The Harland Highway - NEW HARLAND HIGHWAY #38 - ERIC BAUZA Cartoon voice actor, BUGS BUNNY

Episode Date: December 27, 2022

One of the top voice actors in the biz. Eric does the voices of BUGS BUNNY, TWEETY BIRD, AND DUFFY DUCK just to name a few. We discuss his journey and the voice actor world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, everybody. Welcome to episode 37 of the Harland Highway podcast. We have a great guest today. Eric Bouser, one of the best voiceover cartoon voice guys in the industry. We're going to have an incredible stimulating conversation with him. And it's going to be great. And just so you know, he's from Canada. I'm from Canada. And at the top of the interview, we got so excited talking about Canada. and Canadian stuff that we talked for like 20 minutes about all this goofy, crazy inside story Canada material. And I realized having that at the top of the podcast would probably have a lot of you going, what the hell are they talking about? So what I did is I moved it to the back end of the podcast and some bonus material.

So if you're Canadian or you want to learn more about Canada and some of our customs and our pop culture, culture stuff. It's a really fun conversation, and you'll find that on the back end of the podcast. And also, just before we get going here, I want to remind you guys about my book that I've written, a collection of short stories called Journeys, available now at Amazon.com. And then the book that I wrote before Journeys is called Crave full of Zombies and crazy stories another collection of short stories and my book before that called don't look under the

bad another collection of weird wild twilight zoneish short stories so just type in the name of any book on amazon dot com don't look under the bad crave or journeys and you can order your books on Kindle, digital, or you can get a hard copy like these here. So I hope you enjoy my short stories. The latest one is Journeys. And now let's go on a journey right down the Harland Highway, episode 37. Hope you enjoy. Thank you for all your comments.

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Now we're recording All right, do we have to do a handsley, a clap Do you want to do one? No one's ever done one, I'd love it if you did one This is it, this is Harlan Highway Episode 433, special guest, Eric Bousa Boom. And then my job is to hit the theme music. Paul Schaefer's down there? Yeah, a little baldy.

Paul! We got a little baldy down there. The only time I ever saw Paul Schaefer in public, he was getting out of a car. This was at Paramount Pictures. Yeah. Followed by Dan Aykroyd. Oh, yeah. So Dan Aykroyd, Paul Schaefer, and then Dave Thomas from SCTV. Three Canadians.

Yeah. Just walking out of the same car together. What? And I was like... Wait. Where was this? Paramount Pictures. Oh, okay. I thought, for some reason, I thought it was like at the Glendale Gallery or something.

And I'm like, what are they doing? This was at the Americana by the fountain. Yeah. They were having a Hagenas. The Haganas and swapping shoplifting prizes. Yeah. Well, buddy, welcome to the Harland Highway podcast. This is it.

Isn't that a sweet logo? This is it. I finally made it. Where most Canadians come and they're, and that's it. They come. They come. Yeah. It's, oh, God.

Do you want to slate the end of the show now? Yeah. Can you ruin my career? We're here to talk about children's cartoons and I already. Already. That's what happens, Harlan, when I see you, I gave 18 and up. It becomes filthy. It's weird because you do a little bit of stand-up comedy, too.

But before we get into that, you've done it because we've done it together. You forced me. We've done it together. But this is Eric Bousa, and he is one of the premier voice. actors around. Well, I mean, kudos to you, man. Well, thank you. You went into a very unique line of work, like, which is, again, another similar that

we have animation. Can we talk about your journey, like how you broke into the voice? Because before we go into it, I want to tell people, you know, a lot of people, and you probably know this, a lot of people, oh, I want to get into voice acting. It's so easy. You just got to, you know, you just show up and, you know, you just got to do a voice. and what people don't know, we know, but the voice over the voice acting world in Los Angeles where it's the prime people, it is such a tightly knit, cleaky group. It's almost like a club.

It's almost like trying to get into a club and it's not easy. So that's why I'm fascinated. I want to hear how you kind of broke into this really condensed, tough world. It is true. Yeah. If you, if you, and it's true to this day. even though we are trying to shake things up in, even in animation, diversity and ethnicity and authentic casting, you know, which is great. But like, you know, it's voiceover. When I started, it was not about what you look like. And cut to now, we're going to go right to the top of the pecking tree.

You're the voice of Bugs Bunny. That's right, Holland. Some may say that I do the voice of this famous rabbit. I don't know how that happened. and how a Filipino Canadian from Scabarro is now the voice of this rabbit. And let's not forget Daffy. Everyone, oh, brother, everyone wants to talk about that rabbit. No one wants to talk about me, the real star of Looney Tunes.

Woo-hoo! Daffy, Doc. Yeah, Daffy. Now you'll, you'll, like, this is soiled forever. No, it's beautiful. Yeah, I don't know. It was the Bugs Bunny and Tweety show on Global. Yeah.

Global, which is one of our Canadian network. Oh, is that where you started doing it? I started like as old as I was enough to watch TV. I was fixated on Looney Tunes. Oh, I see. I think a lot of people grow up on either the Disney side of the fence or the Warner Brothers side of the fence. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And for me, it was Flintstones, Jetsons, and Bugs Bunny. Wow. That's pretty much all I watched, like, growing up. And, and yeah, for whatever reason, like, you know, I was so obsessed that I would record on VHS these cartoons and kind of like pause and like look at the drawings and and draw the characters. Oh yeah, because you draw as well. Yeah, you're a pretty great artist. But I would listen to. I mean, like getting like no one beats like Mel Blank at at performing voiceover because he did so many of those different personalities and you know, I mean,

he was talking to himself as one thing. Yeah. But like the energy and and now no Like, I mean, he was doing these cartoons in the 40s. Yeah. So he was probably wearing like a four-piece wool suit. Yeah, right. Smoking unfiltered cigarettes inside at Warner Brothers, uh, asbestos in the ceiling. Oh, God.

No air conditioning. Yeah, what's up? Doc. Possibly drinking. That's where Doc came from. He is he needed a doctor half the time. Yeah, yeah, he was probably a poor guy, but, but look, you know, 80 years later, we're still talking about these characters, like we know them like our grandparents.

It's amazing. Yeah, but that must have been, I mean, that's such an iconic character in pop culture. Yeah. So tell me about the day, you've probably been asked this a million times, but since I've never asked you, not by you. Tell me about the process, the auditioning process, or did you just get offered bugs on you? Did you have to go in against some of these, like I said, there's a very tight circle of prime voice artists in this town. And even more specific when it comes to these. legacy characters right because not everyone can do them yeah some people get close and then the ones that

do hit the at least within the bull's eye they they kind of hang on you know yeah there was a guy named joe alaski right did he do it for a while he did stand-up comedy with him back in the day yep he was a fabulous impressionist yeah he was great he was he was around for a long time yeah and um sweating like a pig under a oh do you need you need some ice you need a can i get you a waffle or some A lobster or something? I feel like a piece of KFC. How about a carrot? Would you want a carrot, bugs?

You got a carrot on ice? That would be great, Doc. No, but, yeah, we, oh, that'll get me right in the back in the zone. I was like, where was I? Yeah, where, tell me about the audition, like, from when you go in the door and who's sitting in the lobby? And do you remember going up against other big actors? I ended up booking Marvin. Only Marvin.

Okay. It was like 2011, Marvin the Martian. And I was thrilled. I was like, fine. I don't even care. Even if he's one episode. Marvin the Martian Earth creature, he was one of my favorites. In the original run of Looney Tunes, he only had about four or five different animated shorts versus Bugs and Defu had hundreds, right, in 40 years.

And he had that weird, kind of that voice that went way back in here. I'm retiring in Harlan. You're taking over. No, no. I'm just saying it's such a weird specific for a thing. Yes. But I feel like of all the melblank voices. Yeah.

Marvin is like a good way to like slide into the melblank like universe. Oh really? Why? Because I think it's very, you know, a lot of people, you know, when they do that, it's close to Kermit, you know, like a froggy, a froggy type voice in the bat, like a clogged. Oh, yeah, yeah, Kermit defragged here. Exactly. You just changed the inflection and you're suddenly Kermit from Marvin.

I don't know if you guys. know this, but Harlan's a bit of a vocal genius. He's kind of amazing. Okay, so we go Marvin the Martian. So Marvin for almost over 10 years now, for sure. But I only ever got to audition for Bugs and or Daffy. It had been another decade that had passed before they rebooted the show again. So you walk in the building, like, what's the audition process for you?

Just an email. and, you know, read at home. Okay. I think the first character that I had booked outside of Marvin now at this point was Daffy. And they really wanted to do like the new Warner Brothers animation logo, but with Daffy Duck jumping all around it. Okay.

And it was the crazy Daffy, not like. Yeah, the hyper. Not the sarcastic Chuck Jones, Richard Dreyfif, Daffy, as I like to call him. Right. Richard Dreyfif. You have sharks. There are sharks all over your shirt.

Are you scared, Daffy? I am terrified. I am not going to be a hot meal. Mayor Vaughn, what we're dealing with here is a perfect eating machine. Yeah, that's it. Imagine Richard Daffy and Jaws. That would be so funny. Are you eating this?

Red wine, you have to let that breathe. Oh, well. Yeah. The tooth of the thighs of a shot. Yeah. Imagine Quint as Daffy? Oh, my God. I'll catch your shark.

Have them stuffed. Yeah, all the lines. We got to look up some of the lines from that movie. But yeah, I did the Daffy the, the, who-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo. You know, I did that. Sounds like Tigger. Yeah, like a Tigger that's not on crystal math.

Like he's a little bit milder than Tigger. because Tigger is who-hoo-hoo-hoo for whatever he was. Imagine those two making love in a Motel 6, Daffy and Tigger going at it. Oh, my God. I mean, I've never imagined it, but I know you have. And we're doing it right now on the show. Their children would be like slinkies to just be popping through the roof. But they both have the same color scheme, orange and black.

Yeah, that's true. You know, so I don't think it would be a bad thing. Yeah, be good. So we got, we got, now we got dad. Daffy and then who came up behind Daffy? Bugs. Bugs and then Tweety. Because they were, again, looking for, you know,

they really wanted to revamp how these characters, back to the drawing board, like, Daffy was the still crazy one. Tweety's always just been an innocent troublemaker. Yeah. Like, I think Tweedy's actually, Tweetie actually just turned 80 years old. Yeah. I bet you only taught I was two and a half.

Oh, oh, dutty. Oh, that bad old putty tat. I'm going to eat that bird if it's the last thing I do. I'm starved. God. Yeah, that's the so much. I just want to jump over this table and hug you. It's like, she's so cute.

A little Tweety bird. And it's funny because. God, I want to hug you. I want to squeeze you, Tweety. Pretty. Oh, oh, and maybe after we stop lowing, you know, we cut film. But it's funny because that voice is kind of almost in the, same, I call it the house of Mel Blank, and some characters live in the attic, like,

if you talk like Tweety and you lose the baby talk and you start talking with a New York accent, it becomes Bugs Bunny Doc, and you kind of drop it down. And also, Tweedy was also pitched up, sped up. Oh, really? Yeah. They tweaked it. They did. Oh, interesting. They did. Mel Blank can do anything, but like just in order to separate voices and maybe just add to the fact that he's like a tiny baby bird. It's like, I don't. I'm already doing a self-pitch when I do Tweedy into sessions. Ooh, Duany, I taught I taught a putty tag. I did.

I did tear putty tag. Now they pitched that up even further. Really? Oh, yeah. But that sounded perfect to me. Right. But I think just to give it that even, like that almost inhuman sound that only like a bird could make. And then bugs, they kind of leave alone.

I do kind of like my own normal kind of range. It's just a little bit more nasal and you kind of push it to. to the front of your nose and your teeth. And that's it, Doc. That's it, Doc. I can't do it. No. You can do, like, Bugs' Dad.

Yeah, I can be Bung's Dad, Doc. No, not even close. Actually, Pop, I saw the truck out front. We're going to go to the farm to Bulk Bonn and get a lot of candy. Yeah, and I'm going to leave you there, you loser. Get a job, you're hairy freak. I'm going to feed you to a leopard yak. Right.

That's it. That's basically the plot of any Looney Tune Chute. short. I got to be honest, I was a guy, even as a kid, I enjoyed watching the animation like a few times, but I ended up really not liking the Warner Brothers cartoons because it was always the same. It was the coyote dropping an anvil on the roadrunner. It was Elmore's shooting bugs and bugs somehow living. It was Daffy and Tweedy and it was always, they were always just trying to kill each other and none of them ever died. Right.

And they always came back and I just, when I've seen this movie before. You know, it's weird about that again. It's because they were made to be shown, they never thought that this would be a show. Over and over again. Yeah, I see. So there was, if you watch the Looney Tunes over and over again in those years, you could tell that you're meeting Elmer for the first time every time you started short. And which is why he goes, shh, be very, very quiet. I'm Hot and Wabit.

And that's why you probably went, I'm going, I'm going to Mooney Tunes watching this over and over again because it's the same story. Because they are always made to reintroduce you to these characters. I get it. Like you've never seen it before. Because it was only meant for a little teaser

at the beginning of a movie. Right. And in that sense, too, you may have been, if you were in the 40s, I'm going to go get some popcorn and a soda. And you might not have even seen that short. Yeah.

You get back. in the movie starts or the newsreel still happening. But even then, with the amount of cartoons they did play in front of movies, like, I guess I'm not trying to admonish these creators from back then, but come on, it's the same beat that Coyote always failing to kill the Roadrunner. But you know what? Even though he's got nuclear bombs and machine guns and bulldozers and dynamite. We're doing a movie.

It'll be out next year. They've announced it, but it's called Acme, Coyote v. Acme. Okay. Where the Coyote sues the Acme Corporation for years of failed products. That's good. And now you're moving the storyline along. So Will Forte is representing the coyote. John Cena is the rep from Acme.

Oh, good. And it's great. I got to say, I think it's going to be a good one. And I think both adults and kids will be very into it. Okay. Wait, I got to know, though, because you're avoiding the question for some reason. What is that exact process where you, you're getting Bugs Bunny? Do you walk in a room and audition?

Do you, you said something about an email? What is the process where you went and got it for you? Like most actors in, in this town, and across America, any actor, you get the email, and this is the call. It's like, Warner Brothers, Bugs Bunny, Looney Tunes. Right. They give you the exact description of what they want. Again, a throwback to the early 40s. Yeah.

Bugs, he's kind of a bit of a wise ass and not like the sarcastic bugs or the half-litted cool bugs. Yeah. He's kind of like, of course you realize this means war. You know, that bugs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, the real like, I was just reading a book here, Doc, and all of a sudden you ruined my day, Holland. A hawk tried to kill me out there. But, yeah.

Yeah, it was that bugs. And I decided in my audition, when I was recording it from home, by the way, I think this was like... This is what I'm trying to get to. Why are you avoiding? Where were you? How did you do... I'm trying to make mine a two-parter. No, how did you do the audition, damn you?

I did the audition. I read the lines, but I had a walk-in closet at home. Okay. And I was getting there. What I had with me, though. I know. So evasive. I'm getting suspicious.

I asked you eight times. I had to moiter someone. I've asked you eight times. How did you audition? Now you're in your closet. Your Honor. God. So I had it out, man.

I had a bowl of carrots with me. I had baby carrots with me. And I munched on the carrots throughout the entire. Oh, you did? Yeah. Oh, that's so smart. Yeah.

What a great way to help you like find it, right? I nearly died in the process. Right. I was like, what I didn't know about this was Mel Blank did not like carrots. He did not like the taste of carrots. The rumor may have been that he was allergic, but I don't, I don't think that's true. I just don't think he liked carrots. He used to chew on the carrot, make the noise, spit it out in a bucket, and then continue with the episode.

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You're in your closet. You record. You press record on what? You've got your own home unit. I got the little setup. The microphone, not too dissimilar from this. In fact,

this sounds better than what I have at home. This gets the grit. This gets the grit of the voice doc. Yeah. The unfiltered. So you lock it in. You record it. I send it in.

Send it in where? I send it to the agent. They send it to Warner's via email. Yep. So it's a digital file, which is what I'm trying to get to with you. They call those the MP3 kids. Thank you.

It's like via Napster or Limewire, those illegal software. So now you've got a little digital download of you doing it. They send it to Warner Brothers. They send it to Warner Brothers. They get it. They listen and they're a, you're a, you're a, you're a, you got the part. Yeah. So they, they tell me I'm Bugs Bunny now.

Wait, how long did you have to wait? Like, were you sitting on the edge of your seat? It was probably like a couple weeks. Oh, really? Yeah. It wasn't like right away. It wasn't right away, and, you know, they have to go through the process. They have to go through the channels and what they have to do.

And, you know, they have to make sure it's right. Did you know of any other top voice people in Hollywood here who was going, who was up for it to? Or were you privy to any of that? Well, you know, Jeff Bridges. I heard Jeff Bridges was like, I'm going to get Bugs Bunny Man. I'm going to read for this part, you know. And, you know, if I get this part, it's, you know, bigger than that. the dude man you know jeff bridges uh Morgan freeman was also up for uh for bugs

that's right really i'm gonna read for bugs bunny i'm gonna get it and then either get busy chew or get busy dying andy duffrain will be a thing of the power i will no longer have to say that name andy duffrain i could say what's up doc uh yeah that's you know and then donald trump i heard he was you know these canadians they come over the wall And we're going to build a wall around Canada called Putin. That's their favorite food. It's French fries, gravies, and cheese. I can have Putin in my mouth all day.

But these guys, you know, these snowbacks, they come from Canada. Some of them are polite, Holland Williams, some of them are polite, I assume. But they'll stab you in the back, and they'll have anchor babies. They'll stay here. A wall made of curds and gravy. Oh, I would live in the shadow of that wall. But I get the call, and I also auditioned for Tweety. They said I got that one.

At the same time? It was the same like kind of general time. Bugs, Daffy, and Tweety were the main ones that they called me in for. And they said, hey, we think you're going to voice these characters. Well, you're just like over the moon. I mean, these aren't regular. These are iconic characters. These are pop culture icon.

Again, characters that I grew up watching and characters that like, you know, I have all this paraphernalia and hats and junk in my house of these characters. And I would have that in my house, even if I weren't the voice of those characters. So what was your reaction when your agent said, your bug's bunny cut to your, you do what? I went,

woo, woohoo, I was doing the daffy. I was bouncing in my alley. Just bouncing all over the, really? Were you just like a static? It was they called me back right when I was about to get into some crystal

meth anyways. Oh wow. No, I'm just kidding. That's what I thought would be appropriate for the occasion. No, I was just, you know,

like any other day, just working, looking after my kid or whatever. And they said, yeah, this is, you're going to do it. And what was your feeling? What was your, how'd you feel inside? You know, much like now, it took me eight, 45 minutes to tell you one answer to.

Yeah, you're really meandering, but I'm, I'm learning how to wrangle you in. I'm learning to really reeling you in here, guy. That's so cool. Congratulations. That's amazing. I appreciate it. And again, you were, I met you at a time in my career where I was just really just trying to figure things out. And I met Harland.

At the same time, I also met, really got to meet Adam Ray. Oh, yeah, Adam Ray's a great comedian. And Adam, yeah, he's my buddy. We're at the Laugh Factory in Long Beach. Yeah. And he went, hey, you're funny. You're a funny guy. You're from Ontario.

Hey, pound the potato. Yeah. And I went, hey, nice to meet you. And you just said, give me a potato. It's harvest season. That's my little saying. One of my favorite things that you say. Oh, is that it?

They're a potato. Yeah. It's parvo season. So you have that just on hand? Well, I got one for both of us. I mean, you know, why have one when you can have two? I told you it's harvest season. You are the closest thing to a cartoon, like a living cartoon character.

And not many people I know would be able to pull two potatoes out of nowhere. Oh, they didn't come out of nowhere. Oh, God. You're looking right at the camera. Oh, man. Well, yeah. So we met at the Laugh Factory down in Long Beach. And I wanted to make this connection because it was funny because you're like,

I used to like Looney Tunes, but I would watch it over and over again and be like, oh, I've seen this one before. Yeah. You are a master at joke telling because that's what stand-up comedy is. It's you carve out your material. You have your set. And much like a singer, people, fans of yours, will come see you even if they've seen you before because they want to hear that same joke or that same thing.

thing, but I've seen you do two sets back to back, both at the laugh factory and at the improv. Yeah. Almost the same material, but it was the, there were different sets. Like, I don't know how you, it's like you, Adam, people like Carlos Selle's Rocky, another like voice actor stand-up comic,

that I've seen do sets that I'm like, I just literally saw you perform like 30 minutes ago and now it's a new audience. Yeah. And I think that's what it is. It's like, you just have different people to play with, but it's, it's amazing what you as a stand-up can do. It's, it's something that I will never be able to get my, I'm happy with my free bottle of water and my four-hour Bugs Bunny

session. Stand-up comedy is a completely insane and different, like, I know, but I saw you do it one night. You got up and actually did it one night. I did. Down at the, the Long Beach laugh factor, I was there. And you did good, man. It was cool. Yeah. Thanks. And you know what my phobia and my fear is that I didn't want to be like, and most people who do voices in stand-up make a great living out of it. Yeah. I just didn't want, I just felt like, oh, I'm, I'm, I felt like I was cheating or something. I felt like, I don't want to use this as like my superpower here where I, you know, where I make a living in voice over. I felt like I don't want to be, I didn't want to, I felt like cheap doing it there because I'm in the presence of people like you and Adam. No, no, it's good.

What you have is a unique talent and a unique gift. And each comedian, has their own uniqueness. So never, never be ashamed to use your, your unique gift. But, but the, the, um, the whole, um, the whole voiceover world is full of like really quirky. Oh, yeah. Odd. People don't know this, but very odd, quirky, like individuals.

Yeah, there, there, there's a quirky collection of people and you're like, they're weird. What I, I know when I've, I've done in and I've been lucky, I didn't really have to make my way into the voiceover world because I have a bit of a unique voice. Yes. And so I just got a lot of offers to do stuff.

But I also at that point you've already been in like you know half big and dumb and dumber and superstar and you've done a bunch of movies. Yeah, lots of movies and stuff. Yeah, but I mean you as a voiceover performer like I've seen your work on your own show.

Yeah. Your own show. Yeah. Not many people that I know can say, like the stand-up comic that have done everything from like rated G or PG movies to rated our movies that have a children show on Disney. That's right. That's right. It's kind of an amazing thing to say.

Did you do a voice because we've had so many people? So I have a show called Puppy Dog Pals that I created. It's on Disney, uh, Junior. Junior. It's a proper Disney. Like there are some shows that make it the Disney, but then they get, they put on the side channels. You're like, you have been on for what, five?

We're in our fifth season. Yeah. Which is undesern. of in almost kids animation, adult animation, not many shows make it to that season five. Yeah, and did you ever do a voice on puppy dog pals? I'm sure I have. At this point for me, too, I certainly hope so. Have me on as the character that gets the show canceled. Yeah, yeah. Have me on as the stereotypical. Drunk Bugs Bunny somehow wanders onto puppy dog pals.

You know what I think of you too? Yeah. Puppy dog pals. I tell you. It's like, censored already, you know, censored, put that blur on his mouth so you don't know what he's saying. But it's a funny cast of people because I know when I've been in the booth, sometimes you do shows where the studio wants the whole cast member, ensemble cast. Which I don't really love, I find it, I find that they go, it'll be great chemistry, it'll be great. And what I find is if there's 12 characters and you're one of them and you have to wait for, if you're following the script in a chronological order, you're waiting for everyone to do their lines, you kind of lose your energy, you lose your focus.

I used to love it when they'd say, hey, we need you to come in because the other cast members get, so just come in alone today. And I'd knock out your lines. I'd knock out a whole script in 24 minutes. Yeah. And it's just one line after the other. And I'm, I did a show for Nickelodeon called Robot Monster. Yes. Where I played Monster. And he was kind of talked like, you know, kind of like, And I would just like plow through it. And it was so nice when I got to do that. But but a lot of the voice actors around, they're really kind of quirky. And what happens is they all kind of start competing with each other in the room doing goofy voices. It seems like all of them have an ethnic voice. All of them have a Captain Kirk. They all have to do like Captain Kirk voice.

They got to do it. And it's just it's like it's sometimes it's so hard to concentrate. I had I had times when I just wanted to turn around and go, would you guys shut the fuck up? Like, I can't even think you've got all these people who do voices and it's cartoons. It's ADD. Cartoon ADD. They have, you know, they have to do it and they have to

we've all been guilty of it, but I love you. I love you because you're so funny. You're just a straight shooter so I know exactly. I have a feeling I didn't even have to, when we stop rolling, I'll probably just see names of people. Like, because I've been in that room too. Yeah, right, right.

I've, but for me, I'm like, oh, my God. Like, I grew up watching, like, half of those people. Yeah, yeah. You know, so, and I've learned so much from them. And they're all so talented, but, oh, my God, they get in there, and they're like a bunch of kids. They can't, they kind of all want to one up each other with a goofy voice. So they all do an Australian voice.

And then all of a sudden, someone's doing a, and they're all kind of out, and then someone want to do an ethnic voice. And it's like, they're all kind of doing, and it's like, it's like, guys, trying to work here. it's amusing to a point and then it's like shot the fuck off all the people in the world you are the one harland williams is the one that can't take it and needs to be the straight man in the situation well i don't need to be the straight man because my comedy goes into the material but i'm there i'm focused i want to put all that energy into my read and i like it to a point but there's been times when i've just like stop there's actually one actor that i've worked with that is much

like yourself where he's very humble and very like, you know, there's two actually. So Frank Welker is one of them. And then the other one would be Corey Burton where they're kind of just like, they just sit there and they mind their own business. If they feel the need to chime in and do like a funny noise or something that adds to the, you know. But they're usually the ones that are,

and they've been at it for a very, very long time. But when they open their mouth, it's like the gates of heaven, like Frank Welker doing Scooby's voice or Fred's voice from Scooby. Like, you. Like, you're just like, oh, man. Like, do you want to hear something that'll make you jealous? Yeah. Yeah, I do.

All the time. I did two episodes of Scooby-Doo. I went in as a guest voice. Okay. And the first time I went in was when all the original castors are including Casey Kaysom. No. So I got to sit there and watch Casey Kaysam go, zoinks, do shit. Like he did the voice of Shaggy. And you know how that was one of the, he'd go.

soinks. And I was like, oh my God, I just saw Casey Kasem say sooints. Yeah, that's, that's never going to happen again. Speaking of Shaggy, so we talked earlier about our friend Matt Danner, who does voices. He does the voice of Kermit on Muppet Babies. That's correct. He's hilarious. He's so talented, but people also don't know Matt Danner when Casey Kaysam was sort of starting to get sick. Yeah. Matt would come in and do Shaggy's voice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And me and Matt would go out for dinner. We'd go for sushi. And he did Shaggy so good. And that was my cartoon. You know, I said I hated the Warner Brothers stuff? No offense to you. It's fine. Hannah Barbarra was the next door neighbor of Warner Brothers. Yeah. Mine was, I liked Scooby-Doo. Because I like ghosts. I like,

I like scary stuff. I like every episode was its own story. You didn't know, you had to figure out the ending. So, so I loved it, you know. And so when Danner told me that he was doing the voice of Shaggy, One night, we went out for sushi. This is a story that, like, he tells, like... Does he tell it, too? Oh, yeah, of course. It's the funniest story, because I was a bit of a tyrant. We went out to dinner and we're drinking sake.

And I said about halfway through the meal, I said, we're getting a little buzzed. And I said, Matt, for the rest of the night, you have to talk like Shaggy. And, of course, like he started talking like Shaggy. And so all of a sudden some hot girls came in And I went, I said, hey, girls, come on. And I said, hey, I'm Harland and this is Shag. He's like, like, how are you doing, girls? You know, it was just, he stayed in character.

And then after we went out, after the sushi, we went out to a nightclub. Oh, no. And you continued? We continued. And who do we see at the nightclub, Paris Hilton? Paris Hilton, who I had just shot an episode of Vegas with. So we were, now we were kind of like buddies. Yeah.

I walk up, hey, Paris. This is my buddy, she's like, like, how are you doing? You know, and it was just like, oh, it was, and he was talking to Paris Hilton as shaggy. And she was just like, what is going on? It was the funnest night. It was, yeah, no, it is still something that resonates and echoes in, in Matt's memory. And I wish I were there. I wish I were there.

He's so good at it. We actually did a pilot together for a live, a live, yeah, like a live action. Scooby. But they were puppets. Oh, my God. Why aren't you doing that? I mean, you're doing the voice now. How come you're,

you should be? I don't know. It's the laugh. It's the laugh. It's like a trombone. It's like a xylophone. Like, why aren't I doing Scooby? I think the,

the world needs a Harlan, like where a Harlan pitch Scooby where you're both Shaggy and Scooby. Like, I think I can do both, Scoop. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Wow.

It's the ketchup chips. What's the hardest gig? Because I've got a story for my hardest gig, but what's the hardest voice you've ever had to do for? I mean, it would definitely be bugs. I think it's bugs only because everyone knows that voice. But physically,

is it the love like, what's something that really was like? Because sometimes you get a character and it's like, oh, God. You leave the session and you feel like your throat bleeding. It's a session that, like, video. any video game. Oh, video games,

and not a lot of people know this, and like hats off to the people that book them regularly and make it seem like it's nothing. Yeah. But you get there, and they do not give you the script ahead of time. Yeah.

There is a giant phone book that's sitting on the stand, and you're like, what is that? That's my script. And you are like, okay, your character is an orc from middle earth, and you fall off one step.

Okay, now you've got to go up that flight of stairs. Fall down the flight of stairs. And this is like you're two minutes in. They make you, that's what I hate when you go into a voice session and at the beginning in the session, they have you do all the screaming and the grunting and the yelling. And you're like, guys, I got to do three scripts here today. Let's do all this at the end.

But they tear your throat up at the beginning. My very first animated voiceover gig It was just offered to me Called Ned's Newt Yeah, oh my God, Ned's Newt That was a Canadian I love that show And it was basically about a little boy

Who bought a Newt at a pet shop And it basically became Aladdin From the Aladdin movie Like remember when Robin Williams Just like every third line was a different voice He was Groucho March I did that You were the guy, you were the newt

I was Newt And I had to every third line. I had to be a girl. I had to be Alfred Hitchcock. I had to be an old British lady. I had to be an opera singer. Was that on YTV? Or was that? It was that tree house. It was on Fox down here. It was. Yeah. But I watched it in Canada. Dude, it was my first thing. And we would do like six scripts a day. And I had to do 50 voices a day. It was brutal. I think we got to do a Ned's new clothing line. We got to bring that back on a t-shirt. How about Ned's new tracheotomy line?

How about that? Holy God. Triminical DM, which is the Canadian cop syrup. Yeah, right. Trimical or Buckley's mixture. It was brutal, dude. It just, and one thing that's cool about doing voice, too, is we get to work with a lot of big, like, celebrities.

Who's a top celebrity that really was fun for you to be working with? So, not many people know. I'm the voice match for Puss and Boots, Antonio Banderas, right? So, when he is too busy being Antonio, they call me. I am Puss and Boots for them. It's sometimes. It's so cool because you nail these voices. And it's whoever does them, whether it's you, whether it's a Filipino guy, a white guy, a black guy, it's so unassuming.

You never, whenever you meet the person that does the voice, you're like, wait, that guy's doing the, or that girl's doing the voice. It's so, it's such a beautiful art form. Well, thanks. I think the key, I think, especially with Antonio, specifically for me, is, okay, work on the accent, get that authenticity down. If he approves, because he has to hear it too, right? He's the one that's actually, when he knows he can't. He has to hear who's coming in.

Yeah. He'll approve it. But for me, it's less the accent and more the unpredictability. Okay. Because he's like, if you've seen him or heard that voice, do yourself a favor. Just type in Antonio Banderas, Puss and Boots, Behind the scenes. And there's two videos up now, the one from the original movie and the one that is about to be released this Christmas.

And it's him in the booth, basically just going down a page of catchphrases. And he's reading it like us in a voice session. He's reading it ABC takes, you know, say it again, do it like this. And he's just having fun. But I will tell you, you will not even guess where he goes up and he goes down very quietly. But then he goes really wild. And I'm like, that's the stuff that if I'm doing it for the writers and they're laughing, that's how I know I'm doing a good job.

Yeah. If they're kind of like, we'll say it like this. If I'm doing it in a way, they didn't even think it should be said that way. But that's how I feel when I watch him doing that part. It's like my mom has an accent and my parents. They're from the Philippines. They try to sound as white as possible when they're in Toronto. Okay.

Whenever I come back to Toronto. Oh, could I have a Joe Lewis, please? Yeah. Just like that. Dad? Are you here? Dad? Are you my dad?

No, it's, it's, you go, Eric, you have to go visit your grandmother in the cemetery. Not the cemetery, but the cemetery. It's wherever they put the inflection, and that's the unpredictability of, like, watching Antonio and, like, doing his performance and having a great time doing it, too. He loves. You could tell that this guy loves doing voiceover. I think that's the key to doing great voice over those. I think it's the same with acting.

You get in there and you kind of, you see what's on the page, but you make it your own, you add all this spice, you add all these weird inflections, you even throw an improv line or a word in there, and you really just make it your own. I equate that to your comedy and then your movies,

because I always, when I'm feeling sad, I always go to YouTube and I type in Harlan Williams, butterstuff, butternets. How long did that take? Like, what was that? Oh, the half-bake scenes? Yes, that scene with the horse. So the scene with the horse and half-baked, it was really interesting because basically the cop and me are standing on the street corner.

I kill the diabetic police horse with feeding it all my munchies, pizza, popcorn, everything. And it was basically supposed to be the, the, the, the, the, horse falls over and I go oh no buttercup yeah and that that was it and the cop goes you idiot the horse is a diabetic you're under arrest you murdered a police officer and and so I was like you know this guy stoned yeah so he's you know he's on a munchy's run so he's probably not going to get everything right and he's going to be oversensitive and he's going to he's going to screw up the name because he's never met this horse butter nuts or whatever. So I just kept saying the name wrong.

He goes, you, you killed butter stuff or whatever. And I just, except saying butter nuts and butter buns and butterball. And I just kept going. And it was really cool because the cop in the scene with me, he just went with it. I guess he had an improv background. Sure. And so it was supposed to be like two lines turned out to be like seven or eight lines. Right.

It was a great. It's one of my favorite scenes. And I watched that thing. and I laugh at it like I'm still watching it for the first time. You want to hear an interesting story about that scene? So when I was a kid, I would go up and down on Saturday and Friday night. Me and my buddies would walk up and down a place called Young Street, which was like the Strip and Toronto where all the neon was and the major street.

Yeah, the Pimball parlors and the pizza parlors and the record stores. That's where young kids would go. Sam the Record Man was on there. Sam the Record Man used to be there. And there was a place called Pizza Parlorers. pizza right across from Sam the record man right across the street we would go in there and eat pizza slices

when we were in high school cut to 20 years later that's where we shot the buttercup scene I remember that... Right there at the pizza place. I remember the outside of that pizza place and it's also I believe where they may have shot a scene in Scott Pilgrim. Scott Pilgrim versus

Oh yeah yeah yeah that's right because that was shot in Toronto oh yeah so all these love letter how did you feel it like Were you like just flipping out like this? It blew my mind because my best friend from high school who I used to hang out in that pizza parlor, I always say to my friends, if you could have panned 15 feet to the right, my best friend from high school was sitting in my actor chair. Oh, you're kidding.

Off scene watching me. And it was one of the only scenes too where I've ever done. I've done a lot of movies, but this was one of the only scenes where because we're on that busy, busy street, they had to block off traffic. but the people were still allowed, so everyone was lined up in front of Sam's. We had a huge crowd. Really? And every time I did the butter stuff scene, people at the end would clap and laugh.

They loved it. And I'm like, this is great. It was like doing live theater in the middle of the street. But it was a movie. And it was so fun. Toronto Elizabethan Theater. It was the, that's amazing. It was so, it was surreal to be back, you know, knowing I used to walk those streets when I was 14.

I wonder what I'll do with my life. I wonder what will become of me. And I kind of knew I wanted to be in the entertainment industry. And I thought, you know, I used to go, am I going to be in movies? Am I going to do comedy? And then there I was right in my stomping grounds. It was crazy. I was going to say, at that age, were you already doing stand-up?

14? No, but I was already in my head. I used to skip school. And I'd go downtown and watch movies by myself. And I'd sit in the theater alone and watch me. And I'd just go, I'm going to be up there. there one day. And I had no idea why. It was just inside. I went, I'm going to be on the big screen one day. I would say that out loud. I'd look around and go, I'd look around and go, why am I saying

this? I just knew it. It's weird. It's weird. I felt the same way with bugs. I felt the same way with animation and voiceover. But I mean, the movies though, like the feature films. Yeah. It is, I just filmed the show for CBC. I hosted a show for CBC. It's just streaming now. It's about cartoons. Six episode miniseries. And it's one of the hard. artist. When I was in the chair interviewing people, that was fine. Yeah. But like the, the craft and the process of setting up a show and doing like setting, you know, I just watched you do it. I mean, you're doing, you're slurping still. Uh, you have to do it. You got a slurp. You got a slurp. You got a slurp. Yeah. That's the chapter skip and in the shows, the slurps.

But, uh, it, it is one of the hardest and you have to be dedicated and you have to want to be there and do it in all of entertainment. Voiceover. is like nice it's you know it's a bit cushy and yeah it's it's hard it's hard work for some uh yeah but it's compared to like being out on young street and setting up the camera and doing that yeah you gotta you got to have the grit for it yeah movies movies movies is not easy and i've feel blessed to have have done them so uh but um buddy you have kicked ass you are you're so so proud of you. You've done so great.

And what an accomplishment and all the characters you do. It's unbelievable. Thanks, Doc. I bet you say that to all the... I saw how the Will Shasso episode ended. He said the same thing to Will. You said the same thing to Ian Bagg. Like, are you second-guessing me, Scoob?

No, no. I really appreciate you, Harland. It's me, Daffy, now. I've never been on such a great podcast where there have been so many potatoes available I don't understand why they're so readily available. Like it's harvest season, school. And it looks like there's ice growing out of them.

So how long have they been under there? I don't know. They don't do well under humidity and quatch, quatch sweat. So. Yeah, Harlan, you got to either cook those today or. We'll put them in the microwave later and have a potato. We'll have a Christmas potato. A nice holiday.

Before we go, though, we do this with all the guests here on the Holland Highway. This is a little thing we call words from a wooden shoe. Oh, my God. This is an authentic dot shoe. Oh, God. And how it works, you just reach in, you don't look, you pull out a word, and if it inspires a story or a memory, lay it on us. Yeah, so reach in there and grab a word from a wooden shoe.

This is the authentic word from a wooden shoe. I think I got the winner here. Oh, what's it say? It says, puk. Puk. Oh, wow. So I was maybe nine years old. And this actually is a good story because it ties back to my uncle who passed away about two years ago.

He was my mom's oldest brother and one of the first to immigrate from the Philippines. It wasn't Uncle Puk, Puk. Puk. Puk was short for Pukbert. You okay. Pukbert was one of the brightest guys in our family. but he would, he would never, he would never be able to get through a sentence without throwing up on himself.

But no, Uncle Danny. Oh, okay. Uncle Danny was the guy that would always, he went to Toronto, left Toronto, moved to L.A., and he would always, throughout the 90s, I would always get mail.

It would be newspaper clippings from the L.A. Times, and it was like, Aladdin, Little Mermaid breaks box office results this weekend. And I was like, and he's like, you are going to work in animation. You're going to move to L.A. And he would give me like $20.

Like I'd get $20 U.S. dollars. I would go to the bank. I'd trade it in for, I'd buy my Big League chew and I would go to the corner store, the Beckers or the Max Milk, you know. And eventually I was old enough to finally, you know, go to L.A. And I was just a kid.

I was with my parents. We went to Wet and Wild, Las Vegas, Nevada, the water park, wet and wild. I could feel the puke coming already. I was like, this is great. I love, I love this. place. I also didn't know how to swim very well back then. It was just a kid, you know, a tiny kid. And I'm going down this water slide and I'm like, oh man, this is going real fast.

I can't believe I'm going down this. And I was like, oh, wait, I've never been down a water slide before. How does this end? And it shoots you out into this like the deep end of a pool. Yeah. Because I don't like where this is going. You don't want to, you don't want to go head first into the four foot pool. You got to go into like the eight foot pool. Yeah. So then you float. to the top. Yeah. Oh, God.

So I went and I floated right to the bottom. And I stayed there and was like, I was like, oh, wait. How do I can't. Oh, no. What the, do I do? You were drowning. I was drowning is what I was doing. Because I was like, wet, wild and drowning.

Wet and dead. Yeah. Wet and this is your life. Yeah. This is it. So I was like gulping all the water. I was like drowning. Oh my God.

And the lifeguard sees like this little pudgy kid in the bottom. the scraping all the algae and the disgusty. I must have found some watches, some underwear and, you know, bikini tops, and I'm like, it's floating to the top. Oh, no. And he pulls me up.

Wow. And right away, as soon as I get up, I just throw up all the water and whatever I had for lunch and breakfast. Oh, the wet and wild. Into my uncle's hands. He caught my puke. Whoa.

The word is puke. The pastor. word is puke. He caught like, I was this, this is a whole night of circus, circus potato buffet, the whole, the gravy, the potatoes. Like a fire hose

out of control. I was like, you were like the water park Linda Blair. It was the exorcist. Wow. The water park Linda Blair. That's the shirt they gave me after I left. They're like, give this guy this the water park Linda Blair. But my uncle

for whatever reason, he's doing that. He reached out and caught all my puke. Imagine he just goes like this. And that's why he's no longer with us because he ate my Linda Blair puke. What did he do with the puke? He went, and I saw him do it. It was like he, like catching a, like a fresh born baby, but no one wanted this baby. He threw it in the palm trees.

Like the chunks and everything. Like there's still an abelical cord coming out of my mouth. And he went, what do I, what do I do with this puke? And then he went, like lateral pass in football, the lateral, lateral puke pass right into the palm trees, puke. That's the best puke story I've ever heard. So has anyone else pulled the puke card or? No, every time we use them, we throw them away.

So it's always, you can even take that with you. Send it to your uncle with a $20 bill in heaven. Uncle Danny, this is for you. I've told the uncle Danny puke story. It's a very famous story. And then I took swimming lessons in now you know how to swim. But I mean, I've never been down on water slide since. You know what comes from these, right?

Oh, yeah. Eric browses here. Eric, tell them where they can find you, your social media, any projects you want to plug, your website, anything. You could find me usually at the Ralph's on Burbank Boulevard. If you go down the avocado aisle, you'll see me like pressing, peaking into the avocado. I press my thumb into them to see if they're right. I'm that guy. at Bowsilla, B-A-L-L-A, Z-I-L-A for the Canadians listening.

Yeah. And, of course, if I could plug the show, stay tuned. Yes, plug whatever you want. On CBC Gem. It's a six-episode mini-series. We would love to have you on when we get our second season, which, knock on wood, I think it's going to happen. Good.

But, yeah, again, I am honored to be here with you and have known you for so many years. And you continue to inspire and make people laugh. all around the world, and I've been one of them. Thank you, buddy. Likewise. Yeah. And I guess there's only one real way to end the Harlan Highways by going, yeah, the other, the, that's all, butternuts. That's all, ladies and gentlemen, Eric Bousa.

Thanks for being here, everybody. And until next time, like chicken chalming scoop. That's it. I don't have Sir John A. McDonald's sideburn. Oh, God, yeah. Sir John A. McDonnell. Looks like Gene Wilder. Right? From Charlie. Doesn't he look like Charlie? Oh, did I? I emptied my wallet.

Oh, you had a Canadian tan. I had some Canadians on me, but I emptied it out. As soon as I get back, I don't know how often you travel back, but do you like empty out your wallet and get rid of all the... Yeah, you take, you have any changes you have hanging around the house or any bills, and you take it all up to Canada. It's the tunis, the loonies. And you think the big gag is you think you're going to get rid of it all, but then you always come back with just as much. Maybe more. As soon as I'm ready to go to Pearson, I go, Ma, here you.

Put out your hand, it's Christmas, and I just give her like a ton of change. Because what am I going to do with it? Yeah. And what happens is you get rid of it all, but then you go to the airport and you go to Tim Horton Donuts. Well, here's the thing. Oh, here we go. Speaking of smuggling, I've had these in my back pocket for at least a week or so. These are, you told me to go to the Toys R Users.

This is actually a board game. It's a very popular board game. For fat people. Called Joss Lewis. Joe Louis for the Canadians watching. I don't want it to get any glare, but this is from Vachon, which would, what would you say is the equivalent? Can I touch them? These are all yours, man.

This is for you. Look at this. You know, look at the packaging. There's French on it. I know. It's, it's JOS, but we pronounce it Joe Louis. Joe Louise. Yeah.

I don't know what the S is for. It's like, it's just. On either of them. Yeah, I don't. Joe Louis. Yeah, it just should be Joe Louis, but. Joe's Lewis's. But these are like kind of the Canadian version of moon pies, I would think.

Yeah. I was going to say wagon wheels, but that's another Canadian. That's another thing. That's Canadian. But these are like chocolatey outside. with cream in the middle. And we grew up on these, man. We ate them?

Clearly. Clearly, I grew up. You look like you go to the gym at least. I do. I don't. You don't. You will. I will.

Yeah. We would eat these or use them as hockey pucks, one or the other. But just, are these for me? They're for you. Everything that I'm presenting to you now. Is this all Canadian junk food? It's a walk-down Canadian lane that we're starting here with. I got to put these down.

I noticed you had Ian Bagg and Will Sassau on. So I'm like, how am I going to out Canadian those guys? Oh, yeah. Those guys are. You're doing it. You've already done it with the Joe Lewis. Sorry,

guys. Sorry, Mr. Bagg, Mr. Sasso, but you didn't come equipped with a bag. Wait, wait, wait, I got to do a little rascal. Hey, we'll add the sound effects. These are,

and you can see the Canadian stamp of approval, the ketchup ship, which is a Canadian stable for you. Oh, being the premiere of Canada, the new premiere. Ketchup-flavored potato chips. Okay, so we should explain again for the new American viewers on your show,

but also the old ones too that hate ketchup. Are you going to open it? I got to smell, though. Keep talking. So Kree-Summer, another Canadian voice actress and star, oh, my God. Oh, man, look at that. That is...

You want to sniff. You got to have a sniff, dude. You got to have a sniff. Asian men smelling anything on film is not a good thing. This is another cancel material. I'm only going to do it for a second. I'm only going to do it for a second. I got canker

sores sores on my nostril from the sourness from these. It looks like you're growing polyps, yeah. This is like, if you think sniffing sharpies is fun, yeah, no, that's a five, this is a tan. This is fresh too, by the way. I literally just got back from Canada. But ketchup chips, a lot of Americans are like, gross,

why would I want to just eat ketchup? But I'm like, they're on a potato chip. So, like, what do you, French fries? Oh, listen to that crunch. It's good, right? The mouth, watering crunch. Look at your lips glistening over there. My God.

People eat French fries. They dip their, oh, boy, some more crunching going on. You got a thing with slurping and crunching. You need to, now you got both. Thank you. This is ASMO. Oh, my God. Harlan Williams Highway.

It should be Harlem-Wilms-A-S-M-R highway. What's ASMR mean? It's those videos where people just go, now I'm going to, you know, they make noise and it did get, you know, people find it soothing or satisfying or they might get off on it. So maybe you're going to, you're hitting a specific audience with these ketchup chips.

Oh, wow. Look at, by the way, I'm looking at the ratings. Paul, how are we doing with the ratings down there? Little Paul Schaefer with the ratings. I can't, the doctor, you know, I'm still not done. I'm still not done. I mean, well, you can keep them out, keep them out.

Oh, my God, so delicious. We went with sweet, savory, and then we're going to end with sweet, and then you have to do a slowbo of this coming out of the bag. The, uh, because it's not just one size, but it's like the king size. The two Two to share is how they call Coffee Crisp That's my

I like how you're It's Louvo It's coffee crisp Harley Holy Oh god I have to smuggle that In my ass

All right you just sounded like the guy From Silence of the Land Oh God Oh, yeah, Buffalo, Buffalo Bar. I had to swamble that in my ass. I had to lotion it up, yeah. Put it in my butt. Coffee Crisp, the favorite chocolate bar of serial killer.

Canadian serial killer. Dude, these are Canadian gold. These are coffee crisp. It's like a wafer chocolate bar with a hint of coffee. I don't know if there's, do you think they're made with, like, caffeine or coffee in it? I don't know, maybe, but you want. Colombian coffee bean. That is it.

That's in there. Von Valdez. Yeah, Juan Valdez. But here's the thing. You might not believe this, but it's absolutely true. I've never had a coffee in my whole life. Really? But I eat coffee, Chris.

You don't seem like the guy that needs the boost of coffee. You have naturally, you have the natural gift of energy. Wow. But this is for me too. That's for you too. That's for you too. But now, here's the thing. Before you eat your snacks further, you got to, you got to.

And drink, you drink, the sparkling, sparkling, thank you so much. You're very velchkum, so you have to wear the, wear the proper Canadian garb when you eat your snacks. So this is from my Canadian company, now I'm going to, I'm going to, Retro Kid. We do, this is an officially licensed polaroo. Pocaroo from the polka door. We work with TVO to make these shirts as well as we just dropped a YTV collection and a CBC collection. So we have like today's special shirts. We have reboot shirts, like the cartoon show.

And we have, what else that we did? Mr. Dressup. We've got a ton of Mr. Dressup here. Oh my God. So people know in Canada, Mr. Dress Up and Poked Outdoor was our version of Mr. Rogers' neighborhood type of thing, right? Children's programming. In fact, there are some Americans that I talk to about this.

And they actually saw it. They've seen Mr. Dressup via PBS. And they've seen things like you can't do that on television. We're Alanis Moriss at Goaderstert on YTV. DeGrasi was also on YTV. Can we sing the Pocodot door theme song? Sure, one, two, three. The Pocodot door, the Pocod door with games and stories and so much more.

Your mother's a whore. Wait, what? Dude. Oh, my God. Is that what we want to leave the viewers with? No. So this is for you. Oh, wow, a T-shirt.

This is, this is for you from Retro Kid, a gift from Retro. Wow, what? You're going to enjoy this one. No way. So this is a store that we... This was a Canadian store. Consumers distributing. No creativity.

Whoa, that was ketchup. That was the ketchup. That was the ketchup, right? So, sorry, I didn't mean... That was me distributing. There's a cloud of acid reflux coming my way. Oh, God. Acid rain.

Burning my eyes. But look at this. I forgot about this store. So in Canada, they used to... to have a store that cut out the middleman, right? Basically, is that what it was? Yeah. It was basically you go to this warehouse.

Yeah. And there were these catalogs that were sent directly to your home and they had them at the store. But as a kid, you rip open the bag. You go right to the back of the catalog because it had, if you're a kid in the 80s, Transformers, G.I. Joe, like the My Little Ponies. I'm getting excited just talking about it. You are.

But then you would have to go to the store, fill out a catalog, like a little order form with the tiny pencil and then you would fill it out and you'd bring it to the guy and he'd go in the back and off a shelf he would bring out your Megatron toy from Transformers or whatever it is you got.

I was laughing so much at these old catalogs because they used to have what they were known as female massagers. Oh yeah, I know what you're saying. They called them female massagers but they were really the classic white

vibrator, right? Right? Am I right? But they called them female massagers. But the bottle would be like this. It would be a lady like this and she would have it on her neck. Yeah. Like as if she's using that phallic thing to do her scapulas, right?

Meanwhile, cut to her in real life and she's like spread eagle as if Broad Stewart's about to walk in and croon her. Did you call him Broad Stewart? Broad Stewart. Broad Stewart. Broad Stewart. Rod Stewart. Rod. Even worse.

Even worse, Rod. Rod Stewart sounds pretty good. Well, that was a, that was a. What started out in this, and again, went completely south. Consumers streaming. Oh, more. Let's see what you could. This is the final.

This is it. I'll clear the table. Oh, this is so cool. Yeah. But again, this is another gift from Retro Kid. This is for you. I know you'll appreciate this. Oh, God.

We have a trucker cap equivalent to it. Oh, my God. This is a good one. I got to tell this is so good. So again, in Canada, we don't have, this is Brewer's Retail. Brewer's Retail, which is what, that was the old school one. which he had evolved to the beer store is what they call it now. So again, in Canada, they eliminate the middleman.

They just have someone at a microphone and you go, there's like every beer label available in Canada. Labat's, Labat 50, Labat Blue, all the everything. And you go, I want one of those. And I don't know if you saw the back on the back of that year. Yeah, it has the number on it, 24, 24. 24, yeah. Which we called our, the case of beer.

Canadians called it a two four. Mike Myers calls it the Canadian briefcase. Yeah. Because it has like a handle like a little like, you know, it was like you're going to work. But what we have to tell people is in Canada, the reason we had Brewers retail, it was run by the government. Unlike in America, you can go to 7-Eleven. You can go to right aid. You can go to right-aid.

You can go to right-eat. You can go anywhere and buy alcohol. Where you get the same pills for your liver. Yeah. You go also get the alcohol. Right. Yeah, it's crazy. But in Canada, you couldn't buy liquor at any.

any of those places, you had to go specifically to brewers retail to the beer store. To buy your beer and you had to go to the LCBO to buy alcohol, like wine. Your wine and spirits, your fine spirits. Like, and then you come to America and you're like, wait, it's just here at the 7-Eleven. It's like, it's everywhere. A kid selling it on the street, like an lemonade stand. Yeah. But, yeah, so the best part about beer story, much like consumers distributing is you walk up to a guy and you point at a logo.

And then he goes, okay. And he speaks into a microphone, like at Harvey's, you know, Harvey's does your hamburger. And out from a hole in the wall on a trolley comes your beer. Like someone pushes it out. On a rolling, it was like a rolling track. And as a kid, when you'd go in there with your dad, you're like, oh, look at the case. Look at the two four rolling out of the wall, eh, pops. It was like, oh, yeah, eh, that's what we call magic, eh?

Oh, it's like watching the Virgin Mary's birth to Jesus. This case of beer would just roll out at you. And as a kid, you're just like, holy smoke. And you just wanted as a kid to get on it and roll on it. You wanted to go back there. But the best was watching, you know, your local, the local alcoholics with their, with their gurneys. And they're bringing in the empties, right? Oh.

Because you bring in the empty bottles for a deposit. You get like a couple, like, you get all those loonies and tunis. Do you want to hear a story? I do want to hear a story. When I was younger, I was working in a bush camp in northern Ontario, like on the shores of Lake Superior. My girlfriend at the time was working in Banff at a camera store. Okay. And we were madly in love.

And I had to put in my time the whole summer working at this lumberjack camp. Okay. And at the end of my run, which I think was like September 3rd, we arranged that I was going to drive all the way across. Canada to Banff. Oh, my God. To Alberta. Yeah. Bamp is this gorgeous mountain town.

It's stunning. And so I get in my car. I have this little car that I bought from my mother, a Toyota Corolla station wagon, like a little, we called it the golden nugget. It was gold. So I had it up. I had driven it up to the bush camp at the start of my job in the spring. Now I'm driving across Canada.

And the night I leave, the brakes start going. Oh, no. So I'm driving across. and I haven't seen my girl in like three months. Yeah. And we're just jonesing to be together. Like we're madly in love. Like madly in love.

And so the further I'm driving along, the more I can hear metal grinding on metal. So now it's my brakes, my axle. Everything. Your car is falling apart. Right. And I'm approaching a mountain village where I've got to start driving.

You need breaks. So I'm just like, I'm going to, I'm going to do this so that I roll and I creep. and I try and time it, so I never have to touch. Like a rally racer. Yeah. It was crazy.

But the further I got, the closer I got to her, the more I could hear the grinding. And I was like, I said, I don't care. I got to get to my girl. Yeah. This is for love. And I'm like, now I'm in the mountains. And I finally roll into this town. You made it.

I parked the car. I got it to a garage and the guy says it'll be this much to fix it all. And I didn't have a lot. I was still like, you know, student guy. Yeah. and there was a guy in the town that she had made friends with, and this guy, I don't know how he got them. I don't know if he was a huge drinker.

I don't know what it was. He bought that car as is for I think it was $485 worth of empty beer bottles. Oh, wow, wow. So he just had them stored. He had them stored. So I sold my first car for empty beer bottles. And I had to put them in a cab. but I had to make three trips in a cab and go to the brewer's retail and slide them down that thing.

And it was crazy. I'm trying to think of like what the equivalent like, God damn, that's a lot of empties. It was a lot. I had to do three trips. It was like, it was crazy, dude. So I sold a car for empty beer bottle. And you're like Mr. Moneybags at that point. That's good. That's a good story, man.

That's got to go into a movie somewhere. It was worth it. I got to be with my girl. But anyways, dude, thank you so much. Of course. These are, just so you know, obviously, I'm from Toronto and you're from, are you from Toronto? I'm from Toronto as well. What part?

Well, I was born in Toronto, but grew up in Scarborough. Oh, yeah. Okay. So like Midland and Egglington is where I grew, like proper. You wouldn't even recognize the place if you went back there. I know, it's crazy. I grew up in North York at Leslie and Dom Mills right in the shadow of Fairview Mall. Oh, yes, yes.

So we weren't too far. from each other. No, not at all. Not at all. I used to watch movies there. I used to visit the local bulk barn. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, God. I met my wife there, the bulk barn. Oh, really? She was huge. Yeah, 400. Talk about 400, 400 pounder. She was bulky. She, we don't use that word anymore. Now it's just fat. Yeah. Yeah. The fat barn, the bulk barn. The cellulite barn. The fat farm is what they call it now. But then cut to me and you get out of Toronto. Finally. We make our way down to L.A.

And then you become one of the top voice animation voice guys around. Well, I mean. Kudos to you, man. Thank you. Thank you.