WEBVTT - Starring Will Friedle as Ron Stoppable 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:18.360 All right, Will Fredell, here, guys, you get to do 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:22.119 one of the best interviews with one. 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:30.160 Of the gods of voiceover. Welcome back you, guys. 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:33.880 We are here at Magical rewind giving you. We say 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:36.640 all the time that it's a special episode, but this 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:40.320 for me is gonna be already I know, one of 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:43.720 my absolute favorite episodes. I don't get a lot of 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:47.839 time to hang out with Will outside of podcasting. Right 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:51.640 when we do, we're usually doing something for work and 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:53.680 we haven't had a chance to sit down and I 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:57.560 don't get to bombard him with a million of questions 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:01.680 that I have about you, your incredible career. Now you've 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:04.600 done all of the podcasting that you've done, You've got 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:07.639 like you're one of the most hired podcasters as well, 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:08.960 doing what are You? 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:11.120 What are we on? Seventeen podcasts? Were you at this? 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:13.880 Now? I do your three podcasts. 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:16.520 The main one is your iconic role on Boy Meets 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:18.600 World and all the podcasting you get to do with 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:21.240 your wonderful castmates, and how fun it is to go 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:24.680 through how many years again was it of your life 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:25.680 that you were on the show. 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:28.040 Seven We did seven seasons of Boy Meets World and 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:30.240 now I think we're coming up on four or five 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:33.280 years as already doing the podcast. Four years of the podcast, 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:33.679 I think. 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:35.560 Yeah, And how incredible is it to go back and 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:38.480 just relive it, you know, talk about all of the 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:42.840 behind the scenes. I know that the fans absolutely just 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:45.560 eat it up. They love hearing your guys' stories and 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:48.080 how you guys see the roles and the decisions that 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:51.040 were made on your show back then to watch them 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:54.920 now in twenty twenty six. How different the world isn't 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:58.120 the industry is and everything. But I really want to 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:00.240 take this moment and dive a little bit deeper or 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:04.920 inter profile on voice acting. Okay, I mean your voice 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:10.399 acting career is phenomenal. Anyone that follows you or has 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:13.760 ever worked with you has it just is in awe. 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.079 We all are in awe of what you can do, 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:18.600 and so I really have a lot of it. But 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.160 of course here on Magical Rewind, what we always do 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:22.840 is we start at the beginning. 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:25.000 You know, we've we've heard a lot. 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:28.320 Already about how you got into the the career of acting, 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:33.160 but how did you transition from being an actor on 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:35.280 screen into your voiceover work. 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:37.280 Well, first of all, Sabrina thanks for having me on 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:38.160 the show. I'm a big fan. 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:41.240 You know you were a hard get you were. I 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:43.120 mean I had to call that agent. I had to 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:45.120 figure out Sue's phone number. 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:48.520 That when our producers said, hey, you know, because we 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:50.440 did the Kim Possible movie, why don't we interview you 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:52.640 about your career, I was like, but I'm on the show. 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:56.160 But yeah, So it's nice to be here. Long, long 0:02:56.200 --> 0:03:01.240 time listener, first time caller. Perfect. Yes, I was. So. 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:02.720 I was on Boy Means for All at the time, 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:06.200 and my agent called me and asked me if I 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:07.840 and I love telling the story because it makes me 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:09.720 laugh every time I say it, ask me if I 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:14.360 had any interest in playing Batman? And so it's like, again, 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:17.720 who says no? Of course? 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:19.280 So we were you intimidated? 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:22.200 Were you? Or? Oh my god? I was awful. I 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:24.040 mean the idea. First of all, I didn't think I 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:28.800 had any possibility, like even slight possible chance of getting 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:31.120 the role. So it was like, hey, do you want 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:33.000 to come in and read for Batman? Now. I should 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:37.360 preface this by saying I was a huge nerd and 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:40.360 a big fan of animation, A massive fan of animation 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:40.840 growing up. 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:44.840 I love that you chose the word was but well, yeah, what. 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:47.880 I still am but at the time was even more. 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:52.280 The cartoons were basically other than Sitcom my favorite thing 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:55.000 as a kid. Every generation says that they had the 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:59.920 best cartoons, but mine did. I had g I Joe, Transformer, 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:08.160 is He Man, Mask, Gobots, ThunderCats, silver Hawks, you name it. 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:11.760 I had it. It was the best. And so I 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:14.520 loved cartoons. I just loved it. And one of the 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:17.440 greatest cartoons that ever came out, arguably, I think when 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:20.159 you go back to Western animation, because you know there's 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:23.719 a big push right now for Eastern animation, anime things 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:28.760 like that. When you look at Western animation, the animated series, 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:30.520 in my opinion, that changed the whole ball game was 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:34.440 the original Batman, the animated series. Kevin Conroy, Who's the 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:36.840 best that ever played. When everyone says who's your favorite Batman, 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:40.800 there's one answer, It's Kevin Conroy. So when Kevin was 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:44.479 cast as Batman, Andrea Romano is directing, Bruce tim and 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:47.680 Paul Deney are producing and writing, Glen Muracami, there's so 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:53.240 many people that are involved in the show and it 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:57.360 changed everything about animation. So, first of all just the look. 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:00.240 Everything was printed on white paper. They printed their on 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.039 black paper so that it was dark and gritty, and 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:05.080 they colored in the black paper as opposed to the year. 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:06.720 And this is still pencil drawing back in the day, 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.159 So this is the late eighties early nineties that this 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:14.320 was happening. The acting was in cartoony. You know, before 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:16.880 you'd always like if there was a reporter on a cartoon, 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:19.760 it was always like this, just in and tomorrow, my 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:23.560 Andre Romano calls that puky. It's like, don't do it, puky, 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:27.120 Like you're doing a cartoon. I'm playing an announcer. And 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:31.120 it was red like a straight nineteen thirties radio show. 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:35.000 So this was these were actors sitting together in a room. 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.120 If you were playing an announcer, you were doing it 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:39.240 like an announcer. If you were playing a reporter, you 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:41.240 were doing it like a reporter. If you were a detective, 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:44.760 you sounded like a detective. So it changed the whole 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:48.320 ballgame for animation. So they finished Batman the animated series, 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.200 and Warner Brothers went to Bruce tim and said, we 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:56.520 want you to make a teenage Batman, something light, a 0:05:56.560 --> 0:06:00.560 lot less dark and an Edgy than Batman, the animated series, 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:04.400 and they got to work and so they they pitched 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:06.359 this show called at the time it was called Batman 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:09.640 of Tomorrow or Batman Tomorrow was when I got the audition. 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:13.080 It was called Batman Tomorrow. And so my agent called 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:14.760 and said, they want you to come in and read 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.839 for this role. I kind of laughed, saying, there's of course, 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:19.800 but there's no way in hell a. I'd never done 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:23.160 voiceover before in my life, wown any amount of voiceover. 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:27.600 And so I went in and I read. It seemed 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:30.360 to go well, but that's all I knew. I met 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:31.480 Andrea met. 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:34.680 Did you get any vice before, advice from anyone, like 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:36.040 anyone to call? 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:37.360 Oh my gosh, she just went. 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:40.640 My friend at the time, Jason Marsden, helped me a bit, 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:43.040 but not that much because he was also going out 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:44.840 for the role and Batman was his favorite thing in 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:46.560 the world, so I'm sure he didn't give me any 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:47.640 tips that would actually help. 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:50.440 He's like, you should play it like you have. 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:52.680 A cold exactly. Have you ever thought of just doing 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:58.640 it Australian you know, hi, my own Batman. Yeah. So 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:00.840 I went in and read. It went very well and 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:02.800 I left, and so they called and they said, they 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:04.520 want to give you a call back, and they want 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:06.360 to go in. I went in. I think a little earlier. 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:08.520 This time, I worked with Andrea Romano, who was still 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:10.480 a very close friend of mine. She became one of 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:12.600 the most important people in my life and in my career. 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:15.640 She has more Emmys than I do friends, and the 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:17.040 way she does it is the best. You walk in 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:18.600 and she's got all our emmys up, but they're all 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:24.760 just in Barbie clothes. It's the coolest and so, uh, 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:26.800 she's the best. And so she worked with me, and 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:29.360 we worked together and I had my second audition and 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:31.640 I felt really good about it. And then I left 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:35.000 and then they called again and they said they want 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:36.640 to read me again. I was like, ooh, something good. 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:38.760 And that's when I walked in and Kevin Conroy was there, 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:42.360 and so, being a Batman fan, I was like, oh 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:43.560 my god, that's Kevin Conroy. 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:47.560 Oh my and so my last him. 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:49.760 No was with him. We got in the booth together 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:54.200 and read this read the scene. 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:54.240 And you weren't told ahead of time? 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:56.600 Nope, Oh my god. 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:59.200 I walked in somewhere in like Gwen'stefi. 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:01.040 Like, that's what it was. Was the equal I always 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:05.560 tell people who don't understand the animation world. Being cast 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:09.320 as Batman in your first animated series ever with Kevin Conroy, 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:12.960 with Andrea Romano, with Bruce Tim and Paul Deini, with 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:16.640 all the incredible writers that we had, was the equivalent 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:18.840 of saying, oh, you've never acted before, you're now starring 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:20.880 in a Steven Spielberg movie. I mean, this was like, 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:26.120 this is the pinnacle of animation. Wow. So it was amazing, 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:29.360 and we read and we joked around, and Kevin couldn't 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:31.680 have been nicer, and we had this awesome time, and 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:33.719 I found out that I booked the role, and that's 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:37.280 when I talked to Andrea about it and she said, oh, 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:39.920 I didn't know who you were, she said, sadly, she said, 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:43.800 Bruce Tim's wife, the producer's wife and creator's wife, was 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:45.880 a big Boy meets World fan, and said there's a 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:48.840 guy on there for your young Batman that you should read. 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:52.320 So thanks to Bruce Tim's wife, I started a whole 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:54.040 new career for me, or a whole different, you know, 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:59.640 offshoot of my career. So I went in and we 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:03.640 started Batman, which then was changed. I guess technically they 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:05.840 had they thought that it was going to be too 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:11.880 confusing to advertise if it was called Batman Tomorrow, if 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:16.680 they'd say, like Batman Tomorrow Wednesday. So they changed it 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:22.080 to Batman Beyond. And the first recording session, Kevin Conroy 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:24.360 taught me how to be a voiceover actor. You know, 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:26.840 there was things I was doing where you know, you've 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:28.520 got a microphone in front of you, but as an actor, 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:30.400 if Kevin sitting next to you, he would say a 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:32.240 line and I would turn off microphone and talk to 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:34.360 him and he's like, nope, back into the microphone, will 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:37.400 and I would turn off. You know, at the time, 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.679 we had no screens. You know everyone it's all done 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:43.360 on iPad now, but we had pages, and if you're 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:45.280 reading it as you're going, you had to learn how 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:47.280 to turn your pages without making a sound. 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:49.280 So you had to, oh my gosh, I didn't even 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:50.360 think about that. 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:52.800 How to do that. He's teaching me how to roll 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:55.000 my shoulders back, how to open up my diaphragm. He 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:58.720 taught me this style of acting which was very, very different, 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:03.200 and it started my great love, which is being behind 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:06.360 a microphone. So it was because I fell into this 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:08.400 role that I was able to find a whole new 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.120 avenue of acting amazing. 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:13.560 And were you were you one of like were you 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:17.280 a kid that was going around? I can imagine a 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:21.560 baby will just like running around with all these funny voices? 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:23.280 Were you doing that? Because you told me you were 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:23.880 a goofball? 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.960 Like, did you have like a specific one that like 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.120 if I asked your mom, she'd say, oh, my gosh, 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:29.840 she always did this. 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:33.240 No, we always did different I always did different people. 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:35.600 One of the ones I did was a voice that 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:39.000 I did when I would inflate my cheeks so I 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:41.920 can inflate I can speak with my cheeks full of air, 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.199 so first it makes a funny sound, which is when 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.679 it gets open, like cheeks up, and then you start 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:55.200 doing so I would do things like that, and then 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:57.880 I would just start doing accents. I started doing bad 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:01.640 Scottish accents and you know, just British accents and all 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:03.640 the different kind of accents you can do growing up. 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.320 And yeah, I just started to do stupid, funny voices. 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:08.280 But I never I was equated to that, to just 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.760 being an actor. I never thought about being a going 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:12.360 into the world a voiceover at all. 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:16.160 So for us who really don't know much about that world, 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:20.200 what is it like in comparison to like, do you 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:24.320 have like a voice actor agent? And like how does 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:26.920 how did the auditions come? I'm sure it has changed 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:30.080 since back then, but how do auditions. 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:30.920 Come in front of you now? 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:33.439 RW that my all virtual and all of that, like 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:38.199 you audition in your own studio in this way? 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:40.920 Well, it depends. I mean, so the first two so 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:44.320 I had a regular on camera agent who who got 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:46.160 Boy Meets World from our excuse, the same one who 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:47.840 got Boy Meets World for me also got the call 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:49.680 for Batman Beyond Right, but. 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:51.360 That was an offer, like not an. 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:53.040 Offers an audition through. 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:54.200 The audition through them. Yeah. 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:56.520 And then the next audition that I had for a 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:59.400 voiceover was after Batman Beyond Ended, was for a show 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:04.400 call Kimpass and that was also through this agent. And 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:07.320 then so with I had two very big voiceover shows 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.040 under my belt. So then again I went to Jason 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:12.240 Marson and I said, hey, you know, I think I 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:13.920 should probably have a voiceover agent, and he said, yeah, 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:15.800 it's ridiculous that you don't. He brought me into his 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.360 agency at the time, CEESD he hasn't been with them 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:21.880 for years. They're still my voiceover agent. That was twenty 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:26.080 some odd years ago, twenty five years ago, and they've 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:29.280 been my agent ever since. So the business has changed 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.880 quite a bit. So before it used to take forever 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:34.840 you'd go. You'd actually drive into CESD, which is far 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:36.720 from here. For me, it's like forty minutes over the 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:39.360 mountain with over the hill with no traffic, thirty five 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:42.000 thirty minutes with no traffic, seven days with traffic in 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:45.120 LA And you would go there and there would be 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:48.840 three booths that they had with engineers there and you'd 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:50.920 walk in and there'd be fifty people waiting, And so 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:52.959 there were times where you'd wait two hours to get 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:55.880 a booth to go read the stack of auditions you'd have, 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:57.719 and you'd look at it. And this is the thing 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:00.920 that I absolutely love about voiceovers. Everybody's still auditions for everything. 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:03.000 I mean, you get offered things here and there, but 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.800 everyone still auditions for everything. Best voice wins. Just because 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:08.800 you're the greatest voiceover actor in the world doesn't mean 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.160 you're going to get something. But I've worked with some 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:13.600 of the best voice of actors in the history of voiceover, 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.520 and those men and women still audition for stuff. So 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:19.960 you'll get a stack of things and you'll have three 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:24.080 commercials and two animated things and one scratch track and 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:25.960 one and so you're in the booth for twenty minutes, 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.480 twenty five minutes, and you bust through your list of 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:32.720 things and then you forget about it. And sometimes six 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:34.920 months later, eight months later, a year later, it'd be like, hey, 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:37.680 remember that audition you had when you were playing that 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:40.080 frog and you're like nope, and they're like, all right, 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:41.920 well you booked that and you've got to go in tomorrow. 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:44.000 And then they have your audition and it's like, oh, 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:45.440 that was the voice I did, and then you kind 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:48.079 of voice match what you did. But that's how it 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:51.840 used to be. Then COVID hit and now everybody just 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:54.080 auditions from home. So I don't think those bootherery even 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:54.560 still there. 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:55.240 It's ESD. 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:58.880 Everyone auditions from home, and you know, it's still the 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:02.000 same process with you know, you audition in bulk and 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:03.319 you get the ones you get. 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.640 And I've never been to your house and to see 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.880 this booth, but it looks like it's like soundproof and 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.480 like fully like a legit booth that you have in 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:12.840 your house. 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:15.120 Is that it is? Yeah, I do. I don't. It's funny. 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:17.920 I need to upgrade for broadcast because I still don't. 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.280 Like most people now record this stuff, even that you 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:24.400 see on TV, from their homes. Wow, that's why the 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:28.080 pandemic didn't really, I actually turned animation into a booming 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:31.440 business because we could record everything from home. I always 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:34.480 hated that. I don't mind auditioning from home, but I 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:37.080 prefer to audition with people. But I need a booth 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.400 with an engineer and a director telling me I sound terrible, 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:42.200 like I'll because I'll do a take and be like, ah, 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:45.160 that was the best thing ever. And then I'll listen 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:47.200 back later and be like that was awful, And I 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:50.080 need a director to be like no, no, that's bad. So 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:53.480 I still go in where they say, can you record 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:55.680 from your home? I say I can, but not for broadcast. 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:57.240 But I still want to go in and get a booth. 0:14:57.400 --> 0:14:59.760 And I still go in and record all the animated 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:03.040 stuff if I do from an actual recording fast somewhere. 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:09.920 Yeah. 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:12.640 Do you have to keep your voice like in shape 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:14.680 of any sort? Like do you like you know, like 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:18.000 vocal training for singing like you have to keep up 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:19.840 on it, right, You have to do certain things to 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:23.240 keep your vocal cords healthy, things like that. 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:25.600 Are you Is it the same for you? 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:28.600 And well, yeah, I mean for years I would only 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.360 smoke light cigarettes because I wanted to make sure my 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:35.880 voice would No, I mean you should probably, but I don't. 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:38.520 I just talk all day, especially now with the podcasting. 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:42.080 I mean, yeah, it's so you know, yesterday I did 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:45.280 three episodes of you know, over three hours of podcasting. 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:48.600 Today by the time I'm done, I'm doing two episodes 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:50.240 with you, and then I have an episode later today. 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:52.400 So I'm doing three hours of podcasting again today. I'm 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:55.440 doing three hours of podcasting again tomorrow. So I just 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:58.000 talk all the time. I'm so sick of my own voice. 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:00.160 So no, and I've had I've had vocal issue is 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:02.720 because of that. I not nodules, but I'll have things 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:04.480 that grow on your vocal cords. You have to then 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:06.840 take some time off and you have to do vocal 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.080 rests or take animal do that kind of stuff. 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:13.760 When you get infections and things, and. 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:16.400 That affects everything. And so no, I mean I do 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:20.200 what I can to keep my voice up, but it's 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:21.680 it's just a lot of talking. 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:24.480 Yes, And do you have like so within the like 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:27.880 getting back like the vocal work, you know, your your 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:31.200 voice acting. Is it hard to keep like one of 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:34.480 your like characters because I mean I imagine it's kind 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:37.040 of like strained a bit like sometimes to get some 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:41.320 of your like, yeah, more different or difficult voices for 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:43.400 your characters. Is it tough to do that for like 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:45.000 a full episode of recording? 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:47.760 It depends where it is in your register. I mean, so, 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:52.200 for instance, I stopped doing video games years ago because 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:54.480 you know, the last one I did was a long 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:56.440 time ago. It was a Medal of Honor video game, 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:04.239 and I screamed for five or six days straight of 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:08.879 four hour sessions, and I've I shredded my vocal cords. Yeah, 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:11.199 and so I mean you're yelling and screaming forever, and 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:13.640 it's like, okay, if I want to have any sustainability 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:16.399 in this industry, I can't do that, right. So it 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:18.639 depends on where it is. You know, if you're higher 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:20.360 up in your voice, like when I go to around stoppable, 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:21.679 I can put it in my throat a little bit 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:23.720 more so it's kind of easier. It's almost more nasal, 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:27.560 whereas Batman's you know, down here and far deeper. So 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:32.199 it depends what you're doing, where it is in how 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:34.000 much of a strain it is on your voice. 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:37.439 Wow, So you I mean you kind of mentioned it. 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:39.600 So you get at this point, you get your agent, 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:41.480 you know, and you start going in. 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:43.119 Are you like locked in? 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:45.800 I would imagine after Batman and Kim Possible will be like, 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:47.520 this is what I want to do forever. 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:50.560 I now, Like, was that like how it was for you? 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:53.480 Like you just kind of were you like, No, I 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:55.560 don't think this is going to be big or no. 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:57.879 I loved it. I loved it from the jump. But 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:00.400 I was the sitcom actor. That's all I ever wanted 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:01.480 to be from the time I was a kid. Was 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:04.480 a sit god actor. And thank god I had voiceover 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:06.880 because when I was and I've talked about this ad 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:11.520 nauseum now, but my anxiety disorder really hit me when 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:15.280 I was twenty two twenty three, and so for years 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:18.480 I couldn't go on camera. I was just my career 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:21.959 was over because of my mental health issues. So until 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:24.760 I really got a handle on that, my only creative 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:28.680 outlet was voiceover and a thank God that I had 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:31.800 it and b that people were casting me, and it 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:34.480 is a massive love in my life. It is my 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:40.680 second greatest acting love, next to sitcom. Sitcom there's an audience, 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:43.399 there's a vibe, there's an energy that you get that 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:46.399 you just unless you do it, you don't know that. 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:48.800 It's a drug. I mean, it really is at its 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:54.480 addict absolutely is everything amazing and knowing and being. I mean, 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:58.280 every form of comedy is different. I mean, you'll you'll 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:00.800 understand this because of how talented you are in this aspect. 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:04.199 But every form of comedy is music. So there are 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:06.320 certain forms of comedy. I mean, I just I can 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:09.400 hear the beat in my head. I know, I know comedy. 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:11.480 I know how it's supposed to go. I know where 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:13.000 you're supposed to go up and where you're supposed to 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:14.639 go down, where you're supposed to pull it out. And 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:16.600 my favorite thing in the world is finding actors that 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:20.159 play off beat. And that's what I've done my best doing. 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:23.160 You watch Chandler on Friends, where the joke is supposed 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:26.040