Coop chats with Jim Cummings, Voice Actor of Ed the Hyena, Lion King and Nessus the River Centaur, Tall Thebian, Elderly Thebian, Hercules, on board the Disney Destiny

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00:00Hey, it's Coop from Big 98.1, live aboard the incredible Disney Destiny.

00:04Remember, you can win your very own vacation. Just go to Big98.1.com.

00:07I'm here with Jim Cummings, who I guarantee you know who he is.

00:11Maybe not by the face, but you'll certainly recognize his voice.

00:15Jim, thank you so much for the time today.

00:18One of the voices that you do is Winnie the Pooh,

00:20and I wonder if Winnie the Pooh has had a chance to experience the ship

00:24and what Winnie's thoughts are.

00:25Oh, gosh, you know what?

00:26You know what? Let me ask him.

00:28Big, can't you tell me?

00:29Oh, well, thank you for asking, because, you see, I think it's just lovely.

00:35The view is very wonderful,

00:37and although I can't see the hundred-acre wood from here,

00:42but they do have plenty of honey.

00:45They do have honey, that is for sure.

00:46We've got plenty of sunshine, too.

00:48Hercules, we saw the show last night.

00:51It was absolutely incredible.

00:52I wonder if Hercules knows where the fitness center is,

00:55perhaps a gym on this ship, maybe?

00:57I'm sure Hercules does, but Nessus, the big blue centaur, definitely does.

01:04I've been working out.

01:05I've been lifting Rhode Island all day.

01:08Oh, I believe it.

01:09And we went to Pride Lands, which, of course, Ed the Hyena,

01:13another one of those boys.

01:14That is absolutely incredible.

01:22Absolutely incredible.

01:23Unbelievable.

01:24I hope you were prepared.

01:28That is, by the way, Coop, it's a law.

01:30When a bad guy sings a song,

01:32he has to do an evil laugh at the end of it.

01:34Can you teach me how to do a proper evil laugh?

01:37I'll show you what I got.

01:38I'm going to come up with one now, and you tell me.

01:40Okay, here we go.

01:41Whoa.

01:44Okay, that sucked.

01:46What do I do?

01:47That was pretty good.

01:48That was pretty good.

01:49No, you know, I found out the secret a long time ago is get rid of most of the air

01:54because it's tempting to go.

01:55And then you end up sounding kind of like Bill Farmer's Goofy.

02:01And we don't know what.

02:02That's not.

02:03It's just not evil.

02:04Right.

02:04You're right.

02:05It's the opposite of evil.

02:06But if you blow out all the air, and then you leak.

02:10All right, let me see where I can do it.

02:11Okay, let's see what we can do.

02:15Getting more evil all the time, ladies and gentlemen.

02:19Hot tips from Jim Cummings, everybody.

02:21Now we know how to be mischievous when we want to, right?

02:24Absolutely.

02:25You can go from all these different voices.

02:27Is there one that is your absolute favorite that you've ever done?

02:32Well, I have to tell you, Winnie the Pooh and Tigger.

02:35You know, Tigger, they're wonderful things.

02:36I don't know if I told you that.

02:38And Darkwing, the terror that flaps in the night.

02:42He's way up there.

02:43And then I have to tell you, Ray, from Bridges and the Frog,

02:46you know, because the women, they love a man with a big back porch.

02:50And if you wanted to go to a galaxy long, long ago, far, far away,

02:58you would run into my dear friend, Hotdur Naka.

03:02And I have good news for you.

03:04Give me all of your money, and I will invest it for you.

03:08You're welcome.

03:09It's absolutely incredible.

03:11As a fan of all of those characters, I just have to, do you just, is there,

03:16do you just sit around and create a voice?

03:17How does that process work?

03:19Gosh, I don't know.

03:20I can tell you that I've done things, these are really inside info here.

03:27I hope you understand.

03:28Yeah.

03:29But, no, I've done impressions of my Aunt Grace, God love her, and my Uncle Sam.

03:36And my Uncle Sam was good if it needed a dragon or somebody like that.

03:41Sounds a little bit like Sam Elliott.

03:42Yeah.

03:43Yeah, the wrong Sam.

03:44But, and then, one of my favorite guys is Hondo Onaka.

03:50And if you, well, first of all, I've always said,

03:54if you do a perfect impression of someone famous, that's good.

03:57And if you do a terrible impression of someone famous,

03:59nobody even knows what you're doing, that's good.

04:01You have a new character.

04:02Right.

04:03And I put two characters together, like Charles Bronson and Yul Brynner.

04:07And that is where I came up with Hondo.

04:10Wow.

04:10So, you put two famous people together, kind of mix them up,

04:13and there you have it.

04:16But just don't tell anybody.

04:18No, no, I won't tell anybody.

04:19Okay, good.

04:20Rather than the people that, the million people that I was in, right?

04:22Oh, okay.

04:22Well, that's good.

04:23We'll keep it in the house.

04:25Jim, thank you so much.

04:26You put smiles on so many people's faces with your voice.

04:29We appreciate all that you do.

04:30And thank you for the memories that all the kids,

04:32a grown man now who's grown up with Tigger and Winnie the Pooh and all of that.

04:35Thank you so much for all that you do, man.

04:37We really appreciate you.

04:38God bless, Coop.

04:38Thank you very much for having me.

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