WEBVTT - The Voice of Lauren Tom 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:03.120 Hey Christy, Hey, will, what's go on? Nothing much? How 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:06.600 are you pretty good? You know it's really rainy in 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:11.960 Texas today. Um jus really really that Los Angeles it 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:14.880 rains once a year. I know, I know, we do 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:16.880 love weather, right, I mean that's part of the reason 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:19.119 why we moved down here, because people always think of 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:21.160 Texas and they think of the climate to be more 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:24.840 like California's. It's just go to dry and um and 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:27.800 it does have a drought here, but Austin is particularly 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:29.840 green and vibrant, so it is rainy. You may hear 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:36.000 drip drops from my from my echoe echoe throne here. Well, 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:38.080 it's better that the room you're in now has some 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:40.080 some stuff behind you at least, so that's good. It 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:42.760 doesn't look like you're being held against your will, which 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:45.960 is nice. I had to barter with many different prisoners 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:48.320 in the institute that I'm staying in right now, just 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:51.320 so that I could get these so that it looks 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:53.279 a little bit more welcoming and home. Yes, and this 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:55.800 is actually a straight jacket to you see that I'm 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:59.560 holding my hands up excellent. Well, people don't know you. 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:02.520 You you moonlight as the amazing Christie Carlson Romano. So 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:03.720 we know you're gonna be able to get out of 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:07.360 that straight jacket super easy. Nice, she's out people. I 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:12.280 broke my white hands up for those of listening, I am. 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:16.160 I'm very excited about her guest today. Me too. I 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:18.760 love her and it's like she's been there like my 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:21.200 whole life. I've seen her so many different things from 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:27.840 like friends. My first ever voiceover gig was with Lauren 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:32.280 Ever because I'm so excited about I don't even mind 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:34.959 blowing the surprise because I'm so excited that she's here. 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:36.679 But yeah, I want to we have to get into that. 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:40.280 But she was also on Kimpossible, that's right, she was 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:42.680 several times. I think she's done a hope. She did 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:44.400 a whole bunch of Kim Possibles too so and was 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:50.680 in like so the drama and so we've got some reunion. Yeah, 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:53.280 it's a reunion. And the last reason you has with 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:58.160 was with Taj Yes, who was unfriendly, not nice to 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:02.080 talk with me. He's really just so high maintenance distress. 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.200 It's like talking to a rock. He wasn't excited to 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:07.280 be on the show. He wasn't excited to talk about 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:12.280 his past it was sarcasm. This is sarcasm, I promise 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:17.240 is it's a sarcasm or is it sarcasm? It's interesting sarcasm. 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:19.320 That's the way we say it at the institute. Here 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:23.680 is nice nice, we say sarcasm. In the non tiny 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:27.799 Los Angeles world. How long has it been rainy? For days? 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:30.480 It's been we have had and very and by the way, 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:33.480 very cold. It's been like forty five degrees dropping to 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:37.080 like thirty eight. Yeah, it's and then the weird thing 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:40.280 is that here in Texas is gonna be like seventy 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:42.359 humidity in a couple of days. You know, It's like 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:46.920 it's just the weirdest weather, but it's weather. But it's weather. 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:50.880 It's not like, oh hey it's seventy nine and sunny again, 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:53.720 and anyone's like, oh, I would take that all day long. 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:56.040 But when you get like three hundred days in a 0:02:56.160 --> 0:03:00.600 row of that, it really gets bored. It is very interesting. 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:03.800 It's like why people think that people don't age in California. 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:09.800 They're so endless summer. Exponentially, since I started this podcast 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:15.480 with you, Christie, I have aids so much. Again, this 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.679 is the easiest listen. This podcast is We've got a 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:21.320 big heart for this podcast. We started this podcast because 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:24.200 we would be doing comic cons together and we'd look 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:25.760 over to each other and we'd say, gosh, we wish 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:28.480 could work together again, Gosh, we wish they'd reboot him possible, 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:31.960 And and in the midst of waiting for all of this, 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:35.040 we've created our own opportunity to be together and be 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:37.600 here on this podcast. Don't you think I agree. I 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:41.240 think it's you know, it's it's very, very nice that 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.480 you get to work with me again. I look at it. 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:47.840 That's how I agree. It's really it's really nice for 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:51.480 you to get that opportunity. And I think, yeah, I agree. 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:56.440 It's fun enough to hang yourself. Well, it's fun. There's 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:59.040 no such thing as enough for obtaining myself I'm saying. 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:01.840 But no, we are very excited to have our guests 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:05.040 on today. Yes, I want to talk to her about 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:08.000 something very special because and I'll talk to her about this. 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:12.880 But she was my first ever animated girlfriend. Oh yeah, 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:16.720 first ever animated girlfriend. So I want to see if 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:19.160 she has the same memories of being my animated girlfriend 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:22.440 as I do of being her animated boyfriend. Wow, the 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:24.800 tea is hot here it is Lauren Tom and I 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:33.560 hear voices. Hello, Hey, hi Laurien guy. How are you? 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:36.920 But I'm so happy to see your face. Well, we 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:39.520 were just talking Lauren, because I'm not sure you're aware 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:41.839 of this because you're you've been a pro for so long. 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:46.919 But you were my first ever animated girlfriend. It was 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:51.200 Dana tant Yes and Batman Beyond was my first ever 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:56.360 animated girlfriend. So I was so excited talk to you. Oh, 0:04:56.600 --> 0:05:02.400 I know that's so awesome. Yeah, you I have such 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:07.400 fun memories. And I I posted um a picture of 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:12.440 us on Twitter when Kevin passed and I and I 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:15.520 realized that you're you're not on Twitter anymore? Hum, No, 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:18.400 I'm not. I'm not. No, I I see you're a 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:22.480 smart way before everyone else. I haven't had so funny. 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:24.760 I haven't had social media for three years now, and 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:28.240 I have been talking with my friends on pod Meets World, 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.279 and I think I'm going to start an Instagram account 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:38.240 again for my first time. Well it's a lot of 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:41.800 gentle learn Instagram. I feel like, yes, it's a lot nicer. 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:45.320 That's so toxic. But now, so that was my first 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:48.159 ever animated series. Was was Batman Beyond and you, of 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:51.040 course we're integral and helping me kind of learned that world. 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:53.640 But what where did you start in the in the 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:56.360 animated world? What was your first kind of Oh my gosh, 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.760 well that you know, I felt like I was learning 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:03.400 on Batman. That's so funny that you say that. I mean, 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:06.880 it wasn't my very first Well, that wasn't your first series, wasn't. Yeah, 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:10.440 that was my I've never done animation before. First voiceover 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:14.599 job ever was Batman Beyond Wait for so for you? 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:16.880 Was it just like for me where you just went 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:19.640 in like a regular audition, as if it were an 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:22.120 on camera thing. They well, they called and said do 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:23.839 you want an audition for the role of Batman? And 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:26.520 I started laughing, thinking they had called the wrong person. 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.120 And I'd never done an animated series before, And I 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:33.799 went in and read with Andrea and with with and everybody, 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:36.240 thinking this is ridiculous. And next thing I know, I'm 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:38.279 sitting next to Kevin Conroy. So it was it was 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:43.400 just ridiculous. For me, that is ridiculous. What how fun 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:45.920 You've been doing this for a while by that point, though, 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:49.200 haven't you know? My first job was King of the Hill. 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:55.880 And yeah, and that wasn't really that much earlier. UM, 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:59.240 and I felt like I got to learn from Pamela 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.080 Adlon and all the people in that show because they've 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:05.000 already been doing voice over for a while and I 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:08.400 was really studying them and watching them, and I like, 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:10.280 one of my favorite things to do is just like 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:14.440 give people tips like what I've learned over the years. 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:16.680 So it's really fun that we're going to be having 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:21.320 a fan UM do do this with us. UM. But 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:24.320 I just auditioned just like like you said, where I 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:29.480 went in UM as a regular audition and I did it. 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:31.920 You know, they had a microphone there for me, but 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:34.280 I was so nervous. I didn't know what the heck 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:37.360 I was doing. And UM. Yeah, so that was my 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:39.640 first my first job in that one ran for like 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:42.960 thirteen seasons, so that was super exciting. Well, I mean 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:48.800 it's like, you know, it's it's a prime time and 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:53.080 it's with some of the greatest voice over actors ever. Yeah, 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:56.640 I mean, did you did you go did you approach 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:59.280 the audition like an on camera audition or did you 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:01.400 did you switch something up because you knew you were 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:05.320 going to be doing vo you know, like no, I 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:08.240 because I was clueless because I had never auditioned for 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:11.760 an animated series before. I just feel like when when 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:14.280 people ask me, like, you know what, what tips do 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.360 you have? I feel like, if you want to be 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:18.720 a voice actor, you just you have to become a 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:22.440 good actor. That's the amazing thing, right, So just go 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:25.600 to acting class and it's it's really the same thing. 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:27.880 And you know, like a piece of advice that I 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:31.080 got that I think is really helpful is when you're 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:34.440 auditioning or actually doing the job. And in Futurama you 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:37.920 can see this, Like Gangbusters, you do it as if 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:41.280 you're in front of the camera, so you you do 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:46.160 it full out with all of your body language as well, 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:48.880 because you only have that little tiny hole to get 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.600 it through all of your performance. Dude, there's a little 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:55.920 voice and so um, you know, uh, even when I'm 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:58.880 in my closet and I still have to audition, I 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:03.160 sometimes I'm actually acting out the scene, right. So, and 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:07.319 when you watch like Billy West and John DiMaggio and everything, 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:10.160 they're they're doing that too. They're they're like full out, 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:15.120 and I feel like, um, in my career on camera, 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:20.040 sometimes I'm a little too big because my my background 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:24.440 is theater, right, I mean I've been used to like 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:29.319 playing to the back. Yes, so directors have had to 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:36.000 say that's good, let's go one more time, less like 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:41.600 I'm sorry, I'm just really excited and and uh so anyway, yeah, 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:44.280 even in even in voiceover, I feel like sometimes I 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:46.560 have to take it down. But but you kind of like, 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:49.480 if you're at an audition, try to find out the 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:52.680 tone of the show first, um, so that you get 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:55.360 to like King of the Hill was very natural, right, 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:58.280 and they wanted it to be. All the humor was 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:02.440 character driven. It wasn't so much jokey and um. But 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:04.760 then like for other shows that I've done for Cartoon 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:07.400 Network or Nickelodeon, you can afford to be a little 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:11.560 bigger because the audience is younger, like kids next door. 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:13.640 Like I don't think I could have been any bigger 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:16.840 than that, because I love Tom Moore Burton because he 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:23.360 was like, can you go even more kidding me? That's 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:25.920 the best though. That's the joy of doing the the 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:29.120 Young animated series. It's like you can't get cartoony enough. 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:32.120 Kim Possible got a little bit like that. Yeah, at 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:35.960 least yes, yes, yes, I want to get to Futurama 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:38.600 eventually because it's it's arguably one of my favorite animated 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:42.240 series of all time mine too, by the way, iolutely 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:44.560 love it it is. I'm one of those people when 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:46.720 I think of Matt Graining, that to me is his 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:48.760 pinnacle show. I know the Simpsons is huge, but I've 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:50.720 always loved fut drama. So we'll get to the trauma. 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:54.800 You're sweet, But so you said you started in theater. 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:57.720 Did you when you were younger? Did you grow up 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:00.560 liking animation? Were you a cartoon fan when you were 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:04.559 a kid. I just wanted to be a cartoon like life. 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:07.520 Life was too much for me, and you know, I 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:11.160 just came in really sensitive, so I I just wanted 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:14.400 to be in that world where everything was okay. And 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:18.840 and so it's still like all these years of therapy, 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:23.400 I'm still trying to inch my way towards I can 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:27.720 handle the disappointments of life, you know, like that, because 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:32.080 that's the scariest part is just feel fielding all of 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:36.720 these experiences that we have as human beings. And so 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:41.240 you know, that was my escape, um place that I 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:44.920 could go when when things were just too much. You know, 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:47.720 because we all come in so differently, and like my mom, 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:50.200 for example, is she just came in as like a 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:54.720 freaking badass. I saw a picture on your Instagram and 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:59.480 she first date. Oh my god, I like, I said 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:02.560 it to the thing this song called Revolver by Buelow 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:05.480 because I love it so much and because it's about 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:08.040 being a badass and wanting to be wanting to be 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:12.280 like her. But I didn't. I came in the complete opposite, 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:15.120 and so I had to find ways to just kind 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:18.560 of navigate my world my way through through all of this, 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:22.120 and um, animation, What I love about animation, I could 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:28.360 go on and on because it's please do you know, 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:34.840 I mean years ago, it's like you know, the you know, 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:38.400 the the blocks that came for me because I'm Asian, 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:42.400 We're way more than they are now, right, and it's 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:45.240 it's we still have a ways to go, but invoy 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:48.920 in the voice world, like you could be anything, literally 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:52.120 and I got to audition for anything too, So like 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:56.240 the joy of watching you know, Kevin Michael Richardson do 0:12:56.520 --> 0:13:00.960 a little white Jewish five year old girl. I mean, 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:07.760 it just does not get better than that. So I mean, 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:11.080 and then you could wear your sweatpants, like, uh, to 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:15.000 get dressed up right. And I had two kids, and 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:19.520 I literally was recording until my water broke. I mean 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:27.720 like I was like, Andrea did Andrea. Actually, I'm just 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:30.920 joking about that, but Andrea let me come in to 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:35.280 record Batman while I was nursing. So this is kind 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:39.439 of like too much information, but I was literally like 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:43.120 I had Ali in my arms and he was like 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:48.520 having lunch and I was like recording and then we 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:51.240 would have to break, you know if he made a 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:55.120 little cooling sound. But I mean, not only is Andrea 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:58.840 Romano the best voice of her director, you know, bar none, 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:02.040 but she's also of like an incredible human being. She 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:05.839 is just right. We had her not too long ago, 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:09.920 and she's just a joy. We got to watch her. 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:12.680 She came out and we brought a uh an amateur 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:15.600 guest on and she came out of retirement and directed him. 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:20.720 And just watching her direct him again, I tried not 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.360 to cry, like it brought me back to the booth. 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:27.840 It was unbelievable. So she Yeah, it's like that confidence 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:31.000 that she instills in you, you kind of just get 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:33.400 it and you feel like you're smart for being only 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:37.120 get what she's saying, and it's so quick. It's like, 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.480 oh my god, I'm done. You know. That's the other 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:44.160 thing I love about about voice ever, right, I mean literally, 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:47.720 sometimes I wouldn't figure out how much I was paid 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:52.120 for word because it would be like I would go 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:55.280 in and say one since you know, if I Jesse 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:58.640 had a like a recurring part or whatever, and U 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.840 I don't know. It's just the best job ever. That's funny, 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:06.560 you know, if you wanted to be a parent, I don't. 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:08.800 I don't know if you guys are parents. But I 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:13.840 mean I am, like to two girls, and you have 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:16.440 two boys, right, I do? How old are yours? You 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:19.560 look so gold? Oh man, thank you. I'm thirty eight. 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:21.800 But yeah I have a five and a three year old, 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:26.680 so she's about six. Oh god, your your boys are 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:31.000 they're grown and they're going to college. You know what 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:35.920 I find so interesting about this voice acting as a career. Um, 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:38.160 and now you've done so many different things as well. 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:41.360 I wonder if you can speak to for a lot 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:43.800 of the people that are parents or you know, are 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:46.120 older wanting to get into the voice acting world and 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:49.280 have families and stuff, and how much of that is 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:52.160 a time commitment for them to like pull away. But 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:56.000 it is I think, a very good community for people 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:57.760 to like if they're going to get in the business, 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:00.840 like voice acting is. It's it's filled with a lot 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.960 of good people. In my opinion. Oh I've never I 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:07.360 swear to god, I have never met one jerk in 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:10.920 the voice over world. I mean, and they're they're bountiful 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:16.320 in the on camera world and the theater and theater. Yeah, 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.560 I don't really know what what it is about the 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:22.400 voice over community, but every it's also if you do 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:26.280 meet a jerk, you never see them again. That's because 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:28.560 it's one of those things where it's such everybody likes 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:31.760 everybody so much, and there's it's not it's not the 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:35.560 competition aspect, isn't there in the voice over world. Your 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:37.520 voice is gonna work or it's not gonna work. People 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:40.120 are genuinely, genuinely happy for each other when it's like, 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:42.440 oh you got that, you jerk, Oh I wanted that. 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:46.720 It's all fun, it's all fun stuff. And then you 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:48.360 do you get into the on camera world and you're like, oh, 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:52.480 you're genuinely not a good person, you like, you don't 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:55.160 find that in VO. You just don't find that in 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:58.240 v OH. It's so strange. I wonder if it's because 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:01.400 it's energetic and lie so much of like what you 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:03.960 were just talking about with Andrea and how she kind 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:07.680 of is this conduit for our creativity in the in 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:10.480 the in the room, so to speak. And like you said, 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:14.160 you're just pushing you're pushing your your your voice through 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:17.080 this little tiny hole and then this other person you're 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:21.040 entrusting with that and and so it's this energy exchange 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:24.600 that needs to be very free, flowing through a big glass, 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:29.120 you know, window that they absolutely I think that's true. 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.520 I think there's also an aspect in the VO world 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.320 where I always say, you know, Christy, and we've talked 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:36.000 about this, where one of my mottos is there's a 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:39.920 very big difference between child ish and childlike. And so 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:42.879 there's you have to be childlike to be in the 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:45.480 v O world. And when you are childlike, chances are 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:49.800 you embrace that goofiness. So you're inherently already a decent 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:51.760 human being, because that makes sense, like you're already like 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:57.720 you want to play. So when you get those lighthearted 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:00.800 people where a John DiMaggio walk into the room. I 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:02.600 tear a strong walks into the room. When a great 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:04.920 one of these people walks into the room, the room 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:08.359 lightens up because everybody's having fun and they're enjoying themselves 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:10.760 and and and so I think that lends itself to 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:13.560 just better people than kind of like, don't talk to 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:16.440 that guy over there. He you know, has studied deep 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:20.200 acting for five years. They spent on the streets to 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:26.520 make exactly Yeah, yeah, no, that's really astute. I think 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:29.120 you're you're dead on you're dead on so cooking. Well, 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:33.080 we're like little we're like little kids just playing. Yeah, 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:36.399 I would say it's it's really not monetarily. You know, 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:39.320 you don't go into voice acting for the money. That 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:42.200 there's something to that. But but but the money is good, 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:45.360 I mean like like I mean compared to how much 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:50.520 work you're actually doing. It's not work number one. It's fun. 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:53.679 And you know, I'm just I'm going to work to 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:57.400 just listen to all of my friends, Like I feel 0:18:57.440 --> 0:18:59.840 like the future on my casts are they seem like 0:18:59.880 --> 0:19:04.840 there all stand up comedians and I see myself more 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:07.439 as like an actor, So I'm not like that. But 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:11.640 someone's got to be the audience, so so I'm they're 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:14.720 just kind of like laughing at everybody, and and it's 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:20.119 sort of like, um, it takes us probably a third 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:23.960 longer than it should to record the whole thing, just 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:27.720 because we're just goofing around and and and you know, 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:31.480 at least Super Sinski, our producer, he's got the job 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:46.679 of like hurting all these crazy sheets. It's just I 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:49.919 always remembered I'd see this on Kim Possible and on 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:52.199 other shows. I would call it J D T or 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:57.920 John DiMaggio. Time. You knew you'd have to add of 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:00.520 the amount of time you were going to record, absolutely, 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:05.200 but it's so worth it because it's so funny. I mean, 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:07.680 for instance, Kim Possible, we were gonna have Johnny on. 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:12.439 We've we've had and one of the things you know, 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:15.200 in those moments, and we've all seen this in the booth, 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:18.119 in those moments where some of these actors are joking 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:20.399 around and trying to one up each other and going 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:23.560 off on different characters, they come up with the character 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:28.800 that then is used in the future, right like Dave Herman, 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:32.439 I mean, crazy John DiMaggio as we were joking around 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:34.679 one day, just started doing this this character and it 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:39.240 became motor ed from from Kim Possible, So you see 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:42.240 this kind of stuff. I mean, so I have to 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:44.040 jump into this because now we're talking John Demjo and 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:46.639 we've now talked to Futurama. I want to talk a 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:49.879 bit about Futurama because I think it is arguably one 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:53.520 of the greatest animated series of all time. I think phenomenal. 0:20:53.760 --> 0:20:56.199 I feel just as strong I do. But do you 0:20:56.240 --> 0:21:01.360 like it more than Simpson's Yes, okay, I I think 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:03.359 one of the things I love so much about Futurama 0:21:03.480 --> 0:21:05.600 is the episodes out of nowhere that all of a 0:21:05.640 --> 0:21:08.639 sudden you're crying, which doesn't really happen in the Simpsons. 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:10.639 And when you get Luck of the fryar Ish or 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:13.320 you get Fries Dog, or you get one of these episodes, 0:21:14.080 --> 0:21:16.800 like you've got to be kidding me with some of this, 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:22.159 but a voice over actor and fan. It's also one 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:25.119 of those things where you go because there's never guest stars. 0:21:26.080 --> 0:21:29.160 You guys do all the voices, so no never ever 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:31.800 any guest stars. It's amazing. So it's like you know 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:36.439 that it's gonna be Johnny or mo Or or they 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:38.399 never no one can ever go on to be like, 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:40.960 guess what I did last week? I did a Futurama. 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:46.200 Like that's never gonna happen. Well unless you're Al Gore 0:21:45.600 --> 0:21:51.040 really trying to get the real person or or like that. Yeah, 0:21:51.080 --> 0:21:54.680 of course, Um, but what was it like? So you 0:21:54.680 --> 0:21:57.800 you know, Futurama's actually came in after The Simpsons, which 0:21:57.840 --> 0:21:59.719 is you know one, it is the biggest smash hit 0:21:59.800 --> 0:22:01.879 and me a series of all time. So what is 0:22:01.880 --> 0:22:03.800 it like knowing that you're going in and reading for 0:22:04.240 --> 0:22:06.920 kind of the next project that Matt Greening is doing? 0:22:06.960 --> 0:22:10.200 What was that process? Like? I was scared too, I'm 0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:13.480 not gonna lie. And I had the most magical meeting 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:18.720 with Matt and and I I always credit Michael McKeon 0:22:19.000 --> 0:22:21.920 because he and I were dating at that time for 0:22:22.000 --> 0:22:24.960 a couple of years actually, and he is like one 0:22:25.000 --> 0:22:29.280 of the funniest, coolest people, just naturally. And I swear 0:22:29.320 --> 0:22:32.880 to god, I feel like that I got some street 0:22:32.960 --> 0:22:38.720 cred just because I was his girlfriend. And I and 0:22:38.800 --> 0:22:42.600 Matt loves Michael, and you know, like his work. I 0:22:42.640 --> 0:22:44.560 don't know if they know each other's people, but he 0:22:44.600 --> 0:22:46.919 loved his work and I he mentioned that to me 0:22:46.960 --> 0:22:49.000 at the top of the meeting, and so that really 0:22:49.640 --> 0:22:53.720 relaxed me. And then and yeah, and then I have 0:22:53.960 --> 0:22:56.879 kind of a nutty laugh. I've always had like a 0:22:56.920 --> 0:23:01.720 really loud, crazy laugh. And Matt just really loved it 0:23:02.000 --> 0:23:04.119 and said, you know, you know what, he said it 0:23:04.200 --> 0:23:06.040 right in the room. He said, I don't know what 0:23:06.040 --> 0:23:09.480 we're gonna do with you, but with that laugh, we 0:23:09.600 --> 0:23:13.520 have to have you in the show somehow. So did they? 0:23:13.800 --> 0:23:17.560