Speaker 1: Hey Christy, Hey, will, what's go on? Nothing much? How
Speaker 1: are you pretty good? You know it's really rainy in
Speaker 1: Texas today. Um jus really really that Los Angeles it
Speaker 1: rains once a year. I know, I know, we do
Speaker 1: love weather, right, I mean that's part of the reason
Speaker 1: why we moved down here, because people always think of
Speaker 1: Texas and they think of the climate to be more
Speaker 1: like California's. It's just go to dry and um and
Speaker 1: it does have a drought here, but Austin is particularly
Speaker 1: green and vibrant, so it is rainy. You may hear
Speaker 1: drip drops from my from my echoe echoe throne here. Well,
Speaker 1: it's better that the room you're in now has some
Speaker 1: some stuff behind you at least, so that's good. It
Speaker 1: doesn't look like you're being held against your will, which
Speaker 1: is nice. I had to barter with many different prisoners
Speaker 1: in the institute that I'm staying in right now, just
Speaker 1: so that I could get these so that it looks
Speaker 1: a little bit more welcoming and home. Yes, and this
Speaker 1: is actually a straight jacket to you see that I'm
Speaker 1: holding my hands up excellent. Well, people don't know you.
Speaker 1: You you moonlight as the amazing Christie Carlson Romano. So
Speaker 1: we know you're gonna be able to get out of
Speaker 1: that straight jacket super easy. Nice, she's out people. I
Speaker 1: broke my white hands up for those of listening, I am.
Speaker 1: I'm very excited about her guest today. Me too. I
Speaker 1: love her and it's like she's been there like my
Speaker 1: whole life. I've seen her so many different things from
Speaker 1: like friends. My first ever voiceover gig was with Lauren
Speaker 1: Ever because I'm so excited about I don't even mind
Speaker 1: blowing the surprise because I'm so excited that she's here.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I want to we have to get into that.
Speaker 1: But she was also on Kimpossible, that's right, she was
Speaker 1: several times. I think she's done a hope. She did
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of Kim Possibles too so and was
Speaker 1: in like so the drama and so we've got some reunion. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a reunion. And the last reason you has with
Speaker 1: was with Taj Yes, who was unfriendly, not nice to
Speaker 1: talk with me. He's really just so high maintenance distress.
Speaker 1: It's like talking to a rock. He wasn't excited to
Speaker 1: be on the show. He wasn't excited to talk about
Speaker 1: his past it was sarcasm. This is sarcasm, I promise
Speaker 1: is it's a sarcasm or is it sarcasm? It's interesting sarcasm.
Speaker 1: That's the way we say it at the institute. Here
Speaker 1: is nice nice, we say sarcasm. In the non tiny
Speaker 1: Los Angeles world. How long has it been rainy? For days?
Speaker 1: It's been we have had and very and by the way,
Speaker 1: very cold. It's been like forty five degrees dropping to
Speaker 1: like thirty eight. Yeah, it's and then the weird thing
Speaker 1: is that here in Texas is gonna be like seventy
Speaker 1: humidity in a couple of days. You know, It's like
Speaker 1: it's just the weirdest weather, but it's weather. But it's weather.
Speaker 1: It's not like, oh hey it's seventy nine and sunny again,
Speaker 1: and anyone's like, oh, I would take that all day long.
Speaker 1: But when you get like three hundred days in a
Speaker 1: row of that, it really gets bored. It is very interesting.
Speaker 1: It's like why people think that people don't age in California.
Speaker 1: They're so endless summer. Exponentially, since I started this podcast
Speaker 1: with you, Christie, I have aids so much. Again, this
Speaker 1: is the easiest listen. This podcast is We've got a
Speaker 1: big heart for this podcast. We started this podcast because
Speaker 1: we would be doing comic cons together and we'd look
Speaker 1: over to each other and we'd say, gosh, we wish
Speaker 1: could work together again, Gosh, we wish they'd reboot him possible,
Speaker 1: And and in the midst of waiting for all of this,
Speaker 1: we've created our own opportunity to be together and be
Speaker 1: here on this podcast. Don't you think I agree. I
Speaker 1: think it's you know, it's it's very, very nice that
Speaker 1: you get to work with me again. I look at it.
Speaker 1: That's how I agree. It's really it's really nice for
Speaker 1: you to get that opportunity. And I think, yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1: It's fun enough to hang yourself. Well, it's fun. There's
Speaker 1: no such thing as enough for obtaining myself I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But no, we are very excited to have our guests
Speaker 1: on today. Yes, I want to talk to her about
Speaker 1: something very special because and I'll talk to her about this.
Speaker 1: But she was my first ever animated girlfriend. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: first ever animated girlfriend. So I want to see if
Speaker 1: she has the same memories of being my animated girlfriend
Speaker 1: as I do of being her animated boyfriend. Wow, the
Speaker 1: tea is hot here it is Lauren Tom and I
Speaker 1: hear voices. Hello, Hey, hi Laurien guy. How are you?
Speaker 1: But I'm so happy to see your face. Well, we
Speaker 1: were just talking Lauren, because I'm not sure you're aware
Speaker 1: of this because you're you've been a pro for so long.
Speaker 1: But you were my first ever animated girlfriend. It was
Speaker 1: Dana tant Yes and Batman Beyond was my first ever
Speaker 1: animated girlfriend. So I was so excited talk to you. Oh,
Speaker 1: I know that's so awesome. Yeah, you I have such
Speaker 1: fun memories. And I I posted um a picture of
Speaker 1: us on Twitter when Kevin passed and I and I
Speaker 1: realized that you're you're not on Twitter anymore? Hum, No,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not. No, I I see you're a
Speaker 1: smart way before everyone else. I haven't had so funny.
Speaker 1: I haven't had social media for three years now, and
Speaker 1: I have been talking with my friends on pod Meets World,
Speaker 1: and I think I'm going to start an Instagram account
Speaker 1: again for my first time. Well it's a lot of
Speaker 1: gentle learn Instagram. I feel like, yes, it's a lot nicer.
Speaker 1: That's so toxic. But now, so that was my first
Speaker 1: ever animated series. Was was Batman Beyond and you, of
Speaker 1: course we're integral and helping me kind of learned that world.
Speaker 1: But what where did you start in the in the
Speaker 1: animated world? What was your first kind of Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: well that you know, I felt like I was learning
Speaker 1: on Batman. That's so funny that you say that. I mean,
Speaker 1: it wasn't my very first Well, that wasn't your first series, wasn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was my I've never done animation before. First voiceover
Speaker 1: job ever was Batman Beyond Wait for so for you?
Speaker 1: Was it just like for me where you just went
Speaker 1: in like a regular audition, as if it were an
Speaker 1: on camera thing. They well, they called and said do
Speaker 1: you want an audition for the role of Batman? And
Speaker 1: I started laughing, thinking they had called the wrong person.
Speaker 1: And I'd never done an animated series before, And I
Speaker 1: went in and read with Andrea and with with and everybody,
Speaker 1: thinking this is ridiculous. And next thing I know, I'm
Speaker 1: sitting next to Kevin Conroy. So it was it was
Speaker 1: just ridiculous. For me, that is ridiculous. What how fun
Speaker 1: You've been doing this for a while by that point, though,
Speaker 1: haven't you know? My first job was King of the Hill.
Speaker 1: And yeah, and that wasn't really that much earlier. UM,
Speaker 1: and I felt like I got to learn from Pamela
Speaker 1: Adlon and all the people in that show because they've
Speaker 1: already been doing voice over for a while and I
Speaker 1: was really studying them and watching them, and I like,
Speaker 1: one of my favorite things to do is just like
Speaker 1: give people tips like what I've learned over the years.
Speaker 1: So it's really fun that we're going to be having
Speaker 1: a fan UM do do this with us. UM. But
Speaker 1: I just auditioned just like like you said, where I
Speaker 1: went in UM as a regular audition and I did it.
Speaker 1: You know, they had a microphone there for me, but
Speaker 1: I was so nervous. I didn't know what the heck
Speaker 1: I was doing. And UM. Yeah, so that was my
Speaker 1: first my first job in that one ran for like
Speaker 1: thirteen seasons, so that was super exciting. Well, I mean
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, it's it's a prime time and
Speaker 1: it's with some of the greatest voice over actors ever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, did you did you go did you approach
Speaker 1: the audition like an on camera audition or did you
Speaker 1: did you switch something up because you knew you were
Speaker 1: going to be doing vo you know, like no, I
Speaker 1: because I was clueless because I had never auditioned for
Speaker 1: an animated series before. I just feel like when when
Speaker 1: people ask me, like, you know what, what tips do
Speaker 1: you have? I feel like, if you want to be
Speaker 1: a voice actor, you just you have to become a
Speaker 1: good actor. That's the amazing thing, right, So just go
Speaker 1: to acting class and it's it's really the same thing.
Speaker 1: And you know, like a piece of advice that I
Speaker 1: got that I think is really helpful is when you're
Speaker 1: auditioning or actually doing the job. And in Futurama you
Speaker 1: can see this, Like Gangbusters, you do it as if
Speaker 1: you're in front of the camera, so you you do
Speaker 1: it full out with all of your body language as well,
Speaker 1: because you only have that little tiny hole to get
Speaker 1: it through all of your performance. Dude, there's a little
Speaker 1: voice and so um, you know, uh, even when I'm
Speaker 1: in my closet and I still have to audition, I
Speaker 1: sometimes I'm actually acting out the scene, right. So, and
Speaker 1: when you watch like Billy West and John DiMaggio and everything,
Speaker 1: they're they're doing that too. They're they're like full out,
Speaker 1: and I feel like, um, in my career on camera,
Speaker 1: sometimes I'm a little too big because my my background
Speaker 1: is theater, right, I mean I've been used to like
Speaker 1: playing to the back. Yes, so directors have had to
Speaker 1: say that's good, let's go one more time, less like
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm just really excited and and uh so anyway, yeah,
Speaker 1: even in even in voiceover, I feel like sometimes I
Speaker 1: have to take it down. But but you kind of like,
Speaker 1: if you're at an audition, try to find out the
Speaker 1: tone of the show first, um, so that you get
Speaker 1: to like King of the Hill was very natural, right,
Speaker 1: and they wanted it to be. All the humor was
Speaker 1: character driven. It wasn't so much jokey and um. But
Speaker 1: then like for other shows that I've done for Cartoon
Speaker 1: Network or Nickelodeon, you can afford to be a little
Speaker 1: bigger because the audience is younger, like kids next door.
Speaker 1: Like I don't think I could have been any bigger
Speaker 1: than that, because I love Tom Moore Burton because he
Speaker 1: was like, can you go even more kidding me? That's
Speaker 1: the best though. That's the joy of doing the the
Speaker 1: Young animated series. It's like you can't get cartoony enough.
Speaker 1: Kim Possible got a little bit like that. Yeah, at
Speaker 1: least yes, yes, yes, I want to get to Futurama
Speaker 1: eventually because it's it's arguably one of my favorite animated
Speaker 1: series of all time mine too, by the way, iolutely
Speaker 1: love it it is. I'm one of those people when
Speaker 1: I think of Matt Graining, that to me is his
Speaker 1: pinnacle show. I know the Simpsons is huge, but I've
Speaker 1: always loved fut drama. So we'll get to the trauma.
Speaker 1: You're sweet, But so you said you started in theater.
Speaker 1: Did you when you were younger? Did you grow up
Speaker 1: liking animation? Were you a cartoon fan when you were
Speaker 1: a kid. I just wanted to be a cartoon like life.
Speaker 1: Life was too much for me, and you know, I
Speaker 1: just came in really sensitive, so I I just wanted
Speaker 1: to be in that world where everything was okay. And
Speaker 1: and so it's still like all these years of therapy,
Speaker 1: I'm still trying to inch my way towards I can
Speaker 1: handle the disappointments of life, you know, like that, because
Speaker 1: that's the scariest part is just feel fielding all of
Speaker 1: these experiences that we have as human beings. And so
Speaker 1: you know, that was my escape, um place that I
Speaker 1: could go when when things were just too much. You know,
Speaker 1: because we all come in so differently, and like my mom,
Speaker 1: for example, is she just came in as like a
Speaker 1: freaking badass. I saw a picture on your Instagram and
Speaker 1: she first date. Oh my god, I like, I said
Speaker 1: it to the thing this song called Revolver by Buelow
Speaker 1: because I love it so much and because it's about
Speaker 1: being a badass and wanting to be wanting to be
Speaker 1: like her. But I didn't. I came in the complete opposite,
Speaker 1: and so I had to find ways to just kind
Speaker 1: of navigate my world my way through through all of this,
Speaker 1: and um, animation, What I love about animation, I could
Speaker 1: go on and on because it's please do you know,
Speaker 1: I mean years ago, it's like you know, the you know,
Speaker 1: the the blocks that came for me because I'm Asian,
Speaker 1: We're way more than they are now, right, and it's
Speaker 1: it's we still have a ways to go, but invoy
Speaker 1: in the voice world, like you could be anything, literally
Speaker 1: and I got to audition for anything too, So like
Speaker 1: the joy of watching you know, Kevin Michael Richardson do
Speaker 1: a little white Jewish five year old girl. I mean,
Speaker 1: it just does not get better than that. So I mean,
Speaker 1: and then you could wear your sweatpants, like, uh, to
Speaker 1: get dressed up right. And I had two kids, and
Speaker 1: I literally was recording until my water broke. I mean
Speaker 1: like I was like, Andrea did Andrea. Actually, I'm just
Speaker 1: joking about that, but Andrea let me come in to
Speaker 1: record Batman while I was nursing. So this is kind
Speaker 1: of like too much information, but I was literally like
Speaker 1: I had Ali in my arms and he was like
Speaker 1: having lunch and I was like recording and then we
Speaker 1: would have to break, you know if he made a
Speaker 1: little cooling sound. But I mean, not only is Andrea
Speaker 1: Romano the best voice of her director, you know, bar none,
Speaker 1: but she's also of like an incredible human being. She
Speaker 1: is just right. We had her not too long ago,
Speaker 1: and she's just a joy. We got to watch her.
Speaker 1: She came out and we brought a uh an amateur
Speaker 1: guest on and she came out of retirement and directed him.
Speaker 1: And just watching her direct him again, I tried not
Speaker 1: to cry, like it brought me back to the booth.
Speaker 1: It was unbelievable. So she Yeah, it's like that confidence
Speaker 1: that she instills in you, you kind of just get
Speaker 1: it and you feel like you're smart for being only
Speaker 1: get what she's saying, and it's so quick. It's like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I'm done. You know. That's the other
Speaker 1: thing I love about about voice ever, right, I mean literally,
Speaker 1: sometimes I wouldn't figure out how much I was paid
Speaker 1: for word because it would be like I would go
Speaker 1: in and say one since you know, if I Jesse
Speaker 1: had a like a recurring part or whatever, and U
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's just the best job ever. That's funny,
Speaker 1: you know, if you wanted to be a parent, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys are parents. But I
Speaker 1: mean I am, like to two girls, and you have
Speaker 1: two boys, right, I do? How old are yours? You
Speaker 1: look so gold? Oh man, thank you. I'm thirty eight.
Speaker 1: But yeah I have a five and a three year old,
Speaker 1: so she's about six. Oh god, your your boys are
Speaker 1: they're grown and they're going to college. You know what
Speaker 1: I find so interesting about this voice acting as a career. Um,
Speaker 1: and now you've done so many different things as well.
Speaker 1: I wonder if you can speak to for a lot
Speaker 1: of the people that are parents or you know, are
Speaker 1: older wanting to get into the voice acting world and
Speaker 1: have families and stuff, and how much of that is
Speaker 1: a time commitment for them to like pull away. But
Speaker 1: it is I think, a very good community for people
Speaker 1: to like if they're going to get in the business,
Speaker 1: like voice acting is. It's it's filled with a lot
Speaker 1: of good people. In my opinion. Oh I've never I
Speaker 1: swear to god, I have never met one jerk in
Speaker 1: the voice over world. I mean, and they're they're bountiful
Speaker 1: in the on camera world and the theater and theater. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't really know what what it is about the
Speaker 1: voice over community, but every it's also if you do
Speaker 1: meet a jerk, you never see them again. That's because
Speaker 1: it's one of those things where it's such everybody likes
Speaker 1: everybody so much, and there's it's not it's not the
Speaker 1: competition aspect, isn't there in the voice over world. Your
Speaker 1: voice is gonna work or it's not gonna work. People
Speaker 1: are genuinely, genuinely happy for each other when it's like,
Speaker 1: oh you got that, you jerk, Oh I wanted that.
Speaker 1: It's all fun, it's all fun stuff. And then you
Speaker 1: do you get into the on camera world and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: you're genuinely not a good person, you like, you don't
Speaker 1: find that in VO. You just don't find that in
Speaker 1: v OH. It's so strange. I wonder if it's because
Speaker 1: it's energetic and lie so much of like what you
Speaker 1: were just talking about with Andrea and how she kind
Speaker 1: of is this conduit for our creativity in the in
Speaker 1: the in the room, so to speak. And like you said,
Speaker 1: you're just pushing you're pushing your your your voice through
Speaker 1: this little tiny hole and then this other person you're
Speaker 1: entrusting with that and and so it's this energy exchange
Speaker 1: that needs to be very free, flowing through a big glass,
Speaker 1: you know, window that they absolutely I think that's true.
Speaker 1: I think there's also an aspect in the VO world
Speaker 1: where I always say, you know, Christy, and we've talked
Speaker 1: about this, where one of my mottos is there's a
Speaker 1: very big difference between child ish and childlike. And so
Speaker 1: there's you have to be childlike to be in the
Speaker 1: v O world. And when you are childlike, chances are
Speaker 1: you embrace that goofiness. So you're inherently already a decent
Speaker 1: human being, because that makes sense, like you're already like
Speaker 1: you want to play. So when you get those lighthearted
Speaker 1: people where a John DiMaggio walk into the room. I
Speaker 1: tear a strong walks into the room. When a great
Speaker 1: one of these people walks into the room, the room
Speaker 1: lightens up because everybody's having fun and they're enjoying themselves
Speaker 1: and and and so I think that lends itself to
Speaker 1: just better people than kind of like, don't talk to
Speaker 1: that guy over there. He you know, has studied deep
Speaker 1: acting for five years. They spent on the streets to
Speaker 1: make exactly Yeah, yeah, no, that's really astute. I think
Speaker 1: you're you're dead on you're dead on so cooking. Well,
Speaker 1: we're like little we're like little kids just playing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would say it's it's really not monetarily. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't go into voice acting for the money. That
Speaker 1: there's something to that. But but but the money is good,
Speaker 1: I mean like like I mean compared to how much
Speaker 1: work you're actually doing. It's not work number one. It's fun.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm just I'm going to work to
Speaker 1: just listen to all of my friends, Like I feel
Speaker 1: like the future on my casts are they seem like
Speaker 1: there all stand up comedians and I see myself more
Speaker 1: as like an actor, So I'm not like that. But
Speaker 1: someone's got to be the audience, so so I'm they're
Speaker 1: just kind of like laughing at everybody, and and it's
Speaker 1: sort of like, um, it takes us probably a third
Speaker 1: longer than it should to record the whole thing, just
Speaker 1: because we're just goofing around and and and you know,
Speaker 1: at least Super Sinski, our producer, he's got the job
Speaker 1: of like hurting all these crazy sheets. It's just I
Speaker 1: always remembered I'd see this on Kim Possible and on
Speaker 1: other shows. I would call it J D T or
Speaker 1: John DiMaggio. Time. You knew you'd have to add of
Speaker 1: the amount of time you were going to record, absolutely,
Speaker 1: but it's so worth it because it's so funny. I mean,
Speaker 1: for instance, Kim Possible, we were gonna have Johnny on.
Speaker 1: We've we've had and one of the things you know,
Speaker 1: in those moments, and we've all seen this in the booth,
Speaker 1: in those moments where some of these actors are joking
Speaker 1: around and trying to one up each other and going
Speaker 1: off on different characters, they come up with the character
Speaker 1: that then is used in the future, right like Dave Herman,
Speaker 1: I mean, crazy John DiMaggio as we were joking around
Speaker 1: one day, just started doing this this character and it
Speaker 1: became motor ed from from Kim Possible, So you see
Speaker 1: this kind of stuff. I mean, so I have to
Speaker 1: jump into this because now we're talking John Demjo and
Speaker 1: we've now talked to Futurama. I want to talk a
Speaker 1: bit about Futurama because I think it is arguably one
Speaker 1: of the greatest animated series of all time. I think phenomenal.
Speaker 1: I feel just as strong I do. But do you
Speaker 1: like it more than Simpson's Yes, okay, I I think
Speaker 1: one of the things I love so much about Futurama
Speaker 1: is the episodes out of nowhere that all of a
Speaker 1: sudden you're crying, which doesn't really happen in the Simpsons.
Speaker 1: And when you get Luck of the fryar Ish or
Speaker 1: you get Fries Dog, or you get one of these episodes,
Speaker 1: like you've got to be kidding me with some of this,
Speaker 1: but a voice over actor and fan. It's also one
Speaker 1: of those things where you go because there's never guest stars.
Speaker 1: You guys do all the voices, so no never ever
Speaker 1: any guest stars. It's amazing. So it's like you know
Speaker 1: that it's gonna be Johnny or mo Or or they
Speaker 1: never no one can ever go on to be like,
Speaker 1: guess what I did last week? I did a Futurama.
Speaker 1: Like that's never gonna happen. Well unless you're Al Gore
Speaker 1: really trying to get the real person or or like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course, Um, but what was it like? So you
Speaker 1: you know, Futurama's actually came in after The Simpsons, which
Speaker 1: is you know one, it is the biggest smash hit
Speaker 1: and me a series of all time. So what is
Speaker 1: it like knowing that you're going in and reading for
Speaker 1: kind of the next project that Matt Greening is doing?
Speaker 1: What was that process? Like? I was scared too, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna lie. And I had the most magical meeting
Speaker 1: with Matt and and I I always credit Michael McKeon
Speaker 1: because he and I were dating at that time for
Speaker 1: a couple of years actually, and he is like one
Speaker 1: of the funniest, coolest people, just naturally. And I swear
Speaker 1: to god, I feel like that I got some street
Speaker 1: cred just because I was his girlfriend. And I and
Speaker 1: Matt loves Michael, and you know, like his work. I
Speaker 1: don't know if they know each other's people, but he
Speaker 1: loved his work and I he mentioned that to me
Speaker 1: at the top of the meeting, and so that really
Speaker 1: relaxed me. And then and yeah, and then I have
Speaker 1: kind of a nutty laugh. I've always had like a
Speaker 1: really loud, crazy laugh. And Matt just really loved it
Speaker 1: and said, you know, you know what, he said it
Speaker 1: right in the room. He said, I don't know what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do with you, but with that laugh, we
Speaker 1: have to have you in the show somehow. So did they?
Speaker 1: Did they write Amy for you? Then? So what happened
Speaker 1: is is uh knight of in a way because they
Speaker 1: had um Leela and Amy's uh natural qualities switched. Um.
Speaker 1: In the original creation of it, they had Amy really
Speaker 1: tough and she was a mechanic and she was wearing
Speaker 1: this jumpsuit and um kind of like very you know,
Speaker 1: like my mom would be, you know, and and um,
Speaker 1: and then Leela was the girly one. But then when
Speaker 1: I came in and he said that, he was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I just like you. Oh wow, imagine
Speaker 1: it's here, I know, And they kind of redrew it
Speaker 1: and they and they made me the girly one, and
Speaker 1: then they made me kind of slutty, which is which
Speaker 1: is fine, but I mean, you're not totally dead on,
Speaker 1: but but it was fun. It was fun to make
Speaker 1: her they which was super glutzy too in the beginning.
Speaker 1: Um that we we kind of toned that down a
Speaker 1: little bit, but um but yeah, so so that was like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, it was. It was so uplifting to
Speaker 1: think that that you can do that. And then like
Speaker 1: later on, like I said this to Matt, I don't know,
Speaker 1: six months ago, because you know, he uses all of
Speaker 1: us on Disenchantment and um, I said to him, yeah,
Speaker 1: I said, you know, Matt, I'm so grateful to you
Speaker 1: that you just are so loyal, like, you know, you
Speaker 1: keep using all of us for your projects now. And
Speaker 1: he said, well, think of it like this. You know,
Speaker 1: back in the day, like Hannah Barbara had a table
Speaker 1: of people that they used all the time and that
Speaker 1: was the troop, that was the company, that was you know,
Speaker 1: like and and so it's kind of like that, you're
Speaker 1: you're my stable of people. He is such an incredible
Speaker 1: person and so such a genius and so humble, and
Speaker 1: he's one of our dream he's one of our dream guests.
Speaker 1: For one of the questions I had, I'm so curious
Speaker 1: about when it comes to Futurama. Do you record together, Yes,
Speaker 1: during the pandemic, I mean at the beginning when we've
Speaker 1: got picked up again, the pandemic was still more present.
Speaker 1: And so like Phil Lamar has this date of the
Speaker 1: art recording studio in his um house, and so there's
Speaker 1: a certain amount of booths available and so um it's
Speaker 1: in order to accommodate all of us. Phil always records
Speaker 1: at home and then he only lives twenty minutes the studio,
Speaker 1: so he'll drive in for lunch, which is awesome because we,
Speaker 1: you know, we like to be all together. We're just
Speaker 1: like this family, and I feel like I'm completely myself
Speaker 1: when I'm there, you know how you always go through
Speaker 1: the world, you know, with a certain like mask that
Speaker 1: you wear in order to just kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: get along. But there, I just feel like I've known
Speaker 1: them for so long and I just feel still loved
Speaker 1: and accepted by all of them that I feel like
Speaker 1: there's nothing I could do or say that would you know.
Speaker 1: I have a question, Lauren, so your character, and this
Speaker 1: is because I'm a fan of the show, so sorry
Speaker 1: I'm going but you said that your character evolved, and
Speaker 1: I do feel like I've heard this and seen this
Speaker 1: in a lot of different uh you know versions of
Speaker 1: our guests. This is something that does tend to happen.
Speaker 1: I mean, can you speak to that experience? Do you
Speaker 1: feel like, after they kind of optimize this character for
Speaker 1: you and your mindset and your approach to her, how
Speaker 1: did she evolve over time? Was that more towards catering
Speaker 1: towards the health of the show and the ratings, or
Speaker 1: was that more towards giving you more opportunities to perform? Well,
Speaker 1: do you feel like she's evolved? That's that's good? Um,
Speaker 1: because I do, Yes, I do, I do. Okay. So
Speaker 1: here's a little thing I recently said, actually last week
Speaker 1: to David X Cohen that someone put together like a
Speaker 1: little I don't know, voice over real for me. And
Speaker 1: I saw it on Twitter and it was from the
Speaker 1: early early days of of Futurama and then kids lots
Speaker 1: of things, and I realized that my voice was so
Speaker 1: much higher season that than it is now. So in
Speaker 1: that way, I think my voice is evolved. And I
Speaker 1: said to David, is that okay? Like I had no
Speaker 1: idea and he said, you know what everyone has done
Speaker 1: that it's almost like, um, it's a natural thing that
Speaker 1: occurs that a character kind of like settles in and
Speaker 1: becomes a little bit closer to who you are and
Speaker 1: and we we we know and everyone has done that. Um,
Speaker 1: and it's okay because you know, even in certain instances,
Speaker 1: like the characters are like trying to be discovered, they're
Speaker 1: not completely set yet in the early days, and then
Speaker 1: they become stronger and stronger once they you know, like
Speaker 1: get settled in and it feels right and you get
Speaker 1: into a groove. So he said, don't worry about it
Speaker 1: at all. That was shocking to me, and very that's good.
Speaker 1: That's good. Yeah, it's funny because with Kim, sorry, well
Speaker 1: so with Kim, like you got higher and higher? Yeah
Speaker 1: he did, well, I got I got lower and lower.
Speaker 1: Those cigarettes don't stop up higher? Yeah? Oh wait was
Speaker 1: that on purpose? Will? Now it just kind of again
Speaker 1: it's kind of the evolution of the character where yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: oh come on, Kim, we're just in high school. And
Speaker 1: by end he was like all the way up here,
Speaker 1: like what's going to it got a lot so interesting,
Speaker 1: you know. In King of the Hill, Greg Daniels had
Speaker 1: a different take on that whole thing because he he
Speaker 1: listened to us in like season ten and compared us
Speaker 1: to season one and wanted us to get back to
Speaker 1: season one really okay? And so did you have to
Speaker 1: kind did he say like, hey, we're going We're going
Speaker 1: back to where we started, and I want to bring
Speaker 1: I want to pitch the voices back to where they were,
Speaker 1: And did you all have to go and kind of
Speaker 1: watch the show again to pick the voice up again?
Speaker 1: Now he had it all cute up. You know how
Speaker 1: you always go, can I have a voice reference? It's
Speaker 1: like that, you know. And so Bobby, he was always
Speaker 1: here like the you know, Hank was always kind of
Speaker 1: here like yeah, wow, that's really good. Will Yeah? And
Speaker 1: then but did everybody else get cartoony? Is that what
Speaker 1: was happening in the in the tension? Now? I think
Speaker 1: what happened is again it's sort of like becomes more
Speaker 1: organic to who you are more um. And so, for
Speaker 1: for instance, whenever I have to do an accent, I
Speaker 1: always channel my grandmother, right, And and this character of
Speaker 1: men was not exactly my grandmother, right. My grandmother was
Speaker 1: more like my mother. So her voice was here like, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't you know you're too fat? I'm not giving
Speaker 1: you ice cream you get jello, you know. It was
Speaker 1: like more more grounded like that, and and and then
Speaker 1: they wanted her to be like more passive aggressive, so
Speaker 1: that she would say things really sweet like oh, oh,
Speaker 1: your boat. She was so big, you're like in a boat,
Speaker 1: you know, like she was. They wanted her to be
Speaker 1: sweet sounding and so but passive aggressive and thing the
Speaker 1: meanest things, right, So I had to I I started
Speaker 1: to forget that, and I started to naturally just be
Speaker 1: more like my grandma because her voice and her personality
Speaker 1: were so hilarious to me. And also we're in my body,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, like like that voice and everything,
Speaker 1: and so it got lower and lower my my voice
Speaker 1: and I became a little bit tougher, so so they
Speaker 1: had to remind me. So so it's interesting. How often
Speaker 1: do you tap into people from your life to do
Speaker 1: the voices that you do? I mean, are you usually
Speaker 1: is it based on somebody you know? Or I mean
Speaker 1: you said you've talked about your mom, your grandmother. I mean,
Speaker 1: is it kind of like oh, yeah, I'm I'm I'm
Speaker 1: pulling from life to find these characters or is it
Speaker 1: just something come up with on the fly. I think
Speaker 1: that I think in my regular on screen acting too.
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is true for you, but
Speaker 1: I do tend to think of certain people that have
Speaker 1: the same qualities, and I d of like try to
Speaker 1: get into their body in a way how they present
Speaker 1: themselves to the world. But for sure, my mom and
Speaker 1: my my grandmother I use a lot because any time
Speaker 1: because I don't present myself to the world in that
Speaker 1: super tough way, right, I'm just not comfortable with it.
Speaker 1: And and so whenever I have to do a tough character,
Speaker 1: you're seeing my mom or my grandmother. So my mom
Speaker 1: doesn't really have an accent, although she because she was
Speaker 1: born in Chicago, so um yeah, and um, but my
Speaker 1: my grandmother came from um Hoiping and so if she
Speaker 1: has an accent, it's like my grandma. And if she doesn't,
Speaker 1: then and she's tough, it's my mom. Alright, last question
Speaker 1: I really want to know. And then we're going to
Speaker 1: bring in our our wonderful guest to play across the
Speaker 1: Garden with us. Yes, Wonderful are playing across the Garden
Speaker 1: again with Lauren. It's going to be a ton of fun.
Speaker 1: And also this is a good time to tell you
Speaker 1: all once again we are very very close to opening
Speaker 1: up the contest. Yes, the what's the name of the
Speaker 1: contest again, Christie, I can't remember what. It's called. Super
Speaker 1: Awesome Contest to become the next Big Voice Actor. Oh gosh,
Speaker 1: she nailed it. Did I do it? Finally, Lauren, it's
Speaker 1: because of you. Thank you, Yeah, thank you. Super awesome
Speaker 1: contest to become the next Big Voice Actor where everybody
Speaker 1: is going to get to audition for us. We're going
Speaker 1: to bring you on the show, and the winner, American
Speaker 1: Idol style gets a yearlong contract with a voiceover agent,
Speaker 1: gets to do some work for My Heart, gets a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of really fun stuff. Whose idea was the
Speaker 1: coolest thing in the world. It was our idea. It
Speaker 1: was the wonderful idea which we were which when it's
Speaker 1: an idea that we've had for a while that we
Speaker 1: wanted to do, which I Heart has made. My goodness,
Speaker 1: So we are going to be able to help somebody
Speaker 1: kick open the door to their voiceover career. We are
Speaker 1: so excected. You guys are the best. Talk about giving
Speaker 1: back to the community. Honestly, it's gonna be cool. This
Speaker 1: is good karma for you guys. You're gonna get to
Speaker 1: write on this for a while. You can be like
Speaker 1: total jerks. So now for the next exactly the final question,
Speaker 1: and then we're going to bring in our our guests.
Speaker 1: Um all of the awesome uh slang from the future,
Speaker 1: the smish and stuff like that. Do you get to
Speaker 1: play with any of that or is all that on
Speaker 1: the page? That's all on the page? To be honest,
Speaker 1: we have the most brilliant writers, Like not only did
Speaker 1: they most of them go to Harvard, but they're just
Speaker 1: so fright. The writing is so good. So as much
Speaker 1: as we goof around in the session, we never really
Speaker 1: change the writing the words like you know, not not
Speaker 1: really not in Futurama, like you know, I'm sure that
Speaker 1: you've been on other shows where they actually love that, sure,
Speaker 1: but but I think we're we just have too much
Speaker 1: like respect um for for the page. So all of
Speaker 1: that was coming from the writers, the schmish and all
Speaker 1: that that. When when to to understand to have I
Speaker 1: don't think most people could possibly understand having people like
Speaker 1: you John DiMaggio, Maurice Lamarge, Billy West and the writing
Speaker 1: being Phil Lamar and the writing being so good that
Speaker 1: there's no ad libbing. That's well, I shouldn't say no,
Speaker 1: d limn, but but very very little. That's insane. That's
Speaker 1: just a testament to how incredible the writing of that
Speaker 1: show is, because those are some of the greatest You're
Speaker 1: you're all the great one of some of the greatest
Speaker 1: voice over actors that have ever worked. So to have
Speaker 1: that on the page already is pretty outstanding. Hey, we
Speaker 1: got her for Kim. What was your experience like with Kim?
Speaker 1: Do you remember? Wait? What were you? What was it? Briefly?
Speaker 1: You know, if you remember what, I'm so sorry I
Speaker 1: shouldn't done my jumped on. I don't even know what
Speaker 1: I played. Maybe maybe it'll come back. You were in
Speaker 1: the first episode of Kim Possible. Yeah, you were one
Speaker 1: episode one crush. You played Yeshiko. Did I have a
Speaker 1: good time? Yes, you did an amazing character. She's online.
Speaker 1: You got to google it and then it was. And
Speaker 1: then you were in our movie the two thousand five movies.
Speaker 1: Was not same same character, same character. Yes, And then
Speaker 1: we got you and then you were my first girlfriend ever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was really fun doing those things with you will
Speaker 1: That was really fun. And then we got to play
Speaker 1: with everybody in New York to which was which was
Speaker 1: a ton of a couple of years ago. Yeah, two
Speaker 1: or three years ago. What a gift. Yeah, you have
Speaker 1: that picture right of all of us in New York. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we did a comic con. Yeah, that was it, Batman
Speaker 1: Beyond the twentieth anniversary. It was New York Comic Con.
Speaker 1: It was so much fun. We were with everybody and
Speaker 1: it was Andrea well Kevin. Yeah, it's really special. Alright,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna all right in our guest. Now do
Speaker 1: we get to see him? We do, of course we did. Okay, great, great,
Speaker 1: we have a great guest coming in today. Where's hello?
Speaker 1: Thanks for thank you. No, yeah, I'm excited. I've been
Speaker 1: listening to the podcast for a long time. And um,
Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan of the voice acting world in general.
Speaker 1: I actually work at Dragon Con in Atlanta, so I've
Speaker 1: actually Mr Mr fardel If had extensive coaching how to
Speaker 1: pronounce your last name as a in one of my panels.
Speaker 1: So Christie, you were in a different track of that
Speaker 1: year that you guys are both there interview and Lauren,
Speaker 1: I remember you were a Dragon for I think for
Speaker 1: like a future Rummer reunion. How do you know that
Speaker 1: I only do the one con right like I do
Speaker 1: dragon con of mom around. So for me, it's great,
Speaker 1: that's great that you remember that. And now I'm saying
Speaker 1: it right, it's undressed, right, Yeah, it's Spanish and if
Speaker 1: you don't speak Spanish, hey, we are in a world
Speaker 1: where we like things to be pronounced properly in our
Speaker 1: voiceover world. So not only are you a moderator for
Speaker 1: dragon Com, but you're also an improv actor and you've
Speaker 1: got some I've got to hear. I'm sorry, I don't
Speaker 1: mean to put you on the spot, but I want
Speaker 1: to hear first online Fontaine. Oh okay, this summer one
Speaker 1: man with one desire to fight everyone in the streets.
Speaker 1: So l A like, that's really good, that's really really good.
Speaker 1: And now because we've all worked with him and he
Speaker 1: was on Kim Possible, can we hear a little Patrick Warburton. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's actually the voice I do from my dog Krypto
Speaker 1: the Super Dog. My favorite thing about him is he's
Speaker 1: super lovely. He's like chronk from a burs New Groove.
Speaker 1: Awesome and what I'm excited one today, I'm sorry. One
Speaker 1: last one. Casey Casem's shaggy, oh like the way I
Speaker 1: love my dog and all, but he's huge, hard to
Speaker 1: carry around. Al Right, Well, we gotta live one today, people,
Speaker 1: We got a live one today. So is everybody have
Speaker 1: their copy of this week's across the Garden? Yes, Ricky
Speaker 1: and Mocha are still trying to get to the damn mall.
Speaker 1: It has been mean for ever now it's getting a
Speaker 1: little ridiculous how long it's taking these poor people to
Speaker 1: get to the mall. We, of course, have come up
Speaker 1: with these characters on the fly. We have often said
Speaker 1: we wish we'd come up with different ones, but we
Speaker 1: came up with what we got. And so we are
Speaker 1: once again with Ricky Amocha in the woods, still trying
Speaker 1: to get to the damn mall. Uh So, I think
Speaker 1: we did one last week where they actually got to
Speaker 1: the mall but didn't actually step into the mall. So
Speaker 1: we're still and closer. We could smell the food court,
Speaker 1: but we're not in the door yet. Uh So, here
Speaker 1: we go. Everybody ready, everybody know who they're playing, and
Speaker 1: we're ready to Yeah, all right, so here we go.
Speaker 1: We're going to fade in exterior woods continuous. Ricky a
Speaker 1: Mocha are still trudging through the garden. Then she uploaded
Speaker 1: this totally fire video doing this new TikTok to answer
Speaker 1: and she hit seventeen million follars on and STA in
Speaker 1: the same day and definitely my hero ist hero. Wait
Speaker 1: what was the question again? Are we there yet? Oh? Well,
Speaker 1: do you see them all? You know? Mom says, never
Speaker 1: answered a question with a question, Chelsea's if you're not
Speaker 1: really her son? So wait, she does, Mocha, I don't
Speaker 1: think I can do this anymore. We just keep walking
Speaker 1: in circles. What how can you see that one? Oh? Man,
Speaker 1: I don't think I can do this anymore either. Should
Speaker 1: we just turn back? That's when we hear it looks
Speaker 1: like the tin and back. It's true what they say,
Speaker 1: losers for lives. Ricky Moka around a corner and come
Speaker 1: upon a tiny little radio station. Two squirrels sit behind
Speaker 1: a desk wearing headphones. They gestured to two empty seats
Speaker 1: in front of them. As Ricky Amoka said, one of
Speaker 1: the squirrels, the stain, pops over and adjust microphones in
Speaker 1: front of their faces. Yeah, we are now doing by.
Speaker 1: Both squirrels just stares Ricky and Mocha from on Silent Beat.
Speaker 1: The soundtracks on Crinkle covers the mic. We got daddy
Speaker 1: here people. What are your names? Oh? I'm Mocha. Oh
Speaker 1: like the coffee. I'd like to sit meet some of that. Hey,
Speaker 1: what's your name? Sport? I'm Ricky? If he just tune in,
Speaker 1: we got Mocha and Ricky here with us on morning Creeks,
Speaker 1: I'm Creek, and as always I'm joined by the mand Man,
Speaker 1: the legend himself. The stain stained by shuts. They hit
Speaker 1: a they hit a button. Creak, Yeah, you do it,
Speaker 1: you do it on dress. You're better at it than
Speaker 1: I am. Go ahead, Crinkle and the stain by crook
Speaker 1: cookok crazy one or seven point four. The wood stain
Speaker 1: hits another button. We got wood you well, I'm officially done.
Speaker 1: You're officially lame. They hit another button. So word, do
Speaker 1: you have buttons for everything? Another button? He does? So
Speaker 1: what brings to you to our neck of the garden?
Speaker 1: I seriously can't tell the story again. Looks like I've
Speaker 1: got a primadonna on her hands here, Crinkle, I say,
Speaker 1: hits another button. He'll say, if you touch one more button,
Speaker 1: I'm going to open up a candle. There's a beat
Speaker 1: that covers Mocha swearing, Hi, Hey, this is the Family
Speaker 1: Family Show. Yeah, we're just trying to get to know
Speaker 1: our fellow gardeners. Now, come on, where are you headed? Ah?
Speaker 1: You might as well just tell them. Fine, we're trying
Speaker 1: to get to the mall to find my boyfriend. Stay
Speaker 1: hits another button, going to the mall see her boyfriend.
Speaker 1: Without warning, Mocha launches herself over the table and a
Speaker 1: through hosts not that body part as beat passes before
Speaker 1: Mocha casually reenters frame. Come on, we're going home? Oh
Speaker 1: ricky a Moocha turned to find a battered crinkle pointing
Speaker 1: into the distance. They follow the gaze. As the sun
Speaker 1: breaks through the trees, we can see the mall on
Speaker 1: Rickey and Mocha's delighted faces. We fade out. Yes, that
Speaker 1: was nailed it. Undress killed it. Yeah, you're you're awesome,
Speaker 1: so talented voices adding and we were just talking about
Speaker 1: ad libbing and adding in stuff. Just crushed it day.
Speaker 1: Are you very proud? Are you going to be joining
Speaker 1: our contest? Uh? Sure? What I'd love to do is
Speaker 1: one day to be a guest on your show. In
Speaker 1: Lauren's role, and actually talk about work that I will
Speaker 1: finally one day do I never did. Yes, that's gonna happens.
Speaker 1: Are so talented, you could come on and you could definitely,
Speaker 1: You've got to enter the super awesome contests become the
Speaker 1: next big Voice actor because that contests to become the
Speaker 1: next big voice acker a chance of a lifetime for
Speaker 1: you because you win an agent for a year and
Speaker 1: you win a whole dude, big come on to do
Speaker 1: some voices for my heart. And I want to call
Speaker 1: it your big break, but Will does not because it's
Speaker 1: not your big break. Right, there's a difference. It's not
Speaker 1: a big it's what we're doing. We always say it's
Speaker 1: we're cracking open the door, and then you gotta have
Speaker 1: your talent kick the door open. But that first crack
Speaker 1: is usually the hardest one to do. So we're giving
Speaker 1: you the opportunity for your big break, which is what
Speaker 1: I was gonna say. Maybe, Okay, yeah, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: I might cry. I'm I'm a little emotional, but so cool.
Speaker 1: So where first of all, where can people find you? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I have an install with no posts. I'd use it
Speaker 1: to follow artists because I do art and paint miniatures.
Speaker 1: Are you a mini painter too? Forever? D M? The
Speaker 1: reason I have a million voices because I have to
Speaker 1: come up with them on the flyes. So I hope
Speaker 1: you roll really poorly. As as the d M, thank
Speaker 1: thank you very much. I wish I was there. I
Speaker 1: put my hands on you, because I have touched Will
Speaker 1: Wheaton several times. I'd give you the wheat and curse
Speaker 1: my friend. Well, my instant was zero posts. Right now
Speaker 1: is rook like the chess piece one? So rook one?
Speaker 1: That's me totally cool. Jean vel Jet, you're a d
Speaker 1: M and you're throwing out many paintings. You're wearing a
Speaker 1: Batman shirt and you have a Jean Valjean reference. We'd
Speaker 1: be besties. I think you are. Don't give me hope. Well, seriously,
Speaker 1: totally be besties. That's so cool. Well, come and win
Speaker 1: the contest and you get to One of the things
Speaker 1: you get to do is you fly out. We fly
Speaker 1: you out to l A and you come have lunch. Christine,
Speaker 1: I we hang out. So when the contest, that's we're
Speaker 1: gonna be. There's gonna be an episode coming up where
Speaker 1: all we're gonna be doing is discussing the contest, all
Speaker 1: the rules, everything involved. It's going to be totally cool.
Speaker 1: We've got some really really really cool prizes we're not
Speaker 1: allowed to talk about yet. Um so you just wait,
Speaker 1: my friend. It's gonna be awesome. But thank you so
Speaker 1: much for joining us. You killed it, he did. I
Speaker 1: hope it was fun. Yes, thank you. It's great to
Speaker 1: play with professionals. I'm used to play with a bunch
Speaker 1: of oral amateurs hell in the improv space, so to
Speaker 1: actually get to do work with professionals, even if it's
Speaker 1: just for fun, is an extreme blessing, a treat. So
Speaker 1: thank you you all so much. This is awesome. Thank you,
Speaker 1: And don't forget an amateur is just professional hasn't got
Speaker 1: their break yet. That's all that is. That's the only
Speaker 1: difference is somebody they've just heard no a thousand times
Speaker 1: and we were lucky enough to hear yes once. That's
Speaker 1: all the only difference. So just keep plugging along and
Speaker 1: please join the contest because you're very, very talented and
Speaker 1: you never know what could happen, my friend. Thanks, that's right. Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you a pleasure to meet you all. Thank you all,
Speaker 1: Bye bye bye. That was cool. Oh my gosh, that
Speaker 1: was so fun and good. He was great. I just
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just gonna do that actors thing for
Speaker 1: a second, is it okay? That was so big? I
Speaker 1: mean it said she was a squirrelka. So good because
Speaker 1: if we end up editing this, which is our goal
Speaker 1: is to edit this together with some animation from you know,
Speaker 1: independent animators, and oh wow, we wanted big can help
Speaker 1: fill in the gaps for me and my awful, for
Speaker 1: Christie and I being terrible. No, no, no, I just
Speaker 1: I was talking about tone and then I thought, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, they're in a different cartoon than me. What's
Speaker 1: wrong with me? Like this is because it's drawn together together. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was so fun you guys, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, very quickly for our listener. That's
Speaker 1: how I like it for our one listener out there. Um,
Speaker 1: what where can people find you? And what are you
Speaker 1: doing now? If you're a sweet Um that's so nice. Um.
Speaker 1: So if Twitter keeps going, I'm actually the same address
Speaker 1: on both Instagram and Twitter, so it's it's Lauren Tom
Speaker 1: nine thousand and Um. That would be great. I would
Speaker 1: love to, you know, connect with people and just like
Speaker 1: let let me know what shows you like? And UM yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just like I keep on keeping on with with
Speaker 1: my different series and um I have um let's see
Speaker 1: what is Dragons and nine in Realms and um uh
Speaker 1: Disenchantment and of course Featurama and when that's coming that
Speaker 1: I'm not allowed to say yet, but people are going
Speaker 1: to be super excited about and um yeah, so I
Speaker 1: feel very blessed. And that's it, Just those four series.
Speaker 1: That's all you got, my goodness. And I have a
Speaker 1: movie coming out called One True Loves. It's written by
Speaker 1: Taylor Jenkins Reed who wrote Daisy and Six anyway, she's
Speaker 1: a novelist. And the beautiful thing about this movie is
Speaker 1: that it's set in New England and it was written
Speaker 1: about all these white people, but it turns out that
Speaker 1: they ended up casting it all Asian and we don't
Speaker 1: need Yeah, they don't even say like, they don't even
Speaker 1: mention that we're Asian. We're just these people living in
Speaker 1: New England. It's it's kind of neat that way. Did
Speaker 1: you shoot in New England? Um no, we we actually
Speaker 1: shot in North Carolina. Um and it was substituting and
Speaker 1: um you know Shaun Chi that got that movie on Steemulu.
Speaker 1: He's the lead. And then Philip a Sue who was
Speaker 1: in Hamilton's Beautiful and she plays my daughter and and
Speaker 1: so anyway, yeah, she was she played his wife in
Speaker 1: in Hambleton's played Eliza Eliza. Yeah, so that's amazing. And
Speaker 1: when is that coming out? I don't know yet. I
Speaker 1: have to actually find out which out it last year,
Speaker 1: so it should be coming out soon and a streaming
Speaker 1: service is going to be in the theaters. I think
Speaker 1: it's going to be in the theaters. It was a
Speaker 1: feature film. That's awesome. Well, congratulations on those small projects
Speaker 1: different series, Lauren, thank you for joining us, Thank you
Speaker 1: guys for having me, and have a wonderful stay safe
Speaker 1: and healthy and all that. I feel like everyone's mom
Speaker 1: of my mom Lauren here. Okay, thank you everybody. Bye bye.
Speaker 1: Oh man, she's done. I forget that she is my
Speaker 1: my first TV girlfriends. Well, I mean, anybody who was
Speaker 1: a Batman Beyond fan knows that Dana was hugely important
Speaker 1: in Terry's life. So to be able to say that
Speaker 1: it was like my first animated girlfriends Lauren, Tom, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. Well, you remember when she played U Chico.
Speaker 1: Your character also had a crush on her. Yeah, was it?
Speaker 1: So it's do you know if they did that on purpose?
Speaker 1: I don't know. But there's two people, Lauren, Tom and
Speaker 1: Cree Summer where we're always boyfriend and girlfriend and everything
Speaker 1: that we do, I think we do. We haven't speak.
Speaker 1: Have we spoken to Korea on the show? No, we're
Speaker 1: gonna we'll have koreon. We'll have to have Yeah, yeah
Speaker 1: we have because her, I swear to god, her name
Speaker 1: has been mentioned so many times on this podcast that
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