Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm tell you easy
Speaker 1: Boston's new video.
Speaker 2: I re number three of Night's Side. And I met
Speaker 2: this actress best way to say it, because she has
Speaker 2: done in front of the audience work and voiceover work
Speaker 2: and has done so for over twenty five to thirty years,
Speaker 2: of which that I'm aware of, it might be more
Speaker 2: than that. And she's gosh darn good and I periodically
Speaker 2: have her on. So for the women listening, here's somebody
Speaker 2: who speaks for you, speaks to you. Ever want to
Speaker 2: get in this business, ever wish you could do commercials
Speaker 2: or do a character. And with the video game craze
Speaker 2: out there, that's given her major exposure, and I'm going
Speaker 2: to have her tell people about some of her characters
Speaker 2: that she has done. Please welcome D B. Cooper.
Speaker 3: I'd like to sound effect man thy here.
Speaker 2: Rob is on the ball tonight. He hasn't done that
Speaker 2: for any of our other callers. Oh guess so tell
Speaker 2: me how many years have you been doing this?
Speaker 3: Well, let's it depends on how far back you count.
Speaker 3: If you want to go back to where I started
Speaker 3: being on the radio all the time I was ten,
Speaker 3: and that is a very that's called a very very
Speaker 3: long time. I was in Hawaii and KGMB radio had
Speaker 3: an afternoon disc jockey called Granny Goose, and I was
Speaker 3: a feature on his show every day because I called
Speaker 3: him with a riddle a couple of times and he
Speaker 3: asked me to call him back every day and I did.
Speaker 2: Is he still doing it?
Speaker 3: I don't have any idea. I can't tell you. I mean,
Speaker 3: I only know how old I am. He's older than that.
Speaker 2: In your career mirrors June's Foray legendary voice actress because
Speaker 2: she began at around eleven or twelve years old in Springfield.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so this is Honolulu. Yeah, it is amazing. The
Speaker 3: business of doing live radio is so like we're doing now.
Speaker 3: There's there's nothing like There's nothing like it. They're really
Speaker 3: except for live TV. But live media is exceptionally thrilling,
Speaker 3: and it's always the kind of thing that keeps you
Speaker 3: right on the edge of your performance ability.
Speaker 2: I totally agree, because I've been doing this for forty
Speaker 2: five plus years.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm not too old to get out of
Speaker 2: it yet.
Speaker 3: You're not too old, young man. You just step lively there,
Speaker 3: I tell you.
Speaker 2: And that's the example. You have done many video game
Speaker 2: characters and voices. Tell my audience some of the characters
Speaker 2: that you've done that they may recognize.
Speaker 3: Well if you play games, and I hope you do.
Speaker 3: One of the most well known things I'm in is
Speaker 3: BioShock two. It's a game that came out oh golly
Speaker 3: ages ago, but people still play it. I'm the first
Speaker 3: voice recorder you come to, so it's kind of it's
Speaker 3: exceptionally fun to be one of the first games that
Speaker 3: you hear within the gameplay. It's after the intro. So
Speaker 3: there's that. I am in job simulator. I'm in I'm
Speaker 3: trying to pull up my curriculum VTA right now because
Speaker 3: I've done so much I can't remember, to be honest,
Speaker 3: I was in the Ghostbusters game that came out after
Speaker 3: all the ladies who were in the movie, The Ghostbusters
Speaker 3: all ladies film, So I was in that. I got
Speaker 3: to be Slimmer in that game.
Speaker 2: There right there, I want to hear Slimer.
Speaker 3: Okay, stand by a second.
Speaker 2: And did you drink your high cooler?
Speaker 3: I sure need to do after that. There's a lot
Speaker 3: of I am best known, I believe for doing creature sounds,
Speaker 3: all right, so uh there's so Slimer is one, of course,
Speaker 3: in particular that everybody knows. I'm some characters in a
Speaker 3: in a a digital card game called Heartstone. And the
Speaker 3: other thing that I'm in that I'm particularly delighted about
Speaker 3: is a game called Monster Train. It's another it's a
Speaker 3: it's called a roguelike deck builder game. And in Monster
Speaker 3: Trains there are about two hundred named characters, of which
Speaker 3: I do have. There were only two voice actors in
Speaker 3: all of the chapters of that game. It was me
Speaker 3: and a fellow named Michael Schwalby, and we did all
Speaker 3: of the voices and vocalizing in that game.
Speaker 2: Do you have a hundred voices different enough from each other?
Speaker 3: In you? I. What I have is an arsenal of
Speaker 3: sounds and a very good a very good sound designer.
Speaker 3: So I've got anything from the tiny creatures called the morsels,
Speaker 3: who make a little tiny sound when they spawn, when
Speaker 3: they show up on the field of play, and they
Speaker 3: go pah or handah. Can I oh those guys. But
Speaker 3: then I also have h the deeper creatures or the bosses,
Speaker 3: and they have like you know, they'll have a they'll
Speaker 3: have sounds like like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's totally amazing.
Speaker 3: You know what, I just did it. I got it
Speaker 3: from just practicing for the hell of it. Honestly, let
Speaker 3: me try this out, and what does it look like?
Speaker 3: And how can I make this sound by manipulating my face,
Speaker 3: by figuring out where my placement is? What does it
Speaker 3: sound like if I grab my cheek and pull it.
Speaker 3: You know, it's all of these things that you learn
Speaker 3: about your instrument and also how to bring things to
Speaker 3: the table that people don't even know they need, for
Speaker 3: instance in Monster Train and I figure, I can't even
Speaker 3: remember how I figured this out, Morgan. Is if you
Speaker 3: need to sound like you're like you're in water or
Speaker 3: that you've got water in your throat, and that can
Speaker 3: be anything from being an undersea creature to being someone
Speaker 3: who's swimming for fun, to being someone who's dying because
Speaker 3: they're drowning. One of the things that you do to
Speaker 3: get that sound is jello.
Speaker 2: And what do you do with all You put it.
Speaker 3: In your mouth. Yeah, you put it in your mouth
Speaker 3: and you can speak past it and it sounds like
Speaker 3: you're you're gargling water or that you've got water going
Speaker 3: down your throat, but you don't because it's semi solid.
Speaker 3: You can't do it with water. You'll choke because it'll
Speaker 3: run right down while you're trying to make assonant sounds.
Speaker 3: While you're trying to make sounds with you know, actual
Speaker 3: voice behind them. You can do gardling and all that
Speaker 3: kind of stuff because you've got your voice box shut off.
Speaker 3: But if your voicebox is active, you can't have water
Speaker 3: trickling down your throat at the same time. But this wonderful, viscous,
Speaker 3: gooey jello. I've started telling them the studio in that
Speaker 3: I work for a video game company called Senimax Online,
Speaker 3: and I direct, I cast and direct the video game
Speaker 3: called The Elder Scrolls Online. And when I need my
Speaker 3: actors to do something that's called a sound set where
Speaker 3: they have to, you know, fight and die, I have
Speaker 3: the engineers stock some jello for me so they can
Speaker 3: die miserably.
Speaker 2: Do you know the name Samantha de SEUs, Well you could.
Speaker 2: I'm sure she has name recognition out there. She is
Speaker 2: the daughter of Carl de Seus' sixties busy morning man,
Speaker 2: and she is doing what you're doing, uh, blazing a
Speaker 2: trail for women voiceover works hot.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at her online right now.
Speaker 2: She's awesome, right and I had her a couple of
Speaker 2: weeks ago, and the key is with her then and
Speaker 2: now with you. I want you to address the women
Speaker 2: listening in the audience to get them interested in just
Speaker 2: stepping up to the plate. You've always wanted this, so
Speaker 2: you were curious about doing it. You got to step
Speaker 2: up to the plate and take a swing. Let me
Speaker 2: take my break, and when we come back, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: let you speak to all the women listening right now,
Speaker 2: let me take the break here time here on nights
Speaker 2: side ten, sixteen seventeen degrees.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray Mine from the Window World
Speaker 1: Life Side Studios on WBZ the news radio.
Speaker 2: I've got voice actor dB Cooper here. I've had her
Speaker 2: on the radio with me many many a time. And dB,
Speaker 2: there are people listening out there. And I'll say people,
Speaker 2: because maybe I was in error to make you address
Speaker 2: just the women. There are a lot of people out there,
Speaker 2: male and female that want to get into the business,
Speaker 2: and they don't know how you've gotten into the business.
Speaker 2: You've mastered your craft. Tell people how to step up
Speaker 2: to the plate and just try tell them where they
Speaker 2: can make inquiries.
Speaker 3: Help them the way that I know you and I
Speaker 3: were talking about being in radio at a young age
Speaker 3: and live radio and the kind of stuff that we're
Speaker 3: doing right now, and those paths where you could be
Speaker 3: a weekend disc jockey on a rock and roll station
Speaker 3: or do overnight news on a news station, they don't
Speaker 3: really exist anymore. For someone who's sitting in the seat
Speaker 3: you're sitting in, you have to have done it for
Speaker 3: quite a long time. It's not something that's easy to
Speaker 3: aspire to. So the path I took doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 3: So here's what I teach my students. The first thing
Speaker 3: when someone reaches out to me and asks me about
Speaker 3: what it takes to be a voice actor is I
Speaker 3: will give them an assignment, and that is you must
Speaker 3: read aloud three three to five minutes a day. You
Speaker 3: must read aloud three to five minutes a day. It
Speaker 3: doesn't matter what it is. It can be your favorite novel.
Speaker 3: It can be a magazine that you like with articles,
Speaker 3: it can be a user manual, it can be a cookbook.
Speaker 3: But read aloud for five minutes a day. And when
Speaker 3: you've done that for a month, call me back or
Speaker 3: send me another note, and then we'll talk about getting
Speaker 3: you stopped up to start thinking about how to do
Speaker 3: scripts and that sort of thing. And Morgan, I have
Speaker 3: to tell you that out of if it were one
Speaker 3: hundred wannabes, probably I've probably heard them too. Because the
Speaker 3: what you need more than anything else to quote get
Speaker 3: started unquote in this business is drive, and you have
Speaker 3: to be willing to do a lot of work. You
Speaker 3: have to read aloud every day because you have to
Speaker 3: get used to your voice every day. You need to
Speaker 3: be able to understand what your voice can do. I
Speaker 3: can work with you on that, but you have to
Speaker 3: be willing to work every day. And that's the thing
Speaker 3: that really separates most people. So start by reading aloud
Speaker 3: and then record yourself and listen back and get used
Speaker 3: to the sound of your voice being played back to you.
Speaker 3: Because everyone likes to complain about the sound of their
Speaker 3: voice being played back to them because they think it
Speaker 3: doesn't sound like them. However, it's what everybody's hearing. The
Speaker 3: reason you sound different being played back on a device
Speaker 3: is because you're hearing what everyone else is hearing. When
Speaker 3: you're speaking, you're doing all manner of vibrations within your
Speaker 3: neck where your voice boks in all of the soft
Speaker 3: and hard tissue that comes up from your neck into
Speaker 3: your oral cavity and through your sinuses, and your whole
Speaker 3: face is vibrating with the sound of your voice. All
Speaker 3: of that stuff goes directly into your middle ear and
Speaker 3: is making harmonic impressions on all of your auditory systems.
Speaker 3: So you're hearing your voice plus everybody else is hearing
Speaker 3: what plus what's in the room. You're hearing your voice plus,
Speaker 3: so you're hearing all of your inner harmonics, and you're
Speaker 3: also hearing what's in the room. We're only hearing what's
Speaker 3: in the room, So you need to get used to
Speaker 3: that sound.
Speaker 2: My son, who work in four different markets doing TV
Speaker 2: news as a field reporter.
Speaker 3: Periodically he would.
Speaker 2: Get to anchor. Most recently he was a Channel twenty five,
Speaker 2: and he just decided to pull up stakes. He and
Speaker 2: his wife went down to the Carolinas where he lives.
Speaker 3: Now. He's in the.
Speaker 2: Private he's in the private sector and he's doing quite
Speaker 2: well for himself. He his wife, they have two children
Speaker 2: and dog, the typical American nuclear family. He began the
Speaker 2: same way I told him, Evan read something read. I
Speaker 2: got a trillion magazines, books, reading material arbitrarily. Just pick
Speaker 2: one and read. You don't have to read a lot,
Speaker 2: just read so you get more and more comfortable. Reading
Speaker 2: is key. That is an aspect of what you're going
Speaker 2: to have to do. And yeah, he went to Emerson College.
Speaker 3: Oh well, hello, nurse.
Speaker 2: And obviously that helped. But you've got to have the
Speaker 2: drive to achieve in you. Yeah, out that drive. Perhaps
Speaker 2: you're not going to get it.
Speaker 3: You're not. And I'll tell you something. I'm telling I
Speaker 3: could be I can be absolute with You're not. You
Speaker 3: have to at least begin to try. And some people
Speaker 3: step out the door and into a field of roses
Speaker 3: and it's wonderful and there and they're wonderful and and
Speaker 3: doors open for them, and that's great. In the workaday
Speaker 3: world that I inhabit. There was a time where when
Speaker 3: I lived in Los Angeles in the early what do
Speaker 3: you call it, in the twenty tens, okay, before it
Speaker 3: even hit the teens, I was looking for an agent
Speaker 3: and could not get one. And my audition to booking
Speaker 3: rate was three hundred to one. I kid you not,
Speaker 3: for every three hundred auditions I got one. And it sucked,
Speaker 3: of course. I mean sorry, can I say that on
Speaker 3: the radio. I beg your pardon. It was awful. I
Speaker 3: hated it, and I was afraid I was a failure.
Speaker 3: And I actually had some friends through this and other
Speaker 3: things that happened in my life. I was going to
Speaker 3: get out of the business, Morgan. I thought, this is
Speaker 3: ridiculous and it's not working for me. And I had
Speaker 3: some fantastic friends. I had some fantastic friends who staged
Speaker 3: an intervention, Morgan. My friends from the game developers world, Uh,
Speaker 3: my audio buddies came and said, you can't quit.
Speaker 2: So they were right. One of the things everybody has
Speaker 2: to have. You put the TV on and in ten minutes,
Speaker 2: just click, click, click the remote control and you'll see dozens,
Speaker 2: dozens of people who all at one time were like you.
Speaker 2: And the key is, you've got to develop a suit
Speaker 2: of armor for the word no, because you're going to
Speaker 2: hear that word more often than you hear the word yes.
Speaker 3: Well, honestly, Morgan, you know what you hear. You hear crickets,
Speaker 3: you hear nothing because in this, in this it's not
Speaker 3: even no, it's you audition, and you put your you
Speaker 3: put your recording forward because you're not even in the
Speaker 3: studio with the agents anymore for the most part. But
Speaker 3: you put your recording and you send it out and
Speaker 3: you will hear nothing most of the time. And that's
Speaker 3: that's brutal because you don't know if I didn't make it,
Speaker 3: why not. And that's why you hire a coach, or
Speaker 3: that's why you go online and find your heroes and
Speaker 3: see if they're teaching.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 3: So, for instance, people that we know and love, Patrick Frehley,
Speaker 3: for instance, Okay, who is the first one thing you
Speaker 3: probably heard him in was he was the bubble tape guy. Okay,
Speaker 3: remember that six feet of bubble You not them, that's Frayley.
Speaker 3: And he also exploded in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as
Speaker 3: the voice of Baxter Stockman and Kasey Jones and Vernon
Speaker 3: and Vernon and Krang.
Speaker 2: And so if you get that nod, yes, and you
Speaker 2: just gave an example. One actor got to do four
Speaker 2: maybe more voices with those franchise right in the franchise.
Speaker 3: And that's that's his claim. That was the beginning of
Speaker 3: a brilliant career that probably has about four thousand, four
Speaker 3: thousand known characters.
Speaker 2: Now I'm going to take a break. When we come back,
Speaker 2: I want you to tell the story of meeting June foray, Okay,
Speaker 2: I miss her terribly. I truly don't know. Let me
Speaker 2: take my break and uh ten thirty. If you're seven
Speaker 2: ye o'clock, it's exactly ten thirty here in BZ. Temperature
Speaker 2: has gone down a degree sixteen degrees.
Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on wb Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: Dan, We'll be back tomorrow eight p m. Sharp A
Speaker 2: Morgan filling in. I forgot to mention on my show
Speaker 2: this Saturday, I will be joined by Ed Robertson, who
Speaker 2: writes very good books about classic TV. He wrote a
Speaker 2: book about Perry Mason, wrote a book about the TV
Speaker 2: show The FBI that was as thick as the Manhattan
Speaker 2: White Pages. He has a new book out, Men of Honor,
Speaker 2: and he focuses on four different TV shows, The Untouchables,
Speaker 2: Harry Oh, The Magician, and one other that escapes me
Speaker 2: for the moment. But he'll be joining me on Saturday,
Speaker 2: and if you want to come play trivia with me,
Speaker 2: Interact live Tuesdays. I'm at the Midway Restaurant. It wasn't
Speaker 2: there tonight because I was here two sixty nine Washington Street.
Speaker 2: That's where you'll find me from six to seven point thirty.
Speaker 2: Right now, I've got TV Cooper and I are speaking
Speaker 2: about voice acting. She's one of the few people who
Speaker 2: has excelled in this world doing voices from video games,
Speaker 2: TV commercials, all sorts of things. And tell everybody about
Speaker 2: meeting and interacting with June Foray.
Speaker 3: I got to meet June fora at a gathering of
Speaker 3: voice talent. It was called it was the It was
Speaker 3: Voice Happening in California, and I honestly can't recall the
Speaker 3: year Morgan. I can't, and I apologize for that. But
Speaker 3: one of the guests, so people were there like Maurice
Speaker 3: LaMarsh and Rob Paulson from Animaniacs and all men of
Speaker 3: wonderful people we were. I was on a panel, and
Speaker 3: you know, we did all manner of things for a
Speaker 3: number of days, and as things were wrapping up, June
Speaker 3: Foray was a special guest, as you might imagine, and
Speaker 3: she was in the lobby hanging out with us actors.
Speaker 3: She was there with a man named Bob Bergen. He
Speaker 3: was most famously the voice of Porky Pig. He's the
Speaker 3: one who decoded Porky Pig and was able to take
Speaker 3: over doing that and in inimitable almost shutter that mel
Speaker 3: Blank invented, and he was her escort. They were great friends,
Speaker 3: and June looked like the best movie star you had
Speaker 3: ever met in your life. Oh absolutely, she was stunning,
Speaker 3: a complete knockout. And so I got to meet her,
Speaker 3: and I don't even know if I got a picture
Speaker 3: with her. We were so excited. You know, you don't
Speaker 3: always remember to get the photo, so I'm not sure
Speaker 3: I've got a photo of that particular interchange. But that
Speaker 3: was the night I got to meet June Foray And
Speaker 3: let me tell you, Morgan, when she got up on stage,
Speaker 3: all of the guests were seated and the hosts of
Speaker 3: this event were asking wonderful questions, and it was like
Speaker 3: it was like you were in the studio when Rocky
Speaker 3: the Flying Squirrel was being recorded, because she was doing
Speaker 3: stuff she was Natasha, you know, she did something as
Speaker 3: Natasha's voice, and I thought I was going to fall
Speaker 3: over sideways because it was just the same all and all.
Speaker 3: And she did a couple of things from from the
Speaker 3: the Warner Brothers, you know, she was doing uh, you know,
Speaker 3: the Winnie Witch, and that just unbelievable stuff. So fabulous
Speaker 3: and it sounded just the same. And she was in
Speaker 3: her nineties I think, I mean, it wasn't long before
Speaker 3: she left us. I was so grateful, grateful that I
Speaker 3: got a chance to meet her.
Speaker 2: Now, I'm going to say something. First of all, June
Speaker 2: did hundreds of voices in her career. She worked for
Speaker 2: Jay Ward Studios, Disney uh Baptisarian who did the Alvin
Speaker 2: and the Chipmunks. She was Missus Frumpington on that series.
Speaker 2: Literally hundreds of characters. And I was fortunate enough to
Speaker 2: become friends with her. And I'm going to tell a
Speaker 2: quick story. The earthquake in nineteen eighty nine destroyed She
Speaker 2: had antique dishes and they were her mother's dishes. The
Speaker 2: dishes got destroyed by the shake rattling roll of the earthquake.
Speaker 2: My ex had an antique store at that time and
Speaker 2: had antique dishes. My ex was kind enough to give
Speaker 2: me dishes to send to June. She called, be crying wrong.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, yeah, I can hear it.
Speaker 2: I can't say how much, as I think back this second,
Speaker 2: it touched me. And I was luck enough when she
Speaker 2: came to Boston with Bill Scott, who was Bowinkle I
Speaker 2: got to go to lunch with just the two of them,
Speaker 2: no reporters, no other people. I'm at lunch at the
Speaker 2: stock Yad with Rocky and Bowie. I was so happy.
Speaker 3: But she was inspiring, such a professional and so inspiring
Speaker 3: because there were so few women in the biz in
Speaker 3: those days. You know, it was her, and it was
Speaker 3: the ladies from from Uh, you know, the Flintstones and
Speaker 3: then the Jetsons, and I mean they're really most of
Speaker 3: the most of our cartoon lives. Morgan Uh was populated
Speaker 3: by men, which is just the way things were, right,
Speaker 3: you know, And that was besides in those days that
Speaker 3: was normal anyway. But having these magnificent actresses doing these
Speaker 3: fabulous voices across the spectrum of art was in fantastically
Speaker 3: indescribably inspiring.
Speaker 2: Truly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it really was. It was something to really
Speaker 3: get your hooks into if you.
Speaker 2: Want it, and you've got to really want it, and
Speaker 2: you may not get it, but step up to the
Speaker 2: plate and try.
Speaker 3: So look for you here's here's my recommendation. You look
Speaker 3: for your heroes. And this is one of the things
Speaker 3: I can't even remember how I ran across it. Patrick Frehley,
Speaker 3: the Man I mentioned before was teaching in Los Angeles,
Speaker 3: and I had found him. I have I probably still
Speaker 3: have the cassette tape Morgan about how to do character
Speaker 3: voices for fun and profit is what his thing was.
Speaker 3: Someone must have told me about him, and I looked
Speaker 3: him up, and I bought the cassette tape and I
Speaker 3: listened to his teaching, and I thought, I understand the
Speaker 3: way this guy is describing things. Yes, I learned more
Speaker 3: from Pat Freeley than anybody else on the planet, and
Speaker 3: that includes my high school drama teacher, who is who
Speaker 3: was just magnificent. Okay, but I'll tell you, when you
Speaker 3: find a good teacher, they they amplify your ability and
Speaker 3: accelerate your progress, And for me that was Patrick Freeley.
Speaker 3: Look for your heroes online. See what they have for
Speaker 3: for little teaching moments. If they teach, like for instance,
Speaker 3: Bob Bergen also teaches, his workshops are booked, you know,
Speaker 3: a year in advance, if not more. But but if
Speaker 3: that's if you think that's I'm not even sure if
Speaker 3: you're the level yet. That's the thing you have to
Speaker 3: be concerned about. So you have to find the teachers
Speaker 3: who can make you as good as you can be
Speaker 3: and then you take a next step.
Speaker 1: But for.
Speaker 3: Just looking for things that will give you a taste
Speaker 3: of things like Steve Bloom, the Fellow who is the
Speaker 3: voice of so many anime UH productions that are known
Speaker 3: and loved, especially Cowboy Bebop. He's the voice of Spike Spiegel.
Speaker 3: Find him online and you'll see these little vignettes of
Speaker 3: teaching that you that are for free. Patrick Freeley has
Speaker 3: a free page of stuff, So find these guys, look
Speaker 3: for your heroes and of the worldware and one of
Speaker 3: the things that the younger people do, some of my
Speaker 3: students are on something called Casting Call Club. I think
Speaker 3: that's what it is, and it's a group of people
Speaker 3: who do stuff for free. You don't you're not going
Speaker 3: to get you're not going to get work straight away.
Speaker 3: But it's people who are making like mods for games
Speaker 3: where they have a game that can be modified and
Speaker 3: they want to put their own voice, they want to
Speaker 3: put their own dialogue in it, and they'll hire these
Speaker 3: younger or or you know, more new afters to do
Speaker 3: stuff because you've got to be you've got to be
Speaker 3: willing to work for nothing. For a little while I did,
Speaker 3: I worked for college kids did I hear voices for
Speaker 3: projects for college kids? And then you find stuff out
Speaker 3: there there is and that's you work your way up and.
Speaker 2: Be willing to start. Not just at the bottom rung
Speaker 2: of the ladder. The river stoppers are under the legs
Speaker 2: of the ladder. I've got to take you know. I
Speaker 2: only have about another twelve minutes with you. This is
Speaker 2: night Side. Dan's off tonight. He'll be back to my
Speaker 2: morgan filling in time and temperature ten forty four sixteen degrees.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio dB.
Speaker 2: Cooper is here in dB. I don't know if you've
Speaker 2: heard the commercials that we just played. Did you hear them?
Speaker 3: I got to hear some of them. I was actually
Speaker 3: talking to your producer. Okay, I was. I must say, Rob,
Speaker 3: do be a favor.
Speaker 2: Don't play the whole thing. Just play the beginning of
Speaker 2: that SUPERU commercial. Oh you don't have it? Okay, it's
Speaker 2: not loaded. The commercial goes it's a female.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think I might have heard this one before
Speaker 3: he came and spoke to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a really cool day today. I want to
Speaker 2: go outside and play it's kind of a sing songy voice.
Speaker 2: And at first I thought you could have recorded that.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 3: I used to, you know, I used to be on
Speaker 3: Busy as a commercial voice for like thirteen years, right,
Speaker 3: I know that.
Speaker 2: I know that. Yeah, because I was going to ask
Speaker 2: you to mimic that commercial. Just just that line.
Speaker 3: Tell me what the words are again.
Speaker 2: It's a really cool day today. I want to go
Speaker 2: outside and play. And she says, it's.
Speaker 3: A really cool day today. I'd like to go outside
Speaker 3: and play.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know what, Yes, but you didn't hear it,
Speaker 2: so it's not to ask you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can mimic some things. I'm not a mimic.
Speaker 3: My son is an impressionist. Okay, he can. He can
Speaker 3: actually do. He's got an automatic ability to do the
Speaker 3: placement of other people's voices, because the business of doing
Speaker 3: impressions or impersonations isn't just saying the words they say,
Speaker 3: but it's it's the ability to make all of the
Speaker 3: biomechanics of your vocal apparatus do the same thing those
Speaker 3: guys are doing.
Speaker 2: I dabble, and one of the things I use as
Speaker 2: an example is quick drama grad it's a low it's
Speaker 2: a low registered voice. Oh the thing around here, boy,
Speaker 2: and don't you forget it? And that's close.
Speaker 3: It's not exactly you gotta but you gotta get. You
Speaker 3: gotta get your whole throat and ball there. Uh they're
Speaker 3: Morgan inside. You have sending around here, Baba Luis, and
Speaker 3: don't you forget it?
Speaker 2: And very good that you knew. His full character name
Speaker 2: was Bubba Louie.
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, ire, I've got the quick drama grad game. Dude,
Speaker 3: I'm I'm Aicionado.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you. That was Dars Butler. He in
Speaker 2: the lou of Anna Barbara characters, Huck and Yogi and
Speaker 2: quick drawing, and I could go on. He was my
Speaker 2: first professional interview. Oh supposed to be on with me
Speaker 2: for an hour. He stayed for three.
Speaker 3: On the planets Butler, Oh, I was walking on air. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'll bet you were in heaven, in heaven, in everything
Speaker 3: but body wow. Wow.
Speaker 2: When I began, I always tried to get voice actors.
Speaker 2: Lucille Bliss was Olive Oil and Casper and other characters
Speaker 2: for Max Fleischer. And give me a second. I get
Speaker 2: a mental block because I had so many of them.
Speaker 2: And that's why I love you and what you do
Speaker 2: because you do it so well.
Speaker 3: You know who I wish I could have met as
Speaker 3: Paul Freese. He did. Yeah, man, Yeah, I grew up
Speaker 3: with records of these guys. So I had a Yogi
Speaker 3: Bear record, and I had a Ludwig von Drake.
Speaker 2: Record, Professor Ludwig von Drake.
Speaker 3: That's right. I am a genius, make no mistake, Ludwig
Speaker 3: von Drake. That's me, very good.
Speaker 2: May I tell you a June story?
Speaker 3: I wish you would.
Speaker 2: This is a quick June story on this subject of records.
Speaker 2: I'm in third grade. I'm a huge fan of Rocky Bowinkle,
Speaker 2: and I have a Rocky record called I Was Born
Speaker 2: to be Airborne.
Speaker 3: I got it, and I could sing it.
Speaker 2: For you right now. But since you've got it. I
Speaker 2: was speaking to June, one of them many times I
Speaker 2: interviewed her. I brought up that record and I started
Speaker 2: to sing a line. Now this is forty years later.
Speaker 2: She sang with me word for word of that record. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and to Sore among the Stars called Novemn. I was
Speaker 2: born to be Airborne. I was born to be airborne. Now,
Speaker 2: some squirrels may live in a tree, it goes on.
Speaker 2: I have just stop myself or el sing the whole
Speaker 2: gods darn thing, but she's hurt me. Forty years later
Speaker 2: she remembered the lyrics.
Speaker 3: Oh, I wonder how much she heard it because you
Speaker 3: and I listened to that record until it wore out.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 3: Yeah, those are That's what those stars did for us.
Speaker 3: Did you Did you ever know about the Silly Record
Speaker 3: with Stu Hample? Tell me you know the Silly Record?
Speaker 3: It was it They began as the Silly Book. The
Speaker 3: Silly Record had songs and little stories and things, and uh,
Speaker 3: I can't even find it online right now offhand, but
Speaker 3: it was one of the ones that I would listen
Speaker 3: to all the time, and we would sing the songs
Speaker 3: from it in my family and stuff. It's just part.
Speaker 3: It becomes part of your culture. It becomes part of
Speaker 3: your familial cultures, the things that resonate with us. And
Speaker 3: that's one of the reasons why I love this work
Speaker 3: so much. I have to tell you, I have to
Speaker 3: let me tell you something, so I I one of
Speaker 3: the things that happens when you make something iconic is
Speaker 3: that people grab onto it and they make it their own,
Speaker 3: like you and I did with Rocky. Yes, you know,
Speaker 3: for instance, okay, because we saw beyond Stars just as
Speaker 3: playing as playing could be. Don't get me started. But
Speaker 3: here's the deal that I found out. I went to
Speaker 3: the Monster Trained subreddit. So you know about reddit, of course,
Speaker 3: there's a Monster Trained subreddit. Reddit is a kind of
Speaker 3: like an aggregator of articles and conversations, okay, R E,
Speaker 3: D D T. And there are different chapters all over
Speaker 3: the place, and one of them is for Monster Train
Speaker 3: the game, and someone for the simple love of the
Speaker 3: characters I did posted a questionnaire about what is your
Speaker 3: favorite spawn sound for the morsels? And he wrote down
Speaker 3: all of the little morsel sounds. Do we want the
Speaker 3: do we want the point? Do we want? Boops? Do
Speaker 3: we want? Do we want? Or dog or whatever it is,
Speaker 3: and he made a little questionnaire out of it, and
Speaker 3: there were hundreds of people voting on it, because that's
Speaker 3: just I mean, it's not like putting out a record,
Speaker 3: but what it is is actually seeing the way the
Speaker 3: work I've done for something fun, seeing how it affects people,
Speaker 3: and seeing how they have it they take it into
Speaker 3: their lives as something wonderful. I have this feeling, especially
Speaker 3: as a voice actor for video games. It's a sacred trust.
Speaker 3: We've only got so many minutes on this planet, Morgan.
Speaker 3: We're only allowed to tread the earth for so long.
Speaker 3: And when someone takes their time and chooses to spend
Speaker 3: it with me and my cohort, people doing voices for
Speaker 3: the game they're choosing to play, Yes, that's the best
Speaker 3: feeling in the world.
Speaker 2: And on a lesser level, I get some of that
Speaker 2: because I've been doing radio for so long and people
Speaker 2: listening may remember an incident and interview and they're telling
Speaker 2: me what I did, and that shows me how important
Speaker 2: that moment was to this individual. I don't understand it
Speaker 2: on that level. And you know, I'm looking at my
Speaker 2: computer and it tells me someone's calling in right now
Speaker 2: and I only have I only have ninety seconds left.
Speaker 3: Make it happen.
Speaker 2: They hung up.
Speaker 3: That's too bad.
Speaker 2: That's too bad. I will have you on again. And
Speaker 2: you know there have been times that you've blown up
Speaker 2: my phones, and I hope next time you will do
Speaker 2: that because you are such a treasure, and you, alike
Speaker 2: June's foray to me, you have done you have done
Speaker 2: such memorable and tremendous work that I embrace and I
Speaker 2: go back to thirty years with you, and I marvel
Speaker 2: at all you have done, and I marvel at all
Speaker 2: that you will continue to do. So, dB, I thank
Speaker 2: you for coming on and I look forward to our
Speaker 2: next time.
Speaker 3: Okay, same here, I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 2: You take care now, thank you, bye bye. One more
Speaker 2: hour of Dan Ray, I've got the speech improvement company.
Speaker 2: Dennis Becker will be joining us after the news here
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