1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:05,280 All right, well, welcome to the live Audio Theater Central podcast. We'll 2 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:09,160 kick things off here in just a moment. But this is not how we 3 00:00:09,199 --> 00:00:13,759 normally produce this show. We edit and we have lots of time to fix 4 00:00:13,839 --> 00:00:18,039 mistakes. Well, we're gonna do this as well as we can, and 5 00:00:18,519 --> 00:00:21,199 pray that my voice holds out because I've been having some issues with it today. 6 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:25,000 But I'm gonna get this rolling and hope you enjoy. We're gonna have 7 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,519 a couple of guests here in a moment, but we're gonna just run through 8 00:00:27,559 --> 00:00:44,560 the full episode here, So Greg and now Audio Theater Central. Hello, 9 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:48,280 Welcome to Audio Theater Central. This is the show that explores family friendly audio 10 00:00:48,399 --> 00:00:51,719 drama through news, reviews and interviews. I'm your host, J D. 11 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:56,240 Setter. This is episode one hundred and ninety three, Live at Sonicon twenty 12 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:03,479 twenty three. Make some noise, Yeah, Well, joining me is a 13 00:01:03,479 --> 00:01:07,359 ATC contributor Austin Peachee. Hello, Hello, it's great to be here. 14 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:11,599 We're going to be having an interview with actors Andy Harvey and Daniel Cross here 15 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:17,000 momentarily. We've got some feedback coming up from Blake. If we haven't enough 16 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:19,319 time to get to that, but before we do that, we're going to 17 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:26,680 jump into some audio drama updates water up this program to bring you a special 18 00:01:26,719 --> 00:01:30,159 report and in other news tonight, a brief look at the headlines. Now 19 00:01:30,359 --> 00:01:38,200 they want exciting, fast piece news that's relevant and entertaining like this. Ardaban 20 00:01:38,359 --> 00:01:42,120 and the Quest for the King from Markeywitz audio Works is coming very soon. 21 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:47,439 It'll be premiering on YouTube on Sunday, December seventeenth. It's a sixty five 22 00:01:47,439 --> 00:01:51,959 minute production. It'll also be coming to Dramafy, Amazon, Apple, et 23 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:56,799 cetera. The summary is upon his return home from the battlefields of Europe in 24 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:00,799 nineteen eighteen, Colonel Blackwood, a UK Army infantry officer, is reunited with 25 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:06,079 his family on Christmas Eve after nearly four years. In the midst of telling 26 00:02:06,079 --> 00:02:09,039 his children a bedtime story, where we learn of Ardibon, a magi priest 27 00:02:09,199 --> 00:02:14,000 and the fourth wise Man to present gifts to the newborn King. As a 28 00:02:14,039 --> 00:02:17,360 result of dissension among his fellow magians, Ardebon has no other choice but to 29 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:22,800 embark on this journey alone, though his quest is fraught with challenges along the 30 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:28,039 wait to test his courage and stir his compassion, his faith never waivers. 31 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:32,000 In the cast are some of the familiar actress that we've heard of and we've 32 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:36,599 talked about here on the show in the past. Bethany Baldwin, Caleb Bresler, 33 00:02:36,719 --> 00:02:42,159 Alicia Hanson, Glenn Haskell, Rachel Pulliam, and Jonathan Cook and Glenn 34 00:02:42,199 --> 00:02:46,719 Haskell's First Acts Productions has two new Christmas Audi dramas this year. First one, 35 00:02:46,879 --> 00:02:52,080 Dragnet Delivers Delivery Day release on November tenth. Summary for that follow two 36 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:54,479 detectives looking for facts on the birth of a baby in Bethlehem, meet those 37 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:58,599 who met the baby long for his arrival and were anxious to be near him. 38 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:01,199 The second one, Chris Is Carol of Bennington Falls, which released on 39 00:03:01,199 --> 00:03:06,280 November twenty fourth. Both are exclusive to Drama PI, and there's another one 40 00:03:06,319 --> 00:03:12,479 already in production for next year called Christmas at the Canteen. New Birth Audio 41 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:17,280 Productions announced its inaugural audio drama release titled Reckoning of Cowards. This is the 42 00:03:17,319 --> 00:03:22,280 first story in the Bayou Noir series, written by Darby Kern and Micah Touchet. 43 00:03:23,159 --> 00:03:28,039 The summary for that is Southern Louisiana, nineteen fifty four. Three men 44 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:32,520 lie dead in a diner. What's behind it lies power, corruption. Who 45 00:03:32,599 --> 00:03:37,479 is behind it? That's for Sheriff of Noble Vincent to find out. But 46 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:40,000 he's got secrets of his own, the kind that doesn't just cost a man's 47 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:45,840 job, it may cost his life. Pre Production has begun with an expected 48 00:03:45,879 --> 00:03:50,840 release date of early twenty twenty four. The first Christmas special of the Human 49 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:53,120 Eels series from Dominion Artists, creator of Nick Guy Private Eye, has been 50 00:03:53,159 --> 00:03:57,599 released. It's titled Peace on Earth, Goodwill Toward Men and is available on 51 00:03:57,639 --> 00:04:01,240 Apple Music and Amazon Music. The summary is it's Christmas time in Megoboless City 52 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:05,520 and peace and goodwill is shared by everyone until a disgruntled salesman sets up to 53 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:09,759 disrupt the spirit of the whole season. But it's through this that the sitents 54 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:13,560 of Migobless City learned the true meaning of the angelic proclamation Glory to God in 55 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:17,439 the Highest and on Earth, Peace Goodwill toward Men. Season two of Veggie 56 00:04:17,439 --> 00:04:24,480 Tales Very Veggie Silly Stories kicked off with its first episode titled Everyday Kindness, 57 00:04:24,759 --> 00:04:29,959 which dropped on November two. Your Story Hour has released Exciting Events Volume fourteen 58 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:34,079 six new episodes, including According to the website, two exciting stories about explore 59 00:04:34,079 --> 00:04:38,920 missionary David Livingstone, two historical stories about children in the eighteen hundreds in the 60 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:43,120 United States, and two true to life stories about music and acts of kindness, 61 00:04:44,319 --> 00:04:46,959 and one that I'm rather excited about. And we're announcing for the first 62 00:04:46,959 --> 00:04:54,000 time ever publicly, Greenhorn Tales Season two is in the works. Scripts are 63 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,920 being written now. Had a meeting with the writers not too long ago and 64 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,720 we kind of mapped out what we wanted to do with season two, and 65 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:04,720 no time frame yet on those releases, but ten new episodes will likely be 66 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:11,560 coming very soon in hopefully twenty twenty four, and Audis fans can look forward 67 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:14,879 to his very special event next year. The Adventures of Odyssey team has announced 68 00:05:14,879 --> 00:05:18,160 a two day event to celebrate their one thousandth episode next year. It's called 69 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:21,279 One Grand Party and will take place at the Focus on the Family headquarters in 70 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:26,720 Chlora Springs on August second and third, twenty twenty four. More info will 71 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:30,920 be coming as available at the event website One Grand Party dot com. And 72 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:36,480 lastly, there's a new podcast in the fan community, a spinoff of Odyssey 73 00:05:36,519 --> 00:05:42,360 Geek, hosted by mister Austin Peachee here. It's called a Walk through Wildwood 74 00:05:42,759 --> 00:05:46,360 and it's a fan podcast about Pause and Tales. If you haven't heard, 75 00:05:46,439 --> 00:05:49,680 they are starting production or have started production on new episodes for the first time 76 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:54,519 in several years. And so Austin Peache and Michael L. Favor are going 77 00:05:54,519 --> 00:05:58,639 to be reviewing the series episode by episode. How many episodes are out so 78 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:03,399 far? I believe four four and it's it's I mean, that show is 79 00:06:03,439 --> 00:06:06,040 a lot of fun. Yes, it is geared towards a younger audience, 80 00:06:06,079 --> 00:06:11,240 but it's it's really fun to I mean, the team behind it is so 81 00:06:11,399 --> 00:06:15,959 good that it's just fun for all ages, I think. So it's it's 82 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:19,279 great to have Austin branching out and doing some other podcasting, which it started 83 00:06:19,319 --> 00:06:28,439 as Honesty Geek what was they? So that's something to look forward to. 84 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:32,519 Just say your name and the role you're playing in this production. Please excuse 85 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:35,879 me, excuse me, the local news station would like to talk to you. 86 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:40,240 Oh, here's a couple of me play right, I'm here to ask 87 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:45,480 you a couple of questions. Well, we are really excited to have a 88 00:06:45,519 --> 00:06:49,839 couple of wonderful guests with us tonight, very very talented actors. You've you've 89 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:54,920 heard some of their material throughout the day already in different things, and so 90 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:59,759 you'll be hearing from them more as this weekend progresses. But first off, 91 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:15,879 actor Daniel Cross, Yeah, yeah, yeah, and actor Andy Harvey. 92 00:07:16,319 --> 00:07:18,560 Thank you so much, gentlemen for joining us. This is gonna be a 93 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:23,759 lot of fun. I think, thank you for having us. Thank you 94 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:28,399 for having us. Daniel's not near as thankful as I am. I'm paying 95 00:07:28,399 --> 00:07:31,680 attention, I promise. So in a few minutes, we're gonna do something 96 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:35,839 really fun. If you were here in twenty twenty one, we did something 97 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:40,839 very similar with a couple of actors. We're gonna throw a couple of scripts 98 00:07:40,839 --> 00:07:45,879 that they've never seen before and let them do some cold reads and give you 99 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:48,600 a chance to see their process of how they develop a voice for a character. 100 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:54,079 And so again, this is totally off the cuff. They've never seen 101 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:56,920 these before, so anything could happen. But we're gonna have fun with it. 102 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:01,480 But before we do that, you mean, these guys have been working 103 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:05,839 on lots of projects that you've heard of, like Lamplader Theater, Pirateeers for 104 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:11,839 Daniel and Witnesses, the Adventum, the watch and Andy's been in Lamplader Theater 105 00:08:11,879 --> 00:08:16,759 is the Hidden Hand and dashed to pieces and witnesses and stuff for LRT Media 106 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:22,040 that is still to come. Just just some amazing stuff. And if you 107 00:08:22,079 --> 00:08:24,279 haven't heard of these guys, definitely want to check out their work because they're 108 00:08:24,319 --> 00:08:30,240 they're amazing at what they do. For sure. Thank you, thank you. 109 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:33,960 Well let's start with you. Daniel, tell us a little bit about 110 00:08:35,639 --> 00:08:41,960 your work portraying Colonel George Washington at Colonial Williamsborg. I've never been there, 111 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:46,240 so I don't know exactly how that is. This is like a live improv 112 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:48,159 kind of theater where you're in character all the time, or do you have 113 00:08:48,279 --> 00:08:54,440 scripted lines at all? Or Andy who plays the fife for me? Incapacity 114 00:08:54,519 --> 00:08:56,080 that idea? Yeah no, yeah, So I work at Colonoway's work full 115 00:08:56,080 --> 00:09:00,080 time as my day gig, my survival job, as one might call it. 116 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:03,240 It is a large historic area, one of the largest, in fact 117 00:09:03,279 --> 00:09:05,519 the largest museum in the country. It's open air to a mile long historic 118 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:11,039 area from stem to stern, incorporates eighty nine original buildings and hundreds of reconstructions. 119 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:15,480 It's the site in the location where the first call for the Continental Congress 120 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:18,480 in seventeen seventy four comes out of It's where George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, 121 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:22,679 Patrick Henry all cut their teeth in government, spend a great deal of time 122 00:09:22,799 --> 00:09:26,480 and their younger days kind of figuring out who they were as people. And 123 00:09:26,519 --> 00:09:31,200 so it's the epicenter of the original aspects of Virginia's involvement in what becomes the 124 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:33,399 American Revolutionary movement. And so that's what I spend my time doing. So 125 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:39,120 as Washington, I play the younger Washington in case you didn't know. But 126 00:09:39,759 --> 00:09:41,440 for those who didn't know, I was just waving the non existent hair that 127 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:45,200 I don't have. I assume you, yes, I do wear a wig. 128 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:48,759 Washington did not wear a wig. He was not bald like I am, 129 00:09:48,879 --> 00:09:50,559 but didn't have any teeth. So ha ha, I got you there, 130 00:09:50,639 --> 00:09:58,840 George. But yeah. So I portray Washington mostly in the seventeen fifties, 131 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:01,399 which is the Seven Years War, which most folks don't know about. 132 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:05,120 I dive into that aspect of his life. I'm now moving forward in time 133 00:10:05,159 --> 00:10:07,120 as we come up to the two hundred and fifty, the anniversary of a 134 00:10:07,159 --> 00:10:11,200 lot of these events in seventy four to seventy five seventy six, and so 135 00:10:11,279 --> 00:10:13,720 I research the character, I develop the programming, I write the programming, 136 00:10:15,039 --> 00:10:18,360 improvise as well. So a lot of stuff I do is I'll just be 137 00:10:18,399 --> 00:10:20,720 on the street talking to folks answering any questions they have about Washington in character 138 00:10:20,799 --> 00:10:26,840 as Washington. I also do audiences where I sit and talk for twenty minutes 139 00:10:26,879 --> 00:10:28,799 or so and then answer questions with the audience. And then I write fourth 140 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:35,000 wall scenes that are performed varying topics ranging from farming to the institution of slavery 141 00:10:35,039 --> 00:10:37,919 to post traumatic stress in soldiers and civilians of the eighteenth century. The goal 142 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:43,799 that we have that I'm tasked with is recreating the psychology of the human so 143 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:46,440 that we aren't looking at the dates, the names, the marble statues, 144 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:50,960 the deified figure or the demonized figure, but the human being behind it, 145 00:10:50,159 --> 00:10:52,759 what motivates them, the good, the bad, and there's plenty of both. 146 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:58,480 And then to through that bring education to individual folks about how they can 147 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:01,200 learn from those individuals from the past. So, yeah, you know, 148 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:07,440 that's just that. And so has that informed the way you approach a character 149 00:11:07,519 --> 00:11:13,080 for voiceover? Yeah, it has ironically enough, it's actually at times been 150 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:18,840 a challenge because from from a development perspective, it's been great. You know, 151 00:11:18,919 --> 00:11:22,759 when you get to research an individual's life. There I spend probably probably 152 00:11:22,759 --> 00:11:26,639 forty percent of my week researching from his original documentations, so ninety percent of 153 00:11:26,639 --> 00:11:30,279 that research is his letters, et cetera. So you start picking up his 154 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:33,840 syntax, his patterns of speech. The downside where it's been for me in 155 00:11:33,919 --> 00:11:37,519 voice is that I spend forty hours of my week pretending to be somebody else. 156 00:11:39,159 --> 00:11:41,519 It's the same person, and I've been doing it for six years, 157 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:45,960 and so it's actually hard for me to break out of that character. Yeah, 158 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,720 and be not just other characters, but even be myself because I spend 159 00:11:48,799 --> 00:11:52,799 so much time. It's like the worst, the worst Broadway play I've ever 160 00:11:52,799 --> 00:11:58,000 seen. Instead of going on for three months, it runs for ever. 161 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:01,639 And so that's actually been a challenge, a good challenge, but it's something 162 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:05,360 that I've been very and have to be very cognizant of to try to snap 163 00:12:05,399 --> 00:12:09,360 out of those things. But as far as like developing a character from stem 164 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:11,960 to Stern, you know, you've got incredible depth of knowledge with somebody like 165 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:16,200 him. In fact, it's oftentimes challenging because you have too much information to 166 00:12:16,279 --> 00:12:18,759 kind of bring all these different aspects, and there's always something new that you're 167 00:12:18,759 --> 00:12:22,559 gonna find, you know, depression, joys, sorrows. You know what 168 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:28,559 happens. The guy raises his wife's one of her only daughter that survives into 169 00:12:28,639 --> 00:12:35,759 almost adulthood since she was two, Patsy Washington, and then watches her entire 170 00:12:35,799 --> 00:12:39,120 life as she suffers with epilepsy, which is untreatable in the eighteenth century, 171 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:43,480 and then ultimately ends up being there. When I say being there, I 172 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:46,759 mean her in his arms. She dies of an epileptic seizure the year before 173 00:12:48,399 --> 00:12:52,159 the Continental Converse and all that kind of stuff happens, and he watches as 174 00:12:52,159 --> 00:12:56,399 the life drops out of her eyes. And he's a soldier's experiences before. 175 00:12:56,440 --> 00:13:01,840 So like that kind of aspect brings incredible depth to not just the human story, 176 00:13:01,879 --> 00:13:03,360 but then to individuals who may have experienced that same thing with their own 177 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:07,879 family members. And that's just one example. So it's incredible being able to 178 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:15,440 delve into that deep of a person's life from a character study perspective. Yeah, 179 00:13:15,919 --> 00:13:18,519 yeah, yeah, just out of curiosity, did you run into Jason 180 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:22,879 Markowitz because I know he was there at Y. Yeah, he and I 181 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:30,399 cross paths quite literally the day he quit. And he works in evening programs 182 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:33,799 Jason Mark, which is as a voice actor as well, and he's got 183 00:13:33,039 --> 00:13:35,559 a project coming out right Yeah, yeah, you just heard about it in 184 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:39,080 the news sector. Yeah, and so we kind of zigged while with Zach. 185 00:13:39,159 --> 00:13:41,799 So the gal are funding up. The gal who plays my fake wife 186 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:45,799 directed the show that he was in. It's a very complicated life that I 187 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:50,320 live, but but yeah, so I know of him and we met briefly 188 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:54,639 in passing. Yeah, small world. It is a small world. So 189 00:13:54,639 --> 00:13:58,320 you sound like you're quite the history buff and you got to play on the 190 00:13:58,399 --> 00:14:01,000 brigad Ventures William Bradford, the MAK and Pilgrims. So tell us how that 191 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:07,759 came about. Yeah. That was the second audio drama I had ever done. 192 00:14:07,879 --> 00:14:09,120 The first one was Hidden Hand with the Lamplighter, which is where I 193 00:14:09,159 --> 00:14:13,639 met Andy, and the world has never been the same. But no, 194 00:14:13,799 --> 00:14:18,639 Brinckman, I got hooked into them. I forget who first sent me the 195 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:24,919 audition information. It was probably Nato Jacobson. As always native you just assume 196 00:14:24,919 --> 00:14:28,039 it's Nato. It may have been Jake Phillips, and it was one of 197 00:14:28,039 --> 00:14:30,159 those two. Could have been Jake, could have been somebody else, And 198 00:14:31,159 --> 00:14:33,639 it was pretty funny. I hadn't done any recording from home at all. 199 00:14:33,679 --> 00:14:35,200 I just done the thing at Lamplighter up in New York. They prefer to 200 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:39,679 record in studio family style, and which for those who aren't familiar with that, 201 00:14:39,679 --> 00:14:41,919 meaning all the cast in the same room at the same time, as 202 00:14:41,919 --> 00:14:46,759 opposed to individuals broken up around, you get a different feel. And and 203 00:14:46,879 --> 00:14:50,600 I ended up touching Base. I sent him a couple auditions, and I 204 00:14:50,639 --> 00:14:54,200 was ended up going to be playing the small little bit part. I didn't 205 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:56,279 have equipment, so I had to go and like buy equipment, and it 206 00:14:56,399 --> 00:14:56,919 was like, oh, that's not good enough, so do this, And 207 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:00,000 so I ended up he kind of walked through the whole process, getting the 208 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,960 write equipment and the mics and everything. I knew nothing at all about audio 209 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:09,240 drama or performance in this kind of space. And then they heard an audition 210 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:13,480 that I did for and I forget the name of the character. Now, 211 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:16,919 Oh my gosh, there's been a couple of years that they wanted. The 212 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:22,879 Scarlet Pimpernel is the instruction that I got and so I just created that character 213 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:24,639 from an old film that I had seen and they're like, yes this, 214 00:15:24,759 --> 00:15:28,759 I was like okay, And so that's how that character came to life, 215 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:31,159 and it was it was a blast. If you if you haven't heard that 216 00:15:31,279 --> 00:15:37,480 production, it is fantastic, absolutely fantastic. Well, Annie, we've mentioned 217 00:15:37,759 --> 00:15:41,120 hit in Hand a couple of times here, but you actually get started with 218 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:46,679 with acting here at Liberty. Tell us a little bit about that and what 219 00:15:46,679 --> 00:15:50,759 what got you interested in the arts. A lot of times these these actors 220 00:15:50,799 --> 00:15:54,720 will start at a younger age, but you said it was it was not 221 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:58,039 until till that time in your life. So what brought that about? That's 222 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:03,679 correct. Well, it's full circle for me because audio drama is what got 223 00:16:03,679 --> 00:16:08,360 me interested in acting in general. And then I became a stage actor, 224 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:14,840 and then during the pandemic, I became a voice actor. So I'd listened 225 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:19,360 to Adventures in Odyssey my whole life, and I loved that world. I 226 00:16:19,399 --> 00:16:25,720 loved all that, and I didn't know that acting was truly a profession. 227 00:16:25,799 --> 00:16:29,720 I mean, I knew that people did it, but I thought, you 228 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:34,159 know, just a handful of folks out in LA And someone told me a 229 00:16:34,159 --> 00:16:37,679 pianist at my church told me, hey, you should be an actor, 230 00:16:37,799 --> 00:16:44,440 just completely off the cuff. I was seventeen years old, and it just 231 00:16:44,559 --> 00:16:49,279 burrowing in my head, and so I came. I went to school for 232 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:52,279 one year at home. I know, no major declared, just got some 233 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:56,679 general studies. And then I came here to Liberty and declared an acting major. 234 00:16:56,720 --> 00:17:00,440 Before it had ever stepped on stage, I don't know anything about it. 235 00:17:00,519 --> 00:17:06,400 I didn't know the lingo I didn't know, literally came into a blank, 236 00:17:06,799 --> 00:17:11,119 and I thought i'd know pretty soon if this was for me, and 237 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:15,160 it turns out it was. And so I'm actually in a show right now, 238 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:19,000 rehearsing a show in Georgia, a big spectacle Christmas show called A Christmas 239 00:17:19,039 --> 00:17:22,480 to Believe In. If you're in Georgia, come see us in December. 240 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:30,920 It's my seventy seventh professional production. Wow. And that just all started here, 241 00:17:30,039 --> 00:17:34,000 not on this stage. They built this right after I left, and 242 00:17:34,079 --> 00:17:38,799 I think they meant to. But then during the pandemic everything dried up. 243 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:44,480 I was already in a bit of sabbatical from acting anyway, trying to kind 244 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:48,519 of find the next path for me because it's a difficult life. It's a 245 00:17:48,519 --> 00:17:52,480 hard life. But I had decided I'm going back to it. I was 246 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:56,599 called to it. I was made for this. I can't make any scratch 247 00:17:56,599 --> 00:18:00,119 out in the real world. So I was about to come back in and 248 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:06,480 the pandemic hit, and somehow I believe that that was through Thomas Scott another 249 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:11,960 yeah, Seneca or Winter. I think he cued me into the Hidden Hand 250 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:15,559 auditions. And I was working at a tool store at the time, just 251 00:18:15,599 --> 00:18:18,640 trying to make ends meet during the pandemic, and I got the email while 252 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:22,960 I was on the floor stocking that I'd gotten Black Donald in the Hidden Hand. 253 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:27,359 I immediately started crying and I was like, well, hopefully this starts 254 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:33,039 something. And boy did it ever. And I also my second one was 255 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:37,640 Freedom as well. I'm pretty sure I didn't make the final cut because guess 256 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:44,200 what, I don't speak Algonquin and I I think I ended up getting replaced. 257 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:49,000 But Ian also walked me through buying a microphone setting at my studio and 258 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:55,039 everything like that. I owe a lot. Yeah, Ian Botman the real 259 00:18:55,039 --> 00:18:59,440 hero here. And it's just it's been such an exciting life and so I 260 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:03,920 still canntinue to do theater and I just travel with my studio as well and 261 00:19:03,519 --> 00:19:07,559 do projects on the road. I prefer my home studio in West Virginia. 262 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:11,400 It's I don't have to worry about the sound. I know it. It's 263 00:19:11,559 --> 00:19:15,599 very well, you know, you know, the hotel life of heaven to 264 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:19,519 try to figure that out, but it is so it's so flexible, and 265 00:19:19,559 --> 00:19:23,400 I'm very thankful for that. God just kind of shoved me into this. 266 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:26,559 I wanted to be a voice actor when I was a kid, didn't know 267 00:19:26,559 --> 00:19:30,079 how to start all the way through my career, didn't know how to even 268 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:34,359 pursue that, and then I just shoved into it, literally, and I'm 269 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:37,240 so thankful. Well, tell us a little or talk to us a little 270 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:42,440 bit about the differences between stage performance and behind a mic. It's very different. 271 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:45,480 There are some skills that cross over, but it's a very different art 272 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:52,319 form. Absolutely. The skills that cross over are great ones being able to 273 00:19:52,079 --> 00:19:56,519 think on your feet, being only able to stay in character and be flexible 274 00:19:56,559 --> 00:20:03,039 in character, move impro and character and things like that. But on the 275 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:10,279 stage you've got weeks and weeks and weeks to craft that character and hid in 276 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:12,880 hand. I was reading it for the first time as I was recording it, 277 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:17,839 and I came up with a character I hoped it worked and was just 278 00:20:18,319 --> 00:20:21,680 going. I was like, I kind of like this. I kind of 279 00:20:21,759 --> 00:20:26,519 like the pressure of that cold read. It's not always it doesn't always work 280 00:20:26,559 --> 00:20:30,640 out. And I think character creation is the most difficult part of this job. 281 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:36,519 And sometimes I'm auditioning for a number of different roles for a new project 282 00:20:36,599 --> 00:20:40,319 or something, and I think, man, I just sent in seven characters 283 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:44,920 that I wouldn't None of them are great, and none of them are even 284 00:20:45,079 --> 00:20:48,720 that good. But it's what I have right now, and I don't have 285 00:20:48,759 --> 00:20:52,599 the weeks and weeks and weeks that I do in a stage show to come 286 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:56,039 up with it. And sometimes a certain character you just immediately I've got an 287 00:20:56,039 --> 00:21:00,480 idea for that, And sometimes you just grasp at strass and you know, 288 00:21:00,559 --> 00:21:04,119 it's if the roles for you, if it's the right one for you, 289 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:10,720 it'll come true. But not every role is for everybody, that's for sure. 290 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:12,359 Yeah, And that's one thing you have to get used to, is 291 00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:17,880 like they're not saying no to me as a person. They're just saying that 292 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:19,920 voice is not what I'm looking for exactly exactly. I don't. I mean 293 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:25,039 resident. One thing, one note I always get, can you make that 294 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:29,880 younger? I'm thirty six, I'm playing like a sixty year old, and 295 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:33,920 they're like, it's way too old. It's way too old. He sounds 296 00:21:33,039 --> 00:21:40,839 ninety eight. So that's something that I'm still working on in consistently trying to 297 00:21:41,519 --> 00:21:45,440 youth up my voice for certain characters. Well, you're a singer as well, 298 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:51,319 so has that helped you as you move into a voice acting at all? 299 00:21:51,599 --> 00:21:55,480 Absolutely? Absolutely. The instruments you use as a singer are the exact 300 00:21:55,519 --> 00:22:00,480 same ones we're using in the studio, and it also helps flexibility of the 301 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:04,400 instrument. I like to do a lot of dialects, a lot of accents, 302 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:11,720 a lot of different style of cadence and syntax, and that all comes 303 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:15,240 from my training as a singer, which I also didn't start doing until I 304 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:22,519 stepped foot on this campus. So you are a Seneca Award winner. You 305 00:22:22,599 --> 00:22:27,799 won Best Actor for your role as Simeon and Witnesses, and that had a 306 00:22:27,799 --> 00:22:32,240 lot of really emotional scenes in it. I thought it was brilliant. Brought 307 00:22:32,279 --> 00:22:37,400 me to here sometimes too, so for those really tough emotional scenes. What's 308 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:40,720 your process or what's a tip for an actor you give to get into those 309 00:22:40,799 --> 00:22:45,759 kind of roles. Everybody's got their own bag of tools when it comes to 310 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:52,400 bringing out those difficult emotions. The easiest way for me to do it, 311 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:59,200 and it doesn't always work, but it definitely did with Simeon is just to 312 00:22:59,279 --> 00:23:02,279 live it in that moment and to be going through it in that moment. 313 00:23:02,559 --> 00:23:07,319 I have a very good imagination. I'm an impath. It's easy for me 314 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:11,759 to imagine that I am him and there and going through that in real time. 315 00:23:12,759 --> 00:23:18,720 And I'm a very emotional person. I'm a very emotional actor. If 316 00:23:18,759 --> 00:23:22,799 you're not seeing me cry on stage, it's a rarity. I I like. 317 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:29,240 I like that that side of things. And there was when Tracy Van 318 00:23:29,279 --> 00:23:33,720 Dolder was coming up with that piece. She told me about it. She'd 319 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:37,160 already had a different actor, and I said, can I audition? I 320 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:41,559 love that character in the Bible, and I one of my oldest nephews is 321 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:45,039 named Simeon as well, and I thought I'd love to give it a shot. 322 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:51,359 And I also love aforementioned I do age well, So I was like, 323 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:53,319 I want, I want to play somebody that's extremely elderly. I want 324 00:23:53,319 --> 00:23:56,920 to give it a shot. And I sent it to her and she said, 325 00:23:56,279 --> 00:24:00,680 let's do it. And I was just so thankful and very on to 326 00:24:00,319 --> 00:24:06,519 win the Seneca Award. I was extremely blown away by that and very thankful. 327 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:11,640 It's I love Witnesses. I love Witnesses. We both do, Yes, 328 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:14,960 we both do. Go check it out is witness Audio dot com. 329 00:24:15,079 --> 00:24:18,599 It's free and it's amazing. It is and Tracy event Older is what an 330 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:25,200 amazing writer, Oh for sure. Yeah. Adapting scripture in that way is 331 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:27,519 just I've never I've never seen anybody do it quite like that, and it's 332 00:24:27,559 --> 00:24:33,559 just fantastic. Yeah. You know, I probably shouldn't say this, but 333 00:24:33,839 --> 00:24:36,160 every once in a while you come you hear about a new show and you're 334 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:40,279 like, oh, it's another Biblical adaptation. You know, I've heard him 335 00:24:40,279 --> 00:24:42,119 since I was a kid, But every once in a while you come across 336 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:45,480 one where you're like, this one's different. I agree. The Adventum is 337 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:49,880 one and Witnesses is another. I mean, they're just very very well done, 338 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:53,279 and I love Tracy's writing. Yeah, it's pretty beautiful. We just 339 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:59,519 wrapped up an Adventum six recently. Yeah, it just came out and what 340 00:24:59,519 --> 00:25:00,759 about a month and a half ago, a month ago, two weeks ago. 341 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:06,200 I wouldn't quit that one. Yeah, yeah, we two very different 342 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:10,519 shows, you know, Witness, very different, but it's a good one 343 00:25:10,519 --> 00:25:15,680 though. So I'm very hopeful that we're still at the very early days of 344 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:18,799 your careers as voice actors. This is this is this is the we're going 345 00:25:18,839 --> 00:25:22,000 to quit. Oh, we're announcing our retirem yeah, this is this is 346 00:25:22,039 --> 00:25:25,160 it. Thank you a great now. Yeah, we've all been doing it 347 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:27,680 exactly the same time. Our first, our first audio drama voice acting stuff 348 00:25:27,759 --> 00:25:32,119 was hid in hand three years ago, June twenty twenty. And the world 349 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:34,599 is not ready for what's coming next. I'm sure so, and not in 350 00:25:34,599 --> 00:25:41,559 a good way probably either. Very warning for both of you. What what 351 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,599 a role? Do you feel like it's been the most challenging for you thus 352 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:48,440 far? You first, Daniel, Oh, thanks me first? Great? 353 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:51,559 This right now, this, right now, this question, this is the 354 00:25:51,599 --> 00:25:56,559 most challenging. It's hard to pick one that's the most challenging because there's so 355 00:25:56,599 --> 00:25:59,240 many different ways you could go about it. When it comes to the most 356 00:25:59,279 --> 00:26:03,319 stretching d you know, gosh, probably the first one that comes to mind 357 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,440 that stood out as kind of the first real big thing that I had to 358 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:11,960 push myself in was dashed to pieces you were in that. We do that 359 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:15,359 a lot. We're in a lot of things together. Sometimes most of time 360 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:18,240 you're beating me up and most of them it's kind of a tradition. But 361 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:22,640 I've played I played the character of Sayid in that, who is this young 362 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:27,839 guy who is let's put it this way, he is not the best circumstances. 363 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:34,279 He's enslaved and gets the absolute snot beaten out of him quite regularly and 364 00:26:34,319 --> 00:26:37,759 has a kind of an emotional arc that goes with it. And the hard 365 00:26:37,759 --> 00:26:41,519 part for me in that one was I was the only person not recording in 366 00:26:41,559 --> 00:26:45,079 the studio. I was remote, and everybody else was in studio oh wow, 367 00:26:45,599 --> 00:26:49,599 And so trying to get the sense of timing of the scenes as that 368 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:56,920 was happening was difficult. Everybody else was in studio together, recording up up 369 00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:59,519 in New York, so they had that kind of family atmosphere going on. 370 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,799 And then the character was an incredibly emotional character and if you ever have a 371 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:04,839 chance to listen to it, there the second act, kind of closing penultimate 372 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:10,559 scene is this massive sequence in a cave with a river and a flood all 373 00:27:10,559 --> 00:27:12,640 happening at the same time, and multiple people Todd Busteed did the director. 374 00:27:12,839 --> 00:27:18,440 May sound sounds incredible to one, fantastic, but hearing the final product and 375 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:22,279 remembering what we had to go through with all of us in like different places 376 00:27:22,279 --> 00:27:25,119 in the lag, you know, Andy would go oh no, and then 377 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:27,519 it'd be like and then I knew my voice would come through ah, you 378 00:27:27,559 --> 00:27:30,559 know, So it was just like the lag back and forth. It'd be 379 00:27:30,599 --> 00:27:33,839 like, can I get more Daniel on my Headphonesdiel the Limardaniel place, Lord 380 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:38,759 Daniel never hear that normally, but but yeah, that was challenging, I 381 00:27:38,799 --> 00:27:42,799 think from an emotional perspective, but then also the logistical technical side was was 382 00:27:42,799 --> 00:27:47,480 was was probably the most that comes to mind immediately. Well, and you 383 00:27:47,519 --> 00:27:51,119 guys had a really quick turnaround time on that one too, if I remember 384 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:56,240 correctly. Yeah, and Todd cranked it out extremely working with those variables, 385 00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:59,480 with the audio like that, that must have been a nightmare. It was 386 00:27:59,599 --> 00:28:00,720 it was, It was, it was an experience. It was just a 387 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:06,039 blip and it was over. I mean, it's just we were working extremely 388 00:28:06,079 --> 00:28:07,400 hard and then you blinked and we were done. We recorded that in what 389 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:11,559 day and a half? Yeah, it was like what eight hours in studio 390 00:28:11,599 --> 00:28:12,880 I think all told. Yeah, yeah, it was twelve, like like 391 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,720 ten or like ten. Yeah, it was it was quick. It was 392 00:28:15,759 --> 00:28:18,880 like one full day and then like half a day and then we were done. 393 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:23,640 Yeah, what about for you Andy? In the Adventum that we just 394 00:28:23,799 --> 00:28:30,359 did, I play Sampson and that was definitely it. That was definitely the 395 00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:33,160 most challenging. I didn't even audition for it at first because they had him 396 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:37,200 listed at near my age and I thought, I don't sound that he's too 397 00:28:37,279 --> 00:28:41,839 young. So then I had auditioned for a few other things and John Fournoff 398 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:45,279 reached out to me and said, would you send in a Samson? And 399 00:28:45,359 --> 00:28:51,519 he cast me. And so it's about a twenty two twenty three year arc 400 00:28:52,359 --> 00:28:57,000 of playing this character. And also it's Sampson. It's it's big, it's 401 00:28:57,039 --> 00:29:00,559 he was going for the superhero sound, the whole when he hops out and 402 00:29:00,599 --> 00:29:06,799 everything, and I'm just in my studio at home, like pushing on everything. 403 00:29:06,799 --> 00:29:07,960 I was afraid. I was afraid I was going to put something through 404 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,039 the wall. I pulled. I pulled muscles on both sides of my neck 405 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:18,119 from all the stuff and he's just getting that character at first was difficult for 406 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:22,359 me and I didn't feel confident in it. And John is a brilliant director, 407 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:27,920 and it was no time that I felt confident in it. And I 408 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:33,039 listened to it recently. It's a brilliant final product. That Nato wrote it. 409 00:29:33,839 --> 00:29:37,079 It's lovely, it's lovely, Jake's in it, It's it's fantastic. 410 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:41,680 But that was that was I would put as my biggest challenge. You did 411 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:44,799 a great job. Thank you. You were great in that too, Thank 412 00:29:44,839 --> 00:29:52,240 you. So you guys have worked remote and in the studio. So what 413 00:29:52,319 --> 00:29:55,720 are some of the pros and cons of each of those? And Andy, 414 00:29:55,759 --> 00:29:59,279 I'll let you go first this time. Okay, Sure, I definitely prefer 415 00:30:00,039 --> 00:30:04,599 family style always. It's it's just you get so much more nuanced, you 416 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:11,359 get so much more reality believability that way. Sometimes even in the best audio 417 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:17,599 dramas, you can tell they weren't together. There's just some sort of inflection 418 00:30:18,079 --> 00:30:22,720 that doesn't reflect what just came. There's just like a oh that the way 419 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:26,480 that they colored that word. They weren't reacting, they were just doing a 420 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:33,960 And so family style is wonderful. The cons of that or travel, it's 421 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:40,279 going to cost the producers more to get everybody there housing. I mean, 422 00:30:40,319 --> 00:30:42,839 it's it's just there's a lot of those kind of semantics that are difficult that 423 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:48,519 make family style not possible for everyone. And so the pros for having a 424 00:30:48,519 --> 00:30:52,640 home studio is, you know, I mean, one second I'm eating lunch 425 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:57,200 in my kitchen table and the next second I'm in my studio, all zoned 426 00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,720 in, ready to go. Me me me, me, me, I'm 427 00:30:59,759 --> 00:31:04,079 going, and that can be thirty seconds in between them. They each have 428 00:31:06,519 --> 00:31:11,839 the world we live in now, where you can purchase all this equipment, 429 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:15,200 you can sound designed from home, you can do all that kind of stuff 430 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,160 is absolutely huge and I probably wouldn't be a voice actor today without it. 431 00:31:19,079 --> 00:31:26,599 But the actor in me absolutely loves family style recording. I'm a team I'm 432 00:31:26,599 --> 00:31:33,000 a team player, so i will always miss that element when doing it solo, 433 00:31:33,279 --> 00:31:37,480 but I'm still thankful for the ability to do it solo. Yeah, 434 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:41,200 anything to help the same thing for me. I mean, the nice thing 435 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:44,599 about doing remote record when you still have everybody, like on a zoom call 436 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,519 or a clean feed, you still get some of that rapport back and forth, 437 00:31:47,559 --> 00:31:48,440 which is what we did for a Ventam, yeah, which we did 438 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:52,440 for Venom and some of the Lamplader stuff. But yeah, when you're by 439 00:31:52,519 --> 00:31:56,559 yourself and you're sitting in a booth and they're like, okay, read these 440 00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,000 lines and just run through fifteen lines, You're like, I hope this connects 441 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:00,079 to everything else that I'm doing, and you have no idea, And that's 442 00:32:00,079 --> 00:32:02,720 where you have to trust the director, sure, and that's where the team 443 00:32:02,759 --> 00:32:06,480 work with that director knowing all the different pieces comes in. But yeah, 444 00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:07,319 the same thing Andy said, you know, when you're in a room with 445 00:32:07,359 --> 00:32:12,119 people, you get such a different rapport and electric it's it's so so very 446 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:15,640 very different, And yeah, I prefer it if I can do it. 447 00:32:15,759 --> 00:32:17,519 But that's most of the industries. Most of the industry outside of audio drama 448 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:22,000 is you by yourself in a room or rolling through you know, whether there's 449 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,400 animation, video games, et cetera, commercials. So audio drama is kind 450 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:29,960 of as unique in that it still does in some cases that kind of family 451 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:34,599 style aspect. Yeah, the majority of the roles that I've done have been 452 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:38,039 just recording wild, you know, and so I've tried to do three four 453 00:32:38,319 --> 00:32:42,960 takes and try to approach the line from different ways, but when you can 454 00:32:43,039 --> 00:32:47,839 get on a call with them directly, it's it's so much different and I 455 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:52,559 think for me especially, it results in a better performance. It's I would 456 00:32:52,559 --> 00:32:58,319 agree with that one. Well, this is the moment you've all been waiting 457 00:32:58,319 --> 00:33:04,519 for, I assume when we leave, right And Yeah, I kept saying 458 00:33:04,519 --> 00:33:07,279 backstage that this is the part that you're gonna regret horribly by the end of 459 00:33:07,279 --> 00:33:13,559 this. So we've got a little scene here with a couple of interesting characters, 460 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:21,960 and this is exactly the type of stuff we do together. That's awesome. 461 00:33:22,759 --> 00:33:25,000 So uh, for for the audience, we have two would be bank 462 00:33:25,079 --> 00:33:30,480 robbers here getting ready for a job in New York City. We've got Muggsy, 463 00:33:30,559 --> 00:33:32,240 the brains of the pair, and Curly, who is the lookout and 464 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:38,240 driver, not the slight or not the brightest the bulb. So do you 465 00:33:38,279 --> 00:33:42,440 guys have a preference on which which character who wants to be the brains and 466 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:46,599 who wants to be the bron Well, I think it's kind of set in 467 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:52,279 you're the brains on the bron Okay, done, brains? Wait, which 468 00:33:52,319 --> 00:33:54,680 ones? Which one's which Muggies? The Muggsies muggsy the brains. You're muggsy, 469 00:33:54,880 --> 00:34:00,240 got it. So if you if you notice there are a couple of 470 00:34:00,319 --> 00:34:05,279 clues in this little description that sort of sets up the scene that these guys 471 00:34:05,279 --> 00:34:07,519 can pull from you. You have a little bit of a character description, 472 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:09,800 we have a little bit about the setting, and so they use those details 473 00:34:10,079 --> 00:34:16,119 to come up with with a voice for these characters. So we ready see 474 00:34:16,159 --> 00:34:21,360 New York. So that gives us a clear indication this should be Southern accents. 475 00:34:22,519 --> 00:34:29,079 I'm from Arkansas. Now look here, Curly, we're gonna know all 476 00:34:29,159 --> 00:34:32,639 right, take it away, brother. Now look Curly, listen, I 477 00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:36,639 want you to stay here with the car. All right, with the car. 478 00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:40,199 Well, I take my withdrawal from this here bank. Yeah yeah, 479 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:43,760 I got it. Boys. Okay, yet, now, like I said, 480 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:49,239 I'm going to shouldn't we put a coin in the parking metia face crazy? 481 00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:51,599 We're only gonna be here for a few minutes, all right, then 482 00:34:51,639 --> 00:34:53,800 I'll be back with plenty of dough to fill every parking meet in New York. 483 00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:59,480 That's real generous. Something I'm not gonna feel. Not as generous as 484 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:01,760 the bank, not as generous as the bank tellers is gonna be eh, 485 00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:06,400 you know, so what do I do? Well? I wait for you. 486 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:10,760 You just curly, You just sit there, you watch for any cops. 487 00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,840 You wait for me to get back in the car. You don't draw 488 00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:20,559 attention to yourself. All right now, I'm gonna go in and wait a 489 00:35:20,559 --> 00:35:29,400 second. Where's my gun? What gun? The one I'm gonna use to 490 00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:31,840 persuade those chumps out of their money. Where's the bag I told you to 491 00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:36,360 bring? Big Yeah, the little black one, the little black bag, 492 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:38,679 you know, the one to keep my mask and the gun inside that bag? 493 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:43,679 That bag? Here you go, thank you. There's that's great. 494 00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:47,599 I gotta just look at the no this this, curly. There's no gun 495 00:35:47,639 --> 00:35:53,920 here or my mask. It's just what is this the sandwich? It must 496 00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:58,320 have picked up my lunch bag and you send up your lunch. Where's my 497 00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:02,360 gun bag? It's okay, boy, I'll share it with you. It's 498 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:10,840 what my mama made me this morning. And peanut butter, curl start the 499 00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:16,920 car, but jim me, you just rollin the entire hold the fishing here, 500 00:36:17,199 --> 00:36:22,840 right, boys, start start the car, all right? The sou 501 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:27,440 where the key goes? You gotta be kidney. It was right here a 502 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:35,880 minute ago. Oh no, oh no, there's a cap heading away. 503 00:36:36,679 --> 00:36:40,000 Maybe he can help us find the car. He's gonna recognize us. Hello, 504 00:36:40,159 --> 00:36:46,559 officer, Yeah, I just care for peanut sandwich. It's no, 505 00:36:47,039 --> 00:37:00,519 that's my sandwich. Well die and give a round of applause to Austin Peach 506 00:37:00,599 --> 00:37:04,639 who wrote that Why here you go? I thought it was from something welcome, 507 00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:13,840 What's unseat? Thank you? And for those who are following what the 508 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:20,280 Audio Drama Alliance produces, that script will be adapted and kind of fleshed out 509 00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:24,760 a little bit more and show up in the Sonic Comics series. So, 510 00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:30,599 so now we've done some original characters, but what about some more well known 511 00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:35,920 characters, maybe the ones you've heard of before. So we've got an excerpt 512 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:40,159 from the It's a Wonderful Life radio script. It's not from the film, 513 00:37:42,199 --> 00:37:45,239 but we have George Bailey, the scene with George Bailey and Clarence, right 514 00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:51,920 after Clarence pulls George from the river. And so we'll let these guys decide 515 00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:55,199 who they want to which character they want to do, and we got to 516 00:37:55,199 --> 00:38:02,559 figure it out. Okay, okay, oh hold on, Dan's gotta get 517 00:38:02,559 --> 00:38:10,400 ready. Hey hey, look here, what why do you want to save 518 00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:16,519 me because I'm your guardian angel jee I see, Yeah, well you look 519 00:38:16,559 --> 00:38:21,400 about like the kind of angel. I get. What happened? What happened 520 00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,760 to your wings? I haven't won my wings yet. That's why I'm an 521 00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:29,360 angel second class. Yeah, I see. But you can help me earn 522 00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:34,320 him, George, by letting me help you. You don't happen to have 523 00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:37,920 eight thousand, eight thousand bucks on you, do you? No? No, 524 00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:39,960 no, no, we don't use money in heaven. That's right. 525 00:38:40,199 --> 00:38:45,039 Yeah, yeah, I keep forgetting. It comes in pretty handy down here, 526 00:38:45,079 --> 00:38:51,360 Bob. No, of course I found out a little late. You 527 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:55,280 know. I'm I'm a I'm worth more dead than alive. Oh, you 528 00:38:55,480 --> 00:39:00,320 mustn't talk like that. Joseph will never give me my wings. If you 529 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:04,760 keep feeling that way, you don't realize what you've done for your folks. 530 00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:07,280 By if it hadn't been for you, you never hadn't been for me. 531 00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:19,079 Everybody be better off, my wife, my kids, my family. Oh, 532 00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:22,679 this is not going to be easy. I'd all have been better off 533 00:39:22,679 --> 00:39:28,639 if I hadn't even been born. What you said, I said, I 534 00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:32,760 wish, I said, wish I've never been born, George that's wonderful, 535 00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:37,480 wonderful, wonderful the idea you just gave me. You got your wish. 536 00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:45,000 You've never been born. I've never been born, exactly, No worries, 537 00:39:45,119 --> 00:39:50,480 no eight thousand dollars to get nothing. You simply don't exist. All right, 538 00:39:50,559 --> 00:39:54,360 Okay, all right, George. I can do things, strange things. 539 00:39:55,199 --> 00:39:59,960 I can show you the world the way it would be if you hadn't 540 00:40:00,159 --> 00:40:10,320 been born. Andy Harvey and Daniel Cross, everybody. That was so awesome, 541 00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:14,159 guys, good job, thank you, thank you, it was fun. 542 00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:20,199 Thank you well, thank you so much for being here. We're gonna 543 00:40:20,679 --> 00:40:22,800 we're running out of time, but man, I really appreciate you guys making 544 00:40:23,039 --> 00:40:27,239 the time to do this with it. Thank you. It's such a such 545 00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:30,880 a blasting. The pleasure is mind. I'm so thankful to be a part 546 00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:34,039 of this. Thank you. Thank you. So what do you think of 547 00:40:34,079 --> 00:40:42,519 the show? Please leave your message after the show. Hi, Auditer Central, 548 00:40:42,639 --> 00:40:45,440 Hey guys, this is awesome. Peak hell about j D Royan Andrew 549 00:40:45,559 --> 00:40:50,239 minum It Victoria. Now, yesterday I received a letter from a big band. 550 00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:52,840 No time to Josh. I've got an email. This another package for 551 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:57,760 me today. No, it's actually just your mail. Yes, it is 552 00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:00,480 that time to hear from you, the listener. You like to get in 553 00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:02,039 touch with us, there are several different ways to do that. You can 554 00:41:02,039 --> 00:41:07,320 always email us, feedback at audiotheatercentral dot com, comment on the show notes, 555 00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:09,840 or send a text message or a phone call to six two three six 556 00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:15,280 eight eight two seven seven zero. We got an email from from Blake not 557 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:20,360 too long ago, and he asked, why are we not hearing as many 558 00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:23,239 audio dramas recorded at the soundhouse in London? Why are all of them recorded 559 00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:29,400 in the US now using fake British accents? So I thought this was an 560 00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:37,360 interesting perspective. And we heard earlier this evening from Paul McCusker about working with 561 00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:43,840 British talent and they are amazing at what they do. But you talked about 562 00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:49,679 earlier and about the you know, certain budgetary constraints on certain production houses and 563 00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:54,840 sometimes even if your story takes place in the UK, you don't have that 564 00:41:55,000 --> 00:42:00,880 budget to fly over there and work with those with talent. And so I 565 00:42:01,639 --> 00:42:07,639 don't really understand the mentality that nobody can do another accent that you know, 566 00:42:09,199 --> 00:42:15,199 it happens in film all the time in British people do American accents, and 567 00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:21,119 so I I don't if if somebody can pull off the accent, why not. 568 00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:23,719 And I'm sure you guys agree, you've you've done all kinds of accents 569 00:42:24,079 --> 00:42:29,360 in the roles that you have have performed. So sometimes well sometimes yeah, 570 00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:31,840 yeah, there've been there have been some some rough funs, I'm sure, 571 00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:37,000 But overall, I think I don't have a problem with that. I mean, 572 00:42:37,039 --> 00:42:38,760 I don't. I don't even think that it's fair to use the word 573 00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:43,519 fake. I mean because as an actor, that's part of what you do 574 00:42:43,639 --> 00:42:49,000 is you become these different characters. And so I love hearing the stuff that's 575 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:53,480 produced out of the soundhouse in London. It's it's amazing stuff. But that 576 00:42:53,599 --> 00:42:55,960 may not have been the answer that that you want to hear Blake. But 577 00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:00,639 there are people still producing there. We heard from Air Theater. We know 578 00:43:00,679 --> 00:43:05,840 that river Cross is still producing there and using British talent. But I mean, 579 00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:10,920 Lamplider is doing some amazing stuff with using mostly US based talent these days, 580 00:43:12,559 --> 00:43:16,840 and so I think those productions are just as valid in my opinion. 581 00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:19,840 Do you have anything to add to that in Austin, Well, I think 582 00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:22,440 also too. It may depend on the audience. So if it was mainly 583 00:43:22,519 --> 00:43:25,360 just like if it was a BBC and if it was Americans doding British accents, 584 00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:29,119 then I don't think a lot of people in the UK would be too 585 00:43:29,119 --> 00:43:30,440 happy about it. They probably pick it out. But a lot of audio 586 00:43:30,519 --> 00:43:32,280 dramas, at least in this kind of niche, I mean, a lot 587 00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:34,960 of stuff has heard around the world, but a lot of it's for an 588 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:38,039 American audience. So I'm speaking for myself, I don't always can't always tell 589 00:43:38,079 --> 00:43:42,960 if it's a real British accent it's authentic or not. You know, that 590 00:43:43,039 --> 00:43:45,119 just made me my untrained ear. But I guess it also have to depend 591 00:43:45,119 --> 00:43:49,239 on your audience, who, what your audience is, and how authentic you 592 00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:52,880 want it. Yeah, And I think that is the case with a lot 593 00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:58,280 of these that the audience is primarily US, so we don't understand always all 594 00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:02,519 the nuances of every single accent. And there isn't just a British accent. 595 00:44:02,559 --> 00:44:06,920 There are so many different ones. That's why fake accent doesn't work, because 596 00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:09,760 I mean, these people are still using accents that aren't their regular voices, 597 00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:15,559 you know, so that the phrase fake accent, it's a little it's a 598 00:44:15,559 --> 00:44:20,280 little derivative, but I agree with you. I think it's it's it's it's 599 00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:25,039 money, it's convenience. And also audio drama is just on a huge upswing 600 00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:30,360 in this country and that's a great thing. That's a great thing. Yeah, 601 00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:34,320 well, thank you again, Andy and Daniel. Thank you for chiming 602 00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:37,079 in on the feedback segment as well. If you'd like to join the ATC 603 00:44:37,119 --> 00:44:40,639 Insiders, it's our newsletter. 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