Does it feel surreal to be the voice of a worldwide cartoon phenomenon?
“We’re about to do these Nickelodeon cruise ships – they just started it last year. It was hugely successful. Me and a bunch of musicians, do music from the show — we do Best Day Ever and Where’s Gary – I’ve written those songs. And that’s the amazing thing, the cruise line was unprepared for – I don’t think they expected the middle-aged cartoon voice guy who is not seen to cause such pandemonium. I told them: “You guys are going to need to have somebody walk me from place to place on the boat.’ And they said, ‘Really?’ And when it went down, the security people had to abandon the guy in the Backyardigans costume who was hyperventilating to get me out of the room. We’re doing an east coast cruise, where they will probably fly me in on a helicopter to join after it’s in progress. They had a SpongeBob car in the NASCAR race. We’re even supposed to ring the bell at the stock exchange. There’s all this surreal stuff – you read interviews with Barack Obama saying he likes SpongeBob. For me
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