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Eric Bauza - The Voice Of Looney Tunes : There Was A Big Ka-Boom!! · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: Coyote versus Acme, it had to happen eventually. He finally
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  Speaker 1: takes them on. It's in cinemas now, just in time
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  Speaker 1: for the school holidays, but hey, I'm going to have
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  Speaker 1: to find a kid to take. Yeah, exactly. Eric Bowser
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  Speaker 1: does pretty much most of the voices in this movie
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  Speaker 1: and he's with us this morning. Good morning, Eric.
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  Speaker 2: Morning, Eric. Good morning, Doc. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: Very, very good. Eric, this movie has had a rollercoaster
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  Speaker 1: journey to the big screen, but finally you've been able
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  Speaker 1: to see audiences get to watch it.
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  Speaker 2: It certainly has, and the best part about it is
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  Speaker 2: you don't have to take a kid to see this movie.
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  Speaker 2: You can just bring yourself. We were all kids.
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  Speaker 1: At one point.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: We've all grown up with it.
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  Speaker 2: I think so, and I feel like this movie speaks
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  Speaker 2: to both The youngest and the oldest person in the
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  Speaker 2: room without talking down to anybody. It's a very, very
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  Speaker 2: smart movie, very well-written movie.
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  Speaker 3: It's something that we've all grown up with. We've seen
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  Speaker 3: the struggle for many a decade. Why has it taken
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  Speaker 3: so long for Coyote to finally bring in the lawyers?
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  Speaker 3: and take this sham of a company to where it
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  Speaker 3: should be in the courtroom.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think he finally paid his cable bill
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  Speaker 2: and saw the commercial. This day and age, I feel
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  Speaker 2: like we've seen those billboard advertised lawyers and they've been
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  Speaker 2: around for so long, but I never thought that cartoon
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  Speaker 2: injury was up there as something that you could sue for.
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  Speaker 1: You voice a stack of Looney Tunes characters in the film.
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  Speaker 1: Is it hard to keep them all straight in your head?
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  Speaker 2: I think it helps to be just a little loony.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of have to be if you want to keep
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  Speaker 2: track of these characters. Of course, these characters were originated
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  Speaker 2: by the great Mel Blanc in the golden age of
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  Speaker 2: animation alongside Chuck Jones, the director. But Mel Blanc was
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  Speaker 2: the one that, you know, they showed him a picture
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  Speaker 2: of Bugs Bunny and they said he was a scrappy
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  Speaker 2: character from either Brooklyn or the Bronx. And so he
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  Speaker 2: kind of put the two of them together and came
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  Speaker 2: up with What's Up, Doc? And then showed him a
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  Speaker 2: picture of Daffy and, you know, he's kind of a greedy, self-centered,
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  Speaker 2: but crazy kind of duck. So he might, you know,
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  Speaker 2: sound like he talks with a lisp. Ah, you're despicable.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he would because his beak was around the back
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  Speaker 3: end of his head half the time, every time he
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  Speaker 3: got blown up.
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  Speaker 2: Can't blame the guy for being a little cranky. And then,
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  Speaker 2: of course, last but not least, you might have Porky
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  Speaker 2: Pig who talks with a stutter. That's not all, folks.
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  Speaker 1: I can only imagine that as a kid you probably
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  Speaker 1: wandered around the house entertaining your family with these voices.
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  Speaker 1: Did you ever in a million years think that you
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  Speaker 1: would be the one to take up the legacy of
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  Speaker 1: Mel Blanc?
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  Speaker 2: Not at all. It's like winning the lottery. Not every
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  Speaker 2: kid has that aspiration. I know I kind of secretly did.
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  Speaker 2: I never really. told anybody, but I was clearly obsessed
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  Speaker 2: with animation and cartoons. I draw as well. I cartoon.
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  Speaker 2: And I always like making people laugh, and I think
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  Speaker 2: that's where it comes from. But I think when you
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  Speaker 2: have the ability to kind of change your voice and
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  Speaker 2: kind of... My teachers always knew that I had that
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  Speaker 2: class clown funny bone kind of, you know, making people
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  Speaker 2: laugh thing. They said, if you get your work done
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  Speaker 2: on time, then tomorrow... You could do those silly voices
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  Speaker 2: over the PA system during the morning announcements.
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  Speaker 1: What an incentive.
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  Speaker 3: What an incentive.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: I think directors used to say that to Jerry Lewis
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  Speaker 1: when he.
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  Speaker 2: Was making a movie.
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  Speaker 1: If you film your scenes, then you can entertain everyone
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  Speaker 1: for a while.
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  Speaker 3: Eric, you do Bugs, you do Daffy, you do Porky,
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  Speaker 3: you do Tweety, you do Marvin the Martian, you do
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  Speaker 3: Foghorn Leghorn.
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  Speaker 2: He's our favourite.
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  Speaker 1: We love him. Foghorn's our favourite.
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  Speaker 3: And we do Roadrunner, which consists of meep meep.
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  Speaker 2: What's your favourite? Well, the first one you said, Marvin
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  Speaker 2: the Martian, isn't that lovely? I do enjoy your show,
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  Speaker 2: but it blocks my view of Venus. Therefore, I shall
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  Speaker 2: have to tune it out. Yeah, I love Marvin the Martian.
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  Speaker 2: He's oddly featured in the least amount of animated shorts
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  Speaker 2: in the original run. Like, literally five Marvin cartoons, and
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  Speaker 2: there's hundreds of everyone else.
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  Speaker 1: Five?
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  Speaker 2: He sells... He sells the most t-shirts. He sells the
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  Speaker 2: most merchandise for some reason.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: He's that weird little alien with the Spartan helmet on.
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  Speaker 3: Well, because you've got to have that catchphrase. It was
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  Speaker 3: supposed to go kaboom.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. Where's the kaboom? Where... There was supposed to be
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  Speaker 2: an earth-shattering kaboom. Hey, Doc, what are you doing over there? Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to blow up the earth. The earth? Hey,
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  Speaker 2: all my friends are up there. You can't do that.
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  Speaker 1: I think on that earth-shattering kaboom note... We might have
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  Speaker 1: to let you go. Coyote vs. Acme is in cinemas now.
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  Speaker 1: It's about time that he took them on.
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  Speaker 2: I say, listen, here, son, the lights are on, but
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  Speaker 2: no one's home. Boghorn is definitely in this movie. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: they should have put my name on the top billing.
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  Speaker 1: Eric Bowser, thank you so much for entertaining us this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Now I can say, that's all, folks.