FRI PT 2: Bobby Reveals Our Mystery Guest!

Summary

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The Bobby Bones Show – Episode Summary

Episode: FRI PT 2: Bobby Reveals Our Mystery Guest!
Airdate: February 20, 2026
Main Theme:
A surprise in-studio appearance by legendary animator Butch Hartman, creator of "The Fairly OddParents" and "Danny Phantom." The crew dives into voice acting, animation, Butch’s career, his new studio and family-friendly projects, with live audition fun and candid industry advice.

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1. Introduction & Mystery Guest Reveal

• [00:00–03:03]
  • Bobby Bones sets the stage: the show’s cast do not know who the guest is.
  • Lunchbox tries to guess, shouting “That’s Oz!” as Butch enters.
  • Bobby teases that the mystery guest will “affect this room in such a way that they're going to explode.”

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2. Meet Butch Hartman

• [03:03–06:25]
  • Introduction of Butch Hartman, famous for creating “The Fairly OddParents,” “Danny Phantom,” “T.U.F.F. Puppy,” and “Bunsen Is a Beast.”
  • Butch gifts Bobby a fresh Cosmo doodle. “That’s a drawing of Cosmo on a post-it. That’s for you.” [04:05, Butch Hartman]
  • “Fairly OddParents” ran for 18 years and still airs, but no new episodes are being made.

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3. Butch’s Origin Story

• [05:05–06:25]
  • Started drawing as a child in Michigan, moved to California, dreamed of working at Disney (but never did).
  • Pitched his idea to a new Nickelodeon in the 1990s; “A little boy with two fairy godparents that grant his every wish, but they get it wrong all the time.”
  • Survived nerve-wracking focus tests with actual kids.

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4. Voice Acting Workshop (On-Air Auditions!)

• [06:32–17:14]
  • The crew shares their aspirations to break into voiceover work.
  • Butch’s Key Voice Acting Advice:
    • "The best thing that makes a good voice actor is making a good choice. If you come in with a choice that helps me make my day easier, that's going to make me happy." [06:59, Butch Hartman]
    • Emphasizes emotional choices and improv skills.
  • Live Audition Highlights:
    • Amy performs ‘sad princess turned into a frog’ — Butch suggests, “Let’s have a little more energy…” [08:21]
    • Eddie does his ‘neurotic horse dad’ for a My Little Pony spin-off audition.
      • “I mean, the plants, they're all gonna die.” [13:56, Eddie]
    • Lunchbox delivers an over-the-top “tiger gym coach” persona:
      • “Oh, hello, little Jimmy and Sally and Susie. Guess what today is? It's dodgeball! Jimmy, you're over there. Boys versus girls. You know why? Boys rule and girls drool.” [16:17, Lunchbox]
    • Butch’s feedback throughout is warm, practical, and specific.

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5. Butch’s New Projects & Family Animation Focus

• [11:43–14:35]
  • Launched Butch Hartman Studios after leaving Nickelodeon in 2018.
  • Current flagship: “The Garden” (on Angel Studios)—a Biblical cartoon for kids.
    • “It’s a cartoon called The Garden, that teaches kids the Bible, which is real exciting.” [11:48, Butch Hartman]
    • Angel Studios is all family-friendly content.
  • Butch: “I want to make sure kids have a safe place to go, but an entertaining place to go to. That's what I'm trying to do.” [12:29]

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6. Industry Insights: Animation, Content & Careers

• [14:29–18:43]
  • Commitment to uplifting, positive programming drawn from his faith and sense of responsibility.
  • Discusses the challenge and privilege of sustaining long-running kids’ characters.
  • On current animation trends:
    • “Parents want to feel like they can put the phone in front of their kids and just walk away and take a breather...I just want to create great characters that kids can fall in love with and want to watch again over and over.” [18:02, Butch Hartman]

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7. Career Anecdotes – Game Shows & Early Hustle

• [18:44–20:55]
  • Butch recounts moving to California, attending CalArts, and working his way through Hanna Barbera, Amblin Productions, and more.
  • Funny aside: Appeared on two game shows, winning ~$177,000.

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8. Behind the Scenes of "The Garden" & Family Work

• [22:03–23:19]
  • Butch works closely with his wife Julianne, who handles the business side.
  • “She is my main motivator in life. And she also handles all the money. So be nice to my wife.” [22:08, Butch Hartman]
  • Describes “The Garden” as “Fairly OddParents with scripture.”

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9. Inside Animation: Making a Hit

• [23:50–25:05]
  • Episode order and longevity depend on ratings, which “Fairly OddParents” often topped—even over SpongeBob at times.
  • Financial rewards: royalties and residuals for show creators.

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10. The Realities of Hollywood & Auditioning

• [25:05–28:53]
  • Butch enjoys telling people he “draws cartoons”—the reaction is always surprise.
  • Voice acting casting process:
    • A ‘reel’ (2-minute demo) is sifted by agents—out of thousands, maybe 10 get to Butch; he picks one.
      • “It's a very, very competitive field.” [28:53]
    • Sometimes has to recast voices if it doesn’t work in production—even with celebrities.

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11. Audience Q&A

• [25:57–32:33]
  • Amy: Dreams of voicing a fish. Butch notes the Fairly OddParents fairies would become fish in Timmy’s room and encourages her.
    • Gives Amy a line: “‘The bubbles tickle!’” [27:49]
  • Eddie: Asks about the logistics of auditioning (reels, agents, competitive process).
  • Lunchbox: Angles for direct contact: “So if you could just shoot me over your email and your phone number, and that way you have lines. You want me to, you know, test out. Drop them to me and I'll send them back.”
    • Butch deadpans: “My email is don't email me at Butchart.” [29:54]
  • Mike D (fan/animator): Asks about breaking in as an animator—Butch says build a portfolio that impresses and makes the producer’s life easier.

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12. Lightning Round & Closing

• [32:33–34:44]
  • “The Garden” entered season two with Angel Studios, has two movies out.
  • Mike D receives a Timmy doodle (“That’s for Mike right there, that’s your little…”). [34:30]
  • Butch plugs his socials (“@ButchHartman,” 2.4M TikTok followers).
  • Crew expresses gratitude and excitement; Butch thanks them and invites everyone to his convention booth.

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Notable Quotes

• Butch Hartman on Acting:

  “The best thing that makes a good voice actor is making a good choice... If you come in with a choice that helps me make my day easier, that's going to make me happy.” [06:59]

• On Faith and Content:

  “There’s a ton of kids that won’t ever go into a church, but they’re all going to have a phone to look at. ...So I want to make sure at least I can put a healthy option on the screen and something that's uplifting for kids and families.” [14:35]

• On Hollywood Odds:

  “Selling a show is like throwing a dart through a donut. But the donuts on a merry go round… you got to keep throwing and you got to keep trying.” [24:48]

• Lunchbox, on ambition:

  “Just let me get– jot down your number and your email so we can skip through all the agents and all that.” [29:33]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

| Segment | Timestamp | |------------------------------- |:----------:| | Guest reveal and reactions | 01:38–03:03| | Butch’s animation career intro | 04:05–06:25| | Voice acting audition advice | 06:53–08:55| | Amy’s audition (Princess) | 07:47–08:55| | Eddie’s “horse dad” audition | 12:37–13:59| | Lunchbox’s “tiger gym coach” | 16:13–16:33| | Butch on launching his studio | 11:43–12:29| | Angel Studios/The Garden details| 12:04–14:29| | Animation trends/parental needs | 18:02–18:43| | Breaking into TV/early hustles | 18:44–20:55| | Surviving casting and auditions | 25:05–28:53| | Amy performs a fish | 27:57–28:01| | Mike D’s animator question | 32:01–32:33| | Butch plugs socials, doodling | 33:34–34:44|

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Memorable Moments

• Butch gifting real-time character sketches to Bobby and Mike.
• Genuine voice acting critiques and laughs during live cast auditions.
• Lunchbox’s relentless quest to shortcut the Hollywood process.
• Butch’s blend of humor, wisdom, and encouragement throughout.

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Summary

This episode offers a fun, lively deep-dive into the world of animation and voice acting with Butch Hartman at the heart—enriching the crew with guidance, inspiration, and a little drawing magic. Aspiring creatives will find practical advice and some much-needed reality on breaking into the industry, while fans get a heartwarming peek behind the scenes of some of the biggest cartoons of the last 20 years.

Transcript

[Butch Hartman]

This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm Bobby Bones from the Bobby Bones Show. Whether you're a seasoned small business owner or if you're just thinking about getting started, check out season four of Mind the Business small business success stories from iHeartMedia's Ruby Studio and Intuit QuickBooks. In this latest season, hosts Austin Hankwitz and Janice Torres are talking to self starters about the ins and outs of entrepreneurship and how QuickBooks helps you get more done in less time. You won't want to miss it. Listen to Mind the Business Small business success Stories on the iHeart app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Okay, this is very exciting. So Butch Hartman's about to come in, and I'm actually recording this after the interview, just so you guys know. So the setup. So Butch Hartman, as you'll know, created the fairly oddparents. Danny Phantom, big animation guy, now has his own studio. You'll hear all about it. But Scuba Steve came to me and was like, hey, do you want to have Butch Hartman on? And we have a little meeting after the show most days. And I was like, I don't know, like, why? And he goes, well, everybody on the show is trying to do voiceovers. And I was like, oh, that is perfect. So you are going to hear. And I thought it was super fun, super compelling. The entire interview now with Butch Hartman, who now has Butch Hartman Studios, and he makes his own cartoons under his own company. But I think to all of us on the show, this was super fun. So here he is, and you can follow him. Butch Hartman. But us, the show did not know who was coming in, by the way. And then Lunchbox thought it was O's that he's already yelling, that's Oz. You'll hear it. Okay, Butch Hartman, here we go.

[Lunchbox]

The Bobby Bones Show.

[Bobby Bones]

We're about to have a guest enter the studio. I think everybody's gonna be like, what in the world?

[Lunchbox]

Let's go.

[Bobby Bones]

I think everybody's gonna get very excited. I don't think you'll recognize this person's face when he walks in. But when I tell you who it is and he sits down at the microphone, then I think everybody will sit up just a little bit taller and be on a little better behavior. Any guesses, Amy?

[Amy]

I have. Honestly, I'm stumped.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm gonna say I love this guest booking so much, but why do they

[Amy]

not look like who we know them to be?

[Bobby Bones]

You will not know them to be. No, they don't have a mask on. You will not Know them to be this.

[Eddie]

It's about something that they. They've done.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, he's walking in.

[Lunchbox]

Are we going to recognize him?

[Bobby Bones]

He's walking in now. Come on in.

[Lunchbox]

What is up, lunchbox?

[Eddie]

There's no way you.

[Lunchbox]

Let's go.

[Butch Hartman]

I wasn't expecting.

[Lunchbox]

Let's go.

[Bobby Bones]

Great to see you. Have a seat.

[Lunchbox]

Let's go.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you know who that is?

[Lunchbox]

Let's go.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you know who that is?

[Butch Hartman]

I'm ready.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you know who it is?

[Butch Hartman]

I know who it is. Who?

[Lunchbox]

That's Oz.

[Butch Hartman]

What?

[Lunchbox]

O, no.

[Butch Hartman]

Oh, my God. Oh, the.

[Lunchbox]

He's got his pen and paper, man.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you have a microphone, Butch? By you anywhere?

[Butch Hartman]

I do have a.

[Lunchbox]

You don't talk about the guy. You.

[Butch Hartman]

I do.

[Bobby Bones]

So, Butch, first of all, I'm so excited you're here. You have no idea the timeliness of you being here. This is the greatest gift that you're here today.

[Butch Hartman]

Really?

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. For a couple of reasons. Oh, my gosh. We haven't told them who you are or what you do yet because you're gonna affect this room in such a way that they're going to explode.

[Butch Hartman]

Okay. Am I safe over here?

[Bobby Bones]

You're safe. There's gonna be no liquids. Okay. So, everybody, this is Butch Hartman. Butch Hartman is known for creating Nickelodeon classics like the Fairly Odd Parents, but that's awesome.

[Butch Hartman]

I got zero reaction.

[Bobby Bones]

They're all trying to be cartoon voice actors. Butch. No, I'm trying to take Danny Phantom.

[Lunchbox]

Oh.

[Butch Hartman]

Oh.

[Bobby Bones]

All right.

[Lunchbox]

So we're doing auditions.

[Butch Hartman]

Wait, Cartoons.

[Amy]

Hey, hey, Lunchbox. Give it a sec.

[Butch Hartman]

Let's go.

[Bobby Bones]

But I told you they're gonna freak out.

[Butch Hartman]

Butch, I have nowhere else to go.

[Bobby Bones]

Can I get behind the couch? Get behind the couch. How you doing?

[Lunchbox]

What do you need?

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. So, Butch, first of all, it is a pleasure to meet you.

[Butch Hartman]

Well, first of all, thanks for having me on. I'm grateful to be here. Thanks. Great to meet you, too.

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. This is. They're all now going to start going, how can I impress Butch? So you just be ready for that.

[Butch Hartman]

Okay. Squeaky the squirrel here.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. See, they're going to start super impressed

[Butch Hartman]

already, by the way. Super impressed you're wearing Butch.

[Eddie]

It's very nice.

[Butch Hartman]

You like that? Oh, thank you very much. My wife dressed me today.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah. That is a good jacket.

[Butch Hartman]

Thank you.

[Bobby Bones]

You created fairly odd parents.

[Butch Hartman]

I created fairly odd parents back in 1997. That's how old I am. I know. That's how old I am. Yes. 1997. And it was just a little like a drawing so actually I brought you a gift, by the way. That's a drawing of Cosmo on a post it. That's for you. I brought that for you.

[Bobby Bones]

Look at this.

[Butch Hartman]

Yeah, so there you go. That's old drawing. Cosmo and I signed up. I found a post it in the green room. So hope you don't mind if I took that.

[Eddie]

You just drew that right now?

[Butch Hartman]

Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

[Bobby Bones]

See, I don't even want to take it.

[Butch Hartman]

I'm going to repeat the process for all of you.

[Bobby Bones]

I want one on one. Nobody else gets one. No, I'm just kidding. Fairly Odd Parents are hilarious, by the way.

[Butch Hartman]

Thank you.

[Bobby Bones]

That it runs that long. Like the only show that I ran

[Butch Hartman]

for it ran for 18 years on Nickelodeon.

[Bobby Bones]

And they still. I still see it.

[Butch Hartman]

It's on all the time. Yeah, it still runs all the time.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you still make new ones?

[Butch Hartman]

No, we don't make new ones anymore. But I made. I made Fairly odd parents. I did Danny Phantom at the same time.

[Bobby Bones]

Danny Phantom's awesome.

[Butch Hartman]

That was my other one. And then I don't hear anybody cheering, by the way. Nobody's cheering for my show because they're already. What's the next show?

[Lunchbox]

Let's go.

[Butch Hartman]

And then a show called Tough Puppy and one called Bunsen Is a Beast. So had a great time at nickelodeon for 20 years.

[Bobby Bones]

How did you start, like, what were you an artist? And you said, I have this idea and I've drawn this.

[Butch Hartman]

Well, I've been drawing since I was a little kid. And then I got into the industry. I'm from Michigan originally. And then I ended up going to California to go to school. Wanted to work for Disney, never did. And then ended up finding my way to through the industry. Worked for many years. And then they were basically. Nickelodeon was pretty new in the 90s and they were looking for show ideas. And so I went in with this idea I thought was kind of fun. A little boy with two fairy godparents that grant his every wish. But they get it wrong all the time and they liked it. So I got to make one cartoon and then after that they loved that one so much I got to make like three more. Four more. So I had about 10 little short cartoons I made pretty much by myself. And then they focus tested them. You guys ever been in a Focus Test before? It's a terrifying thing where they put kids in a room to watch your show and you're behind a piece of glass and you can't go in and the kids watch your show and they give you like you know, they vote on it. And luckily the kids like the show. And so Nickelodeon picked it up as a series in March of 2001. That's when it first aired.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you ever draw for other shows before you had your own shows?

[Butch Hartman]

Yeah, multiple. Multiple. I ended up doing. I worked at, you know, Hanna Barbera. I worked at Amblin Productions. I worked all over the place as much as I could. And you had to learn all these different styles of show art before you can, you know, make your own stuff.

[Bobby Bones]

That is so cool. Now, so what. Let me give you some background on this show.

[Butch Hartman]

Yes, yes.

[Bobby Bones]

So they have all, in their own respective ways, auditioned for different. I would say not voice over, but like voice actor roles.

[Butch Hartman]

You guys are in the vocal realm. You guys do vocal things. I get it.

[Amy]

For like 20 years.

[Bobby Bones]

They have microphones.

[Lunchbox]

That's true.

[Butch Hartman]

You're in a room with microphones on a show. Yes.

[Lunchbox]

What makes a good voice actor? Like, tell me. Talk to me.

[Butch Hartman]

The best thing that makes a good voice actor is making a good choice. If you come in with a choice that helps me make my day easier, that's going to make me happy.

[Amy]

What do you mean by choice?

[Lunchbox]

Oh, Amy, if, you know, you know,

[Bobby Bones]

let him answer the question. Go ahead.

[Butch Hartman]

You'll thank it. For example, like, if. If the character is like a beautiful young princess who is sad that she's been turned into a frog. Right. You need to come in and show me how that princess would act. Now, would that princess be. Would she just be a normal voice or would you have a choice? Meaning would you make an emotional choice there because you come in with some emotion or like, and you can be funny on top of it.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Butch Hartman]

I would say, I'll give you a line. I'll give you a line of dialogue if you say, I can't believe the witch turned me into a frog, but I shall rise again.

[Amy]

I can't believe the witch turned me into a frog, but I. I shall rise again.

[Butch Hartman]

Not bad. Not bad at all.

[Amy]

That wasn't happiness. It was hope.

[Bobby Bones]

Let him react, everyone.

[Lunchbox]

He's being nice. I saw.

[Amy]

Don't tell him what he's being sad

[Bobby Bones]

to hopeful, but go ahead. I'm sorry. Please give.

[Butch Hartman]

First of all, I thought that was fantastic audition. I just threw it at you too. And that was a terrible line I made up. But you made it better, so that was really.

[Amy]

It wasn't terrible.

[Butch Hartman]

Let's try one more.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Butch Hartman]

I would. I would say this. I would say this as a voice direct. I'd say, let's have a little more energy.

[Eddie]

Oh, so I thought too.

[Butch Hartman]

And I know I normally give line reads anyway, so be like, I can't believe I could turn into a frog. But I surai make it really big.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Butch Hartman]

Let's really feel it. I want you to outdo the guy with the bear on his shirt. Okay, ready? Here we go. Ready? On account of three. One, two, three.

[Amy]

I can't believe I was turned into a frog. But I shall rise again.

[Butch Hartman]

Oh, there you go.

[Bobby Bones]

See?

[Butch Hartman]

You feel the difference.

[Bobby Bones]

Great job.

[Butch Hartman]

Beautiful.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm the only one clapping because you guys are all haters.

[Lunchbox]

It wasn't believable.

[Eddie]

I'm just waiting for my line.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm ready when I wasn't believable. But some more questions.

[Butch Hartman]

Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

[Bobby Bones]

I would think that everyone thinks they could do cartoon VO's Bobby Bones.

[Butch Hartman]

You're exactly right. Everybody thinks they can. And people can do funny voices, but it's got to have the acting behind it. And like I said, when you come in with a choice, like. And by the way, thanks for doing that. I didn't mean to put you on the spot. You did great. But people come in. If you can make my day easier as a producer, like, if I can write to that voice. You just did. I've had people come in, wasn't expecting anything from them, and they did this great line read, and I went, wait, I can make that a permanent character in the show. You know, that character we can write for that. Like the guy who played Mr. Crocker on Fairly Oddparents. Mother F. You know, very oddparents. Carlos, Alice Racky came in, and I said, he's just a crazy teacher. And he goes, if I combine Richard Dreyfus with Willy Wonka, and he made this incredible voice. And so we started writing that character into the show, became one of the most iconic characters on the show. So a voice actor can pretty much make a living out of a character they create if they come in with a great choice, you know, what feedback

[Bobby Bones]

would you give Amy overall for if she is auditioning for roles?

[Butch Hartman]

I think Amy did a fantastic job. I think if you want to use strike me as somebody who can do a lot of things, and I do comedy a lot. Do you love comedy?

[Amy]

I've taken improv, but.

[Butch Hartman]

Oh, perfect. Yeah. I would say the cool thing is about you got a great voice already and you're really confident. And if you. If you could maybe just meeting you for two seconds here. Always keep working on the comedy and see if you can make that even stronger and get those improv skills even more. More honed because, like, I just threw that line at you. And you did great. But even being, like, being insane, like this guy over here, you know, can sometimes help being.

[Amy]

Yes, yes.

[Butch Hartman]

Yeah. But you did great, though. You did great.

[Bobby Bones]

So the guy here in the blue shirt just auditioned for a role.

[Butch Hartman]

Hey, Eddie. How's it going, man?

[Bobby Bones]

Eddie, tell Butch about the role you auditioned for.

[Eddie]

Yes, I auditioned for. It's like a spin off of My Little Pony, basically. And they wanted a dad who was one of the horses.

[Butch Hartman]

And it's a horse dad.

[Eddie]

It's a horse dad. And almost like a two caring dad. Like, it's a very worrisome dad about his kids and 40s to 50s. And I was like, that's me. So they brought. They gave me some lines. I sent them whatever, you know, they asked for. I haven't heard anything back, but it's been a couple of weeks.

[Bobby Bones]

Would you like to run them by Butch?

[Butch Hartman]

Sure.

[Eddie]

The lines.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Butch Hartman]

Do you got the lines? Right here.

[Eddie]

Let me pull them up.

[Butch Hartman]

And it's a horse. Now we're supposed to be going for comedy here. Is this, like, supposed to be really sincere? What did they ask you for?

[Eddie]

They said that the horse is just worried about his kids at all times.

[Butch Hartman]

Got it. So I can see some comedy in that little over. Little. Little neurotic.

[Eddie]

Okay, okay, okay.

[Butch Hartman]

See, a little neurotic.

[Lunchbox]

Don't give him tips.

[Butch Hartman]

He.

[Lunchbox]

He already.

[Bobby Bones]

Lunchbox. You're not Butch's boss.

[Butch Hartman]

Lunchbox is constantly telling me he's not the boss of me.

[Bobby Bones]

No, he's not the boss. Butch, do you live in la?

[Butch Hartman]

I do live in la, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you start a new studio?

[Butch Hartman]

I did start a new studio.

[Bobby Bones]

And so now what does that mean for you? Are you now creating and have everybody

[Butch Hartman]

on here creating a whole bunch of brand new stuff? And I got some brand new shows. We have one that's on Angel Studios right now. It's a cartoon called the Garden cartoon that teaches kids the Bible, which is real exciting. So you guys can see Angel Studios. But I got. I left Nickelodeon in 2018 to do my own stuff. So we have a whole bunch of new IP coming out pretty soon.

[Bobby Bones]

When you say Angel Studios, how do we find that?

[Butch Hartman]

It's on the Angel Studios platform. Angel Studios, they. They were best known for the chosen.

[Bobby Bones]

So we can download the app.

[Butch Hartman]

Download the app, download the platform. They're one of the biggest out there in the family market. It's really, really fun because a lot of platforms out there right now, that have some family friendly stuff in them, but angel is pretty much 100% family friendly.

[Amy]

Like, no surprises.

[Butch Hartman]

Pretty much.

[Amy]

For the kids.

[Butch Hartman]

No surprises. Yeah. Well, my goal is to make sure kids have a safe place to go, but an entertaining place to go to. That's what I'm trying to do. All right, Eddie, are we ready with your audition?

[Eddie]

I got the line. Okay.

[Butch Hartman]

One line.

[Eddie]

Yes. So the kid is leaving, and they're about to.

[Butch Hartman]

The horse. Kid is leaving the horse house. Correct. And the dad is worried about that horse. Dad's worried.

[Eddie]

Yes. So here's. Here's the. Here's my performance.

[Butch Hartman]

Okay. Is there a drum roll or something we could play, like?

[Bobby Bones]

There for sure is. Right.

[Butch Hartman]

Would you mind hitting some kind of a drum roll? Yeah.

[Eddie]

So what about your royal duties? I feel like you're gonna leave and just forget all about us.

[Butch Hartman]

Not bad at all.

[Lunchbox]

So was he sad, happy, or what

[Butch Hartman]

was he that, you know. Well, that's a good question. I think he sounded neurotic.

[Amy]

He sounded perplexed.

[Eddie]

Yeah, like I did not want her to leave.

[Bobby Bones]

I would say there was nuance to it. Yeah, I like that, too.

[Butch Hartman]

I probably have to hear a couple more lines to get a feel for this horse character. Does he have a name?

[Eddie]

His name is Nightlight.

[Butch Hartman]

I love that.

[Bobby Bones]

Are there more lines, Eddie?

[Eddie]

Yeah, I have to listen to the audio because all I have is my real.

[Bobby Bones]

Like you said. Why don't you just improv?

[Butch Hartman]

Yeah, improv. I'll give you a line. Okay. What about your old duty? He's like, how about, you can't leave. All the plants are going to die. Say that.

[Eddie]

Love it.

[Butch Hartman]

Well, you can't leave.

[Eddie]

I mean, all the plants are gonna die.

[Butch Hartman]

Bigger. Make it bigger.

[Lunchbox]

Come on.

[Butch Hartman]

You can't leave the plants. They're all gonna die. If you. I put a few tears in there, like Bill Murray would do. You can't leave.

[Eddie]

I mean, the plants, they're all gonna die.

[Butch Hartman]

There we go. Now we're getting. That's really good, man. He's got energy, though. I'm surrounded by talent. I'm very scared.

[Bobby Bones]

I think you're creating talent.

[Lunchbox]

Angel Studios.

[Butch Hartman]

No, but it's funny when. If you. If you can create a great character with that voice like that, I mean, think about SpongeBob. Oh, my gosh, Mr. Krabs, you know, if you could do a voice like that and just really make that character come to life, that's something that you can really build on for decades. If you can really, really nail it

[Bobby Bones]

with Angel Studios and the Content. You're creating that kids now need more of that type of content, like safe, clean content.

[Butch Hartman]

Here's what I think. I think, you know, look, I'm a Christian guy and I don't ever want anyone to think I'm trying to, you know, make sure you're a Christian or anything, but I do stuff where I want to make sure that at the end of the day, I feel good about what I put out there. There's a ton of kids that won't ever go into a church, but they're all going to have a phone to look at and you know who's putting stuff on that screen. So I want to make sure at least I can put a healthy option on the screen and something that's uplifting for kids and families. Because as a parent, I have two daughters. They're grown up now, but now I have a granddaughter. So what is she going to watch? Right? Hopefully the Princess show and Horse Dad. I think Horse dad becomes a series Nightlight and we just call it no Horse Dad. It's a funnier title. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Prince is the Princess and the Horse Dad.

[Butch Hartman]

Who wouldn't watch that? I would watch that.

[Lunchbox]

Lunchbox man, what is up?

[Butch Hartman]

But, dude, how's it going?

[Lunchbox]

I've got my ticket to la and

[Butch Hartman]

are you ready to audition? Oh, my gosh, here we go.

[Lunchbox]

I don't need to audition. I'll just move there.

[Butch Hartman]

I should draw a horse dad, by the way, while we're sitting here. All right, who's your character?

[Lunchbox]

No, no, I, I, listen, man, I am open. I'm an open book. Whatever you need me to do, I can adapt. See them, they are pigeonholed. Like, he's like, I have one character. I can come in.

[Bobby Bones]

They didn't say they had one character. They literally were just doing a character off the cuff.

[Amy]

Was a princess turning off?

[Butch Hartman]

Yeah, you did great.

[Lunchbox]

So, yeah, I mean, what, what do you want? You want angry dad?

[Butch Hartman]

You want what?

[Lunchbox]

What do you want me to be angry?

[Amy]

Sounds fitting.

[Butch Hartman]

I think just going by who you are already, I, I would never want to pull you down because that energy is great. I, I think you're like a tiger that's a gym coach. That's what I think. You're like. You're like, all right, everybody, today it's dodgeball, okay? We're playing dodgeball.

[Lunchbox]

You don't give me the line. You just tell me.

[Butch Hartman]

I ad lib you're a tiger gym coach and you're announcing it's dodgeball and you're picking teams.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Butch Hartman]

Here we go ready? One, two, three.

[Lunchbox]

Oh, hello, little Jimmy and Sally and Susie. Guess what today is? It's dodgeball. Jimmy, you're over there. Boys versus girls. You know why boys rule and girls drool.

[Butch Hartman]

Whoa. That's amazing. That's amazing. Applaud this, man.

[Lunchbox]

They're haters.

[Butch Hartman]

That was epic. See, I could draw that character in two seconds. That's great.

[Lunchbox]

See?

[Butch Hartman]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

I gave him something to work with.

[Bobby Bones]

To be fair, you did create the character that right in front of you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Butch Hartman]

He did come up. The Tiger Gym coach. That's pretty. You see it? Can you see the Tiger Gym coach, though?

[Bobby Bones]

I for sure can see a Tiger Gym coach. I saw a horse, dad, and.

[Lunchbox]

No, no, no, stop. Don't concentrate on them. Let's focus on me now.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, well, I can focus on all three of you. I thought all three of you guys

[Butch Hartman]

did a great job. And the lovely princess, who. Trying to make the story end well, struggling, and you run into these fairy tale characters who do not want to go along with the story. That's what happens.

[Bobby Bones]

Why are you in town here? What are you doing national.

[Butch Hartman]

We're at the NRB convention, a national religious broadcasters convention. I'm announcing Butch Hartman Studios there. And so we're.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, this is a whole new, like, everybody. I'm doing it.

[Butch Hartman]

Oh, yeah. We have a huge booth and everything. It's massive. We're announcing eight new shows. Yes.

[Amy]

You're in luck. I think we're all Christians here.

[Butch Hartman]

We are. We are very much.

[Lunchbox]

I'm a big Catholic.

[Eddie]

I love to stop by the booth.

[Butch Hartman]

Yes. You have to genuflect before you come in. You gotta get it. Yeah.

[Amy]

Matthew, Mark, Luke, John.

[Butch Hartman]

Exactly. Yeah, yeah. Recite your favorite scripture before you throw me first and Second Corinthians.

[Bobby Bones]

Do you feel. Do you feel that there's, like, a changing aesthetic in animation that you either have to lead and change that aesthetic, or do you, like, see what other people are drawing and then try to chase that at times?

[Butch Hartman]

You know, it's interesting. I think the. What's going on in animation right now. I think. I think parents want to feel like they can put the phone in front of their kids and just walk away and take a breather for a minute. There's so many things out there that are negative right now. That's unfortunate. So I think really, parents are looking for a great place to put their kids. Kids are looking for something entertaining that doesn't feel like it's too boring or that their mom and dad are making them watch. I Mean, I just want to create great characters that kids can fall in love with and want to watch again over and over and over again. And that's what. That's my job. I did it for 20 years at Nickelodeon. We're doing it with our new studio now. And I'm having a blast doing it. But I do think that we, as the filmmakers, have to really be responsible what we put on that screen. That's my. That's my advice.

[Bobby Bones]

Where'd you grow up?

[Butch Hartman]

Michigan.

[Bobby Bones]

And so you moved to la and was the dream to be an artist?

[Butch Hartman]

Yeah, I moved to LA. This is back in the 80s now, prior to the Internet. So I had to, like, you know, fill out an envelope and put my portfolio in a mail in an envelope and send it to CalArts. So I went to CalArts in Valencia and that was the only school in the country that was teaching animation at the time. And so I went out there in the 80s and kind of never looked back. I just loved California, Stayed out there. I always wanted to work for Disney, but I never did end up going into tv.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you ever get on a game show?

[Butch Hartman]

Good question.

[Bobby Bones]

Because he tried. He tried to get on a game show and they didn't put him on.

[Eddie]

It's too much.

[Lunchbox]

How you doing, Butch?

[Butch Hartman]

I can't believe I got. You've got a career now. It's Tiger. Tiger. I was on two game shows. That's so funny. As you would a. Yeah. I was on two game shows. Yeah. And I won actually $177,000. You want what? I don't have it with me. Guys, calm down. I spent it already. All right? I spent the money. No, I. I was on two game shows. One was called Body Language, where I had out charades and, like, guest clues. The other one was called the Match Game Hollywood Squares Hour. They took these two game shows and combined them together. But I was. I was in LA for like two weeks and got on that game show and won like two grand on that game show. I was. I was 18 years old.

[Bobby Bones]

What advice? Because he went and spent a week off the show.

[Butch Hartman]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Trying to get on prices. Right.

[Butch Hartman]

You let him do that?

[Bobby Bones]

I did. Because he just wants to do it and then. But they never put him on.

[Butch Hartman]

The energy you had didn't put you on.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. It was a bad one, man. I don't know what happened. I felt like maybe the first day I went a little too over the top.

[Butch Hartman]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

And was just talking to everybody. Was up in everybody's business. And like, so then I kind of Tried to calm it. I tried to go for Valentine's Day, but I didn't have a couple, so they wouldn't let me on then and then. So the third day, I tried to be a little more calm and reserved. That didn't work either.

[Butch Hartman]

That's a great story. Who didn't love that story? Did you guys love that story?

[Amy]

It was a great storyline for.

[Butch Hartman]

Fantastic cartoon story right there. I think they want. I think they want, like, Housewives, though, and things like that. On prices, right? Maybe.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

And they.

[Butch Hartman]

Maybe I could be wrong. I don't produce it, but I think your energy is great. Maybe they were just looking for different energy.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

It was just a bad day, man.

[Butch Hartman]

Do you even know any prices? If I threw things up here, would you even be able to guess?

[Lunchbox]

Man, I'm great at everything.

[Butch Hartman]

Really? I thought, okay, well, yeah, he's great at everything. I should have known.

[Lunchbox]

I couldn't tell you how much your jacket is or your shoes or your watch because it looks all expensive. But if it's cheap, I know what it is.

[Amy]

Like a carton of milk. He knows.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah.

[Butch Hartman]

Wow. Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

What's carton of milk?

[Lunchbox]

Like 525.

[Bobby Bones]

I have no idea to even know if that's right.

[Lunchbox]

You mean a gallon?

[Butch Hartman]

We'll get a carton of milk in here.

[Bobby Bones]

We'll see the garden cartoon.

[Butch Hartman]

Yes, sir.

[Bobby Bones]

Tell me about that garden cartoon.

[Butch Hartman]

Thank you for asking. When I first left Nickelodeon, I've been developing this cartoon for years, but I knew Nickelodeon would never make it. Only because they would never make a Christian cartoon. I had a great time in Nickelodeon, but they just weren't into making that kind of stuff. So I was. I was develop. I was developing this stuff, this cartoon, the garden cartoon for years and ended up making it on my own. It's about a little lion named Lenny, a little lamb named Lucy, and they live and work in a miraculous garden. And every day God comes down as a rainbow and gives them an assignment and they have to do it. And through a song or a scripture and they learn how to do it, but they normally don't do it as well as they should. So they. They have a great time learning. The show is funny. First, I wanted to make it funny. It's basically fairly oddparents with scripture. And I wanted to make it funny and make it, like something that, you know, kids could be entertained by first before they got a lesson out of it. So I think it's great. It's on Angel Studios now. We got 20 half hours we made, and it's just been a blast to make. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

You work with your wife?

[Butch Hartman]

I work with my wife, Julianne, who is the love of my life. 34 years I've been married.

[Bobby Bones]

And so what is her role?

[Butch Hartman]

She is my number one, my main motivator in life. And she also handles all the money. So be nice to my wife. She handles all the money.

[Lunchbox]

Got it.

[Butch Hartman]

She's the one. Okay. Yeah.

[Lunchbox]

How cool would it be to play God?

[Bobby Bones]

Like anybody that says that. Be afraid of them.

[Butch Hartman]

Generally speaking.

[Bobby Bones]

Generally speaking, I'm afraid of people that say that.

[Lunchbox]

Someone runs into you at a party. So what do you do for a living? I'm on the, you know, garden cartoon.

[Butch Hartman]

What?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. I'm the voice of God. I mean, how cool does that sound?

[Butch Hartman]

You could be God's brother. Yeah. Like Jerry. God's brother Jerry, who's here.

[Bobby Bones]

Jerry's better than Ride. Yeah. God and ride.

[Lunchbox]

I'll be there, man.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Butch Hartman]

But you'd be great on a voice, as a voice on that. I think all of you guys would do. We could have the horse guy. You could have the princess. Of course, the girl who plays Lucy the lamb is a lot like you. She has a really nice feminine voice, and she's. Yeah, she's so cute.

[Bobby Bones]

You like the lamb?

[Butch Hartman]

Yeah, it's a great show. It's all over the place, and we had a great time making it. But that's one of those things where I had to not just learn how to do that. I was already. I already knew how to make the show, but then distributing the show, getting it out in the world, I had to learn all that stuff, because when you have your own studio, you gotta buy all the supplies and hire all the people and all that stuff. So I've been really elevated to a different level, which I think God's really shown favor in my life in that way, because I've had to learn a lot.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you do any of the voices on Fairly Oddparents?

[Butch Hartman]

I did one. Doctor. He's the fairy doctor. His name is Dr. Rip Studwell. And Dr. Rip Studwell is a handsome fairy doctor who also plays one on tv. And so he would come in and he would. He would be like, well, this is terrible. What's wrong, Dr. Ripstone? Well, my headshots came out horrible. You know, that type of thing, you know, so he's not really focused on the mission at hand.

[Bobby Bones]

Whenever you have a show that is picked up by a network, do they order four episodes? 10 episodes? And when does it go from? This is something that we are Going to really settle in with. And this is going to be a show for a long time.

[Butch Hartman]

It really depends on the audience. Depends on if the audience wants to. Wants to watch it anymore. You know, back in the day at Nickelodeon, we were getting a thing called ratings. You guys know what ratings are. Obviously you're in radio. So we would get ratings every week. And like they say back in the day, a good rating was a 5, fairly odd. Parents was getting like tens and elevens back then. So Nickelodeon's like, yeah, we need to keep picking this show up. And there were times where we would beat SpongeBob in the ratings and stuff like that. I mean, SpongeBob's an awesome show, but we would sometimes beat it in the ratings. So they knew they had a hit on their hands, which was really cool.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm assuming you're still getting paid handsomely because they're still running it.

[Butch Hartman]

I don't know about the word handsomely, but we would. Yeah, we do get. Yeah, we do get paid. No, we definitely get paid for sure. But that's one of the things too. I mean, you get to create a show, you get to get paid to do it. It's a wonderful thing. Get residuals. You do get things in the future that add up, which is really, really great. That's why people come to Hollywood. They want to. You know, that's a very lucrative reward if you can make it work. But like, it takes a lot. I always tell people, like, selling a show is like throwing a dart through a donut. But the donuts on a merry go round, it's all just got to line up perfectly. But you got to keep throwing and you got to keep trying because if you don't keep trying, you're never going to make it happen in the first place.

[Bobby Bones]

In Hollywood. Do you sometimes not say what you do? Because you know people are then always going to try to impress you by doing what they think you want them to do to get a job.

[Butch Hartman]

I mean, like, if I walk into a room and people start doing voices for me, like that precise, that kind of a thing, that would never happen. I would know who would ever do that. No, sometimes I actually like telling people what I do because nobody expects it. It's like, what do you do? I'm a lawyer. What do you do? I'm. I work in medicine. What do you do? I draw cartoons. Everyone goes, what? What do you mean you draw cartoons? Tell me more. And I say, I do the fairly operants. And they go, what? You're going to be. You Know, so that's. It's always kind of fun to spring that on them, which is good. And I get recognized at a lot of Starbucks, too, which is very interesting, because that. That. That age range, that Gen Z millennial age range, is the people that kind of grew up with my show. So I have Starbucks coffee cups with my pictures drawn on them. They'll draw characters for me.

[Bobby Bones]

That's so cool. Okay, everybody can ask one final question to Butch. I know you're all sitting here.

[Butch Hartman]

Do we have any questions?

[Bobby Bones]

Yes. Oh, they have 100, so I'm gonna give them one.

[Lunchbox]

Go ahead, Amy.

[Butch Hartman]

Go first.

[Amy]

Well, have you ever had a fish character, or do you have a fish character coming up? Because something that I said, well, even on the radio 15, 20 years ago was, I always wanted to be the voice of a fish. I don't know why.

[Butch Hartman]

You don't. Why?

[Amy]

I have no idea. It's just something that has come out from time to time. So sort of like, it's just like,

[Bobby Bones]

could it be your Christian faith?

[Amy]

Oh, yeah. Fish.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Like, you know, growing up, my mom had the fish magnet on her car. Yes, yes, yes, yes, of course. So I don't know. It's just one of those things where you look back and it's like, oh, wow. I kind of manifested that because it happened. Like, I always said I wanted to be in a Hallmark Christmas movie, and then I landed a role on a Christmas movie on hbo.

[Butch Hartman]

Max, congratulations.

[Amy]

Thank you. My big scene was in the bathroom.

[Butch Hartman]

That's amazing. Wow.

[Bobby Bones]

Ye.

[Butch Hartman]

Wow. I thought he would say something like that.

[Amy]

No, it was with the main character.

[Butch Hartman]

I agree.

[Lunchbox]

I thought I would have that, too.

[Butch Hartman]

The bathroom scene, for sure.

[Amy]

The director said, this is a pivotal moment. This was like. It was when the main character, like, shifted because of my scene. So, you know, that was my moment there. But that happened, so I sort of set it on air, and then things just started to happen. It took years, so that happened.

[Butch Hartman]

I did have a fish character on fairly oddparents because the fairies would turn into fish when they were in Timmy's bedroom. They would. They were fairies, but then when the parents would come in, they would disguise themselves as fish and be in a fishbowl. So I guess the characters would turn into fish. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you have a fish character in mind, Amy?

[Amy]

It was really. I just. It could be any kind of fish, and it's sort of just something I've even said casually in passing, like, Dory from like.

[Butch Hartman]

Like Finding Nemo kind of fish.

[Amy]

Oh, I loved Finding Nemo.

[Butch Hartman]

Stay Right there.

[Amy]

Great movie. So anyway, if you. If you have a fish character, you'd

[Bobby Bones]

like to audition for it?

[Amy]

Yeah, I would love the opportunity to audition if a fish. Yeah, write it down or where's the post it. I can give you my.

[Butch Hartman]

Yeah, I'm gonna write it down. Fish character. You got it.

[Lunchbox]

He wrote it down.

[Butch Hartman]

He wrote it down.

[Amy]

I can see you're writing.

[Butch Hartman]

Here's a line real quick. Can you say laugh? I want you to give me a laugh and say. Oh, the bubbles tickle. Ready? One, two, three. Great, go. The bubbles tickle.

[Lunchbox]

Boom.

[Bobby Bones]

That's good right there.

[Lunchbox]

That's right there.

[Butch Hartman]

That's good, that's good. Wow, beautiful job.

[Bobby Bones]

I want to catch you. That was so good.

[Butch Hartman]

Wow, I love that.

[Amy]

Yeah, just throw me back though, Eddie.

[Eddie]

Okay. So butch. This is a real question. I'm not trying to, like, like, you know.

[Butch Hartman]

I don't believe you, Eddie. I don't believe it at all.

[Eddie]

True, true.

[Butch Hartman]

Question. Okay.

[Eddie]

How does someone audition for you? Like, is there open casting calls and then how many do you get? You get like thousands of people. And how do you swift through all that?

[Butch Hartman]

No, you. You as a voice actor have to create a. What's known as a reel, a sample version of all your voices. About a two minute reel. And then that gets taken to an agent and that agent puts it into a file. And then when the casting call comes through, the agent sees it and they will then look at your reel and then they'll decide whether or not you're good enough for the role. So out of the thousand that try, they'll sift it down to about 10, and I'll get those 10, and then I'll pick one out of the 10. It's a very, very competitive field. Wow.

[Eddie]

Have you ever hired someone and then halfway through the production being like, it's just not gonna work?

[Butch Hartman]

Yeah, today, as a matter of fact, this morning. I was gonna hire you, but I have to switch. I'm sorry, I have to change. No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. No, I have. Many times you hire somebody, think they're great, and for some reason, the day of the recording, it just doesn't work out. For some reason, there's been celebrities I've worked with where you all get this great celebrity voice coming in, and then for some reason they get behind the mic and it's really weird when they're not in front of a camera. Being in front of a camera is different than being behind a mic. And. And so it's Just different for them. And so sometimes they just don't bring it. And you have to kind of. You have to. You let them do it, and then you kind of change them up at the end. So, yeah, we've had that. Sad. Sadly, we've had to do that sometimes.

[Bobby Bones]

Lunchbox, your final question.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah. Butch, nice meeting you. Thanks for coming, man. I just want to say. Hey, just let me get. Jot down your number and your email so we can skip through all the agents and all that. Now that we know each other. You kind of know what I have.

[Butch Hartman]

We know each other really well now.

[Lunchbox]

Exactly. So if you could just shoot me over your email and your phone number, and that way you have lines. You want me to, you know, test out. Drop them to me and I'll send them back.

[Butch Hartman]

My email is don't email me at Butchart.

[Bobby Bones]

I've emailed that one myself. He gave that to me in the past.

[Eddie]

Yeah, sounds legit.

[Butch Hartman]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Wait, in the real. How many voices? You say they send a reel with all their voices? Like, what's the ideal?

[Butch Hartman]

Whatever your range is, if you can do five voices, you can do 10. Just make sure it sounds like. Yeah, it just. I always say write a scene where, like, five people are talking to each other and do that scene. All the five voices, all the different.

[Bobby Bones]

You're basically Eddie Murphy in. Yeah.

[Eddie]

Doctor.

[Bobby Bones]

Doctor. Do you find all the characters.

[Butch Hartman]

Dr. Little or. Or in Nutty. Professional. Yeah, that one, too. Yeah. Yeah. But you can do whatever voices you can do. Let's hear it. Because it's going to really. It's going to depend on whether I go, oh, that's really cool. I could use that, you know, and also, it's connections to who, you know, sometimes I know you now.

[Lunchbox]

So that's what I'm saying.

[Butch Hartman]

Right. That's it. I'll give you my real email later on.

[Bobby Bones]

I want to go to Mike D. Mike D is our animation expert here. Mike, you have a question?

[Butch Hartman]

Oh, really?

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, good.

[Mike]

I was a part of that demographic.

[Butch Hartman]

Millennial.

[Mike]

Watch that show all the time. Did you ever get a note of, like, you were maybe making a character turn into something like the Fairy Oddparents, And Nickelodeon was like, man, you can't do that.

[Butch Hartman]

We never. Well, the fairies could turn into things on the show, as you know, and we never got a note on that. But we did want to do a show once where we wrote a script. Timmy wanted to know where babies come from. And so we wrote this whole episode of they Go to the Stork Factory up in the clouds, right? And so we had all these storks, these different babies, conveyor belts and all this. But it was a really funny story. And they said, you can't do that story. We can't do where the babies come from. And I said, why not? We do all these other. So that was one story we couldn't do. But other than that other changing into things, we kept it pretty clean mostly. You know, we kind of knew where our line was. I mean, because we were working in kids tv, so we knew we couldn't do all stuff, let's say like a Rick and Morty episode or like a, you know, like a South park episode. We couldn't go there with that kind of humor. But we have a lot of jokes that we. That kids, like your age now go. I get all those jokes I didn't get when I was a kid. You know, the adults get them now. So it's. It was pretty fun doing that.

[Bobby Bones]

And then, oh, sorry, go ahead.

[Mike]

Oh, I'm not like these guys. I don't want to get into voice acting, but I love drawing. Like, during the show, I'll make, like, little doodles over here. Like, what is your advice if they make a reel? Like, what do you do as an animator?

[Butch Hartman]

Same thing. You. You have a portfolio. And let me see what you can do. Let me see your drawings. Let me see how. Let me see your cartoon stuff. Let me see your realistic stuff, your life drawing stuff. Because if I'm gonna hire you as an artist, you've got to be able to draw my stuff. Like I said. Remember I said about making your life easier? You know, you need to make my life easier. Like, you know, can I. What's your name?

[Mike]

Mike.

[Butch Hartman]

Mike. I said, can Mike draw this? Can Mike do this? Okay. Oh, Mike, give that to Mike. Mike can do that. That's what I want. That's the kind of guy I want to hire. You know, I want to hire Mike, as Mike can draw that. But if Mike draws it, messes it up, and then Butch has to draw it. It's like, why is Mike here? What is Mike doing here?

[Lunchbox]

Good point.

[Butch Hartman]

That type of this means drawing, by the way, when I do this.

[Bobby Bones]

So the Garden cartoon streaming on Angel Studios. And I guess I have Apple TV and Roku. I can just get it.

[Butch Hartman]

You get it there. And we just. We just signed an exclusive season two deal with angel as well for Garden. So that's going on there as well. We have two movies out, too. So a Christmas movie just came by, and we had one last Summer, too. So Garden's doing really well. Real excited about it.

[Lunchbox]

It.

[Bobby Bones]

Before you came in, I would not tell them who was coming in. And I said it is a secret guest because I knew that it would be an eruption like this.

[Eddie]

Yeah, we would have been more prepared.

[Bobby Bones]

I didn't want them to be prepared because they just wanted.

[Butch Hartman]

You guys did great, you guys. And I am always looking for voice actors, too. So keep rest assured. I will remember all of this, believe me. But you especially. I remember. I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why.

[Lunchbox]

Because I was the best.

[Eddie]

Let me tell you, though, somebody that's not going to make your life easy is that dude right there.

[Bobby Bones]

But if I give it because I'm. This is really cool. So thank you for drawing this. I'm gonna keep this. I'm gonna value this.

[Butch Hartman]

You're welcome.

[Bobby Bones]

Would you draw one of those for Mike when you're done? Because Mike is such a big fan. And so before you get out of

[Butch Hartman]

here, what character do you want, Mike?

[Mike]

I love Timmy.

[Butch Hartman]

Timmy. Okay, I'll draw it while we talk. If I can do this at the same time.

[Bobby Bones]

So keep asking, then I'll do a little promo for you. While you do that, you guys can follow Butch Hartman and go to the Butch Hartman Studios. And again, as we talked about the Garden cartoon streaming on Angel Studios, I'm

[Butch Hartman]

all over Tick Tock and Instagram and all that stuff, too. So follow me. And for an old guy, not too bad. Getting a few followers here and there. So thanks for. Thanks, young people, for letting me on your social medias.

[Bobby Bones]

Is it still Butch Hartman on Tick Tock? Do you have the name?

[Butch Hartman]

Just Butch Hartman on TikTok.

[Bobby Bones]

All right, there he goes. Really amazing. He's drawing a little Timmy.

[Lunchbox]

2.4 million followers on Tick Tock.

[Bobby Bones]

Dang.

[Eddie]

Wow, that's a lot.

[Butch Hartman]

So 2 million 2.4. And 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 more. We're adding 6 more right today, right now. What?

[Bobby Bones]

What'd you see over there?

[Lunchbox]

I'm just looking at the followers.

[Bobby Bones]

That's 2.3 more than you, huh?

[Lunchbox]

No, it's like 2.4 more than me.

[Butch Hartman]

That's for Mike right there. That's your little. Where's the camera? Wait, this Camera. Camera. There you go. Okay. Come on. Can you come get this? All right, bud. I hope you like it, but this

[Bobby Bones]

has been a thrill for me and exciting for all of us, so thank

[Butch Hartman]

you so much for the time. Hey, it's an honor to be here. I'm really grateful to be on.

[Bobby Bones]

Guys.

[Butch Hartman]

Thank you.

[Bobby Bones]

Good luck with your. Good luck with the new venture, and thank you. You know, if they all show up at your booth later today, don't be surprised.

[Butch Hartman]

I would love you guys to come by. We. We all out in this booth. It's really cool. It's very big. All the shows are on display. It's really cool. So it's. It's over at the Gaylord Hotel. Have you been to this hotel?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, it's more like a city.

[Butch Hartman]

It's a city. It's like. It's like an amusement park. City greenhouse. It's massive. It's huge.

[Bobby Bones]

There is.

[Butch Hartman]

Speaking of Jurassic Park, I think there's things roaming around in there. I'm not really sure. There's a huge jungle in there. It's crazy.

[Bobby Bones]

It fits.

[Butch Hartman]

It does.

[Bobby Bones]

It's. The opera's over there.

[Butch Hartman]

I know.

[Bobby Bones]

Grand old opera.

[Butch Hartman]

It's massive. I know.

[Bobby Bones]

All right, there he is, the great Butch Hartman, everybody.

[Butch Hartman]

Thank you, guys. Honored. Honored. Thank you. Thank you. You. This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.