0:00 can you in constant bug's voice tell us about when you lost your virginity yes oh my God yes yes a good question well I had a baby carrot then it grew into an adult-sized carry [Music] all right everyone welcome back to a very very special segment of the hot seat because today we have in the hossy mister Eric Bowser [Applause] seat is hot so just so you know uh you've been in a hot seat before I have not been on a hot seat in a while I have a very cold ass so I'm ready for this so basically we're just gonna fire some questions at you obviously we might get a little bit steamy but before we do that we're going to start extremely dry and cold with our man over there Mr barquan all right hello hi and what's up
0:53 bud uh nothing much if you could make a sand castle of any tragic event which one would it be quick uh I would have to say the Titanic um very good choice I was kind of oddly oddly obsessed with uh the Titanic as a kid I don't know the movie well uh especially the movie but uh Billy Zane you know I love Billy Zane I'm a huge Billy Zane fan um not a Leo fan but a Billy Zane that's who you like Billy Zane in a wig always that's the first time I saw titty at a theater I think mine was uh Tango and cash with my mom and my aunt of all people it was
1:43 gross my cousins took me to the theater and I saw tits and they were like what are we gonna tell his parents but this is about you let's go yeah yeah uh it's quite the hot seat question but yeah I I remember getting this book as a kid and it was like the the details of the Titanic and what had happened and I was like should I be reading this it's kind of tragic um but I just remember the images and it was like very Tastefully done like oil painting like images of the events of the Titanic Oh the painting of an iceberg the crashes yeah the Cry of people like in lifeboats and kids and women and and people in the water and long before the movie came out and I was just like I was just so fascinated by it by people dying and drowning yeah oh wow it's really weird you're in the uh like voice acting field which I think you know for
2:33 and for a lot of people that's already outside of the normal like um traditional job rights like not engineer or doctor whatever as a kid what was your dream job I think it was I I knew at least uh at least by the eighth grade uh that I wanted to work in animation how did you even know that was a job eighth grade well because I remember getting the uh this book and again it was not the Titanic book I'm moving away from tragedy to uh to the it was like the art of Disney and it it profiled almost every piece of Animation from like you know um like even the old school black and white one the one with the dinosaur I always forget the name that's that's how much of it The Land Before Time even before that the ver I think it was like Gertie the dinosaur or something and it was like the very first time we ever saw
3:24 like a moving animated image and it was like from that all the way up until like uh Beauty and the Beast I think was the the movie it was like Little Mermaid then this was like the modern one at the time that was the one because I remember the next year they released the same book but like with like Aladdin or whatever so I remember just seeing images of people at their desks and like you know they would be in a room like this and they would be with like a pointer stick kind of like going through storyboards definitely couldn't have been a room like this it was very similar to a room like this and uh you you you would be surprised how many times you've probably driven by an animation studio or sound recording studio in this city and not even known it was there the whole time uh but yeah I I remember looking at that book and going oh wow there's there's grown-ups you know like making this stuff and I always thought that was probably what I
4:15 I'm going to do when I'm older but I didn't know how I was gonna get into it or how it would lead to voiceover I that was so you knew it was like the industry you wanted to get into but you didn't know what specific job right so it's like I could draw I could do this I could do that yeah because most people would know like go to school for theatrical dramatic arts if you want to be an actor I didn't know that I didn't I didn't know like to be a voice actor I didn't know that's you know it all starts with good acting so what if I could do wacky voices that gets you to the door but what keeps you in the room is the good acting the believability of this character that you're trying to portray when when did you know you were good at animation and drawing uh as a kid I was always the one in class where everyone if there was a project that involved art or drawings I
5:06 would always be the one where other kids would be like can you draw this for me you were that kid I'll give you a Twinkie if you draw this clearly I work with Twinkies but um but yeah it was even teachers they were like can you can you draw the the program can you I did a caricature soliciting your skills Adventures teachers before grade these papers long before art teacher before me too movement uh I was being abused by teaching no I'm just kidding I had nothing but support from my teachers growing up as a kid even in high school like almost everyone has like a bad experience in either elementary school or high school or college I've had nothing but pure luck when it's come to you know people knew that I was distracted easily but instead of scolding me for that that they would say go do the morning announcement so I would do the announcement is that public schools yeah Catholic public school wow
5:57 you were just doing a wacky voices all the time I was making fun of teachers I was wow that's so cool valedictorian in high school and I should have not there were like so many but because they liked your voice they're like do we want to be bored by like a couple nerds are like entertained by this kid and they picked me and I was doing like impressions of all the teachers and stuff and I don't know it was it was wild whatever sorry is was did you ever do a talent show or like anything like that I was always hosting like those shows like for assemblies and school functions and stuff I was always making videos there's there's you know I have them all still on VHS like I was editing and shooting video and yeah you know like there's always a kid we always knew a kid in in school that did that or gravitated towards it I imagine that's what you guys you know you guys are entertainers you guys are all the same we're we're all freaks here so um
6:49 we we copied just people we knew but you copied the greatest well I mean but still you're here I by the way I'm I'm a guest here I'm not the host so I feel like how did we even get Bugs Bunny here because man you you someone said you'd pay me in Olympia so I'm like still waiting for that right Bart what the hell dude my mom's coming soon to bring it uh where did you grow up uh Scarborough so Scarborough Ontario this is where uh Mike Myers came from John Candy uh Drake uh wow this is the difference between a Canadian upbringing and an American upbringing what's the difference life is nicer look at his teachers are nice oh yeah no one's beating his ass every day true yeah maybe I don't know like I'm sure there's some amazing
7:40 people here and I mean look you know again we're looking at you guys from our our point of view in America yeah we're we're did you grow up big America was batshit crazy yes I know though I know yeah but I live here I live here I don't live I've lived the last 15 20 years here so so when have you used your impression skills that got you in trouble oh in trouble uh in trouble in trouble um probably like prank calls I guess uh that's so good you know when does that even exist anymore I was a huge fan of the Jerky Boys if you guys remember yeah that's that's in that same era I remember that I remember Paul yeah
8:32 did you did did you do a lot of prank calls growing up oh yeah all the time oh man I love those I mean just I wasn't wasn't specifically a voice I guess it was just like any any anything I did them as yourself yeah he just likes prank calling Eric is that you yeah yeah I mean I guess but I don't even remember a time where I was caught for doing that and got in trouble that's okay I might have to might have to come back and think about that it's a very interesting question gotten in trouble hmm has there ever been a time where you're like man I don't want to keep doing this this job worth this oh man for me like I think and and you guys can agree it's like this industry will never tell you to stop or take a break it's almost like you can't right
9:23 because as soon as you stop it's someone else is gonna do it oh yeah it feels like you're always not doing enough right yeah but again you guys are like it's the wild west right now it's self-sustained you have like amazing equipment in here you guys have amazing editors and like production value and stuff and and no one's telling you to stop right it's like you know we we burnt out and then we fell off oh wow yeah that's what happened ████ we've been online for about 16 years man with no breaks no brakes yeah and no one just break up I'm not complaining it's ████ hilarious exactly I mean we get to do what we love for a living and this is my break from my other things that I do now right so this used to be my main thing but now it's like I've done I do other things I come here and I'm like thank God I'm here with you guys I think that's the ultimate Doom right is like
10:14 when you start feeling like and this is how it started feeling at the animation job that I had was I felt like the you know like the lettuce guy at Taco Bell like someone would hand me a taco and I'd be like okay here's the lettuce here's just hand it to the Tomato guy and that's kind of how animation felt because I was the guy that was you know I would get a script and a storyboard and I would have to draw like the final poses of someone one and then hand that off to an animator and they would make that character move very assembly line almost yeah and that's what I miss the most about working in animation is the camaraderie right it's being around people that like all we would do is you know you know like like get trashed uh on Fridays and like show up to work late leave late uh send each other dumb videos over chats you know you're at this desk for like eight hours drawing negotiate the deadline
11:05 overall yeah oh my God go get a coffee break so this is the 10 minute 52 second uh portion of the video where we start turning up the heat on our questions and stuff like that I know Chris has got a really great question of course she does have a good one for you have you ever used your voices in the bedroom in the bedroom like what do you mean like uh when I make my bed in the morning yeah That's all folks can you do that can you do that I mean uh I mean my volcano blue I might not ever use that voice again but uh um and you are recording it that's good there's three cameras here and the phone oh I mean Porky's that we both only wear a jacket with nothing else underneath and a bow tie no pants
11:57 that's how folks to the ladies yeah but um I don't think I have and I think that you know no one's ever asked you ever no never never I haven't dated anyone that uh that kinky or that daring uh uh so you never had an animation groupie um and they're like oh do the voice yeah animations right away super wet yeah yeah yeah right away obviously with my my first answer of um obviously maybe I have but it was never like like that it was never like hey can you do the voice while I'm you know if anyone ever ask you when I'm about to harambe has anyone ever asked you to do a voice that doesn't exist like oh can you please do the Wiley Coyote voice yeah and that'll be like
12:47 yeah I'm just draw it out for them has there been a time that you were super frustrated that you couldn't get the voice right yes yes yes yes yes I mean again like uh Miley coyote I would say well bugs but also like uh I was like uh 2012 they rebooted Ninja Turtles and I was uh uh maybe the third or fourth person to voice Raphael in the pilot oh wow and then later they're like well you know we we really enjoyed you know and I also did like a live event like all the things were leading up to like me voicing Raph and then I got uh switched out oh last minute with this uh young actor by the name of uh Sean Aston I don't know if you've heard of this guy uh he was in Lord of the Rings uh he was Mikey from
13:39 Goonies he's a very famous actor oh yeah and uh a super nice guy and did a hell of a job as Raphael um but you're like ████ this guy but he wasn't like you gotta know what a crumpet is to understand Cricket yeah yeah that that's like one of my favorite versions of Raph is the live action I don't like the new Ninja Turtles how they changed them I like the surfer guys that I grew up with right the classics I mean I think that they have to change it I guess because you know I'm gonna get like more business in a sense where like they want to make new toys they want to make stuff different they have to keep and like Taylor Swift right they have to keep Reinventing or whatever to kind of maintain those rights or to to kind of I don't know just to keep things different I'm gonna disagree with you because they didn't do that to Mikey I mean Mickey
14:29 Mickey you invented Mickey Mouse no but like they didn't ████ make okay so the difference is they kept Mickey cute they didn't make Mickey all buff and ████ with veins popping out looking all weird and ████ like that's what they did to the Ninja Turtles Ninja Turtles they were cute cool ninjas man and then they put them on steroids what the hell is going on they don't believe they don't belong in a ████ uh super jacked they don't like a it's a bodybuilding show now well yeah again well they're mute mutants right so like they might have they might have mutated into bigger better you know but they look like a throbbing boner I don't like that I just want to see a Ninja Turtle how different yeah a flash of turtle how different was that other guys wrap to yours well uh definitely I loved his performance Sean's performance as ref because he has that
15:19 kind of naturally kind of gruff kind of husky sounding voice you know and that's kind of the attitude that they were aiming for for that character and it was natural you know what I mean I may have been putting actually I I think this is actually one of the notes was that at the time Jason Biggs from American Pie was voicing Leo and my voice my natural voice print was kind of similar to his that edge kind of sound and I was trying to be a little bit more Gruff and and act in a different way which was different from how he was acting yeah your voice does sound like Jason bass voice but at the end of the day the edge of my voice sounds a lot similar to his they wanted something different yeah and if you listen to Sean Aston he has like this really kind of the way he talks is so much different then but but it's funny because he Jason Biggs ended up getting switched out with Seth Green
16:09 which later was so different from everyone else so again it's sometimes you can't get mad at not getting a voice because it's not really politics it's just how the chemistry works and all that stuff and even with bugs like I auditioned for bugs and it was literally 10 years had gone by until they auditioned him again and then that's when I booked it so I think uh if there are young voice actors and performers out there it doesn't have to be voice it'll come around when one door closes three open oh we got to turn up the heat even more because I feel like this is just a very it was a disappointing answer for you I'm sorry okay I'm gonna lie and say all the ladies I've dated I've done so many voices in the sack that you know I can't even have an erection now without going yeah
17:01 he passed around a lot on Twitter tomorrow you could say no but um but I'm sure you won't say no can you in constant bug's voice tell us about when you lost your virginity yes oh my God yes that's a good question I mean you do have a son so we're pretty sure yeah you can't lie yeah it's a story that you can tell him just use euphemisms yeah well I had a baby carrot then it grew into an adult-sized Kitty and then I'll stop there I have to I want to keep the job I just I feel like I just got here I mean they'll let me say that and then okay I'll get anything further yeah I will oh yeah oh boy I was like have you um ever dealt with like having to tell your parents what you do for a living
17:52 and then like them just like being what is that well you know I think at the beginning they were like so you're gonna do what you know you can draw cartoons all day again they they they knew what kind of kid I was growing up and I I don't think it was a surprise and I was also very nurtured by um uh an uncle my my mom's eldest brother who was like the first family member on that side to immigrate from the Philippines to like Canada and he was like it's it's too ████ cold here so he moved he moved to L.A and he passed away like last year unfortunately but he was the guy that was like always sending me clippings of like hey look at this like come to L.A yes always and I have all those clippings still and uh it's crazy like newspaper clippings L.A times I was always like he would date it and like you know send a couple bucks if
18:44 he could and just be always like the guy that was like hey you're gonna move here one day and you're gonna work in this industry and it wasn't even like a question wow did he work in an industry or what did he do he worked in like real estate and uh you know owed the IRS a lot of money [Laughter] agents have you ever been approached to do a voice acting job that you were like either not down for or uncomfortable to do or ah yes yes yes if you uh if you like uh Japanese hentai oh I love it holy ████ for real yeah he does all the girls if you just click back on your browser uh to what you were watching yesterday it's probably me uh no no uh just other other roles that uh you know
19:34 maybe like uh unspoken might should be done by a certain person Whoever has held it the longest you know but at the end of the day as performers you can't it's not up to us as actors who decides who plays who you know it's it's up to the people producing it and and writing the stories and directing the stories and who are casting these roles that make those decisions so yeah there's there's definitely been you know rules in the past Legacy characters anyways where I tried to stay away um but I've been asked so many times over and over again to to perform these characters oh that must feel awesome where you're like I ain't gonna touch that and then they're like please yeah yeah need somebody nobody can do it but you where I've done and that's that's a really good Roger Rabbit thank you I I heard it uh you know I don't know what I
20:25 was doing but yeah you're gonna get copyright strike now yeah but but yeah like there have been moments where I've actually backed away and turned down and it was like literally like a couple like a month or two had gone by and they're like we're not We're not gonna work with anyone we only want to work with you does that mean like you could go well I'll do it for another million well you can come back and ask for more that's not even like even in my mind at that point it's just you're such an artist for me it's still like the respect and and kind of just like you know knowing who was there before you and uh you know but it's not up to me it's if I'd rather I'd rather at that point I'm like well I want to make it good at least like if they're not gonna work with so and so and they want to work with you know someone like I'd rather it go to someone that can execute well versus
21:15 like okay we're gonna settle on not that person not that person but maybe that person I'd rather just be okay look you've tried we tried to work things out clearly it's not working out I'll step in and and do the job oh wow I have a kind of hot question what's your thoughts on uh the current uh situation where really talented voice actors are losing work to just celebrities oh yeah I mean that's been around for uh that's hot it's a hot it's still a hot button issue and I thought you're actually gonna go with authentic casting too with like with racial diversity and stuff since you're doing Antonio Banderas but you're and I'm not I'm not like authentically where he's from yeah we do have Indian kid yeah yeah Indian Ken so um that's amazing you know like again I think with voice over it's always it's never for me ever been about like what you look like right that's the beauty of it is that you can
22:06 walk into a room and not be six feet or you could be too short or too tall for a roll or too wide or that's what it's called voice acting right yeah right it's all about the ability to act with your voice and not about what you look like and um there are definite cases where you see a celebrity step into the role and it's amazing and I think it'll for me it really started with Robin Williams as the genie you know like he was a celebrity but he was not he was like a card he was amazing and like I think the the but not everyone can do it Robin did you know what I mean that's an anomaly you know what I mean it's talented like they they based everything either the design of the character look like Robin so which celebrity that stepped into voice acting you're like ████ this ████ just get them out it's even skillful it's just obvious when like some folks phoned
22:58 it in uh like you could hear the phone like the the other driving through [Music] just like that uh I like it when a a celebrity comes in and they have uh you know Tom Kenny was saying it the guy who voices SpongeBob he's like there are people that do character voices like that like SpongeBob or people that have voices with character so like someone like Chris Rock or Eddie Murphy or or uh Seth Rogen you know oh yeah they already come with them like yeah something unique Gilbert Godfrey yes fake I found out it's all fake what's that he's he's still alive he no he doesn't oh he's a real voice he doesn't speak though right right was it super chill I didn't know that yeah but but you know it became so but but you know what I think you developed that on stage right with
23:49 stand-up yeah I think that was part of it the SNL he didn't sound like that yeah so I think it's like when they come in with like something that is so familiar that you're like oh it it works you know like for the character like Eddie Murphy is uh in Mulan you know as the dragon Mushu so what would you do if you did a take and then the director was like can you do it more like this oh man I mean there's there's been Chinese or not yeah you don't sound like you're pulling your eyes back enough uh you know again it's it's authentic it's it's great that's a great it's a hot hot tea questions yeah uh where better Vietnamese accents than Vietnamese people do right so then you should get hired for those video games where uh you know I should be if there's never a video game um fighting Viet Cong That should be me they're they're very well might be uh
24:41 and if they're not after they watch this they're gonna make uh yeah but do you just like draw the one line and go I'm not gonna do that you yes it's up to you and I think like I'll do it you know it's crazy too it's like sometimes they'll call for you like oh yeah like we need a Filipino actor and then like you go in there and they're like don't do the accent just do your normal voice you know then why get a Filipino guy they just they need to favor the uh say they could have an accent yeah I know right I have a Filipino Canadian accent yeah uh but yeah it's it's crazy to know now like people are now paying attention to that you know the authenticity in in not just the Performing but I like that if we're going that far down there's authenticity in the storytelling like if you're gonna write a story about Filipinos growing up in La you better get Filipinos they grew up in La that
25:32 had that experience you know yeah we're totally out of time but last question Bart loves uh would you rather ████ your mom or your dad all right I'm gonna go with my brother because he's a mixture of both so it's both thank you for sharing [Applause] I'm here I was like who am I gonna ████ thank you foreign
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