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All right nerds, summon your XP boosts and roll for Charisma
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because we've got a multi class voice actor, animator, and all
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around creative wizard in the booth.
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For this episode of a comic conversation, you've got to hang
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out with the insanely talented Chris Nyosi.
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You might know him as Reagan Arataka in Mob Cycle 100, Dazzle
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and Tales of Zysteria, or that lovable weirdo Pegasus from
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Yu-gi-oh the Abridged series. Oh, and if you've ever been on
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YouTube in the early 2000 tens, you've definitely crossed paths
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with Tome Terrain of Magical Expertise.
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We talk voice acting, game dev, online animation, and how it
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feels to be one of the internet's OG content creators
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before it was even called content.
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So power up your Nostalgia Meter, channel your inner
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psychic, and make sure your save file isn't corrupted because
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it's time for another a comic conversation, right?
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Well, let's get right into this, ladies and gentlemen.
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Let me get my glasses on so I can see and get this
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introduction going on here. Well, ladies and gentlemen,
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welcome here. Our guest here, you guys can see
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him here, is known for his synonym Curbafer.
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Wow, you got it right on the first pronunciation.
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I know, right? That's brilliant.
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Is an American voice actor, animator and producer.
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His portfolio includes work from Mob Cycle 100, Queen's Blade
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Rebellion, the Pokémon series. OK KO, the Viz Media dub of
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Sailor Moon. Godzilla.
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Godzilla. I can't even say Godzilla right?
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But I can say your name, right? Godzilla, Planet of the
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Monsters, Godzilla City in On the Edge of Battle, Mobile Suit
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Gundam. Multiple series, 3 different
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ones, right? And so much more.
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The creator of Terrain of Magical Expertise.
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Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Chris Niosi.
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And you pronounced my last name right too.
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Now here's the thing. I, I, I didn't feel like that
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was enough. So right, you're going to drop
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one of those and then I'm not good to be here.
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I'm also going to give you a right.
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The crowd goes wild. You really like me?
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How's it going, Chris? Good, good.
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First time in Oregon, OK and so lovely little Convention Center
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and people have been very nice so far.
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So yeah, this is great and thank you for having me also.
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I didn't. What's your name?
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My name is Phil. I'm I'm from the Distance Nerdy
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Podcast. Lovely to meet you, thank you
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for having me. Absolutely.
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So let's get right into this. So before we jump into the voice
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acting and all the fun stuff like that, we have a segment on
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our show called Growing Up Geeky.
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OK, OK, what did you geek out on when you were a kid?
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Oh God, what didn't I? Well, I probably started with,
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and this is going to sound like a weird one, but Thomas the Tank
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Engine was my first nerdy obsession where I collected the
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toys, the videotapes, like the the the metal trains, the wooden
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trains, like everything you could possibly imagine.
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Then it was Power Rangers, Disney stuff.
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It's I actually just did like very recently on my own YouTube.
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I did a a little V log thing about all of my like nerdy
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collections of things over the years.
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Nice Pokémon Gen. 1 and Gen. two were huge for me.
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I had like my poor parents that spent so much money on so many
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figures and cards and videos and whatnot.
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I still to this day, 25 years later, I geek out on Pokémon.
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And the fact that I got to be in the series and in some of the
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spinoff stuff as well, right, was a tremendous honor.
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Actually, the fact that I've gotten to work on a lot of shows
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that I grew up with, like Sailor Moon and Pokémon, Dragon Ball,
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One Piece, Naruto is kind of a pinch me moment cuz I still nerd
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out. I watch still lots of anime
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stuff. I'm watching like upwards of
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four different anime at once usually.
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And so some of my nerdy obsessions have continued even
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as I have grown up. They're still exactly the same.
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So. No, that's good.
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I mean, cuz that just means that you continue to be one of us.
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Yeah, exactly. I relate to all of you.
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Aren't I just so relatable? Exactly.
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Crooked. Crooked.
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Anyway. I don't have crickets on here.
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No, you're going to need that your sound board.
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For sure. But what I do have on the sound
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board are things like Dolphin, you know, stuff like that.
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What did that person just say to me?
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What did they say about my mother?
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Oh my God, what did you say about my Mama?
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It's really pisses me off to no end.
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All right, so you're a bit of a of a Jack of all trades, right?
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Animator, writer, voice actor, creator.
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How did you get into all this, man?
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Aside from, you know, new grounds.
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Wow. Well, Jesus, I mean well,
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animation, I've been drawing my whole life.
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Always enjoyed it. I started doing filmmaking like
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like proper like animation and stuff mid 2000s on new grounds
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because it was just a forum for where everybody could make
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anything that they wanted and etc, right?
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And always really, really enjoyed that.
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And then with writing, I was writing like also since I was a
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kid and then got into professionally when enough
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people kind of gave me a shot. So I've adapted some anime stuff
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and you know, like when you take the translation and then adapt
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it for the English dubscript as well, right?
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I've directed some games. I've worked on a couple of indie
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games like A Hat and Time. And there was a Walking Dead
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game that I directed to work with Norman Reedus, which was
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super cool. And and then even voiced over
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to, you know, the kind of through line with all of them is
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that I had people in each of those businesses that believed
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in what I could do. I'd proven myself through doing
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things on my own and then usually either I would show it
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to them or they would see it and be like, you seem like you kind
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of know what you're doing at this, this or this.
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So we'll hire you to do this professionally.
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And I'm lucky that I get to kind of do like a combination of all
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of those things at once. So I make my living off of a
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combination of like doing stuff on YouTube, freelance, you know,
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voice over writing, sometimes directing.
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I'm doing convention appearances now.
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You know, anything I can I anything they'll pay me to do.
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I'm a whore. What can I say so?
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It is what it is, right? I mean, Speaking of like, you
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know, being able to work with someone like Norman Reedus,
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right? Think about like who who's an A
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voice actor or an actress that you've worked with or been on a
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project with that you just fanboyed out on?
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Oh man, well, a recent one. I think it might have been
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earlier this year, maybe late last year.
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Colleen Clinkenbeard, who is Luffy, I think not not quite 20
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years, but close to it on One Piece.
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And she's also currently the voice of Kid Goku and Kid Gohan
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on all the Dragon Ball stuff. And there's a, there's many,
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many, many, many Dragon Ball games out there.
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One of them is Dragon Ball Legends, which is a mobile game.
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And I got to direct Colleen on Kid Goku.
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It was like the 10th anniversary version of Goku from the Path to
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Power movie specifically. And she came in and she's like,
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OK, Chris, I know you know Dragon Ball really well.
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I don't know Kid Goku as well as I know kid Gohan.
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So guide me, like guide me through this.
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And I was like, Oh my God. So not only because I, I respect
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Colleen so much as an actress. In fact, on the, on the Godzilla
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thing, I had a giant scream at the end of the second of those
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films, the, the three Netflix Godzilla movies.
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And when I think of screaming loudly and I and I looked at
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Dragon Ball stuff, I don't look to Shemala's Goku, I don't look
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to savitt as Vegeta, even though they're also brilliant.
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I look to Colleen as Gohan because her screams are just,
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yes, out of this world is Gohan and Dragon Ball Kai and all the
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video games and stuff. So and also just directing her
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on like one of the world's most famous anime characters
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basically #2 to Pikachu, right? Was a lot of pressure, but it
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was a quick session. She was so accommodating.
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I felt very comfortable. She felt very comfortable.
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So that was like a great moment that I, I felt like very, very
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thankful to get to do so, you know?
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I mean, I'm even more jealous now at this point.
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Just. The jealousy is overwhelming
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right now. Yeah.
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It's like over 9000 so. My I have to mention my roommate
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Wes, who's also known as Kadjet on the Internet, created the
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original over 9000 video. No way.
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The original the one that went viral in like 2007 or 8 or
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whatever. Yeah, and he did.
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I hope my body can take it that one and like the the gutsman's
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ass Dena that like all those old like wacky meme videos, you
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know, only it doesn't make a bit of difference.
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Guys dead days gone. Remember the balls are a nerd.
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He made all those videos in college just on a whim, like not
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even thinking. And then like a week would pass
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and they had like millions of views and he's like, what have I
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done? And all the DBZ cast know of
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them and everything. They get asked to quote them at
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every time, right? Etcetera.
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It's insane. I'm I'm I'm skipping around my
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questions just because of where we're going on this, just
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because I I have to get into this now, right Of course, of
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course, muffin button. So I got to ask, right, And I'm
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not sure if we can talk about this because you know, the whole
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everything that's going on with this, but you were in eight
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episodes of Dragon Ball Z Abridged.
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What's that, right? What was it like playing Ox King
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in a in a certain? Property I have nobody knows
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about. Never heard of that.
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I don't know. What a property that no one
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knows about. No, right.
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I do a really crappy impression of my friend Kyle Laber.
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Oh, Ichi's getting married. And yeah, that's that's about
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it, really. It's it's as simple as that.
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OK, You know, we'll leave it at that.
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Of course. Because of the world.
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All right, so you've been voice acting for years now.
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Yeah, since 2009 was my first job.
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Right, right. So can you think back to like
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your first session like what that was like?
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Yes, I can. My very first job was I did.
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I couldn't have asked for a better first gig was Pokémon.
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I worked on Pokémon Diamond and Pearl.
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It's probably season 11 or 12 I think, which is so wild because
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we have a Diamond and Pearl remake now and I'm in a pro was
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new and my character was promoting Heart Gold and Soul
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Silver. He was he was a Johto trainer.
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I did 5 episodes of that and I remember it very well.
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I think it was two or three sessions we had across the five
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episodes that I did and I did all the tropes.
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I got to catch a Pokémon, I got to battle Team Rocket, I got to
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say Pikachu, I got to fight against Ash.
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I got, you know, all the catch phrases, you know, use water
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gun, all that kind of stuff. I was like, are you kidding?
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You're paying me? I'd pay you if I can afford it
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to do this. What are you talking about?
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So yeah, that was incredible. And there were, there were some
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naughty jokes because the director had worked on some
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adult anime at the time. So there were a lot of, you
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know, the more intended for children the show you're working
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on, the more disgusting the bloopers and outtakes are.
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Right. As they should be.
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Yeah, of course. And yeah.
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And after I did that gig, I thought, I'm not going to be a
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voice actor after this. This is, I did my childhood
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show. But then after that, I had more
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people recommending me for jobs around New York City.
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And then when I moved to Lai had people recommend me for stuff.
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And I was like, oh, and I, I just kept doing it.
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I took classes and, you know, I honed myself and then learned a
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lot more. But yeah, no, I'll never forget
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going to the studio. We were doing the show at the
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time was called Do Art. It's on like 50 5th St. in New
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York City. And I went up and I was like, Oh
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my God, I can't believe I'm doing Poke him.
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I would do it. I'm doing the show.
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That was my hyper fixation as a child.
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Still kind of is right that I got picked on for being too
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obsessed with in school and now I'm making money off it.
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I got to be in this. I love gold and silver, which
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was one of my favorite gens. So the fact that I was a JoJo
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character, I had a Toto dial, which was great.
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So yeah, I, I, I really, I couldn't have asked for a better
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first voice over job, honestly. That is awesome man.
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Has your style changed a lot over the years since that first?
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Obviously it would, but I mean like.
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Well, yes and yeah, it's funny. Not Even so much the style.
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I mean, I've evolved as an actor.
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Certainly I, I look back at my episodes and I'm like, you know
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what? I actually, I because we're so
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critical of our own work. I like how it turned out.
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I actually still look back on that first performance.
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I'm like, yeah, I think I did a pretty good job on those
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episodes. But it's funny what what really
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changed is when I was in New York, I was one of the, I was
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like 1920 I think, when I got that gig.
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So I was pretty young and I was one of the few like young people
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doing VO at the time. And I didn't, I didn't do like a
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ton of stuff in New York, but I like, I never did Yu-gi-oh,
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which was there any of that stuff before?
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Kids kind of all dried up by that time.
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So a lot of the work was gone. But I remember I was playing all
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like young, you know, higher pitched kind of kid characters
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like this that sometimes would be played by women in the
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Japanese version. And then when I moved to LA in
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2014, my first job in LA was, if you guys know the Tales of
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series, I did Tales of Zesteria, which was my first video game
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job in LA. And I played this character
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Dazzle, who's down here. And I had not really done that a
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lot in LA, in New York. So suddenly I'm like, did my
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balls finally drop? Am I finally playing adult
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characters now? And now it's rare when I play
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higher characters because they had, you know, they've got your
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Justin Bryner's and your Bryce Pavet Brooks and all your like
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naturally higher, you know, kind of dudes.
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And I do this a lot more often now.
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So you know, Fate, Apocrypha and all these kind of shows with
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these lower pitch kind of characters.
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Actually, Garma from Gundam was one of the few higher characters
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that I still play. He's kind of up here a little
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bit and he's a little more proper and everything, the way
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he speaks. So love Garma, but yeah, so when
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I get to play higher characters again now it's a treat because
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it's a rare kind of instance for me.
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So yeah. Like Speaking of Gundam, did you
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feel the pressure of like being on such a large franchise?
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Like did you feel like it's like, oh man, I can't mess this
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one up? Like what did you feel like with
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Pokémon at all? You know what I'm trying to
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think There's very few that I felt like pressure.
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I'm just more excited that I'm like, Oh my God, to do this.
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Gundam Origin, I remember the third, the third volume of that,
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the Dawn of Rebellion, which was the one that was all about
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Garma. That it's not so much that there
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was pressure, it was just that it was grueling.
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Our director, Stephanie Shea, who's Lacus on Gundam Seed and
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Minerva from Gundam Unicorn, the the daughter of Dozal Zabi, she
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was the director of that and she was like, she was really like
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pounding me to the 2, not in a bad way, but like really
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teaching me stuff. We did a lot of takes of
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everything. We really, really like dug deep
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into the character. The Japanese clients from
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Sunrise were there to oversee the projects and everything.
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And I'm really proud of that performance because like, we
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worked super hard on it and I learned a lot from working with
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Stephanie on that. So yeah, not so much like like,
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Oh no, I got us. I can't screw this up.
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I learned later how legendary and important of a character
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Garma was right. And I keep hoping that maybe
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someday we'll like do a remake of first Gundam because I want
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to, I want to, you know, this isn't a spoiler.
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It's like one of the most legendary things in all of
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anime. But I want to die in a blaze of
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glory, you know, for praise BC on you know, I want to do that.
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I want to do that someday. And Brian Dobson, who is the
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original Garma from the the series, I've met at a couple
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conventions and he's a great guy.
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And I towards the end of origin, I was infusing because his is a
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little bit my hey there, Char. I was infusing a little bit of
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it like, Hey, how you doing Char?
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You know, some of that into the the later parts of it where he
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becomes like kind of his early 20s and stuff.
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So yeah. You can you can kind of bridge
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the evolution between your. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah,
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because I, I, I definitely, I wanted to preserve the integrity
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of the character because, you know, there's an essence of, you
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know, Amaro and Char and all the zombie family and all these
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characters say a lot. And everybody that like is so
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important because they're they're all such staples of
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anime, right, Especially in Japan, especially, right, right.
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And also we were releasing those day and date with Japan.
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They were taking very seriously. We actually had the the English
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and Japanese release at the same time, which but this is before
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simul dubbing became a common thing.
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Now that happens all the time. Yeah, yeah.
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Back then it was a big deal. Yeah, absolutely.
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Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
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And then working on Final Fantasy, so it's kind of like
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what what's what was your experience on that?
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Gaming. Yeah, gaming is a whole
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different monster from. Yeah, that was a that was a
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quick gig, but, but that was very cool.
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I remember I got a call one early one morning and they were
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like, they need background voices for this project on a
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Saturday. And I'm like, sure, it's the
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union. So double scale.
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I'm down. Where am I going?
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So I went to the studio. I worked with this gentleman,
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Bob Buckholz, who directs a lot of the squeaking stuff.
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He's worked on Kingdom Hearts. He did Advent Children back in
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the day and he brings me into Skylark and he's like, did they
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tell you what you're doing today?
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And I'm like, no, he's it's Final Fantasy 7.
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I'm like cool. And it was just background
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stuff. I didn't do any.
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I wasn't even like MPCC. It was just like crowd stuff.
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But I got to see during remake, it was the first volume of
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remake. I didn't do Rebirth, but Rebirth
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is fantastic. And maybe if I'm lucky, I'll get
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to do something the third one, right.
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But I would see like, you know, all these crowd scenes, like the
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arena when you know, Cloud and Aeritha and the arena fighting
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all the different stuff and like Don Corneas thing and and like
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her going over the bridge, she's got the dress on and etc.
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And we had to improv coming up with little sayings about what's
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that beautiful woman? Wow, I've never seen someone
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like that's more gorgeous in my life.
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You know, just like layered on top of like 20 people and they
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would have to do like multiple run throughs of like 22nd long
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sequences and stuff. So it was it was grueling, like
00:16:59
4 hours of that. But what was also kind of cool,
00:17:02
you mentioned the abridged stuff.
00:17:03
I was one of like maybe eight or nine people from Final Fantasy 7
00:17:06
Machine Abridged because I played bigs in that that went on
00:17:09
to do the real thing. So myself and like Kira Buckland
00:17:13
and Sarah Williams and a couple other people, Brock Baker, Josh
00:17:16
Tomar, a couple other folks, Jason Marnoka.
00:17:18
So we all got to work on the real thing after that, which was
00:17:21
kind of cool. Right, right, right.
00:17:22
Because I mean, you got to work on super too.
00:17:24
I'm just like. Oh yeah, yeah, 1 episode, just
00:17:26
one episode. But that was also like a dream
00:17:28
come true of I'm in Dragon Ball could die happy now, right?
00:17:31
You know, the fact that I've hit like a lot of these shonen I've
00:17:33
done like I think last year alone I did 4 Shonen Jump titles
00:17:37
because I did Black Clover, I did Slam Dunk, I did One Piece
00:17:42
and Prince of Tennis. I did, I did those four in all
00:17:45
of 2023 alone. So that was pretty great.
00:17:47
Yeah, you went from doing the parody to doing the real thing
00:17:49
and. That's that's awesome.
00:17:51
Like question. Yeah, which I mean, I love the
00:17:53
parody, but I mean, let's, let's so.
00:17:56
So there's a property I have to talk about or else Dave will
00:17:58
strangle me. OK, right.
00:18:00
Godzilla, of course, got to talk about Godzilla.
00:18:03
He's the biggest Kaiju guy in existence.
00:18:05
So tell us about working on Godzilla cuz you played a pretty
00:18:08
big role in in in that show or in those movies.
00:18:11
That was, I think after a show that no one's seen called
00:18:14
Terraform Mars. Don't look that up.
00:18:17
That was I think after that, that was the first like lead,
00:18:20
lead character I ever did. And I remember it actually.
00:18:25
It was great because it was in person auditions for the for the
00:18:27
lead characters, which is very rare now.
00:18:29
That almost never happens. But I worked with the folks at
00:18:33
Deluxe, Laura Post, who is Ari from League of Legends and like
00:18:37
lots and lots of characters. She's amazing.
00:18:38
She was directing the first one. And yeah, we worked on that at
00:18:43
this giant sound stage on a deluxe for Netflix.
00:18:46
And when I booked Haduo and I remember like feeling all this
00:18:51
like deep seething like anger that he has that he just carries
00:18:54
inside of him because of this hatred for Godzilla and all the
00:18:57
Kaiju that in this in this continuity for these 3 movies,
00:19:01
the Kaiju have overrun Earth and we leave Earth and have these
00:19:05
space colonies and stuff. And then we go back there and
00:19:08
turns out like millions of years passed on Earth but not for us.
00:19:12
So like it just became the planet of the monsters, right?
00:19:15
And we spent a lot of time on that.
00:19:17
And I remember the way that we dubbed those movies is sometimes
00:19:22
an anime will do line by line or we'll only do a couple lines
00:19:25
back-to-back. We did full scenes, like 2
00:19:29
minute sequences. We have this thing in in
00:19:32
dubbing. Another one.
00:19:33
We got too technical here, but there's this thing called
00:19:35
rhythmic Band where it's kind of like a karaoke track that's on
00:19:39
the bottom of the footage and they have the lines going across
00:19:42
and they're synced. Usually if they're written, you
00:19:44
know, adapted well, they're synced to the animation.
00:19:48
So we had a great script as well for all three films.
00:19:50
And so we would play a full sequence in a row.
00:19:54
And then this guy Tyler, who directed the second and third
00:19:56
films, we, we spent time on this and we did these like long
00:20:01
sequences and just kind of let it flow and, you know, it felt
00:20:04
very natural. And then if we go back.
00:20:06
Oh, let's, let's pick up this one line.
00:20:08
We'll just fix this. I was a little rough on that or
00:20:09
I didn't get this pronunciation right or what, you know,
00:20:11
something like that. Or I want to go a little more
00:20:12
intense or something. And it was a great process.
00:20:15
And I thought that that's how do I was one of the proudest
00:20:19
performances. And I love those movies.
00:20:21
Like those 3 movies I think are so cool.
00:20:24
It's one of the rare times I've ever seen because not that I'm a
00:20:27
Godzilla expert, but because you know how often you watch
00:20:29
Godzilla movies and it's like, I don't care about the human
00:20:32
characters. I want to see the giant monsters
00:20:35
killing each other. This was.
00:20:36
One of the -1 What's that? Except for the newest.
00:20:39
Which I've heard is fat. I need to check out my this one
00:20:41
I saw. Oh gosh in Godzilla.
00:20:44
I remember seeing theaters a few years ago and I was fantastic.
00:20:46
Minus ones like they actually made you care about the people.
00:20:50
Exactly. It's like when I was watching
00:20:52
the three movies I worked on. I really liked the group.
00:20:55
I liked, you know, Martin and all those characters.
00:20:57
I liked those guys a lot and and I was so cuz at the without
00:21:01
spoiling, but the end of the second one when I did my big
00:21:04
screen, I was like angry, like about what was happening in the
00:21:07
story, as in like it was affecting right, like
00:21:10
emotionally and like that came out in the performance.
00:21:12
Second one-on-one. Yeah, absolutely full meth.
00:21:15
And I blew my voice out at the end of the second one too.
00:21:17
I did two or three takes of that like long scream and I was like,
00:21:21
OK, I need to stop talking for like a week after that.
00:21:24
Good Lord, I was not prepared to do the Colleen Clinken beard.
00:21:27
Go on, scream. That's awesome, man.
00:21:30
So like Speaking of like kind of when you start getting lead
00:21:33
roles and everything like that, you've got some long running
00:21:35
projects, things like mob cycle 100, hero mask, OK, KO, let's be
00:21:40
heroes, yeah, 20 plus episode appearances in each of those.
00:21:43
So like, you know, what's it what, what's the difference in
00:21:46
doing kind of like, you know, one time character like you did
00:21:49
in Dragon Ball Super versus doing the character that you
00:21:51
have to kind of evolve over time?
00:21:54
Well, well, the, the, the job security is nice.
00:21:57
Yeah, right. It's all about the money kids
00:21:59
now. Well, when you have, there's
00:22:02
different things with it. When you're a bit part, like a
00:22:04
little guest character, there's no pressure and a certain sense
00:22:07
you could just have fun. Like you're there for that one
00:22:09
little bit and you do your thing and then you go home and that's
00:22:12
it, right. And then, but if it's, if it's
00:22:14
an ongoing character, like, even if it's not a lead, like, even
00:22:17
if it's just like like a, you know, like a supporting role
00:22:19
that goes on for a fair bit of episodes, you still usually get
00:22:24
to like you find a level of comfort with them and you get to
00:22:28
dig into kind of the, the deeper qualities of them.
00:22:31
Like the little, because that's, that's the kind of fun stuff is
00:22:34
1 Like you have little things like with Reagan.
00:22:36
I mean, there's so much subtext with everything that I did with
00:22:39
them. And I always did my homework.
00:22:40
I always watched the episodes ahead of time.
00:22:42
I read the manga ahead of time, which is not always required of
00:22:44
us to do that. That's that's a bonus thing, but
00:22:47
I with that character in particular and like Xiao poo
00:22:49
from Hunter hunter as well. I really wanted to like dig deep
00:22:53
and like have lots of subtextual things, even if it's like minor,
00:22:56
like even if, but but that affects your viewing experience.
00:22:59
Absolutely. You know, like if, if, because
00:23:02
there's always like there's, there's the generic safe read of
00:23:05
like, you know, like you have no idea what I'm going to do to
00:23:08
you. But you know, like, say if that
00:23:10
character is really hateful towards the character, the same
00:23:13
thing. You have no idea what I'm going
00:23:15
to do to you. Something like that, right.
00:23:18
The subtlest little change when you dig that extra like layer
00:23:21
deeper, it makes because I, I watch a lot of dubs and I watch
00:23:24
a lot of anime and like, I want that extra like juiciness out of
00:23:27
my experience, you know what I mean?
00:23:29
So I try to infuse those. And it's easier to do that when
00:23:32
you have a character you're doing for many episodes.
00:23:36
But when you get like a small little walk on, like a little,
00:23:38
you know, 1 episode character or something.
00:23:40
I did an episode of Oh God there's a magical girl show a
00:23:44
glitter force or or or what's it called originally?
00:23:48
Oh my God, I'm forgetting the original title of it.
00:23:51
If only we had the Internet. Yes, if only but but we call it
00:23:54
we called it glitter force. It was kind of a similar
00:23:56
moonish, kind of like knock off show, but I did like a monster
00:23:59
of the week in that and he was a giant talking baseball and
00:24:02
that's just that's fun. You just like whatever, you just
00:24:04
have fun with that. I'm going to be a.
00:24:05
Mild pre cure. It's a mild pre cure, yes, Pre
00:24:07
cure. That was it.
00:24:07
Yes. Yes.
00:24:09
And actually when I worked on Sailor Moon, which I was
00:24:12
Pegasus, and that was, I did both.
00:24:14
In that case, I dug deep with Pegasus, which was a very, very
00:24:18
subtle deep character. And I got to do one of the
00:24:20
monsters of the week. I was, I was this like fish guy,
00:24:23
like like this like singer guy with a karaoke microphone.
00:24:26
And then his bottom half was like a like a like a jellyfish
00:24:29
or something. Like that, I know exactly which
00:24:30
character you're talking about. Oh yeah, I'm like, yeah,
00:24:35
literally going in the same episode going from our Crystal
00:24:38
Forest is weeping. GB user, please.
00:24:41
You must help me too. Wow, what's going on, guys?
00:24:43
And I'm like, I'd I'd live for this.
00:24:45
Absolutely so. I've always wondered about this.
00:24:48
So I know in in traditional animation a lot of times with
00:24:53
with voice acting, you know under contract you can play like
00:24:55
two or three characters before they pay you again for another
00:24:57
character. Is it the same way in anime?
00:24:59
Like do or do they pay? No, no.
00:25:01
In anime and usually in games too, it's like anything goes.
00:25:04
They can have you do as much stuff as they need to.
00:25:06
But yeah, for doing so on OK KO, Let's be heroes.
00:25:09
I had four or five, like recurring characters throughout
00:25:12
the course of that show, but I could only be three of them per
00:25:16
episode. Gotcha.
00:25:17
In fact, there was one I remember where I think all four
00:25:20
of my characters were in one. But one of them, the only thing
00:25:23
that happens is he gets like slap door slammed on him and I'm
00:25:26
like, can I do like a or something?
00:25:27
No, he literally can't. And no, no, you don't have to.
00:25:31
I won't charge. It's just a noise.
00:25:32
That's like, no, legally we're not allowed to do that and we
00:25:36
can't afford it. I'm like, damn it.
00:25:37
So you know. Because then they have to pay
00:25:38
you twice. Yeah, exactly.
00:25:39
Yeah, which I mean, if, if, if you're on a show where it's a
00:25:42
small cast, it's like, you know, 5 or 6 people that do everything
00:25:45
like the like the classic, you know, the the Spielberg Warner
00:25:48
Brothers shows at the tiny tunes.
00:25:49
And I mean, that was a small cast, but those are also the the
00:25:52
Creme de la Creme AAA people. Like Ron Paulson playing like 7
00:25:56
different. Yeah, and trust me, you know,
00:25:57
playing about 500. Characters and dress plays like
00:26:00
every female character in the show, so it's.
00:26:01
Like, love to meet her someday. She's a hero.
00:26:03
She's amazing. I have met Rob before.
00:26:04
He's the sweetest guy in the world.
00:26:06
Yeah. So, so nice.
00:26:07
Oh yeah, no. That's a great story.
00:26:09
Yeah, Rob has been on our show. Oh, very cool, very cool.
00:26:14
Nerds. Yeah, the water in the water
00:26:16
tower. You know that the only podcast
00:26:18
that Wacko dot and I and Doctor Scratch and Sniff listen to is
00:26:23
the Distance Nerding podcast. Nice.
00:26:25
So listen. Good night everybody.
00:26:27
Yeah, no, no, yeah, He's like the greatest guy ever.
00:26:29
Oh yeah, yeah, Rob is, yes. I used to go to his back when he
00:26:32
was doing his Talk and Tunes podcast.
00:26:34
I would go to the Jon Lovitz Comedy Club with a few friends
00:26:37
of mine. We would be there live for the
00:26:38
episode recordings. I'm jealous of that because
00:26:40
that's fun. That's what got me in the voice
00:26:41
acting was listening to that show.
00:26:43
Oh, really? Yeah.
00:26:43
For me it was there was a show or not.
00:26:46
It didn't get me in a voice out doing, but I studied this show
00:26:48
called Trevor Duvall Voice Print.
00:26:50
Voice print with Trevor Duvall. Yeah, Trevor Duvall is the the
00:26:54
animated voice of Rocket Raccoon and he was Mulaflaga and Gundam
00:26:57
Seed, the original dub back in the day.
00:27:00
And I love him. He's awesome.
00:27:02
And he interviewed a lot of the like the Ocean Group, like the
00:27:04
Vancouver guys like Scott McNeil and yeah, yeah, Brad Swell and
00:27:07
those kind of guys. And I love those dudes.
00:27:09
So that was that was the big inspiration for me was that.
00:27:10
Podcast Peter Thomas. No, Peter, that I think Peter
00:27:13
wasn't living there anymore. I think he went to LA at that
00:27:15
time. Yeah.
00:27:16
Ian Corlett, he had on. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:27:17
So yeah, yeah, yeah, I had. I actually just met Peter a
00:27:20
couple weeks ago and I met Ian all right.
00:27:23
I knew Ian before, but I met him in person last weekend, so I had
00:27:26
two of the Canadian Goku's in a row.
00:27:28
Nice, nice. OK, so let's move on to this.
00:27:32
So now let's talk about tome. OK, sure.
00:27:34
Terrain of magical. Magical expertise.
00:27:36
Anybody out there, have you ever as anyone ever heard of tome
00:27:39
before Terrain of magical expertise?
00:27:41
OK, one person. Cool, right?
00:27:43
It's an animated web series that I did.
00:27:45
If any of you guys like back in the day, Mega Man, NT Warrior, a
00:27:48
battle network or dot hack or Sword Art.
00:27:52
Today it's that kind of thing where it's like it's a cyber
00:27:55
world. That's the, the show is about a
00:27:58
bunch of these kids playing an MMORPG, a virtual reality MMO,
00:28:02
and they have kind of a bonding experience.
00:28:04
And there's like evil hackers that are kind of trying to mess
00:28:06
with the game. There's supernatural stuff with
00:28:08
like a virus that does the, the if you die in the game, you die
00:28:11
for real type thing. Oh yeah.
00:28:12
And I worked on that for four years.
00:28:14
It's a 16 episode fully animated series that I created that I
00:28:17
animated myself from 2011 to 2015.
00:28:20
And we just celebrated an anniversary this past year.
00:28:22
This special edition version of that we just re released about a
00:28:25
year ago this time. So yeah.
00:28:26
Where was the inspiration? Was it just like playing Wow?
00:28:29
Or just no, you know what's funny?
00:28:31
I've never played an MMO myself in my life.
00:28:34
Really. I was obsessed.
00:28:35
I was obsessed with dot hack and Mega Man Battle network and
00:28:38
Reboot before that. Reboot.
00:28:40
Yeah, I so I loved all these like cyber world type stories.
00:28:43
And yeah, I was way into that. And so I I was meeting my first
00:28:47
Internet friends on online on the, on a website called TV tone
00:28:50
back then. And I decided to make a story
00:28:53
out of it. And then when I learned
00:28:55
animation kind of around that same time, I started doing more
00:29:00
and more with that and developing it.
00:29:03
And then I made it into a show on new grounds called TV Tome
00:29:05
Adventures, which I did like 70 episodes of.
00:29:07
That was a Sprite thing. And then I did Tome, the version
00:29:10
you you're talking about, right? 2011 that was sort of a like a
00:29:13
reimagined version of and that's the one that everybody knows.
00:29:16
And then 2017 I did a video game based on Tome.
00:29:20
I made my own RPG, a 2D turn based RPG based on Tom, did a
00:29:25
Kickstarter for it and did that for about four years, released
00:29:27
that in 2021 and that was a dream come true to make my own
00:29:30
game. So I made my own show and my own
00:29:32
game, and that was pretty rad, so.
00:29:34
And that's, that's awesome altogether.
00:29:36
Yeah. So I know this is like, this is
00:29:39
like choosing your favorite child, right?
00:29:41
And I'm sure you get asked this a lot, right?
00:29:43
But how do I change this up instead of saying who's the
00:29:46
favorite character that you've done so far?
00:29:48
What is the best experience you've had recording a
00:29:51
character? Best experience I've had.
00:29:54
You know what? OK, here, I'll say this.
00:29:56
It's something that's not out yet, but I just did it very
00:29:59
recently. I'll say this without getting
00:30:01
into the specifics, but there was an animated project that I
00:30:03
worked on. I originally thought that it was
00:30:05
a dub because it was it was a foreign client, but no, they
00:30:09
were animating to the English first.
00:30:11
And so we had an American director and a director from the
00:30:15
original country both there. And I felt like I was working on
00:30:20
like a Pixar movie because it was beautifully animated.
00:30:23
Such a cool project. We did a lot of takes of every
00:30:27
single line. And again, not in like an
00:30:28
obnoxious way. They wanted lots of different
00:30:31
options, you know, like everything from like, you know,
00:30:33
like I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to
00:30:37
kill you, like every possible option so that they could choose
00:30:40
what they wanted to animate for that moment.
00:30:42
And they were. It was very collaborative, very
00:30:45
cool. I once again blew my voice out
00:30:46
because a lot of screaming was there was the lead villain
00:30:49
character of the project. But it was really cool and I'm
00:30:51
very excited for when it comes. I don't know how long it'll be
00:30:53
from now for what comes out. But it's almost like recording a
00:30:56
video game. Well, you know what, yes, in the
00:30:58
sense that it was just myself, we didn't get to have all cuz
00:31:02
usually for original animation we get to have all the actors
00:31:04
together, right? But they just did it, which I
00:31:07
usually like when I'm directing actors for my own projects, I
00:31:10
usually direct them one at a time because it's just a little
00:31:12
bit easier to get to hope to focus and hone in that way,
00:31:15
right? But when we get to like on KO,
00:31:17
we were all recorded together, all of us, and that was a joy to
00:31:21
do. The improv you can do with each
00:31:23
other, it's just. Amazing.
00:31:23
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
00:31:25
And sometimes it makes it into the final process once in a
00:31:28
while. So on the opposite of that and
00:31:31
actually before I ask this question, if anybody has any
00:31:33
questions for Chris, questions, please go ahead.
00:31:35
Go ahead and just come up to the mic real quick and ask him this
00:31:38
one question, then you guys can feel free to ask.
00:31:39
Absolutely. So this last question before I
00:31:41
let them kind of just have at it at you here.
00:31:43
Yeah. So we just talked about a a fun
00:31:46
experience. What's one of the most
00:31:47
challenging experiences you've had?
00:31:49
Oh, dear God. Well, challenging.
00:31:51
I've only ever had one session in my life where I have wanted
00:31:56
to walk out. And that's, that really takes a
00:31:59
lot of abuse to to get to that point.
00:32:01
Yeah. But it was a live action show
00:32:03
and the director changed and the director was his first language
00:32:08
wasn't English. OK.
00:32:09
So he was not great at communicating what he wanted,
00:32:12
which that's not to learn, make fun.
00:32:14
But also he didn't like dubs. So he went in with a very
00:32:18
negative attitude. And often his direction was
00:32:21
coming off on like picking on you.
00:32:23
And it was just, I'm like, I'm trying to do the best job I can.
00:32:26
I'm trying to just do my job. And you gotta just put on a
00:32:28
happy face sometimes. But I was getting really
00:32:32
frustrated. Yeah, that was that was one that
00:32:34
was right. And we did it.
00:32:35
We got it done right. But that was very, very
00:32:37
challenging. And then another, and in a
00:32:39
different kind of way, I did a game called Company of Heroes.
00:32:44
It was military, kind of. I think it was very familiar.
00:32:46
I think RTS nominated for best strategy game with these past
00:32:51
game Awards, which was cool. Company Heroes 3 was, and I got
00:32:53
to do that at the Warner Brothers lot.
00:32:54
It was super cool with Terry Douglas, who's a legendary
00:32:57
director, and it was challenging that.
00:32:59
It's all full volume screaming. Yeah.
00:33:02
Because it's a military game. Yeah.
00:33:04
And thankfully what was nice is that Terry and the client as
00:33:08
well, we're both very conserving about how any time you need a
00:33:12
break, if we need to get just one take and it's clean, we'll
00:33:15
just get that. We don't have.
00:33:16
Sometimes we'll do multiple takes of a line.
00:33:18
It's like, Nope, one take, it's perfect, you're good.
00:33:20
And so which is great. Yeah.
00:33:21
And I think we do like 2 hour chunks.
00:33:23
So they were very protective of my throat, which was great, but
00:33:29
it was still a lot, a lot, a lot of screaming and energy and you
00:33:34
know, because you because you got it to really make that kind
00:33:37
of game immersive, like it's got to be like, you know, grenade,
00:33:40
it's got to be at that intensity for everything, but.
00:33:42
Especially, I mean, considering company here a 6th place in
00:33:44
World War 2. So it's just all that.
00:33:46
Absolutely. You know, I'm a vet.
00:33:48
So I mean like now, now we have now we just have radios and we
00:33:50
just yell at each other like that, of course.
00:33:52
Yeah, No, of course no, I wanted to be no, because if you got to
00:33:55
be listening, if you you hear like grenade and you'd be like
00:33:58
whatever, like you would be completely valid to criticize
00:34:01
the voice over. But when we do what my
00:34:04
colleagues and I, when we do military games like that, like
00:34:06
we are all in, like you have to do that to make it an.
00:34:09
Immersion, it has to be intense, absolutely right, right.
00:34:11
So any questions over here, I'm going to go ahead and turn the
00:34:13
mic on. Go ahead and feel free to ask.
00:34:15
Yes, please. What's your name?
00:34:18
What's your name? He forgot his name.
00:34:22
It's OK moisture I don't see it's chyron.
00:34:26
What's? Your question, my good Sir, did
00:34:29
you ever want to do other classic, other classic manga
00:34:35
titles like Macross? I've never gotten to work on
00:34:39
Macross. I mean, there's certainly a lot
00:34:41
of big series that I would love to do that are classic ones that
00:34:44
I grew up with. I mean, doing One Piece last
00:34:47
year was a dream come true because I wanted to be on that
00:34:50
show for like 15 years of my adult life.
00:34:52
Yeah. And that was just like,
00:34:55
incredible to Guy. It was a small character, but I
00:34:57
had like a handful of maybe like 1012 episodes or so across that
00:35:01
show. And just the fact that like, Oh
00:35:03
my God, I did One Piece. Yeah.
00:35:05
And it's still going and I'm still watching a week to week
00:35:09
and reading it, you know, week to week as well.
00:35:11
I'm reading the manga, watching the Japanese episodes, watching
00:35:13
the dub episodes. Like that's another one I'm like
00:35:15
I adore so much. And I'm like to be a small piece
00:35:18
of that of other classic. Other shown in Jump Classic is
00:35:21
incredible. You've been on some pretty elite
00:35:23
shown in jump shows. Yeah, I cuz yeah, because I'm
00:35:26
trying to think. Yeah, like like Dragon Ball, One
00:35:28
Piece, Naruto, Prince of Tennis, God Slam Dunk.
00:35:33
Mob cycle 100. Mob cycle's not jump.
00:35:35
Yeah, but I'm kind of in that realm.
00:35:37
Yeah, but but I'm thinking jump. Magazine, Specifically from the
00:35:41
magazine. That's like, because I've not
00:35:43
done JoJo, I've not done Bleach. There's a few that I haven't
00:35:48
tackled just yet, but maybe someday if I'm so lucky.
00:35:51
So any other questions? Yes, please, please, please.
00:35:54
Hi my name is Cason how? You doing cason?
00:35:57
I'm asking particularly about Mob Cycle 100, playing Reagan in
00:36:02
the talks of getting the dub together.
00:36:05
Yeah, or Mob Cycle 100. What was kind of the pressure in
00:36:09
doing this right? Because it was being, it was
00:36:11
written by one, Yeah. It was coming off the heels of
00:36:14
One Punch Man. Yeah.
00:36:16
You know, the teaser was giving a lot of really interesting, you
00:36:19
know, animation, Yeah. And, and, and kind of showing
00:36:22
off all. What was the pressure in going
00:36:25
into Season 1 and then going into Season 2, especially with
00:36:28
Reagan's arc? You know what?
00:36:30
Well, the pressure for the first season.
00:36:32
I watched the full season in Japanese before I started
00:36:35
recording because I wanted to know what the full arc was and
00:36:38
because all the 12 episodes of that season were out.
00:36:41
I had the ability to do that in the 1st place which was great
00:36:44
and I just wanted to get it right.
00:36:47
I couldn't even believe I got cast as the part in general cuz
00:36:50
I doubt I wasn't often playing lead characters at that studio
00:36:53
Bang Zoom where they do lots of anime stuff.
00:36:55
That was I think the first time I think where I played like like
00:36:58
one of the main characters of the show and Chris Kason, who
00:37:01
also directed One Punch Man and Mike McFarlane who wrote One
00:37:04
Punch Man the the English dub script.
00:37:07
We had a great team of people. A Crunchyroll was hands on for
00:37:11
the first episode and then they just kind of let us go after
00:37:13
that. And we ended up doing such a
00:37:15
good job, as I found out that when the second season was
00:37:18
happening, there actually was less pressure because I was
00:37:21
reading from people that they were waiting for the dub to come
00:37:25
to come out for Season 2, and they weren't gonna watch.
00:37:28
And not that the Japanese cast isn't amazing, right, but they
00:37:31
were waiting for the dub to come out because they loved the dubs.
00:37:34
So much of the first season was like, wow, that doesn't happen
00:37:37
anymore, right? That's very, very rare with
00:37:39
show. It's very rare.
00:37:41
So I felt very grateful and and just to be able to do him for
00:37:45
the whole series from start to finish.
00:37:47
I keep hoping maybe, and I don't know anything, but maybe we'll
00:37:51
get the Reagan manga spin off that takes place out at the end
00:37:54
of the manga as like an OVA or a movie someday.
00:37:57
That'd be great. I don't know if that will ever
00:37:59
happen, but I'm happy with how the ending of the series was and
00:38:02
everything, so it was great. So.
00:38:04
All right. Thank you so much.
00:38:05
Thank. You and thank you for watching
00:38:06
the show. And I just thought of this
00:38:07
question before you come up right here, but being that you
00:38:10
do dubs for a living, yeah. When you watch anime are you a
00:38:13
dub or some guy? I'm a dub guy.
00:38:15
There are some shows that I do watch sub.
00:38:17
I watch One Piece week to week, and then I will watch the dub
00:38:20
after that as well. Yeah.
00:38:22
And Dragon Ball stuff. Yeah, but I'm usually a dub guy.
00:38:25
OK. That said, I'm also very all of
00:38:28
us who work in dubbing are just as critical of dubs as you guys
00:38:31
out there. Yeah, including of our own work.
00:38:33
I have worked on shows where I'm like, oh, I don't think I did a
00:38:37
very good job on that. I tried to do the best job I
00:38:39
could, but sometimes we get miscast or sometimes we don't
00:38:41
have time to like, you know, spend as much on the takes, you
00:38:44
know, but but I I love, I love all my colleagues and
00:38:47
everything. And usually dubs have gotten to
00:38:50
a point where for the most part, they're all pretty good now.
00:38:52
Yeah, there's very few rare, like don't go in there, don't go
00:38:56
in there. And I'm like, all right, bye.
00:38:58
You know, So. Yeah.
00:39:01
Our next question is from. My name is Brian.
00:39:04
Yes, welcome. How I what's what's your
00:39:06
question? My question here is.
00:39:09
So if you have to choose, if you have to choose one character in
00:39:13
particular, what would be, whether it would be Shia Poo or
00:39:17
Reagan, What was your actual favorite to do the most?
00:39:20
God, that's not fair. Again, that's what I said
00:39:23
earlier. It's like your favorite child.
00:39:25
I mean, Reagan, there's so much of me in him, so he's so close
00:39:30
to home Shower. Poof.
00:39:32
I loved because I'm I was mentioning to you at the table.
00:39:34
I I, I he came up to my my autographed table earlier.
00:39:39
I'm a huge Yu Yu Haka show fan. That was actually the show that
00:39:42
got me to want to do voice over. Nice.
00:39:44
Justin Cook as use K is a huge inspiration.
00:39:46
Now he's a friend and a colleague as well.
00:39:48
But I to do Tagashi Son's next masterpiece story was such a
00:39:55
tremendous honor. And I was watching that show as
00:39:57
it was airing on TV at the time. So I was trying to not spoil
00:40:01
myself too much, but I wanted to know what was going to happen.
00:40:03
So they were both really exciting and really meaningful
00:40:06
for different reasons. But Reagan also, so much of like
00:40:09
who I am as a human being is like, for better or worse, is
00:40:12
similar to him. And so that hits home for me in
00:40:15
a certain way. But Poof is just fun because
00:40:17
he's an insane person. So.
00:40:19
So I'm not picking one of them. So there.
00:40:23
He just gave you the aspects of why he enjoys doing both.
00:40:26
Yes, there. You go.
00:40:27
That's adequate enough. Welcome.
00:40:28
Hi there. I'm Steven.
00:40:30
Quick question for you. How did you first get into voice
00:40:32
acting? And if you had any advice for
00:40:34
someone who wanted to get into voice acting, what would it be?
00:40:37
My, the first job I got was I met the, at the time, director
00:40:41
of Pokémon at a convention and I did a panel, I don't know, a
00:40:47
panel where they were doing at a convention where they were
00:40:49
calling up people to, it was kind of like an American Idol,
00:40:52
like kind of like for anime dubbing.
00:40:54
And I won that contest in the end, the prize was I got an
00:40:56
audition for Pokémon and I didn't book my first audition,
00:41:00
but he liked me enough that he's like, I'm going to call you back
00:41:02
for stuff. I'm like, OK.
00:41:03
And then a year later, after I won that contest that I just
00:41:06
entered on a whim at this convention in New York City, I
00:41:09
booked my first job. And then from there, I started
00:41:11
getting recommended for more gigs after that around around
00:41:13
town. And then I moved to LA.
00:41:15
And my, my advice is don't do it.
00:41:19
No, Honest to God, it is really hard to make a living doing
00:41:24
acting of any kind. Yeah.
00:41:27
So to be honest, if there's any Veronica Taylor, who is the
00:41:30
original voice of Ash, she's often said from a teacher that
00:41:34
she had. If there's anything else in life
00:41:36
that you like doing more than performing, do that instead
00:41:39
because especially now with our economy and how hard it is to
00:41:42
just make money in general, not even just from working
00:41:44
entertainment, I would love for all of you to live your best
00:41:48
life and make money and maybe buy a house and retire.
00:41:52
And that's hard to do when you work in entertainment at all.
00:41:55
But I would say if you want to get into voiceover and you want
00:41:58
to go all in on it, study as much acting as possible.
00:42:02
Like take as many classes as humanly possible.
00:42:04
Do theater, do on camera, do everything.
00:42:07
Learn recording. Like don't just focus on doing
00:42:09
voiceover for like cartoons and anime and video games.
00:42:12
Learn everything right. You need to have as many avenues
00:42:15
of revenue as possible to live off of and diversify.
00:42:19
Learn other things, learn other stuff that you can do other
00:42:22
skills that can aid you in those things, because all those things
00:42:25
are going to keep your creative juices flowing when other parts
00:42:28
dry up, as they inevitably do. So diversify, study a lot, and
00:42:34
if nothing else, just don't do it.
00:42:36
There's enough of us. It's such a crapshoot.
00:42:40
Yeah, and and you mentioned, you know, you used to see talking
00:42:42
tunes too. Rob used to say this one all the
00:42:45
time. Big V, Little A.
00:42:47
Yeah, it's about the it's or. Sorry, sorry.
00:42:49
Small V Big A. Yes, acting is so much more
00:42:52
important that every voice actor on planet Earth will tell you
00:42:55
that. Yeah, anybody can do a funny
00:42:57
voice. It's can you act as that
00:42:58
character? Absolutely.
00:42:59
Absolutely. Yeah.
00:43:00
Yeah, so I've got some wrap up questions for you here.
00:43:02
So I'm going to ask you the hardest question you've ever
00:43:05
been asked in your life. Are you ready for this?
00:43:06
Scared. All right?
00:43:07
Especially now that you live in LA, it's even more so.
00:43:09
All right, What is your favorite?
00:43:10
Kind of. Taco OH, I'm more of a burrito
00:43:14
guy. OK, that's my actual answer to
00:43:16
that. OK, I don't do fast food much
00:43:19
these days. Taco Bell is my one exception
00:43:21
because Taco Bell is less disgusting than other options.
00:43:24
But I usually get a burrito. I'm not usually a big a big Taco
00:43:26
guy. OK, but I beat Taco.
00:43:28
OK. If if if a gun to my head like
00:43:30
order a Taco or I'll kill you. Beat Taco please.
00:43:33
OK, I just don't. I have a family.
00:43:36
Oh man, here's another hard one for you.
00:43:38
If you could design A Neos style Pokémon, what would be his
00:43:41
special attack and how many berries would you need to feed
00:43:44
him before you could catch? It it already exists, it's nose
00:43:47
pass. Next question.
00:43:52
Who wins in a fight, Reagan or Zito?
00:43:54
Reagan or who? Or Zito.
00:43:57
Zito. I probably mispronounced that
00:43:59
from Tom. Oh, Zetto, zetto, Zetto.
00:44:02
Well, Zetto's not real because he is the character made by the
00:44:08
player behind Zetto, right? Although.
00:44:11
Like if you if there was AAAI. Would imagine the player behind
00:44:15
Zetto as having taken martial arts OK, but Reagan also has.
00:44:20
That's actually tough. Reagan would probably win
00:44:23
because he'd probably swindle Zetto like somehow into losing.
00:44:28
If I, I would imagine, yeah, he. Just tricks him into it.
00:44:30
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So aside from what you've
00:44:34
already given, aside from, you know, don't do it, what's some
00:44:37
other advice you might give for anybody who's trying to get into
00:44:39
the industry? This is going to sound kind of
00:44:42
hippie dippie, but it's true. Charlie Adler, who I'm sure you
00:44:45
know of as well, I took a class with him early on when I lived
00:44:49
in LA, and one of the greatest things he mentioned was have a
00:44:52
really strong sense of oneself. We know who you are because you
00:44:57
can't make your work your life. Like, that's not your identity.
00:45:00
Your work is something cool. Like what the things that I get
00:45:04
to do are, I'm so passionate about and I love them, but
00:45:08
they're not my entire life. And I've learned to do that more
00:45:12
to separate those things as time has gone on.
00:45:14
But yeah, have a strong a sense of who you are as a human being.
00:45:18
And that will aid you in most things, not even just in your
00:45:22
pursuits of anything you want to do, whether it's voiceover or
00:45:25
otherwise. It'll aid you in just living a
00:45:27
healthy lifestyle. Have a sense of who you are.
00:45:30
Experience life in as many different ways as you can, you
00:45:35
know, get out of your comfort zone as much as possible.
00:45:38
One of my buddies who's doing a lot of on camera acting, he's
00:45:42
getting into, he's trying stand up comedy because it scares him.
00:45:46
Yes, just because it scares them.
00:45:48
And he's like, I need challenges in my life.
00:45:49
I need to not have everything be the same the same the same
00:45:53
everyday. Yeah, and stand up is scary.
00:45:54
Oh yeah, I would. I don't think I would ever have
00:45:56
the balls for. That, but that's just that's
00:45:58
just real time heckling. Yep, absolutely, absolutely.
00:46:02
But so, yeah, so, so learn a lot, experience life, get out of
00:46:05
your comfort zone and find a good sense of who you are as a
00:46:08
human being. All right, so not animation
00:46:11
wise, but what's next for you? Do you have any other shows
00:46:13
coming up or anything? Yes, that you want to promote.
00:46:17
I've got a couple projects coming out actually I'll say
00:46:20
there's an anime that I just worked on recently and my
00:46:25
character will be showing up very soon.
00:46:27
So I look to my Twitter as at curb refer you'll I'm sure
00:46:30
you'll find announcements about that when the time is right.
00:46:33
And also I am currently in the early stages of I'm creating an
00:46:37
animated feature film called balancing act right, which is
00:46:41
something that actually predates tome.
00:46:43
I've had it. It's kind of developed for like
00:46:45
30 years of my life at this point and it's a small time
00:46:50
superhero story about these 4 characters with very severe
00:46:54
types of trauma. It's very dark.
00:46:56
It's got some screwed up stuff at the very beginning of it, and
00:46:59
it's all got a lot of themes of like self help and self love and
00:47:02
self actualization and the pursuit of what makes you happy.
00:47:06
And I feel really strongly about it.
00:47:07
I love how the script has turned out so far and I'm hopefully
00:47:11
when my hand works more consistently.
00:47:13
I've got some bad tendonitis but I'm hoping to get into doing the
00:47:16
storyboarding for it very soon so.
00:47:18
Nice. Well, as Pixar has taught us,
00:47:20
every good story starts with trauma, so.
00:47:22
Absolutely, Absolutely. So where can everybody find you?
00:47:26
Where can they follow you if you they want to follow you or learn
00:47:28
more? Sure, I'm either curb refer or
00:47:31
curb refer 15 on most things. I'm curb refer on Twitter, curb
00:47:34
refer 15 on YouTube and TikTok, which I've been pretty active on
00:47:37
the last couple years now I'm Christopher Niosi on Instagram.
00:47:41
I barely use it. I usually just promote cons on
00:47:44
there, but you know, and I'm most active on YouTube because I
00:47:48
post my actual content there. So if you find
00:47:51
youtube.com/kerber for 15, you can find the links to it on my
00:47:54
table. Please come to my table in the
00:47:56
other building CI think. It is.
00:47:58
You'll be here all day, right? Yes, I'll be here all day.
00:48:00
I've got prints, some of which are my own artwork actually, and
00:48:03
ones by my very talented friend Toxic Soul 77.
00:48:07
And I've got some Funko Pops of Shell Poof from Hunter Hunter as
00:48:10
well. I've got curb refer plushies
00:48:12
coming out soon. That's by the folks that make
00:48:14
ship. We just, I think we're gonna be
00:48:16
having a campaign for that pretty soon.
00:48:17
They were already funded and and other projects I've voiced some
00:48:21
other stuff that should hopefully be coming out over the
00:48:24
course of the year and et cetera.
00:48:25
So keep an eye out. Keep an eye on your IMDb.
00:48:27
So yes, of course. Or by Twitter, because I'll be
00:48:29
announcing stuff on there. So.
00:48:31
Right. Yeah.
00:48:32
Alright, well, ladies and gentlemen, having absolutely
00:48:34
let's give a round of applause for Chris Neil.
00:48:36
Guys, thank you so much. Yeah, I'm, if you go to the
00:48:39
autograph area and my good friend Lizzie Freeman, who's
00:48:43
palm knee from Digital Circus is there too.
00:48:46
I'm on the far right end. So if you want to come say hi
00:48:49
and maybe get some swag, please do.
00:48:51
I'll be there for the whole rest of the day.
00:48:52
So awesome. Thank you guys very much.
00:48:54
Thank you so much. Do you want to tag out?
00:48:56
What's the name of the podcast All the time?
00:48:58
Let me. Turn this off the podcast is
00:49:01
called distance nerding if you want to any characters.
00:49:03
Yeah, all. Right.
00:49:04
Hey, this is Chris Neosi, voice of Reagan Arataka from Mob
00:49:07
Psycho 100, and you're listening to Distance Nerding.
00:49:10
Feel free to Google it there. We go.
00:49:12
I love it. Thank you, ma'am.
00:49:13
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00:49:15
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