The Bobby Bones Show - FRI PT 2: Bobby Reveals Our Mystery Guest!

Episode Date: February 20, 2026

Bobby brought in a mystery guest today. No one on the show  knew who they were before they walked in. All he told them was they were going to lose their minds. And as expected,  the studio erupted in noise once they sat down in our studio. Find out who it is!!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Okay, this is very exciting. So Butch Hartman's about to come in. And I'm actually recording this after the interview, just so you guys know, so the setup. So Butch Hartman, as you'll know, created the fairly odd parents, Danny Phantom, a big animation guy. now has his own studio, you'll hear all about it. But Scoob and Steve came to me and was like, hey, do you want to have Butch Hartman on? And we have a little meeting after the show most days. And I was like, I don't know. And he goes, well, everybody on the show is trying to do voiceovers. And I was like, oh, that is perfect. So you were going to hear, and I thought it was super fun, super compelling. The entire interview now with Butch Hartman, who now has Butch Hartman

and he makes his own cartoons under his own company. But I think to all of us on the show, this was super fun. So here he is. And you can follow him. at Butch Hartman, but us, the show did not know who was coming in, by the way. And then lunchbox thought it was owes. He's already yelling, that's O's O's. You'll hear it. Okay. Butch Hartman, here we go.

We're about to have a guest to enter the studio. I think everybody's going to be like, what in the world? Let's go. I think everybody's going to get very excited. I don't think you'll recognize this person's face when he walks in. But when I tell you who it is and he sits down at the microphone, then I think everybody will sit up just a little bit taller and be on a little better behavior. Any guesses Amy?

Honestly, I'm stumped. I'm going to say I love this guest booking so much. But why do they not look like who we know them to be? Because you will not know them to be, no, they don't have a mask on. You will not know them to be this. It's about something that they've done. Okay, he's walking in now. He's walking in now.

Come on. Whoa! What is up? Lunchbox, there's no way. Let's go. Let's go. Great to see you. Let's go.

Do you know who that is? Let's go. Do you know who that is? I'm ready. Do you know who it is? I know who it is. Who? There's Oz.

What? O's. No. He's got his pin in paper, man. Do you have a microphone, Butch, by you anywhere? You don't talk about the guy you? I do. So, Butch, first of all, I'm so excited.

You have no idea the timeliness of you being here. This is the greatest gift that you were here today. Really? Yes. for a couple of reasons. Oh my gosh. We haven't told them who you are or what you do yet

because you're going to affect this room in such a way that they're going to explode. Okay, am I safe over here? You're safe. There's going to be no liquids. Now he's scared. Okay, so, everybody. This is Butch Hartman.

Butch Hartman is known for creating Nickelodeon classics like the fairly odd parents. But that's awesome. I got zero reaction. No, no. They're all trying to be cartoon voice actors, Butch.

No, I'm trying to take it in. Phantom. Oh! All right. So we're doing auditions? Wait, my cartoons. I love this.

Let's love this. Let's go. I told you. They're going to freak out, Butch. I have no one else to go. Can I have it? Yeah. Get behind the couch.

How are you doing? What do you need? Okay, so, Butch, first of all, it is a pleasure to me. Well, first of all, thanks for having me on. I'm grateful to be here.

Thanks, great to meet you too. Yes. They're all now going to start going, how can I impress Bush? So you just be ready for that. Okay. squeaking a squirrel here. Okay, see, they're going to start.

Super impressed already, by the way. Super impressed. I do. I do. Oh, thank you very much. My wife dressed me today. Oh, yeah, that has a good jacket. Thank you.

You created fairly odd parents? I created fairly odd parents back in 1997. That's how old I am. I know, that's how old I am. Yes, 1997. And it was just a little like a drawing. So actually, I brought you a gift, by the way. Oh, yes.

That's a drawing of Cosmo on a post-it. That's for you. I brought that for you. Look at this. So there you go. That's a little drawing, Cosmo. and I found a post it in the green room so I hope you don't mind if I took that

You just drew that right now? Yes, sir Yeah, sure. See, I don't even want to take this. I can repeat the process for all of you too. No, no, one of one. No, I'm just kidding. Fairly odd parents are hilarious, by the way.

Thank you, thank you. That it runs that long, like the only show that I can... It ran for 18 years on Nickelodeon. And it's still, I still see it. It's on all the time. Yeah, it still runs all the time. Do you still make new ones? No, we don't make new ones anymore.

But I made fairly odd parents. I did Danny Phantom at the same time. Danny Phantam's awesome too. That was my other one. And then I don't hear anybody cheering, by the way. Nobody's cheering for my show. Because they're already. I'm ready on the issue, man.

What's the next deal? Let's go. They did that. And did a show called Tough Puppy and one called Bunsen is a beast. So had a great time at Nickelodeon for 20 years. How did you start? Were you an artist? And you said, I have this idea and I've drawn this.

Well, I've been drawn since I was a little kid. And then I got into the industry. I'm from Michigan originally. And then I ended up going to California to go to school. Wanted to work for Disney. Never did. And then ended up finding. my way through the industry, worked for many years. And then they were basically, Nickelodeon

was pretty new in the 90s and they were looking for show ideas. And so I went in with this idea. I thought was kind of fun. A little boy with two fairy godparents at Grant his every wish, but they get it all the time. And they liked it. So I got to make one cartoon. And then after that, they loved that one so much. I got to make like three more, four more. So I had about 10 little short cartoons I made pretty much by myself. And then they focused tested them. You You guys have ever been in a focus test before? It's a terrifying thing where they put kids in a room to watch your show and you're behind a piece of glass and you can't go in. And the kids watch your show and they vote on it and luckily the kids like the show.

And so Nickelodeon picked it up as a series in March of 2001. That's when it first aired. Did you ever draw for other shows before you had your own shows? Yeah, multiple, multiple. I ended up doing, I worked at Hannah Barbera. I worked at Amblin productions. I worked all over the place as much as I could. and you had to learn all these different styles of show art

before you can make your own stuff. That is so cool. Now, they're cute. Let me give me some background on this show. Yes, yes. So they have all, in their own respective ways, auditioned for different, I would say, not voice over, but like voice actor roles.

You guys are in the vocal realm. Thank you. You guys do vocal things. That's right. That's right. You've all got microphones. I get it. For like 20 years.

They have microphones. That's true. You're in a room with microphones on a show. Yes. And what makes a good voice actor? Like, tell me. Talk to me. The best thing that makes a good voice actor is making a good choice.

If you come in with a choice that helps me make my day easier, that's going to make me happy. What do you mean by choice? Oh, Amy, if you know, you know, you're out. Let him answer the question. Go ahead, Bush. Thank you. For example, like if the character is like a beautiful young princess who is sad, that she's been turned into a frog, right?

You need to come in and show me how that princess would act. Now, would that princess be, would she just be a normal voice, or would you have a choice, meaning would you make an emotional choice there? Because you come in with some emotion, and you can be funny on top of it. Okay. I'll give you a line. I'll give you a line of dialogue. If you say, I can't believe the witch turned me into a frog,

but I shall rise again. I can't believe the witch turned me into a frog. but I I shall rise again not bad not bad at all she was too happy little slow

I just no no I didn't that wasn't sad it was hope I went let him react

everyone he's being nice don't tell him what he's being I saw his eyes it was sad to hopeful Butch go ahead I'm sorry please get

for you back first of all I thought that was fantastic audition I just threw it at you too and that was a terrible line I made up but you made it better

so that was really good it wasn't terrible let's try one more. Okay. I would say this. I would say this as a voice director. I'd say, let's have a little more energy.

Oh. That's what I thought to do. And I normally give line reads anyway, so I'll be like, I can't believe I could turn into a frog. But I, so right, make it really big. Okay. Let's really feel it.

I want you to outdo the guy with the bear on his shirt. Okay. Here we go. Ready? On a count of three. One, two, three. I can't believe I was turned into a frog. But again.

Oh, there. You feel the difference? Great job. Beautiful. I'm the only one clapping because you guys are all haters. It wasn't believable. I'm just waiting for my line. I'm ready.

It's really unbelievable. Butch, some more questions. Yes, sir, yes, sir. I would think that everyone thinks they could do cartoon VOs. Bobby Bones, you're exactly right. Everybody thinks they can. People can do funny voices, but it's got to have the acting behind it. And like I said, when you come in with a choice,

and by the way, thanks for doing that. I didn't me to put you on the spot. You did great. But people come in, if you can make my dad, day easier as a producer. Like if I can write to that voice you just did, I've had people come in, I wasn't expecting anything from them, and they did this great line read. And I went, wait, I can make that a permanent character in the show. You know, that character, we can write for that. Like the guy who played Mr. Crocker on Fairly Odd Parents, Mother F! You know, very godparents.

Carlos Racky came in, and I said he's just a crazy teacher. And he goes, if I combine Richard Dreyfus with Willy Wonka, and he made this incredible voice. And so we started writing that character into the show became one of the most iconic characters on the show. So a voice actor can pretty much make a living out of a character they create if they come in with a great choice, you know? What feedback would you give Amy overall for if she is auditioning for roles? I think Amy did a fantastic job. I think if you want to, you strike me as somebody who can do a lot of things.

Do you do comedy a lot? I know. I've taken improv, but. Oh, perfect, yeah. I would say the cool thing is about you got a great voice already and you're really confident and if you could maybe just meeting you for two seconds here always keep working on the comedy and see if you can make that even stronger and get those improv skills even more more honed because like I just threw that line at you and you did great but even being like being insane like

this guy over here you know can sometimes help being yes yes yeah but you did great though you did great so the guy here in the blue shirt just auditioned for a role hey buddy how's it go man Eddie tell How much about the role you auditioned for? Yes, I auditioned for, it's like a spin-off of My Little Pony, basically, and they wanted a dad, who was one of the horses. It's a horse dad. It's a horse dad. And almost like a too-carrying dad.

Like, it's a very worrisome dad about his kids. And 40s to 50s, and I was like, that's me. So they gave me some lines. I send them whatever, you know, they asked for. I haven't heard anything back, but it's been a couple weeks. Would you like to run them by Butch? Sure, the lines? Yeah.

Do you got the lines right here? Let me pull them up. And it's a horse. Now are we supposed to be going for comedy here? Is this supposed to be really sincere? What did they ask you for? They said that the horse is just worried about his kids at all times. Got it.

So. I can see some comedy in that. Little over little neurotic. Okay, okay, okay. I say a little neurotic. Don't give him tips. He already lunchbox. You're not Butch's boss.

He's not the boss of me. No, he's not the boss. Do you live in L.A.? I do live in L.A. Do you start a new studio? I did start a new studio. And so now what is that? mean for you? Are you now creating and have everybody under you? Creating a whole bunch of brand new

stuff and I got some brand new shows. We have one that's on Angel Studios right now. It's a cartoon called the Garden Cartoon that teaches kids the Bible, which is real exciting. So you guys can see that on Angel Studios. But I got, I left Nickelodeon in 2018 to do my own stuff. So we have a whole bunch of new IP coming out pretty soon. When you say Angel Studios, how do we find that? It's on the Angel Studios platform. Angel Studios, they were best known for the chosen. So we can download the app. Download the app, download the platform. They're one of the biggest out there in the family market. It's really, really fun.

Because there's a lot of platforms out there right now that have some family-friendly stuff in them, but Angel is pretty much 100% family-friendly. So, like, no surprises. Pretty much. For the kids. No surprises, yeah. Well, my goal is to make sure your kids have a safe place to go, but an entertaining place to go to.

That's what I'm trying to do. All right, Eddie, are we ready with your audition? I got the line. Okay. One line? Yes. So the kid is leaving and they're about to... The horse kid is leaving the horse house.

Correct. And the dad is worried about that. Horse dad's worried. Yes. So here's my performance. Okay. Is there a drum roll or something we could play? There for sure is, right?

Would you mind hitting? Some kind of a drum room room? Yeah. So what about your royal duties? I feel like you're going to leave and just forget all about us. Not bad at all. Not bad at all. Okay.

So was he sad, happy, or what was he? You know, well, that's a good question. I think he sounded neurotic. He sounded neurotic. He sounded up. perplexed. Yeah, perplexed. Like I did not want her to leave.

I would say there was nuance to it. Yeah. I like that too. I'd probably have to hear a couple more lines to get a feel for this horse character. Does he have a name? His name is Nightlight. Nightlight. Nightlight.

I love that. Are there more lines, Eddie? Yeah, I have to listen to the audio because all I have is my real. Hey, like you said, why don't you just improv? Yeah, improv. I'll give you a line. Okay, I'll buy about your role duties. Like, how about you can't leave?

All the plants are going to die. Say that. Love it. Well, you can't leave. I mean, all the plants are going to die. Bigger, make it bigger. Come on. You can't leave.

The plants, they're all going to die. I put a few tears in there like Bill Murray would do. You can't leave. I mean, the plants, they're all going to die. See, there we go. Now we're getting this. That's really good, man. He's got energy, though.

I love. Yeah, yeah. Good job. I'm surrounded by talent. Good job, Eddie. I'm very scary. I think you're creating talent. I may be in Angel Studios.

I'm so saying. No, but it's funny. If you can create a great character, with that voice like that. I mean, think about SpongeBob. Oh, my gosh, Mr. Crabs. You know, if you could do a voice like that and just really make that character come to life,

that's something that you can really build on for decades if you can really, really nail it. So that's quite a liable. Do you feel like with Angel Studios and the content you're creating that kids now need more of that type of content, like safe, clean content? Here's what I think.

I think, you know, look, I'm a Christian guy and I don't ever want anyone to think I'm trying to, you know, make sure you're a Christian or anything. But I do stuff where I want to make sure that at the end of the, the day I feel good about what I put out there. There's a ton of kids that won't ever go into a church,

but they're all going to have a phone to look at. And, you know, who's putting stuff on that screen? So I'm going to make sure at least I can put a healthy option on the screen and something that's uplifting for kids and families. Because as a parent, I have two daughters. They're grown up now. But now I have a granddaughter. So what is she going to watch, right?

Hopefully the princess show and horset. I think Horse Dad becomes a series. Nightlight. And we just call it, no, Horse Dad. It's a funny of your title. The Princess and the Horse Dad. Who wouldn't watch that? I would watch that.

Lunchbox. Man, what is up? Bullish, let's go! Dude, how's it going? I'm right. I've got my ticket to L.A. and Angel Studios. Oh my gosh.

Here we go. I don't need to audition. I'll just move there with you. I should draw a horse dad, by the way, while we're sitting here. All right. Who's your character? No, no, listen, man, I'm open,

I'm an open book. Whatever you need me to do, I can adapt. See, them, they are a pigeonholed. Like, he's like, I have one character. I can come in. They didn't say they had one character. They literally were just doing a character. They just off the cuff.

was a princess turned into a frog. Yeah, you did great. So, yeah, I mean, what do you want? You want angry dad? What do you want me to be? Oh, angry sounds fitting. I think just going by who you are already. I would never want to pull you down because that energy is great.

I think you're like a tiger that's a gym coach. That's what I think. You're like, all right, everybody, today it's dodgeball. Okay. You're like, we're playing dodge ball. You know what to give me the line. You just tell me the concept. I add lit.

You're a tiger gym coach and you're announcing it's dodgeball and you're picking teams. Yeah. Here we go. Ready? one, two, three. Ro! Oh, hello, little Jimmy and Sally and Susie.

Guess what today is? It's Dodgeball! Jimmy, you're over there. Boys versus girls. You know why? Boys rule and girls drool. Whoa. That's amazing.

That's amazing. No one's funny. I applaud this man. They're haters. They're haters. They're hate. That was epic. See, I could draw that character in two,

That's great. See? I gave him something to work with. To be fair, you did create the character that you're drawn. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He did come up. The tiger gym coach. Can you see the tiger gym coach, though?

I for sure can see a tiger gym coach. I saw a horse dead. No, no, no, stop. Don't concentrate on them. Let's focus on me now. Yeah. Well, I can focus on all three of you. I thought all three of you guys did a great job.

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What are you doing national? We're at the NRB convention, a national religious broadcasters convention. I'm announcing Butch Hartman Studios there. And so we're... Oh, this is a whole new, like, everybody, I'm doing it. Oh, yeah, we have a huge booth and everything. It's massive. We're announcing eight new shows, yes.

You're in luck. I think we're all Christians here. We are. We are. We are. I'm a big Catholic. I love to stop by the booth. You want to come by?

You have to genuflect before you come in. You got to get it. Matthew Markle, Luke John. Exactly. Yeah. Recite your favorite scripture before you come in. Do you feel, do you feel there's a changing aesthetic in animation that you, I have to lead and change that aesthetic or do you like see what other people are drawing and then

try to chase that at times? You know, it's interesting. I think the, what's going on in animation right now, I think, I think parents want to feel like they can put the phone in front of their kids and just walk away and take a breather for a minute. There's so many things out there that are negative right now that's unfortunate. So I think really parents are looking for a great place to put their kids. Kids are looking for something entertaining that doesn't feel like it's too boring or that

their mom and dad are making them watch. I mean, I just want to create great characters that kids can fall in love with and want to watch again over and over and over again. And that's my job. I did it for 20 years of Nickelodeon. We're doing it with our new studio now, and I'm having a blast doing it.

But I do think that we as the filmmakers have to really be responsible what we put on that screen. That's my advice. Where'd you grow up? Michigan. And so you moved to L.A. and was the dream to be an artist?

Yeah, I moved to L.A. This is back in the 80s now prior to the Internet. So I had to, like, you know, fill out an envelope and put my portfolio in an envelope and sent it to Cal Arts. I went to Cal Arts in Valencia. And that was the only school in the country

that was teaching animation at the time. And so I went out there in the 80s and kind of never looked back. I just loved California, stayed out there. I always wanted to work for Disney, but I never did. End up going to the TV.

Did you ever get on a game show? Good question. Because he tried to get on a game show and they didn't put him on. How you doing, Butch? I can't play. You've got a career now. Tiger Jimgo!

Tiger Jimgo! I was on two game shows. That's so funny as you would have. Yeah, I was on two game shows, yeah, and I won actually $17,000. You want, what shows? I don't have it with me, guys. Calm down. I spent it already.

I spent the money. No, I was on two games shows. One was called Body Language, where I had to act out charades and, like, guess clues. The other one was called the Match Game, Hollywood Squares Hour. They took these two games shows and combined them together. But I was in LA for like two weeks and got on that game show and won like two grand on that game show. I was 18 years old. What advice, because he went and spent a week off the show.

Yeah. Trying to get on Price is right. You let him do that? I did because he just wants to do it. But they never put him on. The energy you had didn't put you on? Yeah, it was a bad one, man. I don't know what happened.

I felt like maybe the first day I went a little too over the top. Yeah. And was just talking to everybody. It was up in everybody's business. And like, so then I kind of tried to calm it. I tried to go for Valentine's Day, but I didn't have a couple. So they wouldn't let me on then. And then so the third day, I tried to be a little more calm and reserved.

That didn't work either. That's a great story. Who didn't love that story? Did you guys love that story? It was a great storyline for... Fantastic. That's a great cartoon story right there. I think they want like housewives, though, and things like that on prices, right?

Maybe. Yeah. Maybe. I could be wrong. I don't produce it. But I think your energy's great. Maybe they were just looking for different energy that day. Yeah, it was just a bad day, man.

Do you even know any prices? If I threw things up here, would you even be able to guess price? You could? I'm great at everything. Really? Yeah. I thought, okay, well. He's graded everything.

I should have known. I can tell you how much your jacket is or your shoes or your watch because it looks all expensive, but if it's cheap, I know what it is. Like a carton of milk, he knows. Yeah. Wow. What's carton amount? Like 525.

I have no idea to even know if that's right. I should say gallon. We'll get a carton of milk in here. We'll see. The garden cartoon. Yes, sir. Tell me about that. Garden cartoon, thank you for asking.

When I first up Nickelodeon, I've been developing this cartoon for years, but I knew Nickelodeon would never make it, only because they would never make a Christian cartoon. I had a great time in Nickelodeon, but they just weren't into making that kind of stuff. So I was developing this stuff, this cartoon, the garden cartoon for years, and ended up making it on my own.

It's about a little lion named Lenny, a little lamb named Lucy, and they live and work in a miraculous garden. And every day God comes down as a rainbow and gives them an assignment, and they have to do it. And through a song or a scripture, they learn how to do it,

but they normally don't do it as well as they should. So they have a great time learning. The show is funny first. I wanted to make it funny. It's basically fairly odd parents with scripture in it. I wanted to make it funny and make it like something that kids could be entertained by first before they got a lesson out of it. So I think it's great. It's on Angel Studios now.

We've got 20-half hours we made and it's just been a blast to make. You work with her wife? I work with my wife, Julianne, who is the love of my life. 34 years I've been married. And so what is her role? She is my number one, my main motivator in life. And she also handles all the money. So be nice to my wife.

She handles all the money. Got it. She's the one, okay? How cool would it be to play God? Anybody that says that, be afraid of them. Just generally speaking. Generally speaking, I'm afraid of people to say that. Someone runs into you at a party.

So what do you do for a living? I'm on the garden cartoon. Yeah, I'm the voice of God. I mean, how cool is that sound? You can be God's brother. I'm, yeah, like Jerry. God's brother Jerry, who's here. Jerry's better than ride.

Yeah, God and Ride. I'll be there, man. Yeah, you'd be great as a voice on that. I think all of you guys would do. We could have the horse guy. I like it. You could have the princess, of course. The girl who plays Lucy the lamb is a lot like you.

She has a really nice, feminine voice. She's very fucking. Yeah, she's so cute. You like the lamb? Yeah. I like Lucy's a lamb. It's a great show. It's all over the place, and we had a great time making it.

But that's one of those things where I had to not just learn how to do that. I already knew how to make the show, but then distributing the show, getting it out in the world. I had to learn all that stuff because when you have your own studio, you got to buy all the supplies and hire all the people. people and all that stuff. So I've been really elevated to a different level, which I think God's really shown favor in my life in that way, because I've had to learn a lot. Did you do any of the voices on Fairly Odd Parents? I did one doctor. He's the fairy doctor. His name was Dr. Rip Studwell. And Dr. Rip Studwell is a handsome fairy doctor who also plays one on TV. And so he would come in

and he would do, he would be like, well, this is terrible. What's wrong, Dr. Rip Studwell? My headshots came out horrible, you know, that type of thing. So he's not really focused on the mission at hand. Whenever you have a show that is picked up by a network, do they order four episodes, 10 episodes, and when does it go from? This is something that we are going to really settle in with, and this is going to be a show for a long time.

It really depends on the audience. Depends if the audience wants to watch it anymore. You know, back in the day at Nickelodeon, we were getting a thing called ratings. You guys know what ratings are, obviously. You're in radio. So we would get ratings every week. And like, let's say back in the day,

a good rating was a five. Fairly odd parents was getting like tens and elevens back then. So Nickelodeon's like, yeah, we need to keep picking this show up. And there were times where we would beat SpongeBob in the ratings and stuff like that. I mean, SpongeBob's an awesome show. But we would sometimes beat it in the ratings. So they knew they had a hit on their hands, which was really cool. I'm assuming you're still getting paid handsomely because they're still running it.

I don't know about the word handsomely, but yeah, we do get paid. Yeah, we do get paid for sure. No, we definitely get paid for sure. But that's one of the things, too. I mean, you get to create a show. You get to get paid to do it. It's a wonderful thing. You do get residuals.

You do get things in the future that add up, which is really, really great. That's why people come to Hollywood. They want to, you know, that's a very lucrative reward if you can make it work. But, like, it takes a long. I always tell people, like, selling a show is, like, throwing a dart through a donut, but the donuts on a merry-go-round. It's all just got to line up perfectly. But you've got to keep throwing and you got to keep trying,

because if you don't keep trying, you're never going to make it happen in the first place. In Hollywood, do you sometimes not say what you do, because you know people are then always going to try to impress you by doing what they think you want them to do to get a job? I mean like if I walk into a room and people start doing voices for me like that. Precisely that kind of thing. That would never happen.

That would know. Who would ever do that? No, sometimes I actually like telling people what I do because nobody expects it. It's like, what do you do? I'm a lawyer. What do you do? I work in medicine. What do you do?

I draw cartoons. Everyone goes, what? What do you mean you draw cartoons? Tell me more. And I say, I do the fairly operants. And they go, what? You got to be. So it's always kind of fun to spring that out of it, which is good.

And I get recognized at a lot of Starbucks, too, which is very interesting because that that age range, that Gen Z millennial age range is people that kind of grew up with my show so I have a lot of Starbucks coffee cups with my pictures drawn on them they'll draw the characters for me That's so cool Okay everybody can ask one final question

to Butch I know you're all sitting here Do we have any questions for that? Yes I have 100 so I'm going to give them one Go ahead Amy go first Well have you ever had a fish character Or do you have a fish character coming up Because something that I said Well even on the radio

15 20 years ago was I always wanted to be the voice of a fish. I don't know why. You don't know why? I have no idea. It's just something that has come out from time to time. So sort of like it's just like... Could it be your Christian faith?

Oh yeah, fish. Yeah, like, you know, growing up, my mom had the fish magnet on her car. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Yes, of course. So I don't know. It's just one of those things where you look back and it's like, oh, wow, I kind of manifested that because it happened. Like I always said I wanted to be in a Hallmark Christmas movie.

And then I landed a role on a Christmas movie on a Christmas movie on H.O. Max. Thank you. My big scene was in the bathroom. That's amazing. Wow. Wow. I thought he would say something like that. Well, no. It was with the main character. I know. I agree. I thought I would have that too. The bathroom scene for sure. The director said this is a pivotal moment. This was like it was when the main character like shifted because of my scene. So, you know, that was my moment there. But that happened. So I sort of set it on air. And then things just started to happen. It took years. I did have a fish character on fairly odd appearance because the fairies would turn into fish when they were in Timmy's bed. room, they were fairies, but then when the parents would come in, they would disguise themselves

as fish and be in a fish bowl. So I guess the characters would turn into fish, yeah. Did you have a fish character in mind, Amy? It was really, I just, it could be any kind of fish. And it's sort of just something, I've even said casually and passing. Like Dory from, like, like, Finding Nemo kind of fish? Oh, I loved Finding Nemo. See you right there. Great movie. So anyway, if you, if you have a fish character. You'd like to audition for it? Yeah. I would love the opportunity to audition if a fish. Yeah, right to sound fish. Yeah, right. Write it down. Or where's the post-it? I can give you my... Yeah, I'm going to write down. Fish carrot.

You got it. He wrote it down. I can see you. Here's a line real quick. And you say, laugh. I want you to give me a laugh and say, oh, the bubbles tickle. Ready? One, two, three. Great, that go.

The bubbles tickle. Boom. That's good. That's good. That's good. That's good. Wow. Beautiful job.

I want to catch you. That was so good. Wow. I love that. Yeah, just throw me back, though. Eddie. Okay. So, Butch, this is a real question.

I'm not trying to, like. I don't believe you, Eddie. I don't believe it at all. True, true question. Okay. How does someone audition for you? Like, is there open casting calls? And then how many do you get?

Do you get like thousands of people? And how do you swift through all that? No, you as a voice actor have to create a what's known as a reel, a sample version of all your voices, about a two-minute reel. And then that gets taken to an agent, and that agent puts it into a file. And then when the casting call comes through, the agent sees it. And they will then look at your reel. And then they'll decide whether or not you're good enough for the role. So out of the thousand that try, they'll sift it down to about 10, and I'll get those 10.

And then I'll pick one out of the 10. It's a very, very competitive field. Wow. Have you ever hired someone and then halfway through the production being like, it's just not going to work? Yeah, today, as a matter of fact, this morning, I was going to hire you, but I have to switch. I'm sorry, I have to change. No, I'm kidding. That's tough.

No, no, no, I'm kidding. No, I have many times, if you hire somebody think they're great, and for some reason, the day of the recording, it just doesn't work out. for some reason. There's been celebrities I've worked with where you go, oh, got this great celebrity voice coming in, and then for some reason they get behind the mic. And it's really weird when they're not in front of a camera. Being in front of a camera is different than being behind a mic. And so it's just different for them.

And so sometimes they just don't bring it. And you have to kind of, you let them do it. And then you kind of change them up at the end. So, yeah, we've had that. Sadly, we've had to do that sometimes. Lunchbox, your final question. Yeah, Butch. Nice meeting you.

Thanks for coming, man. I just want to say, just let me jot down your number and your email so we can skip through all the agents and all that. Yes. Now that we know each other, you kind of know what I have. We know each other really well now. Exactly. So if you could just shoot me over your email and your phone number.

And that way you have lines. You want me to, you know, test out, drop them to me and I'll send them back. My email is don't email me at Bochharman.com. Yeah. I've emailed that one myself. He gave that to me in a past time. Yeah. Yeah.

Wait, in the reel, how many voices you say they send a reel with all their voices? Like, what's the ideal amount? Whatever your range is. If you can do five voices, you can do 10, just make sure it's. sounds like, I always say write a scene where like five people are talking to each other and do that scene. All the different voices. All the different characters.

You're basically Eddie Murphy in, uh, Dr. Doolittle. Always by all the characters. Doc Doolittle or in a nutty professor. That's better. Yeah, yeah. But you can do whatever voices you can do. Let's hear it because it's going to really, it's going to depend on whether I go, oh, that's really cool.

I could use that, you know. And also it's connections to who you know. Sometimes you know you now, so that's what I'm saying. Right. That's it. I'll give you my really. email later on. I want to go to Mike D

Mike D is our animation expert here. Mike, you have a question. Oh, really? Okay, good. Yeah, I was a part of that demographic. Millennial watched that show all the time. Did you ever get a note of like you were maybe making a character turned into something like the fairy-allied-odd parents and Nicolini was like,

man, you can't do that. We never. Well, the fairies could turn into things on the show, as you know. And we never got a note on that, but we did want to do a show once where we wrote a script. Timmy wanted to know where babies come from. And so we wrote this whole episode

of they go to the stork factory up in the clouds, right? And so we had all these storks, these different babies, conveyor belts, and all this. It was a really funny story. And I said, you can't do that story. We can't do where the babies come from.

And I said, why not? We do all these other things. So there was one story we couldn't do. But other than that, changing into things, we kept it pretty clean mostly. You know, we kind of knew where our line was. I mean, because we were working in kids TV.

So we knew we couldn't do all stuff, let's say, like a Rick and Morty episode or like a, you know, like a South Park episode. We couldn't go there with that kind of humor. But we have a lot of jokes that kids like your age now go, I get all those jokes I didn't get when I was a kid. You know, the adults get them now.

So it was pretty fun doing that. Oh, sorry, go ahead. Oh, I'm not like these guys. I don't want to get into voice acting, but I love drawing. Like during the show, I'll make like little doodles over here. Like, what is your advice is if they make a reel? Like, what do you do as an animator?

Same thing. You have a portfolio. And let me see what you can do. Let me see your drawings. Let me see your cartoon stuff. Let me see your realistic stuff. your life drawing stuff, because if I'm going to hire you as an artist, you've got to be able to draw my stuff. Like I said, remember I said about making your life easier?

You know, you need to make my life easier. Like, you know, what's your name? Mike? Mike. Mike, I say, can Mike draw this. Can Mike do this? Okay, oh, Mike, give that to Mike. Mike can do that.

That's the kind of guy I want to hire, you know? I want to hire Mike as Mike can draw that. But if Mike draws it and messes it up and then Butch has to draw it, it's like, why is Mike here? What is Mike doing here? Good point. That type of. This means drawing, by the way, when I do this. Yeah, so.

The Garden cartoon streaming on Angel Studios And I guess I have Apple TV and Roku I can just get it You get it there And we just signed an exclusive season two deal With Angel as well for Garden So that's going on there as well We have two movies out too

So a Christmas movie just came by And we had one last summer too So Garden's doing really well We're real excited about it Before you came in I would not tell them Who was coming in And I said it is a secret guest Because I knew that it would be an eruption

Like this Yeah We would have been more prepared I didn't want them to be prepared Because they just want to yell You guys did great. You guys, and I am always looking for voice actors too, so keep it. Rest assured, I will remember all of this.

Believe me. But you noted. You especially, I'll remember. I don't know why. I don't know why I remember him. I was the best. Let me tell you, though, somebody that's not going to make your life easy is that dude right there. Butch, if I give it, because I'm, this is really cool.

So thank you for drawing this. I'm going to keep this. I'm going to value this. You're welcome. Would you draw one of those from Mike when you're done? Because Mike is such a big fan. And so before you get out of here. What character do you want, Mike?

I love Timmy. Timmy. Okay, I'll draw it while we talk if I can do this at the same time. So keep asking questions. I'll do a little promo for you while you do that. You guys can follow Butch at Butch Hartman and go to the Butch Hartman Studios. And again, as we talked about,

the garden cartoon streaming on Angel Studios. I'm all over TikTok and Instagram and all that stuff too, so follow me. For an old guy, not too bad, getting a few followers here and there. So thanks for young people for letting me on your social medias. Is it still Butch Hartman on TikTok?

Do you have the name? Just Butch Hartman. on TikTok. Yeah. All right, there he is. Really amazing. He's drawing a little Timmy from Mike. He's got 2.4 million followers on TikTok.

Dang. Wow, that's a lot. So 2.4 and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 6 more. We're adding 6 more, right, today? Oh, man. What did you see over there? I'm just looking at the followers.

That's impressive. 2.3 more than you, huh? No, it's like 2.4 more than me. That's your little. Where's the camera? Here's the camera. There you go. Can you come get this?

All right, but I hope you like it. Butch, this has been a thrill for me and exciting for all of us. So thank you so much for the time. Hey, it's an honor to be here. I'm really grateful to be on, guys. Thank you. Good luck with the new venture. And, you know, if they all show up with your booth later today, don't be surprised.

I would love you guys to come by. We went all out in this booth. It's really cool. It's very big. All the shows are on display. It's really cool. So it's over at the Gaylord Hotel. Have you been to this hotel?

Yeah, it's more like a city. It's a city. It's like an amusement park city greenhouse. It's massive. It's huge. There is. Speaking of Jurassic Park, I think there's things roaming around in there.

I'm not really sure. There's a huge jungle in there. It's crazy. It fits. It does. The opera's over there. I know. The grandel opera is.

It's massive. I know. There is. The great. Butch Hartman, everybody. Thank you, nice. You guys.

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