzled cigarette outside. I was like, is it time to go in? He's like, oh man, he's gross. Gotta build my voice up. If I don't smoke these, I just sound like a woman.

I sound like my mom. You powered through a couple packs that we started. In terms of that Mel Blanc stuff, you must just know, beyond that you do so many of his voices, you must just understand the general ecosystem of him pretty well, that you know his regular, what's closest to his regular voice,

and then what's furthest. I kind of call it the house of Mel Blanc. And it's like some characters live in the attic. So if I'm doing Tweety, it's almost the same voice as Bugs, but Bugs is maybe a step down here. So Tweety, I'll do a self-pitch. It's up here, and you kind of have to talk like a baby. So all the L's and W's and all that stuff.

You can't say granny. He always says, Dwanney. With a D. Dwanney, that putty cat's trying to chase me. And then they'll pitch that up. And then Bugs, I kind of ask them or maybe suggest maybe not to pitch that up at all because there's, again, something so weird, almost like Jack Mercer doing Popeye, where it's like, you know, you who olive almost like this kind of high-pitched, nasally, Brooklyn Bronx accent thing that he does.

But you could still hear that grit to his voice. Now, Sylvester and Daffy are the same voice. By the way, I'll never use this mic again. I'll probably have to buy this mic. So Sylvester's like here, right? He's that big sloppy cat that's trying to eat that bird. I'm going to eat that yellow canary if it's the last thing I do. That one got to me so much more than I thought it would.

I'm excited about all of these, but I didn't think that one was going to hit me sore. That's so cool. But Sylvester is the same voice that he did for Daffy, but they would take this and speed it up. They'd pitch it up. And when I do Daffy, I'm doing what we remember Daffy as how he sounds, which to me is Richard Dreyfuss with a lisp. That's all it is. Okay.

Mayor Vaughn, what we're dealing with here is a perfect eating machine. All he wants to do is eat people and make little baby sharks. Yeah, like that's what I, whenever I hear Daffy, I think about like Richard Dreyfuss. Jeez, I never would have made that connection. That's insane. And then Pepe Le Pew, I say he is in the basement for other reasons as well. He is a pervert and we keep him there. He stays down there, sure.

But he is in the same rate, I say, as Foghorn Leghorn. So if you take that same Basie-type boys and do French and then do Southern, it's in the same. Pay attention, Scott. I'm talking here. With you. Yeah. Well, anyways, that's kind of like the Ferris wheel of characters, I guess.

Do you visualize that, too? Are you sort of like spatially kind of like to go to those places? Yeah, I mean, and also when we record, I'm not doing the back and forth between characters. I'm kind of like when we do Bugs Bunny Builders, I'll do Tweety first, then I'll do Daffy, and then to separate Tweety from Bugs, I'll do Daffy in the middle. Oh, wow.

So I'm reading the script like three times, essentially. When you were a kid, were you doing it analytically, or did you just do it pretty well, and then as you got older, you got the extra? I think it's the same answer for every kid growing up. It just sounds like a kid doing it, right? Sure. It sounds like worried parents going, what's wrong with him?

I think he hit his head sometime during recess yesterday. And yeah, for me, it was Who Framed Roger Rabbit. That was the movie that I thought was real. I thought like, oh man, if I go to Hollywood, Bugs Bunny will be walking down the street. On Coanga, he's always there. He loves it. That's a lot more charming than like, say, man, if I go to Hollywood, Bugs Bunny will be walking down the street. On Cahuenga. He's always there. He loves it.

That's a lot more charming than, say, Mike and I going, I am scared of the dip. I can never meet this judge. That's true. Yeah, we were worried about the judge. It was a little hard a little bit. Christopher Lloyd was the – I'm still terrified of Christopher Lloyd. Sure.

I'm afraid his eyes will turn into daggers, cartoon daggers. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, I think as a kid, you run around the house thinking, you know, I nailed it. I nailed this voice. And it just sounds like a kid doing it. But it wasn't until high school when they're like, okay, we get it.

You can do voices. Stop. Please stop. And then they'd be like, well, why don't we let them just get it all out and do the morning announcements? So they let me go on the PA system. I could have said anything. I could have done awful things. But I took that as a creative outlet.

And the teachers were so nice. Yeah, Cardinal Newman High School is where I went it's at this place in Scarborough where I grew up which is where they filmed The Love Guru Mike Myers hits The Love Guru very recently talked about on this show we just talked about that probably a lot

well that whole scene at the end where they're dancing they're doing the whole Bollywood number It was done in Scarborough Wow really If you just look up My high school was right there Where they were dancing

Now I'm really impressed Now I'm telling you I live like one block over from Mike Myers Way Which is actually just a Because they named a street after him I'm from Scarborough It's like Jim Carrey was from scarborough or worked and lived in scarborough john candy went to high school at neil mcneil it's like an all boys high school uh yeah there's something weird about

scarborough and uh people people with the ability to morph into weird characters i guess is it like is there like a like a mundanity to it that like makes a spark of like I have to go crazy and probably yeah I was gonna say like you know what keeps us humble are those disgusting winters I heard like I heard last week in Toronto there was like a day where it was like you know they got

like 70 degree weather or whatever and then like literally the following day was just like four feet of snow. Like not so fast there, guys. You still got a few more months of this shit. You ever have to fight back the Canadian in the void? Do you ever like find some Canadian in Daffy Elster? As soon as they go back, even for five minutes, it's like Rick Moranis. And then you come back and you're like, oh, hey, like it's telly from who does your taxes like i'll come back here and it'll just be

like oh uh it's embarrassing but it's also like you know i always say i recharge my canadian comedy batteries when i go back that's what you should um well so okay to to dovetail it back into theme park stuff a little bit oh oh here's a thing uh before we talk a little bit of six flags because this was a question i had uh just when we were dming i i i wondered you must have done voices in attractions somewhere i couldn't tell you where but well i found one but but you you you. Okay, so it is crazy that now we live in this age and era of, you know, hey, celebrities get busy. They get too busy or, you know, they've been known to ask for lots of money, as they should. They've created such amazing characters. Believe it or not, I am the voice match for Antonio Banderas

for Puss in Boots for DreamWorks. Oh, wow, wow. So all you have to do is close your eyes and listen to this voice. And that is what I do for Puss in Boots. I'm able to do the sporadic burst of energy that he has and then all of that low stuff. Trust me.

That's wonderful. They made a ride, a roller coaster actually in Universal Studios Singapore. Oh, right. Surprise! I got us all tickets. We're going next week! Oh, the red eyes!

Sorry guys, I didn't. Sorry, guys. I'm a liar. I'm also, aside from the voice match at Vantoria, but there's a pathological liar to people that I just meet. I have to tell one big lie. Well, that's when you came in and you said, I'm not a liar. I just took that.

It turns out that was the first lie. That was the first lie. And there's an on-air lie, which I just did and then when the credits roll, I'll be like, guys, I'm also the president of the United States. Not true. Also a lie.

That's like the prestige of the lies. If you are in Singapore, please let me know how that, because there are moments in the ride where it's like you're waiting and it's me going, the restrooms are over here. Yeah, it's like, yeah. There's arbitrary things they made me say. But I can't wait to one day go to Singapore.

Aside from Singapore, I was in London for a wedding, to visit for a wedding. And I was able to see something that I did that was a walk-through attraction like by the eye, that giant Ferris wheel. And that whole area is basically like Times Square or like, you know, Hollywood Boulevard. It's basically like the attraction site of London, England. And DreamWorks has a theater there

where you do a walk-through Shrek thing, and my voice is there as Puss in Boots. There's a thing where he's on a screen, and for, I don't know how they did this, I'm still, like, puzzled from this day. He coughs out a hairball, and the hairball comes out of the

screen and, like, falls into the crowd somewhere. Wow. And I'm like, how'd they do that? I'm like, I want to know. I was like, I have a question. How the hell did you guys do that? It's kind of amazing how they did that. I know how you did half of it from doing it.

Speaking of a voice and doing the coughing, but I was like, how the hell did that come out of the screen? Jeez. I want to know. That's like catching the bouquet at a wedding or something, you get that furball. Antonio Banderas phlegm. Yeah. The other one I saw was that,

you can assert if this is correct or not, but I saw that you did the voice of Marvin the Martian. Yes. Isn't that lovely? I did. Actually, of all the characters I've done for Looney Tunes, the longest, like over 12 years, I think. Oh, wow.

12 Earth years, Earth Creature. Isn't that lovely? For which, was that another attraction? I have it that you do that voice in Warner Brothers movie world Dubai. Yes, Dubai. In Dubai. Of all the places. So in Dubai, somewhere in the middle of Dubai,

exists this giant Vegas-like indoor theme park that is Warner Brothers and DC Comics themed. And it's all fully licensed. And there's a Flintstones ride. There's a Looney tunes ride uh apparently a marvin a marvin the martian ride isn't that lovely and stage shows where i've done like like they did something for space jam and they did like something for the holidays last year where i will have to do you know know, Christmas? What's that all about? Woohoo! I'm greedy!

I hope I learn my lesson in 45 minutes of dancing! Talking about this with you! And it's like someone in poor soul in this costume moving around to my voice. A ghost who resembles Foghorn Leghorn appears to Daffy to teach him

a lesson. Spirit! No, spirit! No more spirit! I've seen enough! I get it! I'm an asshole! Sounds like a good show. Yeah, it's going to be a good one.

We're going to do one. The four of us are going to do this right after this, on this stage. I can get us free tickets to it because we've been gotten a PR email saying we can get free tickets but we have to fly out. Are you kidding me? All we have to do is finance the flight. All we have to do is fly and put ourselves up and then probably pay for

food but the tickets and watch out for various like traps that you might end up in. Don't worry about that. That's nothing. That sort of thing doesn't happen in a Marriott courtyard Dubai. Three white guys and one Filipino-Canadian? What could go wrong? That sounds like,

what could we get for that? That sounds like a bunch of bad people scratching their chin going, yeah, yeah, millions maybe. Perhaps trillions. As long as we get to go on the Flintstones ride. Yeah, yeah. You can hear me going, I do D Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can hear me going.

I do Dino's voice. You're in that. Yeah, I do that. Wow. Dino. Wow. So I heard, and this is true, I guess. When I first booked it, I was going.

I was barking out. And very famed voice director, Andrea Romano, who worked with Mel Blanc while he was still alive. She said, are you doing what Mel did? And I was like, what's that? And she's like, he inhaled when he barked. Like, to get that higher pitch. So there's another trick. Another trick.

That's cool. Dispelled on your podcast. Straight from the source. You have to inhale for Dino, apparently. Yeah, so cool. Is there a male voice you can't do oh man have you gone through his whole IMDb and gone I'm just gonna I have to check them all off the check them all off the

list yeah that's a tough one I mean I don't expect you to have actually gone through it though but like is there one yet glaring one you know it's I know there's one there's got to be one yeah that I can't do it seems like you can do all the big ones, though. Yeah, the important ones, thank God. But, I mean, again, it took a while.

Like, even with Bugs, I had auditioned only twice for Bugs in 10 years. Wow. They only ever asked people to audition for him in the better part of a decade since I've been working with Warner Brothers. And that just goes to show how often they like, you know, want to, I call it the shaking of the ant farm. You know, it's like this crew of people build this thing and then like another crew comes in and goes, it's all gone.

And they're like, we're going to do it our way. But like in 10 years, it's only been twice. And the first time I didn't get it, that's when I got Marvin. And then the second time I didn't get it, that's when I got Marvin. And then the second time, I was lucky. Jeez, wow. But you did get it. But you got the foot in the door then. And now you're, oh, my God.

Yeah, it was a little nutty. It was a little nutty. But yeah. I don't like it. But even further, I also want to talk a little bit about bringing it back to theme parks. Yes, please. Growing up in Toronto, we have Canada's Wonderland. Oh, I was wondering.

I've never gotten it. I've always been curious. It's insane. And again, I think for most East Coast and Midwest parks, they had license to use the Hanna-Barbera characters in the 90s. And I'm thinking about Kings something. Was there? You guys know? Well, Kings Dominion and Kings Island both had them.

Yes. something was there you guys know well kings dominion and king's island both had them yeah yes so we feel like we did an episode once i think like uh 35 theme parks have had the flintstones over the years so really and then randa and then weird shady rv parks in arizona it's just all over the way whoever wants it you can grab the flintstones all all the meth you could the the biggest meth capitals all the meth you can yabba dabba do All the meth you can yabba dabba do I'm telling you man Hey Fred I'm grinding my teeth too much Oh god

But yeah Justino breathe in when he nails meth That was like the best time of my life Growing up as a kid in Toronto Going to what they called Their kid's section was Hanna-Barbera land. So you would have a bedrock mini golf. You would have like this, you know, the carousel that had all the Hanna-Barbera characters. Uh, I, I'm pretty sure there was like, again, that the drive-in that they had in Flintstones where you could get a Bronto burger.

I think there was a jet. There was Scooby-Doo's Goster Coaster, which was awesome. And it felt like you were in the car. It felt like this ride was going to fall apart at any minute, which is half of the fear of being on this coaster. Like, we're going to sue, Scoob! Like, I'm going to break break my neck like whiplash yeah like is my nose bleeding uh yeah i can't feel my legs yeah um uh but yeah it was unbelievable that this place existed and the one thing that scared me the most about it was not the rides or anything

about it there was a a person in a costume that was Jabberjaw, the giant shark. As a child, I was terrified of this character. Something scary about a giant cartoon shark that sounds like Curly from the Three Stooges, like, I don't know about you, but scares the shit out of me. You had me at giant. That's plenty for me. I don't know any other details. Shark, that's just icing on the cake.

A cartoon shark. Maybe because my parents let me watch Jaws, and that's where my love for Richard Dreyfuss comes from. Oh, sure, yeah. The general production value at that park, are things a little rickety? What is the overall? So, I mean, I've been there recently,

Canada's Wonderland, and they're they're they're good they're they've held up they still have some of the classic rides but have gotten rid of a lot uh they had this really great ride they're called the bat and it was kind of like it's almost like similar to the mummy where you do it one you do the ride one way and then you do it backwards and go like the complete opposite way like but if you were standing like right in front of it, it looks like a bat. It looks like, physically it looked like a bat.

They called it the bat. I remember Skyrider was a stand-up roller coaster. You'd be standing up completely, and it would do a full loop, which was insane. Mike likes those, that's Riddler style. I like, yeah, Riddler's Revenge, yeah. Oh yeah, I remember that, when that first came out. I think I was here, because that was when Jim Carrey was the Riddler, right?

That was like the big thing. Those were the days. The Great Canadian Mind Buster, that was like, I believe, like a giant wooden roller coaster. And I remember this one. This was a great one. Top Gun, the ride. So the ride based off of, even before top gun maverick came out this was like

this is this is the real sequel to top yeah if i if i may say you got to go on the sequel yeah oh yeah uh but like it was the first roller coaster where your legs were like hanging like this and i remember people were freaking out because if you're a tall gentleman they actually did a thing a test where they put like a tall mannequin on the ride and i think like at some point in the ride like the leg had like gone off and it's like oh my god we have to make adjustments oh god we didn't compensate for for tall people so there are no tall are there no tall characters in top gun there were no well tom is short are they all is that the secret?

Well, Goose was a little tall, but we all know what happened to him. Tom doesn't let an actor be taller than him in a movie. Not at all. Not at all. Or else. Yeah, that's right. Kaput.

On the end of a questionable production value for attractions. You can imagine that phrase is taking me to Six Flags. Let's dive a little into the Six Flags because you mentioned you do frequent this place with your son. The Bugs Bunny world.

The kids area at Magic Mountain. You're fond of this place. It's as if the place was not touched from the 90s. The characters and everything that is part of the... Everything. Sun died, sun damaged, like nothing is different

in that place. And if there is, it might just be the entrance signs or the exit signs. But essentially everything is untouched. Pepe Le Pew is still there, even though he's somewhat of a character, again, that they like to sweep under the carpet. You don't sweep anything under the carpet when you don't have

the budget for new signs. Or brooms. What do you mean we've got to take that apart? That would require a wrench and a screwdriver. We do not have that, sir. Slag's corporation does not. You could take your politically incorrect

characters and shove them because we're not doing anything. I'm part of the local union 905. To that, this is not Magic Mountain, but I was looking up other Looney Tunes rides. This is Six Flags Great America. Yes. There is some attraction.

I don't know what type of attraction, but it's called Pepe Le Pew's Peak. I just don't like to hear the word peak. I don't want to think about any peak that Pepe Le Pew is. Oh, it's his widow's peak. It's just like you give him a haircut. That's the case. Fine.

It's a little barber shop for all the kids who want to get their hair done like Pepe Le Pew. That is the style. If you walk into any Supercuts, you can ask for the Pepe Le Pew's peak. Well, they tried. I mean, look, they tried roller coaster cuts, and it just didn't stand. Yeah, that's right. Six Flags did, briefly in malls, had a kid's haircut.

Kids don't like getting their hair cut. You know what we do? We put footage of roller coasters in front of them. Oh, my God. That'll be fine. This business will not fall apart in a matter of a year and a half. Six flags. Yeah, six flags roller coaster cuts.

We did an episode on our Patreon. That's insane. Yeah, yeah. Did not work. Didn't work. Did it spawn? I need a t-shirt of that. Oh, yeah, that should be in your collection for sure.

They had kids' parties and stuff there too, so I'm sure there were things like that out there. Yeah, a haircut, kids' haircut party. You know, you would have a party at the haircut. We all did it. We all did it. Guys, guys. It was the 90s.

Everyone in the fourth grade, attention, I got a party this Friday. Don't cut your hair. Just come to my party. Kids would show up to school on Monday and not half the class has their hair cut and everyone else would feel like shit. Yeah. Can you imagine being the only kid with the hair over the ears going, hey, where'd you guys go that you all got haircuts?

I wasn't invited to this haircut party. Lawnmower accident. You were all No, we're a lawnmower accident. You were all, yeah, all separate lawnmower accidents. Let's not talk about this anymore. Yeah. In terms of like, what I did, now for sure it is like a has not changed in forever kind of land, but I do, I haven't taken my son there but i'm tempted to just because like for

all the stuff that universal and disney have they don't really have just the little dopey land with all the kids with all the kids stuff is it nice in that uh from that perspective it is because you know like again well my son is turning seven uh. Last night we were at Super Nintendo World. We have Platinum Passes. We go, like, any time between three and six, if there's nothing to do with your super hyper kid, you take him to Universal, you run around, you grab a Simpsons donut, and you go home.

Whoa. Oh, Homer, those Simpsons donuts are full of cholesterol. But Marge, it has my face on it. Yeah. You do, though. You've been doing those, too. Oh, I've been doing all of them. They've just been listing the old names in the credits, and it's been you for years.

Yeah, it's just me. Dan Castellanet is not a real person. Oh, wow. That's an amalgamation. That's true. That's not a lie. He's another Simpsons character. No, Matt Groening created those people.

Yeah, I have much respect to that. Again, Krusty Land. That's another subject you could talk about forever. But yeah, having a kid, it's limited, right? You can't bring your kid onto every ride. Except for the fact that I brought him. And it took me three times to measure that he was tall enough to ride the mummy. He's turning seven, so he's a six-year-old, and I brought him on the mummy, and I'm like, this could be good or really bad.

He could probably burst out into tears, throw up all over everyone, freak out, die possibly. But we did it anyway. I took him on. And he wanted to go on it again. freak out, die, possibly. But we did it anyway, you know? I took a month. And he wanted to go on it again. And I'm like, daddy is cheap. He did not buy the ultra platinum, which allows you to go over and over again.

It's the one and done, and we have to go home now. And he was so pissed. He was like, fuck you, dad. You fucking asshole. No, he didn't say that. But he felt it. He didn't say it, but I felt it. Verbal abusive, son. But the Harry Potter roller coaster at Universal,

you can take your six-year-old on that. And I think that the Harry Potter ride, the half motion simulation, half roller coaster thing, which is terrifying, by the way, because it has those giant ghosts in there and the big spiders. Yes, they still get to me every time. I know exactly where they are. It's terrifying.

Yeah. The giant tree that looks like a two-headed penis. There is phallic arms for that tree, yeah. Yeah, I'm like, come on, guys. I don't need that. Come on. Just being punched by giant bendy penises. That's the weird nightmare you have.

Leave that in your nightmares. Harry, look out for the giant penis tree, Harry. Look out, don't use your magic indoors. It's Hans, it's Hans from Die Hard. Yeah. Oh yeah. Now I have a gun, ho ho ho. Shift the accent barely and then you got it.

And you got it. Oh, man. I'm just trying to think of details or if you've done some of this stuff. Oh, well, that was one question I had was that I was like, wait a minute. Has Eric ever done a voice in any of these shows? And then when you said, no, I don't think this place has changed in many decades, I'm like, yeah, you were probably not recording new VO for any stage shows at the Carrot Club Theater. Yeah, at that time, you know, I was just a kid.

But even now, they don't really have any of those in the theme park. And it makes me sad that they don't really have any of those in the theme park and it makes me sad that they don't excuse me um or that they don't have any like old ongoing announcements in the park where you could hear the character voices yeah um absolutely like there is actually a little area in that in in the you know the bugs bunny world bugs bunny and friends world or whatever it is where it is like i guess the equivalent of it's like the equivalent of american gladiators for children where it is like i guess the equivalent of it's like the equivalent of american gladiators for children where it's like you have like these like air-powered like funk like these like guns that fire like foam balls and and like a ball pit and it's like this whole obstacle course

one of those like indoor foam plate yeah yeah but again and it has slides it's like a jungle gym and it's a lot of fun for kids. And I'm always like two bottles of Purell at any given moment. I'm like, oh, God, he's going to get something, and I'm going to get something. But there's no voices in it. There's no characters on a cheesy speaker going, be very, very careful not to fall over there. Ha, ha, ha, ha careful not to fall over there.

You know, like there's none of that. Go to the Johnny Rockets. Any character of your choice, COVID protocols being scarily said by a Looney Tune over the loudspeaker. It would be porky, right? Because he could never get through it. And you'd be like, what? What? What do we do?

What do you have to do in case that you run into, oh boy, you know that thing that I said earlier? It's like, just say it! Just tell us what to do! Porky, can you just say the word coronavirus? That's all we need. We just need. COVID, coronavirus. We can chop the beginning right

we'll just use the okay right we got what we usable yeah let me now where you do see characters is in commercials and i just i wanted to like uh play a couple clips for you guys and get your thoughts on the merit the the uh jordan if you can play the clip, let's see, I think it's just called Magic Mountain Bugs World. You can sense like an evolution in these ads because the vibe of Six Flags changes over the years and where it started was like this very heartfelt, they're clearly going for Disney money,

which is not really the vibe of Six Flags anymore. Or ever. Let's look at this, Jordan. Grab a smile, take a ride. Bugs Bunny Walsh just inside. That's Mel. It is Mel? Yeah, Bugs sounds a little old in that clip.

Tag along, join the show. I say you're old enough to go. Magic Mountain was made just for you. Hold my hand. Hang on tight. Let yourself run free. Six months Magic Mountain. It's what the world should be.

It's what the world should be. You know. That really sounded like Bugs' grandfather in that clip, though. That was probably towards the end of his career and the end of his life. 89 was when he passed away. Was his last, am I wrong about this, was his last role Heathcliff? Do you know that? I think it was.

I think it was. It was Heathcliff. It was Heathcliff. Yeah. It was like, not Garfield. Right. Yeah, yeah. It was the other orange cat.

Garfield, but not. Yes. Yeah. Incredibly heartfelt, right? And then we start getting into the evolution of it. Jordan, the next clip is called Great America Bugs Birthday. If we have this. And this is something I'm curious if you've ever had to do as any of the characters, which is rap.

Can we play this clip? Hey, it's my birthday party at Great America. Oh, that's Jeff Bergman. Don't be late. Hey, my name is Bugs, and I'm here to say we're going to celebrate my birthday at Great America. We'll have a ball. So many rides, we'll ride them all. Make a splash, take a stand.

That new coaster's really grand. Great America! That's the gist of it. That's insane that you can tell it's a Jeff Bergman role. Wow, wow. So he was the first guy to do... To voice Bugs Bunny after Mel Blanc passed away. It was Jeff Bergman in his prime.

He was probably like late 20s, early 30s. Wow. And out the gate, one of the best voice matches, I think, in history. One of my heroes. And I've gotten to work with him even in the capacity where I'm voicing Bugs and he's voicing Elmer. Wow. Just a great guy. A super nice guy.

Super talented guy. And he actually voiced Bugs in Space Jam A New Legacy. I had just got cast as Bugs for Looney Tunes cartoons. But in Space Jam A New Legacy, speaking of rap, I was... Daffy? I say Foghorn Leghorn. Elma Fudd. Marvin the Martian.

And Porky. And for that, I had to do a rap, which was, when people hear the name Daffy, all they're thinking is duck. When they hear Algie, which is... Algie Riddell. Algie Riddell, we know. All they're thinking is yuck. I got LeBron and Bugs, so who should I fear?

The best tune squad in over 25 years? You want to be king of the web? Well, that's neat. Here you go. You can start by massaging my web? Well, that's neat. Here you go. You can start by massaging my web feet. Oh! Whoa!

And then Porky had to rap, and it was insane because when they asked me to do it, and it was funny because it was a gag that they actually were trying to throw it out, but the director, Malcolm, he really wanted it in, and they asked me to do this rap, because it just wasn't working. They had other people performing this rap, and it wasn't working, and I asked, I go, there's something wrong with how this is, you know, being from Toronto, you know, we all think we're Drake over there. So I was like, hey man, this isn't lining up, something's off a little and i like is the rap longer was it written to be longer and they're act they were like actually yes it was and they're like i'm like give me the full rap and then once you guys have that you'll be able to line it up or edit it down

to as however short you want it right but like but as of now i can't make this work if this isn't lining up. I'm sorry. Because my rap demands are so out of reach. And they gave me the full rap. We did it. And it got back into the film. And it was like the whole joke was that... Yeah, Porky was able to rap without stuttering. That's the only thing is that he... Oh, the only thing he can do.

Yeah, was rap without stuttering. That was the whole joke. he oh the only thing he can do yeah what is was rap without stuttering that was the whole joke and i'm trying to remember that rap and it was uh uh this is what this is a part of the job ever since the 90s if you're doing these voices you're you have to as soon as they've invented that shirt with taz and bugs wearing the jeans backwards yes like that doomed the characters forever that they have to be. There's a hip hop element to these characters that needs to exist. Were you excited when Taz shirts became like, like, cause you were probably wearing them when you were young.

Now it's had this whole, you know, who's still wearing them is, is Kyle. Oh yeah. I believe like I may have gifted him some modern stuff, but I think he just goes straight for the vintage. Like he loves the vintage.

He loves the vintage stuff. Great collection, absolutely. If you're looking to get Kyle a holiday present this year, make sure it is not modern. Make sure it is from, it has to say 1994 on it or something. And make sure Eric has not already purchased it on eBay. It's probably a good chance that I might have it. Demolish the feelings. You're in a feeling war.

It's probably a good chance that I might have it. Demolish the feeling war. Yeah, it's probably against you. Here's one more. In terms of, like, modern influences creeping into the characters, you know, there were a few I was thinking about playing, but I think the one I want to see, I'm going to give it away what it is, which is Hips Don't Lie. Oh, my God, no. This is, I don't think it's Magic Mountain.

I think it's another six. It might be Georgia, possibly. Can we see Hips Don't Lie. Oh my God. This is, I don't think it's Magic Mountain. I think it's another six. It might be Georgia, possibly. Can we see Hips Don't Lie, Jordan? The Shakira song? Oh no. Oh yeah. You make a rabbit want to speak Spanish. You make a rabbit want to speak Spanish.

People trying to figure out who it is, Sage. That might be Joe Lasky. One little line here at the end. Wait, what? Wait. You see you move like you do in the carrot patch. Oh, my God. Oh, okay.

Because the rabbits. Let me check on it. You'd remember if you did that one. Yeah. Let me see the way you move like we do in, I'm trying to fit some lyrics here uncomfortably that don't rhyme. I believe that was Joe Lasky. He was a standup comic as well as a standup comedian.

He was in a sitcom called Out of This World. He was the wacky. Yeah. He was the wacky next door neighbor that wore a loud shirt. That could be me right now. That's the sitcom part. But he was also the voice of Pl neighbor that wore a loud shirt. That could be me right now. That's your sitcom part. But he was also the voice of Plucky Duck in Tiny Toons. Oh, man.

Did you grow up with that, too? I think we're probably all big in Tiny Toons. And, yeah, he eventually voiced Daffy. And Bugs, talking about hips don't lie. And, yeah, that's the weird thing too is that I could do other people's bugs is so wait how does this work like that like impressions of other people doing right right oh so so talking about hip-hop Billy West the voice of bugs for Space Jam with Michael Jordan yeah on that

soundtrack there is a track on there called buggin'. Oh yes, I know Buggin'. You do, I do, I swear. And it is written by Sean Carter on the album, a.k.a. Jay-Z. He did not want to be credited as Jay-Z.

Using his God-given name on that one, yeah. Who does Bugs Bunny money? I'll give you some time to get more carrots every time I rhyme. Can a mouse write this? I swear to you I know Buggin. We used to listen to Buggin playing N64. Really? Yes.

Of course. Wow. Playing GoldenEye, blasting Buggin, eating Cheetos for dinner. That was the life. Wow, I haven't thought about Buggin in years. If you call me right now, it's my ringtone. No, it's not. Wait, so what's Billy West versus Joe Alaska,

or any of them in terms of how can you spot the differences? For whatever reason, when Billy did that voice, when he sang on Buggin', it just sounded to me the most like bugs anyone has ever gotten close to it. voice like when he sang on Buggin it just sounded to me the most like Bugs like anyone has ever gotten close to it it just within that song though for whatever reason I don't know what they did to it what they treated his voice but

but there was something so good about his performance in that in that song and then I don't know I feel like Bergman was the most accurate and came close to all the characters across the board. Like his Daffy is insanely good. His Yosemite is like amazing, you know, in his prime, out the gate, like right when he started.

And then Joe Alasky kind of had his own version of these characters. But again, what ties them all together for me. And then there was Greg Burson who did Bugs Bunny in the Super Bowl commercials before Space Jam. So there was a 1992, hey Jordan and hey Jordan. Oh yeah. It was the one that was like a bunch of jocks antagonizing Bugs. And then two years later they did it. It was so popular.

They got my money. I bought the shoes and the shirt. They made another Super Bowl commercial in 1994 where it was Bugs and Jordan versus Marvin the Martian because Marvin, of course, steals all the Air Jordans on Earth. He steals them all. And then two years after that is when Space Jam came out Which I think was too late I feel like it was two years too late Had it come out like literally

The year after I don't know Joe Pitka was the one who directed Those commercials And I thought did an amazing job You know Bringing those characters into the It wasn't H don't lie.

Yes. The way you move is a carapace. The choreographers of that show are the new Joe Pick. I'm telling you. The more relevance. Unfortunately, that will be burned into my memory forever. Thank you for that. Can I ask a quick general voice actor question?

Because I know you go very hard We like all these guys Like Thurl, Ravenscroft and stuff Do you have like your Who are your guys? Yes, yes That's the question We can finally ask that

I was going to say Like if it's not Mel Blanc Then for me it's Don Messick again He was like the voice of Papa Smurf Scooby-Doo I believe he did Scrappy-Doo as well Puppy power Hey Uncle Scoob Smurf, Scooby-Doo. I believe he did Scrappy-Doo as well. Oh, yeah. Puppy power.

Hey, Uncle Scoob. Like, it was just such a weird range of other, like, he was always the kid that, if Mel Blanc was, like, you know, the main character, he was the person that Mel Blanc was talking to, but he had such a nice, rich voice as well. He also voiced Hampton in Tiny Toons. Oh, yeah. Oh.

Oh, gee, Plucky. I don't think we could do that. We've got to talk to Buster and Babs first. Yeah, he was Hampton. And I actually voiced a character that he originated, Dr. Quest, on Johnny Quest. He was the scientist with the goatee and the bowl cut. Johnny, Haji, we have to stay close to race.

He's there to protect us. He was this guy, yes. A really white scientist, that's all he was. You're so great at those kind of stiff, smarmy, which seem like a world of difference from the Looney Tunes characters, but I guess Marvin kind of gets you into that area. smarmy like which seemed like a world of difference from the looney tunes characters but that's but i guess marvin kind of gets you yeah that weird like ethereal kind of like classic sounding

character and again like bringing it back to smash right like we did a lot of that yes you do the narration of the there was this casino knights thing was one of my favorite things in the show casino nights that but tiger tiger tiger was my favorite things in the show. Casino nights. Tygor. Tygor. Tygor was my favorite because it was basically just the send up of Lion-O. Yeah, yeah. From Thundercats, another booming kind of voice where you know those guys were drinking

and doing cocaine. All sorts of things you shouldn't be doing while on the job. He's like an animal adventurer kind of character. Okay, how about this yep all right whatever i'm afraid you're gonna throw a glass at me that it will have to be the voice but i'm also addicted to horse tranks yes that's my thing as tiger as if you're a half man you know half tiger uh hybrid you're you're gonna be doing some heavy stuff you would be if you never like uh it's not

so just look i love the i love the, you did great Kyle, did great. The last episode of the show has so much great, this casino nights thing that you narrated I loved. You do the voice of Tygor, but a live action Tygor in a scene that's meant to play as dramatic on the beach. That was the best footage. And Kyle and Skip is the worst, doing the worst acting, the best worst acting

you've ever seen. You made our dreams come true with that. I just and Skip is doing the worst acting, the best worst acting you've ever seen. You made our dreams come true with that. I just don't know how. I mean, I wish I were on set for it. If there was anything I was ever on set for, I wish, like, if I had seen that with my own eyes, seeing a guy in, like, a tiger mascot costume acting all. And it was, like, golden hour. Oh, yeah, perfectly.

Dave McCary directed the whole hell out of it. Overlooking the beach. Yeah, yeah. So beautiful. They built this incredible practice. It was like the turtles, our turtles dream of what they would have done

in those live action movies. Like immaculate suit built essentially only for him to say really stilted dialogue and not do stilted, even though the suit was capable of it.

Yeah. It's built just to do this hokey scene on the beach. It was perfect. And again, it's one of those things where you're like, man, if that ever had another season or another celebration of that show to do a live theme park version of all those oh yeah all those characters in the rides and stuff you know we would have gone into some theme park territory hips don't lie with those characters yes we could have well it's an alternate universe yeah that's

true right an alternate universe shakira sure alternate hips alternate body parts that also don't lie a lot of things don't lie sure can. Let me, I know you gotta go, Eric. There's just one more clip just as a fun little thing on the way out. And see if you can name the voices on this one. This is Daffy-centric.

I think Daffy carries this one pretty well. I just listened to it as birthday song. This is from Australia. This is a live show that they put all of in like a souvenir video

that you could buy. And I was pretty delighted by this. A souvenir video you could buy of Daffy's birthday. Well, of like everything you could do at the theme park, which talking about Warner Brothers stuff, this was this crazy, they had a Batman Returns dark ride, simulator ride that they filmed on the set.

Like the sets were still up and then they ran a camera through it. What? So it really does feel like being in a burden. It's the closest to a burden ride. Imagine the ride was you're having a close conversation with Danny DeVito as the penguin and all that purple mouth juice is splashing on your face. Yeah, the black blood.

He's on the verge of an orgasm and he's spewing black blood. That's basically it. That's the ride The Batman Returns experience What is it? And you put your face through this hole And it's Danny DeVito on the other side going I'm gonna be mayor

I'm gonna fuck the cat It's Oswald Oswald Cobblepot I'm doing my Sumner Redstone voice I don't have a lot of vocal range But I think those are two that are good to pair together. If you have a whole demo reel of just Sumner Redstone, I believe you got the part. I'm the only Sumner Redstone in the biz.

That's true. Although I figured out he's from Boston. Actually, the real voice, I need to get a little Boston in there. So that's my personal homework. Hold on. It's Hollywood calling. What's that? You got the part.

Yes. By even thinking about it at all, I'm the only Sumner out there. In the animated Sumner Redstone show that's coming soon. Little Sumner Adventures. Yeah, little Sumner Rising. Sumner babies. Sumner babies. Oh my god.

Oh, confusingly, Jordan, I'm sorry, this is another birthday song that's a rap. Oh, no, this is more rap. Do you have another birthday file? I could not have made this more confusing. It's a birthday song that you might know by a certain popular group. Each character has their own birthday song. Of course.

I say, it's me, Foghorn, and I'm here to say. It's still not this one. Oh, no. It's always a character, and they're here to say. Wait, still not this one. Oh, no. It's always a character and they're here to say. That is how a bunch of lame writers thought rap was for... My name is Tweety and I'm here to say.

For so many years, you have to say... Look, they were lit out of it. They were up to their eyes in horse tranks, you know? Yeah, right. Well, they were on tranks too. If I didn't send it,

do you also... Here's an alternate one. Do you have a clip called This is Where Bugs Lives? Okay, great. Let's do that one. Do you have a clip called This Is Where Bugs Lives? Okay, great. Let's do that one. Is this also enshrining the Six Flags, like, bugs advertising evolution? This you can tell is kind of late 90s, early 2000s.

They got to get a little hip. They got to, I don't want to say what it reminds me of. It's just, it's an odd song to me. The second house party movie with Kid N Play? Exactly. Those are the vibes I was getting. Oh my god. That ride is still there.

Yes. That's still there. I think the brand new everything looks nicer. That's still there. Bugs' house. If you go in there now, it's like being on the set of Seven. It's like, yeah, this is definitely a crime scene. And it's Bugs' house and there's like one sofa, like one seat, one fridge, and then there's like a hole

where like actual sunlight comes through. And I feel like you're in like, I'm just waiting for like Morgan Freeman to be like, don't open the box. Whatever you do, do not open the box. Fill the room with air freshener so they wouldn't be on to the bad smell. Yeah, yeah. Smells like dead rabbit in here.

I'll tell you, hips don't lie. I'm telling you, man. Go there now. Go there tomorrow. You'll probably see me there. You'll see. Weird little room. We'll have to do an episode on just the room. Why don't we do an episode where we go and film it?

That's the next possible. If there was a sequel to this episode, we go and film it yeah yeah that's the only thing that's the next possible if there was a sequel to this episode we might have to do that i mean of course with our phones and not tell anyone that we're doing that there but uh i think nobody would i yeah we could bring a camera crew i don't think they're not looking out to a 50 person shoot i think i think you could get away with recording an entire podcast in that little Bugs Bunny room. I think so. Maybe that's the way we have to do it.

That's the only way we can top this is doing it in his house. If there's room for four people in there. That I'm not sure about. If one of the employees kind of tries to figure out what's going on, we just go, hey, get out of here. And they go, all right. Hey, weren't you just vaping in here, kid? You can't do that. Slip him a 50. Slip him a 50.

Slip him a 50 or a vape cartridge. A vape cartridge. And then they'll be on their way. Live from Pepe Le Pew's Peak. It is the podcast. We can't record there, no. Eric, this has been an absolute blast. I'm thrilled to say, Eric Bazzi, you survived Podcast The Ride.

I would go again. In the words of my son, can we do this again? Oh, that's great. F you, Dad. I can't believe you're not letting me ride the mummy twice. Sorry, Ultra Platinum Podcast the Ride pass only. Sorry, being the voice of a Woody Woodpecker doesn't matter, son. Yeah, the insult to injury is that your son had to be mad

for the 15, 20-minute escalator ride back to the upper lot. It was hell. It was hell. It was hell. But, guys, thank you so much for having me on. I had a great time reminiscing and talking about frigging theme parks and rides and, again, how they predict the future sometimes,

like Tom Hanks. This is a magical garment. Thank you for bringing it. I hope some of the magic, I don't know, unfurls onto us somehow. Yeah. Or I lose it in this episode, and tomorrow they tell me I'm fired. I know. Remember that fame and fortune contract that you signed the other day?

It's gone. It's rescinded. It got rained on. Let's exit through the gift shop. Is there that you signed the other day? It's gone. It's rescinded. It got rained on. Let's exit through the gift shop. Is there anything you'd like to plug? Just my appearance on this show. That's it. This is what's happening right now.

Watch this show right now, goddammit. And if you just finished listening, send it to your friends. Oh, wow. That's a really good plug. That's not a plug that we do. That's thoughtful, and we should incorporate it. He could have plugged Bugs' house. He could have done it, but this is very nice.

That's what Canadians do. That's right. I appreciate that. The politeness and the sweetness, and I appreciate it. The only real way to end it is, that's all, folks. I was going to ask, and then you did. Oh, jeez. All right.

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