Speaker 1: Hey Christy, Hey, Will, how are you. I'm so good.
Speaker 1: I'm still recovering from our big night out at the
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio Festival. How much fun was that? Though?
Speaker 1: Sue is still dancing to Lionel Richie. Yeah, and my
Speaker 1: feet are still hurting me, but it's okay. Yeah. Well, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: I we were talking about this before. I have officially
Speaker 1: hit the age where the music is too loud. I
Speaker 1: get that, really loud. It was because they have the
Speaker 1: most amazing stage setup I have ever seen. It was
Speaker 1: not playing around. Well. Today we have an amazing guest
Speaker 1: for everyone, who I'm a big fan of all too.
Speaker 1: I can't wait. It's Candy Milo. Everybody, Candy's here, Hello,
Speaker 1: folky folks, how are you? I am so old? It's
Speaker 1: so old. I don't know. I feel like every day
Speaker 1: I just keep getting older. Well I think that's probably accurate,
Speaker 1: but that doesn't make you old. You don't know that Will.
Speaker 1: She does played Ranny. She does play so I get that.
Speaker 1: I want to tell you guys, honestly, so, I have
Speaker 1: a daughter in her thirties. That was like, I am
Speaker 1: so jealous that you are on the show with these kids.
Speaker 1: And I was like, just so you know. She loves
Speaker 1: you both, and I love you. She watched you and
Speaker 1: I could get stuff done. Yes, I know how that is.
Speaker 1: I have a five and a three year old so well,
Speaker 1: I have a daughter in her thirties too, so it's
Speaker 1: it's no big deal. I get it. So yeah, I do.
Speaker 1: I just I actually will tell you I am in
Speaker 1: awe of both of your talents immensely. We feel the
Speaker 1: same way about you than you on cartoons, Are you kidding?
Speaker 1: That's all I grew up on and watching your so
Speaker 1: I obviously do a deep dive on whoever we have
Speaker 1: on the show. I didn't have to dive that deep
Speaker 1: with you, Candy, because I knew everything you've done. It's
Speaker 1: that's why the amount of your work is insane. Thank you,
Speaker 1: you know I and I'll tell you honestly, life will
Speaker 1: take you where it takes you. I um my mom,
Speaker 1: who who passed away last year at nineties six, so
Speaker 1: a great life, long life. She used to tell me,
Speaker 1: pick up your oars, you're in a canoe and follow
Speaker 1: the flow. And it was one of those things when
Speaker 1: life didn't kind of take me where I thought I
Speaker 1: wanted to go. Um, you know, she would always say, well,
Speaker 1: just follow the flow. You only use your oars to
Speaker 1: push against the rocks. And I thought it was really fascinating.
Speaker 1: And I remember going on this audition with Stephen for
Speaker 1: Steven Spielberg for Tiny Toon Adventures, and I did not
Speaker 1: want to do it. I thought voice over acting was
Speaker 1: where actors went to die. I was like, I don't
Speaker 1: want to do this. I wanted to be a singer.
Speaker 1: I had come off the first national tour of dream Girls,
Speaker 1: and I kept thinking, I'm going back into that someday.
Speaker 1: And then I realized I was not used. I was
Speaker 1: trying to row against rather than just using my oars
Speaker 1: to push against the rocks. And that's how it really started,
Speaker 1: was Tiny Toon Adventures way back when you were babies.
Speaker 1: You're tiny, tiny babies? If so? Yeah, so I was
Speaker 1: Your very first animated series was with Steven's It Gets Better. Well,
Speaker 1: my very first audition was for Steven Spielder and I
Speaker 1: was singing at um awake um, and of course, as
Speaker 1: one does when they have no class, I started to
Speaker 1: do like a little stand up and it was awake
Speaker 1: for an agent. It was awake for an agent. It
Speaker 1: was the eighties. What can I say so, Um, an
Speaker 1: agent for cartoons, came up to me and said, you know,
Speaker 1: I think Aaron would want me to represent you. And
Speaker 1: that was how it gan. And I didn't return her call.
Speaker 1: I just I wanted to be a singer so badly,
Speaker 1: but more specifically, I wanted to be a singer, backup
Speaker 1: singer for her Balbert. Who usually do you know who
Speaker 1: it was that that came up to you? Who was
Speaker 1: it that came It was my agent UM at the time,
Speaker 1: Nina nissen Holtz at the William Morris Agency, and she
Speaker 1: was that you were you were discovered at a week
Speaker 1: and for an agent ian agent who I guess was
Speaker 1: his assistant and now was going to be the real
Speaker 1: And I just so you know, when I saw that
Speaker 1: it said voice over in commercials, I tore it up.
Speaker 1: I was like, I Am not doing this. You're like,
Speaker 1: this is real? I know right. I was like, I
Speaker 1: understand that you just heard me sing and thought that's
Speaker 1: a voice for cartoons. I'm a little bit anyway. She
Speaker 1: I guess she called me because she looked me up
Speaker 1: in the wait for it, yellow I mean white page
Speaker 1: and I walked down. I had been living in a
Speaker 1: teeny tiny apartment in Beverly Hills. I walked down to
Speaker 1: William Morris and she said, I'm just gonna throw you in,
Speaker 1: which was a closet because then it was real to
Speaker 1: real tape. And an auditioned for denting Gum Perkins Restaurant
Speaker 1: and this show called Tiny Toon Adventures, Steven Spielberg's Tiny
Speaker 1: Toon Adventures, and I got all three and I she said,
Speaker 1: you should do this, and like that sound was my
Speaker 1: heart breaking, knowing that this was my flow, this was
Speaker 1: going to be the river I was gonna be on,
Speaker 1: and um wow, I just I don't know. I fell
Speaker 1: in love with the room. I fell in love with
Speaker 1: the vibe. And then you guys know, because you've done
Speaker 1: this type of work, Um, you also sing in these
Speaker 1: sessions you do, so I was fine. I could do
Speaker 1: my stand up and my singing. And you know, I
Speaker 1: had big, big plans to be the bet next Midler,
Speaker 1: but right now I'm just the next cartoon person. So
Speaker 1: I have to say the next June four A is
Speaker 1: not such a bad thing to be a young man. No,
Speaker 1: it is not. In the world, especially in this business
Speaker 1: of show that we you know, carving out any type
Speaker 1: of a lasting a career is next to impossible. Where
Speaker 1: it's you're working all the time and you're you're becoming
Speaker 1: a legend in your field. That's that's almost never happened.
Speaker 1: And I will tell you she was the most adorable
Speaker 1: UM Tiny like TV Tiny, I'm little, I'm five ft two.
Speaker 1: I really could have like not the crap out of
Speaker 1: or I couldn't, which I would never do, but I
Speaker 1: do say that, you know, she was so little, UM.
Speaker 1: And she appeared once or twice on time the original
Speaker 1: tinytoon Adventures and she worked until her nineties and when
Speaker 1: we lost her. UM, I had been to being around
Speaker 1: with the voice and the folks at at Warner Brothers,
Speaker 1: who have been very, very good. You know, I am
Speaker 1: back where I started, which was Brothers. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: will say, honestly, I'm not really good with the whole
Speaker 1: corporate thing, but Warner Brothers has been amazing. They're the
Speaker 1: least corporate they are. They've got Cartoon Network, they've got
Speaker 1: edgier stuff, and I am so pleased. UM. Highlight, of course,
Speaker 1: you know, was Space Jam two. UM. Working with Lebron
Speaker 1: was kind of amazing and we recorded during COVID so
Speaker 1: where I'm sitting now with my really bad lighting. Um,
Speaker 1: that is sound amazing and you look good. It's like
Speaker 1: I'm trying very hard. Um. But I said, um, you know,
Speaker 1: we built this little thing myself, like this is a phone,
Speaker 1: mattress pad from bed bath and beyond. Um, that's smart.
Speaker 1: I never thought about for people. Well, I had done
Speaker 1: a comic con and in Touca, Mississippi, and when it
Speaker 1: was all kind of happening in the beginning of March,
Speaker 1: and we said, you know, this is not your grandmother's
Speaker 1: flu folks, this is going to be something different. So
Speaker 1: everything online. I ordered everything online and just kind of
Speaker 1: over the next two weeks built it. And then I
Speaker 1: got I got the role of Granny in Space Jam
Speaker 1: two and we ended up recording you know, over the
Speaker 1: next year, off and on. You know. First it was
Speaker 1: original dialogue. Then I was doing it to picture and
Speaker 1: we were tightening and changing some stuff, and it was
Speaker 1: all done in the world's smallest closet um where I
Speaker 1: am now. It was wild and they and they did it.
Speaker 1: Christie Zoom, we did it over that's what I'm hearing
Speaker 1: Zoom and we were getting real time. Malcolm de Lee
Speaker 1: was the director who's hilarious and really truly wonderful to
Speaker 1: work with. And a lot of the funniest stuff that
Speaker 1: I said was his ad libs, which was just great.
Speaker 1: And I know that Lebron was on and watching um
Speaker 1: and so it's kind of so cool. And did you
Speaker 1: get to work with a friend of the show? Eric Bowser?
Speaker 1: Stop your voices right now. I love that kid. That. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he is a talentless hack. You hear it, You hear
Speaker 1: it first here. Eric Bowsa is a talentless You know
Speaker 1: Eric likes you everybody's talking about No one likes Eric.
Speaker 1: He has no talent, no personality, the worst person ever.
Speaker 1: I feel bad for his son. No, I know he was.
Speaker 1: He was our first guest ever because it was one
Speaker 1: of those things where it was I've I've now worked
Speaker 1: with him on I don't know twenty cartoons and usually
Speaker 1: and I've always said, the voice over actors are the
Speaker 1: most talented actors I've ever worked within this industry, bar none.
Speaker 1: There's no close second. Voice for actors are using with talent,
Speaker 1: but you get used to that talent. You're with it
Speaker 1: all the time. You're in the booth with the same
Speaker 1: people all the time, and so you expect it, and
Speaker 1: every once in a while somebody walks in that makes
Speaker 1: you once again go, you've got to be kidding. I
Speaker 1: feel that way. That was about Eric the first time.
Speaker 1: I mean I knew of him and we would pass
Speaker 1: in the night or I'd hear him doing silly things
Speaker 1: like Nickelodeon and uh. And then I was lucky enough
Speaker 1: to be with him on Put Some Boots where where
Speaker 1: he does the perfect He's Antonio Banderis. You can't you
Speaker 1: can't tell the different. That was a That was a
Speaker 1: room that was directed by Andrea Romano, who knows how
Speaker 1: to pick twn. You know, she just saw and one
Speaker 1: of my closest friends. I adore her, and she she
Speaker 1: directed Tiny Tunes. So we go go way back to
Speaker 1: when I had a waist. It was just times and
Speaker 1: so Drea was your first voice over director. Andrea was
Speaker 1: mine to stop it. I don't mind too, Batman. Beyond
Speaker 1: my very first animated Sery just kind of got each
Speaker 1: other because we are both anti the big the big
Speaker 1: room where they direct by committee and we're just kind
Speaker 1: of we're just more indie folk. And I would say
Speaker 1: before Eric, it is now hard with Eric bowsa um
Speaker 1: Tress McNeil is possibly the most brilliant voice actress. If
Speaker 1: we have to go to agree with you work. I
Speaker 1: heard you mentioned her will many times. I was just
Speaker 1: about to say that I had the same feeling the
Speaker 1: first time I worked with Tress that you get when
Speaker 1: you work with with Eric or Frank Welker or somebody
Speaker 1: like that, where you just um, it's it is, it's
Speaker 1: next level. But I mean, I guess it's like that
Speaker 1: in any anything, when you're surrounded with talented people, there's
Speaker 1: always one or two that just are so much better
Speaker 1: than everyone else, right, And you know what I will
Speaker 1: tell you, Like Frank, that room that I walked into
Speaker 1: was like a third grade classroom. Everybody was voicing and
Speaker 1: doing these weird things, and then you'd say something and
Speaker 1: somebody would imitate your voice, and I thought, you know,
Speaker 1: much like my book, it was like growing up in
Speaker 1: a in a house with sort of like developmentally disabled.
Speaker 1: I was like the noise and the quietest two people
Speaker 1: in the room were Tress McNeil and Frank Welker. And
Speaker 1: Tress was in the front. It was like a classroom
Speaker 1: and I was way in the back and next to
Speaker 1: me was Frank Welker, who showed me how to separate
Speaker 1: my pages and how to be quiet and when to laugh,
Speaker 1: and it was a great training ground. But to watch
Speaker 1: Tress and Frank and then to see Eric, you get
Speaker 1: that feeling like there's a Bob Bergen in the room.
Speaker 1: You you just you get this vibe that there's so
Speaker 1: much more that they can do, but they've sat in
Speaker 1: their canoe and let let the current take them. And
Speaker 1: for me, I was a single parent when my daughter
Speaker 1: was very young, and cartoons allowed me to bring her
Speaker 1: up and send her to college and do all that.
Speaker 1: And am I super famous? No, except for like the
Speaker 1: three ft and undercrowd, Am I you know? Super well?
Speaker 1: They're the best fans. Like It's like I said, I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm on an I might go on a
Speaker 1: soap opera. You know, I got my crew and I
Speaker 1: got my people who watch my show. Um, but I
Speaker 1: you know, for my initial shock of this is where
Speaker 1: I was going to be, I can now tell you
Speaker 1: there's no place that I would rather be, honestly, And
Speaker 1: that's not That's the thing. The other thing that I
Speaker 1: love about our side of the industry is the if
Speaker 1: you know you know factor, So you might not be
Speaker 1: a superstar in the world. We might not be superstars
Speaker 1: in the world, but we are to each other because
Speaker 1: if you know, you know, and so Candy Milo, it's
Speaker 1: like they're you know, I heart calls like, well, Candy's
Speaker 1: gonna come on the show. We were like, you've got
Speaker 1: to be kidding me. So that I mean to us,
Speaker 1: you'll you'll always be a rotor. I just well, and
Speaker 1: now with UM comic cons we've seen since COVID, so
Speaker 1: many people were streaming animation UM and re re, you know,
Speaker 1: investing themselves into all of the stuff that they could,
Speaker 1: the content and things that were very you know, nostalgic
Speaker 1: for them. I'm sure they did Kim Possible. And I'm
Speaker 1: sure they did Tey because I I loved that. And
Speaker 1: I have to tell you I I had only done
Speaker 1: a couple of episodes of Kim Possible only because you
Speaker 1: guys had it. Hold on a second, know, you guys
Speaker 1: had it covered. Like when you have Nancy as your
Speaker 1: mole rat, you you got it like you've got it covered.
Speaker 1: She could do other things, but every once in a
Speaker 1: while they needed me and I would be able to
Speaker 1: go in. But as um you know, as you know
Speaker 1: we were all done separately. What were you doing, Candy,
Speaker 1: because I was not aware of this, so please inform me.
Speaker 1: I did um extra voices that Nancy couldn't pick up.
Speaker 1: I mean, another brilliant human being. But like if you had,
Speaker 1: off the top of my head, a stewardness and then
Speaker 1: you add a random mom, I would come in and
Speaker 1: and for for your listeners and your your your people,
Speaker 1: your crowd that don't know I was utility. I think
Speaker 1: on three or four UM can possible episodes and I'm
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, was it Lisa Shaefer directing? Yeah? And the
Speaker 1: best people like ever in the history of awesomeness. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just like a regular nice human being. But you find
Speaker 1: I find that the best voice directors are like Lisa
Speaker 1: in that when you're acting, they just let you go.
Speaker 1: If they feel like you're dialed in, they are not.
Speaker 1: They're not worried about every single line, every single beat.
Speaker 1: They're not looking to have you match something. You know.
Speaker 1: They just let you go. And yeah. And I think
Speaker 1: one of the great things about Lisa's that she had
Speaker 1: to do shows one character at a time because that's
Speaker 1: the way it was scheduled so that they could get
Speaker 1: it and she was so great at directing me in
Speaker 1: that here's without playing the other people or saying, here's
Speaker 1: how they're probably going to read this line. This is
Speaker 1: what I'm trying to get, And so I could do
Speaker 1: line by line five times in a row and then
Speaker 1: what was cut together was great. So it was never
Speaker 1: brain surgery when I worked with Lisa Shaeffer, you know,
Speaker 1: and I say that just because that's how I felt
Speaker 1: about Malcolm de Lee for for Space Jam two. It
Speaker 1: was never brain surgery. Let's just let you go give
Speaker 1: us five or ten things and we'll let you know
Speaker 1: what works, and if not, we'll get another session and
Speaker 1: come back and pick it up. So well, Kitty, I
Speaker 1: have to have a couple of questions, follow up questions
Speaker 1: to that. So when you do utility, as we know,
Speaker 1: if we've mentioned before, sessions, UM can can basically contract
Speaker 1: you to do up to is it up to three characters? Yes,
Speaker 1: you get two for the price of one, and then
Speaker 1: a third voice is a bump, a fourth fit voice
Speaker 1: is a new session. So it's funny. I had very
Speaker 1: little UM notoriety in a show called Fanboy and Chump
Speaker 1: Chump on Nickelodeon, and I made more money doing that
Speaker 1: show because I was so versatile or you know, nuts
Speaker 1: if you want to say it personal, because I sing,
Speaker 1: and I think that's it. I know how to manipulate
Speaker 1: and control my voice that I could come on sometimes
Speaker 1: and do six or seven characters along with Jeff Glenn Bennett,
Speaker 1: Oh hi, an brilliant guy. Like we would just come
Speaker 1: in and we would say back, clean up. We would
Speaker 1: come in and I I had a character named share Leader,
Speaker 1: Shall please do please do all your characters okay? So
Speaker 1: here all day. She was a character on Fanboy Chump
Speaker 1: Chump called Share and she was a shareleader like a cheerleader,
Speaker 1: and all she said was her like share and then
Speaker 1: they made her a triplet and so it was like hey, hey, hey,
Speaker 1: and then three of them, and I was Um Loupe
Speaker 1: on that show where I had a Buffy's in my
Speaker 1: hair and I had like little braids like Princess leah
Speaker 1: Um and then I mean it was one of those things.
Speaker 1: And then I was um Marcia and somebody named Marcia
Speaker 1: who had breaking and it was a main girl. And
Speaker 1: then there was like the Christmas special where all of
Speaker 1: those characters were in that episode, and I said, I
Speaker 1: think they never run it because they just don't want
Speaker 1: to pay me. Oh ends, It's Hillary, Joy and Sophia
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Speaker 1: and we will see you on octobery. So, okay, I
Speaker 1: have a I have a couple of questions myself here.
Speaker 1: So first of all, we've got it. We're gonna get
Speaker 1: into all the we gotta of course talk about Dexter
Speaker 1: and all the great things uh from there. But you
Speaker 1: mentioned briefly before your book, and your book is coming
Speaker 1: out on the fourth correct and just reading about it
Speaker 1: called Surviving the Odd and just reading about this was
Speaker 1: so amazing. I mean, can you can you explain to
Speaker 1: us what it's about because it is incredible and I
Speaker 1: want to know how much this influenced the voices uh
Speaker 1: that you ended up using in your career. Yeah, let
Speaker 1: me just I will give you like the Quicken Down
Speaker 1: and Dirty. My dad was a very successful nightclub performer,
Speaker 1: singer or comic, depending on who the UM star was,
Speaker 1: he would do like a nightclub show. He was Bett
Speaker 1: Midler before there was Bett Midler, and he was extremely successful.
Speaker 1: But with the advent of TV, nightclubs were closing. So
Speaker 1: with five kids, he tried to figure out what he
Speaker 1: would do in the late sixties, and he wanted to
Speaker 1: give something back to society, which he decided should be
Speaker 1: my childhood UM, and he opened one of California's very
Speaker 1: first licensed halfway houses, board and care homes for the
Speaker 1: developmentally disabled and emotionally disturbed and UM. He had very
Speaker 1: little secondary education, I believe none. He was a comic
Speaker 1: and he got twelve he got who was left and
Speaker 1: so twelve adults lived in a fratern converted fraternity house
Speaker 1: on Frat Row by the San Jose State Campus in
Speaker 1: San Jose, California, and we lived in the house with them,
Speaker 1: and then two years later we had enough money to
Speaker 1: get the house next door. My dad cut a hole
Speaker 1: in the fence so he could get to work quicker,
Speaker 1: and um they became my family. And over the sixteen
Speaker 1: years that my dad ran this home, UM, we cared
Speaker 1: for close to three hundred and fifty adults with disabilities
Speaker 1: UM mental disabilities, and nobody ever really got better, They
Speaker 1: just became. So I have had a giant family. And
Speaker 1: what this did to my cartoon and my acting abilities
Speaker 1: is that I never judge a book by its cover.
Speaker 1: And I learned very very very early on to watch
Speaker 1: people very closely for safety as well as oddity, as
Speaker 1: well as of a fascinating life study. But when I
Speaker 1: get a character, I am now looking beyond the pale
Speaker 1: for the similarities to me, because you would never see.
Speaker 1: I mean, we had a reputation milow Arms Hi, the
Speaker 1: name of the house Hi, that was on the side
Speaker 1: of a van that I had to ride to school.
Speaker 1: And when I was nine, I'm not damaged at all. Um,
Speaker 1: I it was like judging a book by its cover.
Speaker 1: You want to immediately dissociate yourself from anybody. I am
Speaker 1: not like that. I am quote unquote normal, I am fine,
Speaker 1: And I was the type of kid that said, Wow,
Speaker 1: we both like the archies. That's weird. Wow, we both
Speaker 1: like Abbas Abbas, that's weird. Wow. You love your mom
Speaker 1: and dad and I love my mom and dad. Wow,
Speaker 1: you take medication and I don't yet yet. So that's
Speaker 1: how I think it informed me was um And I
Speaker 1: learned later that was kind of a cool thing, you
Speaker 1: guys that rather than looking distancing myself, which I did
Speaker 1: in the beginning I was eight of nine years old,
Speaker 1: I started to look for the similarities. So when I
Speaker 1: see a way out their character, like a Dexter from
Speaker 1: Dexter's laboratory, we that has a a laboratory in his
Speaker 1: basement that his parents don't know about, right that, I
Speaker 1: look at those similarities and what is he hiding? And
Speaker 1: why does he consistently have to hide his genius um?
Speaker 1: And what are the consequences that he does? And where
Speaker 1: can he lose his temper and tell everybody that he
Speaker 1: is a that he has dexter breaking? Yes, how could
Speaker 1: he tell everybody he is? So I think that that
Speaker 1: is how it did it. I'd like to tell people
Speaker 1: it is not my book is not character funny. No
Speaker 1: one is being made fun of. That's the the actual opposite.
Speaker 1: It's situational funny. It's putting a bunch of uneducated people
Speaker 1: in a home, uh with development. And our family was
Speaker 1: a bunch of uneducated people in a home with people
Speaker 1: who were struggling to belong to a family, and we
Speaker 1: were the people teaching them how to tell a joke
Speaker 1: so that they didn't become a joke and function in society.
Speaker 1: And I think my dad did a really great thing, um,
Speaker 1: and he was one of the it was. It was
Speaker 1: kind of amazing. And I've watched, um, you know, documentaries,
Speaker 1: and I've watched people that have home businesses like you
Speaker 1: think they've got funeral parlors, and we've had series about this,
Speaker 1: and it really just was an odd family business. This
Speaker 1: is what we did. They went everywhere with us, We
Speaker 1: went everywhere with them. UM. I think in my personal
Speaker 1: life there's a little reason I live alone. UM, I
Speaker 1: have been married, but I did now I'm alone. Is
Speaker 1: that I, as a young kid, became the adult very quickly.
Speaker 1: And it's really hard to curb that. When you're eight
Speaker 1: or nine years old and you're telling somebody you will
Speaker 1: not do that, you will not say that, you will
Speaker 1: not wear that, you just become this little authoritative kid
Speaker 1: and it's hard to break. It's hard to break that.
Speaker 1: So um, that's the that's the downside, um. But learning
Speaker 1: humility and compassion, um was definitely the upside. Well now
Speaker 1: with both you and your father or your father especially
Speaker 1: at the time, but you probably already showing the talent
Speaker 1: both being performers. Did you ever perform for the people
Speaker 1: that were in your home? I mean, were you? Were
Speaker 1: you performing for the people that were there? Um? When
Speaker 1: I was a fresh was freshman or sophomore in high school,
Speaker 1: I got the lead Dolly and Hello Dolly, and my
Speaker 1: dad thought it was a great idea to bring eight
Speaker 1: of our residents to the performance of Hello Dolly, put
Speaker 1: them in the front row, and teach them the overture
Speaker 1: for Brigadoon. So um. When the overture started playing with
Speaker 1: the high school band off key, they started singing Briga Dune,
Speaker 1: Brigadoon and it should be like put on your Sunday
Speaker 1: clothes when you feel down. So um. Yeah, my dad
Speaker 1: was very funny and I'm scared, but that's neither here there.
Speaker 1: But I remember the director, who was also the theater teacher,
Speaker 1: saying warning everybody that there were developmentally disabled adults in
Speaker 1: the front row, and that they were there to have
Speaker 1: a good time and to put on the show anyway.
Speaker 1: And I'm like Homer Simpson fading into a hedge. Right,
Speaker 1: I am going to kill my father. I am going
Speaker 1: to kill him. And I remember I walked out in
Speaker 1: the black and the lights came up and they gave
Speaker 1: me a standing ovation. And I realized that they did
Speaker 1: that because I did something they would never be able
Speaker 1: to do, which was to stand on a stage and perform.
Speaker 1: And I think that was a golden lesson UM. But
Speaker 1: I my dad was not a big supporter of UM
Speaker 1: the whole show biz career. He came really yeah, he
Speaker 1: came up very hard in the fourties and fifties, and
Speaker 1: women in show business, in his estimation, got there two ways.
Speaker 1: They married well, or they work or the other way.
Speaker 1: So he was like, no, no, no. And I was
Speaker 1: a bright and curious kid. I had skipped grades. I
Speaker 1: he wanted me to go to law school. I did
Speaker 1: go to college. I did do pre law, and I
Speaker 1: was pretty much out of there in a year and
Speaker 1: a half. And I did get my degree as an
Speaker 1: adult UM and ended up getting a B a UM
Speaker 1: as an adult on the weekends. UM, but I I
Speaker 1: wish that he had been more supportive. In my book,
Speaker 1: there is a picture of him singing with me, which
Speaker 1: was one of the only times that he ever performed
Speaker 1: with me. And then we we did have a piano,
Speaker 1: but we we were not UM. When we lived in
Speaker 1: the home with them, it was a fraternity house, so
Speaker 1: we were in the den mother's unit, which was a
Speaker 1: two bedroom UM thing. So we were it was a
Speaker 1: two bedroom in office and for the time being it
Speaker 1: was our place. And while we would eat meals with
Speaker 1: them and watch TV, they were very much independent and
Speaker 1: their own people, and they did their own things UM.
Speaker 1: And then during the day we went to school and
Speaker 1: they went and did their thing, and then it would
Speaker 1: start all over again. So now if you're if you're
Speaker 1: if your father wasn't a huge proponent, which I totally understand.
Speaker 1: I write kids and I don't particularly with them in
Speaker 1: the business. But if it happens, it happens kind of thing.
Speaker 1: You know, I won't stand in your way, right, But
Speaker 1: how did you find how did you get that technique?
Speaker 1: If you were on a whole another UM, Well, I
Speaker 1: will say that, uh my parents wouldn't give me piano lessons,
Speaker 1: so I taught myself piano. I taught myself um how
Speaker 1: to sing, and I got my first professional job at
Speaker 1: Marriott's Great America UM singing in a theme park at fifteen.
Speaker 1: And then I performed when I was sixteen. Um, do
Speaker 1: you remember what she's on? Do you want to know?
Speaker 1: How did you sing? At the theme park? I am
Speaker 1: a woman, heard me row in numbers too big to
Speaker 1: ignore piano string breaks. I look at the piano player
Speaker 1: and tell her to stop playing and finish the song
Speaker 1: a cappella, and they were like, when will you be
Speaker 1: sixteen January? Okay, good UM. And then I was doing
Speaker 1: Broadway hits in the theme park and I sang Annie
Speaker 1: in a bright red wig and I sang um and
Speaker 1: I could tap um, so I um tapped this whole
Speaker 1: American I'm like in a red, white and blue outfit.
Speaker 1: And so it was the Broadway show in nineteen seventy seven,
Speaker 1: the summer of seventy seven, and I was making minimum wage.
Speaker 1: And this is again now. Was your father actively trying
Speaker 1: to keep you away from the industry or was it
Speaker 1: like Christie said, where it's like I'm not going to help,
Speaker 1: but I'm also not going to stand in your way
Speaker 1: right at this point. UM, it was interesting at this
Speaker 1: point he was not saying don't, don't, don't, but he
Speaker 1: wasn't helping. And when I was struggling because I was
Speaker 1: a big, huge belter, like a Broadway belter, and I
Speaker 1: kept losing my voice because my technique was wrong, his
Speaker 1: way of helping me was to say, you're flat and
Speaker 1: you're not getting enough air. Okay, thanks, thanks so much
Speaker 1: for identifying the problem that I'm aware of. But I did.
Speaker 1: I did eventually pay for my own UM, and it
Speaker 1: was just something we just we didn't talk about. And
Speaker 1: then at the very end of his life, I had done,
Speaker 1: um a movie with Dick Clark and NBC called Reaching
Speaker 1: for the Stars UM and it was the first docu drama.
Speaker 1: It was the first reality movie of the week, and
Speaker 1: UM he was very ill and I remember telling him
Speaker 1: that I got this, and he said, what do you
Speaker 1: mean You're going to play you? What do you mean?
Speaker 1: What do you what do you ever done? And I
Speaker 1: was like, well, I think that's what we're about to
Speaker 1: find out, is what I can do. And I think
Speaker 1: that he just, you know, he never let go of nightclubs.
Speaker 1: I mean, he opened for Cab, Callaway and Strong, and
Speaker 1: he traveled with Louis Prima and Keeley Smith and he's
Speaker 1: another life. It was a lifetime ago. And he only
Speaker 1: stopped because nightclubs stopped. That's the only reason. And it
Speaker 1: was such a lifestyle to back in the day. I mean,
Speaker 1: the whole nightclub thing was just so I mean from
Speaker 1: what I've read, and no, obviously it was it was
Speaker 1: hard drinking, it was late at night. It was gals,
Speaker 1: it was drinks. It was the rat pack, and it
Speaker 1: was like rock stars, like yes, you know, it was
Speaker 1: not being on the road, and that was it. And
Speaker 1: you know, what's my Am I on a plane? Am
Speaker 1: I on a train? Where am I going? How many nights?
Speaker 1: How many shows? How long of a show? Who's going
Speaker 1: to pay me? It really was, it really was, And
Speaker 1: it was all analog. There was no digital. There was
Speaker 1: like paper plane tickets. Um. And when my mom did
Speaker 1: pass away last year, I found all of this. I
Speaker 1: found his his calendar while he was in the USO,
Speaker 1: which used to be a branch of the service. By
Speaker 1: the way, he was in the USO in Denang in
Speaker 1: Vietnam and they had a schedule of when you did
Speaker 1: the Officers Club, and then you performed for the guys,
Speaker 1: and then where you performed, because if you had a
Speaker 1: show and you weren't on Bob Hope's tour, you couldn't
Speaker 1: perform your show anywhere near So he when Bob Hope
Speaker 1: came in, they sent him out to the guys in
Speaker 1: the jungle and and so it was like a grind. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, he had smoke for Sinatra. He was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know why he had Joey Bishop. Why couldn't
Speaker 1: you hire another guy like me? And um, I was like,
Speaker 1: probably your attitude, Dad, I'm just saying probably the fact
Speaker 1: that you're making a hand gestures like you're like you're
Speaker 1: a mobster. So I, um, I think that that was
Speaker 1: really tough. But also in his papers, guys was um
Speaker 1: about sixteen letters of commendation for his work with the
Speaker 1: disabled children and vets that he always had this thing
Speaker 1: and and just so you know, his idea was that
Speaker 1: his home, Milo Arms Board and care home was going
Speaker 1: to be four veterans, and uh, we didn't get any veterans.
Speaker 1: That's still amazing though. Okay, so the book is surviving
Speaker 1: the odd. It comes out on October four. And also
Speaker 1: you're gonna be doing a book signing at Bars and
Speaker 1: Noble at the Grove and the signing is Theft, so
Speaker 1: everybody come out and see Candy. Uh. The story is
Speaker 1: absolutely incredible. But speaking of incredible stories, so we did you? Now,
Speaker 1: I want to get into Dexter because obviously I'm a
Speaker 1: big fan and how and how you came up with
Speaker 1: the voices and all that stuff, but I got I
Speaker 1: want to take it back a little bit farther, just
Speaker 1: just very briefly, because we always like to know did
Speaker 1: you grow up watching cartoons? Were you did of animated
Speaker 1: series and which ones were they? Okay, so, first of all,
Speaker 1: I was a huge fan of the Three Stooges, which
Speaker 1: is why I was a huge fan of Looney Tunes.
Speaker 1: And that's what Looney Tunes is for your for your
Speaker 1: fans who don't know, watch on YouTube, old old three Stooges,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's got to be Three Stooges with Curly.
Speaker 1: I like Shemp. I loved Curly. I thought I was
Speaker 1: cur is daff Who is Daffy Duck? That's who Curly is.
Speaker 1: And and when Daffy gets mean, he shimp like it's late.
Speaker 1: It's the oddest, It's what I did. I also watched
Speaker 1: The Perils of Penelope Pitstop the jay Ward cartoons, of
Speaker 1: which June Foray was also a huge part. So um,
Speaker 1: I did watch that, and then I wasn't really into
Speaker 1: I like Josie and the Pussycats. I didn't see myself
Speaker 1: in it. No, I didn't. I didn't. I watched Fat Albert,
Speaker 1: I watched the Jackson five, but I started, I really have.
Speaker 1: And I'm not even saying that because that's brand. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you. I was a huge fan and that's what
Speaker 1: I grew up on. That's what I find still funny today.
Speaker 1: And there is a Looney Tunes cartoon that we do
Speaker 1: on HBO Max that I think Alex Kerwin and m
Speaker 1: and Pete and everybody who's involved with that, they really
Speaker 1: have that old Looney Tunes ninet forties sensibility. They're very
Speaker 1: fast and funny. But with cell phones, that's what I say.
Speaker 1: That's the difference with this new thing is that we've
Speaker 1: added in some technology, but it's very much bam bam, bam, bam,
Speaker 1: bam bam, set up, set up, jokes, set up, set up, jokes,
Speaker 1: set up, set up, It's It's great. Chrissie Kavanaugh is
Speaker 1: the original voice of Dexter from Dexter's Lab, and she
Speaker 1: quit completely quit voice acting, UM, and they were shelving
Speaker 1: um Dexter. They were going to get rid of it.
Speaker 1: She had done I think a year and a half
Speaker 1: and then they had a year and a half of
Speaker 1: her in the Can you quit a voice acting? No
Speaker 1: offense to Chrissy, but I just wonder why. And she's
Speaker 1: no longer living, so I can't ask her. But she
Speaker 1: and I were good friends because we had the same
Speaker 1: um on camera agents and um. We were both trying
Speaker 1: to get on Sketch TV. That was our big deal,
Speaker 1: testing for Mad or in Living Color, and Roseanne Barr
Speaker 1: had a sketch show that she got on and I
Speaker 1: was testing for mad and I was testing for in
Speaker 1: Living Color and it just I could never get it um.
Speaker 1: And she just, I mean, she was chucky. She was babe.
Speaker 1: And I think she said, I've I've had enough. And
Speaker 1: so I in my speaking voice if I put on
Speaker 1: if I talk like this, and I've had a little
Speaker 1: hustomat voice, and I had a little bit of an
Speaker 1: accent this is what Chris Cavin I'll sound like. So
Speaker 1: my agent at the time Times said, I want you
Speaker 1: to slate in Chrissy's speaking voice. Interesting and um. Gendy
Speaker 1: Tartakovsky picked me and I ended up doing eight years
Speaker 1: of it. And then the voice of the episodes that
Speaker 1: they had in the can that she did I read
Speaker 1: voiced um. And then so she is credited. We're both credited,
Speaker 1: but she's no longer living, so I get the residuals.
Speaker 1: But we we go back and forth depending on who
Speaker 1: licenses it, of whose voice it is, and whose voice
Speaker 1: it really is. Is Gendy Tartakovsky that is exactly sense
Speaker 1: like a French Russian guy sounds exactly like this. He
Speaker 1: would say, I don't know how to tell you to
Speaker 1: go up uncertain words, because Chrissy would go up and
Speaker 1: I was like, Chrissie was nuts. She also had her
Speaker 1: own sense of humor. I have a different sense of humor,
Speaker 1: of a loony UNEs sense of yes, you have a sense.
Speaker 1: I have a stuge sense of humor. So when you
Speaker 1: hit the joke, I'm gonna hammer it to let the
Speaker 1: kids at home know this is the joke. And Chrissie's
Speaker 1: method of method of joke telling was to go away
Speaker 1: from the joke that another that it was in the animation,
Speaker 1: do you know what I mean? So like Dexter would
Speaker 1: say something like man Dark, I'm going to get you,
Speaker 1: and then it would be closing on Man Dark with
Speaker 1: blink blink, with the piano key sound, blink blink, and
Speaker 1: it was just different. But I did do I think
Speaker 1: seven years of episodes and it's been it's been amazing.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a phenomenal show, well acted, well crafted,
Speaker 1: animated series. I mean it was, and I for years
Speaker 1: was saying to agents, um, because it is it behooved them.
Speaker 1: Although the agent that handled me for Dexter handled Chrissie
Speaker 1: as well. I mean, so when Christie quit, they had
Speaker 1: her in me and she was happy that I would
Speaker 1: be able to do it because we were friends. Our
Speaker 1: voiceover agent was the same person. But they used to say,
Speaker 1: when you go out on tour or if you go
Speaker 1: to cons, don't tell people you didn't create the voice.
Speaker 1: And I was like, you know, that's kind of creepy.
Speaker 1: I think I can imitate her. It eventually became me,
Speaker 1: but at the beginning get wanted Chrissie, that's who we wanted.
Speaker 1: He wanted you audition originally as well. No, because it
Speaker 1: was an art school thing and he sent it. Um
Speaker 1: that's what it was. It went to I believe and
Speaker 1: forgive me. It could have started, you guys at Hannah
Speaker 1: Barbara because one was bought by Time. Time was bought
Speaker 1: by Warner Warner blah blah blah blah blah, and then
Speaker 1: We've Got Kids w B Cartoon Network. It was all
Speaker 1: under the same umbrella. I believe. It's also We're Butch
Speaker 1: Hartman and Seth McFarland started and Andrea Romano and Andrea
Speaker 1: Romano in the Hannah Barbera Stable and I think it
Speaker 1: was a short and I was doing other shorts there
Speaker 1: that got picked up another short, Um Kenny and the
Speaker 1: Chimp with Tom Kenny. Um. I had done a bunch
Speaker 1: of shorts. Cow and Chicken was the mom and the
Speaker 1: feature on Cow and Chicken. Um, yeah, so I mean
Speaker 1: that is that was Chris Chris Salter was Chris Simmerman
Speaker 1: Salter who was the voice director and also casting on that.
Speaker 1: And then um, I just kind of stayed in that family.
Speaker 1: So it was a cartoon cartoon or a Hannah Barbera short, UM,
Speaker 1: and I was not on that short, so I was like,
Speaker 1: I think, like five other ones, and so was Chrissy.
Speaker 1: I was on two to the super Arena, and a
Speaker 1: lot of these they did not take from the animators,
Speaker 1: so they went over to UM Nickelodeon, and that's um Fred.
Speaker 1: I can't think of his last name. Um started pardon me,
Speaker 1: you love. I'm thinking of the producer Um. He does
Speaker 1: Freederator films. He took a lot of those shorts over
Speaker 1: to Nickelodeon, and that's how I did chalk Zone, My
Speaker 1: Life as a teenage Robot, Jimmy Neutron. All of these
Speaker 1: shows that I was on were all originally sort Hey,
Speaker 1: it's Megan King from Intimate Knowledge. If you want to
Speaker 1: know what was really happening between me and Mike Johnson
Speaker 1: from Bachelor Nation in Vegas, listen right now to intimate
Speaker 1: knowledge and get all of the not safer work details.
Speaker 1: Listen to Intimate Knowledge on the I Heart Radio app,
Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your podcasts. So
Speaker 1: here's the thing. So Chris and I are we haven't
Speaker 1: talked about it yet on this episode, but we and
Speaker 1: we don't talk about it much because we're still getting
Speaker 1: all our ducks in a row. But we are launching
Speaker 1: the super awesome contest to find the next voice actor
Speaker 1: and contests to find the next voice actors. So we
Speaker 1: are going that. You you know, we can't get into
Speaker 1: all the prizes yet, but you win a voiceover agent
Speaker 1: for a year, uh, you win some money, you get
Speaker 1: thrown out. It's really amazing. So it's amazing. The thing
Speaker 1: that we love is what everybody learns from different voice
Speaker 1: over actors that we have on the show is the
Speaker 1: kind of you know, they're they're picking up different techniques,
Speaker 1: different tidbits from everybody here. And one of the things
Speaker 1: that I thought was really interesting about you when I
Speaker 1: was doing the Deep Dive is one of the things
Speaker 1: you spoke about a lot in a bunch of the
Speaker 1: different interviews I watched, And that's something that I don't
Speaker 1: think it has talked about enough and I think could
Speaker 1: so benefit some of the amateur actors out there. Is
Speaker 1: your prep time before you start a job, and you
Speaker 1: prepped the same way you prepped to sing. So I
Speaker 1: was curious if you could kind of walk us through
Speaker 1: how you prep your voice to get ready to do
Speaker 1: some of these longer sessions or more grueling sessions, or
Speaker 1: or what can the amateur actor do? Because the last
Speaker 1: thing you want to do is you were saying when
Speaker 1: you were singing and you were losing your voice as
Speaker 1: you're singing. You don't want to destroy your instruments. So
Speaker 1: how how do you prep before you get started? There
Speaker 1: are and and for for those of you that are
Speaker 1: you know, financially challenged. UM you can do this on YouTube,
Speaker 1: but I have a set, have two sets of warm
Speaker 1: ups there twelve minutes each um minor from a vocal
Speaker 1: teacher in l A Bob Garrett, but he offers. He's
Speaker 1: also on Instagram. He does things called vocal gyms. I
Speaker 1: do UH a twelve minute warm up, starting with humming,
Speaker 1: just low hums, but I don't humm a scale. I
Speaker 1: stay on one note to hear where the cracks are,
Speaker 1: so it's just a and then I'll go up have
Speaker 1: steps or just until I get to the top, and
Speaker 1: then I'll go back down. Then I do lip trills
Speaker 1: up and down, um to a scale, and then I
Speaker 1: warm up three sets of my instrument, which is the belt,
Speaker 1: the mid or the passagio, which is really in your mask,
Speaker 1: which is your face. Think of yourself wearing a mask.
Speaker 1: It's up there. And then I do my high voice.
Speaker 1: I will do this every single day, and I did
Speaker 1: it before I talked to you. I did it just
Speaker 1: because I knew we were going to talk and I'd
Speaker 1: be excited, so like i'd scream or I do something
Speaker 1: gut around and be shot, you know, And that's all
Speaker 1: it takes. Especially someone who has a little age on
Speaker 1: their voice, you have to do it. Then I do
Speaker 1: my gig, and one of the things that warming up
Speaker 1: will do is that they'll take all screams and everything
Speaker 1: out of your throat and put it in your mouth usk.
Speaker 1: There is a way for you to scream nasally and
Speaker 1: not scream gutturally. I will do my gig, and then
Speaker 1: I get in the car and I have a warm down,
Speaker 1: especially if I'm doing something like when I did Maya
Speaker 1: Miguel and she was really high like this. It was
Speaker 1: so freaking hard that by the end of the session
Speaker 1: my my larynx was up by my ears. So I
Speaker 1: cooled down, which is none of the hard selty things
Speaker 1: I do, the lip trills and the humming from the top,
Speaker 1: only going down, and I usually do that in the
Speaker 1: car going home. So it's like, do you lower lower?
Speaker 1: And I do that three or four times, and then
Speaker 1: it is the hums starting high, going all the way
Speaker 1: down to the bottom, and it releases your larynx, releases
Speaker 1: your shoulders. But if you don't cool down, your larynx
Speaker 1: stays up there and it exhausts it. It's just exhausts.
Speaker 1: So true. So I went to Joan later who um
Speaker 1: really was helping me. I was Belle on Broadway, and
Speaker 1: yes you were. And I had had um double nodule
Speaker 1: remote removal prior to booking the job, and in two
Speaker 1: months time I was on Broadway and so that actually
Speaker 1: it was maybe like more three or four months. But um, after,
Speaker 1: you know, that was not the case. Usually you're supposed
Speaker 1: to take a year after getting knowledge surgery, and I was,
Speaker 1: you know, nineteen and desperate to to get in there.
Speaker 1: So Disney was like, okay, whatever, whatever works, and sort
Speaker 1: of they kind of they kind of didn't look they
Speaker 1: looked the other way so that I could get as
Speaker 1: long as you're saying. And so it was very hard
Speaker 1: to maintain my integrity of my instruments. So when I
Speaker 1: went to this woman Joan later, who's i'd say, one
Speaker 1: of the premier um, you know and voice coaches for
Speaker 1: Broadway performers and singers. Um. And so she did exactly
Speaker 1: the same thing. She would tell me the exactly to
Speaker 1: the warm up and then the cool down, which I
Speaker 1: had never heard of before, and right um, and it's
Speaker 1: it is so vital I think for the investment of
Speaker 1: the longevity of your voice. And I'm unashamed to say, Christie,
Speaker 1: I will and will I will say it. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: sixty one and I probably have another thirty years definitely
Speaker 1: voice acting. What tends to slow down is breathing, Like
Speaker 1: it gets as you get older. It's harder and harder
Speaker 1: to take a twenty six year old breath. And do
Speaker 1: you know I credit this, Christie, I credit to the
Speaker 1: warm down. My longevity is the warm down. And I
Speaker 1: would say to everybody listening, if you don't have twelve
Speaker 1: minutes or you've forgotten and you're walking in how and
Speaker 1: lip trill and then hum and lip trill on your
Speaker 1: way out, But you can't go in shouting cold. You
Speaker 1: will double nodule. That's what I got at sixteen, was
Speaker 1: a double nodule, and the only way which would make
Speaker 1: it nineteen seventy seven that they could take those off
Speaker 1: was scraping them off and praying that you didn't scab. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it didn't get that much easier too. I think
Speaker 1: that's about they or something. Yeah, I think they later
Speaker 1: open throat surgery. Yeah. I think it's really important to
Speaker 1: you know, to avoid it. That's why we took vitamins.
Speaker 1: That's why we walk and we keep mobile. It's all
Speaker 1: about avoidance of injury. And so if you can take
Speaker 1: two minutes, um. I would also say for your listeners
Speaker 1: as a last thing um which even many professional voice
Speaker 1: actors do not do, and that is read and mark
Speaker 1: your script before you walk. I will not tell you
Speaker 1: how many people that I've gone that really believe that
Speaker 1: they can wing it. And all I can tell you
Speaker 1: now to my fellow faboos is that the business is
Speaker 1: wide open now. And I'm I'm a prep guy. I'm
Speaker 1: always I'm always reading my lines, I'm marking it on.
Speaker 1: You did that with Ron, You did that a lot? Yeah, Oh,
Speaker 1: I never I never ever show. I can honestly shows
Speaker 1: it really does it well. It makes you an actor,
Speaker 1: It makes you a voice actor rather than relying on
Speaker 1: silly voices. I have a couple of friends who whom
Speaker 1: I adore, who are brilliant, who are like enough time,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna wing it. And I'm like, you know, this
Speaker 1: is a young guy. Look at how he's written it.
Speaker 1: He hears this a certain way, man, you better deliver this.
Speaker 1: He's got eight thousand exclamation points. He has capitalized fifty
Speaker 1: words in this sentence. You here's this a certain way?
Speaker 1: Had you read it? Because what ends up happening is
Speaker 1: that somebody else when we did group records, you guys, um,
Speaker 1: everybody else will have read it, and so we all
Speaker 1: know what your line is supposed to sound like. Because
Speaker 1: it's not just my life. I'm also reading Will's lines
Speaker 1: and Christie's lines, and you're knowing where where my silence is,
Speaker 1: Where do I come in? Where do I fit in
Speaker 1: that joke joke bounced, joke joke bounce? Where do I fit?
Speaker 1: So that would be my last tid a bit. That's
Speaker 1: a protest that those are two important ones because it's
Speaker 1: all about preparation. It's prepping your voice and then it's
Speaker 1: prepping your your talent. I love that I know that
Speaker 1: I love that you guys do that I didn't gonna
Speaker 1: get better. If I ever get the opportunity to to
Speaker 1: to to be on you know, a long running series again,
Speaker 1: then I would definitely be doing much more. I was.
Speaker 1: I was so young when gospel was that it was
Speaker 1: just the farthest from my mind. I was like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm the character's age, etcetera. I I was smoking, I
Speaker 1: was ruining my voice, and at the end, it was
Speaker 1: towards the end where my nodules really flared up, which
Speaker 1: is why you know, well, my my voice did sound
Speaker 1: a bit different. And now I'm healed, and I just
Speaker 1: think that I would approach it so much more maturely.
Speaker 1: And I will say, that's the Christie, what you just said,
Speaker 1: it's hugely important because I will just tell you that,
Speaker 1: you know, we do what we do once we got
Speaker 1: the job. But I'll tell you, if you warm up
Speaker 1: and you read the script and you find your niche,
Speaker 1: that's also how you get the job. That's why I'm
Speaker 1: auditioning every day. And in my little mind, I am
Speaker 1: a goddess of but I audition, like when we leave,
Speaker 1: I just took this off of my my music. That's
Speaker 1: the audition I have for when we hang up and
Speaker 1: I'm warm, and I was like, but I've read it,
Speaker 1: and last night I sat and I marked it and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, that's a funny thing because you'll
Speaker 1: see in the stage direction run run, run, fall, hit
Speaker 1: catch the ball anyway, So you you want to put
Speaker 1: that stuff that's in the that's in the script, in
Speaker 1: the prep for that line. Casting people love that, and
Speaker 1: I always say that that's if you act and you
Speaker 1: prep like you were going to be on a on
Speaker 1: an on camera series. That is how you stand out
Speaker 1: from the crowd when you audition with even against those
Speaker 1: of us who are vets. I think that's a great
Speaker 1: place to leave it right there. Preparation everybody. Prep your
Speaker 1: voice and prep your script. Those are very very important.
Speaker 1: So Candy, where can everybody find you if they're looking
Speaker 1: for you right now? What what social media stuff you
Speaker 1: have and what projects you have coming out? I am
Speaker 1: at Candy Milo on TikTok where I'm having a blast
Speaker 1: because it's so wrong. Um so the Candy Milo on
Speaker 1: Instagram come with me, and I am on Twitter at
Speaker 1: Candy Milo and Candy is with an eye. Please preorder
Speaker 1: my book. I hope that you read it and that
Speaker 1: you like many and then I have a bunch of
Speaker 1: stuff with n d As that I can't talk about,
Speaker 1: but I have six animated series that I'm hoping will
Speaker 1: pop before January. Congratulations and thank you. What are you think?
Speaker 1: That's very sweet of you to come on anyway. I
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hunt you down content. I know his address,
Speaker 1: I'll give it to you. I love it. This is
Speaker 1: one of the warmest, friendliest programs that I've been on.
Speaker 1: And I think I feel that way because y'all did
Speaker 1: your homework. Yeah, well, thank you. It's not preparation, h
Speaker 1: but preparation is the key. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: having me and giving me an opportunity. Don't forget everybody.
Speaker 1: Surviving the Odd coming out on October four and it's
Speaker 1: available for preorder. And then she's also gonna be signing
Speaker 1: at Barnes and Noble at the Grove and that's on
Speaker 1: October fifteenth, So everybody, that's what you Nicole Brown Wow,
Speaker 1: who's also a friend of the show, she was just
Speaker 1: on stop it. Yeah, she's going to moderate and um,
Speaker 1: we're getting our show together now. This is phenomenal, So
Speaker 1: everybody go check it out. It's going to be amazing.
Speaker 1: Thank you again so much for joining us and my pleasure.
Speaker 1: Thank you, bye bye, Ny. Wow. That was amazing, Christie,
Speaker 1: and a great way to end it talking about preparation
Speaker 1: class and yeah and everything that people are gonna need
Speaker 1: and it's going to be perfect for um what was
Speaker 1: the name of the contest again, m hmm, yeah, that one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's going to be No, she's going to be really
Speaker 1: good mentor for what though? For what for? What for?
Speaker 1: We're the super bodacious, wonderful, fantastic, scrumptuous, correct, most amazing
Speaker 1: contest to become the next big voice actor. Percent correct.
Speaker 1: It is a super awesome contest to become the next
Speaker 1: big voice actor. We will get into that later, but
Speaker 1: Candy Ilo, thank you so much for joining us. That
Speaker 1: was amazing. Everybody, have a great time, enjoy yourselves and
Speaker 1: thank you for joining us. And don't ever forget that
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