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Speaker 3: joining us today.
Speaker 2: I'm so glad you made it me too, on this
Speaker 2: balmy day of ours.
Speaker 1: Here so cows a wee bit wet.
Speaker 2: Just a wee bit, but by god, we're high and dry,
Speaker 2: or or at least we're dry and maybe high. Later
Speaker 2: we'll work we'll work.
Speaker 3: On that later.
Speaker 1: But I didn't know that kind of podcast.
Speaker 2: Yes, well, thank goodness. It's not like I said later,
Speaker 2: But thanks for being here. This is so cool. And
Speaker 2: you know I always tend to always like to do
Speaker 2: my research. See, I'm taking this very seriously. Where am I?
Speaker 2: There we go, and I did my due diligence and
Speaker 2: what have you. And one, we have some interesting things
Speaker 2: in common, which the interesting ones, the interesting and no,
Speaker 2: but you're from Grand Rapids, Michigan. I'm not so okay,
Speaker 2: so not that right off the bat, we have that
Speaker 2: not going for us, okay, but it says here that
Speaker 2: and this, Ye're officially the only person that I know
Speaker 2: other than me who can say this. Not that we're bragging,
Speaker 2: but I'll brag about you and then I'll just get
Speaker 2: a little basking in your glory. But your first audition
Speaker 2: was used as the job. Yes, andya tell us about
Speaker 2: that one because that's real comment.
Speaker 1: Isn't that weird? So yeah, so I was. It was
Speaker 1: for a reporter Barbie book, and so I went all
Speaker 1: the way down to oh gosh, what's the toys, the
Speaker 1: Mattel Mattel thank you?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: So I had to go down what is an el
Speaker 1: segundo or somewhere really far And this was back in
Speaker 1: the Thomas Guide days. So I was like, how do
Speaker 1: I get there. I didn't have my fancy phone with
Speaker 1: the GPS to tell me exactly, you know, in five
Speaker 1: hundred feet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the phone was like a shoe box back then,
Speaker 2: as I recall, even though.
Speaker 1: If I had one at that point, I think I
Speaker 1: still had a pager. But it was really cool though.
Speaker 1: I was see through and green, so that's fun. But yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I went down there and it was like so secretive.
Speaker 1: It was, you know, this was before we had to
Speaker 1: sign NDAs. I think they just I maybe signed something
Speaker 1: when I got there, but they literally had somebody go
Speaker 1: to the bathroom with me because everything was like They're like,
Speaker 1: don't look at anything. I was like wow, And they
Speaker 1: had this really small little recording booth in the back
Speaker 1: of the offices, and I had to have somebody with
Speaker 1: me at all times, and there was a badge and
Speaker 1: this was just the audition.
Speaker 2: I was like, wow, and this is the audition.
Speaker 1: This was the audition. So I went and you know,
Speaker 1: and I did my thing, and I was playing Skipper
Speaker 1: Barbie's her little sister.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I think it's her sister, kind of
Speaker 2: like Batman and Robin Barbie.
Speaker 1: And I remember I had growing up Skipper.
Speaker 5: Arm and.
Speaker 1: But no, so I went back and I did my thing,
Speaker 1: It's fun to be a reporter, and did it a
Speaker 1: bunch of times.
Speaker 2: That was it.
Speaker 1: That was the only line. And then I don't know,
Speaker 1: that was it, and we did it. I don't know,
Speaker 1: probably how many times.
Speaker 2: That's all.
Speaker 1: She said, it's fun to be a reporter. It's fun
Speaker 1: to be a reporter, and so that and that was it.
Speaker 1: And then my agent was like, well, you booked that thing,
Speaker 1: but good news, you don't have to go do it
Speaker 1: because they're just using that. And and then whenever when
Speaker 1: it came out, because it was on one of those
Speaker 1: books that you push the button and right sure, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and it was like, you know, it was like it
Speaker 1: had it was a book, and then the side.
Speaker 2: Had all the little right the responses.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and my button was skipper and you pushed it
Speaker 1: and it was fun to be a reporter. And my
Speaker 1: mom thought, I don't know how many of them because
Speaker 1: that was.
Speaker 2: The very Yeah.
Speaker 3: Do you still have it?
Speaker 1: We do, but the battery is dead. And I don't know,
Speaker 1: like I think it's those small disc ones, but it's
Speaker 1: a different size. I don't know if I can even
Speaker 1: find it.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that was the very first one official paying
Speaker 1: vo games. Ye.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you and I are the only people I know
Speaker 2: that can make that statement. So what we're pretty darn cool, nice,
Speaker 2: you know. And it was mine was for and I
Speaker 2: didn't even have an agent at the time, but I
Speaker 2: heard about this mysterious place on Kowenga Boulevard called the
Speaker 2: Voicecaster Bob Lloyd, God Rest his Soul, and I made
Speaker 2: a demo tape and somebody said, well, you have to
Speaker 2: go see Bob Bloyd. Okay. I went to see Bob
Speaker 2: Bloyd and he said, so, who's your agent, He goes,
Speaker 2: and I told, well, I don't. I don't have an agent.
Speaker 2: Kathy Purdisic was there she goes, okay, well here, shut
Speaker 2: up and read this, which is hard to do, uh,
Speaker 2: because I did them separately. And a couple of days later,
Speaker 2: I get a phone call and they said, well, oh
Speaker 2: you got the job. And it was for Haunted. It
Speaker 2: was a toy haunted house. They were going to use
Speaker 2: it a toy fair, I guess, whatever that is. And
Speaker 2: it was for Mattel's Haunted House. And I was the
Speaker 2: voice the haunted those and I probably sounded something like that.
Speaker 2: I can't remember. But and and like I said, I
Speaker 2: thought I died and went to heaven. They called up
Speaker 2: and they go, well you got the job, and I go, oh,
Speaker 2: that's great. I could go to another real recording studio
Speaker 2: and talk onto a microphone like the big kids.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: And they go nope. But but isn't that funny?
Speaker 1: Because I was disappointed too.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh I had that weird secretive thing.
Speaker 2: And then I mean, yay, but oh but wow, yeah,
Speaker 2: And did you think that? Because I thought, oh, well,
Speaker 2: then I'm going to do this forever. You audition, they
Speaker 2: use the audition, you get a check out the oil.
Speaker 1: That's going to happen every time.
Speaker 2: Right, Okay, has that ever happened to you?
Speaker 1: Since never happened again?
Speaker 2: Maybe no same here, same you anything? Never? How could
Speaker 2: it be.
Speaker 3: My second audition? Oh wow, yeah, that's from the one hundred.
Speaker 3: Oh that's right, Yeah, that's right, it was my second audition.
Speaker 1: Nice.
Speaker 2: See he had to wait, I know, he had to
Speaker 2: suffer like it was a big Oh man, that's that
Speaker 2: is so my second.
Speaker 1: I don't remember how many in it was, but definitely
Speaker 1: not number two.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, and we both broke in without an agent.
Speaker 4: Nice I had an agent.
Speaker 2: And nowadays should we should we save that for the
Speaker 2: end to tell everybody how to get to you?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Okay, or we say it now, let's say it now,
Speaker 2: we'll do it again at the end. We'll give them
Speaker 2: a double whammy. So while you're busy falling in love
Speaker 2: with this amazing woman, you could contact her and give
Speaker 2: her too much money.
Speaker 1: At Arlene Thornton and Associates.
Speaker 2: Please don't hold your applause. Thanks you, thank you for that.
Speaker 2: We're good to go. So so, we're glad.
Speaker 4: To have you.
Speaker 2: And you're from Troy, Michigan, Troy, Michigan, and that's where
Speaker 2: I'm not from. Not far away, not far away in
Speaker 2: Youngstown and it's it's a were you inspired to? Because
Speaker 2: I was inspired to do anything that meant leave Youngstown.
Speaker 2: Love Youngstown, but not couldn't do it. Couldn't do it?
Speaker 1: No, you know, I loved where I grew up. I
Speaker 1: went to the University of Michigan, and funny enough, this
Speaker 1: was not the plan. This was not the original plan.
Speaker 1: The original plan was I was doing a double major
Speaker 1: at University of Michigan in musical theater and psychology. But that,
Speaker 1: you know, wasn't the plan to really I was going
Speaker 1: to meld those together. Then I was going to go
Speaker 1: to grad school and do music therapy.
Speaker 3: What is music therapy?
Speaker 2: No kidding?
Speaker 1: Well, so it's, you know, doing therapy using music. And
Speaker 1: I had worked at a senior center, like an adult
Speaker 1: care facility, and I really, I really enjoyed it. So
Speaker 1: I was going to do music therapy and geriatrics. I figured,
Speaker 1: you know, everybody loves listen to some kind of music,
Speaker 1: no matter what it is. Everybody has something that.
Speaker 5: They listened to, whatever that genre mauld be.
Speaker 1: And I kind of connected with these elderly people with
Speaker 1: I have a very strange had a lot of songs
Speaker 1: in my head.
Speaker 2: You're doing great now, person skills, thank you.
Speaker 1: No, there was an Alzheimer's woman who she kept. She
Speaker 1: was a really great escape artist and I was just
Speaker 1: helping out in the kitchen the dining room.
Speaker 2: She just like a great escape.
Speaker 1: She would like get out of her wing like the
Speaker 1: area where common like, oh there was Beulah again. Off
Speaker 1: she goes run it. And she was fast. She was
Speaker 1: really fast. And so I happened to be in the
Speaker 1: hallway like.
Speaker 5: Whatever was bringing napkins or something to the diner.
Speaker 1: I can't remember what I was doing, but it was
Speaker 1: just me and Beulah, and I knew Bulla wasn't where
Speaker 1: she was supposed to be. So I started singing to her.
Speaker 1: I sang that I'm just conjured up an old timey song.
Speaker 1: I'm like dazy day, give me your rants are true.
Speaker 1: And I just started and she started singing with me,
Speaker 1: and we just started walking back down the hallway where
Speaker 1: she was supposed to go. And I was like, somebody
Speaker 1: come get Beulah.
Speaker 2: I'm not George.
Speaker 1: So that was the plan I was. And I found
Speaker 1: a program at Dayton University in Dane, Ohio, and that
Speaker 1: was the plan. Two majors at University.
Speaker 5: Of Michigan was a lot, and by like, I.
Speaker 1: Was determined to finish. But year four I.
Speaker 5: Was like, I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't do any more school. And I didn't know
Speaker 1: what I was going to do because I didn't want
Speaker 1: to go to New York Chicago.
Speaker 2: That's what everybody did back then. I mean it was
Speaker 2: like yeah.
Speaker 1: And I didn't want to do it. And and Chicago
Speaker 1: at the time was very serious, you know, you had
Speaker 1: to be like a serious actor. And not that I
Speaker 1: wasn't serious about what I was doing, but I was like,
Speaker 1: were are my jazz hands?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 2: I didn't. Yeah, well, it's more of a thing where
Speaker 2: you have to take yourself seriously. Yes, I know what
Speaker 2: you meant by that. I just was like, yeah, acting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all I could just that wasn't me. And I
Speaker 1: was like, I want to be funny and silly, like
Speaker 1: that's where my that's my jam is the funny and
Speaker 1: the silly and the jazz hands. So I always just
Speaker 1: did voices.
Speaker 5: They just kind of came out.
Speaker 1: And at the end of a dance class at Michigan,
Speaker 1: my dancing structor came running.
Speaker 5: Over and she was like, was that you? And I'm like,
Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: They just come out. I didn't. She goes, no, you
Speaker 1: need to do voiceover. That was you know, she was
Speaker 1: blown away and it didn't occur to me that that
Speaker 1: could be a job like it, just like I watched
Speaker 1: the crap out of cartoons. Yeah, yeah, everything I went
Speaker 1: around the house, it had.
Speaker 2: To be somebody else. Yeah, And back in the day,
Speaker 2: it really was only like X amount of people. You know,
Speaker 2: June for a maybe me mel blank, you know, I
Speaker 2: think I think trust would be that the next lady. Gosh,
Speaker 2: when it comes to you know, Grand grand Dams of Vo,
Speaker 2: there's June for a and then you have to kind
Speaker 2: of scratch your head for a while, and then kep
Speaker 2: Tress McNeil, you know, she's yeah, carrying the towards these
Speaker 2: days and now you well, gosh, I.
Speaker 1: Mean happy to be lumped in with those amazing but yeah,
Speaker 1: so you know, so that was it for me. Once
Speaker 1: I heard that, I was like, Okay, well, how do
Speaker 1: I do that?
Speaker 2: I'm in Michigan.
Speaker 1: How does that work?
Speaker 3: How did your family react? Because you have a theatrical family, correct.
Speaker 1: I do? My mom? So, my mom always there was
Speaker 1: always singing. It always stemmed from music, So there was
Speaker 1: always singing in our house. And my sister started doing theaters.
Speaker 1: She's the one that older, younger, younger, almost.
Speaker 5: Five years younger.
Speaker 1: So she started us out and she auditioned.
Speaker 3: That was Katie.
Speaker 1: Yep, Katy beautiful Katy. She yes, So she started. She
Speaker 1: auditioned for local production of Annie, and we sat through
Speaker 1: like two hundred renditions of coming see you know Soun's
Speaker 1: coming out tomorrow, and she got up She literally was
Speaker 1: like number two O six or something. I don't think
Speaker 1: we were there from the very beginning, but it was.
Speaker 2: It was a lot of people are auditioning.
Speaker 1: Friend, amaze anybody. Everybody wanted to be an Annie.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 1: Everybody did. And every kid that every person that had
Speaker 1: a kid that could maybe fit in that angury age
Speaker 1: range showed up to that theater. She got up there
Speaker 1: and like, like I said, there was always music in
Speaker 1: her house. We were always singing. But she got up
Speaker 1: there and we were like, who knew she could sing
Speaker 1: like that? Like that she could just I mean, she
Speaker 1: belted that sucker right out. And she was sort of
Speaker 1: in between ages. She wasn't old enough to be Annie,
Speaker 1: but she wasn't young enough to be I think Mollie
Speaker 1: is the littlest one, so she I think she was
Speaker 1: like an understudy for tests and then she was just
Speaker 1: but she was in every episode, every episode, every performance.
Speaker 2: She was like, you know whatever, Warbucks once yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: at a Thousand Oaks. And my daughter Raleigh, she's an actress,
Speaker 2: and she she was Pepper, the tough little yes, you know,
Speaker 2: a little orphan yeah yeah. And that theaters theater is
Speaker 2: it isn't it? Don't you love it?
Speaker 1: I absolutely love it. I don't get to do it enough.
Speaker 1: I was doing this improv group for a while. The
Speaker 1: empty stage was great because it was period pieces. We
Speaker 1: would just take the radio scripts from the thirties, forties,
Speaker 1: fifties and perform them live and dress in period costume.
Speaker 1: But we'd do it like a radio place, so we'd
Speaker 1: hold our scripts and how you know. He got old
Speaker 1: timey microphones and stuff, and that was fantastic because that
Speaker 1: was my little like and almost everybody up there were improvisers,
Speaker 1: so we kind of go off script a little bit
Speaker 1: and it was just a blast.
Speaker 2: Oh that's good.
Speaker 1: He moved to Portland, so we've done it. He's come
Speaker 1: back a couple of times, but I haven't.
Speaker 5: It's been a few years.
Speaker 2: It was he weird because I understand keep Portland weird as.
Speaker 1: He's pretty good.
Speaker 2: Okay, so we all it made sense? Miss it is? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I have to agree. Yeah, what's that supposed to me anyway?
Speaker 3: I mean, do you ever improvise lines when you're recording.
Speaker 1: For when they let us?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean I don't out there. I guess
Speaker 1: every once in a while. If I know that and
Speaker 1: I know the you know, the vibe in the room,
Speaker 1: I might you know, sometimes you just can't help yourself.
Speaker 5: You just throw zingers out there.
Speaker 1: But you know, I'm a I'm a team player, so
Speaker 1: I stick to the script if I'm supposed to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm a notorious ad liber and
Speaker 2: and I've been known to screw people up because they
Speaker 2: don't know are you done? Are you done? You know,
Speaker 2: they're looking at their watch.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: So yeah, thank god for editing we have. It's hard
Speaker 2: to do that live because the other guys sitting there
Speaker 2: going yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: I have a question about a role that I haven't
Speaker 3: seen you talk about on any other podcasts or anything
Speaker 3: like that. And maybe you have and I just didn't
Speaker 3: see it, But you played the new Kid's mom. In
Speaker 3: the south Park video game, And I wanted to ask
Speaker 3: you because I played that video game. I'll played both
Speaker 3: of them, and I thought that I thought it was
Speaker 3: so much fun because it feels like you're you're actually
Speaker 3: in an episode of south Park.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: They did those gets phenomenally, But the storyline, I mean,
Speaker 3: when you saw that script for anybody who doesn't know,
Speaker 3: like literally you're you're a south Park character, and you're
Speaker 3: a child of a very domestic, abusive household. Correct, the
Speaker 3: parents are always fighting, you know, they're literally cussing out
Speaker 3: each other back and forth anytime you walk in the room.
Speaker 3: And then i'd say, in the climax of the game,
Speaker 3: I'm talking about the Fractured.
Speaker 1: But hoole, it is such a great title.
Speaker 3: The climax of the game, you as a character literally
Speaker 3: have to choose between killing your mom and your dad.
Speaker 3: As these characters. No, no, you're not the kid, but
Speaker 3: you're the character who's begging, you know, kill daddy, killed
Speaker 3: daddy or the other you know, the dad's saying kill mommy,
Speaker 3: kill mommy, and they're both in this like torture chamber.
Speaker 3: And like even for south Park, that's done. You know,
Speaker 3: it's really and who knows if they I don't even know.
Speaker 3: Maybe you know they got away with more because it
Speaker 3: was a video game rather than TV. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I just want to know your thoughts when you saw
Speaker 3: that script and this is what you're going to be happening,
Speaker 3: was your emotions? What's your reaction to that?
Speaker 1: Well, the more uncomfortable part was all of the behind
Speaker 1: closed doors scenes. You know, there was a lot of
Speaker 1: intimacy between the parents. Yeah, and that was you know,
Speaker 1: when you're seeing a booth by yourself and there, you know,
Speaker 1: there's a window and they can see it. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: just don't don't watch, don't look at me, you know,
Speaker 1: like because who knows what your face is doing. But
Speaker 1: there was a lot of that. That was the more
Speaker 1: uncomfortable thing for me. Is that weird? That's I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm good with beg my life. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: let my character live episode relationships. So but yeah, and
Speaker 1: that was when I was like, Okay, definitely, kid cannot
Speaker 1: play this game for sure, no, no, no, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and some of his friends did.
Speaker 3: And did you get a record with Matt and Tree.
Speaker 1: Sort of it's it's they have an interesting method, like
Speaker 1: one or the other is sometimes in there when you start,
Speaker 1: but often and I forget which one does the recording,
Speaker 1: somebody records it. And because he wants that cadence. So
Speaker 1: that's a little bit it's hard to like, like because
Speaker 1: for me having a music background and I have a
Speaker 1: really good ear, and so if they play something for me,
Speaker 1: I want to do that. That's what my brain wants
Speaker 1: to do. But I have to do whatever character that
Speaker 1: I'm doing, so to do his cadence, and this character
Speaker 1: is a little.
Speaker 3: Challenging.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a little mixed up in your head a
Speaker 1: little bit because that makes it go, oh wait, stay
Speaker 1: in this character. Don't don't really do what he did.
Speaker 1: But they're they're pretty particular about the cadence, and.
Speaker 2: Being a singer is helpful, I think, so, I definitely
Speaker 2: think so, I've alway thought that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm always surprised when I meet voice actors that
Speaker 1: don't sing. I'm like, what, yeah, yeah, yeah, because you
Speaker 1: do all these it's a microphone. But also I know
Speaker 1: like a lot of their bodies of work, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: but you can do that, surely you can sing, you know,
Speaker 1: Like it always is confusing to me. Yeah, I just
Speaker 1: assume that all of us can see. Yea, we should
Speaker 1: all do a big number together, right.
Speaker 2: Come on, ye see, everybody knows that what is his name? Quick?
Speaker 3: Ragtime?
Speaker 1: Michigan frog, Michigan frog, j Frog.
Speaker 2: There you go, miss anyway, we're done enough distraction, Jim. Yes,
Speaker 2: but that's great. Yeah. So what is the happiest thing
Speaker 2: that's keeping the smile on your face these days?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 5: My gosh, I you know, I have a really great family.
Speaker 2: So they are well with your last name, I would think,
Speaker 2: you know, yeah.
Speaker 1: My whole family, they're great.
Speaker 5: My god.
Speaker 1: I have a sister and a brother and my parents,
Speaker 1: and then I have this wonderful husband and very good,
Speaker 1: phenomenal kids.
Speaker 5: Who are just good.
Speaker 1: They're good, good kids. They've left me now.
Speaker 2: And oh well that yeah, that's okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah you hear that, Brendan. They're gonna leave too fast,
Speaker 3: get ready.
Speaker 4: Not soon enough?
Speaker 5: You say that.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: I love my kids. I've got a six year old
Speaker 4: and a four year old, and yes, I.
Speaker 1: Remember now it's it's crazy and and there are moments
Speaker 1: where youre like, but they're dreamy. And I have these
Speaker 1: two giant.
Speaker 2: Dogs who too stupid, way.
Speaker 1: Too giant giant enormous.
Speaker 2: Oh you have to giant because it was a cartoon
Speaker 2: called too Stupid Dogs and I thought you were yes.
Speaker 1: No, it was not into stupid Dogs.
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Speaker 3: But you were in Digimon.
Speaker 1: I was og, yes, yes.
Speaker 3: Yes, what a classic. I remember Digital Monsters Digimon. Not
Speaker 3: that champions change in two digits old Champions. Wow, two
Speaker 3: Save the Digit's Old World.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's pretty good.
Speaker 3: That was my show right on after Pokemon job two
Speaker 3: o'clock coming home from school. I had to catch the
Speaker 3: early bus cash some Digimon right after Pokemon.
Speaker 1: So you were both mind? I was both mond both
Speaker 1: mind because they're camp Well.
Speaker 3: I only got an hour of TV to watch a day,
Speaker 3: and so it was like, all right, I may as
Speaker 3: well just go from three thirty to four thirty. Okay,
Speaker 3: So I I was digimon by.
Speaker 2: Default, you get the good stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I was Digimon by default.
Speaker 1: It's okay, it's okay. I know there are very distinct camps.
Speaker 1: So I actually somebody asked me a convention the other day.
Speaker 1: They're like asking me the difference between the two. I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, I was on Digimon. I wasn't on Pokemon,
Speaker 1: so I don't like made up some Yes, I was.
Speaker 1: Well see, here's my thing about Digimon versus Pokemon because
Speaker 1: Digimon they had personalities and they actually talked where's and
Speaker 1: again not an expert on Pokemon because I was not
Speaker 1: on that show, not that I'm an expert on But
Speaker 1: they just say their name, right, isn't that what they do?
Speaker 1: They like the I call liver lips, liver laps, liver lips.
Speaker 1: Like that's all they say, right.
Speaker 3: Characters like Mewth and Metwo, That's all I can think of.
Speaker 1: Okay, Charmander, I conjured went, but doesn't Charmander just say Charmander.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah see, But like I'll goom on and on
Speaker 1: and Liliman and all the other mons. They they have personalities.
Speaker 1: Algamm likes the snacks.
Speaker 2: You know, I used to have those not quite memorized
Speaker 2: but close. I was the announcer for the kids w
Speaker 2: B for ever a long long time ago, and uh.
Speaker 7: Did you mom cochamon something but mon, you know, and
Speaker 7: and on and on and on and so yeah, by
Speaker 7: catching huh, I mean.
Speaker 1: Cursed that if only there were residuals.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I wasn't going to bring that up, but you did, so, okay.
Speaker 3: Because that was technically a dub, right, it.
Speaker 1: Was a dub Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: It follows under a weird little category in the Union.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, the dubbing agreement. And they're finally kind of
Speaker 1: paying more attention to that in the Union. You know,
Speaker 1: we finally got to.
Speaker 4: The view the differences between that. So why are you
Speaker 4: looking residuals?
Speaker 1: Why? That's why? I know I can tell you why.
Speaker 1: But so dubbing, it's it's already finished. And most of
Speaker 1: the dubbing that I have done has been Japanese animation,
Speaker 1: so anime that's most of it. I've done some other
Speaker 1: languages and like some live action dubbing and stuff, but
Speaker 1: there's a dubbing agreement in the Union, and so basically
Speaker 1: the thing is already done and you're putting English on
Speaker 1: top of whatever language that is. And when it's animation
Speaker 1: and anime, they call it flaps and you have to
Speaker 1: fit your line in and it's very it's very technical,
Speaker 1: like you have to wait for the beeps in your
Speaker 1: headphones as opposed to original animation, where you just go
Speaker 1: for it and they animate to what you did, which
Speaker 1: I find much more freeing and more satisfying. And yeah,
Speaker 1: and then when you get to work with your fellow actors,
Speaker 1: that's magical.
Speaker 3: Much much going to do that much anymore, Not much anymore.
Speaker 1: But I just had one the other day and it
Speaker 1: really was like it was so great. It was so
Speaker 1: funny because so the three of us were starting out.
Speaker 1: We just did the first scene together and one of
Speaker 1: the other guys was like, there's like an echo, like,
Speaker 1: can you there's something happening in the headphones. I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I'm so glad you said something, because
Speaker 1: I was like, wow, I just been a while since
Speaker 1: I've done a group record. Maybe it's just me, maybe
Speaker 1: I'm just not used it, but there was definitely.
Speaker 2: Like a can you say what it was?
Speaker 1: The something was coming back at us like there was
Speaker 1: a little delay. Oh I can't.
Speaker 4: I knew, we know what it was.
Speaker 1: You think you do?
Speaker 4: Was that sonic full?
Speaker 5: No, it was.
Speaker 1: I don't think they haven't they have the script yet.
Speaker 4: Okay, good No.
Speaker 1: And I don't get to do that together. I do
Speaker 1: that all by myself.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I thought it's cool if you going to
Speaker 4: get back in the shootia have a sonic full, that
Speaker 4: would be really whether it change probably of the energy
Speaker 4: or not. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They probably won't get to me till next year some
Speaker 1: time because they do all the live action stuff first.
Speaker 3: Wow makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well when it comes dubbing one of my favorite
Speaker 2: I'll be brief on this, but we did Kingdom Hearts.
Speaker 2: It was all it was done. It was done in
Speaker 2: Japan first. And I have a couple characters, Poo and Tigger,
Speaker 2: but Pete is the main guy because he's Maleficent. You know,
Speaker 2: Pete the big cat there, you know, the bad guy,
Speaker 2: and and I was Pete. And and we had to
Speaker 2: spend hours and hours, days and days translating from taking
Speaker 2: it from the Japanese to the and then we would
Speaker 2: watch watched the scene in the original Japanese, and then
Speaker 2: it was our challenge to fill that lip flap with
Speaker 2: something that made similar sense kind of, but in English,
Speaker 2: and and and and you would get the interpretation. And
Speaker 2: I remember Pete walking down the go, you know, and
Speaker 2: then the English translation is no way, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa?
Speaker 2: Can I embellish a little bit? Can I add a
Speaker 2: few salables?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 2: So it's not the easiest thing in the world.
Speaker 1: It's not. And often there's rewriting on the spot because whoever,
Speaker 1: because it better whatever I got. The translation is just
Speaker 1: you know that I don't know how they work and
Speaker 1: write the script for English, but it doesn't always fit.
Speaker 1: It's either sometimes it's written too long. Sometimes it's written
Speaker 1: way too short. And so I mean often you're just
Speaker 1: adding in really or very or like anything else and
Speaker 1: then try to get the internal flap thing. Oh their
Speaker 1: mouth closed. We got to get a word with an
Speaker 1: M that means the same thing as what you're trying
Speaker 1: to say, and.
Speaker 2: It's just no problem there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got it, okay, yeah. Well, and the worst
Speaker 1: is when they're like, just slow it down so then
Speaker 1: you don't sound like you're who talks that slow sometimes
Speaker 1: and I'm a fast talker, tend to be anyway, So
Speaker 1: like if I have a slower talking character. Aft Really okay,
Speaker 1: I do I have to like kind of center myself
Speaker 1: and read. Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, it's tricky, it's very it's not an exact science,
Speaker 2: it's not except what it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes it's perfectly and you're like, hey, that was easy.
Speaker 2: Yeah I was good. I could read those words. Speaking
Speaker 2: of reading those words, you and I we had a
Speaker 2: chance to work together, but what not a chance? But
Speaker 2: we were in the same show, but we weren't in
Speaker 2: the same episode of the same show. And it rhymes
Speaker 2: with Doc mcstuffen's is Doc stuff Yes, you're good.
Speaker 1: Oh that was my white whale for what I had
Speaker 1: so many auditions for that. I'm like, oh, I just
Speaker 1: want to get on Doc mc steffans. And then I
Speaker 1: got to play Pickles, who was just adorable. Loved Pickles.
Speaker 2: Who is Pickles because.
Speaker 1: Pickles is funny. We haven't and she lost her notes.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you sound just like her.
Speaker 1: Love me anymore? Oh my god, And she's saying this
Speaker 1: she got to sing. I mean, I was like dreams
Speaker 1: coming through all over the place. Yeah, she's this little
Speaker 1: song and oh that's so cool about her, you know,
Speaker 1: her nose being and so they so Doc mc stuffans
Speaker 1: came in and gave her a button nose.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well that makes sense, Doc mcstuffans. She gives
Speaker 2: you she's really something. Yeah it I don't remember the
Speaker 2: plot line. I should have written it down here, but
Speaker 2: Doc mcstuffan's helped out. Pooh. So yeah, we visited visited
Speaker 2: the stuff land wherever. I have no idea where that was.
Speaker 2: But she wasn't a real doctor. What yeah? What easy?
Speaker 2: Easy spoiler alert, But we struggled through. Yeah, so what
Speaker 2: can I say? How are you doing down there? Brandon?
Speaker 4: I'm doing great. I'm just surprised with whit This long
Speaker 4: before we actually brought up Sonic and tiles. Feels like
Speaker 4: in the world right now, you.
Speaker 2: Know, we're we've we've we've gotten so many things here.
Speaker 2: So wait a minute, did you say sonic?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's feeling no one's really heard coming. Mayde me
Speaker 4: delve into a little bit.
Speaker 7: Hold on?
Speaker 2: Are you? In other words? Yes, yeah, well here I
Speaker 2: played the bad guy, and I was the guy. I
Speaker 2: was not Jim Carrey. What yeah, he was too busy
Speaker 2: being rich and famous and I just was like his.
Speaker 3: Yes, so were you guys?
Speaker 2: Ever in the same iteration, well, see my guy he
Speaker 2: was the guy from Canada was Eggman, and then I
Speaker 2: was Sonic. I was a robotnic sorry robotic, doctor doctor Robotic,
Speaker 2: but not doctor Egman. And I don't tell them that
Speaker 2: the conventions. When they want me to sign an egg Man,
Speaker 2: I go, yeah, Okay, I'm not stupid. I take the money.
Speaker 3: We've talked about this so many times, and I still
Speaker 3: don't understand the difference. I don't I don't know what
Speaker 3: the difference in the characters.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think so either.
Speaker 3: Well tell me you too, tell me tell me in
Speaker 3: the comments. I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 8: So my experience with this is that it's always been
Speaker 8: doctor Robotic and Eggman is the nickname or the you know,
Speaker 8: the the mean whatever the name that yeah, that SONA
Speaker 8: calls him because.
Speaker 4: He's because he's shaped like an egg.
Speaker 1: Does he shape like an egg?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Am?
Speaker 5: I wrong?
Speaker 1: Isn't that what it is?
Speaker 4: He is Doc and he just gets referred to occasionally
Speaker 4: because that's what he looks like.
Speaker 1: Okay, did I miss it? Like he's he's not two
Speaker 1: different people. Now, in the third movie, there's Gerald, he's
Speaker 1: also a robotic.
Speaker 5: But there's Gerald, and then there's Oh, that's right. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And Jim Carrey's got that big bushy, the.
Speaker 1: Big mustache, yes, yes, and he gets the belly.
Speaker 3: It's cool that they used you in the movies because
Speaker 3: that doesn't usually happen with voice actors.
Speaker 5: Super cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a reprise Tales. Yeah, that must have been exciting,
Speaker 3: so exciting.
Speaker 1: I still am like, did that really happen? That's great,
Speaker 1: It's really It's been so much fun. I mean I've
Speaker 1: been this is my eleventh year of voicing Tales, which
Speaker 1: is no kidding crazy Yeah. Great, yeah, so yeah, it's
Speaker 1: been pretty pretty phenomenal.
Speaker 3: And when you took over the role was there did
Speaker 3: they want you to like match the voice or it
Speaker 3: was like, here's your interpretation, go for it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was.
Speaker 1: I so I auditioned. It was so Sonic Boom was
Speaker 1: a series and I was auditioning for Sonic Boom and
Speaker 1: I auditioned for like two different characters. I think. Oh
Speaker 1: I got called back for two different characters. I got
Speaker 1: called back for Sticks and Tales and who sticks Sticks
Speaker 1: Sticks is a badger Nika. Yeah, very funny. So uh, anyway,
Speaker 1: I met the callback and who should be in the
Speaker 1: lobby But Kate Higgins, who at the time was the
Speaker 1: current voice of Tails. And I didn't know this. I
Speaker 1: didn't know that, but I've known Kate, so what do
Speaker 1: you do well? But I've known Kate for a really
Speaker 1: long time. And so we were just talking about our
Speaker 1: kids and you know, sitting in the lobby like you do,
Speaker 1: waiting for your turn. And I don't even remember how
Speaker 1: it came up, but she told me that she was Tails.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm called back for Tales. I don't want to.
Speaker 1: I don't want to step on your toes. Like I
Speaker 1: don't know, well, you know, and you never know why
Speaker 1: what the deal was, like, what was she like, Oh, no,
Speaker 1: they don't want me. It's okay, you you do it.
Speaker 1: Because she like she had been in the video games.
Speaker 1: I don't know how long she was Tales, but that
Speaker 1: she was Tails in the video games at that moment
Speaker 1: in time, and she already knew that they didn't want
Speaker 1: her to continue to be Tails, and she was good
Speaker 1: with it. So it kind of felt it was sort
Speaker 1: of very passing the torch, you know, because literally we
Speaker 1: were in the callback, sitting on a couch talking to
Speaker 1: each other, and she was like, no, no, go ahead,
Speaker 1: it's all good, all good, We're good, so, you know.
Speaker 1: And then and then I booked it and I didn't
Speaker 1: know that the games were going to come along with it.
Speaker 1: I thought it was just the series. And I really
Speaker 1: didn't do any like I didn't listen to what she
Speaker 1: had done before. I didn't go back and like research
Speaker 1: all the previous tales.
Speaker 3: You screwed you up.
Speaker 1: If they had wanted a voice match, then I would
Speaker 1: have done that. If they had said we want this,
Speaker 1: then that's what I would have I would have done
Speaker 1: more research. But they never they didn't say that.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm just referring to like how you said earlier,
Speaker 3: you know, with like the south Park thing where it
Speaker 3: was difficult for you to like say in the cadence
Speaker 3: but your own voice. So I was wondering if that
Speaker 3: was like a similar thing where you intentionally didn't listen
Speaker 3: to that so that it didn't it.
Speaker 1: Just didn't play. A fact occurred to me because it
Speaker 1: was a show and it was a different thing. It
Speaker 1: was like it was in my mind it was new,
Speaker 1: even though it son it was you know, it was
Speaker 1: a new project.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think that's the best.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I did. And you know, and they
Speaker 1: gave you the description, and they gave you I'm always
Speaker 1: I always love a picture I don't remember, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure i'd seen it, but I'm very visual, like I
Speaker 1: want to see, oh God, rather have that than I mean,
Speaker 1: give me an age range in a picture.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I agree, I agree because it informs you. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, you know, you know, if the guy weighs
Speaker 2: five hundred pounds, he's.
Speaker 1: Not gonna sound like this exactly, you.
Speaker 2: Know, so, or if he does, it'll be to contrast.
Speaker 1: Right, And a couple of you know, characteristics are great too,
Speaker 1: but you know when they get so specific and like
Speaker 1: my favorite is when they're like they're this tall and
Speaker 1: they've got blue eyes, and I'm like, well, that's going
Speaker 1: to change how they sound.
Speaker 2: Yeah that, now, why didn't you say so?
Speaker 1: Okay? My favorite is when they say they have there's
Speaker 1: a very distinctive laugh, and then the script is all
Speaker 1: very serious, like, how am I supposed to sneak in
Speaker 1: this very distinctive laugh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, nothing to laugh at? Yeah, maybe maybe a joke
Speaker 2: would help.
Speaker 1: Right, something funny, but yeah, so, and I didn't know
Speaker 1: the video games were going to come along with the show,
Speaker 1: and we actually recorded.
Speaker 5: A game first before we started, no kidding the series.
Speaker 2: Well, they must have been confident, because if you do
Speaker 2: the game before the show's out, you know, somebody's got
Speaker 2: some some insight or some nerve, or the show comes
Speaker 2: out and flops, that game's not probably not going very far. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't, unless I guess they have their own legs. Huh, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I would think.
Speaker 1: I think there definitely are you know, the Sonic fans
Speaker 1: that are just gamers, you know, but you know, I
Speaker 1: feel like now the movies have sort of like there's
Speaker 1: this whole new generation oh yeah, Sonic fans, and I
Speaker 1: really feel like they did such a great job with
Speaker 1: the movies. There's something for everyone, you know, like it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's not one of those movies whereas as
Speaker 1: the mom or dad taking the kids to the or
Speaker 1: aunt or uncle or whoever taking the kids and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I have to sit through this kid's movie. There's a
Speaker 1: lot for everybody.
Speaker 2: Those are the best. Those are the best.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the jokes that are, you know, more adult
Speaker 1: humor that the kids won't necessarily get, it's still funny.
Speaker 2: Because yeah, yeah, double.
Speaker 3: Remember being so excited that Jim Carrey was like coming back.
Speaker 3: It was like, oh my god, Jim Carrey's back in
Speaker 3: like a major role. Yeah, exciting. We had Lee Madge
Speaker 3: dub on here yeah here a couple of months ago,
Speaker 3: and it was cool to hear some stories about that,
Speaker 3: about that set and Jim Carrey and everything. It sounds
Speaker 3: sounds like everybody really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's so sweet, lovely, he's so great.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I didn't get to be part of.
Speaker 5: You know, obviously the set right right, I wasn't on set.
Speaker 1: We were we did everything after they did all the
Speaker 1: live action first, and then I did get to it
Speaker 1: on the second movie. I did get to work with
Speaker 1: Ben Benchwartz twice, which was nice. Yeah, I mean were
Speaker 1: it was still very covidy. So I was. I was
Speaker 1: in my closet in Burbank, and he was somewhere in Vancouver,
Speaker 1: and the director was, I think in Hawaii. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Everyone was, oh my yeah, that was a phone patch.
Speaker 3: It was crazy, but those were just the zoom backgrounds. Right.
Speaker 3: You guys were really all at home.
Speaker 1: I think I was the only well, two of the
Speaker 1: editor guys were at home, Like one guy was in
Speaker 1: his garage and another guy was like in his living room,
Speaker 1: but like everyone you could hear cats and dogs, the gardeners. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was some crazy times.
Speaker 2: That's that's crazy.
Speaker 3: Anything else on the topic of Sonic before we move on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, do you think there's a difference between the
Speaker 4: tales that you betray in the games compared to the movies?
Speaker 5: Is there a difference? Is that what you said? Ye?
Speaker 1: For me, tales is the same. Like my approach to
Speaker 1: Tales is this is who Tails is. What's different is
Speaker 1: the circumstances that he finds himself in. You know, like
Speaker 1: like Sonic Boom, it's a very silly show. It's broad,
Speaker 1: it's goofy, it's hilarious. So and Sonic and Tales already
Speaker 1: have an established relationship, whereas like the first movie, he's
Speaker 1: just showing up and the stakes are much higher, and
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's more serious. He's he's not as confident.
Speaker 1: He gains his confidence, he's you know, the second movie,
Speaker 1: he's trying, he's starting to become part of the team,
Speaker 1: and then the third movie he's like, Okay, I got this.
Speaker 1: I'm like the guy telling you which way to go
Speaker 1: and how to get through the laser grid or whatever. So, like,
Speaker 1: his progression is very different in the movies than say
Speaker 1: the show. So you know, we have these wonderful writers
Speaker 1: and directors, and if I'm doing my job, I'm listening
Speaker 1: and paying attention to all of those things.
Speaker 4: Yea.
Speaker 1: So, like I said, the way I approach Tales is
Speaker 1: the same because to me, he.
Speaker 5: Is who he is. It's just where he is in
Speaker 5: time and space.
Speaker 3: And I want to pass that same question onto you, Jim.
Speaker 3: Do you had to have a different approach for say,
Speaker 3: Pooh in live action versus animation?
Speaker 2: Oh? Well, yeah, that's for sure. Yeah, Christopher Robin was
Speaker 2: very different because you know, up until that point, Pooh
Speaker 2: was good for you know, little phrases and little quirky
Speaker 2: sayings and little observations, and he's very reactive. And then
Speaker 2: when we did Christopher Robin, that was a whole other thing. Uh,
Speaker 2: you know it was people say it was the live
Speaker 2: action one. I go, well, I wasn't really live, but
Speaker 2: I know what you're saying. It makes you was live.
Speaker 3: It makes more sense for to call that live action
Speaker 3: though than like when they were calling like the Lion
Speaker 3: King live action. It's like, okay, there's not a single actor.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Animation, yes, they were just as much animated as the
Speaker 2: first one, you know, so just with a different method. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but that I that, you know, Christopher Robins my favorite
Speaker 2: movie that I was ever stood next to. And it
Speaker 2: doesn't it has nothing to do with me being in it.
Speaker 2: I just thought, you know, I ended up I was
Speaker 2: five years old. We started in on that movie. You'd
Speaker 2: think I'd be immune to it, but I'm not. You know,
Speaker 2: It's like it just it just was so heartfelt and
Speaker 2: it was so done so well, and uh, I mean,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, you know, directors, the writers, it was
Speaker 2: just it was just so beautifully done. And I'm glad
Speaker 2: that that everybody gets a kick out of it. It
Speaker 2: was just so charming and and and I think that
Speaker 2: the big difference that people picked up on. There's sentimentality,
Speaker 2: and there's this and that heartfelt this and that. But
Speaker 2: if it gets corny, you know, then it's kind of like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: we get it. Yeah, you're cute, okay, yeah, wo yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: you like your mom whatever, fine line. Yeah, but this
Speaker 2: was so darned heartfelt, and you know, and I ended
Speaker 2: up worrying about Pooh and it's not like I didn't
Speaker 2: know what was going to happen. Yeah, you know, I knew,
Speaker 2: I knew where we were going with this. But anyway,
Speaker 2: I'm just very good. I don't want to get off
Speaker 2: on a tangent on that, but I was so glad
Speaker 2: that it was so well received, you know, And it's gratifying,
Speaker 2: isn't it. You know, when you know that people you're
Speaker 2: doing something. Because I've said it before, we're ninety percent
Speaker 2: of the time you're in a room alone and you're
Speaker 2: hoping the other person, you know, picks up on what
Speaker 2: you're doing. You trip, you know, and because it's not
Speaker 2: like they're playing their recordings to you when you're doing anything,
Speaker 2: you're still flying solo and you rely on your director.
Speaker 2: And so yeah, it's not an exact science, it's really
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Speaker 1: It was funny. We did an interview and James Marsden
Speaker 1: was there and they were talking about the difference between
Speaker 1: you know, having an actual actor and then you know,
Speaker 1: he's having conversations with Sonic who's not actually there and
Speaker 1: none of us are on set with them, so I
Speaker 1: think they have readers and things on that, but there's
Speaker 1: you know, Ben's not there, I'm not there, and a
Speaker 1: lot of the first and second movie they just had
Speaker 1: like a stick with the tennis ball and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't even have a tennis ball. I'm gonna get one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try the tennis ball technique.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And did you ever hear that? That reminds me?
Speaker 2: And it was for Christopher Robbin And they really get
Speaker 2: the feeling that you and McGregor and Haley they were
Speaker 2: all really good actors and actresses because you know, you're
Speaker 2: Youent's sitting there and he's very sad and very pensive
Speaker 2: and something happened in here, oh bother, would you pass
Speaker 2: a smack roll of honey over here to me? I
Speaker 2: am hungry? And then then then he's having to act
Speaker 2: like to react to that. Yeah, And so you know
Speaker 2: Mark Forrester. They said, you know what, let's just have
Speaker 2: Jim record all the lines that we'll play it. We'll
Speaker 2: just play it for him on set. So they just
Speaker 2: they played it live like from you know, we're order
Speaker 2: what have you? And then they kind of spackled it
Speaker 2: together with moving magic, so you know, fun facts to
Speaker 2: know and tell, right, Yeah, a little tricks of the trade.
Speaker 1: They do us last, So we didn't have that, But
Speaker 1: I think they're I think the readers maybe have gotten better.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Well that's good, I hope so they haven't.
Speaker 1: They haven't. I think in this last movie they had
Speaker 1: puppeteers and stuff too. Really, Yeah, yeah, that's cool, which is.
Speaker 2: Kind of cool. Yeah, that is cool.
Speaker 1: That's step above tennis ball.
Speaker 3: Sure.
Speaker 4: History with the titles character before auditioning for it, much
Speaker 4: like Jim, you we need to poo when he was younger,
Speaker 4: did you play the games at all? Or were you
Speaker 4: just going in fresh when you first auditioned for titles?
Speaker 1: So I had so when I was going in for tales,
Speaker 1: I had been charming to be in the games. But
Speaker 1: as far as like having like played sonic games in
Speaker 1: my youth, you know, I was in school when the
Speaker 1: Sonic games came out in the nineties and I was
Speaker 1: doing jazz hands, I was dancing and singing and and
Speaker 1: doing school, and so I wasn't there was no time
Speaker 1: for Yes, I'm all the nerds, but I was never
Speaker 1: good at video games. That was my brother's thing. He
Speaker 1: was really good at video games. I mean my speed
Speaker 1: was you know, Frogger and pac Man, and I just
Speaker 1: I just think, think, think, think, yeah, I just I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you video games now, because I tried before
Speaker 1: the I think before the press for the second movie,
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, I probably would play some
Speaker 1: of these games. So I and they had given me
Speaker 1: a long time ago. They gave me this little Genesis
Speaker 1: and it had a yes say, it had the cartridge
Speaker 1: with all of the games, like all of them, and
Speaker 1: so we started with Sonic two because that's where Tales
Speaker 1: comes in. I was so bad at it. There's so
Speaker 1: many buttons. No, there's more than four, and there's things
Speaker 1: on the top and oh that things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and a lot of them.
Speaker 1: Do the same thing. I'm like, well, what does this
Speaker 1: button do same thing as that other button?
Speaker 6: There are.
Speaker 1: Too many button fair yeah, so yeah, but so now
Speaker 1: so sadly no, And I know that's like it's like
Speaker 1: soul crushing. So many people that like come up to
Speaker 1: our tables and stuff and I'm like, yes, sorry, I
Speaker 1: don't play the games.
Speaker 2: Yeah I know, yeah, but.
Speaker 5: I'm terrible at them.
Speaker 1: I'm a board game person.
Speaker 5: Like my family always played board games.
Speaker 2: So apparently I.
Speaker 4: Was just realized there's no video game based on the
Speaker 4: current movies, which I find fascinating. You think that would
Speaker 4: be something you'd cash in on, right.
Speaker 1: That is interesting own it. Still, there are definitely partners.
Speaker 1: I don't know how that all non co works, but
Speaker 1: I know they have, you know, input into things because
Speaker 1: those are it's their characters.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, they skin into the game.
Speaker 3: Well, speaking of video games, I'm excited to talk about
Speaker 3: this because I don't know if you've talked about this
Speaker 3: yet on a podcasts or an interviewer or anything. But
Speaker 3: Marvel Rivals came out not too long ago.
Speaker 2: Yes, and we've.
Speaker 3: Had we've had a bunch of the voice actors from
Speaker 3: the game on the show. But before the game came out,
Speaker 3: you know, Steve Bloom and Fred Tatis, Shore, James Arnold
Speaker 3: Taylor and you play Mantis in that game.
Speaker 1: I play Mantis and who knew people were gonna love It's.
Speaker 3: Mantis's biggest video game out right now.
Speaker 1: But they but they love her, Like I was like,
Speaker 1: that's really fun, and I love Marvel. I'm a huge,
Speaker 1: huge Marvel. I got to be Wasp a long time ago,
Speaker 1: which was like, yeah, it's Madest Heroes, which.
Speaker 3: Was hold on, this is in the notes. You were
Speaker 3: Wasp in the same show. Jim was also in that series?
Speaker 3: Was it Marvel Heroes? Marvel Heroes and Jim was Kingpin?
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, not a hero. I was a bad guy.
Speaker 1: Okay. But Mantis, while she's a great character, I did
Speaker 1: not expect. You know, she's more of a sub character.
Speaker 1: You know, she's not like the main evil Avenger people.
Speaker 1: She's you know, she's second tier, second string whatever.
Speaker 2: But she has antenna.
Speaker 1: People love her. I've only been to a handful of
Speaker 1: conventions since the game came out, but oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: people love Mantis.
Speaker 2: Well that's cool. We are and how does she sound?
Speaker 1: We are undefeitable that my anger is healthy.
Speaker 3: I've been playing way too much of that game. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's like, yeah, it's just right there in my mind. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I always get pissed off when I hear we are undefeatable.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, that's somebody. My handler the last handler was like,
Speaker 1: I'm really mad at you.
Speaker 5: I'm like, what I do.
Speaker 1: It's like Mantis is always getting in my mom. Well,
Speaker 1: maybe you have her on your team. Can't you pick
Speaker 1: her to be yours? Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're undefeatable on your team. Yeah, yeah, that's pretty
Speaker 2: easy equation.
Speaker 1: I feel like that just makes sense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what a fun game though, great sound.
Speaker 2: Is a boy act. I love that.
Speaker 3: That's incredible. Yeah, it's a lot of fun, a lot
Speaker 3: of fun, and it's it's funny because they've really chosen
Speaker 3: to like really lean into the sexuality of it, you know,
Speaker 3: the costumes and the models and everything. Everybody's like a
Speaker 3: supermodel or like mister Incredible, you know, freaking Arnold Schwarzenegger
Speaker 3: in it. And it's kind of like I kind of
Speaker 3: like it because it almost feels like the roots of
Speaker 3: like comic books, you know, like they were all studs,
Speaker 3: you know, like they didn't have you know, unattractive characters
Speaker 3: when they first came out. It was like that was
Speaker 3: the appeal, you know, Yeah, I thought that was good.
Speaker 3: And mansis even has a line where you know, she
Speaker 3: gets revived and it's like I built myself a new body.
Speaker 3: Do you like it?
Speaker 1: I don't recall saying that, but I.
Speaker 3: Promise you do. I promise you I'll put my life
Speaker 3: on it.
Speaker 1: I feel like we started recording that game so long
Speaker 1: ago because I remember a more recent session where we
Speaker 1: had like some pickups and stuff. But where we originally
Speaker 1: recorded was there's this little recording studio in is it
Speaker 1: a little feelas I don't even know. It's like I'm
Speaker 1: Franklin and I forget what that is. It's next to
Speaker 1: it's not someone's house, but it's it's next to a
Speaker 1: Baskin Robbins, because that's where.
Speaker 9: Imark, Yeah, I did a I was doing a string
Speaker 9: of commercials and that was the studio we always did it,
Speaker 9: and then that's where I did my first Mantis sessions.
Speaker 1: But I feel like it was so long ago because
Speaker 1: I haven't been I I don't know, like part of
Speaker 1: me and I know time is like weird now, but
Speaker 1: I feel like it was even before COVID. I feel
Speaker 1: like it was.
Speaker 5: So long ago.
Speaker 1: But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it was just after I
Speaker 1: don't know. But then we had a more recent one
Speaker 1: that wasn't It was a studio in somebody's house, like
Speaker 1: way out in Resida.
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm, so you guys are still recording your stuff
Speaker 3: for it.
Speaker 1: It was it was right like, I don't know how
Speaker 1: many months before the game came out, so I think
Speaker 1: it was just a couple of little pickups fixes or
Speaker 1: AD two's or whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Jim, what's the longest you've worked on a project
Speaker 4: before it's released? Can you recall, Jim.
Speaker 2: The longest before it was released.
Speaker 4: So that the same novel Heroes has being worked on
Speaker 4: for years before it's released. Have have you ever worked
Speaker 4: on a project that's taken that long before it's actually released.
Speaker 2: Probably any given animated movie, because they you know, if
Speaker 2: it's animated, animated like Christopher Robin wasn't like that, but
Speaker 2: but yeah, yeah, any movie that's animated because they can't.
Speaker 2: You'd think they would get a running start on it,
Speaker 2: but they can't do anything until they hear the voice.
Speaker 2: You know, it informs everything from there and rightly, soul,
Speaker 2: could you verify that for me, my dear.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, yes, we give them something to do here, animate
Speaker 6: that damn it, and then they do they do and
Speaker 6: then and then ka ching.
Speaker 2: No, oh, well that's so cool. So do we cover
Speaker 2: Danny Phantom Jazz Fenton. Yes, that's good, so much fun.
Speaker 2: But one of my favorite things is if you give
Speaker 2: a mouse of cookie, because I used to. I used
Speaker 2: to read that to my kids.
Speaker 1: I did too, I read all of them. My favorite
Speaker 1: was given musa muffin of the series.
Speaker 2: Oh you know, it was great.
Speaker 1: I got to meet the author and that was so
Speaker 1: And unfortunately that one that was it was pre COVID,
Speaker 1: but for whatever reason, they recorded everybody separately. I think
Speaker 1: they did that for docmok stuff.
Speaker 5: It's too and I was always like.
Speaker 1: But but why why can't we do it all to canther?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I agree, Yeah, I love that. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: like it so much more when we can record so
Speaker 2: much more. Yeah, and now we can, and we don't.
Speaker 1: I know that.
Speaker 2: I really don't get it, because you get.
Speaker 1: Gets such a missed opportunity and I think I've yet
Speaker 1: to meet another voice actor that doesn't prefer it that way.
Speaker 1: So if we can make our schedules work, let's do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Danny Phantom was was that the I think it
Speaker 1: was the second show that I got to do group
Speaker 1: record on My very first one was Kids from Room
Speaker 1: four oh two.
Speaker 2: That was the very first kids from what.
Speaker 1: The Kids from Room four oh two? That was that
Speaker 1: was my very first series. But then that was a
Speaker 1: group record. But Danny Phantom, well, I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was my second I don't know, timeline, but my
Speaker 1: first one at Nickelodeon, and that was just what a.
Speaker 5: Great place to so much fun.
Speaker 2: That's a cool place.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was before there the redesign. They still have
Speaker 1: the basketball court.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, just everything about it.
Speaker 1: It's just bright. And when it was orange yes, yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: and still had.
Speaker 3: The drippy Yeah.
Speaker 1: Nickelodeon, the group Yeah, that was really.
Speaker 3: Iconic, iconic. It's sad what it looks like now.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's still fun, it's just not the same.
Speaker 3: It's just like all corporated on the outside.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I mean there's some of the characters out there.
Speaker 1: I guess, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm talking.
Speaker 2: I love that show. Would agree show. Do not ask
Speaker 2: me how we went? Partty okay, because well how did
Speaker 2: you guys go? I don't know. I'm not gonna stop.
Speaker 2: I know what you're gonna say, and don't you know.
Speaker 2: And actually I think I've said this before. One of
Speaker 2: my favorite scenes they wrote in they were at the
Speaker 2: playground and cat Dog go into the men's room and
Speaker 2: and you know, like ten seconds goes by and then
Speaker 2: these two guys come walking out and they go So
Speaker 2: that's how they do it, you know, And it's like, then,
Speaker 2: then your imagination is worse than anything they could have animated.
Speaker 3: The human centipede.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, never Okay.
Speaker 3: Oh, somebody's getting the bad end.
Speaker 2: So are you? Are we going to see you at
Speaker 2: any upcoming events that I feel like we're getting that
Speaker 2: point where there's something to brag about.
Speaker 3: We got to tell them, right, Yeah, upcoming upcoming conventions.
Speaker 3: I know you guys are doing nostalgic on at the
Speaker 3: end of April, both of you. April twenty fifth, twenty
Speaker 3: seventh in Denver.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty nostalgic already just thinking about it too.
Speaker 1: All those were the days.
Speaker 2: I'm waxing nostalgic.
Speaker 5: I have San Diego.
Speaker 1: San Diego Rocket Con is this week.
Speaker 3: Rocket Con and by the time you guys see it'll
Speaker 3: be over.
Speaker 1: So right, this is true.
Speaker 2: Sorry and enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: Hope you didn't, were you there. Yeah, so nostalgic on
Speaker 1: I don't even I cannot get a handle on my
Speaker 1: schedule this year. I don't know what it is like.
Speaker 1: Last year was like exactly where it was going to be.
Speaker 1: But mine have all come in this like weird sprinkle
Speaker 1: in like random parts of the year. So my year
Speaker 1: is pretty much it's weird sprinkle.
Speaker 2: That sounds like a disease. Weird sprinkle sprinkle.
Speaker 1: Yes, but I'm all over the place. So just if
Speaker 1: you follow my social media.
Speaker 3: You will find me because and your social media.
Speaker 1: Yes, let's let's tell I am at Colleen O'Shaughnessy on
Speaker 1: the Instagram at vo Colleen is the Twitter ex winter
Speaker 1: whatever we call it. I don't go on that one
Speaker 1: as much. But if I have a thing coming I
Speaker 1: I'll post about it. But I don't. I'm not on
Speaker 1: that one as much. I do have TikTok, but I again,
Speaker 1: I don't post very much because I don't like to
Speaker 1: do videos. I'll do it, but I don't.
Speaker 2: I'm not real.
Speaker 1: So Instagram is really is your best bet?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I've heard of that one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I should we play I have a voice swapped
Speaker 4: Chris before.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, we actually have some voice swap here.
Speaker 2: Are you familiar with this bold new concept.
Speaker 1: I think I've seen some clips like you'll do one
Speaker 1: of my characters things as your characters po.
Speaker 3: Have one line and then just swap the voice for it.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: Actually this one's a littlefferent. We're a trying something a
Speaker 3: little different, crazy crazy. So we're gonna have doctor Robotnik,
Speaker 3: Jim and Tails together, okay, and you're both Actually this
Speaker 3: is the same.
Speaker 2: What I mean to say was I've changed a lot.
Speaker 3: Since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend
Speaker 3: on him forever.
Speaker 2: Oh, I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic,
Speaker 2: but I can't depend on him forever.
Speaker 4: Is that a Tiles lot or or a Robotnic line?
Speaker 3: It's a Tails line, but I'm not saying it. You'll
Speaker 3: both say it, Oh.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So okay I have to say first,
Speaker 1: and then he says, yeah.
Speaker 3: Let's do that.
Speaker 2: Okay. And who should I be though, you'll be Robotic,
Speaker 2: I'll be Robotnic. Okay, all right.
Speaker 1: So when we're doing what is it? Because you know
Speaker 1: we read our lives? Yeah, God, it's no memorizing. I've
Speaker 1: changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but
Speaker 1: I can't depend on him forever. Okay, hmm, I've changed
Speaker 1: a lot since I started hanging with so, but I
Speaker 1: can't depend on him forever.
Speaker 2: I've changed a lot since I've been hanging here with Sonic,
Speaker 2: but I can't depend on him forever. And I mean
Speaker 2: that or even a little while. Actually, never mind, Okay,
Speaker 2: I completely ruined that.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: Let's see who should Who should I throw at you?
Speaker 2: How about?
Speaker 3: What's the next suggestion?
Speaker 6: On?
Speaker 1: The next one is Sora from digimon Ah and Tigger?
Speaker 2: Oh? Okay, sure, I thought. I'm like, wait a minute,
Speaker 2: will you do?
Speaker 1: Doesn't talk about Tiger?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Can I be Tigger? Okay? So if we try hard enough,
Speaker 1: we'll be able to do something.
Speaker 2: If we bounce hard enough, we'll be able to do something. Finally,
Speaker 2: maybe just crazy enough to work. That's right, Hey, never
Speaker 2: do that again. You do that very well? Don't stop that?
Speaker 2: Can I throw?
Speaker 3: Can I throw in a personal request here? Can we
Speaker 3: do my anger as healthy as obviously mantis?
Speaker 2: And pooh? Yes, there we go.
Speaker 1: My anger is healthy.
Speaker 2: My anger is really hard to get going here because
Speaker 2: he's just never angry. My anger is healthy. Oh, that
Speaker 2: can't be right. Mother, My honey is healthy. Oh that's
Speaker 2: much better.
Speaker 1: What exactly is arel? That's not a measurement that I'm
Speaker 1: aware of.
Speaker 2: I know I have the jewels. It's twice as big
Speaker 2: as half a smackrel.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to recalibrate my brain for that one.
Speaker 2: Thank you for being here. This is so great. Yeah,
Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen, thank you. Yeah, we hear it. It's
Speaker 2: here a round of applause or a square ah? Oh
Speaker 2: my goodness, what will I say next? Thank you very
Speaker 2: much for being here on ours on a kind of
Speaker 2: a cloudy day here in southern California. And I enjoy
Speaker 2: it because it's rare.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't mind the rand either.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and don't forget nostalgic con Denver, April twenty and
Speaker 3: twenty seven. You can see both these lovely.
Speaker 1: People here, Denver, Denver, Denver.
Speaker 3: Do you want to take us out? Brandon?
Speaker 4: You take it out, you go, you take it out,
Speaker 4: and it's been forever.
Speaker 2: No, you take it out, it's been forever. Take it
Speaker 2: out like the dog scratching out of me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's you christ O K cool.
Speaker 4: Well, guys, thanks for checking out this episode of Tuning
Speaker 4: In with Jim Comings with Colleen the Shaughnessy. Thank you
Speaker 4: Colleen once again.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you so much for having me. This
Speaker 1: was blast.
Speaker 4: Good luck with everything going forward, especially Sonic four. We're
Speaker 4: all very very excited here in the Dander household though
Speaker 4: I'd love Sonic so hope that all goes very very well.
Speaker 4: Don't forget guys to continue to support us on Patreon
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Speaker 4: But for now, Colleen, once again, thank you, Jim, Chris,
Speaker 4: thank you for joining us, and we'll catch you all
Speaker 4: on the next episode of Tuned In with the one
Speaker 4: and only, the Legendary Jim Cummings.
Speaker 3: When or when or when