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Speaker 1: Mr Sam Regal. Can't wait, Sam, Sam, Sam, I knew

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Speaker 1: I don't know if Will knows that. We've known each

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Speaker 1: So tell me how what happened there? How does that?

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Speaker 1: like such a fan of yours even as a little kid.

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Speaker 1: So basically, his sister, Eden Regal is an extremely talented,

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Speaker 1: and take my jobs, isn't isn't the greatest. However, I

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Speaker 1: also see from the other side. I am a producer

426
00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:47,040
Speaker 1: of animation and also a voice director, and I totally

427
00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:51,720
Speaker 1: get um uh just from a writing perspective, like when

428
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:55,119
Speaker 1: you're writing a character, a lot of times you you

429
00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:57,760
Speaker 1: want to write to either a type or even a

430
00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:01,800
Speaker 1: specific actor um because changes Like if you can imagine

431
00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:05,199
Speaker 1: someone in the role, if you imagine Marissa Tomay in

432
00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:08,359
Speaker 1: this role or Snoop Dogg playing this role or whatever

433
00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:10,240
Speaker 1: it is, like, that's going to change how you write

434
00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:13,200
Speaker 1: the character, even if that's not the person who eventually

435
00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:15,760
Speaker 1: plays it. Um. But you know to to go out

436
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:20,320
Speaker 1: and try to get that person. Um it immediately solidifies like, oh,

437
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,720
Speaker 1: I know exactly what I'm gonna get. I'm gonna hire

438
00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:25,080
Speaker 1: Whoopi Goldberg to do this, and then I don't have

439
00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:29,080
Speaker 1: to think about like creating an intricate backstory for this

440
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:32,680
Speaker 1: one episode guest spot. I can just have Whoopi Goldberg

441
00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:37,119
Speaker 1: be Whoopi Goldberg and that's plenty. That's gonna be great. Um,

442
00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:40,800
Speaker 1: and she'll and she'll kill it. She's been doing Whoopie

443
00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:45,280
Speaker 1: Goldberg forever. She's the best. Whoopi Goldberg is really great

444
00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:48,080
Speaker 1: at it. And then and and it saves time too.

445
00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:49,479
Speaker 1: You don't have to sit in the booth with an

446
00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:51,960
Speaker 1: actor saying like what if we tried this? No, what

447
00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:54,480
Speaker 1: if we tried this? You can just be like Whoopie

448
00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:59,280
Speaker 1: go thing. UM. So I get it. I I totally

449
00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:01,520
Speaker 1: get it. And I and I think it's also a

450
00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:04,359
Speaker 1: celebrity involvement with these types of projects really brings a

451
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:07,800
Speaker 1: lot more attention to the project. And really, UM has

452
00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:12,440
Speaker 1: boosted our respect for our industry and you know, it's

453
00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:15,359
Speaker 1: a real thing now. Also, you guys are freaking television

454
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:22,200
Speaker 1: stars and you're taking our jobs too. That was my job, Sam, Sam.

455
00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:24,159
Speaker 1: The last time I saw you in studio, I was

456
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:29,600
Speaker 1: reading like, UM, saucy. Um like audio books. So I

457
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:33,240
Speaker 1: don't know what you saucy audio? Wait? Wait, what do

458
00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:37,439
Speaker 1: you mean? Like, how have we not how have we

459
00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,720
Speaker 1: not talked about this? What is? What is? What are saucy?

460
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:44,560
Speaker 1: I knew, I knew that you you were there doing

461
00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:48,200
Speaker 1: some audio books because you're super talented audio book Wait

462
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:53,879
Speaker 1: are you reading the kind of words for throbbing? Is

463
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:55,760
Speaker 1: that the kind of audio books you were reading? Did

464
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:59,800
Speaker 1: you have to say the word turgid? Yeah? Yeah, So

465
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:01,639
Speaker 1: I actually got to a point where I had to

466
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:04,919
Speaker 1: have a different a name. I have a different name,

467
00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:07,120
Speaker 1: and you're not going to tell us what it is? Um,

468
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,640
Speaker 1: what was your name? What was your name? Don't say

469
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:14,040
Speaker 1: it because then don't know things, don't I don't remember

470
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:19,760
Speaker 1: it was for the first name, but it was. It

471
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:23,159
Speaker 1: was a sassier version of me. And the funny thing

472
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,560
Speaker 1: is that it was like audible. Okay, so so this

473
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:30,680
Speaker 1: is hilarious. We have talked about this. Oh my god,

474
00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:34,320
Speaker 1: what are you doing that? Same? So we were at

475
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:37,640
Speaker 1: this studio in Magnolia, right, what is it? Out loud?

476
00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:41,240
Speaker 1: You were out loud last time I saw you out

477
00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:45,200
Speaker 1: loud audio One of the greatest studios in both coasts amazing. Yeah,

478
00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:48,280
Speaker 1: they really are. And and so I was out Loud

479
00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:50,200
Speaker 1: Loud and then he's doing I think you were doing

480
00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:54,240
Speaker 1: Lion Guard actually, which we watched all the time. Once again,

481
00:25:54,960 --> 00:26:02,040
Speaker 1: uh Christie, that was my sister. No watched you were

482
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 1: you doing Sophia? Then I was doing Sophia the first

483
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:08,200
Speaker 1: probably Orleana of Avalor. My sister was Online Guard though,

484
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:13,920
Speaker 1: and she also went to Harvard. Harvard. You're owning me,

485
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:19,120
Speaker 1: You're owning me. I'm sorry. It out Loud also where

486
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:24,199
Speaker 1: we did Um Big Hero six and yeah, but we

487
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:26,840
Speaker 1: also we did oh No. I was thinking, so yeah, okay, no,

488
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:29,600
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. He does this thing where they fall in

489
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:33,600
Speaker 1: love or something with certain um post production or you know,

490
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:36,720
Speaker 1: production spaces, like when we did Kim Possible, we were

491
00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:41,120
Speaker 1: at where we were at studios, were at l A Studios,

492
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 1: and that had like It's heyday. And then I feel

493
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,520
Speaker 1: like then out Loud became a really a hot spot.

494
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:49,280
Speaker 1: I mean l A Studios, they're still great, but but

495
00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 1: out Loud, out Loud is sort of the new the

496
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 1: new shiny toy, and they're they're so great And I'm sorry,

497
00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:58,479
Speaker 1: we're not changing the subject from you reading porn. Can

498
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:02,240
Speaker 1: we get back to this, this is a kid okay, Okay,

499
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:05,040
Speaker 1: So basically, um, I was. You know, it was slow

500
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 1: for me for animation and whatnot, Um because Sam never

501
00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 1: hired me, had any of because every show we did

502
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:18,800
Speaker 1: you thought was his sisters. Okay, so listen. So basically

503
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:22,159
Speaker 1: I I did. I always did, like enjoy doing audiobooks.

504
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:23,760
Speaker 1: I think there's a cadence in a pacing to it

505
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 1: that's very relaxing and rewarding, and so I started getting

506
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 1: back into it audible, um started hiring me. I was

507
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:35,200
Speaker 1: pregnant a lot like the time period I was reading them,

508
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 1: so it was like easy work to do, and so

509
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:39,080
Speaker 1: I was sitting there and doing it, and then I

510
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,880
Speaker 1: realized that they kept calling me back for like race

511
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:45,159
Speaker 1: here and race here, like like so I don't know

512
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 1: what the shades of gray or like like even worse

513
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,240
Speaker 1: than that, like serious, no, not not worse than that,

514
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:53,479
Speaker 1: not worse than that, no, worse than that, no, but

515
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:58,840
Speaker 1: like turgid, like saying words that were like appearances of

516
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,400
Speaker 1: things happening. I was like, I don't think I could

517
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,399
Speaker 1: do this anywhere. I'm sitting there pregnant, like reading these things.

518
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 1: I think I went out and said hi to Sam

519
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 1: because we would we would cross each other in the

520
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 1: hall when he was doing you know, Lilion guards. All right,

521
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 1: you pop back up with Will and conversation and I'm like,

522
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:21,840
Speaker 1: oh my god, I love Sam, and we start talking

523
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 1: about D and D when he and I start doing

524
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 1: comic cons and your name started to come up. Well,

525
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 1: because so that's a perfect segue, because I wanted to

526
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 1: talk about the little tiny show that you all started

527
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:38,080
Speaker 1: called Critical Role Son. I mean one of them. So

528
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 1: when people say to me, hey, okay, you know, what

529
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 1: are some of the biggest regrets you have in your life?

530
00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 1: And one of them is still sitting recording ThunderCats and

531
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,960
Speaker 1: Matt Mercer leaning over and saying I'm getting a D

532
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,720
Speaker 1: and D game together, do you want to play? And

533
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 1: me going, ok, I knew this. I think I knew this.

534
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm doing. I'm you nervous, I

535
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 1: can't do that. Yeah, I know exactly. But it worked

536
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 1: out perfectly because it was the cast it was absolutely

537
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 1: supposed to be. You guys jelled instantly. I was allowed

538
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 1: to come on as a guest star in the first season,

539
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 1: which started my love of dungeons and dragons. But you, you,

540
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 1: together as this wonderful family, have started this juggernaut. Um,

541
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 1: can you very briefly walk through how it started and

542
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:29,960
Speaker 1: and the amazing show that is the legend of oox Mocket.

543
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:35,720
Speaker 1: Oh well, wonderful setup. I um. We we started because

544
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:39,760
Speaker 1: it was one of our our critical role dudes. Liam

545
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:44,120
Speaker 1: O'Brien also fantastic voice actor. Um. It was his birthday

546
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 1: and he and I were doing a podcast not unlike

547
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:51,120
Speaker 1: this one UM called All Work No Play. And on

548
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:54,680
Speaker 1: All Work No Play, we would um challenge ourselves to

549
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 1: do fun things together that we're not work um because

550
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:00,560
Speaker 1: we never got to just hang out as ends anymore.

551
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 1: So like we went and took a curling lesson, and

552
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 1: we got our palms read and we went to a

553
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 1: water park and for one of the episodes, he said,

554
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:10,560
Speaker 1: I want to play D and D. It's my birthday

555
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 1: coming up. I want to play D and D. I

556
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:14,560
Speaker 1: haven't played it since I was a kid. And I

557
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,360
Speaker 1: was like, sure, whatever sounds great. I know I've never

558
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 1: done that before. Put a group together. So he with

559
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 1: Matt's help, and we all played and had such a

560
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 1: great time. Um, it's really it's really great, Christie. If

561
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:31,040
Speaker 1: you played dn D or any table top role playing game. Okay,

562
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:32,960
Speaker 1: so Will has been talking to me a lot about it,

563
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 1: and I really am dying to learn. I'm dying to learn.

564
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,840
Speaker 1: It can be kind of it can scratch whatever itch

565
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 1: you wanted to scratch. Like, if you're a really good writer,

566
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:44,560
Speaker 1: you can sort of approach it like a writer and

567
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:47,720
Speaker 1: think about, you know, the storytelling aspect of it. If

568
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:51,160
Speaker 1: you're a really good improviser or really like that kind

569
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:54,320
Speaker 1: of stuff, that's where my heart came from, you can

570
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:56,640
Speaker 1: approach it as an improviser. If you really love just

571
00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 1: good acting, you can do that. Or if you just

572
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 1: like sitting around with your friends and maybe sipping some

573
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 1: alcohol and and telling stories and being a goofball, that's

574
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 1: that can be your experience too, Or if you're like

575
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 1: super into gaming and stats and that can be your thing.

576
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 1: But um, but we just found that it was. Yeah,

577
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 1: it was like this thing communal acting, communal storytelling. And

578
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 1: it's part hang out, part acting workshop, parts story jam session.

579
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 1: And I always say it's improv with consequence. Yes, examply

580
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:33,600
Speaker 1: it's just so much fun. And we kept doing it,

581
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 1: and we kept sort of falling in love with UM,

582
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 1: the characters that we were playing and the story that

583
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 1: we were telling together, but also kind of falling in

584
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 1: love with each other as friends. Like we we weren't

585
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 1: super close, all of us, but we we sort of

586
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 1: developed like this really great friendship among us and UM.

587
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 1: And then there's there's a lot of steps that it took,

588
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 1: but we eventually started streaming it online. People started watching

589
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 1: it on two, which every Thursday night still seven pm,

590
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 1: seven UM, and it became this thing that that UM

591
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 1: that we were a part of. I don't think that

592
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:14,400
Speaker 1: we you know, we're certainly not the only ones and

593
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 1: certainly not the leaders, but we were part of this

594
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 1: movement where people were getting back into just pen and

595
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 1: paper and sitting at a table game playing and storytelling together.

596
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 1: And UM and it and we we rode the wave

597
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 1: and UH and it turned into a company. And now

598
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:34,520
Speaker 1: with those same friends and me get to have this

599
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 1: company together. We get to make our our Twitch streaming show,

600
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 1: we get to make comic books, we get to make

601
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 1: this animated series, the Legend of Ox Macina available now

602
00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 1: on Prime Video. UM, and we get to still have

603
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:50,960
Speaker 1: fun and play play our games together. It's great and

604
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 1: will you're a part of it as well. He's a

605
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 1: great part of it. I thank you not use that

606
00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: talent of it. It's one of my most favorite characters

607
00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 1: I ever had anything to do with, and it's because

608
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:04,480
Speaker 1: I got a chance to create it. And I always

609
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 1: tell the story of knowing nothing of Dungeons and Dragons

610
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 1: and Matt saying we come on the show. We ran

611
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 1: into each other on the pack street at Comic Con

612
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 1: in San Diego and he said, would you come on

613
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 1: the show? I said, I kidding, I would love to,

614
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 1: and then he said, I have to come over your

615
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 1: house to create a character. And I remember turning to

616
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 1: I think it was my wife at the time. I

617
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 1: think she was just my girlfriend at the time, and

618
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 1: I was like, so, I've got to create this character

619
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:27,160
Speaker 1: for Dungeon and Dragons. Should take about a half hour

620
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 1: minutes And it was something like six hours later with

621
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 1: Matt at the table and we got ordered food and

622
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 1: I'm I had written this whole backstory and We're rolling

623
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 1: dice and I'm sweating and We're having so much fun.

624
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 1: And it changed my life. It changed my life. It

625
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,680
Speaker 1: really did have just and and I always I said this,

626
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:48,320
Speaker 1: um when I came on your show, and that one

627
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 1: of the things that it does that Dudgeons and Dragons

628
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 1: did for me is it gave me a whole new

629
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 1: group of friends with a whole new kind of life

630
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 1: behind it, where Mary and I became really close and

631
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 1: we started at our home game, and you know, we

632
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 1: hung out more with Steve, and we hung out more

633
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 1: with all you guys, and all of a sudden, you're

634
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 1: you're on this chain where you're texting about your D

635
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 1: and D game and you're wondering what's gonna happen next,

636
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 1: and it just becomes this wonderful community and there's something

637
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:18,319
Speaker 1: so um marvelous about this shared fantasy world that you've

638
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:21,920
Speaker 1: created and what's going to happen next, and uh, it's

639
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:24,400
Speaker 1: it's it's truly amazing. So yeah, I always credit you know,

640
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,279
Speaker 1: Mercer and all of you with you know, bringing me

641
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:29,920
Speaker 1: into this thing and and just the little touch of

642
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 1: critical role. But what that led to in my own

643
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:35,840
Speaker 1: D and D and gaming life and how marvelous. And

644
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 1: then you got you got into painting minis and and

645
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 1: did a show for you all with where we're teaching

646
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:45,360
Speaker 1: paint miniatures, and it was so much fun and I

647
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:47,440
Speaker 1: got to play with everybody there and then and All

648
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:49,759
Speaker 1: Work and No Play You mentioned that where somehow, out

649
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:52,279
Speaker 1: of nowhere, I ended up with you all dressed in

650
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,400
Speaker 1: as what were nights and learning how that's right you

651
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 1: were in the first episode. I think of the of

652
00:34:57,239 --> 00:34:59,880
Speaker 1: the we turned the All Work No Play podcast Christie

653
00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 1: in to a actual video show that we put on

654
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: usually and Will was I think in the first episode. Yeah,

655
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 1: we dressed that we learned sword play, and we dressed

656
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 1: up as nights and we had a whole will. Will

657
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:15,799
Speaker 1: was in my first YouTube video and he blessed my

658
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:19,759
Speaker 1: whole social media you know content. So he will show

659
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:22,200
Speaker 1: up for you. He's a great first great guy. He's

660
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 1: a really good because like friend, well friend too, Yeah,

661
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:28,279
Speaker 1: but I don't care about that. He's a really good

662
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:32,359
Speaker 1: first guest. If anyone's starting a podcast, call Will kick

663
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:34,400
Speaker 1: it off with a bang. I did. I think I

664
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 1: miss judged D and D. I think I really did. Honestly,

665
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:38,879
Speaker 1: I thought it was like, let me tell you why,

666
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 1: because and you guys really just changed me into potentially

667
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:44,839
Speaker 1: somebody who would actually give it a shot because I've

668
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:46,840
Speaker 1: humored Will and I said, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, this

669
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,959
Speaker 1: is something interested in a nerd And then he's told

670
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 1: me I'm a nerd, so that's okay, you can call

671
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 1: me a nerd. But then I was like, no, this

672
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:56,400
Speaker 1: seems like this is something more. I just don't understand

673
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:58,799
Speaker 1: it right. And then when I when I hear you

674
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 1: guys talking about it a lot, I'm like, Okay. Critical

675
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:03,279
Speaker 1: role is like a networking thing where people get to

676
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:06,880
Speaker 1: like be together and meet each other, like poker. So

677
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 1: like in l A, poker is like really big and

678
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 1: that's like you need to get into George Clooney's poker

679
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 1: game or basketball team or like whatever. There's certain things

680
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 1: in l A that are like c need to do.

681
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:18,359
Speaker 1: And so when I heard about this, I was like, oh,

682
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:21,839
Speaker 1: this is like nerd poker. But when I hear you

683
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 1: talk about the connection that you have with your friends

684
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 1: like that, it makes me realize, like that is why

685
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:30,759
Speaker 1: critical role is got so much heart. It's just I

686
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 1: see it. It's resonating off of the interview, and I

687
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:36,400
Speaker 1: think it's so beautiful. And now I'm like, no, it

688
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:40,400
Speaker 1: really is watching you all together. And that's so the

689
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 1: fact that you've grown a juggernaut and had what one

690
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 1: of the biggest kickstarters ever for Legend of Fox Moki.

691
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 1: Not seeing the show kind of from the beginning to

692
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:49,880
Speaker 1: where it's it's come has been amazing and it's it's

693
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:52,440
Speaker 1: a wonderful thing to watch. Watching you all do it

694
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 1: together is really incredible because because you've all talking to

695
00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:59,400
Speaker 1: each of you, you you all have roles like here's what

696
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 1: I do in the camp to here's what I do

697
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 1: in the company, Here's what I do in the company.

698
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,840
Speaker 1: And the synergy and working together and seeing what you've created,

699
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 1: it's truly inspiring. And to see a group of friends

700
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:12,200
Speaker 1: doing it together from step one is something that's amazing.

701
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:15,879
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm I'm honored to be the smallest little

702
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 1: part of it. And we need to talk a bit

703
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 1: about season two because season one on Prime Video was uh,

704
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 1: people flipped out, absolutely loved it. We talked about the

705
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:42,920
Speaker 1: kickstarter so this was all started with fan you know,

706
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 1: fan money essentially because people were around very quickly. So

707
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 1: we're going. I end up in Australia at a convention

708
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:55,719
Speaker 1: with Travis and Laura and in the middle of Australia,

709
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 1: they have like a five hour line of people who

710
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:01,319
Speaker 1: addressed like their characters and it is. You can tell.

711
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 1: It's when I looked around and went, my god, this

712
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 1: is internationals is an international juggernaut. And he said, yeah,

713
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 1: we're gonna start you know, the campaign too, because what

714
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:10,799
Speaker 1: we really want to do with voice actors, we want

715
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:14,319
Speaker 1: to do an animated series. So I think the day

716
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:16,319
Speaker 1: I was talking to some of you, the day you

717
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 1: you launched it, and then all of a sudden, it

718
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:21,399
Speaker 1: was like, wait a second, you've raised how much? So

719
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:23,880
Speaker 1: how much? How much money did you raise? In the

720
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:27,680
Speaker 1: We set out to raise a significant amount. We set

721
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 1: out to raise seven hundred fifty thousand dollars because that's

722
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:33,920
Speaker 1: what it takes to make a half hour of animation,

723
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:36,600
Speaker 1: and we wanted to make a pilot episode so that

724
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:38,880
Speaker 1: we could show the world that this is something that

725
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 1: should be on on the TV and uh, and instead

726
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:47,359
Speaker 1: our fans were like, nah, we we want you guys

727
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 1: to just make the show. So we we raised eleven

728
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 1: point four million dollars UH in forty five days, I believe.

729
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 1: And it's the biggest it's the biggest film and TV

730
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:05,440
Speaker 1: kickstarter history, and it definitely changed our lives. Um, we

731
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 1: didn't just caveat point of order. We didn't see we

732
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 1: didn't we spent all of the money on the show

733
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 1: any of it. Guys wanted to do was this show? No? Yes?

734
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:27,360
Speaker 1: And and because of that, because of that outpouring of

735
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 1: fans support UM and the dollar value, all the studios

736
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 1: that had said no to our pitch came came a

737
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:39,279
Speaker 1: knocking and said you no, Like, hey, well let's take

738
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:40,880
Speaker 1: a meeting. We do want to make that show with

739
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:45,799
Speaker 1: you now. And UM Amazon and ended up being a

740
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:48,480
Speaker 1: really great partner for us, an amazing partner because they

741
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:51,320
Speaker 1: also owned Twitch, which is the platform that we broadcast

742
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 1: our our our live streaming show on, so they already

743
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 1: knew us, they already got us UM and they they said,

744
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 1: it's great that your fans gave you guys enough money

745
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:03,919
Speaker 1: to make ten episodes, but we want to make that

746
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:06,879
Speaker 1: a real thing, so let's make another fourteen on top

747
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:09,560
Speaker 1: of that, and we'll make two seasons of twelve. And

748
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 1: then they've green led us for a third season of twelves.

749
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 1: Like they've been amazing and so supportive. They never they

750
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 1: never changed anything in in the story, like their their

751
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:24,279
Speaker 1: notes that they give on scripts are are like, you know,

752
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:26,920
Speaker 1: maybe you could think about changing this unless it's part

753
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 1: of your canon. Because if it's part of Cannon, just

754
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 1: leave it alone. We don't want to mess with it.

755
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 1: Like they're they're they're really great about like respecting the

756
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:38,920
Speaker 1: lore that we've created and the interaction with the fans,

757
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:41,920
Speaker 1: and uh, they're they've been awesome. It's great. It's it's

758
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:45,320
Speaker 1: been a great set up. And you know, very the fans.

759
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 1: Your fans are so unbelievable, so incredibly loyal. The critters, Um,

760
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:53,319
Speaker 1: they follow you everywhere. I've gotten the love from the

761
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:56,879
Speaker 1: critters everywhere. They are incredible. They're amazing fans. They really,

762
00:40:56,840 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 1: they really are. They're very uh, they're they're super are positive,

763
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:05,279
Speaker 1: they're super inclusive. Um. But also they tell us when

764
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 1: we mess up, but and not in a not in

765
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 1: a crappy way, like and hey, guys, maybe you should

766
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 1: just you know, think about this. And we're like, of

767
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 1: course we should think about that. Um. But it's like, Christie,

768
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:22,400
Speaker 1: you're you're friends with my mom on Twitter, right on Facebook, okay,

769
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:25,400
Speaker 1: on on any platform, on any social media platform. If

770
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,719
Speaker 1: you're if you become friends with my mom, she will

771
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:31,440
Speaker 1: endlessly support you, endlessly hype you up like all of

772
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:35,040
Speaker 1: your all of your posts. Yes, Yes, that's how I

773
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 1: kind of feel about the critters as well, Like they

774
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 1: have my back, like I could post anything, and and

775
00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:44,920
Speaker 1: like I could post like I don't know how to

776
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:47,840
Speaker 1: program my remote control and maybe like I got you boo,

777
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:51,040
Speaker 1: because how you do it? Like they're very helpful and

778
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:53,319
Speaker 1: they help each other too. It's been so wonderful to

779
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:56,360
Speaker 1: see over the years, so many people who watch our show,

780
00:41:56,920 --> 00:42:01,280
Speaker 1: like Christie, will now be inspired to start playing start

781
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:05,399
Speaker 1: playing tabletop role playing games like ours. And we've heard

782
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 1: stories and we've met We've met fans who have um

783
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 1: had long running games now because they of watching our

784
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:14,799
Speaker 1: show and being inspired by it. We've met people who

785
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 1: have gotten married over their shared love of Critical Role

786
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 1: and they've gotten into a gaming group together, and they've

787
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:25,239
Speaker 1: moved across the world to get married, you know, to

788
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:28,359
Speaker 1: each other. And it's like it's so amazing. Uh. Yes,

789
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:31,319
Speaker 1: So hats off to the critters. They are definitely the

790
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:34,839
Speaker 1: wind beneath our wings. Yeah. I know more than one

791
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:37,120
Speaker 1: person literally and this is not not an exaggeration. I

792
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:38,799
Speaker 1: know more than one person that has told me that

793
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 1: Critical Roles saved their life, That literally saved their life.

794
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 1: They were in a bad place. They didn't know what

795
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:44,840
Speaker 1: they were going to live for, they didn't know what

796
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:46,600
Speaker 1: they were going to do, and they found Critical Role

797
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 1: and everything changed. So it's it's a lot, it's a

798
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:52,800
Speaker 1: lot of content. We have hundreds and hundreds of hours

799
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:55,839
Speaker 1: of content. So yes, I've I've heard similar things from

800
00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 1: people who were in a low moment of their life

801
00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:00,759
Speaker 1: or they just lost a family member or whatever and

802
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:03,960
Speaker 1: just kind of needed needed to hang out, needed to

803
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 1: hang out with a friend, uh, for an extended period

804
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:10,839
Speaker 1: of time. And it's hard. It's hard for friends, even

805
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:13,000
Speaker 1: in real life to just sit with someone who's gonna

806
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 1: in a rough place for a long extended period of time.

807
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:19,880
Speaker 1: So instead they would sit with us and watch and

808
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 1: watch watch Critical Role for these hours and and sort

809
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 1: of we would, we would turn into that supportive you

810
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 1: know friend to them, um in their in their moment. Yeah,

811
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:32,600
Speaker 1: And it's it's just such a cool thing that we

812
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:35,439
Speaker 1: that we didn't set out to do, but are so

813
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:37,800
Speaker 1: honored to be a part of of so many people's

814
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:40,399
Speaker 1: lives who have found something joyful in us in their

815
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 1: lowest moments. Amazing. I'm gonna put you on the spot here.

816
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 1: Hate to do it, But I gotta know favorite character

817
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 1: you've played on in Critical Role? Which which is which

818
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:56,920
Speaker 1: of my of my D and D characters? Uh? And

819
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:58,759
Speaker 1: you can't say that's like picking your children. I can't

820
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:00,680
Speaker 1: pick one. No, no, I can pick I can even

821
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:08,239
Speaker 1: pick a child over my children. Um No, I I

822
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:11,960
Speaker 1: think the one my favorite character was the one who

823
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:15,560
Speaker 1: started all Scandlin Shorthauld, my first character, the guy I

824
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:19,160
Speaker 1: play on the Legend Box Market, just because he's uh,

825
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:23,080
Speaker 1: he's everything I want to do in life. He's bold

826
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:26,920
Speaker 1: and egotistical and silly and funny but also crass. He

827
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:31,839
Speaker 1: sings um he and then later in the show you'll

828
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 1: see he does have moments of of of real meaning

829
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 1: and real uh, real feeling and real heart and um

830
00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:43,279
Speaker 1: he's probably the closest to me as a person. I

831
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:47,000
Speaker 1: love all the characters that I play on Critical Role.

832
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 1: And Christie, you will learn too that you'll you'll fall

833
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:52,920
Speaker 1: in love with your character because they see the more

834
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:56,440
Speaker 1: you play with them. Um. Unlike any other role that

835
00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:59,720
Speaker 1: you've played as an actor, because you're creating the story

836
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 1: as go, you really feel like you are them and

837
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:06,279
Speaker 1: they are you, and so you start to like even

838
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 1: when you're not playing, you start worrying about your character, like,

839
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:10,799
Speaker 1: oh man, how are they going to get out of this?

840
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 1: You know? Or they could die? Yea, you know they

841
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 1: and when the character dies, that's it. They gone like

842
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:23,280
Speaker 1: you worried about yes, yes, yeah, and your your friend,

843
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 1: your character that you've been with for years, it is

844
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:32,719
Speaker 1: now dead. It's horrible sence. Yeah, oh my, al right, well,

845
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:35,719
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us. Oh we've been

846
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 1: We've been really excited about seeing you. So we're glad

847
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 1: that You're glad it worked out. This is so cool

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Speaker 1: and were so of course, first of all, everybody Season

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Speaker 1: It is the quote unquote the best guest cast you

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Speaker 1: even will Is will Is in it. Will Is in it,

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Speaker 1: and he is so good, so much fun. It is

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Speaker 1: a great show. So go check it out. And of

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Speaker 1: course Sam is. This is going to sound very odd

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Speaker 1: the way that I'm saying it, but Sam is one

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Speaker 1: of the prizes for the Super Awesome Contest to become

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Speaker 1: the next Big Voice actor. So you are going to

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Speaker 1: get a training set, training session, a mentoring session, nature,

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Speaker 1: whatever you want session, whatever you want to coaching, I

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Speaker 1: the Emmy Award winning Sam Regal at Mary McGlynn, it's

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Speaker 1: going to be so unbelievable. We are so excited that

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Speaker 1: you were here joining us. This has been incredibly cool,

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Speaker 1: and of course every Thursday on Twitch Critical Role, the

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Speaker 1: tiny little show that billions of people around the world

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Speaker 1: are watching. It's been a pleasure talking to both of you.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad this worked out, and I'm so excited for

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Speaker 1: your contest. I'm so excited for U for this podcast.

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Speaker 1: And you know you talked about Critical Role, you know,

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Speaker 1: being just friends that took off and became a juggernaut.

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Speaker 1: I kind of feel like you guys are doing that too.

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Speaker 1: You guys are kicking, but we keep kicking, but we're

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Speaker 1: getting great. Thank you. We also wanted to even give

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Speaker 1: a nice shout out to Prime Video because Amazon and

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Speaker 1: Prime Video have been really helping us out with the

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Speaker 1: contest and with everything going on. So it's been really

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Speaker 1: great working with everybody over there. I can see why

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Speaker 1: you love them as partners. It's been a ton of

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Speaker 1: fun and again, uh yeah, we're giving Sam away, Sam surprise,

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Speaker 1: wrapping him in a big bow, and you win this.

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Speaker 1: Harvard graduate Director of Gard, Director of Line Guard, Harvard graduate,

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Speaker 1: Sam Regal. He's going to read a saucy audio book

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Speaker 1: for you, that's right, praising my role on all my children,

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Speaker 1: all on all my children. And if he doesn't do that,

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Speaker 1: he's one hell of a Spanish tutor. Yes, Sam Regal,

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you seriously for joining US's so

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Speaker 1: cool and we're just so happy for all the success

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Speaker 1: you've had and we can't wait, uh for to see

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Speaker 1: everything that's gonna happen again. So everybody, Legend of ox

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Speaker 1: mocking A Season two. It is so cool. It drops.

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Speaker 1: It's dropped now. So it was January. The first three

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Speaker 1: episodes UH dropped in. They are They're incredible, So go

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Speaker 1: check it out and thank you again for joining us, Sam,

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Speaker 1: thanks for having and for everybody out there, don't forget.

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Speaker 1: The super awesome contest to become the next Big Voice

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Speaker 1: actor is live. So January nine through February nine, submit

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Speaker 1: a two minute either audio or video. Do whatever you want,

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Speaker 1: but remember what Sam said, grab our attention as fast

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Speaker 1: as you can. Uh focus on the acting, because that's

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Speaker 1: what it's about. We're trying to find actors. We are

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Speaker 1: looking for a colleague. We're looking for somebody who can

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Speaker 1: get into the booth. Day one, We're gonna give someone

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Speaker 1: their big break. You win a year long contract with

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Speaker 1: C E. S D, which is my voiceover agency. You

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Speaker 1: want a thousand dollars, You're flown out to Los Angeles,

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Speaker 1: you have lunch with Christy and I. You're gonna have

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Speaker 1: a coaching session with Sam and Mary sending cash. It

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Speaker 1: is gonna be so much fun. So just remember, if

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Speaker 1: you think you have what it takes a step up

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Speaker 1: to the microphone, then put your voices where your mouth is.

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Speaker 1: Thanks everybody. I Hear Voices as hosted by Wilfred Ill

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Speaker 1: and Christy Carlson Romano. Executive produced by will Fred Ill,

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Speaker 1: Brendan Rooney, Amy Sugarman, and Vicky Ernst Chang. Our executive

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Speaker 1: in charge of production is Danielle Romo. Our producer is

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

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

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