WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.000 --> 00:00:04.360 It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm tell you easy 2 00:00:04.759 --> 00:00:06.000 Boston's new video. 3 00:00:06.400 --> 00:00:11.279 I re number three of Night's Side. And I met 4 00:00:11.720 --> 00:00:15.560 this actress best way to say it, because she has 5 00:00:15.759 --> 00:00:21.000 done in front of the audience work and voiceover work 6 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:24.480 and has done so for over twenty five to thirty years, 7 00:00:25.280 --> 00:00:28.280 of which that I'm aware of, it might be more 8 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:33.359 than that. And she's gosh darn good and I periodically 9 00:00:33.439 --> 00:00:38.479 have her on. So for the women listening, here's somebody 10 00:00:38.479 --> 00:00:43.920 who speaks for you, speaks to you. Ever want to 11 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:48.039 get in this business, ever wish you could do commercials 12 00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:53.520 or do a character. And with the video game craze 13 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:59.520 out there, that's given her major exposure, and I'm going 14 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:02.679 to have her tell people about some of her characters 15 00:01:02.679 --> 00:01:06.760 that she has done. Please welcome D B. Cooper. 16 00:01:13.239 --> 00:01:15.640 I'd like to sound effect man thy here. 17 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:19.079 Rob is on the ball tonight. He hasn't done that 18 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:25.040 for any of our other callers. Oh guess so tell 19 00:01:25.079 --> 00:01:26.879 me how many years have you been doing this? 20 00:01:29.319 --> 00:01:33.079 Well, let's it depends on how far back you count. 21 00:01:33.239 --> 00:01:35.400 If you want to go back to where I started 22 00:01:35.400 --> 00:01:39.239 being on the radio all the time I was ten, 23 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:42.319 and that is a very that's called a very very 24 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:46.680 long time. I was in Hawaii and KGMB radio had 25 00:01:46.719 --> 00:01:50.920 an afternoon disc jockey called Granny Goose, and I was 26 00:01:50.959 --> 00:01:53.359 a feature on his show every day because I called 27 00:01:53.439 --> 00:01:55.840 him with a riddle a couple of times and he 28 00:01:55.879 --> 00:01:57.879 asked me to call him back every day and I did. 29 00:01:59.439 --> 00:02:00.640 Is he still doing it? 30 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:08.280 I don't have any idea. I can't tell you. I mean, 31 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:13.400 I only know how old I am. He's older than that. 32 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:21.120 In your career mirrors June's Foray legendary voice actress because 33 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:27.120 she began at around eleven or twelve years old in Springfield. 34 00:02:28.599 --> 00:02:32.360 Yeah, so this is Honolulu. Yeah, it is amazing. The 35 00:02:32.439 --> 00:02:37.240 business of doing live radio is so like we're doing now. 36 00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:41.800 There's there's nothing like There's nothing like it. They're really 37 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:47.840 except for live TV. But live media is exceptionally thrilling, 38 00:02:48.159 --> 00:02:51.680 and it's always the kind of thing that keeps you 39 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:55.719 right on the edge of your performance ability. 40 00:02:56.319 --> 00:02:59.599 I totally agree, because I've been doing this for forty 41 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:00.879 five plus years. 42 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:01.759 Yeah. 43 00:03:01.919 --> 00:03:06.639 Yeah, and I'm not too old to get out of 44 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:07.159 it yet. 45 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:11.280 You're not too old, young man. You just step lively there, 46 00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:11.879 I tell you. 47 00:03:12.759 --> 00:03:18.240 And that's the example. You have done many video game 48 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:22.919 characters and voices. Tell my audience some of the characters 49 00:03:22.919 --> 00:03:26.120 that you've done that they may recognize. 50 00:03:26.360 --> 00:03:29.960 Well if you play games, and I hope you do. 51 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:33.599 One of the most well known things I'm in is 52 00:03:34.120 --> 00:03:38.240 BioShock two. It's a game that came out oh golly 53 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:42.080 ages ago, but people still play it. I'm the first 54 00:03:42.520 --> 00:03:46.479 voice recorder you come to, so it's kind of it's 55 00:03:46.639 --> 00:03:49.759 exceptionally fun to be one of the first games that 56 00:03:49.800 --> 00:03:53.120 you hear within the gameplay. It's after the intro. So 57 00:03:53.199 --> 00:03:59.240 there's that. I am in job simulator. I'm in I'm 58 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:02.319 trying to pull up my curriculum VTA right now because 59 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:05.680 I've done so much I can't remember, to be honest, 60 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:09.319 I was in the Ghostbusters game that came out after 61 00:04:09.439 --> 00:04:11.879 all the ladies who were in the movie, The Ghostbusters 62 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:14.560 all ladies film, So I was in that. I got 63 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:16.639 to be Slimmer in that game. 64 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:23.639 There right there, I want to hear Slimer. 65 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:33.079 Okay, stand by a second. 66 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:38.720 And did you drink your high cooler? 67 00:04:40.839 --> 00:04:43.240 I sure need to do after that. There's a lot 68 00:04:43.279 --> 00:04:49.519 of I am best known, I believe for doing creature sounds, 69 00:04:50.279 --> 00:04:54.600 all right, so uh there's so Slimer is one, of course, 70 00:04:54.600 --> 00:04:58.120 in particular that everybody knows. I'm some characters in a 71 00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:05.279 in a a digital card game called Heartstone. And the 72 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:09.199 other thing that I'm in that I'm particularly delighted about 73 00:05:09.639 --> 00:05:15.240 is a game called Monster Train. It's another it's a 74 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:19.879 it's called a roguelike deck builder game. And in Monster 75 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:28.800 Trains there are about two hundred named characters, of which 76 00:05:28.839 --> 00:05:33.160 I do have. There were only two voice actors in 77 00:05:33.279 --> 00:05:35.680 all of the chapters of that game. It was me 78 00:05:35.839 --> 00:05:39.079 and a fellow named Michael Schwalby, and we did all 79 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:41.920 of the voices and vocalizing in that game. 80 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:46.839 Do you have a hundred voices different enough from each other? 81 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:52.959 In you? I. What I have is an arsenal of 82 00:05:53.079 --> 00:05:57.480 sounds and a very good a very good sound designer. 83 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:04.000 So I've got anything from the tiny creatures called the morsels, 84 00:06:04.439 --> 00:06:07.160 who make a little tiny sound when they spawn, when 85 00:06:07.199 --> 00:06:10.439 they show up on the field of play, and they 86 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:18.319 go pah or handah. Can I oh those guys. But 87 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:23.319 then I also have h the deeper creatures or the bosses, 88 00:06:24.040 --> 00:06:27.839 and they have like you know, they'll have a they'll 89 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:37.480 have sounds like like that. 90 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:43.079 Yeah, it's totally amazing. 91 00:06:44.279 --> 00:06:47.680 You know what, I just did it. I got it 92 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:51.360 from just practicing for the hell of it. Honestly, let 93 00:06:51.439 --> 00:06:53.879 me try this out, and what does it look like? 94 00:06:54.079 --> 00:06:58.000 And how can I make this sound by manipulating my face, 95 00:06:58.199 --> 00:07:01.199 by figuring out where my placement is? What does it 96 00:07:01.279 --> 00:07:03.560 sound like if I grab my cheek and pull it. 97 00:07:04.079 --> 00:07:07.720 You know, it's all of these things that you learn 98 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:13.759 about your instrument and also how to bring things to 99 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:16.920 the table that people don't even know they need, for 100 00:07:16.959 --> 00:07:19.399 instance in Monster Train and I figure, I can't even 101 00:07:19.439 --> 00:07:22.519 remember how I figured this out, Morgan. Is if you 102 00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:27.120 need to sound like you're like you're in water or 103 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:29.319 that you've got water in your throat, and that can 104 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:34.800 be anything from being an undersea creature to being someone 105 00:07:34.839 --> 00:07:38.639 who's swimming for fun, to being someone who's dying because 106 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:41.920 they're drowning. One of the things that you do to 107 00:07:41.959 --> 00:07:45.800 get that sound is jello. 108 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:51.480 And what do you do with all You put it. 109 00:07:51.439 --> 00:07:54.000 In your mouth. Yeah, you put it in your mouth 110 00:07:54.040 --> 00:07:56.439 and you can speak past it and it sounds like 111 00:07:56.480 --> 00:08:00.120 you're you're gargling water or that you've got water going 112 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:03.439 down your throat, but you don't because it's semi solid. 113 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:06.480 You can't do it with water. You'll choke because it'll 114 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:10.319 run right down while you're trying to make assonant sounds. 115 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:12.920 While you're trying to make sounds with you know, actual 116 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:16.600 voice behind them. You can do gardling and all that 117 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:19.560 kind of stuff because you've got your voice box shut off. 118 00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:23.360 But if your voicebox is active, you can't have water 119 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:26.639 trickling down your throat at the same time. But this wonderful, viscous, 120 00:08:26.759 --> 00:08:32.759 gooey jello. I've started telling them the studio in that 121 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:36.799 I work for a video game company called Senimax Online, 122 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:40.679 and I direct, I cast and direct the video game 123 00:08:40.879 --> 00:08:45.080 called The Elder Scrolls Online. And when I need my 124 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:47.679 actors to do something that's called a sound set where 125 00:08:47.679 --> 00:08:51.000 they have to, you know, fight and die, I have 126 00:08:51.320 --> 00:08:58.200 the engineers stock some jello for me so they can 127 00:08:58.320 --> 00:08:59.240 die miserably. 128 00:09:01.240 --> 00:09:10.000 Do you know the name Samantha de SEUs, Well you could. 129 00:09:10.039 --> 00:09:16.759 I'm sure she has name recognition out there. She is 130 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:22.039 the daughter of Carl de Seus' sixties busy morning man, 131 00:09:22.919 --> 00:09:28.720 and she is doing what you're doing, uh, blazing a 132 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:34.279 trail for women voiceover works hot. 133 00:09:34.360 --> 00:09:35.879 I'm looking at her online right now. 134 00:09:35.919 --> 00:09:38.720 She's awesome, right and I had her a couple of 135 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:44.360 weeks ago, and the key is with her then and 136 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:49.320 now with you. I want you to address the women 137 00:09:49.639 --> 00:09:53.480 listening in the audience to get them interested in just 138 00:09:53.559 --> 00:09:57.039 stepping up to the plate. You've always wanted this, so 139 00:09:57.120 --> 00:10:00.759 you were curious about doing it. You got to step 140 00:10:00.840 --> 00:10:03.279 up to the plate and take a swing. Let me 141 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:05.759 take my break, and when we come back, I'm gonna 142 00:10:05.799 --> 00:10:09.480 let you speak to all the women listening right now, 143 00:10:09.759 --> 00:10:12.639 let me take the break here time here on nights 144 00:10:12.639 --> 00:10:16.279 side ten, sixteen seventeen degrees. 145 00:10:17.399 --> 00:10:20.320 Now back to Dan Ray Mine from the Window World 146 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:23.600 Life Side Studios on WBZ the news radio. 147 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:27.679 I've got voice actor dB Cooper here. I've had her 148 00:10:28.279 --> 00:10:31.879 on the radio with me many many a time. And dB, 149 00:10:32.480 --> 00:10:34.679 there are people listening out there. And I'll say people, 150 00:10:35.559 --> 00:10:41.519 because maybe I was in error to make you address 151 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:44.120 just the women. There are a lot of people out there, 152 00:10:44.159 --> 00:10:47.960 male and female that want to get into the business, 153 00:10:48.679 --> 00:10:53.159 and they don't know how you've gotten into the business. 154 00:10:53.919 --> 00:11:00.559 You've mastered your craft. Tell people how to step up 155 00:11:00.559 --> 00:11:03.360 to the plate and just try tell them where they 156 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:05.519 can make inquiries. 157 00:11:06.600 --> 00:11:10.399 Help them the way that I know you and I 158 00:11:10.440 --> 00:11:13.960 were talking about being in radio at a young age 159 00:11:14.320 --> 00:11:17.000 and live radio and the kind of stuff that we're 160 00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:23.120 doing right now, and those paths where you could be 161 00:11:23.279 --> 00:11:26.559 a weekend disc jockey on a rock and roll station 162 00:11:27.559 --> 00:11:30.759 or do overnight news on a news station, they don't 163 00:11:30.759 --> 00:11:35.200 really exist anymore. For someone who's sitting in the seat 164 00:11:35.240 --> 00:11:37.000 you're sitting in, you have to have done it for 165 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:40.039 quite a long time. It's not something that's easy to 166 00:11:40.240 --> 00:11:46.720 aspire to. So the path I took doesn't exist anymore. 167 00:11:49.039 --> 00:11:52.639 So here's what I teach my students. The first thing 168 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:57.320 when someone reaches out to me and asks me about 169 00:11:57.320 --> 00:12:00.720 what it takes to be a voice actor is I 170 00:12:00.840 --> 00:12:05.159 will give them an assignment, and that is you must 171 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:11.039 read aloud three three to five minutes a day. You 172 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:13.360 must read aloud three to five minutes a day. It 173 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:16.559 doesn't matter what it is. It can be your favorite novel. 174 00:12:17.240 --> 00:12:20.799 It can be a magazine that you like with articles, 175 00:12:21.519 --> 00:12:24.799 it can be a user manual, it can be a cookbook. 176 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:29.840 But read aloud for five minutes a day. And when 177 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:34.559 you've done that for a month, call me back or 178 00:12:34.600 --> 00:12:37.480 send me another note, and then we'll talk about getting 179 00:12:37.480 --> 00:12:42.000 you stopped up to start thinking about how to do 180 00:12:42.120 --> 00:12:46.279 scripts and that sort of thing. And Morgan, I have 181 00:12:46.360 --> 00:12:52.120 to tell you that out of if it were one 182 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:59.679 hundred wannabes, probably I've probably heard them too. Because the 183 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:04.039 what you need more than anything else to quote get 184 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:08.399 started unquote in this business is drive, and you have 185 00:13:08.480 --> 00:13:13.399 to be willing to do a lot of work. You 186 00:13:13.440 --> 00:13:16.279 have to read aloud every day because you have to 187 00:13:16.279 --> 00:13:19.159 get used to your voice every day. You need to 188 00:13:19.159 --> 00:13:24.320 be able to understand what your voice can do. I 189 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:26.320 can work with you on that, but you have to 190 00:13:26.360 --> 00:13:30.360 be willing to work every day. And that's the thing 191 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:37.000 that really separates most people. So start by reading aloud 192 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:41.919 and then record yourself and listen back and get used 193 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:44.519 to the sound of your voice being played back to you. 194 00:13:44.639 --> 00:13:48.039 Because everyone likes to complain about the sound of their 195 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:52.200 voice being played back to them because they think it 196 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:57.159 doesn't sound like them. However, it's what everybody's hearing. The 197 00:13:57.240 --> 00:14:01.799 reason you sound different being played back on a device 198 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:06.399 is because you're hearing what everyone else is hearing. When 199 00:14:06.440 --> 00:14:11.240 you're speaking, you're doing all manner of vibrations within your 200 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:14.639 neck where your voice boks in all of the soft 201 00:14:14.639 --> 00:14:17.840 and hard tissue that comes up from your neck into 202 00:14:17.919 --> 00:14:22.440 your oral cavity and through your sinuses, and your whole 203 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:25.720 face is vibrating with the sound of your voice. All 204 00:14:25.759 --> 00:14:28.399 of that stuff goes directly into your middle ear and 205 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:33.799 is making harmonic impressions on all of your auditory systems. 206 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:40.799 So you're hearing your voice plus everybody else is hearing 207 00:14:40.840 --> 00:14:45.200 what plus what's in the room. You're hearing your voice plus, 208 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:47.440 so you're hearing all of your inner harmonics, and you're 209 00:14:47.480 --> 00:14:50.440 also hearing what's in the room. We're only hearing what's 210 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:53.519 in the room, So you need to get used to 211 00:14:53.559 --> 00:14:54.159 that sound. 212 00:14:55.320 --> 00:15:03.039 My son, who work in four different markets doing TV 213 00:15:03.159 --> 00:15:06.600 news as a field reporter. 214 00:15:06.799 --> 00:15:11.759 Periodically he would. 215 00:15:10.039 --> 00:15:14.200 Get to anchor. Most recently he was a Channel twenty five, 216 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:20.360 and he just decided to pull up stakes. He and 217 00:15:20.399 --> 00:15:24.919 his wife went down to the Carolinas where he lives. 218 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:26.480 Now. He's in the. 219 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:30.639 Private he's in the private sector and he's doing quite 220 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:35.240 well for himself. He his wife, they have two children 221 00:15:35.279 --> 00:15:42.120 and dog, the typical American nuclear family. He began the 222 00:15:42.159 --> 00:15:48.840 same way I told him, Evan read something read. I 223 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:55.639 got a trillion magazines, books, reading material arbitrarily. Just pick 224 00:15:55.720 --> 00:15:59.399 one and read. You don't have to read a lot, 225 00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:04.039 just read so you get more and more comfortable. Reading 226 00:16:05.960 --> 00:16:10.440 is key. That is an aspect of what you're going 227 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:14.759 to have to do. And yeah, he went to Emerson College. 228 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:17.480 Oh well, hello, nurse. 229 00:16:20.480 --> 00:16:25.440 And obviously that helped. But you've got to have the 230 00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:33.240 drive to achieve in you. Yeah, out that drive. Perhaps 231 00:16:33.320 --> 00:16:34.279 you're not going to get it. 232 00:16:34.919 --> 00:16:37.120 You're not. And I'll tell you something. I'm telling I 233 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:39.879 could be I can be absolute with You're not. You 234 00:16:39.960 --> 00:16:42.639 have to at least begin to try. And some people 235 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:46.080 step out the door and into a field of roses 236 00:16:46.120 --> 00:16:49.960 and it's wonderful and there and they're wonderful and and 237 00:16:50.120 --> 00:16:53.320 doors open for them, and that's great. In the workaday 238 00:16:53.399 --> 00:16:57.720 world that I inhabit. There was a time where when 239 00:16:57.759 --> 00:17:00.240 I lived in Los Angeles in the early what do 240 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:03.080 you call it, in the twenty tens, okay, before it 241 00:17:03.159 --> 00:17:06.799 even hit the teens, I was looking for an agent 242 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:11.440 and could not get one. And my audition to booking 243 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:17.319 rate was three hundred to one. I kid you not, 244 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:22.440 for every three hundred auditions I got one. And it sucked, 245 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:24.400 of course. I mean sorry, can I say that on 246 00:17:24.440 --> 00:17:27.000 the radio. I beg your pardon. It was awful. I 247 00:17:27.079 --> 00:17:31.000 hated it, and I was afraid I was a failure. 248 00:17:32.599 --> 00:17:41.039 And I actually had some friends through this and other 249 00:17:41.119 --> 00:17:45.279 things that happened in my life. I was going to 250 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:48.559 get out of the business, Morgan. I thought, this is 251 00:17:48.680 --> 00:17:53.880 ridiculous and it's not working for me. And I had 252 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:58.680 some fantastic friends. I had some fantastic friends who staged 253 00:17:58.720 --> 00:18:06.119 an intervention, Morgan. My friends from the game developers world, Uh, 254 00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:09.079 my audio buddies came and said, you can't quit. 255 00:18:13.119 --> 00:18:19.680 So they were right. One of the things everybody has 256 00:18:19.759 --> 00:18:24.200 to have. You put the TV on and in ten minutes, 257 00:18:24.319 --> 00:18:28.759 just click, click, click the remote control and you'll see dozens, 258 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:33.559 dozens of people who all at one time were like you. 259 00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:39.920 And the key is, you've got to develop a suit 260 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:43.279 of armor for the word no, because you're going to 261 00:18:43.319 --> 00:18:45.960 hear that word more often than you hear the word yes. 262 00:18:46.720 --> 00:18:49.599 Well, honestly, Morgan, you know what you hear. You hear crickets, 263 00:18:49.640 --> 00:18:52.960 you hear nothing because in this, in this it's not 264 00:18:53.039 --> 00:18:56.599 even no, it's you audition, and you put your you 265 00:18:56.640 --> 00:18:59.119 put your recording forward because you're not even in the 266 00:18:59.119 --> 00:19:02.440 studio with the agents anymore for the most part. But 267 00:19:02.559 --> 00:19:05.039 you put your recording and you send it out and 268 00:19:05.839 --> 00:19:10.880 you will hear nothing most of the time. And that's 269 00:19:11.160 --> 00:19:13.839 that's brutal because you don't know if I didn't make it, 270 00:19:13.880 --> 00:19:16.880 why not. And that's why you hire a coach, or 271 00:19:16.920 --> 00:19:19.880 that's why you go online and find your heroes and 272 00:19:19.960 --> 00:19:20.920 see if they're teaching. 273 00:19:21.960 --> 00:19:22.119 Yes. 274 00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:25.559 So, for instance, people that we know and love, Patrick Frehley, 275 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:30.319 for instance, Okay, who is the first one thing you 276 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:34.240 probably heard him in was he was the bubble tape guy. Okay, 277 00:19:34.559 --> 00:19:38.880 remember that six feet of bubble You not them, that's Frayley. 278 00:19:39.079 --> 00:19:43.160 And he also exploded in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as 279 00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:48.400 the voice of Baxter Stockman and Kasey Jones and Vernon 280 00:19:48.920 --> 00:19:51.240 and Vernon and Krang. 281 00:19:53.559 --> 00:19:58.279 And so if you get that nod, yes, and you 282 00:19:58.480 --> 00:20:02.079 just gave an example. One actor got to do four 283 00:20:02.799 --> 00:20:08.119 maybe more voices with those franchise right in the franchise. 284 00:20:09.799 --> 00:20:13.680 And that's that's his claim. That was the beginning of 285 00:20:13.720 --> 00:20:18.000 a brilliant career that probably has about four thousand, four 286 00:20:18.039 --> 00:20:20.400 thousand known characters. 287 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:23.240 Now I'm going to take a break. When we come back, 288 00:20:23.960 --> 00:20:29.160 I want you to tell the story of meeting June foray, Okay, 289 00:20:30.039 --> 00:20:33.799 I miss her terribly. I truly don't know. Let me 290 00:20:33.839 --> 00:20:39.559 take my break and uh ten thirty. If you're seven 291 00:20:39.640 --> 00:20:44.319 ye o'clock, it's exactly ten thirty here in BZ. Temperature 292 00:20:44.319 --> 00:20:47.599 has gone down a degree sixteen degrees. 293 00:20:49.880 --> 00:20:55.160 It's Night Side with Dan Ray on wb Boston's news Radio. 294 00:20:55.440 --> 00:21:00.559 Dan, We'll be back tomorrow eight p m. Sharp A 295 00:21:00.720 --> 00:21:03.880 Morgan filling in. I forgot to mention on my show 296 00:21:03.920 --> 00:21:08.920 this Saturday, I will be joined by Ed Robertson, who 297 00:21:09.680 --> 00:21:14.880 writes very good books about classic TV. He wrote a 298 00:21:14.880 --> 00:21:17.240 book about Perry Mason, wrote a book about the TV 299 00:21:17.279 --> 00:21:20.880 show The FBI that was as thick as the Manhattan 300 00:21:21.599 --> 00:21:26.000 White Pages. He has a new book out, Men of Honor, 301 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:31.880 and he focuses on four different TV shows, The Untouchables, 302 00:21:32.599 --> 00:21:38.200 Harry Oh, The Magician, and one other that escapes me 303 00:21:38.279 --> 00:21:41.200 for the moment. But he'll be joining me on Saturday, 304 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:43.880 and if you want to come play trivia with me, 305 00:21:44.039 --> 00:21:48.880 Interact live Tuesdays. I'm at the Midway Restaurant. It wasn't 306 00:21:48.920 --> 00:21:53.319 there tonight because I was here two sixty nine Washington Street. 307 00:21:53.359 --> 00:21:56.359 That's where you'll find me from six to seven point thirty. 308 00:21:57.039 --> 00:22:01.680 Right now, I've got TV Cooper and I are speaking 309 00:22:01.720 --> 00:22:06.839 about voice acting. She's one of the few people who 310 00:22:06.880 --> 00:22:13.359 has excelled in this world doing voices from video games, 311 00:22:13.480 --> 00:22:18.759 TV commercials, all sorts of things. And tell everybody about 312 00:22:18.920 --> 00:22:23.119 meeting and interacting with June Foray. 313 00:22:25.519 --> 00:22:30.759 I got to meet June fora at a gathering of 314 00:22:31.160 --> 00:22:35.799 voice talent. It was called it was the It was 315 00:22:36.000 --> 00:22:45.079 Voice Happening in California, and I honestly can't recall the 316 00:22:45.240 --> 00:22:50.319 year Morgan. I can't, and I apologize for that. But 317 00:22:50.519 --> 00:22:53.799 one of the guests, so people were there like Maurice 318 00:22:53.920 --> 00:23:00.319 LaMarsh and Rob Paulson from Animaniacs and all men of 319 00:23:01.519 --> 00:23:03.839 wonderful people we were. I was on a panel, and 320 00:23:04.559 --> 00:23:06.680 you know, we did all manner of things for a 321 00:23:06.799 --> 00:23:13.640 number of days, and as things were wrapping up, June 322 00:23:13.720 --> 00:23:17.000 Foray was a special guest, as you might imagine, and 323 00:23:17.079 --> 00:23:22.759 she was in the lobby hanging out with us actors. 324 00:23:24.240 --> 00:23:28.160 She was there with a man named Bob Bergen. He 325 00:23:28.359 --> 00:23:31.680 was most famously the voice of Porky Pig. He's the 326 00:23:31.680 --> 00:23:35.079 one who decoded Porky Pig and was able to take 327 00:23:35.119 --> 00:23:42.279 over doing that and in inimitable almost shutter that mel 328 00:23:42.400 --> 00:23:48.799 Blank invented, and he was her escort. They were great friends, 329 00:23:49.319 --> 00:23:53.960 and June looked like the best movie star you had 330 00:23:54.039 --> 00:24:00.640 ever met in your life. Oh absolutely, she was stunning, 331 00:24:01.000 --> 00:24:04.640 a complete knockout. And so I got to meet her, 332 00:24:05.920 --> 00:24:08.400 and I don't even know if I got a picture 333 00:24:08.440 --> 00:24:11.880 with her. We were so excited. You know, you don't 334 00:24:11.920 --> 00:24:15.599 always remember to get the photo, so I'm not sure 335 00:24:15.640 --> 00:24:19.319 I've got a photo of that particular interchange. But that 336 00:24:19.519 --> 00:24:21.359 was the night I got to meet June Foray And 337 00:24:21.480 --> 00:24:25.559 let me tell you, Morgan, when she got up on stage, 338 00:24:25.599 --> 00:24:30.440 all of the guests were seated and the hosts of 339 00:24:30.480 --> 00:24:36.279 this event were asking wonderful questions, and it was like 340 00:24:39.039 --> 00:24:44.240 it was like you were in the studio when Rocky 341 00:24:44.279 --> 00:24:48.759 the Flying Squirrel was being recorded, because she was doing 342 00:24:48.839 --> 00:24:53.759 stuff she was Natasha, you know, she did something as 343 00:24:53.839 --> 00:24:56.119 Natasha's voice, and I thought I was going to fall 344 00:24:56.240 --> 00:25:01.680 over sideways because it was just the same all and all. 345 00:25:01.720 --> 00:25:06.519 And she did a couple of things from from the 346 00:25:06.519 --> 00:25:10.240 the Warner Brothers, you know, she was doing uh, you know, 347 00:25:10.359 --> 00:25:15.480 the Winnie Witch, and that just unbelievable stuff. So fabulous 348 00:25:15.519 --> 00:25:18.400 and it sounded just the same. And she was in 349 00:25:18.440 --> 00:25:22.079 her nineties I think, I mean, it wasn't long before 350 00:25:22.079 --> 00:25:25.200 she left us. I was so grateful, grateful that I 351 00:25:25.200 --> 00:25:26.319 got a chance to meet her. 352 00:25:27.640 --> 00:25:31.640 Now, I'm going to say something. First of all, June 353 00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:37.720 did hundreds of voices in her career. She worked for 354 00:25:38.279 --> 00:25:46.359 Jay Ward Studios, Disney uh Baptisarian who did the Alvin 355 00:25:46.359 --> 00:25:49.240 and the Chipmunks. She was Missus Frumpington on that series. 356 00:25:50.519 --> 00:25:56.920 Literally hundreds of characters. And I was fortunate enough to 357 00:25:56.920 --> 00:26:03.039 become friends with her. And I'm going to tell a 358 00:26:03.119 --> 00:26:11.680 quick story. The earthquake in nineteen eighty nine destroyed She 359 00:26:11.759 --> 00:26:16.119 had antique dishes and they were her mother's dishes. The 360 00:26:16.200 --> 00:26:19.799 dishes got destroyed by the shake rattling roll of the earthquake. 361 00:26:21.119 --> 00:26:25.640 My ex had an antique store at that time and 362 00:26:25.720 --> 00:26:30.200 had antique dishes. My ex was kind enough to give 363 00:26:30.240 --> 00:26:37.359 me dishes to send to June. She called, be crying wrong. 364 00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:42.839 Yeah, I mean, yeah, I can hear it. 365 00:26:43.440 --> 00:26:47.720 I can't say how much, as I think back this second, 366 00:26:48.119 --> 00:26:52.799 it touched me. And I was luck enough when she 367 00:26:52.920 --> 00:26:56.799 came to Boston with Bill Scott, who was Bowinkle I 368 00:26:56.839 --> 00:26:59.119 got to go to lunch with just the two of them, 369 00:26:59.160 --> 00:27:02.920 no reporters, no other people. I'm at lunch at the 370 00:27:02.960 --> 00:27:10.279 stock Yad with Rocky and Bowie. I was so happy. 371 00:27:10.680 --> 00:27:17.680 But she was inspiring, such a professional and so inspiring 372 00:27:18.079 --> 00:27:20.880 because there were so few women in the biz in 373 00:27:20.920 --> 00:27:23.119 those days. You know, it was her, and it was 374 00:27:23.160 --> 00:27:26.559 the ladies from from Uh, you know, the Flintstones and 375 00:27:26.599 --> 00:27:29.200 then the Jetsons, and I mean they're really most of 376 00:27:29.240 --> 00:27:35.240 the most of our cartoon lives. Morgan Uh was populated 377 00:27:35.279 --> 00:27:38.640 by men, which is just the way things were, right, 378 00:27:39.720 --> 00:27:42.119 you know, And that was besides in those days that 379 00:27:42.240 --> 00:27:48.680 was normal anyway. But having these magnificent actresses doing these 380 00:27:48.720 --> 00:27:56.759 fabulous voices across the spectrum of art was in fantastically 381 00:27:57.240 --> 00:27:59.200 indescribably inspiring. 382 00:28:00.559 --> 00:28:00.920 Truly. 383 00:28:01.119 --> 00:28:03.400 Yeah, yeah, it really was. It was something to really 384 00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:05.480 get your hooks into if you. 385 00:28:05.720 --> 00:28:09.519 Want it, and you've got to really want it, and 386 00:28:09.559 --> 00:28:12.960 you may not get it, but step up to the 387 00:28:13.039 --> 00:28:14.279 plate and try. 388 00:28:15.160 --> 00:28:17.839 So look for you here's here's my recommendation. You look 389 00:28:17.920 --> 00:28:19.880 for your heroes. And this is one of the things 390 00:28:19.920 --> 00:28:24.200 I can't even remember how I ran across it. Patrick Frehley, 391 00:28:24.680 --> 00:28:29.000 the Man I mentioned before was teaching in Los Angeles, 392 00:28:29.000 --> 00:28:33.839 and I had found him. I have I probably still 393 00:28:33.880 --> 00:28:37.720 have the cassette tape Morgan about how to do character 394 00:28:37.839 --> 00:28:41.000 voices for fun and profit is what his thing was. 395 00:28:41.720 --> 00:28:44.200 Someone must have told me about him, and I looked 396 00:28:44.279 --> 00:28:46.759 him up, and I bought the cassette tape and I 397 00:28:46.839 --> 00:28:50.279 listened to his teaching, and I thought, I understand the 398 00:28:50.319 --> 00:28:54.359 way this guy is describing things. Yes, I learned more 399 00:28:54.759 --> 00:28:59.039 from Pat Freeley than anybody else on the planet, and 400 00:28:59.079 --> 00:29:03.319 that includes my high school drama teacher, who is who 401 00:29:03.400 --> 00:29:07.359