A Comic Conversation Ep 33 - Dragon Ball Shenanigans - Animedford 23

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[00:00:18] Comic Con Radio! Get ready to enter our universe! Let's go! Now nerds, we try our best to get you the funnest interviews we can. In this episode is no different, we're coming at you with the triple dose of Dragon Ball on this episode of... A Comic Conversation!

[00:00:50] This episode we got a chance to talk with Peter Calamis, Rick Robertson and Elise Bowman. Three actors who have played in three different eras of Dragon Ball. Not only do we have a fun conversation but we managed to get them to do an improv scene with their characters

[00:01:04] and it was truly an experience to behold. And now we're bringing it to you. So gather all your Dragon Balls, make a wish and try not to get eaten by a giant bubble gum monster. It's time for... A Comic Conversation!

[00:01:19] Alright guys, we got an experience for you here. Now our next guests are an accomplished actor. Well the first one here is an accomplished actor, voice actor, stand-up comedian with over 160 credits on his resume including Goku in Ocean's English Dubs of Dragon Ball Z.

[00:01:36] Next after that guys, cheeseburgers, fries and blueberry pies. We have the voice of Pan from Dragon Ball GT and finally the king of demons himself. Also a delicious cookie. Dabura, ladies and gentlemen please welcome to the stage Peter Calamis, Elise Bowman and Rick Robertson! Any particular...

[00:02:04] Exactly where you guys were at? I guess this would be the order then. Hi! Boom how are we doing guys? Help them adjust their mics. How do we usually stand? Does this thing work?

[00:02:22] Oh my god, this is so amazing that we have three Dragon Ball actors on stage. It's so cool. I don't even want to be on stage, I just want to be in the crowd. I feel like we're on a game show.

[00:02:34] We don't want to be on stage either, so that's good. We need game show buzzers. We'll try to run through this because I know we got some fun things going but for all three of you Do you remember auditioning for your respective roles?

[00:02:46] Can you give us a little story behind that? I'll let you guys pick who goes first. Peter? Specifically for Goku, do you mean? I'm assuming Goku. Yeah, for me it was Ian Corlett was kind of the original O.G. English Goku in North America.

[00:03:02] So he was on the show for a while and had to move on for whatever reasons and then they held open auditions. We had a blanket audition and we got some footage to listen to of Ian doing the role

[00:03:13] and I've said it before me and Ian's cadence is a little similar. I'm a little bit deeper maybe but we would audition for the same projects a lot and it just so happened that they liked what they heard and the next thing I knew

[00:03:26] I had the part and when it came out there was, I didn't know what to expect and some people liked it. A lot of people hated me so much that there was a change and then certain people turned the corner

[00:03:40] like okay well maybe he's okay, maybe I kind of like him now but I remember at the time there were votes online like did you like Ian? And it still continues today with which Goku is your favorite and Ian Corlett puts it the best I think.

[00:03:53] It's almost like saying who's your favorite, James Bond or something. Well it's the one usually that you grew up with, usually. But you're allowed to like any one of them and there's no wrong choice. Why is the Goku standing in front of me here at Anna Medford, right?

[00:04:05] Thank you. Elise how about you? I do remember because I was so excited to audition for Pan and I have asthma and so about twice a year I get a really bad bout and it affects my voice and I got that right before my audition

[00:04:24] and so I was a little rasper than the grandpa that you usually hear but I was like I am going to this audition, I don't care I am making this happen and so for me once I booked it

[00:04:37] and started recording the rasp was gone because I was no longer sick and I wasn't sick contagious but sick with asthma and having trouble speaking and so I was like they're going to fire me

[00:04:48] and so each time I went in to record I'm like okay I'm still here oh okay I'm back and so it was about six or so episodes where I'm like okay I think I got it and then 65 episodes I felt pretty good about it.

[00:05:01] So I very clearly remember auditioning. You bring up a very good life lesson by the way. What's that? People that are worried about being fired almost never get fired and the people that don't almost always do. Then I'm going to worry more. Yeah, that's sad.

[00:05:17] Anyway I feel like a complete fraud because I did not audition or do boring. No no it's not I was friends with Chris Sabat and he said I got a role here I think you'd really like you know we came in and did it and it was fun.

[00:05:32] It was a blast so you know we started doing more stuff. Speaking of firing story I once I don't know if it was firing or just been released from a project it's a nice way to say it but this was an interesting reason why.

[00:05:45] It was an animated series and apparently I never got to see it the final product but it started in real life real world real people and then it went into an animated segment for the whole middle part of the show and then it ended off

[00:05:59] with human beings wrapping up the program. But the interesting thing was it was being produced by Jim Carrey and every episode had a different charity that the show's money was donated to so it was like this fantastic cause every every time.

[00:06:12] So I had recorded it was a massive auditioning and callback process and I landed one of the roles and it was great. You know I recorded like eight episodes and they would have a big guest star every week like a big-name person

[00:06:25] that we never knew who it was going to be because they didn't record with us. So I met an airport and my agent calls and he goes oh hey so you've been cut from that show and I'm like what? I've already done like eight episodes

[00:06:37] and he goes yeah well apparently Jim Carrey was having lunch with Hank Azaria this story sounds weird like unbelievable he's having lunch with Hank Azaria cause he was offering him one of the guest star roles for that week just for the week

[00:06:52] and then Hank Azaria goes well what about that character and he goes sure do that and that was my character so I you know I got paid for the episodes I did but if you're gonna get fired I think getting fired for the Hank Azaria

[00:07:06] it's a pretty good reason I guess I'd hire him too. Absolutely the best way to get fired. The best way to get fired. Yeah it's Hank Azaria. Guys alright so you all came in at different points for Dragon Ball like just Dragon Ball in general right?

[00:07:20] Did you guys any of you guys know what you were getting into when you got into it so it's kind of like were you aware of Dragon Ball and kind of like how much of a massive phenomenon it was I know for Pete you were you were

[00:07:33] you got on fairly early but you know you were towards the end of the show and you were in the next series so it's like you know did you guys know how much of a massive cultural phenomenon Dragon Ball was? No I mean they were before me

[00:07:47] but I even coming in at GT I didn't know I didn't even know anime at the time I then started loving anime I was a fan of animation and when I got into that world I just had no idea

[00:08:02] I certainly didn't know I would be here with you all of these years later so it I feel so lucky to have gotten in on it to a booked fan to have done that for so many years. Yeah I remember I had two sons

[00:08:20] and they were I want to say about maybe seven and nine or ten you know and I thought it would impress them if I was like on Dragon Balls and by the way before that there were no comic-cons that I mean you know what I'm saying

[00:08:33] we didn't have a place to go anyway so my sons not only were they not impressed nobody didn't nobody believed them like when they went to school I said my dad's Deboir and like no he's not and so anyway I went to one of their home rooms

[00:08:49] and this little kid comes marching up to me I'll never forget this and he goes you're not Deboir on Dragon Ball Z yes I am I am the king of the demon world I think I scared him so bad he wet himself I just wet myself right now

[00:09:05] when our daughter was young I had done a number of Barbie DVDs like I think in total I did about eight of them and one of them was a Barbie as a pop star Barbie and a pop star and I played a character called Krider

[00:09:21] which is her Barbie's manager this annoying guy and I remember our daughter watching it and you know my wife saying well that's data and she's like no that's Krider he does the voice for it no not impressed convinced nothing of course nothing yeah

[00:09:44] did you get a lot of don't do that talk in your real voice yeah that's a good one I gotta ask this how much prep work did you guys put into grunting put into what into grunting oh grunting a lot a lot of yes a lot of grunting

[00:10:01] and you know for well I don't know about you guys but even like the fighting I loved I had these moments where I was in the booth going yeah but then it's also the oh and so I was not used to that

[00:10:17] but I would find myself at home closing a cabinet door going you know my husband's like what you doing we don't need sound effects for everything you do at home so that was something that was new to me see I don't have footage of me

[00:10:31] voicing Goku like in the studio but I had to imagine it it's much like you know when a cat is at the window and it sees a bird outside it was pretty much like that I think because we're watching the screen and we're just like ha ha ha

[00:10:44] ha ha ha ha ha ha and cut ha ha that was work for the day and what I love is the scripts medium grunt yeah small oof you know yeah everything in these weird two lines of dialogue and then 18 pages of fighting right yeah Peter you mentioned it

[00:11:07] yesterday tell us about the recording process of how it changed based on the grunting and like how it affects your voice and what not yeah when we started we would do the script chronologically as you would think page one, page two, page three

[00:11:23] but in these massive fight scenes we would have sometimes dialogue in the beginning fight for 18 pages and then have more dialogue and then when we try to do the dialogue at the end our voice was shot so then instead of the producers going

[00:11:36] hey you know maybe we'll give you more time no what they did was they made us do all the dialogue for like five episodes in a row and then we would do all the screaming for five episodes in a row for like four hours

[00:11:47] of literally four hours of screaming so basically like you know you'd have entire sessions because there was entire episodes where all you did was exactly exactly yeah I think I said this to you but I can't remember how many years ago but they decided to

[00:12:00] re-record Dragon Ball Z and Chris Sabat comes to me and he goes it's gonna be all killer no filler and I said less dialogue and more fighting really he goes yeah yeah he loved it and then you got killed off I mean is that what he meant?

[00:12:16] no say that again I said and then you got killed off is that what he meant? no I got eaten I got eaten there's a difference alright let's switch gears let's switch gears so we're at a con what's it been like here at the con

[00:12:26] seeing all these people you know from city to city what has there's reception been like for all of you it's been awesome I signed somebody who was wearing a TV as a head I signed channel to the TV on it yeah he's around he's around somewhere

[00:12:42] he or she is around somewhere because I don't know their face I signed Sam Rysor and then I signed a two month old baby oh so it's been pretty awesome me too you signed the baby too I signed the baby too

[00:12:55] the question is where did you sign the baby was it on the forehead I found a good area on his belly that was clear of signatures so right over the belly button area right around there I'm gonna look for that baby I've been here 30 years from now

[00:13:09] so Brad why have you never bathed you got the autograph we're just throwing it out there that baby is now worth a lot more money so yeah I think the baby is on eBay right now yeah now this convention has been great

[00:13:24] and I just love conventions in general Rick and I did our first convention together in 2018 so we had not gotten the memo about conventions even though some of our Dragon Balls buddies had been doing it for a while so I just love when people come together

[00:13:40] for the anime fandom or Dragon Ball fandom whatever it is so I love the energy of conventions and this one is no exception I love it so thank you all for being here absolutely from us to you please give yourself a huge hand seriously

[00:13:56] we're not here without you and we are very aware of it thank you so much thank you so we've got something fun for all three of you guys here so all three of your respective characters have not been on Dragon Ball at the same time right like

[00:14:09] I mean technically Goku and Pan but different versions of the character right so we want to kind of do something fun for the audience here something for the first time would you guys mind doing a quick little fantasy Dragon Balling not a problem okay yeah

[00:14:26] alright so this is what we're going to do guys who here is familiar with Improv alright cool what we're going to ask them to do is Improv a scene that's never happened in Dragon Ball would you guys like that alright so here's the scene guys

[00:14:40] the scene is this Goku has been transported the Goku during the Frieza like the whole Frieza storyline right has been transported in time and for the first time he's meeting his granddaughter Pan now they're having this whole heart felt get together

[00:14:55] but all of a sudden King DeBora walks in to break up all the fun alright okay go at it well hey hey there little girl who are you well I'm Pan who are you wait a sec I'm not even married well what

[00:15:10] I don't even know what that means either do I this is weird this is weird but they were telling me that you're my grandpa well that's awesome you know I used to have a monkey tail a monkey tail

[00:15:23] what does that have to do with what we're talking about absolutely nothing I'm just very nervous I can tell you're acting a bit weird alright honey I'm home oh I'm sorry what's this little boy doing here I'm a girl you're a girl and she's my granddaughter

[00:15:42] yeah that's my grandpa apparently apparently yes and you are somebody hiding from Majin Buu you wouldn't happen to have an appetite for a cookie would you I like cookies you like cookies I don't I hate cookies why look at me I am a cookie

[00:16:10] oh I didn't hear that part of the improv direction I used to have a monkey tail guys that's amazing we love you guys give them a round of applause here I don't know about you guys the entire time I was waiting for like a joint kamehameha

[00:16:30] kind of like Gohan and Goku and it never happened I think it's because DeBora was just more like obsessed with cookies than he was like you know I'm gonna fight you guys but it's still amazing I love you guys so much

[00:16:45] hey if you guys have questions I mean this is a very very rare and unique opportunity to have these amazing dragon ballers on stage together at the same time at the same con you have questions come on up what's your name buddy ask your question

[00:17:01] what was it like recording for that what was it like recording for Dragon Ball well when we were recording it we did it right off of Nazawa like the original Goku in Japan so we would hear I would hear her actual audio

[00:17:18] in my headphones and then they would play the scene out and we would dub it into English and then we would hear her so I mean looking back now I mean she is like I don't know she's like the Beyonce of the animation world like she's just

[00:17:30] a goddess of animation I mean she's in her 80s now I believe and still doing the role she's incredible and looking back now hearing her and then presenting her to North America it was a bit of an honor it's a bit of a cool feeling

[00:17:44] so it was a really cool experience recording yeah really when I was recording we recorded from script and now on anime we record from a monitor and we see it play back so we were watching playback so we would grab the lines on script

[00:17:59] look at playback of the anime and then record so I still remember that feeling of oh my goodness I'm getting to do this because I was an accountant and then I became an actor so I still remember going this is amazing

[00:18:13] this is so much fun to be able to do the fight scenes and do the little and do the lines and just be acting in general so I still remember that feeling even though it's a long time ago I think it's interesting because

[00:18:28] to me it was like rubbing my stomach and patting my head because is anybody here seeing the movie Mrs. Doubtfire? you remember the opening scene with Robin Williams he's doing voiceover and he's looking at a screen and he's doing his thing it's very much like that

[00:18:42] but you're trying to match your mouth to the Japanese and you're doing your lines so that has to fit just perfectly and then you get to cut loose with whatever you have and it's fun thank you I appreciate that question Hi, what's your name? Kylie

[00:18:58] I forgot to mention that yesterday but yeah that's my name yes I was what's your question? it's for Peter what's your favorite Goku line and can you say it to me? favorite Goku line besides there's a few no there's a few I'm torn one was

[00:19:22] I think I might even get it wrong well they asked me to rearrange his face so I did that was kind of a combo of two of my favorite lines that's awesome that's great at least we know you have a favorite line what's your favorite line?

[00:19:35] I do have a favorite line probably nobody knows about me but cheeseburgers fries and blueberry pies it's what I used to get back into character I have not voiced pan in a while but what I do say all the time is grandpa some former fashion of that

[00:19:51] you know she brings up a very good point a lot of times when you're doing a voice or an impression you have to have a reference line to kind of get you into that character and mine was always yes master Bobbie I don't know why

[00:20:02] but it just put me in there yeah probably was too I guess it's the one line I said the most what's your name? my name's Coral Hi Coral Hi my question was when doing things that are extremely like vocally straining like doing the going saying

[00:20:19] is there any times that you guys like blew out your voices and how to like stop recording for a while my voice would certainly crack at certain takes that's when you start realizing it's getting fatigued and usually like the next couple of days were like really sore

[00:20:34] we used to try to avoid doing any other shows after a Dragon Ball Z record because we'd be really in rough shape yeah I actually never lost my voice doing fighting scenes so I mentioned having asthma I've lost it because of asthma

[00:20:47] one time I worked with Rick a lot and one time wasn't able to do work for him because I lost my voice but doing fighting scenes I've never lost it so don't know why that is but I'm glad yeah well there you go it was funny yesterday

[00:21:02] when we were doing this and I was doing you know ahhhhhhh I actually sort of blew my voice a little bit yesterday and I seriously I got back to the room last night and I'm like I'm sounding really scratchy this is horrible so cool thank you

[00:21:17] how do you practice this at home like in the bathroom mirror just ahhhhhhh yes I do I do that every time every night when I get in the mirror hey what's your name Ashton hey Ashton what's your question my question is when you're doing voice acting

[00:21:34] when you switch from like a fatigued voice to a fighting voice or your regular voice how hard is it to do that so when you switch from did you say a fatigued voice like when you're like hurt oh like when you're hurt so he's asking when you

[00:21:49] switch from a fatigued voice when you're hurt to a fighting voice to something else how hard is that that's a great question I think you know part of it if you're an actor and have been doing it for a while you get accustomed to doing that

[00:22:02] so you know if somebody's wanting to get into it just doing training and practicing so you can either study with somebody to do it or practice on your own so I don't know if I find it hard now do you guys I want to clarify something

[00:22:18] were you talking about switching between characters I'm just talking about like when like you get hit with something and then your voice like you maybe your voice changed because okay yeah yeah no I'd say it comes down to performance so it comes down to I guess acting skill

[00:22:35] of being able to change being in the moment in the scene so if the scene is you've just been hit and you're down then that's what you do and if suddenly you erupt into you've got surge of power or something like that then you just adapt

[00:22:47] and do that so I think it just comes down to acting ability and what's required in the scene yeah and you want to try and surprise people a little bit where you're going with it you know if you can cool James James hello

[00:23:01] my question for you guys is who is your biggest inspiration growing up or that kind of got you into thinking maybe you wanted to do this one day though oh very very early on for me it was a rich little it was a classic stand-up comedian

[00:23:18] but he specialized in impressions and he used to have his own TV show in the 70s and I was quite young but I remember watching the show and being fascinated by the fact that he would turn into all these characters with his voice I was like this is

[00:23:30] the coolest thing in the world so that was early on and then as I got a little older and progressed and other entertainers became big like I'd say Robin Williams was like a huge one and I got to improvise with him a couple of times on stage

[00:23:43] which was like highlight of my life so certain people throughout you know my career that just really made an impact and I think those two were pretty big so rumor has it you do a Robin Williams impersonation oh hello give him more real quick who are you to

[00:24:05] who inspired you guys you go I'm sorry who inspired you who inspired you growing up to do voice acting or believe it or not there was a guy named Jonathan Winters who was sort of an inspiration of Robin Williams yeah and my dad had his albums

[00:24:23] when I was growing up and I would listen to him just kind of go off and make up stuff and it was just the most fun you know and then as I said yesterday when we were being interviewed when you really perfect your voices

[00:24:34] is when you're trying to meet girls you know because your voices can say things the girls you know that you couldn't say as you you know what I mean yeah there you go shout out to Mark and Mindy because Robin Williams and Jonathan Winters amazing show yeah

[00:24:50] Elise please yeah I don't know if I have a specific person it never occurred to me when I was growing up to be an actor I just I didn't know any actors didn't think you could become an actor I was doing the practical thing of becoming an accountant

[00:25:05] but I would say I loved animation so when I did decide to become an actor I had done plenty of research by watching you know animated shows and feature films so it's more of a general answer and then once I decided to quit that accounting job

[00:25:24] that was so much fun and become an actor I didn't got busy studying and I definitely had people who mentored me and helped me and so I would say the mentors and my teachers were the biggest inspiration at that time so mine is not quite as exciting

[00:25:38] as their answers but it's true yo and I remember in high school I mean we used to watch Star Night Live like it was hilarious to us so whatever you could tell what sketches were on Saturday because Monday morning we would all hook up

[00:25:53] at school and it's like you look marvelous or whatever it was that they did like the big sketch of that weekend and we would do it endlessly it was fantastic yeah my favorite was always the church lady church lady well isn't that special we like ourself don't we

[00:26:12] yeah yeah hey who make you say that I don't know let's thank Deborah hey what's your name what's your question Riley and my friend and my question is so when you're auditioning for a role you ever feel like anxious or nervous and how do you feel like after

[00:26:31] if you don't like get a role you guys might have to okay so she's asking like when we're auditioning for a role do we ever get anxious and then if we don't get it how do we feel I would say this the people that are

[00:26:43] newest to voice over remember every audition you know they're always wondering like am I gonna get this or am I gonna get that people who've been in voice over a while and they just do the audition and move on it's kind of like a golf shot

[00:26:55] and if occasionally that audition comes back to you and it will then you know so much the better but you just never know like I auditioned a couple of weeks ago I'm sure with half the world to be the voice of Taco Bueno but I got it

[00:27:10] you know and so I was happy about that but I'm sure a lot of people auditioned for it and I've auditioned for a million things that I didn't get so like I said you just kind of do it and put it behind you I'm always shocked

[00:27:21] you know like somebody comes back since you don't want to hire you you're like what thanks what about you yeah I mean I with the animation ones I seem to have more fun like they'll give me the breakdown and I really do have fun auditioning

[00:27:35] the on camera stuff I think is a little more nerve wracking because you have to memorize all your lines you have to be in the scene know what's going on and those seem to be a little more stressful but I mean there are times

[00:27:45] where I really wanted a role and thought I'd put in something good nothing and a couple other times where I went in there and I was like oh I just I blew it so bad and then I get a call and like you got the part

[00:27:59] and I'm like are you sure like I think they're making a horrible mistake here but okay I'm coming in what's funny you never know what's funny is how people though I mean like they did this open kind of casting audition thing and you know how you do

[00:28:14] like one your first voice and then you'll do your second one yeah well the second one is always kind of a throw away and I did some horrible British butler accent right yeah they said they were looking for a horrible British butler I mean the voice they wanted

[00:28:28] I'm like you know I didn't think I had a prayer there was no way I remember one time it was a show called the class of the Titans an animated show where kind of it was kind of based on Greek mythology and stuff like that

[00:28:41] and they had requested me to go in and read for a number of the male characters so I did those and they were like okay well unless there's anything else for good and I said oh no I want to read for Grandma Hercules

[00:28:53] it was like this 93 year old Greek grandmother and they were like really I said yeah so I did an imitation of my own grandmother and she's like oh hey you look so tired why don't you lay down for a while and then I ended up getting the part

[00:29:06] yes so I like when you surprise them then it's a badge of honor because they like what do you mean you want to read for that role okay now I'm really going to go for this I'm going to do it myself and that one worked out

[00:29:20] and by the way I want to say something to address that I think voiceovers are more competitive than they are nervous you know you talk about having anxiety you know like true and on before you perform or whatever no I think a real voiceover

[00:29:34] wants to beat the pants off in any other voiceover the guy that trained me I'll never forget he said I think it was Bob McGruder right and there was a role for a 12 year old girl and he had a voice like mine and he goes

[00:29:46] I could play a 12 year old girl that's exactly what he wanted I thought he was a wtih and I got a little too timid but he thought he could he really did one of the funniest things I found was much more before COVID and all that

[00:29:59] when we would go in physically to auditions we'd be outside the studio in the waiting room and there'd be like 15 actors there and you thought you were in an asylum because 90% of them I don't know whether it's in security think they got to put on a voice

[00:30:15] and you You're a wonderful... It's this roomful of crazy people just firing out all these voices and it's hilarious. But my answer to the question, it's actually similar to Peter's. I don't get nervous when I'm doing voiceover auditions, but like I had a TV audition recently

[00:30:34] and I did get nervous because it was a big deal and I wanted it. Now one way that I combat the nerves is preparation. And so I had a teacher in LA for its TV sitcom class and she was like,

[00:30:49] let's just always talk about the elephant in the room. You're going to be nervous. Like she coached celebrities at the highest level for TV and film. She was like, tighten your whole body, admit that you're nervous. You can't hide it from yourself.

[00:31:02] So say, oh look at that, I'm nervous. So I kind of, that's what I do. I go, huh, okay, I'm nervous. This is a TV audition. I want it, I'm nervous. I prepare and then, you know, most of the time the preparation pays off. The audition went wonderfully.

[00:31:19] I did not get it, but you know, you go, okay, well, and then to answer your other question, what do you do afterwards? I go, okay, what can I learn from this? Here's what I think I did well. Here's what I'll probably change next time.

[00:31:34] And then you do have to move on because if you get caught up in, oh my gosh, terrible, and it's just too hard. You just need to like Rick said, move on to the next audition and the next and the next. Yeah, yeah, build confidence.

[00:31:49] That was a really good question. One time, speaking about being nervous, I had a voice session in the morning and the night before or closer than I before I got in food poisoning. So it was horrible. Horrible things shooting out of me both ends just, horrible.

[00:32:05] The worst you can imagine. And I had to record in the morning and they had to catch, record this thing in the morning and I'm like, oh my God. So I couldn't eat anything. I was just drinking water and you know, that wasn't even staying in me.

[00:32:17] And I had to go in there. Not only did I have to do the character, the character sang a song. Oh no. So I remember just barely, I looked like it's just a ghost just pale and I went into the studio

[00:32:27] and did the whole song and I walked out into the lobby, went into the men's room and threw up water because that was the only thing left in me. And then I did the record and they ended up winning an award for the role of that particular episode.

[00:32:43] Because yes, my vomit episode won something. It worked for you. Yeah, it worked for me. That is amazing. Alright guys, so does anybody else have a question for the panel here? Alright, so let's get back into some fun questions here.

[00:32:59] Not as if any of these weren't fun already. If you guys had a dream role or franchise that you could be a part of, what would be that role? Like what franchise would you guys want to be a part of? Anybody who pays me.

[00:33:10] Yeah, which role in franchise pays the most. That's what I'd like to know. We just like to work. We'll take you. But like, you know, if you had a choice over like a character that you could play, like I can be in this franchise.

[00:33:24] I guess due to my age I'd have to say Indiana Jones. That makes sense? I mean, I've got to play Yoda before but I mean anything even in the new... Because Star Wars has opened up into a blossom to do all these sorts of spin-off shows now.

[00:33:39] I would like to do that because I mean a lot of their on-camera characters are voiced characters. And I would love to have a land of role in something like that. So I think Disney Pixar princess. Anything Disney Pixar? Anything Disney Pixar.

[00:33:55] I was going to say Star Wars too but I'm not going to steal his answer. I'm going to steal his star. Technically he's been Yoda already so I mean we're there. Yeah, yeah I can't do Yoda though.

[00:34:06] Alright guys, and Elise has learned what we mean by this but... Oh yes! Okay I know where this is headed. She's been waiting for this. What are you guys currently nerding out on? Okay but you have to define what geeking out means. I like his definition.

[00:34:21] What we believe is nerding is not just being at a con or liking comic books or anime or things like that. Nerding is something you're passionate about right? You can sit there and say I'm nerding out on football. I'm nerding out on driving my car.

[00:34:39] It's things that you nerd out on are things that you have a great passion for. So that's our definition of nerding. It makes it to where it's not just fandoms. You can be a nerd about anything. So when we ask them what are they nerding out on,

[00:34:54] it's what are the things that you are most passionate about right now? What do you like to do in your free time? I mean for me there's people that come up to our table sometimes and they're like

[00:35:03] oh my gosh I'm so nervous or their family members say oh they're so nervous they can't talk. And I try to calm down and say there's nothing to be nervous about but I myself have been in that position

[00:35:14] where I look forward to the different conventions I get to go to and hang out with great people and there's other people that I watch perform in movies and voiceovers that I geek out over. A number of years ago I was at a convention

[00:35:27] and Stargate was still on at the time but at the end of my row was Kier Duley, the actor's name and he is Dave from 2001 A Space Odyssey. So a lot of people don't recognize his name

[00:35:40] but when you say Dave from 2001 you know exactly who I'm talking about. And there he was, he's you know a little more elderly now probably in his mid to late 70s but he looks you know at the end of the movie

[00:35:51] for those who remember he was in this alien clear chamber and he's an old man, he looks exactly like that. It's almost like he time traveled back it's like makeup it doesn't even look real it's exactly what he looks like.

[00:36:05] And I remember going up and I paid for an autograph and I mumbled something out and sounded like a fool just going I just want to say thanks for you doing your sci-fi because I'm on a sci-fi show and I don't think

[00:36:16] our sci-fi show would have happened without your tip. Thanks so much for that. And then he goes oh would you like me to sign some? I said yes and I said oh it takes this print out and I said oh can you please put down

[00:36:31] oh my gosh it's full of stars and I thought I was really cool and he goes actually that's 2010. I went you're right and I'm wrong I screwed it up and then he goes he was very nice about it and then he goes and he takes it a 2001 poster

[00:36:46] and he put open the pod bay doors hell on it and I still have it and it's like one of the coolest things I own. Too bad you didn't have a baby to sign that would have been good. Oh yeah baby would have been good.

[00:36:57] Yeah, signed my two month old baby. By the way spoilers for a movie that came out in 1968. What about you Rick? Oh wow I geek out. I told you about World War One flying aces and football, I love football and comedy.

[00:37:13] I love, I probably one of the biggest comedy geeks I know you know what I mean? I will watch anybody if I think they will make me laugh. Yeah. We're big comedy nerds too so there you go. I have been geeking out over stand up comedians lately

[00:37:28] and a new thing for me because of my son because family is so important is Pokemon because I don't hate me. I had never seen it before I started doing conventions and I was that loser who you know barely knew some of the characters

[00:37:42] and now I can rattle them off because I watch Pokemon with my son so even when I go to Dragon Ball conventions where it's like all Dragon Ball stuff he always says okay you gotta go get Pokemon stuff

[00:37:54] so I like that just because I can do it with him so that's one thing I've been geeking out over with him. Our daughter is really in the Steven Universe now which means I'm into Steven Universe right now and so I know most of the song

[00:38:08] let me drive my van into your heart you know I know all the tunes. I don't think they're here right now but somebody was cosplaying as Steven Universe yesterday. Really? Yeah. Okay, that's cool. So we're gonna skip to the last questions here just because we're coming on time

[00:38:24] so I'm gonna you know me and my fights right? I'm gonna create a hypothetical fight here. Easy enough Goku, Pan, D'Bora getting a three-way fight who wins. Pan, I mean who do you think we're gonna say? Our characters. Goku Super Saiyans come on, come on.

[00:38:42] I would say D'Bora because I'm due. I am due to win that's all I'll say. I should not be a cookie. Or in Majin Buu's stomach. So guys, working everybody... Now that was just unnecessary. So where can everybody find you? Social media, you know your homes,

[00:39:03] places like that. I'll be at a table right over there if anybody wants to find us. I'd love to meet them. You can find him at Voice of D'Bora on IG and Twitter. I'll do his marketing for him. Yes, you're welcome. I'll be at Elise Bowman everywhere.

[00:39:23] EliseCoaches.com, EliseBowman.com. And my YouTube channel, youtube.com slash anime adventures, they are both on it. So that's a scoop. It's just me at Peter Calamis on Twitter and Instagram. And that's it. So as we say thank you to everybody. I'm gonna crimple this up.

[00:39:43] Is it okay to... Go for it. I'll do a bridesmaid thing and throw this over my shoulder randomly. Please don't hurt each other. Okay. Oh, I want that. Fight the kids. All right. So the winner of that is... I'm gonna autograph one of these Goku action figures.

[00:40:05] You just got a Goku action figure from Peter Calamis. Congratulations! Right here. Well guys, let's get a round of applause for our panel here today. Guys, we thank you so much. Thanks for coming out. Everybody continue enjoying Anna Medford.

[00:40:23] And they'll be signing for a little bit longer guys if you want to go back to the tables over here. Get some signatures. Have a great rest of your day guys. Well we hope you enjoyed this week's... Comic Conversation! This was the production of the Distance Learning podcast

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