WEBVTT - The Voice of Olivia Hack 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.440 Hey Christy, Hi will Fredell. What's up? How wow? I 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:06.440 got the full last name today? You did, because you 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:08.280 know what, I'm really excited. You just shared all this 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:12.840 amazing news. You did um the pod Meats World Live show, 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:14.880 and you packed the house. We did. We packed the house. 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:16.439 It was a ton of fun. And you've moved to 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:19.160 Speaking of houses, you've moved to another house and you 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:22.799 are reporting from a new cave. You're watching video. Yeah, 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:25.320 and everybody's sick. I mean, there's just so much going 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:27.320 on in the world, right, Is everyone in your family sick? 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:30.320 Because everyone around here is really I've got one child 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:34.159 on antibiotics and another one that's you know, healthy on 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:36.040 the mend, and a third child that you're married to 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:38.800 that also has a sinus infection and has been gone 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:42.640 for a week while we were moving in. Everything's good, though, 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:45.559 like honestly, like I can't complain. You can. You got 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:47.239 a big microphone in front of you can complain to 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:50.240 everybody you want to. That's the joy. That's true. I 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:52.239 guess I could. And it's echo E two it is. 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:53.960 I noticed you're in kind of a new cave. You 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:57.160 have to we'll we'll have to de ecify your ecify. Yeah, 0:00:57.200 --> 0:01:01.200 I'm gonna. I'm going with itfy id your your room. 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:02.920 But I like but in a weird way. I like 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:06.920 the way that it makes my voice sound more womanly. Really, 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:11.640 you think makes you sound more womanly? Weirdly, I feel 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:16.240 like more sexy. Is that what you think? It sounds ephemeral? 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:18.160 What does that word mean? Even? I feel like I 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:24.679 know what that word you're asking. Ephemeral. Ephemeral is the 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:27.920 largest bone in your leg. I broke. I broke my 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:32.240 ephemeral when I was a kid. I'm kidding. Hold on now, 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:33.600 I really want to Now you want to know what 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:35.960 it is? I would tell you, but I'm not going wrong. 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:48.000 Hold on if I actually got this, yeah, no lasting 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:54.160 for a very short time. Fashions are ephemeral, ethereal. Then 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:58.640 that's what I meant. Don't use words you don't know 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:00.720 what they mean. I do that every now and then. 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:02.600 I'm just I'm sorry. I'm just looking back as my 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:06.000 as my career as a lover, and being called ephemeral, 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:10.560 I realized was not was not the compliment I thought 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:15.240 it was. I was like, man, was totally aphemeral, And 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:19.079 she had to tell me quickly um oh no, that's 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:23.160 so funny. How are you so you're are you not sick? 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:26.639 You're not sick. I don't know. I'm mom sick, which 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:29.400 basically means like, especially like our producer can share our 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:33.239 sentiment as well, Um yeah, I'm mom sick, which means 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:35.680 you really can't get sick. It's like you're sick, but 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:38.000 like you laugh at it because you have to keep 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:40.720 going and pretend like it's not really happening. Yeah. My 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:42.920 wife Sue says that I'm one of those people where 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.040 I sneeze once and I've got to be in bed 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:47.720 for a month, or it's like don't don't come here 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:51.960 of yourself, take care of yourself. That's important, honestly. But no, 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:53.799 I get that. Like we we've been doing a lot 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:56.560 of different podcasts, both of us have separately from each other, 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.840 and and obviously we're doing our next con together. We're 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:02.200 doing is in San Francisco. San Francisco. Yeah, and we're 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:05.160 doing a live I hear voices at San Francisco Comic Con, 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:06.959 which is great. Which is I think it's the twenties 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:11.840 fifth it's right after Thanksgiving, the day after thanks You, 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:16.000 it's November, putting my pie fork down I'm heading exactly. 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:19.760 We're actually having Thanksgiving in San Francisco with our with 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:23.760 my my stepdaughter and new son in law, so it 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:25.959 will be there. Yeah, that's where they live. So though, 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:28.360 oh my gosh, that's great time. So they will be 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:32.160 there for Thanksgiving, the giving of thanks Um and have 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:34.320 turkey in the city. I haven't had turkey in the 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.800 city and as long as I can remember. And some 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:39.440 chowder what why would there be chowder? Do they have 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:43.400 great clam chowder? First of all, you're talking to a 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:46.320 guy from New England. Don't ever bring up West Coast 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:50.120 chowder to talking to somebody who you're from. You, by 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:52.480 the way, are from Connecticut. You should be all about 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:56.280 New England white real clam chowder. This is what they 0:03:56.320 --> 0:04:00.320 serve though at the wharf Fisherman's work they serve both 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:03.200 types of chowder. I'm sure. I'm sure they're trying to 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:05.240 get it just as good as in the New England 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:11.520 clam chowder, and they don't. My friend canceled, canceled without 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:14.920 the chowder. Fly your Connecticut flag high. You gotta fly 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.839 your Connectic So I'm very excited about today's guests. Are 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:21.040 you excited about today's guest. I am because I actually 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:23.440 know our guest from way back, and we're going to 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:25.520 be able to reconnect because it's been years. For sure, 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:28.600 it's been years, and um, I remember seeing her in 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:31.360 audition rooms and whatnot, and I'm so happy that she's 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.360 doing so well in our little voice over community now 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:37.240 crazy well, I mean, we're talking about she was on 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:41.240 Hey Arnold, and she was on Last Airbender, and she 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:44.040 was on the care Bears, and she's been a Jedi, 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:48.040 and it's Harry Potter video games and burn the Witch, 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:49.880 which is a new crunchy role. There's so much to 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:51.800 talk about that. Frankly, I don't know if we're gonna 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:53.479 be able to get everything. So I think we should 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:55.320 just end this podcast here and not even bring her out, 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:56.800 because I we're just not gonna be able to get 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:57.880 to all the stuff that we have to get to. 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:00.760 I can't wait to hear her on our little show, 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:02.920 a little, our little vignette. Oh when we're going to 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:04.840 do our across the Garden, which is great. We've got 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:07.120 a fun fun across the garden today and have fun. 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:11.440 Um amateur voiceover actor, undiscovered voice over, I don't like 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.760 the word amateur. An undiscovered voiceover actor like that is 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.120 going to join us today, and that will also lead 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.279 us to a wonderful conversation about the best way to 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:21.479 be discovered, because we're going to help out with that 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:25.880 with our amazing um contest, which I can never remember 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:30.839 the name of christ can I don't even ask. I 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.039 can't remember what it's called. What is it? What is 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:36.440 it again? Dude, you're so good. I'm just curious if 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:38.440 you can remember what it is, because it's out of 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:40.400 my head. What's it called again? It's got out of 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:43.320 my head to you know. Come on, Google, come on, 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:51.479 it's completely drawing, It's completely Maybe if I keep drinking 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:53.880 my diet code. There you go. It's the super Awesome 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:56.600 Contest to become the next voice Actor, Next Big Voice. 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:59.919 The super Awesome Contest to become the next voice actor 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.480 the Big Voice. Yeah, the next Big Voice. We'll get it. 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:04.880 We'll get it, we'll get it. I think the first 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:06.760 thing you're gonna have to do is learn the title 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:09.680 to win. But oh my god, who do we have today? 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:13.599 Who's joining us? Christie? We have Miss Olivia Hack. Let's 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:19.520 get into it. Hey, it's all happening. It's all happening. 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:26.520 She's here. How you doing? I'm happy, Christie is Olivia 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:29.680 every single time, every single time a guest comes on, 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:33.280 Christie is amazed they're actually here. It's so funny. It's 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.600 like whatever. I like, It's like we've been planning this 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:37.719 for weeks and then the person actually pops up like 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:42.160 you're here. First of all, yes, because I'm so grateful 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:44.880 when people come on to our our show, and ours 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:54.359 has had everyone on those seriously, we continue to well done, Olivia. Dude, Olivia, 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:56.400 when's the last time I saw you? I don't know, 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:58.560 fifteen years ago at some club in l A or 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:02.760 something probably okay, think okay, so club in l A. Sure, 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:04.760 but I thought we were I thought we were like 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:09.200 the same, we were agent or CSD. Yes, yes see 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:13.640 I was right, you know will Okay, I'm still still 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:15.480 I've been with C E. D. S D for twenty years. 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:17.560 But I don't want to skip over the club in 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:19.760 l A story. So I don't, you know, I don't 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:22.480 know young people in l A. Whatever. Do you guys 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:23.920 still live in l A? I feel like neither of 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.560 you do. I'm basing that on. I do nothing I 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:28.440 don't live in l A and I don't go to club. 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:32.440 It's so sad that I live in l A and 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:37.120 I've never been to a club in my life. Good choices, yeah, 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.040 because I know, but I'm now I want to get 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:40.560 to do it. What was the last I don't know. 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:43.000 He was literally like lood do or some I mean 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:46.680 like back, Oh my gosh, day. I think Olivia and 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:48.680 I hung out like all the time that day. I 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.880 think we like. I think yes, and I miss you 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:57.800 in my life. We are the cup. You're in Austin. 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:01.680 Oh oh that's right. Yeah, as I moved to Austin, Texas. 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:05.440 How do you like training here? It's beautiful. I've been 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:08.000 your two and a half years. I've found a beautiful 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:10.880 house as well now, um that I just moved to. 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:14.080 So I'm really comfortable and my girls are really you know, 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:17.880 I have two kids, Olivia crazy crazy, I have to 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:23.280 no club time. You don't need to do that. You 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:26.040 really don't the babysitters club more like it. But yes, 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:30.000 oh my gosh, this is so cool. I'm so happy 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:31.680 to see your face, happy to see well, thank you 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:34.360 for joining us, thanks for having me. Happy to be here. 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:37.520 Now I have to know. Are you in l a A. Yeah, 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:42.040 raise if I die Hills, girl, if I die here, 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:45.200 I'll be really disappointed myself. But you know it's probably 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:48.160 gonna Did both of you grew up in l a too, No, 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:52.200 we're actually both from Connecticut randomly, Yeah, but you were 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:55.200 like kid actors. I feel like you're only a kid actor. Well, 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:57.400 I guess kids come out for pilot season, then they 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.240 do that whole. That's what we did. So I was 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:01.480 in the UID in New York and I would take 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:03.319 the bus down, she would take the train, and then 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:05.120 when Boy MEA's World started, I moved out here, so 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:08.000 that I've been here since I was sixteen. Um, so 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:12.559 I'm essentially have been a California person forever at this point. Well, 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:16.080 and that makes sense Connecticut but really New York City. Yeah, 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.880 so that's how that happens. Yeah, we were New York 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:21.840 kids that came west. Yeah, that's kind of our vibe. 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:26.280 But I'm not a Beverly Hills. It says Beverly Hills 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:29.880 on my like I AMDB, which is like unchangeable because 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:33.480 I was like born at I grew up in Hollywood 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:36.280 and then moved to Burbank and I'm still in Burbank, 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:38.480 so but it is interesting because you don't meet a 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:40.960 lot of people that are like from Beverly Hills or 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:44.360 l A. You know. Um, both my daughters were born 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:46.880 in One of them was born in Beverly Hills and 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:48.440 then the other one was born in Newport when we 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:50.520 moved down to Orange County. But it is it is 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:53.280 fun to see like somebody who's like from l A. 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:56.480 What's a different vibe. Like my favorite people are the 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:59.320 people that grew up here, because it's like, oh, that's 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:02.040 that's why like you, because you're just relaxed into it, 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:03.960 you know, because I think you meet a lot of 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:07.040 people and they come to l A and they try 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.319 and be l A whatever that is in their mind 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:11.560 that they grew up watching or think that, you know, 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:13.400 but I don't know that the locals are a little 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:17.720 bit more you know. Well, and Olivia always you've always 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:19.680 struck me as and this is funny because this will 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:23.840 trans this will transition into sort of just the sentiment 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:27.679 of using your voice and whatnot. But like you have 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:30.520 like a more East Coast sensibility to you, Like if 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:33.640 if somebody would be like, hey, look at this actress. 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:36.319 Where would you cast her being from I think somebody 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:38.800 would be like, oh yeah, she's kind of like sassy, 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:40.680 and I feel like she could be more East Coast 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:42.439 than people have asked me if I'm from New York. 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:45.080 But it's just it's direct, like I have very male energy, 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:48.440 which is just kind of I'm just more. I'm just direct. 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:49.959 I don't know. I don't like, who is time for 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:54.160 anything else? I like that. I like that. So let 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:55.800 me ask you a question. Then, how do we talked 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.840 about being child actors? How did you start in the industry? 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.319 I mean I literally it was like three years old. 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:05.480 Started in commercials like all kid actors do, as as 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:08.880 you do, you know, and then I started doing TV 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:12.200 and then movies and all that stuff. Um. And that's 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:15.560 why it's so funny because fans, you know, I do 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:17.640 a lot of comic cons, and so the question is 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:20.280 always like, how did you how did you start, you know, 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:23.560 voice acting? And the look on their face is just 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:26.360 so disappointed when I tell my story, because I think 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:29.280 there's a lot of especially anime actors and things that 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:31.720 have these like I was just an office assistant and 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:34.680 then I became a voice actor or whatever. And it's 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:38.319 like for me, like my first animated series was a 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:40.679 show called Hey Arnold, and I think I started that 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:43.839 when I show it. You know, when you do something 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:45.600 though you don't know, it's like what I have ever 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:47.360 heard of Hey Arnold? If I wasn't on it, I 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:49.720 don't know. You know, when you do a project, it's weird, 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:52.120 but uh, but yeah, I started doing that when I 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:55.319 was like, I think I had just turned twelve and so, 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:57.520 and I've done a little bit of voiceover before that, 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:01.839 and so it's like not this origin story where as 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:04.960 an adult I just started doing voiceover. So it's always 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:08.120 a little I feel disappointing two fans that I don't 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:10.880 have this like you can do it too story because 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:13.360 I've just been doing it forever. I don't know, but 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.480 there's part of me that thinks that's that, in a way, 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:18.960 is even a more interesting story because it's more rare. 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:21.320 The A lot of the people that we're meeting are 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:24.960 not people. I mean, you meet child actors that started 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:27.360 on camera exactly the way you're talking about it. We 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:29.200 all did commercials, so we kind of started or we 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:31.960 started on stage and then you transition, you know, if 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:34.040 you're back East, you do a law in order. You know, 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:37.480 it's every that kind of thing you always exactly so 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:41.440 everybody does that kind of stuff. And then as you're older, 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:44.480 you get maybe your first voiceover gig if you're you're 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:48.240 lucky enough to transition into voiceover. So to meet somebody 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:51.240 that has been doing voice over since they were young, 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:53.559 I think is more rare in the industry. I can 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:55.160 right now the people that have at least been on 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:56.679 this show. I can think of you. I can think 0:12:56.679 --> 0:13:01.480 of Marsden, Jason Marsden, um, and that's kind of it. 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:04.079 We were young right when you were doing v O 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:08.520 or not that we're not all super I mean I 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:13.920 was like sixteen, so that's um no, no, I'm sorry 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:15.880 it's seventeen with Kim. But but but I do find 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:18.720 interesting with Hey Arnold was and then maybe you can 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:21.120 speak to this experience. But it seems like with Hey Arnold, 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:25.640 they really want wanted, like real kid voices. Yeah, and 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:28.360 that's why it's so cool. Like people always say like, oh, 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:30.839 what's your favorite animated project, and they want me to 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:34.000 say Avatar because that's so popular and Avatar is great 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:36.240 and everything. Um, now that I finally watched that show 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:43.040 after twenty years but another little tiny showy but but hey, Arnold, 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:45.320 I was a kid doing it and it wasn't all 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:47.800 kid cast, which was really rare for that time because, 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:49.640 as you know, they don't want to do kids because 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:53.800 school and time and spans and all that stuff. Um, 0:13:54.080 --> 0:14:00.360 and you know, and voices change, like we had yeah yeah, 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:05.840 so you know the girls, Allen and Arnold. Yeah, Philip 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:11.120 van Dyke was another Arnold, um all these yeah. Well, 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:13.240 and there's like a real sweet spot I think for 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:16.600 boys where they have this like they've got this rasp 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:19.120 and they have this certain I don't know, and then 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:21.120 it's like twelve years old, and twelve years old is 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:26.280 right when it you know, flips so flip instantly. I 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:28.960 had that happened because I sang as a kid. I 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:30.880 sang and you know, and you know, I got the 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:33.640 lead and everything in the third grade and fourth grade 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:35.640 rolls around and then your voice starts to warble and 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:37.800 that's it. You're like, now you better learn how to 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:41.520 sing in a lower key, which I didn't. I discovered smoking, 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:43.320 which I liked way better. Got to be such a 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:48.760 weird thing like women, it just changes. But again, I 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:50.400 never thought I was going to be a voice over actor. 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:52.360 But that's the thing that was so cool about Hey 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:54.480 Arnold is it was not just a great show, but 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:58.640 it seemed to kind of be taking the next evolution 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:02.200 or step from the origin Charlie Brown stuff because that 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:04.840 was all kids too, and one of the very rare 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:06.360 things where they said, no, we're just going to use 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:09.440 all children. So to kind of piggyback on that, Hey 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:11.000 Arnold said, we're going to do the same thing. It 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:15.040 might have been one of the last shows all kids 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:18.080 was Recess because Recess wasn't all kids. I feel like 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:21.560 they do it stren now it's a little like more 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:26.160 of a hipper thing to do. Um. But yeah, I 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.880 don't know. I yeah, that show is just really special. 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:30.600 I think it's really ahead of its time. Like and 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:32.640 to speak on your point about like the whole Charlie 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:35.440 Brown thing, like yeah, I mean, if you go back 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:38.600 and you watch that show, there's like an episode where 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:41.840 this it's called Chocolate Boy, but he's like addicted chocolate 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:44.080 and really he's a drug addict and like helda his 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:46.480 mother through the whole series. If you really are watching it, 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:48.960 like she's an alcoholic she's always making these smoothies in 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:51.920 the morning and it's barely awake, and you know, there's 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:55.000 episodes where like Arnold gets mugged, or their city kids 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:57.400 and they grew up in the city. And so yeah, 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:59.520 there's a lot of people come up to me all 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.920 the time and talk about that show because it, I 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:05.480 don't know, it dealt with like very topical issues as 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:08.600 opposed to now a lot of animation is very a 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:11.480 d D and just kind of you know, in your face. 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:13.320 So there was a little more nuanced with that show 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:15.760 that I think. Really, Yeah, the eighties and the eighties 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:18.920 and the nineties did this thing where because we're talking 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:20.280 about it when we're going back and looking at a 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.360 lot of nineties shows, even the on camera shows, they 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:27.200 did these things where they were for multiple audiences. So 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:29.320 you know, a kid would watch Hey Arnold and see 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:31.200 one thing, an adult would watch Hey Arnold to see 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:33.600 something else in somebody seventeen would watch Hey Arnold and 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:36.480 see something else. And the eighties and the nineties really, 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:40.320 especially the nineties, really had that going where it was 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:42.880 that kind of again, like you said, the kids and alcohol. 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:46.000 The mom's an alcoholic, but you're you're eight years old 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:48.240 watching that. You're never going to pick that up unless 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:50.320 your mom is also an alcohol and your mom is 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:53.880 also but exactly, I mean it is. It's one of 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:55.880 those things where it kind of appealed to a whole 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:58.800 range of people, which is why Hey Arnold was one 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:01.520 of those shows you would hear about college kids like, well, 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:03.720 we'd wake up and we just watched Hey Arnold, and 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:05.840 they would watch it completely differently than the kids that 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:07.159 would wake up in the morning and do it. Was 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:09.560 very Nickelodeon back in the day was doing stuff that 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:13.199 was very cutting edge in that sense. Nicolodeon, do you 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:17.200 know what they I got slimmed. So that's how long 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:21.719 ago I was on Nickelodeon. I've heard different things about 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.560 like is it pudding? Is it like corn start? Like 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:27.000 did it taste? How did it taste? It was, well 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:29.280 the thing. So I got slimmed on the set of 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:32.720 the original. You can't do that on television. Oh no, 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:37.119 I was, I was nic I was, I was, I 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:40.120 was on Nickelodeon. I started hosting a show on Nickelodeon 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:45.480 in nighties seven called what Don't Just Sit There? Oh 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:47.320 my gosh, best it was the best. It was a 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:50.360 you were a young Saturday Night Live. There was four 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:53.000 of us hosting. We had a band, we had special 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:54.399 kids like we had you know, new kids in the 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:57.000 Block came on and Freddy Krueger came on and we 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:59.240 will Wheaton's where I met Wheaton for the first time. 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:02.879 So we were shooting in New York. And it's so 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:08.119 funny because I know and well you we just had 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:09.760 a reunion. We just had a don't just sit the 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:13.480 reunion for the first time since at my house two 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:16.800 weeks ago. It was great, it was but it's people 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:19.960 I hadn't seen since I was twelve. Did they write 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:23.080 in your bathroom? They did? They did? Actually I have 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:25.639 I'm sorry that for for the audience listening. I have 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:28.560 a bathroom that is off a little screening room and 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:30.880 there's pens everywhere, and you write up your favorite movie 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:32.640 quote on the wall. So it's just the whole wall 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:35.400 is just covered with with your favorite movie quotes. Will 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:37.560 when you sell your house someday, that's going to be 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:40.400 like valuable, Yeah, well, well we'll see. But that's why 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:44.000 we're gonna We're gonna triple the price of just that room. Um, 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:48.240 but if so, they flew me up to the set 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:50.320 of You Can't Do That on Television to interview all 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:51.760 them for don't just sit there. And part of the 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:53.800 thing was I had to actually do one of the 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:56.800 skits and I got to say I don't know, and 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.320 I grew up obviously, you know, a year or two 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:01.840 before that, just watching You Can't Do That on television 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:04.720 the original opening the lockers like, hey Lucy, Hey, alistair, 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:06.720 it was the coolest thing in the world. And then 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:08.880 to kind of be there and there's just a guy 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:12.560 on a ladder smoking a cigarette with a bucket and 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:15.280 it's the thing that makes it all stringy is is 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:18.360 baby shampoo. So it's like they're just dumping this like 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:22.239 slimy oatmeally baby shampoo, and they were teaching me how 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:24.040 to do it. It's like you're supposed to first get 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:25.199 hit on the top of the head, and then when 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:26.720 you feel like it hit, you're supposed to look to 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:28.600 this guy like I can't believe this is happening, so 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:31.800 then it covers your whole face. Um, it was a 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:34.240 whole Yeah, it was a whole thing, but it was 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:36.720 like old school original, but it was some guy in 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:39.080 Canada and Ottawa with a cigarette hanging out like Amy, 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:43.720 We're gonna yeah. So it was, it was. It was interesting, 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:46.240 but that's that was Nickelodeon back in the day. And 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:47.760 to get back to what we were talking about, Hey 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:51.280 Arnold was then the next generation of Nickelodeon, like one 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:54.080 generation removed from the start where they really started to 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:58.840 capture I think what kids were about UM because they 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:02.960