WEBVTT - The Voice of Diedrich Bader 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:04.200 Hey, Christy, Hey Will, how are you. I'm doing pretty good. 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:07.840 We have a great guest today. Yeah, I'm really really excited. 0:00:07.880 --> 0:00:09.479 This is a man I've known for many, many years, 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:11.720 and he is truly one of the best in the business, 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:14.920 not just voice over, but on camera as well and 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:19.120 human being. Yeah, he's a great guy. Talk about inspiration. 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:21.280 Will wait to hear this one, everybody. He is an 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:26.079 amazing person, an incredible actor, and just so inspirational. We 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:28.560 can't wait to hear from him. Who's joining us today, Christy. 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:35.840 Guys is Dietrich mad Hi, how are you? I'm okay. Yeah, 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:40.360 I'm okay. Hey Christy, okay, I'm okay. Hello. Thank you 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:44.199 for coming. Oh yeah, pleasure. We are going to be 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:45.879 I don't know if you know anything about our podcast, 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:48.159 but we just talked about different ice cream flavors for 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:56.680 an hour. I'm glad you came on too. Oh, Dietrich bad, 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:59.600 thank you so much for joining us on. I hear 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:03.480 voice is. Apparently you guys are very good friends. I 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:07.160 did not know that everything do any research. I just 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:09.600 said anything for Will. Now I realized I'm going to 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:12.160 talk about ice cream for an hour. This is this 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:15.560 is this is not the thing to do a little 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:18.800 bit of a little bit of research, A tiny bit 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:23.080 of research. Wait, so how do you guys know each other? 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:25.480 I'm seriously, I didn't know. I was trying to think 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:27.920 about that. Teacher. Can you remember the first show we 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:31.440 did together, because I actually remember the exact episode. Um, 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:36.080 it was the Zeta Project if I remember, well it 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:38.800 was it was it was the Batman Beyond episode that 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:41.760 pect that's set up, but it was like a backdoor 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:45.160 pilot for the Zata Project. And uh and Will was 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:48.360 this is that was the last season of the of 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:55.040 your show? Right? Yeah? What is a backdoor pilot for 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:58.480 people that may not know? Oh yeah, um sure, that's uh. 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.720 That's when you introduced characters that are going to be 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:04.160 in a series that has already been picked up. So 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:06.720 they basically they already know that it's going They just 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:10.600 want to do an establish show like Will show and say, well, 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:13.480 here's this other character. Wow, wouldn't that be amazing if 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:15.400 he had his own show? And then they're like, wait 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:23.280 a minute, he does. What are the chances of that's incredible? Now? 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:25.800 How obviously people and we're going to get into this 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:27.600 because that's the other thing you probably should have done 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:31.400 some research about it's an eleven hour show. UM. So 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:34.200 uh yeah, so we're here all day, We're in for 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:35.800 the long haul. You got that, you got the whole 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:41.119 the thing about bringing water and so every we're gonna 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:44.080 get into your on camera stuff, which again is nice, 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:49.320 is obviously extensive. But by that episode where I met you, 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:51.400 had you been doing a lot of v O by 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:54.120 that point. Uh No, I was pretty new to the world. 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:59.519 I started with just a guest star spot. Jamie Thomason 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:05.919 brought me in for um, uh Gargoyles, and I had 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:10.120 done some things. Yeah, he's great. He really started my career. Um, 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:14.040 but I had done some things, and um, I didn't. 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:16.720 I did some guest star spots for Andrea Romano, who 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:19.000 did both series of the series that Will was just 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:22.280 talking about in Zata Project and um, and then she 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:25.800 brought me into audition for the Data Project and that 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:27.600 was That was the first time I was a regular 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:29.880 on anything, and I was the lead and it was 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:35.160 very very different from me, and um, you know it was. 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:38.880 It was really fascinating being a regular on an animated show. 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:41.480 I mean because it's like, um, first of all, the 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:45.280 way Andrea records like a radio play. Was like a 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:55.680 dream because it was Zike Freed shut up. Oh my god, 0:03:55.720 --> 0:04:01.600 it's amazing. Is Roy there to calm him down. He's 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:16.200 actually named after the Get Smart character by um So anyway, 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:19.040 so yeah, that was that was really a fascinating process 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:23.320 and and uh and something I really truly loved. UM. 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:26.200 I would record it on Wednesday mornings. We did the 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:28.200 Drew Carey Show. I was then on a show called 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:30.680 The Drew Carey Show that we shot on Tuesday nights, 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:33.560 and then uh, and then I would come in Wednesday 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.920 morning and and uh and do this show. And then 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:40.120 I would go to um the read through of The 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:41.919 Drew Carey Show. So it was like it was like 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.320 a dream. Although I will say I don't think I 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:51.040 did a single Zeta project without a hangover why so 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:53.680 needless to say, we won't be talking about specific episodes. 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:59.200 That's all kind of it. That's I mean, that's yeah, 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:01.479 that's the way it was. It was because when we 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:04.440 did Batman Beyond, we did it Thursday morning, and I 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:07.200 would go right from from recording that episode too, then 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:08.920 we recorded our show we did we taped point me 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:12.160 to all Thursday night, so it was. Yeah. Yeah, So 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:14.279 the story I always tell, which is absolutely true, which 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:16.200 is one of the worst one of the worst days 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:19.719 of my career was the last episode of Batman Beyond 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:21.920 recorded Thursday morning, and then I drove to the last 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:24.080 taping appointment to all that Thursday night. They ended on 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:27.560 the same day. So yeah, it was that was that 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:29.359 was That was a tough Thursday. That was one of 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:36.200 the tougher Thursdays. Did you see Dietrick that day? He did. 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:38.800 He slapped me in the way that nice career jerk, 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:45.240 and then he just walked away after backhanding me. So 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:48.760 from an acting standpoint, yeah, exactly. It well one of 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.280 them every day being friends with Dietrich since has been 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:55.920 a time. Um. So from an acting standpoint, do you 0:05:55.960 --> 0:06:00.080 approach a voiceover character any differently than you'd approach and 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:05.040 on camera character. Um, that's a great question. So, um, 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.840 I don't think you necessarily approach the character a different way, 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:12.120 but you approach um the way that you do it 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:15.480 in a different way. There's just different levels of volume 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:19.239 depending on what format you're in. So if you're on stage, 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:23.119 it's pretty big because you've got an audience that can't 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:25.680 really make out the micro signals that you send, so 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.720 you you you kind of have to build everything bigger. 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:32.640 Then there's then there's like a television um where the 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:37.080 camera's pretty close but it's still not movie screen, Like 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:40.440 you're enormous on the screen and you really should do 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:45.480 very little. Um. But voiceover is like you've got to 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:47.480 turn things up to eleven. You've got to be much 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:52.280 bigger than you think. You can't just think the proper thoughts, um, 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:57.200 you have to really like project UM. There's an old 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:01.080 acting term like indicate, which is basically just indicating what 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:05.000 what you're thinking, and usually that's for Boden, but um, 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:07.680 in voiceover, you kind of have to indicate a little 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:10.160 bit otherwise, like I've worked with so many and you 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:13.640 have too, well, but work with so many. They bring 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.360 in on camera actors a lot into the voiceover world, 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:19.040 kind of for the novelty of it for one thing, 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.520 I think, And the other reason is because they've got 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:24.040 like some heat at that moment or whatever, or maybe 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:26.800 the casting director is just interested in meeting them. I 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:31.119 don't know, but anyway, UM, they tend to be super 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:35.440 flat UM because they're used to camera sticking in their face, 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:38.320 so they're thinking all the right thoughts, they're just not 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:44.520 using their voice as the primary and instrument um. And 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:47.200 they often I'm sure you've noticed this too. Well, they'll like, 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:49.920 when you do a scene together, they'll look at you, 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:55.040 so they'll go they'll go off my Yeah, so I 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:56.520 did that at the start. I did that when I 0:07:56.520 --> 0:08:00.520 started my career, was like, hey, Kevin Conrad, it's not right, 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:07.960 that's not right, let's do it's not exactly. Yeah, got 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:12.920 into the microphone and Kevin Kevin. Kevin had a background 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.640 in Shakespeare. We interviewed him on one of our first episodes, 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.400 and it's funny how you say about the preceni um 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:21.800 and just sort of the medium of which whether you 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:24.280 know it's something like sitcom with your carry and and 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:27.120 how you're projecting for that type of comedy or whatnot. 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:30.160 And then wow, it really is a wonderful point that 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:34.680 you make. Their d n was the first graduate from Juilliard. 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:38.360 You know he went to He was in the first year, 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:41.640 which is cool. Yeah, I don't know if that's if 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:47.640 that's real. I don't know. More more time I spend 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:50.920 with Kevin, the more I think he's just making the 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.360 I'm not sure he was even Batman. If I'm if 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:57.640 I'm honest, I'm not sure he was even Batman. Um. 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:01.040 But that's so that Okay, So you you you're in 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:04.280 that So the first time you ever star in a series, 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:06.400 you and I have very similar origin stories, which we 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:09.439 want to get to your origin story eventually. But where 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.880 the first series you're doing, you're thrown in and you 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:15.720 are instantly working with Andrea Romano and some of the 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:20.360 best in the business. Um, did you know that going 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:22.920 in kind of the team you were being thrown into 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:27.400 or no? Uh no, I don't think I did. And 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:31.720 I also because I was new to the world, UM, 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:37.520 I didn't understand just how incredibly talented. Um people in 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:45.719 the voice over world are. Um because on camera actors, UM, 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:47.679 I'm just gonna be completely honest, some of them are 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:51.760 not entirely please. Yeah, sometimes some of them you're not 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:54.800 entirely sure why they're there. Um. You know, you you 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:57.600 work with them, and you're like, Okay, that's apparently how 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.520 you're going to do that. UM, So I guess we're 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:03.880 gonna have to interesting interesting choice. Let's work around that 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:06.120 is where we're gonna This is what you got, all right, 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.080 so when it comes to my coverage, I'm gonna pretend 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:15.960 that you're amazing exactly, Yeah, because you have to have 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:18.160 to cover your own. But you can't like pretend that 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:21.839 a scene. You can't. You can't say like nobody talks 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:24.200 that way, or you can't, you can't. You just have 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.720 to create. You just you're given what you're given and 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:29.720 you have to just go. Um. But in the voice 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:33.480 over world, to watch somebody like you know, our good 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:41.200 friend John DiMaggio make three different voices in right in 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:44.080 front of you is like, you know, somebody doing a 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:46.440 sleight of hand where they just go frough like that 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:49.040 and they do it, and you like you've watched it happen. 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:51.520 It happened right in front of you, but you still 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:54.040 don't know how it happened. You're like, that's a totally 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:56.240 different person, and that just happened right in front of me, 0:10:57.040 --> 0:10:59.680 Like working with de Bradley Baker, Frank Welker or somebody 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:03.640 that can create, like somebody like that. Yeah, right, those 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:07.520 those three particularly that can make sounds that humans shouldn't 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:10.480 be able to make, and uh, and we just we 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:14.880 accept them because you know, like uh, Frank for example, 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:18.400 Jurassic Park, like we just assumed, oh, that's how dinosaurs sound. 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:24.560 It's like, we don't know how dinosaurs sound. Everybody, you know. 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:27.400 The irony is if you walk around sixty million years ago, 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:30.560 they just sound like Frank Welker, he's talking normally. Yeah, money, 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:34.400 It's like, yeah, hey has everybody telling everybody has everybody? 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:41.079 So you're that's that's the fun part about it. Um Well, 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:44.760 the thing that I the magician um analogy is very 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:47.240 interesting to me because when you when you talk to 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:49.520 a magician about hey, how did you do that? They 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:52.079 can walk you through the mechanics. Some of the voice 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:54.400 over actors can't. Where it's like, how do you do that? 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:57.079 I don't know. I'm just Eric Bowser and you're not. 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.880 Um is kind of the answer, and it's like it's 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:03.480 it's just a talent that comes from nowhere. But it's 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:06.960 also why are you know it? It's growing, thankfully, but 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:10.959 why our pool is so small? Like you walk into 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:13.640 the room and you're gonna know everyone in the room 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:18.280 because I do too. I do too. But I'm glad 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:20.400 that it's getting to be Obviously you and I've talked 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:22.280 about this and that it's getting to be more diversified 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:25.480 and more more people represent it. That's all really good, 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:29.120 but what is not being sacrificed at all is the 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:32.240 quality of the talent. Know that all we can do 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:36.040 is benefit from a widening talent pool. That's absolutely for sure. 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.640 And one thing that I'm really happy about is that uh, 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:44.240 white people are no longer doing people of color UM, 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:46.920 which I always had a problem with. I remember on 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:51.040 one UM show I did UH. I was a regular 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.480 on the show, but they wanted me to do another 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:57.520 voice and it was of an Inuit. Now it's like 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:02.280 they're they're probably aren't deeminy Inuit actors, but there are 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:05.240 a lot of Asian actors that could have been to 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:11.920 do that. And I I was like, uh, I'm uncomfortable 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:14.160 with this and they were like, can you can you 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:15.400 just do it this one time? Maybe it's just a 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:17.559 scratch track, and I'm like, that's not going to happen. 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:20.600 This scratch track doesn't I'm going to record this and 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:22.480 then you're gonna use that is what's going to happen. 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:24.160 When they were like please, and I was like, and 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:26.559 I gave in, I'll be honest with you. Idea, we 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.000 all do we all, we all did, we all did? 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:30.480 You know it? And it's one of those things where 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:32.000 a lot of people don't know that when you walk 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:34.560 into a booth um, what they'll do is they'll hire 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.319 you sometimes to do three voices, and you don't necessarily 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:39.000 know what those voices are going to be when you 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:41.520 get in there, and they want you to sound different. 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:43.320 So it's like, all right, now you're the mayor, do 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:45.040 it with an Indian accent, and you go okay, and 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:47.920 you throw on some horrible Indian accent and then you 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:49.920 walk out going, well, I did my three voices. And 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.560 and it's not until recently when when we've been going, 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:57.760 wait that that wasn't okay, that's that, that's not all right, 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.880 you're no, and it's it's you know, we always talk 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:04.080 about you know, we we always talk about how and 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:05.640 it's one of the things, one of several things we 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:07.720 try to we're trying to do with this show where 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:10.280 we'd like to eventually get the word out there that 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:12.840 these big, huge on camera actors that you're talking about 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:14.680 that are brought in to do some of these voiceovers, 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:17.040 and they're brought in to do huge projects. These big 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:20.000 pis are big Disney Big and Crowd. They should absolutely 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:21.960 do them because there are a ton of fun Every 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:24.600 actor should should be able to experience them. They're wonderful, 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:26.760 but they should go in saying fifty percent of the 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:29.560 cast needs to be regular voice over actors. I'm taking 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:33.080 I want to make sure that fifty of the cast 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:36.440 are hard working journey people voice over actors. So hopefully 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:38.480 we're trying to get that word out. But Dietrich, how 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:42.440 how actually like possible? Is that? Like? How many A 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:45.200 listeners are actually gonna say, oh, I'm not going to 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:49.080 be you know Pixar's new Massive Well yeah, I mean 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:52.000 they're going to be the massive fish or whatever it is, like, 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:55.520 but like, how many of them would actually stand up? 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.080 Do you think, like, how do you make that normalized? 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:02.160 I I think it's a great idea. Well I I 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:04.960 totally appreciate it, But I don't see anybody doing that. 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:10.560 I mean, you know, having known um, having known um 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:16.960 A list actors, Um, they are um. They they live 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.600 in a rarefied world. You know, it's like they I 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:26.840 always compare fame to um Ah Oh my god. Okay, 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.480 so Othello takes place on an island, right, and it 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:33.480 only works because there's there's nobody is coming and going. 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:37.040 Nobody has nobody says to othello, hey dude, you know 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:42.800 this amount is awesome. Nothing's happening there because because there's 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:45.200 nobody coming in. So FAM is like that, you know, 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:48.680 they they're on this island. And UM, as as good 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:52.160 a person as they may be, they have been completely 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:55.480 isolated for many, many years. They simply don't know how 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:59.440 the rest of this the thing works. And UM, we 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:02.880 were just talking about how Andrea Romano reads everything like 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:08.280 a UM radio play. Well, the opposite happens in movies. 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:12.440 You go in by yourself, and UM, you don't know anybody, 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:14.080 and you don't know who else. Wasn't the rest of 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.440 the cast? Um, you know, you just go in. I 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:18.760 mean I remember doing surfs Up and like I think 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:22.440 we had been recording and gone into like maybe the 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:25.920 fifth session, which was probably the sixth month of recording, 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:31.440 before I knew that Jeff Bridges was the star. I'd 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:35.560 seen it twice before I realized, and I was saying, yeah, 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:39.720 I love Jeff Bridges, and I was like smelling the studio. 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:46.680 I get that Jeff Bridges. Yeah. Yeah. When we were 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:50.320 doing with Lisa Shaffer when we were doing Kimpossible. It 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:52.560 was towards the end of the I'm Christie. I'm not 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:54.160 sure I ever even told you. This was towards the 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:57.240 end of our recording series. And I walked outside and 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:00.600 there was Brad Pitt standing out, Yes you have, and 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:04.200 I was like, I'm gonna talk to Brad Pitt, so 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:06.840 I will you know. Well, first of all, he at 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:08.600 the time, I don't know if it's different, but he's 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:11.600 razor thin, which people don't. It's like you see somebody 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:14.240 on screen and they look like they're jacked. He looked 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:16.080 like he was a twenty pounds so can wet and 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:18.440 he's like six four, so he looked like a string bean. 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:20.879 Um And I asked him and like, what are you 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:23.160 doing here? And he was doing the Pirate Treasurer movie 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:26.800 whatever was he was recording for the UM Yeah, yeah, 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:28.359 whatever it was. And I said how long are you recording? 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:29.639 He's like, I don't know, five six days, and you 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:31.199 could tell it was just him in a booth. That 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:33.240 was it. He was recording his parts. He was coming 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:34.480 in when he needs to come in, and he was 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:38.400 taking off. So's there's almost a disconnection from doing voiceover 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:40.560 that you don't get when you're on film. It's like, 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:43.320 here are the yeah, here are the lines, just read it. 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:47.119 So I guess I would Taylor Christie's question then to ask, 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:53.199 how do we stop that disconnect so that the A 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:57.359 list actors realize that it's there are other actors involved 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:00.639 in the project you're doing, and those actors to also 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:04.800 be kind of heralded. Yeah. No, I I honestly don't know. 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:07.640 I thought about this a lot because you know, it's 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:11.200 like his ex wife, Angelina Jolie, for example. I mean 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:13.439 this is not to pick on her, but um, you 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:16.080 know she's in Kung Foop Handa and they paid her 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:19.520 a tremendous amount of money and then Cary did her 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:24.200 voice in the series. Matched Angelina Jolie for Kung Foop Handa? 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:27.400 What did video games? Oh no kidding for the video game? 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:30.719 And then and then as up Car in this series, 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:33.320 and it's like, so hell if I could tell the 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:38.520 difference right exactly? You know, you know who can Bank 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:42.040 of America No exactly five million? And again this is 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:44.120 not to pick on her, her agent or the most 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:46.080 money that they could. This is how the business, what's 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:51.159 their job. But but the kid that watches the movie, 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:55.080 the series and the video game, Christie, has absolutely no idea, 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:59.080 no idea, no interest in seeing an Angelina Jolie movie. 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:01.199 It doesn't they I mean, like my five year old 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:03.720 son wasn't like, Oh, Angelina Jolie movies in that good 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:05.520 in that I'm gonna have to watch that. You know. 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:10.159 It's not that doesn't happen, um, because because like you 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:13.360 have an on camera actor, and um, do you want 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:15.720 to see them on camera? Angelina Jolie looks like Angela 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:17.919 Nina Jolie. That's part of the reason that I want 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:20.240 to see here. Um. I will say though, that there 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:23.840 are some stars that I mean like Jack Black, for example, 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:28.959 in Kung Fu Pandem. I mean, that's an incredible, incredible performance. Now, 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:32.879 Nick Mike Nick did a great job with the series. 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:36.879 That's absolutely true. But the template that was created was 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:41.480 really great. Jack was great in that. Um. Yeah, So 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:44.480 I have no problem with using movie stars if they're like, 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:49.320 for example, let's say Chris rock in um, what's his face? 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:54.760 The one in Madagascar? Um, that's great casting. He's great 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:58.360 in it. Um, he's really really funny and vulnerable. Uh, 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:01.440 you know it totally works. But that doesn't mean that 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:03.840 the rest of the Okay. I mean, you know, like 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:06.320 Sasha Baron Cohen, did he do a better job than 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:12.000 Danny Jacobs. No, Yeah, now I know I do that. 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:13.800 I will do that too because we know so many 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:15.640 talented people. I will watch a movie and be like 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:20.720 Johnamago would have been funnier there that you felt that 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:24.760 wayte al right, to see the problem, But I will 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:26.880 tell you this guy's Let me just chime in. I 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:29.359 feel like celebrity, especially in the day and age of 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:32.960 social media, as there are many negative things that come 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:36.240 with social media. I think that fame and the classic 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:41.840 Hollywood icon and all that goes with that is diminishing 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:44.119 as we've seen like Tom Cruise is one of the 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:47.359 last you know, big male, you know what I'm saying. 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:51.240 So I think that there's a there's a proliferation of 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:55.560 opportunity that is animated motion capture. I feel like there's 0:20:55.920 --> 0:20:59.680 such a wide array of opportunities. That's why I think 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:02.399 I hear Voices is presenting this as an opportunity for 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:06.520 people to get involved invested because they already have the 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:08.879 talent and they just happen to live in the middle 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:12.960 of nowhere. And that's a great segue because I think 0:21:13.040 --> 0:21:15.040 Dietrich might not know about this, but we we are. 0:21:15.119 --> 0:21:17.679 We are brushing upon it very quickly, just while we 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:19.439 get our ducks in a row. But you know, Dietrich, 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:21.560 we are with I heart now and we are have 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:25.040 officially announced, uh, this super awesome contest to become the 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:29.240 next big voice actor. Um. And so what it is is, uh, 0:21:29.480 --> 0:21:33.119 some some amateur actor is going to get an opportunity, 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:37.600 uh to sign with a major voiceover agent for a 0:21:37.680 --> 0:21:39.639 year and they are going to be flown out to 0:21:39.800 --> 0:21:41.080 l A to meet their agent and do all that 0:21:41.119 --> 0:21:45.280 kind of stuff. So we're gonna make careers come true. Contest. 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:46.920 It's gonna be a great it's gonna be a ton 0:21:46.920 --> 0:21:48.720 of fun. We'd love to have you involved further and 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:51.080 we will get more into that. Uh, we're we are 0:21:51.119 --> 0:21:53.520 hoping it's going to be around the Halloween area where 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:55.639 were Halloween time where we will be launching. But it's 0:21:55.680 --> 0:21:58.360 a it's a fun contest, and somebody's going to get 0:21:58.720 --> 0:22:01.119 the opportunity to have the door cracked open just that 0:22:01.280 --> 0:22:02.639 much and then you're gonna have to kick it down 0:22:02.680 --> 0:22:16.920 the rest of the way yourself. Absolutely. To get back 0:22:16.920 --> 0:22:18.239 to what you were talking about, I have I have, 0:22:18.240 --> 0:22:19.959 I have a question because I haven't been able to 0:22:20.760 --> 0:22:24.560 pinpoint it. But you're a thousand percent right. When I 0:22:24.600 --> 0:22:27.720 was growing up watching animation, which was my true love 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:30.360 growing up as a kid, I never once grew up 0:22:30.359 --> 0:22:33.800 going oh, I wonder who that voice is? Who is that? Oh? Wow? 0:22:33.840 --> 0:22:37.000 Did it? And so it didn't matter that it was 0:22:37.040 --> 0:22:39.360 Will Smith in something. It didn't matter that they got 0:22:39.440 --> 0:22:42.880