the hey folks, welcome to dennis miller plus one. natalie get that malagon this guy. i can tell that he's a happy abuse in soul. and that's part of the reason that he is, let's call him one of the most preeminent voice actors on, on the planet. right now, is the voice of the looney tunes, characters, bug, but bugs bunny, daffy duck. marvin the martian, i think that little can the century and how to floats around for me. if i remember for my youth tweedy bird and he voices some of those characters many more for in the upcoming film space jam a new legacy out this summer. and he also voices multiple characters. i read up on the sean, this is a very intriguing. i love the series title one, it does unfold the mean some they dug, unplug this and it's currently streaming on apple t. v plus. and this is our friend eric bala. eric, how are you today? my friend? me watch up can able to. i don't know what i don't know what could have possibly

given the fact that i like bugs bunny away. i don't know if i'm overdoing it or not enough. looking over your shoulder at the wall paper print, just let me say this when it comes to bug bunny impressions. i'm all yours, my friend. absolutely. i go back to a time when daffy could get shot with a man. liquor, car, piano and have his build flip around his head, that's how far back i go with the team. you just don't want to say, you know, rabbi play fine or duck season, you know, you gotta, you gotta, it's very up every now and that. and definitely daffy duck is a non pandemic friendly voice. you've got to stay away from my mouth. you know, you've got to keep your desk and snare pal. it really just is richard dreyfus with a lisp desk. you know, i'm not going to be a hot meal for some shark. okay,

mr. bon, what we're dealing with here is a perfect eating machine. yeah. yeah. you know, it's, you know, this was low animation accident. no, not at all. the thing you even if i weren't doing these voices, even if i weren't graced with the the luck of doing the voices, i would still have this stuff hanging up on my wall. i'm, i'm still just the fan as, as i was before, i was doing these voices as i am now. so i was i like some but it was when i have fog or lag car and i'm in for that purpose. look, pew for i know that's the end of the world as we know. i'm not going to get you into that bind. but i dug all these people speak gonzales, excuse me. i did run that. the i was a kid and they enchanted me and i'm not guilty of every the world gone bad. i just dig in the cart to, you know, when i knew i was going to talk to, i went back and i've always, i thought the, i have always been such a fan of like,

i mean what, what an amazing niche talent. i mean, mentioned at the menu to sense, i just mean nobody could make a run at the castle blind because he was so proficient at it. and i don't know if you know the story. i was so fascinated to find out that he was born, his given name was b, l, a n k, as in blank slate, toddler. awesome. so the ability to poor all these voices into what you, you're in the busy must be the quintessential vessel to you to i always find him a fascinating wrap. absolutely. i mean, and he just goes to show number one, you know, bugs turned 80 last year. and the fact that we're still talking about bugs, 80 years later, goes to show how much love heart and soul he poured into not just bugs, but the rest of the looney tunes. and i mean, it takes, i'm, i'm the 7th guy to voice bugs and i know i won't be the last and it just goes to show how many people it takes to, you know, take to carry that mantle,

that one guy did him. and you know, you could look at someone like june for a like, you know, you people say the female mel blanc, but she was just june for a, you know, she was the 1st lady of animation voiceover for the ladies. and you know, both of their work stood the test of time and yeah, that these cartoons were definitely made in a different time. and definitely weren't the idea behind those original shorts weren't to be shown on saturday mornings. they were actually throw away cartoons in those old movie houses. you know, i'm actually a 100 years old. these filipino genes of mine looking young. you know, as soon as i turn 101 is like i become yoda, i just everything. just gravity, get the better of abilene picture soon. know, but, but you know what, i mean, it's like we, the cartoons were done in a different time. and i know, i know nowadays representation matters more than ever. but i feel like we have to

get to that playing field again where, you know, especially from a boy sector's point of view, it never mattered what i look like, right? like and, and suddenly it does. and for, for good reason. you know, but i just want to get to a point where we can laugh at ourselves again. where it's not, there are, how can i, how can i give credit to contemporary man for evolving? if i spend every moment of my day going back to times of your and same, why didn't it exist that it didn't exist, then? because we've got an accumulation of emotional knowledge of this protestant point in history, we're starting to see some of the oversights. if i'm to go back into the early 19 twenties and figure out why we didn't have the light bulb go on and then i'm missing the point in the interim 80 to 90 years. we've accumulated spencer bones of

plenty any more. it seems like it's silly. it seems like a sissy and battle. you're always can go back a decade earlier and find something i choose not to do it. i choose to have fun memories of cartoons and whatever changes they've had to make to make it may label for today. more than happy about that to, you know, i have a theory on bugs approach in the century mark, it goes back to chaplain, kicking the passport guy behind with his leg. it goes back to grow, show entering low and subversive with the cigar. you transport the carrot, i think bugs it holds a mirror up to be answers. i think it's a primal service that bugs does. well, yeah, i mean he's, he's pretty much voiced of all bugs was the original social distance. he lived in a hole in the ground, right? i mean, he always wore gloves. and basically, you know, he was the every man and until someone like elmer funder yosemite, sam, you know,

really kicked him off. that's when that's when it was over there. then, you know, of course, you realize this means was, you know, that's when all bets were off and forget it. you shouldn't. and you shouldn't have cross paths with bugs bunny. but yeah, i mean, that's why i think he was so related. and he's a hero. you know, he's still like one of those guys that he doesn't always win and he doesn't have the big muscles usually when he flexes. it just like the letter you under there and, you know, again, i think that's why he's so related and so lovable and, and then you have everyone else around him. you know, if he's like the jerry seinfeld of the crew, then you have people like the george ca standard like daffy duck. and then you have the people like crap, you know, like that you have the extreme characters around them. so, you know, it was very i, you have to sit and wonder what they were thinking of when they were making this

stuff back in the forty's like they, i look at this stuff as reference, you know, to be better as, as an artist, like i before i became a voice over artist. i was like in animation as an artist i used to draw. so i can't even imagine what they were looking at. like smoking unfiltered cigarettes at 11 am. wearing 3 piece will suits late in their backyard. black, would you like was like the soviet you make it a living, a man of a 1000 voices of some points? probably hit the time clock back then. and then he turns conduit for the dreams of millions of kids. what an amazing star gave melt. black was yeah, just just amazing. and again, it's if it weren't for me and i would be in like plumbing school right now for sure . you know, like, bugs bunny voice. it's like, i think there's been 7 jane. well,

let's think john comrey george lays and be over roger moore. i think we may have 6 or 11 bonds, but it's fascinating. amount of bugs is and double. 07. the double. 07 of innovation. i never really thought of it that way. but wow, what a comparative well, it's quite, it's quite a mental you of assume. we're talking eric browser and we'll talk to him about loony tunes. i wanted to do some met interview here. i'm fascinated by the just by the, the art of inhabiting these animated creatures so many way seems to me more real. some of the people i watch walking around and flesh and blood these days. and he also voices, multiple characters in the animated series. doug unplugged and that's got a cool story behind it that is streaming on apple tv plus now listen, people put

a place card up to hold interviews as they do it. when i do these on zoom and you are with the loveliest, is i don't know enough about you to your child. i only got a glimpse for a 2nd. who's that's my son, my son ryker. and he's definitely either going to be in animation, or i've driven him away completely from it. he's 5. you know, he loves, he loves cartoons, is as much as his old man his, his mom is also in animation. and she's animation director over at nickelodeon. so animation is definitely i think it might be in the future, but maybe it's enough that he's oversaturated that he may become an accountant in encino somewhere in the future. but listen, you know, i used to have a calder mobile hanging over my crib that i'd look at. i was always a trepidatious kid. i think. well, that's coming done on may. i can't imagine what it must be likes to look up,

but your dad's face and have you up there would have magical connection for you leading into their crib. well, it's funny because, you know, we'll, we'll go to the park or like the playdates and, you know, again, 5 years old will walk up to like, you know, people that i, he may know cuz sometimes than any takes him out. and then i'm at work and then i finally go and he goes, oh hey, this is where he goes, i'm riker, i'm, i'm 5 years old. this is my dad. he's bugs bunny and like people, you know, they probably look at that is like, oh, he probably does the voice for, for him, you know, for fun and all that stuff, but he's become like, my, my manager. you know, he's, he's pimping me out on the jungle park, you know, but i think it's so flattering. and i, you know, i just, i just want to, you know, i just, when we do visa, we watch the cartoons together because i have to study,

right. i got to study, and when i see him enjoy the cartoons that i used to laugh at when i was like his age, just to see it come full circle and then watch the episodes, the new ones where, where i'm in it as bugs and he can he could tell that it's me, it really is mind blowing. it really is, you know, something else or talk there. and once again, here's the voice of looney tunes, characters, bugs, daffy, marvin, the martian, tweety bird. they've got the big film coming out space gym to a new legacy with bron, i'm sure they had to call and all hands on deck for that. we'll see how the voice is broke down for the new flick. and he does multiple characters in the animated series. doug, unplug the streaming on apple tv, plus we will talk about both those projects right after this with our friend derrick bows on dennis filler, plus one ah,

join me every 1st day on the alex simon show. and i'll be speaking to guess on the world, the politic sport business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. mm . the climate i trip it there. we found 25 years ago. took only 4 days to go around the us, which means to finance is very close. so that was really the big surprise. and we have learned since then. our own system is maybe one amongst many. that's not the archetype. that's not the stand out. the way to our planet, and another shot because everybody was expecting the planet to look all the same. ah,

to don't to leave, you know, move a toy. knew she was she who fits ready to love. ah, let me see if she knew she wouldn't be a little girl for the study, especially if you could totally traditional moving to where she's she's actually she quoted you. she was doing the best for me was upset for me and lasted with metro. okay. yeah. so i love this and this is what i need from the new new new which is the new

executable football. once it, when i pull it up for me, i got it up on that. got moved up on me. ah hey folks. welcome back to dennis miller plus one. it's nice to know that the is the well, let me say it for me. sacred voices from my youth and kids use today have been entrusted into such sweet soul. and i can tell bowels, is that just from chat and i'm up for a segment here. we got the big film coming up, m j did this years ago. now labranz stuff put in, i hope he's good his m j because m j really, that was a, that was a groovy film. tell me about the new space champ, to my friend. well, i, like you said, i mean, i am

a child of the ninety's. i am 41. i will be turning 42 this year if, if you can't hear that, that's my bones cracking as every breath i take because i but i grew up in the jordan era of the n b a and i watched space jam. i can't tell you how many times in theaters, and that was also like the looney tunes resurgence. it was kind of like we were catching these characters in reruns. and even before the original space jim there were 2. michael jordan bugs bunny. they call them hair and air jordan commercials that were super bowl ads. and they basically paired michael jordan, some ad agency in the arc thought let's put the greatest and be a player and the greatest cartoon character ever made together. and see what happens. and then the 2nd commercial air again, on super bowl,

this time with marvin the martian. isn't that lovely or the creature? you know, he was the adversary. and then 2 years after that is when we had space gym. so again, i was a true fan before before even the movie, i mean, i own animation selves from from the actual commercial. i found some here in burbank and i was just my mind was blown like that these existed and nobody wanted them except me. the biggest nerd in california. so yes, so i, i've been an avid fan of the original and to see it come back like 25 years. i think it's going to be 25 years this fall 25 year old to see it, you know, remade and reimagined with, arguably now the greatest player presently. le bron james. you know,

you can count the rings, you can count the dunks. you can. i mean, in the fact that he's still going, you know, he's, he's, it doesn't seem like he's getting tired outside of being a world class like athletes. he's a family man and does tremendous amounts of charity work for his hometown of akron, ohio. and. and now he's executive producing this film, which i don't know if you saw the trailer, it got over how many millions and millions and millions. i think i was one of the few that was like up at like 5 in the morning looking at my phone and there was like a count down for this thing. i've never seen anything like it. and the trailer was just so well received. grand. this, this might be, i think, one of the biggest move, i mean in our, in our current situation, it might be the biggest money making movie of 2021 can be, you know,

people could be shepherd back in to the way things where it was such a nice hearted project and let me tell you, erica, you're at 42 as you say. and i'm 25 years beyond you. and i guarantee these things are going to start happening to you. are you notice that i just like get into the front door of being an older cab? because imagine space jam now has a 25 year gap and then a seat go on, a re believable old enough to drink space. jim like space jam could walk into a bar and have a drink to today if it wanted to. and it's just, it's crazy and to be invited to the, the table like it's been announced that i'm officially part of the cast. but it is not announced which characters i'm playing and i'll let you know because there's been so much for not rumors, but i would say, you know, like the news broke last year of me voicing bugs for loony tunes cartoons this one

right here. and it happened later in the year, which is odd because, well, lunatic cartoons premier at the same time cove at 19 premier, so no one cared that i was of bugs bunny. at that point, everyone was glued to their the news of coven, understandably, but after a full year of covey, people were like anything but coven and a friend of mine. jenna me again. back in, back in my hometown of toronto, ontario canada, a. she decided to do a story on me becoming the voice of bugs bunny and bugs bunny's from scarborough. where, where mike myer, i live around the corner from mike myers way, which is like they named a street like a hydro field after mike is like give them something better than that. he deserves better than that but. but yeah, it was, it was kind of crazy. the recognition and love from, from not just toronto,

but vancouver, you know, places like when a peg. i'm sure places that you've toured before and your, and your stand up past the other. i just i can tell you from 1st hand experience, you're an absolute god and flint fly my front people burn incense at your altar and listen, i know mike, he was a perfectionist when he was on s and l. so i hope mike myers way as a one way. he's going to do it one way or you are going to do it or the, or the freeway. that's amazing. like yeah, like the news had hit but then also this news of space was happening. so people automatically pinned me as the new voice for bugs, which means i'm automatically the new voice in spaceship, which is not only we, we now live in this era where reboot's and re imaginings used to happen like

anywhere between 2 to 4 years of one another now they're happening between $2.00 and $4.00 weeks of one another. you know, you have streaming, you have, you know, your phones, you got like theater, you got tv, you got so many places to show these characters that people just can't get enough of. and every time they switch hands, each show runner, executive producer director, has a different vision of how the character should be performed and who the character should be performed by. so in this case, you know, i was good for this one for loony tunes cartoons under pete brown guard to be exec producer on that. but in, in labranz film, he thought jeff bergman who is voicing bugs in the film. was the better bugs for the job and let me tell you something about jeff bergman. he he has been. he was the 1st guy to voice bugs bunny in 1989 after the passing of mel blanc.

if there's any one, if there's anyone that should have done bugs bunny 1st in the feature film, it's jeff, and i'm so happy for him. like this is definitely his moment for sure. and i've seen parts of the film i've heard him. he sounds fantastic. and i honestly think like the, the fans are going to be completely satisfied with this film. listen, i want to get to the other project because i love the, i love the unplugged. and so pivotal in this thing, listen, it's been a great gifts that this generation has been given when i think back, none of this existed. there were 3 channels. busy and we had a transistor radio 5.4 up to 1600. nowadays the whole world is available there. it gives us an a taken away. and i do think at some point, much like a parent feathering enough towards time to tell them to get you got to get live on your own. you've got to unplug from this stuff. and i think that's the sort of

subliminal message behind or not so subliminal, behind unplugged in doug plugs. right? that's correct. it's basically a robot family trying to learn how to be human and in a, in a world where we're looking at our phones. and, you know, they're actually trying to just experience it. you know, they're definitely using their, their use of technology to explore. but they're really having a better time, you know, just doing it as opposed to just asking the questions and just kind of being the robots that they are. i play bob bought on the show he's, he's the, he's the father and i don't know if they, they gave me this really cool mug. and i saw this early design and i saw, i saw. 7 the hair, i saw the eyebrows, i shot the glasses and all i get bigger, there's is robot lives a lot like eugene levy, you know, i'm from toronto, i'm a big, you know,

as she tv fan, i hope you gene doesn't see this and try to see me but you know, oh god, i love eugene levy, he's great. so that's kind of like, you know, aside from being a dad myself and having one of the best dad, my dad eddie, back in toronto and seeing my brother, you know, he's, he's one of the greatest dads, i've got to see raise his 2 kids. and i thought boy, i hope i'm as good as these guys, but if i couldn't have my dad is a dad, i would love to adopt eugene levy as my as my tv dad. so he was basically, you know, one of those. yeah. basically the main issue for me to kind of do it. i know it's a little spooky. seeing a filipino guy sound like eugene levy with all this yes. creek attention that he's been getting but a game saves him for the rest of us. oh boy. yeah. yeah. like jane to look out for

it is a good friend divide and i'm sure he'll be honored by the margin. as i think of jean, if i had to say animated character with gina would think of those browsers who could smoke caterpillar. i think i'd have to go back to the one with james and i'll be completely honored. we're talking to a good toronto ontario boy or by the way, a big austin matthews. fan, the kids lightening up is and he likes the last you follow and hockey. so what am i asking? you know, i've left most of my canadian habits behind. i'm definitely more of a basketball fan than i am a hockey kid. but man, oh man, i learned how to swear by watching my dad watch hockey. that's basically the truth when he's seen. yeah. when he was watching the least, he was no doubt watching the davy key on darrell settler. bobby heard back the great our i've been

a leaf than much of my adult life. we're talking to the great eric browser, folks, now you get to projects and if you're out there and you, you want to get your kid with a big what parent does live to see that big smell and their kids mug. he does multiple characters in the animated series, doug, unplugged, listen closely when bobby the dads talk and that streaming on apple tv plus right now. haven't had the character brakes done on all this, but we saw like we got the right guy doing bugs in space, jam a new legacy. but they've brought in all the heavy hitters. this is 27 yankees voiceover people coming in because 45 years later they've got to pay this office to beloved the film and i'm sure they'll knock it out of the park. a good character in and of himself. you couldn't drum as nice as he is. thank you for your time. eric bout dennis miller flush while. yeah, the other, the other the that's how folks that if, if, if i, if i didn't do that,

then what's the point? i mean, i'm wired collette, i mean, eugene levy way here. that'd be a different story. right. i mean, i don't know, but like, seriously, mr. miller, it is, it is truly been an honor getting to talk to you today and health and happiness to you in the family. alright, my friend, we'll talk at you down the road. thanks for your time, brother. take care. oh, i didn't. alas me end appears to be near washington. it's 20 or have her to nation bill enough. dennison was always going to end this way, a complete and total failure. it is doubtful. the corrupt government in kabul will

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