Speaker 1: Hey, Christie, Hey there Will, what's up? Nothing much? How
Speaker 1: are you doing? Oh? I love this. It's a it's
Speaker 1: like an evening shoot that we're doing right now, so
Speaker 1: we are totally different vibe. It's very cool. It's like
Speaker 1: I Hear Voices after dark. Yeah, exactly. And we have
Speaker 1: a great guest today. I feel like we've been waiting
Speaker 1: for this guest for a while. Actually, he had a
Speaker 1: kind of a mishap that made us reschedule, but I
Speaker 1: think this is a perfect time for us to see him.
Speaker 1: I can't wait. I think this is gonna be a
Speaker 1: ton of fun. So yeah, hopefully everybody has taken off
Speaker 1: their work clothes for the day, they put on their slippers,
Speaker 1: they're sitting next to the fireplace with their loyal animal
Speaker 1: at their feet, and they are ready to listen to
Speaker 1: a wonderful episode of I Hear Voices. I'm super excited
Speaker 1: to have our guest today, who's not only a personal
Speaker 1: friend of mine, but is one of the great directors
Speaker 1: in the business, an awesome actor, and uh, just an
Speaker 1: incredibly fun guy who is joining us today. Christie, it's
Speaker 1: Mr Sam Regal. Can't wait, Sam, Sam, Sam, I knew
Speaker 1: you before you knew Will. Does he know this? Maybe not.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Will knows that. We've known each
Speaker 1: other since we were children. That's like kids kids, right,
Speaker 1: So tell me how what happened there? How does that?
Speaker 1: How is that possible? Are you from Connecticut? Sam? What happened? No?
Speaker 1: I'm not from I'm from I grew up in New
Speaker 1: York City and I was a child actor, just like
Speaker 1: some of the other members of this podcast. Yes, I
Speaker 1: wonder if I ever ran into each other back in
Speaker 1: the day in New York? Did you do? Were you
Speaker 1: a New York actor kid? Oh? Yeah, that's how I started?
Speaker 1: Was the New York actor kid? Were you doing theater?
Speaker 1: Mostly your television? And I was doing commercials and television
Speaker 1: and you know my law and everybody does Law and
Speaker 1: Order episode at least one, And I'm sure we ran
Speaker 1: across each other then. Did you know Danny Gerard? Did you?
Speaker 1: And you know it was like did Leonardo DiCaprio was
Speaker 1: in a bunch of the auditions and there was a
Speaker 1: whole group of us that Mike Moran like a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of us that were there, did you? Oh? Man?
Speaker 1: I was Jerry O'Connell around, was was Donald phase on
Speaker 1: around Donald Face and and Kevin Connolly, and there was
Speaker 1: like a whole whole group of us. Yeah, so I'm
Speaker 1: sure they were all New Yorkers, But I mean, like
Speaker 1: I think of those people, I'm like, oh, they've been
Speaker 1: in l a forever, but they actually all started well,
Speaker 1: started in New York. Yeah, So how did you guys
Speaker 1: know each other? Walk me through that. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't remember. I do. I do, okay, because I've been
Speaker 1: like such a fan of yours even as a little kid.
Speaker 1: So basically, his sister, Eden Regal is an extremely talented,
Speaker 1: gifted singer. She has a beautiful voice and and we
Speaker 1: have to talk about if you've worked with her as well,
Speaker 1: just because I love her so much. But Eden eventually
Speaker 1: became a huge soap star. I think you didn't. Your
Speaker 1: sister even won an Emmy Award. She did. She wanted Emmy.
Speaker 1: She was nominated, uh four or five times, and she
Speaker 1: won one um on All My Children, which was she
Speaker 1: was Susan Lucci's daughter was Yanka. She had the first
Speaker 1: the first gay kiss on on Dates Time television and
Speaker 1: now she does now she does what we all do.
Speaker 1: She does voiceover stuff and she does voice directing as well.
Speaker 1: Does she really in New York or out here? No?
Speaker 1: Here in l A. There, she's got children and her
Speaker 1: husband's a writer. Okay, so Eden Regal was my Spanish tutor. Um,
Speaker 1: I didn't know, No, I didn't know. I knew that
Speaker 1: you guys knew each other, but I didn't realize that
Speaker 1: it was because of that. First of all, I love
Speaker 1: your mom. We're friends on Facebook and I'm always like,
Speaker 1: you know, saying hello, and I love her so much.
Speaker 1: But Eden was in a in a in a Broadway
Speaker 1: kids with me. Okay, yes, so that's how I knew Eden.
Speaker 1: Broadway was I guess a repertory kind of uh, you know,
Speaker 1: theater kid production, except all the kids had been supergroup.
Speaker 1: It was. It was a supergroup of Broadway, Yes it was.
Speaker 1: But they were all Broadway actors and they you cut
Speaker 1: CDs and tapes, um, and you would put out like
Speaker 1: the Broadway Kids Sings Christmas and the odd Way Kids
Speaker 1: Goes to the Movie. Yeah, that was the big one
Speaker 1: for us. And Eden was like a big sister to me,
Speaker 1: like like quite literally a big sister to me. I
Speaker 1: loved her so much. Um. I saw her on a
Speaker 1: lot of auditions. It was like her Lacey Sabert Kim
Speaker 1: Kim Brown, but like um. But Lacey was Lacey and
Speaker 1: Eden were like those. They were very similar in the
Speaker 1: way that we looked, and I think we saw each
Speaker 1: other a lot on different AUTI but it was always
Speaker 1: so loving, Like your sister was always so sweet to me.
Speaker 1: And eventually, you know, we went to Professional Children's School together.
Speaker 1: But I was old. Oh you did. You went to
Speaker 1: your PCs a lot, Yes, but I was I was
Speaker 1: four years older, and I think by the time you
Speaker 1: probably got in there, I was already on my way out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because she was in her senior I think she'd either
Speaker 1: graduated or she was in her senior year when she
Speaker 1: was tutoring me. Um. But she was always talking about
Speaker 1: and your mom was always talking about the fact that
Speaker 1: you went to Harvard and that you were in an acapella.
Speaker 1: I did not to Harvard. Where did you go? I
Speaker 1: went to the I went to the University of Virginia,
Speaker 1: still a very good school. It's like there's a very
Speaker 1: very esteemed public academy. But you were part of an acapella.
Speaker 1: I was definitely part of an acapella group. That's it
Speaker 1: called it won't make any sense. It doesn't make It's
Speaker 1: called the academical Village people because because the University of
Speaker 1: Virginia was created by Thomas Jefferson and he called it
Speaker 1: his his esteemed academical village. So we were the academical
Speaker 1: village village people. I love how I collegiate always the
Speaker 1: best names and the tone rangers chock full of notes.
Speaker 1: They always have the best novellas. Yeah, Wheel is actually
Speaker 1: really into those movies, those acapella movies Perfect, the pitch
Speaker 1: Perfect movies are the best films ever made. They're not movies.
Speaker 1: Their films are incredible. You know what's this is not
Speaker 1: a tangent that we should be talking about. I don't
Speaker 1: even know what this podcast is about, but we don't either.
Speaker 1: But pitch Perfect. Did you know that it's actually based
Speaker 1: on a book? Yes, and the and the book was
Speaker 1: written about one of the acapella groups at my college.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of about me, is it? Yeah? Like
Speaker 1: I feel closer to you than I ever have right now, Sam,
Speaker 1: because those movies are important and to know they're about
Speaker 1: you is pretty incredible. Yeah, Yeah, we don't know what
Speaker 1: this podcast it's actually about. Voices for all roads lead
Speaker 1: to Sam and and his ability to use voice as
Speaker 1: a conduit for creative artistic expression. Thank you very good,
Speaker 1: I hear voices. Let's go with our questions. Wait, I
Speaker 1: have wait, I have a question for you first, Christie,
Speaker 1: because I think this is important. It sounds it's it
Speaker 1: sounds like Sam's sister is an amazing singer and she
Speaker 1: is incredible actress, and that she want an Emmy. But
Speaker 1: the question going through my head is can you speak
Speaker 1: Spanish absolute a month? Then no? Okay, so that not
Speaker 1: your sister. Your sister and you y'all are just geniuses.
Speaker 1: But your sister used to tell me I remember very
Speaker 1: distinctly sitting in your apartment that you had in Midtown.
Speaker 1: I think it was great. And she was tutoring me,
Speaker 1: and um, she was like, I just watch she's very
Speaker 1: high voice. She's like a princess, like literally a Disney princess.
Speaker 1: She's like, I just like to watch, um, you know,
Speaker 1: Spanish shows and that's what taught me how to learn Spanish.
Speaker 1: And like she's like fluent and she's like you know,
Speaker 1: and I was like, that's so hard. I don't know.
Speaker 1: She's just got the ear for it. She's so I
Speaker 1: love her. Please send her my love. So let's get
Speaker 1: into why we're really here. Yea, you owe me money.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, we are here because for a number of reasons.
Speaker 1: So we wept. Awkward is great. We'll talk about the
Speaker 1: money later. No, um, we brought you. We we wanted
Speaker 1: to schedule at you write at this pretty much right
Speaker 1: at this time because as we just launched our super
Speaker 1: awesome contest to become the next big voice actor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm so excited about it for not not for you,
Speaker 1: not for me, but for whomever wins, because it's a
Speaker 1: it's a genuinely amazing prize, set of prizes, and it's
Speaker 1: a super cool opportunity for some lucky person out there.
Speaker 1: So here's what I wanted to So you are. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we can talk about critical role, which is huge. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about season two of Legend of Oxmachina, which
Speaker 1: is known for having the greatest guest cast in the
Speaker 1: history of the world. We'll get into that. Um and
Speaker 1: when and when and that's coming out and has come out?
Speaker 1: I think, Uh, we have the first three episodes of drops,
Speaker 1: so go watch it right now. Well, no, after you
Speaker 1: listen to the post to the podcast. But as as
Speaker 1: well as your sister who has won in Emmy, so
Speaker 1: have you, and you have won in Emmy because you
Speaker 1: are one of the hardest working and best voiceover directors
Speaker 1: in the business. So as a director, what advice would
Speaker 1: you give our up and coming are amateur actors as
Speaker 1: they're entering the contest, as they're starting their career, if
Speaker 1: you could sit down with them, which you're one of
Speaker 1: the prizes will get into that as well, But if
Speaker 1: you could sit down to them before they even get
Speaker 1: an opportunity to join the contest, what what would you
Speaker 1: tell them? Don't don't neglect the actor part of the
Speaker 1: voice actor. Maybe it should be called active voice or nope,
Speaker 1: that's not a thing. But but but acting is is
Speaker 1: actually genuinely important in all facets of voice acting. Even
Speaker 1: if you're doing silly animation voices or or a commercial
Speaker 1: where you just have to say, you know, direct TV stream, well,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, you still need to be good at
Speaker 1: and a good actor. So be a good actor first
Speaker 1: and then worry about the voice part second. I would
Speaker 1: also say, and also this is good advice just for
Speaker 1: people who are submitting voice over auditions. Hit them with
Speaker 1: a grabber first, like get it, get out of the
Speaker 1: gay with your with your performance. Start with something you
Speaker 1: know that's poppy, that's good, like don't don't yeah, I don't,
Speaker 1: don't scream or whatever in the first ten seconds of
Speaker 1: the thing, but you know, do do something something good
Speaker 1: soon because you know that's your that's your first impression.
Speaker 1: You want to make a solid first impression. Um. And
Speaker 1: then also I would say, I don't feel like you
Speaker 1: have to do voices that you're not good at. When
Speaker 1: I do auditions and stuff, and if I look at
Speaker 1: the at the audition specs and it says like gritty
Speaker 1: and raw, deep voice, deep based baritone. He's seen War
Speaker 1: a hundred times, he's seen Yeah, I'm usually like, if
Speaker 1: it's a video game audition or whatever, I just take that.
Speaker 1: I throw it in the trash. I can't do that.
Speaker 1: I don't do it. That's not what I do. Or
Speaker 1: or if I do submit because it's a really cool
Speaker 1: project or I've been requested on it or whatever, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to try to do this because I suck
Speaker 1: at that. It's not what I'm not proud of this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm not that guy. So I do the thing
Speaker 1: that I'm good at, which is, if I'm going to
Speaker 1: be in a war video game, I do the guy
Speaker 1: who just signed up for the military. You're always text
Speaker 1: just get yeah, exactly. And that's because that's what I'm
Speaker 1: good at. And so even if I'm not good for
Speaker 1: that audition or whatever, um, I would never send in
Speaker 1: something that's bad or that I'm not proud of, because
Speaker 1: that casting director or whatever might hear your audition and
Speaker 1: be like, boy, he's terrible for this role, but he
Speaker 1: would be so good for text the guy who's just
Speaker 1: off the just off the bus. Here's a picture of
Speaker 1: my girl. I'm so excited, can't wait to get back
Speaker 1: to my sweetheart. Yea, always that one. Okay, So see good.
Speaker 1: That's very good advice for everybody out there listening. Very
Speaker 1: good advice. I also find it really interesting that Sam
Speaker 1: is like he can do both sides of the microphone,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Like, that's do you think
Speaker 1: that's all the best, all the best voice over directors.
Speaker 1: It seemed like we're actors though, Andre Oh, absolutely fantastic. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that we interviewed her and I didn't
Speaker 1: realize that she's the greatest. Um. Yeah, I mean not
Speaker 1: every voice director in uh in our world has been
Speaker 1: an actor or is an actor, but um, but you
Speaker 1: know some of us are like me Eden, Mary, Elizabeth McGlenn.
Speaker 1: Uh and yeah, a lot of a lot of the
Speaker 1: most successful or uh certainly the funnest to work with
Speaker 1: voice directors are people who who have been in the
Speaker 1: booth like we are, because just because they know they
Speaker 1: get it. They they've been there, they understand the not
Speaker 1: just the pressure and the um, the nervousness, but also
Speaker 1: like those awkward moments between takes where no one's saying anything,
Speaker 1: or at least the actor can't hear what they're saying
Speaker 1: and starts thinking about like, oh god, they hate it,
Speaker 1: they hate me. They're saying all bad things. Oh I'm
Speaker 1: looking at their faces and they're sneering and they're scowling,
Speaker 1: and I'm about to get fired and stuff. And it's
Speaker 1: it's so wonderful to have had that experience as an
Speaker 1: actor too, because you you know, to to get on
Speaker 1: the microphone and tell the actor that you're working with, like, hey,
Speaker 1: we're not even talking about you were just ordering lunch,
Speaker 1: you know, like that, and then they're like, oh, Okay,
Speaker 1: I feel better now, you know, but you are talking
Speaker 1: about them. Let's be of course that's always that we're
Speaker 1: just ordering lunch. That guy's awful. No, we get that,
Speaker 1: we get that a lot. How did he even get
Speaker 1: the job? But I mean, I mean that goes that
Speaker 1: it makes sense. They always say it's you know, the
Speaker 1: race car drive. The best race car driver also knows
Speaker 1: something about the engine. You know. It's always so it's
Speaker 1: that same kind of you know, knowing every aspect of
Speaker 1: your business. And it's always so much easier to work
Speaker 1: with the director who has been on that side of
Speaker 1: the glass because they, you know, been in their shoes,
Speaker 1: know what you're talking about. Can also there's there's a
Speaker 1: language that comes with being in the booth on both
Speaker 1: sides where you can easily you know, Andrea was was
Speaker 1: great at that. She was the first one who brought
Speaker 1: me onto that side of the industry, and she knew
Speaker 1: how to get something out of an actor because she
Speaker 1: was an actor and knew what needed to be said,
Speaker 1: what sometimes doesn't need to be said, what you don't
Speaker 1: want to say. So there is that kind of unwritten
Speaker 1: language of the you know, we hear oofs and nugs
Speaker 1: and give me we know exactly what you're talking about
Speaker 1: kind of thing. So, um, I think too, there's a pacing.
Speaker 1: I think during sessions one of the more important things
Speaker 1: for me is the pacing because yes, you are in
Speaker 1: your head some of the time when you're thinking about
Speaker 1: you know, you guys on the other side of this
Speaker 1: like very dark plexiglass that you can't see through most
Speaker 1: of the time, and then the pacing of it really
Speaker 1: helps spark your creativity. So i'd imagine that Sam, like
Speaker 1: you've learned how to negotiate, you know, setting that piece
Speaker 1: for the actor so that you bring that out for
Speaker 1: them totally. Yeah, paces is a really important thing, uh,
Speaker 1: in sessions and momentum like once, especially for animation and
Speaker 1: when or when we're trying to do anything funny, like
Speaker 1: if you can get on a roll and get you know,
Speaker 1: getting a flow where where you're cooking, you do three
Speaker 1: takes of a line, great, got it, move on, do
Speaker 1: three takes of a line amazing, hilarious, Keep keep going.
Speaker 1: That keeps everyone in the room like engaged, even if
Speaker 1: you even if you know, like hey, we're probably gonna
Speaker 1: go back and get that line one more time at
Speaker 1: the end of the session. But let's just keep plowing
Speaker 1: forward because he's having so much fun in there, or
Speaker 1: or you know, she her voice is right where we
Speaker 1: want it to be, so let's just keep going and
Speaker 1: keep the momentum alive. It's it's so important, Okay, So
Speaker 1: that's why it's Yeah, oh man, it's a glass especially
Speaker 1: when you do you have that flow going and you
Speaker 1: know this is obviously COVID changed a lot, but especially
Speaker 1: when you're in the room with other actors and you're
Speaker 1: just playing off of each other and you've got that
Speaker 1: that perfect flow and like you said, that perfect pace.
Speaker 1: There's really nothing like ringing that tuning fork where you
Speaker 1: can just tell that you're flying and it's an awesome time.
Speaker 1: But so question then, we we heard that you started
Speaker 1: as you know, a child actor in New York, But
Speaker 1: how did you end up getting into the voice over world.
Speaker 1: I when I got back to New York from college,
Speaker 1: I went to the University of Virginia. No, no, my
Speaker 1: sister went to Harvard and shall hold that over me
Speaker 1: till the day. Yeah, I just want to have small
Speaker 1: school in Cambridge might um. Anyway, I got back to
Speaker 1: New York and I was a different actor than I
Speaker 1: had been because I was bigger and my voice had changed.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously my voice had changed before college. But
Speaker 1: you know, when you're trying to get back into being
Speaker 1: a grown up actor after having been a kid actor
Speaker 1: for so long, it's like you you can't rely on
Speaker 1: the same tricks anymore. You're not You're not cute anymore.
Speaker 1: You're like sort of awkward, gangly young twenties, like, haven't
Speaker 1: filled out your face yet. I don't want to be
Speaker 1: a Toys r Us kid. Yeah. And if they want
Speaker 1: to hire, if they want to hire, um twenty like,
Speaker 1: if the character is young twenties, they'll probably hire a
Speaker 1: thirty year old who looks like they're in their young twenties. Um.
Speaker 1: And so there's not a ton of parts, and you're
Speaker 1: you know, I wasn't. I wasn't as good a singer
Speaker 1: anymore because my voice had changed. And um, so yeah,
Speaker 1: the one thing that I could do still was speak.
Speaker 1: I could I could still act, and I still had
Speaker 1: a speaking voice, and so, um and I'm from d
Speaker 1: the d C. Area. I don't have an accent or anything.
Speaker 1: So weirdly I got into doing these English learning tapes.
Speaker 1: These were tapes back then or c d s, but
Speaker 1: I was. I got hooked up with a company that
Speaker 1: was producing like English learning tapes for the Chinese market,
Speaker 1: and so we would do these epically long voiceover sessions,
Speaker 1: eight hour sessions where I would just be like the
Speaker 1: ball is red. R E d read the ball is red,
Speaker 1: you know, like over and over and over and over again,
Speaker 1: with my perfect crystal clear speaking voice and um and
Speaker 1: non regional addiction exactly. Um. And down the hall they
Speaker 1: were auditioning for some anime. This was like right at
Speaker 1: the um at the dawn of sort of the anime
Speaker 1: DVD market in America. Um uh and you know, early
Speaker 1: two thousands or whatever. And I walked down the hallway
Speaker 1: and because I was doing voiceover and stuff, and I
Speaker 1: auditioned for some anime stuff and I did ug oh,
Speaker 1: and I did some Pokemon and I did some you know,
Speaker 1: some anime stuff, and I was like, this is so cool,
Speaker 1: and and that got me a gig with that company
Speaker 1: h doing one of the teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles voices. Um.
Speaker 1: And the voice director of that was this woman named
Speaker 1: Sue Blue, which who is a legend and um. And
Speaker 1: so from there I just got better at it and
Speaker 1: better at it, and did more and more anime and
Speaker 1: cartoons and video games and uh and from then became
Speaker 1: a voice actor and and director and realized also that
Speaker 1: I don't really miss the on camera part of it
Speaker 1: because it's it's it's not fun. Sometimes you guys are
Speaker 1: better at it than me. But I remember going to
Speaker 1: auditions and like walking into a room full of dudes
Speaker 1: who look exactly like me, except they're just a little
Speaker 1: handsomer and they've got like bigger muscles and stuff. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm the funny looking one here, and the
Speaker 1: part is not a funny looking guy. It's supposed to
Speaker 1: be a handsome guy. I'm not gonna it was awful,
Speaker 1: But with voiceover, it's it's more a meritocracy. And also
Speaker 1: you can you get to play all kinds of different
Speaker 1: parts that you would never play. Bad guys and good
Speaker 1: guys and trolls and mushrooms and turtles, and you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's so great. I love it. And see that's
Speaker 1: the that's the thing we seem to be. You know,
Speaker 1: we're with every We've hit every type of voiceover actor
Speaker 1: you could possibly imagine. We're trying to bring on as
Speaker 1: many different types as you can. We've had strictly video game,
Speaker 1: We've had mo cap, We've had people that do mostly
Speaker 1: animate Megan, yeah, the from that new movie that came out, Megan,
Speaker 1: the voice of Megan. Yeah, that's so cool. I mean,
Speaker 1: just some amazing And the one through line to all
Speaker 1: of this, and I'm saying this to all the people
Speaker 1: that that we want to enter the contest, everybody out there.
Speaker 1: The one through line is everybody loves it so much.
Speaker 1: It is just so much fun and so rewarding, and
Speaker 1: everybody it's the it's pure acting for acting sake. It's
Speaker 1: you and the microphone, and it is just such a
Speaker 1: wonderful side in side of the business that um you
Speaker 1: we you know you do hear people, because you will
Speaker 1: hear a lot of people coming in and going like, oh,
Speaker 1: the on camera side, I don't like this about the
Speaker 1: on camera side. I don't like that about the nobody's
Speaker 1: coming and been like you know what I don't like
Speaker 1: about vo doesn't exist. And so many on camera actors
Speaker 1: who are used to doing TV and movies and stuff
Speaker 1: will come in and are new to animation, and we'll
Speaker 1: we'll play and we'll do a really fun session and
Speaker 1: it'll take you ninety minutes or whatever, and they'll be like, wait,
Speaker 1: what we just did two episodes ninety minutes. This is
Speaker 1: all I want to do for the rest of my
Speaker 1: life the best. I have an interesting question, Sam, or
Speaker 1: at least I think it is right. I know you,
Speaker 1: like we talk a lot about celebrities coming into projects
Speaker 1: and sort of putting their spin on things, and like
Speaker 1: you said, if they're new to animation, I'm sure that
Speaker 1: changes the way that you're engaging with them as a director.
Speaker 1: But I mean, will you can carry you can piggyback
Speaker 1: on this too, Like we've talked about celebrities in the
Speaker 1: voice acting industry, I mean, what are your thoughts, like
Speaker 1: in terms of thoughts about like them taking our jobs,
Speaker 1: or how they fit into the industry, or or sure
Speaker 1: how they fit in the industry in a fair way,
Speaker 1: you know, and how they seemingly approached it, because you
Speaker 1: know a lot of I've seen I've seen both sides
Speaker 1: of this obviously. As a voice actor, I know that
Speaker 1: fellow voice actors like the three of us are usually fantastic,
Speaker 1: uh in in anything you throw at them. We know
Speaker 1: what we're doing. We're technically proficient. We can get the
Speaker 1: job done in uh in in in a quick amount
Speaker 1: of time. We can we can deliver jokes, we get
Speaker 1: rhythm and cadence, and like we cannot get out of
Speaker 1: the park. And all the voice actors that you ever
Speaker 1: meet are like just the nicest, sweetest people and so supportive.
Speaker 1: So from that perspective, seeing a big time celebrity who's
Speaker 1: already rich and doesn't need this work, come on in
Speaker 1: and take my jobs, isn't isn't the greatest. However, I
Speaker 1: also see from the other side. I am a producer
Speaker 1: of animation and also a voice director, and I totally
Speaker 1: get um uh just from a writing perspective, like when
Speaker 1: you're writing a character, a lot of times you you
Speaker 1: want to write to either a type or even a
Speaker 1: specific actor um because changes Like if you can imagine
Speaker 1: someone in the role, if you imagine Marissa Tomay in
Speaker 1: this role or Snoop Dogg playing this role or whatever
Speaker 1: it is, like, that's going to change how you write
Speaker 1: the character, even if that's not the person who eventually
Speaker 1: plays it. Um. But you know to to go out
Speaker 1: and try to get that person. Um it immediately solidifies like, oh,
Speaker 1: I know exactly what I'm gonna get. I'm gonna hire
Speaker 1: Whoopi Goldberg to do this, and then I don't have
Speaker 1: to think about like creating an intricate backstory for this
Speaker 1: one episode guest spot. I can just have Whoopi Goldberg
Speaker 1: be Whoopi Goldberg and that's plenty. That's gonna be great. Um,
Speaker 1: and she'll and she'll kill it. She's been doing Whoopie
Speaker 1: Goldberg forever. She's the best. Whoopi Goldberg is really great
Speaker 1: at it. And then and and it saves time too.
Speaker 1: You don't have to sit in the booth with an
Speaker 1: actor saying like what if we tried this? No, what
Speaker 1: if we tried this? You can just be like Whoopie
Speaker 1: go thing. UM. So I get it. I I totally
Speaker 1: get it. And I and I think it's also a
Speaker 1: celebrity involvement with these types of projects really brings a
Speaker 1: lot more attention to the project. And really, UM has
Speaker 1: boosted our respect for our industry and you know, it's
Speaker 1: a real thing now. Also, you guys are freaking television
Speaker 1: stars and you're taking our jobs too. That was my job, Sam, Sam.
Speaker 1: The last time I saw you in studio, I was
Speaker 1: reading like, UM, saucy. Um like audio books. So I
Speaker 1: don't know what you saucy audio? Wait? Wait, what do
Speaker 1: you mean? Like, how have we not how have we
Speaker 1: not talked about this? What is? What is? What are saucy?
Speaker 1: I knew, I knew that you you were there doing
Speaker 1: some audio books because you're super talented audio book Wait
Speaker 1: are you reading the kind of words for throbbing? Is
Speaker 1: that the kind of audio books you were reading? Did
Speaker 1: you have to say the word turgid? Yeah? Yeah, So
Speaker 1: I actually got to a point where I had to
Speaker 1: have a different a name. I have a different name,
Speaker 1: and you're not going to tell us what it is? Um,
Speaker 1: what was your name? What was your name? Don't say
Speaker 1: it because then don't know things, don't I don't remember
Speaker 1: it was for the first name, but it was. It
Speaker 1: was a sassier version of me. And the funny thing
Speaker 1: is that it was like audible. Okay, so so this
Speaker 1: is hilarious. We have talked about this. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: what are you doing that? Same? So we were at
Speaker 1: this studio in Magnolia, right, what is it? Out loud?
Speaker 1: You were out loud last time I saw you out
Speaker 1: loud audio One of the greatest studios in both coasts amazing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they really are. And and so I was out Loud
Speaker 1: Loud and then he's doing I think you were doing
Speaker 1: Lion Guard actually, which we watched all the time. Once again,
Speaker 1: uh Christie, that was my sister. No watched you were
Speaker 1: you doing Sophia? Then I was doing Sophia the first
Speaker 1: probably Orleana of Avalor. My sister was Online Guard though,
Speaker 1: and she also went to Harvard. Harvard. You're owning me,
Speaker 1: You're owning me. I'm sorry. It out Loud also where
Speaker 1: we did Um Big Hero six and yeah, but we
Speaker 1: also we did oh No. I was thinking, so yeah, okay, no,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. He does this thing where they fall in
Speaker 1: love or something with certain um post production or you know,
Speaker 1: production spaces, like when we did Kim Possible, we were
Speaker 1: at where we were at studios, were at l A Studios,
Speaker 1: and that had like It's heyday. And then I feel
Speaker 1: like then out Loud became a really a hot spot.
Speaker 1: I mean l A Studios, they're still great, but but
Speaker 1: out Loud, out Loud is sort of the new the
Speaker 1: new shiny toy, and they're they're so great And I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: we're not changing the subject from you reading porn. Can
Speaker 1: we get back to this, this is a kid okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: So basically, um, I was. You know, it was slow
Speaker 1: for me for animation and whatnot, Um because Sam never
Speaker 1: hired me, had any of because every show we did
Speaker 1: you thought was his sisters. Okay, so listen. So basically
Speaker 1: I I did. I always did, like enjoy doing audiobooks.
Speaker 1: I think there's a cadence in a pacing to it
Speaker 1: that's very relaxing and rewarding, and so I started getting
Speaker 1: back into it audible, um started hiring me. I was
Speaker 1: pregnant a lot like the time period I was reading them,
Speaker 1: so it was like easy work to do, and so
Speaker 1: I was sitting there and doing it, and then I
Speaker 1: realized that they kept calling me back for like race
Speaker 1: here and race here, like like so I don't know
Speaker 1: what the shades of gray or like like even worse
Speaker 1: than that, like serious, no, not not worse than that,
Speaker 1: not worse than that, no, worse than that, no, but
Speaker 1: like turgid, like saying words that were like appearances of
Speaker 1: things happening. I was like, I don't think I could
Speaker 1: do this anywhere. I'm sitting there pregnant, like reading these things.
Speaker 1: I think I went out and said hi to Sam
Speaker 1: because we would we would cross each other in the
Speaker 1: hall when he was doing you know, Lilion guards. All right,
Speaker 1: you pop back up with Will and conversation and I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I love Sam, and we start talking
Speaker 1: about D and D when he and I start doing
Speaker 1: comic cons and your name started to come up. Well,
Speaker 1: because so that's a perfect segue, because I wanted to
Speaker 1: talk about the little tiny show that you all started
Speaker 1: called Critical Role Son. I mean one of them. So
Speaker 1: when people say to me, hey, okay, you know, what
Speaker 1: are some of the biggest regrets you have in your life?
Speaker 1: And one of them is still sitting recording ThunderCats and
Speaker 1: Matt Mercer leaning over and saying I'm getting a D
Speaker 1: and D game together, do you want to play? And
Speaker 1: me going, ok, I knew this. I think I knew this.
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm doing. I'm you nervous, I
Speaker 1: can't do that. Yeah, I know exactly. But it worked
Speaker 1: out perfectly because it was the cast it was absolutely
Speaker 1: supposed to be. You guys jelled instantly. I was allowed
Speaker 1: to come on as a guest star in the first season,
Speaker 1: which started my love of dungeons and dragons. But you, you,
Speaker 1: together as this wonderful family, have started this juggernaut. Um,
Speaker 1: can you very briefly walk through how it started and
Speaker 1: and the amazing show that is the legend of oox Mocket.
Speaker 1: Oh well, wonderful setup. I um. We we started because
Speaker 1: it was one of our our critical role dudes. Liam
Speaker 1: O'Brien also fantastic voice actor. Um. It was his birthday
Speaker 1: and he and I were doing a podcast not unlike
Speaker 1: this one UM called All Work No Play. And on
Speaker 1: All Work No Play, we would um challenge ourselves to
Speaker 1: do fun things together that we're not work um because
Speaker 1: we never got to just hang out as ends anymore.
Speaker 1: So like we went and took a curling lesson, and
Speaker 1: we got our palms read and we went to a
Speaker 1: water park and for one of the episodes, he said,
Speaker 1: I want to play D and D. It's my birthday
Speaker 1: coming up. I want to play D and D. I
Speaker 1: haven't played it since I was a kid. And I
Speaker 1: was like, sure, whatever sounds great. I know I've never
Speaker 1: done that before. Put a group together. So he with
Speaker 1: Matt's help, and we all played and had such a
Speaker 1: great time. Um, it's really it's really great, Christie. If
Speaker 1: you played dn D or any table top role playing game. Okay,
Speaker 1: so Will has been talking to me a lot about it,
Speaker 1: and I really am dying to learn. I'm dying to learn.
Speaker 1: It can be kind of it can scratch whatever itch
Speaker 1: you wanted to scratch. Like, if you're a really good writer,
Speaker 1: you can sort of approach it like a writer and
Speaker 1: think about, you know, the storytelling aspect of it. If
Speaker 1: you're a really good improviser or really like that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff, that's where my heart came from, you can
Speaker 1: approach it as an improviser. If you really love just
Speaker 1: good acting, you can do that. Or if you just
Speaker 1: like sitting around with your friends and maybe sipping some
Speaker 1: alcohol and and telling stories and being a goofball, that's
Speaker 1: that can be your experience too, Or if you're like
Speaker 1: super into gaming and stats and that can be your thing.
Speaker 1: But um, but we just found that it was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was like this thing communal acting, communal storytelling. And
Speaker 1: it's part hang out, part acting workshop, parts story jam session.
Speaker 1: And I always say it's improv with consequence. Yes, examply
Speaker 1: it's just so much fun. And we kept doing it,
Speaker 1: and we kept sort of falling in love with UM,
Speaker 1: the characters that we were playing and the story that
Speaker 1: we were telling together, but also kind of falling in
Speaker 1: love with each other as friends. Like we we weren't
Speaker 1: super close, all of us, but we we sort of
Speaker 1: developed like this really great friendship among us and UM.
Speaker 1: And then there's there's a lot of steps that it took,
Speaker 1: but we eventually started streaming it online. People started watching
Speaker 1: it on two, which every Thursday night still seven pm,
Speaker 1: seven UM, and it became this thing that that UM
Speaker 1: that we were a part of. I don't think that
Speaker 1: we you know, we're certainly not the only ones and
Speaker 1: certainly not the leaders, but we were part of this
Speaker 1: movement where people were getting back into just pen and
Speaker 1: paper and sitting at a table game playing and storytelling together.
Speaker 1: And UM and it and we we rode the wave
Speaker 1: and UH and it turned into a company. And now
Speaker 1: with those same friends and me get to have this
Speaker 1: company together. We get to make our our Twitch streaming show,
Speaker 1: we get to make comic books, we get to make
Speaker 1: this animated series, the Legend of Ox Macina available now
Speaker 1: on Prime Video. UM, and we get to still have
Speaker 1: fun and play play our games together. It's great and
Speaker 1: will you're a part of it as well. He's a
Speaker 1: great part of it. I thank you not use that
Speaker 1: talent of it. It's one of my most favorite characters
Speaker 1: I ever had anything to do with, and it's because
Speaker 1: I got a chance to create it. And I always
Speaker 1: tell the story of knowing nothing of Dungeons and Dragons
Speaker 1: and Matt saying we come on the show. We ran
Speaker 1: into each other on the pack street at Comic Con
Speaker 1: in San Diego and he said, would you come on
Speaker 1: the show? I said, I kidding, I would love to,
Speaker 1: and then he said, I have to come over your
Speaker 1: house to create a character. And I remember turning to
Speaker 1: I think it was my wife at the time. I
Speaker 1: think she was just my girlfriend at the time, and
Speaker 1: I was like, so, I've got to create this character
Speaker 1: for Dungeon and Dragons. Should take about a half hour
Speaker 1: minutes And it was something like six hours later with
Speaker 1: Matt at the table and we got ordered food and
Speaker 1: I'm I had written this whole backstory and We're rolling
Speaker 1: dice and I'm sweating and We're having so much fun.
Speaker 1: And it changed my life. It changed my life. It
Speaker 1: really did have just and and I always I said this,
Speaker 1: um when I came on your show, and that one
Speaker 1: of the things that it does that Dudgeons and Dragons
Speaker 1: did for me is it gave me a whole new
Speaker 1: group of friends with a whole new kind of life
Speaker 1: behind it, where Mary and I became really close and
Speaker 1: we started at our home game, and you know, we
Speaker 1: hung out more with Steve, and we hung out more
Speaker 1: with all you guys, and all of a sudden, you're
Speaker 1: you're on this chain where you're texting about your D
Speaker 1: and D game and you're wondering what's gonna happen next,
Speaker 1: and it just becomes this wonderful community and there's something
Speaker 1: so um marvelous about this shared fantasy world that you've
Speaker 1: created and what's going to happen next, and uh, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's truly amazing. So yeah, I always credit you know,
Speaker 1: Mercer and all of you with you know, bringing me
Speaker 1: into this thing and and just the little touch of
Speaker 1: critical role. But what that led to in my own
Speaker 1: D and D and gaming life and how marvelous. And
Speaker 1: then you got you got into painting minis and and
Speaker 1: did a show for you all with where we're teaching
Speaker 1: paint miniatures, and it was so much fun and I
Speaker 1: got to play with everybody there and then and All
Speaker 1: Work and No Play You mentioned that where somehow, out
Speaker 1: of nowhere, I ended up with you all dressed in
Speaker 1: as what were nights and learning how that's right you
Speaker 1: were in the first episode. I think of the of
Speaker 1: the we turned the All Work No Play podcast Christie
Speaker 1: in to a actual video show that we put on
Speaker 1: usually and Will was I think in the first episode. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we dressed that we learned sword play, and we dressed
Speaker 1: up as nights and we had a whole will. Will
Speaker 1: was in my first YouTube video and he blessed my
Speaker 1: whole social media you know content. So he will show
Speaker 1: up for you. He's a great first great guy. He's
Speaker 1: a really good because like friend, well friend too, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I don't care about that. He's a really good
Speaker 1: first guest. If anyone's starting a podcast, call Will kick
Speaker 1: it off with a bang. I did. I think I
Speaker 1: miss judged D and D. I think I really did. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I thought it was like, let me tell you why,
Speaker 1: because and you guys really just changed me into potentially
Speaker 1: somebody who would actually give it a shot because I've
Speaker 1: humored Will and I said, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is something interested in a nerd And then he's told
Speaker 1: me I'm a nerd, so that's okay, you can call
Speaker 1: me a nerd. But then I was like, no, this
Speaker 1: seems like this is something more. I just don't understand
Speaker 1: it right. And then when I when I hear you
Speaker 1: guys talking about it a lot, I'm like, Okay. Critical
Speaker 1: role is like a networking thing where people get to
Speaker 1: like be together and meet each other, like poker. So
Speaker 1: like in l A, poker is like really big and
Speaker 1: that's like you need to get into George Clooney's poker
Speaker 1: game or basketball team or like whatever. There's certain things
Speaker 1: in l A that are like c need to do.
Speaker 1: And so when I heard about this, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is like nerd poker. But when I hear you
Speaker 1: talk about the connection that you have with your friends
Speaker 1: like that, it makes me realize, like that is why
Speaker 1: critical role is got so much heart. It's just I
Speaker 1: see it. It's resonating off of the interview, and I
Speaker 1: think it's so beautiful. And now I'm like, no, it
Speaker 1: really is watching you all together. And that's so the
Speaker 1: fact that you've grown a juggernaut and had what one
Speaker 1: of the biggest kickstarters ever for Legend of Fox Moki.
Speaker 1: Not seeing the show kind of from the beginning to
Speaker 1: where it's it's come has been amazing and it's it's
Speaker 1: a wonderful thing to watch. Watching you all do it
Speaker 1: together is really incredible because because you've all talking to
Speaker 1: each of you, you you all have roles like here's what
Speaker 1: I do in the camp to here's what I do
Speaker 1: in the company, Here's what I do in the company.
Speaker 1: And the synergy and working together and seeing what you've created,
Speaker 1: it's truly inspiring. And to see a group of friends
Speaker 1: doing it together from step one is something that's amazing.
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm I'm honored to be the smallest little
Speaker 1: part of it. And we need to talk a bit
Speaker 1: about season two because season one on Prime Video was uh,
Speaker 1: people flipped out, absolutely loved it. We talked about the
Speaker 1: kickstarter so this was all started with fan you know,
Speaker 1: fan money essentially because people were around very quickly. So
Speaker 1: we're going. I end up in Australia at a convention
Speaker 1: with Travis and Laura and in the middle of Australia,
Speaker 1: they have like a five hour line of people who
Speaker 1: addressed like their characters and it is. You can tell.
Speaker 1: It's when I looked around and went, my god, this
Speaker 1: is internationals is an international juggernaut. And he said, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna start you know, the campaign too, because what
Speaker 1: we really want to do with voice actors, we want
Speaker 1: to do an animated series. So I think the day
Speaker 1: I was talking to some of you, the day you
Speaker 1: you launched it, and then all of a sudden, it
Speaker 1: was like, wait a second, you've raised how much? So
Speaker 1: how much? How much money did you raise? In the
Speaker 1: We set out to raise a significant amount. We set
Speaker 1: out to raise seven hundred fifty thousand dollars because that's
Speaker 1: what it takes to make a half hour of animation,
Speaker 1: and we wanted to make a pilot episode so that
Speaker 1: we could show the world that this is something that
Speaker 1: should be on on the TV and uh, and instead
Speaker 1: our fans were like, nah, we we want you guys
Speaker 1: to just make the show. So we we raised eleven
Speaker 1: point four million dollars UH in forty five days, I believe.
Speaker 1: And it's the biggest it's the biggest film and TV
Speaker 1: kickstarter history, and it definitely changed our lives. Um, we
Speaker 1: didn't just caveat point of order. We didn't see we
Speaker 1: didn't we spent all of the money on the show
Speaker 1: any of it. Guys wanted to do was this show? No? Yes?
Speaker 1: And and because of that, because of that outpouring of
Speaker 1: fans support UM and the dollar value, all the studios
Speaker 1: that had said no to our pitch came came a
Speaker 1: knocking and said you no, Like, hey, well let's take
Speaker 1: a meeting. We do want to make that show with
Speaker 1: you now. And UM Amazon and ended up being a
Speaker 1: really great partner for us, an amazing partner because they
Speaker 1: also owned Twitch, which is the platform that we broadcast
Speaker 1: our our our live streaming show on, so they already
Speaker 1: knew us, they already got us UM and they they said,
Speaker 1: it's great that your fans gave you guys enough money
Speaker 1: to make ten episodes, but we want to make that
Speaker 1: a real thing, so let's make another fourteen on top
Speaker 1: of that, and we'll make two seasons of twelve. And
Speaker 1: then they've green led us for a third season of twelves.
Speaker 1: Like they've been amazing and so supportive. They never they
Speaker 1: never changed anything in in the story, like their their
Speaker 1: notes that they give on scripts are are like, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe you could think about changing this unless it's part
Speaker 1: of your canon. Because if it's part of Cannon, just
Speaker 1: leave it alone. We don't want to mess with it.
Speaker 1: Like they're they're they're really great about like respecting the
Speaker 1: lore that we've created and the interaction with the fans,
Speaker 1: and uh, they're they've been awesome. It's great. It's it's
Speaker 1: been a great set up. And you know, very the fans.
Speaker 1: Your fans are so unbelievable, so incredibly loyal. The critters, Um,
Speaker 1: they follow you everywhere. I've gotten the love from the
Speaker 1: critters everywhere. They are incredible. They're amazing fans. They really,
Speaker 1: they really are. They're very uh, they're they're super are positive,
Speaker 1: they're super inclusive. Um. But also they tell us when
Speaker 1: we mess up, but and not in a not in
Speaker 1: a crappy way, like and hey, guys, maybe you should
Speaker 1: just you know, think about this. And we're like, of
Speaker 1: course we should think about that. Um. But it's like, Christie,
Speaker 1: you're you're friends with my mom on Twitter, right on Facebook, okay,
Speaker 1: on on any platform, on any social media platform. If
Speaker 1: you're if you become friends with my mom, she will
Speaker 1: endlessly support you, endlessly hype you up like all of
Speaker 1: your all of your posts. Yes, Yes, that's how I
Speaker 1: kind of feel about the critters as well, Like they
Speaker 1: have my back, like I could post anything, and and
Speaker 1: like I could post like I don't know how to
Speaker 1: program my remote control and maybe like I got you boo,
Speaker 1: because how you do it? Like they're very helpful and
Speaker 1: they help each other too. It's been so wonderful to
Speaker 1: see over the years, so many people who watch our show,
Speaker 1: like Christie, will now be inspired to start playing start
Speaker 1: playing tabletop role playing games like ours. And we've heard
Speaker 1: stories and we've met We've met fans who have um
Speaker 1: had long running games now because they of watching our
Speaker 1: show and being inspired by it. We've met people who
Speaker 1: have gotten married over their shared love of Critical Role
Speaker 1: and they've gotten into a gaming group together, and they've
Speaker 1: moved across the world to get married, you know, to
Speaker 1: each other. And it's like it's so amazing. Uh. Yes,
Speaker 1: So hats off to the critters. They are definitely the
Speaker 1: wind beneath our wings. Yeah. I know more than one
Speaker 1: person literally and this is not not an exaggeration. I
Speaker 1: know more than one person that has told me that
Speaker 1: Critical Roles saved their life, That literally saved their life.
Speaker 1: They were in a bad place. They didn't know what
Speaker 1: they were going to live for, they didn't know what
Speaker 1: they were going to do, and they found Critical Role
Speaker 1: and everything changed. So it's it's a lot, it's a
Speaker 1: lot of content. We have hundreds and hundreds of hours
Speaker 1: of content. So yes, I've I've heard similar things from
Speaker 1: people who were in a low moment of their life
Speaker 1: or they just lost a family member or whatever and
Speaker 1: just kind of needed needed to hang out, needed to
Speaker 1: hang out with a friend, uh, for an extended period
Speaker 1: of time. And it's hard. It's hard for friends, even
Speaker 1: in real life to just sit with someone who's gonna
Speaker 1: in a rough place for a long extended period of time.
Speaker 1: So instead they would sit with us and watch and
Speaker 1: watch watch Critical Role for these hours and and sort
Speaker 1: of we would, we would turn into that supportive you
Speaker 1: know friend to them, um in their in their moment. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And it's it's just such a cool thing that we
Speaker 1: that we didn't set out to do, but are so
Speaker 1: honored to be a part of of so many people's
Speaker 1: lives who have found something joyful in us in their
Speaker 1: lowest moments. Amazing. I'm gonna put you on the spot here.
Speaker 1: Hate to do it, But I gotta know favorite character
Speaker 1: you've played on in Critical Role? Which which is which
Speaker 1: of my of my D and D characters? Uh? And
Speaker 1: you can't say that's like picking your children. I can't
Speaker 1: pick one. No, no, I can pick I can even
Speaker 1: pick a child over my children. Um No, I I
Speaker 1: think the one my favorite character was the one who
Speaker 1: started all Scandlin Shorthauld, my first character, the guy I
Speaker 1: play on the Legend Box Market, just because he's uh,
Speaker 1: he's everything I want to do in life. He's bold
Speaker 1: and egotistical and silly and funny but also crass. He
Speaker 1: sings um he and then later in the show you'll
Speaker 1: see he does have moments of of of real meaning
Speaker 1: and real uh, real feeling and real heart and um
Speaker 1: he's probably the closest to me as a person. I
Speaker 1: love all the characters that I play on Critical Role.
Speaker 1: And Christie, you will learn too that you'll you'll fall
Speaker 1: in love with your character because they see the more
Speaker 1: you play with them. Um. Unlike any other role that
Speaker 1: you've played as an actor, because you're creating the story
Speaker 1: as go, you really feel like you are them and
Speaker 1: they are you, and so you start to like even
Speaker 1: when you're not playing, you start worrying about your character, like,
Speaker 1: oh man, how are they going to get out of this?
Speaker 1: You know? Or they could die? Yea, you know they
Speaker 1: and when the character dies, that's it. They gone like
Speaker 1: you worried about yes, yes, yeah, and your your friend,
Speaker 1: your character that you've been with for years, it is
Speaker 1: now dead. It's horrible sence. Yeah, oh my, al right, well,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us. Oh we've been
Speaker 1: We've been really excited about seeing you. So we're glad
Speaker 1: that You're glad it worked out. This is so cool
Speaker 1: and were so of course, first of all, everybody Season
Speaker 1: two Legend of Ox Making I'm prime video. It is phenomenal.
Speaker 1: It is the quote unquote the best guest cast you
Speaker 1: will ever see anywhere. Um I hear the guest test
Speaker 1: even will Is will Is in it. Will Is in it,
Speaker 1: and he is so good, so much fun. It is
Speaker 1: a great show. So go check it out. And of
Speaker 1: course Sam is. This is going to sound very odd
Speaker 1: the way that I'm saying it, but Sam is one
Speaker 1: of the prizes for the Super Awesome Contest to become
Speaker 1: the next Big Voice actor. So you are going to
Speaker 1: get a training set, training session, a mentoring session, nature,
Speaker 1: whatever you want session, whatever you want to coaching, I
Speaker 1: guess would be the way that we would say. From
Speaker 1: the Emmy Award winning Sam Regal at Mary McGlynn, it's
Speaker 1: going to be so unbelievable. We are so excited that
Speaker 1: you were here joining us. This has been incredibly cool,
Speaker 1: and of course every Thursday on Twitch Critical Role, the
Speaker 1: tiny little show that billions of people around the world
Speaker 1: are watching. It's been a pleasure talking to both of you.
Speaker 1: I'm glad this worked out, and I'm so excited for
Speaker 1: your contest. I'm so excited for U for this podcast.
Speaker 1: And you know you talked about Critical Role, you know,
Speaker 1: being just friends that took off and became a juggernaut.
Speaker 1: I kind of feel like you guys are doing that too.
Speaker 1: You guys are kicking, but we keep kicking, but we're
Speaker 1: getting great. Thank you. We also wanted to even give
Speaker 1: a nice shout out to Prime Video because Amazon and
Speaker 1: Prime Video have been really helping us out with the
Speaker 1: contest and with everything going on. So it's been really
Speaker 1: great working with everybody over there. I can see why
Speaker 1: you love them as partners. It's been a ton of
Speaker 1: fun and again, uh yeah, we're giving Sam away, Sam surprise,
Speaker 1: wrapping him in a big bow, and you win this.
Speaker 1: Harvard graduate Director of Gard, Director of Line Guard, Harvard graduate,
Speaker 1: Sam Regal. He's going to read a saucy audio book
Speaker 1: for you, that's right, praising my role on all my children,
Speaker 1: all on all my children. And if he doesn't do that,
Speaker 1: he's one hell of a Spanish tutor. Yes, Sam Regal,
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you seriously for joining US's so
Speaker 1: cool and we're just so happy for all the success
Speaker 1: you've had and we can't wait, uh for to see
Speaker 1: everything that's gonna happen again. So everybody, Legend of ox
Speaker 1: mocking A Season two. It is so cool. It drops.
Speaker 1: It's dropped now. So it was January. The first three
Speaker 1: episodes UH dropped in. They are They're incredible, So go
Speaker 1: check it out and thank you again for joining us, Sam,
Speaker 1: thanks for having and for everybody out there, don't forget.
Speaker 1: The super awesome contest to become the next Big Voice
Speaker 1: actor is live. So January nine through February nine, submit
Speaker 1: a two minute either audio or video. Do whatever you want,
Speaker 1: but remember what Sam said, grab our attention as fast
Speaker 1: as you can. Uh focus on the acting, because that's
Speaker 1: what it's about. We're trying to find actors. We are
Speaker 1: looking for a colleague. We're looking for somebody who can
Speaker 1: get into the booth. Day one, We're gonna give someone
Speaker 1: their big break. You win a year long contract with
Speaker 1: C E. S D, which is my voiceover agency. You
Speaker 1: want a thousand dollars, You're flown out to Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: you have lunch with Christy and I. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: a coaching session with Sam and Mary sending cash. It
Speaker 1: is gonna be so much fun. So just remember, if
Speaker 1: you think you have what it takes a step up
Speaker 1: to the microphone, then put your voices where your mouth is.
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