Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, it is me, if you want away had
Speaker 1: again popping it off, kicking it off to another episode
Speaker 1: of Nerdificent, and sitting across from me as always is
Speaker 1: Roger Craig Smith. It's Danny Fernandez, and we are joined
Speaker 1: up top by a man of a million voices. I
Speaker 1: think I can say a million voices a thousand. I
Speaker 1: bet you don't even know the actual account of all
Speaker 1: your voices, but um, we specifically brought him on today
Speaker 1: because we're covering Sonic the Hedgehog. Who he is and
Speaker 1: has been for many years. It is Roger Craig Smith.
Speaker 1: Do you actually know the number of people that you voiced?
Speaker 1: I have knew it. Somebody pointed out, like a long
Speaker 1: time ago, one credit on on the show Regular Show
Speaker 1: on Cartoon Network that I think it was behind the
Speaker 1: voice behind the voice actor's website. They had it listed
Speaker 1: that I had done a hundred and seventy eight characters
Speaker 1: on that show, which sounds impression, but it's it's like eventually,
Speaker 1: like Taco Vendor number four and like school bus guy
Speaker 1: and you know, like random you know, like you know,
Speaker 1: mall Patron, they all kind of stay. It's like, dude,
Speaker 1: what all the same thing, but it was kind of funny.
Speaker 1: I went, wow, that's kind of crazy, and I was like,
Speaker 1: that's going to go on my bio. It's like in
Speaker 1: one production a lumb But I have no idea. I
Speaker 1: have no idea. Oh my god, did your voice on
Speaker 1: regular show? I didn't. I was I was Choppers, Thomas
Speaker 1: the intern. Oh man, um not what's the name? I
Speaker 1: was gonna say Baltazar? But is it balt Tazar? What
Speaker 1: was it? Oh man? There's there were so many it was.
Speaker 1: There was seven seasons for me out of their eight seasons,
Speaker 1: I was in seven before they went to space and
Speaker 1: my guys survived. But so yeah, it was Thomas and like,
Speaker 1: oh just a whole mess of characters and so much fun. Yeah, Garrett, Garrett,
Speaker 1: Bobby Fergus and Giant Beard Faced Jr. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: a blast. I love we're going on that show. So
Speaker 1: this is just a just nerdy, almost insidery baseball question.
Speaker 1: But when you started, where you always Roger Craig Smith
Speaker 1: or where you Roger Smith? And SAG was like, we
Speaker 1: we got them. Not only that was Roger Smith before SAG.
Speaker 1: Because I went to go register my name when I
Speaker 1: was doing stand up. I want to go register my website,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I'll just go with Roger Smith
Speaker 1: dot com. That's a hotel. There's a hotel in New
Speaker 1: York City called the Roger Smith Hotel. Gosh, I guess
Speaker 1: it is like a really nice place. I have to
Speaker 1: go stay there. I'm like, yo, I'm checking in. Um
Speaker 1: but no, so that was taken and uh. And then
Speaker 1: eventually what ended up happening is I was going to
Speaker 1: go with like Roger C. Smith and and they said, no,
Speaker 1: that's too much like Roger Guenevere Smith. Who Roger G. Smith.
Speaker 1: You want to hear another really funny story about that.
Speaker 1: He Uh. Someone told me this years after I had
Speaker 1: already been narrating, UM say us with the dress right that.
Speaker 1: They said, you know you weren't the first narrator for
Speaker 1: the show. And I was like, yeah what and they go, actually,
Speaker 1: we've never even I don't know, we didn't tell you this,
Speaker 1: but they said, somebody got their wires crossed at the
Speaker 1: network and it was all your auditions and all kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. But when they went to go book it,
Speaker 1: they saw Roger C. Smith and they booked Roger G. Smith.
Speaker 1: So he showed up and they're like, and they had
Speaker 1: him do like one episode or two episodes before. The
Speaker 1: people on the other end of the line were like,
Speaker 1: he sounds so different, and I think he must have been.
Speaker 1: I guess they just really love my work because he's
Speaker 1: a gifted actor and anything. It seems like a very
Speaker 1: nice man. I've never met the guy, but that this
Speaker 1: ambiguation of Roger G. Smith too close, So they said,
Speaker 1: you can go with Roger Craigsmith. So that's what no
Speaker 1: wonder sack sag wanted me to be, um Danny Murrie
Speaker 1: Fernandez and I said no, and I was M Danny
Speaker 1: M Fernandez because there's another Danny Fernandez d A N
Speaker 1: N Y and I don't know what he's doing with
Speaker 1: his life that he ruined mind. Yeah, that's the crazy
Speaker 1: thing about it is it could be someone who like
Speaker 1: did like you know, all my children like one, but
Speaker 1: because they're in it, they locked down that name. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I hope to work because he's a dude. So I
Speaker 1: hope they don't confuse you know what I mean. I
Speaker 1: don't know if they don't think. So I was gonna
Speaker 1: see what should go with like hashtag Danny Fernandez ruined
Speaker 1: my life, but since audio could you know, it's like,
Speaker 1: why we'll see what happened is I was yeah, so
Speaker 1: I they were like, I was like, I can't keep
Speaker 1: my name, and they were like, just go with Danny Murray.
Speaker 1: So I did. And then I was just afraid because
Speaker 1: I'm friends with people like I don't know, if you
Speaker 1: know comedian Jessica Michelle Singleton, she goes by Jessica Michelle,
Speaker 1: And I was afraid people would call me Danny Murray
Speaker 1: like that would I don't know, do people call you
Speaker 1: Roger Craig, I get Craig, I get I get Robert Smith,
Speaker 1: which is hilarious. I'm like the singer from The Cure,
Speaker 1: not quite so I do cry. Yeah, So I was
Speaker 1: essentially scared that So now I'm Michael B. Jordan. I'm
Speaker 1: like a Michael J. Foxx. Yeah, it's goo scenario. It's
Speaker 1: funny because I never knew. That's why that exists so
Speaker 1: much like the three name thing and what is based
Speaker 1: upon the union basically saying that we don't want the
Speaker 1: confusion for yeah, well you're a you're an actual because
Speaker 1: they always say that might happen, but you have now
Speaker 1: proven that that does. In fact happen. So I probably
Speaker 1: I told you about Brian Branson, right, Brian Branson. I
Speaker 1: have a buddy who's stage name is Brian Branson because
Speaker 1: he he had that situation happened where he had to
Speaker 1: change his name. But everything he submitted that just kept
Speaker 1: being like Nope, you can't, No, you can't. He was like,
Speaker 1: all right, well Brian Bryanson, and they're like that's actually available.
Speaker 1: He was like, all right, let's go with it. Brian, Brian,
Speaker 1: Brian Branson. Yeah, but that's sad. Danny Danielson, Dannie Danielson,
Speaker 1: we're talking about Sonic the Hedgehog. Yes, oh, man, Sonic
Speaker 1: you know that was That was probably my second game
Speaker 1: because everyone start with Mario then Nick True then got
Speaker 1: the Genesis True Knuckles dude. But yeah, no, it was.
Speaker 1: It was great. Roger, what was your first earliest memory
Speaker 1: of Sonic? Uh, you know what, probably being seeing it
Speaker 1: in a store, like in a store because you know
Speaker 1: the sixteen bit blast processor and all that kind of stuff, right,
Speaker 1: it was it was. I mean you would see that
Speaker 1: side scrolling game like on a like demo mode or
Speaker 1: something at a toy store and I just remember thinking, man,
Speaker 1: that's fast. I mean, it really was one of those
Speaker 1: things that you just went that I've never seen video
Speaker 1: games move that quick, because even Mario Brothers was still
Speaker 1: relatively slow as far as the side scrolling in comparison
Speaker 1: and watching the whole screen move and watching the character like.
Speaker 1: So I would say it was probably my first exposure
Speaker 1: and my first memory that I know was seeing like
Speaker 1: a demo mode of of Sonic the Hedgehog just playing
Speaker 1: on like a tube TV somewhere and just going, dang,
Speaker 1: they're getting quick. Um. Yeah, I didn't have a genesis
Speaker 1: growing up until I was in my early twenties. My
Speaker 1: brother I think they had one at like the Why
Speaker 1: that we used to play at, and then my brother
Speaker 1: got when my brother, my older brother always got all
Speaker 1: the cool like I got, like Barbie dolls and like
Speaker 1: Barbie houses, and he would get all the gaming consoles,
Speaker 1: which then I would like common deer um And that's
Speaker 1: why I am the way I am now. Um. But no,
Speaker 1: I mean really, if my parents hadn't gotten it for him,
Speaker 1: even though that's very sexist whatever, um hadn't gotten it
Speaker 1: for him. He also remember when he got a Super
Speaker 1: Mario sixty four. Remember him getting Sonic the Hedgehog. Uh
Speaker 1: and playing that, but um, if we wanted to get
Speaker 1: into how Sonic the Hedgehog came to be Sonic If
Speaker 1: you have been living under a rock and don't know
Speaker 1: who he is? UM is technically a media franchise that
Speaker 1: was created and produced by Sega. It started as a
Speaker 1: video game franchise centering on a series of speed based
Speaker 1: platform games where Sonic, the protagonist is an anthropomorphic blue
Speaker 1: hedgehog with super sonic speed. Yes, typically Sonic usually along
Speaker 1: with some of his friends such as Tales, Amy Knuckles,
Speaker 1: who will get into and a must stop antagonist Dr
Speaker 1: Eggmund's plans for world domination. Yeah, she didn't read that.
Speaker 1: She literally was locked with the entire time. She just
Speaker 1: memorized all of that. That's amazing. But the funny thing is,
Speaker 1: like he calls him Eggman, but that's the nickname. His
Speaker 1: name is Dr Robotnick. Do we know the initial name
Speaker 1: of Sonic? Have we got that that far back? See
Speaker 1: the concept of it? Kind of like how like what
Speaker 1: was it? What was it? Like Mickey Mouse started off
Speaker 1: with the first Disney character was Yeah, it was the Rabbit. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Rabbit. Um. I always heard that the The initial
Speaker 1: name was Mr. It was based on a sketch that
Speaker 1: one of the creators did of Mr needle Mouse. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's called Mr Needleman was his name. I think, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I should know this. Why that became I don't know,
Speaker 1: but sorry, so knuckles you were saying, I interrupted. You
Speaker 1: know I was given Dr Robotico. Please Roger, anytime that
Speaker 1: you know anything, feel free to me. Do you guys
Speaker 1: about this Trump stuff? Please act that's true. You should
Speaker 1: come back on the plan political podcast that we have
Speaker 1: here every day daily zite guys, five days a week. Um. So.
Speaker 1: The first game in the series was released in one,
Speaker 1: which Roger wouldn't see until what a decade later, sadly,
Speaker 1: and I played it. I just never had I never
Speaker 1: had my own console, Like, yeah, do you like play
Speaker 1: it with like friends or yeah, my buddy Scott. My
Speaker 1: buddy Scott had had to shout out to Scott. There's
Speaker 1: always that one kid, I know, like, we didn't have
Speaker 1: I don't know, I think I've said this, but my
Speaker 1: family didn't have Mario Kart. We had Diddy Congressing. That's
Speaker 1: my jam because I'm like, where the misfits where the
Speaker 1: like rejected you know, um, lower class forgotten. So that's me.
Speaker 1: My family had racing and the cool kids, you know,
Speaker 1: playing the rich neighbors had Mario Kart. But it was
Speaker 1: crazy because you know, Sonic was at the time the
Speaker 1: mascot for Sega, and that's so that's what you got
Speaker 1: Sega for the same way where you got like a
Speaker 1: s and he has to play Super Mario. You had
Speaker 1: the play Yeah. Yeah, you were the weird kid who's like,
Speaker 1: I need to play that duck huck. I gotta put
Speaker 1: my gun up against the screen, even though it doesn't
Speaker 1: work that way because it's a camera. Um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so everyone who had a genesis was doing that. This
Speaker 1: was you know, then Sonic drops three years after me
Speaker 1: and Danny were born. Thanks guys, thanks for that. It's
Speaker 1: a narrativeicent tradition for me to shoehorn some way to
Speaker 1: see the distance of the origin of the topic from.
Speaker 1: Now he's done it with things that have come out
Speaker 1: in the fifties, he'll be like, and that was. Yeah.
Speaker 1: What I was gonna say is what you were saying
Speaker 1: is that it was Sega's mascot. It was actually a right,
Speaker 1: but they wanted a rival to Nintendo's flagship character Mario,
Speaker 1: and that's how Sonic came to be, and then it
Speaker 1: successfully spawned many sequels and the series had a ton
Speaker 1: of spinoffs. That has sold over eighty nine million physical
Speaker 1: copies as of March twenty eleven, which is a long
Speaker 1: time ago, crossed over to five billion dollars boeen and
Speaker 1: as of ten, the series has shifted eight hundred million units. Now,
Speaker 1: they just they just they announced that on their little
Speaker 1: Sound like the Hedgehog Twitter account, which is very funny.
Speaker 1: People should follow that. The actual sound like the Hedgehog
Speaker 1: Twitter account is very funny. Do you know Alan Denton,
Speaker 1: the writers used to work together. Yea, We used to Wait,
Speaker 1: I'm only saying this because he tweeted this at when
Speaker 1: I announced that I'm in Ralph Breaks the Internet, which
Speaker 1: you are as well playing Sonic, reprising your role because
Speaker 1: you were in the original record. Ralph Allen was like, what, Danny.
Speaker 1: We used to write listicals together because we used to
Speaker 1: write for like a comedy site which shall not be named,
Speaker 1: when we were just you know, I'll speak for myself
Speaker 1: struggling writers, and so we would write listicals like nine
Speaker 1: Bridesmaid Fails. Is that the term for those things. Yeah, okay, cool, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: because those things are addictive. Yeah, you get you get
Speaker 1: on a good one. Oh man. Yeah, it's the worst
Speaker 1: eighteen times Justin Bieber proposed in front of a Honda Civic.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Oh man. There was a speaking of
Speaker 1: listicles today in the BuzzFeed slack. We found someone put
Speaker 1: an a I bought who like, read a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of BuzzFeed articles and made their own BuzzFeed articles. And
Speaker 1: everyone's like, you know, we we might have to use
Speaker 1: some of these for the lest because I'll just read
Speaker 1: off a few people recreate the secret lipstick easy veggie
Speaker 1: packed veggies. BuzzFeed employees read for the first time, ten
Speaker 1: people you won't believe actually exists. Yeah, exactly, And it
Speaker 1: comes to the like ten this reasons you should eight
Speaker 1: examples of its like I can't do that, oh man.
Speaker 1: Addictive today, Yeah, you just get caught up so funny,
Speaker 1: so much, so much. Allen was a writer on Sonic
Speaker 1: Boom series that I was involved with. Yes, so the
Speaker 1: franchise has gone on to be TV shows, anime, and
Speaker 1: a comic book series recognized as the longest running based
Speaker 1: on a video Game by Guinness World Records, and then
Speaker 1: in two thousand five, Sonic was one of the first
Speaker 1: game character inductees into the Walk of Game, which is
Speaker 1: essentially the Walk of Fame, alongside Mario and Link. Nice Link, Link,
Speaker 1: good old, good old Link people. What people don't know
Speaker 1: is Link's name is actually Zelda. Interesting sag made Link changed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so there was there was an episode of I Love
Speaker 1: Lucy that had Link. Yeah, you know, and so you
Speaker 1: have to go Zelda. Yeah. So we are going to
Speaker 1: move on to some of the characters for Sonic and
Speaker 1: I have a whole list of what Sonic is. But Roger,
Speaker 1: since you play Sonic, I thought it would be best
Speaker 1: if you describe him his characteristics, his personality, like has
Speaker 1: that changed through the years at all? Has he kind
Speaker 1: of always been the same dude? You know what? I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, I guess what's funny because my
Speaker 1: first I always just think of like the the iconic
Speaker 1: sort of like visual representation of Sonic. When you would
Speaker 1: stop playing the game, if you left the character idle,
Speaker 1: the foot would start tapping looking at you, like what
Speaker 1: gives Let's go? So there was always that kind of
Speaker 1: cocky kind of self assured sort of attitude, and we've
Speaker 1: played that ever since. I've been voicing since two thou ten,
Speaker 1: And when I went into go audition for it back then,
Speaker 1: they were still showing some of the previous animation to
Speaker 1: kind of give us an idea of like the character
Speaker 1: would have been done, sort of like in Cannon kind
Speaker 1: of thing, like this is where it's sort of this
Speaker 1: is where the character kind of exists. We're trying to
Speaker 1: keep it in that realm but do something a little
Speaker 1: different in that kind of thing. So I don't know
Speaker 1: that he's changed all that much. Although with Sonic Boom
Speaker 1: we were playing more with like the comedic side of things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's fun. It was more fun because you know, it
Speaker 1: was you couldn't just have them fight every single episode
Speaker 1: and have that sort of thing, so it was we
Speaker 1: changed it for that. But for a lot of the games,
Speaker 1: we've always just sort of stuck with the the sort
Speaker 1: of hero who's cocky and self assured and has some
Speaker 1: good little one liners and and but it's very loyal
Speaker 1: to his friends and he's very likable. Yeah, Like, but
Speaker 1: I feel like that's really important because I feel like
Speaker 1: his cockiness could be I don't know, even your scene,
Speaker 1: which we can't really talk about too much because I
Speaker 1: don't want to spoil it, but even you're seen in
Speaker 1: Ralph Breaks the Internet, he's still kind of that dude.
Speaker 1: But I like la, like you love him cool, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're good. That would be the writing for one. But
Speaker 1: then there's also yeah, there's a fine line. I mean
Speaker 1: there's a fine line between like, you know, somebody who's
Speaker 1: just arrogant versus somebody who's self assured or you know,
Speaker 1: and but has a little bit of the jock kind
Speaker 1: of cockiness to him. But I mean as a character,
Speaker 1: he can back it up. You know, he's he's the
Speaker 1: blue blur, so you can you know he's good. I
Speaker 1: like the thing you pointed out, which is in the
Speaker 1: game they had the foot tapping mechanism to kind of
Speaker 1: give you an idea. And I think there was a
Speaker 1: lot of character that you were able to see from
Speaker 1: the first games because you had Sonic kind of cocky
Speaker 1: running through beating up Dr robot Nick, and then you
Speaker 1: had like Tales, who always seem so worried all the time,
Speaker 1: who was the worry ward and he was like, no,
Speaker 1: I mean no, you fell off, let me carry you.
Speaker 1: Back up, you know, so, and then I feel like
Speaker 1: the first time you got like a hard and fast
Speaker 1: idea of the characters was Sonic Adventure, because that was like,
Speaker 1: really the first time you're kind of interacting as certain
Speaker 1: characters and you're able to choose, like Amy Knuckles tales
Speaker 1: a big Cat Um, I think that's his name. If
Speaker 1: I remember Big the Cat. Yeah, I was a big
Speaker 1: cat cat, Big cat, Yeah, big gig the Cat. I mean,
Speaker 1: then you had the early series too. I'm jumping around
Speaker 1: a bit only because I want to ask this question,
Speaker 1: how hard was it filling the suit of nineties sensation Jalil?
Speaker 1: I mean, let's be honest, those shoes are constantly exponentially
Speaker 1: ever expanding fell those shoes. Uh, you know, like like
Speaker 1: that's that's the that's always an honor to get to
Speaker 1: voice any character that's been done, even by somebody who's
Speaker 1: done it before you. And and we're talking about something
Speaker 1: that's lasted for so many years now sort of be
Speaker 1: a part of that legacy is like it's just cool.
Speaker 1: I mean, and and it's not as if I walk
Speaker 1: in every day going like how would Jalil do? But
Speaker 1: it's also yeah, exactly, I probably should I mean, maybe
Speaker 1: the fans would like it better. No, Um, it's uh
Speaker 1: that that to me is like one of the neatest
Speaker 1: little sort of like legacy or aspects to this legacy
Speaker 1: is just kind of going man Urkel started off doing this.
Speaker 1: This is kind of cool because it's like, yeah, it's uh.
Speaker 1: And I've talked to somebody who recently said, like, oh,
Speaker 1: I know, I know Julia. I should ask him, like,
Speaker 1: you know, what what it was like. And sometimes it
Speaker 1: would be fun to get like, you know, Jason and
Speaker 1: Ryan and Jalil and everybody together and kind of sit
Speaker 1: down and be like a podcast someday, my gosh, talk
Speaker 1: about it. But the Sonic heads, yes, the fan base
Speaker 1: might go insane with that. But yeah, the Sonic Roundtable,
Speaker 1: the Sonic down keep tapping a going round round and around. Uh.
Speaker 1: And that's a good segue into that feature being introduced
Speaker 1: in Sonic the Hedgehog too, which is crazy because I
Speaker 1: always remembered always being able to do that. But no,
Speaker 1: the down tapping a where you spin and get that
Speaker 1: boost was actually introduced in Sonic the Hedgehog to spin
Speaker 1: dashin s. Also, Sonic the Hedgehog two was the introduction
Speaker 1: of miles. Yeah, yes, and I didn't know this, but
Speaker 1: it was miles power is a play on miles per hour.
Speaker 1: Look me and Rod, are you really today years old? Roger? What? No? No,
Speaker 1: it's like yeah, meaning like today is the day you
Speaker 1: learned that? Oh yeah, I know that something new to ye.
Speaker 1: I mean what's even crazier too, is like that you
Speaker 1: said his government name? Who someone is? Yeah, that is
Speaker 1: a that is a thing that as I get older,
Speaker 1: I'm learning isn't something everyone says, but like growing up
Speaker 1: like in Compton Long Beach or just anywhere where people
Speaker 1: have nicknames if you say their real names, like you
Speaker 1: call me by my government name, funny, they want to
Speaker 1: be called by their Yeah. Yeah, Tales is who was
Speaker 1: referring to miss That's that's when Tales would be, like, Yo,
Speaker 1: why you called me by my government should have been
Speaker 1: sonics name now when you think about its speed and Miles,
Speaker 1: it should have been he should have been Miles the Hedgehobe,
Speaker 1: Miles Prower the Hedgehog. I love it. So yeah. So,
Speaker 1: while many individuals at Saya had a hand in Sonics creation,
Speaker 1: it was actually programmer Eugen Naka and Naotoshima who was
Speaker 1: an artist who were basically generally credited as the creators
Speaker 1: of the character. Uh. Basically many results were coming from
Speaker 1: from their experiments with different character designs because they were
Speaker 1: trying to find Like we said earlier, a competition for Mario,
Speaker 1: and one was like an armadillo, who was later developed
Speaker 1: into Mighty the Armadillo, a dog which was like a
Speaker 1: Theodore Roosevelt look alike in pajamas. So funny, dragon Ball
Speaker 1: has the Theodore Roosevelt dog. Yeah, well he's a president.
Speaker 1: Ah well, they went and took that. They're like, instead
Speaker 1: of making Fdr Think just In looks, he was known
Speaker 1: as Theodore the Roosevelt, but they used to actually Theodore
Speaker 1: Roosevelt's design for Dr Robot. I do know that it
Speaker 1: makes perfectly good sense when you see the mustashion and
Speaker 1: he se him in the tub all the time. Oh no,
Speaker 1: that's taft. Never mind, I was gonna see. It reminds
Speaker 1: me of Potter from It's a Wonderful Life, Mr Potter.
Speaker 1: It does, doesn't he Wilford Brimley from Like Cocoo. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can see that, um. And then they had a
Speaker 1: rabbit who would use the extendable ears to collect objects,
Speaker 1: which was later incorporated to Restar. But then basically Nalo
Speaker 1: Joe took some of these uh internal designs with him
Speaker 1: on a trip to New York City and basically wanted
Speaker 1: some feedback from random, random people on the street. That's
Speaker 1: how they did it back in the day for art
Speaker 1: and Twitter on the street which your art and then
Speaker 1: someone would take it from you and that was a repost.
Speaker 1: Is when someone stole your art and walked around asking
Speaker 1: people about tweet Yet what was a crime? Yea is
Speaker 1: now yeah? Yeah, and this and he was doing this
Speaker 1: instant park and then there was a writer who saw
Speaker 1: him doing this. I was like, this guy needs some friends.
Speaker 1: And then next thing you know, he wrote the script
Speaker 1: of friends that was that's crazy. Yeah, I could tell
Speaker 1: we were going along. I was not yes, Andy, people
Speaker 1: like where is he going? But that's when we got
Speaker 1: So he showed people his designs of a spiky teal
Speaker 1: hedgehog code named Mr. Needle Mouse, said R because I
Speaker 1: believe it didn't translate directly into that wasn't there. I
Speaker 1: wanted to say that. I thought that was something in
Speaker 1: Japanese that became needle mouse like that, like it translated
Speaker 1: directly into I don't know about that, but I do
Speaker 1: know something like that. I'm sure the Internet will correct
Speaker 1: correct me. No, no, no, there's hashtag Danny Fernandez. However
Speaker 1: you want, so kit Soon, I think I'm saying that right,
Speaker 1: is a Japanese fox. That was That's what Miles is.
Speaker 1: So he's an eight year old kit Soon with two tales,
Speaker 1: hence the nickname Tales. I don't know you were close, Roger.
Speaker 1: We tried to get there. We're trying to make me
Speaker 1: feel better about this, but I say, let me go
Speaker 1: into the ethers and the Internet will just have their
Speaker 1: field day with me. I did want to say that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Sonic was detailed to have an end quote cool
Speaker 1: attitude represented of the United States at the time and
Speaker 1: nothing's changed. We're like, he reminds me of crop wom
Speaker 1: I for a high sea box like the He's like
Speaker 1: the epitome of Mr Cool or something. Sonic's blue pigmentation
Speaker 1: was chosen to match Sega's cobalt blue logo Very Cool,
Speaker 1: and his shoes evolved from a design inspired by Michael
Speaker 1: Jackson's boots, with the addition of the color red, which
Speaker 1: was inspired by both Santa Claus and the contrast of
Speaker 1: those colors on jackson album Bad Bad. Yeah, I guess
Speaker 1: that's why he's then it's just like what is cool
Speaker 1: in America? Yeah, Teddy Roosevelt Jackson, Michael Jackson's shoes. I
Speaker 1: thought I read something somewhere to where they were talking
Speaker 1: about the significance of that character of Sonic actually tapping
Speaker 1: his foot and looking at was the first time that
Speaker 1: they had seen like an actual video game character convey
Speaker 1: like a personality of sorts everything else up until because
Speaker 1: when you think about when you play Mario, you don't
Speaker 1: really you don't really feel like, oh, Mario is this
Speaker 1: It's just that's the character. Yeah, he was cool and
Speaker 1: even then, like early on and never even said anything,
Speaker 1: just kind of like you know, the early Sonic the
Speaker 1: Hedgehog character. But but it's funny to think, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that would have been that would convey something of like
Speaker 1: a personality of this thing that you're playing, whereas up
Speaker 1: until that point we were sort of disconnected from what
Speaker 1: we were doing. Yeah, he's sitting there, He's like, Hey,
Speaker 1: I got places to be. Yeah was that Roger and me?
Speaker 1: People don't know exactly, so good crazy, somebody was gonna
Speaker 1: come in and write a theme song for friends. So
Speaker 1: good to see that seamless. You can work trends into anything.
Speaker 1: Really one thing I also like, as they said, his
Speaker 1: personality was based on then presidential candidate later President of
Speaker 1: the United States Bill Clinton's get it done attitude during
Speaker 1: presidential campaign. I'm gonna just leave the low hanging fruit there,
Speaker 1: but you know, you did have a get it done attitude.
Speaker 1: To help sell the idea to Saya's higher ups, Shima
Speaker 1: pitched the concept framed by a fictional fighter pilot that
Speaker 1: had earned the name Hedgehog due to a spiky hair,
Speaker 1: and not just because he's an actual hedgehog, because he
Speaker 1: was a fighter pilot who earned the game call sign Hedgehog.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh man, goose was already taken. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was like, gonna be the world. That's Sonic the Goose. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what was what's that? Like? What would that even sound?
Speaker 1: Talk to me Sonic? Um if you don't know if
Speaker 1: you know this, but the original concepts gave Sonic things
Speaker 1: and put him in a band with a human girlfriend
Speaker 1: named Madonna. Huh, I hope you're learning a lot about
Speaker 1: yourself here. Um. I love it. I love we love
Speaker 1: this lore behind Sonic. However, a team from Sega of
Speaker 1: America was like Nope, led by Madeline Schroeder, who calls
Speaker 1: herself Sonics Mother funny that I did not know that
Speaker 1: I did not know. Yeah, softened the character up for
Speaker 1: an American audience by removing those elements. M and Madonna
Speaker 1: sparked a heated issue with the Sonic team, and Naca
Speaker 1: later admitted that it was probably for the best. So
Speaker 1: that's how we got. We just wanted to have a
Speaker 1: girlfriend exactly, and Madonna and New Coke and whatever is
Speaker 1: super popular. I love it. He was going to be
Speaker 1: like Joe Magnello and True Blood or something. Um. And
Speaker 1: then so let me have Miles, which I don't want
Speaker 1: to pass over too much. It's his best friend again,
Speaker 1: like we said, Myles Power. Now that was going to
Speaker 1: stick with me for it right? Yeah? Sorry, So Tails
Speaker 1: was rated that Miles Tails Wait, Finkle is iron Horn
Speaker 1: iron Horn. Tails was rated the third most popular character
Speaker 1: in the franchise Sonic and Shadow and Official. Yes that
Speaker 1: is why you think second. I think second, hands down
Speaker 1: this new Shaw Shadow. Maybe it's because I was like
Speaker 1: older when Shadow came along would be but I was
Speaker 1: always like Sonic and Tales. But if if not Tales Knuckles,
Speaker 1: how is Knuckles getting beat out by Shadow Like this
Speaker 1: is definitely these kids in their roadblocks in Fortnite doing this,
Speaker 1: doing this thing? Um n kids. So the other the
Speaker 1: other main character, um Dr Robotanic, how would you describe
Speaker 1: him to people that don't know? We say this is
Speaker 1: a podcast for everyone, So even if people have never
Speaker 1: watched Sonic, he's he's oh gosh, he's the He's the
Speaker 1: Joker to Batman. He's the some people just want to
Speaker 1: watch the world burn. He's always out to just total
Speaker 1: global universal domination. He just wants to rule everything. And
Speaker 1: he's always got this evil army of robots, the things
Speaker 1: that he's creating, and obviously we've had fun with it,
Speaker 1: uh in Sonic Boom Universe with you know, they never
Speaker 1: always seems to work out all that well for him,
Speaker 1: but uh no, that's them. There are enemies, and that's
Speaker 1: a and he's just he's just a very very bad
Speaker 1: He was either hugged too much or not enough as
Speaker 1: a child, and he just wants to rule the universe.
Speaker 1: That's so fascinating because if he is the Joker to Sonic,
Speaker 1: that he technically loves him. I think he does secretly
Speaker 1: kick down No, I think I think there's a there's
Speaker 1: an affection there that's interesting. Jealousy maybe more than anything,
Speaker 1: maybe more jealousy than an actual affection. That's probably the
Speaker 1: deepest we've ever delved into the that's a relationship dynamic.
Speaker 1: Dr black Nick I was gonna say, that's what we
Speaker 1: do here, we do deep dives. And then Knuckles, who
Speaker 1: is it? Okay? Yeah, Yeah, he's basically I'll give you
Speaker 1: a rundown on Knuckles, basically the best character in the franchise.
Speaker 1: He's read my favorite color. We have someone right here.
Speaker 1: I'm white here. Look, I love you, Roger. I just
Speaker 1: love Knuckles more. He used his fist. I related to
Speaker 1: that as an angsty teen. I was like, yeah, and
Speaker 1: he had and his hair kind of had that emo
Speaker 1: swooped too. We know you're a huge fan of friends,
Speaker 1: friends all the time. Yeah, I'll be there for you.
Speaker 1: It's okay. I like that. Well played Knuckles debut in
Speaker 1: on The Hedgehog three after Dr Eggman tricks him into
Speaker 1: opposing Sonic and Tails see and that was like that
Speaker 1: first era of the bad guy who turns it out
Speaker 1: to be the good guy. This is like the cool
Speaker 1: version of a geta. Uh. He first became he first
Speaker 1: became playable, and Sonic and Knuckles, which was insane if
Speaker 1: you remembered it because Sonic and Knuckles was a cartridge
Speaker 1: with a cartridge slot in it because you're able to
Speaker 1: put the cartridge from Sonic three in Sonic and Knuckles
Speaker 1: in play Sonic three as Knuckles, which was wild because
Speaker 1: I was like doing that's tight and my parents the
Speaker 1: first form of inception game within a game. Yeah, uh
Speaker 1: it seems up with Sonic entails after learning of Eggmans
Speaker 1: trickery and and kind of goes to kick his butt.
Speaker 1: One thing I don't want to skip up when we're
Speaker 1: talking about Sonic that was real cool at least for me,
Speaker 1: is Sonic goes super sane. Yeah, because he gets the
Speaker 1: when he goes Supersonic, he gets gold. He has the
Speaker 1: the floaty hair. You know your franchise, In our franchise,
Speaker 1: I feel like I have a lot of overlapping fandoms.
Speaker 1: Like I see a lot of art for sure, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I see a lot of like Supersonic art, like super
Speaker 1: sayan Sonic art um. I also see a lot of
Speaker 1: other art I see a lot of pregnant Sonic and
Speaker 1: what you're talking if anything like that, this doesn't live
Speaker 1: on the internet. If I see it on my side
Speaker 1: of the weird Internet, I know that you're getting Sonics.
Speaker 1: Tumbler is very fascinating, Marie. You're making this, You're making
Speaker 1: this all Sonic devian Art, Deviant Art pictures. M But yeah,
Speaker 1: I will say, just like Vegeta, they overlaps. Continue. Knuckles
Speaker 1: was created by developer Takashi utah and never was intended
Speaker 1: to be more than a supporting character. He was basically
Speaker 1: put in Sonic the Hedgehog three as an intimidator because
Speaker 1: it's powerful abilities and people saw that. You was like,
Speaker 1: he is cool, don't take him away from us, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, just like a Curatoryama. He was like all right,
Speaker 1: and then he wanted to throw in Madonna. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess, or who would have been big at the time. Well, sorry,
Speaker 1: it's we have just one other care. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: a bunch of Sonic characters, but just one other one
Speaker 1: that I wanted to mention was Amy Rose, who is
Speaker 1: a pink anthropomorphic hedgehog which driven competitive personality who's infatuated
Speaker 1: with Sonic. She serves as the first playable female character
Speaker 1: in the series. What we forgot to mention his knuckles
Speaker 1: or maybe you did. Knuckles was introduced in Sonic the
Speaker 1: Hedgehog three. When you guys are doing this Roger, are
Speaker 1: y'all ever in the same room? Getting to when we
Speaker 1: did a Sonic Boom the animated series, we recorded as
Speaker 1: an ensemble cast, and it was always a ton of fun.
Speaker 1: It was always a blast, so fun. We really did
Speaker 1: have a lot of fun making that show. Um. But
Speaker 1: but for video games it's almost always you're always going solo.
Speaker 1: Is that a typical for a lot of cartoons though
Speaker 1: about it just depends. So a lot of them did
Speaker 1: Powerpuff Girls in the same room too, we did, uh yeah,
Speaker 1: you know my good friend Natalie Palamedia, Yes, who's extremely
Speaker 1: funny and talented show No, but I've heard about her
Speaker 1: solo show. Kate mccuchi, who I work with Unity Kid,
Speaker 1: who wanted me to go she went and supported Natalie,
Speaker 1: and seeing that now that she was describing it, I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's just incredible. But it makes such good sense. I mean,
Speaker 1: Natalie's amazing. Yeah, that's friends, well, well, you know friends, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know keep going to that. Well, yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: go to the discount ben and find Rosses now that
Speaker 1: you know, just with that one, I think that it's
Speaker 1: time that we take a break. We let people recuperate. Awkward,
Speaker 1: Yeah we will. We will catch you after this break
Speaker 1: and we're back and Roger is still here. Thanks. I'm
Speaker 1: happy to sneak out. I didn't leave. He didn't sneak out.
Speaker 1: I haven't gotten my parking validated. That's hilarious. We're going
Speaker 1: to talk about video games, but I wanted to know
Speaker 1: what games you must have some of the Sonic games.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously you wor them, but like, what are
Speaker 1: your do you have any favorites or that you're currently
Speaker 1: playing or that you still you know what, I'm not
Speaker 1: currently playing anything Sonic related to this. I know. I'm
Speaker 1: excited to see Ralph breaks the internet and he Sonic
Speaker 1: in that, um, but no, I'm not. I'm not playing.
Speaker 1: In fact, I've had to kind of like like my
Speaker 1: my gamer card has been revoked. I mean I just
Speaker 1: today like updated my Xbox and I was like, man,
Speaker 1: I haven't played this thing in so long. So you're
Speaker 1: a busy working man, I know. But it's also just
Speaker 1: like it's just sad, you know that I haven't been
Speaker 1: gaming as much as I once did. Um, have you
Speaker 1: ever thought of like going on Twitch playing Sonic as
Speaker 1: Sonic I was doing something? No, but I did. I
Speaker 1: did do a joke reasently I said, I think I'm
Speaker 1: heavily considering doing a twitch of me playing um Windows
Speaker 1: Solitaire while uh filming someone else's feed while they're playing
Speaker 1: Solitaire on like Windows, and I'm gonna live stream or
Speaker 1: I'm gonna Facebook live the entire thing via periscope. Just
Speaker 1: trying to do like literally just do like a show
Speaker 1: within a show show kind of thing. No, I actually
Speaker 1: this is an interesting thing. Like whenever anybody asks you
Speaker 1: to do something like in the character, it's always like,
Speaker 1: I don't own Sonic the Hedgehog, and it would I
Speaker 1: would imagine I'd probably get myself into some pretty serious
Speaker 1: hot water if I was to say, hey, voice of
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, a character that I don't own is
Speaker 1: going to do the character while playing the game. And
Speaker 1: so I try to be you know, and then yeah,
Speaker 1: and then also like yeah, because the company is so
Speaker 1: big versus like, you know, people who have kind of
Speaker 1: gotten away with it is like, you know, Mercer will
Speaker 1: do like McCree and Saga is like, well, we're gonna
Speaker 1: ask say of Japan and say of Japan's like nope,
Speaker 1: tell you right away their first responsive very likely Nope.
Speaker 1: That was such a knowing quick responses. You people never
Speaker 1: think about that, like like I've had you know, we
Speaker 1: get this conventions and stuff come up and like, you know,
Speaker 1: can you say as they're holding there, they're they're already recording,
Speaker 1: you know, phone in front of you that And it's
Speaker 1: usually like somebody that they don't like who has a
Speaker 1: YouTube channel that Yeah, we say that Sonic lover too
Speaker 1: four nines YouTube sucks and you hate him. I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, and do it in your Sonic was like no,
Speaker 1: just go No, I'm not going to do that, and
Speaker 1: like I'll say something like you gotta go faster. You
Speaker 1: know that I've already said before. Yeah. Oh it's funny,
Speaker 1: like I caught some back on the Blue Carpet, the
Speaker 1: Red Carpet. Ralph breaks the Internet for a Variety had
Speaker 1: asked me to in the Sonic Voice encourage people to
Speaker 1: go vote, and people like, oh, no, Sonics getting political.
Speaker 1: I'm like, there's nothing political about people. That's the funniest
Speaker 1: thing too, is where it is like, yeah, when people
Speaker 1: get mad. I was like, no, that's that is the
Speaker 1: one thing that you that is a completely nonpartisan is
Speaker 1: saying vote because just just enact, you're right, but an American.
Speaker 1: But I'm very aware of the fact that I'm always
Speaker 1: like doing this. You're you're a part of something much
Speaker 1: bigger than what you are. So yeah, he was like,
Speaker 1: you know, in the character's blue, so he's trying to
Speaker 1: his shoes are red. What is he saying? Make red
Speaker 1: shoes great again? I love the Internet. How we get
Speaker 1: off on that? Sorry, we just don't worry. That's me Okay,
Speaker 1: I forget what the original question was. What was put
Speaker 1: if you played the video game video games? What video
Speaker 1: games do you have played? So I play all of them.
Speaker 1: As soon as I've done something, I'll play all of
Speaker 1: them and I'll go back game, even play the retro ones.
Speaker 1: I've played the mobile versions of stuff. Because it's just,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's interesting to see how how it changes,
Speaker 1: how it grows and continues to kind of you know,
Speaker 1: And that was sort of the impetus behind Sonic Boom
Speaker 1: and and rise of lyric and uh man, I'm already
Speaker 1: blanking on the other the handheld version. Um that that
Speaker 1: that title, but is that they wanted to kind of
Speaker 1: make it a little bit more contemporary. So that's what
Speaker 1: we're trying to kind of do. And I'm glad you
Speaker 1: brought that up because I do have some things to
Speaker 1: say interesting. Yeah, I'm actually a sonic lover. LVR seven
Speaker 1: channels sucks. Um. But now there's some real cool things
Speaker 1: about Boom being contemporary and how I've seen a lot
Speaker 1: of Boom without actually seeing Boom because a lot of
Speaker 1: things have went viral because of how cool and contemporary. Yes,
Speaker 1: and that's all the writers. It's like, it's like those
Speaker 1: guys like doing all the really funny memes and playing
Speaker 1: with the you know, breaking the fourth wall and that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. Yeah, there's been a few that have
Speaker 1: gotten really viral, which was a lot of fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: knuckles right his hat when he was woke. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was hilarious. That was hilarious. And that's all that's pure writing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you your performance adds to it, you know, I
Speaker 1: want to give So that's how I mean if somebody didn't,
Speaker 1: I mean, he had to use a very comedic character.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I had one question, I think
Speaker 1: before you go on you do you still collect sonically?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, to this day, or like in general of
Speaker 1: the characters that you voiced, do you still like if
Speaker 1: you go to comic connor You're like, I gotta get
Speaker 1: this for sure, for sure, let's go. We're gonna take
Speaker 1: a step out in our difference for a few sex
Speaker 1: to go and if if corn real quick, if he's yeah,
Speaker 1: Because y'all may not have known this, but I was
Speaker 1: out on the Blue carpet with with right with Danny
Speaker 1: because she was thriving, and that's when I actually first
Speaker 1: met our man's here and actually we were chatting and
Speaker 1: what Roger was stepping on the blue carpet woad with
Speaker 1: were the Puma Sonics that I actually took an l
Speaker 1: on the Puma Sonics. They did a pack drop where
Speaker 1: they had the Sonic and knuckles um and you had
Speaker 1: the Sonics and I was like so jelly because I
Speaker 1: wanted him so bad, and they dropped that comic Con
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, did you have you got a parent? No,
Speaker 1: I'll cop them on stock X especially Okay, we're not
Speaker 1: gonna would look adorable but I have giganto. I'm rather dainty.
Speaker 1: So that was a lot of fun that was actually
Speaker 1: to be totally honest too. For for walking the carpet,
Speaker 1: I had contacted my pr lady and I had said, hey,
Speaker 1: I've got these shoes that I was nice enough to
Speaker 1: be given like I'm like a year ago, like months ago.
Speaker 1: I guess it would because it was it around. It
Speaker 1: was Diego Comic Con. Yeah, so it was this year's
Speaker 1: comic com that they dropped. Okay, so we're talking June
Speaker 1: right July. But I got it. I got him before then.
Speaker 1: I know what I got him. You know, I think
Speaker 1: I think they might have been last year's coming. And
Speaker 1: I wasn't expecting him. It wasn't anything that it was like,
Speaker 1: you know, yes, I'd like my free pair of shoes.
Speaker 1: It came in a huge box, um all because and
Speaker 1: so all, and I was like, I'm never gonna wear
Speaker 1: thesee we're gonna wear these, like I gotta wear him
Speaker 1: to some fan event or that kind of thing. In
Speaker 1: all of sudden, and I was getting the word that
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to go to Ralph breaks the Internet
Speaker 1: and I went the shoes and I contacted the pr people,
Speaker 1: and I said, like, we gotta find a way of
Speaker 1: like really making these shoes pop. But I'm like, I
Speaker 1: want to dress snazzy but have like the have the
Speaker 1: Sonic the Hedgehog shoes and so literally it was everything
Speaker 1: was everything was built from the ground up around those shoes.
Speaker 1: You are right, yeah, exactly. That was all his designers shoes.
Speaker 1: Just in case you didn't, Okay, Yeah, they dropped on
Speaker 1: the twelfth of June for the retail price of one
Speaker 1: thirty on stock X and my size they're currently going
Speaker 1: for three. Are they really ye? Yep, I might need
Speaker 1: to like sign like brand for the sure. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: were not. They be devalued at that, you know, like
Speaker 1: Rogers signed or twelve dollars. So it was so funny
Speaker 1: when we stepped out when we were doing the blue
Speaker 1: carpet or whatever for Ralph, because I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't want to go in the fan area. I don't
Speaker 1: think yeah, if he was, like, you'd be surprised. And
Speaker 1: I stepped out of the car and it was like
Speaker 1: Danny and so people wanted me to sign their poster.
Speaker 1: People wanted me to sign their posters, and I want
Speaker 1: to be like, I feel like I'm ruining it. I'm
Speaker 1: not Sarah Silverman, I'm not Gal. Um. Yeah, so I
Speaker 1: signed their poster and it's it's funny because I don't
Speaker 1: know if you've been in the same predictar. I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, you are the voice of Sonic and I'm
Speaker 1: just voicing myself in it for like a minute or two.
Speaker 1: But um, what's funny is when I go on these
Speaker 1: podcasts and people would be like one of the stars
Speaker 1: of what's the Internet? I own it? Own it? You are?
Speaker 1: You are me and Galgadote are the stars too, Rag
Speaker 1: p Henson and Danny Fernandez. Um if he did? You
Speaker 1: want to go over some of your favorite games? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're just going to do a quick dash through the
Speaker 1: games because there are so many, and I just want
Speaker 1: to talk about the like huge influential ones, uh instead
Speaker 1: of just going through all of them that have spanned
Speaker 1: from to this very year. Uh. So you had, you
Speaker 1: know Sonics one and two. Two was the game. I
Speaker 1: feel like it was the staple game, the spin Dash,
Speaker 1: the one everyone played, and then three took it up
Speaker 1: a notch by introducing Knuckles, because really, that's a third
Speaker 1: character in this franchise that you now get to play.
Speaker 1: You're able to play as uh Tales or Miles if
Speaker 1: you want to be Danny when you with the second player,
Speaker 1: and they would be able to run besides you. So
Speaker 1: that was like the two player aspect. I think the
Speaker 1: next big game in the series actually came after Sonic
Speaker 1: and Knuckles. I didn't realize these were back to back.
Speaker 1: I always felt there was so much time between them,
Speaker 1: and there was a Sonic and uh Sonic the Hedgehog
Speaker 1: three dropped four years later, we get Sonic Adventure, and
Speaker 1: Sonic Adventure came out for the Dreamcast, and it was
Speaker 1: a moment because because the Dreamcast was was hot at
Speaker 1: the time. It was the reason people, Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: the reason people bought Dreamcast. And then it introduced that
Speaker 1: like Dreamcast used to have this uh I forget the
Speaker 1: name of it, but it was like a yeah that
Speaker 1: you would put in and you would put the what
Speaker 1: is it? The chow's the chows from the game, and
Speaker 1: you'd be able to take care of it outside of it.
Speaker 1: So basically all this like all the kids going crazy
Speaker 1: over the Pokemon, the Pokey Ball, plus that you could do.
Speaker 1: It was like we've been on that since since the Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're sounding like old crotch that canters. So there were
Speaker 1: great games after that because you had um Sonico six,
Speaker 1: Yeah that was that was when your emails. Yeah, oh man,
Speaker 1: well I'm not gonna no, No, you're right because you're
Speaker 1: mentioning the whole thing. Because Sonic fans, which I used
Speaker 1: the term loosely because this isn't very fan is a
Speaker 1: fan centric way to act oftentimes will say that Sonic
Speaker 1: Adventure or Sonic Adventure two was the last good game.
Speaker 1: Whatever Sonic they like was the last. But one thing
Speaker 1: everyone kind of did agree with was Sonic which one
Speaker 1: was it? Yes, Sonic Rush for the d S, which
Speaker 1: was not on this list, which makes me smarter than
Speaker 1: the internet. Uh, Sonic Rush was super fun and in
Speaker 1: it you you played at Sonic and also your your
Speaker 1: counterpart was what was her name, Blaze the Cat, Blaze
Speaker 1: the Cat. And it was a very fast paced, fun game.
Speaker 1: It was, and everyone agreed, because you know, I hate
Speaker 1: when I really like a game and everyone's like, no,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't like it. It's like that. Luckily that didn't
Speaker 1: happen with this game. Everyone liked that it had had
Speaker 1: a fun story, it looked great, it was such a
Speaker 1: blast Sonic Rush, But then those knuckles in that, I mean,
Speaker 1: how could you enjoy that if your favorite I like you,
Speaker 1: I guess I guess you're kind of cool. Super cool
Speaker 1: that you got that you got to play Sonic and
Speaker 1: Super Smash Brothers. Yeah, so cool again, like getting to
Speaker 1: be a part of something like this, Like those things
Speaker 1: just sort of like kind of fall into your lap,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It's like it's one of
Speaker 1: the things that kind of and it's like a crossover
Speaker 1: absolutely same thing with the same thing with with you know,
Speaker 1: record around Ralph. Yeah, a sudden, it was like somebody
Speaker 1: called up and they're like, yeah, Disney wants it for something.
Speaker 1: I was like for what this thing record Ralph? And
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, what what a what am I doing?
Speaker 1: They're like you're doing Sonic. I'm like, no, something's wrong,
Speaker 1: Like no, I don't think you know. And then showed
Speaker 1: up and they're like yeah, we we we we wanted
Speaker 1: sound like the Hedgehog and they're like you got to
Speaker 1: use our guy And I was like all right, really
Speaker 1: so because that was gonna be my question on the
Speaker 1: meta side. Was it a them hitting you up and
Speaker 1: you needing permission, but so they wanted Sonic and Saga
Speaker 1: was like I would imagine it was a licensing thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's how that works. Um, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously I'm a brilliant voice actor and they
Speaker 1: were lucky to have me regardless, and it's just pure
Speaker 1: luck that the licensing. No. I actually think that that, um,
Speaker 1: with most of those characters. I think that they mandate that,
Speaker 1: if you know, because when you think about something like
Speaker 1: you know, Disney doing a record Ralph with all those
Speaker 1: different video game characters, I think if they're gonna say,
Speaker 1: we're gonna use your guys or gals, we want to have,
Speaker 1: you know, the characters beyondest because they had Kylie Bars,
Speaker 1: we you That's what I was gonna go to. Now
Speaker 1: is it seems like you're in secause you're Insanega's Wheelhouse.
Speaker 1: Now they're like your your Sonic, your son I mean
Speaker 1: until I'm not. Once they see you take a selfie
Speaker 1: with Mario, there you go, it's like, oh he's doing
Speaker 1: and he's he's as the character. We don't allow that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh. But yeah, that was pretty much the games.
Speaker 1: And then you know, the first Sonic series that we
Speaker 1: referenced with Julio White was the height of like nineties
Speaker 1: game fever, when we had your Super Mario movies, when
Speaker 1: you had the Super Mario TV show, They're like this,
Speaker 1: you need a TV show because games are popping right now.
Speaker 1: But then after that you got I think there was
Speaker 1: the Sonic anime series before X. Yeah, Sonic X. Yes.
Speaker 1: I remember Sonic X because Sonic X was one of
Speaker 1: those shows that were I was a little too old
Speaker 1: for it at the time. It came out two thousand four,
Speaker 1: two thousand five, which means I was a junior uh
Speaker 1: in high school, and I was like, you know how
Speaker 1: old you're but they had video games back. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I was in it though. I was like, look, I
Speaker 1: don't care what people say. I love Sonic, a Sonic anime,
Speaker 1: let's go. But then then we got the Sonic series
Speaker 1: that that everyone's talking about. Did I skip? Was it
Speaker 1: Sonic Extan Sonic Boom? I'm not crazy? No, yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: I was under my fourth wife. I think at the
Speaker 1: time that the Sonic extras coming out, so you know, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: using that. Oh that's funny too. I'm trying to look
Speaker 1: up Sonic Boom while we talk about it, and of
Speaker 1: course I got videos of Fighter Chain, funny Sonic Boom. Ye,
Speaker 1: Sonic Boom cartoon that might be a little better, but
Speaker 1: we're so we're going to get into Sonic Boom right
Speaker 1: after these messages and we're back. So, actually, Roger, I
Speaker 1: have a question, when did you first audition for Sonic
Speaker 1: Like ever, I guess it would have been two thousand
Speaker 1: nine ish. I remember getting any you know what it
Speaker 1: was for? It was it was literally for the games.
Speaker 1: Did you know it was Sonic? Yeah? Yeah, So you
Speaker 1: went and you signed an NDA and then they started
Speaker 1: showing you like video clips of previous versions that have
Speaker 1: been done, from game clips to to some of the
Speaker 1: anime that had already been done, that kind of thing,
Speaker 1: so that you could have an idea of like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're trying to do this. And then it was just
Speaker 1: working with um Jack Fletcher was our director at the time,
Speaker 1: and he just you know, you you you go in
Speaker 1: and just standard audition, you know, it's like you sign in,
Speaker 1: you put your name on the list, and you get
Speaker 1: called in and they say, okay, we're trying to do
Speaker 1: this and you say, oh, how about this one? You
Speaker 1: know we'll do will its sounds too done? You go,
Speaker 1: how about that voice? It's too easily too high? You know,
Speaker 1: And then and even then we still will play around
Speaker 1: with it to this very day. But yeah, it was
Speaker 1: I would say it was probably two thousand nine, and
Speaker 1: then the game was coming out in two thous ten,
Speaker 1: and they someone from Sake of America had sent me
Speaker 1: the heads up like, hey, we're gonna announce your name
Speaker 1: today like twelve noon, like PST or something like that,
Speaker 1: and I was like okay, and They're like, just wanted
Speaker 1: to let you know, and I'm like, why what does
Speaker 1: that matter? And the like you might you might get
Speaker 1: some and I mean like a like twelve oh one PST.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, I was starting in this like
Speaker 1: you know, like you know, people going, he sounds too old,
Speaker 1: because oh yeah, it didn't matter like they here because
Speaker 1: you know, you're a voice actor, so they'll hear you
Speaker 1: doing different things. And at that point I think I
Speaker 1: would have done like Chris Redfield, you know, and it's
Speaker 1: like and they were like, how can Chris Redfield voice Sonic?
Speaker 1: And then there was this when we teach you about
Speaker 1: voice act Yes, this Alton Towers voice leak from the
Speaker 1: from over in the UK, there was a hotel that
Speaker 1: had a sonic themed room and apparently some of the
Speaker 1: files that we had sent over like they literally like
Speaker 1: they're there's sorounded lower like, so all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: the sonic voice it was like sugg all the controls
Speaker 1: And I was like, that's that's gotta be a like
Speaker 1: either a pal NTSC conversion issue or something. I was like,
Speaker 1: that's not how we recorded it. But yeah, so that's
Speaker 1: how it goes, and you just you still play around
Speaker 1: to this very day with the voice. So yeah, dude,
Speaker 1: that's nine I say. It was when we first auditioned
Speaker 1: for Oh man, that's so crazy because sometimes I'll do
Speaker 1: a voice over audition and I'll do some weird thing
Speaker 1: where like somehow I get it out of register that
Speaker 1: I've never did and I was like, oh, I hope
Speaker 1: I don't get this. You have to be aware of
Speaker 1: that too. You have to be aware of that when
Speaker 1: you go into like everything that you'll do certain voices
Speaker 1: and you go, I can't sustain that for four hours
Speaker 1: and not be shredded. So yeah, that's how how it's
Speaker 1: how it goes. But let's talk about sounding moon, because
Speaker 1: I do remember the day because the big thing that
Speaker 1: people talked about more than anything, the one thing I
Speaker 1: heard before even stuff about your voice was the handkerchief.
Speaker 1: Split I was team Handkerchief. I liked it. I was like,
Speaker 1: that gives them a little little flavor. But some people
Speaker 1: were so mad history. Some people were so mad about htory. I.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love the handkerchief. And one thing
Speaker 1: I do love, stay on brand. Here's y'all makee knuckles
Speaker 1: nice and thick. Was a thick boy. He was like
Speaker 1: he was He was like, I was like, this dude
Speaker 1: lifts like talking about fan he's got tight hamstrings or something,
Speaker 1: or he's just like I can't, you know, I can't.
Speaker 1: And then he had the arm wraps and like, dang
Speaker 1: knuckles so tight. Even the straps around the shoes. People
Speaker 1: were like, that doesn't even make any sense. Why would
Speaker 1: they have like sport tape around their feet because they
Speaker 1: would just like shred that up. You know, which is
Speaker 1: a really funny thing for us to even consider, is that,
Speaker 1: like people have this like visceral reaction at times to
Speaker 1: to like anything changing with characters. You're talking anthropomorphic hedgehog
Speaker 1: is so unrealistic, dude. But yet I get it too.
Speaker 1: I understand that, like, you know, like these are characters
Speaker 1: that that oftentimes we've we've grown up with or that
Speaker 1: we just feel like and and it's weird to think.
Speaker 1: And I've actually Bill Freiberger, one of the other writers
Speaker 1: on the Sonic Boom series, basically said that we can't
Speaker 1: we can't retroactively harm anything that you loved, let's say,
Speaker 1: fifteen years ago. We can't harm anything that you experienced
Speaker 1: back then with what we're doing now. But you have
Speaker 1: to understand that the joy that you had in something
Speaker 1: back then needs to be polished and done a new
Speaker 1: for a more contemporary audience if you want to have
Speaker 1: that thing adapt and be sustainable. So it's kind of
Speaker 1: like it's a tricky it's a tricky thing, so I think,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's and it's a ton of people
Speaker 1: working on it. So yeah, And I think it is
Speaker 1: the thing of like people not understanding that the demo
Speaker 1: that it's for is not them and that there are
Speaker 1: proven things that are creatively what you're nostalgia is being
Speaker 1: based off of. It's not like people are like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is just a nostalgigraph it's like, no, it's actually
Speaker 1: not for you, which is why you're mad about it,
Speaker 1: because the changes that are being made are to apply
Speaker 1: to what this new demo wants. You know. I think
Speaker 1: one of the biggest things I think people kind of
Speaker 1: crap on is the new Team Titans. Uh, it's not.
Speaker 1: It's the people love that. People love the movie, but
Speaker 1: people hate it. Like if you're on Tumblr, people are
Speaker 1: constantly doing everything. Yeah, that's the thing. But then but
Speaker 1: then that's that was my point. Teen Titans go. It
Speaker 1: has a fan base that loves it so much the
Speaker 1: same way that found successful, and it just irks the
Speaker 1: people that don't like but it's not the original Teen Titans, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that can't be. You can't just keep cranking out the
Speaker 1: same thing or you're going to get like then the
Speaker 1: franchise dies and then you don't get to enjoy a
Speaker 1: new version of it or introduced it to somebody who's
Speaker 1: younger or that kind of thing. So it's it's a
Speaker 1: it's a tricky the plus everybody thinks that everything is
Speaker 1: being done for them and if I don't like it,
Speaker 1: now we have this outlet where you get to go
Speaker 1: on and go like that's not my blankety blanket. You know,
Speaker 1: I think it's cool that both exists, though, Like that's
Speaker 1: how I feel about Shira, That's how I feel about ThunderCats.
Speaker 1: It's like everyone like the animation, like no, I think
Speaker 1: it's really cool that we have um two verse of it.
Speaker 1: Like I want to be in a world I want
Speaker 1: to see, like you know, same with my franchise. I
Speaker 1: want to see like different people taking the stab at
Speaker 1: it and I want people to be taking risk because
Speaker 1: its opposed to like giving us the same recycled. That's
Speaker 1: how I feel about Whenever people talk about like it'll
Speaker 1: never be Heath Ledger's joker, I'm like, GOODREDI did it.
Speaker 1: I don't want to see someone trying to do that.
Speaker 1: I want to see someone doing their own taps. And
Speaker 1: also everything I don't care, like how wonderful a film is,
Speaker 1: Like there's so few things that really still stand up.
Speaker 1: Really you have to always go back and take it
Speaker 1: with a little bit of like, oh, that was a
Speaker 1: different time when the comedy was a little slower, the
Speaker 1: animation wasn't available, or that kind of thing. And it's
Speaker 1: like so you, I know you have have this like
Speaker 1: nostalgia of any given thing. But when you go back
Speaker 1: and watch some of the stuff, like some of the
Speaker 1: original Star Wars and you go, oh, how funny this
Speaker 1: was in the seventies. Yeah, oh wow, this is in
Speaker 1: the eighties, and you just know you have to look
Speaker 1: at and go like, it's not the nostalgia that I
Speaker 1: had when I watched some of that stuff as a
Speaker 1: little boy. Is awesome and it's it's amazing that it
Speaker 1: had the impact because it was able to conjure up
Speaker 1: so much in me with an imagination. So you have
Speaker 1: to find a way of doing that same thing for
Speaker 1: an audience that's a little more savvy or a little
Speaker 1: more with a shorter attention span or whatever. So it's
Speaker 1: like you can't just keep cranking out the same thing
Speaker 1: where it dies because it doesn't find a new audience
Speaker 1: that's so smart and true still doesn't stop people from
Speaker 1: going like, but that sucks and it's not my man,
Speaker 1: but it must be so cool to have. At least.
Speaker 1: The one thing I like about comic Con is it's
Speaker 1: people face to face, and so it forced like people
Speaker 1: would never probably say that, you know to your you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, but like that it must be
Speaker 1: nice to have you know this, different generations of fans
Speaker 1: coming up to you. And it's also it's it's nice
Speaker 1: when you get a chance to I mean even even
Speaker 1: these things, like you get a chance to kind of
Speaker 1: like express to people like, guys, there's nobody that's involved
Speaker 1: in these things. I have yet to work with somebody
Speaker 1: on any franchise that I've ever been a part of
Speaker 1: who says, man, I can't wait to make this game
Speaker 1: suck or make it or just ruin this character for everybody.
Speaker 1: Everybody got it exactly when he goes into a trying
Speaker 1: to do but it's really really difficult because to keep
Speaker 1: something viable you have to adapt, and to adapt means
Speaker 1: you're gonna violate the sensibilities of someone somewhere that wants
Speaker 1: it the way that it used to be. And it's like, well,
Speaker 1: you can't do that. You constantly have to evolve. And
Speaker 1: so when you get a chance to kind of talk
Speaker 1: people down and go guys, nobody in that room was
Speaker 1: trying to do anything, you know, to to irritate you specifically,
Speaker 1: and it's like you have to understand, take your own
Speaker 1: head out of your own butt and think about what
Speaker 1: other people might be experiencing with it and you understand there, like, hey,
Speaker 1: the scarf was a choice to kind of let me
Speaker 1: bring them into a little bit more of a contemporary
Speaker 1: fuel or give them a little bit more of an
Speaker 1: Indiana Jones kind of a vibe. And this was more
Speaker 1: about adventure and fun and comedy with you know, with
Speaker 1: with the sonic boom rise of lyric game um, and
Speaker 1: so you know that that requires a little bit of
Speaker 1: an update because if we were just stick with the
Speaker 1: same old character, it wouldn't look right. You can create
Speaker 1: that world and plug something old into it. So it's yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, hey, some people all the time, all the
Speaker 1: people some all the time. He couldn't have his girlfriend
Speaker 1: Madonna and be Bill Clinton. No exactly. I think Mr
Speaker 1: needle Mouse and be Bill Clinton. Oh we're getting emails.
Speaker 1: We don't like this Bill Clinton thing. Now that we're
Speaker 1: wrapping up. I don't want to make you dance for us,
Speaker 1: but if you could, what do I don't dance dance
Speaker 1: for us, but dance. No. It's funny because when we
Speaker 1: had kylie Bert, who's the voice he's the voice of
Speaker 1: for you and go on in DBZ, and we're like, oh,
Speaker 1: could you do the voice? If you did it. We're like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I always feel bad whenever I do
Speaker 1: like a voice in front of us. In fact, I
Speaker 1: even did on that Variety thing they're The guy that
Speaker 1: was hosting on the car was like, he was like,
Speaker 1: what is what a sonic sound like? Could you do
Speaker 1: you know, like the voice and to voice like I
Speaker 1: don't even know what he sounds like. And I was like,
Speaker 1: you better get out there and you know, go vote.
Speaker 1: And then like just before they cut it, I look
Speaker 1: at it go it's basically that shrill, annoying thing. And
Speaker 1: people are like Roger thinks sonic is shrill and annoying.
Speaker 1: I was like, man, that's a grown man, and it's
Speaker 1: your voice. Here's the thing too that I feel is
Speaker 1: even harder for your a comedian. So you're always going
Speaker 1: to go for the funny something exactly. And And one
Speaker 1: thing is, look, I say this would love nerds are
Speaker 1: not the never get that like you do that, Like
Speaker 1: they're just like you're trying to well. Doing it in
Speaker 1: person is always awkward, like as a grown up because
Speaker 1: they see me and they're like, oh wow, okay, like
Speaker 1: that's why I closed my eyes, And especially with little
Speaker 1: kids and that kind of thing I've said to people
Speaker 1: like like I've been at like you know, birthday parties
Speaker 1: and something somebody come in and go, hey, my my
Speaker 1: kids a really big fan of like you know, give
Speaker 1: a mass a cookie or something like, so we want
Speaker 1: you to do the voice, and I was like, I
Speaker 1: can tell you right now, if you've not explained to
Speaker 1: them that grown ups have jobs where they do this,
Speaker 1: have them turn around, or let me go around the
Speaker 1: corner and call you on your cell phone and we'll
Speaker 1: do it that way, because this ruins the illusion, and
Speaker 1: I'm I get so I'm so conscious of that. I
Speaker 1: would just feel bad because I'm like, you know, like
Speaker 1: I've been going gray since I was in high school,
Speaker 1: and it's like, so here's this character like e c O.
Speaker 1: When when the girls asked like, I'm not Italian five five,
Speaker 1: I've got no tan. It's not gonna this is not
Speaker 1: gonna go out for you. So I'm always conscious that
Speaker 1: Carrie Fisher said the same thing that people would like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's Princess Leia and they would like bring their kids
Speaker 1: up and then they would just cry because they're smoking cigarettes.
Speaker 1: Like this was before also like Force Awakens and stuff,
Speaker 1: so like during those decades when the only other Princess
Speaker 1: Leia was her. When she was much younger, she was like,
Speaker 1: people like the kids would come up and be like, Grandma,
Speaker 1: you know I'm princess and I get it. I get it,
Speaker 1: so but yes, what would you like me to say? No,
Speaker 1: I mean you did it. He's YouTube channel is is
Speaker 1: horrible and yeah, listened to Nernificent tag. Danny Fernandez ruined
Speaker 1: my life. He did. We just have you close out
Speaker 1: the episode. At the end of every episode, we just
Speaker 1: say stay near, but he has to plug. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: are we ending it right now? No? No, We're not
Speaker 1: ending it right now. I was just letting to know
Speaker 1: what we usually ask. Okay, cool, but what do you
Speaker 1: want to play? Right there? People find social just Twitter
Speaker 1: and Instagram or is at Roger Both are at Roger
Speaker 1: Craig Smith my full name, No d R O G
Speaker 1: E R c R A G. Smith. Um, and uh
Speaker 1: and visit the Roger Smith Hotel in New York. I hear,
Speaker 1: and I think you should really support them. You had
Speaker 1: me going. I was like, were going to visit? No,
Speaker 1: and I Facebook. I've got on there, but I'm I'm
Speaker 1: mostly on Twitter. I like I prefer Twitter for the
Speaker 1: interaction there. Excuse me, Um, you play another Roger, you
Speaker 1: play Steve Rogers. Yes, we didn't captain America. I mean
Speaker 1: I did say that he's a man of a million voices,
Speaker 1: So I think I encapsulated that A Black Panthers Quest
Speaker 1: is airing on Disney XD right now, Yeah, which is phenomenal.
Speaker 1: The writing on that is so epic, it's so good.
Speaker 1: You guys have to check out that series. We've got
Speaker 1: you a Kitty on Cartoon Network, got Bent on Cartoon Networks.
Speaker 1: Thorn the show run Jeff Thorn is Yeah, I've not
Speaker 1: seen Jeff about a while, but yes, Jeff's awesome. That's
Speaker 1: a that is a lovely human being. But let me know,
Speaker 1: if you're doesn't want to take let me know, how
Speaker 1: dare you take to take jobs? You should be in it.
Speaker 1: I mean you can play your family like you have
Speaker 1: that accent down because that is your family. Yeah well
Speaker 1: well then, well then what kind of accidents very wispy
Speaker 1: like these where the Nigerian X is very rough? Ah yeah,
Speaker 1: so there's like a clear and I appreciate that that
Speaker 1: it isn't just generic Nigeria. It isn't Will Smith and
Speaker 1: concussion shots fired. You know, will Smith come at me?
Speaker 1: I jump into the canyon too. He's too busy on
Speaker 1: Instagram right now. He's being exactly. He's literally going what
Speaker 1: if he's saying about? And then you have another Sonic
Speaker 1: game that's dropping twenty nineteen. We do. We thought it
Speaker 1: was coming out earlier, and that's okay, exactly. You know,
Speaker 1: UM is the official name Sonic Team, Racing Team, Sonic Razing.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, jeez once again at Roger Craig
Speaker 1: Smith and uh um. But yeah, so we got another
Speaker 1: game coming out and I'm not in it. But they've
Speaker 1: got the big Sonic the Hedgehog CG movie that's coming
Speaker 1: out in I think that comes out in nineteen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't remember that summer. I think they're they're shooting
Speaker 1: for things. Yeah, November with Jim Carrey will be playing
Speaker 1: crazy Man. I'm very excited. I want to see his UM.
Speaker 1: I want to see that new show that he has
Speaker 1: on show. Yeah. I wanted to witers Cody Heller, She's
Speaker 1: it looks real good. It was bizarre to even think
Speaker 1: that we're talking about CG, a live action CG Sonic
Speaker 1: the Hedgehog film coming out like for a like massive audience,
Speaker 1: like to think this many years later that the character
Speaker 1: is still niconic. It is. I mean, we got a
Speaker 1: cloth are There's so many things we could talk about.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, you also were in the Olympics, right,
Speaker 1: they've done the Olympic Games, like the Sonic character. I
Speaker 1: didn't do anything. I don't think there was any voice
Speaker 1: associated with that. But on your IMDb, is it really yeah? Funny?
Speaker 1: Oh no, are you thinking about they go to the
Speaker 1: Olympic Games kind of thing? Like there the mascott they
Speaker 1: might have been. I feel like he was, Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: So I was going to say, because um, Goku Mario
Speaker 1: has been an Olympic mascot, and Goku has also been
Speaker 1: Olympic mascot, and I think that they had. I was
Speaker 1: looking on your IMDb and it looks like, okay, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you got paid for it, Roger, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's listed. It's been like a Macy's Thanksgiving Day
Speaker 1: blue like stuff like that, right, right, And it's weird
Speaker 1: to think that, like, you know, and it's really funny
Speaker 1: because I always say in my job that like when
Speaker 1: somebody if you get on an airplane somebody ask you
Speaker 1: what you do. Rarely do I even say I'm a
Speaker 1: voice accurate because anything I heard of and you're only
Speaker 1: is legitimate and good is anything they've ever heard of
Speaker 1: but never heard of anything. But it's like you be
Speaker 1: shocked because it depends on the person. Even with like
Speaker 1: old ladies, I'll say sound like the Hedgehog and they go, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not the little Blue Feller like, and then it's like,
Speaker 1: my mom funny, and then it always falls up with
Speaker 1: this he talks so funny. That is funny, just about
Speaker 1: that conference. I remember when I got hird for at Midnight.
Speaker 1: I was so hype to go on at uber and
Speaker 1: be like yeah, because because you know, you'll be like
Speaker 1: I'm a comedian to be writer and they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: you've done anything on it. So I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I right for at Midnight on Comedy Citral and he
Speaker 1: was like, what show is that? Exactly? Yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: you just I just go like, people, what do you do?
Speaker 1: I'm a teacher third grade love the Little Buck story.
Speaker 1: It was so funny. I took my mom loves Jimmy Fallon,
Speaker 1: as moms do, and took her to um the Tonight
Speaker 1: Show and Brian Cranston was on and he comes out
Speaker 1: and she was like, oh, the dad from Malcolm in
Speaker 1: the exactly. Oh, you would love this story. You would
Speaker 1: love this story. As a result of the Regular Show thing,
Speaker 1: I know, we're trying to get out of here and
Speaker 1: it's only gonna take twenty minutes. Uh. I brought my
Speaker 1: mom to a recording session of Regular Show many many
Speaker 1: years ago, and Mark Camill worked on that show with
Speaker 1: us the entire time and it was great. He was
Speaker 1: pop or skips, uh skips and all sorts of gosh.
Speaker 1: So that was Mark Cambell doing like you know, skits idea.
Speaker 1: And so I, I, you know, bring my mom into
Speaker 1: the session. We're in the waiting room, um, waiting to
Speaker 1: go into the studio, and in walks you know, some
Speaker 1: of the co workers and guess I thought I'm introducing
Speaker 1: her in walks Mark and you know, hey Roger, and
Speaker 1: I was like, mom, Mark, you know, this is my mom.
Speaker 1: Karen like, Karen, this is this is Mark Cambell. And
Speaker 1: she goes nice to meet you, and he's like nice
Speaker 1: to me and he couldn't have been he was. He
Speaker 1: just like you knowed a hand him like, you know,
Speaker 1: money right there. He was like, your son is this
Speaker 1: and he's the nicest guy right. Then he walks off
Speaker 1: and I look at my mom and I go, you
Speaker 1: know what that was, right? And she goes and he
Speaker 1: said this Mark Hamill and she goes Dorothy Hamill's brother.
Speaker 1: And I literally was like, yeah, um, I'm freaking out
Speaker 1: about introducing you to Dorothy Hamill, the Skater's brother. I
Speaker 1: was like this Luke freaking Skywalker from the Star movie.
Speaker 1: I was like, yea exactly, And I was just like,
Speaker 1: there you go, that's the reality what we do is.
Speaker 1: That's why it's like, it's just it's a blessing to
Speaker 1: be a part of it. But it is kind of
Speaker 1: you know, like to be a part of anything. But
Speaker 1: but to think that Sonic is so ubiquitous in so
Speaker 1: many ways that like globally because look were this is
Speaker 1: show business. Somebody went that character is recognizable enough if
Speaker 1: we plug in the right celebrities and the right people
Speaker 1: in that kind of thing, we can make a movie
Speaker 1: that could could become a financial success. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: Sego was more than happy to say like, yeah, further's
Speaker 1: the you know, that's why it's not like, people go like,
Speaker 1: are you irrigated that you're not in? And I was like,
Speaker 1: I didn't think that I was going to be in
Speaker 1: that from the get go. Let alone in Cameo or anything.
Speaker 1: It's like it was just it's a different entity. And
Speaker 1: yet people when I say to people, I go, I'm
Speaker 1: you're still but you're also still voicing him because it's
Speaker 1: still as far as I know, yeah, as far as
Speaker 1: the next games coming out. But but but I always
Speaker 1: looking at it. Yeah, but we're a part of something
Speaker 1: too that like that will help further the franchise, and
Speaker 1: so why would I be against it. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: getting a versions of Captain America and Batman and all
Speaker 1: kind of stuff, So yeah, there's gotta be something for everybody.
Speaker 1: I love. It was that inspirational. Yeah, I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: I am there's a Latin American pop star, Carol Savia,
Speaker 1: and she's voicing me in the Spanish version of Ralph
Speaker 1: Breaks the Internet because she's singing a song for Ralph
Speaker 1: Breaks the Internet And I am not a Latin American
Speaker 1: pop star that has like eight million followers, and she
Speaker 1: is more famous for playing me than I am for
Speaker 1: playing me. She announced that she's playing Danny Fernanez. I
Speaker 1: don't think she knows that I'm a person and not
Speaker 1: just a character. But people are like, how come you
Speaker 1: didn't voice her? Like and I know, like I only
Speaker 1: have three lines I could easily do in Spanish. But
Speaker 1: I was like, I think it's because she's a Latin
Speaker 1: American pop star and she's in like she's from the
Speaker 1: Disney Channel, so when they're doing those, I'm not known
Speaker 1: in Latin America, like I mean, I'm Mexican, but like
Speaker 1: she's bigger, she's eight million followers, So yeah, I was.
Speaker 1: I was more like, this is really cool and weird
Speaker 1: that she's voicing me, Like that's that's it's so meta.
Speaker 1: I think people don't like to think of this as
Speaker 1: a business though, too, like because these are the things
Speaker 1: that they love when they connect with on a certain
Speaker 1: level that they don't they don't like to think of
Speaker 1: the commerce aspect of it. But again you have to
Speaker 1: look at and go if the commerce fails, so does
Speaker 1: everything you love about this. So it's a it's a
Speaker 1: weird makes for strange bedfellows, as they say, and it's
Speaker 1: a it's a weird dance that you have to do.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like you know when people start looking
Speaker 1: at that, going, oh, they're trying to hit certain markets. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they have to so different than like somebody back in
Speaker 1: nineteen nine or eighty eight walking with his sketches of
Speaker 1: Mr Needle Mouse and asking people on the streets in
Speaker 1: New York what do you think about this? Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: because if you like this, if you think this is cool,
Speaker 1: we want to get something that appeals to as many
Speaker 1: people as possible. People don't like hearing that, because after all,
Speaker 1: this is for me, and I don't like it. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get rid astertly worded now in Sonic's voice,
Speaker 1: this is for me it dr rig Head. Thank you
Speaker 1: Roger again for coming on. I am Danny Fernandez. You
Speaker 1: can catch both of us in Ralph Break's Internet which
Speaker 1: is currently out, and uh follow Roger on Twitter for
Speaker 1: all of his announcements. Yes he has a lot of
Speaker 1: announcements me if you way on Twitter and Instagram, I
Speaker 1: f y d E if he's on Twitch. Lots of
Speaker 1: NERD fam chopped in the stream. Some of you all
Speaker 1: rated me. Thank you so much. Keep up the love.
Speaker 1: You'll probably hear Roger on stream as I play some
Speaker 1: soul Caliber six with my main sick free Oh man,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's my main stufton shelfton. So so that's
Speaker 1: that's that's our boy. When you hear me getting tossed
Speaker 1: up while I try and get good. Uh, Danny, you
Speaker 1: got anything coming up? Did you already say? What's coming
Speaker 1: up for you? I think so? Just follow me on Twitter.
Speaker 1: That's where in oh my book, Yeah, I was announced.
Speaker 1: Um so I got to finally announced and share. I
Speaker 1: was very honored to write in The Good Immigrant, which
Speaker 1: was actually a collection of essays from actors and writers
Speaker 1: of color as a book that came out in the
Speaker 1: UK a couple of years ago that riz A Med
Speaker 1: very famously wrote, and I think his essay was called
Speaker 1: Airports and Audition Rooms. It's basically talks about what it's
Speaker 1: like to be a creator of color when you're only
Speaker 1: wanted or appreciated when you're famous or whatever. I was
Speaker 1: asked to contribute in the American edition, and so we
Speaker 1: just announced that. Um, I'm very excited for everyone to
Speaker 1: read my essay. There's also a ton of very talented
Speaker 1: writers of color that contributed, and that is dropping March
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, but I tweeted out the book cover today,
Speaker 1: noise Yeah. I think that's it. I think that we
Speaker 1: need to say what we always say, iffy yeah. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you feel you're stuck in second gear when it hasn't
Speaker 1: been your day, your month, your week, or even your year.
Speaker 1: I'll be there for you when the rain starts to
Speaker 1: fun to do. I don't even know where the clops
Speaker 1: are where we already a joke. You broke your love life,
Speaker 1: went away staying stay near to y'all. Thanks for listening.