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Speaker 1: Hi, Christie, Hey Will, How are you. I'm doing good.

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Speaker 1: Are you excited for today's show? I am. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm really excited because I feel like our guest is

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Speaker 1: truly a powerhouse. Yeah, I mean yeah, a powerhouse that

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Speaker 1: we talked about this in the show. But I'm still

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Speaker 1: printing out her resume. It's like eleven or twelve pages long.

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Speaker 1: It's insane. Who we have today, Christie, It's Vanessa Marshall. Hi,

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Speaker 1: he thank you for coming on the show. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you're aware of what we do, but we

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Speaker 1: talk only mid century history from twelve hundred to twelve seat.

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Speaker 1: I happen to have a full library behind my toys.

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Speaker 1: Oh perfect, that's all we talk about. We talked about

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Speaker 1: the first six months of the Wars of the Roses

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Speaker 1: and nothing else. We talked about voice over and animation,

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Speaker 1: which is the greatest job in the world. Um. Now,

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Speaker 1: I would like to start by saying, you know, to

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Speaker 1: prepare for my episodes, I like to print out, uh my,

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Speaker 1: whatever our guests resumes are. I started last night. It's

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Speaker 1: still printing for yours. No, it is twelve pages long. No,

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to stop. It's twelve pages long that

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Speaker 1: he actually did it. Of course I did it. I

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Speaker 1: did it. Yeah, I did. Even though you guys know

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Speaker 1: each other, we knew each other pretty pretty well. I

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Speaker 1: remember I remember doing a d R and Guardians of

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Speaker 1: the Galaxy and you would go are or something, and

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Speaker 1: I just look and go, you're really good at this

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Speaker 1: because you are no well, I was just being next

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Speaker 1: to awesome people and and Trevor um. The thing that

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Speaker 1: things that we we talked about in the voiceover world,

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Speaker 1: but actually we don't talk about nearly enough in the

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Speaker 1: voiceover world. Is you work with some of these amazing

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Speaker 1: people for so long and then you don't realize how

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Speaker 1: many projects you actually share in common because you weren't

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Speaker 1: in the room together exactly. Yes, I think so. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I've been married to guys over and over again, and

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Speaker 1: I've dated I've dated Cree Summer longer than I've dated

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Speaker 1: my wife in some form, animated form or another. But

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Speaker 1: I mean, going back to the start of yours, we

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Speaker 1: we've been on. I was looking at just shows that

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Speaker 1: have been like, you know, Benten and Powerpuff Girls, Data Project,

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Speaker 1: Scooby Doo. It was just kind of one thing after another,

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Speaker 1: of if you don't mind me throwing it out there,

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Speaker 1: Justice League, I played Coral Lipstick Lady Number one. That

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Speaker 1: like do you want to see that in? I don't

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Speaker 1: I think in Scooby Doo, I played Daphne's um nondescript

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Speaker 1: the counter when Wonder Woman walks in. Yes, that's true, yes,

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Speaker 1: So Vanessa. We've we've talked to a lot of different

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Speaker 1: She texted me voice and I want to say, like,

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Speaker 1: I worked in production in high school. I was actually

423
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Speaker 1: Leslie Moonves his assistant. Thank yeah, yeah, well because at

424
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Speaker 1: that at that time it was Laura Martelepictures and not

425
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Speaker 1: Landing was part of Laura Monte. It was over on

426
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Speaker 1: the MGM Lone and I would uh take people on

427
00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:25,520
Speaker 1: golf carts, like the big execs would come and I'd

428
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Speaker 1: be like, that's where I learned. The more learn the

429
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Speaker 1: more is that it Lloyd, It's it's the pandemic. Thing

430
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Speaker 1: is real. Um. They they had like like there was

431
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Speaker 1: a water tank where the waterfollies happened, and this is

432
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Speaker 1: where Wizard of Oz was filmed and this is that. Um.

433
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Speaker 1: In addition to my executive skills, I was a great

434
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Speaker 1: tour guide and I loved it. Um. Yeah. So, and

435
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Speaker 1: then I wrote plays at Princeton. And the whole reason

436
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Speaker 1: I got into Princeton was from my sculpture. When I

437
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,400
Speaker 1: was in high school. I would take trash and turn

438
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Speaker 1: it into some sort of art and re contextualize it.

439
00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:06,000
Speaker 1: And that was another story to be told, was that

440
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Speaker 1: which was discarded is actually beautiful. Check it out, you know,

441
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:12,040
Speaker 1: or whatever it was. And there was one thing that

442
00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:13,720
Speaker 1: I did and I felt like back in high school,

443
00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:15,679
Speaker 1: I didn't have words to tell stories. I felt like

444
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Speaker 1: I was better able to communicate through objects and art.

445
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Speaker 1: But then Princeton let me in. The The guy who

446
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Speaker 1: wrote my essay for entrance compared me to votes art

447
00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:28,800
Speaker 1: with music with with my sculpture. I mean, I'm so sorry,

448
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:32,280
Speaker 1: guy out, because I'm not really doing anything with my sculpture.

449
00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:34,960
Speaker 1: But but obviously you could have if you wanted to,

450
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:38,120
Speaker 1: I could have. And I feared that someone was going

451
00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:40,360
Speaker 1: to come up to me at Princeton be like, excuse me,

452
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Speaker 1: huge error. Um, if you could just give me like

453
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Speaker 1: literally every every year, I was like amazed that I

454
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Speaker 1: was still there. Um, but I did sculpt a little

455
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Speaker 1: bit when I was there, and they gave me an

456
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Speaker 1: award for the Greatest Creative Contribution to the school because

457
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Speaker 1: I was doing things in the theater. I was writing

458
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Speaker 1: and creative writing poetry, this and that. And then a

459
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Speaker 1: friend of mine asked if I wanted to help him

460
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Speaker 1: audition for n y U Graduate School for Drama, and

461
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Speaker 1: I said sure, I'd love to. Um Danny and the

462
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Speaker 1: Deep Blue cy love that play and went in and

463
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Speaker 1: I got in, and he didn't come one. Out of

464
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Speaker 1: two thousand people who applied, twenty were accepted, and I

465
00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:26,959
Speaker 1: was one of twenty. And I also applied to Yale

466
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Speaker 1: Directing School and they told me to go age twenty years. Okay,

467
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,440
Speaker 1: well I still can't. Are you? Are you still pleased?

468
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Speaker 1: Tell me you were still friends with the guy that

469
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Speaker 1: you helped. Yes, Matt Roush, Matt Rausch, He's he's a genius.

470
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Speaker 1: He's I think he's on Madam's Secretary. He was on Banshee.

471
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:50,640
Speaker 1: If you watch Banshee at all, he's a genius. Yes,

472
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Speaker 1: I think I think we've healed from that time. Were

473
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Speaker 1: you trying to get in no, not at all. Are

474
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Speaker 1: you kidding me? I mean that was the thing. Did

475
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Speaker 1: you have everything to yourself? Like, even if I'm not

476
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:03,560
Speaker 1: going like, I don't why I wasn't even trying to

477
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Speaker 1: get in. Look, I am a very academic person. I

478
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:10,240
Speaker 1: do have books on war, the roses behind these toys,

479
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:15,360
Speaker 1: I really do, because whatever, it's a long story. But well,

480
00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:17,600
Speaker 1: I wanted to read everything I could possibly read to

481
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 1: be able to tell all the stories I could possibly tell.

482
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 1: I wanted to write, produce, direct, I wanted to like

483
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Speaker 1: get a barn and put on a play like all

484
00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 1: of that. Um, and uh, you know, for whatever reason,

485
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:34,520
Speaker 1: got into the drama school, got a master's enacting, which

486
00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:37,360
Speaker 1: probably for whatever reason, you're the ship. Of course you're

487
00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:40,560
Speaker 1: going to well, but it wasn't my intention. I really

488
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:42,879
Speaker 1: wanted to go to Yale directing school and I wanted

489
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Speaker 1: to direct. But then you would have been stuck in

490
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Speaker 1: new Haven, Connecticut. And I say that as somebody from Connecticut,

491
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:53,119
Speaker 1: and so is christ Milford Haven. Milford ain't new Haven.

492
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:59,120
Speaker 1: So yeah, at any rate, I don't know it ended

493
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,080
Speaker 1: up that I was. I thought, I told myself, well,

494
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,040
Speaker 1: you'll be able to better communicate with actors if you

495
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 1: get a master's in acting, because what you know, actors

496
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,760
Speaker 1: who know you know whatever? Right who you have to

497
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:16,480
Speaker 1: learn how to speak today exactly that. Yeah, I always,

498
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:18,000
Speaker 1: I always worked for food. I like it that way.

499
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 1: But and then so in my last year of drama school,

500
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:24,560
Speaker 1: I put on like forty pounds and all sorts of

501
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 1: emotional things were going on, and I really was struggling,

502
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,640
Speaker 1: and I started doing stand up comedy. Oh I can

503
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:38,399
Speaker 1: see that. I can totally see because you know because

504
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:40,439
Speaker 1: I did get signed by J Michael Bloom and they

505
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:43,240
Speaker 1: were like, well, you're the fat You're the fat funny friend.

506
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,679
Speaker 1: And I was like, all right, watch this, and so

507
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:49,680
Speaker 1: I went, I don't care, it's fine, yes, Michael Bloom

508
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:51,959
Speaker 1: for all. Oh my god, do you remember them? They

509
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Speaker 1: were one of the bigs I was with s Cminem

510
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Speaker 1: Oh really, Peanut M and M or A planing MM

511
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Speaker 1: is the question? Remember when they were SCM and M.

512
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:03,840
Speaker 1: And I think they're still around SCM. There callers that

513
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:08,240
Speaker 1: I don't know, all those old school New York agencies. Yeah,

514
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 1: first of all, impostors inters totally real. But like, I

515
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,399
Speaker 1: just love Vanessa. You are so cool. I hope my

516
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 1: daughters are like you, because I mean, that's just so cool.

517
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 1: I mean, did your mom's career inspire you? Was it

518
00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 1: kind of hard? Sometimes too? I resented it because I

519
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,399
Speaker 1: I mean, it's strange. I don't have any children, nor

520
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 1: do I plan on having any, and so so I'm

521
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:36,920
Speaker 1: now like, thanks mom for taking the time to create me. Um.

522
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 1: That was very kind and generous of her. He won't be,

523
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 1: I'm good, but uh yeah, I think watching her do

524
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 1: these twelve hour turnarounds. I resented the way the industry

525
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:52,360
Speaker 1: took her away from me. I felt like I would

526
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 1: never be as important, and so I was coming at

527
00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:01,239
Speaker 1: it from this whole shamanistic anthropological la la la and

528
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 1: make sense of it all. Well, it's a business. It's

529
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 1: a it's a business. Sure. When I graduated from n

530
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:08,920
Speaker 1: y U and I came here and I was like,

531
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 1: I've worked with Lea Vi Trule and I've done mask

532
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 1: work Canadia and these women they were like, what's You're fat?

533
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 1: So we care? No, it was brutal, and well, it's

534
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 1: also the industry. You study these classical things and it's

535
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 1: like and now I'm auditioning for a clear silk commercial. Yeah,

536
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 1: that's the way it is. Yes, that's one thing they

537
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 1: didn't really prepare us for is kind of the business

538
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:34,680
Speaker 1: of things. And now now I find it interesting working

539
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 1: in advertising. I feel like actors are uniquely qualified to

540
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 1: help stimulate the economy because even though commercial hot take,

541
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 1: hot take, well, even though commercials are just these thirty

542
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 1: second you know, oh you're a sell out if you

543
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 1: do a commercial. Well, a cartoon is actually a vehicle

544
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:56,959
Speaker 1: for commercials. So, and the characters that we're playing are

545
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 1: actually soon to be toys. So this is all about

546
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 1: stin relating the economy. And you hope, you hope, you

547
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 1: hope whatever cartoon you're on is enough to where you're

548
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:07,920
Speaker 1: you got toys from it, you hope, well, yes, because

549
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 1: and if the toys don't sell, it's like, well, okay,

550
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 1: very good. Yeah. Remember the show we were on Flex

551
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:15,160
Speaker 1: Flex Armstrong or Stretch Your Armstrong and the Flex Fighters.

552
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I don't think anything. You didn't even

553
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 1: get the name right, will exactly exactly. I love Stretch

554
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 1: arms Strong. I thought he was so awesome. Everybody loves

555
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 1: that vintage toy. They talk about it, and he's the best.

556
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 1: He's the best. And they rebooted the show. They gave

557
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 1: it an actual, you know story. The story was great.

558
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:33,840
Speaker 1: It was a great animated series. But you know, some

559
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 1: things just don't sell. ThunderCats didn't just didn't sell. Then

560
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:42,760
Speaker 1: I don't ThunderCats. Well anyway, I have so much fun

561
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 1: working from home and I'm in my voice for studio

562
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 1: and I'll get a piece of copy and I'll do

563
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:51,160
Speaker 1: a little bit of research. I'll see what commercials competing

564
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:54,120
Speaker 1: with this, because oftentimes they have to put some sort

565
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:58,280
Speaker 1: of stuck on there. But if if I can understand

566
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 1: what the brand is up against in this very moment,

567
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 1: given what's going on politically, what's going on socially, what

568
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:08,560
Speaker 1: new technology is coming out, blah blah blah, that there's

569
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 1: there's a way to synthesize all that. And maybe this

570
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 1: is born out of being an only child and trying

571
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 1: to manipulate both parents simultaneously, like I know what my

572
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 1: mom's gonna say, I know what my dad's gonna say,

573
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 1: So I'm going to shoot down the middle at that

574
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 1: that that you know, I can put the razzle dazzle,

575
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 1: but make sure that my dad knows that I'm still

576
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 1: a stable individual or whatever it is. Whatever that people

577
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:34,960
Speaker 1: pleasing is or conning my parents utilizing that in in

578
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 1: advertising to to speak from the heart and and move

579
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 1: product and keep our country stable, alive and vital, etcetera.

580
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 1: I feel pretty lucky to be this sort of jester

581
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 1: downstairs in my recording studio, putting these little things together

582
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 1: that when I send out my audition, I'm like, that

583
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 1: may suck, but that's a viable option. It may be

584
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 1: something that they haven't thought of, but you'll respect me

585
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 1: because I synthathesize those things for you in a way

586
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 1: that you didn't know a human could. So this is

587
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 1: important because we are now, however, many episodes into our

588
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 1: show seven six seventeen, and we're trying to get all

589
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 1: the aspects of the voiceover industry we haven't talked, and

590
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 1: commercials are very important to talk about, and Vanessa is

591
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 1: the perfect person to talk about them now. One of

592
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 1: the things I'm always amazed about every time you and

593
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 1: I speak is you are constantly recording. Constantly, I mean

594
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 1: every day you are auditioning, also booking jobs, also doing jobs,

595
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:42,600
Speaker 1: also doing jobs in different time zones and in different

596
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 1: parts of the world. So you've got to record at

597
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 1: one o'clock in the morning or whenever the hell you

598
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:51,480
Speaker 1: have to record. So how is that aspect of the

599
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 1: voiceover world different from your standard animation, your standard video game.

600
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 1: We've kind of gotten into all that stuff. But you

601
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 1: do commercials constantly or are the voice of X, Y

602
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 1: and Z. So what does that take? Well, first of all,

603
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 1: it helps if you're single, um, and you don't have kids,

604
00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 1: and and and I mean I I enjoy being on call.

605
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,719
Speaker 1: I I love a crisis. I'm like, what do you need? Like,

606
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 1: I'm going to solve it for you in five minutes.

607
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:23,960
Speaker 1: You know that's awesome. Again, I'm good. Also, whoops some butt.

608
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 1: If somebody messes with your friends, there you go. I mean,

609
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 1: you know, one or the other. But so I I

610
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:32,720
Speaker 1: have radio stations, just two water ski over the different things.

611
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 1: There's radio stations all over the world. Um, I have

612
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:40,720
Speaker 1: twelve rock stations in Canada. I love them all. But

613
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, there's a huge helicopter flying overhead. Um

614
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 1: when ironically, you do the voice of the helicopter, don't

615
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 1: you perfect? Um? Yeah, So the radio stations, they're they're

616
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 1: all over the place. Recently, I booked something, a commercial

617
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 1: for drop Box, and the clients are in Australia. So

618
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:10,840
Speaker 1: in Australia, if you look on your iPhone and go

619
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 1: to the world clock, um, they're already in Tomorrow's the

620
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 1: next Thursday, already wrapping it. I always asked the like,

621
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:21,360
Speaker 1: so how's tomorrow? And it's so cute. They call me nessy.

622
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 1: They do in the accent, though, don't they saying that.

623
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,879
Speaker 1: They're like, say, Nessy, could you give us one more?

624
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:33,239
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh my god, I'm dropping things. Can

625
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 1: you can you see? I just I love that they're

626
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:38,319
Speaker 1: so instantly familiar, and I just can you do you

627
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 1: give us one more? Just even my best friends don't

628
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 1: call me nessy. I wish they would. It's kind of adorable.

629
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 1: And so we're going to like this. I would have

630
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Speaker 1: I would have called you nessy if I didn't think

631
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Speaker 1: there was a possibility of a kick to the face. Well,

632
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Speaker 1: people call me ness they call me, they call me be,

633
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 1: they call me v Low, they call me the money.

634
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:07,280
Speaker 1: But they always call you, Yeah they do. That's that's

635
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 1: that's um. So there's so there's the radio stations where

636
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 1: I'm on call. There's there's commercial clients that are all

637
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 1: over the place. Right now, I'm doing spots for Lifetime.

638
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,920
Speaker 1: This is in the world of promos, but you do

639
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:20,399
Speaker 1: a ton of a ton of here's the thing. I'm

640
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:22,719
Speaker 1: starting to hear her voice and realize how much I've

641
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 1: heard her. I'm sure that it's everywhere, and wow, it's

642
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 1: been a scarty cat. So I don't usually audition for

643
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,880
Speaker 1: the Lifetime type stuff because right now it's like sleeping

644
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:38,879
Speaker 1: with a killer. Next Monday Lifetime that like, yeah, it's

645
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 1: never and dirty and exactly it's never. Two people have

646
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 1: the best relationship ever next they're both happy and well adjusted.

647
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:54,360
Speaker 1: Vanessa Messie, who is that voice of that Lifetime announcer?

648
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:59,359
Speaker 1: Who is that in your life? Well, my dad, my

649
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:02,760
Speaker 1: dad was a news reporter at NBC for twenty years

650
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 1: and one Emmy's and he would call my friends and

651
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:10,719
Speaker 1: being like John Marshall, here is Vanessa Marshall there, and

652
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:12,560
Speaker 1: my friends be like, I don't know what he does

653
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 1: in the phone, really, you know, And you can't put

654
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:18,240
Speaker 1: anything over on that guy. He's got the weather report,

655
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 1: he's got the traffic report, like there's like this this

656
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 1: he reports just the facts and with such almost like

657
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 1: David Soloff, you know, Bloff is very he's very earnest

658
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 1: the point. It's very deep and to the point. So

659
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,279
Speaker 1: I bought a couch. It was this much it is

660
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 1: now at this angle in my apartment. Yeah. If I

661
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:45,000
Speaker 1: do TV affiliate stations, you know, they're always trying to

662
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 1: scare you, Like what you need to know is something

663
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:53,279
Speaker 1: in your cabinet slowly killing you tonight at seven like that. Yeah,

664
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:56,439
Speaker 1: it's like, well, what's in my cabinet? Yeah? So so

665
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 1: there's the world of promo. I've done a lot of

666
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 1: stuff for CBS. I usually do like Big Brother stuff

667
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 1: that's more like coming up next. The most fun I

668
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,359
Speaker 1: had was on the X Games. I don't know why

669
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 1: that's the one I wanted to talk to you about,

670
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:10,879
Speaker 1: because there was one you were doing while we were

671
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:12,759
Speaker 1: doing it was Guardians or something, but it was like

672
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 1: you almost had to do them in real time. You

673
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 1: were doing them every day. You were doing them like

674
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 1: a huge little chunks. Could have been either X Game, Yeah,

675
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:22,759
Speaker 1: I think it was X Games. Did you did something

676
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:27,720
Speaker 1: with the Olympics X Games? And she was like, I

677
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:30,399
Speaker 1: did you seriously make your British Well they said, they're

678
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:32,799
Speaker 1: they're like we want someone like kind of nondescript something

679
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:35,439
Speaker 1: maybe maybe like York. I was like, you want York

680
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 1: to give you the bottom line? Okay, here comes my

681
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:42,360
Speaker 1: Swan costume. Look out. Um no, but so she was

682
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:44,840
Speaker 1: like coming out next on the X Games, the World

683
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:52,919
Speaker 1: of Snow. I don't know. I love her, she's the best. Yeah.

684
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:55,879
Speaker 1: So those were fun, and then the Special Olympics. When

685
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 1: we were in Seattle, I did the Special Olympics. James

686
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 1: on Tailor came into my hotel room and he said,

687
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:05,760
Speaker 1: take the couch, turn it upside down, take the comforter,

688
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: put it on the thing, and all of a sudden,

689
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 1: I had this massive vocal booth. I didn't let the

690
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,879
Speaker 1: housekeeping in because I think they'd probably, you know, lose

691
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:20,799
Speaker 1: their cooking. That's actually a genius, genius that everybody, you

692
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 1: turn the couch up, you put the comforter over it,

693
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:26,400
Speaker 1: and maybe a lamp on the other side. You lift up,

694
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 1: you get in there, soundproof, You're good. That's genius. Um

695
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 1: So I did all of the Special Olympics, like coming

696
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:42,279
Speaker 1: up next it would be different. Yes, yeah, so so

697
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:44,840
Speaker 1: that's that's also. I guess in the world of promo,

698
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:47,080
Speaker 1: I don't do much. In the world of narration, I

699
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 1: used to do that, but you do so many That

700
00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 1: was the thing that I always really have to vocal cords. Okay,

701
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 1: there's a set of vocal cords, always recording, always doing this,

702
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:58,240
Speaker 1: and and still for the record, you mentioned it quickly,

703
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:00,120
Speaker 1: but still loving food going to dinner with you is

704
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 1: still in experience. I do love to eat. Yes, it's

705
00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:08,919
Speaker 1: it's amazing. It's amazing to behold. If I'm honest, it is. Yeah,

706
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 1: I'll have food, Vanessa, will you be my friends? Let's

707
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 1: go eat. We should go eat, Let's go get some

708
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:17,800
Speaker 1: Are we going to be at a comic con together anytime? Since?

709
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:20,359
Speaker 1: I hope? So I'm trying to get into New York

710
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:22,440
Speaker 1: Comic Con. I want to go. That's a big that's

711
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 1: a big show. That's a big Why not you come on? Well?

712
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:28,880
Speaker 1: I think I think they're asking. I was supposed to

713
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 1: go in, and then there was that pandemic thing that

714
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:36,759
Speaker 1: kind of ruined it. So there's a pandemic I didn't

715
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:40,160
Speaker 1: hear about. Yeah, and a lot of the commercials. Um

716
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 1: I did a McDonald's thing recently for spicy chicken. I

717
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:48,240
Speaker 1: think something. Are you recording every day? Are you recording

718
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 1: every single day something? Whether or not it's it's auditions.

719
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 1: I mean, do you audition every day? I do? So

720
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 1: see that's the thing. You're Vanessa Marshall again. Eleven page,

721
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 1: twelve page resume and you're still auditioning every single day.

722
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:07,439
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, though. There might be the people who

723
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 1: have self esteem, and I'm not saying I don't, but

724
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:12,879
Speaker 1: I'm saying people who are like I won't read for that,

725
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 1: you know, or whatever, like I can't possibly, and I'm like,

726
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:19,440
Speaker 1: I'll do it. I'm reading English out loud. It is

727
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:23,200
Speaker 1: my first language. It's also our job. I'll read it.

728
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:25,279
Speaker 1: We don't get we You don't get a lot of

729
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:27,319
Speaker 1: people in the v O world that or I won't

730
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:34,240
Speaker 1: audition for this. You don't get a really h our

731
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:40,839
Speaker 1: friends really really yeah, they're like absolutely not, like it's

732
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:44,000
Speaker 1: so beneath me and whatever. I'm like, this is hilarious.

733
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't we do this? I mean, look, okay, graduated Princeton,

734
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 1: came out here two hundred five pounds. I'm a hostess

735
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:57,440
Speaker 1: at the newsroom restaurant, feeding people. Never been happier, you know,

736
00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 1: working catering people like graduated Princeton farm or coming up.

737
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:04,440
Speaker 1: I'm sorting them hush puppy corn fritters, like you want

738
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:07,239
Speaker 1: sauce with that? Like I don't. I don't. I have

739
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:10,759
Speaker 1: no shame, like, especially if it's around food. But to

740
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 1: be able to you know, working like I mean like

741
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:22,879
Speaker 1: we ordered, uh what do we get from New York? Uh? Um? Yeah,

742
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 1: that that you had all the deli stuff sent. I mean,

743
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:30,359
Speaker 1: like to be able to cater sessions. I've gone from

744
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 1: working and catering to so I'm really happy, go lucky,

745
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:36,399
Speaker 1: And I probably do read a lot of things. Some

746
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:41,560
Speaker 1: of the rates for social media stuff you get like

747
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 1: a hundred bucks now or whatever the whatever the agreed

748
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 1: union rate is that people find appalling. I don't mind trying,

749
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:51,839
Speaker 1: and I don't book everything I read. But it's sort

750
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:53,760
Speaker 1: of like going to the gym. You can't go once

751
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:57,239
Speaker 1: a week and be like wow, that was like, yeah,

752
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 1: you've got to go once every six months. Everybody knows

753
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:05,520
Speaker 1: that exactly, yes at least yeah, but um but anyway, Yeah,

754
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 1: So so I'm usually down there. It's mostly radio stations

755
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:11,439
Speaker 1: on a daily basis, but there's I have a bunch

756
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:15,760
Speaker 1: of video games that have been lovely sort of ongoing things.

757
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 1: They have not come out yet I'm excited for those

758
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 1: You know what I really want to do. And I

759
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:21,640
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys are in video games, this

760
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:24,719
Speaker 1: is this is my new thing. I've decided in the pandemic,

761
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:27,640
Speaker 1: all I want is fun. I want to have fun.

762
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:31,560
Speaker 1: If it's not fun, forget it now. My life. Look,

763
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 1: life is full of anguish and this and that, and

764
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 1: sometimes you can't get enough just to watch a Lifetime

765
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:40,359
Speaker 1: movie for real. But um, these E sporting events, right,

766
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:43,799
Speaker 1: I know we all go to conventions, but I'm trying

767
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:45,920
Speaker 1: to carve out away for us to go to E

768
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:49,400
Speaker 1: sporting events, like go there for the weekend and play

769
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 1: the games as our characters. Like for example, in Injustice,

770
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:58,200
Speaker 1: I play Black Canary. Right, So let's just say you're

771
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:00,359
Speaker 1: in the game too. You're all we're all in this game, right.

772
00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:02,920
Speaker 1: So we create a poster for the event, we go

773
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:05,800
Speaker 1: down there, we sign the poster. It's a limited edition,

774
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:08,520
Speaker 1: and I probably need to get a Twitch channel in

775
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:11,759
Speaker 1: all this jazz, but I'm thinking, like, how cool is that?

776
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:14,840
Speaker 1: Because I'm I'm in that's going to be coming out soon,

777
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 1: and I the gamemakers, I'm like, look, dude, I want

778
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:21,359
Speaker 1: to go. I want to go to you know Alabant, well,

779
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:24,799
Speaker 1: you know where like wherever it is, wherever it is,

780
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:29,719
Speaker 1: you know, wherever the sporting events happen. And this particular

781
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:31,959
Speaker 1: character is sort of pivotal in the game and gives

782
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 1: you your orders and this and that. I'm like, how

783
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:36,919
Speaker 1: hilarious would that be if I'm and I'm a stand

784
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:39,399
Speaker 1: up comic, I'm a host whatever, like, let me let

785
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 1: me host the event, like I'll lather up the situation.

786
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 1: You don't get people exciting. How lucky would those people

787
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:47,480
Speaker 1: be if people don't even understand they can't even comprehend it.

788
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 1: Something cool about that too, There's something cool about that.

789
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:51,920
Speaker 1: I I don't do many video games. At one of

790
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:53,879
Speaker 1: the games I did, I was a huge Tony Hawk fan,

791
00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:57,759
Speaker 1: and so I did Tony Hawk America Skateboard. Did you

792
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:03,279
Speaker 1: did actually know? Of course video game fan? Oh my god,

793
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 1: I've took me three tries to get into this chair. No.

794
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:10,720
Speaker 1: Um so no. I was that the the U character,

795
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:13,839
Speaker 1: the y ou character that you create for Tony Hawk's

796
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:16,880
Speaker 1: American Wasteland, and then you go into the first you know,

797
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:18,840
Speaker 1: part of the game. You get to put the look

798
00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:21,160
Speaker 1: on the character that you wanted to do. And so

799
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 1: I made it look like myself, and I realized I

800
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:25,879
Speaker 1: was the only person in the world that could play

801
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:28,480
Speaker 1: it that way because it was it looked like me

802
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 1: and it was my voice. And I'm like, I have

803
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:33,399
Speaker 1: an entire video game myself, Like they literally made this

804
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 1: just for me. Now, So the idea of being able

805
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:40,239
Speaker 1: to go to one of these the contests that you're

806
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 1: talking about and have play against the people that are

807
00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 1: actually the characters is a freaking great idea. And I'm thinking, like,

808
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 1: there's gonna be E three next year, and what I'm

809
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 1: what I want to do is organize a big party

810
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 1: with voice actors and the gamers and the gaming companies

811
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:04,120
Speaker 1: and spitball this. And she did get everyone linked up

812
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:06,360
Speaker 1: so that we can just like have party after party

813
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:08,920
Speaker 1: after party. That sounds right, and you know, we'll do

814
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:12,359
Speaker 1: We'll do. We'll do live. I hear voices episodes while

815
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:15,200
Speaker 1: we're there, which which I guess, I guess we should

816
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:17,920
Speaker 1: announced since everybody is now listening, this is a perfect segue.

817
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:20,399
Speaker 1: We are doing our first live show this weekend at

818
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 1: Fan Expo Denver, which will then be followed the following

819
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:27,239
Speaker 1: weekend by a live show at Fan Expo Chicago. So

820
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:29,720
Speaker 1: if you have ever wanted to be a voice over actor,

821
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:32,480
Speaker 1: if that is your dream, then come out and prove it.

822
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 1: So you're gonna come to the show. We're gonna start

823
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:36,919
Speaker 1: by interviewing a guest. Much like we have the lovely

824
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:39,000
Speaker 1: Vanessa Marshall here, we will have a guest from the

825
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,319
Speaker 1: show sitting on stage with us. We are then going

826
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:43,880
Speaker 1: to show a giant screen behind us where all are

827
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 1: a lot of the artists from Artist Ali will be

828
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 1: submitting their own artwork as well as artwork from around

829
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:52,279
Speaker 1: the country from all different ages, and our voice over

830
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:55,640
Speaker 1: actor is going to put voices to the original artwork.

831
00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:57,799
Speaker 1: If that is not cool enough, we are then going

832
00:45:57,840 --> 00:45:59,759
Speaker 1: to have more pieces of art and we're gonna bring

833
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 1: micro phones into the audience and you are going to

834
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:06,399
Speaker 1: get a shot to do your own voices, and the

835
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:09,680
Speaker 1: winner of the contest of who does the best voice

836
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 1: in the audience will be brought up on stage to

837
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:14,920
Speaker 1: read a scene with us uh and do your first

838
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:18,480
Speaker 1: official voiceover session for a game we play called Across

839
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:20,239
Speaker 1: the Garden, which of course we will be playing today

840
00:46:20,239 --> 00:46:22,359
Speaker 1: with Vanessa Marshall, but we're gonna be doing it live

841
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:24,880
Speaker 1: where you're doing it next week in uh in Denver,

842
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:27,359
Speaker 1: the following week in Chicago, then we're in Boston and

843
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:30,239
Speaker 1: San Francisco. So check out the fan Expo sites to

844
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:33,080
Speaker 1: come to I Hear Voices live. I promise you it

845
00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 1: will be a ton of fun. You always sit at

846
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 1: home and say, you know what you guys do, I

847
00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:40,120
Speaker 1: could totally do that. Really well, come and prove it.

848
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:43,040
Speaker 1: So come out here and try your hand at being

849
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:45,920
Speaker 1: the next big voice over actor. So there you go.

850
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 1: There's our pitch. Now, Vanessa, we've gotten into a bunch

851
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:51,600
Speaker 1: of stuff. We've thankfully gotten into a bit of the

852
00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:53,800
Speaker 1: promo world, which I really wanted to do, the promo

853
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 1: and commercial world. But we just mentioned across the garden

854
00:46:57,040 --> 00:46:59,439
Speaker 1: and we have a fan waiting to come and meet

855
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 1: you and to to show us his incredible voice over talent.

856
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:07,680
Speaker 1: We will see. We're giving him the shot, which is

857
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 1: all we can do. To welcome Thomas Estrada and thank

858
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:15,440
Speaker 1: you Christie. Bring him in. He's from San Diego, California.

859
00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 1: Are you there, Thomas, I am, you look great? Thank you.

860
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:27,799
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, what's in the background. Oh I have

861
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:31,399
Speaker 1: my little booth buddies. Um My little Totoro right here

862
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:36,160
Speaker 1: and oh my gosh, wait did de Bradley Baker make

863
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:41,799
Speaker 1: your studio? Oh no, I built this muscles nice Dee

864
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 1: Bradley Baker, of course, teaching everyone how to how to.

865
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:49,000
Speaker 1: That's yeah Dee's website. It looks like exactly what d uses.

866
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:52,440
Speaker 1: That's brilliant, well done. Yeah, I looked it up online.

867
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:56,239
Speaker 1: I know it wasn't Dee Bradley Baker's website, but you

868
00:47:56,280 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 1: know it works. Works as long as it works, that's

869
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:01,759
Speaker 1: all you need. We were just talking about Vanessa uh

870
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:05,400
Speaker 1: and in a hotel room recording stuff with flipping the

871
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:08,440
Speaker 1: couch up on the side and throwing a blanket overhead essentially,

872
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 1: which works great for voice over and very bad if

873
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:17,759
Speaker 1: the maid service walks in. Um. But either way, I

874
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:20,439
Speaker 1: always say my best friend Jason marsin book spirited away

875
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:23,360
Speaker 1: from a closet. So you never, ever, never know what's

876
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 1: going to happen. So Tomas, yeah, go ahead, tell us

877
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:34,440
Speaker 1: a little about yourself. Where williams oh I am huy

878
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 1: they are there are great inspirations to me. Um. I

879
00:48:36,800 --> 00:48:39,200
Speaker 1: just I have a bunch of voices in my head,

880
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 1: so being on I hear voices is amazing. UM, as

881
00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:49,279
Speaker 1: far as myself, my name is Thomas, but I've been

882
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 1: getting called Tommy a lot lately. Uh It's something I

883
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:56,800
Speaker 1: grew up with my family, my friends, and now on TikTok,

884
00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:00,879
Speaker 1: everybody calls me Tommy. So do you referred Tomas? Though?

885
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:04,279
Speaker 1: You gotta brand yourself my friend? I see I I

886
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:11,239
Speaker 1: always tell everybody I prefer Thomas, tom Tommy, t or

887
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 1: just what I like that, whatever you want. Oh, we're

888
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:19,280
Speaker 1: being asked Tommy, if it's possible, Thomas, if it's possible,

889
00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:21,160
Speaker 1: could you turn your gain up just a little bit?

890
00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:27,600
Speaker 1: Of course? How people? I don't even know what my

891
00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:32,319
Speaker 1: gain was. I had no idea for like two episodes.

892
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:36,840
Speaker 1: I had no idea. Not bad for starting about a

893
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:42,279
Speaker 1: year ago. So you've been doing your your kind of

894
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 1: showing your voices off on TikTok. Is that your major platform?

895
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 1: I am, Yes, I've been doing a lot of They

896
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:51,680
Speaker 1: have a lot of voice acting challenges on TikTok. We

897
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:58,000
Speaker 1: have auditions for UH companies like Saturday Morning TV with

898
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 1: Brittany Taylor, UM and and UH, I do a bunch

899
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 1: of collapse. I I pull scenes and I put my

900
00:50:04,160 --> 00:50:07,080
Speaker 1: voice along with other up and coming voice actors and

901
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:10,839
Speaker 1: we just have fun. That sounds like a blast. It's

902
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:13,000
Speaker 1: so nice that people are getting the opportunity to actually

903
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:16,040
Speaker 1: join what was at one time a very very insular

904
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:19,160
Speaker 1: side of the industry. Um, so more people are getting

905
00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:22,080
Speaker 1: the opportunity. Did you did you get your script? I did,

906
00:50:23,040 --> 00:50:26,320
Speaker 1: all right, and Vanessa you got yours? By the way, Thomas,

907
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:31,440
Speaker 1: Vanessa Marshall. Vanessa Marshall, tomaw Vanessa. You might know Vanessa

908
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:37,120
Speaker 1: from everything everything, and we are now going to play

909
00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:39,759
Speaker 1: so for everybody out there wondering what this is if

910
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:41,480
Speaker 1: you're just tuning in for your first time. We play

911
00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:44,760
Speaker 1: a game every week called Across the Garden where Christie

912
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:48,240
Speaker 1: and I as two little mice Ricky and Mocha, mice

913
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 1: that we named very quickly and probably would change if

914
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:52,719
Speaker 1: we had the opportunity to take it back, but we don't.

915
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:55,719
Speaker 1: Through now, like fourteen episodes in, are trying to get

916
00:50:55,719 --> 00:50:59,239
Speaker 1: across the Garden so that Mocha can see her boyfriend

917
00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:02,640
Speaker 1: at the mall. Uh. Every week we are running into

918
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:07,040
Speaker 1: new fun, furry friends and uh hopefully our goal and

919
00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:09,239
Speaker 1: we wanted to talk about this with everybody out there

920
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:11,560
Speaker 1: as well. Our goal is we are going to get

921
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:14,120
Speaker 1: all of these little segments animated so everybody gets to

922
00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:16,839
Speaker 1: be in their own little cartoon. One of the things

923
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:18,160
Speaker 1: we'd like to do. And we will talk about this

924
00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:20,799
Speaker 1: more on our next episode and more in our live episodes,

925
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:23,200
Speaker 1: but we if you are an animator up and coming

926
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:25,880
Speaker 1: or professional and you would like a shot at animating

927
00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:28,640
Speaker 1: one of our across the Garden segments, hit us up

928
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:31,319
Speaker 1: on our socials, which are the I Hear Voices. One

929
00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:33,560
Speaker 1: are the I Hear voices? What is it, Christie? It's

930
00:51:33,560 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 1: I hear voice is something on Instagram? And you know me,

931
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:39,120
Speaker 1: I don't do anything. It's joyful that I have no

932
00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 1: social media presence. I take the hit for him. Okay, people,

933
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:46,120
Speaker 1: she does. Thank god, she's my Vanessa Marshall. She's she

934
00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:48,239
Speaker 1: takes the hit for me and protects me, which is

935
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:50,799
Speaker 1: so beautiful. But yeah, you can hit us up on

936
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:52,879
Speaker 1: our socials which we will also throw up, but they

937
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 1: are I Hear Voices podcast on TikTok and Instagram. That

938
00:51:57,160 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 1: is wonderful. So hit us up, and if you want

939
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:03,120
Speaker 1: to submit some of your animation, we will send you

940
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:04,799
Speaker 1: one of the scripts. They are not very long, so

941
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:06,600
Speaker 1: it's not like it's going to take forever, and you

942
00:52:06,640 --> 00:52:08,400
Speaker 1: can be one of the people that animates our segment,

943
00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:11,600
Speaker 1: which will then go up on our wonderful platforms, and

944
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:14,680
Speaker 1: then you will be in your own cartoons. So today

945
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:18,719
Speaker 1: with Thomas, Thomas, you sent us in a really great

946
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 1: character which I then incorporated into the script and then

947
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:23,680
Speaker 1: switched around a little bit. So I hope you don't mind.

948
00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:27,400
Speaker 1: I do not mind, and the change I kind of

949
00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:34,759
Speaker 1: came prepared. Oh yes, yes, I am wearing sunglasses and

950
00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:39,400
Speaker 1: he very very cool. So here we are back in

951
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:41,800
Speaker 1: the garden. If we remember last time, were the lovely

952
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:45,920
Speaker 1: Troy Baker was with us, and Troy was a troll

953
00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:48,600
Speaker 1: who uh, Mocha kind of fell a little bit head

954
00:52:48,600 --> 00:52:53,000
Speaker 1: over feet for we met him and our special guest

955
00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:55,840
Speaker 1: wanted to be a forgotten lost tennis ball that we

956
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:59,680
Speaker 1: come across in the forest. And uh, we were told

957
00:52:59,719 --> 00:53:02,000
Speaker 1: last that the way to get to the mall you

958
00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:03,799
Speaker 1: had to go I think it was left and then

959
00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:05,759
Speaker 1: the right, and then past the dead body and past

960
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:08,520
Speaker 1: the oak tree. So we are now picking it up

961
00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:10,640
Speaker 1: from there. Mocha and Ricky come around the corner. Morcha's

962
00:53:10,680 --> 00:53:15,080
Speaker 1: counting some money. I can't believe you actually looted the body?

963
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:18,839
Speaker 1: What he didn't need the cash anymore? And so far

964
00:53:18,840 --> 00:53:21,960
Speaker 1: as having a sale? Wait, were we supposed to take

965
00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:26,720
Speaker 1: a left or right? That's the question? In't it? Punk?

966
00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:30,280
Speaker 1: Ricky Moka turned to see a badger with Clint Eastwood

967
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:38,360
Speaker 1: sunglasses leaning against the log left. All right, good or evil?

968
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:43,000
Speaker 1: So many passed to walk in life. You gotta stop

969
00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:48,960
Speaker 1: and ask yourself which one are you gonna take? Well,

970
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:53,879
Speaker 1: if we knew, we would be on it, like would we? Yeah?

971
00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:56,640
Speaker 1: And who are you calling a punk? But shoots Ricky

972
00:53:56,640 --> 00:54:01,640
Speaker 1: a stern Look, sorry names, butch been a lot going

973
00:54:01,719 --> 00:54:05,280
Speaker 1: on in the gun lately, not all of the good.

974
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:09,920
Speaker 1: That's why I'm here. You know those things that go

975
00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:18,279
Speaker 1: bump in the night, Well, I'm the guy then, ye

976
00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:26,719
Speaker 1: who line, I'm the guy that bumps back. Come on

977
00:54:26,880 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 1: dinghis we're losing the light. They all turn to find

978
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:32,360
Speaker 1: a small lizard wearing a director's beret, sitting in a

979
00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:34,520
Speaker 1: director's chair and holding a bullhorn. She's surrounded by a

980
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:36,840
Speaker 1: crew of lizards shooting the film. Imagine a tiny little

981
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:41,040
Speaker 1: movie set which is accent suddenly changes to proper English.

982
00:54:41,920 --> 00:54:47,719
Speaker 1: Laura Darling, I'm having trouble with my motivation in the scene. Cat,

983
00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:52,080
Speaker 1: what's the problem now, Charles, Come on, chuckles, what is it?

984
00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:56,880
Speaker 1: It just seems so contrived. I happen to be standing

985
00:54:56,920 --> 00:55:01,120
Speaker 1: here as they walk out at the exact right time.

986
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:06,600
Speaker 1: I am bold the cliche, No, Charles, it's perfect. It

987
00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:10,240
Speaker 1: lends itself wonderfully to your character. Always in the right place,

988
00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:13,360
Speaker 1: at the right time, always ready to step in and

989
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:19,160
Speaker 1: take danger head on. Oh uh, these aren't your coast doors.

990
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:22,920
Speaker 1: Those are Laura points to two other mice that look

991
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:26,239
Speaker 1: exactly like Ricky Emoka. Um. In all fairness, I can

992
00:55:26,239 --> 00:55:29,319
Speaker 1: see why you made that mistake. Yeah, I can see that. Yeah,

993
00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:33,279
Speaker 1: we're fighting a light here. Can we help you with something? Ah,

994
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:35,920
Speaker 1: for the love of it's just trying to get to

995
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:38,879
Speaker 1: the mall, and if I'm honest, it's becoming a bit

996
00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:42,680
Speaker 1: of a nightmare. Right straight ahead on this path until

997
00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:46,520
Speaker 1: the fuck and then I left. Then just follow the grassline.

998
00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:52,560
Speaker 1: Got it? Great? Okay, people back to one. I still

999
00:55:52,719 --> 00:55:56,200
Speaker 1: don't get my motivation. If you don't do it, I'll

1000
00:55:56,239 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 1: fire you and get another badger. Got it, Let's do

1001
00:56:01,080 --> 00:56:04,759
Speaker 1: this thing. I'm starting to really hate this garden. They

1002
00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:12,040
Speaker 1: hate everything it just it just makes it easier and seen. Yes,

1003
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:18,719
Speaker 1: another wonderful across Thomas. You nailed it, my friend. Believable. Yo,

1004
00:56:19,080 --> 00:56:23,080
Speaker 1: I gotta say that was I was very impressive, very impressive. Switch.

1005
00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:25,840
Speaker 1: I also have to say, I think as as the

1006
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:29,000
Speaker 1: show is progressing, um, I believe you are the first

1007
00:56:29,719 --> 00:56:35,000
Speaker 1: guest we have had who has done multiple voices. So Thomas,

1008
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:39,319
Speaker 1: very impressive. Thank you so much. Where can everybody hit

1009
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:41,000
Speaker 1: you up on socials if they want to follow you,

1010
00:56:41,080 --> 00:56:44,560
Speaker 1: which they should, on TikTok and Twitter, I am at

1011
00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:50,239
Speaker 1: Tommy Tom Tom. On Instagram, I am Mr Tommy tom

1012
00:56:50,280 --> 00:56:55,719
Speaker 1: Tom eighty five, Mr Fancy Dancy, Thank you so much.

1013
00:56:55,760 --> 00:56:57,759
Speaker 1: And again, if you are an animator, reach out and

1014
00:56:58,080 --> 00:57:00,040
Speaker 1: you will be able to animate that scene and you

1015
00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:03,680
Speaker 1: can make Thomas the proper English badger that he was

1016
00:57:03,719 --> 00:57:08,560
Speaker 1: always meant to be. I'm seeing a handle our mustache. Well,

1017
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:10,160
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to leave that up to our artists.

1018
00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:12,399
Speaker 1: That's the joy of the freedom we bring here at HV.

1019
00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:15,280
Speaker 1: You get to come and play however you want, so, Tomas,

1020
00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:17,560
Speaker 1: thank you so much for helping us out. Thank you

1021
00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:20,280
Speaker 1: so much. Come and come and hit us up at

1022
00:57:20,280 --> 00:57:22,439
Speaker 1: a con. You're you're there in San Diego. I will

1023
00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:24,840
Speaker 1: be working in San Diego Comic Con. Actually, well, we

1024
00:57:24,960 --> 00:57:27,959
Speaker 1: see you there then. Thank you so much for coming

1025
00:57:27,960 --> 00:57:30,160
Speaker 1: out to mass Thank you, and we will see you

1026
00:57:30,160 --> 00:57:37,320
Speaker 1: again in the future. Alrighty regular, nice to meet you. Man.

1027
00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 1: He was incredible, goodness, amazing. That was totally cool. Vanessa,

1028
00:57:43,800 --> 00:57:45,120
Speaker 1: I don't even know what to say. I feel like

1029
00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:47,000
Speaker 1: I haven't been able to hug you in years. At

1030
00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:49,520
Speaker 1: this point, I know, well, I think we should all

1031
00:57:49,560 --> 00:57:51,320
Speaker 1: go out to eat, is what I think. Oh, I

1032
00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:54,840
Speaker 1: love food. Yeah, I'm thinking an outdoor something or other.

1033
00:57:54,920 --> 00:57:57,560
Speaker 1: I know you guys are out in a way and busy.

1034
00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:00,960
Speaker 1: It sounds like, but I think we'll do it when

1035
00:58:00,960 --> 00:58:02,720
Speaker 1: you return and you're here for a weekend. I think

1036
00:58:02,760 --> 00:58:05,560
Speaker 1: that might have to happen. I think I'm Superman for

1037
00:58:05,640 --> 00:58:08,520
Speaker 1: like another two months because I just got over COVID,

1038
00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:12,000
Speaker 1: so I think I was like, you got cast a Superman. No,

1039
00:58:12,240 --> 00:58:14,160
Speaker 1: I I can still, I can lick whoever I want.

1040
00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:16,200
Speaker 1: I think for like another two months and just meet

1041
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:19,200
Speaker 1: strangers and have people's sneez in my face and immune.

1042
00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:22,120
Speaker 1: I think my kids do that and they never get sick.

1043
00:58:22,160 --> 00:58:24,479
Speaker 1: For some reason, I don't know what did you say

1044
00:58:24,520 --> 00:58:27,200
Speaker 1: that I just did. Yeah, there you go. My kids

1045
00:58:27,240 --> 00:58:29,160
Speaker 1: don't get sick either, because I was smart enough not

1046
00:58:29,240 --> 00:58:31,960
Speaker 1: to not to have any exactly. We talked about that

1047
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:35,880
Speaker 1: all the time. High five on that, Vanessa, high five. Oh,

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Speaker 1: thank you for joining us. Where can people hit you

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Speaker 1: up on socials? Well, let's see on the Instagram you

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Speaker 1: can do your Vanessa Marshall eight and on Twitter at

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Speaker 1: van Marshall and then there's a fan page on Facebook

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Speaker 1: as well, and you can uh subscribe if you will,

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Speaker 1: and follow and they'll hear about the video games I

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Speaker 1: was talking about earlier. You can currently watch Young Justice

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Speaker 1: on HBO Max, playing Black Canary on that and on

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Speaker 1: Harley Quinn and playing Wonder Woman. That's sort of ongoing.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, otherwise there there'll be all sorts of news

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Speaker 1: flashes coming up, so so stay tuned. Well, there's news

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Speaker 1: flashes all the time with you, because once again, you're

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Speaker 1: in everything all the time. I support it, you deserve it,

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Speaker 1: and you belong everywhere and I love you, Vanessa. I agree.

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Speaker 1: And for the record, as we were doing this podcast,

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Speaker 1: she booked three New Things and auditioned for nine New Things.

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Speaker 1: The hardest working Person in show business. Vanessa Marshall, thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for joining us. We've been wanting to

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Speaker 1: have you on forever and I know yours crazy, so

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Speaker 1: I'm so grateful. Thank you so much. Thanks for being flexible,

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Speaker 1: and I'm so grateful that we finally made this work.

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Speaker 1: Thank You're the best. I miss you. I can't wait

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Speaker 1: to see you soon. Likewise, lots of love you to

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Speaker 1: Bye bye, bye bye, Vanessa. I Hear Voices assisted by

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Speaker 1: Wilford L and Christie Garls and Romano, produced by Elizabeth

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Speaker 1: Joy Windham and executive produced by Brendan Rooney and Wilford L.

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Speaker 1: Our sound engineer and editor is Elizabeth Joy Windham and

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Speaker 1: our video editor is at Guardo Gamba and that was

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Speaker 1: my announcer voice. Some side effects of listening to I

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Speaker 1: Hear Voices are sore abs from larity falling down the

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Speaker 1: you don't miss any of the amazing voices. Be sure

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Speaker 1: YouTube channel. You can also check us out on my Space.

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Speaker 1: O'meegal Vine, lime Wire, a M and Napster. Okay, well,

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Speaker 1: let's teach you about the Internet. What