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Speaker 1: This is a man I've known for many, many years,

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Speaker 1: for coming. Oh yeah, pleasure. We are going to be

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you know anything about our podcast,

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Speaker 1: but we just talked about different ice cream flavors for

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Speaker 1: entirely different movie. I don't know if I would have

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00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:07,480
Speaker 1: liked it, frankly. Um. And so Ray Finds dropped in

424
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:09,639
Speaker 1: two weeks. That's a lot of lines to learn in

425
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:13,560
Speaker 1: two weeks, ladies and gentlemen. That's like you have to

426
00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:16,919
Speaker 1: put a whole character together in a pretty short amount

427
00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:20,439
Speaker 1: of time. Um. But but it would have been a

428
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:24,800
Speaker 1: very different movie. So, uh, these things just happened. So

429
00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:28,480
Speaker 1: you know, one thing, and then you know, let's say

430
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:30,840
Speaker 1: you're cast in a movie and you're great in it,

431
00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:34,720
Speaker 1: but then the movie doesn't make any money. Um, then

432
00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:37,879
Speaker 1: what happens then people don't care in the business. You

433
00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:41,679
Speaker 1: get like people that really love the movie. Um. And

434
00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:44,399
Speaker 1: so that's really super cool. I mean that's great, It

435
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:48,320
Speaker 1: really is great, but it infar as your career is concerned,

436
00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:52,800
Speaker 1: it means nothing. Um. And that's the hard cold truth

437
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 1: of it. Um. You know, it just doesn't matter. People

438
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:59,200
Speaker 1: are going, oh, you're so good in that, but it bombed.

439
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:04,399
Speaker 1: So the success only breathe success and um, because a

440
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:09,640
Speaker 1: motion picture is such a large thing. It's so much

441
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,320
Speaker 1: bigger than any I mean, the actor, come on, the

442
00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:14,879
Speaker 1: script has been there for sometimes they were developed for

443
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:18,880
Speaker 1: fifteen years, so it could have been it didn't happen overnight.

444
00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:21,280
Speaker 1: And then they pre production, then they get the director,

445
00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 1: then they get the studio, then they get the rest

446
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,680
Speaker 1: of the cast, then the DP, then the rest of

447
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 1: the crew. Then they then you're there for this incredibly

448
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:32,560
Speaker 1: short period of time, sometimes just days, and then and

449
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:35,080
Speaker 1: then they edit it, and then they marketed, and then

450
00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:37,680
Speaker 1: it has to be released at a time that isn't

451
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:40,480
Speaker 1: too competitive with something else that's on the same strap.

452
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:42,720
Speaker 1: You know, you can't release two kids movies on the

453
00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:45,879
Speaker 1: same weekend, dudes, because it's not gonna work, right, So

454
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:48,240
Speaker 1: you want to make sure that. So they have to

455
00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:52,680
Speaker 1: book like sometimes nine a year in advance, like figuring

456
00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 1: out where what weekend will work for that now. Of

457
00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:59,639
Speaker 1: course the businesses has really radically changed since the pandemic.

458
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 1: But all of these things factor into your personal success.

459
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:11,160
Speaker 1: Even though you've worked on the project ten days, right

460
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:16,719
Speaker 1: in ten days, um, so it's uh, that's it, and

461
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:19,639
Speaker 1: then your your other made or you're not made, and

462
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:21,879
Speaker 1: those ten days are the biggest days of your life

463
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:26,159
Speaker 1: or they're not. Yeah, that's I mean, that's kind of

464
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:28,439
Speaker 1: the difference between your career and my career is that

465
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 1: I've never been in a good movie. No, I take

466
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 1: that back, let me take let me take back. I've

467
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,160
Speaker 1: never been in a in a successful movie. I guess

468
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:41,879
Speaker 1: my date with a TV movie. But like so that

469
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:45,160
Speaker 1: most of my movies are movies that nobody but maybe

470
00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 1: my mom and not even that all the time has seen.

471
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 1: So you have a very unique perspective because you've been

472
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:55,480
Speaker 1: in some blockbusters, I mean some true I mean Napoleon

473
00:26:55,520 --> 00:27:01,399
Speaker 1: dynam I mean some some big movies. Um. And so

474
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:04,200
Speaker 1: you've kind of gotten to see both sides of of

475
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:07,800
Speaker 1: that argument, which is which is very interesting that it's

476
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:10,199
Speaker 1: it's amazing that you said, Katzenberg, because to me, I

477
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 1: can kind of pinpoint the shift to the first toy

478
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:18,679
Speaker 1: story because you know, you've got not only time, and

479
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 1: it's not just because of Tom Hanks and Tim Allen,

480
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,679
Speaker 1: who were great, who were absolutely great, but it's because

481
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 1: people for the first time got to sit in the

482
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:29,920
Speaker 1: theater and go, oh, oh the pig, that's John Ratzenburg.

483
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 1: Oh he's from Cheers, And all of a sudden it

484
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:37,720
Speaker 1: was then like, okay, yeah, who can we get? Now,

485
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:43,119
Speaker 1: who's a name that you know? So then it's all

486
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:44,960
Speaker 1: of a sudden you're sitting there going, oh, even the

487
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 1: person who only had thirty lines or twenty lines and

488
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 1: the entire thing. Now we've got to get this person

489
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 1: who's got you know, people know they're a name. We're

490
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:54,600
Speaker 1: getting Dave fully, we're getting this kind of thing. And

491
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:56,440
Speaker 1: then the person who would have done that, who was

492
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:58,879
Speaker 1: an awesome voiceover actor who it didn't matter what their

493
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,440
Speaker 1: name was. Person that's like you, Now you're not even

494
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 1: gonna get a shot anymore. Now we need to go

495
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 1: get somebody with a name to even do the smaller roles. Yeah,

496
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:08,800
Speaker 1: they even have that. Most of the time. They look

497
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 1: for name talent when they do certain auditions looking for

498
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,400
Speaker 1: a name. Yeah, yeah, totally, and they put it right there.

499
00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:19,159
Speaker 1: People don't really Yeah, it's right on that. Well, because

500
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 1: that's the other thing that that people don't or we

501
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:23,800
Speaker 1: haven't really talked about a whole lot on on our

502
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 1: show is the fact that not a yeah, we're going

503
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:29,440
Speaker 1: in new we're taking it real today on I hear

504
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:33,200
Speaker 1: voices people, um where. The other thing that we talked

505
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,440
Speaker 1: about is the fact that it doesn't matter usually how

506
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 1: big a voiceover actor you are, you're still auditioning for everything.

507
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 1: I mean occasionally somebody will come and make you an offer.

508
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 1: Hey come in and do a couple of lines of

509
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,160
Speaker 1: my thing, or hey, we got but you're still reading

510
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 1: all the time, so you know, Yeah, you become a

511
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 1: big on camera actor, and it's offer, offer, offer, offer,

512
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 1: offer voiceover, it's still I've got twenty auditions I gotta

513
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 1: do today. It doesn't matter that I'm Batman. Yeah, I

514
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 1: mean I don't. Yeah. That's the one thing that people

515
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,560
Speaker 1: don't recognize is that I audition. I audition way more

516
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 1: than I work. Um I I auditioned almost constantly. I've

517
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:13,000
Speaker 1: got three I have to do today. Um well, that's

518
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:14,960
Speaker 1: one of the reasons I'm happy I set up this microphone.

519
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 1: I will not be outside when I do it. But

520
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 1: but I could just see you, like and Gotham the

521
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 1: people you have to Freedum. But yeah, no, it's like

522
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 1: I audition all the time, and um, you just keep

523
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 1: you just keep going at it. And uh yeah, I

524
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:39,520
Speaker 1: mean it's yeah, it's it's a it's a strange world,

525
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 1: but I love it. I love the voice over world

526
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:47,760
Speaker 1: so much. It's like crazy. I I so enjoy being

527
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 1: around the talent. I think one of the things that

528
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 1: I really miss about the before times is the studio sessions. Um,

529
00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:01,120
Speaker 1: where I got to because you didn't do this largely.

530
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 1: You go in by yourself, but Warner Brothers I think

531
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:05,640
Speaker 1: because of Andrea And I don't know if that's entirely true,

532
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 1: but um, you know you did everything together, and um,

533
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 1: I I really really loved it. I mean like it

534
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 1: brought out the little kid in me because I was

535
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 1: playing and um, you know you it was like playing.

536
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 1: I don't know how else to put it. It's like

537
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 1: it's like you've got your friends together and all of

538
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 1: a sudden you're with your g I Joe's and you're

539
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:28,840
Speaker 1: moving them around and it's like, you know, and you're

540
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:32,120
Speaker 1: totally committed to to the the action that's happening with

541
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 1: your and um, it's really fun and it's genuinely fun

542
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:41,479
Speaker 1: and um, yeah, I don't know how else to describe it.

543
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 1: It's it's like, yeah, well, it's true. It's like I've

544
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:48,400
Speaker 1: I've met so many actors that have never done voice

545
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:51,440
Speaker 1: over before, that have been on television, that have been

546
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 1: in film, and you can tell that, you know, the

547
00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 1: on camera side of the business can beat you down,

548
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 1: even even even if you're successful, it can kind of

549
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 1: beat you down. And they come in and after one

550
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 1: session they look at you and the like you do

551
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 1: this every week, like this is it's just fun, pure

552
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 1: acting again with you and a microphone and you get

553
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 1: to just have a great time. But you're right there.

554
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 1: So one of the questions we ask everybody, and we

555
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 1: don't even need to ask you, is do you prefer

556
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:17,480
Speaker 1: recording a loan or with a group of people? A

557
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 1: group of people? But but I will say too, I

558
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 1: also prefer doing voiceovers to being on camera if it

559
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 1: paid the same. Next question because exactly exactly if if

560
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 1: you compare like um, miss Congeniality to which I was

561
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 1: very happy to be cast in, and everybody and it

562
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 1: was greatly, thank you. Fun to work with. Um, but

563
00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:44,240
Speaker 1: you know we would do a scene, you know, sixty

564
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 1: seventy times, um, you know, and so I mean you

565
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 1: would do your coverage and you you did at least

566
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 1: like fifteen twenty takes, So sixties that's that's that's really

567
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:59,240
Speaker 1: you could do it hundreds of times. Um and um

568
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 1: you know it's Look, my dad sent me to work

569
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 1: on a farm when I was a kid, so so

570
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 1: that I knew what real work was like. So I

571
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 1: know that it's not real work. Don't get me wrong.

572
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 1: I haven't completely completely lost respector I just told you

573
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 1: I love so much. By the way, ladies and gentlemen,

574
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 1: there is no dog Frank Welker microphone, oh cone to

575
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 1: Oh no, he's been acting. Now I would too, And

576
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 1: now I have to ask. I have to ask because

577
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 1: every voice over actor, if I've spoken to every voice

578
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 1: over actor i've spoken to that has a pet, does

579
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 1: zig Freed have a voice? Yeah? Yeah, come on, give

580
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: me the every everybody does. Give me the zig Free

581
00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 1: voice interrupted. But things, he's just a vague jourman that

582
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 1: he talks like these things. I'd love to earn it

583
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:07,719
Speaker 1: out of doors. Does anyone like to do that. I do.

584
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:16,120
Speaker 1: Every voice over actor's pet has their own voice. Our

585
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 1: first docks and waster Arthur serious, what's what's going on?

586
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I never will laugh like this before.

587
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 1: It's so funny. Oh man, that's really this is lithium six.

588
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 1: He talks everyone. I also luck to urinate out of tools.

589
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 1: It looks like that. Yes, I do very much. He's

590
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 1: a proper English Chapanee. Sometimes I love to bark when

591
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 1: I pope as I'm poping, I'm barking. He does that

592
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 1: when we go to walk just it's barking. I'm like, dude,

593
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 1: I got your back. Nothing's going to happen that you're good.

594
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 1: Oh my alright, So voice over wise, I have a

595
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,319
Speaker 1: question for you because we went right from what we

596
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 1: did you did say to project and then we got

597
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:18,000
Speaker 1: to do another. One of my favorite projects actually from

598
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 1: my career. Uh that doesn't get enough credit is never

599
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:24,240
Speaker 1: isn't talked about enough, And frankly, one of the reasons

600
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:31,399
Speaker 1: is because of your performance, um the Secret Saturdays. Oh

601
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 1: do you remember how fun recording Secret Saturdays was? Now

602
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:39,719
Speaker 1: for people who don't know Dietrich did a character and

603
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 1: Secret Saturdays that never really spoke an actual line of dialect.

604
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:46,719
Speaker 1: We did one episode where you got to speak, but

605
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:50,640
Speaker 1: for the most part he just did these I've tried

606
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 1: to mimic them many times and I just can't. Can

607
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:54,480
Speaker 1: you tell us how you came up with the character

608
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:58,719
Speaker 1: of Fiskerton on Secret. That's really interesting that you were

609
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:04,400
Speaker 1: bring up because it actually called um. It brings up

610
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:08,839
Speaker 1: your idea that you said earlier, where there people make

611
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:12,280
Speaker 1: it intellectual choices and then other times things just appear

612
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 1: to you wholesale. Um. Fiskeerton came to me entirely um

613
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 1: like uh. They said it was like a giant cat gorilla,

614
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 1: and I was like, where was that, you know? And

615
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 1: then I was like I just did it, And I

616
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 1: was like, I haven't heard that in years. I have

617
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:46,360
Speaker 1: not heard that in years. The occasional words, yeah, a

618
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:48,799
Speaker 1: little bit in there. Yeah. The only one where I

619
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:50,840
Speaker 1: got caught and they told me not to do it

620
00:35:50,920 --> 00:36:00,359
Speaker 1: was I was like, I didn't say a word. Well.

621
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 1: The thing that was amazing it was because I remember

622
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 1: the sessions and they were so great and it was

623
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:07,040
Speaker 1: you know, Phil Morris and Nicole Sullivan as the parents.

624
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 1: Sam Lerner, who played u Um oh jeez, I remember

625
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:16,160
Speaker 1: zach uh and then uh you and and Fred has

626
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,880
Speaker 1: next to each other and your he did two characters,

627
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 1: and you did a character, and there was you would

628
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 1: have full conversations and there was no dialogue, and it

629
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 1: was not the weirdest thing. No, it was just you

630
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 1: did and then and you'd make the entire room. This

631
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 1: is the thing I remember is whenever Fiskeerston got sad,

632
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 1: you did, and the whole room would go oh like

633
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 1: it would like it hits you in the gut. It

634
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:45,280
Speaker 1: was like, oh no, not Fiske. Yeah, I love playing.

635
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:47,279
Speaker 1: That was a thank you for bringing that up. That

636
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 1: was a genuinely fun job. Like that was just like um,

637
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,360
Speaker 1: you know, like we were alluded to earlier. Yeah, and

638
00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 1: that was like yeah, because I had no lines, I

639
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,239
Speaker 1: just was supposed to react to various things and they

640
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 1: just kept my microphone open and the so it's just

641
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 1: like it was completely improvised character, which is rare. And uh,

642
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 1: I really that was really fun. That was a really

643
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 1: great great I wonder where Dietrich wasn't on Kim possible

644
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 1: he would have been an amazing Yeah. I don't get

645
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:19,279
Speaker 1: that either. Lame. Yeah, that was a great show, by

646
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:22,400
Speaker 1: the way, great show. Oh thank you, Chris. Christie and

647
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 1: I still get together on Zoom every night and just

648
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 1: pretend to be Kim and Ron for a half hour.

649
00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:30,760
Speaker 1: It just it just makes us feel like, let's pretending.

650
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 1: We figure it's healthy past. Yes, I'm in on it too.

651
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 1: Now I'm in on it too. Did we go back

652
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 1: to how Dietrich actually started at all? I guess we should.

653
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:58,280
Speaker 1: We should get into it. Well again, show got tons

654
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 1: of time, but yeah, Christie, can you can you maybe

655
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 1: set us up for the origin story part? I did? Well.

656
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 1: You had said that you guys have similar origin stories,

657
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:10,279
Speaker 1: so is that true? In the voice over world we

658
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:12,400
Speaker 1: have similar origin story well in terms of how you

659
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:15,839
Speaker 1: started with like Andrea and with Andrea and with that,

660
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 1: Oh I'm glad. Oh yeah, and then we're bat brothers,

661
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:23,360
Speaker 1: which we'll talk about later. But um, how did you

662
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 1: how did you find let's just just acting in general,

663
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:27,840
Speaker 1: how did you how did you knew you want to

664
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:29,800
Speaker 1: know you wanted to become an actor? Um? I actually

665
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:34,279
Speaker 1: have an origin story? Um? Okay, so, uh, when I

666
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 1: was very little, about to turn three, we moved to Paris.

667
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 1: It's a capital of France. And um, uh got it,

668
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 1: nailed it? Um. And also a town in Oklahoma, isn't

669
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:50,359
Speaker 1: it Just for the record, So I was really like

670
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:53,719
Speaker 1: I just learned English basically, and then I was thrown

671
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 1: into another language and rather than thriving, UM, I closed

672
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 1: in on myself and became very quiet, very very quiet.

673
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 1: And my parents were worried that I was like disturbed

674
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 1: or something like something's wrong with me because I was

675
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 1: so quiet, and um, they wanted to bring me on

676
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:16,759
Speaker 1: my shell and uh, so they would pay for my

677
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 1: siblings to take me to the movies. And I fell

678
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 1: in love with silent actors Harpo, Marx, Buster Keaton, but

679
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 1: particularly Charlie Chaplin, and I became a little obsessed with him,

680
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 1: and so I would go to Charlie Chaplin movies all

681
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 1: the time. And um, the one day, when I was

682
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:45,319
Speaker 1: about five, we were still there, and um, I want

683
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:47,440
Speaker 1: to go see a Charlie Chaplin movie. And my favorite

684
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,360
Speaker 1: movie theater. By this point I had worked on a

685
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:54,360
Speaker 1: Charlie Chaplin act in my room. Um, and uh it

686
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:56,759
Speaker 1: was my favorite theater because there was live musical accompaniment.

687
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:59,279
Speaker 1: There was so often when you see a silent movie

688
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 1: in a theater they'll they'll play like a soundtrack that

689
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:04,960
Speaker 1: was prerecorded, or sometimes just an organ player that had recorded,

690
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:07,320
Speaker 1: you know, something for it. But the live move musical

691
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:10,319
Speaker 1: accompaniment is one of the greatest experiences if you can

692
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 1: possibly do it. To watch a silent movie that it's

693
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:17,759
Speaker 1: it's great because they improvise, and um, Fats Waller this

694
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:20,360
Speaker 1: is the offshoot. But Fats Waller particularly was supposed to

695
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 1: be really particularly good at it. Um. Anyway, we went

696
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:27,919
Speaker 1: to go see I can't remember what I was five.

697
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:34,240
Speaker 1: Um and uh, the the film burned, got caught burned,

698
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:38,799
Speaker 1: and everybody booed, and the lights came up, and I

699
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 1: thought to myself, nobody boozed Charlie Chaplin and I ran

700
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:47,439
Speaker 1: in between the screen and the audience and I did

701
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 1: my Charlie Chaplain act and um the organ player played.

702
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:55,279
Speaker 1: Uh the musical company meant for my little dance, which

703
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 1: I was very happy about. And uh um I did

704
00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 1: a role at the end and daff my panamiam hat

705
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 1: and I got a standing ovation and uh that is

706
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:15,759
Speaker 1: the reason I'm an actor. Wow, that that why it's like, oh, oh,

707
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 1: you know, I went on a field trip and got

708
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 1: bitten by a spider and got boring compared to that. Yeah,

709
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:27,919
Speaker 1: and what's crazy, This is what's a little weird about it.

710
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:31,839
Speaker 1: I forgot. I forgot that that happened. Um And then

711
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 1: I went to go see Chaplin Um with Robert Downey Jr.

712
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 1: And when he is five years old, his mother is

713
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 1: a vaudeville performer and has a nervous breakdown on stage

714
00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 1: and the audience starts booing her, and he thinks to himself,

715
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:53,680
Speaker 1: nobody boozs my mother. And he jumps up and does

716
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 1: a panamam act. And that was the first time he

717
00:41:56,000 --> 00:42:01,760
Speaker 1: did a panamiam act. And um, my memory came back

718
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 1: and I was sitting in the theater and oh my god. Yeah,

719
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:13,720
Speaker 1: like it was really and so you were you were Proust,

720
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 1: Prust just took a bite the mat everything and I

721
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:21,920
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, it was wow, that's so cool. So now,

722
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 1: how do you go from being a mime to being

723
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 1: a voice box? Well, you gotta walk against you. I

724
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 1: think that. Um, I just wanted to do whatever it took.

725
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:35,760
Speaker 1: My attitude has always been just that I want to work.

726
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:38,360
Speaker 1: I just want to work. I never wanted to be

727
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:41,239
Speaker 1: a star. I never wanted to be anything other than

728
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 1: a working actor. So to me, UM, it's just as

729
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:50,399
Speaker 1: exciting for me to get a voice over part than

730
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:54,440
Speaker 1: it is to get a movie or on a TV show. UM.

731
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:57,400
Speaker 1: I just love it. I love it. I've never loved

732
00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 1: anything as much. UM. It literally is the greatest thing

733
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 1: you can do standing up. Um It's it's really really

734
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 1: fun and UM I recommend it to everyone. Express yourself,

735
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:11,359
Speaker 1: go for it. I love what you're doing and reaching

736
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 1: out and trying to find other people to do it.

737
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:15,359
Speaker 1: I wish everybody was an artist. Would be great. We'd

738
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:17,520
Speaker 1: probably eat a lot less because there wouldn't be much,

739
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:20,880
Speaker 1: but I just wish everybody could. There be a lot

740
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 1: of waiters. So I know it's a tough career and

741
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:32,799
Speaker 1: I but I think it's a beautiful thing. Create art

742
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:37,000
Speaker 1: and to uh to express yourself and and just realize

743
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 1: what you have. I mean, not to to trigger your

744
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:44,759
Speaker 1: uncontest like creating a Fisker tune in that way and

745
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 1: discover something about yourself that you do. You like, where

746
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 1: did that come from? I don't know. I mean, I

747
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:50,880
Speaker 1: don't know where that. I just like came out and

748
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:53,239
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, look at that. Greg tells a

749
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 1: story about beast boy, that was his first audition, and um,

750
00:43:58,239 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 1: the voice just came out as it was, and as

751
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:02,960
Speaker 1: it's he's played for how many years now, it's like

752
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:05,719
Speaker 1: twenty years. He just walked in. He was like, dude,

753
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:10,960
Speaker 1: I was just yeah, I was gonna be yeah and

754
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:14,000
Speaker 1: so yeah, yeah he discovered that was a perfect impression,

755
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:16,640
Speaker 1: by the way. Um and he just discovered he just

756
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 1: discovered that, and um, it just happened. It's like you

757
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:24,480
Speaker 1: you find something within yourself, like an island that you

758
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 1: didn't know it was there, and you you go get

759
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:30,440
Speaker 1: on look at that bringing it all back. Great. No,

760
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:35,319
Speaker 1: he didn't say anything. No, it's okay. So we do

761
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:36,680
Speaker 1: we do have to get in a little bit of

762
00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:39,799
Speaker 1: this because we do. We we we we have both

763
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:43,440
Speaker 1: worn the cowl. What so, what was it like to

764
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:46,360
Speaker 1: get cast as Batman and braving the bold, which is uh,

765
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 1: you know, it got some of the acclaim it deserved

766
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:51,760
Speaker 1: when it was on the air and die hard fans

767
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 1: were are still die hard fans, but it's now getting

768
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:56,440
Speaker 1: more acclaimed because people are seeing it for what it was,

769
00:44:56,480 --> 00:45:01,240
Speaker 1: which was brilliant. So what was like to get because

770
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:03,719
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember, but you and I

771
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 1: both found out we were on that show, like on

772
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 1: basically on the same day, and it was a day

773
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 1: we were recording secret Saturdays. Um. So we looked at

774
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 1: each other and I was like, I was excited about something,

775
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:15,279
Speaker 1: and you're excited about something but you're not allowed to

776
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:17,840
Speaker 1: tell anybody what it is yet. And then we start talking.

777
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:21,479
Speaker 1: It's like we're excited about the same thing. So yeah,

778
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 1: were you how how you know? Again? What was it like?

779
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 1: Auditioning and then finding out that you were going to

780
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:28,239
Speaker 1: be the next Batman? So auditioning, that's when I met

781
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 1: James Tucker for the first time. Andrea and I had

782
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:35,520
Speaker 1: already done a show together. Um, and auditioning, Uh, you know,

783
00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 1: I just came in with a bad impression of Kevin,

784
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 1: like a really bad impression. So good though, and uh,

785
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 1: and I was like, this is how we do Batman

786
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:47,920
Speaker 1: because I sound like Kevin. And when I heard myself back,

787
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 1: I was like, don't sound like Kevin and all because

788
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:51,440
Speaker 1: I got my own things, but I thought I was

789
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:55,359
Speaker 1: doing Kevin. But anyway, Um, so I didn't quite get

790
00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:58,319
Speaker 1: the tone of the show immediately, and I didn't know

791
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 1: why they wanted somebody that largely does comedy like yourself,

792
00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:06,279
Speaker 1: Um to do Batman because Batman is like, you know,

793
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:08,440
Speaker 1: how much revenge are we talking about? A lot a

794
00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:12,439
Speaker 1: lot of events. That's the entire premise of the show.

795
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 1: He's literally never going to get over it exactly. Um.

796
00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:23,279
Speaker 1: But yeah, so I didn't know. I didn't know if

797
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:25,839
Speaker 1: it was going to I was like mystified that why

798
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:29,839
Speaker 1: I was cast. But but I was ecstatic because it is,

799
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:33,520
Speaker 1: without exaggeration, the best part. It's just the best part.

800
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 1: You know. One of the things that is great about

801
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 1: acting is when you start to think like somebody else, um,

802
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 1: where you actually become someone else and it's a My

803
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 1: acting teacher, that was my mentor. Um, he said, it's

804
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 1: a breaking through. He said it like this, He would go,

805
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:57,879
Speaker 1: it's breaking through once you realize it's no longer you,

806
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:02,160
Speaker 1: it is someone else in your head. I was like, yeah,

807
00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:04,400
Speaker 1: that's he wasn't Russian, by the way, he was just

808
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:07,279
Speaker 1: like a guy. But this is how he spoke where

809
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:10,160
Speaker 1: he was problem. It was weird. Um but anyway, uh

810
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:15,239
Speaker 1: he uh, he's the Batman is the greatest in that

811
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:17,919
Speaker 1: way because that backstory, the revenge that I was making

812
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:23,120
Speaker 1: fun of is is him recovering from a traumatic incident

813
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 1: over and over and over again, which is what most

814
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 1: people that have really gone through trauma have to do. Um.

815
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:35,239
Speaker 1: Is it's a beautiful story. And um I'll still never

816
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:39,040
Speaker 1: forget the day when we were recording in the Chill

817
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:42,960
Speaker 1: over Night when a batman met Joe Chill, who killed

818
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:46,680
Speaker 1: his parents, and uh, you know, we're recording it in

819
00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 1: that semi circle and uh and I'm talking to the

820
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:57,680
Speaker 1: killer of my parents and I just started crying and

821
00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 1: I realized, oh my god, I broken through. I'm now

822
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:07,080
Speaker 1: Bruce Wayne, Bruce Wayne. I've done it this. I feel this.

823
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:13,240
Speaker 1: I really feel this. And umaire so bonus exactly. Yeah,

824
00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 1: and uh and I can make like all kinds of things.

825
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:20,520
Speaker 1: But anyway, uh no, it's it. The acting world is

826
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:23,000
Speaker 1: just a fascinating thing because it's like to to tap

827
00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:26,320
Speaker 1: into that kind of trauma just for a brief period

828
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 1: of time. I mean, this is why not to bring

829
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:30,680
Speaker 1: up politics for for too long. But I saw an

830
00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:33,719
Speaker 1: interesting question on Twitter where they asked why so many

831
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:38,239
Speaker 1: people in show business are your Democrats? And I think

832
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:42,040
Speaker 1: it's because of empathy. I think it's because we can

833
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 1: look at somebody else's story and go, oh, I see

834
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:50,320
Speaker 1: where you're coming from. And uh, that's the only politics

835
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:51,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring up in the whole thing. But I

836
00:48:51,719 --> 00:48:53,880
Speaker 1: think that's what it is because you have to in

837
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:57,400
Speaker 1: order to tell somebody's character's story, well, you have to

838
00:48:57,440 --> 00:49:00,120
Speaker 1: figure out why they're doing what they're doing. I'm you

839
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:02,840
Speaker 1: can't just play a bad guy, and you can't just

840
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:05,680
Speaker 1: do a funny voice of you know that guy, I'm evil.

841
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:08,239
Speaker 1: You have to why is this guy doing it? You know,

842
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:10,480
Speaker 1: as they say, everybody's the hero in their own story.

843
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:16,600
Speaker 1: Uh you know. Um my son Sebastian when we were

844
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:21,719
Speaker 1: watching teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which which one? Which version?

845
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:26,439
Speaker 1: Which one? Original animated version? So he goes, um, dad

846
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 1: a shredder and I go, yes, uh, Shredder is the

847
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 1: bad guy and he goes, no, dada, Shredder is the

848
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:46,720
Speaker 1: other sense, And I was like, whoa, that's that's whoa? Whoa? Yeah,

849
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:52,280
Speaker 1: Shredder wants what he wants and he also is something.

850
00:49:52,640 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 1: He is an example for everyone to learn from. What

851
00:49:55,600 --> 00:49:58,720
Speaker 1: can you learn from Shredder? As if you're a mutant

852
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:01,759
Speaker 1: ninja turtle, he's the other he's your other sinset and

853
00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:04,839
Speaker 1: it's like, Uh, that's that's like the way to think

854
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:08,000
Speaker 1: about it. Every time subsequently that I've played a bad guy,

855
00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:10,719
Speaker 1: I've always tried to think, like, what does this guy

856
00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:14,399
Speaker 1: really want? I'm I think I can say it now. Yes,

857
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:18,160
Speaker 1: I can't say it out. Um, I'm the new Transformers

858
00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:22,640
Speaker 1: bad guy and no great part. And it's very straight,

859
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:25,240
Speaker 1: like there's no jokes anywhere in it, like even remote

860
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:30,120
Speaker 1: Welcome to the world that Transformers. Yet again, it's really cool.

861
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:32,560
Speaker 1: I'm totally excited about it. I really can you say

862
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:35,480
Speaker 1: the character name yet? Or no, I'm not allowed animated

863
00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:39,560
Speaker 1: it's animated or screen. We won't say the name yet,

864
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:41,480
Speaker 1: but that is you know, it's really cool. There's gonna

865
00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:43,200
Speaker 1: be an action figure, which of course I totally love.

866
00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:47,200
Speaker 1: But anyway, um, it's like what does this guy want

867
00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:50,920
Speaker 1: and why does he want it? And um, you know

868
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:55,400
Speaker 1: when is like and you know, talking to the writers

869
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 1: about it and really like, let's get into it. Let's

870
00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:01,040
Speaker 1: let's talk about it. Why why is doing this? And

871
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:05,399
Speaker 1: I just I love it. It's it's beautiful. Yeah, well there.

872
00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:07,120
Speaker 1: It's so it's so interesting that you said that because

873
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:08,920
Speaker 1: I was watching something the other day. I think it

874
00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:12,239
Speaker 1: was actually inside the NFL UM or something along those

875
00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:15,680
Speaker 1: lines where they were they were interviewing one of the

876
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:18,719
Speaker 1: UM football players whose brother has been in prison for

877
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:21,080
Speaker 1: most of his life, and they said, what do you

878
00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:22,399
Speaker 1: think of your brother? And he said, he's my role

879
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:23,800
Speaker 1: model And they said, how can your role model be

880
00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:25,399
Speaker 1: somebody's been in prison your whole life? And he said,

881
00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:27,680
Speaker 1: a role model can still teach you what not to be.

882
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:31,960
Speaker 1: And it was that really interesting thing about he's taught

883
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:33,960
Speaker 1: me the life I need to have, because he's taught

884
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:37,359
Speaker 1: me the life I shouldn't. And it's that same kind

885
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:39,560
Speaker 1: of thing you're talking about where with the Shredder, where

886
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 1: it's like you do it's the two halves of the point.

887
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:43,319
Speaker 1: Oh my god, we can get philosophical about the whole

888
00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:48,680
Speaker 1: this is. This has been a great episode of I

889
00:51:48,719 --> 00:51:50,200
Speaker 1: hear voices. I'm sorry that we have to wrap it

890
00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:53,720
Speaker 1: up to at least for part one of the eleven

891
00:51:53,719 --> 00:51:57,879
Speaker 1: part series that we're doing UM and now Rocky Road

892
00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:05,399
Speaker 1: versus Cookies. And that's right. I know when I get

893
00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:07,960
Speaker 1: to the meat. No, so before we wrap up here.

894
00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 1: Uh So, other than Transformers, is there anything else you

895
00:52:12,239 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 1: have coming out that you want to talk about and

896
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:17,160
Speaker 1: also social wise work. Can people find you? Um My Twitter?

897
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:22,160
Speaker 1: I think I can't remember what it is, but I'm

898
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:24,840
Speaker 1: on the Twitter. It's not first then I'm also on

899
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:30,120
Speaker 1: uh the Insta. But you know, um my Insta. You're

900
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:32,960
Speaker 1: gonna have to like accept the fact that it's just flowers.

901
00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:35,719
Speaker 1: It's just flowers in my car. But that's amazing. Ye.

902
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:38,839
Speaker 1: I'm not very cute, so I don't I don't post

903
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:42,000
Speaker 1: pictures on myself. So it's it's flowers, and I just

904
00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:46,400
Speaker 1: hope that it's Yeah, um, I think it brings you

905
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:49,600
Speaker 1: can meditate on the flower for a long period time. Um.

906
00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:52,120
Speaker 1: But anyway, Oh, you're by the way, you are at

907
00:52:52,480 --> 00:52:55,440
Speaker 1: just for the record, you're at Vader Underscore Dietrick on

908
00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:58,759
Speaker 1: Twitter underscore. What is the underscore? There's also a John.

909
00:52:58,920 --> 00:53:01,319
Speaker 1: There's like a line, there's like your name and then

910
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:04,960
Speaker 1: a line and then your last name. Yeah. I think

911
00:53:04,960 --> 00:53:08,640
Speaker 1: I was just randomly assigned that thing, and I didn't know, um,

912
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:10,799
Speaker 1: like what I was supposed to do. Like I didn't

913
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: know you could do like the numbers or whatever. But

914
00:53:13,239 --> 00:53:15,080
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I don't know how many people,

915
00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:17,239
Speaker 1: how many diebrick baters there are that would be weird.

916
00:53:17,520 --> 00:53:20,160
Speaker 1: But anyway, UM, so yeah, no please, Um, but I

917
00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:25,399
Speaker 1: don't know what else I can plug because I I yeah,

918
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:28,319
Speaker 1: there's there's stuff coming in, but they like to as

919
00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:30,000
Speaker 1: you know, they like to roll it out on their

920
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:33,399
Speaker 1: own time frame. And then they're like, why aren't you publicizing?

921
00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:39,040
Speaker 1: And I'm like, dude, you told me not. I literally

922
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:41,160
Speaker 1: don't know my Twitter hands. What do you want? Don

923
00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:44,600
Speaker 1: give me a green light? That's all you need. Um.

924
00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:47,040
Speaker 1: But so, um but yeah, I know I got other

925
00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:50,560
Speaker 1: things going on, but you know, um, I've been I'm

926
00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:54,840
Speaker 1: just getting back into doing on camera stuff next month

927
00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:59,239
Speaker 1: because my son left for college. And uh, I was

928
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 1: totally like Cats in the Cradle and the Silver Spoon, dude,

929
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:07,880
Speaker 1: and and realized that American Housewife got canceled at just

930
00:54:08,040 --> 00:54:12,160
Speaker 1: the right moment for my family because I was able

931
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:14,160
Speaker 1: to spend time with my kid in a real and

932
00:54:14,200 --> 00:54:18,480
Speaker 1: sustained way, and um, it was really beautiful and a

933
00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:22,720
Speaker 1: great opportunity for me. And then when on camera stuff

934
00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:24,279
Speaker 1: came up, they were like, um, do you want to

935
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:27,080
Speaker 1: do a show in London? And I was like, no,

936
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:32,480
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't want to do that. I have

937
00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:37,760
Speaker 1: been very very blessed that I don't have to. And um,

938
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:40,200
Speaker 1: as long as I keep my hours up as far

939
00:54:40,239 --> 00:54:42,360
Speaker 1: as SAG is concerned, and we can get our insurance,

940
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:45,880
Speaker 1: which is part of it. Let's face it, we have

941
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:50,320
Speaker 1: to because residuals don't count towards residuals anymore. I'm sorry,

942
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:52,600
Speaker 1: towards our insurance anymore. So I have to keep working.

943
00:54:53,040 --> 00:54:56,560
Speaker 1: But I'm like streaming count Oh, come on, as you know,

944
00:54:56,760 --> 00:54:59,440
Speaker 1: it's like it doesn't you have to put in those

945
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:01,839
Speaker 1: that time, So you have to keep working. But but

946
00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:05,120
Speaker 1: I'm yeah, I'm very happily just doing the voiceover stuff

947
00:55:05,239 --> 00:55:07,680
Speaker 1: for a while because I can pop out and pop

948
00:55:07,719 --> 00:55:09,799
Speaker 1: back in and then, you know, and still be with

949
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:13,360
Speaker 1: my kids. Um. But yeah, he's his first day, official

950
00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:18,759
Speaker 1: day of colleges today, and wow, he's gonna do great. Yeah.

951
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 1: So anyway, I was in his bedroom smelling his pillow

952
00:55:21,680 --> 00:55:25,200
Speaker 1: earlier today. So I'm like, not doing great, creepy at all.

953
00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:28,479
Speaker 1: That's not creepy at all. That's not I'm not doing

954
00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:33,080
Speaker 1: great about it. You're okay, You're doing great. You raised

955
00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:35,120
Speaker 1: him right now, he's going to the next chapter of

956
00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:36,920
Speaker 1: his life. You did it exactly right. You're going to

957
00:55:36,960 --> 00:55:39,160
Speaker 1: be depressed as hell, but he's going to have a blast.

958
00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:50,399
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's that's a five and a three year old. Yeah, yeah,

959
00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:54,279
Speaker 1: it's it doesn't it's it's interesting because it's like how

960
00:55:54,360 --> 00:55:56,239
Speaker 1: much joy does it bring you as opposed to how

961
00:55:56,280 --> 00:55:59,040
Speaker 1: much pain? But it it just it is. It's like, yeah,

962
00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:05,200
Speaker 1: it is. It's so worthy. Journey, journey, Nothing worthwhile is easy.

963
00:56:04,560 --> 00:56:08,799
Speaker 1: And will you say you don't yes, please please. It's

964
00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:12,120
Speaker 1: the biggest cliche in the world. But really, carpet dium, Um,

965
00:56:12,480 --> 00:56:17,040
Speaker 1: it does go by faster than you think, and um,

966
00:56:17,719 --> 00:56:20,160
Speaker 1: everybody says that, and it's incredibly true. Like I mean,

967
00:56:20,160 --> 00:56:24,480
Speaker 1: you know, the same day that my son started, uh college,

968
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:27,879
Speaker 1: I had to drop my daughter off at her last

969
00:56:27,960 --> 00:56:31,240
Speaker 1: year of high school and uh, you know, she looked

970
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:38,799
Speaker 1: over it. I was like, she just held my hand.

971
00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:40,680
Speaker 1: She was very sweet. She's a girl, so she was

972
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 1: very sweet about it. You also have two of of

973
00:56:43,680 --> 00:56:47,480
Speaker 1: the nicest, most talented kids around, so you know they're

974
00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:50,160
Speaker 1: going to be fine. I think, I think, will I

975
00:56:50,160 --> 00:56:51,960
Speaker 1: think you need to like go take d trick out

976
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:57,600
Speaker 1: for ice cream later a little bit. There's nothing like

977
00:56:57,680 --> 00:57:00,480
Speaker 1: sitting at a nice ice cream shop as he's weeping

978
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:05,919
Speaker 1: horribly into his Sunday. Just look at you're out going.

979
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:09,880
Speaker 1: He's okay, don't worry. Please gonna sul It's gonna be alright.

980
00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:17,080
Speaker 1: It's alright, si frea um sorry. Thank you so much

981
00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:19,560
Speaker 1: for this was so much fun with a great idea

982
00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:22,640
Speaker 1: of co a show and I really enjoyed it. Well,

983
00:57:22,680 --> 00:57:26,840
Speaker 1: hopefully will you come back U and mentor maybe one

984
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:28,960
Speaker 1: of our young actors who is going to going to

985
00:57:29,080 --> 00:57:32,160
Speaker 1: try to win this contest back and you know, do

986
00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:34,680
Speaker 1: a couple of sessions where they can learn from the

987
00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:37,000
Speaker 1: best and figure out out what they want in their life.

988
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:40,240
Speaker 1: And that would be really really I would love to

989
00:57:40,280 --> 00:57:44,280
Speaker 1: do that is awesome. Thank you so much. And then

990
00:57:44,360 --> 00:57:46,600
Speaker 1: just just to make sure you're qualified to do it,

991
00:57:47,080 --> 00:57:50,160
Speaker 1: can you can you say super awesome contest to become

992
00:57:50,200 --> 00:57:52,360
Speaker 1: the next big voice actor for us? Wait say one

993
00:57:52,360 --> 00:57:55,919
Speaker 1: more time, then super awesome contest to become the next

994
00:57:55,920 --> 00:57:59,160
Speaker 1: big voice actor. Super awesome contest to become the next

995
00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:03,080
Speaker 1: voice over act. I almost slipped into Batman today. You

996
00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:07,680
Speaker 1: did almost a little like skirting Batman. You also added

997
00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:10,560
Speaker 1: voice over where it's just voice actors. You're not going

998
00:58:10,560 --> 00:58:14,480
Speaker 1: to get the role. I told you I haven't been.

999
00:58:14,520 --> 00:58:17,600
Speaker 1: I don't have to memorize anything in a while. Dietrich,

1000
00:58:17,680 --> 00:58:23,959
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us. I don't Yes,

1001
00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:27,919
Speaker 1: you're gonna be fine. Pictures and some flowers and you're

1002
00:58:27,920 --> 00:58:30,080
Speaker 1: going to be good, my friend. I promise to be

1003
00:58:30,320 --> 00:58:34,440
Speaker 1: so proud of your kids. They are remarkable human beings

1004
00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:38,720
Speaker 1: that are going to do amazing things on this that far.

1005
00:58:39,400 --> 00:58:42,120
Speaker 1: But thank you guys, thanks for including me. Thank you

1006
00:58:42,160 --> 00:58:46,000
Speaker 1: to hide your family, and let's talk soon. Bye bye

1007
00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:52,240
Speaker 1: bye dich Wow, Oh, everybody, that is the kind of

1008
00:58:52,280 --> 00:58:54,680
Speaker 1: thing you need to I'm gonna be totally honest with you.

1009
00:58:54,760 --> 00:58:57,040
Speaker 1: I wake up some days with this business that is

1010
00:58:57,120 --> 00:58:58,760
Speaker 1: changing that I don't know what I want to do,

1011
00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:01,320
Speaker 1: that I'm not sure that I have the same love

1012
00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:02,840
Speaker 1: for it that I do. And then you talk to

1013
00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:06,720
Speaker 1: somebody like Dietrich who just finds the joy and everything

1014
00:59:07,320 --> 00:59:09,040
Speaker 1: and it turns your whole day around. He's that's the

1015
00:59:09,080 --> 00:59:10,520
Speaker 1: kind of guy he is, and that's that kind of

1016
00:59:10,520 --> 00:59:12,280
Speaker 1: conversation that you want to have. And if you are

1017
00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:14,560
Speaker 1: feeling down about yourself, you're not going to make it

1018
00:59:14,560 --> 00:59:16,080
Speaker 1: in this business. You're not gonna make it in life.

1019
00:59:16,120 --> 00:59:18,520
Speaker 1: You're not gonna man listen to somebody like that, because

1020
00:59:18,560 --> 00:59:21,240
Speaker 1: he does kind of make the sunshine on a cloudy day,

1021
00:59:21,280 --> 00:59:25,160
Speaker 1: doesn't He's not incredible? I was, I was really, um,

1022
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:28,520
Speaker 1: my mind was blown several times during this episode. I

1023
00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:32,480
Speaker 1: think he is a joy and I think he's very inspirational.

1024
00:59:32,920 --> 00:59:37,520
Speaker 1: And you don't think like, oh voice actor, you know perspective,

1025
00:59:37,600 --> 00:59:41,520
Speaker 1: they just do funny voices. But everyone that we've interviewed

1026
00:59:41,560 --> 00:59:45,000
Speaker 1: has had such an amazing like origin story and you know,

1027
00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:49,280
Speaker 1: love of their craft and just sheer camaraderie with us

1028
00:59:49,480 --> 00:59:54,280
Speaker 1: that you know they may know you will sometimes like Sean, Yeah,

1029
00:59:54,680 --> 00:59:57,400
Speaker 1: it's like a shared love that we all have um

1030
00:59:57,440 --> 00:59:59,560
Speaker 1: for the same thing. And and all of you listening

1031
00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:02,880
Speaker 1: at home, like, we love you too, and we're excited

1032
01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:05,680
Speaker 1: to continue to engage with you as a community of

1033
01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:09,480
Speaker 1: I hear voices, uh fans and um, you know, we

1034
01:00:09,520 --> 01:00:11,920
Speaker 1: hope you enjoyed today. Thanks so much. Yeah, thank you

1035
01:00:11,960 --> 01:00:14,680
Speaker 1: so much. And uh, as we're leaving, you know, we've

1036
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:16,520
Speaker 1: been we've been publicizing it quite a bit that we

1037
01:00:16,560 --> 01:00:18,440
Speaker 1: are going to be doing the super awesome contest to

1038
01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:20,520
Speaker 1: become the next big voice actor. We're obviously getting all

1039
01:00:20,560 --> 01:00:22,080
Speaker 1: of our ducks in a row, but we're thinking it's

1040
01:00:22,120 --> 01:00:24,920
Speaker 1: going to be sometime October November. But hit us up

1041
01:00:24,920 --> 01:00:26,720
Speaker 1: if you want to know more about the contest and

1042
01:00:26,880 --> 01:00:29,640
Speaker 1: uh everywhere you know, all the questions that you have,

1043
01:00:29,680 --> 01:00:31,720
Speaker 1: our questions that hopefully we're going to be able to

1044
01:00:31,720 --> 01:00:34,280
Speaker 1: answer very very soon. So Christie, where can everybody reach us?

1045
01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:38,200
Speaker 1: So we're on TikTok and Instagram. Um TikTok is I

1046
01:00:38,240 --> 01:00:40,600
Speaker 1: Hear Voices podcast and we're really trying to grow that

1047
01:00:40,720 --> 01:00:43,560
Speaker 1: and we we do lots of fun little cutdowns and

1048
01:00:43,560 --> 01:00:46,200
Speaker 1: and things there. Um, So so go ahead and and

1049
01:00:46,240 --> 01:00:49,600
Speaker 1: go find us and start to uh make us a

1050
01:00:49,600 --> 01:00:52,800
Speaker 1: part of your scrolling habit. Yeah, and let us know

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Speaker 1: if you like what you're hearing, if you want to

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Speaker 1: change what you're hearing, if there's certain things that we're

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Speaker 1: not addressing that you think we should be, and also

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Speaker 1: what you're looking for or two in the Christy, why

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Speaker 1: don't you say the name of the contest? Oh no,

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Speaker 1: why are you making me do this again? We did

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Speaker 1: this last week? Come on, roll it out, let's finish.

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Speaker 1: Let's let's finish it up for amazing contest to become

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Speaker 1: the world's next voiceover. No not super awesome, super the

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Speaker 1: super awesome contest to become the world's next voiceover. No,

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Speaker 1: I know it. It's the super awesome contest to become

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Speaker 1: the next big voiceover actor. Yes, yes, we just have

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Speaker 1: voice actor. But that's close enough. You were close by

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Speaker 1: the end by for the record and for everybody out

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Speaker 1: there listening. I literally have it written next to me

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Speaker 1: and I have to look down at it every single

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Speaker 1: and I kind of just like winging it. To be honest,

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Speaker 1: I love it too. That's my favorite thing ever. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for joining us. And if you think

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Speaker 1: you got what it takes to stand behind the microphone,

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Speaker 1: then come and put your voices where your mouth is.

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Speaker 1: Thanks every buddy. I Hear Voices as hosted by Wilfred

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Speaker 1: l and Christy Carlson Romano. Executive produced by Wilfredell, Brendan Rooney,

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Speaker 1: Amy Sugarman and Vicky Ernst Chang. Our executive in charge

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Speaker 1: of production is Danielle Romo. Our producer is Lorraine Vera

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Speaker 1: Weez and our editor slash engineer is Brian Burton. And

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Speaker 1: that was my announcer voice. Some side effects of listening

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Speaker 1: to I Hear Voices are sore abs from hilarity, falling

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Speaker 1: down the Coco Melon rabbit hole, sneezing due to mass nostalgia,

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Speaker 1: and hugs. Follow I Hear Voices wherever you listen to

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Speaker 1: podcasts so you don't miss any of the amazing voices.

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Speaker 1: Be sure to follow us on Instagram and TikTok at

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Speaker 1: I Hear Voices podcast. To see the video stream, subscribe

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

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Speaker 1: on my space omeigal Vine, Lime Wire. Hey I'm a napster. Okay,

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Speaker 1: well let's teach you about the Internet, the who