How Did Pigs Get Screwed? w/Eric Bauza (voice of Porky Pig)

Why do pigs get stuck with all the worst labels? From idioms like “greedy pig,” “filthy pig,” and “pigging out” to the political satire of Animal Farm, pigs have been cast as gluttons, mess-makers, for centuries. In our first full episode of Framed by Fables, we dig into how these ideas took hold  and what real pigs are actually like.

Comedian Helen Hong and Zoologist Dr. Jo Wimpenny are joined by Eric Bauza, the Emmy‑winning voice actor behind Looney Tunes’ Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, and more. Together, they unpack the history, the science, and the pop‑culture portrayals that shaped pigs’ reputation, all with a comedic twist.

And stick around because once pigs are cleared, Jo reveals which animals actually deserve the “dirty,” “greedy,” or “gluttonous” labels. The real culprits will surprise you.

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Credits 
Hosts:  Helen Hong & Dr. Jo Wimpenny
Guest: Eric Bauza

Exec Producers: Robin M. Henry, Aaron Mervis 

Producer: Emily Orr 

Editor: Alex Ivany
Artwork: Cliff Barrett 

And Special Thanks to Second Floor Studios and Charlotte Lee

Transcript

Helen Hong 0:00

If I call you a pig, you know that is not a compliment. Every time someone wants to insult you, they drag a pig into it. You eat too fast, pig. You burp too loud, pig. Too many days without a shower? Pig. We even blame pigs for sexism. Male chauvinist pig. How did pigs get blamed for the patriarchy? Like I have never been pig-splamed. We disparage pigs everywhere. Animal Farm, Charlie Brown's dirtiest buddy, even Congress pigs on pigs. You add unnecessary spending to a bill, it's pork. Not waste, not stupid stuff, but pork. Pigs are out there minding their own business, wallowing in mud, and somehow they're involved in the national debt. Fairy tales don't help either. Look at the three little pigs. Two of them are so lazy they can't construct a house strong enough to survive an exhale. And what's up with piggy banks? That greedy little porker holds kids' money so tight the only way to get it out is to smash it with a hammer. You do that to an ATM and you end up serving five to ten. But piggy side, no problem. But are pigs really lazy, dirty, greedy creatures? When I see them IRL, they seem to be just hoarding mud. Have pigs been framed by fables? That's what we're diving into today.

Jo Wimpenny 1:38

And I'm your zoology expert, Joe Wimpany.

Helen Hong 1:41

And today we are joined by the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety Bird, and most relevant to today's episode, Porky Pig. It's Eric Bowza.

Eric Bauza 1:57

Did you say uh Porky Pig? Oh boy. Typecast again.

Eric Bauza 2:04

That is so crazy. They say you are who you eat or who you voice. I don't know. It's Hollywood, it's different, right?

Helen Hong 2:11

It's so trippy hearing the voice and not seeing an animated version of that character. But I'm actually looking at an actual human person who's a good thing.

Eric Bauza 2:19

Well, it's a good thing because Porgy Pig doesn't repent. Which is also another behavioral uh aspect of the male chauvinist. If we're if we're cover covering all aspects of the pig, the word, the meaning, the animal, how how how we take it in on the streets. Have you been out on the streets lately? I'm rough out there. I'm always out in the streets. It's rough out there in the in the Sherman Oaks, the chokes, we like to call it. The street street lingo, the chokes.

Helen Hong 2:48

You're the modern voice of Looney Tunes.

Eric Bauza 2:51

I can never go further in this conversation without crediting the great Mel Blank. Uh Mel Blank, of course, was the original voiceover artist who created, I just I don't like to call them the the voices, but more like these personalities. You know, these characters are almost a hundred years old now.

Eric Bauza 3:08

Bugs Bunny, can you believe it, Doc? It's almost a hundred years old. And not one gray hair, well, maybe one gray hair, because it is a gray hair. Did you guys talk about rabbits yet? Because if you haven't, then you really listened a big good a great episode.

Helen Hong 3:22

Wait, can you do?

Eric Bauza 3:23

Can you do Daffy Doc? Oh, finally, a real star. Stipified rabbit.

Eric Bauza 3:28

Let's talk.

Eric Bauza 3:29

Do we have about an hour and a half? Two hours? How's it going, Helen? Thanks for having me. And then do Tweety Bird. I thought I taught Puddy Tad! I did, I did tea a putty tat! Ooh, Dwayne!

Eric Bauza 3:42

Oh, I'm gonna eat that canary if it's the last thing I do. That's Sylvester.

Helen Hong 3:47

What a fun job you have.

Eric Bauza 3:49

Yeah, I uh I have a lot of time on my hands.

Helen Hong 3:52

It is strange talking to you. It is like talking to ten different people at the same time.

Eric Bauza 3:57

Uh usually people just say it's strange talking to me, period. Which is fine. I'm I'm I'm I've gotten used to it. But I think uh, you know, I always say nothing gets you through customs at the airport faster than I could be smuggling a brick of heroin and no one would care. I just go ha ha ha ha ha and they go, oh Woody Woodpecker, that's great. I do not smuggle heroin into the country, by the way.

Helen Hong 4:19

Let's go to our our character of the hour, which is Porky Pig, because we're talking about pigs today and how they've been, you know, misaligned and misrepresented and slandered. Um, you know, pigs are in our culture have been called dirty, filthy, you know, male chauvinist pig. Like, not none of these are good things.

Eric Bauza 4:42

A pig normally in our culture and society has always been seen and depicted as a negative notation.

Helen Hong 4:50

Like if a couple if I call you a pig, if I call someone a pig on the street, we're through the hands are gonna be thrown.

Eric Bauza 4:55

You know? If you were to call me a pig, I'd be like, so? And I'd just be continue eating my Doritos. Uh yeah, no, I I yeah, it's it's never been a positive thing.

Helen Hong 5:06

Do pigs really like slop around in pens and are they eating poop? Like, what's going on, Joe?

Jo Wimpenny 5:13

Okay, so this word filthy for starters, I mean, that's a really human construct, isn't it? I mean, when we think about filthy, we think about people who are just going out there and like intentionally trying to cover themselves in in muck for sort of some strange reason. I I don't know. But animals don't really do that. So while pigs absolutely love to wallow in mud, um, it's not because they just want to get filthy. It's because they can't sweat. So they don't have functional sweat glands. Oh so in order to keep cool, they have to wallow in mud and water. Like that's that's literally all that they can do, otherwise they would overheat. So they're not doing it because they just love rolling in dirt and just being dirty for the sake of it. That's just a really important function for them. And and you know, they're clean animals. If they have a large enough pen, they will separate out where they, you know, go pee and poo and where they sleep. So they're not, you know, they're not just sleeping in their own mess and everything like that. They're um they have this reputation which is pretty unfair and pretty unfounded, I would say. I mean, they do eat pretty much everything as well. So they're omnivores. They're not picky about the sorts of things that they eat. Um but they certainly aren't like the biggest eaters in the animal world.

Eric Bauza 6:44

I thought they were in the mud because they cared about their pores. Uh you know. We were talking about spas uh a bit ago. And uh Is there is there such a thing as a pig spa? Should we open a pig spa in LA? Yeah, you could open anything in LA and uh people will go to it.

Helen Hong 7:01

There's another thing about pigs being greedy, which I guess it goes back to Joe saying like they eat a they eat all kinds of things.

Eric Bauza 7:08

Which is ironic because we there's piggy banks, right? Oh yeah. So how does that even like well I wonder why they picked the pig as a piggy?

Helen Hong 7:17

It's so true, because there's never a piggy um frog. Maybe or like a or like a froggy froggy bank.

Eric Bauza 7:25

That's what they that's the term they use for uh Muppets, right? For Kermit and Miss Piggy Banks.

Helen Hong 7:29

See, I can't even say the term piggy bank without the piggy part. Like it doesn't, it it makes more sense. Like if I say piggy frog, you'd know more than if I said froggy bank.

Eric Bauza 7:39

This is where your horsey bank. This is where your viewers are definitely looking up the origins of the piggy bank. I want to look it up.

Helen Hong 7:47

And what and what's what's up with like putting it in and then having to smash it at the end?

Eric Bauza 7:52

I know. There's no violence.

Helen Hong 7:54

It's like pig violence.

Eric Bauza 7:56

Anti-pig You have to break open your piggy bank in order to get the money.

Helen Hong 8:02

Yeah.

Eric Bauza 8:02

Get the goodies. That is uh it's very vi a violent, violent way to to use your your savings.

Helen Hong 8:10

There's also uh the terminology of male chauvinist pig.

Eric Bauza 8:15

Yes.

Helen Hong 8:16

Right?

Eric Bauza 8:16

Which is why you have me as a guest. Is that why? I'm still wondering why, aside from porky pig, I see the list. Dirty, filthy Eric Bowser, male chauvinist.

Helen Hong 8:25

You guys can't see, but like on the other side of our cameras, there's a whiteboard, and to help me remember the topical points, I literally put dirty, filthy male chauvinist. And my name. Eric Bowza.

Eric Bauza 8:38

You know, you guys were writing this as I was walking in too, and y'all looked like you were caught doing something, and he was like, he's here!

Helen Hong 8:45

Uh wipe it off, he's here, you can see it.

Eric Bauza 8:49

This is like an intervention, isn't it? This is like, yeah, you're snacking too much between meals. Your trainer called us the head of time and wanted you to be on our show to talk about pigs. And uh now I'm getting I'm sweating because we're like male chauvinists. What are you talking about, Helen?

Helen Hong 9:06

Is Porky Pig a male chauvinist?

Eric Bauza 9:08

No, not at all. He is probably like the what is the opposite of a chauvinist?

Helen Hong 9:14

Non-chauvenist?

Eric Bauza 9:17

I put the schno and shnovist. Yeah, I mean, he's he's quite again, he is just a a regular guy.

Helen Hong 9:24

Mile mannered.

Eric Bauza 9:25

And but you know what? It's funny when when you when he is provoked and pushed, much like Bugs Bunny. You know, you don't wanna you don't want to get on his bad side because then he'll find a way to really turn it on. The last three seconds of of a Porky Daffy Looney Tune short is Daffy getting the brunt end of, you know, it's like 95% punishing Porky, and then the last five percent is like oh yeah, he Porky lashes back. You do not want to see him after you. But yeah, male chauvinist, that is a that is another good male chauvinist pig, again, if we're gonna get back on topic, that is another good like term of like you know pi pigs being uh again blamed for something that just uh bad male behavior that uh again I've never been stood up by a pig before, or uh I've never taken a pig out to dinner where the pig didn't want to pay, you know.

Helen Hong 10:28

Where do you think the male chauvinist pig concept comes from? Because it's not just dirty, it's not just greedy, it's also male chauvinist pig. Yeah, it's an odd one actually. I mean, pigs, pig are pigs actually male chauvinists? Like are they are they anti-female pigs?

Jo Wimpenny 10:49

Oh my gosh, you should see them. Yeah, I don't know if that pig pens just going round.

Helen Hong 10:54

They're whistling at the they're asking how the female pigs got their job. Did they sleep their way to the top of the pig pen?

Eric Bauza 11:04

I I've never seen a male pig open a door for a female pig.

Helen Hong 11:08

Good point.

Eric Bauza 11:09

You know.

Helen Hong 11:09

Good point.

Eric Bauza 11:10

Probably because they don't have hands.

Helen Hong 11:11

Well, true.

Eric Bauza 11:13

But you know.

Helen Hong 11:14

So there's nothing there's nothing uh sexist about male pigs, or is there?

Jo Wimpenny 11:20

I mean, male animals, mostly they are just trying to, you know, achieve I guess you're right.

Eric Bauza 11:27

One of the pigs.

Jo Wimpenny 11:28

And in pigs, they I'm not sure how much they respect the the females of their species. Um so but in nature, so like, you know, domesticated pigs that evolved from wild pigs, so like wild boar, they would be the the wild ancestors. And naturally, they live in social groups. So there would be, you know, a few adult females and all of their young. And there would be one male that kind of he's the big, he's like the king male, king male who is associated with that group of females, at least during the breeding season. But otherwise, it's it's you know, it's a it's a female-led society.

Helen Hong 12:10

So there's so there's one male, so it's like a harem, a one male and a harem of what does one call a harem of pig pigs?

Eric Bauza 12:18

A pig a pig harem?

Helen Hong 12:19

Pig ladies.

Eric Bauza 12:20

Uh-uh. I'm trying to think of how to shoehorn the word ham in harem. Hare ham.

Helen Hong 12:26

In Angry Birds. Do you play Angry Birds?

Eric Bauza 12:29

I, you know, when it came out, definitely was hooked on the Angry Birds.

Helen Hong 12:33

Pigs are the villains in Angry Birds.

Eric Bauza 12:35

They are the villains. They're considered the bad guys. Right? Yes.

Helen Hong 12:40

Is there is there uh is there any credence to the concept that pigs are are villainous or evil?

Jo Wimpenny 12:49

Oh no. No, but they do eat eggs. So they absolutely would be stealing eggs. I mean, I say steal. They'd just be taking them. Like they don't have a concept of theft.

Eric Bauza 13:00

They don't think that it's wrong to steal eggs. Unhatched. Well, Filipinos also eat eggs, too.

Helen Hong 13:09

I mean humans eat eggs. Balut, all humans eat eggs.

Eric Bauza 13:12

Specifically, you know, that that one episode of Fear Factor when Joe Rogan uh when he was a beloved host uh was like, here are his uh Filipino delicacies called balut, and it's the half-hatched bird eggs.

Helen Hong 13:27

Yes.

Eric Bauza 13:27

It's a bit uh you know, maybe, maybe uh again, there's a reason why there's always a big sliced pig at a Filipino party on the table to be eaten, is because we're we identify it pretty close.

Helen Hong 13:39

You know, that it's funny that you mentioned that. It's it's kind of crazy that we think of pigs as so filthy and dirty, but we eat a ton of pigs.

Eric Bauza 13:50

If you're going to have eggs, you're between sausage, turkey bacon, and regular bacon.

Helen Hong 13:56

It's like it's like people are like, like I regularly hear people being like, oh, I want to be a vegetarian, but bacon is so good. And they always reference bacon and bring in home the bacon and you know, I gotta eat my bacon. Like it's always about bacon and ham, and people just love, and I can't think of another animal where they'll like bring out a whole animal that they've cooked, right? Like on a spit, like, or you know, on a table, the a fancy table of you know, the the apple in its mouth. Like, there's very few animals that you would see the entire animal brought out, and people are like, ooh, yummy.

Eric Bauza 14:39

Yeah, yeah.

Helen Hong 14:40

What is the temperament of pigs, Joe? Like, because there's you know, there's the concept that pigs are greedy and they'll like, you know, they'll push you around and they'll they'll there's nothing you can't stop them when they're like in a feeding frenzy, but also there's like babe. Pig in the city. Yeah, so cute. Babe is so cute and like Charlotte's Wilbur. Wilbur, Wilbur, and there's some con so it there's two competing concepts. Like, so what is the actual temperament of a pig, Joe?

Jo Wimpenny 15:12

I mean, I think it very much depends. So we definitely know that they have different personalities. You know, pigs are pretty intelligent animals. Um, you know, they've got pretty well developed cognitive abilities. You know, I've said already that they're social, and so they're very good in like the social domain. Um, they play with each other and they play like with objects like balls and sticks, or they'll toss straw in the air, and they'll play fight with each other, um, and rough and tumble play and all of these sorts of things. So they're in many ways, they behave like a lot of other animals that we we really like and we consider to be intelligent, and I think we'd probably have a problem eating.

Eric Bauza 16:02

They they often say elephants never forget. Do pigs forget? Do you is there any evidence of scientific evidence of pigs having uh any memory that they they hold on to? Any grudges? Do pigs hold any grudges?

Jo Wimpenny 16:17

Oh I don't know if they hold grudges, but they definitely do remember things. Okay. I think they've got a pretty good long-term memory, and they can tell the difference between people. So I don't think that we have the evidence for whether they they might be able to hold a grudge, but you know, actually that's probably because the studies haven't yet been done. Because for a long time, people just didn't do this sort of research with pigs because they kind of just dismissed them as like not particularly interesting for intelligence research. But we're finding out some pretty cool stuff about them. So that would be great to know if they could hold a grudge.

Eric Bauza 16:57

But I mean, I mean, we're talking about dismissing them as uh you know, not doing these tests of memory and all that stuff, yet we have been incorporating them in human surgery and transplants.

Helen Hong 17:10

Yes, yes, pig heart, right? There's certain uh organs where the pigs are are closer in human anatomy, so there's like pig heart surgeries, valves and and stuff.

Eric Bauza 17:24

So I mean, obviously this is something that's been done for years, right? Uh, but like how how long has that been, you know, uh uh uh studied or or or since its discovery? Do we know?

Helen Hong 17:38

Why why do we why can we as humans use a pig as a heart replacement?

Jo Wimpenny 17:46

So I'm not entirely sure how long that's been or how long that's kind of been known, but I guess you know, back in the early days when Victorians were dissecting animals and you know, all the sort of anatomy studies were being done, they just realized that there was some amazing similarities. Um physiologically, there are there are some really overlapping things between um pigs and humans. And I'm not quite sure at what point that got worked into medical science, but um it is a bit of a weird disconnect, I think. Like as you point out, Eric, like we have some similarities with them, and yet on the other hand, we sort of discount them as having any, you know, having minds like our own, perhaps. And I think that's just because it's really hard to do that, and then in the same breath, say, I'd like a bacon sandwich.

Eric Bauza 18:41

I'll bet you uh any money that if a pig needed my heart, uh they couldn't use it because they eat too much uh pork, which is would be very ironic. Sorry for the pig, but uh why would a pig need a human heart? I don't know.

Helen Hong 18:54

So, Joe, if we were to swap out animals that are more filthy and dirty and you know, just smuck around and mock, what animal would we swap out for a pig?

Eric Bauza 19:10

Who who is the real pig of the animal kingdom? Yes. And don't say my name because it's on a list along with other animals, which again, I will have to talk to your producer about this.

Jo Wimpenny 19:22

We'll get a photo of that later.

Eric Bauza 19:24

That's evident. Your Honor, exhibit A. So who's the real pig of the animal world?

Jo Wimpenny 19:31

So there's two aspects that I think are important to look at. So there's the aspect of like, are they filthy? And we've said they don't have sweatplands, they need to be rolling around and wallowing in mud. And so, you know, same for other animals like hippos. They're also thought of as being pretty filthy, but it's exactly the same thing. And they're also getting protection from the sun because you know they don't have fur, so they would burn as well. Um, some animals that uh you might think are a bit filthier, things like turkey vultures, so the new world vultures and storks, they do something called eurohydrosis, which is basically they pee all over their legs and their feet.

Eric Bauza 20:15

And so as if they've been stung by a jellyfish.

Jo Wimpenny 20:22

They just defecate on themselves.

Helen Hong 20:25

Right. But they do it quite a lot. Wait, why why are they peeing peeing and pooping on themselves?

Jo Wimpenny 20:32

So again, they're needing to keep cool. That's a really good way of keeping cool. Um, but also vultures spend a lot of their time just walking in rotting meat, which is full of pathogen, you know, nasty bacteria and pathogens and things that can make you sick. And so actually, if they pee on themselves, it's almost like a disinfectant. So they're kind of cleaning themselves up. So, yeah, I think in terms of what animal is filthy, I don't think there's a great contender there. But I want to look at which animal could we say is actually greedy, because pigs do have this reputation for just waffling everything down. And here there are there are a few animals that definitely beat pigs. Okay. But again, we kind of need to think about what is greedy, and from a human perspective, it's like how many burgers can I eat in one sitting? Little buttons. How much food can I actually eat?

Eric Bauza 21:36

You're talking about my dog.

Jo Wimpenny 21:37

And so animals don't really do that. I mean, some domesticated animals can definitely eat in the same kind of way. But wild animals, they tend to only overeat for one of three reasons. Like, number one, they don't know when their next meal is coming. So something like a wolverine, wolverine's Latin name, Literally means glutton. You know, they will just eat as much as they can when they get the opportunity, because they live in a really harsh environment and they don't know when they're going to get their next meal. So that's one way that animals eat a lot. The other way is when they're preparing. Yeah. Yeah, we got the wolverine. Glutton. Actually, in its name, glutton. Um, then we've got things like bears when they're preparing for hibernation. Because they need to eat a huge amount. I don't know if you guys are aware of the fat bear week that happens every September. Fat Bear Week.

Eric Bauza 22:40

It's we like to call that the LA Marathon.

Helen Hong 22:43

Thanksgiving. What is Father? Says the chubbiest guy. What is Fat Bear Week?

Eric Bauza 22:50

Fat Bear Week.

Helen Hong 22:51

It's a gay holiday. Yeah.

Eric Bauza 22:54

Where all the bikers with their best.

Helen Hong 23:00

It's a gay event.

Eric Bauza 23:01

I love it. Fat Bear Week.

Helen Hong 23:04

What is Fat Bear Week?

Eric Bauza 23:05

I mean, it's gonna take out Shark Week for sure. Okay, let us know, Fat Bear Bear.

Jo Wimpenny 23:10

I think bring it on. We need fat bears. We need Shark Week as well. Fat Bear Week is, I think it's a fortnight every autumn. Um and it's the grizzly bears up in Katmai National Park. Uh, and basically the park authorities put on this competition and you have to vote for which bear you think is going to be like the king of the fat bears. So which bear is going to transform itself like by the most amount from like summer into the time when they're about to go into hibernation? Because these bears pile on the pounds. They need to eat so much. They can put on like six pounds a day, I think it was.

Eric Bauza 23:52

How long are they out for their hibernation? I guess.

Jo Wimpenny 23:55

Oh, for months. Yeah. So they are just surviving on all of the fat reserves that they have um built up in that time. So, so yeah, they're catching salmon.

Helen Hong 24:06

This is challenging. Like, they're not doing donuts. Yeah. They're not using ice cream, Cheetos.

Eric Bauza 24:12

They're using high protein.

Helen Hong 24:13

Like they're they're eating grass and salmon, right? And they're still packing on the plastic.

Jo Wimpenny 24:20

Yeah, so salmon. Yeah, but salmon is extremely nutritious. And sometimes they'll just eat the salmon head, because that is the bit that's got like all the good stuff in it.

Eric Bauza 24:32

We've been doing it wrong this whole time.

Jo Wimpenny 24:35

Yeah. Yeah. They also eat these little um army worm moths, which are so high in fat. They're about 70% fat. And so some people actually call these like bear butter. It's basically they're just like these like mothworms. Yeah.

Helen Hong 24:54

Oh.

Eric Bauza 24:55

Bear butter.

Helen Hong 24:57

Spreading mothworms on your toast.

Eric Bauza 25:00

I'm learning so much about how gross animals are today. Well, I just kept in blood. I gotta pee on my legs and eat some bear butter.

Helen Hong 25:10

I love this. So vultures are filthier than pigs. Bears and wolverines are more piggy than pigs. See, you can't even say the word like piggy. If I say piggy, like that is is essentially means like, ugh, you're gluttonous and you're just packing it on and you're just shoveling it in. When really instead of piggy, we should say wolverine or berry.

Eric Bauza 25:36

Yeah. Like, but pigs are chauvinists, we've learned too. 100%. With their harems, their hair hams.

Jo Wimpenny 25:46

The one creature, which is like it's more than anything, hummingbirds. Humming seems a bit odd to think that hummingbirds, but they need to eat about 80% of their body weight every day. Because they're constantly they are drinking nectar, they're constantly exactly. They've got like the highest metabolic rate of any vertebrate animal. Oh.

Eric Bauza 26:15

Is that where Ozempic comes from?

Eric Bauza 26:17

Is the humming hummingbird saliva? It's what I hear.

Helen Hong 26:20

I don't know if we're gonna So they're so they're eating way more than like proportionally, way more than any pig. The hummingbird out eats, proportionally out eats wolverines, out eats fat bear week. So we should have fat honey hummingbird week. Or or fat hummingbird all year. So instead of filthy pig, it's filthy vultures.

Eric Bauza 26:50

Filthy hummingbird.

Helen Hong 26:51

And and instead of like, ugh, he's eating like a pig.

Eric Bauza 26:55

Eating like a hummingbird. Eating like a hummingbird. Eating like a fat bear. That makes sense. I hope bears aren't watching this podcast. You're gonna come right up to my house. Will you call it a fat bear? Hey man. It's just science.

Jo Wimpenny 27:13

Oh no.

Eric Bauza 27:14

They're proud of their fat their prowess as a fat bear.

Helen Hong 27:20

So, Eric, if you were gonna do a filthy vulture, what voice would you give to a filthy vulture that peas and poops on itself?

Eric Bauza 27:31

The filthy vulture, first of all, sounds like an awful sex move. Or a fun one. Or yeah, oh, I don't know. I don't know. This is this is where uh you know things go off the rails. Separate my uh, you know, kindergarten audience from the adult swim audience. Filthy vulture. I don't know. Uh maybe it might sound a little I don't know why immediately I went into a Jimmy Stewart impression. Well, there I go, pissing all over my legs again. Oh crap. Yeah. No, that's yeah. I if I were to watch a Pixar cartoon and see a vulture peeing on himself, I'd be, I would want it to sound like Jimmy Stewart. Yeah.

Helen Hong 28:13

What about the voice of a of a greedy hummingbird?

Eric Bauza 28:18

Oh man, I mean, geez, you take your pick. You know, I'd I'd almost want to do like a like a Jeff Bridges impression, man. You know, hey, you know, I might be moving fast, but you know, I just I just want to get to that nectar, man. That carpet ties the whole room together, you know? Because it was ironic to have a slow-sounding voice coming out of such a fast character. Oh, yeah. Sometimes you gotta work against time. I like it. I like it.

Helen Hong 28:43

What about what voice would you use to announce fat bear week?

Eric Bauza 28:49

Well, you know, no, no better than on the country's 250th birthday. Coincidentally, it's fat bear week. We got a lot of fat bears. We do fat bears the best in America, don't we?

Helen Hong 29:03

I love, Joe, the concept of of this, of the local population betting on which bear is gonna be the fattest bear.

Eric Bauza 29:12

We got a lot of number number ones. I see a lot of number one fat bears out there.

Helen Hong 29:17

Because I bet I bet they give the I bet all the bears have funny names, right? So they're like Twinkle D. I have my money on Twinkle D, or like, or like Abigail, I have my money on Abigail.

Eric Bauza 29:30

Abigail's gonna be You know, and I'll leave it to uh you know Americans to put money on Fat Bear, Fat Bear Week. It's the new Super Bowl, really.

Jo Wimpenny 29:41

Oh. But you can all you can all actually vote. Like, so it's a big online thing. You need to look at it, you need to check it out.

Helen Hong 29:49

Okay, so we're gonna play a game called Wild Sounds. We have a stack of cards here. Me and Eric are gonna pull cards, try to make the sound that we think that animal makes. Oh boy, here we go. And then Joe is gonna tell us how close or not close we are to the actual sound. Okay, this is good. This is good. Okay, do you want to go first?

Eric Bauza 30:09

Can I can I use the can I use this team for all of my auditions as well? Outside of wild, wild sounds of animals. Uh ladies first.

Eric Bauza 30:17

Okay. You see, I am not a chauvinist. I consider myself a gentleman, so ladies first.

Helen Hong 30:24

Okay. Here we go. Oh, okay. Starting with an easy one.

Eric Bauza 30:29

Okay.

Helen Hong 30:30

Or what I consider an easy one. Wow.

Eric Bauza 30:32

Wow.

Helen Hong 30:33

Whoo! Whoo! Whoo!

Eric Bauza 30:37

Okay, we're gonna go with owl.

Helen Hong 30:41

Ding ding ding. It is the owl.

Eric Bauza 30:43

Now, on a scale of one to ten.

Helen Hong 30:46

Joe, what kind Joe? Because there's a lot of ways one can go who.

Eric Bauza 30:51

Yeah.

Helen Hong 30:51

Is it a higher who or a lower who or a long who?

Jo Wimpenny 30:57

Yes, all of it. Do you have a specific species?

Eric Bauza 31:02

We have owl on Q. Owl.

Helen Hong 31:05

Owl is a very broad term.

Eric Bauza 31:07

There are many different There's an owl that hoos outside of my my bedroom window.

Helen Hong 31:13

Oh, what does it sound like?

Eric Bauza 31:16

Or it could just be my neighbor being a creep. I don't know. I'll go with my card, ready? Whoa. I don't even some of these words are words I'm reading for the first time.

Helen Hong 31:46

Is that is that a fox with indigestion?

Eric Bauza 31:52

Uh yeah, it could be. An indigested fox. An indigestible fox.

Eric Bauza 31:57

It's a female Sardinian fox.

Helen Hong 32:03

A female Sardinian fox. Yeah. It's a female one.

Eric Bauza 32:07

How did you know it was a fox though? I mean Because I'm a good voiceover artist. Maybe. Now, how close was I, Joe? Am I to to renounce one of my Emmy Awards of how awful my performance was?

Jo Wimpenny 32:21

So female foxes or vixens um of the red fox, of which this is a type of red fox, they make this kind of blood-curdling shriek during the mating season. So we often hear it around these streets in January, and it's and it's like this, you know, people sometimes wake up and think someone's being murdered or something. Because it's a real sort of ear-splitting like screech. Um so yours was a little bit more like, and and they're announcing themselves to males, so they're kind of saying, I'm ready.

Eric Bauza 32:58

But to a male fox, major screen.

Jo Wimpenny 32:59

I'm ready to breathe.

Eric Bauza 33:01

A blood curdling scream. Absolutely. Ready to break. Ready to go, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, hey, that's that's alright. We'll we'll do lightning round. Ready? Go ahead. Ready? Mom, what are you doing here? No, just kidding. Monkey? Ape? Ape? Gorilla? Yes! Gorilla. Gorilla! Gorilla. Okay, ready? Next. Ow.

Helen Hong 33:35

A chihuahua.

Eric Bauza 33:36

Yes. Really? Well, what's a dog?

Helen Hong 33:38

A dog. A chiwa yeah. Again, wide ranging, but I would have guessed Chihuahua.

Eric Bauza 33:45

Chihuahua specifically, that's my my my range. I do it every time I'm at a Best Buy and say there's a Chihuahua taking your crap by the washing machine.

Helen Hong 33:55

Was that specifically a Chihuahua taking your crap?

Eric Bauza 33:57

Yeah. I learned by doing I'm uh also the official voice of Dino for Flintstones, is that when Mel Blank was doing Dino's voice like a real dog, he wasn't barking out like he was inhaling So he was doing that when he was doing Dino. Again, a lot of time on my hands. Uh you want to do one more? We'll do one more each.

Helen Hong 34:21

Wow. Oh boy. Okay. Ribbon. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Eric Bauza 34:35

Oh. Ribbon. Hey. A frog with emphysema? I don't know. What is that? What is that? Water. What? A desert frog?

Eric Bauza 34:47

Yes!

Eric Bauza 34:47

Very good. Very good.

Helen Hong 34:49

Well, it's it's it's a desert rain fog. A desert rain fog. So really what I should have gone. Water.

Eric Bauza 34:57

Shh. Oh yeah. I sure wish it were raining. Okay, here, ready?

Helen Hong 35:02

I don't know how a desert rainfrog could be both deserty and rainy frog.

Eric Bauza 35:07

Joe, specific noise for a desert rain frog?

Jo Wimpenny 35:10

Yeah. Oh my well, you really need to see a video of this as well because these are tiny little frogs and they kind of pump themselves up and they look really, really fierce. And you know, you're sort of waiting for this amazing noise, and then it's just like squeak. It's just a tiny five pitch, like all this buildup.

Helen Hong 35:32

So yeah. Yeah, it's it's it's good. That's hilarious.

Eric Bauza 35:38

They're like this will be my last one, ready.

Eric Bauza 35:44

Now, uh normally being the voice of uh another corporate uh mascot, I would never do this voice. So uh oh boy, it's a beautiful day at Disneyland. A mouse.

Eric Bauza 35:55

Of course.

Eric Bauza 35:57

Oh, not just any mouse!

Eric Bauza 35:59

Yeah, but the mouse, but a mouse. Good job. Good job, everyone.

Eric Bauza 36:03

But really, I would probably go maybe like little squeaks.

Eric Bauza 36:11

That sounds pretty good. Or my mouse, yeah. I don't know. Again, lots of time on my hands. But that was good. That was good.

Helen Hong 36:19

That was good.

Eric Bauza 36:21

I I think I could get you a meeting with my voiceover agent after this.

Helen Hong 36:25

I'm trying to see which one was the last one, like in degree of difficulty. Oh ready?

Eric Bauza 36:32

Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

Helen Hong 36:38

Wait.

Eric Bauza 36:40

Oh my gosh. We're gonna have to blur out her mouth. That's a little I'm a little uncomfortable. The the the Scottish anus. The Scottish anus frog. I don't know. What is it? What was that in?

Helen Hong 36:57

Pacific. Oh, a herring fart.

Eric Bauza 37:01

A fart? We're getting into herring farts. Someone had to have been around a herring and then also maybe tried to record it. I got my difficult one, it was the the fox, but I also got parakeet. Andean cock of the rock. Ooh. Which I swear to God, if you look at my internet search history, I've never looked up this term before in my life. I have. I'm a good guy. I'm from Canada. We're not allowed to parakeet and frog, so. Very well done.

Helen Hong 37:34

That was super fun. And thank you for joining us, Eric. You were fantastic. You were so entertaining.

Eric Bauza 37:41

I learned so much today. We did. We both learned a lot. We'll be walking home from here just thinking about vultures pissing. The thing about vultures peeing on their own legs. You say it's disgusting.

Helen Hong 37:53

And fat bear week.

Eric Bauza 37:54

Fat bear week.

Helen Hong 37:55

Fat Bear Week.

Eric Bauza 37:56

Pixar presents Fat Bear Week. That's my next movie.

Helen Hong 38:01

Thank you for turning us on to Fat Bear Week, Joe. That's that's like that's a gift that we'll keep on giving for years.

Helen Hong 38:08

Like I'll just be thinking, oh, which bear will be the fattest?

Helen Hong 38:13

Which bear will be the fattest? Um we have swag for you. And we're taking a vote on this is our mascot. Yes. We're taking a vote on what name he should have. Or she. He or she. What should we name our mascot?

Eric Bauza 38:31

Uh I'm, I think, I think it kind of looks like a I'm I'm gonna go with uh Frank, Frank, Frank Fox or Frank. Well no, it could be a wolf, though, right? I think it's a wolf. It's a wolf. A f a uh a wolf named Frank. I don't know.

Helen Hong 38:46

Frank the wolf. Frank the wolf.

Eric Bauza 38:49

I think it's a great design.

Helen Hong 38:51

Good for you guys. Look at this. You can get this.

Eric Bauza 38:55

And he probably sounds like this. Hey guys!

Helen Hong 38:57

You can get this at framedbyfables.com.

Eric Bauza 39:00

You've been watching Framed by Fables. I'm the tote bag. That talking totebag. He's not even a real animal, he's just the talking tote bag.

Helen Hong 39:08

Look at that. FBF. Framed by Fables with Frank the Wolf.

Eric Bauza 39:14

FBF. You've been watching Fat Bear Fridays. Also framed by Fables, depending on what you like more. Uh thank you. You guys are so kind.

Helen Hong 39:25

Thank you for joining us.

Eric Bauza 39:26

You guys are not pigs. You guys are real human beings here. Thank you. And there's only one way, I guess, for us to close out the show.

Eric Bauza 39:34

And is that is that okay for me to say say, yeah, uh you've been watching uh FBF with Helen Hung and Joe Wimpetty. I'm Eric Bowser, aka Porky Pig. Yeah, the the uh that's all folks.