James Carter Cathcart / Jimmy Zoppi / Billy Beach / old guard truthseeker / jcctunes - Unwarranted Self-Importance Personified, Can’t write or voice act for shit

[Ideal Patrol]

James Carter Cathcart is a talentless hack that can neither write nor voice act, yet has such an inflated ego that he’ll suck himself off anonymously. By now, we all know about defunct 4Kids and their former reputation as, “DA WORST DUBBING COMPANY EVA,” despite the fact that TPCi/The Pokemon Company International actually managed to dub Pokemon worse than 4Kids did at this point, but I digress) While most of the TPCi cast also has their share of problems, both in terms of lack of talent and desire to improve their craft, as well as questionable behavior online, no other person better exemplifies these qualities more than the subject of this thread. He is known by many aliases, as you can see in the thread title, but I just call him, “The man who ruined James, Meowth, Butch, Professor Oak, and writes some of the worst scripts ever.”

But that’s another topic for another time. For, you see, this thread isn't so much about about James Carter Cathcart’s lack of talent in terms of taking over roles from the previous cast, as much as it’s about his lack of dignity as a person and why I find it hard to respect him, outside of being dissatisfied with his work on the show itself. For the sake of convenience, his name will be shortened to “Cathcart” or “JCC” from here on out.

Cathcart has such a high opinion of himself that he can’t let anyone have a negative opinion, examples:

While overinflated egotism is nothing new in the industry, what separates him out from others is the fact that he’s made sockpuppet accounts to defend himself, as well as bring down those he feels are competing with him: usually either the Japanese script writers, or the previous voice actors for his characters.

This comment didn’t age well…

“You only hate it because it’s different, not because I- uhh, I mean, he sounds like an old man with a cold!”


Here’s a secondhand source of his email to a fan, about his writing versus the original:
http://archive.md/kTdhs (TL;DR version is him saying everyone else’s shit stinks except his)

If you guys have any Cathcart stories to share, feel free to post them here! You may also post about other TPCi employees as well, since they’re so closely connected; a few of them are lolcows in their own right.

Links:
https://www.youtube.com/user/cctunes1/featured (Archive)
https://forums.serebii.net/members/old-guard-truthseeker.39434/ (Archive)
https://forums.bulbagarden.net/index.php?members/old-guard-truthseeker.4343/ (Archive)
https://twitter.com/jcctunes (Archive)
https://www.facebook.com/James-Carter-Cathcart-154331665666/ (Archive)
http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/members/jcctunes/ (Archive)

 

[PointDextrose]

Sadly this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Mr. Cathcart and company's inflammatory behavior online. My Cathcart story essentially involves that I've heard that he and Bill Rogers (alias NewBrock, current dub VA of Brock who many of us think makes the character sound like an elderly man with a really gruff, deep, raspy voice) trolled the Serebii Forums when TPCi took over the dub from 4Kids, both of whom spread false rumors about how the roles were recast, during the dub change.

The late Maddie Blaustein (second dub VA for Meowth & longest lasting under 4Kids for those unaware) had an account on Serebii Forums (maddie_joan) and was trying to answer fan questions explaining how it was the original/old dub cast got replaced, but Mr. Rogers & Mr. Cathcart would keep harassing her while also bashing her statements without evidence for their claims.

You also had Rachael Lillis (as rlil2001 in her fan club on Yahoo at the time, original dub VA for Misty & Jessie) calling out Mr. Rogers for his lying during the change...also how he didn't speak for the cast that was replaced, which was deserved.

Bill Rogers gave a sarcastic response, of course, as you can see.

Mr. Rogers also has quite the huge ego, too: when criticized for his dishonest behavior by a fan, he had this to say to user The Great Butler on Serebii Forums.

Bill Rogers even said "OldGuardTruthSeeker" (James Carter Cathcart's sockpuppet account mentioned above) was "a reliable source" of information, when they were both making up stuff in order to make themselves look good.

Clearly, highly unprofessional behavior coming from voice actors assuming roles, but then TPCi still doesn't really care for professionalism in general by now (e.g. Tom Wayland was another one of Mr. Cathcart's buddies who had some...let's just say disturbing...allegations leveled against him in regards to a woman- the man on the far right, for those curious).

If any other company had employees doing this sort of thing for them, I highly doubt they'd let them go unpunished, really.

 

[RK 672]

This OP is weak. It fails at showing drama or anything amusing. You claim he's a shit VA but don't show anything. Neither YouTube comment is particularly noteworthy. The socking is mildly interesting but not enough for a thread.

 

[PointDextrose]

This OP is weak. It fails at showing drama or anything amusing. You claim he's a shit VA but don't show anything. Neither YouTube comment is particularly noteworthy. The socking is mildly interesting but not enough for a thread.

Most of the fandom thinks his VA is weak in voice compares etc. when discussed online, so I don't feel the OP needed to show that (if needed see this video's comments for one example of how well received his James itself is nowadays: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0l2EAcBrKE), but what I believe his point was is that the man's behavior in terms of bolstering himself up at the expense of others is drama enough- he is so insecure he believes himself to be above the criticism of fans, essentially, are what the YouTube comments reveal.

I'd say the socking is enough for a thread to discuss how his ego is a bit too large for his own good, as well as him saying his writing is better than someone else's.

 

[RK 672]

Most of the fandom thinks his VA is weak in voice compares etc. when discussed online, so I don't feel the OP needed to show that

We're not the fandom though. Most people here will not be familiar.

he is so insecure he believes himself to be above the criticism of fans,

That's not particularly uncommon and doesn't make for an interesting thread alone.

I'd say the socking is enough for a thread to discuss how his ego is a bit too large for his own good, as well as him saying his writing is better than someone else's.

If the socking was on a much larger scale, then maybe. This looks mild compared to others on here. Arrogance about the quality of your writing compared isn't enough for a thread either.

 

[PointDextrose]

We're not the fandom though. Most people here will not be familiar.

That's not particularly uncommon and doesn't make for an interesting thread alone.

If the socking was on a much larger scale, then maybe. This looks mild compared to others on here. Arrogance about the quality of your writing compared isn't enough for a thread either.

To your first point, that's fair.

I'd agree, but the creator made an important point about the man also believing himself to be above his predecessors and his Japanese writing counterpart, which is rather uncommon: it's one thing to ignore fan critiques, sure, but another to put yourself up on a pedestal compared to those who came before you as well as those who originated the Series in Japan, respectively.

The socking was actually on a larger scale, though, he was talking about episode titles he used to write on the Serebii Forums and mocked the previous dubbers for one ("Claydol Big and Tall"), then proceeded to use another one he thought they would've used for a future episode title after a fan thought the old team would've used it ("Slaking Kong"). He was also leaking information about the current dub using his "old guard truthseeker" account to boot. I'd have to post the images later on of said further sockpuppeting activity on Mr. Cathcart's part, but if I searched through his Serebii Forums posts again, they are in fact present there.

 

[RK 672]

I'd agree, but the creator made an important point about the man also believing himself to be above his predecessors and his Japanese writing counterpart, which is rather uncommon: it's one thing to ignore fan critiques, sure, but another to put yourself up on a pedestal compared to those who came before you as well as those who originated the Series in Japan, respectively.

He's certainly arrogant, but that doesn't necessarily make a good topic. There are plenty of arrogant idiots on Twitter, but most of them aren't interesting enough for a thread.

The socking was actually on a larger scale, though, he was talking about episode titles he used to write on the Serebii Forums and mocked the previous dubbers for one ("Claydol Big and Tall"), then proceeded to use another one he thought they would've used for a future episode title after a fan thought the old team would've used it ("Slaking Kong"). He was also leaking information about the current dub using his "old guard truthseeker" account to boot. I'd have to post the images later on of said further sockpuppeting activity on Mr. Cathcart's part, but if I searched through his Serebii Forums posts again, they are in fact present there.

The problem is that those actions aren't particularly threadworthy in terms of drama or humor. Does he have any public meltdowns or anything funny?

 

[PointDextrose]

He's certainly arrogant, but that doesn't necessarily make a good topic. There are plenty of arrogant idiots on Twitter, but most of them aren't interesting enough for a thread.

The problem is that those actions aren't particularly threadworthy in terms of drama or humor. Does he have any public meltdowns or anything funny?

Hmm...I do sort of see your point.

He did have a sort of public meltdown- when the second dub VA for Meowth (maddiejoan is Maddie Blaustein's username) spoke to him online and said "Whatever, Carter" to him (which it was him as oldguardtruthseeker as it turns out after all according to https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pokémon_USA_recasting_controversy, so she turned out to be correct), he said something to the effect of the following:

To add to the "lulz," he defended his own script work under self-perceived anonymity, and also denied that he used the pseudonym Jimmy Zoppi for some of his other roles under 4Kids (which he did for his work, so he lied once more).

 

[Ideal Patrol]

-snipped for convenience-

Bill Rogers is a complete tool. You should see this Twitter thread of him and Sarah Natochenny (and a few others) mocking fans for no other reason than having a negative opinion:

https://twitter.com/cressidarules/status/927345728028008448

Archive Links:

http://archive.md/uMQVZ
http://archive.md/b0WJv

 

[PointDextrose]

Bill Rogers is a complete tool. You should see this Twitter thread of him and Sarah Natochenny (and a few others) mocking fans for no other reason than having a negative opinion:

https://mobile.twitter.com/cressidarules/status/927345728028008448

Archive Links:

http://archive.md/uMQVZ
http://archive.md/b0WJv

That's pretty childish that they took such offense to criticism like that, dismissing cressida as a mindless "troll" like Sarah Natochenny put it. I feel any real professionals in the VA industry would have said, "I'm sorry but we did our best to live up to their work- if you don't like it, we understand, but we tried our best to put out the best work we could for this film." With TPCi's cast, though, any sort of criticism is dismissed outright by these people without any real maturity in handling it.

This is literally what I'm seeing in the Twitter thread: https://v637g.app.goo.gl/bpmt51UhyGFjajG42

 

[Heckler1]

"For, you see, this thread isn't so much about about James Carter Cathcart’s lack of talent in terms of taking over roles from the previous cast, as much as it’s about his lack of dignity as a person and why I find it hard to respect him"-OP

Too much of this thread seems to be based on just the fact you don't like him, and not really that he is exceptional or funny. If you can find some lulzy material that would be all well and good, but right now it just seems kind of underwhelming.

 

[PointDextrose]

I think I found something something pretty lulzy for a new Cathcart story, as it turns out, that may help the OP out a bit.

As you know, he had two sockpuppet accounts online on the Serebii & Bulbagarden Forums, respectively, as "old guard truthseeker" on both sites.

When he more or less tried to stroke his own ego by praising his own James performance in a Bulbagarden Forums thread, this is what even a fan of the current dub at the time (Battle Frontier) said about his performance in response. The best part is that he says how "it just seems like the right timing the actors were changed" to boot, implying that things suddenly got better with himself on the Series in major roles now.

 

[Ideal Patrol]

Now that is ego. The one thing the series needed aside from terrible voices was scripts that even Linkara and Gloria Tesch would laugh at! I wonder what people would have to say about this-

...oh.

I'll edit your image into the OP as soon as I figure out why the edit feature is missing on my end.

It's kinda funny that the only main TPCi actor that hasn't been involved in any drama is Kayzie Rogers.

 

[whatever I feel like]

Needs at least one link to the new voice being shit. We can't laugh at it if we haven't heard it. Preferably a comparison video though really, I'd like to think that most people know what James is supposed to sound like at this point.

 

[The Phantom on the Hill]

Here's a comparison video I found.

Personally, I'm not sure JCC alone is threadworthy. Might be better to have one on him and other members of the current cast.