WEBVTT - The Voice of Justin Guarini 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.320 Hey Christy, Hi Will, how are you? I'm fine? Thanks? 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:06.200 How are you doing? I'm doing just fine. Can't complain? 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:10.720 I can Oh, gosh, I'm not going to. I just okay. 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:13.600 I was like, was there something in particular or just no. 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:15.480 I just love when people are like, I can't complain. 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:17.599 I mean, if you want me to be open and 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:20.560 my back kind of hurts, you know a few times 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:23.000 last night? Yeah, this chair I'm sitting and doesn't have 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:26.320 a pillow, We I to complaint? Okay, we got to 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:29.280 go down that road to ask my husband. I'm a 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:34.760 big complaining If you just do you complain to brendon 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:38.360 a lot? Are you kidding me? I'm just curious. I mean, also, 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:41.599 my husband is a former marine, Like he's like a 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:44.320 complaining marine is a happy marine. That's like what they say. 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:47.440 But and so yeah, I mean in general, that's like 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:54.160 our love language is complaining. But overall, date night is 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:56.200 just sitting across from each other at a candle at 0:00:56.200 --> 0:01:02.640 dinner and just complaining about everything. I don't know about you, 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:05.200 but I'm particularly we say this every week. We might 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:06.399 as well just put this on a loop. But I 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:10.080 am particularly excited for today's episode. I am always astounded 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:15.959 at the diversity and the level of mastery, the variation 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:18.839 of mastery that we have, because all of our guests 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.720 are so different, um, you know, coming from different aspects 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:24.200 of the industry, which you know, of course, there's one 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:26.959 way to get a big break right, like you get 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:30.640 it right, and that including our contest, which if you haven't, 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:33.960 please go ahead and and submit your two minutes or 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:37.320 less submission to I hear voices at I Heart radio 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:40.880 dot com. Um. But honestly, like this guy was, also, 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:43.800 this wonderful guest of ours is no stranger to competition 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:47.200 or contests of this sort. I will say, yeah, it's 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:50.160 actually if there's the perfect person to talk about exactly 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:53.200 what our contest is and how you know, how your 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:56.000 life can change from something like this. It's our guest 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:59.920 who is with us today, Christie. Oh my gosh, it's 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:06.760 Justin Guerini. Hello, Hi, how are you? I'm doing fine? 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:09.959 How are you? I'm doing well? Thank you? I got 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:13.080 by far the nicest background of the three, right, goodness, 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:14.919 what I loved you. I was just about to comment 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:18.600 on your background. It's very very much voiceover Boothy. Oh, 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:20.760 thank you, thank you very much. Christie looks like she's 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:25.400 being held hostage to joke, held hostage in a tropical 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:29.880 location though it's very sun Thank you, thank you sunniness. 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:33.480 How are you doing well? Thank you well, thank you 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:35.600 for joining us? Hey, well, thank you very much for 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:37.760 having me a kid. I mean, this is great. We 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:40.519 know you're super busy going on, so it's really good 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:42.400 we're able to join us for a while. Well, no, 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:45.000 and I appreciate you having me on, and and just 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:46.560 the fact that I get to promote this show is 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:49.320 pretty awesome because it's fun and I've been like waiting 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:52.760 waiting for it to come out. So is this your first? 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:57.000 Is this your first big video gig? No? I mean 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:59.400 well I think yes, well my first like big it's 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:02.840 sort of like being on like multiple shows and actually 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.560 being a cast member. Yeah. I'm trying to think, can 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:08.560 I do anything else in the voiceover? I've done to 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:11.960 other cartoon voiceovers, but like never this one. We'll talk 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:14.480 about it in the actual interview. Unless this is the interview. 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:21.920 This is the actual interview. Yeah, yeah, exactly, Who's who's 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:25.560 the one being held hostage? I wanted? Yeah, no, I 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:29.640 this is the first sort of like big deal certainly 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:33.840 to me UM and cast member one, because I grew 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:37.360 up loving Disney cartoons so much, like it's like pretty 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:40.640 much everybody unless they've been hiding under a rock. And 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:44.880 yet I went in one day a long time, like 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:49.880 I'm talking like maybe fifteen years ago, and I was 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:54.240 meeting with some executives at Disney UM in their sort 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:56.720 of voice over department, because I wanted to do it, 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:58.760 and they were telling me about how at the time, 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:01.920 the gentleman who was I think only the third or 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:05.600 four maybe fourth voice of Mickey Mouse was starting to 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:09.320 get older wanting to retire, and um they were looking 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:11.880 for a new voice. And I just went, oh boy, 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:14.120 and I was and and I just like broke it 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:16.279 out and I was like, I've always, you know, thought 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:19.800 that Mickey was a fun voice. And the guys were like, uh, 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:21.440 do you want to come in an audition for it. 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:23.039 I was like, Yeah, I want to come in audition 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:26.760 from making I would love to. And so at the 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.920 time I was working for TV Guide Network and doing 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:33.960 a lot of live red carpets in studio hosting like 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:35.920 talk talk Talk Talk Talk talk, talk talk talk all 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.520 day long and was Awards season, and so I was 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:39.960 on the carpet and doing all sort of stuff that 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:41.400 I had to go in for this interview. I got 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:43.440 to go into this interview and like my voice was 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:46.240 feeling a little rough and like yeah, and so it's 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:49.800 one of those like very typical actor e l A 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:52.360 things to have happened, right, and and you know, fortunately 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:56.880 I was working, but I went in and um, you know, 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:59.800 I did something to the effect of say you want 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:02.600 to come to my club house, Well, right, let's go, 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:05.039 and like just doing it and having fun with it. 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:07.080 But it was kind of like ragging the guy. When 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:08.680 I came out of the booth, you was like, that 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:12.120 was really really awesome, And he didn't say to me 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:14.040 in so many words. I think later I found out 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:16.760 the note was like it was really close, great job, 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:19.479 We'd love to see you in the future. And uh. 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:23.719 They ended up casting from inside the actual company, which lovely, 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:26.760 which they love to do, right and uh. And so 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:30.640 then many many years later this came along and I 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:32.520 was like, yes, let me give it a shot. But 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:34.200 it was something where it was just that I got 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:37.279 to create all my own and and there were some 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:41.800 references in there. Um, and I just really took like 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:46.280 the idea of like the earth a cat or the 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:54.280 kit rather cat woman, but yeah, and just ran with it. 0:05:54.440 --> 0:06:07.640 And so that's that's how cat Perker. You said you 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:10.960 grew up loving Disney cartoons, which ones? Like what were you? 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:13.320 What were your favorite cartoons growing up? My favorite of 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:17.040 all time? I mean like you've got Bambi, And I 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:21.880 remember a friend of mine who was a family friend. 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:23.599 She was like, she took me to that when I 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:26.160 was little, and she said, you just started bawling at 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:30.839 the very beginning because of the story. There were over 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:39.160 hard like from the start, right from the start, Uh, 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:43.159 Fox and the Hound, which funny story, not really funny, 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.719 but it's interesting to see how how the world has changed. 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:49.359 Like if you go back and you watch the original 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:54.240 Fox in the Hound, it's dark, it is. It is 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:56.839 more like the grim fairy tales, where like the world 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:00.760 is not a perfect place and you're gonna ago. Whereas 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:02.960 now you look at the newer version of it and 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:06.640 the opening sequence is this big slapstick like literally farmer 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:08.360 steps on the rake sort of thing, and they're like 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.800 running around having a great time. So it's just interesting 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:14.840 to see how uh tastes have changed. All we say 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:17.360 over the over the years. UM, but my favorite, to 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:21.080 answer your question directly, of all time is The Sword 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:26.760 and the Stone. Not the most commercially successful Disney cartoon, 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:30.240 but one that just got me so much because I 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:34.600 think Arthur got the chance to go with Merlin, and 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:36.520 you know, I love the magic of it all, and 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:38.400 I just love that he got to have the different 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:41.760 perspectives of the different animals and was what he ultimately 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:43.600 needed to have in order to become the leader that 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.840 he would become. O. That's so beautiful. What about shows? 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:48.680 Were there any shows that you watch growing up? Were you? 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.840 I mean like SHOs, Formers? No, any shows any any 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:55.880 animated sit where you like a Transformers fan or former 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:58.000 Definitely g I Joe and going back to look at 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.520 those p s A s are hilarious. Um, and then 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:09.560 like Gummy Bears, um, duct Tails, Yeah, dubs one for me. Yeah, 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:12.360 I loved all that. Um. Let's see what are the 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:15.360 other ones that stick out in my mind? I also 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:19.280 loved and still love Adults Swim Adults from like when 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:22.600 it first came out, with like Cow and Chicken and 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:25.760 Dexter's Lab and like all those things. Like so I've 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:29.600 been like a cartoon junkie for that. It's like your 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:32.240 comfort zone. It's your comfort it is it is and 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:35.520 I was like one and it gets It's Disney like, 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:37.880 am I gonna sell? It's exciting. Well, let's talk a 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:40.400 bit about that because you we've been talking about your 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:42.800 show without actually really mentioning your show. So what show 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:46.880 do you have coming out? And who do you play? Sure? So, um, 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:51.319 it is called Super Kiddies and it is a very 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:55.680 exciting uh show that is geared towards two to seven 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:58.960 year old. It'll be on Disney Junior and Disney Plus. 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:02.880 And it is all about these cats, these kiddies that 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:06.360 live in Kitty Dale, of course, and who want to 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:10.560 make it and a possum possum but from possum place 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:14.880 to live and so uh, these kitties are very special 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:18.160 kitties and whenever they hear the call from their friends 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:23.440 help something's wrong, Um, they transform into the Super Kitties. 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:27.080 And they each have individual powers and unique powers. And 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:30.520 so who I play is the reason why they get 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:33.920 the call a lot of times, and that is Cat Burglar. 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:39.480 He is a sneaky, slinky Nina bad guy. I get 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:43.040 to play the bad guy it's great, yeah, I mean, 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:46.360 but bad, really bad. He's not so bad. I think 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:49.960 he does uh, he does something like the wrong things 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:53.400 for the right reasons, right, and so you know, yeah, 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:56.160 he will go and as his name would suggest, he 0:09:56.200 --> 0:10:00.800 will cat burgle things from people, uh and pets around 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:04.800 Kitty Dale. Um. But it's always because he needs something 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:07.480 or because he thinks that's going to help him get 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:10.800 something else. And what I love about him is that, 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:15.319 always and forever, every single time he is eventually caught 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:19.640 by the super kitties, he gives the stuff back. He apologizes. 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:22.440 He always admits that. Yeah, he always admits that he's 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.120 done something wrong, and he learns a very valuable lesson. 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:28.360 And I think that's so important now, especially for kids, 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:30.640 because I have a nine year old, a twelve year old, 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:35.440 and then my stepdaughter just turned eighteen yesterday. Yeah wild right. 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:38.920 And so I mean, kids now, when it comes to 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:41.480 making mistakes, I mean, that's like the worst thing you 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:44.400 could possibly do to them, right. They don't want to 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:47.320 raise their hand necessarily in class. My my boys really 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:49.960 complain about that, and yet I encourage them. I like, 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:52.440 you know, what mistakes are like the best way that 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:54.760 you can learn getting it is. You know, strong and 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:57.800 wrong is what my my acchoired director used to say. Right, 0:10:57.800 --> 0:10:59.640 It's like we're gonna just sing out, so we'll no 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:02.040 be strong and wrong, right, strong and wrong, so we 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:05.480 know where the mistakes are right. And so that being said, 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:07.720 I think that one of the things that I love 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:11.200 about this show, and especially about cat Burglar's role in 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.720 this show, is that his job. He comes in and 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:17.559 he makes plenty of mistakes, yet he always takes responsibility 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:20.560 for it, He always apologizes for it, he always learns 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:22.800 his lesson, he always gives the stuff back that he takes. 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:25.000 So I think that's it's important for kids to know 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:27.560 that you can make a mistake and still grow and 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:30.320 still be Okay, Okay, so we'll hold on, hold on. 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:34.800 Do you think I have a six year old and 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:38.120 I have a three turning four year old? Okay, and 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:43.400 my six year old is when I say obsessed with cats, like, 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:46.680 I don't know if you understand, she has been obsessed 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:50.040 with cats and kittens. With have a Bengal cat in 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:53.160 her house and she just loves it to death and 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:55.520 it and and she I mean, I cannot tell you 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:58.280 how obsessed this girl as a cat. She is going 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.800 to I am going to you watching you all the time. 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.800 Every day, I'm going to tell her I know cat. 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:08.720 She's gonna freak out. Yeah. I don't know what it 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:10.840 is about cats, but like when we were growing up, 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:13.160 I think we all love teddy bears and like puppies 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:18.200 and cabbage kids. But I think, like if there was 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.000 I don't know what it is, and I don't know 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:22.400 if this is a generational thing. But cats are big 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:28.480 right now. Okay, cats are so big. Cats are in 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.640 and I'm happy to that I get to play one 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:36.000 of them. And another thing, just does your daughter like music? 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:39.920 She loves music and cats singing music? Are are you 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:42.880 singing as well? I might be singing a little bit 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:46.440 of Well, look, I'll tell you this much if you 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:49.960 if you love cats, great, if you love music extra great. 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:53.560 Because each one of the twenty two minute episodes has 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:56.240 an original song in it. So I mean it is 0:12:56.679 --> 0:13:00.319 it is music, it is cats, It is uhen ship 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.440 and favorite. But it will be your daughter because she's 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:09.760 like twenty something, right, But listen to I really do 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.080 appreciate it. And it's the face the face of your 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:16.400 demographic Okay, Like really, I love it because, um, like 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:20.280 you're saying, they're taking cat Burglars taking accountability. And you know, 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:23.880 usually when we see villains they're very villainy. Um. But 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:27.240 I have noticed in the program programming that Disney Junior 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.720 has been doing lately is that they're making it, you know, 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:33.120 nothing's too scary and nothing's too bad where the villains 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:36.079 can't come back from it. And I think that's wonderful. 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:38.880 How do you how do you approach a villain character 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:42.959 that's not too hate herbal right? And I think, well, 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:45.080 it comes down to the great writing that's on the show, 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:48.800 first of all, and and then it comes down also 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:53.640 to the way that the actual super Kitties handle things, 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:58.600 you know, meaning cat Burglar can get away, cat Burglar 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.840 can tease, right, cat Burglar plays cat and mouse with 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:04.360 them all the time. And yet at the end of 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:07.280 the day, when cat Burglar does eventually get caught, because 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:10.760 he gets caught every single time, um, the super Kitties 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:14.000 always treat him with respect. They're like, hey, look, this 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:18.720 wasn't right, but we hear you because because cat Burglar 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:21.800 always explains why he does something with anything, he's really 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:24.840 important right to know that it's not just because he's 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:28.280 mean or because he's just somebody who likes to steal things, 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:31.840 right now, he always has a reason, and he's always 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:34.720 trying to just like kids, just get their needs met, 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:36.680 just like anybody trying to get their needs met. But 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.960 he goes about it in a way that can sometimes 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:43.840 make other people feel sad, can sometimes make other people, um, 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:48.240 hurt other people's feelings, and so you know, in order 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:51.160 to then take all of that and make sure that 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:54.360 I honor the fact that these great writing and the 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:58.840 super Kitties themselves really treat him with respect, it's in 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:02.080 the voicing side of it. Really, it's just making sure 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:06.600 that he never gets to mean right. Like he can 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:09.800 like tease and it's like really fun to be teasy, 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:14.280 but to never like make it a little too uh 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.080 nan nanny boo boo, if you know what I'm saying. Saying, 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:21.320 but like and at the same time also just keep 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:25.360 him light, keep him fun. And and so again I 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:29.160 rest heavily on the great writing in the show, but 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.640 really it's just about making sure that it always has 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:36.360 this undercurrent of fun, always has an undercurrent. I mean, 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:40.920 obviously it's a high pitched voice, um, and so Um, 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:45.080 that helps, right, But to just always keep in mind 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.920 and remember that he is and he doesn't want anybody 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:51.760 to know it, but that he's really a good kittie 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:53.760 at heart. Are we allowed to hear the voice? Are 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:55.640 we allowed to hear it yet? Or oh sure, it's 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:57.680 no problem. I mean it's up here. And sometimes he 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:01.160 gets a little like, hey, come on, guys, can't catch 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:06.080 me that, you know. So it's like never to it's 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:09.800 never like Growley or anything like that. But um, but 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:13.280 it's it's just so fun to hear him like work 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:16.880 out a problem and you know, even I think the 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:19.840 worst thing and it's not really bad at all. It's 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:26.560 like sometimes he turns around, he goes super kid, right, 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:30.160 you know. You see he doesn't necessarily like the fact 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:35.000 that the super kitties come and try and uh yeah, 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:39.360 he's always having fun. That's so interesting. So the range 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:42.880 of your voice is fascinating to me. So obviously we 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:44.920 there's a lot of folks right well that we that 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:48.720 we know. Maggia is one of them where they are 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:52.040 able to do they have these beautiful, rich, deeper voices, 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:54.160 you know, because I don't know in terms of are 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:56.800 you what are you are? You are you a baritone? 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.520 Like no, no, no, I would be a high tenor 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.880 when it I'm just singing. Yeah, but it's really interesting 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:05.800 because I you know, and then you know, as you 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:08.520 both no doubt, no, you know you talked throughout the 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:10.800 day and you you have everything kind of drops a 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:13.199 little bit lower. But um, and when you have the 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:16.280 old you know, the old SMB seven and then do 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:18.280 you have a when you have annoyment over there? What 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:20.800 are you rocking annoyment? There will something serious? I don't 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:23.840 know's I've got my my my, I have the m 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:26.680 x L, I have the old nine thousand whatever. It's rocking. 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:29.520 It sounds great. And so yeah, the the whole point, 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:31.320 like you know what I mean. So like it's the 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:35.160 microphones definitely come into play. But for me, I've always 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:39.320 had a bit of a higher register, and um, as 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:42.440 I get older, it definitely drops and I'm like more 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:46.200 in the speaking baritone zone. But like almost every single 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:48.800 day I will warm up my voice and I'll warm it, 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:51.920 whip up and and to make sure that I keep 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:55.280 that range. And literally it's just keeping the your chords 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:58.800 flexible and the muscles around them flexible. That helps, you know, 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:01.240 and someday I'll get to play, you know, maybe a 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:03.600 character that has a little bit more of this, you know, 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:05.680 and I love like doing. At the end of the day, 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:09.720 you know, there's like like like the was that the 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:14.440 guy from h Inspector gadgets another one? Right? Yeah? Right, 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:18.119 yeah exactly so yeah, so I just I'd like to 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:20.600 it's the spirit of play at the end of the day. 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:22.560 One of the reasons why I love Super Katies so 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:26.000 much is because there is this undercurrent. Even when the 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:29.840 Super Katies are chasing Cat Burglar, it's play and um 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:31.560 for two to seven year olds. I don't know about 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:33.320 your two to seven year olds. With my two seven 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:35.200 year olds when they were two to seven, um, that's 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:38.240 all they want to do. And even when Cat Burgers 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:41.800 being chased by the Super Katies, even when he gets 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:45.080 caught all the things, it's always play. And so for 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:50.000 me developing vocal characters, UM comes down to just being 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:52.600 willing to play, being willing to fail, being willing to 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:56.040 get it so unbelievably wrong. UM, because at the very 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:59.400 least you'd learn what doesn't work, and at the very 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:03.320 uh most, you find these new things that you wouldn't 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:06.280 have otherwise found if you tried to play it safe, dude. 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:08.520 We talk about that all the time on here, and 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:11.080 and we inspire people, like we have a really big 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:15.080 contest where we try to inspire people. I'm sure contest 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:17.880 going right now. That's very exciting because we're giving someone 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:21.720 their big break and giving them there a year contract 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:25.560 with C E. SD and right see his face, it's like, yeah, 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:28.240 that's one of the things you want. You can have 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:32.520 the website. So we wanted to talk you about, you know, 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:35.920 American Idol a little bit of course, because that's essentially 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:38.119 what we've You don't mind, yeah, I mean, if you 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:41.240 don't mind, it is our super awesome contest to become 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:44.159 the next big voice actor and you get flown up. 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:48.480 That's the entire title title. You're flown out to Los Angeles, 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:50.200 you have lunch with us, you meet your agent, you 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:51.840 get to sign for a year with C E. S D. 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:54.720 Thousand dollars, you in a thousand dollars you do promost 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:59.480 for for our show hard Radio. The website. It's awesome. 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:04.439 If two minute entry no more, no longer to I 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:06.840 hear voices at I heart radio dot com. There you go, 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:19.879 American idol. Obviously they say, oh, that's your break, but 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:24.040 the fact remains, you started training and singing well before 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:28.040 any of the Atlanta Choir. I mean that's at the 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:31.159 boy Atlanta Boys Choir, which is obviously known throughout the world. 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:34.479 So I mean, can you can you walk us through 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:36.240 a little bit of how you got started with everything, 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:38.360 not just idol, but before how you just found your 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:41.280 love of what you're doing now, found your voice. Yeah, 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:45.359 that's it. I found beautiful, beautiful intro um. Yes. So 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:49.760 really it just came down to, like everyone else, I 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:53.400 just sang with my parents in the car, and one 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:56.560 day somebody at a school, it was out of doors 0:20:56.560 --> 0:20:59.480 schools what it was called in Georgia, was like said 0:20:59.520 --> 0:21:03.879 to my uh dad in very uh typical Southern fashion, 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:06.600 they said, but your son can carry a tune in 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:11.840 a bucket. And so from there, uh, they just saw 0:21:11.920 --> 0:21:14.760 that I kind of just was able to to sing. 0:21:14.800 --> 0:21:17.119 And we had this big piano in the hallway and 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:19.399 I would I would hear things and I would plunk 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:21.199 it out. You know. It was about four and I 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:23.399 wasn't like Mozart being in the stretch imagination, but like 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:25.760 I would plunk out melodies and I just showed an 0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:29.879 interest and so at four years old they had me 0:21:29.920 --> 0:21:32.800 auditioned for the Atlanta Boys Choir and I ended up 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:36.240 getting in four years four. Yeah, so I was a 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:41.119 little boy soprano and that was this intro. My my 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:44.040 conductor was named Wolskang, so you know, it was for 0:21:44.119 --> 0:21:47.479 real and and so that was my entry into the 0:21:47.520 --> 0:21:50.679 world of choir, into the world of both sacred and 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:53.679 secular music. And you know, it didn't hurt to have 0:21:53.760 --> 0:21:56.280 the parents that I have. My mom was one of 0:21:56.280 --> 0:21:59.359 the first anchor women on CNN when it started up 0:21:59.359 --> 0:22:01.639 in the early d My dad was chief of police 0:22:01.640 --> 0:22:05.120 in Atlanta, on the force for thirty plus years. So 0:22:05.160 --> 0:22:09.119 I grew so I grew up around the lights, the politics, 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:15.040 the cameras, the everything, and so that certainly was a 0:22:15.160 --> 0:22:17.840 huge catalyst for everything that I do. And then just 0:22:17.920 --> 0:22:21.520 would go on from there to to continue to sing 0:22:21.520 --> 0:22:25.879