WEBVTT - The Voice of Candi Milo 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.680 Hey Christy, Hey, Will, how are you. I'm so good. 0:00:03.720 --> 0:00:06.000 I'm still recovering from our big night out at the 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:08.920 I Heart Radio Festival. How much fun was that? Though? 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.920 Sue is still dancing to Lionel Richie. Yeah, and my 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:16.960 feet are still hurting me, but it's okay. Yeah. Well, unfortunately, 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:20.439 I we were talking about this before. I have officially 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:24.720 hit the age where the music is too loud. I 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:28.440 get that, really loud. It was because they have the 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:31.920 most amazing stage setup I have ever seen. It was 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:35.440 not playing around. Well. Today we have an amazing guest 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:38.040 for everyone, who I'm a big fan of all too. 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:43.360 I can't wait. It's Candy Milo. Everybody, Candy's here, Hello, 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:50.120 folky folks, how are you? I am so old? It's 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:54.120 so old. I don't know. I feel like every day 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:58.000 I just keep getting older. Well I think that's probably accurate, 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:01.520 but that doesn't make you old. You don't know that Will. 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:05.680 She does played Ranny. She does play so I get that. 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:11.720 I want to tell you guys, honestly, so, I have 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:15.720 a daughter in her thirties. That was like, I am 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:19.200 so jealous that you are on the show with these kids. 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:21.800 And I was like, just so you know. She loves 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:25.000 you both, and I love you. She watched you and 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:29.240 I could get stuff done. Yes, I know how that is. 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:33.360 I have a five and a three year old so well, 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:35.400 I have a daughter in her thirties too, so it's 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:37.959 it's no big deal. I get it. So yeah, I do. 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:40.360 I just I actually will tell you I am in 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:44.600 awe of both of your talents immensely. We feel the 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:49.920 same way about you than you on cartoons, Are you kidding? 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:53.720 That's all I grew up on and watching your so 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:56.600 I obviously do a deep dive on whoever we have 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.400 on the show. I didn't have to dive that deep 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.520 with you, Candy, because I knew everything you've done. It's 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:06.480 that's why the amount of your work is insane. Thank you, 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:09.919 you know I and I'll tell you honestly, life will 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:13.600 take you where it takes you. I um my mom, 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.520 who who passed away last year at nineties six, so 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:18.920 a great life, long life. She used to tell me, 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.960 pick up your oars, you're in a canoe and follow 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:24.600 the flow. And it was one of those things when 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:26.640 life didn't kind of take me where I thought I 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:30.720 wanted to go. Um, you know, she would always say, well, 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:33.800 just follow the flow. You only use your oars to 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:37.880 push against the rocks. And I thought it was really fascinating. 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.880 And I remember going on this audition with Stephen for 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:45.400 Steven Spielberg for Tiny Toon Adventures, and I did not 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:48.560 want to do it. I thought voice over acting was 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:51.160 where actors went to die. I was like, I don't 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:54.320 want to do this. I wanted to be a singer. 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:57.640 I had come off the first national tour of dream Girls, 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:01.760 and I kept thinking, I'm going back into that someday. 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:04.440 And then I realized I was not used. I was 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:07.959 trying to row against rather than just using my oars 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:11.120 to push against the rocks. And that's how it really started, 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:14.560 was Tiny Toon Adventures way back when you were babies. 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:21.480 You're tiny, tiny babies? If so? Yeah, so I was 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:27.639 Your very first animated series was with Steven's It Gets Better. Well, 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:32.040 my very first audition was for Steven Spielder and I 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:37.839 was singing at um awake um, and of course, as 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.320 one does when they have no class, I started to 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:43.720 do like a little stand up and it was awake 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:47.480 for an agent. It was awake for an agent. It 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:51.400 was the eighties. What can I say so, Um, an 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:55.320 agent for cartoons, came up to me and said, you know, 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:59.040 I think Aaron would want me to represent you. And 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:02.160 that was how it gan. And I didn't return her call. 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:05.480 I just I wanted to be a singer so badly, 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:08.800 but more specifically, I wanted to be a singer, backup 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:11.560 singer for her Balbert. Who usually do you know who 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:14.160 it was that that came up to you? Who was 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:17.040 it that came It was my agent UM at the time, 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:21.640 Nina nissen Holtz at the William Morris Agency, and she 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:26.279 was that you were you were discovered at a week 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:29.400 and for an agent ian agent who I guess was 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:31.920 his assistant and now was going to be the real 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.320 And I just so you know, when I saw that 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:36.720 it said voice over in commercials, I tore it up. 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:39.360 I was like, I Am not doing this. You're like, 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:42.320 this is real? I know right. I was like, I 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:45.600 understand that you just heard me sing and thought that's 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:50.359 a voice for cartoons. I'm a little bit anyway. She 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:53.360 I guess she called me because she looked me up 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:59.280 in the wait for it, yellow I mean white page 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:01.240 and I walked down. I had been living in a 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.719 teeny tiny apartment in Beverly Hills. I walked down to 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:06.840 William Morris and she said, I'm just gonna throw you in, 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:10.200 which was a closet because then it was real to 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:15.440 real tape. And an auditioned for denting Gum Perkins Restaurant 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:20.080 and this show called Tiny Toon Adventures, Steven Spielberg's Tiny 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:25.599 Toon Adventures, and I got all three and I she said, 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.520 you should do this, and like that sound was my 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:34.120 heart breaking, knowing that this was my flow, this was 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:36.839 going to be the river I was gonna be on, 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:40.440 and um wow, I just I don't know. I fell 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:42.839 in love with the room. I fell in love with 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:46.640 the vibe. And then you guys know, because you've done 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:50.760 this type of work, Um, you also sing in these 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.680 sessions you do, so I was fine. I could do 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:57.520 my stand up and my singing. And you know, I 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:00.520 had big, big plans to be the bet next Midler, 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:04.280 but right now I'm just the next cartoon person. So 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:07.680 I have to say the next June four A is 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:11.240 not such a bad thing to be a young man. No, 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:15.279 it is not. In the world, especially in this business 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:18.440 of show that we you know, carving out any type 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:23.960 of a lasting a career is next to impossible. Where 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.000 it's you're working all the time and you're you're becoming 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:30.120 a legend in your field. That's that's almost never happened. 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:33.480 And I will tell you she was the most adorable 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:37.920 UM Tiny like TV Tiny, I'm little, I'm five ft two. 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:41.280 I really could have like not the crap out of 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.200 or I couldn't, which I would never do, but I 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:47.960 do say that, you know, she was so little, UM. 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:51.960 And she appeared once or twice on time the original 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:56.760 tinytoon Adventures and she worked until her nineties and when 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:00.640 we lost her. UM, I had been to being around 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:06.000 with the voice and the folks at at Warner Brothers, 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:08.640 who have been very, very good. You know, I am 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:13.640 back where I started, which was Brothers. Yeah, and I 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:16.160 will say, honestly, I'm not really good with the whole 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:20.240 corporate thing, but Warner Brothers has been amazing. They're the 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:23.880 least corporate they are. They've got Cartoon Network, they've got 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:28.680 edgier stuff, and I am so pleased. UM. Highlight, of course, 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:33.000 you know, was Space Jam two. UM. Working with Lebron 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:37.960 was kind of amazing and we recorded during COVID so 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:42.160 where I'm sitting now with my really bad lighting. Um, 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:46.640 that is sound amazing and you look good. It's like 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:51.040 I'm trying very hard. Um. But I said, um, you know, 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:55.239 we built this little thing myself, like this is a phone, 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:59.440 mattress pad from bed bath and beyond. Um, that's smart. 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.640 I never thought about for people. Well, I had done 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:07.800 a comic con and in Touca, Mississippi, and when it 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:10.400 was all kind of happening in the beginning of March, 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.680 and we said, you know, this is not your grandmother's 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:17.120 flu folks, this is going to be something different. So 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:21.120 everything online. I ordered everything online and just kind of 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:24.440 over the next two weeks built it. And then I 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:26.960 got I got the role of Granny in Space Jam 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:31.320 two and we ended up recording you know, over the 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:34.480 next year, off and on. You know. First it was 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:37.959 original dialogue. Then I was doing it to picture and 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:42.080 we were tightening and changing some stuff, and it was 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:45.520 all done in the world's smallest closet um where I 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:49.240 am now. It was wild and they and they did it. 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:53.000 Christie Zoom, we did it over that's what I'm hearing 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:56.679 Zoom and we were getting real time. Malcolm de Lee 0:08:56.720 --> 0:09:01.320 was the director who's hilarious and really truly wonderful to 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:03.800 work with. And a lot of the funniest stuff that 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:07.120 I said was his ad libs, which was just great. 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:10.679 And I know that Lebron was on and watching um 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:13.800 and so it's kind of so cool. And did you 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:15.920 get to work with a friend of the show? Eric Bowser? 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:22.640 Stop your voices right now. I love that kid. That. Yeah, 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:25.559 he is a talentless hack. You hear it, You hear 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:28.640 it first here. Eric Bowsa is a talentless You know 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:32.200 Eric likes you everybody's talking about No one likes Eric. 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:36.360 He has no talent, no personality, the worst person ever. 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:41.400 I feel bad for his son. No, I know he was. 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:45.520 He was our first guest ever because it was one 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:47.480 of those things where it was I've I've now worked 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:52.360 with him on I don't know twenty cartoons and usually 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:54.839 and I've always said, the voice over actors are the 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:57.840 most talented actors I've ever worked within this industry, bar none. 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:02.040 There's no close second. Voice for actors are using with talent, 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.079 but you get used to that talent. You're with it 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:06.880 all the time. You're in the booth with the same 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:10.120 people all the time, and so you expect it, and 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:13.040 every once in a while somebody walks in that makes 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:15.959 you once again go, you've got to be kidding. I 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:19.720 feel that way. That was about Eric the first time. 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:23.200 I mean I knew of him and we would pass 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.680 in the night or I'd hear him doing silly things 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:29.960 like Nickelodeon and uh. And then I was lucky enough 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:33.880 to be with him on Put Some Boots where where 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:38.360 he does the perfect He's Antonio Banderis. You can't you 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.600 can't tell the different. That was a That was a 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:44.200 room that was directed by Andrea Romano, who knows how 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:47.880 to pick twn. You know, she just saw and one 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:52.160 of my closest friends. I adore her, and she she 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:55.800 directed Tiny Tunes. So we go go way back to 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:59.160 when I had a waist. It was just times and 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:02.320 so Drea was your first voice over director. Andrea was 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:06.360 mine to stop it. I don't mind too, Batman. Beyond 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:09.120 my very first animated Sery just kind of got each 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:14.240 other because we are both anti the big the big 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:17.840 room where they direct by committee and we're just kind 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:21.600 of we're just more indie folk. And I would say 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:26.000 before Eric, it is now hard with Eric bowsa um 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:31.559 Tress McNeil is possibly the most brilliant voice actress. If 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:33.959 we have to go to agree with you work. I 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.400 heard you mentioned her will many times. I was just 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:38.520 about to say that I had the same feeling the 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:40.760 first time I worked with Tress that you get when 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:44.720 you work with with Eric or Frank Welker or somebody 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:48.199 like that, where you just um, it's it is, it's 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:50.480 next level. But I mean, I guess it's like that 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:53.480 in any anything, when you're surrounded with talented people, there's 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:56.240 always one or two that just are so much better 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:58.120 than everyone else, right, And you know what I will 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:02.240 tell you, Like Frank, that room that I walked into 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:07.719 was like a third grade classroom. Everybody was voicing and 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:10.640 doing these weird things, and then you'd say something and 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:13.640 somebody would imitate your voice, and I thought, you know, 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:17.280 much like my book, it was like growing up in 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:21.280 a in a house with sort of like developmentally disabled. 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:24.600 I was like the noise and the quietest two people 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:27.839 in the room were Tress McNeil and Frank Welker. And 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:30.679 Tress was in the front. It was like a classroom 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:33.240 and I was way in the back and next to 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:36.000 me was Frank Welker, who showed me how to separate 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:39.280 my pages and how to be quiet and when to laugh, 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:42.600 and it was a great training ground. But to watch 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:47.199 Tress and Frank and then to see Eric, you get 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:50.760 that feeling like there's a Bob Bergen in the room. 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:55.319 You you just you get this vibe that there's so 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:58.320 much more that they can do, but they've sat in 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:02.560 their canoe and let let the current take them. And 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:05.679 for me, I was a single parent when my daughter 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:09.840 was very young, and cartoons allowed me to bring her 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:13.319 up and send her to college and do all that. 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:17.040 And am I super famous? No, except for like the 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:20.720 three ft and undercrowd, Am I you know? Super well? 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:23.640 They're the best fans. Like It's like I said, I 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:25.440 feel like I'm on an I might go on a 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.840 soap opera. You know, I got my crew and I 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:32.559 got my people who watch my show. Um, but I 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:36.640 you know, for my initial shock of this is where 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:38.320 I was going to be, I can now tell you 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:41.000 there's no place that I would rather be, honestly, And 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:44.440 that's not That's the thing. The other thing that I 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:48.000 love about our side of the industry is the if 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:50.920 you know you know factor, So you might not be 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.679 a superstar in the world. We might not be superstars 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:56.360 in the world, but we are to each other because 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:59.480 if you know, you know, and so Candy Milo, it's 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:01.880 like they're you know, I heart calls like, well, Candy's 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:03.360 gonna come on the show. We were like, you've got 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:05.800 to be kidding me. So that I mean to us, 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.840 you'll you'll always be a rotor. I just well, and 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:12.560 now with UM comic cons we've seen since COVID, so 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:18.160 many people were streaming animation UM and re re, you know, 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:21.680 investing themselves into all of the stuff that they could, 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:24.880 the content and things that were very you know, nostalgic 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.400 for them. I'm sure they did Kim Possible. And I'm 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:30.360 sure they did Tey because I I loved that. And 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:32.360 I have to tell you I I had only done 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:36.840 a couple of episodes of Kim Possible only because you 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.120 guys had it. Hold on a second, know, you guys 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:42.200 had it covered. Like when you have Nancy as your 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:45.560 mole rat, you you got it like you've got it covered. 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.160 She could do other things, but every once in a 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:52.000 while they needed me and I would be able to 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:56.240 go in. But as um you know, as you know 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.480 we were all done separately. What were you doing, Candy, 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:01.920 because I was not aware of this, so please inform me. 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:07.240 I did um extra voices that Nancy couldn't pick up. 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:11.320 I mean, another brilliant human being. But like if you had, 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.280 off the top of my head, a stewardness and then 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:17.320 you add a random mom, I would come in and 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:20.800 and for for your listeners and your your your people, 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:24.200 your crowd that don't know I was utility. I think 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:29.479 on three or four UM can possible episodes and I'm 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:35.760 I'm thinking, was it Lisa Shaefer directing? Yeah? And the 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:41.880 best people like ever in the history of awesomeness. Yeah, 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:44.920 just like a regular nice human being. But you find 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:48.480 I find that the best voice directors are like Lisa 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.520 in that when you're acting, they just let you go. 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:55.000 If they feel like you're dialed in, they are not. 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:59.280 They're not worried about every single line, every single beat. 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:03.360 They're not looking to have you match something. You know. 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:07.960 They just let you go. And yeah. And I think 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:11.160 one of the great things about Lisa's that she had 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:15.040 to do shows one character at a time because that's 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:17.560 the way it was scheduled so that they could get 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:22.000 it and she was so great at directing me in 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:26.680 that here's without playing the other people or saying, here's 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:28.920 how they're probably going to read this line. This is 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.120 what I'm trying to get, And so I could do 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:33.640 line by line five times in a row and then 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:36.440 what was cut together was great. So it was never 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:39.440 brain surgery when I worked with Lisa Shaeffer, you know, 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:42.320 and I say that just because that's how I felt 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:45.360 about Malcolm de Lee for for Space Jam two. It 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:49.520 was never brain surgery. Let's just let you go give 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:52.120 us five or ten things and we'll let you know 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:54.200 what works, and if not, we'll get another session and 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:57.200 come back and pick it up. So well, Kitty, I 0:16:57.240 --> 0:16:59.080 have to have a couple of questions, follow up questions 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:01.560 to that. So when you do utility, as we know, 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:06.080 if we've mentioned before, sessions, UM can can basically contract 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:08.880 you to do up to is it up to three characters? Yes, 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:11.760 you get two for the price of one, and then 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.720 a third voice is a bump, a fourth fit voice 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:18.800 is a new session. So it's funny. I had very 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:23.640 little UM notoriety in a show called Fanboy and Chump 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:29.880 Chump on Nickelodeon, and I made more money doing that 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:35.439 show because I was so versatile or you know, nuts 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:39.000 if you want to say it personal, because I sing, 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:42.280 and I think that's it. I know how to manipulate 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:45.400 and control my voice that I could come on sometimes 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:49.040 and do six or seven characters along with Jeff Glenn Bennett, 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:52.760 Oh hi, an brilliant guy. Like we would just come 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:55.720 in and we would say back, clean up. We would 0:17:55.720 --> 0:18:00.480 come in and I I had a character named share Leader, 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:03.520 Shall please do please do all your characters okay? So 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:08.000 here all day. She was a character on Fanboy Chump 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:11.919 Chump called Share and she was a shareleader like a cheerleader, 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:15.239 and all she said was her like share and then 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:19.720 they made her a triplet and so it was like hey, hey, hey, 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:25.240 and then three of them, and I was Um Loupe 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:27.879 on that show where I had a Buffy's in my 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:32.680 hair and I had like little braids like Princess leah 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:36.240 Um and then I mean it was one of those things. 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:39.800 And then I was um Marcia and somebody named Marcia 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:42.919 who had breaking and it was a main girl. And 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:47.359 then there was like the Christmas special where all of 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:51.240 those characters were in that episode, and I said, I 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:53.640 think they never run it because they just don't want 0:18:53.640 --> 0:19:02.280 to pay me. Oh ends, It's Hillary, Joy and Sophia 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:05.440 and we are your Drama Queens. We are going on 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:07.960 tour and we are so excited to announce that we 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:10.359 will be live streaming our New York stop of the 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:14.920 tour on October at five pm. We have guests Barbara 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:18.919 Allen Woods, Daphne Zuniga, Tyler Hilton, and Matt Barr. That's right. 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:20.520 If you live stream the show, you will get to 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:24.080 see the guests from both New York City shows right 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:26.879 in your own home. Amazing. It's amazing. So get your 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:30.440 tickets now at Drama Queens o th H dot com 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:38.960 and we will see you on octobery. So, okay, I 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:41.000 have a I have a couple of questions myself here. 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:42.439 So first of all, we've got it. We're gonna get 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:44.879 into all the we gotta of course talk about Dexter 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:48.600 and all the great things uh from there. But you 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:51.520 mentioned briefly before your book, and your book is coming 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:56.200 out on the fourth correct and just reading about it 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:59.000 called Surviving the Odd and just reading about this was 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:02.879 so amazing. I mean, can you can you explain to 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:05.399 us what it's about because it is incredible and I 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:08.320 want to know how much this influenced the voices uh 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:11.600 that you ended up using in your career. Yeah, let 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:14.000 me just I will give you like the Quicken Down 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:17.320 and Dirty. My dad was a very successful nightclub performer, 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:21.640 singer or comic, depending on who the UM star was, 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:24.760 he would do like a nightclub show. He was Bett 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:28.919 Midler before there was Bett Midler, and he was extremely successful. 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:32.600 But with the advent of TV, nightclubs were closing. So 0:20:32.640 --> 0:20:34.639 with five kids, he tried to figure out what he 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:37.000 would do in the late sixties, and he wanted to 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:40.520 give something back to society, which he decided should be 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:47.080 my childhood UM, and he opened one of California's very 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:51.720 first licensed halfway houses, board and care homes for the 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:57.240 developmentally disabled and emotionally disturbed and UM. He had very 0:20:57.240 --> 0:21:01.199 little secondary education, I believe none. He was a comic 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:05.040 and he got twelve he got who was left and 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:09.639 so twelve adults lived in a fratern converted fraternity house 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:12.399 on Frat Row by the San Jose State Campus in 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:16.560 San Jose, California, and we lived in the house with them, 0:21:16.640 --> 0:21:19.359 and then two years later we had enough money to 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:21.760 get the house next door. My dad cut a hole 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:24.160 in the fence so he could get to work quicker, 0:21:24.520 --> 0:21:28.680 and um they became my family. And over the sixteen 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:33.159 years that my dad ran this home, UM, we cared 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:38.439 for close to three hundred and fifty adults with disabilities 0:21:39.080 --> 0:21:45.080 UM mental disabilities, and nobody ever really got better, They 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:49.040 just became. So I have had a giant family. And 0:21:49.400 --> 0:21:53.640 what this did to my cartoon and my acting abilities 0:21:53.760 --> 0:21:56.760 is that I never judge a book by its cover. 0:21:57.200 --> 0:22:00.520 And I learned very very very early on to watch 0:22:00.600 --> 0:22:06.640 people very closely for safety as well as oddity, as 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:11.359 well as of a fascinating life study. But when I 0:22:11.400 --> 0:22:16.000 get a character, I am now looking beyond the pale 0:22:16.040 --> 0:22:20.359 for the similarities to me, because you would never see. 0:22:20.560 --> 0:22:24.520 I mean, we had a reputation milow Arms Hi, the 0:22:24.600 --> 0:22:26.800 name of the house Hi, that was on the side 0:22:26.840 --> 0:22:28.600 of a van that I had to ride to school. 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:32.639 And when I was nine, I'm not damaged at all. Um, 0:22:32.720 --> 0:22:36.680 I it was like judging a book by its cover. 0:22:37.240 --> 0:22:41.640 You want to immediately dissociate yourself from anybody. I am 0:22:41.720 --> 0:22:45.399 not like that. I am quote unquote normal, I am fine, 0:22:45.520 --> 0:22:48.320 And I was the type of kid that said, Wow, 0:22:48.359 --> 0:22:51.280 we both like the archies. That's weird. Wow, we both 0:22:51.320 --> 0:22:54.680 like Abbas Abbas, that's weird. Wow. You love your mom 0:22:54.720 --> 0:22:57.400 and dad and I love my mom and dad. Wow, 0:22:57.640 --> 0:23:02.440 you take medication and I don't yet yet. So that's 0:23:02.440 --> 0:23:05.919 how I think it informed me was um And I 0:23:06.000 --> 0:23:08.320 learned later that was kind of a cool thing, you 0:23:08.359 --> 0:23:12.560 guys that rather than looking distancing myself, which I did 0:23:12.560 --> 0:23:15.800 in the beginning I was eight of nine years old, 0:23:16.119 --> 0:23:18.760 I started to look for the similarities. So when I 0:23:18.960 --> 0:23:23.120 see a way out their character, like a Dexter from 0:23:23.160 --> 0:23:28.240 Dexter's laboratory, we that has a a laboratory in his 0:23:28.280 --> 0:23:31.600 basement that his parents don't know about, right that, I 0:23:31.760 --> 0:23:35.000 look at those similarities and what is he hiding? And 0:23:35.040 --> 0:23:38.960 why does he consistently have to hide his genius um? 0:23:39.119 --> 0:23:42.359 And what are the consequences that he does? And where 0:23:42.400 --> 0:23:44.760 can he lose his temper and tell everybody that he 0:23:44.880 --> 0:23:48.440 is a that he has dexter breaking? Yes, how could 0:23:48.480 --> 0:23:52.919 he tell everybody he is? So I think that that 0:23:53.119 --> 0:23:55.080 is how it did it. I'd like to tell people 0:23:55.200 --> 0:23:58.639 it is not my book is not character funny. No 0:23:58.680 --> 0:24:02.560