1 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 1: All right, Will Fredell, here, guys, you get to do 2 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:22,119 Speaker 1: one of the best interviews with one. 3 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:30,160 Speaker 2: Of the gods of voiceover. Welcome back you, guys. 4 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:33,880 Speaker 1: We are here at Magical rewind giving you. We say 5 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:36,640 Speaker 1: all the time that it's a special episode, but this 6 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:40,320 Speaker 1: for me is gonna be already I know, one of 7 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: my absolute favorite episodes. I don't get a lot of 8 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:47,839 Speaker 1: time to hang out with Will outside of podcasting. Right 9 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:51,640 Speaker 1: when we do, we're usually doing something for work and 10 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 1: we haven't had a chance to sit down and I 11 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 1: don't get to bombard him with a million of questions 12 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 1: that I have about you, your incredible career. Now you've 13 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:04,600 Speaker 1: done all of the podcasting that you've done, You've got 14 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:07,639 Speaker 1: like you're one of the most hired podcasters as well, 15 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:08,960 Speaker 1: doing what are You? 16 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:11,120 Speaker 2: What are we on? Seventeen podcasts? Were you at this? 17 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 3: Now? I do your three podcasts. 18 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 1: The main one is your iconic role on Boy Meets 19 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 1: World and all the podcasting you get to do with 20 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 1: your wonderful castmates, and how fun it is to go 21 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:24,680 Speaker 1: through how many years again was it of your life 22 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:25,680 Speaker 1: that you were on the show. 23 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:28,040 Speaker 3: Seven We did seven seasons of Boy Meets World and 24 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:30,240 Speaker 3: now I think we're coming up on four or five 25 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 3: years as already doing the podcast. Four years of the podcast, 26 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:33,679 Speaker 3: I think. 27 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, And how incredible is it to go back and 28 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:38,480 Speaker 1: just relive it, you know, talk about all of the 29 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:42,840 Speaker 1: behind the scenes. I know that the fans absolutely just 30 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 1: eat it up. They love hearing your guys' stories and 31 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 1: how you guys see the roles and the decisions that 32 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 1: were made on your show back then to watch them 33 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: now in twenty twenty six. How different the world isn't 34 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:58,120 Speaker 1: the industry is and everything. But I really want to 35 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 1: take this moment and dive a little bit deeper or 36 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:04,920 Speaker 1: inter profile on voice acting. Okay, I mean your voice 37 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:10,399 Speaker 1: acting career is phenomenal. Anyone that follows you or has 38 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:13,760 Speaker 1: ever worked with you has it just is in awe. 39 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:16,079 Speaker 1: We all are in awe of what you can do, 40 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 1: and so I really have a lot of it. But 41 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 1: of course here on Magical Rewind, what we always do 42 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:22,840 Speaker 1: is we start at the beginning. 43 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 2: You know, we've we've heard a lot. 44 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 1: Already about how you got into the the career of acting, 45 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 1: but how did you transition from being an actor on 46 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 1: screen into your voiceover work. 47 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 3: Well, first of all, Sabrina thanks for having me on 48 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 3: the show. I'm a big fan. 49 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:41,240 Speaker 2: You know you were a hard get you were. I 50 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 2: mean I had to call that agent. I had to 51 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 2: figure out Sue's phone number. 52 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 3: That when our producers said, hey, you know, because we 53 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 3: did the Kim Possible movie, why don't we interview you 54 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:52,640 Speaker 3: about your career, I was like, but I'm on the show. 55 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 3: But yeah, So it's nice to be here. Long, long 56 00:02:56,200 --> 00:03:01,240 Speaker 3: time listener, first time caller. Perfect. Yes, I was. So. 57 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:02,720 Speaker 3: I was on Boy Means for All at the time, 58 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 3: and my agent called me and asked me if I 59 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 3: and I love telling the story because it makes me 60 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 3: laugh every time I say it, ask me if I 61 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:14,360 Speaker 3: had any interest in playing Batman? And so it's like, again, 62 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 3: who says no? Of course? 63 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 2: So we were you intimidated? 64 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 3: Were you? Or? Oh my god? I was awful. I 65 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 3: mean the idea. First of all, I didn't think I 66 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:28,800 Speaker 3: had any possibility, like even slight possible chance of getting 67 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 3: the role. So it was like, hey, do you want 68 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 3: to come in and read for Batman? Now. I should 69 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 3: preface this by saying I was a huge nerd and 70 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 3: a big fan of animation, A massive fan of animation 71 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 3: growing up. 72 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 2: I love that you chose the word was but well, yeah, what. 73 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 3: I still am but at the time was even more. 74 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 3: The cartoons were basically other than Sitcom my favorite thing 75 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 3: as a kid. Every generation says that they had the 76 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 3: best cartoons, but mine did. I had g I Joe, Transformer, 77 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 3: is He Man, Mask, Gobots, ThunderCats, silver Hawks, you name it. 78 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 3: I had it. It was the best. And so I 79 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 3: loved cartoons. I just loved it. And one of the 80 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 3: greatest cartoons that ever came out, arguably, I think when 81 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:20,159 Speaker 3: you go back to Western animation, because you know there's 82 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:23,719 Speaker 3: a big push right now for Eastern animation, anime things 83 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 3: like that. When you look at Western animation, the animated series, 84 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 3: in my opinion, that changed the whole ball game was 85 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 3: the original Batman, the animated series. Kevin Conroy, Who's the 86 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:36,840 Speaker 3: best that ever played. When everyone says who's your favorite Batman, 87 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:40,800 Speaker 3: there's one answer, It's Kevin Conroy. So when Kevin was 88 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:44,479 Speaker 3: cast as Batman, Andrea Romano is directing, Bruce tim and 89 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 3: Paul Deney are producing and writing, Glen Muracami, there's so 90 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 3: many people that are involved in the show and it 91 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:57,360 Speaker 3: changed everything about animation. So, first of all just the look. 92 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 3: Everything was printed on white paper. They printed their on 93 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:03,039 Speaker 3: black paper so that it was dark and gritty, and 94 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 3: they colored in the black paper as opposed to the year. 95 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:06,720 Speaker 3: And this is still pencil drawing back in the day, 96 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:09,159 Speaker 3: So this is the late eighties early nineties that this 97 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 3: was happening. The acting was in cartoony. You know, before 98 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 3: you'd always like if there was a reporter on a cartoon, 99 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 3: it was always like this, just in and tomorrow, my 100 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 3: Andre Romano calls that puky. It's like, don't do it, puky, 101 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 3: Like you're doing a cartoon. I'm playing an announcer. And 102 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 3: it was red like a straight nineteen thirties radio show. 103 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 3: So this was these were actors sitting together in a room. 104 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:37,120 Speaker 3: If you were playing an announcer, you were doing it 105 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:39,240 Speaker 3: like an announcer. If you were playing a reporter, you 106 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:41,240 Speaker 3: were doing it like a reporter. If you were a detective, 107 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 3: you sounded like a detective. So it changed the whole 108 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 3: ballgame for animation. So they finished Batman the animated series, 109 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 3: and Warner Brothers went to Bruce tim and said, we 110 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 3: want you to make a teenage Batman, something light, a 111 00:05:56,560 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 3: lot less dark and an Edgy than Batman, the animated series, 112 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 3: and they got to work and so they they pitched 113 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:06,359 Speaker 3: this show called at the time it was called Batman 114 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 3: of Tomorrow or Batman Tomorrow was when I got the audition. 115 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 3: It was called Batman Tomorrow. And so my agent called 116 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:14,760 Speaker 3: and said, they want you to come in and read 117 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:17,839 Speaker 3: for this role. I kind of laughed, saying, there's of course, 118 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:19,800 Speaker 3: but there's no way in hell a. I'd never done 119 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:23,160 Speaker 3: voiceover before in my life, wown any amount of voiceover. 120 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 3: And so I went in and I read. It seemed 121 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:30,360 Speaker 3: to go well, but that's all I knew. I met 122 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:31,480 Speaker 3: Andrea met. 123 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:34,680 Speaker 1: Did you get any vice before, advice from anyone, like 124 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:36,040 Speaker 1: anyone to call? 125 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:37,360 Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, she just went. 126 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 3: My friend at the time, Jason Marsden, helped me a bit, 127 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:43,040 Speaker 3: but not that much because he was also going out 128 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:44,840 Speaker 3: for the role and Batman was his favorite thing in 129 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 3: the world, so I'm sure he didn't give me any 130 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 3: tips that would actually help. 131 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 2: He's like, you should play it like you have. 132 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 3: A cold exactly. Have you ever thought of just doing 133 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 3: it Australian you know, hi, my own Batman. Yeah. So 134 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:00,840 Speaker 3: I went in and read. It went very well and 135 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:02,800 Speaker 3: I left, and so they called and they said, they 136 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 3: want to give you a call back, and they want 137 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:06,360 Speaker 3: to go in. I went in. I think a little earlier. 138 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:08,520 Speaker 3: This time, I worked with Andrea Romano, who was still 139 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:10,480 Speaker 3: a very close friend of mine. She became one of 140 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 3: the most important people in my life and in my career. 141 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 3: She has more Emmys than I do friends, and the 142 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 3: way she does it is the best. You walk in 143 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:18,600 Speaker 3: and she's got all our emmys up, but they're all 144 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:24,760 Speaker 3: just in Barbie clothes. It's the coolest and so, uh, 145 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 3: she's the best. And so she worked with me, and 146 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 3: we worked together and I had my second audition and 147 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:31,640 Speaker 3: I felt really good about it. And then I left 148 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 3: and then they called again and they said they want 149 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:36,640 Speaker 3: to read me again. I was like, ooh, something good. 150 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 3: And that's when I walked in and Kevin Conroy was there, 151 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 3: and so, being a Batman fan, I was like, oh 152 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 3: my god, that's Kevin Conroy. 153 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 1: Oh my and so my last him. 154 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:49,760 Speaker 3: No was with him. We got in the booth together 155 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:54,200 Speaker 3: and read this read the scene. 156 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 2: And you weren't told ahead of time? 157 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 3: Nope, Oh my god. 158 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 2: I walked in somewhere in like Gwen'stefi. 159 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 3: Like, that's what it was. Was the equal I always 160 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:05,560 Speaker 3: tell people who don't understand the animation world. Being cast 161 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 3: as Batman in your first animated series ever with Kevin Conroy, 162 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:12,960 Speaker 3: with Andrea Romano, with Bruce Tim and Paul Deini, with 163 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 3: all the incredible writers that we had, was the equivalent 164 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:18,840 Speaker 3: of saying, oh, you've never acted before, you're now starring 165 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 3: in a Steven Spielberg movie. I mean, this was like, 166 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:26,120 Speaker 3: this is the pinnacle of animation. Wow. So it was amazing, 167 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 3: and we read and we joked around, and Kevin couldn't 168 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:31,680 Speaker 3: have been nicer, and we had this awesome time, and 169 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:33,719 Speaker 3: I found out that I booked the role, and that's 170 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 3: when I talked to Andrea about it and she said, oh, 171 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:39,920 Speaker 3: I didn't know who you were, she said, sadly, she said, 172 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 3: Bruce Tim's wife, the producer's wife and creator's wife, was 173 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:45,880 Speaker 3: a big Boy meets World fan, and said there's a 174 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:48,840 Speaker 3: guy on there for your young Batman that you should read. 175 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:52,320 Speaker 3: So thanks to Bruce Tim's wife, I started a whole 176 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 3: new career for me, or a whole different, you know, 177 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:59,640 Speaker 3: offshoot of my career. So I went in and we 178 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 3: started Batman, which then was changed. I guess technically they 179 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:05,840 Speaker 3: had they thought that it was going to be too 180 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 3: confusing to advertise if it was called Batman Tomorrow, if 181 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:16,680 Speaker 3: they'd say, like Batman Tomorrow Wednesday. So they changed it 182 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 3: to Batman Beyond. And the first recording session, Kevin Conroy 183 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:24,360 Speaker 3: taught me how to be a voiceover actor. You know, 184 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:26,840 Speaker 3: there was things I was doing where you know, you've 185 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:28,520 Speaker 3: got a microphone in front of you, but as an actor, 186 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:30,400 Speaker 3: if Kevin sitting next to you, he would say a 187 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 3: line and I would turn off microphone and talk to 188 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 3: him and he's like, nope, back into the microphone, will 189 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:37,400 Speaker 3: and I would turn off. You know, at the time, 190 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:40,679 Speaker 3: we had no screens. You know everyone it's all done 191 00:09:40,679 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 3: on iPad now, but we had pages, and if you're 192 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 3: reading it as you're going, you had to learn how 193 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 3: to turn your pages without making a sound. 194 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 2: So you had to, oh my gosh, I didn't even 195 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:50,360 Speaker 2: think about that. 196 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 3: How to do that. He's teaching me how to roll 197 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 3: my shoulders back, how to open up my diaphragm. He 198 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:58,720 Speaker 3: taught me this style of acting which was very, very different, 199 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:03,200 Speaker 3: and it started my great love, which is being behind 200 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:06,360 Speaker 3: a microphone. So it was because I fell into this 201 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:08,400 Speaker 3: role that I was able to find a whole new 202 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:11,120 Speaker 3: avenue of acting amazing. 203 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:13,560 Speaker 1: And were you were you one of like were you 204 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 1: a kid that was going around? I can imagine a 205 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:21,560 Speaker 1: baby will just like running around with all these funny voices? 206 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:23,280 Speaker 2: Were you doing that? Because you told me you were 207 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:23,880 Speaker 2: a goofball? 208 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:26,960 Speaker 1: Like, did you have like a specific one that like 209 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 1: if I asked your mom, she'd say, oh, my gosh, 210 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:29,840 Speaker 1: she always did this. 211 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:33,240 Speaker 3: No, we always did different I always did different people. 212 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:35,600 Speaker 3: One of the ones I did was a voice that 213 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 3: I did when I would inflate my cheeks so I 214 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 3: can inflate I can speak with my cheeks full of air, 215 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:45,199 Speaker 3: so first it makes a funny sound, which is when 216 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:48,679 Speaker 3: it gets open, like cheeks up, and then you start 217 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:55,200 Speaker 3: doing so I would do things like that, and then 218 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 3: I would just start doing accents. I started doing bad 219 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 3: Scottish accents and you know, just British accents and all 220 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 3: the different kind of accents you can do growing up. 221 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:06,320 Speaker 3: And yeah, I just started to do stupid, funny voices. 222 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 3: But I never I was equated to that, to just 223 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:10,760 Speaker 3: being an actor. I never thought about being a going 224 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:12,360 Speaker 3: into the world a voiceover at all. 225 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:16,160 Speaker 1: So for us who really don't know much about that world, 226 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:20,200 Speaker 1: what is it like in comparison to like, do you 227 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:24,320 Speaker 1: have like a voice actor agent? And like how does 228 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:26,920 Speaker 1: how did the auditions come? I'm sure it has changed 229 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:30,080 Speaker 1: since back then, but how do auditions. 230 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 2: Come in front of you now? 231 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:33,439 Speaker 1: RW that my all virtual and all of that, like 232 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:38,199 Speaker 1: you audition in your own studio in this way? 233 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 3: Well, it depends. I mean, so the first two so 234 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:44,320 Speaker 3: I had a regular on camera agent who who got 235 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:46,160 Speaker 3: Boy Meets World from our excuse, the same one who 236 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:47,840 Speaker 3: got Boy Meets World for me also got the call 237 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:49,680 Speaker 3: for Batman Beyond Right, but. 238 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:51,360 Speaker 2: That was an offer, like not an. 239 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:53,040 Speaker 3: Offers an audition through. 240 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:54,200 Speaker 2: The audition through them. Yeah. 241 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:56,520 Speaker 3: And then the next audition that I had for a 242 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:59,400 Speaker 3: voiceover was after Batman Beyond Ended, was for a show 243 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 3: call Kimpass and that was also through this agent. And 244 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:07,320 Speaker 3: then so with I had two very big voiceover shows 245 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:10,040 Speaker 3: under my belt. So then again I went to Jason 246 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:12,240 Speaker 3: Marson and I said, hey, you know, I think I 247 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 3: should probably have a voiceover agent, and he said, yeah, 248 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 3: it's ridiculous that you don't. He brought me into his 249 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:18,360 Speaker 3: agency at the time, CEESD he hasn't been with them 250 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 3: for years. They're still my voiceover agent. That was twenty 251 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:26,080 Speaker 3: some odd years ago, twenty five years ago, and they've 252 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 3: been my agent ever since. So the business has changed 253 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:31,880 Speaker 3: quite a bit. So before it used to take forever 254 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:34,840 Speaker 3: you'd go. You'd actually drive into CESD, which is far 255 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:36,720 Speaker 3: from here. For me, it's like forty minutes over the 256 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:39,360 Speaker 3: mountain with over the hill with no traffic, thirty five 257 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 3: thirty minutes with no traffic, seven days with traffic in 258 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 3: LA And you would go there and there would be 259 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:48,840 Speaker 3: three booths that they had with engineers there and you'd 260 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 3: walk in and there'd be fifty people waiting, And so 261 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:52,959 Speaker 3: there were times where you'd wait two hours to get 262 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 3: a booth to go read the stack of auditions you'd have, 263 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:57,719 Speaker 3: and you'd look at it. And this is the thing 264 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 3: that I absolutely love about voiceovers. Everybody's still auditions for everything. 265 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 3: I mean, you get offered things here and there, but 266 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 3: everyone still auditions for everything. Best voice wins. Just because 267 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:08,800 Speaker 3: you're the greatest voiceover actor in the world doesn't mean 268 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:11,160 Speaker 3: you're going to get something. But I've worked with some 269 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:13,600 Speaker 3: of the best voice of actors in the history of voiceover, 270 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 3: and those men and women still audition for stuff. So 271 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:19,960 Speaker 3: you'll get a stack of things and you'll have three 272 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:24,080 Speaker 3: commercials and two animated things and one scratch track and 273 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:25,960 Speaker 3: one and so you're in the booth for twenty minutes, 274 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:28,480 Speaker 3: twenty five minutes, and you bust through your list of 275 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:32,720 Speaker 3: things and then you forget about it. And sometimes six 276 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 3: months later, eight months later, a year later, it'd be like, hey, 277 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:37,680 Speaker 3: remember that audition you had when you were playing that 278 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:40,080 Speaker 3: frog and you're like nope, and they're like, all right, 279 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:41,920 Speaker 3: well you booked that and you've got to go in tomorrow. 280 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:44,000 Speaker 3: And then they have your audition and it's like, oh, 281 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:45,440 Speaker 3: that was the voice I did, and then you kind 282 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:48,079 Speaker 3: of voice match what you did. But that's how it 283 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:51,840 Speaker 3: used to be. Then COVID hit and now everybody just 284 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:54,080 Speaker 3: auditions from home. So I don't think those bootherery even 285 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:54,560 Speaker 3: still there. 286 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 2: It's ESD. 287 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:58,880 Speaker 3: Everyone auditions from home, and you know, it's still the 288 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 3: same process with you know, you audition in bulk and 289 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:03,319 Speaker 3: you get the ones you get. 290 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 1: And I've never been to your house and to see 291 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:09,880 Speaker 1: this booth, but it looks like it's like soundproof and 292 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:12,480 Speaker 1: like fully like a legit booth that you have in 293 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:12,840 Speaker 1: your house. 294 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 3: Is that it is? Yeah, I do. I don't. It's funny. 295 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:17,920 Speaker 3: I need to upgrade for broadcast because I still don't. 296 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,280 Speaker 3: Like most people now record this stuff, even that you 297 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:24,400 Speaker 3: see on TV, from their homes. Wow, that's why the 298 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:28,080 Speaker 3: pandemic didn't really, I actually turned animation into a booming 299 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:31,440 Speaker 3: business because we could record everything from home. I always 300 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:34,480 Speaker 3: hated that. I don't mind auditioning from home, but I 301 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:37,080 Speaker 3: prefer to audition with people. But I need a booth 302 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 3: with an engineer and a director telling me I sound terrible, 303 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:42,200 Speaker 3: like I'll because I'll do a take and be like, ah, 304 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:45,160 Speaker 3: that was the best thing ever. And then I'll listen 305 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:47,200 Speaker 3: back later and be like that was awful, And I 306 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:50,080 Speaker 3: need a director to be like no, no, that's bad. So 307 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 3: I still go in where they say, can you record 308 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:55,680 Speaker 3: from your home? I say I can, but not for broadcast. 309 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:57,240 Speaker 3: But I still want to go in and get a booth. 310 00:14:57,400 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 3: And I still go in and record all the animated 311 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:03,040 Speaker 3: stuff if I do from an actual recording fast somewhere. 312 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 2: Yeah. 313 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:12,640 Speaker 1: Do you have to keep your voice like in shape 314 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:14,680 Speaker 1: of any sort? Like do you like you know, like 315 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:18,000 Speaker 1: vocal training for singing like you have to keep up 316 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 1: on it, right, You have to do certain things to 317 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:23,240 Speaker 1: keep your vocal cords healthy, things like that. 318 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:25,600 Speaker 2: Are you Is it the same for you? 319 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:28,600 Speaker 3: And well, yeah, I mean for years I would only 320 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 3: smoke light cigarettes because I wanted to make sure my 321 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:35,880 Speaker 3: voice would No, I mean you should probably, but I don't. 322 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:38,520 Speaker 3: I just talk all day, especially now with the podcasting. 323 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, it's so you know, yesterday I did 324 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:45,280 Speaker 3: three episodes of you know, over three hours of podcasting. 325 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 3: Today by the time I'm done, I'm doing two episodes 326 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:50,240 Speaker 3: with you, and then I have an episode later today. 327 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:52,400 Speaker 3: So I'm doing three hours of podcasting again today. I'm 328 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:55,440 Speaker 3: doing three hours of podcasting again tomorrow. So I just 329 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 3: talk all the time. I'm so sick of my own voice. 330 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:00,160 Speaker 3: So no, and I've had I've had vocal issue is 331 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:02,720 Speaker 3: because of that. I not nodules, but I'll have things 332 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:04,480 Speaker 3: that grow on your vocal cords. You have to then 333 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:06,840 Speaker 3: take some time off and you have to do vocal 334 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 3: rests or take animal do that kind of stuff. 335 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 2: When you get infections and things, and. 336 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 3: That affects everything. And so no, I mean I do 337 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 3: what I can to keep my voice up, but it's 338 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:21,680 Speaker 3: it's just a lot of talking. 339 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:24,480 Speaker 1: Yes, And do you have like so within the like 340 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:27,880 Speaker 1: getting back like the vocal work, you know, your your 341 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:31,200 Speaker 1: voice acting. Is it hard to keep like one of 342 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:34,480 Speaker 1: your like characters because I mean I imagine it's kind 343 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:37,040 Speaker 1: of like strained a bit like sometimes to get some 344 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:41,320 Speaker 1: of your like, yeah, more different or difficult voices for 345 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:43,400 Speaker 1: your characters. Is it tough to do that for like 346 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:45,000 Speaker 1: a full episode of recording? 347 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:47,760 Speaker 3: It depends where it is in your register. I mean, so, 348 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:52,200 Speaker 3: for instance, I stopped doing video games years ago because 349 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:54,480 Speaker 3: you know, the last one I did was a long 350 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:56,440 Speaker 3: time ago. It was a Medal of Honor video game, 351 00:16:57,120 --> 00:17:04,239 Speaker 3: and I screamed for five or six days straight of 352 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:08,879 Speaker 3: four hour sessions, and I've I shredded my vocal cords. Yeah, 353 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:11,199 Speaker 3: and so I mean you're yelling and screaming forever, and 354 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:13,640 Speaker 3: it's like, okay, if I want to have any sustainability 355 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:16,399 Speaker 3: in this industry, I can't do that, right. So it 356 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:18,639 Speaker 3: depends on where it is. You know, if you're higher 357 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:20,360 Speaker 3: up in your voice, like when I go to around stoppable, 358 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:21,679 Speaker 3: I can put it in my throat a little bit 359 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:23,720 Speaker 3: more so it's kind of easier. It's almost more nasal, 360 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:27,560 Speaker 3: whereas Batman's you know, down here and far deeper. So 361 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:32,199 Speaker 3: it depends what you're doing, where it is in how 362 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:34,000 Speaker 3: much of a strain it is on your voice. 363 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:37,439 Speaker 1: Wow, So you I mean you kind of mentioned it. 364 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:39,600 Speaker 1: So you get at this point, you get your agent, 365 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:41,480 Speaker 1: you know, and you start going in. 366 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:43,119 Speaker 2: Are you like locked in? 367 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:45,800 Speaker 1: I would imagine after Batman and Kim Possible will be like, 368 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 1: this is what I want to do forever. 369 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:50,560 Speaker 2: I now, Like, was that like how it was for you? 370 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:53,480 Speaker 1: Like you just kind of were you like, No, I 371 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:55,560 Speaker 1: don't think this is going to be big or no. 372 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:57,879 Speaker 3: I loved it. I loved it from the jump. But 373 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:00,400 Speaker 3: I was the sitcom actor. That's all I ever wanted 374 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:01,480 Speaker 3: to be from the time I was a kid. Was 375 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:04,480 Speaker 3: a sit god actor. And thank god I had voiceover 376 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:06,880 Speaker 3: because when I was and I've talked about this ad 377 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:11,520 Speaker 3: nauseum now, but my anxiety disorder really hit me when 378 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 3: I was twenty two twenty three, and so for years 379 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 3: I couldn't go on camera. I was just my career 380 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:21,959 Speaker 3: was over because of my mental health issues. So until 381 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:24,760 Speaker 3: I really got a handle on that, my only creative 382 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:28,680 Speaker 3: outlet was voiceover and a thank God that I had 383 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:31,800 Speaker 3: it and b that people were casting me, and it 384 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:34,480 Speaker 3: is a massive love in my life. It is my 385 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:40,680 Speaker 3: second greatest acting love, next to sitcom. Sitcom there's an audience, 386 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:43,399 Speaker 3: there's a vibe, there's an energy that you get that 387 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:46,399 Speaker 3: you just unless you do it, you don't know that. 388 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:48,800 Speaker 3: It's a drug. I mean, it really is at its 389 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:54,480 Speaker 3: addict absolutely is everything amazing and knowing and being. I mean, 390 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 3: every form of comedy is different. I mean, you'll you'll 391 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:00,800 Speaker 3: understand this because of how talented you are in this aspect. 392 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:04,199 Speaker 3: But every form of comedy is music. So there are 393 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:06,320 Speaker 3: certain forms of comedy. I mean, I just I can 394 00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:09,400 Speaker 3: hear the beat in my head. I know, I know comedy. 395 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:11,480 Speaker 3: I know how it's supposed to go. I know where 396 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:13,000 Speaker 3: you're supposed to go up and where you're supposed to 397 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:14,639 Speaker 3: go down, where you're supposed to pull it out. And 398 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:16,600 Speaker 3: my favorite thing in the world is finding actors that 399 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:20,159 Speaker 3: play off beat. And that's what I've done my best doing. 400 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:23,160 Speaker 3: You watch Chandler on Friends, where the joke is supposed 401 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 3: to be is not always where he puts the joke, 402 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:29,400 Speaker 3: and it's because of that he doubles the laugh and 403 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:32,199 Speaker 3: so when you when I was doing my best to 404 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:34,480 Speaker 3: do stuff like that. You think it's going one way, 405 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:36,719 Speaker 3: and the joke goes somewhere else, and because of that 406 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:39,000 Speaker 3: it becomes a bigger thing. So I love hearing the 407 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:42,679 Speaker 3: music and trying to change the beat doing that in 408 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:45,000 Speaker 3: front of an audience, which is a hybrid of being 409 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:48,560 Speaker 3: on camera, but also like doing a play with sitcom 410 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 3: is will forever be the love of my life and 411 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:52,880 Speaker 3: it's gone. It basically doesn't exist anymore, which is such 412 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:56,359 Speaker 3: a such a shame. Yeah, but voiceover care is such. 413 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:59,040 Speaker 2: A like ad lib and voice over work, like are 414 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:02,359 Speaker 2: you do? They like to to the script. 415 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:05,199 Speaker 3: Like everybody else, Like every other project. It depends on 416 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:07,320 Speaker 3: the directors you're working with, the writers you're working with, 417 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:09,639 Speaker 3: how what character you're playing, how long you're doing it. 418 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:12,240 Speaker 3: You know, you'll have a lot of directors that will 419 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:14,679 Speaker 3: they want you to hear write to the script. I 420 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:18,440 Speaker 3: mean certain things like Batman, which is a very specific 421 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:22,439 Speaker 3: written out drama. You're you're not ad libbing, You're really not. 422 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:24,520 Speaker 2: You What about Kim Possible? 423 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:26,480 Speaker 3: I had more of a chance as Ron Stoppable to 424 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:29,400 Speaker 3: throw in other dialogue and and things like that. Uh, 425 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:31,960 Speaker 3: star Lord, when I was doing did Guardians of the 426 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:34,480 Speaker 3: Galaxy for three seasons. It was star Lord. You could 427 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:36,800 Speaker 3: you could add lib here there. But it's also because 428 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:39,120 Speaker 3: i'd work the director was the director from Kim Possible. 429 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:41,480 Speaker 3: She was the director from Secret Saturdays. I'd known Lisa Schaeffer, 430 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:44,800 Speaker 3: who's another wonderful friend of mine. Uh and a phenomenal 431 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:47,600 Speaker 3: voiceover director. She did Big Hero six and ever. I mean, 432 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:52,800 Speaker 3: she's incredible as a voiceover director, Penguins of Mattagascar, tons 433 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:55,679 Speaker 3: of stuff. Uh So, when you work with somebody like 434 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 3: that and you you you develop that rapport. Comedically, you 435 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:01,639 Speaker 3: can you can get away with ad libin. But normally 436 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:02,879 Speaker 3: what you'll do is you'll do like you do on 437 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:04,440 Speaker 3: a sitcom, where you do it once kind of the 438 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:06,439 Speaker 3: way it's it's written, maybe twice kind of the way 439 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 3: it's written, and then you get a take to kind 440 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:10,359 Speaker 3: of play a little bit, so you can again, depending 441 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:12,000 Speaker 3: on who you're working with, if you're working with one 442 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:13,800 Speaker 3: of the greats like Andrea or Lisa, and you get 443 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:16,600 Speaker 3: you get those kind of uh you get that kind 444 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:18,359 Speaker 3: of rapport, then you have a little bit more leeway. 445 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:21,919 Speaker 1: Got it and you had mentioned I know when we 446 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:25,960 Speaker 1: did when we recapped Kim Possible, you had mentioned that 447 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:29,719 Speaker 1: I don't remember if it was Kim Possible or not, 448 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:32,679 Speaker 1: but what was during that recap that there's times where 449 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 1: you'll be in a room with other actors and you 450 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:38,520 Speaker 1: get to record with them. Do you prefer would you 451 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:41,320 Speaker 1: prefer doing that versus being in a booth alone? 452 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:44,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, here, I'm I'm not sure I've ever told 453 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:48,240 Speaker 3: the story. This might be exclusive to Magic. So I 454 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:51,199 Speaker 3: finished Batman Beyond, and the thing that Andrea Romano was 455 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:53,080 Speaker 3: so amazing at one of the one of the many 456 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:55,439 Speaker 3: things Andrea Romano and Lisa is both so amazing at 457 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:59,320 Speaker 3: his casting. So you never knew who you were going 458 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:01,879 Speaker 3: to be in the room with. When you walked into Batman. 459 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:05,280 Speaker 3: It was always Kevin and I. But then it's Mark Hamill, 460 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:08,400 Speaker 3: it's John Ritter, it's some of them, Terry Garr, it's 461 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:11,679 Speaker 3: some of the most amazing actors in history. You're sitting 462 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:13,680 Speaker 3: with and you're recording, and you read it like a 463 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:15,480 Speaker 3: straight radio play, like I said, from the thirties, So 464 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:17,640 Speaker 3: there might be ten or twelve actors in a room, 465 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:20,440 Speaker 3: fifteen actors in a room, and you're reading it straight through. 466 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:24,040 Speaker 3: I finished and then I booked Kim Possible and I 467 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:26,280 Speaker 3: did the pilot with Christy Carlson Romano. But then I 468 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:29,040 Speaker 3: was recording by myself. I did basically the entire first 469 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:32,920 Speaker 3: season alone, and I hated it. Yeah, and so I quit. 470 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:37,080 Speaker 2: I called you quit, Kim Possible. 471 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:41,800 Speaker 3: Basically, Yeah. I called Disney and I just said, I'm 472 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:43,439 Speaker 3: not I'm sorry. I'm not going to come back for 473 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:46,439 Speaker 3: season two. I'm just not enjoying the process. I love 474 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 3: the show, I love the people. I didn't have a 475 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:50,760 Speaker 3: problem with anyone I was working with. I just I 476 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:53,400 Speaker 3: didn't like being by myself. 477 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:56,880 Speaker 2: Gosh will that would be heart breaking? 478 00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:59,000 Speaker 3: I know, and it was because I really loved it. 479 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:02,320 Speaker 3: But they came back and said, Okay, let us make 480 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:05,879 Speaker 3: some changes. Christy was in New York at college, so 481 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:07,919 Speaker 3: obviously I wasn't going to be recording with her, but 482 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:11,520 Speaker 3: they changed the schedule. So now I was working with 483 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:15,000 Speaker 3: Lisa Schaeffer as the director. I was working with John 484 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 3: Imaggio who's Dracken, and Nicole Sullivan who she go. And 485 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:21,160 Speaker 3: then they bring in another up couple people, and so 486 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:23,679 Speaker 3: I got to record with people again. And then I 487 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:26,520 Speaker 3: loosened up and it got more enjoyable. And again I 488 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:28,560 Speaker 3: didn't quit like I need this or I'm quitting. It 489 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:30,159 Speaker 3: was I literally said to them. I remember, I was like, 490 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 3: you should recast me, Like you're going to find somebody 491 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:34,960 Speaker 3: who's going to do the role better. You're going to 492 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:36,920 Speaker 3: find somebody who's going to enjoy the process more. Like 493 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:38,320 Speaker 3: I sort of got him not trying to hold you 494 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:40,000 Speaker 3: guys up for more money. I'm not trying to hold 495 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:43,880 Speaker 3: you guys up for anything. I'm just not enjoying myself creatively. 496 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:46,560 Speaker 3: And I think you'll do better with the show if 497 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:50,560 Speaker 3: you find somebody else. I really said that, and they said, well, 498 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:55,720 Speaker 3: we don't agree, and they thankfully luckily, because I is 499 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 3: one of my favorite shows I've ever done and so 500 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:02,560 Speaker 3: important to people. But they messed with the schedule to 501 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:04,600 Speaker 3: let me record with other people. So that was the 502 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:06,440 Speaker 3: only diva moment I've ever had in my career. And 503 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:08,800 Speaker 3: it wasn't like if you don't do this, I'm walking away. 504 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:11,240 Speaker 3: I would never do that. It was just let me 505 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:13,280 Speaker 3: leave and you can go do it with whoever you 506 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:14,720 Speaker 3: want and make a p I get. 507 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:16,240 Speaker 1: That, And I mean, I don't know if that was 508 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:18,280 Speaker 1: around the time where you were kind of having some 509 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:22,120 Speaker 1: other issues too as far as you dealing with the anxiety. Yeah, yeah, 510 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:25,359 Speaker 1: I'm glad that you recognize this with something that you 511 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:28,240 Speaker 1: needed for your mental health, because that's so important. Like 512 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:31,880 Speaker 1: we've we've you and I've had some conversations of like 513 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:36,120 Speaker 1: being a young actor and just people pleasing and saying 514 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 1: yes to everything and showing up, and you know, I'm 515 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 1: totally I mean, my New Year's resolution was to actually 516 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:49,480 Speaker 1: say no, like to stop overscheduling me myself because I've 517 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 1: got to just think of not just myself, but I've 518 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:53,520 Speaker 1: got so much on my schedule for my daughter, like 519 00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:54,920 Speaker 1: and I've. 520 00:24:54,880 --> 00:25:00,160 Speaker 2: I've been absolute at it well saying no. I'm still horri. 521 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,680 Speaker 1: For yourself though with that because that was important and 522 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:07,920 Speaker 1: then you ended up enjoying it even that much more. 523 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,119 Speaker 3: But again that's what we're your condition to do as 524 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:13,879 Speaker 3: a child actor is the actors that worked, especially when 525 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:16,280 Speaker 3: you were very young, were the actors that had a 526 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:19,640 Speaker 3: big smile, were easy to work with, said yes sir, no, sir, 527 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,119 Speaker 3: knew where to stand, knew how to follow directions. You 528 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:25,720 Speaker 3: didn't make waves, and that's how you booked the Skittles 529 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 3: commercial and you booked the guest star on this and 530 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:30,840 Speaker 3: you got on the syncome uh, so it was I 531 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:33,720 Speaker 3: also just still to this day always look at myself 532 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:34,840 Speaker 3: like I can't believe I had to do this for 533 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,480 Speaker 3: a job. So I'm so happy to be able to 534 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 3: do it that I never want to make waves. But 535 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:40,879 Speaker 3: that leads to problems in my life too, where it's like, 536 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:42,760 Speaker 3: don't you can't say yes to everything, and you can't 537 00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:44,680 Speaker 3: be a pushover either, Like I can't just let people 538 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:46,560 Speaker 3: roll over me. So I'm trying to get better at 539 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:47,320 Speaker 3: all that stuff too. 540 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:47,960 Speaker 2: Yeah. 541 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,360 Speaker 1: Well good, I'm glad, and I'm glad that you ended up, 542 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:53,000 Speaker 1: you know, enjoying the process a lot more. 543 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:55,000 Speaker 2: As you went on with Can Possible. 544 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:56,880 Speaker 3: It became one of the greatest shows I've ever done 545 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:58,720 Speaker 3: in one of the huge joys in my career was 546 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:00,600 Speaker 3: doing that show with everybody. It was wonderful. 547 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:09,840 Speaker 1: Now you do this to so many of our guests. 548 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:11,080 Speaker 1: So I'm putting you on the line. 549 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:13,480 Speaker 2: Do you have a favorite episode? 550 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 3: Yes, I think one of my favorite episodes of Kim 551 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:19,920 Speaker 3: Possible was the episode where Kim and Ron switch bodies 552 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,600 Speaker 3: so their minds end up. So I'm I'm in Kim's body. 553 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:25,040 Speaker 2: I don't remember that one. 554 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:27,359 Speaker 3: That's good. That was so that was fun. And then 555 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:29,119 Speaker 3: I loved I really loved the movie that we did. 556 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:32,240 Speaker 3: I loved so the drama, Yes, it was really great. 557 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:34,040 Speaker 3: So yeah, I fully enjoyed that as well. 558 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 2: All Right, so I gotta ask you, yes, how did you? 559 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 1: I mean, we all are big fans of Kim Possible 560 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:47,879 Speaker 1: and Ron Stoppable. How did you create this character once 561 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 1: you got the script? Did it like do you visualize 562 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:54,960 Speaker 1: like meaning like, do you visualize your own character, like 563 00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:56,639 Speaker 1: it being drawn out and stuff? 564 00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:57,040 Speaker 2: Before? 565 00:26:57,840 --> 00:26:59,960 Speaker 3: Oh, they show you. They usually show you you like 566 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,280 Speaker 3: you'll go in for the auditions, there'll be some sort 567 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:04,000 Speaker 3: of artwork there where it's like, this is what the 568 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:05,440 Speaker 3: character is going to look like because you want the 569 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,040 Speaker 3: voice to kind of fit what it's going to look like. Okay, 570 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,840 Speaker 3: and so you do get to see that. But one 571 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:16,280 Speaker 3: of the biggest regrets in my entire acting career as 572 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:20,080 Speaker 3: can possible, not doing the show. Loved doing the show. 573 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,879 Speaker 3: My fault in that, if you watch the first season 574 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,719 Speaker 3: or so, my voice is very different than it was 575 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:30,359 Speaker 3: at the end, and I'm the one who kept making 576 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,640 Speaker 3: it go higher and higher and higher before he and 577 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:34,119 Speaker 3: by the end, he's all the way up here, Oh 578 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 3: my god, Kim. And that's so different than how he started. 579 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:39,119 Speaker 3: And if I could go back and do it again, 580 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:41,240 Speaker 3: I would keep it how he was at the beginning. 581 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:43,119 Speaker 3: That had nothing to do with the producers, nothing to 582 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,719 Speaker 3: the director. That was a choice as an actor, and 583 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:48,600 Speaker 3: that's one that I fully regret because I think Ron 584 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,240 Speaker 3: should have stayed where he was, and that was me 585 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 3: just pushing it too far. 586 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,479 Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean I think it is What do 587 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:57,040 Speaker 1: you think that was about it? 588 00:27:57,119 --> 00:27:57,840 Speaker 2: Like the character? 589 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,440 Speaker 1: Was it like just because like do you feel like 590 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:03,359 Speaker 1: you were getting funnier during like as you were doing it? 591 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:06,320 Speaker 3: Or maybe it was just I think it could just 592 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:08,720 Speaker 3: be that I tweaked the voice without even knowing that 593 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 3: I did it, because it was like we'd taken the 594 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:13,360 Speaker 3: season was over, and I come back and now I'm 595 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,800 Speaker 3: higher than I was, and I just went from there 596 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:18,360 Speaker 3: where you know, it was more like this, like come on, Kim, 597 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:20,399 Speaker 3: you gotta understand what then by yeah, he's all the 598 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,480 Speaker 3: way up here, I mean it was very much a 599 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:26,080 Speaker 3: big difference. So yeah, yeah, he was more and me like, look, 600 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:29,159 Speaker 3: it's just my essential ronness, Like that was he was 601 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,040 Speaker 3: kind of here and he was just a normal kid, 602 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:33,600 Speaker 3: but Danny got really nasal. 603 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:39,200 Speaker 1: And we how long did you say, as far as 604 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:44,160 Speaker 1: a Kim Possible movie like the d com did it 605 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:48,040 Speaker 1: take for you guys to record that length of a 606 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:50,440 Speaker 1: because you said it was basically time like it was 607 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:52,000 Speaker 1: two episodes. 608 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean, we probably were able to do 609 00:28:55,600 --> 00:29:00,160 Speaker 3: the Kim Possible Movie in one to three sessions. I 610 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,880 Speaker 3: don't remember, so my guess is it was probably. My 611 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:06,440 Speaker 3: guess is was probably two to three four hour sessions. 612 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:08,880 Speaker 3: You don't ever want to record for more than four 613 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,520 Speaker 3: hours for anything because your voice just gets shredded. And 614 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:14,320 Speaker 3: now I think I could be making this up, but you're, 615 00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:16,720 Speaker 3: by law for animation, you can't do more than four 616 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,320 Speaker 3: hour sessions. Oh really, And again that could be wrong, 617 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,560 Speaker 3: so don't come at me, but I think so. And 618 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,560 Speaker 3: so yeah, it's it's one of those things where we 619 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:27,840 Speaker 3: were able to by that point too, You've been doing 620 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:30,280 Speaker 3: the show for so long that you kind of it's like, 621 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 3: how long did it take us to do our first 622 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:35,120 Speaker 3: magical rewind where we're trying to figure things out? And 623 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:36,720 Speaker 3: now we get in and you kind of you know 624 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:38,520 Speaker 3: the show won't go long because we like to talk, 625 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:40,520 Speaker 3: but the actual format, we know what we're doing and 626 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:42,600 Speaker 3: we buzz through it. And it's because you just get 627 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:44,240 Speaker 3: it in your feet, so to speak. So you get 628 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:46,440 Speaker 3: it in your voice, and you're with the same cast 629 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:48,040 Speaker 3: you've been with for years, and so you just sit 630 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:49,480 Speaker 3: down and you just run through it. 631 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:53,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, do you have a favorite like, what's your favorite 632 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:54,800 Speaker 1: thing about your character Ron? 633 00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:58,960 Speaker 3: I think his heart, you know, I think how loyal 634 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:02,120 Speaker 3: Ron was to Kim. You know Kim is you know 635 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:05,000 Speaker 3: is Ron's the ultimate sidekick no matter where she goes. 636 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:09,280 Speaker 3: He also, you know, he has no powers. He has 637 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:11,600 Speaker 3: you know, can't fight at least in the beginning. He 638 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,200 Speaker 3: gets some at the end, but can't fight in the beginning. 639 00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,440 Speaker 3: Is very bumbling, but will always throw himself in danger 640 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:20,400 Speaker 3: just to be there to help him out. She usually 641 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:22,240 Speaker 3: for the worst for where where she's now got to 642 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:25,479 Speaker 3: save him too. But yeah, he's always there to help 643 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:27,479 Speaker 3: her no matter what kind of danger she's in. 644 00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:29,600 Speaker 2: So loyalty, that's yes. 645 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:33,640 Speaker 1: That and I remember talking about in our recap that 646 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:38,200 Speaker 1: I you know, there was a big you know, there 647 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:41,080 Speaker 1: was drama. That's so draw what's the drama like it 648 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,680 Speaker 1: was about at the end with the two of you guys, 649 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:47,120 Speaker 1: when you guys end up, you know, getting together, and 650 00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:49,720 Speaker 1: some people liking you more as friends, and I remember 651 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:50,600 Speaker 1: being one of those. 652 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:52,120 Speaker 2: People in the movie. I like it. 653 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,280 Speaker 1: I like it knowing that there is a season I 654 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:57,120 Speaker 1: never saw after it, that you guys are together now 655 00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,480 Speaker 1: fighting together. But one of the things I loved was 656 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:03,520 Speaker 1: showing that like loyalty as a friend, not a loyalty 657 00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,480 Speaker 1: as a couple, right, like husband wife or a couples. 658 00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,959 Speaker 2: You know, you partnered like that, you that loyalty is obvious. 659 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,080 Speaker 1: It was the fact that you were friends and you 660 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:14,680 Speaker 1: were still so argue and Ron. 661 00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:16,560 Speaker 2: Was still so loyal too. 662 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:17,000 Speaker 3: Sure. 663 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:20,920 Speaker 1: I thought that was just such an awesome like attribute 664 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:22,480 Speaker 1: that your character had. 665 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:23,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, I like that a lot. 666 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:31,800 Speaker 1: All right, Next question, what is a voice wish for you? 667 00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,760 Speaker 3: Oh god, Cobra commander from G I Joe. Oh my gosh, 668 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:37,400 Speaker 3: I don't even need to think about it. Cobra commander 669 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,200 Speaker 3: from Jo. I want to do it. I want there 670 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:41,800 Speaker 3: to be a G I Joe cartoon, Two Things G 671 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:44,040 Speaker 3: I Joe cartoon where I get to play Cobra commander 672 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:45,800 Speaker 3: because I very rarely get to play the bad guy, 673 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:49,040 Speaker 3: almost never really the good young hero, so that would 674 00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:51,920 Speaker 3: be good to do that. I also have gotten so 675 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:56,320 Speaker 3: close so many times and have never played a Ninja 676 00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:59,520 Speaker 3: turtle so and I was I had the perfect voice 677 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:01,160 Speaker 3: for it, especially when I was younger, and I got 678 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:04,000 Speaker 3: so close so many times on so many different iterations 679 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,480 Speaker 3: of teenage mutant ninja turtles. But I want to pick 680 00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:10,160 Speaker 3: a turtle. Don't care which one? Yep, don't car which one? Nope? 681 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:11,719 Speaker 2: Do you have a favorite turtle? 682 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:15,800 Speaker 3: I'm a Bicelangelo fan. But again you don't. Yeah, you 683 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:19,000 Speaker 3: know it doesn't matter. I I'm also a Rafael fan. No, 684 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:21,160 Speaker 3: I don't have a favorite Ninja Turtle because I like them, 685 00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:26,400 Speaker 3: but I would. But my first instinct is always Cobra 686 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,120 Speaker 3: Commander from G I Joe. G I Joe was my 687 00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:30,760 Speaker 3: when I was growing up. I would cry if I 688 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:32,840 Speaker 3: missed that show. I had all the toys. It was 689 00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:34,760 Speaker 3: my favorite thing. So I would love to do that. 690 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:38,400 Speaker 3: But I'm waiting for a Mask reboot. And that's not 691 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:41,440 Speaker 3: Jim Carrey the Mask. This is Mask, which was the 692 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:46,440 Speaker 3: Mobile Armors Mobile Armored Strike Command, which was a they 693 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:48,960 Speaker 3: kind of the same company. It was Hasbro, I think, 694 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:53,040 Speaker 3: but the toys were the best, and the cartoon was awesome. 695 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:55,960 Speaker 3: It's awful. I mean I've gone back, I've watched it. 696 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,920 Speaker 3: I have them. I mean to the point where there 697 00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,840 Speaker 3: are episodes where a character will be talking in the 698 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:05,080 Speaker 3: mouth won't be moving, and there are other scenes where 699 00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:07,440 Speaker 3: the character will be talking and it'll be a different 700 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:09,080 Speaker 3: character's voice coming out of it, and they just went, 701 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:13,719 Speaker 3: we're not gonna change it. So I mean it's like ThunderCats, 702 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:17,520 Speaker 3: I mean the original Thundercat. So yeah, there's a lot there, 703 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:19,440 Speaker 3: but one of those two would be great. 704 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:23,360 Speaker 1: Okay, would you ever or have you been a part of, 705 00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:27,840 Speaker 1: and I'm not aware of like a Disney big animated movie. 706 00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:34,480 Speaker 3: No, but I've done some big movie, you know, like 707 00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:36,240 Speaker 3: the Big It wasn't Disney, but led the last big 708 00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:38,200 Speaker 3: My Little Pony movie that came out. I did like 709 00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:41,280 Speaker 3: six or seven voices in that six or seven. 710 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:42,920 Speaker 2: Well what a same movie? 711 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:46,080 Speaker 3: Well what happened was that I did. So there's this 712 00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:50,560 Speaker 3: thing called scratch tracking where you know, let's say, especially nowadays, 713 00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:53,000 Speaker 3: a big star will come in to do the lead 714 00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:55,880 Speaker 3: in the thing, Well they'll have they'll hire a voiceover 715 00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:58,160 Speaker 3: actor to go in first and actually record the entire 716 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,239 Speaker 3: thing so they can rough out the animation and then 717 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:01,880 Speaker 3: they'll have the star come in and put his voice 718 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,800 Speaker 3: over it. So I scratched tracked some stuff for My 719 00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:06,440 Speaker 3: Little Pony, and they're like, you should do a bunch 720 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,000 Speaker 3: of voices. So I just did a bunch of a 721 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:09,920 Speaker 3: bunch of the little ponies in the background and some 722 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:13,719 Speaker 3: of the other side characters, so stuff like that. But no, 723 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:15,680 Speaker 3: I mean I've done big movies like I was in 724 00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:18,879 Speaker 3: a Mirazaki film, I was in Holl's Moving Castle, and 725 00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:22,040 Speaker 3: again the big My Little Pony movie. I've done a 726 00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:25,239 Speaker 3: bunch of lego stuff. So yes, but no, I've never 727 00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:27,960 Speaker 3: you mean like like a like a Toy story or 728 00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:30,640 Speaker 3: Pixar kind of thing. No, never, No, which would be great. 729 00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, you've got to be doing that. 730 00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:37,560 Speaker 3: I've got it, it would be. That's the problem is 731 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:40,880 Speaker 3: nowadays they get big film stars to do that stuff, 732 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:44,160 Speaker 3: and voiceover actors once again get screwed. Television and voiceover 733 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,239 Speaker 3: actors tend to get screwed more than anybody else because 734 00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:49,000 Speaker 3: movie quote unquote movie stars come in, especially nowadays where 735 00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:51,439 Speaker 3: there's no movies really being made. So now all those 736 00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:54,320 Speaker 3: quote unquote movie stars who would never have done television 737 00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:56,360 Speaker 3: in the nineties, like, how dare you think I'd be 738 00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:59,600 Speaker 3: on TV? Are now all dying to get on television 739 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:03,680 Speaker 3: and in these streaming shows? So actual journeyman television actors 740 00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:05,600 Speaker 3: once again get pushed to the side, and there's very 741 00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:07,640 Speaker 3: little work for us. Wow, yep. 742 00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:12,160 Speaker 1: Do you think now the world of AI is bombarding 743 00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:16,120 Speaker 1: every thing? Do you think there's a threat to voiceover 744 00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:16,799 Speaker 1: work with that? 745 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:18,919 Speaker 3: There's a massive threat to voice over work. A friend 746 00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:21,480 Speaker 3: of mine actually sent me an underground Batman beyond that 747 00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:23,960 Speaker 3: Kevin and I did not record that is the two 748 00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:25,719 Speaker 3: of our voices. It's a scene between the two of us, 749 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:28,920 Speaker 3: and I'm like, wow, it wasn't us. Yeah, So no, 750 00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:31,759 Speaker 3: it's very scary what they're doing with AI, are they? 751 00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:34,960 Speaker 2: I mean, in the in your industry then? Is that? 752 00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:38,960 Speaker 1: Is there talks of figuring out strike lawyers? 753 00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:40,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh, that's what it was. 754 00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:42,080 Speaker 3: That's what part of the strike was about. Part of it. No, 755 00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:45,440 Speaker 3: it's it's it's it's very scary. You should not be 756 00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:49,080 Speaker 3: able to do take somebody's voice, rip somebody's voice and 757 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:51,920 Speaker 3: decide to make all new stuff. Just doesn't work that way. 758 00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:53,960 Speaker 3: So I shouldn't work that way. So yeah, very scary 759 00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:57,560 Speaker 3: what AI is capable of. It's like everybody who's into AI, 760 00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:00,399 Speaker 3: it's like nobody's seen a movie watch termat or two 761 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:02,600 Speaker 3: once and then talk to me about AI. That's gonna 762 00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:03,680 Speaker 3: take us all out telling. 763 00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:09,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, crazy. Last question, yeah, mister will what do you 764 00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:12,120 Speaker 2: want to think about Magical Rewind? 765 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:14,360 Speaker 3: Oh god, Ron be a huge fan of Magical Rewind 766 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:17,080 Speaker 3: because I do a lot of podcasts. Ron listened to 767 00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,680 Speaker 3: a lot of podcasts, so yeah, no, I could see 768 00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:23,439 Speaker 3: Ron being a big podcast fan. And I think he'd 769 00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:26,640 Speaker 3: be because I could see Ron loving Disney Channel movies 770 00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,320 Speaker 3: like I can just see him loving Disney Channel movies. 771 00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:31,799 Speaker 3: So uh yeah, I think he'd be a big fan 772 00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:34,120 Speaker 3: of Magical Rewind. He'd be a huge Cheetah Girls fan 773 00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:36,319 Speaker 3: because he'd love the music and the dancing. I can 774 00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:36,759 Speaker 3: tell you. 775 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,200 Speaker 2: I tell you that's great. I love Ron for that. 776 00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:41,320 Speaker 3: Somebody just wrote Ron would probably have his own podcast 777 00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:42,120 Speaker 3: and he probably I was. 778 00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:44,879 Speaker 1: Gonna say that as Ron probably would welcome to Boo 779 00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:47,080 Speaker 1: Yeah with Ron and Rufus and we are here talking 780 00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:48,439 Speaker 1: about all things boo. 781 00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:50,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, that's what it would be. Absolutely. 782 00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:53,200 Speaker 2: Oh well, thank you. 783 00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:55,760 Speaker 1: This was so fun and I've had Like I said, 784 00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:58,239 Speaker 1: there's just so many questions and we could talk for 785 00:36:58,440 --> 00:36:59,560 Speaker 1: hours and hours and hours. 786 00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:02,440 Speaker 2: That's probably why we haven't got together. 787 00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,799 Speaker 3: Exactly by way, we specifically haven't done this. 788 00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:10,400 Speaker 1: But you have truly had such an incredible career, and 789 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:12,919 Speaker 1: I know for a fact you are such a huge 790 00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:17,640 Speaker 1: inspiration to so many actors from obviously Boy Meets World, 791 00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:20,560 Speaker 1: but also so many people that look up to all 792 00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:23,760 Speaker 1: of your work and voice acting. It's just it's incredible. 793 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:25,440 Speaker 1: I know I'm one of them. I think it's just 794 00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:28,960 Speaker 1: so amazing. And the fact that you can create so 795 00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:33,560 Speaker 1: many characters with your voice is just unreal. It's a 796 00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:36,320 Speaker 1: different world that I would like just die to be 797 00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:38,600 Speaker 1: a part of. And I'm just so I'm so proud 798 00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:39,600 Speaker 1: to say, like, oh. 799 00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:40,439 Speaker 2: Yeah, my coast are. 800 00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,040 Speaker 1: Because they're all like, oh, I love to I have 801 00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:47,479 Speaker 1: one question actually that just popped up in my head. 802 00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:51,239 Speaker 1: Were you part of the game some it's a classmate 803 00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:56,000 Speaker 1: of Monroe's that dad just got his son into Kingdom Hearts. 804 00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:59,000 Speaker 3: Yes, I was Cipher and Kingdom Hearts your cipher okay, 805 00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:01,400 Speaker 3: So yes, Kingdom Heart too. I'm in Kingdom Hearts. 806 00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:03,640 Speaker 1: Too, Okay, Because he's getting in and he's like, yeah, 807 00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:05,640 Speaker 1: He's like, you just had someone who was that that 808 00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:07,200 Speaker 1: was on did it as well? 809 00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:10,920 Speaker 3: No? It was is Jason Jason. Yeah, okay, he and 810 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:12,120 Speaker 3: I did did Kingdom Hearts? 811 00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:15,879 Speaker 1: Yes, listened to the podcast and heard that interview and 812 00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:17,919 Speaker 1: was like, oh, I'm like such a bit and I'm 813 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,440 Speaker 1: just getting Hunter into it. And then and I'm like, 814 00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:23,640 Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure when we interviewed he was on it 815 00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:24,040 Speaker 1: as well. 816 00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:25,799 Speaker 2: And he's like, I think you're right, and I was like, 817 00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:26,759 Speaker 2: I'll ask him, don't. 818 00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:31,080 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, got the inside scoop for you. 819 00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:31,600 Speaker 2: You will. 820 00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:35,920 Speaker 3: Thank you for having this is the best. I'm a 821 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:39,320 Speaker 3: huge cheaty girls fan. I can't I'm just so excited 822 00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:40,880 Speaker 3: to be here the best. 823 00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:44,719 Speaker 2: Thanks for this special cheetah chat. Will Yes, I. 824 00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:47,600 Speaker 3: Can't believe I heard that. Life complete, Life complete. 825 00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:52,799 Speaker 1: Thank you so much. And that is where we are 826 00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:57,040 Speaker 1: going to finish up. What an amazing, amazing interview he has. 827 00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:01,560 Speaker 1: Just it's like a lifetime of work that not very 828 00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:04,279 Speaker 1: many actors get to do. Guys, it's a very he's 829 00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:07,960 Speaker 1: just beyond blessed and I'm so like I said, proud 830 00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:10,560 Speaker 1: to say he is my co host and a friend, 831 00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:13,200 Speaker 1: mister Wilford Elga, thank you. 832 00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:30,680 Speaker 3: Oh my god, you're gonna make me blush.