WEBVTT - Episode 35: Sonic the Hedgehog 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:14.120 Hello, everybody, it is me, if you want away had 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:18.040 again popping it off, kicking it off to another episode 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:23.080 of Nerdificent, and sitting across from me as always is 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:29.320 Roger Craig Smith. It's Danny Fernandez, and we are joined 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:32.720 up top by a man of a million voices. I 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:35.159 think I can say a million voices a thousand. I 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:37.120 bet you don't even know the actual account of all 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:39.920 your voices, but um, we specifically brought him on today 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:43.120 because we're covering Sonic the Hedgehog. Who he is and 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:46.160 has been for many years. It is Roger Craig Smith. 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:49.280 Do you actually know the number of people that you voiced? 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:52.919 I have knew it. Somebody pointed out, like a long 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:56.000 time ago, one credit on on the show Regular Show 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:58.000 on Cartoon Network that I think it was behind the 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:01.520 voice behind the voice actor's website. They had it listed 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:03.240 that I had done a hundred and seventy eight characters 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:07.840 on that show, which sounds impression, but it's it's like eventually, 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:11.560 like Taco Vendor number four and like school bus guy 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:14.480 and you know, like random you know, like you know, 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:17.360 mall Patron, they all kind of stay. It's like, dude, 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:20.760 what all the same thing, but it was kind of funny. 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:22.200 I went, wow, that's kind of crazy, and I was like, 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:24.440 that's going to go on my bio. It's like in 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:25.920 one production a lumb But I have no idea. I 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:28.040 have no idea. Oh my god, did your voice on 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:33.840 regular show? I didn't. I was I was Choppers, Thomas 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:37.800 the intern. Oh man, um not what's the name? I 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:40.080 was gonna say Baltazar? But is it balt Tazar? What 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:43.039 was it? Oh man? There's there were so many it was. 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:45.800 There was seven seasons for me out of their eight seasons, 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:47.520 I was in seven before they went to space and 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:51.680 my guys survived. But so yeah, it was Thomas and like, 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:55.720 oh just a whole mess of characters and so much fun. Yeah, Garrett, Garrett, 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:58.880 Bobby Fergus and Giant Beard Faced Jr. Yeah, it was 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:02.040 a blast. I love we're going on that show. So 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:06.800 this is just a just nerdy, almost insidery baseball question. 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:10.640 But when you started, where you always Roger Craig Smith 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:13.320 or where you Roger Smith? And SAG was like, we 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:16.080 we got them. Not only that was Roger Smith before SAG. 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:17.959 Because I went to go register my name when I 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:20.760 was doing stand up. I want to go register my website, 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:22.040 and I was like, I'll just go with Roger Smith 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:25.280 dot com. That's a hotel. There's a hotel in New 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:29.760 York City called the Roger Smith Hotel. Gosh, I guess 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:31.160 it is like a really nice place. I have to 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:34.160 go stay there. I'm like, yo, I'm checking in. Um 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:36.480 but no, so that was taken and uh. And then 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:38.640 eventually what ended up happening is I was going to 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:41.639 go with like Roger C. Smith and and they said, no, 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:44.920 that's too much like Roger Guenevere Smith. Who Roger G. Smith. 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:48.440 You want to hear another really funny story about that. 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:52.080 He Uh. Someone told me this years after I had 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:55.360 already been narrating, UM say us with the dress right that. 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:57.200 They said, you know you weren't the first narrator for 0:02:57.200 --> 0:03:00.560 the show. And I was like, yeah what and they go, actually, 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:03.160 we've never even I don't know, we didn't tell you this, 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:05.959 but they said, somebody got their wires crossed at the 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.480 network and it was all your auditions and all kind 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:09.800 of stuff. But when they went to go book it, 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:13.720 they saw Roger C. Smith and they booked Roger G. Smith. 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:16.400 So he showed up and they're like, and they had 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:18.639 him do like one episode or two episodes before. The 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:19.920 people on the other end of the line were like, 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:23.120 he sounds so different, and I think he must have been. 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:25.600 I guess they just really love my work because he's 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:27.600 a gifted actor and anything. It seems like a very 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:30.679 nice man. I've never met the guy, but that this 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:32.880 ambiguation of Roger G. Smith too close, So they said, 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:35.840 you can go with Roger Craigsmith. So that's what no 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:39.720 wonder sack sag wanted me to be, um Danny Murrie 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.440 Fernandez and I said no, and I was M Danny 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:46.360 M Fernandez because there's another Danny Fernandez d A N 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:48.560 N Y and I don't know what he's doing with 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.520 his life that he ruined mind. Yeah, that's the crazy 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:53.280 thing about it is it could be someone who like 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:59.040 did like you know, all my children like one, but 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:01.560 because they're in it, they locked down that name. Yeah, 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.400 I hope to work because he's a dude. So I 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:06.640 hope they don't confuse you know what I mean. I 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:08.880 don't know if they don't think. So I was gonna 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:11.080 see what should go with like hashtag Danny Fernandez ruined 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:14.480 my life, but since audio could you know, it's like, 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.520 why we'll see what happened is I was yeah, so 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:20.880 I they were like, I was like, I can't keep 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:22.719 my name, and they were like, just go with Danny Murray. 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:25.560 So I did. And then I was just afraid because 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:27.159 I'm friends with people like I don't know, if you 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:30.400 know comedian Jessica Michelle Singleton, she goes by Jessica Michelle, 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:32.760 And I was afraid people would call me Danny Murray 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:34.160 like that would I don't know, do people call you 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:38.080 Roger Craig, I get Craig, I get I get Robert Smith, 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:40.960 which is hilarious. I'm like the singer from The Cure, 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:44.800 not quite so I do cry. Yeah, So I was 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:48.120 essentially scared that So now I'm Michael B. Jordan. I'm 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.800 like a Michael J. Foxx. Yeah, it's goo scenario. It's 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:54.840 funny because I never knew. That's why that exists so 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.239 much like the three name thing and what is based 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:59.280 upon the union basically saying that we don't want the 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:02.719 confusion for yeah, well you're a you're an actual because 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.360 they always say that might happen, but you have now 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:07.599 proven that that does. In fact happen. So I probably 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:12.200 I told you about Brian Branson, right, Brian Branson. I 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:16.520 have a buddy who's stage name is Brian Branson because 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.280 he he had that situation happened where he had to 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:22.479 change his name. But everything he submitted that just kept 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:24.760 being like Nope, you can't, No, you can't. He was like, 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:28.080 all right, well Brian Bryanson, and they're like that's actually available. 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:32.159 He was like, all right, let's go with it. Brian, Brian, 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:37.440 Brian Branson. Yeah, but that's sad. Danny Danielson, Dannie Danielson, 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.880 we're talking about Sonic the Hedgehog. Yes, oh, man, Sonic 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:44.960 you know that was That was probably my second game 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:48.120 because everyone start with Mario then Nick True then got 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:53.680 the Genesis True Knuckles dude. But yeah, no, it was. 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:57.360 It was great. Roger, what was your first earliest memory 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:00.480 of Sonic? Uh, you know what, probably being seeing it 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:02.919 in a store, like in a store because you know 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:06.760 the sixteen bit blast processor and all that kind of stuff, right, 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:09.560 it was it was. I mean you would see that 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:12.560 side scrolling game like on a like demo mode or 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.120 something at a toy store and I just remember thinking, man, 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:17.440 that's fast. I mean, it really was one of those 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:19.080 things that you just went that I've never seen video 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:22.880 games move that quick, because even Mario Brothers was still 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:25.960 relatively slow as far as the side scrolling in comparison 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:28.880 and watching the whole screen move and watching the character like. 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:32.040 So I would say it was probably my first exposure 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:35.000 and my first memory that I know was seeing like 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:38.160 a demo mode of of Sonic the Hedgehog just playing 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:40.719 on like a tube TV somewhere and just going, dang, 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:44.000 they're getting quick. Um. Yeah, I didn't have a genesis 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:49.520 growing up until I was in my early twenties. My 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:51.679 brother I think they had one at like the Why 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.599 that we used to play at, and then my brother 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:56.840 got when my brother, my older brother always got all 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:58.560 the cool like I got, like Barbie dolls and like 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:01.039 Barbie houses, and he would get all the gaming consoles, 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:04.520 which then I would like common deer um And that's 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:08.159 why I am the way I am now. Um. But no, 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:10.320 I mean really, if my parents hadn't gotten it for him, 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:13.400 even though that's very sexist whatever, um hadn't gotten it 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:15.360 for him. He also remember when he got a Super 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.880 Mario sixty four. Remember him getting Sonic the Hedgehog. Uh 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:21.800 and playing that, but um, if we wanted to get 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:26.400 into how Sonic the Hedgehog came to be Sonic If 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:28.560 you have been living under a rock and don't know 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:32.080 who he is? UM is technically a media franchise that 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:34.840 was created and produced by Sega. It started as a 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:38.960 video game franchise centering on a series of speed based 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:43.960 platform games where Sonic, the protagonist is an anthropomorphic blue 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:49.080 hedgehog with super sonic speed. Yes, typically Sonic usually along 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:51.320 with some of his friends such as Tales, Amy Knuckles, 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:54.920 who will get into and a must stop antagonist Dr 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:59.840 Eggmund's plans for world domination. Yeah, she didn't read that. 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:04.000 She literally was locked with the entire time. She just 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:07.320 memorized all of that. That's amazing. But the funny thing is, 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:09.880 like he calls him Eggman, but that's the nickname. His 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:14.840 name is Dr Robotnick. Do we know the initial name 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:18.440 of Sonic? Have we got that that far back? See 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.160 the concept of it? Kind of like how like what 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:24.200 was it? What was it? Like Mickey Mouse started off 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:29.800 with the first Disney character was Yeah, it was the Rabbit. Yeah, yeah, 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:35.000 the Rabbit. Um. I always heard that the The initial 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.160 name was Mr. It was based on a sketch that 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:42.480 one of the creators did of Mr needle Mouse. Yeah, 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:45.400 I think it's called Mr Needleman was his name. I think, Yeah, 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:48.920 I should know this. Why that became I don't know, 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:52.040 but sorry, so knuckles you were saying, I interrupted. You 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:58.079 know I was given Dr Robotico. Please Roger, anytime that 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:00.560 you know anything, feel free to me. Do you guys 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:09.559 about this Trump stuff? Please act that's true. You should 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:12.680 come back on the plan political podcast that we have 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:18.640 here every day daily zite guys, five days a week. Um. So. 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:21.760 The first game in the series was released in one, 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:27.640 which Roger wouldn't see until what a decade later, sadly, 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:30.160 and I played it. I just never had I never 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:33.240 had my own console, Like, yeah, do you like play 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:37.120 it with like friends or yeah, my buddy Scott. My 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:41.720 buddy Scott had had to shout out to Scott. There's 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:43.880 always that one kid, I know, like, we didn't have 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:46.320 I don't know, I think I've said this, but my 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:49.920 family didn't have Mario Kart. We had Diddy Congressing. That's 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:53.240 my jam because I'm like, where the misfits where the 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:59.760 like rejected you know, um, lower class forgotten. So that's me. 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:03.640 My family had racing and the cool kids, you know, 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:07.480 playing the rich neighbors had Mario Kart. But it was 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:10.120 crazy because you know, Sonic was at the time the 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.839 mascot for Sega, and that's so that's what you got 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.520 Sega for the same way where you got like a 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:18.440 s and he has to play Super Mario. You had 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:22.040 the play Yeah. Yeah, you were the weird kid who's like, 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:23.839 I need to play that duck huck. I gotta put 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:25.560 my gun up against the screen, even though it doesn't 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:30.160 work that way because it's a camera. Um. But yeah, 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:33.719 so everyone who had a genesis was doing that. This 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.640 was you know, then Sonic drops three years after me 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:44.080 and Danny were born. Thanks guys, thanks for that. It's 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:47.559 a narrativeicent tradition for me to shoehorn some way to 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:50.440 see the distance of the origin of the topic from. 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:52.280 Now he's done it with things that have come out 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:55.400 in the fifties, he'll be like, and that was. Yeah. 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:57.160 What I was gonna say is what you were saying 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.920 is that it was Sega's mascot. It was actually a right, 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.120 but they wanted a rival to Nintendo's flagship character Mario, 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:06.319 and that's how Sonic came to be, and then it 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:10.480 successfully spawned many sequels and the series had a ton 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:13.920 of spinoffs. That has sold over eighty nine million physical 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:16.760 copies as of March twenty eleven, which is a long 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:21.200 time ago, crossed over to five billion dollars boeen and 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:25.720 as of ten, the series has shifted eight hundred million units. Now, 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:27.720 they just they just they announced that on their little 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:30.520 Sound like the Hedgehog Twitter account, which is very funny. 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:32.600 People should follow that. The actual sound like the Hedgehog 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:34.840 Twitter account is very funny. Do you know Alan Denton, 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:40.160 the writers used to work together. Yea, We used to Wait, 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.360 I'm only saying this because he tweeted this at when 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:45.800 I announced that I'm in Ralph Breaks the Internet, which 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:49.880 you are as well playing Sonic, reprising your role because 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:53.240 you were in the original record. Ralph Allen was like, what, Danny. 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:56.200 We used to write listicals together because we used to 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:59.400 write for like a comedy site which shall not be named, 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.880 when we were just you know, I'll speak for myself 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:06.719 struggling writers, and so we would write listicals like nine 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:13.199 Bridesmaid Fails. Is that the term for those things. Yeah, okay, cool, yeah, yeah, 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:15.720 because those things are addictive. Yeah, you get you get 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:17.880 on a good one. Oh man. Yeah, it's the worst 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:21.880 eighteen times Justin Bieber proposed in front of a Honda Civic. 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:25.880 I don't know. Oh man. There was a speaking of 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:29.840 listicles today in the BuzzFeed slack. We found someone put 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:33.000 an a I bought who like, read a whole bunch 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:37.840 of BuzzFeed articles and made their own BuzzFeed articles. And 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:40.319 everyone's like, you know, we we might have to use 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:42.960 some of these for the lest because I'll just read 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:47.559 off a few people recreate the secret lipstick easy veggie 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:52.160 packed veggies. BuzzFeed employees read for the first time, ten 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:57.599 people you won't believe actually exists. Yeah, exactly, And it 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:02.000 comes to the like ten this reasons you should eight 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:04.600 examples of its like I can't do that, oh man. 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:08.520 Addictive today, Yeah, you just get caught up so funny, 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:11.520 so much, so much. Allen was a writer on Sonic 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:14.800 Boom series that I was involved with. Yes, so the 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:20.320 franchise has gone on to be TV shows, anime, and 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:23.800 a comic book series recognized as the longest running based 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:28.760 on a video Game by Guinness World Records, and then 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:30.640 in two thousand five, Sonic was one of the first 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:33.240 game character inductees into the Walk of Game, which is 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:39.200 essentially the Walk of Fame, alongside Mario and Link. Nice Link, Link, 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:42.720 good old, good old Link people. What people don't know 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:50.720 is Link's name is actually Zelda. Interesting sag made Link changed. Yeah, 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:54.719 so there was there was an episode of I Love 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:57.720 Lucy that had Link. Yeah, you know, and so you 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:00.400 have to go Zelda. Yeah. So we are going to 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:02.560 move on to some of the characters for Sonic and 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:05.120 I have a whole list of what Sonic is. But Roger, 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:07.400 since you play Sonic, I thought it would be best 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:11.760 if you describe him his characteristics, his personality, like has 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:13.840 that changed through the years at all? Has he kind 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:17.000 of always been the same dude? You know what? I 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:19.240 don't know. I mean, I guess what's funny because my 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.440 first I always just think of like the the iconic 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.360 sort of like visual representation of Sonic. When you would 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:28.120 stop playing the game, if you left the character idle, 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:32.120 the foot would start tapping looking at you, like what 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:34.400 gives Let's go? So there was always that kind of 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:36.960 cocky kind of self assured sort of attitude, and we've 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:40.440 played that ever since. I've been voicing since two thou ten, 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:43.280 And when I went into go audition for it back then, 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:45.960 they were still showing some of the previous animation to 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:47.800 kind of give us an idea of like the character 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:49.880 would have been done, sort of like in Cannon kind 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:51.720 of thing, like this is where it's sort of this 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:53.960 is where the character kind of exists. We're trying to 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:56.320 keep it in that realm but do something a little 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:58.360 different in that kind of thing. So I don't know 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:01.760 that he's changed all that much. Although with Sonic Boom 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.240 we were playing more with like the comedic side of things. Yeah, 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:06.520 that's fun. It was more fun because you know, it 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:09.200 was you couldn't just have them fight every single episode 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:10.600 and have that sort of thing, so it was we 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:12.600 changed it for that. But for a lot of the games, 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:14.800 we've always just sort of stuck with the the sort 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.760 of hero who's cocky and self assured and has some 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:19.920 good little one liners and and but it's very loyal 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:23.120 to his friends and he's very likable. Yeah, Like, but 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:25.360 I feel like that's really important because I feel like 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.560 his cockiness could be I don't know, even your scene, 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:30.160 which we can't really talk about too much because I 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:31.440 don't want to spoil it, but even you're seen in 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:33.440 Ralph Breaks the Internet, he's still kind of that dude. 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:36.320 But I like la, like you love him cool, Yeah, 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.840 you're good. That would be the writing for one. But 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:41.680 then there's also yeah, there's a fine line. I mean 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:44.960 there's a fine line between like, you know, somebody who's 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:48.360 just arrogant versus somebody who's self assured or you know, 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:50.600 and but has a little bit of the jock kind 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:54.200 of cockiness to him. But I mean as a character, 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:55.680 he can back it up. You know, he's he's the 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:58.000 blue blur, so you can you know he's good. I 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:00.520 like the thing you pointed out, which is in the 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:03.120 game they had the foot tapping mechanism to kind of 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:05.200 give you an idea. And I think there was a 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:07.560 lot of character that you were able to see from 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:09.920 the first games because you had Sonic kind of cocky 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:13.360 running through beating up Dr robot Nick, and then you 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:16.560 had like Tales, who always seem so worried all the time, 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:18.720 who was the worry ward and he was like, no, 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:21.360 I mean no, you fell off, let me carry you. 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:24.720 Back up, you know, so, and then I feel like 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:27.440 the first time you got like a hard and fast 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:31.040 idea of the characters was Sonic Adventure, because that was like, 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:34.560 really the first time you're kind of interacting as certain 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:38.120 characters and you're able to choose, like Amy Knuckles tales 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:43.000 a big Cat Um, I think that's his name. If 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:45.720 I remember Big the Cat. Yeah, I was a big 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:51.240 cat cat, Big cat, Yeah, big gig the Cat. I mean, 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:54.960 then you had the early series too. I'm jumping around 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:57.680 a bit only because I want to ask this question, 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:02.360 how hard was it filling the suit of nineties sensation Jalil? 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.800 I mean, let's be honest, those shoes are constantly exponentially 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:12.479 ever expanding fell those shoes. Uh, you know, like like 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.199 that's that's the that's always an honor to get to 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:17.440 voice any character that's been done, even by somebody who's 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:20.040 done it before you. And and we're talking about something 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:22.840 that's lasted for so many years now sort of be 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:24.840 a part of that legacy is like it's just cool. 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:27.240 I mean, and and it's not as if I walk 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:30.640 in every day going like how would Jalil do? But 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.280 it's also yeah, exactly, I probably should I mean, maybe 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:36.760 the fans would like it better. No, Um, it's uh 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:38.520 that that to me is like one of the neatest 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:41.600 little sort of like legacy or aspects to this legacy 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:44.080 is just kind of going man Urkel started off doing this. 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:47.040 This is kind of cool because it's like, yeah, it's uh. 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:48.760 And I've talked to somebody who recently said, like, oh, 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:50.679 I know, I know Julia. I should ask him, like, 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.320 you know, what what it was like. And sometimes it 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:54.919 would be fun to get like, you know, Jason and 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:57.360 Ryan and Jalil and everybody together and kind of sit 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.640 down and be like a podcast someday, my gosh, talk 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:03.000 about it. But the Sonic heads, yes, the fan base 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:06.920 might go insane with that. But yeah, the Sonic Roundtable, 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:12.639 the Sonic down keep tapping a going round round and around. Uh. 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:15.640 And that's a good segue into that feature being introduced 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:18.639 in Sonic the Hedgehog too, which is crazy because I 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:21.639 always remembered always being able to do that. But no, 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:25.159 the down tapping a where you spin and get that 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:28.040 boost was actually introduced in Sonic the Hedgehog to spin 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:34.399 dashin s. Also, Sonic the Hedgehog two was the introduction 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:39.960 of miles. Yeah, yes, and I didn't know this, but 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:44.119 it was miles power is a play on miles per hour. 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:53.280 Look me and Rod, are you really today years old? Roger? What? No? No, 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:56.719 it's like yeah, meaning like today is the day you 0:18:56.800 --> 0:19:02.879 learned that? Oh yeah, I know that something new to ye. 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:07.560 I mean what's even crazier too, is like that you 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:15.879 said his government name? Who someone is? Yeah, that is 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:19.600 a that is a thing that as I get older, 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:23.320 I'm learning isn't something everyone says, but like growing up 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:26.240 like in Compton Long Beach or just anywhere where people 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:28.840 have nicknames if you say their real names, like you 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:32.080 call me by my government name, funny, they want to 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:37.320 be called by their Yeah. Yeah, Tales is who was 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:41.560 referring to miss That's that's when Tales would be, like, Yo, 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:43.720 why you called me by my government should have been 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:47.240 sonics name now when you think about its speed and Miles, 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:50.720 it should have been he should have been Miles the Hedgehobe, 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:55.679 Miles Prower the Hedgehog. I love it. So yeah. So, 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:59.000 while many individuals at Saya had a hand in Sonics creation, 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:03.000 it was actually programmer Eugen Naka and Naotoshima who was 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:07.680 an artist who were basically generally credited as the creators 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:11.359 of the character. Uh. Basically many results were coming from 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:14.399 from their experiments with different character designs because they were 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:17.639 trying to find Like we said earlier, a competition for Mario, 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:21.680 and one was like an armadillo, who was later developed 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:25.439 into Mighty the Armadillo, a dog which was like a 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:30.160 Theodore Roosevelt look alike in pajamas. So funny, dragon Ball 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:34.280 has the Theodore Roosevelt dog. Yeah, well he's a president. 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:37.560 Ah well, they went and took that. They're like, instead 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:47.880 of making Fdr Think just In looks, he was known 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:52.040 as Theodore the Roosevelt, but they used to actually Theodore 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:57.320 Roosevelt's design for Dr Robot. I do know that it 0:20:57.320 --> 0:20:59.760 makes perfectly good sense when you see the mustashion and 0:20:59.800 --> 0:21:01.840 he se him in the tub all the time. Oh no, 0:21:02.040 --> 0:21:05.880 that's taft. Never mind, I was gonna see. It reminds 0:21:05.960 --> 0:21:10.080 me of Potter from It's a Wonderful Life, Mr Potter. 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:15.920 It does, doesn't he Wilford Brimley from Like Cocoo. Yeah, 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:17.720 I can see that, um. And then they had a 0:21:17.840 --> 0:21:21.800 rabbit who would use the extendable ears to collect objects, 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:27.120 which was later incorporated to Restar. But then basically Nalo 0:21:27.200 --> 0:21:31.520 Joe took some of these uh internal designs with him 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:34.280 on a trip to New York City and basically wanted 0:21:34.320 --> 0:21:36.840 some feedback from random, random people on the street. That's 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:39.440 how they did it back in the day for art 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:44.120 and Twitter on the street which your art and then 0:21:44.160 --> 0:21:47.280 someone would take it from you and that was a repost. 0:21:47.320 --> 0:21:50.399 Is when someone stole your art and walked around asking 0:21:50.440 --> 0:21:57.280 people about tweet Yet what was a crime? Yea is 0:21:57.320 --> 0:21:59.639 now yeah? Yeah, and this and he was doing this 0:21:59.680 --> 0:22:02.480 instant park and then there was a writer who saw 0:22:02.560 --> 0:22:04.760 him doing this. I was like, this guy needs some friends. 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:07.399 And then next thing you know, he wrote the script 0:22:07.400 --> 0:22:13.000 of friends that was that's crazy. Yeah, I could tell 0:22:12.520 --> 0:22:18.920 we were going along. I was not yes, Andy, people 0:22:19.040 --> 0:22:22.720 like where is he going? But that's when we got 0:22:23.200 --> 0:22:26.280 So he showed people his designs of a spiky teal 0:22:26.440 --> 0:22:33.000 hedgehog code named Mr. Needle Mouse, said R because I 0:22:33.040 --> 0:22:35.879 believe it didn't translate directly into that wasn't there. I 0:22:35.920 --> 0:22:37.280 wanted to say that. I thought that was something in 0:22:37.359 --> 0:22:40.639 Japanese that became needle mouse like that, like it translated 0:22:40.640 --> 0:22:43.320 directly into I don't know about that, but I do 0:22:43.400 --> 0:22:46.119 know something like that. I'm sure the Internet will correct 0:22:46.119 --> 0:22:52.879 correct me. No, no, no, there's hashtag Danny Fernandez. However 0:22:52.960 --> 0:22:55.960 you want, so kit Soon, I think I'm saying that right, 0:22:56.119 --> 0:23:01.399 is a Japanese fox. That was That's what Miles is. 0:23:01.520 --> 0:23:04.640 So he's an eight year old kit Soon with two tales, 0:23:04.760 --> 0:23:08.280 hence the nickname Tales. I don't know you were close, Roger. 0:23:09.440 --> 0:23:11.439 We tried to get there. We're trying to make me 0:23:11.480 --> 0:23:14.080 feel better about this, but I say, let me go 0:23:14.119 --> 0:23:15.719 into the ethers and the Internet will just have their 0:23:15.720 --> 0:23:18.040 field day with me. I did want to say that. Yeah. 0:23:18.080 --> 0:23:20.959 So Sonic was detailed to have an end quote cool 0:23:21.359 --> 0:23:27.240 attitude represented of the United States at the time and 0:23:27.359 --> 0:23:31.880 nothing's changed. We're like, he reminds me of crop wom 0:23:31.880 --> 0:23:35.439 I for a high sea box like the He's like 0:23:35.480 --> 0:23:42.199 the epitome of Mr Cool or something. Sonic's blue pigmentation 0:23:42.280 --> 0:23:45.920 was chosen to match Sega's cobalt blue logo Very Cool, 0:23:46.320 --> 0:23:48.840 and his shoes evolved from a design inspired by Michael 0:23:48.880 --> 0:23:52.200 Jackson's boots, with the addition of the color red, which 0:23:52.240 --> 0:23:55.520 was inspired by both Santa Claus and the contrast of 0:23:55.520 --> 0:24:00.720 those colors on jackson album Bad Bad. Yeah, I guess 0:24:00.720 --> 0:24:03.840 that's why he's then it's just like what is cool 0:24:03.960 --> 0:24:11.040 in America? Yeah, Teddy Roosevelt Jackson, Michael Jackson's shoes. I 0:24:11.080 --> 0:24:12.840 thought I read something somewhere to where they were talking 0:24:12.840 --> 0:24:16.880 about the significance of that character of Sonic actually tapping 0:24:16.920 --> 0:24:19.600 his foot and looking at was the first time that 0:24:19.640 --> 0:24:23.800 they had seen like an actual video game character convey 0:24:24.240 --> 0:24:27.080 like a personality of sorts everything else up until because 0:24:27.080 --> 0:24:28.680 when you think about when you play Mario, you don't 0:24:28.680 --> 0:24:31.400 really you don't really feel like, oh, Mario is this 0:24:32.080 --> 0:24:35.320 It's just that's the character. Yeah, he was cool and 0:24:35.359 --> 0:24:37.359 even then, like early on and never even said anything, 0:24:37.840 --> 0:24:39.280 just kind of like you know, the early Sonic the 0:24:39.280 --> 0:24:41.840 Hedgehog character. But but it's funny to think, like, yeah, 0:24:41.840 --> 0:24:44.439 that would have been that would convey something of like 0:24:44.480 --> 0:24:47.199 a personality of this thing that you're playing, whereas up 0:24:47.240 --> 0:24:49.280 until that point we were sort of disconnected from what 0:24:49.320 --> 0:24:51.120 we were doing. Yeah, he's sitting there, He's like, Hey, 0:24:51.160 --> 0:24:53.920 I got places to be. Yeah was that Roger and me? 0:24:54.160 --> 0:25:00.200 People don't know exactly, so good crazy, somebody was gonna 0:25:00.200 --> 0:25:03.600 come in and write a theme song for friends. So 0:25:03.840 --> 0:25:07.040 good to see that seamless. You can work trends into anything. 0:25:07.080 --> 0:25:09.800 Really one thing I also like, as they said, his 0:25:09.880 --> 0:25:13.919 personality was based on then presidential candidate later President of 0:25:13.920 --> 0:25:18.240 the United States Bill Clinton's get it done attitude during 0:25:19.280 --> 0:25:23.000 presidential campaign. I'm gonna just leave the low hanging fruit there, 0:25:23.040 --> 0:25:28.320 but you know, you did have a get it done attitude. 0:25:29.560 --> 0:25:32.600 To help sell the idea to Saya's higher ups, Shima 0:25:32.680 --> 0:25:36.119 pitched the concept framed by a fictional fighter pilot that 0:25:36.200 --> 0:25:39.920 had earned the name Hedgehog due to a spiky hair, 0:25:40.119 --> 0:25:43.840 and not just because he's an actual hedgehog, because he 0:25:43.880 --> 0:25:48.080 was a fighter pilot who earned the game call sign Hedgehog. 0:25:48.240 --> 0:25:51.960 Oh yeah, oh man, goose was already taken. Yeah, it 0:25:52.119 --> 0:25:56.240 was like, gonna be the world. That's Sonic the Goose. Yeah, 0:25:56.600 --> 0:25:59.080 what was what's that? Like? What would that even sound? 0:25:59.119 --> 0:26:01.240 Talk to me Sonic? Um if you don't know if 0:26:01.280 --> 0:26:03.760 you know this, but the original concepts gave Sonic things 0:26:03.800 --> 0:26:05.720 and put him in a band with a human girlfriend 0:26:05.840 --> 0:26:10.080 named Madonna. Huh, I hope you're learning a lot about 0:26:10.080 --> 0:26:14.520 yourself here. Um. I love it. I love we love 0:26:14.600 --> 0:26:17.960 this lore behind Sonic. However, a team from Sega of 0:26:18.000 --> 0:26:22.560 America was like Nope, led by Madeline Schroeder, who calls 0:26:22.560 --> 0:26:26.000 herself Sonics Mother funny that I did not know that 0:26:26.040 --> 0:26:28.800 I did not know. Yeah, softened the character up for 0:26:28.800 --> 0:26:32.840 an American audience by removing those elements. M and Madonna 0:26:33.119 --> 0:26:36.359 sparked a heated issue with the Sonic team, and Naca 0:26:36.480 --> 0:26:38.199 later admitted that it was probably for the best. So 0:26:38.240 --> 0:26:40.719 that's how we got. We just wanted to have a 0:26:40.760 --> 0:26:45.359 girlfriend exactly, and Madonna and New Coke and whatever is 0:26:45.359 --> 0:26:49.239 super popular. I love it. He was going to be 0:26:49.240 --> 0:26:52.960 like Joe Magnello and True Blood or something. Um. And 0:26:53.000 --> 0:26:55.119 then so let me have Miles, which I don't want 0:26:55.119 --> 0:26:57.280 to pass over too much. It's his best friend again, 0:26:57.280 --> 0:26:59.960 like we said, Myles Power. Now that was going to 0:27:00.080 --> 0:27:04.280 stick with me for it right? Yeah? Sorry, So Tails 0:27:04.440 --> 0:27:08.480 was rated that Miles Tails Wait, Finkle is iron Horn 0:27:08.520 --> 0:27:13.679 iron Horn. Tails was rated the third most popular character 0:27:13.720 --> 0:27:18.119 in the franchise Sonic and Shadow and Official. Yes that 0:27:18.400 --> 0:27:21.960 is why you think second. I think second, hands down 0:27:22.800 --> 0:27:26.440 this new Shaw Shadow. Maybe it's because I was like 0:27:26.920 --> 0:27:33.720 older when Shadow came along would be but I was 0:27:33.800 --> 0:27:38.480 always like Sonic and Tales. But if if not Tales Knuckles, 0:27:39.400 --> 0:27:42.240 how is Knuckles getting beat out by Shadow Like this 0:27:42.320 --> 0:27:47.720 is definitely these kids in their roadblocks in Fortnite doing this, 0:27:47.359 --> 0:27:51.040 doing this thing? Um n kids. So the other the 0:27:51.080 --> 0:27:54.400 other main character, um Dr Robotanic, how would you describe 0:27:54.480 --> 0:27:57.080 him to people that don't know? We say this is 0:27:57.080 --> 0:27:59.680 a podcast for everyone, So even if people have never 0:27:59.720 --> 0:28:04.240 watched Sonic, he's he's oh gosh, he's the He's the 0:28:04.320 --> 0:28:07.720 Joker to Batman. He's the some people just want to 0:28:07.760 --> 0:28:10.919 watch the world burn. He's always out to just total 0:28:10.960 --> 0:28:14.879 global universal domination. He just wants to rule everything. And 0:28:14.880 --> 0:28:17.320 he's always got this evil army of robots, the things 0:28:17.359 --> 0:28:20.359 that he's creating, and obviously we've had fun with it, 0:28:20.680 --> 0:28:23.359 uh in Sonic Boom Universe with you know, they never 0:28:23.400 --> 0:28:25.600 always seems to work out all that well for him, 0:28:25.640 --> 0:28:29.320 but uh no, that's them. There are enemies, and that's 0:28:29.320 --> 0:28:31.520 a and he's just he's just a very very bad 0:28:31.720 --> 0:28:34.320 He was either hugged too much or not enough as 0:28:34.320 --> 0:28:37.440 a child, and he just wants to rule the universe. 0:28:37.880 --> 0:28:41.440 That's so fascinating because if he is the Joker to Sonic, 0:28:41.520 --> 0:28:44.880 that he technically loves him. I think he does secretly 0:28:44.960 --> 0:28:46.480 kick down No, I think I think there's a there's 0:28:46.480 --> 0:28:49.280 an affection there that's interesting. Jealousy maybe more than anything, 0:28:49.280 --> 0:28:53.520 maybe more jealousy than an actual affection. That's probably the 0:28:53.560 --> 0:28:58.320 deepest we've ever delved into the that's a relationship dynamic. 0:28:59.480 --> 0:29:01.640 Dr black Nick I was gonna say, that's what we 0:29:01.680 --> 0:29:06.040 do here, we do deep dives. And then Knuckles, who 0:29:06.240 --> 0:29:13.760 is it? Okay? Yeah, Yeah, he's basically I'll give you 0:29:13.760 --> 0:29:18.520 a rundown on Knuckles, basically the best character in the franchise. 0:29:18.880 --> 0:29:21.880 He's read my favorite color. We have someone right here. 0:29:22.280 --> 0:29:26.080 I'm white here. Look, I love you, Roger. I just 0:29:26.120 --> 0:29:28.960 love Knuckles more. He used his fist. I related to 0:29:29.000 --> 0:29:32.200 that as an angsty teen. I was like, yeah, and 0:29:32.480 --> 0:29:34.160 he had and his hair kind of had that emo 0:29:34.280 --> 0:29:36.960 swooped too. We know you're a huge fan of friends, 0:29:39.000 --> 0:29:42.560 friends all the time. Yeah, I'll be there for you. 0:29:43.200 --> 0:29:47.960 It's okay. I like that. Well played Knuckles debut in 0:29:48.240 --> 0:29:52.800 on The Hedgehog three after Dr Eggman tricks him into 0:29:52.800 --> 0:29:55.520 opposing Sonic and Tails see and that was like that 0:29:55.600 --> 0:29:58.480 first era of the bad guy who turns it out 0:29:58.480 --> 0:30:00.240 to be the good guy. This is like the cool 0:30:00.360 --> 0:30:06.560 version of a geta. Uh. He first became he first 0:30:06.600 --> 0:30:10.640 became playable, and Sonic and Knuckles, which was insane if 0:30:10.680 --> 0:30:14.920 you remembered it because Sonic and Knuckles was a cartridge 0:30:14.960 --> 0:30:17.760 with a cartridge slot in it because you're able to 0:30:18.320 --> 0:30:21.400 put the cartridge from Sonic three in Sonic and Knuckles 0:30:21.400 --> 0:30:25.840 in play Sonic three as Knuckles, which was wild because 0:30:25.840 --> 0:30:28.440 I was like doing that's tight and my parents the 0:30:28.480 --> 0:30:32.040 first form of inception game within a game. Yeah, uh 0:30:32.040 --> 0:30:34.760 it seems up with Sonic entails after learning of Eggmans 0:30:34.800 --> 0:30:37.920 trickery and and kind of goes to kick his butt. 0:30:38.320 --> 0:30:39.760 One thing I don't want to skip up when we're 0:30:39.760 --> 0:30:42.680 talking about Sonic that was real cool at least for me, 0:30:43.280 --> 0:30:46.960 is Sonic goes super sane. Yeah, because he gets the 0:30:47.080 --> 0:30:51.280 when he goes Supersonic, he gets gold. He has the 0:30:51.280 --> 0:30:55.040 the floaty hair. You know your franchise, In our franchise, 0:30:55.080 --> 0:30:57.520 I feel like I have a lot of overlapping fandoms. 0:30:57.560 --> 0:31:01.480 Like I see a lot of art for sure, Yeah, 0:31:01.520 --> 0:31:04.320 I see a lot of like Supersonic art, like super 0:31:04.400 --> 0:31:08.440 sayan Sonic art um. I also see a lot of 0:31:08.480 --> 0:31:14.840 other art I see a lot of pregnant Sonic and 0:31:15.360 --> 0:31:21.760 what you're talking if anything like that, this doesn't live 0:31:21.800 --> 0:31:25.280 on the internet. If I see it on my side 0:31:25.480 --> 0:31:28.960 of the weird Internet, I know that you're getting Sonics. 0:31:29.040 --> 0:31:34.200 Tumbler is very fascinating, Marie. You're making this, You're making 0:31:34.240 --> 0:31:43.240 this all Sonic devian Art, Deviant Art pictures. M But yeah, 0:31:43.360 --> 0:31:47.160 I will say, just like Vegeta, they overlaps. Continue. Knuckles 0:31:47.280 --> 0:31:51.480 was created by developer Takashi utah and never was intended 0:31:51.560 --> 0:31:55.160 to be more than a supporting character. He was basically 0:31:55.200 --> 0:31:57.680 put in Sonic the Hedgehog three as an intimidator because 0:31:57.720 --> 0:32:00.640 it's powerful abilities and people saw that. You was like, 0:32:00.720 --> 0:32:04.680 he is cool, don't take him away from us, and uh, 0:32:04.760 --> 0:32:07.520 you know, just like a Curatoryama. He was like all right, 0:32:09.560 --> 0:32:12.600 and then he wanted to throw in Madonna. Oh yeah, 0:32:12.680 --> 0:32:20.880 I guess, or who would have been big at the time. Well, sorry, 0:32:20.880 --> 0:32:26.800 it's we have just one other care. I mean, there's 0:32:26.960 --> 0:32:28.720 a bunch of Sonic characters, but just one other one 0:32:28.720 --> 0:32:32.160 that I wanted to mention was Amy Rose, who is 0:32:32.280 --> 0:32:37.959 a pink anthropomorphic hedgehog which driven competitive personality who's infatuated 0:32:38.040 --> 0:32:42.120 with Sonic. She serves as the first playable female character 0:32:42.160 --> 0:32:43.959 in the series. What we forgot to mention his knuckles 0:32:44.040 --> 0:32:46.560 or maybe you did. Knuckles was introduced in Sonic the 0:32:46.560 --> 0:32:50.160 Hedgehog three. When you guys are doing this Roger, are 0:32:50.320 --> 0:32:53.640 y'all ever in the same room? Getting to when we 0:32:53.640 --> 0:32:57.120 did a Sonic Boom the animated series, we recorded as 0:32:57.120 --> 0:32:59.160 an ensemble cast, and it was always a ton of fun. 0:32:59.160 --> 0:33:01.720 It was always a blast, so fun. We really did 0:33:01.760 --> 0:33:04.360 have a lot of fun making that show. Um. But 0:33:04.360 --> 0:33:06.880 but for video games it's almost always you're always going solo. 0:33:07.320 --> 0:33:10.080 Is that a typical for a lot of cartoons though 0:33:10.480 --> 0:33:13.560 about it just depends. So a lot of them did 0:33:13.600 --> 0:33:16.600 Powerpuff Girls in the same room too, we did, uh yeah, 0:33:16.800 --> 0:33:19.560 you know my good friend Natalie Palamedia, Yes, who's extremely 0:33:19.560 --> 0:33:23.400 funny and talented show No, but I've heard about her 0:33:23.440 --> 0:33:26.320 solo show. Kate mccuchi, who I work with Unity Kid, 0:33:26.320 --> 0:33:28.480 who wanted me to go she went and supported Natalie, 0:33:28.520 --> 0:33:30.560 and seeing that now that she was describing it, I'm like, 0:33:30.600 --> 0:33:33.320 it's just incredible. But it makes such good sense. I mean, 0:33:33.400 --> 0:33:41.240 Natalie's amazing. Yeah, that's friends, well, well, you know friends, Yeah, 0:33:41.560 --> 0:33:44.400 you know keep going to that. Well, yeah, I don't 0:33:44.400 --> 0:33:47.280 go to the discount ben and find Rosses now that 0:33:48.320 --> 0:33:50.160 you know, just with that one, I think that it's 0:33:50.200 --> 0:33:54.240 time that we take a break. We let people recuperate. Awkward, 0:33:55.040 --> 0:33:58.880 Yeah we will. We will catch you after this break 0:34:05.720 --> 0:34:10.160 and we're back and Roger is still here. Thanks. I'm 0:34:10.200 --> 0:34:13.600 happy to sneak out. I didn't leave. He didn't sneak out. 0:34:13.640 --> 0:34:17.719 I haven't gotten my parking validated. That's hilarious. We're going 0:34:17.800 --> 0:34:19.480 to talk about video games, but I wanted to know 0:34:19.520 --> 0:34:22.880 what games you must have some of the Sonic games. 0:34:22.920 --> 0:34:25.480 I mean, obviously you wor them, but like, what are 0:34:25.520 --> 0:34:28.760 your do you have any favorites or that you're currently 0:34:28.760 --> 0:34:31.719 playing or that you still you know what, I'm not 0:34:31.760 --> 0:34:36.759 currently playing anything Sonic related to this. I know. I'm 0:34:36.800 --> 0:34:39.840 excited to see Ralph breaks the internet and he Sonic 0:34:39.920 --> 0:34:42.799 in that, um, but no, I'm not. I'm not playing. 0:34:42.960 --> 0:34:45.440 In fact, I've had to kind of like like my 0:34:45.440 --> 0:34:47.399 my gamer card has been revoked. I mean I just 0:34:47.480 --> 0:34:49.839 today like updated my Xbox and I was like, man, 0:34:49.880 --> 0:34:51.640 I haven't played this thing in so long. So you're 0:34:51.640 --> 0:34:53.719 a busy working man, I know. But it's also just 0:34:53.760 --> 0:34:56.040 like it's just sad, you know that I haven't been 0:34:56.080 --> 0:34:58.880 gaming as much as I once did. Um, have you 0:34:58.920 --> 0:35:02.919 ever thought of like going on Twitch playing Sonic as 0:35:03.000 --> 0:35:05.920 Sonic I was doing something? No, but I did. I 0:35:05.960 --> 0:35:07.880 did do a joke reasently I said, I think I'm 0:35:07.920 --> 0:35:12.200 heavily considering doing a twitch of me playing um Windows 0:35:12.800 --> 0:35:19.680 Solitaire while uh filming someone else's feed while they're playing 0:35:19.880 --> 0:35:23.800 Solitaire on like Windows, and I'm gonna live stream or 0:35:23.800 --> 0:35:27.279 I'm gonna Facebook live the entire thing via periscope. Just 0:35:27.280 --> 0:35:28.959 trying to do like literally just do like a show 0:35:28.960 --> 0:35:31.640 within a show show kind of thing. No, I actually 0:35:32.320 --> 0:35:34.319 this is an interesting thing. Like whenever anybody asks you 0:35:34.360 --> 0:35:36.960 to do something like in the character, it's always like, 0:35:37.080 --> 0:35:40.560 I don't own Sonic the Hedgehog, and it would I 0:35:40.560 --> 0:35:43.360 would imagine I'd probably get myself into some pretty serious 0:35:43.360 --> 0:35:46.279 hot water if I was to say, hey, voice of 0:35:46.360 --> 0:35:48.799 blah blah blah, a character that I don't own is 0:35:48.840 --> 0:35:52.839 going to do the character while playing the game. And 0:35:52.880 --> 0:35:56.359 so I try to be you know, and then yeah, 0:35:56.440 --> 0:35:59.880 and then also like yeah, because the company is so 0:36:00.200 --> 0:36:03.560 big versus like, you know, people who have kind of 0:36:03.560 --> 0:36:06.759 gotten away with it is like, you know, Mercer will 0:36:06.800 --> 0:36:10.640 do like McCree and Saga is like, well, we're gonna 0:36:10.680 --> 0:36:15.120 ask say of Japan and say of Japan's like nope, 0:36:15.600 --> 0:36:18.280 tell you right away their first responsive very likely Nope. 0:36:18.360 --> 0:36:26.680 That was such a knowing quick responses. You people never 0:36:26.719 --> 0:36:28.520 think about that, like like I've had you know, we 0:36:28.600 --> 0:36:31.000 get this conventions and stuff come up and like, you know, 0:36:31.080 --> 0:36:35.160 can you say as they're holding there, they're they're already recording, 0:36:35.719 --> 0:36:37.520 you know, phone in front of you that And it's 0:36:37.560 --> 0:36:39.840 usually like somebody that they don't like who has a 0:36:39.880 --> 0:36:43.160 YouTube channel that Yeah, we say that Sonic lover too 0:36:43.239 --> 0:36:46.160 four nines YouTube sucks and you hate him. I was like, 0:36:46.360 --> 0:36:48.560 you know, and do it in your Sonic was like no, 0:36:49.040 --> 0:36:51.200 just go No, I'm not going to do that, and 0:36:51.280 --> 0:36:53.520 like I'll say something like you gotta go faster. You 0:36:53.600 --> 0:36:59.120 know that I've already said before. Yeah. Oh it's funny, 0:36:59.160 --> 0:37:01.880 like I caught some back on the Blue Carpet, the 0:37:01.920 --> 0:37:04.279 Red Carpet. Ralph breaks the Internet for a Variety had 0:37:04.320 --> 0:37:07.600 asked me to in the Sonic Voice encourage people to 0:37:07.640 --> 0:37:09.840 go vote, and people like, oh, no, Sonics getting political. 0:37:09.880 --> 0:37:14.600 I'm like, there's nothing political about people. That's the funniest 0:37:14.600 --> 0:37:16.959 thing too, is where it is like, yeah, when people 0:37:17.000 --> 0:37:19.000 get mad. I was like, no, that's that is the 0:37:19.080 --> 0:37:22.920 one thing that you that is a completely nonpartisan is 0:37:22.960 --> 0:37:29.000 saying vote because just just enact, you're right, but an American. 0:37:29.320 --> 0:37:30.880 But I'm very aware of the fact that I'm always 0:37:30.920 --> 0:37:32.799 like doing this. You're you're a part of something much 0:37:32.840 --> 0:37:36.600 bigger than what you are. So yeah, he was like, 0:37:36.680 --> 0:37:39.080 you know, in the character's blue, so he's trying to 0:37:42.160 --> 0:37:45.080 his shoes are red. What is he saying? Make red 0:37:45.080 --> 0:37:51.239 shoes great again? I love the Internet. How we get 0:37:51.280 --> 0:37:55.200 off on that? Sorry, we just don't worry. That's me Okay, 0:37:57.880 --> 0:38:00.200 I forget what the original question was. What was put 0:38:00.239 --> 0:38:03.319 if you played the video game video games? What video 0:38:03.360 --> 0:38:06.719 games do you have played? So I play all of them. 0:38:06.880 --> 0:38:08.600 As soon as I've done something, I'll play all of 0:38:08.640 --> 0:38:10.319 them and I'll go back game, even play the retro ones. 0:38:10.360 --> 0:38:13.400 I've played the mobile versions of stuff. Because it's just, 0:38:13.440 --> 0:38:15.880 I mean, it's it's interesting to see how how it changes, 0:38:15.920 --> 0:38:17.960 how it grows and continues to kind of you know, 0:38:18.000 --> 0:38:20.560 And that was sort of the impetus behind Sonic Boom 0:38:20.640 --> 0:38:24.680 and and rise of lyric and uh man, I'm already 0:38:24.680 --> 0:38:28.120 blanking on the other the handheld version. Um that that 0:38:28.120 --> 0:38:30.600 that title, but is that they wanted to kind of 0:38:30.680 --> 0:38:32.360 make it a little bit more contemporary. So that's what 0:38:32.440 --> 0:38:35.040 we're trying to kind of do. And I'm glad you 0:38:35.120 --> 0:38:37.319 brought that up because I do have some things to 0:38:37.360 --> 0:38:46.680 say interesting. Yeah, I'm actually a sonic lover. LVR seven 0:38:46.840 --> 0:38:53.439 channels sucks. Um. But now there's some real cool things 0:38:53.480 --> 0:38:56.799 about Boom being contemporary and how I've seen a lot 0:38:56.840 --> 0:39:00.480 of Boom without actually seeing Boom because a lot of 0:39:00.520 --> 0:39:03.759 things have went viral because of how cool and contemporary. Yes, 0:39:04.040 --> 0:39:06.919 and that's all the writers. It's like, it's like those 0:39:06.960 --> 0:39:10.280 guys like doing all the really funny memes and playing 0:39:10.320 --> 0:39:12.319 with the you know, breaking the fourth wall and that 0:39:12.360 --> 0:39:14.560 kind of stuff. Yeah, there's been a few that have 0:39:14.960 --> 0:39:17.680 gotten really viral, which was a lot of fun. Yeah, 0:39:17.960 --> 0:39:22.799 knuckles right his hat when he was woke. Yeah, that 0:39:22.920 --> 0:39:28.120 was hilarious. That was hilarious. And that's all that's pure writing. Yeah, 0:39:28.200 --> 0:39:31.200 but you your performance adds to it, you know, I 0:39:31.239 --> 0:39:35.840 want to give So that's how I mean if somebody didn't, 0:39:36.760 --> 0:39:38.640 I mean, he had to use a very comedic character. 0:39:39.680 --> 0:39:41.600 I was gonna say, I had one question, I think 0:39:41.880 --> 0:39:47.240 before you go on you do you still collect sonically? 0:39:47.280 --> 0:39:49.680 Oh yeah, to this day, or like in general of 0:39:49.719 --> 0:39:51.600 the characters that you voiced, do you still like if 0:39:51.640 --> 0:39:53.399 you go to comic connor You're like, I gotta get 0:39:53.400 --> 0:39:57.200 this for sure, for sure, let's go. We're gonna take 0:39:57.200 --> 0:39:58.919 a step out in our difference for a few sex 0:39:59.040 --> 0:40:02.040 to go and if if corn real quick, if he's yeah, 0:40:02.080 --> 0:40:04.440 Because y'all may not have known this, but I was 0:40:04.480 --> 0:40:07.880 out on the Blue carpet with with right with Danny 0:40:08.160 --> 0:40:11.560 because she was thriving, and that's when I actually first 0:40:11.600 --> 0:40:15.640 met our man's here and actually we were chatting and 0:40:15.960 --> 0:40:18.799 what Roger was stepping on the blue carpet woad with 0:40:18.920 --> 0:40:21.840 were the Puma Sonics that I actually took an l 0:40:21.920 --> 0:40:25.040 on the Puma Sonics. They did a pack drop where 0:40:25.040 --> 0:40:28.120 they had the Sonic and knuckles um and you had 0:40:28.120 --> 0:40:30.640 the Sonics and I was like so jelly because I 0:40:30.640 --> 0:40:34.319 wanted him so bad, and they dropped that comic Con 0:40:34.640 --> 0:40:36.880 Oh yeah, did you have you got a parent? No, 0:40:37.320 --> 0:40:43.759 I'll cop them on stock X especially Okay, we're not 0:40:43.800 --> 0:40:51.720 gonna would look adorable but I have giganto. I'm rather dainty. 0:40:53.840 --> 0:40:55.280 So that was a lot of fun that was actually 0:40:55.360 --> 0:40:58.280 to be totally honest too. For for walking the carpet, 0:40:58.280 --> 0:41:01.239 I had contacted my pr lady and I had said, hey, 0:41:01.560 --> 0:41:04.600 I've got these shoes that I was nice enough to 0:41:04.640 --> 0:41:07.680 be given like I'm like a year ago, like months ago. 0:41:08.120 --> 0:41:10.600 I guess it would because it was it around. It 0:41:10.680 --> 0:41:12.920 was Diego Comic Con. Yeah, so it was this year's 0:41:12.960 --> 0:41:15.320 comic com that they dropped. Okay, so we're talking June 0:41:15.600 --> 0:41:18.040 right July. But I got it. I got him before then. 0:41:18.160 --> 0:41:19.560 I know what I got him. You know, I think 0:41:19.600 --> 0:41:21.960 I think they might have been last year's coming. And 0:41:22.000 --> 0:41:23.840 I wasn't expecting him. It wasn't anything that it was like, 0:41:23.840 --> 0:41:25.520 you know, yes, I'd like my free pair of shoes. 0:41:25.760 --> 0:41:28.759 It came in a huge box, um all because and 0:41:28.800 --> 0:41:30.239 so all, and I was like, I'm never gonna wear 0:41:30.280 --> 0:41:31.920 thesee we're gonna wear these, like I gotta wear him 0:41:31.920 --> 0:41:33.160 to some fan event or that kind of thing. In 0:41:33.160 --> 0:41:34.400 all of sudden, and I was getting the word that 0:41:34.400 --> 0:41:36.040 we're gonna get to go to Ralph breaks the Internet 0:41:36.040 --> 0:41:39.040 and I went the shoes and I contacted the pr people, 0:41:39.040 --> 0:41:40.440 and I said, like, we gotta find a way of 0:41:40.480 --> 0:41:43.279 like really making these shoes pop. But I'm like, I 0:41:43.360 --> 0:41:45.759 want to dress snazzy but have like the have the 0:41:45.800 --> 0:41:47.920 Sonic the Hedgehog shoes and so literally it was everything 0:41:47.960 --> 0:41:50.320 was everything was built from the ground up around those shoes. 0:41:51.160 --> 0:41:55.160 You are right, yeah, exactly. That was all his designers shoes. 0:41:55.239 --> 0:41:58.239 Just in case you didn't, Okay, Yeah, they dropped on 0:41:58.400 --> 0:42:02.200 the twelfth of June for the retail price of one 0:42:02.280 --> 0:42:04.879 thirty on stock X and my size they're currently going 0:42:04.960 --> 0:42:09.200 for three. Are they really ye? Yep, I might need 0:42:09.239 --> 0:42:16.359 to like sign like brand for the sure. Yeah, they 0:42:16.400 --> 0:42:20.359 were not. They be devalued at that, you know, like 0:42:20.880 --> 0:42:24.919 Rogers signed or twelve dollars. So it was so funny 0:42:24.920 --> 0:42:27.440 when we stepped out when we were doing the blue 0:42:27.440 --> 0:42:29.480 carpet or whatever for Ralph, because I was like, I 0:42:29.520 --> 0:42:31.000 don't want to go in the fan area. I don't 0:42:31.000 --> 0:42:35.520 think yeah, if he was, like, you'd be surprised. And 0:42:35.600 --> 0:42:36.840 I stepped out of the car and it was like 0:42:36.960 --> 0:42:40.280 Danny and so people wanted me to sign their poster. 0:42:44.000 --> 0:42:46.040 People wanted me to sign their posters, and I want 0:42:46.080 --> 0:42:49.359 to be like, I feel like I'm ruining it. I'm 0:42:49.400 --> 0:42:53.360 not Sarah Silverman, I'm not Gal. Um. Yeah, so I 0:42:53.440 --> 0:42:55.640 signed their poster and it's it's funny because I don't 0:42:55.640 --> 0:42:57.960 know if you've been in the same predictar. I mean, 0:42:58.080 --> 0:43:00.359 I mean, you are the voice of Sonic and I'm 0:43:00.400 --> 0:43:04.160 just voicing myself in it for like a minute or two. 0:43:04.239 --> 0:43:06.640 But um, what's funny is when I go on these 0:43:06.640 --> 0:43:08.640 podcasts and people would be like one of the stars 0:43:08.680 --> 0:43:12.080 of what's the Internet? I own it? Own it? You are? 0:43:13.000 --> 0:43:19.520 You are me and Galgadote are the stars too, Rag 0:43:19.680 --> 0:43:23.239 p Henson and Danny Fernandez. Um if he did? You 0:43:23.280 --> 0:43:25.399 want to go over some of your favorite games? Yeah, 0:43:25.920 --> 0:43:30.319 we're just going to do a quick dash through the 0:43:30.360 --> 0:43:33.160 games because there are so many, and I just want 0:43:33.200 --> 0:43:37.000 to talk about the like huge influential ones, uh instead 0:43:37.040 --> 0:43:39.400 of just going through all of them that have spanned 0:43:39.440 --> 0:43:44.239 from to this very year. Uh. So you had, you 0:43:44.280 --> 0:43:46.920 know Sonics one and two. Two was the game. I 0:43:46.960 --> 0:43:49.319 feel like it was the staple game, the spin Dash, 0:43:49.360 --> 0:43:51.759 the one everyone played, and then three took it up 0:43:51.760 --> 0:43:55.080 a notch by introducing Knuckles, because really, that's a third 0:43:55.200 --> 0:43:57.600 character in this franchise that you now get to play. 0:43:57.800 --> 0:44:00.719 You're able to play as uh Tales or Miles if 0:44:00.760 --> 0:44:03.880 you want to be Danny when you with the second player, 0:44:03.880 --> 0:44:05.960 and they would be able to run besides you. So 0:44:06.040 --> 0:44:09.200 that was like the two player aspect. I think the 0:44:09.280 --> 0:44:13.320 next big game in the series actually came after Sonic 0:44:13.360 --> 0:44:15.399 and Knuckles. I didn't realize these were back to back. 0:44:15.440 --> 0:44:17.520 I always felt there was so much time between them, 0:44:17.640 --> 0:44:20.680 and there was a Sonic and uh Sonic the Hedgehog 0:44:20.719 --> 0:44:25.200 three dropped four years later, we get Sonic Adventure, and 0:44:25.239 --> 0:44:27.840 Sonic Adventure came out for the Dreamcast, and it was 0:44:27.880 --> 0:44:31.480 a moment because because the Dreamcast was was hot at 0:44:31.520 --> 0:44:34.400 the time. It was the reason people, Yeah, that was 0:44:34.440 --> 0:44:37.440 the reason people bought Dreamcast. And then it introduced that 0:44:37.560 --> 0:44:40.840 like Dreamcast used to have this uh I forget the 0:44:40.920 --> 0:44:43.680 name of it, but it was like a yeah that 0:44:43.800 --> 0:44:46.279 you would put in and you would put the what 0:44:46.440 --> 0:44:49.440 is it? The chow's the chows from the game, and 0:44:49.480 --> 0:44:52.640 you'd be able to take care of it outside of it. 0:44:52.719 --> 0:44:55.200 So basically all this like all the kids going crazy 0:44:55.239 --> 0:44:58.120 over the Pokemon, the Pokey Ball, plus that you could do. 0:44:58.160 --> 0:45:03.359 It was like we've been on that since since the Yeah, yeah, 0:45:03.400 --> 0:45:09.200 we're sounding like old crotch that canters. So there were 0:45:09.320 --> 0:45:12.760 great games after that because you had um Sonico six, 0:45:13.080 --> 0:45:18.279 Yeah that was that was when your emails. Yeah, oh man, 0:45:18.560 --> 0:45:22.520 well I'm not gonna no, No, you're right because you're 0:45:22.520 --> 0:45:27.120 mentioning the whole thing. Because Sonic fans, which I used 0:45:27.160 --> 0:45:31.040 the term loosely because this isn't very fan is a 0:45:31.080 --> 0:45:34.680 fan centric way to act oftentimes will say that Sonic 0:45:34.680 --> 0:45:37.520 Adventure or Sonic Adventure two was the last good game. 0:45:37.840 --> 0:45:42.200 Whatever Sonic they like was the last. But one thing 0:45:42.280 --> 0:45:46.120 everyone kind of did agree with was Sonic which one 0:45:46.239 --> 0:45:49.960 was it? Yes, Sonic Rush for the d S, which 0:45:50.320 --> 0:45:53.040 was not on this list, which makes me smarter than 0:45:53.120 --> 0:45:58.279 the internet. Uh, Sonic Rush was super fun and in 0:45:58.360 --> 0:46:03.000 it you you played at Sonic and also your your 0:46:03.040 --> 0:46:06.960 counterpart was what was her name, Blaze the Cat, Blaze 0:46:07.000 --> 0:46:10.359 the Cat. And it was a very fast paced, fun game. 0:46:10.440 --> 0:46:13.120 It was, and everyone agreed, because you know, I hate 0:46:13.160 --> 0:46:15.040 when I really like a game and everyone's like, no, 0:46:15.200 --> 0:46:17.799 you shouldn't like it. It's like that. Luckily that didn't 0:46:17.840 --> 0:46:19.839 happen with this game. Everyone liked that it had had 0:46:19.880 --> 0:46:22.319 a fun story, it looked great, it was such a 0:46:22.400 --> 0:46:26.600 blast Sonic Rush, But then those knuckles in that, I mean, 0:46:26.640 --> 0:46:29.880 how could you enjoy that if your favorite I like you, 0:46:30.040 --> 0:46:35.040 I guess I guess you're kind of cool. Super cool 0:46:35.080 --> 0:46:37.160 that you got that you got to play Sonic and 0:46:37.200 --> 0:46:43.960 Super Smash Brothers. Yeah, so cool again, like getting to 0:46:44.000 --> 0:46:45.640 be a part of something like this, Like those things 0:46:45.680 --> 0:46:47.439 just sort of like kind of fall into your lap, 0:46:47.800 --> 0:46:49.600 you know what I mean. It's like it's one of 0:46:49.640 --> 0:46:51.600 the things that kind of and it's like a crossover 0:46:51.920 --> 0:46:55.040 absolutely same thing with the same thing with with you know, 0:46:55.200 --> 0:46:57.360 record around Ralph. Yeah, a sudden, it was like somebody 0:46:57.360 --> 0:46:59.200 called up and they're like, yeah, Disney wants it for something. 0:46:59.239 --> 0:47:01.880 I was like for what this thing record Ralph? And 0:47:01.880 --> 0:47:04.920 I'm like, okay, what what a what am I doing? 0:47:04.960 --> 0:47:08.000 They're like you're doing Sonic. I'm like, no, something's wrong, 0:47:08.920 --> 0:47:10.560 Like no, I don't think you know. And then showed 0:47:10.640 --> 0:47:12.279 up and they're like yeah, we we we we wanted 0:47:12.320 --> 0:47:13.719 sound like the Hedgehog and they're like you got to 0:47:13.800 --> 0:47:15.480 use our guy And I was like all right, really 0:47:15.600 --> 0:47:19.520 so because that was gonna be my question on the 0:47:19.560 --> 0:47:22.480 meta side. Was it a them hitting you up and 0:47:22.560 --> 0:47:26.280 you needing permission, but so they wanted Sonic and Saga 0:47:26.400 --> 0:47:29.480 was like I would imagine it was a licensing thing. 0:47:29.560 --> 0:47:32.120 I mean, I think that's how that works. Um, you know. 0:47:32.200 --> 0:47:34.200 I mean, obviously I'm a brilliant voice actor and they 0:47:34.200 --> 0:47:37.759 were lucky to have me regardless, and it's just pure 0:47:37.880 --> 0:47:40.920 luck that the licensing. No. I actually think that that, um, 0:47:40.960 --> 0:47:43.640 with most of those characters. I think that they mandate that, 0:47:43.719 --> 0:47:45.839 if you know, because when you think about something like 0:47:45.960 --> 0:47:49.200 you know, Disney doing a record Ralph with all those 0:47:49.239 --> 0:47:51.600 different video game characters, I think if they're gonna say, 0:47:51.600 --> 0:47:54.799 we're gonna use your guys or gals, we want to have, 0:47:55.320 --> 0:47:58.280 you know, the characters beyondest because they had Kylie Bars, 0:47:58.320 --> 0:48:00.600 we you That's what I was gonna go to. Now 0:48:00.760 --> 0:48:03.719 is it seems like you're in secause you're Insanega's Wheelhouse. 0:48:03.719 --> 0:48:06.719 Now they're like your your Sonic, your son I mean 0:48:07.040 --> 0:48:11.240 until I'm not. Once they see you take a selfie 0:48:11.239 --> 0:48:13.319 with Mario, there you go, it's like, oh he's doing 0:48:14.239 --> 0:48:18.360 and he's he's as the character. We don't allow that. Yeah, 0:48:18.400 --> 0:48:22.720 oh my gosh. But yeah, that was pretty much the games. 0:48:22.760 --> 0:48:26.239 And then you know, the first Sonic series that we 0:48:26.360 --> 0:48:29.799 referenced with Julio White was the height of like nineties 0:48:30.040 --> 0:48:33.000 game fever, when we had your Super Mario movies, when 0:48:33.040 --> 0:48:36.960 you had the Super Mario TV show, They're like this, 0:48:37.360 --> 0:48:40.359 you need a TV show because games are popping right now. 0:48:40.680 --> 0:48:42.759 But then after that you got I think there was 0:48:42.840 --> 0:48:46.919 the Sonic anime series before X. Yeah, Sonic X. Yes. 0:48:47.000 --> 0:48:49.560 I remember Sonic X because Sonic X was one of 0:48:49.600 --> 0:48:52.200 those shows that were I was a little too old 0:48:52.239 --> 0:48:53.879 for it at the time. It came out two thousand four, 0:48:53.920 --> 0:48:56.479 two thousand five, which means I was a junior uh 0:48:56.520 --> 0:49:01.279 in high school, and I was like, you know how 0:49:01.280 --> 0:49:07.759 old you're but they had video games back. Oh yeah, 0:49:07.840 --> 0:49:09.319 I was in it though. I was like, look, I 0:49:09.320 --> 0:49:12.760 don't care what people say. I love Sonic, a Sonic anime, 0:49:13.280 --> 0:49:18.800 let's go. But then then we got the Sonic series 0:49:18.880 --> 0:49:21.520 that that everyone's talking about. Did I skip? Was it 0:49:21.680 --> 0:49:25.279 Sonic Extan Sonic Boom? I'm not crazy? No, yeah, I know. 0:49:25.520 --> 0:49:28.520 I was under my fourth wife. I think at the 0:49:28.560 --> 0:49:32.279 time that the Sonic extras coming out, so you know, yeah, yeah, 0:49:32.440 --> 0:49:34.839 using that. Oh that's funny too. I'm trying to look 0:49:34.920 --> 0:49:38.480 up Sonic Boom while we talk about it, and of 0:49:38.520 --> 0:49:44.680 course I got videos of Fighter Chain, funny Sonic Boom. Ye, 0:49:45.960 --> 0:49:49.319 Sonic Boom cartoon that might be a little better, but 0:49:49.360 --> 0:49:53.120 we're so we're going to get into Sonic Boom right 0:49:53.200 --> 0:50:04.560 after these messages and we're back. So, actually, Roger, I 0:50:04.560 --> 0:50:06.600 have a question, when did you first audition for Sonic 0:50:07.040 --> 0:50:10.240 Like ever, I guess it would have been two thousand 0:50:10.320 --> 0:50:12.600 nine ish. I remember getting any you know what it 0:50:12.680 --> 0:50:15.040 was for? It was it was literally for the games. 0:50:15.840 --> 0:50:18.200 Did you know it was Sonic? Yeah? Yeah, So you 0:50:18.400 --> 0:50:20.520 went and you signed an NDA and then they started 0:50:20.520 --> 0:50:23.400 showing you like video clips of previous versions that have 0:50:23.520 --> 0:50:26.360 been done, from game clips to to some of the 0:50:26.400 --> 0:50:28.040 anime that had already been done, that kind of thing, 0:50:28.360 --> 0:50:29.680 so that you could have an idea of like, Okay, 0:50:29.719 --> 0:50:31.000 we're trying to do this. And then it was just 0:50:31.080 --> 0:50:33.919 working with um Jack Fletcher was our director at the time, 0:50:34.480 --> 0:50:36.200 and he just you know, you you you go in 0:50:36.239 --> 0:50:38.520 and just standard audition, you know, it's like you sign in, 0:50:38.560 --> 0:50:40.480 you put your name on the list, and you get 0:50:40.480 --> 0:50:41.840 called in and they say, okay, we're trying to do 0:50:41.920 --> 0:50:43.640 this and you say, oh, how about this one? You 0:50:43.640 --> 0:50:45.880 know we'll do will its sounds too done? You go, 0:50:45.960 --> 0:50:48.360 how about that voice? It's too easily too high? You know, 0:50:48.760 --> 0:50:51.200 And then and even then we still will play around 0:50:51.200 --> 0:50:52.640 with it to this very day. But yeah, it was 0:50:52.640 --> 0:50:54.400 I would say it was probably two thousand nine, and 0:50:54.400 --> 0:50:56.520 then the game was coming out in two thous ten, 0:50:56.560 --> 0:50:59.880 and they someone from Sake of America had sent me 0:50:59.920 --> 0:51:01.960 the heads up like, hey, we're gonna announce your name 0:51:02.000 --> 0:51:05.040 today like twelve noon, like PST or something like that, 0:51:05.080 --> 0:51:06.879 and I was like okay, and They're like, just wanted 0:51:06.960 --> 0:51:08.880 to let you know, and I'm like, why what does 0:51:08.920 --> 0:51:11.600 that matter? And the like you might you might get 0:51:11.000 --> 0:51:14.960 some and I mean like a like twelve oh one PST. 0:51:15.520 --> 0:51:17.600 All of a sudden, I was starting in this like 0:51:17.640 --> 0:51:23.359 you know, like you know, people going, he sounds too old, 0:51:26.400 --> 0:51:29.400 because oh yeah, it didn't matter like they here because 0:51:29.520 --> 0:51:31.480 you know, you're a voice actor, so they'll hear you 0:51:31.640 --> 0:51:33.320 doing different things. And at that point I think I 0:51:33.320 --> 0:51:36.319 would have done like Chris Redfield, you know, and it's 0:51:36.320 --> 0:51:38.880 like and they were like, how can Chris Redfield voice Sonic? 0:51:38.960 --> 0:51:41.600 And then there was this when we teach you about 0:51:41.840 --> 0:51:45.560 voice act Yes, this Alton Towers voice leak from the 0:51:45.600 --> 0:51:47.360 from over in the UK, there was a hotel that 0:51:47.400 --> 0:51:50.080 had a sonic themed room and apparently some of the 0:51:50.120 --> 0:51:52.040 files that we had sent over like they literally like 0:51:52.080 --> 0:51:54.560 they're there's sorounded lower like, so all of a sudden, 0:51:54.560 --> 0:51:56.719 the sonic voice it was like sugg all the controls 0:51:56.719 --> 0:51:58.600 And I was like, that's that's gotta be a like 0:51:58.719 --> 0:52:01.680 either a pal NTSC conversion issue or something. I was like, 0:52:01.880 --> 0:52:04.600 that's not how we recorded it. But yeah, so that's 0:52:04.640 --> 0:52:06.280 how it goes, and you just you still play around 0:52:06.280 --> 0:52:07.759 to this very day with the voice. So yeah, dude, 0:52:07.760 --> 0:52:09.840 that's nine I say. It was when we first auditioned 0:52:09.840 --> 0:52:12.000 for Oh man, that's so crazy because sometimes I'll do 0:52:12.040 --> 0:52:14.640 a voice over audition and I'll do some weird thing 0:52:14.719 --> 0:52:17.160 where like somehow I get it out of register that 0:52:17.200 --> 0:52:18.560 I've never did and I was like, oh, I hope 0:52:18.600 --> 0:52:21.600 I don't get this. You have to be aware of 0:52:21.640 --> 0:52:22.839 that too. You have to be aware of that when 0:52:22.840 --> 0:52:24.600 you go into like everything that you'll do certain voices 0:52:24.640 --> 0:52:26.600 and you go, I can't sustain that for four hours 0:52:26.960 --> 0:52:30.040 and not be shredded. So yeah, that's how how it's 0:52:30.040 --> 0:52:32.280 how it goes. But let's talk about sounding moon, because 0:52:32.280 --> 0:52:35.640 I do remember the day because the big thing that 0:52:35.680 --> 0:52:38.640 people talked about more than anything, the one thing I 0:52:38.680 --> 0:52:42.880 heard before even stuff about your voice was the handkerchief. 0:52:45.960 --> 0:52:47.880 Split I was team Handkerchief. I liked it. I was like, 0:52:47.920 --> 0:52:50.280 that gives them a little little flavor. But some people 0:52:50.560 --> 0:52:55.200 were so mad history. Some people were so mad about htory. I. 0:52:55.440 --> 0:52:57.879 I love it. I love the handkerchief. And one thing 0:52:57.880 --> 0:53:01.320 I do love, stay on brand. Here's y'all makee knuckles 0:53:01.400 --> 0:53:03.319 nice and thick. Was a thick boy. He was like 0:53:03.360 --> 0:53:05.120 he was He was like, I was like, this dude 0:53:05.200 --> 0:53:12.440 lifts like talking about fan he's got tight hamstrings or something, 0:53:13.200 --> 0:53:15.200 or he's just like I can't, you know, I can't. 0:53:16.000 --> 0:53:18.040 And then he had the arm wraps and like, dang 0:53:18.160 --> 0:53:21.839 knuckles so tight. Even the straps around the shoes. People 0:53:21.840 --> 0:53:23.520 were like, that doesn't even make any sense. Why would 0:53:23.560 --> 0:53:25.279 they have like sport tape around their feet because they 0:53:25.280 --> 0:53:27.360 would just like shred that up. You know, which is 0:53:27.360 --> 0:53:29.239 a really funny thing for us to even consider, is that, 0:53:29.320 --> 0:53:33.680 like people have this like visceral reaction at times to 0:53:33.680 --> 0:53:38.080 to like anything changing with characters. You're talking anthropomorphic hedgehog 0:53:38.200 --> 0:53:42.040 is so unrealistic, dude. But yet I get it too. 0:53:42.080 --> 0:53:44.720 I understand that, like, you know, like these are characters 0:53:44.800 --> 0:53:47.120 that that oftentimes we've we've grown up with or that 0:53:47.239 --> 0:53:49.359 we just feel like and and it's weird to think. 0:53:49.400 --> 0:53:52.400 And I've actually Bill Freiberger, one of the other writers 0:53:52.440 --> 0:53:55.480 on the Sonic Boom series, basically said that we can't 0:53:55.800 --> 0:54:00.960 we can't retroactively harm anything that you loved, let's say, 0:54:01.040 --> 0:54:05.600 fifteen years ago. We can't harm anything that you experienced 0:54:05.640 --> 0:54:08.359 back then with what we're doing now. But you have 0:54:08.440 --> 0:54:10.960 to understand that the joy that you had in something 0:54:11.000 --> 0:54:14.040 back then needs to be polished and done a new 0:54:14.360 --> 0:54:18.120 for a more contemporary audience if you want to have 0:54:18.200 --> 0:54:20.680 that thing adapt and be sustainable. So it's kind of 0:54:20.719 --> 0:54:23.000 like it's a tricky it's a tricky thing, so I think, 0:54:23.040 --> 0:54:24.760 you know, and it's and it's a ton of people 0:54:24.800 --> 0:54:27.359 working on it. So yeah, And I think it is 0:54:27.400 --> 0:54:30.760 the thing of like people not understanding that the demo 0:54:30.880 --> 0:54:33.920 that it's for is not them and that there are 0:54:34.040 --> 0:54:40.080 proven things that are creatively what you're nostalgia is being 0:54:40.160 --> 0:54:42.319 based off of. It's not like people are like, oh, 0:54:42.360 --> 0:54:44.400 this is just a nostalgigraph it's like, no, it's actually 0:54:44.400 --> 0:54:46.960 not for you, which is why you're mad about it, 0:54:47.160 --> 0:54:49.760 because the changes that are being made are to apply 0:54:50.040 --> 0:54:52.719 to what this new demo wants. You know. I think 0:54:52.719 --> 0:54:55.440 one of the biggest things I think people kind of 0:54:55.800 --> 0:55:00.440 crap on is the new Team Titans. Uh, it's not. 0:55:00.600 --> 0:55:06.480 It's the people love that. People love the movie, but 0:55:06.600 --> 0:55:09.759 people hate it. Like if you're on Tumblr, people are 0:55:09.960 --> 0:55:13.560 constantly doing everything. Yeah, that's the thing. But then but 0:55:13.600 --> 0:55:17.040 then that's that was my point. Teen Titans go. It 0:55:17.080 --> 0:55:20.000 has a fan base that loves it so much the 0:55:20.080 --> 0:55:23.440 same way that found successful, and it just irks the 0:55:23.440 --> 0:55:26.760 people that don't like but it's not the original Teen Titans, Like, yeah, 0:55:26.800 --> 0:55:30.120 that can't be. You can't just keep cranking out the 0:55:30.200 --> 0:55:33.279 same thing or you're going to get like then the 0:55:33.320 --> 0:55:35.960 franchise dies and then you don't get to enjoy a 0:55:36.000 --> 0:55:37.959 new version of it or introduced it to somebody who's 0:55:38.000 --> 0:55:39.600 younger or that kind of thing. So it's it's a 0:55:39.680 --> 0:55:42.719 it's a tricky the plus everybody thinks that everything is 0:55:42.760 --> 0:55:45.799 being done for them and if I don't like it, 0:55:45.840 --> 0:55:47.279 now we have this outlet where you get to go 0:55:47.280 --> 0:55:49.600 on and go like that's not my blankety blanket. You know, 0:55:49.840 --> 0:55:52.319 I think it's cool that both exists, though, Like that's 0:55:52.320 --> 0:55:54.680 how I feel about Shira, That's how I feel about ThunderCats. 0:55:54.719 --> 0:55:57.239 It's like everyone like the animation, like no, I think 0:55:57.280 --> 0:56:00.520 it's really cool that we have um two verse of it. 0:56:01.160 --> 0:56:02.560 Like I want to be in a world I want 0:56:02.560 --> 0:56:05.440 to see, like you know, same with my franchise. I 0:56:05.480 --> 0:56:07.520 want to see like different people taking the stab at 0:56:07.560 --> 0:56:09.839 it and I want people to be taking risk because 0:56:09.840 --> 0:56:13.480 its opposed to like giving us the same recycled. That's 0:56:13.480 --> 0:56:15.640 how I feel about Whenever people talk about like it'll 0:56:15.680 --> 0:56:20.200 never be Heath Ledger's joker, I'm like, GOODREDI did it. 0:56:21.200 --> 0:56:22.960 I don't want to see someone trying to do that. 0:56:24.000 --> 0:56:25.799 I want to see someone doing their own taps. And 0:56:25.840 --> 0:56:28.879 also everything I don't care, like how wonderful a film is, 0:56:28.920 --> 0:56:32.680 Like there's so few things that really still stand up. 0:56:33.160 --> 0:56:35.520 Really you have to always go back and take it 0:56:35.560 --> 0:56:36.840 with a little bit of like, oh, that was a 0:56:36.840 --> 0:56:39.160 different time when the comedy was a little slower, the 0:56:39.200 --> 0:56:41.399 animation wasn't available, or that kind of thing. And it's 0:56:41.400 --> 0:56:44.000 like so you, I know you have have this like 0:56:44.160 --> 0:56:46.719 nostalgia of any given thing. But when you go back 0:56:46.760 --> 0:56:48.160 and watch some of the stuff, like some of the 0:56:48.200 --> 0:56:50.120 original Star Wars and you go, oh, how funny this 0:56:50.160 --> 0:56:52.239 was in the seventies. Yeah, oh wow, this is in 0:56:52.280 --> 0:56:53.880 the eighties, and you just know you have to look 0:56:53.920 --> 0:56:56.880 at and go like, it's not the nostalgia that I 0:56:56.920 --> 0:56:58.640 had when I watched some of that stuff as a 0:56:58.640 --> 0:57:02.000 little boy. Is awesome and it's it's amazing that it 0:57:02.120 --> 0:57:04.120 had the impact because it was able to conjure up 0:57:04.200 --> 0:57:06.520 so much in me with an imagination. So you have 0:57:06.520 --> 0:57:07.960 to find a way of doing that same thing for 0:57:08.000 --> 0:57:10.399 an audience that's a little more savvy or a little 0:57:10.400 --> 0:57:13.759 more with a shorter attention span or whatever. So it's 0:57:13.760 --> 0:57:15.520 like you can't just keep cranking out the same thing 0:57:15.560 --> 0:57:17.520 where it dies because it doesn't find a new audience 0:57:17.840 --> 0:57:21.160 that's so smart and true still doesn't stop people from 0:57:21.160 --> 0:57:23.920 going like, but that sucks and it's not my man, 0:57:24.280 --> 0:57:26.600 but it must be so cool to have. At least. 0:57:26.640 --> 0:57:28.320 The one thing I like about comic Con is it's 0:57:28.320 --> 0:57:31.160 people face to face, and so it forced like people 0:57:31.160 --> 0:57:34.440 would never probably say that, you know to your you 0:57:34.480 --> 0:57:38.040 know what I mean, but like that it must be 0:57:38.160 --> 0:57:42.080 nice to have you know this, different generations of fans 0:57:42.240 --> 0:57:44.800 coming up to you. And it's also it's it's nice 0:57:44.800 --> 0:57:46.320 when you get a chance to I mean even even 0:57:46.400 --> 0:57:47.920 these things, like you get a chance to kind of 0:57:47.960 --> 0:57:50.920 like express to people like, guys, there's nobody that's involved 0:57:50.920 --> 0:57:52.800 in these things. I have yet to work with somebody 0:57:52.800 --> 0:57:54.480 on any franchise that I've ever been a part of 0:57:54.720 --> 0:57:57.360 who says, man, I can't wait to make this game 0:57:57.520 --> 0:58:00.840 suck or make it or just ruin this character for everybody. 0:58:00.920 --> 0:58:03.760 Everybody got it exactly when he goes into a trying 0:58:03.800 --> 0:58:06.760 to do but it's really really difficult because to keep 0:58:06.840 --> 0:58:09.720 something viable you have to adapt, and to adapt means 0:58:09.720 --> 0:58:15.360 you're gonna violate the sensibilities of someone somewhere that wants 0:58:15.400 --> 0:58:18.280 it the way that it used to be. And it's like, well, 0:58:18.480 --> 0:58:20.920 you can't do that. You constantly have to evolve. And 0:58:20.960 --> 0:58:22.600 so when you get a chance to kind of talk 0:58:22.600 --> 0:58:25.720 people down and go guys, nobody in that room was 0:58:25.760 --> 0:58:29.560 trying to do anything, you know, to to irritate you specifically, 0:58:29.720 --> 0:58:31.960 and it's like you have to understand, take your own 0:58:32.000 --> 0:58:35.440 head out of your own butt and think about what 0:58:35.480 --> 0:58:37.960 other people might be experiencing with it and you understand there, like, hey, 0:58:38.000 --> 0:58:40.920 the scarf was a choice to kind of let me 0:58:41.000 --> 0:58:42.960 bring them into a little bit more of a contemporary 0:58:43.040 --> 0:58:44.480 fuel or give them a little bit more of an 0:58:44.520 --> 0:58:46.840 Indiana Jones kind of a vibe. And this was more 0:58:46.840 --> 0:58:49.240 about adventure and fun and comedy with you know, with 0:58:49.680 --> 0:58:53.040 with the sonic boom rise of lyric game um, and 0:58:53.120 --> 0:58:55.080 so you know that that requires a little bit of 0:58:55.080 --> 0:58:56.440 an update because if we were just stick with the 0:58:56.440 --> 0:58:59.160 same old character, it wouldn't look right. You can create 0:58:59.200 --> 0:59:02.640 that world and plug something old into it. So it's yeah, 0:59:02.080 --> 0:59:05.040 you know, hey, some people all the time, all the 0:59:05.040 --> 0:59:08.560 people some all the time. He couldn't have his girlfriend 0:59:08.640 --> 0:59:11.160 Madonna and be Bill Clinton. No exactly. I think Mr 0:59:11.200 --> 0:59:16.440 needle Mouse and be Bill Clinton. Oh we're getting emails. 0:59:18.080 --> 0:59:20.760 We don't like this Bill Clinton thing. Now that we're 0:59:20.760 --> 0:59:23.920 wrapping up. I don't want to make you dance for us, 0:59:23.920 --> 0:59:27.680 but if you could, what do I don't dance dance 0:59:27.760 --> 0:59:31.240 for us, but dance. No. It's funny because when we 0:59:31.240 --> 0:59:33.080 had kylie Bert, who's the voice he's the voice of 0:59:33.080 --> 0:59:36.280 for you and go on in DBZ, and we're like, oh, 0:59:36.320 --> 0:59:38.080 could you do the voice? If you did it. We're like, 0:59:38.120 --> 0:59:42.280 oh my god, I always feel bad whenever I do 0:59:42.400 --> 0:59:43.840 like a voice in front of us. In fact, I 0:59:43.880 --> 0:59:45.920 even did on that Variety thing they're The guy that 0:59:46.000 --> 0:59:47.840 was hosting on the car was like, he was like, 0:59:47.880 --> 0:59:49.680 what is what a sonic sound like? Could you do 0:59:49.840 --> 0:59:52.160 you know, like the voice and to voice like I 0:59:52.160 --> 0:59:53.600 don't even know what he sounds like. And I was like, 0:59:53.640 --> 0:59:55.720 you better get out there and you know, go vote. 0:59:55.840 --> 0:59:57.800 And then like just before they cut it, I look 0:59:57.840 --> 1:00:01.080 at it go it's basically that shrill, annoying thing. And 1:00:01.160 --> 1:00:03.960 people are like Roger thinks sonic is shrill and annoying. 1:00:04.000 --> 1:00:09.960 I was like, man, that's a grown man, and it's 1:00:10.040 --> 1:00:13.080 your voice. Here's the thing too that I feel is 1:00:13.320 --> 1:00:15.880 even harder for your a comedian. So you're always going 1:00:15.920 --> 1:00:21.160 to go for the funny something exactly. And And one 1:00:21.200 --> 1:00:24.200 thing is, look, I say this would love nerds are 1:00:24.280 --> 1:00:27.480 not the never get that like you do that, Like 1:00:27.520 --> 1:00:30.360 they're just like you're trying to well. Doing it in 1:00:30.440 --> 1:00:32.680 person is always awkward, like as a grown up because 1:00:32.720 --> 1:00:35.560 they see me and they're like, oh wow, okay, like 1:00:35.680 --> 1:00:39.600 that's why I closed my eyes, And especially with little 1:00:39.640 --> 1:00:41.000 kids and that kind of thing I've said to people 1:00:41.000 --> 1:00:42.680 like like I've been at like you know, birthday parties 1:00:42.720 --> 1:00:44.560 and something somebody come in and go, hey, my my 1:00:44.600 --> 1:00:45.920 kids a really big fan of like you know, give 1:00:45.960 --> 1:00:47.600 a mass a cookie or something like, so we want 1:00:47.600 --> 1:00:48.520 you to do the voice, and I was like, I 1:00:48.560 --> 1:00:51.000 can tell you right now, if you've not explained to 1:00:51.040 --> 1:00:52.640 them that grown ups have jobs where they do this, 1:00:53.320 --> 1:00:54.960 have them turn around, or let me go around the 1:00:55.000 --> 1:00:56.480 corner and call you on your cell phone and we'll 1:00:56.480 --> 1:00:58.840 do it that way, because this ruins the illusion, and 1:00:59.160 --> 1:01:02.600 I'm I get so I'm so conscious of that. I 1:01:02.600 --> 1:01:04.720 would just feel bad because I'm like, you know, like 1:01:04.760 --> 1:01:06.840 I've been going gray since I was in high school, 1:01:06.880 --> 1:01:10.440 and it's like, so here's this character like e c O. 1:01:10.560 --> 1:01:18.720 When when the girls asked like, I'm not Italian five five, 1:01:18.760 --> 1:01:20.520 I've got no tan. It's not gonna this is not 1:01:20.560 --> 1:01:22.320 gonna go out for you. So I'm always conscious that 1:01:22.520 --> 1:01:25.280 Carrie Fisher said the same thing that people would like, oh, 1:01:25.280 --> 1:01:27.840 it's Princess Leia and they would like bring their kids 1:01:27.880 --> 1:01:32.040 up and then they would just cry because they're smoking cigarettes. 1:01:32.760 --> 1:01:35.800 Like this was before also like Force Awakens and stuff, 1:01:35.840 --> 1:01:38.880 so like during those decades when the only other Princess 1:01:38.960 --> 1:01:41.440 Leia was her. When she was much younger, she was like, 1:01:41.480 --> 1:01:45.560 people like the kids would come up and be like, Grandma, 1:01:46.160 --> 1:01:51.600 you know I'm princess and I get it. I get it, 1:01:51.640 --> 1:01:53.280 so but yes, what would you like me to say? No, 1:01:53.440 --> 1:01:56.640 I mean you did it. He's YouTube channel is is 1:01:56.760 --> 1:02:02.480 horrible and yeah, listened to Nernificent tag. Danny Fernandez ruined 1:02:02.520 --> 1:02:07.600 my life. He did. We just have you close out 1:02:07.600 --> 1:02:09.920 the episode. At the end of every episode, we just 1:02:09.960 --> 1:02:13.480 say stay near, but he has to plug. Yeah, I 1:02:14.760 --> 1:02:16.720 are we ending it right now? No? No, We're not 1:02:16.840 --> 1:02:18.520 ending it right now. I was just letting to know 1:02:18.560 --> 1:02:22.160 what we usually ask. Okay, cool, but what do you 1:02:22.160 --> 1:02:26.640 want to play? Right there? People find social just Twitter 1:02:26.680 --> 1:02:29.200 and Instagram or is at Roger Both are at Roger 1:02:29.240 --> 1:02:31.000 Craig Smith my full name, No d R O G 1:02:31.120 --> 1:02:34.280 E R c R A G. Smith. Um, and uh 1:02:34.320 --> 1:02:36.600 and visit the Roger Smith Hotel in New York. I hear, 1:02:36.640 --> 1:02:39.120 and I think you should really support them. You had 1:02:39.160 --> 1:02:42.760 me going. I was like, were going to visit? No, 1:02:42.960 --> 1:02:45.640 and I Facebook. I've got on there, but I'm I'm 1:02:45.680 --> 1:02:47.880 mostly on Twitter. I like I prefer Twitter for the 1:02:47.880 --> 1:02:51.880 interaction there. Excuse me, Um, you play another Roger, you 1:02:51.920 --> 1:02:57.720 play Steve Rogers. Yes, we didn't captain America. I mean 1:02:57.880 --> 1:02:59.920 I did say that he's a man of a million voices, 1:03:00.160 --> 1:03:05.439 So I think I encapsulated that A Black Panthers Quest 1:03:05.440 --> 1:03:08.680 is airing on Disney XD right now, Yeah, which is phenomenal. 1:03:08.680 --> 1:03:11.080 The writing on that is so epic, it's so good. 1:03:11.120 --> 1:03:12.840 You guys have to check out that series. We've got 1:03:12.840 --> 1:03:16.120 you a Kitty on Cartoon Network, got Bent on Cartoon Networks. 1:03:17.680 --> 1:03:20.920 Thorn the show run Jeff Thorn is Yeah, I've not 1:03:20.920 --> 1:03:23.680 seen Jeff about a while, but yes, Jeff's awesome. That's 1:03:23.680 --> 1:03:26.200 a that is a lovely human being. But let me know, 1:03:26.320 --> 1:03:34.120 if you're doesn't want to take let me know, how 1:03:34.240 --> 1:03:41.280 dare you take to take jobs? You should be in it. 1:03:41.320 --> 1:03:43.920 I mean you can play your family like you have 1:03:44.040 --> 1:03:46.400 that accent down because that is your family. Yeah well 1:03:46.520 --> 1:03:48.960 well then, well then what kind of accidents very wispy 1:03:49.080 --> 1:03:53.080 like these where the Nigerian X is very rough? Ah yeah, 1:03:53.280 --> 1:03:55.440 so there's like a clear and I appreciate that that 1:03:55.520 --> 1:03:58.560 it isn't just generic Nigeria. It isn't Will Smith and 1:03:58.600 --> 1:04:03.800 concussion shots fired. You know, will Smith come at me? 1:04:04.200 --> 1:04:07.200 I jump into the canyon too. He's too busy on 1:04:07.240 --> 1:04:13.880 Instagram right now. He's being exactly. He's literally going what 1:04:14.040 --> 1:04:17.120 if he's saying about? And then you have another Sonic 1:04:17.160 --> 1:04:19.840 game that's dropping twenty nineteen. We do. We thought it 1:04:19.880 --> 1:04:22.520 was coming out earlier, and that's okay, exactly. You know, 1:04:22.760 --> 1:04:29.080 UM is the official name Sonic Team, Racing Team, Sonic Razing. 1:04:29.120 --> 1:04:33.000 Thank you, thank you, jeez once again at Roger Craig 1:04:33.120 --> 1:04:36.640 Smith and uh um. But yeah, so we got another 1:04:36.680 --> 1:04:38.240 game coming out and I'm not in it. But they've 1:04:38.280 --> 1:04:40.640 got the big Sonic the Hedgehog CG movie that's coming 1:04:40.640 --> 1:04:43.720 out in I think that comes out in nineteen. Yeah, 1:04:43.720 --> 1:04:45.560 I can't remember that summer. I think they're they're shooting 1:04:45.600 --> 1:04:50.560 for things. Yeah, November with Jim Carrey will be playing 1:04:50.880 --> 1:04:54.560 crazy Man. I'm very excited. I want to see his UM. 1:04:54.960 --> 1:04:56.440 I want to see that new show that he has 1:04:56.480 --> 1:05:02.440 on show. Yeah. I wanted to witers Cody Heller, She's 1:05:02.480 --> 1:05:05.040 it looks real good. It was bizarre to even think 1:05:05.040 --> 1:05:09.280 that we're talking about CG, a live action CG Sonic 1:05:09.360 --> 1:05:12.960 the Hedgehog film coming out like for a like massive audience, 1:05:13.040 --> 1:05:15.400 like to think this many years later that the character 1:05:15.480 --> 1:05:20.200 is still niconic. It is. I mean, we got a 1:05:20.240 --> 1:05:21.600 cloth are There's so many things we could talk about. 1:05:21.600 --> 1:05:24.280 I was gonna say, you also were in the Olympics, right, 1:05:26.080 --> 1:05:28.280 they've done the Olympic Games, like the Sonic character. I 1:05:28.280 --> 1:05:30.040 didn't do anything. I don't think there was any voice 1:05:30.040 --> 1:05:33.680 associated with that. But on your IMDb, is it really yeah? Funny? 1:05:33.760 --> 1:05:35.360 Oh no, are you thinking about they go to the 1:05:35.360 --> 1:05:39.160 Olympic Games kind of thing? Like there the mascott they 1:05:39.240 --> 1:05:42.720 might have been. I feel like he was, Yeah, okay, 1:05:42.720 --> 1:05:45.640 So I was going to say, because um, Goku Mario 1:05:45.680 --> 1:05:47.720 has been an Olympic mascot, and Goku has also been 1:05:47.760 --> 1:05:49.760 Olympic mascot, and I think that they had. I was 1:05:49.800 --> 1:05:51.960 looking on your IMDb and it looks like, okay, I 1:05:51.960 --> 1:05:54.800 don't know if you got paid for it, Roger, Yeah, 1:05:55.840 --> 1:05:59.240 but it's listed. It's been like a Macy's Thanksgiving Day 1:05:59.280 --> 1:06:02.320 blue like stuff like that, right, right, And it's weird 1:06:02.360 --> 1:06:04.240 to think that, like, you know, and it's really funny 1:06:04.240 --> 1:06:05.760 because I always say in my job that like when 1:06:05.760 --> 1:06:07.560 somebody if you get on an airplane somebody ask you 1:06:07.560 --> 1:06:09.480 what you do. Rarely do I even say I'm a 1:06:09.560 --> 1:06:12.959 voice accurate because anything I heard of and you're only 1:06:13.040 --> 1:06:15.480 is legitimate and good is anything they've ever heard of 1:06:15.720 --> 1:06:19.800 but never heard of anything. But it's like you be 1:06:19.880 --> 1:06:22.560 shocked because it depends on the person. Even with like 1:06:22.600 --> 1:06:25.280 old ladies, I'll say sound like the Hedgehog and they go, oh, yeah, 1:06:25.760 --> 1:06:28.560 it's not the little Blue Feller like, and then it's like, 1:06:28.640 --> 1:06:30.920 my mom funny, and then it always falls up with 1:06:30.920 --> 1:06:35.920 this he talks so funny. That is funny, just about 1:06:35.920 --> 1:06:39.400 that conference. I remember when I got hird for at Midnight. 1:06:39.440 --> 1:06:41.120 I was so hype to go on at uber and 1:06:41.160 --> 1:06:43.440 be like yeah, because because you know, you'll be like 1:06:43.480 --> 1:06:45.840 I'm a comedian to be writer and they're like, oh, 1:06:45.960 --> 1:06:48.000 you've done anything on it. So I was like, yeah, 1:06:48.040 --> 1:06:51.280 I right for at Midnight on Comedy Citral and he 1:06:51.400 --> 1:06:55.320 was like, what show is that? Exactly? Yeah, that's what 1:06:55.400 --> 1:06:57.080 you just I just go like, people, what do you do? 1:06:57.280 --> 1:07:00.760 I'm a teacher third grade love the Little Buck story. 1:07:01.920 --> 1:07:04.520 It was so funny. I took my mom loves Jimmy Fallon, 1:07:04.560 --> 1:07:08.160 as moms do, and took her to um the Tonight 1:07:08.240 --> 1:07:11.960 Show and Brian Cranston was on and he comes out 1:07:12.000 --> 1:07:14.800 and she was like, oh, the dad from Malcolm in 1:07:14.840 --> 1:07:18.840 the exactly. Oh, you would love this story. You would 1:07:18.880 --> 1:07:20.840 love this story. As a result of the Regular Show thing, 1:07:20.840 --> 1:07:22.000 I know, we're trying to get out of here and 1:07:22.920 --> 1:07:25.560 it's only gonna take twenty minutes. Uh. I brought my 1:07:25.560 --> 1:07:27.760 mom to a recording session of Regular Show many many 1:07:27.800 --> 1:07:29.680 years ago, and Mark Camill worked on that show with 1:07:29.760 --> 1:07:31.120 us the entire time and it was great. He was 1:07:31.200 --> 1:07:36.120 pop or skips, uh skips and all sorts of gosh. 1:07:36.320 --> 1:07:39.600 So that was Mark Cambell doing like you know, skits idea. 1:07:39.880 --> 1:07:41.960 And so I, I, you know, bring my mom into 1:07:41.960 --> 1:07:44.360 the session. We're in the waiting room, um, waiting to 1:07:44.400 --> 1:07:46.320 go into the studio, and in walks you know, some 1:07:46.360 --> 1:07:48.120 of the co workers and guess I thought I'm introducing 1:07:48.120 --> 1:07:50.520 her in walks Mark and you know, hey Roger, and 1:07:50.560 --> 1:07:53.560 I was like, mom, Mark, you know, this is my mom. 1:07:53.640 --> 1:07:56.160 Karen like, Karen, this is this is Mark Cambell. And 1:07:56.240 --> 1:07:57.800 she goes nice to meet you, and he's like nice 1:07:57.840 --> 1:07:59.200 to me and he couldn't have been he was. He 1:07:59.360 --> 1:08:01.040 just like you knowed a hand him like, you know, 1:08:01.080 --> 1:08:02.720 money right there. He was like, your son is this 1:08:02.800 --> 1:08:04.920 and he's the nicest guy right. Then he walks off 1:08:04.960 --> 1:08:06.200 and I look at my mom and I go, you 1:08:06.240 --> 1:08:08.680 know what that was, right? And she goes and he 1:08:08.720 --> 1:08:12.520 said this Mark Hamill and she goes Dorothy Hamill's brother. 1:08:14.320 --> 1:08:18.160 And I literally was like, yeah, um, I'm freaking out 1:08:18.160 --> 1:08:22.360 about introducing you to Dorothy Hamill, the Skater's brother. I 1:08:22.400 --> 1:08:27.240 was like this Luke freaking Skywalker from the Star movie. 1:08:27.320 --> 1:08:29.400 I was like, yea exactly, And I was just like, 1:08:29.439 --> 1:08:32.360 there you go, that's the reality what we do is. 1:08:32.400 --> 1:08:34.000 That's why it's like, it's just it's a blessing to 1:08:34.040 --> 1:08:35.360 be a part of it. But it is kind of 1:08:35.439 --> 1:08:37.640 you know, like to be a part of anything. But 1:08:37.640 --> 1:08:40.600 but to think that Sonic is so ubiquitous in so 1:08:40.640 --> 1:08:43.160 many ways that like globally because look were this is 1:08:43.240 --> 1:08:47.519 show business. Somebody went that character is recognizable enough if 1:08:47.520 --> 1:08:49.160 we plug in the right celebrities and the right people 1:08:49.200 --> 1:08:50.240 in that kind of thing, we can make a movie 1:08:50.280 --> 1:08:54.040 that could could become a financial success. And I'm sure 1:08:54.080 --> 1:08:56.000 Sego was more than happy to say like, yeah, further's 1:08:56.040 --> 1:08:58.439 the you know, that's why it's not like, people go like, 1:08:58.439 --> 1:08:59.960 are you irrigated that you're not in? And I was like, 1:09:00.240 --> 1:09:01.920 I didn't think that I was going to be in 1:09:01.920 --> 1:09:05.120 that from the get go. Let alone in Cameo or anything. 1:09:05.120 --> 1:09:07.680 It's like it was just it's a different entity. And 1:09:07.760 --> 1:09:09.880 yet people when I say to people, I go, I'm 1:09:10.160 --> 1:09:12.320 you're still but you're also still voicing him because it's 1:09:12.320 --> 1:09:14.640 still as far as I know, yeah, as far as 1:09:14.680 --> 1:09:17.439 the next games coming out. But but but I always 1:09:17.439 --> 1:09:19.000 looking at it. Yeah, but we're a part of something 1:09:19.040 --> 1:09:22.080 too that like that will help further the franchise, and 1:09:22.680 --> 1:09:24.439 so why would I be against it. It's like, you know, 1:09:24.560 --> 1:09:28.000 getting a versions of Captain America and Batman and all 1:09:28.080 --> 1:09:30.800 kind of stuff, So yeah, there's gotta be something for everybody. 1:09:31.320 --> 1:09:34.559 I love. It was that inspirational. Yeah, I was gonna say, 1:09:35.760 --> 1:09:39.559 I am there's a Latin American pop star, Carol Savia, 1:09:39.600 --> 1:09:42.439 and she's voicing me in the Spanish version of Ralph 1:09:42.439 --> 1:09:45.679 Breaks the Internet because she's singing a song for Ralph 1:09:45.720 --> 1:09:48.839 Breaks the Internet And I am not a Latin American 1:09:48.880 --> 1:09:52.320 pop star that has like eight million followers, and she 1:09:52.520 --> 1:09:54.840 is more famous for playing me than I am for 1:09:54.920 --> 1:09:58.120 playing me. She announced that she's playing Danny Fernanez. I 1:09:58.120 --> 1:09:59.760 don't think she knows that I'm a person and not 1:09:59.800 --> 1:10:02.240 just a character. But people are like, how come you 1:10:02.240 --> 1:10:04.760 didn't voice her? Like and I know, like I only 1:10:04.760 --> 1:10:07.160 have three lines I could easily do in Spanish. But 1:10:07.240 --> 1:10:10.639 I was like, I think it's because she's a Latin 1:10:10.680 --> 1:10:13.760 American pop star and she's in like she's from the 1:10:13.800 --> 1:10:16.840 Disney Channel, so when they're doing those, I'm not known 1:10:16.880 --> 1:10:20.240 in Latin America, like I mean, I'm Mexican, but like 1:10:20.800 --> 1:10:24.360 she's bigger, she's eight million followers, So yeah, I was. 1:10:24.439 --> 1:10:26.639 I was more like, this is really cool and weird 1:10:26.680 --> 1:10:29.840 that she's voicing me, Like that's that's it's so meta. 1:10:30.080 --> 1:10:31.559 I think people don't like to think of this as 1:10:31.600 --> 1:10:33.280 a business though, too, like because these are the things 1:10:33.320 --> 1:10:34.960 that they love when they connect with on a certain 1:10:35.040 --> 1:10:36.519 level that they don't they don't like to think of 1:10:36.520 --> 1:10:39.040 the commerce aspect of it. But again you have to 1:10:39.040 --> 1:10:41.160 look at and go if the commerce fails, so does 1:10:41.200 --> 1:10:43.760 everything you love about this. So it's a it's a 1:10:43.800 --> 1:10:47.160 weird makes for strange bedfellows, as they say, and it's 1:10:47.200 --> 1:10:48.800 a it's a weird dance that you have to do. 1:10:49.120 --> 1:10:50.680 It's kind of like you know when people start looking 1:10:50.720 --> 1:10:54.519 at that, going, oh, they're trying to hit certain markets. Yeah, 1:10:54.560 --> 1:10:57.439 they have to so different than like somebody back in 1:10:57.920 --> 1:11:02.120 nineteen nine or eighty eight walking with his sketches of 1:11:02.479 --> 1:11:04.519 Mr Needle Mouse and asking people on the streets in 1:11:04.520 --> 1:11:06.439 New York what do you think about this? Yeah, it's 1:11:06.479 --> 1:11:08.880 because if you like this, if you think this is cool, 1:11:09.240 --> 1:11:11.400 we want to get something that appeals to as many 1:11:11.439 --> 1:11:14.320 people as possible. People don't like hearing that, because after all, 1:11:14.600 --> 1:11:16.840 this is for me, and I don't like it. So 1:11:16.880 --> 1:11:20.000 I'm gonna get rid astertly worded now in Sonic's voice, 1:11:20.640 --> 1:11:25.519 this is for me it dr rig Head. Thank you 1:11:25.600 --> 1:11:29.160 Roger again for coming on. I am Danny Fernandez. You 1:11:29.160 --> 1:11:31.679 can catch both of us in Ralph Break's Internet which 1:11:31.720 --> 1:11:36.439 is currently out, and uh follow Roger on Twitter for 1:11:36.479 --> 1:11:39.800 all of his announcements. Yes he has a lot of 1:11:39.800 --> 1:11:44.720 announcements me if you way on Twitter and Instagram, I 1:11:44.840 --> 1:11:48.200 f y d E if he's on Twitch. Lots of 1:11:48.240 --> 1:11:51.160 NERD fam chopped in the stream. Some of you all 1:11:51.280 --> 1:11:53.760 rated me. Thank you so much. Keep up the love. 1:11:54.080 --> 1:11:57.040 You'll probably hear Roger on stream as I play some 1:11:57.080 --> 1:12:00.479 soul Caliber six with my main sick free Oh man, 1:12:00.640 --> 1:12:06.040 Oh yeah, that's my main stufton shelfton. So so that's 1:12:06.080 --> 1:12:09.080 that's that's our boy. When you hear me getting tossed 1:12:09.160 --> 1:12:13.600 up while I try and get good. Uh, Danny, you 1:12:13.600 --> 1:12:15.559 got anything coming up? Did you already say? What's coming 1:12:15.640 --> 1:12:17.599 up for you? I think so? Just follow me on Twitter. 1:12:17.640 --> 1:12:20.480 That's where in oh my book, Yeah, I was announced. 1:12:20.640 --> 1:12:23.400 Um so I got to finally announced and share. I 1:12:23.439 --> 1:12:26.479 was very honored to write in The Good Immigrant, which 1:12:26.640 --> 1:12:29.679 was actually a collection of essays from actors and writers 1:12:29.680 --> 1:12:31.000 of color as a book that came out in the 1:12:31.120 --> 1:12:33.439 UK a couple of years ago that riz A Med 1:12:33.600 --> 1:12:35.960 very famously wrote, and I think his essay was called 1:12:36.240 --> 1:12:38.880 Airports and Audition Rooms. It's basically talks about what it's 1:12:38.920 --> 1:12:42.599 like to be a creator of color when you're only 1:12:43.560 --> 1:12:47.880 wanted or appreciated when you're famous or whatever. I was 1:12:47.920 --> 1:12:50.680 asked to contribute in the American edition, and so we 1:12:50.840 --> 1:12:53.920 just announced that. Um, I'm very excited for everyone to 1:12:53.960 --> 1:12:56.360 read my essay. There's also a ton of very talented 1:12:56.439 --> 1:12:59.439 writers of color that contributed, and that is dropping March 1:12:59.560 --> 1:13:04.400 twenty nineteen, but I tweeted out the book cover today, 1:13:04.640 --> 1:13:07.680 noise Yeah. I think that's it. I think that we 1:13:08.560 --> 1:13:12.240 need to say what we always say, iffy yeah. Sometimes 1:13:12.320 --> 1:13:16.080 you feel you're stuck in second gear when it hasn't 1:13:16.120 --> 1:13:19.639 been your day, your month, your week, or even your year. 1:13:21.640 --> 1:13:26.240 I'll be there for you when the rain starts to 1:13:26.320 --> 1:13:29.160 fun to do. I don't even know where the clops 1:13:29.160 --> 1:13:32.160 are where we already a joke. You broke your love life, 1:13:32.200 --> 1:13:42.960 went away staying stay near to y'all. Thanks for listening.