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Speaker 1: which we had, And you need a cast who understands

428
00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:35,720
Speaker 1: that we're all doing this together and that it's not

429
00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:37,920
Speaker 1: a competition of any sort. Once you've got the job,

430
00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:40,040
Speaker 1: you got the job, and so you don't have to

431
00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:42,280
Speaker 1: compete with the other actors. All you have to do

432
00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:45,520
Speaker 1: is your best work. And so I figured out, what

433
00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:47,280
Speaker 1: is the best way for me to get the best

434
00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:49,439
Speaker 1: work from the actors. Well, let's get the script to

435
00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:52,359
Speaker 1: them ahead of time. Let's not let it be a

436
00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:56,480
Speaker 1: secret from when they get what are my words today?

437
00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:58,480
Speaker 1: So I made a great effort to make sure. And

438
00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:00,360
Speaker 1: this is back in the day you got us when

439
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:04,520
Speaker 1: we were typing scripts on a type writer and copying

440
00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:08,720
Speaker 1: them on a copy machine and sending them by messenger

441
00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:12,080
Speaker 1: to the actors homes, which is a very expensive process,

442
00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:14,239
Speaker 1: but they let me do it, and I thought, this

443
00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:16,399
Speaker 1: is gonna save us a lot of time in a

444
00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:19,320
Speaker 1: recording studio, which at the time, the minimum charge of

445
00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:23,040
Speaker 1: recording studio is two So if I'm saving an hour

446
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:26,720
Speaker 1: for every session for sixty episodes, I'm saving a goodly

447
00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:28,639
Speaker 1: amount of money. It's worth it. Let the actors have

448
00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:31,919
Speaker 1: it ahead of time. Then the actors have the chance

449
00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:35,439
Speaker 1: to come up with ideas of their own, to to

450
00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:39,280
Speaker 1: think of things, of of possible ways to play a scene,

451
00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:41,199
Speaker 1: because it's not just one way to play a scene.

452
00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:44,440
Speaker 1: But when I would prep a script, I would hear

453
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:47,480
Speaker 1: the actor's voices play the scene out, and I would

454
00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:49,160
Speaker 1: get an idea of what I thought the scene should

455
00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:52,720
Speaker 1: sound like. And I knew I needed to get that

456
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,520
Speaker 1: because I knew that would work. Having been such a

457
00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:58,399
Speaker 1: cartoon fan, having worked in animation for many years by

458
00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:01,280
Speaker 1: the time Batman the animated series came around, I knew

459
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:03,919
Speaker 1: what would work, and so sometimes I would give line readings.

460
00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:06,919
Speaker 1: I confess, but you do it fast and furiously, so

461
00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:09,240
Speaker 1: the actors don't know what's happening, and you just say

462
00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:12,399
Speaker 1: echo me. I want to go there. Actor goes, I

463
00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:14,600
Speaker 1: want to go there? Got it? Moving on? And then

464
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:17,040
Speaker 1: the actor doesn't go, oh man, she line read me.

465
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:19,600
Speaker 1: Then you go back and say, now, how did you

466
00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:21,280
Speaker 1: want to do that line? Let me make sure we

467
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:23,480
Speaker 1: got your version of what you wanted to do there,

468
00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:27,000
Speaker 1: and you run the scene again. That empowers the actor too,

469
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:29,000
Speaker 1: and that's what you want is the actor feel like

470
00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:35,280
Speaker 1: they are a contributing force, not just a technician. And

471
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:38,160
Speaker 1: that's why I hire actors and not technicians to do voices.

472
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:40,639
Speaker 1: You want people who can bring something to the party.

473
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:43,199
Speaker 1: And that's kind of how I always referred to my

474
00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:48,000
Speaker 1: work was casting was like casting a party. Who's gonna

475
00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:50,240
Speaker 1: be fun together, who's gonna have a good time together,

476
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:53,560
Speaker 1: Who's gonna bring something to the party. And then the

477
00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:58,800
Speaker 1: recording sessions was kind of like the actual party itself.

478
00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:02,879
Speaker 1: And you know, everybody wants to make cartoon characters talk dirty,

479
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,360
Speaker 1: so there was always somebody that could say something dirty

480
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:07,600
Speaker 1: and let them do that and then move on. And

481
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:11,600
Speaker 1: then what we found is Batman the animated series became

482
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:16,000
Speaker 1: a family. It truly became a family of Kevin Conroy,

483
00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 1: and he was the dad, and then you know, all

484
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:21,719
Speaker 1: the various people, whether it was Adrian Barbeaux or you know,

485
00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 1: Bobby Castanzo, or you know all these wonderful people who

486
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:27,879
Speaker 1: came to play. What happened in that show, and you

487
00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:29,560
Speaker 1: guys are really familiar with this is you know, the

488
00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:32,240
Speaker 1: Screen Actors Guild allows us to use an actor for

489
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:34,879
Speaker 1: three voices, essentially for one price. There's a book for

490
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,640
Speaker 1: the third voice. But you do yourself a favor by

491
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,920
Speaker 1: being versatile. You have a better chance for work if

492
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:43,440
Speaker 1: you can do a couple of extra voices. And so,

493
00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:47,680
Speaker 1: but in that show, in Batman Animated series, we wanted

494
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:50,639
Speaker 1: what we call, or what I called anyhow, a voice

495
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:53,359
Speaker 1: with character for some of these guys, as opposed to

496
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:57,960
Speaker 1: someone doing a character voice. So Bobby Costanzo sounds like

497
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,199
Speaker 1: Bobby Castanzo. He's gonna sound like an Italian New Yorker

498
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:02,840
Speaker 1: and that's the way he's gonna sound that he really

499
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:06,360
Speaker 1: can't sound any different. Now within those confines, he could

500
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:08,080
Speaker 1: do a bunch of different characters, but not in the

501
00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:10,720
Speaker 1: same episode and not in the same series. That everybody's

502
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:13,720
Speaker 1: gonna go, always go, that's Bullock. I know that's Bolts voice. So,

503
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 1: but that's a voice with character right, as opposed to

504
00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:20,359
Speaker 1: say Rob Paulson doing Pinky of Pinky in the brain.

505
00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:23,920
Speaker 1: That's doing a character voice. So I had a whole

506
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,680
Speaker 1: bunch of actors like that in Batman, the animated series,

507
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:29,520
Speaker 1: who were actors who had voices, like Bob Haysticks who

508
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:33,199
Speaker 1: played Commissioner Gordon. He had a really recognizable voice and

509
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:35,480
Speaker 1: while he could kind of do other voices, you could

510
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:39,000
Speaker 1: always hear Bob Haystings in that character. So I had

511
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:42,359
Speaker 1: the chance to get a lot of guests in because

512
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:46,159
Speaker 1: I had these regulars who couldn't cover the incidentals for me.

513
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:48,439
Speaker 1: And that was okay because we were a brand new

514
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:50,920
Speaker 1: series and we were barked on a whole new way

515
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:55,120
Speaker 1: of making cartoons. And of course the ensemble record was crucial,

516
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:57,920
Speaker 1: having everybody there in the room at the same time,

517
00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:01,760
Speaker 1: because you guys, know your actors. Half of acting is reacting.

518
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 1: And while I'm a fair actor and I can give

519
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 1: you the line up to your line so that you

520
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 1: have something to act against, always better to have the

521
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,160
Speaker 1: two actors acting together. Sure, when you guys were doing

522
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,679
Speaker 1: it was a much more fun, much more It was

523
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:18,920
Speaker 1: not no, it was great fun. We just we never

524
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:22,680
Speaker 1: recorded together. Yeah, it was great fun Lisa did to

525
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:27,880
Speaker 1: Lisa Schaeffer's a testament to her directing style. I mean

526
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 1: she was at a disadvantage. I had gone to college

527
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 1: pilot episode. Yeah, I was in New York. They were

528
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:37,240
Speaker 1: patching me in. I think there's a couple of times

529
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 1: they were able to hear me, but there was. But

530
00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:43,440
Speaker 1: I don't look. If we were to come back, which

531
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,120
Speaker 1: would be amazing, that would be a stipulation. I think

532
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:48,159
Speaker 1: that all of us should really stand behind let's all

533
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,920
Speaker 1: be together, let's like really do this all together. And

534
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,640
Speaker 1: to your point, Andrea, I would really want to try

535
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 1: to challenge myself and and beg them guys, let me

536
00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:01,919
Speaker 1: do other voices. Because so I was hired to do

537
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:04,640
Speaker 1: Kim right, and I had a little bit of imposter

538
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:07,719
Speaker 1: syndrome and still due to this day. That's kind of

539
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 1: and I'm sure you've heard you may have heard this

540
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:13,119
Speaker 1: before in certain actors, but I was hired to be

541
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 1: authentically sixteen like. That was one of the reasons they

542
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 1: liked me as my voice was that I could be sarcastic,

543
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:21,199
Speaker 1: but I could also be girly, and I happened to

544
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 1: be the age and of course Synergy because I was

545
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:26,280
Speaker 1: on other things for Disney. But for so many years

546
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:30,880
Speaker 1: I've I've felt very insecure about my voice talent. It's

547
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 1: so refreshing to hear you say, like, just because you

548
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 1: don't necessarily do a million voices, it doesn't make you

549
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 1: any less of a voice actor. Um it just makes

550
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:43,240
Speaker 1: you a different sort. But I will, I will say

551
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 1: I would love to be challenged. If that's possible to

552
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:50,080
Speaker 1: do that in the future. You should be given the chance.

553
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 1: You should. Why not? I mean it only it helps

554
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 1: them because it's cheaper and and and Will can attest

555
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 1: to the fact that for Batman Beyond, which by the way,

556
00:28:58,080 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 1: it was one of my all time favorite too that

557
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 1: I work done, and the fact that we never made

558
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:03,960
Speaker 1: a big fat feature like a real in the movie

559
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 1: theater feature. Um, nor that it hasn't come back yet

560
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:11,280
Speaker 1: because I think it should. So many panels and comic cons,

561
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 1: and I do miss those comic cons, but they're not

562
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 1: for me. They're coody cons'll come back. I love. But

563
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:23,960
Speaker 1: I love that fan I love hearing from the fans

564
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 1: and what they like and stuff. But but my point

565
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 1: is there were times when I would say, you know what,

566
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 1: I have one incidental he's a FuG who works for

567
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 1: so and so, and he says, let's go. I have

568
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 1: no problem given that to Will and having him do

569
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 1: four different versions of it and we'll find one that

570
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 1: works absolutely, And um, you know I don't do yeah,

571
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:46,720
Speaker 1: But I mean, Andrea, We've we've talked about this to

572
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 1: this day, and I've been doing this a lot now

573
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 1: and I've had the opportunity to do more stuff. But

574
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:52,640
Speaker 1: I will never be known as the person that does

575
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 1: thirty voices. I'm just I'm not that kind of actor.

576
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:58,320
Speaker 1: And that's okay, And that's okay. We need all these

577
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 1: different types of actors. We need them. We need people

578
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,280
Speaker 1: like you guys know who's Sterling Holloway. Holloway was the

579
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 1: voice of Winnie the Pooh, and that was a very

580
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 1: specific voice with character. He did not have versatility, that

581
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 1: said Jim Cummings, So now does the voice doesn't a

582
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 1: sillion voices a sillion voice But but he took the

583
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 1: voice of Winnie the Pooh from someone who had a

584
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,120
Speaker 1: voice with character and learned how to do it. Um,

585
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 1: but there's a need for all different kind of actors

586
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 1: that way. Um, where was I in it's wonderful. I really,

587
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 1: I really want to say thank you for your take

588
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 1: on that, because because living with that imposter syndrome to

589
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:40,280
Speaker 1: play Kim and feel almost like I was like, um,

590
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 1: sort of like a stunt higher stuck in there. Yeah, yeah,

591
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 1: it was. It was a tape that I think I

592
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 1: was playing in my head that really prevented me from

593
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 1: fully investing in in in only, Like I really, if

594
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 1: I could only do voiceover work, I would really only

595
00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 1: do voiceover work. That's how much I love it in

596
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 1: the world. But it's the best job in the world.

597
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 1: And and I am very passionate about animation. Like now

598
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 1: I'll watch things with my girls and I'll be like, oh,

599
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 1: that'd be great, And then occasionally I'll get an audition

600
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 1: for those things. But you know, it's a numbers game

601
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 1: with with a lot of people may not know that

602
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 1: about the plethora of opportunities um that that you get

603
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 1: sent it's so much more than on camera opportunities and

604
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 1: never get to play on camera ever. So fun. It's

605
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 1: the only place I could be cool is when we're animating.

606
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:33,240
Speaker 1: It's but it's true. It's true, you know, wedge me

607
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:35,480
Speaker 1: into a bat suit. No, but my voice will be

608
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 1: able to do it. There's not enough Cristo in the

609
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 1: world to get me more Batman beyond suit. But but voiceover, hey,

610
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 1: I can say on Batman and it's I mean, isn't

611
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 1: that fantastic? It's amazing, wonderful. Part of it's amazing that

612
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 1: that actors whom I was able to bring in and say,

613
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 1: you know, here's something that they would probably never get

614
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 1: cast as on camera, but would you consider coming into

615
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 1: play that. Yes, I've always wanted to it. I know

616
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 1: I don't look at that part, but it doesn't matter.

617
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 1: It is so i'mer it. Then do you actually hear

618
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 1: like potential in people's voice, Like how do you hear

619
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 1: an actor's voice and then and then bring them in

620
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 1: for an opportunity like that? You know what? Do that?

621
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 1: As much as a lot of other people do. I

622
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 1: tend to bring in actors, I say, this is if

623
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 1: I'm still working. Um. I tended to bring in actors

624
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 1: whose work I was familiar with if they were on

625
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 1: camera actors. For example, there was this great actor I'm

626
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 1: gonna forget his name now, it's gonna be so embarrassed

627
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 1: about it. Wonderful raspy voice and I saw him on

628
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 1: an episode of Castle and Nathan Philly and I've gotten

629
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:45,960
Speaker 1: to know over the years and is a friend of mine.

630
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,120
Speaker 1: And so I called up Nathan and I said, Nathan,

631
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: you had a guest star on your show. His name

632
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 1: is blah blah, that raspy voice. Is he somebody to

633
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 1: think might enjoy the experience of coming into an animation

634
00:32:58,000 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 1: project and be a good guest. Would he have fun?

635
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 1: Would he get it? And he's like, absolutely, great guy.

636
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 1: You're gonna love him. And I brought him in and

637
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 1: he was wonderful. So there I had the ability to

638
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 1: get some information on the guy. Many of the people

639
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:13,719
Speaker 1: that I have worked with that I did not know

640
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 1: their work ahead of time, either from voiceover work they

641
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: had done previously or on camera work I had seen

642
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:22,480
Speaker 1: were submitted by agents. And my relationship with agents is

643
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 1: very strong. Part of that is because I was an

644
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 1: agent and I know exactly what that job entails and

645
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 1: how hard it is, and I had so much respect

646
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 1: for people who do it well. And so what I

647
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,720
Speaker 1: would call up Cynthia McClain and say, I need a

648
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 1: guest for blah blah blah. It's what we call a gimme.

649
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: I called it a gimme, which is, does anybody need

650
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 1: a SAG payment to be able to pay for their

651
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 1: health insurance this year? Is there somebody higher straits who

652
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 1: might leave you if they don't get a job because

653
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 1: they haven't gotten anything in the last two months or whatever?

654
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:59,040
Speaker 1: And uh, they say yeah, you know, Cynthia would say yes,

655
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 1: this person will absolut be right for you, and I

656
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 1: wouldn't even question it. I would just say, sent him

657
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 1: in or or even better, because we could have n't

658
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:11,040
Speaker 1: called me two o'clock on Tuesday, sent him this copy,

659
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 1: have him look it over. I'll have audition for me

660
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:16,240
Speaker 1: over the phone, and if it's right, we'll just welcome.

661
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:18,799
Speaker 1: And that's so great voice that we can't do that

662
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:21,799
Speaker 1: for on camera. You couldn't find that anyhow, certainly, And

663
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 1: so that I could listen to them, and also then

664
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:25,840
Speaker 1: I got a chance to see what kind of person

665
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:28,320
Speaker 1: they were. Were they pleasant on the phone, where they

666
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:33,359
Speaker 1: completely intimidated by the process? Where the game and so um,

667
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 1: that's why I learned. I would get calls from producers, writers,

668
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:40,280
Speaker 1: people in the industry who worked in the same building

669
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 1: as I. I met this waitress. She's got this great voice,

670
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:49,360
Speaker 1: you got his meter, blah blah blah, and um. I

671
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 1: would give them a chance. I would have them call

672
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:53,359
Speaker 1: and I would listen to them, and you can tell

673
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 1: right away if they're an actor or not. You can

674
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 1: just tell give him some copy to read if they

675
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 1: can act it. There was this one one guy that

676
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:01,880
Speaker 1: came in once. This was such a weird thing. It

677
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 1: was a mistake. I wasn't the casting director, but I

678
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,839
Speaker 1: was the director. An actor with the same name as

679
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:11,399
Speaker 1: another person. The producer wanted that other person. This guy

680
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 1: came in, he walked in, the produce goes the wrong person.

681
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 1: I said, it's okay, I'll just work run them through,

682
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:20,279
Speaker 1: make it work. Well, it's the session. This person was

683
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:22,959
Speaker 1: kind of a celebrity that they wanted in a different field.

684
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 1: I don't know if they were a singer or their musician,

685
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 1: I think. But the guy comes in, I'll just I'll

686
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:31,360
Speaker 1: let him do this session. If I see any potential,

687
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 1: I'll work him through it. Otherwise, I'll just run in

688
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 1: the session so that he's not embarrassed and we'll let

689
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 1: him go. And so he reads the copy and he says, um,

690
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:49,839
Speaker 1: oh no, they're coming over here. Gasp, thank you, and

691
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 1: so I just went, Okay, we're gonna get through this.

692
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 1: Really we just read of this session. I mean, no, no,

693
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:57,879
Speaker 1: those kinds of things are so silly because we know

694
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 1: that gas was in parentheses means you don't say that

695
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:05,160
Speaker 1: word you do says sneeze. You don't say sneeze, you sneeze.

696
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 1: But that's what you could tell that all of this

697
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 1: being said about actors are non actors being presented to me.

698
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:14,920
Speaker 1: There was one time when someone called me up and

699
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 1: we were looking for a guest voice for a thirteen

700
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 1: year old girl, authentic sounding, just as you mentioned Christie,

701
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 1: and they said, I've met this girl and she is

702
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:26,520
Speaker 1: an actress and she has worked I think she worked

703
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 1: on Broadway. They said, I said, have her call me,

704
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:33,640
Speaker 1: and she calls me and she was stunning and she's

705
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: Hinden Walsh the time. But that was that was one

706
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:42,279
Speaker 1: of those phone calls really, and I brought her in

707
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 1: for a guest I think it was the Data Project

708
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:45,799
Speaker 1: or one of those shows way back when, and she

709
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:49,759
Speaker 1: was incredibly good. So when she called me up, I said, um,

710
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 1: hind and this is you know, you don't have to

711
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 1: answer this because sad doesn't want you to make your

712
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:56,360
Speaker 1: decisions by this as a casting director. But do you

713
00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 1: mind telling me how old you are? Because you sound

714
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:03,480
Speaker 1: thirty in her fourteen and she said I and it

715
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 1: was just that wonderfully youthful sound like you, Christie at

716
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:10,320
Speaker 1: the time when you were doing him possible, which was

717
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 1: not having to manipulate your voice. You just acted. Um.

718
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:17,319
Speaker 1: And so she was awesome. She also happened to have

719
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 1: done and this was a lot to her credit. As

720
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:21,799
Speaker 1: she was telling me what her experience had been, she

721
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: do you know that there was a movie made of it?

722
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 1: But it was a Broadway show called Little Voice, you know. Yeah,

723
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 1: it's a frightened, little quiet girl who barely speaks and

724
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 1: lives in a hovel with her mom, completely intimidated. Funny, brilliant,

725
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 1: brilliant voices, things like Judy Garland saying, you know, absolutely

726
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:45,839
Speaker 1: studying things in the in the privacy of her own

727
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,719
Speaker 1: little hovel. Right. And so she played this part, so

728
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 1: I knew she had he had the goods exactly. Um.

729
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,400
Speaker 1: But I'm always willing to give an actor a chance.

730
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:58,800
Speaker 1: I you know, I, having been an actor myself, I

731
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 1: always tried to treat actors the way I wanted to

732
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 1: be treated when I was trying to pursue acting work,

733
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:07,760
Speaker 1: which is with respect and kindness and giving the actor

734
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:11,160
Speaker 1: everything I can to help them get the job. And

735
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:14,720
Speaker 1: you know, as a casting director, you succeed the second

736
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:16,960
Speaker 1: you've cast the part. So if it happens to be

737
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:21,520
Speaker 1: the second actor you've brought in who you've done your

738
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 1: job really fast and well. And and you know, we

739
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:28,279
Speaker 1: spoke about Kevin Conroy. I auditioned, I heard well over

740
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 1: five voices. I called back two hundred and fifty actors,

741
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 1: and I auditioned them through a callback process, and Bruce

742
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 1: and I had found four or five actors that we

743
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:41,520
Speaker 1: were okay with Batman, they could do it. And then

744
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 1: I asked my suite roommate, who's no longer with us,

745
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 1: but who was an on camera agent, and he said,

746
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: do you know this actor, Kevin Conroy. He's got a

747
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 1: lot of Broadway experience and the shakes Beast done yes Shakespeare,

748
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 1: and he's um a graduate of Juilliard and he's got

749
00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:00,799
Speaker 1: a couple of soap opera credits and stuff. And I said,

750
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 1: we'll bring him in for the callbacks. And Kevin walked

751
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 1: in and opened his voice and I heard the cork

752
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:12,839
Speaker 1: bottle opening for the celebration afterwards because he approached it

753
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:16,720
Speaker 1: and it was so fascinating. He approached Batman Bruce Wayne

754
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:21,399
Speaker 1: like Hamlet mm hmm. He said that father killed. Yeah,

755
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 1: you know, but a family killed, parents killed in front

756
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 1: of him, vengeance. I mean, there was so much about it,

757
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:32,399
Speaker 1: and it's like, okay, this is the guy we need.

758
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 1: Well that's when he told that. He told us the

759
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 1: story where he didn't get it, where he where he

760
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 1: didn't get he didn't get the part. Not that he

761
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 1: didn't get the role, he didn't get Batman, he didn't

762
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:46,360
Speaker 1: get the character. Yes, and he was, yeah, didn't he

763
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:48,920
Speaker 1: throw the script? Bruce was talking to him, was so,

764
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:50,640
Speaker 1: let me tell you about the comic books, and he

765
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 1: said and then finally he said, oh it's Hamlet, and

766
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 1: next step into it and he said, from that moment on,

767
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:58,799
Speaker 1: I knew exactly what I was supposed to do. And

768
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,800
Speaker 1: that's how it was. Um okay, So very quickly we

769
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:03,800
Speaker 1: jumped ahead because I wanted to, and it was awesome.

770
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:07,880
Speaker 1: But that's also and we can, we can, we can.

771
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:11,600
Speaker 1: This is the joy of running all over the place. However, yes,

772
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 1: we missed a very important section of your career because

773
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:18,279
Speaker 1: it is it is the growth of the industry in

774
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 1: your Hanna Barbara years. We talked about it a little bit,

775
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:22,920
Speaker 1: but Hannah Barbara, at the time you talked about how

776
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:25,479
Speaker 1: there was no cartoon network. There's no They were kind

777
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:28,239
Speaker 1: of the game Disney was around, but doing more kind

778
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:32,200
Speaker 1: of the bigger films for television, which is what the

779
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 1: kids were running home to. Hanna Barbara was the gold standard. Um,

780
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:38,279
Speaker 1: can you tell us a little bit about what your

781
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 1: time was like there and what it was like to

782
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:43,200
Speaker 1: watch the growth of animation from from the front lines.

783
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:48,360
Speaker 1: Awesome building. Sure, sure you remember that building. Yeah, it

784
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:50,399
Speaker 1: was you know what. They wanted so much to keep

785
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 1: that building and knock it down because it was historical. Sure,

786
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:57,640
Speaker 1: I'm telling you that my office was located at the

787
00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:00,200
Speaker 1: end of a corridor and if I closed my door,

788
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 1: if I like pushed the clothes that way, as opposed

789
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:05,319
Speaker 1: to closing this way, the whole wall all the way

790
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:09,240
Speaker 1: down the hallway. It was a horrible building. The editor

791
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:11,880
Speaker 1: wasn't a code, it was a circle which I had.

792
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:15,400
Speaker 1: The circle were down below in the basement. The sound

793
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:19,840
Speaker 1: editors Kelly Kelly Folly down. Kelly was there. Every hour

794
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 1: a sup pump would ACTI date and work to keep

795
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:26,279
Speaker 1: the water out of the basement there. So the guys

796
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 1: trying to edit the sound, headphones and razor blades and

797
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:34,839
Speaker 1: the whole thing are it was unbelievable but extremely cool. Yeah.

798
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:38,359
Speaker 1: When I started there, which was most cars, this would

799
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:44,320
Speaker 1: have been the average cartoon was ordered for thirteen episodes.

800
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 1: That was an order for a cartoon. What if it

801
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:50,279
Speaker 1: was kind of known that it was gonnay, there was

802
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 1: real plans for it to go longer. They might order

803
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:58,840
Speaker 1: in the first order, which was insane. And then during

804
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 1: my time there they went to sixty five episodes, which

805
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 1: was unbelievable. I mean, people are like, I can buy

806
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 1: a house, I can get my new car. I can

807
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:12,919
Speaker 1: I can rest a little bit, you know, I don't

808
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:14,839
Speaker 1: have to worry so much. This job that I just

809
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:18,440
Speaker 1: got is gonna run for two years, which was unheard of.

810
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 1: Thirteen episodes could be recorded as quickly as three months.

811
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 1: You know, sixty five episodes gonna take a while to produce.

812
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 1: You had worked for a while, and so that was

813
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:32,759
Speaker 1: a big change. And what happened during that time was, um,

814
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:35,719
Speaker 1: it's not always the most positive reason why it happened.

815
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:41,560
Speaker 1: The result was good, but cartoons became syndicated because toy

816
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:45,799
Speaker 1: companies discovered that if kids could see a twenty two

817
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:53,880
Speaker 1: minute commercial for transformers for go bots for what exactly what,

818
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:57,839
Speaker 1: they had a lot better chance of selling those things.

819
00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:01,320
Speaker 1: So they started ordering more and more cartoons. For example,

820
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:05,080
Speaker 1: when we were making uh and you know, Action Figure

821
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:07,759
Speaker 1: started little tiny characters of you know, whether it's the

822
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:09,719
Speaker 1: little pop things that we see now that are so

823
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 1: cute or whatever. The Jetson's they had originally made twenty

824
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:17,160
Speaker 1: six episodes of The Jetson's Way the Heck back when,

825
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 1: and then syndicated, they went, let's make forty one more

826
00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:23,719
Speaker 1: because they had lost an episode. There's an episode that's

827
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:26,480
Speaker 1: out there somewhere that's gone. I've heard them, and they

828
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 1: and they wanted to make sixty five for syndication, and

829
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:34,000
Speaker 1: then started selling Jetson's because that was a nostalgia thing

830
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:36,239
Speaker 1: and people are like, oh, my goodness, I can get

831
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:38,920
Speaker 1: and I have one of these. It's like a Jetson's

832
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:43,360
Speaker 1: flying saucer that's a kid's cereal bowl and the top

833
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 1: of it has astro across the top of the clear

834
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:48,880
Speaker 1: bowl and I mean it's so cool. Um. But again,

835
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:52,200
Speaker 1: this was all about merchandizing, which is a major part

836
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 1: of animation. It just can't deny that part of the industry,

837
00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 1: is it. Do you think why is merchandizing such a

838
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:00,600
Speaker 1: big part of this because it keep the lights on

839
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:05,239
Speaker 1: for animation all money, it's all money. Where where did

840
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:07,759
Speaker 1: the money come from to make cartoons in the first place? Commercials?

841
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:11,440
Speaker 1: Where did those commercials come from? Toy companies? Where did

842
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:14,960
Speaker 1: those toy companies. Well, if they can promote and have

843
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:17,799
Speaker 1: a cartoon that has their characters moving around in it,

844
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:20,440
Speaker 1: the kids will go, Mommy, I want that for Christmas,

845
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:23,320
Speaker 1: and suddenly their toy sales. And it worked. It worked

846
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:25,759
Speaker 1: because that's what I mean, that's how old I was

847
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:27,840
Speaker 1: when we were I mean I was eight years old

848
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:31,279
Speaker 1: when ThunderCats, Transformers, g I Joe, and it was the

849
00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 1: toy juggernaut. And that's all you would do is what

850
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:35,840
Speaker 1: you had and what you could play with on the

851
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:40,560
Speaker 1: playground was all that mattered. So it was mine and

852
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:44,719
Speaker 1: I had everything, the sheets, the whole and this was

853
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:47,319
Speaker 1: this was the time, this is what had happened, And

854
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 1: so cartoons and animation in general just exploded, and I

855
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:53,880
Speaker 1: was very grateful to be there. But what happened is

856
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:56,560
Speaker 1: it got to be a factory. And people have often

857
00:44:56,600 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 1: referred to Hanna Barbara as a cartoon factory because we

858
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:02,080
Speaker 1: were just cranking them out. There were times when I

859
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 1: would say, um, as you know, but for the audience,

860
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:10,239
Speaker 1: cartoons are are essentially recorded in four hour blocks nine one,

861
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:13,239
Speaker 1: two to six Monday through Friday, and we would have

862
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:17,279
Speaker 1: as many as you know, I don't think I'm lying

863
00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:19,800
Speaker 1: when I would say at least six to eight cartoons

864
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:24,000
Speaker 1: recording every week, so that only left me a couple

865
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:27,480
Speaker 1: of days to cast. I had to prep the whole

866
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:30,359
Speaker 1: week coming up the week before so that I would

867
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 1: have time to get all the prep done, to get

868
00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 1: things done before the session recorded, all that stuff. And

869
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:40,200
Speaker 1: there's one of those a cultural phenomenon, and I hope

870
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:43,560
Speaker 1: I'm not discouraging any of your fans, but Scooby Doo

871
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:47,040
Speaker 1: Sho we Do is such a phenomenon in that it

872
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 1: was on the air when I was a kid, and

873
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 1: it's still on the air, Scooby Doo episodes still being

874
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:54,800
Speaker 1: me I worked on many of them at hand to Barbara,

875
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:57,000
Speaker 1: and then later at Warner Brothers. When Warner Brothers and

876
00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:00,640
Speaker 1: Hanna Barbara became one. I was never huge fan of

877
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 1: the show, forgive me, and I never like, you're not

878
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:06,080
Speaker 1: so scouraging, you're a title to your opinion. But I

879
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 1: so I started asking people when I started working on

880
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:12,239
Speaker 1: it in the later years, what is the attraction? And

881
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 1: and I figured it out. Kids can watch Scooby Doo

882
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 1: and get scared, but know that it's going to end

883
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:22,879
Speaker 1: up okay, that it's going to be the guard that's

884
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:26,840
Speaker 1: really the bad guys. There are no monsters, no exactly,

885
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:30,279
Speaker 1: it's just a sheet and a projector. It's not And

886
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:32,720
Speaker 1: I think that's very appealing because kids like to be scared.

887
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:35,040
Speaker 1: They do. They like that when you throw them up

888
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:36,680
Speaker 1: in the air and they screamed so happy and then

889
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:40,239
Speaker 1: you catch them. The catching is the reveal in the

890
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:43,480
Speaker 1: Scooby cartoons, they revealed that it's just the guard at

891
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:45,759
Speaker 1: the gate. Well, the thing that always upset me was

892
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:47,400
Speaker 1: that the guard would have gotten away with it if

893
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:51,200
Speaker 1: it wasn't for those medaling kids. That's the thing that's

894
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:53,080
Speaker 1: so crazy about the whole thing going on. You know

895
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:57,160
Speaker 1: how many, how many decent human beings they foiled from

896
00:46:57,200 --> 00:46:59,760
Speaker 1: from just trying to make a living as a guard,

897
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:02,279
Speaker 1: as a ghost or something like that. I mean, come on,

898
00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:06,480
Speaker 1: so I'm I have to I have to do this now, um,

899
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:10,360
Speaker 1: just because I think this is necessary and I'm only

900
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:13,799
Speaker 1: going to read some, but I want to go down

901
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:17,480
Speaker 1: your resume just a little bit, if we can. Batman,

902
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 1: the animated series, Ben Ten, Tiny Tuon Adventures, Animaniacs, Bonkers, Freakazoid,

903
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: Pinky in the Brain, Teen Titans, Avatar, The Last Airbender, Legend, Kora, Boondocks,

904
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:38,640
Speaker 1: Static Shock, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, Batman, Beyond Teenage Mutant, Ninja.

905
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:42,040
Speaker 1: If there's the list, just keeps going. Podcast is an

906
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:46,439
Speaker 1: hour long. So from from the research that we've done,

907
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 1: if we if we've got this right, You've directed more

908
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:58,239
Speaker 1: than ten thousand voice sessions, working on TV episodes, more

909
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:02,839
Speaker 1: than fifty films. Did you otis No, You're getting into

910
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:04,960
Speaker 1: details that I don't have and statistics I don't know.

911
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 1: Twenty video games won a Peabody Award, Lifetime Achievement Award

912
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:17,760
Speaker 1: from State University of New York, and eight Emmy's true.

913
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:20,560
Speaker 1: How about that? So there's no question there? Where are you?

914
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:24,760
Speaker 1: Where do you have they? She'll never do an interview

915
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: in front of her Emmy. She won't do it. I

916
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:30,720
Speaker 1: did one, did you? This is so funny if film? Okay,

917
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:34,320
Speaker 1: and somebody gave you a hard time about it online.

918
00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 1: Somebody was really they just heard about it. But good

919
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:41,200
Speaker 1: to Emmy if you can't. Here's the thing, you, guys.

920
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:44,319
Speaker 1: During the pandemic, when it first began, uh and we

921
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:48,000
Speaker 1: were all in lockdown, I thought, Okay, um, I can't

922
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:49,960
Speaker 1: bring in the girl who usually cleans my house. And that,

923
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:52,280
Speaker 1: to me was the meaning of success. I was success

924
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 1: woman because I could afford to bring somebody into Ceen

925
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 1: my house and me, which is unbelievable. Okay, I can't

926
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:58,520
Speaker 1: bring anybody in. I'm going to clean the house from

927
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:01,200
Speaker 1: top to bottom. I'm gonna do my bedroom from the

928
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:04,000
Speaker 1: top of the overhead fan to the dust bunnies under

929
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:05,600
Speaker 1: the bend. I'm gonna go to the whole house. And

930
00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:07,800
Speaker 1: at one point I realized I was in my dining

931
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:14,360
Speaker 1: room polishing my Emmy's Yeah, and you know what, you

932
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:20,719
Speaker 1: have every right to absolutely weird. But they're my buffet

933
00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:23,719
Speaker 1: in my dining room, as they should be there just

934
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:26,000
Speaker 1: before I put barbie clothes on them. I dressed them up.

935
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 1: I do, and people give them to me. Scott Mendel's wife,

936
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:31,319
Speaker 1: Jackie gave me a whole set of Barbie clothes to

937
00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:36,080
Speaker 1: put on my Barbies. I would absolutely I would literally

938
00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 1: follow your instagram of if I did that, if you did,

939
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:41,359
Speaker 1: if you did that sort of thing. Yes, people want

940
00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:44,080
Speaker 1: me to set I have. It's funny because I have

941
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:45,680
Speaker 1: all the Barbie clothes, I don't just don't have the

942
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:48,880
Speaker 1: Emmy's so me. It's just just a random collection of

943
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 1: Barbie clothes. Which is which Isie? You're not done yet,

944
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:57,120
Speaker 1: speaking of which I agree. I'm sorry, but that is

945
00:49:57,160 --> 00:50:00,359
Speaker 1: a transition. I have to take that right there, because

946
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:04,400
Speaker 1: you say you're retired, and we know you're retired. But

947
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:07,800
Speaker 1: if a great project came back, what are the chances

948
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:11,240
Speaker 1: of some of us who have had the experience already

949
00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:14,560
Speaker 1: and others who have yet to experience, getting the chance

950
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:16,880
Speaker 1: of working with Andrea Romano? What are the chances of

951
00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:23,640
Speaker 1: that ever happening again? It's it's entirely possible. The problem is,

952
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:27,759
Speaker 1: I'm afraid I would be so demanding because I love

953
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:30,799
Speaker 1: my retirement. Um, do you know what I do every day?

954
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 1: You guys, what anything like that. Nobody has control of

955
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:39,600
Speaker 1: my day. Um. There are so many projects that people

956
00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:42,560
Speaker 1: have asked me about in that way, and I would

957
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:45,440
Speaker 1: absolutely there's so many I would love to get back into.

958
00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:48,600
Speaker 1: But I would demand an enormous amount of money. I

959
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 1: would demand a huge amount of control. I would. I

960
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:53,880
Speaker 1: would be like the Simpsons were when they said, you

961
00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:56,480
Speaker 1: can't give us notes. You know, you just can't give

962
00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:58,440
Speaker 1: us notes, and that's why they continued on and we

963
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:01,240
Speaker 1: are so successful. It's like you give him a minimal

964
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:03,959
Speaker 1: amount of notes. You guess you can't say horrible swear

965
00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:06,840
Speaker 1: words on the Simpsons, but other than that, you know,

966
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:10,120
Speaker 1: just said no, you can't write. So if Batman Beyond

967
00:51:10,120 --> 00:51:12,080
Speaker 1: did a feature, I would be there in a minute.

968
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:13,440
Speaker 1: If we could work out a deal, I would be

969
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:16,080
Speaker 1: there in a minute. I have I loved my work.

970
00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:19,680
Speaker 1: I left early and yeah, check this out, you guys,

971
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 1: it's the cosmos. UM. I left in seventeen is when

972
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:26,960
Speaker 1: I retired because I went blind in one eye and

973
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:29,279
Speaker 1: um and there was a potential of for the other

974
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:31,160
Speaker 1: eye to go blind within three to five years, and

975
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:33,040
Speaker 1: I thought, I want to travel the world and see

976
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:35,719
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff before this. If if this ever

977
00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:38,520
Speaker 1: should happen. Speaking of which left I has gotten a

978
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:40,640
Speaker 1: little bit worse, doesn't matter, it was doesn't very good.

979
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:43,160
Speaker 1: Any help, right. I is still fine, totally fine, and

980
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:45,439
Speaker 1: I'm five years past that, so we're good. And there's

981
00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:47,279
Speaker 1: only like a five percent chance at this point that

982
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:49,080
Speaker 1: that will happen. So I feel like I will be

983
00:51:49,239 --> 00:51:50,919
Speaker 1: I will have vision for the rest of my life.

984
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:54,520
Speaker 1: But I retired early, and we traveled, traveled, traveled. We

985
00:51:54,560 --> 00:51:58,040
Speaker 1: spent a month in Tuscany, we spent a month in Asia,

986
00:51:58,160 --> 00:52:00,759
Speaker 1: we spent a week in Hong Kong. Will never be

987
00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:04,359
Speaker 1: able to do that again. And then the pandemic hit

988
00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 1: and we all got into lockdown. And I think if

989
00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:10,279
Speaker 1: I had not had that chance to travel for the

990
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:12,959
Speaker 1: two or three years that I did, I would be

991
00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:16,360
Speaker 1: so angry. As it is, I feel like my retirement

992
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:22,880
Speaker 1: is being usurped by a certain political activity and the pandemic.

993
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:25,879
Speaker 1: It's just it's stolen all of our lives. It's it's

994
00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:28,719
Speaker 1: massively affected all of us. But at least I had that,

995
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:30,799
Speaker 1: and we will be getting back into it. But in

996
00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:32,680
Speaker 1: the last two and a half years, we've taken two

997
00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:36,000
Speaker 1: trips and they're driving up the California Coast, that's it.

998
00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:38,200
Speaker 1: And going to safe places where we don't have to

999
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:40,279
Speaker 1: check in and and where we can you know, check

1000
00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:42,920
Speaker 1: in with non contact and stuff. I'm still you know,

1001
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:44,719
Speaker 1: That's why I'm so glad this worked out that you

1002
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:48,240
Speaker 1: are doing a virtual thing instead of in person, because

1003
00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:51,600
Speaker 1: I'm just for you. We would do anything, so kidding me.

1004
00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:54,279
Speaker 1: You know, the truth is, and I hope people don't

1005
00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:56,799
Speaker 1: smoke cigarettes anymore, but I did smoke cigarettes, and I

1006
00:52:56,800 --> 00:53:02,440
Speaker 1: smoked them for decades, and getting any kind of illness

1007
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:05,600
Speaker 1: that affects my ability to breathe will probably be exacerbated

1008
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:08,120
Speaker 1: by the fact that I smoked. So I'm extra special

1009
00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:12,040
Speaker 1: cautious of not getting any kind of bronchial issue. You quit?

1010
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:14,879
Speaker 1: Did you quit? You quit smoking cigarettes right five years ago?

1011
00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:19,880
Speaker 1: So did he? Did you guys smoke cigarettes together? Oh? Yes,

1012
00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 1: because wils House didn't smell like smoke. You can smoking

1013
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:27,640
Speaker 1: song smell like smoke. I'm eight years without a cigarette.

1014
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:31,560
Speaker 1: That's amazing, But its toll. You smoke that long and

1015
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:34,960
Speaker 1: that much. You can't not ruin your body, hurt your body. Well,

1016
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:37,399
Speaker 1: you know, you know you remember will when there would

1017
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:40,400
Speaker 1: be actors that I would work with who clearly were smokers,

1018
00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:43,080
Speaker 1: and they would do a line of dialogue and they

1019
00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:47,040
Speaker 1: would finish the line and they would be this wheezing

1020
00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:50,520
Speaker 1: breath attached to the last word, and I would have

1021
00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:53,919
Speaker 1: to say, okay, uh, say the line, finish the last word,

1022
00:53:54,040 --> 00:53:56,560
Speaker 1: hold your breath and then you can breathe. And that

1023
00:53:56,640 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 1: way we can edit that breath out. But if you

1024
00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:00,920
Speaker 1: if you put to the end of the line, we

1025
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:04,400
Speaker 1: can't cut it. Yeah, right, it has to be we

1026
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:09,080
Speaker 1: can't cut it. And then oh man, so it's it's

1027
00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:11,480
Speaker 1: yeah nuts. Okay, So we're about to bring in our guests.

1028
00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:14,000
Speaker 1: But before we bring in our guests, exciting Before we

1029
00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:16,520
Speaker 1: do that, I have one other question, because there's something

1030
00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:18,640
Speaker 1: that we tend to ask everybody when they come on here.

1031
00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:22,279
Speaker 1: And again you don't have to use any names whatsoever,

1032
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 1: but is there a session from your entire career, for

1033
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:30,520
Speaker 1: good or for bad, that stands out to you a

1034
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:33,680
Speaker 1: single session, but something that happened in a session that

1035
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:36,160
Speaker 1: makes you go, oh, well, here's a story that I

1036
00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:40,160
Speaker 1: absolutely am gonna tell someday. Uh. Well, I did direct

1037
00:54:40,239 --> 00:54:45,480
Speaker 1: Steven Spielberg. That's pretty awesome. Yeah, And what had happened

1038
00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:48,640
Speaker 1: is with tight agents way back when, and um, you know,

1039
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:52,480
Speaker 1: you meet Steven Spielberg and you I worked with him.

1040
00:54:52,640 --> 00:54:54,800
Speaker 1: I worked with him. I got to meet him many times.

1041
00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:57,840
Speaker 1: And every time you do, it's butterflies in the stomach,

1042
00:54:57,960 --> 00:55:03,040
Speaker 1: it's shaking excitement, it's superstar time. And so we had

1043
00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:07,359
Speaker 1: an episode that um that Stephen was written into, and

1044
00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:09,759
Speaker 1: it wasn't very many lines of dialogue. And I can't

1045
00:55:09,760 --> 00:55:12,399
Speaker 1: remember if it was Maurice Lamar's or Frank Welker who

1046
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:15,440
Speaker 1: scratched the lines who dummed the lines, which means they

1047
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:18,400
Speaker 1: read the lines for the cartoon, and somebody at some

1048
00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:20,720
Speaker 1: point said, well, you know, we wanted to get Steven

1049
00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:22,040
Speaker 1: to do it. He just wasn't available. I think he

1050
00:55:22,080 --> 00:55:26,360
Speaker 1: was shooting something like Schindler's List or something like Life exactly.

1051
00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:29,319
Speaker 1: And uh, but when the film came back and we

1052
00:55:29,320 --> 00:55:31,640
Speaker 1: were a d r ring, they said, let's get Steven now,

1053
00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:34,680
Speaker 1: so that would be delightful. So we had to go

1054
00:55:34,760 --> 00:55:37,480
Speaker 1: over to the ambulance a lot because he was just

1055
00:55:37,520 --> 00:55:39,480
Speaker 1: so busy that he couldn't come to us. So he

1056
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:43,200
Speaker 1: went over there was set the whole thing up, and

1057
00:55:43,239 --> 00:55:45,400
Speaker 1: we prepped the whole thing and Stephen I've gotten his

1058
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:48,600
Speaker 1: level and everything. And he's in the in the studio.

1059
00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:51,760
Speaker 1: I'm in the booth with Gene McCurdy and Tom Ruger,

1060
00:55:52,040 --> 00:55:55,200
Speaker 1: the head of the studio and the producer, and I

1061
00:55:55,320 --> 00:55:57,920
Speaker 1: just turned around for a quick reality check and just

1062
00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:03,200
Speaker 1: said I'm direction and then we did a session. Now,

1063
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:05,680
Speaker 1: you know, a d R isn't easy. It's just not

1064
00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:09,040
Speaker 1: an easy process, and Stephen had almost no experience. But

1065
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:12,080
Speaker 1: I always love having directors do things that they have

1066
00:56:12,239 --> 00:56:15,560
Speaker 1: asked actors to do but haven't done themselves. And so

1067
00:56:16,120 --> 00:56:19,239
Speaker 1: he's doing this and it was an absolute joy to

1068
00:56:19,320 --> 00:56:21,600
Speaker 1: direct him as far as it was a really you know,

1069
00:56:21,680 --> 00:56:23,319
Speaker 1: he's playing himself, so it wasn't like he had to

1070
00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:26,480
Speaker 1: find the character and it was very simple dialogue. So

1071
00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:29,280
Speaker 1: we got through it. And as I've said in other interviews,

1072
00:56:29,280 --> 00:56:31,759
Speaker 1: so I feel somewhat safe saying that because I think

1073
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:37,480
Speaker 1: he's retiring too is he is such a good director,

1074
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:44,960
Speaker 1: and I have thank you. I was ready to see

1075
00:56:47,920 --> 00:56:51,600
Speaker 1: you safe to say that I have saved the outtakes

1076
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:56,799
Speaker 1: from that recording session. Really and it's Buster and Bobs,

1077
00:56:56,960 --> 00:57:02,640
Speaker 1: what are you doing here? I mean, by the time

1078
00:57:02,680 --> 00:57:04,719
Speaker 1: we did it, it was great. Once we got it.

1079
00:57:04,719 --> 00:57:08,280
Speaker 1: It was great, but he just he was extremely nervous,

1080
00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:11,800
Speaker 1: of course, totally element and that's exactly what I was

1081
00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:13,480
Speaker 1: going to use. Who's out of his element? He had

1082
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:16,640
Speaker 1: no this, you know, he was it was out of

1083
00:57:16,680 --> 00:57:19,400
Speaker 1: his control completely, But I was very happy to do that.

1084
00:57:19,520 --> 00:57:22,920
Speaker 1: Is that the kind of story? Great? I have a

1085
00:57:23,080 --> 00:57:27,680
Speaker 1: million about good or bad we've have We've had somewhere

1086
00:57:27,680 --> 00:57:29,440
Speaker 1: it's like, hey, this happened to me, and I don't

1087
00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:31,680
Speaker 1: want to use names, but this guy did what so

1088
00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:38,000
Speaker 1: you know, Oh yes, oh my god, I do remember.

1089
00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:40,680
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, trying to get an actor to gas.

1090
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:45,160
Speaker 1: I need you to go and the B b b

1091
00:57:45,640 --> 00:57:52,320
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's right. That's rights. Like we're asking

1092
00:57:52,320 --> 00:57:55,840
Speaker 1: an actor, a well known actor. Again, no names. Uh,

1093
00:57:55,880 --> 00:57:57,880
Speaker 1: this is the sound that you're making when your body

1094
00:57:58,040 --> 00:58:01,000
Speaker 1: hits that great behind you. You've been knocked out. You

1095
00:58:01,040 --> 00:58:03,320
Speaker 1: get an impact when you get hit, and you get

1096
00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:05,040
Speaker 1: a sound when you hit the crate. So it's kind

1097
00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:08,480
Speaker 1: of and the angel looks to me and says, what's

1098
00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:16,920
Speaker 1: great those big brown wooden boxes in that warehouse. How

1099
00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:19,400
Speaker 1: do you how do you respond to that? Like I

1100
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:23,360
Speaker 1: got said, the big bro boxes. I mean, this was

1101
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:26,280
Speaker 1: like a sixty year old actor. He wasn't sick or anything.

1102
00:58:26,360 --> 00:58:28,160
Speaker 1: He just was I think he was messing with me

1103
00:58:28,280 --> 00:58:30,560
Speaker 1: or whatever. But I have a million of those. And

1104
00:58:30,760 --> 00:58:32,600
Speaker 1: I know that you have a time limit on this,

1105
00:58:32,640 --> 00:58:34,560
Speaker 1: but I hope you'll invite me back again. We would

1106
00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:37,920
Speaker 1: love to talked, are you hidding me? Small amount of

1107
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:43,040
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying there, would love to. I would

1108
00:58:43,080 --> 00:58:45,000
Speaker 1: love to. And you answered one of our other questions

1109
00:58:45,040 --> 00:58:47,160
Speaker 1: that we always asked, Christie, We always ask if you

1110
00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:48,840
Speaker 1: could work with anybody, and you didn't get a chance

1111
00:58:48,840 --> 00:58:51,720
Speaker 1: to who was it? But you already said, Alex, it's Christie.

1112
00:58:51,960 --> 00:58:59,120
Speaker 1: It's Christie. You're Christie Alex Trabec. Okay, Well, as I

1113
00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:02,920
Speaker 1: always say, uh my my friend wrote into his script

1114
00:59:02,960 --> 00:59:06,080
Speaker 1: his beautiful movie Swimming with Sharks, actors don't die, they're

1115
00:59:06,120 --> 00:59:11,280
Speaker 1: just unavailable. Uh So that is I think exactly how

1116
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:17,600
Speaker 1: how it is. But we have now got George with us. Hey, George, Hi, George, Hi,

1117
00:59:18,720 --> 00:59:21,000
Speaker 1: what a nice collection of stuff you have behind you.

1118
00:59:21,720 --> 00:59:27,560
Speaker 1: Thank you this whole thing. I love that. George. Where

1119
00:59:27,560 --> 00:59:33,720
Speaker 1: are you from? Originally California? Right? Okay? Beautiful? Yeah, so

1120
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:36,800
Speaker 1: you moved from the Big Apple to the Orange State.

1121
00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:40,840
Speaker 1: I know nothing of the names of cities and stuff

1122
00:59:40,840 --> 00:59:43,640
Speaker 1: like that. Well, welcome, Uh, this is of course you're

1123
00:59:43,720 --> 00:59:49,920
Speaker 1: here with the world famous and amazing Andrea Romano, which

1124
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:59,160
Speaker 1: is pretty nuts. George trying to get a performance talk

1125
00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:04,760
Speaker 1: about him imposter syndrome kicking in right now. We're all

1126
01:00:04,800 --> 01:00:06,600
Speaker 1: just here. We're all just having fun, George. There's no

1127
01:00:06,640 --> 01:00:10,280
Speaker 1: imposts here. We're all just and George, have you heard

1128
01:00:10,360 --> 01:00:13,680
Speaker 1: Have you listened to I Hear Voices yet? Come on now,

1129
01:00:13,960 --> 01:00:20,480
Speaker 1: come on, you're hey. That really means a lot to us.

1130
01:00:20,560 --> 01:00:24,400
Speaker 1: It's great. We're really excited to roll out this new

1131
01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:27,560
Speaker 1: feature on our podcast I Hear Voices with our fans

1132
01:00:27,600 --> 01:00:32,640
Speaker 1: where we're doing this amazing engagement exercise with obviously iconic

1133
01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:34,920
Speaker 1: people that we get to have on and will do

1134
01:00:34,960 --> 01:00:37,000
Speaker 1: you want to explain what we're gonna do. So what

1135
01:00:37,040 --> 01:00:38,479
Speaker 1: we want to do is we're gonna play a little

1136
01:00:38,480 --> 01:00:41,720
Speaker 1: game with you. We're calling it across the Garden Across.

1137
01:00:42,120 --> 01:00:45,160
Speaker 1: So what it is is Christie and I are two

1138
01:00:45,200 --> 01:00:48,840
Speaker 1: mice and we are trying to get across from one

1139
01:00:48,880 --> 01:00:50,680
Speaker 1: side of the garden to the other side of the garden,

1140
01:00:51,640 --> 01:00:57,120
Speaker 1: and we're meeting all these woodland creatures and different bugs, flowers,

1141
01:00:57,360 --> 01:00:59,960
Speaker 1: everything along, and we would love for you to void

1142
01:01:00,200 --> 01:01:02,640
Speaker 1: one of the characters. And so what we're gonna do

1143
01:01:02,920 --> 01:01:05,840
Speaker 1: is we're gonna give you a couple of lines, and then, hopefully,

1144
01:01:06,000 --> 01:01:07,880
Speaker 1: if all goes according to plan as we hope it's

1145
01:01:07,880 --> 01:01:10,800
Speaker 1: going to, at the end of a season, we're going

1146
01:01:10,840 --> 01:01:13,000
Speaker 1: to take all of our different guests voices and we're

1147
01:01:13,000 --> 01:01:16,000
Speaker 1: gonna edit together and animate a little cartoon. And then

1148
01:01:16,040 --> 01:01:18,520
Speaker 1: everybody gets to be a voice in the cartoon. Everyone

1149
01:01:18,560 --> 01:01:22,440
Speaker 1: gets to be a voice over actor. You, however, happy

1150
01:01:22,480 --> 01:01:25,959
Speaker 1: to be here on one of the most ridiculous days

1151
01:01:25,960 --> 01:01:27,880
Speaker 1: in the world, and you are going to get to

1152
01:01:27,960 --> 01:01:32,919
Speaker 1: experience something that nobody has in a while. And we'll see,

1153
01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:35,360
Speaker 1: hopefully we'll get to get have again, but we don't know.

1154
01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:37,360
Speaker 1: And that is we're gonna give you some of the

1155
01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:40,360
Speaker 1: lines and you're gonna read them. But then Andrea Romano

1156
01:01:40,400 --> 01:01:43,040
Speaker 1: is going to give you some direction. You know, you

1157
01:01:43,080 --> 01:01:46,160
Speaker 1: hear people talk about being put in a situation where

1158
01:01:46,480 --> 01:01:51,040
Speaker 1: the pressure might get to you one of those times

1159
01:01:51,040 --> 01:01:54,360
Speaker 1: in life. I don't think the pressure is gonna get

1160
01:01:54,360 --> 01:01:57,160
Speaker 1: to you at all. You are simply being put on

1161
01:01:57,200 --> 01:02:00,200
Speaker 1: the spot to do cartoon voices with a living legend,

1162
01:02:00,960 --> 01:02:07,120
Speaker 1: so she's gonna go easy on you. I sure hope. So,

1163
01:02:07,560 --> 01:02:10,200
Speaker 1: and now, George, you have any idea what kind of

1164
01:02:10,280 --> 01:02:13,200
Speaker 1: character you'd like to be? Let's do Did you say

1165
01:02:13,240 --> 01:02:16,360
Speaker 1: Caterpillars is already taken and no Caterpillar? Whatever you want

1166
01:02:16,400 --> 01:02:19,080
Speaker 1: to do? What do you think, Christie? Now I love caterpillar,

1167
01:02:19,280 --> 01:02:21,320
Speaker 1: all right, so I'll be a caterpillar. All right? We

1168
01:02:21,440 --> 01:02:23,280
Speaker 1: ready for this, Christie. We're not gonna do many lines

1169
01:02:23,360 --> 01:02:25,800
Speaker 1: this time. We're leaving this to you and to Andrea. Now,

1170
01:02:26,200 --> 01:02:28,480
Speaker 1: so like a real vo session, you're going to be

1171
01:02:28,520 --> 01:02:34,120
Speaker 1: recording your dialogue here? Um, are you speaking in between

1172
01:02:34,160 --> 01:02:37,000
Speaker 1: his lines? No? I'm no, Well, well we'll do We'll

1173
01:02:37,040 --> 01:02:39,800
Speaker 1: just do this clean for him. Okay, so you'll you'll

1174
01:02:39,800 --> 01:02:42,200
Speaker 1: read him into it and then he'll respond correct, this

1175
01:02:42,360 --> 01:02:44,560
Speaker 1: is my Yeah. We'll do something like that. And then

1176
01:02:44,920 --> 01:02:47,440
Speaker 1: and am I meant to interrupt him while he's working

1177
01:02:47,680 --> 01:02:50,600
Speaker 1: or let him get through his fore to you whatever

1178
01:02:50,640 --> 01:02:54,720
Speaker 1: you want. I'm thinking, George, I'm gonna start directing already.

1179
01:02:54,840 --> 01:02:56,800
Speaker 1: I'm thinking that since this is the first time you're

1180
01:02:56,800 --> 01:02:59,360
Speaker 1: actually going to be doing this, go ahead and go

1181
01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:01,800
Speaker 1: through off our lines just so you can kind of

1182
01:03:02,120 --> 01:03:04,640
Speaker 1: create the voice and nobody will judge you from the

1183
01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:07,160
Speaker 1: very beginning. We're gonna let you use these four lines

1184
01:03:07,360 --> 01:03:09,600
Speaker 1: to find the voice, and then we'll judge, and then

1185
01:03:09,600 --> 01:03:16,600
Speaker 1: will judge. He's a capillar caterpillar. I love it. Okay, ready,

1186
01:03:16,640 --> 01:03:20,240
Speaker 1: all right, So we come up and there are Mocha

1187
01:03:20,480 --> 01:03:24,040
Speaker 1: Mouse and Ricky Mouse brother and sisters who are coming

1188
01:03:24,040 --> 01:03:29,240
Speaker 1: around a big tree. Take it, Christie, alright, so just

1189
01:03:29,400 --> 01:03:33,280
Speaker 1: follow me, okay, Ricky, we just have to head over here. Yeah,

1190
01:03:33,320 --> 01:03:35,800
Speaker 1: I know. I think this is the tree that he

1191
01:03:35,920 --> 01:03:37,560
Speaker 1: said we were supposed to go to you, but it's

1192
01:03:37,600 --> 01:03:40,520
Speaker 1: like really tall and it's kind of scaring me. Ricky,

1193
01:03:40,520 --> 01:03:44,280
Speaker 1: will you just do your deep breath exercises please? There's

1194
01:03:44,280 --> 01:03:49,800
Speaker 1: a caterpillar. Hello, caterpillar? How are you? Um? This this

1195
01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:54,920
Speaker 1: is matt tree. That's rude. Um. Okay, we're supposed to

1196
01:03:55,080 --> 01:03:58,760
Speaker 1: go around you. So can you please move and get

1197
01:03:58,760 --> 01:04:02,960
Speaker 1: away from tree? Um? I think that's probably good advice.

1198
01:04:03,000 --> 01:04:06,439
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll just get away because now I have got this.

1199
01:04:06,760 --> 01:04:08,520
Speaker 1: You always say that, but then I end up getting

1200
01:04:08,560 --> 01:04:11,640
Speaker 1: hurt or something. Excuse me. We have to get around

1201
01:04:11,720 --> 01:04:14,400
Speaker 1: this tree. Okay, So you have to move so we

1202
01:04:14,440 --> 01:04:17,840
Speaker 1: can go. Don't be rude. Could you at least tell

1203
01:04:17,920 --> 01:04:19,560
Speaker 1: us which way we have to go to get to

1204
01:04:19,640 --> 01:04:23,800
Speaker 1: the mall? Okay, fine, just keep going that a way

1205
01:04:24,120 --> 01:04:27,480
Speaker 1: and the mom if on the left. Thank you, that's

1206
01:04:27,640 --> 01:04:32,400
Speaker 1: very helpful. Um, I'll see you. Fine, bye, You're welcome.

1207
01:04:32,600 --> 01:04:40,640
Speaker 1: Don't come back, and there's your scene. Okay. So so

1208
01:04:40,680 --> 01:04:44,120
Speaker 1: many good instincts there, George, so many good instincts. What

1209
01:04:44,320 --> 01:04:47,520
Speaker 1: you did I thought find was so interesting is both

1210
01:04:47,640 --> 01:04:52,480
Speaker 1: Christie and Will had chosen kind of laid back, slow

1211
01:04:52,560 --> 01:04:58,320
Speaker 1: paced voices, and you went for a higher pitched annoyed.

1212
01:04:58,800 --> 01:05:01,880
Speaker 1: I would say, annoyed is really good description for this cataclar. Yes,

1213
01:05:01,960 --> 01:05:05,600
Speaker 1: do you agree? Yeah? I felt that way. I love it.

1214
01:05:05,760 --> 01:05:08,440
Speaker 1: I love it. Um. I think another thing we can

1215
01:05:08,480 --> 01:05:12,040
Speaker 1: do to contrast with them is play with the pace

1216
01:05:12,640 --> 01:05:17,240
Speaker 1: a little bit. So if they're slow and hesitant, you

1217
01:05:17,320 --> 01:05:21,360
Speaker 1: can be faster. And I'm not saying rapid, fire fast,

1218
01:05:21,440 --> 01:05:25,320
Speaker 1: I just mean faster. Now, let me ask you, when

1219
01:05:25,320 --> 01:05:29,000
Speaker 1: they come around your tree, what are you doing. I

1220
01:05:29,040 --> 01:05:32,200
Speaker 1: was trying to collect some stuff, gathering some of my things,

1221
01:05:32,320 --> 01:05:34,520
Speaker 1: and I'm kind of annoyed because you kind of interrupted me.

1222
01:05:34,640 --> 01:05:38,280
Speaker 1: Excellent excellent. That's that's so good. You have to have

1223
01:05:38,800 --> 01:05:41,680
Speaker 1: what happened before so that you know how to come

1224
01:05:41,760 --> 01:05:45,080
Speaker 1: into it, and that's excellent. Um. So I want you

1225
01:05:45,120 --> 01:05:47,720
Speaker 1: to give me three readings of this is my tree,

1226
01:05:48,040 --> 01:05:50,720
Speaker 1: and don't be afraid to add a hey in the

1227
01:05:50,720 --> 01:05:53,400
Speaker 1: front of it. I'm not sure exactly what will lead

1228
01:05:53,480 --> 01:05:56,320
Speaker 1: into it, but if if adding something to it or

1229
01:05:56,520 --> 01:05:59,600
Speaker 1: but give me three completely different versions of that. But Christie,

1230
01:05:59,640 --> 01:06:01,520
Speaker 1: will you eat me into it so that he has

1231
01:06:01,600 --> 01:06:06,320
Speaker 1: subthing ackt off of anything along the lines of um

1232
01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:08,880
Speaker 1: and you did it already naturally, so ahead, just give

1233
01:06:08,920 --> 01:06:10,400
Speaker 1: us give him a reading. He's gonna do three in

1234
01:06:10,400 --> 01:06:14,000
Speaker 1: a row. Ricky, let's just go over here, okay, just

1235
01:06:14,120 --> 01:06:18,000
Speaker 1: follow me and we'll talk to this caterpillar. Hi, caterpillar.

1236
01:06:19,040 --> 01:06:21,280
Speaker 1: We're here because we have to get around this tree.

1237
01:06:21,920 --> 01:06:27,160
Speaker 1: And hello, this is my tree. This this here's my tree.

1238
01:06:29,120 --> 01:06:34,439
Speaker 1: Bit is my tree? Good? Good? Great? Um? But what's

1239
01:06:34,440 --> 01:06:38,360
Speaker 1: the operative word here? This is my tree? Right? Hey,

1240
01:06:38,400 --> 01:06:40,360
Speaker 1: this is my tree. Get the heck out of here,

1241
01:06:40,400 --> 01:06:43,280
Speaker 1: so hit the mine a little bit more. And you're

1242
01:06:43,440 --> 01:06:47,720
Speaker 1: enjoying Christie's performance too much. You're I see you smiling.

1243
01:06:48,000 --> 01:06:49,920
Speaker 1: I know, I know I like your picture of the

1244
01:06:49,960 --> 01:06:53,720
Speaker 1: little mouse. There you go, but you're smiling, and then

1245
01:06:53,720 --> 01:06:57,040
Speaker 1: he's taking you a second to get to the annoyed.

1246
01:06:57,240 --> 01:07:00,120
Speaker 1: So I need you to be cranky and perturbed, and

1247
01:07:00,680 --> 01:07:03,160
Speaker 1: already you've been interrupted ten times trying to get this

1248
01:07:03,320 --> 01:07:05,600
Speaker 1: errand done that you're working on. And I want you

1249
01:07:05,640 --> 01:07:08,840
Speaker 1: to use the word hey as your first word. Okay,

1250
01:07:09,320 --> 01:07:12,040
Speaker 1: just snap that out at her. Okay, and make sure

1251
01:07:12,040 --> 01:07:14,680
Speaker 1: that you hit the word my Okay, Christie reed him

1252
01:07:14,680 --> 01:07:18,400
Speaker 1: in one more time. Please, you got it, Ricky, Just

1253
01:07:18,400 --> 01:07:22,080
Speaker 1: just take some deep breaths. Okay, we're just gonna walk

1254
01:07:22,120 --> 01:07:26,960
Speaker 1: around and look, there's a caterpillar. Hi, Mr caterpillar. We

1255
01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:32,720
Speaker 1: need to get around this tree. Hey, this is my tree. Hey,

1256
01:07:32,920 --> 01:07:36,200
Speaker 1: this is my tree. And one more from me, George, Hey,

1257
01:07:36,320 --> 01:07:39,280
Speaker 1: this is my tree. Hey, this is my tree, not

1258
01:07:39,480 --> 01:07:46,240
Speaker 1: your tree. There you go. That's perfect, that's okay, So

1259
01:07:46,320 --> 01:07:48,760
Speaker 1: what and now get away from my tree. I want

1260
01:07:48,800 --> 01:07:49,959
Speaker 1: you to do that one for me in that same

1261
01:07:50,040 --> 01:07:52,320
Speaker 1: voice that you just established, George. The voice is a

1262
01:07:52,360 --> 01:07:55,640
Speaker 1: little bit different than it's good. Get away from my tree.

1263
01:07:55,720 --> 01:07:58,600
Speaker 1: Just give me that three times. Please get away from

1264
01:07:58,640 --> 01:08:03,080
Speaker 1: my tree. Get away from my tree. Get away from

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Speaker 1: my tree. I love that last one. Very good, thank you. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And then okay, fine, just keep going that way. The

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Speaker 1: mall is on the left. Um, okay, fine. I love

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01:08:16,120 --> 01:08:21,160
Speaker 1: to hear a side through. Okay, fine, right, okay, fine,

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01:08:21,439 --> 01:08:23,680
Speaker 1: just put aside. And and that I say to you,

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01:08:23,720 --> 01:08:26,559
Speaker 1: as an animator, gives the animator something to play with, right,

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01:08:26,840 --> 01:08:30,160
Speaker 1: the creature is gonna go okay, fun, it'll give them

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01:08:30,200 --> 01:08:32,760
Speaker 1: something to play with. Uh. Just keep going that way

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01:08:32,800 --> 01:08:35,200
Speaker 1: and get them, get them out of there faster. Just

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01:08:35,200 --> 01:08:37,360
Speaker 1: go on that way. The ball over there. Okay, use

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01:08:37,400 --> 01:08:39,320
Speaker 1: the words that you have, give you three to go

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01:08:39,400 --> 01:08:42,840
Speaker 1: for it. It did fine. Just keep doing that way.

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01:08:43,080 --> 01:08:48,120
Speaker 1: Moth on the left. Okay, fine, just keep going that way.

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01:08:48,439 --> 01:08:53,280
Speaker 1: The is on your left. It keeps fine, Just keep

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01:08:53,320 --> 01:08:56,559
Speaker 1: going that way, moll it's on the left. I love it.

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01:08:56,600 --> 01:08:58,120
Speaker 1: I love that last one too. It might be a noise,

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01:08:58,160 --> 01:09:01,840
Speaker 1: and ever it was very good. And then and let's

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01:09:01,880 --> 01:09:05,080
Speaker 1: try something with that last line, George, really sweet on

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01:09:05,400 --> 01:09:08,240
Speaker 1: You're welcome and then make a big turn on the end,

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01:09:08,760 --> 01:09:11,839
Speaker 1: call out to them. They already on their way, don't Okay,

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01:09:11,920 --> 01:09:14,719
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You're You're welcome, genuine nice

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01:09:14,800 --> 01:09:18,000
Speaker 1: and then mean and loud for the second half, go

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01:09:18,080 --> 01:09:21,679
Speaker 1: for a three in a row. Thank you, Yo, welcome,

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01:09:22,600 --> 01:09:30,280
Speaker 1: didn't come back, You're welcome, don't come back, You're welcome

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01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:38,080
Speaker 1: and don't come back. Very well for you. And let

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01:09:38,160 --> 01:09:41,400
Speaker 1: me just say that animator turn voice actor has worked

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01:09:41,520 --> 01:09:45,639
Speaker 1: very well for Eric Bowser. Yeah, super talented artists who

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01:09:45,760 --> 01:09:48,640
Speaker 1: just got to experience something that not a lot of

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01:09:48,640 --> 01:09:56,960
Speaker 1: people do. My friends, So this is exactly what is

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01:09:57,000 --> 01:10:00,800
Speaker 1: even reality anymore? Exactly. I think that's all you need

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01:10:00,840 --> 01:10:03,479
Speaker 1: to I think you did a great job. Before you go, George,

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01:10:03,520 --> 01:10:06,400
Speaker 1: really quickly, what are your what are your socials? People

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01:10:06,439 --> 01:10:07,760
Speaker 1: can reach out and they can follow you on what

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01:10:07,800 --> 01:10:10,800
Speaker 1: do you got? Um Georgie's World w h I R

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01:10:10,960 --> 01:10:14,760
Speaker 1: L D on Instagram and then um George Lava my

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01:10:14,840 --> 01:10:17,720
Speaker 1: last name Elie I ve a on Facebook. There you go,

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01:10:17,760 --> 01:10:20,240
Speaker 1: will go check out everything that Georgie does because he

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01:10:20,320 --> 01:10:23,800
Speaker 1: is obviously a brilliant artist and dare I say, an

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01:10:23,840 --> 01:10:27,559
Speaker 1: up and coming voice over actor. Absolutely, I seen your

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01:10:27,640 --> 01:10:30,160
Speaker 1: name in the end credits of something Exactly. You can

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01:10:30,200 --> 01:10:34,599
Speaker 1: put directed by Andrea Romano on your resume and us

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01:10:34,680 --> 01:10:36,800
Speaker 1: only a select few of us can, my friends, so

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01:10:36,840 --> 01:10:39,640
Speaker 1: that is pretty amazing. You guys have my thank you

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01:10:39,720 --> 01:10:43,160
Speaker 1: so much for joining us. George, you appreciate it. Pleasure.

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01:10:43,400 --> 01:10:47,559
Speaker 1: Nice meeting friend. Thank you so much. Bye, thank you bye.

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Speaker 1: That was awesome. I like directing just being I'm sorry,

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01:10:57,160 --> 01:10:59,640
Speaker 1: I got I got butterflies just watching that again, I

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01:10:59,640 --> 01:11:01,760
Speaker 1: really do it. It's just actually my face hurts from

1313
01:11:01,800 --> 01:11:05,280
Speaker 1: smiling so much the day. I also just like, would

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01:11:05,280 --> 01:11:06,680
Speaker 1: I like to say very quickly, I think one of

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01:11:06,720 --> 01:11:08,360
Speaker 1: the reasons why you're so good at it is not

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01:11:08,439 --> 01:11:11,639
Speaker 1: only because you love it, but because, like you said before,

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01:11:12,080 --> 01:11:15,920
Speaker 1: you've done it all. So. You were an actor, you

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01:11:15,960 --> 01:11:18,960
Speaker 1: were an agent, you were a casting director, you were

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01:11:19,000 --> 01:11:22,080
Speaker 1: a voice director. There is no other than maybe drawing.

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01:11:22,680 --> 01:11:25,120
Speaker 1: There is no side of the animation industry that you

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01:11:25,160 --> 01:11:31,440
Speaker 1: haven't done. I think that when you married the exactly

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01:11:31,800 --> 01:11:34,360
Speaker 1: Christie Mary the producer, you married the artist. It's amazing.

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01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:37,519
Speaker 1: Um so that was wow that just watching that again.

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01:11:37,560 --> 01:11:39,479
Speaker 1: Would you ever produce? You know? I have been asked

1325
01:11:39,479 --> 01:11:42,439
Speaker 1: that so many times and absolutely not, not at least

1326
01:11:42,439 --> 01:11:46,200
Speaker 1: bit interesting. Way too much responsibility, just way too much

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01:11:46,200 --> 01:11:48,960
Speaker 1: for I feel about directing? Is that right? Like directing

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01:11:48,960 --> 01:11:50,320
Speaker 1: on camera stuff. Everyone's like you want to be a

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01:11:50,360 --> 01:11:51,720
Speaker 1: director if you're an actor, right, It's like I have

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01:11:51,840 --> 01:11:56,479
Speaker 1: no desire to ever do that. Yeah. Yeah, oh I

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01:11:56,560 --> 01:11:59,559
Speaker 1: miss you. I missed you to Christie, this has been

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01:11:59,600 --> 01:12:04,040
Speaker 1: such a sure you. Yeah. Well now I'm just I'm

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01:12:04,080 --> 01:12:05,880
Speaker 1: a hooked. You guys are going to meet up at

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01:12:05,920 --> 01:12:08,840
Speaker 1: the next family reunion, right, exactly? You should do it?

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01:12:09,000 --> 01:12:12,840
Speaker 1: Could you guys do a Batman like reunion? We do no,

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01:12:12,920 --> 01:12:15,479
Speaker 1: not not not filmed, but just like for friendship, like

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01:12:15,520 --> 01:12:17,439
Speaker 1: go to a bar and like see oh yeah, well,

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01:12:17,439 --> 01:12:19,439
Speaker 1: we mean we do stuff at at conventions and when

1339
01:12:19,479 --> 01:12:22,679
Speaker 1: the world you know again being being healthy. But yeah,

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01:12:22,680 --> 01:12:24,479
Speaker 1: Andre and I we'd see each other. I mean, Andrea

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01:12:24,600 --> 01:12:26,600
Speaker 1: came to my wedding, flew to Connecticut and was was

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01:12:26,640 --> 01:12:29,240
Speaker 1: at my wedding. So I mean we've we've known each

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01:12:29,240 --> 01:12:32,559
Speaker 1: other for a very long time. Yeah, we did. And

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01:12:32,560 --> 01:12:34,439
Speaker 1: then you know, you got married, and then then the

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01:12:34,479 --> 01:12:37,439
Speaker 1: wife came into the picture. I'm so happy for you.

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01:12:37,800 --> 01:12:41,160
Speaker 1: Well that makes one of us. Yike, I love my

1347
01:12:41,160 --> 01:12:42,679
Speaker 1: wife and I would only say that in the middle

1348
01:12:42,720 --> 01:12:46,080
Speaker 1: of a soundproof booth um, which is which is true.

1349
01:12:46,080 --> 01:12:48,559
Speaker 1: But now this has been so amazing to have you

1350
01:12:48,600 --> 01:12:51,880
Speaker 1: here and just yeah, again, we can't gush about you

1351
01:12:52,000 --> 01:12:54,719
Speaker 1: enough and everything you've done, not only in the industry

1352
01:12:54,760 --> 01:12:57,719
Speaker 1: but for the industry. I mean, yes, just a game

1353
01:12:57,800 --> 01:13:00,519
Speaker 1: changer on so many different levels. And I know you

1354
01:13:00,600 --> 01:13:03,600
Speaker 1: said that you're so happy in retirement and that it

1355
01:13:03,640 --> 01:13:06,400
Speaker 1: would take uh, you know, the Brinks truck backing up

1356
01:13:06,400 --> 01:13:10,960
Speaker 1: to your house. Um, I understand that, but just being

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01:13:11,000 --> 01:13:13,840
Speaker 1: able to watch you do that again. Man, there's so

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01:13:13,840 --> 01:13:15,320
Speaker 1: many people that would love to be able to see

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01:13:15,320 --> 01:13:18,240
Speaker 1: that again. So hopefully she's worth it. She's worth it.

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01:13:19,400 --> 01:13:21,200
Speaker 1: I hope that some magic is going to come along

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01:13:21,280 --> 01:13:22,880
Speaker 1: that you're gonna say, I have to come back and

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01:13:22,880 --> 01:13:26,639
Speaker 1: do this again. So I hope that happens too. Frankly,

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01:13:26,720 --> 01:13:28,280
Speaker 1: I do I what as soon as I get into

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01:13:28,360 --> 01:13:30,760
Speaker 1: doing it again, I'm so happy. I love it so much.

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01:13:30,800 --> 01:13:34,640
Speaker 1: It's it's a it's a wonderful art form it is,

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01:13:34,800 --> 01:13:39,599
Speaker 1: and it's it melds with my persona by personally, yeah,

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01:13:39,680 --> 01:13:41,040
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, the way I am, who

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01:13:41,080 --> 01:13:43,760
Speaker 1: you are, it is, it's who I am. It was

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01:13:43,800 --> 01:13:45,799
Speaker 1: meant to be that I worked in the animation industry.

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01:13:45,840 --> 01:13:49,559
Speaker 1: It was predestined and I didn't know it. Well, that's

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01:13:49,560 --> 01:13:51,080
Speaker 1: pretty wonderful. And I can also tell you that our

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01:13:51,120 --> 01:13:54,120
Speaker 1: producer already chimed in and she just in giant Caps wrote,

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01:13:54,200 --> 01:13:58,679
Speaker 1: this is only part one, so much left to talk

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01:13:58,720 --> 01:14:02,240
Speaker 1: about it would make me and so we found a see,

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01:14:02,400 --> 01:14:06,680
Speaker 1: we found a loophole. Direct I love you. I love

1376
01:14:06,720 --> 01:14:09,280
Speaker 1: what you're doing with bringing these actors in and letting

1377
01:14:09,320 --> 01:14:12,519
Speaker 1: some fan in and letting them it's a great idea,

1378
01:14:12,560 --> 01:14:14,320
Speaker 1: and I wish you a lot of luck with that

1379
01:14:14,400 --> 01:14:16,640
Speaker 1: putting that all together. Good for you. We appreciate that.

1380
01:14:17,240 --> 01:14:19,960
Speaker 1: It's a ton of fun. And yeah, definitely, it's just

1381
01:14:20,000 --> 01:14:22,280
Speaker 1: we we've been at this all started because at conventions

1382
01:14:22,280 --> 01:14:23,680
Speaker 1: we've got so many people saying, I want to be

1383
01:14:23,720 --> 01:14:25,519
Speaker 1: a voice over actor. I'm good at it, I do

1384
01:14:25,600 --> 01:14:27,640
Speaker 1: funny voices, I do this, and it's like, all right, well,

1385
01:14:27,720 --> 01:14:29,800
Speaker 1: let's give you a shot. So I can't tell you

1386
01:14:29,840 --> 01:14:32,040
Speaker 1: though that uh, this this is the George is going

1387
01:14:32,080 --> 01:14:39,720
Speaker 1: to be the only actor who's got directed by Andrea Romana. Oh.

1388
01:14:40,560 --> 01:14:42,920
Speaker 1: They said in Troy Achilles is teaching you how to

1389
01:14:42,960 --> 01:14:46,880
Speaker 1: fight kings and queens would kill for the chance. So yes,

1390
01:14:47,400 --> 01:14:49,519
Speaker 1: just for the opportunity of that. But Andrea, we love

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01:14:49,520 --> 01:14:52,679
Speaker 1: you so much, thank you. This is absolutely only part one.

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01:14:53,560 --> 01:14:56,080
Speaker 1: All right, then let me do more, please, Yeah, because

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01:14:56,080 --> 01:14:58,000
Speaker 1: I think we think we're we've done an hour and

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01:14:58,000 --> 01:15:00,800
Speaker 1: a half and we're up to nineteen seven. I know

1395
01:15:01,120 --> 01:15:04,920
Speaker 1: that's absolutely true. Absolutely we didn't even talk about, you know,

1396
01:15:05,360 --> 01:15:10,000
Speaker 1: any of the Nickelodeon stuff, Avatar, the last airben so

1397
01:15:10,120 --> 01:15:13,360
Speaker 1: much more, did you guys hear when the pandemic started

1398
01:15:13,680 --> 01:15:16,439
Speaker 1: it was the number one Netflix show for the first

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01:15:17,880 --> 01:15:21,600
Speaker 1: because everyone's been absolutely and it's such a great, an

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01:15:21,640 --> 01:15:25,160
Speaker 1: amazing show, right. I love it, Andrea, Thank you. I

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01:15:25,160 --> 01:15:31,960
Speaker 1: don't want to leave you. Thank you, you guys. I

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01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:34,639
Speaker 1: Hear Voices assosted by Wilfred L and Christie Garls and Romano,

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01:15:34,840 --> 01:15:37,479
Speaker 1: produced by Elizabeth Joy Windham and executive produced by Brendan

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01:15:37,560 --> 01:15:40,360
Speaker 1: Rooney and Wilfred L. Our sound engineer and editor is

1405
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Speaker 1: Elizabeth Joy Windham, and our video editor is at Guardo

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