Speaker 1: Hi Christie, Hey there Will. How are you welcome back?
Speaker 1: You missed a great one, if all of the ones
Speaker 1: for me to miss, I had to miss Kyla Pratt
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Right? And she was bummed. She
Speaker 1: was totally bummed and she was well because she was
Speaker 1: stuck with me, which is the worst thing. That's that's
Speaker 1: not true. Everybody loves you. That's awful. But yeah, it
Speaker 1: was so cool. I mean, just talking to Disney Royalty, she's,
Speaker 1: you know, proud family, I ever, dude, and it's come
Speaker 1: back and like she's I've really am bombed that I
Speaker 1: missed that interview. Um, I did everything I could to
Speaker 1: try to make it happen. So you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's the multiple podcast life that you have that you
Speaker 1: can relate to right well, which, speaking of House House
Speaker 1: Pod mets World going, it's going really really well. Are
Speaker 1: you guys doing live ones too? Yes, We've done one
Speaker 1: live show that went amazingly well, so I would say
Speaker 1: there's a very good chance that we will be doing more.
Speaker 1: Would be the best good I want to come to
Speaker 1: those two I should. We're so lucky that we know
Speaker 1: great people man, and we know each other, which is
Speaker 1: good too. Yeah, I know, I love I missed going
Speaker 1: to comic CON's with you. When's our next comic con?
Speaker 1: I think like there's one coming up at some point.
Speaker 1: I think there's one coming up. It's one of those
Speaker 1: things now where Sue just has me. There's a giant
Speaker 1: calendar that is on our table that is not allowed
Speaker 1: to be moved, and everything is written in bright red ink.
Speaker 1: So yeah, she's she's she's taken over the here's what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do. We're gonna write everything in a big
Speaker 1: old calendar because my brain can be a little scattered
Speaker 1: with that stuff. So I think it's in March. Maybe awesome.
Speaker 1: Mar is so cool. But until I see giant red
Speaker 1: letters saying you have to be here in March, I
Speaker 1: won't know for exactly. And so the contest is officially closed. Everybody,
Speaker 1: everybody out there. Guy, that was like so quick. I
Speaker 1: feel like that happens so quick. But we've got a
Speaker 1: ton of submissions, we really do. So we are so
Speaker 1: excited and we are going to find the next big
Speaker 1: voice Accory and we're not going to mention who, but um,
Speaker 1: some of the guest judges that we already have signed
Speaker 1: on that are gonna help us pick are awesome. I
Speaker 1: can't wait. I mean some of just the most talented
Speaker 1: people that have already said, oh heck yeah, I will
Speaker 1: come into an episode. So it's gonna be so cool.
Speaker 1: I can't wait. I really can't mean too. It's a
Speaker 1: fun podcast, and I think that a lot of the
Speaker 1: people that we've even if you if you've listened to
Speaker 1: our podcasts in the past, a lot of times will
Speaker 1: be like, hey, would you come back because we have
Speaker 1: this like contest, and it's like everyone was more than
Speaker 1: happy to like you know, so uh yeah, it's we are.
Speaker 1: We are calling through them, but we cannot wait. That
Speaker 1: does not change the fact that until the contest starts,
Speaker 1: we are still meeting some of the most prolific, incredible
Speaker 1: voice over actors in the history of the world, and
Speaker 1: today is no exception. Christie, oh my gosh, very excited
Speaker 1: about Trevor. Yeah, I am too. I've known Trevor for
Speaker 1: a very long time. Trevor and I did Guardians of
Speaker 1: the Galaxy together. We'll get into that. But he's also
Speaker 1: as an amazing Emperor Palpatine and he was on My
Speaker 1: Little Pony. He's on f IS for Family I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a he's also a big nerd. I know
Speaker 1: it's gonna say. I saw his YouTube which is about
Speaker 1: D n D right, D and D. It's it's it's
Speaker 1: it's D and D and it's all table top games.
Speaker 1: He's got a great channel we'll get into that's called Me,
Speaker 1: Myself and Die and uh yeah, there's some great stuff.
Speaker 1: So let's get into this with Mr Trevor de Val. Hello. Hey,
Speaker 1: now that is a sexy set you got set up.
Speaker 1: What can I say? I'm a sexy background looking kind
Speaker 1: of guy. It's good, it's good. Nice to meet you.
Speaker 1: Nice to be met. I would say the foregrounds pretty sexy, Trevor.
Speaker 1: But what are you gonna do? Oh you? How are you?
Speaker 1: Pretty good? How are you? I'm good. I'm glad that
Speaker 1: we are able to do this. We've been going back
Speaker 1: and forth about when to have you on, and I
Speaker 1: think the time it's pretty perfect. The time is nice.
Speaker 1: Time is nice. So we okay, so a little bit
Speaker 1: about our show. We talk just about religion in politics. Hey,
Speaker 1: favorite time we talk about voiceover, and that's something that
Speaker 1: you are pretty darn good at but had a different
Speaker 1: road than a lot of people. Can you tell us
Speaker 1: how you got into v O. Uh, well, do you
Speaker 1: know the term blackmail and extortion? Have you heard of
Speaker 1: these two things? Yes? Yea, How did I get into
Speaker 1: voice over? Um? Okay, Well, when I was about five
Speaker 1: years old, my older brother Mike used to do this
Speaker 1: impression of Jackie Stewart, who was a Scottish racecar commentator
Speaker 1: back in the day. He used to be a driver,
Speaker 1: but he turned into a commentator on his entire thing
Speaker 1: was would be very excitable, right, so I mean commentate
Speaker 1: to the relation. Of course, in those days the races
Speaker 1: were just cars going round and around around around it circles,
Speaker 1: as much as they are today as a matter fact,
Speaker 1: that's still the same anyway. So what would invariably happen
Speaker 1: is that one of the cars would blow a tire,
Speaker 1: spin out, hit the wall and explode. And so as
Speaker 1: Jackie was, you know, uh talking about this, he very excited.
Speaker 1: Oh no, look at care forty three is coming around
Speaker 1: the Bandy's looking good. Oh no, don't. He's hit the
Speaker 1: wall and he set the flames. And that was a
Speaker 1: big thing in Burthon fight. So he would My brother
Speaker 1: would do this thing around the dinner table where he'd
Speaker 1: have like he'd say, hey, pass the catchup and mustard
Speaker 1: and catch So it's a great deal forays. Today we've
Speaker 1: got cot Shop on mustard. Oh look at this cot
Speaker 1: Shop pulls out in nth and you do this whole
Speaker 1: thing and then oh no, that mustard hits at bar
Speaker 1: sent the flames. So everyone and I saw this, and
Speaker 1: I said, everybody laughing at this le voice, and I thought,
Speaker 1: it's my gateway to total power and domination. One day
Speaker 1: I just kind of did the punchline and he was
Speaker 1: doing the set up, but everyone oh, and I thought, oh,
Speaker 1: perhaps I could do something with it. And yeah, so
Speaker 1: I just started doing voices and accents and stuff. But
Speaker 1: it wasn't for years and years and years years later
Speaker 1: that I realized it could be a you know, a job. Well,
Speaker 1: you're also in Canada, so there's not a lot of
Speaker 1: opportunity for jobs, and there was in vancous. I was
Speaker 1: living in Vant to the time, which was the big
Speaker 1: the theatrical capital of the western hemisphere of the country
Speaker 1: as it is me. But I with the filmmaker at
Speaker 1: the time as well, a director, So I went to
Speaker 1: Vancouver because that was Hollywood North and uh went north
Speaker 1: That's that's what they called it. Yeah, because especially at
Speaker 1: that time, man, because that was the days of the
Speaker 1: Hex Files and like everything was being shot up there,
Speaker 1: you know, and we got there right, Oh yeah, sure Disney.
Speaker 1: Disney would always do whenever we did a Disney movie,
Speaker 1: it would be like, hey, you're shooting a movie that
Speaker 1: takes place half a mile from your house, Let's go
Speaker 1: to Vancouver. So that's pretty much what you do Vancouver
Speaker 1: or Toronto. Yeah. So, so we had there was a
Speaker 1: there was a big animation industry there, um and so
Speaker 1: I I went and I didn't even think because I
Speaker 1: went there to be a filmmaker and director, and within
Speaker 1: six months I had sort of fallen backwards into this
Speaker 1: strange world where people were talking to each other and
Speaker 1: silly voices and doing things and that was that. And
Speaker 1: that was two years ago. So that sounds like you
Speaker 1: were inspired by a lot of the folks around you
Speaker 1: at that time. Well no, well, okay, so the thing
Speaker 1: is is that, you know, I grew up, you know,
Speaker 1: like a lot of people who may age, I grew
Speaker 1: up you know, watching uh, you know, Bugs, Bunny and
Speaker 1: of course all that stuff was great, and but I
Speaker 1: didn't actually think that voiceover for cartoons was was a thing.
Speaker 1: This is how this is how dim I am. When
Speaker 1: someone said to me, A friend of mine said to me,
Speaker 1: when I moved to Vancouver, he said to me, you
Speaker 1: know you should get into a voice over. I said,
Speaker 1: what do you mean. He said, well, you know, like
Speaker 1: cartoon voices and tough and I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: those are actors. You know. The next thing I thought
Speaker 1: was in and this cartoon was you know, drawn in
Speaker 1: front of a live studio audience. I'm just didn't quite
Speaker 1: make the connected. Yeah, their their hands get very tired,
Speaker 1: very quickly when they have to draw live. Yeah. But
Speaker 1: when I started to work, what I discovered was the
Speaker 1: same thing I would go on to discover in l
Speaker 1: A in that it's a very tiny little community, a
Speaker 1: very dedicated kookie people who love their jobs and they
Speaker 1: take their job seriously, but they don't take themselves particularly seriously.
Speaker 1: And that so happy. Um. Yeah, so in that sense,
Speaker 1: I was inspired by the people I worked with immediately
Speaker 1: was it was Yeah, it was a great world to
Speaker 1: be part of. Now, was that when when you started
Speaker 1: v O was at it? Were you like, this is it?
Speaker 1: This is what I'm doing? Or were you still saying, hey,
Speaker 1: vo is great and this will be awesome until my
Speaker 1: acting and directing career takes off. When I did my
Speaker 1: first job, it was September and it was with Sue Blue.
Speaker 1: She was my first director, and uh, it was it
Speaker 1: can't be any twenty and can't be seen IM sorry,
Speaker 1: So what I was like, wait a second, and I
Speaker 1: did a show together before I didn't even realize. I
Speaker 1: was that's how did there it is? That's the brain
Speaker 1: works U and he was two thousand it was, and
Speaker 1: uh it was a great that we did like twenty
Speaker 1: six episodes and three months it was like pop, get
Speaker 1: him out. And the show never made it to air
Speaker 1: because they ran it a funding, which kind of sucks
Speaker 1: because it was really cool. But up in Canada we
Speaker 1: were paid with a buyout system, so we got we
Speaker 1: got all the money up front, so that actually worked out. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: that's why they couldn't afford the show. They had to
Speaker 1: pay us anyway. Anyway, we did the show and the
Speaker 1: whole time I thought, Okay, well this is great. That's
Speaker 1: more money than I've ever seen in my life before.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pay off my big student on which I
Speaker 1: had and that'll be that I'm gonna keep a little
Speaker 1: for a rainy day and assume that this will never
Speaker 1: happen again, because it probably won't. And and the next
Speaker 1: week they said, hey, you're on another show, and I
Speaker 1: went o, well, this will never happen again. And then hey,
Speaker 1: you want to do this on the show. Okay, but
Speaker 1: this and to this day when I get a job,
Speaker 1: I'm still well, this is nice, but that's never gonna
Speaker 1: happen again. That's such an actor thing. We still always
Speaker 1: do that we're doing we're I remember so Trevor and
Speaker 1: I did Guardians to the Galaxy together and he was
Speaker 1: Rocket and I was star Lord, and we would look
Speaker 1: at each other even by second and third season be like,
Speaker 1: this show is not gonna go It's like, wait, it's
Speaker 1: been on the air for two years. Yeah, now this
Speaker 1: this isn't going anywhere. I mean, that's show you got away.
Speaker 1: Such an actor thing. I mean, it's every actor has
Speaker 1: imposter syndrome. Every actor is completely and totally insecure about
Speaker 1: themselves in their career. And if you meet an actor
Speaker 1: that's like I'm gonna work all the time, you're like,
Speaker 1: you are not really in this business? Are you? Because
Speaker 1: you just don't you don't meet those people. I was.
Speaker 1: I was in a I was in a bar, a
Speaker 1: pub after a session this many years ago back in Vancouver,
Speaker 1: and there was a colleague of mine who shall remain nameless,
Speaker 1: who was sitting there at the bar with me, and
Speaker 1: we were just coming off the high of having this
Speaker 1: great session and you know, playing multiple characters blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. And he said, you know right now,
Speaker 1: how everything's great. We're all on like six shows, you
Speaker 1: and I. Right now, this it's never gonna get this
Speaker 1: is it's just gonna keep getting better and better. And
Speaker 1: I was like, no, that are you out of your mind? There?
Speaker 1: Listening every time every time I'm in the car with
Speaker 1: my wife and she's like, wow, no traffic. I'm like,
Speaker 1: are you kidding me? What are you doing? What are
Speaker 1: you It's not gonna rain on our picnic day? Hey?
Speaker 1: What are you thinking? Don't think they're listening there, You're
Speaker 1: absolutely right there listening. You mentioned bugs, Bunny and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. So, having kind of fallen into the voice
Speaker 1: overside of the industry, were you not a huge animation
Speaker 1: fan growing up? Well? No, I mean, like I said,
Speaker 1: I love Bugs Bunny. Uh, But it didn't really occur
Speaker 1: to me that this was the cartoons that I watched
Speaker 1: as a kid. Bugs Bunny. Uh. What the hell was
Speaker 1: the Battle of the Planets, which was the the anime
Speaker 1: thing that was a rip off of something I don't know.
Speaker 1: We was some gotcha, well it was. It was some
Speaker 1: giant Japanese anime that they turned into a different version
Speaker 1: called Battle of the Planets, and I watched that today.
Speaker 1: By the way, it's unwatchable. We actually, I'm sure we
Speaker 1: were like, let's check this out and see it. Holds up?
Speaker 1: Hold up? But that or like like, um, this is
Speaker 1: the old Spider Man cartoon that like back he did
Speaker 1: and stuff like that stuff. I love that stuff. But
Speaker 1: I didn't really watch a lot of cartoons as a kid.
Speaker 1: I was I was too busy playing with my toys
Speaker 1: and giving them my own voices. You know, I didn't, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it um, I didn't. I didn't know it was
Speaker 1: a job, like I honestly didn't know it was a
Speaker 1: career choice. It didn't even occur to me. Honestly. Doing
Speaker 1: voices was a way to try and impress girls at parties,
Speaker 1: which was only marginally successful. So I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: you went to way different parties than I did. I
Speaker 1: can only apologize in so many dialects. That's well, can
Speaker 1: you remember the first voice you ever did? Yes? Oh
Speaker 1: you the first voice I ever did? Or when you
Speaker 1: even as a kid, Now, the first voice you ever
Speaker 1: did as a kid, you remember it might have been
Speaker 1: It might have been the Scottish because you know that
Speaker 1: that accent has. It's certainly the first one I ever learned.
Speaker 1: And uh, to this day, like when I when I
Speaker 1: book a job with that accent, I'm just there's there's
Speaker 1: a part of me that's like, oh, thanks Broke. He's
Speaker 1: he's passed on now. So it's a little like thanks Mike.
Speaker 1: You know that was the thing that always amazed me
Speaker 1: about you was so And this is a perfect example
Speaker 1: of talking about the different kind of aspects of the
Speaker 1: voice over world, because there are people we've talked about
Speaker 1: how somebody like me, for instance, or Christie, we we
Speaker 1: don't do fifty voices. We just can't do fifty voices.
Speaker 1: Will never do fifty voices. It's just not in our DNA.
Speaker 1: And then there's some actors that can do fifty sounds,
Speaker 1: fifty cartoon voices make it sound like, you know, there
Speaker 1: are robots or whatever, and then there's actors like you
Speaker 1: that can do a little bit of everything. But then
Speaker 1: when it comes to dialects, you can kind of do
Speaker 1: them all. So was there was that something that you
Speaker 1: gravitated tours? Was was listening to other people's voices and
Speaker 1: kind of trying to mimic them, because it's not necessarily
Speaker 1: the same as doing a cartoon voice quote unquote. You're
Speaker 1: not going in going hey, how does everybody go that?
Speaker 1: It's more like you're doing a real Scottish thing. And
Speaker 1: the thing that I love is I would always do
Speaker 1: it next to you and it would go about thirty
Speaker 1: seconds and you go, please please stop doing that, please
Speaker 1: please please stop. It's not there. And I'm like, what
Speaker 1: are you talking about? I am Irish. You're like, oh god,
Speaker 1: please please do please cut it out, please stop. So
Speaker 1: where did the dialects come from? Um? It is a
Speaker 1: bit of imitation. Uh. But also growing up in Canada.
Speaker 1: I was just talking about this with a colleague one
Speaker 1: the other day. Growing up in Canada, we were exposed
Speaker 1: to a lot of British programming, the BBC in particular,
Speaker 1: so I grew up with BBC News One, and I
Speaker 1: grew up with Monty Python, and I grew up with
Speaker 1: all of that stuff. So those accents were prevalent in
Speaker 1: my childhood. I just heard them all the time, and
Speaker 1: they were easy and fun to imitate. And you know,
Speaker 1: when you when you're exposed to a dialect at a
Speaker 1: very young age, obviously you develop an ear for it
Speaker 1: and you can you know, sometimes you don't even know
Speaker 1: you're doing it. Uh But where's a lot of American
Speaker 1: friends of mine. They don't have that same experience, you know,
Speaker 1: because everything was was about American stuff, an American dialect.
Speaker 1: So I think I think that helped me. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's weird because I can't describe how Like I can't
Speaker 1: teach a dialect. I couldn't say, oh, this is how
Speaker 1: you do dialect x. I just it just kind of
Speaker 1: comes to me. Well, I mean, will you remember the
Speaker 1: story where we were at? Uh? So, for me, the
Speaker 1: South African accent was always this holy grail of accents.
Speaker 1: That's like all that. It's such a weird one, right,
Speaker 1: and it's like the combinations of different sounds, and I
Speaker 1: just like, I'm never gonna be able to get that one.
Speaker 1: And then one day I'm doing my laundry and I'm
Speaker 1: hanging my shirts to dry because I I don't want
Speaker 1: to shrink them, so I hang them and as I'm
Speaker 1: doing that, I'm talking to them, because of course I am.
Speaker 1: And uh. Then I realized that I'm talking to them
Speaker 1: in a Johannesburg accent, and I was like, how did
Speaker 1: this happen? I'm hanging the wash right now, what are
Speaker 1: you doing up here? You missed their shirts? Look at
Speaker 1: you hanging there like it? And I was like, what
Speaker 1: the hell? So I went to session the next day
Speaker 1: and we were in the in the booth and I
Speaker 1: started to talk to everybody, luck lucky just all of
Speaker 1: a sudden time of time to me from on or
Speaker 1: something like it. And then Harrison, the producer, said, do
Speaker 1: you do that accent? I said, I guess so. And
Speaker 1: then you think asked me as Claw and Avengers, just
Speaker 1: like all right, yeah, that is the joy of our
Speaker 1: business is you sit there in the room and like
Speaker 1: you said, everyone's not taking themselves very seriously, so you're
Speaker 1: just messing around with each other, and these other accents
Speaker 1: or voices or something pop out. And then a producer
Speaker 1: in the room or a director goes that's perfect for
Speaker 1: something else, and then you're on another job. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean we we said so Kim Possible. When we were
Speaker 1: doing Kim Possible. John DiMaggio, who was Dragon, was always
Speaker 1: doing these big mr drack you know, dr dracking. She
Speaker 1: got all this kind of stuff, and then he just
Speaker 1: started doing this rock and roll gut out and the
Speaker 1: next week they had written this guy named motor Ed
Speaker 1: and that's the voice he did, And it was just
Speaker 1: something they came up within the room. And it's just
Speaker 1: that happens almost nowhere else in the industry, where you're
Speaker 1: not in the middle of shooting a film and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden you're like doing another character while you're
Speaker 1: doing the film. They're like, hey, we're going to write
Speaker 1: another film for you. I mean, that just never happens.
Speaker 1: It only happens in in the voice over industry, where
Speaker 1: it's just all creatively driven. Well, let me ask you
Speaker 1: this as the actor like, and especially this is coming
Speaker 1: from someone doesn't do fifty voices. But I definitely done
Speaker 1: voice matching. I have a few dialects, but nothing like you, sir,
Speaker 1: sir tror Um. But yes, I've certainly does it behoove
Speaker 1: you as the actor to be playful and kind of
Speaker 1: almost like showcase these aspects of your talent. Two producers
Speaker 1: in the room and like kind of like you're saying,
Speaker 1: like you walked in and you did that. This is
Speaker 1: also for our fans in case they want to just
Speaker 1: experiment in different ways. Yeah, I think that's crucial. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's crucial to constantly have a sense of playfulness
Speaker 1: about it. The trick is, of course, not pushing it
Speaker 1: too far and become irritating. You know, it's a balanceance.
Speaker 1: There are moments, and we've all been in these rooms
Speaker 1: where there's that point where an actor has gone too
Speaker 1: far and it's like, all right, we got it. You
Speaker 1: can do this silly voice. We got it. Due payments
Speaker 1: a mata gascar When I was that room, we've all
Speaker 1: talked about at least the shaffer has talked about it.
Speaker 1: Those guys are crazy. Yeah, you were in between. It
Speaker 1: was like it was Jeff Bennett, Rob Paulson, John DiMaggio
Speaker 1: and event and eventually you just you just sit back
Speaker 1: and go, Okay, this four hour session is now gonna
Speaker 1: be nine hours because they're just gonna go at it.
Speaker 1: And it's hysterical and amazing and too long a session.
Speaker 1: And there's things you learned to like when you walk
Speaker 1: into a room full of voice guys, there's certain things
Speaker 1: you don't do because you know, it's like throwing red
Speaker 1: meat into the room, like you know, back in the
Speaker 1: old days, if you did a thing, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: Now everybody in the room is shatter into each other,
Speaker 1: consistently doing the whole thing, and you're like now or
Speaker 1: Sean Connery and all of a sudden, everybody's doing this
Speaker 1: show and garry for ten minutes and it's like, just
Speaker 1: stop throwing the red meat. I remember one session where
Speaker 1: every single person in the room for like an hour
Speaker 1: was just doing Eddie Deason oh well, And it was
Speaker 1: just oh my, now we're good, you're Attie. Days in
Speaker 1: it was like okay, alright, alright, we're good. Can we
Speaker 1: get back to transformers or whatever? Actually recording here it
Speaker 1: was really bad in twenty sixteen, remember, because everybody was
Speaker 1: doing the trip. Everybody was doing. But I remember who
Speaker 1: was who's a tech over at I can't remember that
Speaker 1: the name of the guy, but he was. He was
Speaker 1: one of the regular technicians. And you know, somebody had
Speaker 1: done the thing, opened the thing and he said, great,
Speaker 1: another Trump impression. I've never heard that before and sucks
Speaker 1: the life. Okay, sorry, well what is it's you're the
Speaker 1: guy in two thousand three walking into a room going
Speaker 1: what right. It's like, okay, we we did that ninety seven.
Speaker 1: We're good, thank you? Oh my Okay. So we were
Speaker 1: talking before you came on about uh, everything you've been
Speaker 1: doing obviously and the assortment of of work you've done.
Speaker 1: One of the coolest things that you got a chance
Speaker 1: to do, and I want to talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about it because it is such a world that once
Speaker 1: you're in, you're in is Star Wars. So can you
Speaker 1: tell us what it was like to to enter the
Speaker 1: world of Star Wars, which apparently was a long time
Speaker 1: ago in a galaxy far far away, if you believe
Speaker 1: the propaganda. And yeah. So my first for a into
Speaker 1: the Star Wars universe as a as a voice actor
Speaker 1: was for Lego and it was a project when I
Speaker 1: was still back in Vancouver called The Yoda Chronicles, which
Speaker 1: was a series um that was kind of set in
Speaker 1: the prequel era, but it was a comedy version of
Speaker 1: it with all the Lego characters and they were casting
Speaker 1: for you know how they'll they'll send outsides and it'll
Speaker 1: you know, it's like this is you know, King Joe,
Speaker 1: but we all know, okay, this is demperate Palpatine. We
Speaker 1: hear exactly, yeah, like okay, so I'm hearing and you
Speaker 1: hear the ref and you're like, okay, alright, I get it.
Speaker 1: Code names this secret. So I did the auditions for
Speaker 1: a bunch of them, Obi Wan and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Eventually they called and said, well, you're going to be
Speaker 1: Emperor Palpatine. And I was like, oh wow, that that
Speaker 1: that's kind of Mike and like the the eight year
Speaker 1: old and me was going yeah. But we went into
Speaker 1: session and I very quickly realized that this was the
Speaker 1: comedy version. It was written by Michael Price, who was
Speaker 1: a Simpsons writer, and it was gone on to become
Speaker 1: one of my good friends. Actually, he's also the producer
Speaker 1: of Effes for Family, which is a big show that
Speaker 1: he brought me in on several years back with Bill
Speaker 1: Burr and and but this is the first time I
Speaker 1: met him. And he was a Simpsons writer and he
Speaker 1: was also a massive Star Wars fan. And you could
Speaker 1: tell because in the script there was all these little
Speaker 1: easter eggs that only true fans would get, and I
Speaker 1: recognized that immediately and went, oh, this guy knows his stuff.
Speaker 1: This guy know the Star Wars. So when I started
Speaker 1: coming in, you know, I remember the first day we
Speaker 1: all came in, and you know, I was trying to
Speaker 1: do the Palpatine seemed very siztle veda, right, but gradually
Speaker 1: it turned into oh, eight a minute, this is basically
Speaker 1: kind of playful, yes, okay, and then my Palpatine became
Speaker 1: across between Mark Camell's Joker and Stuie Griffin little get
Speaker 1: out of my face anyway, So he quickly became this
Speaker 1: like total favorite, and the producers kept going, we need
Speaker 1: to bring you back, and so they would write all
Speaker 1: these specials where Palpatine would just show up and I'm like,
Speaker 1: but he's like dead Dad, that's Cannon, that's like some
Speaker 1: non Star Wars canon. So it was it was tremendous.
Speaker 1: Man we did. I did a whole bunch of series,
Speaker 1: and then when I got to l A, we did
Speaker 1: The Freemaker Adventures, which was another series, and then I
Speaker 1: did a whole bunch of these specials. And there's still
Speaker 1: stuff going on which we can't talk about but this,
Speaker 1: and it was just for me. It was just this
Speaker 1: wonderful opportunity to be a kid again because I because
Speaker 1: I'm also like Admiral ak Bar, and I was Boba Fette,
Speaker 1: and I was jar Jar Banks and I was all
Speaker 1: of these characters, and I'm like, this is kind of
Speaker 1: the coolest thing ever. I gotta say, is your highlight?
Speaker 1: Would say definitely one of them. Definitely one of the
Speaker 1: highlights of my career for sure was to be able
Speaker 1: to now, what did you do with Jargear? I gotta
Speaker 1: ask what you did with jar Jar? Oh? You know,
Speaker 1: just the usual hor I'm you know that stuff. It's
Speaker 1: just the usual. The most popular character in the history
Speaker 1: of Star Wars, well, he Jarge are big. There's a
Speaker 1: there's a joke in one of the series we do
Speaker 1: where stars happen, says and then he immediately gets like
Speaker 1: kicked off screen or something, and as he's flying out
Speaker 1: of the shot, his line is, uh, me, something, I'd
Speaker 1: be in this show much longer. You have to you
Speaker 1: have to with Jarge are It's terrible? Oh my okay?
Speaker 1: So justice, hashtag justice, that's the hashtag of the day.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Christy so you said, that's kind of fulfilling
Speaker 1: an eight year old dream. Other than that, then if
Speaker 1: you get to play you can play anybody you want,
Speaker 1: any character you want to do. What's the ultimate character
Speaker 1: that you haven't had a chance to play it, or
Speaker 1: even you have, I mean maybe maybe you've played the
Speaker 1: character you wanted to play. Oh boy, Um, I've I've
Speaker 1: been lucky, you know. Uh, I've been given opportunities to
Speaker 1: play pretty big characters that even at the time, I
Speaker 1: didn't know we're big characters. Like Honestly, when we started
Speaker 1: doing Guardians cast a Rocket, I didn't know anything about
Speaker 1: the Guardian. I don't thin anybody knew anything about the
Speaker 1: Guardans of the Galaxy at the time. It was this weird,
Speaker 1: obscure thing that you know, James Gunnen brought to life
Speaker 1: because of the movie. But I remember when we were
Speaker 1: recording the show, I was auditioning for the show. For
Speaker 1: our show, the trailer came out shortly after my audition,
Speaker 1: and my friend Sam he showed me this trailer and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, this is a deal that, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, this is a look at this. This is
Speaker 1: a real thing. And so when we started doing the
Speaker 1: show and I realized that, you know, the Rocket Raccoon
Speaker 1: was becoming this cultural phenomenon of the time. I thought,
Speaker 1: this is this is a this is a pretty big
Speaker 1: privilege to be in this room, and not only just
Speaker 1: to be playing that character, but be in the room
Speaker 1: with you guys as well. Obviously that was because that
Speaker 1: was my first big group show in a Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I've done a bunch of stuff up to
Speaker 1: that point, but that was the first time that I
Speaker 1: really got a chance to like dive in with with
Speaker 1: you folks. So there was a it was a big deal.
Speaker 1: Well that was I mean, that was a fun cast.
Speaker 1: Is there a different tone in working in animation in
Speaker 1: Canada than there is in Hollywood? No, it's the same thing.
Speaker 1: It's uh, it's people, Yeah, exact same. Do you think
Speaker 1: that is? Well, Ray more polite in Canada, aren't they
Speaker 1: that's the illusion? Uh? They they are the exact same
Speaker 1: kind of people. You could put the Canadian voice actors
Speaker 1: and the American voice actors in the room and the
Speaker 1: same there there there. Like I said, they're people who
Speaker 1: are really really good at their jobs, but they don't
Speaker 1: take themselves particularly seriously. They take their work seriously, but
Speaker 1: not themselves. So it's great, Yeah, totally man. And that's like,
Speaker 1: that's why I never really got on with the the
Speaker 1: on camera side of things. One of the reasons is
Speaker 1: I never liked the world. The world to me was
Speaker 1: always very judge and and and selfish and bath and
Speaker 1: in vo It wasn't that at all. It was just empowering.
Speaker 1: And it's also just so much more conducive to creativity.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. I mean, the on camera world there's
Speaker 1: times where it is, but it's rare. It's rare that
Speaker 1: I mean, it's more you've got to be the actor,
Speaker 1: and you've got and whereas you don't get to play,
Speaker 1: you don't get to play nearly as much. And so
Speaker 1: many creative things we talked about that have come out
Speaker 1: of just to play that happens in the room. Uh,
Speaker 1: that it does. It just takes it to an entirely
Speaker 1: new level. So Trevor, forgive, forgive this question. But you
Speaker 1: said there was a lot of time in between, you know,
Speaker 1: you realizing that you enjoyed voices too, when you made
Speaker 1: it a career. What were you doing in that time frame.
Speaker 1: I was a theater guy for a long time and
Speaker 1: I went to University of the University of Alberta, and
Speaker 1: I became a theater director and that's how I became
Speaker 1: a filmmaker as well. As I was moving very much
Speaker 1: into the directing side of things. It was very successful.
Speaker 1: Everything was going great, and like I said, when I
Speaker 1: went to Vancouver ninety eight, it was to be to
Speaker 1: work on the sets. I had friends that were, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: production designers and stuff like that, and so I went thinking,
Speaker 1: this is what I was gonna do, and I was
Speaker 1: gonna work my way up through the director's guild and
Speaker 1: do that whole thing. But when I got there, uh,
Speaker 1: like I said, a friend of mine from back home
Speaker 1: it said, you should, you should do voice work. And
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't even I don't even know
Speaker 1: what that means. So I I said to my agent, um,
Speaker 1: you know, I do these voices and accents and stuff.
Speaker 1: Is there is there anything we can do with that?
Speaker 1: And he said, he gave me the speech that a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of agents give a lot of actors,
Speaker 1: which is true. But you know, he said, well, you
Speaker 1: know the thing about the voice world is that you
Speaker 1: have to be you have to be extremely versatile. You
Speaker 1: have to be the best in the world. You have
Speaker 1: to be bah blah blah blah blah. And I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: well yeah, uh huh. So I went home back to
Speaker 1: Abington for Christmas or something, and I knew guys that
Speaker 1: worked at the campus radio station, and I thought I
Speaker 1: gotta put to gather a demo. I didn't even know
Speaker 1: what a demo was. I just thought, I'm just going
Speaker 1: to a bunch of nonsense into a microphone and see
Speaker 1: what happened. So I I go in there and my
Speaker 1: my friend j Who's like, we'll get you in the booth,
Speaker 1: you record wherever you want it to be good. I
Speaker 1: went in there and I literally fifteen minutes of just
Speaker 1: doing stuff, fifteen minutes long. No edits. Of course, why
Speaker 1: would you edit? And so I brought this tape back
Speaker 1: to my age and I was like, you mean like
Speaker 1: this and you listened to it the whole thing, good
Speaker 1: on good agent, and he said, well, it's a little long,
Speaker 1: but he said, I think you might have what it takes.
Speaker 1: And so he got me an audition for a show
Speaker 1: called Spider Man, uh, for the role of Spider Man.
Speaker 1: And I was so green. I never heard of it,
Speaker 1: and I was so green I didn't know to put
Speaker 1: the headphones in the booth so I could hear the
Speaker 1: director on the other side. I knew nothing, and so
Speaker 1: it was a disaster. But luckily a month after that,
Speaker 1: I got an audition for this chow called The Lost Continent,
Speaker 1: which I booked, and that was the one that we
Speaker 1: did episode and three months and and I was off
Speaker 1: the races. Your second audition, you booked a series regular.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. Yeah, I was. I've been lucky man hey
Speaker 1: side note, um, Trevor, I I got married in Bants.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, that's my home province of field Love. I love.
Speaker 1: I love it there and I can't wait. We're gonna
Speaker 1: go back there next year for our tenure. N I uh.
Speaker 1: Side note, I I sometimes shop at albert sins Um,
Speaker 1: so very very similar. Uh kind of stuff. Okay, So
Speaker 1: I want to eventually get into your geekdom, your nerdom,
Speaker 1: because that's one of the things you and I have
Speaker 1: always bonded over. But before we do that, there's something
Speaker 1: very interesting, because you have kind of an interesting perspective
Speaker 1: that I'd like to talk to you about. Um, because
Speaker 1: a lot of people that listen to our show are
Speaker 1: you know, amateur or want to be that's the wrong
Speaker 1: way to say it, but voice over actors, so they're
Speaker 1: kind of looking for direction, and you know what they
Speaker 1: can do in different things, they can learn in different techniques.
Speaker 1: And one of the things that I'm we're trying to
Speaker 1: impart to them is that you no longer need to
Speaker 1: be in Los Angeles, or need to be in New York,
Speaker 1: or need to be in one of the mecca as
Speaker 1: a voiceover, and you do in the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: I would argue, at the height of your voiceover career,
Speaker 1: you up and moved out of Hollywood, and I'm wondering
Speaker 1: how that has affected the work the record. I mean
Speaker 1: just kind of basically your career. Has Has there been
Speaker 1: any negative to saying, hey, you know what, I'm out
Speaker 1: of Hollywood and I'm gonna go do my own thing. Uh, yes,
Speaker 1: there has been a negative aspect of it, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't have anything to do necessarily with the move out
Speaker 1: of state. It was more the fact that when the
Speaker 1: pandemic came and we were all suddenly relegated to our
Speaker 1: home studios and a lot of people had to build
Speaker 1: home studios. You know, luckily already had one so I was.
Speaker 1: I was set for that. But what I what I
Speaker 1: realized was that the thing I love the most about
Speaker 1: the job was gone forever. Because what I love most
Speaker 1: about the job is being in the room with my
Speaker 1: fellow cast members and in between takes, those moments of
Speaker 1: trying to make a joke so that you can't do
Speaker 1: your next take because you're still laughing at the previous
Speaker 1: joke that was that was my favorite. So that's how
Speaker 1: unprofessional I am. My favorite part of the job is
Speaker 1: screwing up the job for others. So but but I
Speaker 1: realized that that really was that camaraderie, that that sense
Speaker 1: of family which you really do have in our world,
Speaker 1: that's gone. And will it ever come back. I don't know.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of there's a lot of directors that
Speaker 1: we both know very well who have suggested that, no,
Speaker 1: it's not ever going to come back, because the diaspora
Speaker 1: happened right where I looked around one and went, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm like one of three voice actors left, and like
Speaker 1: everybody just vanished. My own agent said to me too,
Speaker 1: as well, it doesn't it doesn't matter where you live. Now.
Speaker 1: The caveat to that is that it doesn't matter where
Speaker 1: I live because I'm an established voice actor, right. I
Speaker 1: honestly couldn't tell you if you were new and and
Speaker 1: and starting out in this whether or not it behooves
Speaker 1: you to live in the place. I suspect not anymore,
Speaker 1: because everybody's so used to the remote records and certainly
Speaker 1: the Romot remote auditions. I mean, that's been a thing
Speaker 1: for a long time. There was a time when you
Speaker 1: had to go into a studio to do an audition,
Speaker 1: you know. That was the time when you saw a
Speaker 1: lot of these other actors as well. But that's long gone.
Speaker 1: So I don't know what the advantage is of someone
Speaker 1: actually saying, well, you know, I should really move to
Speaker 1: l A to get into the scene. You know, so
Speaker 1: much of our world is about who you know, and
Speaker 1: it's about your your your network, and your your contacts
Speaker 1: and your friends and your colleagues. I think it would
Speaker 1: be way harder to do that now that you're never
Speaker 1: actually in the same physical location as a person, because
Speaker 1: you don't get that human bond, right, So I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be harder for people to break in because
Speaker 1: of that, um But it's also just the way it is,
Speaker 1: so you know, I would say a embrace the fact
Speaker 1: that this is the new technology, right, this is the
Speaker 1: new way, and work within those work within those parameters
Speaker 1: to try and maximize your chances, which just means always
Speaker 1: make sure you're committing to the character, you're making interesting choices,
Speaker 1: you're being consistent. You know all that actorly stuff, right,
Speaker 1: that's so great actor stuff. You were good at taking
Speaker 1: regular words and making them adverbs. You were always good
Speaker 1: at that. No, I think that's really good advice. I
Speaker 1: think that's true. Unfortunately too, I know that during the pandemic,
Speaker 1: I still went into the studio every time, other than
Speaker 1: the times I went to your studio I did. I
Speaker 1: would go into the studio and just be by myself
Speaker 1: because I still needed the vibe of the studio. But
Speaker 1: it still wasn't the same. So I I'm still hoping
Speaker 1: it's going to come back. But You're right, so many
Speaker 1: people are so scattered to the wind that even if
Speaker 1: does come back, what the cast that you're normally with
Speaker 1: are still going to be in the room. Everybody else
Speaker 1: is gone, right, And honestly, I think that's going to
Speaker 1: be the future. I think it's gonna be a hybridization
Speaker 1: of of sessions. You're going to have half the people
Speaker 1: in the room, half the people remote, or have the
Speaker 1: people just recording by themselves. So it's going to be
Speaker 1: a much lonelier experience, I think than what it was,
Speaker 1: which is a real shame. But it's just three years
Speaker 1: of producers and technicians getting used to this setup, and
Speaker 1: producers love it because they don't have to leave the house,
Speaker 1: right and it's cheaper in the long run, the long run,
Speaker 1: So the odds of us going back to the way
Speaker 1: it was, because I was that was a big concern
Speaker 1: of mine when I did move. I was like, well,
Speaker 1: what if it what if it goes back? What if
Speaker 1: it goes back? But I thought I'll be all right.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this. Do you think that you've
Speaker 1: actually gotten better over the years by being like, did
Speaker 1: you grow more as an a voice actor when you
Speaker 1: were with other people? If for no other reason than
Speaker 1: you can immediately steal their best stuff and and towards
Speaker 1: into a new version. You're basically just doing Kevin Kevin
Speaker 1: Michael Richardson over and over. Because but but I mean
Speaker 1: you asked me if I was inspired by people? You know,
Speaker 1: I have so many sort of stock characters that that
Speaker 1: immediately come out now, which are just blatant ripoffs of
Speaker 1: stuff I've seen my colleagues do, Like he have this
Speaker 1: short old man ntch head dude, and that's a complete
Speaker 1: rip off of my friend Brian Drummond's a very successful
Speaker 1: vacouper voice actor who did that once, and I was like,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. I need to make it mine. Now. Of
Speaker 1: course it evolves into its own thing, so it doesn't
Speaker 1: sound anything like his. But that's the beauty of it.
Speaker 1: Right now we can boast to two old men and
Speaker 1: we don't stand anything Ali anyway. Yes, theft is good,
Speaker 1: is what I'm saying. By the way, you both live
Speaker 1: like an hour from each other. You guys live like
Speaker 1: an hour from each other. I think. So it's no
Speaker 1: you guys, stop it. You're in Texas. Yeah, I'm in
Speaker 1: San Antonio. Stop I'm in I'm in Austin. Oh. Oh,
Speaker 1: I could see you. I'll tell you. I love down here.
Speaker 1: I gotta say, man, it's great. Not that there's a
Speaker 1: whole lot of people that extra sound like this. You
Speaker 1: gotta you go, you gotta go hunting for him, but
Speaker 1: they do exist. Every you gotta go, you gotta go
Speaker 1: to West Texas or we gotta go Yeah, you gotta
Speaker 1: go in the So Austin. Austin is an interesting place
Speaker 1: to live. How how why did you pick here Canada? Well, again,
Speaker 1: with the whole pandemic madness that was happening, there was
Speaker 1: at one point there was the the choice to perhaps
Speaker 1: go home, right, to go back to Canada, but I
Speaker 1: just didn't think. I didn't think that was the right
Speaker 1: choice because I wasn't done with the American experience yet.
Speaker 1: And then I wind up getting my citizenship. So I
Speaker 1: was like, well, now I can come and go as
Speaker 1: I please. Because I had the Green card before, which
Speaker 1: means you had to live in the country, but now
Speaker 1: as the US citizen. Ironically, now I'm a citizen, I
Speaker 1: can say goodbye if I want. So there was that thought,
Speaker 1: but I just thought, uh, it wasn't viable for some reason.
Speaker 1: So it was like, Okay, well, I gotta get into
Speaker 1: California for again a number of reasons. But the three
Speaker 1: states that were discussed were Texas, Tennessee, and Florida. I
Speaker 1: had never been to Florida. I had never been to Tennessee,
Speaker 1: but I had been to Texas and I have a
Speaker 1: sister in Katie, which is West Houston, not very far
Speaker 1: from here. Uh, and then we've have friends in Dallas.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to go to Dallas because I just
Speaker 1: don't like the big concrete jungle of Dallas. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: basically a right. And I didn't want to go to
Speaker 1: Houston for much the same reason. And I didn't want
Speaker 1: to go to Austin because Austin really is l A.
Speaker 1: In many, many weeks, Austin is so l A. It's
Speaker 1: it's all the l A list that I was seeking
Speaker 1: to flee called out right now. Oh, Austin fun to visit, man,
Speaker 1: I love going there for four hours and then stabbed
Speaker 1: in the heart. San Antonio is beautiful, though, I'm excited
Speaker 1: to come and visit. For sure. It's good. And you
Speaker 1: know what, it's boring, and I love that so boring here,
Speaker 1: it's great. People are just they don't do anything. They're
Speaker 1: just sitting around being nice to each other, eating great
Speaker 1: Mexican food. It's the best thing ever. Its sounds pretty marvelous.
Speaker 1: Al Right. So I'm known as a bit of a nerd,
Speaker 1: and I thought I was a nerd until I really
Speaker 1: started talking to you. And then I realized, oh, man,
Speaker 1: if if the nerd, if there was military ranks in nerd, um,
Speaker 1: I was like maybe a lieutenant if I was an officer,
Speaker 1: And sir, yes, sir, you were up there as as
Speaker 1: an absolute colonel or a general. Um. When did you start?
Speaker 1: You're well, first of all, it's you're mostly table top, correct,
Speaker 1: And so when did you find your nerdom? Where did
Speaker 1: you start your nerdom? And what's your favorite nerdom right now? Well,
Speaker 1: I played my first game of Dungeons and Dragons when
Speaker 1: I was seven years old, uh, with a friend down
Speaker 1: the street, Jason Peters, and he introduced me to this world,
Speaker 1: which I immediately just went because I was also a
Speaker 1: huge Tolkien fan. You know, my sister read me The
Speaker 1: Lord of the Rings every night to go to sleep
Speaker 1: while I was very very young, so that we thought,
Speaker 1: we thought about those books several times, we have, we have,
Speaker 1: but but the D and D experience was just something
Speaker 1: that immediately captured my imagination and I fell head over
Speaker 1: hills in love with it, uh, And that just went
Speaker 1: on and on and on. But in the eighties, when
Speaker 1: I was going through high school and such, it was
Speaker 1: not exactly cool. You didn't talk about it. In fact,
Speaker 1: we never publicly discussed the game. We didn't even call
Speaker 1: it dn D. We called it the game. It was
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember. There was this one
Speaker 1: moment where we had all got this group of girlfriends
Speaker 1: all at roughly the same time, and we're all in
Speaker 1: my friend Trevor ladoes uh basement and we're playing this game,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, the girls all on mask
Speaker 1: decide to do the poppin, the poppin Jerry they did
Speaker 1: the Poppin and we're like, oh my god. And our
Speaker 1: first thought wasn't hey, let's introduce his girls to this thing.
Speaker 1: It was no coverless stuff, hid the stuff. We know that.
Speaker 1: How about the game? Ridiculous? Right? And then cut to
Speaker 1: like twenty years later, thirty years later, Well, now everybody
Speaker 1: in their and their grandma was playing D and D.
Speaker 1: And it's it's all what all the cool kids are doing?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, no, you people have no idea. I did.
Speaker 1: By the time I found D and D. It was
Speaker 1: really really cool fantasy novels I found very early. In
Speaker 1: comic books I found very early, but D and D
Speaker 1: I didn't find until it was awesome. See, that's fascinating
Speaker 1: to me that you were a big fantasy kid and
Speaker 1: never somehow found the road to D and D because
Speaker 1: and my brother played. My brother played too, So it
Speaker 1: made made no sense. Yeah, no, it made no sense.
Speaker 1: I painted minish slightly because it was you know, it
Speaker 1: was a direct kind of correlation to the um uh
Speaker 1: model cars that my brothers used to build, so the
Speaker 1: tester paint like all that kind of stuff where it
Speaker 1: was basically lead uh that kind of paint, that stuff.
Speaker 1: I was into that stuff as a kid. Um But yeah,
Speaker 1: never found dn D until much later, obviously, And then
Speaker 1: you and I started talking about all this stuff, and
Speaker 1: then you kind of introduced me to Warhammer and some
Speaker 1: of the other really cool just systems that are out there.
Speaker 1: But you're still, oh there are. So I have this
Speaker 1: YouTube channel called Meet Myself and Dict, and I was
Speaker 1: gonna get into one of one of the things I
Speaker 1: do is this is this series called the Stages Library,
Speaker 1: which is me talking about my experiences with the literally
Speaker 1: hundreds of games I have in my library. Because D
Speaker 1: n D is but the starter set, I'm afraid it's
Speaker 1: it is but the introduction to a much wider world
Speaker 1: and I and I really want people to understand that
Speaker 1: there are so many options out there for them to
Speaker 1: try all kinds of genres and styles and systems in
Speaker 1: the whole bit. Because I have a big passion for it.
Speaker 1: But then the big passion Dandy Boopling, what are you
Speaker 1: playing right now? Uh? Like five different? I'm I'm running
Speaker 1: a Vampire the Masquerade game with the guys in my
Speaker 1: local group down here, which is awesome. Vampires and the
Speaker 1: Masquerade prior to the Masquerade, Yes, where you play vampires
Speaker 1: in a modern day setting, and it's awesome because it's
Speaker 1: all about politics. It's basically you take and Rice and
Speaker 1: Game of Thrones and match them together and that's what
Speaker 1: you get. It's so and so this is this the
Speaker 1: thing that's taking up most of your time right now? Well,
Speaker 1: the channel, the Channel, because I'm doing I'm doing a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of stuff in the Channel right now, Like
Speaker 1: I said, to do the Stages Liberry. I have my
Speaker 1: main show where I play all these characters. But so
Speaker 1: so solo role playing is the thing that I got
Speaker 1: into for the Channel, which was a total gimmick. I
Speaker 1: was like, because will you and I were talking about,
Speaker 1: you know, well, maybe we'll do like a critical role thing,
Speaker 1: we'll get some you know, when we had sort of
Speaker 1: several well, we we got pretty tried along, yeah, and
Speaker 1: just scheduling and such didn't work. So finally I thought,
Speaker 1: you know what, I think I'm just gonna do this myself.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play all the characters. And so I did,
Speaker 1: and I started this thing, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: out of the woodwork, these people on YouTube are going, yes,
Speaker 1: I've been playing solo for some time now, there's no friends,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, what, but no, this is just a joke.
Speaker 1: What do you what? But it turns out there's this
Speaker 1: huge community, and especially in the pandemic when you're now,
Speaker 1: they couldn't go over to their friend's house to play,
Speaker 1: so they and there's whole new systems where you just
Speaker 1: you know, you played by yourself essentially. So I started
Speaker 1: doing I did like I don't know, seventy episodes of
Speaker 1: like three different seasons worth, all following the same characters.
Speaker 1: And right now I'm doing this tabletop mini adventure game
Speaker 1: called five par Secs from Home, which is a sci
Speaker 1: fi you know, battle game, but with a lot of
Speaker 1: campaign elements and role playing elements and stuff. So it's
Speaker 1: it's super fun. It's super fun. That's so cool, man,
Speaker 1: I miss that. What do you miss? Well, just the
Speaker 1: whole again. I haven't been involved in a campaign in
Speaker 1: quite a while now, So what is the campaign? A campaign?
Speaker 1: In sight, is a game start to finish. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: series of linked adventures. Yeah, like like you would read
Speaker 1: a fantasy novel, right and you'd go from the beginning
Speaker 1: to the end. Kind of. It's awesome. It's awesome. I
Speaker 1: always say it's it's it's improv with consequence, just like
Speaker 1: my favorite thing. I love that. Today. Um, well, Trevor,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us today. Thank you
Speaker 1: for inviting me and you guys. Was fun. And we're
Speaker 1: gonna be inviting you back very soon because we'd like you.
Speaker 1: Well well we'll get into that later, but well we'll
Speaker 1: because the contest is closed. We'll talk, um, but we're
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna bug you. But yeah, so of course, Trevor.
Speaker 1: Right now, what are the projects I know that we
Speaker 1: all know the voice over world, we're so used to
Speaker 1: hearing this, But what are the projects you can tell
Speaker 1: us about that people can hear you on right now?
Speaker 1: Oh boy? Well, the one that was most recently released
Speaker 1: I think was the Star Wars Summer Special old a
Speaker 1: lego Star Wars Summer Special or Beach Special or something.
Speaker 1: It's waters to go to this beach planet. And of
Speaker 1: course Palpatine on the beach with Vader is a is
Speaker 1: a whole thing. But I get fan mail still, people
Speaker 1: writing me going, oh my god, that I just okay,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. Yeah, that that was. But other than that, really,
Speaker 1: you know, everything else is sort of in in process
Speaker 1: at the moment. But it's it's my channel, me, myself
Speaker 1: and die, which is the big thing that I've I've
Speaker 1: been devoting all my time too. And you know, I'm
Speaker 1: about to hit subscribers today and that's what. Yeah, without
Speaker 1: that's without any kind of advertising. So that's all right, congratulations.
Speaker 1: It's a drop in the bucket compared to YouTube stuff.
Speaker 1: But for me, you know, one guy doing all this stuff,
Speaker 1: that's yeah, that's pretty awesome. Anything, uh, anything going on
Speaker 1: in your personal life that's kind of worth mentioning. Come on,
Speaker 1: come on, Well, there's a little wedding happening. Yes, sever's
Speaker 1: getting married. What's Happeningly, it's already happened. We technically got
Speaker 1: married in April because you know, she needed to get
Speaker 1: some some healthcare, so I had to. But so you're
Speaker 1: technically already married. We're technically married. This is this is
Speaker 1: the party, this is the this is the the ceremony,
Speaker 1: such as it is, it'll be that'll be pretty quick
Speaker 1: in San Antonio, Antonio. Yes, can't wait. It's called the Spires.
Speaker 1: We can't wait, so and I cannot wait to go.
Speaker 1: It's going to be so much fun. Of course we're going.
Speaker 1: Of course we're going. Of course we're going. So congratulations
Speaker 1: on that, and everybody go check out Me myself and Die.
Speaker 1: I think, uh, for everybody out there, I think that
Speaker 1: twenty thousand. I think we can make that thirty thousand
Speaker 1: pretty quick. I think we should. So everybody go and
Speaker 1: subscribe to Me, Myself and Die because it is really
Speaker 1: really cool and talk about seeing just a showcase of
Speaker 1: talent when it comes to characters and voices and everything
Speaker 1: else that we love on this on this podcast. It
Speaker 1: is really worth it. And then go check out you know,
Speaker 1: I think Guardians of the Galaxy is still on Disney.
Speaker 1: Plus Rocket Raccoon is okay, but star Lord is phenomenal.
Speaker 1: Then you've got the Lego Star Wars stuff everything Lego
Speaker 1: Star Wars f is for family. I think you can
Speaker 1: still see on Netflix. It's all over the place, so
Speaker 1: there is so much stuff out there. Trevor, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for joining us. We really appreciate it. And
Speaker 1: uh yeah, come back soon. We'll talk about that in
Speaker 1: a bit. Okay, all right, thank you everybody, and just
Speaker 1: don't ever forget. As we like to say, if you
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