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Speaker 1: Hi, Christy, Hi Will, How are you.

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Speaker 2: I'm good? How are you?

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Speaker 3: I'm excited because we have a nice little like episode

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Speaker 3: here that we're doing amongst our contest Rigamarole.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like a whole Like you know, we it was

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Speaker 2: one of those things we're in the middle of the contest.

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Speaker 2: We know we're in the middle of the contest, but

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Speaker 2: this guest popped up that was so cool that we

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Speaker 2: had the opportunity to interview that. We're like, you know what,

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Speaker 2: we need to take just a quick breath from the

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Speaker 2: contest just so we can interview this person. I'm a

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Speaker 2: big fan. Are you a big fan?

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Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan.

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Speaker 3: And also I think there's just so much that we

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Speaker 3: can chat with her about in terms of like how

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Speaker 3: she's approaching her voice career, because she's such an amazing

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Speaker 3: on camera actress. And it's funny because as I've watched her,

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Speaker 3: I'll mention this to her.

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Speaker 1: As I've watched her, I've always like she is the

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Speaker 1: best voice for voiceovers.

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Speaker 2: And now it's working, and I know, I know, I know,

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Speaker 2: that's really cool. So who is joining us today, Christy?

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Speaker 1: We have Nicole Sakura.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Nicole, Hi, Thank you so much for joining us.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, a pleasure to be here.

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Speaker 2: We know you're super busy, so it was really nice

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Speaker 4: Of course. Yeah, I'm yeah, happy to be here.

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Speaker 3: So I'm a huge fan obviously, but Cloud nine is

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Speaker 3: like our comfort food. Superstore is our comfort Bacon. Like

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Speaker 3: it's not the same, they're different titles, but I literally

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Speaker 3: watch it, I could say a couple times a week.

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Speaker 3: It's like a rotation of Superstore, parks and rec and

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Speaker 3: the office. So it's like you and I've always I've

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Speaker 3: always said to my husband too, I was like, she

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Speaker 3: is the best voice. Love Obviously, I love your character

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Speaker 3: and I love your acting, but you have the best voice.

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Speaker 3: And so sometimes I feel like as folks with voice

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Speaker 3: acting backgrounds, they're like, oh, she could have a career

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Speaker 3: and voice acting and all of the hold you do.

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Speaker 1: So we're excited to chat with you about Suzume.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's funny that you say that always wanted to

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Speaker 5: do voiceover stuff, and I I, yeah, I thought, oh,

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Speaker 5: I feel like I have a voice.

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Speaker 3: But we all think we do, right, Yeah, everyone I said,

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: At first I hated my how my voice sounded like

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Speaker 5: I remember the first time hearing it and being like, oh, like,

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Speaker 5: I feel like everyone has that experience.

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Speaker 2: No, no, you do you get that because you go, no, wait,

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Speaker 2: that's not me. That's that's not how I sound, because

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Speaker 2: I sound so different in my head. It can't that

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Speaker 1: Actually, yeah, yeah, yeah I could. I could see that.

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Speaker 3: I can understand that because I think also too, we're

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Speaker 2: But the actors. Actors aren't insecure people. What are you

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Speaker 2: I have a quick question because you said that you've

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Speaker 5: And I mean also, like, you know, grew up on

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Speaker 3: So what was your audition process? Like I knew your

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Speaker 3: Well, so Will and I we are doing a contest

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's funny you asked that.

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Speaker 5: I feel like I'm still kind of learning about that,

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Speaker 5: But I honestly don't know how much like vocal awareness.

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Speaker 2: Do you have any But that is such a bonus

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Speaker 2: And then I learned how to say McDonald's wadesca, so

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Speaker 1: Yeah, making Americans prim office.

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Speaker 2: At least I learned those two I tried. Before we

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Speaker 2: get into uh Susume, which is just the world of animation.

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Speaker 2: There is just one of the most beautiful things ever.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk a little bit about your Western

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Speaker 2: you've done something for Star Wars.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I know that is pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the most voice myself. I've now been in the

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Speaker 2: Star Wars. You are, that's that is a an exclusive club.

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Speaker 3: It's so funny, A great laugh.

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Speaker 1: That's the most beautiful laugh.

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Speaker 4: As actors, as artists, we all are like fans of

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Speaker 5: We all have these things that we really want to do,

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Speaker 1: It's not a nerd. Will she's not a herd.

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Speaker 2: Well, she's not a Star Wars nerd.

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Speaker 4: It just wasn't some that I grew up like, well,

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Speaker 5: But obviously I am so honored to be in that category.

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Speaker 5: So I just think it's like kind of funny how

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Speaker 1: Don't have to apologize.

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Speaker 2: I know exactly exactly what you're saying everybody. So as

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Speaker 4: Animation KAI like that that is part of.

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Speaker 2: talk you know, Mirzaki films, and that's your nerddom, that's

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, but no, it was really amazing to be

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I have a horrible memo. Me too.

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Speaker 3: I have such a bad memory. It's the worst.

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Speaker 1: And I keep calling it my husband's name. It's very odd.

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Speaker 4: You might have found it annoying.

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Speaker 5: What I'm saying is really more like this, but yeah,

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Speaker 2: Really, you're hitting it the perfect time. It is just

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Speaker 5: One of my favorite anime and I've been talking about

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Speaker 2: Dads, Susan May do we say, Suzumi, it's fine. What

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Speaker 4: What have you guys been saying?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we said that you're fine.

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Speaker 2: But that was the thing is I think anime. I

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Speaker 3: They were just we've talked about this that they just

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the longest time here in our animation, the GHO,

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Speaker 2: All it was. They were twenty two minute cartoons for

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Speaker 3: I mean it's really beautiful too. Like with we watch

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Speaker 5: Yeah, take your daughters.

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Speaker 2: We know we don't have you for too much longer.

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Speaker 4: What? Okay, is this like an existing.

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Speaker 2: Whoever you want, whoever you want. Is there somebody you've

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Speaker 4: Yeah, something something where I'm like flying around in a

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Speaker 2: Okay, cool that works? And then where where can other

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Speaker 2: First of all, when is Susany's out already?

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Speaker 4: It's out. Yeah, it just came in the BEG.

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Speaker 1: It's in theaters.

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Speaker 4: You can watch you can watch the duve if you

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Speaker 2: I think just because now we've spoken, i'd have to

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Speaker 2: watch your version. Got to watch your version.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, watch my version everyone, And then.

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Speaker 2: Where else can people see you?

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Speaker 4: They just made it.

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Speaker 2: Okay, it blends after a while, really, so I don't

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Speaker 5: The title that movie is, but they can keep an

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Speaker 2: Cool.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm so exciting. And we'll get you on your

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Speaker 1: socials where you're on Instagram.

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Speaker 5: Right, I'm on Instagram at Nicole Sucker spelled with an

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Speaker 2: That's awesome.

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Speaker 4: Well, there we go.

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Speaker 2: Everybody go check out the film. It looks absolutely amazing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll DM you after we go see it.

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Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, let me know what you thought.

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Speaker 1: I will thank you.

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Speaker 2: This is absolutely incredible and thank you. Just so much

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Speaker 2: for taking the time to join us. I know that

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Speaker 2: you are super busy and you've got a bunch of

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Speaker 2: stuff going on, so coming and talking to us on

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Speaker 2: our little podcast is always so nice.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, thank you for having me. This is really fun.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate it. And everybody go check out the film.

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Speaker 2: It just came out this weekend and it looks like

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Speaker 2: it's going to be just gorgeous. So yeah, everybody go

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Speaker 2: give it, give it a try.

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Speaker 4: Susan By, that's right.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for joining us, and we can't

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Speaker 2: wait to see what happened with the movie. We know

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Speaker 2: it's going to be gonna.

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Speaker 4: Be big, so yeah, thank you, and.

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Speaker 2: You will then you just get ready because when this

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Speaker 2: thing becomes what it's supposed to be, they're going to

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Speaker 2: have you at conventions and you're going to have the

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Speaker 2: five hour line of people dressed like your character and

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Speaker 2: wanting pictures and it's you watch it's absolutely gonna happen.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much, Thank you.

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Speaker 2: God. That's so funny. It looks beautiful, Yeah it does,

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Speaker 2: it really does that. Yeah, the film looks amazing, So

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Speaker 2: thank her so much for joining. We know we're doing

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Speaker 2: kind of a drop in episode here for everybody, but

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Speaker 2: she was. She's so nice and so talented, and the

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Speaker 2: film is going to be so big that we had

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Speaker 2: to take had to take a pause from the contest

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Speaker 2: just to interviewer because I feel like we just interviewed

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Speaker 2: somebody that could be very big, especially in the anime world,

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Speaker 2: but in the animation world, you know, in total.

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Speaker 3: So really, I mean, obviously, we've had legends. We've had

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Speaker 3: almost like every legend that I know of. There's been

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Speaker 3: a few that we haven't gotten, like you know.

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Speaker 1: Kevin.

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Speaker 2: Kevin Michael Richardson.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we haven't had Kevin, but we can still get

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Speaker 3: of course.

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I have a huge crush on him.

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Speaker 2: I love him so much.

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Speaker 3: But you know, there's there's a few folks that I

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Speaker 3: think that, you know, in a perfect world, we would

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Speaker 3: have gotten every single legend, and I think all of

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Speaker 3: them are so awesome that they would have come on

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Speaker 3: I HV. But I've really enjoyed, like, you know, the

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Speaker 3: voice of Megan that we had, she was fantastic and she's.

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Speaker 1: In the beginning of her career.

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Speaker 3: And that other gentleman that we had early early on

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Speaker 3: I HV, who was also an anime, and you know,

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Speaker 3: there's a it's good for everyone that's a fan of

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Speaker 3: this culture, this part of the industry to see that

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Speaker 3: there's new talent coming up and yeah, and it's it's

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Speaker 3: really nice for us to see it too, because we

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Speaker 3: don't want to just like, you know, be the elderly.

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Speaker 1: Folks in the.

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Speaker 2: Exactly. No, it's true. And and again the convention circuit

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Speaker 2: completely opened my eyes to anime. Where again, I watched

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Speaker 2: some anime growing up, but I did not like all

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Speaker 2: amazing nerdoms. I found this out, especially when I started

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Speaker 2: my mini painting show. You scratch the surface of any

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Speaker 2: nerdom and next thing you know, you are down the

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Speaker 2: rabbit hole of this amazing world that is just so

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Speaker 2: enriching and gorgeous and uh and that's anime now for me,

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm about to be taking the plunge and

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Speaker 2: knowing that it's like, all right, here we go, because

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Speaker 2: you're entering a world that is gonna Are you.

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Speaker 1: Going to go into an anime?

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna start, I'm really gonna

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Speaker 2: start kind of jumping deeper into anime because it's okay,

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Speaker 2: become so.

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Speaker 1: Popular watching it or acting in it.

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Speaker 2: Well hopefully acting it, but really just watching it. Just

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Speaker 2: it's so beautiful. And this again, the storytelling is so rich.

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Speaker 2: And the films that they were doing, the Ghibli Studios,

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Speaker 2: all that stuff, these were These are amazing films that

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Speaker 2: just happened to be animated, like you're going to see

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Speaker 2: an animation.

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Speaker 3: An animated age, beautifully aged, beautifully like my kids are

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Speaker 3: watching things that are decades and decades old without without

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Speaker 3: a play.

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Speaker 2: Again, I watch Akira all the time. It changed the ballgame.

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Speaker 2: You can see it in Batman Beyond, you can see

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Speaker 2: it everywhere. So it's yeah, go check it out. But

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Speaker 2: thank you so much for joining us Nicole, and check

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Speaker 2: her out at Nicole sakara at on Instagram Instagram. Ah,

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Speaker 2: you know how much I know my social media stuff.

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Speaker 2: Yeah she didn't say she was on the top tick,

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Speaker 2: but whatever, So thank you everybody for joining us. Of course,

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Speaker 2: we will be back with our super awesome contest to

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Speaker 2: become the next big voice actor, which we are right

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Speaker 2: in the middle of right now. We have gotten some

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Speaker 2: amazingly talented people and we are going to find that

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Speaker 2: next big voice actor. So thank you for joining us

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Speaker 2: for this and please join us for that, and remember,

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Speaker 2: if you think you have what it takes to step

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Speaker 2: up to the microphone, put your voices where your mouth is.

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Speaker 2: Thanks everybody. I Hear Voices is hosted by Will Fredell

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Speaker 2: and Christy Carlson Romano. Executive produced by Will Fredell, Brendan Rooney,

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Speaker 2: Amy Sugarman. Our executive in charge of production Isa Anielle Romo,

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Speaker 2: Our producer is Lorraine Viuez, and our editor slash engineer

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Speaker 2: is Brian Burton. And that was my announcer voice.

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