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This is Later with Lee Matthews,
the Lee Matthews podcast war What You Hear

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weekday afternoons on the Drive. Amber
Nash is a voice talent and improv talent

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as well. She's most known for
the FX animated adult series Archer, where

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she plays Pam Poovie, but you
can also hear her doing work on adult

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swims, Frisky Dingo, and Cartoon
Network's Aquitine Hunger Force, among others.

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Welcome, Amber Nash. Good to
have you along. Yeah, thanks for

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having me. Can you give me
one of Pam's signature splooshes? Yeah,

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here we go, sploosh. Gotta
use that every now and then. As

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you can tell, I'm a fan
of the show, and it's in its

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fourteenth and final season. Oh no, I know it is so sad.

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Yeah, you can't tell me the
writers ran out of ideas. I wish

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that was the no. I think
that there's so many more ideas still to

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explore. So maybe one day,
maybe we'll get lucky and the old gal

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will come back somewhere. That is
the other thing I was going to get

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to in just a minute. But
if you don't know what Archer is,

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he's a secret agent. His mother
runs the Secret Agency. Pampoovi is a

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sometime agent, sometimes secretary. I
don't know, is there really any definition

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to her role. I mean,
in the beginning she was supposed to be

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the director of HR, but it's
not like she never really did that or

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always didn't enjoy it. And then
we see in season fourteen her have to

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go back to doing that a little
bit, and she clearly doesn't know what

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she's doing. She'd much rather just
be horsing around and being out in the

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field, you know, with big
guns and explosives and such. Well,

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later we learned she's an ace shot, she's a great fighter. She has

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no fear when she's being interrogated.
She insults her interrogators as they're beating the

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hell out of her. She's quite
a character. Yeah, she really is.

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I think that's the thing about Pam
that I've come to love the most

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is that you're always surprised by what
her abilities are. And at the end

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of the day, she has one
of the biggest hearts of all the cast,

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which is I think why people love
her so much. Well, and

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then there's the fact that of all
the women Archers slept with, she was

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the best. I know what a
nice little secret, right, Yeah,

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totally. So she's great in the
sack on top of everything else. What

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can't she do? Yeah? Yeah, so you must have had a ball

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doing this, even though a good
deal of the time you weren't even in

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the same studio as the other voice
actors. Yeah, that's right. I

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mean, that's one of the weird
things about it is that it's kind of

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a solitary situation. I live in
Atlanta, so I would go into where

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the director and the producer was,
so I'd get to see those guys,

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but I'd be in the booth all
by myself and never got to hear any

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of the other actors doing their Sometimes, if something was particularly like important timing

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wise, they'd give me a recording
if that person had already done their recordings

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for the episode. But yeah,
we were all by ourselves, which is

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crazy, But it's also a testament
to the amazing editing on the show where

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it makes, I mean it sound
like we're in the same room with each

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other. Well, and then when
the pandemic hit, you guys were already

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kind of you were already kind of
groomed to do the job that way.

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Yeah, Yeah, we got really
lucky. And also they kind of were

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able to pivot with the animators too
and send some big, amazing expensive computers

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home with these guys, and they
were able to do animation work from home.

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So a lot of shows obviously had
to shut down, but we got

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to keep on working. Well.
When you made reference to the old Gal,

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that was in reference to one of
the boys actors who passed away.

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Yes, the old Gal still got
it all six right in the ten ring.

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I use that drop every now and
then on my Firearms Friday feature every

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week. Yeah, so what what
have we done with that? Because and

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I'm going to confess I left off
at season eleven. Okay, yeah,

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well we had a really sweet send
off actually of Mallory And there's a real

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sweet because you know, Ron Cadillac
was played by her actual husband, Ron

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Leibman. I didn't know that,
but that's great. He sounded great.

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That was a great character. Yeah, and I thought, this is this

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is too good to be acting.
He's not acting. He really is like

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that. Yes, and that voice, I mean that voice, you just

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don't get that without just years of
being an actor. And he passed about

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a year before Jessica did. And
uh so Ron Leebman, Ron Cadillac.

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They used a little bit of his
voice stuff from the past in that last

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episode too, and so it was
a really sweet send off. It was

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really sad for us, and we
didn't think the show was going to be

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able to go on without without Jessica, but it did. And then Lana

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took over the work that Mallory did
as kind of a boss. Yeah,

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that was a good fit, a
good Okay, Well, don't tell me

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anymore because I got to catch up. Archer is on FX and the season

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fourteen. It's the final season where
everything's going to be wrapped up. But

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if you want to go see past
episodes, you can do like I do

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and go back to Amazon and see
it there also streaming on Hulu. Did

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do you ever in the midst of
recording your parts for Pam Poovi just break

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down and lose it, just completely
break the scene? Yeah, totally,

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especially when we're kind of horsing around. The guys really like it. They

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always try to make me burp for
real in the booth and I'm like,

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guys, I can do it.
I can burple and command if you want

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me to. And that's where we
get lots of laughs. We laugh a

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lot when we're recording, which is
so fun. And usually I will have

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read the script, so I definitely
you know know what some of the things

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are that are about to happen.
But it's so such a delight when you

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get a laugh from these guys just
delivering the line the way that you think

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it should be deliver It's it's the
best part of my job. Do they

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let you kind of improv the not
the lines, but I mean the inflection

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or is it always very specifically directed? Oh no, Yeah, they definitely

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let me kind of make it my
own and do some improv and we'll even

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change the lines sometimes if they're not
quite hitting the way that we want,

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and so we'll definitely go back and
forth and figure it out and work it

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out together. And that's part of
what keeps it fresh. I had Lucky

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Yates on about a year ago.
He plays Kreeger, who is the mad

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scientist of the crew, and he
told me that they let him improv more

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than anybody else. He says he
feels bad for the other actors. That's

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funny, and I believe it.
Lucky wouldn't have it any other way.

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He's like, I'm gonna do what
I'm gonna do, and you're either gonna

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like it or not. Talking to
Amber Nash, the voice of Pampouvi on

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Archer and it's fourteenth season on FX. It's one of my favorites. The

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show is so detailed and so well
thought out, and because it's animated,

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Amber, they can just literally do
anything with those characters. Yeah, yeah,

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I mean they can and the world
like you know, if you've watched

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the show in season one and then
watch it in season fourteen and see how

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amazing the animation style has become.
I mean, they can really do anything,

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and they're just like, you know
what, let's just use the coolest

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things that we can think of,
and that's going to be the world that

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we exist in. And yeah,
and the characters never age. We always

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look good like we did the very
first season, so it's pretty fantastic.

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Or you get one of the characters
hooked on cocaine, like Pam and then

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she slims down. That was great, but they keep her boobs the exact

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same side exactly. That is the
other thing too, Like the movement of

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vehicles, the movement of airplanes in
particular explosions, I mean they look so

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real. Yeah, and I didn't
realize this, and I don't know exactly

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what season had happened, but we
were doing a tour of the facility where

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they animate everything, and there's like
a whole three D department. I was

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like, what, I didn't even
know that was the thing, and it

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definitely wasn't in the beginning. So
yeah, it's incredible the stuff that they've

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done over the years. Well in
the details too, for instance, And

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I caught this, I don't know
if anybody else did. In the first

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season, Lana shoots Archer in the
foot, and the liner is something along

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the lines of, I, why
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You know, I hate that,
as though it's happened more than once.

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And then later a couple of seasons
later, there's a close up of Archer's

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foot and clearly there's a bullet scar
on the in the middle of his foot.

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You know that if you had not
watched the first season, you would

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not, oh it look yeah,
of course he's been shot in the foot

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by Lana. Yeah, totally.
And then this past season and season fourteen,

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they talked about like how how like
just broken up Archer was after all

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the things that he's been through in
all of these seasons. It's like no

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human beings hand your body was very
good stuff. I look forward to seeing

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it Archer's fourteenth and final season,
and Amber Nash is one of the stars.

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She plays Pam Pooviy. If you
haven't watched it, you can on

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FX go back and catch other episodes
on Amazon Prime, and it's streaming on

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Hulu. So glad to have you
along and I will see you down at

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Pooviy Farms. Thanks for listening to
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