Jujutsu Kaisen & Cortex Chaos | Lex Lang (Jujutsu Kaisen, Star Wars: Resistance, Crash Bandicoot)

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<v Speaker 3>Welcome back, everybody to another episode of Tuned In with
<v Speaker 3>Jim Commings. I'm producer Chris, joined as always by the
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<v Speaker 1>How are you doing today, sir, Well, yet another day
<v Speaker 1>in paradise and here we are.
<v Speaker 3>Yes it is, Yes, it is. We have a very
<v Speaker 3>special guest for you today, none other than Lex Lang.
<v Speaker 3>Thank you so much for being here.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, yes, my pleasure really, And now you know I have.
<v Speaker 1>To get this out of my system right off of
<v Speaker 1>you are. Your name is literally a combination of two
<v Speaker 1>fantastic stick characters from the DC universe where your parents, no,
<v Speaker 1>not at all, like.
<v Speaker 4>Lex Luthor and Lana Lang right right there together together
<v Speaker 4>at last. No, they were not. In fact, Lex comes
<v Speaker 4>from my middle name, which is alexis Oh, and so
<v Speaker 4>I went by Walter for a long time. That's my
<v Speaker 4>first name. But literally every single time I would meet someone,
<v Speaker 4>like until I was like twenty years old, no joke.
<v Speaker 4>Every time they would do a little doggy head tilt,
<v Speaker 4>they'd go, you, you don't look like a Walter, and
<v Speaker 4>so I always said, well, now you know what they
<v Speaker 4>look like, and I'd shake their hands.
<v Speaker 1>No, that's true. You really don't know. No, no, no,
<v Speaker 1>my head just did that.
<v Speaker 4>It's an automatic thing. So eventually I went by Alexis
<v Speaker 4>and then all I heard was well, that's a girl's
<v Speaker 4>name too, right, or are you Greek? And I said no, no.
<v Speaker 4>And then another voice actor I got, named Richard Epkar,
<v Speaker 4>real nice guy, amazing voice actor. We were going somewhere
<v Speaker 4>and he said Lex, come on, let's go, and I
<v Speaker 4>was like lex lex lang. Like the alliteration. It has
<v Speaker 4>that superhero DC vibe going a little bit. And I
<v Speaker 4>didn't have to change it other than what was my
<v Speaker 4>real name, you know, So I just.
<v Speaker 1>Chopped take away my real name, right, No, that's yeah.
<v Speaker 4>So I got to keep the middle name and just
<v Speaker 4>like chopped it around a little and it.
<v Speaker 1>Fit perfectice well, good stuff, Yeah, Trivia four years the name, yeah, exactly.
<v Speaker 4>I don't tell that often because people go Walter and
<v Speaker 4>they do the head till, and you.
<v Speaker 3>Changed it before your acting career before your voice over.
<v Speaker 1>Now, I started.
<v Speaker 4>When I first started voice acting, I was still going
<v Speaker 4>by Walter okay, and it was not until about a
<v Speaker 4>year or two that I changed it to Alexis and
<v Speaker 4>then from Alexis over the lex happened rather quickly.
<v Speaker 1>Yea, yeah, yeah, yeah, right. When was your career started?
<v Speaker 4>I started voice acting in nineteen ninety four, yeah, ninety
<v Speaker 4>four veteran. Then oh yeah, thirty one years this year.
<v Speaker 4>That's all I've done for thirty Well, I've directed to
<v Speaker 4>but but you know it's in terms of income and
<v Speaker 4>like you know, what I should for a living has
<v Speaker 4>been a voice act thirty one years now, you know.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I've been stuck here too.
<v Speaker 4>Well, yeah, you know it's you're one of the greatest,
<v Speaker 4>you know, and and it's true, it's true.
<v Speaker 1>I know you're very humble about it.
<v Speaker 4>But you know, I know that when I started coming
<v Speaker 4>onto Curious George of you know, I played the doorman
<v Speaker 4>and his dog, Hundley. I'm Curious George, Yes you did.
<v Speaker 4>I've been doing that, you know. I think seventeen years
<v Speaker 4>ago is when I started that one. And I know
<v Speaker 4>that when I'd show up to a session to me
<v Speaker 4>it would be I'd be pinching myself because it would
<v Speaker 4>be like a master class with all these amazing people,
<v Speaker 4>you know, Frank Welker. I mean, it would just be like,
<v Speaker 4>I mean, Jeff can do anything. He's incredible, you know,
<v Speaker 4>and we know Romano is, you know, a great narrator,
<v Speaker 4>and of course you being there all the time.
<v Speaker 1>It was just like I was.
<v Speaker 4>Like, Wow, how did I get in here? So I
<v Speaker 4>slipped in the door, you know. And Frank was always
<v Speaker 4>super nice at the end of every session, just like saying,
<v Speaker 4>you know, you did a fantastic job. Wow, what you're
<v Speaker 4>doing with that character is great, you know, just always
<v Speaker 4>like supportive and lifting, you know, and I think, oh, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>that really helped me in my career a lot, just like, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>gain confidence about the roles I was doing things well.
<v Speaker 1>The voiceover actors are, we're all kind of supportive, right,
<v Speaker 1>you know. It's not a yeah, it's it's not a
<v Speaker 1>dog eat dog. I've said it before you Occasionally they'll
<v Speaker 1>have a voiceover audition at a place where they do
<v Speaker 1>on camera and there'll be like four insurancemen, six insurancemen,
<v Speaker 1>all sitting there with their cases or attorneys and they're
<v Speaker 1>all looking at each other like this, and the voiceover guys, dude, you.
<v Speaker 4>Know, it's like a family. Really.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's a big family.
<v Speaker 4>It's getting bigger, but it's yeah, it's a nice family,
<v Speaker 4>especially that core group that's been here for decades.
<v Speaker 1>You foold them again, you know, that's kind of and.
<v Speaker 3>It's getting even bigger with the inclusion of things, you know,
<v Speaker 3>like video games and I know, narration and just so
<v Speaker 3>many different avenues.
<v Speaker 4>I know, I know when I started, there was no
<v Speaker 4>voices in video games because the computer chips didn't have
<v Speaker 4>enough memory. There was just like some mid e file
<v Speaker 4>that was a you know, audio a song or something.
<v Speaker 4>And then there was no anime yet when I started,
<v Speaker 4>and it was just they called it. When it first
<v Speaker 4>came out, they were calling it japanimation.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, I really remember that. Yeah, I was just thinking
<v Speaker 1>that they call it animation.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah yeah, yeah.
<v Speaker 1>But when I first started, they were calling bit that
<v Speaker 1>was pong, right, that was that was the basactly.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I was loving Pong when I was like, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>just dating myself, don't miss it. Yeah yeah yeah. And
<v Speaker 4>even even animation didn't have a ton of like that
<v Speaker 4>long form animation that we do today.
<v Speaker 3>You know, it was yeah, yeah, not really story driven back.
<v Speaker 4>No, No, there wasn't like you know, the Family Guys
<v Speaker 4>and the all the other long form talkie stuff that
<v Speaker 4>developed as well.
<v Speaker 1>Thank god for talkies, right, we'd be we'd we'd be hurting. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I always joke around. I said, well, I didn't want
<v Speaker 1>to be a voice actor. I'm just a failed mime.
<v Speaker 4>You know.
<v Speaker 1>It's so hey my first.
<v Speaker 4>Your first set of things that you did as a
<v Speaker 4>voice actor, was it Disney related?
<v Speaker 1>Well, yeah, it was Disney that was It was I
<v Speaker 1>don't know, maybe the one of the first five shows
<v Speaker 1>on the Disney Channel. This new thing called cable TV
<v Speaker 1>popped up, right, and because we had four channels, surely
<v Speaker 1>that was enough before. But no, it was Disney Channel
<v Speaker 1>just started up and it was Dumbo Circus. Oh, and
<v Speaker 1>it was people in costume and it was basically it
<v Speaker 1>was the movie Dumbo continued, Wow, and Katie Lee was Dumbo,
<v Speaker 1>and Will Ryan was in it, and and how Smith
<v Speaker 1>was in it the Great House Smith, God rest their souls.
<v Speaker 1>But I was Lion, all the Lion, and it was
<v Speaker 1>basically Timothy the Mouse. But since it was a person
<v Speaker 1>in a costume, they could even have like a five
<v Speaker 1>foot mouse, you know, so he was a lion. It
<v Speaker 1>was a lion, I got you, But it was the
<v Speaker 1>character Timothy. That's nice some bos I love that. I
<v Speaker 1>love that.
<v Speaker 4>And they were all doing it on stage, you know,
<v Speaker 4>trying to their costumes, right.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it was a lot of fun. Yeah. Things have
<v Speaker 1>changed since then.
<v Speaker 4>They sure have. Yeah. My wife, Sandy Fox, who's also
<v Speaker 4>a voice actress, when she was starting out, she was
<v Speaker 4>also involved with the show I think it was on
<v Speaker 4>McDonald's farm, kind of show where she played a chicken.
<v Speaker 4>She wasn't in the soup, but she was the voice
<v Speaker 4>of a little chicken in a window, you know, kind
<v Speaker 4>of thing, which was they were.
<v Speaker 1>Doing a lot of those times.
<v Speaker 3>So yeah, wow, how about you. Where was your start?
<v Speaker 3>Bring us through the history of wax slang.
<v Speaker 4>Wow, Well, it's it's kind of interesting because I started
<v Speaker 4>as a stage actor many many, many years ago, and
<v Speaker 4>a lot of us did. Yeah. Yeah, I did that
<v Speaker 4>through high school and college and then a little bit afterwards,
<v Speaker 4>and I just got I just felt inclined to do
<v Speaker 4>stand up comedy at one point, and so I started
<v Speaker 4>touring doing stand up comedy.
<v Speaker 1>In the West. Something funny that sounds like the ten
<v Speaker 1>pm crowd. I've had a little too much to drink, yeah, exactly.
<v Speaker 4>But I did that for a while, and you know,
<v Speaker 4>I was opening for back then. You know, there were
<v Speaker 4>names like Richard Belzer was he's an on camera actor
<v Speaker 4>he was, yeah, you know, and I opened for Jim
<v Speaker 4>Carrey from Marshall Warfield. I worked every week with David
<v Speaker 4>Spade in Arizona at this place called Anderson's Fifth Es State,
<v Speaker 4>every Tuesday night. For a couple of years we worked together,
<v Speaker 4>and then one week he was gone, and the next
<v Speaker 4>week he was like writing for Saturday Night Live, And
<v Speaker 4>six months later he was on Saturday Night Live, and
<v Speaker 4>his careers you know, exploded ever since, right. But I
<v Speaker 4>did that for a little bit, and then it was
<v Speaker 4>at the end of like a phase in my life
<v Speaker 4>where I was engaged and I had like a really
<v Speaker 4>bad breakup and I lost my job and I was
<v Speaker 4>literally like trying to find some direction. And I met
<v Speaker 4>a person who was going to the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California,
<v Speaker 4>and I just started playing guitar and this person came
<v Speaker 4>into a place I was working. I was working in
<v Speaker 4>a mall. I was working at this place called Superstar recording,
<v Speaker 4>which is basically a glorified Kerrie Oke place where you
<v Speaker 4>come in, you sing, and they hand you. At the time,
<v Speaker 4>it was a cassette tape, but they moved to CDs later.
<v Speaker 4>You know, the handrew your track of you singing and
<v Speaker 4>you go on your way.
<v Speaker 1>Right, Well, that's kind of cool.
<v Speaker 4>But this guy came in and he sang some songs
<v Speaker 4>and we hit it off and he said, man, you
<v Speaker 4>play guitar, right, we should jam. So I jammed with
<v Speaker 4>him a couple of times, and then he said, I'm
<v Speaker 4>going to LA in four weeks and you got to
<v Speaker 4>come out. You got to go to the Musicians Institute
<v Speaker 4>with me. And I said, well, I really.
<v Speaker 1>Don't have the money.
<v Speaker 4>I don't have a job, and you know, I was
<v Speaker 4>like really finding a new path because I had really
<v Speaker 4>everything had just sort.
<v Speaker 1>Of dissolved in my world.
<v Speaker 4>And he said, look, put together a little tape. Maybe
<v Speaker 4>you can get a grant and a scholarship. If you
<v Speaker 4>get both of those combined, they will have you out there.
<v Speaker 4>So I put together a tape a little video thing too,
<v Speaker 4>which then was much harder to do, right, But they
<v Speaker 4>wrote me back and said you got the grant and
<v Speaker 4>you got the scholarship, so I said, California, here we come.
<v Speaker 1>That's like the Muppet movie when Orson Wells gave Kermit,
<v Speaker 1>here's the rich and famous contract, right.
<v Speaker 4>Almost almost, but it was more like, here's the struggling
<v Speaker 4>musician contract. Okay, but anyway, it was kind of it
<v Speaker 4>was kind of neat because I came out there and
<v Speaker 4>I kind of instantly became the spokesman for the school,
<v Speaker 4>the Musicians Institute. So when someone would inquire about the
<v Speaker 4>school and the program, there was a video they'd receive
<v Speaker 4>or a DVD that was me standing in front of
<v Speaker 4>the Hollywood sign saying Hollywood, California, the entertainment capital of
<v Speaker 4>the world. And here in Hollywood is the Musicians and Institute.
<v Speaker 4>Let's go take a look, you know, And so I
<v Speaker 4>tore them around the thing. Right, So fast forward a
<v Speaker 4>little bit six months, a director from a film that
<v Speaker 4>was being done called the school and said, I needed
<v Speaker 4>you to send somebody over to show my actors to
<v Speaker 4>how they how to look like they play music, because
<v Speaker 4>all of the actors had never picked up a guitar before.
<v Speaker 1>How looked like they played There's a and there's a.
<v Speaker 4>Movie about a band, you know, a band is the
<v Speaker 4>central thing in this movie. And so they sent me
<v Speaker 4>over and I was showing them how to like jump
<v Speaker 4>off the riser and do wind mills and you know,
<v Speaker 4>Pete Towns this stuff. And the director goes, you wouldn't
<v Speaker 4>happen to be an actor, too, would you. I said,
<v Speaker 4>as a matter of fact, that's really what I am.
<v Speaker 4>And he said, okay, you're in the movie, you know.
<v Speaker 4>And the guy I was helping was like, wait what
<v Speaker 4>you know? He goes, You're gonna be the keyboard player instead. Okay,
<v Speaker 4>you can look like you can play keyboards, and so
<v Speaker 4>he kept all his lines and scenes and everything, but
<v Speaker 4>they added some scenes. Fast forward again. The guy who
<v Speaker 4>was the bass player in the band in the movie
<v Speaker 4>became my dear friend, and he was he is actually
<v Speaker 4>Robert Mitcham's grandson. Uh oh, a real well known actor
<v Speaker 4>in the forties and fifties, a guy named Robert Mitcham,
<v Speaker 4>of course, of course, and his grandson, Bentley, became my
<v Speaker 4>dearest friend and roommate.
<v Speaker 1>We were living in Ley Bentley Mitcham.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, he's a fantastic actor, really nice person, great songwriter too,
<v Speaker 4>And we roomed and he went and did a film
<v Speaker 4>in Vancouver, this film called Susie Q.
<v Speaker 1>I grew up in Vancouver.
<v Speaker 4>You did, Oh nice, It's a beautiful city I got.
<v Speaker 4>So he called me and said, hey, I'm doing this movie.
<v Speaker 4>Come on up. And so I went up to visit
<v Speaker 4>him for a week. And the girl that was playing
<v Speaker 4>opposite him in the movie was a woman named Amy
<v Speaker 4>Joe Johnson, and she's the Pink Power Ranger of course,
<v Speaker 4>and so she was at the time. And so as
<v Speaker 4>we were coming back from dinner one night, I started
<v Speaker 4>doing my stand up comedy thing and it had impressions
<v Speaker 4>in it, like I would do Sean Connery and Jack
<v Speaker 4>Nicholson and Christopher Walk and.
<v Speaker 1>Do you ever do them anymore? Yeah?
<v Speaker 4>You know. I when I first started doing voice acting,
<v Speaker 4>I wasn't an impersonator, but I was a voice match specialist.
<v Speaker 4>And so I took my card out to all the
<v Speaker 4>studios and gave them a card that said voice match specialist,
<v Speaker 4>if your celebrity can't come in for the third session
<v Speaker 4>or whatever, that's yeah and stuff. So rewind a little
<v Speaker 4>tiny bit. When Amy heard me doing these impressions, she goes,
<v Speaker 4>you'd be a great voice actor. And at the time
<v Speaker 4>I was like, I have no idea what a voice
<v Speaker 4>actor is. There's no voices on the cartoons I watch.
<v Speaker 4>There's no there was no anime, no video games, so
<v Speaker 4>it was like nothing to reference. She goes, no, No.
<v Speaker 4>On Power Rangers, there's always some guy in a suit
<v Speaker 4>that is a villain of the week or whatever. He
<v Speaker 4>needs a voice. And I said, I'd be open for that.
<v Speaker 4>So she introduced me to the producers there and they
<v Speaker 4>ran me through the ringer a little bit and said
<v Speaker 4>you got skills, kid, come on, you know, And so
<v Speaker 4>they they brought me on and I did like three
<v Speaker 4>different seasons with Power Rangers. And at the same time
<v Speaker 4>is when I reached out to all the studios. It
<v Speaker 4>was around that time I met my wife, Sandy, Sandy
<v Speaker 4>Fox my wife, and she helped. She was with ICM
<v Speaker 4>already and she helped me get an agent. I was
<v Speaker 4>with ICM for a little bit and then I kind
<v Speaker 4>of moved around a little, but she helped me with
<v Speaker 4>the demo, the agent and all that. And back then
<v Speaker 4>you probably recall, yeah, uh, we had pagers.
<v Speaker 1>We didn't nobody had a set right yoh gosha.
<v Speaker 4>Everybody had a page to pull off the.
<v Speaker 1>Freeway and find something called a payphone booth.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, that was a payphone. You actually had to carry
<v Speaker 4>change and way back. You know, this is a yeah,
<v Speaker 4>this is a long time I can.
<v Speaker 1>Get through out there going what what's that phone?
<v Speaker 4>Superman would change?
<v Speaker 1>It was gonna say that. Yeah, yeah, it was change
<v Speaker 1>go figure. Yeah. Occasionally you'd see a little scrap of
<v Speaker 1>red cape.
<v Speaker 3>On the got caught in the door on the Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Wow, that's amazing.
<v Speaker 4>So that's kind of my origin. And then I was
<v Speaker 4>blessed to It's funny this guy Bentley again. He invited
<v Speaker 4>me to a wedding. And while I was at the wedding,
<v Speaker 4>the table I was sitting at was this woman named
<v Speaker 4>Andrea Romano and I met her at a way now
<v Speaker 4>her Yeah, and I hadn't really we didn't talk about
<v Speaker 4>voice acting. I was there at the wedding with Bentley
<v Speaker 4>to do some music and we were both going to
<v Speaker 4>play some songs for the wedding. And but here I
<v Speaker 4>was sitting next to her and we talked for I
<v Speaker 4>don't know, we hit it off. She's a wonderful woman.
<v Speaker 4>Oh yeah, we just hit it off. We talked for
<v Speaker 4>you know, probably a couple of hours, and said stay
<v Speaker 4>in touch, you know. And I never asked her what
<v Speaker 4>she did for a living, because it was just more
<v Speaker 4>about the good conversation we were having there. And a
<v Speaker 4>few years later, maybe a two years later, I got
<v Speaker 4>an audition from Susan Chico, who was her right hand assistant.
<v Speaker 1>I don't even know.
<v Speaker 4>I wouldn't even call it an assistant, just her right
<v Speaker 4>hand executive. I don't know what you'd call Susan, but
<v Speaker 4>just someone who was doing a lot of work there
<v Speaker 4>together with Andrea. And oh yeah, that's the official title
<v Speaker 4>that's on her business card.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, I do all the crap noo else does,
<v Speaker 1>thank you.
<v Speaker 4>But she was a big part of the casting. And
<v Speaker 4>I had auditioned for a few things and I was
<v Speaker 4>cast and when I got to the session, Andrea was like,
<v Speaker 4>wait a minute from the what I know? That's fantastic.
<v Speaker 4>And Andrea really got in my corner thereafter, and she'd
<v Speaker 4>bring me in all the time for all her shows
<v Speaker 4>as a utility player, and I'd come in, I do
<v Speaker 4>you know two voices for Captain Cold, you know something
<v Speaker 4>for heat Wave? You know Atomic Skull has a voice,
<v Speaker 4>you know. So I would do a lot of little
<v Speaker 4>bit parts for her, but she kept me on the Batman,
<v Speaker 4>Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, Legion to Superheroes. You know.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, well that was Avaitar.
<v Speaker 4>That was amazing.
<v Speaker 1>It was great.
<v Speaker 4>It was so good. Wow, So I owe her a lot.
<v Speaker 1>You hit the ground running.
<v Speaker 4>I hit the ground running, and right at that same point,
<v Speaker 4>anime started and I was right at the front door
<v Speaker 4>for that as well. And I did a lot of
<v Speaker 4>like really famous anime. But it was before in California,
<v Speaker 4>in California, yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I was living in
<v Speaker 4>California from nineteen eighty eight.
<v Speaker 1>I think I moved. I remember hearing that almost all
<v Speaker 1>anime back in the day was in Dallas or somewhere.
<v Speaker 4>It was split between Los Angeles and Dallas. Yeah, there
<v Speaker 4>was a Fundamation was the company that was out in Dallas,
<v Speaker 4>and they got bought by Crunchy Roll and Country Roll.
<v Speaker 4>I think I bought by Sony. I believe that's the paramount, right, Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>they're pushing it hard now.
<v Speaker 1>Wow, yeah, no kidding. Well, that's a hell of an intro.
<v Speaker 4>I know. I was really lucky because it just so
<v Speaker 4>happened that as video games were introducing more dialogue and
<v Speaker 4>as anime was happening and as Western animation was happening,
<v Speaker 4>I kind of had a foot in the hand in
<v Speaker 4>every pool, you know, and it was growing, growing, growing,
<v Speaker 4>And for a while it was all segregated, like if
<v Speaker 4>you were interested in anime, it would be you got
<v Speaker 4>to go to an anime convention, if it was a
<v Speaker 4>sci fi sci fi convention, and pop culture just kept
<v Speaker 4>coming together with all these things together, and now it's
<v Speaker 4>just like any kind of con. It could be an
<v Speaker 4>anime con, but you're going to find superheroes, you're going
<v Speaker 4>to find video games. You know. They call them comic
<v Speaker 4>cons now of course.
<v Speaker 1>You know, yes, and apparently you can get comics there.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, you can get comics. Yeah, like the original comic cons,
<v Speaker 4>like San Diego Comic Con.
<v Speaker 3>That's it was all about that, all right, Yeah yeah yeah.
<v Speaker 3>We were just at a mega con Orlando last weekend.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>And it's such a conglomeration. I mean you look at
<v Speaker 3>all the actors and voice actors and everything. It's like,
<v Speaker 3>how do they even fit into this sphere? You know,
<v Speaker 3>they have the Lord of the Rings cast, you know,
<v Speaker 3>they have anime. They have Heather Graham, which I was
<v Speaker 3>I couldn't believe she oh she was just there to
<v Speaker 3>look good. I couldn't believe. I stopped by her booth
<v Speaker 3>and I was like just staring. I was like, oh
<v Speaker 3>my god, I had to look up how old she is?
<v Speaker 3>Fifty six and she looks stunning. Yeah, she looks incredible,
<v Speaker 3>Like yeah, like mid thirties, forty Max. That's amazing. I
<v Speaker 3>was like, oh my god, where's the where's the babies?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah yeah. And San Diego, you know, yeah, like
<v Speaker 4>the big cons, Mega Con, San Diego, Comic Con, those
<v Speaker 4>giant comic cons. That's like a list movie actors, you know, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>casts from all the greatest movies.
<v Speaker 3>That you know was there. What does wrestling have to
<v Speaker 3>do with.
<v Speaker 4>Oh yeah, wrestling too, that's been introduced into that sector.
<v Speaker 1>I just noticed he was a a superhero in his
<v Speaker 1>last movie.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and mister T was there. Yes, Yes, that's been funny.
<v Speaker 4>He adorned with his chains and everything.
<v Speaker 3>He was adorned in the American flag. Yes, very the
<v Speaker 3>American flag had been the American flag pants all the
<v Speaker 3>way down to the cuffs.
<v Speaker 1>And he was still the same guy. Get over here.
<v Speaker 1>I love it. How Wino.
<v Speaker 4>Did he put you in the head off?
<v Speaker 1>Yes? Take away from the pool. Yes, oh, my god.
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, it's such a such a crazy world.
<v Speaker 1>Now.
<v Speaker 3>It's like, if you're not collaborating or crossing over, you know,
<v Speaker 3>are you really like doing anything as a business?
<v Speaker 1>You know, it's almost like you have to.
<v Speaker 3>I mean I have I have underwear that's Lacost collabed
<v Speaker 3>with Netflix.
<v Speaker 1>Oh my god. Yeah, and it's amazing. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>I was like, I literally just bought them because I
<v Speaker 3>was like, Lacst and Netflix have a collaboration on underwear.
<v Speaker 1>The world is this Netflix.
<v Speaker 3>Does excuse me?
<v Speaker 1>I have to drink some water right now?
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<v Speaker 3>And this is clever.
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<v Speaker 1>In the world, best tasting water on this particular planet.
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<v Speaker 1>That's not bad. Yeah, it's nice. It's pretty good combo.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah. We call it water with Intension, and one of
<v Speaker 4>our slogans is think it while you drink it. And
<v Speaker 4>you know, they found that for our own mental health.
<v Speaker 4>If you start your day with something positive in your
<v Speaker 4>thoughts that cascades outward in your day and even like
<v Speaker 4>you kind of hold the vibration of that positivity and
<v Speaker 4>good things gravitate towards you, or you notice the things
<v Speaker 4>that are good in life as opposed to waking up
<v Speaker 4>and complaining or being fearful or whatever.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Yeah, I had years ago. I had a place
<v Speaker 1>in Missouri washband Devil's wash Man, which is a great name,
<v Speaker 1>but I had to test it to see if I
<v Speaker 1>could bottle it well there and it well an incredible spring.
<v Speaker 1>It literally shot out the side of a hillside in
<v Speaker 1>a moment. It was, I mean, and it had three
<v Speaker 1>lakes on it which came from that water. And because
<v Speaker 1>it was in the Ozarks. I thought it would be good.
<v Speaker 1>Good to be called H two Ozarks. That's fun. And
<v Speaker 1>the slogan was we've been making water since forever.
<v Speaker 4>So you know, did you ever do that? Did you
<v Speaker 4>ever do it? Or no? No?
<v Speaker 5>No.
<v Speaker 1>I ended up selling the place, but I'm friends with
<v Speaker 1>the owner. I don't know, maybe, and the water itself
<v Speaker 1>was like, yeah, it was good water.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I had a test and the guy said, well, I
<v Speaker 1>don't know. If you want to sell this there, you
<v Speaker 1>got to do some work first. And I said, oh god,
<v Speaker 1>like what He goes, I'd put it in them little
<v Speaker 1>plastic bottles. I go, oh, that's it. He goes, that's
<v Speaker 1>about it.
<v Speaker 3>Oh okay, that's easy.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. I was thinking of doing that.
<v Speaker 4>Anyway, I'd build a giant facility and humongous filtration system.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah no, yeah, so that worked.
<v Speaker 3>I want to switch the topics really quick, because I've
<v Speaker 3>heard you on other podcasts and to me, your voice
<v Speaker 3>matching ability is incredible, amazing.
<v Speaker 1>Where did you.
<v Speaker 3>Find that talent of being able to sound like shoot
<v Speaker 3>almost anybody?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>You know, it's interesting because it was more of a
<v Speaker 4>joke that I did as a child, when I was
<v Speaker 4>in seventh and eighth grade. I found that I could
<v Speaker 4>sound just like my science teacher, Oh there you go,
<v Speaker 4>and so often, and in fact it he liked me
<v Speaker 4>for it and I got in trouble for it at
<v Speaker 4>the same time. Right, But often during the test, we'd
<v Speaker 4>be taking a test and I'd go pencils down, and
<v Speaker 4>then everyone would put their pencils down, and he'd look
<v Speaker 4>up from his and he wondered what was going on,
<v Speaker 4>And then I'd be just like writing, you know, and
<v Speaker 4>then everyone leave the class, you know, like people would
<v Speaker 4>start getting you know, and eventually, you know, he he
<v Speaker 4>caught on, and yeah, more or less. But later when
<v Speaker 4>I started doing the stand up comedy stuff, I was
<v Speaker 4>a big fan of rich Little, who nobody knows nowadays.
<v Speaker 4>He was an impersonator and he was really good. He
<v Speaker 4>was fantastic, and I was a real big fan of
<v Speaker 4>that even as a young person, like really young, thirteen, fourteen,
<v Speaker 4>fifteen years old, and I would see him on the
<v Speaker 4>Johnny Carson Show. And so Johnny Carson, for those of
<v Speaker 4>you who are out there, that made us know who
<v Speaker 4>that is. He was the not the original, but the
<v Speaker 4>second longtime host still the Tonight Show and Jay Leno
<v Speaker 4>took over for him after that, and then Jimmy Fallon
<v Speaker 4>took took over after that. But I would watch Johnny
<v Speaker 4>Carson and as a kid, I'd be in my room
<v Speaker 4>just trying to listening tonight on the show. You know,
<v Speaker 4>I didn't know this, but Simmson and I'd be like
<v Speaker 4>imitating him. And then i'd be doing my own show
<v Speaker 4>on a little cassette recorder. I'd be Johnny Carson, and
<v Speaker 4>then i'd be Johnny Carson interviewing Jack Nicholson. You know,
<v Speaker 4>you know that noise when you hear that noise, Johnny,
<v Speaker 4>you know, And I'd be doing that. I'd be going
<v Speaker 4>back and.
<v Speaker 1>Forth and then yeah, and you got to do the face.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, well you have to kind of become the characters
<v Speaker 4>were doing an impression, especially right and then, because I
<v Speaker 4>had done so many impressions over the years, when I
<v Speaker 4>finally became a voice actor, that's when I thought, you
<v Speaker 4>know what, it is an ability that I have that
<v Speaker 4>not everybody has, So maybe I can reach out and
<v Speaker 4>find some work, you know. And and I did like
<v Speaker 4>a lot of stuff for William Hurt. You know, William
<v Speaker 4>Hurt has that voice that's kind of in here and
<v Speaker 4>it's uh, he's got that very quality to it.
<v Speaker 1>You know, that's right, it's right there. And yeah, I
<v Speaker 1>love those kind of obscure ones. Yeah, that's great. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>that's wonderful.
<v Speaker 4>It's funny because there was a remake of the film
<v Speaker 4>Lost in Space.
<v Speaker 1>Yes it was.
<v Speaker 4>William Hurt was in it, Matt LeBlanc from Friends and
<v Speaker 4>a few others movie unfortunately, yes, but it was. It
<v Speaker 4>was a remake and I auditioned to revoice thirteen lines
<v Speaker 4>of William Hurt and I was like, great. I auditioned.
<v Speaker 4>I know, it was many thirty or forty people. I got
<v Speaker 4>the part. I came in and I was doing the
<v Speaker 4>first few and they said, oh, we're going to have
<v Speaker 4>another session tomorrow. And I came in for the session
<v Speaker 4>the second day and they said, there's a little hiccup
<v Speaker 4>in the whole plan that we have here. William Hurt
<v Speaker 4>has decided to go to an ashram in the Himalayas
<v Speaker 4>and he's off the grid for the next sixteen weeks.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, so you're perfect.
<v Speaker 4>You're going to be replacing him for everything we were
<v Speaker 4>going to have him do. So I was like, how
<v Speaker 4>much is that? And they said thirty eight lines, and
<v Speaker 4>about six or seven of them are on camera. We're
<v Speaker 4>just replacing because of the generator in the background, replacing, right,
<v Speaker 4>So I did that and it came out great. I
<v Speaker 4>was so lucky. I was really happy because sometimes as
<v Speaker 4>a voice sound alike guy, you know, my voice changes
<v Speaker 4>day by day. Some days I have the lower pitch
<v Speaker 4>in the morning that's really very strong. Other days, you know,
<v Speaker 4>it's kind of I have an airy quality to my voice.
<v Speaker 4>Sometimes it's great for like a Charlie Sheen, you know,
<v Speaker 4>all right, we're going to get the angels over here,
<v Speaker 4>are you going to go hang out? You know, like
<v Speaker 4>it's that lighter stuff, right, And so it all worked
<v Speaker 4>perfectly for the William Hurt thing. And then while I
<v Speaker 4>was there on the last session, they said, now Gary
<v Speaker 4>Oldman is playing the doctor Smith and he turns into
<v Speaker 4>a creature at the end of the film, like a
<v Speaker 4>spider creature, and he did some of his efforts, but
<v Speaker 4>we really want to enhance the efforts, right, and so
<v Speaker 4>they said, can you do a few for him? So
<v Speaker 4>I did all the creature stuff at the end of
<v Speaker 4>the film. And then they said, oh, there's a guy
<v Speaker 4>at the beginning of the movie who is a traffic
<v Speaker 4>like a controller for the lift off of the spaceship
<v Speaker 4>they're in. And he has this scene where he's telling
<v Speaker 4>Matt LeBlanc a good luck, old friend or whatever. Right,
<v Speaker 4>but this actor who was playing this guy chose to
<v Speaker 4>do it in a Russian accent, and the director said
<v Speaker 4>okay to him because the actor said, well, by the
<v Speaker 4>time we have this kind of space travel, Russia and
<v Speaker 4>the US are going to be pals. You know, it'll
<v Speaker 4>be like a Russian guy working in the US thing. Well, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>it's been a long time, still waiting, and so he said,
<v Speaker 4>we need to revoice that guy.
<v Speaker 3>He'll still be on I yeah, you.
<v Speaker 4>Know, good look old friend, Irish space program. Yeah, but
<v Speaker 4>he said, you know, just generic American whatever. So it
<v Speaker 4>was funny because by the end of it, I did
<v Speaker 4>a bunch of radio commercials that were on the in
<v Speaker 4>the movie. I did the Gary Oldman stuff. I did
<v Speaker 4>a line for Robot, I did William Hurt, I did
<v Speaker 4>the guy at the beginning, and we had a joke
<v Speaker 4>we called it lex and space instead of.
<v Speaker 1>Space, no kidding, So that's nice.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, And then I went on to do like lots
<v Speaker 4>and lots of other stuff, probably two or three hundred
<v Speaker 4>other sound alikes. And sound alikes are a lot different
<v Speaker 4>than an impersonation, you know it. There's a guy named
<v Speaker 4>Matt Friend out there who's on social media who does
<v Speaker 4>all the impersonations of everybody. He's fantastic, And that's an impersonator,
<v Speaker 4>you know. A sound alike is. So it's a much
<v Speaker 4>more specialized type of work because what I have to
<v Speaker 4>do is I have to sound just like the performance
<v Speaker 4>that that particular actor is giving.
<v Speaker 1>I don't have to sound like so like them in character.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I have to sound like them in the character.
<v Speaker 4>So you know, if it's if it's John Travolta or something,
<v Speaker 4>I'm not going to do a judge, you know, like
<v Speaker 4>all that John Right, he's got a Southern accent in
<v Speaker 4>this movie, and he's talking very normal, you know. So
<v Speaker 4>I have to listen and be able to go okay.
<v Speaker 4>And another thing that's challenging about it is that often
<v Speaker 4>those sound alike roles are there's a there's a the
<v Speaker 4>actual actor saying something, and then there's the plug in
<v Speaker 4>of that sound alike, and then there's the actual actor
<v Speaker 4>saying it right after again. And so I have to
<v Speaker 4>throw a line in between the actual actor. So if
<v Speaker 4>it's not exact, it's really have to blend. You have
<v Speaker 4>to really blend and be you know, convincing. And so
<v Speaker 4>that's the big difference technically between a sound alike and
<v Speaker 4>an impersonator. Wow.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, I didn't know that. I didn't know you
<v Speaker 1>had this great, you know, side career. I mean in
<v Speaker 1>and of itself.
<v Speaker 4>For a long time, probably for three or four years,
<v Speaker 4>that was almost my main career. It was just going
<v Speaker 4>from studio to studio. It does sound alike.
<v Speaker 3>Do you think do you think that your musical background,
<v Speaker 3>I know you grew up playing violin and the French
<v Speaker 3>horn or guitar, I know, do you think that that
<v Speaker 3>musicality helps you?
<v Speaker 1>Absolutely?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, yeah, hear the voice and what's going on in.
<v Speaker 4>The voice because I developed my ear we call it right,
<v Speaker 4>you know, like I have a good ear for listening.
<v Speaker 3>To tone, texture, pitch.
<v Speaker 4>You know, these are all things that play into the
<v Speaker 4>finals things.
<v Speaker 1>People have their own rhythm, the rhythm exactly.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, the rhythm. You know, I was trying to teach
<v Speaker 4>somebody the other day to I've done it before, but
<v Speaker 4>to do like a Sean conriy. You know, you go like, well,
<v Speaker 4>where does his voice sit? Is there a lot of air?
<v Speaker 4>Is there a lot of air going through? And I
<v Speaker 4>feel on the air. No, for Sean Conry, it's almost
<v Speaker 4>like these glottal stops, which is it's like very little
<v Speaker 4>air happening right. So uh, and where's the pitch? It's
<v Speaker 4>it's low, right, So if I talk like this, it
<v Speaker 4>doesn't sound like Sean Conry at all. So then you go, Okay,
<v Speaker 4>what's his music? Oh, since it might be a little
<v Speaker 4>bit of music happening right, And then you go, does
<v Speaker 4>he have any speech impediments or anything?
<v Speaker 1>Well, for Sean Conry, his teeth, I don't know.
<v Speaker 4>Whatever shes The s are all shs right, Yes, that's right.
<v Speaker 4>And then then he's.
<v Speaker 3>Got the accent, a Scottish accent. Yes, show show.
<v Speaker 4>You start adding those things together and you say, yes,
<v Speaker 4>hello that listen. You're planning for world domination at ov Jack,
<v Speaker 4>you know, and like that's great.
<v Speaker 1>You start like, you know, and it doesn't help hurt
<v Speaker 1>to have that cheek.
<v Speaker 4>Poppy court my keith a looche, you know, So that's awesome.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>So whenever I do that, I break it down into
<v Speaker 4>a lot of pieces and then try to put.
<v Speaker 3>All of them back together, and how long does that
<v Speaker 3>usually take you? Like, when you hear a voice like
<v Speaker 3>my voice, how long would it take you to recreate?
<v Speaker 4>It would probably take me, you know, sometimes as fast,
<v Speaker 4>but most of the time, I really have to break
<v Speaker 4>it apart and hear where I'm hearing the placement and everything.
<v Speaker 4>So maybe half an hour, you know, but I'd have to.
<v Speaker 3>Listen to it a long time.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, you know. Wow. And I'm not always exactly I'm
<v Speaker 4>always very good about letting my agent know and I
<v Speaker 4>don't because we get these voice matched auditions often, right,
<v Speaker 4>and if it's not really one hundred percent dead on,
<v Speaker 4>I don't want to submit because I don't want to.
<v Speaker 1>Like boy, I agree, you know.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, you know, every voice you'd be the T
<v Speaker 3>one thousand right, right, Glad you got that?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, Yeah, And I'm okay with saying, you know what,
<v Speaker 4>I'm not a dead match for this.
<v Speaker 1>You know.
<v Speaker 4>There was a Danny Avito thing that came in just
<v Speaker 4>a couple of days ago as an audition. It was
<v Speaker 4>a sound alike for Danny DeVito, and I gave it
<v Speaker 4>a try. I listened and I tried, and I just
<v Speaker 4>didn't sound like Danny DeVito. I sounded like, I don't know,
<v Speaker 4>some New York Cabby or something. By the end of
<v Speaker 4>it might be close. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Wow, that's amazing. Well, speaking of Danny DeVito, I was
<v Speaker 1>singing Danny DeVito and Hercules. So you did You're my
<v Speaker 1>one Last hope? Pushing that depends on you.
<v Speaker 4>I'm going to send you this audition that I got
<v Speaker 4>a couple of days for you to do that.
<v Speaker 1>Danny DeVito. Yeah, sound.
<v Speaker 3>So how did you go about finding his voice?
<v Speaker 1>I listened to him doing the first part of the
<v Speaker 1>song and it really it was it was a voice match, obviously,
<v Speaker 1>but it was They call it sweetening. And that's when
<v Speaker 1>you like with Jeremy Irons and Lion King, I just
<v Speaker 1>sang the song, yeah, and he wasn't in it. He
<v Speaker 1>did the talking and then I did singing. But Danny
<v Speaker 1>was not bad throughout most of the song. So what
<v Speaker 1>you do is you get the music and you listen.
<v Speaker 1>You listen, and because it's never he's never going to
<v Speaker 1>be right on every note, so they just have you
<v Speaker 1>do the whole song and then like You're my one
<v Speaker 1>last hope. Whoops, Okay, you are my one last hope.
<v Speaker 1>That was me and they'll they'll go I've seen them
<v Speaker 1>do it, and it's literally the clunker's coming up, pulled
<v Speaker 1>him down, pulled jim up, and we're back to day.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, you know.
<v Speaker 1>And it's interesting physically that they physically it wouldn't go
<v Speaker 1>like that.
<v Speaker 3>So they're like piecing together both performances.
<v Speaker 1>And yeah, both the performances to end up on key
<v Speaker 1>and yeah, yeah interesting. Yeah, it was a kind of
<v Speaker 1>a cool process.
<v Speaker 4>And they do that a lot with sound alike. Like
<v Speaker 4>I said, they'll be a line before and a line
<v Speaker 4>after and we got to plug in that centerpiece. Yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>and that happens often. That's fascinating.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's an interesting and I and I always whenever
<v Speaker 1>I have had to do that, I like it. The
<v Speaker 1>more character in the voice the better because it's like
<v Speaker 1>the last thing you want to do is I don't know,
<v Speaker 1>you know, imitate not Jay Lenno, I don't know, Jimmy
<v Speaker 1>Fallon or something just doesn't have anything that distinct about
<v Speaker 1>his voice, right, you know, it's like the last thing
<v Speaker 1>you want. Give me somebody weird, you know, so you
<v Speaker 1>can hang your head'b me some character. Yeah, yeah, that's
<v Speaker 1>the way. But that's not not not as much of
<v Speaker 1>that going on as they used to be. I think,
<v Speaker 1>I don't know, if I don't know, I don't know why,
<v Speaker 1>but just maybe actors are getting better at being themselves,
<v Speaker 1>who knows.
<v Speaker 4>And I think there's so many more actors in this pool. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>you know, like when we started, when you started, you
<v Speaker 4>werehead of me by decade or so, right, And then
<v Speaker 4>when I started, there was still a small group. I
<v Speaker 4>would say, like, you know, all the voice actors, maybe
<v Speaker 4>two hundred of us, you know, it seemed like, And
<v Speaker 4>now I'd say it's in the thousands of voice actors.
<v Speaker 3>Voice actors at one convention now, right, right, exactly.
<v Speaker 4>Some of those those signing conventions, nostalgic cons and stuff,
<v Speaker 4>those are there's a couple hundred people there, you know.
<v Speaker 4>So yeah, that's just a tenth of the pie, right,
<v Speaker 4>So yeah.
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<v Speaker 1>you do a lot of conventions?
<v Speaker 4>You know, I have been over the last few years.
<v Speaker 4>I've done them over the last twenty years, maybe five
<v Speaker 4>or ten a year, maybe, but over the last three years,
<v Speaker 4>I've been doing a lot of them. There's an anime
<v Speaker 4>show that I'm on called Jiu Jitsu Kaisen. We traded.
<v Speaker 4>We traded those lines, but it's a phenomenon. It was voted,
<v Speaker 4>not voted, it was. It won the Guinness Book of
<v Speaker 4>World Records for twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four
<v Speaker 4>as the most watched television show on Earth.
<v Speaker 1>That's insane.
<v Speaker 4>Wow, insane, And I played one of wonderful main characters
<v Speaker 4>and two of them main character that's great. Yeah, And
<v Speaker 4>so the the the call for me to be at
<v Speaker 4>these conventions has increased quite sure. So I'm taking advantage
<v Speaker 4>of it. I'm riding the wave while there's waves to
<v Speaker 4>be ridden.
<v Speaker 1>You know.
<v Speaker 3>Wow, that is amazing, so cool. One of your one
<v Speaker 3>of my favorite roles that you played was doctor Neo Kortex.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yes, Doctor.
<v Speaker 3>He's a fun character, such a fun character. And you
<v Speaker 3>worked with Jess Harnell right.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, just played Crash Bandicoot for a long time. There's
<v Speaker 4>a new guy that's doing it just the last couple
<v Speaker 4>of things. His name is Scott White. He's also a
<v Speaker 4>voice actor. Real good guy. But yeah, gosh, it's been
<v Speaker 4>twenty two years of that character.
<v Speaker 1>Wow.
<v Speaker 3>So so the games I was playing as a child.
<v Speaker 1>Literally were you?
<v Speaker 4>That was it?
<v Speaker 3>That's it exactly. Wow, such great memories.
<v Speaker 1>Good for you.
<v Speaker 4>I used to really fight when someone would say, oh,
<v Speaker 4>you're part of my childhood. I would like, I'm not
<v Speaker 4>old enough to be your childhood yet, you know, but
<v Speaker 4>now enough, and now it's like a multi generational thing.
<v Speaker 4>It's like a part of your child's childhood. I was
<v Speaker 4>part of your childhood.
<v Speaker 3>And your mom and dad's childhood.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it took me a while to get used to
<v Speaker 1>there's a guy like my age. No, I wasn't a
<v Speaker 1>part of your childhood. Plan that was That was sterling
<v Speaker 1>all the way. Yes, you know, but then the kids
<v Speaker 1>will be sitting there and yeah, I guess you're right.
<v Speaker 1>I guess I was. Yeah, but I'll take it.
<v Speaker 4>I will too.
<v Speaker 1>I you know.
<v Speaker 4>That's one of the things at conventions that is really
<v Speaker 4>satisfying to me is the connection between the people who
<v Speaker 4>come up, take the time to wait in a line
<v Speaker 4>and then come up and tell me what the character
<v Speaker 4>that I've played and the show that I was in
<v Speaker 4>meant to them. That's right, it's amazing.
<v Speaker 3>It's like, what would you say the most popular characters
<v Speaker 3>that you get asked about?
<v Speaker 4>Are it varies? You know, I've done about six hundred
<v Speaker 4>characters in thirty one years. I saw your credits. I
<v Speaker 4>was just kept scrolling and scrolling, the scrolling fifth of them.
<v Speaker 4>That often people come to see me for doctor Doom.
<v Speaker 4>I've done in a few things, Batman and a few things.
<v Speaker 1>Was going to give us some Doctor Doom because Doctor
<v Speaker 1>Doom's he's like the villain.
<v Speaker 4>It's amazing, right, So he's it. He has a slight
<v Speaker 4>lot of very an accent, and so he's like, you
<v Speaker 4>are no match for Doom. He's just very sinister, right,
<v Speaker 4>you will have no idea what you're dealing with. It's
<v Speaker 4>just very simple, but very like you know, because he's
<v Speaker 4>a sorcerer. He's incredibly intelligent. Yes, you know, he's got
<v Speaker 4>all these powers and skills and he's really not afraid
<v Speaker 4>of anyone.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, he's as smart as read Richard's easily. Easily, so easily.
<v Speaker 3>You see like a surgeon popularity with like Avengers Doomsday
<v Speaker 3>coming out a little bit.
<v Speaker 4>You know, I think does that carry over? It does
<v Speaker 4>a little bit. Yeah, I think that. What I've noticed
<v Speaker 4>is some people think that Robert Downey Jr. Is going
<v Speaker 4>to just be cast as Doctor Doom in this standalone
<v Speaker 4>Doctor Doom thing. And then there's a bunch of people
<v Speaker 4>who are very much into the comic books who said
<v Speaker 4>that there's a whole series of comics. I think it's
<v Speaker 4>three volumes where Doctor Doom goes back in time and
<v Speaker 4>takes over Tony Stark. So I believe that that would
<v Speaker 4>be the smart way for them to go because I
<v Speaker 4>have a hard time peeling away Tony Stark in an
<v Speaker 4>Avengers film making him doctor Doom. You know, like when
<v Speaker 4>they said he was cast is that, I was like, what, Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>that doesn't. But when these comic book guys were like, no, no, no,
<v Speaker 4>he goes back in time takes over Tony Stark, I'm like, well,
<v Speaker 4>I hope that's the one they're doing. It makes more sense.
<v Speaker 3>Let's sing like either that or like the multiverse. You know,
<v Speaker 3>you can pretty much do anything with the multi verse. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>like all right, that's infinite possibilities.
<v Speaker 4>But still the cast the same guy and two different
<v Speaker 4>multiverses as two different characters.
<v Speaker 1>But it's downy June. We all love you, We all
<v Speaker 1>love j right, Yeah, I gotta love that guy.
<v Speaker 4>It was funny speaking of Doctor Doom when I was
<v Speaker 4>working on Avengers Earth's Mighty as Heroes, which is the
<v Speaker 4>Doctor Doom really. I mean I worked on a couple
<v Speaker 4>of video games also, and you know, Marvel Heroes and
<v Speaker 4>things as Doctor Doom. But when I was when I
<v Speaker 4>was doing the part, stan Lee was in the building
<v Speaker 4>and he had stepped in just to watch what I
<v Speaker 4>was doing for a couple of minutes, and then he
<v Speaker 4>stepped out and I didn't even realize it was him
<v Speaker 4>until after the session. I was walking out and he
<v Speaker 4>was walking out, and I was like, that's Stanley. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>oh my god, can I get it? Yeah, I'm playing
<v Speaker 4>Doctor Doom in there. And he's like, I know it,
<v Speaker 4>you know, he sounds like this guy. And I was like, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>can I get a quick picture with you? And I
<v Speaker 4>was like great, And I took a picture and the
<v Speaker 4>left and I didn't even introduce myself, like as my name,
<v Speaker 4>I'm just playing doctor. So a few years later at.
<v Speaker 1>Comic con, it's like meeting Mount Rushmore.
<v Speaker 4>Right, right.
<v Speaker 3>Oh.
<v Speaker 4>A few years later I saw him at a comic con.
<v Speaker 4>It was a wizard World, I think, and he has
<v Speaker 4>his setup where he's got his table in the front
<v Speaker 4>and then there's the curtain behind, and behind that he
<v Speaker 4>makes like a lounge where he's got a he's got
<v Speaker 4>a couch.
<v Speaker 1>It's kind of like this.
<v Speaker 4>He's got a real comptable space. He had this giant well
<v Speaker 4>what is it like an ice chest more or less,
<v Speaker 4>this giant ice bind that had all these orange crush
<v Speaker 4>in it, right drank. He loved orange crush. So I
<v Speaker 4>popped my head back there and I said, mister Lee,
<v Speaker 4>I met you a few years ago, and he goes, yes,
<v Speaker 4>I remember, you know, like this is a terrible Stanley voice, right,
<v Speaker 4>But I was like, I play Doctor Doom and Avengers
<v Speaker 4>Earth's Mightiest heroes and he goes, y're my favorite. Oh,
<v Speaker 4>And I was like, you know, I just melted under
<v Speaker 4>the floor. That was right. It was like I can't
<v Speaker 4>believe it. And even if he says that to everyone
<v Speaker 4>like that was still great. I got one of those guys.
<v Speaker 4>He said it too, right, and so from that point
<v Speaker 4>on I was like, oh man, my life is complete
<v Speaker 4>with doom, no kidding. Yeah. So he was super sweet,
<v Speaker 4>and Sandy came back there, and of course you can't
<v Speaker 4>help but love Sandy when you see her, and she
<v Speaker 4>he was like enough of you, you.
<v Speaker 1>Know, yeah this woman?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah yeah, I totally loved her so much. And we
<v Speaker 4>talked with him for about ten minutes and he was
<v Speaker 4>super sweet, really down to earth, you know.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. I met him when we did comic book the
<v Speaker 1>movie Mark Hamill's Oh yeah, Magnum Opus, and he was
<v Speaker 1>just so cool. I mean, he was stan Lee.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah. So I bought a guitar at an auction that
<v Speaker 4>he had signed, and so I have that as one
<v Speaker 4>of my prized guitars. And he's just he was just
<v Speaker 4>such a nice man. And interestingly enough, he passed away
<v Speaker 4>on my birthday, oh you know, which is another connection
<v Speaker 4>to so not a happy coincidence, but still it was like,
<v Speaker 4>you know what, I can always remember when he passed
<v Speaker 4>away because it happened on my birthday. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>So, man, did you always know that you were going
<v Speaker 1>to do this?
<v Speaker 4>I wasn't. I was going to do acting Yeah, voice acting.
<v Speaker 4>Like I said, it was, I had no idea when
<v Speaker 4>it was introduced to me that what a voice actor was.
<v Speaker 1>But I really loved it.
<v Speaker 4>You know, once I got my feet wet, I thought,
<v Speaker 4>you know what, here's something I can really get behind
<v Speaker 4>because as a voice actor, we get to do things
<v Speaker 4>that we would never be cast on camera.
<v Speaker 1>You know, well you're not kidding, you know, like ever, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I mean that's all I don't do any normal person
<v Speaker 1>that couldn't be on camera. I'm all bears and critters
<v Speaker 1>and all. Yeah, weasels and tiggers and things like that.
<v Speaker 4>Great. Yeah, it's amazing. And like I said, you you know,
<v Speaker 4>I know I'm kind of playing it cool right now,
<v Speaker 4>but You've always been like a big inspiration for me.
<v Speaker 4>Oh well thanks, Like I've just looked up to your
<v Speaker 4>talent for for decades. And so, like I said when
<v Speaker 4>I was in the room, when we're recording together, I'm
<v Speaker 4>just like, life is great, you know, to be to
<v Speaker 4>be working in a pure situation like that, it's just uh,
<v Speaker 4>I call my mom my Mom's my mom will be
<v Speaker 4>one hundred and two this this April. Wow, and blessed, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>I God, bless her and after sessions, I call her
<v Speaker 4>and I'm just like, I got to work with the
<v Speaker 4>greatest people today. And oh yeah, Frank, And don't you know,
<v Speaker 4>don't discount yourself. You are right in there with that incredible,
<v Speaker 4>you know, legendary status as a voice.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, it's all one, one role at a time, I say,
<v Speaker 4>you know, because people are God, you did so many roles. Well,
<v Speaker 4>I just did one of a time to go. How
<v Speaker 4>do you keep them all separate in your mind? I'm like,
<v Speaker 4>I don't have to. Yeah, yeah, I show up to
<v Speaker 4>the session. If it's something I've done before, they played
<v Speaker 4>me what I did last time. Yeah, so yeah, it's
<v Speaker 4>easy that way.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>And it's nice because, like if I had to play
<v Speaker 4>like a super old guy who can barely walk, I
<v Speaker 4>can play that guy, and I can play his teenage grandson.
<v Speaker 4>Come on, grandpa, you know whatever. You know, I don't
<v Speaker 4>go too young because some people, you know, try to
<v Speaker 4>stretch down to twelve. I don't.
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, no, yeah, I can't do that.
<v Speaker 4>I'll be the kid in high school after his voice
<v Speaker 4>changes a little.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, maybe while it's cracking.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Oh man, yeah, incredible, amazing.
<v Speaker 3>That's great. Well, should we do some voice swaps?
<v Speaker 1>Are you aware of this game at a little thing
<v Speaker 1>that we do.
<v Speaker 3>A game on this podcast? If you're willing, I'll explain
<v Speaker 3>it right now. Yes, okay, So the voice swaps are
<v Speaker 3>it's pretty simple game. So we'll start out. We'll start
<v Speaker 3>out with Jim. He'll say a line of one of
<v Speaker 3>his iconic characters, you know, let's say Winnie the Poot, like, oh,
<v Speaker 3>stay sweet as honey.
<v Speaker 1>Okay.
<v Speaker 3>He'll do it in obviously Pooh's voice, and then you'll
<v Speaker 3>repeat that line, but in one of your say doctor
<v Speaker 3>Neo Cortex or Victor von Doom, et cetera. And then
<v Speaker 3>we'll make a question back and forth a couple of times. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>how's that sound? That sounds fun?
<v Speaker 1>All right, let's see so okay, how about dark Wing?
<v Speaker 1>Dark how about dark Wing? How about dark Wing? Here's
<v Speaker 1>your line as dark Wing, and you have to repeat
<v Speaker 1>it as your character.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, the Cortex, I am the terror that flaps in
<v Speaker 4>the night. Oh yes, I am the terror that flaps
<v Speaker 4>in the night.
<v Speaker 1>What is wrong with that picture? That's right with it?
<v Speaker 4>Crystals?
<v Speaker 1>Okay, now you give me one of you.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, And okay, how about I'll do Victor von Doom, okay.
<v Speaker 4>And it's this very simple line that is Doom does
<v Speaker 4>not surrender, and who can you do as.
<v Speaker 1>That Pooh does not surrender. Had to be poo. It
<v Speaker 1>had to be poo, It had to be pooh. Use
<v Speaker 1>for the next Kingdom Hearts?
<v Speaker 4>Do you tell people when they when they're when they're
<v Speaker 4>wearing a shirt with poo?
<v Speaker 1>You have poo on your shirt? You ever said? I?
<v Speaker 1>Actually I probably have. Yeah, okay, And then then I
<v Speaker 1>think it's really funny and they go, yeah, yeah, never mind.
<v Speaker 3>One of my favorite stories Jim tells is with Jess
<v Speaker 3>Harnell back in the day and they're going out and
<v Speaker 3>Jess would go over to you some some girls whatever
<v Speaker 3>and say, hey, you know, you know my buddy over
<v Speaker 3>there is Winnie the Pooh and uh, you know, introduce
<v Speaker 3>them that way, get.
<v Speaker 4>The get the numbers or whatever.
<v Speaker 3>Jess calls them poo pooh Hafner Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and uh and and there's I don't know if
<v Speaker 1>this will make it, if I should do this, but
<v Speaker 1>he has a concept that that he would watch because
<v Speaker 1>I always whispered in their ear because you know, if
<v Speaker 1>you see me, it kind of ruins it, so I
<v Speaker 1>whispered my friend Jes like sure, sweetish honey, and there
<v Speaker 1>I go. And then if they go, that's a really
<v Speaker 1>good sign. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, he goes yeah like that. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>of course he's married now, but that's great. We'll just
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<v Speaker 3>Do it now, what's the next voice we should do?
<v Speaker 3>Let's let's think of one. Will you start it off
<v Speaker 3>this time?
<v Speaker 1>Okay, okay, what's one? Really? Don't really do a lot? Oh, like,
<v Speaker 1>let's do like, well, Bunker's d Bobcat Bonkers.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, Bonkers is a good one.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, okay, all right, Hero, I'll give you his his
<v Speaker 1>sort of his chillan.
<v Speaker 2>I'm Bunker's DP Bobcat, the first tone detective in Hollywood Division.
<v Speaker 4>The first tune detective detective.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, who can I do with this?
<v Speaker 4>How about Jagged Stone from Miraculous Ladybug? He says, I'm Bonker.
<v Speaker 2>Who Bunker's d Bobcat the first tone detective Hollywood Division.
<v Speaker 1>Oh right, it's Jagged Stone.
<v Speaker 3>I'm Jagged Stone.
<v Speaker 5>The first tune detective in the Hollywood Division is rock
<v Speaker 5>and Roll.
<v Speaker 4>Man, let's go.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's awesome. It's got a little Mike Myers in there.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah. You know what's funny is when I got to
<v Speaker 4>the session, Yeah, I started with his name is Jagged Stone,
<v Speaker 4>and so what's the first thing that comes to your mind?
<v Speaker 4>Mick Jagger Stones?
<v Speaker 1>Right.
<v Speaker 4>So the very first time I did the character, I
<v Speaker 4>mean I was finding a voice for it.
<v Speaker 5>It was already he man, I was just Jagged Stone,
<v Speaker 5>the lips just like it was as all that right day, right,
<v Speaker 5>you know. And they said, well, that's really good. We
<v Speaker 5>like the idea of an English accent for this guy.
<v Speaker 5>But it's a kid show.
<v Speaker 4>I mean, adults watch it too, but it's like, let's
<v Speaker 4>like make him a little more friendy. I go, how
<v Speaker 4>about I do a little bit of yeah aby els
<v Speaker 4>in powers man?
<v Speaker 3>Like I started doing, like, yeah, mix.
<v Speaker 4>Those two together. So then I was like it's Jagged Stone.
<v Speaker 4>He's a rocker. We love jagged you know, and.
<v Speaker 3>So it kind of mixed the two together and it
<v Speaker 3>almost reminds me of like Russell Brand from Get Him
<v Speaker 3>to the Yeah, a little bit of that. Yeah that's
<v Speaker 3>really good.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah I can hear that. Let's see my turn right.
<v Speaker 4>Oh. There was a character I played on The Regular Show.
<v Speaker 4>His name was Barry and he lived underneath the shag
<v Speaker 4>carpet of a car backseat and he lived there for
<v Speaker 4>twenty years.
<v Speaker 1>He lived underneath the shag carpet of a car of
<v Speaker 1>a car the back seat, but the backseat to back seat,
<v Speaker 1>not the front.
<v Speaker 4>For twenty years he lived there. He was in trouble
<v Speaker 4>with the law, and yes he was. The episode was
<v Speaker 4>called The Every Meat Burrito. And the way they found
<v Speaker 4>this guy was they set the burrito bag down on
<v Speaker 4>the carpet and then it just went down into the carpet,
<v Speaker 4>and so they followed him down into the carpet. And
<v Speaker 4>it's a really funny episode. But at one point he goes, hey.
<v Speaker 1>Man, that's my burrito.
<v Speaker 3>Man.
<v Speaker 1>So okay, so who am I supposed to Who should
<v Speaker 1>I be able to do that?
<v Speaker 3>Who's like the closest character you have to a stoner?
<v Speaker 1>Oh my gosh. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Uh, I would say I would say cheshire cat, but
<v Speaker 3>that's not really a stone What about tiger Tigger?
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, let's try tigger.
<v Speaker 4>Hey man, that's my burrito.
<v Speaker 1>Man, Hey man, that's my burrito.
<v Speaker 4>Man.
<v Speaker 1>Bounce out of here. Wow, okay, don't try that at home.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, that character. When I got there, they said we
<v Speaker 4>really wanted to be kind of like Dennis Hopper from
<v Speaker 4>Apocalypse Now. He was the photographer and that. Yeah, And
<v Speaker 4>I was like, let's watch a little bit of him.
<v Speaker 4>And he had like this thing man where he was
<v Speaker 4>like all kind of wired up and you know, and so.
<v Speaker 1>He's yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's out there man.
<v Speaker 4>Oh yeah, oh man, you know. And so we threw
<v Speaker 4>that and it just went worked great.
<v Speaker 1>Oh that's good.
<v Speaker 4>There's a scene from uh a show. It's not a show,
<v Speaker 4>it's a movie. It was called Karate Girl in the
<v Speaker 4>seventies and it's known as having the worst death scene
<v Speaker 4>of all time in a movie where like the lady
<v Speaker 4>shoots the guy and you can see he's got like
<v Speaker 4>a catchup pack in his hand, right, and she shoots
<v Speaker 4>him and he goes ah, and then she shoots him
<v Speaker 4>again and he goes ah, like he falls against the walls.
<v Speaker 4>You might have seen this, it's like been a meme
<v Speaker 4>or whatever. Oh, but it's really funny. And the guy
<v Speaker 4>just she keeps shooting him and he key bounces against
<v Speaker 4>the mirror on the wall. Then he falls into the
<v Speaker 4>desk and he wipes swipes away all the stuff on
<v Speaker 4>the desk while he's dying right like it's all it's
<v Speaker 4>the worst death scene ever. And that character in the
<v Speaker 4>Regular Show they mimicked that whole scene. So at one point,
<v Speaker 4>you know, he's saying, that's my burrito man, and they
<v Speaker 4>walk up they hit him right and he's like ah,
<v Speaker 4>and they're going.
<v Speaker 1>Like, what's he doing overacting?
<v Speaker 4>It was really funny though.
<v Speaker 1>He's going for the anti.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, it's a fan anti Ascar. Yeah, he's a favorite
<v Speaker 4>on that show, that one episode.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's really good, funny. Oh Box, thanks for being here. Man.
<v Speaker 3>Wow wait wait wait, I heard a great story about you.
<v Speaker 3>I want you to retell it about you dressing up
<v Speaker 3>as Han Solo, going to conventions as a kid, and
<v Speaker 3>then eventually coming to play on So yeah, I thought
<v Speaker 3>that was a really cool full circus moment.
<v Speaker 4>Wow, that is one of the most amazing things. There's
<v Speaker 4>two full circle moments for me. The first one, I'll
<v Speaker 4>just be brief because it's not the Han solo one.
<v Speaker 4>My brother who passed away about ten years ago. Before
<v Speaker 4>he passed away, he was the biggest Batman fan you
<v Speaker 4>could possibly ever have. I mean, Gotham City on one arm,
<v Speaker 4>the bad signal on the other arm, his car with
<v Speaker 4>lights that had bad things, this and that, the bat match,
<v Speaker 4>the bad thing. I mean, he had everything. And one
<v Speaker 4>of the greatest moments that was like full circle for
<v Speaker 4>me was being able to play Batman and have him
<v Speaker 4>come to a student session and watch his brother great
<v Speaker 4>Batman and.
<v Speaker 1>Just like he was.
<v Speaker 4>That's the most proud I ever remember him being. And
<v Speaker 4>just like just oh, he was almost in tears. He
<v Speaker 4>was just like this could couldn't be. The only way
<v Speaker 4>could be greater is if he were playing Batman.
<v Speaker 1>Right.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah. He was an actor too, but never a voice actor. Okay,
<v Speaker 4>that's the story about my brother.
<v Speaker 1>How cool.
<v Speaker 4>It was amazing cool. So when I was fifteen sixteen
<v Speaker 4>years old, we would go to these sci fi conventions,
<v Speaker 4>you know, Star Wars fans, and I would always dress
<v Speaker 4>as Han solo and my three or four friends would
<v Speaker 4>be the rest of the crew, right, Princess Leiah Luke Chewy.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>And so I did that like year after year, and
<v Speaker 4>then a few years after I became a voice actor,
<v Speaker 4>the Han Solo audition came across, you know, and I
<v Speaker 4>was like, oh, this is this is a real thing,
<v Speaker 4>playing Han Solo for a real Star Wars something. And
<v Speaker 4>so my agent said, you know, she didn't say, don't
<v Speaker 4>get your hopes up, but she said, there's a really
<v Speaker 4>big pool. They're auditioning like four hundred people in four
<v Speaker 4>different cities, so you're in this. There's a lot of
<v Speaker 4>people auditioning for this. And I said, okay, that's fine.
<v Speaker 4>So I auditioned. A month later, they came back, okay,
<v Speaker 4>you're down to the top thirty two or whatever it was.
<v Speaker 4>And then a month later it came down to sixteen,
<v Speaker 4>and then eight, and then when we were down to eight,
<v Speaker 4>they gave us the actual audio of Harrison Ford from
<v Speaker 4>a New Hope, without any special effects, without any you know,
<v Speaker 4>I still have those without any music, no effect. It
<v Speaker 4>was just off of his mic, Harrison Ford talking and
<v Speaker 4>doing all his lines you know from the movie, and
<v Speaker 4>so as a fan, as an uber fan, I just
<v Speaker 4>like and as a voice match guy. Everything I just
<v Speaker 4>sunk into that. And then it just kept going and
<v Speaker 4>going until I got the part. My agent, it was
<v Speaker 4>Sandy Schnarr at the time. She called me, and she
<v Speaker 4>was really sweet. She almost pretended like I didn't get
<v Speaker 4>the part. She's like, hey, you know what you came
<v Speaker 4>to me, did she?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it must be her shtick.
<v Speaker 4>It's just a little thing like, oh, you did so well,
<v Speaker 4>you got so far. You should be proud of how
<v Speaker 4>far you came in this part. And I just wanted
<v Speaker 4>to tell you, no matter what happened, you should feel
<v Speaker 4>good about it, you know. She was like pumping me
<v Speaker 4>up a loss, right right. And then she said, oh,
<v Speaker 4>and by the way, you got the part, you know,
<v Speaker 4>And I was like, wait, wait, wait, wait, what's the
<v Speaker 4>bad news? What's yeah exactly, what's the priming for the
<v Speaker 4>bad news? But when I got the part, I hung
<v Speaker 4>up the phone, you know, Oh, thank you for playing
<v Speaker 4>it cool. I hung up the phone and I was
<v Speaker 4>literally running around my house screaming like a teenager. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>just like, oh my god, I got Hansole, Oh my god,
<v Speaker 4>I got Hansole. You know, and I called my friends
<v Speaker 4>who I went to high school with and I would cosplay. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>we're still in touch. And I called them and say,
<v Speaker 4>you would never guess on this next game that's coming
<v Speaker 4>out for Star Wars, I'm playing Han Solo and I
<v Speaker 4>played them for a few games and it was great.
<v Speaker 4>I got to say stuff like watch your mouth, kid,
<v Speaker 4>you're gonna find yourself floating home, you know, like that
<v Speaker 4>kind of stuff. That's great, good, great. So it was just, uh,
<v Speaker 4>it was such a great thrill and still to this day.
<v Speaker 4>I mean, I've done so much Star Wars stuff in
<v Speaker 4>my career. Now. I've been Stormtroopers in like nineteen video games.
<v Speaker 4>I did voices for Stormtroopers and for the movies. I
<v Speaker 4>played podammer In for video games, and Lego I played,
<v Speaker 4>you know, on Solo for video games. So to me,
<v Speaker 4>Star Wars is like.
<v Speaker 3>Did they ask you to sound like Oscar Isaac?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah they did.
<v Speaker 4>What's funny though, is when I did the first Lego game,
<v Speaker 4>they it was before the release of the movie where
<v Speaker 4>Oscar Isaac was playing podamer In, and I said, okay,
<v Speaker 4>so what does he sound like And They're like, well,
<v Speaker 4>it's it's under Lock and Key. They won't give us anything.
<v Speaker 4>It's Oscar Isaac and I was like, Oscar Isaac, okay.
<v Speaker 4>So I looked up Ex Machina, which was a movie
<v Speaker 4>he was in, and I didn't get any like real
<v Speaker 4>vibe from him, and I was like, well, what do
<v Speaker 4>you want me to do? Is when I got to
<v Speaker 4>the session, they said, we want you to do him
<v Speaker 4>kind of like Hansolo, keep him real roguey. I think
<v Speaker 4>that was an actual term to use, rogue, and I
<v Speaker 4>was like rogue okay. So I just kind of gave
<v Speaker 4>him like a han Solo thing, you know, almost right.
<v Speaker 4>And then when he says his name at one point
<v Speaker 4>in this one lego thing, I did and it's Po
<v Speaker 4>dammer in right, And I said it's Po Dammering and
<v Speaker 4>the director, one of the assistants, said, well, I think
<v Speaker 4>it's Damarn in this and I was like, wells spelled
<v Speaker 4>like Cameron but with a D in front, and they said,
<v Speaker 4>we'll just give it to us as Damarn because I
<v Speaker 4>think so I was like, I'm Poe Dammaron. I'm here
<v Speaker 4>to help you, you know, and it wasn't it was Dammarn,
<v Speaker 4>you know. So later the movie came out and I'm like,
<v Speaker 4>oh shoot. So when I got cast as Poe for
<v Speaker 4>Battlefront two, which was a video game, it was another
<v Speaker 4>great game. I was like, Okay, now now I know
<v Speaker 4>it's Poe. And I listened to him in the movies
<v Speaker 4>and stuff and one last little story. I know we've
<v Speaker 4>already talked our time, I guess, but I was. There
<v Speaker 4>was a show called Resistance where I was cast. It's
<v Speaker 4>an animated series on Disney that I was cast as
<v Speaker 4>a major Vaughan Regg, who's this tie fighter, the bad
<v Speaker 4>guy of the show. And when I was cast as that,
<v Speaker 4>they also said, how's your Oscar Isaac, And I was like,
<v Speaker 4>it's pretty good.
<v Speaker 1>I said, there's a question.
<v Speaker 3>Why askar experienced? He has water and food, so yeah,
<v Speaker 3>he's good.
<v Speaker 1>He's taking care of so I.
<v Speaker 4>I played the po Dommron character for the first eleven episodes,
<v Speaker 4>and then on episode twelve when I got there, I
<v Speaker 4>was coming in to play Poe and and also major
<v Speaker 4>Von Regg, and the director was like, and I was like,
<v Speaker 4>is he feeling OK. There we go, here we go.
<v Speaker 4>Something's not working. He goes like, le's got talking for
<v Speaker 4>a minute. I'm like, yeah, sure. He goes We love
<v Speaker 4>what you're doing. Your pote, your pot Dimmern is fucking
<v Speaker 4>oh excuse me, is perfect. It's great. But we made
<v Speaker 4>the offer to Oscar Isaac nine months ago and he
<v Speaker 4>just got back to us that he would accept the offer.
<v Speaker 4>So he's going to be playing Potammer when I'm hurry, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>I know. Can we wait till the end of the
<v Speaker 4>season him pick it up and then you know, but
<v Speaker 4>you know, I thought, if you have to be replaced
<v Speaker 4>by somebody, how about the original guy that plays the character.
<v Speaker 4>You know, it's like no sweat, you know. So, but
<v Speaker 4>it was funny because during the sessions, do you ever
<v Speaker 4>have a gym where when you're gonna do a character,
<v Speaker 4>you come up up with a line that you say
<v Speaker 4>first to like get into that character. Oh yeah, you
<v Speaker 4>ever did that, like justcline to get you in there? Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>So for Podammer in I had the scene when he's
<v Speaker 4>talking to BB eight and he's about to split up
<v Speaker 4>and he says, I'll come back for you. So before
<v Speaker 4>I did any line, I would always go, Okay, BB eight,
<v Speaker 4>I'll come back for you. Don't worry BB eight, All right,
<v Speaker 4>let's go, you know, and i'd have like that that
<v Speaker 4>sense of what to say, right. So I did that
<v Speaker 4>for the doorman too. Oh yeah, curious George. I was
<v Speaker 4>thinking I'd say it out loud and most of the time,
<v Speaker 4>but I'd be like, a doorman's door is as important
<v Speaker 4>as his uniform. That kind of old timey guy that's
<v Speaker 4>very happy and very pleased, you know, like that's him.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I know that, dude, Yeah, I know that dude.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Well that's so cool.
<v Speaker 3>Since set the set the Guinness Book of World Mikers
<v Speaker 3>from US watch it, I feel like we have to
<v Speaker 3>hear some voices.
<v Speaker 1>So check it out.
<v Speaker 4>One last story when I got to the session. Actually,
<v Speaker 4>the first sessions we had were during COVID and we
<v Speaker 4>were doing them remotely. And this particular show is done
<v Speaker 4>what they call simulcast, so it comes out on a
<v Speaker 4>Monday in Japan. It goes to the English adaptation writer
<v Speaker 4>on Tuesday, which is basically a guy who's going to
<v Speaker 4>take the literal translation and adapt it so that the
<v Speaker 4>mouth flaps fit the English. For example, in Japanese, good
<v Speaker 4>morning is ohiogazaimas, so in the Japanese animation it's up up, up,
<v Speaker 4>up up up right, Well, good morning is way I yes,
<v Speaker 4>So they have to the adaptation writer has to write, Hey, everybody,
<v Speaker 4>good morning or whatever if they you know, fill fill
<v Speaker 4>it in. Yeah, And so that happens on Tuesday. Wednesday,
<v Speaker 4>the director gets that piece that that new script, and
<v Speaker 4>then we record from Wednesday to Wednesday, and then on
<v Speaker 4>Wednesday they turn it into Crunchy role or whoever's playing it,
<v Speaker 4>and then the following morning the English dub comes out.
<v Speaker 4>So when I did the session, I said to the director, well,
<v Speaker 4>tell me about this character, like, is he a good
<v Speaker 4>guy or bad guy? And he goes, I don't know,
<v Speaker 4>and I was like, okay.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, that helps.
<v Speaker 4>And the version I played two versions of this character.
<v Speaker 4>One his name is Sugaru Gatto, and he's like, he's
<v Speaker 4>a sorcerer guy. But then later he dies and he
<v Speaker 4>gets his he gets possessed by this brain entity that
<v Speaker 4>is named ken Joku, and Kenjaku when he's he's in
<v Speaker 4>the same body, but he has this giant scar across
<v Speaker 4>his forehead.
<v Speaker 1>That's how you know which one's which.
<v Speaker 4>So season one was this character named Kenjoku that the
<v Speaker 4>director didn't know about. He just knew about Sugaru Gatto, right,
<v Speaker 4>So I get that I'm like, what's the scar across
<v Speaker 4>his head about? And he goes, I don't know.
<v Speaker 1>I had a bad night.
<v Speaker 4>I was like, wait a minute, you don't know what
<v Speaker 4>the character is and you don't, so what do you
<v Speaker 4>want me to do with.
<v Speaker 1>My red guy?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah? Sure, I'm even playing this guy. I said, what
<v Speaker 4>do you want me to do with the character's voice?
<v Speaker 4>And he goes, just kind of use your own voice.
<v Speaker 4>So I'm like, okay, I can do that. But he's
<v Speaker 4>like good or bad like that? Where am I like too?
<v Speaker 4>It's like what's his motive in this show? And he goes,
<v Speaker 4>he's very mysterious. Just kind of keep him mysterious right now.
<v Speaker 4>And so I did, like my own voice almost like
<v Speaker 4>this very mysterious for the first season, and then we
<v Speaker 4>did a movie right after that. And when I went
<v Speaker 4>in to do the movie a year or so later,
<v Speaker 4>there was a new director and the movie was a
<v Speaker 4>flashback before he had the scar, and he was still
<v Speaker 4>this older this other character, younger guy. And so I
<v Speaker 4>came in and I said, oh, wait, he doesn't have
<v Speaker 4>the scar. What happened to his scr And the director goes, well,
<v Speaker 4>he's not Ken Jocku anymore. And I was like, who's
<v Speaker 4>ken Jacku, Like I didn't know anything because he never
<v Speaker 4>told me the name of Kenjaku. And so she goes, whoa, whoa,
<v Speaker 4>whoa stop, come into the booth and she had all
<v Speaker 4>the manga, which is like the you know, the animation
<v Speaker 4>magazines and stuff. And she showed me all the manga
<v Speaker 4>and we looked at the flashbacks in the film, and
<v Speaker 4>she's like, he's a good guy, but he's a villain.
<v Speaker 4>He turns dark, you know, And she like gave me
<v Speaker 4>the whole story on the character, and I was like, ah, okay,
<v Speaker 4>I can start pulling out of the mysterious zone and
<v Speaker 4>into the character himself.
<v Speaker 1>So I did that in the movie.
<v Speaker 4>And then when we got to season two, there was
<v Speaker 4>a new director who knew it as good as the
<v Speaker 4>film director, or even better. And by that time, once
<v Speaker 4>I saw the film when it came out before season
<v Speaker 4>two happened, I fell in love with the show. It's
<v Speaker 4>a great show, and I was like, you know what,
<v Speaker 4>I'm going to start reading the manga myself so I
<v Speaker 4>can get ahead of the game. So I read all
<v Speaker 4>the way to the end. So by the time season
<v Speaker 4>two started, I was like, I know everything there is
<v Speaker 4>to know about this character, about this show. It felt
<v Speaker 4>so I know where he has been, I know where
<v Speaker 4>he's going, I know where any flashback takes him, you know. Like,
<v Speaker 4>so for the viewers out there that watch the show,
<v Speaker 4>you'll notice he's very mysterious and he sounds a lot
<v Speaker 4>like me. In season one and then season two he
<v Speaker 4>starts chewing down on the meat of it all and
<v Speaker 4>season Yeah, in season two in the movie, it's like,
<v Speaker 4>I know where I'm at now, So no, there you go,
<v Speaker 4>and we're in season three right now, we just about
<v Speaker 4>to go to I think it's so twelve of season
<v Speaker 4>three right now.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, congrats. So that was his voice.
<v Speaker 4>He has this line people always we traded it out
<v Speaker 4>when we did our first little promo for this, but
<v Speaker 4>it's people are always asking him to say filthy monkey
<v Speaker 4>who can't even use jiu jitsu?
<v Speaker 1>Right, remember that?
<v Speaker 3>Well, what character would you be to say that line?
<v Speaker 1>Oh gosh, there would be a p right that would
<v Speaker 1>probably that could be filthy monkey who can't even use
<v Speaker 1>ju jitsu?
<v Speaker 3>Good zoo, tight, Well you said jiu jitsu, but it's
<v Speaker 3>jiu jitsu.
<v Speaker 1>Filthy monkey who can't even use ju jujitsu.
<v Speaker 4>There you go pers Yes, wow, we've had Oh man,
<v Speaker 4>I'm really loving this.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, well good stuff.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, it seems like we have a lot more
<v Speaker 3>to talk about. Times should go part two. Yeah, we'll
<v Speaker 3>do a part two for sure.
<v Speaker 4>We got to bring Sandy in with us too, because yeah,
<v Speaker 4>I could just drop her off and she would do
<v Speaker 4>her own hour or whatever, because.
<v Speaker 1>She you know, she'd be great.
<v Speaker 4>She's Betty Boob, She's Hello Kitty, she's all these anime characters,
<v Speaker 4>and she'd work for Disney for fourteen years in there
<v Speaker 4>and there, let's.
<v Speaker 1>Get her in here.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I'll tell her. I'll tell her for sure. Please
<v Speaker 4>do we should do that? Yeah, and then maybe I'll
<v Speaker 4>pop my head in while she's here.
<v Speaker 1>We do have an extra chair well, and there's a mic. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>actually yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Is there anything you want to promote that's upcoming that
<v Speaker 3>people can look for you social media?
<v Speaker 4>Anything like that, you know, just my social media. It's
<v Speaker 4>at lex lang for Instagram, and it's lex lang TikTok
<v Speaker 4>for my TikTok. And I don't really do x the
<v Speaker 4>Twitter or whatever that. I don't do that too much anymore.
<v Speaker 4>Facebook sort of is by proxy of my Instagram at
<v Speaker 4>automatically loads into my Facebook sometimes. But yeah, you know,
<v Speaker 4>if I didn't have to do social media, I probably
<v Speaker 4>wouldn't be on it as much.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>I enjoy some of the comedy stuff that's out there,
<v Speaker 4>but it takes a lot of time. We have to
<v Speaker 4>do it as part of our career now, you know,
<v Speaker 4>we have to promote the shows we're going to and
<v Speaker 4>a lot do all that stuff. You know, it has its,
<v Speaker 4>it has its benefits. It is actually very entertaining one
<v Speaker 4>minute at a time, you know, But did you did
<v Speaker 4>you run out?
<v Speaker 1>Did you over here?
<v Speaker 4>Okay?
<v Speaker 3>Prepared just like a scar.
<v Speaker 4>And I got to tell you not on not on record,
<v Speaker 4>but off record of one interaction that we had one
<v Speaker 4>time that you will not remember. I guarantee you you
<v Speaker 4>will not remember. But it it It was again like
<v Speaker 4>not for the show. But okay, let's wrap the show
<v Speaker 4>up and then we'll and then we'll I'll tell you
<v Speaker 4>this story.
<v Speaker 1>What do we ask? You have anything you need to
<v Speaker 1>tout and promote?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, nothing to promote right now. There's lots of anime
<v Speaker 4>coming up, lots of video games coming up. I would
<v Speaker 4>love if Bruce tim is out there and you're watching
<v Speaker 4>this show, Bruce, I would absolutely love another crack at Batman,
<v Speaker 4>maybe in my own you know, Bruce, I've been really
<v Speaker 4>studying this character for a long time. Yes, you and
<v Speaker 4>I am ready for a Batman series.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>So, Bruce, if you're out there, connect, let's connect in
<v Speaker 4>some way please.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. So we all want to hear it. Yes, I do.
<v Speaker 4>I want to be able to bring my Batman back
<v Speaker 4>to the ANIA series.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, yes, all right, Well, thank you so much for
<v Speaker 3>being he thank giving us a great conversation. And for
<v Speaker 3>those of you guys who want to see us live,
<v Speaker 3>we're doing a little partnership with Fan Expo this year.
<v Speaker 3>We're doing some live podcasts in front of an audience.
<v Speaker 3>It's a little bit of a higher energy, you know,
<v Speaker 3>it's some different kind of feel. We record it for
<v Speaker 3>everybody so that you can watch, you know, a week
<v Speaker 3>or two later. But I just wanted to announce some
<v Speaker 3>of the upcoming dates for that. The next one we
<v Speaker 3>will be at is Calgary Xpo from April twenty third
<v Speaker 3>to the twenty sixth, followed by Philadelphia Fan Expo May
<v Speaker 3>twenty nine to the thirty first, Chicago Fan Expo August
<v Speaker 3>fourteenth to sixteenth, Toronto. I believe that one's called wonder Con.
<v Speaker 3>Wonder Con, it's still Fan Expo, but I believe it's
<v Speaker 3>called wondercn Toronto August twenty seven to the thirtieth, Dallas
<v Speaker 3>Fan Expo September eleven to thirteenth, and finally San Francisco
<v Speaker 3>November twenty seven to twenty ninth. So if you're in
<v Speaker 3>the area, please stop by. I mean, it's it's a
<v Speaker 3>great time. You get to watch the show live. It's
<v Speaker 3>a it's a different little energy, and you know, we
<v Speaker 3>get some questions and answers afterwards, you get to go
<v Speaker 3>see Jim at the booth afterwards.
<v Speaker 1>If you're not in the area, be in the area.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah yeah, I mean people travel pretty far for these
<v Speaker 3>these conventions.
<v Speaker 1>It's wild. It's wonderful. Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>I mean, like twenty six of them coming up this year.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, right o wow.
<v Speaker 4>So check out my website for further information.
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