About this transcript: This is a full AI-generated transcript of "You're a big hero once again!" π€ π Tom Hanks and Tim Allen on Toy Story 5 and Woody's real name?! from BBC Radio 1, published June 18, 2026. The transcript contains 2,522 words with timestamps and was generated using Whisper AI.
"So apologies in advance, I know you've been asked every question under the sun over the past 36, 5 years? We're trying to, 35 I think from when the work really began. Really began. I thought it was 39 you said something like that, but if 35, 36... We think it was 91 were the first time that we..."
[00:00:00] Speaker 1: So apologies in advance, I know you've been asked every question under the sun over the past 36, 5 years?
[00:00:06] Speaker 2: We're trying to, 35 I think from when the work really began. Really began.
[00:00:10] Speaker 3: I thought it was 39 you said something like that, but if 35, 36...
[00:00:13] Speaker 2: We think it was 91 were the first time that we walked into recordings.
[00:00:17] Speaker 1: That makes sense. Is that right? And by the way, the Andy's coming bit last night.
[00:00:21] Speaker 2: Hold on, someone's coming. One, two, three. Oh, there you go. Chef's kiss. Super love kiss.
[00:00:32] Speaker 3: I like that. Thank you. You're a big hero once again. Tom thinks the funny stuff.
[00:00:37] Speaker 2: All I'm trying to do is entertain myself, people. That's all I'm trying to do.
[00:00:42] Speaker 3: You are a sad, strange little man.
[00:00:44] Speaker 1: And you have my pity. That is a line that I hear in my life because I love it so much. Maybe people say it to me more than I say it to other people. But what are lines in cinema generally that you find yourself saying because you love them so much?
[00:00:58] Speaker 2: Oh, I mean, from our long history? I like a line from West Side Story. It says, in, out, let's get cracking.
[00:01:07] Speaker 4: And I guarantee you can count them in. In, out, let's get cracking. Where are you going to find Bernardo?
[00:01:12] Speaker 3: What's the one where she's walking down the stairs? Bette Midler. No, not Bette Midler. Betty Davis? Betty Davis. Big difference. No.
[00:01:22] Speaker 2: What a dump? Or buckle your seatbelt. It's going to be a bumpy ride.
[00:01:28] Speaker 5: Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
[00:01:33] Speaker ?: Please.
[00:01:34] Speaker 3: Oh, God. I love that. Because then she said, the way she says it, she goes, fasten your seatbelts. Did they have seatbelts back then?
[00:01:42] Speaker 2: I think when you flew across the country. Not in cars. But she smiled. I think it's going to be a bumpy ride. And that's at the beginning of the dinner. Oh, I freaking love that. In a lot of ways, it means the same thing. In, out, let's get cracking. Fashion your seatbelts. Wait a minute.
[00:01:57] Speaker 3: What's his name? Roy Schneider said he saw the shark. Oh, we're going to need a bigger boat. Yeah. You're going to need a bigger boat. We're going to need a bigger boat. That's another good one. Yeah, that's a goody.
[00:02:18] Speaker 1: By the way, I only recently discovered that Woody has a surname. Are you aware that Woody has a surname?
[00:02:24] Speaker 2: I had no idea. The sheriff? Woody, what?
[00:02:27] Speaker 1: Woody Pride. Oh. Double twist. Jesse's full name is Jessica Jane Pride, which...
[00:02:35] Speaker 3: Oh, wait a minute. I'd heard this, that they might be related. I think that means your siblings. Boing.
[00:02:40] Speaker 2: No, distant cousins, please.
[00:02:43] Speaker 3: Please. There's something in there. Was it one of the guys on the internet that gets these names? I heard that same.
[00:02:50] Speaker 2: How did they find this out?
[00:02:51] Speaker 3: I play the guy.
[00:02:52] Speaker 2: I don't, I don't, I didn't realize I had a surname.
[00:02:55] Speaker 1: Well, set a debate for me. I'm of the opinion that Toy Story is a pun-based title on Toy Store. Ah. No, yes, maybe. Wow. 35 years, guys. Towers beyond.
[00:03:09] Speaker 3: You have a lot of time on your hands, don't you? You really think of stuff like this.
[00:03:12] Speaker 1: You flatter me.
[00:03:13] Speaker 3: Wow.
[00:03:13] Speaker 2: Well, okay, I'm going to go back to, remember that era where the new overlords at Disney decided that. They were nude. They were nude, yeah. They were also nude. They had a movie in production that was called Basil of Baker Street. What? Do you remember this? Basil of Baker Street? It was about essentially a mouse version of Sherlock Holmes. Basil of, Sir Basil of Baker Street lived in a little, right next to whatever the official address of Sherlock Holmes was. And they came in and they said, you know, I'm not sure the audience will understand the title Basil of Baker Street, so let's name the movie The Great Mouse Detective. Oh. You remember that? Yeah, that. Okay. So, can you imagine they maybe had a title that's come out, you know, Gangway for Woody and Buzz. We don't know what that means. What does that mean? Let's just call it Toy Story. It'll be a play on Toy Store, don't you?
[00:04:13] Speaker 1: I love it, and I think it's worked. It's worked for me. Right. It reminds me of The Madness of King George IV, which they went, people will think they haven't seen the first three. Yeah. So we'll just chop the number off.
[00:04:24] Speaker 2: Well, can you imagine trying to sell Apollo 13 to people who have never seen the first 12? It was a nightmare. Wow, you too. I'm like way out of this.
[00:04:33] Speaker 1: I'm here to help. No, but it makes sense. It makes sense. But 35 years ago, I've got to ask, what was it like from your agent? I wasn't, I was about to say email, but it was 35 years ago.
[00:04:41] Speaker 2: Do you think we talked to our agents about any of this stuff? No, no.
[00:04:44] Speaker 3: I use carrier pigeons at that point. Yeah, it came in a wax cylinder. Yeah. They took a while, but they were, you knew the pigeon, the pigeon knew where to come to me, sit down, and it was a little, you undo this, it was.
[00:04:55] Speaker 1: And they said, we've got a character in an animated movie. He's a deluded space ranger who can't tell he's a toy. We thought of you. How do you react to that? How do you react to that? You go, stop casting.
[00:05:06] Speaker 3: As I recall, and I know, and John Lasseter came to my house. I had a house at that time in Los Angeles for him. I worked there in Detroit. And he came to my kitchen in Detroit and said, this is the story. And I believe this was the original first one, which was a little rougher than the one you see. And it was a very disc jockey guy, bravo, big, big, big, big. He ignored everybody around him. It was all, he was delusional at best. And I softened him because I said, the disc jockey thing did voiceovers for quite a while. And they did, that's how voiceovers were. I said, soften a little bit so you're not sure who he was. And it really changed his direction. And Woody's character was the very same. We were two just butted heads. It was not very interesting.
[00:05:52] Speaker 1: It wasn't charming. They weren't getting on well.
[00:05:54] Speaker 2: It's like they didn't like each other. Right. You know. Too much. And it was an, there was animosity between the two of us. And it just kind of began, there was a lot of insult kind of stuff.
[00:06:04] Speaker 1: How early doors did John mention the Binford tools jokes? Because. Good for you.
[00:06:12] Speaker 3: It's in the tool man, Taylor.
[00:06:24] Speaker 1: Rewatching them, it comes up more than once.
[00:06:26] Speaker 3: Well, they did that. They did it because in the States, anyway, home improvement was huge. Massive. So they put jokes about that. And we also did when I did Santa Claus. Santa Claus has been for tools in the background there.
[00:06:41] Speaker ?: Yeah.
[00:06:41] Speaker 3: They do. They use a lot of that stuff.
[00:06:43] Speaker 2: You did that little thing where you had a little toy tool. Yeah. Always little things.
[00:06:46] Speaker 3: And then cut to my new series on ABC, Shifting Gears. We do, I Say to Infinity and Beyond constantly. It's always references to, is a guy Woody? We do jokes. It's real subtle. We come back to Toy Story a lot.
[00:07:02] Speaker 1: Rewatching them as a fully grown adult, which is quite spooky. The Don Rickles hockey puck references. Oh yeah, yeah.
[00:07:09] Speaker 2: Hey look, I'm Picasso. I don't get it. You uncultured swine? What are you looking at, you hockey puck?
[00:07:18] Speaker 1: Laurie Metcalfe, it's the second time she's had a son called Andy.
[00:07:22] Speaker 2: Oh.
[00:07:23] Speaker 1: Because of Roseanne. Oh yeah, all right.
[00:07:25] Speaker 5: Oh, it's no trouble really. Fred had to get some more diapers and I was here to see Andy anyway. Well, you shouldn't have to come all the way over here to see your grandson. Would you lose the picture we gave you?
[00:07:34] Speaker 2: Boy, you have a lot of free time.
[00:07:36] Speaker 1: I love this stuff. You'll have to forgive me.
[00:07:39] Speaker 2: A lot of Easter eggs in this that we didn't realize.
[00:07:41] Speaker 1: Like, as a fan of Spinal Tap, the fact that Zurg's blaster goes up to 11.
[00:07:49] Speaker 3: Wow, you've got to get out of the basement.
[00:07:52] Speaker 2: Now we've got to give credit to everybody on the round table at Pixar. It's really good. Slinky Dog says...
[00:07:58] Speaker 3: I am your father. I'll never give in. You killed my father.
[00:08:03] Speaker 5: No, Bryce.
[00:08:04] Speaker 1: I am your father. So much Star Wars.
[00:08:08] Speaker 3: So much Star Wars and that was just unbelievable.
[00:08:10] Speaker 1: Slinky's saying, I'm not a smart dog, but I know what roadkill is.
[00:08:13] Speaker 4: Oh, how about that? I may not be a smart dog, but I know what roadkill is. I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is.
[00:08:30] Speaker 1: Referencing Forrest Gump is... Yeah, there you go. I am going to stick my neck out, guys. I think the Pixar people are pretty good. I think they've got a future. They're talented. They're funny.
[00:08:41] Speaker 2: We don't know who they are, by the way. Never met them. You've never met them. Never really met them. There could be 47 of them up there. Or two. I don't know. It might be two hilarious people. Or one guy dressed as different people. We do not know. We only know that they go off and they test the material and they never stop and then they come back and constantly do it.
[00:08:59] Speaker 3: I'm very lucky to have them in my life. Every time we read one of these, well, both of us read this one and said, did you read this?
[00:09:08] Speaker 2: The truth is, if anybody truly wanted to scam me and Tim, they could. They could come. You know, I'm one of the guys that picks around the stories at Pixar.
[00:09:17] Speaker 3: Oh, here.
[00:09:18] Speaker 2: And I need $800 just to get me home. You know, and we said, oh, dude, thanks so much. You know, I came up with that line in Toy Story 3.
[00:09:27] Speaker 3: I prefer it in Bitcoin. You could send it to your friend. If you could do that, I'd appreciate that as well. I mean, I'm Nairobi right now. So if you could just share it.
[00:09:34] Speaker 1: Just sort it out. You know the sort code. We'd buy it.
[00:09:36] Speaker 3: We'd buy it without question.
[00:09:37] Speaker 1: Tom's told me before he's met a man who had a full woody tattoo across his belly, right? Do you have anything, Tim, that rivals that? Where someone has said, would you like to see my back? It's a full. Well, nothing I can talk about.
[00:09:52] Speaker 3: I don't want to sit.
[00:09:54] Speaker 2: I did want to ask you about your tattoos. They hurt, don't they? Particularly when you get it right there. Right. I get it.
[00:10:01] Speaker 1: No comment. Okay, great. Also, I love that Jesse gets to be the lead in this film. Oh, both of us. I'm all over it.
[00:10:07] Speaker 5: I want to talk to you, device. Please, call me Lily. Me and the toys have been working all summer to try and get Bonnie to make friends. Yeah. But then you had to ruin it. Got it. You're not even listening to me. I'm always listening. See? Now, look here. Me and the toys have been working all summer. No, in Spanish. What?
[00:10:24] Speaker 3: Yeah, I got dibs on behind the dresser.
[00:10:26] Speaker 1: Because you guys don't have to keep saying, Tom, for example, come on, guys.
[00:10:30] Speaker 2: Well, I do it. Come on. Woody. Woody. It would not be Toy Story without Woody saying, come on, guys. We have to do that.
[00:10:38] Speaker 4: Hey, hey, now, come on, guys. Come on, come on. Get in position. Come on, Fuzz.
[00:10:44] Speaker 2: Yeah. The thing that was great when we were doing it is that we would go in and do our bits, which was great. And then they would say, let me show you some of the stuff that you're not in. Oh, that was amazing. And I would just slap my head over and over again in the course of just sitting there in the sound.
[00:10:59] Speaker 3: So the surprise, for me, anyway, it was so well done, I didn't have any moment of jealousy like mine. No, no, no. It was so well done. I was mesmerized. The story was so good that I was just the deputy. Badge? No badge.
[00:11:16] Speaker 2: I kept saying, how do you guys get out of it? Do you guys actually write your way out of this pickle? Because we're literally, I had no idea. We have no idea how this story is going to resolve. Three quarters of the way in, I was going, how are they going to get out of this? And then we see it, and we're bowing our eyes out because it's so powerful.
[00:11:32] Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Well done again on that front. Like, making people cry, it seems to be your thing. Good job, bravo. But putting a smile on my face, I just want to say, and I hope this isn't a spoiler, but to meet Bartholomew McLeighier, for even just a brief moment, absolutely adored it. Yeah. Big fan. So, from everyone in the UK.
[00:11:51] Speaker 2: My favorite was pizza with sunglasses. I think that's a delightful. Bad Bunny.
[00:11:55] Speaker 1: You have Bad Bunny in Toy Story 5. What planet?
[00:12:01] Speaker 2: I don't know if you say you have. Yes, we did it. We said, you know who would be great is pizza with sunglasses. Bad Bunny. Que bueno with a Bad Bunny. That would just be fantastic.
[00:12:11] Speaker 3: Well, and then one of the ones that is still, what was the redhead? Conan O'Brien? What was he playing?
[00:12:20] Speaker 1: I am yet to discover. I'm not really sure.
[00:12:22] Speaker 3: I have one of those in my, I have an auto shop and I have a thing like that and I use it every day. It's a back end of a hot rod but the toilet paper comes out of the trunk. Every day I'm looking and I go, is that what they're talking about? It was a potty trainer. It was a potty trainer. Yeah, but I don't, I've never seen one.
[00:12:42] Speaker 2: I don't know what it is. I don't know but, you know, because they did not have them when our kids were young.
[00:12:46] Speaker 1: No, I have to say, I have to wrap up, which I'm very sad to say, but I love the idea that Conan O'Brien will now forever be associated with children going to the bathroom.
[00:12:53] Speaker 2: By the way, it's a, that's why they cast, it's quite a burden. Quite a burden. He'll live up to it. He can shoulder that, that weight.
[00:13:00] Speaker 1: Thank you so much for the past 35 years and the rest. You bet. See you for the next one.
[00:13:06] Speaker 2: Thank you.
[00:13:16] Speaker ?: Thank you.